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MILITARIZATION IN COLD WAR TAIPEI
May 1, 2012 by Lisa Reynolds Wolfe
During the 1950s, American economic assistance to the KMT regime equaled about 6% of Taiwan's GNP and nearly 40% of its gross investment.
Military aid was even more substantial.
By 1957, 10,000 Americans were present in Taiwan in "an official capacity," most of them in the capital city, Taipei.
America, the world's most powerful nation, located the fate of KMT Taiwan squarely within the larger context of the global anti-communist crusade. Taiwan became "Free China" . . . . American military might shielded the island from Communist invasion. American financial and commodity assistance insulated the island's economy from external forces.
In some ways the Americans treated Taiwan as they treated the Japanese.
As in Japan, the Americans sent in a battery of civil and military advisers to assist in the necessary rebuilding of the decimated structure along new lines. As in Japan, the locals governed, but the Americans constituted enough of a shadow government to influence a wide range of political and economic decisions made by the Chinese.
American influence was most pronounced after 1954 when the US undertook to assist Taiwan militarily against renewed communist aggression.
The Americans helped stabilize the economy, the society, and the Nationalist government.
In 1954, a communist threat to the islands of Quemoy and Matsu was successfully countered, demonstrating Taiwan's defensive strength. The assault contributed to the signing of a Treaty of Mutual Defense between the US and Taiwan.
US influence actually ensured the survival of the regime throughout the 1950s because of the confidence that such support gave local and foreign investors.
US aid helped finance land reform, including the cost of US advisers, and was an important channel for technology transfer.
Technical assistance to make better military uniforms helped the textile industry, and technical assistance on radar and avionics helped the electronics industry.
More importantly, though, American subsidies allowed Taiwan to maintain a large military (absorbing roughly 10% of GNP) while simultaneously embarking on a path of economic development.
The US also assisted Taiwan in its efforts to get in on the ground floor of the corporate movement toward global manufacturing whereby American firms cut costs by relocating production to cheaper labor sites.
Still, US support and influence could not solve all of Taipei's problems.
Taipei remained in a state of wartime readiness.
The city was governed by a militarized regime whose policies ensured that society was militarized also.
Martial law mandated that all constitutional guarantees of liberty were abrogated. Mass meetings, strikes, and demonstrations were prohibited. In fact, any gathering of more than two people was illegal unless first registered with the police.
Native Taiwanese were excluded from the top levels of the military, the police, and the party.
Taiwan, as a whole, was obsessed with the goal of retaking the mainland.
Defense accounted for around 70% of total central government expenditure throughout the 1950s.
The military was quite privileged with the generals creating their own relatively closed production systems based on public enterprises and special status 'private' firms.
The fact that the regime had lost a war to communism assured it of US support.
Nevertheless, following the 1958 Taiwan Straits crisis, it became clear that United States support of Taiwan was strictly limited to defense of the island.
The regime was forced to acknowledge that the possibility of retaking mainland China by military means was increasingly remote.
Under subtle pressure by the US (and in return for continued US assistance), the leadership undertook economic reforms between 1958 and 1961 which reoriented the economy toward export markets. These actions solidified the state sector and encouraged private entrepreneurship. In return, the US provided the world's largest market for Taiwan's exports with preferred terms and conditions of access.
The quasi-Leninist state and the United States, united in the fight against communism, had reached an accommodation that would allow Taipei to benefit from an "economic miracle" that would transform the capital of "Free China" into a capitalist Cold War City.


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11/11/2015 c1 4MaddieLovesFOB
You're right, Tyler never gets enough love in this fandom, and it's sad, considering that he's one of my favorite characters.
Anyway, I absolutely love this one-shot! I recall reading it before, but I can never remember when. This does seem like the thing that would happen to Tyler once he gets any success in the sports industry. The fact that Tyndsay happened makes it even better :D
1/26/2015 c1 WIWAP
Clap.
8/3/2014 c1 The-Older-Account-2012
This is the BEST story ever, aww! Aw. Aw.
Wheelchair Basketball, I played that once, I failed...
7/22/2014 c1 4Gideoncrawle
"Thirteen leaf clover". Nice metaphor.
Technical note: Tyler would have to score after time expired, not "just before", for his touchdown to be the game's final play. That's because (a) the clock stops when a TD is scored, and (b) a play in progress when time expires is allowed to run its course. Also, the play as described probably wouldn't take 10 seconds, let alone 30.
"Escorted off the premises" doesn't sound right. That makes it sound like Tyler was thrown out. Something like "paramedics came and took him away" would work better. That's as may be, I'm having trouble visualizing how the accident happened. A little more detail would help here.
I can think of sports that Tyler could still play with his disability. I could especially see him becoming a wheelchair racer. Whether there are any sports he could play professionally is a separate question. Given his high profile, he could probably make good money from corporate sponsorships as a Special Olympian, for example.
Although Tyler would obviously have gotten along with some people better than others, I don't recall him really having enemies on the show. Alejandro thought highly enough of him to choose him as a helper in the TDWT finale. (Then Lindsay accidentally knocked Tyler out, so she got drafted in his stead.) Courtney was willing to flirt with him for her own purposes, and Tyler didn't seem to have a problem with that beyond worrying what Lindsay would think, which suggests that the TDDDDI incident was either forgotten or a bygone let go; and Heather and Duncan never had much on-camera interaction with him. But enemies or no, it makes sense that the TD alumni would rally around him. He was, after all, one of their own; and tragedy can bring families closer together if it doesn't tear them apart. Speaking of which, Lindsay staying with Tyler, with no sign that she's only doing it for their child's sake or out of pity, shows that she has substance after all.
Tyler becoming a football coach brings to mind the adage, "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach." This is especially true in sports, where the spirit may still be willing but the flesh has become too weak. Coaching is a way for washed up jocks to stay close to the sports they love.
Tyler's contentment with his lot brings to mind the words of a paraplegic man of my acquaintance. He said, "I can do 90 percent of what I could do before, and I've discovered that I really don't miss the other 10 percent." All in all, Tyler has clearly made lemonade from the lemons that Fate gave him. Nicely done, on the whole.
7/1/2014 c1 10LittleMissyGalPal
Oh wow. This was perfect. I loved everything about it and there's obviously nothing negative to add, whatsoever.
I'm glad that you made Lindsay stay with Tyler after everything that happened. Tyler was in character and I'm glad that you gave him a happy ending.
Also, Tyler seems like a cool Dad... YOLO.
7/1/2014 c1 Bombyyyx
asdfgh, THE FEEEELS
A-frickin'-mazing. Seriously, this is one of the best Tyler fics I've ever read.
7/1/2014 c1 16Knifez
Aw, the feels!
This was incredible! I was so sad when Tyler broke his spine D:.
Dat YOLO doe, XD.
Good stuff, you really are a talented writer!
6/2/2014 c1 9NoahFan4Ever
Well, wasn't this bittersweet. :) It's kinda sad that Tyler won't be able to walk again.
5/30/2014 c1 4puppydog4
this was a sweet story.
5/30/2014 c1 4Juliejustdance
Really good and a nice message. I totally agree that Tyler doesn't get enough credit. After all, he wasn't mean or anything.
5/30/2014 c1 75Ways
This was really nice. I loved it. It was really good to see Tyler in a good light rather than comedic relief. The YOLO part was also a nice way to ease the tension, I loved it.
5/30/2014 c1 21Pepe's Red-Eyed Cousin
You are right. Tyler needs more love. Glad you gave some to him.
I feel bad for Tyler that he would no longer be able to play football, but at least he can continue to teach football, and in this fic he is doing an amazing job at it. He's also a good father and husband, and Lindsay is a good mother, wife and nurse. I like how you treated this couple.
5/30/2014 c1 14KayDeeDee
This... is... AMAZING! I should pay attention to Tyler more now :)
5/30/2014 c1 17SecretAgent12
Aw that's so sweet. Tyler really doesn't get enough love in the fanfiction department. Great job!


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By Tiki God October 30, 2020
Directed by Lewis Milestone. With Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford. Danny Ocean gathers a group of his World War II compatriots to pull off the ultimate Las Vegas heist. Together the eleven friends plan to rob five Las Vegas casinos in one night.
I hadn't seen this, the original version of the story, but I assumed that the 2001 version was just a remake, and while the broad strokes are still there, there's a lot to mention here. Spoilers for a 60 year old version:
The entire crew are military vets from World War 2 and previous did commando raids for Uncle Sam, never getting to keep the loot they were stealing from the Nazis. Not only is the team different, but the ending has a massive change, with them not getting any of money at the end due to some hilarious shenanigans with a dead body and cremation.
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La nouvelle lune est la phase lunaire pendant laquelle la Lune, durant sa révolution synodique qui dure environ 29,53 jours, se trouve entre la Terre et le Soleil. Pendant cette phase, elle ne se trouve donc pas dans le ciel nocturne. Pendant la journée, les faits que sa face visible ne soit pas illuminée par le Soleil, et qu'elle soit proche du disque solaire, la rendent difficilement observable à l'œil nu.

La nouvelle lune est parfois considérée comme l'instant d'apparition du premier croissant de lune visible, après la conjonction astronomique. Ceci s'observe juste au-dessus de l'horizon vers l'ouest, pendant la brève période entre le coucher de soleil et le coucher de lune. L'instant précis, et même la date de cette apparition dépend donc de la position géographique de l'observateur.

La nouvelle lune astronomique (parfois appelée en anglais dark moon, c'est-à-dire « lune sombre » ou « lune noire », pour éviter la confusion), se produit, par définition, au moment précis de sa conjonction astronomique en longitude écliptique avec le Soleil, tel qu'il est vu de la Terre. Ce moment est unique, et ne dépend pas de la localisation géographique de l'observateur. Si la Lune est en plus suffisamment proche du plan de l'écliptique, on a une éclipse solaire.

Observations astronomiques
Cette phase est intéressante pour les astronomes, parce qu'elle garantit que la Lune ne sera pas visible pendant la nuit, sa luminosité lors des autres phases nuisant à l'observation du ciel.

Sismicité
Des marées de Terre sont induites par le changement cyclique de gravité résultant des positions respectives de la Lune et du Soleil. Elles augmentent la pression subie par les failles géologiques instables.

Les sismologues admettent généralement que deux fois par jour les marées hautes (plus perceptibles sur les grands océans) peuvent localement déclencher ou exacerber de très petits tremblements de terre dont certains sont localisés sur la faille de San Andreas en Californie et dans la région des Cascades, sur la côte ouest nord-américaine.

Certaines fortes dépressions atmosphériques ont un effet un peu similaire.
Ainsi en 2011 l'ouragan Irene semble avoir le long de la côte Est-américaine suscité plusieurs répliques après un séisme de magnitude 5,8 qui avait secoué la Virginie  plus tôt.
Une étude faite aux États-Unis et à Taïwan a montré que 11 des  qui ont eu lieu entre 2002 et 2007 à Taïwan ont coïncidé avec le passage d'un typhon source d'une dépression suffisante pour débrider certaines failles sous pression, ce qui limiterait le risque de tremblements de terre plus violents, de magnitude 8 ou plus).

Un article de  publié dans Nature Geoscience a confirmé que les tremblements de terre de grande magnitude (ex.: au Chili en 2010 et au Japon en 2011, Tohoku-Oki) sont plus susceptibles de se produire en période de pleine lune et de nouvelle lune, et deux fois par mois lorsque des contraintes de marée sont les plus élevés parce que le Soleil, la Lune et la Terre s'alignent. Pour arriver à cette conclusion, les chercheurs ont étudié plus de  de terre commençant avec une magnitude 5,5, au regard de leur date par rapport à l'annuaire des marées. La conclusion est qu'un tremblement de terre commençant durant une période stressante de marée haute était plus susceptible de se développer jusqu'à une magnitude 8 ou plus. Le facteur marée, n'est pas nécessairement dominant en termes d'explication sismique, mais il peut être le stress supplémentaire qui détermine le moment d'une rupture ou d'un glissement de faille.
Ces informations devraient permettre de légèrement améliorer la prévision sismique, mais la mesure de la probabilité d'un tremblement de terre reste très difficile. L'un des auteurs de l'étude va étudier une liste supplémentaire de tremblements de terre centrés sur les zones où des plaques de croûte océanique plongent sous la croûte continentale, pour voir si le modèle s'applique là aussi.

Dans l'hindouisme
Des rituels existent dans l'hindouisme en liaison directe avec la nouvelle lune; la plupart des fêtes aussi sont liées à cet astre. Ekadashi est un jeûne et une veillée de méditation qui suit le calendrier lunaire par exemple. Le pèlerinage dénommé Khumba Mela tient compte également de la nouvelle lune.

Notes et références

Voir aussi
 Néoménie, premier jour du mois dans les calendriers lunaires
 Roch Hodech dans le calendrier hébraïque
 Pleine lune

Lune
Calendrier musulman
Spiritualité hindouiste

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Unlike previous meetings, the divisive requirement over a super-majority vote for land use and zoning amendments did not stall the council, and a four-fifths vote will remain in place. The requirement was introduced as a clause in the 2008 comprehensive plan.
The only amendments at the meeting included changing a portion of the boundaries of the city's neighborhood redevelopment overlay district. A developer wants to place a mixed-use project at 923 NE 123rd St. and faced some opposition from residents.
Ultimately the council decided to change the boundary to extend it down from Northeast 124th Street to 123rd Street between Northeast 9th and 10th Avenues. The buildings along 123rd Street will have 35-foot setbacks and a height restriction of 55 feet.
The comprehensive plan is primarily required to meet the updated state Department of Economic Opportunity requirements, including complying with Florida laws and adding an optional component to address climate change.
The city's consultant, the Mellgren Planning Group, previously recommended that the city not even consider height and density and approve the plan but included the council's recommendations.
The DEO will consider the plan and send it back to the city with its feedback and recommendations in about two months. The City Council will then have a second vote and final hearing on the plan. Vice Mayor Carol Keys also suggested that the city have a meeting before the second vote to further educate residents on the changes.
City manager agreement: Council members agreed to pay outgoing city manager Aleem Ghany more than 2,000 hours of unused sick and vacation time in two installments.
The city will pay a portion of his sick time within 20 days, about $71,000. The rest of the payments will be made in January 2016. In total the city will pay about $315,000 to Ghany, according to staff. Ghany's annual salary with the city was $209,000.
The city is paying in part due to a clause in Ghany's initial contract from 2014 that grants him unused sick and vacation pay.
The item was part of the meeting's consent agenda and not subject to public comment. Councilman Scott Galvin voted against the consent agenda items.
City leaders selected the current deputy city manager, Arthur Sorey, to take over as interim manager when Aleem Ghany's resignation takes effect next month.
Ghany announced his resignation last month and his deputy city manager, Arthur Sorey, was chosen to take his place on an interim basis at the Sept. 21 council meeting.
The city has not yet indicated what process it will use to hire Ghany's full-time replacement. Ghany had worked with the city for about 19 years and previously served as the public works director before becoming city manager last year.
Sidewalks and water meters: Two items related to sidewalk improvements and advanced water meters were approved at Tuesday's meeting.
The City Council voted for a one-year agreement with Kimley-Horn and Associates to bring an advanced meter infrastructure system to the city's water meters. The group will advise the city on the best practices for implementing the program.
Additionally, council members approved a bid with Coreland Construction for citywide sidewalk improvements. The initial cost is $250,000 and the work will initially focus on cracked sidewalks and sidewalks surrounding schools.
Business website: The City Council approved an item to create a website called NomiBiz.com. Business owners will be allowed to advertise for a year at no cost. City administration will survey all the advertisements before they're posted on the site. The city will also standards for companies to be listed, be removed or be suspended.
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Supporting an environmentally sustainable future
Alison Chivers
There is growing evidence that the next generation of consumers, employees and investors views environmental sustainability as a fundamental priority across its activities, as demonstrated through the worldwide youth strikes on climate change and the everyday pressure being exerted through purchasing decisions. Large companies like Nike, Coca-Cola and Nestlé have made significant commitments to sustainability initiatives in response to consumer demand and there is now an onus on many others to start doing the same.
According to a Morgan Stanley report published in 2017, a younger generation of investors now overwhelmingly believes that investment decisions should be made with a view to making an impact. The Institute for Sustainable Investing report found 86% of millennials to be interested in sustainable investing, with that generation twice as likely as the overall investor population to invest in companies targeting social or environmental goals.
Whether driven by customers, current or potential employees, or investors, business leaders can no longer afford to ignore the question of environmental sustainability in their organisations. Rebecca McKay, a partner in the Trowers & Hamlins pensions team, says:
"There is a groundswell of momentum gathering around the green issue and companies need to be much more aware of their own impact because the discussion is becoming so high-profile."
Many of the large companies that have been driven to act have done so as a consequence of crisis, having been forced to be reactive, rather than proactive. Nike, for example, faced boycotts in the nineties as a result of poor labour practices in places like Indonesia, and became a pioneer in establishing transparency in its supply chain as a result.
In the absence of such crises, however, there are signs of a knowing-doing gap: research published by Boston Consulting Group and MIT found that whereas 90% of executives believed sustainability to be important, only 60% were incorporating it into their company's strategy and only 25% were putting it at the heart of their business model.
"Businesses recognise the importance of this and understand it is of value," says Alison Chivers, a partner in the London corporate team at Trowers & Hamlins. "But when push comes to shove, there are often other issues that are higher up the agenda. Many business leaders pay lip service to the environment rather than really getting to grips with a strategy that makes their business greener."
There is a clear distinction to be drawn between those businesses that see these topics as a matter of compliance with the growing body of regulation on minimising environmental damage, and those that seek to excel as a means of achieving a competitive advantage. While companies must undoubtedly address compliance first, particularly in relation to waste management, pollution and human rights, which are of significant concern to investors, they can undoubtedly go further. Indeed, there are now many industry-led initiatives putting pressure on companies to up their game, such as the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark, which is an evaluation system for measuring the performance of property companies and real estate funds against sustainability criteria.
Amanda Stubbs, a partner in the firm's Environment, Health and Safety team, says one way that businesses can immediately take action is by making their buildings both healthier and more environmentally friendly. She says: "There is clear evidence that if staff feel better about the place in which they work, they will view their employer, and the business as a whole, more positively.
"Having staff committed to what the business is doing locally and within its own premises, is one of the quickest ways of making a difference and improve productivity."
Whether those day-to-day changes involve putting recycling stations within easy reach of every desk, switching from plastic to glass bottles or moving towards paperless offices, the results can help workers recognise that their employer is taking its environmental impact seriously, as well as introduce efficiencies that support the bottom line. Some companies are moving towards using electric vehicles across their businesses in place of petrol or diesel, and there are even now providers that can offer companies access to 'transport as a service', whereby businesses get access to a fleet of zero emission vehicles and are charged on a pay-as-you-use basis.
Firms that take the lead on such initiatives win a competitive advantage with their customers, save money, and immediately become more attractive to millennial recruits. Statistics show that greener companies are often more efficient and profitable, if not immediately then certainly in the longer term.
"You have both the very large global organisations taking a lead on this, and the smaller start-ups. The big businesses are taking action because they are in the spotlight, but at the other end of the scale, many early-stage companies are really focused on creating a particular brand for themselves around sustainability, transparency and appealing to the sociallyconscious consumer."
Chivers adds, "The people in the middle are perhaps going to struggle the most with this, because they are of scale already and maybe the benefits of taking action are not so immediately obvious. Those businesses should be encouraged to not only comply but to put together a business case where they can try to link some of these environmental and sustainability issues with strategy, using metrics that they can measure."
Whether the practical initiatives that make sense for a business are focused on reducing waste, eliminating plastic bags, installing sensors to turn lights off in buildings, improving water usage efficiency, sourcing materials sustainably or reducing pollution across the supply chain, success can only really be achieved through buy-in both at board level and across the business.
"The advantage that younger companies have," says Stubbs, "is that they are often run by entrepreneurial thinks free from pre-conceived ideas about how things should be done, with fewer long-standing employees resistant to change. They are open to doing things differently from the outset, and that's why that is where we are seeing real change driven by the belief in doing something better."
Chivers concludes: "The challenge for all company leaders now is to recognise this as a future trend and appreciate that action is going to be required. The sooner they can get on the front foot, the better positioned they will be."
She adds, "By factoring sustainability into strategic decisions today, it really is possible to achieve genuine competitive advantages for the future."
Rebecca McKay
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In a special series of images for Twin, we unpack the idea that perfection is on the surface. In a social media age, nothing is more important than owning your best self on the inside. You know who you are: strong, powerful and empowered. That will never change, but that doesn't mean you can't switch it and experiment for kicks – this #betterfacechallenge is served with a wink and a smile. Online is the space to play, take ownership of the fun you can have, all the while knowing that your perfect self is in all your imperfections.
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The flame haired model has enjoyed a close relationship with Chanel, featuring in their catwalk shows as well as other beauty commercials. However this most recent partnership seems especially well suited, not only for the harmonious colouring of rogue and red, but also for their playful character and characteristics respectively.
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Minröjning kallas den process som går ut på att oskadliggöra  minor. Detta kan göras genom att desarmera eller spränga minan.

Delas in i sjöminröjning och minröjning på land.

Röjning av fartygsminor

Minsvep

Äldre flytminor röjs med hjälp av så kallade minsvep. Det går till så att ett minröjningsfartyg släpar vajrar efter sig. Vajrarna är vanligen formade som ett Y som hålls ut på sidorna om fartyget med paravaner. Tekniken går ut på att vajern ska skära av flytminans ankarkätting eller ankarvajer. För att få vajern att skära är den ena av kardelerna spunnen åt motsatt håll än övriga. När ankarkättingen skurits av flyter minan upp, som sedan förstörs genom att sprängas. Moderna minröjningsfartyg har en sonar som tittar framåt, för att förhindra att minröjningsfartyget av misstag går på en mina.

För moderna bottenliggande minor använder man sig av minsvep som försöker simulera olika fartygstyper, exempelvis genom att avge magnetism eller buller.
Vid magnetiska och akustiska minsvep dras en elektromagnet respektive en kraftig högtalare efter minsveparen. Detta leder till att magnetminor och akustiska minor bringas till detonation. Minsveparen måste förstås vara omagnetisk och tystgående för att inte själv bli offer för minorna. Därför konstrueras den i allmänhet av trä eller plast, och har tystgående motorer.

SAM
Nackdelen med minsvep är att minröjningsfartyget med sin besättning måste vistas i området med minor. Vid minsvepning passerar dessutom fartyget minan före svepet. Det finns autonoma farkoster, exempelvis den tidigare svenska SAM, vilket är en akronym för självgående akustiskt minsvep. SAM är en obemannad farkost som styrs från moderfartyget. SAM kan simulera att ett fartyg passerar och därmed få avståndsminor att detonera.

Sonar
Minröjning med sonar är även det en metod för att röja bottenminor. I detta fall simuleras inte att ett fartyg passerar minan, istället släpar minröjningsfartyget en sidescan sonar ett par meter ovanför havsbotten. Sonaroperatören får en bild av botten på sin monitor och markerar ekon i området som är av intresse. Ekona kan sedan kontrolleras närmare av röjdykare eller av en undervattensfarkost som styrs ifrån moderfartyget, exempelvis en ROV, UV eller dubbel-UV. Undervattensfarkosten kan utrustas med en mindre sprängladdning. Visar sig ett eko vara en mina placerar farkosten sprängladdningen vid minan och tas sedan hem till fartyget. Sprängladdningen detoneras med hjälp av exempelvis en tonsändare, och minan förstörs.

Röjdykare
Röjdykare är ett av Sveriges minröjningsförband. Röjdykarna är utbildade dykare vars uppgift innefattar att söka efter, dokumentera, bärga eller destruera minor.

Röjdykarna är en del av marinens minröjningsorganisation och är baserade på tre platser i Sverige.

Örlogshamn Berga - Baserade på fartyg.
Örlogshamn Karlskrona - Baserade på fartyg.
Gullmarsbasen - Utbildning och huvudbas. Utveckling och testning av utrustning och metoder. MEODS - Marinens EOD skola.

Röjning av landminor
Röjning av landminor kan delas upp i militär minröjning där syftet är att röja väg genom område för att nå militära mål och humanitär minröjning där syftet är att skapa en miljö där ekonomisk och social utveckling inte hindras av minor.

Militär minröjning
Militär minröjning inriktas på att röja de delar av ett minfält som behövs för att lösa den aktuella uppgiften. Ofta används maskiner såsom minplogar och minvältar. Explosivämnen som skjuts ut i minfältet kan också användas, till exempel minröjningsormar. Metalldetektorer och minpikar var förr vanliga men används numera sällan på grund av risken för den som använder dem och på grund av att metoden är långsam. Inom militär röjning kan en liten andel oröjda minor accepteras.

Humanitär minröjning

Humanitär minröjning kräver till skillnad från militär minröjning att den röjda marken är till 100% säker. För att genomföra röjning med bästa resultat och så kostnadseffektivt som möjligt finns det olika metoder att tillgå och man talar om en "verktygslåda" (toolkit) där tre metoder ingår.

De tre metoderna är:

manuella; där objektet lokaliseras med hjälp av minsökare (detektor) eller någon typ av handverktyg, exempelvis en minpik

minhund; där en hund som är tränad på att känna doften av explosivämne lokaliserar objektet

maskinell; där ett mekaniskt verktyg, exempelvis en flail, nyttjas för att lokalisera och destruera minor, eller så kan det vara en vegetationsklippare som används för att underlätta implementering av någon av de övriga röjningsmetoderna

I vissa fall kan en metod implementeras enskilt medan andra metoder är beroende av komplettering för att fungera i sin helhet. Exempelvis metoden med minsökande hundar behöver komplettering av manuella metoder för att bli en komplett röjningsresurs.

Val av metod kan bero flera olika faktorer, exempelvis markbeskaffenhet, förekomst av vegetation, planerat röjningsdjup och topografi. Tillgången på ekonomiska resurser är ytterligare en påverkande faktor metodval.

Utmärkning av farliga områden är ytterligare en metod som ingår i minröjning. Detta sker vanligen när ett område som innehåller minor och/eller OXA inte kan röjas direkt och syftet med utmärkningen är att varna människor från att gå in i det farliga området. Utmärkning kan exempelvis ske genom att minvarningsskyltar, tape, stängsel eller målade stenar placeras ut runt det farliga området. I samband med utmärkning är det viktigt att genomföra informationskampanjer så att människor som lever och verkar i anslutning till det farliga området förstår innebörden av utmärkning. Informationsspridningen sker ofta inom ramen för ett MRE-projekt.

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Q: Android 4.0.3 and finish activity I have and Activity A calling Activity B. Then Activity B dials a number and
then on the IDLE-OFFHOOK- IDLE state I call ActivityB.this.finish() so
that activity A shows on front.
This all worked fine from Android 2.3.x till version 4.0.
Now it doesn't work on android 4.0.3 emulator and 4.0.2. Why?
Can someone help?

A: It might be the case that you have overridden onDestroy method and it is falling over because of an Exception (only occurring in 4.0), which is preventing the Activity from closing properly. Also just try to invoke finish() simply on Activity B.

A: Better solution for this case is to use startActivityForResult.
You can switch activity from A to B, in activity B do your work and handle results in activity A at override method onActivityResult().

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Scotland Yard received special funding from the Home Office for the investigation, which allegedly found that the money collections were illegal as none of the stalls were licensed by the local authority concerned and the groups involved failed to keep accounts. Scotland Yard claims that many of the organisations the stallholders collect money for are well-known animal rights activists organisations linked to criminality throughout the UK.
But leading figures within the animal liberation movement accused the police of "dirty tricks" yesterday. They demanded proof that the money raised was used for criminal activity and condemned what they said was a government-inspired campaign to repress legitimate public debate on animal testing.
Police began arresting people on the street stalls last year. In October those manning Shac's Oxford Street stall were held. A source within the National Extremist Crime Unit, which has been coordinating police investigations into the criminal activity of members of the Animal Liberation Front, said there were proven cases of money raised through stalls being directly used to pay for criminal activity. He highlighted the case of Sarah Gisborne, 39, from Cranleigh, Surrey, who was jailed for six years in 2005 by Peterborough crown court for conspiracy to cause criminal damage as part of the Shac campaign.
Gisborne caused £400,000 of damage to cars belonging to people linked to Huntingdon Life Sciences. She drove to her targets in a car hired in Cambridgeshire, which was paid for, police say, by money from the Shac stalls.
The inquiry into illegal fundraising is part of a wider move, supported by the government, to examine the finances of animal rights groups involved in the high profile campaigns against HLS and Oxford University. Ministers have determined that the new animal testing laboratory at Oxford will be completed, after action from activists two years ago caused the main contractor to pull out. The work continues with a new contractor operating behind 12ft high fences.
Greg Avery, a Shac activist, regularly manned the Oxford Street stall, where anti vivisection literature was available as well as a petition against animal testing.
He denied Gisborne had used money from a Shac stall to fund her campaign. He said yesterday that police tactics were politically motivated and demanded they produce evidence that money collected from the stalls was used for criminal activities. "Of course we raise money on the stalls. People know exactly who they are giving money to. They support Shac and our objectives. This is a dirty tricks campaign. They have no evidence the money is used for criminal activities."


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ACC CAD students take home Best-in-Show award
There's nothing traditional about the doghouses at Austin's annual BARKITECTURE. From modern and sleek to rustic, the design show and silent auction/fund-raiser features one-of-a-kind designer doghouses created by some of Austin's best and brightest architects, designers and builders, including a group of ACC Computer Aided Design students.
Register now for spring!
The students, part of the college's Architectural and Engineering Computer Aided Design
program and members
of the American Society
of Engineering Education (ASEE), started work in spring with their design. Over the summer, they secured donations for building materials and the initial construction began. Through fall, construction wrapped, and earlier this month the students presented their design, called "Earth Dog," at BARKITECTURE Austin.
"It's a long process, but it's worth every moment," says Mark Rodriguez, ACC ASEE chapter president. "We used donated sample tiles and re-purposed them to make mosaics. My favorite feature has got be the living roof. It is not only beautiful, but I love the idea of this structure being able to capture and use rain water."
The house is more than eye-catching with its rooftop garden, mosaic tile flooring, and sheet metal walls. It's award-winning. The students won best-in-show.
"Earth Dog" wins Best-in-Show
"It's such an honor," says T'Andra Hatch, ACC student and project construction manager. "What makes this project special is that it was designed and built by the students. Everyone had a part in almost every aspect of the finished design. All of our hard work paid off. "
The doghouses presented at BARKITECTURE are bid on by the public with proceeds benefiting area dog rescue groups. ACC's dog house raised more than $200, benefiting Hounds for Heroes PTSD Service Dogs.
"This was the fourth year our students participated in BARKITECTURE," says Doug Smith, chair of the ACC Architectural and Engineering Computer Aided Design Department. "It's a wonderful opportunity to test their skills, creativity, and team work. These are the designers and builders of our future."
"It's the kind of project that, win or lose, you win for being part of, and for working as a team," says Rodriguez.
For more information about the ACC A&E CAD program visit austincc.edu/info/cad. Registration is underway now for spring. To enroll, visit austincc.edu/spring.
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11 Responses to "ACC CAD students take home Best-in-Show award"
By Lillian Huerta November 24, 2015 - 6:11 pm
Great example of service-learning!
By Patricia Phea November 30, 2015 - 5:05 pm
Congratulations on your "Best In Show" award! What a fabulous project!
By Ronica December 3, 2015 - 3:02 pm
Very cool!!
Great work guys!
By Margot December 3, 2015 - 3:12 pm
What a phenomenal doghouse–my dog would never want to come inside again with a house like that. Superb job, y'all!
By Diane G December 3, 2015 - 11:11 pm
Awesome work guys, CONGRATULATIONS!
By nhernan2 December 4, 2015 - 3:10 pm
I love it! Congratulations!!
By Christopher Maxwell December 4, 2015 - 4:13 pm
THIS HOUSE IS DOGGONE GREAT!!! THUMBS UP!!!
By Shirin Khosropour December 10, 2015 - 3:18 pm
Congratulations…. what great teamwork and a great example of Service Learning!
By Shana December 14, 2015 - 9:33 pm
Can we scale this and make a tiny house for humans? Great job A&E CAD!
By Mei Zhang December 15, 2015 - 8:14 pm
The house is really amazing with its rooftop garden! Students did a good job! Result is really impressive!


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Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez elected as first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee
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President of the Republic Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez was elected today, Monday, as first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee, during the first plenary meeting of the leadership body, elected by the delegates to the 8th Party Congress Sunday evening.
Army General Raúl Castro Ruz made this announcement after reporting the 14 members of the Political Bureau, including nine returning to the body and five added as new members:
Juan Esteban Lazo Hernández, President of the National Assembly of People's Power and the Council of State of the Republic of Cuba.
Salvador Valdés Mesa, Vice President of the Republic of Cuba.
Roberto Morales Ojeda, Deputy Prime Minister.
Army Corps General Álvaro López Miera, Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces.
Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Ulises Guilarte de Nacimiento, Federation of Cuban Workers general secretary.
Teresa María Amarelle Bué, secretary general of the Federation of Cuban Women's National Directorate.
Marta Ayala Ávila, general director of the Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Center.
Manuel Marrero Cruz, Prime Minister.
José Amado Ricardo Guerra, Council of Ministers secretary.
Luis Alberto Rodríguez López-Calleja, executive president of the Enterprise Administration Group.
Major General Lázaro Alberto Álvarez Casas, Minister of the Interior.
Gladys Martínez Verdecia, first secretary of the Party Provincial Committee in Artemisa.
Subsequently, the new Party Central Committee first secretary introduced members of the Secretariat and the areas each will attend:
Roberto Morales Ojeda, secretary of Organization and Cadre Policy.
Rogelio Polanco Fuentes, head of the Ideological Department.
Joel Queipo Ruiz, head of the Economic Department.
José Ramón Monteagudo Ruiz, head of the Agri-food Department.
Félix Duarte Ortega, head of the Industry, Construction, Tourism, Transportation and Services Department.
Jorge Luis Broche Lorenzo, head of the Education, Sports and Science Department.
First on the agenda, this morning during the closing session of the 8th Congress, was a report on the tally of ballots cast by delegates yesterday, April 18, to elect members of the new Central Committee, corroborating that 100% of the ballots were valid and that all were elected with more than 99.32% of the votes.
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The men's and women's basketball teams from Marist College didn't pick up wins over the Thanksgiving weekend. But both teams can reset with games this week.
Without a victory to their credit or gas left in the metaphoric tank, the Marist College men's and women's basketball teams were scheduled to return to Poughkeepsie Monday.
But, men's coach Mike Maker said they aren't returning home empty-handed, and he wasn't talking about souvenirs from their trip to Disney World Saturday.
Both teams of Red Foxes began three-game holiday tournament by giving a big-name program a scare, but neither managed to pull an upset. Both this week will have to recharge before facing another test at week's end.
The women (1-5) travel to South Orange, New Jersey to face Seton Hall on Thursday, while the men (0-6) head to Charleston, South Carolina to take on Citadel.
Seton Hall's women's team is 4-1, averaging nearly 80 points per game. The men from Citadel are 3-3 overall, averaging 91.3 points per game.
"(Seton Hall coach) Tony (Bozzella) has a very skilled team," Marist women's coach Brian Giorgis said. "They can really score at every position, they're very aggressive defensively. It'll be a tall task."
Sophomore wing Rebekah Hand led the Marist women at the Rainbow Wahine Showdown in Honolulu, Hawaii, averaging 16.3 points and seven rebounds for the three games, while Alana Gilmer added 13.7 points per game, including a 22-point burst in the opening game Friday against the hosts from the University of Hawaii.
Marist led Hawaii 57-51 midway through the fourth quarter, but suffered a cold snap. Hawaii went on a 12-0 run and pulled away for a 70-63 win.
The Marist women went on to lose Saturday to USC, 78-57, and Sunday to Purdue, 61-47.
The Red Foxes struggled to shoot the ball throughout the tournament, making less than 33 percent of their shots in two of the three games. Freshman point guard Allie Best, coming off a pair of hot performances entering the tournament, shot 2 of 13 in Hawaii, with nine total assists over eight turnovers. Redshirt junior guard Allie Clement likewise struggled, making 4 of 19 shots for the tournament, and is shooting 25 percent from the field this season.
Giorgis said sophomore guard Hannah Hand was injured in the team's first practice, and she did not play in the tournament. He did not know her status for the Seton Hall game.
In Florida, the Marist men were led by junior guard Brian Parker's 13 points per game, while classmate David Knudsen chipped in 11.7 points per game, including a hot-shooting opener Thursday against nationally ranked West Virginia.
The Red Foxes trailed by 13 at halftime against the Mountaineers, but stormed back to tie it at 67 on a Parker layup with 5:37 left to play. West Virginia pulled away from there. Knudsen led the Red Foxes with 19 points, 16 of which he scored in the second half.
Marist went on to lose Friday to Nebraska, 84-59, and Sunday to Oregon State.
The Red Foxes trailed by one in the second half, but the Beavers ripped off a 14-3 run to pull away. Parker led Marist with 17 points, although the Red Foxes shot just 33 percent (17 for 51) from the field.
After shooting 55.3 percent against West Virginia, Marist failed to make 40 percent in either of the following two games. The Red Foxes also gave up 51 turnovers in the tournament and 45 offensive rebounds.


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Lesson of intolerance in Pak educational curriculum : How the anti-Indian, inhumane venom are injected in the student minds.
Many public-school students in Thoha Bahadur, Pakistan, use old textbooks with xenophobic passages. Scholars blame government underfunding. (Jan. 15, 2010) ||RICK WESTHEAD/TORONTO STAR
Public schools not always tolerant in Pakistan
The Star finds incendiary passages common in outdated textbooks studied by Pakistan's secular students
By Rick Westhead South Asia Bureau||Sunday 21 Feb 2010
THOHA BAHADUR, PAKISTAN–When towns and villages in a stretch of verdant Punjabi farmland had the chance to have cable TV installed in every home earlier this year, most jumped at the offer.
But elders in this village of 7,000 a few hours south of Islamabad said no. They weren't interested in watching death and despair play out on 24-hour news channels.
So it's interesting to hear how students in this village of wheat and rice farmers perceive their country and its neighbours. Most everything they've learned comes courtesy of textbooks and teachers.
On a recent afternoon, one of the 250 students who attend one of Thoha Bahadur's public schools, shared his views about India, Pakistan's neighbour and archrival.
What's good about India?
"Its natural minerals," said 12-year-old Ashir Hussain.
What's bad? "The way they have stolen Kashmir from us. It's their wrongdoing that they are there. They are our enemy."
Asked why he believes this, he cites his teachers and textbooks.
Hussain's attitude highlights a protracted debate in Pakistan over how religious extremists are made.
While some political leaders here and abroad have ratcheted up warnings about madrassas, charging the religious schools fuel Islamic militancy and stoke hatred for the west, some scholars say the real problem is Pakistan's underfunded public schools and their often incendiary textbooks.
Consider Hussain's sixth-grade Punjab provincial textbook called "Social Studies 6."
In one chapter it explains the forefathers of Hinduism "were fond of gambling, drinking and dancing … the foundation of Hindu set up was based on injustice and cruelty."
Another textbook used by students throughout Punjab, Pakistan's most populous state, is called "Social Studies for Class V." It begins: "Islam gives women a high position of respect whereas Hinduism gives a very low place to women." The same book outlines the concept of jihad.
Texts for older students offer more of the same.
"Social Studies for Class VIII" describes how during the 19th century, "the Hindu racists were not only against Muslims but also against all other minorities …" The book charges Hindus and Sikhs practised ethnic cleansing during partition in 1947 when India and Pakistan were carved out of British India and became independent states.
While the Pakistani Ministry of Education in 2006 said it would remove some of the incendiary language, several educational experts say that hasn't happened.
A researcher in Islamabad with the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Ahmad Salim says he's been battling the government over textbooks for years.
Sitting on a bright orange couch in his living room in a quiet residential neighbourhood of Pakistan's capital, Salim said he's collected evidence that shows public-school texts are littered with anti-India, xenophobic passages that promote contempt for non-Muslims.
"It's supposed to be that schools are liberal and secular," he said. "We used to say religion has nothing to do with the state and education."
But that ideology began to change in 1971, he said, when Pakistan battled an uprising in East Pakistan. Pakistan lost – thanks in part to India's decision to send in troops – and the territory became independent Bangladesh. From that point on, textbooks began dropping references to non-Muslim historical characters, promoting heroes of Islam and excoriating India.
Nearly 40 years on, the curriculum remains controversial and even as the government promises change, some experts say the pledge rings hollow.
Dr. Haroona Jatoi, a former official with the education ministry who was in charge of Pakistan's public-school curriculum, said ministry officials aren't interested in modernizing. "The textbook boards are a group of conservatives," she said. "They couldn't care less about gender issues. They want to promote Islam in a rigid way."
For instance, Jatoi said the textbook board recently told the World Bank and other funding agencies that a section quoting Surah At-Tawba, a section of the Qur'an, had been removed from ninth- and tenth-grade textbooks.
"Fight against those who believe not in Allah nor the last day," the Qur'an reads. Of Jews and Christians, it adds, "Allah's curse be on them; how they are deluded away from the truth!"
"They said it was removed, but really it was just moved to Grade 11 and 12 books," Jatoi said.
Aurangzeb Rehman, the education ministry's policy and planning advisor, declined to comment while a ministry spokesperson didn't return repeated calls.
One of the hurdles educators face is simply keeping pace with Pakistan's surging population.
When the country was carved out of British India in 1947, it had roughly the same population as Iran, said Abid Qayyum Sulehri, an Islamabad economist.
Today, Iran has 66 million citizens to Pakistan's 171 million. "That's a huge issue," Sulehri said. "Iran has a successful family planning program. We don't."
More than 20 million students attend public schools in Pakistan, compared with the 1.5 million who go to madrassas. Yet instead of buttressing social programs such as education, Pakistan still pumps roughly one-third of its $29 billion (U.S.) budget into the military.
And as the country's security situation deteriorates, even more money is being re-allocated to the military, Sulehri said, noting Pakistan now spends less than 2 per cent of its GDP on education.
Textbooks are supposed to be issued by provincial boards each year, but several schools visited by the Star were using undated battered texts full of hand-written notes and torn pages.
In Thoha Bahadur, a teacher said he couldn't recall the last time textbooks were replaced.
"We have 250 students and we get 50,000 rupees ($621) a year from the government," he said. "It all goes to maintenance."
Courtesy : Toronto Star.
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Seen a fledging great blue heron?
three young herons ready to leave the nest!….
Two resident herons, mated pair for several seasons, this year brought 3 handsome fledges to the world!… Although they did not nest on the Reservation (herons usually nest in groups), they have returned and fledges were with them. As they learn to fly and hunt, you may see them around…. Look for a full size great blue with a totally blue crown….the white won't come until nearly a year old…They will mature into adulthood in abut 2 years… Congratulations!…..welcome to the world!
from access road, saw deer emerge from woods for a bit of wading and some water…. he seemed fine with the photo-taking…….


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