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N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo apologizes, says he intends to remain in office in wake of harassment allegations
Marina Villeneuve and Michael R. Sisak
Albany, n.y.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks during a news conference at a vaccination site in New York, on Feb. 22, 2021.SETH WENIG/AFP/Getty Images
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo intends to remain in office in the face of sexual harassment allegations that have weakened his support and led to calls for his resignation, he said Wednesday.
The Democratic governor, speaking sombrely in his first public appearance since three women accused him of inappropriate touching and offensive remarks, apologized and said that he "learned an important lesson" about his behaviour around women.
"I now understand that I acted in a way that made people feel uncomfortable," Cuomo said. "It was unintentional and I truly and deeply apologize for it."
Cuomo acknowledged "sensitivities have changed and behaviour has changed" and that what he considers his "customary greeting" – an old-world approach that often involving kisses and hugs – is no longer acceptable.
He said he will "fully co-operate" with an investigation into the allegations being overseen by the state's independently elected attorney general. Attorney General Letitia James, also a Democrat, is in the process of selecting an outside law firm to conduct the probe and document its findings in a public report.
Asked about calls for him to step aside, the third-term governor said: "I wasn't elected by politicians, I was elected by the people of the state of New York. I'm not going to resign."
Cuomo addressed the allegations during a news conference that otherwise focused on the state's response to the coronavirus pandemic, the kind of briefings that made him a daily fixture on TV and a national star among Democrats.
Before that, Cuomo last spoke to reporters during a conference call on Feb. 22. His last briefing on camera was Feb. 19.
Two of the women accusing Cuomo worked in his administration. The other was a guest at a wedding that he officiated.
Former aide Charlotte Bennett, 25, said Cuomo quizzed her about her sex life and asked whether she would be open to a relationship with an older man. Bennett said she believed he was gauging her interest in an affair.
Another former aide, Lindsey Boylan, said Cuomo commented on her appearance inappropriately, kissed her without her consent at the end of a meeting, and once suggested they play strip poker while aboard his state-owned jet. Cuomo has denied Boylan's allegations.
Anna Ruch, told The New York Times that Cuomo put his hands on her face and asked if he could kiss her just moments after they met at a September 2019 wedding in Manhattan.
The accusers rejected his latest attempt at an apology.
"How can New Yorkers trust you NYGovCuomo to lead our state if you "don't know" when you've been inappropriate with your own staff?" Boylan tweeted.
Bennett's lawyer, Debra Katz, said the governor's news conference "was full of falsehoods and inaccurate information."
She said Cuomo's claim that he was unaware he had made women uncomfortable was disingenuous, considering that Bennett had reported his behaviour to her boss and one of Cuomo's lawyers.
"We are confident that they made him aware of her complaint and we fully expect that the Attorney General's investigation will demonstrate that Cuomo administration officials failed to act on Ms. Bennett's serious allegations or to ensure that corrective measures were taken, in violation of their legal requirements," Katz said.
Cuomo said he inherited his gregarious way of greeting people from his father, the late former Gov. Mario Cuomo, and that he intended it as a way of welcoming people and making them feel comfortable. He said he realizes now, "it doesn't matter my intent, what it matters is if anybody was offended by it."
Speaking about the allegations, Cuomo initially said he was apologizing to "people" who were uncomfortable with his conduct, but he didn't make clear as he continued which of the women he was referring to.
At one point, he said he was apologizing to "the young woman who worked here who said that I made her feel uncomfortable in the workplace," though that description could apply to both Boylan and Bennett.
Asked what he was saying to New Yorkers, Cuomo said: "I'm embarrassed by what happened … I'm embarrassed that someone felt that way in my administration. I'm embarrassed and hurt and I apologize that somebody who interacted with me felt that way."
The governor, who has touted a law requiring all workers in New York to receive sexual harassment training, said he felt at the time that his behaviour was innocuous but now acknowledges that sexual harassment centres on how the victim is impacted – not the offender's intent.
"I didn't know at the time I was making her feel uncomfortable. I never meant to, but that doesn't matter," Cuomo said. "If a person feels uncomfortable, if a person feels pain, if a person is offended, I feel very badly about that and I apologize for it. There's no but – it's, I'm sorry."
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In the morning we decided that getting around to the sights that we wanted to see was best done by hop on/hop off bus so we headed down to Barcelona Sants to pick up some tickets. We ended up buying two days on the City Tour service and took the west loop route first.
Of course there's the usual amount of large and imposing neo-classical buildings, of the style much beloved by city fathers everywhere. Nothing says self indulgent prosperity quite like a good set of Corinthian columns.
The City Tours west loop eventually takes you up on top of Montjuic for a view back across the city. There's a whole bunch of stuff up there left over from the 1929 great exhibition and the 1992 Olympics, plus a castle. And a pleasant breeze that was a relief from the humidity.
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Looking up the grand staircase towards the Palau Nacional or Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC).
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Reduced Cycle Time vs Increased Throughput: Can You Have One Without the Other?
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For used car dealerships, reduced cycle times and increased throughput are some of the most important aspects of the business. In fact, your dealership can't make much money if the throughput is low. Beyond that, you can't have a steady throughput if your cycle times are too high.
However, it's hard to tell which one is the most important. When it comes to used car dealerships, it wouldn't be uncommon for you to think front-end sales and throughput are where the money is made. Even then, the number of vehicles that are front-line ready depends entirely on how quick and efficient your process is.
Simply put, the significance of cycle times and throughput come off as mostly equal. They also rely heavily on each other and you could argue that neither could exist without the other. If you're not selling a lot of vehicles, then you're not going to speed up your cycle time. However, if you are doing well in sales, or you know you could do even better with better inventory in-hand, then the cycle time will be your priority.
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Across the industry, poor reconditioning and repair processes have been reported as the biggest inhibitors to profit. Some of you may work closely with vendors who provide reconditioning. As you know, poor management, organization and dated methods can make repairs last days longer than they need to.
So even though throughput is where you inevitably make the profit, poor cycle time is undoubtedly the biggest drag on your dealership. However, it doesn't have to be.
Paper was great before computers, but if you're the type who has relied on paper for most of your career, you probably know the headaches that come with it. Tracking employees, invoices, customer accounts, estimates and reconditioning statuses on vehicles can be a lot to handle. You more than likely know the frustration of going through all the paperwork and how much of your time can be taken away from doing the actual job.
Management software can drastically reduce your cycle time and increase throughput. Along with what we talked about above, great reconditioning software can help your used car dealership manage vendors and technicians, track vehicles through your process, and alert you to bottlenecks and problem areas on both your desktop and mobile devices. The paperwork that would normally require hours of your time, can be done in as little as five to 10 minutes.
If you want to tackle the cycle time constraint, then you're going to have to embrace technology. Let's be honest, how much easier would your life be if you could access your dealership's operational information on the fly, increase productivity and manage workflow all at the click of a button?


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Track: Streaming Data Architectures
Location: Churchill, G flr.
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Today's modern systems generate, as well as process data faster, and in larger volumes than ever before. Whether it's IOT sensor data, business or social media feeds, or even internal system logs, data often arrives as a continuous stream of events needing attention. Whilst there is no one size fits all, it's crucial to ensure you have a solid streaming architecture in place capable of handling everything thrown at it. Architectures which can scale and are resilient to failures and data surges, and likewise allow for intelligent, timely decision making processes (including AI/ML models) to be embedded and executed at the most appropriate time.
Join us on this track to learn from innovators and engineers in the trenches on how they are designing systems and leveraging modern data stream processing platforms to deal with such challenges. Hear war stories and gain insights into the concrete approaches and solutions applied, as well as pitfalls to avoid. Finally, peer into the future world of the event streaming database - an emerging new category of database that looks to focus on 'data that moves'.
Track Host: Nicki Watt
Chief Technology Officer @OpenCredo
Nicki Watt currently serves as OpenCredo's Chief Technology Officer, a pragmatic hands on software consultancy with specialisms in data engineering, ML & cloud native solutions. Her technical career has seen her wear many hats from Engineer, Systems & Technical Architects to Consultant and now CTO. She is a techie at heart, with involvement in the development, delivery and leading of large scale platform and application development projects. Nicki is also co-author of the graph database book Neo4J in Action.
Internet of Tomatoes: Building a Scalable Cloud Architecture
Five years ago we started on a journey of building a website monitoring tool. Little did I know that this would land up morphing into a full IoT based agriculture platform. Discussing if tomatoes need dark hours to sleep was not the type of question I had anticipated having to answer. But don't underestimate how you can innovate the agriculture world with your technology. At 30MHz we're building a data platform for the agriculture sector. It provides full insight into the climatic conditions of horticultural and agricultural produce for all stakeholders in the sector. This includes ingesting all kinds of data sources and analysing the information interactively - enabling the continuous improvement of the production process for crops, plants, seeds, and bulbs.
In this talk I'll tell the story of our platform and how we ended up helping growers in 30 countries, deploying 3.5K sensors and process data at 4K events per minute. I'll share our architecture, how it grew, the challenges, and how we are continuing to transform it - for example - to learn how to grow the best tomatoes!
Gain insight into a concrete solution for gathering, storing and accessing big amounts of real-time time-based data.
Understand some of the problems that you could encounter building such a platform.
Get inspiration for embarking on projects related to IoT, (big) data collection or even getting into the agriculture industry.
Flavia Paganelli, CTO and Founder @30Mhz
Streaming a Million likes/second: Real-time Interactions on Live Video
When a broadcaster like BBC streams a live video on LinkedIn, tens of thousands of viewers will watch it concurrently. Typically, hundreds of likes on the video will be streamed in real-time to all of these viewers. That amounts to a million likes/second streamed to viewers per live video. How do we make this massive real-time interaction possible across the globe? In this talk, I'll do a technical deep-dive into how we use the Play/Akka Framework and a scalable distributed system to enable live interactions like likes/comments at massive scale at extremely low costs across multiple data centers.
Topics I will cover include:
Server-side and client-side frameworks for persistent connections.
Managing persistent connections with millions of active clients.
Pub/Sub architecture for real-time streaming with less than 100ms end to end latency to millions of connected clients. Hint: No Kafka!
Leveraging the same platform for other dynamic experiences like Presence.
Akhilesh Gupta, Sr. Staff Software Engineer @LinkedIn
Databases and Stream Processing: A Future of Consolidation
Are databases and stream processors wholly different things, or are they really two sides of the same coin? Certainly, stream processors feel very different from traditional databases when you use them. In this talk, we'll explore why this is true, but maybe more importantly why it's likely to be less true in the future: a future where consolidation seems inevitable.
So what advantage is there to be found in merging these two fields? To understand this we will dig into why both stream processors and databases are necessary, from a technical standpoint, but also by exploring industry trends that make consolidation in the future far more likely. Finally, we'll examine how these trends map onto common approaches from active databases like MongoDB to streaming solutions like Flink, Kafka Streams or ksqlDB.
By the end of this talk, you should have a clear idea of how stream processors and databases relate and why there is an emerging new category of databases that focus on data that moves.
Benjamin Stopford, Author of "Designing Event Driven Systems" & Senior Director @confluentinc
From Batch to Streaming to Both
In this talk I walk through how the streaming data platform at Skyscanner evolved over time. This platform now processes hundreds of billions of events per day, including all our application logs, metrics and business events. But streaming platforms are hard, and we did not get it right on day one. In fact, it's still evolving as we learn more. Our story is a case study of developing a streaming data platform in agile fashion. And evidence that with data platforms, small decisions can have out-sized effects. We went from a batch-driven system in a data center, to a streaming platform that processes events in real-time, to something in-between. I will explain what got us here, our current plans and why you may want to skip some of the steps along the way. Choosing the right mix of batch and real-time for your problem is critical. I hope the war story I share here will help you make the right call for your organisation. And if nothing else, it will show you that it's never too late to correct course.
Herman Schaaf, Senior Software Engineer @Skyscanner
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Machine Learning Through Streaming at Lyft
Uses of Machine Learning are pervasive in today's world. From recommendations systems to ads serving. In the world of ride sharing we use Machine Learning to make a lot of decisions in realtime, for example: supply/demand curves are used to get an accurate ETA(estimated time of arrival) and fair pricing, patterns of user behaviour is used to detect fraudulent activities on the platform. Insights drawn from raw data becomes less relevant over time, so it is important to generate features in near real time to aid in decision making with the most recent view of the world.
At Lyft, all client applications as well as services generate many millions of events every second that are ingested and streamed through a network of Kinesis and Kafka streams with latencies in the order of milliseconds. There is a need to leverage this streaming data to produce realtime features for model scoring and execution and to do it efficiently and in a scaleable manner.
In order to make it really easy for our Research Scientists and Data Scientists to write stream processing programs that produce data for ML models - we built a full managed, self service platform for stream processing using Flink. This platform completely abstracts away the complexities of writing and managing a distributed data processing engine including data discovery, lineage, schematization, deployments, fault tolerance, fanout to various different sinks, bootstrapping, backfills among other things. Users can specify execution logic in terms of SQL and run programs with a short and simple declarative configuration. Time to write and launch an application is under 1 hour.
The audience will learn about:
The challenges of building and scaling such a platform, best practices, and common pitfalls. I will be going into the details of how our system evolved over the last couple of years as well as the design tradeoffs we made.
Bootstrapping State - why it is needed and how we built it.
Our solution for dealing with data skew
How moving to a Kubernetes based architectures allowed us to scale fast.
Our solutions to common problems such as data recovery and backfills, maintaining data freshness in the face of downtimes, providing platform level reliability guarantees, prototyping etc
Sherin Thomas, Senior Software Engineer @Lyft


The consumer VR scene has expanded rapidly since last year, as tech companies around the world are unlocking great capabilities, and content developers are using those capabilities to produce highly-immersive VR content, for us.
It wasn't always like that. Just a few years ago, virtual reality was not a widely-known or –used term.
Very few influential tech companies had invested in this technology during that time; Samsung was not only one of those companies, but it was also among the first global tech giants who offered affordable VR to the public.
If you first experienced virtual reality and 360o videos before this technology went mainstream, you must have done so with a Samsung Gear VR headset.
This isn't because Samsung offered the best VR headset, but because they offered the only one, at that time.
If you have Samsung's devices, or you are a fan of the company's products, then you should definitely try the Gear VR.
The mobile VR headset is also a great entry point for newcomers who want to experiment with immersive VR content without buying an expensive product.
If you are thinking about where you would start with the Gear VR, don't worry – we've got you covered.
In this article, I will be will be listing some of the best Samsung Gear VR apps that you can enjoy for free.
Netflix is probably the most popular subscription-based streaming service, worldwide.
Nothing can compare to the binge-watching of all of your favorite shows and movies via a single streaming service.
Imagine the delight of VR lovers when Netflix announced that they had launched the VR version of Netflix.
No more distracting background behind the TV screen, now that you can practically live inside of it.
If you happen to have a Netflix account, the Netflix VR app for the Gear VR should definitely be your first download.
YouTube VR is the kind of VR app that you will find on almost any list of best VR apps to try.
After all, it is the primary hub in the industry of 360o video creators.
YouTube opened its VR library in 2015, with just about a hundred VR experiences available during the launch, but you should never underestimate the power of YouTube.
Over the years, thousands of content creators have used YouTube to share awesome, immersive, and captivating VR experiences, making YouTube the locus for biggest collection of passive VR experiences.
We have talked about VR apps for the Samsung Gear VR that will provide you with thousands of hours of content, but that content is curated, manipulated, and scripted in order to provide you with an optimal experience.
NextVR includes a lot of VR technology's awesome capabilities; the result is a robust and irresistible platform.
NextVR is currently the world's most popular VR app that virtually puts you in live events, all from the comfort of your couch.
Have you ever wanted to sit in the front row seat of an NFL game?
Have you ever wanted to visit the famous Gotham Comedy Club and laugh at the brilliantly-delivered punchlines of renowned and rising stand up comedians?
Have you ever wanted courtside seats for an NBA game?
All of these experiences are now possible with NextVR.
If you want to see how resistant you are to the tricks that VR plays with your mind, download the Rilix Coaster VR application on your Samsung Gear VR, and take it for a spin.
You won't be able to handle it.
Almost everyone who tried Rilix Coaster on a simulator came out dizzy and grabbing for support to prevent themselves from falling.
You will be trying it on the Gear VR, so the effect won't be as intense as in a simulator, but we can guarantee that motion sickness from completing a ride will hit you hard as soon as you take off your headset.
Rilix Coaster is a fun VR app that I would recommend that you, and also your friends and family, try.
Let's talk games, now. Gaming is among the most popular, the most anticipated, and the most touted aspects of virtual reality.
Not including any games on this list would be unforgivable.
Imagine you're going the wrong direction on a one-way road at very high speed, and avoiding the oncoming traffic like a boss.
This will be you in Temple Run VR, after a few intense hours of sprinting, jumping, sliding, and crouching through obstacles.
Temple Run VR is a must-try VR app, not only because of its brilliant and addictive gameplay, but also its capability to help you deal with any motion sickness issues that you will most probably will face during the start of your VR journey.
Of course, it's your task to see if this VR game lives up to all the promises.
So, fire it up, and try a few runs before you decide how you feel about it!
No matter which one of the two continuities of the epic Star Wars series you have watched and love, one commonality on both sides is that everyone loves Star Wars.
We love the movies, we love the comics, we love the fan fiction, and we love the games related to Star Wars.
Many game developers chose to create awesome and immersive video games related to this immensely-loved universe.
Now, we have a VR game from this fantasy for your Samsung Gear VR headset, and it is completely free.
You will be tasked with emergency repair of damaged robots, as a battle against the Sith is about to begin, and Princess Leia's ship needs all the droids it can get.
Enjoy a few hours of very exciting and immersive gameplay which will leave you wanting more VR by the end.
Who says you can't enjoy all the goodies of a world-famous social media platform via a VR headset?
Facebook 360 is the evidence that you can.
The Facebook VR app is free for the Samsung Gear VR, and provides a relatively large collection of intriguing and exciting content.
360 Photos – yeah, that's a thing!
It's interesting, engaging, and since it costs nothing, you should definitely give Facebook 360 a try on your Gear VR headset.
In very simple terms, Skybox is the one VR app that you must download on your Gear VR headset, and it will probably be one of the few apps that you'll keep.
Not only is this app a very user-friendly VR media player, but it also has the most cool features of all the VR apps developed for the Samsung Gear VR.
Once you launch it for the first time and start exploring, you will find it very surprising that this app was free.
Skybox supports 10 different types of VR video formats – which sums up almost every VR video format that you'll need – and features flexible controls, so that you or the content developers can optimize the settings for the specific VR experience that you're watching.
You will find a number of cinemas and beautiful VR environments preinstalled in the app to get you started.
Oculus Rooms offers you something that you may find priceless: Solitude.
Oculus Rooms allows you to create and customize a room for your virtual leisure time; this room can be decorated however you want, it can be filled with whatever you want, and all that remains is for you to put on your Gear VR headset and start having fun in there.
Through Oculus Rooms, you get your own personal space to escape to when you are tired of all the mood-killers in our reality, or when you want to take in fresh sights and enjoy some "me time" after a long and exhausting day.
I know I say "you should definitely try this app" for every app on this list, but that's because each one I've listed is a free doorway to great wonders and a lot of fun.
In our childhood, if we were granted just one wish, it would be to somehow get inside that TV screen and enter the realm of Cinderella or the Toy Story series.
As we went through our teenage life, all we wanted was to become one with the Force in a galaxy far far away.
It might be a bit late for some of us – it's never too late to fantasize and imagine! – but Disney has granted those wishes in the form of a VR app.
Disney Movies VR is your portal to all those fantasy worlds that we adore, and interaction with all the awesome characters that we idolize.
If you do try this app, I would recommend you visit the Avengers Tower and the Millennium Falcon right away.
You might have a very strong stomach when it comes to being scared by horror movies, but the art of horror in a virtual environment will have you really scared like never before.
That's what Face Your Fears is all about: Experiencing what it truly feels like to be inside a horror movie.
The jump from traditional 2D displays to an immersive 3D world is so significant that you will feel scared as soon as the game immerses you in that world.
Get ready to watch your adrenaline level rise off the charts, as you gasp for air between your scared shouts and your goosebumps try to detach themselves from your body and run away!
On a serious note, Face Your Fears – however wonderful a VR experience it is – could actually be dangerous for people with a weak heart.
So, you should practice caution if jump scares or horrible sights make you sick.
Sky Fighter is a space-based sci-fi VR game that you will absolutely love, if you like fantasies or futuristic technologies.
All the levels of Sky Fighter except that of Training Day – the first level of the game – will cost you money, but Training Day will be enough to provide you with a lot of fun in a high-tech suit and environment.
Sky Fighter features a beautiful controlling mechanism, which includes both head-tilting controls and hand controllers.
The fast-paced gameplay offered by Sky Fighter is quite unique for the Samsung Gear VR, as most of the games you play on your Gear VR headset will be more about exploring and experiencing, rather than dodging, shooting, and maneuvering.
The fast gameplay will be enough to keep you fully engaged for a long time.
In the end, you will also be rewarded with the feeling of having achieved something great, as a bonus.
Sure, the achievement would be a virtual one, but it would be an achievement nonetheless, and it will make you both feel good about yourself and you ask for more.


Shepherd's pie and cottage pie are dishes of minced meat topped with mashed potato. Cottage pie came first, once made with any meat but now using beef. Shepherd's pie – using lamb or mutton – appeared in the 1870s. Both cottage and shepherd's pie traditionally used Sunday-roast leftovers; today we buy mince. A survey of the nation's favourite meals voted shepherd's pie number 2. Try these easy ways to make your version a bit healthier – and three delicious dinners you can try instead.
This ultimate comfort food can be quite unhealthy, with lots of butter in the mash and pushing up your saturated fat intake. Here are a few ideas to make this classic a little healthier and just as tasty.
Mashed potato, particularly instant mash, has a high GI so try different kinds of mash as listed. Rather than butter, use semi-skimmed milk and beat the mash with a wooden spoon. Sweet potatoes, cauliflower and swede are moist and may not need milk added.
Swap ordinary potatoes for sweet potatoes.
Try a mash of half sweet potato and half ordinary potato.
Use a mix of potato, cauliflower and swede.
Use half polenta with half sweet potato.
Add a can of lentils to the meat. Green or Puy lentils are best as they don't dissolve. Cook dried lentils first before adding to the filling. They're cheap and nutritious with great flavour.
Add plenty of vegetables such as finely chopped onion, carrot, mushrooms and leeks to the meat. Aim to make your filling at least 50% vegetables.
Preheat the oven to 180°C/gas 4. Boil the potatoes and swede for 10 minutes, then add the cauliflower and cook until tender.
Drain, saving the water, and mash adding a good pinch of salt and pepper. Beat with a wooden spoon, to break up any lumps and to add air to make the mash lighter.
Meanwhile, add the sunflower oil to a pan, add the onion and cook over a low to medium heat for 10 minutes, stirring regularly until well browned.
Stir in the lean minced lamb. Cook for 5 minutes, stirring regularly, then add the carrot, mushrooms and leeks and cook for another 5 minutes stirring regularly.
Sprinkle over the wholemeal flour and mix. Add the tin of green lentils, including the water they come in. Stir in the tomato purée, a good pinch of dried thyme, a few grinds of black pepper, the Worcestershire sauce, a pinch of salt and 250ml water from the boiled vegetables.
Stir well, bring up to a gentle boil, cover and simmer gently for 10 minutes. Add the mince to an ovenproof dish, top with the mash and bake for 25–35 minutes.Stir well, bring up to a gentle boil, cover and simmer gently for 10 minutes. Add the mince to an ovenproof dish, top with the mash and bake for 25–35 minutes.


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BEST IN CLASS SAFETY & SECURITY
Danaos Corporation best practices comply in every respect with international shipping laws and guidelines. This includes best practices in ship operation and working environment, prevention of injury or loss of life, safeguards against all identified risks to ship, cargo and environment, readiness for emergencies, minimized environmental impact, and on-going development of safety management skills both ashore and on board.
ISM Certification
Shipping is an inherently hazardous activity. The United Nations agency International Maritime Organization implements international regulations designed to improve safety at sea while reducing pollution from ships.
The IMO's International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea ("SOLAS"), together with the International Management Code ("ISM Code") for the Safe Operations of Ships and Pollution Prevention ("SOPS") set forth the framework for effective maritime safety in the late 1990s.
While not mandatory until 2002, Danaos achieved compliance with the ISM Code in 1995. It was the first Greek company to be certified by Det Norske Veritas ("DNV"), considered one of the most stringent of classification societies.
Danaos' operations around the world have been audited by DNV and successfully assessed as complying with the IMO Code for SOPS.
Danaos Corporation has been the recipient of numerous safety awards including, but not limited to the Automated Mutual Assistance Vessel Rescue ("AMVER") Awards.
Danaos has been presented the AMVER AWARD by the United States Coast Guard on an annual basis:
32 vessels of Danaos in 2009
Danaos Corporation implements a hands-on management system on board every vessel, detailed in the Ship Security Plan ("SSP"). Measures stipulated in the SSP are designed to prevent any unlawful act likely to jeopardize the safety and security of persons, property and environment.
Masters and Security Officers have the support needed to carry out their duties as required by SOLAS. All officers and ratings are responsible for ensuring that the SSP is effectively applied. In addition, visitors, inspectors, suppliers, and any third party seeking to board the ship, are also required to comply with the SSP.
Our secure working environment entails:
Safeguards for passengers and crew
Procedures to protect ports and the community at large
Contingency measures in the event of a security breach
Comprehensive training
Active promotion of security awareness among personnel both ashore and on-board
Regular documented interviews, internal audits and security assessments
Ongoing review and update of company security policy and measures


Fear The Triangle is meant to be a central place for UMass hockey fans to find all the relevant news from across the land regarding their UMass hockey team. Written by a fan, for the fans, Fear The Triangle does its best to consolidate all mainstream media news, content from other UMass and hockey blogs, recruiting rumors and leads, and as much original content as possible into one stop shopping for the UMass hockey fan. I'll also do my best to point you to the best places to head for a decent pregame pint.
While a freshman at UMass, Mark Coogan '98 '06MBA had only been to a handful of hockey games in his lifetime when he walked into the Mullins Center on October 30th, 1993 to witness the rebirth of the Minuteman hockey program. Being a college hockey neophyte, he was thrilled to see his triangle-clad team dominate such a big name school like Villanova that night. Luckily in the years since he has actually learned a thing or two about the sport.
When not at UMass hockey games he can usually be found somewhere on the Mass Pike between the Mullins Center and his South Shore home or perhaps at the local beer snob bar discussing IBUs, robust alts, and fine hops from the Pacific Northwest.
Mark graduated from the University of Massachusetts in 1998 where he majored in both history and political science. He also holds a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts' Isenberg School of Management.


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New York Man Arrested for Staging Car Theft
New York police say an upstate man staging the theft of his car and filing a claim with his insurer for $22,000.
Authorities arrested Matthew L. Carpenter, of Clifton Park, after an investigation by the police department and the Insurance Department's Frauds Bureau.
Investigators say Carpenter took his 2009 Jeep from a parking lot at DeNooyer Chevrolet in Colonie after it was repaired there following an accident — moving it without the car dealership's knowledge and balking at the $3,700 repair bill.
He then parked the Jeep at Albany International Airport, claimed it was stolen and filed a claim with his insurer, Travelers.
An investigation was begun after the insurance company questioned the claim for which Carpenter was never paid.
He is charged with insurance fraud, falsely reporting an incident and making a false written statement. He was also charged with grand larceny for cashing an insurer's $3,700 check that was intended to pay for repairs to the Jeep.
He faces up to seven years in prison if convicted.
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First boss is simple. Just tank and spank. When adds come up, you need to pull the adds out of there electric cloud. This can be done with Chaotic Pull or Domino. Once they are pulled out they need to be burnt fast since they reset aggro frequently. Throughout the fight the boss will put Frost Grapple on the tank which will slow/hinder him. This cannot be interrupted or cleansed. One bonus to this skill is Tank takes less damage and can dodge or charge.
For this fight all DPS stand in front of the pillar, where the boss stands during blue phase. The healer has to kite the adds around a pillar while healing tank. The tank just stands with the boss in the middle and moves during blue phase.
For this fight you don't need a healer. Have a Heal Tank and 4 DPS. You need to focus only on the boss and burn him fast. This is a DPS check and you will fail if you can't burn him fast enough.
For this boss you need a Tank, Healer and 3 DPS. He randomly casts Electro Bomb on a target which the healer needs to pop a shield of any sort from blood tree. Blood shield or Hematic Rites are the easiest and fastest to activate. Cold Blooded can help when you have to LoS the boss. Only other skill he does is a AoE during middle phase. Do not have the scientist run until this skill is over, they sometimes get scared back into cover.
As an update to psychoassailant from GroupW, Templar Cabal.
Lightning balls will light in sequence, beginning with the farthest from the entrance. Recommend Tank use a charge upon entering and immediately pull aggro. (allows for greater reset to charge) Tank can stay near center as first ball completes its charging, as the middle begins we recommend the tank hide behind the first set of computers, nearest to the entrance. Break LOS with the boss if necessary and use charge, dodge or Death from Above if afflicted with Frost Grapple.
When second lightning ball completes its charging, the first mini bot will begin to activate. We recommend the tank wait until it begins its 5k volt and then use either Chaotic Pull or Domino. Tank should be ready to target mini bot for the interrupt and then be able to grab aggro on the mini-bot before it goes after the healer or dps.
We recommend that once aggro is established, the tank run and break LOS again behind the opposite set of computers, towards the exit. The mini-bot should follow. Tank can use a charge or Death from Above to move quickly to the psychoassailant after the mini-bot has shut down.
THe mini-bot towards the entrance will generally activate at this time. Again, using Domino or Chaotic Pull, the Tank shuts down 5K Volt and establishes aggro immediately.
Maneuvering from the lightning charge and behind computers can be repeated as dps bring the mini-bot down.
Add to this that dps should switch focus from boss to mini-bot after the tank has established aggro.
And that psychoassailant has a 10K Volt cast, which appears to be a dps timer. DPS must be full on psychoassailant during first phase to prevent its activation.


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Hegetotheriidae zijn een familie van uitgestorven zoogdieren die leefden van het Laat-Oligoceen tot het Midden-Mioceen.

Kenmerken
De Hegetotheriidae leken qua uiterlijk, levenswijze en voortbeweging sterk op de huidige konijnen. Ze hadden een korte staart en lange achterpoten, waarmee ze op de voor konijnen zeer karakteristieke wijze liepen. De voorpoten waren korter. De oren waren groot en het gehoor was eveneens goed ontwikkeld. De ogen waren groot en aangepast aan het nachtleven.

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† Ethegotherium , 1962
† Hemihegetotherium , 1914
† Pachyrukhos , 1885
† Paedotherium , 1888
† Paedsotherium , 1888
† Prohegetotherium , 1897
† Propachyrucos , 1897
† Prosotherium , 1897
† Pseudohegetotherium , 1931
† Raulringueletia , 1972
† Sallatherium , 2005
† Selatherium , 1894
† Tremacyllus , 1891

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Just when you think you've got the measure of The House of Peroni, along they come with something fresh, exciting and new. Take the latest residency currently running in East London for instance. Sure, you can expect adventures in taste in every facet of Italian style but like always, they've taken things up to another level on the drinks front.
Don't panic, Master of Taste Francesco Mazzei and Master of Mixology Simone Caporale are still overseeing procedures which means that flavour sensations are guaranteed. However, get set for your palate to experience a crash course in Italian citrus in all of its zingy, aromatic glory as you taste the way it pairs like a dream with Peroni Nastro Azzurro, Peroni Ambra and Peroni Nastro Azzurro Gluten Free.
Sidle up to Bar Citrus and try one of the truly special cocktails inspired by a group of tastemakers in drinks and art from a recent trip to Liguria in northern Italy. We caught up with Holly Tudor from the Alchemist in Manchester, to find out how being immersed in the sights, sounds and culture of Italy inspired her.
What were your first thoughts when you got the brief?
It was very exciting and mysterious – come to Italy and create a cocktail but I was very intrigued. Particularly when I heard about the other bartenders on the trip – Simone Caporale, Mia Johansson, Davide Manzi and Federico Doldi. Coming from the North of England it's good to meet people from the south, we have a completely different style of bartending and I wanted to learn as much as possible. Also, I've never been to Italy and I wanted to immerse myself in the food, drink and culture.
It was wonderful to learn about all of the beautiful fresh citrus produced in Italy, it was also incredible to talk to Giuseppe Gallo about Italian aperitifs – their history, taste and impact they have in drinks.
Have you used beer as a hero ingredient before?
Not in a cocktail I've created myself but I have made a Peroni cocktail with limoncello at a House of Peroni event and I must say, it worked really well. Peroni Nastro Azzurro is a light, fresh, citrusy beer anyway so it's not really surprising what a great ingredient it is in cocktails.
You've been paired with Simone Caporale to create a cocktail for The House of Peroni using Peroni Nastro Azzurro and pink grapefruit. How did your time in Italy impact on your thinking behind your drink?
I wanted to go for an authentic Italian feel, something with a velvety mouthfeel using Italian aperitifs, – possibly like a Bellini. We ate a delicious basil sorbet one night while we were in Genoa so it made me think about basil as an ingredient and how I could incorporate that into a drink that reminds me of Italy.
Taste Pompelmo Rosa at The House of Peroni, N&C Showrooms, 3-10 Shoreditch High Street, E1 6PG, until 15th October.


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I AFFIRM the cleverness of counter-hashtags.
I DENY that hashtagtivism moves the wheel of history.
I AFFIRM that it feels good to join things that people are tweeting about.
I DENY that it gives you any more swag with the congregation that goes to your megachurch and already thinks these things.
I AFFIRM that it's OK to be mad at people for thinking the things.
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Sunday Night Football Flex Scheduling Watch: Week 15
December 17, 2019 by Morgan Wick
Since it started in its current format as the NFL's main primetime package in 2006, the defining feature of NBC's Sunday Night Football has been the use of flexible scheduling to ensure the best matchups and showcase the best teams as the season goes along. Well, that's the theory, anyway; the reality has not always lived up to the initial hype and has at times seemed downright mystifying. Regardless, I'm here to help you figure out what you can and can't expect to see on Sunday nights on NBC.
A full explanation of all the factors that go into flexible scheduling decisions can be found on my NFL Flexible Scheduling Primer, but here's the Cliffs Notes version with all the important points you need to know:
The season can be broken down into three different periods (four if you count the first four weeks where flexible scheduling does not apply at all) for flexible scheduling purposes, each with similar yet different rules governing them: the early flex period, from weeks 5 to 10; the main flex period, from weeks 11 to 16; and week 17. In years where Christmas forces either the Sunday afternoon slate or the Sunday night game to Saturday in Week 16, flex scheduling does not apply that week, and the main flex period begins week 10.
In all cases, only games scheduled for Sunday may be moved to Sunday night. Thursday and Monday night games, as well as late-season Saturday games, are not affected by Sunday night flexible scheduling (discounting the "flexible scheduling" applied to Saturday of Week 16 this year and last – see below).
During the early and main flex periods, one game is "tentatively" scheduled for Sunday night and listed with the Sunday night start time of 8:20 PM ET. This game will usually remain at that start time and air on NBC, but may be flexed out for another game and moved to 1, 4:05, or 4:25 PM ET on Fox or CBS, no less than 12 days in advance of the game.
No more than two games can be flexed to Sunday night over the course of the early flex period. If the NFL wishes to flex out a game in the early flex period twelve days in advance, CBS and Fox may elect to protect one game each from being moved to Sunday night. This is generally an emergency valve in situations where the value of the tentative game has plummeted since the schedule was announced, namely in cases of injury to a key star player.
CBS and Fox may also each protect games in five out of six weeks of the main flex period, but all of those protections must be submitted after week 5, week 4 in years where the main flex period begins week 10 (so it is always six weeks before the start of the main flex period).
No team may appear more than six times across the league's three primetime packages on NBC, ESPN, and Fox/NFL Network, and only three teams are allowed to appear that often, with everyone else getting five. In addition, no team may appear more than four times on NBC. All teams' number of appearances heading into this season may be seen here.
According to the league's official page, teams are notified when "they are no longer under consideration or eligible for a move to Sunday night." However, they rarely make this known to the fans, and the list of each network's protections has never officially been made public. It used to leak fairly regularly, but has not leaked since 2014.
In all cases, the NFL is the ultimate arbiter of the schedule and consults with CBS, Fox, and NBC before moving any games to prime time. If the NFL does elect to flex out the Sunday night game, the network whose game is flexed in may receive the former tentative game, regardless of which network would "normally" air it under the "CBS=AFC, Fox=NFC" rules, keeping each network's total number of games constant. At the same time, the NFL may also move games between 1 PM ET and 4:05/4:25 PM ET. However, this feature focuses primarily if not entirely on Sunday night flexible scheduling.
In Week 17, the entire schedule is set on only six days notice, ensuring that NBC gets a game with playoff implications, generally a game where the winner is the division champion. More rarely, NBC may also show an intra-division game for a wild card spot, or a game where only one team wins the division with a win but doesn't win the division with a loss, but such situations are rare and last year was the first time it showed such a game. If no game is guaranteed to have maximum playoff implications before Sunday night in this fashion, the league has been known not to schedule a Sunday night game at all. To ensure maximum flexibility, no protections or appearance limits apply to Week 17. The NFL also arranges the rest of the schedule such that no team playing at 4:25 PM ET (there are no 4:05 games Week 17) could have their playoff fate decided by the outcome of the 1 PM ET games, which usually means most if not all of the games with playoff implications outside Sunday night are played at 4:25 PM ET.
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Last-Minute Remarks on SNF Week 15 Picks
December 1, 2019 December 2, 2019 by Morgan Wick
Tentative game: Minnesota @ LA Chargers
Prospects: 8-3 v. 4-8 continues to raise concerns about this game being concerningly lopsided. This game is back to having the worst team in any tentative in the flex period.
Likely protections: Texans-Titans, Jaguars-Raiders, or nothing (CBS) and Rams-Cowboys if anything (FOX).
Other possible games mentioned on last week's Watch and their records: Bills (9-3)-Steelers (7-5), Texans (8-4)-Titans (7-5), Seahawks (9-2)-Panthers (5-7), Jaguars (4-8)-Raiders (6-6), Bears (6-6)-Packers (9-3).
Impact of Monday Night Football: Well, it's the Vikings and the Seahawks, but their respective games are so lopsided that the loser would be the one whose game would become more likely to be flexed in (or keep its spot in the case of the Vikings).
Analysis: When an otherwise serviceable tentative in Seahawks-Eagles was flexed out to make way for Packers-Niners, Seahawks fans (and front-office staff) upset at the team moving from a primetime showcase to a 10 AM PT start could take solace that the Seahawks' clash with the Panthers, who were contending for the playoffs despite losing Cam Newton, looked likely to be flexed in in Week 15. Fast forward to now: the Panthers haven't won a game since, as a result the Saints clinched the division as early as their Thanksgiving game with the Falcons while the Panthers are now tied with the Buccaneers (with the Bucs holding the tiebreaker!) for second in the division, and Seahawks-Panthers has become so lopsided it would be a legitimate candidate to be flexed out if it were the tentative. Based purely on record Bills-Steelers, Texans-Titans, and Bears-Packers would seem to be the favorites, and Texans-Titans can be dismissed out of hand right from the jump. Bears-Packers has the most name value and is only a half-game worse than Bills-Steelers, but NBC already showed that rivalry to kick off the season, and Fox, which probably didn't protect it only because they have the Cowboys in their feature game, would scream bloody murder at losing it twice, once to a rare kickoff game not involving the Super Bowl champions and once to a flex. I normally dismiss the name value of the Bills, but the Steelers (despite lacking their own star quarterback) are one of the few teams that can pop a rating no matter who's on the team, how they're doing, or who they're playing, and the Bills' Thanksgiving clash did gerbonkers ratings even by the lofty standards of Cowboys Thanksgiving games, so they're hardly chopped liver and have more national showcases coming – a Saturday NFLN clash with the Patriots the following week and a return to the playoffs as the third- or fourth-best team in the AFC. The time is ripe to give them a Sunday night showcase as well.
Final prediction: Buffalo Bills @ Pittsburgh Steelers.
Actual selection: Buffalo Bills @ Pittsburgh Steelers (matches prediction). Which was actually announced before halftime of the Sunday night game, meaning, as pointed out to me on Twitter, it came before the Patriots opened up an opportunity for the Bills to actually catch them for the division and a first-round bye. (Which, coupled with the Rams' continued mediocrity, means the game between them might now be the most attractive of the three Week 16 Saturday NFLN games.)
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Yes, this is going up barely twelve hours before the start of the Sunday slate. Shrug emoji.
Tentative game: Seattle @ Philadelphia
Prospects: 7-2 v. 5-4. Not as lopsided as it could have been, and the Eagles are right in the thick of contention in the NFC East.
Likely protections: Jaguars-Titans if anything (CBS) and Cowboys-Patriots (FOX).
Other possible games mentioned on last week's Watch and their records: Packers (8-2)-49ers (8-0), Saints (7-2)-Panthers (5-4)
Impact of Monday Night Football: Were the Seahawks to win, not only would Packers-Niners lose its major storyline of the Niners being unbeaten, the Seahawks would only be a half-game back of the division and would tentatively hold a tiebreaker over the Niners, though Seahawks-Eagles would become a skosh more lopsided. On the other hand, a Niners victory might well put the division out of reach for all practical purposes with the Seahawks needing to make up three losses and the tiebreaker.
Analysis: We have a Sunday night tentative with potential wild-card and division implications for both teams and a late-afternoon feature game pitting two big names on top of their divisions, yet we also have Packers-Niners, pitting one of the league's biggest names against the last undefeated team with each team two games better than the tentative, pinned to the late afternoon slot and seemingly doomed to limited distribution. Ideally, the league would flex in Packers-Niners, crossflex either Seahawks-Eagles or Saints-Panthers to CBS, and have each game anchor either the early-doubleheader or singleheader window, but who knows if the league would be willing to do anything that sensible, especially since the Seahawks probably wouldn't be happy about a game formerly scheduled for primetime now being scheduled for the morning in their home time zone.
Seahawks-Eagles isn't so bad it would normally warrant being flexed out, but the league has flexed out perfectly fine tentatives in the past to increase the distribution of games that would otherwise be relegated to limited distribution, to the point of twice allowing the former tentative to anchor the late spot of the doubleheader, not to mention the infamous "protection override" of 2013. However, the record of the league doing so with underdistributed late-doubleheader games, as opposed to 4:05 singleheader games, is limited, and the league has twice in the past twelve months failed to boost the distribution of Rams divisional games that instead languished at 4:05, though for understandable reasons (I predicted no flex both times). A flex would represent the Packers' sixth primetime appearance but none of their remaining games before Week 17 seem terribly likely to be flexed in. Last week I suggested that Packers-Niners could be flexed in regardless of the result of the Monday night game if the Packers won, because a Seahawks win would just make Seahawks-Eagles more lopsided while Packers-Niners would only be a half-game apart, and that's what happened. I'm predicting the league will pull the flex here, but I would be far from surprised if Seahawks-Eagles kept its spot (and the fact nothing has been announced as I post this might not be a good sign for a flex unless there are some intense negotiations going on).
Final prediction: Green Bay Packers @ San Francisco 49ers.
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Tentative game: Chicago @ LA Rams
Prospects: 3-4 v. 5-3. The Eagles are a good team, but the Bears are now on a four-game losing streak after starting 3-1, raising the prospect of a team in freefall and making this game very vulnerable.
Likely protections: Patriots-Eagles (CBS) and Cowboys-Lions (FOX).
Other possible games mentioned on last week's Watch and their records: Texans (6-3)-Ravens (6-2), Jaguars (4-5)-Colts (5-3).
Impact of Monday Night Football: None.
Analysis: I figured even in a best-case scenario it would be difficult for the league to get away from the #2 and #3 media markets in favor of two teams with much less name value, but the scenario I laid out as representing that best case happened, including what may be regarded as a coming-out party for Lamar Jackson that puts the Ravens in the conference title discussion. If this were the early days of flex scheduling where "play your way into primetime" was still a plausible organizing principle I'd absolutely pull the trigger on a flex. I continue to wonder, though, if the Texans bring enough buzz for this to be worth a flex, especially without J.J. Watt. Notably, Texans-Ravens would probably get decent distribution as the early game of CBS' doubleheader with only three other CBS games in the time slot and the Jets and Cowboys playing on the road on Fox, whereas Bears-Rams would have to either be a 4:05 Fox game or take two big markets away from Patriots-Eagles on CBS. On that note, Jets-Trumps was the game announced as being crossflexed to Fox last week, freeing up two big markets, including one that normally sees as many Ravens games as possible, to receive Texans-Ravens, while also foreclosing them from receiving what might otherwise have been Fox's lead singleheader game in Cowboys-Lions. I know I said in last week's post that the lack of a "final" Week 11 schedule opened the door to further changes, but I'm not sure you announce that crossflex at that time if you're planning on punting Texans-Ravens to primetime anyway and leaving neutral markets to get, what, Jaguars-Colts? Bills-Dolphins? I wouldn't be too surprised by a flex (there's a reason I don't try too hard to predict afternoon schedule changes in this feature), but I would still expect the Bird and the Beard, not Al and Cris, to set up shop in Baltimore in two weeks.
Final prediction: Chicago Bears @ Los Angeles Rams (no change).


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Spring is already upon us, and as festival season approaches we could all use a refresher course on cultural appropriation--or, rather, on how to avoid it and still have fun. Avoiding cultural appropriation isn't just a matter of passing inspection by the PC Police; it's about being respectful to those around you and remaining mindful of the messages you're sending through the way you costume yourself in a public setting. So with that in mind, let's figure out what to wear with pride and what to donate back to the thrift store. This will be quick and painless, I promise!
Sounds easy enough, right? But it gets a little more complicated when you keep in mind the fact that many popular commercially-sold items disregard the rule above. To that I say: just because you can buy it ready-to-wear doesn't mean you should. By understanding the implications of those items and why we should steer clear, we can all avoid looking like insensitive fools this festival season.
Use race as a mascot. Right off the bat, one of the most commonly cited forms of cultural appropriation is the Native American headdress or war bonnet. It is now pretty common knowledge, as it should be, that the people native to this country have been victims of innumerous atrocities--first at the hands of European settlers, then courtesy of the U.S. Military and (to this day!) the federal government. Even now, the current administration has granted a green light to the infamous Dakota Access Pipeline, which will desecrate sacred lands and pose a threat to the safety of the drinking water of the indigenous peoples of Standing Rock. As a severely marginalized people, the Native Americans have fought diligently in the face of great adversity to preserve their culture. The war bonnet is a symbol of reverence, leadership and bravery and is awarded to those who exemplify those qualities. It is not a fashion statement to be mass-produced inexpensively and sold to naïve festival-goers in search of Instagram-worthy accessories. Respect is central to Native American cultural beliefs, and wearing a war bonnet while guzzling canned beer and fist-bumping along to house music is blatantly offensive. Plain and simple.
Collect benefits while rejecting consequences. Appropriation of black culture is pervasive in mainstream media. Even though white folks seem to love everything about blackness and black culture, they still regard the black community with suspicion and are reluctant to defend black people in the face of institutionalized racism. Similarly, black hair has been deeply immersed in political discourse and cultural significance since time immemorial. Dreadlocks, cornrows and micro-braids are all widely recognizable black hairstyles that have been adapted by commercial fashion to sell a stolen look for profit. Fashion industries routinely borrow from black culture to create an 'edgy' or 'urban' look which they then market using white models--never mind that people of color have been rocking these looks for ages, and instead of being hailed as trendsetters they have been openly discriminated against because of it.
Dreadlocks are perhaps the most pervasive example of this appropriative process. Traditionally, dreadlocks were used to symbolize the mane of the Lion of Judah, which is a central figure in the Rastafarian faith. However, the message behind the hairstyle has become so convoluted that it is often seen to represent stoner culture rather than a culturally significant religious symbol. Furthermore, hair texture is a major factor in the success of these hairstyles. Fine, oily and straight hair all require massive amounts of maintenance to be dreaded, and it is not uncommon for types of mold to grow within the dreads if not properly formed and maintained. Likewise, cornrowing or micro-braiding with extensions in thin hair is an insanely time-consuming and difficult process--not to mention that the look won't last very long and can cause massive amounts of damage to your scalp. If your head can't support it and you're not the leader of a Black liberation movement, move on.
Wear another culture's articles as costuming. Traditional South Asian clothing and jewelry has become very popular among people outside of desi cultures. Most often characterized by the Bindi, glittering gold chains, and prismatic jewels, much of this ornamentation is traditionally worn to signify a marital status or to adorn a bridal party. The Bindi rose to popularity among the festival crowd a few years ago when celebrities and other influencers wore jeweled dots on their foreheads as a type of costume jewelry. But it's more than a stylish statement piece: the Bindi and its placement signify a higher consciousness--a reminder to keep your third eye open. While it is important to remember to 'stay woke' and all that, you can certainly do so without borrowing from South Asian culture. Just because you've taken psychedelics a few times does not mean you're enlightened and/or exempt from the general rule. The only time you should be wearing a Bindi or nose chain is if you are marrying a South Asian partner or are a guest in a South Asian home. I don't think an all-out rave in the desert qualifies on either of those grounds, although I suppose I could be wrong.
Disrespect religious or cultural practices. For Muslim women, the headscarf is both a symbol of womanhood and an observation of faith in Islam. Often misrepresented as a symbol of gender oppression by our ethnocentric worldview, the word 'hijab' signifies modesty and morality as well as self-expression. In many parts of the world, the hijab is available in beautiful colors and patterns to punctuate women's outfits since it is designed to be worn outside the house. The hijab covers a woman's hair and neck outside of the immediate family setting, particularly when non-related men are around. Taking this into consideration, the purpose of the hijab is to communicate what many girls wish they had the ability to say out loud without jeopardizing their safety: "Please don't look at me with disrespect. I don't like it and I won't accept it." A few scholars who study Islam say The Quran does not expressly mandate the veiling of a woman's head, but the majority of scholars say the hijab should be worn to discourage the eyes of passing men. In the wake of the recent rise in Islamophobia poisoning our country's mentality, many Muslim women feel unsafe wearing hijab in public--which means they feel unsafe under the male gaze yet also unsafe covering themselves to divert it. When women who are not Muslim wear a headscarf as a fashion statement without fear of Islamophobic discrimination, it becomes a costume. However, it is understandable to want to divert the male gaze, and there are many culturally-sensitive ways to do that. Headwraps are absolutely permissible provided that the use of hijab or other culturally specific headwrap styles are avoided. There are a multitude of ways you can preserve modesty and symbolize your womanhood without borrowing from another community's cultural practices.
Simple adherence to respect at a default setting should tell you if what you're wearing might be deemed offensive. You will hear people excuse cultural appropriation by saying things like "It's just a hairstyle," but if someone tells you that something you are doing is offensive to other people it is not up to you to decide whether your actions are appropriate or not. The ability to borrow from other cultures and receive accolades while the people from whom you've borrowed are discriminated against is an exercise of white privilege. You shouldn't be celebrated for what others are berated for. That's the easiest method for avoiding cultural appropriation.
Incorporate elements from your own culture instead of someone else's. Ask your parents/family members if they've salvaged any of their clothes from when they were your age. Chances are, they might fit you and look cool too. That's a way to not only clothe yourself but to familiarize yourself with your own culture directly. You don't have to borrow from other cultures if you celebrate your own culture.
Pursue an in-depth knowledge of cultures that are foreign to you. Help dissolve the stigmas and prejudices that you may have acquired, even subconsciously. Promote understanding between neighbors and harmony within your community. There are a variety of ways to respectfully explore cultures that are not your own, including: eating culturally specific food; exploring another culture's music scene; learning another language; or even just asking questions. These are enriching educational experiences, and you are absolutely entitled to pursue them.
Get DIY with your bad self. Crafting pieces of your costume on your own instead of relying on a store-bought look will result in a cooler Instagram picture than a plastic mass-produced nose chain anyway. It only takes a few YouTube tutorials to learn how to distress your own denim--or even make chainmail! There are a million DIY project possibilities that will set you apart from everyone else and you didn't even have to borrow that from anyone.
Hit up your local thrift shop. You would be amazed at how many lightly used and brand new items go directly to the thrift store. Suburban streets are lined with yard sales and estate sales every weekend. For some reason, an inordinate amount of clothing still ends up in landfills despite the fact that it's probably perfectly wearable and even arguably fabulous. The clothes you find at garage sales are often old favorites that have been outgrown or even things people forgot they had. That's part of the beauty; you couldn't replicate a second-hand outfit without concerted effort. It's worth a trip or two when planning your festival attire, and it's sustainable too. Second-hand pieces can be paired with newer items or altered into new styles which you can claim as your own. Plus, you're doing the earth a favor, so you can use that to justify your excessive shopping and collecting.
This festival season, lead by example by demonstrating that you're conscious of cultural appropriation and willing to take a stand against it. This means bringing your friends into the conversation as well. Talking about why certain items are inappropriate and constructively advising your friends on how to be culturally sensitive can be the best way to get through to them, since it's a personal conversation and not a public confrontation.
I'm not saying you should go yelling "Your outfit is racist!" at every possible opportunity (although that can sometimes be gratifying). People are going to learn at their own pace. People who are not asking questions are often not ready to learn or grow, and they will often act defensively at the suggestion that they're acting inappropriately. But if you have the opportunity to mention that someone's attire is offensive without causing a confrontation, consider doing so. At the end of the day, it's important to choose your battles wisely: remember you don't have to exhaust yourself over every contrarian you might encounter. Adhere to the qualities that are important to you--like respect, compassion and integrity. Just because some people are insensitive jerks doesn't mean you have to be.


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We are committed to provide excellent professional development training.
In 2019 Inter Trauma Nexus in conjunction with Aquilla Wellness Solutions, Aquilla Financial Solutions and Financial Planning Institute (FPI) will be conductiong workshops through out South Africa, approved by South African Council for Educators (SACE); Council for Pastoral and Spititual Counsellors (CPSC); Association of Christian Religious Practitioners (ACRP) and others.
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Gone are the days of doing a three or four year degree or diploma to set your career path. Members of professional bodies in South Africa has to complete mandatory annual Continued Professional Development training.
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17.2m Brits plan to switch to online shopping permanently
The figure of 17.2 million people represents around 1/4 of the total population of the UK.
// 17.2 million UK consumers expected to make permanent changes to their shopping habits
// Covid-19 pandemic forecast to generate an additional £4.5bn of UK online sales in 2020
// 69% of Brits don't think the govt's response to the crisis has been positive, driving risk-aversion towards physical retail
Covid-19 is expected to see one-quarter of the UK's whole population make a permanent switch to online shopping as the pandemic accelerates the move from bricks to clicks, new research has shown.
A new report by Alvarez & Marsal and Retail Economics, estimates that 17.2 million British consumers – about 25 per cent of the country's total population of 66.6 million – plan to make permanent changes to the way they shop, as perceived risks of contracting Covid-19 at physical stores redirects spending into online channels.
Consumers who perceive the risk of Covid-19 to be very high are almost four times more likely to shift their shopping habits in the long-term.
Shop prices in June fall for the 13th month in a row
Footfall in second week after lockdown exit grows 7.7%
According to to the report, this group reflects those who have in the past been slow to adopt online banking and shopping, and they have now been forced to shop in new ways for essential items and do not intend to change these new habits.
The advent of the new group of online shoppers alongside "early adopters" means the proportion of online retail sales in the UK is estimated to increase by an additional £4.5 billion in 2020, the research suggested.
This comes despite consumers cutting back spending on all non-food purchases.
It's expected that retailers will spend the next few months finding ways to leverage the shifts in behaviour to fill gaps in the market, repurpose stores to meet changed customer expectations and radically change their operating models.
Net balance of those that intend to either cut back or increase spending in the long-term:
Meanwhile, consumer confidence in the government and its response has been found to be critical in determining intended shopping behaviour.
The survey suggested that the majority (69 per cent) of UK consumers do not think the government's response has been positive, while over half (55 per cent) believe the risk of the virus to be high or very high.
Meanwhile, social distancing measures place the quality of the traditional customer experience in jeopardy.
The survey showed that nearly half (48 per cent) of UK consumers plan to avoid busy destinations such as large shopping centres, suggesting scepticism in the ability of retailers to reimagine the customer journey.
The report said that revenue diverts online, retailers must look to tackle legacy cost bases, such as converting stores for online fulfilment, click-and-collect points and renegotiating rents to help adapt business models in a post-coronavirus climate.
"The way we shop has fundamentally changed and it is unclear how the dust will settle," Alvaraz and Marsal head of restructuring Richard Fleming said.
"Retailers with large store footprints face onerous rental agreements and they are locked into a stalemate with landlords.
"The two parties need to start working more collaboratively to preserve mutual value."
Alvarez & Marsal
Retail Economics
Rising demand for retail property gives "renewed optimism" to UK high streets
Grocery sales dip 4% as customers return to pre-Covid shopping habits
Retail sales boost expected in upcoming back-to-school season, study suggests
July footfall drops 28% on pre-pandemic levels amid turbulent weather
July retail sales growth slows down, but still strong, at 23%
Footfall up 3.3% in week of Freedom Day; but pingdemic hampers confidence
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Anupam Kher Visits FTII Campus Unannounced
By: IANS | October 16, 2017
Newly-appointed Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) Chairperson Anupam Kher on Monday visited the campus of the iconic institution unannounced and promised the students that he is on their side.
In a live video on social media, Anupam revealed that he was on his way to FTII. He caught the guards, students and faculty by surprise when he walked the streets of the institute where he once studied around 40 years ago.
"I am heading towards an institution where I had studied in 1978, which was very important for my foundation as an actor. And today, I have not informed anybody at this institute that I am coming, because I wanted to go back again as a student.
"I did not want to go there feeling important, and feeling 'Oh my God, now I have done 508 films and I have been in movies for 33 years, I have done more than 120 plays. I wanted to go there as a humble student," Anupam said.
The veteran actor, 62, also focussed his camera at the FTII gate, saying: "This is the amazing gate which gave me an amazing insight into life, and into the life and times of great filmmakers like Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen."
Anupam was on October 11 announced as the new Chairperson of FTII. He succeeded the controversial Gajendra Chauhan, whose appointment in 2014 had triggered widespread student protests.
As the actor made his way into the institute and met the guards, some students and a faculty member, Anupam also heard a "welcome band". It was in fact, a group of students who were protesting with a banner that read: "12 hours shift is inhuman."
It is one of the nine key issues that were raised by the FTII Students' Association in an open letter addressed to Anupam a day after his appointment.
The students had pointed to how "limitations have been brought into exercise norms as part of the new syllabus".
Citing the norms brought in place for dialogue exercise in the third semester, the letter said: "These limitations are logistically not feasible, like the three-day eight-hour shift has been reduced to a two-day twelve-hour shift which would be exhausting and also inhuman to force the lightmen, carpenters, painters and make-up artists and actors to work at such a stretch."
During his visit here, Anupam assured the students that he will work out solutions with them.
"We will work on all this... I have come here to be on your side. That's the most important thing," Anupam said as one student continued to beat the drums.
"First of all, you have to know that I am on your side, completely... I don't want to bring any baggage of Anupam Kher. I am here for what I have done over the last so many years because of the six months that I spent here. Don't worry about it (the problems) because I know every student who comes to this place, comes to study so that they can work on their future when they go back.
"You are the contributors of our society, the future filmmakers, actors... So let's sort out these problems and work on these issues," he said.
He tried to pacify the crowd with the title of his play "Kuch Bhi Ho Sakta Hai".
"Wahi hoga (That will happen)," Anupam stressed, urging students to first share their issues, after which he would share his vision with them.
Anupam also said he was keen to take an acting class at the institute.
"The biggest joy for me is to teach in the place where I was a student," said the actor, who has his own acting institute called Actor Prepares, in Mumbai.
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