In June 2015, Clowns Without Borders Canada and Clowns Without Borders France went on a mission in Haiti and performed 5 shows for 15,000 people.
In June 2015, Clowns Without Borders Spain and Clowns Without Borders Canada went on a joint mission in Haiti.
In August 2015, Clowns Without Borders UK and Clowns Without Borders Sweden did a joint tour to the people affected by the earthquake of April.
In January 2015, Clowns Without Borders Belgium, France and UK performed shows in the camps of Calais and Grand-Synthe in Dunkerke.
In December 2015, Clowns Without Borders Sweden went on its third emergency mission in Greece due to the refugee crisis in Europe. They did spontaneous performances around Kos harbor, in food delivery places, etc.
In December 2015, Clowns Without Borders Sweden went on an emergency mission in Greece due to the refugee crisis in Europe. They did spontaneous performances around Kos harbor, in food delivery places, etc.
In November 2015, Clowns Without Borders Sweden went to Cambodia to perform shows in orphanages and in centers/organizations that work with child workers.


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using System;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Threading;
using Fitbit.Models;
using FluentAssertions;
using NUnit.Framework;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace Fitbit.Portable.Tests
{
    [TestFixture]
    public class IntradayTimeSeriesTests
    {
        [Test]
        [Category("Portable")]
        public async Task GetIntraDayTimeSeriesCaloriesIntensityMetsAsync_Success()
        {
            DateTime expectedResult = new DateTime(2015, 3, 20, 0, 1, 0);

            string content = SampleDataHelper.GetContent("IntradayActivitiesCalories.json");
            var responseMessage = new Func<HttpResponseMessage>(() =>
            {
                return new HttpResponseMessage(HttpStatusCode.OK) { Content = new StringContent(content) };
            });

            var verification = new Action<HttpRequestMessage, CancellationToken>((message, token) =>
            {
                message.Method.Should().Be(HttpMethod.Get);
                message.RequestUri.AbsoluteUri.Should().Be("https://api.fitbit.com/1/user/-/activities/calories/date/2015-03-20/1d.json");
            });

            var fitbitClient = Helper.CreateFitbitClient(responseMessage, verification);
            var response = await fitbitClient.GetIntraDayTimeSeriesAsync(IntradayResourceType.CaloriesOut, new DateTime(2015, 3, 20), new TimeSpan(24, 0, 0));

            response.DataSet[1].Time.Should().Be(expectedResult);
            response.DataSet[1].METs.Should().Be("10");
            response.DataSet[1].Level.Should().Be("0");
            response.DataSet[1].Value.Should().Be("1.1857000589370628");
        }

        [Test]
        [Category("Portable")]
        public async Task GetIntraDayTimeSeriesCaloriesIntensityMetsAsync_ReturnsNullIfMissingDateTime()
        {
            string content = SampleDataHelper.GetContent("IntradayActivitiesCaloriesMissingDateTime.json");
            var responseMessage = new Func<HttpResponseMessage>(() =>
            {
                return new HttpResponseMessage(HttpStatusCode.OK) { Content = new StringContent(content) };
            });

            var verification = new Action<HttpRequestMessage, CancellationToken>((message, token) =>
            {
                message.Method.Should().Be(HttpMethod.Get);
                message.RequestUri.AbsoluteUri.Should().Be("https://api.fitbit.com/1/user/-/activities/calories/date/2015-03-20/1d.json");
            });

            var fitbitClient = Helper.CreateFitbitClient(responseMessage, verification);
            IntradayData response = await fitbitClient.GetIntraDayTimeSeriesAsync(IntradayResourceType.CaloriesOut, new DateTime(2015, 3, 20), new TimeSpan(24, 0, 0));

            response.Should().Be(null);
        }

        [Test]
        [Category("Portable")]
        public async Task GetIntraDayTimeSeriesStepsAsync_Success()
        {
            DateTime expectedResult = new DateTime(2016, 3, 8, 0, 1, 0);

            string content = SampleDataHelper.GetContent("IntradayActivitiesSteps.json");
            var responseMessage = new Func<HttpResponseMessage>(() =>
            {
                return new HttpResponseMessage(HttpStatusCode.OK) { Content = new StringContent(content) };
            });

            var verification = new Action<HttpRequestMessage, CancellationToken>((message, token) =>
            {
                message.Method.Should().Be(HttpMethod.Get);
                message.RequestUri.AbsoluteUri.Should().Be("https://api.fitbit.com/1/user/-/activities/steps/date/2016-03-08/1d.json");
            });

            var fitbitClient = Helper.CreateFitbitClient(responseMessage, verification);
            var response = await fitbitClient.GetIntraDayTimeSeriesAsync(IntradayResourceType.Steps, new DateTime(2016, 3, 8), new TimeSpan(24, 0, 0));

            response.DataSet[1].Time.Should().Be(expectedResult);
            response.DataSet[1].Value.Should().Be("2");

        }
    }
}

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2014 has been an interesting year for myself, a constant struggle trying to turn around a struggling gym, trying to run an elite Personal Training Service and manage staff fairly and considerately.
2015 my expertise will be tested in Bannatynes in Chester le Street.
Through hard work, consistent events and activities the Gym and myself were shortlisted as Ladies Gym of the Year and Personal Trainer of the Year 2014 at The National Fitness Awards. So we got shortlisted as the last four in GB for both awards but unfortunately never won either. This only means this year i must try harder and do more - simples.
After starting a process 6 years ago i finally became qualified as an Army Paratrooper, jumping out of a perfectly serviceable Military Aircraft and hitting the floor hard between 40 seconds and a minute later. This should'nt be confused with civilian parachuting because on one you land softly in nice equipment and on the other you smash into varying terrain during the day or night carrying very heavy equipment including weapons. I am told it's like falling off a motorbike at around 20-30 miles an hour.
Anyway i digress, that was 2014.
This year i will have a lot less distractions, therefore i can really commit all of my time and energy to getting the most from my clients.
2015 has started with a new base of operations and lots of new opportunities including being a part of the team at Bannatynes. Freelance Personal Trainer whilst helping out in the club and running the odd class including my excellent Bootcamp (Probably going to tuesdays at 6.30am).
I will still be helping all over the place and working everywhere so dont worry, you will still see me about.
My brand of Personal Training is expanding for 2015, a little reminder of what i do which does differ from others in my field.
Looking at stress as a lifestyle and fitness priority.
Looking at habits as a priority, inplimenting methods for habit and mindset change.
Bodymap assessments, this is basically fixing issues such as flexibility, mobility and pain by using mind magic.
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Making movies to save Kinshasa's street kids
Brussels-born filmmaker Marc-Henri Wajnberg has just completed, I am Chance, his third documentary movie about children living on the streets of the Congolese capital Kinshasa.
By Brigid Grauman
Dodo, Gracia, Shekina et Chancelvie © Wajnbrosse Productions
She is 15 years old. At times, her furrowed brow makes her look like an old woman. At others, her infectious laugh is that of a child. Chancelvie is the title character of I am Chance, a documentary set in Kinshasa, the chaotic capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She has lived on the streets since she was eight and is the leader of a gang of girls as young as 12. Strutting around the city, she steals and turns tricks to survive. At night, she sleeps on cardboard, while a baby grows inside her belly.
I am Chance, out in cinemas now, is Belgian director Marc-Henri Wajnberg's third in a trilogy about its street kids. Wajnberg has been in and out of Kinshasa for the last ten years and he says this latest film conveys the way he experiences this disorderly, crazy megapolis and its famously exuberant population. "You love or you hate it, but it breathes like New York," he says. "I love the energy, the noise, the music, the people talking to each other all the time, the car horns."
His film does not judge or take sides. It blends in. Hints at the colonial past are present but subtle. It was while making a TV documentary about musicians for Arte Web that he heard about Kinshasa's street kids, of whom there are an estimated 35,000. Some are orphans, others war victims from Kivu and elsewhere. Yet others have been kicked out of their homes by a parent's new partner and accused of witchcraft. They cannot read or write and live in clans according to the rules of the street. They are known as "phaseurs", the homeless children.
© Wajnbrosse Productions
The first of Wajnberg's three films, Kinshasa Kids, made in 2012, was a fiction about boys forming a ragamuffin band. It was followed by Kinshasa Now, another fiction filmed in virtual reality about a boy accused of witchcraft. The film was premiered at the 2020 Venice Biennale, and toured four cities in the Congo, showing in centres for street kids, schools and cultural spaces to gobsmacked audiences wearing special headsets that gave them the illusion of really being there. Screened in 45 festivals, Kinshasa Now has won 15 prizes and been shown in more than a hundred cities around the world.
That Wajnberg keeps coming back to Kinshasa is testimony to the city's compelling chaos. "Everything is terribly badly organised, and yet somehow everything works," he says. "You can always eat and you can always get everywhere. The Congolese are masters of the art of resourcefulness, 'la débrouille'."
The street as theatre
I am Chance starts with Chancelvie's early pregnancy and ends after the birth of her baby boy (Wajnberg paid for it to take place in a clinic). Two other girls he follows have, like Chancelvie, been victims of sexual and other violence, as have all the street kids. Yet they would rather stay outside than go to one of the 150 specialised centres where they would be protected and given a chance at a better, safer life. They see the street as offering them freedom rather than the imprisonment of beds and curfews. Needless to say, their life expectancy is short, an average of 25 years. They die of malaria, venereal disease or acts of violence.
Chancelvie and Shekina at the clinic © Wajnbrosse Productions - I am Chance
And yet their beauty, their vitality and joie de vivre is life-affirming. Shekinah, a solemn 12-year-old, knows how to read and write a little. She is Chancelvie's protégé and apprentice, and says she wants to study law at university. By the film's end, her face has been slashed by a razor blade, and she cherishes her scar with pride. Dodo, the third girl is a lanky 14-year-old, whose mother also lived in the streets, and who advises Shekinah to enjoy the sex to make it bearable.
Over the six months Wajnberg spent filming in 2020, he gathered 200-300 hours of film. It took him nine months to edit the image and sound, and translate Lingala, the language they speak. "It was an enormous amount of work. Just translating from the girls' street Lingala was a mammoth job. They have their own words. Then we had to streamline the cacophony of noise, voices and music," he says.
View of Kinshasa © Wajnbrosse Productions
He deliberately excluded some scenes he had shot because they were too violent. The film is tough enough as it is. "And I wanted to show the girls' strength and resilience, their solidarity," he says.
Wajnberg, originally from Brussels, has a track record of prize-winning movies, some fiction and others documentary. He first made his name with 1,200 comic shorts, the Claps, which he directed, produced and acted in. He sold these as fillers to television stations around the world. His documentary films range from characters like the Soviet Jewish photographer Yevgeny Khaldei and the Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer in his 93rd year.
A lone white face
Not all his experiences have been pleasant, although he does not dwell on the difficult moments. Instead, he prefers talking about his long walks crisscrossing the city's least Europeanised quarters, where he never meets another white face. He's visited these neighbourhoods so many times that people call out "Marc-Henri!", even when he is riding on the back seat of a scooter wearing sunglasses and a Covid mask, as happened recently.
Chancelvie with her baby at the market © Wajnbrosse Productions - I am Chance
His base when filming I am Chance was with the artists' collective, Ndaku la vie est belle, which features in the film. They occupy a big space where dancers, musicians and visual artists work and perform. In the film, they design robotic costumes out of discarded mobile phones and parade the streets while the girls act as barkers to earn some money.
Wajnberg's team of two Congolese cameramen was unobtrusive, the only way he could have made such a film. And no matter how well he planned the next day's work, it never happened that way. The girls would not turn up when they were meant to, and Wajnberg would have to spend hours seeking them out in their usual haunts. He rented a room where they could sleep during the shoot - partly for practical reasons, partly for their comfort - but they never slept there.
Marc-Henri Wajnberg and Chancelvie
Wajnberg paid the children he worked with a little money every day, fed them, bought clothes for them, and took care of any medical bills. Thanks to him, all the boys in Kinshasa Kids and Kinshasa Now are off the streets. Some are back with their families, one is now a pastry chef and another sings in a band. He has not been as successful with the girls because they were older and more mature, and so less willing to accept the centres' rules. Instead, he's become a regular user of Western Union, wiring money to the girls and the artists for a room, any emergency, and contributing money to help keep the centres afloat.
I am Chance was co-produced by the French Community of Belgium, along with other Belgian institutions and sponsors. It premiered in early May in a Belgian festival, before its release in several cinemas, and has now sold to four local television stations. It is only at the start of its career. "I would like to see it touring festivals, including in Africa, to make people aware of the plight of these kids," Wajnberg says. "And I want to convince the Congolese presidency to see it."


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I think one problem that you may have is that the (dead) candida is re-circulating throughout the body and it has no where to go except through the skin (and through the bowels). This is completely healthy even though it may not appear so.
This is why I went to a naturopathic doctor because he prescribed me something that will prevent the candida from re-attaching to my mucosal membranes (in the intestines). Ever since I have taken his supplements I have been on a very strong road to recovery.
If you want to detox the candida further from the skin/body; the sauna, steam room, or sweating idea I mentioned before will get it out of your body much much faster and will reduce the symptoms (the skin problem). However I have no idea whether this would be too much of a taxing thing to do when taking molybdenum (which removes some trace minerals from the body).


The Spartans earned a strong Fox Valley Association dual meet win over the Terrors on Monday, sweeping the doubles competition.
Oshkosh North 6, Appleton West 1: The Spartans earned a strong Fox Valley Association dual meet win over the Terrors on Monday, sweeping the doubles competition.
The doubles teams of Brandon Hamm/Cade Francour (No. 1), Logan Withers/Ben Laufer (No. 2) and Isaac Bock/Max Bossert (No. 3) all earned straight-set victories.
Singles players Sam Fitzhenry (No. 2), Ryan Penzenstadler (No. 3) and Kobe Schmitz (No. 4) picked up victories as well for Oshkosh North.
Singles: No. 1: Dan Meyer (AW) def. Jack Hoffman 6-3, 6-2. No. 2: Sam Fitzhenry (ON) def. David Galambos, 6-4, 7-6(2). No. 3: Ryan Penzenstadler (ON) def. Jackson Wiberg, 6-0, 6-2. No. 4: Kobe Schmitz (ON) def. Cole Vale, 6-2, 6-4.
Doubles: No. 1: Brandon Hamm/Cade Francour (ON) def. Max Meyers/Keegan Gallup, 6-2, 6-1. No. 2: Logan Withers/Ben Laufer (ON) def. Chance Verkuilen/Nick Hopper, 6-1, 6-0. No. 3: Isaac Bock/Max Bossert (ON) def. Bartek Boryczka/Isaac Painting, 6-3, 6-2.


Dear brothers and sisters in משיח, Greetings from India.
I am pastor Naik Christian from India, once I was a Sunday worship pastor for 14teen churches in India. In 2014 through a medical missionary I come to know the Sabbath Truth. Then I asked יהוה to tell me Sabbath is Truth? Or Sunday? Then I recived יהוה answer one my 7days fasting in a mountain. יהוה said I am alpha and Omega. I am the אלוהים of Sabbath, you are Chosen by me keep the Sabbath and go to whole world call my people from Sunday to Sabbath Truth I anointed you.
Then I decided to keep the Sabbath on every Saturday. I went to all my 14 teen Sunday worship centres to teaching Sabbath Truth, but they said your false prophet we don't want you to run the churches. They rejected Truth and Health message.
They we come on road to live in a small tent because they not paid our room rent and school fees for my kids, not giving me any support. But we not lose our faith in יהוה. As a family 6 months we suffered lot for truth, many days in fasting prayers.
Thank אדוני said again from heaven I heard a big voice says to me, get up my son go to sattenpalli village start a new church I am sending my people to you. Then we went to sattenpalli village started a prayer meeting with one lady from Sunday worship. She come to know the Sabbath by the spirit guidence. Then preaching יהוה truth יהוה opened many eyes to see the יהוה love. So now we 20 believes in our small church in India. I am preaching 3angels messages to India and health messages. Thank you.
1.Pray for a car. 6+1=7 sitting.
2. We need a sound system.
3. We need a camera and a microphone to record message to send all sunday pastors.
4. Pray for a Good computer.
5. Pray to finish the church building.
6.Pray to God we need workers and Health workers.
7.Pray for 5acers of land to building a Natural Healing centre in India.
Previous Pray for India mission work.


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A unique and fascinating look at violent political change by one of the most profound thinkers of the twentieth century and the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of Totalitarianism
Hannah Arendt's penetrating observations on the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, have been fundamental to our understanding of our political landscape. On Revolution is her classic exploration of a phenomenon that has reshaped the globe. From the eighteenth-century rebellions in America and France to the explosive changes of the twentieth century, Arendt traces the changing face of revolution and its relationship to war while underscoring the crucial role such events will play in the future. Illuminating and prescient, this timeless work will fascinate anyone who seeks to decipher the forces that shape our tumultuous age.
Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) was University Professor of political philosophy in the graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, a visiting professor at several universities including California, Princeton, Columbia, and Chicago, a research director of the Conference on Jewish Relations, the chief editor of Schocken Books, and the executive director of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction in New York City. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1952, and an Arts and Letters Grant of the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1954. She is also the author of Between Past and Future and Eichmann in Jerusalem, which are available from Penguin Classics along with The Portable Hannah Arendt.
Jonathan Schell (1943–2014) was the Lannan Fellow at the Nation Institute. He is the author of The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People and The Fate of the Earth, among other books.
"Arendt's admirers will welcome her excursion into the relatively neglected field of comparative revolution. She is never dull, enormously erudite, always imaginative, original and full of insights." —The Sunday Times (London)
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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La nécropole nationale de Noyon est un cimetière militaire de la Première Guerre mondiale situé sur le territoire de la commune de Remy dans le département de l'Oise.

Historique
La nécropole nationale de Noyon a été créée le .

Caractéristiques
La superficie du cimetière est de , il compte  dépouilles de soldats et d'une victime civile,  tombes individuelles et 699 soldats dans un ossuaire. 4 corps de soldats de la Seconde Guerre mondiale reposent également dans ce cimetière.

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 Lieu de mémoire
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 Liste de nécropoles nationales en France
 Liste des mémoriaux et cimetières militaires de l'Oise

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The voltage stabilizer is pretty unique to British cars of the mid sixties through mid 1970's. As a component it was added in as the suppliers of electric gauges changed their specifications. It's also referred to as a 'voltage regulator', which is more correct. Instead of the instruments running on 12 volts, they ran on 10.5 volts. This gave them better response, especially variable resistance gauges.
The voltage stabilizer essentially changes the line voltage from around 14.5 to 10.5. If it fails the electrical gauges (except ammeter/voltmeter) will either read too high, too low, or not at all.
This is important to know when adding or replacing gauges. New instruments that require the stabilizer are still available, and if adding a new one make sure to pull the power for it from the stabilizer and not any old hot lead from the vehicle.


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D. Slavko Martinov | PG | New Zealand
The year's best feel-good flockumentary. It's like Best in Show, only real … and with chickens.
The chicken-loving members of the 148-year-old Christchurch Poultry, Bantam and Pigeon Club are busy preparing for the National Show. The club's president, Doug Bain, has brought the group championship glory over the years, but is now facing off against the next generation of poultry fanciers who seem determined to knock down this award-winning cock of the walk.
Kiwi director Slavko Martinov got the idea for the documentary after hearing about competitive chicken shows at a Melbourne craft fair. When he investigated the oldest chicken group in Christchurch, he uncovered a cut throat world of passion, obsession, power struggles and competition from people who take the world of chicken fancying as seriously as life and death.
Pecking Order provides insight into a world of peculiar personalities and low-stake power plays, where the president of a club devoted to chickens will casually eat a bucket of KFC during a meeting. In this world, you're either a champion or you're lunch.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyqrX4ySvKg
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Finally I went flying! It was two months ago when I decided to validate my FAA certificate. I was confident to do that during the week I came back from Canada. Obviously I was wrong. I will be working on it until January or so. But let's talk about the joy of flight rather than to complain!
I flew this Piper Tomahawk. It was even faster than it looked like. Our ground speed read 144 knots! No wonder the snow melts underneath! (No I won't tell you the tailwind…haha) I liked the airplane very much. It was a lot more stable than the 152s and compared to float planes there was like no work for my feet. Only on the landing I used a bit of rudder due to a 23 knots almost-headwind. I liked the weather on that day, though. We experienced rain, drizzle, snow… and a lot of wind.
We departed from LSZG, Grenchen, and flew westbound for basic practice maneuvers. I did standard 360ies, steep turns and slow flight. The airplane was a joy to handle. On this flight I also did some radio work. It was fun to listen to the Swiss-Accent-ATIS. Let's compare!
Oh, how I enjoyed to listen. Everytime she took a breath (……..) I had time to think: "Awww, what a beautiful day to fly. Oh, 10 kilometers or more…nice…let's take a note of this…" haha 🙂 On the way back we crossed the control zone of Bern. I didn't do the radios but it wasn't anything special. After that I worked my way through the never-ending checklist. It's made extra long for the ATPL trainees. It had some good stuff in it. Before takeoff I had to say out loud the departure and emergency procedures. My landings were not really nice. But hey, it was my first flight in this landlubber of a Tomahawk!
I had a blast! 🙂 I'm happy with the flight school and I'm looking forward to complete the course to fly my dad's Skylark!


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The Trump Administration Will Not Be Happy About the Forest Service's New Fire Management Strategy
The strategy emphasizes science and a changing climate.
Jackie Flynn Mogensen
Assistant EditorBio
A U.S. Flag is placed on a wildfire-ravaged property as rain comes down in the the Coffey Park area in Santa Rosa, Calif. Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP
As wildfires continue to rage across the West during a brutally hot summer, on Thursday the US Forest Service released its new forest fire management strategy that focuses on science and the changing climate. The report comes at the same time the president has sent out misleading tweets about the causes and solutions of California's wildfires, and as Donald Trump's Interior head Ryan Zinke has blamed fires on environmentalists, denied climate change science, and called for more logging.
Zinke has said the forest fires have "nothing to do with climate change" and recently called the left "angry," "intolerant" and "uninformed" on the environment and public land management, according to the Huffington Post.
But the Department of the Interior disputes this in an email to Mother Jones, saying, "The Secretary addressed the correlation between climate and fires dozens of times over the 48 hours he was in California and all week in interviews since returning. Additionally, in his op-ed, the Secretary directly addressed longer, hotter, drier seasons in the opening paragraphs." It's true that Zinke changed his tune—after his earlier comments, Zinke told reporters Thursday that climate change has played a role in the fires and that global temperatures are rising.
Trump weighed in on California's fires on Twitter earlier this month, with tweets that were immediately described as false and misleading, saying, "California wildfires are being magnified & made so much worse by the bad environmental laws which aren't allowing massive amount of readily available water to be properly utilized…Must also tree clear to stop fire spreading!"
Governor Jerry Brown must allow the Free Flow of the vast amounts of water coming from the North and foolishly being diverted into the Pacific Ocean. Can be used for fires, farming and everything else. Think of California with plenty of Water – Nice! Fast Federal govt. approvals.
Mother Jones asked an expert to decipher this nonsense, and you can read his analysis here.
But today, the Forest Service, which is part of the Department of Agriculture, released a new 28-page fire-management strategy. In it, the service writes, "Of particular concern are longer fire seasons and the rising size and severity of wildfires, along with the growing risk to lives, homes, natural resources, and other values." The report also includes a map of changes in fire weather seasons in the United States between 1979 and 2017, a phenomenon scientists warn is largely due to climate change:
US Forest Service
Though the Forest Service doesn't mention the words "climate change" specifically (as past versions of the plan have), it points out that "changes in temperature, precipitation patterns, and other environmental conditions" are all "driving factors" behind wildfires and other environmental challenges. And in the Appendix, the Forest Service writes, "effects of a changing climate" are a general threat to forest health.
"It's a breath of fresh air to see science, instead of politics, inserted into forest and fire management," said Kirin Kennedy, associate legislative director for lands and wildlife at the Sierra Club, in a statement. "The longer Ryan Zinke continues to ignore these facts the greater the risks to homes and families."
Ryan Zinke Is Clueless About Wildfires
Chris D'Angelo
The Trump Administration Is Politicizing the Tragedy of California's Catastrophic Wildfires
Chris D'Angelo and Alexander C. Kaufman


Internet White Pages: Are You Listed?
There are a number of Internet sites that contain databases of names and e-mail address of many Internet users. Check these directories to see if you are listed.
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Discover the trees and wildlife in St Peter's Churchyard. Information available in the South Porch.
Visit Verulamium Lake and take a closer look at its thriving heron colony through telescopes at our watch point.
Info ww2.rspb.org.uk/groups/stalbans Will go ahead in bad weather.
FOODSMILES SITE OPEN DAY. TOUR, TEA AND CAKES.
Drop in and visit this co-operative organic veg growing site. Get involved! Try our tea and cakes – meet the members. You may even want to join! Wear sturdy shoes.
Enjoy a tour of our productive allotment and learn more about pollinator-friendly plants over a cup of tea and delectable cakes.
Info 07973 800986. Rain or shine!
Celebrate the launch of our new Tree Trail by exploring the grounds of St Albans Cathedral and the city's oldest trees with one of our experienced guides.
Come along for CNAA tours on the hour. See wonderful allotments and enjoy light refreshment (provided by CASH) in the orchard. A real community event!
Info Event will go ahead in light rain.
Come to see what your friends and neighbours are doing to produce fresh fruit and vegetables all year round. See the varieties grown. Allotment plots available. Event cancelled if heavy rain.
Where Greyhound Meadow, AL3 7BU. Park along North Common. Walk up path to right of REC shop.
Info http://www.rspb.org.uk/groups/stalbans Will go ahead in bad weather.
Help to plant and maintain our open-to-all community garden. Harvest a little something to take home. No experience necessary. Growing questions encouraged!
Join us for a spot of gardening – come and have a look at the new garden, sow some seeds, or do a bit of digging, if you like. Tea and homemade cake available!
Come on a walk with your Lib Dem councillor looking at practical changes that could improve your local area and make it a more sustainable place to live.
Walks will go ahead whatever the weather.
Info http://www.stalbanslibdems.org.uk 07812 113368 Walks will go ahead whatever the weather.
Walk through some of our most beautiful hidden bits of nature and look at ways we could improve your local neighbourhood.
Info http://www.hitch-harp-libdems.org.uk 07747 470239 Walks will go ahead whatever the weather.
Info http://www.stalbanslibdems.org.uk 07387 085802 Walks will go ahead whatever the weather.
Storytelling and craft with a sustainability theme. A fun-filled session with magical, professional storytelling and captivating crafts.
Come and play in the woods with the Woodcraft Folk! From den-building to rope bridges, whittling and crafts. Dip in and out; see what we do at our weekly sessions!
Build your own bath bomb! Become a temporary compounder and create a bath bomb to take home, while donating money to Sustainable St Albans.
Where Nomansland Common – meet at the car park on Ferrers Lane, Wheathampstead.
Event is open to families of all ages. Food stalls, free tasters, and free use of the gym facility, fitness challenges inside and outside the gym. Fun challenges, free diet plans, expert advice, free health checks.
See how many creatures live in the river. We check up and down the river every month counting the creatures to tell us how healthy our chalk stream is.
Info http://www.riverver.co.uk. John Pritchard johnp@riverver.co.uk. Rain or shine 01727 835957.
An educational morning on how we encourage wildlife and pollination, and what we make and create from our resources, including bee-keeping and hazel coppicing.
Come on a walk with one of your Lib Dem councillors looking at practical changes that could improve your local area and make it a more sustainable place to live.
Info http://www.stalbanslibdems.org.uk 07971 906343 Walks will go ahead whatever the weather.
Come to see what your friends and neighbours are doing to produce fresh fruit and vegetables all year round. See the varieties grown. Allotment plots available. Cancelled if heavy rain.
Where Tassel Hall, Redbourn AL3 7JE. Driveway to right of 107 Tassel Hall. Sharp Left at top. Car Park.
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Info http://www.stalbanslibdems.org.uk 07387 085502 Walks will go ahead whatever the weather.
Join us and other business owners for a lovely stroll in Heartwood Forest – you don't have to be a business owner or have a dog to come and join us.
Help to plant and maintain our open-to-all community garden, and harvest a little something to take home. No experience necessary. Growing questions encouraged!
Come and enjoy a 3 mile walk around one of our beautiful, local nature reserves. All welcome.
Event will continue unless extremely wet! 07786 262215 to confirm.
A stroll around the beautiful countryside in our Parish, visiting Nomansland Common and Symondshyde Ancient Woodland.
Short indoor talk on plans for a new butterfly habitat in Chiswell Green. Guided walk (1 mile) around the wildflower meadow and site for the new chalk bank.
Info Presentation indoors, butterfly walk – weather dependent. Malcolm Hull 07768 154324.
Come to see what your friends and neighboursare doing to produce fresh fruit and vegetables all year round. See the varieties grown. Plots available. Cancelled if heavy rain.
Where Long Cutt, Redbourn AL3 7EY. Path to left of 74 Hill Top. No car parking.
Join the project team and take a walk along the River Ver to see how an ambitious project plans to restore this rare chalk river and improve the Verulamium Park lakes.
Where Verulamium Park, St Albans (outside Inn on the Park).
Find out what lives in our rivers and streams, the importance of Batford Springs and how to survey the waterways. Wellies are a must!
Discover the fascinating lives of hedgehogs with an expert from Hornbeam Wood Hedgehog Sanctuary. Learn how to help and possibly meet a rescue hog!
Where Hornbeam Wood Hedgehog Rescue.
Our ever-popular Family Discovery Mornings allow children and adults to explore our wonderful Cathedral, completing art/craft activities as they go.
Get up close and personal with the small mammals found in Harpenden and learn about the tracks and signs left by these little critters.


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A visit to China would usually incorporate trips to both Beijing and Shanghai. The differences in terms of architecture and history are at once obvious. However under the surface more and more differences are apparent, until you realise that one of the only aspects they have in common with one another is their importance to China.
For travellers with a basic knowledge of Chinese, the first difference is in the language itself. Shanghai is a dialect as different from Beijing's as Cantonese. Shanghainese can be difficult to get used to for foreigners, but this gulf in dialects truly reflects the gulf between the Shanghai and Beijing's residents. Shanghai may not be the capital of China, but its residents don't care, because they know that they live in China's greatest city, and will be more than willing to let you know that. This is a city full of people proud to live at the forefront of China's economic boom, and upon visiting Shanghai you may feel that their arrogance is justified. The Communist Party itself has its headquarters in the capital Beijing, but has its roots in a Shanghai back street where they Party held its first meeting in the 1920s. The Shanghainese will admit that China's history lies in Beijing, but its future is Shanghai.
Before your trip to China, you will no doubt have heard of Peking Duck, the unofficial national dish of China. But Shanghai's cuisine is celebrated throughout China and is markedly different to the rest of the country. A prime location on the coast at the mouth of the Yangtze River gives Shanghai wonderful fresh seafood, with crabs, fish and chicken the mainstay of Shanghai cuisine. Shanghai has notably smaller, more delicate portions than the rest of the country, with care and attention focused on bringing out flavours in each dish. Sugar is a frequent feature in Shanghai cooking, from where popular sweet and sour dishes originate. A must-eat is surely Shanghai's shengjianbao (生煎包),a fried dumpling commonly eaten for breakfast with a stick of fried dough (youtiao 油条) and soy milk. Another popular dish is the Shanghai hairy crab, caught fresh in the mouth of the Yangtze, this is a popular dish with locals available throughout the city.
Shanghai may be a modern metropolis, but in comparison to Beijing there are fewer obvious sights for tourists to flock to. The real pleasure of visiting in Shanghai is to find the locals, and enjoy what they do in their leisure time. Whether it be going to Fuxing Park to listen to Chinese music and singers, or to even join in with the groups of dancers (ballroom, line dancing, tango…) dotted around the park. Stroll through the many markets in the city, whether it be Dongtai Road's antiques and curio market, or the many various animal and food markets, you are sure to spot amazing items for sale. With all of its skyscrapers and fantastic 21st century architecture, Shanghai may be a city with its head in the clouds, but the real beauty of it is at street level.


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Hi! I hope you are having a great week.
Friday the 13th kicked off an '80s horror binge for us. Since then, we've watched the fourth one in the series (AKA "The Final Chapter"–HA!), Piranha (1978), Chopping Mall (1986), and Sleepaway Camp (1983).
I have to admit I watched Friday the 13th for the first time this past Halloween. I am a late bloomer when it comes to loving horror, and for so many years, I was adamant that I'd never watch the series. Once I finally did, it quickly became my favorite! Young me would be shocked (as are probably some friends). The movies are so enjoyable–funny, scary, gratuitous. What more do you really want from an '80s flick?
Anyway! I've got a short link round-up for you today.
An all-vegan food hall has opened in Miami! We spent a week in South Beach in early 2017 (which honestly feels like 100 years ago) and had the best time. Now I have even more of a reason to go back!
I'm sure some people find this controversial, but I admit that I think it's great: company WeWork will only reimburse employee meals if they are meatless.
A little older, but I keep coming back to this article on words to keep out of your professional vocabulary. I say "just" all of the time and have been trying to minimize my use of it.
There's a teaser for Stranger Things season 3! But, we have to wait a whole year!?
Neill Blomkamp is set to direct a new RoboCop movie! It's referred to as a sequel, but it's unclear to me if Joel Kinnaman will be reviving his role, or if it's more of a reboot.
This coffee soda recipe is blowing my mind. I first had a coffee soda in Nashville at Crema. It was an orange coffee soda. I was a bit skeptical, but it was insanely refreshing! I never thought about recreating it–and so easily!
Tell me: What movie should we watch next? Got any links to share?


No doubt you have thoroughly thought out your business intelligence (BI) strategy and have it available …. on ONE slide! Your strategy to execution, business needs, governance model, BI objectives and needs, information categories, components and architecture, sponsorships, measurement, training, support, and metadata management … they all fit on your magical one-slide. Let me smile.
This blog is not an argument about the importance of a solid BI strategy; there has been plenty written about that. It is about how you can create one in a few clearly outlined steps that can guide you to a rock solid base for your BI strategy with limited investment in time and effort. I am speaking of days — not weeks or months!
Let's start your BI strategy foundation here, based on four simple steps I have applied many times with customers.
There are typically 10-20 business challenges and business impact statements per LoB. I use a simple spreadsheet to log the challenges and impacts together with their individual scores. Visualization tools easily allow me to share detailed insights with my customers on their BI needs baseline. If you, for example, use a scatter-chart with degree of pain versus degree of impact, one can easily spot the key domains that require focus.
Objectives: Describes the extent to which the history, key reasons, and objectives for the BI strategy have been documented and to what extent the objectives have been executed. Degree of documentation definition is rated on a scale of 0-10.
BI needs: Describes the extent to which the business needs and the future state have been defined and executed, in terms of the business requirements and corresponding KPIs. Degree of KPI definitions rated on a scale of 0-10.
Business case: Describes the extent to which the benefits of implementing the BI strategy have been articulated and quantified. Degree of articulation is rated on a scale of 0-10.
Information and technology: Addresses the types of information that has been, and/or will be captured, and the technology that is or will be put in place to meet the BI needs. One of the methods I use is the BI component selection tool.
Organization and implementation: Describes to what extent the organization is ready to implement the BI strategy and is on track to execute. Degree of execution readiness is rated on a scale of 0-10.
Step 2 requires a bit more effort than Step 1. My experience is to allocate 2-3 days to get a fair insight. Again, I log everything using a spreadsheet with the above mentioned domains each rated.
Remember that we are creating a foundation for a BI strategy, and not a detailed strategy execution plan. Detailed strategy plans require Steps 2b, 2d, and 2e to be further explored. Our foundation is the perfect framework to do so.
Note that I keep the registration of the above steps simple and with a single rating degree of 0-10 for each existence, execution and impact. If properly done, one can very easily generate a visualized insight of the execution baseline like a radar chart with the three metrics.
Which gaps will drive the biggest benefit for our enterprise?
What BI needs are causing the most disruption – and the highest business pain for decision makers?
How can or should identified gaps be prioritized for the maximum enterprise impact?
Again, I use a very simple spreadsheet to document the individual gaps and their scores. For the score I reuse the degrees from the previous steps. Below is a version of the outputs with a bit more detail.
Descriptions of the solution and value of closing the gaps caused by the pains/needs.
BI category and solution description – what are the business intelligence solutions required for addressing this pain?
If you have rated your degrees consistently, radar and scatter maps will clearly indicate where the most important needs are, what the current and future capabilities to address those needs are, and – as a result – what the prioritized gaps are.
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Every year, Little White Lies Editor-at-Large David Ehrlich celebrates his favorite movies with a video countdown supercut. The newly released 2014 edition is typically excellent (even if I might quibble with some of his individual choices coughsomethinginmythroatnotreallyIjustdon'tlike'Godzilla'cough) and covers Ehrlich's picks for the top 25 films of the calendar year.
In order to be eligible for this list, a film had to be formally distributed in the United States in the calendar year of 2014. When needed, I extended that to films that have been submitted to the Best Foreign Language Film category at the upcoming Oscars, even if they weren't required to have a qualifying run in NY or LA (those movies are opening really soon anyway, so it's all good). As was also the case with last year's video, the video kicks off with a little intro that's intended to set the stage, and then launches into the countdown a couple of minutes later. All of the featured music comes from the films of 2014, and a full track list is waiting for you at the end. As always, this was both a blast to cut together and also just an unspeakably catastrophic waste of time. So … I hope you enjoy it.
Some of the juxtapositions are really great, like Portishead's Beth Gibbons singing "I just want to be a woman" over shots of Scarlett Johansson's alien-in-human-clothing(-and-skin) from 'Under the Skin' and Redbone's 'Come and Get Your Love' grooving through the creepy images from Jennifer Kent's horror movie 'The Babadook.' All in all, it's been a great year for movies, and we're really looking forward to spending the rest of the month celebrating as many as we can.


Few have confronted more antagonism and trials than did Joseph Smith. He was besieged with dozens of unjustified lawsuits and was often in jeopardy of his life. He was poisoned, beaten, tarred, unjustly imprisoned, and once sentenced to die by firing squad. He and Emma seldom had a home of their own, and six of their children died in infancy. Financial difficulties continually plagued the family.
How did Joseph Smith feel about the persecutions he suffered?
From Liberty Jail, Joseph wrote that his difficult experiences tutored him. "For my part, I think I never could have felt as I now do if I had not suffered the wrongs that I have suffered. All things shall work together for good to them that love God" (Letter from Joseph Smith to Presendia Huntington Buell, Mar. 15, 1839, Liberty Jail, Liberty, Missouri, in Personal Writings of Joseph Smith, comp. Dean C. Jessee , 427; punctuation modernized).
What is the purpose of suffering in our lives?
Elder Harold B. Lee observed: "There is a refining process that comes through suffering . . . that we can't experience any other way than by suffering. We draw closer to Him who gave His life that man might be. We feel a kinship that we have never felt before. He suffered more than we can ever imagine. But to the extent that we have suffered, somehow it seems to have the effect of drawing us closer to the Divine, helps to purify our souls and helps to purge out the things that are not pleasing in the sight of the Lord" (Teachings of Harold B. Lee, ed. Clyde J. Williams ,188).
Mentions the Prophet's visit to Upper Canada, troubles in Missouri, the return to fellowship of Orson Hyde, and the Kirtland bank.
Complete original text of the letter from which Doctrine and Covenants sections 121–23 are taken.
 The last Nephite prophet in the Book of Mormon (circa A.D. 421). In 1823 Moroni was sent as a resurrected being to reveal the Book of Mormon to Joseph Smith and finally delivered the plates to him in 1827 (The Guide to the Scriptures, "Moroni, Son of Mormon," 167–68).


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Appealing TV: The Winter Olympics, The Walking Dead, and The Devils Ride
2014 Olympic Winter Games 2014 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony Diners Drive-Ins & Dives Jimmy Kimmel Live! Lil Bub Special Special Talking Dead The Biggest Loser The Devils Ride The Walking Dead Top Chef by Paolo Sambrano | February 3, 2014 8:11 am	| in Culture | 0
When I was in the third grade, I distinctly remember my teacher taking umbrage at the network then known as UPN's attempt to counterprogram against the 1998 Winter Olympics by saying "No! No! Nagano!" to get you to watch Homeboys in Outerspace or something.
So, what else is on?
The Devils Ride (10pm, Discovery, winter season premiere)
Discovery Channel's motorcycle club reality show attempts to ride on Sons of Anarchy's leather vest hype. The show tantalizes with hints of a one-percenter outlaw lifestyle, but only really manages to depict confusing pratfalls and angry words exchanged outside a TGI Friday's.
The Biggest Loser (9pm, NBC, season finale)
The real prize of The Biggest Loser is putting off the inevitable just a bit longer. The inevitable in this case being the post Biggest Loser weight gain, because the lengths the show goes to project this image of health isn't sustainable. And always remember, the show is sponsored by the same companies who helped all of us get fat in the first place.
Top Chef (10pm, Bravo, season finale)
Speaking of winning things and food, the New Orleans centered season of this cooking competition show comes to a close.
2014 Olympic Winter Games (8pm, NBC)
Since this is NBC and they think people cannot be trusted (or bothered) to watch the games when they are actually broadcast in Sochi time (because time travel!), strap in for seventeen days of prime-time Olympic coverage of events that occur during the day, just like in the 2012 Summer Olympics. This way you can get a super narrated account of what happened, as we learn all about our American Olympians and whatever they do, after the fact. Tonight's chunk kicks off with Snowboarding (Men's and Women's Slopestyle), Freestyle Skiing (Women's Moguls), and Figure Skating (Team Event). But here's a full guide to watching the Winter Olympics.
Jimmy Kimmel Live! (11:35pm, ABC)
Noted Jimmy Kimmel antagonist Matt Damon returns to hijack the the namesake show for a second time since last January. The entire thing is just a giant promotional push for Damon's new film, The Monuments Men, which is opening this week, as you can tell from the guests Damon is bringing with him. Including: George Clooney, Bill Murray (who's never been on the show), John Goodman, Cate Blanchett, and Bob Balaban.
2014 Olympic Winter Games Opening Ceremony (7:30pm, NBC)
Brace yourself for the pageantry and fever pitch of social media networks being bombarded with Jamaican Bobsled team jokes made by twentysomethings raised on snark and second-rate Disney live-action films.
Have we heard about the sex lives about Winter Olympians yet? Because do Summer Olympians get it more than Winter Olympians, or is it an everyone in the Olympics can get it can get it kind of situation? And how will this factor in with host country Russia and its aggressively homophobic stance, oops did I just type that out loud?
Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives (10pm, Food Network, season premiere)
Guy Fieri takes us on a tour of his hometown of Ferndale, California in Humboldt County. But besides his birthday on January 22nd, the sentencing of Guy Fieri Lambo thief/real life Lex Luthor Max Wade not too long ago, and the announcement of Guy's Keurig coffee line, Guy must be feeling pretty good right now. So instead of a clip from Diners, Drive-Ins, & Dives, here's a Free Max Wade music video friends of Max Wade made.
How long before the Max Wade biopic is made? If we live in a world where Pain and Gain and Wolf of Wall Street can exist, it is only a matter of time. I say Diablo Cody writes the script.
Lil Bub Special Special (9pm, Animal Planet)
It's not enough to have a channel nowadays. Anyone can have a channel. This isn't the early aughts where we can talk about the democratization of media anymore. Let's talk talk shows. With this being Animal Planet, of course, let's give a prime time night show to a cat. But not just any cat, let's give a prime time talk show-cum-special to notable cat of the internet Lil Bub. And let's have Andrew W.K. and Amy Sedaris as guests. Purrfect.
The Walking Dead (9pm, AMC, winter season premiere)
Hey, when he's not brooding and braining walkers, where does Rick Grimes like to eat? Golden Coaaarrraaaaalllll. Shut up. That was hilarious. The Walking Dad finishes off its fourth season with eight more episodes of sadness, maudlin montages, and tricking people into thinking something is actually happening. Which is The Walking Dead's cruel joke! And, of course, be on the lookout for the return of Chris Hardwick's celebrity post-show gabfest Talking Dead (10pm, AMC).
Thanks, Philip Seymour Hoffman.
See you next Monday!
Paolo Sambrano adores television theme songs. You can follow him on Twitter @paolo. He is the creator of the card game, No Benefits and the writer/performer of the solo show Bi-Poseur.


Roman Numeral Quiz will help you quickly learn your roman numerals from 1 to 1000. This application is great for those just learning roman numerals for the first time as it allows you to set the range of number for each quiz starting with numbers 1 through 12. The app also allows you to designate the number of questions for each quiz.
Each quiz is scored showing the number of correct and incorrect answers along with the final percentage score.
A built in roman numerals reference guide is also included to help study and refresh your memory.
Whether you are learning your Roman Numerals for the first time or just want to impress your friends by translating the next Super Bowl or Olympic game number, this application will be a great help.
- Children learning basic Roman Numerals.
- Quick reference for daily translation needs.
- Study aid for students.
- Elementary and Home School students.


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The Shape Of Libraries To Come:
Introduction To The Internet Edition
The pamphlet you are about to read was first published in March 1993. At that time the British Library Humanities Reading Rooms were based at Bloomsbury. The move to St Pancras, and the closure of the SRIS reading rooms at Holborn and Aldwych (which have also been transferred to St Pancras), was delayed, controversial, over-budget, and in the end somewhat less grand than intended, but all that has been overshadowed by the growth of the Internet, which has mushroomed exponentially and has in effect taken research out of the archive and into the living room (or even the bedroom). For the first time in history, a significant percentage of humanity has instant access to the finest archives in the world literally at the click of a mouse button. The consequences of this have been truly staggering.
Recently, a fellow reader (who uses the Library's patent service) commented that the Patent Library is now a white elephant. Virtually all patent searches and inquiries are conducted on-line, and most of the time the place is empty. This is not so much a criticism as a tribute to the power of the Internet (by which I mean the WorldWideWeb, E-Mail, UseNet, and all related phenomena). I find it difficult to believe that less than ten years ago I sat in an annexe to the Round Reading Room with Dr Robin Alston and marvelled at the way he accessed the catalogues of far off libraries through OCLC, scanning them for difficult to find titles, from which he would retrieve at most extensive bibliographical data. At that time, sessions were limited to a mere handful of readers and had to be booked in advance. Nowadays, the man in the street, the housewife, and even the primary school student thinks nothing of downloading an entire magazine or book, and if it is in a foreign language, no problem, it can be translated into English on-line.
My own criticisms about the new building - if they can be called that - are more of a personal nature. Splendid though it is, it is a poor substitute for the Round Reading Room, and although the Humanities Reading Rooms are now open late four nights a week rather than three, they close at 8pm rather than nine. Delivery times though are much improved, and SRIS books can now be read in the Humanities Reading Rooms (a privilege I was granted grudgingly on only one occasion at Bloomsbury).
Although both the front cover and the British Library Cataloguing In Publication Data have been reproduced faithfully (as faithfully as HTML will allow), a few minor stylistic and textual alterations have been made to this publication.
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If you're a nerd, it's the first question you asked when the clock struck midnight, 2015.
"So where are all the flying cars? And the hoverboards we were promised?"
In the blockbuster film hit "Back to the Future," which came out 30 years ago, and its sequels, this, 2015, is "the future" - the year Marty McFly and Doc Brown zoomed off to visit in their souped-up flying DeLorean.
Indeed the whole premise of the sequel was about all the amazing technology that we would have in the future, today. So how did the team behind the movies do in their predictions?


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XEOMIN is injected into specific target regions and can impact a radius up to several inches. This FDA-approved treatment is safe and effective for a variety of areas of concern.
You can expect to see a reduction in both the depth and visibility of their facial wrinkles. This is accomplished by blocking the neural transmissions between the brain and the muscles in the areas where XEOMIN has been applied.
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Rohde & Schwarz verifies 5G NR performance and QoE using commercially released smartphones in live 5G networks
Rohde & Schwarz has conducted first field tests of network performance and quality from the end-user perspective on a live 5 G NR network using commercially available 5G NR devices such as the Samsung S10 5G . This is an important step to verify that the 5G network performance supports the demanding technical requirements and delivers the required Quality of Experience to the end user. Rohde & Schwarz mobile network testing solutions for engineering, site acceptance, optimization, benchmarking and monitoring offer the ability to conduct such measurements using commercially available smartphones.
Measurement of data throughput in 5G NR live network with QualiPoc, a smartphone based QoE testing solution.
The ultimate test of a complete 5G NR network's successful operation is to verify that the required quality of experience (QoE) is delivered to subscribers by using real 5G devices in live networks. Rohde & Schwarz mobile network testing solutions support now commercially available 5G devices such as the Samsung S10 5G, Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 5G, Oppo Reno 5G and the LG V50 ThinQ 5G. Rohde & Schwarz engineers have conducted first field tests in live 5G networks and measured key quality of service (QoS) and quality of experience (QoE) parameters.
Operators wishing to test the quality and performance of 5G NR mobile networks using commercially available UEs can do so now using Rohde & Schwarz mobile network testing solutions such as the R&S QualiPoc smartphone-based optimizer, R&S ROMES4 universal network measurement software or R&S SmartBenchmarker network benchmarking software. These solutions cover the full range of tests: video streaming quality and App testing providing full detailed IP and RF trace data using a rooted phone, testing RF, and voice and data testing with a standard commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) device with open diagnostic ports.
5G NR network test solutions from Rohde & Schwarz are showcased at 5G World 2019 in London, June 12-13, at booth 5G401, the flagship event of London Tech Week. Visit 5G World 2019 to discover how Rohde & Schwarz is leading the development of test solutions that accelerate the adoption of 5G and ensure the network performance and user QoE including device testing in FR1 and FR2, 5G NR network coverage and operation testing and intelligent QoE analytics.
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Richard Rettenbacher, CTI Chief Operating Officer, will be delivering an expert briefing at the upcoming Associations World Congress & Expo in Gothenburg, Sweden on Tuesday, April 9. The AWC is an annual event organized by The Association of Association Executives. CTI Meeting Technology will be a sponsor partner of the AWC 2019 which runs from April 7–9, 2019.
Rettenbacher's presentation, "The Death of Email—Rethinking Email as your Meeting's Key Communication Tool," will examine email's diminishing effectiveness as a tool for meeting communication. Rettenbacher's presentation will examine the current problems with email and discuss alternative methods of communication that are proving more reliable.
Before merging his firm with Coe Truman Technologies to form CTI in 2014, Rettenbacher created cPAPER and cSLIDE to provide European and U.S. associations with innovative content management and presentation systems.
"CTI's mission is to give clients more than software," says Rettenbacher. "We can also offer the data and insight to make future meetings even more relevant for attendees."
Rettenbacher's expert briefing will be part of the Open Sessions in F3 & F4 and will begin at 9:45 a.m.
CTI Meeting Technology is the leading provider of abstract management and presentation management solutions for STEMM associations. For over 35 years, CTI has revolutionized submission management and meeting planning with dynamic software tools and integration capabilities that help streamline the submission, review and session-building process.
The AWC provides a variety of sessions, workshops and other educational opportunities for association executives to meet and share ideas with other association leaders. This three-day event includes over 70 association and expert speakers. For more information about The Associations World Congress & Expo, visit https://www.associationexecutives.org/events/associations-world-congress-2019.html.
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In the last two years, since the launch of "Make in India" initiative of the Government of India, Defence Sector in India has seen immense activity, evincing interest from Indian private industry as well Foreign OEMs. While the Indian industry has steadily moved towards capacity building, Foreign OEMs have shown never seen before enthusiasm to participate in 'Make in India' in Defence.
Under the leadership of the Hon'ble Raksha Mantri, long pending and critical changes have been made to bring in ease of doing business in Defence procurements. Whether it is relaxation of norms for FDI in Defence or the new Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP 2016), Government of India has paved way for a robust defence manufacturing in the country. Indian defence industry has now developed the competence, capability and capacity to produce sub-systems which could be integrated into larger platforms. Indian industry offers very high level of engineering and technology skills in all areas of defence and aerospace.
The Government of India promulgated a new version of Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP) in 2016. This procedure encourages co-development and co-production approach by FOEMs, with their Indian Partners. Further, the definition of Indian Vendor in DPP makes it possible for Joint Ventures between Indian Companies and Foreign OEMs to participate in the capital procurement schemes of Ministry of Defence. CII has welcomed the industry friendly changes. Article by Director General of CII, Mr Chandrajit Banerjee on 'Make in India in Defence' appeared in Indian express and is a testimony of CII's commitment to Make in India. http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/make-in-india-in-defence-dpp-2016-defexpo-cii-reports/.
Defence Procurement Manual (DPM 2009) which deals with revenue procurement is also under revision. CII has been at the forefront ever since the defence manufacturing was opened up for the private sector's participation. Government of India has already accepted several requests of CII which are essential for creating a vibrant domestic defence industrial sector. Extension of validity of Industrial License, promulgation of Security Manual for Industrial Licensee companies, level playing field, increase in the FDI limit, availability of test facilities, to name a few.
India is currently the fifth largest spender on defence and accounts for approx 5% of the global defence expenditure. The defence spending has been growing in recent years and is expected to grow at the rate of 7% to 8% annually over the next five years. The increase in spending also indicates the huge availability of opportunities for the domestic and global companies in the defence and aerospace sector. 56% of the total defence budget is being allocated to Indian Army, 22% to Indian Air Force and 14% to Indian Navy. 6% of the total defence budget is allocated for defence Research & Development, 1% to Ordnance Factory Board and remaining 1% for miscellaneous activities. Though most of the weapon systems / equipment are imported from foreign OEMs, the Government of India has taken several initiatives to create a domestic defence industrial base, paving way for the indigenous capabilities to cater for the needs of the Indian Armed Forces.
Defence & Aerospace sector is at the core of 'Make in India' campaign of the Government of India. 'Make in India' should also target encouraging and incentivizing Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises' (MSMEs) participation in the defence manufacturing. Defence offsets provide huge opportunities to Indian companies. With over USD 250 Bn worth of procurement over next 10 years, the Defence Sector is expected to lead the Make in India initiative of the Government. In last 30 months, setting an encouraging trend, MoD has approved 85 schemes worth Rs.1,60,362 Cr under "Buy and Make (Indian)" category.
India's membership to MTCR club, and her designation as a Major Defence Partner by USA is a testimony to India's rising stature as a responsible global power.
Leveraging India's Defence requirements as a critical part of diplomacy, India has inked major G2G deals recently with France for 36 Rafale fighter jets with 50% offset liability, with US for 145 M777 ultra-light howitzers with US$ 200 Mn offset, with Russia for 5 S-400 Triumph Long Range Air Defence Missile Systems. Prime Minister's most recent visit to Israel is expected to further deepen India's defence cooperation with Israel.
The allocation for Defence in the Union Budget 2017-18 is approximate USD 42.83 billion.
India is expected to spend over USD 150—225 billion in the next decade to ramp its aerospace industry. This also suggests that a significant portion of business opportunity could accrue to India, due to the associated offsets. The total spending in the next 5 years is expected to be between USD25 billion (assuming uniform demand) for commercial aircrafts and USD100 billion as defence expenditure. Out of the defence expenditure, approximately 15-20 percent (USD15-20 billion) is expected to be spent on military aircrafts. Assuming an offset of 30 percent for the civil sector too, the total offset opportunity for the aerospace sector is valued to be at least USD10-15 billion. As Indian manufacturing capabilities mature over the years, it is expected to capture a large share of this opportunity.
The key objective of the defence offset policy is to leverage capital acquisitions to develop the domestic defence industry. Mandatory offset requirements of a minimum of 30% for procurement of defence equipment in excess of USD 307.69 million have been envisaged.