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Researchers Use LRZ HPC Resources to Perform Largest-Ever Supersonic Turbulence Simulation
Research Highlight – January 12, 2021
A multi-institution team from Australia and Germany simulates turbulence happening on both sides of the so-called "sonic scale," opening the door for more detailed and realistic galaxy formation simulations.
Turbulence shaping the interstellar medium. The image shows a slice through the turbulent gas in the world's highest-resolution simulation of turbulence published in Nature Astronomy. Turbulence produces strong density contrasts, so-called shocks (see zoom-in). The interaction of these shocks is believed to play a key role in the formation of stars. Image credit: Federrath et al. (2021). Nature Astronomy. DOI: 10.1038/s41550-020-01282-z
Through the centuries, scientists and non-scientists alike have looked at the night sky and felt excitement, intrigue, and overwhelming mystery while pondering questions about how our universe came to be, and how humanity developed and thrived in this exact place and time. Early astronomers painstakingly studied stars' subtle movements in the night sky to try and determine how our planet moves in relation to other celestial bodies. As technology has increased, so too has our understanding of how the universe works and our relative position within it.
What remains a mystery, however, is a more detailed understanding of how stars and planets formed in the first place. Astrophysicists and cosmologists understand that the movement of materials across the interstellar medium (ISM) helped form planets and stars, but how this complex mixture of gas and dust—the fuel for star formation—moves across the universe is even more mysterious.
To help better understand this mystery, researchers have turned to the power of high-performance computing (HPC) to develop high-resolution recreations of phenomena in the galaxy. Much like several terrestrial challenges in engineering and fluid dynamics research, astrophysicists are focused on developing a better understanding of the role of turbulence in helping shape our universe.
Over the last several years, a multi-institution collaboration being led by Australian National University Associate Professor Christoph Federrath and Heidelberg University Professor Ralf Klessen has been using HPC resources at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) in Garching near Munich to study turbulence's influence on galaxy formation. The team recently revealed the so-called "sonic scale" of astrophysical turbulence—marking the transition moving from supersonic to subsonic speeds (faster or slower than the speed of sound, respectively)—creating the largest-ever simulation of supersonic turbulence in the process. The team published its research in Nature Astronomy.
Many scales in a simulation
To simulate turbulence in their research, Federrath and his collaborators needed to solve the complex equations of gas dynamics representing a wide variety of scales. Specifically, the team needed to simulate turbulent dynamics on both sides of the sonic scale in the complex, gaseous mixture travelling across the ISM. This meant having a sufficiently large simulation to capture these large-scale phenomena happening faster than the speed of sound, while also advancing the simulation slowly and with enough detail to accurately model the smaller, slower dynamics taking place at subsonic speeds.
"Turbulent flows only occur on scales far away from the energy source that drives on large scales, and also far away from the so-called dissipation (where the kinetic energy of the turbulence turns into heat) on small scales," Federrath said. "For our particular simulation, in which we want to resolve both the supersonic and the subsonic cascade of turbulence with the sonic scale in between, this requires at least 4 orders of magnitude in spatial scales to be resolved."
In addition to scale, the complexity of the simulations is another major computational challenge. While turbulence on Earth is one of the last major unsolved mysteries of physics, researchers who are studying terrestrial turbulence have one major advantage—the majority of these fluids are incompressible or only mildly compressible, meaning that the density of terrestrial fluids stays close to constant. In the ISM, though, the gaseous mix of elements is highly compressible, meaning researchers not only have to account for the large range of scales that influences turbulence, they also have to solve equations throughout the simulation to know the gases' densities before proceeding.
Understanding the influence that density near the sonic scale plays in star formation is important for Federrath and his collaborators, because modern theories of star formation suggest that the sonic scale itself serves as a "Goldilocks zone" for star formation. Astrophysicists have long used similar terms to discuss how a planet's proximity to a star determines its ability to host life, but for star formation itself, the sonic scale strikes a balance between the forces of turbulence and gravity, creating the conditions for stars to more easily form. Scales larger than the sonic scale tend to have too much turbulence, leading to sparse star formation, while in smaller, subsonic regions, gravity wins the day and leads to localized clusters of stars forming.
In order to accurately simulate the sonic scale and the supersonic and subsonic scales on either side, the team worked with LRZ to scale its application to more than 65,000 compute cores on the SuperMUC HPC system. Having so many compute cores available allowed the team to create a simulation with more than 1 trillion resolution elements, making it the largest-ever simulation of its kind.
"With this simulation, we were able to resolve the sonic scale for the first time," Federrath said. "We found its location was close to theoretical predictions, but with certain modifications that will hopefully lead to more refined star formation models and more accurate predictions of star formation rates of molecular clouds in the universe. The formation of stars powers the evolution of galaxies on large scales and sets the initial conditions for planet formation on small scales, and turbulence is playing a big role in all of this. We ultimately hope that this simulation advances our understanding of the different types of turbulence on Earth and in space."
In order to accurately simulate the sonic scale and the supersonic and subsonic scales on either side, the team worked with LRZ to scale its application to more than 65,000 compute cores on the SuperMUC HPC system. Image credit: Federrath et al (2021). Nature Astronomy. DOI: 10.1038/s41550-020-01282-z
Cosmological collaborations and computational advancements
While the team is proud of its record-breaking simulation, it is already turning its attention to adding more details into its simulations, leading toward an even more accurate picture of star formation. Federrath indicated that the team planned to start incorporating the effects of magnetic fields on the simulation, leading to a substantial increase in memory for a simulation that already requires significant memory and computing power as well as multiple petabytes of storage—the current simulation requires 131 terabytes of memory and 23 terabytes of disk space per snapshot, with the whole simulation consisting of more than 100 snapshots.
Since he was working on his doctoral degree at the University of Heidelberg, Federrath has collaborated with staff at LRZ's AstroLab to help scale his simulations to take full advantage of modern HPC systems. Running the largest-ever simulation of its type serves as validation of the merits of this long-running collaboration. During this period, Federrath has worked closely with LRZ's Dr. Luigi Iapichino, Head of LRZ's AstroLab, who was a co-author on the Nature Astronomy publication.
"I see our mission as being the interface between the ever-increasing complexity of the HPC architectures, which is a burden on the application developers, and the scientists, which don't always have the right skill set for using HPC resource in the most effective way," Iapichino said. "From this viewpoint, collaborating with Christoph was quite simple because he is very skilled in programming for HPC performance. I am glad that in this kind of collaborations, application specialists are often full-fledged partners of researchers, because it stresses the key role centres' staffs play in the evolving HPC framework."
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The GOP's 2008 nominee is...Eldon Smith?
By GLENN THRUSH
It turns out that this isn't the first time the issue of John McCain's lavish multiple residences has emerged in the heat of a campaign.
In 1986, when then-Rep. McCain was running for the Senate seat vacated by Barry Goldwater, he quietly began remodeling a $500,000 house in central Phoenix owned by his wealthy father-in-law James Hensley. The $225,000 project -- which included the construction of a 4,000-square-foot addition, swimming pool, jacuzzi, cabana and barbecue -- held political peril for McCain, who was already fighting charges that he was as an opportunistic carpertbagger.
The new house was located in Phoenix's fourth congressional district -- outside of the first district in Tempe which he represented at the time.
AP caught wind of the work at 7110 North Central Ave. shortly before the general election and dispatched a reporter to examine blueprints at the planning department. They found the permit applicants were listed as Hensley and a mysterious "Mr. Smith."
The reporter tracked down McCain's plumber, who told him he'd been told Mr. Smith's first name was "Eldon."
Eldon Smith, it turned out, was John McCain.
When confronted with the blueprints, McCain's spokeswoman didn't deny that the renovation was being done for McCain and his wife Cindy -- and suggested that Smith was Cindy's mother's maiden name. She didn't explain why Marguerite Hensley might have been listed as "Mr. Smith."
Later, McCain released a statement attributing the choice of Smith's name to his architect. Use of the alias didn't violate the law, he claimed, because it appeared only on blueprints and not on official permits.
"Like most architectural firms, Sheiner Day Kunz Associates uses a generic name on blueprints when working for a well-known client," he said, adding that he and Cindy had been "very open" about their plans to move out of his congressional district.
Alas, local planning experts didn't quite agree.
"Gabor Lorant, head of the Phoenix-area chapter of the American Institute of Architects," the AP reported on Oct. 31, 1986, "said that in his 29 years of work here he had never heard of a blueprint practice such [as the one] McCain described as common practice."
A McCain spokesman declined comment on the 22-year-old intrigue.
Note to Barack Obama: The story had little impact on the race and McCain went on to trounce Democrat Richard Kimball.
Glenn Thrush is senior staff writer at Politico Magazine.

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A Toronto Film Festival audience-award prize makes the intimate drama an unlikely, but much-needed, contender.
Room was met with a lengthy standing ovation when it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, so everyone probably should have predicted it as the eventual winner of Toronto's audience award. But even as pundits like me were scrambling around looking for awards hopefuls, we kept managing to overlook Room; it would be competitive for its performances from Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay, sure, but it somehow didn't feel . . . Oscar-y.
The audience award changes that—the winner of that prize in Toronto has gone on to be a best-picture Oscar nominee six of the last seven years. But Room is still a major outlier in the awards conversation; as a two-hander between a 25-year-old woman and an 8-year-old boy (with some excellent supporting work from Joan Allen), it has no major role for an adult male actor. If it becomes a best-picture nominee, it will be only the second film in the last decade to fit that very specific—but very important—statistic.
Boy movies win Oscars. That's no surprise in the year of reigning best-picture champion Birdman, which edged out a movie called Boyhood, which had strong competition from three separate biopics about men. And when movies primarily about women make their way into the best-picture competition, they're almost always ensembles—The Help, The Hours, Secrets & Lies, even Chicago. To find a movie primarily about one woman that was nominated for best picture you have to go all the way back to 2000 and Erin Brockovich, which still included a role so large for Albert Finney that he earned a supporting-actor Oscar nomination.
Room is perhaps most similar to Beasts of the Southern Wild, another story about a parent-child relationship that became a surprising awards contender. But Beasts compelled voters on the strengths of its elaborate visual style and wunderkind director; Room, though beautifully directed by Lenny Abrahamson, is a much more intimate and restrained film. It is small in the way best-picture nominees so rarely are anymore. That makes Room an underdog in the long six-months awards campaign to come . . . but also a potential game changer if it manages to break through.
There are already doubters, and the fact that Room "preys upon maternal feelings" will surely be repeated as a knock on the film, part of a larger cultural notion that art about women isn't important art. It's a notion the Oscars haven't been able to shake easily—why Matthew McConaughey's bravura performance in Dallas Buyers Club helps the film win a best-picture nomination but Cate Blanchett can't do the same for Blue Jasmine. Room can't change all of that single-handedly, but in a year that's been promising for women in Hollywood, it could at least be a strong sign of change to come.


We were up and out the door by 7:00 am and into town for breakfast at the South Street Cafe (excellent breakfast sandwiches). Before leaving Bennington, we made a quick stop to see the windows of Sacred Heart Francis de Sales church. A congregation was just gathering for mass and one member told us this is one of the largest churches without internal pillars. It is simply beautiful. Gothic by design but warm and welcoming inside. For all photos, see Gallery/World Windows.
Then off we went on the roller coaster ride up and down and around the lush hills of Vermont's Green Mountains toward North Conway, NH. The road in many places followed steep and fast flowing mountain streams. We saw three or four covered bridges along the way in quaint towns all with majestic mountain backdrops. This is a place we can definitely see ourselves returning someday perhaps in the fall.
Finally we arrived in North Conway and found our hotel, the Old Red Inn. We stayed here once 27 years ago when Ryan was 3 and Sarah was 1 on a trip home from visiting Monica's sister Marg and husband Gary in Toronto. It is still just as we remembered… homey little cottages with 60's decor, propane fireplace, floral wall paper, pine wanescotting… absolutely perfect for our final night of this journey.
After some outlet mall shopping, we had a delicious Mexican dinner at Fiesta Jalisco and then retired to our cottage for a glass or wine and some blogging. As I write this, we've got the windows open for the fresh mountain air, the sun is dappling through the trees and the birds are singing all around the Inn. Peaceful and happy, both of us are just a little sad that tomorrow we head for home but are also anxious to return to family and friends. On the positive side, now that we are leaving the States the Canadian dollar should start to climb for the rest of you.


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Kevin Derby
At the end of last week, U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., showcased his " Eradicating Narcotic Drugs and Formulating Effective New Tools to Address National Yearly Losses of Life (END FENTANYL) Act. "
Scott introduced the bill last month. The bill "would require the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to update its policies at least once every three years to ensure drug interdiction guidance is up to date."
When he showcased the bill on Friday, Scott's office noted his proposal "builds off the 2019 GAO report, 'Land Ports of Entry: CBP Should Update Policies and Enhance Analysis of Inspections,' that found drug interdiction guidance has not been updated in 20 years."
U.S Sens. Mike Braun, R-Ind., Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., and Maggie Hassan, D-NH, are co-sponsoring the propisal.
"For too long, the crushing heartbreak felt from losing a loved one to a drug overdose, and the opioids that cause them, have plagued American families. This epidemic, fueled by the massive amounts of fentanyl flowing illegally over our southern border into our communities, has only grown worse under Joe Biden's failed open border policies. Every life taken by an accidental drug overdose is a preventable tragedy and we must do everything in our power to stop them. That's why I am leading a bipartisan group of my colleagues to introduce the END FENTANYL Act. We must continue to do everything possible to ensure our brave CBP agents, who are on the frontlines of this battle, have every tool needed to fight back, keep these dangerous drugs out of our country and save lives," Scott said on Friday.
The bill would "require the Commissioner of CBP to review and update the Office of Field Operations' policies and handbooks, as necessary and at least once every three years in order to respond to illegal activity, such as the trafficking of drugs and humans, along the border" and "require the Commissioner of CBP to submit a report to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives that summarizes the policy and manual changes every three years."
The bill was sent to the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. So far, there is no companion measure in the U.S. House.
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BAD DAD REHAB
BY: KIMBERLY ALSUP AND GEORGE PRINGLE
We were excited to not only have the opportunity to visit the set of Bad Dad Rehab and speak with this amazing cast but, to also dial into a Tele-Press conference with Malik Yoba, Robert Ri'chard, Rob Riley, Wesley Jonathan, Rick Gonzalez, Carl Seaton, Roger Bobb, Keronda "KiKi" McKnight, and Robyn Green Arrington. Bad Dad Rehab premieres on Sunday, July 3 at 7pm. This film written by Keronda "KiKi" McKnight was the winner of the 2015 American Black Film Festival Screenplay Competition sponsored by TV One.
Shawn: Wesley Jonathan (The Soul Man, Roll Bounce)
Jared: Rob Riley (Hit the Floor, Bourne Legacy)
Tristan: Robert Ri'chard (Coach Carter, One on One, Cousin Skeeter)
Pierre: Rick Gonzalez (Coach Carter, Roll Bounce)
Mr. Leon: Malik Yoba (Empire, NY Undercover)
DIRECTOR: Carl Seaton
PRODUCER: Roger Bobb
SCREENPLAY: Keronda "KiKi" McKnight
VP, Original Programming & Production for TV One: Robyn Green Arrington
ABOUT BAD DAD REHAB:
Bad Dad Rehab is about four men who are in denial of their poor parenting skills. After turbulence with their respective baby mamas and ex-wives force them to take definitive action, Tristan, Shawn, Pierre, and Jared attend a rehab for deadbeat dads that uses unusual methods to help them become true fathers. Through all the hilarity, hijinks, drama, and soul searching, the men discover fatherhood is less about making babies, and more about making men.
We personally have viewed this film and this will definitely be a film that can be watched for ages. We laughed, cried, so many emotions are connected to this film. Everyone knows someone that fits one of these characters, which will lead to connecting with your own personal experiences.
MALIK YOBA: "Mr. Leon operates a catalyst for growth and development for the dads. I began an organization called the Fatherhood Project Foundation which was inspired by my daughter. I broke up with her mom and it didn't end on the best terms and there weren't any resources available at the time. I came to the point where I began to pray for her and things turned around. So there is a personal connection to this character and this film. Mr. Leon is similar to my real life and the work that I am doing. A lot of healing needs to be done. No one in the cast did this film for a paycheck and everyone had a personal connection. It still amazes me how being a good dad on NY Undercover transformed lives. I still run into people thanking me for J.C. Williams and the father that he was. For Bad Dad Rehab you don't just want to watch it but you want to experience it."
ROBERT RI'CHARD: "Tristan is the quote on quote deadbeat dad. He's a hopeless romantic with a bad pull out method. He's a present father but not an atm. He has a belief that he doesn't need help. Tristan has four baby mamas and he's a lover. I believe that we made a classic and it will be everyone's favorite Father's Day movie."
RICK GONALEZ: "It was interesting exploring the emotional side of Pierre. A lot of emotions came over me the last couple of days filming and made me dig deep. Being a new father of a 3-year-old daughter it forced me to dig deeper into Pierre. (S/N: Robert Ri'chard got on him for himself a new dad when his daughter is 3 and not little anymore.) This film is a celebration of a great cast and crew. People will sit around with their family and feel for this and will get emotional."
WESLEY JONATHAN: "Shawn is an unintentional bad dad. From becoming a dad myself this film brought about emotions in my real life. It's important to convey to any ex-wife or baby mama that not allowing the father to see his children shouldn't be allowed. As hard as a critic as I am of my own work this is something that I can be proud to be a part of. Which doesn't happen often."
ROB RILEY: "Grateful to be a part of this film. I have a personal connection to this film because I was raised by just my mother. This film is a chance to make a change socially. It takes an incredible amount of heart to tell a story such as this."
KERONDA "KIKI" MCKNIGHT: "Inspiration for the film came from being a single mom of a 19-year-old daughter. I had my ups and downs with her father. I wanted to show both sides of the story. Not to bash fathers. This is a love letter to my brothers. This film was intentionally not to spotlight on the women in these men's lives. There are a lot of layers with the women and they have tolerated stuff for too long. This is a salute to the strength of women. This is a great film because while a woman wrote it, this great cast created it. They made the words on the paper tangible. We needed a film that celebrates dads. You will definitely be blessed watching this."
CARL SEATON: "This was a journey to shape this project. We were all affected one way or another by this film. All of the actors brought their A games, everyone was on one accord. I was able to tap into the authenticity of the moment and to protect the actors and this story. This is a special film that will spark conversation. This film will inspire us to be our best selves."
ROGER BOBB: "People cried at the screenings, they were overwhelmed with the realness in the situations in the character's lives. You know it's something special when it sparks emotions from viewers. Not only is this film good but socially relevant."
ON THIS FILM POSSIBLY PERPETUATING STEREOTYPES: "I'm not worried at all about stereotypes. All of these characters are based on real people." KiKi put out a Facebook post for stories about deadbeat dads and was shocked by the amount of responses. Tristan's character comes from her cousin. "He is the most real, has a shoe collection that he has spent a lot of money on instead of giving it to his baby mamas. There is a reason for his madness. He had to work as a kid so he didn't have the normal childhood. The character of Tristan all boils down to a sense of low self-worth. He compensates for his issues with the gold and the shoes that he wears."
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CEO Message | From Emergency Loans to Preventing Displacement: Marking a Transition in NCG's Support of the Bay Area's Nonprofit Sector
More than 40 years ago, changes in federal funding practices undermined nonprofits dependent on those funds to maintain steady cash flow and financial stability. To address this, a group of local funders came together in 1973 to establish the Emergency Loan Fund ("ELF") at Northern California Grantmakers. The ELF provided relief in the form of low-interest loans to nonprofits experiencing short-term cash flow challenges. It was a critical resource in our community for decades.
Over time, changes in federal and state funding policies and the emergence of other resources resulted in steadily diminishing demand for ELF assistance. Ultimately, NCG's Board of Directors made the decision to suspend the fund and redesign it to better meet the current needs of nonprofits.
Today, the top threat to nonprofit sustainability in the Bay Area is displacement due to skyrocketing commercial rents. This alters the character of our neighborhoods, removes key service and safety net organizations from the places they were built to serve, and has other long lasting impacts, with low-income and people of color often hit hardest.
Recognizing that growing numbers of nonprofits were requesting additional support for space and confronting significant challenges to maintaining a presence in the communities they serve, funders from across the Bay Area turned to NCG to discern whether the individual concerns they were fielding from nonprofits amounted to a regional crisis. NCG conducted a survey of Bay Area nonprofits; the stark findings made local headlines.
In partnership with several funders, NCG launched the multi-stakeholder Nonprofit Displacement Project in 2016 to engage nonprofits, the public sector, philanthropy, and private interests in developing solutions to the growing problem of disappearing affordable space for nonprofits. The Nonprofit Displacement Project seeks to increase the sustainability and resiliency of nonprofits by building their real estate asset acquisition and management capacity, supporting access to existing space, development of new affordable space, and advancing policy solutions. Currently, the project is developing a policy agenda and exploring the feasibility of establishing a real estate holding entity, similar to the CAST model, to support nonprofits seeking to purchase and lease space.
The Nonprofit Displacement Project affords NCG a perfect opportunity to deploy ELF funds in alignment with their original purpose – to strengthen Bay Area nonprofits – within the context of the contemporary challenges they face. The ELF funders agreed to repurpose the funds for use in this way, and on May 10th the NCG Board of Directors ratified this decision.
We are excited to take this next step with our Nonprofit Displacement Project. We look forward to sharing more updates in the coming months as we continue to work together to strengthen our nonprofit sector.
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4 edition of The cartography of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, from Cartier to Champlain found in the catalog.
The cartography of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, from Cartier to Champlain
by Ganong, William F.
Published 1889 by s.n. in [S.l .
Cartier, Jacques, 1491-1557,
Canada -- Discovery and exploration -- Cartography,
Canada -- Découverte et exploration -- Cartographie
Statement by W.F. Ganong.
Series CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series = CIHM/ICMH collection de microfiches -- no. 12508, CIHM/ICMH microfiche series -- no. 12508
Contributions Royal Society of Canada.
Format Microform
Pagination 1 microfiche (25 fr.)
The developing accuracy of cartography in the region over the last five centuries can be gauged by using a contemporary satellite image of the Michigan mitten as a guidepost. The first recorded European contact with the Great Lakes Indians occurred in , when Jacques Cartier explored the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Samuel de Champlain was born in Borage, France in , the exact date is uncertain. He was born to a family of master mariners. He received maritime education from his .
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Small's talk was about how Cartier's maps and discoveries had an instant impact on European ideas of Canada, and expanded the early modern European notion of the "oikumene," that is, the inhabitable world, by not only living in the St Lawrence Valley (unlike the seasonal fishers who simply stayed during the summer season), but showing. 2) Cartier explores St. Lawrence Bay leading to French colonization 3) de Champlain est. New France colony 4) Marquette & Joliet discover upper Mississippi Valley 5) after travelling Mississippi River to gulf of Mex. claim land for France and est colony of Louisiana 6) French gov't directly controlled dealings of colony life.
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[William Francis Ganong; Royal Society of Canada.]. lished in the first book of Les voyagesof On the urging of Champlain, de Monts sought and re-ceived a monopoly on the fur trade for the St. Lawrence River area.
Champlain was appointed lieutenant to de Monts with orders to erect a settlement and begin explo-ration of the interior, while Pontgravé was to engage in. The preceding papers of this series have dealt with the early (Pre-Champlain) Cartography of the outer Atlantic and the St.
Lawrence Gulf and River Coasts of Canada as based on records of the voyages of the Cabots and Cortereals (No. Jacques Cartier (). French explorer and navigator. Sources. Early Career.
Born inJacques Cartier was a French mariner who sailed out of the port city of St. Malo. His early life remains a mystery, although we know he undertook voyages of exploration to Newfoundland and Brazil during the early decades of the sixteenth century.
His success on those trips. Ganong, William Francis, The cartography of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, from Cartier to Champlain. ([Montreal, ]) (page images at HathiTrust) Ganong, William Francis, The description and natural history of the coasts of North America (Acadia) / (Toronto: The Champlain Society, ), also by Nicolas Denys and Victor.
Another explorer sent by the French crown, Jacques Cartier, did not stop on the coast of Nova Scotia but continued northwest to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Following the St. Lawrence waterway, he reached the Huron village called Hochelaga, where he asked the Hurons about people dressed like him, in woven cloth.
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Lawrence indiscoverer of the St. Lawrence River incommander of the settlement of Charlesbourg-Royal in –42; b.
probably some time between 7 June and 23 Dec. at Saint-Malo (Brittany), where he died in Cartier had no doubt been going to sea since his youth, but. Belle Isle (French for 'Beautiful Island') is an uninhabited island just off the coast of Labrador and north of Newfoundland at the Atlantic entrance to the Strait of Belle Isle which takes its name.
Named by French explorer Jacques Cartier, the island lies on the shortest shipping lane between the Great Lakes and Europe, and also on the main north–south shipping route to Hudson Bay. Samuel de Champlain >Samuel de Champlain (ca.
) was a French geographer and explorer >whose mission was to establish a joint French and Native American >agricultural and fur-trading colony. In 21 voyages to New France [1] he laid >the foundations for modern Canada. The first European to discover America and remember was Christopher Columbus.
As an Italian by birth, his name would have been Colombo then, and his Spanish sponsors would have called him Colon. For English speakers, his last name has been latinized. Likely first European to Newfoundland. (Prince Henry the Navigator). Verrazano was sailing north from the Carolina coast while Cartier sailed south from Labrador into the Gulf of the St.
Lawrence. Given that Cartier never sailed south of Prince Edward Island and Verrazano barely skirted the southern tip of Nova Scotia, neither fully explored this region. But, we can make some guesses as to the place names.
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Lawrence River Valley, and, in less detail, the region up to and including the eastern Great Lakes. Royal Society of Canada: The cartography of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, from Cartier to Champlain [electronic resource] / ([S.l.: s.n., ?]), also by William F. Ganong (page images at HathiTrust; US access only).
Any and all errors in my discussion of Champlain's maps are of course my own; the maps of Champlain's travels depicted in this post appear on the Museum's website.
I've also adopted passages of the recent editions of Des Sauvages in Samuel de Champlain beforeed. Conrad E. Heidenreich and K. Janet Ritch ().Cartier's discovery of the St. Lawrence River helped prepare the way for the eventual French colonization of much of North America.
Champlain, Samuel de (c. –), France Champlain traveled to North America 12 times between andremaining there for several months at a time. Among his many accomplishments on these voyages.Crucial Maps in the Early Cartography and Place-nomenclature of the Atlantic Coast of Canada William Francis Ganong University of Toronto Press, - Cartography - pages.
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After five years of pilot programs, the Grandview Police Department now has body cameras for every officer in the department.
GRANDVIEW, Mo. — After five years of pilot programs, the Grandview Police Department now has body cameras for every officer in the department.
"It captures a perspective, not the perspective," Grandview Police Sgt. Martin Studdard said.
Body cameras have played a role nationwide in showing a different side to interactions between police and the public. Most police departments want the cameras, but the cost for storing video has been a hurdle for some.
"All of those challenges take years. If you move too fast, you may regret your decision and find out you don't have the infrastructure," Studdard said.
The Grandview Police Department participated in body camera pilot programs for five years, trying to find the best vendor.
This week, the department rolled out a permanent program for all officers. The cost to the city is about $90,000.
"It takes muscle memory to remember to push the button," Officer Michael Murphy said.
Murphy was one of the first officers in the department to get a body camera.
"Its really nice to see officers doing DUIs with them. The in-car camera is great and all, but if we are doing a sobriety test out here, it is nice to get the officer's perspective on how impaired the driver is," Murphy said.
The Kansas City Police Department has shown interest in body cameras, but months after the deadline to announce a vendor, KCPD said it is still in the process of choosing one.
The Grandview Police Department, a much smaller agency, will store its video on a local server.
The video will be stored for 90 days or more. Some footage may be saved separately for criminal cases.
"The thing I love about the body camera video is, it is impartial, it just records. It doesn't record every angle, it doesn't get every perspective, but it's another tool to help us combat crime," Studdard said.
The department's ultimate goal is to synchronize dash cameras and body cameras to create more angles of an incident, Studdard said.


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17 years ago, David Cone became the 15th pitcher to throw a perfect game. Cone, along with Don Larsen and David Wells, sat down and told us about the entire experience.
It was Yogi Berra Day at Yankees Stadium. Coincidentally, Cone threw 88 pitches and Yogi's number was 8. "Do you believe in the baseball God's?" he asked.
Could you imagine standing on the mound with a perfect game on the line? "I could feel my hair growing - the adrenaline rush that you get, the tingling, it's an incredible rush of adrenaline, especially in the 9th inning," Cone said.
The fans were also a huge part of this experience. "Yankee fans are so knowledgeable about the game. They could feel it. The roar from the fans was incredible. The fans, to me, dictate the nature of the game."


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When you are working at home, there are two complementary services you can use to leverage your UDelNet ID to gain access to resources. VPN server allows you access to internal UD hosts with a private address, while the proxy server allows you access to external Web servers with a public UD address. Use one at a time but not both together.
Your home laptop is assigned an IP number from the pool available to your ISP. To use the VPN server on the UDelNet private network, you must configure your VPN client with the UD VPN server information, and every time you connect, you must supply your UDelNet ID/password. This connection establishes a tunnel that is encrypted to keep the data private. All connections to UD hosts are relayed through the tunnel to the VPN server, and the UD host sees the Private IP Number and grants you access, knowing your connection is secure all the way back to your laptop.
When you connect to a Non-UD host, the tunnel is not used, and you are connected directly to the Host using your ISP IP number. This is just as it would be if you were not using the VPN client. This is called split tunneling.
The VPN Server is always looking inward to UDelNet internal hosts; it never connects to the outside on your behalf.
The university has agreements with many non-UD Web services to give UD users access to their collections of data. This access is granted based on their service seeing a connection from a UD IP number. If you connect directly from your home laptop, the service will see your ISP IP number and either deny access or request that you pay for the data.
The solution is to connect to the non-UD Web server through the UDelNet proxy server. To use the proxy server, you must supply your UDelNet ID/password, and all Web traffic is relayed back to your laptop through the proxy server. Connections to other hosts are done directly. The proxy server can only connect to known Web servers, and this is usually easiest to do through the library database service.
The proxy server always connects with a 128.175 UD IP number as required by the non-UD Web services. Use this to gain access to the data from home as if you were on campus.
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4+1 Conference on Literary Translation
April 28, 2012 February 19, 2018 Superstition Review
I was given the opportunity to attend a 4+1 traduire/übersetzen/tradurre/translatar in Vevey, Switzerland this past March. When I chose Switzerland as the destination for my study abroad program, I thought I knew a thing or two about the country; I knew I would be housed in the French-speaking region, and that the other region was German-speaking. I knew that my favorite French author, Rousseau, was actually born in Geneva.
I was surprised, however, to find out just how much I didn't know about the world of Swiss literature and writing. For instance, I had no idea that Switzerland has four official languages and that any Swiss author publishes in one language typically has his or her texts translated into the three languages. Many organizations strongly promote this translation of native authors, and, for that purpose, the 4+1 conference was created. The 4+1 conference is held annually and organized by the Swiss Foundation for the Pro Helvetia culture, along with other organizations of similar interests. This year's conference was dedicated to the English language – promoting both the translation of texts from English and translation of native authors' work into English.
Discussion was led by prominent British writers Jonathan Coe and Jon Steele with the help of their translators. Well-known Swiss writers publishing in Italian, German, Romansh, French, and in the Swiss-German dialect and notable American translator, John Taylor, were also present. While, in most cases, translators tend to work outside of the spotlight (their names sometimes don't even appear on the book jacket) a translated work is just as much the translator's as it is the author's.
"More than a translation, the work I do is rewrite another version," translator Donal McLaughlin said at one keynote. Taylor and McLaughlin shared some of the poems they were in the process of translating—work by Clo Duri Bezzola, Pierre Chapuis, and many more. They discussed the obstacles they faced when translating and the rewarding feeling that came from finding the nearly right word that almost has the same nuance as the original—and how in this way a translated poem becomes a version of the original.
One of the most interesting discussions flouted the French title "L'anglais n'existe pas!" or for those of us who don't speak French, "English doesn't exist!" Surprisingly, the amount of people who spoke English as a second language far surpassed the amount of native English speakers. The debate touched on the validity and plausibility of English as a universal, global language.
Interestingly, questions were often asked in French and then answered in English. Within the same panel, the speakers often would converse in three or four different languages to each other and to the audience at any given moment. As technology makes our world feel smaller, the possibilities for growth and community within the literary world becomes greater and greater. We have unlimited access to stories from all over the world, and readers who can read our work from every corner of the globe.
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Issue 8: We're Big in Japan
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Now that Issue 8 has launched, we've started looking at our Google Analytics to learn more about our readers. Already this has revealed some surprising facts about who visits our site and how they find it. For example, between November 6th and December 6th, 2011, 67% of our viewers visited Superstition Review for the first time. It's great to know that we're attracting so many newcomers.
In that same span of time, there were 4,279 unique visits to our site for a total of 13,230 page views. Our readers visited an average of 3 pages per visit, and our most popular section this month was poetry, with a total of 677 views.
41% of viewers visiting our site found us through referring websites, while only 31% found us using a search engine. This statistic shows that we are increasing our affiliations with other like-minded organizations. Not surprisingly, our traffic skyrocketed on December 1st, the day of our launch, with a total of 1,157 unique visitors to our page on that day alone.
Our most frequently viewed contributors from Issue 8 were: Ashley Caveda with 405 views, Eugenio Volpe with 185 views, Nelly Rosario with 166 views, and Steve Yarbrough with 157 views.
We got the most visits from the United States. In the last month, the top 10 cities to view SR were: Phoenix, Tempe, New York, Columbus, Chandler, Scottsdale, Chicago, Ithaca, Indianapolis, and Gilbert.
Google Analytics shows that we are growing internationally as well. Our visitors came from 75 different countries, with the second highest number of hits coming from Japan. Superstition Review was viewed in 34 languages, with the three most popular being American English, British English, and Japanese.
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These statistics help us get a sense of who is reading Superstition Review, what sections of our site are most popular, and how our readers find their way to our magazine. It really is exciting to see the data behind our growth as a publication. Thanks to all of our readers for visiting.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Review
Just like the candy corn already lining the shelves of your local grocery store, Hollywood is wasting no time this year in capitalizing on the spirit of Halloween. Horror films often tend to fill out the slower periods of the cinematic calendar, but it's not every year we have a film focused on the holiday released over three months ahead of time. Coming from Oscar-winning producer Guillermo del Toro, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark takes cues from recent genre successes It and Stranger Things and is set in the nostalgic past, but there is much more here than simple imitation.
The movie is based on a series of three collections of short stories published between 1981 and 1991 by Alvin Schwartz, which are intended for children, but have been listed by the American Library Association as one of the most challenged book series, often being removed from schools due to parental complaints over their violent and mature content. Like the short stories it's based on, the feature film adaptation of Scary Stories pushes the boundaries of its medium, proving that solid scares and some truly unsettling content are still possible within the realm of PG-13.
Del Toro, following up his award-winning success with 2017's Best Picture-winner the Shape of Water, contributes to a story treatment here along with Saw 3D duo Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan, while The Lego Movie and Hotel Transylvania scribes Dan and Kevin Hageman take credit for the screenplay. Norwegian filmmaker André Øvredal directs, who you may know for delivering 2010's found footage film Trollhunter, or 2016's scarefest The Autopsy of Jane Doe. Both films have been praised by critics, and 2019's Scary Stories continues that trend for Øvredal.
Set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War in 1968, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark begins on Halloween night with three local teenagers wreaking some traditional mayhem in their small town of Mill Valley, Pennsylvania. An aspiring writer with a taste for horror, Stella (Zoe Colletti) isn't exactly your basic teenage girl. She hangs out with her two guy friends, Augie (Gabriel Rush), who secretly has a crush on her, and the mischievous Chuck (Austin Zajur). While avoiding a group of bullies, they meet a young drifter named Ramón (Michael Garza).
Ramón joins them as the group explores a local haunted house. Legend has it that the daughter who lived there, Sarah Bellows, used to poison children, and was locked away. In the room where she was kept, Stella finds her book where she wrote scary stories, and takes it home. Soon, however, she begins to witness new stories writing themselves in the book, characters with the names of her friends dying gruesome deaths, which turn out to be really happening. It's up to Stella to put Sarah's spirit to rest, before she writes more stories, and kills more of her friends.
The challenge with adapting Schwartz's series to film is that the books are merely collections of short, unrelated stories, each only a few pages in length. Del Toro could have gone down the anthology route, building a franchise with a film focusing on one story a piece, but as these stories are each quite succinct, this would require some massive fleshing out of some brief vignettes that don't quite demand such treatment. Inspired partly by his Book of the Crossroads in Pan's Labyrinth, del Toro preferred the idea of making the bound collection a plot device itself.
The benefit of this direction is that fans of the series get to see several memorable stories such as Me Tie Dough-ty Walker! or The Big Toe brought to life in one film, rather than waiting over the course of years for individual installments to be released. If the goal was to be as faithful to the series as possible, the best medium for this to be presented in would probably be a short film anthology akin to The ABCs of Death or a TV series like Black Mirror, but while there certainly could have been potential there, del Toro's approach allows for some creativity with the concept.
The film adaptation of Scary Stories, and it's marketing especially, have elected to focus on Schwartz's scary story Harold as the centerpiece of the film. While he's similar to Michael Myers, this murderous scarecrow's big sequence is quite terrifying, as is a later one involving a nasty reanimated corpse inspired by Schwartz's The Big Toe. However, the most alarming set piece of all comes from Schwartz's short story The Dream, in which the unnerving, giant slug-like "Pale Lady" chases Chuck down hospital corridors in one hypnotic, disorienting nightmare of a scene.
The adaptions are strung together by del Toro's idea of a "book that reads you," in which Sarah, a character invented for this film, can sees into characters' private lives, and writes stories that come to life based on their traumatic memories or secrets. This is an approach with superb potential, but is much more cartoonish in execution than it provides depth. The Jangly Man, for example, a zombie composed of loose body parts – is written into the film based on Ramón's painful memories of his brother being shipped back from the Vietnam War "in pieces."
But the silliness of the villain erodes any chance of psychological value. Comparably, the Big Toe sequence, in which Augie bites down on a corpse's missing toe, stems merely from the context that he's warily ingesting his mother's leftover soup for dinner, not any meaningful material based on his character. Nonetheless, these sequences are still chilling and fun, and while the period setting is almost certainly a copy of recent pop culture hits, the Vietnam angle provides a unique spin, solidifying Scary Stories as a satisfactory early taste of Halloween.
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Directed by André Øvredal.
Written by Dan Hageman and Kevin Hageman. Story by Guillermo del Toro, Patrick Melton, Marcus Dunstan, based on Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz.
Starring Zoe Colletti, Michael Garza, Gabriel Rush, Austin Abrams, Dean Norris, Gil Bellows, and Lorraine Toussaint.
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Q: Apple Remote Desktop - Safari Homepage - How to set to Home Page Using Apple Remote Desktop, how do I initiate Safari, to began with a preferred web site?
Example, I have 50 Mac(s) on my network, and I want each users automatically began on a specific default web site as their Safari Home Page.
Thank you so much and have a beautiful day.
Fabio

A: The fastest thing that comes to my mind is to send an UNIX command to the clients with the following contents:
defaults write com.apple.Safari HomePage 'http://example.com'

This sets the Safari homepage for the user that runs the command.
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2018 continues to be a busy year for the team, with record numbers of incidents since the beginning. With the good weather continuing, this is expected to continue. Please remember that we need your continuing support to do this. Every little bit of help matters, whether it is pennies, pounds or helping us to spread the word, it all makes a difference.
05/04/2018 19:46 – Team tasked to investigate possible object in the water. With light fading, first informant located and possible object identified. Brief search later and members of the public spoken to, team and UK Coastguard satisfied the object in question was in fact local surfers taking advantage of the bigger waves. False alarm with good intent.
06/04/2018 08:53 – The team were called out this morning with our colleagues from Sunderland CRT to a dog over the cliff in Whitburn Coastal Park. On our arrival we found the owner whose Springer Spaniel had fallen down the blow hole whilst chasing birds. The teams worked together to lower one of our rope rescue technicians who retrieved the dog in our animal rescue bag designed for such situations. The dog, Millie, luckily was no worse off from her adventure and was handed over to her owner.
08/04/2018 11:59 – Team were tasked by Humber Coastguard to attend an incident south of Marsden Grotto where an adult male was over the fence near Coastal Marker 57. He was believed to be threatening to jump. SSVLB team together with Fire & Rescue team and Ambulance Service Hazardous Area Response Team stood by while Police negotiated with the person. Teams were asked to withdraw from the immediate vicinity and after a short time the man agreed to come back over the barrier fence and was escorted to safety by Police. All teams were then stood down at 13:00.
08/04/2018 16:19 – Second call of the day to cliffs at Marsden. Team were tasked to Coastal Marker 58 just south of the earlier incident where a female was sitting in a precarious location over the barrier. Fire service team were rigged for rope rescue and three SSVLB team members joined paramedics at the base of the cliff while others stood by on cliff top. The woman was not engaging with any of the rescue services and police negotiators were called and wearing safety harnesses commenced dialogue. After a lengthy stand off and with tide rising, light fading and increasingly dropping temperature the woman was eventually brought off to safety. All teams were thanked for their part in the incident and stood down at 18:50.
14/04/2018 02:42 – The team were paged through the night along with RNLI – Sunderland Lifeboat Station and our colleagues from Sunderland CRT to 3 people in the water at Seaburn. We arrived on scene to find 3 people who had been in the sea but were now out at 2 locations at the north end of Seaburn with police officers. Coastguard officers provided first aid with police, paramedics and firefighters and all 3 were taken into the care of the ambulance service. With confirmation from the casualties that they were the only people involved, HMCG Humber Coastguard Station were satisfied no one else was in danger and we were stood down to return to station.
16/04/2018 19:42 – During a regular training session, team were tasked to assist Police and Ambulance Service with a despondent person on the South Pier. As the team were preparing, the person was brought to safety by other emergency service colleagues and left in their care.
17/04/2018 13:38 – The team were tasked by Humber to a jet ski adrift from Littlehaven heading towards the ferry landing. As the team arrived and spoke to the first informant who informed us that the ski had drifted away before he could start it. Our colleagues from Tynemouth RNLI lifeboat had the ski under tow from their ILB, we assisted with the landing and recovery of it. After ensuring all team members were accounted for we then offered safety advice to the rider.
27/04/2018 19:55 – The team along with our colleagues from Sunderland CRT were called out this evening to assist Northumbria Police with a person threatening to jump or enter the sea at Whitburn. She was also hiding from us. On arrival the individual was engaging with police officers and after a short while agreed to come away from the beach and was handed into the care of the ambulance service.
28/04/2018 13:21 – The team were contacted by Humber to attend Broad landings after a report of a male threatening to jump into the river and possibly under the influence of drugs. Our colleagues from Tynemouth ILB were also tasked. Our Officer In Charge (OIC) liaised with the other emergency services OIC and a plan was devised. The male was very agitated and refused to let anyone near him, after 2 hours the males parents came and after speaking to them he agreed to come away from the edge and into police custody. After ensuring all parties were safe and informing Humber the team was stood down at 15:34.
29/04/2018 18:50 – This evening the team and our colleagues from Sunderland CRT were called to assist Northumbria Police with an incident on the Coastal path at Whitburn. Due to the nature of the incident the teams were asked to remain at a distance while police spoke to the person. North East Ambulance Service paramedics also stood by until the incident was resolved. The casualty was then taken into the care of the Police.
Remember, in any coastal emergency, DIAL 999 and ask for the COASTGUARD.
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Mao Ze-gone as giant statue of Communist leader 'demolished'
Fri, Jan 08, 2016 - 6:49 PM
A gargantuan gold-painted statue of Communist China's founding father Mao Zedong has suddenly been demolished, apparently for lacking government approval, state media said Friday, days after images of it went viral.
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[BEIJING] A gargantuan gold-painted statue of Communist China's founding father Mao Zedong has suddenly been demolished, apparently for lacking government approval, state media said Friday, days after images of it went viral.
Images of the statue of a seated Mao towering some 37 metres (121 feet) over empty fields in the central province of Henan made worldwide headlines this week.
But the 3 million yuan (US$460,000) structure has been destroyed, the People's Net news portal cited local officials as saying, adding the reason was "unclear".
The website is linked to the People's Daily, the official mouthpiece of the Communist Party.
It cited reports from unspecified media as saying the likeness of the man who ruled China with an iron grip for nearly three decades until his death in 1976 "was not registered or approved" by the local government.
Pictures circulating online - which could not be immediately verified by AFP - showed a gaping hole in the rear of Mao's massive golden torso, and his head shrouded in black. Local officials could not immediately be reached.
Construction was reportedly funded by several local entrepreneurs and finished in December after nine months of labour, the HMR.cn portal said this week.
Despite being blamed for millions of deaths, Mao is still widely revered in China and credited with uniting the country.
Meanwhile the Communist leadership tightly controls public discussion of history and seeks to use his legacy to shore up its support.
China's current President Xi Jinping has praised Mao as a "great figure" and revived some of his rhetoric and centralisation of power, while following the party's 1980s conclusion that he also made "mistakes".
Some Internet users criticised the statue, pointing out its location in Henan, the centre of a famine in the late 1950s resulting from Mao's economic policies estimated to have killed as many as 40 million people.
"Have you forgotten about the Great Famine, building that?" asked one poster on Sina Weibo, a Chinese equivalent of Twitter.
Others questioned the statue's resemblance to the "Great Helmsman", who also launched the decade-long Cultural Revolution that saw violence and destruction nationwide.
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Possible Plan to Push Pro-Abortion Health Care Bill Would Have First Vote Monday
National | Steven Ertelt | Mar 11, 2010 | 9:00AM | WASHINGTON, DC
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) — Congressional Democrats have spent weeks trying to figure out how to get a pro-abortion health care bill through the House and Senate. A potential plan to do that would have a House committee voting as soon as Monday on a companion bill to accompany the Senate legislation.
Under the possible plan, as pro-life Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin spells out in an interview with American Spectator, the companion bill helps get the Senate measure through.
The Senate bill contains non-abortion provisions that Democrats must change in order to get enough votes for it in the House.
To do that, Democrats would craft a "shell" bill that will go to the House Budget Committee and be approved as soon as late Monday. The House Rules Committee will then take the bill and add a Rule for debate to it that disallows any amendments from Republicans or pro-life Democrats to fix the abortion funding and other pro-abortion problems with the bill.
The Rules Committee would also strip out any language in the shell bill and add the non-abortion changes to it designed to win enough votes to get it and the pro-abortion Senate measure passed on the House floor.
The Senate would then the "shell" bill and its changes through the reconciliation process, even though the Senate parliamentarian ruled reconciliation isn't in order. With the Senate measure already passed, the "shell" bill would likely qualify for reconciliation and be able to receive a majority vote instead of coming under the filibuster Republicans have used.
"They don't have the votes right now, but they're creating the vehicle so that they can airdrop in whatever changes they want," Ryan told the American Spectator.
But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and one of her top lieutenants today said they have the votes and they think Rep. Bart Stupak is overestimating the number of pro-life Democrats he can get to go along with him in voting no on the bills because of the abortion funding.
Explaining the divide, Matthew Continetti writes at the Weekly Standard that Pelosi doesn't have the votes but hopes moving ahead with the "shell" reconciliation bill will get them for her.
"Nancy Pelosi does not have the 216 votes necessary to pass the Senate health care bill. She's planning to go ahead without the votes of the Stupak 12," he writes.
"What's going on? The final push for Obamacare is about to begin. It starts on Monday, when the House Budget Committee will insert reconciliation instructions into the November House health care bill," he says. "By late Monday / early Tuesday, Budget will pass this bill and send it to the House Rules Committee, where Pelosi will change the language so that it matches the Senate bill. This is the final compromise legislation that may come to a vote on the House floor within weeks."
"Why move ahead when the votes aren't there? Pelosi hopes that launching the process will create enough momentum to flip Democrats her way," Continetti continues.
The Weekly Standard writer says Pelosi and Democrats must move quickly because if they don't get it approved by the Easter recess, the pro-abortion health care bill will likely die.
Ryan also said the Senate parliamentarian's ruling rules out the controversial Slauther Rule that political observers have been discussing in the last 24-48 hours.
He also urged pro-life advocates to not focus as much on reconciliation in the Senate but to keep their eyes on the House.
"Reconciliation is a distraction," he said. "Once the House passes the Senate bill we have the massive new entitlement."
Under the Senate health care bill that will be the main bill Obama and Democrats push through Congress, there is no ban on abortion funding. While some states can opt out of funding abortions under the plan, taxpayers in other states will be forced to pay for them.
But the bill contains other pro-abortion problems that are concerns for pro-life advocates.
The bill requires that at least one health care plan be promoted across the country that pays for abortions, more abortion funding would come via the affordability credits, and many of the so-called limits on abortion funding in the Senate bill are temporary and could expire or be overturned at a later date.
The Senate health care bill also pays for abortions under the Indian Health Service program.
And it contains the Mikulski amendment that would allow the Obama administration to define abortion as preventative care and force insurance plans to pay for abortions.
Finally, the Senate bill does not contain language needed to offer full conscience protection for pro-life medical workers and facilities.
The new Obama health care plan proposing final changes to the Senate bill so it can move through Congress corrects none of these problems outlined by leading pro-life groups as reasons for pro-life advocates to oppose the government-run health care bill.
And the changes Obama submitted for the Senate bill under reconciliation actually increases the potential abortion funding for Community Health Centers.
ACTION: Contact your House member at https://www.House.gov and urge a NO vote on the pro-abortion health care bills. Contact members of the Budget Committee at https://budget.house.gov and urge a no vote on the pro-abortion "shell" bill.


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Synonyms for kaaval or Related words with kaaval
iniyum thedi swapnam kunguma kaattu geetham ithu iddaru njaan kizhakku mazha nooru thaai vandha pennum paravaigal gaanam vayasu mounam kudumba poovum chuvanna marupakkam kapuram vendum raasa meendum njan ponnu velai idhaya kalyaanam ninne vizhigal kutumbam pondatti mattum ninakku kannukal yudham kondu rahasyam mookkuthi thalaivan kavithai kaalamellam dongalu samsaram ninnu arputha
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Kaaval Geetham is a 1992 film starring Vikram and Sithara in the lead roles. The music was by Ilayaraja and directed by S. P. Muthuraman.
Lord Pavadairayan is one of the regional Tamil male deities. He is very popular within the villages. He is one of the Kaaval Dheivams Of Tamil Nadu, India. He is special among other Kaaval Dheivams, in that he is the son of Goddess Angala Parameswari. In most of the temples, he is sitting on the right lap of Goddess Angala Parameswari. He is also said to be the guard for Goddess Angala Parameswari.
The songs were well received, and contributed to the success of the film. Two songs - "Unakkum Matttum Unakkum""," sung by P. Suseela, and "Udalukku Uyir Kaaval", sung by P. B. Srinivas - became hits.
She has co-produced two upcoming films, "Sivappu" along with Muktha Entertainment, a film revolving around Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in Tamil Nadu. and "Kaaval", in which she has also played the female lead.
In 2010, his historical novel 'Kaaval Kottam' received the Fiction Award from The Tamil Literary Garden, Canada. The next year, it got him the prestigious Sahitya Academy Award on the following year.
The film received mixed reviews from critics. "Times of India" rated the film 2 out of 5 and stated that "The problem with "Kaaval" is that it offers nothing new in terms of story and presentation. Almost every development feels been there done that". Gauthaman Baskaran of "Hindustan Times" rated it 1.5 out of 5 and wrote "In the end, the work turns out to be yet another addition to the list of very average movies". "Behindwoods" wrote "To sum up "Kaaval", the cops vs contract killers theme is interesting and it has some good moments when Samuthirakani is in charge. But overall, the film doesn't create the desired impact". Sify wrote, ""Kaaval" is a pucca mass masala entertainer with action, comedy, romance, sentiments and other elements associated with big-hero films. But it manages to entertain only at few places and most of the time; the cliched execution dilutes the intensity".
Kaaval Nilayam (English: Police Station) is a 1991 Tamil crime film directed by Senthilnathan. The film features Sarath Kumar and Anandaraj in lead roles. The film, produced by F. C. Vijayakumar, had musical score by Sankar Ganesh and was released on 11 May 1991.
Padmarajan's stories deal with deceit, murder, romance, mystery, passion, jealousy, libertinism, anarchism, individualism, and the life of peripheral elements of society. Some of them are considered as among the best in Malayalam literature, his first novel "Nakshathrangale Kaaval" ("With only the stars as witness") won the Kerala Sahithya Academy award (1972).
Maanagara Kaaval is a 1991 Tamil-language Indian feature film directed by M. Thiyagarajan. It is loosely based on Mammootty starrer 1 August. Vijayakanth as a super cop to protect the life of Indian Prime Minister (Lakshmi). The movie has received mixed reviews from critics and audiences. It was dubbed in Telegu as "City Police".
Nakshathrangale Kaaval is a 1978 Indian Malayalam film adaptation of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award-winning novel of the same name by P. Padmarajan. It is directed by K. S. Sethumadhavan and produced by Hari Pothan and stars Jayabharathi, MG Soman, Sukumari and Adoor Bhasi in the lead roles. The film had musical score by G. Devarajan.
Kaaval Dheivam (Tamil: காவல் தெய்வம்) is a 1969 Indian Tamil film, directed by K. Vijayan. The film stars Sivaji Ganesan, Sowcar Janaki, Lakshmi and Nagesh in lead roles. The film had musical score by G. Devarajan. The film didn't do well at box-office.
Kaaval is a 2015 Indian Tamil action crime film written and directed by Nagendran R based on a true story. It stars Vimal, Samuthirakani and 'Punnagai Poo' Gheetha, who is also the co-producer. The film, which was initially titled "Nee Yellam Nalla Varuvada", was started in 2013 and released on 26 June 2015.
Usually in the system of Kaval Dheivam, the deities will be outside the sannadhi of the main god. But Lord Pavadairayan is the only Kaaval Dheivam or Parivara Moorthy who has been given a status to sit in the lap of Goddess Angala Parameswari. This is something very special about Lord Pavadairayan.
However "Indiaglitz" praised the film stating "The film apart from its shortcomings deserves praise for its content and chilling presentation backed by deep analysis". The New Indian Express wrote, "Fairly engaging in its story telling style, "Kaaval" seems to be a debutant director's tribute to the police force", calling it a "gripping tale about crime and retribution" and further wrote, .
So when JK learned that Vijayan was finally getting a well-deserved break as director through Subbiah, he agreed readily to give them any of his stories for filming. When Subbiah enquired from JK as to the payment JK expected, JK said that he would be happy even if Subbiah would pay him 5 paise. Subbiah replied since JK had mentioned the number 5, he would pay JK Rs.5,000. JK acquiesced with a smile. The story that Subbiah and Vijayan selected was 'kai vilangu', a novel that JK had written in Kalki in 1961. JK agreed to give Subbiah the rights to the story, with the disclaimer that he would not involve himself in writing the screenplay or dialogues. JK himself changed the title to 'kaaval deivam'. A befitting title, considering the remarkable characterization of Superintendent Raghavan. This, juxtaposed with the Aiyanaar statue, considered to be the guarding deity in the village, which plays a silently evocative role in the story, must have inspired JK to come out with the apposite title of 'kaaval deivam'. Subbiah enjoyed the goodwill of all in the film fraternity, and many of them came forward to appear in guest appearances in his 'kaaval deivam'.
Aravaan (English: "Snake") is a 2012 Indian Tamil epic historical fiction film directed by Vasanthabalan, based on Su. Venkatesan's novel "Kaaval Kottam". It stars Aadhi, Dhansika, Archana Kavi and Pasupathy, with Kabir Bedi playing a prominent role, and Bharath appearing in a cameo role. The film marks noted playback singer Karthik's debut as a music director. "Aravaan" released on 2 March 2012 to mixed reviews and was a box office bomb. The film was dubbed in Hindi as "Jungle The Battleground".
Nakshathrangale Kaaval (English: "The Stars Alone Guard Me") is a Malayalam language novel written by P. Padmarajan and published in 1971. The story revolves around the life of a girl as she matures into a woman. It won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Novel. A film adaptation of the novel was released in 1978 with Jayabharathi and Soman playing the lead characters. It was directed by K. S. Sethumadhavan and scripted by Padmarajan.
On playing the hero roles, Anand Raj mentioned, "When one gets popular being a villain, people around you always push you to take the next step and it was one of those phases when I took up offers to play the lead role". He went on to play lead roles in films, "David Uncle", "Thampi Oorukku Puthusu", "Kaaval Nilayam", "Palaivana Paravaigal", "Katharavan", "En Rajangam", "Kizhakku Veluthathchu", "Government Mappillai", "Pokkiri Thampi", "Puthiya Aatchi" and "My India". Eventhough directors offered him good scripts, the films just didn't work well at the box office.
As per the 2001 census, Kalyanaodai had a total population of 500 with 228 males and 272 females. The sex ratio was 1193. The literacy rate was 81.8. The village fully with a major caste Kallar. This village has one government school from class first to fifth standard. People here are very spiritually oriented , there are few temples for god Vinayaga, Shiva and goddess named Maariyamman and Om Shakthi Devi and also a famous temple in this village is Swami Aathiyappan Temple , it is also called as ( kaaval deivam ) in tamil meaning " god of soldier " for this village and its people.
Vendhar Movies was later confirmed to bankroll the film whose production was scheduled to begin after the release of Vishal's "Aambala" (2015). Talking about the film's concept, Suseenthiran said that "if someone offends a normal guy, he would definitely retaliate then think about a police officer, who gets affected and offended" forms the major crux of the film. In March 2015, lyricist Vairamuthu confirmed "Kaaval Kottam" as the film's title and Madurai was chosen as the film's backdrop. Shortly, the film's title was rechristened as "Paayum Puli" after the 1983 Tamil film of the same name.
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Money and Medicine (PBS)
The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice's (TDI) Elliott Fisher and H. Gilbert Welch are featured in the PBS Need to Know program entitled "Money and Medicine," which examines government health care spending and variations in care.
In the PBS program, Fisher, the director of the Center for Population Health at TDI and a professor of community and family medicine at The Geisel School of Medicine, says, "We all come to a similar conclusion that about 30 percent of U.S. health care spending is devoted to unnecessary services. That's $800 billion a year."
Watch the program, which ran 9/25/12 on PBS.
The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
How Kids React to Screen Time, Food, and Media Stimuli
In an interview, Geisel researchers Jennifer Emond and Diane Gilbert-Diamond talk about their research into the effects of consuming media on children's health behaviors. "Most of the kids find the studies very fun," Gilbert-Diamond says.


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De Vierarmentunnel is een tunnel ten oosten van Brussel op het grondgebied van de gemeenten Tervuren en Kraainem en leidt de R0 onder het Vierarmenkruispunt, de aansluiting op de N3 en de N227, door. De tunnel is 805 m lang en bestaat uit twee tunnelkokers met elk twee rijstroken. Er geldt een snelheidslimiet van 90 km/u.

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The Genius of Play website also provides teachers with suggested easy-to-implement lesson plans featuring fun ways to incorporate play into classrooms with a focus on activities that enhance literacy and math skills, along with take-home print materials with play ideas for busy days for parents.
Through our experience of interacting with children in schools, we realized that the civic curriculum in most schools often puts off young minds from understanding the laws and rights better. Lawtoons was a fun way to make law simple for kids.


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Tears of the Assassin – William Schiele
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William Schiele packs a hefty amount of action and intrigue into Tears of the Assassin, his debut novel published by Inkshares last week. In Assassin, David Diegert, a half-Ojibwa half-white American, is passed from gauntlet to gauntlet, his situation growing worse and worse, until he's forced to take work as a contract killer on the Dark Web. Abused by his father, brother, and high school classmates, Diegert decides to join the military, hoping that he cam earn college tuition through his service. He's put into service with an unofficial group funneling heroin into the US from Afghanistan, and when he loses his temper at his superior officer, he's dishonorably discharged and told to keep quiet about his actions in the military.
He ends up bouncing at a bar stateside, where he gets caught up in Russian mafia intrigue, which ultimately forces his hand, turning him into a killer. Out of options, this is when he decides to go all in on being a killer-for-hire on the Dark Web.
Which gets him deeper into trouble, working for a shadowy illuminati-esque organization working on the final stages of its plan to dismantle the US in order to own the world's last valuable currency, a bitcoin-esque affair.
If my summary makes Tears of the Assassin seem like a book that does a good deal of meandering, that's because it is. As I read, checking the percentage of the book I'd completed, I found myself wondering when the other shoe would drop. The action was great, the writing compelling, and the characters interesting, but I felt like the book was missing a sort of cohesion, a central arc toward which Diegert would be thrust. It may be the fact that he's such a capable and active protagonist that draws attention to his seemingly aimless wandering, but the fact remains that he feels like an arrow loosed for firing's sake; lacking a target, but attractive in flight.
There are appealing twists and turns in Tears of the Assassin, made especially effective by the manner in which hints are dropped just prior to the reveal, making the reader feel clever for being one step ahead of Diegert. All in all, it's a thrilling read—punctuated by intense moments of violence and thrilling chase scenes and the like.
But let's talk for a moment about the title and its connection to one of the themes of the novel. Tears of the Assassin specifically refers to the fact that Diegert is an efficient machine when he's in "kill mode," but collapses under the weight of his actions when he's with women—often those he's shared a moment of intimacy with. Diegert is our Killer with a Conscience™, the ruthless man who weeps on the shoulder of the closest available woman at his own ruthlessness. It leads to somewhat problematic characterizations of gender roles in the novel, but this was intentional. When he's confronted by the reality of his limited, somewhat clichéd view of the world, Diegert doesn't quite know how to respond. It ends up shining a light on his own twisted view of things, and though he never seems to resolve that particular thread, it's an important question that is asked well.
Problematic characterizations notwithstanding (whether they were intentional or otherwise), Tears of the Assassin is a good read. It's dynamic, action-packed (if a smidgen directionless at times), and just plain fun.
Bonus points to Mr. Schiele for an ending that didn't redeem Diegert at all, but followed exactly the kind of failures and challenges that plagued Diegert throughout his story. The ending really tied the book with a neat, dark bow.
Tears of the Assassin is available on Amazon and directly from Inkshares.
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who has the trademark to "Killer With A Conscious"?
Hi there! Nobody owns the trademark to Killer with a Conscience. I used the mark to imply that the Killer with a Conscience is a character archetype that has a certain appeal.
Sweet! Great review, I'll have to check Tears of the Assassin out!


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Q: DRF API requires CSRF on POST in Angular App, works in Postman I have a simple endpoint in my API (Django Rest Framework).
When I try to make a HTTP POST requests in Postman, it works perfectly fine.
However, in my Angular 5 app, when I do POST request to the same endpoint, I get Http 403 error with CSRF missing error:
CSRF verification failed. Request aborted.

My API viewset
(api/views.py):
class EventViewset(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
    serializer_class = EventSerializer

    def get_queryset(self):
        return Event.objects.filter(server__organization=self.request.user.organization)

My angular app works on localhost:4200
Angular POST:
  public createEvent(organization, data) {
    return this.http.post(`${this.apiUrl}/${organization}/events`, data);
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Several new or forthcoming books as well as a policy study warrant the attention of American Mandarin Society members. In them, we can find serious treatment of China's politics, foreign policy, and military. The Council on Foreign Relations study merits attention particularly for what it says about thinking in Washington D.C. and for insights into how a new Clinton administration might approach China.
In his January 30 Politburo study session, Xi spoke about his strategic vision for 13th FYP period. The Xinhua report on this used 未雨绸缪. It is not clear if Xi himself used it, but it is a good chengyu to learn. It means to take precautionary steps before something happens (like preparing for rain before the storm arrives).
Freezing Point, a weekly supplement to the China Youth Daily newspaper started in 1995, was known for its insightful investigative reporting in the early 2000s. After Yuan Weishi published an article critical of education about the Boxer Rebellion in early 2006, the magazine was briefly suspended, then reorganized without some of its harder-hitting reporters. Freezing Point still has a welcome presence on WeChat, where you can read a few "classic articles" f rom 2015 on topics such as the lives of China's rural elderly and the summer stock market tumble.
The Commander of U.S. Pacific Command, Admiral Harry Harris, came to Washington to deliver testimony before Congress and deliver a press conference. In light of China's controversial PLA deployments in the South China Sea after Wang Yi said Beijing would not militarize the region, Admiral Harris' remarks provide a useful U.S. statement about military policy and options in Asia.


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Please note that exemptions from property taxation are exemption from ad valorem taxation; they do not apply to direct levies or special taxes. For example, annual tax bills may include other items such as special assessments, special taxes, direct levies, delinquent county utility billings, weed and hazard abatement charges, and Mello-Roos Bonds. None of these items are defined as property taxes under the law because they are not based upon the assessed value of the property. Exemption only applies to ad valorem taxes.