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There's a problem in the culture right now: The corporate entities in control of merchandising our popular culture seem almost tone-deaf on issues of diversity. Some companies might get one aspect right while botching others; other companies fail across the bsoard. In particular, I can't think of a single geeky property that treats female fans as equals.
The most visible outcry in recent memory was inspired by a startling lack of Avengers-related merchandise featuring Scarlett Johansson's character, Black Widow. Scenes from the movie that featured her as an action star were remade into toy sets that scrubbed her involvement completely. She was replaced on her motorcycle—in one instance, by Captain America, and in another by Iron Man, a character who flies and has no need of a motorcycle in the first place. Shirts and other merchandise featuring the rest of the team all seemed to specifically exclude Black Widow (and Scarlet Witch, too, for that matter).
The advertising and marketing whizzes constantly proclaim that little boys don't want girls among their toys or on their shirts. But in my experience, boys don't care one way or the other, and all the little girls feel needlessly excluded.
Marvel is not the only Disney-owned property suffering from this phenomenon. Star Wars certainly isn't immune. With the new series Star Wars: Rebels, the team of rebels features two of the most interesting female characters onscreen today. Hera is a pilot and leader of the titular rebel cell, and she's joined by Sabine, a young Mandalorian artist and warrior. The cartoon does a great job of treating them in a way that makes them equals; just don't ask for toys of the characters. The ship they fly in was made into a toy, but instead of packaging it with the kickass female pilot, she was swapped out with a male character from the show. And the action figures of these two females are so scarce that it's virtually impossible to find them in stores. Instead, they're available through secondary sellers at three or four times their suggested retail price.
If you want an action figure of a female Star Wars character, the easiest one to find is Princess Leia, in her slave bikini. The advertising and marketing whizzes ----think that's the only way males will accept toys of females.
On behalf of my daughter—who merely wanted a Hera toy—I'm pretty sick of this.
DC Comics and Warner Brothers aren't immune to this problem, either. On one hand, they seemed to grasp that girls wanted better representation in comics, so they launched a brand-new line of comics especially for girls. Sounds good, right? According to their press release, they've specifically developed a new line of comics called Super Hero Girls aimed at an audience of girls aged 6 to 16. Yes, I'll end up buying these for my daughter—OK, and for myself—but why do young female geeks need to be treated as "separate but equal?" It's insulting.
The entire "boys think girls are icky" mentality is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Companies say boys don't want to read or watch movies about female characters— and then they make sure there are no female characters for boys to read about or watch. Then, when creators do try to get the boys to read stories about female characters when they correct course, those boys don't want to, because they've been told for years they shouldn't like them.
Wouldn't this whole cycle be broken—in the best of ways—if we insisted on more accurately diverse casts of characters in our geekdoms, and let boys see female characters doing all the cool stuff female characters do, and doing it just as well as the boys? I don't care what marketers tell me I should want: I wouldn't hesitate to wear a shirt with Black Widow on it. Or a female Star Wars character who isn't a metal-bikini-clad slave. Or Batgirl. I'd love a cool Batgirl shirt.
Gender matters less to people than it used to, and these companies need to figure that out. We're living in a world where gender is more fluid. People care less about obviously outdated ways of thinking about "masculinity" or "femininity." Not only do we need to demand more diversity, we need to create it as well. We can't just blindly consume what corporations tell us we're allowed to. We need to make our own: our own comics, apparel, books, and yes, even movies.
If they won't give us better representation the way we want it, let's change it ourselves.


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Women Talk Tech Episode 57: Owning Your Narrative
Owning Your Narrative
Welcome to the show, Aparna Natarajan.
On this week's episode of Women Talk Tech we are joined by Aparna Natarajan. Aparna is an accomplished strategy and sales leader with over 10 years experience across enterprise sales, partner development, and operations. In her role as a solution specialist at Microsoft, Aparna works with Canada's largest enterprises to drive business and social value through innovation and transformation. Passionate about equality, she serves on the National Board of Lean In Canada as Director of Corporate Sponsorships. Together with an amazing team, she is determined to fix the broken rung among female executives and help Canadian organizations build a truly strong and diverse workforce.
While Aparna holds an MBA from Ivey Business School, she did not always foresee a career in business or tech. After juggling ideas from law to fashion design in high school, Aparna decided to pursue an undergraduate in business as a way to find her passion and decide what path she wanted to pursue in life. What Aparna unexpectedly found throughout the course of her education was that her passion was in business.
"I developed a preconceived notion that I had to be an engineer or somebody with coding experience to break into the industry. I thought that ship had sailed for me."
Aparna has found great levels of fulfillment from working primarily in the sales function of the tech industry. By loving her job and loving what she sells, Aparna feels a sense of achievement from facilitating her clients on their innovation journeys.
For Aparna, the transition into sales from an operations role started first and foremost from sitting down and understanding who she is and what she can offer the world. The next step was mapping this out to mentors who were able to give Aparna advice and guide her on the right path. And finally, Aparna developed a plan, declared it, and was intentional in every action to achieve it.
"I learned the importance of owning your narrative. There were people who said 'I don't think you can do it', or 'I think you should think about other roles' […] But I was very committed, and I had belief in the fact that a sales career was exactly where I wanted to be."
Aparna additionally works with Lean In Canada, an organization dedicated to empowering women and helping them achieve their ambitions. With over 14,000 members across Canada, Lean In Canada educates and supports women on topics of financial independence and literacy, how to advocate for oneself, negotiating pay raise, navigating power dynamics, etc.
Within her continued work, Aparna actively helps women develop and own their narratives in the tech sector.
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Yesterday I wrote "the end" on the new book! Woohoo!
This does not, however, mean it is finished. Far from it. But it is a nifty milestone, especially for me, because pounding out the first draft is the part of this job that feels the most like work. It's not especially fun. For me, the real joy comes in the editing process.
Have you ever left a conversation only to later think of something brilliant you should have said? Well, editing is like that, except you get to go back and say it. Every stinkin' time! It's your chance to look at every moment in your novel and ask yourself "is this the coolest goddamn thing that could have happened here? Is there a better way to do this?" You get to meticulously review every line of dialog your characters say and ask yourself, "what would be smarter here? what would have more punch, or more humor, or more heart? What would reveal more about this person?"
I've talked about all this before. Suffice to say, editing is very rewarding to me. And now that I'm about to embark on the process again, I thought I'd share my plan of attack. I have 5 weeks until the manuscript is due, so I've lumped my various tasks into 1-week buckets, each requiring a full pass through the novel.
Timeline issues - The first task is to go through the whole novel and map it out on a timeline. Without spoiling anything, time is rather critical in this new novel, and I want to make sure every last hour is accounted for. Also, when I'm writing a first draft I will occasionally "forget" what time of day it was supposed to be. I may start a chapter with the sun having just set, but later (remember, it could be days later in terms of my writing) I'll mention they've just eaten lunch and sun is high in the sky. A simplified example, but you get the idea. The more common scenario is that I start a chapter at one time of day, but half-way through writing it I realize it would work better if it occurred at another time. I never derail myself with these decisions. I simply leave a note to go back and fix the previous portion, and move ahead. Read my Scrivener tutorial to get an idea of how I use notes and comments.
Glossary - I'll also do a quick pass through the novel this first week and make a list of all my invented words.
Character list - Similarly, I want to make a note of every single character, with a quick sketch or bio.
Atlas - Again, every place that's mentioned needs to be captured. The point of these last three? Well, it's a good exercise, and will help later when the audiobook narrator has pronunciation questions, but for various reasons this novel is going to require a "world bible". I need to catalog all this stuff, so this is a good time to do it. Plus I can make sure everything is consistent and decide if I want to tweak things (I will).
During the second week I'll go through all my notes looking for issues with plot or consistency, and work on fixing all of them. Basically, I want to get the story straight before I move on. This is the part where major rewrites occur. It'll probably take more than a week, but that should be okay.
Now that the plot is all fixed up, I'll go back through again with a focus on the characters. Some I'm happier with than others. Those that need love will get a makeover here, with each line of dialog, each introspective thought, and their body language reviewed and improved. I'll also make sure the characters have a solid arc, and ensure their motivations are as clear as is required. One thing I learned when I started working with my editor on THE DARWIN ELEVATOR is that I often breeze past moments of significant emotional impact. "This is a major event, and he just shrugs and moves on?" my editor would comment. So I make sure to look for these sorts of problems now.
At this point the major issues are resolved, and this pass is basically just an additional layering of world detail. Anything that feels ill-defined or simply lacks visual oomph, I'll be plugging in more details. Colors, sounds, smells. Cultural detail. Fashion. All of it. This is not to say these things are absent in the first draft. They just tend to be overly terse or, in many cases, simply lacking in imagination.
During the last week I'll read the entire book aloud and fix any phrasings that trip me up, as well as correct any errors I find. One trick that helps me during this phase: Using my computer's built-in text to speech function. I often find mistakes or weird phrasings that my own brain corrects subconsciously while I read, or the types of things a spelling/grammar checker would miss.
So there's my plan for attacking this draft. I think it'll come out roughly equal to its current word count (I'll cut as much as I add, in other words), which puts the final product at around 115k words. A bit shorter than DARWIN.
Right then! Into the breach!
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Since the advent of the Hubble telescope, discoveries in space are becoming increasingly more abundant and the possibilities are becoming seemingly infinite. Hubble's latest discovery has, amazingly, been described as a "water world" because a huge amount of it's mass is made up of water, making this a very relevant discovery indeed.
NASA have stated that this is an entirely new class of planet.
A team of astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics (CfA) led by Zachory Berta originally published the findings and the planet GJ 1214b was actually discovered in 2009.
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GJ 1214b orbits a red-dwarf star every 38 hours distanced at 2 million kilometres. This means it's estimated temperate is 230C. The planet weighs nearly seven times as much as Earth and approximately 2.7 times the diameter of Earth. GJ 1214b is approximately 40 light years away from Earth and is set to be one of the first locations studied by the new James Webb Space telescope.
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The high temperatures and pressures on GJ 1214b would most likely form exotic materials such a hot ice or superfluid water, materials which literally are 'alien' to our every day lives. Just imagine how awesome it would be to be able to go there and experiment with it.
To give you an idea of what that would be like, Wikipedia states:
"Superfluid is a state of matter in which the matter behaves like a fluid without viscosity and with extremely high thermal conductivity."
In other words, the superfluid water appears to be a normal liquid which when placed into an obstructive container would flow up the sides and over the top of the container despite it's lack of viscosity. This is because the liquid still has surface tension. Not only is the substance not subject to friction, it also circulates through pores in the container or obstruction subject only to only it's own inertia.
GJ 1214b is described as a "water-world covered with thick cloud" and it is currently believed that the atmosphere is most likely quite steamy. My favourite quote from Zachory Berta:
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We need some plain speaking from both politicians and soldiers
By: By Michael Moore – 22 December 2008 kl: 11.16
Last updated: 8 July 2013 kl: 14.48
Head of development for the Armed Forces, Major General Michael Moore, has had enough of a complicated context being left unexplained.
Major General Michael Moore, Head of development for the Armed Forces, demands plain speaking. Photo: Swedish Armed Forces
The public debate on defence policy swings from one extreme to the other, creating a misleading impression - that the Armed Forces are being phased out, that our national defence is non-existent and that those few parts of our defence forces that do remain in being are located abroad. But – rumours of "the patient's death" are considerably exaggerated. That we have found ourselves in this situation is probably a result of inadequate communication .
Sweden has an extremely well qualified military of a size similar to that of other comparable European countries. There are certain structural problems, inherited from the previous policy doctrine of territorial defence, as well as a number of functions that are at a critical levels in terms of volume.
It is now ten years since the Riksdag passed the reform resolution "the new defence". The objective of the reform process has been to realign the orientation of the Armed Forces from defence of the national territory to greater involvement in international operations. But also away from a military defence that was built on large numbers and a doctrine of war of attrition, derived from the Second World War (we calculated, rightly or wrongly, that there an enormous number of casualties be incurred in the event of an invasion).
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The soldier, the conscript, was a minor cog in the machinery of mass defence, and we imagined that this soldier would get by with a short period of training and a little rehearsal.
It was a defence policy in which political attention was focused more on the volume of National Service personnel, the defence industry and maintaining a comprehensive regional network of garrisons, than on real military effectiveness and on an Armed Forces able to function in live operations.
Accordingly, the reasons for reforming the defence structure were many. The basic contention of the year 2000's policy changes was simple – that we actively defend the security and national interests of Sweden when we participate, together with others, in operations outside our territorial boundaries. A modern and highly skilled defence force is a pre-condition for both national and international operations. Functioning units with few, or minor, deficiencies.
The Armed Forces were to be adapted for "joint" operations with a modular structure – and this presupposed a network based command and control and information functions. This, along with the view that we we would prefer neither to incur casualties during our operations overseas, nor cause injury to third parties, nor inflict unnecessary losses on our opponents, involved entirely new, and heightened, demands on the quality of our units in all respects.
These quality requirements were accentuated in 2004 defence policy review, which further emphasised overseas capability.
This policy was motivated by the fact that then, as now, the globalised state of the world of today means that all countries are more dependent upon each other than ever before.
Problems, threats, crises and other sources of trouble travel rapidly over the world (just look at the so-called financial crisis). We are a part of the globalised world, and of an integrated Europe, whether we like it or not.
The fundamental idea of European integration is one of co-operation, not only to avoid war and conflict but also to build a stronger Europe at all levels. This project of integration is founded on a principle of solidarity.
Sweden has a strong national interest in the success of European co-operation, its failure would expose us to increased risk, we are far too small a country to be able to survive by ourselves if we were to be more directly affected by crisis or conflict.
Our self-interest also lies in maximising our influence in Europe and the wider world. This discussion can be especially difficult in this country for historical reasons - we have followed a policy of neutrality and later non-alignment for 200 years-
Using our military resources to take an active part in cooperating with others for the benefit of our common security is today - in contrast to the situation in previous years - a necessary pre-condition for ensuring that that the Swedish voice is heard in other policy areas.
During the Cold War we could always exploit our position as regarded the balance of power between the two military giants. That role is no longer available.
Today, we have to be actively engaged internationally, even as regards the military dimension in order to maintain our credibility in the international community. Our international partners are, to a significant degree, more familiar then we are not only with the idea of regarding their military as instruments of security policy, but also with acting according to notions of the national interest.
Our Armed Forces – contrary to all rumour – are highly qualified to perform the tasks assigned to them, and that fact, together with the operations we have perform, contributes to high levels of credibility and prestige internationally.
If we were to "withdraw" entirely from these activities and simply focus on territorial defence we would lose credibility and be marginalised within the international community - our opinions would not be taken especially seriously.
Active or passive?
A very simplified description could read something like this: the Swedish parliament has repeatedly taken the decision to make the transition from a security policy based upon self-sufficiency and the motto "strength in isolation" to one that build upon the idea of "one for all - all for one".
An example of how this policy change was established came when Sweden held the European Union presidency in 2001. The then government was faced with the alternatives of pursuing an active or passive approach to the issue of development of the common European security and defence policy - and chose to be extremely active.
In which case, what are the difficulties? One problem has been that the political level has not always expressed itself clearly concerning changes to security policy.
Has this lack of clarity something to do with the sensitivities involved in changing approach from self-chosen isolation to active engagement? So, rather than saying plainly that we operate militarily outside Sweden because such activity is the foundation of our new security policy, a distinction is, instead, made between national and international operations.
Bosnia, a turning point
Our international operations are described in terms of primarily offering assistance to others, and thus have little to do with our own security. The picture that is painted of current international missions is one of a continuation of Sweden's long tradition of involvement in peace keeping - despite the fact that the reasoning behind engagement in international operations, and the missions in themselves, have changed entirely in character.
The mission in Bosnia was the real turning point – despite the fact that the new security policy has yet to be formulated.
Motivation for engagement changed from one of primarily "helping others" - as was the case for UN missions from the 1950's to the 1980's - to being one of managing the crisis in Yugoslavia, which indirectly threatened stability in south-eastern and central Europe - and thus risked affecting Sweden ... at least indirectly if it had continued or escalated.
Missions following that in Bosnia, in Africa or in Afghanistan, are depicted as motivated by solidarity with vulnerable populations, i.e. that we are there primarily "to help others".
Admittedly, it is sometimes mentioned, though hardly as a primary motive, that we are there in order to contribute to international security; and it is very seldom discussed that we might be motivate by our own national interest, i.e. to create a security climate that actually benefits Sweden.
As a result it is not at all strange that many people do not understand the new defence principle, that is a natural consequence of a changed security policy. There are sure to be many people who wonder why we are operating abroad ("that has nothing to do with our own security, especially with the rumblings to be heard from Russia at the moment").
Correcting the picture
What can be done to correct this erroneous picture? One desire is, naturally, for the political level to be clearer in its presentation of the new security and defence policy.
But what can we do ourselves in the Armed Forces?
We must also speak plainly.
We ought not to describe our operations in terms of overseas development and aid, but rather talk more openly of the tougher security dimension, including its military aspects.
We should not present ourselves as another international development agency, our primary task lies in produce soldiers, commander and officers skilled in "armed combat", regardless of changes to the environments in which we operate. However, we must, of course, continue to recruit those who with those good qualities necessary for being able to perform both roles - "soldier" and "peacemaker/humanitarian"; but we must not forget the core of our profession.
Cease dividing up the organisation
We must, as soon as possible, cease dividing national from international operations, even if legal considerations place limits on the extent to which this can be accomplished. All operations are of benefit to the national interest and increase our security regardless of where in they are performed - inside our territory, in our near vicinity, in Europe or across the World.
We have to free ourselves from terms like "overseas force" (as distinct from our national operational structure).
We live today, still, with two parallel organisations - one for international missions and another for national operations. This division is in many ways unfortunate, being expensive and leading to organisational disorder.
To put it simply, the division can be described in terms of the tax-payer spending thousands of millions on a structure for military operations that is never used, it can, instead, be likened to a resource pool. For each mission that takes place external to Swedish territory an "ad hoc" unit of an "overseas force" has to be formed out of the resource pool.
As a consequence much needed knowledge and experience drains away from the permanent national operational organisation, since international units are dissolved when they have returned home. This has also meant that the Armed Forces have had to train greater numbers of national service personnel than would otherwise have been required.
To give a yet further example, we talk a lot these days about our "international veterans". In many of our neighbouring countries they would be described as "national veterans" (or simply as veterans), even if they had happened to have served their country beyond its territorial boundaries.
From the inside and out
The very idea of a military oriented towards operational engagement contains within it the requirement that the same units should be able to be deployed wherever they are needed - domestically, at home, in our near vicinity, in Europe or in other parts of the World. One needs, however, to distinguish between how a military defence force is structured and how it is used.
In building up a military defence structure the main focus should be from the inside out.. This is on order to possess, as early as today, an operational capability relevant to our near vicinity. But also in order to be prepared to meet the outcomes of negative developments in our part of the world, as well as ensuring that we are seen as credible so that we can, in turn, be given support in the event of increased threats or risks.
Meeting our needs, when considered as a whole, requires a modern Armed Forces with a sufficiently large strength of qualified personnel able to engage in combat on land, at sea and in the air, together with a national protection force.
National protection force
However, the Armed Forces should be used from the outside in.. An active response to meet problems and threats as far as possible from our own territory is logical (who would wish to fight in their own country unless it were entirely necessary?)
The reform process will soon have been in progress for ten years and at this juncture the conclusion can be drawn that Sweden has found the transition to an internationally engaged defence force (which is the norm in almost the whole of Europe) unusually difficult.
The main reason for problematic transition is to be found in the difficulties experienced in accepting changes to the strictly defined model of National Service (which came first six years into the reform process with Nordic Battlegroup when contract employment was permitted). It is quite simply impossible to make reality of an internationally engaged defence model with National Service as the main method of personnel provision.
It was therefore a moment of historic importance when the Defence Commission in its report of last summer concluded - with all seven political parties in agreement on the issue - that "in future no conscripts will be included in the operational structure".
Personnel for the Armed Forces operational structure are to be recruited on a voluntary basis, and can either serve as in reserve or active units.. How conscription and National Service enlistment are to be adapted to fit in with the new voluntary system will be an issue for the official government inquiry on conscription to address in proposals due to be published in the beginning of 2009.
How can the right balance be achieved?
What is the correct balance between active and reserve soldiers? The Defence Commission describes a scenario in which a greater number of soldiers fall into the latter category.
It is, however, a matter of concern that certain heavyweight politicians have expressed the view that no active (professional) soldiers should be employed. One of the reasons given for this position is that one ought to avoid employing soldiers "just to stamp around on the parade ground". A remarkable statement that could almost certainly only originate from this country.
The outstanding good fortune of not being at war for 200 years can result in losing perspective on what soldiery is all about.
The role of the soldier today does not involve stamping around on the parade ground, instead it requires service in difficult, tough and often technically challenging environments.
Soldiering is much more complex now that for only a few years ago; the soldier is required to be both "warrior" and "peacemaker". It is a profession in which decisions that could mean life or death for others or for oneself must be made in a second.
This consideration also gives a further reason - in addition to the view that the same units should be available for deployment in all geographical areas - for concluding that the system of National Service is no longer adequate: periods of training and rehearsal are far too short.
Permission to be professional
Quite simply, one has to be allowed to be good at what one is doing, to be a professional at it, which requires years of education, training and yet more training. In no other sector of society would one accept that "amateurs" be allowed to perform the work of qualified personnel (especially one that concerns issues of "life and death").
It is, therefore, important now that the proportion of active soldiers is not allowed to fall to low, at the same time as the opposite would be appropriate for reasons of cost.
A proportion of professionals is required - who should be able to be employed for five to eight years, not only for reasons to do with rapid reaction capability and competence development, but also for reasons to do with operational security in peacetime.
A certain degree of uncertainty is also likely to surround the shape of the reservist system: for example, in what light will a civilian employer look upon an employee who is also a soldier that may be called up at a short notice?
How will the same employer look upon the fact that the soldier will be engaged in long and recurring periods of training, preparation and operational service? How robust will the system prove to be in terms of recruitment? Will all really turn up for duty when required?
The conclusion to be drawn is that it will take a number of years to find the right balance, but that to rule out, at this early stage, the very possibility of the existence of "professional soldiers" (a highly charged term in our country, but one that is self-evident - and perhaps even a badge of honour - in the greater part of Europe)would leaves us ill prepared for building an organisation capable of engaging in armed combat in the operational environments of the present era.
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SYVR sets out to change method of marine survey management
By admin On November 22, 2017 November 21, 2017 In Insurance Marine News, Keep, Marine Hull, Marine Liability
New Denmark-based company SYVR has said that, by building the world's largest surveying expert network through gig economy principles, it was setting out to change how marine surveys were managed.
SYVR is an open digital platform, available to all professional marine surveyors for membership application. The intention is that the network will break down the traditional company barriers in recognition of the fact that clients are searching for competent surveyors individually rather than the company they are employed by.
Henrik Uth, Managing Director of SYVR, said that "it makes the business model ripe for digitalization, adapting and introducing the Gig economy principles into marine surveying".
He said that marine surveys, whether they were Hull & Machinery, Cargo or P&I surveys, were most often instructed based on proximity, availability and capability of the marine surveyor, adding that the SYVR platform and its marketplace would change the dynamics of managing surveys across the industry, "benefiting all the parts of the value chain".
The company and its platform is owned by Survey Association, which has been working within marine surveying for more than 100 years. "Survey Association has been doing surveys in an analogue fashion and it is time to reorganize how we operate" said Uth, who a partner in Survey Association.
He said that SYVR was an open platform and therefore would not distinguish between Survey Association and its competitors globally.
SYVR is being developed with the support from the Danish Maritime Fund. "The Fund is pleased to support this innovative initiative, which may hold the potential to modernize working processes within the maritime insurance industry. Such a digital platform will ideally operate on a global basis and thus enabling many parties in the industry to benefit, said Carsten Melchiors, Head of Secretariat at the Danish Maritime Fund.
Search for five still-missing bodies from Sewol will cease
Marine accident round-up : 22nd November 2017


35 years ago, Roy Albin, started making fruit wines, honey wines, homemade sherries and madeiras as a personal hobby. Today he is the proud owner and winemaker of Royal Rabbit Vineyards in Parkton, MD, a true family-owned winery focused on growing and producing wine from grapes best suited to the region.
Linda Albin, Roy's wife of 30 years, is an integral part of the family operation at Royal Rabbit Vineyards. Linda can often be found in the tasting room on weekends pouring for guests, manning the register at festivals, and organizing and promoting fun, often competitive activities (i.e. arm-wrestling, chili cook-offs, sword-battling, caroling contests) during their annual events, the summer Medieval Festival and the end-of-year Holiday Open House. Roy's parents, known affectionately around the winery simply as Mom and Pop, help maintain the plants and assist with bottling, filtering, and blending. They also do the bulk of the harvesting each year.
Roy and Linda met in 1982 through their mutual participation in a medieval recreation organization. This affiliation not only sparked their relationship, but it also piqued Roy's interest in the process of making wine. The primary focus of the organization is to discover and celebrate the arts, crafts, society, and history of the medieval era. Members learn by cooking, fighting, building, brewing, and of course, cultivating wines using the same processes people used in that time period. Roy revealed in this historical perspective, embraced the nuances of early winemaking methods and, in turn, applied his years of practice to his own modern winemaking endeavors.
The years spent passionately experimenting, learning, tweaking and experiencing the joys of making and drinking wine naturally led Roy to want to share the fruits of his studies with a wider audience. His desire to delve into commercial winemaking led Roy and Linda to their Parkton, MD property in 2007. After a period of settling into the soils of the land and the space of their building, the Royal Rabbit tasting room was officially opened to the public in November of 2011.
Join Roy, Linda, Mom and Pop and treat yourself royally to a leisurely, sit-down tasting of award-winning dry and semi-sweet wines grown and bottled on site.


The Patriots had been relatively quiet since the start of free agency Wednesday, but that changed Friday as the team made three moves.
Former Atlanta Falcons defensive end Adrian Clayborn agreed to a two-year deal worth a maximum value of $12.5 million, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter. Ex-Cincinnati Bengals running back Jeremy Hill also came to an agreement with the team, a source told ESPN's Field Yates. And former Seattle Seahawks offensive tackle Matt Tobin reached a one-year deal with the Patriots, a source told ESPN's Mike Reiss.
New England had kept running back Rex Burkhead, special-teamers Nate Ebner and Brandon King, and traded for cornerback Jason McCourty earlier this week, but the Patriots had lost mainstays Nate Solder, Dion Lewis, Malcolm Butler and Danny Amendola via free agency.
Clayborn, who turns 30 in July, led the Falcons with a career-high 9.5 sacks in 2017. His total included a franchise-record six sacks in a win over the Dallas Cowboys.
Known for his relentless effort, Clayborn also had a team-high 17 quarterback hits this past season. He played 526 defensive snaps.
Clayborn could help the Patriots' pass rush, which noticeably needed a boost in Super Bowl LII. Trey Flowers, who led the team in 2017 with 6.5 sacks, is the Patriots' top player at defensive end, and he returns in 2018, the final year of his contract.
The Patriots relied on Flowers heavily last season, as they struggled to build depth at the position behind him. Clayborn, who is the Patriots' first signing of a player from another team since free agency began Wednesday, could help ease some of that burden in 2018.
The Patriots also have second-year player Deatrich Wise Jr. at the position, and he showed promise after joining the team as a 2017 fourth-round pick out of Arkansas, playing in every game and totaling five sacks.
Before free agency, Clayborn told ESPN, "I got some years left in me."
He indicated an agreement with the Patriots on Instagram on Friday afternoon, posting the team's logo with the caption: "Dope."
Clayborn began his career as a first-round draft pick of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as a rookie in 2011 and he posted 7.5 sacks -- his previous benchmark. However, he battled injury issues during his four seasons with the Bucs, playing in just one game during the 2014 season and playing just three games during the 2012 campaign.
The injury bug again hit Clayborn with the Falcons in 2016, when he was placed on injured reserve with a ruptured biceps, which prevented him from finishing the season and playing in Super Bowl LI. He revealed he contemplated retirement following that injury but had a discussion with his wife and decided to continue playing.
Hill adds to a backfield that lost Lewis to the Tennessee Titans.
He was drafted by the Bengals, but the writing was on the wall for the 25-year-old as it became known that Cincinnati coveted a running back in the 2017 NFL draft and eventually took Joe Mixon in the second round.
He had a successful rookie season in 2014, rushing 222 times for 1,124 yards and 9 touchdowns. But he has never been the same since fumbling late in the 2015 AFC wild-card game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, ultimately contributing to an eventual loss. Since that game, Hill has combined for 955 yards and nine touchdowns in the past two seasons and lost playing time to Mixon last year.
With Burkhead and James White locks to make the Patriots' roster at running back, Hill projects to compete with Mike Gillislee and veteran special-teamer Brandon Bolden for a roster spot. One area in which he could make his mark is as a power rusher; the 230-pound Hill is the biggest running back on the Patriots' roster.
As for the 6-foot-6, 303-pound Tobin, his addition highlights how the Patriots must make contingency plans at left tackle after Solder signed a four-year, $62 million deal with the Giants as one of the NFL's top free agents. After entering the NFL as an undrafted free agent out of Iowa in 2013, Tobin has been with the Eagles (2013-16) and Seahawks (2017), appearing in 57 games, with 21 starts.
Tobin joins 2017 undrafted free-agent Cole Croston and 2017 third-round draft choice Antonio Garcia on the Patriots' depth chart at left tackle. It's possible the team could also re-sign two of its backup offensive tackles from last season -- LaAdrian Waddle and Cameron Fleming.
ESPN's Katherine Terrell, Mike Reiss and Vaughn McClure contributed to this report.


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Mike Kirby introduced as New Mexico State baseball coach
Kirby's contract is a four-year contract that will pay him $125,000 next season and increase by $10,000 per year.
Mike Kirby introduced as New Mexico State baseball coach Kirby's contract is a four-year contract that will pay him $125,000 next season and increase by $10,000 per year. Check out this story on scsun-news.com: https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/sports/2019/06/27/mike-kirby-introduced-new-mexico-state-baseball-coach/1589366001/
Jason Groves, Las Cruces Sun-News Published 4:03 p.m. MT June 27, 2019 | Updated 5:42 p.m. MT June 27, 2019
Mike Kirby is presented as the New Mexico State University baseball head...
Mario Moccia and Mike Kirby pose for photos at a press conference held in Fulton Center at New Mexico State University introducing Kirby as the new head baseball coach for NMSU on Thursday, June 27, 2019. Nathan J Fish/Sun-News
Mario Moccia and Mike Kirby enter the press conference held in Fulton Center at New Mexico State University introducing Kirby as the new head baseball coach for NMSU on Thursday, June 27, 2019. Nathan J Fish/Sun-News
Mario Moccia speaks at a press conference held in Fulton Center at New Mexico State University introducing Mike Kirby as the new head baseball coach for NMSU on Thursday, June 27, 2019. Nathan J Fish/Sun-News
Mike Kirby speaks at a press conference held in Fulton Center at New Mexico State University introducing Kirby as the new head baseball coach for NMSU on Thursday, June 27, 2019. Nathan J Fish/Sun-News
Mike Kirby pose for photos at a press conference held in Fulton Center at New Mexico State University introducing Kirby as the new head baseball coach for NMSU on Thursday, June 27, 2019. Nathan J Fish/Sun-News
Mike Kirby and his family pose for photos at a press conference held in Fulton Center at New Mexico State University introducing Kirby as the new head baseball coach for NMSU on Thursday, June 27, 2019. Nathan J Fish/Sun-News
LAS CRUCES - Mike Kirby was introduced as the 11th baseball coach at New Mexico State on Thursday on campus.
Kirby's contract also includes the following performance incentives:
- $3,000 for winning the WAC regular season
- $6,0000 for winning the WAC Tournament or receiving a NCAA at-large bid
- $8,000 for advancing to a Super Regional
Mario Moccia and Mike Kirby pose for photos at a press conference held in Fulton Center at New Mexico State University introducing Kirby as the new head baseball coach for NMSU on Thursday, June 27, 2019. (Photo: Nathan J Fish/Sun-News)
- $15,000 for advancing to College World Series
- $25,000 for winning a national championship
Mike Kirby speaks at a press conference held in Fulton Center at New Mexico State University introducing Kirby as the new head baseball coach for NMSU on Thursday, June 27, 2019. (Photo: Nathan J Fish/Sun-News)
- $750 per win over UNM
- $500 per Power 5 win
- $1,000 for WAC Coach of the Year
- $5,000 for National Coach of the Year
Kirby's assistant coaching salary pool will be $95,000, up from $85,000 last year.
The buyout for Kirby's contract is half of the remaining salary.
Kirby replaced Brian Green, who coached the Aggies for five seasons before he was hired at Washington State.
Mike Kirby takes over New Mexico State baseball program Jason Groves, Las Cruces Sun-News
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GPS Spoofing Nails Cell Phones in Portland
by Editor | Oct 10, 2017 | Blog
Blog Editor's Note: The cellular network's vulnerability to GPS disruption has been well documented and was recently the subject of a report by ATIS. This is the first report we have seen about the impacts to the smart phones themselves.
An Accidental GNSS Spoofing Event at ION GNSS+ 2017 Leads to Problems with Cell Phones
Logan Scott
Editor's Note: Logan Scott, a GPS signal expert and a consultant specializing in radio frequency signal processing and waveform design for communications, navigation, and other systems, wrote this report following an incident at the ION GNSS+ 2017 conference in which spoofing by a GNSS signal generator affected numerous smartphones.
Date of Occurrence: September 28, 2017
Location: Portland Convention Center, Exhibition Hall, ION GNSS+2017 Conference
Narrative Description: Starting around 10 am, numerous smartphones began exhibiting abnormal behavior. Some phones showed no effect while others were profoundly impacted to the point where texting, email, etc., would not work. All phones did retain the ability to operate in voice modes. That afternoon, finally recognizing that a spoofing event was in progress, I borrowed a Chronos model CTL3520 directional jamming detector from the NavtechGPS booth (Booth 318), and used it to find and identify the spoofing source within a couple of minutes; it was a GNSS simulator. The simulator had six coaxial output ports, one of which was attached to a "device under test". The remaining five ports were not properly terminated but had plastic caps over them allowing energy leakage sufficient for phones to lock onto the false signal set for a two booth block radius. The signal generator was set to produce signals for January 12, 2014, with a location set to a location in Europe.
In subsequent interviews I learned that both Android and Apple iPhones were affected but a select phone type (S2) was much more adversely affected since they were alone in buying into the 2014 date. Affected users had carriers that included all the majors: Verizon, AT+T, and T-Mobile, and, cellular coverage was available in the exhibition hall. WiFi coverage was also available with good strength.
Affected phones of several types bought into the incorrect position but I did not receive any reports of them yielding to incorrect time. Nonetheless, recovery was slow. In the screenshot above, my phone was still showing incorrect position in Europe 1.5 hours after exposure. This was discovered after a train ride to downtown Portland when I needed walking directions. Exposure to real signals corrected the problem after about 4 minutes. The long acquisition time was possibly due to faulty almanac and position obtained from the leaky GNSS signal generator. Similar position (but not time) problems were described by several other model phone users.
Affected phones (S2) from one manufacturer experienced much greater impact. Their phones bought into the incorrect time of January 12, 2014 as well. This led to numerous security failures possibly related to invalidated security certificates. Attempts to access email led to "server error" and "invalid attachment" errors. Text message errors and ancient text messages began to appear. Power cycling and hard resets performed in the exhibition hall did not cure the problem. One individual contacted his carrier (T-Mobile) and they sent a time update command to his phone which apparently rejected the command. He went to a service center where after two hours of struggle, they wiped his phone and reinstalled firmware to get to a "factory fresh" state. Another individual was able to manually update time on his S2 phone but only with a bit of ingenuity. Specifically, there was no year entry on the "set date" screen so he rolled time, day by day, all the way through 2014, 2015, 2016 and most of 2017 and then entered the correct time. His phone then recovered. Yet another affected S2 user having an older version of the operating system lost access to his Gmail account and was unable to recover while in the exhibit hall but was able to recover by going outside to clear sky and rebooting the phone.
That said, there are vulnerabilities in basestation authentication that need consideration in developing comprehensive trust models. In this particular case, too much trust was afforded GNSS signals and not enough to the cellular basestation time but this is by no means a universal truth. If instead, this had been an IMSI-catcher scenario, type S2 phones might have been better situated to detect the presence an IMSI-catcher and prevent a trackable response or a man in the middle attack. Trust models are not just a question of black and white.
Copyright © 2017 Gibbons Media & Research LLC, all rights reserved.


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The Union Association was a league in Major League Baseball which lasted for just the 1884 season. St. Louis won the pennant and joined the National League the following season.

Seven of the twelve teams who were in the Association at some point during the season did not play a full schedule: four teams folded during the season and were replaced, while  Chicago moved to Pittsburgh in late August.

History
The league was founded in September 1883 by the young St. Louis millionaire Henry Lucas, who was eventually named the league's president, with owner Tom Pratt of the Philadelphia franchise serving as vice-president and Warren W. White of the Washington franchise as secretary.

After being appointed president, Lucas bought the best available players for his St. Louis franchise at the expense of the rest of the league, which represented an obvious conflict-of-interest situation. Subsequently, the Maroons finished with a record of 94-19 (.832 winning percentage) and won the pennant by 21 games.

The league not only suffered from lopsided talent distribution, but also instability (four franchises folded during the season, forcing the league to scramble to replace them with three teams from lower leagues and one new team, while Chicago moved to Pittsburgh mid-season) and a poorly drafted schedule, which saw the league derisively dubbed "The Onion League" by its detractors in the two established leagues.  The list of franchise movements is as follows:

 April 17: Season opens with the following franchises:  Altoona Mountain Citys, Baltimore Monumentals, Boston Reds, Chicago Browns, Cincinnati Outlaw Reds, Philadelphia Keystones, St. Louis Maroons, and Washington Nationals
 May 31: Altoona Mountain Citys folded.
 June 7: Kansas City Cowboys were formed to take over Altoona's games starting on this date.
 August 7: Philadelphia Keystones folded.
 August 18: Wilmington Quicksteps recruited from Eastern League to take over Philadelphia's games, starting on this date.
 August 21: Chicago Browns played their last game before the franchise moved to Pittsburgh.
 September 15: Wilmington Quicksteps fold, having played their final game on September 12: at this point of the season, the St. Louis Maroons have already clinched the pennant, even though there are still five weeks of games left to play.
 September 18: Pittsburgh Stogies (formerly the Chicago Browns) folded.
 September 27: St. Paul Saints and Milwaukee Brewers were recruited from the Northwest League to finish the Chicago/Pittsburgh and the Philadelphia/Wilmington schedules respectively.
 October 19: Season concludes.

On January 15, 1885, at a scheduled UA meeting in Milwaukee, only the Milwaukee and Kansas City franchises showed up, and the league was promptly disbanded.

The St. Louis franchise itself was deemed to be strong enough to enter the National League in 1885, but it faced heavy competition within the city, as the St. Louis Browns were a power in the American Association.

The lone survivor of the Union moved to Indianapolis and became the Hoosiers after 1886, having compiled records of 36-72 and 43-79 in St. Louis, and they played another three seasons before folding, with records of 37-89, 50-85 and 59-75 for a .360 win percentage in the NL, and an all-time franchise winning percentage of .432. These figures perhaps reveal the gulf in class between the UA and the established major leagues.

Perhaps the most obvious impact of the short-lived league was on the career of a player who did not jump to the new league: Charles Radbourn. With a schedule of a little over 100 games, most teams employed two regular pitchers, and the Providence Grays in the National League featured Radbourn and Charlie Sweeney. According to the 1991 book Glory Fades Away by Jerry Lansche, Sweeney fell out of grace with the Providence team in late July after he refused to be replaced in a game while drunk, and was expelled. Rather than come crawling back, Sweeney signed with Lucas' team, leaving Radbourn by himself.

Leveraging his situation, Radbourn pledged to stay with the club and be the sole primary pitcher if he would be given a raise and granted free agency at season's end. Radbourn, who already had 24 wins at that point to Sweeney's 17, pitched nearly every game after that, and went on to win an astounding 59 games (a record) during the regular season; he has since been credited with another win for 60 that season. For an encore, he also won all three games of 1884's version of the World Series, pitching every inning of a sweep of the New York Metropolitans of the American Association. His performance in 1884, along with a generally strong career and an overall record of 309-194 (.614), assured Radbourn his place in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Notable players
The best hitter of the 1884 Union Association was Fred Dunlap of the Maroons, while star pitchers for the UA included Jim McCormick, Charlie Sweeney, Dupee Shaw and Hugh Daily.

Notable players that made their debut in the Union Association included Tommy McCarthy, who was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1946, and Jack Clements, the only man in baseball history to play a full career as a left-handed catcher. Switch-pitcher Tony Mullane attempted to sign with the Maroons, but the Browns had a reserve clause on Mullane, and he relented after he was threatened with banishment from the NL if he signed.

Highlights
The Union Association saw two no-hitters in its brief existence: one by Dick Burns of the Outlaw Reds on August 26 and one by Ed Cushman of the Brewers on September 28.  On July 7, Hugh Daily struck out 19 Boston Reds in a nine-inning game, an "MLB" record that would stand for 102 years, until Roger Clemens struck out 20 batters in a game in 1986.  Henry Porter and Dupee Shaw got 18-strikeout games.  The Chicago Browns executed a triple play on June 19.

Standings

Status as a major league
Although the league is conventionally listed as a major league, this status has been questioned by a number of modern baseball historians, most notably Bill James in The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, who found that the contemporary baseball guides did not consider the Union Association to be a major league: the earliest record James found of the Union Association being referred to as a major league was Ernest Lanigan's The Baseball Cyclopedia, published in 1922.

While the league had a number of major league players (on the St. Louis franchise, at least), the league's overall talent and organization was notably inferior to that of the two established major leagues. Of the 272 players in the Association, 107 (39.34%) never played in another major league, while 72 (26.47%) played very briefly (less than 300 at bats and/or 50 hits) in other major leagues, and 79 (29.04%) had longer careers but little success in other major leagues.

The league's only star player, Fred Dunlap, led the league in batting average with .412 (86 points higher than his second-best season, and 120 points higher than his career average), on-base percentage, slugging percentage, runs scored, hits, total bases, and home runs (with 13, typical for the era). After the Association folded, Dunlap never hit higher than .274 or more than seven home runs until he retired in 1891, another measure of the inferior quality of the Union Association. In point of fact, if the 1884 UA season is excluded from his career totals, Dunlap's career batting average was .276 (a drop of sixteen points), and he hit 28 career home runs (losing one-third of his career total).

Further reading
David Pietrusza Major Leagues: The Formation, Sometimes Absorption and Mostly Inevitable Demise of 18 Professional Baseball Organizations, 1871 to Present Jefferson (NC): McFarland & Company, 1991.

References

External links
Union Association at baseball-reference.com.
Union Association - Baseballbiography.com
1884 in baseball at baseballlibrary.com

1884 establishments in the United States
1884 disestablishments in the United States
Defunct major baseball leagues in the United States
Sports leagues established in 1884

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Beyond Classical Marxism: Socialism
Dave Jette, author: dave@jettes.org
Why Choose Socialism?
This is Section c of Chapter 5 of Beyond Classical Marxism.
Let us envision a conversation with a fully cognizant liberal or social democrat, with values compatible with ours but unwilling to supersede (U.S.) capitalism. She/he argues:
"Sure, you're absolutely right about the terrible harm which capitalism does to so many people, both at home and abroad. Our goals are the same. But look at what results have been obtained when people try to overthrow capitalism. In Russia in 1917, communist revolutionaries overthrew nascent capitalism in that overwhelmingly peasant country, and in time established a brutal dictatorship over everyone including the working class which it was supposed to represent and enable politically. Its organizational success was repeated elsewhere (Eastern Europe, China, Vietnam) as outright one-party dictatorships, although Cuba at least has a government which well serves the needs of its people. Anti-capitalist revolutions naturally tend toward personal control by 'enlightened' leaders, as seen not only in monsters like Stalin and Pol Pot but also in the 'vanguard parties' which arose in the U.S. in the ferment of the 1970's, such as the Revolutionary Communist Party and the Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist). And these unassailable leaders often make major political mistakes.
"If you can claim, or hope, that all will better in a truly socialist society, I can just as well claim that it will be possible in time to overcome these deleterious effects of capitalism, although I realize that we are now in danger of the establishment of a highly authoritarian, even fascist, government through Trumpism. People are mainly irrational, and collectively they can – and do – establish highly brutal societies in contradiction to what we both want. Decent, reasonable people like Paul Wolfowitz and Joe Lieberman indeed can do great harm when in a position of power – Lieberman even did voter registration in the South during Freedom Summer – and it is imperative to avoid the concentration of power which a socialist revolution naturally provides. As Winston Churchill once remarked, (bourgeois) democracy is the least oppressive of the possible organization of society."
I might respond by relating the manifold ways in which capitalism oppresses people, but she/he is already generally aware of them, so it would do no good. And in fact this argument in favor of maintaining capitalism is cogent, something which I might well have accepted as a budding academic had it not been for the unconscionable Vietnam War. But I can't accept it, not because the argument is faulty (which it isn't) but because I cannot tolerate the oppression which capitalism visits upon people – that is just the way I am, and this is an expression of the usual primacy of emotions over rational thought, as depicted in the figure for dialectical materialism. (And I'm not suggesting that I am in some sense morally superior to my interlocutor.) The fact is that, starting with its atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II in 1945, the United States has functioned as the world's main bulwark of oppression; there is no way that I can abide this. So it seems that, so far as rational thought goes, we are at a standoff concerning the need for socialism.
But in fact, there is a rationally compelling reason for seeking the overthrow of capitalism: the impending environmental catastrophe caused by anthropomorphic climate change. Capitalism by its very nature must produce more and more goods, unrestrainedly, and through its political domination of society it can and will ensure that there are no major barriers to its economic activity. Under capitalism there is no hope for our future, and the only alternative is to supersede it with socialism.


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One of the common concerns I hear when discussing Twitter is how to keep up. As if we all didn't already have full-time jobs, now we're supposed to be constantly updating the universe about what we're doing. Constant Twittering can disrupt a day and lead to lost productivity.
But there is a way to make use of Twitter while maintaining your sanity. Please keep in mind that this technique will not increase your direct engagement with your audience: There's not a lot of back and forth conversation. So you'll still need to log in now and then and interact with people if you want to get the full power of Twitter.


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Q: Cannot change Scrapy settings I want to download pages in Chinese, So i opened the command line and the python, and typed these code
from scrapy.conf import settings
settings.overrides['DEFAULT_REQUEST_HEADERS'] = {'Accept':'text/heml,application/xhtml+xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8','Accept-Language':'ch',}

but it didn't work. The 'Accept-Language' remained 'en'.
So i tried other settings, same thing happened. I just can't change the settings.
Someone plz help me out, it drives me crazy! i spent 3 hours on it but got nothing.
Thanks a lot!

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supposed to say text/heml or html?

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Police have yet to offer public comment on the police shooting of Justine Damond, the Australian woman killed in the alley behind her home last Saturday night.
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension has launched an investigation, but not yet interviewed the two officers at the scene, the only known witnesses. The officers had been responding to Justine's 911 call reporting what sounded like a sexual assault.
No gun was found on Justine; a woman in her pajamas otherwise doesn't seem very threatening.
Local media identified Mohammed Noor, a Somali-American, as the police officer who fired the bullet that killed Damond. Noor has been on the force since March 2015 and has two previous complaints pending.
Cameras do not work when turned off; public anger and angst are not ameliorated when we cannot see the body cam footage.
That's why, back in April, we worked to pass a ballot initiative in Ferguson, Missouri: (a) mandating that police must actually turn on the body cameras they were "using" (after similar incidents, wherein Ferguson police claimed their cameras hadn't been activated) and (b) setting rules for public access to the video.
The people of Minneapolis, likewise, deserve a more professional police force. Making that happen means taking the initiative: citizens reforming criminal justice policies at the ballot box.
* Justine had already taken her fiancé's last name, even though they were set to marry next month. Her legal name remains Justine Ruszczyk.
This shooting raises several questions.
The answers can and should be sought now, not wait for an incident report.
First, why was this man hired in the first place?
What is the departmental hiring process?
Is it task based or was this man advanced based on other considerations?
The next question is "what sort of training and/or discipline did he learn in their police "academy"?
Then the next question is: Does the department have on-going "shoot/no shoot" training that replicates actual incidents, including racial features, that their department faces regularly?
Under the civil law of res ipsa, the fact that the officer fired without cause is enough to force an inquiry into all of the above.
It's not the "professional part" that worries me…it's the terrorist infiltrated part.
I thought there was already a requirement that the body cams be turned on, but the police didn't follow this procedure. All the laws in the world won't matter if they are not adhered to.
I understand that Mr. Noor has refused to speak to investigators. Would you or I get that same privilege? The latest story is that they were speaking to this woman and a firecracker went off. The officer panicked and shot her. At the very least, this man seems unfit to be a policeman. He endangered his partner and he put others at risk. Don't police have a period of probation before being permanently on the force? Is the public being endangered in the name of diversity?
Or maybe the body cameras WERE turned on but what they showed was so incriminating against the officers that the police chief just said that they had not been turned on.
Body cams and dash cams should be activated at shift's beginning, with no way for them to be turned off in the field.
Footage should be livestreamed to publicly accessible servers.
Public servants have no expectation of privacy while on duty.


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After you have clarified these questions you now have the concentrate on what must be improved. Cope with the problems first.
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Do I need to insure my car for business use?
Business car insurance explained: do I need business car insurance?
When you insure your car, you must tell your insurer what you'll be using it for. For example, will it be for basic social and every day driving, or do you need business car insurance?
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Die Doppelwährungsanleihe (, ) ist eine zwei Währungen denominierte Anleihe.

Allgemeines
Bei ihr können die Auszahlung des Nennwerts, die Tilgung und die Zinszahlung in unterschiedlichen Währungen erfolgen, somit kann der Emissionsbetrag der Anleihe in einer anderen Währung als die Tilgung angegeben sein. Häufig wird dem Emittenten oder dem Gläubiger ein Wahlrecht eingeräumt. Um das daraus resultierende Wechselkursrisiko zu reduzieren, ist es möglich, die Anleihe mit einer Verkaufsoption für den Gläubiger und/oder mit einer Kaufoption für den Schuldner auszustatten.

Doppelwährungsanleihen gehören nicht zu den Standardanleihen.

Arten der Doppelwährungsanleihen
Es werden folgende Varianten unterschieden:
 Foreign Currency Bond (Zinszahlungen erfolgen nicht in der Emissionswährung);
 Currency-Change Bond (die Zinszahlungen erfolgen in unterschiedlichen Währungen, wobei diese zum Emissionszeitpunkt festgelegt werden);
 Heaven and Hell Bond (Anleihe deren Rückzahlungshöhe an einen Index gebunden ist);
 Purgatory and Hell Bond (Capped Heaven and Hell Bond) (Heaven and Hell Bond mit einer Ober- / Kappungsgrenze der Rückzahlungshöhe);
 Reverse Forex linked Bond (Heaven and Hell Obligation deren Rückzahlungswert umgekehrt an den Wechselkurs gekoppelt ist);
 Marginal Reverse Forex linked Bond (die Rückzahlung erfolgt zum Nennwert sofern die gekoppelte Währung nicht über einen im Voraus festgelegten Wert steigt);
 Index Currency Option Notes (ICON) (´der Kupon ist in einer Währung fixiert, die Auszahlung erfolgt mindestens zum Nennwert, kann aber in Abhängigkeit vom Wechselkurs bei Rückzahlung steigen).

Beispiel einer Doppelwährungsanleihe
Dual Currency Bond
 Emission in Euro,
 Zins wie die Emission in Euro,
 Tilgung anders als die Emission in Yen.

Einzelnachweise

Anleihe
Finanzierung