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Movie Review – War of The Worlds, The (1953)
June 12, 2019 Rodney Twelftree
Principal Cast : Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne, Bob Cornthwaite, Sandro Giglio, Lewis Martin, Housley Stevenson Jr, Paul Frees, Bill Phipps, Vernon Rich, Henry Brandon, Jack Kruschen, Sir Cedric Hardwicke.
Synopsis: A small town in California is attacked by Martians, beginning a worldwide invasion.
The first of Hollywood's big-budget feature film versions of HG Wells' classic sci-fi story of martian invasion, Byron Haskin's 1953 technicolor opus is immediately indelible and astoundingly iconic. It's also wondrously inventive, showcasing then-state-of-the-art visual effects to their grandest, most effectively chilling potential. It's also easy to identify thematic and visual motifs lifted wholesale by Steven Spielberg for his 2005 remake, from the sounds of the alien invaders to several key scenes the filmmaker would replicate using modern visual effects. Make no mistake, however, the '53 edition of The War of The Worlds is dynamite even today, albeit a touch kitschy and trite (and overly melodramatic), remaining an enduring classic thanks to genuine thrills and chills that bring Wells' brilliant psychological terror test to vivid life.
Rural California, and the life of atomic scientist Dr Clayton Forrester (Gene Barry) is shattered when an enormous alien vessel appears to crash-land near the town of Linda Rosa. Upon investigating, Forrester meets local girl Sylvia Van Buren (Ann Robinson) and her uncle, the town's pastor, Matthew Collins (Lewis Martin). As the military arrives to investigate, the vessel suddenly opens to reveal an enormous martian death-machine, spitting a deadly heat ray and incinerating all life and infrastructure it encounters. The military, as is their wont, fight back, although no weapons – from the smallest gun to the most powerful atomic weapon in the United States arsenal – appear to make a dent. With major global cities under threat from annihilation, small pockets of humanity gather to try to work out exactly what can stop these malevolent marauders from beyond the stars.
The War of The Worlds is pure 50's sci-fi cheese. It's a reflection of the US's preoccupation with the Red Scare, the rise of Communism and humanity's brink-of-disaster relationship with nuclear power. As an allegory for our own mortality, few stories have been as unambiguous in its forthrightness as HG Wells' story, in which invaders from Mars arrive to decimate us all, only to find their ultimate defeat at the hands of our world's microbial life. Given humanity's propensity for fear of the unknown, and our typically "shoot first, ask questions later" approach to the things we fear, War of The Worlds' redolent apocalyptic narrative resounds with the perplexing histrionics of our neutered military might as well as the discord of wailing destruction, and the confounding insertion of ripe religious subtext betwixt the explosions and the howl of martian machinery.
The screenplay is handled by Barré Lyndon (no, not the Kubrick film), and features a number of genuinely creepy and memorable sequences of tension and dread: notably, a scene in which Forrester and Sylvia become wedged inside a partially collapsed farmhouse where they encounter a bizarre alien "periscope" and actual creature (which is your typical rubber man-in-suit-puppet creation), and the now-ubiquitous deserted streetscape of some downtown metropolis through which our heroes desperately prowl, provide legitimately evocative moments against the backdrop of imminent human extinction. The dialogue is nothing if not perfunctory, and the exposition and leaps of logic are pursuant to the film's brisk running time, while the performances range from excellent to routinely contrived.
Marking the former is Gene Berry, as Forrester, who happens to always be in the right place at the right time for the audience to follow along as the plot and point unfolds. Berry's performance is solid if somewhat flat, although he's ably backed up by the luminously hysterical Ann Robinson, as his love interest. Robinson's character is the cliche of mid-Century sci-fi spectacle, all screamy, hysteria-loving damsel in distress, and a woman for whom getting a single hair out of place throughout her trials and tribulations is an effort in the impossible. Despite surviving an actual place crash with no physical injury whatsoever, crawling through a sewerage pipe, encountering an alien craft slamming into their hiding spot and subsequently having a martian lay his tri-digital hand upon her, Robinson's Sylvia never seems to fatigue or show any signs of wear or tear. Both have a chemistry befitting the nature of the plot, and neither are roundly poor, rather they manage to be serviceable.
Supporting roles to the likes of Les Tremayne, as the dependable General Mann (who orders the military action), Bob Cornthwaite (as the venerable Dr Pryor) and Lewis Martin (as the resident Pastor Matthew Collins) provide a wider canvas of ideologies and human subsets – notably, it's the theological paradigm inserted into the film's latter stages that proves the most astonishing; it's always been a belief that the arrival of aliens would inherently disprove the notion of God – or a supreme being of any kind, really – which makes it surprising that in their time of greatest need, humans would congregate within the churches of our society for protection, both physical and spiritual, despite the Martian slaughter seemingly offering irrefutable evidence that humanity – and subsequently our deities – aren't compatible with our belief us being a God-like form. What kicks off as an outright science-fiction examination of our first contact with aliens turns into a treatise in using faith as a cornerstone of survival, despite it being usurped by the invading creatures.
The War Of The Worlds also boasts some quite startling visual effects, especially given their vintage. The alien ships that arise from their landing craft (unlike Spielberg's film, these aliens haven't been buried here since time immemorial) and the destruction of the Earthly landscape wrought upon humanity is brilliantly conceived and executed, from full-scale to models obliterated in ever moment. The sound effects serve to enhance the sense of dread as the martians approach, that pitchy whine and pulsating electrical throb accompanying the very deadly heat blasts, while Leith Stevens' accompanying score is ethereal and magnificent. George Barnes' lovely Technicolor cinematography, with its vivid hues and magnificent depth, looks superb in today's HD technology and the blend of mattes, rotoscoping and rear projection techniques is near-seamless. As a technical exercise, The War of The Worlds holds up brilliantly.
Fear not the film's age or its occasionally cliched performance tropes (the only way a man can silence a hysterical woman is to shake her vigorously, apparently), for there is fun and excitement to be found in The War of The Worlds' first foray onto the big screen. Captivating period effects and some legitimately creepy moments of terror make for enthralling viewing even now, and the genetic material inhabiting Spielberg's more forceful take on the story later can easily be spotted. The direction is appropriately staged for 50's audiences, the alarming nuclear option feels strangely modern, and the memorable narration dialogue (here performed by Sir Cedric Hardwicke) underpins the visual dynamism on display; this is a well made film, for sure, and perhaps because of its vintage somehow worms its way into our collective subconsciousness and taps into that base fear of the unknown that to this day plays a large part in our way of life.
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2 thoughts on "Movie Review – War of The Worlds, The (1953)"
Wendell W Ottley says:
Sadly, I still haven't seen this one. I have seen the Spielberg/Cruise version. I don't hate it like most others seem to, but i recognize that it isn't great. I need to just watch this one already.
Rodney Twelftree says:
Definitely. I was amazed at how good the visual effects were for a film of this vintage – the seams and strings being pulled here are kitschy by today's standards but overall i can understand how audiences of the day were utterly wowed. More than a couple of shots made me gasp with their ingenuity.


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Elixir development in 2020: adoption, community and predictions
Elixir is a programming language created in 2011 by José Valim. Let's take a look at its current status a year before it turns a decade old.
This report examines Elixir development from a few different angles, such as: popularity, adoption, community and the most recent updates in its ecosystem. Let's start with the latter.
Major event: Elixir v1.10 released
It couldn't be anything else.
Elixir v1.10, released at the end of January, brings several additions to 2019's 1.9 version, including improvements to the standard library and the compiler, as well as refinements of the already existing features such as Elixir's configuration system and sorting APIs.
Running on Erlang OTP 21+, Elixir v1.10 is better integrated with Erlang's new logger. As a result, Elixir's and Erlang's APIs share logger level, metadata and log messages.
Curious about more updates? Here they are:
Allowing to disable dual-boot system of releases on boot-time sensitive environments,
Overlays' support,
Adding the possibility to pass a module (such as Date etc.) for semantic comparison,
Compiler tracing that enables devs to control events as they are emitted,
Support for third-party calendars.
For details, visit the official Elixir blog.
Still not a superstar among languages
The annual Stack Overflow Developer surveys have been our articles' reference point for some time. They reveal metrics like interest in a particular technology and its actual adoption among the worldwide community, as well as companies hiring developers. The surveys provide quite an accurate picture of the technological landscape and can be treated as reliable trend indicators.
Neither Elixir, nor its dedicated framework Phoenix can be spotted in this year's Stack Overflow survey.
It is an explicit fall in comparison with the 2019 edition, in which both Elixir and Phoenix - though occupying the lower half of popularity charts - were present.
How come?
Well, the highest rank Elixir got in the 2019 survey was in the "most dreaded languages" section. That one reflected the percentage of developers using the language but having no interest in continuing to do so. The 2020 drop-down seems like a logical next step.
Why again?
The functional programming paradigm that sets Elixir apart from object-oriented languages like Ruby seems is often seen as a barrier for developers. This, however, answers the above question only partially.
Elixir developer community
Still, the community of Elixir devs is growing. This can be reflected in the number of GitHub contributors, which at the moment of this publication is slightly below 1,000.
Also, the language's official forum has experienced a ten-fold growth in the last 3 years, which proves that new developers appear and help expand the language.
In addition, Elixir Forum's owners are planning to release a new sister website "to support Elixir's new phase of growth (...) beyond their own community channels". The 2020 update reveals few details about this new medium, although promises "a place where people can evangelise their favourite tech".
Companies using Elixir in production
In previous years, we have covered companies and websites that use Elixir in production.
Some of them cast more light on how it has affected their day-to-day activities and growth, some less, but it's a fact that the number of Elixir adopters in the business world is growing.
PepsiCo eCommerce is one of them. The company, building software for marketing automation, supply chains and sales optimization revealed its annual earnings to be as high as 2 billion $ in late 2019.
At least partially, this success owes to Elixir. The language has also conquered some other areas at PepsiCo eCommerce and become its backend application engineering language.
"We view Elixir – which is a core part of our software stack – as a nimble and reliable building block for powering critical business solutions" - says the company in the official statement before ElixirConf US 2020, which it sponsors.
What could be a greater validation for technology like Elixir than real use cases by a global eCommerce giant?
Read more about Elixir and Phoenix engineering at PepsiCo eCommerce.
Other companies based on the technology feature the gaming tycoon Square Enix (known for the "Final Fantasy" game series) and the graphical editor software Sketch.
Events postponed or go online
Due to the covid-19 pandemic, the key 2020 events - such as ElixirConf and ElixirConf EU went online or were rescheduled.
Initially planned for late April, ElixirConf EU was moved online for late June's virtual edition.
Those who previously bought tickets had the opportunity to listen to keynote speeches by Chris McCord (creator of the Phoenix framework), Jane Walerud (who persuaded Ericsson to open-source Erlang) and Chris Keathley, who is a senior engineer in one of Elixir's early adopters - Bleacher Report.
The physical event will happen as well. The new date is 7-8 October in Warsaw, Poland. The US edition is scheduled to September 2-5 in Aurora, Colorado.
The future of Elixir development
It seems that despite not being on the Stack Overflow 2020 list, Elixir is going strong with its worldwide community growing and adoption by huge market players like PepsiCo eCommerce. What are the possible fields of its expansion?
Elixir's standard library seems to fit the main concepts of the ROS - Robot Operating System.
In truth, the ROS is a collection of applications, libraries & tools for robotics. Its foundations are:
message passing,
remote procedure call,
distributed parameter system.
There are also projects working to help Elixir become a solid choice for Internet of Things (IoT), as well as exploring possibilities to apply it to embedded systems.
We will keep an eye on the course of events.
Meanwhile, take our Free Elixir Course if you want some hands-on experience in programming.
Looking for a trusted Elixir development team? Drop us a line.
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Bailie on the Parthenon Frieze
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Notes on Lectures of the Florilegia Institute by Gil Bailie
Series: "The Gospel of Luke"
Tape #9; Re: "Sidestepping" Luke 16-19:27Excerpt of the final illustration used in the lecture
"New Analysis of the Parthenon's Frieze Finds It Depicts a Horrifying Legend," by John Noble Wilford, New York Times, Tuesday, July 4, 1995
This example has more to do with us.
Introduction: Structurally, conventional culture lasts from the moment of its founding violence — the generative violence that creates the comradery out of which culture is made — from the moment of that founding violence until the sacrality of that violence wears off and the system begins to fall apart. And then you have a crisis which is either resolved ritually, or in a full blown re-enactment of the original crisis — and you either have a new culture or a cultural revival with a sacrificial ingredient. That's Nietzsche's "eternal return." That's culture being created and falling apart, created and falling apart, and so on. When Heraclitus, the pre-Socratic philosopher, says that violence both destroys and creates, that's what he's talking about. Chaotic violence destroys the culture, and then when the violence is polarized perfectly onto the victim, it generates culture. Culture lives from the moment of its founding violence until its sacrality wears off. Its sacrality wears off precisely when we begin to see its victim. That's why the victim is the Rorschach test. Can you really see the victim? And, if you can, then the sacral mystification has worn off, and you're about to stumble upon the gospel truth. The epistemological block is about to be removed.
We are living at the end of a cultural moment: for the most part everybody realizes that the Enlightenment is over. With the Enlightenment rationalism, we took the eschatological promise of the gospel and converted it into something secular, namely, the idea of progress. We converted its hope, which is theological, into optimism. The ideas of progress and simple optimism have been collapsing. Yesterday, Girard said to Gil, "You know the Europeans knew it was over after World War I, when it was still only alive in Russia and America." The latter were twin versions of that progress and optimism. Even now it's catching up with the Russians and Americans.
One of the features of Enlightenment rationalism is that it regarded itself as non-sacrificial and as no longer encumbered by any of those things. The truth, however, is that it was secretly indebted to the non-sacrificial truth of the gospel, on one hand, and secretly encumbered by other sacrificial truths to which it was turning. When, in the Renaissance and later, the Western world looked for some sort of respite from the gospel revelation, it turned to Athens. Because it seemed that when one turned to Athens one saw civilization, composure, rationality, humanity, democracy, all these wonderful these, without all the craziness of the biblical tradition, all this stuff about violence. It seemed less violent in Athens.
When our paradigms come to an end, sometimes we need a marker, like World War I for most Europeans. If we need a marker for the collapse of Renaissance and Enlightenment humanism and rationalism, it might be the new understanding of what is actually depicted on the Parthenon Frieze. The Parthenon is not just an architectural structure. The Parthenon represented, in many ways, everything that fascinated Europeans about Athens. It stood for everything that glowed in the eyes of Europeans when they turned from the biblical tradition to the Greek tradition. So it's not just another building. And so what would happen if we were to discover that this building commemorated the same sort of thing we've been talking about today. It would mean, "The bloom is off the rose." Our romanticism is over. Yes, but it would really mean that the Kingdom is breaking in on us. It means that something else is being revealed. What we're talking about here is a recent, very persuasive interpretation of the Parthenon Frieze which sees it as a depiction of human sacrifice. This is interesting because the Enlightenment saw itself as a non-sacrificial project, and now we look back at the central shrine at which Renaissance humanism worshiped and we find out it's a shrine for human sacrifice. That's the Gospel breaking in on our myths.
The following story comes from the New York Times on July 4 [1995]. That's ironic. Because the hardest violence to realize, the last one we want to expose, is our own founding violence. We might legitimately argue that, in our own eyes, we had no founding violence of our own, and so it turns out that we were feeding on their founding violence. In some ways, the founding violence of modern rationality was the founding violence of Athens. Now, we realize that it was boldly depicted right in front of our faces. We had eyes but could not see. The Gospel is what helps us to recover our sight — not because it wants us to look at all these gory things, but because the revelation of the truth of that God is always on the other side of the Cross. In order to get there, you have to go through that experience of seeing it for what it is and hearing the cock crow. Here, we have a modern version of that.
Reading from the beginning of the article: "Standing in columned splendor atop the Acropolis of Athens, the Parthenon is the paragon of classical architecture and has long been a shrine of Western civilization. The Greeks built this temple to the goddess Athena in the fifth century B.C., in the golden age of Pericles…. Set high above, on all sides in the shadow of the exterior colonnade, was a 524-foot-long frieze in low relief depicting various stages of what appeared to be a single solemn ceremony. A cavalcade of mounted soldiers was followed by people bringing animals to sacrifice and bearing offerings by musicians, maidens and elders. They approached a central scene above the east entrance, where among other figures, a man and child held a large cloth. The interpretation of these scenes is now facing a serious challenge for the first time in two centuries." The original interpretation was that "the frieze represented the Panatheniac festival, which was held every four years to commemorate the birth of Athena." (This is a little bit like the Nativity story.)
Continuing to read: "Now the discovery of fragments of a lost play by Euripides…" This is so exciting, so much better than "Raiders of the Lost Ark," or some such thing. This is real drama here! How does the gospel break in on us?! How do we realize these things. "Now the discovery of fragments of a lost play by Euripides, found on papyrus in the wrappings of an Egyptian mummy…" You couldn't make this up! Somebody should do a screen play. "Now the discovery of fragments of a lost play by Euripides, found on papyrus in the wrappings of an Egyptian mummy, and the diligent research of an American archeologist have produced a much different interpretation [than the birthday one]. The scenes of the frieze do not depict a fifth-century procession, according to the new thesis, but instead evoke the Athenian founding myth of a king's precious sacrifice to save his city from defeat. Such an interpretation may be more satisfying to scholars and more revealing of early Greek culture and mythology — but it may also become controversial and eventually disillusioning." If we live in illusions, disillusionment is progress. "To think that this iconic structure of grace and just proportion could turn out to have been dedicated to the glorification of a practice as primitive, cruel and irrational as the sacrifice of children!" You can feel something breaking in on the myth. Sometimes people hear me speak and they say, "Gee, this is terrible. You aren't very optimistic. Are we going to get out of this?" I'm a pretty happy guy, basically. It's like Jeremiah says, 'You have to have your tree planted by the riverside.' And Abraham Heschel says, 'Our roots have to go deeper than the hopes and fears of history.' If we don't touch that eschatological promise when we come upon these things, we're going to feel terrible. To the extent that we have our roots in that promise, these things don't bother us that much. But, if not, we want to get up and leave. There's something right about that, because we intuitively realize that without these illusory hopes in progress and optimism, we would become nihilists. There's another alternative, of course: to get in touch with the eschatological promise. Continuing [after repeating previous sentence]: "And worse, that it dated from the time the Greeks were boldly experimenting with democracy and rationalism…" Boy, doesn't that say it?! Remember when we were talking about the Moki culture [previous illustration in lecture]: the archeologists were saying that this was a booming thriving civilization. This is what we have to realize. By the way, in Violence Unveiled this is what I try to say about Greek rationalism: it never gets back to this. It will circle around it and never get to it. The tragedians got to it, and that's why a key to this whole thing is fragments from a lost play by Euripides. But they can't win. Philosophy went into orbit around the sacrificial event and never got back to it. Back to the whole sentence: "And worse, that it dated from the time the Greeks were boldly experimenting with democracy and rationalism, from that age whose creative spirit the Renaissance sought to emulate." There you have it.
Reads most of next four paragraphs detailing the kings sacrifice of his daughters to save Athens, ending with: "Greek writings of the time were making much of the sentiment attributed to [Queen] Praxithea that just as boys go to war, girls go to sacrifice — both for the good of the polis, the city-state." Isn't that something? This is an early form of 'equality.' War is a sacrificial ritual, and prestige in ancient culture is always in direct proximity to the sacrificial event. If you are the manipulator of, or the victim of, the sacrificial event, you have tremendous prestige. If you fall in war, you're remembered as a great hero. You're sacralized. In the same way, with the sacrifice. Women couldn't go to war and take part in that prestige, so you have Praxithea saying the girls should have as big a shot at it in their version of the sacrificial ritual.
The reporter interviews a number of people about the profundity of this new interpretation. One of the scholars is quoted: "'It is surprising in retrospect that nobody familiar with the conventions of Greek temple decoration' had thought of the new interpretation before." It is surprising, isn't it? What kept them from thinking of it. This is having eyes but not seeing. The article goes on: "most scholars have chosen to ignore such questions and cling to standard explanations, but not Dr. Connelly."
Reads several paragraphs to the end of the article. What's important about this? The frieze has sat there so long, and, even in recent times, the incoherence of the existing explanatory theory was clear to people. We had to wait for lost lines from the play from Euripides. Two questions. (1) If we had been reading the gospel anthropologically, when we would have discovered this? Would we have discovered it earlier? I think so. (2) Without the gospel, would we have ever discovered it, even if we had discovered the entire play of Euripides? The answer is no, I would say. If we were reading the gospel anthropologically, we would have discovered it, with or without the play of Euripides. And if we didn't have the gospel, we could have the play of Euripides, and we wouldn't have discovered it. Not just that a certain ritual had taken place, but the significance of it. With the gospel, we're beginning to feel the significance, what that means about us humans.
This has been offered as a substitute for something which years from now we'll surely know is far superior to all that, which is chapters 16-19 in the gospel of Luke.
But in those chapters the question arises again and again about how the Kingdom is going to break in on the world, and how we're going to know where to look. "Where the corpse is there the vultures gather," and so on. The tombs open at the crucifixion, etc. We were simply trying to live up to the spirit, if not the letter, of the commitment to the gospel of Luke. These old sacrificial systems that we've referred to today were the source of stability. They were also the source of illusion and all kinds of other things. But they were the source of both cultural and psychological stability. And they're vanishing today. When Augustine said, "We are restless until we rest in thee," I don't think he realized that the restlessness was a product of the biblical tradition, in the sense that the old sacred system had a stabilizing effect. When restless Westerners started traveling all over the globe and came upon these traditional peoples and they began writing about "noble savages" because there was a composure that was sacrificial but impressive. The question is: what will be our source? Or we will be restless. Our source of stability has been shattered. [Jean Luc] Marion, and so many other in the tradition, have talked about prayer, contemplation, and so on.
Quote from Romano Guardini: "Silence overcomes noise and talk. Composure is the victory over distractions and unrest. Only the composed person is really someone." Because of our restlessness, confusion, and disorder, "we do not yet really exist as persons — at least not persons God can address expecting a fitting response." As the Kingdom breaks in and shatters these old mythic structures, with their passing we lose the structures that made it possible for us to experience certain cultural and psychological stability. We're coming unglued. And the gospel has another source for us, another kind of selfhood, a selfhood that doesn't include an entity called the self, a discipleship self, a self that cannot be distinguished entirely from the God who is the ground of its being. If these old structures pass without some compensating shifts on our part, then the world will suffer from the very violence that these sacred systems existed to ward off.


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Every mom is aware of the nightmare they have to go through when it comes to feeding a toddler. Toddlers are intelligent yet stubborn little humans who want things done their way, which means no fruits or veggies they dislike. Practically they dislike all high nutrients filled snacks but 'Theadorablebaby' has come up with a mommy hack: homemade healthy snacks for school.
Being a full-time mom, one has to fulfill mommy chef duties. Feeding a toddler what you want is always a difficult task to achieve. A lot of women have complained that preparing snacks of a toddler's choice has lead to malnutrition. After a lot of experimenting with flavourful and healthy ingredients, I came across ways to sneak fiber in my toddler's meal. I came across several healthy and wholesome recipes to fill my toddler's tummy which I would like to share with all the other mothers on my blog. The best thing about these recipes is that they take very less time to be prepared and can be prepared with the help of your toddlers as well, even better!
Healthy eating is essential for a toddler. Since they have just started to grow, they will develop taste according to what looks appealing to them. Unfortunately, there is something about healthy fruits and veggies that do not attract toddlers at all. This does not mean mothers should stop feeding them with healthy snacks rather make those snacks look so striking that your toddler reaches out for it himself. Make up a schedule of what to serve on weekdays and on weekends. You can provide sweet treats on weekends so that your child won't expect it every day. The schedule will lower the risk of exceeding your toddler's expectation of what he wants on his plate.
There are some limitations when it comes to preparing snacks for your little ones. First of all, never serve food rich in sugar, salt, and fat. This will make their body get used to the intake which will cause trouble in the future. Secondly, always go for small portions or variety of food so that your child doesn't get bored or stuffed.
Fruit pizza is a vibrant and colorful treat for your toddler. You can ask your toddler to pick out his favorite fruits and garnish the way he wants.
Pick colorful vibrant fruits and make sure to cut small chunks of them to place it on a piece of bread, cut the bread in a shape of a pizza, spread cream cheese on the bottom and serve it. If you want, you can spread jelly on top too.
Toast doesn't look much appealing but when you place your toddler's favorite topping, he might consider to try it.
Take out a piece of bread; dip it in a mixture of milk, powdered sugar, and cinnamon powder. Now heat the bread in a pan and fry.
Yogurt pops are the perfect snack for summer, full of fruity goodness and rich proteins.
Blend all the above ingredients together until smooth. Cover cups with foils and insert a stick in the middle.
Boiled eggs dressed up as your baby's favorite character? A delicious treat!
Gather up your favorite healthy veggies such as tomato, spinach, and broccoli. Dress up the egg as one of your child's favorite character and voila!
Peanut butter hummus dip is absolute finger-licking. Just make sure your child isn't allergic to peanuts.
Put the beans, creamy peanut butter, salt and lemon juice in a food processor.
These tasty egg bowls are full of protein combined with the power of spinach. If your child is a fan of Popeye, he will definitely love this one!
Get yourself a muffin tray, break an egg into it, add spinach and bake. This is a quick healthy snack to boost your child's nutritional diet and to make him adore spinach.
Roasted chickpeas with a combination of spices make the kids go crazy. Use your toddler's favorite spices to add flavor.
Roast the chickpeas without skin to make it easier for your toddler to chew. You can either mash them or leave them be. Sprinkle the seasoning of your choice (for example garlic powder, salt) and serve.
A pond of fruits and dipping sweet syrup to treats the taste-buds of your little ones.
Cut small chunks of the above-mentioned fruits or fruits of your choice. Drop very little maple syrup on top and serve.
Add the mashed boiled potato along with bread crumbs, red chili powder, and salt. Refrigerate it for 2-3 hours and make a round shape out of the dough. Cut out the shape of eyes and mouth with the help of a spoon. Fry them when done.
These quick and easy healthy snacks for toddlers and preschoolers will definitely help mommies keep in check of the nutritional chart of their babies. It is always recommended to check if your toddler is allergic to any ingredient. Apart from that, if you feel like adding more nutrients to your child's diet and preparing proper food chart according to his height and weight, look for a child nutritionist near you. We wish you, mommies, all the best and hope to see your child healthy and happy.


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"Homeland"s antiheroine problem: How mentor-mentee relationships are ruining the show
"Homeland" and "How to Get Away With Murder" both feature queasy mentoring dynamics, but one's a lot more troubling
By Sonia Saraiya
October 28, 2014 3:00AM (UTC)
(Showtime/Kent Smith)
Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) has spent the last several seasons of "Homeland" blurring the boundaries between her work and her personal life, human evidence of the toll that federal intelligence work takes on the people waging the war on terror. The show explored this brilliantly in its first few seasons with the relationship between Carrie and Damian Lewis' soldier-turned-terrorist Nicholas Brody, as their mutual suspicion of each other manifested as romantic attraction.
Now that Brody's out of the picture (executed in Iran in last season's finale), "Homeland" has lost much of the psychological complexity that made the show so popular. So far, the fourth season of "Homeland" is a string of episodes working frantically to propel the show's trademark suspense without the driving narrative of Carrie's evolving relationship with Brody.
There are elements of the fourth season that have been legitimately interesting — and if you really want to give the show the benefit of the doubt, it's sort of possible to track a coherent psychological arc from where the characters are now to where they were when the show began. But it's not interesting in quite the same way. Carrie's relationship with Brody once had the electricity of doomed chemistry — two people who knew way too much about each other, who were able to communicate with each other more honestly than they could with anyone else. It was the type of relationship that often makes a perfect spine for an absorbing television show: Watson and Holmes in "Elementary" and "Sherlock"; Mulder and Scully in "The X-Files"; Adama and Roslin in "Battlestar Galactica"; Masters and Johnson in "Masters of Sex"; Philip and Elizabeth Jennings in "The Americans'"; Marty and Rust in "True Detective." These are complicated relationships, whether romantic or platonic, that evolve over the course of the show and offer a kind of mutual sounding board for the protagonists' character development. This is often the dynamic around which the rest of the show is built.
"Homeland," in this fourth season, is teasing the audience with two or three different central relationships, seemingly casting about for its new narrative engine. There's Carrie's relationship with Peter Quinn, her CIA co-worker, who we discovered a few weeks ago has some unresolved feelings for her. There's her relationship with Saul, her mentor, who's left the CIA for a private defense contractor. And there's her evolving, tenuous and queasily sexual connection with Ayaan, the Pakistani medical student with ties to terrorist cells.
In some ways, these three relationships are a way for the writers to build something like the Carrie-Brody dynamic, cobbled together from three different men. Peter Quinn, played by Rupert Friend, has the same war-veteran PTSD and demonstrated ruthlessness, the same longing looks directed at Carrie from across a room. Ayaan, like Brody, is an enemy agent, and Carrie is manipulating him as much as she's confiding in him. And Saul maintains the constant sense of emotional distance from Carrie that characterized much of her relationship with Brody.
In its pursuit of a romantic hook, though, "Homeland" is perhaps unintentionally telling a story about mentorship instead. Because Ayaan is far too young for Carrie — not so young as to be illegal, but young — this is not a meeting of equals, this is careful exploitation of the younger partner by the older. It's all the more unsettling because "Homeland" shows Carrie treating Ayaan as if he's a child, both before and after they start having sex. (Quinn accuses her, in no uncertain terms, of "fucking a child" instead of doing her job.)
"Homeland" is entering the space of fractured parental relationships — where no one is really anyone else's parent, but not quite on a similar enough level to be friends, either. The show has played with this in the past—particularly with Saul and Carrie's relationship, which has had its fair share of exploitative, bizarre behavior. For instance: Saul was instrumental in getting Carrie committed to a mental institution for two months (which was part of a plan they'd set up, but a plan that messed her up nonetheless). In the first season, Carrie manipulated Saul any way she could to keep her investigation of Brody afloat — including one painful moment in the pilot where she reflexively comes on to her mentor of many years, just to get what she wants.
In this season, Carrie has transformed from someone who needs constant mentoring to someone who is constantly mentoring. As the station chief first in Kabul and then Islamabad, she's got people who work under her. And she is terrible at it. We got a taste of this with her treatment of Virgil and Max, her private surveillance guys, in the first few seasons; now that she's got Max, Fara and Quinn in their own office and her new employees in the embassy, she seems to rule with a combination of manipulation and withholding. Fara and Carrie might have the most positive dynamic of the bunch -- the younger woman is clearly modeling herself on the former, as she works toward becoming a better and better CIA operative — but even so, Carrie's inattention leads Fara, in last night's episode "About a Boy," to take uncharacteristic risks to get information. Quinn (who seems to have taken the opportunity of romantic brooding to dryly inform everyone of his opinion on things) observes that she's "good at it," like Carrie, which is a mixed compliment. Fara has game, but Carrie's not much of a role model.
"Homeland's" increasingly perverse twists and turns can still be picked apart and analyzed, but much like the sex between Carrie and Ayaan, it feels mechanical; some kind of spark is missing. And at least some of that is intention. Four seasons in, on a network that historically lets shows run until they are completely creatively exhausted, "Homeland" has lost some of its raison d'être, and what we're seeing on-screen now feels desperate as a result. (I'll stand by the Quinn's-in-love-with-Carrie story line, though it is rife with problems, but Saul getting kidnapped in "About a Boy" is the height of plot expediency designed to keep a big-name actor in the story for the full season.) It would be easier to sit with Carrie's sudden emotional confessions to Ayaan if there was anything to it besides "here's something new."
There is, admittedly, a little more to it. Carrie's inability to be there for her daughter — to be a mother in action as well as name —is the ultimate fractured parental relationship, and one where, for once, the two parties are actually related to each other. Perhaps her adventure with Ayaan is going to be one aspect of Carrie working out her feelings about motherhood. But with the cradle-robbing sex and the baby-drowning from a few weeks, ago, the only conclusion to be drawn from "Homeland" so far is that Showtime is pursuing this story in the splashiest way possible. Carrie's not just messed up, she's gruesomely messed up, in a show that otherwise prides itself on intense verisimilitude.
There's another show on the air that makes a useful counterpoint to this: "How to Get Away With Murder" is doing something that is almost the mirror-opposite of "Homeland," in a setting that is as far from verisimilitude as possible (that is not what law school is like!). Where "Homeland" focused this season on the connection between Ayaan and Carrie, "How to Get Away With Murder" has from the start been built around the power-tilted dynamic between professor Annalise Keating (Viola Davis) and her first-year law student Wes (Alfred Enoch). As of Episode 5, Wes has walked in on Annalise having sex and handed her dick pics of her husband, but their relationship hasn't (and doesn't look like it's going to) stray toward romantic. That doesn't necessarily make it healthy, either; Annalise is just as uniquely flawed as Carrie Mathison, and as Wes and her other students model themselves on her, they're internalizing her murky morality and underhanded methods. (I mean, it is called "How to Get Away With Murder.")
But the main difference between "How to Get Away With Murder's" surrogate mother-son relationship and "Homeland's" is that in the former, Wes and Annalise actually do tell each other the truth, to the best of their ability. Annalise sees Wes' talent, but she isn't afraid to tell him he's wrong or out of line; Wes is young, but doesn't let Annalise's presence cow him. Where "Homeland" (or Carrie, in her plotting) has grafted sex onto the relationship between Ayaan and Carrie to make that connection seem more meaningful, "How to Get Away With Murder" can (for once) afford to be far more subtle because it's written a mentor-mentee relationship that actually makes sense.
It remains to be seen if either Carrie or Annalise is really going to fill out the role of "antiheroine," that murkily defined category positioned as the gender-swapped version of another murkily defined category that has dominated television for so long. What is clear is that both shows want to explore what it means for women to be in charge — whether that's behind a drone operator's screen or in front of a classroom of law students — and going about it in two very different ways. Both have their merits, but I'm leaning toward "How to Get Away With Murder" — if only because when Annalise Keating decides to have sex, it might be just as morally questionable as Carrie's choices, but at least it's actually hot.
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Divisional Court Sets Aside Decision Ordering a Passing of Accounts
By Diane Vieira closeAuthor: Diane Vieira Name: Diane Vieira
Email: dvieira@devrieslitigation.com
About: Diane has practiced in the area of estate, trust and capacity litigation since she was called to the Ontario Bar in 2006. Diane obtained her law degree from Queen's University after completing an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto. She also recently received the Certificate in Elder Law from Osgoode Hall Law School. She is a member of the Trusts & Estates Section of the Ontario Bar Association, the Advocates' Society, and the Toronto Lawyers Association. Diane has chaired various continuing legal education programs regarding estate, trust and capacity matters. She can be reached at dvieira@devrieslitigation.comSee Authors Posts (35) • October 2, 2019 • 0 Comments
In Foisey v. Green, the Divisional Court allowed an appeal of the application judge's decision that set aside a release signed by a beneficiary who was later deemed incapable of managing property.
I previously wrote about the earlier decision that was under appeal. The appellant, Ms. Green, was an estate trustee who administered her brother's estate. One of the beneficiaries of the estate was her estranged sister, Ms. Foisey. Ms. Foisey provided Ms. Green with a release when she received her share of her brother's estate. A lawyer met with Ms. Foisey prior to signing the release. The release was signed on August 2015. By November 2015, Ms. Foisey was found incapable of managing her property and the Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee became Ms. Foisey's statutory guardian of property.
The Public Guardian and Trustee reached out to Ms. Green to make enquiries about the estate's administration but received no response. The application judge noted a number of "red flags" surrounding Ms. Foisey's capacity appeared to indicate that Ms. Foisey lacked capacity at the time she signed the release and ordered Ms. Green to answer the Public Guardian and Trustee's questions about the administration of the estate or she was otherwise ordered to pass her accounts in her capacity as estate trustee.
Ms. Green decided to appeal the application judge's decision. The Divisional Court allowed the appeal.
The Divisional Court found that the application judge erred when applying the test under section 2(4) of the Substitute Decisions Act to determine if the Ms. Foisey was incapable of entering into a contract at the time she provided the release. The onus was on Ms. Green to prove that she did not have reasonable grounds to believe that Ms. Foisey was incapable when she signed the release. The Divisional Court agreed that it was reasonable for Ms. Green to believe her sister had capacity to provide her with a release.
The Divisional Court noted that the "red flags" that application judge referred to were issues that either Ms. Green did not have knowledge of and/or did not indicate that Ms. Foisey lacked capacity to provide a release to the estate. For example, Ms. Foisey's long history of mental health issues did not indicate she was incapable of entering into a contract and her residence in an assisted living facility was not unusual for a person of her age. Further, Ms. Foisey's lawyer and staff at the assisted living facility did not raise issues with Ms. Green about Ms. Foisey's lack of capacity. Having found that Ms. Green did not have reasonable grounds to suspect Ms. Foisey lacked capacity to provide a release, the court did not have to make a decision on the enforceability of the release.
However, while the appeal was allowed, the Divisional Court ordered no costs for the application or the appeal, as the Public Guardian and Trustee were making enquiries on behalf of a vulnerable person.
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Elder Law, Estate Administration, Estate Litigation
About Diane Vieira closeAuthor: Diane Vieira Name: Diane Vieira
About: Diane has practiced in the area of estate, trust and capacity litigation since she was called to the Ontario Bar in 2006. Diane obtained her law degree from Queen's University after completing an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto. She also recently received the Certificate in Elder Law from Osgoode Hall Law School. She is a member of the Trusts & Estates Section of the Ontario Bar Association, the Advocates' Society, and the Toronto Lawyers Association. Diane has chaired various continuing legal education programs regarding estate, trust and capacity matters. She can be reached at dvieira@devrieslitigation.comSee Authors Posts (35)
Diane has practiced in the area of estate, trust and capacity litigation since she was called to the Ontario Bar in 2006. Diane obtained her law degree from Queen's University after completing an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Toronto. She also recently received the Certificate in Elder Law from Osgoode Hall Law School. She is a member of the Trusts & Estates Section of the Ontario Bar Association, the Advocates' Society, and the Toronto Lawyers Association. Diane has chaired various continuing legal education programs regarding estate, trust and capacity matters. She can be reached at dvieira@devrieslitigation.com
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Make time for yourself every day as a part of your treatment. Get yourself involved in a hobby, put on some music, rest — whatever makes you feel good. It may bring more balance to your life, help you fight stress, and boost your energy for the things you need to do.


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Come join in Fellowship and food at our Maundy Thursday Potluck Supper! All are invited. If you're unable to make the Supper, make sure to attend our Communion Service as we remember the Lord's Supper before his Passion.
Supper begins at 6:30, and Communion begins immediately after at 7:15.


That was the first thought in the mind of Caroline Rotich yesterday morning, right after she steamed through the finish line of the Boston Marathon to take her first ever victory in a Marathon Major, an achievement which was the climax of a journey that started 16 years ago, when a young, dreaming 14-year-old from Nyahururu, Kenya boarded a flight to Japan.
Ever since yesterday's race – in which Rotich kicked away from Ethiopia's Mare Dibaba to win in 2:24:55, her life has changed. This morning, though, it was back to normal – well, about as normal as life can be when the eyes of the sporting world are watching and you're somehow being presented with an oversized cheque for a $150,000.
It was a statement that summed up just how grounded an athlete Rotich is, even at the time when her career has so swiftly and suddenly taken off. Rotich is not your typical Kenyan champion – if indeed it's possible to narrow a nation of multiple athletic greats, all with different backgrounds and stories, down to a single prototype.
A native of Nyahururu-a Rift Valley town about 100 miles from Nairobi-Rotich left her life and her family-three brothers, two sisters-behind at the age of 14 to attend high school in Sendai, Japan. It was the same scholarship path taken by the most famous athlete to come out of Nyahururu – the late, great, 2008 Olympic marathon champion Sammy Wanjiru.
Wanjiru, who died in mysterious circumstances at his home in 2011, was at Sendai for two years while Rotich was there and years later, when Rotich was struggling to make her way as a professional athlete, it was Wanjiru who was often there for her with helpful advice.
Rotich's breakthrough performance came at the 2011 Boston Marathon-where she finished fourth in 2:24:26-just four weeks before Wanjiru met his untimely end. At that stage, Rotich was training in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she has lived for the past eight years and trains alongside three other professional female athletes under the guidance of coach Ryan Bolton.
Though she already had wins at the Prague and Las Vegas Marathons to her name, Rotich had never before made the podium at a Marathon Major. That is, of course, until yesterday, when she suddenly went all the way to the top step. That's a sudden rise, and indeed Rotich's win took many by surprise. Except, that is, Rotich herself.
Her training had gone perfectly on the build-up – she logged between 100 and 120 miles a week, with a regular long run of 20-24 miles and also hit the gym two or three times a week to work on her strength.
The race, though, didn't entirely go to plan. Rotich missed her designated energy drinks at both the 20K and 25K stations. At the first, she didn't get to her bottle in time to pick it up, and at the second it was taken by one of her competitors, who quickly discarded it when she realised it wasn't hers. Rotich just swigged some water at the next available station and carried on untroubled, continuing to follow the leaders and stay out of the wind, which the athletes were running into for much of the race.
When Mare Dibaba surged to the front at the 35K mark, only Rotich and Buzunesh Deba could match her, and by the time they approached the final turn-600 metres from the finish-it was down to a head-to-head duel between Rotich and Dibaba. Coming into the turn, Rotich surged to the front, then panicked when she suddenly saw how long was still left to run.
The Olympics, though, are still 16 months away, so this morning, it was time to enjoy basking in the feeling of waking up as Boston Marathon champion.
From Nyahururu to Sendai, Santa Fe to Boston, it's been quite the journey for Rotich. With this achievement under her belt, a new life beckons once more.


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Nethits to build Valencia data center in docks building
Company to get local aid from government for project
A location has been chosen for Nethits' upcoming data center in Valencia, Spain, with the company being granted financial aid by the local government.
The Valencia City Council this month gave the company the go-ahead to develop the facility in the Docks building in the Marina de València.
Last year, Nethits announced plans to invest €241 million ($281m) in building "the largest data center in the Valencian Community." The company said at the time the Tier IV facility will span 20,000 sqm (215,200 sq ft) and have 20MW of capacity, equivalent to around 1,000 racks.
Construction was due to begin in Q2 2022, with an aim to be operational in 2025 in five phases of development. The capacity of the facility has seemingly since been downgraded to 16MW with capacity for 1,000 racks, but is still set to go live at the end of 2025.
The current building was designed in 1917 and spans two stories, but will be expanded to a height of five stories and house the company's new headquarters. Servers and computer equipment will occupy three floors.
According to Valencia Plaza, the building has reportedly been empty since 2016, after its previous tenant the Las Animas nightclub was closed for failing to meet various requirements demanded by the council to remain active. Proposals during the interim years have included a five-star hotel with a casino and as the location for the CaixaForum arts center.
The Valencian Generalitat is offering a number of financial facilities to aid the company. The aid will materialize through non-refundable regional incentives to cover up to 30 percent of the investment, access to regional subsidies for the implementation of new companies, incentives for hiring the public employment promotion entity Labora, soft loans from the Valencian Institute of Finance, and the qualification of the project as a priority to streamline all administrative procedures.
Founded in 2006, Valencia-based Nethits provides a number of network, telephony, IPTV, and Wi-Fi solutions, with a number of services targeting the hotel industry.
A version of this story appeared on our Spanish edition.
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As before, Mercedes also included an attractive Cabriolet version of the 300SE which had a fully lined convertible roof. Like the saloons and Coupe the Cabriolet was well equipped and built to the highest standards. Production of the 300SE Coupe and Cabriolet continued until 1968.


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Q: Windows SmartScreen Blocks My EXE File. Any Solutions? I've been working on an online game for a while now and I've recently decided that I want to share it with some of my friends for testing. Now I decided that I want to make an installer for it, just to make it easier/fancier to get the game. I originally wrote it in Java and used Launch4j and Inno Setup to make my setup.exe but when I initially run it, windows smartscreen thinks it could be dangerous since its "unknown". What should I do in order to prevent this from happening
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A: I think you should disable Windows Defender SmartScreen: How to do it.
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3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? or is it gain to him, that you make your ways blameless?
4Will he reprove you for fear of you? will he enter with you into judgment?
5Is not your wickedness great? and your iniquities without end?
6For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
7You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.
9You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
11Or darkness, that you can not see; and abundance of waters cover you.
13And you say, How does God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?
14Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he sees not; and he walks in the circle of heaven.
15Have you marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?
17Who said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do to us?
20Surely our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumes.
21Acquaint now yourself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto you.
22Receive, I pray you, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.
23If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, you shall put away iniquity far from your tents.
24Then shall you lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.
25Yea, the Almighty shall be your defense, and you shall have plenty of silver.
26For then shall you have your delight in the Almighty, and shall lift up your face unto God.
27You shall make your prayer unto him, and he shall hear you, and you shall pay your vows.
28You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established for you: and the light shall shine upon your ways.
29When men are cast down, then you shall say, There is lifting up; and he shall save the humble person.
30He shall deliver the innocent man: and he is delivered by the pureness of your hands.


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Obsidian Entertainment is sure to be working on itself a lot itself, as well as announcing expansions to the outside world at the Xbox Games Showcase event and talking about the newly released survival game Grounded, they also announced the next big RPG game that they previously announced they are working on.
This game is Avowed, the first role-playing game to be placed in the fictional world of Eora, and the title is supplemented with swords, magic, monsters, and everything else you would expect from such genre games. In an imaginary world which is Eora, is it a coincidence or is Avowed set in the same universe? There is no confirmation about this.
This game looks like Obsidian's answer to The Elder Scrolls, and with the financial support from Microsoft behind it may offer a game that can compete for this throne, the game's trailer is very short and doesn't show much but it sets the game's tone well enough I look at above.
The Avowed game is created from the ground up for Xbox Series X, and will also be released for PCs, the release date has not been announced yet, but this will likely take some time.
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Good evening, afternoon and what ever time you may be reading this at. This is just a little helping hand to those who are having trouble doing their dailies in limited time. Personally, I am a very casual player, but I will come on for about 20 to 40 minutes a day to get my dailies done because I am not adverse to the "chore" feel to it that everyone is complaining about. I have thus posted this to help anyone with time constraints.
Following are the ways i do the daily requirements quickly. I will assume that you have at least one 80 at your disposal and have the money to WP, or several that you can keep stationed around the place (which is what I do). I would recommend using the Gw2 interactive map (search in google) if you are confused about where I mean.
1. Daily kills – I would recommend waypointing to anywhere near a centaur camp in Kryta, as the mobs are easy to kill and respawn very rapidly. See Kessex Hills, Gerrandan Fields and Harathi Hinterlands.
2. Daily Gathering – My favourite spot is just north-west of Thistlereed Waypoint in Timberline falls. If you follow the hill up, you will see a Veteran Jotun guarding a cauliflower patch. Kill him, and harvest the cauliflowers. Then jump off the cliff into the water (dw this is obvious when you are there). Turn around, and swim into the cave (these is a large opening underwater). You will find a Rich Mithril Vein. If this is not yet 20 gatherings, these are 2 mitrhil nodes at about 5 seconds swim and sometimes a gold node right in front of the cave.
3. Veteran Daily kills – I would recommend porting to Irondock Shipyard waypoint in Plains of Ashford. Make your way west and you should come across a cave on your left. Inside, there are 4 to 5 veteran Sparks or Skelks than respawn very quickly, and they should be easy to kill for any moderately geared level 80 as they are only level 12 from memory.
4. Daily dodges – Some of the easiest attacks in the game to dodge are those of the basic Ice Elementals, as they are slow moving and easy to see projectiles. I would recommend teleporting to somewhere like Wide Expanse waypoint in Dredgehaunt cliffs, and there are about 5 elementals directly south, as well as some jotun to the west.
5. Daily kill variety – this is the only one I can't be much help for, but the starter zones (such as Plains of Ashford, Queensdale, and my particular favourite Caledon forest) seem to have the largest variety within the individual zone.
6. Aquatic Kills – teleport of Grawlenfjord waypoint in Wayfarer Foothills, and make your way north to the water. There are about 15 white fish (which count) that you can kill easily and some level 3 skelk to the south by the entrance to the cave in which a skillpoint can be found. This can also be done in the same place as daily veteran kills as above.
7. Daily healer – Just north of Nebo Terrace Waypoint in Gerrandan Fields, where a tonne of Human soldiers are lying there, just waiting for a kind soul to come along and rez them. Be warned , a lot of people know this, so be prepared to use swiftness to get from body to body!
8. Daily events – the best place for this is again north of Nebo Terrance Waypoint in Gerrandan Fields, but a lot of 80's are doing this so it can be difficult to tag. Cursed shore is still a great option, as are the southern areas in Dredgehaunt Cliffs.
9. Daily crafter – just port to your Borderlands in WvW, and even if you don't have a 400 crafting profession, learn one refine some raw materials that you are sure to have hanging around. Raw materials are never part of recipes, only the refined versions, so what you are really doing is clearing space in your materials tab!
10. Laurel vendor – well…. What can i say? Teleport to the nearest city and run to the vendor; nothing could be easier!
And there you have it; a way to get dailies done in limited time. I am open to suggestions and will update this if i get a chance.


FFS! AMD & ATI, how F'ing hard is it to test the releases BEFORE releasing to the general public. You just made me waste 2h of my life on rolling back and getting in depth on what you guys managed to screw up so I could fix it.
So, to everyone else, here's the deal. The latest ATI driver and catalyst control center (11.5), they forgot to sign the driver for Windows (at least for x64, haven't tested the 32-bit), making it not to install properly unless you've explicitly allowed the OS to install unsigned drivers. And you should not have that option enabled anyway.
After the dust has settled and I've used the GM release for a couple of days I thought that I would write up what does and doesn't work for my part.
VMWare workstation; It will not compile the needed modules after install. A patch was made for 11.4 RC1 if I remember correctly, but it doesn't seem to be updated to support the GM release yet.
It's finally here, the much improved openSuSE 11.3 release. And I have to say that the team behind it have done a fantastic job!
I've upgraded my main desktop to run the new OS and as usuall, the ATI prop. driver isn't updated to support the new kernel shipped with openSuSE 11.3. But no worries, a work around has already been published AND it allows you to download a pre-built RPM both for x32 and x64.


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Un objet `FileReader` permet de lire un fichier.

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- __result:__ Le contenu du fichier qui a été lu. _(DOMString)_
- __error:__ Un objet d'erreur. _(FileError)_
- __onloadstart:__ Appelé lorsque la lecture commence. _(Function)_
- __onprogress:__ Appelé pendant la lecture du fichier, retourne l'état d'avancement (progess.loaded/progress.total). _(Function)_ -NON SUPPORTÉ
- __onload:__ Appelé lorsque la lecture s'est terminée avec succès. _(Function)_
- __onabort:__ Appelé lorsque la lecture a été abandonnée. Par exemple, suite à un appel à la méthode abort(). _(Function)_
- __onerror:__ Appelé lorsque la lecture a échoué. _(Function)_
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L'objet `FileReader` permet de lire des fichiers depuis le système de fichiers du mobile.  Les fichiers peuvent être lus comme du texte ou comme un flux de données encodées en Base64.  Il est possible d'associer ses propres fonctions aux évènements loadstart, progress, load, loadend, error et abort.

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How Nintendo Flourished with Help from the Yakuza
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Eurogamer has an interesting video on the history of Nintendo starting from it's humble beginnings. Seems that when card games were introduced to Japan, the rulers at the time would ban them due to illegal gambling. Companies would make another card game rule set and that would be banned also. Nintendo decided to start manufacturing hand-crafted Hanafuda cards. The game was so slow paced that it was deemed not fit for gambling. Initial sales of the cards was very low due to this. The government made it legal for the game to be played, and the Yakuza took it underground to the illegal gambling trade. Nintendo thrived off making Hanafuda cards and selling them to the Yakuza. Later on Nintendo was able to capture the imported Disney style cards market with a licensing agreement.
This allowed Nintendo to finance video games such as Mario, The Legend of Zelda, etc in more modern times. What if there was never a Mario, NES, Gameboy, etc? What do you think of Nintendo being built on illegal gambling and the Yakuza? I think the story should be told as it was really interesting to me. The history of the video games industry and the Japanese card games industry shouldn't be lost.
Early Nintendo dealt in the world of hand-crafted Hanafuda cards, which were an alternative style of image-based playing card born out of Japan's complicated history with Western culture and gambling. Sales of the cards were initially low, but Eurogamer says that Nintendo's fortunes changed when the Yakuza decided to start using Hanafuda cards for underground gambling rings.
Thanks to this, demand for the cards skyrocketed and put Nintendo in a position to further develop other aspects of its playing card business, and eventually dive into video game production.
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Stev3FrencH
Interesting.... o.0
macksomerville
Better watch out... Nintendo is going to try to ban you from your own website [H]ardCrew....
SeymourGore
I imagine Nintendo's early dealings with the Yakuza would later be the inspiration for their Animal Crossing character, Tom Nook.
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kju1
Meh, most companies are involved with criminals of some sort. Just look at the list of companies who actively supported the Nazis...Names include: Coke, Bayer, IBM, etc
Twisted Kidney
They made a product that the Yakuza purchased, thus they were hand in hand through all history...
...Much the same way the KKK, Bloods, Chicago Mob, and Crips helped GM through the hard times. They must have all been working together hand in hand since the dawn of time.
Criminals used cars to commit crimes and demand for cars keeps growing IT'S A CONSPIRACY!!!
I'm sure there are lots of conspiracy loons with their hands down their pants over all of this as we speak. Websites need to be more responsible, the internet is packed with stupid, gullible people who eat up every conspiracy headline they read and tremble at the thought of a little critical research.
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I don't think Nintendo is criminal for this. I just thought that they should preserve the history of the company from the beginning. I found this tidbit of a potential look into their past to be very interesting; just as interesting as Mario.
Darunion
it is interesting, but yes as said pretty much most companies that have been around this long have a history of that. Hell we had a family restaurant way before i was born that had mafia ties, and by ties I mean they owned a couple pinball machines. Many of these organized crime syndicates had their hands in everywhere.
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Ryokurin
Nintendo was also briefly in the Love Hotel business. Hiroshi Yamauchi was barely 20 when he took over the company so yeah he probably got into a few shady deals to keep things going.
pcgeekesq
Computer gaming was built on illegal (but generally victim-less) gambling,
... and the Internet was built on (sometimes illegal but generally victim-less) porn.
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Should we blame Ford for the V8 engine that Bonnie and Clyde used for getaways.
http://www.snopes.com/business/consumer/barrow.asp
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that is interesting... The Yakuza are no joke, i worked for yazaki corp. They send people to japan for training, in the city everyone turns off their headlights at every stop light... cab drivers, even the cops. because the yakuza will shoot at your car if you pull up behind them with your lights on. I guess its just accepted that everyone turns off their headlights.
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Just a quick image search shows them to be almost identical to the same cards that Koreans use, I'm sure the game is essentially the same. The Koreans call them Hwa-To if my romanization is anywhere close. Many Koreans gamble with these cards, my wife and her friends will play for hours but the gambling part is pretty tame. Like playing penny-anti poker they will do different things to keep the losses from really hurting each other. Winner buys lunch, etc. Of course there is always one...............
Something that's related. During WW2, Japan took a great number of able-bodied Koreans and pressed them into forced labor on the islands of North Japan. It was pretty brutal slavery type work, mines, etc. After the war they had to let all these people go but many of them, particularly young men, had nowhere really to go. Some of these young men went to Japan instead of back to Korea but the Japanese were never going to allow these foreigners to get a fair shake and they had no family in Japan to help out. Many of these young Koreans became members of the Yakuza, were taken in, used for the tough jobs, the dirty jobs. If getting caught at a particular illegal scheme would likely entail "blow-back" on a Yakuza member's family, they would use the Koreans for the job.
Anyway, my knowledge of this is probably rudimentary so if someone has more accurate information I'd be happy to hear it.
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BloodyIron
The way the Yakuza operate is very different from other organized Crime in the world. They do plenty of good for others, and generally prefer to strike a balance with those around them. It's a part of Japanese culture, and generally Japan isn't interested in removing them.
RogueTadhg
Nintendo also had a love hotel.
...Not a sleeping in hotel. Rented by the hour- hotel.
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That makes no sense. Seymour would barely feel rested at all with an hour of sleep.


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11/12 It's A Bit Nippy Outside, Huh? Record Cold Temperatures Today!
Well it is here! The record cold temperatures that we have been talking about for a week now arrived into the region and into Illinois late tonight and early this morning and are here to stay through the day, potentially into tomorrow morning as well. Looking at several sites across Illinois earlier this morning as a recap of some records, both Rockford and Chicago (O'hare Airport) set record lows. O'hare got down to 7 degrees breaking the previous record of 8 set in 1986 and Rockford got down to 3 degrees this morning which breaks the previous record of 7 set in 1986. Further downstate, Quincy, IL dropped to 5 degrees which breaks the previous record of 10 degrees also set in 1986 and St Louis got down to 11 degrees, breaking the previous record of 12 degrees set in 1911.
Looking at some select areas across the state, here is what were the lowest wind chill values were. This is from the northern Illinois area.
This is from the northwest and western Illinois area showing earlier morning low temperatures and wind chill values.
The Quad Cities National Weather Service office got down to nearly 5 degrees below zero this morning, located just on the other side of the Mississippi River.
Looking across central Illinois, here are more low temperatures this morning and what wind chills were at 7am.
Temperatures have come up some so far early this afternoon but still much of the state is still in the low to mid teens and these will not rise much more today outside of a few more degrees. More areas will also break their record low max record with such daytime highs this afternoon. Like previously mentioned, the record low max at O'hare is 28 degrees and it is only 14 degrees there, most likely remaining in the upper teens, shattering that record.
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9:00 pm. update: In the time around the sunset, the rain has overtaken the area, and since then it has been steady with waves of heavy precipitation. So far, the sums have been moving about a quarter to a half inch. The heaviest will probably come in the hours overnight as the storm system nears its nearest pass. Although the rain should rejuvenate in coverage and intensity during the morning, the risk of chills is likely to persist throughout the day as the upper low pressure progresses in the wake of the surface system.
Until Tonight: Although the rain was slow to enter our territory, it was expected to develop rapidly, from little to a raging thunderstorm. If it has not overtaken your city at sunset (mostly good north), it will do so shortly thereafter. We see moderate to heavy rain in the evening and over night. Rain should tend to rejuvenate in the morning, but it may take a while for it to finish. The gusts last until the 1940s, even though a gusty breeze makes it even colder.
Tomorrow (Saturday): The rain generally cools off in the morning, but we can cope with a band at the back of the lows which is constantly dropping a bit of moderate rain, at least temporarily. In winter, these are the bands that make some places end with ridiculous amounts of snowfall. When rain arouses you, you can find numbers ridiculous in places, or even surpassing two inches. It should also be a wide swath of about 1.5 inches, maybe a little less or more depending on the location. Very wet, no matter how you think about it. Like 2018 … In one way or another, the rain rejuvenates with time when heights reach into the 1950s and a wind from the north blows at 10 miles per hour.
Sunday: A fast-moving shear system is on The Heels of this storm, but we should have a small window with better conditions that matches well with the Marine Corps Marathon. The Sunday could be quite passable overall, which hopefully results in a window with partly sunny conditions. Heights are in the mid-fifties to about 60.
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Q: Upload from offline HTML5 app when network available Wow, my problem seems like it must be so common that I must just be missing something really obvious but here goes:
Is there any way to trigger/schedule a dormant offline HTML5 app to run either:

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I want to create an offline HTML5 app that will record details of a delivery (item description, recipient's name, photo, timestamp, etc). The data will be written to local storage (the photo converted to base64). If the app has network then the delivery data will be uploaded to a remote server. If the app does not have network then, even if the user powers the device down, next time the device is up and has network, I need the app to do the upload without any action by the user.
I've searched and found nothing. I'm guessing that offline apps only get run-time when in the foreground? If someone could confirm that then that would at least be good to know, even if it's not what I'd like to hear.
Thanks

A: Background sync, exactly what I was after (although in 2016 it was Chrome-only):
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/12/background-sync


There's never been a Dark Mountain book into which I put more of my heart than this, SANCTUM, our special issue on 'the sacred' which is published today.
As soon as Steve Wheeler and I began work on it, we understood that it wouldn't be possible to make a book 'about' the sacred, as though it were a topic to be taken up and examined at arm's length. This had to be made out of our experience, our beliefs and our doubts – and we had to ask the same of our contributors. In all kinds of ways, that intention has been fulfilled.
This morning, four boxes of this issue arrived here in Västerås – and, in between getting the book launched on the DM website, I couldn't resist taking some pictures to show you quite what a thing of beauty it is. Thanks to all the amazing collaborators who made this possible.
SANCTUM is available now from the Dark Mountain website. And here's a video where I read from the editorial that Steve and I wrote to introduce the book.