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Movie Review: Detroit (2017)
Doug Hennessy
With Detroit, Oscar winning director Kathryn Bigelow ("The Hurt Locker") and her team have put together a kick-in-the-mouth, knock-your-socks-off movie experience you won't forget in a docudrama staging of the Detroit race-riots of 1967.
Starting with a routine police raid of an illegal after hours club where the local residents harass the police as they are lining-up the patrons for hauling to jail, things quickly turn from shouting and insults to stones and firebombs prompting the cops to start using weapons to fire back. That leads to snipers on the rooftops firing at police which in turn provokes the governor, George Romney, to send in the National Guard with armed vehicles to fire back at the snipers.
About two-thirds into Detroit, when the city is on fire and many are dead, the film switches gears and focuses on the the Algiers Motel, a spot where the police think the snipers are hiding. They go in hot to find the sniper and the gun and start terrorizing and torturing the people they find there, ending up with three African Americans dead, nine people beaten, and no evidence whatsoever of a sniper.
The Algiers sequence is presented as it happened in real-time; a terrifying amalgam of our nation's police racism and cruelty acted and filmed so well you'll feel victimized by the unbridled sadism. The screenplay for the incident comes from interviews Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal did with those who were there (security guard Melvin Dismukes played by John Boyega, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," being one of many).
With some shaky hand-held camera techniques, and sharp editing, we're pulled in close and personal to this powerful and traumatizing incident. It details how the racism rot spreads through the police officers — if one man-in-uniform, Philip Krauss (British actor, Will Poulter, "The Revenant," in as good a performance as you'll see all year), can be an open racist so can the rest, and after all, they are the police doing the right thing.
What Bigelow emphasizes here is how things aren't much different now, fifty years later. The police get as caught up in the contagion of riot fever just as much as the street-gangs did throwing fire bombs and sniper shooting from the roof-tops that started the whole thing. Detroit makes clear that as the riot degenerates into uncontrollable violence, the issues of racism and civil rights fade into the darkness as the city is destroying itself in a war, both sides fighting for their lives.
The film ends with the trial of the police officers — Krauss, Flynn (Ben O'Toole, "Hacksaw Ridge") and Demens (Jack Reynor, "Free Fire") — who were the orchestrators at the Algiers, charged with murder, physical and verbal abuse. They are intensely defended by their attorney Auerbach (John Krasinski, "13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi") as heroes and not out-of-control torturers. And again, just like today, despite a mountain of evidence, they were all found not-guilty and let go.
Expect to see a lot of Oscar talk around this one in the coming months. It's not hype. The superior artistic craftsmanship at all technical and performance levels surely deserves the recognition.
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Tagged: court, Detroit, murder, police, riots, sniper, true story
About Doug Hennessy
Critic of movies. Board member of film festivals. All around great guy.
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Genre(s): Crime, Drama, History
Director(s): Kathryn Bigelow
Actor(s): Algee Smith |, Anthony Mackie, Hannah Murray, Jack Reynor, Jacob Latimore, Jason Mitchell, John Boyega, John Krasinski, Kaitlyn Dever, Will Poulter
Writer(s): Mark Boal
Producer(s): Colin Wilson, Kathryn Bigelow, Mark Boal, Matthew Budman, Megan Ellison
Studio(s): Annapurna Pictures, First Light Production, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release Date(s): US: August 4, 2017 | UK: August 25, 2017
IMDb Info: Detroit
Official Page: Detroit
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Artist Feature: Paulo Santana
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Artist Feature
Paula Gaetos
Paulo Santana is an artist undeniably passionate about unique characters and giant robots, who specializes in illustration and 2D character design.
Paulo's work can be found in his online portfolio as well as his DeviantArt page. He also posts his sketches in a personal sketch blog, Racket Punch. For residents in the Los Angeles, California area, Paulo's work can be seen in person at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects gallery where it's occasionally featured among other works by Gnomon students.
As of this feature, he is currently on the last leg of a two year program for 3D Modelling and Texturing at Gnomon. Graduates from this school have gone on to work on films such as Pacific Rim as well as video games such as Diablo III.
When and how did you discover your passion for art?
I may have picked up drawing early on because I was surrounded by visual artists in my family. My grandpa was a comic book artist, my dad was an animator, and my mom was a painter/sculptor. I attended an arts high school in Los Angeles [and] I think that's when I truly discovered my passion for art.
How did you come across tokusatsu? And what was it about the genre that made you a fan?
Growing up in the mid-1980's Philippines, tokusatsu was a constant companion. The shows I watched growing up was Shaider, Bioman, Ultraman, and Kamen Rider Black. When we moved to the US, there wasn't a whole lot of tokusatsu but there was Power Rangers which I also enjoyed since it was a familiar genre for me.
I became a fan early on because I really like giant robots. The tokusatsu shows I watched when I was a kid, the Super Sentai series in particular, had a giant robot fight scene 100% of the time so it just reeled me in. Kamen Rider Black didn't have a giant robot, but that's cause he didn't need it– he just looked really awesome.
As an adult fan, by default, I still like the giant robots found in Super Sentai, but now I find myself appreciating the visual design aspects of the tokusatsu shows. I try to digest what it was about the costume or creature design made it work for me. It's just really fascinating, especially because the weekly bad guy monsters usually have a different theme. I say all that, but really it's because of the explosions, posing, and the giant robots.
Paulo's take on Kamen Rider Black for his Intro to Zbrush class at Gnomon during his 3rd term.
I know you're also super passionate about gaming. Where did that passion for gaming come from and how does it inspire your artistic endeavors?
Much like tokusatsu, I was exposed to video games early in my life. I had a Nintendo Family computer with games like Highway Star, Rock Man, and Castlevania. So, pretty much growing up I've enjoyed playing video games.
As I got older, I began gravitating more towards fighting games. It was around high school that I really began loving the fighting game genre. When Guilty Gear and Street Fighter III just came out and my mind was blown. I've always wanted to be a character designer, so I gravitated towards fighting games because the character designs are pretty iconic. I mean, each character needs to have it's own unique design language to set it apart from the others. Even now, I still get a lot of inspiration from fighting game character designs because the character designers are able to push their designs way off the map!
"Hungry Hungry Hannya," Paulo's fan art of Bishamon from Capcom's Darkstalkers series.
Can you walk us through the process when creating a piece?
I always start with a sketch on paper or in Photoshop (okay, usually in Photoshop). If it's for an existing character for a fanart, I think about what new design elements I can introduce to it while still retaining the identity of the character. Once the sketch is done, I would do a refining pass on it to flesh out the details some more. Once the details are finalized, I would take the rough into Manga Studio to draw clean lines, then back again to Photoshop for coloring!
When I'm creating a 3D character piece, I would start with a sketch if it's an original character or creature. I would then begin to look for photo references of accessories, textures, and inspirational images. Once all that is settled, I would fire up Zbrush for more organic modeling. I usually just use Maya for the hard surface stuff like accessories and armor.
Paulo's final model for Hard Surface Modeling II during his 3rd term at Gnomon. Original concept by: Emerson Tung
Do you prefer working with 2D or digital 3D work?
While 2D is a permanent part of my workflow, I'm really enjoying 3D a lot lately. Particularly sculpting in Zbrush, it's almost like drawing but in 3D!
Do you have a favorite art medium or program you like working with?
I'm all about Zbrush right now! But definitely Photoshop for the 2D side of things.
Your original Kamen Rider Deimos design concept is a TokuNet staff favorite, are there more tokusatsu series concepts you'd like to see or create?
Thanks! I really want to do some more original Kamen Rider! On my free time, which is scarce nowadays since I'm in school full-time, I've been toying around with an idea for an all-female super Sentai. Think Sailor Moon combined with Bubblegum Crisis and 2NE1. I've also been meaning to create my own Makai Knight.
Final design for Paulo's orignal Kamen Rider concept in his "Chariot Form"
Do you have any projects you're currently working on that you'd like to share?
Since school is going on right now, most of my personal projects are on hold. In particular I am going to make a 3D model of my interpretation on Kamen Rider Kabuto in mid-Cast-off state. I'll also work hard to get some designs for my all-female super sentai out from my brain and onto paper.
Also, check out Exo Hero Exceed. It's an indie Tokusatsu project by a cool guy I met named Chris Sloneker, he based the design on my Deimos concept and I think it's pretty cool.
How did you get involved with Exceed?
I was approached by Chris Sloneker. Chris said he liked my design for my original Kamen Rider [Deimos] and asked me if he can use it as a base design for an independent toku he wanted to create. I try to not linger around on a particular design so I gave him a go ahead. Weeks later, he showed me pictures of the suit being created [and] it was really cool. That's it as far as my involvement with the show.
Official photos from Exo Hero Exceed
Any favorite superheroes from the non-tokusatsu world?
Batman and Iron Man. They're just rich, smart dudes; those are their true super powers. More preference towards Batman though. I like the brooding.
Lastly, if you could be part of a tokusatsu series, which would it be?
Definitely Kamen Rider. I would Rider-kick all day. I'll probably have a motorcycle with a sidecar though cause I'm afraid of two wheels. Also, Kamen Rider characters are usually pretty well-dressed.
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Founder of The Tokusatsu Network and Editor-in-Chief from 2014 to 2018. She resides in Los Angeles, CA pursuing her education in library science and technology.
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Cautand idei pentru retete cu linte am gasit ceva ce incercasem mai demult fara sa stiu ca are numele de Mujaddara. De data asta am gasit proportiile si gustul perfect impreuna cu carne de berbecut.
Ca de obicei cand merg intr-un restaurant cu un specific deosebit reusesc, din dorinta de a experimenta, sa nu-mi aleg ceva extraordinar si pana la urma poftesc la ce au ales cei cu mai multa experienta. Asa mi s-a intamplat si cand am fost la Paris la un restaurant marocan. Asa ca am jinduit la portia de "couscous madfoun" pe care colegul cu care venisem si-o luase. O gramajoara considerabila de couscous cu migdale si pui ascunse in interior si un sos dulce galbui cu o aroma aproape caramelizata. Bineinteles ca am gustat si eu si desi n-am gasit o reteta identica pe net am reusit din 2 incercari sa replic mancarea care ar trebui sa se numeasca mai bine: "Couscous cu pui si sos dulce cu ceapa, stafide si migdale".
la prima incercare am adaugat 1/8 lamaie murata pentru culoare dar lamaie e prea puternica si nu am mai putut pune zahar pe urma si sosul a iesit sarat. Foarte bun dar nu exact ce-mi doream.
Reteta (Achard de légumes) e inspirata de aici si adaptata ingredientelor de pe la noi.
se taie morcovii pe lungime, ca niste betisoare. De fapt totul se taie ca niste betisoare.
se pastreaza intr-un borcan la frigider 1-2 zile pana se mananca. Teoretic sunt muraturi (pickles) dar pentru mine muraturile inseamna altceva.
Friday I went to the market and bought a lot of tomatoes and I wished to make some sort of tomatoes sauce. Browsing the web I found out many sauces but the following one is inspired from the rougaille recipe, a common mauritius dish. Here is the blend of this recipe with the romanian sauces.
Totul a inceput cu reteta pentru ataif. Am incercat mai multe combinatii si proportii pentru aluat si sirop si intr-un final m-am trezit cu un borcan de sirop ramas in frigider care cerea neaparat o alta reteta de prajituri orientale. Am studiat un pic si din pacate am gasit doar putine retete care implicau ingrediente disponibile caci nu stiu unde as putea gasi nici faina de semoule, nici taiteii sau foile pentru baclava.
se ia cu mana din aluat si se formeaza o sfera care apoi se turteste si ovalizeaza. Spre deosebire de choockies aluatul nu se scurge asa de mult asa ca 1 cm de spatiu in jur e de ajuns. Tava nu se unge.
se coc la cuptor 20 – 25 minute cu focul la minim. Nu se lasa mai mult, sunt gata. Initial le-am lasat mai mult pentru ca asteptam sa se rumeneasca dar doar s-au intarit la fund. Din cantitatile de mai sus am umplut 2 tavi medii.
This is one of the most complicated and different sweet recipe I've tried until now and I would probably never have known about this wonderful recipe unless finding in one of my cycling paths around the city a small shop with oriental sweets. I've sampled some and when laying my eyes on the large platter with ataifs the shop keeper said: "this is a very good choice". And it was a very good choice, indeed.
And then, after some research on the net I found out this is a very respectable and important recipe served in the last day of Ramadan. The variation described bellow I an adaptation of several recipes I found to my available ingredients and knowledge.
2 tbs of water with some aroma. I've used some elder water since I have no way to find orange or rose flower water. I don't think that using alcohol based aroma is in the spirit of this recipe.
let it boil for 10 – 15 minutes after the liquid starts to boil. The final consistency is about 1/3 thick as honey.
2 cups walnuts. Most recipes used pistachios or almonds which are much more difficult to find and expensive here.
3 tbs glazed sugar. I've used the sugar grinded with cinnamon for the http://www.len.ro/cooking/baking/minciunele recipe.
put the milk in another bowl, add the sugar and sprinkle the yeast on top. Leave it be for 15 minutes. Most recipes described a foam forming but it was not my case.
heat a pan with almost no oil and pour 1 tbs of batter. The batter should be thin enough to get a 2-4 mm thick pancake. In my case it was a bit too thick and I used the spoon to make them thiner. Cook just on one side until it starts to bubble on the other side then remove. It really needs some experimenting and a lot of plates :). Finish all the batter before the next step.
don't wait and start filling the pancakes on the uncooked side with the nut filling, fold and the 2 sides should stick if pressed slightly. Fold all the pancakes.
heat the pan again with oil inside and when hot add the pancakes for 1 – 2 minutes on each side until they get a very nice color.
remove and store on some paper towels to remove the oil. I had to change the paper towels twice.
dip the warm pancakes in the cold syrup for one minute then remove.


Great colleagues, but supervisors who enforce rules for some, not for others.
I loved working for Mounds View Public Schools' Technology Department. But I now realize that I spent 3 years were not properly compensated nor treated equally compared to my colleague with the same job title. I was not given benefits until the end of my tenure at the district, despite working 40 hours a week for 2 years (quite frankly, I think this should be illegal). Furthermore, I was doing the same duties as my colleague in the department.
Rules were enforced on me and not on my colleague, which I find so hypocritical. Every time I would bring it up my supervisors would tell me not to compare myself, although we both worked doing the same things! I felt undervalued, and it makes me so sad, as I loved my job.
Back-room drama, rules not enforced for all (only some), medical issues not taken seriously.
I was happy with my experience, I would have continued to work here had there been more opportunity for advancement.
Extremely great staff. Supportive, positive, knowledgeable, and east to work with. Most administrative staff are level-headed and understanding about all situations. Most all adults treat each other like family with one end goal which is to serve the students.
Work/Life balance. District Tech support is great.
Great principal, friendly co workers, so happy that I decided to work here. The pace is great and the management goes above and beyond to ensure that you are trained correctly.
I enjoyed working here. Other staff and administration were very supportive. It is a tough district to get hired into and to stay in. I would recommend applying and working in this district.
While the work is intense, the rewards are plentiful. Work with families several years in a row as you meet the needs of children in a school setting. Special services team works to collaboratively provide services.
Fantastic community in which to work. Students are great and families are supportive.
Investing my time and talent to make a difference in a students success.
Working at oak grove high school is so far my favorite job I have had.
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The Problem: If, when using cruise control, there is a short circuit within the vehicle's wiring, the driver may not be able to shut off the cruise control either by depressing the brake pedal or manually turning the system off once it has been engaged, resulting in either the vehicle maintaining its current speed or possibly accelerating, increasing the risk of a crash.
The Fix: Dealers will inspect the software and perform a software flash on the engine or powertrain control module for free.
What Owners Should Do: Ram manufacturer Fiat Chrysler Automobiles will begin notifying owners July 6. Until then, FCA is advising owners to stop using cruise control until the software update has been performed. In the event that cruise control cannot be disengaged while driving, owners should firmly and steadily apply the brakes and shift the transmission to Neutral, placing the vehicle in Park once it has stopped. That will cancel cruise control. Owners can call the automaker at 800-853-1403, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's vehicle-safety hotline at 888-327-4236 or visit its website to check their vehicle identification number and learn more.
So a month and a half until they notify you?
Seems like a long time to wait for a serious issue like this! There are many people out their who would panic and not shift the vehicle into neutral like advised!!!
Ouch! This is a big one, an a dangerous flaw.
Amazing number of recalls out of Ford And Fiat lately.
Ummmm...Ram starts with an "R"
What's frank ? Hey bro don't wake up the GARBAGE MOTORS fan GIRLYS.
I've read about this and Fiat says the cruise could still be overpowered by the brakes.
While possible I have had this happen 20 years ago where the brake switch failed while trying to slow down on the freeway. The problem is when you try and brake under cruise, it will kick down into a passing gear and try and accelerate. I had enough room to realize what was happening and turn off the cruise via the switch on the stalk, but in this case they say that can't even shut it off! That was a 200hp pickup that overpowered the brakes. Not sure how that's going to go nowadays.
If the driver isn't savvy enough to put it in neutral and let it rev until you get stopped, it could cause a serious accident. Heaven forbid a driver tries to turn the key off. No steering!
Frank's playing checkers while the world plays chess.
To all those with negative comments perhaps you should become an engineer and start building flawless vehicles.
I do work in a field where it is my job to manage multi-million dollar machinery and keep them running.
Flawless is a goal, not always attainable, but trends are how future purchases are determined.
There are trends here. All manufacturers have recalls. But researching history and current trends, you can see some manufacturers are struggling to design technology into the vehicles at the current pace without a high rate of recall incidence or poor reliability scores. That's quality control issues. That will affect buyers that aren't "locked in" to a brand.
I have a buddy that has 5 ram 3500 just to keep 2 of them running they are pure junk break down all the time.
He said engineer, not a Farm Worker. Nice try bud.
Very dangerous flaw. Hopefully all RAM owners are loyal readers of PUTC.
Wow, both Frank and Ford start with an F. BOTH are unreliable and BOTH think they at better than they actually are.
4.8 million... that's a big one. At least the diesel guys are safe. The good news is this wont cost Fiat nearly as much as the biggest truck buy back of all time by any brand they had to do a few years ago.
The only thing the ecoboost rules at is eating timing chains, blowing turbos, throwing rods, and guzzling gas. Almost 10 years later and the Ecoboost is STILL a rolling dumpster fire that only the most gullible Ford suckers pay money for.
@Ecoboost Rules - lol the blind leading the blind!
Man here we go. I had high hopes for that good looking redesigned new Ram and right out of the gate ANOTHER recall. These manufacturers spend money of redesigns but have nothing left over for quality control from their suppliers network? For heavens sake this is so old and so pathetic.


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The marketing genius of Lil Nas X
Most musicians think like failed startups. Too much time creating. Not enough time promoting.
When Lil Nas X dropped out of college to pursue music he didn't create much. Instead, he lived on Twitter, made online friends and got popular posting memes. His account quickly grew to 30,000 followers.
The plan was to use his following to promote his music. But it wasn't that simple. In Nas's words:
I'd post a funny meme and get 2,000 retweets. Then I'd post a song and get 10.
So Nas got creative. He stopped tweeting SoundCloud links and started writing a song he could promote through memes. In his words:
It had to be short. It had to be catchy. It had to be funny.
Old Town Road was the result. And on the 3rd December 2018 Nas paired it with a video of a dancing cowboy and shared it with his followers:
country music is evolvingpic.twitter.com/BEZIw3TE8l
— nope (@LilNasX)December 3, 2018
The video went viral. So Nas stuck to this formula: Short viral videos. To the tune of Old Town Road. With the full song linked underneath.
As an unknown artist, it was the only way he could get the word out. And the views started piling up:
Inspired by Old Town Road's success on Twitter it spread to TikTok, and then onto Billboard's country music charts. Yes, the country music charts. Nas listed it as a country song aware that the charts were less competitive.
One week later Billboard removed it for "not being a country song". Ironically, this was the best thing that could have possibly happened. Billboard's decision turned Old Town Road into a national talking point and two weeks later it was No. 1.
Nas wasn't stopping. He began lining up remixes with some of music's biggest stars.
Billboard has a loophole whereby remix plays count towards the original song's chart placement. With every remix millions more streams poured in, and Old Town Road became impossible to budge.
17 weeks later he'd broke Mariah Carey's record for the most consecutive weeks at No. 1.
It's easy to forget quite what an extraordinary achievement this is. Five months earlier, Nas was a college dropout sleeping on his sister's couch with a negative balance in his Wells Fargo account.
On my first day researching Old Town Road I read a quote from Nas:
A lot of people like to say "a kid accidentally got lucky". No. This was no accident.
The more I learned about Nas the more I believed him.
A key moment in Old Town Road's rise was a video of a man standing on a galloping horse going viral on Twitter. The audio was set to Old Town Road. Different versions of the video were viewed millions of times.
I wanted to know how the video spread, so I did some digging and found it first posted on the 24th December:
here's the full songhttps://t.co/K471dssOD7
— motiv8😗 (@customnigga)December 24, 2018
I asked the Twitter user why he made the video. He told me that Nas sent it to him. But it doesn't end there.
Aware that people watching the video would search for the full song, Nas changed the song title on YouTube and SoundCloud to include the lyric from the viral video — "I got the horses in the back".
He also posted on the NameThatSong subreddit which ranked on Google. Now, anyone searching from the video had an easy route to the song.
Things didn't happen to Nas. Things happened because of Nas
Virality is not mystical. The story of Old Town Road is not magical.
Look behind the curtain: Nas is sitting in his underpants, on his sister's couch, iPhone in hand, making the whole thing happen.
No one knew him. No one wanted to check out his song. No one promoted anything for him.
He made friends, made them laugh, and built an audience. Then he packaged his song in a way that fit into their life. The rest is history.
u can literally scroll down my account and see my promoting this fuckin song for months. each accomplishment it gets just makes all this shit feel so worth it. i can't stop taking about it.
— nope (@LilNasX)April 15, 2019
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Disappointment and Disgust, or Teaching?
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by: John Hartley / Queensland University of Technology
It was that kind of day. I was in London for the conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), held for the first time outside of the USA. Was anything quite as it seemed? Knowing that the British press loves to celebrate April Fools Day by publishing spoof stories that fool their readers, I opened The Times (it was that kind of conference). I was quite unable to distinguish actual events from April Fool jokes, especially anything related to the British Royals. On this occasion the Prince of Wales had been recorded having a hissy fit about how much he hated the BBC correspondent, in front of the cameras, which naturally required front-page headlines and a photograph. An April fool, doubtless, but not a spoof. Inside, The Thunderer permitted itself a Leading Article regretting that 'Textual criticism is no longer the principal discipline' of 'our educational overlords.' Come again? The Times (a scion of the Evil Murdoch Empire remember) praising textual criticism? But this was no joke either. It turned out to be a fit of nostalgia brought on by an academic conference – not SCMS of course, but the Classical Association. Ah, of course: 'the roots of Western civilisation.' The Times must be serious.
Another conference – not SCMS but the British Psychological Society – rated a full-page news story. The Times announced that 'Grumpy old men are just a myth. It's women who are really raging in old age, research indicates.' Was this the April Fool? No, it was academic research, whose truth-to-life was demonstrated by the fact that it seemed to illustrate the themes of the British sitcom One Foot in the Grave (1990-2000), and the BBC's Grumpy Old Men (2002-3) and Grumpy Old Women (2004-5).
"'Victor Meldrew [lead character in One Foot in the Grave] was the exception and not the rule,' Jane Barnett, of Middlesex University, said. … She added that the Grumpy Old Women television programme, featuring people such as Janet Street-Porter and Germaine Greer ranting at a succession of irritants, was far better at reflecting reality than its counterpart Grumpy Old Men." —The Times: April 1 2005, page 5.
Despite so much news about textual criticism and TV shows, there was nothing in the paper about the SCMS. The opening plenary speakers were Charlotte Brunsdon and Thomas Elsaesser. His paper was called 'Cinephilia'; hers was called 'Poor Old Television.' A theme linked the two. Brunsdon spoke of the 'teaching of disgust.' Elsaesser spoke of something he called 'disappointment,' that formed what he said was the 'core of the discipline.' This was the moment when 'love' (behaviour) turned into 'teaching' (thought); when tacit knowledge and personal experience (going to the movies), was transformed to explicit knowledge and critical discourse (reading Screen). The trigger for such alchemy, it seems, is disgust.
Brunsdon focused on a couple of recent instances that highlight television's public repute. The first was fictional, a clip of Hugh Grant and Nicholas Hoult watching TV in the 2002 movie About a Boy. Brunsdon observed how the scene sets up TV in opposition to Grant's character's self-regarding cool, despite the fact that he spends all day watching it. This is 'poor old telly' – the perpetual bad object, first of Culture, then of Theory, now of Digital Media. So critical 'disappointment' with television appears never to have been preceded by 'love.' If there were such a thing as 'telephilia' it would not be a fine upstanding manly affection like Elsaesser's cinephilia but – as Brunsdon pointed out – a feminised and domestic symptom of social pathology, loved only by fools and not only in April.
The other clip she showed was from factual television – the Channel 4 series Jamie's School Dinners. Brunsdon showed a clip of celebrity TV chef Jamie Oliver 'teaching disgust' to children who like junk food such as chicken nuggets. Oliver prevailed by performing what can only be described as a close textual analysis of the nuggets. He laid the ingredients out on the table – not lovely legs and breast but slugs and snails and puppy dogs' tails and mechanically processed carcasses and skin and white powder. Then he put them through the blender. The horrified children's innocence turned to experience. Disgust and disappointment precipitated not only teaching but also learning. They started to eat what was good for them rather than what they wanted.
Brunsdon expressed doubt that the Jamie Oliver episode represented the kind of television pedagogy I espouse in Uses of Television. And maybe so, because my preferred model of schooling is based on 'desire' rather than 'fear'; i.e not pathologising but liking the object of study. Jamie Oliver himself apparently prefers a pinch of fear: "'A constructive amount of fear in a school was always a good thing,' he says. We are beginning, I tell him, to sound like two grumpy old codgers. He shrugs, as if to say he has much to be grumpy about." (Interview with Jasper Gerard; The Times February 20, 2005.)
However in one respect I do want to claim Jamie's School Dinners for my kind of TV pedagogy. He uses the entertainment format of lifestyle/reality TV as a device for enlightening the population, and via them the political sphere, about the need for healthy diets among schoolchildren. And the impact of his show on public policy in the UK was 'educational' to the point of miracle. Oliver collected over a quarter of a million signatures on a petition for better school meals. Even before he had presented it to the Prime Minister, the Government announced a £280m funding increase, including a £60m School Food Trust to train 'dinner ladies.'
Jamie takes school dinner petition to Number 10
The day following this coup, a news story appeared in the Independent announcing that Oliver was to be adopted as the Conservative Party candidate in the seat of Arundel. It had recently become available because the incumbent had been sacked by the Tory leader. Jamie's astute, can-do celebrity made this story shockingly plausible, including the revelation that his 'progress towards election in the Tory heartland, which boasts a 14,000 majority, will be made into a documentary by Channel Four.' But this one really was the April Fools joke (Independent, April 1, page 3). And it fooled us all, including Charlotte Brunsdon and I, who exchanged startled 'disappointment' if not 'disgust' at the very idea of it. Full marks to the Independent.
But that's not quite the end of the story. This being television, the repeat of Jamie's School Dinners was already on Channel Four even as Charlotte Brunsdon analysed it at SCMS. And now Jamie's set to go global. The series has been sold to twelve countries, including Australia, Canada, Germany, Denmark, Thailand, Sweden, Hong Kong, Slovenia and Finland. The big target is the USA: "It is in America, the spiritual home of obesity, where the demand for healthy eating television is greatest. US networks will bid for Jamie's School Dinners at a television market in Cannes next week." World gets a taste for Jamie's menu, Adam Sherwin, The Times April 4, 2005.
Jamie's School Dinners can be seen as celebrity populism, but it is also a good example of how television can teach, not by inspiring fear, disgust or disappointment in its audience but by recruiting them to a useful public campaign. It uses a familiar format to turn consumers into active citizens. It looks like lifestyle/reality TV, but Oliver is impressively willing to bring the viewer with him on the thankless slog through institutional complexity and defensive hostility. The odds always favour the failure of his efforts to win the grudging consent of the education authority, kitchen workers and reluctant clients. You can see exactly why they don't want to adopt his expensive, time-consuming, hard-to-scale ideas, even as the kids dump his food in the bins.
When things do start to improve, it is clear that they need not have. That's what makes it good teaching, good television. And beyond 'poor old telly,' the miracle of a real outcome; not government funding or political gain (mere foolishness of April), but something harder to make: a new awareness, shared among schoolchildren, citizens and education authorities, that they can do better, for and by themselves.
So here's a question on which I invite the comment of Flowers (those who Flow): Is 'disappointment' and 'the teaching of disgust' the 'core of our discipline'? Or might teaching better be accomplished by inspiring positive civic action. Either way, doesn't reality TV do it better than we do?
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Avi Santo
disgust versus shame
Hartley's observation that TV studies starts from a dark place and needs to embrace the pleasures and possibilities of commercial television as a legitimate site for producing active citizens is spot on. As a teacher, I have had to wrestle with repeated resistances on the parts of students that TV is JUST entertainment and not fall back on the easy and opportunistic position of lambasting it (and, by proxy, them) as revelling in base crap. After all, who gets to decide anyways? I wonder if the disgust expressed by TV scholars toward their chosen object of desire does not emerge as a gut reaction in the classroom in response to student refusals to see the intersections between citizenship and consumption; education and entertainment. Is our job not to unravel (or perhaps, re-knot) those connections instead of derisively coining TV the opposite of whatever it claims to be?
Then again, I'm not certain I buy Hartley's notion that reality TV does it better. Reality TV, like Jamie's school dinners, often relies upon a corollary of disgust in its efforts to teach, namely shame. Upon seeing how chicken strips are made, students respond with disgust and parents react with shame at their previous eagerness to feed their children fast food for lunch. It seems, if anything, that TV scholars share this penchant, sublimating our shame at the pleasures we derive from our object of study (not the least of which that we get paid to talk about TV) into a disgust for those who enjoy the lessons TV offers guilt free. For TV scholars to begin to embrace new forms of teaching about television, we must first overcome our own self-loathing.
Jessica Ehimika
Although "disappointment" and "teaching with disgust" are negative ways of teaching, they are effective. Sometimes, it takes knowing or experiencing the consequences of a bad decision or action in order to get a person to change. Even though it was a hoax, Jaime's School Dinners is a good example of how negative reinforcement works to improve the health of young children. Most children do not simply learn by hearing "do not eat that, or do not do that." It is always in children's nature to ask "why" when they do not understand something. Even with explanation, children do not fully understand the whole concept.That is not to say that postitive reinforcement is a waste or does not work, but it is more effective when someone burns themselves on the stove to learn not to touch a stove when it's hot.
Reality tv, in this case, helped to steer children in a more positive direction, but that is not to say that it always is the better teacher. Since reality is not a true representation of real life, it causes a sense of disbelief because reality tv is manipulated to come across a certain way. In this case, parents are a better source than reality tv, but parents should stop beating around the bush or sugarcoating the truth. Eating junk food, such as chicken nuggets is not a bad thing if eaten in moderation. If parents teach their children the importance of eating healthy through methods like Jamie's School Dinners, children will not need to rely on reality tv to teach them.
Sharon Ross
teaching tv
I do think Hartley's question is "spot-on," to sound British. Avi also points out the impetus for TV teching to move towards "disgust" as a way to connect with students' apathy about TV. As someone who teahces crit analysis of TV AND future TV writers, I oddly find myself battling FOR tv and its pleasures. Get this: even many of my students who want to BECOME tv writers love to bash tv. What does that mean? I think we are perhaps dealing with a larger cultural phenomenon of "loving to hate" TV. As teahcres, we are a part of that larger culture as much as our students are. And indeed, as Brundson pointed out, pop culture loves to hate TV as well…How many times does The Simpsons criticize television?
I think we should explore this motif of disgust–in terms of reality TV, but also "popular" TV in general. Why do we (teachers, students, even professionals in the field) hesitate to embrace a love of the medium? How can we find ways to teach criticism without relegating the subject of that criticism to oblivion? I do think Reality TV is a grand place to start…Every semester I ask students to interview people about Quality TV, and they inevitably comeback with responses saying–"Don't know how to define it–but it's not Reality and it's not the WB." Yet these same students come back with another interview assignment about what people watch–and guess what?–The people who are disgusted by Reality and Teen shows…watch an awful lot of it. Perhaps this paradox is a useful place to start for teaching.
Jessica Richards
What is reality anymore?
Jamie Oliver used the tactic of fear to instill his message to his audience. This kind of insubtle scare method is easy to point out and question. But if you look closer all or most of tv is set up this way. Commercials sell products based on the consumer's fear of what might happen without them. Sitcoms sell themselves based on the audience's fear of ending up alone or unhappy. It seems that there is no positive discourse anymore. And whats even worse- this is normal. There is no such thing as reality television, there never has because it is impossible or nearly to create a reality on something that is composed of illusion. It is interesting to wonder how different society would be if positive actions were implemented instead of fear. As of now though the prospect of this idea seems to be as real as television itself- not very.
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On the front edge of a marathon road trip (six games in three cities in eight days), the Grizzlies looked to repeat last night's strong game. Kevin Carr once again got the start, while Mike Economos drew in, and Kevin Davis was absent due to his recall to Colorado.
Mavs appear to have a little bit more intensity to their start tonight, which is to be expected, considering their excellent home record, and the game last night.
It's also a much more physical game from the get go.
That looked like a guaranteed goal into an empty net. And then suddenly Kevin Carr.
Mason McDonald, not to be out done, stops Josh Dickinson all alone on the breakaway.
Consecutive penalties to both #7s. Hopefully KC's power play is as quiet as ours was.
Welp, so much for that. Kansas City strikes first.
Present captain ran over former captain, and now we've got a fight!
Even better than that, we've got a power play.
Taylor Richart scores the best way he knows how, with a rocket!
A pretty even first period comes to an end, 12-8 are the shots for the Mavericks, game tied 1-1.
Caleb Herbert wastes absolutely no time giving Utah the lead! He's definitely hit his stride again.
Aaaand KC comes right back to make it 2-2 two minutes into the second. That's a lot of twos.
That was a nice shot from Anderson!
Jack Walker with the battle to keep the puck in the offensive zone.
Carr with the save as KC steams in short-handed.
Not sure how Walker held onto that for as long as he did! That was quite impressive.
Some serious run and gun hockey here, both teams getting looks, the crossbar and Carr keeping an odd-man rush from turning into a KC lead.
J.T. HENKE TIES IT AGAIN.
3-3 after two, shots now 22-20 for Utah!
That was a nice, long opening offensive zone shift.
Jake Marchment making friends with the Kansas City bench, lol.
That was some seriously scrambly defense, but it did get the job done. Barely.
That was not ideal. 4-3 for KC, Carroll back to the box for his second slashing penalty this period.
And now we're four-on-three. Oh dear.
Everyone out of the box with no change in score.
Empty net for the Grizzlies.
No empty netter, but no last minute goal for Utah either.
It was a very close game though.
4-3 for KC, shots 27-24 for Utah.
The game was a good one, closely contested throughout in front of a sell-out crowd on the Mavs' Military Appreciation night. Henke's goal and assist earned him second star honors and he now has 25 points in 25 games, including points in four straight. Eric Freschi picked up two assists, and Herbert now has four goals in three games, and is only one point out of first place in the scoring race, despite eight fewer games.
The Grizzlies continue on their road trip, heading to Tulsa, where they will play two games against the Oilers on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Photo courtesy of Tim Broussard and staff.
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Q: can we save a tokenizer to preprocess raw text in savedmodel? I am facing an issue currently, regarding the preprocessing of an input with the SavedModel format.
I am using Transformers model which are using subword/BPE encoder. I can save my model into a savedModel format but I do not know how to add the preprocessing part (the tokenizer) into the savedModel as well.
For instance, "custom" tokenizer such as the hugginface, or the tensorflow tokenizer https://www.tensorflow.org/datasets/api_docs/python/tfds/features/text/SubwordTextEncoder .
I haven't found any documentation about SavedModel with preprocessing for NLP. Is that possible in TF 2?

A: You can't save that into the model. You have to preprocess every time. The word encoder is also given by HugginFace. You can train your own word encoder and save it separately or create a joint model and then, save all the params for the model.

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Botswana is famous for its wildlife and offers you areas such as the Okavango Delta - a unique geological formation where a delta is formed by the Okavango river flowing into the Kalahari desert instead of the ocean; or the Chobe National Park - a wildlife sanctuary that boasts the largest elephant population in Africa both in number and size.
Okavango Delta - a unique delta in the desert formed by the Okavango river.
Moremi National Park which forms part of the Delta.
Central Kalahari Game Reserve - one of the largest parks on earth.
Chobe National Park - a great place to see wildlife.


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Fetish fulfillment
Wed, May 30, 2001 at 12:00 am
Summer's almost here. And like all geeks with an Internet fetish, I'm spending way too much time indoors — searching the Web for random cool stuff. "There must be some reason I do this!" I cry out, as I click the mouse furiously in the dark.
Oh, that's right. I do it for you, dear reader, so you don't have to. Behold the results — only the best chunks from 10 straight hours of random surfing. Somebody had to do it …
Cool MP3 player: With just a few exceptions (read: eBay), e-commerce hasn't caught on much. But sometimes it's the only way to get what you want. Let me explain:
Lately I've been shopping for an MP3 player. Not just any MP3 player … I want the Havin Exonion HVC 100E, an absolutely bleeding-edge model.
The Exonion sports eight full minutes of skip-free memory. It plays CDs burned with MP3s, so you can fit hundreds of songs on one disc. Plus, it has a huge backlighted screen with user-friendly menus for finding all those tunes. That's right, menus — like on a Palm Pilot.
Unfortunately, you can't buy these things in the United States. Sure, TDK is thinking about releasing a similar model in North America at some "future date." But the fabled Exonion is already on the streets in Japan. And greycommerce.com will sell you one.
Welcome to the grey market, the electronic industry's dirty little secret. Greycommerce (their motto: "Technology you shouldn't have") is just one of many sites trafficking in overseas goods before they're officially available in local stores. "Our man in Japan is constantly walking the streets, rooting around markets … with his tiny feet trapped in the doors of high-tech industry," notes British-based Greycommerce's Web page, adding: "He won't stop till he's found us some new bits and bobs to tell you about!!"
Greycommerce features all sorts of exotic gadgets that might appear on U.S. store shelves next Christmas. Or they might not. Thrill to the ultrasonic contact lens cleaner. And the key chain-sized portable hard drive.
Of course, all this high-tech naughtiness comes at a price. To get my dream MP3 player shipped to Detroit, I'd have to pay a hefty $286. And meanwhile, my warranty wouldn't be worth the paper it's printed on.
Too pricey for my thrifty blood. But for gear geeks desperate for a fix, it's a very cool option indeed.
Cool Web sounds: Post-prog rock band Radiohead should change their name to Webhead. They've persuaded Capitol Records to let anxious fans play back their entire upcoming Amnesiac album from the label's hollywoodandvine.com Web site. Since the new disc doesn't even come out until June 7, it's a pretty bold move.
Or is it? Jump on Napster (napster.com) and you'll have no trouble finding a complete download of the record. In fact, Amnesiac has been there off and on for weeks. And that's despite the beleaguered file sharing service's adoption of court-ordered filtering software. Just search for "[email protected]" — or any other creative mix of characters.
So why not tease the Radiohead faithful with an advance Web-only playback? After all, unlike Napster, Capitol's streaming version of Amnesiac cannot be easily copied to any permanent file format. And if the kids like it, they'll buy it … right?
Perhaps. But enterprising Net heads have once again found a workaround. Using sound capture programs such as Total Recorder (get it at highcriteria.com), even streaming audio formats such as Real and Windows Media can be saved to MP3s.
With their much publicized ambivalence about fame and success, maybe that's what Radiohead wanted all along.
Cool Web traffic: Been caught speeding lately? Then you need motorists.org, a Web site devoted to (among other things) fighting traffic tickets. Actually, this is the home page of the National Motorists Organization, a somewhat morally suspect lobbying group (protecting "your right to own and use the kinds of vehicles you prefer"!). Still, it's hard to beat their tips for getting "traffic justice."
For example, don't overuse "sir" or "ma'am" when talking to an officer (cops call that "bootlicking"). And don't voluntarily agree to a search of your car (if they ask, they don't have probable cause).
Finally, it pays to measure exactly how far you were away from the police car when you got your ticket. Why? According to this site, most police radar detectors are only effective to 600 feet.
Weird and random, I know … but cool. And only on the Net.
Cool Web graphics: Here's an animated quickie … worth a nice long look. Visit the peaceful animated world of Vector Park (vectorpark.com). The site's creator (who identifies himself only as "Patrick") brings a subtle, almost Buddhist perspective to the usually loud and obvious realm of Flash animation. With its strangely light touch, Vector Park is a brilliant time waster.
Move your mouse over the Park's Tim Burton-esque landscape … each click leads to another new, surprising element — trees, birds, a miniature city and much more. Don't miss the allegorical "Levers" section — where you must keep a scale in balance by using a giant submarine, a snowman and other increasingly whimsical objects.
One visitor called Vector Park "beautifully pointless." I agree. Meanwhile, I'll refrain from making any analogies to this week's column.
Adam Druckman writes about the Web for the Metro Times. E-mail [email protected]
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PR 29 - Professionally qualified planners must hold senior local Gov posts
A professionally qualified planner must be on the executive team of every local authority according to the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), which rejects claims made by Housing Minister Caroline Flint that Local Authorities can make do without a chief planning officer. The RTPI believes that having a planner at executive level would improve the quality of planning decisions being made at local government level. It would also improve the likelihood of local authorities delivering the government's planning priorities in a way communities find acceptable.
Giving oral evidence to the Communities and Local Government committee investigating planning skills, Ms Flint said she thought the decision on whether to appoint a chief planning officer should be up to individual local authorities. The RTPI believes local authorities that do not have a professionally qualified planner on their executive team undermine their ability to deliver coherent and consistent planning policy. They also increase the risk of making poor planning decisions, which could have a long term negative impact on their local communities.
RTPI Director of Policy, Rynd Smith, said: \"Without the well considered input of a senior and professionally qualified planner, the ability of local authorities to make good planning decisions is hugely diminished. The only way to ensure that the creation and delivery of sound planning policy is given the priority it requires is to have a professionally qualified planner sitting on the executive board. A local authority without that level of expertise at the pointy end of the decision making process is like a ship without a pilot\"
The RTPI is also concerned by the Housing Minister's rejection of planning training for all local councilors. The RTPI believes that as local councilors are responsible for making decisions on both planning policy and individual planning applications it is imperative that they have at least a basic understanding of the planning system. Such training does not turn them into being planners or prevent them from being politicians. But it does help them to use the planning system that they have been entrusted with in a wise and responsible way.
For further information or to arrange an interview please contact:
Dale Atkinson, RTPI Communications Manager, 0207 929 9479 dale.atkinson@rtpi.org.uk
The Royal Town Planning Institute is a dynamic organisation leading the way in the creation of places that work now and in the future. We understand that just as people develop places, so places develop people. We are committed to the enhancement of our natural and human environment, using spatial planning to manage competing pressures on our built environments and the very real effects on our space. Through our 20,000 members, we constantly seek to create areas and places in which people want to live and work.
For further general information, visit the RTPI website at: www.rtpi.org.uk
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Q: How to send variable in text? I am able to send static email to fix mail id with fix content , how to make it dynamic in nodemailer .
transporter.sendMail({
    from: 'test@test.com',
    to: 'ashutosh.jha@mail.vinove.com',
    subject: 'Ashutosh Jha : credentials',
    text: 'hello how are you'
    });

A: A few options.
var body = 'Hello ' + name + ', how are you?';

var sprintf = require('sprintf-js').sprintf;
var body2 = sprintf('Hello %s, how are you?', name);

Or you could use a template engine like Swig or HandleBars.

A: It is working now thankyou
var mailcontent = ({
            from: 'test@test.com',
            to: email,
            subject: 'AJ : credentials',
            html: 'Dear '+docs[0]['name'] + ',

here is your credentials :

 username :'+docs[0]['username']+'
 password : '+docs[0]['password']+'

 Thanks and regards ,
      AJ'
            });

            transporter.sendMail(mailcontent , function(err , success){
                if(err)
                {

                    res.render('forget-password',{
                    error : err
                    });

                }else {
                    res.render('index',{
                    success : 'Information succesfully sent to "' + email+'"'
                    });
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            });


The major tax legislation enacted last December not only ignores the need for more revenue and is heavily tilted in favor of wealthy people and corporations, but also suffers from a third fundamental flaw: its design invites rampant tax sheltering and gaming.
True tax reform simplifies the tax code and narrows the gaps between how different types of income are taxed. The new law does the opposite, adding complexity to the tax code and introducing new, arbitrary distinctions between different kinds of income, thereby creating new gaming opportunities. In particular, its new deduction for "pass-through" income and deep cut in the corporate tax rate risk making the 37 percent top individual tax rate merely theoretical for some very wealthy people. The new law also confers enormous tax benefits on some industries but not others, makes it easier for wealthy households to shelter their assets and thereby accumulate multi-million-dollar fortunes, and favors business production and investment overseas rather than at home.
Widespread abuse of the bill's loopholes and preferences could cause it to lose even more revenue — and increase inequality even more — than current projections indicate. Moreover, Congress has depleted the enforcement division of the IRS, cutting its workforce by more than a quarter since 2010, and provided no additional funding for enforcement following enactment of the new law.
It increases the degree to which individuals and businesses base their decisions on economics instead of taxes. This is good for the economy: it encourages resources such as capital and labor to flow to where they are most productive instead of where the tax breaks and gaming opportunities are most plentiful.
Closing loopholes and eliminating opportunities for gaming raises revenue and may also reduce inequality, since wealthy individuals and corporations are best equipped to exploit these weaknesses in the tax code.
It reduces the amount of economic resources that are diverted to developing sophisticated tax avoidance schemes that provide little overall economic benefit, allowing those resources to go to more productive uses.
The new tax law moves in the opposite direction. It creates new loopholes that will result in similar economic activities being taxed, often arbitrarily, at different rates. Hence, it "has turned us into a nation of tax shelter hunters," as the Tax Policy Center's Howard Gleckman has observed, as various parts of the law have "set off a frenzy of loop-hole seeking."
Deduction for "pass-through" income invites abuse. The law introduces a 20 percent deduction for "pass-through" income, or income from businesses such as partnerships, S corporations, and sole proprietorships that business owners claim on their individual tax returns. This provision never enjoyed a solid policy rationale: although proponents argued that it was necessary to maintain "parity" between the taxation of corporate and pass-through business income, pass-throughs already enjoyed a tax advantage over regular corporations (known in the tax code as C corporations). While pass-through income faces only one layer of taxation — at the individual level — C corporation income faces two levels of tax: one when the firm pays the corporate income tax, and another when shareholders pay individual income tax on their dividends or capital gains. Because of the new deduction, many high-income individuals may now be able to secure very large tax savings by converting their wage and salary income into pass-through income.
The law includes a series of complex "guardrails" aimed at limiting the scope of the provision and preventing gaming, but these measures are unlikely to be effective. They consist of a series of questions for taxpayers to determine whether particular income qualifies for the pass-through deduction, with each question drawing a line between qualification and disqualification for the deduction. (Among other things, the law draws lines between compensation and profits, between different types of services, and between real estate investment trusts and other assets.) This will entice many taxpayers, aided by their accountants or lawyers, to try to place themselves on the tax-saving side of each line. Such tax avoidance activities produce no gain for the economy and lose revenue for the Treasury.
Deep cut in corporate rate risks encouraging tax sheltering. The new law creates a powerful incentive for wealthy Americans to shelter large amounts of income in corporations by slashing the corporate rate to 21 percent, far below the top individual tax rate of 40.8 percent (the new 37 percent top individual income tax rate plus the 3.8 percent Medicare payroll tax rate). This will entice wealthy people to shield their labor or interest income from the top individual rate by setting up a corporation and reclassifying their income as corporate profits in order to pay the lower corporate rate. They also can defer the second level of tax on their corporate income by electing not to receive dividends immediately or by delaying selling shares and realizing a capital gain.
The new law also encourages income sheltering by retaining the "stepped-up basis" loophole, which allows the heirs of an estate not to pay any taxes on any appreciation of an asset that occurred during the previous owner's lifetime. The combination of the new low corporate rate and this retained tax loophole risks opening a gaping tax sheltering opportunity for wealthy people, with no gain for the economy.
For example, an investor with a multi-million-dollar bond portfolio now has an incentive to place it in a corporation and pay roughly half the tax rate on the interest income it produces than she'd pay if that income faced the individual tax rates. She might eventually have to pay taxes on the dividends or capital gains on the wealth that has accrued in the corporation, but she could defer that second layer of tax for decades and even avoid it altogether by passing the corporation housing her bond portfolio on to her heirs and relying on the stepped-up basis loophole to wipe out her tax liability.
New international tax regime encourages offshoring and profit shifting. The new law also moves U.S. international tax rules to a "territorial' system that largely exempts multinationals' foreign profits from U.S. tax and thereby encourages them to shift profits and operations overseas. The drafters of the law put in place a minimum tax to limit this incentive, but it is seriously flawed and could in fact add to incentives to shift both paper profits and real investments and operations overseas since multinationals owe less minimum tax when they invest more abroad. This threatens to reduce investment in the United States and could wind up reducing U.S. workers' wages.


'Chicken Feed' is a quick read provided by The Reading Agency for World Book Night that takes place on 23rd April and is designed to encourage reading. See @worldbooknight and facebook.com/worldbooknight. It was one of three books I received as a volunteer to give to my local University of the Third Age (U3A) group.
'Chicken Feed' is based on the true story of Norman Thorne who was hanged for the murder of Elsie Cameron, a disturbed young woman, in 1925. Norman maintained his innocence throughout.
Minette Walters is an established crime writer and has crafted a highly accessible narrative that would engage those not usually interested in reading. The plot is interesting and the characters convincing, although not terribly likeable!
in the spirit of World Book Night I will now be passing my copy onto someone else – and hopefully to someone who does not usually read but who might tackle an accessible book that can be read and enjoyed in a couple of hours.


This lecture explores a paradox encountered by many early Romantic composers: the spontaneity and creative freedom of the composer being at odds with the preordained musical form. This lecture discusses the formal solutions embraced by composers who chose to abandon Classical form, and focuses on two miniatures: lieder or German language songs, and instrumental miniatures. Works by Franz Schubert and Frédéric Chopin are used as illustrations.


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De Inname van Hoei in 1595 was een inname van stad en kasteel Hoei in het Land van Luik door een Staatse troep onder gezag van Charles de Héraugière op 6 februari. De stad werd succesvol ontzet door Spaanse troepen van Fuentes onder leiding van overste La Motte, waardoor de Staatse bezetting moest capituleren op 20 maart.

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Koning Filips II van Spanje wilde Hendrik niet als koning van Frankrijk erkennen. Hij gaf als verklaring dat hij niet tegen het volk van Frankrijk oorlog zou gaan voeren, maar uitsluitend tegen Hendrik. Kort daarna brak langs de grenzen het oorlogsgeweld uit. Artesië, de landen die onder gehoorzaamheid van Filips stonden, maar ook het Franse Picardië werd oorlogstoneel. Van Staatse kant werd gezocht naar een mogelijkheid om de kortste weg te vinden om aansluiting te vinden met de troepen van Filips van Nassau die zich met die van Boullion hadden verenigd. Om dat doel te bereiken werden zelfs de rechten van neutrale gebieden geschonden. De beste route liep namelijk dwars over het grondgebied van de bisschop van Luik. Om die route te beheersen was het bezit van een sterke stad en het Fort van Hoei onmiskenbaar. Men was sinds de inname van Breda voornemens Hoei in te nemen, maar een belegering van het kasteel, dat hoog op een rots gebouwd was werd onneembaar geacht. Een stenen brug die door kanonnen gedekt was vanuit het kasteel overspande de Maas. Het plan was om muitende Italianen in stad en kasteel onder te brengen. Die zouden dan samen met hen de Spaanse legers over de zuidelijke grenzen te verdrijven. Charles de Héraugière (dezelfde die de list met het Turfschip van Breda uitvoerde) kreeg de opdracht Hoei in te nemen.

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Op 6 februari was Héraugière vertrokken met achttienhonderd man. Op 31 januari was hij in Hoei aangekomen. Het lukte hem om het kasteel te overompelen daarna de stad te bemachtigen. Dertig mannen van Héraugière hadden zich enkele dagen eerder in een huis verstopt onder het kasteel. Dat huis stond precies tegen de rots gebouwd, precies daarboven het kasteel, een kasteelraam bevond zich precies boven dat huis. In de nacht van 6 februari beklommen de mannen de rots waarop het kasteel stond. Bij het kasteel aangekomen kropen ze met een touwladder dat raam in en klommen naar binnen. Binnen wisten zij de geringe en niets vermoedende bezetting te overrompelen. De mannen waren zeer goed bekend met het kasteel en haar gewoonten en waren op de hoogte van bepaalde routines die binnen het kasteel gebruikelijk waren. Zij legden zichzelf in een hinderlaag op een punt waarvan zij wisten dat de bewoners langs zouden komen om naar de mis te gaan. Een voor een werden de voornaamste bewoners overmeesterd, gekneveld en in een hol gesmeten. De volgende morgen stond Héraugière met achttienhonderd man voor de stad, die geen verzet of weerstand durfde te bieden.

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Hoewel Hoei neutraal was in de oorlog werd het toch de dupe daarvan. Kerken werden geplunderd en blootgesteld aan een beeldenstorm, vrouwen en meisjes seksueel misbruikt, rijken afgeperst en armen die geen losgeld konden betalen werden omgebracht. De bisschop beklaagde zich bij de Duitse rijksvorsten, maar die stonden machteloos. De Staten antwoordden dat ze de stad pas zouden verlaten na het sluiten van vrede en als de Spanjaarden de door hun bezette steden verlaten hadden. De bisschop deed toen een beroep op Fuentes. Deze stuurde meteen La Motte met een leger dat met behulp van burgers de stad ging belegeren. De muren van kasteel en stad waren zo zwak dat slechts een schot voldoende was om een bres te schieten, groot genoeg om binnen te kunnen dringen. De Staatsen hadden verzuimd zo'n poging te verhinderen. Héraugière bleek daardoor niet in staat de verdediging te handhaven en moest de stad op 20 maart overdragen tegen een vrije aftocht. Fuentes wilde de stad namens het Spaanse Rijk bezetten, maar Philips beval de stad terug te geven aan de bisschop. Zo mislukte de Staatse onderneming. Door het schenden van de neutraliteit had ook de reputatie van de Republiek een deuk opgelopen.

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Home » Chapter 10, Text 14 » Is spiritual shopping taking the place of spiritual seeking?
Ours is an age of obsessive individualism. Everyone wants to do their own thing. This holds true all the more for spirituality, wherein people frequently act as spiritual shoppers. They examine the wares in the market of spirituality and grab whatever catches their fancy.
Such spiritual shopping may be good for those who are just beginning to explore the spiritual dimension of life. However, spiritual life is ultimately not about finding the best product in the market, but about developing a relationship with the best person – Krishna.
And relationships require consistent commitment, not fickle flirting. We need to go beyond the shopping phase to the seeking phase, when we stop fishing around and start focusing on raising our consciousness from the material level to the spiritual level.
The Bhagavad-gita (10.15) urges us to take this critical and transformational step when Arjuna exemplifies the attitude that a serious seeker needs to emulate: "I accept everything that you say." This doesn't refer to a blind sentimental accepting, but a wise rational choosing, just as a patient chooses to follow a treatment after analyzing the diagnosis given by a doctor. Just as a patient can't expect to understand everything about the disease and the treatment – certainly not as much as the doctor, we too can't expect all the answers on day one of our spiritual quest. Arjuna humbly acknowledges this reality when he states in the same verse that even the gods can't understand Krishna fully. But Gita wisdom does answer our basic questions, just as a doctor answers the patient's basic questions. Physical healing can happen only when the patient takes this step forward. Similarly, spiritual healing can happen for all of us only when we choose to commit ourselves to Krishna – and choose to stay committed consistently.


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AccueilOthersAgbeyomé Kodjo still contests the results of the 2020 presidential election in...
Agbeyomé Kodjo still contests the results of the 2020 presidential election in Togo.
Agbeyomé Gabriel Messan Kodjo, candidate during the presidential election of February 22, 2020, disagreed with the instructions of the court this Thursday as he made his first media outing after his release the night of Friday and Saturday, April 25.
Although he is prohibited from making any statement calling into question the results of the last presidential election, the former prime minister said that no one will be able to take away his conviction that he is the winner of the last presidential election in Togo.
«How can you ban someone who thinks he's the real winner of an election from talking about this?» "But the power of the fire, of violence and humiliation that we underwent, the advice of each other and the confidence that God of justice exists, we obeyed during this period (swearing in of President Faure Gnassingbé, ) not to talk about that anymore, " revealed the candidate of the dynamic of Kpodzro.
Despite the swearing in of his challenger Faure Gnassingbé on May 3, Agbeyomé Kodjo still contests the figures proclaimed by the Constitutional Court and does not seem to be ready to accept its results.
«Right now, no one can take away my belief that I am the winner of the February 2020 presidential election; I sleep with it, I live with it … My heart is bleeding … I carry the victory of Dynamics inside me until my last breath. The prelate is Simon, he will see the alternation before his death » , he hammered
The leader of MPDD also revealed that on April 20 before he was arrested, his team was preparing to respond to an invitation from the government, which asked for a dialogue. He described this purpose as a bad faith of the power which according to him wants to pass by all the means to stifle an electoral contest.
The embassy of the United States in Togo had on the other hand suggested earlier to the Electoral Commission (CENI) to use other clearer methods to boost the transparency of the election by proceeding to the recount of votes, But this suggestion was ignored.
For the record, Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé was declared by the constitutional court winner of the 2020 presidential election in Togo. Allowing him to spend his fourth term at the head of the state, after his father.
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