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Princess Abigail, 'last Hawaiian princess,' dies at age 96
by: Elizabeth Ufi, Nexstar Media Wire
Posted: Dec 12, 2022 / 02:49 PM MST
Updated: Dec 12, 2022 / 02:49 PM MST
HONOLULU (KHON2) — The Kawānanakoa family announced that Princess Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa had passed away on Sunday, Dec. 11 at the age of 96.
Her death was revealed to the public on Monday at the Iolani Palace, America's only royal residence where the Hawaiian monarchy dwelled but now serves mostly as a museum. Kawānanakoa died peacefully in her Nu'uanu home where her wife Veronica Gail Kawānanakoa was by her side.
"Abigail will be remembered for her love of Hawai'i and its people," said Veronica, "and I will miss her with all of my heart."
FILE – Abigail Kawananakoa, right, and her wife Veronica Gail Worth, appear in state court in Honolulu on Sept. 10, 2018. Kawananakoa, the so-called last Hawaiian princess whose lineage included the royal family that once ruled the islands and an Irish businessman who became one of Hawaii's largest landowners, died on Sunday, Dec. 11, 2022. She was 96. (AP Photo/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher)
Princess Abigail was the only child of Princess Lydia Kamaka'eha Liliu'okulani Kawānanakoa Morris and William Jeremiah Ellerbrock.
She was born on April 23, 1926, in Honolulu and by the age of five, the princess was legally adopted by her maternal grandmother, Princess Abigail Wahiika'ahu'ula Campbell Kawānanakoa. Her grandmother raised her in the regal atmosphere of Hawaiian nobility.
She also attended an American school in Shanghai and graduated from the all-female Notre Dame High School in Belmont, California, where she was a boarding student.
Princess Abigail was a patron of the Native Hawaiian language, culture and arts. She held no formal title but was a living reminder of Hawaii's monarchy and a symbol of Hawaiian national identity that endured after the kingdom was overthrown by American businessmen in 1893.
James Campbell, the princess's great-grandfather, was an Irish businessman who made his fortune as a sugar plantation owner and one of Hawaii's largest landowners. He had married Abigail Kuaihelani Maipinepine Bright. Their daughter, Abigail Wahiika'ahu'ula Campbell, married Prince David Kawānanakoa, who was named an heir to the throne.
Their daughter Lydia Kamaka'eha Liliu'okulani Kawānanakoa Morris had Abigail with her husband William Jeremiah Ellerbrock. After the prince died, his widow adopted their grandchild, the young Abigail, which strengthened her claim to a princess title. She acknowledged in an interview with Honolulu Magazine in 2021 that had the monarchy survived, her cousin Edward Kawānanakoa would be in line to be the ruler, not her.
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In honor of the princess, the United States and Hawaiʻi state flags will be flown at half-staff at the Hawaiʻi State Capitol and at all state offices and agencies as well as the Hawaiʻi National Guard.
Services for the princess are in the process of being coordinated.


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Q: are signed integer and unsigned integer one-one mapping with each other? I want to make ip-port pair as a search key, so I have the following function
    int64_t make_pair(u_int32_t ip, u_int16_t port)
    {
            u_int64_t ip_u64 = ip;
            ip_u64 = ip_u64 << 16;
            int64_t ip_port_pair = (int64_t)(ip_u64 + (u_int64_t)port);
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indeed, I want to transform a u_int64_t to int64_t because it is not convenient for unsigned integer to compare value. But I'm afraid the cast from u_int64_t to int64_t is not one-one mapping and then there are some conflicts or search error.
so I want to ask is the cast from u_int64_t to int64_t is not one-one mapping or not? thanks!

A: The C standard guarantees that int64_t uses two's-complement representation with no padding bits, so it's implicitly guaranteed that there's a one-to-one mapping. (I believe it's still possible for the most negative value to be a trap representation, but that's unlikely in practice. Unlike ordinary signed integer types, the intN_t types cannot make the most negative value a trap representation; all 2N possible representations are well-defined and have distinct values.)
On the other hand, there's no guarantee that int64_t exists.
A conversion from uint64_t to int64_t yields an implementation-defined result for values outside the range of int64_t. The result is almost certain to be the one you'd probably expect, produced by simply reinterpreting the representation, but it's not guaranteed.
So in practice, you can very probably get away with converting between int64_t and uint64_t.
But why do you need to? You say it's "because it is not convenient for unsigned integer to compare value". What's inconvenient about it? The relational operators are well defined for both signed and unsigned types.

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I love how it looks now! I can't wait to get more charms, I have been hooked on this, and I love collecting little meaningful charms to place on the bracelet.
These were a safety chain, so I don't lose the bracelet and a charm that's called cosmic stars and I got it in purple, cause it's my favorite color, that charm was special to me, cause my fiancé picked it out and made me look twice at it, and I then foundit absolutely amazing.
Me and my fiancé are doing better than ever, planning our future and slowly deciding how to redecorate our home. I am going to be an assistant nurse and am starting my education the 7th of March, I can't wait, I'm so excited and a little nervous too. It's always hard being all new to something, so I hope to get a good start.
My fiancé is a great handyman, so he has been fixing things in our home – something that I am quite thankful for! He is a perfectionist and I can be completely sure that everything he touches, will be left perfect, hah! I'm a lucky woman, he is a good man, who always seems to think of me, no matter what he is doing or where he is, and I can't picture life without him, this is what I imagined life would be as a little girl, when you found the only one, I can't describe how lucky I feel!
Tomorrow we are having a family get together at ours and I am cooking pork roast and I can't wait to spend some time with my family, I love cooking for them and for my fiancé, so tomorrow evening will be really cozy, I'm gonna spoil them all!
Life, love and the future!
Lately I am trying to get ready for my education and trying to get our home clean and good looking! Strange – but true none the less..
I never thought that day would come, where I keep thinking that I need to do the laundry else it would pile up, or I would remember to put all my make-up back in perfect order, else it would look cluttered and messy, but lately I do. (Or ever since my fiancé moved in!) My fiancé have had a very good influence on me I have to say, he has made me see how lovely our home can look when it's clean and organized and he is good at reminding me to just put things back after using them, it's much easier than running around cleaning at the last minute, before guests arrive, or when you get too annoyed at the clutter!
I think being engaged to him has somehow made me more grown up, more determined and less messy, and yeah it sounds so cliché, but he makes me into a better person.
So right now I am passing time at home, waiting for the 29th of February, by cleaning and making my little "stay at home wife" lists! I am not perfect at it, but I'm getting there.
Do you guys have any strange lists you make? I am thinking I might need more lists in my life, cause it keeps you organized and I want 2016 to be the year of organization and calm, and my lists makes me more calm and a lot less stressy and forgetful – who dosnt what that?
Here is a few pictures of our home right now, we are constantly redecorating, because we wish for a different look in our bedroom and living room right now – we have started to save up for a new bed as we speak, cause the one we have now is terrible!
Our new Danish designer table, lamp and chairs! The chairs are pretty well known in Denmark and are called the 7 chair from Arne Jacobsen, the table is a Fritz Hansen and the lamp is from Fritz Hansen too. Now we just need some more pictures up on the walls, but it starting to look very cozy already.
My fiancé changed the paintings a few months ago, so now my bedroom screen painting is in the living room and vice versa, it really suits it a lot better! The lamps are old Japanese lamps and my sofa is white leather – I know white, but I love it. It looks so good now after we got the floors sanded down in the hallway and the living room.


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India's Submission to the 86th Academy Awards
The Film Federation of India (FFI) announced India's representative in the Best Foreign Film category at the 86th Academy Awards, and the choice has generated its share of controversy. In selecting a largely unknown Gujarati film The Good Road over movies that have already garnered a considerable amount of international acclaim — such as The Lunchbox and Ship of Theseus — it raises questions as to what the FFI considers its goals for the Indian film industry and how it believes it can best achieve them.
In a perfect world, the best film would win every award, but that's not the way award shows work, either in India or in the U.S. The Best Foreign Film category at the Oscars is particularly tricky because it consists of multiple phases. First, all of the submissions from participating countries are winnowed to a short list of nine candidates. The short list is further narrowed to five final nominees, from which an ultimate winner is chosen.
Given that dozens of countries participate every year, even making it to the short list is a considerable challenge. Faced with a stack of approximately sixty DVD screeners, committee members will naturally begin with titles they've heard of before, those films that have already created a buzz in the popular culture. Submissions like The Grandmaster (Hong Kong), Renoir (France), and Wadjda (Saudi Arabia) are currently available in theaters throughout the U.S., while others are coming off of successful runs at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).
One of those films is the Hindi movie The Lunchbox. It's been getting good word of mouth for a while now, and a successful showing at TIFF prompted Sony Pictures Classics to purchase the rights to distribute the film in North America. This is a big deal, because Hindi movies aren't normally publicized in mainstream media in the U.S. Sony, on the other hand, is sure to spend at least some money promoting The Lunchbox to an audience beyond the Indian-American community, the traditional audience for Hindi films.
While The Good Road may be India's best film, it's hard to turn down the publicity The Lunchbox is already guaranteed by its deal with Sony. Instead, the FFI will have to foot the bill for promoting The Good Road by itself. I fully expect to be able to watch The Lunchbox in a local theater in the near future. That won't happen with The Good Road. It may be a great movie, but no one's going to see it.
Given the sheer volume of movies made in India every year, India should have a perennial presence in the list of Oscar nominees. However, the FFI has shown a penchant for short-sightedness in its Oscar submissions in recent years. Taare Zameen Par (2008) and Peepli Live (2010) were more effective for Indian audiences than international ones. Barfi! (2012) was plagued with suspicion of intellectual property theft. Harishchandrachi Factory (2009) was good, but not great. One has to look back to Rang De Basanti (2006) and Devdas (2002) for films that had a real shot at a nomination. India's last Oscar nominee was Lagaan in 2001.
Earning a nomination would bring prestige and attention to the Indian film industry as a whole. One of the FFI's stated missions is Popularizing the Cinema: "To popularize the film industry and its products in India and abroad." One of the best ways to do that is by securing an Oscar nomination, and few Indian films in recent years have been better poised to do that than The Lunchbox. Again, The Good Road may be the best film — perhaps even by a wide margin — but the FFI seems to have ignored its own mission in selecting it over The Lunchbox as India's 2013 Oscar representative.
Update: Now that critics are finally taking a look at The Good Road, its selection as India's Oscar submission seems even more questionable. Variety has some suggestions for how to revamp the Best Foreign Film category so that well-regarded movies like The Lunchbox can still compete for the award, even if they aren't selected by their country's committees.
This entry was posted in Articles and tagged 2013, FFI, Film Federation of India, Hindi, Indian, Movie, Oscars, The Good Road, The Lunchbox on September 23, 2013 by Kathy.
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13 thoughts on "India's Submission to the 86th Academy Awards"
JustMeMike September 23, 2013 at 5:50 pm
Well said Kathy. I was hoping that No One Killed Jessica would garner a nomination. it came out in January of 2011 – but I can see why It didn't get very far. It was a film which condemned the police and the judiciary in India.
Which likely means the FFI must play ball.
While I wasn't aware of the intellectual property issues surrounding Barfi, I thought that film was an attempt to drive on the same ramp – with a silent character that The Artist took to Oscar glory. While I enjoyed the film – I couldn't find a way to do a review of it.
Lagaan – was a film that put aside the communal differences – with the British, of the Raj days as the target. A political film wrapped around a sporting competition set in a period film seemed a good idea at the time. And it was a good film. But it was also a very safe choice.
I also saw Peepli Live – and had a good feeling about it but it was set in an underdeveloped region and was concerned with the farmers suicides. Likely it was even too remote for many urban Indians, much less international audiences, I also saw Harishchandrachi Factory, a film about the beginnings of the Indian film industry a century ago. But it didn't really strike me positively.
I think the FFI walks a very narrow line in balancing politics, communities, history, and entertainment. and I wholeheartedly agree that they are mishandling their own mission. Especially since Irrfan is known on the world's screens for his role in Life of Pi., it does seem puzzling why they chose a regional film rather than The Lunch Box.
I can't remember where, Mike, but I think I read that the committee's rationale for choosing The Good Road was that it best depicted India. That's the job of of the tourism board, not the film board!
Regarding Barfi!, I found a link to this article in the comments of my review. It's got some great video clips of scenes from other movies that Barfi! copied shot-for-shot.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/barfi-vs-hollywood-homage-inspired-or-copied/293100-8-66.html
Nav September 24, 2013 at 5:21 am
Extremely balanced & fair view. I like it.
Thanks, Nav! 🙂
Deepak September 24, 2013 at 3:54 pm
I'm also very surprised that The Good Road was selected, though I honestly thought Ship of Theseus was supposed to be the front-runner, and my personal choice would've been Lootera. It seemed like a lock — period piece, doomed romance, great aesthetics, music, and acting, plus the bonus of Adil Hussain, who Americans know from Life of Pi.
This whole controversy reminds me of 2005, when Black was universally expected to be the Oscar submission only to be overruled in favor of Paheli, a decent but forgettable fantasy-romance. Both had Rani Mukherjee and Amitabh Bachchan, but Paheli had Shahrukh Khan and was far more accessible and entertaining, so it got chosen.
The FFI doesn't seem to realize that what's new and progressive for Indian cinema has been done all around the world for years. Just because Taare Zameen Par was the first mainstream Indian movie to deal with autism in a fairly realistic way (Koi Mil Gaya obviously doesn't count in this regard…), they think non-Indian audiences will love it the way Indians have, but it doesn't work that way.
Also, why didn't 3 Idiots get chosen in its year? Not that it's a great movie by any means, but it got so much publicity and public support that Fox Searchlight released the movie on DVD in American retailers like Target! That's gotta be the most exposure any Indian movie has gotten since Saawariya.
And then there's the Indian bureaucracy, which is plagued by corruption; whoever pays the most money gets their voice heard the loudest, though I doubt that's what happened here since The Lunchbox had Karan Johar supporting it and we all know he's got money to blow.
Haven't seen Lunchbox or Theseus or Good Road, so I can't comment on their quality, but I hope India gets the nomination. And that the FFI starts modifying its selection process/weeding out the corrupt members. Unfortunately those things are probably mutually exclusive…
Indian movies are finally getting to a competitive level with those of other nations, both technically and creatively, now the FFI just needs to do its job properly and really select the cream of the crop for Academy Award consideration.
By the way, what do you mean by the intellectual property controversy regarding Barfi? Never heard about that.
Thanks, Deepak! I totally agree about Lootera. It's shot so beautifully, and it's based on an O. Henry story that may already be familiar to Oscar voters. I had no idea about Black being passed over for submission in its year. That's another movie that would've seemed like a slam dunk for nomination. The movie is based on the life of Helen Keller, an inspirational historical figure that every American child learns about in school. 3 Idiots should've been a lock, too. Just serves to reinforce your point that the Indian committee keeps making its selections without considering the audience.
I added a link to this story into the article above, but here's a link to a great piece on Barfi! ripping off several different movies.
ashokbhatia September 25, 2013 at 12:27 pm
Look forward to your review of The Lunchbox, as and when you get to see it!
I'm checking this site daily in anticipation of a release date : http://sonyclassics.com/thelunchbox/
Nicky September 26, 2013 at 4:44 pm
The Good Road may be a great film but what FFI should have thought is that we need to select a film that would make it to the final 5,get us an Oscar.That need not necessarily be the best film it needs to be the right film.
Academy awards are not the same as Indian National Awards.The FFI doesn't get this point,they go through a certain process every year to select a best film for National Award just like they did in case of The Good Road.Now you don't go over the same National Award selection process and select the film for Academy.The logic works differently for Academy in terms of Indian Story setting but Universal in appeal,reviews at International Film Festivals,US Studio as distributor(this one pretty vital i believe).
A 25 year old ordinary movie going citizen like me understands that you need to select a winnable film for the Academy which doesn't necessarily be a Great film but the FFI with all its collective wisdom doesn't get this point.
Lastly,in one of your above comments you said that you read somewhere that the FFI committee thought it(TGR) best depicted India,if that was their selection logic then that straight away knocks out The Lunchbox.The Lunchbox doesn't best depict India as a whole but the setting is very unique only to India and in specific Mumbai yet universal in appeal.Anyway,India is far too a diverse country to be depicted by a single film.
Please correct me if i am wrong,you are a very good critic and have a very good understanding of Cinema and the relevant stuff 🙂
Your assessment is spot on, Nicky. Ruling out a movie because it doesn't represent the whole of India is just as silly as if an American committee had ruled out a film because it only took place in New York City. I really hope the FFI is listening to the backlash it's getting for its recent selections, and perhaps it will heed the message next year. 🙂
Nicky September 28, 2013 at 10:36 am
Thanks Kathy.As you said hope they learn their lessons and also hope that the Universe aligns itself again next year and out comes a movie like Lunchbox again 🙂
Nicky October 1, 2013 at 6:32 am
Full text: FFI's letter to 'The Lunchbox' makers seeking an apology
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/full-text-ffis-letter-to-the-lunchbox-makers-seeking-an-apology/425643-8-66.html
Kathy Post author October 3, 2013 at 6:46 pm
Whoa! What a huffy response. It almost sounds as if the FFI deliberately didn't select The Lunchbox just because its director, Ritesh Batra, had spoken publicly as though he expected a nomination. Batra responded to the letter with a polite apology, making the FFI look even snootier than it already did:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/Ritesh-Batra-uninterrupted-reveals-future-projects/articleshow/23394663.cms

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Google Chrome OS: 3 reasons it matters, and 4 reasons it's irrelevant
By Jason Hiner in Tech Sanity Check , in Enterprise Software on July 12, 2009, 5:00 PM PST
Google has finally announced its long-expected operating system, the Chrome OS. Here's what we know about it, plus my take on both why it matters and why it could turn out to be irrelevant.
No one is surprised Google announced last week that it is building an operating system. It's been one of the worst kept secrets in the technology world that Google has long desired to build an OS to take a shot at the Microsoft Windows monopoly. In the wake of the announcement, Google CEO Eric Schmidt even admitted that Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have wanted to build a Web browser and operating system for years, but Schmidt initially opposed the idea and only recently gave in.
Google's idea is to essentially create a thin client operating system for consumers. This is not going to have a big impact on IT departments and businesses, many of which are experimenting with Windows-based thin client solutions such as VDI. However, IT pros should understand Chrome OS because you can be sure some workers will try to bring it into the business.
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Thus, let's take a look at the few details we know about the Chrome OS at this point, and then look at the reasons why it will matter and the reasons why it may turn out to be virtually irrelevant.
Here's what we know
It will run with a Linux kernel as its base
It will boot directly into the Chrome Web browser
It will be aimed primarily at netbooks
It will run on both x86 and ARM processors
It will not be designed to have local storage; all data will be stored in the cloud
Google will not entice developers to build software to run on the Chrome OS; instead, they want them to build Web apps that will run on any standards-based browser
The three most important features will be "speed, simplicity and security," according to Google
Google will release the software to the open source community before the end of 2009
Announced Chrome OS hardware partners: Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba.
Netbooks running Chrome OS will be available in the second half of 2010
This is Google's official explanation of the problems that it is trying to solve with Chrome OS:
People want to get to their email instantly, without wasting time waiting for their computers to boot and browsers to start up. They want their computers to always run as fast as when they first bought them. They want their data to be accessible to them wherever they are and not have to worry about losing their computer or forgetting to back up files. Even more importantly, they don't want to spend hours configuring their computers to work with every new piece of hardware, or have to worry about constant software updates. And any time our users have a better computing experience, Google benefits as well by having happier users who are more likely to spend time on the Internet.
Three reasons why it matters
3. Because Windows needs more competition
Nearly two decades after Microsoft Windows conquered the PC, very few real challenges have been mounted against its dominance. Long-time rival Apple Macintosh has recently had a resurgence, but it's still hovering at less than 10% of the total market. This market is ripe for innovation and a new competitor. In many quarters, Windows fatigue has set in, especially in the notoriously price-conscious consumer market and in light of the Vista debacle. The virus, spyware, and security troubles of Windows are its biggest weaknesses and Google is wise to target those soft spots with Chrome OS.
2. Because Chrome OS will be cheap
Google has confirmed that the Chrome OS will be open source and will not have any licensing fees. That will enable Chrome OS-based netbooks to be cheaper than both Windows-based netbooks and ARM-based smartbooks from Qualcomm. Plus, once we start talking about nettops, it's entirely possible that we could see a $100 PC (without monitor) running the Chrome OS.
1. Because it's from Google
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Four reasons why it's virtually irrelevant
4. It's running Linux
So is 2010 going to be the year of Linux on the desktop since Chrome OS is based on Linux? Every year for the past decade was supposed to be "The Year of Linux on the Desktop." It hasn't happened and it's not because it was an idea ahead of its time or it needed a stronger champion. The mass market has rejected Linux on the desktop. Linux is nothing more (or less) than a niche OS loved by a loyal group of highly-technical users. Even Google can't change that, unless it's prepared to write Linux device drivers for all of the world's printers, digital cameras, keyboards, and mice.
3. It's too late
By the time Chrome OS is released, Windows 7 will be everywhere (at least in the consumer market) and Mac OS X will be faster and simpler with the release of Snow Leopard. If Google really wanted to make a powerful entrance into the OS market, the time to do it would have been mid-2007 when it was obvious that Windows Vista was a failure and it would take Microsoft a couple years to fix it. The opportunity for an OS to make a major impact on the PC market has passed. The OS just isn't that important anymore. Windows and Mac both do a pretty good job of making the OS get out of the way as quickly and easily as possible. Chrome OS probably won't be able to do that because it will start out with massive device driver incompatibilities with PC accessories.
2. Google hasn't proven it can build an OS
Google hasn't exactly knocked anyone's socks off with Android, its mobile OS. While Android has potential and still has time to develop, it feels like beta software in a market that demands greater "finish" and attention to detail (see iPhone and Palm Pre). Plus, Android itself was originally touted to be a netbook OS. Therefore, the release of Chrome OS is a de facto indictment against Android, despite the fact that Google executives have tried to downplay it. Maybe Google has realized that the Java software sitting on top of a Linux codebase in Android would have severe performance limitations on a PC. Whatever the case may be, the fact that Google will have overlapping netbook operating systems does not inspire a lot of confidence that Google knows what it's doing in the OS market or has a sound strategy.
1. It's limited to netbooks
So here's the skinny on netbooks. They have two great features: They are small and cheap. They also have two big drawbacks: They are terrible and a lot of consumers regret buying them (verified by a recent NPD survey). The consumer backlash against netbooks has already begun and by the time we see Chrome OS netbooks from Google's hardware partners in the second half of 2010, the netbook phenomenon will either have retreated into the background or morphed into something better. And then Google will have to scramble to make Chrome OS available on a wider variety of notebook computers, as well as on nettops.
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Israeli air strikes hit sites across the Gaza Strip on Monday in retaliation for a rare long-distance rocket attack that struck a house near Tel Aviv.
The rocket from Gaza that hit a house in Israel early Monday was a rare long-distance strike and Israel's army said it was fired by Hamas.
The response from Israeli forces was immediate and massive. On Monday they struck targets across the Gaza Strip, including the offices of Hamas' supreme leader, in response to a surprise rocket attack from the Palestinian territory, as the military bolstered its troops and rocket-defence systems in anticipation of a new round of heavy fighting with the Islamic militant group.
Israel, whose strikes began around the same time Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met US President Donald Trump in Washington, has not commented on the claim.
Israel response was a quick blitz targetting the Gaza Strip. Hamas's interior security office in Gaza City was also hit. In the process of these strikes, they destroyed several local businesses including a school of motoring and his and Associated press office.
Most major cities and civil defence authorities cancelled sports events and public transportation in southern Israel. The Israeli army said air raid sirens wailed across southern Israel late Monday night, and Israeli media reported at least 30 rockets fired into the country, but it provided no further details.
"Egyptian efforts succeeded with a ceasefire between the occupation and the resistance factions," Hamas spokesperson Fawzi Barhoum said.
Further exchanges of fire occurred after the ceasefire announcement, but calm seemed to return by around midnight (2200 GMT).


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The ancient invitation of the Buddha was to "come and see" for yourself the truth of the way things are. In this retreat, we will weave together traditional approaches to Samatha-Vipassana (calming and insight) practice as well as body-based energy and awareness practices. This combination will support us in cultivating tranquility of mind, balance of body, and the capacity to see deeply into the nature of our own experience with wisdom and love. The aim of this practice is liberation, the freedom to be joyfully compassionate here and now for the care and benefit of all beings.
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[Television] Kevin Smith and Greg Grunberg are Geeking Out for AMC
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Comic Book Men has been a big success for AMC, so much so, that it is giving Kevin Smith another show about comic books and pop culture.
In Geeking Out, Kevin Smith and actor Greg Grunberg, will talk comic books and pop culture, watch clips from related media properties, and conduct interviews with celebrities. Honestly, from the press release it sounds a lot like DC's All Access and Marvel's Your Universe, but with more freedom to expand into other areas.
The eight-episode series will debut at the San Diego Comic Con in July, with the series kicking off later that summer.
While I have a ton of respect for Kevin Smith, there are already a ton of online shows doing this exact same thing that AMC could tap into. But I guess with Kevin Smith's geek cred card at an all time high, it makes sense to go with someone everyone recognizes rather than an Internet celeb who only has several million subscribers to their channel.
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AMC today announced that it has ordered a new late-night talk show, "Geeking Out" (Working Title). Hosted by Kevin Smith ("Comic Book Men," "Clerks") and Greg Grunberg ("Heroes, "Heroes Reborn" "Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens"), the 30-minute show will take a timely look at pop culture through a fanboy lens and feature talk, clips, celebrity interviews and out-of-the-studio segments. The series is produced by Matador Content and The Weinstein Company in association with Bandwagon Media with Jay Peterson, Patrick Reardon, Smith and Grunberg serving as executive producers.
The show is expected to premiere with a special episode covering Comic-Con International: San Diego in late July, with eight more episodes to run weekly starting in late summer.
"Kevin and Greg are both true fans of this content, and share a deep passion for talking about it, and engaging other fans about it. But it is their natural chemistry as hosts that really brings this idea together," said Joel Stillerman, president of original programming and development for AMC and SundanceTV. "As part of our growing non-fiction slate, we wanted to create a broadly entertaining venue for hardcore fans and general viewers where we can break down all things fanboy on a weekly basis; and we wanted to bring those fans great interviews and exclusive looks into the world of fanboy culture. We look forward to sharing this highly entertaining duo with our viewers."
"AMC has been my TV family for five seasons of 'Comic Book Men' now, so I know that 'Geeking Out' is in the perfect, fan-friendly network hands," said Smith. "I can't wait to lose fluids on the airwaves of my favorite channel over the genre gems we're gonna get insider access to due to gregarious Greg's bonafides! And to make it even more of a family affair, 'Geeking Out' lets me work with the Weinsteins again – the two guys who started my career 22 years ago! I'm lucky to be working at all, let alone working with friends and family on a dream show where all we do is talk about all the media that makes us moist!"
"I get all my work from my friends. Now it's time for me to take advantage of those relationships even more," said Grunberg. "I am going to get every single genre-based writer, director and actor I know to come on our show and geek out with us. And they're going to thank me for it. I love how Kevin Smith smells and we fit together like two hibernating fan-bears. Thanks to AMC and the Weinsteins, the rest of the world is going to get to see what's inside our dark, dank geek cave. It's going to be a fun 30 minutes, if I can just get Kevin to stop talking and smoking."
AMC's opportunistic approach to non-fiction has allowed the network to identify and bring to air a unique mix of shows that complement its scripted originals and movies. The network's growing non-fiction slate includes "Talking Dead," the #1 talk show on television, "Comic Book Men" and new originals including "The Making of the Mob," "The American West," special events like the recent "Lennon 75" concert and the forthcoming "Ride With Norman Reedus."
Overseeing "Geeking Out" from AMC are Eliot Goldberg, senior vice president of non-fiction and alternative programming, Marco Bresaz, vice president of non-fiction and alternative programming and Kelly Nash, director of non-fiction and alternative programming.
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Jordens rotation påvirker vel også flyvetiden?
Om vejret og flyvning, Operationelt om luftfart og flyvning, Spørgsmål til rejsen
Q: Har diskuteret med venner omkring flyvetid, men har endnu ikke fundet et svar.Håber du kan hjælpe. Jordens rotation påvirker vel også flyvetiden. Den ene vej mellem USA og EU flyver men jo med jordens rotation og modsat retur til EU. Så hvis ikke der var med eller modvind ville flyvetiden vel stadig variere svarende til jordens rotations hastighed.
Hvor stor ville forskellen være hvis der ikke var med eller modvind?
A: Tak for tålmodigheden – det var sørme et godt spørgsmål du kom med. Jeg har arbejdet lidt på at komme med et ordentligt svar til dig, da jeg ikke lige havde et svar på dit spørgsmål i første omgang.
Årsagen til forskellen på flyvetid skyldes mere de kraftige vinde der blæser i højden; Jetstrømme/ trade winds end jordens rotation. Man kan ikke helt ignorere jordens rotation og indenfor flyvning taler man om coriolis effekten (http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corioliskraft).
Jeg ved ikke om du har haft mulighed for at læse vores tidligere indlæg omkring forskel i flyvetid over Atlanten – hvis ikke så kan du finde det her: https://spoerg-piloten.dk/om-vejret-og-flyvning/forskellige-flyvetider-ud-og-hjem/
Der ud over har jeg fundet følgende på engelsk, som efter min mening giver dig et ret godt svar… sikkert bedre end det jeg ville kunne give dig, hvis jeg begav mig ud i en forklaring:
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Imagine a boy on a train – the train travels steadily along straight tracks at 80 kph (50 mph). The boy sits in his seat and plays with a ball. He tosses the ball straight up into the air, and then catches it again. Did the speed of the train cause the ball to travel so that the boy caught the ball in a different place compared to the position from which he tossed the ball into the air? Surprisingly, the answer depends upon whom you ask.
If you were to ask the boy, he would tell you no, silly, the ball went straight up and down, and it landed at the exact same spot from where he threw it. If you were to ask a farmer standing in her field beside the train tracks, she would tell you she saw the boy and the ball travel together at 80 kph, and the ball went in the path of an arc while the seated boy traveled in the path of a straight line, and while the ball landed in the boy's hand, both the boy and the ball had travelled 20 meters (66 feet) down the tracks during the time the ball was airborne.
From the boy's perspective, neither he nor the ball moved sideways, and the ball simply when up and down. From the farmer's perspective, both the boy and the ball travelled much farther sideways (20 meters) than the ball travelled up and down (1 meter). It is important to accept that both accounts, while radically different, are correct.
Now imagine the boy had a friend, and they tossed the ball back and forth along the aisle of the train car. Again, from their perspective, nothing unusual would happen – the boys would toss the ball back and forth exactly as expected. More importantly, from the boys' perspective the ball would not go faster in one direction than the other because of the speed of the train. That is because the ball, the boys, the train, the seats, and the other annoyed passengers are all travelling at the same base velocity. From the stationary farmer's perspective, the ball does travel faster when thrown in one direction compared to when thrown in the other direction, but the ball still takes the same amount of time when thrown in both directions, owing to the fact that the train (and the boys and the ball on the train) are all traveling at the same constant base velocity.
For purposes of this discussion, it is more useful to consider the boy's frame of reference, however we will ultimately get exactly the same answers from the farmer's point of view. Both the boy and the farmer will tell you the ball took the same time to go from one boy to the other, regardless of which direction it was thrown. In the remainder of this discussion, we will consider the situation from the moving frame of reference.
Now instead of talking about boys on a moving train, lets talk about airplanes on a rotating earth. All the principles discussed above still apply. The earth, the mountains, people, animals, plants, the atmosphere, clouds – everything – travels at the same speed, just like the boys on the train. That is assuming the winds are calm – more about that in a moment. And since airplanes travel through air (that is what airspeed means) in calm winds it does not matter if you travel in the same direction as the earth's rotation, or in the opposite direction. Just like the boys tossing the ball back and forth on the train, the airplane takes the same time regardless of which direction it travels. Put simply, the earth's rotation does not affect the time it takes for an airplane to fly, regardless of whether it is flying East or West.
If that is so, you ask, then why does it take longer to fly from Paris to New York than from New York to Paris. The answer is the prevailing trade winds. The winds and jet streams at that latitude travel from West to East, giving an eastbound plane a tailwind, and thus a higher groundspeed, compared to a headwind on the return trip, which has a lower groundspeed.
Does the aiming process for long range artillery, and especially naval gunfire, have to adjust calculations to allow for the earth's rotation? Also, when aircraft fly north/south, do compass headings have to be adjusted for rotational effects? Are the jet streams themselves partially a consequence of the earth's rotation? I think the answer to all of the above may be 'yes', bringing the image of aircraft moving in synchronicity with the earth's rotation into some doubt.- Agilis
It is true that when a plane takes off, it is moving with the earth's rotational velocity as well as its own, but the tangential velocity of the earth is not the same everywhere. At the equator, the speed the earth is traveling is much greater than the speed at, say, the 43rd parallel because the 43rd parallel is a lot closer to the axis of the earth's rotation. This phenomenon was brought to light during World War II when the Allies attempted to fire long-range artillery into central Europe from North Africa. They projectiles flew off course because their tangential velocity at North Africa was greater than that of the earth in Europe. This is known as the Coriolis Effect.
Actually, long range artillery adjustments to compensate for the earth's rotation have almost nothing to do with the coriolanus effect. No artillery travels far enough to come close to a transit of the Mediterranian Sea. North Africa to Central Europe is possible only with modern ballistic missles. Under 30 miles is the absolute range limitation for most artillery, naval or ground, except for some gigantic multitube experimental monsters. Some of the longest range highly specialized artillery was developed in WW1, when the Germans shelled Paris from a remarkable distance. In any case, aiming adjustments to compensate for the Earth's rotation began in the first decade of the 20th century, and reached an apogee 🙂 during and after WW1, when vessels began shelling each other at ranges that could extend to 20 miles, with huge projectiles that entered the stratosphere before dropping with an impressive multicolor pyrotechnic display as two tons of steel reached white hot temperatures. Computer(primitive) assisted naval gun aiming systems were developed before WW2, and could adjust for the target moving left or right when firing in a north or south direction, farther or closer when firing east or west, and (usually) some combination of two of the earth's rotational elements, along with all the usual range, atmospheric density, and other variables. High altitude experiments in the US immediately after WW2 were conducted with specially modified 16 inch naval guns, until the Army got Von Braun and his colleagues settled properly and V2 rockets operational again. Anything moving with sufficient mass and velocity will be unaffected by atmospheric phenomena. Only gravity becomes a factor, until its limits are escaped.
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International tax news itemConsultation On UK-US FATCA AgreementThursday 27th September 2012
Consultation On UK-US FATCA Agreement
Further to the previous announcement by HMT on the recently signed agreement with the US to improve international tax compliance and implement FATCA [see our International News item of 16 September 2012], HMRC has now issued a consultative document which sets out how the Government intends to legislate to deliver the commitments made in the Agreement and seeks views on the proposed approach. It also requests information on the expected costs of complying with the Agreement to inform the impact assessment.
The objective of the condoc is to consult on implementing the Agreement into UK law, and the content and consultation questions focus solely on aspects requiring implementation in the UK and not, for example, the requirements placed on US financial institutions by the US.
The UK-US agreement is closely based on the Model Agreement, and addresses legal barriers to financial institutions complying with FATCA, ensures that withholding tax will not be imposed on income received by UK financial institutions or on payments they make, ensures that the burdens imposed on financial institutions are proportionate to the goal of combating tax evasion, and establishes a reciprocal approach to FATCA implementation.
Once the consultation process has been completed after consideration of the comments received, the Government will publish draft legislation for comment.
Final legislation will be put forward as part of the FB2013 process. The Government has also said that it will continue to seek views from business on the practical aspects of implementing the Agreement, such as the necessary reporting and systems requirements, which have not yet been finalised with the US.
Where possible, the Government would like to ensure that any process changes brought about by the Agreement are aligned with both present and future reporting requirements. This may mean that detailed aspects of the requirements will not necessarily be set out in the legislation introduced in FB2013. However, the requirements will be made available in sufficient time to allow business to comply with their obligations under the Agreement.


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Henry Larcom Abbot (1831-1927)
Henry Larcom Abbot was a career military engineer who is memorialized on Oregon's landscape in three places: Abbot Pass, just west of Clear Lake off U.S. Highway 26 north of Warm Springs; Abbot Creek, a western tributary to the Metolius River some twenty miles northwest of Sisters; and Camp Abbot, a temporary wartime cantonment (1943-1945) near present-day Sunriver. These names on the landscape reflect Abbot's exploring and surveying work in Oregon as an officer of the U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers assigned to the Pacific Railroad Survey in 1853-1855.
Abbot co-led, with Lt. R.S. Williamson, an exploratory trek north from Sacramento to the Columbia River to scout a potential wagon road or railroad routes east and west of the Cascade Mountains. The survey party entered Oregon in early August 1855 from Tule Lake and continued north along Upper Klamath Lake to the Upper Deschutes Basin. One party headed west over the Cascades to the Willamette Valley, and Abbot traveled north to Fort Dalles on the Columbia to acquire supplies, arriving there on September 11. Abbot continued his survey and proceeded downriver to present-day Cascade Locks, returned to The Dalles, and headed south to Black Butte, where he scouted potential railroad routes and determined that no railroad could be built over the Cascades near Mount Jefferson. He returned to the Deschutes camp in late September, but decided to return north to further scout a potential wagon route over the Cascades.
On his second trip, he enlisted a guide, Sam An-ax-shat, a youthful Tygh Indian, paying him two dollars per day. Starting off on October 5, Abbot traveled to the Willamette Valley on a route that took him past Clear Lake, Dry Meadow, Frying Pan Lake, Roaring River Canyon, Estacada on the Clackamas, and finally Oregon City, where he arrived on October 19.
From Oregon City, Abbot returned to California by early November, overland through Salem, Eugene, Roseburg, and Fort Lane, surveying potential railroad routes. The report of his surveys appeared in Pacific Railroad Reports in 1857, documenting an early reconnaissance of transportation routes in Oregon.
Henry Abbot was the eldest of seven children born to Joseph Hale Abbot and Fanny Ellingwood Larcom in Essex, Massachusetts, on August 13, 1831. He attended Boston Latin School and West Point, graduating second in his class in 1854. He chose the Corps of Engineers, spending his career in the Far West and on the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. During the Civil War, he commanded the construction of defensive works on key battlefields and earned the rank of Brevet Major General.
In 1856, after returning from his survey work in Oregon, Abbot married Mary Susan Everett. The couple had four children. Their oldest son, Frederic, followed his father's path to West Point and a career in U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. After 1895, in post-retirement, Abbot served as a member of the U.S. Forestry Commission and as consulting engineer on the construction of the Panama Canal. He lived out his later years in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he died on October 1, 1927, at the age of ninety-six.
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Home News Despite her little stature, Linda Hunt was able to achieve enormous success in the entertainment industry…
Despite her little stature, Linda Hunt was able to achieve enormous success in the entertainment industry…
Linda Hunt is a well known actress who has labored on each the large and small screens, in addition to on the stage. She has proven her skills to the remainder of the world by taking part in a myriad of initiatives, movies, and tv sequence through the course of her profession. She has executed so to be able to share the limelight along with her equally gifted co-stars. She has offered her voice to animated movies and sequence, and she or he has additionally proven how far she will push herself in additional critical elements. Her filmography is wonderful and demonstrates her unbelievable selection as a performer.
Hunt was at all times an important supporter of the humanities throughout his childhood in Connecticut. Her mom, Elsie, was a piano instructor, and her father, Raymond, was the vice chairman of Harper Gasoline Oil. She was the one little one of the couple. They confirmed loads of assist and encouragement for his or her daughter's aspirations. Hunt was unwavering in her pursuit of her love for the humanities, however she by no means overpassed the truth that she was pursuing performing with the hope of sooner or later having a profitable profession within the area.
Though Hunt has starred in a large number of initiatives all through the course of her profession, one of many roles that has introduced her the best fame and recognition is that of Hetty Lange on the tv program "NCIS: Los Angeles." She has been a daily solid member on this system for a complete of 12 seasons and has additionally featured as a visitor in subsequent seasons. The followers got here to understand not simply Hunt's portrayal of the character, but in addition Hunt herself as an actor.
Nevertheless, Hunt's path to success was in actuality a rocky one resulting from the truth that her genetic impairment required her to place in much more effort than she would have in any other case wanted to. Despite this, she has pushed by means of each problem, obstruction, and setback that she has encountered to be able to persevere her strategy to the highest of the occupation and turn into one of the crucial acknowledged and well-loved actors within the enterprise.
Proceed studying to seek out out additional details about Hunt, together with her disabilities and the extremely spectacular accomplishment she has achieved in her work.
Hunt was reared within the hamlet of Westport, Connecticut, after he was born on April 2, 1945 in Morristown, New Jersey. She is the older of her household's two youngsters and has spent her complete life appreciating and collaborating in numerous inventive endeavors. Hunt took a leap of religion and adopted her love for performing, and it's honest to say that each one of her exhausting work and dedication have definitely paid off at this level in her profession.
In keeping with Britannica, after seeing a theatrical manufacturing of "Peter Pan" when she was a teen, Hunt received completely intrigued by the considered being an actor. She went on to pursue a profession within the leisure business. As a result of she was so pushed to make her objectives come true, she began following her love by incorporating it into her teachers. She was decided to make her goals come true.
She was recognized with hypopituitary dwarfism when she was youthful, and she or he continues to have a small top whilst an grownup, standing at solely 4 ft 9 inches tall. The truth that she didn't possess the sort of standard magnificence that's prized in Hollywood meant that her look was one thing that finally labored in opposition to her.
In keeping with the Mayo Clinic, hypopituitarism is an unusual sickness during which your pituitary gland fails to supply a number of hormones or doesn't generate sufficient hormones. Hypopituitary dwarfism is one other title for hypopituitarism. The signs of persistent weariness, sexual dysfunction, incapability to make breast milk, or growth impairment, as what occurred to Hunt, could be attributable to a scarcity of hormones, however these signs might additionally differ from individual to individual.
In keeping with an article printed by Very Effectively Well being, the explanation of hypopituitarism could be one thing that an individual is born with, or it may very well be the results of direct harm to the pituitary gland, which may very well be the results of a tumor, an an infection, or perhaps a blow to the pinnacle.
At first, Hunt tried to deal with his situation with each drug and remedy that was accessible; nonetheless, none of them had been profitable. Throughout her time in class, she developed a deeper appreciation for the performing arts, however she additionally got here to the conclusion that her impairment could also be a barrier for her within the pursuit of her extra formidable objectives.
"Everybody wished to both handle me or push me about, are you aware what I imply?" The confession was made by Hunt to CBS Sunday Mornings. "I used to be made enjoyable of rather a lot, which is to be anticipated, in fact. Within the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades, everybody else was going by means of their progress spurts apart from me. I used to be not maturing in any respect. "
Nevertheless, regardless of the truth that she was "utterly remoted" in class, her loving household by no means stopped encouraging her to pursue her ambitions. Her mother and father believed that attending the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan and the Goodman College of Drama in Chicago could be useful for Hunt's skilled growth, in order that they enrolled her in each colleges.
Nevertheless, when she was there, she was pushed to hunt a profession in directing since many individuals felt that resulting from her top, it might be not possible for her to realize a occupation in entrance of the digicam.
"Once I was little or no, I had no concept the place I belonged. I didn't even make an effort to behave in an expert method. That would come with in search of a consultant and taking part in casting calls. Nothing of it might have been achieved by me. In 1991, she expressed her emotions to The Bulletin about how emotionally draining the expertise was for her.
However thank goodness, Hunt was in a position to elegantly overcome all of these challenges and has since established herself as one of the crucial famend actresses within the historical past of tv, cinema, and the stage.
On account of Hunt's efficiency as Billy Kwan in "The Yr of Dwelling Dangerously," for which she was awarded the Academy Award for Finest Supporting Actress, she made historical past by being the primary particular person ever to win an Oscar for taking part in a personality of the other intercourse. As well as, she was nominated for a Tony Award for her efficiency within the play "Finish of the World," and she or he was offered with two Obie Awards for the performs "Prime Ladies" and "A Metamorphosis in Miniature."


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El río Desaguadero es un río del oeste de Argentina. Posee una longitud de unos 1498 km, constituyendo el tramo medio de su curso el límite entre las provincias de San Luis y Mendoza. Recibe diversos nombres locales a lo largo de su curso, siendo su tramo más importante el que recibe localmente la denominación «Desaguadero», siendo por ello este su nombre cartográfico.

Nacimiento y curso
Nace en la ladera sur del cerro del Nacimiento del Bonete, en el noroeste de la provincia de La Rioja, casi en la línea interprovincial con Catamarca, hacia las coordenadas  y a una altitud de unos 5500 msnm, en la cordillera Frontal que antecede a los Andes. En La Rioja su sección inicial recibe consecutivamente los nombres localistas de río de Oro, río Bonete, río Jagüé y —tras cruzar la Quebrada de la Troya— río Vinchina. Al ingresar a la provincia de San Juan cambia su nombre por el de río Bermejo; en esta provincia recibe los aportes de los pequeños ríos La Troya o Guandacol y Huaco. Más adelante, siempre siguiendo una dirección sur-sureste y recorriendo el este de la provincia de San Juan, incorpora el río Jáchal.

Al llegar a las cercanías de los actuales confines de las provincias de Mendoza, San Luis y San Juan ingresa en un área de hundimiento, en donde recibe las aguas del río San Juan —y a través de este del río Mendoza— y las aguas de ambos han formado el sistema de las lagunas de Guanacache, un humedal prácticamente desecado desde fines del . Tras superarlo, recibe el nombre de río Desaguadero (nombre cartográfico), por ser el desaguadero de las mismas. Forma entonces el límite entre las provincias de Mendoza y San Luis hasta el paralelo 36ºS en donde ingresa en la provincia de La Pampa. En ese tramo recibe las aguas de los ríos Tunuyán y Diamante.

Ya dentro de La Pampa, donde es más conocido como río "Salado", y hacia los 36º16' S recibe —siempre por la margen occidental— las afluencias del río Atuel. Los desbordes del Desaguadero y del Atuel forman el humedal llamado bañados del Atuel; al sur de los mismos, hasta las lagunas Urre Lauquén y La Amarga es llamado río Chadileuvú o 'Chadileo', palabras del idioma mapudungun que significan río Salado, nombre con el cual también se conoce a este río. Al superar la laguna Urre Lauquén recibe otra denominación localista: río Curacó ('agua de piedra'), confluyendo con el río Colorado hacia los .

Recibe todos sus afluentes de alguna importancia por su margen derecha, y todos ellos se originan en los deshielos de la cordillera de los Andes. Por este motivo, y por las escasas precipitaciones que ocurren en el extenso territorio que recorre, sus máximos caudales se dan a fines de primavera e inicios de verano.

Sus únicos afluentes por la margen izquierda son solamente uadis (riachos estacionales), ubicados todos ellos en la provincia de La Rioja. Entre ellos se pueden contar los "ríos" (en realidad uadis) Aicuña, Talampaya e Ischigualasto, cuyos valles son importantes centros paleontológicos y paisajísticos.

Desembocadura
Este río recorre una línea de falla tectónica que limita la región occidental de las Sierras Pampeanas, forma asimismo la llamada Cuenca del Desaguadero, cuenca fluvial de unos 260 000 km² que abarca la mayor parte de Cuyo y el oeste de la provincia de La Pampa. El cauce del Desaguadero, en el tramo que delimita a Mendoza de San Luis, se encuentra encajonado por barrancas de 6 a 8 m de altura teniendo un ancho variable de entre 50 y 60 m. Desde fines del  los caudales que porta son exiguos, esto es en parte debido a la sequedad de la región, pero la principal causa es la captura excesiva de las aguas de sus afluentes para el riego en los "oasis" periféricos de las ciudades de Mendoza, San Juan y San Rafael. Es así que siendo naturalmente el sistema del Desaguadero una cuenca exorreica que aporta sus aguas al Océano Atlántico a través el río Colorado;  durante todo el  (salvo raras excepciones), ha resultado una cuenca arreica ya que el tramo llamado Curacó se ha encontrado casi siempre seco desde 1900.

Conflicto entre Mendoza y La Pampa
En el año 1941, Mendoza, producto de un convenio con la Nación, construye el Embalse El Nihuil, el cual frena los escurrimientos del río aguas abajo hacia la cuenca Desaguadero-Salado-Chadileuvú en el entonces "Territorio Nacional de La Pampa" (una provincia desde el año 1951), dando como resultado, en poco tiempo, que la zona conocida como Bañados del Atuel, pasase a ser un desierto, produciendo un éxodo poblacional y un profundo cambio del ecosistema natural.

Localidades en sus riberas
Las principales ciudades y localidades por las cuales pasa este río son de norte a sur:
 En La Rioja: Jagüé, Vinchina, Villa Castelli y Villa Unión.
 En San Juan: Bermejo, Huaco, San José de Jáchal, Mogna
 En Mendoza: Desaguadero y Canalejas.
 En San Luis: Mosmota y Navia.
 En La Pampa: Santa Isabel (en rigor esta ciudad se ubica en el área de los Bañados del Atuel), Limay Mahuida y Puelches.

Véase también
 Laguna y salina de El Bebedero

Enlaces externos

Cuenca del río Desaguadero (Argentina)
Departamento Belgrano (San Luis)
Departamento Chalileo
Departamento General Felipe Varela
Departamento Curacó
Departamento General Alvear (Mendoza)
Departamento General Lamadrid
Departamento Gobernador Dupuy
Departamento Juan Martín de Pueyrredón
Departamento Lihuel (Mendoza)
Departamento Lavalle (Mendoza)
Departamento Lihuel Calel
Departamento Limay Mahuida
Departamento Vinchina
Ríos de Argentina con cuencas endorreicas
Ríos de la provincia de San Juan (Argentina)
Ríos de la provincia de La Pampa
Ríos de la provincia de La Rioja (Argentina)
Ríos de la provincia de Mendoza
Ríos de la provincia de San Luis (Argentina)
Ríos de la vertiente del Atlántico en Argentina

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Liaison librarian for history Kyle Feenstra's Top 5 History Books for 2014
Deciding on the Top 5 History Books for 2014 turned out to be a nearly impossible task so instead I give you my top 5 suggestions for holiday reading compiled from a list of books that I purchased for Elizabeth Dafoe Library in the past year.
The War that Ended Peace: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War
Margaret MacMillan (Random House, 2013)
D 511 M257 2013
Margaret MacMillan's book stands out as one of the important titles published at the centenary of World War I. The renowned scholar examines a complex array of contributing factors that set the stage for the Great War, with particular attention to decisions made by Europe's leading statesmen. Margaret MacMillan will deliver the CBC Massey Lectures in 2015.
Noble Illusions: Young Canada Goes to War
Stephen Dale (Fernwood Publishing 2014)
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Our memory of First World War is one of contrasting narratives, the patriotic valour of a generation of young men and women set against the senseless atrocities of trench warfare. In Noble Illusions, Stephen Dale critiques pop-culture propaganda used to persuade young Canadians to enlist in one of history's most brutal wars.
Congo: The Epic History of a People
David van Reybrouk (Harper Collins, 2014)
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A new English translation of van Reybrouk's book sheds light on the Congo's colonial history and its ongoing struggle to establish political stability and lasting peace. The book is exceptionally researched with the fluidity of a well written novel.
The Great Ocean: Pacific Worlds from Captain Cook to the Gold Rush
David Igler (Oxford University Press, 2013)
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David Igler brings together the competing interests of nations and indigenous peoples to tell a modern history of the world's largest ocean. The author illustrates how the interplay of scientific exploration, imperialism, trade expeditions, and the harvesting of marine life resulted in dramatic transformations of the commerce, cultures, and ecology of the Pacific.
Paris Blues: African American Music and French Popular Culture, 1920-1960
Andy Fry (University of Chicago Press, 2014)
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Andy Fry offers an alternative view of the history of African American jazz music in Paris. Fry's book argues that the widely accepted view of Paris as an egalitarian refuge for jazz icons, such as Josephine Baker, Django Reinhardt, and Sidney Bechet, is an oversimplified portrayal of race relations in France in the early 20th Century.
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Q: How to use LIME on h2o GBM model to do feature selection of columns in Python Trying to get the top 3 columns from my h2o GBM model using lime which has the highest significance in model prediction.

A: There is no out-of-the-box solution yet in open source h2o-3, but there are many examples of how to do this available. Here are the repos/notebooks:

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*https://github.com/jphall663/interpretable_machine_learning_with_python
/ https://github.com/jphall663/interpretable_machine_learning_with_python/blob/master/lime.ipynb

*https://github.com/h2oai/mli-resources /
https://github.com/h2oai/mli-resources/blob/master/notebooks/lime.ipynb

*https://content.oreilly.com/oriole/Interpretable-machine-learning-with-Python-XGBoost-and-H2O
/ https://content.oreilly.com/oriole/Interpretable-machine-learning-with-Python-XGBoost-and-H2O/blob/master/lime.ipynb
There is also some chance Marco Tulio's original LIME package will
work: https://github.com/marcotcr/lime, be sure to look into this example: https://marcotcr.github.io/lime/tutorials/Tutorial_H2O_continuous_and_cat.html


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A Matter of Character... - ~Just One Step At A Time :: And Closer To Destiny...~
A Matter of Character...
So. This is your friendly neighborhood co-author (and sometime Voice of Doom), once again stealing Lois' journal. We've gotten some questions recently about certain characters in LS, and I thought we'd answer them as best we could.
The following characters are Superman canon, owned by DC Comics and/or Warner Brothers. Some are from the Reeve/Kidder Superman films, some are from Superman Returns, and some are from the monstrous collection of Superman comics that Lois owns.
Superman/Clark/Kal-El
Lana Lang
Martha Kent
Lex Luthor(and yes, I know these seven are a big fat DUH)
Kitty Kowalski
Jonathan Kent
Lucy Lane
Ella Lane
Sam Lane
Ron Troupe
Jason (White in SR, but Lane for LS)
Ben Hubbard
Police Commissioner Bill Henderson
Maggie Sawyer of the Metropolis SCU
Tobie Raines (and yes, I know now, having actually BOUGHT the miniseries comic, that I've been misspelling the character's name. Blame wikipedia. Oh, and while you're at it, if you've been wondering why a reporter like Tobie is living with Lt. Sawyer, go wikisearch Maggie Sawyer.)
Loueen (who's also misspelled; she's credited as Leueen, but I loathed that spelling and it wouldn't stick in my brain)
Gil and Judy
Bill Freizon
Steve "Grizzly" Lombard
I think that's all. One of our brilliant readers will surely inform us if we've screwed up.
Now, characters who are ours. This'll be a longer list, because we invented a lot of characters. Especially in about chapters 17 through 25, when we were handing out walk-on roles to all our pals. In those cases where the character is a clear tribute to one of our readers, reviewers, or friends, it should be obvious.
Kala Lane (OURS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11!!!!!!! So much so she won an award. Best OC Movieverse 2007, y'all!)
Dr. Arnaud
Dr. Schuler
Elliot Marrin
Caroline Biste
Rhea (writer of the Eclectic Reader column)
Vanna of Vgerland Real Estate
Brian Beateau
Mel (the horse-fancying Texan who rescued Kitty. Hello, Mel!)
Nurse Tage
Dr. Donner
Dr. Shelby Patterson
Mankiewicz, Daily Star photographer
General Joffrey Unsworth
Officers Smith and Davis (not named for anyone, Smith was just a jerk and Smith's a common name. Sorry, Brian. Notice that Beateau above, if pronounced in French, sounds like Beeto.)
Abigail Montgomery
Babette from Accounting
Gwen (the obnoxious nurse)
Barbara Thomas and family
Mrs. Mosley
Vera (the obnoxious secretary)
Sophie Noux
Dr. Saavikam
Mrs. Mackenzie
Michelle Troupe, Ron & Lucy's fourth child (we also named Little Sam, Nora, and Joanna, but STM proved their existence)
Wade Carmichael and family (you will see his younger siblings later in LS and in Intimidation. Plus, Wade himself will be back very soon.)
The Smallville Geezers Convention (who are all, in some way, named after the quintessential old fart, my dad. Except Ellzey, who's named after my awesome boss, a self-described old guy)
GAZEERA!!!! (Yes, we know it's spelled Gojira, but Kala named the lizard)
Captain Jack the Ferret
Barkley the Beagle and his untold descendants, including Bagel
There's lots more we're forgetting, but it's 4:30 AM. And if any of our regulars have been left out, fear not, you shall appear. Particularly Kat (you got a restaurant named for you, but not a character yet), Lea (wanna be the hot blonde Richard dated in college? Hmm?), and 7crazyread, whose real name I don't know (that makes naming a character for you pretty hard). We also need to get laramary in there, too.
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chickadilly on September 18th, 2007 08:50 am (UTC)
Oh hell yes! XD Hehehee! I'm the one who taught him everything he knows. ;)
HEE!!!
kalalanekent on September 18th, 2007 09:34 pm (UTC)
I figured you wouldn't mind that. Actually, we were going to make you the blonde cousins that Lois is always giving him hell for. XD
Shoot. That's two Leahs. Damn. Nickname or anything else...? Shoot, shoot, shoot!
Rachel should work perfectly fine, then. Sorry, sweetheart. We had that little problem with Barbara and Barbara earlier in the series.Thank God one of them goes by Babette! *LOL, hugs both*
elliania on September 18th, 2007 04:05 pm (UTC)
I noticed the restaurant! *giggles* Thank you! XD
Yeah, that was subtle, huh? *snort* And don't forget the Troupes' two Kats. ;)
winddancer55945 on September 18th, 2007 04:22 pm (UTC)
That's a lot of characters. I'm won't be surprised if you missed any at 4:30 am. Can you even think at that time? I always hit the wall at about that time and need either caffeine or sugar to boost my energy.
I myself slept until 3:30 today, while Anissa got up early for once. 'Nuff said. ;)
babettew54 on September 18th, 2007 05:47 pm (UTC)
This list is awesome! Humm! Do you know someone else named Babette?! Or could it be?? *scurries away* Thanks so much for putting this together.
Nope, that was you! I can't believe you didn't know that!
And you're welcome. We've been planning to do that for a while. It's like the timeline. That's about half-done. Got to get enough time aside to finish it.
Color me a ninny! I can't believe I didn't pick up on that. I only recently started using the nckname 'Babette,' so it just slipped right by me. Meh! Thanks for the nod!
I used it back when you were reviewing at BT, love. It was a while back, so don't beat yourself up. *kiss*
sydgill on September 18th, 2007 06:17 pm (UTC)
I love you guys...that's all I wanted to say...and I loved being Nurse Tage. You have fulfilled all my hopes and dreams :D I can die peacefully now!!!
...that I've seen Superman in the all-together under the propriety of a sheet. *snort* Love you, too, Tage! Miss you!
trekkie6 on September 18th, 2007 07:06 pm (UTC)
"Leueen"?! That's disgusting.
And I love Gazeera! I'd get a lizard just to name something that, lol
I know, right? I never liked the spelling and when Anissa spelled it wrong, we just went with it. Besides, I think I like the way we've expanded the character, anyway.
And if you like Gazeera, we'll have more of his scaley little behind when they get home. There is still a scene in the works that we refer to as Lois Lane versus Godzilla, Round Two. ;)
saavikam77 on September 18th, 2007 10:22 pm (UTC)
Hee hee!!!! ^_^ I'd almost forgotten about Dr. Saavikam. :p
I have a list of characters in Aftermath, too, but haven't put it on the comp. yet. Oy, it's gonna be long. O_o
I know! Just compiling this one was difficult and I just know we're missing a few. Oh, Dr. Saavikam will make a couple of more appearances before we're done.


It's been a really good week for Jamie Anderson. Not only is she in PyeongChang with her fellow Olympians, but she's already scored a gold medal in slopestyle. If you wondered, "What is Jamie Anderson's net worth?" while you were watching the games, you're definitely not alone. After all, this is her career. And at just 27 years old, she's already accomplished so much. Ready for the answer? Hold onto your snowboard, because it's a lot.
According to Celebrity Net Worth, Anderson is worth an estimated $4 million, give or take. Her shiny new gold medal is only going to add to that number; the Team USA website states that all athletes who manage to win will be awarded a $37,500 prize per gold medal, with smaller prizes for silver and bronze. Not too shabby, right?
And it's not just the Olympics that contribute to Anderson's yearly payout, either.
She competes in other events, year-round, and she's also managed to score several cool sponsorships with companies like United Airlines, Audi, Proctor and Gamble, and Polo Ralph Lauren (those are just the ones she's been a part of this year). No big deal.
Oh, and here's a fun fact: Anderson's win on Monday now officially makes her the first female snowboarder in history to win two gold medals in the Olympics, per NBC's coverage. That's pretty impressive in itself…and it sounds like that hefty paycheck is definitely well-deserved.
Now that Anderson is bringing her second medal home, it looks like that net worth of hers might just be going up. That has to be an amazing feeling. What's better than making money while doing something you love?


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BREAKING: Nigeria's unemployment rate rises to 27.1%, says NBS
The National Bureau of Statistics has finally released data on the nation's unemployment rate after a 20-month interval, saying the unemployment rate rose to 27.1 per cent in the second quarter of 2020 from the 23.1 per cent recorded in Q3 2018.
The NBS, in its 'Labor Force Statistics: Unemployment and Underemployment Report' released on Friday, said underemployment rate increased from 20.1 per cent in Q3 2018 to 28.6 per cent in Q2 2020.
It said, "For the period under review, Q2 2020, the unemployment rate among young people (15-34 years) was 34.9 per cent, up from 29.7 per cent, while the rate of underemployment for the same age group rose to 28.2 per cent from 25.7 per cent in Q3 2018.
"These rates were the highest when compared to other age groupings."
The NBS said the number of persons in the economically active or working age population (15 – 64 years of age) increased to 116,871,186 from 115,492,969 in Q3 2018.
It said, "The number of persons in the labour force (i.e. people within ages 15 -64, who are able and willing to work) was estimated to be 80,291,894. This was 11.3 per cent less than the number persons in Q3 2018.
"Of this number, those within the age bracket of 25-34 were highest, with 23,328,460 or 29.1 per cent of the labour force."
The statistics office said the total number of people in employment in Q2 2020 fell by 15.8 per cent 58,527,276, compared to Q3 2018.
"Of this number, 35,585,274 were full-time employed (i.e. worked 40+ hours per week), while 22,942,003 were under-employed (i.e. working between 20-29 hours per week)," it added.
According to the report, Imo State reported the highest rate of unemployment with 48.7 per cent, followed by Akwa-Ibom State and Rivers State with 45.2 per cent and 43.7 per cent respectively.
It said Anambra recorded the lowest rate of unemployment at 13.1 per cent.
The NBS said, "For underemployment, the state which recorded the highest rate was Zamfara with 43.7 per cent, while Anambra State recorded the lowest underemployment rate, with 17 per cent in Q2 2020.
"A total number of 2,736,076 did not do any work in the last seven days preceding the survey due to the lockdown but had secure jobs to return to after the lockdown."
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