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The Electric Theatre, viewed from across the River Wey
Electric Theatre
Location in Surrey
Onslow Street
51°14′10″N 0°34′39″W / 51.236127°N 0.577431°W / 51.236127; -0.577431Coordinates: 51°14′10″N 0°34′39″W / 51.236127°N 0.577431°W / 51.236127; -0.577431
Close to Guildford bus station & Guildford railway station
Guildford Borough Council
Academy of Contemporary Music
1913 as power station
1997 (1997) as theatre
www.electric.theatre
The Electric Theatre is a theatre located in Guildford, Surrey, England, which has gained a widespread reputation for promotion of the musical arts at all levels from community workshops to concerts by internationally well-known artists.[1]
The theatre is housed in a former electricity works which used to provide power to Guildford town centre. The works lay dormant from 1968 until the building's potential as a theatre was recognised; 1997 saw the opening of The Electric Theatre in the converted premises.
The guitarist Eric Roche recorded a live DVD at the Electric Theatre in May 2003.
In 2008 a Family Festival in conjunction with the Prince of Wales' "Prince's Foundation for Children and the Arts" took place. Prior to the ACM takeover the annual Film Festivals showed a variety of classic, art house and world cinema. Following the takeover the film festival initially showed more mainstream films before ceasing to run.
In 2017 the Guildford-based Academy of Contemporary Music signed a 20-year lease with Guildford Borough Council to operate The Electric Theatre.[2][3] The Electric Theatre had become a major regional attraction,[4][dead link] hosting a youth theatre and hosting some events the annual Guildford Book Festival and the International Music Festival.
The Electric Theatre has hosted numerous concerts by Folk and acoustic musical acts. These concerts continue under the "Electric Voices" brand and include acts such as Dick Gaughan, the Copper Family, Ashley Hutchings, Bill Caddick, and Coope Boyes and Simpson.
Electric Voices
Guildford Spring Music Festival
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Q: Xcode - Create a NSMutableArray consisting of an entity and its attributes I have an entity called "People" with 2 attributes, I need to add an entity to full Array
Something like:
self.personaDetail.nombre = self.textNombre.text;
[self._personas addObject: self.personaDetail.nombre];
Can you help?
Thank you, greetings.

A: If you want to add an instance of People into a NSMutableArray just do this:
NSMutableArray *peopleArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
[peopleArray addObject:person1];

Or if you want to add just "his" name do this:
[peopleArray addObject:person1.nombre];

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The ancients predicted it. Today it is one of the hottest topics around. Millions are talking about it, but few people agree on exactly what will happen. Pastor Boonstra presents what the Bible really says about the Second Coming. This book is the perfect companion to The Appearing series, though you don't have to have seen the series to enjoy the book.


Moon's work of the late 1960s is characterised by compositions based on a hard-edged and rigidly geometrical, non-representational visual language and the use of unmodulated colour. In 1970, the artist commented: 'the need to keep the picture completely abstract is very important to me' (quoted in Jeremy Moon, 1976, p.7). Untitled [9/68] is a large, almost square canvas. In this work, a diagonal yellow line divides the composition into two. On each side of the line, a differently oriented yellow grid covers the entire surface. While the background is white, twenty spaces between the lines in the upper right are coloured variously pink, lavender, and three tones of blue.
Between 1968 and 1971, the grid became the central motif of Moon's work, and his preoccupation with it suggests a process of experimentation to achieve different visual effects. He used it 'not just as a structuring device but as a motif in its own right' (Livingstone, [p.1]). The painting Trellis 1962 (T01841), only the sixth or seventh work Moon produced, offers an early indication of the possibilities that the artist saw in the geometrical arrangement of vertical and horizontal lines on a single-coloured plane. In Trellis, Moon placed a white grid over a field of yellow, marking points of juncture with a black circle. In Untitled [9/68], however, the arrangement of grids is far more complex, which produces a sense of tension quite distinct from the effect of the earlier work. The author Marco Livingstone has explained, '[Moon] quietly insists on the fact that there is no single system operating across all his work; each painting constitutes a reconsideration of the function and interaction of the various elements.' (Livingstone, [p.4].) Moon rarely titled his later works, except for recording the dates they were painted, suggesting that he did not want to distract attention from his principal concern with form and abstraction.
By the early 1970s Moon had established a reputation in Britain and was beginning to become known internationally. He died in a motorcycle accident in 1973.
Jeremy Moon: Paintings and Drawings 1962–1973, Serpentine Gallery, London 1976.
Marco Livingstone, 'Moon-gazing: Watching Paintings Unfold', in Jeremy Moon – A Retrospective, exhibition catalogue, Arts Council, London 2001.
Between 1968 and 1971 the grid remained the central motif in Moon's paintings. Rather than being a restrictive form, he used it to explore the relationship between flat surfaces and three dimensional objects. In Untitled [9/68] two differently orientated grids meet, creating a destabilising force and a spatial illusion in which the diagonal element appears to overlay the vertical one.


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KATHMANDU -- As Nepalese begin voting in a general election on Nov. 26, not only will they be determining their government but also which superpower -- China or India -- will gain the upper hand over the small landlocked country.
The two communist parties that have formed an alliance are thought likely to win the elections that will take place in two phases, the second of which will be on Dec. 7. If so, India's plan to reinstate the current friendly government would fall on the wayside. Instead, China, which has been cold shouldered by the current administration, may soon find itself facing a friendlier partner.
Nepalese politics, once dominated by disparate entities, became polarized when the country's two largest communist parties forged an alliance last month, posing a serious challenge to the ruling pro-India party. In the recently held local elections, the communist alliance together received more than 50% of votes.
Nepal's largest trade partner, India accounts for more than 90% of the country's imports. The two share a 1,800km porous border that New Delhi is particularly concerned about. The border runs along the restive southern plains, which are used by militants to cross into India. Worried about national security, coupled with a desire to counter China's growing influence, New Delhi wants a government in Kathmandu that will protect its strategic interests.
On the other hand, China has dangled the prospect of energy and infrastructural aid. Caught so far in this struggle for power is Nepal's largest hydropower project. The government cancelled a contract earlier this month that was awarded by its predecessor to a Chinese company, dealing a blow to China's plans to develop infrastructure in the country. How the election pans out will have serious implications on regional politics.
The current administration gained power with the help of India. In September 2015, Nepal promulgated a constitution despite objections from India, which reacted by instigating a border blockade that deprived the country of basic necessities. New Delhi subsequently scripted the ouster of Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli, of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist), or UML. India then helped forge a coalition between the Nepali Congress and Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre).
That coalition fell apart when Maoist Centre ditched the Nepal Congress and unexpectedly formed an alliance with UML on Oct. 3 this year and pledged to merge the two after the polls. The two parties have jointly fielded candidates across the country.
The Nepali Congress was thus forced to seek a similar coalition with the pro-Hindu Rastriya Prajatantra Party and Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (Loktantrik). The alliance has backed candidates of its members in a few constituencies in the upcoming polls.
But whether they can upstage the communist parties remains to be seen. Addressing several election rallies together, UML's Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal, chairman of Maoist Centre, claimed their alliance will win a two-third majority, assuring Nepalese finally of political stability.
Some political commentators said that the alliances were forged cynically to consolidate votes and not because of any natural compatibility. "The alliances have not been based on any shared values or political agenda," said Bishnu Sapkota, a political columnist of Kantipur, Nepal's best-selling newspaper. "If so, there would have been some effort and homework in the weeks leading up to formation of the alliances. There was none."
If the communists win as predicted, one of China's key priorities would be to reinstate the 1,200 megawatt hydro plant the previous government had awarded to a Chinese state-owned company. Days before it stood down in June, the Maoist-led government signed a deal with China Gezhouba Group to build the $2.5 billion Budhi Gandaki Hydropower Project to supply electricity to Kathmandu.
The current government said it scrapped the contract because it wasn't awarded competitively. Yet, the move was widely seen as a politically motivated slapback of China while favoring India, which also has invested in two major hydropower projects in the country -- a 900MW facility in Upper Karnali and a 900MW Arun III in the country's west and east.
On Nov. 16, just days after the Chinese deal was cancelled, China Three Gorges International inked its final agreement with the Nepal Electricity Authority, the country's state utility, to develop a 750MW West Seti Hydropower Project, giving a major boost to the $1.8 billion project expected to help meet the country's growing energy needs.
The alliances have not been based on any shared values or political agenda. If so, there would have been some effort and homework in the weeks leading up to formation of the alliances. There was none.
The communist alliance has prioritized rail and road networks with China and has already vowed to revive the Budhi Gandaki Hydropower Project if they gain power. Taking a harder stance against India, Oli, who struck a trade and transit treaty with China in March last year, has raised issues of sovereignty and self-sufficiency during rallies, in digs aimed at New Delhi.
But political commentator Sapkota said the communist alliance would soften its stance toward India. "The waves of nationalism will fade after the election," he said. "The UML will try to normalize its relations with India, and not appear as leaning too heavily towards China as it currently does."
Sapkota said that the first-ever provincial elections that are taking place at the same time as the general elections will also be important for China and India, to which some provinces share a border.
"What kind of leaderships are elected in provinces, both in the south and north, will have the potential to create a new dynamic around those provinces, and then with the central government," Sapkota said. "From a national security point of view, having provincial governments will be a new experience for Nepal, and our two big neighbors' security concerns may actually deepen depending on the stability of some provincial governments."


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DU Home » Latest Threads » Forums & Groups » Main » Democratic Primaries (Forum) » I'm with Pete!
What a great speech! To hell with those naysayers saying he's too young and inexperienced.
What about Bloatus? He's old and stupid -- and evil.
Right there with you, my dear thegoose!
Exactly. Trump broke all the rules and still won.
Yes, of course. But I'm talking about media influence.
His speech was quite amazing. America really needs this person.
1. Right there with you, my dear thegoose!
His youth is a plus--more energy for the hard work ahead.
He gave a great speech. Covered all the bases and made me proud!
3. Exactly. Trump broke all the rules and still won.
That means nobody has to follow the old rules anymore. New rules are being written now.
I don't understand why more people haven't learned that in 2016. And even hose who didn't get in 2016 should have caught on when AOC broke them again to become the 2nd most important member of Congress.
that is just absurd. McConnell can still bottle up the House's bills and slam judges down our throats. Pelosi is leader of the House. Even Schumer is more important than her. Plus you have the committee chairs who determine what happens in the House and what doesn't.
12. Yes, of course. But I'm talking about media influence.
She gets more attention than almost any other House member. I don't think there's another case in history where a freshman representative with no prior political experience got this kind of attention. It's not an accident. She knows how to play the new game.
Buttigieg, Sanders and O'Rourke know how to play the new game too. But IMO, Buttigieg is the best of the three.
5. His speech was quite amazing. America really needs this person.
He's the polar extreme opposite of tRump.
6. "America deserves our hope."
9. I'm starting to lean.
Buttigieg is the Anti-Trump. If you take ever Trump attribute, Buttigieg is the opposite. He's intelligent, thoughtful, well read, a veteran, civil, genuinely human . . . .


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The N470 is a main road that runs east from the Dutch city of Delft, connecting it with the city of Zoetermeer. It is 12 kilometres long between the junctions with the A13 motorway (bypassing Delft) and the A12 motorway (which runs between The Hague and Utrecht).
As can be seen from the map above, it is, effectively, a bypass of the town of Pijnacker, bending south around it. Before this road was opened in 2007, a large proportion of the motor traffic running between Delft and Zoetermeer would have passed through the town. Now all that motor traffic is far away from human beings. This applies both at the large large scale – the way the road is built away from urban areas – and also at the scale of the road itself, where, as well shall see in this post, human beings are kept completely separated from it.
This modern road has been built according to the principles of Sustainable Safety, or Duurzaam Veiling – the Dutch approach to road safety. This programme was only developed in the mid 1990s, so it is relatively recent, but it completely underpins the way roads and streets in the Netherlands, both old and new, are designed and built to maximise the safety of human beings. The N470 is an excellent example of these principles in action, and this post will look at them in turn.
Through road – for fast traffic, travelling longer distances, in large volumes. Motorways, trunk roads, bypasses, and so on. Roads humans won't 'engage with', by design.
Access road – the 'end destination' for journeys – places where people live, work, shop, relax, and so on.
Distributor road – the roads that connect up the through roads and access roads.
Quite clearly the N470 falls into the 'through road' category. It is a road for transporting people from A to B; it is most definitely not a road that people will be exposed to in any form. There are only three junctions between the outskirts of Delft and Zoetermeer, all turbo roundabouts around Pijnacker, which human beings cannot go anywhere near. It is effectively hermetically sealed away from the environment it is travelling through – walking and cycling are entirely separated, via underpasses, and even other roads are again grade-separated.
This principle applies to the mass, speed and direction of road users. Heavy objects should not share space with light ones; fast objects should not share space with slow ones; and objects should be travelling in the same direction. Differences in mass, speed and direction should be minimised as much as possible.
We can see these principles clearly in operation in the design of the N470 road. Perhaps the most obvious application of homogeneity is that light objects – human beings – are completely designed out of this road. They go nowhere near it. In fact the photograph below is about the closest you can get.
The three junctions on this stretch of road – two at the end, and one in the middle – are all turbo roundabouts, and all have total separation between human beings and motor traffic.
The roundabout at the Delft end of the N470 has signs explicitly banning walking and cycling from the roundabout – but really nobody would choose to negotiate the roundabout at surface level on foot, because of a fast, convenient cycle road to the side, that bypasses it completely.
The roundabout in the middle is another turbo roundabout, again negotiated by an underpass – or, perhaps more specifically, where the road has been built up on an embankment with a bridge.
And the final roundabout at the Zoetermeer end is exactly the same, with two underpasses allowing people to negotiate the arms of the the roundabout, complete with noise barriers. As with the previous example the roads and roundabout have been built up high so that cycling remains at ground level, at the same level as buildings in the neighbourhood. These are bridges, more than underpasses.
I did manage to scramble up the bank here to take a photo of the roundabout – narrow lanes with hard physical dividers, combined with heavy, fast traffic, means that this is not somewhere you would want to be on a bike.
Especially when you can bypass it, completely oblivious to the traffic overhead.
But of course Sustainable Safety applies to all users of the road network, not just people cycling. The road is designed in a way to keep motorists safe too.
Perhaps most notable is the median between the two lanes, that prevents any attempts at overtaking. The speed limit on this road is 80kph (about 50mph) and that applies uniformly to all vehicles, from HGVs right down to small cars. Quite sensibly, if everyone is travelling at the same speed, there can be no justification for overtaking, and the design prevents people from even attempting to do so.
A couple of years ago the DfT raised the speed limit for HGVs on single carriageway roads from 40mph to 50mph, partially on the grounds that it would (allegedly) reduce the temptation on the part of some drivers to indulge in dangerous overtakes. But the Netherlands has solved this problem at a stroke by equalising the limit for all users at 80kph, and by simply banning overtaking altogether on this category of road (and physically preventing overtaking in new road design).
Overtaking presents an unacceptably high level of danger – it involves vehicles occupying the same space but travelling in completely the opposite direction, at great speed. The opposite of homogeneity! It is much safer to ban it, and to simply design it out of these roads altogether. On the N470 all vehicles are travelling in the same direction at all times, and at approximately the same speed. Overtaking conflicts have been removed, as have any turning conflicts, with no motor vehicles crossing the paths of other motor vehicles – because there are no junctions.
Another implication of the principle of homogeneity is that mopeds (which aren't capable of travelling at 80kph in any case) are banned from these roads, and instead placed on the cycle path, alongside people walking, cycling and jogging. This makes sense according to the principle of homogeneity – their mass and speed is much closer to that of pedestrians and cyclists than it is to the vehicles on the road.
Another principle of Sustainable Safety is 'forgivingness', which implies pretty much what you would expect from the title. Essentially, mistakes by road users should not result in death or serious injury. Road and street design should account for the fact that human beings are fallible, and will inevitably make mistakes.
We see this principle reflected in a number of aspects of the design of the N470 road. The road lanes themselves are narrow, to help ensure that people do not exceed the 80kph limit, but there are large overrun areas on either side of the road, composed of a concrete mesh.
Probably not very enjoyable to drive over, but if you do drift off the road, you won't die.
Naturally, forgivingness also applies to people cycling. It lies behind the systematic removal of bollards from Dutch cycle paths, where at all possible. Bollards are not good things to crash into, and can cause serious injury and death. It is definitely preferable to have the occasional driver venturing (either mistakenly or deliberately) onto a cycle path than it is to have a permanent hazard on it, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It also means that kerbs and other elements of cycling infrastructure should allow mistakes to happen, without serious consequences.
And, of course, at a higher level, the fact that there aren't any human beings outside of motor vehicles on the N470 road, or even near it, means that cycling is very safe. The fact that Britain persists with accommodating cycling on busy 60 or even 70mph roads is extraordinary by objective comparison – the consequences of errors and mistakes when you have such enormous differences in mass and speed in the same space will be deadly.
A better way of expressing 'predictability' would be 'instantly recognisable road design'. The users of a road or a street should understand how they are expected to behave, from the appearance of that road or street. The design should be unambiguous. For instance, if you want motor vehicle users to travel at 20mph, the road or street should look like that, and it should make the majority of users travel at no more than that speed.
From the photographs in this post you won't need me to tell you that the appearance of the N470 will obviously inform its users that it is a through road! There are no junctions; no interactions with non-motorised users; a median; and a design that suggests a speed of 50mph or so. As already mentioned, the design of the N470 should make users travel at or around this speed – the speed limit should be self-enforcing. Design should lead behaviour – we should not expect people to do unnatural things.
In a nutshell, Sustainable Safety is really about a strategic separation of fast, heavy objects from slower moving, lighter ones, across an entire country, both along roads like the N470, passing through rural areas, but also in urban areas. It is universal.
It is noteworthy that there are multiple cycle routes between Delft and Zoetermeer, all of them completely separate from the road network. Some parts of these are shown below. These cycle routes pass through the places where people actually live and work, while the motor traffic is shielded away from human beings. All these routes are more direct than the N470, or alternative driving routes on the motorways.
So despite the name, Sustainable Safety is not just about safety, but also about creating more attractive and more pleasant places for people to live, work, shop, and relax. People can still drive, of course, and with great ease, but their journeys will be separated to the greatest possible extent from human beings. It is a bold and ambitious project, but one that, despite only being a few decades old, has had dramatic and impressive consequences. We should be paying close attention.


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As we know, these advantages also contain some drawbacks. All over, there is no doubt that cryptocurrency is the most helpful tool to transfer your transactions and assets. In this whole process, it provides excellent security by the peer-to-peer and blockchain method. But we never thought about its disadvantages like it can use any illegal activities. Like it gives freedom to the mafia to perform their activities efficiently. But we have to build some rules so they cannot use it in any other illegal way. All over, there are some disadvantages of cryptocurrency, which are as follows. For earning profit through bitcoin trading and investment on different platforms and websites, bitcoin trading is among the best platforms.
Cyber Security Issue
As we know, in that currency, all transactions take place in digital form. Thus it provides a facility for hackers to have a chance on it. As there are a lot of new inventions that take place day by day, hackers also learn from their previous mistakes and try new methods to hack them. So, we only protect every transaction only by remaining up-to-date. If your system is up-to-date, then no one can hack it. Be that as it may, a massive load of cash is required, and a digital master will consistently be ready for any position since all frameworks rely on its network protection. To improve this security, they always wanted to remain updated and learn some news to improve its security.
Price Volatility And Lack of Inherent Value
When something new comes in the market, many people want to buy that without knowing its worth. Thus, it becomes expected in the market and loses its original position. We also face this type of situation in cryptocurrency. When this comes, many of us buy it, and impressively its price goes on rock, and people earn much profit, but when it becomes familiar, its selling price and the cost of resale varies, and people face a loss in their profit. It had a significant problem, but its price varies every second, and people face many difficulties because of its inherent values. Many people get cut off from it, but some get still stuck because of its secure transaction.
Because if something contains no regulation, it gets deployed after a while, and there are no worth remains. Cryptocurrency requires a set of rules so that no one can do any illegal activity. We often see that that currency is used illegally, such as a fund for the mafia to buy a weapon. A great series of unlawful activities can be used efficiently for the transaction as no one knows about it because of its peer-to-peer ability, which makes it secure and safe. But this also provides security to these illegal activities. Thus many in many cases, that currency is involved. Because of that, no one government can handle it. Therefore there is no tax deduction or bank deduction we see because of this ability many people prefer. As in this, you are the boss of their own.
But a government should claim it and also introduce some regulation. Rules play a role in the spine of every company. So it must need directions, so people follow them to have legal activities. Thus it provides a barrier to illegal activities. Thus this becomes more appropriate and useful.
You can access it all over the world, but sometimes it causes the problem of scalability. Sometimes its scale is at a peak such that it varies every time, which is the leading cause of the problem. If it gets connected to a government, its scale remains in that condition by applying some rules. People get also fed up with this problem. Thus the scale continuously varies from time to time.
No doubt it provides an excellent service to people, but sometimes people leave it only because of its drawbacks. In this, they face many problems. If we improve it much by applying regulation, it will become more secure and safe, which will cause the increase in its user and its business boost to a well, which provides a significant change all around the world.
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MIDDLETOWN - A 30-year-old woman was arrested last week for attempting to run a vehicle off the road with a child inside.
Dametros Allen was driving on High Street on Oct. 27 when the incident allegedly occurred. Police said she attempted to run another car off the road and one of the occupants of the other car was a minor.
Allen, of 70 Home Ave., was charged with risk of injury to a minor, reckless driving, reckless endangerment and driving a vehicle as means to endanger another person. After investigating officers found her to be in possession of marijuana Allen was hit with the additional charge of possession of less than four ounces of marijuana.
She was arraigned in Middletown Superior Court on Tuesday. Judge Susan Handy continued the case to Nov. 23.
Allen is free after posting a $50,000 bond, according to court officials.


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Sun Music collects Beveridge's best poems published over a thirty-year period, from 1987 to 2017. She has selected the poems from her award-winning collections, The Domesticity of Giraffes, Accidental Grace, Wolf Notes and Storm and Honey, and included 33 new poems which build on and enhance her previous work. Beveridge is an exacting poet, precise and controlled, and her formal discipline gives added intensity to her expression of emotion. The combination of clarity and dramatic force, involving a supple use of language which registers the ebb and flow of feeling, makes her poetry immediately appealing and accessible. As she notes in her introduction to this collection, 'My writing can be kaleidoscopic, often baroque, but I hope also grounded and focused... I am drawn to poetry that has rich texture, and by this, I mean poetry that is distinctly metaphorical, detailed, musically complex, but also clear.'
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The Sad Saga Continues
As we've already mentioned on this blog, donors were duped into supporting the Hurricane Sandy Relief Foundation thinking it was a legitimate, well-run charity that was providing aid to victims of Superstorm Sandy.
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Now, we're learning that among the well-meaning donors were hundreds from South Carolina. Apparently, several business owners in the Hilton Head area came together and launched "Operation Southern Hospitality" to collect and send supplies to NJ. They managed to collect $1 million worth of supplies at more than 150 locations. They even had local children write notes of support and encouragement to the victims of Sandy. Sadly, it appears that the donations were never distributed by the Hurricane Sandy Relief Foundation to victims at the Jersey Shore. Instead, the clothing and other supplies were sent to a Northern NJ warehouse, where they still sit.
This story is terribly sad for both the donors and for the victims who could have used the supplies. In fact, it makes me sick to my stomach. But it is worth retelling here as a cautionary tale for donors as it illustrates several of our disaster-related giving tips:
Give To An Established Charity (with a track record of dealing with disasters)
Do Not Send Supplies
Be Inspired By Social Media, But Still Do Your Homework
(Visit Charity Navigator's site for a list of vetted charities responding to Hurricane Sandy.)
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Disney Movie Review: The Pirate Fairy
April 2, 2014 by [email protected] 6 Comments
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Unfortunately we don't live in Chicago, Orlando or Los Angeles, so we didn't get to preview the latest release in the Tinker Bell/Disney Fairies franchise, The Pirate Fairy in theaters. It came out on DVD/BluRay yesterday though, so today we have our review for you!
Christina Hendricks (Mad Men) and Tom Hiddleston (The Avengers, Thor) join an already star-studded voice cast of Fairies. Spunky, curious new character Zarina (a dust fairy who incidentally is always out of pixie dust) learns how to make orange dust, and excitedly moves forward trying to create other colors – only to discover that tampering with dust was as dangerous as Fairy Gary had warned.
Fast forward a year, when all the blue pixie dust is stolen from the Pixie Dust Tree. Tink and her friends must track Zarina down to rescue her from the Neverland pirates… or so they think.
When they wake up from a run-in with the Pirate Fairy and a burst of rainbow pixie dust, they find their talents have been switched. A bit of hilarity ensues as they try to work out their newfound "talents". It makes for an interesting race against the clock as they convince Zarina to come home and try to recover the blue dust.
The movie sets up a perfect good versus evil moral choice but the Pirate Fairy never has to make it. That's probably fine for this franchise (and certainly doesn't take away from the movie!), but it makes you wonder. A character you may recognize (though it'll take a little while!) makes the choice an easy one for her. It's a lovely story and one you should check out right away if you have Fairies fans!
Some other notes…
I absolutely loved the moments building on the Fairies franchise and leading into the Peter Pan story. From a touching sister moment with Tink and Peri to flying pirate ships and the tower of London, the second star to the right, fairies in lanterns and an aversion to ticking clocks – this movie is chock full of bonuses for Disney fans of all ages. Be sure to stick around through the credits for one last fun appearance!
Catch a sneak peek of The Legend of the Neverbeast – next in the franchise, slated for a December 2014 release.
The soundtrack is excellent, as I've found to be true with all of the Disney Fairies movies. The show opens with beautiful song "Who I Am", sung by Natasha Bedingfield as we see the fairies do their respective tasks – always enjoyable! The whole score has the same Pixie Hollow feel as the previous movies, and there is a second Natasha Bedingfield song, "Weightless", featured later in the movie. The pirate song, "The Frigate that Flies" had us moving and smiling!
Second Star to the Right: The Legacy of Never Land has conversations with the writer, director and producer about their opportunity to expand on the world of Peter Pan. They talk about how they went from knowing they wanted the story of a rogue fairy to the idea of pirates, with a little help from one John Lassetter.
Croc-u-mentary is a "fairy's eye view of one of nature's most versatile and surprising creatures". A cute, quick look at crocodiles on the mainland featuring live action footage as well as clips from the movie. There's even a "Charlie Bit my Finger – auto tune" moment. It's kind of fabulous.
Like most DVD/Blu-ray releases, The Pirate Fairy includes a handful of deleted scenes. They're all rough sketches and honestly, nothing I'd write home about. So I'm not writing much here about it, either 🙂 The only thing I have to say is that a few of them really write Zarina as an outcast. I'm happy they didn't go that route, but rather went a misunderstood "Tink-like" big personality.
The Making of "The Frigate that Flies" is a behind-the-scenes look at the aforementioned pirate song. You see the voice actors working, singing and talking about their experiences. I always enjoy seeing voice actors do their work, especially alongside the animation. This feature was very nicely done.
Two animated shorts are super fun and, in my opinion, a bit out of character for these DVDs. I hope they continue to do more! There are also two sing-along features, which I know we'll end up watching over and over.
All in all? Buy the DVD/Blu-Ray. It's well worth it!
Disclaimer: We bought the movie full price, and had no requests to review it. Just felt like it… so there you go. 🙂
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We grabbed the DVD at Target on at Tuesday and will be watching this weekend. Can't wait!
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Nice review. This makes me want to see it so bad. Me and my husband love Disney movies and we don't even have kids yet! I'm going to have to peek around your recipes tab… I just noticed that. 🙂
Oh, I wish I had more recipes up for you! The site is still new… but so many more are coming! 🙂 Thanks for stopping by!


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The Languages of Kinder Surprise.
January 8, 2022 by languagehat 35 Comments
Bathrobe sent me this article by the splendidly bearded Keith Kahn-Harris about the multilingual messages on the warning message slip found inside Kinder Surprise eggs:
As someone who adores languages I don't understand, for a long time I have been obsessed with this small sheet of paper—an obsession culminating in the publication of my new book The Babel Message: A Love Letter to Language. At first, I saw the warning message sheet as a feast of linguistic diversity. It includes 34 languages, everything from Albanian to Azerbaijani, in multiple scripts. There are "small" languages, like Estonian (spoken by about a million people) and massive ones, like Chinese and English.
I was intrigued, but disappointed to find that the piece contained only his Deep Thoughts and no actual examples. Happily, a little googling turned up The Message: An ever-expanding list of translations:
On this page, I have collated the translations and versions of what I call in The Babel Message, 'The Message' – the warning message found on the piece of paper found inside Kinder Surprise Eggs.
Below you can find the complete list of translations of the Message, including both the 'Official' versions found inside the Kinder Surprise Eggs and the ones commissioned for The Babel Message. The book does not include every Message I have found or commissioned so there is plenty of exclusive material here that you won't find elsewhere, including alternate translations. In some cases, I have included supplementary explanations and translation glosses that were too lengthy to fit into the book.
Which is fun. The one thing that's missing is a quiz, but fortunately there is an equivalent that I reported on in 2004 in The Languages of McDonalds. And not only can you still take the quiz (I had the same problem I had eighteen years ago with the Scandinavian languages, though when the language you guess is close enough to the real one the quiz gives you a do-over, which is sporting), but in one of the comments J. Cassian said "I remember a similar multi-linguistic warning I found in a Kinder egg once." It's all connected. (Thanks, Bathrobe!)
January First-of-May says
That sort of multilingual warning was probably one of my first introductions to the variety of languages (maybe not the first one, admittedly). I remember, as a teenager, looking over the texts and comparing the different languages to check which words look similar, and wondering what the differences mean. I never wondered what it would be like in languages that weren't listed, but it does sound like an interesting concept.
It wasn't only the Kinder Surprise messages, but the alternatives are probably a lot less attested. (I have no idea what happened to our copy of the huge multilingual text I mentioned at the link; I cannot imagine knowingly throwing it away, but even if we saved it, our apartment is such a ridiculous mess that we have trouble finding things even when we look for them.)
And not only can you still take the quiz
…There's an interestingly rendered sentence in the preface: "Indeed, even those that are mostly have a lot of extra diacritical marks – not just letters like �, �, �, �, �, and � which most internet browsers will show correctly, but also weirder cases like ą, ē, č, ğ, ľ, ń, ş, and even ů." None of the first six example letters render for me (though all eight of the second bunch do), and if they don't render in the quiz either, this might be somewhat of a problem. (I hadn't actually checked yet.)
[EDIT 2: at least for me they in fact do not.]
Yes, that's mildly annoying, but they don't cause a problem in the quiz itself.
The problem with the � on the quiz web page is an encoding error. The document itself is storing the characters in ISO-8859-1, as is declared in some HTML tags. But the HTTP headers say it's UTF-8. This kind of problem was much more common back in 2005.
Y says
The funny character is the Unicode REPLACEMENT CHARACTER, U+FFFD, and it's that way in the source of Whyte's original web page. At some point all the originals got replaced with this placeholder.
J.W. Brewer says
Sometimes multilingual warnings are more likely to be encountered. It is or has been a cynical truism of American life that bilingual English/Spanish signage is most common when the content is prohibitory (NO SMOKING or NO TRESPASSING or DANGER HIGH VOLTAGE etc.). But the first parallel multilingual texts I have a specific recollection of puzzling over as a child were ingredient lists on boxes of breakfast cereal. When we lived in Tokyo (starting when I was 8 years old), you couldn't really obtain American breakfast cereal locally, but a specialist gaijin-centric grocery store my mother found out about had some European analogues which gave ingredient lists in, IDK, English/French/Dutch and probably another language or two (German? Italian?). This was back when the EU was still the EEC so there was probably less regulation of which multilingual combinations a particular manufacturer could choose.
That's not regulated; it simply depends on where the stuff is meant to be sold. The baking chocolate I'm eating right now* has ingredients lists in German ("AT"), Italian ("IT"), Hungarian ("HU") and Slovene ("SI") – with top-level domains in ellipses so they look like the national car stickers, but those are A, I, H, SLO.
What's regulated EU-wide is that the halfway common allergens go in boldface and italics:
Emulgator: Lecithine[**] (aus Soja)
emulsionante (lecitine di soia)
emulgeálószer (szójalecitin)
emulgator (sojin lecitin)
* A basic food group for me. It's good stuff, with no other fats than cocoa butter, but comes from a basic supermarket.
** No idea what happened there; normally it's Lecithin, a syllable shorter. Judging from the other languages it's not a plural.
Hans says
This was back when the EU was still the EEC so there was probably less regulation of which multilingual combinations a particular manufacturer could choose.
Even now, there is wide variation in which languages you'll find on products. It's certainly not the case that information on articles sold in the EU has to be in all EU languages. It all depends on the selection of countries a certain batch of products will be delivered to. On products sold in Germany, I have seen all kinds if combinations, from monolingual German (mostly stuff sold and produced locally, like packaged rye bread in bakeries) to dozens of languages. Most frequent are 4-6 languages, which almost always include English. Out of the official EU languages, l only rarely see Maltese and Irish on products sold in Germany.
OTOH, you also frequently get Turkish, Ukrainian, and Russian (not EU languages) due to them being languages of important export markets and, at least for Turkish and Russian, languages spoken by a large number of people in Germany
Languages on the instruction for the Corona PCR test I took this morning so my sisters can visit tomorrow (Vienna appears to be the envy of the world for how easy test kits are to get): German, English, Spanish, Slovene, Slovak, Hungarian, Romanian, Turkish.
I'm surprised FYLOSC isn't represented. Maybe someone figured Slovene was close enough? It's not as close as Czech is to Slovak…
Labeled on the last page (and nowhere else) with an inconsistent mixture of TLDs and car-sticker abbreviations; German is "D" (the car-sticker symbol for Germany even though the company is based in Vienna), English is "GB", Hungarian is "RU", Spanish is "ES", and I think the others are all car-sticker symbols; "SLO" definitely is.
Trond Engen says
I was got a packet of Corona self-tests at the municipal test station when my wife was quarantined last week. It's labeled in four car-sticker languages: ES, PT, EL, and NO. An unusual combination, but it probably makes sense for the German distributor.
My apologies to the busybody bureaucrats in Brussels for imagining they were by now more intrusive in this particular area than apparently they have yet gotten around to being. I do imagine that the cereal boxes I was looking at in Tokyo circa 1974 were of Benelux origin, since I am quite sure Dutch was one of the languages and who else would bother (if not doing a literal every-single-EU-language listing – although I guess in those days there weren't all that many such non-English languages even when membership jumped up from 6 countries to 9)?
A lot of European multilingual things include Arabic. Is it to accommodate immigrants, or exports?
More likely exports.
Hungarian is "RU"
How the hell does that work? It seems willfully perverse.
@hat:
Possibility 1: RU is short for "Rungary," which is how "Hungary" is standardly pronounced in the Scooby-Doo variety of AmEng.
Possibility 2: "RU" was a typo for "HU."
J Pystynen says
Possibility 3: from the Old Hungarian name of Hungary, "Magyaruruszág"? … yeah I'm stretching.
Athel Cornish-Bowden says
I am quite sure Dutch was one of the languages and who else would bother
Anyone who wanted to sell their stuff in Belgium would bother. When we were first in France it was very common for such information to be just in French and Dutch, plus, sometimes, English. Never German, Italian, Spanish etc.
Keith Kahn-Harris says
Thanks for posting about my book. It would be remiss of me if I didn't shamelessly plug it on the comment thread. Here is the publisher's page on the book – it includes buy links for various territories – https://iconbooks.com/ib-title/the-babel-message/
BTW: I didn't know about the MacDonald's quiz! Glad to see that someone else was thinking on the same lines as me years ago. I may well put a quiz on my own website.
Please do!
Moa says
The letters that don't show up in the McDonald's quiz are annoying, but they could be more of a problem. From my point of view, it's the less exotic letters, for example ä, that have gone missing, while more exotic letters show up fine.
If it's any consolation, I couldn't distinguish Danish and Norwegian either. I'm googling the differences right now…
Given the keyboard layout it can't have been a typo in the strict sense, so I must have been thinking of something else – but yes, it's HU.
But hey, I'm apparently learning Old Hungarian in the process!
Rodger C says
My first experience of this sort of thing came as a child in the 50s. Terro ant poison came in bottles in a cardboard box with instructions in the American immigrant languages of ca. 1920.
Lars Mathiesen says
I remember seeing Dutch for the first time on a box of O'boy cocoa drink powder WIWBAL. (Wonder of wonders, the brand has not been absorbed by Nestlé the Borg yet. Mondelez got them first. [I was actually living a few km from Marabou's headquarters when they got bought]). Anyway, my father told me that knowing English, French and Danish would enable me to read Dutch as well.
("Zucker, Kristallzucker, hart entfettetes Kakaopulver, Lecithin, …" is still stuck in my head from a similar box out of Lidl vel sim. So basically the stuff in cocoa you can't use for chocolate, with so much sugar that even splitting it in two won't move it down the list).
Carrying chocolate to Holland…
less exotic letters — as DM said, there was an encoding mismatch. The less exotic letters were single bytes in ISO-8859-1 that transcoded into error characters, but anything outside that was probably coded as HTML entities (like α = α) that survived better.
(There is a roundtripping problem in the submission box here, you have to be tricky to get a literal & in front of something that looks like it could be an HTML entity. It probably does the transformation twice — "&#945;" works).
Testing: α as in α might work.
Nope, it doesn't, but for unrelated reasons: # doesn't convert to anything. What's the correct HTML code for the # character?
EDIT: turns out it's # – and using that does in fact work, as seen in this very sentence.
I tried the MacDonalds test. For some reason the Scandinavian languages were easy (even if the Norwegian translation was characteristically unidiomatic), I missed formidably on the Slavic languages. I think I missed at least once on each and every one except Russian and Polish. I also mistook Latvian for Lithuanian, which I shouldn't if I had looked closer, and Catalan for Spanish, which is just embarrasing.
hart entfettetes Kakaopulver
I've never seen that, and it would be a rare metaphor; was it stark entfettet, or indeed stark entölt?
as DM said, there was an encoding mismatch.
Wasn't me.
I screwed up completely with Icelandic, in part my fault, as I forgot that there was another Scandinavian language after I had failed with Swedish, Danish and Norwegian, and in part their fault, because they replaced ð and þ with junk. With those it would have been easy.
I think I got Latvian/Lithuanian correctly, but I completely mixed up the Scandinavian languages (I guessed Norwegian and then Danish for the Swedish text, and then confused Danish and Norwegian as well, but I don't recall in which order), as well as the Iberian languages (guessing Spanish for both Catalan and Portuguese, rather embarrassingly in the latter case).
I got all the Slavic languages right but seemingly mostly by luck. I also almost guessed Luxembourgish for Catalan, but at the last moment remembered that Luxembourgish is a Germanic language and not a Romance one.
and in part their fault, because they replaced ð and þ with junk
They described what a ð looks like well enough that I could (correctly) guess Icelandic just from that alone.
It may be worth further exploring Dr. Kahn-Harris' varied oeuvre. On his Amazon author page it says "I've written books on denial, heavy metal, antisemitism, Jews and, most recently, on the multilingual warning messages inside Kinder Surprise Eggs. Yes, really."
Further exploration on his personal website uncovers claims that he has also written (perhaps not at book length?) on further topics including: (a) Small worlds and small communities (particularly the Luxembourg water-skiing scene); (b) The British overseas territories and crown dependencies (Gibraltar and Alderney in particular); (c) Military ration collectors; and (d) Soft drinks.
I am now curious as to whether the title of his extreme-metal-themed doctoral dissertation ("Transgression and Mundanity") is intended via its initials to evoke or allude to the classic 1973 album title TYRANNY AND MVTATION.
Wasn't me — no it was Y. And stark may well have mutated to hart in my memory, stærkt/hårdt affedtet are equally cromulent in Danish. It probably means washed in kerosene and separated with lime, or whatever it is they do to the dregs of olive pressings to get the last Euro out.
zyxt says
The McDonalds quiz was great. I like the fact they threw in a few languages that weren't actually used, just to make it harder. In the end i got 2 wrong. But that's because of the sausage finger effect.
For me the hardest was telling danish & norwegian apart.
Tried to read the Kinder Surprise article, but pop-ups about cookies & other such rubbish stopped me from reading more than just a couple of paragraphs.
Sorry about that; I use an ad blocker, so I don't notice such things.
juha says
It seems there are too many υ's where ν's should have been:
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I will be leaving for the Founders Circle event this morning.
Oh my gosh I am so EXCITED! .
This will be one of my Stamping highlights of the year and I will be enjoying every moment .
Every moment .. I made another digital scrapbook page . I will be making at least 1 more digital scrapbook page of the actual Founders Circle event when I return home .
I will be sharing photos from the Founders circle event with you. so stay tuned for those photos .
Enjoy!! Can't wait to see your pictures!
You Go Girl -- and Have a Wonderful Time! Thank you for always sharing! Look forward to hearing about your adventure when you return.
Dawn have a great time and enjoy all they have to offer. Glad you are going to post the happenings. Even though I can't go I am excited for you. You really deserve it for sharing so freely with us. You are so dedicated and are my morning cup of joy. Just love hearing your sweet voice on the web. You go girl....woo hoo!


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Smart passport security loophole criticised
Biometrics passport security easy to crack
By Juha Saarinen, IDG Newswire
Recent reports about the ability to clone identity information held in new UK passports have been confirmed by leader of New Zealand's e-passport project.
The New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) said there isn't enough data stored on radio frequency ID (RFID) cards within its similarly styled passports' chips to create counterfeit travel documents.
The UK government faced demands to recall 3m micro-chipped biometric passports earlier this month after it was revealed they could be electronically attacked and cloned with a £174 microchip reader.
DIA passport manager David Philp confirms that it is possible to access the RFID information and use it to make a clone. But the RFID chip in the e-passports currently issued in New Zealand is just one security feature out of more than 50 contained in the passport.
Having just a cloned chip isn't sufficient to create a counterfeit passport, said Philp. He added that while New Zealand passports are "highly desirable," the DIA has seen very few credible counterfeited ones, he says.
While the general design goal of the e-passport is to lock the holder's identity to the document in a secure manner, Philp said that there has to be a balance between risk management and customer service.
The passport has to be readable around the world in a reasonable amount of time and ideally in more situations than just immigration.
Philp gave airport check-ins as one example of where RFID-equipped passports should be readable.
Making the e-passport harder to read is possible, said Philp, but it would make immigration processing take longer and inconvenience people.
Researcher Peter Gutmann at the University of Auckland's department of Computer Science was sceptical that the RFID chip provides any real security benefit. In fact, Gutmann went further and said in his technical background paper "Why biometrics is not a panacea", that RFIDs in passports "are a disaster waiting to happen".
German and Dutch passports have already been compromised, according to Gutmann, and this can be done remotely as well. He pointed to successful attacks by Dutch RFID security specialist Harko Robroch, who has intercepted passport and reader device communications from five meters away. Gutmann says eavesdropping on the reader was possible up to 25 meters.
In comparison, the Guardian newspaper has claimed UK passports are readable 7.5cm away, a far shorter distance than Robroch's interception, but enough in situations such as public transport, where people are close together, to siphon off the data stored in the RFID chip.
However, Gutmann's worst-case scenario for RFIDs in passports occurs not when they're being compromised for counterfeiting purposes, but are used to identify the holder. The RFID chip could be used to trigger explosive charges and Gutmann points to a study that shows the current US passport design caused a small, non-lethal explosive charge concealed in a rubbish tin to detonate.
Terrorists could then target specific nationalities automatically, said Gutmann.
The New Zealand DIA is said not to be concerned about the UK reports.
The Identity and Passport Service has spent £60m on new passport production lines for the new £66 documents, which were introduced in March.


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Joseph Alexis Chapman (57) longtime resident of Plummer, ID passed away at his home on January 9, 2021. He was born to Ernest and Roberta (Garrick) Chapman on November 22, 1963 in Toppenish, WA. Joe was raised in Lapwai, ID until his father passed away in the early 1970's. Roberta then moved her family to Plummer, ID to be closer to family. Joe attended Plummer High School and graduated with the class of 1982. Joe enjoyed hunting and met the love of his life when he asked John DeLorme to borrow his daughters truck which she would not let out of her sight. In May 0f 1985, Joe and Theresa married in Coeur d' Alene, ID. They made their home in Plummer where they raised their 3 children and enjoyed their grandchildren. Joe went to work as a Heavy Equipment Operator for Poe Asphalt and then Scarsella Bros. out of Lewiston. For years he ran a twin engine scraper constructing most of the highways around this area. For the last 8 years he served as a mechanic for the Coeur d' Alene Tribe. Joe was more than a mechanic however; as an equipment operator, he was one who took care of the grave digging in the Sacred Heart Mission Cemetery in DeSmet and Saint Michael's Cemetery in Worley. He was always there for who needed him. In July of 2020, Joe was forced to quit work due to his diagnosis of cancer. In his spare time he very much enjoyed hunting and riding his UTV. He was well known for his wheeling and dealing skills and you never knew what vehicle the wave would come from. Joe owned a 1970 Chevelle and he loved classic cars. He and Theresa were members of the Rez Riders car club and their ATV club. Most important to him was his family, and he loved his children and grandchildren so very much. Joe is survived by his wife Theresa at their home in Plummer; children Crystal and Sam Abrahamson of Coeur d' Alene, ID, Nicole Chapman of Post Falls, ID, and Joseph Chapman of Plummer, ID; siblings Debbie Chapman and Dave Ochoa of Plummer, ID, Dean Chapman of Plummer, ID, Melissa Henry and Dan Hossfeld of Worley, ID, Gayle Bear of Kamiah, ID, and Lori Wetsel of Utah; 3 grand daughters; Amya, Alexa & Aralynn & numerous nieces and nephews. He is preceded in death by his parents Ernest Chapman, Roberta Juneau, and Eli Nomee and his siblings Elizabeth Chapman, Cynthia Chapman, Grace Chapman, Anna Morrell, and Anita Judy. Rosary will be recited on Wednesday, January 13, 2021 at 7:00 pm at the Rosecreek Longhouse in Worley, ID. A Mass of Christian Burial will be Thursday, January 14, 2021 at 10:00 am at the Rosecreek Longhouse. Joe will be laid to rest following services at the Sacred Heart Mission Cemetery in DeSmet followed by a dinner back at the Longhouse in Worley.
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The judiciary is considered independent and members of the Supreme Court are decided by the King with the help of the Judicial Appointments Board made up of legal and judicial professionals as well as members of the public.
Parliamentary elections are decided by voting that occurs in 19 constituencies, with each country gaining an agreed number of seats in parliament depending on the size and population of that specific constituency. The last parliamentary election occurred in 2017. However, the head of the conservative party, Erna Solberg, has been serving as prime minister since 2013.
In 2017 and 2018, the #metoo movement gained a lot of support in Norway, and certain members of civil society were ousted as well as members of parliament for allegedly engaging in sexual discrimination and sexual misconduct.
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The indigenous Sami population of Norway keeps its own legislature as well as being represented in parliament. This allows for active participation in the decision-making process in order to uphold cultural values and to influence national policy.
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Individuals have been targeted for piracy and have been singled out using IP addresses by ISPs on behalf of copyright holders. This has resulted in convictions for file sharing as well as prospective invoicing letters.
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A Grand Discovery at The Paris Review
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Just in time for their annual fundraiser, The Paris Review has uncovered a delightful note from George Plimpton (the magazine's founder, as well as many other things). During preparations to relocate their office to Chelsea, the staff "came across a batch of small, white booklets."
"The Paris Review: Twenty Year Index, Issues 1–56 they were titled; they appeared to be lists of everything that had been published during the magazine's first twenty-three years, and were put aside for recycling. Flipping through them later, we realized that the booklets also contained an introduction by George Plimpton, a founder of the magazine and its editor for the first fifty years of its history."
Even if you aren't going to tonight's gala, you can still enjoy Plimpton's introduction, which has been published on The Paris Review Daily. The note contains great insight into the history and culture of the magazine (a shipment of the magazine was once hidden from a US Customs censor), as well as some valuable advice (do not ask Hemingway about "the significance of the white bird that flies out of the gondola in Across the River and Into the Tree").
–Benjamin Samuel is the co-editor of Electric Literature. He channels his inner Plimpton on Twitter.
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The Dictation, Compilation, and Canonization of Joseph Smith's Revelations
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Joseph Smith, founding prophet and martyr of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, personally wrote, dictated, or commissioned thousands of documents. Among these are several highly significant sources that scholars have used over and over again in their attempts to reconstruct the founding era of Mormonism, usually by focusing solely on content, without a deep appreciation for how and why a document was produced. This book offers case studies of the sources most often used by historians of the early Mormon experience. Each chapter takes a particular document as its primary subject, considering the production of a document as an historical event in itself, with its own background, purpose, circumstances, and consequences. By studying the documents not merely as sources of information, but as artifacts that reflect the culture in which they were created, truths about that culture are revealed. This book will help historians working in the founding era of Mormonism gain a more solid grounding in the period's documentary record by supplying important information on major primary sources.
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Beijing: The Chinese government and Ethiopia on Monday grounded all Boeing 737 MAX 8 jets, a day after an Ethiopian Airlines plane of the same model crashed shortly after take-off, killing all 157 people on board.
The Ethiopian Airlines flight ET 302, on its way to the Kenyan capital Nairobi from Addis Ababa, crashed six minutes after take-off on Sunday, prompting the carrier to ground the rest of its fleet of the jets. It ploughed into a field near Tulu Fara village outside the town of Bishoftu, some 60 km southeast of the Ethiopian capital.
The Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) issued a notice on Monday morning ordering domestic airlines to suspend the commercial operations of the Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft before 6 p.m., CNN reported.
In October 2018, another aircraft of the same model being operated by Lion Air had crashed in Indonesia 12 minutes after take-off due to failures in the automatic system, killing 189 people on board.
The CAAC said the decision was taken owing to security concerns after two other newly-delivered Boeing 737 MAX 8 planes had crashed similarly in the take-off phase.
The regulator said the grounding of the planes was "in line with our principle of zero tolerance for safety hazards and strict control of safety risks".
The CAAC said it would be contacting US aviation authorities and Boeing before restoring flights of the aircraft.
The move affected hundreds of flights on Monday in China, where 13 carriers operate more than 90 of the Boeing 737 Max 8 jets, according to the Chinese media.
Ethiopian Airlines in a statement said that the cause of the accident was still not known but the decision to suspend flying such aircraft was taken as a precautionary measure.
"Following the tragic accident... Ethiopian Airlines has decided to ground all B-737-8 MAX fleet effective March 10, 2019 until further notice," the statement said.
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Cayman Islands carriers announced a similar decision. Cayman Airways, which also flies the Boeing 737 Max 8 craft, announced it would ground the planes while the investigation into the crash was ongoing.
According to a report in the Guardian, over 300 Boeing 737-MAX planes are in operation and over 5,000 have been ordered worldwide since 2017. Several other carriers including Fiji Airways, Singapore Airlines, Virgin Australia and Korean Air told the daily that they did not intend to ground their Boeing aircraft.
According to the Ethiopian Airlines, the pilot made a distress call saying he was having "difficulties" and got clearance to return, moments before losing contact with the control tower.
He was identified as Yared Getachew, 28, of Addis Ababa. He had 8,000 hours of flight time and was the youngest pilot in Ethiopian Airlines history to captain a Boeing 737.