QUIZ SHOW A film review by Eric Mankin Copyright 1994 Eric Mankin
Directed by Robert Redford. Written by Paul Attanasio. With John Turturro, Rob Morrow, Ralph Fiennes, Paul Scofield and David Paymer.
Robert Redford's dramatic reconstruction of the 1958 Van Doren television scandals is profound, unpredictable and scathingly funny, packed from its center to its bit player edges with acutely observed, brilliantly acted characters It consolidates ideas about family and fatherhood, Gentile and Jew, celebrity and corruption that Redford has been dealing with as actor and director for years, and does so effortlessly and organically, without moralizing or contrivance. It recreates in achingly perfect detail a tail-finned, wood-veneer black-and-white TV America without ever retreating into nostalgia. It's about as good as movies get.
The audience's guide into the film's universe is young Dick Goodwin (Rob Morrow), first in his class at Harvard Law School, as he continually reminds the world; Jewish, as the late-fifties world frequently reminds him. He has come to Washington D.C., to work for the government, postponing the high money Wall Street career he sees as inevitable for reasons that aren't clear to him; unconsciously looking for a main chance that will redefine his life. He finds it in a small newspaper story about allegations of fixing in quiz shows, hit programming in the exploding new medium of television.
The film has already shown, in blistering detail, the origin of that newspaper story. Herb Stempel (John Turturro) had reigned for weeks as resident genius on NBC's "Twenty One," mopping his sweating brow inside the isolation booth, astounding the nation by knowing not only the name of the man who lent Paul Revere a horse for his midnight ride, but the fact that the horse was a mare.
But then the show's producer, Dan Enright (David Paymer) had decided, in consultation with the network and the sponsor, that Stempel had run his string; that the country was tired of a nerd-next-door with bad teeth from Queens, that it was time to find someone different: someone more graceful, better looking, classier, less Jewish--someone like Columbia professor Charles Van Doren (Ralph Fiennes), son and nephew of Pulitzer prize winners; someone with a fresh face eager to talk enthusiastically about television's role in educating the American public. Moving Herbie out and Charlie in takes Mephistophelean abilities of manipulation. But Enright can offer not just vast sums of money, but the gleaming lure of television itself, "the biggest thing," as Herbie accurately tells his wife, "since Gutenberg." By the time the deal has soured, and Stempel has called foul, Van Doren is a national hero. Goodwin's investigation bounces off a seamless wall compounded from Enright's imaginative deceit, and Charlie's seemingly guileless charm.
"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall," Van Doren quotes Shakespeare at a glittering literary birthday party in Connecticut, words spoken precisely at the peak of the trajectory that is carrying him to a humiliation of his own creation. The remarkable achievement of this film is the dimension it gives this fall.
The contributions to the achievement can be listed. First, Paul Attanasio's screenplay is in a class by itself. Looking back years into films, it is hard to remember one that does as many different things in as many different ways as this one. Ironically (considering the subject) television may have been a beneficent influence With the virtual preemption of film to tell stories centered on vehicles, explosions, and special effects, (and QUIZ SHOW was passed on repeatedly by other studios at least in part because of the absence these elements before being picked up by Disney) TV has become a refuge for stories centering on character, in shows like "N.Y.P.D. Blue" or "Homicide," on which Attanasio collaborated with Barry Levinson (who plays Dave Garroway in the film). TV writing in the episodic ensemble form invented by Steven Bochco long ago broke out of the old film chestnut of every film being one person's story.
Attanasio may be the first film writer to have thoroughly absorbed Bochco's lessons. While Goodwin remains at the center, the exceptionally broad focus and reach of the story, the insistence on seeing and telling the story from multiple points of view creates an amazing density of texture.
This sounds abstract, so perhaps one other note is in order. QUIZ SHOW is, quite apart from its other virtues, the funniest film of the year. Some of its characters are intentionally funny--as Herbie Stempel's anguished, eloquent rages against the gods of TV--some equally inspired unintentionally so, as when Dan Enright's cohort Albert Freedman (Hank Azaria) asks what "a grejus" is, following a conversation in which Van Doren objects to being simply given answers to questions as "egregious." In the same conversation Van Doren has previously taken a moment to think things over: "I'm just trying to imagine what Kant would make of this." "He'd go along with it," Freedman assures him.
The actors run with it. It was obvious from SCHINDLER'S LIST that Ralph Fiennes--however he wants to pronounce his name--was good; this film makes clear *how* good. As the beautiful, flawed Charlie, intrigued by the glittering new toy of television, trapped by his vanity and desire to please his father, undone by his own inability to lie about it, Fiennes turns an historical footnote into someone you seem to have known all your life.
Paul Scofield plays his father, the poet. Scofield has played Lear, and played him well; here he is given, along with much else, two transparently simple lines; one about his joy: "not till you have a son!" and one about his pain: "your name is mine," and makes each one a world.
It is no surprise that John Turturro is unforgettable as the twitchy Herbie, paranoid for the best of reasons--people are out to get him; the surprising thing is that a performance like this can't steal the film, because the acting everywhere, *everywhere*, from all sides is so seamlessly, uniformly, universally remarkable: Morrow (from "Northern Exposure") subtly shading Goodwin's internal insecurities behind a big cigar; David Paymer as Enright the wheedling fixmeister (by the end of the film, you believe that on his deathbed he tried to buy off the Angel of Death by offering him a job on a TV panel show.) And on, and on and on, through the small but completely rounded parts of Goodwin and Stemple's wives, (Johann Carlo and Mira Sorvino); or the main-battle-tank-like presence of Allan Rich as the President of NBC. If the film deconstructs conventional wisdom on unitary film story, it writes in letters of fire another old saw: "there are no small roles. There are only small actors."
This kind of texture doesn't happen by accident. Redford has always been an exceptional director of actors. Here, he orchestrates the performances with a touch so light that it doesn't seem to be there: the story seems to tell itself, to be assembling itself before our eyes, absolutely autonomous, yet reverberating with films as diverse as ELECTRIC HORSEMAN, THE CANDIDATE, DOWNHILL RACER, ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN, THE WAY WE WERE, ORDINARY PEOPLE, A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT, suddenly casting all of them into a new line leading here. If Redford never exposes another frame of film, he has his place in the pantheon: this is a great movie.
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On the menu are the likes of clove pricked leg of pork with maple glaze, roasted turkey breast, classic chicken fricassee, Italian flat-bread with exotic toppings and Mexican dishes like nachos, tacos, quesadilla. Desserts include classical European cakes, assorted frangipani tarts, cake popsicles and chef’s crafted bonbon bar with single origin chocolate amongst the others.
Also, a part of The Grand Wedding Brunch is ‘Passion Made Edible’, a showcase of handcrafted chocolate jewellery by Chef Santosh Rawat, embellished with Swarovski Zirconia, a collection of precision-cut jewellery stones. Chef Santosh Rawat, Executive Pastry Chef, JW Marriott Mumbai Sahar, will exhibit jewellery pieces such as necklaces, bracelets, cufflinks, etc. set with Zirconia from Swarovski in an edible form.
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Country case studies were selected from all regions of the world to compare public policies and trace the underlying processes of campaign finance reform within specific contexts. The comparison suggests that usually a complex mix of long-term historical conditions and short-term catalysts combine to generate pressures for new legislation.
Finding 1: The limited effect of legal regulations
Establishing a more equitable, transparent and inclusive political system is a long-term process that may require compromise on one or more normative dimensions. One should not expect to see immediate impact of legal reforms on societal outcomes such as corruption or voter confidence in the political process.
Finding 2: The most common reforms in recent years have sought to strengthen disclosure and public funding
During the last decade, landmark revisions have most often served to boost transparency to counter the risks of corruption, and provide resources to allow parties to deal with rising campaign costs and falling revenue from membership and voluntary fundraising, without relying solely on private donations.
Finding 3: The effects of formal legal reforms are contingent upon regime type, state capacity and societal cultures
Theory, case studies and empirics conclude that there is no single ‘right’ mix of policies that fits countries with diverse institutional, cultural and economic parameters. The combinations of regulations that any country should adopt will depend on contextual factors, such as political culture and enforcement capacity.
Finding 4: Mixed policy strategies work best
No single policy instrument is sufficient by itself to control money in politics. A balanced mix of regulatory policies is most effective, so that regulations blend a combination of disclosure and transparency requirements, limits on spending and contributions, and public subsidies to political parties.
Political finance reform across the globe
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Britain
Contributor: Justin Fisher
Find more in the PDF and BookSeveral principles have traditionally characterized British party finance: campaign spending ceilings for candidates rather than public funding of political parties, voluntarism in party income, and a general lack of regulation. Britain has traditionally offered its parties little state assistance but recent reforms have altered the campaign finance system.
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Brazil
Contributor: Bruno Speck
Find more in the BookBrazil established its current political finance regime in the mid-1990s, reforming regulations intended to limit political competition during the 1964-1985 military rule. Lawmakers increased state subsidies, lifted bans on corporate funding, established advanced reporting systems, and rationalized campaign finance management. Recent years have seen increasing demands for further reform to address corruption and regulate private donations.
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India
Contributors: Eswaran Sridharan and Milan Vaishnav
Find more in the PDF and BookThe Indian state’s strong involvement in the economy, together with costly elections, generates shadowy links among business, the criminal underworld, and politicians, exacerbating corruption. Despite gains in transparency, the current state of India’s political finance regime is deeply problematic, eroding the quality of democracy.
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Indonesia
Contributor: Marcus Mietzner
Find more in the BookIndonesia upholds the illusion of an effective regulatory regime, but transgressions are either ignored or collectively tolerated by political actors and law enforcement agencies alike. The 2005 reforms significantly reduced public funding, tightened disclosure rules and increased sanctions, but failed to address enforcement and oversight. The increase in regulation led to its effective deregulation, and this dysfunctional system is deliberately maintained.
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Italy
Contributor: Eugenio Pizzimenti
Find more in the PDFItaly’s political finance system illustrates a reactive and collusive regime, which abolished state subsidies, making Italy one of two members of the European Union to not extend public funding. Since 1974 Italy has seen fragmented legislative initiatives and continuous amendments, instead of comprehensive campaign finance reform.
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Japan
Contributor: Matthew Carlson
Find more in the PDF and BookJapan changed its political finance regime in the early-1990s in response to public pressure surrounding corruption scandals. The introduction of public subsidies, stricter disclosure requirements and increased contribution and spending limits have strengthened political competition, cut electoral costs, and produced more party-centered campaigns.
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Mexico
Contributor: Francisco Aparicio
Find more in the PDFMexico combines generous public funding with relatively low campaign spending limits, leading to a situation in which some parties receive more funding than they can spend legally. The contemporary regulatory system is reactive and ad-hoc and it has been amended several times in response to allegations of electoral fraud.
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Russia
Contributor: Grigorii Golosov
Find more in the PDF and BookRussia’s laws combine public funding as a major source of party income, with strict disclosure requirements, rigid enforcement, and a limited role of private donations. In practice, however, regulations stifle political competition. Instead of increasing the quality of Russia’s democracy, this system has thereby entrenched electoral authoritarianism.
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South Africa
Contributor: Richard Calland
Find more in the PDF and BookMany of South Africa’s corruption problems stem from a failure to regulate private flows of money into politics. The absence of effective reform and lack of regulation of private donations has created an uneven playing field for political parties during elections, which benefits the governing parties and resists reform.
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Sweden
Contributor: Magnus Ohman
Find more in the PDF and BookSweden’s political finance is loosely regulated. It combines generous state subsidies for political parties with minimal state intervention in political party affairs. Parties are not required to register as organizations and, until 2014, they were free to raise and spend funds without accountability. Nevertheless deeply-entrenched informal rules in Swedish culture mean that the system appears to work well in preventing corruption scandals.
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United States
Contributor: Richard Briffault
Find more in the PDF and BookThe United States has deregulated its system of political finance, where the judiciary has invalidated regulations approved by the executive and legislative branches of government. This has led to the growing influence of third party actors on candidates, political parties, and election campaigns and ever-expanding campaign war-chests by candidates.


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By Edwin Jahiel
FLIRTING WITH DISASTER (1996) ** 1/2 Written and directed by David O. Russell. Photography, Eric Edwards. Editing Christopher Tellefsen. Production design, Kevin Thompson. Music, Stephen Endelman. Cast: Ben Stiller (Mel Coplin), Patricia Arquette (Nancy Coplin), Tea Leoni (Tina Kalb), Mary Tyler Moore (Mrs. Coplin), George Segal (Coplin), Alan Alda (Richard Schlicting), Lily Tomlin (Mary Schlicting), Josh Brolin (Tony), Richard Jenkins (Paul), CeliaWeston (Valerie) , et al. A Miramax release. 91 minutes. Rated R (language, sexual situations, substance use)
The first feature by David O. Russell, the low budget "Spanking the Monkey," was daringly original. It made the writer-director more than just promising, which is something that new filmmakers have to live up to, especially as there is generally a kind of curse attached to second features.
In Russell's case, the funny "Flirting With Disaster" is no comedown, even though the film is neither daring nor a minor landmark. It is clever without brilliance or depth, it is inventive without originality.
"FLT" is a road movie of sorts. Not quite an odyssey as it has only three way-stations. Following a zippy montage, we meet Mel Coplin (Stiller), about 30, in an adoption agency. Entomologist Mel, the beloved and loving adopted son of a New York Jewish couple (Moore and Segal), is married to sweet Nancy (Arquette). They have a first baby who remains unnamed for an outlandish time, partly because Mel is in the throes of a pre-midlife crisis.
Has this been brewing for some time or is it sudden? The film, not exactly a profound study of characters, tells us nothing. We are simply shown a confused Mel who feels that his identity will never be complete so long as he does not learn who and what his natural parents are.
Working in an adoption agency, Tina Kalb (Leoni), a beautiful long-legged ex-dancer now on the brink of divorce and, perhaps, a Ph.D. in psychology, delivers the goods. "Your mother lives in San Diego. Let's go." Tina wants to include herself and her camcorder as part of her academic research.
The quartet drives west, is reunited with a caricatural, multi-wedded Southern belle. She looks nothing like Mel, is a devout Reaganite ("he was a great friend") and the mother of gorgeously vacuous beach bimbo twins. Through a mixup in Tina's files, the lady turns out to be the wrong person. I give away nothing as the audience had guessed this all along.
The episode is amusing, has good farce, almost hilarious dialogue and changes of behavior. Contrite Tina, whom Mel is attracted to, is now sure she has located the right parents. From the San Diegan sun, the foursome treks to snow and slush, Gerald Ford-loving Michigan. The new candidate is an improbable father, a low-life type. Diagnosing Mel's "Jew nose," he forwards him to New Mexico, but not before a fracas that involves a couple (in both senses) of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms officers.
 Tony is bisexual. As movie luck would have it he had gone to school with Nancy, now desires her and also feels the need to have a baby. The quartet grows to a sextet as the two men, none too credibly, go with the Coplins -- as vacationers, not professional sleuths.
Episode Three leads to Antelope Springs, N.M. and the real McCoys, the Schlictings (Tomlin and Alda) and their sullen, weirdo son. This, the journey's decisive leg, turns out to be an acid trip for some.
The Schlictings are unreconstructed old acidheads, anachronistic hippies who in the Sixties were jailed for making LSD. They are are now "artists" who live from their awful work, "with supplements from other things." In a film that keeps announcing its moves, you can guess that what they fabricate in their basement is not Christmas seals. (Major laughter is produced when Tina lights up and Alan Alda stops her with "This is a non-smoking house.")
There is some lust in the film (Mel and Tina, Tony and Nancy) but this pales before the catalogue of references to body parts. It begins as Patricia Arquette primps most intimately for her husband; then Mary Tyler Moore briefly shows her bra-clad breasts (actually nothing risque); it continues with legs, calves, noses, male organs, more breasts...
It's rather systematic, as is the movie's development. The plumbing of characters is sacrificed to broad gags. You laugh allright but the movie's creatures are not really attaching, likable or interesting. Eventually they get a bit tiresome, along with the plot's cliched mixups of humans, cars, keys and other objects.
Writer-director Russsell is no Preston Sturges or Woody Allen, although, vaguely like Woody, he tries to exploit Jewishness vs. Goyishness. The Coplins (especially Mary Tyler Moore), Tina, the two lawmen are more neurotic than dysfunctional, while the Schlictings (except the son) are in harmony with their kookiness. All actors deliver OK performances in their limited-scale roles.
Do not look for ambitious thoughts, not even the old notion that the blue bird of happiness is found at home or next door. This is first and last a machinery for screwball farce. It's a pleasant enough work, with the added bonus of deserving inclusion in the BBNMM Society's roster (that's Bring Back the Ninety Minute Movie).
" Le mauvais gout mene au crime" (Stendhal)
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Is the legal system just ice?
A Civil Action A Film Review By Michael Redman Copyright 1999 By MIchael Redman
*** (Out of ****)
A very rare number of people, at very rare times, are living their everyday lives when they meet God on the road to Damascus. They're going to work. They're shopping for groceries. They're paying bills. Suddenly there's a blinding light and their reality changes completely.
They experience something that triggers a transformation in the way they view the world. Old perceptions are out the window and a new way of being takes over. Their previous life vanishes as a new passion overwhelms all.
Boston ambulance chaser Jan Schlichtmann (John Travolta) has his revelation on the road to Woburn. Stopped for his second speeding ticket on the same bridge on the same day, Jan glances out on the Aberjona River and soon everything is different.
The attorney is a high profile personal injury lawyer. Named one of the ten most eligible bachelors in the city, he dresses sharp and aims for the jugular. With his eye on the financial prize, he has reduced his clients to dollar signs.
He wheels a crippled man down the courtroom hall and his voice-over explains the worth of a human being in the civil legal system. A living man is worth more than a dead one. A man, more than a woman. White, more than black. A dead child is worth the least of all.
A partner presents the firm with a possible case. Eight children have died of leukemia in the small industrial town of Woburn. The families suspect the water is contaminated and they want someone to apologize.
Jan meets with the parents and explains legal reality to them. For him to take the case, there must be someone to sue...someone with a hefty bank account. With no big bucks in sight, he's not going to do anything about it.
Looking down the river on the way back, Jan decides to take a walk. He finds two factories on the shore that may be responsible for polluting the water supply. Then he notices something on the side of a truck that changes his mind about the case. A sign says that one of the businesses is "a division of Beatrice." He's found his deep pockets.
The tiny firm takes on Beatrice Foods and W.R. Grace & Co., two of the country's largest corporations, in a classic David versus Goliath battle. In this war, the weapons aren't stones but dollars. As Jan explains, in a big civil case the plan is to spend more than you need in order to make it bigger, "The first side that comes to their senses loses."
As the case wears on, the lawyers for the families are running out of ammunition. They borrow money, mortgage their houses, buy lottery tickets and finally sell the furniture. In one scene, they're sitting on the floor in empty offices with no desks trying to figure out how they can dig themselves out of their financial hole.
They are in it for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. If they win this one, they win big. Jan, however, has a different obsession. He's lost sight of the money and wants the companies brought to justice. Even after the trial becomes a black hole for his legal firm, dragging down everyone, he refuses a $25 million settlement offer because he wants the companies to admit responsibility.
Based on a true story that took place in the eighties, the film is an indictment of the civil legal system. The account makes it clear that cases aren't about truth, but rather theatrics, manipulations of the court and negotiations between the sides. Although indeed they may have been, it's never shown that Beatrice and W.R. Grace were responsible for the deaths. Despite that, they were willing to lie in court, falsify evidence and spend huge amounts of money for damage control. As Joni Mitchell sings, justice is often "just ice."
Director and screenwriter Steven Zaillian ("Searching For Bobby Fischer" and screenwriter of "Schindler's List") has done an admirable job assembling a first-rate cast. There's not a weak link among the actors.
John Lithgow is Judge Walter Skinner, the somewhat self-righteous magistrate who seems to be part of a good ole boys network with the opposing attorneys. Dan Hedaya plays a smarmy owner of a tannery that has spilled toxic waste. Kathleen Quinlan and David Thornton are touching as parents of children who have died. William H. Macy's accountant James Gordon is a man under siege as he tries to salvage the firm.
Robert Duvall, as Jerome Fancher, lawyer for Beatrice, is the standout of the movie. Fancher is an eccentric who listens to baseball games on a cheap transistor radio and carries a beat-up briefcase adorned with cartoon stick-ons. His disarming bumpkin charm hides a shrewd legal mind. He is easy to like although he works for the wrong side. Duvall nails the role and steals the film.
Travolta is appropriately larger than life playing the flamboyant attorney, but his character has a problem. Although we are supposed to believe that he has abandoned his greed for a search for justice, we never see the change happen. His actions are different, but he never warms up.
The cinematography and lighting create a moody feel in even the most mundane scenes. Interviews with the parents are mostly talking heads, but are riveting. During the explanation of a boy's death on the way to the hospital, a shot of blinking taillights on a car stopped by the side of the road in the rain is positively chilling.
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| add_stat {gtsummary} | R Documentation |
The function allows a user to add a new column with a custom, user-defined statistic.
add_stat( x, fns, fmt_fun = NULL, header = "**Statistic**", footnote = NULL, new_col_name = NULL, location = c("label", "level") )
x |
|
fns |
list of formulas indicating the functions that create the statistic |
fmt_fun |
for numeric statistics, |
header |
Column header of new column. Default is |
footnote |
Footnote associated with new column. Default is no footnote (i.e. NULL) |
new_col_name |
name of new column to be created in |
location |
Must be one of |
The custom functions passed in fns=
are required to follow a specified
format. Each of these function will execute on a single variable from
tbl_summary()
/tbl_svysummary()
.
Each function must return a single scalar or character value of length one when
location = "label"
. When location = "level"
, the returned statistic
must be a vector of the length of the number of levels (excluding the
row for unknown values).
Each function may take the following arguments: foo(data, variable, by, tbl)
data=
is the input data frame passed to tbl_summary()
variable=
is a string indicating the variable to perform the calculation on
by=
is a string indicating the by variable from tbl_summary=
, if present
tbl=
the original tbl_summary()
object is also available to utilize
The user-defined does not need to utilize each of these inputs. It's
encouraged the user-defined function accept ...
as each of the arguments
will be passed to the function, even if not all inputs are utilized by
the user's function, e.g. foo(data, variable, by, ...)
Example 1
Example 2
Example 3
# Example 1 ---------------------------------- # this example replicates `add_p()` # fn returns t-test pvalue my_ttest <- function(data, variable, by, ...) { t.test(data[[variable]] ~ as.factor(data[[by]]))$p.value } add_stat_ex1 <- trial %>% select(trt, age, marker) %>% tbl_summary(by = trt, missing = "no") %>% add_p(test = everything() ~ t.test) %>% # replicating result of `add_p()` with `add_stat()` add_stat( fns = everything() ~ my_ttest, # all variables compared with with t-test fmt_fun = style_pvalue, # format result with style_pvalue() header = "**My p-value**" # new column header ) # Example 2 ---------------------------------- # fn returns t-test test statistic and pvalue my_ttest2 <- function(data, variable, by, ...) { tt <- t.test(data[[variable]] ~ as.factor(data[[by]])) # returning test statistic and pvalue stringr::str_glue( "t={style_sigfig(tt$statistic)}, {style_pvalue(tt$p.value, prepend_p = TRUE)}" ) } add_stat_ex2 <- trial %>% select(trt, age, marker) %>% tbl_summary(by = trt, missing = "no") %>% add_stat( fns = everything() ~ my_ttest2, # all variables will be compared by t-test fmt_fun = NULL, # fn returns and chr, so no formatting function needed header = "**Treatment Comparison**", # column header footnote = "T-test statistic and p-value" # footnote ) # Example 3 ---------------------------------- # Add CI for categorical variables categorical_ci <- function(variable, tbl, ...) { dplyr::filter(tbl$meta_data, variable == .env$variable) %>% purrr::pluck("df_stats", 1) %>% dplyr::mutate( # calculate and format 95% CI prop_ci = purrr::map2(n, N, ~prop.test(.x, .y)$conf.int %>% style_percent(symbol = TRUE)), ci = purrr::map_chr(prop_ci, ~glue::glue("{.x[1]}, {.x[2]}")) ) %>% dplyr::pull(ci) } add_stat_ex3 <- trial %>% select(grade) %>% tbl_summary(statistic = everything() ~ "{p}%") %>% add_stat( fns = everything() ~ "categorical_ci", location = "level", header = "**95% CI**" ) %>% modify_footnote(everything() ~ NA)


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Google Cloud Bigtable Operators¶
All examples below rely on the following variables, which can be passed via environment variables.
GCP_PROJECT_ID = getenv('GCP_PROJECT_ID', 'example-project')
CBT_INSTANCE_ID = getenv('CBT_INSTANCE_ID', 'some-instance-id')
CBT_INSTANCE_DISPLAY_NAME = getenv('CBT_INSTANCE_DISPLAY_NAME', 'Human-readable name')
CBT_INSTANCE_TYPE = getenv('CBT_INSTANCE_TYPE', '2')
CBT_INSTANCE_LABELS = getenv('CBT_INSTANCE_LABELS', '{}')
CBT_CLUSTER_ID = getenv('CBT_CLUSTER_ID', 'some-cluster-id')
CBT_CLUSTER_ZONE = getenv('CBT_CLUSTER_ZONE', 'europe-west1-b')
CBT_CLUSTER_NODES = getenv('CBT_CLUSTER_NODES', '3')
CBT_CLUSTER_NODES_UPDATED = getenv('CBT_CLUSTER_NODES_UPDATED', '5')
CBT_CLUSTER_STORAGE_TYPE = getenv('CBT_CLUSTER_STORAGE_TYPE', '2')
CBT_TABLE_ID = getenv('CBT_TABLE_ID', 'some-table-id')
CBT_POKE_INTERVAL = getenv('CBT_POKE_INTERVAL', '60')
BigtableInstanceCreateOperator¶
Use the BigtableInstanceCreateOperator
to create a Google Cloud Bigtable instance.
If the Cloud Bigtable instance with the given ID exists, the operator does not compare its configuration and immediately succeeds. No changes are made to the existing instance.
Using the operator¶
You can create the operator with or without project id. If project id is missing it will be retrieved from the GCP connection used. Both variants are shown:
create_instance_task = BigtableInstanceCreateOperator(
project_id=GCP_PROJECT_ID,
instance_id=CBT_INSTANCE_ID,
main_cluster_id=CBT_CLUSTER_ID,
main_cluster_zone=CBT_CLUSTER_ZONE,
instance_display_name=CBT_INSTANCE_DISPLAY_NAME,
instance_type=int(CBT_INSTANCE_TYPE),
instance_labels=json.loads(CBT_INSTANCE_LABELS),
cluster_nodes=int(CBT_CLUSTER_NODES),
cluster_storage_type=int(CBT_CLUSTER_STORAGE_TYPE),
task_id='create_instance_task',
)
create_instance_task2 = BigtableInstanceCreateOperator(
instance_id=CBT_INSTANCE_ID,
main_cluster_id=CBT_CLUSTER_ID,
main_cluster_zone=CBT_CLUSTER_ZONE,
instance_display_name=CBT_INSTANCE_DISPLAY_NAME,
instance_type=int(CBT_INSTANCE_TYPE),
instance_labels=json.loads(CBT_INSTANCE_LABELS),
cluster_nodes=int(CBT_CLUSTER_NODES),
cluster_storage_type=int(CBT_CLUSTER_STORAGE_TYPE),
task_id='create_instance_task2',
)
create_instance_task >> create_instance_task2
BigtableInstanceDeleteOperator¶
Use the BigtableInstanceDeleteOperator
to delete a Google Cloud Bigtable instance.
Using the operator¶
You can create the operator with or without project id. If project id is missing it will be retrieved from the GCP connection used. Both variants are shown:
delete_instance_task = BigtableInstanceDeleteOperator(
project_id=GCP_PROJECT_ID,
instance_id=CBT_INSTANCE_ID,
task_id='delete_instance_task',
)
delete_instance_task2 = BigtableInstanceDeleteOperator(
instance_id=CBT_INSTANCE_ID,
task_id='delete_instance_task2',
)
BigtableClusterUpdateOperator¶
Use the BigtableClusterUpdateOperator
to modify number of nodes in a Cloud Bigtable cluster.
Using the operator¶
You can create the operator with or without project id. If project id is missing it will be retrieved from the GCP connection used. Both variants are shown:
cluster_update_task = BigtableClusterUpdateOperator(
project_id=GCP_PROJECT_ID,
instance_id=CBT_INSTANCE_ID,
cluster_id=CBT_CLUSTER_ID,
nodes=int(CBT_CLUSTER_NODES_UPDATED),
task_id='update_cluster_task',
)
cluster_update_task2 = BigtableClusterUpdateOperator(
instance_id=CBT_INSTANCE_ID,
cluster_id=CBT_CLUSTER_ID,
nodes=int(CBT_CLUSTER_NODES_UPDATED),
task_id='update_cluster_task2',
)
cluster_update_task >> cluster_update_task2
BigtableTableCreateOperator¶
Creates a table in a Cloud Bigtable instance.
If the table with given ID exists in the Cloud Bigtable instance, the operator compares the Column Families. If the Column Families are identical operator succeeds. Otherwise, the operator fails with the appropriate error message.
Using the operator¶
You can create the operator with or without project id. If project id is missing it will be retrieved from the GCP connection used. Both variants are shown:
create_table_task = BigtableTableCreateOperator(
project_id=GCP_PROJECT_ID,
instance_id=CBT_INSTANCE_ID,
table_id=CBT_TABLE_ID,
task_id='create_table',
)
create_table_task2 = BigtableTableCreateOperator(
instance_id=CBT_INSTANCE_ID,
table_id=CBT_TABLE_ID,
task_id='create_table_task2',
)
create_table_task >> create_table_task2
Advanced¶
When creating a table, you can specify the optional initial_split_keys
and column_families
.
Please refer to the Python Client for Google Cloud Bigtable documentation
for Table and for Column
Families.
BigtableTableDeleteOperator¶
Use the BigtableTableDeleteOperator
to delete a table in Google Cloud Bigtable.
Using the operator¶
You can create the operator with or without project id. If project id is missing it will be retrieved from the GCP connection used. Both variants are shown:
delete_table_task = BigtableTableDeleteOperator(
project_id=GCP_PROJECT_ID,
instance_id=CBT_INSTANCE_ID,
table_id=CBT_TABLE_ID,
task_id='delete_table_task',
)
delete_table_task2 = BigtableTableDeleteOperator(
instance_id=CBT_INSTANCE_ID,
table_id=CBT_TABLE_ID,
task_id='delete_table_task2',
)
BigtableTableWaitForReplicationSensor¶
You can create the operator with or without project id. If project id is missing it will be retrieved from the GCP connection used. Both variants are shown:
Use the BigtableTableWaitForReplicationSensor
to wait for the table to replicate fully.
The same arguments apply to this sensor as the BigtableTableCreateOperator.
Note: If the table or the Cloud Bigtable instance does not exist, this sensor waits for the table until timeout hits and does not raise any exception.
Using the operator¶
wait_for_table_replication_task = BigtableTableWaitForReplicationSensor(
project_id=GCP_PROJECT_ID,
instance_id=CBT_INSTANCE_ID,
table_id=CBT_TABLE_ID,
poke_interval=int(CBT_POKE_INTERVAL),
timeout=180,
task_id='wait_for_table_replication_task',
)
wait_for_table_replication_task2 = BigtableTableWaitForReplicationSensor(
instance_id=CBT_INSTANCE_ID,
table_id=CBT_TABLE_ID,
poke_interval=int(CBT_POKE_INTERVAL),
timeout=180,
task_id='wait_for_table_replication_task2',
)


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devtools::install_github('quadbiolab/Pando')
The fate and state of a cell is regulated through complex circuits of transcription factors (TFs) converging at regulatory elements to enable precise control of gene expression. Modern single-cell genomic approaches allow the simultaneous profiling of gene expression and chromatin accessibility in individual cells, which opens up new opportunities for the inference of gene regulatory networks (GRNs).
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) ready, you can start off by inizializing the GRN using the function initiate_grn()
:
seurat_object <- initiate_grn(seurat_object)
This will create a RegulatoryNetwork
object inside the Seurat object and select candidate regulatory regions. Per default, Pando will consider all peaks as putative regulatory regions, but the set of candidate regions can be constrained by providing a GenomicRanges
object in the regions
argument. Pando ships with a set of conserved regions (phastConsElements20Mammals.UCSC.hg38
) as well as predicted regulatory elements from ENCODE (SCREEN.ccRE.UCSC.hg38
) for the human genome (hg38), which could be used here. However, one could also select candidate regions in other ways, for instance by using Cicero.
Once the RegulatoryNetwork
object is initiated with candidate regions, we can scan for TF binding motifs in these regions by using the function find_motifs()
library(BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg38)
data(motifs)
seurat_object <- find_motifs(
seurat_object,
pfm = motifs,
genome = BSgenome.Hsapiens.UCSC.hg38
)
This uses motifmatchr to pair up TFs with their putative binding sites. Pando provides a custom motif database (motifs
) compiled from JASPAR and CIS-BP, but in principal any PFMatrixList
object can be provided here. A data frame with motif-to-TF assignments can be provided in the motif_tfs
argument.
Now everything should be ready to infer the GRN by fitting regression models for the expression of each gene. In Pando, this can be done by using the function infer_grn()
:
seurat_object <- infer_grn(
seurat_object,
peak_to_gene_method = 'Signac',
method = 'glm'
)
Here, we first select regions near genes, either by simply considering a distance upstream and/or downstream of the gene (peak_to_gene_method='Signac'
) or by also considering overlapping regulatory regions as is done by GREAT (peak_to_gene_method='GREAT'
).
You can also choose between a number of different models using the method
argument, such as GLMs ('glm'
) regularized GLMs ('glmnet'
, 'cv.glmnet'
) or Bayesian regression models ('brms'
). We are also working on integrating gradient boosting regression with XGBoost as it is used by GRNBoost/SCENIC.
Once the models are fit, model coefficients can be inspected with
coef(seurat_object)
Based on the model coefficients, we can construct a network between TFs and target genes. This can be further summarized to construct gene and regulatory modules with the set of target genes and regulatory regions for each TF. In Pando we do this with
seurat_object <- find_modules(seurat_object)
To access the extracted modules, you can use the function NetworkModules()
:
modules <- NetworkModules(seurat_object)
modules@meta
modules@features


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A specific type of Character Tic. When Bob is sitting deep in thought, trying to solve a difficult problem, the writers will often provide a tic as a visual shorthand. This move is unconscious, and its main purpose is to underline just how perplexed and frustrated Bob is. Expect to see it happen very often during homework, tests or really tough relationship issues.
Stock variants include:
- Twirling his fingers and pen, sometimes biting it in annoyance.
- Drumming his fingers while staring absent-mindedly.
- Stroking his chin or scratching his beard in wonder.
- Playing with his hair locks.
- Tapping on his lips or chin impatiently with his fingertips.
- Biting his lip, sometimes accompanied by a "tsk" sound.
- Clicking his tongue impatiently.
- Sitting in the Thinker Pose.
- Scratching the top of his head in confusion.
- Scratching one leg with the toes of the other foot.
Often accompanying it, especially if he isn't alone, will be someone else getting progressively more annoyed by it and finally yelling at him to "Stop that!"
Also see Finger-Tenting, Putting On My Thinking Cap. Can be Truth in Television.
Examples:
- Death Note: L bites his nails, particularly the nails on his thumb. While Near plays with his hair.
- Hyouka's Houtarou Oreki has a habit of playing with his forelock when he's thinking particularly hard about a case.
- Shikamaru in Naruto sits with his hands splayed and opposing fingertips touching. In a way, it's his way of announcing that he's getting serious.
- Izuku Midoriya in My Hero Academia mumbles his thoughts out loud while tapping his right index finger against his chin when he's not busy scribbling notes down.
- Supergirl used to put her finger to her mouth◊ as she puzzled out some conundrum in early issues of Action Comics. That quirk that has been seen every now and then even in modern comics.
- Superman often grasps his chin when he ponders something. In Kryptonite Nevermore he does this as he wonders about an astronaut's sudden sickness.
- The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: Multiple:
- Whenever facing a problem, Pooh, being not to so bright, tends to lightly tap his head and repeat "Think, think, think" while rocking back and forth.
- While he's thinking, Tigger makes a bizarre facial expression with his mouth. Kind of like he has chewed an idea in his mouth and he's deciding if it tastes good or not.
- Adele Hasn't Had Her Dinner Yet: Nick Carter (America's greatest detective who investigates a mysterious case in Prague) often folds his arms and put fingers on his lips or face. He sometimes points out that he's deep in thoughts or "investigating intensively" when he's disgruntled that police commissioner Ledvina is not as invested in the case as he is.
- Akeelah and the Bee: When spelling words Akeelah often pats her hand on her leg in a constant beat. Upon spotting this, her teacher recognizes this as a rhythm technique and starts having her learn words according to a rhythm so that she'll remember them better.
- In The Big Sleep, Philip Marlowe tugs on his earlobe when he's concentrating.
- In Goldeneye, Boris has a tendency to fidget with his pen and click it when mulling something over. This turns out to be a Chekhov's Gun later when he has one of 007's pens which is actually a mini-bomb in hand while thinking.
- In The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Gollum frowns when pondering over a riddle, then his face lights up with an idea, but, disliking the idea, he frowns again. You can just see his split personalities battling it out in his facial expressions as he ponders.
- Gladys Glover, in the film It Should Happen to You, needs to take off her shoes in order to think clearly.
- In Survivor Style 5+, the commercial director blinks her eyes rapidly when she's coming up with a new idea.
- The Three Stooges:
- Shemp would often start going into spasms when he tried to think, and might request Moe to bonk him in the head to help get the thought to come out.
- Curly, on the few occasions where he tried to think, would start banging his head against the wall. Then, seeming to have an epiphany, he'd exclaim "I got it!" When asked what he got, he'd reply "A terrific headache." Other times, he would stare off in space for a few moments, before turning to Moe and saying "I try to think but nothing happens."
- A Doctor Who related sketch has a bit where the BBC head of programming and the producer who is pitching Doctor Who to him are thinking and both drum their fingers to the "da-da-da-da" tune of the Doctor Who theme.
- Yo Gabba Gabba!: The Gabbas tend to scratch their heads whenever they think, especially Brobee. Muno often strokes his chin whenever he thinks.
- Scrubs: Whenever he's having one of his fantasies, J.D. tends to tilt his head to the left.
- Rodney from Stargate Atlantis starts snapping his fingers rapidly whenever he's having an epiphany.

- In a Season One episode of Wizards of Waverly Place, Max is shown needing to tap his foot and poke his cheeks with his tongue to focus on his textbook. Justin finds it distracting, and starts a slap fight. In the final season, Max scrunches up his face to make his "Thinking Face."
- Bridge Carson, the Cloudcuckoolander and Green Ranger of Power Rangers S.P.D., does a full handstand when he wants to do some serious thinking. He claims having the blood rush to his head makes him think better.
- Doc Savage: The eponymous character is known for making an eerie trilling sound when in deep thought.
- Erast Fandorin: From "Special Assignments" onwards, the eponymous detective acquires a habit of grabbing his jade rosary beads and telling them in silence while contemplating.
- In H.G. Wells The First Men in the Moon, Cavor's Thinking Tic of making odd noises while he's thinking is the whole reason he and Bedford even meet. Cavor has the habit of walking past the cottage Bedford lives in, while contemplating his experiments. He unconsciously sings as he walks, and the singing disturbs Bedford's attempts to write, to the point that he asks Cavor to either stop or to walk somewhere else.
- Sir Denis Nayland Smith of the Fu Manchu books tugs on an earlobe when thinking—even if he's in disguise at the time.
- Mediochre of the Mediochre Q Seth Series thinks best when playing the piano. As a result, when a piano is not available, he tends to start visibly playing an imaginary piano. In addition, he also has a tendency to twist his fingers into his hair when thinking particularly urgently.
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- Felix the Cat's famous tic of walking back and forth with his hands behind his back.
- Gravity Falls Dipper has the irritating habit of clicking his pen when thinking.
- Mike, Lu & Og: Og, when in deep thought, usually sits down while flicking his nose ring until he hits on something.
- When asked what he thought of something, Mr. Horse from The Ren & Stimpy Show would rub his chin with his hoof and pucker his lips saying "Hmm...", before inevitably replying "No sir, I don't like it."
- Tom Terrific would go through bizarre movements whenever he would think of an idea. Smoke would blow out of his thinking cap (a huge funnel) when he did come up with an idea.


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Essentially there are two approaches handling data in an web applications.
1. Carry out input validation as the data enters your application. This can either be white-list (only allow "known good" data types), or black-list (try to block "known-bad" data types)
2. Carry out output normalization on the data as it leaves your application. Here you look to understand the special or "meta" characters for the type of system or data format that you are outputting to and ensure that the data is encoded or rendered in such a way that it can't have a negative effect on that output system.
So which of these approaches is better? Well my view on that after my discussion is that they both have pros and cons, which need to be considered before making a choice.
Input Validation
Pros: The advantage of white list input validation is that, in a lot of cases, you can relatively easily cut down the number of attacks that will be effective against an application with minimal effort. For example if you're not taking in mark-up (eg, HTML) in any part of your application then stripping or blocking the < and > characters from your input will drastically reduce your exposure to Cross Site Scripting. This is the approach that .NET request validation takes.
Cons:The problem with input validation is, it can never take account of all possibilities. It's impossible to know when you take input into the application, how that data will be used and exactly where it will be processed in future, so there's always a risk that it will miss some class of character which turns out to be important to a given format
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Pros: So essentially the opposite applies. The advantage of output normalization is that it can take into consideration the exact nature of the system that the data is being passed to and can ensure that the data it's passing will not have a negative effect. This kind of approach can be seen in HTML encoding function like h() in Ruby on Rails.
Cons: Essentially for me the major downside here is a practical one. A security control that needs to be implemented many times to be effective is one that is likely to be forgotten and because under ordinary conditions the application is likely to behave perfectly even though the control isn't in place, a developer may well not notice the problem until it's too late. You can see this kind of effect in a lot of web applications. I've seen many cases where the obvious areas of the application (form fields) have been covered for things like Cross Site Scripting, but more obscure areas (drop-downs, cookies, HTTP headers) get missed out, either because the developer forgets, or because they don't realise that those areas of the application are susceptible to attack
So which of these approaches would I recommend..... Well I'm a security person, so I'll say Both for defence in depth!
Beyond that I'd say that Input validation is a great first step and will cut down the practical attacks greatly, but if you're looking for a "perfect" approach then you'll need to add output normalization to the mix...


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This was not my first time experiencing Salvia, but it was the first instance in which I had utilized a fresh leaf quid. My initial usage was via oral tincture, and subsequent to this, via smoked enhanced leaf. After my last experience with smoked enhanced leaf left me somewhat unnerved, I chose not to use Salvia for a few years. Despite this time away from the plant, I continued to be intrigued.
After tending to a live specimen in my home for almost a year, I decided that I would try a more traditional ingestion method to see if the experience was more useful and reassuring one. With some trepidation, I plucked six or seven leaves from my plant and set them aside. As my wife and family had an engagement for a few hours, I planned to chew these leaves in a quid just after dark. Waiting until dark was a mistake, as it caused the experience to feel time constrained and my family returned before the journey had wound to an end. That aside...
Once twilight set in, I went out to my back yard, sat down on my porch, and began the process of chewing the quid. I had used large leaves and could only fit about half of the quid in my mouth. Seeking a mild experience, I wasn't concerned by halving my consumption. While not as overwhelmingly bitter as San Pedro, the Salvia essence packed very potent flavors, and I did not find holding the quid in my mouth to be pleasant. Salivation definitely increased and I found myself needing to spit several times. As it turned out, I did not need to hold the quid in my mouth for more than fifteen minutes or so before I could feel the plant's effects take hold.
 My focus was on generating a positive, healing state of mind. Initially, this seemed to bear fruit. I can clearly recall a mental image of my body being washed through with a brilliant yet minty-cool bluish white wind. As it passed through my form, I saw my form filled with a clear transparent quality.
This initial vision passed. It was replaced with a sensation which has been consistent throughout all of my handful of Salvia journeys. I felt a dark crack open behind and below me in the earth. With methodical force, sinuous vines or tendrils wound up from the crack and pulled me down into the 'other' place. The place was the same in this instance as in all the others. It struck me as another plane which lies just beneath the surface (both the surface as in what is normally perceptible AND the surface of the earth itself). As always, it felt as though I had always been aware of the place, maybe as a child on the verge of sleeping or waking. The energy of this unnerving locale seemed dark as the darkest forest. In remembering it, I picture something out of an old fairy tale - lost in a dark wood with hundreds of unseen eyes occupying the deeper shadows.
I felt that I did not want to stay in that place, that it was not 'warm' in the way that I desired this journey to be. At this point I opened my eyes, stood up and walked into my garden. My balance was certainly off. I felt slightly drunk as I set out toward my tomato plants. In an effort to rid my mouth of the lingering bitter-chlorophyll salvia aftertaste, I popped a cherry tomato in my mouth. It was not satisfying. Slowly, I was beginning to realize that my journey felt rushed and over-manipulated by my effort to 'warm' the eerie green salvia energy. I no longer wished to be where I was.
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF KERALA AT ERNAKULAM PRESENT THE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE K.ABRAHAM MATHEW FRIDAY ,THE 07TH DAY OF DECEMBER 2018 / 16TH AGRAHAYANA, 1940 Crl.Rev.Pet.No. 560 of 2018 AGAINST THE ORDER IN CC 296/2018 of JUDICIAL FIRST CLASS MAGIST. COURT, CHOTTANIKKARA(TEMPORARY) REVISION PETITIONER/ACCUSED 1 & 3 :- 1 M/S. PHILIPS CARBON BLACK LIMITED 31, NETAJI SUBHASH ROAD, CALCUTTA - 700 001WITH UNIT OFFICE AT 39/137 A, KRISHNA SWAMI CROSS ROAD,COCHIN - 682 035 REPRESENTED BY ITS AUTHORISED REPRESENTATIVE NANDAGOPAL G.,S/O.K.GOPALAKRISHNAN NAIR, AGED 43 YEARS. 2 V.R.MENON MANAGER (POLUTION CONTROL) (RETIRED),AGED 62 YEARS, M/S. PHILIPS CARBON BLACK LIMITED, KARIMUGHAL, BRAHMAPURAM P.O., KOCHI - 682 303,NOW RESIDING AT 'THEJUS', VARDIUM,THRISSUR - 680 547. BY ADVS. SRI.S.SREEKUMAR (SR.) SRI.P.PRIJITH SRI.THOMAS P.KURUVILLA RESPONDENTS/COMPLAINANT & ACCUSED NO.2 :- 1 SABU THOZHUPADAN S/O. KURUVILLA, AGED 43 YEARS,RESIDING AT THOZHUPPADAN HOUSE,KARIMUGAL, PUTHENCRUZ VILLAGE,KUNNATHUNADU TALUK, ERNAKULAM. 2 ROY CHOWDHURY RABISWAR ROY CHOWDHURY AGED 77 YEARS, FORMER CHIEF EXECUTIVE ENVIRONMENT,M/S.PHILIPS CARBON BLACK LTD.,KRISHNA SWAMI CROSS ROAD, COCHIN - 682 035.,NOW RESIDING AT SUNNY VDIEW, FLAT NO.102,61R, SUREN SARKAR ROAD, BELIAGHATA, KOLKATA - 700 010. 3 THE STATE OF KERALA REPRESENTED BY PUBLIC PROSECUTOR,HIGH COURT OF KERALA, ERNAKULAM - 682 031. Crl.Rev.Pet.No. 560 of 2018 2 BY ADVS.  The second petitioner and the second respondent were its Manager (Pollution Control) and Chief Executive (Environment) respectively. The company had two manufacturing units (Line I and II). The first respondent filed a complaint before the Judicial Magistrate concerned, which is now pending as C.C.No.296 of 2018 in the court of Judicial Magistrate of First Class, Chottanikkara. One of the allegations is that the company caused pollution in the area and it failed to comply with the direction of the Pollution Control Board to close down the units. The other allegation is that without obtaining the sanction of the Pollution Control Board the company established and operated a third unit (Line III). After complying with the direction given in the Crl.R.P No.293 of 2014 the learned Magistrate passed Annexure-B order holding that there are no sufficient grounds to discharge Crl.Rev.Pet.No. 560 of 2018 4 petitioners and the second respondent and a charge has to be framed against them for the offence under section 37 of the Air (Prevention of Control and Pollution Act, 1981). This order is challenged.
2. Heard the learned senior counsel appearing for the petitioners and the learned counsel appearing for the first respondent, and the learned Public Prosecutor.
3. Evidence of the first respondent was recorded under section 244 (1) Cr.P.C. PW1 to PW5 were examined and Exhibits X1 to X5 were marked on the part of the first respondent. Exhibits D1 to D9 were marked on the part of the petitioners and the second respondent before the learned Magistrate decided to frame charge against the petitioners and the second respondent.
4. Section 244 Cr.P.C does not contemplate adducing defence evidence. Accused shall not be allowed to adduce evidence at this stage. But documents were marked for the petitioners and Crl.Rev.Pet.No. 560 of 2018 5 second respondent only because this court by the order passed in Crl.R.P.No. 293 of 2014 allowed them to "produce all the materials, including the consent obtained from the Board". Ordinarily, defence evidence cannot be looked into by the learned Magistrate to decide whether charge should be framed or not.
5. The first petitioner company had initially two manufacturing units. They allegedly emitted and discharged effluent which caused pollution in an extensive area. On 07.04.2001 the Member Secretary of the Kerala State Pollution Control Board directed the company to take certain action by Annexure R1(e) letter. The following six facts were noted by the Pollution Control Board.
1. A major expansion work is in progress without clearance from the Board.
2. There is severe air pollution caused from the Unit.
3. The major source of air pollution is fugitive emissions.
4. There is leakage of carbon particles from various units and leaked material is accumulated Crl.Rev.Pet.No. 560 of 2018 6 at many places and/or spread all over both within and outside the plant.
5. Packing area, loading bay, warehouse etc need special mention in this regard.
6. The roads around the plant are not tarred or concreted. These are not wetted also as per the consent condition. As a result the dust pollution from the roads especially during truck movements is severe.
6. There was a proposal for expansion of the manufacturing units of the company. It apparently applied for the consent of the Pollution Control Board on 30.06.2001. By Annexure R1(i) order the Board informed the company of its refusal to give consent to establish a new unit (Unit III- called Line III).
7. Annexure R1(c) indicates that inspite of the stop order and the refusal of the Board to give consent to establish a new unit, the company commissioned and operated a new unit. The Member Secretary reported that the company violated the direction issued to it and it continued to pollute the air.
Crl.Rev.Pet.No. 560 of 2018 7
8. On 21.07.2001 the Pollution Control Board issued Annexure-R1(b) directions to the company to close down the operations in the manufacturing units as the operations were being done inspite of the refusal of the Board to issue consent to establish a new unit. On 27.07.2001 the Board informed the company again to close down the units.
9. Genuineness of the above documents is not disputed. The documents speak for themselves. It is also pertinent to note that the petitioners have no case that they had obtained consent of the Pollution Control Board before the 3rd unit was established.
10. The learned Senior counsel appearing for the petitioners would submit that the consent of the Pollution Control Board was obtained later. This was the argument before the trial court also. The trial court took the view that obtaining consent subsequent to the commission of the offence would not erase the offence. It took the Crl.Rev.Pet.No. 560 of 2018 8 view that not only for starting the operations but to establish the unit itself previous consent of the Pollution Control Board was necessary.
11. Section 21(1) of the Air (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act provides that subject to the provisions in the section no person shall without the previous consent of the State Board establish or operate any industrial plant in an air pollution control area. There is no dispute that the area in which the petitioner company has established its units is an air pollution control area. It is immaterial whether the industrial plant will cause pollution or not. Even if the plant does not cause pollution, consent of the Board is necessary to establish any industrial plant in the area. Not only to operate an industrial unit, but to establish it also previous consent of the Board is necessary.
12. It was not disputed for me that the Unit- III of the petitioner company was established without the consent of the Pollution Control Crl.Rev.Pet.No. 560 of 2018 9 Board. Though the Pollution Control Board refused to give consent, the petitioner company operated the plant. The subsequent granting of the consent by the Board does not erase or efface the offences already committed by the company and its officers. The learned Magistrate rightly rejected the prayer of the petitioners to discharge them.
In the result, this Crl.R.P is dismissed.
Sd/-
K.ABRAHAM MATHEW JUDGE SMA Crl.Rev.Pet.No. 560 of 2018 10 APPENDIX PETITIONER(S)' ANNEXURES :-
ANNEXURE-A : TRUE COPY OF ORDER IN CRL.R.P.NO.293 OF 2014 DATED 19.02.2018 OF THIS HON'BLE COURT.
ANNEXURE-B : CERTIFIED COPY OF ORDER IN C.C.NO. 296 OF 2018 DATED 23.04.2018 OF JUDICIAL MAGISTRATE OF FIRST CLASS, CHOTTANIKKARA.
RESPONDENTS(S)' ANNEXURES :- ANNEXURE-R1(a) : TRUE COPY OF COMPLAINT DATED 02.02.2002 IN C.C.NO.105 OF 2002 OF JFCM COURT, KOLENCHERY.
ANNEXURE-R1(b) : TRUE COPY OF ORDER NO.
PCB/TVM.AIR/71/84 DATED 21.01.2001 OF POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD.
ANNEXURE-R1(c) : TRUE COPY OF REPORT DATED 19.07.2001 OF MEMBER SECRETARY, POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD.
ANNEXURE-R1(d) : TRUE COPY OF ORDER NO.PCB/AQU/71/84 DATED 27.07.2001 OF POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD.
ANNEXURE-R1(e) : TRUE COPY OF ORDER NO.PCB/AQU/71/84 DATED 07.04.2001 OF POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD.
ANNEXURE-R1(f) : TRUE COPY OF UNDERTAKING DATED 25.07.2001 OF PETITIONER COMPANY TO POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD.
ANNEXURE-R1(g) : TRUE COPY OF LETTER DATED 23.07.2001 OF IST PETITIONER COMPANY TO POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD.
ANNEXURE-R1(h) : TRUE COPY OF ORDER NO.PCB/TVM/AIR/71/84 Crl.Rev.Pet.No. 560 of 2018 11 DATED 25.07.2001 OF POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD.
ANNEXURE-R1(i) : TRUE COPY OF ORDER NO.PCB/CE.EK.290/2001 DATED 30.06.2001 OF POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD.
ANNEXURE-R1(j) : TRUE COPY OF ORDER DATED 24.09.2001 IN O.P.NO.10736/1999 OF THIS HON'BLE COURT. ANNEXURE-R1(k) : TRUE COPY OF ORDER DATED 14.10.2001 IN O.P.NO.10736/1999 OF THIS HON'BLE COURT. ANNEXURE-R1(l) : TRUE COPY OF JUDGMENT DATED 15.01.2002 IN O.P.NO. 12959/2001 OF THIS HOB'BLE COURT.
ANNEXURE-R1(m) : TRUE COPY OF ORDER IN CRL.M.C.NO.3608/2002 DATED 01.03.2004 OF THIS HON'BLE COURT.
ANNEXURE-R1(n) : TRUE COPY OF ORDER IN CRL.R.P.NO.3339/2009 DATED 28.03.2011 OF THIS HON'BLE COURT.
ANNEXURE-R1(o) : TRUE COPY OF ORDER IN CRL.R.P.NO.1725/2013 DATED 18.10.2013 OF THIS HON'BLE COURT.
//True Copy// PA TO JUDGE SMA


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