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Split an invention into multiple patents?
For example, if I have an invention with different implements, can I spit it into multiple patents that each of them doesn't contain others information?
The reason may be to keep the competitor confused. For example, the competitor will think the scope of one patent is very narrow, while the other patents are kept in secret to gain advantages later.
One thing I can think of is some rules, e.g USA says that the inventor must reveal the best approach he knows. But since different implements are similar, without the best one, this can be avoided.
I think in practice it is easy to do, if the inventor can accept lying that other implements came to him at different time then that is normal, even there is a best approach. But what about the law if the inventor must be honest?
Another method I can think of is splitting the invention into multiple inventions by redefine the scope of the invention so they are not a single invention but multiple inventions.
Is there any obstacle for splitting a single invention into multiple independent patents without relating to each others?
You can play with the wording and scope of the patents, you might even be able to hide them a little, but a good patent search will most probably reveal them to your competitor after he knows of one of them.
And you have to be careful not to reveal anything in one patent that would impede one of the other patents from beeing granted.
If you are ready to invest the money for more than one application, you should talk to a patent attorney regarding the strategy, a good one will be able to help with this in the special case and tell you what makes sense. Even getting one patent made by a good attorney might be worth more and cost the same as getting/applying for a few "bad" patents.
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Q: Share Wireless connection with Wired Ethernet Port That's pretty much it. If I connect to the Internet on wlan0, how can I share this connection with a device plugged into my wired Ethernet port eth0?

A: I had a MacMini running Ubuntu 9.10 using the Wireless connection for internet.  Then I connected my Xbox360 into the MacMini's ethernet port in order to use Xbox Live.
It's ridiculously easy.  Simply right click on your network manager and choose "Edit Connections".  Then in the "Wired" tab, you can either use your existing wired connection, (or create a new one by hitting the "Add" button, name your new connection "Shared Network Port" or something similar), pop into its IPv4 tab and in "Method", choose "Shared to other computers".  Apply everything and close the network manager windows.
Now when you need to plug something into that ethernet port, you can share your WIFI internet conenction simply by clicking on network manager and choosing the "Shared Network Port" entry there.
If you want this to be a constantly used ethernet connection used for sharing and nothing else, feel free to edit "Auto Eth0" instead of creating a new entry like I describe above.  Creating a new entry gives you some flexibility to choose however.
Note that this uses a bit of NAT (network address translation) magic to work properly, so the Xbox360 (or whatever you plug into your wired port) will get a funky IP address.
From memory, it will only be able to see the internet too - I don't think you can see the host computer, the one with the internet connection.  You can set that up, but it requires a bit of messing about with DHCP servers, I believe.  I didn't need it, so I didn't go down that road.

A: That is easy. Right click the network manager and click edit connections.
The under Wired tab, Add a new connection. Under the IPV4 Setting tab,  select "Shared to others" for Method.
Now other machines should connect to LAN and get Internet access automatically.

A: There is a simple guide at https://oracle-base.com/articles/linux/use-iptables-to-implement-packet-filtering-and-configure-nat. But I found out, that in Windows, the DNS address that the Linux PC is using, must also be given in Windows.
I have a 3G USB modem connected to my Linux PC, and from that I have two Windows PC's that get internet. It's called (kernel) packet forwarding, and it's quite simple and quick to do - when you understand it finally.
You will need to find out your network interfaces names by running the command "ifconfig" on Linux (in the terminal), and "ipconfig" on Windows (in the command prompt). The interface names, on Linux, are at the leftmost side, like: enp2s0, enp3s0, enp0s18f2u6, lo. Now you set up packed forwarding:

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*First you need to enable packet forwarding on your Linux PC (see that guide I linked from oracle-base.com).

*Next, you can run these commands, as that oracle-base.com guide says (but wait, and read on):
sudo iptables -I FORWARD -i my_lan_interface -o my_modem_interface -j ACCEPT
sudo iptables -I FORWARD -i my_modem_interface -o my_lan_interface -j ACCEPT
sudo iptables -t nat -I POSTROUTING -o my_modem_interface -j MASQUERADE
But there is a more robust way, that I found on the net:
sudo iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o my_modem_interface -j MASQUERADE --random
sudo iptables -A FORWARD -i my_lan_interface -o my_modem_interface -j ACCEPT
sudo iptables -A FORWARD -i my_modem_interface -o my_lan_interface -m conntrack --ctstate RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
sudo iptables -A FORWARD -j DROP
Here's an explanation for the commands just above (the "more robust" example), in the same order:

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*First command: enable masquerading on my_modem_interface so the source address is rewritten on outgoing packets. The --random flag is to have symmetric NAT.

Now we are going to configure forwarding rules. iptables, by default, will unconditionally forward all traffic. Here we prefer to restrict inbound traffic from the internet and allow all outgoing:

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*Second command: Allow traffic from my_lan_interface to my_modem_interface.

*Third command: Allow returning traffic from my_modem_interface to my_lan_interface.

*Fourth command: Drop all other traffic that shouldn't be forwarded.

When you reboot your Linux PC, you will have to reenter these commands - I have a script that runs them at each boot. You can make these changes permanent with the appropriate "service" call (again, see the oracle-base.com guide given above), but I recommend running them at each boot (in a script), as you might want to experiment and change things, and undoing what you saved is another challenge. If something goes wrong, or you want to change things, or you just don't want this feature for your current session (or at all), then just reboot your PC and they're gone - but you must disable packet forwarding yourself (before rebooting write "net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0" in /etc/sysctl.conf) to fully disable this technology.

*Now you have to create a network connection (Ethernet connection) between your Linux PC and your other computers. For example:

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*A) On the Linux PC connected to the internet (I use Fedora), with the network connections manager, I create an Ethernet connection, select the appropriate interface (network card name, enp3s0 in my case) that will connect this Linux PC to my LAN. Be sure to select the right firewall zone or your LAN will not get internet. So since this is your internal LAN interface, set the firewall zone to "trusted", but the modem connection interface should be set to "public". Next, in the IPv4 settings tab, set that IPv4 must be used for the connection (IPv6 can be ignored), and select manual address setup. Now add the address 192.168.2.100 - this will be the address of this Linux PC on your LAN. The net mask will be set automatically (255.255.255.0, because this is a "C class" (private) address). Apply your settings and connect.

*B) On the second PC (with Linux or Windows, connected by Ethernet cable to the first one above), also create a network connection (if it's Windows, look below for better details), select the appropriate network interface (the device/card which is connecting to the first PC), use manual IPv4 setup as above for the first PC, but here set the address 192.168.2.101 - this will be the address of this second PC on your LAN (these are "private" addresses, meaning that they will not be visible outside your LAN).

*B1) If you want to connect Windows (operating system), go to "Network and Sharing Center"->"change adapter settings", and look for your network interface that corresponds to your LAN network card on this Windows PC, which is also connected by Ethernet cable to the first PC. Now, select that interface, right click for Properties. You will see a list. Here unselect "Internet Protocol Version 6" and double click on "Internet Protocol Version 4". Now you enter the address 192.168.2.101 - this will be the address of this Windows PC on that interface (on that [LAN/Ethernet] connection)). Tab down so netmask is filled out automatically (255.255.255.0). (The "Network Profile" can be set to "public".)

*B2) It might be necessary to set the gateway address to the first Linux PC, so you would need to enter as gateway address 192.168.2.100.

*C) Now, you must enter the DNS address that your first Linux PC is using. For example, my modem uses DNS address 192.168.1.1 (which I can find with the command "nmcli device show  | grep IP4.DNS", where interfacename is the name of your Linux interface connected to the internet). (If you connect to the internet with Windows, run "ipconfig" in the terminal/command prompt, look for a DNS address). And that's it. The DNS information is critical to getting an internet connection.
So putting it short:
My modem address: 192.168.1.100, DNS 192.168.1.1.
Linux PC address on LAN: 192.168.2.100, packet forwarding enabled with iptables redirecting traffic, as explained above, firewall zone set to "trusted".
Windows PC 1 address: 192.168.2.101 with DNS set to 192.168.1.1, network profile set to public. (Default gateway set to Linux PC: 192.168.2.100).
Windows PC 2 address: 192.168.2.102 with DNS set to 192.168.1.1, network profile set to public. (Default gateway set to Linux PC: 192.168.2.100).
(All computers connected together by a simple Ethernet switch with plain Ethernet cables (also called "patch cables" or "patch cords"), not crossed, because "modern" network cards do the crossing by themselves, so you can use crossed cables or not crossed cables, even mix them together in a connection.)
There is also a guide at: https://medium.com/@TarunChinmai/sharing-internet-connection-from-a-linux-machine-over-ethernet-a5cbbd775a4f, which uses Google's DNS addresses instead. Check it out.

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Lehman Brothers has agreed to sell its Neuberger Berman asset management subsidiary to Bain Capital and Hellman & Friedman for about US$2.15bn in an all-stock transaction. Bain and Hellman were early favourites to take Neuberger. The deal price, however, is a blow for Lehman Brothers' creditors, who were expecting the asset to fetch a better price.
The deal includes Neuberger, Lehman's fixed income and alternative asset management business, forming the core of an investment management company that managed about US$230bn at the end of August. Lehman bought Neuberger in 2003 for US$2.63bn when the firm had about US$65bn in assets under management.
Earlier this year, when Lehman was widely rumoured to need liquidity, estimates for Neuberger were as high as US$8bn. In the week before Lehman was forced into bankruptcy protection, the company suggested that it would raise US$4bn to US$6bn selling the asset.
For creditors, the US$2.15bn bid follows deep disappointment over the US$1.75bn sale price for Lehman's brokerage, trading and investment banking operations and its headquarters at 745 Seventh Avenue in Manhattan.
The US$2.15bn bid for Neuberger is a stalking-horse bid. It will be submitted to the bankruptcy court and will lead off an auction that could take place as soon as the end of this month. If no other bidders emerge, the deal is likely to be completed by early next year.
The bankruptcy court blessed the lightning-fast speed with which Lehman's investment bank was sold to Barclays, because of the extreme risk that the value would disintegrate in a matter of days.
While the sense of urgency is not quite the same, since Neuberger is not part of Lehman's bankruptcy case, its association with a bankrupt parent will become a drain in the near term. Among the immediate risks is that its assets, as well as asset managers, will be lured away.


In the Financial Times, Jörg Bibow writes in reaction to an article by Stephanie Flanders on "helicopter money" — the idea of having the central bank directly credit citizens' bank accounts (or, in the thought experiment, to print bank notes and drop them from helicopters) with the aim of generating increases in consumer spending.
Bibow observes that helicopter money is really just fiscal policy, properly understood, and adds that it is preferable that elected fiscal authorities actually do their job — increase spending — during a period of inadequate demand; perhaps by investing in the "energy infrastructure," as Bibow suggests.
The major fail of the popularizing of so-called helicopter-money is in the acceptance that it is a fiscal-monetary governmental public policy function.
There is no question that a CB computer will advance the monetary credits into the accounts of the government's payees.
But there needs to be a corollary understanding that as governmental economic policy, the government must decide in its open and accountable budgeting process where all of the new money will be spent ….. which economists ought to glean will best serve us through introduction at the highest-velocity, lowest income sectors of the consuming public.
There is a policy of the government to increase aggregate demand to its potential, and there is no possibility of it happening with private sector spending – for whatever reason.
The spending gap is identified and then funded via governmnet 'income' as gain from issuing the currency.
$500 Billion Spending Gap = $500 Billion "revenue gain" to the government , spent into circulation on in the same act as spending tax revenues……. all out in the open.
It is not the role of the central bank to budget the spending. The bank receives the government's credits and pays as per instruction. The CB is correctly operating as the bank that implements fiscal-monetary policy.
It's not the central bank's money that is in the helicopter, it is loaded governmental purchasing power, issued under the supreme authority of sovereignty.


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Trump dropped his lawsuit against Letitia James a day after a judge fined him $1 million for a frivolous case against Hillary Clinton
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, left, Donald Trump, center, and New York Attorney General Letitia James, right.
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On Thursday, a judge fined Trump $1 million over his "frivolous" lawsuit against Hillary Clinton.
Friday, Trump dropped another lawsuit before the same judge, this one against NY AG Letitia James.
US District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks had said both cases were filed in 'bad faith.'
A day after a federal judge in Florida hit Donald Trump with a $1 million fine for filing a "frivolous" lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, the former president dropped another key lawsuit before the same judge, this one targeting New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Trump's lawyers gave no reason for withdrawing his November suit against James, which had sought dismissal of her $250 million fraud lawsuit against his New York-based real-estate empire, the Trump Organization.
But US District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks on Thursday had made it clear he has had enough of Trump's lawsuits in general. He wrote that like the Clinton suit, the James suit "had all the telltale signs of being both vexatious and frivolous."
A lawyer representing Trump in his suit against James did not immediately return a request for comment. The New York attorney general's office also did not comment.
Middlebrooks had dismissed Trump's lawsuit against Clinton, the Democratic National Committee, and some 30 other perceived political enemies back in September, ruling that Trump's claims that they were all part of a "malicious conspiracy" against him were meritless.
On Thursday, Middlebrooks went further, issuing a scathing rebuke of Trump's legal tactics along with fining Trump and his lawyers for bringing the case.
"A continuing pattern of misuse of the courts by Mr. Trump and his lawyers undermines the rule of law, portrays judges as partisans, and diverts resources from those who have suffered actual legal harm," the judge wrote.
Trump and Alina Habba, his lead attorney in the Clinton case, are liable for $937,989.39 in legal sanctions. Clinton's share of those legal fees will be $171,631.
James' case, which seeks to bar Trump and his family from doing business in the state, now remains on track for an October trial in Manhattan.
In that case, too, a New York state judge recently threatened money sanctions in response to what he called Trump's pattern of "borderline frivolous" litigation.
That judge ultimately decided not to fine Trump, saying in a nine-page, January 6 decision that in denying Trump's motion to dismiss the James lawsuit, the court has "made its point."
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Home Inspiration Does God Have A Love Language?
Did you know that every person has a love language?
I didn't discover The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman until about five years into my marriage. The gist is that every individual feels and expresses love in a certain love language.
A husband might prefer quality time with his wife rather than receiving gifts from her. A wife may feel loved when her husband does tasks around the house rather than receiving praise or compliments.
If you would like more information on love languages, I highly recommend The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman! But if you already know about them, then are you aware that God also has a love language?
He truly does! Did you also know that speaking His love language will make it easier for you to speak others' love languages?
Let's face it- we may know someone's love language, but actually speaking it can be quite challenging (and especially when separated by long distances). My husband's language is words of affirmation, while mine is acts of service.
When I show love to him, I put his shoes away, make his coffee, or perform some kind of service. When he shows love to me, he thanks me for making dinner, tells me I'm beautiful, or any other words of kindness to make me feel loved.
The problem with this is that my love language doesn't make him feel loved and vice versa. I could put his shoes away all week and he could praise me for it, but we still wouldn't fill one another's love tanks.
And yes, we have attempted on several occasions to speak one another's language. I would thank and praise him for things, while he would do tasks for me.
It was all in good faith, but eventually we got complacent again. So why is it so difficult to love others the way they want to be loved, and is there a way to make it easier?
So love originates from God, which makes sense because all good things come from Him (see James 1:17). And if we are filled with His love, then we are commanded to administer it to Him and others.
By loving God and others (even enemies and the hard-to-love), we are obeying all of God's Law, which includes the entire Old Testament. And just in case you aren't aware, the Law is also referring to the Ten Commandments.
Therefore, by simply loving, we are able to obey everything He has asked us to obey. Sound easy enough, right?
So why is it so difficult to love everyone? In my own opinion, I think it is because we haven't been obeying His first commandment: to love Him with all of our being.
We get so wrapped up in loving one another, and then become complacent. We revert back to our own love language and wonder why it is so challenging to just love the way God expects us to.
Which brings me to His love language… God's love language is all of the love languages!
How so? Because love originates with Him.
More so, His love is universal; He is capable of loving every person uniquely, simultaneously, and immeasurably.
In order to do this, He is most assuredly the original author of our own unique love language. And when I say unique, I mean that even though I prefer acts of service, not all acts of service fill my love tank.
Yet, He knows which services do and He does them for me. The same way He is able to do so for every person.
Isn't it amazing? Doesn't it make sense as to why the first commandment is to love Him and then the second is to love others, instead of the other way around?
Focusing on loving God first allows the Originator of love to overfill your love tank so that you can easily love others. Which means that you won't need to go searching for someone else to fill your tank because He is already filling it.
Make sense? When you love God, He overflows you with His love, and then that overflows to others.
Rather than blaming or resenting your spouse for not speaking your love language, you won't depend on him or her to feel loved, needed, and valued. And more importantly, love will amazingly pour out of you in the form of all love languages and it will provide you with more in return!
Yes, please! A large helping of goodness at my table, por favor!
So let's get started loving God first! Read 5 Ways To Speak God's Love Language, which will help you to not only love others more easily, but also to fulfill His Law.
Post Question: Did you know that by loving God, we can easily love others? Comment below!
When we love God first, He fills us with His love, and we are better able to love others for real.
Yes! And isn't easier when we go to the source instead of to food, people, or retail therapy?
I think God is so good at loving each of us how we need to be loved. God always knows what we need.
Yes, He does always know and it's something we can strive for as we become more Christlike!
This is so true! When I am placing God as my focus and giving Him the time and love He deserves my thoughts and emotions are so much more positive and loving towards everyone else! What a great reminder!
It's easy to forget that by loving God first, we can enrich our other relationships as well!
Yes, in all of this, our love for God must come first. Then all the rest will come easier.
Well said, Kristi! His love is so immeasurably powerful and healing that it can go well beyond what we are capable of understanding!


Improving your rankings will help you achieve a higher click through rate, which in turn will increase website traffic and lead generation as you will be move visible the higher you are.
On average, position one gets 32.5% of clicks, whereas a position 10 ranking will get less than 3% clicks. It is vital you appear as highly as possible on the search engine result page.
You need to understand where you are before you can improve. Ensure you have Google Analytics set up for your website and start there.
Google Analytics will help you to understand where your traffic is coming from, what keywords and pages are popular, how many clicks you are getting, etc.
Content is king when it comes to SEO so ensure your page titles, URLs, H tags, alt tags, page content and meta data is optimised for your chosen keywords.
It's a mobile age and Google are now taking mobile-friendliness into account when ranking your website.
You may be surprised to find the number of errors an old (or even new) site can have. Broken links, broken images, crawler errors and spelling and grammatical errors are very common so keep an eye out for them.
How your site is laid out and navigated is crucial for creating an amazing user experience. Not only this, it can help boost your SEO rankings too. If a websites site structure flows and it is easy to navigate then pages can be crawled and indexed easier by Google.
One of the most important factors when it comes to building trust and authority is inbound links. You can start by publishing on local directories, industry directories, etc.
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Website loading speed has become a huge ranking factor due to the obvious fact that users want information fast. If your website takes longer than a couple of seconds to load, the user is unlikely to hang about. Ensure your website loads fast!
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I believe I was the first injured person out of 27K runners at the 2013 Boston Marathon at mile 7, which is impressive. Yet, I started the marathon injured. My daughter tried to get me to walk the rest of the race, but the staff wouldn't let me leave the medical station. I believe my wife, Santa Fe Striders and Albuquerque runners just wanted the damn race done. Starting marathon running at age 57, I had qualified for Boston a few times. Yet, after a series of injuries in my 40s stopped me from participating in any Marathons, I didn't want to run Boston — expensive, the East Coast and confusing. I had talked about it so much I suppose folks just didn't want to hear me explain my reasoning one more time. We tried to take the coast up to Maine from Boston in our rental car when the kids were small. This was impossible, as we discovered when we finally asked for help.
How emotional I felt when asked if I needed a wheelchair, as I tried to get off the van. I did need a wheelchair, but will I cry over this? My thirty plus years in rehabilitation didn't prepare me for the other side of the client helper. A medical student guided me into the chair and I caught my breath as she wheeled me over to the injured waiting area. There were plenty of folks there who had finished their races, and needed attention for hyperthermia, knees, ankles, and obscure body parts. She asked if I would like to see an orthopedic doctor and I visited with my comrade patients as I waited.
Last year a week before Boston. I took a leisurely bike ride that turned into a sprint home. I had a back spasm a couple of days later and postponed my plans. I hadn't ridden a bike for a year before that and I haven't ridden a bike since.
Awake at 2 am my flight to Boston is at 7 am. I need to pick Vinnie Kelley up at 4:45 am. Glad to have shaken earlier my sinus headache. It is the dust and wind in what we call spring in New Mexico that gives them to me. The drive to Albuquerque from Santa Fe I did in my sleep. I slept well on the plane. Vinnie couldn't understand the "T" routes on Sunday. This, added to my total lack of direction, left us waiting for a bus that never came, catching a cab to the hotel and driving by the Expo only a block from our bus station. When we passed the expo again on the "T" or subway, I don't know which, Vinnie has struck up a conversation with some runners. We are off the "T" at Northeastern University, read the map to see the Green Line has three ways to go, and only the one wrong way that we took. Missing the expo as it closed at 6 pm we headed to pick up our race packets that friends had snagged for us earlier in the day.
It was freezing waiting in line (see photo). We said hi to Lynn, Jane, Gary, and Kathy and thanked them for waiting for us. It was a long ride the next morning to the starting line in Hopkinton. I shared a seat with an Army Air Force Officer who was also determined to make this his last marathon. He had left his street clothes in a Pub at the finish line where he would go after the race. I hope he is fine. He will enter physician assistant training in the fall. I prepared for the 3-hour wait by taking a sleeping bag. Next time I will bring a ground cover too.
Restaurant staff not listening — someone said it was a transformer going, this happens often. Vinnie texted he was heading to the hotel. The phone went dead. He later said it was all the mothers who were guiding their children to safety that he will never forget. Police search cleared the street. At the Residence Inn, and they served pizza. Vinnie left to visit family in the area and I stayed at the hotel until my flight the next afternoon. Runners talked mostly about their races on the way home. No one wanted to talk about the bombing.
I had my X-ray last week. There isn't a stress fracture. I just have an inflamed bone spur and a new injury to add to my list. Gary finished the race with a 3:50 and Vinnie had a 3:08. Vinnie was 8th in his age group 60-64. He told me after my injury that he needs to train me. I suppose to endure more pain. Jane and Lynn stopped at mile twenty five.
A hundred hours sadness seemed like a month. I never knew the Boston Marathon was about the families and celebrating the race: a civic day for honoring Patriots now so sad. Stress catches up with you and it will take time to accept what happened. This will take a lot of reflection. I am sure this is the same for anyone watching it on TV. I aim to run the Boston Marathon as soon as I can.


Have you had a call offering a cheap holiday at a quality resort?
Did you think it was too good to be true?
Was it one you found on the internet?
The chances are it was a promotional holiday run by lead generating companies. These are what are known as "Flybuys". The whole point is to provide another company such as a holiday club or timeshare with potential customers.
In order to qualify for this amazing offer you have to meet certain criteria, be between certain ages, have full time employment, have a certain income and also be either married at least 3 years or been a couple for this time.
The terms and conditions which if you actually read them are rather interesting. I have read three from different sites and they are worded almost the same, as if it is the same person writing them. As many of these companies are linked this may be true. Failure to comply with any of these terms and condition could result in the loss of the accommodation or incur severe charges.
Another condition is that you must attend a some kind of meeting. Obviously a "Sales Presentation". Kate Palmer of the Telegraph did a piece about this in March 2015. (see link below).
These holiday offers are nothing new, Timelinx used this offer with calls to owners of timeshare, offering Bonus Weeks. Once the offer had been taken the unsuspecting owners were then pitched for the DWVC Club, with them taking the timeshare off their hands and issued with the Cashback Certificate. We all know what happened next. The cashback certificate was worthless, you then found out a few years later on receiving a maintenance bill that the timeshare was never transferred. those great deals you were shown were never there as the small print said "Subject to availability".
The other company using this idea was Club Class, they used the same tactics of Cashback great discounts and being rid of your Timeshare.
"TIMESHARE" A Dirty Word For Many.
Why does the word Timeshare have such a negative meaning among many people? After all the concept is actually a very sound one, especially in the early days. It gave people a guarantee of high standard resorts, the feeling that you were part of an exclusive club and for many it felt that it was the holiday home they always dreamed about.
During the 1980´s and 90´s which was a boom time for the industry, it was not very well regulated. It was full of what can be described as dubious practices and people. Many of the companies involved especially in Tenerife and Southern Spain had what you might say criminal connections.
The industry was policed in the same way as the mafia families in the USA, controlled their various activities. Using some very nasty tactics against rivals. This is not speculation or made up, many times over the years have there been articles in the press and on the news of murders and beatings of rivals.
The industry controlled the sales people and the OPC´s (Scratch card touts) with the use of security commonly known as "Clumpers". These "Security" staff would ensure no one would work on their patch, using various means like clumping, hence the name. Anyone breaking the rules would be on the receiving end of a baseball bat at the very least.
I have spoken to a gentleman today who has received a strange call. He was informed that the Courts in Malaga had dealt with a case involving a resale company he dealt with around 15 years ago, which he lost a considerable amount of money and his timeshare.
In this call the person gave the name James Hodkins along with the telephone number 0034603152281 which is a Spanish Mobile. He told the gentleman that the court had a considerable payout waiting for him and that a tax had to be paid before the money could be released.
Shortly after he received yet another call from Anthony West, who claimed he was from Customs & Excise in London. The number given was 0845 9615544 the code is UK but the 961 belongs to the Valencia area. In this call it appeared to back up the previous call that money was in fact being held.
Thankfully the gentleman in question thought that something was amiss and contacted me for clarification. He has reported this to Action Fraud and has the crime number if they call again. He is also passing on the telephone number to the police to trace. In Spain to buy a mobile a passport or ID card has to be shown as all phones are registered. Hopefully they will be traced and put out of action.
Remember if you have been taken in the past, the chances are this could well happen to you. The courts do not operate in this way.
If you have any information similar please let us know so we can publish it to warn other. If you need any advice contact us through our comments section.


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Fenes
Accident date
Accident area
Lavezzi islands (Bonifacio, Corsica)
Spill area
Cause of spill
Quantity transported
2, 650 tonnes
Nature of pollutant
Quantity spilled
Ship / structure type
Grain carrier
The foodstuffs problem
As with any cargo shipped by sea, foodstuffs occasionally find their way into the marine environment after a vessel collides, sinks or runs aground.
There are many examples of this type of incident, including:
The Kimya , a Maltese cargo vessel that sank near Anglesey (UK) in January 1991 spilling 1500 tonnes of sunflower oil
the Weisshorn , carrying rice, ran aground on a sand bank in the winter of 1992-1993 just off the Guadalquivir estuary in Spain and gradually broke up
the cargo vessel the Infiniti, carrying a cargo of rice, spilled 400 tonnes of its cargo on a coral reef in the marine park offshore Curacao in the summer of 1995
The Allegra , a Liberian bulk carrier collided during the first week of September 1997 spilling 250 tonnes of palm oil that beached on the Channel islands.
When news of such incidents reaches us and no loss of life is reported, our first reaction is to sigh a big sigh of relief. Such situations are extremely unfortunate for the insurer, but the fish are in for a feast. Or at least, that's what one might expect, however things don't exactly work like that. The fish are generally far too few to consume such a sudden and plentiful source of food, even over a period of several months. As a result, the cargo is carried away by currents and evolves depending on its nature (emulsification, rotting, polymerisation, fermention), not to mention the bacterial proliferation and generation of gas it causes, thereby polluting the marine environment.
The Fenes accident
The Lavezzi Islands' Nature Park (in the Bonifacio Straits) suffered a similar fate after the Fenes ran aground on 25 September 1996 on the very island where, on 15 February 1855, the frigate the Sémillante also ran aground on her way to Sebastopol with 773 men on board, none of whom survived.
In the case of the Fenes, no lives were lost and there was no oil pollution, thanks to the quick reaction on behlf of the Préfecture Maritime in Toulon and the vessel's insurers. The bunkers and lube oils were removed from the vessel by 10 October. Nonetheless, the autumn storms took their toll on the hull, finally breaking it up and the vessel released her cargo into a rocky creek 10 metres deep.
The seagrass bed, the Posidonia (a protected species, since 1988) the seaweed and the sessile animals were covered by a thick layerof wheat, ranging from dozens of centimetres to several metres. Local park officials feared the worst and rightly so. Local politicians, authorities and associations were outraged by the spill, not to mention the navigation hazard which was an issue that had long concerned them all and the matter took on inordinate proportions in the minds of local populations that then started referring to the spill as "underwater cancer".
© Cedre
The removal of the Fenes wreck
Something had to be done, not only remove the vessel but the wheat as well. The Préfecture Maritime in Toulon knew it would have to apply Polmar instructions which were to take the necessary measures to avoid marine pollution and have the insurers do what was required to ensure the operation was completed and paid for. This was easier said than done. The Préfecture Maritime availed itself of Cedre's expertise in a bid to develop a response strategy for an unprecedented incident.
Response at sea
To start with, unfounded accusations had to be dealt with. The wheat had been grown in France and was in fact food aid being sent from France to Albania. The wheat had been loaded at Port-La-Nouvelle and, contrary to the claims of one scientist, had not been sprayed with 250 litres of bioaccumulable pesticide, thus giving rise to doubts as to its nutritional quality and justifying its immediate removal in a bid to protect marine fauna and flora. It had in fact been sprayed with 15 kgs of biodegradable pesticide with a half life in seawater of no more than a few days. The pesticide had been diluted in 250 litres of vegetable oil to mitigate dust and prevent infestation by weevils. Measures needed to be taken, but there was no urgency or any evident sign of pollution.
The vessel's structure was strengthened on 13 October with a view to complete removal of the wreck in one piece. But on 16 October strong winds buckled the hull and the crew of 11 had to be lifted off the deck in difficult conditions by an Air Force helicopter. On 20 October the owner inspected the vessel and was convinced by Cedre experts that the only viable solution was now to break the vessel up and have her removed in sections. The Préfecture Maritime agreed to this on 23 October.
On 31 October, the shipowner recognised that it was technically feasible to remove the wheat, all that remained was to justify the intervention. According to French legislation this meant that there had to be a risk of pollution or at the very least that the spilled wheat was considered to be waste material. The situation was finally categorised as a full blown pollution incident at a meeting of scientists chaired by Cedre on 14 November at the Préfecture Maritime. On 20 November a meeting with the owner determined the technical details for the intervention and on 28 November the barge and equipment were on site.
Dumping wheat in the open sea
Participants at the meeting on 14 November quickly reached an agreement on how best to remove the wheat (suction hoses handled by divers), on the extent of the operation (until the tips of the Posidonia reappeared) and on who would oversee the operation (divers working for the nature park). The most difficult decision however was to decide how to dispose of the wheat and the polluted water (8 to 10 times the quantity of spilled wheat): should it be left to drip dry in situ or not, disposed of further out to sea or be shipped ashore to be incinerated in a certified facility which would mean shipment by road from Bonifacio to Corte?
A meeting at interministerial level comprising a thorough examination of the environmental situation encouraged scientists and the Ministry of the Environment to accept the decision to dump the non-contaminated wheat further offshore. The wheat would be dumped outside the marine park and in such a fashion as not to exceed limits of 1 kg of wheat per square metre of seabed.
The pumping operation commenced on 4 December and the wheat was allowed to drip dry via a sieve system situated in a hosepipe used for disposing of the polluted water far from the creek. Recovered wheat was dumped for the first time under French Navy supervision 20 nautical miles offshore in depths of 300 metres on 7 December.
Emissions of hydrogen sulphide, in addition to significant quantities of methanol and ethanol affecting men and equipment led the Préfecture Maritime to suspend the operation on 20 December for health reasons. The operation resumed on 27 December once responders on the barge had been given masks and filters and the divers had received facial protection and gloves.
On 13 January, after 10 round trips offshore involving about 2 500 tonnes of wet wheat which made up about three quarters of the entire cargo carried by the Fenes, the Préfecture Maritime notified the owners that the dumping operation had been completed as recommended by the divers. The next priority was to remove the wreck and debris from the seabed located between 8 and 20 metres deep and stretching 500 metres along the coastline. This operation was postponed until after the winter months, between 10 April and 10 May 1997. The owner requested permission to dump debris offshore but permission was denied and the debris had to be taken to a Greek shipyard for disposal.
When the pollution factor had been dealt with, the Préfecture Maritime was no longer required to respond according to the provisions of the Polmar Plan. All that remained was to monitor and quantify the impact of the spill on marine fauna and flora in the area that had been directly affected by the wheat, in addition to the surrounding area.
Pollution follow-up
The Préfecture Maritime and the Ministry of the Environment agreed to entrust the job to the Marine Environment Lab of Nice University under the leadership of the nature park's scientific advisor. Cedre had already closely examined the fermentation process and the hydrogen sulphide emissions caused by microbial proliferation of sulphate-reducing bacteria. They then resolved to monitor subsequent wheat degradation processes in addition to bacteriological developments in the polluted area. The work in question is currently underway and will allow our scientists to gain more knowledge about wheat degradation kinetics, bacteriological pollution developments, how long it takes fauna and flora, and in particular the Posidonia beds, to recolonise in addition to ascertaining whether or not to reinstate the Posidonia beds in a bid to speed up recolonisation.
According to the information currently available, eight hectares of Posidonia have been affected one way or another. A serious impact has been noted in 3.9 hectares and complete destruction of the grass beds has been reported on 2 500 m2 of Posidonia. The effect is therefore evident but is thankfully limited to a small portion of the park that covers 10,000 hectares.
© A. Meinesz
The Posidonia bed covered with a thick layer of wheat
The phases reported here were not easy to complete. Many meetings had to be organised and they were sometimes fraught with difficulties. Representatives from the Préfecture Maritime and of the owner were sometimes severely criticised by the people whose vested interests they were defending.
The insurers no doubt considered they were unjustly denied permission to dump Fenes' debris offshore when national television stations reported that an unmanned fishing vessel had been scuttled off the Breton coast. Expert's fees have not been recouped neither have scientific monitoring costs which all remain to be negotiated. Environmental damage and costs have not even been discussed. Discussion never broke down and for the first time in France, the Préfecture Maritime managed to ensure, through reasonable and unstinting effort, both legally and technically speaking, that the owner did not shirk his responsibilities from beginning to end and to all intents and purposes removed the wheat from the environment.
The wreck of Fénès


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Q: F# Error: Value cannot be reference and If Else statement I am converting C# code to F# code. For some reason, the compiler does not like how I call methods in the F# file.
I don't know why the ReturnClosestInList and findYGivenTwoPointsInSameGraph cannot be referenced. For the if then else, should I use a let to bind the finish? I don't know why it detects it as bool instead of int.  Anyone know why I got these errors and perhaps can suggest a better way to write this?
This is my C# code:
    // find point on graph with given Rc
    private Coordinate GetXY(Dictionary<double, double> cons)
    {
        if (cons.ContainsKey(input))
            return new Coordinate(input, cons[input]);
        else
        {
            //Rc is not found, use interpolation to find point at given Rc.
            List<double> index = ReturnClosestInList(new List<double>(cons.Keys), 0, cons.Count - 1);
            System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("index1 " + index[0]);
            System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("index2 " + index[1]);
            return FindClosest(index, cons);
        }
    }

    //formula to find y, given 2 points in the same graph
    private Coordinate FindClosest(List<double> index, Dictionary<double, double> cons)
    {
        double y = cons[index[0]] + ((input - index[0]) / (index[1] - index[0])) * (cons[index[1]] - cons[index[0]]);
        return new Coordinate(input, y);
    }

    //formula to find y, given 2 points from 2 graphs
    private Coordinate FindClosest2(Coordinate p1, Coordinate p2)
    {
        double y = p1.Y + ((givenLine - p1.X) / (p2.X - p1.X)) * (p2.Y - p1.Y);
        //System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("y is " + y);
        return new Coordinate(givenLine, y);
    }

    //binary search for 2 closest Rc value in the given vi graph.
    private List<double> ReturnClosestInList(List<double> allKey, int begin, int end)
    {
        if (end >= begin)
        {
            int mid = begin + (end - begin) / 2;
            if (allKey[mid] > input) return ReturnClosestInList(allKey, begin, mid - 1);
            return ReturnClosestInList(allKey, mid + 1, end);
        }
        if (end < 0) end = begin + 1;
        if (begin < 0) begin = end + 1;
        if (end > allKey.Count - 1) end = begin - 1;
        if (begin > allKey.Count - 1) begin = end - 1;
        return new List<double> { allKey[begin], allKey[end] };
    }

This is my current F# code.
let Keys(map: Map<_, _>) =
    seq{
        for KeyValue(key) in map do
            yield key
    }

let findPointXYGivenRc (cons : Map<double, double>) (input : double) =
    let output = if (cons.ContainsKey(input)) then
                    let c = new Coordinate(cons.[input], input)
                    c
                 else
                    let list = ReturnClosestInList Keys cons 0 (cons.Count - 1) input
                    let c = findYGivenTwoPointsInSameGraph list cons input
                    c
    output

let findYGivenTwoPointsInSameGraph (index : Map<int, double>) (cons : Map<double, double>) (input : double) =
    let y = cons.[index.[0]] + (input - index.[0]) / (index.[1] - index.[0]) * (cons.[index.[1]] - cons.[index.[0]])
    let c = new Coordinate(input, y)
    c

let findYGivenTwoPointsFromTwoGraphs (p1 : Coordinate) (p2: Coordinate) (givenLine : double) =
    let y = p1.Y + (givenLine - p1.X) / (p2.X - p1.X) * (p2.Y - p1.Y);
    let c = new Coordinate(givenLine, y)
    c

let rec ReturnClosestInList (allKey : List<double>) (start : int) (finish : int) (input : double)=
    if(finish >= start) then
        let mid = start + (finish - start) / 2
        if(allKey.[mid] > input) then
            ReturnClosestInList allKey start (mid - 1) input
        else ReturnClosestInList allKey (start + 1) mid input

    finish = if finish < 0 then
                start + 1
             else finish

This is my first error

This is my second error:

A: Your first error where it can't "find" ReturnClosestInList is because ordering matters in F# code. ReturnClosestInList has to be defined before findPointXYGivenRc and so on:
let g () = f 12 // ERROR: 'f' isn't known to 'g' right here

let f x = ()

let h () = f 12 // Compiles: 'f' is already defined and known

You have three options:

*

*Re-order your F# functions in source to be in a top-down ordering. Things are defined before they are used.

*If you have mutually recursive functions you can define them as a set with let...and as in the example documentation. This isn't the case in the snippet you provided, but it may come up in the future.

*Consider using recursive modules when you have several things that all inter-depend on one another.

Your second error is a little more confusing, but you have two problems:

*

*Your if(finish >= start) then clause has no corresponding else.

*Your use of finish = ... is saying "the value finish should be equal to the following expression".

The first sub-problem here is what leads to the compile error. An if in F# that doesn't have an else returns unit (same as void). But you can't do that here, you need to return an actual value. Otherwise there's no indicator that anything completed/succeeded as you've defined it.
The second one comes up immediately after you fix the first one. Do you expect to return a bool here? If you do, then you can leave it. But if you don't, then you should just make the if expression the overall return.
What I think your function should look like is this:
let rec ReturnClosestInList (allKey : List<double>) (start : int) (finish : int) (input : double)=
    if(finish >= start) then
        let mid = start + (finish - start) / 2
        if(allKey.[mid] > input) then
            ReturnClosestInList allKey start (mid - 1) input
        else ReturnClosestInList allKey (start + 1) mid input
    else
        if finish < 0 then
            start + 1
        else
            finish

This resolves both problems by making it a recursive function that returns a value and making it return an int rather than a bool.


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Seeing as he's the target for Aquaman's revolt, it makes sense for Dan Abnett to open with a focus on the current ruler of Atlantis, Corum Rath. He wasn't seen much in The Crown Comes Down, restricted to a malign, controlling background presence. In Kingslayer it's revealed early that perhaps he was never as in control as he believed, just someone whose ambition has been used for a dark purpose. Abnett begins with a chapter exploring Rath and the sources of his resentment and intolerance, how he discovered a powerful ally and how that leads into what he becomes. As Abnett continues, the earlier introduction of some beings is seen to have a greater purpose (not that they were wasted at the time) as we have an ambitious reconciling of Atlantis past with Atlantis present. The diversion of Mera Queen of Atlantis also has relevance as she returns at the climax.
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Though the lives of most Bollywood and TV celebrities are all about salads and brown rice — basically, a healthy diet — there are times when even they feel the urge to binge on a big, juicy burger or some lip-smacking chaat. After all, they're as human as you and I and love fast food as much us. However, they balance in out smartly so you don't know. Don't believe us? Scroll through this list and you'll have plenty of proof.
When not wooing us with her brilliant acting skills or sharing some major fitness goals, Alia is busy munching on French fries. Time and again, the Bollywood diva has confessed her love for fries.
Hrithik confessed that he has a soft corner for samosas and vada pavs around the release of his film Guzaarish. However, he also mentioned that he eats all that smartly and balances his other meals accordingly.
In an interview with a leading daily, a couple of years ago, Sonam revealed that she's big on street food—especially, pav bhaji and pani puri.
One of the many talents PeeCee has is to eat a hot wing in one go—remember her on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon? Reports suggest, the actress also loves feasting on a burger occasionally.
Sure, the Yeh Hai Mohabbatein star's social media is all about fitness and healthy-eating inspiration. But, she does give in to cravings when she's travelling for work or leisure. When she was in Delhi, Divyanka made the most of her time by trying an array of chaats like gujiya chaat, papdi chaat and palak chaat.
Divyanka's Yeh Hai Mohabbatein co-star and TV's Naagin had a special message for all her fans. Anita urged her followers to do whatever makes them happy. She even mentioned if eating junk food makes you feel happy, eat it. Because, #YOLO.
Parineeti and her love for pizza makes for the kind of love story we'd prefer to watch over any other romantic Bollywood movie.
Chai-obsessed soul Sriti snacks on cup noodles to cheer her tired self between shoots and we can totally relate with her.
Cheat days are the best and Kishwer's excitement for donuts and waffles shows us exactly the same. We can't get over how happy the actress is in this photo.


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Baltimore seeks injunction against federal family planning rule
By: Anamika Roy Daily Record Legal Affairs Writer April 16, 2019
Baltimore has filed a motion seeking a preliminary injunction to prevent a federal regulation from being implemented in the city that would prohibit family planning clinics receiving federal money from making abortion referrals.
The federal Title X program, enacted in 1970, makes family planning services available to low-income individuals for free or at low cost.
Title X clinics in Baltimore serve more than 16,000 patients each year with family planning, cancer screening and other preventive health services, according to a news release from ex-officio Mayor Bernard C. "Jack" Young's office.
The impending federal regulation would place "unnecessary infrastructure requirements" on Title X clinics and require medical staff to direct patients away from abortion and toward prenatal care, the news release states.
In addition, Baltimore family-planning clinics would lose $1.4 million in Title X funding used for reproductive health services, according to the release. As a result, it said, the city would incur greater health care costs due to unintended pregnancies, cancers not detected in early stages, the spread of sexually transmitted diseases and delayed prenatal care, among other consequences.
"An end to Title X funding would have a devastating impact on the residents served," Baltimore City Health Commissioner Dr. Letitia Dzirasa said in the news release. "As a Health Department, we cannot stand idly by as funding is being pulled. We will continue to pursue justice in this case on behalf of the residents of Baltimore City."
In the lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Baltimore, the city alleges the impending federal regulation would violate several federal statutes, including provisions of the Affordable Care Act, Title X itself, the Administrative Procedures Act, and the Religious Freedom and Restoration Act and also infringes on the rights to free speech, sex equality and abortion access.
"This Health and Human Services regulation for Title X clinics is contrary to its enabling statute which for decades has increased access to reproductive health services. It is also unlawful because it violates the Constitution and several other federal laws," City Solicitor Andre M. Davis said in Young's news release. "We look forward to our day in court."
Earlier this month, the Maryland legislature passed a bill to prevent the state's Department of Health from accepting Title X money if it would exclude family planning providers and medically approved services.
In March, Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh joined a coalition of 31 state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit in federal court in Oregon challenging the constitutionality of the new Title X rule. The lawsuit was led by Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
The case is Mayor and City Council of Baltimore v. Azar et al., Case No. 1:19-cv-01103-RDB.
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Tag Archives: romania
June 18, 2016 fromtheheartofeurope
Eastern Europe Is Both Dreading Brexit and Ready for It
Ivan writes of the consequences.
(tags: slovakia eu czechrepublic ukpolitics serbia hungary poland bulgaria romania )
If you inject enough poison into the political bloodstream, somebody will get sick
Sensible commentary, alas.
(tags: ukpolitics eu )
Five truths about referendums
Quintin reflects.
(tags: eu ukpolitics elections )
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Links I found interesting for 26-02-2015
February 26, 2015 fromtheheartofeurope
EU referendum: Support for Britain's EU membership reaches all-time high
There is still hope!
(tags: eu ukpolitics )
Life is a learning process, and I've much still to learn
Natalie Bennett reflects, and apologises.
(tags: ukpolitics )
Ada Kaleh, an Ottoman Atlantis on the Danube
Another brilliant story from Strange Maps.
(tags: maps serbia romania hungary )
Unmade in the USA: South Sudan
I recognise a lot of this. (Too kind to Gration.)
(tags: southsudan )
Kurdistan: Ever closer to independence
@TheEconomist explains.
(tags: iraq )
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February 25, 2014 fromtheheartofeurope	5 Comments
Samuel Anderson joins Who series 8
(tags: doctorwho )
Why Apple's Huge Security Flaw Is So Scary
*gulp*
(tags: security )
26 things found in Yanukovych's compound that make him look even worse
Abandoned in place.
(tags: ukraine )
Romania and Bulgaria fail to invade UK
(tags: ukpolitics migration romania bulgaria )
Goodbye to All That – Why I Left the Academic Life
(tags: careersadvice )
What the West Must Do for Ukraine
Ulrich Speck is right: a clear EU membership offer is needed.
(tags: ukraine eu )
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December 29, 2013 fromtheheartofeurope
An open letter to the citizens of Bulgaria and Romania
From @TheEconomist: "You're welcome."
(tags: ukpolitics migration bulgaria romania )
Internet Archive puts classic 70s and 80s games online
For @MarioFannio.
(tags: internet )
How To Backup Your Facebook Data In 5 Easy Steps
Warning: I have not tried this myself yet.
(tags: facebook )
The Year We Broke the Internet
Long but important – why viral sharing is bad for us all. #fb
Scientists tell us their favourite jokes: 'An electron and a positron walked into a bar…'
(tags: funny )
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December 28, 2013 fromtheheartofeurope	10 Comments
Romania and Bulgaria: 'If people go to Britain, of course it's to contribute'
Confusing the rhetoric with, y'know, facts.
(tags: ukpolitics eu migration romania bulgaria )
Why the Web Won't Be Nirvana
How Newsweek got it wrong in 1995.
(tags: internet history )
How Fanzines Helped Put Doctor Who Fans in Charge of Doctor Who
Great article from The Atlantic.
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Britain's Bulgaria-Romania phobia
@dimobe dissects the UK rhetoric.
(tags: eu ukpolitics romania bulgaria li )
Reading digital sources: a case study in ship's logs
Brilliant analysis of 19th-century sailing!
(tags: maps history )
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July Books 3) The Balkan Trilogy
July 10, 2005 fromtheheartofeurope	21 Comments
3) The Balkan Trilogy – The Great Fortune, The Spoilt City and Friends and Heroes, by Olivia Manning
The first installment of Manning's books about the second world war. In book 1, Harriet Pringle, recently married to her husband who works for the British Council, arrives in Bucharest just as the second world war is breaking out around them. The book finishes with the fall of Paris. In the second book, Romania gradually crumbles into the German sphere of incluence. In the third, the Pringles have made it to Greece, which also falls to the Germans at the end, though they have escaped to Egypt. The story is heavily autobiographical.
I really enjoyed the first two books. I don't know Romania particularly well (my grandmother knew it better) but the whole mentality seemed very familiar from my Bosnia days and from my subsequent experiences of other former Ottoman territories. There were several aspects of the story that I felt very familiar with: the personalities and quirks of the small expat community, the total uncertainty of what is going on will happen next – I remember one night in 1997 when I was living in Bosnia, driving home late from the office I unexpectdly came across a column of British tanks; when I turned on the radio to listen to the BBC world service I found out that they were moving in to occupy the police stations in the town.
And the relationship between the Pringles is delicately, almost painfully observed. When I persuaded Anne to come out to join me in Bosnia, we had at least been married for three years and had known each other for nine (and it was by then a former rather than future war zone, at least I hope so); Harriet Pringle's leap of faith, moving to a Romania with a husband she barely knows, is almost incomprehensible, and her difficulties therefore seem a bit self-inflicted, though at the same time her husband's behaviour is rather self-obsessed.
The last of the three books, chronicling their time in Greece, is rather different, and a bit disappointing (which is rather similar to my time in Croatia, the last third of my own Balkan experience in 1997-98). Greece was and is of course much more integrated with Western Europe than Romania, but it's a country I don't know particularly, so I found the setting more unfamiliar. Harriet's long drawn-out dalliance with a potential lover is I suppose understandable but I found it a bit frustrating that they took so long to get to the point. And the casual disposal of Prince Yakimov, one of the more attractive characters from the series, was a bit sad.
I never caught the 1987 BBC miniseries based on Olivia Manning's books, but knowing that it was made allowed me to imagine how bad Ken and Em would be in the title roles. To my delight, the one character who really ought to be played by Alan Bennett, Professor Lord Pinkrose, actually was played by Alan Bennett. I'll look out for the DVD, but second-hand, I think.
Summary: enjoyed the first two books, less so the third.
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Beyond the forests, by Ken MacLeod
March 1, 2005 fromtheheartofeurope	35 Comments
A brilliant short piece from Ken MacLeod:
Imagine a remote part of Europe. Its very name is associated with a superstition so gross that bigotry itself would scoff at it. Suppose that, centuries ago, a public debate among scholars converted the king and people of the region to a rationalistic, tolerant, liberal and humane Christian heresy, and that this heresy persisted as the people's faith despite the persecutions of church and state, of nationalists and communists. Imagine this heresy – with its own churches and seminaries, clergy and congregations, saints and martyrs – being the unquestioned creed of generations, and surviving to this day.
It sounds like some alternate-history invention, but it's the true story of the Unitarians of Transylvania.
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February Books 7) Theft of A Nation
7) Theft of A Nation: Romania since Communism, by Tom Gallagher.
Romania is a puzzling place. I first went there on a family holiday when I was eight, and not paying a lot of attention; I recently discovered the roots of my grandmother's interest in the country; and I've had a certain amount to do with Romanians through my various thinktanky activities. In that context I've always found it puzzling that Romania punches well below its weight, as the largest country in south-east Europe: where you find bright Bulgarians and Serbs all over the place, Romanian experts seem about as numerous as those from the smaller ex-Yugoslav republics, which have perhaps a tenth the population. I don't know why; Gallagher mutters here a bit about the failures of liberal activists, civil society and the education system but I think there's more to be told.
Tom Gallagher is a lovely guy, and I have very much enjoyed his recent couple of books on the politics of the Balkans, while also wondering at the same time at the energy of an academic author who can turn out 350 pages of densely-researched text at such regular intervals. While I was slightly embarrassed to receive a review copy of his latest, since I don't write regular reviews for any academic source, I feel I can discharge the obligations of expectation and friendship by writing it up here.
There are some very good things about this book. Gallagher's account of Romanian politics in the decade after the 1989 revolution is detailed and probably definitive. I certainly came away with a much better understanding of the shifts between the various political parties. The account of the rise of Ceauşescu and of the West's fervent but short-sighted and ill-fated embrace of him and his wife is also pretty compelling. On a personal level, I was pleased that two people in Romanian politics who I know and like, Adrian Severin and Daniel Dăianu, get good write-ups from Gallagher.
The other real strength of the book is its description of Corneliu Vadim Tudor and his extremist right-wing Party for a Greater Romania. Gallagher gets deeply into the party's support base, its rhetoric, its leader's very dubious past, and most crucially its links with the state security services. I found the whole story very reminiscent of the Serbian Radical Party and its allies immediately west of Romania, and almost wonder if there is some merit in doing a comparative analysis.
He's also very good on the broken promises of the West to Romania after the government's difficult and unpopular position to support the NATO campaign on Kosovo. But to be honest if I get started on the genesis and early history of the Stability Pact for South-Eastern Europe (in Gallagher's phrase, "less than meets the eye?") I may never stop. I know from my own conversations that the Bulgarians had similar concerns to those Gallagher suggests the Romanians might have had at the time. The one serious puzzle I'm left with is, why did they not join forces? They would have been in a very good position to get more out of the West as a united front.
Gallagher's basic argument about Romania's future is that Romania is stuck between the former communists, led by Ion Iliescu, and the far-right forces of Corneliu Vadim Tudor; that the democratic centre-right is so badly burnt from its disastrous experience in government in 1996-2000 that is it now unelectable; and that the EU is not sufficiently monitoring the accession process.
This would have been a really good and timely message if the book had been published in 2001. However at the end of last year Iliescu retired, and the centre right managed to win both the parliamentary and (narrowly) the presidential election over the ex-Communists, with Vadim Tudor's nationalists doing badly in the presidential vote (though picking up a bit in parliament). That very important development of Romanian politics kills much of Gallagher's thesis in the final section. It rather mirrors the one serious weakness of the mid-section of the book, that we never really find out how it was that Romania went from effectively a single-party state in 1992 to a fragmented democracy in 1996.
Also, given that the EU is crucial to Romania's future and to Gallagher's argument, it's rather a shame that he doesn't seem to have done much research on the view from the EU itself, almost entirely sourced from media reports as far as I can see. His one extended comment on the topic, on p. 326-327, appears to argue that both euro-sceptic and europhile nations appear to be supporting Romania's membership bid for diametrically opposed reasons. I'm not so sure. From the mutterings I have occasionally overheard in the corridors, I think there is a very interesting story to be told about the Romanian accession process as it has played out in Brussels. My own perception is that to a certain extent Romania has been able to piggy-back on Bulgaria's relative success.
For what it's worth I think he's right to be very worried about the consequences for the EU of Romanian membership, but wrong to be too apocalyptic. Romania is probably in a worse mess now than any EU candidate state has ever been two years before accession. The explicit conditionalities of accession do indeed disappear in 2007. But as the ten new member states are now finding out, they are replaced by a whole new set of demanding rules of how to play the game – look at how Hungary's championing of its minority in Vojvodina has backfired with the other 24. If one looks at the recent history of Greece, Portugal or even Ireland there's no real reason to feel that Romania cannot make the same kind of progress given the right policies at the top.
I find myself at the end a bit puzzled by the book's title – Theft of a Nation – there's not in fact much evidence that national assets have been stolen on the same large scale as in Russia or Serbia, except for the EU structural funds, which the nation never got hold of in the first place. I also had to smile at an accusation against one of the main political forces – that, "under the guise of conducting polls, party employees reportedly telephoned several hundred thousand voters and while quizzing them propagated negative views about the opposition" p. 136 – <IRONY>scandalous behaviour which would not be tolerated in any western democracy.</IRONY>
So much work and knowledge has gone into this book that it is depressing to have to report that the editing seems pretty poor. There are numerous repetitions and awkward transitions between topics which could and should have been smoothened by a guiding eye. Some errors are obvious even to the non-specialist, for instance, that Valter Roman, the betrayer of Imre Nagy, was the father, not son, of Petre Roman (p 53). The word "algorithm" gets a horrendous mangling especially on p 155 where it is part of a sub-chapter heading. The use of Romanian diacriticals is annoyingly inconsistent: Constanţa is spelt Constanta throughout, but balanced by Petrovici being spelt Petroviçi; Adrian Năstase on p. 125 becomes Nāstāse, in a sort of Latvian way; and I even spotted an ã somewhere near the end. If you can't get the orthography right, it's better not to try it at all.
But for anyone interested in Romania, this really needs to be on your shelves. Now.
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Transylvanian coincidence
July 20, 2004 fromtheheartofeurope	7 Comments
Inspired by slovobooks' recent entry:
Many years ago, I was listening one morning to my Rocky Horror Show tape in the kitchen of the student house I lived in at the time. One of my housemates came into the romm. I said to him, "Richard, I answered that phone call from your father last night and noticed he had quite a strong accent. Where's he from?" Richard said, "He's from Transylvania, actually." Guess what song was playing on the tape at that moment?
As I was taking this in, the phone rang and I went to answer it. It was Dervla Murphy, the travel writer, who I was doing some business with at the time. She was apologising that she couldn't make it to the next of our scheduled meetings because she was travelling to do research for her next book, Transylvania and Beyond.
I've never been to Transylvania myself though I've been to both Hungary and Romania a few times.
The men who shot the Ceausescus
April 6, 2004 fromtheheartofeurope
Interviewed here. Warning: graphic details.
"I was more of a communist. I believed in [Ceausescu's] speeches, in his texts, in his congresses. I was his product. In a way, I was driven by a proletarian wrath. If I'm not wrong, the entire trial had this character. We were angry at the system and not at the man Ceausescu. Anyway, I wouldn't do this [again], and I wouldn't wish such an experience on anyone. To take someone's life violates biblical teachings. We've already been booed, cursed for what we did on the holy day of Christmas. Every Christmas, you can be sure that we're not doing OK. Not even on 26 January. [Ceausescu's birthday]. I wouldn't do it again."


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Law enforcer Luke Hobbs (played by Dwayne Johnson) and career criminal Deckard Shaw (played by Jason Statham), supporting characters in the "Fast and Furious" franchise, now have their very own spinoff. What was once fast and furious is now long and tedious. If you've ever wondered what one of these movies would be like without Vin Diesel and Ludacris, now you know.
A slickly dressed terrorist named Brixton (played by Idris Elba) is about to unleash a super-virus on the world and the only thing standing in his way is Hattie (played by Vanessa Kirby)…and her big brother, Deckard Shaw. Oh, and The Rock!
Let's look under the hood of the franchise: this is either "The Fast and the Furious 10" or "Fast 9.5." Whatever you want to call it, "Hobbs and Shaw" thinks it has the same its-so-over-the-top-its-funny street cred as the others in this series in the series but doesn't. The reason is that, unlike the Diesel-fueled entries, this one is charmless.
"Hobbs & Shaw" is overly busy setting up its own cinematic universe. While Johnson and Statham have made a clean break from sharing the frame with the ensemble of Diesel's "family," they were better in small doses. The two leads have moments where they really get to act but otherwise are coasting on their overly familiar screen personas. Whatever these two have together on screen, it's not chemistry; They exchange a lot of quips about size but it never looks like they enjoy working together. Co-star Kirby has a far more interesting and unique presence, but she's mostly on hand to provide a weird "Hey, that's my sister" tension between the leads. Also, the radiant intensity Kirby exuded in "Mission: Impossible- Fallout" is absent.
As for Statham, let's not forget that Shaw was introduced to this series as the villain- he viciously killed Han at the end of "Fast & Furious 6". I don't forgive him and neither should you (RIP, Han).
Brixton is constantly referred to as "the black Superman," which isn't as good as actually seeing Elba play Superman. As professional as he is here, watching Elba, who once played Nelson Mandela, waste his time in this is like watching Jake Shimabakuro play "Mary Had a Little Lamb."
After lots of globe-trotting, muscle tussles and fake-looking CGI destruction, the story settles in Samoa. Let it be said- the Samoans almost save this movie. Specifically, Lori Pelenise Tuisano, who plays Sefina, Hobb's mother, is a scene stealing spitfire. There should have been lots more of her. This entire sequence (shot on Kauai) should have been further developed and it's a crucial flaw. As the story goes, Hobbs abandoned his people but, within five movie minutes, he heals all wounds, reconnects with his kin and leads a spears vs. guns battle. Well, he is The Rock after all. Still, since Johnson is the film's producer, it would have been preferable to center the screenplay on his Hobb's troubled journey and the need to return to his tribe. As is, the scenes of Hobbs with his daughter, as well as the pivotal Samoa chapter, are dangling plotlines that aren't given as much attention as the tiresome smash ups.
The action has its moments but these scenes are severely over-edited and use so much CGI, there's no question how fake this is. Nothing here comes close to jaw dropping stunt work and precise choreography in the recent "John Wick" or "Mission: Impossible" installments. The superstar cameos only add to the feeling of desperation. Wait a minute- a movie this noisy, stupid and smug, filled with self-congratulatory, vanity-fueled performances? Congratulations, Millennials, you now have your very own "The Cannonball Run."
One and a Half Stars
–originally published in Maui Time Weekly
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