Event Location:
Quinnipiac University
370 Bassett Road
North Haven, Connecticut
Abstract:
The .NET 3.5 SP1 framework gave us Entity Framework (EF), Language-Integrated Query (LINQ), LINQ to SQL (and a variety of other LINQ providers) and ADO.NET Data Services. Now .NET 4.0 sports a revamped EF 4.0 with N-tier support and adds on WCF RIA Services. How to you sort out this chaos? Is conventional ADO.NET dead? Is it possible to bridge the DataSet with Silverlight? How do you build an n-tier Silverlight app using domain services and EF 4.0? Lenni will answer these questions (and more) to help demystify the Microsoft data access juggernaut. We’ll compare the real advantages and disadvantages across this set of technologies so that you can choose the best architecture for your application. Attend this session and develop a clear perspective of .NET data access in today’s world.
Speaker(s): Lenni Lobel,
Abstract:
In an era of "do more with less," IT staff are constantly being asked to manage environments without spending money. Worse yet, budgets are being cut for staff and tools. IT veteran Mike Hillwig will show you how some of the integrated tools within SQL Server can help you manage your environment without spending a ton of money. We'll look at the Central Management Server, Management Data Warehouse, Multi-Server Administration, and Policy Based Management. Mike will also show you his tips for building an Environment Inventory Database, a tool you can use to track your servers, instances, and login credentials. By leveraging what you already have in SQL Server, you'll certainly be able to do more with less.
Speaker(s): Mike Hillwig,
Abstract:
Are your SQL Servers Healthy? Are all the SQL Servers you manage, healthy running optimally and has the high availability that is expected? How do you know for sure? Have you checked on the health of your SQL Servers lately? What is a HealthCheck, and how do we perform one?  Well Pearl Knows. Robert Pearl talks about the importance of regular health checks of your SQL Server(s). We will talk about the need to create a baseline provide some time-tested ways to determine if your SQL Servers are healthy and prove it to your managers, clients and heaven forbid, your IT auditors. Using various tools and scripts, you will come out of this session feeling much better :-) Session Level: Beginner Robert Pearl Speaker photo Robert Pearl, President of Pearl Knowledge Solutions, Inc., SQL MVP/SME, solutions-oriented Senior DBA with 12+ years of experience. He's SQLCommunity/SQLSaturday evangelist/promoter and maintains his regular blog Pearlknows
Speaker(s): Robert Pearl,
Abstract:
HIPAA puts a lot of responsibility on our companies and compliance can be hard to maintain. Today medical data is more valuable on the black market than a social security number or a credit card. As DBAs we're charged with the security of our data and thus act as a front line defense. In this hour long session We'll delve into the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and what implications it has for us as data professionals. We'll discuss SQL Server best practices that can help protect ourselves, our company, and the people whom we serve. We'll also dive into features in SQL Server that can help in this endeavor.
Speaker(s): Brandon Leach,
Abstract:
Experienced DBAs know that SQL Server stores data in data files and transaction log files. What is less commonly known is that the transaction log file is broken up into smaller segments known as Virtual Log Files, or VLFs. Having too many VLFs will cause performance to suffer. And having too few will cause backup performance to suffer. How do you strike the right balance? In this more advanced session, veteran DBA Mike Hillwig will show you what VLFs are, how they're created, how to identify them, and how to strike the right balance between too few and too many.
Speaker(s): Mike Hillwig,
Abstract:
Every developer eventually comes against business logic that can’t be handled with a single simple or complex query. TSQL provides the developer with several constructs that can store temporary result sets that are passed to the next query in the script. I will be covering these various TSQL techniques with examples using the [AdventureWorks] database as well as a toy database called AUTOS. The pros and cons of each construct will be examined. Advanced options like enabling trace flag 1118 will be explored.
Speaker(s): John Miner,
Abstract:
Do you have users complaining that applications are running "too slow"?  This is a fun, fast-paced walkthrough of the most effective strategies for query tuning. We'll investigate the most common causes of sub-optimal queries (and some quite unusual ones) while building a foundation for solving any optimization problem that the application throws your way!
 So why do I always mention "We are a profit center" to my clients every chance we get? How do you handle a late project? How do you break bad news to a client, (Hint: With good news first). This and other highly effective management techniques are waiting for you at my session. So don't go to another Reporting Services session and instead come and learn how to improve and gain new business...unless you only do reporting services of course.
Speaker(s): Juan Soto,
Abstract:
We are storing more information then we ever have before and we need to retain this information for longer periods of time. Do we keep adding more and more disk space? What about performance? What about cost? Is there some way we can use the existing space more efficiently? With data compression we can tackle these issues and do it with minimal or even no changes to our existing code.
Speaker(s): Michael Nowill,
Abstract:
Further to Database Foresnsics -Part 1, this session will discuss, various methods to analyse possible criminal actions and pin point it to a specific person/group of persons and time/time frame. 1. Analyzing Network Traffic 2. Searching for deleted, changed, renamed database files. 3. Discussing header info of Database files,(and footers) 4. Analyzing Logs: Transaction logs, Event Viewer, Trace Files, SQL Server Logs. 5. Trapping crime as it happens or before it happens, use of "Honey Pots"
Speaker(s): Paresh Motiwala,
Abstract:
How the manage security across multiple servers at production and DR sites. What needs to be configured on each server what gets moved over automatically. Best practices on how to keep the systems in sync and what surprises might SQL Server have for you when you use AlwaysOn, Database Mirroring, Logshipping or simple backup/restore.
Speaker(s): Thomas Grohser,
Abstract:
When moving databases to a virtual environment the performance metrics DBAs typically use to troubleshoot performance issues such as O/S metrics, storage configurations, CPU allocation and more become unreliable. DBAs no longer have a clear, reliable view of the factors impacting database performance. Understanding the difference between the physical and virtual server environment adds a new dimension to the DBA tasks. This presentation describes the changes that DBAs need to make in their performance and monitoring practices.
Speaker(s): Thomas LaRock,
Abstract:
Just about anyone can click through a SQL Server installation and get it working, but more than a little tuning is required to get the most performance out of your servers. Once virtualized, additional tuning can help get even more performance out of that virtual machine. David Klee (@kleegeek) will discuss valuable details for both VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V on how to tweak and tune your virtual infrastructure for business-critical virtualized SQL Servers. Tips on configuring your SQL Server installations for maximum performance when virtualized will be covered in detail.
Speaker(s): David Klee,
Abstract:
Are you interested in becoming a DBA? Would you consider yourself an accidental DBA? In this talk, Mike Walsh will share some thoughts on the role of DBA - How to become one, What a DBA's priorities should be and what the pros and cons of being one are. He'll look through his 13 years of DBA experience and share some of the lessons he wish he learned before he started out.
Speaker(s): Mike Walsh,
Abstract:
Microsoft Reporting Services 2014 has many exciting features. You can show your business data on Maps, Charts including Sparklines, Data bars and Indicators. Make them interactive, so that your users can drilldown to details. In this session I will show you how can make use of these and other enhancements in SSRS 2014.
Speaker(s): Sunil Kadimdiwan,
Abstract:
New version of the popular PowerShell+SQL Server presentation (presented in over 6 SQLSaturdays User Group events). PowerShell is a command-line scripting language primarily designed for system administration development. Unlike VBScript or DOS batch files, PowerShell is built upon the .NET Platform which makes it customizable and extensible. This introductory session will show the new PowerShell 3.0 language scripts and how it can be used for SQL Server 2012 administration (using SMO WMI providers) and development (ADO.Net OLEDB providers).
Speaker(s): SB Chatterjee,
Abstract:
Any analysis of a business's operations is going to include some proprietary values or conversion factors that only that industry or particular company will understand. And, it is likely that those values will need to be specific to some aspect of the business. In this session we'll look at several different ways to add user configurable values and conversion factors to an Analysis Server cube. We'll use some advanced T-SQL querying functions to produce a solution that is easy to understand, maintain, and extend.
Speaker(s): Todd Chittenden,
Abstract:
These are the days of increasing cyber and computer crimes. As DBAs and guardians of corporate data, it is your paramount duty to not only prevent any data loss but also discover lost , damaged or sabotaged data. But how can you do that without destroying evidence? Remember electronic evidence is extremely fragile. In this the first of the two part session, we will explore the following: 1. Fundamentals of Computer Forensics 2. Tools to use in Computer Forensics--Data Acquisition 3. Processing a crime scene 4. Network Forensics and Live Acquistions. 5. Submitting reports
Speaker(s): Paresh Motiwala,
Abstract:
With the advent of the tabular model in SQL Server 2012, another analytical option has opened to the BI Specialist. We shall be looking at what critical factors should be analyzed prior to opting for the model and that done, how to extract data from a tabular model using Data Analysis Expressions (DAX). We shall discuss many of the often used functions, discuss their 'overloads' (utilizing several practical examples) and see how to turn the extracted data into valuable information that may be used by decision makers to help the enterprise achieve its corporate goals.
Speaker(s): Steve Simon,
Abstract:
One of the primary skill sets most database professionals are initially required to “master” is the art of proper indexing in our databases. We learn early on that an effective indexing configuration will go further in making our databases perform efficiently than probably any other single tuning technique. What’s not so commonly discussed though are the varying approaches one may wish to utilize when indexing your SQL Server enterprise data warehouse. This session will hopefully cause you to take a good look at your current indexing to see if indeed it could be operating even more efficiently.
Speaker(s): Troy Gallant,
Abstract:
In today’s rapidly changing financial world, designing robust and durable data warehouses can be a challenge that does not always stand the test of time. In this presentation, we shall look at some of the challenges and design issues that were encountered whilst designing two custom warehouses and the steps that were required to cope with ongoing requirement changes, indecision from management, and shrinking budgets; all of which affected the progress of moving these projects from the design board to a profitable production stage.
Speaker(s): Steve Simon,
Abstract:
You’ve read some of the content of well-known Data Warehousing books – now what? How do you take the structures and disciplines inside such books as the Ralph Kimball series and implement them? This session will take several of the key concepts in Data Warehousing and demonstrate some implementations using SQL Server Integration Services and Analysis Services. We’ll look at items such as Type 2 Changing Dimensions, Confirmed Dimensions, Dimension Outriggers, Role-Playing Relationships, Many-to-Many Bridge table relationships, Factless Fact tables, Handling of NULL foreign key values, and more.
Speaker(s): Kevin Goff,
Abstract:
This session will give a brief overview of the different types of triggers available in SQL Server (DDL DML) and then go into more detail on how and when to use DML triggers. This session will cover misconceptions about how triggers work, when triggers should and shouldn't be used (we will discuss options), common mistakes, and how to fix the most common mistakes. After attending this session a person will: 1. Identify different types of triggers and when to use them. 2. Be able to identify when a trigger is the right solution 3. Be able to write triggers that perform well
Speaker(s): Jack Corbett,
Abstract:
In this dynamic session, Lenni will teach you the ins-and-outs of unstructured data storage and native file streaming in SQL Server 2012. Learn all about FILESTREAM, an innovative feature introduced in SQL Server 2008 that integrates the relational engine with the NTFS file system. FILESTREAM revolutionized BLOB storage in the database, and now FileTable, new in SQL Server 2012, builds on FILESTREAM to deliver a logical file system—implemented as a FILESTREAM-enabled table in your database—on top of your BLOBs. Lenni will demonstrate how to program FILESTREAM using T-SQL and, for maximum performance, using the OpenSqlFileStream API in C#.
Speaker(s): Lenni Lobel,
Abstract:
If you've ever found yourself stating the above, this session is for you. For many developers, writing T-SQL that works is not the challenge. But too often, functional T-SQL is not the same as good T-SQL. In this session, we will examine why "SQL that works" is not good enough. Understanding indexes, exectuion plans, sargability, and more are all critical to writing good T-SQL. We will also examine several real-world examples of T-SQL that "worked great in dev" but caused major issues when it hit production.
Speaker(s): Randy Knight,
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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juansoto
Contact: https://accessexperts.com/blog/
I’m the President of IT Impact, a Microsoft Access MVP and a frequent author on the official Microsoft Access blog as well as the first Access developer to be profiled on their site. I’m also a frequent speaker at Access User Groups throughout the USA, covering subjects such as SQL Server with Access as well as providing tools and resources for Access developers on the web. My expertise is optimizing Access with SQL Server and helping SQL Server DBAs understand how to design tables for Access.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/toddchitt
Contact: http://blog.blumshapiro.com/blog/author/toddc/
Todd started working with Microsoft’s SSRS in 2004. When Microsoft released its rebuild of SQL Server in 2005, he quickly added the full BI Stack to his repertoire. He became a MCTS in SQL Server 2005. Today, Todd works for Blum Shapiro as a Business Intelligence Architect on various BI Projects across a wide range of company sizes and product combinations. He is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert in SQL Server Business Intelligence and a frequent speaker at local User Groups and SQLSaturday events. He Started working with Power BI in its early development time before General Availability in July of 2015.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jackcorbett
Contact: http://www.wisemanorwiseguy.com
JJack Corbett began working with SQL Server, Access, and VB in 1999, when he served an apprenticeship with a good friend who was the software development manager at the local paper mill. He found his niche and has concentrated on SQL Server development and administration since late 2000. He has worked with SQL Server through version 2017 and was a Microsoft Data Plaform MVP from October 2011 to October 2016. Jack is passionate about helping companies architect, design, and develop high performance applications based on the Microsoft Data Platform. He also has a passion for seeing database developers get the core application code (the database) protected under source control. Jack has presented at many user groups and SQLSaturday even
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/randyknight
Contact: http://www.sqlsolutionsgroup.com/blog
Randy Knight is a data professional who has worked with Microsoft technology for over 25 years, focusing on SQL Server since 1997. He has worked in a variety of settings, including 6 years as a database architect for match.com. In 2010, he founded SQL Server Solutions Group LLC, a boutique SQL Server consultancy. A Microsoft Certified Master (MCM) in SQL Server, he speaks often at events all over the country including the PASS Summit, SQLIntersections, and numerous SQLSaturday and User Groups.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenrsimon/
Contact: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/simon_says/
Steve Simon is a Database Solutions Architect with Business Knowledge Services Inc. He has been involved with database design and analysis for over 35 years. Steve has presented papers at numerous PASS Summits and PASS SQL Rallies. He is also regular presenter on the SQLSaturday circuit and he is a contributor on SQLShack.com
Mike has worked with SQL Server for over 10 years focusing mainly on data warehousing and business intelligence. He is currently a Manager of Production Services Enhancements at Farm Credit Financial Partners, Inc. Mike specializes in data warehouse design and performance tuning. He holds a masters degree in Information Technology from Bentley University. When not working with SQL Mike enjoys photography, American History, brewing beer and snowboarding.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/pareshmotiwala
Paresh Motiwala a Azure/Big Data enthusiast, Manager of Database Platform teams has led several large SQL implementations, migrations and upgrades. He has managed multi terabyte OLTP databases. He has also been a Sr. SQL DBA and a Solutions Architect in Fortune 100 companies. He helps/organizes and speaks at many SQLSaturdays, Azure Bootcamp, Azure Datafests and User Groups(Boston BI UG, NESQL, PASS PD VG and PASS DBA VG). He is certified in Big Data Analytics, FinTech, PMP, Public Speaking, Business Communications. He is a avid singer, cook, open networker, and stand-up comedian. He teaches public speaking, debating, interviewing and group discussion skills and mentors children around the globe via www.circlesofgrowth.com
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikepwalsh
Contact: https://www.straightpathsql.com
Mike Walsh is an experienced SQL Server professional and has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has been in the role of DBA, developer, and performance tuner, but always leans on his DBA and tuning experience. He has been awarded the SQL Server (now Data Platform) designation 6 times since 2011 and is a current MVP. He runs a SQL Server consultancy focused on DBA services and cloud enablement. He has spoken several times at PASS and regional events.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/sqlrockstar/
Contact: http://thomaslarock.com
Thomas LaRock is a Head Geek at SolarWinds and a Microsoft Certified Master, Data Platform MVP, VMware vExpert, and a Microsoft Certified Trainer. He has over 15 years’ experience in the IT industry in roles including programmer, developer, analyst, and database administrator.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=81593638
Contact: https://www.sqlshack.com/author/edward-pollack/
Ed Pollack has over 20 years of experience in database and systems administration, which has developed his passion for performance optimization, database design, and making things go faster. He has spoken at many SQLSaturdays, 24 Hours of PASS, and PASS Summit. This led him to organize SQLSaturday Albany, which has become an annual event for New York’s Capital Region. Sharing these experiences with the community is a top priority, and encouraging everyone to take the leap into public speaking and engaging others, a passion. In his free time, Ed enjoys video games, traveling, cooking exceptionally spicy foods, and hanging out with his amazing wife and sons.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikehillwig
Contact: http://www.mikehillwig.com
Veteran DBA Mike Hillwig is a native Pittsburgher and resident of the Boston Suburbs. He’s a DBA Manager for a financial software company that’s owned by one of the world’s largest bank. Mike has been working with SQL Server since version 7 and has a background in infrastructure and network. Today, he manages a team of DBAs around the globe.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunilkadimdiwan
Contact: http://www.infotrove.com/events.html
Sunil Kadimdiwan Sunil Kadimdiwan has 25+ years’ experience in architecting and implementing database solutions. He has deep knowledge of the Microsoft SQL Server and Business Intelligence technology stack. He is a frequent speaker at SQLSaturdays, Code Camps, User Group meetings
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikehillwig
Contact: http://www.mikehillwig.com
Veteran DBA Mike Hillwig is a native Pittsburgher and resident of the Boston Suburbs. He’s a DBA Manager for a financial software company that’s owned by one of the world’s largest bank. Mike has been working with SQL Server since version 7 and has a background in infrastructure and network. Today, he manages a team of DBAs around the globe.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sqlservernerd
A Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Brandon manages the DB Operations team for financial company x. With a data estate of several petabytes, he puts a high focus on performance tuning and automation. He is a frequent speaker at events like conferences and user groups.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasgrohser/
Thomas Grohser has spent most of the past 26+ years exploring the deeper inner workings of SQL Server and its features while working for entertainment, pharmaceutical, and financial services industries. His primary focus is to architect, plan, build, and operate reliable, highly available, secure, and scalable infrastructures for SQL Server. Over the years he has managed thousands of SQL Server instances, processing trillions of rows, taking up petabytes of storage. Thomas has been a Microsoft Data Platform MVP for 9 years and has spoken regularly at conferences, SQLSaturdays, and user groups for 12 years.
Contact: http://www.troygallant.com
Troy has been a SQL Server professional for over 18 years, filling various roles as analyst, developer, and for the last decade, DBA. As a regular speaker at SQLSaturdays up and down the east coast, he’s taught on a multitude of topics from disaster recovery to performance tuning to professional development. Currently residing in Jacksonville once again, he just got back from two years as Sr. DBA for the EDW of a major international insurance company in New York City.
Contact: http://weblogs.asp.net/sbchatterjee/default.aspx
Architect/Tech-lead in Hartford CT with over 20 years IT experience. Worked at companies like Aetna, IBM, Microsoft, UNICEF, United Technologies and State of Connecticut. Holds graduate degrees in Computer Science, Business Administration and Economics. Awarded the Microsoft MVP Award for SharePoint products 2008 thru 2013. He is active in the SharePoint StackExchange and other forums. Twitter: @sbc111 Acting Director - CT.NET Dev Group (CTDOTNET) CT Dev Startups Group (CTDEVSTARTUP).
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenrsimon/
Contact: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/simon_says/
Steve Simon is a Database Solutions Architect with Business Knowledge Services Inc. He has been involved with database design and analysis for over 35 years. Steve has presented papers at numerous PASS Summits and PASS SQL Rallies. He is also regular presenter on the SQLSaturday circuit and he is a contributor on SQLShack.com
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/pareshmotiwala
Paresh Motiwala a Azure/Big Data enthusiast, Manager of Database Platform teams has led several large SQL implementations, migrations and upgrades. He has managed multi terabyte OLTP databases. He has also been a Sr. SQL DBA and a Solutions Architect in Fortune 100 companies. He helps/organizes and speaks at many SQLSaturdays, Azure Bootcamp, Azure Datafests and User Groups(Boston BI UG, NESQL, PASS PD VG and PASS DBA VG). He is certified in Big Data Analytics, FinTech, PMP, Public Speaking, Business Communications. He is a avid singer, cook, open networker, and stand-up comedian. He teaches public speaking, debating, interviewing and group discussion skills and mentors children around the globe via www.circlesofgrowth.com
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com
Contact: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/pearlknows/
Robert Pearl is a 5-year SQL Server MVP and creator of the award-winning database and monitoring alert system, SQLCentric. Author of the HealthySQL - Comprehensive Guide to Healthy SQL Server Performance. He’s the founder of Pearl Knowledge Solutions. As a SQL Server community evangelist, he covers local SQL Server events in the New York City area and maintains the Pearl Knows blog. Voted TOP BLOGGER in 2011.
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidaklee
Contact: http://davidklee.net
David Klee is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and VMware vExpert with a lifelong passion for technology. David spends his days focusing on the convergence of data and infrastructure as the Founder of Heraflux Technologies. His areas of expertise include cloud, virtualization, performance, and business continuity. David speaks at a number of national and regional technology related events, including PASS Summit, VMware VMworld, SQLBits, SQLSaturday events, and many SQL Server User Groups.
Contact: http://lennilobel.wordpress.com/
Leonard Lobel is a SQL Server MVP and database architect at Tallan. Programming since 1979, He is also a consultant, trainer, author, and frequent speaker at local usergroup meetings, VSLive, SQL PASS, SQL Bits, CodeCamp, and other industry conferences worldwide. Lenni is also lead author of the MS Press book “Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2012.”
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/john-miner/a/85a/889
Contact: http://www.craftydba.com
John has over twenty years of IT experience including a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Rhode Island with concentrations in database technologies and programming languages. He also has Microsoft Certificates for Database Administration (MCDBA) and System Admistration (MCSA). John is currently a Senior SQL Server Developer / Administrator in charge of best practices by the IT team at Sensata Technologies.
Contact: http://www.KevinSGoff.net
Kevin S. Goff (http://www.kevinsgoff.net) is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP Database architect/developer/speaker/author Regular columnist for CoDe Magazine on .NET, SQL Server, and Business Intelligence topics Frequent speaker at community events in the Mid-Atlantic region. Host of BDBI Radio (http://www.bdbiradio.com), a weekly webcast on SQL/BI topics
Contact: http://lennilobel.wordpress.com/
Leonard Lobel is a SQL Server MVP and database architect at Tallan. Programming since 1979, He is also a consultant, trainer, author, and frequent speaker at local usergroup meetings, VSLive, SQL PASS, SQL Bits, CodeCamp, and other industry conferences worldwide. Lenni is also lead author of the MS Press book “Programming Microsoft SQL Server 2012.”
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First: An Introduction
So, I want to start a blog again. I’m still terrified of writing, and I want to write.
So, a somewhat public blog, that almost no one knows about seems a good place to start! All the better if it doesn’t allow comments and is published statically so I don’t have to worry about being hacked.
Practicing writing should be good, and is at least 5/7ths of the goal really. I can work past the writers block, and the gripping fear of having my words read, and somewhat permanently committed to page. Maybe someday I’ll share them, or I’ll start anew once past the fear!
For now, I’m still trying to work out how to get it to actually appear anywhere other than my own personal machine. I’m trialing out Hugo and the Kiera theme, and hope to host on github pages. It should be a learning experience it seems. I imagine I’ve wrecked it all so far and will likely have to rip out bits and potentially start over.


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ANALYSIS: The most concentrated number of U.S. National Parks is the National Capital Region (DC, MD, VA). Many might be surprised but the Lincoln Memorial, Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, and the White House are part of the National Park Service System. I lived in this region for 13 years-the early stage of my professional career-and enjoyed the close proximity to so many parks. Each year, the tourist season kicks off at the end of March or begninng of April when the Cherry Blossoms at in full bloom for two weeks. This event typically draws millions of visitors each year. This is true in 2019 but not in 2020. As we see from the brown line, brought 6.5 million visitors in April 2019. For that same month a year later, the visits were just below 1 million, a substantial drop from the year prior. What is interesting about this graph is the large gap between the lines from March through August. While we see a decline in visits in 2019 after April, the visits in 2020 came nowhere close to the same levels in 2019. Clearly, COVID:19 restrictions were felt in the National Captial Region.


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Hi all,
I'm trying to get the emoncms 8.5.0 XT running locally, but something seems to go wrong when adding logging on the nodes, and creating feeds.Both fina and fiwa don't have the pulldown box for the interval selection show up in all of the tested browsers (IE, Firefox, Safari, Konqueror), and when creating feeds in this manner, they show up with engine Mysql in the feeds tab.
Is this something that is to be expected with a new (and possibly unfinished?) branch of emoncms, or am I possibly just missing some dependencies? I have followed the "Install Emoncms v8 on Ubuntu / Debian Linux" install guide, and am receiving data from the emontxv3 on a RPi2, that is not the problem, but I am wondering if there are some actions not covered in the install guide (packages/modules to install) or that I should be more patient and keep an eye on github for changes in this department?
Regards,
GJR
Re: emoncms 8.5.0XT phpfina and phpfiwa not working correctly?
Hello Hertog, it may be worth checking if the phpfina & phpfiwa feed engines work on the v8.5 branch for you. If your on Linux and used git to install you can switch the branch with:
git checkout v8.5
Re: emoncms 8.5.0XT phpfina and phpfiwa not working correctly?
Worked like a charm! Thanks! I guess XT is a bit too experimental at this stage?
Btw, I installed my raspberry pi with these images: https://github.com/debian-pi/raspbian-ua-netinst, it's one of the installers adviced by Raspbian, gives you a real minimally installed Raspberry, might be interesting for the RPi in the Kickstarter version of the OS? Keeps al the X-cruft out (well, if you want, I have X on it so I can flash the emonTXv3 via remote X, but at least I don't have all the other cruft lying around :)
Re: emoncms 8.5.0XT phpfina and phpfiwa not working correctly?
Hi,
Fixed on https://github.com/emoncms/emoncms/pull/322
Issues should be reported (also) here https://github.com/emoncms/emoncms/issues
Thanks for noticing it.
Re: emoncms 8.5.0XT phpfina and phpfiwa not working correctly?
Hi Chaveiro,
Next time I'll also report any (possible) Issue I find at github.
Regards,
GJR
Re: emoncms 8.5.0XT phpfina and phpfiwa not working correctly?
Pull request merged, thankyou Chaveiro!


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Humanity / Divinity of Christ
- John 1 (NRSV) 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being 4 in him was life, …
- Matthew 13:55 Is not this the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary? And are not his brothers James and Joseph and Simon and Judas?
Spirit and Structure
- Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.
Reason and Revelation
- Romans 16:25 Now to God who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages
Works and Grace
- 2 Timothy 1:9 who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace. This grace was given to us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,
Church and State
- Romans 13 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities; for there is no authority except from God, and those authorities that exist have been instituted by God.
Battle of arguments for God
Late Medieval Philosophy
Ockham's razor argued the simpler explanation is to be preferred
Nominalism
- The only thing "real" are the names we put on things
- Particulars are all that we experience and "know"
Nominalism & Theology
- Ockham (God can do anything)
- 14th c. as focus of mysticism (Meister Eckhart)
- Julian of Norwich (Mother Jesus)
Protest against Church authority
- Competing popes
- Church offices for sale
- John Wycliffe: the Bible could provide foundation to reform Church authority
- John Hus: populist, all should receive communion, clergy are corrupt


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3.8.3 GOK understands that each of the components of the Infrastructure Corridor Project is an integral part of the Industrial and commercial development of the Infrastructure Corridor ma manner designed and calculated to maximize the full industrial and commercial growth, potential and quality of life in such corridor. Accordingly, GOK shall use its best efforts to cause land of appropriate width from the outer boundaries of the entry and exist points (rampways interchanges) of the Toll Road the outer boundaries of each of the Townships, each as identified by the Company, not to be rezoned for use other than for farming (such area being called herein the “Greenbelt”). The appropriate width referred to in the immediately preceding sentence shall be determined by the appropriate Local Planning Authority. In the event an area to be included in the Greenbelt is on the date hereof already developed, GOK shall not be required to rezone such land for the Greenbelt, GOK acknowledges and agrees that the Greenbelt will protect and buffer the Toll Road and the Townships from unfettered and uncontrolled development which would cause irreparable harm to the Toll Road and the Townships and undermine the goals and purposes of the infrastructure Corridor Project contemplated hereby and that in the event of breach of this Paragraph 3.8.3 no adequate namely, would exist and damages would be difficult to measure and accordingly, the Company shall be entitled to Injunctive relief for specific performance pending resolution of any Dispute involving the provisions of this Paragraph 3.8.3. In the event any Person attempts to use the land designated for the Greenbelt for purposes other than farming, the Company may in its sole discretion take any and all steps it deems necessary or required, including the initiation of legal action against such Person, to step or prevent such unauthorized use. GOK shall support to the full 87 extent possible under applicable law such efforts of the Company to stop and prevent such unauthorized use. However, violation of the Greenbelt by third parties shall not constitute a GOK Event of Default.
As you are aware, FWA has been upheld by the Hon’ble High Court of Karnataka in its judgments dated 21.09.1998 and 03.05.2005 and the Hon’ble Supreme Court in its judgment dated 20.04.2006 has affirmed the judgment dated 03.05.2005 passed by the Hon’ble High Court of Karnataka.
The legal position emerging from the reading of FWA and the rulings of the Hon’ble High Court of Karnataka and the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India clearly shows that our Company has absolute and full power and authority to develop the land, commercially and industrially, subject, however, to the ODP and the zoning regulations. As such, the question of obtaining No Objection Certificate (NOC) or any other form of consent from the State Government would not arise.
3. The NOC’s obtained from BSNL, Airport and BWSSB and the acknowledgments for having applied to KSPCB, BESCOM and Fire Force and enclosed herewith.
4. The NOC’s from KSPCB, BESCOM and Fire Force will be submitted immediately after their receipt.
5. The detailed Project Report is enclosed.
6. You have requested to submit an Affidavit Stating that “no law suits” are pending in any of the courts with regard to the subject lands. We would like to state that we have already submitted the original copy of the Affidavit along with the letter cited at reference (ii) copy of which is enclosed.
In addition to this, a true copy of the learned Advocate General’s opinion dated 24.12.2011 furnished by in to the Planning Authority in response to the reference in this behalf obtained by us under the provisions of the Right to Information Act is enclosed for your ready reference.
This is for your kind information and further needful action in the matter.
88Thanking you Your faithfully, For Nandi Economic Corridor Enterprises Limited, Sd/ Authorised Signatory”
51. Notably, even the State had intimated the Planning Authority vide letter dated 19.12.2013 sent by the Principal Secretary, Public Works, Ports and Inland Water Transport Department, that in respect of change in land use and approval of residential developments, prior decision of the Empowered Committee should be obtained. The said communication reads thus: “LoE 114 CRM 2013 Secretariat, Government of Karnataka Vikasa Soudha Bangalore, Dated 19th December, 2013 From Principal Secretary Government of Karnataka Public Works, Ports and Inland Water Transport Department Bangalore.
To Member Secretary BangaloreMysore Infrastructure Corridor Area Planning Authority, Multistoreyed Building, Bangalore1 Sir, Sub: Re: Furnishing of documents and opinion as sought for by the authority with respect to the BMICP project.
89Ref: 1. Your letter No. BMICAPA: 339:PraPra P:1541:201112 dated 17.07.2012
2. Your letter No.BMICAPA:145:Bhu.U.B:519:201112 dated 18.08.2011 and 12.04.2012
3. Your letter No.BMICAPA:371:Design:1629:201011 dated 12.08.2011 and 12.04.2012
4. Your letter No.BMICAPA:81:Bhu.U.B:422:201112 dated 12.08.2011, 07.09.2011 and 09.04.2012
5. Your letter No.BMICAPA:80:Residential Plan:421:201112 dated 12.08.2011, 04.11.2011 and 14.12.2011
6. Your letter No.BMICAPA:79:Residential Design:420:201112 dated 12.08.2011
7. Letter No.BMICAPA:Yo Sa:29:Information:201314 dated 23.09.2013 of Shri B. Mahendra, Member Secretary, BMICAPA, Bangalore.
The Cabinet in its meeting on 30.08.2007 with respect to the subject matter as mentioned above while referring to Article 1.1.3 of the Tripartite Agreement entered into between M/s. NICE, M/s. NECEL and the Government of Karnataka on 09.08.2002 while referring to clauses in the said agreement namely (c) basic development and sale of land including that at ten (10) interchanges and Township 1 as follows
(iii) NICEL or anyone who is implementing the BMICP shall not be entitled to sell/alienate any portion of the land in the interchanges/road portion of the BMICP. Necessary steps be taken by the concerned department to cancel the agreement dated 09.08.2002 between NICE and the Government of Karnataka insofar as it introduces clause for sale of land in Para 1.1.3 or elsewhere in the agreement.
Apart from that, the judgments rendered in the context of implementation of the project by the High Court of Karnataka and Supreme Court mandate execute the project as conceived originally and upheld in Somashekar Reddy’s case and to implement the FWA in letter and spirit. The clauses in the Tripartite Agreement dated 09.08.2002 which are in contradiction with the FWA are 90 to be ignored. Further, the agreement dated 09.08.2002 is to be limited to assignment only.
The PTR submitted by M/s NICE is a prominent part of the FWA and the project will have to be implemented in accordance with the Technical Report. As per the definition of Toll Road and Township in the FWA which is reproduced below, the Toll Road is to be specifically restricted to Toll Road as defined. Further, for the residential and commercial development, Township has been separately provided for and in such Township, different commercial and residential plans being provided, the same are to be implemented in accordance with the rules.
“Toll Road” means the portion of the infrastructure corridor project consisting of Phase I Road, Phase II Road, Phase III Road, Phase IV Road, Phase V Road, Phase VI Road, the Bangalore Feeder, the Mysore Feeder, Link Road and the Outer Peripheral Road collectively;
“Townships” means the townships described as Township 1, 2, 4, 5 and 7 in the Infrastructure Corridor Project Technical Report which will be developed by the company and/or project companies for the industrial and commercial growth and other development of the infrastructure corridor and the provision of roads, supply of water, and electricity, street lighting, sewage, conservancy, and such other conveniences and socio economic infrastructure, inter alia, comprising of housing, schools, hospitals, shopping complexes, parks and open spaces as set forth in Schedule 4 attached hereto.
M/s. NICE has completed the Peripheral Road and Link Road. However, with respect to the facilities that are necessary for drivers of vehicles being plied on such road, such as petrol bunks, service stations, and truck terminals, it is noticed that till date none of these facilities have been provided for.
In the light of the above points, before any decision is taken with respect to change in land use and approval of residential developments, the pros and cons will have to be placed before the Empowered Committee constituted under the FWA and decision be obtained 91 from it. I have been directed to inform you accordingly.
Approved by the Principal Secretary PWD Yours sincerely, Sd/ N. Mahalakshamma Project Coordinator (BMICP), Public Works, Ports and Inland Water Transport Department” (emphasis supplied)
52. The fact remains that Article 7.1 of the FWA obliges the Project Proponents to submit proposal to the State for approval in case of any deviation. No such proposal was submitted to the State. Instead, the Project Proponents pursued the matter directly with the Planning Authority. In that sense, prior approval of the State for deviating from the FWA and in particular constructing housing complex at location other than demarcated for Townships, is not forthcoming. Admittedly, no such approval was taken. If such proposal was to be submitted to the State, it would be open to the State to examine the same on its own or refer the matter to the Empowered Committee constituted for resolving such issues, as envisaged in Article 4 of the FWA.
Article 4 reads thus: “ARTICLE 4 EMPOWERED COMMITTEE 4.1 Empowered Committee.
924.1.1 Composition and Actions of Empowered Committee GOK represents and warrants that it has established a committee (the “Empowered Committee”) which consists of Chief Secretary and other members whose postings and titles are as set forth in Schedule 6 attached hereto. In the event of a vacancy on the Empowered Committee, GOK shall fill such vacancy with a similarly titled person from the same GOK governmental Instrumentality. The Empowered Committee shall meet only after convening a duly called meeting and providing seven (7) Days prior written notice to the Company so that the Company may make available to such Committee a Company representative to answer any questions that the Empowered Committee may have and to update the Company on actions taken by such Committee.
4.1.2 Committee Determinations Do Not Modify Rights or Obligations. The Parties acknowledge and agree that the rights and obligations of the Parties to this Agreement and the parties to any Project Contract shall be as set forth in this Agreement and such Project Contract and the Empowered Committee shall not have the authority to modify or alter such rights and obligations other than through a written agreement between the Parties hereto or the parties thereto. Subject to the foregoing, the Empowered Committee shall be the mechanism by which GOK will coordinate (with any necessary assistance from the Company) performance of its obligations under this Agreement, including to:
<IP_ADDRESS> facilitate and expedite all Approvals required in connection with the Infrastructure Corridor Project at the state and local level; specifically, as the Empowered Committee consists of high level members from each of the affected ministries of GOK, it will act as the “single window coordination centre” with respect to the required clearance and permits; such committee shall also assist the Company in all means possible with regard to obtaining any and all Approvals required from GOK or any GOI Governmental Instrumentality;
<IP_ADDRESS> oversee GOK Governmental Instrumentalities compliance with the provisions of this Agreement.
9<IP_ADDRESS> serve as the information centre and clearinghouse for assembling and disseminating information with respect to the Infrastructure Corridor Project to GOK and the GOK Governmental Instrumentalities and the public at large; and <IP_ADDRESS> serve as the primary intermediary on behalf of GOK and GOI and any Governmental Instrumentality thereof in connection with dealings between GOK and the Company.
4.1.3 Committee Pronouncements and Decisions. GOK, on behalf of itself and the GOK Governmental Instrumentalities, covenants that the Company may rely on the pronouncements and decisions of the Empowered Committee as pronouncements and decisions of GOK or the relevant GOK Governmental Instrumentality in connection with the Infrastructure Corridor Project and that such pronouncements and decisions shall be made by GOK or such GOK Governmental Instrumentalities in an expeditions and timely manner. GOK understands and agrees that this is one of the primary purposes of setting up such Empowered Committee and that it will facilitate and expedite the realisation of the goals of the Infrastructure Corridor Project.
4.1.4 Committee Rights of Observation. GOK shall have the right, upon reasonable prior notice to the Company, through the Empowered Committee, to observe the progress of Infrastructure Corridor Project. The company shall assist GOK in arranging such visits. All persons visiting the Infrastructure Corridor Project site on behalf of GOK shall comply with all reasonable instructions, directions and safety requirements as prescribed by the Company or its contractors from time to time. GOK shall cause all such persons to comply with the Company Rules and Regulations regarding site safety and access, and in the event any such GOK employee or representative fails to comply with any reasonable requirements of the Company, GOK shall be exclusively liable for and shall indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Company against any and all damages, costs, claims, expenses and consequences arising out of such failure. Unless otherwise provided herein, such rights of GOK to visit the Infrastructure Corridor Project shall not be construed directly or indirectly as a contractual right of GOK to review, advise, recommend, approve or require changes.” 94 (emphasis supplied) Indeed, the Empowered Committee is not a statutory committee, but it can be so constituted in terms of Article 4 read with Schedule 6, consisting of high officials of the concerned departments. This is only to facilitate quick processing of the proposals and implementation of the Infrastructure Corridor Project with mutual understanding and due consultation wherever necessary. We may assume that the Empowered Committee may not agree with the proposal, as it may be of the view that the deviation is quite substantial and would disrupt the core objective of the Integrated Infrastructure Corridor (the Project), which has been designed with purpose of holistic and orderly development of the region as a whole. In that eventuality, the Project Proponents would be required to resort to mechanism of resolution of disputes envisaged in Article 18 of the FWA, which reads thus: “ARTICLE 18. RESOLUTION OF DISPUTES 18.1 Mutual Discussions. In the event of a Dispute, the Parties shall endeavour to resolve such Dispute by discussion in good faith in the first instance within thirty (30) days of Notice of such Dispute.
18.2 Referral to the Expert. If any Dispute cannot be settled within such thirty (30) Day period and the Parties mutually agree in writing, such Dispute shall be referred to the Expert. If the Expert does not arrive at a decision within sixty (60) days or if either Party does not accept the decision of the Expert, then either Party may, upon giving Notice to the other Party, refer the Dispute 95 immediately for arbitration in accordance with Paragraph 18.3.
…..”
53. A priori, it must necessarily follow that the Project Proponents cannot and ought not to have directly approached the Planning Authority for grant of stated permission in reference to the provisions in the KTCP Act or ODP/Master Plan. As aforesaid, if the proposal to be submitted by the Project Proponents was compliant with the stipulations and specifications given in the FWA read with the PTR, only then the Project Proponents could justifiably approach the Planning Authority directly for grant of permission as per the extant regulations and municipal laws applicable in that regard, to construct buildings and structures for establishing a Township.
In other words, the proposal/application of the Project Proponents would be a valid proposal/application to the Planning Authority only if it was to be in strict compliance with the land use specified in the FWA read with the PTR. In case of any deviation therefrom, it ought to accompany a formal prior approval of the State or the Empowered Committee, as the case may be, so that it can be processed further by the Planning Authority.
9654. Much emphasis was placed on the fact that the appellants had permitted the Project Proponents to construct housing complex at a location outside the demarcated area for the five Townships referred to in the FWA. Similarly, as the stated location was falling in yellow zone being residential, the other neighbouring private land owners were permitted to develop their property for housing complex. This argument does not take the matter any further for the Project Proponents, inasmuch as the land in question has been allotted to the Project Proponents by the State after acquiring it from private land owners for implementation of the Project. For that reason, the use of the land should be strictly in conformity with the FWA and the applicable stipulations in the PTR. It is not open to the Project Proponents to contend that they can unilaterally develop the land allotted to them by the State in the manner other than specified in the FWA, being bound by the contractual obligations flowing from the FWA.
55. Notably, the State had granted prior permission to the Project Proponents to construct housing units at location(s) other than the five Townships. That was to accommodate the 97 concerned land losers in connection with the same Project as per the policy of the State. Besides, the stated housing complex is not spread over in 42 acres and 30 guntas of land, so as to disrupt the holistic development envisaged in the FWA/PTR. In any case, that could be done only after obtaining prior approval of the State in that regard. As regards permission given to the private land owners, as aforesaid, that was given by the Planning Authority as per the applicable town planning regulations and in particular the use specified in the ODP/Master Plan. For, their lands did not form part of the Project and also because they are not bound by the stipulations in FWA in particular, unlike the Project Proponents.
56. Reverting to the factum of assurance given by the Planning Authority in the earlier round of writ petition(s) that the modified proposal/application dated 5.5.2012 will be considered in accordance with law and also that the State was party to that petition, in our view, it does not entail in acquiescence or waiver of the jurisdictional issue by the State (regarding necessity of seeking prior approval of Empowered Committee and No Objection (Certificate)/approval from the concerned State 98 authorities). In that, the assurance given by the Planning Authority cannot come in the way of the State to urge that in law, the Project Proponents had no authority to develop the lands in question except as per the stipulations and specifications prescribed in the FWA read with the relevant clauses of the PTR.
As a matter of fact, the earlier writ petitions were not decided on merits, but came to be disposed of leaving all contentions open, in lieu of the assurance given by the Planning Authority that it would consider the modified application as per law. In the present writ petitions, therefore, the State in the larger public interest is dutybound to take a legal plea regarding jurisdictional issue including the extent of right of the writ petitioners (Project Proponents) being limited to stipulations in the FWA. Thus, neither the unilateral assurance given by the Planning Authority nor the fact that such specific reason has not been recorded by the Planning Authority in the impugned communication or that the State was party to the said writ petitions, would denude the State from raising the legal question regarding the scope of the FWA disentitling the Project Proponents for grant of any relief in the subject writ petitions. Further, the High Court in the guise of issuing mandamus to the Planning Authority for issuing the 99 Commencement Certificate, in effect, has prevented the State from calling upon the Project Proponents to strictly abide by the stipulations in the FWA. That cannot be countenanced.
57. It is urged that this Court had held that it would be open to the Project Proponents to carry on construction work of housing on lands which are not falling within the Townships area, if the same were otherwise permissible under the ODP/Master Plan and the town planning regulations. This submission is founded on complete misreading of the observations in the decision of this Court in All India Manufacturers Organisation (supra). As noticed earlier, the lis before this Court including review petition(s) had arisen on account of the challenge to the FWA and also the acquisition of land for the purpose of the corridor project being excessive. Neither the High Court nor this Court was called upon to answer the issue now raised by the Project Proponents that it was free to construct standalone group housing scheme and at location(s) outside the demarcated five Townships (in the FWA/PTR).
58. Thus understood, the argument of the Project Proponents that the plea taken by the State is hit by res judicata and in any 100 case, by principles of constructive res judicata, cannot be countenanced. As a matter of fact, the Project Proponents did not pursue the plea of res judicata or of constructive res judicata before the High Court, as is evident from the points for consideration formulated by the High Court in paragraph 9 reproduced in the earlier part of this judgment (in paragraph 22).
Even if it can be considered as a question of law, in our opinion, the same does not arise in the fact situation of the present case.
59. The Project Proponents had also placed reliance on the dictum of the High Court in S.M. Mohan Rao Nadgir vs. State of Karnataka & Ors.22, which, in our opinion has no bearing on the question that arises for our consideration. Paragraph 10 of the said decision as reproduced in the written submission filed by the Project Proponents, in fact merely sets out the factual matrix of that case and is certainly not an opinion of the Court answering the plea required to be adjudicated in the present appeals. Even the observation in Dakshinamurthy vs. B.K.
Das, IAS & Ors.23, being an order passed in Contempt Petitions filed in Civil Appeal Nos. 34923494/2005 and connected appeals 22 Decided by the High Court on 28.2.2005 in Writ Appeal No. 72/2004 and connected writ appeals 23 (2010) 1 SCC 64 101 [decided on 20.4.2006, as reported in All India Manufacturers Organisation (supra)] will be of no avail to the Project Proponents. The fact recorded that the Project shall be allowed to be completed as per the alignment specified in the ODP/Master Plan, as noted therein, has no bearing on the questions dealt with in the present appeals.
60. Be it noted that the Project can be taken forward by the Project Proponents only in conformity with the stipulations and specifications in the FWA and the PTR. Additionally, the Project Proponents are also obliged to ensure compliance of ODP/Master Plan and if so complied, the Planning Authority cannot create any impediment. If the State accords approval to the deviation in terms of the FWA itself, the Project Proponents may be competent to carry on such a work. To put it differently, prior approval of the State for deviation from the stipulations and specifications in the FWA is the quintessence. We do not wish to burden this judgment with the argument about attitude of the concerned authorities in creating obstructions in completion of the Project because no official has been named in the writ petitions filed by the Project Proponents being responsible for that situation.
10261. The argument of the Project Proponents that the housing complexes can be constructed even at intersections by placing reliance on the observations in All India Manufacturers Organisation (supra), is begging the question. The issue is:
whether it is open to the Project Proponents to deviate from the stipulations and specifications of the FWA, in particular, in respect of Townships without prior approval of the State? The issue considered in the earlier rounds of litigation by this Court was on the basis of stand taken by the State to defend the Project, the FWA and the acquisition of land for the purpose of the project. In the present appeals, the matter is required to be examined in the context of the stand of the Project Proponents that they are free to carry on construction of housing scheme at any location of their choice even outside the demarcated location(s) for five Townships, stretched over about 140 kilometres of the expressway, in the FWA and the PTR.
62. Reverting to the dictum in M. Nagabhushana (supra), the same will also be of no avail to the Project Proponents as it does not militate against the Planning Authority and State, in particular. As already noted, the State is competent to maintain 103 its stand that the legal right of Project Proponents flows only from the terms and conditions specified in the FWA read with the PTR.
That is a just plea available to the State and must be taken by it in the larger public interest to ensure that the objective of the Integrated Corridor Project (the Project) is not marginalised, undermined or frustrated in any manner. If development as desired by the Project Proponents on the stretch of 140 kilometres of the expressway is allowed, it would result in development in manner other than the one planned and conceived in the FWA and the PTR, the objective of which is to provide for holistic and orderly development of the selfsustaining Townships with all basic infrastructure and civic facilities and to ensure smooth and accidentfree traffic between Bangalore and Mysore; population dispersal as per the National/State policy; to create new job opportunities for the residents in and around the Infrastructure Corridor; promote tourism; and decongest traffic etc.
63. It is not necessary for us to dilate on other aspects regarding the efficacy of the FWA and the PTR or the other agreements executed between the parties, having held that it is 104 for the State to consider the proposal for allowing the Project Proponents to deviate from the stipulations and specifications of the FWA and the PTR and until that decision is taken by the State or its instrumentalities including the Empowered Committee constituted in terms of the FWA, the Planning Authority cannot process the proposal/application directly submitted to it by the Project Proponents. Further, such non compliant proposal/application submitted by the Project Proponents directly to the Planning Authority must be regarded as infirm, invalid and nonest in law.
64. The next question is: whether the findings recorded by the High Court for setting aside the reasons given by the Planning Authority in the impugned communication dated 7.2.2015, can be said to be the just approach of the High Court? In view of the conclusion reached by us hitherto, it is not necessary for us to dilate on the correctness of the view taken by the High Court in that regard.
65. Suffice it to observe that assuming the High Court was right in taking the view as it did to set aside the communication dated 7.2.2015, it was certainly not right in issuing mandamus to the 105 Planning Authority to straightaway grant Commencement Certificate in respect of the modified proposal. The appropriate order that could have been passed by the High Court in such a situation after setting aside the communication dated 7.2.2015, would have been to relegate the Project Proponents before the Planning Authority for proceeding with this proposal in accordance with law and applicable regulations expeditiously after considering the other issues/points raised by the State.
The Project Proponents would, however, rely on the exposition in paragraph 27 of the decision of this Court in Badrinath vs. Government of Tamil Nadu & Ors.24, which reads thus: “27. This flows from the general principle applicable to “consequential orders”. Once the basis of a proceeding is gone, may be at a later point of time by order of a superior authority, any intermediate action taken in the meantime – like the recommendation of the State and by the UPSC and the action taken thereon – would fall to the ground. This principle of consequential orders which is applicable to judicial and quasijudicial proceedings equally applicable to administrative orders. In other words, where an order is passed by an authority and its validity is being reconsidered by a superior authority (like the Governor in this case) and if before the superior authority has given its decision, some further action has been taken on the basis of the initial order of the primary authority, then such further action will fall to the ground the moment the superior authority has set aside the primary order.” Reliance is also placed on Section 15 of the KTCP Act, in particular, proviso thereto, which reads thus: 24 (2000) 8 SCC 395 106 “15 Permission for development of building or land. (1) On receipt of the application for permission under section 14, the Planning Authority shall furnish to the applicant a written acknowledgment of its receipt and after such inquiry as may be necessary either grant or refuse a commencement certificate:
Provided that such certificate may be granted subject to such general or special conditions as the State Government may, by order made in this behalf, direct. (2) If the Planning Authority does not communicate its decision to the applicant within three months from the date of such acknowledgment, such certificate shall be deemed to have been granted to the applicant.
Provided that the land use, change in land use or the development for which permission was sought for is in conformity with the outline development plan and the regulation finally approved under subsection (3) of section 13.
(3) Subject to the provisions of section 16, no compensation shall be payable for the refusal of or the insertion or imposition of conditions in the commencement certificate.
(4) If any person does any work on, or makes any use of, any property in contravention of section 14 or of sub section (1) of this section, the Planning Authority may direct such person by notice in writing, to stop any such work in progress or discontinue any such use; and may, after making an inquiry in the prescribed manner, remove or pull down any such work and restore the land to its original condition or, as the case may be, take any measure to stop such use.
(5) Any expenses incurred by the Planning Authority under subsection (4) shall be a sum due to such Authority under this Act from the person in default or from the owner of the land.
Explanation. The power to grant necessary permission under this section for a change of user of land shall include the power to grant permission for the retention on land of any building or work constructed or carried out thereon before the date of the publication of the declaration of intention to prepare an outline development plan under subsection (1) of section 10 or for the continuance of any use of land instituted before the said date.
107(6) Any person aggrieved by the decision of the Planning Authority under subsection (1) or subsection (4) may, within thirty days from the date of such decision, appeal to such authority as may be prescribed. (7) The prescribed authority may, after giving a reasonable opportunity of being heard to the appellant and the Planning Authority, pass such orders as it deems fit, as far as may be, within four months from the date of receipt of the appeal.” (emphasis supplied) We are not impressed by this submission. The reported decision pressed into service does not go to the extent of justifying the direction issued by the High Court vide impugned judgment to issue Commencement Certificate. Indisputably, the question of issuing Commencement Certificate would arise only if the Planning Authority was fully satisfied that the proposal/plan submitted by the Project Proponents is compliant in all respects in reference to the extant town planning rules and regulations.
Moreso, because it is not a case where the Project Proponents were invoking the provision regarding deemed approval of the modified plan submitted on 5.5.2012.
66. As a result, we have no hesitation in taking view that the direction issued by the High Court in the impugned judgment, in any case, cannot be countenanced in law. But this question, if we may say so, has become academic for the view that we have 108 already taken that the Project Proponents could not have directly approached the Planning Authority for approval of modified proposal, which was replete with deviations from the stipulations and specifications in the FWA read with the PTR. This is so because the right in favour of the Project Proponents to carry on development work on the lands referred to in the FWA and the PTR would enure only in conformity with the stipulations and specifications in the stated documents. It is not open to the Project Proponents to develop the land in any other manner, unless permitted by the State.
67. Taking overall view of the matter, we have no hesitation in allowing the present appeals filed by the Planning Authority and the State of Karnataka and thereby setting aside the impugned judgment of the High Court with liberty to the Project Proponents to first approach the State (under Article 7 of the FWA) for its prior permission to allow them to deviate from the stipulations and specifications in the FWA and the PTR. Upon consideration of such proposal, the competent authority of the State may take appropriate decision in the matter and if need be, obtain prior opinion of the Empowered Committee. However, this process 109 must be completed in right earnest and no later than six months from the date of submission of the proposal to the competent authority of the State. If the decision is adverse to the Project Proponents, it would be open to them to take recourse to the disputes resolution mechanism in terms of Article 18 of the FWA, if so advised. Only after prior permission is granted by the State regarding the proposed deviations, the Project Proponents may then apply to the Planning Authority for permission to construct buildings/structures as per the applicable town planning regulations, which be considered on its own merits in accordance with law uninfluenced by its earlier communication dated 7.2.2015.
68. We leave all other contentions available to concerned parties open to be considered by the concerned forum/Court on their own merits in accordance with law.
69. Accordingly, the impugned judgment and order is quashed and set aside and the stated writ petitions filed by the Project Proponents stand dismissed with liberty to the Project Proponents, as aforesaid. The appeals are allowed in the above 110 terms. There shall be no order as to costs. Pending interlocutory applications, if any, shall stand disposed of.
..................................J. (A.M. Khanwilkar) ..................................J. (Dinesh Maheshwari) New Delhi;
May 19, 2020.


Els leads strong local field for Alfred Dunhill Championship
He is the former world number one and winner of this prestigious championship in 2005.
by Supplied ContentErnie Els will headline a strong field of South African stars at this year’s Alfred Dunhill Championship at Leopard Creek Country Club from November 28 to December 1.
The former world number one and winner of this prestigious championship in 2005 will be joined in the field by countrymen and fellow former champions Brandon Stone (2016 champion), Garth Mulroy (2011 champion) and Richard Sterne (2008 champion).
Also read: Top professionals soon returning to Leopard Creek
South Africa’s Zander Lombard, fresh off contending for the Nedbank Golf Challenge hosted by Gary Player, Erik van Rooyen, Justin Harding and rookie professional Wilco Nienaber have also confirmed their places in this co-sanctioned tournament between the Sunshine Tour and European Tour.
And Jayden Schaper, the South African Stroke Play champion and winner of the Junior Players Championship in the United States this year, has been granted an invitation to play as one of the leading young stars of GolfRSA.
The strong local field makes for a thrilling finale to the South African golf year as the tournament follows the Nedbank Golf Challenge hosted by Gary Player as the final tournament played on South African fairways in 2019, and also tees off the European Tour’s new 2020 season.
Multiple Major winner Els will feature at Leopard Creek shortly before he heads to Australia as the Captain of the International Team in The Presidents Cup, and is looking to add to his success in a tournament where he’s had one victory and a second-place finish.
Van Rooyen and Harding are back at Leopard Creek at the end of a breakthrough year for both on the European Tour.
Van Rooyen claimed his maiden European Tour victory in the Scandinavian Invitation, while Harding broke through with a victory in the Commercial Bank Qatar Masters. Lombard came close to the biggest victory of his career when he led the 2019 Nedbank Golf Challenge for two days before finishing tied eighth.
Both Nienaber and Schaper represent the new generation of South Africa’s rising stars, with Nienaber embarking on his professional journey on the back of a glittering amateur career, and Schaper currently ranked the number one amateur in South Africa.
This year the Alfred Dunhill Championship will also be following the lead of The Open Championship in radically reducing single-use plastic at the tournament.


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With the sun aglow, I have my pensive moods, is a two channel video installation featuring footage filmed in three separate locations in Aotearoa New Zealand, documenting a dance, a highway and a farm. These visuals also contain a myriad of references that create a convergence between Te Ao’s personal sociogeography, his tīpuna and the imaginings of other artists, directors and musicians from distinct times and places. The title and verse featured in the work quotes from the c.1846 moteatea, He waiata mo te mate ngerengere (Song for a leprous malady) by Te Rohu of Ngāti Tūwharetoa. The waiata was composed by Te Rohu to lament layers of personal and collective trauma such as the demise of her health after contracting leprosy from a potential suitor, a fatal landslide which killed her father Mananui Te Heuheu Tukino II along with over fifty others, and also the turbulent early era of colonial settlement.
With the sun aglow, I have my pensive moods grew as response to an imagined dialogue, locating Te Rohu within the context of the 1977 Charles Burnett film, Killer of Sheep. Filmed in 1970s Los Angeles, in the African-American neighbourhood of Watts, Burnett’s film captures a rare moment of intimacy in the life of a slaughterhouse worker, where the protagonist slowly dances with his wife before abruptly resisting her embrace.
Te Ao restages the scene to show two women dancing in a small clearing on a commercial hemp farm in New Zealand’s South Island that propagates the plant for health products. In Te Ao’s film the dancing women are surrounded by female plants have been pollinated and dying male hemp plants that have concluded their natural role.
This scene is paired with footage shot on a commercial dairy farm which directly encircles the urupa for Te Ao’s whanau who also share their tribal affiliations with Te Rohu. Alongside this, Te Ao presents a sequence captured along the Rangipo Desert, commonly known as the ‘Desert Road’, a stretch of highway located near the boundaries of Te Ao’s tribal lands. Known for its iconic barren landscape situated at the foot of the region’s most notable volcanic peaks, the area is predominantly occupied as a training facility for the New Zealand defence force.
The amalgamation of these various references conflates the narratives and places beyond their original personal and socio-political contexts. By doing so Te Ao creates an enigmatic work that seeks out empathetic registers within the human condition such as the tenuous nature of relationships, communication, wellbeing and a sense of place or tūrangawaewae.


MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2 A film review by Mark R. Leeper
Capsule: What might have been a decent James Bond film plot (with a little patching) just shows that the writers do not understand or want to ignore what a "Mission: Impossible" script is. See Tom Cruise climb rocks, ride dirt bikes, and race cars in the name of saving the free world from a new and deadly virus. This is a film with a lot of action, a lot of vanity, and not much thought. Rating: 4 (0 to 10), 0 (-4 to +4) A minor spoiler follows the main review.
The new "Mission: Impossible" film is out for early summer audiences. It will have stiff box office competition from Disney's current DINOSAUR which offers material that will appeal to adults.
Once again we have a "Mission: Impossible" movie without a "Mission Impossible" plot. What is a "Mission: Impossible" plot? It is like a jigsaw puzzle. Through most of the plot you see the pieces being fit together, but you have no idea what they build. Suddenly toward the end you go through an "Ah-ha!" experience when you understand what it is all for. Then you see what you built do its thing. Maybe doing its thing is to make some banana republic would-be Hitler suddenly appear to have been stealing from the country's treasury. It is a spy film powered by gray cells instead of testosterone. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2 is as clueless as its predecessor what its title claims it to be. It is like me saying I am going to write great romantic sonnets just like Shakespeare, but I am going to write them in four lines.
Instead of a "Mission: Impossible" plot it has something that might have worked as a James Bond script. And evens so, it would have been a Bond script a little heavy on chases and fights. For too much of the screen time Cruise is just showing off for the camera. Cruise is trying to be the Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., of our generation. He wants to be dashing and handsome and superb at any number of sports. This film is too intent on glamorizing Cruise.
As the story opens we have a scientist in Sydney, Australia, who had developed a great anti-virus. And to prove the anti-virus works he has also developed a great deadly virus for his anti-virus to counter. (Yes, that's what he did.) Now he wants to take the virus and the anti-virus to the CDC in Atlanta so he injects himself with the deadly virus. The deadly strain will be benign for exactly 20 hours, then it will attack him like Ebola.  And what does he do to be sure to get to Atlanta in time? He boards a commercial air flight. (Is this making sense to you?) But there are baddies who will stop at nothing to get the virus and anti-virus. On the commercial plane the pilot happens to be one of the baddies' gang. (However did they manage that? They didn't even know what plane he would be taking.) The baddies, led by Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott), seize the biological agents and escape the plane, leaving it to crash.
The Impossible Mission Force has to call in the vacationing Ethan Hunt (played by Tom Cruise) who is having fun by climbing about half a mile up a sheer rock face without benefit of equipment. The IMF brings in Ethan and tells him to pick two team members as well as recruit a third, one a beautiful jewel thief named Nyah Nordoff-Hall (Thandie Newton). (With a name like Nordoff-Hall one wonders if there was a bounty on her head.) In the best traditions of Hitchcock's NOTORIOUS, she is asked to go not just under cover but also between the sheets with former lover Ambrose.
The film stars Tom Cruise as the lead agent of the IMF. Thandie Newton is a new face and a different one, but she does not have enough to do on the screen. Tom Cruise plays the athletic miracle man. In an unbilled role, Anthony Hopkins is around to give Cruise his orders. Tom Cruise plays the great lover secret agent. Dougray Scott is a little lackluster for the villain, but perhaps a lackluster villain is more realistic. Tom Cruise is there as the quick-thinking super-agent. The Impossible Mission team also has the talented Ving Rhames returning as Luther Stickell. He gets to ride a helicopter and shoot a gun.  I don't remember if he did anything or had any speaking lines. I seem to remember he flew the helicopter. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2 also features Tom Cruise.
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2 was badly in need of another script re- write, particularly by someone who was a fan of the original series. John Woo keeps the action coming, but not the intelligence. And Woo is not able to make the action scenes believable or enjoyable. The climactic fight is as funny as it is contrived. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2 is more just a Tom Cruise vanity piece than anything else. I rate it 4 on the 0 to 10 scale and a 0 on the -4 to +4 scale.
Minor spoiler... Minor spoiler... Minor spoiler... Minor spoiler...
I am starting to have a real problem with this whole mask thing. The idea seems borrowed from the opening of FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, where it was fresh. But let us be clear that to masquerade as someone else with one of these masks requires a lot of preparation ahead of time. It cannot be easy to make a mask that would fool someone into thinking they were seeing someone they knew when it was really someone else. The voice disguise would also take a tremendous amount of preparation. Probably neither could be done without the cooperation of the person who is going to be impersonated. Further, people recognize each other by more than scent, word-choice, accent, memories, and dozens of other parameters. The original series used impersonation very, very sparingly giving the person a lot of preparation time and even then it was really a credibility stretcher. You do not just attack a building with a back-pocket full of these impersonation masks ready to use. In addition dramatically it is a poor idea. It distracts the audience making them constantly wonder if they really know who they are looking at or not. The script uses it entirely too frequently, whenever the writer wants to throw the audience a cheap and easy curve ball.
Mark R. Leeper<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Copyright 2000 Mark R. Leeper
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'The X-Files'
by Simon Calloway
Cast: David Duchovny; Gillian Anderson; John Nevill; William B. Davis; Martin Landeu
(originally written 6/20/98)
Every Sunday night I would be glued to my sofa, watching my favorite television show from 9-10pm. It is a show about mystery, atmosphere, science fiction, horror, conspiracies, and characters so worthy of regocnition, I am pleased to find out even the Pope knows who Agents Mulder and Scully are (okay, maybe he doesn't, but who doesn't other than him?).
Creator Chris Carter made a breakthrough show. A show unlike any other on the air today, yesterday, or tomorrow. Now, he has taken a step further: Moving this monument onto the silver screen. The results are a class act.
(Warning: spoilers ahead!) The film continues the adventures of Mulder and Scully (if you don't know about their quest for truth, justice, and aliens, than what are you doing reading this review?) from season five. That right there is something I have never seen, a show's season finale written right into a motion picture.
The Agents are taken off their X-File cases and assigned to a Dallas bomb threat. When the bomb goes off (in a frightening, intensely realistic portray), Mulder and Scully are blamed for misguidence and split apart. Mulder is later told by a shadowy figure (Martin Landeu is a brava performance) that the bomb intentionally exploded to cover-up a conspiracy dealing with the body of a little boy who was infected with the deadly black-oil.
This sends our heros back to Dallas to investigate the mishaps, which turns out to be the key in an on-going conspiracy to hide the evidence of extraterrestrial life on this planet for millions of years.
As sci-fi goes, X-Files is a classic movie that deserves to be seen on the bigscreen (which I am going to do again). Most people might not understand or like the film's story and aspect of Mulder and Scully's quest. Only a certain amount of fans and serious sci-fi buffs (not the Star Wars type) will appreciate the movie's intelligence and way it doesn't exploit aliens, as did Independece Day (1996) did. X-Files is about secrets and mysterious stories, and, the film is, also, splashy in the FX department. But it doesn't show-off the laborious set pieces too much. ID4 was too grande in the FX, and not in the plot.
The X-Files will likely be the best film this summer, until Saving Private Ryan (which I hear is getting some great critical acclaime already). If you can't understand the film's relentless fascination with the dark side and life-long goals, too bad for you.
*****
~TeenViews (c) 1999~
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Twix
Twix is a simple but opinionated JS library for working with date ranges, and includes a customizable smart formatter. It's written in CoffeeScript and it depends on Moment.js.
It allows you to do, among other things, this:
```js var t = moment("1982-01-25T09:30").twix("1982-01-25T13:30");
t.format(); //=> Jan 25, 1982, 9:30 AM - 1:30 PM
t.isSame("day"); //=> true t.humanizeLength(); //=> "4 hours" t.count("days"); //=> 1 ```
And much more.
Documentation
Building
If you want to build Twix for yourself, you'll need to install CoffeeScript. Then clone the repo out and run this:
make configure build
Configure just installs the NPMs and brings in Moment as a submodule, so you only have to do that part once.
Note that the source is src/twix.coffee
; the output is bin/twix.js
. You can run the tests via
make test
You can also run the tests in-browser by building and then loading test/test.html
.
Contributing
Patches are welcome!
- Submit pull requests to the
develop
branch. I merge develop to master when we cut a release. - Don't include your changes to the generated
.js
files in the patch; they're much harder to merge. I'll generate them when I cut the release.
Changelog
-
0.5.0: Fix intersection/overlap behavior (#36), expand signature, and deal with Moment deprecations.
-
0.4.0: Simplified internationalization support (possibly breaking change for those few people using French support), added more complex iteration durations. Reverted build complexity.
-
0.3.0: AMD support, basic internationalization support, bug fix for
countInner
anditerateInner
. Component and bower support. New build system and code organization. -
0.2.2: Added
isValid
andintersection
, fixedoverlaps
for adjacent times, renamedmerge
tounion
, added deprecation warnings. -
0.2.1: Added
countInner
,contains
,iterateInner
, andlength
-
0.2.0: Deprecated
sameDay
,sameYear
,countDays
,daysIn
,past
, andduration
. AddedisSame
,humanizeLength
,asDuration
,isPast
,isFuture
,isCurrent
. Added duration methods. Emphasized moment() monkey patch methods over Twix() constructor. Some bug fixes. -
Older versions - wasn't tracking.
License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2012 Isaac Cambron
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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Creating the PL/php language in a PostgreSQL database ¶
In 8.1 and beyond you need to have a PL/php entry in the pg_pltemplate system catalog. You can insert one by issuing, as a superuser:
INSERT INTO pg_pltemplate VALUES ('plphp', 't', 'plphp_call_handler', 'plphp_validator', '$libdir/plphp', NULL); INSERT INTO pg_pltemplate VALUES ('plphpu', 'f', 'plphp_call_handler', 'plphp_validator', '$libdir/plphp', NULL);
Note you DON'T have to edit the $libdir. Leave it alone. It will be expanded by PostgreSQL automatically. You don't need to add the .so suffix either (or whatever it's called on your platform.)
This will create entries for the trusted and untrusted versions of PL/php. Note that pg_pltemplate is a shared catalog, which means you have to do it only once in any database and it will be available in all your databases automatically.
In any database where you want to use PL/php you need to issue simply
CREATE LANGUAGE plphp;
or
CREATE LANGUAGE plphpu;
(the latter will create the untrusted version, which by default only superusers can write functions in).
Now the language is ready to be used.
If you receive an error similar to:
ERROR: could not load library "/usr/local/lib/postgresql/plphp": libphp4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
it means the Postmaster can't find the PHP shared library. The "make install" step should have created a symlink from the Apache2 PHP module to the pg_config --libdir directory. If the link is broken, please fix it -- exactly where the library is located is left as an exercise to the reader, but the actual link creation should be something like
ln -sf /path/to/libphp4.so $(pg_config --libdir)