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Issue: 15th December 1917
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r" It I Merthyr Electric Theatre j ft ■ Week commencing Monday, December 17th. | | 2 CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE FROM 2.30 TILL 10.30 P.M. DAILY. I Monday Tuesday, and Wednesday- S AMBROSIA I 1 Harma Drama. I AARL OF THE ARMY-Episode 10. I AFTER THE BALLED-UP BALL-Gaumont Comedy. S 9 Pathe's Gazette and Interest Film. I I- Thursday, Friday, and Saturday— | Ultus & the 3 Button Mystery I I JUDEX-Part 6. I I BEACH NUTS—Gaumont Comedy. FAIRYLAND I I. Pathe's Gazette and Interest Film. 1  ? ADMISSION = 3d—Tax, Id.; 6d.—Tax, 2d.; ?——Tax, 3d. §| Children's Matinee on Saturday at 10.15—Id. only. B I THEATRE ROYAL & EMPIRE PALACE, Merthyrf • RESIDENT MANAGERESS-MRS. G. D. REA. 6.45 TWICE NIGHTLY. 8.45 j Week commencing MONDAY, DEC. 17th, 1917. | « Continued Success of the Mortoa Powell Reportery Company. v GREAT ATTRACTION! TWO POWERFUL PLAYS THIS WEEK. m Monday, Tuesday and Wed nesday-The Great Sensatioual Drama- B ) A GIRLS TEMPTATION I I Thursday, Friday and Saturday- The Great Military Drama- ) Seat. CURATE V.C. I Seats may now be Booked. Telephoite No. 2. I Circlo, 1/ Stalls, 9d. Pit, 6d. Gallery, 3d. 11_' PLUS NEW TAX., .I C. Simons & Sons, QENT.'S TAILORS, AND COSTUMIERS, 6 Church St., Merthyr Tydfil. Cut, Make, and Trim Unsurpassed. Customers' Own Materials Made-Up in Latest Fashions. HOPE CHAPEL, MERTHYR. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16th, 1917. Rev. J. Morgan Jones, M.A. SUBJECT-" JERUSALEM." A CORDIAL WELCOME EXTENDED TO ALL THERE 18 ONLY ONE OINTMENT THAT CURES And this is supplied by Cbemists and the MANNINA OINTMENT CO., FISHGUARD, And is sold in Three Strengths—1, 2 & 3. 'Phone 597. 'Phone 597. WILLIAM TRESEDER, Ltd. THE NURSERIES, CARDIFF. WREATHS, CROSSES, CUT FLOWERS, &c. FRUIT TREES Apples, Pears, Goose- berries, Currants. &c. ROSES—List on Application. Tela: "TKESEDER, FLORIST, CARDIFF." Great Bargains for Xmas Season ALL KINDS OF JEWELLERY TO BE SOLD AT PRE-WAR PRICES. Folly illuminated Gents. Lever Watches from 8/0. Handsome Wrist Watchee from 7/6 (wa,rranied for three years). Gold Brooches Iron 3/6. Handsome Dinner Cruets from 12/6. Purchasers of Hamilton's lucky engage- ment and wedding rings will receive a present of the value of 10/6. All purchasers of El and over will receive hand- some Christmas Presents. tiose no time in inspecting the windows of- H. HAMILTON & SON where all goods are marked in plain figures. ONLY ADDRESS-47 NORTH ST., DOWLAIS BLANCHARD'S PILLS Are unrivalled for all Irregularities, etc., they speedily afford relief and never fail to alleviate all suffering. They supersede Peniyroyal, Pill Cochia, Bitter, Apple, &c. Blanchard's are the best of all Pills for Women. Sold in boxes, lill, by BOOTS' Branches, and all Chemists, or post free, same price, from Leslie Martin, ttd, Chemists, 34 Dalsten Lane, London Samples & valuable booklet sent free, ld. stamp. ABERDARE RACES! MONDAY AND BOXING DAY (Dec. 24th). (Dec. 25th). X114 IN PRIZES. JWR TROTTING HANDICAPS— £ 97. TWO WHIPPET RACES— £ 17. Entries Close Monday Next, DECEMBER 17th. Secretary—34 ALBERT STREET, MERTHYR.
Representation of the People…
Representation of the People  Bin Bill SOUTH WALES SUFFRAGISTS' MESSAGES TO PARLIAMENT. The South Wales and Monmouthshire Federa- tion of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societiesi has sent to Mr. Bonar Law, as leader of the House of Commons, and Sir George Cave, as the Minister in charge of the Bill, a resolu- tion expressing its satisfaction at the adoption by the House of Commons of a measure of women's suffrage by the third reading of the Representation of the People Bill. I 1
i The -Electric Theatre.I
i The Electric Theatre. I Crowded houses have been the rule this week again at the Merthyr Electric Theatre, the con- tinued popularity of which is easily explained by the uncontrovertible fact that it's programmes always contain the biggest, best and latest re- leases in the cinematograph market. "The mar- riage of William Asche," adopted for the film from Mrs. Humphrey Ward's society novel, has lost littlp of her literary charm in the pictureised version; whilst The .Tide of Life," topping the bill from Thursday onwards, was a production pleasing in conception and gripping in appeal. That delightful young photo-player, Ella Hall, well known to Merthyr audiences as the heroine in almost innumerable serial features and big- reelers, stars in a five-part" Blue Bird picture, Ambrosia," shown on Monday next. The pro- duction is a combination of exciting episodes cleverly relieved by clean and wholesome comedy. Supporting it amongst the usual s hort-drama, educational and interest films, will be one of the hilarious Gaumont comedies, After the balled- up ball." On Thursday's change-over the top of the bill will be occupied by another of the famous Ultus pictures, The Three Button Mystery." Pic- ture-goers are too intimate with the daring ex- ploits of Ultus for any necessity to dilate upon the merit of these features, for not only have his adventures been repeatedly screened at Merthyr but he has, it will be remembered, ap- peared in person at the Electric Theatre. Fairyland," which is also included in the pro- gramme is redolent with the spirit of Yuletide, attractive in it's appeal to old and young, whilst the current issue of the great serial Judex," namely, "The Heart of Steel," brings us to the hero's sore temptation to break his oath and leaves us with the poignant problem, "Has Mother relented? Altogether next week's shows are "top-notch" and more big features are promised for the Christmas week.
EVERY PRINTING ORDER given to the Pioneer Press" means more Ammunition for Party Propaganda. Get into the Line of our MUNITION WORKER?.
I-Those 1000 New Members
I Those 1000 New Members THB excellent spirit with which the Merthyr I.L.P. has launched itself upon itis campaign for a thousand new members by Easter, 1918; the completeness of the preliminary organisation, and the excellence of the result of the first ap- peal, made last Sunday, when 32 new members were enrolled, all give promise of the successful termination of the laudable task which the branch has set itself to perform. Nor do we see that the branch is too ambitious in its aspira-j tions. We see no reason why the ciaimp,aign should stop at 1,000 by Easter, for even with that number drawn inside the movement, there would still be ample scope for pioneering work for membership amidst a populace that is largely sympathetic towards the Party. Merthyr ought to boast the strongest numerical membership of any I.L.P. branch in South Wales, and with a continuance of the effort so well started it will do so. All that is necessary to' bring in large numbers of our populace is to show them the tangible advantages that come from active par- ticipation in the life of the Socialist circles of the town; as distinct from the mental satisfac- tion of all attending Sunday afternoon meetings and voting" right" at Parliamentary and Muni- cipal elections. What are those advantages? Primarily we should ourselves put the highest value upon the revolution that a conception of the Socialist synthesis spells to the student- of sociological ten dencies. In place of a chaotic and nebulous philosophy of life, partitioned into water-tight compartments labelled ethics," history," "economics," and so forth; each of them so encrusted with meaningless technical terms and phrases that professional politicians and economists have to be sought to interpret the simplest of social problems, the Socialist stu- dent finds them all worked out in a scientific system so complete that the growth and expan- sion of his mentality comes as a new power in life; illumines the dark places, and irradiate.s with the saffron of a new dawn the eastern sky of to-morrow*. To the average man who has con- sciously attempted to find his way in the ortho- dox economists, and who later attaches himself to the Socialist Plarty, the most wonderful thing to him is the complete, all-pervading nature of the Socialist outlook. He finds that those things that were strictly ruled out of economics by the Capitalists apologists of the university and the popular Press, are all brought within the survey of his new science; that Socialism takes the dry bones of politics and enwraps them in the healthy, beautiful flesh of humanity. In place of the old Frankenstein of the anti-Socialist school he finds that the Socialist's sociological method has produced a masterpiece of beautiful aspect, perfect parts, high mentality and pure ethics; and that because it has no reservations to make in its search after truth. Its philoso- phers are not compelled to seek a justification for the existence of a parasitic, non-producing class, and to explain the laws underlying social acts in the light of that justification, but are free to traverse the past with the historian and the biologist; and search the present for the un- derlying causes behind things. And what is the moral result of such a search, and such a synthesis as is found at the culmination of such a search in Socialism? We have said above that ethics fall into its proper play under Socialism, as the part of a glorious whole, and not a thing apart; but listen what non-Socialist moralists have said about the present system and about Socialism's promise of a better moral order. Pro-, fessor Cairn es has declared that the results of the present industrial system are not easily re- concilable with any standard of right generally accepted amongst men," and quotes Shakes- peare as being on his side. Professor Sidgwick, an eminent writer on morals, has said If the former method (the Socialists') of providing for the progress of Industry could be trusted to work without any counterbalancing drawbacks the perpetuation of the inequalities of distribu- tion that we see to be inevitably bound up with the existing system would be difficult to recon- cile with our common sense of justice!" It seems needless in these days of war, which have. seen the Socialist principle of industrial government so perfectly justified even in its adoption as part of a system to which it is antagonistic, to dwell upon Professor Sidgwick's "if." So that even the professional moralists in their serious state- ments are compelled to admit the justice of the Socialist conception. It is this justice founded, upon sane scientific laws of criticism and pro- gression that has given us a majority of the really great minds of modern times. Amongst the artists from Wilde to Shaw the best among them have seen that art can only be truly great when given the freedom that Socialism alone offers to development, in the realm of the na- tural sciences the most thoughtful have accepted Socialism as the only scientific sociological sys- tem in consonance with the evolutionary char- acter of modern scientific methods and findings. Ferri and a host of others have demonstrated this; and Grant Allen with his usual careful cri- ticism, has told us that it is because Socialism will preserve the natural inequalities of mankind, that the present machine system destroys in its search for uniformity that compelled his march- ing forward with the great army of Socialism. In religion, too, it has long been recognised by hard thinkers that Socialism alone is compatible with the Sermon on the Mount, and that until the day when the Red Flag shall fly over every capitol in the world Christianity is a ehimera when it is not a conscious hypocrisy. It is to know these things in their detail; to feel the good breath of the future reanimating the jaded and hopeless being of ourselves that it is good to be in the Socialist iife of our centre' of activity. Because from thence a& from a miraculous font we may draw the strength and the courage to face life's troubles, and in the light of the knowledge that is the most priceless heritage of Socialism to examine, reject &nd re- construct the whole of the social system in con- tact with which we are every moment of our lives compelled to live. From the sympathetic contact with the minds of Socialism our minds broaden, our lives sweeten, our determination draws inspiration to do the work of giants, and so we further the day that will herald the dawn of all. It will be a glorious privilege to be one of that thousand who will climb the mountain's peak, and survey the world anew, while they breathe for the first time the pure air of free- dom. Will you be one to breathe it? No matter that you do not live in Merthyr, or that in your locality no special effort is being made. There is a branch near you, full of the good things that will recase your life whether in the work- shop, or the bigger world beyond its walls.
I Mr. Asquilh's Speech
I Mr. Asquilh's Speech IF lVb-. Asquith's careful pronouncement at the Birmingham Town Hall on Tuesday is to be taken as having any meaning at all, it can only mean that the cleavage which has been so plainly exhibited in the political crises to which we have been treated of late is to develop still further; and the Government of the knock- out Blow" and the Economic Conference" is to be seriously challenged by a party who will establish their peace aims on the cold sanity of the Lansdowne letter. For Mr. Asquith is still the leader of the better element in Liberalism, and with Lord Lansdowne and such Conserva- tive support as lie would bring, strengthened with the backing of the Labour Party, whose peace memorandum is coincident with the main lines of Lansdowne's famous letter, there seems strong prospects of an effecitive challenge being thrown at the Georgian bureaucracy. Such a reconstruction, whilst leaving very much to be desired, would be a vast improvement on the present state of affairs, and particularly so if the Paris Economic Conference decision to wage, what Mr. Asquith himself called a "veiled war after the war," Is definitely jettisoned. That decision to shut Germany off from the trade of the world has, in our opinion, been the most fatuous incident of the war. We have all along argued that nothing was more calculated to de- lay peace, and consolidate the forces of internal Germany than this decision to strangle Ger- many to death after the war in the field had been concluded at the negotiation table. The definite repudiation of this oiile policy, to which we have ii?vez- known whether we were oSciaJIy to be committed or not, would he. worth a much greater saorificei than would be represented in a re-shuffling of the political power in Britain to-day. It is significant that the venue of the address of the last constitutionally appointed Premier should have been the modern home of the Imperialist policy. If one may judge from the reports in the Press even the place of manu- facture of demogods for heathen peoples, and of vocal devils for hom? politics is so sick of Armageddon that it is prepared to cheer the Asquith-Lansdowne adoption of I.L.P. criticism. We are confident that the country as a whole would not only cheer, but would vote also for a fuller assimilation of that criticism than Mr. Asquith or Lord Lansdowne are themselves pre- pared to take.
Freedom or Victory ?
Freedom or Victory ? Which Shail We Choose? An Examination of Things as they are BY BERTRAND RUSSELL. We are sometimes told that this is a war for freedom; at otilr times, with more sincerity, that it is a war for victory. Let it be conceded at once that freedom and victory are both very good things, but it would be well if people re- cognised that they are not compatible and that, though freedom would proba,bly result from a peace made now, victory, even if it could be attained some three years hence, would be pur- chased at the cost of freedom and of everything else that makes life worth living. What has happened to freedom at home dur- ing the war we ail know. Men have been sent to prison over and over again for refusing to abjure profound religious and moral convictions. It has become a crime to circulate, or even to possess, any literature dealing with the war or with the peace after the war in a spirit not wholly acceptable to the Government. Appro- priately enough. Mills' Liberty has been seized by the police. I have not so far heard of a man being sent to gaol for mentioning Magna Oharta, but doubtless that will come. By the law of the land as it now exists, any man or woman can be kept in prison for the duration of the war without any charge being formulated or any trial being held. Those of us who are still at large owe-thanks to the Government for its clemency. In America, since the United States became a belligerent,, the 'state of affairs is even worse. The. leaders of the I.W.W. were imprisoned by the fiat of the Government for no discoverable reason except that their opinions were adverse to the war. Conscientious objectors, except when they are Quakers, are treated even worse than they are with us. Troops have been called in to disperse Pacifist meetings, and there. has been no hesitation to stimulate mob violence. WESTERN POWERS AND RUSSIA. Meantime the attitude of the Western Powers towards the new-born liberties of Russia has been a mixture of bigotry and folly, which ib would be hard to parallel in the annals of states- manship. It is said that our Government de- sires to see democracy in the Central Powers, but that certainly is the only place where our rulers can tolerate it. One is tempted to sup- pose that they regard democracy as a curse and wish ,to inflicit, it upon Germany as part of the price of defeat. In Russia, by forcing Kerensky into his ill-starred offensive by refusing to allow Stockholm or to revise their war aims, they secured the victory of Lenin and made a separ- ate peace inevitable. It is not for a moment to be supposed that our authorities desired this re- sult. But it is the result which their actions were bound to produce, as all intelligent people foresaw. It is absurd to accuse Lenin of treachery. Russia is too distracted, too worn- out, too destitute of supplies, too near famine to be physically capable of carrying on the war. Ever since the Revolution Russia has spared no efforts to bring about a general peace. These efforts having failed, sheer stark necessity has compelled the attempt to secure a, peace. Probably Lenin's advocacy of peace IS the chief source of his strength. It is clear that as part of the terms of peace, the -Finns and the Poles, whom the Tsardoin oppressed, are to re- cover their liberty. Although we are the cham- pions of small nations, we have not displayed any extravagant joy in this partial realization of our programme. Our newspapers have been filled with lies about Lenin.; that lie is a Jew, that he is a German, that he is in the pay of the Kaiser. The fact is that lie is a Russian aristocrat who 'long ago sacrificed everything to his principles. Meanwhile our newspapers, in their moments of optimism indulge in the hope of a military domination by the Cossacks under the leadership of Kaledin, which we are given to understand might be as intelligent, as enlight- ened and 'as free from corruption as the Tsar- dom of blessed memory. LORD LANSDOWNE'S LETTER. Amid the clamour of the Never-Endians in our own country Loftl Lansdowne's letter has c-ome "as a .sudden gleam of sanity. His sugges- tioii is, I.a l'i brief, that we should make it clear that we are fighting for security against future wars, not for territorial aggrandisement. The outburst of mad rage with which this suggestion has been received shows how far it is from re- presenting the mind of Lord Northcliffe and his wage-slaves in the" Government." The Ger- man and Austrian Governments, in their re- plies to the Pope's peace note, have made it clear that they favour inter national arbitration and progressive universal disarmament. Can we suppose that our militants desire these things? Is it not clear that militarism, con- scription, and the fear of war are a. It all times the great assets of the rich in resisting the claims of Labour? Can anyone doubt that dis- armament and international security, if they could be brought about, would lead to an economic reconstruction in which profiteering and capitalism would receive short shrift? Can Anyone suppose that Lord Northcliffe would welcome such a state of affairs, or that he would favour a policy likely to bring it about? Mr. Lloyd George, in his famous Paris speech, alluded to the impenetrable barrier in the West. I should be liable to prosecution if I en- dorsed his opinion, but merely to quote it can hardly be considered illegal. Yet, with Russia out of the war, the fighting must be more and more confined to battering against this" im- penetrable barrier." America cannot have a large army in France until the year after next, and if I were not afraid of being unpatriotic I should suggest that there is no reason to expect American troops to succeed where British troops have failed. The war is being carried on partly from inertia, partly because it gives power and wealth to certain persons who may not improba- bly find themselves in a less enviable position after the conclusion of peace. There is no rea- son whatever to expect that we shall be able to obtain better terms two years hence than could be obtained now. It is clear that we could ob- tain now the restoration of Belgium and Northern France with international agreements for arbitration and progressive disarmament. The objects with which our soldiers enlisted in the' early days of the war could be achieved to- morrow. The territorial objects which our Gov- ernment professes to have in view can probably not be achieved either now or later. The na- tion, deluded by a lying press, has remained for the most park blind to these patent facts, but there are signs of awakening, especially in the Labour Party. Upon the Labour Party at this moment a heavy responsibility rests. They have the power, if they will, to bring the Government to reason. Will they use that power, or will this opportunity, like so many others, foe al- lowed to pass ?
Dick Wallhead's Appearance,
Dick Wallhead's Appearance, TO CONDUCT HIS OWN CASE AT NEATH. I To-dav (Friday) Dick Wallhead appears be- fore the Neath magistrates for alleged contra- iven.t?oli,s of the Defence of the Realm Regula- tions made in speeches at Maes teg and Briiton Ferry. Dick wiM conduct his own case. We shall publish a full account of the proceedings in our issue of next week.
IBriton Ferry Notes. I
I Briton Ferry Notes. I Miss Wilson and Freedom." Under the auspices of Jerusalem Baptist Church the peace meetings were continued on Thursday, December 6th, when the speaker was Miss Theodora Wilson Wilson (authoress of "The Last Weapon "). The meeting, which was magnificent, was the best attended of the series. This proves that the desire for peace is increasing. The speaker glave a detailed account of the raid cn the premises of "The Crusader." Two large waggons were necessary to carry away the "pernicious literature." The task. of "removal" was so great that Thank the Lord was ejaculated on the removal of the last parcel. Not only literature, but money also was taken. Miss Wilson's private flat was even ransacked. Her account of such doings in a land of freedom was greeted with cries of Shame." "Christ," she said, "was not behind the Bri- tish guns, nor the German guns, but stood be- tween, and every casualty,, whether of British or German, was, felt bv Him." All Thoughts on Wallhead. Naturally, our thoughts these last few days are with "Dick" Wallhead. By flome he is re- garded as a firebrand." We rather regard him as a "torchbearer," who has helped to lighten the dark places of error and ignorance, I by the installation of Light and Truth. Thou- I s,nds in England and Wales will be anxiously awaiting Friday's verdict.
I. Palestine for the JewI
I. Palestine for the Jew I I MESSAGE FROM ZIONIST PRESIDENT. I Dr. Oh, Welznlqnll, preisideiit. of the English Zionist Federation, has sent out the following message: "The capture of Jerusalem secures for General Allenby and the British army he leads immor- tality in the long line of famous men who have won the most famous of all cities. It is an achievement which will rank high in moral as in military history, for it has redeemed from the most unlovely rules a city sacred to the three great religions of the world. Moslem, Christian, and Jew know that henceforth the dearest tra- ditions of their faith are secure. "For Jews this event is doubly memorable, since for them Palestine is the land of their fathers, the land of their national redemption, of which the British Government's declaration is the charter. The happiness of us, Jews in this hour has, therefore, a special intensity, and our debt of recognition to General Allenby and his gallant army a special quality.
HOW? How does the editor of the "Daily News" reconcile both the Economy Campaign and his temperance professions with his half-page adver- tisements of Hennesy's brandy? So far as I can gather, eight bottles or casks of wine are used to make one of brandy. The whole process looks like a stupendous waste of good food. ECONOMY? For another kind of economy, see the "Daily News" for November 21st: £ 4 4s. for a toy. A gold-laced commissionaire and his assistant were to be seen yesterday afternoon in Regent- street carrying} a toy motor-car, nearly five feet long, from a toyshop to a waiting taxi-cab. A ømáll crowd watched the "toy" being hoisted with difficulty on to the roof of the cab. En- quiry showed that the price of the toy motor was C4 4s. Other patterns cost £ 3 5s. and £3 12s. 9d. Toys of all sorts are fetching as- tonishing prices in the West End. Evidently people who are making money out of the war have already begun to do their Christmas shop- ping." Then follows a list off prioes from 11/6 to £3 12te. 6d.
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Home National Assembly Red Chamber Senate proposes institute to tackle environmental issues
Sen. Chris Ekpeyong
Senate proposes institute to tackle environmental issues
Ojochenemi Onje-James
OrderPaperToday – The Senate on Tuesday called for establishment of a National Environmental Research and Training Institution that will handle related challenges.
This came to the fore at a public hearing organised by the Senate Committee on Establishment and Public Service on a Bill for an Act to Establish the National Environmental Research and Training Institute at National Assembly Complex.
The bill is sponsored by Senator Christopher Ekpeyoung, (PDP, Akwa-Ibom North West).
According to the sponsor, the bill was read for second time on 14th Feb, 2020 and was referred to the committee for further legislative action.
The bill is also seeking to provide necessary legal framework that will enable efficient harnessing of potentials in control.
It also sought to establish an institution that would develop policies, organisze training and conduct scientific research as a response to the scotch of environmental problems and challenges in the country.
The lawmaker also noted that there is no specific Government institution conducting research into environmental issues.
He is convinced that establishment of this institute will provide a veritable framework for environmental research development, training and policy formulations and identification of environmental issues through scientific methodology that would foster proper management of our environment.
The chairman of the committee, Senator Ibrahim Shekarau (APC, Kano Central), in his address noted that environment has a lot of bearing on the existence of Nigerians.
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Ojochenemi Onje-James is a research writer and journalist with years of proven footprints in areas of crime and politics. She has M.Sc in International Relations and Strategic Studies; and B.Sc in Mass Communication.
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There are two terrific film-noir series taking place in New York right now, one at Film Forum, "Femmes Noir," the other, at the Museum of Modern Art, "Lady in the Dark: Crime Films from Columbia Pictures, 1932-1957." But only the Film Forum series uses the word "noir," and MOMA's avoidance of the term makes perfect sense.
Film noir is a peculiar genre. A Western is identifiable by people on horseback in the West; a musical involves singing and dancing; a war movie shows war. Even the so-called women's picture was a movie that featured women prominently. But the directors who worked in film noir didn't use that term to describe their work. One searches in vain for the term in the interviews with some of the genre's crucial creators—Otto Preminger, Don Siegel, Fritz Lang, Robert Aldrich, and Edgar G. Ulmer—by Peter Bogdanovich in his great collection "Who the Devil Made It." The first appearance of the term "film noir" in this magazine is from 1971; the first in the New York Times is from 1973.
Thus these "noir" films no longer have anything in common with the usual kind of police reel. They are essentially psychological narratives with the action—however violent or fast-paced—less significant than faces, gestures, words—than the truth of the characters, this "third dimension" I discussed a short while ago.
It is clear that one of the key elements in the welcome given by the French critics to the American "films noirs" was the feeling that serious European influence lay behind their modern American settings and panache. Later commentators have pointed to stylistic influences from prewar German films, but for the 1946 critics the primary consideration was not one of style. It was rather that they believed in cinema's twofold function: as an absorbing entertainment and as a potential force for good, not through reinforcing conventional morality but through its ability to expose corruption and injustice. They had seen at first hand the prewar struggles of European filmmakers to speak out against evil in their films, and felt that the new American crime films could represent the opportunity for a surreptitious continuation of that work within unashamedly entertainment films.
Raymond Borde was a member of the editorial board of Positif from 1954 to 1967. A member of the Communist Party until 1958, he was a partisan of [politically] engaged cinema and took a stand against Cahiers du Cinéma and the filmmakers of the New Wave, whose politique des auteurs and rightist tendencies he denounced.
The term "film noir" has come down to us as a product of a subordinate strain of French criticism, different from the one that came to dominate cinematic discourse with the concept of auteurism, as well as to dominate filmmaking itself through the innovations of the New Wave. It had no currency among Hollywood filmmakers of the forties and fifties, for the simple reason that French criticism over-all had little influence in the U.S. until the rise of the New Wave. (Though it would be interesting to try to trace the term in Cahiers through the years—a concordance is needed.) And, even as film noir has become firmly entrenched in the cultural vocabulary, its strangeness remains. That's why I'm partial to the choice of MOMA's curators to cite the simplest unifying factor in their series—the element of crime—that both predates the rise of film-noir style and, above all, that survives it.
I wrote here a few years ago about the genre, and I cited four factors that contributed to its rise: "the influence of German Expressionism, the liberating innovations of Orson Welles, the new importance of independent producers, and the probing of wartime traumas." German filmmakers fleeing the Nazi regime, such as Lang, Preminger, Ulmer, Robert Siodmak, Max Ophuls, and Billy Wilder brought their shadowy, fragmented aesthetic to Hollywood. Welles (who was also a director of film-noir classics, including "The Lady from Shanghai") gave directors, including his venerable elders, a sense that anything was possible, even in Hollywood. The sudden weakening of studio control over production (the result of court battles) gave independent producers, many of whom were very sympathetic to artistically original directors, a much freer hand. And then there's the war, with its terrors and disruptions.
These early noir films created a psychological atmosphere that in many ways marked a response to an increasingly realistic and understandable anxiety—about war, shortages, changing gender roles, and "a world gone mad"—that was distinctive from the later postwar paranoia about the bomb, the cold war, HUAC, and the blacklist, which was more intrinsic to late 1940s and 1950s noir pictures.
I'm not sure that the distinction is as precise or as clear as she suggests. For instance, I don't think that there's a difference in kind between Siodmak's "Phantom Lady," from 1944, and "Criss Cross," from 1949, or between Lang's "The Woman in the Window," from 1944, and "While the City Sleeps," from 1956. But I do think that she's right to call attention to the historical specificities on which the genre (if, indeed, it's a genre) thrived. Many of the crime dramas of the nineteen-thirties had much to do with the Depression; those of wartime reflected the war (though it's a critical temptation to read the war into any film contemporaneous with it), and those that came after the war—well, by definition, they reflect postwar life.
That's why it's strange to think of film noir as a genre—at least, as an open-ended one. A Western is a Western is a Western, whether it's filmed by Thomas H. Ince in 1916, by John Ford in 1939, or by Clint Eastwood in 1992. The same is true of war films, comedies, and, yes, crime movies. But the film noir is historically determined by particular circumstances; that's why latter-day attempts at film noir, or so-called neo-noirs, almost all feel like exercises in nostalgia.


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Q: Kubuntu 16.04 Where is apps store? and How do I install packages? I want to install apps from Apps Store like Ubuntu.
thou I after exploring Kubuntu i think there is no such application like store. So i will download it manually depending it's availability. Now .debs file should be easier to install and more user friendly than using traditional terminal. What app should i download/install for Installing packages like deb?
How to install it still newbie in the world of Ubuntu.

A: The "App Store" in Kubuntu is called "Muon Discover". You should look for this name.

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Median pay award increases to 2.2%
By Zoe Wickens	 15th December 2021 9:03 am 15th December 2021 9:57 am
The median pay award across the UK rose to 2.2% in the three months to October – with the upper quartile increasing by even more – according to the latest monitoring figures from Incomes Data Research (IDR).
An analysis by the benchmarking body of 41 pay deals that took place between 1 August and 31 October 2021 revealed that around one in five reviews across the economy gave employees increases of more than 3%, leading to the upper quartile of awards augmenting from 2.8% in September to 3.5% in the latest period.
According to the IDR, the median pay award across the economy is likely to rise again to at least 2.5% next year as inflation, resignations and legislation continue to impact.
Senior researcher Zoe Woolacott said that regular monitoring of pay trends throughout 2021 showed a fairly stable median of 2.0% across the economy for most of the period.
But she explained that relatively high pay rises of 5% or more had been awarded in certain parts of the service sector, such as in retail, road transport and hospitality, as employers try to address recruitment and retention issues alongside the added upward pressure of higher inflation.
"The rising level of inflation is placing pressure on employers to award higher pay increases and this, coupled with the National Living Wage rising by 6.6% on 1 April 2022, means that we may see a considerably higher median by the spring," added Woolacott.
The average (mean) pay outcome across the economy rose to 3.0% from 2.6% in the three months to September.
Although the public sector lower quartile remained at 0%, as pay freezes continued to bite, the lower quartile of pay awards across the economy rose marginally to 1.8%.
The private sector median pay deal increased from 2.1% to 2.6% following a surge in the number of higher-end awards. This took the private sector median award above 2.5% for the first time in 2021 despite the lower quartile figure remaining unchanged since July at 2.0%.
Pay awards set to reach 2.5% by August 2022
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Spoiler-Free Review of "Wolf Like Me" on Peacock: Quirky Dramedy with Heart
*This is a spoiler-free review so feel free to read on!*
"I haven't been out in a really long time…"
Wolf Like Me released on January 13th 2022 on Peacock. The supernatural dramedy series stars Isla Fisher and Josh Gad. There are six episodes in total that run for approximately 22-26 minutes.
Set in Australia, a single father tries to connect with his eleven-year-old daughter when a woman named Mary crashes into his car. After their first date, she runs out the door, revealing that she has a supernatural secret.
Wolf Like Me has a Santa Clarita Diet vibe with fantastic characters, but does it find its balance between drama and comedy? Let's find out…
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Great chemistry between Gad and Fisher.
Both actors did a fantastic job with this series. I thought they had really terrific chemistry together. Both characters had a lot of layers and there was pure magic when they were together, which really elevated this series for me.
Short episodes.
This show was extremely easy to binge-watch. Each episode is just under a half hour and there are only six in total. Even though this series is a slow-burn one in a lot of ways, I thought the length of the episodes helped the pacing. Each episode did just enough at the end to bring you back for more.
Really heavy at times…
It's not easy finding a balance between comedy and drama. I thought that the moments of comedy were actually spot on and I enjoyed them. There were also some really heartfelt moments too that just worked. This is one of those shows where it's really more about the characters than the plot surrounding them.
However, some of the more emotional moments were really heavy and depressing at times, which made it difficult to jump right back into the moments of comedy without feeling slightly unhinged.
I'm in about 75 percent…
Overall, I really enjoyed this series. I thought that it had a quirky charm to it and the characters were easy to connect to. At times the plot fell slightly flat, but the interactions and moments between the characters made up for it in a lot of ways.
I hope you enjoyed the review and feel free to post your own thoughts and theories on Wolf Like Me in the comments section below. Thanks so much for reading and happy viewing!
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Dr. Zerle Leon Carpenter, of Bryan, died on July 23, 2017. He was of 83. He was born July 21, 1935, in Thomas, Okla., to Mildred and Ronald Carpenter. He earned a bachelor's degree in animal husbandry from Oklahoma A&M in 1957, where he participated on award-winning meat and livestock judging teams. While there, he enlisted in the United States Army and served until his honorable discharge in 1962. On September 8, 1958, he married Eloise "Lou" Hebard. After earning a doctorate in meat and muscle biology from the University of Wisconsin, the couple relocated to Bryan.
Dr. Carpenter was a respected professor and leader in animal science, meat science and agricultural administration. In 1962, he began his 35-year career with Texas A&M University as an assistant professor of animal science. He was named head of the animal science department in 1978, and director of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service in 1982. In 1988, he was named associate vice chancellor for agriculture and later served in national advisory roles.
Among his notable contributions to U.S. agriculture as a scientist and administrator were his more than 600 articles, papers, abstracts and other professional publications, as well as his innovative leadership in Extension programming efforts which became national models. In 1987, The American Society of Animal Science awarded him the title of Fellow in recognition of outstanding contributions to the livestock industry. He retired from Texas A&M in 1997 as Director, Associate Vice Chancellor & Professor Emeritus. Dr. Carpenter was honored with many awards, but was most pleased when his former students achieved success and recognition. He was inducted into the Texas A&M Animal Science Hall of Fame in 2013 and the National Meat Industry Hall of Fame in 2014.
He was preceded in death by his parents and sister, Rhonda Kay Carpenter Chubrich. He is survived by his loving wife, Lou Carpenter, of Bryan; two daughters, Jane Catherine Carpenter of Stillwater, Okla., and Kimberly (Keith) Carpenter Williamson, College Station; granddaughters Catie (Jonathan) Noles, Stillwater, Okla., Kendall Williamson and Kellie Williamson, College Station, and Kirby Williamson, The Woodlands; and three great-grandchildren, Jaden, Kai and Laney Noles.
Memorial contributions may be sent to First Baptist Church, Bryan, for the building fund, or to the Texas A&M Foundation in memory of Zerle Carpenter.


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Investors Shouldn't Overlook Alcoa's (NYSE:AA) Impressive Returns On Capital
Simply Wall St
May 21, 2022 • Updated August 30, 2022
If we want to find a potential multi-bagger, often there are underlying trends that can provide clues. Typically, we'll want to notice a trend of growing return on capital employed (ROCE) and alongside that, an expanding base of capital employed. Ultimately, this demonstrates that it's a business that is reinvesting profits at increasing rates of return. With that in mind, the ROCE of Alcoa (NYSE:AA) looks great, so lets see what the trend can tell us.
What is Return On Capital Employed (ROCE)?
Just to clarify if you're unsure, ROCE is a metric for evaluating how much pre-tax income (in percentage terms) a company earns on the capital invested in its business. The formula for this calculation on Alcoa is:
Return on Capital Employed = Earnings Before Interest and Tax (EBIT) ÷ (Total Assets - Current Liabilities)
0.21 = US$2.6b ÷ (US$16b - US$3.5b) (Based on the trailing twelve months to March 2022).
So, Alcoa has an ROCE of 21%. On its own, that's a very good return and it's on par with the returns earned by companies in a similar industry.
View our latest analysis for Alcoa
NYSE:AA Return on Capital Employed May 21st 2022
In the above chart we have measured Alcoa's prior ROCE against its prior performance, but the future is arguably more important. If you're interested, you can view the analysts predictions in our free report on analyst forecasts for the company.
The Trend Of ROCE
Alcoa has not disappointed with their ROCE growth. The figures show that over the last five years, ROCE has grown 362% whilst employing roughly the same amount of capital. So it's likely that the business is now reaping the full benefits of its past investments, since the capital employed hasn't changed considerably. On that front, things are looking good so it's worth exploring what management has said about growth plans going forward.
To bring it all together, Alcoa has done well to increase the returns it's generating from its capital employed. Since the stock has returned a solid 83% to shareholders over the last five years, it's fair to say investors are beginning to recognize these changes. Therefore, we think it would be worth your time to check if these trends are going to continue.
Since virtually every company faces some risks, it's worth knowing what they are, and we've spotted 4 warning signs for Alcoa (of which 1 is a bit unpleasant!) that you should know about.
Alcoa is not the only stock earning high returns. If you'd like to see more, check out our free list of companies earning high returns on equity with solid fundamentals.
What are the risks and opportunities for Alcoa?
Alcoa Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, produces and sells bauxite, alumina, and aluminum products in the United States, Spain, Australia, Iceland, Norway, Brazil, Canada, and internationally.
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Trading at 51.4% below our estimate of its fair value
Earnings are forecast to grow 73.83% per year
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I am seeing "Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))" error in the Account Lockout examiner console for new Windows Server 2012 R2 domain controllers. I have a dedicated service account that is a member of the domain administrators group as well as local administrators. I've been trying all of the solutions listed on this site for the past 2 weeks trying to get something to give, but I cannot view lockouts on the new domain controllers.
I get this when I am logged in from my Windows 7 workstation as a domain administrator.
When logged into the Windows Server 2012 R2 domain controllers, I can only connect to the local domain controller.
When logged into a Windows Server 2008 or 2003 R2 domain controller I can see all of the 2008 and 2003 domain controllers, but none of the 2012 R2 domain controllers.
Access denied can be only reported when for some reasons service account get the required data from DC.
Are you able to connect to root\cimv2 WMI namespace of problematic DC from the machine where Netwrix Auditor is installed?
You can try using wbemtest to verify this. Of course needs to be done using the service account.
And it is not clear regarding domain controllers availability for each other. Maybe there are some issue with Domain services?


The exhibition Robert Indiana: Beyond Love at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York presents an overview of the work of the American artist, who his one of the main protagonists of the Pop Art movement. Robert Indiana used the vocabulary of highway signs and roadside entertainments of post war America. His work often consists of bold images with short words, such as in his most famous piece, LOVE.
Robert Indiana: Beyond Love. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Professional Preview, September 23, 2013. Video: Shimon Azulay.


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INCLO calls for the immediate release of Egyptian human rights leaders
2020. November 24., Tuesday
13 INCLO members are deeply concerned about this week's arrest and detention of three friends and colleagues who work for the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), a founding member organization of INCLO.
We call for their immediate and unconditional release.
Gasser Abdel Razek, Executive Director, Karim Ennarah, Criminal Justice Unit Director, and Mohammed Basheer, Administrative Manager at EIPR were arrested by the Egyptian security forces and baselessly suspected of:
"Joining a terrorist group with knowledge of its purposes";
"Using a personal account on the internet to spread false information that undermines public security"; and
"Broadcasting false news and statements that undermine public security and harm public interest".
These unjustified arrests come just two weeks after EIPR met with 13 ambassadors and accredited diplomats from the UK, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, Finland and Switzerland, to discuss improving human rights in Egypt.
They also follow the arrest and subsequent torture of Patrick George Zaki, EIPR's Gender and Human Rights Researcher, in February. He had been on leave since August 2019 to study for a postgraduate degree in Italy, and was returning for a brief family visit when he was arrested.
These ambassadors and diplomats as well as other countries must stand with EIPR and support our call for our colleagues' immediate release.
These arrests represent a clear and coordinated attack against EIPR's crucial work to promote and protect human rights, most recently EIPR's monitoring of conditions at prisons and places of detention, particularly during Covid-19, and its monitoring of the unprecedented surge in the issuing and execution of death sentences.
As human rights and civil liberties organizations, it is a normal and necessary part of our work to meet with a wide range of diplomats, politicians and officials in order to promote human rights standards, hold states accountable to the international human rights treaties they have ratified and ensure human rights are protected at the national level. This is the work of EIPR in Egypt and this work should not be criminalized; it should be respected and protected.
Arresting leading Egyptian human rights defenders represents an inexcusable attempt to silence their vital voices and to intimidate others in Egypt who work to promote and protect human rights. We strongly condemn this attempt to undermine the integrity of our colleagues who work tirelessly and selflessly to promote the human rights principles that are so fundamental to democracy and the rule of law.
We call for the immediate and unconditional release of our colleagues at EIPR. Based on Egypt's human rights record, we are extremely worried that EIPR staff will not receive due process and fair trial rights.
INCLO members fully agree with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights today (November 20) announcing: "that these recent arrests and detentions are part of a broader pattern of intimidating organizations defending human rights and of the use of counter-terrorism and national security legislation to silence dissent.
"The use of sweeping counter-terrorism laws and vague charges such as "joining a terrorist organization" and "spreading false information" to harass and criminalize the work of human rights defenders is inconsistent with the rule of law and Egypt's obligations under international human rights law.
"We are very concerned that the targeting of human rights defenders and other activists, as well as further restrictions on freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly imposed in the country, are having a profound chilling effect on an already weakened Egyptian civil society."
We stand in full solidarity with our friends and colleagues and call on the Egyptian authorities to immediately and unconditionally release Gasser Abdel-Razek, Karim Ennarah, Mohammed Basheer and Patrick George Zaki.
INCLO is a network of 15 independent, national human rights organizations. Learn more at inclo.net
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Q: why Connection test failed? When i select custom setting and select sql and enter all fields
Connection test failed: Cannot find module\AppData\Local\Temp\strapi9a2b8146f759\node_modules\strapi-connector-bookshelf\lib\utils\connectivity.js'

A: I know It's old but I just want to reply for future people who have the same issue.
Try to use yarn create strapi-app --quickstart or using npx npx create-strapi-starter --quickstart, and It'll use the default template
and then when It finish getting dependencies and finish setting up your project go to a file called database.js and add your database set of infos.
Got this info from issue opened in github : Here


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Q: save file in debugging file in android I'm new to android and I would like to save an image to disk someplace for debugging.
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  FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(path + "/android.png");
  bitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 90, out);

When I do this I get a permissions error when I try to save. What Am I doing wrong?
03-29 17:06:32.328: WARN/System.err(2276): java.io.FileNotFoundException: /mnt/sdcard/android.png (Permission denied)

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*You do not have WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE properly defined (e.g., it's in the wrong spot in the manifest)

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Q: ColdFusion Database settings Where is a place to look for db settings in ColdFusion? I would like to connect to the db via sequel pro.

A: Is there a DSN set up on the server that the CF is using?  That can be used to connect to the database, and would specify the name, password, database and a bit more.  That's accessed through the CFAdministrator page, not in the CF code itself.  Only the DSN name is used in the code.
Edit: In the CF admin page, go to the Data & Services tab, then choose Data Sources.  That is where the list of DSNs exist.  Select a data source to see the connection information.  The password is masked.


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Diageo Tops Rivals to Buy Ethiopian Brewer for $225 Million, Agency Says
Diageo Plc (DGE), the world's largest distiller, agreed to buy Ethiopia's state-owned Meta Abo Brewery for $225 million after outbidding SABMiller Plc (SAB) and Heineken NV. (HEIA)
Diageo, which makes Guinness stout, will expand Meta Abo and introduce new products, Wondafrash Assefa, a spokesman for Ethiopia's Private and Public Enterprises Supervising Agency, said today by phone from Addis Ababa. SABMiller, the world's second-biggest brewer by volume, bid $190 million for the asset, and Heineken offered $188 million, he said.
Nigel Fairbrass, a spokesman for SABMiller, confirmed that the brewer had bid for the asset. A spokesman for Heineken declined to comment.
Diageo, the London-based maker of spirits including Johnnie Walker whisky and Smirnoff vodka, is among consumer-goods companies seeking sales growth in emerging markets to offset weaker demand in western Europe and the U.S. Africa is attractive as consumers have increasing disposable income, Nick Blazquez, head of Diageo's Africa unit, said in April.
Meta Abo is the last of Ethiopia's state-owned brewing assets to be sold. Heineken, the world's third-largest brewer, bought two beermakers in the country for about $160 million in May.
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Here we look at the development of love. What does it mean to be in a loving relationship? What are the steps that occur in every individual in entering one?
Love Relationship
There is a lot of scoffing at psychology, especially when it was first trying to establish itself as a science. One belief was that the idea of love could not be studied because it was too complex, too personal and too integral to being human. That's like saying chemists can't study carbon because it's too integral to life, or physicists can't study bosons or something because it's so important to the universe.A loving relationship is intimacy, passion and commitment between two people.
I've based this definition on the triangular theory of love, which states every relationship is made up of one or more parts intimacy, passion and commitment. A close friendship has intimacy, where the two people share a bond. Love at first sight is based on passion. There is the loveless relationship where the feeling of excitement has passed into intimacy and commitment, but there is no passion. There are various other combinations and descriptions of these three parts intermingling.
Let's look at how this typically develops over time, and then we can look and see if there are cultural influences to this. It may be hard to believe, but attraction and love are highly influenced by what we perceive around us in terms of media and other couples.
Developing Over Time
When a relationship or love interest is new, it is easy to fall into the trap that what you are feeling is unique and special. That somehow, your love is special. Well, I don't mean to strip away the illusion, but I also kind of do want to strip away the illusion. I'm mean like that.The first step is sexual attraction.
I'm sorry, it had to be said. If you aren't physically attracted to someone, then you aren't going to pay them any mind. When we say sexual attraction, we are talking about passion from the triangular theory, a physical and gut reaction to the person that can be overwhelming or subtle. Here is where some people think they are in love, and it is the origin of the 'love at first sight' cliché.
The second step is a strong emotional attraction. Moving out of the gut wrenching, heavy breathing, tongue rolling-type of attraction, we move into the higher mindset. Here, the attraction is thinking about you and that person together, interacting with them and trying to increase intimacy.
You get to know them and either increase your attraction to them or decrease it.This one is a little bit tricky, so here's a quick story. Amelia is attracted to Bob, and Bob is attracted to Clarissa. Amelia begins talking with Bob and finds out they have nothing in common. It turns out Amelia is attracted to the idea of Bob, not who he actually is. Bob talks to Clarissa and finds out he really likes her for who she is.The last step is an increase in attachment.
Looking at our triangular theory, this is commitment. Here, the attraction stage has led to a mutual interdependence and attachment to one another. This attachment is then maintained and increased over time. The trick, though, with keeping it strong is to make sure that the first and second steps are returned to with the same person.
As we talked about earlier, love has passion and intimacy, and without these, you just have a good friendship.
Love Across Cultures
I think we all like the idea of love being this universal language. That two people in love can cross cultures, and that's all there is to it. But, really, we can start poking holes into that even within culture. People from the same culture, same everything, still express their love differently.
Some people buy things for other people, some people show it by touching and some people don't show it at all.Since we could spend forever looking at every culture, let's cleave the world in two. There is the individualistic culture found primarily in the West, which focuses on personal gain and individual accomplishment. And there is the collectivistic culture found primarily in the East and some Latin American countries. It focuses on family unity and group cohesion.A study by Gao in 2001, showed that individualistic cultures only showed slightly higher levels of intimacy and passion but hardly enough to call home about.
This would likely be due to the highly romanticized nature of the individualistic culture's true love idea, and that closeness and passion are only felt with one you love.Furthermore, commitment was found to be fairly equal between individual and collective cultures. This means that both show an equal level of commitment and loyalty to their partner. A similar study by Fitzpatrick et al. in 2001, also shows similar levels of the triangular love theory across culture. It would seem that while expression of love may be different across and within culture, the actual root of intimacy, passion and commitment are all the same.
A loving relationship is intimacy, passion and commitment between two people. This is based on the triangular theory of love, which states every relationship is made up of one or more parts intimacy, passion and commitment. The main stages of love include sexual attraction, emotional attraction and attachment.
It was also found that across cultures, there is not much difference when using the triangular theory of love.
After completing this lesson, you should be able to:
Understand what makes up a loving relationship
Describe the triangular theory of love
Recognize that love across cultures does not show any major differences
Love to maintaining the relationship. Because empty love
Why knows what this is like when
During you think will survive long enough
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During the War of 1812, British forces sailed to Baltimore, Maryland, intent on attacking the city. But Baltimore was defended by Fort McHenry — a star-shaped fort perfectly situated on the Baltimore Harbor. On the morning of September 13, 1814, the British navy attacked the fort for 25 hours. Francis Scott Key witnessed the bombardment from a ship in Baltimore harbor and expressed his gratitude and relief at the victory in a poem that became "The Star-Spangled Banner."
Following the Battle of Baltimore, Fort McHenry remained an active military site for more than 100 years. During the Civil War, the fort served as a prison for Confederate soldiers and sympathizers, and during World War I, it was used as an army hospital for soldiers and veterans.
The flag at Fort McHenry reminds us what America stands for and how our nation has endured through decades of challenges.
Fact Sheet Protecting Fort McHenry During the War of 1812, British forces sailed to Baltimore, Maryland, intent on attacking the city. But Baltimore was defended by Fort McHenry - a star-shaped fort perfectly situated on a point jutting into Baltimore Harbor.
Report Protecting Our Chesapeake, Protecting Our National Parks The Chesapeake Bay watershed is home to more than 50 national park units. Shenandoah National Park in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania, and the C&O Canal National Historical Park along the Potomac River are just a few of the parks that share this common bond. Their streams and rivers, along with many others in the expansive watershed, ultimately flow into the Chesapeake Bay, which is recognized as one of America's Great Waters.


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The Certified Healthcare Simulation Educator-Advanced (CHSE-A) certification is a portfolio-based certification for leaders in healthcare simulation. This certification distinguishes those who have proven themselves to be advanced in their practice in healthcare simulation, and serve as mentors and examples to others in the field. Individuals who are interested in obtaining this certification and demonstrating their high level of expertise are encouraged to apply.
These are the minimum requirements that must be met to be eligible to apply for CHSE-A. A successful applicant for CHSE-A will demonstrate leadership and expertise beyond these minimum requirements.
Consistent with its mission, SSH developed the certification process for educators focused on healthcare simulation. This program has been developed over a number of years with the input of many individuals representing a wide variety of backgrounds and experience in healthcare simulation. Individuals from the international healthcare simulation community including other simulation societies contributed to the success of CHSE-A Certification. SSH would like to thank everyone who has participated in the development of CHSE-A Certification.
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What a picture this period charmer amid a leafy garden makes from the street! Inside, Baltic pine flooring adds to the warm tranquil ambience, while features such as leadlighting and high ceilings are complemented by carefully considered modernisations.
Although there is new ducted heating throughout the house, a gas log fire adds a comfortable atmosphere to the inviting formal lounge room, and a slow combustion wood heater makes the open plan family room a cosy space in winter. A large, thoroughly modern kitchen is open to the family room. Extensive stone benchtops, heaps of soft-closing drawers, a big wide stove (gas hotplates), stainless steel appliances - this kitchen is terrific.
Very much a family home - in proportions and amenities - this beauty offers 3 bedrooms (2 with mirrored built-in wardrobes) plus a study as well as 2 glam contemporary bathrooms, and a fully renovated laundry. The master bedroom has french doors out to a deck in the rear garden. Here, careful planning combines raised veggie beds and lush plantings with places to sit or entertain.
Earning an enormous tick of approval are the solar panels. Power bills have been non-existent here (0.67c rebate til 2024)! There are also water-tanks servicing the garden and toilets. How's that for something to brighten your life?
Just when you think this property couldn't possibly have more to offer, you'll find a fully self-contained studio apartment/bungalow that is ideal for in-law accommodation or as a viable letting proposition! Oh yes - and there is extensive off-street parking as well.
Land size is approx 558sqm and the premier location means this wonderful property is in strolling distance to park, schools (Murrumbeena & St Patrick's Primary), buses, bowls club and other recreational facilities and not much further to train station and shops.


Scurrying feet and dancing around each other in the kitchen were always the signs in my childhood home that company was coming. No matter how early we began dinner preparations, someone would inevitably sing out "They're here!" long before everything was on the table. Then there was the ruckus of greetings, the putting away of coats and bags, and the settling of persons in chairs or couches. This is still the rhythm of my parents' home when I visit over the holidays. We never quite manage to have the turkey done when the guests arrive, and we breathe a prayer of thanksgiving when someone calls to say they are running a bit late. I find myself doing the same at my own home now, smiling ruefully at the realization that even the tradition of dinner being behind time has been handed down to me.
I see, in fact, that most of the traditions I have carried into adult life have the kitchen at their heart. Perhaps more specifically, the kitchen table. It was there that Mom fed us hearty breakfasts every morning and Dad read Scripture or The Chronicles of Narnia to us after dinner. At that table I labored over math and physics. There my whole family rolled up their sleeves for applesauce-making days—hand-cranking that leaky press, filling jar after jar with hot, sticky goodness to cover our Saturday morning pancakes. There we shared meals and laughter with friends. Dad and I had many theological conversations around that table, our Bibles spread out before us, our voices rising in excitement or frustration. There we held hands and prayed with thanksgiving for food—and with tears for the concerns on our hearts. That inexpensive dining room set was the center of our home—not merely because it was where we left notes for one another, or because it was where my dad took off his boots after a long day of work, but because it was a place to gather and share our lives with one another, a place to go out from and come back to.
I have since gone out from that cozy home and dinner table to pioneer a home of my own; yet in many ways I come back to its practices, the lessons taught, and the memories made there. I am thankful to God and to my parents for the life-giving source our dinner table was. It sustained us bodily with eating meals, and it fed our souls and spirits, too. The "life together" aspect of the dinner table, of reading aloud as a family, of working together, and practicing hospitality—each person playing their part to ready the house and the table to welcome guests—set a theme for my life. These things painted a robust picture of home for me. I now seek to practice opening my own home to neighbors and friends, leaving the dishes until they are gone, that I might better listen to their stories and lives as they choose to share them. I find that "Hoosier hospitality" thrives around my kitchen table, even though I make my home in the heart of the mountains and not the Heartland of my childhood. More than simply a Hoosier quality, this kind of hospitality is not limited to a particular region or culture; rather, it stems from our Heavenly Father, inviting us to lean in and listen to His voice, to be fed His Word, and to be welcomed home.
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The Ministry of Interior (, Misrad HaPnim; ) in the State of Israel is one of the government offices that is responsible for local government, citizenship and residency, identity cards, and student and entry visas. The current acting Minister is Michael Malchieli.

Responsibilities
 Providing citizenship and permanent resident status.
 Issuing of entry visas and staying visas in the country.
 Inhabitants administration: personal registration
 Issuing of Israeli identity cards.
 Issuing of Israeli passports.
 Personal registrations such as birth, marriage etc.
 Local government, city councils and local councils supervision
 Appointing and dismissing District Commissioners
 Elections
 Associations
 Planning and building supervising

Departments
 Local Government Administration
 Planning Administration
 Emergency Service Administration
 Biometric Database Administration Authority
 Population and Immigration Authority
 National Planning Headquarters
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Deputy ministers

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The bronze plaque commissioned by the Monroe County Department of Parks honoring Rochester Garden Club in thanks for our gift of $100,000 to underwrite the Pansy Bed Renewal in Highland Park.
Throngs visited Highland Park to view the lilacs. Thanks to Rochester Garden Club, the ever popular Pansy Bed, boasting 10,000 plants, has been exquisitely renewed for all to enjoy.
In honor of its 100th Anniversary, the garden club has granted the $100,000 necessary to revamp the iconic landmark that was crumbling and in disrepair.
There was a dedication and ribbon cutting at the Pansy Bed on Monday, May 4 at 9:30 a.m. Representatives from institutions and organizations involved in the renewal attended. The public was invited.
The $100,000 grant covered the cost of creating an ADA compliant design and the creation of a barrier free landmark that features eight foot wide bluestone walkways, limestone seat walls with bluestone caps, additional benches and an improved irrigation system. At the center of this dazzling stone hard scape is a large bed planted out in colorful pansies each spring. There is a bright new design each year. After the pansies finish blooming they are replaced colorful annual flowers for the balance of the growing season.
Rochester Garden Club was founded in 1915. It's very first project was creating the Poet's Garden, also in Highland Park. Funds for this Centennial grant were raised over the past decade with proceeds from the club's Annual Geranium Sale. There are 120 members in Rochester Garden Club, which is both a Federated and Garden Club of America club.
"From Susan B. Anthony House to Ronald McDonald House to Hillside Children's Center to the El Camino Trail Project, Rochester Garden Club has been committed to the beautification of our city for 100 years." notes club president Suzanne Spencer.
Highland Park started with a 1888 land donation made by successful nurserymen Patrick Barry and George Ellwanger. The park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. Olmsted's vision was that the park be a "restful and restorative public space". Rochester Garden Clubs Centennial Project Chair, Barbara O'Hare, points out "The renewed Pansy Bed commemorates that vision and Rochester Garden Club is proud to have made this community project possible.
View the Pansy Bed Renewal Photos.
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Beloved Shooter Titanfall Will Be Pulled From Stores Permanently
Respawn is delisting a game that defined a decade's worth of first-person shooters
Renata Price
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Titanfall, the game which catapulted Respawn Entertainment to the status of EA's star studio, is being pulled from digital storefronts and subscription services on March 1, 2022. This, to me? Sucks. However—given the game's recent brush with some very bad hacking—it isn't particularly surprising either.
Titanfall, at the time of its release, was an incredibly ambitious experiment. It was a multiplayer-only FPS, including its campaign mode—which attempted to weave story into the game's matchmaking. The game's multiplayer-only focus, in addition to its phenomenally fluid movement system and weighty mech combat, made Titanfall a brilliant oddity—one that would lay the foundation for all of Respawn's future projects.
Titanfall 2 is possibly the best first-person shooter released in the last decade—with its perfectly paced and impeccably designed campaign and stellar multiplayer. Apex Legends is set in the same universe, uses the same weapons, and has a modified version of Titanfall's movement system. The game all but reignited movement shooters for a short time, before they sadly returned to the shadows.
For the last few years, Titanfall has been plagued with myriad problems—most troubling of which has been widespread hacking throughout the game's multiplayer. Both Titanfall and Titanfall 2 were hit with multiple DDOS attacks, which crashed the games' servers, several hacks which would cause players' games to crash, and even claims that some security flaws could permanently jeopardize the health of your PC (which Respawn disproved). These security risks, in addition to Repsawn's insistence that they aren't working on Titanfall 3 right now (but could someday), make the current state of Titanfall anything but cheery. Respawn has said the franchise is at the core of the studio's identity, but this is all we really have to go on for the future of the series.
Titanfall's grim fate marks yet another high-profile instance of a game being pulled from sale—with Rockstar's recent attempt to remove classic GTA games from various storefronts being the most notable example. Jump Force, the Shonen Jump anime-fighter has also met this fate recently. As someone who cares about games preservation, decisions like this are deeply concerning even if they're not unexpected.
Titanfall helped set the tone for an entire generation of first-person shooters, and its effects on the genre are undeniably present even today. Hell, Halo Infinite's excellent grappling hook is pure Titanfall. Losing access to this classic is a major blow to anyone with even a passing interest in FPS history.
For those of you who haven't picked up the game, it will remain on sale until March 1, 2022, and the game's multiplayer servers will remain online even after the game is taken off stores and subscription services everywhere.
Goodbye Titanfall, rest well my sweet mech-prince.


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Microwave-assisted palladium-catalyzed allylation of aryl halides with homoallyl alcohols via retro-allylation
Masayuki Iwasaki, Sayuri Hayashi, Koji Hirano, Hideki Yorimitsu, Koichiro Oshima
The palladium-catalyzed allylation of aryl halides with homoallyl alcohols via retro-allylation proceeds at 200-250 °C in a toluene-DMF mixed solvent using microwave heating. Even at such high temperatures, the regio- and stereospecificity of the allyl transfer reaction is still satisfactory. The amount of the palladium catalyst can be reduced to 0.5 or 0.05 mol %.
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Iwasaki, M., Hayashi, S., Hirano, K., Yorimitsu, H., & Oshima, K. (2007). Microwave-assisted palladium-catalyzed allylation of aryl halides with homoallyl alcohols via retro-allylation. Tetrahedron, 63(24), 5200-5203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tet.2007.03.165
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Iwasaki, M, Hayashi, S, Hirano, K, Yorimitsu, H & Oshima, K 2007, 'Microwave-assisted palladium-catalyzed allylation of aryl halides with homoallyl alcohols via retro-allylation', Tetrahedron, vol. 63, no. 24, pp. 5200-5203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tet.2007.03.165
Iwasaki M, Hayashi S, Hirano K, Yorimitsu H, Oshima K. Microwave-assisted palladium-catalyzed allylation of aryl halides with homoallyl alcohols via retro-allylation. Tetrahedron. 2007 Jun 11;63(24):5200-5203. doi: 10.1016/j.tet.2007.03.165
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Jeremy Roenick knows how his old teammates are feeling.
He can't score in the United Center either.
"It's very hard for me to play in this building," Roenick said after Phoenix beat the Hawks 2-0 Saturday night. "But it's always nice to beat the Hawks."
Except for the opening six minutes, when he squeezed off four shots, Roenick made little noise on his second appearance in Chicago since he was traded last summer.
Roenick figured his second trip back wouldn't be a big deal--at least not as big as his heralded return in January.
Mike Gartner knew better. Gartner had warned his Phoenix Coyotes teammate that it might be a while until the strangeness of facing his old club wears off.
"When you go to a new team, it really is a huge adjustment, especially if you've been with the other team for a long time," Gartner said. "You feel different in a new jersey, finding your way around a new city."
Gartner is something of an authority on the subject. He's the Global Van Lines poster boy--four trades in an 18-year NHL career.
"It's almost like being in the twilight zone," Gartner said.
Roenick, who is more at ease in the neutral zone, still looks a little odd wearing the startling Etch-a-Sketch logo of the Phoenix Coyotes, formerly the Winnipeg Jets. The Coyotes are among the many mediocrities battling the Blackhawks for Western Conference playoff slots. The victory left Phoenix in fifth place, only one point away from opening the tournament at home. The Hawks are ninth.
It was an important game in the standings. But it was also important because it pitted Roenick against his old friends and teammates in front of a standing-room-only audience of 22,644 at the United Center.
Roenick has tried to take the it's-just-business approach to confrontations with the Hawks, but Roenick has never approached hockey as business. He plays with passion, so it's natural that he gets fired up against the Hawks. Perhaps too much: In four games against the Hawks this season, Roenick has managed only one assist.
Roenick said this weekend's trip wasn't as hard as his Jan. 2 return to Chicago, which got heavy media coverage.
"Obviously, the hoopla is a lot less," Roenick said. "I just try to treat it as another game. I get a lot of enjoyment out of being back in the city and seeing friends."
The first winter in the desert has been anything but enjoyable for him.
Roenick, 27, spent seven-plus seasons with the Hawks, scoring 267 goals and notching 596 points in 524 games. His numbers haven't been quite as impressive since he went from the West Side to the Far West.
Roenick has 20 goals and 30 assists in 57 games. That's similar to the production of the Alex Zhamnov (14 goals and 34 assists in 59 games), who came here from Phoenix in the Roenick deal.
They share other similarities. Both staged contract holdouts and both have been criticized for their relative lack of production.
"It goes to show how hard it is to be traded. It's almost a catastrophic thing to go through," Roenick said. "You push yourself to impress everybody. If you push too hard, it can be a negative thing. Alex and I have gone through some criticisms, but if you think we won't prosper, thrive, you don't know us very well."


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Les frères Pincheira (en espagnol : ) sont un groupe de hors-la-loi, actif au Chili et en Argentine de 1818 à 1832. Le gang combat d'abord dans la guerre d'indépendance du Chili du côté de la guérilla royaliste pendant la phase de « guerre à mort ». Après l'exécution de Vicente Benavides et l'effondrement de la résistance royaliste, ils deviennent isolés, restant le dernier groupe royaliste au Chili continental. Ils se spécialisent alors dans le vol de bétail et le brigandage. Après la reddition de l'archipel de Chiloé contrôlée par les espagnols en 1826, ils deviennent les derniers vestiges de la résistance royaliste en Amérique du sud. Les frères Pincheira forment une alliance avec la tribu Boroanos qui s'était installée à Salinas Grandes et Sierra de la Ventana. Ensemble, ils attaquent Carmen de Patagones et Fortaleza Protectora Argentina (aujourd'hui Bahía Blanca).

En 1827, le colonel français Jorge Beauchef, sous les ordres du général chilien Manuel Bulnes, franchit la cordillère des Andes et bat les frères Pincheira à la bataille d'Epulafquén, mais les hors-la-loi s'échappent. Le gang est en fuite jusqu'en 1832, lorsque Jose Antonio Pincheira signe la reddition au nom du roi d'Espagne.

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Supreme Court ruling 'hard' for couple in Blue Chip case
Wellington, Dec 3 NZPA - The Supreme Court has dealt a blow to Blue Chip investors Bruce and Dorothy Bartle in what has been seen as a test case for many elderly investors who face losing their homes.
The Court of Appeal had found earlier that loans the retired couple took out to buy an apartment in Auckland were oppressive.
Before that, the High Court found the Bartles had little understanding of the scheme, which was very disadvantageous for them. But it also concluded the loans were not in breach of reasonable standards of commercial practice and thus were not oppressive.
The appeal court decision was challenged in the Supreme Court by lenders GE Custodians, and in a decision published today the Supreme Court allowed GE's appeal and set aside orders made by the Court of Appeal.
"This result is hard for the Bartles," the Supreme Court decision said.
"But it would be quite wrong to hold GE culpable for what has occurred in circumstances in which the Bartles were throughout being given advice by a lawyer whose independence must be accepted and where GE was not aware of, nor put on inquiry about, any matter which rendered any of the loans in breach of reasonable standards of commercial practice.
"If the court were to do this it would require lenders to take responsibility for matters of which they neither knew nor should have known," the Supreme Court said.
"Whilst the Bartles are deserving of much sympathy, it was they who chose to put their faith in Blue Chip and their chosen lawyer. They expressly disavowed reliance on GE. It would make bad law if they could now hold GE responsible for what has occurred."
The central issue on the appeal was whether three loan contracts, and associated mortgages forming part of those contracts, between the Bartles and lender GE were oppressive and should be reopened, the Supreme Court said.
That was in circumstances where GE said it had no knowledge of any matter which would make any of the loan contracts oppressive or which should have put it on inquiry.
"Unfortunately for the Bartles, they were enticed into what has become known as the Blue Chip investment scheme promoted by the Blue Chip Group, all the New Zealand companies in which are now insolvent," the Supreme Court said.
It was important to be aware that in 2006 the Blue Chip Group appeared to be large and successful.
The Bartles had decided to go ahead with a proposal put to them by a Blue Chip salesman that they buy a residential apartment in a large building then being built in Auckland, borrowing against their Whangarei home and the apartment itself in order to do so.
Until the apartment was resold Blue Chip guaranteed to meet a shortfall on rental income, meaning it would subsidise mortgage outgoings, and would pay the Bartles $451 per fortnight.
The Bartles were to buy the apartment for $552,000, although borrowing an aggregate amount of $629,566. The first loan advance was made in November 2006, with the second and third in September 2007.
Blue Chip had fulfilled all its obligations to the Bartles during the first year but it stopped making the fortnightly payments even before the second and third loans were drawn down, and in February 2008 stopped making monthly interest payments, the Supreme Court said.
GE had exercised its power of sale over the apartment but it realised only about $250,000. GE was now seeking from the Bartles the balance, which appeared likely to be more than the value of their Whangarei home.
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