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The Guardian UK, Written By Ed Pilkington
'Tell the story! Tell the story!'
With his "big oil epic" starring Daniel Day Lewis, Paul Thomas Anderson is no longer American cinema's enfant terrible. All he wants to do now is spin a good yarn, he tells Ed Pilkington
It is 10 years since Paul Thomas Anderson first left audiences and critics dumbstruck and confounded with his breakthrough film Boogie Nights, when he was just 27. How could such a pipsqueak of a director, they asked back in 1997, create a masterpiece that wowed right from its opening sequence: an audacious five-minute tracking shot that swoops and swirls through the nightclub of the film's title in joyful synchronisation to the dance music of the 1970s.
He has astonished ever since. Magnolia, the next out of the blocks, was an even bigger, more complex and yet richly evocative film that belied any attempt to categorise it. He was 31 by then, but still people marvelled at how one so young could conjure up such accomplished work. Anderson appeared to have found his style - the repertory film in which a multitude of characters and plot-lines are interwoven. But then in 2002 he bamboozled us again. He threw out the repertory technique and opted instead for a radically scaled-down and linear story in Punch-Drunk Love. It ran at a conventional 90 minutes - half the length of Magnolia - and though the film was anything but conventional, it left many fans delighted, others disappointed.
This year we are seeing the release of his fifth feature, There Will Be Blood, and it feels like an important moment. At 37, he's no longer the precocious youth. He has proved himself to be a director of formidable imagination and ambition, but we're waiting to see what he will do with such gifts. Will he have the resources to amaze us one more time?
It has to be said that the figure of the man sitting in front of me when we meet in a hotel in New York does not generate huge confidence. Others have remarked that PT Anderson in person looks weirdly fragile for such a titan of the cinema, but today he's beyond fragile. He is a wreck. He's unshaven. His brown shirt is more crumpled than linen fashionably should be. His posture is crumpled too. When later I play the tape of our conversation back, the first sound he makes that I hear him utter can roughly be transcribed as "Ooooooh" - a guttural, heartfelt expression of pain.
But, to be fair, it is the morning after the premiere of There Will Be Blood and PTA is, by his own admittance, worse for wear. Even so he is swaddled in an almost visible happy glow. The previous night, he tells me, represented the fulfilment of a childhood dream: to have his film shown at the New York Ziegfeld cinema. "I'd always wanted it, dreamed about it. It's a palace, a great old movie palace. I dare say we won't be making a big oil epic any time in the future and you think, 'Fuck! Hopefully it can play in a place like that.' It was massive, and we turned it up real loud."
What he describes as his "big oil epic" has been making waves even before it opened in America on Boxing Day. The LA Film Critics Association gave it four awards including best picture and director, and it has been nominated for two Golden Globes. Not bad going, I say, in an attempt to cheer up the suffering figure before me. "Yeah, you get it into your head that they don't matter, but then they give these awards to you and you love it," he says.
The inspiration for There Will Be Blood came to him a few years ago when he was in London. He says he had been feeling homesick for California's San Fernando Valley where he grew up and which famously forms the backdrop to all his earlier films. He had started writing a script about two warring families - a conceit that he liked, but he was struggling to know how to develop the story. He was browsing in a bookshop in Covent Garden when he saw a book with the word Oil! in bright red letters on the cover. It was the 1927 novel by Upton Sinclair set in California at the turn of the century among oil prospectors scrambling to buy up the fields. It rang instant bells with him; not only as a piece of his own local history, but as a perfect backdrop to his story about fighting families.
The result is a film that certainly does amaze, and bears several of the PTA hallmarks: breathtaking confidence, a love of acting and of visual beauty, and an exceptional grasp of the art of storytelling. Yet it confounds too, though Anderson, ever the director to avoid pigeon-holing, dislikes the description of the film as a departure. "Oh, fuck, no!" he says. (There are a lot of four letter words in the course of a PTA conversation, you just have to accept that.) "Don't depart just yet! There's nothing worse than somebody saying I want to do something that's a departure."
One of the most obvious contrasts with his earlier films, apart from its glorious outdoors setting in the open desert of Texas (California is too concreted over to provide its own setting), is that There Will Be Blood is more overtly engaged with politics than his previous films. I ask him how could a movie centred on the clash between an oil prospector's desire to make it rich and a evangelical pastor's spiritual attempts to stop him be anything else?
"Of course, I'm no dummy," he says with a slight warning growl. "But there's a trap you can fall into. If you set out to make a movie about oil and religion I'm not sure you wouldn't crash the car. Fuck! It's a movie first. You have to put on a good show first, I think."
At the centre of his efforts to put on a good show is the mesmerising performance of Daniel Day-Lewis, whose tour-de-force portrayal of the rags-to-riches oil man, Daniel Plainview, has to put him in the running for an Oscar. Day-Lewis conjures up a character of primeval energy, driven by greed and hunger for power, yet capable of tenderness as well as brutality. Anderson heightens the effect by letting the camera linger on the actor long beyond the point that most directors would shout "Cut!" The opening of the film is even more audacious than Boogie Nights - for the first 15 minutes or so, no word is spoken as we watch Day-Lewis frantically dig his mine shafts, his face blackened as though he were sweating oil.
I ask Anderson what it was like working so intimately with one actor - an experience quite at contrast with the ensemble approach with which he made his name. "At best it feels that you are connected to each other. You are completely playing the same tune. There's this kind of line between myself and the camera and Daniel that's pulled tight. When it was going well it felt just like that.
"We're still trying to figure out who the girlfriend is and who the boyfriend is in this relationship. When we first met I called him a few days later and I left a message saying: 'It's your girlfriend.' It feels like that. You are in a relationship with someone so intimate, every single day. I dare say there were moments when our spouses were jealous."
There is a good deal of classic American cinema in There Will Be Blood, partly perhaps as a result of the fact that Anderson compulsively played and replayed John Huston's 1948 gem, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, as he was writing the script. He set himself the challenge of attempting to make a film as simple and direct as that, saying to me that he felt that in his previous films he had never quite managed to achieve economy in storytelling.
"Tell the story! Tell the story! That's what I saw in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff. I've never been a fan of whimsical or confusing storytelling." With There Will Be Blood, he says, "it was such a great feeling - cutting things out, slashing away. I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote."
That ability - to slash away - comes with experience and growing confidence, I suggest, and he responds eagerly: "I think so, yeah. That's definitely what it is. You feel more comfortable in your own skin and learn that omitting things is the same as writing things."
Before we end I tell him I feel duty bound to ask him who he wants to work with next, because when the Guardian asked him the same question in 2000 he uncannily replied: Adam Sandler and Daniel Day-Lewis. Would he stare into his crystal ball for us one more time? "I'd like to work with Daniel Day-Lewis again," he says, forcing me to tell him that's not allowed. On his second attempt he says: "I'd love to work with Phil [Seymour] Hoffman again, and at some point Robert De Niro. That's as good as they get, right?"
And what kind of film does he have in mind? Has he another itch that he needs to scratch? "I'm already scratching," he replies. "I'm thinking: 'That's enough of that, get back to work! Let's go!'"
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"For Young Californians, Climate Change Is A Mental Health Crisis Too"
"Maddie Cole in eighth grade stopped running cross country. She'd competed the year before, but the air quality in her native Sacramento was so bad that she got sick during a race; she soon learned she had asthma.
The next year the sky above Sacramento turned gray with smoke from the 2018 Camp fire. Maddie and her classmates went to school with masks on. "It felt," she said, "like a futuristic apocalypse."
The situation has only worsened as wildfires and their devastation have become so routine that she and her classmates are "just used to it," said Maddie, now 16 and a junior. This fall "it was just like, 'Yeah, California's on fire again. It's that time of year.'"
Neither the polluted air nor the wildfires punctuating Maddie's adolescence are random. Both are being exacerbated by climate change, and the future they portend has left Maddie feeling helpless, anxious and scared. Climate anxiety and other mental health struggles are rampant among Maddie's generation, according to experts who warn that young Californians are growing up in the shadow of looming catastrophe — and dealing with the emotional and psychological fallout that comes with it."
Brian Contreras reports for the Los Angeles Times December 27, 2020.

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Altisceptrum: es una sección del género Bulbophyllum perteneciente a la familia de las orquídeas.   La especie tipo es:  Bulbophyllum elongatum [Bl] Hassk.

Caracterizado por tener muchas flores, inflorescencia en forma alargadas y el tamaño de los pétalos que son 2/3 del tamaño de los sépalos medianos o largos y más anchos cerca de la base, ya sea reduciéndose gradualmente hacia la punta, o un poco constreñida y con un ápice engrosado. Los pseduobulbos casi siempre marcadas con el color púrpura.

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 Bulbophyllum disjunctum Ames & C.Schweinf. 1920
 Bulbophyllum elongatum (Blume) Hassk. 1844
 Bulbophyllum farinulentum J.J.Sm. 1920
 Bulbophyllum gymnopus Hook.f. 1890
 Bulbophyllum lissoglossum J.J.Vermeulen 1991
 Bulbophyllum penduliscapum J.J.Sm. 1900

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CORONAVIRUS UPDATE VI. AID PACKAGE AND NYC
As most of you know, Congress has finally passed the long-anticipated and much needed coronavirus stimulus package, and President Trump has signed it into law. At $2.2 trillion it is the largest and most comprehensive emergency aid package in US history. It is intended to provide assistance to every person and entity affected by the virus through no fault of their own – individuals, small businesses and entire industries.
The major provisions include:
Individuals will receive one-time cash payments. Eligibility and amounts will depend on one's income. A typical family of four will receive $3,400 by direct deposit or by check. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said the payments should be distributed within three weeks.
Additional assistance for those receiving unemployment assistance
Payments for those receiving social security.
Assistance for hospitals and other healthcare providers.
Assistance for veterans.
Assistance for childcare if the facility was closed due to the virus.
Waivers for student loan payments for loans held by the federal government.
Financial assistance for small businesses
Aid for distressed companies/industries, such as restaurants, cruise lines and airlines. This is not a "bail-out" as some have characterized it, but loans and incentives.
These last two are necessary for America to maintain its strong economy and to ensure that workers have jobs to return to once the crisis has been resolved.
Is it perfect? No. Will there be unintended negative consequences? Probably. But, it is necessary, and it is important to remember that, due to the exigent circumstances, the bill was put together quickly and, perhaps, a bit haphazardly.
Furthermore, in order to pass it had to satisfy a wide range of special interest groups who were in a position to and, in fact, did, delay its passage. These groups were not interested in assisting those in need. Rather, they thought they saw an opportunity to blackmail and intimidate the main body of the Congress to accept their pet projects.
For example, it looked as though the bill was going to pass last weekend, but at the last minute Speaker Pelosi, promoting the interests of far left elements of the Dem Party, tried to insert various amendments that had nothing to do with corona. I discussed these in my last blog , and there is no need to repeat them here. Some were rejected, and some were accepted, but the primary effect was to delay the bill's passage for several days.
Then, right before the actual vote GOP Rep Thomas Massie tried to force a rollcall vote, which would have led to further delay and would have required numerous members who were sick with corona or just sheltering in place at home to return to DC. He was widely criticized on both sides of the aisle for that tactic. (When was the last time President Trump and Senator John Kerry agreed on anything?) As House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy pointed out, "We have members on both sides of the aisle who have the virus [and] are quarantined." Massie was thwarted, but, once again, it forced an unnecessary and dangerous delay.
So, the bill includes some provisions that have nothing to do with corona. Many of us might not like them, but we have to accept them for the greater good.
As most of us know from following the news NYC has become the primary "hot spot" in the US for the virus. As I write this it has identified in excess of 26,000 cases with nearly 400 fatalities. NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo told the NY Times that the number of cases is "doubling every three days."
Moreover, according to NYC's own statistics the city is suffering a fatality every 17 minutes. Think about that for a minute. In the four hours it has taken me to write this blog some 14 people have died!
Furthermore, residents who can have been fleeing the city. Dr. Deborah Birx told the NY Times that this is part of the reason for the high incidences of the virus in neighboring Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester Counties. The Presidential Task Force has cautioned that those leaving the city should be "self-quarantining" for 14 days, but I suspect many have not. Either they were not aware they had the virus, or they were careless. NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio has told reporters that the city could "run out of critical resources as early as April 5." Sentiment is growing for a "full lockdown." Public advocate Jumaane Williams opined "we need a mandated lockdown, and we needed it yesterday." Reports are that authorities are considering it. By the time you read this it may have been declared.
How did this happen? What is different about NYC that has caused this situation, which seems to be getting worse by the day. It has almost reached the tipping point. Everyone has their theories. Below please find mine. Some are fairly obvious; others may appear controversial.
NYC is a very densely populated city, especially Manhattan. People are living in very close proximity to each other.
The primary modes of travel within the city are bus and subway. I cannot think of easier ways to spread contagion unwittingly. If you have ever ridden the subway you know what I mean.
NYC has many large gathering places where people congregate, for example, movie theatres, Broadway shows, sporting arenas, hotels, parks, just everyday moving about. People are always in crowds.
NYC is primarily an international city. There are always thousands of transients visiting it from all over the country and the world.
All that said, based on various news reports as well as empirical evidence, it is becoming increasingly obvious that NYC was ill-prepared to deal with the outbreak. I believe this responsibility falls primary on Governor Cuomo, Mayor Bill De Blasio. and other officials. Even commentator, Geraldo Rivera, normally a liberal, characterized De Blasio as "AWOL." There have been many examples of poor leadership, but I will cite just a few. I have provided more details in previous blogs on the virus.
a. On February 2 NYC Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot was trying to hype the upcoming Chinese New Year parade and celebration in NYC's Chinatown. She downplayed the outbreak. She put out a statement calling for people to "enjoy the parade…ride the subways."
b. Around the same time the NY Times, which many people consider the ultimate news source, labeled President Trump's newly installed travel ban as "racist attacks on Asians."
c. The NY Post has reported that Cuomo has wasted roughly $200 million that had been made available for stockpiling medical supplies on boondoggles such as a solar panel factory, a lightbulb factory and a computer chip factory all of which have either been taken over or closed.
With respect to the aid package as I said it may have its flaws, but the alternative would have been a deep recession or even a depression. Hopefully, it will achieve the desired result. Some commentators have been warning that another package may be necessary. We'll see.
With respect to NYC I believe the feds have been doing all they can to provide assistance. Medical equipment has been provided, in some cases, exceeding current demand. Funding has been provided for five temporary hospitals throughout the city, Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester. A huge hospital ship is en route.
It was reported that the US now has the highest number of coronavirus cases, even more than China. Of course, that is not good news, but I maintain that it is due to China's severe underreporting. Be that as it may, many people have found it necessary to politicize that disclosure. For example, I and many others found Hillary Clinton's inane, gleeful, and despicable comments regarding this news deeply disturbing. While Americans are getting sick and dying her comment was "well, he did promise America first." I guess, we should not be surprised in view of her comments regarding the four Americans who died at Benghazi. ("What difference at this point does it matter? They're dead!") In my view, she is an irrelevant has-been fighting for relevancy.
Unfortunately, some facilities are overwhelmed. Kudos to the healthcare workers who are putting their own health and that of their families in danger by working long hours in dangerous conditions. During the 1918 pandemic many healthcare workers got sick, which exacerbated the situation significantly. Let us hope and pray this doesn't happen now.
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Headquartered in Greenville, SC, where more than 500 employees are based, Hubbell Lighting is a major manufacturer of LED and conventional luminaires and control solutions, and is one of the three largest lighting manufacturers based in the U.S. The company features a portfolio of brands that offer lighting and control solutions for virtually every application.
According to Director of Innovation and Technology Warren Weeks, Hubbell's SSL revolution started in 2008. Prior to that, the company made virtually no LED lighting products, whereas today more than two-thirds of its commercial and industrial lighting is LED. Overall, about 55% of Hubbell's products are LED, and the growth in LED products is expected to continue. Virtually all of Hubbell's R&D efforts, Warren says, are focused on SSL, which the company considers to be the future of lighting.
With the introduction of LED lighting, Hubbell has evolved from an electrical lighting manufacturer to an electronics manufacturer. It now designs its own printed circuit boards, populates the printed circuit board assemblies, makes proprietary and interoperable controls technology, and writes its own firmware and software.
Founded in 1963, Hubbell Lighting has deep roots and historical expertise as an electrical manufacturer that used mechanical engineers to do most of its luminaire design. Warren notes that before SSL, lamps and ballasts were provided by a different set of manufacturers, so luminaire design and manufacturing mainly involved mechanical effort. Now, with the rapid adoption of solid-state lighting, Hubbell has transitioned to become an electronics manufacturer and features a workforce of skilled electronics engineers designing LED circuits, drivers, sensors, and controls systems in order to make the entire, integrated luminaire. The company has significantly changed its approach to the design of manufacturing, product testing, reliability testing, and quality systems, in response to SSL technology.
As might be expected, Hubbell has thousands of suppliers all over the world. Warren explains that the vast preponderance of its SSL luminaires and safety lighting — including the electrical circuits, LED boards, and optical solutions — are designed in the U.S. Electrical components are assembled in Hubbell-owned factories both here and abroad, depending on volume and complexity. Custom optics are designed and manufactured by key domestic suppliers, and SSL luminaires are manufactured and assembled in Hubbell facilities across the U.S., in locations that include Hudson, WI; Bristol, PA; Christiansburg, VA; El Dorado, AR; Elgin, IL; and Plympton, MA.
Warren says Hubbell is keeping a watchful eye on the cost-effective supply chain. With a healthy amount of domestic manufacturing (depending on product mix), the company's overarching strategy is to be mindful of product complexity and mix without losing sight of what's important to the customer. This is driven by the need to keep manufacturing nimble, so that Hubbell can react to customer demands quickly.
As the company has evolved in response to the transformative impact of SSL, the skill sets required of employees have evolved as well, and the recent shift has been dramatic. Besides the obvious transition to needing more electronics engineers, Hubbell now employs software engineers who design graphical user interfaces and apps for connected lighting systems. The engineers in the company's factories need to understand such things as surface-mount-technology pick-and-place equipment, reflow ovens, coating systems, and inline electrical testing equipment.
As Warren notes, R&D is the foremost tool in Hubbell's arsenal to prepare the company for changing markets, and its R&D labs in Greenville are the nerve center of this effort, which focuses on bringing new and better products to market quickly and efficiently to take advantage of new markets such as connected lighting, human-centric lighting, color-tunable products, and horticultural lighting. General lighting and safety lighting in commercial, industrial, indoor, outdoor, and residential markets remain a key focus.
As the lighting market shifts to SSL technology, Hubbell is one of many companies that are helping to reinforce U.S. manufacturing and R&D leadership This will not only help bring significant energy savings through more-efficient lighting products, but will benefit our economy by adding jobs at multiple levels of the supply chain.


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"Thou shalt not insult FOREIGN leaders?"
One idea of how you might end up, bad-mouthing the ruler of Cameroon…
At lunch the other day I glanced at the "Trending" section, on page 8 of the April 25 issue of Time magazine. (The first issue – from 1923 – is at right.) As noted in an earlier post, I get the magazines hand–me–down.
The middle item was about German authorities being pressured to prosecute a comedian, under a law that "forbids insults to foreign leaders." For reasons noted below, that piqued my interest.
It seems there's a comedian in Germany – a "satirist and television presenter" – named Jan Böhmermann. He's the host of a popular German TV show, Neo Magazin Royale. Last March he aired a poem, Schmähkritik. (Which translates, "abusive criticism.") The poem – "full of profanity and criticism" – was about Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
After the fact, the comedian himself admitted that his attempt at humor was "unfunny, beyond crude and hardly worthy of the name." Among other things, the poem called Erdogan "the man who beats girls," and also loves to "suppress minorities, kick Kurds, hit Christians, and watch child pornography." (Other "accusations" are not fit for mixed company…)
Then – it can be safely said – came the firestorm. (As in "a firestorm of controversy.")
The law at issue – which first appeared in the "Prussian legal code of 1794" – was designed to keep German citizens from insulting foreign leaders. Somewhat ironically:
The United States tried to make a complaint against a shop owner in the city of Marburg in 2003. The shop owner called then-President George W. Bush, a "state terrorist." But the German government decided this did not go against the law.
In turn, Turkish president Erdogan is trying to get Böhmermann prosecuted under the same law.
What piqued my interest was the contrast between the German law and Exodus 22:28. That Bible passage says – in the English Standard Version – "You shall not revile God, nor curse a ruler of your people." However, it doesn't say anything about "bad-mouthing the ruler of another country."
Apparently, under the law of the Bible you could insult "foreign leaders" all you wanted.
That seems to be par for the course in other countries around the world. You can insult foreign leaders all you want, but don't dare "curse the rule of your people." See This is how these 12 countries will punish you for insulting their heads of state. That site noted:
It may be par for the course in the United States, but in dozens of nations around the world, badmouthing your commander-in-chief will earn you fines, imprisonment or even a flogging.
One of those countries is Cameroon. (And that's where the top image came from.) That country is one of several in Africa which "have laws against 'sedition' (read: saying stuff your ruler doesn't like) left over from times colonial, and continue to make enthusiastic use of them."
But don't think I'm picking on Cameroon. Lots of countries have penalties just as bad, if not worse. But the notes on that country featured the interesting image at the top of the page.
And don't think that Germany is alone in having laws – at least laws on the books – that punish citizens for insulting the leader of another country. See No Insulting Foreign Leaders In Iceland, Either:
Iceland has enforced this article in the past. On both occasions, it was to prosecute Icelanders who mocked the Third Reich in some capacity. In 1934, Þórbergur Þórðarson was charged under the law for an article he wrote about Germany at the time, wherein he called Adolf Hitler "the sadist in the German chancellor's seat." Further, Icelandic poet Steinn Steinarr was charged under the same law, when he and a group of others who torn down a Nazi flag flown by the German consulate in Siglufjörður.
So why – you might ask – would one country prosecute its citizens for insulting the leader of a foreign country? The answer? International relations.
As noted in The Guardian [on] Böhmermann, the only way to "make sense of this prosecution is to set it in the context that the law's 19th-century drafters probably envisaged:
In the specific case of Germany's section 103, about slighting foreign states, the government must expressly approve the prosecution, presumably because the whole original purpose was to deploy the criminal law as an instrument of foreign policy.
And incidentally, this business of punishing your own citizens for insulting a foreign leader is nothing new. One notable example from history is Sir Walter Raleigh.
"Sir Walter" was a court favorite of Queen Elizabeth I. (She knighted him in 1585.) But then came a change of regime, in the form of Elizabeth's successor, King James I. (The guy who created the King James Version of the Bible, but was "not favourably disposed" toward Raleigh.) And Raleigh pushed his luck too far.
Between bouts in prison, Raleigh was famous for establishing colonies in the New World and "also well known for popularising tobacco in England." But in doing all that he made the Spanish king very angry. (Mainly because he stole lots of gold from Spanish ships.)
Things went well as long as his forays produced some income. But finally, his luck – and King James' patience – ran out. In 1618, "to appease the Spanish," he was arrested and executed.
The good news from all this is that Jan Böhmermann won't be hung or beheaded. (Like Raleigh, above left.) In fact, the "archaic law" now seems so ridiculous – "in the light of day" – that it's on the path to extinction. See Germany to Scrap Law [against] Insulting Foreign Leaders.
But the point I'm trying to make – in case it's too subtle – is the marked contrast between those laws that punish citizens for insulting foreign leaders, and Exodus 22:28. Whatever else you can say about the 12 countries [that] punish you for insulting their heads of state, they're at least "following the Bible." I noted another marked contrast – between that Biblical commandment as practiced and as preached" – in On dissin' the Prez. (In my other blog.)
Another aside: The Apostle Paul was reminded of Exodus 22:28 in Acts 23. He was on trial – for "preaching" – before the Sanhedrin. (The "Hebrew Supreme Court.") High priest Ananais told a guard to "strike him on the mouth," and Paul responded as shown in the image below:
Those standing nearby said, 'Do you dare to insult God's high priest?' And Paul said, 'I did not realize, brothers, that he was high priest; for it is written, "You shall not speak evil of a leader of your people."'
(Which brought up Conservative Christians who say the Bible must be interpreted literally.)
But getting back to the subject at hand: In Turkey, over "1,800 people – including schoolchildren – have been prosecuted for comments posted on social media that insult Erdogan:"
In Istanbul, opinions are divided on the move against the comedian… "The president [Erdogan] has his own rights," said one man. "When someone insults the German president they put him into the prison, also the American president. (E.A.)
Oh really? Apparently that guy hasn't watched Fox News or listened to American talk radio…
"God will strike you, you whitewashed wall!"
The upper image is courtesy of not bite your tongue about some world leaders – GlobalPost. (Cited in the text as "This is how these 12 countries will punish you for insulting their heads of state.")
Sources used in writing this blog-post include: Turkish President Wants German Satirist Jailed, German Comedian May Face Prison, CORRECTION BACKGROUND German law: When does insulting a foreign leader become a crime, Calls grow to scrap law on insulting foreign leaders [Germany], Germany to Scrap Law that Prohibits Insulting Foreign Leaders, Jan Böhmermann – Wikipedia, and The Guardian view on the Jan Böhmermann affair.
Re: firestorm. See "F" Metaphors, including Firestorm.
Re: Raleigh and Spanish gold. One example: When his fleet captured an incredibly rich prize— a merchant ship (carrack) named Madre de Deus (Mother of God) off Flores.
The lower image is courtesy of wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Angelico,_niccolina_02.jpg. The caption: ""Fra Angelico, Dispute before the Sanhedrin (1449)." The painting is based on "Acts 23."
This entry was posted in Politics on May 15, 2016 by bbj1969per@aol.com.
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I was delighted to hear the news that SEPTA has announced its 2016-27 capital program proposal recently. Among its projects that have been deemed ready for the next phase of design is the Paoli Transportation Center, a project I have had the privilege of working on as a member of the Paoli Task Force. SEPTA's 2016-27 capital program shows funding for Phase I of the project, moving us closer toward a start of construction in 2016, as well as funding for the project's phases thereafter for the Darby Road bridge and a parking garage. Paoli is on the move!
Coincidentally, last night was the Tredyffrin Historic Preservation Trust's Spring Lecture Series. Our guest lecturer Greg Prichard presentation was "Pennsylvania Main Line Train Stations of Tredyffrin and Easttown Townships". Greg spoke about train station architecture and history, mthys vs. reality, evolution and growth of the railroad in our area and how past (and future) restoration efforts helped the stations to endure. Discussing the train stations geographically from east to west, his presentation ended with Paoli Train Station. During the Q & A following the presentation, I was asked for an update on the Paoli Transportation Center and I really couldn't offer any new information.
According to this graphic from SEPTA's report, the $36 million Phase I design is underway with construction to begin in 2016. Phase I makes the station ADA accessible and includes a pedestrian overpass, elevators and new high level platform.
It appears that the "Paoli on the Move" website has not been updated in a year (April 2014) – perhaps with this exciting news from SEPTA, the timeline on the Tredyffrin Township website can be updated. It does look like the Paoli Transportation Center is taking steps in the right direction!


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'A slap in the face': Knoxville mayor, police chief respond to vulgar video that led to KPD internal investigations
On Wednesday, WBIR reported about a KPD sergeant's videotaped comments at a squad meeting describing forced oral sex
Author: John North, Tonja Burk
Published: 11:52 AM EDT July 18, 2019
Updated: 10:41 PM EDT July 18, 2019
KNOXVILLE, Tennessee — Inappropriate. Insulting. Vulgar. Embarrassing. Offended.
Just some of the words that Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero and Knoxville Police Chief Eve Thomas used to describe their reaction to a KPD sergeant's alleged conduct during a recent roll call.
On Wednesday, WBIR reported about a video that showed Sgt. Bobby Maxwell describing in vulgar and offensive terms how a male officer could have oral sex with a female. On the video he could be heard using terms like "choke job" and "pearl necklace".
Watch the full news conference here:
RELATED: Tapes reveal KPD discussions about alleged officer misconduct
RELATED: Veteran KPD sgt. retires, multi-pronged internal investigation underway over officer conduct
He abruptly retired July 1 after his lieutenant, Travis Brasfield, filed a complaint seeking an internal investigation.
Both Rogero and Thomas were limited Thursday afternoon on what they could say at the press conference because of that internal investigation.
What both women made clear, however, was that if the comments were true, it was very troubling and not representative of the culture the department and the city want to represent.
Rogero is the first woman elected mayor in Knoxville. Thomas is the first woman to lead KPD.
Rogero said lewd, derogatory conduct is not appropriate in any workplace, particularly at the Knoxville Police Department, where the men and women are held to a higher standard.
She said she did want to make clear, however, that she does not think the alleged behavior was indicative of the entire department.
"We have so many great officers," she said. "We give then awards regularly, they raise the bar and lead by example."
But, she said, if one of those officers acts inappropriately, there will be consequences, which she was relying on the internal investigation and Chief Thomas to determine. Rogero promoted Thomas to chief last year.
"The alleged comments are not reflective of who our police department is and what we want to be," echoed Chief Thomas.
Thomas, who has 26 years with the department, said they value diversity, and said she was incredibly proud of the culture built at the KPD.
She said conduct such as has been alleged about Sgt. Maxwell "will not be tolerated" and "diminished the good deeds done by our officers every day."
Thomas said she first heard about the allegations in an anonymous letter June 20. An internal affairs investigation was already being considered when she heard the specifics of the alleged comments either on June 22 or 23, but she wasn't sure of the exact date.
She said she hadn't seen the video until Wednesday night, the same night the 10News Investigation aired. You can watch the raw, unedited video below, as it was received by WBIR. It does contain offensive language.
"Stunned when I heard. Horrified. I was deeply embarrassed. Hurt," said Thomas, who claimed she'd never heard those types of comments on the job before. She said she was hurt as both an individual and a supervisor.
"A slap in the face," she said.
Mayor Rogero wanted to make clear that the alleged comments are not just offensive to women.
"We know it exists in the world. It doesn't make it right. It's still wrong, disturbing. Offensive. I was offended by it," she said. "But every man in this room would not agree and find it offensive. It's not just because I'm a woman. Anyone that's a decent human being wouldn't agree with those statements."
Rogero said we need to change the attitude of anyone who thinks it's OK for a man to say that, and that's up to everyone in the community, by how we raise our kids and how we treat each other.
Thomas said officers already receive training on diversity, but they would reevaluate that training and determine what needs to be added.
"One incident can't define the whole department," she said. "We have an opportunity to deal with it in a meaningful way."
One fear with these allegations is that it could hurt recruitment of new officers, which is already a challenge for the department.
"I'm afraid so," said Thomas. "That's why I wanted to address today"
Thomas said it's unusual to speak about internal affairs investigations when they're ongoing, but she wanted to make clear that the alleged conduct is not indicative of the men and woman who serve the community every day.
Thomas was unable to comment on whether any actions had been taken against any officers who are still with the department.
10News has requested the Internal Affairs reports. All of those findings will be made public once the internal investigation is complete, officials said.
"We have rules and regulations and very high standards at KPD," said Rogero. "We'll back up Chief Thomas to hold officers to those standards.
At a meeting of the Police Advisory and Review Committee (PARC) Thursday, two people asked questions about the investigation and the culture at KPD.
PARC cannot comment until the investigation is closed.
Executive Director Clarence Vaughn told 10News he doesn't recall any former complaints about Sgt. Maxwell or other officers named in the official complaint.
"I didn't have a chance to review as far as any PARC cases," said Vaughn. "I know for the main officers who may be involved in the cases I didn't have anything."
He went on to say he trusts KDP to fully investigate the case.
"The process does go through a full vetting as far as the investigative side and also has civilians and citizens give their two points and have an opportunity to discuss it," said Vaughn.
When the internal affairs unit closes the investigation, PARC will address the case.
Knoxville Police Chief Eve Thomas and Knoxville Mayor Madeline Rogero are set to hold a press conference at 3 p.m. Thursday following revelations of a KPD sergeant's vulgar conduct during a recent roll call.
The city issued a notice Thursday morning:
"The Knoxville Police Department's Internal Affairs Unit is investigating allegations of misconduct by a small number of officers, including a formal complaint that a sergeant made inappropriate comments and that his actions were not properly addressed by his superiors.
"Mayor Rogero and Chief Thomas, while unable to comment on the specific allegations pending the completion of the IAU review, will announce immediate steps being taken."
You can watch that press conference on WBIR.com and WBIR's YouTube page.
Maxwell, 57, abruptly retired July 1 after his lieutenant, Travis Brasfield, filed a complaint seeking an internal investigation.
Brasfield alleges KPD commanders tried to diminish Maxwell's conduct and also mishandled another complaint about an officer accused of having an affair with a Knox County deputy's wife.
Sgt. Bobby Maxwell was recorded talking about forced oral sex with women during a meeting with officers earlier this year.
Last year Mayor Rogero tapped Thomas, who has more than 25 years with KPD, to be chief. Thomas replaced David Rausch, who became TBI director.
WBIR has obtained a copy of Brasfield's complaint, a supplement to his complaint, recordings of numerous meetings at which officer conduct was discussed and also has reviewed the personnel files of Maxwell, Brasfield and Brasfield's boss, Capt. Tony Willis.
Maxwell was a 25-year KPD veteran and US Marine veteran who was involved in a high-profile officer-involved shooting in 1997. Recordings obtained by WBIR show he began contemplating leaving KPD after complaints about his conduct emerged.
Brasfield seeks among other things the immediate removal of Capt. Willis and KPD Deputy Chief Kenny Miller from their command positions.
Maxwell could not be reached for comment. Brasfield, a licensed attorney in the state, has declined comment through attorney John Valliant.
Erland issued this statement this week: "There is an ongoing Internal Affairs investigation regarding the allegations, and we are not going to comment further on the matter until the conclusion of the investigation. As a note, Sgt. Maxwell is no longer employed by the Knoxville Police Department."
According to the city of Knoxville's Law Department, internal affairs reviews are underway as a result of Brasfield's complaint, and they will become public when they are complete. 10News has requested the documents.


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Entries will be considered from riders and horses that have successfully completed 2 rides of 50 miles (80k) or above within a day, as a member of a recognised National or International Endurance Association, preferably but not necessarily as a combination, with 1x 80k in a day ideally being completed within the previous 12 months. The 50 mile class horses must have completed a 50 mile (80 km) within the previous 12 months.
Long distance, i.e. in excess of 120k, multi-day endurance rides having been completed successfully within previous 12 months will also be considered.
Entries will also be considered from any horse /rider combination who are not affiliated to any endurance association, if they can prove they have suitable long-distance riding experience.
Horse must be a minimum of 7 years of age on 1 January 2019.
Riders under 18 years of age will only be considered if accompanied by a suitably qualified adult and at the discretion of the organising committee.
For the welfare of the horse it is a condition of entry that horses must be shod (and preferably padded) or be wearing protective footwear such as Easyboot Gloves or Glue-on, both of which have been successfully used in previous years.
Compliance with the entry criteria does not guarantee acceptance to the ride. Confirmation of your accepted entry will be sent to you after being reviewed by the organising panel, which includes an experienced endurance vet. Their decision regarding entry will be final.
· Wear a certified helmet throughout the ride while mounted which may be removed when walking or tailing.
· Have a good knowledge of map reading and riding in hilly terrain.
· Carry all weather clothing, first aid equipment and a spare hoof boot suitably sized for both front and back feet.
· Accompany their horse at all vettings and abide by the vetting protocol.
· Agree to adhere to the ride rules, decisions and instructions of the Ride Marshalls and Vets.
The Cairngorm 100 is a linear route starting at Glen Clova and finishing at Nethy Bridge. There will be elevator options for 50 and 75 miles. The Cairngorm 50 is also a linear route starting at Mar Lodge near Braemar and follows the same route as the 100 miles class to the finish at Nethy Bridge.
The route takes riders into open and at times hostile country. For the most part the ride follows well defined tracks and trails and where the route deviates from a defined track where possible it will be clearly marked. It is essential that riders stay on the route and are aware of their location either by map reading or by GPS locator. Where the route is lost the rider should retrace their steps to the last marker and find the correct route. They should not attempt to cut back on to the correct trail by going across country, the bogs in some areas are very dangerous and need to be avoided at all costs.
There will be cut off times for each of the Vet Gates and some of the check points and where it is identified that a rider's average speed would not allow them to reach the finish within 24 hours of their start time they will be required to stop. If, however, the rider can prove to the satisfaction of the Ride Marshall that the delay is due to a navigational error or such like and not due to a low average speed, they may be allowed to continue at the Ride Marshall's discretion. A check will then be made at the next Vet Gate to confirm the decision.
There will be a compulsory pre-ride briefing to be attended by the rider and at least one of their crew. Failure to attend will disqualify the rider and they will not be allowed to start.
On receipt of your entry you will receive an email confirming receipt which is not acceptance of your entry. Shortly afterwards you should receive confirmation of acceptance of your entry, if appropriate, to allow you time to plan.
Following this you will receive an entry pack which will provide detailed information on the route, crewing locations, and minimum equipment details. There will also be details of the vetting procedures and general ride protocol. Much of this info will also be available on the ride website.
We are planning a presentation dinner and get together at The Nethy Bridge Hotel on the Sunday evening, 7th July. The 3-course meal will cost £25 per person and a choice menu will be offered nearer the ride date.
The start for the 100 ride will be at Glen Clova Hotel in Glen Clova, one of the Angus glens, where there is a hotel and self-catering lodge style accommodation available. We have also booked the recently refurbished Steading where there are a number of rooms still available. These will be allocated on a first come basis by e-mailing Penny. Payment will be made directly to the Glen Clova hotel.
At Nethy Bridge we have some cheap accommodation in the Nethy Station bunkhouse which can accommodate 20+ at a cost of £20 per person per night. Towels are not provided. If you require bedding at Nethy Station there is a cost of £5 per pack; however, sleeping bags can be used providing they are clean.
Alternatively, there is the Nethy Bridge Hotel where we will be holding our presentation dinner and some B&B accommodation in the area.
Camping will be available at both the start and finish at £10 per night per tent; riders sleeping on site in their horse boxes will be charged the same rate of £10 per vehicle.
Corralling is £5 per night per horse at Glen Clova and £10 per night per horse at Nethy Bridge. If you have booked stabling, this is included in the stabling cost.
Riders planning to do the 50 mile ride are advised to corral at Mar Lodge, Braemar, where there is secure corralling, camping and some bunkhouse accommodation at £20 per bed per night, which can be booked through Penny. Braemar has a number of hotels and B&Bs at a reasonable price. The cost for camping at Mar is £5 per person and corralling is £12 per horse per night which can be booked through Penny but is paid directly to Mar Lodge.
The entry fee for the ride is £150 for the Cairngorm 100 and 75 mile elevator, £100 for the 50 mile. This fee includes a beautiful Celtic design Cairngorm 100 belt buckle for those who complete and pass the final vetting at the end of the 100 miles, or the "Half Way There" buckle for any rider passing the 50 mile point.
There will be a limited number of stables at the start at Glen Clova and also the finish at Nethy Bridge. These again will be allocated on a first come basis. A charge of £70 per stable will be charged for the 2 nights at Glen Clova and £80 at Nethy Bridge. With the unpredictability of the weather in the mountains even in July, we would advise that you take advantage of this facility.
We will also provide contact details for assistance to international entrants. We have Dutch and German speaking members on the team who are happy to assist with entries, travel and accommodation arrangements etc.
International and national endurance riding association riders: please enclose a photocopy of your ride master card showing your qualifying rides.
Riders who are not members of a national or international endurance riding association: please enclose proof of your and your horse's long distance riding experience; alternatively contact us and we can discuss the matter.


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Anti-Logging Activists Released With Warning From Kratie Court
Nat Sopheap
| Tue Mar 17, 2020 7:54 pm
Ouch Leng, center, leaves the Kratie Provincial Court in this photograph posted to Ma Chettra's Facebook page on March 16, 2020.
Four anti-logging activists were let go on Monday after being questioned by a provincial court prosecutor and labeled as suspects by local authorities, following their detention by a timber company with a land concession next to Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary.
Ouch Leng, president of the Cambodia Human Rights Task Force, and three others had been patrolling the protected forest on Friday when they were detained by guards from timber company Think Biotech, which Leng has previously said should be investigated for alleged illegal logging.
Leng told VOD that he and the others were released by the Kratie Provincial Court on Monday, but they were asked to sign a letter stating that they would suspend their forest patrol and inform the Interior Ministry that they would operate in line with the law. Leng said he is still considering whether he will write a letter to the ministry.
The court's decision to investigate and limit his group's activities was biased in favor of the company, according to Leng.
"The company called the police, and the police called the prosecutor and asked the prosecutor to take action," he said. "The prosecutor prepared the paperwork to satisfy the company and do whatever it takes to stop my group."
Leng, a 2016 Goldman Environmental Prize recipient, said his organization was already registered with the Interior Ministry.
Ministry spokesmen Khieu Sopheak and Phat Sophanith did not respond to requests for comment on Tuesday.
Leng was detained on Friday morning by guards from the Taiwanese-Cambodian firm's concession, along with two Prey Lang Community Network (PLCN) activists, Preah Vihear province coordinator Srey Thei and member Khem Sokhy, as well as forestry activist Man Mat. The four men were brought to provincial authorities later on Friday after company guards detained and beat them, according to a statement from human rights group Licadho.
Monks, youth activists and community members protest the detention of four environmentalists detained by police in Kratie province. (Cambodian Youth Network, Licadho)
While the four were held for questioning through the weekend, another 40 environmental advocates gathered outside the provincial court to demand their release.
Soeng Senkaruna, spokesman for rights group Adhoc, said the court's decision to limit the activists' patrol was inappropriate, adding that video recorded by the activists should have been used to open an investigation into the company.
Think Biotech previously faced accusations of clearing ancestral forests on its 34,000-hectare "reforestation project" spanning Kratie and Stung Treng. The company denied claims by activists reporting illegal logging within sanctuary boundaries last year, according to the Phnom Penh Post.
The activists' video footage is marked with GPS coordinates, so the four had proof that they had not entered company land, but instead found evidence of deforestation near the company's grounds, Senkaruna said.
"The prosecutor, as a law enforcement officer, should use this evidence and cooperate with Ouch Leng to open an investigation of the company," he added.
Three court prosecutors could not be reached for comment on Monday.
A truck is seen transporting logs in the Prey Lang Forest in Kratie province in early 2019. (Ouch Leng)
Long Kunthea, an activist who attended the weekend protest, said that demonstrations would continue if the court continued to threaten and harass environmental activists who wish to protect the sanctuary.
The detentions follow an order from the Environment Ministry last month to shut down conservation and forest patrol group PLCN's annual forest protection ceremony, preventing participants from entering the 430,000-hectare wildlife sanctuary on grounds that the organization was not properly registered with the government.
In an update of their monitoring activities from last month, PLCN reported an average of 89 illegal activities per month between June 2018 and last June, which include sightings of logging, tree stumps and timber transport vehicles within sanctuary borders.
activism, environment, illegal logging, prey lang


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Otternhagen ist ein östlicher Ortsteil der Stadt Neustadt am Rübenberge in der niedersächsischen Region Hannover.

Geografie
Das Dorf ist über die Kreisstraße 314 mit dem Zentrum der Stadt verbunden und erstreckt sich als Straßendorf in einer Länge von etwa vier Kilometern von Nord nach Süd.

Geschichte
Das Hagenhufendorf findet im Jahr 1215 erstmals urkundliche Erwähnung als "Oterenhagen", "Uterenhagen" und "Auterenhagen". Der Name leitet sich ab vom Namen des örtlichen Flüsschens Auter.

Im Zuge der Gebietsreform in Niedersachsen, die am 1. März 1974 stattfand, wurde die zuvor selbständige Gemeinde Otternhagen in die Stadt Neustadt am Rübenberge eingegliedert.

Politik

Ortsrat
Der gemeinsame Ortsrat von Averhoy, Basse, Metel, Otternhagen und Scharrel setzt sich aus elf Ratsmitgliedern zusammen. Im Ortsrat befinden sich zusätzlich 19 beratende Mitglieder.

Sitzverteilung:
 SPD: 4 Sitze
 CDU: 3 Sitze
 Grüne: 2 Sitz
 FDP: 1 Sitz
 UWG: 1 Sitz
(Stand: Kommunalwahl 12. September 2021)

Ortsbürgermeister
Die Ortsbürgermeisterin ist Christine Nothbaum (CDU). Ihr Stellvertreter ist Hans-Dieter Jaehnke (SPD).

Wappen
Das Kommunalwappen von Otternhagen stammt von dem Heraldiker und Autor Hermann Ziegler. Nachdem der Ortsrat in seiner Sitzung vom 13. Dezember 2000 die Stadtverwaltung gebeten hatte, den Bürgerverein Otternhagen als Initiator zur Schaffung eines Wappen für Otternhagen zu unterstützen, legte der Bürgerverein Otternhagen dem Ortsrat für seine Sitzung am 13. Juli 2004 einen Entwurf zur Abstimmung vor, der dann einstimmig als offizielles Wappen für Otternhagen beschlossen wurde. Die Stadt Neustadt wurde dann entsprechend informiert und gab bekannt, dass ihrerseits kein weiterer offizieller Beschluss notwendig sei.

Kultur und Sehenswürdigkeiten

Bauwerke
 Die Johanneskirche ist etwa im Jahr 1530 zunächst noch als Kapelle erbaut worden, die 1712 zur Kirche erweitert wurde.
 Das Theater auf der Waldbühne ist ein Freilichttheater inmitten einer Naturkulisse und arbeitet seit 1970 mit Laiendarstellern.

Baudenkmale

Naturschutzgebiete
 Östlich des Ortes liegt das Naturschutzgebiet Otternhagener Moor.

Fotogalerie

Weblinks

 Website der Stadt Neustadt am Rübenberge

Einzelnachweise

Stadtteil von Neustadt am Rübenberge
Ehemalige Gemeinde (Region Hannover)
Ersterwähnung 1215
Gemeindeauflösung 1974


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Навлон () — в Древней Греции — в общем смысле — плата за морскую перевозку.

В похоронном обряде — плата Харону за перевоз через Стикс в подземное царство. В Риме такая плата называлась донация.

Для того чтобы покойник мог заплатить Харону, ему в рот клалась мелкая монета, обычно серебряный обол. Иногда клали более дешевую медную монету, а при богатых похоронах в рот покойника клали индикации — круглые золотые листики с отпечатками монет. Римляне клали в рот покойника триенс.

Обычай хоронить мёртвых с монетой во рту существовал у многих народов. Возможно, это связано с обычаем носить монеты во рту. В Риме обычай таких похорон просуществовал до XVI века.

См. также
Обол Харона

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