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In an era of rising global competition, U.S. challengers and rivals are increasingly looking to achieve competitive advantage through gray zone activities-that is, acts of aggression that remain below the threshold of outright warfare. In this report, RAND researchers identify eight common characteristics of such aggression (e.g., unfolds gradually, is not attributable) and develop a framework for assessing the health of U.S. and partner deterrence in the gray zone. They apply the framework to three cases: China's aggression against the Senkaku Islands, Russia's aggression against the Baltic states, and North Korea's aggression against South Korea. The authors conclude that U.S. and partner deterrence of gray zone activities is in a reasonably strong, though mixed, condition in each of these three contexts. Finally, the authors outline the implications of their findings for the U.S. Army. Among these implications are that maintaining a local presence and posture plays an important role in conveying likely responses to aggression, and clear statements of shared intent to respond to specific actions are critical

"Before his incarceration in 2003, the successful Zimbabwean businessman ran a safari outfit, flew his own aircraft and had a fishing resort on Lake Kariba - until he was framed by a poacher and the police and wrongfully convicted by the courts of drowning a man. During his years in jail, including the notorious Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison, where food shortages were common, there was no running water and people were dying around him on a daily basis. Stripped of his dignity, separated from his family and loves ones, he lost everything he worked for and his freedom. It is a trauma few has experienced, let alone survived. But Rusty emerged triumphant. Rusty's story is a testimony of incredible resilience in conditions most would find unbearable. He shares the life lessons he learnt - including the importance of friendship, how to harness your inner strength, forgive and show gratitude - as he found true freedom through sincerity and humility." --

Some said that the killer couldn't be a local. Others claimed that he was the wealthy son of a prominent Morgantown family. Whispers spread that Mared and Karen were sacrificed by a satanic cult or had been victims of a madman poised to strike again. Then the handwritten letters began to arrive: "You will locate the bodies of the girls covered over with brush--look carefully. The animals are now on the move." Investigators didn't find too few suspects--they had far too many. There was the campus janitor with a fur fetish, the "harmless" deliveryman who beat a woman nearly to death, the nursing home orderly with the bloody broomstick and the bouncer with the "girlish" laugh who threatened to cut off people's heads. Local authors Geoffrey C. Fuller and S. James McLaughlin tell the complete story of the murders for the first time

Det självspelande pianot är en pedagogisk grundkurs i svensk bostadspolitik och bör läsas av alla som bor.00Sedan de statliga bostadssubventionerna avskaffades i början av 1990-talet har bostadsbristen i Sverige ökat dramatiskt. Det byggs inte tillräckligt många bostäder för att möta behoven och de bostäder som byggs är alldeles för dyra. Trots det lovar både politiker och bostadsbyggare att marknaden kommer lösa bostadsbristen.00I Det självspelande pianot berättar Stig Westerdahl, professor i företagsekonomi vid Malmö universitet, vilka bostadsmarknadens aktörer är och hur deras tillvägagångssätt, praktiker, ser ut. Berättelsen utgår från begreppet värde och vi får följa med på en resa genom tid och rum, fram till dagens Sverige, där Allbolagen styr kommunernas bostadsbolag och redovisningsregler styr bostadspolitiken. Aktörernas kalkylmetoder gynnar produktion av dyra bostäder men gör mer överkomliga bostäder näst intill omöjliga att bygga. Riskkapitalbolag kan med en kombination av renoveringar och redovisningsregler snabbt höja värdet på miljonprogramsområden de köper. Detta resulterar i stora aktievinster som möjliggör köp av ytterligare områden. Det är det självspelande pianots mekanik

"The international supermodel shares personal stories and lessons learned from a life of "living dangerously--carefully." Maye Musk at seventy-one is a fashionable, charming, jet-setting supermodel with a fascinating and tight-knit circle of family and friends. But things were not always so easy or glamourous--she became a single mom at thirty-one years old, struggling through poverty to provide for her three children; dealt with weight issues as a plus-size model and overcame ageism in the modeling industry; and established a lifelong career as a respected dietician, all the while starting over in eight different cities across three countries and two continents. But she made her way through it all with an indomitable spirit and a no-nonsense attitude to become a global success at what she calls the "prime of her life." As the twenty-and thirty-somethings who follow her obsessively on social media know, Maye is a fount of frank and practical advice on how the choices you make in every decade can pay off in surprising, exciting ways throughout your life. In A Woman Makes a Plan, Maye shares experiences from her life conveying hard-earned wisdom on career (the harder you work, the luckier you get), family (let the people you love go their own way), health (there is no magic pill), and adventure (make room for discovery, but always be ready for anything). You can't control all that happens in life, but you can have the life you want at any age. All you have to do is make a plan"--