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2016 Austin College Posey Leadership Award Co-Recipients: Sheryl Wudunn & Nicholas Kristof
2016 Austin College Posey Leadership Award Co-Recipients: Sheryl WuDunn & Nicholas Kristof Founders of the Half the Sky Movement Sheryl WuDunn grew up in New York City, a third-generation Chinese American hailing from the Upper West Side. She earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a master’s degree in public administration from Princeton University. WuDunn has worked in investment management at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and was a commercial loan officer at Bankers Trust. In addition, she spent time at The New York Times as both a journalist and an executive. During her time as a journalist, WuDunn and her husband, Nicholas Kristof, won a Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of China’s Tiananmen Square movement in 1990. Nicholas Kristof grew up on a sheep and cherry farm near Yamhill, Oregon. He graduated from Harvard College and won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, where he studied law. He later studied Arabic in Cairo and Chinese in Taipei. Kristof’s work has taken him all over the world. He has lived on four continents, reported on six, and traveled to more than 150 countries, plus all 50 U.S. states, every Chinese province, and every main Japanese island. Joining The New York Times in 1984, Kristof initially covered economics. Since 2001, he has maintained an op-ed column. In addition to his 1990 Pulitzer honors for coverage of China’s Tiananmen Square movement, Kristof won a second Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for his journalistic coverage of the genocides in Darfur. The latest book by WuDunn and Kristof is A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity (2014). -
Willing & Able
MORE WILLING & ABLE: Charting China’s International Security Activism By Ely Ratner, Elbridge Colby, Andrew Erickson, Zachary Hosford, and Alexander Sullivan Foreword Many friends have contributed immeasurably to our research over the past two years and to this culminating report. CNAS colleagues including Patrick Cronin, Shawn Brimley, Jeff Chism, Michèle Flournoy, Richard Fontaine, Jerry Hendrix, Van Jackson, JC Mock, Dafna Rand, Jacob Stokes, and Robert Work provided feedback and guidance through- out the process. We are also grateful to our expert external reviewers: Scott Harold, Evan Montgomery, John Schaus, and Christopher Yung. David Finkelstein and Bonnie Glaser lent their wisdom to workshops that greatly informed our subsequent efforts. The research team is indebted to the School of International Studies at Peking University, the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, China Institute for Contemporary International Relations, and China Foreign Affairs University for hosting discussions in Beijing. We were guided and assisted throughout by colleagues from the State Department, the Department of Defense, the White House, and the U.S. intelligence community. Kelley Sayler, Yanliang Li, Andrew Kwon, Nicole Yeo, Cecilia Zhou, and Hannah Suh provided key research, editing, and other support. The creativity of Melody Cook elevated the report and its original graphics. We are grateful as well for the assistance of Ellen McHugh and Ryan Nuanes. Last but not least, this research would not have been possible without the generous support -
MALAYSIA the Kampung Kuantan Firefly Reserve Jamil Bin
MALAYSIA The Kampung Kuantan Firefly Reserve Jamil bin Hamzah and Suzana Mohkeri Wetlands International-Asia Pacific INTRODUCTION Malaysia is comprised of 13 federal states with Kuala Lumpur as the federal capital situated in the Federal Territory. Eleven states are in West Malaysia (also known as Peninsular Malaysia) and two states are situated in Borneo Island. Selangor is one of the most highly developed and urbanized states in Malaysia. However, there are still large areas of forested lands scattered throughout the state either under forest reserves, owned by the state, private companies or private landowners. Since the beginning of civilization rivers have been the most important source of food, water resources and transportation. In Malaysia, human settlement always related or concentrated along the rivers. Sungai Selangor (Selangor River), is one of the main rivers in the state of Selangor. The headwater of Sungai Selangor originates from the highland area of the Titiwangsa Range, which is part of the Main Range, the backbone of Peninsular Malaysia. It is an important source of water supply for domestic and agriculture use and fishing industries for people living along the riverbanks. Sungai Selangor flows mainly through oil palm estates and small villages and it does not pass through any major towns. Thus the riparian vegetation along the riverbanks is still intact. According to a report prepared by the Department of Environment, Sungai Selangor river basin is listed as one of the two cleanest rivers in Selangor (Environmental Quality Report, 1996). This river is highlighted here not because of its important food and water resources but of its ecotourism factor. -
“He Was One of Us” – Joseph Conrad As a Home Army Author
Yearbook of Conrad Studies (Poland) Vol. 13 2018, pp. 17–29 doi: 0.4467/20843941YC.18.002.11237 “HE WAS ONE OF US” – JOSEPH CONRAD AS A HOME ARMY AUTHOR Stefan Zabierowski The University of Silesia, Katowice Abstract: The aim of this article is to show how Conrad’s fiction (and above all the novelLord Jim) influenced the formation of the ethical attitudes and standards of the members of the Polish Home Army, which was the largest underground army in Nazi-occupied Europe. The core of this army was largely made up of young people who had been born around the year 1920 (i.e. after Poland had regained her independence in 1918) and who had had the opportunity to become acquainted with Conrad’s books during the interwar years. During the wartime occupation, Conrad became the fa- vourite author of those who were actively engaged in fighting the Nazi regime, familiarizing young conspirators with the ethics of honour—the conviction that fighting in a just cause was a reward in itself, regardless of the outcome. The views of this generation of soldiers have been recorded by the writers who were among them: Jan Józef Szczepański, Andrzej Braun and Leszek Prorok. Keywords: Joseph Conrad, World War II, Poland, Polish Home Army, Home Army, Warsaw Uprising 1 In order to fully understand the extraordinary role that Joseph Conrad’s novels played in forming the ethical attitudes and standards of those Poles who fought in the Home Army—which was the largest underground resistance army in Nazi-occupied Europe—we must go back to the interwar years, during which most of the members of the generation that was to form the core of the Home Army were born, for it was then that their personalities were formed and—perhaps above all—it was then that they acquired the particular ethos that they had in common. -
Copyright © London Branch of the Polish Home Army Ex-Servicemen Association Copying Permitted with Reference to Source and Authors
Copyright © London Branch of the Polish Home Army Ex-Servicemen Association Copying permitted with reference to source and authors www.polishresistance-ak.org Article 17 Dr Grzegorz Ostasz, The Polish Government-in-Exile's Home Delegature During the Second World War the Polish Underground State was based on a collection of political and military organisations striving for independence. These were formed throughout Polish territories, then under German and Soviet occupation. The long tradition of struggles for independence was conducive to their creation. Already in the autumn of 1939 measures were taken to appoint an underground central administrative authority that would be a continuation of the pre-war state administration. The Statute of Service for Victory in Poland referred to the necessity of creating ‘a provisional national authority on home territory’. Likewise General Wladyslaw Sikorski’s cabinet endeavoured to establish a governmental executive organ in occupied Poland. At the start of 1940 it was decided that a home territories civilian commissioner would be granted ministerial prerogatives and hold the position of the Government-in-Exile’s delegate (plenipotentiary). Hope of the imminent defeat of the occupying powers and a repetition of the First World War scenario hastened the construction of a government administration ready to take over control of a liberated and ‘unclaimed Polish land’. The tasks of such an organisation were to include: cooperating with the Government-in-Exile (allied to France and Great Britain) and the Union for Armed Struggle (later the Home Army); participating in the planning of a general rising; consolidating the Polish community and directing its resistance to the German-Soviet occupation. -
Intercity Bus Transportation System and Its Competition in Malaysia
Proceedings of the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies, Vol.8, 2011 Intercity Bus Transportation System and its competition in Malaysia Bayu Martanto ADJI Angelalia ROZA PhD Candidate Masters Candidate Center for Transportation Research Center for Transportation Research Faculty of Engineering Faculty of Engineering University of Malaya University of Malaya 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Fax: +603-79552182 Fax: +603-79552182 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Raja Syahira RAJA ABDUL AZIZ Mohamed Rehan KARIM Masters Candidate Professor Center for Transportation Research Center for Transportation Research Faculty of Engineering Faculty of Engineering University of Malaya University of Malaya 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Fax: +603-79552182 Fax: +603-79552182 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Abstract : Intercity transportation in Malaysia is quite similar to other countries, which involve three kinds of modes, namely, bus, rail and air. Among these modes, bus transportation continues to be the top choice for intercity travelers in Malaysia. Bus offers more flexibility compared to the other transport modes. Due to its relatively cheaper fare as compared to the air transport, bus is more affordable to those with low income. However, bus transport service today is starting to face higher competition from rail and air transport due to their attractive factors. The huge challenge faced by intercity bus transport in Malaysia is the management of its services. The intercity bus transport does not fall under one management; unlike rail transport which is managed under Keretapi Tanah Melayu Berhad (KTMB), or air transport which is managed under Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad (MAHB). -
Patrick to Assume 2Nd AF Command Brig
A PUBLICATION OF THE 502nd AIR BASE WING – JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, TEXAS • www.lackland.af.mil • V ol. 68 No. 25 • JUNE 24, 2011 NETWORKING INSIDE Commentary 2 Recognition 6 What’s Happening 22 News & Features Offi cer promotions 10 Bidding adieu 14 Photo by Robbin Cresswell Airman Eduardo Guerrero, 802nd Communications Squadron, works on Brocade Switch fi ber in Bldg. 1050 on June 16. The 802nd CS manages com- munications, information management, and visual imaging systems on Lackland. Operation Air Force 15 Patrick to assume 2nd AF command Brig. Gen. Leonard A. Patrick, command- aspects of nearly 2,500 Wing at Goodfellow AFB, er, 502nd Air Base Wing/Joint Base San An- active training courses Texas, the 37th Training tonio, has been selected as commander, Sec- taught to approximately Wing at Lackland AFB ond Air Force, Air Education and Training 245,000 students annu- and the 82nd Training Command, Keesler Air Force Base, Miss. ally in technical training, Wing at Sheppard AFB, Summer fun 24 In this new position, General Patrick will basic military training, Texas; and the 381st be responsible for the development, over- initial skills training, ad- Training Group located sight and direction of all operational aspects vanced technical train- at Vandenberg AFB, of basic military training, initial skills train- ing and distance learn- Calif.; and a network of ing and advanced technical training for the ing courses. 92 fi eld training units Air Force enlisted force and support offi cers. Training operations around the world. The He has held his present position since July across Second Air Force 37th TRW also oversees 2009. -
The Syrian War and the Question of an American Mutiny
The Syrian War And The Question Of An American Mutiny By Adeyinka Makinde Region: Middle East & North Africa, USA Global Research, October 11, 2016 Theme: History, US NATO War Agenda Adeyinka Makinde In-depth Report: SYRIA A recent press conference given by US Army General Mark Milley, the present serving army chief of staff reminded me of the fictional character played by Burt Lancaster in the 1964 movie ‘Seven Days in May’. That film posited the scenario of James Scott (the Lancaster character) as a Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who, disgruntled about the serving president’s perceived weakness in seeking a treaty with the Soviet Union, plots to overthrow the civilian government. ‘Seven Days in May’ was based on a book that drew its inspiration from real life American political and military figures in the early 1960s during the Cold War. At that time Right-wing, verging on fascist-leaning generals such as Army General Lyman Lemnitzer the supremo at the Pentagon and Air Force Generals Curtis LeMay and Tommy Powers dominated the Pentagon. A Major General named Edwin Walker actually tried to indoctrinate troops under his command with the teachings of the Right-wing John Birch Society. It was in the prevailing atmosphere of fervent anti-communism at the time that these generals sought to undermine and even plot to overthrow the government of President John F. Kennedy. This view was not limited to a few senators and journalists of the time. The Kremlin apparently believed this to the extent that it is claimed to have influenced Nikita Khruschev’s decision to reach the settlement that he did with Kennedy over the Cuban Missile Crisis. -
Joint Base San Antonio JLUS RJIS
One Team, One Mission: Your Success! Joint Base San Antonio JLUS RJIS Ray Garza C.M. JLUS Project Manager April 12, 2017 Joint Base San Antonio: The Premier Installation in the Department of Defense! RJIS AGENDA • Welcome & Introductions of Regional Stakeholders • Announcement of Prestigious 2017 Awards • Great American Defense Community • AETC’s ALTUS Trophy • JBSA Overview and JLUS Strategy • Regional Joint Land Use Implementation Strategy (RJIS) JLUS’s & OEA Grant • RJIS Task Force Goals and Key Priorities • Adjourn! Thank you Joint Basing 101 One Team, One Mission: Your Success! Joint Basing Initiative got started as part of the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC), 2005 . Realigned 26 geographically proximate bases into 12 joint bases Joint Base San Antonio (JBSA) was established in 2009 Aims of Joint Basing Reduce duplication Consolidate service Improve facility of effort… contracts… utilization… Achieve efficiency Optimize support Develop best practices Joint Base San Antonio: The Premier Installation in the Department of Defense! JBSA One Team, One Mission: Your Success! Where we are CoSA Fiscal 2.3 B What our impact is 502d Air $15.5B Economic Impact Base Wing to the San Antonio Region 266 Interface Missions with Numerous Civic leaders Encompassing… 35 M ft2 11 Separate Facilities Locations 27 Communities Counties $37B 382,000 7 +46,500 Acres Physical Plant Total Population Congressional Districts Replacement 6 4 of 23 Joint Base San Antonio: The Premier Installation in the Department of Defense! JBSA High Pass One Team, One -
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Oregon Cultural Trust fy2011 annual report fy2011 annual report 1 Contents Oregon Cultural Trust fy2011 annual report 4 Funds: fy2011 permanent fund, revenue and expenditures Cover photos, 6–7 A network of cultural coalitions fosters cultural participation clockwise from top left: Dancer Jonathan Krebs of BodyVox Dance; Vital collaborators – five statewide cultural agencies artist Scott Wayne 8–9 Indiana’s Horse Project on the streets of Portland; the Museum of 10–16 Cultural Development Grants Contemporary Craft, Portland; the historic Astoria Column. Oregonians drive culture Photographs by 19 Tatiana Wills. 20–39 Over 11,000 individuals contributed to the Trust in fy2011 oregon cultural trust board of directors Norm Smith, Chair, Roseburg Lyn Hennion, Vice Chair, Jacksonville Walter Frankel, Secretary/Treasurer, Corvallis Pamela Hulse Andrews, Bend Kathy Deggendorfer, Sisters Nick Fish, Portland Jon Kruse, Portland Heidi McBride, Portland Bob Speltz, Portland John Tess, Portland Lee Weinstein, The Dalles Rep. Margaret Doherty, House District 35, Tigard Senator Jackie Dingfelder, Senate District 23, Portland special advisors Howard Lavine, Portland Charlie Walker, Neskowin Virginia Willard, Portland 2 oregon cultural trust December 2011 To the supporters and partners of the Oregon Cultural Trust: Culture continues to make a difference in Oregon – activating communities, simulating the economy and inspiring us. The Cultural Trust is an important statewide partner to Oregon’s cultural groups, artists and scholars, and cultural coalitions in every county of our vast state. We are pleased to share a summary of our Fiscal Year 2011 (July 1, 2010 – June 30, 2011) activity – full of accomplishment. The Cultural Trust’s work is possible only with your support and we are pleased to report on your investments in Oregon culture. -
Air & Space Power Journal, November-December 2012, Volume 26, No. 6, AFRP 10-1
November–December 2012 Volume 26, No. 6 AFRP 10-1 Senior Leader Perspective Airmen ❙ 4 Delivering Decision Advantage Lt Gen Larry D. James, USAF Features For and from Cyberspace ❙ 12 Conceptualizing Cyber Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Col Matthew M. Hurley, USAF Manned Airborne Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance ❙ 34 Strategic, Tactical . Both? Maj Tyler Morton, USAF The F-22 Acquisition Program ❙ 53 Consequences for the US Air Force’s Fighter Fleet Lt Col Christopher J. Niemi, USAF Personnel Recovery ❙ 83 Strategic Importance and Impact Col Lee Pera, USAF Paul D. Miller Darrel Whitcomb Departments 113 ❙ Views A Culminating Point for Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance . 113 Col Jon Kimminau, PhD, USAF, Retired Realizing the Potential of Analytics: Arming the Human Mind . 130 Maj Robert D. Folker Jr., USAF Capt Kyle Benjamin Bressette, USAF Lightning Strikes and Thunder Claps: The Strategic Bomber and Air Superiority . 137 Maj Wade S. Karren, USAF 146 ❙ Historical Highlight The Evolution of Air Force Targeting Capt John R. Glock, USAF 175 ❙ Book Reviews Leading with Honor: Leadership Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton . 175 Lee Ellis Reviewer: Dr. Richard I. Lester Eisenhower 1956: The President’s Year of Crisis—Suez and the Brink of War . 178 David A. Nichols Reviewer: Maj Thomas F. Menza, USAF, Retired 7 Deadly Scenarios: A Military Futurist Explores War in the 21st Century . 182 Andrew F. Krepinevich Reviewer: 2d Lt James W. Anderson, USAF (active) Drugs and Contemporary Warfare . 184 Paul Rexton Kan Reviewer: Jan Kallberg, PhD Flying from the Black Hole: The B-52 Navigator-Bombardiers of Vietnam . 186 Robert O. -
Moral Courage Intelligent Disobedience
Moral Courage and Intelligent Disobedience by Ted Thomas and Ira Chaleff he military needs men and women who have courage–the physical courage to go into battle, to overcome fear in the face of bodily injury or death, mental pain, and lifelong disabilities. Militaries run on physical courage. Without it, they run from a fight and surrender. Many Tsources quote Aristotle as saying, “Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.”1 Courage is a primary virtue, as all other virtues require it. There is another type of courage the military needs, but it is hard to measure or even define– moral courage. The following words of Robert F. Kennedy are as salient today as they were in June of 1966 when he spoke them in Cape Town, South Africa. “Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.”2 Bravery in battle is needed, but so is the courage to stand up for what is right and against what is immoral, unethical, or illegal. A critical application of moral courage is knowing when and how to disobey–which can be thought of as intelligent disobedience. This involves an ability to work within the system to maintain standards and uphold moral values. Organizational culture and operational pressures can sometimes cause the values of people to become blurred when the mission becomes more important than virtues.