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The Tea Party, a populist movement, but to what end?
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Being the contrarian that I am, whenever it becomes popular to ridicule something, I find myself asking "wait a minute. Is there more to this?" Many of the figures of the Tea Party movement are pretty easy targets, making it easy to dismiss the whole movement as a bunch of extremists, ignorant backwoodsmen or agents of some evil puppet-master.
There are things I should like about the movement. First, it started as a populist movement, which is what I think we need to shake up the current rigged two-party monopoly. But it hasn't played out that way. Tea Party proponents say they "don't care about party labels" and that they "don't care what party you're in; they just want to know if you reflect their values." However, in practice, there is no place for Democrats in the Tea Party - and what's more, all Tea Party candidates have run on the Republican ticket, not a third party ticket.
Ok, so the real Tea Party is older, white, somewhat more male, and 30% more likely to identify as "born-again" Christians than the general population. They have a favorable opinion of the Republican Party and an unfavorable opinion of the Democratic Party. But what do they want?
A common slogan is "Take back America." When I see representatives of the movement speak, whether official PR spokesmen or ordinary attendees at rallies etc. it feels like this is code for a number of what appear to be fear-driven goals. In a lot of ways, "Take back America" seems to mean taking America back to a mythical, idealized time in the past, when white people had it good, jobs were plentiful, taxes were low, and everybody feared/loved Jesus in appropriate quantities.
They want to roll the clock back to some imagined version of America that never really existed. It's a fictionalized, Rockwell-esque amalgam of all the best of America, from their perspective, from many different times in history. Except in this rose-colored-glasses story, they leave out the ickier parts.
They want lower taxes and less government, but does that mean going back to a time before Social Security and Welfare? If there was a Tea Party back when those issues were moving through congress, it certainly would have opposed them, going by their stated mission of strongly opposing such social programs. Keep in mind, 43 percent of the federal budget goes to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, yet the vast majority of Tea Party members support these programs and want them to continue.
Or how about civil rights? This "better time" they long for allowed segregation and countless forms of formalized racism and discrimination, even slavery, if you take them at their word that they want to revert to the original doctrine of the Constitution.
The Tea Party says they support reduced government interference and "liberty" while at the same time Tea Party candidates have said "we would like to see prayer back in school" and activists carry signs reading "Yes, we are a Christian nation" and "United government under God." Or there's Governor Robert Bentley announcing that "Anybody here today who has not accepted Jesus christ as their savior, I'm telling you, you're not my brother and you're not my sister." So, "liberty" in the Tea Party definition, appears to be the liberty to impose Christianity.
Tea Party darling Christine O'Donnell famously said "Evolution is a myth." Recall that, even though Clarence Darrow made William Jennings Bryan out to be a fool at the 1925 Scopes trial, he lost the case and Scopes was found guilty of illegally teaching evolution - and those anti-evolution laws were not repealed in Tennessee until 45 years later, in 1967! Yes, you read that right - it was illegal to teach evolution in Tennessee as recently as 1967! Is that the America the Tea Party wants, where factual science is excluded from education by government mandate?
As for tax rates, nobody likes paying taxes and getting rid of government waste sounds great. But let's give it some perspective, shall we? Analysis shows that the effective income tax rate is currently at its lowest level since at least 1955 and corporate tax rates are already lower than they've been in 50 years. High taxes are not the problem.
Tea Party enthusiasts are quick to throw around the word socialism in reference to Obama's tax policies. They claim he wants to raise the tax burden on the rich and lower it on the poor to "distribute wealth" but the facts, again, don't bear it out. The rich continue to get richer. Even if Obama had gotten his way, it would have represented a pretty paltry tax increase for the richest people and, even then, it would only get things closer to where they were because, while the tax rates for nearly all households have been dropping since the 60s, the rates of the richest have dropped the most, by far. If the Tea Party sees a pro-business, pro-capitalism moderate such as Barack Obama as a socialist with all his tax cuts, imagine what they would think of a president who ran a federal government with significantly higher tax rates than today and who raised taxes while in office, specifically, Ronald Reagan.
The basic message of the Tea Party movement is quite appealing: Government is too expensive, too intrusive and too big. But the devil is in the details. In the end, I don't think there's anything new here. The Tea Party should be praised for managing to organize some of the anger and frustration that's out there into something people are looking at - and perhaps it can be a model for other populist movements in some way. But for the Tea Party itself, there is no "there" there, at least not yet - it's not that unlike the old "moral majority" but with a much narrower agenda. And like that movement, it will continue to be a fringe element. It is a movement that cannot deny that it is heavily loaded with extremists - truth hurts, sorry. Mocking them really is easy, and justified in most cases. Again, tough luck. You are what you are.
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The Karl Denninger branch of the Tea Party isn't racist, and he co-founded the original Tea Party. Go to his site at http://market-ticker.org/ and see if you find any racism. I don't think you can because it's not there. He founded the Tea Party in anger against the bailout of big banks by the government and is scathing against those who hijacked it.
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The cabinetry to the left.
French Door Refrigerator with bottom freezer. 26 cu. ft.
Blanco stainless steel sink with Kohler faucet.
The cabinetry to the right.
Or for a bistro-like setting.
Looking back to the entryway.
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Institution: Institute of Archaeology in collaboration with the Historical and Antiquarian Society of Torčec
Excavation manager: Dr Tajana Sekelj Ivančan (2002), Dr Siniša Krznar (2009, 2011-2015)
The Torčec-Cirkvišče site lies to the north-west of the centre of the present-day village of Torčec, and to the east of the road leading from Torčec towards Đelekovec. Although it had been known previously in the literature, the site attracted the attention of archaeologists in 1999, when a ceramic vessel that contained a dog's skull was ploughed out of the soil. The head of the dog was carefully placed in the vessel, probably as part of a ritual, in the mid-13th century. This is a unique find in Croatia, with closest analogies in Hungary. In 2002, the first archaeological investigations were carried out, which confirmed the sacred character of the site. Further investigations followed in 2009 and in 2011-2015. A total of 380 graves and the modest remains of a church structure have been discovered so far. Based on their features, most of the graves belong to the parish cemetery and can be dated based on the stratigraphy and certain characteristic finds to the Late Middle Ages and the Modern period, up until 1731/1733. At that time the chapel moved to the area in the centre of the present-day village of Torčec, to the south of the Gliboki brook, marking the end of burials in this area. Some graves, however, are much older than that period. The oldest grave discovered at the site dates from the turn of the eight and ninth centuries. Anthropological analysis was carried out for all the graves. This multidisciplinary approach led to very interesting results regarding the conditions and quality of life for the people inhabiting the Podravina region around Koprivnica in the Middle Ages and the Modern period. As we can see, this is an important site that, in spite of the small uncovered area, yielded graves and ritual finds from various chronological periods, based on which we can clearly follow the continuity of spatial sacrality, and which at the same time provides a wealth of information on the everyday life of individuals.
Krznar, S. 2013, Pregled dosadašnjih arheoloških istraživanja na lokalitetu Torčec-Cirkvišče, Podravski zbornik, 39, 173-180.
Novak, M., Krznar S. 2010, Prilozi poznavanju uvjeta i kvalitete života u ranonovovjekovnom podravskom selu – na primjeru Torčeca kraj Koprivnice, Podravina, vol. 9, br. 18, Koprivnica, 59-88.
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Sekelj Ivančan, T., Tkalčec, T. 2003, Arheološko nalazište Torčec – Cirkvišče, Podravina, vol. II, br. 4, Koprivnica, 5-36.
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EU castigates Israel over settlements, Palestinians
BRUSSELS: The European Union (EU) foreign ministers on Monday issued a harsh critique of Israel, saying the gathering pace of settlement-building, settler extremism and ill-treatment of Palestinians threatens a two-state solution.
"The EU expresses deep concern about developments on the grounds which threaten to make a two-state solution impossible," the bloc's 27 ministers said in a statement issued during talks in Brussels.
"The viability of a two-state solution must be maintained," the three-page European Union statement added.
Israeli settlement watchdog Peace Now said on Monday that Israel was moving ahead with plans to build around 2,000 new homes in the settlement of Gilo, in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem.
"There was an announcement of depositing for public review, plans for 942 housing units with an option for 300 more," the group's Hagit Ofran told AFP. "The public now has 60 days to present objections."
"Next week, on May 22, there will be a discussion on objections to a different plan for Gilo, for 900 units," she added. "Another stage in the approvals process."
The Jerusalem Post daily said it could take years before all steps were complete and construction could begin.
Reiterating that settlements on occupied land are illegal under international law, the ministers notably condemned "the marked acceleration" of settlement building since the end of a 2010 moratorium and expressed "deep concern" over settler extremism in the West Bank.
They also voiced concern over evictions and the demolition of Palestinian homes in east Jerusalem "and the prevention of peaceful Palestinian cultural, economic, social or political activities".
Turning to the so-called Area C zone of the occupied West Bank, where Israel has full civil and security control, the statement noted "the worsening living conditions" of the Palestinian population in general.
The ministers' stand came on the heels of a damaging report by NGOs this weekend alleging that Israel last year demolished dozens of Palestinian homes, water cisterns and farm buildings built with European funds.
In Area C, Israel has placed "serious limitations" on the Palestinian Authority's ability to promote economic development, the statement said.
Saying the future of Area C was critical to a future Palestinian state because this was its main land reserve, the EU urged Israel to halt demolitions and simplify the granting of building permits.
"The EU will continue to provide financial assistance for Palestinian development in Area C and expects such investment to be protected for future use," the statement said.
But Israel's foreign ministry said the EU position included "a long list of claims and criticism which are based on a partial, biased and one-sided depiction of realities on the ground".
"Israel is committed to the wellbeing of the Palestinian population and acts according to all relevant international conventions," it said.
Hanan Ashrawi, a senior member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, welcomed the EU statement as "politically responsible."
"We believe the EU statement is a very comprehensive and politically responsible statement. It addresses all the issues that have really brought about this crisis, including the settlement activity, and Israel's non-compliance with international law and UN resolutions," she told AFP.
But the Palestinians wanted to see the EU propose a way forward in stalled peace talks, which have been on hold since late September 2010, she said.
Leading charity Oxfam, which has been present on the ground for five decades, said it welcomed the "bold" EU stand.
"Oxfam witnesses daily the impact that Israeli settlement expansion, building restrictions and demolitions have on the Palestinian communities we work with," said Tidhar Wald, Oxfam's EU humanitarian policy advisor.
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Some people look more forward to Super Bowl Sunday than any other day of the year. Football fans anticipate the big game, and even non-football fans await the laughter and sentiment of the best commercial advertisements of the year. Behind Thanksgiving, Super Bowl Sunday is often recognized as the second largest food consumption day in the United States!
While the typical traditions may still include pizza, mini sausages and beer, healthy foods and snacks can still fit into the party menu. When making dips, use fat-free or low-fat versions of dairy products, such as plain yogurt, sour cream, mayonnaise, and cream cheese. Vegetables, pretzels, pita chips, or whole grain crackers can be healthy dipping companions. The Super Bowl menu often includes various appetizers, rather than a main entrée. One of my favorites is the Mini Taco Cup recipe below. A mixture of lean ground beef and beans delivers a great source of protein that doesn't require you to eat ten of them to fill you up. Find the wonton wrappers in the refrigerated section of the produce aisle; they make a perfect holder for many different appetizer fillings.
Party goers need to come hungry but not starved. Be sure to eat a healthy breakfast and lunch prior to the start of the game. Also, beverages may add extra calories into the diet without it ever crossing one's mind. Try not to over-indulge in high calorie drinks, such as regular soda, regular beer, punch, and other calorie containing cocktails. Bring your own bottled water to avoid the temptation. The Super Bowl party can be fun for the whole family, and while you may indulge in a few treats that you don't often have, the important thing is to not overdue it. Stop when you're full and avoid the never-ending plate. It can be easy to continuously fill up the plate during game time, but it can easily lead to stuffing yourself beyond misery. Try popping chewing gum in your mouth when you feel the urge to get more food.
The important thing is to enjoy the food, enjoy the company, and enjoy the game (and commercials)!
Preheat oven to 425°F. Press one wonton wrapper into each muffin cup. Cook the beef in a 10–inch skillet until browned. Drain grease. Add beans, taco seasoning mix, and water called for on the seasoning package and simmer for 4-5 minutes. Spoon about 1 Tablespoon of the taco meat/bean mixture into each wrapper. Top with a spoonful of salsa and cheese. Bake for 5-8 minutes or until golden brown.


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Developer Don Peebles relists Coral Gables estate for $15M
Nearly 3-acre property comes with a membership to Peebles' Bath Club in Miami Beach
Dec.December 04, 2020 12:00 PM
By Katherine Kallergis
Don and Katrina Peebles with their Old Cutler Road home (Getty, The Jills Zeder Group/photography by 1 OAK Studios)
UPDATED, Dec. 4, 2:05 p.m.: Don Peebles is looking to sell his sprawling Coral Gables estate for nearly $15 million.
The developer previously listed the property for sale in 2017, asking nearly $13 million.
He and his wife, Katrina, tapped Jill Eber and Judy Zeder of The Jills Zeder Group at Coldwell Banker to list the two-story, 15,688-square-foot mansion at 11501 Old Cutler Road, according to a press release. The 2.9-acre property, called "Casa Arboles," which translates to house of trees, features a canopy of 88 oak trees.
The mansion includes 10 bedrooms, 12 bathrooms and two half-bathrooms, a chef's kitchen, two offices, a gym, a "boardroom" with a marble fireplace and 10-seat movie theater. It also has a full-house generator, four garages, a pool and tennis court, a main suite, and a private tower guest suite with its own living room, dining area, kitchenette and balcony.
"Katrina and I will be able to travel a bit more, so we want to uncomplicate our lives," Peebles said about selling the Coral Gables estate, which is fully staffed. "We bought it as a place to raise our children."
Architect Ramon Pacheco renovated the Mediterranean Revival home along with interior design from Katrina Peebles' KLP Interiors.
The couple paid $5.45 million for the property in 2004 and put millions into renovating it.
Peebles said he and his wife own two homes in Wellington, which Katrina's interior design firm renovated. The couple has one property on the market and will keep the other. They're spending more time in Wellington because their daughter is an equestrian.
Property records show the couple paid $1.8 million in February for a home in Wellington, which is now on the market for $4.4 million.
Peebles heads the New York and Washington, D.C.-based Peebles Corporation. Peebles announced last year that he was renovating the Bath Club in Miami Beach to reopen as a social membership club following the $6 million renovation. The buyer of his house would also receive a complimentary membership to the club.
The Bath Club is set to open in January and is in the process of selecting its founding members, Peebles said.
Since founding his firm in the early 1980s, Peebles has bought, sold or developed a portfolio that totals $6 billion and spans more than 7 million square feet in Boston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and other cities. Last year, he announced that his company is launching a $500 million fund to invest in minority and women developers.
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A team of researchers at Laval University is working on making the first HIV vaccine in the world while researchers are currently testing it for macaques.
Arriving from China in the summer, 33 macaques currently serve as guinea pigs in the Laval University research laboratories under the supervision of the Dr Gary Kobinger, director of the Center for Infectious Diseases at the University of Laval, who is also the recipient of the Ebola vaccine.
The macaques received the "most promising" vaccine developed by the D-team.r Kobinger in the past three weeks. Once the results of their immune system have been documented, the animals will finally be infected with the virus in February.
"They can not die from it"
"They can not die, it makes them sick a bit, but you can not really see it clinically Blood tests have to be done to monitor the evolution of the virus and their reactions," explains the lead researcher, in the margins of the activities organized in Quebec City by the Information and Mutual Aid Movement in the fight against HIV / AIDS. Québec (Miels-Québec), on the occasion of the 30the World Aids Day, Saturday.
If the results of the tests are convincing, the vaccine can be "maximally" subjected to clinical trials with humans within two years, says the Dr Kobinger. Research for the development of this vaccine is estimated at $ 4 million.
According to the most recent data, 63,110 Canadians were living with HIV in 2016. In the same year, about 2,165 people were infected with HIV in Canada.


America's big-five oil companies were in Congress May 12, and although they champion the free market, their CEOs were on Capitol Hill to defend something very different—$4 billion worth of tax incentives, credits and subsidies.
However, few see Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, ConocoPhillips and BP America—who raked in a collective $35 billion in the first quarter of 2011 alone—as the most vulnerable Americans.
"I think you're out of touch, deeply and profoundly out of touch, and deeply committed to sharing nothing," Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) told the CEOs.
"You'd have an easier time convincing the American people that a unicorn just flew into this hearing room than that these big oil companies need taxpayer subsides, that's the real fairy tale," said Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY).
"It just seems frankly that you make a lot of money. That's fine. That's the American way. But it also seems that maybe the subsidies are not necessary anymore," Senate Finance Committee Chair Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) said.
But Conoco-Phillips slammed those who do want to end those subsidies as "un-American" in a press release issued yesterday.
The subsidy-cutting plan would shrink America's $1.3 trillion deficit by $21 billion over the 10 years. A gallon of gas is currently hovering around $4 dollars a gallon, close to its all-time high of $4.11 in 2008.
From Goldman Sachs to BP to big tobacco, parading CEOs before Congress so representatives can grill them generates press—but leads to little real reform. The same oil companies testified in 2008 and 2005 when gas prices spiked, although CEOs then said they didn't need tax incentives.
"Gentlemen, you all have done, as major oil companies, a dramatic about-face this morning," said Senator Ron Wyden. "In 2005 – you were there, Mr. Mulva – all of you said you did not need tax incentives to drill for oil. And today you come to say you've got to have them when oil is at $100 a barrel. I just think that position defies common sense."
Congress is expected to vote on the Repeal Big Oil Tax Loopholes Act, which would cut the subsidies and save Americans $21 billion over 10 years, next week. But as one of the biggest lobbying interests in the US, there will be a lot at stake—Chevron paid $12.9 million in lobbying dollars in 2010; ExxonMobil $12.4 million; ConocoPhillps $19.6 million and BP America $7.3 million, much of it going to the same senators who will vote to cut the subsidies next week.


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Police: Michael Kotwicki Wanted For Sexual Assault, Holding Woman Against Her Will In Upper Darby TownshipUpper Darby Township Police responded to an apartment complex for help Sunday morning, after a woman claimed she was raped, abused and held against her will.
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PA Ballot Question To Determine Fate Of Philadelphia Traffic Court
By Pat Loeb April 24, 2016 at 9:00 pm
Filed Under:Congressman Bob Brady, KYW Newsradio, Pat Loeb, Pennsylvania Primary, Philadelphia Traffic Court
(Credit: CBS3)
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Every Pennsylvania voter will be asked a question on Tuesday's primary ballot: Should Philadelphia Traffic Court be abolished? It's a formality that will simply solidify something that's already happened.
Traffic court was effectively abolished three years ago following a sweeping corruption investigation that led to guilty verdicts or pleas for seven judges and an administrator. Responsibilities were transferred to Municipal Court.
But the old court is enshrined in the state constitution and Maida Milone of Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts says the ballot question is needed to be sure it's never revived.
"It's been a scandal-ridden court for the last four decades," she said. "This really represents an opportunity for the citizens of Pennsylvania to say no to favoritism to two tracks of justice."
However, not everyone will be happy to see it go. Democratic Party Chairman, Congressman Bob Brady, preferred the common touch of judges who needed no law degree.
"People who would run for traffic court would get the feel of the people by going out and trying to get elected," Brady said. "People that get elected by the people have to get the feel of the people other than just young district attorneys down there making decisions."
Brady says, though, the party is mounting no effort to save it.
"I think it's a foregone conclusion," he said.


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TIFF Review: The Informant!
By Julian Sancton
There are two comedies premiering at Toronto this year about inveterate liars. One, The Invention of Lying, is a farce about the one dishonest man (Ricky Gervais) in a world of credulous truth-tellers. The other is Steven Soderbergh's The Informant!, which stars Matt Damon as a feckless, prevaricating corporate whistleblower. While the former concept is a perfect template for a string of gags ("The world's gonna end unless we have sex right now!"), there is nothing inherently funny about the latter, which is based on the true story of agribusiness executive Mark Whitacre. The plot—about price-fixing, fraud, wire-tapping, corporate espionage, and Whitacre's mental disorder—is about as dense as Traffic, and yet Soderbergh jams it all into the mold of a light-hearted comedy. The result is jarring at times, especially with Marvin Hamlisch's incongruous and anachronistic bouncy big-band score. But the film takes off as Whitacre's lies accumulate and crescendo and his entire life begins to unravel, all the way to the weave of his toupee.
With this movie, Damon reveals himself to be one of the few A-listers with real range, in terms of both versatility—his pusillanimous, smarmy Whitacre is as far removed from the steely Jason Bourne as you can imagine—and girth. He put on over thirty pounds of pure fat for the role, and his muffin-top paunch is almost certain to impress Academy voters, who are notorious pushovers for actors who uglify themselves for a role, e.g. De Niro in Raging Bull, Charlize Theron in Monster. (Not to worry, Damon fans: the actor looked as studly and trim as ever at the premiere last night.) But his performance is transformative as well, his most nuanced yet. He nails Whitacre's moral languidness, his inner panic, and his unjustified narcissism. (Whitacre imagines himself as Tom Cruise from The Firm but he's closer to Milton from Office Space.) The best part of the film for me was his voiceovers, read in a slightly high-pitched tone that goes up at the end of sentences like when a six-year-old tells a rambling story, and veering off into unrelated tangents as Whitacre zones out the world around him.The film will probably do relatively well in theaters when it opens next Friday. That would be welcome news for Soderbergh, who is coming off the huge flop that was his four-hour epic about Che Guevara, which made less than $1.5 million in 39 theaters and received not a single Oscar nom. And his follow-up, The Girlfriend Experience, earned little more than moderate critical respect when it came out earlier this year. The best way to move on from those kinds of letdowns is to keep busy. And Soderbergh is certainly busy. "Do one for them and one for you," goes the Hollywood adage, recommending that actors alternate between big studio films and indie labors of love. Steven Soderbergh is one of the rare directors with the opportunity and energy to take that advice. In the two decades since he launched his career—and helped create the modern indie film movement—with his first film, Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Soderbergh has directed about a film a year, both in and out of the studio system. This is one for them.
Even if you're not a Soderbergh or a Damon fan, go see the movie anyway if for no other reason than to witness the comeback of *Quantum Leap'*s Scott Bakula!


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PAROLEE SET SLAY TRAP FOR GIRLFRIEND'S EX: L.I. COPS
By Kieran Crowely
May 12, 2001 | 4:00am
A paroled killer pretended to be his girlfriend on the Internet so he could lure her ex-boyfriend to a midnight tryst – and his death.
But the ambush went awry, and a jealous Michael Knepfer ended up in handcuffs, Nassau County Police said yesterday.
Knepfer, 29, of Great Neck, tried to kill his rival because his girlfriend's e-mails led him to believe she was rekindling the relationship, said Detective Lt. Steven Skrynecki.
The e-mails between the 28-year-old typist and her ex, a personal trainer, "were sexual in nature, and they were geared toward meeting together and having an affair," Skrynecki said.
Skrynecki said Knepfer arranged the ambush by sending an e-mail to the ex-boyfriend last Sunday, "suggesting that they rekindle their relationship" at their old trysting spot, a parking lot behind a dry cleaners in Plainview, L.I.
"The victim shows up, anticipating sex," one detective said. "Instead, the boyfriend shows up, pulls out a shotgun and pumps two shots into the rear window" of the ex's car.
The victim, who was unhurt, reported the shooting to cops, who arrested Knepfer, an electronics-factory worker, and charged him with attempted murder and weapons possession.
Knepfer was on parole after serving five years in Florida prison for the 1992 murder of another man.
He was arraigned on the charges in Nassau County First District Court in Hempstead and a judge ordered him held in lieu of $500,000 bail.
His lawyer, John Kase, said Knepfer was not guilty of the charges. "We don't know if he was defending himself or he was the attacker," he said.
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While skeptics continue to challenge the notion of human-caused global warming, scientists have begun to assess its potential impacts on the West's water supplies.
In a report released last year, researchers at the University of California-Davis projected that a lack of water brought on by climate change would result in reductions in irrigated crop acres and the loss of farmland in the Central Valley.
Reduced water availability and lower crop yields could result in gross revenue losses of up to $3 billion by the year 2050, the researchers estimated.
California farmers have more immediate water concerns -- most of them linked to the Endangered Species Act and the Delta smelt. Court-ordered restrictions on irrigation deliveries have already resulted in more than 500,000 acres of farmland in the San Joaquin Valley being temporarily idled.
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Water from Lake Mead flows down the Colorado River and through a system of aqueducts to Los Angeles, San Diego and other communities in the Southwest. The system has been running far below capacity in recent years because of drought.
"When expected changes due to global warming are included as well, currently scheduled depletions are simply not sustainable," Barnett and Pierce wrote in their paper, "When will Lake Mead go dry?"
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The Sin () is an 1893 painting by the German artist Franz Stuck. Stuck created twelve known versions of the painting. Some of these can be viewed at the Neue Pinakothek, in Munich, the National Gallery, in Berlin, the Galleria di arte Moderna, in Palermo, the Frye Art Museum, in Seattle, and at the Villa Stuck, in Munich, where it is enshrined in the artist's Künstleraltar. It depicts the nude Eve with a large serpent wrapped around her body. In the upper right corner is a bright field, while the rest of the surroundings are dark.

History
A precursor to this painting was Stuck's drawing, History of the Allegories and Emblems, published in 1884. It shows a female figure standing between columns with Doric capitals. Half-columns with Doric capitals also form the sides of the gilded architectural frame for this later 1893 painting. It was during this time that an erotic type of woman, the femme fatale, was emerging  with wide eyes, skimpy late 19th-century clothing and a seductive pose as Stuck's trademark. The motif was conceived as a development of Stuck's 1889 painting Sensuality (Die Sinnlichkeit). The Sin was first exhibited in 1893, at the inaugural exhibition of the Munich Secession, where it caused a sensation. It was bought by the Neue Pinakothek in Munich and became a critical and commercial breakthrough for Stuck. It has since become an emblematic painting for the symbolist movement. In 1899 in Vienna it received the "state gold medal" intended for foreign artists. In the Villa Stuck, completed in 1898, the painting has a special meaning. Since 1901, a version of The Sin with a gold frame has hung on a kind of "altar" in the then Stuck's studio. It was considered the "spatial and ideal center of the house".<ref>Albert Ritthaler, "Die Sünde", in Klaus Weschenfelder (direction), Franz von Stuck, Spiel und Sinnlichkeit',. Koblenz. 1998 (German)</ref>

Description

The painting has been owned by the Neue Pinakothek since 1893. The Sin'' is a waist-length portrait; the face of the woman is shown as a three-quarter portrait, and the face of the snake as an en face portrait.

The woman shown is Anna Maria Brandmaier from Bayerdilling, a childhood sweetheart and model of Stuck, who is in eye contact with the viewer. Her face is shadowed, but the pupils of her large eyes with white highlights appear turned sideways to the left. The mouth is closed. Compared to the rest of the face, these eyes form a strong chiaroscuro contrast. The long black hair surrounds the almost white body with its half-visible breasts. Nipples and navel form a downward stretched triangle with their points in the composition of the painting.

An enlarged dark blue giant snake decorated with light blue patterns coils around her body and neck, appears with her head resting on the woman's right shoulder and breast and also looking directly at the viewer. The snake's head has eyes with highlights and an open mouth with the animal typical fangs, which is intended to trigger an association with the dangerous nature of the animal for the viewer. The motif of the serpent, in close association with a woman, relates to the Old Testament fall, and is depicted in the Bible in the Book of Genesis. The snake is thus presented in Stuck's picture as a symbol of seduction and danger. Above and to the right of the woman's white body, an orange-contrasted canvas forms the background, which can be construed as hellfire for those who succumb to temptations and sin. The unmistakable signature of the painter is also found in this colored area in the typeface typical of him: FRANZ STVCK. Otherwise the background is strikingly black and without depth.

The architectural picture frame has a special meaning for the painting. It is intended to emphasize the uniqueness of the painting in the exhibitions, which were usually overloaded at the time, and draw the viewers attention. Also, the frame bears the title of the painting in a specific contemporary font style: DIE SUENDE. In other versions of the painting, the title is DIE SVENDE, with the V and E appearing as a ligature. Here it can be noticed that Stuck had experience as a draftsman, graphic artist and illustrator. Stuck saw his handcrafted frames as part of a tactical masterpiece, where he not only created in his work, but also built his entire artistic life on it.

Analysis
According to contemporary interpreters, the painting was supposed to show the woman with her supposedly "insatiable sexuality" as a "man's seductress". Today's interpretations see in it rather the scenic, flat and shadowy nature of the composition. Accordingly, the snake only presents the woman's body in order to give it the role of a lure. Anyone who is attracted to it has to fear the hell fire, symbolized as an orange area in the top right. Stuck cleverly uses elements of contemporary morality, such as those advocated by the Church, to wield power over the human sex drive. Stuck uses and reduces the female body as a tool for his own will to power in relation to his career, recognition and material wealth.

References

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 The Sin at the Neue Pinakothek

1893 paintings
Paintings by Franz von Stuck
Paintings depicting Adam and Eve
Paintings in the collection of the Alte Nationalgalerie
Collection of the Neue Pinakothek
Paintings in the collection of the Villa Stuck
Paintings in Palermo
Symbolist paintings
Nude art
Snakes in art


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It reminded me a little of Chelsea Market in New York - except instead of restaurants, it had little food shops.
This is what we ate for lunch. It was a potato and onion filled pastry.
I also tried this - a quail egg within an octopus - Nick was too scared. It wasn't my favorite, but I'm glad I tried it.
After the market, we started walking through the town. I didn't do my research & was expecting a quaint town. But, Kyoto is huge - several million residents.
There are still parts that have an old time feel.
We discovered that Nick's GPS on his phone wasn't working and was taking us in all sorts of wrong directions. But, we finally stumbled on a shrine and we were able to get our bearings.
The Yasaka Shrine is large but I didn't really connect with this shrine.
For some reason, I don't think this was how the Shrine grounds originally looked.
There are thousands of shrines and temples in Kyoto. The town was not impacted by the big earthquake that affected Tokyo.
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I was surprised to learn that traditional tea ceremonies are not practiced widely in Japan.
Our lovely hostess walked us through the ceremony and then helped us do it as well. The hardest part was sitting our legs. We walked A LOT & those dogs were tired! I'm looking forward to some matcha tea as the days start getting colder.
We walked home with the Gion area of town and stopped at a restaurant near Nishiki Market called Gyogo.
We had the most amazing burnt ramen miso. We are still trying to find a recipe so we can try to duplicate it at home. It was a great first day!


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origin  https://github.com/user/repo (push)
localserver <url> (fetch)
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NGC 4316 ist eine Spiralgalaxie vom Hubble-Typ Sc mit aktivem Galaxienkern im Sternbild Jungfrau auf der Ekliptik. Sie ist schätzungsweise 53 Millionen Lichtjahre von der Milchstraße entfernt und hat einen Durchmesser von etwa 40.000 Lichtjahren. Die Galaxie wird unter der Katalognummer VVC 576 als Teil des Virgo-Galaxienhaufens gelistet.
Im selben Himmelsareal befinden sich unter anderem die Galaxien NGC 4307, IC 3211, IC 3255, IC 3274.

Die Typ-II-Supernova SN 2003bk wurde hier beobachtet.

Das Objekt wurde am 17. März 1882 von Wilhelm Tempel entdeckt.

Weblinks

 SIMBAD Astronomical Database

Einzelnachweise

Virgo-Galaxienhaufen
Spiralgalaxie


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ATLANTA--Axiall Corporation ("Axiall" or the "Company", NYSE: AXLL) today confirmed that it has received, and rejected, a revised proposal from Westlake Chemical Corporation ("Westlake", NYSE: WLK) to acquire all of the outstanding common shares of Axiall for a consideration of $14.00 cash and 0.1967 Westlake shares per Axiall share, or approximately $23.12 per share based on the closing price of Westlake common stock on March 29, 2016 (the "Revised Proposal").
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On March 31, 2016, Axiall sent a letter to Westlake noting that Westlake had submitted a revised indication of value prior to any meaningful discussion of the very substantial synergies between the two companies, estimated by Axiall to be as high as $270 million annually, $210 million more than the $60 million in synergies underlying Westlake's proposal. The letter also noted that despite its request, Axiall was not provided the opportunity to conduct due diligence with respect to Westlake's business, which it would need given the substantial stock component to Westlake's proposal.
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Westlake Chemical Corporation
Westlake Center
2801 Post Oak Blvd.
Albert Chao, President and Chief Executive Officer
James Chao, Chairman of the Board
Axiall Corporation's board of directors, with the assistance of independent financial and legal advisors, reviewed your March 29th proposal to acquire Axiall for $14.00 cash and 0.1967 Westlake shares per Axiall share, or approximately $23.12 per share, and determined that it is inadequate.
The Axiall board also believes that Westlake's revised proposal is inconsistent with our understanding when we met in Houston on March 8th. Our Chairman, another independent director and I traveled to Houston specifically to establish a process for engagement with Westlake and to demonstrate our Board's willingness to have constructive discussions regarding your initial proposal despite its deficiencies. As we told you in that meeting, we were willing to share comprehensive business, financial and other non-public information, including estimated synergies associated with a possible transaction, in order to demonstrate that a substantial increase in your initial price of $11.00 in cash and 0.1967 Westlake shares was warranted.
Following our March 8th meeting, we had numerous in-person meetings, telephone calls and expert sessions and provided you substantial non-public information, including through a virtual data room. In addition, at your advisors' request, we delayed setting a record date for our upcoming shareholder meeting to provide you ample opportunity to digest the information we furnished. Given this, we were surprised and disappointed by your decision to submit a revised indication of value before the completion of these discussions. In particular, we struggle to understand why you would not engage in any meaningful discussion of the very substantial synergies between the two companies prior to your revised proposal especially since we have told you we believe the synergies could be as high as $270 million annually. This is $210 million more than the $60 million in synergies underlying your proposal. In addition, as there is a substantial stock component to your proposal, we would need the opportunity to conduct due diligence with respect to Westlake's business if we were to move forward.
We have also provided you with substantial information regarding our building products business. We are encouraged by the strong interest we are receiving in the building products business. In accordance with your request, we will send you a process letter and we would encourage you to submit a proposal as soon as possible if you would like to remain active in the building products divestiture process.
To reiterate what we have already told you, we are not opposed to a strategic transaction provided that it delivers full and fair value to Axiall shareholders. We remain willing to share information and have further discussions, but the value you currently propose simply ignores the high quality of our assets, the significant growth potential of our business and the powerful synergies available in a combination. If you are not willing to substantially increase your proposed value and engage in further discussions, we are prepared to explain to Axiall's shareholders why your proposal does not fairly reflect Axiall's intrinsic value and does not adequately compensate Axiall's shareholders for the growth in shareholder value that we are confident we are poised to deliver.
/s/ Timothy Mann, Jr.
On April 3, 2016, Westlake notified Axiall that it intended to disclose its revised proposal publicly and stated that it believed that the Company's March 31st letter inaccurately portrayed certain aspects of the parties' discussions, particularly (1) whether Westlake had been informed that Axiall had delayed setting a record date, (2) whether Westlake engaged in meaningful discussions of potential synergies and was willing to provide due diligence on Westlake, and (3) whether numerous in-person meetings had occurred. Axiall believes that its March 31st letter is accurate.
The discussions between Axiall and Westlake were conducted pursuant to a confidentiality agreement that includes standstill provisions that permit Westlake to make proposals to acquire Axiall and pursue nominations to Axiall's Board of Directors at its 2016 Annual Meeting of Stockholders, but prohibit Westlake from making a tender or exchange offer to Axiall shareholders or buying additional Axiall stock before September 15, 2016. Axiall has not yet scheduled the date of its 2016 Annual Meeting of Stockholders or set the record date for stockholders entitled to vote at the 2016 Annual Meeting.
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC and Barclays are acting as financial advisors to Axiall and Jones Day and Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP are acting as legal counsel.
About Axiall
Axiall Corporation is a leading integrated chemicals and building products company. Headquartered in Atlanta, Axiall has manufacturing facilities located throughout North America and in Asia to provide industry-leading materials and services to customers. For more information, visit www.axiall.com.
In connection with the 2016 Annual Meeting, Axiall will file a proxy statement and other documents regarding the 2016 Annual Meeting with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and will mail the definitive proxy statement and a WHITE proxy card to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at the 2016 Annual Meeting. STOCKHOLDERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO READ THE PROXY STATEMENT AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS FILED WITH THE SEC WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THOSE DOCUMENTS WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. The final proxy statement will be mailed to stockholders. Investors and security holders will be able to obtain the documents free of charge at the SEC's website, www.sec.gov, from Axiall at its website, www.axiall.com, or 1000 Abernathy Road NE, Suite 1200, Atlanta, GA 30328, Attention: General Counsel.
Participants in Solicitation
The Company and its directors and executive officers may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies in connection with the 2016 Annual Meeting. Information concerning the Company's participants is set forth in the proxy statement, dated April 17, 2015, for its 2015 annual meeting of stockholders as filed with the SEC on Schedule 14A and the Company's Current Reports, dated July 6, 2015, July 28, 2015, September 25, 2015, November 18, 2015 and March 8, 2016, as filed with the SEC on Form 8-K. Additional information regarding the interests of participants of the Company in the solicitation of proxies in respect of the 2016 Annual Meeting and other relevant materials will be filed with the SEC when they become available.
Forward-Looking Statements Disclaimer
This news release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined in, and subject to the safe harbor provisions of, the federal securities laws. These forward-looking statements relate to, among other things, the Company's anticipated financial performance, prospects and the Company's plans and objectives for future operations. Forward-looking statements are based on management's assumptions regarding, among other things, general economic and industry-specific business conditions and the continued execution of the Company's long-term business strategy as a stand-alone public company, and actual results may be materially different. Risks and uncertainties inherent in these assumptions include, but are not limited to, uncertainties regarding future actions that may be taken by Westlake in furtherance of its unsolicited acquisition proposal or its nomination of director candidates for election at Axiall's 2016 Annual Meeting, potential operational disruption caused by Westlake's future actions that may make it more difficult to maintain relationships with customers, employees or suppliers, the Company's ability to successfully implement its strategy to create sustainable, long-term stockholder value, the Company's ability to successfully implement and administer its cost-saving initiatives (including its restructuring programs) and produce the desired results (including projected savings), future prices for the Company's products, industry capacity levels for the Company's products, raw materials and energy costs and availability, feedstock availability and prices, changes in governmental and environmental regulations, the adoption of new laws or regulations that may make it more difficult or expensive to operate the Company's businesses or manufacture its products, the Company's ability to generate sufficient cash flows from its business, future economic conditions in the specific industries to which the Company's products are sold, global economic conditions, competition within the Company's industry, complications resulting from the Company's multiple enterprise resource planning ("ERP") systems and the implementation of its new ERP systems, the failure to adequately protect our data and technology systems, costs resulting from complications or delays relating to the Company's arrangements with Lotte Chemical USA Corporation related to the ethane cracker (ethylene manufacturing plant) being constructed in Lake Charles, Louisiana, the Company's failure to realize the benefits of, and/or disruptions resulting from, any asset dispositions, asset acquisitions, joint ventures, business combinations or other transactions, and other factors discussed in the Securities and Exchange Commission filings of Axiall from time to time, including the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2015 and subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. The risks and uncertainties above are not the only risks the Company faces. Additional risks and uncertainties not presently known to the Company or that it believes to be immaterial also may adversely affect the Company. Should any known or unknown risks and uncertainties develop into actual events, these developments could have material adverse effects on the Company's business, financial condition and results of operations. The Company does not undertake to publicly update or revise its forward-looking statements even if experience or future changes make it clear that any projected results expressed or implied herein will not be realized.


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"Libertarians" political parties that may go by this name, see Libertarian Party.
For other uses, see Libertarianism (disambiguation).
Libertarianism (from Latin: libertas, meaning "freedom") is a collection of political philosophies and movements that uphold liberty as a core principle.] Libertarians seek to maximize political freedom and autonomy, emphasizing freedom of choice, voluntary association, and individual judgment. Libertarians share a skepticism of authority and state power, but they diverge on the scope of their opposition to existing political and economic systems. Various schools of libertarian thought offer a range of views regarding the legitimate functions of state and private power, often calling for the restriction or dissolution of coercive social institutions.
Traditionally, libertarianism was a term for a form of left-wing politics; such left-libertarian ideologies seek to abolish capitalism and private ownership of the means of production, or else to restrict their purview or effects, in favor of common or cooperative ownership and management, viewing private property as a barrier to freedom and liberty. In the United States, modern right-libertarian ideologies, such as minarchism and anarcho-capitalism, co-opted the term in the mid-20th century to instead advocate laissez-faire capitalism and strong private property rights, such as in land, infrastructure, and natural resources.
The 17 August 1860 edition of Le Libertaire: Journal du Mouvement Social, a libertarian communist publication in New York
The first recorded use of the term "libertarian" was in 1789, when William Belsham wrote about libertarianism in the context of metaphysics.
"Libertarian" came to mean an advocate or defender of liberty, especially in the political and social spheres, as early as 1796, when the London Packet printed on 12 February: "Lately marched out of the Prison at Bristol, 450 of the French Libertarians". The word was again used in a political sense in 1802 in a short piece critiquing a poem by "the author of Gebir" and has since been used with this meaning.
The use of the word "libertarian" to describe a new set of political positions has been traced to the French cognate, libertaire, coined in a letter French libertarian communist Joseph Déjacque wrote to mutualist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon in 1857. Déjacque also used the term for his anarchist publication Le Libertaire: Journal du Mouvement Social, which was printed from 9 June 1858 to 4 February 1861 in New York City.
In the mid-1890s, Sébastien Faure began publishing a new Le Libertaire while France's Third Republic enacted the lois scélérates ("villainous laws"), which banned anarchist publications in France. Libertarianism has frequently been used as a synonym for anarchism since this time.
The term "libertarianism" was first used in the United States as a synonym for classical liberalism in May 1955 by writer Dean Russell, a colleague of Leonard Read and a classical liberal himself.
He justified the choice of the word as follows: "Many of us call ourselves 'liberals.' And it is true that the word 'liberal' once described persons who respected the individual and feared the use of mass compulsions. But the leftists have now corrupted that once-proud term to identify themselves and their program of more government ownership of property and more controls over persons. As a result, those of us who believe in freedom must explain that when we call ourselves liberals, we mean liberals in the uncorrupted classical sense. At best, this is awkward and subject to misunderstanding. Here is a suggestion: Let those of us who love liberty trade-mark and reserve for our own use the good and honorable word 'libertarian'".
Subsequently, a growing number of Americans with classical liberal beliefs in the United States began to describe themselves as "libertarian". The person most responsible for popularizing the term "libertarian" was Murray Rothbard, who started publishing libertarian works in the 1960s. Rothbard describes this modern use of the words overtly as a 'capture' from his enemies, saying that "…for the first time in my memory, we, 'our side,' had captured a crucial word from the enemy… 'Libertarians'… had long been simply a polite word for left-wing anarchists, that is for anti-private property anarchists, either of the communist or syndicalist variety. But now we had taken it over…"
Libertarianism in the United States has been described as conservative on economic issues and liberal on personal freedom (for common meanings of conservative and liberal in the United States) and it is also often associated with a foreign policy of non-interventionism.


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Career Opportunities : Big Sexy Mulling Move To Long Island City?
Though most thinking persons shudder at the notion of Jason Whitlock becoming WFAN's new morning man, I'm certain there's at least one select group of locals who eagerly await his arrival. In the meantime, Newsday's Neil Best explains it all.
Jason Whitlock, a columnist for aol.com and The Kansas City Star, said Friday that WFAN operations director Mark Chernoff interviewed him Wednesday about the open morning slot on the station.
Whitlock is believed to be one of a number of people whom Chernoff has talked to or will talk to about the slot vacated by the fired Don Imus, but he is the first whose name has become public.
The two met during a previously planned trip to New York by Whitlock, who said Chernoff invited him to host the morning show for two or three days after Mike Francesa and Chris Russo complete their two-week fill-in term.
Whitlock declined that invitation for now, saying he is unsure whether he is interested in the job. He did appear briefly by phone with Francesa and Russo Friday for a somewhat contentious interview.
"Francesa said, 'Are you trying to audition on this show?' I said, 'No, man, I'm being me,"' Whitlock said later.
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