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Head to Head: Cable Internet vs. DSL – Which is Best for You?
When it's time to get a new type of internet connection, you have different options to consider.
Most people are divided between DSL and cable internet. They're both excellent choices with their own benefits. Let's dig more into cable internet vs DSL.
DSL is a notch above the old traditional dial-up connection. However, dial-ups weren't always connected. On the other hand, a DSL connection stays connected at all hours.
DSL connections offer great speed, giving users lots of flexibility. The speed can be in Kbps or Mbps. However, the speed you receive depends on several factors including the length of the wire used in the connection. The longer the wire, the weaker the connection.
Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL): This connection is mainly for families who download a lot of data but do not upload much. This connection concentrates on providing faster download speeds for a good overall experience.
Symmetrical Digital Subscriber Line (SDSL): This connection is mainly designed for corporate clients who need high download and upload speeds. Uploading content includes video conferencing and voice calls, and not just uploading files as email attachments.
DSL is used by both residential and commercial clients. There are some other forms of DSL as well, like Very-High-Bitrate Digital Subscriber Line (VDSL). Check here to learn what speed would be best for you.
Cable internet is becoming bigger than ever. A cable modem is used to transmit data over cable television lines. Cable internet offers high-quality internet, with an added benefit of being able to enjoy cable television.
In most cases, you will subscribe to one of several packages that come with different features, like the number of channels, speed, etc.
Your provider will typically give you a modem to rent, which is used for the connection. To reduce costs, you may also purchase your own modem. The modem connects to a coaxial cable and transmits data.
DSL or Cable: What to Choose?
The right option depends on a number of factors, but speed is usually at the top of the list.
It should be mentioned that advertised speed may differ from real speed as the actual speed you receive may change based on traffic. This is true especially in case of a DSL connection, where you mostly get 85% of the advertised speed.
On the other hand, cable internet provides around 99% of the advertised speed, which makes cable internet a better choice if speed is your first criteria.
Another major benefit of cable internet is affordability, as it comes as a package (TV+Internet), and you end up saving money.
While cable internet is a clear winner, it should be mentioned that the right option largely depends on the nature of your use. Get in touch with Columbia Basin Satellite & Electric today to learn what service suits your needs the best. Call 509-783-SAVE.
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Another Executive Condominium Coming Launch 2018 - Rivercove EC.
Rivercove Residences is executive condominium located at 318 Anchorvale Lane, District 19, Singapore. Developed by the joint venture of Hoi Hup Realty Pte Ltd and Sunway Developments, comprising of 10 towers of 16 floors with 635 stunning units. Expected to be launched in first half 2018.
The Rivercove Residences EC plot attracted the most competitive tender since 2013, with 16 developers bidding on the property – the most since 2013. For a bit of view, the average number of bidders for an EC tender in Singapore is about seven or nine. The highly sought after Rivercove Residences EC location was sold for an impressive S$240.95 million to a joint venture between Hoi Hup Realty and Sunway Developments.
The competitive tender is a testament to the prime location, the expected growth of the Sengkang area as a result of the government masterplan, and an increasingly optimistic EC market. With the Rivercove Residences launch date projected for later this year or early into 2018, the EC could not launch in a better place or at a better time.
Rivercove Residences EC is not only nestled within the prime housing area and tranquil nature - Sengkang, it is also enjoy the excellent connectivity. Future residents will well-served by an efficient network of public transport such as Sengkang MRT Station, Layar LRT Station and Tongkang LRT Station. Invest for your next generation future at Nan Chiau Primary School, Nan Chiau High School and Pei Hwa Secondary School.
Launch in the first half 2018, a premium executive condominium from the reputable developer. Register for VIP Preview at Official Website to get more updated information and enjoy developer direct pricing.


It's more than a marathon.
and you're more than a match for it.
Go the extra mile (well, two) for young people with cancer this April.
Run, walk or jog 28 miles, your way.
It all counts – a Saturday power walk round the town; a lunch break run along the river – the miles will add up.
And you'll be doing more than just a jog in the park. You'll be raising money so that more young people with cancer can get the specialist nursing they deserve.
It's 28 miles – one for each of our 28 Teenage Cancer Trust hospital units, where young people get the expert nursing and emotional support they need.
So get moving, and get ready to raise money for young people facing cancer with every mile you take.
Because it's more than just another challenge.
So get your shoes on, get moving, and get ready to raise money for young people facing cancer with every mile.


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Certificates (scrolls) are given to multiple finishers of the "Grid". Grid #1, #2, #3. etc.
Certificates ( scrolls ) are also given to any person who starts and finishes a Grid "after age 60", "after age 65", "after age 70", etc.
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Four Ways To Improve Indoor Air Quality In K-12 Schools
Upgrades and modifications to enhance IAQ are critical, and funding from COVID-19 relief bills can help school facilities teams make them happen.
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Home » Topics » HVAC » Four Ways To Improve Indoor Air Quality In K-12 Schools
Upgrades and modifications to enhance IAQ are critical, and funding from COVID-19 relief bills can help facilities teams make them happen.
By Danny White
One thousand hours. That's how much time most American children spend at school1 every year — when there isn't a pandemic, that is. COVID-19 closed school buildings for much of 2020 and parts of 2021 to keep kids — as well as educators, administrators, and school facility employees — out of confined indoor spaces where the virus could spread through the air or via close contact.
While COVID-19 shined a light on indoor air quality (IAQ) in schools, it should have been a priority long before the pandemic. Poor IAQ can lead to health problems2 such as fatigue and headaches; cause or worsen asthma and other respiratory illnesses; and even affect students' ability to learn. Recent academic research found3 "compelling evidence…of an association of increased student performance with increased ventilation rates," yet "ventilation rates in classrooms often fall far short of the minimum ventilation rates specified in standards." An estimated 41% of U.S. school districts4 need to update or replace heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems in at least half of their schools, amounting to about 36,000 schools across the country.
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Improving IAQ in schools should be treated as a priority. It starts with upgrading, modifying or retrofitting critical building systems or features, such as HVAC systems. School facilities teams, therefore, have an important role to play in creating healthier indoor spaces with building improvements that support better IAQ.
But any talk of building improvements raises two questions: How can schools pay for these projects and where do they begin?
Funding IAQ Upgrades
While school budgets are always top of mind, it's also important to realize poor IAQ can end up costing schools more5 in the long run by accelerating deterioration and reducing the efficiency of their physical plant and equipment, leading to expensive repairs. HVAC systems are also among the largest energy users in schools6, and system improvements could cut the $6 billion that public schools spend on energy annually by up to 25% — a potential savings of $1.5 billion7.
Total costs for improvements will vary, but are unlikely to drain a school's budget, even if multiple HVAC systems need to be replaced. Academic research found the net annual costs of increasing ventilation rates8 in U.S. public schools is "less than 0.1% of typical public spending on elementary and secondary education in the United States." In schools with relatively modern infrastructure, Honeywell estimates that the cost of improving IAQ is just $11 to $15 per student.
In addition, schools have an opportunity right now to partially, or even fully, pay for building upgrades by capitalizing on available government funding. In 2020 and 2021, Congress passed three stimulus bills that provided close to $190.5 billion9 to the Elementary and Secondary Emergency Education Relief (ESSER) Fund. The ESSER fact sheet specifies10 that this funding can be used to improve the indoor air quality in K-12 school facilities, as well as repair and improve school facilities to reduce risk of virus transmission and exposure to environmental health hazards.
The funding from the three bills is available to State Education Agencies (SEAs) through September 2023. The application process varies by state, but usually requires a LEA (Local Education Agency) to submit a budget for approval to their SEA. The last chance to receive any funding from the first bill is approaching in September 2021, which means the time to apply is now.
The ABCs Of Indoor Air Quality In Schools According to the National Center for Education Statistics, nearly 50 percent of U.S. school buildings reported having issues with IAQ.
UL, SafeTraces Launch Program To Help K-12 Schools Reopen Safely Indoor air quality, ventilation and filtration verification, and infection control program helps enhance student, teacher, and staff safety.
Prescriptive HVAC: Diagnose, Then Treat To protect against transmission of COVID-19 and other threats, plan the steps to increase building ventilation and improve filtration.
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Sandals Resorts: Celebrating 40 Years of Love & Trust Sponsored
It all began with one resort and a big dream in 1981. Gordon "Butch" Stewart, a man with zero experience in hospitality took a big chance when he purchased a dilapidated hotel, renovated it and reopened it as Sandals Montego Bay. Forty years later, that dream is The World's Only 5-Star Luxury Included® Resorts with 16 Sandals on seven islands across the Caribbean…with three new Sandals Resorts coming soon!
And while Sandals may not have invented the all-inclusive concept, they certainly perfected it
by including the very best of everything. When most resorts at the time didn't include motorized watersports, Sandals did. They even included scuba diving for certified divers and complimentary green fees on their golf courses. What's more, Sandals has always included the very best equipment and gear for all land and water sports, and even private instruction too. And when other resorts only had "food courts" and buffet restaurants or charged their guests extra for specialty dining, Sandals included specialty restaurants serving up mouthwatering gourmet cuisine created by highly trained chefs from across the globe.
Sandals set the bar high right from the start, constantly innovating and elevating the all-inclusive industry for four decades. Things that are commonplace now in 2021 at any all-inclusive resort in the Caribbean, Sandals Resorts was the first to introduce them including swim-up pool bars, Jacuzzis steps from the beach, hairdryers, satellite TV service and king-size beds in guest rooms and specialty, non-buffet restaurants. Gordon "Butch" Stewart, the late Founder and Chairman of Sandals Resorts really did change the way the world went on vacation!
As Sandals Resorts grew over the years, adding more resorts in more Caribbean islands, the needs of their guests grew as well….so the signature Sandals-innovation continued. Did you know that Sandals was the first to introduce Butler Service to the all-inclusive industry? They were also the first to bring the over-the-water suite concept to the Caribbean when they debuted five spectacular Over-the-Water Villas in 2016 at Sandals Royal Caribbean in Montego Bay, Jamaica. These extraordinary bucket-list accommodations were now far closer than ever before!
Since no other resorts in the world are so completely dedicated to couples in love, it's no surprise that Sandals are also the leaders in Caribbean destination weddings & honeymoons. As the experts in love and romance for 40 years, couples from around the world have flocked to Sandals Resorts for the special day since everything is included, so they can focus on what's truly important – each other!
For 40 years, the story of Sandals Resorts has been one of unbridled passion that began in 1981 with the dream of one man, Gordon "Butch" Stewart, to create the world's best vacation for two people in love. Through the years, he set out to elevate the all-inclusive experience by including things others would never dream of. Today, that story is best told by the thousands of couples who have made some of their most beautiful and treasured memories here. And by the extraordinary people and places of the Caribbean whose warmth and genuine hospitality continue to surpass every expectation of care and comfort. This has always been the recipe for luxury and as we look to the future, Sandals Resorts will continue to earn your trust with the same passion of purpose. Here, love is truly all you need
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Wisharts Blacksmith and Motor Garage
Wisharts Smithy is one of two buildings in the precinct on its original site. Robert Wishart came from Aberdeen to Cromwell in 1869 where he settled and took up employment with Edward Lindsay, the local blacksmith. Robert was 17 when he and his young wife set sail for New Zealand. Robert's first wife died of tuberculosis on the voyage out to New Zealand and in 1877 he married Janet Lindsay. Robert prospered and bought out Edward Lindsay's business, later selling it to James Richard. Business in the new town was booming and in 1880 Robert built his new blacksmith's shop on this site with living quarters above.
The new smithy was a two storey stone building with the forge and workshop on the ground floor. The upper storey of four rooms was used as the house and opened onto the top of the embankment. A later addition on this level was a corrugated iron building used as the kitchen. The smithy gained light to the back of the building from two skylights opening to the courtyard on the embankment.
By 1917 Robert Wishart was advertising his services as a farrier, general blacksmith, machinist and ironmonger, as well as a specialist in dredge repairs. By 1928 he had installed an acetone welding plant and was also carrying out repairs on cars. In the early days, all the machinery in the forge was run by waterpower that came to the town through water races built by the miners. Later, when the council took over the management of the supply of water to the town, Robert objected to the cost of the water rate and a long running battle ensued. In 1909, due to a water shortage, he was permitted to use water for only a few hours a week, severely curtailing his business.
Robert and Janet Wishart had ten children, although one died at birth and another died following a tragic toboggan accident in Melmore Terrace. Janet left Robert in later years. Robert died in 1945 at the age of 93 and the business was carried on by successive generations until it passed out of the family in 1970.
A fire in 1992 destroyed most of the wooden interior of the building and the roof. The exterior "schist" stone walls survived, as did most of the huge iron framing beams. Many of the original metal structures, such as the metal rings for tethering horses remained intact and can still be seen in the walls.
Restored Original Building.
Located in the ground floor of Wisharts is display space and Cromwell Heritage Bike Hire. On the first floor is QS Central and Blaikie Recruitment


Provisioning is the cooking profession in Elder Scrolls Online. Provisioners can cook food and drinks which provide buffs that last anywhere between 30 minutes and 2 hours in ESO. As of Patch 1.0.4, it provisioning buffs persist through deaths just like Mundus Stone buffs. It's unclear whether this is intended or not. You can only have one provisioning consumable buff active at a time.
This guide is still work-in-progress, but will serve as a source of general provisioning information for now.
Anyone can work on their Provisioning skill if they have the required provisioning recipes and ingredients. To prepare food or drinks you have to be at a cooking fire. These can be found in most inns and towns, but also out in the world at bandit camps and so on.
The main source of ingredients for provisioning are different containers found in Tamriel and its towns, such as barrels, crates, and produce baskets. Because of this, you should loot every single container you can get your hands on. Enabling auto-loot from gameplay settings helps a lot with this. Levelling provisioning will be very easy if you collect all the ingredients you can find. The only downside of this is that your inventory or bank space will be stretched.
It's good to keep in mind that in ESO, you can deposit your ingredients or materials in a bank and still be able to use them at a crafting station, in this case a cooking fire. This allows you to keep your stash of ingredients permanently in a bank, not taking any space from your personal inventory.
Provisioning recipes are found in containers such as dressers, nightstands, cabinets and trunks. They also drop as loot from enemies. The recipes you're able to get from the containers depends on your character's level and the alliance you're playing in.
The best way to get provisioning recipes is finding a building with as many dressers, nightstands, cabinets and trunks as possible, and then looting it over and over again. Container loot is instanced, so you can log out and log in back to reset the containers.
Many provisioning recipes are Alliance specific. It means you can only get these recipes from the relevant Alliance zones. Many of the ingredients also only drop in specific alliance zones. You can, however, bank the recipes and then learn them on another character in a different alliance.
See our Provisioning Recipe Master List for a full list of provisioning recipes in ESO.
You might also be interested in our provisioning ingredients guide.
You can cook food and brew drinks. There's three types of both.
The effects each type of food/drinks have isn't this black and white, but is accurate for the low provisioning ranks. Later in the game you'll be able to cook breads and pies which increase all Health, Stamina and Magicka instead of just Health, for example.
Provisioning Skill Line gives a number of bonuses to Provisioning. Some of these skills are vital in order to advance as a cook.
Recipe Quality allows the player to use higher quality recipes, which will naturally yield higher quality food and drinks. A casual provisioner will be fine without investing skill points in this passive, but if you want to get the most out of cooking, you'll want to take a look at this skill.
Recipe Improvement increases the level of food and drinks you can craft. By default, you'll be able to craft food and drinks up to level 19. To be able to craft higher level food or drinks, this is the passive you need to invest skill points in. In order to craft the highest level food/drinks, you are required to use five skill points on this passive alone.
Gourmand is an useful passive because it increases the duration of food buffs. It simply means you need to consume less food to maintain 100% uptime on your food buffs.
Connoisseur works just like Gourmand does, except it affects the duration of drink buffs instead of food.
Chef is a very nice passive skill to have for Provisioning. It creates up to three extra servings of any food recipe. Even if there is an abundance of food ingredients in ESO, this passive on its own means you need to find three times less ingredients to create the same amount of food than you would without it.
Brewer does to drinks what Chef passive does to food – it enables you to create up to three extra servings of drinks from a single drink recipe.
Hireling simply sends you food and drink ingredients every day. The value of this passive depends largely on how much time you have at your hands. The less time you can spend in game, the more valuable this passive becomes.
Allows the use of green/blue/purple quality recipes.
Allows the making of recipes up to level X.
Adds 5 minutes to the duration of any food eaten.
Adds 5 minutes to the duration of any beverage consumed.
Creates 1 additional serving for each food recipe attempted.
Creates 1 additional serving for each drink recipe attempted.
A hireling will send you food or drink ingredients every day.


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The Araneta Center celebrates Women's Month
#DontTellMeHowToDress ribbon-cutting activity (L-R): SPARK Philippines Founder Victoria Garchitorena, J. Amado Araneta Executive Director Diane Romero, Ambassador Harald Fries of the Embassy of Sweden, United Nations Population Fund Country Representative Iori Kato, and Office of the Vice President's Angat Buhay Head Jill Javiniar
As part of the celebration of the International Women's Month, the Araneta Center and SPARK! Philippines launched on March 1 the #DontTellMeHowToDress Exhibit at the Gateway Mall.
The exhibit, which is the centerpiece of the #RespetoNaman campaign, showcases clothes worn by women (and even children!) when they experienced gender-based violence in various settings - at home, in school, at the workplace, in the community.
"According to a report by the Center for Women's Resources in 2017, Philippine Police records show that 1 Filipino woman or child is raped every hour in this country," said Ambassador Harald Fries of the Embassy of Sweden.
"At the heart of the (#RespetoNaman) campaign is the message of the importance about respect – respect for women's basic human right for body ownership and respect for safe spaces for women regardless of their line of work, what they are wearing, where they are, or who they are. Nothing can ever justify harassment, violence, or rape," explained Fries.
"I think it is particularly appropriate to have this exhibit here in Quezon City where the gender and development ordinance against catcalling and other forms of sexual harassment was passed in 2016 – the first among the cities in Metro Manila," Fries added.
The clothes displayed at the #DontTellMeHowtoDress Exhibit are ordinary everyday outfits, which were worn by survivors when they were sexually harassed and assaulted. The exhibit aims to "transform the idea among misconception that it's the surivors' fault for sexual harassment, sexual abuse for what they wear," explained Iori Kato, country representative of the United Nations Population Fund.
"Sexual harassment, sexual abuse is never, never the fault of the survivor," Kato emphasized. "Stop the victim-blaming. Let's put the blame on who should be blamed – the perpetrator!" he added.
"The #DontTellMeHowToDress Exhibit reminds everyone what people wear should never justify harassment and rape," Fries concluded.
The #DontTellMeHowToDress Exhibit at the Gateway Mall is open to the public from March 1 to 8. It is part of "FilipinAmazing: Honoring Filipino Women at the Araneta Center," a series of activities focusing on women empowerment.
Aside from the exhibit, the Araneta Center also held the "Neon Fitness Party" at the Manhattan Row last March 2. "Through the Neon Fitness Party, we are given the opportunity to work out together towards achieving our fitness goals! I believe that helping women to stay fit is one way to uplift them," said Karen Gallman, first Filipina to bring home the Miss Intercontinental crown.
Women's Bazaar will then be held at the Gateway Mall from March 15 to 17 to promote artisanal Pinay-made items. The bazaar will highlight the products made by women from Spark-sponsored communities, including those from Marawi.
For more information and other Araneta Center updates, visit www.aranetacenter.net and follow @TheAranetaCenter on Facebook and Instagram and @AranetaCenter on Twitter.


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The Government of India (ISO: Bhārat Sarkār), often abbreviated as GoI, is the union government created by the constitution of India as the legislative, executive and judicial authority of the union of twenty eight states and eight union territories of a constitutionally democratic republic. It is located in New Delhi, the capital of India.
The government was not able to handle the economic fallout for the poor. [...] The COVID-19 outbreak is yet another demonstration of how the Indian poor are systematically excluded from the government's policy-making. A case in point is the government's failure to account for the 40 million poor and homeless children before declaring the lockdown. The COVID–19 episode in India has proved that, to date, the voices of the poor are unheard in the decision-making and policies that affect them the most. Further, data and evidence regarding them are least likely to be considered by the government when framing policies.
Surya Gupta and Armin Rosencranz, COVID-19, the Government's Response, and India's Sustainable Development Goals (May 22, 2020), edited by Tim Zubizarreta, JURIST
The 40-day lockdown was further extended at a time of sporadic expressions of resistance and anger by migrant workers in a few cities. Extreme precarity doesn't have a singular expression. While some are responding with anger, others are responding with resignation. The severe distress among migrant workers in India is not entirely by chance. It has been marinating for a while but the epic new scale has been manufactured due to the unplanned and unilateral decision of a lockdown taken by the prime minister. The arbitrariness and unpreparedness are evident from the confusing messages from the central government concerning transport for migrants.
Rajendran Narayanan, Locked down in distress (May 9, 2020), co-written with Sakina Dhorajiwala, Indian Express Limited
The migrant worker distress has also exposed the inherent fractures of the "one nation" narrative that is one of the unique selling propositions of the BJP government. While it goes against the grain of the idea of India that has a rich tradition of pluralism, it is also meaningless from a governance standpoint. Migrant workers don't carry their ration cards and so haven't been able to avail of government rations in the states where they are stranded. The employers, contractors mostly, have largely abandoned them without paying them wages. Consequently, they are left to scrounge for food and are left without money. In many cases, they are stranded without knowing the local language. In this situation, it is the poorer state governments of Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, etc. that have attempted to seek out "their people" stranded in richer states such as Maharashtra or Haryana and make cash transfers to their account. The economies of these richer states have benefited from the labour of migrants from the poorer states. However, the richer states have neither extended any financial support nor forced employers to pay wages to the workers. Worse still, on May 5, Chief Minister of Karnataka, B S Yediyurappa, cancelled trains for migrant workers from Bengaluru to their home states. The decision was taken after a meeting between the chief minister and the Confederation of Real Estate Developers Associations of India (CREDAI). Neither migrant workers nor trade unions representing them were consulted. This was not only insensitive but a violation of the right to live with dignity (Article 21), right to freedom of movement (Article 19) and prohibition of forced labour (Article 23). The government decided to restore the train services only after protests.
Barring examples from Kerala and Telangana, most host states have demonstrated disregard for migrant workers. It behooves the host states to care about the migrant workers not only from a humanitarian standpoint but also from the perspective of the health of the economy. On its part, the central government has maintained a calibrated silence regarding this. Monopolising decisions and socialising losses are not what federalism is supposed to mean. Therefore, it is time that the poorer states realise that the unilateral lockdown is not just an assault on the dignity of the poor, but also an economic assault on the poorer state governments. Further, there has been a concerted effort by the central government and some host states to hold the labour captive in the richer states by making transportation procedures unreasonable.
The approach of the Indian state to citizen participation has always been based on arrogance. It is also informed by overemphasis on the rhetoric of law and order. The former leads the state to believe that citizens are not, and should not be, active agents. This means that citizens must wait for leaders to mobilise them and guide and supervise their actions. Similarly, citizens must depend on the largesse of the state in deciding what is good for them. This gives rise to the syndrome of government as caretaker/parent and leaders as political chaperons. The Indian state also privileges the idea of law and order. If a parental state negates the idea that people have agency, the emphasis on law and order legitimises that negation. Thus, the discourse of rights and individual dignity becomes permissible only if it is subservient to the statist idea of "order". Legislative imagination, judicial interpretation and public perception are all stacked against the idea of the citizen as protestor. In contrast to the legacy of the freedom movement, democracy and popular participation are seen, both theoretically and legally, as inconsistent with, and often even opposed to, an orderly society.
Suhas Palshikar, Will there be a George Floyd moment in India's public life? (June 11, 2020), The Indian Express
The emphasis has been twofold: That the state knows, the state is right, the state must be privileged, and that citizen action is suspect, potentially disruptive and liable to punishment. It is in the backdrop of this subdued rights discourse and de-legitimised agency of the people that the current moment has unfolded wherein criticism is almost seditious, claiming rights for marginalised sections can be termed as waging war against the state and empathising with victims of social injustice is ridiculed or forbidden. The current regime has converted the penchant for sub-democratic state action into a fearsome art.
A global coalition has unleashed a campaign to overthrow the elected government of Narendra Modi and prominent academics privately hint at the need for his removal by any means. These luminaries include some of the most celebrated Indian-origin academics in the world's leading institutions, one of whom once proposed the ceding of J&K to Pakistan in the presence of the bureaucrat who went on to become India's Prime Minister.... A global coalition has unleashed a campaign to overthrow the elected government of Narendra Modi and prominent academics privately hint at the need for his removal, along with Home Minister, Amit Shah, by any means. These luminaries include some of the most celebrated Indian-origin academics in the world's leading institutions, one of whom once proposed the ceding of J&K to Pakistan in the presence of the bureaucrat who went on to become India's Prime Minister. The same academic advised the government of Tony Blair in London to refuse engagement with the Vajpayee administration after the 1998 nuclear tests. Some of these individuals are indubitably engaged with foreign security services of hostile countries and conspire with their arms-length intelligence operations through media assets in New York, Washington and London. Unfortunately, the narrative on India is completely beyond the sway of the Indian authorities and their official and unofficial spokespersons. The latter apparently have neither the intellectual skills to prevail in the deadly contest of fabricated insinuation nor the political will or means to gain access to major media outlets abroad. There can be no starker instance of the dismal situation than their total inability to refute the outrageous portrayal of India's humane CAA legislation as discriminatory and unjust. The shocking intellectual nullity and illiteracy of the putative nationalist agents deputed abroad, many of them, it is suspected, compromised with foreign governments as well, is a cause for utter dismay.
Gautam Sen on Jun 13 2020. Quoted in Faltering India
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The 2007 Eastern District Council election was held on 18 November 2007 to elect all 37 elected members to the 46-member District Council.

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Another Mystery Solved! Here's Our Nellie . . .
After I posted the wedding invitation for John DeSmit and Nellie Squares, the mystery of Nellie was solved by Adri van Gessel.
Nellie was born Pieternella Paulina Schrier on Sunday, October 5, 1879, at Kortgene, the Netherlands. She immigrated to the United States in 1891 with her mother, the widow of Paulus Schrier, and 5 siblings.
On Thursday, July 20, 1899, Nellie married John DeSmit in Kalamazoo.
On May 9, 1900, Nellie died in Kalamazoo. She was a 20-year-old housewife, according to her death record.
Adri found the birth of a girl, Nellie D. DeSmit, born April 30, 1900, in Kalamazoo. The daughter of Nellie and John. Sadly, Nellie must have passed away from giving birth.
Baby Nellie was not listed on the 1900 census with her father, John, who was living at home with his family. Instead, the baby was listed as an adopted daughter in the family of Christopher (Christiaan) Schrier, Nellie's brother and baby Nellie's uncle.
Baby Nellie, no longer a baby, was married on June 13, 1918, in Kalamazoo, to Garret Johnson, son of J.G. Johnson and Nellie Groenhuizen. Garret was born on May 11, 1895 at Hilversum, the Netherlands. He died August 18, 1961, in Kalamazoo.
It appears, though, that baby Nellie still considered herself the daughter of John DeSmit because in the 1940 census she, her husband, and son Robert (born 1935) lived in the household of John DeSmit and was listed as daughter.
One of the biggest mysteries has been why Nellie's parents are listed as Mr. and Mrs. A. Ver Sluis. At first I thought, well, Nellie's brother Christiaan married Nellie Ver Sluis in 1898, only a year before our wedding invitation for Nellie Schrier and John DeSmit. Does this have something to do with the fact that there was not a living father to give Nellie Schrier away?
Nellie's mother Pieternella de Looff Schrier was married on Wednesday March 2, 1892, in Kalamazoo, to Abraham Jacob Versluis, son of Willem Versluis and Pieternella de Lange. Abraham had been previously married to Cornelia Verburg and had two children by her. He immigrated to the United States in 1891. Abraham was born on Sunday October 13, 1850 at Kortgene and died on Tuesday November 1, 1938 in Kalamazoo.
Was it customary to marry step-siblings, as Christiaan did?
In case the name Schrier rings any bells for those from Kalamazoo, there have been many residents with that surname. The name comes from the Zeeland province of the Netherlands. Paul J. Schrier was the mayor of Kalamazoo from 1967-1969. He was the son of Peter Schrier, who was a brother of Nellie Schrier DeSmit. Therefore the mayor was our Nellie's nephew, although he never knew her since she died at the age of 20 from giving birth to her daughter.
If baby Nellie ever had any half siblings. Her father apparently married Margaret when he was between 42 and 52.
When baby Nellie passed away.
If baby Nellie perhaps lived with her uncle so that she would be raised with his two children. Did Christiaan and his wife already have their babies when Nellie was born or did they come after?
This still doesn't explain the Corliss home for the wedding.
And we think families are confusing today . . . .
Let's take a little break from Theresa's story this week. We can return to it next week.
Another branch of the family that I have not yet spent any time investigating begins with Richard DeKorn's other sister Mary. His sister Jennie is the one who married John Culver, had two little girls, and took off for Seattle. It wasn't until Joyce sent me the photo album that I began to learn more about that branch. But Richard's other sister, the one who stayed put in Kalamazoo, I still haven't spent any time with.
Mary died at age 98, two years before I was born. Maria Catharina de Korne was born on 4 Jan 1855 in Kapelle, Zeeland, the Netherlands. Mary married John DeSmit in Kalamazoo in 1873 and they had seven children–3 boys and 4 girls. That means that there are a lot of children to investigate. I wonder how many of their descendents are living in the Kalamazoo area.
In order to begin researching the DeSmits, I looked through my documents to see if I already had anything, and I discovered a wedding invitation from 1899. It amazes me how much it resembles a contemporary wedding invitation. It lists the names of the bride (Nellie) and groom (John) and her parents, although not his parents. The place is a residence with an address. I don't know the connection of the location to the bride and groom.
The wedding was on Thursday evening, which seems like an odd time to me. Also, I wonder if it wasn't the residence of the bride's parents because perhaps they weren't from Kalamazoo? Or perhaps their home wasn't large enough? I wonder why the bride has a different last name, Squares, from her parents, Ver Sluis.
I found a newspaper announcement which lists Nellie's surname as Squires, which makes more sense, but wouldn't the printed wedding announcement be correct? Also, the newspaper lists John's home as Battle Creek and Nellie's as Kalamazoo.
But what is the bigger mystery is this. I show that a John DeSmit, the son of Mary and her husband John, and born approximately June 1877, was married to a woman named Margaret. The age would be right for John to be marrying in 1899, as he was 21 or 22. But who was Margaret?
On closer examination of the 1900 census, I see that John was listed as 22, living at home with his parents and siblings, and already a widower! Poor Nellie?! It seems that Margaret was a second wife, later in John's life.
You can see that this invitation brings up more questions than I had to begin with, but it does give me some information to pursue. The next thing I went to check out was the address listed: 702 East First Street, Kalamazoo, Michigan. According to Google Maps, it doesn't exist.
My great-great-grandmother Alice Paak (the brave woman who survived a horrific near-tragedy that I wrote about last spring) gave her middle child Cora a gift for Christmas 1907. Perhaps she gave one to each of her three children.
You can see from the photo that it's a hand-painted genealogy shell.
My grandfather and grandmother inherited it, and my grandmother gave it to me.
Let's take a look at what she wrote over one hundred years ago, and how it relates to the information I have received more recently.
If you remember my story about Alice's near tragedy, you might also remember the post I wrote about her beautiful handmade shawl. Or the post I wrote about Alice and all her sisters.
Apparently, she accepted the American name "Alice." Her granddaughter, Alice Leeuwenhoek, the daughter of Jennie and Lou Leeuwenhoek, was named after her. Later, my own aunt, the granddaughter of Alice's daughter Cora, was given the name Alice.
Alice Paak's birth date is given on the shell as 17 September 1852. But my genealogical information (the source I listed above) shows that she was born on that same month and year, but on the 9th, not the 17th. Wouldn't she know her own birth day? That confuses me.
On the shell, she lists her birth place as Leksmond, Nederland. That sounds right, and I think it's the same place as Lexmond, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
My great-great-grandfather Richard DeKorn was born Dirk de Korne. But he clearly changed both his first name (Americanized it) and the spelling of his last name (maybe to make it easier for others).
He was born on 21 Aug 1851. The shell corroborates the date.
Born March 18, 1873. That's according to the shell. But my information is March 8, 1873. I have to check on this!
Born January 2, 1875. That's according to the shell and to my records.
Born June 30, 1881. That's according to the shell and to my records.
The design is beautiful with holly branches. The berries are raised to look like real berries. Originally there was a gold leaf paint trim around the shell, but it has worn off in many places.
Her use of "Xmas" because it fit better on the small surface seems astonishingly modern, as does the use of metallic gold and red and green for Christmas.
What I find particularly poignant, though, about this family heirloom is the date. She gave this gift to her daughter on Christmas 1907, and on May 5, 1908, a little over four months later, she passed away.
Where in the Heck is Kapelle?
Since I've been talking a lot about these DeKorn ancestors and so many of them were born in Kapelle, Zeeland, the Netherlands, I thought I'd scout around online and see what I could see of the town. I've only been to Holland once, for a very brief time, and I didn't know what towns to look for at the time–so I've never seen the area my ancestors came from.
As I showed in a previous post, Kapelle is located in the Dutch province of Zeeland, very close to Goes. It's not all that far from Middelburg, the capital of Zeeland.
Last post I showed you the photo of my great-great-great-grandfather, Boudewijn de Korne. I just discovered new information about him written by his grandson Joseph DeKorn. Boudewijn, his wife Johanna, and their two children travelled to the United States with Gerrit Remine (Gerrard Remijnse), who was Johanna's brother.
They travelled on a sailing vessel and arrived at Kalamazoo, Michigan on June 22, 1856. However, "they located in Zeeland, Michigan" for several years. "The voyage across was bad and long." Joseph's father Richard and Aunt Mary told him it took 90 days, but Joseph didn't believe it was actually that long.
I mentioned that Boudewijn and his wife Johanna had two living children when they left the Netherlands. The older is Richard DeKorn; I have introduced him several times before. Note that Richard's generation appears to have dropped the final E from their last name.
Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States. Also known as Richard and, when younger, Derrick.
Mary: Maria Catharina de Korne was born on 4 Jan 1855 in Kapelle, Zeeland, the Netherlands. Mary married John DeSmit in Kalamazoo in 1873 and they had at eight children. Her daughter Frances married a Flipse. When I got married in 1975 my mother took me to Flipse Flower shop to order my bridal bouquet because they were "shirt tail relatives." It's hard to imagine it from this photo, but Mary only died two years before I was born.
After the family moved to the United States, Boudewijn and Johanna had another daughter, Adriana, in 1959, who is one year old in the 1860 census. Nothing after that.
However, a 10-year-old daughter Jennie shows up in the 1870 census, which Jose from Enhanced News Archive was kind enough to find for me.
Joseph DeKorn's documentation mentions Jennie, but not Adriana. My grandfather identified the woman in this photograph as Jennie, Richard's sister, who married a man named John Culver and eventually moved to Seattle, Washington. She died in Pierce, Washington, on July 4, 1947. According to her death record, she was born around 1861. One difficulty in searching is that there is another Jennie Culver (married to Earl) who lived in Kalamazoo during Jennie DeKorn Culver's lifetime.
So the question remains: was there an Adriana born in 1859 as well as Jennie born in 1860 or 1861? Or are they the same person? If Adriana had lived and kept her name, she would have been mentioned in Joseph's statement. So either she passed away as an infant or she became known as Jennie or, perhaps most likely, the census got her name wrong to begin with.
UPDATE: IT IS NOW 2018, FIVE YEARS LATER, AND I STILL DO NOT HAVE BIRTH OR BAPTISM INFORMATION ABOUT JENNIE OR ADRIANA. I AM GOING TO ASSUME FOR NOW THAT JENNIE IS ADRIANA–UNTIL I FIND OUT TO THE CONTRARY. THIS IS BECAUSE JENNIE IS A COMMON NICKNAME FOR ADRIANA.


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The V12 formula 1 Ferraris from 1989 to 1995 represent a not very successful period, nevertheless they are beautiful shaped cars and so are interesting for the modeler and the Ferrari enthusiast.
From this period I built in 1/12 the 640 ( Tamiya conversion), 641/2 Tamiya, F1 2003 (Intermodelli) and 412T2 ( Museum Collection).
Since some years I have the e-jan 643 conversion kit in my stock and started after finishing the 640 WIP on this site.
Awesome, I am looking forward to this WIP. I also have this in my stash and have gathered enough spare sprues to avoid consuming a full kit for the conversion. You're off to a good start here.
I think you mean the F93A Intermodelli kit above, correct?
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Jan 17, 2019 | WORKSCOOP
Federal agencies moving to the cloud are focusing more of their attention on ways to deliver mission critical services, not just on redeploying traditional office productivity tools, say cloud specialists in a new podcast. But IT teams remain challenged by a lack of experience and skill in operating in hybrid environments.
Those concerns, among others, are borne out by findings from a "Federal Cloud Readiness Report," published by FedScoop in December.
Podcast guest Mike Wilkerson, federal cloud specialist for Amazon Web Services sales at VMware, says one of the surprises he saw in the study's findings was that only 30 percent of government leaders surveyed said their agency currently has a high or advanced ability to provision a virtual data center quickly, even though cloud has been around for many years. The ability to provision a virtual data center can serve as an indicator of how ready agencies are to migrate enterprise applications to the cloud.
One reason for this, Wilkerson suggests, may be that agencies moving office productivity tools to the cloud gained experience managing their workloads at the application layer, but not at the virtual data center layer. Gaps in knowledge and experience for advanced provisioning still remain as agencies shift their focus to mission critical services, he says on the podcast, which along with the report was underwritten by VMware, Intel and Carahsoft.
The study also found that the biggest motivation to move to the cloud now, according to agency executives, is no longer cost reduction but pressure to improve mission critical services. That represents a significant shift, according to Illyse Shaeffer, a cloud software-defined infrastructure solutions technical specialist at Intel, who also spoke on the podcast.
"It was interesting to see that the federal space is realizing that they need to build faster, and provide services quicker, in order to be more responsive to their constituents," Shaeffer says.
In order to move forward, Schaeffer recommends IT leaders educate gain a deeper familiarity with the resiliency of their applications as they begin to operate in a hybrid environment. She also recommends assessing which applications are the most resource-intensive before mapping a migration strategy. Additionally, they need to understand the amount of bandwidth required between users and the applications they are requesting.
Wilkerson was quick to note that agencies need not work alone as they move to more advanced virtualization to meet their mission critical needs. Cloud service providers have been managing workload and application migration for many years with private and commercial clients, and government agencies are well-positioned to take advantage of that experience, especially now that VMware has partnered with AWS.
"When it comes to migrating workloads we've taken a lot of the risk out of that equation," Wilkerson explains. "Customers running legacy workloads no longer have to refactor, rewrite and re-manage … it's a simple copy and move the workload across the wire and bring it back."
While security is no longer the biggest deterrent for agencies considering a move to cloud, Wilkerson acknowledges it remains a significant concern. He says, however, that agencies should take into account that a hybrid model includes multiple layers of security – "you've got the security of the cloud provider itself, you've got the perimeter-based security, and with technology you've got hypervisor-based separation along with customers that are taking advantage of software-based micro-segmentation."
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Tribute Profile Sample: CAITLYN JENNER
A Tribute Profile is a document that illustrates for both the reader and the subject a greater depth of nuance or insight into the character, values, struggles, hopes, and/or experiences of the subject than what you might normally be able to see. It gives context, inspires awareness, educates, and distills seemingly unrelated facts into a cohesive and makes-sense whole. It helps you appreciate the journey you've taken, and the one still ahead. It's the perfect gift for yourself or a loved one just after or before a major transition, for the family vision/blessings-for-the-future of a new child, for a company seeking to understand and organize thoughts about what it has been or hopes to be, or for anyone seeking to exalt the life of another, including those of politicians, celebrities, sports figures, and other leaders.
During the past several months the world has learned about Caitlyn Jenner's inner life and public transformation from the "World's Greatest Athelete" (male) to the "Most Famous Transgender Person in the World" (female). Although many will hear about, see, or speculate on the nature of this transformation, very few will grasp or understand the nuances of what they are presented with or discover. This Caitlyn Jenner Tribute was sculpted to give voice to those details. It acknowledges the challenges she faced and still faces in a respectful, non-blaming or shaming way. It allows the reader to learn more about her process and, indirectly, the process of other transgender people.
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The color scheme and document design chosen for this Tribute was meant to capture Cait's elegance, regal carriage, and the subtleness of her inner and outer beauty. While other tributes might be more favorable to a bolder colors and in-your-face design elements (think Nicki Minaj) or a more avant-guarde stylization (think Lady Gaga), we selected a soft but still strong palette and more conservative details to illustrate an alignment with Cait's tender heart and strong spirit.
The background watermark quotes were an especially important subtext element for this piece. The quotes selected (which can be found listed here and here) affirm the choices Cait has made, reflect the respect and self-respect she deserves, and honors the process she has embraced in the way she's chosen to embrace it. Cumulatively, this text also quietly weaves into the document a grace that she, and others like her, might also need when reading something as provocative and piercing as this tribute. Even if the text can't be seen clearly, it is hoped it may be sensed.
Selected Accomplishments
To prepare for the creation of this tribute extensive research about the subject had to be undertaken. Below are selected details of Caitlyn's personal and public life prior to and during her transition that helped shape this narrative:
Olympic Gold: Men's Decathlon, 1976, Montreal
Other Olympic Placements: Decathlon 10th Place, 1972, Munich
World Record Holder: Men's Decathlon, 1976-1980 and 1985-1991
Drake Relays: Decathlon 5th Place, Des Moines, Iowa, 1970
Drake Relays: Decathlon 1st Place, Des Moines, Iowa, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1976
Kansas Relays: Decathlon 1st Place, 1971, 1974
NBA Draft: 7th Round Pick by Kansas City Kings, 1977
French National (Decathlon) Championship: 1975
Eastern States Water-skiing Championship, Three-time Winner
Pan-American Games: Decathlon 1st Place, 1975
American Athletic Union (AAU) Winner: 1974, 1976
IMSA (International Motor Sports Association) Camel GTO, "12 Hours of Sebring", 1st Place in class/4th Place overall (with co-driver Scott Pruett), 1986
Grand Prix driver
Senior Championship Racing Association, driver
Guinness World Record for amassing largest Twitter following the fastest (over one million in under four hours), 2015
President's Council on Physical Fitness: Sports Advisor
U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame Inductee: 1986
AAU James E. Sullivan Award, 1976, known as the "Oscar" of sports, for being top amateur athlete in the U.S.
Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year, 1976
Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame Inductee
Connecticut Sports Hall of Fame, 1994
U.S. National Track and Field Hall of Fame, 1980
San Jose Sports Hall of Fame, 2010
The Des Moines Sunday Register's Iowa Sports Hall of Fame Inductee, 1982
ESPN Arthur Ashe Courage Award Winner, 2015
Graceland University Yellowjackets Hall of Fame Inductee, 1984
Southern California Father's Day Committee: "Father of the Year" Winner
Outstanding International Sportscaster of the Year Award
Celebrity Outreach Award, for extensive work assisting and aiding in charity fundraisers
Trans Advocacy
Revealed personal gender struggles on TV show: Keeping Up with the Kardashians, 2015
Came out on international stage as a transgender woman during TV interview: The Interview, A Diane Sawyer Special, 20/20, April 2015
Transgender reality-TV show: "I Am Cait", 2015
Graceland College (now Graceland University), Bachelor's of Physical Education, Lamoni, Iowa, 1973
Track and Field News, cover model, August 1974
Vanity Fair, cover model and feature article/photo spread, July 2015, marked magazine's first transgender cover model (photographer: Annie Leibovitz)
Finding the Champion Within: A Step-by-Step Plan for Reaching Your Full Potential
Decathlon Challenge: Bruce Jenner's Story
Bruce Jenner's Viewers Guide to the Olympics
The Teenage Guide to Fitness
The Olympics and Me
Jack and Jill, 2011, as herself
Gym Teacher: The Movie, 2008, as herself
The Big Tease, 1999, as herself
A Man Called Sarge, 1990, as herself
Grambling's White Tiger, 1981
Can't Stop the Music, 1980
CHiPs Officer Steve McLeish, multiple appearances, 1981-1982
Good Morning America, guest host and special correspondent
Keeping Up with the Kardashians, 2007-
I Am Cait, 2015-
Principal, Bruce Jenner Aviation, sells aircraft and aircraft supplies to executives and corporations, 2010-
President of Business Development, JennerNet Software Systems, a staffing industry software application, 2003-
Vice Chairperson, Longevity Network, a preeminent network marketing firm
Owner, 8618, Inc.
Nonprofit/Charitable
Advisor, Special Olympics, where she serves on the Council of Champions
The National Dyslexia Research Foundation
Athletes and Entertainers for Kids
Boardmember, The Dream Foundation
Boardmember, C.O.A.C.H. for Kids
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Schpak (Шпак) ist der Familienname folgender Personen:

 Anatoli Petrowitsch Schpak (1949–2011), ukrainischer Physiker
 Georgi Iwanowitsch Schpak (* 1943), russischer Offizier
 Marat Terentijowytsch Schpak (1926–1993), sowjetischer Physiker
 Nikolaus Schpak-Dolt (* 1977), deutscher Linguist
 Petro Fedorowytsch Schpak (1931–2002), sowjetischer Geologe und Politiker
 Wladimir Stepanowitsch Schpak (1909–2009), sowjetischer Chemiker

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Shreveport is also feeling the effects of a drug abuse trend that has taken root in the city's residential neighborhoods. Opioid dependence is a major problem in the community. There must be a collective effort to beat the menace. Law enforcement is making strides in combating the issue by taking the fight to the drug dealers. Not long ago, a drug bust by Shreveport police led to the seizure of crack cocaine, MDMA, Xanax and synthetic marijuana. Still, the police department's efforts alone can only go so far. The city's medical facilities need to ensure availability of counter-overdose drugs such as naloxone to those that are vulnerable. Most importantly, those affected should sign up for recovery programs at any drug rehab center in Shreveport, LA.
Louisiana saw 305 opioid overdose deaths in 2016. All Louisiana community members — residents, local political and religious leaders, law enforcement officials and medical practitioners — need to combine efforts and fight the rampant problem of substance dependency to prevent more unnecessary deaths. If you're a Shreveport resident struggling with alcohol or drug misuse, don't hesitate to seek treatment at one of the facilities set up within the city. These facilities have specialists who can help you find the best drug treatment in Shreveport.
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Speak with any local substance misuse medical practitioner to find out what your insurance plan can cover and what you can afford. Some programs are more expensive than others. For example, residential treatment programs have added costs due to the high level of patient care and residency services offered. Also, keep in mind to choose a program that meets your treatment needs. It does not make sense to choose a low-involvement outpatient program over an inpatient program if you're struggling with severe addiction since such instances are best treated at residential facilities that offer intensive medical care.
Prolonged drug use usually conditions your body in such a way that you cannot go for long periods without it. When a drug user fails to indulge for a while, they start to exhibit withdrawal symptoms. That is why detoxification — the process by which substance use is ceased, and the body is cleansed of the toxic drug substances — should only be carried out at approved medical facilities. Shreveport drug detox involves professionals who monitor you for any dangerous effects of substance withdrawal. Never try to detox alone by using a home detox kits; unsupervised detoxification methods only increase the risk of relapse. Shreveport alcohol detox is also important before you start your treatment program.
Detoxification at treatment facilities starts with patient evaluation where a medical expert examines you and generates a befitting treatment routine. Depending on the drug in question, the medical professional in charge may require you to undergo Medically Assisted Treatment (MAT), which entails prescribing to you medication that helps counter the damaging effects of sudden withdrawal. However, this is not usually the case as others may be required to undergo detoxification not supported with medication. At the end of detoxification, patients that would wish to go on with recovery are offered a treatment plan. If you're in Shreveport and would like to undergo detoxification, contact your an addiction professional about locally available options.
Recovery meetings are an avenue via which those who have gone through substance misuse treatment can share their failures and successes in the recovery journey and create a feeling of collective hope. There are several types of recovery meetings, with some like AA and NA boasting a global presence. If you are in Shreveport, go through the recovery meetings below to see which type suits your problem and pick a meeting group to join.
Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is a recovery program for people dealing with alcohol addiction. It is the most widely renowned amongst the recovery groups that subscribe to the 12-step traditions. With over 80 years of experience, AA has built a largely efficient framework which most of the other self-help groups have been quick to adopt. If you wish to shake off your alcohol dependency, you can explore a variety of AA meetings after completing your alcohol rehab in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Narcotics Anonymous (NA) resembles AA, but it caters to those struggling with a drug habit. The 12-step recovery plan used in NA meetings is composed of activities such as regularly attending group meetings, finding a sponsor and meeting up with fellow group participants during free time. NA, by tradition, subscribes to the idea of looking to a higher power, and this concept is reinforced in NA literature, which members are usually urged to read. Anyone can become a member of NA. Furthermore, NA is a non-profit program and membership is open to everyone. The following meetings take place in Shreveport.
Self-Management and Recovery Training (SMART) offers a unique approach to alcohol and substance use recovery in that its recovery steps are drawn from existing scientific proof, unlike 12-step programs that draw from spirituality. If you don't fancy self-help fellowships and would like to try out the SMART Recovery approach, consider attending any of the following SMART meetings within 150 miles of Shreveport.
Al-Anon and Nar-Anon programs cater to people negatively impacted by someone else's addiction. Sessions involve members sharing their experiences to invoke collective rejuvenated hope amongst members. If a family member or friend's struggle with alcohol or drugs is bringing you down as well, join these Al-Anon and Nar-Anon groups in Louisiana to get the support you need.
If you are a Shreveport resident in need of help, addiction treatment options are endless as other communities within Louisiana also boast rehabilitation facilities. You can find additional recovery centers in the following cities and towns situated close by.


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Thunderbirds and F-35 Lightning! Cleveland National Air show set to roar over the shore
Updated Aug 30, 2019; Posted Aug 30, 2019
GEICO Skytypers Air Show Team returns to Cleveland National Air Show
By Plain Dealer staff
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Clevelanders know to look up on Labor Day weekend, because that's where the action is. The Cleveland National Air Show returns to Burke Lakefront Airport Saturday through Monday.
This year's headliners are the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds and F-35 Lightning II Demo Team. They will be joined by the A-10C Thunderbolt II Tactical Demonstrations, plus the U.S. Army Golden Knights Parachute. Inside the gates, spectators will feel the heat of Shockwave Jet Truck and there will be a number of aircraft to tour or see up close.
On Thursday, several planes were zooming around the lakefront for practice, VIP and media flights, including the GEICO Skytypers Air Show Team of six vintage WWII U.S. Navy SNJ-2 trainers that perform low-altitude, precision flights and "type" giant messages with smoke releases that are visible from 15 miles in any direction. The team has not been in Cleveland in more than a dozen years.
Reserved, club and box seats, ranging from $28 to $120, are available online at clevelandairshow.com. General admission tickets, which do not include a seat, can be purchased in advance for $23 for adults or $14 for children. The price goes up $2 at the gate.


Ben Osborn says the novelty of playing in front of Nottingham Forest's huge away followings has far from worn off for him.
More than 4,000 Reds fans will be in the away end on Saturday as Forest end the 2015-16 campaign at MK Dons.
And 21-year-old Osborn, who is coming to the end of his second season as a first-team regular, admits it still excites him to play in front of packed-out away ends.
The midfielder told Forest Player HD: "Any time there's a good atmosphere or a big crowd, it really makes a difference.
"You look around before the game kicks off and realise: 'Yeah, you've got to go here.' It's still a great feeling.
"Our away fans are always brilliant. They out-sing the home support nearly everywhere we go and always travel in numbers.
Osborn now has more than 60 senior starts to his name and he has learned a lot from the current campaign.
He said: "This season's been a massive learning curve for me, especially starting off with the injuries because I've never really been injured.
"I found myself out of the team and it's just been good to get back in and have a good run of games towards the end of the season.
"I think defensively I've become more solid and organised and my positional sense has improved.
"I've spent the majority of this season out on the left, which I wouldn't say is my natural position, but we've got so many central midfielders I've just been happy to get on the pitch and play the number of minutes I have.


The move, supported by and in the interest of farmers, ecologists and consumer groups will force the government to impose a blanket ban on the cultivation of GMO crops and the import of animals whose genes have been modified in the laboratory. Switzerland voted in favor of a five-year ban on the farming of genetically modified plants and animals. It placed some of the toughest restrictions in Europe.
But, the scientists and the importers need not worry. The moratorium does not apply to research into GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) nor does it stop the import of genetically modified food. Its supporters say the victory is a clear signal that Swiss consumers and farmers are in favor of GM-free food and produce, at a time when traditional Swiss farms are under threat from cuts in agricultural subsidies.


Uranium plant eyed for southern New Mexico: "CARLSBAD, N.M. - A French corporation is looking at U.S. locations for a uranium enrichment facility, including an area between Carlsbad and Hobbs."
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) - State Land Commissioner Patrick Lyons said he made a mistake last year in signing a contract that allows a developer to master plan a state-owned parcel that is being considered for annexation into Las Cruces.
"We did jump the gun," Lyons said Friday. "We should have waited a month."
The state Land Office has been criticized in recent weeks for giving Solo Investments' Philip Philippou a sweetheart deal. The contract was signed Dec. 26, but the notice gave a deadline of Feb. 1 for proposals to be submitted.
Lyons has said he didn't wait until the deadline to see what other proposals might be submitted because Philippou's "was so good and above everybody else's."
He also said the proposal was attractive because it offered to master plan the adjacent plot at no cost.
"We did err, but I thought that if we were going to err, it should be on the side of public school kids in New Mexico," Lyons said Friday.
LAS VEGAS (AP) _ A federal proposal to ship nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain along a western Nevada rail corridor has been dealt a blow, after the Walker River Paiute Tribe withdrew its permission to use a route through its reservation.
The tribal council passed a resolution Tuesday removing the tribe from a federal environmental impact study that included a rail segment for shipments of spent nuclear fuel along the outskirts of tribal lands north of Walker Lake.
"After considering the information we had gathered to date and discussions with our membership, the tribal council made the decision not to continue with the Department of Energy's process," tribal Chairwoman Genia Williams said in a statement.
"The tribe will not allow nuclear waste to be transported on rail through our reservation," Williams said.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - The U.S. Bureau of Land Management netted more than $7.88 million for 111 federal oil and gas leases in New Mexico, Texas and Oklahoma.
Wednesday's BLM lease sale offered 113 parcels totaling 32,869 acres; it sold leases on all but 340 acres.
The highest per-acre bid came from Albuquerque-based Blanco Company, which paid $130,000 for 25 acres _ $5,200 per acre _ in Houston County, Texas. The highest per-parcel bid, $868,000, came from Chesapeake Exploration LP of Oklahoma City for 1,120 acres in eastern New Mexico's Eddy County.
Fifty-five parcels in Oklahoma, some 7,405 acres, brought in more than $1.83 million, while 20 parcels in Texas, spread across 4,636 acres, brought in nearly $1.8 million.
The government receives 12.5 percent royalties on production from the leases. Half the money goes to the U.S. Treasury and the other half to the state where the mineral lease is located.
It was reported earlier this week that in response to incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's plan to repeal the tax cuts for oil companies within the first 100 hours of Democratic rule in the house, Senator Bingaman has expressed opposition to such a measure in the Senate, where he will be chairing the Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
Interestingly, the ranking minority member of the committee will be New Mexico's aging Republican Senator, Pete Domenici, who has been a vigorous supporter of the tax cuts for big oil.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 — House Democratic leaders vowed Friday to pursue a broad overhaul of tax breaks and other subsidies to oil companies in January, saying that their first target would be an investigation of how the government collects billions of dollars in royalties on oil and gas produced on federal property.


Citation: Miller, P.J., King, D.J., Suarez, D.L. 2006. Protection against CAO2ENDV challenge of chickens vaccinated with inactivated vaccines of Newcastle disease virus (ndv) from different genetic lineages [abstract]. American Association of Avian Pathologists. CD p. 157.
Technical Abstract: A comparison of the serological response and protection induced by vaccines prepared from NDV strains that represent genetically diverse isolates of the avian paramyxovirus type 1 serotype was made. Four-week-old leghorns were vaccinated with one of six different BPL inactivated vaccines; B1, Ulster, CA 2002ENDV, Pigeon 84, Alaska 196 and a normal allantoic fluid control vaccine. Three weeks post vaccination, serum was collected for antibody analysis and the birds were challenged with the velogenic strain, CA2002 ENDV. The birds were examined daily and were monitored for virus shedding at regular intervals. All vaccines except for the allantoic fluid control induced greater than 90% protection to clinical disease. Further analysis among vaccines will be presented.


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January 6, 2022 2022-03-07
Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation Seeks CEO
About Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation
Established in 1979, Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation ("DBEDC") acts to build a strong, thriving, and diverse community in Boston's Dorchester neighborhoods. Working closely with neighborhoods, residents, businesses, and partners, DBEDC accesses resources to:
Develop affordable across income levels;
Create and sustain economic development opportunities for businesses and individuals; and
Build community through organizing, civic engagement, and leadership development.
DBEDC develops housing and commercial projects that are important to the community and clearly respond to community needs. To date, DBEDC has built or preserved over 1,114 units of housing and over 160,000 square feet of commercial space. Click here for a map of DBEDC's real estate portfolio.
Economic development takes many shapes and forms, and DBEDC is active in a number of important disciplines and initiatives focused upon job creation, wealth creation, and economic growth, including:
Access to Capital
Small Business Technical Assistance
Reentry Program
Since its inception, DBEDC has engaged more than 3,100 residents and families through resident initiatives, youth and seniors programming, public policy advocacy, summer camp, and technology classes.
Based in the Uphams Corner, DBEDC has a staff of thirty, total assets of $229 million, and an annual operating budget of approximately $5,500,000, exclusive of rental property operations. DBEDC is overseen by a highly engaged 16-member Board of Directors comprised of community representatives and local business leaders. Since 2015, DBEDC has been led by its CEO, Perry Newman, who will retire from his position effective June 30, 2022.
Opportunity Going Forward
The CEO will have the opportunity to lead a prominent, long-standing, well-respected, sizable, and innovative economic development corporation which has had tremendous impact on its Dorchester community and the City of Boston since 1979. Situated in vibrant Uphams Corner, priorities for the CEO include:
Capitalizing on DBEDC's significant financial strength and solid reputation as a premier CDC in Greater Boston to expand its real estate development and program opportunities independently or in partnership with others.
Creating strong connections to the new City government and leaders to ensure that DBEDC's perspective is heard, so the organization is well-positioned to advocate proactively on behalf of its constituents and to secure ARPA-related funds for projects.
Developing and delivering on a comprehensive vision and strategy aligned with DBEDC's mission and commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism.
Enhancing DBEDC's connections with and profile within the community by serving as a tireless and visible champion of the community and its residents locally, City-wide, and throughout the Commonwealth.
Expanding DBEDC's role as an advocate for affordable housing and economic development and more proactively engaging its constituents as advocates.
Leading, empowering, and mentoring a collaborative team of highly skilled, experienced mission-driven professionals enthusiastic and passionate about their community and work.
Improving internal communications to expand cross-department awareness, support, and collaboration.
Refining standard business practices to increase productivity, transparency, and accountability.
Enhancing DBEDC's marketing, public relations, and external communications to increase its name recognition and position it as a premier Boston-based CDC fully committed to equity and inclusion.
Desired Credentials/Profile of the Ideal Candidate
A minimum of seven years of senior leadership, or equivalent experience, preferably at a nonprofit of comparable size and scale.
Knowledge of and passion for community development, real estate, economic development and/or community engagement and advocacy.
Lived experience in or professional affiliation with the DBEDC community or a similar urban community would be advantageous.
Understanding of the political dynamics aligned with the sector and real estate development
Skills and Experience
Visionary and Strategic Leader
Agile and proactive strategic thinker and risk taker able to develop and deliver on a comprehensive vision and strategy for a complex community and economic development corporation.
Adept at identifying opportunities in a rapidly changing climate and positioning DBEDC to adapt to the ever-evolving landscape.
Able to understand and articulate the interconnectedness and value to the mission and vision of all of DBEDC's real estate development activities and resident services.
Charismatic and driven leader who can motivate the community, staff, board, and collaborators to achieve noteworthy results.
Skilled at considering and evaluating creative development and programmatic initiatives.
Driven by results, with a proven ability to establish and achieve goals aligned with strategy.
Highly accountable and willing to hold others accountable to consistently high expectations.
Community Champion Committed to Equity and Inclusion
Determined and visible champion of the DBEDC community and its residents.
Supportive, respectful, and nurturing community represent who has an innate sense of the community's advantages and challenges.
Willing to challenge the status quo and advocate for meaningful change to benefit the community.
Well-positioned to understand, speak and advocate on behalf of the community because of lived or professional experience aligned with the DBEDC community.
Passionate commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion and able to bring an informed lens to DBEDC's DEI work because of prior training, experience, and implementation of best practices.
Past experience living or working in an urban community akin to Upham's Corner would be ideal.
Consummate Communicator, Networker, and Relationship Builder
Confident external representative and public spokesperson with the ability to understand and engage the communities served by DBEDC.
Eager, outgoing, informed, and visible leader committed to ensuring that DBEDC is at the table (particularly with the City of Boston) and willing to take a leading public role in the affordable housing sector.
Energetic and culturally competent networker who is able to create, nurture, and sustain collaborative partnerships and co-lead joint ventures across diverse groups.
Excellent communication and public speaking skills to represent and advocate on behalf of DBEDC and its constituents.
Ability to bring established personal and professional connections with the City and the community would be ideal.
Experienced Business Manager with Real Estate Familiarity
Strong understanding of business management best practices with the ability to enhance DBEDC's standard operating procedures.
Knowledge and experience with leveraging affordable housing as part of a bigger economic development strategy.
Real estate development and management enthusiast with the ability to grasp and communicate the intricacies of residential and commercial real estate projects.
Able to grasp and inform the financial complexities, risk management and tolerance, competitive and political landscape, and legal obligations associated with real estate deals in the City of Boston and the Commonwealth.
Able to secure and leverage the public and private resources needed to advance DBEDC initiatives, particularly its lending programs.
Empowering and Decisive Leader of People and Culture
Able to maximize and empower the contributions of committed staff members, placing trust in their competence.
An emotionally intelligent and culturally competent leader who can develop and model a team culture built on respect, inclusion, and tolerance.
Able to hold self and all to equally consistent high levels of accountability.
Strong people skills with the ability to connect with each staff member while creating a collaborative team environment.
Supportive, empathetic, respectful, and mentoring leader committed to each staff member's professional development.
An active listener with the ability to learn and consider before taking action, but also equally comfortable making the ultimate decision.
Compensation and Benefits:
This is a full-time, salaried, exempt position with a starting salary range of $190,000 to $240,000, commensurate with experience and qualifications. DBEDC also offers a comprehensive and generous benefits package.
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Public Call for Financial 'Kitemark' to Help Identify Sustainable Financial Products
The Good Money Week annual research has highlighted an overwhelming public demand for the introduction of 'kitemark-style' label to allow customers to identify which financial products are sustainable/ethical.
In total, 63% of the UK public backed the idea and 43% said it would make them more likely to buy a financial product, rising to 53% of 18-24 yr olds.
The Good Money Week poll found a surprising lack of awareness of the £1.5 trillion sustainable investment market in the UK. In total, 54% of the GB public is unaware that sustainable and ethical financial products exist, rising to over 63% among millennials (18-34 year olds).
Simon Howard, Chief Executive of UKSIF, the body coordinating Good Money Week, said,
"The Good Money Week research throws down a very clear challenge to the sustainable investment sector: to step up on awareness and assurance. Not enough people in the UK know ethical and sustainable options exist for their pensions and savings and not enough are ready to buy without a mechanism such as a kitemark-style label to sort the wheat from the chaff. Creating and managing such a label would be no easy task, but is a job worth doing if it helps build trust and more sustainable capital markets".
Headline findings from today's Good Money Week research of the British public show:
• 60% believe in the ability of the financial sector to generate high returns in an ethically and responsibly way.
• 69% want a new law requiring financial advisors to ask customers if they'd like to exclude specific sectors or companies.
• Almost one in four people (23%) are likely to invest 10% of their pension in impact investment (i.e. funds that seek positive social or environmental returns alongside financial returns).
• 35% would like their bank, pension or savings provider to offer a fossil free option, up from 32% last year. Demand is highest among millennials – almost half (46%) want a fossil free option.
• London has the strongest support for sustainable and ethical investment in the UK – 53% of Londoners want to make at least some positive difference with their money compared to 45% nationally.
• 49% think sustainable or ethical investment funds should not invest in fracking companies.
The research was conducted by YouGov for Good Money Week, which aims to raise awareness among individuals, financial advisers, pension funds and charities of all types of sustainable investing and finance in the UK. Close to 50 activities will be held across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as part of the Week, which commenced yesterday.
Amanda Young, Head of Responsible Investment at Standard Life Investments, said,
"While it is exciting that we are celebrating the ninth year of Good Money Week, the survey results show there is still a lack of awareness of the variety and depth of values-based investment solutions available. Our own research demonstrates that investors have, over time, moved away from wanting to avoid specific sectors to wanting to invest in companies that deliver a positive impact. There are several solutions to help meet this goal from ethical and sustainable & responsible investing through to the growing interest in impact investing. Increasingly it is less about sectors and more about how companies behave and contribute to society. We do believe that it is possible to address the world's many social and environmental challenges while still making a positive financial return."
Huw Davies, Head of Retail Banking at Triodos Bank, said,
"Triodos Bank would very much welcome the introduction of a kitemark-style scheme to help people easily invest their money in ways that are good for people and the planet. Indeed, our own research conducted for Good Money Week showed that 53% of investors think it should be standard for financial institutions to make customers aware where their money is being invested[1]. We hope that all the major players in the UK financial system will rally around an initiative like this to return greater transparency and trust to the sector."
Steve Waygood, Chief Responsible Investment Officer, Aviva Investors said:
It's clear that the UK public are interested in sustainability, and as an industry, we need to do more to help people understand where their savings are being invested.
"In September Aviva published a report entitled 'Money Talks – How Finance can further the Sustainable Development Goals' at the UN, calling for a kite-mark system to be introduced – a Fairtrade for Finance – so that fund managers can demonstrate their credentials as responsible investors.
"Voluntary standards in other industries are relatively commonplace, like Fairtrade in the retail sector, but there is no equivalent for the finance industry. We would like to be able to certify that our funds take sustainability seriously so that we can assure our clients that our investment approach is both long term and responsible."
Regional differences
The Good Money Week/YouGov survey showed significant regional differences when it comes to attitudes to ethical and sustainable investment.
• Scotland is the region most likely to respond positively to the introduction of a kitemark-style label – 49% of Scots are more likely to buy financial products, compared to the national average of 43%.
• London is the region with the strongest support for sustainable and ethical investment – 53% of Londoners want to make at least some positive difference with their money compared to 45% nationally.
• London and the South are the regions most aware that sustainable or ethical financial products exist – 52%compared to the national average of 46%.
• Northern Ireland is the region most likely to invest 10% of pensions in impact investment – 28% compared to 23% nationally.
• The Midlands – 75% of people in the Midlands want to see a new law that ensures financial advisors ask clients if they want to exclude specific sectors or companies from their investments based on their investment practices.
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Hello pop-pickers! ..or Progpickers. h here.
Anyway, THIS weekend I'm on the radio! I have the pleasure of sitting in for Phil Wilding (who's away) and presenting the Team Rock Prog Magazine Show on Saturday between 8.00 and 10.00pm, and again, on Sunday 8.00 until 10.00pm when I will be interviewing Fairport Convention's, Simon Nicol (ahead of Marillion guesting on the Cropredy Festival on August 9th).
I've been given free-reign and carte blanche to play ANYTHING I like.
Not something that happens every day in radio – they must be mad.
I'll be playing all my childhood Prog treasures – the songs that perhaps made me who I am and do what I do - along with anything I found groundbreaking or moving.
I hope you'll listen in..
You can tune in via www.teamrock.com on DAB (National in the UK) and via tunein/radioplayer apps.


Following releases in Canada and the UK, crowdfunding platform Kickstarter will soon open its doors to those in Australia and New Zealand.
Inventors and entreprenuers down under will be able to plead for cash just like the rest of us. Training events will be held in Sydney and Melboune in early September, in advance of the official start date.


Rough cut from the opening of a new sitcom I just shot! #pilotseason We'll see if the kid stays in the picture #boyohboy #perfectstrangers #balkibartokomous OR we can just call it Saturday in The Park with Julian.
I can't believe this placement wasn't cherry picked.


This great opportunity is located at the Buick GMC building. When you pull into the automall KEEP STRAIGHT until you get to the Buick GMC Rivertown building. This GMC includes: SLT PREMIUM PLUS PACKAGE Aluminum Wheels Bed Liner Running Boards/Side Steps TIRES, 275/60R20SL ALL-TERRAIN, BLACKWALL Conventional Spare Tire Tires - Rear All-Terrain Tires - Front All-Terrain GVWR, 7100 LBS DARK SKY METALLIC SUNROOF, POWER Generic Sun/Moonroof Sun/Moonroof ENGINE, 5.3L ECOTEC3 V8 Flex Fuel Capability 8 Cylinder Engine LPO, REAR UNDERSEAT STORAGE, COMPOSITE STORAGE BIN LPO, WHEEL LOCKS, SET OF 4 Wheel Locks REAR AXLE, 3.23 RATIO LPO, ALL-WEATHER FLOOR LINER, 1ST AND 2ND ROWS EMISSIONS, FEDERAL REQUIREMENTS TRANSMISSION, 8-SPEED AUTOMATIC, ELECTRONICALLY CONTROLLED 8-Speed A/T A/T CUSTOMER DIALOGUE NETWORK *Note - For third party subscriptions or services, please contact the dealer for more information.* There's a level of quality and refinement in this GMC Sierra 1500 that you won't find in your average vehicle. This 4WD-equipped vehicle will handle beautifully on any terrain and in any weather condition your may find yourself in. The benefits of driving a 4 wheel drive vehicle, such as this GMC Sierra 1500 SLT, include superior acceleration, improved steering, and increased traction and stability. The GMC Sierra 1500 SLT will provide you with everything you have always wanted in a car -- Quality, Reliability, and Character.