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Gemfest 2018
11th ANNIVERSARY
October 13th 2018
Every year, since 2007 the Nambour Lapidary Club has been host to the famous
We are constantly striving to improve it. This Year we expect to be our biggest and best yet.
The Art of cutting and polishing rocks and Gems as has long been part of our History
and many would agree it is part of our DNA.
The earliest records of our civilization show that gems and rocks were a vital part of cultures all over the world,
from ancient Egyptians who wore gems in their armour, to the Crown Jewels of England.
The art of cutting and shaping minerals has become more refined over the decades but the principles remain
the same. We all love to see the incredible diversity and array of minerals the earth has produced.
The GEMFEST is a magnificent yearly venue, where Fossickers, Miners, Jewellers, Traders, and regular folks
gather together to display and sell their wares.
ANYONE with anything to sell, related to rocks and gems is invited to participate.
Michelle Burgum, is our Clubs' new co-ordinator
Michelle will be now be the new point of contact for all registrations and enquiries.
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An untamed mix of raised bog, reedbed, wet grassland, ponds, streams and patches of woodland
Cors Caron National Nature Reserve is a vast area of wetland filling the broad valley of the River Teifi near Tregaron.
The reserve includes three raised bogs - areas of deep peat that have built up over the last 12000 years.
The raised bogs are surrounded by a complex and unique mix of habitats. These include reedbeds, wet grasslands, woodland and rivers, streams and ponds.
The variety of habitats makes this reserve a fantastic place for wildlife and its ever-changing shades of red, brown and yellow provide a rich counterpoint to the green of the surrounding hills.
Despite first appearances, there has been human habitation here from the earliest times and the bog itself was, for centuries, at the heart of the area's life and economy.
Peat was a vital fuel until the middle of the 20th century and you will find evidence of peat cutting everywhere.
Work is underway to restore the landscape to its original condition, so that new peat grows and the rich habitats that it supports are secured.
There are two circular walks at Cors Caron:
You can also access a six kilometre section of the Ystwyth Trail, a National Cycle trail. This follows an old railway track along the edge of the reserve.
Cors Caron is a National Nature Reserve.
National nature reserves are places with some of the very finest examples of wildlife habitats and geological features.
There are over 70 National Nature Reserves in Wales.
Find out more about National Nature Reserves.
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All of the walking trails are waymarked and start from the main car park.
1.5 miles, 2.6 kilometres, accessible
The boardwalk offers a circular route over the south-east bog. It passes by the observation building where you can enjoy a peaceful view of the landscape and wildlife. The boardwalk is fully accessible.
4.5 miles, 7 kilometres, moderate
This circular route passes through the heart of Cors Caron. Please note that no dogs are allowed on this walk and that it is occasionally closed due to flooding or reserve management work.
3.7 miles/6 kilometres
A 6 kilometre section of the Ystwyth Trail, a National Cycle trail, runs along the edge of the reserve. It follows an old railway track and walkers share the route with cyclists and horse riders.
The fully accessible circular boardwalk route runs for 1.1 miles (1.7 kilometres) over the south-east bog.
The access to the boardwalk is 450 metres from the main car park along a fully accessible path (the total distance of the return route is 1.6 miles/2.6kilometres).
The route goes past the entrance to an observation building where you can enjoy a peaceful view of the reserve and its wildlife.
There are passing and resting places along the way.
There is some seating along the boardwalk and in the observation building.
There are accessible toilets in the main car park.
The toilets are open at all times.
Cors Caron National Nature Reserve is about two miles north of Tregaron on the B4343.
The OS grid reference for the main car park is SN 692 625.
The main car park is on the B4343 from Tregaron (OS grid reference SN 692 625).
There is also a small amount of car parking in a lay-by off the B4343 north of Maesllyn Farm (OS grid reference SN 695 631) and at Ystrad Meurig Station Yard, off the B4340 (OS grid reference SN 711 673).
Car parking is free of charge.
The nearest train station is in Aberystwyth.
The 585 and 588 buses between Aberystwyth and Lampeter stop in Tregaron. For details of public transport visit http://www.traveline.cymru/
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If you are among our Business or Enterprise users, you probably know the elmah.io App Store. If not, we'll start with a short introduction. The elmah.io App Store provide a range of extensions for integrating elmah.io into various work flows. Want to ignore errors generated by bots? You install the BotBuster app. Want to send a notification to Slack on new errors? You install the Slack app etc. The App Store works a lot like the Rules feature, but everything is point and click. In fact, most apps are build on top of rules.
What you may not know is that app development is available for everyone. If you want to read more about developing apps, please read through Creating Apps for elmah.io. Creating an app is as simple as writing a bit of JSON and publishing it on NuGet.
We recently released some new features for app developers. Previously, only simple settings using string-based key/value pairs were supported. With the recent additions, app developers have more control on how to configure an app. To show you the possibilities with the new app manifest, we've also created the Playground app, which showcase the various setting types:
For now, strings, numbers and choices are supported, but additional types will be added in the near future. Default values are supported as well, making it super simple to install new apps with a set of already known values.
At the time of writing this post, 9 apps are available in the App Store. We would love to see more community driven apps. Reach out if you need help developing a new app. We want to support the work flows that our users actually need, rather than having 1.000 integrations that nobody uses.
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Despite Google's own admission of Street View-related privacy breaches, the German data protection institution is continuing with its own investigation of the matter, driven by long-standing suspicions.
Google has been criticized by privacy advocates worldwide
Google has acknowledged that a fleet of its Street View cars equipped with wireless equipment have collected some e-mails and computer passwords in various countries.
"It's clear from those inspections that while most of the data is fragmentary, in some instances entire emails and URLs were captured, as well as passwords," wrote Alan Eustace, Google's senior vice president of engineering and research, in a post published late Friday on Google's public policy blog.
This is the first time that Google has revealed the full extent of the privacy breach, which it had previously blamed on a coding error.
The company said it plans delete the data "as soon as possible" and wants to make improvements to its policies.
This follows a previous announcement in May, prompted by investigations by German privacy officials, that the company had mistakenly collected unencrypted WiFi payload data (information sent over networks) using its Street View cars.
The cars are used for Google's mapping service and take panoramic photos of streets in various countries around the world.
Situation merits further examination
Google plans to add Germany's 20 largest cities to Street View by the end of 2010
The latest revelations failed to surprise Johannes Caspar, Hamburg's commissioner for data protection and freedom of information, and the leading authority in the German Google investigation.
"This just confirms what we expected," he told Deutsche Welle. "It could already have been predicted a few months ago."
According to Caspar, Germany will continue with its enquiry as planned, aiming for an independent assessment before "we think about taking further action."
Following the May privacy invasion scandal, hard drives of computers involved are being inspected. Should Google's statement be proven true, Caspar says the company may be fined.
According to Ulrich Boerger, a Hamburg-based privacy lawyer, evidence of password and email leaks would add another dimension to the privacy debate in Germany, but "it's difficult to talk about any concrete consequences at this stage."
Similar reaction in the UK
Google's latest revelations have also not altered the general course of action for UK authorities, despite having cleared Google of the charge of having collected "meaningful personal details" earlier this year.
"We will be making enquires to see whether this information relates to the data inadvertently captured in the UK, before deciding on the necessary course of action, including a consideration of the need to use our enforcement powers," wrote the Information Commissioner's Office, Great Britain's data protection agency, in a statement published on its website.
Google has previously said it did not realize that Kismet, a free software program it uses to detect wireless networks, was also recording snippets of emails and web pages. Kismet only captures that data when network owners forget to switch on encryption.
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A quarter of a million Germans have objected to having their homes put on display in Google Street View. The service plans to launch by the end of the year and has sparked a heated debate about privacy issues in Germany. (21.10.2010)
While the UK and Ireland have cleared Google of having inadvertantly collected data over WiFi data during Street View photography, the California company may face 2.4 million euros in fines in Spain. (19.10.2010)
In an e-mail interview with DW, a Google Germany spokesperson, Lena Wagner, says that the company takes privacy "very seriously," and that it plans on expanding the service. (13.10.2010)


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ST. PAUL & THE BROKEN BONES is a eight-piece soul band based out of Birmingham, Alabama, United States, which formed in 2012. The band is composed of Paul Janeway (vocals), Browan Lollar (guitar), Jesse Phillips (bass), Andrew Lee (drums), Al Gamble (keys), and Allen Branstetter (trumpet). The band tours with both trombone and baritone saxophone as well. They have released two album and two EPs while touring internationally.
Musically, well, Soul music is, among many things, a form of psychological inquiry.
Today's tune "All I Ever Wonder", taken from the bands latest release "Sea Of Noise".
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The traditional lands of Rongowhakaata extend from Te Kowhai at Te Wherowhero lagoon inland to the Te Arai headwaters, continuing to Te Reinga in the south-west, and north through Tuahu, Hangaroa-Matawai, and Tahora. Their lands take in Patutahi and the area around the Tangihanga and Repongaere blocks, through to Matawhero and linking with the Taruheru and Turanganui rivers, onwards to Kaiti and around the coast to Te Toka Ahuru. Around the fringes of these lands, they share interests and whakapapa connections with neighbouring iwi, including especially close ties with Te Whanau a Iwi. Today, the marae of Rongowhakaata stand at Whakato, Manutuke, Pahou, Ohako, and Te Kuri a Tuatai.
Rongowhakaata traditionally held their land and resources in customary tenure under collective tribal and hapū custodianship. The kin groups of Tūranganui a Kiwa were linked through whakapapa and shared use of resources, but also had their own independent mana born out of strong leadership, distinct whakapapa lines and resource use.
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text: A FEDERAL appeals court gave the government approval Tuesday to resume forced repatriation of Haitian refugees but a federal judge in Miami ordered that no Haitians be returned until a Friday hearing.The three-judge panel of the 11th United States Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a decision made Nov. 19 by US District Judge Donald Graham of Miami. The appeals court ruling was a major victory for the Bush administration, which had sent Solicitor General Kenneth Starr, the government's top courtroom lawyer, to argue the case. The order by the Miami judge last month had covered more than 5,500 Haitians picked up from boats en route to the United States since President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the impoverished Caribbean nation's first democratically elected leader, was ousted Sept. 30 in a military coup. The US is keeping 5,516 Haitians at a camp at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Another 955 are on board Navy and Coast Guard ships. Two of three appeals judges reviewing the lower court order wrote in a brief opinion that federal law "provides no enforceable rights to the Haitians...." But in a strongly worded dissent, Judge Joseph Hatchett compared the forced repatriation of the Haitians to "Jewish refugees seeking to escape the horror of Nazi Germany (who) sat on ships in New York Harbor, only to be rebuffed and returned to Nazi Germany gas chambers." In Miami, Ira Kurzban, the lead attorney for the Haitian Refugee Center, said he would file new motions Wednesday with both the 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals and the US District Court to halt the Haitians' return. Asylum in the US has been granted to 215 Haitians, while another 277 have gone to other countries. The United States returned 611 Haitians before the federal judge last month ordered the repatriations halted.


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5 Important Features Of A Family Vacation Ranch To Look Out
A common fear that many parents have when going on vacation with children means more work instead of relaxing and escaping the stresses of everyday life. However, that should not stop you from planning a vacation with your children at a location where there is an array of activities and services offered. There are various ranches to choose from and selecting one that will suit your family's interests will keep everyone busy and happy as well as keep the children from trouble. If you are looking for a ranch that specializes only in outdoor activities, you will need to do a lot of thoughtful research to help you decide which ranch is suitable for your family's outdoor interest.
1. The Variety Of Activities
Ranches often offer an array of activities, but look for one that offers a broad variety that will also accommodate your children for their age group. You will want to choose a ranch that offers outdoor activities such as fishing, horse back riding, hiking, canoeing, shooting and hunting.
2. Look For Children Programs
There are ranches that do offer organized children activities and this allows children to enjoy outdoor activities and interact with other children of the same age. A favorite outdoor activity for children is horseback riding, so you must make sure that the ranch you choose offers this in a supervised environment. Simply make sure that your children will be able to enjoy themselves with other children in carefully tailored outdoor activities and you can be certain to enjoy your vacation too.
3. Availability Of Evening Programs
Who said that outdoor fun should stop once the sun goes down? Many ranches continue to offer outdoor fun to vacation goers, but having them run through the night gives you an outdoor experience to remember. You and your family can enjoy campfires, with music and dancing, along with roasting food at the campfire. Your children will surely rave about this experience once you all go back to the city and cherish the experience forever.
4. The Type Of Nature To See
To achieve an exceptional outdoor vacation, you will need to find a ranch in an amazing and breathtaking location. The location of the ranch is important because it helps visitors discover a unique experience with nature which is necessary in every outdoor vacation. Choose a ranch that has large open spaces, breathtaking view of the mountains, plenty of greenery and roaming wildlife. This will become an opportunity for your children to appreciate nature away from the city and wildlife that they only used to see on television.
5. The Cost Of Your Vacation
While there are plenty of factors to consider when choosing a suitable ranch, you also must also consider the cost. Compare prices and determine if you are getting all the outdoor fun, lodging, food and services at the given daily or weekly rate. Depending on the specialization of the ranch, the prices will usually be based on the hunting seasons and specific hunting activities for the season. Nevertheless, many vacation ranches are now offering flexible holiday stay requirements and the promotional prices being offered allows vacation goers to spend practically and be in control.
Valerie Georges is a freelance writer specializing in vacation and family hunting hotspots. She blogs about the importance of choosing a vacation ranch filled with activities for the entire family. She also recommends Velvet Ranch as a family hunting ranch offering an array of outdoor activities.


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The Office of Institutional Research supports the University's planning and decision-making activities, requests regarding institutional data, assessment, policy analysis, and strategic planning. We provide information to outside agencies, federal and state government, and peer institutional consortia. We also produce the University Fact Book annually, as well as various other reports and analyses showing Rochester trends and peer comparisons. Our goal is to deliver accurate, timely, and useful reports and analyses. To this end, Institutional Research works with data custodians throughout the university to ensure that benchmark files for student, course, personnel, and finance data are accurate, consistent, and current.
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Zen garden plans in miniature
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ooh, i can't wait to see how it turns out! i have a friend who is madly into railways modelling, he (of course) spends months creating miniature versions of specific trees, bushes and landscapes, much more time on it than building the trains!ReplyDeleteReplies
oh damn if he spends months how long would it take me!! Good that I'm quick to learn :DDelete
Can't wait to see what the Zen garden will look like! Ha, ha I spot some German miniature grass ;)ReplyDeleteReplies
Well if I want to actually have something in the contest you do not have to wait long.Delete
Of course I use the original, like it says :D
I guess you will have to build 'up' on this one. Can't wait to see what you turn up!ReplyDeleteReplies
I am planning to have there at least one tree. Zen gardens just tend to be quite low, so I will have to see how tall I can build this without it looking out of proportion.Delete
Great idea! It's hard to tell from the picture, about how big is the base?ReplyDeleteReplies
It's quite small, inside the glass it is only about 4 in/10 cm in diameter.Delete


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Shortly after the start of the second game of Sunday's single-admission doubleheader between the Yankees and the Pittsburgh Pirates, it became evident that neither the teams nor the fans at Yankee Stadium were prepared for a daylong event that was a relic of another era.
After a fairly well-played first game, which the Yankees won, 4-3, in 2 hours 52 minutes, the teams engaged in a sloppily played, error-marred second game played in front of a less-than-half-filled ballpark.
By the second inning of the Yankees' 5-3 loss to the Pirates in the second game, which began 37 minutes after the end of Game 1, the teams had combined for four errors. Halfway through the game, each team had a runner cut down on the basepaths at an inopportune moment.
Pirates starter Gerrit Cole was called for a balk in the second inning after he stopped his delivery halfway to the plate. Cole, a 2008 Yankees first-round draft pick who spurned the team to go to college, appeared to have lost his footing and decided to keep the ball in his hand instead of wildly delivering to the plate. The play is likely to be replayed on blooper reels for some time.
"There were a lot of strange things that happened in the first two innings," Manager Joe Girardi said. "And then it became a baseball game."
The crowd for the second game was small but lively, even if it was not as loud as on other nights. The customary Yankees roll call from fans at the beginning of the game sounded more like a whisper than the usual roar. Even the so-called Bleacher Creatures had mostly gone home. By the ninth inning, the announced crowd of 46,858 had shrunk to a few thousand.
Some of the loudest cheers came in the sixth after Pirates outfielder Starling Marte's two-run homer, which gave Pittsburgh a 3-2 lead against Yankees starter Vidal Nuno. A section of Pirates fans along the third-base line had decided to stay for the rare opportunity to watch their team play at Yankee Stadium. Pittsburgh had not visited the Bronx since 2007.
The only salvation for the second game was that it lasted only 3:04, quick by modern American League standards. After five innings, only 6 of the 37 plate appearances by the two teams had lasted more than five pitches. Players, having arrived at the stadium around 9 a.m., were no longer willing to wait for their pitch.
Nuno, not known to be the most efficient Yankees starter, needed only 81 pitches to get through his six innings. In his last outing, Nuno threw 78 pitches to get through three and a third innings.
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"To stay locked in for 18 innings is really difficult," Pirates infielder Neil Walker said.
The Pirates took a 4-3 lead on Josh Harrison's solo homer in the seventh against reliever Alfredo Aceves. Harrison also made a diving catch in left in the eighth to rob Yangervis Solarte of an extra-base hit that probably would have tied the game at 4-4.
"I thought I had a double," Solarte said. "I didn't think he was playing that deep and close to the line."
Pittsburgh earned the split, but it came at a cost: Marte and Jose Tabata left the second game with hamstring injuries.
In all, it appeared everyone was happy to finish a long day at the ballpark. The Yankees had not played a single-admission doubleheader in 10 years.
"It's been a long day," Yankees closer David Robertson said.
The Yankees, who have Ivan Nova (elbow), Michael Pineda (back) and C. C. Sabathia (knee) on the disabled list, were hoping for a good day from their starters, which they mostly got. Nuno allowed three runs, two earned, in six innings.
In the Yankees' 4-3 win in the first game, Hiroki Kuroda was solid if not spectacular, allowing three runs in six innings.
It was the seventh consecutive time Kuroda, whose earned run average fell slightly to 4.61, had allowed at least three runs in a start. In his six previous major league seasons, Kuroda never finished with an E.R.A. above 4.00.
"The mechanics, the command and stuff like that are not as good as last year," Kuroda said through an interpreter. "But I've had outings that weren't good but with good results last year. So I've tried to overcome that this year."
Girardi, with his team clinging to a 4-3 lead, turned to closer Robertson with two outs in the eighth and Andrew McCutchen on second base.
Robertson struck out Marte on three pitches to end the inning.
Robertson pitched a scoreless ninth for his eighth save. It was the type of multiple-inning save that recalled another era.
Outfielder Carlos Beltran is expected to get a second opinion on his injured right elbow Tuesday from the noted orthopedist Dr. James Andrews. Beltran is on the disabled list with a bone spur. He received a second cortisone injection in the elbow Saturday, said Manager Joe Girardi. ... C. C. Sabathia, who was away from the Yankees while having his knee examined by Andrews, rejoined the team. He is scheduled to be examined by team doctors Monday.


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An exotic land of untold riches. A land culturally divided by race and caste. A land of a thousand divine religions. A land of heat, disease and death.
Indostan. A land at war.
While the remnants of the Great Gurkani Empire tosses in its death throes, a myriad of warring princely states and their private armies vie for the imperial throne. Both Britain and France, served by the British East Indostan Company and La Compagnie des Indostan, respectively, have harbored invested interests in Indostan for decades, conducting relatively peaceful and lucrative enterprise with the blessings of the last of the Gurkani Emperors. But with a war in Europe brewing and the volatile state of affairs in Indostan, each has been forced to back a royal claimant and join the war. Who will triumph in the relentless heat and claim Indostan as the Jewel in the Crown...?
This blog is dedicated to a wargaming campaign set in a fictitious 18th century India, using the Sharp Practice rules. Gathered here are all of the after action reports of the games played, location and character bios, as well as information on the terrain and miniatures used. Enjoy.
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I very much like your "comic book" AAR, sir. It was quite entertaining (and easier to follow than big blocks of text). I look forward to more such accounts.ReplyDelete
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Thanks Jeff, as always, and glad you like the new look mate.Delete
Great stuff! Think I like the Comic Book Style better also, but you could always add a little text in there. It's nice to just page through the pictures and get the whole story. I have a similar problem with my own blogs. I would recommend the following. Game story goes in to the Comic Book Form. Comments on the rules and game play go into the text. Looking forward to more. Beautiful figures and terrain.ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Mitch, and thanks for your comments and thoughts. I agree the reports still need text, which is a little disheartening considering the amount of time I spent on the images. Some things just can't be explained with pictures.Delete
Great game. Beautifully done. Love the comic book lookReplyDelete
Thanks Allan - appreciated.Delete
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This is remarkable stuff... my hat off to you, sir.ReplyDelete
I truly don't think you can do too long (what is a book after all, and I assume 9 out of 10 adults nowadays read those?). I tend to make my own batreps and AAR`s very long, and have suffered the same criticism in the past. Nowadays I tend just please myself with what I post hehe.
This blog is simply incredible and I`m so glad I stumbled upon it.
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Reds do not last long as they tend to fade faster...so I'll enjoy this while it lasts.
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No person should decide her own case; but with her control of the House, isn't it really the President judging her own impeachment? (Note: This is mostly a collage of repostings, for lack of material time to write more. It states some of what Part 2 of our Deceive and Conquer:Why Arroyo will stay in Power would have contained.)
Certain sectors, in a bid to restore political moderation, recommend that critics of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo use the impeachment process to bring her to justice. They say that's a better way than crying Resign! in the Parliament of the Streets, for otherwise, the rule of law would be crushed by the too-frequent use of People Power. However, although this argument does have a ring of legality about it, it nonetheless rings hollow for 2 reasons.
First, impeachment as a mode of removal is intrinsically flawed because
the impeachment process… is carried out by what are, in fact, political organs, namely, the Senate (acting as jury) and the House of Representatives (acting as the grand jury). This would not be so problematic if removal could be done without cause, such as through a no-confidence vote, as that would be an outright admission of the political nature of the process. However, the Philippine Constitution makes removal a quasi-judicial process that may only be done for cause; and the evident inconsistency between its supposedly impartial purpose and its frankly partial process weakens the very perception of legitimacy that should attend it, as indeed it has been weakened. [from our Presidential Impeachment]
Second, the pro-impeachment argument ignores the objective conditions that determine whether a rule of positive law will actually work the way its framers intended it. As we explained in News from the Heroic Age:
[T]he structural checks to Presidential power like Congressional impeachment and Comelec supervision don't work unless they're backed by institutional tradition as with the Senate and the Supreme Court, or by ideological focus in the case of the Church and the Communist Party. Without a tradition or ideology of independence, officials' conduct lapses into a pure pragmatism founded on financial interest, which makes the Comelec and the Congress pliable to Executive manipulation…
It might be asked: what about the separation of powers? To begin with, this separation is a shibboleth with little basis in law, where the actual mechanism employed is a system of checks and balances. Thus, the American constitutional system from which we copied our own pits the Legislative against the Executive in a perpetual power struggle, so that, as Montesquieu envisioned, no single person or group of persons could effect a dictatorship. This leads, of course, to some inefficiency, since government would doubtless work faster under monolithic control (witness the occasional budget deadlocks that almost shut down the whole US government), but the American Framers understood this to be a small price to pay for ordered liberty.
In the Philippines, however, we have removed any possibility of an intra-governmental power struggle in order to prevent any stoppage of administrative work, which is under the President's control and/or supervision. We have therefore immunized the Executive from any countervailing political pressure by Congress, and this has solidified
the Philippine President's domination of Congress, a legacy of both the Philippine authoritarian tradition (its first President, Emilio Aguinaldo, was a Bolivarian caudillo) and American colonial law (wherein the U.S. Executive was far more powerful than the legislature); for the Philippine Constitution gives its President almost total power over government operations and finances. Among other powers, he/she can limit (through the Department of Budget and Management) the amounts Congress can appropriate and he/she may veto specific budget items (whereas the U.S. President is faced with a take-it-or-leave-it choice on the national budget); and Congress is deprived of its main fiscal counter-weapon, for, in case of deadlock, the last year's budget is simply carried over into the next.
What makes this fatal to Congressional independence is the fact that Members of Congress must contend with the informal system of patronage spanning Philippine society. This is certainly not unique to the country (the U.S., for instance, had its Tammany Hall ring and fin-de-siecle urban party machines), but its influence in the Philippines is magnified by the wide disparity of social incomes; the socio-political traditions of bossism and State feudalism, which existed even in the pre-colonial period; and the lack of cohesive party organizations and campaign fund networks–which, anyway, has no politically-active financing class to look to. This means that impoverished voters will look to politicians to buy their votes with immediate material benefits; and that politicians must find the needed money using their own devices, often by skimming off from "discretionary funds" in the national budget, which is almost-singlehandedly controlled by the President.
Philippine politics hence resembles nothing so much as the patrimonial system of late pre-Revolutionary France, the former's politicians akin to the noble pensioners of the Bourbon Kings and just as dependent… [from our Presidential Impeachment]
The result of this Executive control of Congress has been that, "in recent years… the Lower House has seemed lower still, a very expensive rubber stamp fit for a Queen" (from our Batasan Bombing). Nor is this a new phenomenon.
Then as now, the Lower House is happy to act as the chief rubber stamp of the Dictator/Dictatrix, as witness the recent overthrow of Jose de Venecia Jr. as Speaker and the consistent defeat of all impeachment complaints against the President, a pattern also followed in the Marcos-era National Assembly. [from our News from the Heroic Age]
What about the impeachment process, therefore: can it still function as intended? In light of the foregoing, absolutely not.
[W]ith many Congressmen thus nestling in the President's pocket, impeachment becomes a dead letter. One cannot therefore be surprised at how framers of Philippine Constitutions constantly try to tweak the impeachment process (for instance, 2/3 of the House was required to impeach under the 1935 Constitution; 1/5 under the 1973 charter; and 1/3 under the present system) in order to "strengthen" it; and, more importantly, at the failure of almost every attempt at impeachment-removal, often at the moment of its conception. And how not, when it's a judicial process carried out by politicians beholden to the judged?
… Conversely, the impeachment process has also been abused in the direction of excess to carry out political vendetta, as witness the attempted impeachment in 2003 of then-Chief Justice Hilario Davide, Jr. upon the alleged prodding of a powerful business magnate.
How then can the impeachment process be relied on now…? The impeachment process, supposedly a means of checking malfeasance, has itself become an oft-abused procedure, carried out by largely untrusted political organs dependent on the very officials they are supposed to oversee… [from our Presidential Impeachment]
Given this failure of the legal processes, we shouldn't wonder at
the frequent resort to extra-constitutional removal in the last 3 decades, given the inutility of impeachment as a means to bring erring leaders to heel. The political crisis of the early 1980's and the 1986 revolt became inevitable with the final failure to impeach President Ferdinand Marcos; the needless travesty of President Joseph Estrada's trial (through his Senate allies' suppression of evidence) triggered the middle class revolt of 2001; and the 2005 political crisis and protest movement was exacerbated when the House used technicalities to dismiss an election-fraud complaint against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, when its airing could have speedily settled the controversy… [from our Presidential Impeachment]
There is therefore little sense in recommending recourse to the impeachment process to call the President to account. It is a hornbook legal and equitable principle that nemo judex in sua causa, no person should be the judge in his/her own case; but with her control of the ever-Lower House, is it not the President who would effectively be judging herself? Maybe that's the reason her supporters, usually so willing to subvert the black-letter law (as when "calibrated preemptive response" was used against oppositionists), would suddenly turn formalistic and jump on the rule-of-law bandwagon when discussing impeachment.
[L]eaders often use or threaten to use the letter of the law, which they so deftly manipulate to their advantage, against the advocates of natural justice, prosecuting them as lawbreakers and as "destabilizers" of social and economic efficiency… [T]he positive law always favors the status quo, especially when it's most corrupt and therefore most capable of subverting legal processes; and protest founded on natural justice always runs counter to pragmatic and materialistic policies based on accommodation to the existing system. [from our News from the Heroic Age]
Hence, we must face the hard fact that the only way to make President Arroyo accountable is to go beyond the letter of the law to its spirit, in obedience to the principle of epikeia or equity. For even the courts recognize that, for the sake of substantial justice, the express provisions of law must at times be ignored or reinterpreted; and justice, being founded on the very nature that makes the State possible, will trump any norm of positive law, even of the Constitution, that goes against it.
For the mother of natural law is human nature, which, even if we were not in any need, would still lead us to desire social companionship. And the mother of civil law is that bond of consent which derives its force from natural law, so that nature may be called the grandmother of civil law. [–Hugo Grotius, as quoted by the Fordham Colloquium]
But, it may be objected, what about the rule of law? I answer that: There is a difference between how the law is made (its formal character) and what it commands (its material sense). Since our conscience should do only what's right, then we are obliged to follow a law only if it commands what is right. In the words of Aquinas, law is an ordinance of reason for the common good; and so when a rule ceases to serve right reason and the common good, it ceases to command our obedience; the rule ceases to be law; and we can in good conscience fight the rule to restore the law.
In short, if even the Constitution has been perverted, the time may come when only its violation would serve the rule of law.


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I believe that kids need to be kids and not worry so much about their future. The city I grew up in had many diverse backgrounds. In high school, there was a group of closely nit friends who did everything together. Other students referred to this group as the "Asians" due to their Japanese background.
The "Asians" spent countless days studying for tests at each others houses and working on projects together to get an "A" in each class. The Asians were pressured by their parents to get outstanding grades so they could be accepted to the best Universities, to get the best training, to get the best jobs, and live the best possible lives. The problem with all this was that my friends were not allowed to be kids. Instead of going out on the weekends and partying with other class mates, the Asians stayed at home. While I stayed out late on weekends with friends doing notorious things for my age, my Asian friends had to be home by nine and had to call home whenever they went somewhere to let their parents know where they were at all times. While my friends and I got to drunk to talk at a prom after party, my Asian friends were forced to go back home to prevent the ever so popular prom night pregnancy.
When we all came to college, our lives once again headed in different directions but this time theirs was the life of mayhem. After being enclosed in a bubble for most of their lives, the Asians were now enjoying the taste of freedom. However, this privilege was abused. The Asians began catching up on what they missed out in high school, however, it was in excess. Someone getting a DUI, others beginning to use hard drugs like speed, others drinking on weekdays while failing their classes and dropping out of college was not out of the norm for these students who could not control themselves in a responsible manner. The problem with this is that more than ever, a transition into adulthood was necessary to prepare ourselves for the real world.
The other road, one of responsibility and success seems to have been taken by students who took the balanced approach to life. I for example, did a few things in high school my parents would not approve of, but because of those mistakes, I now know what is important. I am currently receiving over a 3.5 GPA and will be graduating form SDSU in 4 years, an accomplishment many at my college seem to marvel at.
This type of story is not only common to Asian students, but to college students of all ethnicities throughout the U.S. I credit the Asians and many other young Americans irrational college behavior to an excess in protectionism and too much commitment to their future at too young an age. Yes, this I why believe kids need to be kids and not worry so much about their future.
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2. Or this Kitchenaid coffee maker you got from dear Uncle Willy, but your apartment is very small, so you'd rather have a Nespresso Pixie.
3. These cute yoga pants, but you really like these ones from Alo Yoga.
4. This cute holiday-themed phone case, but now Christmas is over.
5. This salt lamp, but you prefer this dope globe shape instead.
6. This very warm and cozy Vikings hat, but you're actually a Steelers fan.
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9. This pretty sleek deep fryer that you don't want to touch in order to keep your New Year's resolution, so you look for a Vitamix blender instead.
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Here is what you do not need:
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- Your cellphone turned on (even if it's on silent)
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- Junk food, especially at your desk
- To be socializing in your office/ cube when you should be working
1. When you start your day, stop yourself from thinking " Ugh, another day, another dollar, this sucks." Because the reality is, if you stick a smile on your face and be GRATEFUL that your company has hired you and continued paying you, your job and life will be easier. If you dread going into work, it will make time drag, you won't be productive, and you're likely to get sacked so they can hire someone that is happy as a clam to get a steady pay check.
2. When you first get in: Make a To-do list of everything that needs to get done that day (or week). Label each task with an A, B, or C next to it:
- Items with A next to them are high priority, they need to get done TODAY.
- B items are tasks that should get done today, so you should do them.
- C items are low priority, they can wait until a later date if need be ( but keep adding them to your to-do lists each day so you don't forget about them).
3. Keep your e-mail well managed. It's okay to check your work e-mail after you make your to-do list. What's in there? Answer anything high priority first, before you start on your list. If you can't answer something immediately, add it to your to-do list and try to get it done before the end of the day ( sitting on e-mails often lead to them getting lost, which can lead to unhappy co-workers. Anything low priority, that can wait, comes after you have completed your A tasks for the day.
4. Don't spend more than 15 minutes in front of your e-mail at any point in the day. I work on my e-mails of the day when I break from doing my high-priority, "A" tasks. Make sure you keep your inbox organized and cleaned out ( you will have to make folders in your inbox to file them away).
5. If your "A" projects can't be done in a day ( you're waiting for people to get you things, they are too large, etc. etc.), multitask between managing your e-mail, completing your high priority tasks, and your "B" and "C" tasks.
6. The ABC system might not work for your workload. If you are having a hard time focusing, it could be that your workload is too hefty. If you suspect this may be the case, sit down with your boss and ask them to help you prioritize.
7. If you feel like people interrupt you a lot during the day, ask them to schedule a meeting with you (for longer issues), if people are interrupting you, and it can be resolved briefly, just answer them there and then, that way you don't have to worry about it later. You could always close your door, or use a privacy screen in the opening of your cube.
8. Let your phone go to voicemail if you don't know who is calling, or why they are calling, you can always call them back later.
9. If you have friends at work, make time to hang out with them during your lunch break, that way it isn't distracting you from keeping up with your to-do list. With that said, even if you eat your lunch at your desk, you still need to take your lunch break to deal with personal issues/ socialize so that it doesn't overspill or interrupt your productivity during the rest of the day.
10. Find little tricks to stay focused that work for YOU. Personally, I find, getting up for a cold glass of ice water every hour or so, working with my ipod on, and going for a walk on my lunch break, all help to keep me on track.
Staying focused at work is all about good time management skills, staying organized, and being a good multi-tasker. If you feel that you have tried several tactics to stay focused at work, you might want to consider taking some professional development courses, or speaking to a counselor to may sure there isn't a deeper underlying issue.
- How to Multi Task
Web MD article on how to multi task without losing your mind.
- Balancing work and life
Another writers take on balancing work and life.
- How to stay Focused
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Wow, this is quite a comprehensive Hub, and pretty helpful at that! I'd say you have all the tips and tricks noted here :)
This is good advice and pretty simple. I'm finding junkfood is frying my brain and contributing to my lack of focus. Take this advice from Lady Luck very seriously! Also, I never get enough sleep and will try to focus on this for the next couple weeks...I'm desperate to get my workload back to a manageable level.
I can't believe I'm the first to respond to this hub! I need lists to be productive. I have an iPhone that checks all email accounts which I should probably turn off during the day. Hmmm.... that's hard.
What industry are you in, Ladyluck?


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I've been illustrating children's books in Australia for over forty years.
On this site I describe a few things about myself, my illustrations, and how books are created. And share some tips about drawing for stories, and often for fun.
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Have you ever wondered where Republicans come up with their absurd ideas about what President Obama intends to do? According to Mitt Romney, Obama wants to take "In God We Trust" off money. In The Wall Street Journal today, Michael Mukasey, who is advising the Romney campaign although the Journal does not disclose that, claims Obama might release Omar Abdel Rahman, mastermind of the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center. Mukasey readily admits to having no real evidence for such a preposterous scenario. So where do these lies get invented? Often they come from the conservative underground echo chamber.
Liberals talk a lot about Fox News and Rush Limbaugh and other conservative media that are on the mainstream radar. But liberals and mainstream journalists tend to forget that there is a fever swamp of crazed conspiracy theories and shockingly offensive rhetoric that exists in obscure right-wing websites and viral e-mail chains. As David Frum recently noted on his Daily Beast blog, it is impossible to understand the dog whistles you hear on Fox News if you aren't familiar with the viral e-mail smears their audience believes in. Specifically, Frum was referring to Fox host Greg Gutfield's line that "Obama is now out of the closet.… he's officially gay for class warfare." That's a reference to the conservative e-mail meme that Obama is gay. Frum writes:
Fox is only the most visible part of a vast alternative reality. Fox's coverage of the news cannot be properly understood in isolation, but only in conjunction with the rest of that system—and especially the chain emails that do so much to shape the worldview of Fox viewers.
I have a friend from a small town in Washington state. She gets e-mails forwarded from her right-wing uncle, which have sometimes come to him as part of a group of recipients that includes local high school teachers and administrators. Frequently, they are bigoted jokes that incorrectly assume President Obama is a Muslim. Here's a typical recent one:
Just wanted to let you know—today I received my 2012 Social Security Stimulus Package. It contained two tomato seeds, cornbread mix, a prayer rug, a machine to blow smoke up my ass, 2 discount coupons to KFC, an "Obama Hope & Change" bumper sticker, and a "Blame it on Bush" poster for the front yard. The directions were in Spanish.
This apparently started as a Facebook post on the page of the Rutland County, Vermont, Republican Party.
For another example of a vicious anti-Obama e-mail that mocks his falsely alleged Islamic faith, check out this e-mail from a Tea Party group in Northeastern Pennsylvania, which jokes about Obama being beaten up by the founding gathers in heaven. The kicker is that Obama, being a Muslim, was expecting to be greeted by seventy-two virgins in heaven, but was instead met by seventy-two Virginians, such as George Washington and James Madison.


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Dwayne Côté & Duane Andrews Celebrate New CD "The Empress†at The Trailside Café On June 1st
Who: Dwayne Cote & Duane Andrews
Where: The Trailside Cafe
When: Friday June 1, 2012
Cape Breton fiddle master Dwayne Côté and Newfoundland guitar maestro Duane Andrews will celebrate the release of their new CD, "The Empress" with a concert at The Trailside Café, Mount Stewart, onFriday, June 1st at 8:00pm.
Well deserving of its royal moniker Dwayne Côté and Duane Andrews' sophomore album The Empress is certainly set to impress. Like their debut self-titled album, The Empress finds a striking balance between the rich complexities of the music they play and the simple instrumentation of only a fiddle and a guitar.
Those who love their signature style, mixing the traditional music of Cape Breton and Newfoundland with gypsy and jazz sounds showcased on their first multi-award winning album (2010), will be delighted with the new tracks which include a tribute to Cape Breton greats Winston Fitzgerald and Estwood Davidson as well as a modern instrumental interpretation of the Newfoundland classic "Let Me Fish Off Cape St. Mary's". With the addition of selections from Austrian violinist Fritz Kreisler and French Gypsy guitarist Gusi Malha, their pallet broadens with a hint of global flair. This, combined with new original tunes from both Côté and Andrews, culminates in a well crafted album that seamlessly blends the old with the new.
Multi-award winning guitarist Duane Andrews has literally brought his music around the world from his home in Newfoundland to Tasmania, Australia with stops in between at the Newport Folk and Montreal Jazz festivals to name a few. The late great John Allen Cameron simply said it all about fiddler Dwayne Côté whom he called "the best kept secret in Celtic Music".
Last year saw the duo take home the Triple Crown of Atlantic music prizes for their self-titled debut CD with ECMA, MusicNL and MusicNS wins along with the international 2011 Independent Music Award in the instrumental album category. Based on early reactions to their new CD "The Empress" it's more than a safe bet that Dwayne and Duane will continue to impress.
Don't miss Dwayne Côté and Duane Andrews on Friday, June 1st at The Trailside Café, Mount Stewart. Dining is available from 6:30pm. Show starts at 8:00pm. For dinner reservations phone The Trailside at 902- 676-3130. For tickets and more info visit: http://www.trailside.ca
For music, tour dates and more on Dwayne and Duane: http://www.dwayneandduane.com


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The principal of Ogden Elementary School has been inducted in the the Kansas Teachers' Hall of Fame, according to a press release from USD 383 Wednesday.
Jim Armendariz will receive the honor in Dodge City on June 2. He is the 15th teacher from the district to be inducted.
Armendariz received his degree in elementary education from Kansas State University in 1988 and began his teaching career at Bluemont Elementary School in 1989, where he taught teaching 4th and 6th grade and serving as an assistant principal. He became the principal at Ogden Elementary School in 2002.
"It's a special honor to be recognized for giving to something you love," Armendariz said. "I've had the privilege of serving in a progressive district, in innovative schools, with a dedicated team, and awesome students. I am blessed to represent the education community."
In 1977, the first state Teachers' Hall of Fame was established in Dodge City. Kansas. Since its inception, 396 exemplary educators have been inducted.
Each year nominations are accepted from each of the twelve districts in Kansas. The state selection committee meets in March to review the candidates and complete the selection process.
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Kelsey Chow: InStyle Golden Globe Party
Kelsey Chow is wonderful in white as she arrives at the 2013 InStyle Celebration of the Golden Globes Awards Season held at Cecconi's on Thursday evening (November 29) in West Hollywood, Calif.
The 21-year-old actress wore a stunning Naeem Khan dress with Jerome C. Rousseau heels.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Kelsey Chow
JJJ recently caught up with Kelsey at our exclusive portrait session — coming up soon! — about the recent news of Pair of Kings being cancelled.
"I've made some lifelong friends from the show and I'm definitely going to miss it," she dished to us.
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Ravo High Quality 2.8" ALL New LCD Touch Screen 8GB is a great value for money MP3 player with amazing features. It supports TF card as well as multiple music formats such as MP3, MP4, WMA, WMV, ASF, WAV, DMA and many more. It also supports video record Format such as 3GP, AVI (Capture size: 640*480,352*288,176*144). It is also compatible with Windows 98/ SE/ ME/ 2000/ XP/ Vista/ 7, Mac OS 10 and it comes with a built-in rechargeable Lithium Battery with up to 2-3 hours of Video play time or 6-8 hours Audio Playback. It has a resistive touch screen with built-in FM Radio and built-in games. You can get this state of the art MP3 Player at only $29.79 which is really a small amount for the crustal clear and loud music you will get to enjoy on this MP3 Player. It was priced at $39.99 even a few days ago. But now you will be saving around $10.20 on this MP3 Player which is indeed a great deal.
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MOSUL, Iraq Islamic State's "state of falsehood" has come to an end, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Thursday, after Iraqi troops captured the wrecked historic mosque of Mosul in which the insurgents declared their self-styled caliphate three years ago.
"The return of al-Nuri Mosque and al-Hadba minaret to the fold of the nation marks the end of the Daesh state of falsehood," Abadi said in a statement, referring to the ultra-hardline Sunni group by an Arabic acronym.
He said Iraqi forces would continue to hunt Islamic State's fighters "to kill them and detain them, down to the last one".
The insurgents blew up the medieval mosque and its famed leaning minaret a week ago as U.S.-backed Iraqi forces advanced towards it. Their black flag had been flying from al-Hadba (The Hunchback) minaret since June 2014. (Writing by Maher Chmaytelli; editing by Andrew Roche)
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Texas playground designed for seniors
DALLAS – The label is "playground," the apparatus is bright and shiny, but those using the well-cushioned space in east Texas are elderly people trying to loosen stiff joints at a park designed just for them.
Galveston County, which has a large population of elderly residents, this week opened what is billed as the only playground in Texas for senior citizens.
The park in the city of La Marque has modified chin-up bars, a walking bridge and fitness steps, aimed at increasing strength and improving balance, said Stephen Holmes, a county commissioner.
Falls are one of the most common causes of injury among adults 65 years and older and often require hospitalization, according to the Center for Disease Control.
"We started to look at things that can prevent those falls or help them come back from those falls – balance, increased mobilization – so we created a playground that encompasses all of that," Holmes said.
RT @DamaliFox26: TX first Senior Playground! This is so awesome! #GalvestonCounty pic.twitter.com/U1wo5tE96A— MyFoxHouston (@MyFoxHouston) August 14, 2014


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Intel has developed an 80 core processor, and plans to have it ready for commercial production within five years. CNET News reports that Intelis prototype can perform a trillion floating-point operations per second.
The announcement came at Intelis twice-a-year Developer Forum where the company discusses its development road map with software and hardware designers.
The prototype processor uses 80 floating-point cores running at 3.16GHz, and will use an on-chip interconnect fabric and stacked static RAM attached to the bottom of the processor to move information between the individual cores.
Part of the path to the 80 core processor is unfolding now with new four-processor chips scheduled for release over the next few months. A new quad-core Core 2 Extreme processor is scheduled for a November release, and the Core 2 Quad for desktop computers will debut in the first quarter of next year.
Intel claims the Core 2 Quad processors will offer a 70 percent integer performance improvement over the Core 2 Duo. Paul Otellini, Intelis CEO, commented "Performance matters again."


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Newstead and Davidson Outline Important Principles of Litigating in the U.K.
Shook, Hardy & Bacon Partner Alison Newstead and Associate Andrew Davidson have authored a February 26, 2016, Inside Counsel article about five key aspects of litigating in the United Kingdom.
Noting that Scotland and Northern Ireland have different rules of procedure than England and Wales, the authors report that courts in the latter jurisdictions not only require both parties to assist in dealing with matter justly and proportionately, but "take an extremely active role in managing cases from start to finish." As the article observes, "In practical terms this means that a party with much larger resources cannot simply bury a disadvantaged opponent with motions (applications), documents and demands for witness testimonies to take advantage of their superior means. Likewise, Plaintiffs cannot make disproportionate demands for disclosure of documents."
Newstead and Davidson further explain that parties must "carry out investigations and exchange evidence before formal court proceedings are commenced," in keeping with Civil Procedure Rules. In addition, pleadings must be sufficiently detailed at an early stage, with defendants required "to address each allegation individually and either admit or deny it, or state why they are unable to either admit or deny the allegations." The extent of discovery is generally more limited than that permitted in the United States, but places "an onus on the parties to identify the relevance of their own documents." As in other jurisdictions, "the loser pays the winner's costs" in most cases except those alleging personal injury, but both parties must comply with cost budgeting and provide to the court a budget setting out "incurred and estimated costs for each stage of the litigation."
"The front-loaded nature of litigation in the U.K. means that overseas counsel needs to take active steps to manage potential cases at the earliest possible stage, even if court proceedings have yet to be issued," conclude Newstead and Davidson. "Local counsel should be appointed, any pre-action obligations addressed, documents should be preserved without delay and liability investigations undertaken at an early stage. A well-considered cost benefit analysis should also be completed swiftly to determine whether settlement may be the best option, before significant legal costs are incurred."


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Playboy releases digital interviews from Tina Fey, Jon Stewart, Steve Martin and more!
You know, Playboy isn't just about parading out a gaggle of naked, gorgeous women, you guys. They're also about the articles— some of which have featured the greatest names in comedy over the past 50 years. And to prove it, and to add a modern, tech-savvy bent to their iconic publication, this week Playboy is releasing a series of comedian interviews, exclusively through Amazon's Kindle Store.
Interviews with Jon Stewart, Jerry Seinfeld, Steve Martin and Tina Fey have already been made available. And tomorrow, Howard Stern will cap off "Funny People Week." During the month, Playboy also released a handful of other interviews that comedy fans would dig: Lorne Michaels (from May of 1992) and the original cast of Saturday Night Live (from May of 1977), as well as Seth MacFarlane, Matt Groening, Trey Marker and Matt Stone are all represented.
Each title is 99 cents and is available only through Amazon. Go here to search for your favorite funny folks.


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Goodbye Justin Bieber! Selena Gomez Moving On With British Singer Ed Sheeran
Beliebe it! Selena Gomez has finally moved on from Justin Bieber
The 20-year-old singer has found love across the pond with British singer Ed Sheeran.
Magazine US Weekly spoke with two different sources who can confirm Gomez and the 22-year-old sensitive songwriter are definitely together.
"They are hooking up!" one of the sources revealed.
"They are friends with an open mind," the other source added. "He's sensitive and sweet and a lot deeper than Justin."
The "Come & Get It" singer was introduced over Memorial Day Weekend to Sheernan by best friend Taylor Swift, who was not so subtly against Gomez's on-again, off-again relationship with Bieber.
While Sheernan, who is currently on tour with Swift, is just a few years older than the 19-year-old Bieber, his maturity is something Gomez finds very attractive.
"She got sick of having to take care of Justin like he was her child. This is a nice escape from the drama," one of the insiders told US Weekly, adding that Gomez and Bieber "are totally done."
The news of the new relationship throws a wrench in the elaborate plans the Biebs had in mind to celebrate Gomez's 21st birthday in July.
As the Hollywood Life reported, Bieber was designing a $1 million diamond ring with famed designer Neil Lane to give Gomez on her big day.
"At the moment his favorite idea is a huge, canary yellow, princess-cut diamond surrounded by smaller diamonds and set in white or yellow gold," a source close to the designer said.
However, Bieber may now have to rethink the extravagant plan and figure out a way to woo Gomez back.
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text: On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Christian Maeder <Christian.Maeder at dfki.de> wrote: > I did not mean to "yell", in fact, I asked. > I wasn't curious about the reason, because the reason looked obvious to me: > - avoid different names for the same thing > - orthogonality to the prelude (foldl and foldr and no fold) > > The counter-arguments: > - orthogonality to Data.IntMap is lost > - there are other different names for the same thing (like toList) > - intents to destroy backwards compatibility (for weak reasons) > - may distract from more important deprecation warnings We did consider these counter-arguments. I in particular felt that making the API smaller (it has a whopping 150 functions) and more maintainable (less code internally) was very important to get the package to a state where it's easier to use for newbies (who are used to 15 method APIs) and experience developers (quick: what's the difference between update, adjust, and alter) alike. In fact, I'm working on a tool that will allow you to ask Hackage wide questions on the form like "Who uses Data.Map.insert?" just in order to see if there are API functions that are unused and could be removed (assuming that the functionality is still available through the rest of the API.) I like the Python PEP approach to making decisions: list the pros and cons, make a decision and don't revisit them unless the pros/cons changed. My hope in helping putting together the HP package addition process was to use this method in debating Haskell packages (whether we actually achieved that goal is a different question.) In summary: given all the arguments above, we decided to try to start shrinking the API. At the moment the one thing we really felt we could remove right then and there was a function that had already been deprecated for some time. You may weigh the arguments differently (and I'm sure others do as well), which is of course fine, but I don't think it's worth revisiting the issue unless something changed since we last made the decision. > Why is it a problem to regret a decision being made? Is it such a big > deal to remove (or keep) a deprecation warning? If this is the case, > maybe someone (more patiently) wants to go ahead. It's somewhat annoying technically: create a ticket, attach a patch, follow up to make sure it gets applied etc. That's not a huge issue. No decisions are set in stone, but I don't see a good reason to revisit this one. Johan


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Breaking the rules is generally frowned upon. And in plenty of instances, it's understandable. But what about the rules we set for ourselves? Do the things we promised we'd never do (or always do) apply to every situation? What about our beliefs?
The truth is that in order to be capable of change and growth sometimes we have take our preconceived notions and make a conscious effort to smash them to bits. We do this by listening carefully to our instincts and by asking good questions.
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