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E-Commerce Driving More Demand For D.C.-Area Industrial Than Developers Can Build
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September 9, 2020 Jon Banister, Bisnow Washington, D.C.
E-commerce companies are looking to open warehouses around the D.C. area faster than developers can build them, driving up rents in the industrial market and making new types of projects feasible.
Courtesy of JLL
A rendering of Fundrise's planned industrial development at 6621 Electronic Drive in Springfield, Virginia.
The D.C. area has historically not been a major industrial market, with no substantial manufacturing industry, and distributors were able to deliver to D.C. from other parts of the region. But the shortening of delivery times is pushing e-commerce companies like Amazon closer to the nation's capital.
"The e-commerce story in Washington is a fairly new story," JLL Senior Managing Director John Dettleff said. "You were able to get to Washington from Baltimore, Richmond or Central Pennsylvania ... now everybody in the market says 'I've got to be able to deliver same-day or next-day, and I can't do that 100 miles away. I've got to have some kind of presence proximate to the Beltway.'"
The increasing demand for D.C.-area warehouse space has led major developers to enter the market that have not previously built industrial space, such as Peterson Cos.
Peterson has acquired or placed under contract multiple properties on I-95, from Prince George's County to Stafford County, and is planning to move forward with new industrial projects in the coming months, Peterson President of Development Taylor Chess told Bisnow. He declined to share specific details on the projects.
"What you are seeing now is a flood of tenants coming to the market and looking for these opportunities," Chess said. "Warehouse has historically been relatively small in the D.C. market ... there's no question that this year e-commerce has skyrocketed, and it's gotten the focus of a lot of people."
The surging demand for industrial space around the Beltway has outpaced the amount of supply on the market, and there is a limited stock of vacant land available to build new warehouses. But the tightening industrial market is beginning to increase rents to a point where developers can afford to tear down old properties to build new warehouses.
This is the case in Springfield, where crowdfunding investor Fundrise in April paid $15.7M for a 7.7-acre property near the interchange of I-395 and the Beltway. Fundrise plans to demolish the two aging industrial buildings on the property and develop a 138K SF distribution center on spec, with JLL managing the project's leasing, Dettleff said.
"That's an example of the valuation in the market reaching a point where you can buy two buildings, rip them down and build something better," Dettleff said. "I think we'll start to see more of that as the market tightens."
Fundrise's Springfield site is less than a mile from the Amazon-leased warehouse that sold to Black Creek Group in July for $277K/SF, a record price for the market. Amazon's growth has continued to drive the region's industrial market, with the e-commerce giant last month announcing plans for seven last-mile warehouses totaling 1M SF in Maryland, including two in Prince George's County.
"They are probably the most active tenant in our market and have been taking more space," Transwestern Managing Director Mark Glagola, who brokered the July sale, said of Amazon. "Amazon has always been very aggressive, but I think you'll see more people follow."
Courtesy of Transwestern
The Washington-Baltimore industrial market experienced 7.1% year-over-year rent growth as of Q2, trailing only New Jersey and Dallas-Forth Worth.
The D.C. Metro area industrial market experienced 818K SF of positive net absorption in the first half of this year, according to JLL, its seventh straight quarter of occupancy gains.
The combined Baltimore-Washington industrial market experienced 7.1% year-over-year rent growth, according to Transwestern, the third-highest increase among the major U.S. industrial markets.
"We're at a tipping point right now where we're starting to see things like office and retail being torn down and industrial being created," Glagola said. "I think more of that will happen, because I believe rents will keep going up, and the cost to tear things down and build back up before was too restrictive."
The lack of large industrial development sites on the Beltway is leading developers to look further away from the major highway, Chesapeake Real Estate Group partner Matt Laraway said.
"It's a land-constrained market, and there's a lot of population, so everybody has wanted to be there, and you're seeing developers now stretching further from the Beltway than they had in years past," Laraway said.
Chesapeake has previously built industrial projects in the D.C. area, and it is now working on two developments in Maryland's Anne Arundel and Harford counties.
Courtesy of Manekin Cos., Powers Brown Architecture
A site plan of Manekin Cos.' planned 3M SF industrial park in Prince George's County.
Because of the lack of available land on the Beltway, Manekin is planning a 3M SF industrial park on a 450-acre site near Collington Center in Prince George's County, roughly 6 miles outside the Beltway.
"The only way to produce new product close to the Beltway is to tear down existing buildings and start over, so we think we have a good opportunity out at Collington," Manekin Chief Operating Officer Cole Schnorf said. "It's targeting all the users looking around the Beltway that can't find anything."
In addition to a scarcity of well-located land in the D.C. suburbs, industrial developers looking to build new projects also face challenges in earning community approval.
Amazon backed out of plans to build a 4M SF industrial facility at the Westphalia development in Prince George's County last year following opposition from neighboring residents. This year, the e-commerce giant is facing pushback from Montgomery County officials over a plan to build a 200K SF industrial facility in Gaithersburg.
"Montgomery County really doesn't want warehouses, and within Prince George's County, there are areas like Westphalia that are a challenge," Schnorf said. "Not only do you have to find a place you can go, but you've got to get jurisdictional buy-in as well."
As Peterson Cos. moves through the planning process for its industrial projects, Chess said it is working to get local officials on board with the idea of adding warehouses to their community.
"What's really interesting now is educating jurisdictions on what last-mile and this warehouse use is," Chess said. "Jurisdictions never wanted to have their industrial near major population centers. Industrial was always in the hinterlands, but now what these e-commerce tenants want is to be at the major intersections."
If it weren't for the scarcity of land and the difficult approval process, Glagola said the D.C. industrial market would be growing much faster.
"There is an incredible desire to build, the actual action of it is extremely difficult," Glagola said. "There is little to no greenfield space, you have to get rid of something in order to build something, and the entitlement process has never been easy ... We would build tenfold what we're building if we could."
Contact Jon Banister at jon.banister@bisnow.com
Related Topics: Fundrise, JLL, Transwestern, Prince George's County, Montgomery County, Springfield, Va., Peterson Cos, Amazon, Manekin, Taylor Chess, Mark Glagola, Gaithersburg, Chesapeake Real Estate Group, Cole Schnorf, Black Creek Group
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2. Two orders of the High Court of Karnataka dated 16th April, 2012 and 28th May, 2012 upholding the rejection of two separate applications made by the Appellant herein for certified copies or in the alternative for inspection of certain unmarked and unexhibited documents in a trial pending against her is the subject matter of challenge in the appeals under consideration. The facts leading to the applications filed before the learned trial court and the grounds of rejection being largely similar both the appeals were heard analogously.
3. A convenient staring point for the required narration of the relevant facts could be the order of this court dated 18th November, 2003 passed in Transfer Petitions (Criminal) Nos.77-78 of 2003 K. Anbazhagan Vs. The Superintendent of Police and Others Etc., By the aforesaid order dated 18th November, 2003 this court had transferred the proceeding in CC No. 7 of 1997 from the court of the 11th Additional Sessions Judge (Special Court No. 1), Chennai to a Special Court in Bangalore to be constituted by the State of Karnataka in consultation with the Chief Justice of the High Court of Karnataka. The Appellant before us is the second accused in the aforesaid transferred proceeding which has been registered as Spl. CC.No.208 of 2004 and is presently pending in the court of the 36th Additional Sessions Judge and Special Judge, Bangalore. It may also be noticed that along with CC No. 7 of 1997 there was another proceeding i.e. CC No. 2 of 2001 pending in the file of the same court, i.e. 11th Additional Sessions Judge (Special Court No. 1), Chennai against the same accused which was also transferred to the Special Court in Bangalore by the order dated 18th November, 2003. However, the said proceeding would not be of any relevance at the present stage as the chargesheet in the said case has since been withdrawn and the matter stands closed.
4. The transfer of CC No. 7 of 1997 and CC No. 2 of 2001 from the court at Chennai was sought by one Shri K. Anbazhagan, General Secretary of DMK Party, a recognised political party in the State of Tamil Nadu. In case No. CC No. 7 of 1997 then pending in the competent court at Chennai allegations of commission of offences u/s 120B of the Indian Penal Code and Section 13(2) read with Section 13(1) (e) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 were made against the present Appellant who was arrayed as the second accused in the case and also against one Smt. J. Jayalalitha, who was arrayed as the first accused. There were two other accused in the aforesaid proceeding, namely, accused No. 3 and 4, who are relatives of the present Appellant, i.e., accused No. 2. The offences alleged arose out of certain acts and omissions attributed to the accused during the period 1991-1996 when the first accused was the Chief Minister of the State which office she had demitted after the General Elections held in the State in 1996. According to the Petitioner in the Transfer Petitions, chargesheet in the aforesaid case had been filed on 21st October, 1997 and more than 250 prosecution witnesses had been examined by the end of August, 2000. The accused No. 1, once again, became the Chief Minister of the State following the General Elections held in May, 2001. Though the appointment of the first accused as the Chief Minister was nullified by this court and the accused ceased to be Chief Minister, w.e.f., 21st September, 2001, she was elected to the State assembly in a by-election held on 21st February, 2002 and was, once again, sworn in as the Chief Minister of the State on 2nd March, 2002. It was stated in the Transfer Petitions that, thereafter, the course of trial of CC.No.7 of 1997 took a peculiar turn and a large number of prosecution witnesses (76 in all) who had been discharged were recalled without any objection of the public prosecutor. 64 of such witnesses resiled from their earlier versions tendered in court. It was also alleged that none of these witnesses were declared hostile by the public prosecutor. Furthermore, according to the Petitioner, the presence of the first accused in court for her examination u/s 313 Cr.P.C. was dispensed with and, instead, a questionnaire was sent to the first accused to which she had responded. It is in these circumstances that the Transfer Petitions were filed before this Court.
(a) The State of Karnataka in consultation with the Chief Justice of the High Court of Karnataka shall constitute a Special Court under the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988 to whom CC No. 7 of 1997 and CC No. 2 of 2001 pending on the file of the XIth Additional Sessions Judge (Special Court No. 1), Chennai in the State of Tamil Nadu shall stand transferred. The Special Court to have its sitting in Bangalore.
(b) As the matter is pending since 1997the State of Karnataka shall appoint a Special Judge within a month from the date of receipt of this order and the trial before the Special Judge shall commence as soon as possible and will then proceed from day to day till completion.
(c) The State of Karnataka in consultation with the Chief Justice of the High Court of Karnataka shall appoint a senior lawyer having experience in criminal trials as Public Prosecutor to conduct these cases. The Public Prosecutor so appointed shall be entitled to assistance of another lawyer of his choice. The fees and all other expenses of the Public Prosecutor and the Assistant shall be paid by the State of Karnataka who will thereafter be entitled to get the same reimbursed from the State of Tamil Nadu. The Public Prosecutor to be appointed within six weeks from today.
(d) The investigating agency is directed to render all assistance to the Public Prosecutor and his Assistant.
(e) The Special Judge so appointed to proceed with the cases from such stage as he deems fit and proper and in accordance with law.
(f) The Public Prosecutor will be at liberty to apply that the witnesses who have been recalled and cross-examined by the accused and who have resiled from their previous statement, may be again recalled. The Public Prosecutor would be at liberty to apply to the court to have these witnesses declared hostile and to seek permission to cross-examine them. Any such application if made to the Special Court shall be allowed. The Public Prosecutor will also be at liberty to apply that action in perjury to be taken against some or all such witnesses. Any such application(s) will be undoubtedly considered on its merit(s).
(g) The State of Tamil Nadu shall ensure that all documents and records are forthwith transferred to the Special Court on its constitution. The State of Tamil Nadu shall also ensure that the witnesses are produced before the Special Court whenever they are required to attend that court.
(h) In case any witness asks for protection, the State of Karnataka shall provide protection to that witness.
(i) The Special Judge shall after completion of evidence put to all the accused all relevant evidence and documents appearing against them whilst recording their statement u/s 313. All the accused shall personally appear in court, on the day they are called upon to do so, for answering questions u/s 313 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
These petitions are allowed in the above terms.
6. Though a detailed recital will not be necessary it appears that notwithstanding the above directions of this court not much progress has been achieved to bring to trial in Special CC No. 208 of 2004 to its logical conclusion. Soon after the proceedings were transferred to the Special Court at Bangalore an order dated 27th June, 2005 was passed by the learned trial court for clubbing of the two cases. This order came to be challenged before this court by the Petitioner in the Transfer Petitions, i.e. Shri K. Anbazihagan and until the SLP filed (SLP No. 3828/2005) was disposed of on 22nd January, 2010 the criminal proceedings had remained stayed. It also appears that from time to time applications had been filed before the learned trial court by one or the accused raising different interlocutory issues and also seeking to vindicate different facets of the right of the accused to a free and fair trial. Such applications, inter alia, were for translation of depositions of prosecution witnesses running into thousands of pages; for corrections in such translations; for appointment or assistance of an interpreter and such are the incidental matters. The orders passed by the trial court on all such applications invariably came to be challenged before the High Court and even before this court. On several of such occasions the trial came to be halted due to interim orders passed by different courts. Consequently, as on date the examination of the Appellant (accused No. 2) u/s 313 Cr.P.C. is going on, the same having commenced on 18th February, 2012. While such examination of the Appellant was midway and she had answered over 500 questions out of the contemplated double the number, an application dated 16th April, 2012 was filed by the Appellant before the learned trial court seeking certified copies of certain unmarked and unexhibited documents which were claimed to be in the custody of the court on being so forwarded alongwith the report of investigation u/s 173(5) Cr.P.C. The learned trial court dismissed the said application by its order 3rd April, 2012, whereafter, the High Court of Karnataka was approached by means of Criminal Petition No. 1840 of 2012. The petition having been dismissed by the High Court on 16th April, 2012, the Appellant forthwith filed another application before the learned trial court, this time, seeking an inspection of the said unmarked and unexhibited documents in respect of which the earlier application was filed but rejected. This application was also rejected by the learned trial court by its order dated 21st April, 2012 which led to the inception of Criminal Petition No. 2483 of 2012 in the High Court which was dismissed on 28th May, 2002. The said order dated 28th May, 2012 as well as the earlier order dated 16th April, 2012 of the High Court have been challenged before this court in the present appeals.
7. A reading of the orders passed by the learned trial court on the applications filed by the present Appellant as well as the two separate orders passed by the High Court affirming the orders of the trial court would go to show that the grounds that found favour with the learned courts to reject the prayer made by the Appellant are largely similar. It is the view of the learned trial court as well as the High Court that in the present case the charges against the Appellant were framed way back in the year 2007. At the time of the framing of the charge the court is required to satisfy itself that all papers, documents and statements required to be furnished to the accused u/s 207 Cr.P.C. have been so furnished. No grievance in this regard was raised by the Appellant or any of the accused. The issue was also not raised at any point of time in the course of examination of any of the prosecution witnesses (over 250 witnesses had been examined). It has also been expressed by the High Court that though the Appellant had answered over 532 questions in her examination u/s 313 Cr.P.C. no grievance was raised or any prejudice claimed by the Appellant at any earlier point of time. It is also the view of the High Court that non furnishing of the copies of the documents or not conceding to the prayer for inspection will not automatically render the prosecution bad in law in as much as the effect of such action must result in prejudice to the accused which question can well be decided when the matter is being considered on merits. The High Court also took the view that the documents, copies or inspection of which was sought, being unmarked and unexhibited documents, objections can always be raised if the accused is to be questioned in connection with such documents in her examination u/s 313 Cr.P.C. In addition to the above, the High Court was of the view that this court having passed clear directions in its order dated 18th November, 2003 that the criminal proceedings against the accused should be brought to its earliest conclusion by conducting the trial on day to day basis, the filing of the applications for certified copies/inspection of the unmarked and unexhibited documents constitute another attempt on the part of the Appellant to over reach the order of this court and delay the trial. It is the correctness of the reasons assigned by the High Court for ultimate conclusions reached by it that has been assailed before us in the present appeals.
8. We have heard Shri Shekhar Naphade and Shri V. Giri, learned senior counsel for the Appellant and Shri Rakesh Dwivedi, learned senior counsel for the Respondent. We have also heard Shri T.R. Andhiyarujina, learned senior counsel appearing for the applicant Shri K. Anbazhagan, General Secretary, DMK Party, who has sought impleadment in the present proceedings. The learned senior counsel had been heard, primarily, on the prayer for impleadment, in the course of which, naturally, he was permitted to traverse the relevant facts of the case. Upon hearing the learned senior counsel we do not consider it necessary to pass any specific order on the impleadment application as we are finally disposing both the appeals by the present order.
9. Learned counsel for the Appellant have vehemently contended that from the objections filed to the applications seeking certified copies or an inspection of the unmarked and unexhibited documents as well as from the orders of the learned trial court passed on the said applications it is clear that out of the papers forwarded to the court u/s 173(5) Cr.P.C. alongwith the report of investigation some documents have been marked and exhibited by the prosecution while some other documents have not been so utilised. As all such documents had been forwarded to the court upon completion of investigation the unmarked and unexhibited documents are in the custody of the court. According to the learned counsel, the Appellant in her application to the learned trial court (IA No. 711/2012) had set out a complete list of the unmarked documents mentioning the particulars of the search lists by which the documents were seized in the course of investigation. Learned counsel has further argued that the conduct of the prosecution in not marking and exhibiting the said documents can only indicate that the same do not support the prosecution case and in fact may assist the defence of the accused. As the answers to the questions put to the accused u/s 313 are capable of being relied upon against or in favour of the accused, the Appellant had sought copies/inspection of such documents so as to be in a position to Assess as to which of the documents can come to the aid of her defence so that the answers given by her in her examination u/s 313 Cr.P.C. can be projected without reflecting any inconsistency with the defence that may be adduced. The attention of the court has also been drawn to an affidavit filed by the Petitioner pinpointing as to how some of the documents could be relevant to certain specific questions put to the Appellant in the course of her examination u/s 313 Cr.P.C. In fact, according to the learned counsel the right of the Appellant to copies or, at least, to an inspection of the documents constitute a part of the larger right of the Appellant to a fair trial of the charges levelled against her. Reliance has been placed on the decisions of this court in Sidhartha Vashisht @ Manu Sharma Vs. State (NCT of Delhi), Sanatan Naskar and Another Vs. State of West Bengal, and Manu Sao v. State of Bihar (2011) 7 SCC 310.
10. On the other hand, learned counsel for the State has contended that when the documents copies or inspection of which has been sought are not being relied on by the prosecution, in any manner, to bring home the charge against the Appellant it is not open for the Appellant to insist on any right to the copies of such documents or to inspect the same. It is urged that the documents relevant to the charge had been furnished to the Appellant u/s 207 at the appropriate stage of the proceeding and also that such documents had been duly considered at the time of framing of charges. No issue in this regard was raised by the Appellant at any earlier point of time. In fact, though different objections to various other facets of the trial were raised by the Appellant from time to time by filing repeated/successive applications it is only when the examination of the Appellant u/s 313 Cr.P.C. had reached a fairly advanced stage that the present applications have been filed. Both the applications, therefore, are in utter abuse of the process of law and being calculated only to delay the trial the same have been rightly rejected by the learned trial court which orders have been affirmed by the High Court. Learned counsel has also pointed out that the contention to the effect that the documents are required to enable the Appellant to prepare her defence is wholly untenable as the said stage would arise only after the examination of all the accused u/s 313 Cr.P.C. is complete.
� Any other document or relevant extract thereof forwarded to the Magistrate with the police report under sub-section (5) of section 173.
12. While the first proviso to Section 207 empowers the court to exclude from the copies to be furnished to the accused such portions as may be covered by Section 173(6), the second proviso to Section 207 empowers the court to provide to the accused an inspection of the documents instead of copies thereof, if, in the opinion of the court it is not practicable to furnish to the accused the copies of the documents because of the voluminous content thereof. We would like to emphasise, at this stage, that while referring to the aforesaid provisions of the Code, we have deliberately used the expressions "court" instead of the expression "Magistrate" as under various special enactments the requirement of commitment of a case to a higher court (court of Sessions) by the Magistrate as mandated by the Code has been dispensed with and the special courts constituted under a special statute have been empowered to receive the report of the investigation along with the relevant documents directly from the investigating agency and thereafter to take cognizance of the offence, if so required.
13. It is in the context of the above principles of law and the provisions of the Code that the rights of the Appellant will have to be adjudicated upon by us in the present case. It is not in dispute that after the appearance of the accused in the Court of the Special Judge a large number of documents forwarded to the Court by the Investigating Officer along with his report, had been furnished to the accused. Thereafter, charges against the accused had been framed way back in the year 2007 and presently the trial has reached the stage of examination of the second accused, i.e. Appellant under the provisions of Section 313 Cr.P.C. At no earlier point of time (before the examination of the second accused u/s 313 Cr.P.C.) the accused had pointed out that there are documents in the Court which have been forwarded to it u/s 173 (5) and which have not been relied upon by the prosecution. It is only at such an advanced stage of the trial that the accused, after pointing out the said facts, had claimed an entitlement to copies of the said documents or at least an inspection of the same on the ground that the said documents favour the accused.
14. Seizure of a large number of documents in the course of investigation of a criminal case is a common feature. After completion of the process of investigation and before submission of the report to the Court u/s 173 Cr.P.C., a fair amount of application of mind on the part of the investigating agency is inbuilt in the Code. Such application of mind is both with regard to the specific offence(s) that the Investigating Officer may consider to have been committed by the accused and also the identity and particulars of the specific documents and records, seized in the course of investigation, which supports the conclusion of the Investigating Officer with regard to the offence(s) allegedly committed. Though it is only such reports which support the prosecution case that are required to be forwarded to the Court u/s 173 (5) in every situation where some of the seized papers and documents do not support the prosecution case and, on the contrary, supports the accused, a duty is cast on the Investigating Officer to evaluate the two sets of documents and materials collected and, if required, to exonerate the accused at that stage itself. However, it is not impossible to visualize a situation whether the Investigating Officer ignores the part of the seized documents which favour the accused and forwards to the Court only those documents which support the prosecution. If such a situation is pointed by the accused and such documents have, in fact, been forwarded to the Court would it not be the duty of the Court to make available such documents to the accused regardless of the fact whether the same may not have been marked and exhibited by the prosecution? What would happen in a situation where such documents are not forwarded by the Investigating Officer to the Court is a question that does not arise in the present case. What has arisen before us is a situation where evidently the unmarked and unexhibited documents of the case that are being demanded by the accused had been forwarded to the Court u/s 173 (5) but are not being relied upon by the prosecution. Though the prosecution has tried to cast some cloud on the issue as to whether the unmarked and unexhibited documents are a part of the report u/s 173 Cr.P.C., it is not denied by the prosecution that the said unmarked and unexhibited documents are presently in the custody of the Court. Besides, the accused in her application before the learned Trial court(IA 711/2012) had furnished specific details of the said documents and had correlated the same with reference to specific seizure lists prepared by the investigating agency. In such circumstances, it can be safely assumed that what has been happened in the present case is that along with the report of investigation a large number of documents have been forwarded to the Court out of which the prosecution has relied only on a part thereof leaving the remainder unmarked and unexhibited.
216. u/s 170, the documents during investigation are required to be forwarded to the Magistrate, while in terms of Section 173(5) all documents or relevant extracts and the statement recorded u/s 161 have to be forwarded to the Magistrate. The investigating officer is entitled to collect all the material, which in his wisdom is required for proving the guilt of the offender. He can record statement in terms of Section 161 and his power to investigate the matter is a very wide one, which is regulated by the provisions of the Code. The statement recorded u/s 161 is not evidence per se u/s 162 of the Code. The right of the accused to receive the documents/statements submitted before the court is absolute and it must be adhered to by the prosecution and the court must ensure supply of documents/statements to the accused in accordance with law. Under the proviso to Section 162(1) the accused has a statutory right of confronting the witnesses with the statements recorded u/s 161 of the Code thus indivisible.
217. Further, Section 91 empowers the court to summon production of any document or thing which the court considers necessary or desirable for the purposes of any investigation, inquiry, trial or another proceeding under the provisions of the Code. Where Section 91 read with Section 243 says that if the accused is called upon to enter his defence and produce his evidence there he has also been given the right to apply to the court for issuance of process for compelling the attendance of any witness for the purpose of examination, cross-examination or the production of any document or other thing for which the court has to pass a reasoned order.
218. The liberty of an accused cannot be interfered with except under due process of law. The expression "due process of law" shall deem to include fairness in trial. The court (sic Code) gives a right to the accused to receive all documents and statements as well as to move an application for production of any record or witness in support of his case. This constitutional mandate and statutory rights given to the accused place an implied obligation upon the prosecution (prosecution and the Prosecutor) to make fair disclosure. The concept of fair disclosure would take in its ambit furnishing of a document which the prosecution relies upon whether filed in court or not. That document should essentially be furnished to the accused and even in the cases where during investigation a document is bona fide obtained by the investigating agency and in the opinion of the Prosecutor is relevant and would help in arriving at the truth, that document should also be disclosed to the accused .
219. The role and obligation of the Prosecutor particularly in relation to disclosure cannot be equated under our law to that prevalent under the English system as aforereferred to. But at the same time, the demand for a fair trial cannot be ignored. It may be of different consequences where a document which has been obtained suspiciously, fraudulently or by causing undue advantage to the accused during investigation such document could be denied in the discretion of the Prosecutor to the accused whether the prosecution relies or not upon such documents, however in other cases the obligation to disclose would be more certain. As already noticed the provisions of Section 207 have a material bearing on this subject and make an interesting reading. This provision not only require or mandate that the court without delay and free of cost should furnish to the accused copies of the police report, first information report, statements, confessional statements of the persons recorded u/s 161 whom the prosecution wishes to examine as witnesses, of course, excluding any part of a statement or document as contemplated u/s 173(6) of the Code, any other document or relevant extract thereof which has been submitted to the Magistrate by the police under sub-section (5) of Section 173. In contradistinction to the provisions of Section 173, where the legislature has used the expression "documents on which the prosecution relies" are not used u/s 207 of the Code. Therefore, the provisions of Section 207 of the Code will have to be given liberal and relevant meaning so as to achieve its object. Not only this, the documents submitted to the Magistrate along with the report u/s 173(5) would deem to include the documents which have to be sent to the Magistrate during the course of investigation as per the requirement of Section 170(2) of the Code.
220. The right of the accused with regard to disclosure of documents is a limited right but is codified and is the very foundation of a fair investigation and trial. On such matters, the accused cannot claim an indefeasible legal right to claim every document of the police file or even the portions which are permitted to be excluded from the documents annexed to the report u/s 173(2) as per orders of the court. But certain rights of the accused flow both from the codified law as well as from equitable concepts of the constitutional jurisdiction, as substantial variation to such procedure would frustrate the very basis of a fair trial. To claim documents within the purview of scope of Sections 207, 243 read with the provisions of Section 173 in its entirety and power of the court u/s 91 of the Code to summon documents signifies and provides precepts which will govern the right of the accused to claim copies of the statement and documents which the prosecution has collected during investigation and upon which they rely.
221. It will be difficult for the Court to say that the accused has no right to claim copies of the documents or request the Court for production of a document which is part of the general diary subject to satisfying the basic ingredients of law stated therein. A document which has been obtained bona fide and has bearing on the case of the prosecution and in the opinion of the Public Prosecutor, the same should be disclosed to the accused in the interest of justice and fair investigation and trial should be furnished to the accused. Then that document should be disclosed to the accused giving him chance of fair defence, particularly when non-production or disclosure of such a document would affect administration of criminal justice and the defence of the accused prejudicially.
16. The declaration of the law in Sidhartha Vashisht (supra) may have touched upon the outer fringe of the issues arising in the present case. However, the positive advancement that has been achieved cannot, in our view, be allowed to take a roundabout turn and the march has only to be carried forward. If the claim of the Appellant is viewed in context and perspective outlined above, according to us, a perception of possible prejudice, if the documents or at least an inspection thereof is denied, looms large. The absence of any claim on the part of the accused to the said documents at any earlier point of time cannot have the effect of foreclosing such a right of the accused. Absence of such a claim, till the time when raised, can be understood and explained in several reasonable and acceptable ways. Suffice it would be to say that individual notion of prejudice, difficulty or handicap in putting forward a defence would vary from person to person and there can be no uniform yardstick to measure such perceptions. If the present Appellant has perceived certain difficulties in answering or explaining some part of the evidence brought by the prosecution on the basis of specific documents and seeks to ascertain if the allegedly incriminating documents can be better explained by reference to some other documents which are in the court's custody, an opportunity must be given to the accused to satisfy herself in this regard. It is not for the prosecution or for the Court to comprehend the prejudice that is likely to be caused to the accused. The perception of prejudice is for the accused to develop and if the same is founded on a reasonable basis it is the duty of the Court as well as the prosecution to ensure that the accused should not be made to labour under any such perception and the same must be put to rest at the earliest. Such a view, according to us, is an inalienable attribute of the process of a fair trial that Article 21 guarantees to every accused.
17. The issue that has emerged before us is, therefore, somewhat larger than what has been projected by the State and what has been dealt with by the High Court. The question arising would no longer be one of compliance or non-compliance with the provisions of Section 207 Cr.P.C. and would travel beyond the confines of the strict language of the provisions of the Cr.P.C. and touch upon the larger doctrine of a free and fair trial that has been painstakingly built up by the courts on a purposive interpretation of Article 21 of the Constitution. It is not the stage of making of the request; the efflux of time that has occurred or the prior conduct of the accused that is material. What is of significance is if in a given situation the accused comes to the court contending that some papers forwarded to the Court by the investigating agency have not been exhibited by the prosecution as the same favours the accused the court must concede a right to in the accused to have an access to the said documents, if so claimed. This, according to us, is the core issue in the case which must be answered affirmatively. In this regard, we would like to be specific in saying that we find it difficult to agree with the view taken by the High Court that the accused must be made to await the conclusion of the trial to test the plea of prejudice that he may have raised. Such a plea must be answered at the earliest and certainly before the conclusion of the trial, even though it may be raised by the accused belately. This is how the scales of justice in our Criminal Jurisprudence have to be balanced.
18. There is yet another possible dimension of the case. It is the specific contention of the accused in both the applications dated 29.3.2012 (for certified copies of the unmarked documents) and 18.4.2012 (for inspection) that it is in the course of the examination of the accused u/s 313 Cr.P.C. that a perception had developed that the accused may be giving incomplete/ incorrect answers in response to the questions put to her by the Court and that she needs copies of the documents or at least an opportunity of inspection of the same to enable her to provide effective answers and to appropriately prepare her defence.
13. As already noticed, the object of recording the statement of the accused u/s 313 of the Code is to put all incriminating evidence against the accused so as to provide him an opportunity to explain such incriminating circumstances appearing against him in the evidence of the prosecution. At the same time, also to permit him to put forward his own version or reasons, if he so chooses, in relation to his involvement or otherwise in the crime. The court has been empowered to examine the accused but only after the prosecution evidence has been concluded. It is a mandatory obligation upon the court and besides ensuring the compliance therewith the court has to keep in mind that the accused gets a fair chance to explain his conduct. The option lies with the accused to maintain silence coupled with simpliciter denial or in the alternative to explain his version and reasons for his alleged involvement in the commission of crime. This is the statement which the accused makes without fear or right of the other party to cross-examine him. However, if the statements made are false, the court is entitled to draw adverse inferences and pass consequential orders, as may be called for, in accordance with law. The primary purpose is to establish a direct dialogue between the court and the accused and to put to the accused every important incriminating piece of evidence and grant him an opportunity to answer and explain. Once such a statement is recorded, the next question that has to be considered by the court is to what extent and consequences such statement can be used during the enquiry and the trial. Over the period of time, the courts have explained this concept and now it has attained, more or less, certainty in the field of criminal jurisprudence.
14. The statement of the accused can be used to test the veracity of the exculpatory nature of the admission, if any, made by the accused. It can be taken into consideration in any enquiry or trial but still it is not strictly evidence in the case. The provisions of Section 313(4) explicitly provides that the answers given by the accused may be taken into consideration in such enquiry or trial and put in evidence against the accused in any other enquiry or trial for any other offence for which such answers may tend to show he has committed. In other words, the use is permissible as per the provisions of the Code but has its own limitations. The courts may rely on a portion of the statement of the accused and find him guilty in consideration of the other evidence against him led by the prosecution, however, such statements made under this section should not be considered in isolation but in conjunction with evidence adduced by the prosecution.
(2) Such inspection will be completed within a period of 21 days from the date of receipt of this order by the learned trial court. The venue of such inspection and also the persons who will be permitted to be present at the time of inspection will be decided by the learned trial court.
(3) The right of inspection conferred by this order will not affect the validity of any part of the trial till date, including, the examination of the accused No. 1 u/s 313 Cr.P.C. which has since been completed or any part of such examination of the second accused that may have been completed in the meantime.
(4) In the event the third and the fourth accused also desire inspection of the unmarked and unexhibited documents such inspection will be allowed by the learned trial court. In such an event the process of inspection will also be simultaneously carried out and completed within the period of 21 days stipulated in the present order.
21. In the result, both the appeals shall stand disposed of in terms of the directions as above.


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Драгомир Кранчевић (Панчево, 4. октобар 1847 — Беч, 19. мај 1929) био је један од првих српских виртуоза на виолини кога су слушали Беч, немачки градови и Пешта. Панчевачко српско црквено певачко друштво је за студије у Беч стипендирало Драгомира Кранчевића, који је касније постао концертни мајстор Пештанске опере. Са десет година из Панчева стиже у Беч, а са четрнаест година врло успешно свира у великој Ритерској дворани, да би доспео, у својој петнаестој години, до славног Музикферајна, у коме наступа више пута, а једном свира у корист зидања српске цркве. Том приликом, је у знак признања, добио албум Вијетанових композиција и свеску са посветама и аутограмима Брамса, Рубинштајна и других. На концерту Јованке Стојковић 1872, пријатељски је учествовао, а исте године, 10. августа, када је кнез Милан М. Обреновић IV проглашен за пунолетног, учествовао је на свечаном концерту, који је приредило Београдско певачко друштво, којом приликом је изводио Концерт алегро од Паганинија и своју композицију Сањарија. Тај млади Панчевац одбио је понуду да постане професор виолине на Бечком конзерваторијуму, после одласка његовог учитеља, професора Хелмесбергера, у пензију. Данас је Кранчевић заборављени уметник, текст под насловом: Концертмајстор Драгомир Кранчевић - некад славан, умро усамљен, појавио се у једном бечком листу.
Током своје дугогодишње музичке делатности стекао је углед и разнео име српском народу у туђем свету. Али и поред свега тога, он је остао заборављен. Велики и драгоцени материјал о његовој музичкој делатности лежи скривен у мађарским и немачким новинама. Тек после прикупљања тог материјала и усрдног трагања о његовом животу и раду моћи ће се утврдити колику је улогу одиграо тај први српски виртуоз на виолини у страном свету и колики је био значај његове музичке делатности у доба у коме је живео.

Петра Кранчевића за музику је заинтересовао стриц Драгомир Кранчевић.

Младост

Кранчевић се родио 4. октобра 1847. у Панчеву од оца Петра и матере Катарине рођене Петровић. Отац му је био угледан и врло имућан трговац. Основну школу је похађао у Панчеву а код свог учитеља Карла Хајслера учио је свирање на виолини, које није било систематско и подређено каквој педагошкој дисциплини. Али пошто је показивао нарочити дар за виолину и музику уопште, његов отац га је посало у Беч на даље школовање. Током свог боравка у Бечу, Кранчевић је, поред теоретског и практичног учења на виолини, учио још и клавир, затим француски и немачки језик. Теорију музике учио је код професора Мартина Нотебона и то радије неголи француски.
У Бечу је код Јозефа Хелмесбергера учио да свира виолину. Јозефу Хелмесбергер је био концертмајстор и артистички директор Конзерваторијума, што је било од велике предности Драгомиру то што ће бесплатно присуствовати свим концертима, пробама и продукцијама његовог квартета, на оркестарским вежбама питомаца, на Конзерваторију и на представама у опери. Хонорар за подучавање рачунао је са 2 форинте папирног новца за 3 часа недељно, а за потпуну опскрбу (храну, стан, прање одеће и др.) 600 форинти с полугодишњом исплатом. У јесен 1859. одвео је отац свог сина у Беч код Хелмесберга. Драгомир, који је тада навршио 12 година, ушао је у кућу која је потицала из чисто уметничке и музичарске породице.

Јозеф Хелмесбергер био је син Георга Хелмесбергера 24. април 1800, Беч - 16. август 1873, Нојвалдег код Беча) одличног свирача на виолини, композитора, професора на Конзерваторијуму и диригента дворске опере у Бечу. Његов син, такође Георг (27. јануар 1830, Беч - 12. новембар 1852, Хановер), био је концертмајстор у Хановеру и писао опере, али је као младић умро. Јозеф Халмесберг, брат овога (3. новембар 1828, Беч - 24. октобар 1893, Беч ) постао је већ у својој 23. години артистички директор Друштва пријатеља музике и Конзерваторијума, професор виолине на истом, а потом и и први концертмајстор у Дворској опери у Бечу. Дуго време дириговао је концертима Друштва пријатеља музике и прочуо се по свету својим квартетом, с којим је већ од 1849. изводио класичне композиције. Његова жена Роза била је ћерка прослављеног глумца Ханриха Аншица (8. фебруар 1785, Лукау - 29. децембар 1865, Беч) који се истакао својим улогама хероја и очева и као дугогодишњи редитељ у бечком Бургтеатру. Роза је брижљиво пазила на Драгомира. Био је љупко и послушно дете и она га је увек стављала за пример својој деци. Пошто је био слабуњав, то је пазила да се не премара у раду и увек се, после пола часа вежбања, појављивала и обично обустављала свирање. Једном кад је назебао није га Хелмесбергер 14 дана подучавао, а лекар је готово сваки други дан долазио у кућу.

Кранчевић, већ у својој раној младости, био је у прилици да упозна најбоље музичаре из околине моћног Хелмесберга, који је тада као артистички директор Бечког Конзерваторијума, управљао музичким животом у најмузикалнијем граду на свету, што је био Беч у оно време. Хелмесбергова кућа била је стециште и центар за музичаре. У ту су кућу долазили домаћи и страни музичари, уметници првога реда, који су у том граду одржавали његову музичку традицију и спадали у ред носилаца музичке културе уопште. Неоспорно је да је на младог Кранчевића тај додир с музичарима светског гласа морао да остави дубок утисак, поготово што је и сам нагињао музици и што га је његов музички геније водио у њихов круг. Зато је велика срећа што га је његов отац одвео на школовање баш у Беч, давши му на тај начин могућност да се у музици ваљано образује.

Први концерт

После више од две и по године заједничког рада с Хелмесбергером, Кранчевић је могао да ступи на концертни подијум и пред бечком публиком. Хелмесбергерова жена била је мишљења да Кранчевић треба да наступи у једној дворани бечког центра, у којој би се скупио не само већи број слушалаца него и већи изабрани круг људи који разумеју музичку уметност. Зато је Кранчевич наступио на концерту, који је 16. фебруара 1861. приредио у великој Ритерској дворани Ј. Скива, један од старијих и најбољих тадашњих пијаниста у Бечу, а који је иначе свирао и у Хелмесбергеровом квартету. Скива је био учитељ музике у многим првим кућама у Бечу и њему је изузетно било дозвољено да у тој дворани одржи свој концерт и то без улазница и само за позване госте. Позивнице су послате бројним Драгомировим познаницима, затим уметницима и новинарима, а и сам Хелмесбергер добио је много улазница, пошто је са свих страна био салетан молбама за обезбеђење приступа на тај концерт. На том концерту је било 480 слушалаца, пред којима је 14-годишњи Драгомир изводио своју омиљену пијесу fantasie-carpise од Вјетана, а на клавиру га је пратио сам Хелмесбергер.

О томе концерту послао је Хелмесбергер Драгомирову оцу врло детаљан извештај. Он му јавља да је његов први наступ био крунисан силним и сјајним успехом и зато је срећан што су се испуниле све наде и очекивања која је полагао на уметнички развитак свог ученика. Он је наступио с потпуном сигурношћу и савршено је владао својим задатком. Хелмесбергер је даље додао:"Да се од тог концертног вечера у свима друштвеним и уметничким круговима много говори о сјајном наступу младог генијалног уметника из Панчева."

Први концерт у Панчеву

О великом школском одмору, крајем августа 1861, приредио је Кранчевић свој први концерт у Панчеву, а у корист месне сиротиње. Том је приликом свирао Вјетанову Фантазију, затим Адађо и Тарантелу, Бацинијево коло и Американску Гудљару. Иако немамо никаквих података и доказа, ми са сигурношћу претпостављамо да је Кранчевића на том концерту пратио његов учитељ Хелмесбергер. Он је, наиме, са својом женом и децом, баш у то време, био у гостима код Драгомирових родитеља у Панчеву, где се Роза ,касније у писмима, захваљује на гостопримству у њиховој кући.

Концерт за православну цркву и градску болницу у Панчеву

У другој половини марта месеца 1862, приредио је Кранчевић у Музичкој дворани у Бечу свој концерт у корист зидања тамошње српске православне цркве. То је био његов први јавни концерт с наплатом улазница у Бечу, и на њему је изводио Певанију од Шпора и Српско народно коло (сремско) од Корнелија Станковића.

Почетком априла 1862. на позив Удружења књижевника и песника у Бечу, Кранчевић је одржао концерт. На концерту су учествовали све сами страни уметници који су тада били у Бечу, а једино је Кранчевић заступао бечке уметнике као љубимац публике. На клавиру га је пратио пијаниста Швајд. Кранчевић је изненадио цео музички свет у Бечу.

У корист Српског народног позоришта приредио је Кранчевић 16. септембра 1862. концерт у Новом Саду. Десетак дана касније одржао је концерт у корист Градске болнице у Панчеву са истим програмом који је изводио у Новом Саду, а и са истим музичким успехом.

После студија живи у Панчеву

Крањчевић је завршио своје студије 1867, после осам година интензивног и систематског музичког рада. После свршених студија, све до 1873, Кранчевић је живео у Панчеву, давао концерте у многим српским местима, а имао је и турнеје у зиму 1869 и 1870. по Средњој Немачкој.
Године 1872, 10. августа, кад је кнез Милан М. Обреновић IV проглашен за пунолетног, Кранчевић је учествовао на свечаном концерту, који је приредило Београдско певачко друштво, којом је приликом изводио Концерт алегро од Паганинија и своју композицију Сањарија, а коју је, као и још неке друге своје композиције уништио.

У пролеће 1873. отишао је Кранчевић у Будимпешту за виолинисту у тамошњој Опери. Убрзо је постао први концертмајстор, на којем је положају остао све до 30. јуна 1901, кад је после 28-годишњег службовања отишао у пензију.

Позив да ради у Бечу

Половином 1877. напустио је Хелмесбергер Бечки конзерваторијум, чиме је место професора виолине остало упражњено. Барон Хофман, који је тада био председник Друштва пријатеља музике, такав је, наиме, био званичан назив тадашњег Конзерваторијума, позвао је Кранчевића да преузме то упражњено место професора виолине. Међутим, Кранчевић одбија да се прими те професуре. Он је све до пензије остао у Пештанској опери, свирајући на својој виолини од Страдивариуса као први концертмајстор. Шта је он значио за ту Оперу и колико су га ценили у њој, најлепше нам доказује писмо, које су му при одласку у пензију упутили директор Емерих Месарош и интендант гроф Стеван Кеглевић, а које гласи:"Поштовани Уметниче! Дозволите, поштовани Уметниче, да се, нажалост, поводом тога што 30. јуна завршавате своју 28-годишњу, по заслугама богату делатност, опростимо с Вама са следећим речима: Ви сте беспримерном тачношћу, великом марљивошћу па савесношћу, а пре свега својим големим музичким знањем и уметношћу Вашег лепог извођења мађарској уметности, нарочито интересима Кр. мађарске опере толико послужили….стога примите у име Дирекције Кр. мађарске опере пријатељски дату изјаву, да ће нам Ваше сјајно уметничко име и Ваша величанствена делатност остати стално незаборавна и драгоцена и да ће оне представе и они уметнички догађаји који су се одиграли у историји Кр. мађарске опере уз Ваше суделовање или уз дејство Вашег духа и Вашег примера, остати увек прави понос и слава нашег Завода."

Страдивариусову виолину продао је чешком виртуозу
Од дана када је отишао у пензију, па све до своје смрти, живео је у Бечу врло скромно и сасвим повучено од света. Иако је као човек у снажним мужевним годинама отишао у пензију - било му је око 54 године - он, од часа кад је напустио Пештанску оперу, није никад више засвирао. Своју скупу Страдивариусову виолину продао је чешком виртуозу Јану Кубелику за 25.000 круна и предајући му је у власништво, он га је потапшао по рамену, рекавши му само ове речи:"Чувајте своје живце".

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 Др. Миховил Томандл, Драгомир Кранчевић

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Рођени 1847.
Умрли 1929.
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The country's Minister for the Diaspora Jimmy Deenihan has proposed a plan for Irish young people all over the globe to connect with Ireland by giving them the opportunity to spend 10 free days in an immersion program.
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'The Bell Jar' by Sylvia Plath
August 7, 2009 January 29, 2023 kimbofo
Fiction – paperback; Faber and Faber; 240 pages; 2009. Free copy for our Book Group courtesy of the publisher.
I first read Sylvia Plath's one and only novel, The Bell Jar, as a young 20-something, when I was hugely unsure of my place in the world. Indeed, I'd graduated but my career prospects were thwarted by a massive recession (it was 1991) and I was making ends meet by working part-time in a bookshop.
Reading The Bell Jar at that time was a rewarding experience, because the main character, Esther Greenwood, was also coming to terms with her place in the world — or not coming to terms with it, as it turned out. As I read about Esther sliding further and further into depression, I realised my life wasn't so bad after all. But I did find The Bell Jar very dark and bleak.
Reading the book for the second time, almost 18 years later, I was struck by how little of it I remembered. And it also seemed far less depressing. Indeed, there were many moments when I laughed out loud. Here's a case in point: Esther and a colleague catch a yellow cab back to their hotel after a party, and this is what ensues:
The cab driver took the corners with such momentum that we were thrown together first on one side of the back seat and then on the other. Each time one of us felt sick, she would lean over quietly as if she had dropped something and was picking it up off the floor, and the other one would hum a little and pretend to be looking out the window.
Life in the big Apple
But I digress… For those of you who are unaware of the storyline, it goes something like this:
It is 1953. Esther Greenwood is a first-rate student from rural America who wins a college scholarship along with the opportunity to spend a month in New York City as an intern at a fashion magazine. But during her time in Manhattan with 11 other young female interns, Esther slowly realises that she can no longer define herself by her academic accomplishments. The world, as she knows it, is coming to an end and she doesn't quite know how to handle it. Or, as she describes it, she "felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks".
When she returns home, she discovers that her application to join a writing course over the summer has been rejected, and depression sets in.
I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig-tree in the story [that she had read].
From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and off-beat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out.
I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig-tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.
The phrase that comes to mind here is "paralysed by choice". Indeed, as the summer drags on, Esther becomes more dejected, lost and depressed, not helped by the absence of her medical student boyfriend who has been sent to a sanatorium to recover from tuberculosis. Not that she thinks much of him anyway…
Before long, Esther is seeing a psychiatrist and admitted to an asylum. A string of failed, one might say half-hearted, suicide attempts follow, as does a course of electro-shock treatment. It all feels very bleak and depressing…although the ending is relatively upbeat.
Upbeat first part, downbeat remainder
I'll admit that I loved the first third of the book, set in New York, much more than the sections covering her psychiatric experiences. Perhaps it's the beautiful writing and the pitch-perfect descriptions of Manhattan where "the city hung in my window, flat as a poster, glittering and blinking" or maybe I just identified with Esther's cynicism, her refusal to get caught up in the shallowness of the fashion industry, the endless parties, the free gifts. She wants something more meaningful even if she hasn't quite figured out what that might comprise…
The latter two-thirds of the book comes across a bit like one long whinge-fest. There was part of me that wanted to grab Esther by the shoulders and shake some sense into her. Sure, her aspirations aren't being taken seriously, but why not prove what you can achieve before giving up because you don't see the point of it all?
But then, it's hard to fully comprehend what it must have been like to be a woman in the 1950s when society simply expected you to get married, stay at home and raise a family. How would an intellectual, creative woman, deal with making such compromises?
The Bell Jar was Plath's only novel because she killed herself a few weeks after it was published. Obviously, one can't help wondering how much autobiographical detail fills its pages. Sadly, we will never know.
'The Bell Jar' by Sylvia Plath, first published in 1963, is listed in Peter Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, where it claims the novel has become "one of the most notorious depictions of a mental breakdown in American literature".
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7 thoughts on "'The Bell Jar' by Sylvia Plath"
Claire (Paperback Reader) says:
Great review, Kim!
I agree with so much of it. I too preferred the Manhattan based first third and thought it was evocative of the period and setting and though the language was lush throughout.
Esther's suicide attempts were half-hearted and I wonder if it was more a cry for help or simply something to lessen her ennui.
Jackie (Farm Lane Books) says:
Great review! It is a shame that you couldn't make it last night.
I didn't feel the same way as you about the last part of the book. I never really connected with Esther's character – see always seemed so detached from me, so I never felt strongly enough about her to want to shake her!
Novel Insights says:
It was actually a good way to kick off the book group yesterday hearing your thoughts read by Simon. I've nicked your idea of listing the other bookgrouper's posts at the bottom of mine for the Bell Jar – what a sensible thing to do!
Rebeca says:
I was always under the impression that most of the Bell Jar was semi-autobiographical. Plath did an internship at a fashion magazine in Manhattan and there were a few half-hearted suicide attempts during that period.
We had this book on our shelves when I was growing up and it never drew me. I think Plath has been martyred and glorified by militant feminists to such a degree that I rebel against reading her work (and to be honest since Gwyneth Paltrow portrayed her, I've stuck my heels further into the ground to read anything by Plath. Silly, I know, but now I see Gwynnie's face whenever Plath is mentioned, and I'm not a big fan) But your review of her days in NYC would seem interesting to me because I'm drawn to NYC history pre-1960s. So to get her perspective of that time makes me want to read it, regardless of the feminist idoltry and Gwynnie's face.
cbjames says:
I love seeing The Bell Jar discussed. I read it a couple of years ago for the first time, and it knocked my socks off. I think it covers the same territory Catcher in the Rye does, but it does it much better in my view. I see Esther as Holden Caufield's older, smarter sister.
I love that you pointed out the funny parts.
Thanks for all your thoughts.
CB James, you've hit the nail on the head. When I started reading this on my hols, my Other Half asked me what it was like. And I said "Think Holden Caufield in Catcher in the Rye but from a female perspective"! I like your idea that maybe Esther was Holden's older, smarter sister.
Simon S says:
Great review Kim, and I too love the idea of this being a female Catcher in the Rye though I think I enjoyed this one more than the Sallinger. So sorry you werent there, are you all better now? Am emailing round the next book this afternoon.


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Bunk beds are the best option for families with two kids living in a small apartment. These modern furniture are trending in urban areas where people have to manage in limited space as they couldn't afford bigger apartments. They can be customized with built-in drawers for extra storage. There is also an option to convert them into sofas which is useful for children to do homework or play video games. Bunk beds are popular modular furniture in Pune among parents since they are easy to manage, detach, and attach.
To get ready for the school, your child will need a dressing table. A brightly-coloured table with pull-out drawers for storing make-up items will be ideal furniture for the room. While buying it, ensure that it's going to last long since your child will be spending more time as she or he grows up. Simply put, it must offer dual-purpose – changing table and storage for other accessories.
Besides sleeping and playing in the bedroom, your child will also need a desk to study. Since the desks will be contributing a lot for your child's future from schooling to graduating, buy it one that comes with storage option. For limited space, there are custom-made desks provided by furniture manufacturers in Pune. Also, while placing an order for the desk, ask the manufacturer to provide some option for extra storage.
A two-door wardrobe for storing your child's dresses is must in the bedroom. While buying one, remember your kids' needs. The closet must not only offer storage options for dresses, but also for toys, shoes, and accessories. If you are buying a modular wardrobe, you can have an option to adjust the height. This will be helpful since your child will keep growing.
Since books will be playing a major role in shaping your child's future, a bookshelf that will work as a home library for your child is must in the bedroom. If the bedroom is small, go for a three tier book shelf. Or choose the book shelf with a display unit in bright and natural finish. This type of book shelf will be best for storing reading materials as well displaying awards and trophies your child be collecting.
When it comes to decorating your child's bedroom, there are endless options. If you are on a tight budget and are living in a small or big apartment, contact AP Interio. Visit their furniture factory in Pune and check all the options for designing your children's bedroom.


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Inside the funny "Mystery Team" movie
Posted by Sean L. McCarthy | Mar 6, 2009 | Uncategorized | 2 |
Derrick comedy has a laugh-out-loud hilarious, dark comedy movie on their hands, and if all things go well, soon enough, there will be a distribution deal for Mystery Team. How do I know this? I managed to get in on one of the intimate free screenings in New York City earlier this week, and talked to four-fifths of the team behind Mystery Team afterward (Dan Eckman, Meggie McFadden, DC Pierson and Dominic Dierkes — Donald Glover was over in Long Island City being executive story editor on 30 Rock). Roll the clip!
As mentioned in the clip, Mystery Team debuted in January at the Sundance Film Festival to mostly positive reviews and buzz. Director/co-writer/editor Eckman said he managed to cut more than six minutes from the version Sundance audiences saw, getting the running time down to a leaner 98 minutes. "Watching it with an audience six times at Sundance really opened the whole thing up," Eckman told me.
If you haven't heard the buzz yet, let me fill you in. Donald Glover, DC Pierson and Dominic Dierkes play three high-schoolers who are still living off of their childhood "fame" as boy detectives who solved neighborhood mysteries a la Encyclopedia Brown. Glover's Jason is as animated as a Looney Tunes character with a propensity for disguises that rely on fake mustaches. Pierson's Duncan has memorized trivial trivia and thinks that makes him a boy genius when it just makes him a nerd. Dierkes' Charlie is a dumb jock without being a jock. They're 17, but still living as if they were 7. "No case too hard, no case too tough," reads the hand-painted sign outside Jason's house. And their mysteries are as tough as figuring out who stuck their fingers in an old lady's pie. Until a girl rings Jason's bell and asks him to solve the murder of her parents. The boys take the case and quickly find themselves in over their heads, literally and figuratively. Will they grow up and/or solve the case? Aubrey Plaza (NBC's Parks & Recreation) plays the other orphaned sister. Bobby Moynihan (Saturday Night Live) shows up every so often as a grocery store cashier who still idolizes the Mystery Team. And there are plenty of other great comedian cameos and supporting roles with an emphasis on the UCB: Tom Shillue, Matt Walsh, Kay Cannon, Neil Casey, Jon Daly, Will Hines, Ellie Kemper, Anthony King, John Lutz, Ben Schwartz, Kevin Brown and Robbie Sublett among them.
There is a lot of profanity and also nudity. And yet. It's a decidedly different approach from the recent wave of raunchy bromance comedies from Judd Apatow and his friends. Instead of making raunch the punchline, Mystery Team goes for an even bigger laugh in the characters reacting to their shocking situations. There's a lengthy R-rated sequence that takes the boy detectives into a strip club. One exchange I managed to scribble down. A stripper reveals her C-section scar. "$20 and I'll let you come on it," she tells Charlie. His reply: "I'll give you $5 if you tell me what that means."
"The premise is G-rated characters in an R-rated world," Eckman said. "We want the audience to feel as uncomfortable as the characters."
They wrote, produced, directed, edited and even scored the film themselves. But it doesn't look like a cheap Internet video gone long. Nope. It could be the funniest feature film of 2009. And I'm guessing that not long after their final free screening March 10 in Beverly Hills (info here), I'll be able to report that they have sold Mystery Team for national big-screen distribution.
Related: The Mystery Team trailer (NSFW!)
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Sara Benincasa	on March 8, 2009 at 3:54 am
i need to see this film
Free Movie	on December 13, 2009 at 9:02 am
I didn't hear of this movie before- but you review sure sounds great! I loved the whole "stuck at the age of " concept of the movie- we get that problem a lot these days when teens dot realize how life actually works and think that they don't have to grow up or evolve in any way 🙂


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TV is SOCIAL, again: Ad-funded mobile email? It works!
Ad-funded mobile email? It works!
Messaging in mobile is the killer application. I have no doubts about it. The phone is a communication device, you either talk or send a message. The rest of the time (less than 5%, in my opinion) you do something else, like browsing. But browsing is an emergency activity. Messaging is core in mobile.
Now, the next question has always been: if the browser is the killer app on the desktop and Google made tons of money on browsing, adding advertising, what can you do in mobile? Well, you put advertising in messaging, of course... and the Google of mobile will come from messaging and not browsing.
Easier said than done. Ads in messaging might be perceived as spam, could be intrusive because of the lack of real estate on the device screen, risk to raise tons of questions on privacy.
However, what if you have a micro banner on top of the mobile messaging client, that is not intrusive, and could actually bring you useful ads (the one that you want to see)?
You could do a lot of research and ask people. They will probably tell you "no, thanks". Or you could give them an actual working client with ads and ask them "ok, now what do you think?".
We did the latter. We put ads on a subset of mobile email clients in myFUNAMBOL, we let it run for a while, then we asked the users about their usage and perception (also having objective data on our service, totally anonymous).
It is all reported in the free research report entitled, "Market Potential for Ad-funded Mobile Email", summarized below.
The report summarizes the findings of a survey that was conducted with users of the ad-funded myFUNAMBOL mobile email service. The survey was performed to gauge user acceptance of mobile ads and to learn about a broad range of issues relating to an ad-funded mobile email solution. The report found that there is good potential for an ad-funded service. Users indicated that they are willing to accept ads as long as the ads are non-intrusive and relevant, user privacy is maintained, and ads subsidize the service cost. The report also discusses the financial prospects for an ad-funded solution. It found that users generated $10 each per month and were willing to pay about $6 per month for the service.
The free report is available immediately and can be downloaded, with free registration, at http://www.funambol.com/solutions/library.php.
And... that if you launch it you could make $10 per user per month... Which is a lot of money, knowing that 2B people will use email on their devices by 2015 (my not-objective estimate).
Too good to be true? Maybe, since our user base in myFUNAMBOL is skewed towards techies. They get more emails than others. But they tend to be more annoyed by ads. So I feel it evens out.
Let me write it again: the Google of mobile will come from messaging. Now I have a tangible proof of it. You just have to do it smart.


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Q: using a var as a number and then skip if value is less then x I am trying to develop a 1 script does many jobs - it is to stop applications within our system etc.
So in this script I want the ability to stop 10 applications, so in the script I am passing a var -  genesysNumApps: "{{ genesysNumApps }}" - this is defined in the ansible command.
But then I want to say in the script if this value is equal or less then 5, do not do the following command.
Is this possible?
I am not a expert in this stuff, we have just been given these tasks and I do not want 20 scripts doing the same things but for different applications.
Many thanks, and sorry if I have not explained it clearly
Sorry guys - learning about this forum to lol
The script is running Linux commands and is using a Genesys command interface to stop certain applications
vars:
genesysNumApps: "{{ genesysNumApps }}"

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*action: skip
only_if: '{{ genesysNumApps }}' = '5'
Martin

A: I'm not quite positive I understand but you can have conditionals on tasks like this:
- debug:
    msg: "Run this task if genesysNumApps is 5."
  when: genesysNumApps == 5

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Background Briefing: April 8, 2019
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Trump's "You're Fired!" Spree
We begin with Trump's firing of the head of Homeland Security yesterday quickly follow today by the firing of the head of the Secret Service today as he purges proteges of General Kelly his former Chief of Staff apparently on the advice of Stephen Miller and Lou Dobbs. Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, a Professor at the School of Policy and Government at George Mason University whose research focuses on Mexico-U.S. relations, border security, human trafficking and immigration, joins us to discuss how because of Trump's obsession with his border wall and imaginary caravans full of invaders, DHS has lost sight of its job to protect the homeland. We look into how under DHS Secretary Nielsen the focus has shifted away from terrorist threats and in particular home-grown threats from right wing white nationalist terrorists and those competing to kill as many of their fellow citizens as possible in mass casualty attacks. With Trump apparently using the border issue to stoke paranoia and pander to his base for reelection purposes, more than ever it would seem that the Democrats should be offering an alternative immigration policy, but short of Beto O'Rourke's call to get rid of the border altogether which is not likely to prove a popular move, the lack of direction and bi-partisan cooperation has left America at the mercy of an incompetent and corrupt leader who is cynically using racist nativism while opening up the treasury to bottom-feeding prison-industrial contractors.
Designating the IRGC as a Terrorist Organization
Then, with the Trump Administration declaring Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corp a terrorist organization and Iran reciprocating by designating U.S. Central Command as a terrorist organization, we speak with Mansour Farhang, who resigned from his post as revolutionary Iran's fist ambassador to the United Nations when Khomeini's regime refused to accept the UN's recommendation to release its U.S. hostages. We discuss how the aggressive determination of Bolton and Pompeo to push Iran to the wall could spark a war of unintended consequences far worse that the Iraq misadventure.
Netanyahu's Last-Minute Pandering
Then finally one day ahead of Israel's elections, we get an analysis of whether Netanyahu's last-minute pandering to right wing voters by offering to annex parts of the West Bank will be enough to get him a fifth term as PM in what is a very close election. Lisa Goldman, a co-founder and contributing editor to 972 Mag, a progressive digital magazine based in Tel Aviv, joins us to discuss the lack of interest in Palestinian issues among Israeli voters, the majority of whom like Trump, as our president pulls out all the stops to help reelect his friend Bibi Prime Minister.