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Harold Ng Interview
Have You Met Your "Gateway Watch" Yet?
Jonathan Hutson
Oh, you'll hear he has a second-to-none reputation for customer service and that he does business from Hong Kong with only an email address ([email protected]) and a Photobucket account with no other social media presence or website. But that's all you'll hear. Everyone who mentions him does so reverentially, and recites those same few, non-informative facts about him but proves incapable of saying more.
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Who is Harry Ng, the Seiko swami, the mystery maven of mods? I had to go on a quest to know the artisan behind my new everyday carry watch.
Oh, yes, I have a new watch, now in Harry Ng's hands. I went to his Photobucket site and picked out a photo of a military field watch mod based on a Seiko 5 SNGZ13. It's Harold's homage to a Sinn, the ultimate Teutonic aviator's watch. It marries form and function and presents a clean, masculine style that resists the whims of fashion.
I admire the harmony and legibility of the bold white Arabic 3, 6, 9 and 12 numerals on a matte black face with lumed, sword-style minute and hour hands, and lumed hour marks on the chapter ring. I like that the flashy branding and general business of Seiko's production line dial has been removed. I want to add a domed sapphire crystal with anti-reflective coating, to stand up to daily use while giving the dial more depth and making the numerals even easier to read. I smile at the subtlety of moving the date from the 3 position to the 4.5. But something's not right about Seiko's production of the stainless steel case and bracelet: it's got polished surfaces mixed in with the brushed bits.
In the field, you don't want the shine off your watch to reveal your position. Better to bead-blast the entire watch and stainless steel bracelet to give them an even matte texture. That would be an authentic way to honor the military field watch heritage and tradition. Former pilot-turned-watchmaker Helmut Sinn would approve of the style, even if my mod costs a fraction of what one would pay for the watches in Sinn's catalogue of German watches with Swiss-made movements.
Harry assures me he can do all of this quickly and inexpensively. I'm thrilled with anticipation. I Google him again and find nothing more about him. But I really wanted to connect with the artisan whose hands would customize this tool I would carry every day. Curiosity propelled me to discover more.
Despite prominent media mentions and rave reviews from collectors of custom watches worldwide, Harry Ng has never been profiled or given an interview. Until now.
Meet the Subtle Seiko Swami
"I'm a Lone Ranger," says Harry, a slender Chinese man in his early 50s. He runs his shop as a one-man enterprise. He started joining Hong Kong's online watch forums in 2006, where he posted photos of his Seiko collection — at least one for every day of the week.
One photo shows a small, hand-wound, 17-jewel, 66-6000 Seiko that remains dear to him. "Bought by my Dad when I was in my junior secondary school and still ticking, up-to-date," says Harry. "Very valuable to me, though inexpensive."
I hope my son will appreciate the beauty of a simple, inexpensive watch that keeps time for decades if you take care of it, as a Dad teaches his son to do.
In 2007, Harry began doing business as Yobokies, posting photos of his Seiko mods on WatchUSeek, the Seiko & Citizen's Watch Forum, and the Poor Man's Watch Forum (which continues now as the Wallet-Friendly Watch Forum). Harry purchased genuine Seiko movements and cases wholesale, and modified them with customized dials, lumed hands, domed sapphire crystals, and stainless steel bracelets, which could be bead-blasted along with the cases. It didn't take long for other sites, such as Independent Watch Projects, to hail the work of this "anonymous entrepreneur."
By the time Worn & Wound posted "Watch Modding 101" — an examination of the global, addictive subculture of watch modding in 2013 — the first "key player" named was Harold. They drily noted, "There's no ordering online. You email him what you want and he lets you know if he can do it." Yet plenty of people pore over the hundreds of pics on his Photobucket account and email him specifications and detailed questions.
On a typical day, Harold rises early to respond in Chinese and English to emails from exacting customers "from all over the world on every continent." Then he settles into his workshop surrounded by familiar tools of the watch modding trade. One unusual tool that he uses as a pry bar is a vintage, single-blade folding knife, manufactured by Friedrich Herder Abraham Sohn in Solingen, Germany. Its wooden handle is worn glossy with decades of use as an everyday carry knife.
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Why Jack Dorsey is right about Bitcoin's future in Africa
By Decrypt Media
"Africa will define the future (especially the Bitcoin one)", tweeted Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and payment provider Square, earlier this week. Dorsey's tweet follows his tour of Africa—and it's clear he liked what he saw. Dorsey, who's previously come out in favor of Bitcoin, sees the continent as being key in the further development of cryptocurrencies.
Other crypto heads share his view. Nate Hindman, head of growth at on-chain liquidity protocol Bancor, is confident of crypto's future in Africa. "In emerging markets like Africa, the shallow reach of traditional money systems means there's less resistance to new financial technology," he told Decrypt. And crypto companies have been busy in Africa—perhaps Dorsey's onto something, after all. Here's what's been going on in Africa's crypto-world.
Take a step back
"Africa is not "getting big into" bitcoin—they have been using bitcoin for years and taught us everything we know about what bitcoin's true use cases are," Ray Youssef, CEO of peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplace Paxful, told Decrypt. "Africans have had peer-to-peer financial systems in place for thousands of years. In Nigeria, they call them 'Esusu', Kenya has 'Chama', while South Africa has 'Stokvel'."
But restrictive crypto laws in African countries can make trading on exchanges difficult. Youssef told Decrypt that Nigeria, Africa's largest economy, has restrictions in sending money outside the country, and that the lack of bitcoin liquidity was the first obstacle it had to solve to introduce bitcoin to Africa.
"We found a way for them to export an asset, which is gift cards, as a way to go around financial restrictions. Now, bitcoin is flooding out of Nigeria and into other African countries because of the ambition of the Nigerian bitcoin community and Paxful," he said.
Paxful has enjoyed plenty of success in Africa. The service has over three million subscriptions—45% of which are from Africa—and it's growing rapidly. In fact, the USA, Nigeria, and Ghana has reached 15 million trades over the past year, marking a 65% increase from last year.
Major exchanges are expanding into Africa, too. Just last year, Binance launched Binance Uganda, a fiat cryptocurrency exchange which allows for the direct conversion of Ugandan Shillings into Bitcoin. The program provides the country access to cryptocurrency trading, adding liquidity to the market and building the next generation of crypto traders in Africa. Other exchanges also focus on the region, such as Belfrics, which offers services in Kenya, Nigeria, and Tanzania.
Crypto for charity
In addition to its cryptocurrency exchange in Uganda, Binance's philanthropic wing is operating a program called Lunch for Children, which uses donated cryptocurrencies to buy lunch for kiddos—specifically, the donated crypto is redeemed to pay suppliers for food.
Other crypto companies are also getting involved in charitable endeavours. In Mombasa, Kenya, the Bancor Foundation funded a Kenyan charity with digital tokens for bargaining in one of the city's slums. The cryptocurrency, dubbed "Bangla-pesa", was used to ease the community's credit issues—as a result, a more local cryptocurrency was useful to help alleviate poverty in the slum.
National digital currencies
Bitcoin isn't the only player in Africa, of course. Like many other countries, African nations are exploring the potential of national digital currencies. Just this week, the governor of Ghana's central bank, Ernest Addison, said that the country could issue a digital version of its currency, the cedi, in the "near future", and was, "in discussion with key stakeholders to explore a pilot project (in a sandbox environment) on central bank digital currency."
In July this year, the South African Reserve Bank put out its own call for solutions providers to work on a pilot for a central bank digital currency, "to investigate the feasibility, desirability and appropriateness of central bank issued digital currency to be used as electronic legal tender, complimentary to cash."
And the Tunisian Central Bank has "examined" the possibility of implementing its own cryptocurrency. It's been coy about its own digital currency, and criticized what it termed "groundless allegations". Considering the criticism by the US treasury directed at Venezuela's Petro cryptocurrency, it's easy to see why the Tunisian government is being careful. However, the Bank did acknowledge that at Forex Club, "participants at this event attended a technical feasibility demonstration of a theoretical digital currency solution."
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Pride party draws hundreds of thousands to downtown Vancouver
People from all walks of life packed into Vancouver's West End Sunday afternoon to celebrate the 37th annual Pride Parade.
John Colebourn
Aug 01, 2015 • Last Updated August 5, 2015 • 2 minute read
1/37 Hundreds of thousands of people watched the Pride Parade in Vancouver, BC, July 29, 2015. Photo by Arlen Redekop /PNG ▲
1/37 A man stands on a float decorated with emojis during the Vancouver Pride Parade in Vancouver, B.C., on Sunday, August 2, 2015. Photo by DARRYL DYCK /THE CANADIAN PRESS ▲
1/37 Revellers march in the Vancouver Pride Parade in Vancouver, B.C., on Sunday, August 2, 2015. Photo by DARRYL DYCK /THE CANADIAN PRESS ▲
1/37 A large rainbow flag is carried down Robson Street during the Vancouver Pride Parade in Vancouver, B.C., on Sunday, August 2, 2015. Photo by DARRYL DYCK /THE CANADIAN PRESS ▲
1/37 "Miss Lola", of Long Beach, Calif., attends the Vancouver Pride Parade in Vancouver, B.C., on Sunday, August 2, 2015. Photo by DARRYL DYCK /THE CANADIAN PRESS ▲
1/37 A reveller blows a kiss while marching in the Vancouver Pride Parade in Vancouver, B.C., on Sunday, August 2, 2015. Photo by DARRYL DYCK /THE CANADIAN PRESS ▲
1/37 A woman performs a flip while marching in the Vancouver Pride Parade in Vancouver, B.C., on Sunday, August 2, 2015. Photo by DARRYL DYCK /THE CANADIAN PRESS ▲
VANCOUVER -- Hundreds of thousands of people from all walks of life packed into Vancouver's West End Sunday afternoon to celebrate the 37th annual Pride Parade.
The parade has taken on more meaning this year after organizers asked groups and politicians participating in the event to sign a Trans Equity Now pledge.
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"This is my first year and I'm so happy to be part of the LGBTQ community down here," said Cole Schnieder, 12, a transgender male.
Schneider said he agrees with parade organizers who asked participants to sign the pledge. "We need to fight for our rights as equality is all that we are asking."
Lucas Young, 14, who is also transgender, said the recent publicity around the pledge will help in the long run.
"The more people that are talking about the issue the more awareness," he added.
Meghan Browne, 18, said the annual parade is a big deal for many on the long weekend in the city.
"We don't have a lot of events that are big like this," she said.
Stephanie Quon, 18, said she enjoys the parade.
"I think it is great that all sorts of people come out and support the event," she said.
The huge crowd draws visitors from out of town, with many travelling from the United States and even overseas.
A Vancouver Pride Society economic impact study estimates the parade pumps almost $23 million into the local economy.
Vandog owner Shafiq Qureshi, who was selling hot dogs at the corner of Robson and Burrard, said business doubles on the Pride Parade compared to other days.
"We are super, super busy," he said. "It is a very friendly crowd."
At Baguette & Co. on Davie Street, manager Arnud Levat said they bring in extra staff for the Pride Parade.
"For us the parade is very good for business," he said. "It's a good atmosphere and there's a lot of hungry people."


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Woman knocked down at petrol station
Staff Reporter, The West AustralianThe West Australian
Sunday, 17 May 2015 11:04AM
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A man has been charged after a woman was injured by a car at a petrol station in Southern River last night.
Police released a statement this morning after a video of the incident was posted on Facebook with the explanation "This just happened at Canningvale servo (sic)".
Police allege that the injured woman from Canning Vale was at the Woolworths petrol station on Warton Road with her husband, 46, and teenage son about 7pm.
They had refuelled their car and the 43-year-old woman entered the store to pay.
"The alleged offender, who is known to the family, was also inside the station," police allege.
"Shortly after, the woman and the man entered into a verbal altercation."
It is alleged the man left the store and got into his car, a Holden utility.
"The man then allegedly drove away from the service station, hitting the woman who was near the front of the vehicle," police allege.
"Her 18-year-old son was forced to jump away from the vehicle as it was driven away."
The woman suffered minor injuries.
She has since been discharged from Armadale/Kelmscott hospital.
A 44-year-old Gosnells man was arrested at his house and charged with two counts of committing acts or omissions likely to cause danger.
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Student Movement Stirs Up Chile
Shalini Adnani Oct 6, 2011
Chile is widely touted as a Latin American economic miracle of with an annual growth rate of 5 percent, stable finances and an average per capita income of more than $15,000. Yet, its prosperity is belied by some of the highest income inequality in the region and a lack of social mobility.
From an early age, Chile's students confront an education system that is deeply segregated by class in which government monies flow into privately run schools while public schools are starved for funds. To receive a university education, students from poor and working-class families have to go deep into debt to afford tuition, which can be as much as $20,000 per year – a figure inconceivable for the average Chilean.
It's a scenario that would be familiar to many students in the U.S. But unlike their docile American counterparts, Chilean students are taking action to remake their education system.
Since protests began in May at the University of Chile, the student movement has carried out a nationwide strike in universities and high schools that now enters its fourth month. The movement's largest protests have drawn hundreds of thousands of people. The students are garnering support from teachers, workers and families struggling to pay for their childrens' education. Support for the students' cause runs as high as 80 percent in public opinion polls.
The students have peacefully occupied high school and university campuses in provinces throughout the country, turning the buildings into communal spaces. When the takeovers (or, tomas as they are called in Chile) peaked in mid-August, students were occupying 500 high schools and 22 universities in the capital of Santiago alone. During these occupations, groups of students would remain inside schools around the clock, cook donated food, teach individual workshops, and organize activities on the campuses.
Theaters were converted into general assemblies and theater balconies served as a bedroom.
The students are using their creativity to emphasize the peaceful nature of the protests. Innovative demonstrations have included zombie dances of Michael Jackson's "Thriller" (to underscore the neoliberal state's zombie-like hold on their futures), two minutes of national lip-lock– El Besaton, or The Kissathon – to signify the love and passion inherent in the student movement, a month-long relay race around the Presidential Palace, and many more such actions.
After a similar strike by high school students peetered out in 2006, the election of rightwing billionaire President Sebastian Piñera in 2010 reanimated the student movement which insists that education is a social good that should be available to all.
University student demands include a new system of scholarships (not loans) to provide free education to poor and working class students, a more equitable admissions process to prestigious universities, the creations of a watchdog agency to prosecute universities using loopholes to earn profits and a repeal of laws forbidding student participation in university governance.
The high school students, more loosely organized, are pressing similar demands for more state funding as well as a moratorium on the creation of more publicly funded charter schools, an end to a system of local control of schools that leads to inequalities, as well as free access to public transportation.
More than confronting a highly privatized education system, the student movement has mounted the strongest challenge to Chile's neoliberal order since it was imposed through a 1973 military coup that toppled the democratically-elected socialist government of Salvador Allende and left thousands of his supporters dead or in exile.
Democracy was formally restored in Chile in 1989 but the neoliberal framework developed during the dictatorship has been perpetuated by coalition governments of both the center-left and the center-right.
The government has responded to the student movement with tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons while pro-government media outlets have unsuccessfully sought to write off student activists as "delinquents". Violence erupted on August 5 when Chilean authorities prevented student demonstrators from entering downtown Santiago and on Aug. 25 when police shot and killed a 16-year-old student protester.
The younger generation that came of age after the dictatorship, does not have the fear of their parents' generation and their actions have reawakened older Chileans who had despaired of ever seeing real change again in their country. The dream of the Allende years of a socially inclusive Chile has not vanished in spite of almost four decades of neoliberal social engineering.
"I am surprised…[but]…the movement confirms what I have been predicting and feeling for awhile ," Chilean economist Gabriel Salazar told CNN Chile. "…This civil transition from the bottom is very different from a political transition from above."
With support for the students running strong, Piñera has sought to co-opt the movement with half-measures such as a modest increase in scholarship money and slightly lower interest rates on student loans that don't fundamentally change the education system. He has also sought to outwait the student movement by initiating negotiations that have gone nowhere.
Sustaining a high level of mobilization over many months is difficult and students face losing a whole school year as the strike drags on. Police have begun to dislodge students from many of the occupied schools, and the government has extended the end of the school year from December to March and threatened to revoke the scholarships of students who do not finish their classes. This has created divisions within the movement as some students have much more to lose than others by continuing the strike.
Still, the student movement continues to organize large protests and enjoys the support of the majority of the population. Whether it can force the political class to reorient the education system to meet human needs instead of market imperatives remains to be decided – both on the campuses and in the streets.
Shalini Adnani is a freelance journalist based in Santiago, Chile.


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Q: Задачка из OCA по Java Упрощенный вид одной из задачи: Что будет выведено на экран?
    public class NewClass  {

    static int i;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println(new NewClass().method());
    }

    public int method(){
        int a;
        if(i < 10) a = 5;
        return a;
    }
}

Как я сказал выше - задача упрощенная, но смысл в ней тот же. В исходной задаче для размыливания взгляда в метод передаются различные параметры и прочее.
Конечно же этот код не компилируется. "Есть не нулевая вероятность того, что статическая переменная i будет больше 10 и тогда локальная переменная "а" никогда не будет проиницилизирована". Естественно нам то понятно, что i всегда будет 0. Но а вдруг другой поток захочет ее изменить?
Как можно решить эту задачу? Правильно, сделать i финальной. Давайте сделаем.
    public class NewClass  {

    final static int i;
    static{
        i = 0;
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println(new NewClass().method());
    }

    public int method(){
        int a;
        if(i < 10) a = 5;
        return a;
    }
}

Бам! Код все равно не компилируется! Хотя, если проиницилизровать финальную переменную в строке ее объявления всё проходит. Вот и прошу объяснить этот момент. Почему код не компилируется.
Объясню свою логику и прошу поправить если не прав: для вызова метода method() нам нужен инстанс класса. По спецификации Java (12.4.1), класс будет загружен в память в одном из 5 случаев (один из случаев - создание объекта). Т.е. статический блок выполнится в 100% случаев и соответственно будет проиницилизирована переменная i.
Но как было сказано выше, код не компилируется. И я где-то не прав... Прошу знатоков объяснить!

A: Хоть вопрос был задан давно, да и вы сами, в принципе, на него ответили, хотелось бы привести некоторые последовательные и несложные рассуждения.
Чтобы блок if выполнился и переменная a была проинициализирована, мы должны гарантировать, что к моменту вызова метода method() статическая переменная i будет иметь значение меньше 10-ти.
В случае
static int i;

этого не достигается. Ведь хоть при загрузке класса в память переменная i и инициализируется нулём, но не факт, что до вызова метода method() не вызовется какой-нибудь другой метод, который может изменить i, сделав её, например, равной 11.
Чтобы гарантировать неизменяемость i, мы можем сделать её final. Однако полагаясь на её инициализацию в статическом блоке
static final int i;
static {
    i = 0;
}

ситуацию мы не улучшаем, ведь, как вы правильно сказали в комментариях, в статических блоках инициализации может быть сделано всё что угодно. В том числе может быть вызван наш метод method(), в то время как i пока что, опять же, будет не инициализирована.
И наконец запись
static final int i = 0;

позволяет коду запуститься. Мы сразу же на месте присваиваем i значение, и больше она никоим образом измениться не может. Поэтому всяких теоретически небезопасных случаев развития кода не будет и код сможет запуститься.
Если говорить правильнее, то static final-переменные (проинициализированные сразу, а не в статическом блоке) - это константные выражения времени компиляции. Если из другого класса обращаться к таким переменным, то загрузка класса, содержащего их, в память осуществляться вообще не будет. Такое явление было разобрано в этом вопросе.


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News Tuesday, JANUARY 13th, 1998
Radio Prague E-news date: January 13th, 1997 written/read by: Daniela Lazarova
Hello and welcome to the programme. I'm Daniela Lazarova and we begin as usual with a look at the main newsstories this hour
Those were the headlines and now the news in more detail
I Cabinet prepares June elections
In the wake of Sunday's political consultations Premier Tosovsky's Cabinet is drawing up plans for fresh parliamentary elections to be held on June 19th. In order to fulfil the constitutional requirements for premature dissolution, the cabinet plans to table legislation coupled with a vote of confidence. On the grounds of political consensus, parliament would then fail to debate the legislation within the 90 day limit which would enable the president to issue a dissolution order. In the meantime, the Tosovsky cabinet which was sworn in at the start of January faces a vote of confidence by February 1st. Individual political parties have reacted positively to the proposal but the ODS and the Social Democrats are requesting a written commitment from the government.
Havel back in action
President Havel, who has just returned from a three week health holiday, is set to meet with representatives of both houses of parliament. He will be briefed on the outcome of Sundays political consultations regarding premature elections and ways to bring them about. President Havel faces re-election on January 20th.
New right wing party
As many as thirty deputies for ex-premier Klaus' ODS may leave the party to form a new right-wing political entity, according to the minister for regional development and member of the anti-Klaus faction Jan Cerny. The ODS currently has 69 deputies in parliament. Finance minister Ivan Pilip, who was instrumental in precipitating Klaus' downfall, has already left the party and others are ready to follow. According to Cerny the majority will take the step after the upcoming conference of the rebel faction scheduled to take place this Saturday in Litomysl. For his part the ex-premier has bid them "good riddance" saying that their presence in the ODS created a schizophrenic atmosphere that benefited no one.
ODA may join ODS rebel faction
Pavel Bratinka , a prominent representative of the small right wing Civic Democratic Alliance has suggested that his party would be prepared to offer its name and link up with the emerging right wing party of the rebel ODS faction. "We would be prepared to do this in the interest of preventing the fragmentation of the right wing" Bratinka told the ctk.
Forman -award
Czech-born film director Milos Forman is to receive an honorary doctorate from the Prague Academy of Music Arts, his Alma Mater. Forman graduated from the academy in the mid-50s and made a number of films in this country before emigrating to the United States in 1967. The award ceremony is to take place at the Lichtenstein Palace this Friday /January 16th/ and will reportedly be attended by President Havel who is a good friend of Forman's.
Hailey to visit Prague
American novelist Arthur Hailey is expected to visit the Czech republic in May, to promote the sale of his latest book Detective. His visit has been timed to coincide with the annual international bookfair. Hailey's latest novel should be available in book-stores at the end of February. The American novelist has been to Prague on several previous occasions.
Czechs' primary concerns
An opinion poll has revealed that Czechs' primary concerns at present are to do with the troubled state of the health sector, fear of rising crime and financial concerns with regard to projected price-hikes. Ecology has dropped on the ladder of priorities as have foreign policy issues such as admission to the EU and Czech-German co-existence.
And finally the weather:
no significant change predicted there. Morning fog should give way to overcast skies and day temps between 2 and 6 degs C. Nighttime lows 1 to minus 3 degs C. A cold front is expected late Wednesday, but day temps should not decrease drastically.


A strict interpretation of the Electricity Law is making it more difficult for Cayman contractors to hire electricians trained in the United Kingdom.
Alan Roffey, managing director of Androgroup Ltd., a major electrical contractor in Cayman, said he had five applications to Electric Licensing Board for UK electricians deferred recently, even though they were issued work permits.
'Without these licences, the work permits we have obtained for them cannot be activated because they are issued subject to their obtaining [an electrical license],' Mr. Roffey said.
At issue is a section of the Electricity Law (2005 Revision) that allows the ELB, at its discretion, to grant temporary licences to an electrician who holds a licence issued by a statutory body outside the Cayman Islands.
The problem for UK electricians is that their licences are issued by bodies that are not created by Statute. In England and Wales, the Joint Industry Board issues electricians' licences, while the Scottish Joint Industry Board issues them in Scotland.
Electric licences from the JIB and the SJIB have long been accepted in the Cayman Islands as a basis for obtaining a licence here. In fact, this is not the first time this issue has come up.
'We've been here before,' said Mr. Roffey, who provided copies of correspondence from Government on the matter dating back to 1989.
'That's what really bothers me,' he said. 'It's like everyone has collective amnesia. [The ELB] should read the file and get some legal advice.
Mr. Roffey pointed out that even a member of the current ELB obtained his first Cayman electrician's license on the basis of the accreditation of a SJIB or JIB licence.
In a letter sent to ELB chairman Robert Duty on 9 August, Mr. Roffey's attorney Scott Wilson of Diamond Law Associates argued that just because the JIB and SJIB and are not created by Statute, it does not mean they cannot be considered statutory bodies for the purposes of the Electricity Law Regulations.
Mr. Wilson pointed out that the term 'statutory body' is not defined in the Legislation.
'Therefore, on basic principles of statutory interpretation, the words ought to be given their ordinary and natural meaning,' he said, noting that one definition of the word statutory in the Oxford English Dictionary is 'having come to be required or expected due to being done regularly'.
Electricians coming from the UK can still obtain a licence in the Cayman Islands, but they would have to take the Electricians Trade Test first. Mr. Roffey said the problem with that is that the prospective employees have to be flown here at high expense to take a test that is designed, by law, to fail a high percentage of those who take it. It also causes delays in getting the electricians to work.
Mr. Roffey said he applied for the electricians in June, and with the deferrals, the soonest the applications can be reheard is in late September. He said two other applications put in at the same time as the other five have not been dealt with yet.
In the meantime, Mr. Roffey said his business is suffering as a result.
Mr. Roffey also criticised the decision to defer the applications rather than refusing them.
However, Mr. Roffey said he could take the matter to the Complaint's Commissioner.
'I think I have every right to do that,' he said.
ELB Chairman Mr. Duty did not comment on the matter, but said a press release from the Ministry of Planning was expected to be issued on the matter this week.


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This week's horror short story is a beautiful and darkly written piece "Granules" by Nina D'Arcangela.
Love this piece! You took such an innocent and pleasant photo and ripped something vicious out of it. Beautiful work!
A great and creepy story.
You have this subtle buildup hidden underneath gorgeous prose that is so… So… We'll, I never see the brutal twists coming. Great story as always Nina!
A heart warming and viciously dark piece, Nina! I loved it!


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December 2000, No 8
Editor: Hella Rottenberg
Book Trade in Croatia
Slovak Book Club successfully launched
Discount for libraries
Books Recently Published
Croatia's bookstand at the Frankfurt Book Fair had a glossy look. The Publishers' Association and the Ministry of Culture had prepared smart pamphlets about Croatia and the publishing business, including the Guide for Book Lovers in English and Croatian. After ten years under the nationalistic regime of Franjo Tudjman, Croatia was presenting itself in a fresh, pluralistic and democratic manner.
But behind the slick facade, the reality is very different. The book market has been greatly disrupted. The figures tell the tale. Ten years ago, Croatia had two hundred bookshops. Now, there are only seventy left. Most of them sell other products, such as office supplies or confectionery, in order to survive. The number of new titles has shrunk considerably. 2 500 titles are published annually with an average print run of only 300 copies. Only dictionaries can expect higher sales, says the Croatian publisher Nenad Popović.
After the outbreak of war, the market for Croatian book publishers was reduced from twenty-two million people to four million. Although traffic and trade between the parts of former Yugoslavia are gradually being reestablished, the prospect for a shared book market is bleak. The Serbo-Croat linguistic area has been destroyed. Croatian, Serbian, and Bosnian are drifting apart, and so are the intellectual communities, even if now and then admirable efforts are made to find common ground and to encourage cooperation.
In addition to the reduced market, the economic situation in Croatia is disastrous. People simply cannot afford to buy books. Unemployment is very high: 300 000 people have no regular job. And if you reckon that an average monthly income is 4 000 Kuna or about 1 000 DM, and an ordinary paperback costs as much as 35 DM, then it becomes clear that sales cannot be expected to improve.
'During the Tudjman-regime, the publishing business has been marginalised,' says Alberto Goldstein, director of Antibarbarus and member of the Association of Independent Publishers in Croatia, the HNN. 'Libraries have not been funded and cannot buy books. Three years ago, a 22 per cent VAT on books was introduced. In the summer of 2000, this tax was abolished, but in the meantime, the publishing business has been ruined. Some six years ago Antibarbarus had nine employees. Now we have two. We used to publish eighteen new titles a year, but in 2000 only three. We earn our money through other activities, such as pre-printing services. I hope that our government will find means to support libraries and that in due time the market will work again. In the meantime, we try to find subsidies to make the publication of individual titles possible.'
The situation of the book trade in Serbia, Bosnia, and the other parts of former Yugoslavia is not much better. Nenad Popović, however, sees two factors that could help to bring about a revival. During the last decade, many writers from the former Yugoslavia have gained an international reputation and young publishing companies, because of economic difficulties and political pressure, have learned to operate under the harshest conditions.
The Index Association of Slovak Independent Publishers launched its Book Club in October. It issued a catalogue listing up-to-date information on two hundred quality titles available from the output of forty publishers, and twenty cultural journals. With a print-run of 25 000 copies and widely distributed, the catalogue contains professionally prepared information that has so far been lacking in Slovakia.
It is geared to initiate and facilitate co-operation between publishers and the reading public, libraries, distributors and bookshops, as well as professional and general media. Backed by mail-on delivery service, the catalogue is a powerful tool reaching individual readers – potential Book Club members and journal subscribers – in large parts of Slovakia suffering from a dearth of quality booksellers.
The first issue of the catalogue has been enthusiastically received by quality dailies, weeklies, and in book trade periodicals. Within a month, the Book Club acquired 500 members throughout Slovakia. The need for and the success of the Index Book Club is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that the members ordered four times more books than expected.
The catalogue is planned to appear as a quarterly. Part of the print run of the Autumn catalogue will be dispatched together with the Winter catalogue to new members acquired through the next campaign, and will offer, apart from new book titles, subscriptions for cultural magazines. Each issue includes an interview with a writer.
The project was designed in collaboration with the CEEBP, and is co-funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The first catalogue was sponsored by the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Bratislava.
A two-year project to support Bulgarian cultural journals has ended. With the help of funds from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Soros Center for the Arts in Sofia and CEEBP, publishers have been trained in management skills, promotion, and distribution. Matching funds for libraries featured as one of the elements in the project. Libraries could subscribe to cultural periodicals at a considerable discount and so they did, on a large scale. The first year, in 1998, libraries were offered subscriptions at a discount of 75 percent. In 1999, the discount decreased to 50 percent, but the enthusiasm for subscriptions increased: 150 public libraries took out subscriptions to 65 journals. A survey showed that it would not be realistic to expect that libraries would continue that level of subscriptions to cultural journals without outside support. Their budget simply would not allow it.
The CEEBP and the Soros Center for the Arts in Sofia therefore decided to continue the matching funds program for three more years. In 2000/01, the discount amounts to 50 per cent in 2001/02 it will decrease to 40 percent and in 2002/03 to 30 percent. Hopefully, in the meantime the economic situation of libraries and of journals will improve so much that they can do without matching funds. And new techniques, such as an electronic version of periodicals might bring a solution.
An online library that will contain a wealth of information on literature, arts, humanities, and politics from Central and Eastern Europe is in the making. Soon, if you log in to the website www.ceeol.com, you will find the original texts of cultural, socio-political and philosophical periodicals from the region. The initiative to build the electronic reading room comes from the Frankfurt based East-West centre Palais Jalta. According to the initiators, it is time the exchange of information goes both directions, not only from West to East, but also from East to West.
The Central and East European Online Library offers the possibility to readers anywhere in the world to follow closely developments and debates in Central and Eastern Europe. The site is meant for émigré communities, public libraries, university and other research institutions, but also for Western media, governments, and non-governmental institutions. They can order – online – articles not only in their original language, but also in translation. The server CEEOL should become an indispensable tool for institutions and individuals interested in developments in Central and Eastern Europe.
Every article is registered in a detailed catalogue database by author's name, title, periodical, keywords, and a short English abstract. Access to the database is free of charge; downloading of the full text, however, costs money. The payment will be processed electronically. For those periodicals, which offer their contents free of charge to CEEOL, the server opens the possibility to widen their audience and add income: 40 percent of the turnover will go to the publishers. As well as the contents of journals, CEEOL will offer a huge collection of annotated links to Central European websites. In addition, CEEOL will publish information about authors and publishers, digital art, and documentary exhibitions.
In October 2000, the CEEBP awarded three grants for individual periodicals (including two for electronic equipment); matching funds for library subscriptions to Bulgarian cultural magazines; matching funds for training and a catalogue of the Slovak Index Association of Publishers and a grant for reference works for translators. Grants for fourteen books were awarded for two East-East translations, and twelve West-East translations, eight of which were allocated within the framework of the Balkan History Program.
Journals and Matching Funds
Apostrof, Cluj, Romanian cultural monthly
Mosty (Bridges), Slovak – Czech weekly (equipment)
Revue svetovej literatúry, (Review of World Literature), quarterly published by the Slovak Association of Literary Translators (equipment)
Soros Center for the Arts (SCA), Sofia, matching funds for library subscriptions to Bulgarian cultural magazines
Milan Šimečka Foundation, Bratislava, matching funds for training of Slovak publishers
Index Association of Independent Publishers, Slovakia, matching funds for catalogues
In Transitum, Balkan translators mobility fund, grant for reference works
Meyer Howard Abrams, The Mirror and the Lamp, Triáda, Prague, Czech translation by Martin Procházka
Robert Conquest, The Great Terror, Prozorec, Sofia, translation into Bulgarian by Plamen Tzvetkov & Ilia Kovachov
Timothy Garton Ash, History of the Present, Paseka, Prague, Czech translation by Simon Pellar
Leonid Grossman, Dostojevski, Onufri, Tirana, translation from Russian into Albanian by Nikolla Sudar
Georges Henri Soutou, L'alliance incertaine, Clio, Belgrade, translation into Serbian by Ivanka Pavlović
Nenad Velicković, Otac moje kceri (Father to My Daughter), JAK Books, Budapest, translation from Servo-Croat into Hungarian by Viktória Radics
Balkan History Program
Fikret Adanir, Die Makedonische Frage, Amicitia, Sofia, German-Bulgarian translation by Maria Redeva Neikova
Raymond Detrez, Grigor Parlicev, een casestudy in Balkannationalisme, LIK, Sofia, Dutch-Bulgarian translation by Zherminal Civikov
Francis Dvornik, The Slavs in the European History and Civilization, GAL-ICO, Sofia, English-Bulgarian translation by Vassil Dudeckov Kurshev
Vesna Goldsworthy, Inventing Ruritania, The Imperialism of Imagination, Geopoetika, Belgrade, Serbian translation by Srdjan Siminović
Karl Kaser, Familie und Verwandtschaft auf dem Balkan, Association for Social History, Belgrade, German-Serbian translation by Aleksandra Bazajetov-Vucen
Robert Mantran, L'histoire de l'Empire Ottoman, Clio, Belgrade, French-Serbian translation by Ema Miljković
Hugh Poulton, Minorities and States in Conflict, Cikos Holding Print, Subotica, English-Serbian translation by Stanka Parac Damjanović
Maria Todorova, Imagining the Balkans, Studia Humanitas, Ljubljana, English-Slovene translation by Špela Mihelač
In Le Passé d'une illusion, Essai sur l'idee communiste au XXe siècle (The Passing of an Illusion, An essay on the idea of communism in the twentieth century), François Furet offers an analysis of the attraction of the communist ideology. The book was published in France in 1995 and became a best seller in the Western world. Now a Slovak translation, published by Agora, has become available.
Born in 1927 in a wealthy French family, Furet joined the communist party in 1949. His disillusionment came in 1956, after the Soviet troops crushed the Hungarian uprising. As a historian, he became renowned for his writings on the French revolution. In the 1990s, after the fall of communism in the Soviet Union, Furet turned his attention to the revolutionary movement of the twentieth century.
He found the attraction of communism mysterious, almost religious, and wanted to find explanations for the fact that in spite of its continuous failures and barbaric crimes, generations of Western intellectuals believed in the Soviet-system. In his book, Furet treats communism as a mirror-ideology and counter-force to fascism. Both, he contends, were born out of the rubble of World War I, when liberal democracies were discredited and held responsible for the war. Later, communism maintained its attractiveness by presenting itself as the only force that could stop fascism and as such gained a reputation for being 'democratic'. To Furet's own surprise, when Le Passé d'une illusion was published in France in 1995, it did not provoke much controversy, but was accepted as a matter of fact.
My First Five Lives by A. H. Hermann (1914 Tábor – 1996 London) is the fascinating memoir of a clear-eyed, shrewd observer with an independent and active stance, wit, a healthy dose of self-reflection, and last but not least, a wry sense of humour.
Hermann, an assimilated Czech-Jewish lawyer and businessman, experienced in international commerce and well-travelled in South Eastern Europe, escaped in 1939 with his family, on the brink of the German occupation, to Britain.
During the war years, he worked for the Czechoslovak government-in-exile in London till 1944 when his liberal stance came into conflict with its pro-Communist policy, and he left for UNWRA. Against his better judgement, he returned to Prague in 1946, only to be arrested in 1950 and sentenced to hard labour in uranium mines. After his release and rehabilitation in 1956, he worked as a translator and a foreign correspondent for a number of Western periodicals and newspapers, including the Financial Times and Handelsblatt.
In 1968, the author became a highly respected editor of the Financial Times during his second emigration to Britain after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and finally, until his death a scholar at the London University. He wrote a number of books on financial and legal matters, and on international commerce.
His memoirs are published by Triáda, in a Czech translation of the original English manuscript. The book describes the first five of his "seven lives". Hermann's dry and sometimes ironic style makes his memoirs enjoyable reading. Just one example to get the feeling: 'Stalinist purges were conducted with a remarkable impartiality, hitting communists just as non-communists if they suffered from one of the mortal sins: if they had their own mind, spent the war years in England or were Jews.'
It is a pity Hermann didn't live long enough to write the planned last part, which would certainly have cast just as illuminating a view on society and the period he lived in as the first five. The book is a gem for anybody interested in European history, and deserves a good English publisher.
Mexico – A War Diary
In September, a new book by the young writer Vladimir Arsenijević was launched in Belgrade (see Newsletter No. 7). The author's name and the subject of his book ensured that the launch would be an event. And so it was. From the moment Arsenijević was awarded the NIN literary prize for his first novel In the Hold in 1994, everything he has written and done attracted attention. For the young urban generation in Belgrade, he was a hero, a rebel of the counterculture who gave voice to their own feelings. For the elderly literary establishment Arsenijević was a symbol of corrupt and confusing times, in which a nobody could become a star overnight.
Six years and two more books down the road, Arsenijević reputation as a provocative writer has not changed. His last work, a war diary called Mexico, is a very direct and intimate comment on the hard realities of the NATO intervention in Yugoslavia in 1999. It consists of three parts: an introduction, the experience of the author during the bombardments on Belgrade, and the story of his friend and colleague, the Kosovo-Albanian poet Xhevdet Bajraj. The two writers met in Mexico after both had fled the war.
The book, published by the newly founded Belgrade publishing house Rende and funded by the CEEBP, was launched in an entirely unorthodox manner, at a rave party on a boat. Between the performances of hardcore bands and wild jumping in front of the stage, people were buying the book.
The feeling that the book had its own audience even before it appeared in a bookshop was confirmed once it started selling. In the first month, a thousand copies were sold. The popular uprising that removed Milosević from power in early October, coupled with the participation of Rende in the Belgrade Book Fair, stimulated further demand.
The first review appeared not in Serbia, but in the Croatian magazine Feral Tribune, and was very positive. This set the tone for the reviews published in the Belgrade press. For the first time in years, reviewers perceived Arsenijević directness as a stylistic tool and not as the flaw of an inexperienced writer. But some reactions were extremely negative, reflecting the controversial feelings evoked by the subject and directness of Arsenijević's style.
The part in which the author tells the story of what happened to Xhevdet Bajraj in Kosovo in particular seemed to many readers insincere. One of them wrote to Arsenijević: 'Epilogue: heartbreaking. Pathetic. Politically almost too correct. (…) Nobody is clean, not even Xhevdet from Orahovać.' According to another reader, Arsenijević was never involved in the suffering of the Kosovo-Albanians and "suddenly" discovered them "after one Albanian in phantasmagoric Mexico told his own sad story".
We are now waiting for the reactions in Kosovo to Arsenijević's book which has been translated into Albanian, and to the war poems of Xhevdet Bajraj in Serbia launched simultaneously with Mexico by Arsenijević's publisher, Rende.
European Cultural Foundation
Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds
Salomon von Oppenheim Stiftung
Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, The Netherlands
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands
OSI Center for Publishing Development
Press Now
Wolters Kluwer, Hungary
Meulenhoff & Co bv
Weekbladpers Groep bv
Boom Uitgeverij bv
Private support to individual titles
Various individual donors


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This historic route takes visitors deep into the hills of southeast Ohio while introducing them to some of the region's crown jewels. As you travel along the 26.4-mile Hocking Hills Scenic Byway, you'll see many points of interest including Ash Cave and the State Forest Headquarters. It's a great way to explore the area without traveling too far from the Inn & Spa at Cedar Falls.
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During the fall season, a trip down White Oak Hill Road is an absolute must! The steep and scenic road in Pike County offers a unique off-the-beaten-path experience that you'll want to do again and again. Pike County can be found about an hour outside of Logan, OH, but the scenery is well worth the journey.
This beautiful journey through the countryside leads you along the Ohio River and through several of the area's most charming towns. The history-rich route also reveals artifacts and stories ranging from Native American habitation to industrialization.
Running parallel to the Muskingum River, the Covered Bridge Scenic Byway traverses some of Ohio's most beautiful countryside. The road follows State Route 26 from Marietta to Woodsfield, about an hour and a half from the Inn & Spa at Cedar Falls. It also includes markers that will help self-guided tourists find the major points of interest and stopping points along the byway.
Whether you're exploring the scenic drives in Ohio or simply relaxing in the serenity of nature, the Inn & Spa at Cedar Falls is the ideal choice for Hocking Hills lodging. Close to the best area attractions, our gorgeous guest rooms, cottages, yurts, and cabins provide all of the comfort and amenities you need. You will also be treated to a delicious gourmet breakfast each morning to fuel up for a fun day ahead. We can't wait to hear about what you discover on your trip to Hocking Hills!