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Military enterprises, ostensibly set up to feed and supply soldiers, were some of the earliest and largest Burmese commercial conglomerates, established in the 1950s. Union Myanmar Economic Holdings Limited (UMEHL) and Myanmar Economic Corporation (MEC) are two profit-seeking military enterprises established by the military after the dissolution of the Burma Socialist Programme Party in 1988, which remain central players in Myanmar's post-2011 economy. Military conglomerates are a major source of off-budget revenue for the military and a main employer of retired soldiers. Yet few veterans receive more than a small piece of the profits from UMEHL. The vast bulk of formal dividends instead disproportionately benefit higher ranking officers and institutions within the Tatmadaw. Military capitalism entrenches the autonomy of the Tatmadaw from civilian oversight. Despite this, obligatory or semi-coerced contributions from active-duty soldiers are a source of cash flow for UMEHL, effectively constituting a transfer from the government budget to the military's off-budget entities. The most significant source of livelihoods support for most veterans is the service pension dispersed by the Ministry of Finance and Planning (MoPF). Despite delivering suboptimal welfare outcomes for most soldiers and veterans while eroding the legitimacy of ceasefires, successive governments since 1988, including Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) administration, have entrenched military capitalism by encouraging commercial activities of armed groups that enter into ceasefire agreements. Extending military pensions already paid by the Ministry of Planning and Finance to retired members of armed groups could deliver a far more consistent and tangible "peace dividend" than the commercial extraction of resources from ceasefire areas. More balanced civil-military relations, and fairer social outcomes for military personnel, will rely on civilian-led state institutions delivering effective and substantive welfare support beyond the commercially oriented welfare arrangements of military conglomerates.

An estimated $3.5 trillion passes through the market for money laundering annually. This represents 80% of the world's illegal income. By 'cleaning' the ill-gotten gains of the criminal economy, money launderers keep crime profitable and illegal activities, including terrorist organizations, funded. Most countries have adopted anti-money laundering measures, but their implementation in a globalized world is patchy, and incentives to tackle this illegal activity vary widely from one location to another. This volume takes an integrated look at money laundering, by considering the laws, the launderers, and the new economics of money laundering in the digital age

"In The Greatest Medal of Honor Stories Ever Told, editor Tom McCarthy has pulled together some of the finest writings about heroes awarded the highest military honor that capture readers imaginations. The one thing the heroes in this collection have in common--from the bloody battlefields of the Civil War through the lonely mountains of Afghanistan--is uncommon valor. Each of the men in these stories had the courage to calmly stare death in the face and move on--to do what they had to because that was their duty and the lives of others meant more to them than their own. Chosen from hundreds of accounts of singular devotion to duty, the stories in Medal of Honor stand out for their jaw-dropping tales of bravery. They are the best. No small feat."--Provided by publisher

Misguided judgment -- Salty and peppered -- A slice of good fortune -- Cern's pound of flesh -- Prayers for the devil -- The breakup -- Who threw my liquor away -- When hearts attack -- The McCern method of international diplomatic relationship building -- No quarter -- The muddy Mississippi -- Collateral damage -- To live and die in New Orleans -- Child's play -- Lycan'thrope: a tale of an American hairwolf -- Anger nightmares -- The three cides: patri, fili & homi -- Unseen danger -- An ironic demise -- Mexican brown -- Attack of the elderly -- The thickness of blood -- Conclusion -- Bonus chapter: of gods and sober people -- New Orleans EMS overview

Have you heard of the famous robbers D.B. Cooper or Marm Mandelbaum? Daring Heists: Real Tales of Sensational Robberies and Robbers, introduces readers ages 9 to 12 to the mystery and suspense of fascinating crimes while fostering an interest in history, investigative practices, and sociology.

The retirement puzzle -- Capitalist crisis and pension insecurity -- Reconversion and the origin of bargained plans -- Turning labor into finance capital -- Toward the 401(k) ownership society -- Conclusions

Preface -- Early equipment management -- The EEM road map -- Design and performance management -- Specification and LCC management -- Project and risk management -- Project governance -- Implementing EEM -- Early product management

The Coast Guard's rescue personnel are second to none, and Coast Guard air and sea rescue missions have been the subjects of celebrated newspaper accounts, books, and movies, including The Perfect Storm. The Coast Guard is one of the nation's five military services, which exist to defend and preserve the United States. In The Greatest Coast Guard Rescue Stories Ever Told, the editor has pulled together some of the finest writings about air and sea rescues that capture readers imaginations, culled from books, magazines, and elsewhere. It is an unforgettable collection, and includes stories by Kathryn Miles, Eric Hartlep, Gerald Hoover, Martha Laguardia-Kotite, and many others.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 Historico-Geographical Explorations of Ireland's Heritages: Towards a Critical Understanding of the Nature of Memory and Identity -- PART I: COMMEMORATION AND THE POLITICS OF HERITAGE -- 2 Commemorative Heritage and the Dialectics of Memory -- 3 A Lost Heritage: The Connaught Rangers and Multivocal Irishness -- 4 Memory and Identity in 'Irish' Australia: Constructing Alterity in Belfast (Port Fairy), c. 1857-1873 -- 5 Performing Irish-American Heritage: The Irish Historic Pageant, New York, 1913 -- PART II: SPACES OF INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY -- 6 Newgrange, Heritage and the Irish Nation: Two Moments of Transformation -- 7 Heritage, Rhetoric, Identity: Critical Reflections on the Carrickmines Castle Controversy -- 8 Ireland and the House of Invented Memory -- 9 Remembering the Creameries -- PART III: HERITAGE, ECONOMY AND CONSTRUCTS OF IDENTITY -- 10 The Tourism Nexus: National Identity and the Meanings of Tourism Since the Irish Civil War -- 11 Redefining Nation, Identity and Tradition: The Challenge for Ireland's National Museums -- 12 The Construction of Community through Heritage in Northern Ireland -- 13 Identity Crisis? Heritage Construction, Tourism and Place Marketing in Ireland -- Index

When capital projects fail to deliver, it is usually not due to technical reasons but a combination of behavioral pitfalls, unclear accountabilities and gaps in design, specification, and/or project-management processes. Early Equipment Management (EEM): Continuous Improvement for Projects explains how well-known and award-winning organizations avoid these weaknesses by using: Project road maps setting out clear accountabilities for each step of the concept-to-project-delivery process; Progressive design goals for each step to assure the delivery of low life-cycle costs; Processes to codify tacit knowledge, reveal latent design weaknesses, and build high performance cross-functional team collaboration; Project governance processes that systematically raise their organizations' ability to reduce time to market for new assets, products, and services with higher added value and fewer resources. Hence the books title of Continuous Improvement for Projects. The word "Early" in EEM refers to the principle of trapping problems as early as possible in the project process when they are cheapest to resolve. That makes EEM relevant to all projects, even those that have passed the design stages. To support the use of EEM at any project step, the author has designed each chapter as a stand-alone topic with cross references to other chapters where pertinent. This book explains: The six EEM project delivery steps setting out the tasks and accountabilities for project teams, project managers, and steering committees at each step, How to organize projects to increase project added value through the collaboration of commercial, operational, and technology stakeholders, The wiring up behind behaviors that contribute to the failure of traditional project management approaches and how to avoid those pitfalls, The use of projects as a vehicle for the development of internal talent and increase capital project added value, The systematic development of internal capabilities to deliver flawless operation from day one in less time with less resources, How raising project governance capability directly impacts on company-wide management competence, Uses case studies to explain how to implement the EEM methodology and Describes how EEM principles and techniques applied to product and service development (Early Product Management) multiplies the gains from EEM. This book shows readers how and why EEM works so that they can design their own EEM road map and continuous improvement process for projects. Book jacket.

In The Greatest Sniper Stories Ever Told, editor Tom McCarthy has pulled together some of the finest writings about snipers that capture readers imaginations, meticulously culled from books, magazines, movies, and elsewhere. It is an unforgettable collection, and includes stories by Chris Kyle (author of American Sniper), Joe LeBleu, Gina Cavallaro and Matt Larsen, and many others. It includes tales of legendary snipers from the Revolutionary War up through present-day Afghanistan and Iraq.