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VA Hosts Veteran Small Business Conference in New Orleans
Supports Veteran-Owned Businesses and Helps Them Compete for Federal Contracts
The Department of Veterans Affairs will host the upcoming National Veterans Small Business Conference and Expo, Aug.15-18 in New Orleans. It will be the largest nationwide conference of its kind focused on helping Veteran-owned businesses succeed in winning federal contracts.
“Veteran-owned businesses provide world class services and expand employment opportunities for some of our Nation’s most highly-trained and motivated men and women,” said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki. “That is why VA is proud to host this annual conference to help better prepare these veteran-owned businesses to compete and win contracts with the federal government.”
The conference, scheduled for the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, will provide Veteran-Owned and Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned small businesses of all sizes with an opportunity to learn, network, and market their businesses.
The conference will offer a variety of new training sessions on navigating the federal acquisition process, including finance, compliance, business development, marketing, strategy, contract management, human resources, technology, and program management.The conference track sessions will be targeted for a variety of businesses from new business owners just back from theater to well-established Veteran-owned businesses looking to expand opportunities or increase market share.
The National Veteran Small Business Conference is open to both government and non-government personnel. For more information and to register for the conference, go to w w w . na t i o na l ve t e r a n s c o n fe r e nc e . c o m. VA photo by Robert Turtil.
Remains of electrification supports, north of Penistone station.
INFO:The Woodhead line was the Great Central railway route from Sheffield Victoria to Manchester Piccadilly.
It has - well had - a claim to fame as the first electrified main line railway in the UK, when it went live in 1953. Unfortunately, due to the evils of Beeching, the passenger services ceased to be on January 5th, 1970...along with Victoria itself.
Several small intermediate stations had already shut during the years up to its demise, with Neepsend, Wadsley Bridge, Oughtibridge, Deepcar and Wortley all having sold their last tickets by 1968. Wadsley remained partly open for football services until the late 80s, with loco hauled services which required retaining the loop at the western end of the station to change ends.
The line continued as a major goods corridor for several years, although the wires went in 1981. Passenger DMUs from Sheffield to Huddersfield used the route until 1983, reversing and travelling through Victoria, before being route through Barnsley instead. The track was lifted from north of Deepcar up to Hadfield between 1985-86. The surviving single track branches off left towards Stocksbridge steel works, alongside where a new shopping village is shortly to appear.
The trackbed continues as The Transpennine Trail from this point. The ten-and-a-half mile section passes west through Wortley, Thurgoland, Oxspring and Penistone where it junctions with the still current Sheffield/Barnsley-Huddersfield line. An also electrified branch from Wath near Rotherham brought coal trains up and across the Pennines - this diverged near Stairfoot and junctioned with the Barnsley-Huddersfield route near Oxspring. The line was lifted in 1981 - the trackbed is now better known as the Dove Valley trail.
Beyond Penistone the former GC line leaves to head on through Millhouse Green, Hazelhead and eventually Dunford Bridge where the closed Woodhead Tunnel cuts the path short.
The climb up from Penistone was as steep as 1 in 100 and trains that travelled from the Wath line were push-pulled by up to two electric locomotives at each end.
Cyclists and walkers with the strength to continue can climb the near vertical Windle Edge left out of Dunford and then trek over the Pennines to Woodhead Station where the track remerged into daylight. This six mile section onward to Hadfield continues as the Longendale Trail.
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NAVAL SUPPORT ACTIVITY BAHRAIN (Jan. 28, 2014) Marines assigned to Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team Company, Central Command (FASTCENT), 3rd Platoon, practice counters of chokes and holds as part of the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program (MCMAP). FASTCENT's mission is to provide limited duration expeditionary anti-terrorism and security forces in support of U.S. 5th Fleet operations, to protect vital naval and national assets. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Felicito Rustique/Released)
This patch is used by the United States Army's 301st Support Group.
Over the years this unit has had several designations:
301st Logistical Command (1952-1966)
301st Support Brigade (1966-1972)
301st Support Group (1999-current)
Virginia National Guard Soldiers assigned to the Gate City-based 1032nd Transportation Company, 1030th Transportation Battalion, 329th Regional Support Group receive the Virginia Governor’s National Service Medal from Brig. Gen. K. Weedon Gallagher, Virginia National Guard Land Component Commander Feb. 5, 2022, in Kingsport, Tennessee. The Soldiers were mobilized in 2021 on federal active duty to provide transportation support to the Department of Defense-approved mission assisting Customs and Border Protection on the Southwest Border. (U.S. National Guard photo by A.J. Coyne)
13 May 2012, Enjil District, Herat, Afghanistan : A young village boy studies his Koran during informal school classes at the Hous Karbas Community Development Council (CDC) community hall built using funds from the National Solidarity Program (NSP). The village CDC focused the funding they receive on the building of a community hall and developing handicrafts. The NSP is the Governments national flagship program to support small scale reconstruction and development activities identified by CDC's across the country.About 80% of community sub projects involve infrastructure such as irrigation, roads and electricity all critical for the recovery of the rural economy and governance.The ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development is implementing the program. Picture by Graham Crouch/World Bank. Picture by Graham Crouch/World Bank
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BTCC Support Race - 2013 Porsche GT3 Cup - by James Rudd at Silverstone Circuit, Towcester, Northamptonshire, England, on 27 September 2013.
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DOUALA, Cameroon (Dec. 05, 2011) Sailors from Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training (MCAST) Command conducts noncommissioned officer leadership training in support of Africa Partnership Station to students from Cameroon, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal and Uganda. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Warrant Officer Eve McAnallen)
The Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) will honor more than 120 soldiers recently returned from a 6-month deployment to Afghanistan at events scheduled to occur in both Tewkesbury and at Imjin Barracks in Innsworth on Wednesday, 30th May 2012.The soldiers receiving honors are assigned to the ARRC Support Battalion, and recently served in a wide variety of roles while deployed to Afghanistan, such as providing infantry forces, searching for Improvised Explosive Devices, and partnering and mentoring the Afghan Security Forces.The day’s events will include a regimental Medal Parade through the streets of Tewkesbury, followed by the consecration of the battalion’s Memorial Wall and the presentation of deployment medals to the unit’s personnel at Imjin Barracks in Innsworth. All three events will be presided over by His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester. The Duke will present all medals and awards to the returning soldiers.The Tewkesbury parade is scheduled to begin at approximately 12pm at the Boat House on the north end of town and proceed down the town’s High Street to the Tewkesbury Abbey. During the parade, which will include a 36-piece military band from the British Army’s own Parachute Regiment, a salute will be taken outside Tewkesbury Abbey by the Duke of Gloucester in his role as Deputy Colonel-in-Chief, The Royal Logistic Corps. After the salute, a civic reception hosted by Tewkesbury Borough Council will take place in Abbey House at Tewkesbury Abbey at 12.30pm, where the Duke of Gloucester and the families of four soldiers killed in action during recent missions, will be joined by local dignitaries. The reception will include the launch of the council’s Diamond Jubilee booklet, which captures local people’s memories of the Queen’s coronation – and includes a foreword from the Duke himself.
Greenpeace activists project messages in Portland, Oregon, Nov. 2, 2013, in protest against proposed coal export terminals. Greenpeace is working with residents and coalition partners to defeat proposals to export Powder River Basin coal from Columbia River ports. Photo by Natalie Behring/Greenpeace
Governor Schwarzenegger vetoed all state funding for domestic violence programs
KQED did a program on the crisis with Tara Shabazz, executive director of the California Partnership to End Domestic Violence & Niko Johnson, executive director of the Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Coalition
www.kqed.org/epArchive/R910080900
And a LA station did a story on Moby's concerts
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQoi9BwvGYY
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Moby read about the cuts in the New York Times and said he would donate the money from his three California concerts
www.moby.com/journal/2009-09-27/i-was-just-reading-new-yo...
www.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/us/26domestic.html
www.moby.com/journal/2009-10-02/after-looking-many-differ...
www.moby.com/journal/2009-10-16/two-weeks-ago-i-started-w...
As Moby writes, the bill restoring funding has passed and the governor has indicated he will sign it (see dist08.casen.govoffice.com for more info)
But it still would be helpful to contact him asking him to sign SB3x13 and to make sure there is long term funding for domestic violence prevention programs (this is just a temporary measure for this year)
Currently the best source of information is this facebook page
www.facebook.com/pages/SAVE-Domestic-Violence-Shelters/11...
Also follow Moby twitter.com/thelittleidiot
and Leland Yee (NPR just posted a performance he did in Berlin www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113799246 )
150701-N-SQ656-XXX KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (July 1, 2015) U.S. Under Secretay of Defense for Policy Christine Wormuth greets Brig. Gen. Paul Bontrager, commander, Train, Advise and Assist Command - South (TAAC-S) at Kandahar Airfield in Kandahar, Afghanistan July 1, 2015. Wormuth is touring Afghanistan and visited TAAC-S to discuss the progress of the NATO-led Resolute Support mission. (U.S. military photo by Lt. Kristine Volk, Resolute Support Public Affairs/Released)
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Praktica BC 1 with Prakticar Pentacon f1.8/50mm, Expired Orwopan 100 @64 in HC-110 dilution B for 4.5min 20C.
I would have liked to had more chances to play with this film. It may curl like I never seen before and it catches a lot dust while drying but it also has nice grain a great tonality and a wonderful old school look.
A neighbor recently gave birth, so I brought her dinner and wanted to include something sweet. I devoured these homemade chocolate chip lactation cookies after I had my son, so they were a perfect fit. They're just regular chocolate chip cookies made a bit more nutritious with whole wheat flour, flax seed, nutritional yeast, dark chocolate, and walnuts. They're supposed to aid in milk supply for breastfeeding (which didn't stop my family from devouring them too!).