 from its activation in 1943 during World War II. It fought in the Pacific Theater, where two of its soldiers, Pvts. Elmer Fryar and Manuel Perez Jr., earned the Medal of Honor. The formation was later used to occupy post-war Japan.
The 11th Airborne was transformed into a training formation at Fort Campbell in 1949. In the 1960s, the division was reorganized into three air assault brigades and designated the 11th Air Assault Division (Test) when the Army was in the early stages of developing tactics using helicopters on the battlefield. The unit was disbanded in 1965, transferring its equipment and personnel to the 1st Cavalry Division.
12 May 22. Project Convergence 22 aims to have best-positioned force shoot first. The U.S. Army will pursue sophisticated data-sharing capabilities at this year’s Project Convergence demonstration that officials said will enable the best-positioned military asset to take immediate action, regardless national affiliation.
Now in its third year, Project Convergence seeks to integrate artificial intelligence, robotics and autonomy to improve battlefield situational awareness, connect sensors with shooters and accelerate decision-making. For the first time this fall, it will involve international participation, with Australia and the U.K. actively taking part while Canada and others observe.
The international collaboration, which may also include New Zealand, comes as the Pentagon pursues what’s known as Joint All-Domain Command and Control, or JADC2, the ability to exchange information across air, land, sea, cyber and space and tie together once-incompatible or siloed systems. The demonstration is a critical next-step, Rey said, and builds upon the successes of previous experimentation and analysis.
Project Convergence is the Army’s contribution to JADC2, like the Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System and the Navy’s Project Overmatch. This year’s tests will stretch across the U.S., including the National Training Center at Fort Irwin and the Navy’s Electronic Warfare Range at China Lake, both in California.
The upcoming demonstration of cutting-edge tech will focus on both the Indo-Pacific and European theaters. Russian and Chinese threats colored the exercises, Defense News reported in March. Russia began massing materiel on its border with Ukraine as Project Convergence 21 wrapped.
“You’ve got the right sensor through the right command-and-control node getting to the right shooter to be able to facilitate that kill chain, and you’re getting information to decision makers,” said Army Maj. Gen. Robert Collins, the program executive officer for command, control and communications-tactical, at the two-day summit.
A heavy emphasis on data and integration, beyond basic cooperation, already exists heading into Project Convergence 22, Army Chief Information Officer Raj Iyer said May 9.
Groningen researchers Prof. Anna Hirsch of the Stratingh Institute for Chemistry and Dr. Matthew Groves of the Groningen Research Institute of Pharmacy and Dr. Gudrun Lange of Bayer CropScience have been awarded the LIFT project ‘On the way to innovative antibiotics and herbicides Antibiotic’. The project was granted EUR 285,000 by the NWO Chemical Sciences. Hirsch and Groves will design new molecules that inhibit an essential enzyme for the growth of pathogenic bacteria and weeds in a specific way.
LIFT is a new public-private partnership form that was introduced in 2015. A LIFT project involves at least one company and one research institute both working in chemical research. The NWO Chemical Sciences has contribute a total of EUR 1.5 million to eight LIFT projects and businesses match EUR 500,000.
Resistance to antibiotics and herbicides is currently a serious problem. The researchers will design new molecules that inhibit an essential enzyme for the growth of pathogenic bacteria and weeds in a specific way. To do so, they will first elucidate the structure of the enzyme, after which they will adopt a rational design approach to obtain new inhibitors. Ultimately, the inhibitors can be developed to better antibiotic or herbicides with a completely new mechanism of action.Lowdown on tournament being played in UAE and Pakistan PSL update 18. The HBL Pakistan Super League is returning to the UAE, with Peshawar Zalmi set to start their title defence on the opening night at Dubai International Stadium on Thursday, February 22.
The newly-expanded six-team competition is a franchise Twenty20 League run by the Pakistan Cricket Board.
Because of security concerns back in Pakistan, it has been staged in the UAE since its launch in 2016, but moves have gradually been made to take the sport – and the league – back there since.
Peshawar Zalmi, led by the two-time World T20-winning captain Darren Sammy, were victorious last year when they beat Quetta Gladiators in the final in Lahore.
For the first time since its inception, the league has expanded. There is one additional team joining the five who have played previously. Multan Sultans have joined.
They will be led by Shoaib Malik, who started out the first PSL as Karachi Kings’ captain, but did not even make it through the first season before passing on the mantle.
Another new feature of PSL 3 is that more matches will be played in Pakistan. Extensive efforts, including a massive security presence, were made to bring last year’s final back to Lahore.
After that trial run went off without a hitch, two play-off matches have been scheduled for Lahore this year, with the final set for Karachi on March 21.
The tournament involves the leading Pakistan national team players, while each team must also include an “emerging player” in each starting XI.
Allied to that, PSL 3 has perhaps the best batch yet of overseas players since it started three seasons ago. Established names like Brendon McCullum, Dwayne Bravo and Eoin Morgan will be involved, while a set of players making their name specifically in T20 are also due to feature.
This includes the likes of New Zealander Colin Munro and the exciting Barbados-born fast bowler Jofra Archer.
Andre Russell is making his return after a doping ban. The popular Jamaican all-rounder is one of a group of players who are featuring in the PSL rather than as part of West Indies’ bid to qualify for the 2019 World Cup via a tournament in Zimbabwe than runs from March 4 to 25.The time has come to put an end to WildLife Selfies. Animals are being abused beyond words can imagine and confined to a life in prison just so that their slave masters can get your money for the photo.
4 December 2017: Today, just two months since World Animal Protection launched their Wildlife Selfie Code campaign, and after in-depth meetings with the company – Instagram launched a content advisory page. Instagram agreed to protect the world’s wildlife from an existential threat: Wildlife selfies.
Its purpose is to inform Instagram users that the wildlife photos they’re searching for may directly contribute to animal suffering.
Over 250,000 people signed up to the Wildlife Selfie Code!
This victory for wildlife is proof we should never underestimate the power of our voices – and signatures.
Seismic shift from suffering.
Wild animals now have one of the world’s largest social media platforms on their side. The company’s influence will no doubt endlessly inspire tourists and social media users to take animal cruelty out of the frame.
It’s real animals who’ll benefit from the company’s incredible decision.
According to the New York Post, Facebook’s photo-sharing app began singling out hashtags like #SlothSelfie and #koalaSelfie, alerting users with pop-up messages that exotic animals appearing in tourist photo-ops are often subjected to abuse.
From now on, Instagram searches for hashtags like #TigerSelfie will get a pop-up warning that the keywords “may be associated with posts that encourage harmful behaviour to animals or the environment,” Instagram said in a blog post.
Thanks to NPO World Animal Protection who started this campaign, the protection of wild animals by means of exploitation of their existence for remuneration will start to decrease in popularity.
Let's hope other online platforms such as TripAdvisor will follow suite.
The cost of living in Surrey is 114% more expensive than in Tijuana. Cities ranked 751st and 5672nd ($1950 vs $913) in the list of the most expensive cities in the world and ranked 21st and 4th in Canada and Mexico, respectively. Check Canada vs Mexico comparison.
The average after-tax salary is enough to cover living expenses for 1.9 months in Surrey compared to 0.8 months in Tijuana. Surrey ranked 4th best city to live in Canada vs Tijuana ranked 3rd in Mexico, while ranked 44th and 5035th among best cities to live in the world.
Prices for goods and services in Surrey and Tijuana are partly crowdsourced by our visitors, just like yourself. Please consider telling us about your city.&gt;	Anyway, it’s been only a few short days and I feel a huge transformation in my well-being. I did not realize how much ‘playing nice’, and ‘being understanding’ and ‘being supportive’ was weighing me down.

I stayed in contact for my elder sibs who couldn’t let go but needed protection bc one was on the front line and the other just couldn’t.  Mostly for the former.  But now that sib is getting therapy and has emotionally stepped back more than ever.  I went NC bc I couldn’t allow our jnmom access to me, her reward