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eHarmony Promo Code
LAST UPDATED – January 21, 2020
Joining an online dating site in late June can be a hard slog but finding a discount code couldn't be easier, as sites are keen to entice new users. There are notoriously a large amount of new users before peak summer hits so jump in!.Have a look below to find the best eHarmony promo codes available and if you have found one that I've missed, dropped me an email or leave a comment below, remember to keep an eye out for an eHarmony Black Friday offer too.
The Latest eHarmony Promo Codes & Discounts
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*Limited Time* £9.95 per Month eHarmony
6 Months eHarmony for £9.95 per Month
12 Months membership for £9.95 per Month
New to eHarmony?
The discount codes and all offers released by eHarmony are typically only for new customers/new email addresses. So if you have had an account previously we would always recommend opening up a new account to take advantage of the best possible prices. This also allows you to re take the eHarmony questionnaire. If you are a returning customer, my guess is your situation might have changed enough to warrant an updated profile too!
How & Where To Use Your Promo Code
To use your discount code you will need to navigate to the 'subscribe' page once signed in.
On this page, under the payment options, you will see a 'promo code' box which you can copy and paste our lovely code into,
This will bring you an instant discount on your membership and you can continue to go forth and purchase your membership.
NOTE: As we ALWAYS tell our users. please, please please go and cancel your auto renewal settings (can be found in your payment settings) once you have signed up. If you dont, you will automatically be signed up when your membership ends - this will spare you the trouble of trying (hopelessly) to claim back a refund in 3/6/12 months time when your membership ends.
eHarmony 1 Month Membership Discount
"eHarmony NEVER offer discounts on their 1 month memberships, end of, period, 0 chance!"
eHarmony Promotional Code 3 Month
eHarmony will very rarely give out 3 month membership discounts.
The exception here is on Black Friday, where they typically run a 3 for 2 offer for new users. If you are willing to wait 3-6 months between signing up and actually using the dating site, then eHarmony will usually offer you a 3 month membership promo code to tempt you in, due to your inactivity. This isn't 100% for all users though and its based on users reporting this into us.
eHarmony 6 month Discount
Hhhhhmmmm the 6 month contract. We will sometimes see codes for 6 month memberships during quieter spells for eHarmony
eg. early spring time, late summer & before Xmas time are your best best to grab a code for a 6 month membership - although these cant be guaranteed.
If you spot a 6 month code, grab it. The most common is 6 months for £14.95 and we sometimes do receive this exclusive discount from eHarmony, so keep your eyes peeled.
eHarmony 12 Month Promotional Code
The 12 month contracts are eHarmony's most popular and the fact they release codes to us on a regular basis for this contract might be a reason for that.
If you can't find a code live for their 12 month discount, then email us and we should be able to help. The most common discount here is for £9.95 a month, for 12 months. When considering most dating sites recommend between 6-9 months to find your partner, it works out quite well.
eHarmony Free Trial
I know, I know, everyone wants something for free. As with all dating sites, free trials tend to be very rare, if they exist at all. eHarmony do offer a 14 day free refund, so whilst taking advantage of our discount codes above, you should also keep a note of the day you signed up in case you want to get a refund (as you will read in our eHarmony review, 14 days isn't really long enough to fully make the most of an online dating site) To claim your refund you will need to call eHarmony on 0800 028 0308 - you will want to give yourself a few days leeway to make sure you are within the 14 day time period.
If eHarmony decided to give us access to their free trial again, I will make sure to update this page asap.
eHarmony Free Communication Weekend
I'm sure you are aware that eHarmony have regular free communication weekend events. These are run about every 6-8 weeks and can act as a great way for you to get a taste of the site. and how it works. You have some limitations (like you cant see all of your matches photos) but for the full breakdown along with some of our tips PLUS the low down on the next free event, please read our full eHarmony free communication weekend summary to make sure you are prepared.
eHarmony Expired Codes & Offers
The below codes and offers will show you the type of discounts that have been run in the past - it might be worth giving them a test, but they have officially ended.
If eHarmony doesn't tickle your fancy, we would recommend giving Guardian Soulmates or Match.com a try depending on what you are looking for and where you are in your life.You can find their current discounts by visiting the Match.com discount or Guardian Soulmates discount pages. Finally, if you are visiting from overseas and want to join eHarmony.com or eHarmony.com.au please visit one of our international partners for the most up to date info and savings.


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The revolution will be preserved
We live in a reality where official records are born and disseminated via the Internet. Many institutions have a strategy in place for transferring official university records that are print or tactile to university archives, ...
OCUL Digital Curation Summit: Digital Curation Life-cycle & Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation & Access
Presentation slides for Digital Curation Life-cycle and Blue Ribbon Task Force on Sustainable Digital Preservation & Access, and corresponding worksheets + scenarios.
CURATEcamp iPres 2012
(Ariadne, 2012-12-13)
Mark Jordan, Courtney Mumma, Nick Ruest and the participants of CURATEcamp iPres 2012 report on this unconference for digital curation practitioners and researchers, held on 2 October 2012 in Toronto.
d3 Data Visualization Bootcamp
Brief introduction of data visualization concepts, brief introduction of d3, and a walkthrough of three exercises using library datasets.
The Islandora Web ARChive Solution Pack
We are now living in a reality where official records are born and disseminated via the Internet. Many institutions have a strategy in place for transferring official university records that are print or tactile to university ...
Strong and Free: Building a Resilient Data Store North of the Border
Cloud technologies are an attractive way to build infrastructure with a minimum of fuss. However, there are instances in which the cloud can fail to live up to expectations, or where legal or ethical considerations make ...
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"Libraries have always been at the heart of the research process, but new ways of searching, writing, and publishing are significantly altering this relationship. What will the research enterprise look like in five, ten, ...
Turn, Turn, Turn: Seasons in the life of a digital object - Through the lens of the digital curation lifecycle
More and more, some of the most important assets libraries have are digital. We need to curate these objects with the same rigor and expertise that we apply to our physical collections. follow a digital object through the ...
It's dangerous to go alone! How about *we* do this!?
We're all worried about preserving digital assets at some level. One of the most concerning parts of this process is the storage component, and as new and larger objects and collections come under libraries' care, the ...
Gettin Sh*t Done in the Digital Archives
We live in a reality where official documents are born, revised and disseminated online. Most post-secondary institutions have record retention schedules to facilitate the transfer of official records with lasting historical ...

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Little Boxes: Installation by Bego M. Santiago
An installation using video projection on boxes that interacts when a viewer approaches.
My work studies the feedback between reality and representation. Understanding the "real" as individual and collective construction. I am interested in the binding sites between binomials as: real – fake, presence – absence, original and copy. Looking for those interstice that exist between them. Understanding interstice as a small space between two bodies. A meeting point between opposites. A moment where the terms are confused, and for a time both become brittle, light, weightless.


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Raghu Karnad used to be the editor of Time Out Delhi. His first novel, Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War,was shortlisted for the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for 2016.
#NaNoWrMo: Prayaag Akbar
Prayaag Akbar was the editor-in-chief of the Sunday Guardian, and then assistant editor at Scroll.in. His first novel, Leila, has been shortlisted for the Hindu Prize 2017,
#NaNoWrMo: Nilanjana Roy
Nilanjana Roy is a prolific writer who runs one of India's most respected book review websites. She is also the author of several novels including The Wildlings and The Hundred Name of Darkness.


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Idea: use a dictionary
Look up the word "song" in the dictionary, please. Songs have words, lyrics which are—get this!—sung. If a piece of music has no sung lyrics, it is, in fact, not a song. I am looking for songs...
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"A particular premium is placed on public relations memos because such is the shape-shifting power of flacks to brainwash the public against its will that during the height of an anti-trust battle, a newspaper headline read 'Microsoft Hires Public Relations Firm to Improve Image' (Well, yeah). The article went on to discuss how the company's then-CEO, Bill Gates, was wearing more Mister Rogers-style sweaters to soften his image. Will these bastards stop at nothing?"
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text: Very little habitat remains for this critically endangered coquette. It is present potentially only along a 25 kilometer section of the Atoyac-Paraíso-Puerto del Gallo road in the Sierra Madre del Sur of Mexico. In this small region its habitat is unprotected and often cleared for corn, coffee, or illegal drug production. Consequently, Short-crested Coquettes are estimated to be declining at a rate of 10-19% each decade (BirdLife International 2011). They rely on humid evergreen forest, semi-deciduous, forest, pink-oak forests, and plantations. When feeding, these coquettes are generally outcompeted by other hummingbirds.


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Plum Gorgeous: Bobbi Brown Black Plum Trunk
Ooh – look what's arriving in stores soon! The Black Plum Leather Deluxe Beauty Trunk. I'm sure it will run as an exclusive somewhere, as in the States it is with Neiman Marcus. Just thinking that if Santa loved me at all, even the very slightest, he wouldn't want me to put up with Asda plastic boxes to keep my make up in any more.
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In my own little non-traditional corner of the world, dishes are made with whatever ingredients I have in the pantry (and/or whatever ingredients my family and I will eat) and whatever I have to add to make it taste good.
This recipe for Mapo Tofu is simple to make, less spicy than the Sichuan-style Mapo Tofu but just as flavorful. This version takes about 20 minutes (start to finish) and makes a lovely one meal dish that even kids can enjoy. My little cousins scarfed it down without a word!
The secret…? Store-bought Mapo Tofu sauce! Yes, sometimes a cheater sauce is just the answer. No offense to the traditional folks – just keepin' it real. 😉
When it comes to Sichuan-style cooking, a do-it-yourself sauce can be tricky. The recipe for the sauce sometimes includes ingredients which aren't that easy to find in grocery stores. I personally like to use Lee Kum Kee Mapo Tofu Sauce. It's the one my store carries, and it's really good! Let me know if you've tried others and have had good/bad results.
1 pack Lee Kum Kee Sauce for Mapo Tofu (80g)
500g soft tofu, cut into small cubes (I like using Korean Soft Tofu. You can also use a firmer tofu if that's what you prefer)
2 tablespoons sesame oil (I used the Lee Kum Kee brand)
5 cloves of garlic, minced
1 tablespoon grated peeleed fresh ginger
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 teaspoon chili garlic sauce (Again, I used the Lee Kum Kee brand)
2 links of Chinese sausage a.k.a Lap Cheong, sliced into rounds (I didn't have lean ground pork at home 😀 , so for this recipe, I used Chinese Sausage instead. Plus my Boo loves them! *winks*)
3 tablespoons chopped green onions (scallions)
**Salt and pepper to taste (optional)
- Heat a wok or large heavy skillet over high heat until hot and add 2 tablespoons sesame oil, swirling to coat. Add Chinese sausage and stir-fry until the edges are brown. Add garlic and ginger and stir-fry over moderate heat until very fragrant, about 2 minutes.
- Combine Lee Kum Kee Mapo Tofu Sauce, 2 tablespoons soy sauce, and 1 teaspoon chili garlic sauce. Add mixture to pan and bring to a simmer.
- Drain tofu in a large sieve and slide into sauce, stirring gently. Bring to a boil, stirring gently, and cook until thickened and glossy, about 20-30 seconds.
- Turn off heat and sprinkle with scallions. Serve Mapo Tofu over steamed rice or you may also eat it as is.
Hope you will enjoy this version of Mapo Tofu. Comment below or send me an e-mail if you have questions or suggestions. 🙂


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Trick-or-Treat! I don't know about you, but I LOVE FALL!! There is something amazingly refreshing about the air getting a bit cooler, seeing the glow of the Friday-night-lights, smelling all the amazing aromas in the kitchen, lighting up the fire pit to try to hold on to every last late-night memory of summer, and finally being into a set routine at school!
Though I may be in a pretty decent routine at this point, I also find myself to be pretty tired – there is just so much to do in a day and there never seems to be enough time! I'm pretty sure I can speak for a few of you and say that I'm not alone in this….
So, to ease a little bit of the stress that you may be feeling, my friends and I are having a FALL giveaway over at All Things Upper Elementary. 2 lucky winners will win a $25 gift certificate to TpT where you can purchase some awesome activities to help gain a few hours back in your day!
Click on the image below to go directly to the giveaway!
The part I like best about fall is baking and cooking!
I absolutely love to bake and create fun goodies as the holidays draw closer! I'm already planning out what we will be doing for our annual Thanksgiving tradition! It is so much fun to have different family and friends show up each year! I cannot wait to see who comes this year 🙂
What do you like best about the fall? Do you and your family have any traditions?!
Here's a cool post on how my friends and I recently used Math In Real Life while making HOMEMADE applecider!


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Beneful Dog Goldberg Machine
Beneful, a dog food brand manufactured and marketed by Nestle Purina, is being promoted with "Dog Goldberg Machine", a commercial using the Rube Goldberg machine meme. The ad celebrates play with the catapulter, the slam dunker, the disc flinger, the quick catcher, the puppies and the tail wagger, their toys, and countless tennis balls. "Play. It's good for you."
Dog Goldberg Machine Credits
The Dog Goldberg Machine was developed at Deep Focus, New York, by CEO Ian Schafer, executive creative director Ken Kraemer, creative director Matt Steinwald, art director Scott Jones, copywriter Micky Treutlein and producer Sean Fleming.
Filming was produced at QuietMan, New York. Music is by Yessian.
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Tagged: Deep Focus, Ken Kraemer, Matt Steinwald, Micky Treutlein, QuietMan, Scott Jones, Yessian
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Beautifully sited on two plus acres with over 550 feet of frontage on the famed Butler Chain of Lakes, the timeless architecture of this Neoclassical Estate is reminiscent of a historic plantation. The formal proportions and classic beauty of this home set amid the mature oaks and lush landscape allow for incredible lakefront vistas. The elaborate entry opens to formal areas well positioned to maximize lake views and featuring wood flooring, fluted columns, custom millwork, and intricate lighting. The central gourmet kitchen features custom cabinetry, stainless appliances, and a large walk in pantry. The family room takes in natural light through a wall of doors and windows allowing lakefront views from every angle. French doors open the master suite to the owners balcony and capture a panorama of the serene outdoor areas. Private sitting area and huge walk in closets further define the owners area. All downstairs areas lead to the exceptional outdoors with extensive covered porch, sparkling pool and spa, lushly landscaped lawn, and boat dock with lift. Additional features include a study, large personal gym with exercise and weight machines, boat dock with boat lift, private sand beach, and a fully equipped detached guest house above the 3-car garage.
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You have been invited into a special relationship with your godchild, a relationship of support and encouragement. Are you ready to accept the responsibilities this relationship brings?
"We are."
Will you encourage your godchild, support your godchild's parents, and give assistance as you are able, that Maia will grow in faith, hope, and love?
"With God's help, we will."
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Agriculture production data should be public and the open source movement should be the model for analysing it, according to the Open Agriculture initiative at MIT Media Lab.
This could involve making the data from every farming IoT sensor public - so you could use the climate data to understand how best to grow what and where, or use other IoT data points to trace where the food has come from across the whole supply chain.
Caleb Harper, who leads the initiative, believes that a radical rethinking of agriculture could help solve some of the problems surrounding transparency, distribution and climate inherent to the market today. But governments will have to take the lead.
"I think most of what people talk about right now are symptoms," Harper told Techworld. "They're like: nutrition has attenuated 50 percent over the last 100 years. Yes, that's true, but why? And why don't we know that? People will say: there's too much water use in food. There are all these symptoms being viewed in isolation."
In 2015, the United Nations reported that by 2030 there will be 8.5 billion people on the planet and nearly 10 billion by 2050. Enough food is already produced yearly to feed 10 billion people but severe food poverty continues to plague large parts of the planet. Clearly there is a social crisis in food production and distribution, only compounded by looming climate disaster and other man-made global factors.
The Open Agriculture initiative arose from Caleb Harper's trip to Japan following the Fukushima nuclear meltdown in 2011.
Radiation had poisoned the land, and researchers were unsure if traditional agriculture could be sustainable or safe in these conditions. This led to the concept of a 'Food Computer', as Open Agriculture explains: "The idea for the Food Computer came about, and extended into a solution to the general problem that outdoor climate cannot be controlled."
Open Agriculture describes its 'Food Computer' as "a controlled-environment agriculture technology platform that uses robotic systems to control and monitor climate, energy, and plant growth inside a specialised growing chamber." The set of conditions, MIT says, can be "thought of as a climate recipe, and each recipe produces unique results in the phenotypes of the plants. Plants grown under different conditions may vary in colour, size, texture growth rate, yield, flavour, and nutrient density."
"All of the data that we gather is about what's called expression, or phenomics," Harper says. "You have genome, you have genes, and then you have expression of genes – in food that means flavour, nutrition, colour and texture. So what we're gathering is data about phenomic expression, or as normal people would say, the effect between climate and what you get to eat."
"If people say 'I love the tomatoes in Tuscany', well, we're trying to understand what it is about Tuscany that makes that tomato or set of genetics express something awesome, and why, if we take that same set of genetics and put it in Norway, it's not going to taste the same."
The team is starting small, but the ideas driving it are potentially far-reaching.
One such problem is a generational gap in agricultural knowledge that has so far gone largely unaddressed.
In the United States right now, Harper explains, just two percent of the population is involved in agriculture – and these people are aging.
"An entire generation has gone by without getting into agriculture," he says. "And so we're just reawakening again, and frankly, reawakening with a general kind of ignorance about what is the system that feeds us? How good is the food for us? Where did it come from? What went into it? Is it environmentally sustainable?"
Parallel to this is a lack of transparency about the food supply chain, and most data that is available is proprietary.
"About 40 years ago a lot of the information became proprietary, and the public doesn't have access to it," Harper says. "I would say it took us 20 or 30 years to figure that out and raise our heads – that's what happened with GMO. People said: 'Oh my gosh, I didn't even know this was happening. And I don't understand what it is.'"
However, the transformative potential of the internet of things – in short, connecting everything to generate and then analyse data – provides an opportunity to uproot the way food and agriculture is understood. Every point of information along the chain could be made public.
"The fact is we've gone incredible proprietary with agricultural information," Harper says. "Whether that's genetic information, nutritional information, sustainability information – that's a systemic issue that needs to be addressed. One of the best ways I can think of is, if government money goes into agricultural research, then it has to be open source. We have to bring in the technological tools to bear that create trust and create transparency."
How could that work? Harper believes the infrastructure could be built in such a way to benefit the most people as possible – while remaining friendly to the interests of business. Just look at the internet, he says. HTML is an open source language and most commercial servers run the internet on open source software.
"A ton of big companies make a lot of money on the internet, but they had to have that baseline of a shared core of technology that allows them to do that."
Structurally, it could take the shape of the Human Genome Project, which saw tens of thousands of researchers, with the backing of public-private partnerships across governments, to map the human genome.
Whatever the way forward, Harper believes that the insights gained from creating an open source and transparent agricultural network would ultimately be win-win for all parties involved.
The world's largest greenhouse is located in Almeria, Spain, and Harper holds it up as an example for why agriculture is in desperate need of more transparency and accountability. This is where 80 percent of the UK's vegetables are grown, and it uses 1,200 millilitres, per square metre, of water a year to function.
"It's in the middle of a desert," Harper says. "There's only 200 millilitres of rainfall. So how does this work? That's one of the reasons I went – it turns out it's on a fossilised aquifier. The run-off from this, what they call "plastic sea", has killed sperm whale breeding grounds, and it's all run on Moroccan slave labour. Yet it's sold at Sainsbury's as 'Grown in Europe'."
"This is the kind of transparency and accountability that cannot be left to the private sector."
"We're starting the project but I see a lot of data about right now – companies like the Farmers Business Network have collected more data in the field about agriculture in the last three years than the USDA has digitised ever. It's the big data grab that's going on right now, caching your personal data, just like Facebook – preparing data sets to use with machine learning and artificial intelligence."
See also: How Walmart will use the blockchain to improve food supply traceability
"My question is: when can we get to that point with agriculture? And when we get to that point, does machine learning and artificial intelligence only benefit certain companies that can pay for it, or does it become a way to make money that benefits the most people? Government has to lead it: if they give out any money for agriculture, they need to enforce that any of that research is open source and contributed back to a commons."
"Right now, that's just not the case – you wouldn't believe the amount of knowledge the world already has about agriculture and how much of it is completely useless in the world of computing. It's not organised into libraries – agriculture needs to be brought out of the industrial revolution, in to the networked economy, and given a core."
"If we don't build the public assets it will just be another heist. It'll be another agricultural revolution that doesn't result in a more democratic use of agricultural technology."
Open Agriculture's largest financial sponsor is the enormous American retailer Target Corporation. Although that might sound at odds for a food retailer, Harper believes that these mega-brands are desperate to rebuild trust. "The big players know their future has to be more transparent, more trusted," he says.


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And next here on PurtyPixels we have a fun, bold, and quite colorful audio player PSD with hover states and all included. Download & share it!
All freebies in the Music category.
Bold Music Player (PSD).
Cute Music Player.
This freebie is a cute little music player designed by Daniel post (@DahnDesigns) with a clean approach and a nice touch of "cuteness". You never know when you might need it, so download friends.
Super Purty Player.
Today's download includes all the code, some PSDs (naturally), and a whole load of awesomeness (of course). ;) I also threw a shot up on Dribbble so if you enjoy it enough, go check it out and "like it" if you would.


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So: you're from out of town and need to get around. You could rent a car. Roughly $40 a day plus gas. You could take the bus. Roughly $2.50 a trip. You could walk. This takes time you may or may not have. For easy getting-round in a strange town, few might opt to rent a bike – most bike rental places aim to provide recreation rather than transit and charge rates comparable to a car rental. One could likely find a used bike on craigslist and abandon it for less!
The University of Victoria – or, more accurately a group of dedicated volunteer students called SPOKES at the University of Victoria – provides an amazing $3/day rental service. Sure, the bikes aren't fancy disc-brake, carbon-fibre frames with shocks. More well-loved, refurbished bikes. For myself? A well-maintained OPEC-crisis ('70s-'80s) road bike with down-tube shifters and toe clips made for a fun ride covering the 6 miles separating my downtown hotel and the conference at the university in the same time transit takes – and cheaper. Bonus? The joy of coffee-fueled exercise.
Thank you, SPOKES! Here's hoping the university continues to support your fine work.


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Theodore Harvey has posted an article on Prince Harry and his remark about his "paki" comrade. If you click on his name you will be able to read it. His commenter's seem to agree with him that he was just joking. My take is somewhat different.
My opinion is this, a true Prince of the Blood would not have made such a remark to begin with. Having served in the military for 22+ years I have had and made my share of barracks room joking.
Still it seems inconceivable that I should call an African-American fellow Marine a N****r, or a Mexican American a S**c. What is more I would not have put up with an peer or subordinate saying any racially motivated remark, whether in jest or otherwise. I don't know of any person in a leadership position in any service who feel differently. It is just not done.
Prince Harry is an Officer. It is not the PC police who should have served him a reprimand it should be his Commanding Officer. It reflects a serious problem in a supposed Monarchy, that is the "Leveling" of the Royal Army.
If this would have happened in my last unit this officer would be looking for a job. I have seen officers cashiered for less. Officers need to be held to a higher standard, and princes higher yet.
One last thing, Prince Harry, remember Elizabeth is not only your grandmother she is your sovereign. Bringing ridicule directed towards her can bring only dishonour to you and detriment to your unit. You have sworn allegiance to her person by the following oath..."I,......., swear by Almighty God that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, her heirs and successors and that I will as in duty bound honestly and faithfully defend Her Majesty, her heirs and successors in person, crown and dignity against all enemies and will observe and obey all orders of Her Majesty, her heirs and successors and of the generals and officers set over me."
"Duty is the most sublime word in our language. Do your duty in all things, no man can do more, he should never wish to do less..."
Dieu Sauve le Roy!
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Your oral health can have a direct link to your overall health, which is why it's so important to develop and maintain a tooth brushing habit at any age.
But for seniors and people with disabilities that impair mobility, traditional tooth brushing may be difficult. The tips below may help.
Brush Your Teeth = Prevent Tooth Decay & Gum Disease
Our teeth and gums hold food debris and bacteria that causes plaque to build up. If this plaque is not removed daily, it attaches to the teeth and may slide under the gum line, leading to an infection in the gums known as gingivitis.
As gingivitis worsens, the infection damages bone and fibers attached to the roots of the teeth, eventually leading to more serious infections and loosened teeth. At this stage, called periodontal or gum disease, gums bleed easily. Should infection from an abscess or gum disease enter the bloodstream, serious health problems could result.
In addition, uninterrupted plaque growth can lead to tooth decay. When untreated, tooth decay can lead to painful infections of the nerve inside the tooth and an abscess may form. Treatment requires a root canal procedure or removing the tooth entirely.
That's why preventative care is so important. Plaque can be easily removed if you brush with a soft bristle brush, use fluoride toothpaste and floss regularly.
Tips for Easier Oral Care
Oral care can become more difficult if your mobility is impaired. You may even find that you need help to take proper care of your oral health. But whether you're getting assistance or brushing on your own, there are some tools that can make the job easier.
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- Using dental floss? Consider using floss holders or other alternatives
- Gripping or moving a toothbrush enough to remove plaque? Consider using a battery-operated toothbrush (also see our Tips for Tooth Brushing)
- Spitting or swallowing while brushing? Consider using a suction device while brushing.
About Suction Devices
Suction devices, which can be prescribed by your doctor and are covered by most types of insurance, can be especially helpful for people who are unable to leave their beds. If you use a suction device, you'll also want access to a suction toothbrush that can be attached to the hose.
Made for long-term care, suction toothbrushes are reusable, and are a very affordable option, especially when compared to expensive disposables. They can be used to remove bad breath, reduce the risk of infection and help prevent aspiration, which can cause pneumonia.
Help Remove Plaque with Xylitol & Fluoride
Most regular toothpastes will create foam that may be difficult to manage and can cause choking. The most important part of brushing your teeth is the brushing, which is effective even without using toothpaste. As an alternative, you may want to use a non-alcoholic rinse after brushing instead of normal toothpaste.
It's a good idea to make sure the rinse contains fluoride and also xylitol, an ingredient that may hinder the growth of plaque-causing germs. Xylitol is a natural sweetener that does not cause cavities and is also available in some gums and mints.
Your dentist may also recommend a fluoride treatment. For more information on xylitol or fluoride, talk to your dentist or dental hygienist.
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THE FINANCIAL GLOBALISATION AND ITS IMPACTPosted by Labels: capitalism, financial instruments, globalisation
Written and published in newspaper/magazine in the last part of 2008
Globalisation or Biswayan or Bhubonayan in local parlance are the words which are very familiar nowadays. According to some commentators there is nothing new in it as globalisation of capital is ingrained in capitalism. But as the present phase is new, there are some new features. Amongst these features, a radical structural change in the finance capital is one of most striking features. The deregulation of capital is the buzz-word in this phase of globalization process beginning from the eighties. The use of new instruments in financial market has created the scope for a handful of financial institutions to extract profit to the range of million-trillion dollars. This trade which is dependent on market sentiment has already gone beyond the control of any kind of existing regulatory mechanism. In the face of the growth of this trade in meteoric speed, global regulatory institution like IMF too is facing difficulties. This capital is not being directed towards productive investment. The players from underdeveloped or developing countries are not noteworthy stake-holder in this trade. The liberalized economy and the policy of taking more foreign debt for servicing outstanding debt will result in havoc in the economy of those countries in case of any dwindle or collapse in the global financial system. Profit and more profit, and for that no long-term productive investment but to make investment for quick instantaneous profit is rule of the day. Enormous growth of this quick profit market has already made the market volatile. The imbalances in the financial market may result in the situation like cyclonic storm to crash the market and formant deeper crisis in the already imbalanced global economy. Prior to analysing this situation in detail, let us see what the new financial instruments are and how they are operated.
Derivative is one such instrument which is derived from other financial assets like stock-equity or share, bond, interest rate, currency exchange rate, index of share-market or consumer price etc. Trading occurs on the derived price or value of the financial assets. The instruments like option, futures and swap are together termed as derivative. These are the agreements between the counterparties and are dependent on the present market price or value of the assets and the market sentiment. The agreement is stroke between the parties on the basis of a mutually agreed future speculative price of the asset and this price is called strike-price. For example, the option buyers get the right (not obligation) to sell or buy at the strike price and if the option buyer applies his option, then option writer is compelled to buy (put option) or sell (call option). The profit, loss or ineffectiveness of this agreement depends on the future market price of the asset on which the agreement is made. The option buyer pays premium to option writer for the right he obtains through the agreement. Future is the agreement to buy or sell the financial asset through the exchange centre at a future specified date and is related with the rise and fall of the market price of the asset. Swap is also a type of agreement and most common agreement is on trading or exchange of floating rate interest payment with fixed rate interest rate payment instead of exchanging the loan itself. To increase the rate of profit, the part of the total investment to buy a particular security or stock can be made on credit through brokerage firm. In that case, a part of total money required to buy the asset on present market price must always remain in the account of the buyer and this amount is called maintenance requirement. If total value on the market price reaches to such a level that the amount of money in the buyer's account becomes less than maintenance requirement, then the brokerage firm will call the buyer to deposit the rest amount of margin money to his account and this is termed as margin call or the brokerage firm may also get this margin money by selling some stock without prior permission from buyer. In the complex and vast derivative market, hedging, arbitraging and speculation play an important role. Hedging is a form of investment which reduces the risk of another investment. If a hedger thinks that the market price of security is less than what it should be, then while buying the put option of this security, the hedger can buy a call option of another security related with this security to reduce his risk. This type of trading or exchange is called arbitraging. In the derivative market, trading or exchange may be through exchange centre or directly in between the parties over the counter (OTC). Derivative trading especially the OTC derivative has already reached to such a high that no institutions even the institution like IMF has any effective regulatory control over it. As a result, any unfavourable event in the market may crash the global financial market at any moment with the cascading effect of collapse of the whole global economy. In this phase of globalization, every country is vigorously pursuing the policy of capital account liberalization and as a result the whole global economy is increasingly coming under the grip of global financial capital. In this scenario, on the one hand, the existence of national capital has become difficult to identify and on the other the rapidly increasing ratio of debt burden to real income of the corporate sectors marks the structural crisis of capital. This ratio has increased from four to six times in last few years.
When the derivative market was not matured enough like today, we saw the Argentinean crisis of 1987. During that crisis, Argentines were vigorously pleading the financial institutions and queuing at the institution's doorstep to allow them to withdraw their deposited money, but they were being denied to that and as a result disturbances were spread throughout the country. Not only the withdrawal of money from share market by FIIs, but also the selling pressure of derivative futures on stock index caused rapid downfall of share market. We saw the 1997 Korean crisis which spread throughout south-east
Asia through contagion effect. Future trading was not so matured in Korean market prior to July 1997. From July 1997, Futures volume registered a rapid increase and in the month of August itself market crashed due to selling pressure of futures. On December 1997, could come out of the crisis with the help of conditional bail-out loan from IMF. The IMF conditionality is also making a bad impact on the real economy of debtor countries. India is also treading the path of liberalization following the IMF dictation ingrained in the conditionality of bail-out loan extended to relieve India from balance of payment crisis appeared due to rise in oil-prices and due to that, recurrence of deeper crisis in vulnerable economy is looming large. IMF loan conditionality leads the debtor countries out of the frying pan into the fire. Argentina
Due to debt-restructuring and 1998 Russian crisis, the Long term capital management (LTCM ) incurred a heavy loss of 4.4 billion US dollar from institutional investors, 1.6 billion dollars from its partners, 700 billion dollar from Union Bank of
and 2.1 billion dollars from other investors. Just prior to this loss, LTCM was an important market player in capital management. Just before the August 1998 crisis, with less than 5 million equity capital and within a very short time, LTCM registered 60000 trading of the volume of 125 billion dollar and out of this, it recorded 500 billion notional exchange traded derivative in the balance sheet and 1 trillion dollar notional O.T.C. derivative out of the balance sheet. Due to the pressure of dissociation of the derivative players linked with LTCM & increasing margin calls etc, LTCM had to face an extreme crisis of liquidity and its impact was reverberated in global capital market. To overcome this crisis, IMF arranged supply of capital for LTCM from private sector who imposed terms & condition for the control on that capital. Switzerland
At present, the financial market has become farther globalised. The derivative market has grown manifold and new instruments have become in vogue. There was no existence of credit derivative in the year 2001, but by 2005 credit derivative trading has increased to the level of 17.3 trillion dollar. Banks are failing to asses what amount of assets are lying with whom & where. On May 2006, the first ten Hedge-Fund managers have recorded the business volume of 157 billion dollar. In the year 2005, the first ranking 26 Hedge-Fund managers have earned 363 million dollar. Financial market is growing much faster than real economy. Financial assets are many times higher than annual economic production in the developed countries and Share & Bond market is growing very fast. The intermediate trading in finance has become more complex & vast than the direct transactions of deposit & withdrawal of Banking. Bank assets of US has become 53% in 2004 from 54% in 1970 whereas assets of financial institution has become 257% of GDP in 2000 from 111% in 1980, in the case Germany : Bank asset 121% in 1970 and 146% in 2004 and financial asset 182% in 1980 and 353% in 2000, in the case of UK : Bank asset 51% in 1970 and 262% in 2004 and financial asset 110% in 1980 and 377% in 2000 and in the case of Japan : Bank asset 66% in 1970 and 168% in 2004 and financial asset 157% in 1980 and 260% in 2004 respectively. The total investment of institutional investors of developed countries has risen from 16536.7 billion dollar in 1993 to 30627.3 billion dollar in 2001. Out of this, the growth of insurance companies is from 6177.3 to 9686.8 billion dollar, that of pension fund is from 4914.3 to 8454.7 billion dollar, investment fund is from 3538.4 to 9455.6 for the companies and from 1756.2 to 2831 billion dollar for others. Moreover, the ever increasing derivative market especially the OTC derivative market due to the information computer technology, the dependence on the selected few financial institution as global players and the ineffectiveness of all regulatory bodies including IMF have made the market so vulnerable that any slightest of change in the market sentiment or bankruptcy of any company like the recent ENRON episode may create a Tsunami like panic in the financial system and large-scale downfall or collapse of the global economy. The present era of globalization has let loose the demon of greed, but lost the Aladin's lamp. Additional pains to this situation of financial market are the growing deficit-budget of
, the centre of world economy and the increasing price-hike of petroleum and other mining products. America
On the other hand, the structure of the policy-making body of IMF- World Bank is such that the LDC & developing countries do not have any control on policy making process of these institutions and moreover these institutions are also now facing difficulties as regulator. The amount of capital the world bank extends to the developing countries is less than what it gets back from those countries. Net transfer from 1991 and net disbursement from 2002 show negative trend. Many countries heading towards market economy has already come out of the IMF- supervision by returning the loan taken from IMF. IMF has lost the capability to provide bail-out capital to any country reeling under economic crisis and as a result since last few years, IMF has been dependent on global private creditor companies for extending bail-out capital.
The developing countries are increasingly getting integrated with global market, but the companies of these countries have very little stake in the vast trading of the financial market. Much hullabaloo on nationalism for TATAS becoming global player bears no significance as all are under the control of global finance capital and they all don't have much national character. Moreover there is a continuous outflow of capital from developing countries. For the aid of every one dollar, ten dollar goes out of the developing countries. An outflow of capital of about 500 US dollar occurs every year. Large oligopolies evade heavy amount of Tax-payment by doing the trades within their subsidiaries and by managing the trade-routes through the regions where there is very low or no tax. This undeclared asset is of the range of 460 billion US dollar. Had this undeclared asset been brought to tax-net, it could have been spent for poverty-alleviation. This type of trade within the subsidiaries of same company is now 60% of total trade. The tax heaven with no or little tax has risen from 25 in 1970 to 72 in 2004 and the trade through these routes has increased by 50%. The trans-national companies open their subsidiaries in those Tax-heavens.
In this circumstances, any incident shaking the confidence of global market investors may lead to collapse of the market in cyclonic speed and consequently with the collapse the global economy, the developing countries who are treading the path of liberalization and IMF – dictation instead of the policy of minimizing the internal inequalities within various regions and communities will be hard hit. Scarcity and price hike of essential commodities and means of subsistence, contraction of sources of income, high income inequality, famine – epidemic and severe unemployment will lead to complete chaos worldwide. Loss of control and crisis of capital will increase the imperialist rivalry and aggression. Capital will try to revitalize itself by revamping war machinery industries as profitable destination and through death & destruction and will try to raise its victory flag on the heap of human dead bodies. If the forces of alternative economy and socialist-restructuring can raise their head from within this total chaos, then only the famous saying of Romain Rolland " where order is injustice, disorder is the beginning of justice" will be proved meaningful.
References – (1) Safeguarding financial stability – Garry J. Schinasi
(2) Asian financial crisis, the role of derivative securities trading & foreign investment.—Eric Glysel, Junghoon Seon.
(3) Why a global economic deluge looms – Gabriel Kolko ( The World Resurgence)
(4) Social watch.com & many other websites.
Arup Baisya e-mail : email@example.com


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Employee of the Year, retiree honored at The Citadel
Employee of the Year Clarissa "Lisa" Lugo of The Citadel Admissions Office was honored Friday, April 17, 2009, for superior performance by a staff member. Also recognized during the military dress parade was retiring faculty member Thomas Kindel.
Lugo is a 2002 graduate of The Citadel. She came to work in Citadel Admissions in 2004. In November 2005 she was promoted from admissions counselor to one of three assistant directors working to recruit students. Her main responsibility is the recruitment of women and Hispanics to the South Carolina Corps of Cadets.
Kindel is a faculty member and director of new MBA initiatives in the School of Business Administration. He came to The Citadel in 1991 as the assistant director of the Center for International and Regional Development. He has been an assistant professor and associate professor of marketing during his time with the college. He earned his bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees in business from the University of South Carolina.


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At BP we're not daunted by this challenge. In fact, we see the possibilities it presents, and continue to make bold changes across the group as part of our commitment to advancing a low carbon future.
The world needs more energy but produced and used in cleaner, better ways. This is reflected in our strategy to grow advantaged oil and gas in the upstream; market-led growth in the downstream; pursuing low carbon growth opportunities and modernizing the group. It also informs how we work.
Our 'reduce, improve, create' framework focuses the whole of BP on reducing emissions in our operations, improving our products, and creating low carbon businesses. We are backing this up with clear targets and I am pleased to report we made good progress in 2018. To maintain the momentum, we are now incentivizing around 36,000 employees who are eligible for an annual cash bonus to play a role by linking their reward to one of our emissions reduction targets.
We firmly believe our strategy is consistent with the climate goals of the Paris Agreement and have welcomed a resolution from a group of institutional investors for a range of additional reporting. This will help further understanding of how our strategy is consistent with the Paris climate goals.
We have a role to play in solving the dual challenge but can't do it alone. Everyone, from consumers to corporations to governments, needs to take responsibility. That's why we're working with partners and a number of organizations across the industry, including the Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI). Now representing 30% of global oil and gas production, the OGCI is supporting efforts to tackle methane emissions and create opportunities for carbon capture, use and storage.
We remain focused on operating responsibly and safety continues to be our number one priority. While we welcome the improvement seen in our key safety measures in 2018, our attention is always on caring for the people behind the numbers. This extends to wherever we operate around the world, and you'll find updates in this report on some of our activities to respect the communities in which we work.
Only by operating as a responsible and reliable business do we earn the trust of investors and society more widely – trust that is essential for BP to fully play its part in advancing a low carbon future and human progress.
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Went to Bud's looking for a potential purchase of a 9mm 1911.
The ratings were conflicting from good to POS. All kinds of problems from customer service to finish flaking off,receiving pistols dirty. Even on their .45's. Having to replace mags with ones that work or ones that never work.
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Attorney General Eric Holder has begun beefing up the National Instant Criminal Background Check System as outlined in President Obama's executive actions against firearms.
Holder's initial orders will give local law enforcement access to the federal gun sale database and will ensure that rejected applications are kept on record indefinitely.
Even as the Administration that funneled weapons to Mexican drug cartels and sold advanced fighter aircraft to the Muslim Brotherhood clamps down on citizens' Second Amendment rights, a recent Fox poll indicates that two-thirds of American gun owners say they would defy a federal gun ban.
According to the poll, which covered a broad range of subjects, 70 percent of Republicans, 68 percent of conservatives, 52 percent of Democrats and 59 percent of liberals say they would "defy the law" if the federal government tried to take their guns.
One group of Americans that is solidly behind President Obama's efforts to capitalize on the Sandy Hook shootings to ban guns, however, is the Communist Party USA.
According to People's World, a CPUSA organ, "the ability to live free from the fear or threat of gun violence is a fundamental democratic right — one that far supersedes any so-called personal gun rights allegedly contained in the Second Amendment."
It shouldn't be a surprise that the Communists would support gun confiscation when the history of communism itself is so bloody and brutal.
Every totalitarian regime in history has begun its career by taking away the weapons of its citizens.
To that end, the doublespeak from liberals of late has been coming fast and furious. According to the CPUSA, "The Second Amendment is obsolete and now has been twisted to threaten the basic safety and security of all Americans."
Contrary to the Left's propaganda, the Founding Fathers' included the Second Amendment as a safeguard against tyrannical government, not for the purpose of deer hunting.
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government," Thomas Jefferson said.
The liberals want us to believe that their gun grab is designed to stop the evil of mass shootings, when they would remove the only true safeguard against such violence.
As Justice Louis Brandeis observed, "Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. … The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding."
In this case, however, the "men of zeal" behind the gun grab understand all too well what they're really doing.


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Making toys is an enjoyable pastime and truly gives a sense of accomplishment when you have the final product. The upside to making your own toys is that the design is totally in your own hands and you can make the model as far fetched as you can come up with. Making wooden toys and models from is surprisingly easy too. You only need a few tools and some basic equipment.
Design the castle on paper first. Decide every feature, whether you want it to have turrets or a lot of towers and how many gates and windows the buildings are meant to have. Despite Hollywood depictions, most European medieval castles had quite simple designs. They were usually only a tall square or rectangular building with surrounding walls. The complexity of the design, however, is limited only by your imagination and you can opt for the simplest or craziest design you want. The only difference will be the time spent making it.
Draw each component of the castle onto balsa wood. A single wall of the castle would be considered one component and an adjacent wall would be another. For turrets, you do not need to draw out each individual turret but rather a whole line of turrets. Balsa wood is an excellent choice for model making as it is strong and light. Draw each part of the castle on the wooden balsa board.
Cut out the castle designs. Use either a handsaw or a power jigsaw to do this. Be careful to follow the lines on the wood exactly so you don't needlessly cut away large chunks of the castle.
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Ewwwwwww!Friday, February 23rd, 2007
This may forever cure my craving for Seven Layer Burritos. Yuck.
NYC rats run wild at KFC/Taco Bell
This may forever cure my craving for Seven Layer Burritos. Yuck.
NYC rats run wild at KFC/Taco Bell
My friend Gigi has started blogging again. You might remember her from America's Next Top Novel fame. She's an amazing writer and funny as hell. If you aren't already familiar, go check out her new site. You can thank me later.
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NEW DELHI -- Chief Justice of India Tirath Singh Thakur caught the nation's attention with his emotional plea to Prime Minister Narendra Modi about doubling the number of judges in India to combat the largest backlog of cases in the world.
What is the less known is that the government is the largest litigant in India, responsible for nearly half of the three crore cases pending in courts across the country, despite a great deal of advice and recommendations on how to cut down its share of disputes.
The government at various levels have been identified over the years as a trigger happy litigant who appeals compulsively. But efforts to change this character of government litigation have unfortunately moved as slowly as a petition through the court system.
One category of such disputes involves civilians suing either the Centre or their state governments. These vary from labour disputes and taxation to retired employees fighting for their pensions and farmers seeking compensation. According to Thakur, the fact that so many Indian citizens have grievances against the State is a consequence of poor governance. But it could take a while before the country's layered and multi-dimensional problems of governance are fixed, and until then, the State must answer to its citizens in court.
More avoidable is the second category of cases in which both parties to the dispute belong to the State, either at the central or the state level. In other words, precious judicial bandwidth is clogged by one branch of the government suing another, sometimes for frivolous procedural or protocol matters, easily resolved through internal arbitration.
Venkatesh Nayak, who heads the Access to Information Program at the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative in Delhi, said that coordination and harmony within departments is the responsibility of the Chief Ministers at the state level and the Prime Minister at the Centre, and they should be held responsible for failing to resolve these disputes internally.
"The government suing itself is completely absurd," he said. "Unless there is a constitutional issue which requires interpretation, why should the executive run to the judiciary to resolve petty disputes. The government doesn't want to take responsibility for the decision so it is easier to transfer responsibility."
In a country where there are only 17 judges for every 10 lakh people, and almost three lakh people are languishing in jail without having been proven guilty because their trials move at a glacial pace through the courts, the state suing itself ought to be heavily restricted.
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Nobody Knows
The strange thing is, nobody is even sure how many cases involving the government is pending in the courts.
Under the union law ministry's legal affairs department, there exists a unit called the central agency section which deals with all of the litigation of the government. D.S. Mehra, an Additional Government Advocate in the section, said he didn't know the number of cases in which the Centre is a party.
"How do you expect me know about all the cases? The government of India is very big," he said.
The Indian government doesn't have a comprehensive record of exactly how many cases in which it is a party, but its share is estimated to be somewhere between 46 percent to 70 percent of all matters pending in courts in India.
"Till date, no centralized information is available," P.K. Malhotra, a former law secretary who retired this month, told HuffPost India.
Last year, the Law Ministry decided to set up "The Legal Information Management and Briefing System (LIMBS),"a web-based application, which aims to collect data from all the departments regarding the pendency and status of cases.
This internal database would allow officials to monitor the cases and weed out disputes which are not worth litigating, Malhotra said. "The process has been slow. So far, 60,000 cases have been uploaded, but there should be much more information in the next four to five months," he said.
Appeal After Appeal
Many people end up going to court because they can't find alternative forums where parties can resolve disputes without going to trial. To make matters worse, the prevailing culture is for the State to mechanically file appeals to the highest level possible.
"Government litigation crowds out the private citizen from the court system," former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said in 2004, while revealing that the government was a litigant in 65 percent of civil cases in Kerala, sometimes on both sides.
Singh also said 95 percent of appeals by the Kerala government had failed, which suggests that those appeals should not have been filed at all.
In cases of dispute between government departments, Nayak from CHRI points out that instead of running to the courts, the Prime Minister and Chief Ministers can use the "Transaction of Business Rules."
Suggesting that the Prime Minister and Chief Ministers should discuss such matters at their weekly cabinet meetings, he said, "The Cabinet is not only responsible for taking decisions but to ensure the smooth functioning of the government."
Malhotra said that the Law Ministry as well as other departments "issue instructions from time to time to not litigate," and resolve disputes through internal mechanism or through consultation.
Implement The Policy Already
With the din over the staggering backlog in Indian courts growing louder over the years, the Indian government has made some feeble attempt at reforms.
In 2010, the Congress Party-led United Progressive Alliance government put in place the 2010 National Litigation Policy to reduce the cases pending in various courts in India, and to reduce the average pendency time from 15 years to three years.
Under the banner of "litigation will not be resorted to for the sake of litigating," NLP 2010 contained several measures to carry out "responsible litigation" such as not persevering with bad cases, not filing appeals in service matters if it involves "an individual grievance without any major repercussion," or in a revenue matter "if the stakes are not high."
Four years after the policy was announced, however, the Central Information Commission had to scold the Law Ministry for not responding to a Right To Information application which sought details on how the far this policy was implemented by the UPA government.
Information commissioner Sridhar Acharyulu wrote that the RTI application "gave an opportunity to the public authority to explain to the people about their efforts to reduce litigation and report the progress, for instance, how many cases or appeals are filed by state, how many of them are frivolous, how many were withdrawn...."
The 2010 NLP was never implemented, and now the Modi government is formulating its own policy which would include measures such as appointment of officers to closely scrutinize whether a matter is worth litigating, and encourage resolving disputes outside of courts.
'Utter Indifference And Callousness'
The government's decision to introduce arbitration and mediation clauses in work contracts of its staff will not only relieve the courts, but also save their employees from years of stress and anguish of the kind Shankar Das, a cash clerk in Delhi Milk Scheme, experienced for 23 years running from court to court until the Supreme Court determined that his dismissal was "whimsical."
In another case, Devaki Nandan Prasad, who worked in the Bihar Education Service for 39 years, ran from pillar to post for over a decade trying to get his pension.
In its 1988 report, the Law Commission of India cited "arrogance and superiority complex," and "utter indifference and callousness bordering on vendetta" as reasons for the government pursuing "tortuous litigation" against its employees and retired persons.
"The bureaucracy disclosed an attitude for which Bourbons in history were notorious, namely, they learn nothing and forget nothing," the commission said.
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