I always hesitate to write about GamesCom because its simply too big for me to dare say anything. It feels like the honour of covering this behemoth can only belong to huge publications like Kotaku, Polygon, Gamasutra. But looking over what GamesCom 2016 Post Mortem pieces are out there, this year I dare. So here we go, a GamesCom 2016 retrospective that includes an attending guide for any gamedev.
But what is big attracts a lot of people so GamesCom for visitors means huge queues that generate anxiety, the kind of anxiety one can only escape by hunting newer, smaller gems. So it can pay to exhibit at GamesCom, and the concrete proof is the growth of the Indie Arena Booth, in both size and number of games and developers.


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Found out that GoDaddy's european STMP servers are randomly unreachable. I'm not yet exactly sure what's causing this. Emails between Yahoo and GoDaddy aren't getting delivered due timeout.
Monoprix, France grocery store chains EMV-terminals do not do proper authorization cancellation if card is removed from terminal before transaction is completed. It should do. At least our POS/EMV systems do it. Without auth money on your account keeps to be reserved form them for several weeks.
Set up latest stable Nginx for my test server. Installed Python 3 and PostgreSQL. These should provide better performance than Apache HTTPD / Python CGI / SQLite. Altought this far those have been enough for testing with just a few users.
Played with my test server and Google+ API. Seems to be working well, although API is super limited compared to Facebook APIs. I'm sure new features will be out soon.
Read thoroughly documents how Iran blocked Tor and how Tor project team circumvented the problem. It seems that Iran got pretty nice deep packet inspection systems installed. There is also longer term solution with would allow usage of alternate pluggable transport methods.
Wondered why one credit card transaction handling company recommended their clients to disable SSL-certificate checks completely. It seems that they forgot to renew certificate in time. I'm pretty sure that most of clients wont turn the check back on after certificate is renewed. Therefore allowing easy hijacking of data if DNS information is manipulated / spoofed. In this kind of special situation it could be good to use self signed pre-installed certificate with long enough expire time.
Tried Git a bit with ProjectLocker. Found out that it's bit more complex than I previously thought and I need to study it more.
Wonder why people upload confidential documents to services like DropBox. I personally like ADrive. It's great service and they offer 50 gigabytes of storage for free! Service is just fine as long as all files sent there are strongly encrypted.
Logging in to Vista using RDP doesn't work with rdesktop client from Linux, if password contains € character. I have found out earlier that logging in to XP workstation doesn't work even locally if password contains € character. I have installed only Skandinavian keyboard layout which contains the € charater. It is possible to circumvent this problem on console by using ALT+0128 combination.


Brookdale MacArthur Park - Cary, NC has yet not published prices.
We visited today, thinking about placing a family member. Smell of [removed] in hallways was overwhelming. At lunchtime, residents were still in robes and pajamas. Did not see residents smiling. Not a place we would place a loved one.
Lovely facility and staff was very welcoming. Would love to have my Mom there but price was too high for her budget. If they accepted medicaid after Mom's finances were exhausted we may have reconsidered, however they are private pay only.
My mother was only at this community for a short period of time, but while she was there we had no complaints of how things went for her. The staff where all wonderful and she enjoyed the social environment with the other residents. She had no complaints about the food and participated in some of the activities they had available . She just could not afford to stay there long term unfortunately.
My mother stayed here for two weeks and she gave it good ratings as far as the cleanliness and attentiveness. Based on her experience she would recommend them or go back if she needed to.
I toured many facilities along with Brookdale MacArthur Park. It was a nice place with nice people, but it was not the best for my loved one.
The Brookdale has been a very good place for my mother. It is much better than the place she was at before. I highly recommend them because they have good meals and a large variety of activities. Everyone is friendly and does their job, they don't run and hide like other packs.
My tour of this community was a nice one. They were very kind to my family and I. The community looked nice and well-kept. The staff I came across was friendly, and courteous. It was a good experience, but not the place for my mother and her needs.
A Place For Mom helped me find this community for my sister, which was a great help. This is a nice little place, a little smaller than she is used to but she falls a lot so this works out for her well and she likes it. As for cleanliness, it is a little below perfect. This has been a heroing experience and was tough at first, but we got through it.
Brookdale MacArthur Park has been wonderful. Mom loves it and so do we. She has adjusted really well. She loves the staff. She enjoys getting out on the porch. She loves the way things are done there. She is just really doing well at this facility.
We are happy with them. It seems to be working out well so far. I would rate them very highly. I don't have any concerns over how clean it's kept, or complaints about the food, nothing like that. It's pretty good.
They were good to us. We couldn't afford to stay there though, it was very expensive. They didn't have a lot of help. I went in to visit a loved one. I waked in his room in the middle of the afternoon, and he was laying on top of a made bed, and he was naked. They had changed him, and then shift change had happened, and they just left him. They need more help in there for sure.
I had visited several other assisted living facilities for my mother before finding Carolina House of Cary. None compared in any way with the caring, respectful way the staff treated the residents here. This was demonstrated by all who worked there, management staff, nurses and nursing assistants, med techs, maintenance and cleric personal. Everyone made every effort to make this a home for their clients. We thank God we found this refuge for our much loved family member.
This is a nice looking community, and everyone we worked with was friendly, but unfortunately things did not turn out well during my loved ones short stay here. After only a few weeks she suffered a fall, and after her stay in rehab we were told she was no longer appropriate for the facility due to her increased care needs.
I think this place does a great job with the level of care they are designed for. The staff are all very friendly, and it is in general a clean and well maintained facility. However, as these places are money driven business sometimes they take on more than they can handle, which was the case for my loved one. We were very explicit about the level of assistance he would need in regards to mobility, and they said they'd be able to handle it. Two weeks after we moved him in, after paying the high community fees, the RN for the community let me know that his needs were more than they could provide for. Everyone we worked with, from the marketing people to the care staff, were great, but there was a disconnect between the care staff and the business end.
However, for more able-bodied residents this would be a great place, and worth looking in to. Just be wary if your loved one is higher maintenance.
Teresa was extremely helpful and informative. She took all the time required to fully answer all questions and concerns. She introduced me to the director of Carolina House also.
This seemed a little bit more insitutional than some of the others, it had a little bit of a smell to it too.
Brookdale care is top notch, but need memory care housing to be cheaper.
Brookdale MacArthur Park provides our residents with lifestyles, housing, care and services in comfortable surroundings combined with exceptional amenities, programs, and care. Through Brookdale's signature Personalized Assisted Living we customize our care offerings for the individual. This allows each resident the freedom and opportunity to make choices that will ease their lifestyle transitions. Our residents enjoy life with the support they need, coupled with the proper lifestyle and care accommodations as their needs change.
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Our Clare Bridge Place program serves those with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. Each day, we promise to work to deliver Daily Moments of Success for each resident. The Clare Bridge Daily Path provides structure and activities each day designed to meet specific needs of those with dementia, while the Clare Bridge Dining Program, designed by a gerontologist and registered dietician, helps residents retain the ability to enjoy and master the daily dining experience.


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Sharjah low-cost carrier to take on flydubai as it seeks to capitalise on Armenia's growing popularity.
by Dominic Ellis
Air Arabia will begin twice weekly services between Sharjah and Yerevan from August 16.
Flights will depart from Sharjah International Airport on Tuesdays and Fridays at 0830, arriving at Zvartnots International Airport at 1115. Return flights will leave Yerevan at 1235 and arrive in Sharjah at 1540.
Armenia is an emerging leisure destination with its mountains, forests, lakes and waterfalls and Yerevan is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, offering a range of museums, parks, restaurants and sightseeing opportunities.
Air Arabia will compete on the route with flydubai, which flies three times weekly. Air Arabia's return prices at launch are currently AED1,329 compared with flydubai's AED1,934, although they are promotional fares.
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MegaTech, Inc. is designed to highlight some of the reasons why an organization that had operated in a relatively stable and predictable environment would seek to move to an emphasis on project-based work. The trigger event, in this case is the advent of the NAFTA treaty, which opened up competition on a more price-competitive basis. Questions Requirements: Answer What is it about project management that offers MegaTech a competitive advantage in its industry? What elements of the marketplace in which MegaTech operates led the firm to believe that project management would improve its operations? What is it about project management that offers MegaTech a competitive advantage in its industry?
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The Way is pathless. In God's big sky there are no paths. Yet everyone is hanging around in the one Heart looking for a way in. Sometimes I feel as Groucho Marx, when he said, "Any club that accepts me is probably not worth joining..."
Fact is, you are worthy to tread No-Path. No path can ever compensate for your total uniqueness. The Path of another is not your Path. Yet, here is the paradox. Every Path, likewise, is your Path also. A Path is like the tracks a mother turtle makes in the sand on her slow way back to the ocean. Soon the sea will wash away her labor and toil; but before she is free, she must enter the way of the Path. First she must give birth again to her meaning.
For a while, most of us must conspire together, to seek. To seek our meaning. This word -- conspire. It is deep. It means to breathe together. To inspire the spirit of love in us. First there must be the awareness of the universal face of love; and so we seek together.
All paths have within them signs: way-marks and certain routes. The symbols and the practices, the rituals and the form, are not the Path. Never choose a Path that has signs proclaiming: "Keep off the grass."
It must be said that if we are a seekers, we are already on a slippery slope, for there is no path to Truth but our own. The act of seeking, itself, is a form of displacement activity. We can play cards in God's waiting room so intensely that we forget that the train has arrived.
We are all pushing on an open door. Creating a Path in an Ocean, and looking for water. A Path has meaning when it is let go of. Before then it is a rite of passage, an initiation into God's open secret.
Following a Path is an acknowledgment of our own resistance. This is not to say that Paths are unnecessary. A Way is often the only way for most of us, until we understand that a bird can fly without making a path in the sky. It makes its own path by allowing its freedom to guide it.
Path or no-Path, we all have within us the beginning and the end, the Alpha and the Omega. A mother pushes her child into the world; and the child cries, and starts pushing against God's womb in a million ways, until it finds its own birth.
We may need to conspire to aspire; yet when it is easier to fly than walk, it is time to be our own Path. On land the turtle is clumsy and pushes with all her might to forge her way. Yet in the ocean -- see how she flies.


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On Dec. 7 New York City's Bryant Park looked as if Santa's elves had invaded it. In actuality ABC Family set a new Guinness World Record for the most Santa elves (607 consumers in elf costumes) gathered in one place. The stunt was created to drive tune in for the network's original movie "Santa Baby 2 Christmas Maybe" and 25 Days of Christmas programming.
To get people to join the fun ABC Family teamed up with local radio station Z100 which did radio promos the day before the event. On the day of the stunt the station was on site enticing folks to come down. The Pond at Bryant Park posted news of the event on their website and elf street teams at transportation hubs directed people to the event. The brand also communicated its message on Facebook and Twitter. To kick off the event Jenny McCarthy who stars in the movie appeared on "Good Morning America" where additional staffers dressed up as elves roamed among the crowds outside the studio handing out costumes.
At the event held from noon to 2 p.m. people signed up at the Guinness World Record logbook and received a costume to join a crowd at Bryant Park. An emcee set up on a stage kept the crowds entertained with games like wrapping contests and caroling and prize giveaways. At noon the elves were asked to gather and stay in the same spot for 10 minutes. Once the record was set Guinness presented McCarthy and Dean McDermott (also in the movie) with an official plaque. Participants walked away with ABC Family programming guides and a branded reusable shopping bag.


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9/13/1951 (67 years old) Seattle, Washington, United States
Known as a versatile character actress, Smart has worked stage and screen but found the bulk of her success on television. After college graduation, she performed in regional theater before heading to Broadway and eventually landing the role of Marlene Dietrich in the play Piaf. The show was later brought her to Hollywood when it was reprised for TV and earned Smart wider exposure. The hit sitcom Designing Women jumpstarted her career in 1986 and introduced her to costar and future husband Richard Gilliland. Smart was 40 when she left the series to try her luck in movies. She was scarily convincing as serial killer Aileen Wuornos in Overkill, years before Charlize Theron snagged an Oscar for playing the same part in Monster. In 2001 she was nominated for two Emmys, for a dramatic role on The District and a hilariously harsh turn on Frasier, which won her a statuette. While her movie career heated up with high-profile supporting parts in Bringing Down the House and Garden State, it was her harrowing turn as the president's emotionally unstable wife on 24 that once again had people talking. Smart devotes her free time to juvenile diabetes education (she was diagnosed herself at age 13) and the Alzheimer's Association (having lost her father to the disease).
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Disney's The Kid
Bringing Down the House
Change Of Heart
The Brady Bunch Movie
Neil Simon's The Odd Couple II
Balto III: Wings of Change
Miss Meadows
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Fire with Fire
Diagnosed as diabetic at age 13 and lost her father to Alzheimer's disease; as an adult, became active in juvenile diabetes education and the Alzheimer's Association.
Began career as a stage performer in regional theater and made Broadway debut in 1981 in the play Piaf portraying Marlene Dietrich.
Shot to TV success as Charlene Frazier on five seasons of Designing Women. Met and married Richard Gilliland while working on that series, where he had a recurring role as J.D. Shackleford.
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Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Limited Series Or A Movie
24: The Complete Series including 24: Live Another Day
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Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
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BeautyBlender Liquid Blendercleanser. The one I got was still in a old packaging. The latest kind featured in Sephora, comes in a nifty pump dispenser.
It took a while for me to empty it because I was being stingy so I used it to its fullest. I diligently wash my beautyblender everyday, so mostly I use an anti-bacterial soap (Safeguard is it!), then save the blendercleanser for spring cleaning along with my makeup brushes. While the soap does work, I find that there are BB Creams that are more pigmented and tend to be more difficult to remove, then I reach for the ever reliable blendercleanser.
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African American Women Are at a Disadvantage in Preventing Breast Cancer
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Breast cancer risk estimation models identify women who are at high risk based on a variety of factors, and women who are identified as being at high risk may be able to reduce their chance of breast cancer through preventative measures such as prophylactic surgeries or chemoprevention medications. However, uptake of these preventative treatments varies among racial groups, new research from The Ohio State University finds that racial disparities in healthcare are to blame.
Breast cancer risk estimation models identify women who are at high risk based on a variety of factors, and women who are identified as being at high risk may be able to reduce their chance of breast cancer through preventative measures such as prophylactic surgeries or chemoprevention medications. However, uptake of these preventative treatments varies among racial groups, and new research from The Ohio State University finds that racial disparities in healthcare are to blame.
The research team, led by Tasleem Padamsee, PhD, assistant professor of health services management and policy at the university, conducted 50 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with African American and white women who had elevated breast cancer risk. The interviewers asked about the women's experiences with risk, risk management, and decision-making. "We wanted to understand what women's experiences are like, how they make choices, and what influences those choices," said Padamsee in a statement.
Among the participants, 7 women, all of whom were white, had already chosen to undergo prophylactic oophorectomy, which is recommended for all women aged 35 to 45 years who carry the BRCA mutation. Another 2 women, both white, were considering the surgery. Four women, all white, had undergone prophylactic mastectomy, and 1 additional white woman and 1 African American woman were considering the procedure. Chemoprevention was chosen by only 3 women, 2 of whom were white and 1 of whom was African American. Genetic testing was used by 67% of the white interviewees versus 20% of the African American interviewees.
As the authors point out, in order for women to avail themselves of cancer-preventative options, they must first be aware of that such options exist. Among the 50 women, all 30 white women had heard of genetic testing before the interview, while 15% of the African American women had not heard of this option. Among the African American women who were aware of genetic testing, only 18% had been tested (versus 67% of white women).
Most participants in the study had heard of prophylactic mastectomy, but the proportions of women who expressed awareness were unequal: 93% of white women versus 70% of African Americans had heard of the option. With respect to prophylactic oophorectomy, white women had again more often heard of option, but both groups were less aware of it than of prophylactic mastectomy.
Fewer women had heard of chemoprevention; just 57% of white women and 20% of African American women had heard of this option.
"If specific, detailed knowledge about individual prevention options is the necessary precursor to using them, then more general information about breast cancer risk and risk-management is the underlying layer that makes that specific knowledge possible," write the authors, who point out that African American women had less access to specialists who can provide such information.
While 70% of white women had seen at least 1 specialist about their increased risk, only 15% of African American women had done so, and were more reliant on their primary care providers (PCP) to offer information. Some African American women reported that their PCPs even refused to offer genetic testing or preventative treatments. White women who relied on PCPs for information were more likely to be told of their options or referred to a specialist, while the PCPs of African American women usually only recommended that the patients begin to receive mammograms early. Finally, while one-third of white women reported seeking a second opinion, no African American women reported having done so.
The interviewees also demonstrated differences in their risk-related knowledge; when asked whether it is possible to alter cancer risk, 80% of white women identified at least 1 risk-reduction method, versus 45% of African American women. White women more often discussed clinical interventions (50%) than African American women (15%), and African American women somewhat more frequently discussed the use of lifestyle methods (65% versus 43% of white women) to reduce their cancer risk.
"Considerable research remains to be done to confirm the patterns found in this study," wrote the authors, "and to more deeply understand the origins of gaps and challenges that systematically disadvantage African American women." The evidence in the paper suggests, however, that "researchers and clinicians aiming to prevent cancers and deaths among women at elevated risk must attend to the layers of information that underlie women's risk-management decisions, and to racial disparities in a wide range of decision-making dynamics."
Padamsee TJ, Meadows R, Hils M. Layers of information: Interacting constraints on breast cancer risk-management by high-risk African American women [published online December 27, 2018]. Ethn. Health. doi: 10.1080/13557858.2018.1562053.
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This Guidance Note on the Formalities for Signing Contracts is a practical guide to getting it right when it comes to signing contracts as contracts are only valid if they are executed and signed correctly.
Nearly all contracts whatever they are designed to do, will be made in writing. This document covers the different types of written contracts you can have ("simple contracts" and "deeds") and explains the differences between them and why you may need to use one instead of the other. It also helpfully sets out the different signature blocks in a contract that different entities (individuals, companies, attorneys, partnerships and LLPs, etc.) need to use when signing contracts.
This template is duplicated in the Corporate folder.


How SAP diffrentiates between high level user and low level users?? I mean if the licences are for 25 high level user and 50 lowevel users, than how SAP will categorize the high level and low level user licenses?? Is there anyway where BASIS person has to specify??
Ask your SAP Account Manager, he will be happy to explain it for you.


Kevin's Meandering Mind | The Most Beautiful Day of the Year?
The Most Beautiful Day of the Year?
Yesterday, after a night of fairly warm temperatures mixed with snow, the world was covered in white and as I drove to the University of Massachusetts for a meeting, I thought: this has to be the most beautiful day of the year. The sun was just starting to come up, and the snow was sticky on the trees, and it was just a breathtaking view of New England.
This picture is at the university — the library is in the distance. When I came out of the meeting hours later, the trees were trees again and the moment had passed.
Kevin, I agree, this is my kind of weather. Winter lives on here too, and the trees are frosted with a thick coating. Just enough to enjoy more winter skiing.
Gorgeous picture! I always love that moment when everything is covered with a fresh blanket of pure, white snow and the world seems quiet and in awe of the sight. Thanks for sharing it with us!


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Long Beach: a great event but not an LMP-friendly environment.
Speaking personally, the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach is always one of my favorite events of the season. Speaking professionally, my Michael Shank Racing teammates and I knew we would be at a disadvantage in the LMP Ligier-Honda at Long Beach for Round Four of the Tudor United Sportscar Championship. As is typical with most street circuits, Long Beach favors the power and acceleration of the Daytona Prototypes over the handling and braking of the LMP cars. Add to that the fact that we're still on the steep end of the learning curve with our car and we knew a pretty stiff challenge awaited us in Long Beach.
But it's not like we went there unprepared. As usual, I practiced for the race ahead of time using iRacing's HPD-ARX -01c on the "technical circuit" version of Long Beach. I get the gears from our engineer at Michael Shank Racing and I put them in as close as I can in the iRacing car, then run different setups downforce settings to see which it better, how they affect the balance. Even though it's a different car, the gears are pretty close; not in top speed, but as far as the shift points, it's close and the track surface is spot on. You can get into the whole rhythm of the track, the downshifting, upshifting . . .
I share what I've learned with the team, including my co-driver (and fellow iRacer) Oswaldo Negri; it gives us a real direction when we get to the track, particularly with the downforce on the car – which affects the gears and top speed. We ended-up using high downforce in the race which is what we preferred on iRacing. The braking and stopping ability – and also the rolling speed through the corners is pretty close between our car and the iRacing car. The only big difference is in acceleration, so it's pretty helpful.
Which is good because, with this being our first year running an LMP car, our program is definitely a bit of a work in progress. We drove a DP at Long Beach last year and it's a completely different animal – a point and squirt sports car. We're a little better in the corners and in the brake zones, but aside from Turn One and Turn Nine it's not like there's deep, hard braking at Long Beach. Most of the track you brake a little early and a little light so as not to unbalance the car. We had a little trouble with the bumps to be honest; the shock package is not optimal when it's really bumpy, so under brakes in Turn One and Turn Nine the rear would lock –up quite a bit, so that was a problem for Ozz and I.
Did someone say "bumpy?"
We rolled off the trailer not great, but our engineer Dale Wise is a genius. Despite losing some time due to some technical problems in the second practice, I gained three seconds in the two practice sessions, so that either shows how bad we were in the first practice or just how much progress we made . . . more like some of both.
Qualifying was quite good although we were nowhere near the #10 car of Jordan and Ricky Taylor; they were was just on rails. But that was just a function of the track being a street circuit. I started the race and things were going about as expected, so we rolled the dice and made an early pit stop. We didn't expect a yellow, given the quality of drivers there, but if one had happened that could have been a game changer . . . so we took a shot. As it turned-out there was no yellow, but we ended-up in the same position –sixth place – we would have run either way. So we really had nothing to lose.
Rolling the dice with an early pit stop.
P6 isn't terrible, but we'll take it. We learned a lot about street course set-ups and now we'll head to a much more LMP-friendly environment in Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca this weekend (May 1-3) . Laguna Seca is going to be more our kind of track, with high speed corners and it's a smooth track, so I think we'll be pretty good. Actually the Patron LMP car won last year so hopefully we can repeat that.
I've spent quite a bit of time on iRacing already at Laguna with the gears and I've learned a lot; low downforce to high downforce. High downforce is pretty cool; in the couple of corners after the Corkscrew it's just unbelievable. If we can be close to that when it counts it'll be really good; in fact if we could use the iRacing car we'd be on pole!
But even though that's not gonna happen, practicing on iRacing has got me feeling the rhythm of the track again. I've done a lot of races at Laguna, but it's good to get into the rhythm again before we even roll off the trailer. I think I high downforce setup will be pretty good there, especially front downforce to rear, so I think it's going to be good.


Seen from the big bay, shoreline views of the "City by the Bay" stretch forever. The San Francisco skyline rises up and around an active waterfront, Alcatraz has an eerie vibe, and Angel Island is inviting. Passing under Golden Gate Bridge soaring overhead is an unforgettable moment. Photo ops of the pristine hills of Marin Headlands dipping down into the bay and picturesque Sausalito nestled into them, are unbeatable. To the east, Bay Bridge curves over the bay and, from the west, fog billows in unexpectedly.
See it all on one of many boat cruises. The way to choose the best San Francisco Bay cruise is to decide how you want to see it. See it by ferry, catamaran, RIB, sailboat, luxury cruising yacht, go-fast boat or fishing boat. Each experience is unique. Pick the one that works best for you.
For a no-frills experience with great views, hop on one of two ferry services providing scheduled public transportation. Golden Gate Ferry departs from the Ferry Building. The Blue & Gold Ferry departs from Pier 41 in Fisherman's Wharf. There is no narration, but the views are great on the ride to their scheduled destinations. The most popular destination of both services is the Sausalito Ferry. It's an inexpensive way to get out on the bay and spend time in Sausalito. The return trip can be crowded, especially late afternoons as tourists are leaving and bikers who bike the Golden Gate Bridge often ferry back to San Francisco, bikes in tow.
Two ferry boat companies, Red & White Fleet and Blue & Gold Fleet, offer similar narrated bay cruises. The large, stable ferries are popular with visitors opting for a 1-hour narrated sightseeing experience. Both have indoor spaces with large viewing windows and outdoor decks to catch the breeze and the sights. Both go past landmarks – the skyline, shoreline neighborhoods, the Presidio, Marin Headlands, Sausalito and Angel Island. Both go under the Golden Gate Bridge and around Alcatraz. Red & White fleet departs from Pier 43½ in the heart of Fisherman's Wharf; Blue and Gold Fleet departs from Pier 39.
Family-owned Red & White Fleet tours are legendary. The fleet has been taking out visitors on bay cruises since 1892. They pride themselves in consistently excellent tours and vessels. Their 1-hour Golden Gate Bay Cruise, departing around every hour beginning at 10am, provides audio headphones in 16 languages. Their Bridge 2 Cruise adds the curving Bay Bridge, Treasure Island and AT&T Park into the mix. Celebrate the setting sun and relax in the softness of twilight on Red & White Fleet's 2-hr. California Sunset Cruise, departing at 5 or 5:30, Nov – March.
Alcatraz Island is one of San Francisco's most notorious attractions. While bay cruises go around it, the only way to tour the legendary island prison is by getting there on the Alcatraz Cruises Ferry, a National Park Service concessionaire. Departing from Pier 33, the Alcatraz ferry takes tour ticket holders back and forth to "The Rock. It does not do bay tours.
Adventure Cat's Bay Sail is fun. Departing daily from Pier 39, the sailing catamaran is a great choice for the adventuresome and families with kids. As the stable catamaran cuts quietly through bay, getting around the big, roomy vessel is easy. Catch spectacular views and avoid the wind in the protected cabin. Or, be prepared to get wet on the deck trampoline where the feeling of water rushing by below the netting is awesome. A friendly crew creates a great ambiance and an audio tour in 7 languages identifies the sights. Beer, wine, soda and snacks are available for purchase. Bring a jacket, wear soft-soled shoes and enjoy the ride!
The tempo changes to quiet and romantic on Adventure Cat Sunset Sail. As the catamaran quietly sails west into the colors of the setting sun, take in nature's beauty while comfortably seated in the protected cabin, sipping beer, wine or soda and tasting light hors d'oeuvres.
A sail on a sleek 2-masted, mono-hull sailboat from San Francisco Sailing Company is magical. As you glide through the water on the 90-min. Daily Sail, the only sound you hear is the wind and the lapping water against the hull. In the congenial company of a limited number of passengers, it's a mellow way to tour the bay. Sailing parallel to the Golden Gate Bridge high above is mind-blowing. A great crew, beer and wine come with the cruise.
Some visitors just want a thrill ride – especially kids! Big, fast Rocket Boat delivers. Go fast, have a blast! May – October only, it's hard to miss the yellow and red go-fast boat at Pier 39. Tickets are first come, first served. Hop on, find a seat and zoom off listening to rock music. Flying full throttle on the 30-minute ride, Alcatraz, and the skyline are a blur. Crazy maneuvers are wild. Go under the Bay Bridge, past AT&T Park and see the skyline from the north and east.
RIB sightseeing on a Bay Voyager Cruise is an exciting option. Look for a close-to-the-water, 12-person rigid inflatable boat on Pier 39. That's your ride! Climb aboard for a 90-minute, often wet, adventure to places you might otherwise not see. In addition to bayfront views, going under the Golden Gate Bridge and around Alcatraz, You'll see sites of abandoned gold rush ships, go under the Bay Bridge, motor into estuaries, to the Port of Oakland and by AT&T Park.
Fishing boats, a traditional sight along San Francisco's waterfront, usually take chartered fishing trips. Some also take visitors on "open load" bay cruises. Head to the docks around Jones and Jefferson Streets. Check out Chucky's Pride Sportsfishing, Lovely Martha Sport Fishing, Captain Joe's Sportsfishing Charter, Silver Fox Sportsfishing & Tours and Wacky Jacky to see if they're taking out bay cruises that day. It's as authentic as it gets.
There is no better way to unwind and see the sights than on a 2 or 3-hour cruise on a large, luxury Hornblower yacht. Excellent service, elegant ambiance, good food prepared by local chefs with seasonal local ingredients, and spectacular views are a winning combination.
San Francisco Supper Club Cruise navigates around the big bay for 3 hours on Friday and Saturday evenings, January – November. The relaxed, sophisticated tone is set by the glass of champagne served upon boarding. Small-plate stations offer choices for every palate. Watch the city sparkling in evening lights from the decks or from viewing windows as you dance to music spun by a DJ.
San Francisco Brunch Cruise, offered Saturdays and Sundays year-round, brings the hectic land sightseeing pace down a notch for 2 hours. The brunch buffet is loaded with choices, sparkling wine free-flows, live music plays in the background, and the cash bar serves favorite drinks.
Begin your 3-hour San Francisco Mid-week Dinner Cruise or San Francisco Weekend Dinner Cruise by unwinding with cocktails on the deck as the grand yacht navigates past the twinkling City by the Bay. It's a gorgeous light show. Make your way to your table in the interior salons for a delicious, elegantly served dinner glancing, taking in bay front sights as they come into view through huge windows. Then dance to music spun by a DJ until the boat docks back at Pier E on the Embarcadero.


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Ari Lennox Exudes Grown And Sexy Energy During NYC Shea Butter Baby Tour Stop
June 6, 2019 - 4:49 pm by Beatriz da Costa TWITTER
While Cole may have been the icing on the cake for Ari's NY show, she was the entire slice and then some.
Summer hasn't arrived just yet in New York, but Ari Lennox provided plenty of heat during her stellar performance during her stop in New York for her Shea Butter Baby Tour.
The intimate yet lively cold-out set at Bowery Ballroom on Tuesday (June 5), had a little something for everyone. Her openers Baby Rose and Mikhala Jené provided lush performances with their style of R&B soul. Jené's "All I Want" and Rose's very rousing and classic vocals were beautiful discoveries. As natural babes and fellas filled up the venue, alluring blue-hued lights set the tone for the rest of the night.
The connection between the VIBE NEXT alum and the crowd was more than anyone could have hoped for. Stepping out in an all-black ensemble and signature high curly bun (with a very Diana Ross-like fur coat), Ari opened up with "Chicago Boy," which also happens to be the opener for her debut album, Shea Butter Baby. The setlist was a mix of the tracks from the project as well as her breakout EP, PHO. Fans were able to "bust it real fast" on Ari's command to tracks like "Broke," "Night Drive" and the sensual single, "Up Late." With trumpeter Theo Croker performing on "Chicago Boy," "Static" and "Whipped Cream," love and nayhoos were definitely in the kush-filled air.
Loosies like "40 Shades Of Choke" got their moment with Ari requesting everyone to say, "I will be consensually choked tonight and I will survive" before singing the track.
Ari's show was an embodiment of who she is and what her music represents–unapologetic with strong doses of grown and sexy appeal. Her stage was tailor-made for the D.C. native as well. First with the cheekily set up mannequins donning striking wigs behind her, and second with her own commentary throughout the duration of the show. At various points during the show, Ari and her packed audience maintained upbeat conversations.
A fan in the front row shared how the heartbreaking "La La La La" would be her future wedding song with the singer encouraging her by sending good vibes to her future hubby, dog and life.
There wasn't one low point during Ari's show, and it only got degrees hotter when she threw off her fur jacket, a statement piece in her video for "Up Late," and moved effortlessly to the beat of "Broke," her song featuring J.I.D. The Christo-created track got the crowd vibing, and the Bowery was quickly filled up with voices singing along to Ari's catchy lines, "I've been low before/Yeah you know I've been low before."
Hands were thrown into the air by girls sporting long, box braids and styled afros as they danced along to the song. Although J.I.D. didn't come out to perform their record together, the crowd was blessed with a surprise appearance from the brain behind Dreamville himself, J. Cole. With his now, trademark dreadlocks on display, Cole joined his signee onstage for a rendition of their hit "Shea Butter Baby."
The venue was already booming thanks to Ari, but with the two together onstage it may as well have exploded.
The image of Ari and Cole performing is one that can represent 2019 wholly; it's the year of Dreamville. While Cole may have been the icing on the cake for Ari's NY show, she was the entire slice and then some.
Tasting a piece of Ari's live shows is what everyone needs to feel as grown and as sexy and she does.
Check out more dates for The Shea Butter Baby Tour here.
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Devi Love and Charlamagne tha God attend AfroTech 2019 at Oakland Marriott City Center on November 08, 2019 in Oakland, California.
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At AfroTech, Black Tech Innovators Ban Together To Make Their Voices Heard
Entrepreneur Delane Parnell made history last year after his esports software company PlayVS raised $15 million for its Series-A funding round, making it the largest Series-A ever raised by a Black founder in consumer internet. In September of this year PlayVS, which provides a platform for competitive high school esports competitions, again made headlines when it announced that it raised an additional $81 million in funding from a group of notable investors that included Adidas, Samsung, Sean "Diddy" Combs, and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Over the course of 15 months, the company raised a combined total of $96 million in funding to expand the business and a 27-year-old Parnell, who serves as the company's CEO, became one of the most talked-about Black founders in tech.
During a time when only 1 percent of venture capital funding is going to Black founders and only 0.2 percent of venture capital funding is going to Black women founders, Parnell's recent success represents an anomaly in the tech startup world. Despite a major increase in press concerning the lack of access and opportunities that Black founders in tech receive and an incredible growth in minority-focused venture capital funds and resources, the PlayVS founder remains a part of a small but growing crop of Black millennial tech founders that have created innovative business solutions so desirable that even the predominantly white-male dominated tech world has been forced to recognize and support them.
Blavity Inc. Founder and CEO Morgan DeBaun is also a member of this burgeoning class of Black millennial startup founders making noise in the industry. Last year, Blavity Inc., which owns Black millennial media and event platforms Blavity, Shadow and Act, Travel Noire, 21 Ninety, AfroTech, and Summit 21, raised a $6.5 million Series-A funding round and grew the company from one office and 30 employees to two offices and over 80 employees. DeBaun, who founded media company Blavity Inc. in 2014 with her three co-founders Jonathan Jackson, Jeff Nelson and Aaron Samuels, is vocal about the struggles not only Black tech founders face but the ones Black tech employees experience working at large white tech companies. Last month, DeBaun once again had a platform to speak on these issues during Blavity's fourth annual AfroTech Conference, a tech conference geared toward Black millennial founders.
#AfroTech has information and knowledge for everyone. You can find advice from other founders, VCs to pitch your company to, or the tech talent you may need to get your idea going. Don't miss out on new connections that can help you succeed. #linkinbio #careeropportunities #careergoals #venturecapitalist #founders
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AfroTech was created in 2016 as an event to highlight Black tech innovators and provide more opportunities and information for them to succeed. The first three years of the conference took place in San Francisco, Calif., the U.S. epicenter of technology startups. This year, the festival was moved to Oakland, Calif., a strategic move meant to honor a city with a rich Black history and patronize the small Black businesses, that despite aggressive gentrification, are still operating today. During the second weekend of November, Downtown Oakland hosted 10,000 Black tech innovators from around the U.S. looking to form meaningful connections, learn from one another, and celebrate the rising profile of Black people in tech.
One of AfroTech's primary missions is to address the lack of information Black millennials have about the technology industry. The dozens of high-profile guest speakers, which included Parnell, The ShadeRoom founder Angelica Nwandu, lawyer and political commentator Angela Rye, and media personality Charlamagne Tha God, were carefully selected to provide Black founders, college students, and employees access to knowledge that would better equip them to lead successful tech careers. Across four different stages, speakers shared their experiences and advice on venture capital funding, coding, the cannabis industry, media, and blockchain.
"We don't always have the vocabulary to frame our success so that we can have opportunities like getting venture capital," DeBaun tells VIBE prior to taking the main stage at day one of AfroTech. "Part of AfroTech is creating information so that people know how to talk about what they are already doing. We don't have to change much besides just the vocabulary and breaking down some of the biases we have been taught about ourself."
Although knowledge plays a big part in enabling Black people in tech to receive greater opportunities, a supportive and well-connected network pipeline is another key factor necessary to fuel the group's success. In tech, warm introductions and word of mouth rivals technical skills and ability during the job selection process. Ivy League and country club connections make it difficult for non-white people to penetrate the exclusive tech veil. A harsh reality that new diversity and inclusion departments and new executives are apparently working hard to change.
Reports revealed #Al's discriminatory instincts — including mislabeling Black people as gorillas — are only getting worse. What can we do to improve the future of artificial intelligence and remedy the tech industry's diversity problem? #Tech #Afrotech #Al #artificialintelligence
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"Unfortunately we have been trained to have a mindset of deficit, that we can be one of only," says DeBaun about the lack of representation in tech spaces. "The vision of AfroTech is that we show that it's an abundance, it's unlimited potential, unlimited power. So if you have access you should give it to someone else. That's your duty and your responsibility because you wouldn't have gotten here if someone hadn't given you access most likely. AfroTech is actually designed to try to speed that up."
AfroTech's socialization component may be the most valuable part of the weekend. Dozens of high-profile tech companies from Google to Twitter, Lyft to YouTube, sent representatives to set up booths to recruit potential job candidates and share valuable information about its diversity efforts. Diversity-focused venture capital firms like Harlem Capital Partners and Precursor Ventures were also engaged with founders and swapped business cards during the conference's designated networking periods. For Black people who did not attend an Ivy League school or grow up with a country club membership, these moments provided a valuable and direct pipeline to the world's largest companies.
AfroTech's opportunities for connection and knowledge distribution did not simply end once the conference did. The AfroTech app, website, and Slack channel have continued to provide helpful resources and opportunities for Black people in tech to communicate with one another. With platforms like AfroTech, Black Women Talk Tech, Black Girls Code and Black Founders, Black people in tech are provided with opportunities to not only empower themselves in this industry but support and empower other Black people in the process.
"A lot of the opportunities I have is because I invited myself instead of waiting to be invited. I don't often wait for people to validate whether or not I should be in the room. I make that decision myself. In this world, you can't be afraid of "no" or "sorry, I can't help you". You let that be fuel to keep going no matter what. 👊🏾" - @carterlove⠀ ⠀ We found this story in our mentions and just had to reshare these inspirational vibes! We know many #BlacksInTech can wait forever to "be invited" to the table, so it's so important to be the change and invite ourselves! ✊🏾Or better yet, make our own 💁🏾.⠀ ⠀ What are some ways you invite yourself to opportunities? Let's talk about it!👇🏾
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Solange Uses Her Divine Spirit To Calm The Mind And Body For "Bridge-s" Performance Piece
There's a serene feeling over the bodies standing in the iconic architecture at the Getty Center Museum. Jazzy horns, peaceful keys, and crisp guitar riffs gently interrupt the soothing silence as dancers dripped in marigold threads swayed to "Counting," a composition created by Solange. A series of odd numbers like "5", "7" and "9" are recited on a loop by half of her dancers while the others chant "6", "4" and "2." It's just a preview of her latest creation Bridge-s but felt like a dynamic meditation.
Bridge-s brings yet another magnetic piece into her series of interdisciplinary works that spawned after the release of her magnum opus, A Seat At The Table. The world was introduced to Solange's artistic side thanks to performance art pieces at the Guggenheim in New York and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.
Composed by Solange and choreographed by Gerard & Kelly, Bridge-s was created with the pillars, beams, and columns around the museum in mind. Dancers and the orchestra used the space to their advantage, with tuba players catching the peripheral of attendees from afar.
Four rollouts will take place November 16-17, curated with a selection of films that include Black to Techno by Jenn Nkiru, AFRONAUTS and Boneshaker by Nuotama Bodomo, The State of Things by singer-songwriter Kish Robinson (Kilo Kish) and more. In its entirety, Bridge-s was designed to explore "transitions through time."
This was felt throughout the performance piece as dancers move with the intent of love, internal struggle, and unity. In a stunning zine designed by Sablā Stays, Gerard & Kelly shared the emphasis behind their modernist and inclusive approach.
"Our work, like hers, is part of an interdisciplinary effort throughout the arts and humanities to redefine modernism by critically engaging its prevailing narratives. By accounting for differences of gender, sexuality, and race. By focusing on intimate and collective histories. By centering our work around the body, dance and movement," they said.
Solange also opened up about the importance the museum and the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg played in the performance piece. "Both Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and the Getty Museum have sure strong distinctive voices spatially, and so the intention is that all of the work, the movement, the language, the songs all align with those principles," she said. "Working with Gerard and Kelly, who share many of the same philosophies on their approach to interpreting time and space through performance has really built the foundation [for] the spirit of this collaboration."
Like the rest of us, the artist watched closely the dancers glide across the floor, while bandmembers release enchanting sonnets with vocalists dropping a few high notes in between. Guests like Thundercat (and his Pikachu backpack), Kilo Kish, Dev Hynes of Blood Orange and Tyler, The Creator were also left speechless after the performance.
"I just want to thank you guys for allowing me the space to evolve, experiment and express new frontiers," Solange said to the crowd after the assembly provided endless cheers.
Learn more about Bridge-s and get free tickets here.
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Rick Ross' 'Port Of Miami 2 Tour' Is Motivation To Hustlers Far And Wide
"I can spot a millionaire—from the guy working at the carwash," Rick Ross said to a sold-out crowd at New York City's Gramercy Theatre on his "Port of Miami 2 Tour." "He got the rag hanging out of his pocket, to the way he rock his [pants]. I see the millionaire in him," Rozay continued.
For nearly two hours on Tuesday (Oct. 15), the MMG bawse galvanized the hustler's spirit, thanks to the preciseness of words used to explain his "came from the bottom" narrative combined with first hand accounts of the imperative mental spaces that dope boys experience.
But before Rozay graced the stage at the Gramercy Theatre, MMG's baby boomer Yowda entertained the crowd for a brief set before passing the mic to lifelong MMG soldier Gunplay.
Rocking a black Dickies outfit, the Triple C member, who has been vocal about his cocaine addiction, stormed the stage with coke-like energy while mouthing lyrics to his sobering verse from "The Great Americans," a song from MMG's Self Made, Vol. 3.
Gunplay, who was actually born in the Bronx, nimbly bounced across the stage like a point-guard maneuvering through defense closed out his set with his under-the-radar street classics "Blood on the Dope," "Bible on the Dash," and his verse from Waka Flacka's "Rolling."
With marijuana smoke clouding the venue, liquor relaxing some concert-goers, and the clock inching toward 9:15 p.m., Rozay slowly walked toward the center of the stage—indirectly egging on the standing ovation by confidently nodding his head. Lex Luger's "B.M.F." instrumental blasted from the speakers for what seemed like minutes before the Dade County native dived into his verses.
The motivational concert commenced with the words: "I think I'm Big Meech, Larry Hoover," here Ross is claiming his declaration to be financially independent---probably his No. 1 goal in life.
Less than two minutes into the start of Rozay's set, The L.O.X.'s Styles P surprised the crowd by appearing onstage to deliver his verse from "B.M.F," which was followed by "Good Times (I Get High)." Surprises continued when Jadakiss appeared on stage to help his partner-in-rhyme run through their classic, "We Gonna Make It."
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After working up a sweat, a slimmer-looking Ross shedded his beige designer trench jacket. Dressed in all white—like the cocaine money that he raps about—with shining jewels wrapped around his neck and wrists, Ross played the visual representation of success to kids from every coast.
Ross proceeded the show with his get-money classics like "I'm Not a Star," where when he rapped: "Nine for the slice, dummy that's a Dan Marino/Talking quarterbacks, meaning talking quarter kilos," concert-goers enthusiasm seemed to max-out as they rapped with words with Ross.
After performing a list of favorites like "Aston Martin Music" and "Hustlin'," the Box Chevy anthem that set the rapper's career in motion, and "Where My Money (I Need That)," Rozay surprised New Yorkers by inviting Brooklyn native Fabolous onstage.
The Young OG entertained the Gramercy with hits like "Breathe" and "Cuffin Season" before closing his set with his verse from Meek Mill's "Uptown."
As the night grew to a close, Ross decided to remind fans that it's totally fine for hustlers to shed tears. With that, the 43-year-old delivered his masterful verse from Kanye West's "Devil in a New Dress."
The place erupted with emotion with lines like "Whole clique appetite had tapeworms/Spinning Teddy Pendergrass vinyl as my J burns/I shed a tear before the night's over."
Tears continued to fall as Ross ran through the CeeLo Green-assisted "Tears of Joy," a woeful hip-hop ballad that shows the imperativeness—from a dope boys POV—of financial freedom.
Overall, Rozay's performance is not filled with animation and routines. His stage presence isn't as strong as fellow hustler-turned-rappers Jay-Z and Pusha T. However, Ross' words of encouragement are powerful tools that incites the "give me liberty or death" mentality that birthed the hustlers spirit of America, and birthed America.


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Do not jail all paedophiles, says police chief
Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse
media captionChief Constable Simon Bailey says the system is struggling to cope.
Paedophiles who view indecent images but go no further should not be jailed but rehabilitated, a leading child protection police officer has said.
Police forces "cannot cope" with the "huge" rise in reports, Chief Constable Simon Bailey, of the National Police Chiefs' Council, told the BBC.
Figures show the number of child abuse reports is up by 80% in three years.
The Home Office said "viewing child abuse images is a terrible crime and should be treated as such".
Chief Constable Bailey, the head of Operation Hydrant, which is investigating multiple allegations of historic sexual abuse across the UK, said he knew his view would cause nervousness and draw headlines.
But he said the numbers of reports of abuse were at "huge proportions" - an NSPCC study in late 2016 used figures which suggested the number of individuals looking at such images could exceed half a million.
'Contact cases' focus
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme about 400 people were arrested by police in conjunction with the National Crime Agency every month, for looking at indecent images.
"There are undoubtedly tens of thousands of men that are seeking to exploit children online with a view to meeting them, with a view to then raping them and performing the most awful sexual abuse upon them," he said.
"That's where I believe our focus has got to be. They are the individuals that pose the really significant threat."
Offenders who viewed online child abuse images should be placed on the sex offenders register, cautioned and managed in the community undergoing rehabilitation, he said.
Referrals to rehabilitation "increasingly are effective", he said and not using the court system would "speed things up".
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He added: "Every time an image is viewed, the victim is being victimised again and there is nothing as abhorrent. But we have to be able to manage the totality."
A Home Office spokesperson said the government had committed £20m to the National Crime Agency for specialist teams to tackle online child sexual exploitation.
"Alongside ensuring we have a tough law enforcement response to bring offenders to justice, we are also committed to preventing offending in the first place," they added.
The NSPCC agreed that prison sentences served a vital purpose in terms of public protection, justice, and acting as a deterrent.
But a spokesman added: "We cannot arrest our way out of the situation. If we are to protect more children we must make prevention and rehabilitation a priority."
'Not naive' to offenders
Those working in the area are already stretched.
Lisa Thornhill, is a senior practitioner at the Lucy Faithfull Foundation, which works with people who have sexually harmed or fear they may harm a child.
It offers "non-judgemental support" to help to change people's behaviour - such as a 10 week group programme, its website and Stop it Now confidential helpline.
Calls to the helpline are over capacity - about 800 people each month call, but about 2,500 calls are unable to be taken due to demand.
While the organisation was "not naive" to the fact that some sex offenders were solely motivated to access children for abuse, she said, there was "a moral responsibility to help those who want it".
Natcen research on the helpline showed the importance of support, she added.
"Most people who commit these offences have some idea what they are doing is wrong," she said. "We appeal to the brave and responsible part of those people to get in touch with us and stop, and stay stopped."
Chief Constable Bailey's comments came as the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in England and Wales (IICSA) began its full public hearings on Monday with an examination of allegations made by children in care who were sent abroad.
The wide-reaching inquiry will look at child abuse claims against local authorities, religious organisations, the armed forces and public and private institutions - as well as people in the public eye.
Have you been affected by abuse?
NSPCC specialises in child protection
National Association for People Abused in Childhood offers support, advice and guidance to adult survivors of any form of childhood abuse
Survivor Scotland offers help to improve the lives of survivors of childhood abuse in Scotland
Childline is a private and confidential service for children and young people up to the age of 19
The Children's Society works to support vulnerable children in England and Wales
Stop It Now! supports adults worried about child abuse, including survivors, professionals, those with a concern about their own thoughts or behaviour towards children and friends and relatives of people arrested for sexual offending
The Child Migrants Trust attempts to reunite children sent abroad with their families
IICSA child sex abuse inquiry public hearings under way
Viewing of online child abuse images a 'social emergency'
Child on child sex offences 'may be next scandal'
Can you stop a paedophile before they even start?
Would a drug change paedophile behaviour?
How many men are paedophiles?
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse
The National Police Chiefs Council


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Dana Gavanski is a singer/songwriter currently living between Belgrade and London. Born in Vancouver to a Serbian family, but relocating to Montreal to attend university, Dana originally planned to pursue a career in film. However, she shifted her attention back to music when her then ex-partner left her his guitar before moving to NYC. Having known only how to play 'Diamonds and Rust' by Joan Baez, Dana picked up a Travis Picking technique book and started re-learning how to play. When in the Summer of 2016, she took a job with her father as a producer's assistant on a horror film in the Laurentians, she made enough to focus solely on developing her music for a year. With that came her first EP, Spring Demos, released via Fox Food Records in 2017. Dana followed this up with her first single for Full Time Hobby in April 2019, One by One, produced by Mike Lindsay in his Margate studio and a second single "Catch" was released in Nov 2019. A debut full-length album is due for release in Spring 2020.
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