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Claude Mariottini continues the discussion on Genesis 3:16.
Matt Lynch develops his conclusions on style, grammar, and literary aspects of this passage here.
Marg Mowczko is asked What is the best Bible translation to read.
Kurk Gayle at BLT suggests why Craig's translation is among Marg's best.
Aliens in Ur? Both Jim Davila and Jim West on two independent articles that might suggest it. Anticipating Halloween - over by the time this is published.
Jim West points out an upcoming conference on the crisis in JEDP.
Livius Drusus has a special on a 10 commandments inscription.
Claude writes on the prayer of Moses for rebellious Israel.
and the magnanimity of meekness.
Jeremy Smoak writes on the use of the priestly blessing in iron age inscriptions.
Julia Blum muses on the season of Sukkot.
Jim Davila points us to an article on abortion via Exodus and Numbers.
Matt Lynch finds application of the aftermath of 2 Samuel 11 to current events.
without ceasing praise with the Porcupine.
Your host continues his read of Hosea, the prophet of burned pancakes.
James McGrath posts some music for the Amos hymn fragments.
There's a touch of Amos in Claude Mariottini's post on the law of pledges.
There's a touch of Ezekiel in Cassandra Gill's note on women in ancient Israel.
David Koyzis brings us Nat Turner singing the Psalms. More on Nat Turner turned up here.
James McGrath posts a setting of Psalm 53 in Syriac.
Roland Maynet's book on the 8 acrostic poems of the Psalter is reviewed here.
Brooke Lester writes on Psalms of Lament.
Your host asks for a language to describe musical structure using Psalm 96 as an example.
Scott McKnight on reading Job as literature.
And there is a touch of the subtlety of the book of Job in Phillip Long's series on Romans.
Gard Granerød gives some background on the temple at Elephantine.
Doug Ingram reviews Time in the book of Ecclesiastes.
Rhiannon Graybill reviews Jouissance, A Cixousian encounter with the Song of Songs.
Judith Gärtner reviews Denk an deinen Schöpfer (And remember your creator).
Ruth Friederike Kunath introduces her new book Die Präexistenz Jesu im Johannesevangelium. Struktur und Theologie eines johanneischen Motivs. Wayne Coppins analyses selected passages in German and English.
Andrew Perriman on getting saved in the Gospels, and the wrath to come.
And told them nothing that they wished to know.
Matthew Malcolm, recently relocated to Indonesia from western Australia, comments on a geographic 'mistake' in Mark.
There's a touch of Luke in a meditation on Sukkot here.
Jim Gordon considers reception history of Christ in the house of Martha and Mary.
Jim Davila points to an article on Lazarus.
Chris Keith discusses the common intertext.
Airton José da Silva presents Horbury's Messianism among Jews and Christians.
Brian Bunnell reflects on convention in language and the Kingdom of God.
Jay posts a summary on Prisca and Aquila.
Wayne Coppins examines differing doubts over the authorship of Luke-Acts.
Jim Davila comments on the series on Romans by Phil Long. Phil continues his series on Romans here and here and so on. Your host has even dared to ponder again this letter. Sarah Agnew writes on the impact of performance for understanding Romans. Jim West reviews a release from Gerd Thiesen and Petra von Gemünden on Romans. Rafael asks whether Paul would approve that Jews be Jews? Larry Hurtado has a similar question. Phil Long reviews Paul Behaving Badly.
Wayne Coppins comments on speech ethics in Ephesians.
Marg Mowczko highlights hierarchy and its subversion in Paul.
Andrew Perriman writes on the first-fruits and eschatology.
Marg Mowczko asks about Apphia of Colossae.
Brian Small's Hebrews Highlights here.
Ian Paul writes on the clouds. And continues his consideration of the Essentials of Biblical Interpretation here and here.
Jacob Prahlow continues his series on Scripture in 1 Clement concluding with a bibliography. Thomas Harmon posts on History and Historicism, Lubac's reading of Origen of Alexandria.
Dylan Burns reviews Marcion and the Making of a Heretic.
Livius Drusus reveals mosaic floor in Jericho.
Jim Davila points out new evidence for a Roman breach of the third wall of Jerusalem, fake DSS fragments, and the excavation of the burial place in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
He also has links and update on an early papyrus fragment containing the word Jerusalem. Christopher Rollston is more than cautious - Caveat Eruditus. These stories and links get around and come to suspected conclusions and denials quickly.
James McGrath points out an inscription on the appointment of Gallio for the revitalization of Corinth.
National Geographic posts on the tomb of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
Tim Bulkeley reviews the Android interface of the Zondervan NIV cultural backgrounds study bible.
DET's Scott Jackson ponders the exponential multiplication of the gods.
Samuel Loncar on evincing invincible ignorance.
Pete Enns interviews Le Donne on Near Christianity.
Larry Hurtado clarifies a pod-cast of a conversation with Chris Tilling on early christology. His article in Catalyst on the distinctiveness of early Christianity is available here. More on early christology from Kirk and Buzzard via Michael Kok here, and from Bauckham here as well as some questions for the high Christology club.
Helen Bond on Bultmann, and social memory, and a touch of form criticism. James McGrath and Miller misreading Bultmann.
Jim West links to the Journal of the Jesus Movement in its Jewish Setting which begins with a 30-page essay by Terrence Donaldson on Supersessionism in Early Christian Self-Definition. Michael Kok's essay on Mark and Early High Christology begins on page 102.
James McGrath caps this discussion with a collection of October links on Christology.
Jacob summarizes later Christological disputes here and here.
being at unity in himself.
Écrire la magie dans l'antiquité, an alternate view of the use of texts.
Rob Bradshaw has all the European Journal of Theology articles available. TOC here.
James Pate reviews Daniel Kirk's A Man Attested by God. Kirk discusses his book here with Dale Tuggy.
Frederick Mulder argues for non-historical Jesuses.
Jim West points out an article on the subversion of subversive Jesuses.
Ian Paul offers some thoughts on the inner and outer life in Matthew 5.
Scot McKnight on the Bible and governance (almost).
Zwingli's representative reports on the Bible and the current issues.
Larry Hoffman treats heaven and earth with a prod from Ibn Ezra.
Stefania Ermidoro gives a taste of the politics of banqueting.
Jim Davila on politics and archaeology here.
Andrew Perriman has a consumer classification of trousers and the kingdom here.
Airton José notes a decision from O Conselho Permanente da Conferência Nacional dos Bispos do Brasil-CNBB (supported by a quote from Chrysostom) re government policy on debt.
Lawrence Hoffman on humanity with a dove in mind.
Jim West quotes (who else) Zwingli on the proper relationship between church and state with a nod to Paul and Jeremiah.
Christoph Heilig notes the availability of the English translation of Wolter's commentary on Luke.
William Ross introduces the Cambridge Greek Lexicon.
James Pate reviews Discovering the Septuagint. Jim West also, and he interviews Karen Jobe here.
Robert Holmstedt posts his conclusion about הבל. James McGrath offered a gloss here, but perhaps it was half empty. ִInadvertent suggestion from Phil Long's Romans series here.
Ayana has an introduction to colour in Biblical Hebrew here.
Kris Lyle interviews Christian Locatell on his hopes for the application of linguistics to Bible translation.
Jordan Scheetz reviews A Biblical Aramaic Reader.
and I shall be translated myself at the last.
Jacob Neusner, noted by several bloggers. Four talks from 1976 in Montreal are available here.
Airton José acknowledges his debt to Gerhard von Rad.
I do not compete with the Zwinglian Halloween carnival, but if you need respite, have a look at the Asterisk production of Hell, A Survivor's Guide or OUP's Why is the Bible so much like a horror movie? And as a footnote, Cassandra Farrin posts on necropolitics and hauntology.
Volunteer to host a carnival. Please email Phil Long (plong42@gmail.com) or direct message on Twitter (@plong42). Phil needs hosts for all months following January 2017. Carnival hosting is a good way of growing your knowledge of the BS community via blogs and through other social media portals, and of encouraging readers to come over to your site for a gelotophyllis party at month end. Pine nuts, peppercorns, and honey with palm wine are the antidote.
A fine number - two to the seventh power.
or find out how the Muppets meet Christopher Smart in East Coker.
This is a story of the ultimate victory of the needy. When I was meditating on this chapter I could not see past the vengeance and I had not yet translated the first two verses. Yesterday the lectionary Psalm was 149. The Psalms have a bracket encompassing the whole book from 2 to 149. It is a bracket of vengeance. In the Psalter taken as a whole, however, it is clear that violent vengeance is not the solution to anything.
I found this one of the more difficult chapters this year.
וַיַּֽעֲשׂ֥וּ בְשֹׂנְאֵיהֶ֖ם כִּרְצוֹנָֽם 5 And the Judeans struck against all their enemies with the strike of sword, and slaying and perishing.
וּבַ֨בִּזָּ֔ה לֹ֥א שָׁלְח֖וּ אֶת־יָדָֽם 10 ~ Ten children of Haman, child of Hammedatha the adversary of the Judeans, they slew.
וּמַה־שְּׁאֵֽלָתֵךְ֙ וְיִנָּ֣תֵֽן לָ֔ךְ וּמַה־בַּקָּשָׁתֵ֥ךְ ע֖וֹד וְתֵעָֽשׂ 12 And the king said to Esther the queen, In Shushan the temple precincts, the Judeans slew and eliminated five hundred such, and ten children of Haman.
וְאֵ֛ת עֲשֶׂ֥רֶת בְּנֵֽי־הָמָ֖ן תָּלֽוּ 14 And the king said that it should be so done. And a dictate was given in Shushan.
When one is given a design document, if one is going to take it seriously, one must press at its weak points. So also with one's own reading. What do you dislike? What makes you really uncomfortable? Here is where you stand to learn something if you can step back from the obvious distaste of the piece.
I have done it. But I have not learned here to live with my discomfort. This apparent replay of deadly force and admittedly necessary self-defense leaves me cold. The farce in the first chapter and the vengeance read into this chapter are distinctly distasteful.
Lord, your story here is not good. What is my problem with it? Simple: there is no redemption. There is no recognition of complicity.
But don't you then blame the victim?
I have no desire to do that. But perhaps it is that I am so dependent on the deadly force of others that I fail to see other possibilities. I see daily the impact of deadly force. I hear lies everywhere. I see no solution. Though I believe in the sacrifice that is for the sins of the whole world, I do not see its impact where it is needed, in the halls of violence, power, and money.
I am empty here. Though I would show mercy to all, even to myself, I find this resolution in this story without social or moral merit.
Did I not empty myself?
Yes. And I see this story is about human dictates under your seal and you have left the resolution to the humans, Haman and Mordecai through the intercession of Esther. The threat, and the repayment seem to allow self-defense, but this does not represent your resolution. I have to question your character as it seems to be revealed here in the cypher of the king. It seems an ultimate almost irresponsible delegation of authority. But you were smitten by Esther as you loved her ancestors. Unfathomable. You did not abdicate but you allowed first one then the other precedence. What makes them different?
Who do you want to win? the gladness that respects life or the pleasure that seeks death?
Where then did that seeking of death come from? From your abdication in the heart?
There you have it. Evil has full access to me. So uphole the good which likewise has full access through its own preferential option for the needy. The king is biased, and a jealous rival, as you know. And you might remember what you have learned about Saul's failure with Agag and not forget fasting and appeal.
The intent of this project is to find a rendering in English of the Old Testament text that could be set to the music that is embedded in the Hebrew text. Hearing the text with music is like hearing someone speak with vocal intention, tone of voice, rather than either hearing a monotone or projecting our own tone onto the text.
As I read, I find problems with traditional translations that are like mine, word for word. I imagine that a word is a word, though I do expect words to shift in usage over time. But within the same passage, I expect a word to have the same or a related gloss if it is repeated. In music, it is a matter of sound. Biblical Hebrew has patterns of repetition, sometimes even repeating the same root twice in a row, perhaps for emphasis, perhaps not. English composition, as I was taught it, had a rule that repeating the same word too close to another occurrence was bad form. And this rule is followed in translations from the 16th century on.
If your guest language has a rule that says 'repetition is important' and your host language says 'it is bad form', this is a conflict. A translation that fails to repeat the same sound when it recurs in a passage would be positively misleading the intent of the original language. It is a failure of hospitality in the translation. The KJV fails here repeatedly. It follows a literary rule that does not apply. And some of what it is translating in any case is not 'literary' in a 17th century sense. Sometimes also there are ambiguities, things the teacher would send back to the pupil saying, correct this. But it is not possible to correct. In fact its very ambiguity may be intentional. It is the reader's responsibility to recognize when a sentence is ambiguous and accept the fact that it is unresolved.
I have a rule that tries to avoid using the same English gloss for two separate Hebrew roots. I have 239 exceptions of this rule in nouns and verbs and modifiers, but my exceptions are uncountable in prepositions and other particles. It is the nature of the translation problem. I also try to reduce the number of synonyms I use in English for the same Hebrew root. Sometimes this is easy, even 1:1 is possible. But sometimes it is impossible. Either there is a Hebrew homonym, or a set of glosses is required in English for the same Hebrew root in different circumstances.
I have implemented my rules in computer algorithms. These help me to translate consistently across the whole of the Hebrew Scripture. But every rule requires judgment. Sometimes, for example when restrained by a word-game like an acrostic, I must allow the rules to fail. 22, about 10% of my exceptions come from this constraint.
I am probably not even aware of my bias. I think the earlier translators may have been aware that they should not offend the king, and therefore should write things like 'God save the king', into their translation. It is a false reading. Psalm 20 is close, but it reads: Yahweh save, let the king answer us in the day of our call. It does not read: The Lord save the king, answer us in the day of our call. The music makes this an impossible reading.
I have in any case, no need to defend the divine right of kings. But I may err inadvertently in defending feminism, liberalism, literalism, or even love. My rose-coloured glasses blind me.
I have to date read 389 out of 929 chapters completely. They are still subject to change, but I have read and decided on every gloss in 41.9% of the chapters. These chapters comprise 33.8% of the verses and 28.3% of the words.
I have touched 87% of the verses 20184/23151. That is at least one word in 87% of the verses has a guessed gloss. Some of these are reasonably certain, some not. Some are based on phrases up to 6 Hebrew words in length, some on only one. The formation of an English sentence is done for 35% of the verses, some of these in incomplete chapters. The English sentence in my latest technique is formed automatically and then arranged in acceptable word sequence.
I have a reasonably good guess based on algorithms for 57% of the words. 131011/304727.
Chapters get touched by automation in various ways. Unfortunately, I have a semantic domain experiment running in parallel with reading. And I think it distorts the number of actual gloss changes that are made after completion of a chapter. Those are relatively few but not insignificant. Blog frequency is the easiest to measure. I 'completed' the Psalms first in 2013, and I started the reading of 'the rest of the Bible' beginning November 2014. Since then, I have read 241 chapters and published on the blog 3 chapters in November, none in December, and in the next 22 months, 238 chapters, or about 11 per month average. There have been large variations.
In the last 12 months with the project in full swing, 168 chapters, 14 per month average, 3091 verses, and 66,918 words (drafted with automation). The pattern matching only began about a year ago. It promises to speed up translation considerably as it learns more words. I do not at this point, however, plan any further programming tasks around grammar.
As I complete each major section, say 100 to 150 pages, I hope to write some of the text into the libretto of selected parts of the section, and publish the work. People have asked for the psalms alone without all the analytical charts of Seeing the Psalter. So I expect to have a Psalter by June 2017. It is fully drafted with musical examples. But it is mostly simply a readable Psalter. I would welcome readers. Almost every Psalm has had some change. Job is next, and it is drafted. Thereafter, the Five Scrolls, only one chapter left before I review them against the music, and thereafter or concurrently, The Book of the Twelve, only a few chapters left there to read.
This promises to keep me occupied at least 2 full time days a week for the foreseeable future.
It is fun for me. I hope it is somewhat useful for any who read. The major thesis of the work, the music of the Old Testament, is in my new book, The Song in the Night, due out next month.
I do not think I can attempt to underlay in translation the whole 6000+ pages of music. It is quite astonishing to think that it was done at all in Hebrew and with such consistency. I am an explorer and puzzler in a large space. Many others will discover things there too.
I may be able to finish reading the whole Bible, but I probably don't need to worry whether I do or not.
And I add, I am limited by my sin, But there is forgiveness with thee, therefore shalt thou be feared.
If you love this work, then learn the original tongues. But do it as you read if you want to cover the whole body of the text. There is a lot of ground to cover. Don't be discouraged. Just start. Do 15 minutes a day, and keep going.
... and he had correspondence sent by the hand of the racers on the horses the riders of the steeds the mules and the foal of the mares. And they carried the message by email, Facebook, and twitter. Not to mention hard copy.
When the lies are dealt with, their consequences have to be undone. It takes 1000 years and more to undo lies. This is why it is better to know the revealed email and trust the transparent character. The character that tweets hatred is to be refused and destroyed and its devices with it.
If there is no God, and no instruction (Torah) and no monarch who incorporates a desirable character, then everyone will do what is right in their own eyes - a random selection of self-interest.
Better I think to have a monarch, where, even if invisible, a desirable character is modeled that is worth following.
The racers, the riders of the steeds, the mules, came forth, vexed but unrelenting by the word of the king.
And the dictate was given in Shushan [the place of the lily, the place of love], the temple precincts.
וּמָרְדֳּכַ֗י בָּ֚א לִפְנֵ֣י הַמֶּ֔לֶךְ כִּֽי־הִגִּ֥ידָה אֶסְתֵּ֖ר מַ֥ה הוּא־לָֽהּ 1 B In that day the king Ahasuerus gave to Esther the queen, the house of Haman, the adversary of the Judeans.
וַיָּ֨סַר הַמֶּ֜לֶךְ אֶת־טַבַּעְתּ֗וֹ אֲשֶׁ֤ר הֶֽעֱבִיר֙ מֵֽהָמָ֔ן וַֽיִּתְּנָ֖הּ לְמָרְדֳּכָ֑י וַתָּ֧שֶׂם אֶסְתֵּ֛ר אֶֽת־מָרְדֳּכַ֖י עַל־בֵּ֥ית הָמָֽן פ 2 And the king put aside his ring that he had transferred from Haman and gave it to Mordecai.
וְהַדָּ֥ת נִתְּנָ֖ה בְּשׁוּשַׁ֥ן הַבִּירָֽה 14 The racers, the riders of the steeds, the Ahasuerians, came forth, vexed but unrelenting by the word of the king.
I was tempted to use Judaized - Judean as a verb in verse 17. To use the Judeans, or the Jews as a model for behaviour is consistent with the teaching of the New Testament, but you wouldn't know that from Christians. Judaize has become a bad word of course, but that too is generally misunderstood even by sensible people. So I introduced the workaround, modeled on the Judeans, because we need good examples. But of course we must be able to distinguish good from evil - in ourselves and those who are other to us.
The world can be known in four letter words. Evil and love will do for a beginning. Evil, even spoken or written under the seal of the king is still evil. We cannot learn love alone. It is not good that the human should be alone. Ergo, redoubts are evil. Even when they are associated with the name of Christ. The good-evil axis is evident throughout Esther. If the book leads to self-protection and isolation, then even those who call on the name of God for such, are calling in evil. If the book leads one to love the other in our midst, then it has been read for love. Take your choice. And take the consequences.
Good for the Philippine president. God speaks. Those four letter words express his reality but not with love. Be angry but do not sin. Yet how true it is that nationalism by itself is evil. Esther again points this out in the image of the human empire of Ahasuerus. It is analogy, a close and multifaceted analogy, hidden.
Esther has some keys I cannot yet put in the lock. One of them is an obscure use of the word עבר, traverse, cross over, pass through, transfer. The consequences of the sin against the people of Judea in this book are transferred. Why this word?
Can't be more specific at the moment, too early in the morning. Probably will read the Globe and Mail and have breakfast. Perhaps these waking thoughts will pass. This is a blog after all.
The music is very elaborately ornamented. This could bear detailed study. The nature of the matching ornaments will note interpretive moves by the composer.
וְ֠הַמֶּלֶךְ יוֹשֵׁ֞ב עַל־כִּסֵּ֤א מַלְכוּתוֹ֙ בְּבֵ֣ית הַמַּלְכ֔וּת נֹ֖כַח פֶּ֥תַח הַבָּֽיִת 1 And it was on the third day and Esther clothed herself with royalty, and she stood in the court of the house of the king, the presence opposite the house of the king.
וּמַה־בַּקָּשָׁתֵ֛ךְ עַד־חֲצִ֥י הַמַּלְכ֖וּת וְיִנָּ֥תֵֽן לָֽךְ 3 And the king said to her, What is it to you, Esther, O queen?
וּמַה־בַּקָּשָׁתֵ֛ךְ עַד־חֲצִ֥י הַמַּלְכ֖וּת וְתֵעָֽשׂ 6 And the king said to Esther in the imbibing of the wine, What is your request? And it will be given to you.
וְגַם־לְמָחָ֛ר אֲנִ֥י קָֽרוּא־לָ֖הּ עִם־הַמֶּֽלֶךְ 12 And Haman said, Indeed Esther the queen with the king did not let anyone come to the party that she had made except me.
בְּכָל־עֵ֗ת אֲשֶׁ֨ר אֲנִ֤י רֹאֶה֙ אֶת־מָרְדֳּכַ֣י הַיְּהוּדִ֔י יוֹשֵׁ֖ב בְּשַׁ֥עַר הַמֶּֽלֶךְ 13 But all this is considered equal to nothing to me.
וַיִּיטַ֧ב הַדָּבָ֛ר לִפְנֵ֥י הָמָ֖ן וַיַּ֥עַשׂ הָעֵֽץ פ 14 Then said to him Zeresh his wife, and all who loved him, Make a tree of stature fifty cubits, and in the morning say to the king that Mordecai be hanged on it, and go with the king to the party gladly.


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O Pioneers! es una película estadounidense para la televisión basada en la novela homónima de Willa Cather.

Argumento
La película cuenta la historia de una familia sueca emigrada al estado de Nebraska en los Estados Unidos en los años 20. El padre de la familia muere y deja la graja familiar a su hija, que tiene que hacer frente a todos los problemas que le surgen para poder salir adelante con la granja.

Ficha Artística

 Jessica Lange - Alexandra Bergson
 David Strathairn - Carl Linstrum
 Tom Aldredge - Ivar
 Reed Diamond - Emil
 Anne Heche - Marie
 Heather Graham - Joven Alexandra Bergson
 Josh Hamilton - Joven Carl
 Leigh Lawson - Frank
 Graham Beckel - Oscar

Localicación

Muchas de las localizaciones de la película han sido rodadas en Johnstown (Nebraska), una pequeña ciudad situada al norte de Nebraska.

Muchos de los edificios utilizados para la película todavía conservan las fachadas vistas en ella.

Películas dramáticas de Estados Unidos
Películas dramáticas de los años 1990
Películas ambientadas en los años 1920
Películas sobre inmigración
Películas rodadas en Nebraska
Películas ambientadas en Nebraska

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Q: The "x characters remaining" indicator on comments shows red for 350 characters remaining, but changes to blue when there are 250 characters remaining While typing out a rather long comment, I noticed the "x characters remaining" turns read when you get below ~350 characters remaining:

That's great, but it turns to blue another ~100 characters later:

What's up with that?
I realize they say blue can mean "caution", but this color arrangement doesn't make sense, especially since the overall theme of MSE is blue.

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It is likely that you will have to pay some rent when you sign the tenancy. Most landlords now ask for rent in advance but how much varies. For more information, look at the Offer page.
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Households who are homeless or threatened with homelessness within the next 56 days need to contact the Housing Options service at the council for the area they live in for advice. They will work with you to try to prevent you becoming homeless and will discuss your housing options with you. If this is unsuccessful, and you meet the homelessness legal requirements, you may be offered temporary housing. Until you have been accepted as homeless, you may still express an interest in properties through Home-Link, providing your application has been accepted on the housing register. Once you have been accepted as homeless, the council may place bids for you on suitable properties, or limit the amount of time you have to bid, to reduce the time you have to spend in temporary housing - please check with the council you applied to. if you are accepted as homeless you may also be offered a private rented property that is suitable for you.
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Міська електричка:
 S-Bahn — один з видів примісько-міських (переважно для міських перевезень) рейкових систем в Австрії, Швейцарії, і особливо в Німеччині
 штадтбан — рейкова система типу інтерурбан в різних країнах, більш наближена до трамвайної системи, ніж звичайна залізниця.
 Міська електричка — один з видів міського громадського транспорту в деяких містах колишнього СРСР (наприклад, Єкатеринбурзька, Київська, Мінська і т. д.) з лініями-маршрутами, окремими від приміських електричок і з необов'язково електрифікованим рухомим складом (наприклад, рейковий автобус).


Verify the conviction if the report indicated that the person was convicted of a crime as defined in Wis. Stat. 115.31.
Investigate to determine whether to initiate revocation proceedings.
Post on DPI's website the name of the licensee who is under investigation.
During the investigation, keep confidential all information pertaining to the investigation except the fact that an investigation is being conducted and the date of the revocation hearing.
Maintain a record of all investigations that indicates the name of the licensee, the date the investigation began, the reason for the investigation, and the result of the investigation.
Post on DPI's website, the name of the person whose license was revoked resulting from an investigation.
The public can search if an educator is under investigation by using our online License Lookup and looking at the License Status field. Educators who are under investigation will have a status that says "Under Investigation."
In most cases, an employing school district will be aware that their employee is under investigation by DPI. However, in cases where DPI does not have employment information about the person under investigation, DPI will not be able to notify the employing school district.
Each allegation of misconduct is investigated and considered individually to determine if there is sufficient factual evidence to conclude whether the alleged behavior occurred and if any other conduct occurred.
Keep in mind that not all bad behavior or misconduct constitutes immoral conduct as defined in Wis. Stat. 115.31 (1)(c), nor does all bad and/or poor teaching practice/technique constitutes incompetency.
Being under investigation by DPI does not invalidate a person's valid license that has not expired.
If there are pending criminal charges, DPI usually holds its investigation open until the criminal case is concluded.
DPI usually holds its investigation open pending the outcome/conclusion of the school district's employment/discipline process.
The standards for pursuing license revocation are statutorily defined in Wis. Admin Code PI 34.098.


With the death of Sydney Pollack at age 73, we mourn not just the end of a man but, unexpectedly, the last days of an era as well.
I say unexpectedly because those kinds of melancholy end-of-days comments are usually reserved for the passing of towering figures of cinema such as Ingmar Bergman or Michelangelo Antonioni. As Pollack himself, a smart and gregarious man, remarkably sane given his long exposure to Hollywood, would have been the first to admit, he was not that kind of filmmaker.
Yet what Pollack stood for is every bit as valuable and even more endangered than the full-blown art-house masterpiece. For this multifaceted filmmaker -- an active director, producer and actor -- was perhaps the last to have a rich and full career making intelligent Hollywood pictures for an adult audience.
Everyone will have his favorites among Pollack's works, whether it be "Out of Africa," the film that won him his two Oscars, or "Three Days of the Condor," one of the many he made with old friend Robert Redford. I lean toward "Tootsie," the rare comedy that was well-acted and smartly written as well as screamingly funny.
Yet even the Pollack films that didn't rise to that level presumed that there was an audience for this kind of stuff, that moviegoers who would turn out for thoughtful, well-tempered films about mature characters with grown-up concerns existed. The world where teen bait like "Cloverfield" and "Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay" is the order of the day was not one he felt particularly at home in.
Pollack came by his sensibility honestly. While many contemporary directors came to features via commercials and videos, he came up through acting and study at Sanford Meisner's Neighborhood Playhouse in New York. Because he cared about drama and emotion, he not only kept acting himself (his turn as an agent in "Tootsie" remains a classic) but also adeptly guided 12 actors to Oscar nominations.
Perhaps because our cowardly new world was not completely to his taste, over the last dozen or so years Pollack directed less and produced more. In fact, according to the Internet Movie Database, since 1995 he produced or executive produced about 25 films and directed only four.
Some of this might be attributable to the difficulty even someone with Pollack's credentials had in getting his kind of pictures made. But it could also be that the man sensed that he could be of more use putting his experience, contacts and good sense at the service of helping other directors who shared his sensibility and interests get a leg up in the slippery world of Hollywood.
In that context, it is both poignant and fitting that the last film Pollack both produced and acted in was Tony Gilroy's crackerjack "Michael Clayton," in which he did his usual faultless turn as the not noticeably ethical head of a major New York law firm. For if there is anyone who might potentially carry Pollack's mantle, who has the knack of making films that are both smart and classically Hollywood, it is Gilroy.
Though I would run into Pollack from time to time, usually shopping for produce at my local supermarket, I really didn't know him. And my favorite memory of him comes not from anything he said to me face to face but from a note I received before we'd ever met.
The year was 1982, and I was invited to a rough-cut screening of "Tootsie." Pollack couldn't be there in person, but a copy of a typed note from him was handed out to everyone in the room in which the director laid out all the things, from temporary music to scratchy scenes and badly uncorrected color, that were wrong with the print he was presenting.
"Now that I've listed all these problems," Pollack concluded, with perfect comic timing, "I'm not sure why I'm showing the film at all!"
It was soon clear, of course, why he did so. The director knew what he had: Even in its ragged form, "Tootsie" was unmistakably a classic.
Pollack's passing reminds us, to steal a movie title from the man himself, of the way we were, and perhaps wish we could be again.


We present inter-, co- and post-seismic displacements observed in the 2015 Mw8.3 Illapel earthquake area by using Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (InSAR) and Global Positioning System (GPS) techniques. RADARSAT-2, ALOS-2 and Sentinel-1A interferograms captured the inter-, co- and post-seismic displacements in the deformation area of the 2015 Mw8.3 Illapel (Chile) earthquake. As in a sparely vegetated area, the RADARSAT-2 (RS2) interferograms with over 3-year long time interval still keep excellent interferometric coherence. Significant interseismic deformation potentially related to the viscoelastic rebounds have been clearly revealed with these two RS2 interferograms. Based on a layered Earth structure, we modeled both co- and post-seismic faulting behaviour on the subduction interface of central Chile based on Sentinel-1A interferograms and GPS observations. The best-fit coseismic slip model shows that the earthquake ruptured a 200 km×200 km area with a maximum slip of 10 m at a depth of 20 km. Two distinct slip centers, likely controlled by the local ramp-flat structure, are revealed in this model. The total coseismic geodetic moment is 2.76×1021 Nm, equivalent to a moment magnitude of 8.3. The accumulated afterslip in the first two months after the mainshock is observed on both sides of the coseismic rupture zone with both ascending and descending Sentinel-1A interferograms. A limited overlapping zone between the co- and post-seismic slip models can be observed, suggesting partitioning of the frictional properties within the Illapel earthquake rupture zone. The total afterslip releases ~5.0×1020 Nm geodetic moment, which is equivalent to an earthquake of Mw 7.7. The 2010 Mw 8.8 Maule earthquake that occurred ~400 km away from the Illapel earthquake epicenter could have exerted certain effects on the seismic cycle of the Illapel earthquake area. The local seismicity records from 2000 to 2015 show that in the Illapel earthquake area the rate of annual seismic moment release dropped from 0.4 to 0.2 ×1019 Nm/yr after the Maule earthquake. Based on the forward modeling with the best-fit slip models determined in this study, we reproduce the local surface displacements before, during and after the 2015 Mw8.3 Illapel earthquake. A rough deformation cycle, 105±29 years, derived by using the coseismic displacements and interseismic rate is consistent with the revisit interval of M8 events in the adjacent areas of the Illapel earthquake, suggesting that elastic rebound theory is applicable for the long-term strong earthquake prediction in this region.
The Cerro Prieto Geothermal Field (CPFG) lies at the step-over between the Imperial and the Cerro Prieto Faults in northern Baja California, Mexico. While tectonically this is the most active section of the southern San Andreas Fault system, the spatial and temporal deformation in the area is poorly resolved by the sparse Global Positioning System (GPS) data coverage. Moreover, interferograms from satellite observations spanning more than a few months are de-correlated due to the extensive agricultural activity in this region. Here we investigate the use of frequent, short temporal baseline interferograms offered by the new Sentinel-1A satellite to recover two components of deformation time series across these faults. The Sentinel-1A satellite uses a new TOPS mode to acquire complete spatial coverage on a 12-day or 24-day cadence from two look directions [Meta et al., 2010]. While this new technique enables frequent acquisitions, it brings new challenges to interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) data processing in alignment and resampling. Following previous studies [Gonzalez et al. 2015, Prats-Iraola et al., 2012, Sansosti et al. 2006], we have developed a purely geometric approach for image alignment that achieves better than 1/200 pixel alignment needed for accurate phase recovery. This is implemented in GMT5SAR. There are two significant advantages to the geometric alignment approach. First the alignment does not rely on phase coherence between the master and slave images so one can accurately align images with large time separation that may be completely de-correlated. Second, the high accuracy of the geometric approach eliminates phase errors associated with slight misalignment so long time span deformation can be accurately constructed from a sum over short time span interferograms because atmospheric and orbital errors of the intervening SAR images will cancel. To demonstrate these advantages we combine a two-year time series of ascending (34) and descending (42) Sentinel-1A images to map the details of the vertical and fault-parallel deformation of the CPFG region. In practice, we construct InSAR time series using a coherence-based SBAS method [Tong and Schmidt, 2016] with atmospheric corrections by means of common-point stacking [Tymofyeyeva and Fialko 2015]. With these algorithms, the subsidence at CPGF is clearly resolved. The maximum subsidence rate of 160 mm/yr, due to extraction of geothermal fluids and heat, dominates the ~40 mm/yr deformation across the proximal ends of the Imperial and the Cerro Prieto Faults.
Since 2009, Oklahoma has experienced a sore in induced seismicity, a side effect of extensive saltwater injection into subsurface sedimentary rocks. The seismic hazard entailed by regional-scale injection operations is however difficult to assess. The September 3, 2016, Mw5.7 Pawnee earthquake is the largest since the increase of seismic activity. Using Sentinel-1A and Sentinel-1B spaceborne interferometric synthetic aperture radar, we unambiguously show that the earthquake produced vertical displacement of 2-3 cm at the surface. Kinematic inversion of geodetic and seismological data shows that the main seismic rupture occurred between 4 and 9km depth, over a length of 8km, with slip reaching at least 40cm. The causative fault is entirely buried within the Precambrian basement, i.e. well beneath the Paleozoic sedimentary pile where injection is taking place. Potentially seismogenic faults in the basement of Oklahoma being poorly known, the risk of Mw≥6 events triggered by fluid injection remains an open question.
The Sentinel-1 constellation represents a major advance in our ability to monitor our planet's hazardous tectonic and volcanic zones operationally. Sentinel-1 uniquely offers routine acquisitions with short revisits, a commitment to a long-duration mission, systematic wide-area coverage, good orbital control, and a free and open data policy. Together, these give us the unprecedented ability to respond to most earthquakes and eruptions and to build the long deformation time series that are required to resolve the slow deformation that occurs between events. Here we present the latest progress from COMET(*), where we are now providing processed products and derived results to the community for volcanoes and the tectonic belts (**).
COMET's work on earthquakes and volcanoes can be split into response and preparedness. We now respond routinely to most significant earthquakes that occur in the continents, providing interferograms and interpretations to the community rapidly – Sentinel-1 allows us to do this within a few days for most earthquakes. For example, after the M7.8 Kaikoura (New Zealand) earthquake, on 14 November 2016, and with assistance from ESA, we supplied a processed interferogram to the community at 1 pm on 15 November, just 5 hours and 37 minutes after the Sentinel-1 acquisition. This data set was used extensively by colleagues at GNS in New Zealand to help them identify faults that had failed in the earthquake – vital in this case as it was one of the most complex earthquakes ever to have occurred. The fault maps models that resulted from the InSAR data (from Sentinel-1 and ALOS) completely changed the local and USGS estimates of ground shaking, and are likely to lead to modifications to seismic hazard codes worldwide. We are currently automating our response systems to take advantage of the guaranteed acquisitions that Sentinel-1 offers. By the end of 2017, we expect to be producing interferogram products systematically for all earthquakes larger than M~6.0.
Preparing for earthquake and volcanic hazard first requires identification and characterisation of the hazard. Deformation data are now becoming a key piece of information in that process. For example, Biggs et al (Nature Communications 2014) showed that there is a strong diagnostic link between volcanoes that deform and volcanoes that erupt. Of equal importance, they showed that volcanoes that do not deform only rarely erupt. At fault zones, strain energy accumulates over long periods of time around faults that eventually fail in earthquakes. By mapping the accumulation of strain, we can place constraints on how often earthquakes can occur in a given region. To make an impact for volcano and fault zone monitoring, we need to be able to measure deformation rates on the order of 1 mm/yr or less. This requires mass processing of long time series of radar acquisitions. In COMET, we are currently (December 2016) processing interferograms systematically for the entire Alpine-Himalayan belt, which stretches over 9000 km from Italy through to China, and is up to 2000 km wide, and making interferograms and coherence products available to the community. By June 2017, we expect to be processing a wider tectonic area and all ~1500 volcanoes that have erupted in the Holocene. We plan to provide average deformation rates and time series for all these areas. Results will be made available through our dedicated portal as part of the COMET-LiCS project (**), and are being linked to the G-TEP portal and EPOS during 2017.
We will show the latest wide area results for tectonics and volcanism, and discuss how these can be used to build value-added products, including (i) maps of tectonic strain (ii) maps of seismic hazard (iii) volcano deformation alerts. The accuracy of these products will improve as the number of data products acquired by Sentinel-1 increases, and as the time series lengthen.
Finally, we end the presentation by discussing what we hope the future, from Sentinel-1 and a range of other SAR sensors that will be launched in the next decade, and look beyond Sentinel-1 to what we might hope for from a SAR system, or system of systems, in the 2030s and beyond.


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Q: Power BI Embed Token obtained using Profile causing Angular component to not display report properly I have built a simple angular app to demonstrate Power BI Embedded, using the "embed for your customers" model, and Microsoft's powerbi-client-angular module.
I have a backend project which authenticates against Azure Active Directory using Service Principal credentials to get an access token, and then uses the Microsoft.PowerBI.Api libraries to generate an embed token.  It gives the embedding details (report id, embed url and embed token) to the front-end angular app which uses Microsoft's angular module to embed the report.
It works just fine if I get it to embed a report uploaded into my own Power BI Workspace.
However, if I get it to embed a report which is owned by a Service Principal Profile (we are using the Power BI Embedded multi-tenancy solution approach) I can obtain a token just fine, but the angular module fails to display the report properly.  The embedding iframe renders, and there's a spinning "Loading data ..." graphic and the expected "This is a free trial version, to remove this label a capacity must be purchased" banner at the top, but the report visuals do not appear.
In the browser developer tools I can see that one of the Power BI Rest API calls that the angular compenent is making is failing with a 403 (Forbidden) error ...
Dev tools screenshot showing 403 response
Given the 403 error I wonder if there's a problem with the way I'm obtaining the embed token.  The code for that is as follows:
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So something is being rendered, just not properly.
Broken Embedded report


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Big Pharma Propaganda and the COVID-19 Vaccine: The U.S. Government's Legacy of Human Experimentations
It is important to focus on the history of experimental vaccines.
This article reviews the Tuskegee Syphilis Study in Macon County, Alabama that began in 1932 as well as other US government experiments that infected sick and vulnerable people with syphilis and other deadly diseases applied in Guatemala between 1946 and 1948.
In Macon County, Alabama, the U.S. government monitored more than 600 black sharecroppers including 399 who were already infected with syphilis while the remaining 201 who were not.
Many people of color in the U.S. do not trust the medical establishment because of this troubling history of human experimentations.
According to CNN who was there to witness the historical moment of the first Covid-19 vaccine given to a black woman but in reality, it was propaganda for Big Pharma
"A critical care nurse was the first person in New York and among the first people in the United States to get a shot of the coronavirus vaccine authorized by the US Food and Drug Administration."
The US Government's Human Experiments in Guatemala
Female Patients at Psychiatric Hospital in Guatemala 1946-1948
The U.S. government under President Harry S. Truman, a Democrat from Missouri partnered with one of the poorest countries in Latin America, Guatemala, a U.S. puppet state with its President and lap dog, Juan José Arévalo and the rest of his criminal cohorts or shall we say his "health care officials" began experimenting directly with approximately 1,300 test subjects out of the 5,500 Guatemalans who were infected purposely without their informed consent. They were infected with syphilis, gonorrhea and a bacterial sexual infection called chancroid that comprised of soldiers, prisoners, prostitutes and patients who had mental issues. The experiments began in 1946 and ended around 1948. In a report by the Boston Globe, Susan M. Reverby, a medical historian and professor at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts discovered that "US government scientists in the 1940s deliberately infected hundreds of Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea in experiments conducted without the subjects' permission." Reverby discovered the documents about "four or five years ago while researching the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study" and discussed her findings with the US government. The report said that "The US scientists — who had received the blessings of Guatemalan health authorities — were among the leading lights in the field of sexually transmitted disease research." However, here is where the insanity was exposed:
Flush with optimism in the dawning era of antibiotic treatment, they decided to expose vulnerable subjects to further their understanding of the effectiveness of the new drugs in treating sexually transmitted diseases
The discovery happened while Reverby, who was at the University of Pittsburgh some years before conducting research for her book 'Examining Tuskegee' which she focused on Dr. Thomas Parran Jr's archives. Dr. Parran was a US surgeon general who was involved in studying methods in controlling the syphilis virus, but then Reverby discovered archives from another researcher who is deceased by the name of John C. Cutler who was a U.S. health service physician during the later years of Tuskegee syphilis study that began in 1932.
Cutler studied the effects and other different aspects such as the prevention and treatment of antibiotics called penicillin on individuals who were infected. In a BBC article from 2011,
'US scientists 'knew Guatemala syphilis tests unethical' said that "according to documents the commission had studied, at least 83 of the 5,500 subjects had died by the end of 1953."
The article mentioned Dr Amy Gutmann, who was head of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues at the time and stated that the research was a "shameful piece of medical history" and that "It is important that we accurately document this clearly unethical historical injustice. We do this to honour the victims."
It was reported that then-President Barack Obama, Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton and other U.S. government officials had apologized to the Guatemalan government and its people most likely to show the Guatemalan government and its people that they care, but it was really about keeping the long-time US-Guatemala relationship intact since the US government and it's CIA overthrew Jacobo Arbenz Guzman in 1954.
In the Name of Science: The Tuskegee Syphilis Study On Poor Black People
Tuskegee Syphilis Study 1932-1972
For more than 40 years, another case of immorality, unethical medical standards and neglect occurred in Macon County, Alabama with the Tuskegee Syphilis Study that began in 1932 and ended in 1972. The experiment was conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) as a way to study the "natural progression" of syphilis with more than 600 sharecroppers which in this case, can be regarded as lab rats from the black community with at least 399 of them who had the syphilis infection and the remaining 201 who did not reportedly have the disease.
For those who participated, they received food, free medical care and even "free burial insurance", how thoughtful! Historical documents revealed that the test subjects were told that they had "bad blood" making the participants believe that they had underlying medical conditions besides syphilis, so the Tuskegee scientists continued their studies without helping the unsuspecting victims which they could have cured with penicillin. The test subjects were deceived by the US government because they originally thought that they were receiving free health care but those who were infected with syphilis began dying, some were going blind and even insane in many cases, but they were denied treatment in order for the scientists to study the disease.
According to 'The National Center for Biotechnology Information' (NCBI)
"That study, long-recognized as unethical, committed abuses against 399 African-American sharecroppers in Macon Country, Alabama who were the subjects of a 40-year USPHS study of the effects of untreated syphilis in Black men." That legacy has had an impact on the black community thus creating a distrust of the U.S. government and its past actions. "The phrase, legacy of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, is sometimes used to denote the belief that Blacks are more reluctant than Whites to participate in biomedical research studies because of the infamous study of syphilis in men run by the U.S. Public Health Service from 1932-72."
What the NCBI report claims that they administered a questionnaire 'The Tuskegee Legacy Project' (TLP) among 826 black and white respondents and found that blacks did have "higher levels of general awareness" of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study with none of them willing to be guinea pigs for biomedical research:
We administered the Tuskegee Legacy Project (TLP) Questionnaire to 826 Blacks and non-Hispanic White adults in three U.S. cities. While Blacks had higher levels of general awareness of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, there was no association between either awareness or detailed knowledge of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and willingness to participate in biomedical research, either for Blacks or Whites observed in our survey
On July 25th, 1972, a reporter by the name of Jean Heller of the Associated Press (AP) exposed the U.S. federal government for allowing hundreds of black men to live with the syphilis infections for more than 40 years without offering them any sort of treatment. The report exposed the event as a shameful and immoral behavior of the American medical establishment. The report 'Black men untreated in Tuskegee Syphilis Study' said that "during a 40-year federal experiment, a group of syphilis victims was denied proper medical treatment for their disease", several participants had already died from the experiment. The report went on to say that the experiment " was designed to determine through autopsies what damage untreated syphilis does to the human body."
It is because of these historical events that distrust of the US medical system runs deep within the black and brown communities. According to an article by Reuters, 'Some U.S. Black pastors, key players in COVID education, are hesitating to push vaccine' reported that A.R. Bernard who is the head of a Brooklyn mega church called the Christian Cultural Center was asked by a major healthcare organization to sit on a committee to propagandize the black and brown communities to accept Covid-19 vaccines as safe and effective. Bernard said that "he turned down the offer because he worried some members of his congregation could view his participation as "joining forces with the system" to use African Americans "as guinea pigs" for vaccines that have been developed in record time." That was a powerful statement since his concerns rightfully goes back to the history of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study in Macon County, Alabama:
"What we're dealing with right now is the byproduct of … generations of distrust, suspicion and fear with regard to how medical systems work," said Edwin Sanders, head of Metropolitan International Church in Nashville, Tennessee, who has been involved with public health education since HIV/AIDS struck in the 1980s.
The distrust is rooted in decades of unequal healthcare access and treatment, under-representation in clinical trials and a record of being used as unwitting test subjects, such as in the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study that continued through 1972 and withheld syphilis treatment from infected Black men without their knowledge. Pastors said this history has fed fears that the COVID-19 vaccine may not work in Black Americans, or that they may be given a different shot than the rest of society
It's was not just in Guatemala and Alabama, USA that people were used as experimental guinea pigs.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation which funds the World Health Organization (WHO) has performed vaccine experiments with US-based non-profit organizations (NGOs) in India and Africa. For example, in 2009, an NGO called the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) based in Bill Gates home state of Washington began in India with the intention of testing experimental HPV vaccines that was developed by Big Pharma corporations such as Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK) and Merck on more than 20,000 Indian girls aged 10-14 years-old. In the experiment, the girls were vaccinated with the HPV vaccines leaving more than 1,200 of them with severe side effects.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation continued its experiments in 2010 when it funded GSK's experimental malaria vaccine that killed more than 151 African infants and also caused severe side effects including seizures and what is known as febrile convulsions to more than 1,000 African children. (See NEJM)
Those were just a couple of examples of human experiments taking place in modern-day society. But at least the people are starting to wake up to the fact that media propaganda promoted by the medical establishment is not working anymore, perhaps joining a large segment of the world's population in already resisting Big Pharma's overreach in pushing dangerous vaccines especially those that were developed in under a year by overriding crucial testing procedures that studies long-term effects.
Maybe the next vaccine will be developed in 6 months, hey why not in 2 weeks?
We will probably see a race for Big Pharma corporations to develop new vaccines for almost anything in the shortest period of time for profit and control. It is a new business model that is engineering our society so that the establishment technocrats can achieve total dominance over the people with the implementation of the ID2020 initiative which is basically a digital identity system that keeps a computerized record of who has received their required vaccinations. Big Pharma is at full speed and it is headed for a crash as more people all over the world are doubting that vaccines are safe and effective, especially those that were developed in less than a year.
By Timothy Alexander Guzman
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Cartier Rare Book Repository and Archives
The nucleus of the RTL Library this highly important collection represents almost every major work on gems and jewelry ever written or published.
John and Marjorie Sinkankas Gemological and Mineralogical Collection
At the nucleus of the Richard T. Liddicoat Library are the rare book collections, notably the world-renowned John and Marjorie Sinkankas Gemological and Mineralogical Collection of books and other publications. Housed in the specially designed Cartier Rare Book Repository and Archives, where humidity and temperature are strictly controlled, the Sinkankas collection was acquired in January 1988, and represents virtually every major work related to the study of gems and jewelry. Accumulated over 40 years by noted author and lapidary, John Sinkankas and his wife, the collection's 14,000 items survey the historical development of gemology - as a science, in art, and in society.
GIA Rare Book Collection
Prior to the purchase of the Sinkankas Collection, the Library was also collecting, and continues to collect, rare books, magazines and journals, original jewelers' drawings, mineralogical stamps, postcards, etc. Between the two collections, there are now approximately 25,000 items. Included among these rare and important books:
Pliny's Naturalis Historia
31 different editions of Pliny's Natural History, ranging from a Latin incunabulum, 1496, to a 12-volume set in French. C. Plinius Secundus, who died in the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 A.D., authored one of the earliest, and most celebrated, academic treatises of all time.
Jean Baptiste Tavernier's Les Six Voyages
Published in three volumes between 1676 and 1679, Tavernier combined travel writing and gemology to chronicle his exciting journeys through Turkey, Persia, and the East Indies. In one volume, he tells the story of a large, dark blue diamond that he buys and later sells - reputedly the parent stone of the notorious Hope.
David Jeffries' A Treatise on Diamonds and Pearls
Published in 1750, this work is one of the earliest guidelines for evaluating and pricing both of these highly prized gem materials.
George Frederick Kunz's Gems and Precious Stones of North America
A prolific writer, this Kunz's first major work. Even today it is one of the most important works on gems, and was first published in 1890.
Russia's Treasure of Diamonds and Precious Stones
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New Film: NOBODY WANTS THE NIGHT
Sep 30, 2014 By Stella
Updated September 30
Thanks to Moondreamer, here is a behind-the-scenes video for the film!
Looking forward to more news about this exciting new film!
It is always fun to discover a new film is on the way! This one is so new that there is no poster yet, no video, not much at all, really, except some notices in various news outlets, a few tweets, one amazing production photo, and a great deal of anticipation. Byrneholics have a special place in their hearts for one of Mr. Byrne's earlier forays into the snowy wastelands: Smilla's Sense of Snow. We look forward to seeing him out in the snow drifts once again.
Early in the film's development, Willem Dafoe was set for the role of explorer Robert Edwin Peary, whose ambition was to discover the geographic North Pole. In a few articles I found on the web, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau was listed as playing Peary (I think this was just general confusion because NCW had recently appeared in another Juliette Binoche film: 1,000 Times Good Night).
Robert Edwin Peary, 1909
One of the first articles to break the news was Indiewire: In the Works: Isabel Coixet Unveils Next Project, 'Nobody Wants the Night,' Starring Binoche, Dafoe and Kikuchi (September 2013)
Spanish-born filmmaker Isabel Coixet has announced her next project, "Nobody Wants the Night," for which she plans an early 2014 shoot in Norway. Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe and Rinko Kikuchi are set to star.
Here's the official synopsis:
The film is the story of two women, from two different worlds, and their struggle to survive in one of the most inhospitable places on Earth. Josephine (to be played by Binoche) is a proud yet naive woman in love with a man who prefers glory and ice to the comforts of an upper-class home. Allaka (to be played by Kikuchi), a young but wise Inuit woman, is in love with the same man with whom she's expecting a child. Set against the backdrop of a relentless icy landscape, the film chronicles their long, tense wait for the same man they love in such distinct ways.
But now we think we know who will portray explorer Robert Peary in this film:
Eyebrows? Check. Furry parka? Check. Nose tat? Check.
Gabriel Byrne, in the snow once again…
Elle.Driver, distributor provides the official credits:
CAST Juliette BINOCHE (Camille Claudel 1915, Cosmopolis, The English Patient, Blue, Hidden), Rinko KIKUCHI (Babel, The Brothers Bloom), Gabriel BYRNE (The Usual Suspects, Jindabyne, Capital, Assault on Precinct 13) /// SCREENPLAY Miguel BARROS (Blackthorn) /// PRODUCERS Ariane MARARIA Films (Blackthorn, Secretos del Corazon), Neo Art Producciones, Noodles Production, One More Movie /// FRENCH DISTRIBUTOR Wild Bunch France
Rinko Kikuchi, Juliette Binoche, and Gabriel Byrne–all in glorious black and white.
Full cast and crew, as of the publication of this posting, can be found at the IMDB entry for the film.
Cineuropa brought us up-to-date in May: Finse stands in for Greenland in Coixet's "Nobody Wants the Night"
This time, Finse is standing in for early-1900s Greenland in Spanish writer Miguel Barros' story of two women from two different worlds struggling to survive in an inhospitable climate. They are both in love with the same man, US explorer Robert Edwin Peary Sr, who in 1909 missed the geographic North Pole by five miles.
French actress Juliette Binoche stars as Josephine, waiting for the adventurer who prefers glory and ice to the comforts of an upper-class home – so does Allaka, an Inuit woman (portrayed by Japanese actress Rinko Kikuchi) who is expecting a child by Peary, played by Irish actor Gabriel Byrne.
Also shooting in Spain, France and Bulgaria, the Andrés Santana production with Antonia Nava (among others) for Spain's Aiete-Ariane Films, together with France's Canal Plus, "is one of the largest and most interesting productions we have hosted for years", according to the head of the Western Norway Film Commission, Sigmund Elias Holm.
Juliette Binoche (love the hat!) and Gabriel Byrne (looking stalwart and determined)
Novinite.com, the Sofia (Bulgaria) News Agency:
The Hollywood stars Juliette Binoche and Gabriel Byrne will arrive in Bulgaria for a new movie shoot in May-June.
Byrne who is known for films such as The Usual Suspects, Stigmata, and Oscar Award Winner Juliette Binoche (Chocolat, The English Patient) will star in a new movie called Nobody Wants the Night (Nadie quiere la noche) directed by Isabel Coixet…
The actors will shoot in Bulgaria until mid-June and will then leave for the Canary island of Tenerife
On Twitter, actor Alberto Jo Lee shared some pictures of Mr. Byrne and others during filming in May, 2014:
They don't look too cold, do they? Although Ms. Binoche seems to have acquired some intriguing head gear…
Many thanks to Mr. Lee for sharing these with us!
And here is one from actor Ciro Miró:
Cinematographer Jordi Azategui, who is the Second Unit Cinematographer on this project, provides this synopsis of the film:
INSPIRED BY TRUE EVENTS
Greenland, 1909. Josephine Peary is a mature, proud, determined and naive woman, in love with celebrated Arctic adventurer Robert Peary, a man who prefers glory and ice to the comforts of an upper-class home. For him she will face all danger, even risk her own life. Another woman, young but wise, brave and humble – Allaka – is in love with the same man, and expecting his child. The relentless icy landscape both separates and draws these two women together during the long, tense wait for the man they both love in such different ways. «Nobody Wants the Night» is a story replete with the passion, dignity and strength of these two women as they battle to survive in one of the most inhospitable places on earth."
You can view more of his photographs and projects at his main cinematography page. Mr. Azategui has worked on several films with director Isabel Coixet.
Jordi Azategui
KFTV.com: Bulgaria next stop for Binoche and Byrne
Filming has recently taken place in the remote Western Norwegian village of Finse, a stunning location which has in the past doubled for the South and North Pole, the Northwest Passage and Siberia. Its most famous portrayal was of the ice planet Hoth in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.
Sigmund Elias Holm of the Western Norway Film Commission told us that Finse was a great choice for the filmmakers as it can easily double for Greenland, and is snow secure till late May.
Nobody Wants the Night is certainly covering a lot of ground. The cast and crew are due at the main production office at Nu Boyana Studios, Bulgaria, next week, where they are due to shoot until late June. The production will then move to the Canary Islands.
Isabel Coixet is exactly the kind of director Gabriel Byrne seems to seek out these days: independent, European, committed, passionate about her projects, and unique.
Director, writer, and producer Isabel Coixet
My favorite quote:
Anything complicated is now seen as poison at the box office. If Ingmar Bergman was around these days Il'm not sure that he would find the money to make any of his films. —Isabel Coixet
And my favorite film of hers so far is Elegy (2008). It will be exciting to see what she does with this new project!
Ms. Coixet visits some wonderful restaurants in her travels and she blogs about them (with incredible photos and music) at The Best and The Beast:
Nobody Wants the Night is in post-production now, with a UK release scheduled for 2015. More details as they become available!
Many thanks to Angelle and Moondreamer for Twitter and production photos.
A quick wallpaper by Stella while we wait for more pictures from the film…
Alberto Jo LeeBulgariafilmIsabel CoixetJordi AzateguiJuliette BinocheNobody Wants the NightNorwayRinko KikuchiRobert Pearywallpapers
Jul 23, 2014 at 4:09 AM · Reply
Thanks for all the information about this new movie. It sounds very promising with this interesting story about Robert Peary and his life. I am sure GB will create an interesting character in this role.
Thanks also for the stunning ice cool wallpaper. I have put it on my PC screen. It is very hot in Oslo (Norway) now so it is very good to have GB and his blue eyes and the blue winter on my screen now.
Jul 23, 2014 at 11:31 AM · Reply
Yes, I'm quite excited to see this film, too! I have the sense that Gabriel's will be more of a supporting role, but I cannot wait to see him as Peary. What a fascinating character!
Glad you are enjoying the wallpaper. It is also quite warm up here on the mountain in Far West Texas so I, too, have Gabriel and the snow on my desktop. He cools things down around here.
By the way: it is a strange title on this movie: Nobody wants the night.
Any idea about what that means?
Is the night a symbol of death here?
Death in the cold snow and ice on the way to seek glory and honor?
Or?
Well, it is daylight for 6 months of the year and night for 6 months. So, generally speaking, I would think exploring could only happen during the daylight months (March – August). The rest of the time, the world up there would be dark…
But I do think you are right, Nora, that there is more meaning than just this to the film's title.
Lots of people have perished over the years in their attempts to discover or even see the North Pole. But they seem to have been intent on finding it!
You can read more about the North Pole at Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Pole
Jul 24, 2014 at 5:51 PM · Reply
good to see Gabriel been kept busy enjoyed working with him on The Quirks ,and the Vikings.
Oct 4, 2014 at 5:06 PM · Reply
Thanks for sharing the great video with the behind the scenes material.
I love to see it.
Stella you ask about the music.
The music is a tenor aria from Gioachino Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle.
(Written in 1863)
What we hear is the number four piece in part one of the messe : Domine Deus.
I have sung this beautiful mass in our church choir in my town. It is not a "petite" mass but really a "grand" mass, because it is long. And beautiful! Why they use this music in the video I don't know.
Nora, the choir singer from Norway
I should have guessed Rossini! One of my husband's favorite composers. Now that he is gone, I don't listen to opera or classical music as much. Everything just makes me cry! ;-)
Thanks for shedding light on this musical mystery, Nora. I imagine singing something like this is a truly magical experience. You are so lucky!
Oct 7, 2014 at 3:37 AM · Reply
I love to sing in a choir in big musical masterpieces from composers like Rossini, Mozart, Haydn, Bach, Händel and Verdi. Gabriel has said something about that a director can be like a conductor, and that it is the conductors job to get the best out of his musicians. When I have been a part of the choir in a concert and the orchestra, the soloists and the choir have done their best, it has been like to be transported to another world in a wonderful way. I guess that it can be like that for actors too, when they work on stage or when they make a perfect scene in a movie.
I don't know if it can be like that for actors, but I guess it maybe can be something of that feeling. It is difficult to describe. It would have been interesting to hear Gabriel speak about that. He is so good to explain things both nonverbal and verbal.
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The fate of former defence minister and Independent Greeks leader Panos Kammenos' parliamentary group will be judged today by the competent parliamentary scientific council, which will deliver an opinion on whether parliamentary rules permit a party to maintain a recognised parliamentary group with fewer than five MPs.
As it stands the rules indicate that a group cannot have fewer than five MPs. Moreover, those five MPs must have been elected on the party's ticket.
Hence, the expectation is that the council will uphold existing rules after an opposition and media uproar forced the government to scrap its intention of changing the rules to save PM Alexis Tsipras' former coalition partner.
In a move that was criticised as a blatant violation of the separation of powers, Tsipras after the backlash sent a letter to Parliament Speaker Nikos Voutsis instructing him not to change the rules by even one iota and calling for the question to be put to the competent council.
Kammenos today convened his parliamentary group with MP Thanasis Papachristopoulos in attendance. The party leader gave him an ultimatum that he must either resign his seat before the protocol ratification vote or he will be expelled before the vote.
"I will permit no member of the parliamentary group to execute Macedonia," Kammenos declared.
Papachristopoulos backed SYRIZA in both the confidence vote and in the ratification of the Greece-FYROM Prespa Agreement, and has repeatedly said he will resign his seat and give it back to the party's runner-up but he has yet to do so. Now, he says that he will surrender his seat after voting tomorrow to ratify the Nato Protocol on the admission of the newly renamed Republic of North Macedonia to the Alliance.
Indeed, he said that he promised the Parliament Speaker that he will vote to ratify the Nato protocol before resigning his seat.
The problem for Kammenos is that the runner up is the Deputy Foreign Minister for diaspora affairs, Terence Kouik, who has had a falling out with Kammenos and his party and the two are not on speaking terms.
Kouik is not expected to comply with Kammenos' demand that he abdicate his right to occupy Papachristopoulos' seat so that the second runner up can take it.
"The Independent Greeks' parliamentary group convened and we unanimously demanded that Mr. Papachristopoulos surrender his seat to the party as he had promised before the beginning of (tomorrow's) plenary session of Parliament that will ratify Skopje's Nato entry," Kammenos declared.
"The Prime Minister and Mr. Kouik must now assume the responsibility for ratifying this agreement or not ratifying it, and for the enforcement of Mr. Papachristopoulos' decision not to keep his seat and to return it to the Independent Greeks' voters. If Mr. Kouik does not do so, he will be responsible for that," Kammenos said.
As it stands, by all appearances Papachristopoulos will be expelled by the Independent Greeks and Kouik will keep the seat.
By all appearances, the Independent Greeks' parliamentary group will be dissolved.


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Q: Full cite of cross-referenced entry I have an entry key foo in my (biblatex-biber managed) bibliography, with a crossref field pointing to another entry key.
To automate type-setting operations on a series of files, I would like to be able to cite the cross-referenced entry with something like:
\citefull{\citefield{foo}{crossref}}
This naive syntax does not work, as biblatex commands are not nestable/expandable.
Any hints on how to proceed?
Bonus, that could be handy too:
\citefull[\citefield{foo}{note}]{\citefield{foo}{crossref}}
What I've tried:
Many posts mention this nesting/expanding limitation and propose a workaround. I thus know this is somehow possible, but I don't understand the codes well enough to adapt them to my needs. For example this question seems quit closely related. The closest that I got was tweaking this answer, which is supposed to be more complex that what I need, as it deals with name list and I only want to expand a monolithic field. My tweak below does print the full reference of key num3 when calling key num4 (whose author field contains num3) like I want it to. However, I was not able to call the crossref field (nor a custom verba field) instead of the author field.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage[backend=biber,firstinits]{biblatex}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{num03,
title = {Title XX3},
author = {Author2 Authorsen2 and Author2a Authorsen2a},
}
@misc{num04,
title = {Title},
author = {num03},
verba = {num03},
crossref = {num03},
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\newcommand*{\name}{}
\DeclareIndexNameFormat{getname}{%
\nameparts{#1}
\ifblank{\namepartgiveni}
  {}
  {\iffirstinits
     {\xappto{\name}{\namepartgiveni\space}}
     {\xappto{\name}{\namepartgiven\space}}}%
\ifblank{\namepartprefix}
  {\xappto{\name}{\namepartfamily}}
  {\xappto{\name}{\namepartprefix\space\namepartfamily}}}
\DeclareCiteCommand{\getauthor}
  {\undef\name
   \boolfalse{citetracker}%
   \boolfalse{pagetracker}}
  {\ifnameundef{author}
     {}
     {\ifboolexpr{ test {\ifnumgreater{\value{citecount}}{1}}
                   and not test {\ifundef{\name}} }
        {\gappto{\name}{; }}
        {}%
      \indexnames[getname][1-99]{author}}}
  {}
  {}

\begin{document}
\getauthor{num04}
\fullcite{\name}
\end{document}

Which, after the correct pdflatex/biber runs, gives:

I also have another (ugly) workaround based on an execute field containing a \nocite{num03}. I then tweak printbilbiography and it kind of goes the way I need... But it really doesn't sound like a proper way of doing this!

A: Unfortunately, the way entry data is saved in biblatex means we can't expandably get hold of field values (which is a bit of a bummer), so we will have to work with helper macros that hold the field value.
\makeatletter
% {<command>}{<entrykey>}{<field>}
\newcommand*{\getfieldinto}[3]{%
  \nocite{#2}%
  \begingroup
  \blx@getdata@cite{#2}%
  \edef\my@tempa{\endgroup
    \def\unexpanded{#1}{%
      \blx@imc@iffieldundef{#3}
        {}
        {\csexpandonce{abx@field@#3}}}}%
  \my@tempa}
\makeatother

Works similar to the code in the question that extracts the name expandably, but works on a field level and is less complicated, because it does not have to deal with the complexities of name handling in biblatex.
\getfieldinto{<command>}{<entrykey>}{<field>}

extracts the contents of <field> for <entrykey> into the macro <command>. So you would use it like
\getfieldinto{\mycomm}{num04}{verba}

to get num04's verba into \mycomm.
The fields crossref and xref that one might intuitive want to use here can't be used because they are special and may not actually make it to the .bbl file (the entry data read by biblatex), so something like verba (or a custom verb field) is probably the safest option.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[american]{babel}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\usepackage[backend=biber, giveninits]{biblatex}

\makeatletter
% {<command>}{<entrykey>}{<field>}
\newcommand*{\getfieldinto}[3]{%
  \nocite{#2}%
  \begingroup
  \blx@getdata@cite{#2}%
  \edef\my@tempa{\endgroup
    \def\unexpanded{#1}{%
      \blx@imc@iffieldundef{#3}
        {}
        {\csexpandonce{abx@field@#3}}}}%
  \my@tempa}
\makeatother

\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{num03,
  title  = {Title XX3},
  author = {Author2 Authorsen2 and Author2a Authorsen2a},
}
@misc{num04,
  title    = {Title},
  verba    = {num03},
  note     = {note},
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\begin{document}
\getfieldinto{\mykey}{num04}{verba}
\getfieldinto{\mynote}{num04}{note}
\fullcite[\mynote]{\mykey}
\end{document}

It is possible to access the entry data of a different entry from within a cite command, so there may well be a way to solve your problem differently (and possibly more elegantly), but for that we would have to know what your actual use case is about.