Each year, Kolkata's Durga Puja scales new heights as the most spectacular, extravagant and publicized event in the city's calendar.
Ever since its first issue in 2000, the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies journal has showcased some of the most ambitious and engaged scholarship in Asia. Across different regions in Asia, writers have asked sharp questions about contemporary spaces, and examined interesting phenomena that speak from the heart of cultural politics today.
Public screens have become significant urban sites for place-making. Whether through physical location, the programming of art and cultural content, or capacity for networking, they are focal points for local embeddedness, community formation and civic belonging.
Let's ask the question like this. Is the cinematic detective the last man standing, who still upholds ideals of rationalism and modernity, long after the disappearance of his literary counterpart?
Arriving in the city. We look at films from Bombay and Bengal, all from the period of national reconstruction in the wake of independence, that present the moment of encounter with the big city through the eyes of an outsider.
Trash images, like found objects, arrive without context: they are free to be used in whatever way you choose, take what meaning you wish to read in them. They arrive as outtakes, as censored footage, as hacked off bits of debris even as the film-commodity smoothens itself.
Whether we like it or not, the near future will be defined by automation, artificial intelligence, smart infrastructure, urban intensification and energy generation.
We look at three sites of participatory culture around Reality TV that help us understand the many nuances of Bengal and Bengaliness in contemporary popular culture: Kolkata and its suburbs, Darjeeling and Shillong (the last two being hilly towns where Bengalis are a minority, the former within Bengal and the latter outside).
The city of Calcutta as it existed in the poetic image. We explore the city in poetry, and in the poetic image as it exists in prose and, of course, in film.
The city of Calcutta was a hub of literary activities from the mid-nineteenth century or of the time of the so-called Bengal renaissance. This same movement had stressed the importance of women's education and the efflorescence of women's writing by the 1870s in Bengal is usually associated with this movement.
Travelling popular cultures at the turn of the twentieth century.
As the story goes, Chitpur is older than Calcutta itself.
We embarked on this project to traverse the multi-planar history of Calcutta, and its heterogeneous spatiality. The attempt was to recreate a visual chronotopia of sorts. Thus, a CCTV camera was setup on top of a defunct theatre - GEM, Entally; and, by shooting ceaselessly for over 10 days we generated an immersive and 360-degree time-space movement.
In 1951, author Sharadindu Bandhopadhay introduced his best known literary character, the ace detective Byomkesh Bakshi, in a series of wildly popular short stories often set in Calcutta's China Bazaar. Through the 1990s these extended into a television series and several films, of which Dibakar Bannerjee's is perhaps the best known. In a contemporary interpretation of war-torn Calcutta during 1942, the story follows the adventure of Byomkesh (Sushant Singh Rajput), fresh out of college, as he pits himself against a mastermind criminal. In searching for a missing chemist, the young private detective uncovers involving blackmail, an opium smuggling ring run by a criminal mastermind known by several names and guises, and numerous references to Calcutta's Chinatown, Burma and China.
Ensemble film begins in a former Southern Calcutta refugee colony. As the story moves, it also moves into the metropolitan downtown and ends in a surreal finale in the new-economy developments of what's come to be known as 'New Town'.
Garbage is a dark thriller drama revolving around dangerously true fundamentalist politics and patriarchy. Written and directed by Q, Garbage stars Satarupa Das, Tanmay Dhanania and Trimala Adhikari.


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Democrats Turn Up Volume on Immigration
By Daniel Newhauser
Posted October 5, 2011 at 6:12pm
Democrats are touting immigration issues this month to the dismay of some Republicans, who would just as soon avoid stirring the pot on the divisive issue heading into election season.
Hispanic Heritage Month runs from mid-September to mid-October and has provided the backdrop for a controversial Alabama immigration law and Texas Gov. Rick Perry's spiraling poll numbers in the Republican presidential primary, as opponents call him soft on illegal immigrants.
The month has also given President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats a forum to trumpet immigration issues and court Latino voters.
In a Tuesday hearing of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security, Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) called a House Judiciary Committee-passed mandatory employee verification bill, which is unpopular among immigration activists, an "existential threat" and a "death sentence" for American farms.
A day earlier, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus blasted Alabama's law, which was just upheld in a federal court.
The group's chairman, Rep. Charlie Gonzalez (D-Texas), called the law's provision that mandates checking people's immigration status at routine traffic stops an "abuse of governmental authority" and "textbook-style profiling."
Obama has been engaging the Latino population this month as well, doing everything from appointing pop singer Shakira to an administration post dealing with Hispanic education issues to announcing an Oct. 12 White House American Latino Heritage Forum with administration officials and Members of Congress.
On Wednesday, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano spoke at American University, where she reiterated the administration's position that Congress is to blame for lack of progress on immigration reform.
"Congress hasn't acted and states continue to pass a patchwork of their own laws in an attempt to fill the void," the former Arizona governor said. "Congress needs to take up immigration reform once and for all. We have put forward our ideas and are ready to act quickly and collaboratively to support passage of reforms that make sense."
Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, a Cuban-American Republican from Florida, said Democrats are trying to "demagogue" the immigration issue, but he conceded there could be political ramifications if his party does the same.
"Democrats have been dismal on the issue. The problem is, Republicans haven't been very good either," he said. "If on our side, if Republicans demagogue it as well, then it will be a problem. … If it becomes, 'Who can be the toughest on immigration?' then it creates a problem."
That problem could be unavoidable: A Harris poll conducted last month found that 90 percent of self-identified Republicans and 91 percent of tea party supporters polled consider "deporting more illegal aliens" a top priority — second only to cutting government spending.
That viewpoint was on full display when Perry was booed by a GOP audience at a Sept. 22 Republican presidential debate for defending his support for granting in-state college tuition to children of illegal immigrants.
Sen. John Cornyn, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said he suspects Democrats are "trying to use immigration as a wedge to excite immigration advocates" and to deflect criticism that Obama has not succeeded in passing immigration reform.
"He finds himself approaching an election and the enthusiasm for a lot of the people he made these promises to is waning," the Texas Republican said. "I think we'll just have to see how this develops, but it would be very hard to do a lot between now and November 2012 on such a controversial topic."
So far this session, Congressional Republicans have been hesitant to touch the issue. Though committees have held hearings on the subject, House GOP leaders have not brought a single immigration-related bill to the House floor for a vote.
House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith's (R-Texas) employee verification bill passed the committee, but it is not scheduled for floor consideration as the chamber focuses on economy and jobs, said Laena Fallon, spokeswoman for Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.).
But the party also does not want to risk alienating Latinos, who now make up about 16 percent of the country's population, said a Senate GOP aide.
"Very divisive, so why go there?" the aide said. "Immigration splits folks — you couldn't get folks united on one proposal, so why even try?"
That doesn't sit well with Ira Mehlman, spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which works to restrict immigration. He said he would like to see Republicans vote on hard-line immigration bills — even if they are only symbolic and would not pass the Senate.
"There seems to be this perceived wisdom that if you try to enforce immigration, you are going to upset the Latino voting base," he said. "But we would like to see bills that would support positions that we have taken, just get them out there, get people talking about it."

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Is the issue regarding Oneness versus the Trinity more of a semantic debate over terms and precise theological definitions rather than a salvation issue?
That is an important question. One must say that a shocking number of people in the pew do not know their own doctrinal belief or at least know it well. It is fascinating that when you begin to teach Bible studies with many of the average Trinitarians, when you begin to talk to them, you discover they are functionally Oneness. However, that does not mean our understanding of the Godhead is a small issue. It is, in fact, critical to salvation.
How is the Oneness of God critical to salvation? Jesus said it this way, "I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am he, you will indeed die in your sins" (John 8:24). While this reference has been disputed in interpretation, any approach leaves the unbeliever in trouble.
"I am" (ego eimi) is the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew words found in Exod. 3:14 and Isa. 43:10. So "I am that I am" compared with Jesus' statement would show that He is none other than the one God of the OT. Further, Jesus would be claiming that belief in Him as the one God or "I am" (singular here) is essential to salvation.
The other way this verse is compatible with Oneness is to say Jesus is speaking in His role as the Messiah, the Christ. Jesus would be telling the people unless they accept Him as Messiah they are going to be lost. Why would acceptance of Him in this role as man be essential to salvation?
Scripture makes it clear that sin alienated us from God. God came to save us in the person of Christ. That means Jesus is our only lamb, sacrifice, High Priest, mediator, etc. The man Jesus is our only "way to the Father," the "one mediator between God and men," so if we reject this only means of salvation we will be lost. Why?
Here is the crux of the matter. The false doctrine of the trinity affects salvation because people are baptized into a trinity instead of the one and ONLY saving name: Jesus (Acts 4:12). It is Jesus the man who died for our sin (Isa. 53). What's fascinating is at this point in books and sermons, most Trinitarians discard speaking of the trinity subconsciously and begin to speak of the work of the man Jesus. They quote verses like 1 Timothy 3:16 talking about how Christ was taken to heaven in glory. But what glory? This is disclosed in Phil. 2:10, 11. "Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father." Why not the trinity? Because it's not about persons, but the work of the man accomplishing the will and plan of God which brings salvation to fulfillment: namely by being the lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world.
Either way we look at this particular verse, we must be clear. Oneness is essential to understand because of the necessary mediatorial role of the man Jesus in our salvation. Baptism in Jesus' name isn't just a way to define ourselves against our Trinitarian friends. It's application of the ONLY saving name.


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Pomnik Polaków Ratujących Żydów – pomnik poświęcony Polakom uhonorowanym tytułem "Sprawiedliwy wśród Narodów Świata", powstały w 2009 wg projektu Czesława Bieleckiego w Parku Ocalałych w Łodzi.

Historia
Pomnik powstawał w wyniku determinacji prezydenta Łodzi – Jerzego Kropiwnickiego oraz dzięki pomysłowi głównego projektanta. Powstawał w latach 2005–2009. Jego inwestorem był Wydział Ochrony Środowiska Urzędu Miasta Łodzi, a głównym projektantem Czesław Bielecki. Monument odsłonięto 27 sierpnia 2009. Uroczystości odsłonięcia pomnika odbyły się przy udziale prezydenta Polski – Lecha Kaczyńskiego.

Architektura
Pomnik powstał na powierzchni 60 m² i jest kompozycją architektoniczno-ogrodową. Stanowią go ściany z betonu architektonicznego, tworzące kształt Gwiazdy Dawida, mającej symbolizować naród żydowski, którą powtarza szpaler grabów ustawiony dookoła murów. Na każdej ze ścian pomnika umieszczono napis "Sprawiedliwi wśród Narodów Świata 1939–1945". Monument został wewnątrz wybrukowany, a ponadto w posadzce umieszczono oświetlenie ścian pomnika, na których znajduje się około 6,5 tys. tabliczek z nazwiskami Polaków odznaczonych przez Jad Waszem medalem Sprawiedliwy wśród Narodów Świata, w tym m.in. upamiętniające Jana Karskiego, Irenę Sendlerową, Władysława Bartoszewskiego, Józefa i Wiktorię Ulmów. Jeden z wierzchołków Gwiazdy Dawida stanowi orzeł, mający symbolizować naród polski, umieszczony na cokole, wykonany z trawertynu. Rzeźba ta wcina się w schody nabrzeża rzeki Łódki. Na cokole rzeźby znalazł się napis "Polakom ratującym Żydów w latach 1939–1945", a także cytaty z Ewangelii i Talmudu po polsku, hebrajsku i angielsku, w tym m.in. inskrypcja "Kto ratuje jedno życie, ten ratuje cały świat", widniejąca również na medalach przyznawanych przez Yad Vashem.

Pomnik zrealizował zespół autorski złożony z osób takich jak: Czesław Bielecki, Lenka Cederbaum, Krzysztof Adamus, Barbara Pietrasik, a rzeźbę orła wykonał Waldemar Mazurek.

Nagrody
Nagroda w kategorii Przestrzeń Publiczna Ukształtowana w Zieleni, przyznana przez Towarzystwo Urbanistów Polskich w (2010).

Przypisy

Pomniki w Łodzi
Pomniki w Polsce związane z II wojną światową
Pomniki w Polsce odsłonięte w 2009
Pomniki ofiar Zagłady Żydów w Polsce
Dziedzictwo kulturowe Żydów w Łodzi

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Reviewing 2014 Mouton Cadet Bordeaux AC, France Score: 85/100 As I highlighted recently in an article on Vivino about the Most Popular French Wines, wines coming under the Mouton Cadet label indeed count among the very most widely drank bottles of French wine in the world. It is in fact the most scanned French … Continue reading How Good is Mouton Cadet Bordeaux wine?
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Denver is in the center of the Front Range Urban Corridor, between the Rocky Mountains to the west and the High Plains to the east. Denver's topography consists of plains in the city center with hilly areas to the north, west and south. According to the United States Census Bureau the city has a total area of 155 square miles (401 km2), of which 153 square miles (396 km2) is land and 1.6 square miles (4.1 km2) (1.1%) is water.[50] The City and County of Denver is surrounded by only three other counties: Adams County to the north and east, Arapahoe County to the south and east, and Jefferson County to the west.


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8 Warning Signs a Reopened Hair Salon Isn't Safe to Visit
Karla WalshUpdated: Nov. 28, 2022
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Heading back for your first trim since the pandemic began? Here's how to tell if your salon makes the cut in terms of the new safety standards.
Many states are now allowing hair studios to reopen, and while that's music to the ears of those who struggled through DIY haircuts at home or opted not to dye their own hair, salons aren't going to have the same leisurely spa vibe they once did. "In the United States and Canada, each state and province issues recommended guidelines," says Jeff Alford, CEO of the CBON (Cosmetic Brands of North America) Group in Toronto. "Up until now, you'd never feel scared to have a facial done or go get a haircut, but now the public is feeling that the beauty industry is one of the most dangerous places to go. We need to step up in our industry and get educated, and the public needs to get educated, too."
So, how can you tell if a salon is stepping up during the pandemic? Check for these eight red flags. If you encounter them, it might be time to find a new salon.
There are no masks in sight
"We're suggesting that it's obligatory for the staff to wear a mask and [to] let the customer decide if they don't think it's necessary," Alford says. For the safest environment for all, though, everyone in the salon should be wearing a mask. The mask protects those around you from your germs in the event that you are asymptomatic but have the virus, and it can also help prevent you from inhaling aerosolized respiratory droplets. One recent Japanese study found that coronavirus cases are nearly 19 times more likely to be transmitted in indoor spaces than outdoor ones.
Besides maintaining a six-foot distance from others, masks are one of the most effective ways to slow the spread of coronavirus. Case in point: In May, two Missouri hairstylists had close contact with 140 clients before they were aware they had COVID-19 but while they were experiencing illness symptoms. Both the clients and the stylists wore masks, and none of the clients ended up testing positive.
Still on the fence about donning a mask? These 11 eye-opening facts will convince you that it's a really good idea to wear one.
You're not seeing any sanitization procedures in practice
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In the past, stylists and salon staff would sanitize tools between each client, but now they should be disinfecting chairs (including hair-washing-station chairs) and washing their hands between each guest as well, says George Papanikolas, a MATRIX celebrity colorist in New York City. Alford advises all stylists to wash hands and disinfect at a time when clients are watching so they can see with their own eyes the safety steps in place.
All those sprays and disinfecting wipes don't come cheap. As a result, some salons are adding a safety surcharge or fee to help cover the costs of these products and other new equipment, such as plexiglass barriers between stations.
Clients are congregating in the waiting area
To help limit contact with others, salons should stagger appointments so you won't meet others in the entryway or exit, Papanikolas says. Safe salons will kindly ask you to wait outside or in your car until you receive a call or text letting you know that your chair is empty and has been disinfected and that the stylist is ready for you.
The salon didn't contact you about new safety procedures
Salons should be forthcoming about this information. If you didn't receive an email about them or speak to someone ahead of time, check the salon's website or social media page. If there's nothing, there's a problem. Since it's challenging to know how buttoned-up a salon's sanitation is before you enter the premises, Alford suggests that clients call and ask about the following things to see if they're playing it safe:
What social distancing measures have been enacted?
Are all staff and clients required to wear masks?
Are you using hospital-grade disinfectants?
How often do stylists wash their hands?
"We're encouraging the public to become proactive," Alford says. Still, it's even better if the salon shares this before you have to ask. "From a consumer's point of view, if a business that I'm supporting hasn't posted any COVID-19 precautions on their website, social media, email newsletters, or on their front doors or windows, that immediately would be a red flag for me," says Tricia Rivas, "chief dream operator" and owner of Trixies Salon in Des Moines, Iowa.
It's as crowded as ever
As mentioned earlier, salons should alternate appointment times and allow for at least six feet between other stylists and clients, Papanikolas says. Plexiglass barriers between stations are now more common, as well. If a salon is safe, you will see a remodeled space with far fewer people in a room at once, Rivas says. Here's a stark reminder of what can happen when you don't social-distance.
Hair dryers are in frequent use in large spaces
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"High-powered dryers were great pre-COVID-19, but no longer," Alford says. That's because we're learning that, while unlikely, a blow-dryer may accelerate the spread of respiratory droplets from an infected individual to others, according to Cedars-Sinai health experts. Some states, including New Hampshire, have made salon blow-dry services off-limits. In states where it is allowed, "blow-dry rooms or sections may be opened so the droplets aren't spread to other clients and stylists," Alford says.
Many salons, including Rivas' Trixies, do not offer blow-drying or styling at this time—both as a safety precaution for airflow and to reduce exposure time to others within the salon space. Besides blow-dryers, here are 13 other things you won't see in hair salons anymore.
Guests are allowed to bring kids or other companions
Clients should be instructed to arrive with as little baggage as possible, Alford says. That means literal bags, such as purses and backpacks, as well as other people, including kids and spouses. The fewer things and people in an enclosed space, the better to reduce the potential transmission risk. A safe salon should call or email about all of these capacity restrictions in advance of your appointment.
They still allow cash payments
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Q: PowerShell Get-Service is very slow to return results I have tried several methods for gathering service data and I can't seem to get one to meet all my needs. Get-Service works fine but is very slow when I pipe in a couple Where-Object properties. Get-CimInstance is much faster but I can't figure out how to exclude services. Any ideas?
Here's my code attempts so far. This one is fast until I add the Where-Object. Then it takes 3 times longer if I do:
Get-Service -DisplayName * -ComputerName $Name -Exclude $ExcludedServices | Where-Object { $_.status -eq 'Running' -or $_.StartType -eq 'Automatic' }

This one works much faster but I don't know how to exclude a list of Services if needed:
Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_Service -ComputerName $Name | Where-Object { $_.state -eq 'Running' -or $_.StartMode -eq 'Auto' }

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I don't know how to exclude a list of Services if needed

Get-CimInstance allows you to impose a WQL WHERE clause constraint on the query:
Get-CimInstance Win32_Service -Filter 'Name != "excludedSvc"'

You can also restrict the items based on the State or StartMode properties inside the query, so the remote computer doesn't have to send back all of the services:
Get-CimInstance Win32_Service -Filter 'Name != "excludedSvc" AND State = "Running" AND StartMode = "Auto"'

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Argument analysis: Justices struggle to define boundaries of Anti-Injunction Act
Posted Wed, December 2nd, 2020 5:37 pm by Blaine Saito
Cameron T. Norris, counsel for CIC Services (Art Lien)
The Supreme Court in Tuesday's argument in CIC Services v. Internal Revenue Service tried to clarify the scope of the Anti-Injunction Act, which generally prohibits lawsuits seeking to block the assessment or collection of a tax. The case specifically asks whether a company can sue to block the enforcement of an IRS notice that imposes certain reporting requirements, or whether the company must wait and sue only after the IRS assesses tax penalties for non-compliance with the notice. To arrive at an answer to that question, the court will have to resolve a clash between the AIA and another important federal statute: the Administrative Procedure Act.
The IRS notice at issue, Notice 2016-66, made certain types of captive insurance transactions "reportable transactions." Such reportable transactions are ones that the IRS considers potentially abusive. CIC Services, as a "material adviser" to transactions covered in Notice 2016-66, is required under the notice to report matters such as clients it advised in these transactions – at great cost to the company. CIC believes the notice violates the Administrative Procedure Act because the IRS issued it without holding a formal public-comment period, and the company sued under the APA to block its enforcement.
But the penalty for failing to report the transactions in Notice 2016-66 is found in Chapter 68, Subchapter B of the Internal Revenue Code, and thus it is styled as a tax. Traditionally, these penalties have been understood as covered by the AIA, which prohibits lawsuits that have "the purpose of restraining the assessment or collection of any tax." The question is whether that understanding should overcome the presumption in the APA that companies can usually bring pre-enforcement challenges to agency action.
Representing CIC, Cameron Norris made three major points. First, the purpose of the suit is to challenge the notice, not the assessment or collection of any tax. Second, the injury to CIC is not the payment of any tax, but rather the costs of complying with the reporting requirements in the notice. Third, CIC does not have meaningful access to a refund lawsuit – the typical mechanism for taxpayers to recoup unlawful taxes — because it is an adviser, not a taxpayer. In order to manufacture a refund suit, Norris argued, the company would have to violate the notice and risk receiving a large penalty styled as a tax, along with potential criminal sanctions. "The Anti-Injunction Act cannot require this," Norris said.
One set of questions from the justices sought to determine how to turn the three prongs of Norris' argument into a potentially workable three-part test. Justice Samuel Alito raised some concern that the inquiry of determining what is the purpose of a suit is complicated for a court to undertake. Norris responded that the inquiry is an objective one based on the language in the plaintiff's complaint. That led Justice Sonia Sotomayor to raise a concern that an artfully drafted complaint could create an end-run around the AIA. Norris in response remarked that the second prong of the test, the injury sustained, helps to avoid mere artful pleading. Focusing on the injury, Norris said, distinguishes this case from Bob Jones University v. Simon and Alexander v. "Americans United" Inc., where the court applied the AIA to prohibit non-refund suits challenging the revocation of tax-exempt status of certain nonprofit entities. The injury sustained by those entities was the requirement to pay taxes because they were no longer non-profit entitles. Here, the injury is not a tax, but rather the cost of compliance with the reporting requirement, Norris said.
Both Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett suggested collapsing the test into a single inquiry deriving from South Carolina v. Regan: whether a refund suit is an available mechanism to a plaintiff to challenge an IRS action. If the answer to that question is yes, the pre-enforcement suit would be barred; if the answer is no, then the pre-enforcement suit would be permitted. Norris seemed to accept this view, though he seemingly preferred a broader result.
A second theme of questioning came from Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Both of them focused on the fact that the penalty associated with the IRS notice challenged here is one that Congress labeled a tax, and that it likely did that to fall under the AIA. Norris emphasized, though, that CIC's suit is not focused on any tax collection itself, just the lawfulness of Notice 2016-66.
Kavanaugh also noted that the regulatory aspect of the notice is bound up with the tax aspect of the penalty enforcing it. He sought to find a distinction between challenging the underlying regulation and the tax itself – an attempt to limit the reach of Bob Jones and Americans United. Here again, Norris pointed out that unlike those cases, the injury here was not a tax, but compliance costs. He also emphasized that the refund suit channel is not available, because of the threat of criminal sanctions.
Finally, Justice Stephen Breyer asked whether CIC could seek judicial review by petitioning the IRS to engage in formal notice-and-comment rulemaking, and then, once the agency denied that petition, challenging the denial in court. Norris noted that such judicial review is not congruous, because the "arbitrary and capricious" standard in the posture of a denial of a petition for rulemaking is far more deferential to the IRS.
Assistant Solicitor General Jonathan Bond represented the government. In his opening, he highlighted that Notice 2016-66 is enforced by a penalty that Congress has styled a tax, and that the AIA bars suits restraining the assessment or collection of taxes. He said that if a company wanted to challenge Notice 2016-66, all it would have to do is file – in lieu of the notice's required reporting – a letter saying that the company had a good faith belief that the government promulgated the notice improperly.
Many of the justices were concerned about the potential that a company would open itself to criminal sanctions by failing to comply with the notice. Both Alito and Justice Neil Gorsuch noted that it is incredibly problematic to require someone to face criminal sanctions before asking a court to rule that an agency action was unlawful. In response, Bond remarked that the filing of the good-faith letter would suffice to avoid criminal sanctions. When further pressed by Alito about whether the term "willful" in the tax code should have a different meaning from ordinary willfulness, Bond responded in the affirmative. He noted that most of the court's precedents do have a heightened definition of "willfulness" in the criminal tax context as opposed to other criminal contexts.
Another line of questioning stemmed from whether the challenged regulatory action can be separated from the penalty styled as a tax. On this ground, Barrett and Justice Clarence Thomas focused on how close the link must be between the tax penalty and the challenged action. Bond said in this case the link is rather direct. He urged the court to reserve for another day the question of how attenuated the agency action must be from the tax in order for it to fall out of the AIA's scope.
Kagan took a different tack. She noted that the tax here is completely derivative of the agency action in the notice. She told Bond that all CIC asks is to have the notice invalidated so that the company does not have to comply with the reporting requirements. Bond pointed to the company's complaint, noting that CIC feels it must comply because of the tax penalty.
Kavanaugh revealed his hand during the government's argument. He noted that most of the arguments fall in the government's favor. Precedent leans toward the government. Direct Marketing Association v. Brohl – in which the court allowed a lawsuit challenging a state-tax reporting requirement to proceed – does not apply, because there was no tax there and here there is a tax. The criminal threat can easily be solved through the procedural mechanism and the heightened willfulness standard for tax crimes. The refund suit option is still available, which neutralizes the exception in South Carolina. But Kavanaugh raised a concern. The understanding of the APA, he noted, has evolved to favor pre-enforcement challenges to administrative actions. In light of that modern understanding, he questioned how much validity cases like Bob Jones and Americans United (which were decided in 1974) should have. Bond responded by noting a parallel evolution in the court's jurisprudence since the court decided Bob Jones: the rise of textualism. Bob Jones and similar cases should be more favorable to the court, because, unlike previous AIA cases, they hewed far closer to the text of the statute. And the text seemingly does channel these sorts of challenges to post-enforcement refund suits, Bond said.
Finally, Breyer got into a heated discussion with Bond. The thrust of his question focused on the point that the only way for CIC to get judicial review was to violate the law or to comply with the reporting requirement and suffer an injury that was not a tax. Bond had trouble responding to Breyer. But he repeated that CIC would not have to spend money to comply with the new reporting requirements. All it needed to do was file a letter saying it was not complying because it had a good-faith belief that Notice 2016-66 was promulgated improperly. It could then sue after paying the penalty.
Overall, the argument focused a great deal on technical line-drawing, as one would expect from a tax case. Everyone seemed to struggle with trying to figure out exactly what the AIA, which dates back to the 19th century, means in our modern context, and especially in a world where the IRS is a major administrative agency. While predicting an outcome from an argument is always tough, CIC seemingly has a slightly better chance at prevailing. But what is clear is that in drafting its opinion, the court will struggle with trying to delineate the exact bounds of the AIA's reach, and as a result, it may not provide the final word on the limits of this mysterious statute.
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Recommended Citation: Blaine Saito, Argument analysis: Justices struggle to define boundaries of Anti-Injunction Act, SCOTUSblog (Dec. 2, 2020, 5:37 PM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/12/argument-analysis-justices-struggle-to-define-boundaries-of-anti-injunction-act/


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The Mount Holly Historical Society Museum also has a large genealogy library that is open to the public. There is a special viewing room that is available on request. The museum is also open during the summer. The Holly Museum also has a large photographic collection that is open for viewing during the Christmas season.
The Mount Holly Historical Society Museum is located at 131 South Main Street in Mount Holly. The museum is open for visitors by appointment and on certain dates during downtown Mount Holly events. It is home to several rooms that are dedicated to Mount Holly's military veterans, churches, and Mount Holly High School. A number of historical exhibits are on display, including a model of the town, a clock, and a few period clothing items. The museum also has a plus code that enables visitors to reach it via the internet.
The Mount Holly Historical Society Museum has a few notable firsts to its credit. First, it was the first museum in Mount Holly. Secondly, it has the largest historical artifacts collection of any museum in the area. It is also home to the official Mount Holly affidavit.
The Mount Holly Museum also has a large number of events and special programs that are organized and sponsored by the museum. These include the annual Carry Nation Festival which is held each September after Labor Day. This event is now a staple in the community and features live music, food vendors, and a large beer garden.
The Mount Holly Historical Society Museum is also home to the Arcadia Images of America series, which is a book that features a panoramic photograph of Belmont circa 1900. The book is available for purchase.
The Mount Holly Museum also has an impressive number of exhibits that are designed to educate visitors about the history of the town. There are special events that are held in the museum throughout the year. These include a work day for the pollinator garden on January 29 and February 26. Learn more.
One of the more impressive things about the Mount Holly Museum is the number of visitors it attracts. It typically sees between five and fifteen visitors on a Saturday. However, there are plans to move the museum to a vacant location in the near future. While the proposed move is not without its flaws, it could have a positive impact on the museum. Ideally, the museum would be located near the main street in Mount Holly.
The Mount Holly Museum may not be located in the best location, but it is still a nice place to visit. While it may not be the largest museum in the area, it has a number of unique and interesting exhibits that are sure to engage visitors of all ages. Next article.
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Miller's Crossing (1990)
July 23, 2017 July 5, 2017 ~ idrawonmywall
Directed by the Coen Brothers
The first thing I noticed about Miller's Crossing is how much Tommy (Gabriel Byrne) gets beat up. He's an enforcer, working for both sides of a mafia war and everywhere in between. His loyalty is never certain, not to either side and not even to the audience at times. So everyone works with him, but everyone also takes their turn beating him up.
I'm trying to think of a metaphor for his character, but I can't think of one. On one hand he's incredibly smooth, navigating stormy waters in a way to save himself and the people he wishes to protect, including his love interest, Verna (Marcia Gay Harden) and her trouble-causing brother, Bernie (John Turturro). But on the other hand, everyone seems out to get him.
And even though the events of this film are meant to be very dramatic, very serious, very deadly, it all feels kind of silly ultimately. It's just a game, one driven by petty grievances and inflated egos. Whenever the police show up, in a couple funny and loud shootouts, they never look at Tommy or likeminded criminals as anything other than people playing a game. The police usually show up as comic relief, in fact, like referees breaking up a fight during a baseball game.
The two people at either side of this conflict are Leo (Albert Finney) and Johnny Caspar (Jon Polito). At the start, Tommy works for Leo, then eventually shifts to Caspar, and then finally back to Leo. But really, Tommy just works for himself. His aim is to survive, and shifting allegiances is the way to do that.
As Tommy tells multiple people, "nobody knows anybody, not that well." The only character who does know Tommy is Eddie Dane, Caspar's chief enforcer who can see through Tommy's allegiance bullshit from the start. Tommy, in order to save his ass, makes up a story about how Eddie is out to get Caspar, and when Eddie turns the tables on Tommy, looking to be an inch of killing him, Caspar intervenes, killing Eddie and announcing his faith in his new enforcer.
And yet Caspar ends up dead, shot by Bernie in a confrontation orchestrated by Tommy. This is a situation in which Tommy didn't know if Bernie would die or Caspar would, yet he could be certain that someone would die, and it didn't really matter who. So it doesn't even matter who I'm talking about or the fact that I've hardly described what gets the plot rolling in the first place.
The story begins when Caspar comes to Leo, letting him know that he wants to kill Bernie because the kid is interfering with some of his poker games (if I remember correctly). Leo tells him no because he's sleeping with Verna, Bernie's brother. Of course Leo doesn't realize that Tommy is too.
So Caspar desperately wants Bernie dead, and when Leo eventually discovers his affair with Verna, Tommy joins Caspar's team and is immediately tasked with killing Bernie to prove his loyalty. He only pretends to kill him, ordering Bernie to ditch town forever, and from this comes a web of decisions and deaths all meant to assure Tommy's cover.
It all ends with Caspar dead and Tommy killing Bernie to make up a story that, again, protects his own ass. It's important, I suppose, that Leo gets back together with Verna and Tommy is left alone. If you're only ever out for number one, than all you're left with is number one.
Miller's Crossing seems to be the main inspiration for the television program Fargo, Noah Hawley's Coen Brothers adaptation. The first two seasons of that show (I have yet to see the third) are based on Fargo, yet they are loaded with characters and imagery from most of the Coen Brothers' films, including style, humor and archetypes. But each of those seasons starts with a sort of family/mafia war. And in each case, the conflict seems avoidable, but it usually escalates due to misunderstandings and ego. In other words, the conflict in those seasons is based on the type of conflict in this film.
And the humor is there too. A couple of the funniest scenes of the film involve Johnny Caspar chastising his son, and one of the funniest lines might be when his chubby son, asked what he has had to eat today, says "two hotdogs." The Coen Brothers have a way of letting a film breathe, whether with humor or character moments that feel outside of the plot and yet further illuminate the world of the story (such as when Marge Gunderson meets a lonely former classmate in Fargo).
The title of the film refers to the spot in the forrest where the mafia families take people to be killed. The credit sequence of the film has a camera looking straight up into the sky, moving slowly through the forrest. It's very dream-like, and Tommy even says that he has a dream about this location in which he loses his hat. We see that image, of the hat falling to the ground and blowing away in the wind. The image seems to allude to death, and I think Verna even asks him this directly, almost as if to undercut what he's saying.
I guess Miller's Crossing is like no man's land in this deadly game between mob bosses. It's the gray area in the middle of two opposites, and the whole story deals with Tommy navigating that gray area. He doesn't even seem to know what side he's really on.
From a narrative point of view, I think the decision to force Tommy out from under Leo's wing works tremendously well. It's always inherently interesting to develop two characters' relationship, then force a rift between them that they will have to address ultimately. They start as friends and become enemies. The same thing happened in The Color of Money and Warrior, the 2011 Tom Hardy movie.
In this case it works so well, partially because of a scene in which Leo kills two would-be assassins. It's an awesome scene on its own, with Leo noticing that something is up when he sees the smoke from a gunshot seeping through the floorboards and into his upstairs room. The scene is blocked and choreographed nicely, but Leo is also such a badass in the moment. This whole thing sets him up to feel almost invincible, and so when Tommy suddenly finds himself on this man's shit list, the drama is amped up tenfold. It's not just that he's now fighting against the man he was once fighting with, but also that that man is basically Iron Man with a tommy gun.
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Home Investigations Killer Kracker Kop Hid Bodycam Footage of Ronald Greene's Murder
Killer Kracker Kop Hid Bodycam Footage of Ronald Greene's Murder
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In perhaps the strongest evidence yet of an attempted cover-up in the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene, the ranking Louisiana State Police officer at the scene falsely told internal investigators that the Black man was still a threat to flee after he was shackled, and he denied the existence of his own body camera video for nearly two years until it emerged just last month.
New state police documents obtained by The Associated Press show numerous inconsistencies between Lt. John Clary's statements to detectives and the body camera footage he denied having. They add to growing signs of obfuscation in Greene's death, which the white troopers initially blamed on a car crash at the end of a high-speed chase and is now the subject of a federal civil rights investigation.
The highly secretive case has drawn national attention since last week when the AP began publishing graphic body camera videos that showed troopers repeatedly jolting Greene with stun guns, putting him in a chokehold, punching him and dragging him by his ankle shackles. And like George Floyd's death a year ago, it once again highlighted the importance of video as key evidence in police misconduct cases.
"Video doesn't lie, and the best way to protect the integrity of law enforcement agencies is with body camera footage," said Rafael Goyeneche, a former prosecutor who is president of the Metropolitan Crime Commission, a New Orleans-based watchdog group.
But Clary, the highest-ranking officer among at least six state troopers at the scene of Greene's May 10, 2019, arrest, told investigators later that day that he had no body camera footage of the incident — a statement proven to be untrue when his 30-minute body camera video of the arrest emerged last month. read more..
https://apnews.com/article/arrests-death-of-ronald-greene-d2868b81b5af53a62301742d1ba4b825
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