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Sri Mahabir Prosad Choudhary Vs. M/s. Octavius Tea and Industries Ltd. and ANR.
[Civil Appeal No. 832 0 of 2011]
ASHO K BHUSHAN,J.
1. This appeal has been filed against the Division Bench judgment dated 23.12.2009 of Calcutta High Court in F.M.A. No. 1187 of 2009 by which the appeal filed by appellant has been dismissed.
2. The issue involved in this appeal lies in a very narrow compass. The necessary facts of the case to be noticed for deciding the issue are:
2.1 The appellant was working as Accountant in the respondent company since 1986. There had been change of management in the year 2004 in the company. The appellant was not allowed to work w.e.f. 02.05.2005. The State of West Bengal referred the industrial dispute between the company and the appellant to the Fifth Industrial Tribunal. The Tribunal framed the issue as to whether refusal of employment to Shri Mahabir Prosad Choudhary by the management w.e.f. 02.05.2005 is justified?
2.2 After receiving the reference, the Industrial Tribunal on 27.08.2007 issued summons upon the parties concerned directing them to appear on 19.09.2007. The workman appeared on 19.09.2007 but no one appeared from the company, since the summons were received back with the remarks "left". 11.10.2007 was again fixed by the Tribunal.
On 11.10.2007, Tribunal noted that summons sent through Process Server has been served upon the company. The advocate for the workman appeared and filed W/S. The W/S was filed without serving the copy of W/S to the company. On 05.11.2007, none of the parties had appeared and 27.11.2007 was fixed for W/S by the company. On 29.11.2007, no one appeared on behalf of the company, the Tribunal fixed for exparte hearing. 26.12.2007 was fixed for documents of the workman.
On 26.12.2007, documents were filed, which were kept on record and 29.01.2008 was fixed for exparte hearing. The Tribunal again on the request of the workman deferred the case, which was fixed for exparte hearing for 26.02.2008. On 26.02.2008, none appeared for the company, workman was heard and the award was pronounced. The Hon'ble Tribunal disposed of the award exparte by allowing the claim of reinstatement with full back wages. The award was also published on 27.03.2008.
2.3 The company filed an application on 02.05.2008 to recall the exparte award. The company stated in its application that as per the agreement dated 10.06.2004 with its erstwhile management, the new management has no responsibility in respect of senior executives and managerial staff of the old management including the appellant. The company states that exparte award was received on 22.04.2008 and thereafter an application has been filed for recall of the exparte award dated 26.02.2008. The Tribunal heard the parties on the application filed by the company. The tribunal although return the finding that the award was passed in violation of principles of natural justice and no notice under Rule 20B(5) and Rule 21 of the West Bengal Industrial Disputes Rules, 1958 (hereinafter referred to as "1958 Rules") were served on the company. The Tribunal, however, took the view that application being filed by the company after 30 days of publication of the award, the Tribunal has become functus officio, hence the application is rejected.
2.4 After rejection of application, the company filed a writ petition in the Calcutta High Court. Learned Single Judge vide its judgment and order dated 11.02.2009 allowed the writ petition setting aside the award and the order dated 30.09.2008 of the Industrial Tribunal and the Tribunal was directed to reconsider the issue between the parties as expeditiously as possible in accordance with law upon affording them opportunity of being heard. Against the judgment of learned Single Judge, the appellant filed an appeal before the Division Bench, which has been dismissed by the impugned judgment of the Calcutta High Court.
3. Shri Manoj Swarup, learned counsel for the appellant in support of the appeal contends that notice issued by the Industrial Tribunal in Form D2 was served on the company, which has also been recorded by the Industrial Tribunal, there was no cause for nonappearance of the company before the Tribunal. The Tribunal rightly proceeded exparte due to nonappearance of the company. He submits that the application for recall of the exparte award was filed after 30 days from publication of award, the Tribunal having become functus officio, The Tribunal has rightly taken the view that application for recall cannot be entertained. He further submits that the view of the High Court that there was violation of Rule 20B(5) and Rule 21 of 1958 Rules is erroneous. He submits that Rule 20B (5) contemplates that Tribunal, in event, if the W/S had been filed, the same shall be made available to the party concerned or its authorised representative in the office of Industrial Tribunal/Labour Court. He submits that Rule 20B(5) does not contemplate that any notice has to be issued to the other party for receiving the W/S. He submits that there is no noncompliance of Rule 20B(5). He submits that High Court committed error in taking the view that notice was required to be served under Rule 21 to the company before hearing the case exparte. No one has appeared on behalf of the respondent.
4. We have considered the submissions of the learned counsel for the appellant and have perused the records.
5. Before the Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court, main submission, which was pressed by the appellant was that application filed by the company for recall of the exparte order was after 30 days of publication, hence, could not have been entertained. The Division Bench of the High court has elaborately dealt with the said issue and repelled the contention. There is no dispute regarding dates and events, which took place in the present case. The date of exparte award is 26.02.2008, the publication of the award was made on 27.03.2008 and the case of the company was that it came to know about the award on 22.04.2008. The date of filing of application for recall of exparte award is 02.05.2008, the application was clearly beyond 30 days from publication of the award.
6. Before we proceed to consider the submissions raised by learned counsel for the appellant, it is relevant to notice certain Rules of 1958 Rules. Rule 20B deals with Statement of case or written statement. Rule 20B is as follows:
20 B. Statement of case or written statement.
(1) The Industrial Tribunal/Labour Court shall, on the date fixed in the summons for the appearance of the parties direct the party which appears to the Tribunal/Labour Court to be the party at whose instance the reference has been initiated or where no such party can be ascertained, the party, which, in the opinion of the Industrial Tribunal/Labour Court, ought to be required to state its case first (hereinafter referred to as the first party) to state its case, together with the grounds upon which the claim for relief is founded, and a list of relevant documents which are in their possession and upon which they want to rely, in writing on a date fixed by the Industrial Tribunal/Labour Court which shall ordinarily be within two weeks from the date of the order.
(2) After the first party has complied with the order passed under sub rule (1), the other party (hereinafter referred to as the second party) shall be asked to file its written statement and a list of relevant documents which are in their possession and upon which they want to rely on a date fixed by the Industrial Tribunal/Labour Court, which shall ordinarily be within two weeks from the date of the order.
(3) Every statement of case and every written statement shall be signed and verified in the manner prescribed by rule 69 or rule 70, as the case may be.
(4) Each party shall file along with its statement of case or the written statement, as the case may be, as many copies thereof as may be directed by the Industrial Tribunal/Labour Court.
(5) A copy of the statement of case or the written statement shall be served on the first party or the second party, as the case may be, by the Industrial Tribunal/Labour Court within seven days from the date on which copies of the statement of case or the written statement, as the case may be, are filed by making it over to the party concerned or to its authorised representative in the Office of the Industrial Tribunal/Labour Court on a date and time fixed for the purpose and intimated to the party concerned by the Industrial Tribunal/Labour Court.
7. Rule 21, which empowers the Tribunal to proceed exparte is as follows:"
21. Board, Court, Labour Court, Tribunal, or Arbitrator may proceed exparte. If without sufficient cause being shown, any party to a proceeding before a Board, Court, Labour Court, Tribunal or Arbitrator fails to attend or to be represented, the Board, Court, Labour Court, Tribunal or Arbitrator may proceed as if such party had duly attended or had been represented.
8. Rule 27 deals with the correction of errors and review of an award, which is to the following effect:
"27. Correction of errors and review of an award. The Labour Court, Industrial Tribunal or Arbitrator may ( i) correct any clerical or arithmetical mistake arising from an accidental slip or omission in any award made by it or him, and
(ii) review an award on the ground of some mistake or error apparent on the face of the record, either of its/his own motion or on the application of any of the parties ;
(iii) for sufficient cause set aside after notice to the opposite party or parties as the case may be, the exparte award or an award on the footing that the industrial dispute under reference is no longer in existence either of its/his own motion or on the application of any of the parties :
Provided that no correction shall be made without previous notices to the parties or opposite party, as the case may be. Provided further that no application for review under clause (iii) shall be entertained on the expiry of the 15th day from the date of the award."
9. This Court in Grindlays Bank Ltd. Vs. Central Government Industrial Tribunal and Others, (1980) Supp. SCC 420, had occasion to consider Rule 22 of Industrial Disputes (Central) Rules, 1957 as well as Industrial Disputes (Bombay) Rules, 1957. Rule 22 of Industrial Disputes (Bombay) Rules, are pari materia with Rule 21 of the West Bengal Industrial Disputes Rules, 1958. This Court in the case of Grindlays Bank Ltd. (supra) has held that Rule 22 and Rule 24B were sufficiently the source of power for the Industrial Courts to recall the exparte award. Following was laid down in Paragraph 11:"
11. The language of Rule 22 unequivocally makes the jurisdiction of the Tribunal to render an ex parte award conditional upon the fulfilment of its requirements. If there is no sufficient cause for the absence of a party, the Tribunal undoubtedly has jurisdiction to proceed ex parte. But if there was sufficient cause shown which prevented a party from appearing, then under the terms of Rule 22, the Tribunal will have had no jurisdiction to proceed and consequently, it must necessarily have power to set aside the ex parte award. In other words, there is power to proceed ex parte, but such power is subject to the fulfilment of the condition laid down in Rule 22. The power to proceed ex parte under Rule 22 carries with it the power to enquire whether or not there was sufficient cause for the absence of a party at the hearing."
10. The submission which was pressed before the High Court in 10 the present case that application having been filed to recall after expiry of 30 days from publication of the award as per the judgment of this Court in Grindlays Bank Ltd. (supra), the Tribunal has become functus officio and could not have been entertained the application. This Court had occasion to consider this very aspect in Radhakrishna Mani Tripathi Vs. L.H. Patel and Another, (2009) 2 SCC 81. This Court noticed the observation made by this Court in the case of Grindlays Bank Ltd. (supra) in Paragraph No.14 as well as judgment of this Court in Anil Sood Vs. Presiding Officer, Labour Court II, (2001) 10 SCC 534 in Paragraph Nos. 16, 17 and 18, this Court laid down following:"
14. In Grindlays Bank this Court held that Rules 22 and 24(b) were sufficiently the source of power for the Industrial Courts to recall an ex parte award. It was pointed out that in terms of Rule 22 the Industrial Courts could proceed ex parte in the matter only in case a party to the proceeding failed to attend or be represented without showing sufficient cause. The Court held that power to proceed ex parte under Rule 22 carried with it the power to inquire whether or not there was sufficient cause for the absence of the party at the hearing and in case the party was able to show sufficient cause for its nonappearance on the date the court had proceeded ex parte against it, to recall the award. (Vide para 11 of the decision.) 16. Coming now to the submission based on Section 17A of the Act the Court in para 14 of the decision held and observed as follows: (Grindlays Bank case, SCC pp. 42526)
"14. The contention that the Tribunal had 11 become functus officio and, therefore, had no jurisdiction to set aside the ex parte award and that the Central Government alone could set it aside, does not commend to us. Subsection (3) of Section 20 of the Act provides that the proceedings before the Tribunal would be deemed to continue till the date on which the award becomes enforceable under Section 17A. Under Section 17A of the Act, an award becomes enforceable on the expiry of 30 days from the date of its publication under Section 17.
The proceedings with regard to a reference under Section 10 of the Act are, therefore, not deemed to be concluded until the expiry of 30 days from the publication of the award. Till then the Tribunal retains jurisdiction over the dispute referred to it for adjudication and up to that date it has the power to entertain an application in connection with such dispute. That stage is not reached till the award becomes enforceable under Section 17A. In the instant case, the Tribunal made the ex parte award on 9121976. That award was published by the Central Government in the Gazette of India dated 25121976.
The application for setting aside the ex parte award was filed by Respondent 3, acting on behalf of Respondents 5 to 17 on 1911977 i.e. before the expiry of 30 days of its publication and was, therefore, rightly entertained by the Tribunal. It had jurisdiction to entertain it and decide it on merits."
From the above quotation it would appear that in Grindlays Bank the recall application was filed within thirty days from the date of publication of the award and hence, the objection raised on the basis of Section 17A did not arise in this case. In Grindlays Bank this Court did not say that the Industrial Courts would have no jurisdiction to entertain an application for setting aside an award made after thirty days of its publication. Nevertheless, on the basis of the passage marked in italics in the above quotation Ms Issar strongly contended that that is the true import of the judgment.
17. We are unable to accept. The position is made clear in the later decision in Anil Sood v. Labour Court. In Anil Sood interestingly the Labour Court had rejected the recall application on the very same ground that after making the award it became functus officio in the matter. The order of the Labour Court was challenged before the High Court but the High Court also took the same view. In appeal this Court noted that the award was made on 1191995 and the application for its recall was filed on 6111995. The Court referred to the earlier decision in Grindlays Bank and the provisions of subsections (1) and (3) of Section 11 of the Act and in paras 6, 7 and 8 of the decision observed and held as follows: (Anil Sood case, SCC p. 536)
"6. The aspect that the party against whom award is to be made due opportunity to defend has to be given is a matter of procedure and not that of power in the sense in which the language is adopted in Section 11. When matters are referred to the tribunal or court they have to be decided objectively and the tribunals/courts have to exercise their discretion in a judicial manner without arbitrariness by following the general principles of law and rules of natural justice.
7. The power to proceed ex parte is available under Rule 22 of the Central Rules which also includes the power to inquire whether or not there was sufficient cause for the absence of a party at the hearing, and if there is sufficient cause shown which prevented a party from appearing, then if the party is visited with an award without a notice which is a nullity and therefore the Tribunal will have no jurisdiction to proceed and consequently, it must necessarily have power to set aside 13 the ex parte award.
8. If this be the position in law, both the High Court and the Tribunal (sic Labour Court) fell into an error in stating that the Labour Court had become functus officio after making the award though ex parte. We set aside the order made and the award passed by the Labour Court and affirmed by the High Court in this regard, in view of the fact that the learned counsel for the respondent conceded that application filed by the appellant be allowed, set aside the ex parte award and restore the reference."
18. In light of the decision in Anil Sood we find no substance in the appellant's submission based on Section 17A of the Act. There being no substance in the first limb of the submission there is no question of any conflict between Rule 26(2) of the Bombay Rules and Section 17A of the Act."
11. This Court in Radhakrishna Mani Tripathi's case (supra) has clearly held that the case of Grindlays Bank Ltd. (supra) did not say that the Industrial Courts would have no jurisdiction to entertain an application for setting aside an award made after thirty days of its publication. This Court's judgment in Radhakrishna Mani Tripathi (supra) is clearly applicable in the present case. Furthermore, in the present case, the Tribunal, which rejected the application of the company to recall the exparte award had itself returned the finding that there was violation of principles of natural justice since a copy of W/S was not sent to the company. The High Court after considering the submission of the parties had made following observations:"
On a perusal of the order dated 30.09.2008 it is difficult for this Court to accept the contention raised on behalf of the workman. It appears from the said order that the Tribunal had accepted the position that notice under Rule 21 of the said Rules had not been served upon the company before placing the case for exparte hearing. It has also accepted that Written Statement filed the workman had not been served upon them in accordance with provisions contained in Rules 20B(5) of the said Rules. On the face of such finding recorded by the Tribunal, it is absolutely clear that proceedings were conducted before it, leading to the impugned award, in clear violation of principles of natural as well as mandatory provisions of law. The award passed on 26.2.2008 is liable to be set aside only on this ground."
12. Shri Manoj Swarup, learned counsel for the appellant has strenuously contended that present is not a case of any breach of Rule 20B(5) as held by the High Court. The relevant order of the Industrial Tribunal has been brought on the record by the appellant, i.e., of 11.10.2007, where workman had appeared and filed Written Statement. It has been noted in the order that copy of the W/S cannot be served upon the another party as none appeared on behalf of the company. Subrule (5) of Rule 20B, which is relevant for present case is reproduced for ready reference:
20B. Statement of case or written statement. -
15 (5) A copy of the statement of case or the written statement shall be served on the first party or the second party, as the case may be, by the Industrial Tribunal/Labour Court within seven days from the date on which copies of the statement of case or the written statement, as the case may be, are filed by making it over to the party concerned or to its authorised representative in the Office of the Industrial Tribunal/Labour Court on a date and time fixed for the purpose and intimated to the party concerned by the Industrial Tribunal/Labour Court.
13. A perusal of subrule( 5) of Rule 20B indicates that the copy of the statement of the case or the W/S is to be served on the first party or the second party, as the case may be, by the Industrial Tribunal/Labour Court within seven days from the date on which copies of the statement of case or the written statement, as the case may be, are filed, by making it over to the party concerned or to its authorised representative in the Office of the Industrial Tribunal/Labour Court on a date and time fixed for the purpose and intimated to the party concerned by the Industrial Tribunal/Labour Court. The duty, thus, has been cast on the Tribunal to serve a copy of W/S or statement of case on either side.
The use of word "shall be served" in subclause (5) of Rule 20B has to be given some meaning and purpose. The provision obviously cast a duty on Industrial Tribunal and the Court to ensure that service should be completed within seven days. Another aspect, which is decipherable from the Rule is that Tribunal has to ensure that statement of case of W/S has to be served by making it available to the party concerned or its authorised representative in the office of the Industrial Tribunal/Labour Court on a date and time fixed for the purpose.
The last line of the subrule (5) used the expression "on a date and time fixed for the purpose and intimated to the party concerned by the Industrial Tribunal/Labour Court". The above expression contains two requirements, firstly, the Industrial Tribunal/Labour Court has to fix a date for service of statement of case of W/S within 7 days, specially, fixed date for the purpose and secondly date and time fixed for purpose has to be intimated to the party concerned. Although subrule (5) does not contemplate issuing any second notice after receipt of the statement of a case or a W/S, i.e. date and time is required to be fixed for the purpose of statement of case and a date and time, which is also required to be intimated to the party concerned for the purpose.
In the facts of present case, it has to be held that the Tribunal was required to intimate date and time for receiving of the written statement by the company. Neither the order sheet of Tribunal indicate that any date was fixed for such service of W/S nor any intimation was sent to the company. Thus, there was a clear breach of subrule (5) of Rule 20B, no error has 17 been committed by High Court in taking the view that Rule 20B(5) has been violated, resulting in violation of principles of natural justice.
14. Now coming to Rule 21, which empowers the Tribunal to proceed when any party to a proceeding fails to attend. Learned counsel for the appellant is right in his submission that the plain language of Rule 21 does not indicate that it is necessary for Tribunal to issue any notice to a party before proceeding exparte. However, the expression used in Rule 21 is "may proceed". Thus, on nonappearance on one day does not oblige the Tribunal to proceed exparte.
The Tribunal or arbitrator can exercise his discretion and may decide to send a notice before proceeding exparte in facts of each case, which may be required in facts of a particular case. But even otherwise accepting, the submission of the learned counsel for the appellant that no mandatory notice under Rule 21 was required to be issued by the Tribunal to the company, there being violation of Rule 20B(5), the High Court committed no error in setting aside the order of the Tribunal's exparte award by directing the Tribunal to proceed afresh.
15. Learned counsel for the appellant submitted that appellant has already attained the age of superannuation in July, 2018.
16. In view of the foregoing discussions, we do not find any error in the judgment of the High Court. The appeal being devoid of any merit is dismissed. Parties shall bear their own costs.
..........................J. (ASHOK BHUSHAN)
..........................J. (INDU MALHOTRA)


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KCR changed TRS' name to BRS on advice of 'Tantriks'
By IANS On October 09 , 2022 | UPDATED 07:07 IST
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao, popularly known as KCR, betrayed the state and changed TRS' name to Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) on the advice of 'Tantriks'.
The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) was formed to realise the Telangana sentiment... at that time, it was said that funds, water and appointments (jobs) are the priorities for Telangana statehood ambition, the Union Minister said.
"It was also stated that there will be social justice and women empowerment. But, for four years from 2014 to 2018, there was not a single woman minister in TRS government. Even after TRS's re-election, for almost a year, there was no woman minister. Apparently, women were not given representation in the Cabinet on the advice of some Tantriks," Sitharaman said.
The Minister said that when Telangana state was formed in 2014, it was a revenue surplus state.
"Today, Telangana state has borrowings of Rs 3 lakh crore with debt to GSDP ratio touching almost 25 per cent.
"On water, Kaleswaram project was supposed to have been completed with a budget of Rs 40,000 crore but this has shot up to Rs 1,40,000 crore without a proper explanation on reasons for escalation. On the third promise of jobs, TRS government has not kept its promise and betrayed people. On all three fronts of funds, water and jobs, the TRS government has totally failed," said Sitharaman.
The Minister said that KCR, on the advice of Tantriks and numerologists, stopped going to the Secretariat, did not induct women for many years in his cabinet and now has changed party's name to BRS on Tantrik's advice.
"After failing and betraying people of Telangana, Telugu language, he has now launched BRS as a national party. The new party is doomed to fail," she added.
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I recently reviewed the new Het Droste Effect album 'Soar', which you can read here.
Het Droste Effect were one of the "gateway drugs", in my personal epiphany with the resurgence of independent, experimental, underground psychedelia.
I have been smitten with the sounds of Chino Burga / 3AM, ever since I discovered him on the split release 'Disappear / Waves', with Sula Bassana.
I then went on a vinyl mission of amassing his output, culminating in a live show in Zwolle with The Dead-End Alley Band, at the Sociaal-culturele vereniging Eureka.


Mortgage bonds dropped from the tip top of their trading channel yesterday morning all the way down to the very bottom. The main culprit for the swift change was the Federal Reserve interest rate decision that was released at noon MST. Within the Fed's Monetary Policy Statement, the Fed funds rate maintained its 0% – .25% range. However, the market was surprised when it directly referenced the December meeting as a time in which a rate hike could come into play. In reaction, the Fed's Futures contract showed an increase in the implied probability for a hike at the December 16th FOMC meeting to 43% from the 34% prior to the statement. Regardless, keep in mind that this number has changed many times in recent months and remains subject to economic data as it becomes available.
The floor of support that timidly held bonds up yesterday then broke loose this morning, causing mortgage bonds to quickly tumble down to the next floor provided by the 50 day moving average. That only held for a short time before bonds were sent tumbling lower once more. They now appear destined to fall down to their 100 DMA, which is currently about 35 basis points beneath current levels. This is a very negative sign for the near term direction of mortgage interest rates and brings conclusion to the story of which direction bonds would break out of their nearly 5 week channel. Although not what we had hoped for, there remains strong support beneath us once more.
The advance reading on 3rd quarter GDP was reported this morning to be 1.5%. Although below the 1.7% anticipated, the news provided little support to help keep bonds from falling. It seems that fear of a Fed rate hike in December seems to be the primary driver of the markets. Since we have not faced an increasing interest rate environment since June of 2006, investors are unsure how to position their holdings as we head into this environment once again.
Given the overall weakness in the bond market, we will maintain our locking bias.


Nice close. Halftime adjustments please. If Goodwin doesn't do something over the summer on free throws ---- hire a personal coach, study film, shoot 10,000 a day, develop mechanics ---- then we go back to the conversation about expectations.
Davidson did their part. Dayton whacked La Salle. Fordham took down Geedubya. And Umass up pretty safe over Richmond.
Down 3. Jees, it felt like every 3 went in for DU. We cannot lose to these guys at the Fetz.
I feel like regression to mean is applicable here.
Bills have to have a much better 2nd half on the boards. They're being outrebounded 22-14.
Huh? I'm proud of EW, but he didn't look good.
Wellmer looked hurt walking to the bench. For his sake, forget hoops and take care of your wheels.
French, DJ, and Bess all had less than good halfs offensively. If they do just a little we should win.
Ya. Such a shame. Ford has run into so much bad luck early on.
Does this remind you of our game at Duquense but flipped? We had a large lead and let them back in at the end of the half. Hope it's the same outcome.
He does a lot more than 3s. I guess I've become used to have him rescue us in many different ways.
He does a lot more than 3s, but now, his tools are just on the defensive side.
We spotted them 7 points with starting our seniors meaning we outscored them by 4 the rest of the way.
Larry Hughes very bad plus minus as guest announcer. Billikens started playing better when the endless interview was over.
Jordan looks so much more comfortable with the ball in his hands recently. I don't know what it is but his handles look tight.
Trading missed layups now. 36-35 with 17:17 to play.
That may have been the sloppiest hoops I've seen all year.


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Q: SessionFactory - one factory for multiple databases We have a situation where we have multiple databases with identical schema, but different data in each.  We're creating a single session factory to handle this.
The problem is that we don't know which database we'll connect to until runtime, when we can provide that.  But on startup to get the factory build, we need to connect to a database with that schema.  We currently do this by creating the schema in an known location and using that, but we'd like to remove that requirement.
I haven't been able to find a way to create the session factory without specifying a connection. We don't expect to be able to use the OpenSession method with no parameters, and that's ok.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Andy

A: Either implement your own IConnectionProvider or pass your own connection to ISessionFactory.OpenSession(IDbConnection) (but read the method's comments about connection tracking)

A: The solution we came up with was to create a class which manages this for us.  The class can use some information in the method call to do some routing logic to figure out where the database is, and then call OpenSession passing the connection string.

A: You could also use the great NuGet package from brady gaster for this. I made my own implementation from his NHQS package and it works very well.
You can find it here:
http://www.bradygaster.com/Tags/nhqs
good luck!

A: Came across this and thought Id add my solution for future readers which is basically what Mauricio Scheffer has suggested which encapsulates the 'switching' of CS and provides single point of management (I like this better than having to pass into each session call, less to 'miss' and go wrong).
I obtain the connecitonstring during authentication of the client and set on the context then, using the following IConnectinProvider implementation, set that value for the CS whenever a session is opened:
/// <summary>
/// Provides ability to switch connection strings of an NHibernate Session Factory (use same factory for multiple, dynamically specified, database connections)
/// </summary>
public class DynamicDriverConnectionProvider : DriverConnectionProvider, IConnectionProvider
{
    protected override string ConnectionString
    {
        get
        {
            var cxnObj = IsWebContext ?
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Can MMJs Do Serious Investigative Stories?
While many TV networks and local TV news stations have begrudgtingly accepted both MMJs (or VJs or MoJo), they most often ghettoize their work and potential.
They are fine for 'some kinds of stories'.
Shooting with an iPhone is OK 'in a crunch when you can't get a crew'.
Stuff like that.
About a year ago, Spectrum1 in Los Angeles was launched. All MMJ, all the time, and pretty much all iPhone all the time.
Yesterday, I got a story from LA MMJ Natalie Brunell.
It's a full blown, full bore serious piece of investigative journalism. The kind of thing you might see on 60 Minutes. Except 60-Minutes takes 3 or 4 months to produce a story like this, with a crew or two, a producer, an AP, a researcher, a reporter and editor and a lot of money spent.
Natalie did all of this on her own, using only an iPhone and in a few days.
This the future not just of local news in LA, which it very clearly is, but of television journalism worldwide.
This should clearly answer the question - Can an MMJ do qualty investigative journalism?
Clearly, the answer is, you bet.
I wanted to add a few notes from Natalie on this.
Shooting time was 4 hours total, spread over two days.
Research took place over a week.
Here are some of her own comments on the process:
the iPhone 11 is what I use and I believe it has some sort of stabilization in it! I anchored my elbows on a desk for the long interview (did the same with Arnold Schwarzenegger last week! Originally we thought the piece would be 6-7 minutes but we had to add a lot of statements and wanted to be thorough since the piece has so many nuances and the dealer himself has a lot of history (with suing the automaker etc). There was never really an issue of "its too long" which was really liberating. The only other tools I used are the lavalier microphone with a Rode attachment to get the sound.


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EDISON, N.J., June 27, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ContraVir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTRV), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of therapeutic drugs for the treatment of liver disease arising from non-alcoholic steatohepatitis ("NASH") and chronic viral infection, today announced the filing of an Investigational New Drug ("IND") application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") for CRV431 for the treatment of NASH.
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Air Studios wins two-year 'battle for survival' after appeal over basement next door withdrawn
Published: 10:41 AM October 13, 2017 Updated: 1:54 PM October 14, 2020
Paul Woolf outside Air Studios NW3. Picture by Polly Hancock - Credit: Archant
Hampstead's world-famous Air recording studios has won its two-year legal battle against plans to dig a basement next door.
Inside Air studios one of the only British recording studio to hold a full orchestra Picture: Dan Pinder. - Credit: Archant
As reported in the Ham&High, the studio, in Rosslyn Hill, has been fighting the proposals from Andrew and Elizabeth Jeffreys to build a basement at their home in Rosslyn Hill for two years.
Air Studios owner Paul Woolf believed the noise and vibrations from the basement excavation would force the studios to close for up to six months and threaten its survival.
With its unrivalled acoustics, the studios, based in the Grade II-listed former church Lyndhurst Hall, is one of only two recording studios in the UK to provide score recording services to the major film industry.
Over 13.000 people had signed a petition against the Jeffrey's application and leading lights of the music and film worlds, including popstar George Michael, the head of the British Film Commission Adrian Wootton, Oscar-winning film composer Hans Zimmer, and Queen guitarist Brian May added their voices to the protest.
The Jeffreys had initially planned to build two basements for a home cinema room, gym and swimming pool.
The plans were changed earlier this year to remove one basement from the proposals. However Air Studios still contested that it would have an effect on their ability to record music.
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A public planning inquiry was due to begin in May 2018 to make a final decision on the plans.
Expert witnesses were due to have been called to give their opinion on the effect excavation work would have on recordings.
The planning inspectorate website today announced that the Jeffreys appeal has been withdrawn.
A statement by the Jeffreys family architects Thomas Croft, said: "The family has decided to withdraw the application to extend their family home in light of the decision to move the process to a full public inquiry."
"The family has every intention of remaining in their home for many years to come."
Mr Woolf said he regretted the whole affair, but was delighted that the battle was now over.
He said: "After a two year slog right has finally triumphed. We are absolutely delighted to have won this wasteful planning process and to have removed the risk to so many people, had Air been forced to shut.
"We are forever grateful to the thousands who supported us and to our staff and clients who showed immense resolve in uncertain waters.
"We are thrilled that Air can now continue its work as an integral part of the global film and music businesses."
He added that fighting the application had come at some cost to the studios, which they were looking to recoup.
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Friday, March 22nd, 2019
WE SAID GOODBYE TO OUR OLD HOME
May 2018 marked the end of an era at our home in St Andrews. Since Eden Brewery started in 2012 we'd been based in a small section of the old Guardbridge Paper Mill, and over the years had tacked on some extra areas, improved our shop, and upgraded our production kit.
By late 2017 we were bursting at the seams and pressed on with plans to relocate our brewery & distillery to the opposite side of the site into a lovely old building overlooking the Eden Estuary. This meant saying goodbye to what had been our home for five years. The place where our brewers created the range of beer that is often seen in bars throughout St Andrews. The place where our, now award winning, range of gins were devised, refined, and perfected. The place where we filled the first cask of single malt whisky in St Andrews for over 150 years. And a place that we've proudly shown 16,000 visitors around on tours, where they've met the wonderful team of people who've made all of these things happen. It was a sad moment when we closed the doors for the final time.
WE OPENED THE GATEHOUSE
But the prospect of being able to expand upon what we'd achieved gave us all a new focus, and we set about making plans for the future. This meant some creative thinking in the short-term while construction was underway, and thus Gatehouse was born! Right on Main Street in Guardbridge, directly across from the famous Mill clock, we secured an area to use for our pop-up shop and tastings that would allow us to continue to offer an experience to visitors while our production space was being renovated a few hundred meters across the road.
We sourced shipping containers and set about converting them into our new shop and tasting rooms, which drew upon our teams secondary talents such as joinery and gardening! Fortunately, we've got quite the talented bunch who put in a few long shifts to make sure we were open in time for the summer.
In July, we opened the Gatehouse and resumed where we'd left off – offering beer, gin and whisky tastings, sharing our story with visitors, and giving away some sneaky details about what's going on behind the scenes with our permanent site move. We launched our Summer Punch Gin, and The Gatehouse was an ideal place to sit and enjoy it in the sunshine.
We even made time for some mini-golf between tastings!
It was fantastic to see visitors enjoying what we were doing, despite not being able to see our brewery/distillery. 1500 people visited us over the summer, and we found that we actually hadn't gone big enough with our pop-up! An upgrade was needed, and so we decided to renovate our space once more. Lots of ideas were thrown around, but we wanted something unusual, that would do the things that Eden Mill have always been good at – being creative and making an instant impression!
NOW WE'VE OPENED THE DOMES…
Our new custom-built structures arrived in February and gained instant attention from local passers-by on Main Street. Buses, taxis and pedestrians all gave a bemused look as they passed, which was exactly what we were hoping for! Our team set about building the giant jigsaw puzzles that were to become our two new geodesic domes. The build took around four days, and we were delighted with the results.
This now gives us more capacity to host tastings with guests, and a place to showcase not only our story so far, but the future plans. It creates a space we are excited to show people, and somewhere we know our visitors will enjoy spending an hour or two with us sampling beer, gin or whisky.
From 10th April we'll be running daily tastings at Gatehouse, focused around either gin or beer & whisky (combined). These will be an hour long, and have been put together from scratch by our team. We've thrown the old format and scripts out and started again, thinking about what we want to tell visitors about our journey and how we can share some secret details about our new permanent site as it's being constructed.
We've worked hard over the past nine months to put together something different to really show people what Eden Mill is all about, and we cannot wait to welcome our first guests this summer. There really is no better place to enjoy a sample while you pick the brains of one of our team, so we sincerely hope you'll come along for a visit this year. Whether you're a whisky connoisseur, a gin aficionado, or a beer enthusiast, we very much look forward to seeing you!
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A day making malt whisky at the Eden Mill distillery
Thursday, March 2nd, 2017
Between The Snow And A Warm Place
It's not a common occurrence for me; a sun-loving Australian being outdoors on a freezing Scottish morning. But today is different because I'm making malt whisky!
There is something wildly exciting about the sharp sting of snow on my face while the backs of my legs are pressed up against a piping hot underback with its swirling, molasses-like wash turning circles within.
I'm at the Eden Mill Distillery in St Andrews, Scotland; watching the day outside get whiter while we start making whisky with a chocolate wash. I've just climbed down a narrow ladder having helped Marc (one of our distillers) to empty seemingly endless 25 kilo bags of malted barley into the top of a mashing tun. It's not back breaking work but it's also not easy; balancing myself on the platform while the bag does its best to flop out of my frozen hands and spill through the grate under my feet.
Breaking up the mash
Marc is leaning into the tun with what looks like the paddle from a canoe. As he breaks up the clotting mash I listen to him explain that because of this step, we can rip every possible bit of sugar out of the wash.
From the tun, the wash travels into the kettle via my own personal fireside, the underback. This little contraption stops a vacuum forming in the bottom of the tun; providing a fantastic opportunity to taste this infant-level whisky. We are at the very early stages of crafting a new future malt whisky.
My Own Weetabix Soup Taste
Marc tops up my coffee with an inky black dram. It tastes like the richest possible Weetabix soup.
In the early days of distilling, workers would top this concoction up with a healthy slug of whatever whisky lay close to hand. Trust me – if I weren't driving I'd be hard pressed not to do the same.
I've been on lots of different distillery tours; polished for tourists and rough and ready industrial types but this is the first time I've watched this process so closely or intently.
It's hard to imagine that the viscous near-sticky liquid I see running through the pipes will at some point become clear as spring water and loaded at 63.5% ABV.
This stretch of my imagination is not helped when Marc informs me that the final stage for the mash is to undergo the sparge; a word I at first refuse to believe is real.
Sparging releases fresh water over the remaining mash in three progressively hotter bursts. What's left behind contains less sugar than a Brita-filtered glass of water.
My final glance of Marc is of his legs from the waist down as he crawls into the bottom of the tun and starts bailing out moist armfuls of spent mash.
I beg him to let me help. Sadly, my part in the day is done. I've proudly earned my wash rights and it only cost me a couple of frost bitten fingers.
—Lara Williams, 02 March 2017
You can see a lot of this activity during the distillery whisky tours. Our visitors are delighted with the experience and tours can be booked via the website.
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COUGHRAN, TX
Linda Peterson
Town of Coughran, Atascosa County. Image available on the Internet and included in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107.
COUGHRAN, TEXAS. Coughran was four miles southeast of Pleasanton near the termination of Farm Road 1334 and the Missouri Pacific line in east central Atascosa County. The settlement was named for W. A. "Abe" Coughran, who in 1912 began to develop the town and in 1913 built a store, a bank, a gin, a school, and a post office and located artesian wells to make the place attractive to prospective settlers. Coughran also donated the right-of-way for the San Antonio, Uvalde and Gulf Railroad the same year. In 1914 the community had a population of 100, a weekly newspaper called the Coughran Observer, a hotel, and several retail and manufacturing establishments. The school had sixty-six students in 1913. During the 1920s Coughran marketed cotton and watermelons. Although the population dropped to fifty, a new school building was constructed in 1924 and enlarged in 1933 to accommodate 134 students. The reported population dropped to twenty-five in the mid-1930s but rose again to fifty in the 1940s and remained at that figure until 1964. In 1956 the school was consolidated with the Pleasanton schools. In 1986 the area was owned by the Eichelberger family, who operated the Big Oak Antiques complex. The population was twenty in 2000.
Atascosa County Centennial, 1856–1956 (Jourdanton, Texas: Atascosa County Centennial Association, n.d.). Atascosa County History (Pleasanton, Texas: Atascosa History Committee, 1984). Margaret G. Clover, The Place Names of Atascosa County (M.A. thesis, University of Texas, 1952).
Handbook of Texas Online, Linda Peterson, "COUGHRAN, TX," accessed January 23, 2020, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hrc95.
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The Intruder examines, in the sort of lurid, semi-deranged way you'd expect from a horror movie, something that's actually rather subtle. How a house becomes a home. How any prospective buyer, looking around someone else's home with a view to purchasing it, is an intruder. And how the seller, once the deal is complete, still has some residual emotional hold over the property. It might be the new buyer's house – the legal documents say so – but in some sense it's still the old owner's home, especially if they lived there for decades.
Nice young marrieds Scott (Michael Ealy) and Annie (Meagan Good) have done well in their careers and fancy moving out to a big place in Napa, where they are going to have lots of kids and put down roots in the sort of family home that passes down the generations.
They find a lovely one, called Foxglove, and meet the current owner, Charlie (Dennis Quaid), at the wrong end of a rifle – he's been out in the woods bordering the back of the property shooting deer, which need culling, Charlie explains. As if we hadn't already guessed which way this was heading from that introduction, Charlie is also leering like Jack Nicholson in The Shining. He makes Scott and Annie uneasy. But it doesn't matter because it's the house they're interested in and Charlie will soon be off to live with his daughter in Florida, he says.
Old school manners to one side, Charlie is from the off an obvious bad guy but then Scott and Annie are fairly young, modern and smug and could probably do with a reminder that life isn't all roses – Charlie's wife died of cancer two years before and the house clearly means a lot to him. He shows them around as if expecting them to keep it as it is – a shrine.
Scott and Annie move in. All is well. Then, one day, Annie looks out the window and sees Charlie on the sit-upon mower doing the lawn. Their lawn.
And so it starts. Charlie becomes a presence in their lives who won't shift, even though he's meant to be gone. And being nice people, Scott and Annie are reluctant to have it out with the grieving widower. For now. And so it continues.
Dennis Quaid goes all Jack Nicholson
The transition from house to home, from Scott and Annie being the intruders in Charlie's home to Charlie being the intruder in theirs dovetails neatly with the transition of Quaid from creepy but avuncular and "hot for an old guy" (scriptwriter nod to Quaid's efforts to stay buff) to something on the pathological spectrum.
Hitchcock once famously described the essence of suspense. A bomb under a table. The audience knows it's there, the people having an innocent conversation at the table do not. Suspense. Quaid is that bomb. We know it, Annie and Scott don't. It's tense, properly tense, this early section. But when are Scott and Annie going to figure it all out? Or put yet another way, when can we get to the final leg of the film, when all pretence is out the window, the bit with the screaming and running around?
Producer/director Deon Taylor has decided to handle all this in strict genre terms. There are no surprises, no games being played. At the beginning he introduces us to the good guys and the bad guy economically and at the end he does indeed give us screaming and running around. In between are the tricky bits, the transitions in Scott and Annie's understanding of what Charlie is all about, which Taylor also handles well, while Geoff Zanelli – who's read the same memo – lays on the shimmering strings and big bass booms like a man who believes that only too much is enough.
There's a guns/pro-guns sub-theme in The Intruder too, for anyone who is writing a thesis on how often "liberal" Hollywood rolls out the "what happens when you push a liberal?" scenario – no shocks here either – and a neat payoff finale that puts an elegant finish to a meat-and-potatoes 100 minutes.
Nicely done. No shocks. Not even the shocks.
The Intruder – Watch it/buy it at Amazon
The Intruder (2019) Thriller | 102min | 26 July 2019 (UK) 5.6
Director: Deon TaylorWriter: David LougheryStars: Michael Ealy, Meagan Good, Dennis QuaidSummary: In San Francisco, the couple Scott and Annie are happily married. When Scott is promoted in his job, Annie asks him to move to Napa Valley to raise a family with children of their own. They negotiate and buy the old house that belongs to the structural engineer and widower Charlie Peck. But soon Scott notes that Charlie is always in his real estate and is hitting on Annie and he decides to investigate with his friend Mike who Charlie is. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


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As readers of Guitar Player are no doubt aware, many musicians are also instrument collectors (see GP's articles on the collections of Roy Clark [Nov. '75] and Stephen Stills [Jan. '76] ). There are also many collectors who don't play the instruments at all, but view them as objects of art, or as a very good investment. While it is easy to identify a collector, it is more difficult to define a collectible guitar. There are, however, certain attributes that collectible instruments have in common, and this month and next month we will examine these in detail.
A collectible instrument is carefully constructed of high-quality material. This does not mean that it must be fancy. Quality of construction can be judged by neatness, excellence of finish, careful joints, good glue seams, properly proportioned bracing, accurate fret scale, good dimensions and symmetry, among other things. Elaborate inlay work and fancy binding do not necessarily indicate a good instrument, and in general, a poor instrument, even with beautiful trim, will not interest the collector.
As a corollary to high quality construction, a collectible instrument should be physically comfortable to play. At the very least, it should be possible to set it up in good playing order with minimal adjustment.
Another result of good craftsmanship is that most collector's items do sound good. If they didn't, they would have value only to art or antique dealers. The ultimate goal of a master craftsman is to produce an instrument that plays well and sounds good, not something that has a good appearance alone.
Many, but by no means all, collector's item instruments are quite beautiful, especially some pre-World War II acoustic guitars, banjos, and mandolins with elaborate carving, inlays, and trims. Some of these models, by virtue of their beauty and artistic appeal, command very high prices. However, I would like to stress that the ornamentation has been added to instruments that were already of very good quality. There were many guitars with a lot of pearl trim made in the early part of this century that are not valued by collectors because they were of inferior construction. In future months, we will study specific makes and models to determine what features make them the quality pieces they are.
Most collector's items are out or production, and are readily distinguishable from current models. However, the fact that a model has been discontinued does not make it desirable, nor does rarity alone. Some instruments are discontinued for the understandable reason that they aren't very good, and no one wants them. When a good instrument is rare, it is also often collectible. Since it is no longer made, money alone won't buy a collectible guitar; first you have to find one. With some models, this can take years. With a new guitar, it's possible to buy one in any music store, or at least to order it and know that it's coming. You can be sure that it will be in good condition when it arrives. With an older guitar, however you nave no such assurance. Nor do you know for sure whether the guitar is what the seller says it is, since forgeries in the vintage instrument business are fairly common. Most "Pre-war F-5" mandolins, for example, are copies, and it is safe to say that 99.9% of the banjos that look like pre-war Gibson Flatheads are either conversions or assembled from Darts. Finding an original piece in good condition is exceedingly difficult.
In the past, the demand for fretted instruments was not as great as it is now. Before World War II, none or the companies were producing instruments in the quantities they are today. Even in later years, some models were manufactured in very limited quantities, such as the Explorer and the Flying V, and are consequently very rare. Not only were instruments produced in smaller quantities but the older an instrument is, the greater the odds are that it will have been lost to fire or flood, damaged beyond repair, "customized" with a poor refinish, inappropriate inlays, or removal of the pickups, badly repaired, or abused. Every year that passes increases the chance that an instrument will not survive intact. I should say, however, that age in itself does not make something valuable. A guitar that was a student model junker at the turn of the century is likely to still be trash today.
There are some pieces that, by virtue of their great historical appeal, extreme oddity, or abundant ornamentation, may be outstanding additions to a collection and yet be of little or no practical use to a professional musician. In these cases, the market is dominated by the collector rather than by the musician. I should stress that all of these instruments are the products of master builders. The rarest and fanciest instrument by an incompetent craftsman is worthless. A highly ornamented, one-of-a-kind piece by a famous maker, on the other hand, will bring an enormous amount of money, often more than is warranted by the instrument's tone and playability .
The rarity of a model on the market is not determined by the absolute numbers made, but by how many potential buyers there are or each instrument. For example, Gibson made thousands of Les Pauls, but there are hundreds of thousands of people who want them. Even though the sunburst Les Paul might be more common than a Super 400 of equivalent age, it brings more on today's market because of the great demand. What I have termed rarity, therefore, is largely a function of supply and demand.


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namespace Bundle\MainBundle\Controller\Api;

use Bundle\MainBundle\Controller\AdvancedController;
use Bundle\MainBundle\Entity\Audit;
use Bundle\MainBundle\Entity\OrganChart;
use Bundle\MainBundle\Entity\User;
use Bundle\MainBundle\Repository\AuditRepository;
use Bundle\MainBundle\Repository\OrganChartRepository;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
use Sensio\Bundle\FrameworkExtraBundle\Configuration\Method;
use Sensio\Bundle\FrameworkExtraBundle\Configuration\Route;
use Sensio\Bundle\FrameworkExtraBundle\Configuration\Template;

use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;
use Doctrine\DBAL\Connection;
use Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Exception\AccessDeniedHttpException;

/**
 * OrganChart controller
 *
 * @Route("/api")
 */
class OrganChartController extends ApiController
{

    /**
     * @Route("/putOrganChart/")
     * @return Response
     */
    public function putDepartmentAction()
    {
        $request = $this->getRequest();
        if (!$this->checkSecretKey($request)) {
            throw new AccessDeniedHttpException();
        }
        $content = $request->getContent();
        if ($this->container->getParameter('enable_api_logs')) {
            $this->get('my_logger')->logData($content, 'api_log_organ_chart');
        }

        $items = unserialize($content);
        if (empty($items)) return new Response();

        /** @var OrganChartRepository $repository */
        $repository = $this->getRepository('OrganChart');
        foreach ($items as $item) {
            try {
                $itemObj = $repository->findOneBy(array('originalId' => $item['originalId']));

                if (!$itemObj) {
                    $itemObj = new OrganChart();
                }

                foreach ($item as $field => $value) {

                    $method = 'set' . ucfirst($field);
                    if (method_exists($itemObj, $method)) {
                        switch($field) {
                            case 'description':
                                $value = $repository->convertFromRtfToHtml($value);
                                break;
                            case 'account':
                                $value = $this->getRepository('account')->findOneBy(array(
                                    'originalId' => $value
                                ));
                                break;
                            case 'contact':
                                $value = $this->getRepository('user')->findOneBy(array(
                                    'originalId' => $value
                                ));
                                break;
                        }
                        $itemObj->$method($value);
                    }
                }

                $repository->save($itemObj);
            } catch (\Exception $ex) {
                $this->get('myLogger')->log($ex);
            }
        }

        return new Response();
    }
}


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Q: Contrasting color for NaNs in imagesc I fill unused elements in a matrix with NaNs, and I would like to assign a contrasting color to those elements with the NaN value when displaying the data using imagesc.
Below is a link to a possible solution, but I don't quite understand it.
http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/newsreader/view_thread/19985

A: There are 2 general steps to using multiple color maps like this:

*

*Stack the new colormap with your old one.

*Shift the new values that you want to map to this new colormap so that the ratio of range(new data) to range(old data) is the same as nrow(new colormap) to nrow(old colormap).

This will successfully map the new data to the new colormap, while at the same time mapping the old data to the old colormap (i.e. not altering the colors of the old data). Also note that a copy of the data gets stored with the image, so we can do this shifting without altering the original values.
A simplified example:
% Make image data
img = -5:5;

% Plot with original colormap
figure
imagesc(img);
colormap(hot(8))

% Add in an NaN
img(3) = NaN;

% Make new colormap
n = 8;
cols = [0 0 1 %blue
        hot(n)];

% Plot with new colormap
figure
h = imagesc(img);
colormap([0 0 1; hot(8)])

% Scale data so that the range proportions match the colormap sizes
cdata = get(h, 'CData');
img_range = range(cdata(:));
cdata(isnan(cdata)) = min(cdata(:)) - img_range/n;
set(h, 'CData', cdata);

A: NaN values get the first color from the axes colormap, which by default corresponds to the minimum value (other than NaN). You can change the color for minimum value setting axes color limits with CAXIS function. To assign a contrast color to NaN values you can add a special color for NaN values as a first color (1x3 vector).
I take your example and made a function (with some comments):
function [h hcb] = imagescwithnan(a,cm,nanclr)
% IMAGESC with NaNs assigning a specific color to NaNs

%# find minimum and maximum
amin=min(a(:));
amax=max(a(:));
%# size of colormap
n = size(cm,1);
%# color step
dmap=(amax-amin)/n;

%# standard imagesc
him = imagesc(a);
%# add nan color to colormap
colormap([nanclr; cm]);
%# changing color limits
caxis([amin-dmap amax]);
%# place a colorbar
hcb = colorbar;
%# change Y limit for colorbar to avoid showing NaN color
ylim(hcb,[amin amax])

if nargout > 0
    h = him;
end

Here caxis statement assigns the first color of the color map not to the minimum value amin, but to the amin-dmap. So the first color get assigned specifically to NaNs.

Try this function with:
a=peaks;
a(a < 0.5) = nan;
imagescwithnan(a,hot,[0 1 1]) %# [0 1 1] is cyan

If you comment the ylim statement in the function (can be control with additional parameter) this NaN color will be on the colormap.

A: This question shows up first in my search engine, but I found a much more preferable answer in this post so I thought I would include it here.
In summary, use the following:
imagesc(Z,'AlphaData',~isnan(Z))

Alternatively, note that pcolor ignores nans by default.


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The Highs & Lows Of The MTV Movie Awards
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MTV Movie Awards: From Tiffany Haddish's Best Jokes to The Blackest Show Yet
Ariana Romero
Black Panther basically won the 2018 MTV Movie & TV Awards. A queer young Black man, who plays both a rom-com movie dreamboat and a TV superhero, won Best Kiss. Beyoncé proteges Chloe X Halle performed "The Kids Are Alright," promising to "bless you with some culture." Lena Waithe took home the Trailblazer Award. Zazie Beetz simply told everyone how to say her name properly. And, superstar Tiffany Haddish hosted the whole damn thing, because she ready. These were the Blackest Golden Popcorn Awardsfests in history.
We should have known the proceedings were going to be as beautifully Black as possible when we found out that Haddish, a woman who hasn't left her South Central neighborhood behind for the gated communities in the Hills after stardom called, would be emceeing the event. Her opening bit was a hilarious and fitting overture for an evening of Black excellence. The show kicked off with a spoof of Black Panther, complete with the comedienne coming for the Wakandan crown — or just a whiff of T'Challa's (Chadwick Boseman) inner leg.
It's difficult to pick the most unapologetically Black joke from the pre-taped cold open. Haddish performs the very appropriate TLC's classic "Waterfalls" with two other women of color in the Black Panther challenge waterfall. There is a Lil Wayne joke about lean. Haddish pokes fun at Boseman's current ubiquity in Black biopics, screeching, "Oh my God, I just shanked Chadwick Boseman, AKA James Brown, AKA Jackie Robinson." It's a quick and funny indictment of how little creativity Hollywood has about America's Black icons — and Haddish didn't even have to mention Boseman's time as Thurgood Marshall.
Haddish's former Carmichael Show co-star and current pal Lil Rel Howery yells "Worldstar!" when a fight breaks out, referencing the famed and very Black blog. What's next, a nod to The Shade Room?
Unfortunately, no. But, we do get an entire homage to the breakout queen of the Love & Hip Hop franchise, which turns out to be even better: Cardi B. As the entire Black Panther cast in attendance applauds the end of the movie spoof and Kristen Bell mouths "That was amazing!" to someone, Haddish, as "Tiffany B." bursts onto the scene, carried by two ripped men in unicorn costumes. Cardi's defining hit "Bodak Yellow" is blaring. But the song has been updated to praise the greatness that is Tiffany Haddish – who, it turns out, can spit rhymes rather well.
"If you see me and I don't speak, that means you might bite me too," Haddish raps in a dress identical to the one Cardi wore on Saturday Night Live to announce her pregnancy. Yes, it took less than seven minutes for a perfect Beyoncé BiteGate joke.
It should be no surprise Haddish's monologue began by recognizing all the major strides Black people have made in culture since professional frat boy jokester Adam Devine hosted the awards show last year. Haddish is the first Black woman to ever emcee the show. Black Panther is the first African American-led movie to make $1 billion. And, she jokes, A Quiet Place is the first movie to scare Black people so much, they won't even talk in the movie theaters. What would be a groaner for most comedians turns into a well-crafted piece of comedy in her hands.
Haddish is uncommonly effective because she values a good, original joke above all. Just look at her take on the aforementioned Quiet Place – as seen in pre-taped segment in which a Black woman watches the horror film for the first time. Yes, she screams a bunch of funny things at the screen while munching on popcorn, but, that tired trope isn't where the story ends. Rather, it continues to the point where Haddish sees an opportunity and releases her own ridiculous twist on the John Krasinski-directed blockbuster (R.I.P, Jamie Foxx). Remember, she ready. Always.
While A Dark-Ass Place was good, Haddish's faux appearance in the Star Wars universe is great. Like, talk about it in 20 years great. The premise is that Haddish stumbles into the famed The Last Jedi scene, where Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) and Rey (Daisy Ridley) have a heart-to-heart through the force. Only this time, the heart-to-heart is between shirtless "big old freak" Kylo, his infamous high waisted pants (Haddish's greatest weakness, natch), and Haddish herself.
"Look at that delicious, blindingly white skin. I can see your lungs," she gasps. The sexy conversation eventually escalates into Haddish getting shot by a ray gun in the "tigole bitty" and fighting with Kylo over her totally-not-a-vibrator back massager. One hasn't lived until they've seen Tiffany Haddish scream, "It's for my back! It's not for my front!" as a scarred-up Adam Driver tries to force-pull an object that definitely isn't a sex toy away from her. The impeccable few minutes of comedy have nothing to do with Haddish as Black woman; it's simply about her being a funny, delightfully raunchy performer. Because like the many white, male comics who have come before Haddish, she too can be funny outside of her identity.
That sentiment was essentially the mission statement of Black Panther villain Michael B. Jordan's portion of his cast's acceptance speech for Best Movie, which wrapped up the Marvel flick's winning night. "The stereotype used to be people of color couldn't bring y'all out to the theater and be able to make these type of films and bring this type of impact to you guys, so the fact that we're able to do this on this scale, this movie, this project, means the world to us," the thirst object of the evening said, flanked by Boseman and fellow co-star Winston Duke.
"It's not just for people of color — it's universal. It's for everybody."
That's what makes seeing Boseman accept "Best Hero" and turning the award over to real-life hero and young Black man James Shaw Jr., who stopped a gunman at a Waffle House in April, so special. Or watching Haddish's crew cheer her on for winning Best Comedic Performance, only to see the names "Lakeith Stanfield" and "Tessa Thompson" flash on screen as the host walks off, informing viewers of the next presenters. As is seeing an established queer icon like Lena Waithe applaud an up-and-coming one like Love, Simon's Keiynan Lonsdale, in all of his joyous, cream-skirted wonder.
Black joy and Black success aren't things only Black people can feel, celebrate, or connect to. No, it's universal.
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