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Gujarat High Court rightly rejects Shafi Mohammed Judgement
Posted on May 15, 2020 by naavi108
The High Court of Gujarat in the election petition 3/2018 (Ashwinbhai Kamsubhai Rathod Vs Bhailalbhai Kalubhai Pandav and others) had an occasion to appreciate the CCTV footage as evidence.
This was a case where the petitioner had lost the election by a narrow margin which was less than the number of rejected postal ballot votes. The petitioner contested that the had asked for a recount which was refused and the returning officer had not followed proper procedure.
He had submitted the CCTV footage which showed that a form (supposed to be the request for recount) which was handed over to the returning officer. These facts as to the content of the electronic evidence came for discussion in the trial and the CCTV footage was relied upon for establishing these facts.
The CCTV footage however was not supported by Section 65B certificate and the defendant had relied upon Shafi Mohammed judgement . The respondent had rejected the reliance on Shafi Mohammed judgement and had cited (under para 19.1) the following:
19.1 It is submitted that the CCTV footage and DVD (Exh.56, 57 and 110) can not be taken into consideration. It is submitted that those documents are the electronic documents and the requirement of Section 65B of the Indian Evidence Act would come in play, which is not fulfilled in the present case. It is submitted that, the decision of the Supreme Court of India in the case of Shafhi Mohammad Vs. State of Himachal Pradesh reported in (2018) 2 SCC 801 as relied by the petitioner, is not a good law on the question of admissibility of the electronic document, but the correct law on that point can be traced in the decision of the Supreme Court of India in the case of Anvar P.V. Vs. P.K.Basheer reported in (2014) 10 SCC 473. It is further submitted that, by the subsequent order of the Supreme Court of India (dated 26.07.2019) recorded on Civil Appeal Nos.20825 & 20826 of 2017 and cognate matters, the said issue is referred to the Larger Bench of the Supreme Court. The following authorities are relied on behalf of the respondent No.2 to contend that, it is the decision of the Supreme Court of India in the case of Anvar P.V. Vs. P.K. Basheer reported in (2014) 10 SCC 473 which should be followed and not the decision in the case of Shafhi Mohammad Vs. State of Himachal Pradesh reported in (2018) 2 SCC 801 as relied by the petitioner. In support of this argument, reliance is placed on the following decisions of the Supreme Court of India.
(i) Anvar P.V. vs. P.K. Basheer, reported in (2014) 10 SCC 473.
(ii) Shafhi Mohammad vs. State of H.P., reported in (ii) (2018) 2 SCC 801 & (2018) 5 SCC 311.
(iii) Vikram Singh @ Vicky Walia vs. State of Punjab, reported in (2017) 8 SCC 518.
(iv) Ramanbhai Ashabhai Patel vs. Dabhi Ajitkumar Fulsinji, reported in (iv) AIR 1965 SC 669.
(v) Vashist Narain Sharma vs. Dev Chandra, reported in (v) AIR 1954 SC 513.
(vi) P. Ramachandra Rao vs. State of Karnataka, reported in (vi) 2002(2)GLH 518.
(vii) Rattiram vs. State of Madhya Pradesh, reported in (vii) (2012) 4 SCC 516.
(viii) Pradip Buragohain vs. Pranati Phukan, reported in (viii) (2010) 11 SCC 108.
The judgement accepted this contention and clearly rejected the precedence of the Shafi Mohammed judgement by the following words. (Para: 50.1)
"it is the correct proposition of law, and the decision of the Supreme Court of India in the case of Shafhi Mohammad Vs. State of Himachal Pradesh (Supra), as relied by the petitioner, should not be taken into consideration as it is not a good law. This argument of the learned senior advocate for the respondent No.2 is accepted."
The Court however went on to accept the electronic evidence on two other grounds. Firstly the Court had allowed the CCTV footage to be shown to the Court. Secondly, it also relied on the oral evidence of one of the witnesses based on the electronic evidence. (Para 50.2.2, 50.3.1 etc).
It is our considered view that the honourable Court erred on these two considerations.
Effect of the Judge viewing an Electronic Evidence as his own Experience
When the Court allows the CCTV footage to be played in the Court and on the basis of which it is admitted as evidence without the mandatory Section 65B certificate, the Judge is himself taking on the role of the Section 65B Certifier stating to the effect that
"What I saw on the computer monitor
(which is organized by the Court, which uses some operating system, some configuration, some application etc, and which interprets the stream of binaries in the electronic container marked as a 'DVD-exhibit no.xxx' )
is a true fact of an event that the DVD capture represents.
I also accept that this is the binary stream originally captured by the CCTV camera
(when it scanned the scenery and recorded the pixel status on an imaginary screen in the form of binary notations which the video converter is now showing as black,white or grey pixels on the screen in the Court's computer which all of us are seeing as one person handing over a form to another person etc."
The honourable Judge taking this stand has put himself in the capacity of a witness and vitiated the quality of the judgement by giving the judgement based on his own witness.
Oral Evidence as to Electronic Document
Secondly, under para 50.3.3 and others it is indicated that the Returning officer who gave evidence on the witness box orally requested the Court to play the CCTV and appears to have also relied upon the electronic evidence of the CCTV footage. This is contrary to Section 22A of the Indian Evidence Act.
Section 22A states:
"Oral admissions as to the contents of electronic records are not relevant unless the genuineness of the electronic record produced is in question".
What this implies is that when the issue is "What is contained in the record" and not "Whether the record is genuine or not", oral statement is not to be considered acceptable. Hence deciding whether a form was given or not, whether it was returned or not, whether that form was a request for recounting or not are interpretations of the content and the returning officer providing oral evidence on the same was not correct.
In view of the above, the CCTV footage ought not to have been admitted as evidence.
The Court however had the right to use any other evidence to arrive at the fact whether the procedure followed by the returning officer was correct or not and whether the petition had to be upheld or rejected. We have no view on this.
What Could have been done
In such cases the Court could have permitted Section 65B certificate to be produced even at the time of the trial and then taken it in as evidence as a Section 65B certified copy. Such certification could have been provided by whomsoever is in the custody of the DVD at the election commission.
If the original DVD is one which is before the Court and is certified as such without any certification of the contents of the DVD, the Court could have accepted the "DVD" as a container of the potential evidence and marked it as such. It could have then asked some observer (which could have been a Section 79A certified Digital Evidence Examiner) to view the content, and provide a Section 65B certified copy of the relevant content say… "CCTV footage of date ….., time …. to ….".
This extract could have been copied onto another media and the Secton 65B certificate could have been provided with a Digital Signature. Alternatively, the hash value of the media could have been reproduced in the print copy of the Section 65B report where a reference is made to the container and the said electronic document with perhaps some screen shots at the beginning, end and key parts of the video.
This is the procedure followed by CEAC in certifying CCTV footages and is the Standard Operating procedure in such cases.
This was also the procedure followed by the AMM Court of Egmore, Chennai in the case of "Trisha Defamation" way back in 2004, where despite a CD being available with the Court as evidence, the magistrate requested an external person (Undersigned) to produce the Section 65B certified copy of the content so that it can admit it as evidence.
This was a commendable decision of the Magistrate showing his foresight and correct interpretation of the law, though it did not get into the records because (as I am informed by concerned persons) the case was subsequently withdrawn before the full trial.
The judgement of the Gujarat High Court matter will now go to the Supreme Court and we can await the decision of the Supreme Court and its comments if any on the above points, which are of interest to us irrespective of who wins the election battle.
(P.S: These are the personal views of the author and comments and disagreements are welcome)
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Earlier this year I shared a recipe for mug cake, which can easily be prepared in your microwave (click here for Cinnamon Roll Mug Cake recipe).
I really enjoy "mug" recipes because they allow me to satisfy my sweet tooth, without the temptation of getting another slice. These are also a great option for breakfast! That's why, in honor of National Oatmeal Muffin Day, I'm sharing a quick, easy, delicious recipe for Blueberry Oatmeal Muffins – in a mug!
Spray large mug with cooking spray or coconut oil. Mash banana, and mix together milk, the egg, honey and vanilla. Stir in the oats and cinnamon until well-blended, then fold in the blueberries.
Microwave on high for 2 minutes and check density. Continue microwaving in 30-second increments until your muffin is cooked through.
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Just as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is becoming a global military past without a distinct enemy, the Central Intelligence Agency, Britain's MI-6, and other intelligence agencies are increasingly pooling their intelligence and networking their information-sharing networks. To what purpose would such citadels of secrecy wish to cooperate? The answer is simple. In a world of the tiny minority «haves» and the super-majority «have nots», the intelligence agencies, like national armed forces, believe there is safety in numbers. In a conflict between the minority super-wealthy and the rest of society, intelligence agencies are increasingly protecting the interests of corporations and not countries. Intelligence agencies, therefore, have decided to become a global «Panopticon» where no one can hide and no secrets are held.
For many years, attempts to create a worldwide database of personal data, beginning with basic criminal information, were forestalled by the fact that the chief promoter of such a combined on-line repository of information, the United States, lacked a government department akin to other nations' Interior Ministries that would be natural partners of the Americans. The American Interior Department had nothing to do with internal security because it had jurisdiction over such areas as federal lands and national parks. The aftermath of the 9/11 attack on the United States created the impetus for the creation of global communication networks and data warehouses for use by intelligence agencies in the new Department of Homeland Security, America's version of the Interior Ministry.
The Homeland Security Department, National Security Agency, Central Intelligence Agency, and Federal Bureau of Investigation now represent a massive governmental data gathering behemoth that is building on traditional and new relationships with foreign intelligence and national security agencies to build a network of shared databases. However, the network is a one-way street. The Americans want to draw the world's intelligence into its own databases while only allowing its partners, including longtime intelligence allies like Britain and Canada to have access to only a small portion of what America is amassing in terms of surveillance and stored personal data.
In 2012, the European Union and United States agreed to allow the Americans to store for up to fifteen years Passenger Name Records (PNRs) on every European Union citizen who flies. Although there are supposed «safeguards» to prevent the exploitation of the data, attempts by some member so the European Parliament to take the agreement before the European Court of Justice were scuttled by the Eurocrats in Brussels. PNR data, like national identification numbers, are keys that unlock countless files on individuals. PNR data on a passenger's religious dietary choices identifies a person's religious beliefs. That information may open up additional links to databases containing details of an individual's ethic group, health condition, and sexual orientation. Further refinement of personally-identifiable information can open up an individual's phone and e-mail records.
Currently, the National Security Agency is building the Utah Data Center on a National Guard base in Bluffdale, Utah a massive data storage center that is the size of 17 football fields. The center will contain stored communications records as well as transactional data, including financial, travel, and medical information, on perhaps billions of people around the world. The center is designed to store a yottabyte of data – equivalent to 500 quintillion (500,000,000,000,000,000,000) pages of text.
The data will range from that derived from relatively open sources to «deep data». Deep data is that which is obtained through sophisticated computer espionage programs, including those that crack passwords, encryption schemes, and data hidden by pixel steganography and other sophisticated methods. Microsoft is a «silent partner» of NSA in collecting massive amounts of stored data from clouds and from interactive networks like Skype. Microsoft took over control of Skype in 2011 and it is believed by many privacy experts that the firm routinely shares customer data with the NSA and other intelligence and security agencies.
The location of the NSA data center in the heavily Mormon state of Utah is also problematic. The Mormons, or Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, maintains the world's largest genealogical databases owing to their affectation for baptizing the dead, even non-Mormons. The records are maintained in a granite mountain 20 miles southeast of Salt Lake City. Five billion documents on microfiche and in computer databases are held in the nuclear blast-proof mountain facility.
Combine the Mormon geological records collected from every nation on the planet with the transactional data maintained by the NSA in nearby Bluffdale, and the world's «all seeing eye» or computerized Panopticon not only knows every detail about living individuals but an immense amount of information about their deceased ancestors. That is the sort of information craved by despotic leaders.
The Dutch rapporteur for the EU-US PNR agreement, which has also been expanded to include Australia and Canada, was Sophie in't Veld of the Democrats 66 Party. She withdrew her sponsorship of the PNR agreement because of misgivings over the privacy controls afforded the data. Ms. in't Veld has been subjected to extra security screening every time she visits the United States and U.S. authorities have refused to tell her why.
In the future, the massive international connected spy grid will make similar decisions with or without the intervention of a human being. Individuals will find themselves under arrest based on artificial intelligence analysis of databases. In some jurisdictions, people have been targeted for surveillance and arrest based on a belief by law enforcement that they may commit a crime. The storage of massive amounts of personal data will make such «pre-crime» enforcement a common occurrence.
And, if the past is any indication, the collection of data by the United States will be a one-way street with «second party» intelligence allies like Britain, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand; «third party» friends like Germany, Denmark, Norway, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Greece, and the Netherlands; and «fourth party» partners like Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, Singapore, France, Finland, India, Taiwan, Ireland, Spain, Italy, and Hungary receiving smaller amounts of the intelligence «take» from the huge data repositories. In the 1980s, an internal NSA document likened the sharing of small amounts of signals intelligence intercepts with Third Party partners, in return for base rights, to the European colonialists giving Native American tribes «wampum», usually cheap beads, as gifts in return for plundering tribal lands.
In addition to Microsoft, it is believed that the NSA will be fed data from massive commercial data centers, including the Apple iDataCenter in North Carolina, the EBay data center also in Utah, as well as Microsoft's massive data center in San Antonio, Texas, which is located close to another NSA intelligence-gathering facility called NSA Texas.
Geo-spatial analysis programs linked to NSA databases will ensure that the location of individuals who leave an electronic fingerprint through the use of a mobile phone, a credit card, a chipped passport, or any item with a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip will be immediately known to intelligence and police agencies. There will be nowhere in the world to hide indefinitely.
What has been called the «Brave New World», «1984», and «New World Order» is longer speculative, it is a reality. Big Brother exists in Utah and he is spying on every single person on the planet.


The new facilities at Bridgewater Primary School provides a new 150 place integrated provision for early years, childcare and primary education that brings together three separate facilities to one site.
As a significant community project, the design developed through a steering committee including the head teacher, teachers, parents and governors from each facility together with the LEA, Surestart and a separate education advisor.
The scheme addressed fundamental existing problems of site access, approach, public face and school identity. With extensive views over the Tyne Valley below, the new accommodation provides a stimulating and safe environment in which to learn, teach and play as well as providing a landmark for the wider community.


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Depending on your ability, expect to restrict your range to a maximum of 40 yards, a distance generally regarded as being the sporting limit for a shotgun.
The beauty of an air rifle is its quietness allowing it to be used in fairly confined areas where the noise of a shotgun would bring complaints from residents in the near vicinity.


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This top class filly has had to start all over again this year after being on a roll last Autumn. She looked terrific on Arc day, winning fair and square and well up to Arc winning standard . After a workmanlike success on her seasonal debut at Baden Baden where she was no doubt undercooked, she disappointed in a messy small field renewal of the Grand Prix De Saint Cloud, the horses beating her being the ones she had comprehensively put in their place in October. There is if course a doubt whether she has trained on the three to four but that is reflected in her odds and with the likelehood of a true run affair today, she has the perfect opportunity to return to her very best.


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HMS Munin (P152) var en patrullbåt av Hugin-klassen i svenska marinen som sjösattes 1977.

HMS Munin kunde även bära sjunkbomber, men 18:e patrullbåtsdivisionens patrullbåtar var endast utrustade med en modifierad skrovfast fiskhydrofon av märket Simrad, vilket inte var något ubåtsjaktverktyg med större precision. Patrullbåtar av Kaparen-klass fick mot slutet av sin tjänstgöringstid möjlighet att använda släphydrofon. Munin var unik i en detalj mot hela övriga patrullbåtar av Hugin-klass; man hade möjlighet att styra fartyget med joystick.

År 2001 utrangerades samtliga båtar i 18. patrullbåtsdivisionen, och samtliga utom Hugin gick till skrot.  kan numera beskådas som museifartyg på Göteborgs Maritima Centrum.

Externa länkar
Sen bild på HMS Munin i aktiv tjänst

Svenska patrullbåtar
Fartyg sjösatta 1977
Fartyg byggda i Norge

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Is graphic design copyrightable? What can be done about a "Napster" like web site for artwork? Is it safe to publish illustrations of famous people?
Q. I do graphic design work, for example, annual reports and web sites. I've heard that graphic design cannot be copyrighted. Is that true? How can I protect my work from being copied?
A. This is a difficult issue. What you've heard about is probably the Copyright Office policy of refusing to issue copyright registrations for "graphic design." The stated reason given by the Office is "copyright may not be claimed in works consisting only of familiar symbols and designs, basic typographic ornamentation, lettering, layout, and color schemes, even if the elements are distinctively arranged or printed." However, that statement is absolutely incorrect as a matter of law. Under the Copyright Act and court decisions, graphic design (that is, the creative authorship comprising the selection and arrangement of text, images, artwork, typographic ornamentation, lettering, layout and color schemes) clearly qualifies as a form of "graphic artwork" that is protected by copyright. For example, back in 1970 the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (which covers California), unequivocally held that copyright protected the graphic design of a series of greeting cards. (Roth Greeting Cards v. United Card Co., 429 F.2d 1106 (9th Cir. 1970)).
I believe the Copyright Office policy reflects a misunderstanding of the nature of graphic design and a misinterpretation of law relating to blank forms. It is true that court opinions have established that blank business forms are not eligible for copyright protection. These decisions held that blank forms are essentially functional rather than creative works, because they are used to record information rather than to convey content. Copyright does not protect functional works, hence, such blank forms are not protected. The Copyright Office has inappropriately interpreted this "blank form" principle to mean that the format, arrangement, or typography of any work is not copyrightable. The Office seems to think that graphic design is simply a "layout" or "format," and thus uncopyrightable under its expansive interpretation of the blank form principle. Accordingly, the Office refuses to process applications for "graphic design" or "layout" as two-dimensional artwork. Copyright Office decisions can be overturned only through the Office's internal administrative appeals process or in litigation in federal court. Both options are expensive, and to date I am not aware that this policy has been challenged.
Having learned about this policy the hard way, I avoid triggering the Copyright Office reaction to applications for "graphic design" by treating applications for graphic design differently than other forms of two-dimensional artwork. Depending upon the specific works involved, it is sometimes feasible to apply for copyright registration of graphic design as a "compilation work." As noted above, in copyright parlance graphic design is a compilation work in that it comprises the selection, arrangement and appearance of discreet elements such as text and images. Thus, instead of using the words "graphic design" or "layout," I identify the nature of the work as a "compilation." And I use the statutory language for compilation authorship, i.e., "selection, coordination and arrangement of text and images."
Finally, remember that copyright registration is different than copyright protection. As more thoroughly discussed in the January Legalities column, copyright protection applies as soon as you create the work. Registration is merely a formality that brings with it important advantages. Generally, registration is a pre-requisite to bringing a lawsuit for infringement. However, the Copyright statute ensures that courts have the authority to overturn Copyright Office decisions regarding registration. Thus, if you applied for copyright registration but your application was rejected, you are still entitled to your day in court. As part of the lawsuit, you can ask the court to review and reverse the Copyright Office's inappropriate refusal to grant your registration. So if the Copyright Office rejects your application to register your graphic design, it does not mean your work is not copyrighted. Should you need to challenge the registration refusal, you would likely win. Meanwhile, make sure you include your copyright notice on your work.
Q. I've recently learned that a web site has been illegally posting artists' work that can also be downloaded to individuals computers, like Napster. The site owner states, in her FAQ's page, that anything on the web is public domain and she can do with it what she wishes. The question is, what can be done about this? So far I've heard that some have recognized certain artists' artwork and they have been contacted, but what about the rest? If I'm not sure whose art has been stolen then how can I contact the artists to inform them? Contacting the hosting service provider seems like the most direct way of dealing with this site since it involves so many artists. However, I don't know how to figure out who the hosting service is. How should sites like this be handled?
A. As you know, the web site owner is mistaken: it is not true that anything on the web is public domain. Her unauthorized posting of artwork on a web site, as well as enabling unauthorized downloads of the artwork, is copyright infringement. However, under the legal concept called "standing" civil claims for infringement can be made only by the persons (or entities) whose rights are being infringed. In this case that means that only the artists whose artwork is posted have the legal right to bring a civil claim to remedy the infringement. The artists have claims against both the web site owner and the hosting service provider. Under the new law called the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), there are very specific procedures for getting the service provider to remove the infringing content.
The best way to deal with these sites is to contact the artists whose work is being infringed, as you have already done for some of them. The artists can then use the DMCA procedures, as well as cease and desist letters to the web site owner herself, to stop the infringement. I don't know of a way to find out who the other artists are, but the first claim will obviously alert the web site owner and her service provider that there is a problem. That may provide incentive to take care of the rest proactively.
To find out who owns a web site and who hosts it, try doing a "whois" search at the Network Solutions site (go to www.networksolutions.com, click on "whois" on the top menu, and follow directions). The search results will give you the name of the domain name registrar, and, if available, the identity and contact information for the owner of the web site ("Registrant Info") and the service provider ("Technical Info"). If not, you can try going to the listed registrar's website to do a search.
In this example, the service provider is identified as Earthlink, Inc. With that information, the next step is to find out if Earthlink has a registered agent to receive an infringement complaint under the DMCA (most service providers do). The law requires that these agents be registered with the Copyright Office, and they can be searched online at the Copyright Office web site (go to www.copyright.gov, click on "Online Service Providers" under "Search Copyright Records," then click on "directory of agents"). Most service providers also list their agent on their own site, along with a step by step explanation of how to follow the DMCA complaint procedure. For example, see Earthlink's posting at http://www.earthlink.net/about/policies/dmca. You can also look up the statute itself on the Copyright Office site (go to "Online Service Providers" and click "Digital Millennium Copyright Act," then look for Section 512(c)); however, the statutory wording is a bit more obtuse. Under these procedures, the service provider is required to take down the infringing material when duly notified by the copyright owner.
As a bystander, you cannot raise a claim legally, but you can write to the web owner and/or the service provider to voice your concerns. If you do so, be sure that you are reporting accurate factual information. It is important not to make potentially untrue or disparaging remarks. (Remember, some images are in the public domain: they may be old enough that the copyright has expired, or the artist may have posted them on the web with explicit permission for free use. Or the images might be used in a way that qualifies as "fair use." That doesn't seem to be the situation in your example.) Its best to state your concerns in terms of what it appears might be happening, e.g., "it looks like the site may be posting artwork and allowing downloads of artwork without permission of the artists, and I'm concerned there may be copyright violations" rather than in terms of absolute legal conclusions, e.g., "the site is engaging in copyright infringement."
Q. When it comes to famous persons, can I do an illustration of their likeness for use on a book cover? The illustrations may be cartoons of these people, like those done in the NY Review of Books, but this is for a book for sale. I'm not sure this is "editorial" use. The book would contain quotes known to be from these famous people. (I don't know what the legal issues are of using their quotes, but that is being figured out by the publisher.) This book not a parody of these people, nor a piece of literary criticism. The book is more a "great quotes with great advice" kind of book. What I'm concerned about is, will I get into trouble if I don't have the permission of those persons to use their likeness?
A. This question touches on the rights of publicity, which involve a famous person's rights to control the commercial exploitation of her/his likeness. Unlike copyright (which is a matter of federal law uniformly applied nationwide), rights of publicity are governed by state laws, and the rules vary from state to state. So the evaluation can get very complicated. California state law is one of the most expansive in terms of granting the most power to celebrities (or their estates).
You are right: generally, "editorial" use of a famous person's likeness is protected as a fair expression of our free speech rights under the first amendment. On the other end of the spectrum, mere commercial use of a famous person's likeness to sell products is an infringement of the celebrity's rights of publicity. Parody and literary criticism are the clearest examples of "editorial use." What counts as "commercial use" is less clear. It used to be safe to assume that photographs or artwork depicting famous people that appear in traditional "editorial" venues, such as newspapers and books, would be considered editorial rather than commercial use, even if the images were used to increase sales of such publications. Thus, when a newspaper reproduced one of its editorial photographs of a sports celebrity on posters to advertise the paper, a New York court held no infringement. Similarly, it used to be safe to assume that fine art (as opposed to merchandise such as coffee mugs) depicting a famous person would not be considered a commercial use, even though such works can be sold for large amounts of money.
However, in a recent California Supreme Court case, limited editions of fine art prints of realistic drawings of the Three Stooges were deemed infringing. (Comedy III Productions, Inc. v. Gary Saderup, Inc., 25 Cal.4th 387 (2001)). The court held that only "transformative" images would escape liability. Rather unhelpfully, the court explained that "transformative" means the art has become primarily the defendant's own expression rather than the celebrity's likeness. (Obviously, the court did not appreciate the artistic skill and "expression" that goes into creating a compelling portrait.) Last year, the same court held that comic book characters based on Edgar and Johnny Winter qualified as "transformative." (Edgar Winter v. DC Comics, 30 Cal.4th 881 (2003)). At least in California, these rulings changed the focus from the nature of the "products" on which the allegedly infringing artwork appears to the nature of the artwork itself.
Your example might fall into the new grey area, depending upon the nature of your illustration. It sounds like the illustration may include several cartoon depictions of the famous people. That would most likely count as a "transformative use." The courts have less trouble recognizing that a cartoon is primarily the artist's own expression rather than the celebrity's likeness. Moreover, where artwork depicts more than one person, it is harder to argue that the likenesses are being used commercially. Arguably, the purpose of the illustration is an editorial message reflected by the decision to depict such people together (e.g., these are all people who had something worthwhile to say). And the inclusion of more than one celebrity makes is less likely that any one of them is being used to sell the book.
Assuming the cover art itself is not parody or otherwise "transformative," the evaluation of risk for the cover art is probably the same as for the book content. (Technically, the content of the book is governed by copyright law rather than rights of publicity, but the analysis is similar for the purpose of this discussion.) Books are a traditional editorial venue, however, the purpose of the book is not clearly "transformative." It could be argued that a mere compilation of quotes from famous people does not comprise editorial "expression" by the author. Thus, I'd guess that the publisher is seeking permission from the various people (or their estates) to use the quotes. Presumably the publisher has commissioned your artwork and has directed that celebrity likenesses be used in the illustration. Thus, the publisher should be taking responsibility for clearing use of their likenesses in the cover art as well, and such permission should be sought at the same time.
Finally, note that this discussion applies only to use of the illustration on the book cover. If you want to reproduce the illustration in other ways, each of those other uses should be analyzed separately. For example, display of the illustration in your portfolio or on your web site as an example of your work would be a safe, noncommercial use. However, if you print the illustration on coffee mugs and offer the mugs for sale over your web site, that would be a commercial use, and it could provoke claims for violating the celebrities' rights of publicity.
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He rode around them at the peril of falling with his horse over a precipice, and now found himself before a labyrinth of scaffolds and free-stone, in the midst of a wild, grey, treeless mountain valley. [10]
I stood on Sarum's treeless plain, The waste that careless Nature owns; Lone tenants of her bleak domain, Loomed huge and gray the Druid stones. [6]
The Missouri side of the Mississippi is a very different country from the hot and treeless prairies of Illinois. [9]
You know what it is: those bare ice-plains and rocky unfenced fields stretching to all points, the heaving wastes of treeless country, the harsh frozen lakes. [11]
Mono Lake lies in a lifeless, treeless, hideous desert, eight thousand feet above the level of the sea, and is guarded by mountains two thousand feet higher, whose summits are always clothed in clouds. [5]
The ghastly, treeless, grassless, breathless canons smothered us as if we had been in an oven. [5]
We try to analyze the satisfaction there is in such a bald, treeless, verdureless mass. [4]
We sat on a bench in the market-place, a treeless square, hemmed in by quaint, gabled houses, late in the evening, to listen to the chimes from the belfry. [4]
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In my last post I covered the concept of fabric computing and why it matters in the world of cloud computing. With a "fabric" approach towards creating a cloud application, we include the virtual compute, storage and network components inside a fully software-based model of the service. This is distinctly different from a more traditional approach, where the various resources are added and configured one by one.
In response to a comment, I also suggested that this new approach could be compared to a modern espresso machine. Such a machine delivers a complete service (coffee!) – in an integrated fashion. No need to worry about the temperature of the water, grinding the beans, any other steps or equipment required to make it happen.
Imagine you are an accountant and you can choose between using a spreadsheet (a fabric) or an automated (scripted) calculator. Both a calculator and a spreadsheet have similar base functions (add, subtract, multiply, square root). On a calculator, you start with a value and you perform functions against that. If you perform the same functions every month you could put these in a script, so you can play them back automatically next time. You could even edit that script to do it slightly different. This may makes things easier, but it is not a spreadsheet. With a spreadsheet you can have several versions next to each other (you can do a "Save as"), a change in one area immediately updates the other areas (it is integrated, there is no need to rerun a script), you can send a spreadsheet to other users or to your accountant.
Have a look at the demo below to see how that applies also to a fabric cloud application (including "save as", creating multiple versions, send it to someone else to run). But first ask yourself: when did you last see an accountant with a calculator? In fact automated calculators never really took off. Spreadsheets (fabrics) are simply the better way.
The second "epiphany" was my first experience with X86 virtualization. After having confiscated the biggest machine in the office with the most memory, and after quite some tinkering I saw an actual X86 machine boot inside a window (of course this was not an actual machine – it was a virtual one). After it booted, it could not do much, and running two of them brought the whole machine to a grinding halt. Yet, it did make me think: "Wow, if this ever scales, it can completely change how we handle our machines." And (admittedly somewhat to my surprise), about a decade later around 2009, X86 virtualization did actually start to scale and it developed into the billion dollar industry that is changing the way we manage our servers.
How is that so? Well, my marketing colleagues here created quite an entertaining video , but the original – now vintage – 5-minute demo that shows how to define an application as an integrated fabric is also still out there (and shows the potential much better than my above ramblings).
1) First, you set it up on commodity x86 servers, creating a single fabric for the storage, network and compute capabilities on those servers.
2) Then, using an integrated modeling tool, you take your application or service – including all its components, such as data, networking, load balancing, security etc.– and create a 100% software based model (using a Visio-like drawing tool – check out this InformationWeek demo from Cloud Connect to see this in action).
3) Next, you can deploy a model of the fabric, with the software allocating resources based on the model, and providing automated scaling, metering and fail over capabilities.
You can also move the service or application to another data center very simply, even to one in another country or at another provider. Or, you can copy it and provide the same service to another department or customer (nearly instantly).
For a long time, CA 3Tera AppLogic software was kind of an industry insider secret. Several analysts and writers – like Nicholas Carr – were aware of it, discussed it and listed it in their publications. But today there are many case studies and real life success stories of both small and large implementations out there. This may be a good time for you to have a closer look; if only as an interesting implementation of these new fabric computing trends and principles in action.
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Northwest Michigan Works! and Fit U.S.A. are sponsoring a Veterans Appreciation Day September 8 in Manistee. The event will run from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Michigan Works! Center and Fit U.S.A. at 1672 US 31 South in the Kmart Plaza. The Appreciation Day is for all current and former members of the military and their families. Fit U.S.A. is owned by local veteran Dave Dykema.
Michigan Works! will have staff on hand to provide information and answer questions, but there will not be a formal presentation or program.
"This is a way for us to thank veterans for their service and to let them know we are there for them and their families if they need us," said Kathy Taylor, Northwest Michigan Works! Operations Manager.
The event will include hot dogs, refreshments, music, and tours of Michigan Works! and Fit U.S.A. For more information about the Veterans Appreciation Day call: 231-723-2535.


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Battling Butler (1926)
Grade: 62/100
Director: Buster Keaton
Stars: Buster Keaton, Snitz Edwards, Sally O'Neil
What it's about. A silent-era comedy feature. Alfred Butler (Buster Keaton) is the young adult son of very wealthy parents. Alfred has low energy, so his father sends him off alone into a distant and remote forested area to hunt for game, accompanied only by his loyal valet (Snitz Edwards). The idea is that Alfred's vitality will be restored in the woods.
Alfred fails at hunting and fishing but, because it is a movie, promptly encounters a cute tomboy (Sally O'Neil). Within a day, he just has to marry her. The problem is, she has a brother (Budd Fine) and father (Walter James), both hulking men, who consider Alfred to be too much of a wussy to win her hand. Money can't buy love after all.
Because it is a movie, Alfred's valet discovers a newspaper article about a lightweight boxer also named Alfred Butler, who has a championship fight within days. Because it is a movie, the valet manages to convince the tomboy's kin that her Alfred is that Alfred.
The marriage is on, but the downside is that it becomes increasingly more difficult for Albert to keep us his ruse. Soon he trespasses in fighter Butler's training camp, and shadows his workouts, to fool his trusting new wife.
The boxer Alfred (Francis McDonald) tires of this, particularly since the boxer's wife flirts with every man she meets, including the other Alfred. Boxer Alfred decides to get revenge by leaving camp, and turning gentry Alfred over to his trainer (Tom Wilson) and manager (Eddie Borden) to face boxer Alfred's next opponent, Alabama Murderer.
The film was based on a long-running Broadway play, written by Stanley Brightman and Austin Melford.
How I felt about it. Buster Keaton had a fifty-year film career, and worked steadily during that time except for the lean years of 1947 and 1948. But his fame and earnings waxed and waned dramatically. Aided by a dedicated wife, his career was actually on an upside between 1949 and his 1966 death. But his glory period is regarded as 1923 to 1928, when he made a series of highly regarded silent features with co-producer Joseph M. Schenck.
The best among those are The General (1926) and Sherlock, Jr. (1924), but all are beloved by his admirers, and have been restored in excellent quality for their era.
Keaton was a master of pratfalls, gags, and stunts. He was known as "The Great Stone Face" since his screen character never smiled. There was usually a pretty young woman he needed to impress, and he was certain to win her by the final reel, against all odds.
Battling Butler is a typical entry, better than some and not as good as others. Many gags work, and if you don't laugh at some of them, you're not paying attention. But the story is implausible, principally because the lead's family appears so wealthy that the tomboy would presumably be eager to marry him, with or without a boxing career.
As in College, Keaton plays a milquetoast who must prove he is a man through athletics to secure the interest of his sweetheart. Naturally, he must endure endless humiliations at the hands of more experienced opponents. Inevitably, though, a dubious David-slays-Goliath ending is in store to redeem our hero and satisfy the audience's desire for a happy ending.
How others will see it. Today at imdb.com, Battling Butler has 2400 user votes. While this total seems small compared with, for example, the latest Marvel Avengers movie, it is large for a silent-era feature. The user rating of 7.1 is good but not great. The user reviews generally gush with praise for Keaton, though most rank it below his best, e.g. "Not Keaton's funniest film, nevertheless a consistently good one."


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"Capital of Willows"
According to the 2008 population census, it has a population of 3,255,288.
The city was split from the South Pyongan province in 1946.
The city's other historic names include Kisong, Hwangsong, Rakrang, Sŏgyong, Sodo, Hogyong, Changan, and Heijō (during Japanese rule in Korea).
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Latitude / Longitude : 39° 2' 2" N / 125° 45' 16" E	| Time zone : UTC+9	| Currency : KPW	| Telephone : 850
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The tremors you have felt are REAL – Dinosaurs have taken over Liverpool ONE!
We have felt the tremors, heard the roars and now it's time to meet the dinosaurs.
From today you need to head Liverpool ONE where you will be transported back millions of years – via the latest technology – as you embark on a futuristic dinosaur hunt. Download your app here.
Everyone who goes to the retail destination will have the chance to chase Raptors, follow Apatasauruses and, of course, hide from the mighty T.Rex, as part of a new Dinosaurs Unleashed augmented reality app – a first for the city.
In addition to the interactive game, there will also be dinosaurs on Chavasse Park, providing the ultimate selfie spot; real life rangers on hand to help young visitors to get the most out of their experience and lots of surprises popping up around Liverpool ONE during the 10-week "invasion."
L1 Dinosaurs Unleashed
Liverpool ONE has teamed up with a crack team of dinosaur educationalists to provide all the prehistoric know-how any would-be palaeontologist needs. Teach Rex work with schoolchildren across the country bringing the pre-historic era to life in the classroom.
National Museums Liverpool is also working with Liverpool ONE and has welcomed children to its Dinosaur Gallery at the World Museum in William Brown Street since 1987.
Donna Howitt, Marketing Director at Liverpool ONE, said: "This app is one of our most ambitious and exciting ventures yet – and is a first for Liverpool.
"We are sure visitors will love it – it promises to be lots of fun for every member of the family – whilst being educational at the same time.
"Chavasse Park will be transformed to a real-life Jurassic Invasion and there will be something new and exciting popping up across the estate throughout the 10-week experience.
"It's absolutely fantastic to be working with other partners on this too, including Teach Rex and National Museums Liverpool. There's such a wealth of expertise on this fascinating subject and we're delighted to be bringing their talents together for visitors to enjoy in this new and unique way."
The interactive experience, which launches on 29 March, will run until June.
Visitors will be able to download the app and collect points as they hatch dinosaurs from giant eggs within Liverpool ONE via a range of augmented reality features.
Participants will even be able to play with their dinosaurs at home – and are encouraged to keep their pre-historic friends well fed and well exercised.
Go and meet the dinosaurs, but do it with care! Download the app on the Apple Store or Google Play here.
To keep up to date with the latest news at Liverpool ONE, follow @Liverpool_ONE on Twitter.
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PADDLING is an essential part of riding waves. Surfers need to be travelling at the same speed as the wave to have a chance of catching and riding the wave.
The coaches at XL will perfect your technique so you are getting the most (momentum, power, push) out of each stroke.
Remember: the longer and deeper your rhythmic stroke, the more paddle power created.
Poor paddling technique will leave you exhausted and unsatisfied, as your wave count per session will not be great.
As Robbie always says: "Riding the wave is the reward.
"Paddling is the hard work that we have to do to reap that reward."
And there is nothing worse than missing out on what could have been your ride of the surf.
THE best waves for surfers to ride are the unbroken ones out the back.
Getting out the back while paddling on a large board will require the surfer to use the eskimo roll technique.
Here is a simplified process of the step-by-step procedure that is taught by the coaching staff at XL Surfing Academy.
For a successful eskimo roll, you need to be in motion, paddling towards the breaking wave. To try and combat the force of the wave heading towards the beach, judging the speed of the wave and the timing of when to do the eskimo roll is very important, as you need to have the board already upside down before the wave gets to the nose of the board.
Flip over the board so it is on top of you, with the fins facing upwards, and holding both rails of the board tightly, just above the shoulders.
Pull the board down towards you, while doing an upside-down breaststroke or frog kick, keeping forward momentum.
Hold on tightly to your rails as the force of the wave can easily yank the board out of your grip (it's worthwhile waxing your rails where you hold on).
Once the wave has passed, flip the board back over and climb aboard and start paddling out the back - possibly ready for a few more waves to eskimo roll on the way out and smiling to yourself, knowing there should be a possible reward after the hard work getting out the back.


COLUMBUS, Ohio – Expanding its efforts to address pressing health needs in central Ohio, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center plans to open a healthy community center in the Near East Side neighborhood of Columbus. The center will be in the former Columbus Metropolitan Library Martin Luther King Jr. branch.
"Ohio State is invested in creating healthy communities throughout central Ohio. This new center will be a valuable community resource to support lifestyle changes that will transform the health of our community one family at a time," said David McQuaid, chief executive officer of The Ohio State University Health System.
Ohio State will form a community advisory committee comprised of area stakeholders to refine the vision for the center and to ensure it meets the complex needs of the community. Other community health initiatives include annual Healthy Community Days at East Hospital and the Schottenstein Center with free health screenings and consultations; the Health Sciences Academies partnership with PACT and Columbus City Schools to immerse students in grades Pre-K through 12 at seven schools in health sciences curriculum, mentoring and experiential learning; community health gardens and clinics for the underserved.


This paper, presented at IQSA in 2014, compares how several modern Muslim thinkers have made use of the Ashʿarī theological doctrine that God's speech is eternal but its expression is temporal. Special attention is paid to Aksin Wijaya, an Indonesian thinker who employs a version of the Ashʿarī doctrine to support his creative new approach to Qur'anic interpretation.
"Reenchanting the Qurʾān: Hermeneutical Applications of the Ashʿarī Concept of God's Eternal Speech." International Qur'anic Studies Association, San Diego, November 23, 2014.
Here is a pdf of the oral presentation version of the paper, without documentation. This was the first of several conference presentations about Aksin Wijaya and other contemporary scholars of Qur'anic hermeneutics in Indonesia. Future publications will incorporate some of the material presented here, with full documentation.


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Thomasena Farrar March 13, 2022 March 28, 2022 Mind on Movies
One of the films that piqued my interest last year, but I didn't get out to see or receive an earlier screener, was released on Blu-Ray and DVD last Tuesday and, although I wouldn't consider it a fave overall, is quite the bittersweet love story that I expected even though I wasn't wowed.
Based on a true story, and New York Times bestseller written by Dana Canedy, A JOURNAL FOR JORDAN follows the courtship and relationship of Canedy (Chante Adams) and First Sergeant Charles Monroe King (Michael B. Jordan) until his untimely death in the Iraq War. Pregnant with their son at the time of his murder, Canedy later shares King's journal to impart lessons and wisdom with her son – who uses the journal to learn more about the dad he never met.
An uneven film that uses awkward time jumps to relay the narrative, "A Journal for Jordan" was at its best for me in its displays of opposites attracting and Black love. Adams once again gives a moving performance – as noted before in films such as "The Photograph" and "Roxanne Roxanne" – and Jordan pretty much works with what he's given, but their chemistry never completely jumps off the page due to his character's mechanical personality traits and the film's lack of their exploration.
After viewing, I understood why the critic versus audience ratings were so mixed, with audiences enjoying way more and many critics seemingly slamming the erratic nature of the storytelling. But one thing is certain for me, director Denzel Washington – no matter what you think of the films he's directed thus far – sure knows how to create and present a beautiful picture.
The scene where his eye most stood out for me is the final memorial scene – where the overhead shots were so breathtaking, I was able to hold off on the tear-inducing moment and simply appreciate the bird's eye gaze.
All-in-all, I believe "A Journal For Jordan" is an interesting story, with a great soundtrack but at times plays more like an after-school special and simultaneously presents as both beautiful and boring. I wouldn't keep it in the streaming queue, but would recommend for audiences to determine themselves – starting with the 10-minute preview below.
I rate it out 2.5 of 5 on the MMTrometer.
A JOURNAL FOR JORDAN is out now on Digital, Blu-ray and DVD.
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The White House has appointed Joel C. Spangenberg as Selective Service System Deputy Director.
"The Selective Service System serves an important role in support of the Department of Defense and our national security. The agency's employees, military reservists, and volunteers do outstanding work in carrying out its mission while proudly serving the American people. Serving alongside them as the agency's Chief of Staff during the Obama-Biden Administration is among the highlights of my career," Deputy Director Spangenberg said.
"I'm honored and excited to join the Biden-Harris Administration and have the opportunity to serve as Deputy Director of the Selective Service System. I look forward to the great things we can accomplish together as a team," Deputy Director Spangenberg continued.
Mr. Spangenberg, who is a U.S. Navy veteran and most recently served as the first-ever Executive Director of Operations for the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, has built a distinguished career in the federal government leading programs as an executive and communications strategist.
In addition to previously serving as Chief of Staff for the Selective Service System, Mr. Spangenberg served as Subcommittee Deputy Staff Director to former U.S. Senator Daniel K. Akaka, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. He also served as the lead national and homeland security advisor for the subcommittee.
A U.S. Naval Academy graduate, Mr. Spangenberg served as a Navy Surface Warfare Officer (Nuclear) and was assigned to the destroyer USS Ross as the Anti-Submarine Warfare Officer and as a Reactor Electrical Division Officer aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. He earned master's degrees from the U.S. Naval War College in National Security and Strategic Studies, University of Oklahoma in Administrative Leadership, and Old Dominion University in Engineering Management.
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Great leaders inspire those around them. What makes a great leader? Regardless of age, it isn't what you think! While there is no magic bullet, there are three factors that heavily influence great leaders.
Great leaders make others happy when they are around! While this seems unimportant, did you know that happiness can boost motivation by ten percent! A happy student, employee, friend etc. is more productive in any group they are a part of. As we all know emotions are contagious, and that is especially true of happiness!
It's long been assumed leaders in a group do the majority of talking. However, studies indicate just the opposite is true. In the most productive groups everyone participates and shares their ideas and viewpoints. Respect for ALL team members is the unspoken, and underlying factor that creates this dynamic. This type of flexible communication rarely occurs in "structured" group meetings, but is commonplace in very informal settings. In other words, the informal mode of communication, that is typically used when we are talking with friends produces a higher level of productivity when used within the school or business environment. What we would consider an "unconventional" way of conducting meetings and leading a team, actually contributed to more successful outcomes. While objectives were used to drive the meeting, there was an easy give and take about how to best achieve the objectives. Everyone felt heard and valued for their opinions and expertise that was brought to the table.
Another discovery was that great leaders develop genuine relationships with everyone and encourage others to do the same. Due to the culture created by this mindset, colleagues within groups often become friends. This results in greater overall achievement at work for individuals and teams. Successful groups spend more time socializing informally. Although it may seem counterintuitive, taking a daily coffee break with co-workers or having recess for young students in school can actually increase overall productivity. When people get to know each other they are more likely to become a tight-knit group. This ultimately increases performance. Strangers become acquaintances and acquaintances become friends. Most people will put forth the effort at school or work when assisting a colleague, but just about everyone will go the extra mile to help a friend. The result is that more work gets done in a shorter amount of time and productivity increases. Being a great leader is NOT about being dictatorial. It's about (1) Leading by example (2) Focusing on people's strengths (3) Having gratitude (4) Being inclusive (5) Having a vision (6) Caring about those around you (7) Having fun (8) Being flexible (9) Staying focused and last, but not least (10) Persevering.


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Factory-grown veggies comfort Japan's germophobic shoppers due to COVID-19
According to The Nikkei Asian Review, lettuce and other vegetables grown in plant factories have become a hot commodity in Japan, as consumers fearful of contracting the coronavirus seek out foods that were raised in sanitary environments and prepackaged before hitting stores.
Those vegetables are pricier than conventionally grown varieties, but their prices have come down. And the factories' ability to maintain consistent quality and stable production volume has added to their appeal as the pandemic disrupts food imports.
Supermarket operator Kidaya Shoten in Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, set up its first vegetable factory seven years ago, with its three facilities now producing 34,000 heads of lettuce and other products a day.
Vegetable orders from restaurants have fallen at Kidaya amid the pandemic. But its online retail sales of vegetables doubled in April and May, while shipments to supermarkets increased 20%.
Kidaya's pesticide-free lettuce comes in relatively small packages that are popular with customers who live alone. "People are also liking that they are individually packaged" for hygienic reasons, especially amid the pandemic, the company said.
At 128 yen (US$ 1.20) per 80-gram bag, Kidaya's lettuce is on the cheaper end of factory-grown vegetables. It is more expensive than conventionally grown lettuce, which could go for as little as 20 yen for the same amount, but is gaining more interest thanks to consistent quality and volume.
Japan had 386 plant factories nationwide as of February, according to the Japan Greenhouse Horticulture Association. Many of them are smaller, experimental facilities with overly sophisticated equipment, and 40% are in the red.
But "we are starting to see signs that businesses are turning a profit," said Yasufumi Miwa at the Japan Research Institute.
Companies have built up know-how over the years that helps them cut costs and scale up. Kidaya has increased its productivity since figuring out the right intensity of grow lights. Energy-saving LED lights have become cheaper as well.
Kyoto-based Spread brought its second lettuce factory online in 2018. It is one of the world's largest such facilities with a daily output of 30,000 heads, and is 70% automated.
The suggested retail price for Spread's lettuce is 158 yen, about 40% less than in 2008. The company is now working with Nippon Telegraph & Telephone to conduct an artificial intelligence analysis of collected data to further bring down the price.
Spread has also adopted a franchise model for its vegetable factories, and is assisting oil distributor Eneos build a facility by the end of 2020.
Meanwhile, Plants Laboratory offers a cheap, largely plastic factory system that costs a third of conventional vegetable factories, developed jointly with the University of Tokyo. Its factories are now being used at certain locations of Walmart-owned supermarket chain Seiyu. It is also working with East Japan Railway to grow food under elevated rail tracks.
There is a compelling reason for Japan to increase plant factories.
Those facilities can guarantee consistent output regardless of weather and with limited manpower and space, helping to bolster Japan's food sufficiency. The country produces less than 40% of the food it consumes, and its farming population had shrunk 35% in the five years to 2019 -- bringing the average age of the Japanese farmer to 67 years old.
The coronavirus exposed further issues with current supply chains after vegetable shipments from China froze, and the foreign interns many Japanese farmers rely on for labor were unable to leave their countries.
Factory-grown vegetables are seen attracting more demand not only for retail but for commercial uses as well, because they tend to be uniform in size and do not need to be washed for dirt and germs. Restaurants and convenience stores can start using factory-grown lettuce in their salads, for example.
Plant factories were responsible for about 3%, or 17,000 tons, of all lettuce shipped in Japan in 2019, according to research company Fuji Keizai. They are expected to top 10% of the market around 2030.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Business-trends/Factory-grown-veggies-comfort-Japan-s-germophobic-shoppers
If you want to read this article in Japanese, please see the following link:
https://www.j-abc.com/jp-blog/8914840.html


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Q: Pass parameter to AWS Data pipeline - Built in template from Lambda function I would like to create a data pipeline and that would be involked by lambda function. Data pipeline is "Load s3 data into RDS MYSQL ", Build using a template provided by AWS itself.
From my lambda function, I'm not able to define the parameters to send to my data pipeline. I wanted to send the below parameters to the data pipeline from lambda,
"myRDSInstanceId": "source-dev",
"myRDSUsername": "username",
"myRDSTableInsertSql": "INSERT INTO employee(id,name,salary) VALUES(?,?,?,)",
"*myRDSPassword": "https://www.ec2instances.info/?filter=m3",
"myInputS3Loc": "s3://services/employee/",
"myRDSTableName": "employee"

How's this possible?? Any help
The python code for lambda and my pipline definition is also given below.
from __future__ import print_function
import json
import urllib
import boto3
def lambda_handler(event, context):

    client = boto3.client('datapipeline')
    print('Loading function here')
    client.activate_pipeline(
    pipelineId='df-095524176JKK0DOHDDDC',
    parameterValues=[{'id':'myRDSTableName','stringValue':'employee'}])

     return {
        'statusCode': 200,
        'body': json.dumps('Hello from Lambda!')
    }

Pipeline Definition
{
  "objects": [
    {
      "output": {
        "ref": "DestinationRDSTable"
      },
      "input": {
        "ref": "S3InputDataLocation"
      },
      "dependsOn": {
        "ref": "RdsMySqlTableCreateActivity"
      },
      "name": "DataLoadActivity",
      "id": "DataLoadActivity",
      "runsOn": {
        "ref": "Ec2Instance"
      },
      "type": "CopyActivity"
    },
    {
      "subnetId": "subnet-XXXXX",
      "instanceType": "m1.medium",
      "name": "Ec2Instance",
      "actionOnTaskFailure": "terminate",
      "securityGroups": "#{myEc2RdsSecurityGrps}",
      "id": "Ec2Instance",
      "type": "Ec2Resource",
      "terminateAfter": "1 Hours"
      "terminateAfter": "1 Hours"
    },
    {
      "database": {
        "ref": "rds_mysql"
      },
      "name": "RdsMySqlTableCreateActivity",
      "runsOn": {
        "ref": "Ec2Instance"
      },
      "id": "RdsMySqlTableCreateActivity",
      "type": "SqlActivity",
      "script": "#{myRDSCreateTableSql}"
    },
    {
      "*password": "password",
      "name": "rds_mysql",
      "id": "rds_mysql",
      "type": "RdsDatabase",
      "rdsInstanceId": "#{myRDSInstanceId}",
      "username": "#{myRDSUsername}"
    },
    {
      "name": "DataFormat1",
      "columnSeparator": "|",
      "id": "DataFormat1",
      "type": "TSV",
      "recordSeparator": "\\n"
    },
    {
      "failureAndRerunMode": "CASCADE",
      "resourceRole": "DataPipelineDefaultResourceRole",
      "role": "DataPipelineDefaultRole",
      "pipelineLogUri": "s3://logs/",
      "scheduleType": "ONDEMAND",
      "name": "Default",
      "id": "Default"
    },
    {
      "database": {
        "ref": "rds_mysql"
      },
      "name": "DestinationRDSTable",
      "insertQuery": "#{myRDSTableInsertSql}",
      "id": "DestinationRDSTable",
      "type": "SqlDataNode",
      "table": "#{myRDSTableName}",
      "selectQuery": "select * from #{table}"
    },
    {
      "directoryPath": "#{myInputS3Loc}",
      "dataFormat": {
        "ref": "DataFormat1"
      },
      "name": "S3InputDataLocation",
      "id": "S3InputDataLocation",
      "type": "S3DataNode"
    }
  ],
  "parameters": [
    {
      "description": "RDS MySQL password",
      "id": "*myRDSPassword",
      "type": "String"
    },
    {
      "watermark": "security group name",
      "helpText": "The names of one or more EC2 security groups that have access to the RDS MySQL cluster.",
      "description": "RDS MySQL security group(s)",
      "isArray": "true",
      "optional": "true",
      "id": "myEc2RdsSecurityGrps",
      "type": "String"
    },
    {
      "description": "RDS MySQL username",
      "id": "myRDSUsername",
      "type": "String"
    },
    {
      "description": "Input S3 file path",
      "id": "myInputS3Loc",
      "type": "AWS::S3::ObjectKey"
    },
    {
      "helpText": "The SQL statement to insert data into the RDS MySQL table.",
      "watermark": "INSERT INTO #{table} (col1, col2, col3) VALUES(?, ?, ?) ;",
      "description": "Insert SQL query",
      "id": "myRDSTableInsertSql",
      "type": "String"
    },
    {
      "helpText": "The name of an existing table or a new table that will be created based on the create table SQL query parameter below.",
      "description": "RDS MySQL table name",
      "id": "myRDSTableName",
      "type": "String"
    },
    {
      "watermark": "DB Instance",
      "description": "RDS Instance ID",
      "id": "myRDSInstanceId",
      "type": "String"
    }
  ],
  "values": {
    "myRDSInstanceId": "source-dev",
    "myRDSUsername": "username",
    "myRDSTableInsertSql": "INSERT INTO employee(id,name,salary) VALUES(?,?,?,)",
    "*myRDSPassword": "https://www.ec2instances.info/?filter=m3",
    "myInputS3Loc": "s3://services/employee/",
    "myRDSTableName": "employee"
  }
}

A: In the Lambda code, you have provided value only for parameter myRDSTableName. When you run the Lambda function, it will only pass the value for myRDSTableName and other parameters will be blank.
You need to pass either the values of other parameters, which are necessary for running the pipeline, in the Lambda function or set default parameter values in pipeline definition(in the parameter objects section).

A: The parameters for activate_pipeline is given by a list input, so
client.activate_pipeline(
    pipelineId='df-095524176JKK0DOHDDDC',
    parameterValues=[
        {
            'id':'myRDSTableName',
            'stringValue':'employee'
        },
        {
            'id':'blah',
            'stringValue':'blah'
        },
        ...
    ]
)

add your parameter values repeatedly. You can check in more detailes from the boto3 documentation.


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Every summer we spent our holidays at the improvised dacha that was our grandparents' rural house in the vicinities of the Ukrainian city of Lutsk. There were a lot of us, the entire extended family – me and my brother, our cousins, their parents and ours, and, of course, our granny and grandpa. We enjoyed our holidays, spending the time fishing and swimming, playing football and cards, shaking bountiful fruit trees and talking past midnight with friends around the fire.
As soon as I got interested in ice hockey, I noticed that neither my father nor uncle had ever supported the mighty Soviet team. On the contrary, they always supported their opponents, whether it was the Swedes, the Finns, the Canadians, or even the Swiss. Even though the Soviets seemed to be unbeatable at the time, we hoped with all our hearts, souls, and guts that they would be beaten. When this finally happened, when the miraculous Czechoslovakian team did crush them in the 1969 World Cup, we were in heaven. We cried, shook hands, and kissed one another; we were both Czechs and Slovaks at the time and we felt revenged for everything – the tanks in Prague and Muravyov's Bolshevik troops in Kyiv, the Pereyaslav Treaty and the defeat at Poltava, the pillage of Baturyn and the 1933 famine, the ban of Ukrainian church and more, more, more.
I grew up rapidly during those years. By 1970, the last class of school, I already had extensive access to underground literature, including all the multiple trends of Ukrainian samvydav (a.k.a. samizdat, in Russian). Obviously, it was not my parents who provided me with all that dangerous stuff but, rather, my teacher. Or, more precisely, a school librarian – the prominent Ukrainian writer and intellectual Iryna Kalynets, who ended up at a minor position in our school after a protracted and politically motivated period of unemployment.
She noticed my interest in a good literature and did her best to satisfy it from both official and unofficial sources. Interestingly, those sources included also some Czechoslovakian publications from the period of "Prague Spring". Primarily, it was the cultural bi-monthly Dukla, published officially in Presov by and for the Ukrainian (Rusyn) minority in eastern Slovakia, and Ukrainian books from the same publishers that included non-Soviet Ukrainian writers banned in the Soviet Union – such as Bohdan-Ihor Antonych and Volodymyr Vynnychenko.
The 1968 edition of Dukla provided a comprehensive guide to contemporary Czech and Slovak literature and, more importantly still, to contemporary Czechoslovak politics. It contained all the major documents of the Prague Spring in Ukrainian translation, which clearly proved that there was no "counter-revolution", as Soviet propaganda claimed, but rather an honest (and, as I came to understand later, rather naïve) attempt to build something like "socialism with a human face".
The documents were of great value to me, since more and more friends of mine were coming back from the Soviet army completely brainwashed – persuaded that the invasion was necessary because German troops had been about to cross the border on the invitation of the treacherous counter-revolutionary government in Prague.


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My Hymnals (?) Sort by Person NameSort by First LineSort by Tune TitleSort by GenderSort by ScriptureSort by Person Year AscendingDescending No Prefix FilterABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
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D. Yasko
Translator (Russian) of "All People That on Earth Do Dwell" in Christian Worship
Andrew Yates
Author of "When our traveling days are over"
E. Yates
Author of "The judgment day"
E. A. Yates
Author of "I yield my all, Lord"
John A. Yates
Author of "Det ordet ej aldras"
John Henry Yates
1837 - 1900 Person Name: John H. Yates Author of "Faith Is the Victory" in Baptist Hymnal 1991 Rev. John H. Yates, was born in Batavia, N. Y., November 31, 1837. He was educated at the Batavia Union School, but at the age of eighteen was forced to engage in business as a clerk to help maintain his aged parents. For several years he was with his brother, Thomas Yates, in the shoe business; afterwards, for seven years, salesman in G. B. Worthington's hardware store. In 1871 he took charge of the fancy goods department in E. L. & G. D. Kenyon's double store and remained there fifteen years. In 1886 he was called to be local editor of the Progressive Batavian, and filled the position nearly ten years. When twenty-one years of age Mr. Yates was licensed to preach in the Methodist church, but was not ordained until 1897. For nearly seven years now he has been pastor of the Free Will Baptist church at West Bethany. At about the age of twenty, Mr. Yates began writing poetry at the solicitation of his mother, and very soon his ballads and hymns were printed and sung all over the land. In 1891, Ira D. Sankey, the famous singer, engaged Mr. Yates to write gospel hymns for him, solely; he was led to do this because of the wonderful success of Mr. Yates's old man ballad, the "Model Church," which has been sung all over the world. After the contract with Mr. Sankey. the following hymns soon appeared from the pen of Mr. Yates: "Harbor Bell," "Faith is the Victory," "Beautiful Hills," "Our Name's in Heaven," and about twenty others. In December, 1897, Mr. Yates issued a volume of ballads and poems, a book of 117 poems and 226 pages, which are now nearly all sold. On the occasion of the dedication of the old land office in 1894, Mr. Yates wrote the dedicatory poem, "Our Ancient Landmark," a production of unusual merit. From Our County and it's people: descriptive work on Genesee County, New York, edited by: F. W. Beers (J.W. Vose & Co., Publishers, Syracuse, N. Y. 1890)
Richard V. Yates
1785 - 1856 Author of "O God, to thee my sinking soul" in Hymns, Selected from Various Authors, for the Use of the Unitarian Church in Washington Yates, Richard Vaughan, 1785-1856. A Liverpool merchant and philanthropist, author of a hymn on The Benefit of Affliction, "O God, to thee my sinking soul," in Martineau's Hymns for the Christian Church and Home, and the enlarged edition of W. J. Fox's Collection, 1873. [Rev. Valentine D. Davis, B.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
T. B. Yates
Author of "The lighthouse on the ocean"
W. A. Yates
Composer of "HEAVENLY HOME" in The Sacred Harp
W. N. Yates
Person Name: Rev. W. N. Yates Author of "Blest Sabbath Morn" in Pearls of Praise


Having recently been asked to make a keepsake bear for a client out of a dressing gown whose children had grown out of, got me thinking about teddy bears, why they are so sentimental to us and where they actually originated from.
It is widely believed that the 'teddy' bear originated in 1902, and was named after the then American President Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt who refused to shoot a 'tethered' bear whilst out on a hunting trip. A cartoonist drew a picture of this for the Washington Post and the story was borne.
Later that month Brooklyn shopkeepers Morris and Rose Michtom made a soft bear toy, which they named 'teddy's bear' and displayed it in their shop window with a copy of the cartoon. America went bear mad almost overnight.
More than 100 years on teddy bears old and young find themselves more popular than ever, especially with the new trend for keepsake or memory bears. These bears are made from treasured fabric e.g. clothing or blankets from a child or loved one passed and helps to remind us of the emotions of love we feel/felt for that special someone. Memories are essential to our biographies, filling in our histories. Creating keepsakes helps us write our life's stories and nuture feelings of peace and love.
Below is a free pattern for a simple keepsake bear. Have fun creating your own memories.


Get the Facts about Shellfish Aquaculture in the Inland Bays!
Read the Aquaculture Planning Team Final Report here.
Learn more about the potential benefits: "Shellfish Aquaculture on the Inland Bays".
One year after creating the Inland Bays Shellfish Aquaculture Tiger Team and naming E.J. Chalabala, Restoration Coordinator for the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays (CIB), to lead it, the CIB Board of Directors approved the final report from the team at their meeting on March 22.
The Tiger Team was charged with exploring the opportunities and challenges in bringing shellfish aquaculture back to the Inland Bays. Delaware is the only state on the eastern seaboard without a shellfish aquaculture industry, one that could bring not only economic benefits to Delaware, but also ecological benefits to the beleaguered Inland Bays.
With annual revenue of $119 million dollars on the east coast alone, the shellfish aquaculture industry is growing fast, fueled by demand for local seafood, and restaurant interest in serving and locally-sourced food.
Presently, shellfish aquaculture is prohibited by law under the Delaware State Code, so the first step to clear the way for this new business on the Inland Bays would require changes to the Code which must be ratified by the Delaware State Legislature. Many stakeholders are hopeful that the legislation will be introduced in the current legislation session.
Eleven member agencies each held one voting seat on the Shellfish Aquaculture Tiger Team; the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) Fish and Wildlife; DNREC Watershed Stewardship; DNREC Wetlands and Subaqueous Lands; DE Department of Agriculture (DDA); University of Delaware Sea Grant; Sussex County Economic Development Office; recreational interests; commercial clamming and oyster industry interests; the Shellfish Advisory Council, and the CIB.
Three sub-committees were formed and prepared reports and recommendations for the Tiger Team. 'Information Gathering and Synthesis' mapped potential lease sites and developed the Potential Shellfish Aquaculture Lease Areas Report; 'Policy Funding and Permitting' prepared draft Code that would assist the State Legislature in crafting legislation and estimated the cost of administering shellfish aquaculture production on the Inland Bays. The 'Education and Outreach Sub-committee' identified and reached out to additional stakeholder groups locally and statewide who had an economic or environmental interest in the initiative.
The draft code will be delivered to legislative sponsors shortly by representatives of the CIB, DNREC, and DDA.
Delaware is the only coastal state with no commercial shellfish aquaculture; a multimillion dollar business in our neighboring states up and down the East Coast. Demonstration of successful oyster growth throughout the Inland Bays, along with interest in the commercial production of oysters prompted the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays to begin to explore the potential of commercial aquaculture in the Inland Bays. In response to stakeholder interest, the CIB held a one-day workshop in June 2011 to explore the feasibility of shellfish aquaculture operations in Delaware's Inland Bays.
At the CIB Board of Director's Meeting on March 30, 2012 the formation of a task force, named the 'Aquaculture Tiger Team' was announced. The CIB convened a diverse group of stakeholders to form a Shellfish Aquaculture Tiger Team to consider the opportunities and challenges of allowing commercial shellfish aquaculture in Delaware's Inland Bays. The Team, includes the Center for the Inland Bays, the Delaware SeaGrant Advisory Service, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, Delaware Department of Agriculture, recreational fishing interests, commercial shellfishing interests, and other stakeholder groups.
The Policy, Permitting and Funding Subcommittee reviewed current rules and regulations in the Delaware Code and proposed draft revisions and legislation to permit commercial aquaculture on the Inland Bays for consideration by the State Legislature.
The GIS Spatial Planning Subcommittee mapped existing uses and activities on the Bays to determine the areas that shellfish aquaculture can occur in balance with other Bay users.
The Education and Outreach Committee is worked to inform the public about the economic opportunities that commercial shellfish aquaculture can bring to our community and the ecological benefits it could bring to the Inland Bays; and build support for legislation permitting shellfish aquaculture on the Inland Bays.
As with all new initiatives, the benefits need to be weighed against the costs. The team is met monthly to study every aspect of the plan; to identify conflicts, and consider the needs and concerns of those who live on and use the Bays. There were regulatory and enforcements issues and costs to evaluate, data on native populations of clams as well as the experience of commercial clammers to assess, and navigation and recreation uses to consider. The team heard from local people who are interested in starting an aquaculture business and invited specialists in from our neighboring states to get their best advice.
A healthy oyster population can provide tremendous ecological benefits in an estuary, such as habitat restoration and water quality improvements. Over the past several years, the CIB, in collaboration with the University of Delaware's Marine Advisory Service, has successfully demonstrated the viability of growing shellfish in the Inland Bays through our Inland Bays Oyster Gardening Program using a variety of aquaculture techniques and methods. These include the off-bottom culture of oysters using Taylor floats and other commercial aquaculture gear.
Numerous key benefits could be gained from the implementation of oyster aquaculture in the Inland Bays.
Provide a local source of native oysters to local markets.
Bring in more "green" jobs to Delaware and its economy.
Improvement of biological, chemical, and physical components of Bay water quality through aquatic habitat enhancement, excess nutrient removal, and improved water clarity.
Enhancing existing native oyster populations throughout the Inland Bays.
Increasing habitat for numerous other aquatic organisms.
Increased public awareness of the ecological and societal benefits of shellfish aquaculture for the estuary.
The Inland Bays watershed has long relied on conventional industries like agriculture and tourism to generate our local economy. As the demand for protein-rich seafood increases, many look to aquaculture as a sustainable segment of non-traditional food production that also presents new economic opportunities for southern Delaware.


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