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1958 WORLD SERIES TICKET STUB (YANKES-BRAVES)
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The Yankees won this game 4-3 in 10 innings. The 1958 World Series was a rematch of the 1957 World Series, with the New York Yankees beating the defending champion Milwaukee Braves in seven games for their 18th title, and their seventh in 10 years. With that victory, the Yankees became only the second team in Major League Baseball history to come back from a 3–1 deficit to win a best-of-seven World Series
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Q: EndpointNotFound: public endpoint for hpext:dns service in RegionOne region not found I have installed designate client on the same box where designate server is running with OpenStack Juno. After setting environment by issuing . .venv/bin/activate and keystone variables by issuing this command keystonerc_admin.
When I try to run designate --debug server-list command I am getting this error:
EndpointNotFound: public endpoint for hpext:dns service in RegionOne region not found
Please help me out.

A: I was able to solve this. This was my mistake. I have exported hpext:dns in keystone_admin and .bashrc file.
This value is very much specific if anyone is using hp cloud and they are logging into their geos.

A: Yes, that value is from before designate was an incubated project, but was running in HP Cloud.
The standard 'dns' service should be used for anyone not using the HP Public Cloud service (it is the default in python-designateclient, so you shouldn't have to do anything)

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Vincent Velasquez rifled one last fastball through the strike zone. His 113th pitch of this perfect spring afternoon sailed right past Wil Myers' swinging bat and into the glove of catcher Cameron Rupp.
And then Velasquez, upon finishing his afternoon, raised his arms in exaltation, screamed, and performed a wild fist pump as the crowd cheered around him.
Over nine innings the 23-year-old acquired in the Ken Giles trade was beyond superb. He peppered his fastball all over the strike zone, mixed in a curveball that improved as the afternoon progressed, and kept Padres hitters guessing and missing until the very last pitch. In total Velasquez struck out 16 hitters, surrendered just three hits and walked none. Of his 113 pitches, 83 were strikes. He seemed to get better as the game wore on, pumping his fastball at 97 in the ninth inning. Nothing slowed him. Nothing stopped him.
For the first time in years Phillies fans have a heat-tossing machine that can dominate a ballgame. And on this afternoon, wearing bright red jerseys no less, the team put on its most exciting contest in a long time.
The Phillies won the game 3-0. Velasquez was the star, the sun, the universe. He demanded focus in a sparsely filled Citizens Bank Park. But he was aided by veterans like Ryan Howard – who swatted a home run in the second inning, and produced a second run with a sacrifice fly in the sixth inning – and Andres Blanco – who struck a big double in the seventh, which led to the final run of the game. Odubel Herrera also contributed, walking thrice, stealing a bag and scoring on Howard's sacrifice. He brought plenty of energy, too. But the team didn't really need it.
Velasquez was the energy, firing a mid-90s fastball consistently in the zone and slowly mixing in breaking offerings like a curve and slider. Even the changeup showed up a couple times. But the Padres couldn't hit anything, only garnering two singles in the second, and one in the fifth. That was it. Velasquez finished with a game score of 97; last season that number was achieved only nine times (Max Scherzer thrice including two no-hitters, Cole Hamels' no hitter, Carlos Carrasco, Jake Arrieta's no-hitter, Corey Kluber, Chris Heston's no-hitter, Clayton Kershaw). He now leads the major leagues in strikeouts (25).
After winning the four-game set over the Padres 3-1, the Phillies are now 5-5, second place in the National League East, and will host division-leading Washington starting Friday night.


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LAST weekend's 3-1 Devon Expressway Derby win over Exeter City may well be considered by Pilgrims fans as one of the most memorable in recent seasons...
...but this weekend's fixture against visitors Bury may prove to be even more significant come the end of the season.
The Shakers are currently seventh in the table, locked on the same number of points as Argyle in sixth. Having played the same number of games, the two sides have both won 15, drawn seven and lost ten this season and are both unbeaten in their last four games in Sky Bet League 2.
Despite their similarities, Argyle manager John Sheridan will be hoping his side can make all the difference this weekend by claiming all three points to extend their winning streak to five.
"Bury are trying to do what we're doing and we're evenly matched - but we're at home and I'm confident we'll win the game," John said. "That's what I'm going to tell the players and I hope the players are confident.
"There aren't many teams who haven't had an up-and-down, stop-start season. We're identical, but we're at home and we're on a really good run and hopefully that's what we'll take into the game.
"We know the importance of trying to win the game to get ourselves in the mix and stay with the teams who are above us. I expect a tough game, but the run we're on, we've got to go into the game confident."
Having swept aside the Grecians during last weekend's 3-1 win to climb to sixth in the league, morale is certainly high within the Pilgrims squad. However, Sheridan has warned his side to not become complacent ahead of this weekend's tie.
"We're on a good run and we've got ourselves back to where we should have been in the first place," the boss said. "We had a poor run and it's down to the players who have come back and reacted really well. Obviously, winning last week's game against our biggest rivals will hopefully boost the confidence.
"They're all going to be tough games but we've got something to fight for, starting with Bury. They're a team in and around us and if we get the result we want, we'll stay in the top seven.
"They've got one or two decent players who are comfortable on the ball and can run around with the ball and they've been in and around the playoff area for most of the season. David Flitcroft has done a good job there so we're very wary of them.
"We'll give them a tough game and see how they respond to it. Again, just try and win the game and that's what we're after; the three points."

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We are a couple of NZdrs - 76 and 69 - hiring a 4wd camper in July to drive from Darwin to Perth (42 days). Last year we went to Katherine and Kakadu so will not need to detour (not that we wouldn't like to). This is our planned NT and Kimberley itinerary. We would appreciate comments.
Your itinerary does not contain any detail regarding what exactly you plan to see and do, so I can't tell you whether you allowed enough time for that or not. I can however tell you that your driving distances are all very reasonable. As long as you have no plans to spend more than a few hours at most of those places actually hiking and swimming and exploring, and as long as you are happy to set up and break camp almost every single day, there are no obvious problems.
You did allow an extra night each at the Bungles and Mornington, you have a long relaxing stay at the end on the Dampier Peninsula.
You did something similar last year, so you know what to expect and I am sure you have planned everything accordingly.
I think it should all work out very well.
Hope it will be a great trip!


Classroom seating these days isn't limited to chairs at desks. Many teachers love the option of tables or other flexible seating arrangements. These arrangements do raise the question, though: "What do I do with all the STUFF my kids need?" Fortunately, the members of our WeAreTeachers HELPLINE group have shared some of their best student storage ideas, and we've added a few more of our own favorites. Give these a try and remember to teach your students to always put everything back where they found it!
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Stack milk crates under or alongside tables and hold them together with zip ties. Add other storage bins as needed. Talk about simple student storage solutions!
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Ex-Titans WR Dez Fitzpatrick signs futures deal with Steelers
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Former Tennessee Titans wide receiver Dez Fitzpatrick has officially found a new home for the new league year.
The Louisville product was amongst several others who signed a reserve/future deal with the Pittsburgh Steelers. This deal will give the young wideout the opportunity to compete for a roster spot this upcoming offseason and preseason.
Fitzpatrick is infamously known as one of Jon Robinson's biggest flops. Not only did the Titans' former general manager trade up to the top of the fourth round for the young wideout, but Robinson also passed on eventual star receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown in the process, who ultimately went just a few picks later to Detroit.
St.Brown went on to finish the year as Pro Football Focus' second highest-graded wide receiver. Meanwhile, Fitzpatrick is already joining his second team in three years.
In total, the fourth-round wideout played in just five games over two seasons in Tennessee, tallying five catches for 49 yards and one touchdown.
Titans' pending free agents going into 2023 offseason
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Not Yet a Breach, but an Expansion
Culture, Justice, War and Politics
Well, if you ask me, it's fitting that the Supreme Court should begin hearing gay marriage arguments in the middle of Passover, since they are the institution of American life that most anachronistically apes the social organization of an ancient desert tribe: a bunch of old yahoos handing down inerrant judgments— inerrant, that is, until the next round of revelation. How many times can the same elders haul their asses up the same mountain in order to discover slight revisions to the covenant? Plenty! But seriously, guys, lemme ask you: aren't you just a bit uncomfortable with your so-called rights hinging upon the good sense of a panel of retirement-age lawyers? Prophets have to produce plagues and miracles; Justices don't even have to produce decent prose.
We all know that Changing Social Attitudes ® consign the Anti-Gays to the overtaxed metaphor indicating social obsolescence, and in the face of all that historical inevitability, the epochal question before the Court withers. In fact, the question is not: will the US Supreme Court legalize gay marriage? Rather, it's: will the Justices temporize a rickety legal barricade to the unavoidable full-faith-and-credit Federalization of same-sex marriage rights? Either way, the answer is probably yes. The Court is historically over-credited with defining the American social compact, for good and for ill. In reality, the institution's default position is legal proceduralism, and for all the sting of its occasional sharp decisions, it remains a jellyfish, fundamentally helpless, adrift in larger tides and currents.
By the way, I hate the idea of gay marriage. My boyfriend and I have gotten along just fine for many years without the approval of a Justice of the Peace, thank you, and I resent everything implied by the idea that we'd have to go through a sort of social swearing-in just so that I can put him on my health plan and give him the house if I get hit by a bus. I actually have a kind of cultural affinity with conservatives on the issue, albeit a partial one. They believe marriage is a sacrament, as do I. The difference is that they wish to retain the state's interest in a sacral institution, whereas I want marriage to be wholly spiritual and the government to be out of it altogether. City Hall has no compelling interest in the joining of two souls.
Apparently, one of Scalia's most offensive comments In Re: The Gays was that expanding civil marriage to same-sex couples was the equivalent of giving death benefits and suchlike to someone's longtime roommate. But we should be giving death benefits to someone's longtime roommate, or adult-child caregiver, or the surviving sister of your pair of kooky cat-lady spinster aunts or whomever. We should allow single, unattached people to designate inheritors and not punish their estates for the fact of their never having married. I am all for the expansion of rights, but same-sex marriage is actually about the unfair expansion of privileges for people who choose long-term pair-bonding. What about all the single ladies?
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Palace Laundromat Replaces Super Laundromat
By Dispatch Editors on Friday, April 15th, 2022 at 10:17 am
A new laundromat has opened at 204 Bushwick Avenue at the corner of Scholes.
The former Super Luandromat closed a few years back and the storefront sat vacant.
The laundromat was the site of a New York City Banksky painting. During Banksy's 2013 "residency" in New York, the former laundromat was tagged with "The Musical," painted under the found graffiti, "Dirty Underwear."
Incredibly, the valuable Banksy was quickly scrubbed away. Other happenings from the artist garnered a lot more attention, with some guarded by locals who charged tourists to view the paintings and others protected by their building owners.
The new laundromat serves a neighborhood had been short of laundry services during the pandemic. A laundromat on Montrose Avenue had been closed until a few months ago.
Originally the owner of the laundromat at 215 Montrose Avenue had closed temporarily to remodel. Unfortunately for them, they found asbestos, delaying the relaunch. Following the closure of Super Laundromat the area around Montrose was in a laundry desert.
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Mendoza: LeBron legacy continues to grow
Never mind that the Los Angeles Lakers are deep down in the National Basketball Association (NBA) standings. Almost a given that they are doomed to struggle, suffer even if you will.
Despite massive line-up build-ups by Rob Pelican that even saw the sacking of their venerable 2020 champion coach Frank Vogel, the Lakers continue to miss team chemistry.
Thus, the team has now become practically a hindsight—sadly.
Focus now is on LeBron James, the Lakers' longtime leader. It has been that way since the NBA season began in October.
A four-time NBA champion, James continues to dominate, to shine, to trigger LeBronmania almost each time he suits up.
The spunk in his demeanor has hardly waned since he gave Miami back-to-back NBA crowns in 2012 and 2013.
The will to win that saw him magnificently carry his home team Cleveland to victory in 2016 resurfaced four years later, when he powered the Lakers to their record-tying 17th NBA title in a deadlock with the equally eminent Boston Lakers.
That was in 2020, during the dramatic "NBA Bubble in Florida" caused by the pandemic, when James won a fourth ring in his 10th Finals appearance since his first championship stint in 2007 as a Cav. That ended in a forgettable 4-0 sweep by the San Antonio Spurs over the first-time NBA finalists Cleveland Cavaliers.
But even as James knows deep inside him that only a miracle can now shove his team into the playoffs, he has remained unwavering in his goal to always play at his best at every opportunity.
Not even his birthday could derail that mindset.
Thus, on his 38th—yes, 38th!—natal day on Dec. 30, he came up with 47 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists in powering the Lakers to a 130-121 victory over the Hawks in Atlanta.
That was his first 40-point feat of the season and his 70th 40-point effort in his spectacular 20-season career.
And he was just fulfilling a promise to his teammates that he'd score 40 or more points.
"I called it," said James, playing in his third game in four nights. "I told them before the game. I had to make it happen."
Next month, he'd make it happen, too. Surpass Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in most points scored in NBA history.
What a guy.
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Mixed greens, baby spinach, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, seasoned croutons, served with our house mango or choice of Italian or ranch.
A traditional chicken soup made with lentils and subtly flavored with delicate herbs and a dash of spices, garnished with chopped tandoori chicken.
A creamy pureed soup with chefs secret ingredients and spices.
Superfine white bread stuffed with a mixture of basil olive oil and spices.
White bread filled with chopped hot peppers with fresh herbs and spices.
Homemade yogurt with diced cucumbers, tomatoes, roasted and ground cumin and fresh cilantro.
Homemade Indian cottage cheese cooked in chefs special sauce with a touch of almonds and cashew nuts.
Fresh ground spinach cooked with fresh green herbs, spices and cottage cheese.
Fresh homemade Indian cottage cheese cooked with onions and bell peppers in a creamy tomato sauce enriched with fenugreek.
Fresh okra cooked with onions, tomato, fresh herbs and spices.
Fresh vegetables gently cooked in a mild and creamy almond sauce with a touch of mild spices.
A spicy vegetable curry from west coast of India-goa, made with ground roasted coconut and a blend.
Potatoes and cauliflowers cooked in spiced oil in a kadai - wok, with onions, tomatoes, bell peppers, crushed corriander and cumin.
Whole black lentils, yellow lentils and kidney beans simmered with tomatoes, onions, freshly ground spices, finished with a touch of cream.
A classic Indian vegetarian dish. Whole egg plant baked over an open charcoal flame, mashed and blended with sauteed onions, tomatoes, herbs and spices.
Chicken marinated in sweet spices and herbs over night, then cooked in a creamy almond sauce with an array of spices and tropical dry fruits.
Marinated pieces of chicken cooked in a tandoor - clay oven, then dipped in a creamy tomato sauce enriched with green spices.
An exotic version of traditional chicken curry from the kitchen of moghal emperor. Ahuri is the predominant flavoring of curry leaves, mustard seeds and ginger.
Chef's creation - a very delicate combination of currie chicken and the chef's secret mango sauce.
An exotic version of traditional chicken curry cooked with chickpeas simmered in tomatoes, onions, and homeade garam masala.
Marinated pieces of chicken cooked in tandoor and then covered in a creamy tomato sauce with onions, bell peppers, fresh herbs and spices.
Pieces of chicken marinated in light spice and broiled in the clay oven. Then sauteed with chopped onion, spices and rolled in a creamy fresh tomato sauce.
Chicken cooked in a onion and tomato sauce and then simmered in a creamy ground spinach with a touch of garam masala and fresh green herbs.
A spicy chicken curry from the west coast of India - goa, made with roasted ground coconut and a blend of aromatic spices.
Chicken pieces marinated with vinegar and a blend of spices, cooked with potatoes and pearl onions in a piquant sauce - hot and spicy.
Kadai cooking is native to sindh which formerly part of bombay province pieces of chicken are cooked in a work with tomatoes, bell pepper, ginger, garlic, crushed corriander and other spices.
Tender pieces of chicken cooked with fenugreek leaves and creamed spinach with mild spices.
One of the most mind blowing delicacies from goa, shrimps cooked with coconut milk mild spices, with a hint of tamarind sauce. Served with basmati rice.
Shrimp cooked in crushed tomatoes, onions, ginger, bell peppers, chopped mushrooms and eggplant, flavorful spices and seasoned with roasted lentils, cumin, mustard seeds and curry leaves. An Indian version of marinara sauce.
Jumbo shrimp cooked in the clay oven and simmered in a piquant sauce with potatoes and pickled pearl onions. Hot and spicy.
Salmon cooked in an onion and tomato sauce and then simmered in a creamy ground spinach with a touch of garam masala and fresh green herbs.
Jumbo shrimp cooked in our clay oven, then simmered in creamy tomato sauce with sauteed onions, gentle touch of spices and fenugreek.
Famous kerala shrimp curry in a cream of cocnut milk.
Lamb marinated in yogurt, herbs and spices and cokked in its own gravy-a north Indian favorite.
Lamb curry cooked with ground spinach, ginger, garlic fresh coriander and other fragrant herbs.
A spicy lamb curry from the west coast of Indian - goa, made with roasted ground coconut and a blend of aromatic spices.
Lamb marinated in sweet spices and herbs over night, then cooked in creamy almond tomato and onion sauce with dry fruits.
Very popular and common dish of Kashmir. Lamb marinated with many aromatic herbs and spices in yougurt, then simmered in its own juice with tomato, onion, ginger, garlic and cilantro.
Lamb marinated in a blend of spices and vinegar, then cooked in a piquant sauce with pearl onions and potatoes. Hot and spicy.
Kadai cooking is native to sind which was formerly part of bombay province- pieces of lamb cooked in a kadai - wok, with tomatoes, bell peppers, ginger, garlic crushed corriander and other spices.
Basmati rice cooked with lamb in a delicate blend of exotic herbs and spices topped with dried tropical fruits.
Super combination of lamb, chicken, shrimp and vegetables cooked with basmati rice, chefs special spices, herbs and dried tropical fruits. Served in a sealed pot.
Jumbo fresh bay scallops marinated in ginger and garlic paste and a blend of special spices to compliment the flavor of the scallops- broiled to perfection.
Half a spring chicken marinated in yogurt, ginger, garlic lemon juice and fresh spices barbecued in the clay oven.
Pieces of chicken marinated in a special spices and broiled in tandoor.
Ground lamb mixed with chopped onions, bell peppers and fresh green spices, wrapped around a skewer and roasted in the clay oven.
Pieces of chicken marinated in a ginger garlic paste with cream cheese, mint, cilantro, spices, and then broiled in a clay oven.
Homemade cheese cubes marinated in yogurt and spices cooked in clay oven with bell peppers and onion.
Doughnut like tasting pastry balls served in a honey flavored warm syrup.
Frozen ice cream made from reduced milk, almonds, pistachios and safron.
Safron flavored rice pudding with dried tropical fruits.
Rice creamy vanilla custard covered with caramel sauce.
Indian alphonso mango and homemade yogurt shake topped with pistachios.
Homemade yogurt shake with a choice of flavors-plain, salted or sweet.
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Disguising Patriotism with Desert Hues
By JOHN REED
A not-so-subtly entitled exhibit jabs at Dubya's saber rattling
So ubiquitous is the fashionability of camouflage patterns in our culture, it blinds one to the militarization that it suggests. Andy Warhol's series of camouflage abstract paintings, so foreboding and prescient in their day, now take on a wholly naïve character. Jane Benson, obscuring the glitz of holiday foil garlands with camouflage-colored spray paint, emphasizes a shift from fashion as ornamentation to fashion as not-so-secret weapon.
The U.S. takeover of the world, for better or worse, will ultimately be achieved by cultural infiltration. This fact is not lost on the current administration, and they've made the policy clear: as a citizen, the best thing you can do to support America in a time of trouble is buy stuff.
Benson's once metallic garlands festoon the ceiling of the gallery in mimicry of the camouflage canopies utilized in military operations. The second piece in the show, "Camouflage Suit," a mocked-up outfit with strips of fabric, brings a sense of the individual's participation in all this, complementing the exhibition's overarching theme of umbrage toward the military.
Still, the title "Underbush" sells short the subject matter. It's difficult to entirely blame George Bush for the relationship between fashion and war, especially in the context of lower Manhattan, where the predecessor to the textile industry was the munitions industry. Indeed, it is entirely possible that the gallery where the work is on view had a previous life not only as a textile warehouse or sweatshop, but as a guns or ammo factory.


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root = Pathname('../../').expand_path(__FILE__)
$LOAD_PATH << root+'vendor/mustache/lib'

module CommonMob
  autoload :FileHelper   , 'common_mob/file'
  autoload :PatchHelper  , 'common_mob/patch'
  autoload :DigestHelper , 'common_mob/digest'
  autoload :Template     , 'common_mob/template'
  autoload :ShellHelper  , 'common_mob/shell'
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end

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Home › News › Houston, Texas: Cinema Arts Festival Incorperates Outdoor Movie Screenings for Viewers
Houston, Texas: Cinema Arts Festival Incorperates Outdoor Movie Screenings for Viewers
por Caleb Mitchell 3 de noviembre de 2009
A stellar lineup of actors, directors and other artists are participating in Cinema Arts Festival Houston, a jam-packed multimedia event scheduled for November 11-15, 2009. Guests presenting new and classic films include actress Tilda Swinton, Texas filmmaker and director Richard Linklater and Mexican screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga. The arts-oriented Festival will also host photographer Susan Meiselas, rock band Dengue Fever and members of The Yes Men and the Ant Farm media collective, among many other outstanding presenters. The only U.S. festival devoted to films by and about artists of all stripes, the 2009 Cinema Arts Festival Houston runs at various cultural locales throughout Houston. It is more than just a film festival; it is a vibrant multimedia arts event breaking out of the confines of the movie theater through live music and film performances, outdoor projections, interactive video installations and more. OPENING NIGHT The Festival's Opening Night will kick off with two highly anticipated films and a very special guest. Richard Linklater, originally from Houston and the maker of such seminal films as "Slacker," "School of Rock" and "Before Sunset," will attend the screening of his latest theatrical release, "Me and Orson Welles." Meanwhile, the acclaimed "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire" will be playing downtown. "Me and Orson Welles" is Linklater's tribute to the ultimate maverick director, Welles, as filtered through Robert Kaplow's novel of the same name. Zac Efron graduates from teen heartthrob to serious actor and displays impressive range as Richard Samuels, a young actor drawn into Welles's theater troupe and orbit. TILDA SWINTON "The Worlds of Tilda Swinton" celebrates the Academy Award winner's many artistic achievements in producing, writing and acting, and her passionate commitment to the cinematic arts. It includes a sneak preview of her latest independent feature film. Swinton will discuss her close collaborations with two avant-garde artists, Derek Jarman and Lynn Hershman Leeson. She will present "Derek," the documentary on Jarman she wrote and narrated, followed by a showing of the cult feminist sci-fi film, "Teknolust," where she will be joined by director Hershman. The weekend culminates with "The Ballerina Cinema of Dreams," a celebration at Discovery Green featuring a free outdoor screening of "The Red Shoes" and preceded by a performance by Houston Ballet. Swinton will be on hand at each of the screenings to introduce the films and engage in conversation with the audience. GUILLERMO ARRIAGA "Guillermo Arriaga, Escritor" is devoted to the work of Arriaga, the extraordinary artist who wrote the trilogy of films "Amores Perros," "21 Grams" and "Babel." Arriaga will introduce "Amores Perros," the film that first brought him worldwide acclaim. During a special workshop, Arriaga will read from his novels and discuss his approaches to writing across media. Arriaga will also introduce and discuss his screenplay, "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada," a classic story of friendship, revenge and redemption, grounded in the contemporary environment of the Texas-Mexico border, directed by and starring Tommy Lee Jones. "The Three Burials" will also be the subject of the Festival's "Setting the Scene" workshop featuring crew members exploring the production of a Texas-filmed classic. PHOTOGRAPHER SUSAN MEISELAS AND FILMMAKER RICHARD P. ROGERS "Creative Partners: The Films of Richard P. Rogers and Susan Meiselas" includes several screenings and events exploring the fruitful partnership of filmmaker Richard P. Rogers and photographer Susan Meiselas, including the Houston premiere of one of the year's most original and important documentaries, "The Windmill Movie." Directed by Alexander Olch and produced by Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Susan Meiselas, "The Windmill Movie" is imaginatively composed from footage collected over many years for an unfinished autobiography by legendary art documentarian, experimental filmmaker and film professor Richard P. Rogers. Meiselas, who was Rogers' wife, collaborated with him on two classic documentary films made in the 1980s in support of the Nicaraguan people and revolution, "Living at Risk" and "Pictures from a Revolution." Meiselas will be joined by Alfred Guzzetti, who co-directed "Pictures from a Revolution" and "Living at Risk" with Rogers and Meiselas, for discussions after the screenings. MULTIMEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL: INSTALLATIONS Cinema Arts Festival Houston's commitment to multiple and intersecting genres of art is realized with several multimedia events, including media art installations. One such attraction is H BOX, the portable screening room designed by Portuguese artist/architect Dider Fiuza Faustino and sponsored by the HermГЁs Foundation. H BOX is stationed at the historic Alabama Theatre through the close of the Festival and features a rotating, diverse program of videos by ten internationally renowned artists including Yael Bartana (Israel), Matthew Buckingham (USA) and Cao Fei (China). H BOX Curator Benjamin Weil will visit Houston and speak in a "Meet the Makers" series. Another multimedia attraction is the special preview of "What if, Why not? Underground Adventures with Ant Farm," a documentary by Texas filmmakers Laura Harrison and Beth Federici about the 1970s renegade architectural and media collective Ant Farm. Inflatable structures inspired by Ant Farm and created by University of Houston students will supplement the screening. "What if, Why not?" is the first film to delve into the work of Ant Farm, best known for its iconic land-art piece Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, TX. Guest filmmakers Laura Harrison and Beth Federici and legendary artists and Ant Farm original members Chip Lord and Curtis Schreier will attend the screening. MULTIMEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL: LIVE MUSIC AND FILM PERFORMANCES The Festival will expand its multimedia focus by integrating the art forms of film and live music in unique and surprising ways, as in its presentations of "Peter Pan," "When It Was Blue" and "The Lost World." "Peter Pan," the 1924 silent film, will be screened and accompanied by live music performed by legendary silent film accompanists Donald Sosin and Joanna Seaton and Paul Reisler, founder of Kid Pan Alley. Prior to the movie, audiences will enjoy a recital by Houston elementary school students, who will be working with Kid Pan Alley the week preceding the Festival composing original songs related to "Peter Pan." This program is free of charge. "When It Was Blue," a critical sensation at last year's Toronto Film Festival, is a double-projector performance by avant-garde artist and New York based filmmaker Jennifer Reeves with live musical accompaniment by Icelandic multi-instrumentalist and composer SkГєli Sverrisson. "When It Was Blue," which features ecological footage Reeves shot around the world that was then hand-painted, seeks to convey the artist's efforts to preserve the beauty of natural environments and 16mm film, both endangered. "The Lost World," the 1925 classic adventure flick, will feature live musical accompaniment by Cambodian-American psychedelic rock band Dengue Fever. Based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel of the same name, "The Lost World" features amazing stop-motion sequences by animation pioneer Willis O'Brien, who later animated King Kong, and outlandish costumes and sets. Dengue Fever's live score, which premiered at the San Francisco Film Festival last spring, playfully and lovingly evokes worlds both known and unknown and elevates "The Lost World's" offbeat humor and singular beauty. MORE FILMS ABOUT THE ARTS Andy Bichlbaum of The Yes Men will present "The Yes Men Fix the World." Winner of the Panorama Audience Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, the film is a screwball true story about the satirical activist team, The Yes Men. Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno's theatrical performances take place on unusual stages. Dressed in thrift-store suits, posing as top executives of corporations, The Yes Men lie their way into business conferences and parody their corporate targets in outrageous, yet strangely plausible ways. Festival Curator Richard Herskowitz combed several sources and festivals, including Toronto and Silverdocs, to bring Cinema Arts Festival Houston the best recent films made by and about artists. Highlights from the film program include: "La Danse: Le Ballet De L'Opera De Paris" (Frederick Wiseman), "Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench" (Damien Chazelle), "Sacred Places" (Jean-Marie Teno), "Theater of War" (John Walter) and "Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker?" (Barbara Caspar). source-http://pr-usa.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=285763&Itemid=29


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Q: Optional Martingale Stopping Theorem and Brownian Motion Process I do not understand how to demonstrate that the MST holds in the following situation:
There is a Brownian Motion process $\{B(t)\}$ for $t > 0$ and stopping time defined as $T:= inf\{t : B(t) = -a \ $or$ \ b\}$. Suppose $B(0)=0$.
At time $T$, I know that $B(T)$ is either $-a$ or $b$. However, I do not know how to get $P(B(T)=-a)$ and $P(B(T)=-b)$ so as to get $E[T]$ without the MST. An intuitive response would be much appreciated.

A: Since $B_T$ takes only the values $-a$ and $b$, we have $$B_T = -a 1_{\{B_T=-a\}} + b 1_{\{B_T=b\}}.$$ Using that $\mathbb{E}(B_T)=0$ we get $$0 = \mathbb{E}(B_T)= -a \mathbb{P}(B_T=-a) + b \mathbb{P}(B_T=b). \tag{1}$$ On the other hand, we know that $$\mathbb{P}(B_T=-a) + \mathbb{P}(B_T=b) = 1. \tag{2}$$ Solving this system of linear equations allows you to compute $\mathbb{P}(B_T=-a)$ and $\mathbb{P}(B_T=b)$.
In order to calculate $\mathbb{E}(T)$ you have to use that $(B_t^2-t)_{t \geq 0}$ is a martingale and apply the optional stopping theorem.


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Q: PrimeNg p-column apply css in a td not working I'm using a p-dataTable and I'd like to apply a style in a td but this style depends on a field's value and I don't know how do it. My code is:

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carStyle could be empty or ui-without-border-top and my css:
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In my html generated code I don't see the carStyle. I need the style in the td.

A: Please do check if the carStyle class has been added to your  in this case.
I will show how i did this without any issues:
In my template:

And my Scss:
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See below screenshot for how well it worked without issues:

Please check your code and try again. Please post in a fiddle of your issue if it doesn't work.


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COVerage: Region-Specific SARS-CoV-2 News Query Algorithm
Vedavyas Mallela, Lena Pang, Aadit Trivedi, Annie Wang, Alice Zhou, Jonathan Mak, Cindy Ngyuen
With the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), obtaining up-to-date, location-specific news has become increasingly important. However, with the rise of misinformation, region-specific, accurate, and user-relevant information becomes buried. Our primary research objective was to provide precise data to communities through a website that provides a categorical layout of accurate and region-specific information. Because COVID-19 policies vary by location, we believe providing region-specific news would help users in their day-to-day activities. While the global news on COVID-19 is still beneficial for general knowledge, it will not provide people with the specifics they need to know when going outside in their community. We created an algorithm that automates COVID-19 search engine queries for localized news specific to the user's region. We also defined our metric that quantifies search query efficiency to fine-tune our query algorithm. Using this algorithm, we created a website called COVerage in which we display localized news separated into five COVID-19-specific categories to the user: policies, education, biology, economy, and statistics. Each news article is displayed with an image, an NLP model generated summary, and the top three most relevant keywords that help users find more articles related to those words. We also include a county-specific map to show up-to-date statistics on the number of cases based on the user's location.
Figure 1. Website interface of our COVerage website. The left side displays most relevant news articles, each with a headline, summary, and tags. The right displays a map corresponding to the user's location with up-to-date statistics.
SARS-CoV-2 and Misinformation
The SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) outbreak was initially reported on December 31, 2019, in Wuhan, China, but has rapidly spread into a pandemic, threatening lives globally. Due to the large scale of this issue, there has been a rise in misinformation as there is a higher demand for information and people are eager to share supposed "remedies", "causes", and other "news" about the coronavirus that is largely inaccurate and potentially even detrimental to the well-being of many. To help combat this issue, many recognized organizations, researchers, scientists, and public officials are focusing their efforts on providing trustworthy and up-to-date information that can be easily accessed by the general population.
Neural networks are multi-layer algorithms that use machine learning to recognize patterns in data sets. Each layer in the network is made up of many neurons with a specific activation function and these specific functions affect the activations of the following layer. The networks process images or text as input and give outputs to train the network. As the inputs are passed through the hidden layers, the layers generate output. By applying and finding the best loss functions for the particular neural network [2], backpropagation nudges the network in the right direction and forms a stochastic gradient descent, thereby optimizing the model.
Using these neural networks coupled with a language dataset, such as GPT-3, we can organize data from a wide range of online news sources. Artificial neural networks (ANN) can be used to classify many series of texts. The output of the algorithms is then implemented to formulate datasets that are later translated into words, providing an accurate and coherent summary of the problem.
Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a field of machine learning that allows computers to analyze, understand, and generate human language [1]. NLP and text information retrieval (IR) research has begun to intersect, allowing for features such as sentiment analysis, machine translation, and extracting meaning from text. After gathering data, NLP allows for succinct text summarization without bias, utilizing existing language models like OpenAI's GPT-3 to break down sentence meanings syntactically.
There are currently many ways in which neural networks are being used and perfected for both abstractive and extractive text summarization. Extractive and abstractive text summarization differ in that the former takes words and phrases directly from the documents and pieces them together to form an extractive summary, while the latter re-words the document, creating an abstractive summary using natural language processing [3]. Historically, extractive text summarization has been much more common due to it being easier to compute using existing methods. However, newer methods of abstractive summarization are being developed as it is a much more concise and accurate way of summarizing information, as proven through multiple studies directly comparing extractive and abstractive summarization [4]. Some of the most recent and concise methods for text summarization include a pointer-generator model [5] developed by researchers at Stanford University and Google Brain, a Document-Context based Seq2Seq model using RNNs [6], and a combination of BERTSUM, a general news summarization BERT model, and Generative Pretrained Transformer 2 (GPT-2) [7].
Due to the recent shift in information retrieval from keyword match to semantic vector search, transformer-based models like BERT are being widely used to map queries and documents into semantic vectors. Through calculating vector distance rather than looking at keywords, it becomes easier to compare relevant and related search results. However, there are inefficiencies in these self-attention models as they lack the necessary prior knowledge. To make up for the flaws of the BERT model, researchers at Microsoft have developed a BM25-weIghted SelfAttentiON framework (BISON), a specific document query architecture that calculates semantic representation to rank documents accordingly [8]. BM25 allows researchers to score words based upon their uniqueness in a query or document, and assign different weights. For BISON, BM25 was used to determine the respective weights for the document and query before each was tokenized. Finally, the tokens are passed through the BISON encoder before the calculation of cosine similarity. To test the quality of BISON, researchers compared its performance alongside other models such as XL-Net and BERT, using Bing's intrinsic query set and MS Marco, a collection of datasets focused on deep learning in search. For Bing's intrinsic query set, the different models were evaluated using Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain (NDCG) and NCG, which measure precision and recall respectively. And for MS Marco, the models were evaluated using Mean Reciprocal Rank (MRR). In both cases, BISON was seen to have performed the best. This model has contributed to the existing body of knowledge by proposing a new method in which search engines can improve their document retrieval quality. We also use the BM25 metric later in the development of our document query metric, the LQM (see 1.2), to compare the two and validate the accuracy of our metric by looking for similar patterns.
Furthermore, to address the issue of long queries not returning relevant results, TinySearch, a semantics-based search engine, was developed [9]. Its architecture consists of a BERT server that generates embedding vectors, combined with a neural network built using Keras that was trained on the Quora Question Pairs dataset. The neural network was designed to determine a score representative of similarity. TinySearch ultimately demonstrated improvements when it came to longer or more complex queries, while it struggled with vaguer, shorter queries. TinySearch was useful in our metric development as it is similar to the notion of calculating the abstractive intersection between query and doc, something we also take into consideration. However, our metric differs from TinySearch in that they used BERT for semantic similarity but we utilize the Natural Language Toolkit's (NLTK) dataset, synset, in order to map words to their synonyms.
COVerage Algorithm
1.1 Localized Query Algorithm
For our main website to load responses faster, we created a RESTful API hosted on Heroku. The API is live at http://coveragee-api.herokuapp.com. The API was built using Python and served using Flask. To browse news articles, we used the GoogleNews Python library which scrapes news articles from Google's search engine based on customized queries. We tested three differently worded queries per category to achieve a wide range of results. After determining the most effective query (in terms of news relevancy – see Section 1.2), we used that query for our searching algorithm. To ensure the relevancy of these news articles, we used Python's datetime library. By doing so, the API verified that the news articles were published at the earliest 7 days before the API request.
1.2 COVerage Localized Query Metric (LQM)
A prominent issue of working on localized queries is that a number of the websites were only tangentially related to the query in the terms of the content being presented. To filter out appropriate queries, we crafted our own metric to help shape our localized query algorithm. The metric was intended to help fine-tune our algorithm to present the most relevant content to our users through the API.
S_{\text{query}} = 10 \cdot \frac{\sum \text{wquery} \cap \text{wtext}}{\sum \text{wtext}}
Squery — the query distribution — is a representation of the effectiveness of a query based on the website content the search engine returns. First, the intersection of the words from the query —wquery — and the words from the website content text — wtext— is calculated. This can be calculated extractively (word for word) or abstractively (using vocabulary distributions). We used the Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) and wordnet from nltk.corpus for calculating the abstractive intersection. The abstractive intersection was determined by cross-checking synonyms of the words in the news article with the query. The vocabulary distributions, specifically, were calculated through wordnet and its attribute, synset. To maintain proportionality to the website content text, the intersection of common words is divided by the number of words in the text. Squery is scaled by 10 to achieve a value between 0 and 1.
\text{LQM} = \text{sigmoid}(S_{\text{query}})
Finally, we transformed the query distribution through the sigmoid activation function. The purpose of this transformation was to achieve a scalar value bounded by the limits 0.5 and 1.
Our queries were organized into the following categories: statistics, school information, policies and laws, vaccine progress, information about the economy, and donations. The news articles displayed on our website were organized by region-specific and categorical relevancy which are determined by LQM.
1.3 Categorization
To group our queries by categories and deliver them to users in a cleaner format, we searched for news on policies, education, biology, economy, statistics, and donations and displayed them as rows on our front-end. Responses from the COV-erage API are all grouped in this format as well. For each article, the categories are ranked by the LQM which according to our results falls around 0.55-0.60, to determine how relevant each article is to the specific category. By displaying local donation websites to users, we can help them find ways to aid the prevention of COVID-19.
At first, we automated the scraping of news URLs, images, and text, but to optimize our website's speed, we decided to utilize Python's newspaper3k library instead which would provide our users with the headlines, summary, images, and tags more quickly.
Location-Based Queries and Maps
2.1 U.S. Queries and Transmission Maps
To make our news and data localized, we used the HTML5 Location API to get the user's location in the form of longitude and latitude points. These points from users are then fed into an API from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that returns the specific county info in the form of Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) data correlating to those longitude and latitude points. The FIPS data returns county and state information which is later vital for our queries. By using this API, we can guarantee the best localization results as they are from the government census every year. By sending a POST request, the data is received by flask and is then used for queries.
To generate maps of SARS-CoV-2 spread rates in every county in the US, the county FIPS numbers are fed into the embedded COVID-19 spread map from Big Local News (a joint initiative from Google and Stanford Journalism) [10], which then displays localized, regularly-updated COVID-19 statistics from The New York Times. The map is useful to our users because it displays information about COVID-19 rates in their area right next to the news.
2.2 International Queries and Global Map View
If users are using our platform internationally, the reverse geocodes Python library is used to return cities and countries in order to query later in the search API. The news displayed will be relevant to the specific city the user is located in. However because the map from Big Local News is limited to counties within the U.S., the map will show a separate global view map that shows spread rates by country.
When users decline location permissions, the outputted data default to a global view. The global view includes an international map and news from across the world, rather than region-specific news and maps [11].
Figure 2. The website view users will see if they decline to share their location. On the left, the website displays global news, and on the right, a worldwide coronavirus map is shown.
Figure 3. An example news card of a global article that includes an extracted image, a headline, a summary, and keywords linked at the bottom.
To create a website and mobile app, we first had to determine a basic design that would be user friendly and intuitive. Here we will discuss our design process.
3.1 Website
Our ultimate goal for the web design was to make it concise and easy to navigate. The web design process began with a mockup in Google Slides, where we went through multiple versions before deciding on the final layout and colors. The color scheme is composed of Stanford's Cardinal, Cloud, and white, to create a lighter appearance overall. The fonts are also from Stanford's identity toolkit: Crimson Text for the title and Source Sans Pro for the body. Given that website's purpose is to keep the information concise, we wanted to keep everything on one page. As such, we created a two-column format, with the left column having scrollable rows based on the category of news, and the right column containing our location-specific map for users to see statistics correlating to their county. The About Us section is also in the right column to even out the lengths of the two columns.
3.2 App
Having settled on web design, we used MarvelApp to create a mobile app prototype.
Figure 4. Mockups of the COVerage app. Tags allow users to navigate from each category of articles, and the bottom menu bar provides an About Us page as well as maps of COVID-19 cases in specific counties.
The app's colors and fonts are consistent with the website, but we reorganized the layout to better fit the smaller window dimensions. We took inspiration from the Instagram and the LinkedIn mobile app, using a bottom navigation menu and category tags, respectively, as an intuitive way for the user to navigate the app and delineate the different sections. We decided to make multiple tabs: one for the articles, one for the map, and one for the about us section. We integrated the optional ZIP code entry into a small settings button in the top right, as it is a minor feature and will not distract from the rest of the design. For the app, we prioritized simplicity and readability, rather than keeping the information all on one page.
Figure 5. LQM Results for Yellowstone County, Montana Coronavirus Economy-related Queries | Query made on August 3, 2020 | Similar trend between average values of LQM / BM25
Figure 6. LQM and BM25 Results for Providence County, Rhode Island Coronavirus Education-related Queries | Query made on August 3, 2020 | Trend resemblance between LQM and BM25 values indicates the viability of LQM
Figure 7. LQM Results for International vs. Local (Manhattan, NY) Vaccine Progress and Biology | Query made on August 6, 2020 | Similarities between the LQM results of both graphs led us to display international vaccine news to users regardless of location
For our results, we compared the LQM metric we created for document relevance to the BM25 metric, another widely used ranking function used by search engines. Using test data from Google searches, we compared the scores from LQM with those of BM25 for the first three results of the Google News search to validate our formula and verify that both metrics, while not the same, would show similar patterns. For each set of two graphs, one for the LQM metric and one for the BM25 metric, we display the score given by the metrics on the y-axis, and the three different queries used on the x-axis. The search queries were determined based on the specific group of information we were looking for, and represent three similar ways to search for news on the same overarching category.
Figure 6 indicates the best example of the general matching trend between LQM and BM25. The LQM graph for query "Providence County Rhode Island coronavirus education" indicates the general expected trend of first Google News result being the most relevant, second result being the second most relevant, etcetera. We hypothesize that the discrepancy in this trend among the other graphs is because our metric prioritizes location and COVID-19-specific categorical news as opposed to querying keywords.
Another set of graphs we chose to compare were two LQM graphs for both international coronavirus vaccine/biology news in comparison to localized coronavirus vaccine/biology news. The LQM metric gives similar results for both the international queries as well as queries made specifically for Manhattan, NY (Fig 7.). Because of the very close data points, we ultimately decided that there was no added benefit in customizing the news in the Biology category based upon user location, as it did not obtain a higher score from the LQM metric. Therefore, our COVerage website displays international vaccine and biology news to all users no matter the region they are in. In addition to the graph results, we also made this decision based on our own logical reasoning that COVID-19 vaccine progress is a global effort that users located all across the world would be interested in regardless of where the vaccine development and testing are taking place.
We created COVerage with the intent of allowing users from both national and international backgrounds to receive localized and relevant news in a matter of a few seconds. To ensure news article relevancy, we created a search algorithm optimized for COVID-19 news that actively calculates relevancy in context to the region-specific, local query using the LQM metric. The LQM metric indicates the efficiency of the custom COVID-19-related query in the context of Google News results. Our algorithm allows users to receive accurate news of five specific overarching categories of COVID-19.
While other resources that provide accurate COVID-19 data, COVerage is different in that it provides both localized news and map statistics all on one page, allowing easy access to the user. Unlike a regular news search, COVerage allows users to direct themselves to the exact categorical news they are looking for.
We aim to implement a real-time machine learning-based summarizer on our site in the future as opposed to relying on newspaper3k. We believe that by training and running our own text summarizer, the model can be tailored towards both local and categorical summaries – the two primary focuses of COVerage.
We also plan on making our website into a progressive web application and releasing it to the Apple App Store and Google Play store. We have already created several mockups of potential app design, and are working on making it more intuitive and user friendly.
The COVerage Search Query Algorithm can be utilized to improve the efficiency of automated searches. Search engines can also use the COVerage Query Metric to optimize web crawlers to specifically look for results whose content more closely reflects on the user's queries.
The code for COVerage's main website can be found at: https://github.com/vmallela0/COVerage
The code for COVerage's REST API (Region-specific algorithm + LQM Metric) and the notebook for LQM Metric Visualization can be found at: https://github.com/AaditT/coverage-api
We would like to express our gratitude to our mentors, Cindy Nguyen, and Jonathan Mak, for their continuous support, guidance, and insightful feedback throughout the project. We would also like to sincerely thank Professor Tsachy Weissman, Cindy Nguyen, and the Stanford Compression Forum for providing us with the opportunity to engage in a research internship. Without them, our work would not have been possible.
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'Enough is enough': Union backs stranded seafarers' right to leave ships
The following is text of a news release from the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF):
(LONDON) — The International Transport Workers' Federation and its affiliated seafarers' unions will now assist hundreds of thousands of seafarers to exercise their right to stop working, leave ships, and return home.
The new approach, which could be highly disruptive to global trade, comes after insufficient action by governments to designate seafarers as "key workers," exempt them from COVID-19 travel restrictions and facilitate repatriation of around 200,000 seafarers who have been caught up in the crew change crisis, said ITF Seafarers' Section Chairman Dave Heindel.
"We are sending a very strong message to seafarers: you have selflessly extended and extended your contracts to do your part to keep critical supplies flowing around the world during this pandemic," he said. "Some seafarers have been on board for more than a year, and over the course of this pandemic many have been prevented by governments from coming ashore even for a walk and alarmingly refused emergency medical care. Frankly, we have seafarers killing themselves at the prospect of this misery continuing without end. They call them 'floating prisons.' This situation is intolerable to the ITF family."
ITF President and Dockers' Section Chairman Paddy Crumlin reiterated the repeated warnings given to governments from unions and industry of this unfolding humanitarian crisis.
"We have urged them on the consequences of tired, fatigued, depressed crew – to trade, to the environment," Crumlin said. "We have worked with industry and the international community to offer solutions. But enough is enough. We have to draw a line in the sand and today is the day that we make it crystal clear to governments, that from June 16, seafarers are going to start enforcing their right to stop working and to return home. No more contract extensions."
ITF General Secretary Steve Cotton said all that governments need to do is make practical exceptions to coronavirus restrictions, and allow these key workers to transit through their territories and return to their families. A few small changes by national governments would allow seafarers to get home and be relieved by a fresh crew, he said.
"If a seafarer wants off a ship, then the ITF, our affiliated unions and the ITF inspectorate will do everything we can to assist them. We fully expect port state authorities in all countries where ships dock to honor their obligations under the Maritime Labor Convention to get these seafarers safely home. That is their legal obligation," Cotton said.
"If getting seafarers off these ships causes chaos in supply chains, if ports back up from Singapore to San Francisco, and if this causes ship insurance providers to pull their coverage and global trade to grind to a halt; then that is on the heads of politicians, not the world's seafarers," he said. "Seafarers have done our part in this pandemic, and plenty more. Enough is enough."
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Il Curly Girl Method è un approccio per la cura dei capelli progettato per capelli naturalmente ricci che non sono stati modificati chimicamente con la permanente liscia. È simile al metodo "no poo" in quanto dissuade dall'uso dello shampoo. Tra le altre cose, richiede l'uso di un balsamo detergente al posto dello shampoo (chiamato anche "lavaggio con balsamo" o "co-washing"), niente siliconi (utilizzati in molti balsami commerciali e prodotti per lo styling), l'uso di un diffusore quando ci si asciuga i capelli e il non utilizzare pettini, spazzole o asciugamani in spugna. Include anche suggerimenti per l'utilizzo di gel per capelli e altri prodotti per lo styling. Lo scopo in generale è quello di trattare i capelli naturalmente ricci delicatamente, riducendo al minimo i danni alla cuticola del capello; per mantenerli idratati, visto che i capelli ricci sono più inclini alla secchezza rispetto ai capelli lisci; e, forse la cosa più importante, per accentuare piuttosto che interferire con la tipologia naturale di ricci.

Il più importante sistema di classificazione dei capelli ricci raggruppa i tipi di ricci da 2 a 4 e da A a C (che rappresentano una crescente tenuta del riccio) con la tipologia 1 che rappresenta la completa assenza di ricci (o capelli lisci). La tipologia 2 comprende, in generale, vari gradi di capelli mossi, nella tipologia 3 si tratta di ricci morbidi e a spirale, e il tipo 4 comprende ricci più stretti, piegature e spirali molto strette.

Storia

Mentre prima di allora erano in uso alcune variazioni del metodo, nel 2001 è stato presentato a un pubblico più ampio dalla parrucchiera Lorraine Massey, fondatrice dei Devachan Salons. Lorraine si è separata da Devacurl alcuni anni fa e ora è proprietaria e fondatrice dei prodotti Curly World e Spiral XYZ Curl Salon a New York. Quando il Curly Girl Hand Book fu pubblicato per la prima volta, i capelli lisci erano lo stile prevalente per le donne negli Stati Uniti, nel Regno Unito e altrove, e molte donne si sentivano costrette a lisciare i capelli con piastre o permanenti lisce. Massey parla nella sua introduzione dell'essere cresciuta in Inghilterra, dove è stata presa in giro per avere i capelli ricci. Quando si è trasferita a New York, ha avuto un'esperienza rivelatrice: "gli ebrei, italiani, latino americani e afroamericani che vivevano intorno a me avevano capelli ricci che assomigliavano ai miei! Non sembravo più né mi sentivo un'outsider".

Dall'inizio del 2010, le acconciature ricce sono diventate più popolari e sostenute da molte celebrità come Yara Shahidi, Solange Knowles, Viola Davis e Sarah Jessica Parker.

Variazioni

Le persone con diverse strutture di capelli hanno adattato il metodo alle loro esigenze. Le varianti più diffuse includono l'uso di shampoo senza solfati, che sono ora più ampiamente disponibili di quanto lo fossero nel 2001, e l'asciugatura occasionale con l'uso di protettivi termici.

Il metodo è utilizzato anche dagli uomini; il nome "ragazza riccia" ("curly girl") riflette l'importanza relativa della cura dei capelli per donne e ragazze a causa delle aspettative della società. Il metodo può essere utilizzato anche su capelli crespi, ricci e ondulati, che sono spesso considerati di capelli ricci sui siti di cura dei capelli e nei sistemi di tipizzazione dei capelli.

A mano a mano che il co-washing è diventato più popolare, la domanda dei consumatori ha generato un nuovo prodotto per capelli, il "co-wash detergente", che secondo i sostenitori rimuove l'accumulo di prodotti dai capelli e dal cuoio capelluto senza gli effetti di secchezza che genera lo shampoo tradizionale.

Il libro di Massey include anche tecniche per tagliare i capelli ricci, come tagliare i capelli quando sono asciutti anziché bagnati. Tecniche di taglio dei capelli correlate includono il taglio Deva, taglio Ouidad, e RI CI.

Altri autori hanno scritto guide per la cura dei capelli ricci che si concentrano su specifici tipi di capelli. Curly Like Me: How to Grow Your Hari Healthy, Long and Strong di Teri LaFlesh offre consigli naturali per la cura dei capelli, specialmente per i ricci stretti. Better than Good Hair: The Curly Girl Guide to Healthy, Gorgeous Natural Hair di Nikki Walton si concentra sui capelli afro. Gli autori del sito web Naturally Curly forniscono consigli sulla cura dei capelli in base al tipo di ricci, alla porosità e ad altri fattori.

Il curly girl method richiede anche di conoscere la porosità dei capelli. Ci sono porosità dei capelli bassa, media e alta. La bassa porosità dei capelli è quando le cuticole dei capelli sono chiuse. I capelli a bassa porosità hanno difficoltà a ricevere idratazione, ma una volta assorbita rimarranno idratati. Questo tipo di porosità è comune con i capelli che hanno subito poco o nessun danno (né dagli strumenti per lo styling né da sostanze chimiche) e quindi è il livello di porosità preferito. I capelli di media porosità si presentano quando le cuticole dei capelli sono allentate, permettendo all'umidità di essere facilmente assorbita e trattenuta. L'alta porosità si verifica quando ci sono degli spazi nelle cuticole dei capelli che consentono ai capelli di idratarsi facilmente ma anche di perdere facilmente l'umidità con la stessa facilità con cui è stata assorbita. Questi spazi sono causati da danni a lungo termine ai capelli dovuti a manipolazione eccessiva, danni da calore e danni chimici causati da tinte per capelli e rilassanti.

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Collegamenti esterni

Informazioni su come iniziare il "Curly Girl Method" in italiano, su amametia.com

Cura dei capelli

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Also known as bopomofo, the first four characters of the set representing b, p, m, f initials. It consists of 37 characters (21 initials, 16 rhymes including medials) representing the sounds of PuTongHua Mandarin, there are also four extra characters representing tones.
The character ü is often simplified to u in pinyin spelling, if it its followed by additional letters.
The character ê is often simplified to e in pinyin spelling, if it its followed by additional letters.
25 Chinese characters used as acronyms for character attributes. An extra character key which is unnecessary is included here for completeness.
Apart from the letter v, all alphabetic keys on the QWERTY keyboard is used.
The first two are ways in which the sounds of the Mandarin Chinese Standard PuTongHua language are represented. The method known as CangJie depends on attributes of the written character which are represented by character acronyms which represents these attributes and therefore independent on the pronunciation of the character itself.
Zhuyin (and hence Pinyin) i, u and ü represented by the qwerty keys u, j, and m respectively, divided the keyboard layout into initials on the left and endings on the right.
ZhuYin FuHao uses four characters as follows [Initial] + [Medial] + [Rhyme] + [Tone]. An example is the sound guang3 which is represented as ㄍㄨㄤˇ [g]+[u]+[ang]+[tone 3]. The keyboard does not give the first tone, which is often given as a horizontal line above the first vowel in PinYin romanisation. Tone 2 is [ˊ], Tone 3 as given above is [ˇ], Tone 4 is [ˋ], whilst as a result of the rules of tone sandhi for Mandarin Putonghua, the unstressed tone is sometimes written with the dot, [.].
There are a few character which are used which is not part of the normal set of ZhuYin FuHao characters. They are for initial ng- , initial v- , initial gn- and retroflex i . These have been used in other Chinese languages, especially, on Taiwan.
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3 accused of selling cocaine in Genesee, Orleans counties
Arrested were Edgardo Aponte, 41, and Sonia E. Aponte, 32, both of Elba, and Jeremy S. Yantz, 32, of Batavia, sheriff's deputies announced Wednesday, following a five-month-long investigation.
3 accused of selling cocaine in Genesee, Orleans counties Arrested were Edgardo Aponte, 41, and Sonia E. Aponte, 32, both of Elba, and Jeremy S. Yantz, 32, of Batavia, sheriff's deputies announced Wednesday, following a five-month-long investigation. Check out this story on DemocratandChronicle.com: http://on.rocne.ws/17VgON0
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Three Genesee County residents are facing felony drug charges following a police search of an Elba residence Tuesday evening.
Members of Genesee and Orleans counties' drug and major felony task forces executed a search warrant Tuesday evening at a residence on Hundredmark Road in Elba, deputies said. Officers found and seized cocaine and drug paraphernalia from inside the home.
The Apontes are accused of selling cocaine from the house, according to the Genesee County Sheriff's Office. They are also accused of selling and transporting drugs in and around Genesee and Orleans counties, according to police.
The Apontes were charged with third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, fourth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and first-degree criminal nuisance, all felonies. They were both also charged with second-degree criminally using drug paraphernalia, a misdemeanor.
Edgardo Aponte was also charged with tampering with evidence, a felony.
Yantz was charged with four counts of third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance, a felony.
Edgardo and Sonia Aponte were both arraigned in Elba Town Court. He was remanded to the Genesee County Jail in lieu of $50,000 cash bail and Sonia Aponte was released. Deputies said Yantz was arraigned in Albion Town Court and was remanded to the Orleans County Jail in lieu of $25,000 cash bail.
Batavia police, Rochester police, the federal Department of Homeland Security and the Genesee County District Attorney's Office assisted Genesee County and Orleans County sheriff's deputies with the ongoing investigation.
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