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As Pragmatic Programmers, our base material isn't wood or iron, it's knowledge. We gather requirements as knowledge, and then express that knowledge in our designs, implementations, tests, and documents. And we believe that the best format for storing knowledge persistently is plain text. With plain text, we give ourselves the ability to manipulate knowledge, both manually and programmatically, using virtually every tool at our disposal.
Plain text is made up of printable characters in a form that can be read and understood directly by people. For example, although the following snippet is made up of printable characters, it is meaningless.
Fieldl9=467abe
The reader has no idea what the significance of 467abe may be. A better choice would be to make it understandable to humans.
DrawingType=UMLActivityDrawing
Plain text doesn't mean that the text is unstructured; XML, SGML, and HTML are great examples of plain text that has a well-defined structure. You can do everything with plain text that you could do with some binary format, including versioning.
Plain text tends to be at a higher level than a straight binary encoding, which is usually derived directly from the implementation. Suppose you wanted to store a property called uses_menus that can be either TRUE or FALSE. Using text, you might write this as
myprop.uses_menus=FALSE
Contrast this with<PHONE_NUMBER>110101.
The problem with most binary formats is that the context necessary to understand the data is separate from the data itself. You are artificially divorcing the data from its meaning. The data may as well be encrypted; it is absolutely meaningless without the application logic to parse it. With plain text, however, you can achieve a self-describing data stream that is independent of the application that created it.
Tip 20
Keep Knowledge in Plain Text
There are two major drawbacks to using plain text: (1) It may take more space to store than a compressed binary format, and (2) it may be computationally more expensive to interpret and process a plain text file.
Depending on your application, either or both of these situations may be unacceptable—for example, when storing satellite telemetry data, or as the internal format of a relational database.
But even in these situations, it may be acceptable to store metadata about the raw data in plain text (see Metaprogramming).
Some developers may worry that by putting metadata in plain text, they're exposing it to the system's users. This fear is misplaced. Binary data may be more obscure than plain text, but it is no more secure. If you worry about users seeing passwords, encrypt them. If you don't want them changing configuration parameters, include a secure hash[1] of all the parameter values in the file as a checksum.
[1] MD5 is often used for this purpose. For an excellent introduction to the wonderful world of cryptography, see [Sch95].
Since larger and slower aren't the most frequently requested features from users, why bother with plain text? What are the benefits?
Insurance against obsolescence
Leverage
Easier testing
Human-readable forms of data, and self-describing data, will outlive all other forms of data and the applications that created them. Period.
As long as the data survives, you will have a chance to be able to use it—potentially long after the original application that wrote it is defunct.
You can parse such a file with only partial knowledge of its format; with most binary files, you must know all the details of the entire format in order to parse it successfully.
Consider a data file from some legacy system[2] that you are given. You know little about the original application; all that's important to you is that it maintained a list of clients' Social Security numbers, which you need to find and extract. Among the data, you see
[2] All software becomes legacy as soon as it's written.
<FIELD10>123-45-6789</FIELD10> ... <FIELD10>567-89-0123</FIELD10> ... <FIELD10>901-23-4567</FIELD10>
Recognizing the format of a Social Security number, you can quickly write a small program to extract that data—even if you have no information on anything else in the file.
But imagine if the file had been formatted this way instead:
AC27123456789B11P ... XY43567890123QTYL ... 6T2190123456788AM
You may not have recognized the significance of the numbers quite as easily. This is the difference between human readable and human understandable.
While we're at it, FIELD10 doesn't help much either. Something like
<SSNO>123-45-6789</SSNO>
makes the exercise a no-brainer—and ensures that the data will outlive any project that created it.
Virtually every tool in the computing universe, from source code management systems to compiler environments to editors and stand-alone filters, can operate on plain text.
The Unix PhilosophyUnix is famous for being designed around the philosophy of small, sharp tools, each intended to do one thing well. This philosphy is enabled by using a common underlying format—the line-oriented, plain text file. Databases used for system administration (users and passwords, networking configuration, and so on) are all kept as plain text files. (some systems, such as Solaris, also maintain a binary forms of certain databases as a performance optimization. The plain text version is kept as an interface to the binary version.) When a system crashes, you may be faced with only a minimal environment to restore it (You may not be able to access graphics drivers, for instance), Situations such as this can really make you appreciate the simplicity of plain text. |
For instance, suppose you have a production deployment of a large application with a complex site-specific configuration file (sendmail comes to mind). If this file is in plain text, you could place it under a source code control system (see Source Code Control), so that you automatically keep a history of all changes. File comparison tools such as diff and fc allow you to see at a glance what changes have been made, while sum allows you to generate a checksum to monitor the file for accidental (or malicious) modification.
If you use plain text to create synthetic data to drive system tests, then it is a simple matter to add, update, or modify the test data without having to create any special tools to do so. Similarly, plain text output from regression tests can be trivially analyzed (with diff, for instance) or subjected to more thorough scrutiny with Perl, Python, or some other scripting tool.
Even in the future of XML-based intelligent agents that travel the wild and dangerous Internet autonomously, negotiating data interchange among themselves, the ubiquitous text file will still be there. In fact, in heterogeneous environments the advantages of plain text can outweigh all of the drawbacks. You need to ensure that all parties can communicate using a common standard. Plain text is that standard.
Design a small address book database (name, phone number, and so on) using a straightforward binary representation in your language of choice. Do this before reading the rest of this challenge.
Translate that format into a plain text format using XML.
For each version, add a new, variable-length field called directions in which you might enter directions to each person's house.
What issues come up regarding versioning and extensibility? Which form was easier to modify? What about converting existing data?
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Shopping List
Apples
Completed
Oranges
01:30
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Task:
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Type:
Tick
Timer
Deadline
Date:
Time:
List Name:
List Colour:
List Category:
Sport
Sea Side
Car
Garden
Birthday
Education
Shopping


Person
Family.Show allows several pieces of information to be entered for each person.
Name
Surname
Suffix
Age'
Date of Birth''
Place of Birth
Date of Death''
Place of Death
Living?
Occupation
Education
Religion
Note'
Cremation Place
Cremation Date
Burial Place
Burial Date
Given Name'''
Nick Name'''
' Calculated field
'' Dates are of the format dd/mm/yyyy
''' Fields for GEDCOM import, not used by Family.Show
Dates
To input approximate dates, left click the date field label to cycle the date descriptor to ABT, AFT or BEF for About, After or Before. Right click cycles the other way. This functionality is available in the Edit Details, Edit More Details and Relationships panels.
Citations and Sources
Each event field (Birth, Death, Occupation, Education, Religion, Burial, Cremation, Marriage and Divorce) can have a single citation. A valid Citation has details and states the Source reference.
Special Fields
These can be accessed from the Photos & Story view or the Attachments panel.
Attachments: A person can have a series of files attached to them.
Photos: A person can have a series of photos attached to them. Users can specify a primary image which is displayed a person's tooltip.
Story: A Rich Text File (*.rtf) note can be used to store other important information about people. This data is also stored in a Unicode text field.
Family.Show Help
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What is the 'Document Character Set' for XML and HTML, and how does it relate to the encodings I use for my documents?
For simplicity, and in line with common practice, when we refer to Unicode in this FAQ we are referring to the character set defined by both Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646.
The document character set or base character set of XML and HTML (from version 4.0) is the Universal Character Set (UCS) defined by both ISO/IEC 10646 and Unicode standards, which are code for code identical.
This means that the logical model describing how XML and HTML are processed is described in terms of the Unicode character set.
It does not mean that all HTML and XML documents have to be encoded as Unicode, but it does mean that these documents can only contain characters defined by Unicode. Note that character sets and character encodings are different things - for example, the full Unicode repertoire can be encoded in more than one way, eg. UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32. Any character encoding can be used for your document as long as it is properly declared and the characters it represents are a subset of the Unicode repertoire. (It would be extremely unusual to find one that wasn't a subset.)
On the other hand, it is a good idea to use a Unicode encoding wherever possible, since it simplifies many aspects of Web internationalization and is supported widely by HTML user agents, and by all XML processors.
An important consequence of the document character set is that values of numeric character references (such as ǵ or ǵ for LATIN SMALL LETTER G WITH ACUTE) are interpreted as Unicode characters – no matter what encoding you use for your document. This is a common source of error among those who are not clear about the distinction.
In practice, not all Unicode characters can be used everywhere in XML and HTML. For example, certain characters are excluded from things like element tag names, and certain control characters are excluded from content. Note, however, that XML 1.1 allows the use of many more characters for such things as element tag names than XML 1.0.
HTML 2.0 defined that all characters in an HTML document are to be interpreted relative to ISO 8859-1 (also known as ISO Latin 1), but also announced that all future versions of HTML will use a superset of that, viz. Unicode (or ISO 10646), which means that a vast number of the world's characters are available.
The discussions about the right way to use Unicode on the Internet ( RFC 2130, April 1997, and RFC 2070, Jan 1997) were not finished yet when HTML 3.2 came out (Jan 1997), so inclusion of Unicode into HTML had to wait for HTML 4.0 (Dec 1997).
Related links, Authoring HTML & CSS
Related links, Authoring XML


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Honza @Novoj Novotný
Generating click / scroll heatmaps
count hashtag appearances in tweets by day / hour
lambda-architecture.net
no BIG data yet, no SMALL data already
{
"db" : "monkeyTracker",
"objects" : 3908201,
"avgObjSize" :<PHONE_NUMBER>383156,
"dataSize" :<PHONE_NUMBER>,
"storageSize" :<PHONE_NUMBER>,
"indexSize" : 756549808,
"fileSize" :<PHONE_NUMBER>,
}
| Month | Clicks | Scrolls |
|---|---|---|
| November | 4,641,660 | 2,668,661 |
| December | 8,016,352 | 3,940,576 |
| January | 8,088,716 | 4,557,283 |
| February | 9,759,176 | 5,012,504 |
| Total | 33,931,572 | 17,402,555 |
Questioning the Lambda Architecture (LinkedIn)
www.Kappa-Architecture.com
Not without problems ...
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@novoj
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Boris Johnson confronted by furious doctor over NHS funding 'lies'
Boris Johnson was confronted by a furious doctor last night who accused him of lying about NHS funding.
During an appearance on a BBC Question Time leaders’ special, a junior doctor in the audience told the Tory leader that people are dying as a result of cuts.
She said: ‘I’m a junior doctor in A&E in the NHS and over the past nine years since you’ve been in power, I’ve seen that waiting lists are getting longer, people are on trolleys for hours and hours in A&E.
‘It’s not just inconvenient, people are dying.
‘I think you’re lying to us, every year you promise more money for the NHS but the reality is, people who work in the NHS and use it, know that that money isn’t getting through.
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‘Why should we trust that you’re going to get this £26 billion for the NHS when we’ve got years of cuts and people are dying?’
The Conservatives have said they intend to ‘get Brexit done so we can invest in our NHS, schools, and the police’.
Ministers have announced their hopes for a £13.8 billion increase in spending across all departments by 2021 and a £33.9 billion boost for the health budget by 2023-24.
Addressing the issue on Question Time, Mr Johnson claimed that he knew the ‘massive demands’ the health service faced and steered the topic back to Brexit.
He said: ‘Yes, of course, I understand things have been tough in the NHS but I’ve talked to hundreds of doctors and nurses, I know the massive demands that the NHS faces.
‘We can only meet that demand if we have a dynamic economy, and we won’t get the economy moving until we get Brexit done.’
It’s not the first time the prime minister has been confronted by angry members of the public about the state of the NHS.
In September, the father of a sick baby challenged the politician during a hospital visit, claiming Britain’s public health service was being ‘destroyed’.
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The dad, identified as local Labour activist Omar Salem, told Mr Johnson there were not enough doctors and nurses and said his seven-day old daughter ‘nearly died yesterday’.
The Conservative leader also received a frosty reception from flood victims in Stainforth this month, who told him his visit was ‘too little too late’.
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RISC
Some aspects attributed to the first RISC-labeled designs around 1975 include the
observations that the memory-restricted compilers of the time were often unable
to take advantage of features intended to facilitate manual assembly coding, and
that complex addressing modes take many cycles to perform due to the required additional
memory accesses...
CISC
Before the RISC philosophy became prominent, many computer architects tried to bridge
the so called semantic gap, i.e. to design instruction sets that directly supported
high-level programming constructs such as procedure calls, loop control, and complex
addressing modes, allowing data structure and array accesses to be combined into
single instructions. Instructions are also typically highly encoded in order to
further enhance the code density...
Database management system
A database management system (DBMS) is a software package with computer programs
that control the creation, maintenance, and the use of a database. It allows organizations
to conveniently develop databases for various applications by database administrators
(DBAs) and other specialists. A database is an integrated collection of data records,
files, and other database objects...


Artist Name
MEJJA
Bio
Major Nameye Khadija popularly known with his stage name Mejja is a Kenyan Genge artist. He was signed to Calif Records where he released multiple collaborations. His single "Jana Kuliendaje" won him an award at Kenya's Chaguo la Teeniz in 2008
SONGS
- Jana Kuliendaje
- Landlord
- Nyongwa
- Double Tap
- Niko Poa
- Twenzetu ft Madtraxx
- Ulimi Yangu
Active Since
2004
Genres
Genge Tone
MORE ABOUT MEJJA
Mejja started singing in primary school with his brother Wambugu. Together they had formed a group called Ghetto Clan. In 2008 Mejja had his first breakthrough song titled ‘Jana Kuliendaje’. In 2011, Mejja released a song dubbed "Landlord" which put him in the spotlight. In 2014, Mejja formed a group called "The Kansoul" together with Kid Kora, and Madtraxx. The group dropped their first song ‘Dabo Tap’ later that year. In 2020, Mejja was in many collaborations including "Cheza Kama Wewe" by Trio Mio[6] and "Utawezana" by Femi One


Welcome to the AI for Earth Penguin Guano Classification API!
Here we will demonstrate how our model can automatically detect penguin guano in Google Earth imagery. Why are we looking for penguin guano in the first place? Penguins are considered Antarctica’s “canaries in the coalmine” – by tracking the abundance and distributions of penguins, we can keep an eye on the health of the Southern Ocean more generally. Penguin colonies, where penguins actually breed each austral summer, are spread out over thousands of miles of Antarctic coastline, and many of their colonies are either too remote or too enormous to survey directly.
Luckily, however, penguins produce a lot of guano (excrement) as they sit patiently incubating their nests. In fact, the guano stain they produce is as large as the extent of the colony itself and can be visible in satellite imagery. So by tracking the guano stains around Antarctica, we can estimate how many penguins are at each colony in each year, information critical to our monitoring of population trends. The problem is that there is far too much satellite imagery for us to manually search for penguin guano, so we’ve trained a CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) that can identify guano stains for us. While our model was trained on imagery from DigitalGlobe, here we demonstrate how the model works using imagery from Google Earth.
You can check out the images in our gallery or, if you are feeling ambitious, try looking for penguin guano yourself. The Instructions tab provides information on how to download Google Earth imagery in a way that can be analyzed by our model. Once you download the imagery, you can upload it into our tool to see if our model finds any guano in the imagery you selected.
Check us out on on GitHub for more information about the model behind the API. To learn more about the research behind the model, visit us at LynchLab.com.
Visit the API home page for more information or to request an API key.


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convert intrinsic coordinates [x_i; y_i] to (distorted) image coordinates [u; v]
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The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:


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% The values used in the latex pstricks figure x11 = 5; x12 = 3; x21 = 7; x22 = 3; % Values for the tree in each region r = 2:2:10; % Create a mesh for X1 and X2 h = 0.1; M = 10; X1 = 0:h:M; X2 = 0:h:M; % The matrix to store the values of the tree tree = zeros(length(X1),length(X2)); % The five regions - manually assign values % not that the inequalities revere because of how the vectorized logical conditions compare. tree(X1 <= x11, X2 <= x21) = r(1); tree(X1 > x11, X2 <= x22) = r(2); tree(X1 > x11, X2 > x22) = r(3); tree(X1 <= min(x11,x22), X2 > x21) = r(4); tree(X1 <= x11 & X1 > x12, X2 > x21) = r(5); % Define a colormap so the colors are consistent between latex and Matlab Col = [ 255 0 0; 0 0 255; 160 32 240; 0 100 0; 255 140 0; ] / 255; % plot the mesh colormap(Col); mesh(X1,X2,tree); printPmtkFigure('tree3d');


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HARD TO BUDGE
Ann Budge faces battle to land Daniel Stendel as Hearts boss..because he’d rather stay in England
by Robert MartinANN BUDGE faces a battle to land Daniel Stendel as Hearts boss — because the German would rather stay in England.
Former Barnsley manager Stendel is the Jambos’ No 1 choice to replace Craig Levein, as SunSport revealed yesterday.
But Tynecastle chief Budge will have to pull out all the stops to persuade the 45-year-old that his future lies in Edinburgh.
Sources close to bookies’ favourite Stendel have indicated he’d rather stay down south than head north.
Stendel led the Tykes to promotion from League One back in May following his first full season in charge of the Yorkshire side.
But he was controversially sacked last month with the club sitting 23rd in the English Championship.
And despite the lowly league position it proved a hugely unpopular decision with the club’s fan base.
Stendel is now determined to restore his reputation at another club in England and is prepared to wait for the right offer to come along.
Unless the Jambos can persuade him to change his mind he is set to remain on gardening leave from Barnsley until the end of his contract in June.
That would be a major blow to the Gorgie club as they continue to search for Levein’s successor.
They have spoken to a vast number of candidates about the vacant post, including Stuart McCall, Jack Ross, Steve Cotterrill and Neil McCann.
In the meantime interim manager Austin MacPhee — who has not given up hope of landing the job himself — will continue to take the team at Kilmarnock tomorrow.
It will be MacPhee’s second game in charge following the 5-2 win over St Mirren ahead of the international break.
And another win would enhance his own chances of persuading Budge to hand him the reins on a permanent basis.
MacPhee was able to welcome back defender Craig Halkett to training on Wednesday ahead of the trip to Rugby Park.
But SunSport understands the trip to Ayrshire will come too soon for the defender as he makes his way back from a serious knee injury.
The 24-year-old is instead expected to make his comeback when the men in maroon visit Rangers a week on Sunday.
And in a further boost for MacPhee midfielder Peter Haring is also hopeful of returning to action before the end of the year.
The Austrian has missed the whole of this season with a pelvic problem dating back to before last season’s Scottish Cup final with Celtic.
But he is now nearing a top-team return ahead of a hectic December for the Tynecastle side.


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Block Chain
Where the nodes agree on the new block
- 1 The winning node was able to mine the new block
- 2 The block is sent to the other nodes
- 3 The nodes receive the block and validate the block:
- Check if the previous block referenced by the block exists and is valid;
- Check that the timestamp of the block is greater than that of the previous block[2] and less than 2 hours
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IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA CONSTITUTIONAL WRIT JURISDICTION APPELLATE SIDE PRESENT: The Hon'ble Justice Subrata Talukdar W. P. 23439(W) of 2015 Smt. Kiran Pandit & Ors. -vs.- State of West Bengal & Ors. For the petitioners : Mr. Hirak Mitra Mr. Rameswar Bhattacharyya Mr. Arun Kanti Bera Mrs. Gitashree Mistry Ms. Soumi Pal For the respondent
Nos. 1 to 5 : Mr. L. K. Gupta, Ld. Addl. Adv. General Mr. Amal Kumar Sen Mr. Aniruddha Sen For the respondent Nos. 6 & 7 : Mr. Pantu Deb Roy Mr. Subrata Guha Biswas For the respondent Nos. 8 to 11 : Mr. Binod Kumar Gupta Ms. Aishwarya Rajyashree For the respondent No. 15 : Mr. Subrata Banerjee Ms. Sharmistha Pal Heard on : 17/12/2015; 18/01/2016; 25/02/2016; 10/03/2016; 17/03/2016 & 31/03/2016 Judgment on : 15/07/2016
Subrata Talukdar, J.: The central issue in this writ petition is the proposed shifting of the bus stand commonly known as Band Stand, also Babughat, to a new Inter-state Bus Terminus (for short ISBT) at Santragachi, Howrah.
The writ petitioners are all Inter-state Bus Operators whose services both commence from and terminate at Band Stand. In the writ petition under challenge is the resolution of the High Power Committee (for short HPC) dated 11th August, 2015 by which it was, inter alia, decided to proceed with the phase-wise shifting of ISBT to Santragachi.
The principal arguments advanced by Sri Hirak Mitra, Ld. Senior Counsel appearing for the petitioners are as follows:-
a) That under the provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act, 1988 (for short the 1988 Act) the operations of inter-state buses take place on the basis of reciprocal agreements entered into between States. Such reciprocal agreements become final after the period invited for receiving objections closes and, in terms of such agreements the routes as well as the termini of the said routes cannot be subsequently superseded by any other methodology such as adopted by the HPC at its meeting dated 11th August, 2015.
b) That the Hon'ble Division Bench of this Court had the occasion to deal with the policy decision of the State Government connected to grant of new permits in respect of stage carriages on both notified and non-notified routes. Pursuant to the judgment of the Hon'ble Division Bench In Re: Sujata Ganguly vs. The State of West Bengal & Ors. (FMA 604 of 2004) vide judgment and order dated 27th September, 2005, the policy and procedure for granting new permits, including the exclusion of the Central Business District (for short CBD) from the purview of the grant of new permits was notified by the State Government and pursuant to such notification the bus operators, including the present petitioners being inter-state operators are using Band Stand/Babughat as a terminus.
c) Sri Mitra submits that the primary reason for shifting the bus terminus to Santragachi is the purported pollution being caused to the Victoria Memorial (for short VM). Pointing out that the aspect of pollution falls within the purview of a Central Legislation under The Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981, Sri Mitra argues that therefore the State Government has no role to play. Relying the recognized legal principle of Occupied Field, Sri Mitra submits that since the matter of pollution lies within the eminent domain of the Central Government, on the ground of pollution no shifting of the bus stand can be ordered by the HPC functioning under the State Government.
d) Sri Mitra takes the next point that in the event there is a threat of pollution caused to VM by the inter-state buses, there ought to have been a representative of a body dealing with pollution in the HPC. However, while discussing the issue of the pollution hazard to VM the Hon'ble Apex Court makes specific mention of a body such as the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (for short NEERI), no representative of NEERI is found in the HPC.
e) Sri Mitra submits the additional point that the order impugned of the HPC dated 11th August, 2015 is without reasons. Also referring to the orders passed by the Hon'ble Apex Court and the Hon'ble Division Bench of this Court from time to time, Sri Mitra points out that reference has been made to Esplanade Bus Stand only and, there is no reference to Band Stand. Therefore, the judicial intention was clear which is to reduce the pollution caused to VM because of the functioning of the Esplanade Bus Terminus. In this connection Sri Mitra argues that a large number of local buses ply daily on routes bordering VM and, are major emitters of pollutants.
However, in the case of the present writ petitioners the buses merely park for some time at Band Stand. Such parking at Band Stand does not at all affect the pollution level at VM and, the HPC instead of tackling the plying of local buses around VM is diverting the issue by ordering the inter-state buses out of Band Stand.
f) Further arguing that the petitioners are operating their inter- state buses from Band Stand for a long time and such operations touch the issue of their livelihood, Sri Mitra submits that there is no conflict of jurisdiction in moving this writ petition before this Hon'ble Court although a Public Interest Litigation (for short PIL) on the issue is already pending before the Hon'ble Division Bench of this Court. In support of his argument Sri Mitra relies upon the judgement of an Hon'ble Single Bench of this Court in WP 22586(W) of 2014 dated 25th August, 2014 which, inter alia, granted leave to the writ petitioners to approach the competent Court at the appropriate stage. Sri Mitra points out that by the said order dated 25th August, 2014, the Hon'ble Single Bench found the writ petition to be pre-mature and therefore observed, inter alia, as follows:-
"In the event in future the petitioners have grievance on this point, they shall be at liberty to apply afresh before this Court or such other forum as they may be advised. As no affidavit has been filed on behalf of the respondents, allegations made in the writ petition against them shall be deemed to have not been admitted.
The writ petition shall stand disposed of in the above terms."
Having regard to the above noted direction of the Hon'ble Single Bench Sri Mitra argues that the present writ petition is maintainable.
g) The next point taken by Sri Mitra is that the findings of the HPC dated 11th August, 2015 are de hors the principles of natural justice. Although the writ petitioners are vitally affected because of the shifting directed to take place to Santragachi none of the grievances raised by the writ petitioners as canvassed through their representations dated 5th of August, 2015 and 19th of August, 2015 were addressed by the HPC. Therefore, on the point of violation of the principles of natural justice, Sri Mitra submits that the decision proposed vide the impugned resolution of the HPC dated 11th August, 2015 requires to be set aside.
h) In support of the principles of law elucidated in his arguments, Sri Mitra relies upon the following judicial authorities:- • On the doctrine of occupied field: 1991 (4) SCC 243;
• On the point that the order impugned dated 11th August, 2015 does not contain any reasons: 1968 AC 997;
• On the point that the State-respondents cannot improve their case through affidavit: AIR 1978 SC 851;
• On the principle of natural justice: 1981 (1) SCC 664.
Sri Mitra reiterates the point that an authority visited with powers to do certain functions is required to exercise such powers on its own without delegating such powers to some other authority. Therefore, when the power is conferred for doing a particular act in a particular manner, such power must be exercised in the manner conferred and, not in any other manner.
Appearing on behalf of the State-respondents, Sri Amal Kumar Sen, Ld. Senior Government Advocate raises the following points:-
i) That adequate reasons are evident from the order of the HPC.
Therefore the argument of lack of sufficiency of reasons cannot be raised on behalf of the writ petitioners.
ii) Relying on the affidavit-in-opposition filed on behalf of the State-respondents, Sri Sen points out that the HPC filed several reports before the Hon'ble Division Bench of this Court hearing the PIL in connection with the pollution caused to VM. At the time of filing of the First Report a Sub-committee constituted under the HPC took a hearing of the inter-state as well as private stage carriage operators. From the First Report of the Sub-committee, Sri Sen points out that the removal of pollution within a 3 km area of VM was taken notice of. The HPC, under the direction of the Hon'ble Division Bench, was required to submit quarterly reports addressed to the Registrar General of the High Court. The Registrar General would then place the report before the Hon'ble Division Bench.
iii) From the Second Report of the HPC, Sri Sen points out that the North Bengal State Transport Corporation (NBSTC) had confirmed that the Esplanade Bus Terminus was being utilized as a pick up point as well as a ticket booking point. Similarly, the Calcutta State Transport Corporation (CSTC) had submitted before the HPC that the long distance services of CSTC which were originating earlier from Esplanade are now touching Esplanade for a maximum of 10 minutes for boarding of commuters and, in no circumstances more than one vehicle is standing there at a time ordinarily. Even the city services of CSTC are not being operated from Esplanade.
iv) Sri Sen further argues that the Third Report of the HPC submitted before the Hon'ble Division Bench detailed the steps taken for relocation of the bus termini both from Esplanade and from Band Stand. The Fourth Report of the HPC mentions the shifting of the terminus from Band Stand to Santragachi also called as the Kolkata Central Bus Terminus (for short KCBT). Sri Sen submits that from time to time the Hon'ble Division Bench in the PIL being WP 7987(W) of 2002 had directed the HPC to periodically keep the Hon'ble Division Bench informed by way of placing the above noted quarterly reports on the steps taken to minimize pollution qua VM. The said PIL is still pending before the Hon'ble Division Bench.
The specific point is therefore taken by Sri Sen, both in his arguments and in the affidavit-in-opposition filed on behalf of the State-respondents, that there is no infraction of the principles of natural justice. The bus operators were given adequate opportunity to present their case before the HPC and, upon taking into consideration all aspects, the HPC recommended shifting of the inter-state bus terminus from Band Stand to KCBT in the first phase.
v) On the ground that the matter of pollution to VM and the consequent shifting of the bus termini both from Esplanade and from Band Stand is in seisin of the Hon'ble Division Bench, Sri Sen argues that the present standalone writ petition is not maintainable. The writ petitioners cannot be allowed to air the same grievances by way of this parallel proceeding when, the entire issue is pending before the Hon'ble Division Bench in a PIL filed prior in time. Sri Sen submits that the issue of relocating the bus terminus arising out of the pollution hazard to VM has its genesis in the PIL. Therefore, Sri Sen argues that if the present writ petition is entertained then the same would amount to an example of judicial overreach.
vi) The next point taken by Sri Sen is that the regulation of traffic is a State subject covered under the State List of Schedule VII of the Constitution of India. On the point taken by Sri Mitra qua the Occupied Field Theory, Sri Sen submits that the number of permits which could be issued as well as the future regulation of such permits falls under the control of the State Government. The issue of pollution qua VM is amenable to the regulation of the State Government and received its stamp of approval from the Hon'ble Division Bench. Sri Sen points out that originally the area of discussion connected to pollution to VM was restricted to Esplanade. On remand of the matter from the Hon'ble Apex Court it was, inter alia, directed that the State is required to explore the feasibility of clearing VM of any pollution hazard in respect of a 3 km radius around VM.
Sri Sen therefore clarifies that since the radius of 3 kms was brought into the focus of the State' examination by the Hon'ble Apex Court, such 3 km area includes Band Stand. Therefore, the argument advanced by Sri Mitra that the zone of consideration to keep VM free of pollution centred only on Esplanade is not sustainable since, it is obvious on facts and, in this connection Sri Sen relies upon a Google map, to make the point that Band Stand also falls within the area required to be sanitised to keep VM pollution free.
vii) The next point argued by Sri Sen is that the principle of natural justice or, in other words, affording an opportunity of hearing to the respective classes of bus operators has been complied with in the facts of the present case. Sri Sen points out that it is an admitted position that pursuant to the orders of the Hon'ble Division Bench in the PIL, opportunity of hearing was extended to members of the Bus Associations and, steps were taken as directed by the Hon'ble Apex Court from time to time. No objection was taken by the petitioners or any of the members of the Bus Associations with regard to the fixing of the 3 kms radius for protecting VM from pollution.
viii) Placing each of the four reports submitted by the HPC, Sri Sen submits that the absence of certain members from the HPC, including the members responsible for overseeing aspects of pollution, does not vitiate State action inasmuch as the HPC is solely entrusted with the task of relocating the bus terminus under orders of Court which have already examined the issue of pollution.
Taking this Court to the orders of the Hon'ble Apex Court and the Hon'ble Division Bench passed from time to time, Sri Sen submits that it is only upon examination of the issue of pollution that the Hon'ble Courts have directed further management of route traffic including the relocation of the bus stand. In the light of their above noted observations, the Hon'ble Courts have set up the HPC with the mandate to submit quarterly reports from time to time. While issuing such mandate upon the HPC the Hon'ble Courts have taken notice of the threat of pollution to VM and, on the touchstone of such threats, directed that steps be taken to relocate the bus stand.
Accordingly, Sri Sen submits that to now raise the issue of pollution de novo on behalf of the writ petitioners is no more res integra.
ix) Referring to the attendance at the hearing held by HPC, Sri Sen argues that several of the writ petitioners have appended their signatures in the record of attendance. The decision of the HPC dated 11th August, 2015 impugned in the present writ petition is in favour of phase-wise shifting of the bus stand. Such phase-wise shifting of the bus stand does not mean that the other aspects required to be considered such as shifting of the bus stand from Esplanade have been ignored. The phase-wise shifting of the bus stand means that other phases connected to the shifting and directed to be considered by the HPC under orders of Court shall be taken up in due course and quarterly reports submitted before the Hon'ble Division Bench. The exercise of powers by the HPC is not suo moto but within the framework created by the Hon'ble Courts.
x) Sri Sen highlights the point that the outer time limit conferred on the HPC for executing its action to keep VM pollution free is three years. Therefore, as the first step the HPC has directed shifting of the inter-state bus terminus to KCBT from Band Stand.
Sri Sen also points out that the decision impugned dated 11th August, 2015 is not drastic and provides the petitioners as well as other inter-state operators having their terminus at Band Stand with the necessary window for briefly halting to load/unload passengers. The modalities of shifting the bus stand lie entirely within the executive domain and under Rule 182 of the West Bengal Motors Vehicle Rules, 1989 (for short the 1989 Rules) the District Magistrate (DM) is empowered to issue a notification qua setting up of the new bus stand. Sri Sen argues that such notification having the force of law as issued by the DM, Howrah dated 21st May, 2015 is not under challenge in this writ petition. Sri Sen therefore points out that due process stands satisfied.
Sri Sen submits that the HPC was set up in obeisance to the judgement of the Hon'ble Apex Court in 1997 (8) SCC 770 In Re: M. C. Mehta vs. Union of India. Sri Sen argues that there is no conflict in laws between the State action and the Central Legislation on the issue of pollution which has been monitored by the Constitutional Courts.
Ld. State Counsel further argues that the rights of the private operators such as the present petitioners cannot override the larger public interest. Following the letter and spirit of the decision reported in 1997 (8) SCC 770 (supra), the Hon'ble Division Bench has issued orders from time to time in the PIL. Sri Sen therefore questions the maintainability of this writ petition.
Appearing for the Respondent No. 15 being, the Hooghly River Bridge Commission (for short HRBC), Sri Subrata Banerjee, Ld. Counsel makes the preliminary submission that the role of HRBC is limited to the point raised by HPC to the effect that HRBC ought not charge toll fees in respect of the buses of the petitioners operating out of Band Stand and relocated at KCBT, Santragachi.
Sri Banerjee further argues that at the first stage of the litigation the aspect of pollution to VM was settled right up to the Hon'ble Apex Court. At the second stage of litigation which is now under consideration by the Hon'ble Division Bench in the PIL, the relocation of the bus stand consequent to the pollution aspect being settled is being examined. The composition of the HPC must therefore be understood qua such aspect.
Sri Banerjee argues and, in the opinion of this Court correctly so, that at the second stage of litigation the Hon'ble Division Bench is considering to ease the threat of pollution to VM by directing HPC to take steps to relocate the bus stand. In the above aspect of the matter there is no further requirement of experts on pollution in the composition of the HPC.
The final point made by Sri Banerjee is that both the inter-state bus operators and the local operators are being treated at par by the HPC since none of the two classes of operators will be allowed to park within a 3 km radius of VM.
Upon hearing the parties and considering the materials relied upon, this Court at the very outset is required to notice the several orders passed by the Hon'ble Apex Court and the Hon'ble Division Bench of this Court on the issue of the pollution threat to VM:- A) By order dated 12th September, 2011 in Civil Appeal No. 7785 of 2011 arising out SLP (C) No. 9154 of 2008 in the matter of State of West Bengal vs. Howrah Ganatantrik Nagarik Samity & Ors., the Hon'ble Apex Court arrived at the following conclusions:-
"7. We have considered the submissions made on behalf of the appellant and the respondents and we find that NEERI has suggested some long term measures for preservation of the Victoria Memorial Hall in Para 5.2 of its report. The relevant portion of Para 5.2 of the report of NEERI is quoted hereinbelow:
"5.2 LONG-TERM MEASURES Diversion of Heavy Road Traffic on the Road Encircling the VM Monument.
The pollution from auto exhaust is the most important causative factor when the Victoria Memorial protection from atmospheric environment is considered. Therefore, the traffic on roads around the VM should be minimum particularly complete banning of heavy traffic. Bus terminus at Esplanade Area (Commercial) should also be shifted from the existing location.""
B) Next, this Court is required to notice the order dated 5th March, 2013 passed by the Hon'ble Division Bench of this Court in the pending PIL being WP 7987(W) of 2002. The relevant portion of the said order dated 5th March, 2013 reads as follows:-
"The substantial part of the controversy stood resolved by the order of the Division Bench passed on April 19, 2012. Yet, there are some areas that would need further care. The Apex Court already observed, the Esplanade Bus Terminus being cause of pollution and threat to the greeneries within the heart of the city, must be removed away from the place where it is now situate. The Apex Court, however, did not make a time-frame and left it open to the State to do the needful. Mr. Pal would contend, the State, on principle, agreed with the direction and are eager to comply with the same. However, the place is yet to be identified. We feel, the Hon'ble Supreme Court in their wisdom left it to the Government without making a time frame, that would not give licence to the State to keep it pending for eternity. The State must find out ways and means to comply with such direction."
C) Thereafter, this Court is required to notice the order dated 13th September, 2013 of the Hon'ble Division Bench in the pending PIL being WP 7987(W) of 2002 with CAN 5591 of 2013. The Hon'ble Division Bench was pleased to, inter alia, hold as follows:-
"By an order dated July 29, 2013 we requested all concerned at the appropriate level to assist this Court to find out a complete modality not only to preserve the Victoria Memorial but also to have a clean heart of the city free from pollution.
We are glad and we record our appreciation, as requested by us by the said order all the Officers are present except the representative of Kolkata Port Trust. The Officers have offered their views. Everyone would be ad idem and everyone would pray before this Court to have a 'High Power Monitoring Committee' to address the problem and have a ready solution.
The Transport Secretary has already apprised us about the Government's future plan with regard to bus terminus. Those are time consuming. Since the problem is knocking at our door, we have to address it at the earliest. We, thus, appoint a committee to have deliberations with all concerned and prepare a comprehensive report suggesting the modalities to be adopted for the purpose of removal of the pollution hazards in the heart of the city within three kilometers radius of the Victoria Memorial. The 'High Power Committee' would also suggest the measures to be adopted by any particular department.
The High Power Committee would be as follows :-
i) Mr. Sanjay Mitra, Chief Secretary, Government of West Bengal, - Chairman;
ii) Mr. Alapan Bandopadhyay, Transport Secretary, State of West Bengal, - Convenor;
iii) Lt. General A.K. Chowdhury, GOC Bengal Area, - Member;
iv) Mr. R.P.S. Kahlon, Chairman, Kolkata Port Trust, Member;
v) Mr. Surajit Kar Purakayastha, Commissioner of Police, Calcutta, - Member;
vi) Mr. Indibar Pandey, Secretary, Public Works Department, State of West Bengal, - Member and
vii) Mr. Khalil Ahmed, Commissioner, Kolkata Municipal Corporation, - Member.
The High Power Committee would be entitled to hold meeting with all concerned and would also be at liberty to invite suggestions from the experts of their choice. They would also be at liberty to hear Mr. Subhash Dutta, petitioner in this Public Interest Litigation.
The matter is fixed for further hearing on November 22, 2013 when we would expect a comprehensive report from the High Power Committee for the task they would undertake in the meantime. Till then we leave it to the High Power Committee to see that the area is free from hazards that are complained of.
The Officers present here would also assure this Court, they would try their level best with the available infrastructure to make the area free from pollution.
Mr. Arindam Banerjee, learned Counsel appearing for the transporters prays for personal hearing by the High Power Committee.
It is for the transporters to seek hearing from the High Power Committee and we leave it to them."
D) Pursuant to the order dated 13th September, 2013 (supra) constituting the HPC, periodically the HPC submitted its reports as directed by the Hon'ble Division Bench. The HPC, inter alia, specifies that the State Transport Authority (STA), West Bengal has already decided not to issue any inter-state bus permit with Band Stand/Babughat as the terminal point. The Second Report specifies at point No.5 that the Transport Department, Government of West Bengal requested the Kolkata Port Trust (for short KPT) vide memo No. 1287-WT/85-50/2007 PT(ii) dated 21st March, 2014 to take steps for handing over a land so that the Band Stand/Babughat bus terminus may be relocated without further delay.
In its Third Report the HPC underscored the point that the Transport Department vide its letter No. 2353-WT/85- 50/2007 PT(ii) dated 10th June, 2014 informed the Chief Executive Officer of the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (for short KMDA) that for shifting of the bus termini both from Esplanade and Band Stand/Babughat a joint inspection was held on 30th March, 2014 for selection of an alternative side at Santragachi, Howrah. The KMDA was requested to initiate the process of handing over possession of the said land at Santragachi in favour of the Transport Department.
E) Noticing further the reports of the HPC this Court finds that the Third Report mentions the fact that the Transport Department vide memo No. 2763-WT/85-50/2007 PT(ii) dated 4th July, 2014 informed the KMDA that HRBC has been asked to develop the land at Santragachi expediously for use as a bus terminus by shifting buses from the existing termini at Esplanade and Band Stand respectively. On 3rd July, 2014 KMDA handed over the possession of the said land measuring approximately 11.02 acres at Santragachi to the Transport Department for taking further steps to develop the same as a bus terminus.
It will also be useful to mention that the First Report of the HPC clearly mentions the fact that on 9th December, 2013 the Sub-Committee constituted under HPC took a hearing of the following entities:-
a) Kolkata Bus Operators Welfare Association, West Bengal;
b) Inter-Regional Bus Owners' Association; and
c) All Private Stage Carriage Long Route Bus Workers' Union.
The hearing was held in the chamber of the Principal Secretary, Transport Department. The author of the said pending PIL, Sri Subhas Dutta was also heard on the same date, i.e. on 9th of December, 2013.
F) This Court significantly notices that after the hearing on 9th of December, 2013 the Sub-committee of the HPC arrived at the following findings:-
"i) The aforesaid operators of Long Distance Buses have undertaken to ensure that their buses would use Esplanade Bus Terminus as a halting place only and not as a terminus and no maintenance works would be undertaken there. Accordingly, the halting time mentioned in the permits issued by the State Transport Authority, West Bengal may be curtailed to half of the existing time.
ii) The aforesaid operators of Long Distance Buses have also assured that they would use other places of the city as parking place for their buses. When the State Government would develop other terminuses in place of Esplanade Bus Terminus, they would shift their buses to such new terminuses.
iii) Necessary steps would be taken so that the area around Esplanade Bus Terminus would be declared as "Zero Tolerance Pollution free Zone".
iv) The time-keepers of the Inter-City buses would be shifted to other places."
G) In the Fourth Report of the HPC it was, inter alia, observed at the meeting dated 6th August, 2014 for shifting the bus terminus from Santragachi, that KMDA will hand over additional land to the Transport Department on the northern side of Kona Expressway for accommodating long distance buses. It was further decided at the meeting of the HPC dated 6th August, 2014 that the buses will be shifted in a phased manner from Band Stand/Babughat and Esplanade to KCBT at Santragachi. Notifications shall be issued by the competent State Authorites for operationalising the KCBT at Santragachi.
Accordingly, in furtherance of all the decisions as above taken by the HPC vide Notification of the DM, Howrah dated 29th September, 2015 under Rule 182 of the 1989 Rules (supra) the KCBT at Santragachi was notified to be fully functional w.e.f. 28th May, 2015. It is factually relevant to note that the present writ petition was thereafter filed in September, 2015. H) Having regard to the above noted conspectus of facts this Court does not find any infirmity in the decision making process. On the contrary this Court finds adequate substance in the arguments of Ld. State Counsel that the reports of the HPC followed the mandate of the Hon'ble Apex Court as well as the Hon'ble Division Bench. This Court is of the further clear opinion that in its order dated 12.09.2011 the Hon'ble Apex Court took deep notice of the suggestions made by the expert pollution control body, NEERI, on the steps suggested for the preservation of VM. Quoting para 5.2 of NEERI's suggestion, the Hon'ble Apex Court held that it would be necessary to ban heavy traffic from the Esplanade area. The diversion of heavy traffic would necessarily involve shifting of the bus terminus. The Hon'ble Apex Court took specific notice of the fact that even though the bus terminus at Esplanade is located two kilometers away from VM, the automobile exhausts will cause pollution to the atmosphere around VM. Therefore, the Hon'ble Supreme Court modified the order impugned of the Hon'ble Division Bench and directed the State Government to take appropriate action on the NEERI report.
I) This Court is further required to notice that the solemn order of the Hon'ble Supreme Court dated 12.09.2011(supra) found its evolution in the subsequent orders of the Hon'ble Division Bench in the pending PIL, i.e. WP 7987(W) of 2002. As already recorded hereinabove in this judgement the Hon'ble Division Bench by its order dated 13.09.2013 set up the HPC to carry forward the recommendations of the Hon'ble Supreme Court. The HPC was directed to take steps on removal of pollution hazards within a radius of three kilometres of VM.
Therefore, this Court finds adequate substance in the submissions of both the Ld. Counsel for the State Respondents and HRBC to the effect that the Band Stand bus terminus which is located within the three kilometres radius as directed by the Hon'ble Division Bench is in sync with the order of the Hon'ble Apex Court (supra) to be relocated in the first phase for preserving VM from pollution hazard.
J) This court cannot be also oblivious of the fact that the orders of the Hon'ble Apex Court and the orders of the Hon'ble Division Bench (supra) have attained finality. This Court is conscious of the fact that the petitioners, although aware of the orders passed from time to time qua the shifting of the bus stands within a three kilometres radius of VM, have not questioned the same before the appropriate fora. On the contrary, this Court finds that the representatives of the bus operators, including the present petitioners, participated in the hearing before the HPC, a fact which is recorded in its First Report.
Therefore, this Court finds no reason to intervene in this collateral challenge mounted by the writ petitioners by way of the present writ petition on the self-same issue which is long sub judice before the Hon'ble Division Bench in the pending PIL. K) This Court is also of the considered view that the argument of Occupied Field is no longer available to the writ petitioners post the orders of the Hon'ble Apex Court and the Hon'ble Division Bench (supra). The order of the Hon'ble Apex Court dated 12.09.2011 settles the law under Article 141 of the Constitution of India linking the preservation of VM from pollution to the shifting of the bus termini. The directions of the Hon'ble Apex Court were cemented further by the Hon'ble Division Bench through its successive orders regulating the steps to be taken by the State Government within a 3 kms radius of VM, which includes within its ambit the Band Stand bus terminus.
To the mind of this Court the theory of Occupied Field read in the light of the distinctive legislative powers of the Centre and the State as sought to be argued by Sri Mitra stand on a different footing while applying the Doctrine of Merger qua the orders of the Hon'ble Apex Court and the Hon'ble Division Bench (supra) to the facts in issue. This Court is therefore persuaded to hold that the Occupied Field argument is no more res integra which can be taken by the writ petitioners de novo by way of this writ petition.
L) In the light of the facts and the law discussed above, this Court finds that the decision making process adopted by the HPC under the aegis of the orders of the Hon'ble Supreme Court and the Hon'ble Division Bench passed from time to time followed a nuanced procedure and, cannot be faulted. The resolution impugned of the HPC dated 11.08.2015 is, in the opinion of this Court, an appropriate step in the nuanced decision making process calling for a phase wise shifting of the bus terminus to KCBT, Santragachi. It is pertinent to mention that the HPC has not hurried its decision and, the successive reports filed by HPC have been capped by the Notification of the District Magistrate, Howrah dated 29.09.2015.
In support of its above noted reasoning this Court finds it useful to rely upon the Judgment of the Hon'ble Apex Court in 1992 Supp (2) SCC 312 in the matter of H.B. Gandhi, Excise and Taxation Officer Cum Assessing Authority, Karnal & Ors. vs. M/s. Gopi Nath & Sons & Ors. wherein at Paragraph 8, it was held as follows:-
"8. But here what was assailed was the correctness of findings as if before an appellate forum. Judicial review, it is trite, is not directed against the decision but is confined to the decision making process. Judicial review cannot extend to the examination of the correctness or review is to ensure that the individual receives fair treatment and not to ensure that the authority after according fair treatment reaches, on a matter which it is authorized by law to decide, a conclusion which is correct in the review of the manner in which the decision is made. It will be erroneous to think that the Court sits in judgment not only on the correctness of the decision making process but also on the correctness of the decision itself."
Before parting with this case this Court is required to notice the fact that the issues raised in this writ petition lie in the realm of expert bodies. It is trite law that this Court sitting in its Writ jurisdiction must refrain itself from interfering in the detailed exercise conducted by such expert bodies.
In the backdrop of the above discussion the resolution impugned dated 11.08.2015 deserves no interference.
WP 23439(W) of 2015 fails and stands accordingly dismissed. Interim order, if any, stands discharged.
There will be, however, no order as to costs.
Urgent Xerox certified photocopies of this judgment, if applied for, be given to the parties upon compliance of all requisite formalities.
(Subrata Talukdar, J.) Later Sri Rameswar Bhattacharyya, Ld. Counsel for the petitioners prays for stay of operation of this judgment and order. Prayer for stay is considered and rejected.
(Subrata Talukdar, J.)


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Maruti Vitara Brezza Beats Hyundai Venue Again in October 2019 Sales
by Surendhar MThe compact SUV segment has posted 12% sales growth last month courtesy of the recently launched models such as Hyundai Venue
The compact SUV segment as a whole endured good growth in the domestic market in the month of October 2019 with 12% YoY sales increase. This was mainly due to the arrival of the new models such as the Hyundai Venue and Mahindra XUV300. The Vitara Brezza regained its top position from Hyundai Venue in September 2019 and continued to be there last month as well.
Due to the wide range of discounts and benefits offered, the Vitara Brezza sustained its momentum in October 2019 as 10,227 units were retailed against 15,832 units during the same month last year with negative growth of 35%. The Venue, on the other hand, garnered a total of 8,576 units last month – 1,651 units fewer than the Vitara Brezza.
The battle between the Vitara Brezza and Venue is far from over as a facelift for the former is on the horizon with a possible petrol engine. The Nexon got back to its regular position of third in October 2019 as 4,438 units were retailed against 4,608 units during the corresponding month last year.
| Compact SUVs | October 2019 Sales | October 2018 Sales |
| 1. Maruti Suzuki Vitara Brezza | 10,227 | 15,832 |
| 2. Hyundai Venue | 8,576 | – |
| 3. Tata Nexon | 4,438 | 4,608 |
| 4. Ford EcoSport | 4,326 | 3,957 |
| 5. Mahindra XUV300 | 3,045 | – |
| 6. Honda WR-V | 1,367 | 3,253 |
| 7. Mahindra TUV300 | 1,246 | 2,113 |
This led to YoY volume decrease of just 4% as the Nexon, waiting to get a facelift based on the Impact Design 2.0 philosophy in the coming months, finished ahead of Ford EcoSport and Mahindra XUV300. The EcoSport lost one position compared to September 2019 and ended up fourth with cumulative domestic sales of 4,326 units.
The EcoSport was the only SUV in the segment to register positive YoY sales growth as only 3,957 units were sold in October 2018 resulting in a 9% increase. The XUV300 came home fifth with a tally of 3,045 units. The WR-V could only manage 1,367 units and compared to the same month in 2018, it encountered a massive 58% sales drop.
The TUV300 recorded 1,246 units last month as against 2,113 units in October 2018 with 41% sales decline. The compact SUV space is expected to get more new models in the coming years as a sub-four-metre SUV from Kia based on the Venue, a rebadged Toyota Vitara Brezza and Jeep’s possible small SUV are on the cards.
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WSO2 Web Services Framework/Perl is a Perl extension that can be used to consume Web services. This document covers the API of WSO2 WSF/Perl extension.
WSClient( {options} )
Constructs a new WSClient object.
Parameters:
|
Parameter |
Default Value |
Description |
|---|---|---|
|
options |
None |
A hash of options. Both message related properties, defined for WSMessage as well as WSClient specific options defined below, can be included in the options hash here. Please note that the "to" option must be specified at some level in order to convey the service endpoint to be invoked. The following table shows the possible client specific options and related details. Please refer to the WSMessage constructor documentation for information on message level properties that can be used as options. |
|
Option |
Data Type |
Value Domain |
Default Value |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Transport Binding/Protocol Related Options |
||||
| "log_file" | scalar | /tmp/wsf_perl_client.log | The name of the log file that the client log messages would get logged into. | |
|
"useSOAP" |
scalar |
"TRUE" | "FALSE" | "true" | "false" | |
TRUE |
Specifies whether to use SOAP bindings, or not. If "FALSE", a REST style invocation will take place with the given HTTP method as specified by the "HTTPMethod" option. "1.1" would make the message use SOAP 1.1. "1.2" would make the message use SOAP 1.2. "TRUE" means use SOAP 1.2. |
|
"HTTPMethod" |
scalar |
"GET" | "POST" | "post" | "get" |
"POST" |
Specifies which HTTP method to be used. |
|
XOP/MTOM Related Options |
||||
|
"useMTOM" |
scalar |
"TRUE" | "FALSE" | "true" | "false" |
"TRUE" |
Indicates whether the attachments should be sent MTOM optimized or not. If "TRUE", the attachments will be sent out of the SOAP message, optimized, with MIME headers in place. If "FALSE", attachments will be sent within the SOAP payload, as base64 binary. |
|
"responseXOP" |
scalar |
"TRUE" | "FALSE" | 1 | 0 |
"FALSE" |
Controls whether XOP elements in a response with MTOM are resolved into the logically equivalent straight XML infoset or not. If "TRUE", the options "attachments" and "cid_2_content_type" of the message returned as a result of the calling request method would be set. If "FALSE", the binary content will be present in the response payload in base64 format. |
|
WS-Addressing Related Options |
||||
|
"useWSA" |
scalar |
"TRUE" | "FALSE" | "1.0" | "submission" |
"1.0" |
Indicates whether to use WS-Addressing. If "TRUE", or "1.0", the WS-Addressing 1.0 version will be used. If "submission" the WS-Addressing submission version will be used. When "1.0" or "submission" is specified, the "action" must be present. If "FALSE", no addressing headers will be sent. |
| WS-Security Related Options | ||||
| "policy" | WSPolicy object | WSPolicy object | None | WSPolicy Object |
| "securityToken" | WSSecurityToken | None | WSSecurityToken object which contain the security related options | |
| Proxy and SSL settings related properties | ||||
| "proxy_host" | scalar | scalar | None | proxy host to be used. |
| "proxy_port" | scalar | scalar | None | proxy port to use. |
WSMessage WSClient.request( { 'payload' => 'payload as an XML string' } | WSMessage message)
Sends a request payload in XML format and receives a response payload in the XML format.
Parameters:
|
Parameter |
Description |
|---|---|
|
message |
The request message payload to be sent. The type of the parameter can be any one of the following types:
The message payload is expected to be in valid XML format as expected by the service. If MTOM/XOP is to be used, you must use WSMessage to represent the message payload. |
Return Values:
The response will be returned as a WSMessage object instance.
Throws WSFault on error.
WSClient.send( { 'payload' => 'payload as an XML string' } | WSMessage message)
Sends a request message payload in XML. The invocation model is one way, hence no response will be expected.
Parameters:
|
Parameter |
Description |
|---|---|
|
message |
The request message payload to be sent. The type of the parameter can be any one of the following types:
The message payload is expected to be in valid XML format as expected by the service. If MTOM/XOP is to be used, you must use WSMessage to represent the message payload. |
Return Values:
void
Throws WSFault on error.
my $reqest_payload = '
<ns1:echoString xmlns:ns1="http://perl.wsf.wso2.net/samples">
<text>Hello World!</text>
</ns1:echoString>
';
my $client = new WSO2::WSF::WSClient( { 'to' => 'http://localhost/hello_service/greet' } );
my $request = $client->request( { 'payload' => $request_payload } );
print $request->{str};
Constructs a new WSMessage object.
Parameters:
|
Parameter |
Default Value |
Description |
|---|---|---|
|
payload |
None |
A string representing the payload being sent or being received. The payload is expected to be in valid XML format as expected by the service. |
|
properties |
A hash of properties. The following table shows the possible message level properties and related details. |
|
Option |
Data Type |
Value Domain |
Default Value |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
General Properties: |
||||
|
"to" |
scalar |
A URI |
None |
A URI representing the endpoint URI of the service to be consumed. This must be present on the server side. In case WS-Addressing is in use, this will be used as the WSA "to" header |
|
WS-Addressing Related Properties: |
||||
|
"action" |
scalar |
A URI |
None |
xs:anyURI |
|
"from" |
scalar |
A URI |
None |
xs:anyURI WS-Addressing From. A URI indicating where the response or request came from.(Note: This doesn't support reference parameters.) |
|
"replyTo" |
scalar |
A URI |
None |
xs:anyURI WS-Addressing ReplyTo. A URI indicating where the response should be sent to. The default value is the anonymous URI (depending on the version). (Note: This doesn't support reference parameters.) |
|
"faultTo" |
scalar |
A URI |
None |
xs:anyURI WS-Addressing FaultTo. A URI indicating where the fault should be sent to in case of an error. (Note: This doesn't support reference parameters.) |
|
XOP/MTOM Related Properties: |
||||
|
"default_attachment_content_type" |
scalar |
MTOM content type |
"application/octet-stream" |
Specify a default MTOM content type to be used with MTOM attachments. You can also specify xmlmime:contentType on the xop:Include element, which will override this setting. |
WSFault(String code, String reason, String role, String detail, String xml)
Constructs a new WSFault object.
Parameters:
|
Parameter |
Default Value |
Description |
|---|---|---|
|
code |
None |
SOAP fault code. SOAP fault codes are intended to
provide a means by which faults are classified. |
|
reason |
None |
SOAP fault reason. Provides a human readable explanation of the fault. |
|
role |
"" |
SOAP fault role. Identifies the role in which the SOAP processing node was operating at the time the fault occurred. |
|
detail |
"" |
SOAP Fault detail. Contains application specific error information. |
|
xml |
"" |
SOAP fault as an XML string. |
code
Returns SOAP fault code as a string. SOAP fault codes are intended to provide a means by which faults are classified.
reason
Returns SOAP fault reason as a string. Provides a human readable explanation of the fault.
role
Returns SOAP fault role as a string. Identifies the role in which the SOAP processing node was operating at the time the fault occurred.
Returns SOAP fault detail as a string. Contains application specific error information.
Returns the SOAP fault as an XML string.


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_Antitrust_ (PG-13) no stars (out of ****)
If I hadn't already been aware that it was January, _Antitrust_ would have been a stinging jolt of reality. This thriller in name only is all too characteristic of the cinematic scrap heap that is the first month of the year: surface slickness in lieu of the slightest sign of substance.
With the toplining female stars being Rachael Leigh Cook and Claire Forlani, one expects the male lead to be their respective _She's_All_That_ and _Boys_and_Girls_ paramour, Freddie Prinze Jr. Thankfully, the poster boy for teen schlock is nowhere to be found in _Antitrust_; unfortunately, the person in his place is no better: fellow _I_Know_What_You_Did_Last_Summer_ star and _Tiger_Beat_ staple, Ryan Phillippe. The improbably cast Phillippe plays the improbably named Milo Hoffmann, a brilliant young computer programmer (!) who is suddenly recruited to join big-name firm NURV (an acronym for "Never Underestimate Radical Vision," if you had to ask) by its Bill Gates-ish founder, the insanely wealthy and brilliant Gary Winston (Tim Robbins).
Or maybe Winston isn't so brilliant, for it is not long before Milo deduces that his mentor's revolutionary, monopoly-pushing ideas are actually stolen from young programmers from across the country--who have, perhaps not so coincidentally, all died mysterious deaths. When the latest victim of a shady, untimely demise is none other than Milo's best friend/sacrificial token minority Teddy Chen, Milo sets out to find the truth, a task that proves to be not as difficult as finding a trustworthy ally (hence the oh-so-clever double entendre of a title).
Writer Howard Franklin's premise is lifted directly from John Grisham's _The_Firm_ (albeit with a chic computer angle), but given Hollywood's generally environmentally conscious attitude regarding story ideas, that's not so much a problem as _Antitrust_'s failure to generate the faintest hint of suspense. When one of the big would-be nailbiting set pieces is a frantic search for sesame seeds in some home-cooked Chinese cuisine (don't ask), any hopes of experience real thrills are quickly laid to rest--not to mention those of finding any trace of basic believability. Add in Peter Howitt's overwrought direction (heavy on the meaningful montage and strategic slo-mo) and the urge to laugh at all the flabbergasting happenings is impossible to stifle.
The cast appears to operate under the belief that the more serious they take the ludicrous material, the better; were they ever mistaken. Casting Phillippe, who has heretofore displayed a very limited acting range at best, is always a huge risk, but giving this pretty boy the role of a brain is a flat-out invitation for disaster. It takes more than a simple pair of glasses to add wisdom to the frozen male model pout of his face, and his affectless voice further mangles the already-awkward, techno-jargon-heavy dialogue. Cook and Forlani's work essentially boils down to varying degrees of deer-in-the-headlights looks, but to be fair, it's hard to imagine anyone having a clear idea how to tackle the barely-thought-out female roles. Cook's role as Milo's co-worker Lisa Calighan is especially problematic, thanks to an arbitrary "dark secret" that plays into the story in the most insulting way imaginable. Robbins was obviously brought aboard to give _Antitrust_ some appearance of class, but he takes a general cue from Howitt's direction by overplaying the one-dimensional villainy.
_Antitrust_ is this year's _The_Skulls_: a glossy product where a teenybopper idol is plopped into an intelligence-free thriller-type vehicle. But I can't imagine this film eking out the same frightfully decent box office take as that equally inane Joshua Jackson showcase; after all, the fawning female Phillippe fans hankering for a hit of the hottie hunk don't get anything on par with _The_Skulls_' Josh-running-on-a-pier-in-a-snug-singlet scene. And if _Antitrust_ isn't even good for cheap exploitation of its heartthrob star for his adolescent admirers, then it truly is worthless for all audiences.
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Tue Jul 23, 2013
Why aren’t there more mom avatars in video gaming? I’m just throwing that out there. I haven’t done much research on this topic, but I can speculate. As the protagonist in the game’s narrative, the avatar has become more complex and interesting these days, which is great. And it seems that there are more options for female gamers, as far as customization goes. I’m thinking of the FemShep in the Mass Effect trilogy, and so on. There’s still plenty of objectification (maybe more-so in sub-cultures like the Japanese game industry), but overall strong female characters are out there (looking at you Lara Craft).
But when it comes to playing a parent - mom is out in the cold. The father-daughter type relationship has come up most recently in Naughty Dog’s Last of Us (which I haven’t played) and also the excellent Walking Dead game by Telltale. The emotional bond fatherhood engenders is also explored in Heavy Rain. There are probably more examples out there.
It could be the perceived demographic of gamers - although there are more female gamers than ever, most game developers probably can’t envision moms doing any kind of gaming beyond pretend yoga on the Wii Fit. Or maybe it’s the nature of games - where the story is almost always driven by a fight or flight situation where you have to gun down zombies / aliens / bad people (or run away from them). Are we uncomfortable thinking about a mom who is willing to kill?
But then again, what is more natural than a mom protecting her child? A mom backed into a corner would likely wield that shotgun with far more determination than a trained but emotionally-detached soldier. Tough mom characters appear in the movies, why not in games? Think of how awesome Sigourney Weaver was in Aliens, when she faced down the xenomorph queen slobbering over the little girl and says “Get away from her, you bitch” with such quiet conviction that her words seem more powerful than the mechanized robot suit she’s sitting in. Why can’t I play her in a game?


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Data in the local ADMIRAL file store
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Basically the values defined in setConfig
dialog opens.
If not defined, it will be opened by default.
If the default value is a concern, please enter the following code to the command.
(new ax5.ui.dialog()).config;
If ax5 dialog.js have been added to the page you want to enter the console, will output the default settings of the dialog UI to the console.
In the following example, we have to change the width in dialog.alert method. You can be tested in the following manner.
Please add ax5mask plug-in html document. You can use the ax5mask If you add a plug-in to the page.
onStateChanged
function is executed when the dialog of the state is changed,
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state value is passed to this time onStateChanged function.
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class MessageFormatter extends MessageFormatter
Methods
__construct(string $template = self::CLF)
Initializes the class with the given parameters.
Details
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__construct(string $template = self::CLF)
Initializes the class with the given parameters.
Formats log messages using variable substitutions for requests, responses, and other transactional data.
The following variable substitutions are supported:
{request}
Full HTTP request message{response}
Full HTTP response message{ts}
ISO 8601 date in GMT{date_iso_8601}
ISO 8601 date in GMT{date_common_log}
Apache common log date using the configured timezone.{host}
Host of the request{method}
Method of the request{uri}
URI of the request{host}
Host of the request{version}
Protocol version{target}
Request target of the request (path + query + fragment){hostname}
Hostname of the machine that sent the request{code}
Status code of the response (if available){phrase}
Reason phrase of the response (if available){error}
Any error messages (if available){req_header_*}
Replace*
with the lowercased name of a request header to add to the message{res_header_*}
Replace*
with the lowercased name of a response header to add to the message{req_headers}
Request headers{res_headers}
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Response body
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string
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Introduction
UD currently contains two treebanks for Swedish:
- UD Swedish is a conversion of the Professional Prose originally annotated by a team led by Ulf Teleman at Lund University.
- UD Swedish-LinES is the Swedish part of the English-Swedish LinES parallel treebank.
Below we give a brief description of each treebank. More information can be found in the respective README files.
UD Swedish
UD Swedish is based on the Professional Prose section of Talbanken (Einarsson, 1976), originally annotated by a team led by Ulf Teleman at Lund University according to the MAMBA annotation scheme (Teleman, 1974). It consists of roughly 6,000 sentences and 97,000 tokens taken from a variety of genres, including text books, information brochures, and newspaper articles. The syntactic annotation is converted directly from the original MAMBA annotation, while the morphological annotation is based on the reannotation performed when incorporating Talbanken into the Swedish Treebank (Nivre and Megyesi, 2007). This reannotation, which also involved minor tokenization changes, followed the guidelines of the Stockholm-Umeå Corpus (SUC) 2.0.
Source of annotations
This table summarizes the origins and checking of the various columns of the CoNLL-U data.
| Column | Status |
|---|---|
| ID | Sentence segmentation from Talbanken; tokenization modified to SUC standard for Swedish Treebank. |
| FORM | Identical to Talbanken except for minor tokenization changes mentioned above. |
| LEMMA | Produced automatically by the Swedish Language Bank using SALDO; fairly careful human checking. |
| UPOSTAG | Converted automatically from XPOSTAG + original Talbanken tags; fairly careful human checking. |
| XPOSTAG | Produced automatically by a tagger trained on SUC; complete manual validation for Swedish Treebank. |
| FEATS | Converted automatically from XPOSTAG + original Talbanken tags; fairly careful human checking. |
| HEAD | Automatic conversion of Talbanken; fairly careful human checking. |
| DEPREL | Automatic conversion of Talbanken; fairly careful human checking. |
| DEPS | — (currently unused) |
| MISC | Automatic detokenization encoded as SpaceAfter=No (original text not available). |
Acknowledgments
The new conversion has been performed by Joakim Nivre and Aaron Smith at Uppsala University. We thank everyone who has been involved in previous conversion efforts at Växjö University and Uppsala University, including Bengt Dahlqvist, Sofia Gustafson-Capkova, Johan Hall, Anna Sågvall Hein, Beáta Megyesi, Jens Nilsson, and Filip Salomonsson. Special thanks also to Lars Borin and Markus Forsberg at the Swedish Language Bank for help with the lemmatization.
References
- Einarsson, Jan. 1976. Talbankens skriftspråkskonkordans. Lund University: Department of Scandinavian Languages.
- Joakim Nivre and Beáta Megyesi. 2007. Bootstrapping a Swedish treeebank using cross-corpus harmonization and annotation projection. In Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories, pages 97-102.
- Teleman, Ulf. 1974. Manual för grammatisk beskrivning av talad och skriven svenska. Studentlitteratur.
UD Swedish-LinES
UD Swedish-LinES is the Swedish half of the LinES parallel treebank (Ahrenberg 2007; Ahrenberg 2015) It contains translations into Swedish from seven different English sources (found in UD English-LinES). The treebank was first developed in the project ‘Micro- and macro-level analysis of translations’ funded by the Swedish Research Council (Ahrenberg, 2007). The treebank is being developed continuously.
Source of annotations
This table summarizes the origins and checking of the various columns of the CoNLL-U data.
| Column | Status |
|---|---|
| ID | Sentence segmentation agrees with UD English_LinES. Need not correspond 1-1 to original sentences. |
| FORM | Tokenization is largely based on white space and follows UD standards. |
| LEMMA | — (currently unused) |
| UPOSTAG | Converted automatically from original LinES POS-tags; fairly careful human checking. |
| XPOSTAG | The original LinES sub-categorization tags; manually checked |
| FEATS | — (currently unused) |
| HEAD | Automatic conversion from original LinES; fairly careful human checking. |
| DEPREL | Automatic conversion of original LinES; checked but there are errors. |
| DEPS | — (currently unused) |
| MISC | — (currently unused) |
Acknowledgments
References
- Lars Ahrenberg. 2007. LinES: An English-Swedish Parallel Treebank. Proceedings of the 16th Nordic Conference of Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA, 2007).
- Lars Ahrenberg. 2015. Converting an English-Swedish Parallel Treebank to Universal Dependencies. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Dependency Linguistics (DepLing 2015), Uppsala, August 24-26, 2015, pp. 10-19. ACL Anthology W15-2103.


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