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Hinano City, which produces fruit, was late to the party and missed out. Misaki Shirogane is a high school girl who loves this town and is stirred up upon seeing her aunt's, the prefectural governor, impending sense of doom. Misaki decides to produce an action live group for Hinano City.
Three Episode Impression
As for the show itself, it's generally more targeted towards the younger audience. Being with the cast of characters are mainly young females, I think girls around the age of 15 should be able to enjoy this. As a guy in his 20s, sadly to say this anime doesn't quite cut it for me. The plot seemed similar to the ones I saw in all of those high school idol anime as well. It all boils down to: they need to do something and become something in order to make their city/high school popular. But, at the least, I can still appreciate this anime being about tokusatsu which, quite frankly, anime about it are a rare sight to be seen.
Characters & Voice Actors List
Misaki Shirogane
Voice Actor: M.A.O.
Birthday: August 9th
Height: 159 cm
Likes: Visiting spots overflowing with mystical power.
Misaki is a third-year high school student and the daughter of a famous family in Hinano City. She excels in both her studies and all sports, and is the student council president. Misaki works harder than others but, for some reason, bad luck always befalls her. And so, she does not often see the fruits of her labor.
She is sometimes teased as the "unattractive girl", but her sincere personality helps those around her to trust her deeply. Because she loves her town of Hinano City, she decides to produce Action Heroine.
An Akagi
Voice Actor: Miku Itou
Birthday: March 5th
Height: 155cm
Likes: Tokusatsu (SFX)
An is the daughter of a doctor and an RN and a second-year high school student. She is a member of the new gymnastics club, but never really goes. Due to the influence of her parents working in a hospital, she has a sense of duty to help others, and thus has a strong desire to "become a hero". An is naïve, and is a genius excelling at both exercising and sports as well as the ability to concentrate. She was a well-known member the new gymnastics team, but for some reason, she never attends.
Roko Kuroki
Voice Actor: Rie Murakawa
Birthday: October 14th
Height: 161cm
Likes: Trains
Roko is the daughter of the local train station stationmaster. She is Misaki's best friend, a third-year high school student, and the student council vice-president. She has always lived near the Hinano train station, and as such, she has always liked trains since she was a child. Roko is thinking of how she can be helpful to Misaki, but for some reason she cannot express herself clearly and honestly, and often comes off as a bit of a tsundere.
Mikan Kise
Voice Actor: Erii Yamazaki
Birthday: December 3rd
Height: 157cm
Likes: Reading
Mikan is the daughter of a lemon farmer, a second-year high school student, and she used to be a part of the cheerleading club. She has promised her younger sister that she will show her an "action live show". Mikan tends to do things carefully, she is friendly, and she likes kids. She unintentionally accepts so many things that she often says to herself "you did it again…".
Mana Midorikawa
Voice Actor: Yuuki Hirose
Birthday: April 8th
Height: 156cm
Likes: Cosplay
Mana is a second-year high school student, and the only daughter of a historical temple in Hinano City. The parishioners of the temple have decreased, so they offer the temple as a training hall. Cheeky, she always plotting of how to get a fee for the use of the temple. Since cosplay is her hobby, she is also designing the costumes for the heroine show.
Genki Aoyama
Voice Actor: Haruka Ishida
Birthday: November 1st
Height: 156 cm
Likes: Editing Videos
Genki is a second-year high school student and the daughter of the beauty parlor owner. A member of the computer club who wears glasses. Originally, she wanted to be an idol with Yuuki, but due to an accident that she was in, her leg was injured and she gave up. Rather than be defeated though, she has turned her sights to the IT field. Yuuki is her twin sister and she sometimes gets irritated with her.
Yuuki Aoyama
Voice Actor: Haruka Ishida
Birthday: November 1st
Height: 157cm
Likes: Solo-Karaoke
Yuuki is a second-year high school students who is also the daughter of the beauty parlor owner. Yuuki is a member of a very popular idol group, but for certain reasons, she has come home to Hinano City. She is an excellent singer and dancer, and tries harder than others, but because she is so mature, she worries about expectations from those around her. Yuuki has a twin sister named Genki.
Hatsuri Momoi
Voice Actor: Moe Toyota
Birthday: September 20th
Height: 152cm
Likes: Please watch the broadcast to find out!
Hatsuri is a first-year high school student and the daughter of a construction company that has a deep connection with the Shirogane family. Hatsuri is part of the theater club, and her identifying characteristic is her twin pigtails. At first glance, she looks rather exquisite and cute, but whether or not it is due to the fact that she used to come and go to construction sites as a child, she actually is very strong willed. Hatsuri tends to act rather than dwell on things, which can lead to her spinning her wheels sometimes.
Kanon Shimura
Voice Actor: Haruka Shiraishi
Birthday: June 6th
Height: 162cm
Likes: Beating An Akagi!
Kanon is a member of the new gymnastics club. Ever since she was a middle school student, she has been competing in prefectural tournaments with An and views her as a rival. Once she decides to do something, Kanon is all in and no matter how hard it is, she does not complain. Her raison d'être is to take out An Akagi.
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Reunión con un círculo rojo : a Borges1976This brief work of fiction by Julio Cortázar, which is dedicated to the Venezuelan painter Jacobo Borges, was inspired by the painting Reunión con un círculo rojo. The Argentinean writer's main character in the story, Jacobo, steps into a [...]ICAA Record ID: 1060457
[Letter] 1967 Julio 2, Saignon [a] León Ferrari1967Julio Cortázar wrote to León Ferrari about his partial reading, only thirty pages of Palabras ajenas [Other People's Words] which he defined in generic terms as a "tremendo oratorio" [tremendous oratory], despite it sounding ironic. Cortázar [...]ICAA Record ID: 749600
[Letter] 1965 Noviembre 2, Saignon [to] León [Ferrari]1965Julio Cortázar, the Argentine writer living in Paris, writes to León Ferrari, coming to his defense in the wake of the controversy reported in the Buenos Aires press over the work that Ferrari presented at the Torcuato Di Tella Institute in 1965 [...]ICAA Record ID: 749599

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Veteran television and film actor Himani Shivpuri has a strong affinity with stage as she is a National School of Drama alumna. Working in Zee Theatre's teleplay 'Rishton Ka Live Telecast' was a welcome opportunity for her to reconnect with her roots and to enact a role that is very close to her heart.
'Rishton Ka Live Telecast' highlights the story of a middle-class family, which quarrels endlessly but bonds together for the sake of a reality show.
Himani says, "I play a strong mother and all women watching the play will identify with her. Very often mothers are taken for granted and I know that feeling as well! We have learnt during the pandemic that only the love of family sustains us in a difficult time and yet apps and gadgets have replaced real communication between parents and children. Young people spend so much time on social media and even children are busy playing games on the computer or on their phones."
The play, she says, beautifully captures conversations between a mother and daughter, a husband and wife and a mother and son.
Technology, Himani Shivpuri says, can either be a bane or a boon, depending on how we use it. She adds, "During the pandemic, I gave so many virtual lectures at Chandigarh University but still kept wondering if we are losing out on tangible human connection. Has that been phased out too? This play conveys that the relationships must be nurtured with love and care to thrive."
She hopes that families will watch the play and be reminded of the precious moments that just pass us by if we do not make time for our loved ones.
'Rishton Ka Live Telecast' also stars Aakanksha Gade, Aanjjan Srivastav, Piyush Ranade, and Tapasya Naik. The stage director is Prasad Khandekar and the filming director is Ishan Trivedi.


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Master of Education
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Hayes, Rebecca
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A Professional Learning Community (PLC) is a way of organizing a school environment that builds collaboration with an ultimate goal of improving student achievement. A PLC is a way of involving all stakeholders in life-long learning and focusing on a common goal of gathering and analyzing data to improve student learning. Research has proven that "traditional" methods of school leadership and teaching are stagnant. Many of education's prominent figures are speaking out as proponents for PLCs citing their own personal successes as validation for the change.
A school community that desires to create a PLC must take the necessary steps to prepare for the journey. The school staff must agree upon a vision of where they want to go as well as create measurable and attainable goals that will help them succeed. The foundation for a successful PLC is a community of collaboration in which all stakeholders work together to improve student learning and achievement. Once a school begins the journey towards creating a PLC, stakeholders enter a cyclical process of constant re-evaluation and striving to improve upon areas of weakness.
After conducting initial research, a survey was written and distributed to local school leaders who have been instrumental in the creation of PLCs within their schools. The responses they provided echoed the sentiments of education leaders such as Dufour, Eaker, and Schmoker. With this information, a manual was created as a tool to be used by schools wishing to become collaborative PLC communities.
Recommended Citation
Belako, Scott W., "Using Professional Learning Communities and Collaboration to Increase Student Achievement" (2007). Student Research Submissions. 218.


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June and July are usually slow months for Bibliobloggers, and it looks like many regular writers have dedicated themselves to watching the World Cup. Jim West undoubtedly will have posted his Avignonian Carnival, although he is a master multi-tasker and rarely misses a second of major sporting events.
Despite the warm weather and interest in men kicking a ball in Brazil, there were some significant posts this month. Before this World Cup Carnival rolls in, I need to add my plea volunteers to cover the rest of the year – contact me (plong42 at gmail) to volunteer! Carnivals are a great way to get some good exposure for your blog.
Biblioblog News. Peter Kirby posted his Top Fifty Biblioblogs for the quarter ending June 30. Several blogs are inactive. #5 Bibbia has only made three posts in 2014 and not since March; the venerable Scotteriology has been silent since March; #36 Remnants of Giants has been dormant since October 2013. Andrew King has not updated The Blog of the Twelve since October either. Josh Breland at Diaspora has been quiet since April. The BusyBody moved to WordPress (good idea!). The Centre for the Study of Christian Origins at the University of Edinburgh also has moved to WordPress. I also notice the Top Fifty list still have Euangelion at their old address, they moved to Patheos in 2011! Finally, Brian Renshaw has moved www.ntexegesis.com to brianreshaw.com, made some significant cosmetic changes.
Bible Study and the Christian Life continues to move up the list. There are a few new blogs to the top fifty. Ian Paul's Psephizo has been around for a while, but is in the top 50 this month. For the first time I can recall, a publisher's blog made the top fifty (Eerdworld). Steve Wells and Philip Wells have been writing at Dwindling In Unbelief, a blog described as "an unbeliever's thoughts on the Bible, the Qu'ran, and the Book of Mormon."
Passings and Closings. Long time Professor of Greek and New Testament at Baptist Bible Seminary Rod Decker passed away at the end of May. He was a long-time blogger at NT Resources. His family made several posts in his last days that stand as a testament to his personal faith in Jesus Christ as his savior. Many have written tributes to Rod in the last month. Robert Cargill reflects on the death of Dr. Yuval Peleg in an accident at an archaeological dig site between Homesh and Karnei Shomron in the West Bank on Thursday, June 26, 2014.
Several long standing blogs announced they are closing. Brian LePort shuttered his popular blog Near Emmaus on June 20, although he will continue to post on several other blogs (Seedbed and Bible Study and the Christian Life). Michael Kok is no longer posting at Kata Markon, he will continue his work at Bible Study and the Christian Life. Kata Markon will get occasional updates for new publications or conferences, and like Near Emmaus, it will continue as an online archive. Both have been model "biblioblogs" for many years and I wish Brian and Michael best of luck as they move on to other projects. Stephen J. Bedard adjunct faculty at Emmanuel Bible College is closing Hope's Reason (#35 this quarter) in order to focus on his personal blog. Back in March, Michael Heiser announced The Naked Bible is moving, or joining forces with his other blog, Paleobabble, at new eponymous blog Michael Heiser.
Old Testament / Ancient Near East Studies
Michael Heiser comments on Genesis 1-2 as Polemic, interacting with Cris Putnam at Logos Apologia. "What's happening in Genesis 1-2 is very obvious to anyone who works in the original text (beyond simplistic word studies) and (important) is familiar with ancient Near Eastern creation stories."
James Pate offers a reflection on Jeremiah 30:21 – "The Prince Who Dares (Or Engages His Heart) to Approach God."
Using Psalm 89 as an example, Bob Mac Donald asks "How Important is it to Read All of a Long Psalm?"
Claude Mariottini has a nice piece on the search for the city of Ai. He also wrote the best article I have read on "ripping open pregnant women" in a long time….well, ever.
Luke Chandler wonders if the finds from Khirbet Qeiyafa improve Bible translation? He discusses an article by Yosef Garfinkel and Madeleine Mumcuoglu on temple shrines and 1 Kings 6:31-33. Later in the month Luke checked in from The Tel Lachish Excavation with Field Report from Week 1.
Beit Guvrin was declared UNESCO World Heritage Site this month. Beit Guvrin is not a particularly "biblical" site so it is not on many tours of Israel. I have visited in three times, and my students always find it interesting, climbing around in the Bell Caves is quite the experience. While not really on an archaeological site, Wayne Stiles lists 3 High Points to See in the Golan Heights, but really all three can be seen from Mount Bental. This is on very few Christian tours, but I have been up there three times, and it is well worth the extra drive.
BiblePlaces has a round-up of criticisms of the Temple Mount Sifting Project and linked to a response from the The Sifting Project to an article in the Times of Israel.
Matthew R. Malcolm explains How coins help us understand the Bible.
Lawrence Schiffman wrote two short posts on Schisms in Jewish History, first The Limits Of Tolerance: Halakhah And History, then one on the Samaritan Schism.
New Testament
Chris Keith has a few comments on a Larry Hurtado upcoming New Testament Studies article on "Oral Fixation in New Testament Studies". "Hurtado's arguments are, to my mind, convincing."
The Sacred Page asks, "Is Peter Cephas?"The post interacts with two papers by Barth Erhman and Dale Allison from the early 1990s.
Paula Fredriksen does not like N.T. Wright's Paul and the Faithfulness of God. "Wright's book is historically important, therefore, for the light that it sheds not on Paul, but on the last century of Pauline studies."
Tim Widowfield wrote a short piece on Jesus and the Relationship Between Sin and Disease at Vridar. "People like to talk about Jesus as if he's a close friend and trusted confidante, but the real, historical Jesus would have been just as Albert Schweitzer described him: 'a stranger and an enigma."
Books-at-a-Glance has an iterview with Darrell Bock on his Jesus According To Scripture: Restoring The Portrait From The Gospels.
Tim Gombis comments on "Worldliness" According to Paul. "It seems to me that the parallels between the "worldly" Corinthian community dynamics and contemporary American tribalized evangelicalism are endless." Gombis also has a long series on Cross-Shaped Leadership. "Christian leadership, then, ought to be cruciform since those who lead do so on behalf of the One whose identity is determined by the cross."
Joel Willitts on Torah as Interpretation and Paul's Dying to the Torah (Gal 2:19). "We need to be much more aware of the fact that Torah means different things to different Jews/Jewish groups in the first century."
Clifford Kvidahl has a nice comment on New Testament Theology via G. B. Caird. Abram K-J at Words on the Word posted A Sermon on Romans 6:1-11, one of the few blog posts this month featuring a bikini selfie (not Abram, I assume).
Allan Bevere finished his six part series on Reading Revelation as Wesleyans, an interaction with Joel Green's book on the topic. The link goes to part one (from May).
Ian Paul thinks Revelation 8 and 9 is the Hardest Passages to Preach On.
Textual Criticism:
Roger Pearse has an excellent introduction to the dictionaries of ancient Greek that survive from antiquity. This is a long article, but collects a great deal of useful information.
Larry Hurtado posted a brief evaluation of Brent Nongbri article published in Museum Helveticum 71 (2014) on the date of P66 (P. Bodmer II). Nongbri thinks the uses of the staurogram in P66 imply a date in the fourth century, and while Hurtado is impressed with his work, he cautions "it is important to give the matter patient and adequate attention."
One more on the Jesus's Wife fragment: Stephen Emmel, The Codicology of the New Coptic (Lycopolitan) Gospel of John Fragment (and Its Relevance for Assessing the Genuineness of the Recently Published Coptic "Gospel of Jesus' Wife" Fragment). "I do not see how there can be any room for doubt in anyone's mind that the John fragment is but the product of a hoax."
Alin Suciu has a summary of Catalogue of the Coptic Manuscripts in the Collection of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.
Brice Jones reviews a new hardback facsimile edition of P.Bodmer II (P66; Gospel of John): L'évangile selon Jean: Introduction et traduction de Jean Zumstein (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2008). He includes some gorgeous pictures of the volume, bordering on BookPorn.
Dan Wallace – There Were Giants in Those Days: Codex Robertsonianus (Gregory-Aland 2358), correspondence between Adolf Deissmann and A. T. Robertson which eventually led to the purchase of a Greek Gospels manuscript by Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Wayne Coppins introduces English readers to the German scholar Oda Wischmeyer, editor of Lexikon der Bibelhermeneutik (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2013) and Paul: Life, Setting, Work, Letters (T&T Clark, 2012). Her Dictionary of Biblical Hermeneutics is a significant contribution, but not well-known non-German readers.
Mike Aubrey makes some good observations on the Linguistic adequacy and Greek Grammars.
At Cataclysmic, Michelle Mikeska demonstrates What Difference a Trinity Can Make.
There is an interesting discussion going on at The Busybody on Two Theories of Mysticism. The post compares Did Muhammad Exist? and On the Historicity of Jesus, two books that "represent levelheaded arguments for mythicism. Their authors may have controversial personas, but that shouldn't be confused with whacky theorizing."
Dan Wallace has a lengthy review of Defining Inerrancy, by J. P. Holding and Nick Peters, with a forward by Craig Blomberg. This book is a response to Norm Geisler and Bill Roach's Defending Inerrancy. Wallace points out that Geisler is intent on re-igniting the battle for the Bible, this time around it is more Game of Thrones style. Holding and Peters are trying to answer Geisler's narrow view of inerrancy, and "are not in the least denying inerrancy; they are simply rejecting a rigid form of it that they see as dangerous to the health of the evangelical church
Steve Duby at the Theology Forum makes a "Plea for Understanding" from 'Calvinism' and its Discontents. "If one knows only the big names of the 'new Calvinism,'"says Duby, "one's view of what Reformed convictions look like on the ground can be skewed." He encourages readers to listen to Sinclair Ferguson and Derek Thomas, who "exemplify some of the best Reformed preaching done today."
Atheist Biblical Criticism has a long review of Komarnitsky's Doubting Jesus' Resurrection.
N. T. Wright made some comments in interview on marriage and homosexuality which, not surprisingly, was highly controversial. Anytime you bring up Nazis and Communists in the context of homosexuality you are going to catch someone's attention. Suzanne McCarthey calls Wright's interview "most surprising and somewhat incoherent interview," and Sarah Moon
called him a bigot accused him of bigotry, although she later backed away [edit: she did not back away, see Moon's comment below] from claiming Wright compared the LGBT community to Nazis. Alan Hooker had a few comments on the Wright dust-up as well. In a post prompted by this debate, J. K. Gayle asks, "must 'the wife of the Lamb' be a Ewe?"
Book Reviews
Bart Erhman's How Jesus Became God continues to generate discussion. Lindsay Kennedy at My Digital Seminary, reviews the Michael Bird edited How God Became Jesus. He has already written a great deal on both Erhman's book and the responses in How Jesus Became God. "Tilling offers a devastating critique of Ehrman's methodology and exegesis…" Nick Norelli at Righting Dividing the Word of Truth comments on Erhman's built-in failsafe when accused of not interacting with scholarship: "it's a popular book."Jennifer Guo finished a long series on How Jesus Became God as well.
Peter Arzt-Grabner, Interpretation of ΙΟΥΝΙΑΝ in Rom 16.7 (Paulus Handbuch (ed. Friedrich W. Horn; Mohr Siebeck, 2013), reviewed by Wayne Coppins.
Craig Evans, From Jesus to the Church: The First Christian Generation (Westminster John Knox Press, 2014), reviewed by Larry Hurtado
Louis Crompton. Homosexuality and Civilization. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003, reviewed by James Pate.
Jennifer Guo read some books this month. A lot of books: Greg Monette, The Wrong Jesus, Robert B. Stewart (editor), The Message of Jesus: John Dominic Crossan and Ben Witherington III in Dialogue, Charles Quarles, Illustrated Life of Paul, Herbert W. Bateman, Interpreting the General Letters and John Walton & D. Brent Sandy, The Lost World of Scripture.
Andrew Louth, Introducing Eastern Orthodox Theology (IVP Academic), reviewed by Mike Skinner.
Commentaries on Genesis 1-3: Severian of Gabala (IVP Academic), reviewed by Roger Pearse. Severian of Gabala? Pretty much the only "curious flat-earth theory" you will read this year. Pearse has an updated bibliography on Severian and a summary of a Coptic life of Severian.
Daniel Block, Hearing the Message of Scripture: Obadiah, reviewed by Abram K-J.
Kevin L. Anderson. Hebrews: A Commentary in the Wesleyan Tradition. New Beacon Bible Commentary. Kansas City: Beacon Hill Press, 2013), reviewed by Brian Small.
Susanne Scholz, editor, Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Retrospect (Sheffield Phoenix Press, October 2013), reviewed at womensHebrewBible.
Rudolf Bultmann, Neues Testament und christliche Existenz . Mohr Siebeck, 2002, Reviewed by Drew Davis, Münster.
I reviewed Michal Beth Dinkler, Silent Statements: Narrative Representations of Speech and Silence in the Gospel of Luke. (BZNW 191; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013); Esther Chung-Kim and Todd R. Hains, editors. Acts. Reformation Commentary on Scripture: New Testament 6. (Downers Grover, Ill.: InterVarsity, 2014); Herbert W. Bateman, Interpreting the General Letters: An Exegetical Handbook. (Grand Rapids, Mich. Kregel, 2013).
Mark Goodacre reported on a unique conference: Jesus and Brian. Or: What Have The Pythons Done For Us? hosted by Joan Taylor at Kings College, London, with support from Richard Burridge. Bart Erhman had a few posts on Brian and the Apocalypse, along with video clips from the film. Here are Chris Keith's comments on the Life of Brian conference, and "veryrarelystable" at Atheist Biblical Criticism has some interesting thoughts as well. This conference was an excellent idea for a conference and appears to have been well-planned. The very fact that John Cleese participated in a biblical studies conference makes me very happy. I have often told my students that the general "background" of Life of Brian was a fairly accurate picture, now I have scholarly confirmation.
Chris Keith offerse a few comments on the 2014 Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity Conference at St Mary's University, Twickenham.
The Third Nangeroni Meeting of the Enoch Seminar in Rome, Italy was held on June 22–26, in Rome. The theme of the conference was Re-Reading Paul as a Second-Temple Jewish Author. "The meeting aims at re-examining afresh Paul's Jewish background, his criticism against the Roman Imperial order, and his contribution to early Christian identity formation. We plan to have panels on the following topics: (1) Paul within Second Temple Judaism , (2) Paul and Second-Temple Jewish Apocalypticism , (3) Paul and Second-Temple Jewish Messianism , (4) Paul and the Law , (5) Paul between Empire and Jewish Identity , (6) Is There a 'Two-Way Salvation' in Paul? , (7) Paul, Anti-Semitism, and Early Christian Identity Making ."
A.D. Riddle reports on his visit to the "Roads of Arabia" exhibition, currently at the Kansas City, Missouri .
While on the topic of conferences, David Lincicum offers some sage advice on "not being a jerk at conferences." I am thinking of printing this and handing it out this fall in San Diego.
Tyndale House announces the new version of their online Bible, STEP. This looks like a very useful tool!
Current Events:
Peter Enns stirs the waters by offering "Some Unasked for Advice on Whether an Evangelical Should Get a PhD in Biblical Studies." His concern is the job market (you are destined to be adjunct). "The financial and personal challenges you go through in pursuing your degree–not to mention the job market once you enter it–will be unbearable unless you have a genuine, authentic, deep inner drive to spend the next 5-10 years in school." In addition, he is worried about a growing climate of suspicion among Evangelicals with respect to those who have higher education: "by getting a PhD you are alienating yourself from 99% of the educated western Christian world."
Good advice from Fred Clark: "Avoid any book with 'leadership' in the title." I also avoid books with titles like "the twelve laws of…"
Marcus Borg asks: Does the Bible Matter? His answer: "Absolutely. Without it, the foundation of Christianity crumbles." So Borg loves the Bible, just not in a fundamentalist way.
Ben Corey – What's So Complicated About "Love Your Enemies"?
Shane Claiborne on the Death Penalty.
Tony Reinke piece on Nepal's Most Unlikely Church Planter.
Rod over at Political Jesus, The Cross, Predestination, and Emmett Till. You get Black Theologians, Hip Hop culture, Civil Rights heroes.
Karen Swallow Prior offers a list of Classic Literary Works to Challenge the Thinking Christian. She has 13 books, the top four are Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, 1984 by George Orwell, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, and The Road by Cormac McCarthy. It appears that scary visions of the not-to-distant future are especially challenging!
Stranger than Fiction…
Zack Hunt at The American Jesus linked to an art exhibit of Kim Kardashian As Jesus (And The Virgin Mary).
You missed your chance to bid on an autographed picture of Jesus on eBay. Still more authentic than the James ossuary.
The hard-hitting journalists at Haaretz ask "Did Adam and Eve speak Dutch?" The article is behind the pay wall,fortunately. Otherwise my Facebook page would be clogged with "re-post if your agree" spam.
Theologian and Biblical Scholar Elton John declares that Jesus would support Gay marriage. Glad that is settled now.
This sounds like a potentially strange story, Mitch Albom meets Mick Jagger in the Holy Sepluchre. My guess is Keith Richard visited the bone-room at St. Catherine's Monastery, but no one noticed.
The July Carnival (due August 1) will be hosted by Jonathan Homrighausen at Linguae Antiquitatum. Contact him (jdhomrighausen at gmail) with your nominations for the next carnival. Rob Bradshaw will host the August Carnival, but after that I am looking for volunteers to cover the rest of the year – contact me (plong42 at gmail) to volunteer!


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We are early in the 2019-20 NBA season but tonight's Sixers vs. Hawks matchup was a big test to just how good these Hawks can be this season. If was a playoff like atmosphere in the building. The Hawks and Sixers both entered the game with (2-0) records so something had to give.
The Hawks came out the gate on fire from three point land shooting 60% from three in the first quarter. Hawks star Trae Young picked up right where he left off scoring 13 points in the first quarter along with a nasty crossover on Sixers guard Josh Richardson.
After scoring 40 points in the first quarter, the scoring slowed down for the Hawks in the second quarter. The Hawks only scored 15 points in the second quarter.
Sixers guard Josh Richardson stepped up in the second quarter and finished the half with 14 points. Sixers all-star Joel Embiid the half with 19 points and 4 rebounds.
The third quarter for both the Sixers and Hawks was pretty sloppy aside from a big slam dunk by Joel Embiid over John Collins. The Sixers had a scoring drought in the third quarter. There was a period of 4:18 where the Sixers didn't score a point. The second half of the Sixers vs. Hawks become a defensive battle as both teams bucketed down on that side of the ball.
Sixers big man Joel Embiid made his presence felt in the second half. Embiid converted baskets in the paint and from three to give the Sixers the lead as we entered the fourth quarter. Hawks rookie De'Andre hit a huge three pointer with 4:53 remaining in the fourth quarter to give the Hawks a (98-90) lead. After that, we witnessed the Joel Embiid show.
Embiid finished the game tonight for the Sixers with 36 points, 13 rebounds and 5 assist. Ben Simmons dropped 13 points along with 6 rebounds and 6 assist. Trae Young was the leading scorer for the Hawks tonight finishing with 25 points and 9 assist. John Collins finished with 16 points and 8 rebounds.
The Atlanta Hawks are back in action on Tuesday October 29th in Miami vs. the Miami Heat.
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Short-term Planning
- Integrate the short and long-term
Now that you built the knowledge about your project based on the previous steps, it is time to start the integration between long and short-term planning in MiningMath. By running the Best Case, surfaces to guide the optimization were generated and they could be used as a guide based on the NPV upper bound. The Exploratory Analysis provides insights on what could be the challenges of our project and also operational designs that could be used in further steps. At last, we obtained a detailed Schedule by using, or not, a surface, which could be the final pit or any intermediary one, as a guide.
Considering this workflow, now you may have enough information on a reasonable long-term view to enhance the adherence/reconciliation of your plans. You could choose a surface and use it as force and restrict mining to refine everything inside it. Remember that Force Mining is responsible for making the mining achieve at least the surface inserted, which means that all the material inside its limits should be extracted, respecting the slope angles, while Restrict Mining aims to prohibit the area below the surface inserted to be mined until the period in which it has been applied.
Thus, MiningMath will reach this exact surface in the time-frame required and enable you to test different geometries, blending constraints, and any other variable that could be required in the short-term planning without interfering in the long-term overview. Additional helpful features in these refinements are the concepts of mining fronts and the design optimization, based on surfaces modification, that could be done respecting all the parameters and generating results accordingly with your needs.
Timeframe: Custom factor (0.5)
Processing capacity: 5 Mt per semester.
Total movement: 20 Mt per semester.
Vertical rate of advance as 60m per semester.
Minimum Mining (120 m) and Bottom (100 m) width.
Force and Restrict Mining Surface: Surface005 from Schedule Optimization.
Stockpiling parameters on.
Play with steeper slope angles in the short term.
Further details
The example above used fewer constraints, geometries were changed and the average grade was let free. It is very helpful to define the early years based on a semester timeframe, which can assist you to manage stocks and any other variables in the firsts 3 years, for instance. Note that the period ranges on MiningMath are based on the timeframe selected, therefore, you should adjust your variables accordingly with this value.
When we use Force+Restrict, we are telling the optimizer to break this volume into pieces and that it must mine this volume entirely, even if it is waste, so that the long-term view is respected. This way, you keep regarding the whole deposit while deciding what to do in the first periods. The approach here is quite different than a set of Revenue Factors for a series of LG/Pseudoflow runs, followed by adjustments to find pushbacks without math optimization criteria. It is worth mentioning that this kind of suggestion must be only applied at the beginning or at the end of the life of mine, since Force+Restrict Mining surfaces used in intermediate periods could interfere directly with the results.
1.1. Using timeframes
Another strategy is to optimize the short-term along with the long-term using different timeframes. In this approach, the integration between the short and long term visions is made in the same optimization process, facilitating the analysis and strategic definitions.
It is possible to consider:
shorter time horizons (weeks, months, quarters...) for the initial periods of the operation;
annual plans as far as needed, for a precise definition of discounted cash flow;
less detail for longer time horizons. They need to be considered in the overall view of the mine, up to exhaustion, but they consume optimization processing time that can be more focused on the early years of operation.
Thus, there is value maximization at the strategic level, and feasibility at the tactical level simultaneously. In addition, there's minimizing compliance and reconciliation problems, as well as improving communication between teams, by working in an integrated system.
On this strategy, each period range will represent the time interval chosen in the timeframe, and discount rate will be adjusted in alignment with the time interval choice. Other constraints such as production and vertical rate of advance (VRA) must be adjusted to match each interval on the period ranges.
In order to clarify this strategy, let's work on an example:
Period range 1-6
Timeframe: 1/12 year (each period representing a month)
Processing capacity: 2.5 Mt per semester.
Vertical rate of advance as 30m (minimum block size, at this case) per month
Minimum Mining (120 m) and Bottom (100m) Width.
Stockpiling parameters on.
Play with different/steeper slope angles in the short term.
Period range 7-12
Timeframe: 1 year
Processing capacity: 30 Mt per 1 year.
Vertical rate of advance as 150m per year
Minimum Mining (120 m) and Bottom(100 m) width.
Period range 13-end
Timeframe: 10 years
Processing capacity: 300 Mt per 10 years.
Vertical rate of advance as 1500m per 10 years
Minimum Mining (120 m) and Bottom(100 m) width.


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Contributor Bios – August 2021
Mary Bargteil, an adjunct writing professor for University of Maryland Global Campus, is published in short story, novella, and poetry. Graduated summa cum laude with an M.F.A. in Creative Writing and Publication Arts, her poetry has appeared in Gargoyle, The Light Ekphrastic, Scribble, Welter, Brown Bag Literary Magazine, Scorched Earth, and Octopus Dreams. She also taught creative writing and memoir courses at Anne Arundel Community College and at private institutions for over a decade. She hopes to move to Colorado someday and establish a non-profit called The Madhatter School of Writing and Book Design. Till then, she resides near Annapolis, with her dog and kayak.
Brita d'Agostino is an American interdisciplinary artist, designer, and educator born in New York, NY. She received a BA in Art from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, 2003; and an MFA from the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) in 2007. Her work has been exhibited in national and international venues, including the Aperture Foundation, New York; and Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY. She has been an Assistant Professor in the Art Department, New Mexico State University since 2017, and was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Australia in 2018/2019. See more of Brita's work at britadagostino.com.
Juliette Goodwin is a human artist who watches the always-changing sky and earth, documenting the heavenly and earthly experience mostly in paintings and photographs. See more of her work at juliettegoodwin.com or on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/juliettegoodwin/
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Jeanne Morel is the author of the chapbooks "Jackpot" (Bottlecap Press), "That Crossing Is Not Automatic" (Tarpaulin Sky), and "I See My Way to Some Partial Results" (forthcoming from Ravenna Press). Her poem, "Loss & Other Forms of Death," was selected by Leila Chatti for the 2021 Fugue Poetry Prize. Jeanne holds an MFA from Pacific University. She lives in Seattle where she teaches writing and is a gallery guide at the Frye Art Museum.
Bethany Rivers has two poetry pamphlets: the ekphrastic collection titled 'Off the wall' from Indigo Dreams; and the grief and healing collection titled 'the sea refuses no river' from Fly on the Wall Press. Victorina Press published her book, 'Fountain of Creativity: ways to nourish your writing'. She is Editor of As Above So Below online poetry magazine, and mentors writers.
Judith Skillman paints expressionist works in oil on canvas. She is interested in feelings engendered by the natural world. Her art has appeared in Windmill, Artemis, The Penn Review, and other journals. Skillman has studied at McDaniel College, Pratt Fine Arts Center and Seattle Artist League. Shows include The Pratt and Galvanize. Judith's work can be found at Saatchi Art, on Etsy, and on her website: www.judithskillman.com.


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Crime of passion; B.D.F. killed by his wife
The violence over the three day weekend claimed the life of two persons and left several others recovering from gunshot wounds. The motives include revenge, unrequited love, and some others seem to be random. Crimes of passion however, are normally accompanied by confession. The police department's first murder victim was a Belize Defence Force soldier, who was killed in southern Belize on Monday morning. His common-law-wife has reportedly confessed to the crime, but there are several questions about what prompted the Raccoon Street resident to travel all the way to Dangriga and stab her common-law-husband to death. Was she a victim of domestic abuse or was it a case of "if I can't have you, no one will?" Police are investigating every angle and News Five's Delahnie Bain headed south to speak to the grieving family.
Delahnie Bain, Reporting
The end of a relationship was also the end of a life when thirty-seven year old B.D.F. Corporal, Donovan Castillo, was stabbed to death by his common-law-wife, thirty-five year old Marsha Reid on Monday morning. Castillo and Reid had an argument at a family house on Teacher's Street in Dangriga, where he stays when he's off-duty. According to Castillo's cousin, musician Chico Ramos, Reid went after him while he slept.
Chico Ramos, Cousin of Donovan Castillo
"She gone by di house deh di morning and I think he mi gone out di night so ih mi still sleepy and so. I think dehn had wah argument and thing like dat and den he gone sleep and what she do, she lock up fi he nephew eena di room, tek weh fi he cellular phone and den afterwards she gone eena fi he room when he mi done di sleep and den she do weh have fi do. Di man mi di sleep; she stab di man eena ih sleep. Ih stab ah een yah, een yah, one pan ih head and one een yah. If he mi deh up, she couldn't ah mi do dat cause ih mi wah be wah fight. If you si di young lady, she noh have wah bruise nor wah scratch pan ah. I si di young lady and she noh have wah bruise nor wah scratch."
Castillo's nephew, who was locked up to prevent him from calling for help, climbed over the bedroom wall and through rafters to get out. But Castillo, who had already been stabbed, stumbled out of his room and collapsed on the sofa.
Insp. Fitzroy Yearwood, Police Press Officer
"When police visited the scene they found Castillo in a sitting position in the living room with two apparent stab wounds to the neck, a cut to the neck area and we know that the police have recorded a caution statement from Miss Reid and we should be levying charges very soon in that case."
There is speculation that Castillo's death was triggered by domestic abuse; police are looking at that angle, but as far as his family knows, Castillo was trying to end the relationship.
"In all fairness to Ms. Reid, we are investigating that also. A lot of women are in abusive relationships and some of these abuses are not reported to police. Some are documented and some are not so we are investigating whether or not she made any previous reports. I know that we have recovered the knife from the scene that we believe was the weapon used in that crime."
Chico Ramos
"I noh hear nothing bout dat, I noh hear nothing bout dat. He dah noh wah violent guy dah kind ah way, especially pan women and thing like dat. Maybe, I noh know but I noh hear nothing bout dat. Look like dah mi wah relationship weh gone bad. I mean obviously ih look like he mi di try get out ah dis relationship and ih noh look like she mi ready fu dat."
And even if Reid and Castillo did have problems, Ramos says his brutal murder did not have to be solution.
Chico Ramos
"Di guy dah mi wah cool, cool guy. Everybody know Donovan as wah cool, nice, pleasant, decent guy. You could ask anybody bout he, no because di man done gone. Yoh know di phrase, after ah man dead dah den dehn tell ah ih good, but dis dah real, di man dah mi wah very nice guy. I noh really like how dah gial deh stab up di man like dat, wah nice guy like dat. Di man dah noh wah troublesome person. She shouldn't do dat to ah, dehn could ah mi work it out."
The blood stained sheets; pillows and the sofa where Castillo succumbed to his injuries were all burnt in the backyard. His family is now preparing to lay him to rest this weekend. Delahnie Bain for News Five.
Castillo had recently returned to Belize after graduating from a training course with the U.S. Navy in February.


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This dress was not very exciting when I first purchased it for a dollar.
Also, what you can't really see here are all sorts of teeny tiny cigarette burn holes all over the skirt. I tried to photograph them, but they just wouldn't show up. Whoever owned this one was EXTREMELY careless whilst ashing her ciggies, lemme tell ya. Thanks to the stupid holes, I was going to have to turn this dress into a new top.
First off, I cut off that hole-y skirt.
Then, there were these bad boys to deal with.
The neckline wasn't so comfy or attractive either. I decided to V-neck the heck out of it.
Almost done! I sewed the V down, and then added about a 1/2 inch of ruching right under the V to make it a little less plain.
Next, I needed to get back to that skirt. This fabric was fray-tastic, so I broke out my pinking shears (those funny zigzag scissors) t0 go over where I had initially cut the length off. Then I pinned it under and sewed my new hem. This is a "quick and dirty" way to make a hem that won't fray. I also saved a scrap from the cut-off skirt to sew a sash for my waist.
After hemming the top, I still wasn't quite done yet. Those sleeves needed to be shortened. I decided to go with a 3/4 length sleeve. After pinning and sewing it, all that was left to was to press the pleats at the bottom of the top, as well as my new hems at the sleeves and neck…
…It all seemed so simple…I mean…what could possibly go wrong? I started to press one of the sleeves when tragedy struck.
*WARNING* The below photo is VERY graphic and not for the faint of heart!!!!
D'OH!!!!!! I completely forgot that I had left the iron on its HIGHEST POSSIBLE SETTING! I had barely touched it to the very polyester fabric when it burned a massive hole into the innocent sleeve.
As if this dress hadn't suffered enough after all the burn holes. 🙁
Luckily, this was an easy fix. I just hacked off the sleeves a little more and gave them new hems. After carefully checking that the iron was on its lowest setting, I finished the job.
Now I have a cute new top to wear to work and for my usual Wednesday Delaney's lunch with Alex!
Oh yes, and FYI…Delaney's in 5pts is awesome for lunch, as their menu is buy 1 get 1 at lunchtime. A perfect pick-me-up for hump day…along with my pretty new top! 🙂


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The global security software as a service (SaaS) market is expected to witness significant growth over the forecast period. Security SaaS provides cloud-based content security such as email security, encryption, web security, and identity and access management. The security software as a service market is expected to grow significantly over the forecast period owing to the increase in adoption of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend among enterprises, the rise in cyber-attacks, high demand for cloud technology among small and medium enterprises.
Most of the organization use cloud technology to store critical data as it gives flexibility in sharing and accessing data. The technological shift from traditional systems to the advanced security system and an increase in the use of personal devices by the employees of an organization is the primary factor driving the growth of the market. Government sectors adopting cloud technology in different areas such as defense and railway has also propelled the demand for this industry.
One of the factors restraining market growth is the adoption of free security solutions for data security. Many small and medium enterprises use such a network protection system to reduce the IT budget. But these solutions often do not provide protection from complex cyber-attacks leading to the loss of confidential enterprise data.
The security SaaS industry is segmented by solution, service, application area, and organization size. By solution, it is segmented as endpoint protection, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Identity Access Management (IAM), Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS), Email Encryption, and Data Loss Prevention (DLP). By service, it is segmented as consulting and training & deployment. By application area, it is segmented as the web, network, email, and cloud database security. By organization size, it is segmented as a large, small, and medium enterprise.
Cloud technology service providers do not consider providing cloud protection, however, they assume getting protection is end-users responsibility. Therefore, some cloud technology providers don't give security features with technology. Companies, these days, prefer organized security providers who provide technology on a secured server.
Growing number of small and medium enterprises adopting cloud technology are an opportunity for Security Software as a Service industry.
North America and Europe are the key markets for this industry for the forecast period owing to growing frequency of cyber-attacks, presence of large enterprises, increase in the number of hosted servers and rise in the number of cases against the companies indulging in data theft. In North American and European countries such as U.S., Germany, and France the adoption of cloud technology by some of the large banking & financial services and healthcare industry verticals are continuously increasing which will have a positive impact on the revenue of this industry.
Asia Pacific at present is an emerging market and is expected to have significant growth for the forecast period owing to continuous expansion of economies in manufacturing, education, government, and IT sector. Cloud technology providers and adoption of cloud computing both are increasing in countries such as China, India, and Japan which will further propel the market growth.
Key players in this industry are, McAfee, Symantec Corporation, Trend Micro, Cisco Systems, ZScaler, CipherCloud, Radware, and Alert Logic. Companies in the Security Software as a Service market have adopted various strategic initiatives such as new product development, merger and acquisition, and partnerships and collaboration to have a competitive advantage and capture a significant market share.
In June 2014, Trend Micro launched a new solution design for VMware's vCloud Hybrid Service(vCHS) that helps customers to move their on-premise or private cloud deployment to the public cloud with added layers of protection. The administrators can detect virtual machines automatically and provide consistent, secure networks across the data center and into the public cloud by applying context-based policies.
In October 2015, Trend Micro a security solution provider acquired HP Tipping Point to strength its protection solution business. Trend Micro will combine its services with HP's network security solutions, which will Trend Micro to make next-generation intrusion prevention systems.
In September 2015, Cisco Systems acquired Portcullis to expand its cybersecurity services to enterprise clients and the government sector in the UK. This acquisition will increase Cisco Systems' ability to offer services such as risk to help clients overcome operational, robust & technical protection challenges and anticipate & respond to new threats.
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Release Notes¶
Changes from 6.0.5 to 6.0.6 [2023-09-18]
- Bug fixes
- Bug fix for 3D geometries with multiple extrusions of 3D object constructions. JCMgeo failed for some cases with error message "Extrusion geometries can't be merged at interface z=…"
- Corner rounding fixed for relatively aligned objects.
Changes from 6.0.3 to 6.0.5 [2023-08-28]
- Bug fixes
- Bug fixed for periodic problems. The bug did not lead to a crash or program abortion but affected the quality of the solution. (bug appeared in 6.0.0)
Changes from 6.0.2 to 6.0.3 [2023-08-23]
- Bug fixes
- Cartesian exports of far field fourier transform were potentially corrupted for periodic geometries when only two or three diffraction orders were present (bug appeared in 4.6.0)
Changes from 6.0.1 to 6.0.2 [2023-08-16]
- Bug fixes
- Fix in 3D mesh generation with periodic boundary condition (bug appeared in 6.0.0)
Changes from 6.0.0 to 6.0.1 [2023-07-05]
- Bug fixes
- 3D mesh generation with curvilinear surfaces failed (bug appeared in 6.0.0)
- Out-of-core support fixed when used within Matlab/Python for computer clusters or slurm queues
Changes from 5.4.3 to 6.0.0 [2023-22-06]
- New features in
- Light scattering off semi-infinite edge geometries
- JCMsuite includes a new license server for floating instances
- JCMgeo: significant speed up for geometries with many objects defined
- Faster loading of large grids.
- Bug fixes
- Fixed issue with dispersive materials in
- Fixed threading issue in coherent mode in
OpticalImagingpost process.
- More stable PML construction for CAD geometries.
- Fixed issue in
PowerFluxScalingif used with
- Fixed Cartesian field export for twisted fiber geometries.
- Fixed issue with dispersive materials in
Changes from 5.4.2 to 5.4.3 [2023-03-09]
- New features in
- New post process
IntegrationWeightprovides convenient access to the integration nodes and weights for a given mesh.
- New post process
- Bug fixes
- Fixed issue with iterative refinements in MUMPS interface for setups with mirror symmetries.
Changes from 5.4.1 to 5.4.2 [2023-01-06]
- Bug fixes
JCMview: automatic reload of data fixed (bug appeared in V5.4.1)
JCMoptimizerstartup failed due to interferences with local Matplotlib environments.
Changes from 5.4.0 to 5.4.1 [2022-12-21]
- New features in
- Coherent source superposition in
OpticalImaging. This allows to form images of coherent beams from a plane wave sampling of the illumination pupil.
- Coherent source superposition in
- New features in
- Account parameter added as option for queue (SLURM) resources.
- New features in
- Simplified selection of domains in the geometry view.
- Allows now for multiple geometry/grid views.
- Saving and loading of entire JCMview scene.
Changes from 5.2.4 to 5.4.0 [2022-11-11]
- New features in
JCMsuitenow allows to convert between FourierTransform and FarField representations
- Improved features in
- PupilFields in the OpticalImaging are now restricted to the continous part of the spectrum and use improved interpolation
- Bug fixes:
- Dongle license support fixed on Linux
JCMoptimizer: option parameter_uncertainties fixed.
- Python: Matplotlib support fixed for bundled python package.
Changes from 5.2.3 to 5.2.4 [2022-10-11]
Bug fixes
- Random crashes on Windows fixed
(crashes occured while program startup when using node locked licenses)
Changes from 5.2.2 to 5.2.3 [2022-09-30]
- Bug fixes
- Performance regression on Windows (approximatly slow down of factor 2, appeared in V5.2.1)
Changes from 5.2.1 to 5.2.2 [2022-09-22]
- Bug fixes
- Bug fix in adaptive mesh refinement fixed for 3D geometries.
- New features:
- USB hardware dongle licensing.
Changes from 5.2.0 to 5.2.1 [2022-08-10]
- Bug fixes
- Computing
ElectromagneticFieldAbsorptionin post process
DensityIntegrationfixed (bug appeared in V5.2.0)
- Meshing generation failed when project path contains blanks (bug appeared in V5.2.0)
- Python Jupyter notebook support fixed for Windows.
- Python module jcmwave.daemon fixed for Python V>=3.10
- Memory leakage fixed when solving with MUMPS sparse LU solvers on AVX512 processors.
- Computing
- New features:
- Non-intersecting textures can now be stacked closely together.
Changes from 5.0.2 to 5.2.0 [2022-07-08]
- New features:
- Support for MUMPS sparse LU solver. MUMPS is now the default sparse LU solver for distributed computation (one project solved on cluster of multiple computer nodes)
- Slurm queue interface within Matlab/Python extended for cluster solver support.
- Bug fixes
- Post-process ModeOverlap produced wrong results.
- Electromagnetic field absorption computation fixed for chiral materials
Changes from 5.0.0 to 5.0.2 [2022-02-21]
- Installation of Python distribution fixed
- Bug fixes
- Corner refinements were missing for structures created as lattice copies.
- Normal refinements were not properly constructed in general.
Changes from 4.6.2 to 5.0.0 [2022-01-03]
- New features:
- Support of general bi-anistropic materials in Maxwell's equations.
- Improved cluster memory balancing for distributed computations (one task/problem is solved on a parallel computer cluster).
Changes from 4.6.2 to 4.6.3 [2021-08-13]
- Bug fixes
- fixed issue in solving large systems introduced in 4.6.0
Changes from 4.6.1 to 4.6.2 [2021-08-05]
- New features:
- CurvedSegments are now supported in polygonal primitives in
- CurvedSegments are now supported in polygonal primitives in
- Bug fixes
- fixed issue in self-intersection test for polygons
- fixed issue in setting MeshOptions for MultiLayers
Changes from 4.6.0 to 4.6.1 [2021-06-03]
- Bug fixes
- fixed corrupted derivatives for multiple geometric parameters
- Bug fixes Matlab interface:
- daemon scripts failed within jcmwave matlab package
Changes from 4.4.5 to 4.6.0 [2021-05-31]
- New feature in
JCMview: pseudo-color plots of fields on material interfaces
Changes from 4.4.4 to 4.4.5 [2021-05-18]
- Bug fixes
- z-extrusion dependent object alignment fixed.
Changes from 4.4.2 to 4.4.4 [2021-04-19]
- Bug fixes
- wrong local mesh constraints ignored
Changes from 4.4.0 to 4.4.1 [2021-04-07]
- Improved features in
- introduced compatibility check of ModeFile and Fieldbag in computation of mode overlaps for Bloch-periodic setups
- resonance computations in dispersive media now works with curvilinear finite elements
Changes from 4.2.1 to 4.4.0 [2021-03-10]
JCMsuite's Python distribution is updated to version 3.9
- Includes newer versions of python packages such as numpy, matplotlib, scipy among others.
- Improved features in
- faster computation of mode overlaps
- better filtering of degenerated resonance/propagation modes at lower accuracy settings
- Bug fixes
- fixed threading issue in exports on cartesian grids.
- fixed an issue preventing the computation of self-overlaps of mode fields
- Improved features/Bug fixes
- Several bug fixes, performance improvements and improved meshing quality for glued/stacked extrusion geometries.
JCMgeonow warns the user if the results in an GDS import is empty.
- Bug fixes Matlab/Python interface:
- improved handling of keys in resultbags. Added functionality to remove results directly.
- improved/safer treatment of file handles
- New and improved features of the analysis and optimization toolkit:
- New driver for sensitivity analysis (PCESensitivityAnalysis)
- New driver for parameter reconstruction and global uncertainty quantification (PCELeastSquare)
- New driver for parameter reconstruction and local uncertainty quantification (BayesLeastSquare)
- Improved performance for optimizing noisy objective functions using the BayesOptimization driver
- New more memory efficient format for saving study histories. Previously created .mpk files can only be opened with the previous
Changes from 4.2.0 to 4.2.1 [2020-10-27]
- Improved features:
- Automatic resetting of resultbag in Python/Matlab disabled when changing project template files in order to prevent data losses.
- Bug fixes Matlab:
- JCMoptimizer/JCMdaemon: call to gather_results/wait4any fixed
- Bug fixes JCMgeo:
- JCMgeo crashed for larger numbers of layers in extrusion geometries.
Changes from 4.0.4 to 4.2.0 [2020-09-11]
- Improved features:
- JCMsolve now supports exporting fields on affine transformed cartesian geometries
- JCMsolve now supports exporting fields outside the computational domain in Bloch-periodic setups on cartesian grids.
- JCMcontrol support for project parametrization
- Support of mapped network paths in Windows
- Installation issues fixed for some Linux systems
- Bug fixes Matlab/Python interface
- JCMoptimizer startup fixed
- Bug fixes JCMsolve
- Curvilinear mesh generation for CAD objects fixed
Changes from 4.0.1 to 4.0.4
- Bug fixes Matlab interface
- JCMdaemon support broken in V4.0.0
- Bug fixes Python interface
- wait any option fixed in jcmwave.daemon.wait
Changes from 4.0.0 to 4.0.1
- Bug fixes in
- Fixed bug for plane wave scattering off periodic structure with curvilinear meshes
- Cartesian field export fixed (bug appeared in V4.0)
- Bug fixes in
- Texture interfaces has been ignored in random cases.
Changes from 3.18.10 to 3.18.14
- New features:
- JCMsolve now supports illuminations by vector spherical wave functions.
- JCMsolve automatically detects unsupported mirror symmetry modes and suppresses assembly and solution for these.
- JCMview allows to animate vector fields and export short clips.
- Improvements in
- Stability and syntax highlight improved
- Improvements in
- JCMgeo supports SREF objects in GDSII files.
- Bug fixes in
- Fixed bug in coupling to LayeredMedia for out-of-plane propagation.
- Fixed bug in refinements of exterior domain for isolated problems.
- Fixed bug for pyramidal grids.
Changes from 3.18.9 to 3.18.10
- Changes in
- The Python definition of electromagnetic sources now requires to set Omega in the source file. The previous setting in the project file is now obsolete. Similarly, the BlochVector must also be defined in periodic geometries.
- Bug fixes in
- Fixed a bug in the auto-detection of the BlochVector for Python definitions.
Changes from 3.18.8 to 3.18.9
- Improvements in
- The polarization convention in the ScatteringMatrix post process can now be chosen.
- Bug fixes in
- ElectromagnetFieldAbsorption can be computed also in non-lossy domains
- Improvements in
- The Polygon now checks for orientation of the input chain and throws an error if orientation is not counter-clockwise.
- The helix construction is now more stable with spherical caps.
- Bug fixes in
- MaximumSideLength now works in Layout1D
Changes from 3.18.7 to 3.18.8
- Bug fixes
- GDSII was not imported when using relative path and starting JCMgeo not in project folder.
Changes from 3.18.5 to 3.18.6
- Bug fixes
- Incoming plane wave source yielded wrong results for isolated geometries when defined in sigma-coordinates.
Changes from 3.18.4 to 3.18.5
- Bug fixes
- PML parameter StartThicknessLevel had no effect when used in combination with MaxThicknessSteps.
Changes from 3.18.1 to 3.18.4
- Bug fixes
- Plane wave source: Perpendicular incidence defined by sigma-coordinates produced wrong error message (appeared in 3.18.1)
- Bug fixes JCMdaemon:
- Some input dependencies erroneously ignored when determining up-to-date status.
Changes from 3.18.0 to 3.18.1
- Bug fixes
- Field flux integration at interior/exterior interface fixed, when exterior domain has different DomainId than adjacent interior domain (bug appeared in 3.16.0)
- Bug fixes
- Fix for periodic boundary condition when a structure intersects computational domain boundary only on one side of the periodic boundary (bug appeared in 3.18.0)
Changes from 3.16.2 to 3.18.0
- New features:
- JCMsuite's Python distribution is updated to Python 3.6.5.
- A new version of JCMgeo supporting 3D geometrical primitives and more flexible meshing algorithms is included as a beta version.
- The design of JCMsuite's documentation is now responsive and includes a tutorial for the new meshing features.
- Removed features :
- Documentation in PDF format is discontinued.
Changes from 3.16.0 to 3.16.2
- Installation of JCMoptimizer fixed
- JCMview: Using log10 for logarithmic plots
Changes from 3.12.14 to 3.16.0
- New features:
- Optimiziation framework added (usage from Python and Matlab)
- added estimator for memory requirement of linear system solver
- Improvements in
- improved time estimates for linear solver
- Bug fixes
- fixed bugs in handling of extremely large matrices
- Resonance mode computation: Fix for multiple dispersive domains.
Changes from 3.12.12 to 3.12.14
- New features
- added "NonLinearPolarization" definition to compute second harmonic generation as an electric current density
- Removed features
- removed export in Amira format
- Improvements in
- improved error message in case of missing material definition
- much faster input parsing for long point lists
- Bug fixes
- fixed a bug in C-API function JCMWriteData on Windows
Changes from 3.10.11 to 3.12.12
- Bug fixes
- fixed a bug in C-API function JCMWriteData when file contains binary and ASCII data
Changes from 3.12.10 to 3.12.11
- Bug fixes
- Parameter
Accuracysection of scattering problem had no effect.
- Parameter
Changes from 3.10.9 to 3.12.10
- Bug fixes
- Cross section flux integration fixed when surface normal was not in z-direction (e.g. when surface was extracted from a 3D geometry).
- minor fixes and improvements for
Changes from 3.10.8 to 3.12.9
- Bug fixes
- Crashes in auto-completion mode (bug appeared in V3.12.8)
Changes from 3.10.7 to 3.12.8
New features
- Support for periodic boundary conditions in vertical direction for 3D extrusion layouts.
Bug fixes
- Mode overlap computation produced wrong results for problems with geometrical symmetries.
Bug fixes
- Face extraction may have failed when origin was not within computational domain.
Changes from 3.10.6 to 3.12.7
- Bug fixes
- FFT based Fourier transform lead to abortion for extremely large computational domains.
Changes from 3.10.5 to 3.12.6
- Bug fixes
- Flux integration fixed for problems with geometric symmetries.
Changes from 3.10.3 to 3.12.4
- Bug fixes
- vector plots for Cartesian fieldbags fixed (bug appeared in 3.12.0)
Changes from 3.10.0 to 3.12.3
Linux installation fixed for legacy Intel platforms.
- Bug fixes
- Crashes of resonance mode solver fixed (appeared when simulating dispersive media together with mode filtering)
Changes from 3.10.8 to 3.12.0
Redesign of
Linux version now requires glibc version 2.12 or later.
- Bug fixes
- Significant speedup of Cartesian field export
Changes from 3.10.7 to 3.10.8
- New features
- Resonance expansion post-process:
- Switch between mode expansion coefficient table and fieldbag output.
- Projection of mode expansion to subset of modes.
- New features
Changes from 3.10.6 to 3.10.7
- New features
- Optional restriction of field export post-process to specified domains
- New features
Changes from 3.10.5 to 3.10.6
- Bug fixes
- Several bug fixes for heat conduction and continuum mechanics solver
Changes from 3.10.4 to 3.10.5
- New features
- New optional parameter ChiefRay for FourierTransform postprocess.
- New features
- Bug fixes
- FFT based FourierTransform was not working on Windows.
- ModeFiltering for resonance mode problems
Changes from 3.10.3 to 3.10.4
- Installation problem on Windows fixed: impi.dll was missing in the package
- Python interface:
- solve.py did not work when file patterns were used
Changes from 3.10.2 to 3.10.3
- Bug fixes Python package:
- NumPy routine arctan2 (and related) produced wrong results
Changes from 3.10.1 to 3.10.2
- New features
- Geometric primitive super-ellipse
- New features
- New features
- support of magnetic line/point sources
- New features
- Bug fixes Matlab interface:
- error messages when using embedded scripting were corrupted.
- Bug fixes
- solver crashes for density integration close to dipole sources.
Changes from 3.8.2 to 3.10.0
- Bug fixes
- Adaptive refinement loop revised:
- Convergence monitoring during refinement loop.
- Choice between mesh refinement and order increasement for as refinement loop.
- Default refinement strategy for scattering and resonance mode problem is "PUniform"
- Deprecated input no longer supported: Refinement section must be placed in parent section Accuracy.
- Improved numerical stability for high accuracy demands.
Changes from 3.8.1 to 3.8.2
- Bug fixes
- Computing of mode coupling for problems with dipole sources fixed
Changes from 3.8.0 to 3.8.1
- Bug fixes Matlab interface:
- error messages when using embedded scripting were corrupted when using Matlab 2016
- Bug fixes
- Carpet view was pixelated at mesh triangle interfaces.
- Bug fixes
- Coupling of waveguide mode fixed, when mode geometry was extracted as a surface port
- Fix for onefold-periodic dipole sources
Changes from 3.6.1 to 3.8.0
- New features
- Support for dispersive media (Drude, Lorentz, Debye models) for resonance mode solver
- New post-process "ResonanceExpansion"
- Revised interface for waveguide mode coupling
- New format for derivatives in tables imported within Matlab. Old format with concatenated name (d_<parameter>_<field>) exceeded occasionally Matlab's maximum length constraint for field names of a structure. Derivatives now appear in separated sub-structures (d_<parameter>.<field>).
- Interface changed for mode computation (resonances and propagating) with mirror symmetries:
Use now
MagneticSymmetricto specify mode symmetry type.
- New format for scattering matrix (including bugfix for isolated problems)
- New features
- Revised interface for face extraction:
SurfaceExtractionreplaced with
- Revised interface for face extraction:
- New features
- Bug fixes
- Problems with threefold mirror symmetries fixed.
- Propagating mode solver: crashed when mode filtering was active
- Propagating mode solver: search range definition was not functioning for bent waveguide
- Resonance mode solver: constant flux model was not functioning
Changes from 3.6.0 to 3.6.1
- Bug fixes
- second order parameter derivatives corrupted in Fourier transform (bug appeared in 3.6.0)
- Bug fixes
- random crashes on Linux fixed when started from the console
Changes from 3.4.2 to 3.6.0
- New features
- Support for mirror symmetries
- Bug fixes
- Definition of a source by a coherent sum of plane waves produced wrong results for cylinder symmetric problems.
- CPU-binding fixed on Windows
Changes from 3.4.1 to 3.4.2
- Bug fixes
- Possible crash for mode overlap computation in the presence of dipole sources.
Changes from 3.4.0 to 3.4.1
- Bug fixes
- Crash for cylindrical scattering problem after PML refinements
Changes from 3.2.0 to 3.4.0
- New features
- Geometry definition by Bitmap. Can be used in combination with height extrusion to simulate binary gratings.
- New features
- orthonormalization of propagating eigenmode sub-space based on complex Poynting-vector generalized scalar product
- revised post-process ModeOverlap: table output format has changed.
- Bug fixes
- Computation of holomorphic field integrals fixed for cylinder-symmetric problems
Changes from 3.0.18 to 3.2.0
License installation process simplified, (see installation.jcmwave.com, where you also can download JCMsuite).
- Bug fixes
- Sign for imaginary part of magnetic field energy density fixed.
Changes from 3.0.16 to 3.0.17
- New features
- 3D extrusion layouts: Parameter OffsetZ has been replaced by GlobalZ. GlobalZ allows to reset the global z-position at any layer interface.
- New features
- Parameter
PlaneWave/Directionhas been replaced by
- Parameter
- Bug fixes
- Fourier transform for problems with dipole/line sources terminated with an error message.
Changes from 3.0.15 to 3.0.16
- Bug fixes
- Wrong shape derivatives for extrusion layouts with oblique sidewall angles.
Changes from 3.0.14 to 3.0.15
- New features
- Improved runtime behaviour of error estimation phase.
- Support for CPU affinity
- Bug fixes
- Corrupted results for electromagnetic scattering problems when PML was refined adaptively. (This bug appeared in V3.0.14)
Changes from 3.0.13 to 3.0.14
- New features
- Improved runtime behaviour for dipole source problems (shorter assembling phase)
- Bug fixes
- Unstable results for 2D scattering problems in in the presence of small (much smaller than the wavelength) mesh triangle.
Changes from 3.0.12 to 3.0.13
- Bug fixes
- Crashes on Windows for estimating local error. MSVC Compiler updated.
Changes from 3.0.11 to 3.0.12
- Bug fixes
- Vector field view on Cartesian fieldbag caused crash of JCMview.
Changes from 3.0.10 to 3.0.11
- Bug fixes
- On Windows: Incorrect treatment of sidewall angles for extrusion geometries.
Changes from 3.0.9 to 3.0.10
- New features
- Radiation postprocess to compute far field energy flux through apertures.
- Tag
AddSingularFieldsremoved for field exports and integration post-processes. Dipole and line sources now always yield the total (singular) field in the interior domain.
- Significant runtime improvement of Cartesian field exports,
- Bug fixes
- Fourier transform in lower half space for rotationally symmetric problems fixed.
- Illumination derivatives fixed for 2D geometries.
- Bug fixes
Changes from 3.0.8 to 3.0.9
- New features
- FarFieldEvaluation renamed to FarField
- Bug fixes
- Shape derivatives fixed for 2D geometries.
- Fourier transform in lower half space for rotationally symmetric problems fixed.
- Bug fixes
- Bug fixes
- Local mesh constraints were not active for Multilayer primitives.
- Bug fixes
- Bug fixes
- Running coordinates were not shown for cylindrical geometries.
- Bug fixes
Changes from 3.0.5 to 3.0.6
Bug fixes
- Too much memory usage when exporting fields to Cartesian meshes.
Changes from 3.0.4 to 3.0.5
- New features
- Runtime improvement of
JCMgeoespecially for geometries with many layers.
- Bug fixes
- Erroneous exception for domain decomposition solver.
- Bug fixes
- Bug fixes
- Erroneous exception for certain boundary periodifications.
- Bug fixes
Changes from 3.0.3 to 3.0.4
- Bug fixes
JCMgeo: - Geometric primitive "MultiLayer" caused
JCMgeoto crash when intersecting with the computational domain boundary.
Changes from 3.0.2 to 3.0.3
- New features
- New geometric primitive "MultiLayer" to ease for example Bragg mirror definition.
- Support for point sources (dipoles) in cylindrically symmetric geometries.
- Bug fixes
- Wrong results for Fourier transform in cylindrically symmetric geometries.
- Bug fixes


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The Marine Biological Laboratory-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library
In 1888 when students and investigators arrived in Woods Hole for the inaugural session of the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), they recognized the need for a library collection of books and journals. The one wooden building on campus, later known as Old Main, housed everything, with researchers upstairs and the student laboratory downstairs. Lectures were held in one corner, and shelves held what books and journals were contributed.
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Human Betterment Foundation (1928-1942)
In 1928 Ezra Seymour Gosney founded the non-profit Human Betterment Foundation (HBF) in Pasadena, California to support the research and publication of the personal and social effects of eugenic sterilizations carried out in California. Led by director Gosney and secretary Paul Popenoe, the HBF collected data on thousands of individuals in California who had been involuntarily sterilized under a California state law enacted in 1909. The Foundation's assets were liquidated following Gosney's death in 1942.
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Clinica Para Madres (1934-1950)
The Clinica Para Madres (Mother's Clinic) opened in Tucson, Arizona, in December of 1934 as the first birth control clinic in Arizona. After moving to Tucson, birth control activist Margaret Sanger, along with a group of local philanthropic women, founded the clinic to provide Arizona women with contraception. During the early 1900s in the US, contraception was illegal under the federal Comstock Act. Additionally, many viewed contraception and sex as obscene and not to be discussed in public or outside of marriage.
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First American Birth Control Clinic (The Brownsville Clinic), 1916
On 16 October 1916, Margaret Sanger opened one of the first birth control clinics in the United States in Brooklyn, New York, which some have called the Brownsville Clinic. Located at 46 Amboy Street, the clinic was a place where Sanger and her staff verbally communicated with women seeking information about birth control. During the early 1900s, both birth control and abortion were illegal in the US, and publication or circulation of information on both topics was deemed obscene and illegal by the federal Comstock Act.
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Revive & Restore's Woolly Mammoth Revival Project
In 2015, Revive & Restore launched the Woolly Mammoth Revival Project with a goal of engineering a creature with genes from the woolly mammoth and introducing it back into the tundra to combat climate change. Revive & Restore is a nonprofit in California that uses genome editing technologies to enhance conservation efforts in sometimes controversial ways.
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The Galton Society for the Study of the Origin and Evolution of Man (1918–1935)
Charles Benedict Davenport, Madison Grant, and Henry Fairfield Osborn founded the Galton Society for the Study of the Origin and Evolution of Man, or the Galton Society, in New York City, New York, in 1918. The Galton Society was a scientific society that promoted the study of humans in terms of race in service to the US eugenics movement. The Galton Society was named in honor of Francis Galton who first coined the term eugenics in 1883. Galton and other eugenics proponents claimed that the human species could improve through selective breeding that restricted who could have children.
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In 1990, the United States Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act, or the ADA, which prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities by employers, governments, or public accommodations. Following gains made during the civil rights movements of the 1900s, people with disabilities sought similar anti-discrimination legislation. The ADA was the culmination of decades of protest and advocacy from the disability rights movement. After the ADA, federal law protected people with an impairment that limited major life functions like sight or mobility from discrimination.
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Volume: Volume 17 - 2013
Article type: Refereed article
Author/s: Brand, Danie; De Beer, Stephan; De Villiers, Isolde; and Van Marle, Karin
In this exploratory article the authors focus on a tendency in discourses on poverty to reduce poverty to a practical problem, and efforts to find solutions to poverty to practical, instrumentalist (social) scientific thinking. Working from a theoretical position informed by, among others, Constable, Bergowitz, Foucault, De Certeau, Friedman and the liberation theology of Boff & Boff and Gutierrez they argue for the reconfiguring of poverty as an injustice and the re-insertion of politics in debates about poverty that this will entail. From different disciplines and from different perspectives within disciplines, they engage in a multi-disciplinary exploration of, and reflection on, the prevalence of poverty.
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Wolfgang Scheibe is a multi-faceted character (graphic designer, biodynamic advisor, and musician) who relocated over ten years ago from Germany to Maremma, Southern Tuscany.
In the move from Baden-Württemberg to the Tuscan hills, among other peculiarities of these places he made contact with one of the icons of Italian rural settings: the Ape Piaggio. This is a traditional three-wheeler mini truck (or maxi-scooter). This became the primary subject of his prints, as well as the main vehicle in his whereabouts from a biodynamic crop, to a live performance, and other forms of relationship to the Tuscan territory.
At the time of writing Wolf has in his track recor over seventy different subjects which he sends in virtual trips with his printed "Ape", and can also design new subjects on demand in his print shop.
Having recently received unexpected attention for these works from over the pond, he decided to launch a web page to give a bit more visibility to his hand-made pieces.
To learn more you may visit http://www.pibinko.org/tattistampa/ (in English) or http://www.pibinko.org/tattistampa-it (in Italian)


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Sarah Palin Calls Out Clinton's Book And Bashes Cantor All In One Week
Sarah Palin has re-entered the media spotlight this week, making waves on two fronts seemingly simultaneously. Palin began the week by reminding the American public who really took the first shot in the "War on Women."
While Hillary Clinton made the rounds to promote her new memoir, "Hard Choices," Palin zeroed in on one instance in the book when the Obama campaign reached out to Hillary Clinton's campaign in an attempt to issue a dismissive statement about Palin. The request from Obama's people came after it was publicly announced that Palin had been chosen to be John McCain's running mate during his 2008 presidential campaign.
The Inquisitr described Clinton's reaction to the request:
"They (the Obama campaign team) immediately issued a dismissive statement (about Palin) and reached out to me in hopes I would follow suit. But I wouldn't. I was not going to attack Palin just for being a woman appealing for support from other women. I didn't think that made political sense and it didn't feel right. So I said no, telling them there'd be plenty of time for criticism. A few hours later the Obama campaign reversed itself and congratulated Governor Palin."
Hillary's tome filled the shelves in bookstores coast-to-coast and Sarah pounced. Politico divulged Palin's resulting accusation:
"Hillary Clinton's forthcoming memoir helps identify who fired the first shot in the real war on women."
Clinton later took issue with Palin's statement as noted by Business Insider:
"Well, that's not exactly what I said. What I said was that in beginning the process of working with then-Senator Obama after I ended my campaign, we had as I describe in the book an awkward but necessary meeting to clear the air on a couple of issues and one of them was the sexism that unfortunately was present in that… campaign."
Following the row with Hillary Clinton this week, Sarah Palin spoke out about Eric Cantor's surprising primary defeat against his challenger, Tea Party candidate David Brat. Palin offered her congratulations to Brat and stated that Cantor's defeat was the result of Cantor's less than popular stance on immigration reform, resulting in his punishment at the hands of the American people.
Palin issued the following statement on her Facebook page;
"Congratulations to Dave Brat in Virginia on such an encouraging victory tonight! You shocked the political world and reminded D.C. that power lies with We the People and not any conventional party establishment. Dave Brat was massively outspent (more than 10 to 1) and laughed off by most, but he won the trust of voters the old fashioned way – one by one. Tonight's victory showed the power of the local grassroots – the ones with boots on the ground who put up the campaign signs and go door to door to provide needed support for great candidates. Appreciation also goes to those with powerful microphones like Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, Ann Coulter and others who recognized Dave's strengths and had the guts to provide him a megaphone to reach concerned citizens."
"Grassroots commonsense Conservatives can use this momentum to push good candidates like Chris McDaniel, T.W. Shannon, and Rob Maness to victory for America. These candidates are also being massively outspent by establishment candidates and they need our help and energy."
"Thank you, Virginia! On to November!"
– Sarah Palin-
Even though Sarah Palin has no announced intentions of running for office anytime soon, this week proves that Palin does possess the gift of making statements at the right time. Almost six years after her defeat in 2008, Palin somehow still manages to influence the course of the greater national political debate.


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The Marengo Street Bridge is in a residential neighborhood over a ravine containing a tributary to the nearby Maumee River. The historic truss bridge, built in 1915, deteriorated to the point that it was closed to traffic in 2016. Engineering studies indicated that the bridge could not be rehabilitated and was proposed for replacement.
L&A provided environmental studies and completed the D1 Categorical Exclusion (CE) document for the replacement of the historic structure. Since the bridge was determined to be eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), the Purpose and Need and comparison of alternatives were critical to the CE document. L&A provided our NEPA expertise to assist the design team with developing a comparison of alternatives to meet the requirements for the Section 4(f) programmatic approval.