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David Reeves to keynote new Games Convention
Ex-SCEE president David Reeves is to keynote Games Convention Online, as you can see here, with a talk owhich will apparently answer the question of when online game sales will overtake standard retail. Reeve's talk is titled, "Schrodinger's Cat and Heisenberg's Dog – The Change from Offline to Online". GCO takes place on 31 July […]
Gamescom 2009: 300 exhibitors now confirmed
So far, over 300 exhibitors from 25 countries are registered for Gamescom 2009 in Cologne. Names you may have heard of that will be attending include: Activision Blizzard, Bigben Interactive, Capcom, dtp entertainment, Electronic Arts, Funcom, GOA, Hama, Koch Media, Konami, Microsoft, Namco Bandai, NcSoft, Nintendo, Rondomedia, Sega, Sony, Square Enix, Take-Two, Tivola, Ubisoft, and […]
GDC: Dragon Age: Origins demo shows first look at the Village of Redcliff
During GDC we were given a sneak peek at Dragon Age: Origins via a demo with BioWare. The scene shown to us was of the Village of Redcliff, where the villagers are being plagued at night by a horrible mist that brings the dead with it. Your group of warriors must decide whether to help […]
GDC: "Cloud is a great opportunity," says Wright
Spore-creator Will Wright has told VG247 that he believes Cloud will work if supported properly by developers and publishers, and that the concept represents a "great opportunity" for the industry. "In the future, if people are really browsing these things, it's a great opportunity," he said, talking of Cloud-based systems like OnLive, which was announced […]
GDC: Rockstar should have had more 'realistic expectations' for The Lost and Damned, says Pachter
We met up with Michael Pachter at GDC yesterday. In return for us showing him where to pick up his badge and sneaking him into the Luminaries Lunch, he told us why he thought Rockstar and Microsoft have yet to release any concrete download numbers for GTA IV DLC, The Lost and Damned. The Wedbush […]
GDC: LBP still isn't finished, says Media Molecule
Media Molecule's Alex Evans and Mark Healey revealed at GDC 09 that LittleBigPlanet is only really half finished. "We still feel like we're halfway through the development of LittleBigPlanet, to be honest," said Healey. "I claim that LittleBigPlanet is potentially a game creation package, which isn't finished if you like, but potentially." "We want LittleBigPlanet […]
GDC: Level 5 confirms Western Layton sequels on way
According to MCV, Level 5's confirmed that the sequel to much-loved DS puzzler Professor Layton and the Curious Village – Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box – will be heading west within the next six months. The third part of the series will reach us next year, apparently. Bit more through here.
Game Connection confirms 220 exhibitors for GDC
This year's Game Connection, taking place at GDC, has 220 exhibitors confirmed for the March 24-26 event, says Gamasutra. Self-described as "a unique speed dating event for business-focused game makers," GC will see over 30 nations represented, 40 percent of which are North American, with 15 percent from Asian countries. Half of the 220 exhibitors […]
Games Convention and gamescom go mano-a-mano
Koelnmesse's brought the first gamescom forward to directly coincide with next year's Games Convention. The show will take place from August 19-23, and not in September as previously planned. "gamescom belongs to the entire industry and should enjoy as much acceptance as possible," said BIU boss Klemens Kundratitz. "This is why we took reservations voiced […]
Gamescom's "ridiculous," says Leipzig boss
This isn't going to get any simpler, is it? Speaking to MCV, Games Convention boss Wolfgang Marzin has trashed 2009 Cologne show gamescom as a "ridiculous" idea. "We know the truth," he told MCV. "We've already proved that GC works, and we have trade backing – nobody wants a show in September. Another copy of […]
"Almost all market leaders" will attend gamescom 2009, says Koelnmesse boss
Koelnmesse boss Oliver P Kuhrt has issued a stark statement to Leipziger Messe in the face of the East German outfit announcing GC2009 dates. Translated, it says something along the lines of, "Give it up: everyone's coming to gamescom next year." "It was to be expected that Leipziger Messe" would announce dates for a 2009 […]
Konami thanks Games Convention for all the fish, confirms for GamesCOM
Konami's put out a press release – in German on WiiTower – confirming attendance at GameCOM in Cologne next year and thanking Games Convention for, you know, being good and stuff. "Konami says 'Thanks, Leipzig' for the many great years and such a positive time," said Konami marketing boss Martin Schneider. "We look back on […]
Games Convention fixes sights on North America
We already have proof positive that Leipzig is to remain GC's central base of operations, but the super-sized convention may soon be expanding its empire onto North American shores. "The concept is flexible and the network of the global games industry permits us to be active at different locations. After the Southeast Asian Games Convention, […]
It's so on: Games Convention 2009 officially dated
According to the official GC site, Leipziger Messe has officially dated Games Convention 2009, which is to run from August 19-23, 2009. To say this "puts the cat among the pigeons" is a bit of an understatement. The BIU – the German equivalent of ESA or ELSPA – has announced GamesCOM for 2009, a Cologne […]
GC 2009 Latest
GDC: Dragon Age: Origins demo shows first look at the Village of Redcliff
GDC: Rockstar should have had more 'realistic expectations' for The Lost and Damned, says Pachter
"Almost all market leaders" will attend gamescom 2009, says Koelnmesse boss
Konami thanks Games Convention for all the fish, confirms for GamesCOM
PES 2009 and Silent Hill Homecoming and new Konami games confirmed for Leipzig


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Australian society is regarded in the wider world as essentially British (or at any rate Anglo-Celtic), and until the mid-20th century that portrayal was fairly accurate. The ties to Britain and Ireland were scarcely affected by immigration from other sources until then, although local concentrations of Germans, Chinese, and other ethnic groups had been established in the 19th century. But the complex demographic textures in Australia at the beginning of the 21st century contrasted quite sharply with the bland homogeneity of the country for much of the 20th century. Although some nine-tenths of Australia's population is European in ancestry, more than one-fifth is foreign-born, and there is a small but important (and growing) Aboriginal population. Of those born overseas, about half were born in Europe; though by far the largest proportion of those are from the United Kingdom, there are also more than 200,000 Italians. Among the larger non-European groups are New Zealanders and Vietnamese. The growth in immigration, particularly Asian immigration (from China, Vietnam, Hong Kong, and the Philippines) beginning in the last decades of the 20th century, combined with a subsequent flow of refugees from the Balkans, has altered the cultural landscape, imbuing Australia with a cosmopolitanism that it lacked in the mid-20th century.
The persecution of and political indifference shown toward Aboriginal people failed to extinguish their culture; inevitably "land rights" became the rallying cry of a political movement accompanying a highly publicized revival of the Aboriginal community. A national referendum on Aboriginal rights held in 1967 agreed to the transfer of legislative power over Aboriginal affairs from the states to the federal government, and this accelerated the revival. The number of Australian Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders, though still only a tiny fraction of the total population, increased dramatically in the last decades of the 20th century and into the 21st century, jumping from 115,000 in 1971 to some 410517,000 200 in the 2001 2006 census.
In numerical terms the most important Aboriginal concentrations are located in Queensland, New South Wales, Western Australia, and Northern Territory. Until the later 1960s the Aboriginal population was not inaccurately described as being as rural as white Australia was urban. In the Outback, small numbers still lived in tribal societies and tried to maintain the traditional ways. Some were employed as highly skilled stockmen on the big stations (ranches), and welfare payments and charitable organizations supported others on mission stations and government reserves. From the 1970s and '80s the drift of Aboriginals to the towns and cities transformed the old patterns except in Northern Territory, where the rural distribution has remained predominant. Their migrations to the country towns have often left Aboriginal families as stranded "fringe dwellers," a term with social as well as geographic connotations. In the larger centres, Aboriginal communities from widely differing backgrounds face innumerable hazards as they attempt to adjust to volatile urban politics. Perceptions of common grievances have encouraged a unity of purpose and a sense of solidarity between urban and rural groups.
The growth in the Aboriginal population has been exceeded by Australians born in Vietnam, China, Hong Kong, and the Philippines. By the early 21st century, about one-third of all new settler arrivals had been born in Asia. Huge expenditures have been made on Aboriginal affairs, to the chagrin of much larger minority groups who have received less international visibility. Official federal policy has been to encourage self-help and local autonomy while improving the provision of essential services and the climate of opportunity. Obstacles to progress have included residual prejudice and neglect in the white (i.e., European) community and the lingering consequences of the vicious circle of poverty, ignorance, and disease in which native peoples became entrapped after their earliest encounters with whites.
English, Australia's official language, is almost universally spoken. Nevertheless, there are hundreds of Aboriginal languages, though many have become extinct since 1950, and most of the surviving languages have very few speakers. Mabuiag, spoken in the western Torres Strait Islands, and the Western Desert language have about 8,000 and 4,000 speakers, respectively, and about 50,000 Aboriginals may still have some knowledge of an Australian language. (For full discussion, see Australian Aboriginal languages.) The languages of immigrant groups to Australia are also spoken, most notably Chinese, Italian, and Greek.
Recorded religious adherence has generally mirrored the immigrants' backgrounds. In every census since the early colonial era, most Australians have professed to be Christian, principally Anglican and Roman Catholic, but simple materialism has become more influential than Christianity. The number of Roman Catholics exceeded the number of Anglicans for the first time in the late 1980s. More than two-thirds of Australians identify themselves as Christian; about one-fourth are Roman Catholic, one-fifth Anglican, and one-fifth other Protestant (notably of the Uniting Church, Methodist, and Presbyterian denominations). The proportions registering as Orthodox Christians, Muslims, and Buddhists increased sharply in the last decades of the 20th century; there are also small groups of Jews and Hindus. By the beginning of the 21st century, more than one-sixth of Australians professed no religion, and about one-tenth of citizens refused to disclose their religious affiliation on the national census form. In contrast to the European settlers, traditional Aboriginal communities are intensely spiritual. There religion gives meaning to life, and the coordinating theme is the sustaining connection between land and people.
The population debate—which is laden with considerable controversy—is a long-running affair that has drawn contributors from every walk of life since the beginning of the colonial era. After the mid-19th century, population growth was frequently adopted as an index of economic success and environmental adaptation, and the proximity of Asia's crowded millions deepened national insecurities. One of the first objectives of the new federal government, established in 1901, was to design a "White Australia" policy, which aimed to prevent diluting Australia's Anglo-Celtic heritage. Although the policy was both unproductive and discriminatory, it was made more attractive by blending imperial and nationalistic sentiments that proclaimed "population capacities" of 100 to 500 million in Australia's "vast empty spaces." In the interwar period the Australian geographer Griffith Taylor argued that there were stringent environmental limits that would restrict Australia's population to approximately 20 million people by the end of the 20th century. Taylor was vilified and finally hounded out of Australia, but his "environmental determinism," like his remarkable prediction, was well-remembered, particularly since Australia's population only approached that benchmark at the beginning of the 21st century.
The battles in the Pacific theatre during World War II revived the "populate or perish" catchcry, and after the war a vigorous campaign was launched to encourage immigration from all parts of Europe. The government initially continued to emphasize the exclusivist White Australia policy, and the country's ethnic composition was only slightly affected. Over the succeeding decades, however, ethnic diversification gradually intensified, eventually setting off heated debates over the relative merits of publicly funded programs for assimilation and for multiculturalism.
The big cities received the bulk of the postwar immigration. Melbourne's early lead in industrialization was closely associated with the immigration boom, but Sydney eventually proved more attractive. The impact of immigration was not confined to these two centres; whereas the overseas-born population accounted for about one-third of the total for Sydney and Melbourne at the start of the 21st century, the national proportion was more than one-fifth and rising. Each of the other state capitals and the industrializing provincial centres also received their share of the influx. The impact was much smaller in the rural districts, except for the areas under irrigation.
At the outset, the federal government preferred to maintain British and Irish immigration at a high rate, but those sources were soon deemed insufficient to meet rising expectations, and further "assisted migration" and "private sponsorship" agreements were negotiated with other European and Middle Eastern governments. In addition, most major world crises have introduced fresh waves of immigrants: refugees from Hungary and Czechoslovakia after the uprisings in the 1950s and '60s; from Lebanon and from Chile and other Latin American countries in the 1970s; from Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam) and China in the late 1970s and '80s; and from the Balkans in the 1990s. Since the end of World War II, some 600,000 refugees and displaced persons have arrived in Australia—more than one-tenth of the total number of new settlers. Consequently, about half of the population has been born overseas or has at least one overseas-born parent.
The White Australia policy was relaxed in 1966 and officially abandoned in 1973. Thereafter the share of non-European immigrants, particularly from Asia, began to increase. Most of the debates on immigration have focused on cultural and economic issues and only peripherally on ethnicity, and (with the exception of the complex Aboriginal issues) Australians largely have been spared the kinds of interracial conflict that have scarred other immigrant societies. Nevertheless, opposition to immigration and multiculturalism policies sparked the formation of the anti-immigrant One Nation Party in the late 1990s; although the party's success was limited, its position resonated with some Australian voters.
As discussed above, there was a dramatic increase in the indigenous population after World War II. This growth is usually attributed to greater pride in Aboriginality, the evolution of positive discrimination (affirmative action) policies in education, health, and welfare, and the official adoption of a generous definition of "Aboriginals" and "Torres Strait Islanders." (For a further discussion of the labels, see Researcher's Note: "Aborigines" and self-designation.) The relatively youthful age-structures and high fertility rates of those enumerated as indigenous largely account for the continuing upward trend. Nevertheless, infant mortality is unusually high, and average life expectancy at birth is about 30 percent lower than that of the rest of Australia.
Australia's overall rate of natural population increase is less than half the world average, and its death and birth rates are also less than the world average. Life expectancy is high—in excess of 75 years for men and 80 years for women. Australia's population age 65 or over is substantial and growing, and about one-fifth of the population (many from the immigrant and Aboriginal communities) is under 15.
Australia has not yielded readily to development by Europeans. Even on the relatively favoured eastern periphery, the first European settlers were perplexed by the environment. Later, when they penetrated the mountains of the Great Dividing Range, they had to fight even harder against searing droughts, sudden floods, and voracious bushfires; they also continued to clash, often ruthlessly, with Aboriginal communities. Pioneer settlers took pride in conquering the continent's prodigious distances, and that became a national trait. The spread of railway networks in the latter part of the 19th century and the subsequent introduction of the automobile, the airplane, radio, television, and the Internet gradually reduced the friction of distance, but the conquest was far from complete even by the beginning of the 21st century.
The most densely populated 1 percent of the country contains nearly seven-eighths of Australia's total population. Since the early 19th century, the terms Outback, Interior, and Coastal (also Fringe, or Fertile Crescent) have been popular titles for the three broad regions of settlement. The term bush is applied indiscriminately to most rural or isolated districts regardless of their stage or type of development.
Extensive arid and semiarid areas in Western Australia, Northern Territory, and South Australia are routinely labeled as actually or virtually uninhabited. This description also applies to remote sections of west-central Queensland and to scattered patches of dry or mountainous wilderness in Victoria, New South Wales, and Tasmania. On the northern and central mainland some large Aboriginal reserves punctuate the open territory.
In the more useful but still arid and semiarid country, enormous cattle and sheep stations are held under complex leasehold arrangements, and property sizes generally range between 30 and 5,800 square miles (80 and 15,000 square km). Many of the larger holdings are now controlled by Australian banks and investment firms or by large domestic and foreign companies, though original pioneering families are still represented. The fulcrum of the typical big station is a compact base comprising the homestead headquarters and separate buildings for the manager, overseer, general and specialized workers, garage and machine shops, butchery, shearing shed, and small airstrip. These pastoral hamlets typically accommodate between 15 and 50 individuals; a few widely scattered huts or cottages might be available for outlying workers. Thus, the private enterprise development of areas much larger than some U.S. states or groups of English counties is essentially in the keeping of small groups of tightly focused communities—albeit under leasehold, not freehold, tenures.
The gradual improvement in the quantity and reliability of rainfall from this difficult interior to the coast is not uniform, but it is a noticeable tendency and is accompanied by progressively denser settlement. A standard sequence begins with wheat and sheep farming on the drier margins and moves on to more specialized wheat production and intensive livestock enterprises, dairy farming, and market gardening. Roughly equivalent gradations may be traced in the spacing of properties—for example, from large wheat-sheep enterprises that may exceed 2,500 acres (about 1,000 hectares) held in a mixture of freehold and leasehold tenures, down to freehold dairy farms and market gardens using about 100 acres (40 hectares) apiece and often much less than that. Irrigation developments interrupt the sequence in all states.
A combination of government enterprise and the initiatives of pioneer families had established the main outlines of this framework by World War I in the older states and a little later in Queensland and Western Australia. The existence of characteristic Australian farming and grazing belts from state to state can be exaggerated, but, to the extent that these exist, they are the product of common objectives in settlement policy and represent a gradual clarification, by people and governments, of the importance of regional environmental quality.
Prominent mining centres such as Mount Isa in Queensland and Broken Hill in New South Wales are exceptions to the rule that sizable towns cannot be supported in the Outback. But over the country as a whole, remarkably few Australians live in the rural districts, despite their national economic importance and their stereotyped images overseas. Small service centres are distributed through every region in proportion to the intensity of rural production. Insulated yet also restricted by remoteness, the economies of most of the larger towns incorporate food and fibre processing and assorted light industries. Several towns have been assisted by state and federal decentralization policies aimed largely at reducing the extraordinary concentration in the state and territorial capitals.
Aboriginal land rights campaigners in Northern Territory and in Western Australia and South Australia have achieved significant successes, contributing to the Australianization of the wider national Aboriginal community. Perhaps it is only a slight exaggeration to state that, taken in conjunction with decisions made at state and federal levels to begin rehabilitating soils and vegetation ravaged by two centuries of aggressive European settlement, the process signified the dawning recognition of a binding moral imperative. The Aboriginal communities that have been awarded freehold or near-freehold rights over extensive areas have been made well aware that their management skills are under close observation. On the other hand, a stirring nationwide "reconciliation" has held out the promise of improved relationships.
Despite the continuing significance of farming, grazing, and mining activities that have shaped most of Australia's landscapes and contributed so much to its distinctive history, Australia is statistically among the most urbanized countries in the world. Whereas more than two-fifths of Australia's population lived in rural areas in 1911, by the 1970s that proportion had declined to about one-seventh. At the beginning of the 21st century, urbanization had slowed, but nearly seven-eighths of the population is officially described as urban. Statistics, however, mask part of the story, not taking into account the peculiar role of "the bush" in the Australian psyche. In any event, "suburban" is a better description of the lifestyles of the bulk of the Australian population.
The metropolitan centres and provincial towns are almost entirely the products of growth since the 19th century, and, in their low-density living and dependence on the automobile, they resemble North American rather than European creations. Yet close inspection of the legacies of colonial town planning and of some assertive architectural preferences suggests a certain hybridization of international influences. Canberra, the federal capital, differs from each of the other rapidly growing centres in its heavy emphasis on planning. The American architect Walter Burley Griffin produced the original design, and construction began in 1913. Canberra's planners harnessed rather than changed the national preference for suburban sprawl, but the city's broad avenues, artificial lake, and prestigious public buildings and monuments—including a striking Parliament House, completed in 1988—have maintained its conspicuous individuality.


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Akeimo v. Mulu;
[2] Candidate for matai who has committed infamous crime cannot be registered as matai. (Codification Sec. 80)
AKEIMO of Nuuuli, Plaintiff
MULU of Nuuuli, Defendant
[Matai name: "Taufetee"]
High Court of American Samoa
Civil Jurisdiction, Trial Division
No. 6-1939
April 22, 1940
Application to be registered as holder of matai title "Taufetee," to which there was one objector who also became candidate. Trial Jurisdiction of the High Court, Chief Justice Morrow, held that applicant was ineligible, having been convicted for infamous crime, and awarded title to objector.
Judgment for objector.
1. Matai Titles-Determination of Matai-Eligibility Requirements
Candidate for matai who has committed infamous crime cannot be registered as matai. (Codification Sec. 80)
2. Matai Titles-Determination of Matai-Eligibility Requirements; Criminal Law-Infamous Crime
Determination as to whether crime is infamous, and therefore excludes matai convicted thereof from registration, depends on maximum punishment which court is authorized to impose and not what court in fact did impose.
3. Criminal Law-Imprisonment
Imprisonment in Samoa is construed to mean imprisonment at hard labor during whole or any part of sentence. (Codification Sec. 54)
4. Matai Titles-Determination of Matai-Eligibility Requirements; Assault and Battery-Infamous Crime
Assault with deadly weapon is infamous crime and disqualifies candidate from eligibility for matai title.
5. Matai Titles-Determination of Matai-Considerations for Court
Codification sets forth considerations for determination of matai title holder.
A. A. MORROW, Chief Justice; PULETU, District Judge; and MULI, District Judge.
On June 20, 1939 Mulu of Nuuuli filed his application with the Registrar of Matai Titles to be registered as the Taufetee. On July 12, 1939 an objection to such pro[2ASR90]posed registration was filed in behalf of Akeimo who became a candidate for the name. On July 17,1939 a like objection was filed in behalf of Leasio who likewise became a candidate for the name. Leasio's candidacy was withdrawn on April 8, 1940. Hearing was had on April 11, 1940.
Counsel for Mulu: Aumavae and Lesio.
Counsel for Akeimo: Maluia.
MORROW, Chief Justice.
During the course of the hearing undisputed evidence was introduced to the effect that Mulu had been convicted of the crime of assault with a deadly weapon for which he was fined $50.00 and sentenced to prison for six months. The record in the case which resulted in such sentence reveals that the charge against him was as follows:
"On the 9th day of August 1930, the defendant Mulu of Nuuuli, did assault Viena of Nuuuli with a deadly weapon to wit, a bush knife, and did maim and lacerate the left hand of Viena, contrary to Section 24 of the Codification of the Regulations and Orders for the Government of American Samoa."
Section 24 of the Codification upon which the charge was based reads as follows:
"In all cases of assault, with or without intent to kill, or injure, the person convicted shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $250.00, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both: provided, that when no deadly weapon is used and no serious damage done, the punishment in cases of assault, assault and battery, and affrays, shall not exceed a fine of $250.00, or imprisonment for not more than two months."
[1] It appears from the commitment that the sentence was construed to be imprisonment at hard labor. Section 80 of the Codification, enacted April 4, 1914, provides that: [2ASR91]
"No person who shall, after the enactment of this regulation, be convicted of and sentenced for murder, attempt to commit murder, rape, attempt to commit rape, burglarly [sic], robbery, larceny, embezzlement, false pretense, forgery, perjury, smuggling, selling intoxicating drink to natives, or infamous crime, or aiding or abetting therein, shall be eligible to hold any office or position of honor , trust, or profit under the Government of American Samoa, or be permitted to register a matai name; and a pardon granted such person shall not restore his eligibility to such office or position, or his right to register a matai name, unless it is expressly so provided."
[2] In determining [sic] whether the conviction above referred to rendered Mulu ineligible to register a matai name it is necessary for us to determine whether or not the crime of which he was convicted was infamous. A crime is infamous if upon conviction therefor the wrongdoer may be subjected to an infamous punishment. Ex parte Wilson, 114 U.S. 417. In the course of his opinion in the case just cited Mr. Justice Gray said at p. 428:
"For more than a century, imprisonment at hard labor in the State prison or penitentiary or other state institution has been considered an infamous punishment in England and America."
It is not the punishment which is actually inflicted but that which may be imposed that determines whether or not the crime is infamous. Id. at p. 426. The doctrine of the Wilson case was later approved in United States v. Moreland, 258 U .S. 433. "The decision (as to whether a particular crime is infamous) turns not upon the punishment actually inflicted, but upon the punishment the court is authorized to impose." 16 Corpus Juris 60.
[3] It was the practice in American Samoa long before the foregoing criminal case against Mulu was tried to construe the imprisonment authorized by Section 24 to mean imprisonment at hard labor. Section 54D(1) of the Codification enacted in 1939 which reads:
"Any able bodied made [sic] person confined in jail under a sentence of imprisonment for the violation of any law. ..may be [2ASR92] required to do hard labor during the whole or any part of the time of the sentence, unless the tribunal at the time of passing final judgment of imprisonment shall otherwise direct."
merely stated what had been understood to be the law and what in fact had long been the practice in connection with imprisonment for crime in American Samoa.
American Samoa does not have a penitentiary but its prison on the Island of Tutuila in which Mulu was confined serves the same purpose.
[4] It is our opinion that the crime, namely an assault with a deadly weapon, for which Mulu was convicted and for which he was sentenced was an infamous one within the meaning of Section 80 of the Codification. We do not decide that every crime for which the wrongdoer may be sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor is infamous. But we do decide that an assault with a deadly weapon for which the wrongdoer may be fined not to exceed $250.00 and imprisoned at hard labor not more than five years is an infamous crime. We are limiting our decision to the facts of this case.
It follows from what we have said and from the provisions of Section 80 of the Codification above quoted that Mulu is not eligible to register a matai name. It was stated by counsel for Mulu that some matais in American Samoa had been convicted of crimes and were permitted to retain 'their matai titles. That may be true. It should be noted that Section 80 has no application whatsoever to taking away the name of a matai who may be convicted of crime. Section 79(7) of the Codification provides a means for the removal of an unfit matai if three fourths of the family so desire.
Mulu being ineligible to register a matai name, Akeimo is entitled to the name if he is eligible. The undisputed evidence shows that he meets the requirements of Section 81 [2ASR93] of the Codification for the registration. of a matai title. Consequently he is eligible.
[5] Formerly the law was to the effect that the High Court in a matai name case should award the name to the candidate with the best hereditary right. However, in the fall of 1937 the Governor, upon the request of the Annual Fono, enacted Section 79, 4A of the Codification which reads:
"In the trial of Matai name cases, the High Court shall be guided by the following in the priority listed:
1. The wish of the majority of the family.
2. The forcefulness, character, personality, and leadership of the candidate.
3. The best hereditary right in which the male and female descendants shall be equal in the family where this has been customary, otherwise, the male descendant shall prevail.
4. The value of the holder of the Matai name to the Government of American Samoa."
It is obvious that the 1937 enactment may be applied only when there are two eligible candidates for a matai name. Nevertheless, we shall discuss this case in the light of that enactment anyway. The court heard evidence as to the wish of the majority of the family. As is usual in the trial of matai name cases each candidate put in evidence a petition signed by the various members of the family who wished him to be the matai. There were 78 signers on Mulu's petition. On Akeimo's there were 242. There was conflicting evidence as to whether 147 names on Akeimo's petition were those of members of the Taufetee family. It is not necessary for us to consider such conflict of evidence. Conceding for the sake of argument that the 147 referred to were not members of the family there would be left of the 242, 95 who were. It would appear that a majority of the family wish Akeimo to hold the name Taufetee. He therefore, prevails over Mulu on the first issue. [2ASR94]
In view of Mulu's conviction of and sentence for an infamous crime we think that Akeimo in view of the other evidence prevails over Mulu on the second issue, viz., forcefulness, character, personality and leadership.
On the issue of the best hereditary right Mulu would, if he were eligible, prevail over Akeimo. Mulu is the true son of Taufetee Mulu and the grandson of Taufetee Iona, while Akeimo is the great grandson of Taufetee Maluia and the great-great-great-grandson of Taufetee Leo'o.
It is not necessary for us to decide which candidate would be more valuable to the Government of American Samoa since Akeimo prevails over Mulu on the first two issues, which under the statute are to be given more weight by the court that [sic] the last two.
The Registrar of Matai Titles will be advised to register Akeimo as the Taufetee.
Costs in the sum of $25.00 are hereby assessed against Mulu, the same to be paid within 60 days.


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a resident of East Palo Alto
on Mar 2, 2013 at 4:29 pm
This has got to stop! All residence of East Palo Alto, East Menlo Park as well as Palo Alto and Atherton need to come together to Stop the Violence. Get involved people. Laurel Avenue Church of Christ March 12th 8:00pm become the change we wish to see. Please come out lets get the action going, that is needed to stop this senseless violence.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Mar 2, 2013 at 5:54 pm
How can the violence possibly be stopped? People know it's not right to shoot someone. They know they can go to prison, yet they don't care. There is no way to climb into their heads and convince them otherwise. They don't care if they die tomorrow. It seems the only thing that can be done is to disassemble the gangs, which police have been trying for years to do.
a resident of another community
on Mar 2, 2013 at 6:27 pm
And a difficult task Carol, especially since often time these young gang members represent the second and even third generation of career criminals within an extended family unit. Many efforts to institute gang injunctions have been met with fierce opposition from civil rights groups.
At some point it has to balance out. I agree that practices involving racial profiling, solely based on race, should not be tolerated or condoned. However, more aggressive measures have to be taken against confirmed gang members and their associates in order to curb the violence. There will undoubtedly be cries of bias and prejudice. That's predictable. When the vast majority of gang members and their cohorts in the Bay Area are of Hispanic origin, including here on the Peninsula, it goes without saying that enforcement efforts will fall heavily within those communities. That should not be viewed as prejudice or bias. Those are facts that must be accepted and dealt with.
a resident of East Palo Alto
on Mar 3, 2013 at 5:12 am
It's easy to say let's just put gang members and there associates in jail , but all that is doing is building hate towards a certain race that is then passed on to other future generations. The difference between those gang members and the rest is that we really have to fight and compete for everything we own. We start from th bottom of the barrel and you people expect immediate change. That's easy to say when your just worried about where your next vacation is when people like us worry about how we going to pay rent, put food on the table.
a resident of East Palo Alto
on Mar 3, 2013 at 8:58 am
Its seems no one person has all the right answers. How simple a solution to simply put everyone in jail/prison and throwing the key away. How easy to give them a record for minute violations and in the process putting them on the sidelines for the rest of their lives. How easy to give so much power to a cop whose morals are probably not any better than all those "Holy" rapists in gowns.
I'm not talking blindly here.. Im talking from experience and factual knowledge of the injustices and unfair and unequal treatment of all these young losers shooting one another. I don't take sides.. if cops are crooks so call them crooks.. if the Ravenswood and Sequoia school systems have fault in this matter then so do the parents for allowing their kids to run with the wrong crowd.
Coaching, mentoring, educating about life's greatness and the possibilities outside of this insignificant lifestyle of smoking weed and hanging out.. these options seem to me would be of greater importance and better outcomes would surely follow.
a resident of another community
on Mar 3, 2013 at 9:43 am
To Real, placing gang members and their associates in jail will go a long way toward curbing the never ending violence, murders, and destruction of our overall quality of life. Whatever injunctions and enforcement efforts these thugs face are only due to the life they have chosen. You claim that law abiding citizens are somehow building hatred toward a certain race. How is that? Because they expect people not to commit violent crimes? And when society holds these thugs accountable for their violent actions that somehow translates to hate? No, it's time for you to get real.
Let's back this up a bit. The only one responsible for a gang member ending up the way they do is the gang member. They chose to enter that violent, cowardly lifestyle. They chose to squander their lives away, and they chose to become criminals. I think they knew right from wrong. It was their choice. Whatever situation they now find themselves in is by their doing. It is entirely a situation they created, so let's not enable these thugs by giving them excuses. Society is getting tired of it and they should not be let off the hook.
You know what Real, a lot of people have started at the bottom of the barrel who never chose a life of crime. The vast majority of people you describe as just looking forward to their next vacation worked very hard to get to where they are. They took advantage of their educational opportunities, maintained a strong work ethic, and you know what, they didn't waste their life and disrespect others by becoming a criminal.
For as many obstacles that the poor and working class people have, there are just as many opportunities, if people choose to take advantage of them. No one is going to hand you anything, and for you to blame everyone other than the ignorant thug who is solely responsible for their actions is a disgrace. It is precisely your type of thinking that ultimately holds people back.
a resident of East Palo Alto
on Mar 3, 2013 at 11:47 am
Where is the leadership in all of this?! The Mayor and council are a joke in this city. Lack of leadership is what is hurting this community. We need competent and experience people to run this city, not everyday people with no experience who win due to a popularity contest. It's unbelievable that anyone can be mayor of this city regardless of experience. Strong leadership is needed.
a resident of another community
on Mar 3, 2013 at 12:54 pm
Sarahe, the only lack of leadership that is truly hurting your community are the parents that allow and enable these youngsters that grow into violent gang members. It's not the responsibility of the mayor or government at any level to raise their children.
You need strong parents to hold their children accountable. For those young people who are unfortunate enough to not have that in their lives, there are many resources available to them, including a free public education that should make the paths to right and wrong very clear. For those that refuse to follow the right path, the criminal justice system awaits. It's a little something called accountability. Enough of shifting the blame to others, complaints about the system, and how unfair life is. The positives and opportunities still outweigh all of that, but only for the ones willing to work hard and earn it.
a resident of University South
on Mar 3, 2013 at 1:43 pm
Sarahe - You hit the nail right on the head. We do have gang memeber (and others just as bad) who will shot someone without taking a second to think. The real challenge to EPA is the Council and the Police Chief. We constantly see nice political events and statements. Our Chief is great about being quoted.
If he really wanted to get this done, he would get out of the nice two chairs he holds and walk the streets. Meet all the neighbors. Meet the gang members. Talk. He has "programs" and holds town hall meetings. All they do is look nice - and give the chief publicity. The Council is so bad, they will not take a singel corrective action to make things better in the gang world.
Can the city of EPA have the guts to go out and find someone who can work with the kids?
a resident of Downtown North
on Mar 3, 2013 at 2:10 pm
Don't worry people,once we pass more gun control laws this violence will end...
a resident of another community
on Mar 3, 2013 at 2:13 pm
Laughable Rocky. You continue to enable and blame everyone except for the only people who are responsible for the problem. It's not the government's fault, or the police chief's fault, or the city council's fault. It's their own fault. The government wasn't forcing these thugs to ignore their free public education and preventing them from going to school. That's a choice the gang members made. They weren't forcing them to commit crimes and adopting a criminal lifestyle at a young age. That's a choice the gang members made. They weren't diluting these idiots with alcohol or drugs. That's a choice the gang members made.
The government already provides a free public education, affordable job training, and a welfare system. Those not wishing to choose those options can always join the armed services. There are plenty of positive and constructive alternatives. For those choosing to be thugs and criminals, then the only corrective action they deserve is the criminal justice system. The outcome is in their hands and their hands alone. You do nothing more than enable and expect everyone else to solve the problem. That mentality accomplishes nothing.
a resident of East Palo Alto
on Mar 3, 2013 at 4:44 pm
Where are the parents in all this? Quit blaming authority figures when the problems begin long before that.
And Real - your words are true, but so is this perspective - its easier to make a home & a living when you & your family are safe from people of the same culture but opposite moral code. THEY are your enemy because not only do they not care about you, they will hurt you, kill you, steal your car, rob you, fight your dog, sell drugs on your corner & recruit your child into their gang. That's a lot more harmful than the guy focused on his next vacation.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Mar 3, 2013 at 9:11 pm
I completely agree with "Hmmm"
Great comments!
a resident of East Palo Alto
on Mar 3, 2013 at 11:12 pm
To Lyle, Free Education System, Welfare etc. What are you talking about? Like all those factors worked so well in DC, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York and on and on. You cannot place all blame on these young fools alone.. I dont know your age or what your background may be but it seems you are not well acquainted with the community and the many factors driving these "thugs" to committ criminal acts.For example: let us compare a free education at JLS Elementary vs Costano Elementary, and the differences in teacher qualifications or one's parents' insistent demands for greatness vs not showing up for Parent-Teacher meetings because youre too tired from a second job. Allbeit may sound like excuses and trying to explain the horrible conditions these kids grow up in...NO... in the end thats not the case. And although it may be incomprehensible or difficult to grasp. Sorry but you're only partly right and mostly wrong. Because the environment a person grows up in helps to create that person. How can you place same expectations on a kid with parents with little or no education to kids with parents who are Stanford graduates... That to me just seems a bit ignorant and very impractical. Try common sense for a change or as a starting point.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Mar 3, 2013 at 11:28 pm
I work for a nonprofit in EPA. I see parents who care about their children and want the best for them. And then abdicate responsibility for their children, though that's not how they apparently perceive it. They seem to feel as though they are incapable of raising their own children properly, and that that task should be delegated to professionals.
They are dependent on the public schools and on the many nonprofits who serve the community. There is a culture of dependency.
Some of the teens get involved in organizations like College Track or Foundation for a College Education. Many of the rest join gangs. Being a parent myself, I understand the challenges,but seems to me that many EPA parents are too willing to throw up their hands and expect someone else to sort it all out. A parent who does that is not the kind of parent who will provide a strong foundation for a child. And it has nothing to do with wealth or education -- poor people with little education can be great parents. But not if they refuse to take on that job.
a resident of another community
on Mar 4, 2013 at 7:19 am
Gang related violent crime has been a fixture in East Palo Alto going back at least half a century. The generational cycle of gang affiliation, and it's glorification, has not been broken. There are programs that provide opportunities for promising students, with responsible parents that stress education, to go on to successful careers. Yet, too many young residents are left with no vision for their future other than the gangster lifestyle. Studies have come and gone to remedy this situation but no applications have been successful so far.
a resident of another community
on Mar 4, 2013 at 8:36 am
That's the problem Tony. Too many people are waiting for some formula or "application" as you put it. The only remedy is for parents and these thugs that turn to crime to take responsibility for their actions or be held accountable. Neither is happening and that's why it's broken. Generation upon generation are publicly dependent and are looking toward society for support and to raise their children. They glorify the gang life because it's the easy way. Somehow they pathetically find validation amongst themselves through this pattern.
a resident of another community
on Mar 4, 2013 at 9:16 am
EPA Resident, you demonstrate much of the negative and defeatist attitude that I've been talking about. You systematically dismiss a public education in East Palo Alto as if any academic success is impossible to achieve in that environment. That's the problem, You see it as being inadequate instead of an opportunity. You blame the education system in your community and point toward failures in other urban areas. Again, a mindset of constantly pointing fingers at others rather than looking inward for change. How can anyone succeed at anything with that approach? Listen to yourself.
Ultimately what makes one school or any entity for that matter is the people and their commitment. Do you know why Palo Alto schools have a high achievement rate? Because the students and their families make it successful. They created that environment because they placed a value on education, practice a strong work ethic, parent their children, and lead positive lives. Notice that none of the things I just mentioned cost a dime. There is no reason it should not be the same in EPA.
And what of the other many affordable outlets that exist for those not wishing to pursue a higher education. Again, there are just as many opportunities as there are obstacles out there for those that CHOOSE to pursue them. There is affordable job training. One could also opt for military service and serve their country. You somehow ignore these possibilities, and I have to wonder why?
I don't have much sympathy for parents who neglect their responsibilities, or their children who ultimately CHOOSE a criminal life in gangs. The parents should have been held accountable a long time ago, unquestionably. I came to this country as part of an immigrant family. My parents had nothing. We could not speak the language. My parents had no formal education whatsoever. What they did have was an incredibly strong work ethic, sense of responsibility, and an independent refusal to be reliant on others. Again, personal traits that don't cost a dime. They saw all of the opportunities this country had to offer. The obstacles, difficulties, and prejudice were secondary. The plan was simple. Work hard, place value in education for their children, lead positive, responsible lives, and always be accountable for your actions. Again, personal traits that don't cost a dime. See a pattern here.
Ultimately those are the keys to success. So no, I don't feel sorry for these thugs that CHOOSE a criminal life. Society already provides an abundance of opportunity, but far too many people are either incapable or refuse to see it because they're too busy pointing fingers and casting blame. The vast majority of productive and successful people achieved that through hard work and making the right decisions in life no matter where they started. There is no publicly funded program or formula that is going to change that. It has to be done from within.
a resident of East Palo Alto
on Mar 4, 2013 at 11:46 am
EPA Observer nailed it. I've also worked for CBOs in EPA & see the dependency. I understand it, but it's not the long-term answer. What DOES work is parents who partner w/organizations in their community, maintaining authority while learning firm others. They're the ones whose kids mostly stay out of trouble.
Churches are also a big help, although I personally am not a fan of the low income version of the Madonna/Whore complex: Church goers are the madonnas, the others are the whores. But the church youth orgs are a good help, as are after school programs & sports. Just don't give them all the authority to raise your child! Stay involved & learn to not see them as better than you. Sure, they might have more education & drive a nicer car, but they're not your kid's mom or dad. Take pride in your role - you canNOT be replaced.
a resident of another community
on Mar 4, 2013 at 12:19 pm
Well said Hmmm.
a resident of East Palo Alto
on Mar 4, 2013 at 1:23 pm
I believe I stated that I was not making excuses for anyone.. and also lets be clear about the fact that yes of course those who strive to better themselves do achieve more. I am full aware of that. But your insistent portrayal of the fallacy which is the "American dream" justifies my notion that you are out of touch with reality.
When I offer opinions, I do so with more than rhetoric, I do so not just as philosophy, I offer opinion from firsthand experience. I can account for the decadence in my community. Several times you have mentioned the Military... been there done that... Honorably Discharged. What did it get me? Nothing. One week after discharge while driving through Menlo Park, pulled over, for no good reason, given a citation...Judge reasons with me dismisses the ticket. My brother driving home from school in Belmont, pulled over, labelled a Gang member by the San Mateo County Gang Task Force, for wearing a red Giants hat. Open your eyes Lyle. Get to know the people, educate yourself on the topic you are so opinionated about. I respect the fact that you consider yourself a success. I admire your parents' guidance and the fact that they gave you all the help that they probably could.
I too am doing as much as I can for my kids. I coach, discipline, admonish, and teach them by example. And I will not be told that I am waiting for handouts. I counter your insistent declaring that there's endless resources available up for grabs.
Sympathy is not necessary, understanding perhaps, but knowledge and comprehension are essential. Not all problems can be solved by throwing money at them or truckloads of books for that matter.
"It takes a village to raise a child." Villages function on little to no money Lyle, I know what you mean.
a resident of another community
on Mar 4, 2013 at 1:44 pm
And what understanding, knowledge and comprehension do you speak of that will make a difference in people's lives, other than choosing to be positive, hard working, and staying in school. You don't see the opportunities because you're still too busy either blaming others, or waiting for others to clear a path.
It doesn't take a village. It takes parents who care and hard work. You may choose to believe that the American Dream is a fallacy. If you truly believe that, then I feel sorry for you. I say there are millions of successful immigrants who would disagree with you, and don't be surprised when they pass you by seizing the many opportunities this country has to offer. You lower the bar and expect less from people. Where you see obstacles, I see endless opportunities. Where you have little belief in the individual being able to achieve, I have an abundance of faith in their ability. Like I said, I feel sorry for you. Heck of a way to live.
a resident of another community
on Mar 4, 2013 at 2:05 pm
Just another thought EPA Resident. First of all, I was remiss in not honoring you for your military service. Having served in two wars myself, I express my appreciation truly and sincerely. I also have to believe that you derived some positives from your service. I think it's impossible not to, at least from my own experience and perspective.
I still maintain that military service is a very viable option for a young man or woman who may choose not to pursue a higher education, at least at that point in their lives. What's a better alternative in your opinion. Military service or being a gang member? For those that may not qualify or have the funds for a four-year school, what about taking advantage of our community college system? We have some of the best community colleges in the country right here in the Bay Area. The schools are generally affordable and could set someone on any number of positive career paths. What about the many professional trade schools that exist throughout the Bay Area. Again, another positive alternative that could give anyone a sense of mission, self-respect, and pride.
There are many opportunities out there for those that believe in themselves and choose to pursue them. I have never ending faith in people no matter what background or economic situation they're in. Enough excuse making, enabling, and entitlements. I believe that people are always capable of rising to the level of expectation.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Mar 4, 2013 at 2:38 pm
[Portion removed by Palo Alto Online staff.] Education and hard work are the key words. Skip the "education", and people can still earn a reasonable income through hard work. Not enough money? Get two or three jobs as I did when I was single. Too many Americans claim they are too good to take manual labor jobs and they would rather leech off the government. I tire of reading and hearing of cultures blaming racism for their failure. I blame them for their laziness and sense of entitlement.


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- High crime rate
The uncertainty surrounding future US trade policy is holding back growth
In 2016, domestic demand was the main driving force for the growth in the Mexican economy thanks to easier access to credit and increased remittances from workers abroad, whilst exports did not benefit from the depreciation of the peso against the dollar because of the slowdown in activity in the United States (the leading customer). In 2017, growth is expected to remain fairly weak because of uncertainties around possible protectionist measures concerning its trade with the United States. The possible imposition of a 35% tax on Mexican exports to the US market, as talked about by President-Elect Donald Trump, would be a serious threat to the competitiveness of the Mexican manufacturing industry, as almost 80% of its exports go there. In the meantime, private investment is likely to fall as domestic and foreign investors wait and see. Public Investment will also remain restrained thanks to the budget cuts resulting from the low level of government revenues because of reduced oil and gas revenues, despite the gradual rise in prices. Household consumption should feel the benefits of the expected increase in remittances from Mexican workers living, mostly, in the United States, but will remain limited by the gradual raising of interest rates intended to keep inflation down. This is likely to increase under the impact of the depreciation of the peso, but will remain within the target range (3-4%) set by the Central Bank.
Prudent budget policy
In 2017, Mexico is expected to follow a prudent budget policy because of the reduced level of revenues coming from the energy sector, despite the gradual upturn in oil prices. The government is hoping to make up for the decline in public investment spending by means of increased public-private partnerships, as evidenced by the opening of the capital of PEMEX, the national oil and gas company which will bear the brunt of the investment cuts. The government is also examining the application of a fiscal responsibility law on the local States. This sets limits for the issuing of debt (only public investment and debt refinancing will now be possible). This prudent policy should limit the use of debt. In terms of monetary policy, the uncertainties relating to the future policies that will be applied by President Trump are likely to feed the volatility of the Mexican peso in 2017. The central bank is expected to continue intervening in the currency markets to prevent any excessive fall in the currency against the dollar and ensure that inflation remains within its target range (3-4%). The risks in terms of exchange rates should remain limited thanks to the considerable buffer provided by the country's currency reserves, estimated at 17% of GDP. Finally, Mexico can use the flexible credit line granted for a two year period by the IMF in May 2016 (8% of GDP), in the event of a major external shock.
The current account deficit is expected to hold relatively stable compared with 2016. Exports, mainly consisting of manufactured goods, as well as oil and gas, are expected to continue benefiting from favoured access to the North American market during the year. The deficit in services should remain widely steady, despite a slight boost to tourist revenues, whilst the income deficit (mostly because of the withdrawal of profits by multinationals) will remain high. The balance of transfers should improve thanks to the growth in remittances from workers in the United States.
Foreign policy will remain the priority for President Peña Nieto in 2017
In 2017, the Mexican government is likely to concentrate on its negotiations with the United States which is threatening to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and to increase the rate of expulsions of Mexican citizens living illegally in the United States. Although the NAFTA contains effective mechanisms for settling disputes and defines the measures of retortion, Mexico has very little choice but to accept decisions made in the United States given the level of the country's dependence on the United States. It is far and away the biggest partner for Mexico in terms of trade (80% of its exports go there) and investments, as well as being the leading source of remittances from Mexican workers abroad (around 12 million Mexicans live in the United States legally). Mexico also depends on the United States for military aid and information in the struggle against the drug cartels. In terms of domestic politics, the government is expected to continue its program of structural reforms adopted at the end of 2012. Following an initial tender call which failed to arouse much enthusiasm among investors, the reform of the energy market has proven more promising, with highly successful second and third phases. Further calls covering the deep water oil and gas exploration blocks are likely to take place during the year. Organised crime, corruption and violence continue to impact on the business climate.
Last update : January 2017
The common habits of payment in Mexico are basically by checks of wire transfer and in some special cases by credit card.
The process that involves the payment depends of the internal rules of the companies, in this country usually the company's request some documentation to proceed to made the payment, the documentation will be, as a example:
-The articles of incorporation of the company;
-The Tax identification named "Registro Federal de Contribuyentes";
-The purchase order;
-the approbation of the purchase from the company;
-the proof of delivery and reception of the product and/or service;
- The invoices.
-The information of the bank account;
-The state of the bank account that will be made the payment.
Once that the buyer has all the correct information proceed to made the payment by a wire transfer or by check; the check can be post dated in the cases that the companies don't have enough Money to make the payment; the process of payment will take approximately ten to fifteen days; and is common that the pay is made by a wire transfer.
a) COMMERCIAL DOCUMENTS.
In Mexico, this are the most common documents related to a commercial act:
-INVOICES: Is a commercial document issued by a seller to a buyer, indicated the quantities, products and agreed prices for products or services that the seller has provided the buyer.
In terms of debt and collection the invoices with its proper order and proof of the reacceptance of the merchandise proof the commercial relationship between the parties and in terms of the commercial law and agreements regulations the sale agreement is completed with the object, in this case the product or the service, and the price agreed by the parties; also in the cases that we do not have a written agreement; so the invoices are the perfect proof in lawsuit that the parties have a sale agreement and the buyer has a pending payment of the debt, that is object of the legal process.
-PROMISSORY NOTES: (CERTIFICATE OF INDEBTEDNESS)is an unconditional promise in writing to pay a person a sum of Money. In Mexico that document usually is use to have a guarantee of payment from the buyer; and is sign by the legal representative of the debtor for an amount that is superior of the total amount of the debt.
-CHECKS- (CERTIFICATE OF INDEBTEDNESS): an order for payment of Money on demand, drawn on a banker, and expressed as being payable either to bearer or to (the order of) a named person.
Checks can be post dated; it means that the payment will be in the next days that the invoice was delivery to the seller.
In the pre legal phase the process that is use here in Mexico is initiate with telephone contact, and a written letter send to the debtor in which we notify the debtor about amount of the debt and the intentions that the creditor has to negotiate the payment of the total amount.
The next step is visit the debtor personally; in the visit the person who made the managing of the collect, have a better perspective of the situation of the debtor because of the results of that visit we can see if the company still in business, if they have real states, assets, merchandise and rights that can be able to seize in the case that the legal process takes place; and the main purpose is, to know the real reason why they didn't paid the invoices on time.
In terms of Commercial law, we have three types of process that we can initiate against the Debtor.
This pre –legal process takes place when we have as a document to proof the pending payment and commercial relationship only INVOICES; we request to the judge the citation of the debtor or its legal representative; then we get the confession and acceptance from the debtor about the debt and the pending payment of it, once we have the confession before the judge as a executive document we are able to initiate legal process named Summary Business Proceeding.
This pre –legal process takes approximately two or three months.
2. Summary Business Proceeding.
This legal process takes place when we have a Certificate of Indebtedness (Promissory notes, checks, legal confession before the judge of the debtor or its legal representative); in this process when we initiate the lawsuit in the phase of citation we request to the debtor the payment of the total amount of the debt, if the debtor don't have enough money, we may be able to seize some assets, it could be real states, merchandise, bank accounts, industrial property rights of its trademarks, etc., as a guarantee of the total amount of the debt.
Once we seize assets as a guarantee of the debt, the legal process continues until we get the final resolution from the judge, then if we don't negotiate with the debtor or get the payment of the debt; we initiate the auction of the assets in order to get the recovery f the debt.
This legal process takes approximately six to eighteen months, it depends of the case.
3. Ordinary Business Proceeding.
This is the largest process that establishes our Commerce Law, it takes place when we don't have any Certificate of Indebtedness, it means we only have a commercial agreement with invoices and all the documents that proof the commercial sale and relationship between the parties.
In this types of process we only be able to seizure assets to guarantee the total amount of the debt until we get final sentence that condemn the debtor to pay the total amount of the debt.
This legal process takes approximately one to two years.
4. Oral Proceeding.
This process takes place when the total amount of the debt does not exceed the amount of31,856.68 EUR, as the Ordinary Business Proceeding we only can seizure assets as a guarantee of the debt when we get final sentence that condemn the debtor to pay the total amount of the debt.
This process was established by the commerce law since January 11th, 2013 and it takes approximately four to six months.


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Mount Flora Climber's Log
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|Brian Kalet
|3 Peaks
Date Climbed: Jul 3, 2011
|With Eva & Parry.
|Posted Jul 5, 2011 1:42 pm
|Jeremy Hakes
Date Climbed: Jul 23, 2005
|Nice walk.
|Posted Jan 22, 2011 2:44 pm
|5 Peak Day
Date Climbed: Nov 29, 2009
|Climbed along with Bancroft, Parry, Eva, and Whitter. One of my most memorable days of solo mountaineering.
|Posted Dec 20, 2010 10:22 pm
|Mt. Flora
Date Climbed: Jul 21, 2010
|great hike. nice gradual 13er with good views. highly recommend it!
|Posted Sep 16, 2010 12:04 am
|2nd of 4 peaks
|Hiked from Berthoud to Flora with PArry and then went back. tough day
|Posted Jul 31, 2010 9:36 am
|from Berthoud
Date Climbed: Jun 22, 2010
|Visited the summit of this peak 3 times during an out-and-back trip from Berthoud Pass to Bancroft. After hiking up CO Mines in the evening of the 21st I spent the night on the summit of Flora (amazing city lights and stars!), then continued on to Wittier, Eva, Parry, and Bancroft before retracing my steps back over Parry, Eva, and Flora over to Breckenridge, then back up Flora for the third and final time on return to Berthoud Pass. Would be great as a traverse if you can arrange a car shuttle at St Mary's Glacier - but this way was still fun!
|Posted Jul 7, 2010 11:28 pm
|Urban Start
Date Climbed: Sep 27, 2009
|2 pm start baby. Awesome.
|Posted Sep 28, 2009 1:44 am
|First 13er with my daughter
Date Climbed: Aug 29, 2009
|Took my two year old daughter up this and Mines Peak from Berthoud Pass. Nice hike to an amazingly scenic summit.
|Posted Aug 29, 2009 7:59 pm
|Nice Easy Hike
Date Climbed: Jul 25, 2009
|I bypassed Colorado Mines and went straight for the Mount Flora summit. Good views of the higher 13ers to the north and the 14ers to the south. Good trail the entire way.
|Posted Aug 18, 2009 5:49 pm
Date Climbed: Apr 19, 2008
|Wife, dog, and I. Successful second attempt after bailing due to the weather being too bad for the dog. Also did Breckinridge.
|Posted Aug 13, 2009 8:09 am
Date Climbed: Aug 23, 2008
|Hiked up from Berthold Pass, crossed over Colorado Mines Peak on the way to Flora, and then over to Breckinridge. Returned the stay way, but made an unsuccessfully sully over to Cone (unsuccessful since the skies started turning dark).
|Posted Jun 4, 2009 5:27 pm
|Steven Cross
|First 13er I hiked twice
Date Climbed: Sep 25, 2006
|THis is the first thirteenter I hiked 2 times. The first I hiked both Colorado Mines and Flora just after Colorado's first snow. Cloudy on top and the only views were from the saddles. The top of the clouds were only about 100 feet above the peak. Windy and cold. My first thirteener in the snow.
The second time I hiked it in June. Hiked over Flora to Eva, then back to Berthoud Pass. It was good to actually have views from the top.
|Posted May 21, 2009 1:18 pm
Date Climbed: Aug 3, 2003
|I climbed this one while Kimberly and Kessler were waiting for me on the summit of Colorado Mines Peak.
|Posted May 19, 2009 9:27 am


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HECTOR - The elementary school principal reported to Pope County Sheriff's Sgt. Darin Kirkland on Tuesday that a person or persons between March 14 and 18 allegedly damaged several double pane storm windows with a BB gun.
A report indicated the damage was estimated at $1,000.
Drug store burglaries
OLA - Yell County Sheriff's and local authorities are investigating two separate break-ins at the Cobb Drug Store on two consecutive nights March 18-19, according to authorities.
Entry was gained in both incidents by throwing a brick or other objects through the front door and front glass. The store owner stated to authorities that his drug store on Main Street has an alarm system, but an electric meter was pulled prior to the incidents. He said authorities and the business owner allegedly were not notified by an alarm company.
The complainant stated that approximately $3,000 in merchandise was missing. Damage to the drug store was estimated at $1,500. A $500 reward is available for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect or suspects. Persons can call the Yell County sheriff's office at 495-2811 in Danville or 229-4175 in Dardanelle.
Padgett new police chief
DANVILLE - A five-year veteran of the Danville Police Department, Ricky Padgett, was appointed as the city's police chief by the City Council on March 20.
Padgett, the senior member of the city's police force, succeeds the late Loyd Maughn, who passed away in December. Padgett, a 1994 graduate of Plainview High School, is the son of Elmer and Lavada Padgett of Russellville and Paul and Judy Emery of Dardanelle. He and his wife, Kristi, have two children, Kayla and Cade.
Padgett came to Danville in 1998 and graduated from the Arkansas Law Enforcement Training Academy in East Camden in 1999. He is a certified law enforcement and firearms instructor. He is joined on the Danville Police Department by Sgt. Kenny Jackson and officers Robert Dowling, Dolan Sharp and Burl Boyd.
Marijuana arrest
CLARKSVILLE - Arkansas State Police Cpl. Harry Smith Jr., who on Feb. 20 conducted an Interstate 40 traffic stop on a motor home that contained 2,670 pounds of marijuana worth an estimated $3 million, discovered between 100-150 pounds of marijuana during another I-40 traffic stop on Monday.
According to Troop J headquarters in Clarksville, Smith requested and received consent from the occupants of a 2003 Dodge van to search the vehicle after they were observed speeding near the 45-mile marker shortly after 4 p.m. A 66-year-old man and 46-year-old woman from Temple Hills, Md., who stated to authorities they were en route to Washington, D.C., were arrested.
Assisting Smith on the traffic stop and marijuana discovery were agents with the Fifth Judicial District Drug Task Force.
Alleged meth lab
CLARKSVILLE - Two men and a woman were arrested by Johnson County Sheriff's authorities, Arkansas State Police and Fifth Judicial District Drug Task Force agents March 21 after an alleged methamphetamine laboratory was discovered at a residence near the Bethlehem area.
Authorities executed a search warrant at the residence and arrested a 33-year-old Arkhoma woman and 43-year-old man and cited them for possession of drug paraphernalia with intent to manufacture. The man also had a failure to appear warrant on charges of possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and felon in possession of a firearm from Crawford County.
A third individual initially arrested was later released and not charged. Bond was set at $30,000 for the man and $5,000 for the woman by District Judge Jen Bradley.
Police chief finalists
CLARKSVILLE - The list of potential candidates for Clarksville's next police chief was whittled down to three recently by Mayor Billy Helms and a search committee.
The three finalists are Clarksville Police Cpl. Greg Donald, Clarksville Police Sgt. Jimmy Ralph and Johnson County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Jerry Dorney. Interviews were scheduled to begin Tuesday. The city's next police chief, who will succeed retiring chief Kyn Wilson, is expected to be named Monday.


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Upper South
April, 2010
Regional Report
Give Your Roses Some TLC
Although we normally think of June as the month for roses, this year in much of our region May has been the month for beautiful blooms. Once that first flush of flowers has finished, remove spent flowers by cutting stems just above a five-leaflet leaf. Keep an eye out for pests, such as aphids, black spot, and Japanese beetles. Have a plan of attack at the ready for when these appear. For repeat-blooming roses, be sure to feed regularly, following manufacturer%s recommendations for the fertilizer you choose. It%s usually best to stop feeding by August so that new growth has time to mature before frost.
Remove Spent Blooms on Lilacs and Rhododendrons
Snap or prune off the faded flowers from rhododendrons, azaleas, and mountain laurels. Be careful to avoid damaging the growth bud just below the flower cluster. This puts the plant's energy into new growth rather than seed production. Pinch off the step tips of azaleas to keep plants bushy. Remove faded lilac blooms to improve next year's bloom.
Have a "Sunny" Summer
There's still time to sow sunflower seeds in the garden for a fall crop. The giant oil seed types with the large heads are great feed for birds. Smaller-flowered multi-branching varieties make great cut flowers. Cut flower varieties grow from a few feet tall up to six feet with flower colors ranging from burgundy to pale yellow. When choosing a variety for cut flowers, read the description to see if it says %pollenless,% as this means the flowers will last longer and be less messy indoors.
Wisely Enjoy the Outdoors
Sunshine cheers us up and helps our bodies produce vitamin D, but it also can cause sunburn, premature wrinkling, cataracts, and skin cancer. To prevent the effects of too much sun exposure, apply sunscreen every day before going outside to garden, plus wear a hat and sunglasses. There are also clothes available that provide ultraviolet light protection. To avoid the effects of heat, drink plenty of water, take frequent breaks in the shade, preferably work outside in the early morning and evening, and wear a bandana soaked in cool water around your neck.
It's Not Too Late for Vegetable Planting
By choosing the right vegetables for the season, you can be planting vegetables into September. The time for planting cool-season crops, like peas, radishes, kale, and lettuces intolerant to heat, is past, but there is still plenty of time for direct sowing summer-season vegetables like bush beans, cucumbers, and squash. If you%re going to try transplanting tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants now, try to choose cooler, cloudy, rainy weather. Or, set cardboard boxes over the plants during the day and remove them in the evening for about a week to help the plants acclimate.