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  • Catch-22

    If you hear somebody says that something is “a catch-22”, what he means by that?

    This expression is well known in English. A catch-22 is a situation where there is no good choice, no best path to take. It refers to any situation where there is a catch, where there’s no solution, where there’s no way out. The number 22 in the expression doesn’t have any meaning; it just signifies one in a long line of catches. When Heller was first writing the book, he used the number 14. The book was originally titled Catch-14. Then, in the production process, the number was changed to 18, so, the title was Catch-18. But, then there was a problem with the number 18 because there was another book with 18 in the title, so, Heller’s title became Catch-22. In Heller’s novel the catch-22 is a very specific catch in a very specific situation. The situation in which the protagonist found himself was that he wanted to get out of combat by declaring himself insane. So, you see in this situation there was a very specific catch.

  • Tropism

    When plants or a part of it bend in a particular direction in response to an outside stimulus this calls tropism.

    There are three important kinds of tropism which are phototropism, geotropism, and hydrotropism. In each of these kinds of tropism a plant, or a part of it bends in response to a different kind of outside stimulus. For example, in phototropism, where the outside stimulus is light, a plant grows in the direction of a light source such as the Sun. Whereas, when a plant is affected by geotropism knowing that the outside stimulus is gravity it grows directly downward because of the pull of gravity. But, when a plant is under the effect of hydrotropism, it will grow in the direction of its water source.

    So, phototropism, geotropism, and hydrotropism are the three important kinds of tropism as it relates to plants. The concept of tropism refers to a bending of plants, or a part, or a plant in response to an outside stimulus such as light, gravity, or water.

  • The small claim court of Ontario

    What would you do when the higher court system is delaying your claim for so long? This happened to me in Canada. The Superior Court of Ontario was delaying my first claim for 17 months and three days, while as per the Courts of Justice Act, Ontario Regulation 258/98, Rules of the Small Claims Court, the clerk shall fix a time, date, and place for the settlement conference within 90 days after the first defense is filed. For example, if you sue a person or a company and the defendants have already filed a defense, the settlement conference date should be set within a 90-day period.

    https://www.ontario.ca/laws/regulation/980258

    This was never the case for my claim! Only when I filed the second claim against the small claim court scheduling office of Toronto, then the clerk scheduled a settlement conference date for my first claim, and it was after 521 days of delay.

    During the court meeting against the scheduling office, the judge started by pronouncing my name incorrectly, and I did correct her, but again she did the same. Then she ordered me to drop my case because it was moot. I tried to explain that the damage was already done, and I waited for so long, but she strongly wanted me to discontinue my court case, which I did.

    My claim number was SC-23-0001-0023-0000, and I hope the Small Claim Court of Ontario will treat matters like this differently even if it is against the court itself.

    Here is the order of the Superior Court of Toronto:


    On July 18, 2024, a hearing was held in the above matter, and the following order was made:

    The plaintiff issued a claim against the Crown on the basis that this court was too delayed in scheduling the proceedings in his first claim against another party.

    Prior to this settlement conference, the defendant served on the plaintiff their settlement conference brief, which raised that the defendant would be seeking an order striking the claim during this settlement conference. The defendant argues that the plaintiff′s claim discloses no reasonable cause of action; this claim is moot given that a settlement conference was scheduled and held in the plaintiff′s first claim and that the plaintiff did not give proper notice to the Crown per s. 18 of the Crown Proceeding Liability Act.

    During the settlement conference, the plaintiff agreed to dismiss his claim without costs.

    Accordingly, on consent of the parties, this matter shall be dismissed.

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