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Join and Renew your Membership with the 509th PIA
PIA STORE
POY AWARD
DMOR AWARD
TO JOIN OR RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP WITH THE 509TH PIA ONLINE (MUST BE FROM A DESKTOP OR LAPTOP)
Go to the following secure website to join or renew online: 509th PIA MEMBERSHIP
Once you have joined or renewed your membership you can download the app from 509th PIA MEMBERS APP instructions
The App will only allow you to view your profile and a current list of membership for the association. Others features may be added in the future. It will not allow you to join or renew your membership for security reasons.
TO JOIN OR RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP WITH THE 509TH PIA BY MAIL
509th Parachute Infantry Association
FOR MEMBERSHIP QUESTIONS
Send membership questions to: abn509thassoc@yahoo.com
Click here for 509th PIA Mail In Application
MEMBERSHIP - Classes and Qualifications:
Membership in the Association shall consist of six (6) classes, as follows: Charter Members, Regular Members, Associate Members, Legacy, Active Duty Members and Honorary Members.
CHARTER MEMBERS: Charter Members shall consist of all officers and enlisted persons assigned to the 504th Parachute Battalion from 14 March 1941 through 24 February 1942), the 2nd Battalion 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment (from 24 February 1942 through 02 November 1942) the 2nd Battalion 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment and/or the 509th Parachute Infantry Battalion (from 02 November 1942 through March 1945). Charter members shall also be life members, no dues being necessary to continue their membership in the Association.
REGULAR MEMBERS: Any officer or enlisted person, who has been assigned or attached to, and honorably served with, the 509th Parachute Infantry by whatever designation and whatever location since 1963, under competent orders, shall be eligible for membership in the Association. An applicant for membership shall first file with the designated representative of the Association, an application for membership on such forms as shall, from time to time, be prescribed, accompanied by payment in full of the then current dues. No applicant, having made proper application and possessing the foregoing qualifications shall be denied membership in the Association providing, however, that the Executive Committee may, in its discretion, refuse membership to any applicant who, at any time during or since their service, has been guilty of any conduct unbecoming a member of the 509th Parachute Infantry.
LEGACY MEMBERS: The widows and children of deceased Charter and Regular Members of the 509th Parachute Infantry.
ASSOCIATE MEMBERS: Any family member of a deceased Charter and Regular Member of the 509th, other than Legacy Members, or any other individual who supports the aims and purposes of the Association may become a member of the Association with approval of the Executive Committee.
ACTIVE DUTY MEMBERS: Any soldier currently serving in the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps or Coast Guard who is or has been assigned to a properly constituted unit of the U.S. Army organized under the heraldry and lineage of the 509th Parachute Infantry Association.
HONORARY MEMBERS: Any person, whose life and activities has fostered the ideals of the 509th Parachute Infantry to the general public or whose service to the Association has been exemplary, may be elected an HONORARY MEMBER of the Association by majority vote of the Executive Committee. Any member of the Association may propose a candidate for Honorary Membership by written recommendation to the Executive Committee, outlining detailed qualifications of the candidate. Each such recommendation shall be certified to any member of the Executive Committee not less than sixty (60) days prior to the annual meeting of the General Membership. Any Honorary Membership may be withdrawn by a majority vote of the Association at a duly-constituted General Membership Meeting.
Voting Privileges:
Any Members of the Association, as defined above, shall be entitled to one vote, in person, on each matter submitted to the vote of the membership.
Dues are as follows:
A.	Charter Members-Free Life Membership;
B.	Regular Members-$25.00 per year;
C.	Legacy Members-$20.00 per year;
D.	Associate Members-$25.00 per year.
E.	Active Duty Members-$25.00 for as long as the individual is on active duty.


US President Donald Trump has questioned the Obama administration's refugee agreement with Australia and told reporters that nothing is off the table when asked about military action regarding Iran. In another programme, speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, President Trump touted his success on The Apprentice and jokingly asked for prayers for the show's new star, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Trump continues to push forward with one of his most cherished platforms is job creation. He encouraged Samsung to open a manufacturing unit in US.


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The Kunsthalle Zürich is a contemporary art exhibition centre in Zurich, Switzerland. It is located on Limmatstrasse, near the city centre. A number of temporary exhibitions are organized each year.

In 2014 Daniel Baumann replaced Beatrix Ruf as the director.

Their exhibition of Gilbert and George was closed early due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Exhibitions
Some artists who have had solo exhibitions include:

See also
 Kunsthalle

References

External links
 Kunsthalle Zürich website

Museums in Zürich
Contemporary art galleries in Switzerland

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Q: Bootstrap how to adjust columns dynamically during empty data We are using bootstrap to display marketing data. We wanted to display as one column for small devices and 3 column for medium devices, which works.
Issue with Medium devices:-
In below code snippet, few times, "Marketing Data1" might NOT exist. Now bootstrap adds empty column. How do we modify bootstrap such a way that if "Marketing Data1" does not exist, it should be only 2 columns with center for medium devices. My thought is, it cannot be achieved in bootstrap. If yes, please suggest a way close to bootstrap with some other methodology.

Marketing Data1

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Marketing Data3

A: Bootstrap can't handle removing that column when "Marketing Data1" is blank. You'll have to handle that in your server-side (PHP or whatever you are using), or with Javascript on your client-side.

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Een Vakbekwaam Persoon (VP) (Nederland) of Vakbekwame (BA5)  (België) is iemand die een elektrotechnische vooropleiding heeft gehad of aantoonbare ervaring heeft die vergelijkbaar is met een elektrotechnische opleiding. Personen met de Aanwijzing Vakbekwaam Persoon  (NL) of bekwaamheid vakbekwaam (BE) mogen ingewikkeldere werkzaamheden doen dan personen met de Aanwijzing Voldoende Onderricht Persoon (NL) of Gewaarschuwde (BE, ook gekend als BA4).

Nederland
In Nederland stellen de NEN 3140 (laagspanning) en de NEN 3840 (hoogspanning) dat iedere werknemer een Aanwijzing moet ontvangen van de werkgever voordat hij elektrotechnische werkzaamheden mag uitvoeren. Op deze aanwijzing staat gespecificeerd welke werkzaamheden de werknemer mag uitvoeren, en of dit hoogspanning, laagspanning of beide betreft. Hierop staat gespecificeerd welke Aanwijzing de persoon krijgt.

België
In België wordt gebruikgemaakt van de Europese norm EN 50110. Naast deze elektrotechnische norm staat ook grote stukken in de Algemeen Reglement op de Elektrische Installaties (AREI).. Hierin worden deze zelfde soorten aanwijzingen gebruikt als in Nederland, alleen er is geen aparte regelgeving voor Hoogspanning.

De bekwaamheid van Vakbekwame (men spreekt vaak over BA5) gaat over 'personen die kennis, verkregen door opleiding of (relevante) ervaring, de gevaren verbonden aan de uit te voeren werkzaamheden zelf kunnen inschatten en de maatregelen kunnen bepalen om de daaruit voortvloeiende specifieke risico's te elimineren of tot een minimum te beperken'.

Duitsland
In Duitsland wordt gebruikgemaakt van de Europese norm EN 50110. Naast deze elektrotechnische norm wordt ook gebruikgemaakt van de VDE normen (Verband der Elektrotechnik, Elektronik und Informationstechnik).

Vakbekwaam Persoon
Een persoon met de Aanwijzing Vakbekwaam Persoon wordt geacht op de hoogte te zijn van alle gevaren en risico's die de werkzaamheden met zich meebrengen. Verder mag een Vakbekwaam Persoon bijna alle soorten werkzaamheden uitvoeren in de elektrotechniek. Het is aan elke werkgever om binnen de EN-501110 of de NEN 3410, NEN 3840 te bepalen wat door een Vakbekwaam Persoon uitgevoerd mag worden, en waarnaar er toezicht nodig is van een Werkverantwoordelijke.

De regelgeving voorziet wel dat een Vakbekwaam Persoon tijdens de werkzaamheden geen leidinggevende functie mag hebben en niet verantwoordelijk geacht mag worden voor de oplevering van de werkzaamheden en voor het schrijven van (veiligheids)processen.

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Cape Sounion is one of the most famous archaeological sites close to Athens, so don't miss the opportunity to visit it and enjoy its breathtaking sunset... maybe the second best after Santorini.
Our guided tour begins with a wonderful drive along the Athens Riviera. Enjoy splendid views of the Saronic Gulf while passing through some of Athens' most beautiful suburbs, including Hellinikon Olympic complex, Glyfada, Vouliagmeni, and Varkiza.
Arriving at the Cape Sounion, you will visit the 5th century B.C. Temple of Poseidon with its magnificent panoramic view of the Aegean Sea (on a clear day you can see at least seven islands). One of its columns has a graffiti left by none other than lord Byron in the early 1800s. Cape Sounion has long played an important part in Greek mythology and history, and the first recorded mention of it occurs in the Odyssey, as the last safe landing before Poseidon scattered the returning Greek navy. As god of the sea, Poseidon was very important for ancient Greeks, and the scale of the Temple at Cape Sounion reflects that.
After visiting the Temple, filled from the beauty, the history and the culture of this impressive archaeological site we will wait to admire one of the most amazing sunsets you could ever imagine. And when the sun begins to slowly touch the sea it is the perfect moment for a glass of wine, before returning back to your hotel.
Small group tour of maximum 26 people
Visit the temple of Poseidon and see graffiti left by English poet Lord Byron
Sunset guided tour to the majestic Cape Sounion
Enjoy stunning views of the Aegean sea & its islands along the way
Pass by some of the most expensive and highly rated areas of Athens
Watch the breathtaking sunset with a glass of wine in hand
Entrance fees of the Temple of Poseidon
Professional and licenced guide
Transport by luxury air conditioned bus
Hotel pick up / drop off service
One glass of wine per adult
The departure time for this tour depends from the sunset time during the summer season: 1-8 Jun at 18:00, 9 Jun-21 Jul at 18:15, 22 Jul-17 Aug at 17:45, 18 Aug-7 Sep at 17:15, 8 Sep-21 Sep at 17:00, 22 Sep-30 Sep at 16.45
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Top Kill Stopped Flow of Oil Into Gulf, Coast Guard Says
By Addy Dugdale 1 minute Read
The first stage of Operation Top Kill seems to have worked, according to the U.S. Coast Guard, which claims that the wellhead has been "stabilized" with drill fluid blocking the escaping oil and gas. "They've been able to stabilize the wellhead, they're pumping mud down it. They've stopped the hydrocarbons from coming up," said Admiral Thad Allen. The operation can only be deemed a success once the well is sealed up with cement–which can only be done once the pressure from the well is at zero.
It's curious that the Coast Guard is making the proclamation ahead of BP or other government officials, especially since it must be relying on reports from the oil company–or at least the oil company's underwater bots–to make the determination. Hours ago, BP COO Doug Suttles told Reuters, "We can't fully confirm that because we can't sample it. And the way we know we've been successful is it stops flowing." And yesterday, BP chief Tony Hayward told reporters a determination would take at least 24 hours from when the effort began.
Minerals Management Services chief Elizabeth Birnbaum might not be around to see how the story shakes out. Following reports of drug use, porn, graft, and all-round inappropriate chumminess between the oil companies and the agency that was supposed to be regulating it, Birnbaum has been fired this morning, according to reports.
Update: BP has halted Top Kill — too much heavy mud they were injecting into the spewing well was leaking along with oil. Engineers were revising plans, the New York Times reports, and an anonymous technician said "We're still quite optimistic," but warned: "It is not
assured and its not a done deal yet. All of this will require some
time" — at least 24-hours more hours, BP says now. Meanwhile, the leak has officiall surpassed the size of the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, officially making it the biggest in U.S. history.
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Thought this was a handy summary - can't show it in this post because of my fubar'd settings.
Plus some perspective on what Ireland is being forced to take and what the UK will need.
Interesting that the Yorkshire BS are now the second biggest.
I closed my cash ISA with them back in March because it was paying 1.9%, and it still is. Disgraceful for such a large organisation.
At June 2007 UK banks' cash deposits at the Bank of England were £2.4bn ($4.9bn), while the notes and coin held in their tills were worth just under £8.8bn and their holdings of Treasury bills were under £8bn. By contrast, their total sterling liabilities were over £3,150bn.
After all they wouldn't want to lost that 'talent' which has made them great!


At lionel hampton Inn Charleston-Historic District experience southerly hospitality, nonmodern architecture and the unique shops of the historic district right exterior our head-on door. We're connected to the ballroom dance Museum, the nation's oldest museum. use easy memory access to the Gibbes repository of Art and the Children's repository from our hotel in Charleston, SC.
By 2012 all EU member countries official document have as bang-up as prohibited open7 smoking, but Spain's conversion is particularly spectacular. As the clock turned time of day on January 2 — the first day of 2011 was given across to an amnesty, when we ideate smokers gathered ended a consoling sherry and a plate of jamon to enjoy the senior moments in wet melancholy — Spain introduced the toughest anti-smoking religious text in Europe. The toughest anti-smoking laws in Europe somebody been introduced in Spain, where out of doors respiration is banned in open-air children's playgrounds, smooth those in parks, and at memory access points to schools and hospitals vapour in boxed state-supported places is now out and open-air external respiration is illegal in open-air children's playgrounds, even those in parks, and at right points to schools and hospitals.


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OROP not a heavy burden: Parrikar
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Saturday said the expenditure for implementing One Rank One Pension (OROP) will be just 2.2 percent more than the allocated budget for the defence ministry.
"A lot of people said OROP budget is going to be very heavy. I can tell you that total defence outlay was Rs.3.29 lakh crore. So it only forms about 2.2 percent additionally in defence outlay," said Parrikar at a seminar organised by industrial chamber Ficci.
The minister said the cost can be recovered by using "innovative methods" and removing middlemen.
"And if I can, I promise also, I can bring that amount by saving the wastage or lowering cost by various other innovative ideas and by really preventing the middlemen from making money," he added.
Later, responding to a question on the ongoing veterans' agitation, he said: "It is a democratic right (to protest), you cannot take it away."
Parrikar also reminded that it is the NDA government which implemented the scheme after 42 years.
The comments came on a day when veterans organised a rally, demanding that the government remove "anomalies" in the scheme announced by it. - IANS


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Congrats To Tom DeLonge On His UFO Researcher Of The Year Award
SAN DIEGO, CA – JULY 09: Recording artist Tom DeLonge attends SiriusXM's Entertainment Weekly Radio Channel Broadcasts From Comic-Con 2015 at Hard Rock Hotel San Diego on July 9, 2015 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for SiriusXM)
News February 28, 2017 9:34 AM By Tom Breihan
Two years ago, under contentious circumstances, Blink-182 co-founder Tom DeLonge was kicked out of the band. Since then, he's had time to pursue other interests. Like: UFO research! DeLonge, who claims that he's had contact with aliens, was one of the people whose emails with Hillary Clinton consigliere John Podesta leaked during last year's big WikiLeaks campaign hack. It looks like he's been meeting with government officials about the crucial matter of alien-autopsy coverups. And now he's been recognized for his efforts.
Open Minds Productions, which seems to be a sort of UFO-conspiracy online network, and something called the International UFO Congress, have named DeLonge their UFO Researcher Of The Year. And in a new video package, they've detailed all the work he's done in the UFO-research arena. In a taped message, a twitchy and intense DeLonge has made an acceptance speech. Here's some of what he said:
There's a lot that I can't say, but there's some that I can. And I'm so appreciative that I've been acknowledged for this stuff, but I'm not done. I'm just like you guys. I spent 20 years up all night, reading about Roswell, Dulce, Serpo, Churchill, the crashes here, Nazis building craft there, Antarctica, what's on Mars, what's on the back of the moon, anomalous structures. I mean, I've done it all. I know it all. I read all the same authors as you guys, hundreds of books. I look at all the same sites. I listen to all the Coast To Coast stuff that you guys do. I'm the same. But I kind of used some of my notoriety to try to do something pretty ambitious, and it worked.
I came out and told you guys about a book I was writing called Sekret Machines, and I said a bunch of stuff, that I was working with some people. Well, I think a lot of people doubted it, and they thought it was crazy that this musician would have this kind of access. And then the WikiLeaks thing happened, and you guys saw that I'm into some serious shit, and I'm making really good progress.
Here's the video; the acceptance speech starts about five minutes in:
Given everything we've seen in 2017 thus far, if the guy from Blink-182 unveils some vast UFO conspiracy, would you even be surprised?
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This is another simple natives cooking, and yet very delicious. I had some left over tapioca leaves after the Pansoh cooking, so I put it in the fridge and fried it the next day for lunch.
Tapioca leaves to be squeezed and twisted roughly.
1. Fry anchovies until slightly crispy. Put aside.
2. Saute garlic until fragrant. Put the anchovies back.
3. Fry and stir evenly the tapioca leaves.
5. Keep stirring until cooked.
Best eatan during lunch with simple plain rice, accompanied by fried salted fish!
The tapioca shoots taste even better if u take some times to pound it. Marvelous wo!
This is just another variation of stir fried tapioca leaves when we couldnt find someone to be bullied into pounding the leaves hahaha!!!
love the tapioca leaf as a dish for dinner. If i may, i guess the thin and long tapioca leave is better.
what do you think, sumuk?
the first photo is only served an example. the one we cooked for pansuh is the type you mentioned, grown by our Sarawakian friend on her backyard. the one i fried is actually from different batch, which i bought from wet market nearby. that was the best i can do huhu..


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Trial Techniques Article
Alexandra Rudolph has written an informative article titled "Trial Techniques: What Lawyers Should (and Should Not) Worry About in the Courtroom."
Ms. Rudolph, the owner of a Chicago jury research firm, believes that "attorneys spend too much time worrying about things they can't control, such as opinions expressed during jury selection, and too little time considering how their trial team appears to the court or what a judge might find most helpful."
The Number One thing lawyers should stop worrying about? "Graphics will make me look 'too slick.'"
Jurors not only appreciate lawyers who use technology and graphics to explain their case; they expect it. Jurors are regular people too, after all, and are familiar with technology and use it in their everyday lives. Why should a courtroom be any different?
Lawyers who resist audio and video components, well-made charts and graphics and other uses of technology look outdated, especially if the other side is using them. Unless there were problems with the technology, such as poor audio or long pauses to pull up a document, the side that embraces advancements in courtroom presentations can come across as more polished and better prepared.
The Number One thing lawyers should worry about? "Technology misfires"
Technology can make an attorney seem savvy, unless they don't know how to use it. Dead air time while someone fumbles with technology makes minutes feel like hours. Waiting for documents wastes court time, irritates judges and makes attorneys look like amateurs.
As Laura Dominiak, a professional trial technician from Legal Visual Services, explained, "When lawyers try to do it themselves and it doesn't work, the attention turns to the person running the system and away from the evidence."
Presentation should be a seamless part of the testimony, and appear so effortless that there isn't a break whatsoever. That way, concentration remains on the exhibits, documents and testimony.
And beware of misused technology. Laser pointers, for example, should be banned from courtrooms. The light jumps around too much, it is hard to see and has all the personality of Styrofoam. Jurors should see a connection between the information and the lawyer. Using a laser pointer creates a separation between the graphic and attorney or witness. Laser pointers also can be a dead giveaway if the user is nervous. Jurors see that shaking red light and draw negative conclusions about why the person is nervous: "He must be hiding something. Is he being dishonest?"
Instead of using a laser pointer, walk directly up to the screen and point or use a pointer that can be held to allow greater interaction with the graphic.
Thanks to Evan Shaeffer for directing me to this article.
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Department of Humanities & Communication
Department of Humanities & Communication Faculty
Ann Ade
Assistant Professor of the Practice, College of Arts & Sciences
M.A.S., Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
M.S., State University of New York System : College at Cortland
B.A., Syracuse University
Anissa J. Alvarez
M.A., Webster University
B.A., Rollins College
Janice Amos
Adjunct Instructor I
M.A., B.A., Northeastern Illinois University
Lilia Anand
M.A., University of Oregon
Meghan Atwood
Adjunct Assistant Professor
J.D., University of California System : Davis
B.A., University of Hawaii System : Manoa
Elizabeth Walden Beasley
Ed.D., Walden University
M.Ed., Bowie State University
B.S., Illinois State University
Heather Bodiford
Visiting Instructor of the Practice, College of Arts and Sciences
M.A., California State University System : Northridge
M.A., Southern New Hampshire University
B.A., Florida State University
Debra Bourdeau
Assistant Professor, College of Arts and Sciences; Department Chair, Humanities & Communication; Program Chair, B.S. in Communication
Ph.D., University of Georgia
M.S., Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
B.A., Kennesaw State University
M.A., B.A., Wichita State University
Deborah Busby
M.A., M.Ed., B.A., Northern Arizona University
Tamara Butler
M.F.A., Lindenwood University
M., B.A., State University of New York System : College at Buffalo (Buffalo State College)
Kim Chua Chua
Instructor I, College of Arts and Sciences
M.S., Nanyang Technological University
M.A., University of York
Christopher Code
M.A., Xavier University
Cristina Cottom
Ed.D., E.D.S., Liberty University
M.A., Lipscomb University
Elizabeth Cowan
M.F.A., University of Iowa
B.A., University of Pittsburgh
M.A., B.A., Clemson University
Christine Day
Ph.D., The Union Institute
M.A., Eastern Michigan University
Zachary Dixon
Assistant Professor, College of Arts and Sciences
Ph.D., University of South Florida
M.A., B., University of North Carolina System : Wilmington
Victoria Dorsch
M.A., B.A., Dnipropetrovsk National University
Warren Edick
M.A., Colorado State University


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Following Britain's refusal to extend his visa, the Russian-Jewish billionaire businessman Roman Abramovich is seeking Israeli citizenship, an Israeli daily reported.
Abramovich, who owns the British Chelsea Football Club, planned to land Thursday in Israel to finalize his aliyah, or immigration to Israel. However, a spokeswoman at Israel's Ministry of Immigrant Absorption told Russia's state-owned Sputnik news agency that she had no such information.
In 2017, Forbes estimated Abramovich's net worth at $9.1 billion, making him the 139th richest person in the world. He is Russia's 12th richest person. Abramovich will rival Eyal Ofer as the richest man in Israel as the chairman of Ofer Global, Zodiac Group and Global Holdings has an estimated net worth of 9.1 billion as well - although he is a permanent resident of Monaco.


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These contemporary two or three bedroom villas boast unobstructed panoramic sea views, of the turquoise ocean. There are three villa designs available that the buyer can choose from with each villa fully detached featuring a breathtaking private infinity edged swimming pool overlooking the ocean.
All bedrooms has its own en-suite bathroom with stunning sea views. The elegant contemporary architectural design of the villa blends naturally into the tropical surroundings, with an open-plan living style, dining and modern western style kitchen area , outdoor terrace and pool area. The outside area features a private car parking area.
This project provides full infrastructure, with an easy access 6 meter concrete government road all the way from the main ring road to the site & government supplied electricity.


Pune (IN), March 2019 - As the imminent demise of Flash in 2020 nears, Upside Learning has launched a new eBook to help companies looking to convert their legacy Flash based courses under the ever shrinking deadline.
Brighton (UK), March 2019 - Evaluating eLearning isn't complicated or scary, and it doesn't require long processes like the Kirkpatrick model. There are many easier and more modern ways to measure success and show the return on investment of your online learning strategy to business leaders.
"Transforming Cultures in Larger Organizations"
San Francisco, CA (USA), July 2018- SweetRush has announced the launch of a new eBook, "Transforming Cultures in Larger Organizations", coauthored by the company's Director of Cultural and Organizational Transformation, Ashley Munday, and Barrett Values Centre's Network Director, Tor Eneroth.
White Paper "The Online Classroom of the Future"
Oslo (NO), July 2018 - For busy educators, it's always helpful to have something more concrete to use when plumbing the depths of any vision that requires both a broad shift in mindset and significant investments of time and money. So, in the spirit of collaboration, ICDE member Drexel University has partnered with ICDE to share "The Online Classroom of the Future" - a whitepaper for download.
London (UK), April 2018 - Demystifying the Modern Learner is the first in a series of white papers, webinars, and supporting material that Learnlight has produced to help shed more light on subject of the modern learner. These insights are designed to assist HR, talent, and learning professionals in harnessing the latest in learning technologies and instructional design to one clear end: how to design persuasive content that enhances learner engagement.
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The Scandalous Family of
Mrs Anne Collins,
Widow of Ashley Grove
Andrew Gore Douglas
Andrew Douglas wrote to us asking for any information about Mrs Anne Collins, widow of Ashley Grove, Box, Wiltshire. He had discovered her name as a major beneficiary and the executrix in the will of Anna Susanna Ethelreda Gore, his ancestor.
We couldn't help much but Andrew's research developed into an amazing article about two of the most notorious society ladies of the Georgian era and their connection with our village. Tasty stuff! Andrew's research is too extensive to reproduce all of it but he has kindly allowed us to make it into extracts.
Left: Friends of Mrs Ann Collins in a portrait of Lady Georgiana and
Lady Henrietta Frances Bessborough and George John Spencer,
Viscount Althorp, in 1774 by Angelica Kauffmann (courtesy Wikipedia).
Will of Anna Susanna Ethelreda Gore, 13 May 1793
The story starts with the benefactress, Anna Susanna Gore. She was born in 1773, the daughter of Lieutenant General Sir William Draper who had a distinguished military career in the British Army rising to high rank. She had married John Gore of Barrow and Christon on 17 May 1790 at St Marylebone, London. The marriage was short-lived and he died in 1792 aged 24.
Anna was extremely ill when she made her will aged just 21 and she died at Hotwells, Bristol, on 26 July 1793.[1] Hotwells was a place where many wealthy men and women came to drink the waters to improve various ailments. Knowing that her young husband had died intestate shortly beforehand, it was vitally important for her to arrange the family's financial affairs.
In her will she mentioned some tremendous sums, amounts of £6,000 and £8,000, in today's money three-quarters of a million pounds and over a million pounds respectively. Presumably her wealth came from her mother's family the De Lanceys. Her mother was Susanna De Lancey of New York, North America. Her father met and married Susanna in North America in 1770 before the outset of the American War of Independence. The De Lancey family were one of the richest families in New York and, because they supported the British side in the conflict, certain of them ended their days living in England.
She requested to be buried next to her husband in the parish church at Christon and referred to her relatives, several of whom were extremely wealthy. They included her brother-in-law Rev Charles Gore, vicar of Henbury, her father the late Sir William Draper, Knight of the Bath, Daniel Draper of Westminster, Benjamin Ashe of Bath, the Hon Mrs Catharine Gordon of Putney, her two daughters Caroline and Katharine Gordon, and her mother-in-law Dame Barbara Mostyn. The will also mentioned the Box connection, Mrs Anne Collins of Ashley Grove, Box, Wiltshire, who was the executor and main beneficiary receiving eight thousand pounds plus shares in the newly-formed business, the Hull Dock Company.
Other Connections in the 1793 Will
Two intriguing bequests were made in a codicil to Anna's will. One is for a mahogany tea chest with silver canisters to be given to the Countess of Bessborough and the other is for the Countess's daughter, Lady Caroline Ponsonsy better known as Lady Caroline Lamb, to receive a picture and a pair of gloves that were at the Earl of Bessborough's in Cavendish Square. These requests suggest that a close friendship existed between Anna Susanna Gore and the Countess.
Henrietta, Countess of Bessborough, by Angelica Kauffmann in 1793 (courtesy Wikipedia)
Lady Georgiana Cavendish by Thomas Gainsborough (courtesy Wikipedia)
Both the Countess and her daughter led notorious lives, having numerous marital affairs and several illegitimate children. How did Anna Susanna Gore become friends of the Countess? They were just about the same age and they may have all mixed in the same social circle, especially at Bath. Anna especially requests Mrs Anne Collins to collect all her papers, letters, pocket books etc and burn them all herself. Why? Would they, perhaps, have provided a source of scandal! Had Anna been involved in a relationship after her husband's death and wanted Anne Collins to remove all evidence? It is possible.
You can read the full will in the document below.
will_of_anna_susanna_ethelreda_gore_1793.pdf
Countess of Bessborough and Lady Caroline Lamb
Before considering the Box connection of Anne Collins, we can review the lives of her associates, Henrietta Ponsonby (the Countess of Bessborough) and her daughter, Lady Caroline Lamb. They were leading society figures, related to some of the most important families of the age. Henrietta was born Lady Henrietta Frances Spencer, daughter of John Spencer, a great-grandson of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, and sister of the notorious Georgiana Cavendish, the Duchess of Devonshire. As an adult Henrietta was a woman of exceptional beauty and intelligence, witty, well-read and self-assured but addicted to gambling.
She was frequently in considerable debt and publically humiliated by her husband for her excessive living. She took numerous lovers, saying I can never love a little. She had several affairs with Charles Wyndham, one of the Devonshire House set, with the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan, and with the Earl of Granville, with whom she had two children. In addition she had four children with her husband.
In 1791, Henrietta and her sister, Georgiana, were involved in a financial scandal, losing a fortune on a risky investment which failed. Her health collapsed and she moved to Bath to take the waters, later going abroad with her disgraced sister.
Henrietta's only legitimate daughter was Caroline, who was seven years-old at the date of Anna Gore's will. Like her mother she appears to have been highly intelligent, fluent in French and Italian, she studied Greek and Latin, enjoyed music and drama, wrote prose and poetry, and was a skilled sketch painter. But Caroline was capricious like her mother. In 1805 she married William Lamb, Lord Melbourne, who became Prime Minister of Britain in 1835. But it was her relationship with the poet Lord Byron in 1812 which scandalised society. At first she described Byron as mad, bad, and dangerous to know, but they started a brief, passionate love affair until she was spurned by him. Caroline openly threw herself at Byron in an attempt to continue their relationship and, when refused, slashed her wrists using a smashed wine glass at a society ball to show her despair. Her behaviour was the talk of the age, as famous as the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, because it involved the author of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and the leading politicians of the early Victorian era.
Lady Caroline Lamb painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence (courtesy Wikipedia) lover of the infamous Lord Byron, right
Mad, bad and dangerous to know, Lord Byron by Richard Westall, 1813 (courtesy National Portrait Gallery via Wikipedia)
Mrs Anne Collins (died 1830)
Having described the people she mixed with, we return to the central question, who was Mrs Anne Collins of Ashley Grove? Part of the answer was revealed in an unattributed publication entitled Pitt's Gallant Conquerors – The Turbulent Life of Lieutenant General William Draper. In recording the life of William Draper, the father of Anna Suzanna Gore, the publication confirms that William and Anne Collins were cousins: His two daughters, now motherless, were kept in the care of his cousin, Ann Collins, wife of the naval captain Richard Collins. She who had been a member of Sir William's household for some years, would have been a family guardian to the two young girls, probably in Bath. The daughters were Anna Susanna and Phila born in 1773 and 1774 respectively. We might imagine that Anne Collins was the dependable relative, who the family turned to for stability in their chaotic lives.
In a book about naval matters I discovered a reference to Captain Richard Collins: The Terrible of 74 guns, Captain Richard Collins, which was attached to the Squadron under Admiral Saunders at the taking of Quebec would probably have been lost in the
River St Lawrence but for the following expedient of a Warrant Officer then on board. When the ship drove from her anchors,
he secured one end of the Ship's guns to two small anchors as had formerly been done by Anson in the Centurion, and this kept her post. The French ship Le Terrible was captured by the British in 1747 and took part in the siege of Quebec in 1759 under the control of Captain Collins during the Seven Years War with France. Captain Richard Collins left a will proved on his death on 7 October 1780 so in 1793 Anne Collins would have been a widow for more than 13 years.
Also, in the above mentioned publication, there were details of the Draper family. William Draper (born 1721) later to become Sir William Draper, had two daughters, one of whom was Anna Draper (born in 1716) who was sent to India as a child, marrying a surgeon there, Thomas Moore, before they both returned to England settling in Bristol where Thomas became a prosperous apothecary.
By good fortune a search revealed that both Thomas Moore and his wife Anna Moore (nee Draper) left wills. These revealed that their two daughters survived into adulthood being a Mary Ashe and an Anne (called in the will Anna) Collins, widow. This proved that the Mrs Anne Collins who brought up the two daughters of Major General Sir William Draper was in fact a niece (not cousin) of Sir William and a cousin to his children. Also both Thomas and Anna Moore were residents of Bladud Buildings. In her will, Anna Moore left that property to her daughter Anne Collins.
By chance I came upon a will at the Public Record Office of an Anna Collins, widow, which was dated 1823 but not proved until 1830. I had missed it before because I looked for Anne or Ann Collins only. What was interesting in the will was a reference to my shares in the Hull Docks. Anna Susanna Gore had bequeathed her shares in that company to Mrs Anna Collins. This seemed to be more than just a coincidence. Another factor was a reference to her place of residence as being Bladud Buildings, Bath. I believe that Ann, Anne and Anna Collins are all the same person.
Sir William Draper by Thomas Gainsborough (courtesy Wikipedia)
will_of_anna_collins_1830.pdf
Ashley Grove
In the Georgian period Ashley Grove was both a grand house and an area of land. A description of the residence was later given as freehold detached residence with coach house, stables, greenhouse, vinery, field and cottages; and also of a long leasehold field, garden and cottages adjoining.[2] The house comprised an entrance-floor, vestibule and ante-room, dining room, double drawing-room, breakfast room, kitchen, side kitchen, scullery and offices; on the first and second floors six bedrooms and large store-room; on basement cellarage and dairy. At the end of the Flower Garden were three glasshouses: a fernery and two vineries and three-quarters of an acre of orchard. It also had Four Cottages with garden ground appropriate to each and a Close of good pasture land with frontage to the main road, comprising nearly two acres.
We don't know if Anna Collins owned or rented the property. In 1786 an Anna Collins purchased 6 Rivers Street, Bath in 1786 and sold it in 1801 to Colonel Lambert, who was in the service of the East India Company.
Lieutenant General Sir William Draper, Knight of the Bath (born 1721 at Bristol and died 1787) and his second wife Susanna De Lancey, daughter of Oliver De Lancey of New York. Children:
Anna Susanna Ethelreda Draper (born 1773 and died at Hotwells, Bristol 26 July 1793) who married John Gore of Barrow and Christon; Phila Draper.
Anna Moore (nee Draper) and William Draper were siblings. Anna Moore's children:
Anna Collins (died 1830) was married to Captain Richard Collins (died 1780); Mary Ashe (died 1817) was married to Benjamin Ashe (1741-1805)
Rachel Knowles, Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough (1761-1821), Regency History Blog, http://www.regencyhistory.net/2012/10/henrietta-ponsonby-countess-of.html
Weinreb, Almack's Assembly Rooms :The Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos, Retrieved 21 February 2010, ttps://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Lady%20Caroline%20Lamb
Teresa Grant, Imperial Scandal, 2012, Malcom & Suzanne Rannoch Historical Mysteries
Paul Douglass, Lady Caroline Lamb: A Biography, 2004, Palgrave & Macmillan
Sir David Cecil, The Young Melbourne and the Story of his Marriage with Caroline Lamb, 1939, reprinted 1948 and 1954
Amanda Foreman, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, 1998, Modern Library
Janet Gleeson, An Aristocratic Affair, Historical Novel Society
[1] Wikipedia
[2] Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette, 20 May 1886


Yesterday I wandered prayerfully throughout the day, I harbored a spirit of sadness, weighed down by sharing some burdens. All morning I prayed for the right words and they still somehow fell short. But I guess loving someone means you try anyway and hope they appreciate the love behind the words. When you are helpless to help someone, you have to rest in the notion that God loves them all more than you do.That's why I can be grateful no matter what. And that doesn't mean we never feel sad or angry, but it does mean that in our hearts we carry an inward attitude of gratitude, knowing each minute, each breath we take is loaded with grace.
If we say we are believers, we not only can, we must. The Israelites biggest failure as they wandered in the desert was failure to remember what God had done for them in the past. They grumbled about the manna, they missed the spices they had in Egypt. They forgot the miracles, astounding ones, that brought them there.
And don't we do the same thing? We focus on what we don't have. But the truth is, if we say we are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, we can't afford to forget what He has done and continues to do for us, each and every day.
If we are a believer, gratitude must be sown into the very fabric of our soul for its the hallmark of our faith. Without gratitude, our faith lacks power. If we can't have gratitude in any circumstance, we have forgotten how far God has already brought us.
Last night I put on my pajamas at 6:00. I was ready to close out the day. But I was grateful I could do that, some people don't have that luxury. And today, I am coming down with a cold. Hallelujah Anyhow! I get to spend the day with E who is home today for Veteran's Day. That's a blessing right there.
The foremost quality of a trusting disciple is gratefulness. Gratitude arises from the lived perception, evaluation, and acceptance of all of life as grace–as an undeserved and unearned gift from the Father's hand.
Peace to you today, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Walk in gratitude with me today. Thinking of those who died to give you freedom, both on earth and in Heaven!
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Thank you Debbie…..it's been a hard week for me. I shared some painful words I felt I had to share this week. Been close to tears all week. I needed this.
Walking in gratitude — just amen. He so wants us in joy — and so many times, I concede to fear or grief or sadness. What a sweet post — I love how you put in "out there" for us to read. It's always. Always a blessing.


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The Worst Is Over: Frequent Flyers May Find a Brighter Road Ahead
Frequent Flyer Jun 26, 2008
Tim Winship
After 20 years working in the travel industry, and 15 years writing about it, Tim Winship knows a thing or two about travel. Follow him on Twitter @twinship.
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Feel whipsawed by the travel industry's wild swings, from bad to worse to terminal and back to bad again? Need a scorecard to keep abreast of which carriers are merely troubled and which are toast? Wondering whether your frequent flyer miles are worth one penny, two pennies, or no pennies at all?
Join the club. For now, I'm calling it the "frequent criers coalition." Millions of travelers are honorary members. We welcome your participation, and your tears.
The mess
The travel industry has been a continual train wreck for the past five years. For the two weeks between the bankruptcy filings of Delta and Northwest on September 14 and US Airways' emergence from Chapter 11 on September 27, more than 50 percent of the U.S. airline industry's flights were operated by carriers in bankruptcy.
Almost as unsettling as the bad news itself has been the uncertainty generated by the industry's ill health. For example, two years ago, American Airlines had the lowest costs of any legacy carrier and was widely seen as a safe bet. Now it has the industry's second highest costs and could be a candidate for bankruptcy.
This uncertainty leads to even more questions: Will there be more mergers? More bankruptcies? Will some carriers actually liquidate? Are you safe booking travel for next summer?
I have my own opinions on all those issues, but I can tell you a couple of things without resorting to idle speculation. I'll finish by sharing with you a hope that I wouldn't mention if I didn't think it was more than likely to come to pass. But that's the good news. First, the bad.
Travelers are flying more but enjoying it less. The lines are longer. The planes are more crowded. The in-flight meals have all but disappeared. Customer service is practically nonexistent. Frequent flyer awards are scarce at best.
The only bright spot on the flying front is prices. Despite the pressures on mainline carriers to raise fares, the discount carriers have prevented them from doing so. So we get to fly on the cheap, though we're paying a price for those cheap tickets. The mainline carriers have lost $30 billion since 2001, and their misfortunes have led to discomfort for the traveling public as the airlines take drastic measures to stay aloft.
While no universal template exists for reviving the airlines' fortunes, the struggling carriers do share one survival strategy: contraction. They think that the road back to profitability is via route optimization—maintaining profitable routes and abandoning unprofitable ones.
For example, Delta plans to reduce domestic flights by as much as 25 percent, while adding flights on overseas routes where competition is less intense. Northwest is taking the same approach, shedding 20 percent of its domestic capacity and expanding internationally. Independence Air is in the process of reducing the number of flights it operates by half.
Of course, since most travelers fly domestically more than internationally, fewer flights to and from fewer airports may cause grumbling among the general public. Shrinking networks will negatively affect frequent flyer programs as well. Fewer flights lead to fewer opportunities to accumulate miles and diminished award-seat availability.
Ultimately, the specifics will matter: which flights are cut, which hubs are downgraded, which airports are abandoned altogether. If you're a customer of one of the major carriers, stay tuned for details on revised route networks. If an airline trims flights to or from your regular destinations, you may need to reassess your loyalty and revise your choice of preferred airline and mileage program.
Just over the horizon
While both the airlines and their customers will face challenges in the coming months, it is my hope and conviction that finally the worst is behind us. In the world of investing, this is referred to as "calling the bottom." It's the point in the business cycle where stock prices have hit bottom and have nowhere to go but up. It's easy to discern in retrospect, but it's notoriously difficult to pinpoint in real time.
At the risk of incurring the scorn of fellow members of the frequent criers coalition, I'm calling it: We're at or near the bottom of the travel cycle. Here's what I expect to see:
Ticket prices will rise. A recent survey of corporate travel managers by the National Business Travel Association predicted a six-percent increase in ticket prices over the next year. I expect a somewhat larger increase. Sure, that's bad news for consumers' pocketbooks. But the few extra dollars per ticket is a small price to pay for the peace of mind that comes with a financially sound industry.
One of the remaining legacy carriers will disappear, but it will be a benign disappearance. Just as America West merged with US Airways, resulting in a new US Airways and the disappearance of the America West name, so will the next move toward consolidation be a marriage rather than a liquidation. The merger I have in mind is between Delta and Northwest. For marketing reasons, the new company would be likely to fly as Delta rather than as Northwest, which has a regional ring to it. In any case, the combination of the two companies will be a long-term survivor. And no frequent flyer miles will be lost.
The frequent flyer programs will return to stability. In their desperation to maximize revenues and minimize costs, the airlines have limited award availability and generally left travelers wondering whether mileage programs are worth the trouble. As they regain their financial composure, the airlines will rededicate themselves to the programs' importance and the needle will swing back in the direction of meeting members' needs and expectations.
Does this newfound optimism mean we'll be disbanding the frequent criers coalition? Eventually, yes. But even if we are indeed poised for a rebound, it will be a slow-motion process, playing out over the next several years.
In the meantime, frequent flyers will have plenty to cry about. But being on the road to recovery rather than the road to ruin should be some comfort. And lately, comfort has been as scarce as frequent flyer award seats.


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Santa Rosa crackdown targets alleged sideshow organizers; 14 arrest warrants issued
Updated on: January 25, 2023 / 8:20 AM / CBS San Francisco
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SANTA ROSA -- Weary of weekend gatherings for sideshows, Santa Rosa police obtained arrest warrants for 14 individuals they have determined to be organizers of the illegal street racing events.
Since July, detectives have been investigating individuals who organize and promote coming to Santa Rosa for illegal and dangerous sideshows.
"These individuals are responsible for tens of thousands of dollars in damage to our roadways and violence during these unlawful and unsanctioned sideshows," investigators said in a Facebook post. "Their direct actions to promote and encourage people to commit crimes in Santa Rosa make them responsible for the damages that have occurred."
On Tuesday, detectives, patrol officers and traffic officers served 14 arrest warrants at 14 different locations in Santa Rosa, Petaluma, and Rohnert Park.
By 3:00 p.m. seven people had been arrested for warrants associated with the ongoing investigation and one additional person was arrested for possession of a firearm.
During executing the search warrants, 11 firearms were seized along with thousands of rounds of ammunition.
Those arrested Tuesday included:
Richard Murillo Robles, a 24-year-old Rohnert Park resident. He was arrested during a traffic stop and charged with number of counts including vandalism, possession of an assault rifle and possession of illegal fireworks.
Jorge Luis Calderon-Caballero, a 19-year-old Santa Rosa resident. He was arrested during a warrant service at his residence in the 1400 block of Dutton Ave. He was charged with vandalism, conspiracy to commit a crime and waterway pollution.
Joel Vasquez Cortez, a 18-year-old Rohnert Park resident. He was arrested during a warrant service at his residence in the 10 block of Regents Circle. He was charged with vandalism, conspiracy to commit a crime and waterway pollution.
Jesus Calderon Avalos, a 32-year-old Santa Rosa resident. He was arrested during a warrant service at his residence in the 600 block of Spence Ave. He was charged with vandalism, conspiracy to commit a crime and waterway pollution.
Neri Alberto Orea-Vasquez, a 19-year-old Rohnert Park resident. He was arrested during a warrant service at his residence in the 300 block of Burton Ave. He was charged with vandalism, conspiracy to commit a crime and waterway pollution.
Manuel Andres Garfia, 20-year-old, Rohnert Park resident. He was arrested after a warrant service, but at his place of employment in the 5100 block of Commerce Blvd in Rohnert Park. He was charged with vandalism, conspiracy to commit a crime, waterway pollution and possession of illegal fireworks,
A 17-year-old male from Santa Rosa. He was arrested after turning himself into the SRPD, but after a warrant service at his residence in the 3600 block of Llano Road.He was charged with vandalism, conspiracy to commit a crime and waterway pollution.
Bianey Valdivia-Hernandez, 24-year-old, Santa Rosa resident. She was arrested during the service of a search warrant service in the 100 block of Butterfly Lane. She was living with someone associated with sideshows. She was located with an unsecured firearm that children had access to and was charged with child endangerment.
These suspects remain at large.
George Michael Patino Flores, 20-year-old from Santa Rosa
Alexys Aguirre-Serrano, a 22-year-old from Santa Rosa
Emiliano Bautista Rodriguez, a 21-year-old from Santa Rosa
Daniel Felix Nunez Serna, a 26-year-old from Santa Rosa
Roberto Carrillo, a 21-year-old from Petaluma
Rodrigo Lopez-Tapia, a 23-year-old from Santa Rosa
Jersain Lezama Meza, a 23-year-old from Santa Rosa
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REMEMBERING the mass killings by the Ottomans was the duty of the entire humankind, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Friday, as he called on Turkey to accept it had committed genocide.
Anastasiades welcomed Armenian President Serz Sargsyan's moderate stance.
Sargsyan said on Wednesday he was ready to normalise relations with Turkey, two months after he withdrew peace accords from parliament, blaming a Turkish lack of political will to end 100 years of hostility.
Speaking ahead of Friday's centenary of the mass killing, which is at the heart of the countries' animosity, Sargsyan said there should be no preconditions in restarting the peace process and would not insist the Turks accept they committed genocide.
Cyprus was the first European country in 1975 to have recognised the Armenian genocide.
"The presence of each one of us here today aims at keeping alive the remembrance of this despicable act, by paying tribute to the millions of lives lost a century ago, and constitutes our collective obligation to make known "urbi et orbi" that impunity cannot go unpunished," Anastasiades said.
The two countries were both victims of impunity, he said, and it was no surprise that they put our faith on international law, peace, the respect of the sovereign right of peoples to decide their future and the respect of human rights.
"Our united presence is also a call for an act of consciousness. It is our duty to not turn our back or act in defiance of the tragic reality and a historical fact," he said.
The president was accompanied by House Speaker Yiannakis Omirou, as well as MPs Marios Garoyian (DIKO) and Giorgos Varnava (EDEK), MEP Eleni Theocharous and the Armenian representative in the House, Vartkes Mahdessian.
Anastasiades also took advantage of the opportunity and discussed the Cyprus issue and the commencement of negotiations during the meetings he had with the presidents of France, Russia, Armenia and Serbia, said government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides.
The meetings with François Hollande and Vladimir Putin were especially important concerning the Cyprus problem and the bilateral relations, the spokesman said.
With Hollande, Anastasiades also discussed issues concerning Europe, Cyprus' economic programme and the two countries' relations, Christodoulides said.
During the meeting with Putin, the Cyprus problem, the Ukrainian crisis, the economy and Cyprus-Russia relations were discussed, he said.
Meanwhile, in Nicosia, a march was held from the centre of town to Armenia street last night, where hundreds gathered at the genocide memorial, including representatives of local political parties who laid wreaths.
Today, the community will be hosting its annual blood donation in the main hall of the Nareg school in Nicosia, from 4 to 7pm. The event is open to all blood donors.
Yes, another truth being swept under the carpet MACEDONiA . It's beyond any logic that fyrom is getting away with its lies, now Alexander is from scopia according to them.
The free world must! at every opportunity stand firm on the truth.
There was a genocide. There is genocide and ethnic cleansing happening right now not many miles from here.
The true nature of the self proclaimed prophet must be revealed, if? people still want to love him, that is fine, but the truth must! always, be our light.
The rewriting of history, is now past.
We are not responsible for the sins of our fathers, but we are for the consequences, I would suggest!
Jay Bee! you have every right to an opinion, but your claims? do not represent those with a moral compass or a faith in the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses, with Emmanuel fulfilling His promise. I realise that when you say "my God" you actually do not have any understanding of repentance, confession or restitution to those wronged. Whatever color, creed or nationality.
When those of a baseless faith that is a cut and paste job, of both Old and Newe Testaments, come knocking at your door, who? you goona run to, who you gonna call! Ghost Busters!
Impunity can not go unpunished….what does he mean,?
My God ! They gathered to remember the mass killing of Armenians in a genocide and Anastasiades "took advantage of the opportunity" to once more peddle his Cyprob agenda to anyone not quick enough to get out of earshot. Will someone tell this embarrassment of a president that nobody outside of Cyprus gives a monkeys what he has to say ?
The whole world is saying it. Turkey is above all laws and that has been the problem from the begining of time.
It's abou time Pres A faced up to a few facts, talk about pot and kettle!


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Why the Thule Ocean Range?
As mentioned previously, the Ocean range was introduced as a 'budget' range, but this doesn't affect any of the traits of the Thule quality.
There are four boxes in the Ocean range, starting with the Ocean 80 offering 320 litres of extra luggage space, followed by the Ocean 100 with 360 litres. The Ocean 600 is a narrower, half width roof box but still has a capacity of 330 litres and finally the Ocean 200 is the largest in the range and offers 450 litres of added luggage space.
All Thule Ocean roof boxes come with the patented Dual-Force, using spring action brackets to make opening and closing your roof box easy and smooth, and removing the worry of the lid falling on your head whilst you pack/unpack. They are easy to mount, fit and remove as they utilise a metal U-bolt fitting which also allows them to fit to any size roof bar up to a width of 80mm.
The boxes are aerodynamically designed so they don't cause a huge amount of noise or drag, most users report an insignificant increase in fuel consumption. They also have a blunt rear to ensure easy opening of your boot.
At just 133cm in length the Thule Ocean 80 is a practical size and good a good roof box for smaller cars. It has rear opening which provides easy access from either side and the back.
The Ocean 100 offers single side opening (passenger side), so you need to be mindful of parking and access. You will notice there are just a few centimetres difference in the dimensions, but you do notice the extra 40 litres of luggage capacity that this provides over the Ocean 80.
The largest in the range, this beast of a roof box should provide enough extra luggage capacity for a jolly holiday, which includes packing the kitchen sink! Despite it's mammoth size, it is in fact lightweight at just 14kg (unloaded) which means it's not out of the question for one person to mount and fit it - although we would recommend an extra pair of hands, for ease and to prevent any unwanted accidents to car, roof box or person.
This is the perfect roof box for outdoor enthusiast, as although the Ocean 600 is the longest roof box in the range, it is also the narrowest, leaving room for a surf board, ski's, a kayak (on a tilt bracket) or a bike or two.


In the first three parts of this article, we took a look at what it means to be a Kingdom business serving on the business mountain. We looked at the non-believer's conventional business model and the spirit behind their motivational decisions as well as a proposed Kingdom Business Governance Model which used a biblically based apostolic and prophetic model. We also showed that the motivational spirit behind the governance, or decision making processes of the company, will determine the results that both models will obtain.
In this fourth and final part of the article, we will look at how the five spiritual offices discussed previously could be setup and overlaid onto our existing corporate organization chart to help make our company become a Kingdom-focused business that will serve the King and advance the Kingdom of Heaven in the business marketplace.
If we overlay our Kingdom Business Governance Model onto our existing corporate organization structure we get a new business model that will hopefully allow us to focus on our King and our kingdom assignment on the business mountain. This is now our ekklesia with Christ as the head of the company and the governance of it upon His shoulders.
Figure 2 illustrates a possible mapping of the apostolic and prophetic leadership model onto our existing corporate functional organization structure. In the example illustrated below, we have chosen to bring in someone to head up the office of the Prophet, but we've mapped the other four spiritual offices to existing functional offices. We've also chosen to have our business intercessors assigned to this office rather than assigning them to each individual spiritual office.
Just as a corporate organizational structure grows as a company grows, our model is flexible to allow for future growth. Small companies with only three employees would look much different than a company with 300 employees. When starting out, you might not have all five spiritual offices staffed. That's understandable. Like everything else in life, it's more important to understand your destination, than where you are at the moment. You might start by identifying who the apostle is in your company and come together with business intercessors to pray for an understanding of your kingdom assignment and how the Lord would have you fulfill that assignment.
Keep in mind that the implementation of the spiritual offices alone will accomplish very little for your company. Our goal was not to create a new organization chart but to create a better way for the Lord to steer (governance) our business to accomplish His purposes and bring kingdom success to our lives and company.
Until we understand our kingdom assignment and are motivated by kingdom principles for success rather than mammon-bases principles, there will be very little difference between our business and our competitor's non-believer-owned business and we shouldn't expect results that are much different. Our new Kingdom Business Governance Model is intended to help us focus on our kingdom assignment and the King of our born-again business. Success will come as we permit Him to steer our ekklesia and permit Him to bring zoé life into our lives and the lives of everyone associated with our ekklesia.
Perhaps it's your business that needs to become born-again. Perhaps it's time to take off the old corporate business model which was formed in corruption and put on a new kingdom business model formed in the image of the Lord Jesus Christ. The result of this "new birth" of our business should result in the type of zoé life and abundance that Jesus promised in His Word.
When your business becomes organized and governed as part of the Body of Christ with Christ as the head, then every decision you make will now be based upon His vision and mission for your company as part of His kingdom. It will no longer be based upon an internally focused Babylonian model, which is the model that the non-believing business world is using to govern and operate their businesses. Once your business becomes part of and starts operating as a kingdom business, you should then start seeing the type of success that will distinguish your business from your competitors, glorify the Lord, and make your business a sign and a wonder to the non-believer-owned businesses on your business mountain.
Governance is the act of governing or steering an organization and what a governing body does. The Kingdom Business Governance Model uses the biblically-based apostolic and prophetic leadership model to put the governance of our business on the Lord's shoulders and establishes the five-fold spiritual offices in our company. This new kingdom business model is intended to help us clearly identify our kingdom assignment and mission on the business mountain. It will give us the infrastructure to receive course corrections from the Lord to fulfill our kingdom assignment, shape the culture of our mountain, and disciple the nations.
Most believer-owned businesses struggle to succeed on an equal par with their non-believer-owned competitor businesses. Is it possible that the reason Christian-owned businesses seem to obtain the same results that non-believer-owned businesses obtain caused in part by conducting our business the same way that the world conducts their business? Perhaps this new Kingdom Governance Business Model will help you to regroup and go back to the business mountain and take it for the Lord.
Have you dedicated your business to Him yet? Has your business died in Christ so that it can be resurrected as a new creature, one that is dedicated for His use in any way He chooses? Perhaps it's time that you baptize your business to Him. Perhaps you might take a copy of your Articles of Incorporation, place it in a zip-locked bag, and have a baptismal ceremony with your business leaders to celebrate the death and resurrection of your new kingdom business company. Remember, whenever there is a death in Christ, there is always a resurrection to a better life.


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Deadly Santa Clarita High School Shooting Lasted 16 Seconds
"When are we going to come together as a community in Santa Clarita, and the rests of the communities, to say 'no more?'" Capt. Robert Lewis of the Santa Clarita Sheriff's Department said.
By Jonathan Lloyd and Nyree Arabian	• Published at 7:52 am on November 14, 2019
Two students were killed when a 16-year-old classmate pulled a handgun from his backpack and opened fire Thursday morning at a high school in Santa Clarita.
Police and firefighters responded around 7:30 a.m. to Saugus High School, about 40 miles north of Los Angeles, followed by anxious parents who had heard reports of a shooter at the campus.
"I hate to have Saugus be added to the names of Columbine, Parkland, Sandy Hook, but it's a reality that affects us all throughout the nation," Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said.
The deceased students were identified as a 14-year-old boy and 16-year-old girl. Three other victims remained hospitalized.
Villanueva said the 16-year-old shooter, who used a .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol to shoot his classmates and then himself, was transported to a hospital in grave condition. He shot himself in the head, Villanueva said.
Multiple law enforcement sources told the NBC4 I-Team that the shooter, identified as Nathaniel Tennosuke Berhow, was brain dead and not expected to recover.
Berhow was originally described as a 15-year-old boy, but it was later revealed that the shooting occurred on his birthday Thursday.
The entirety of the shooting lasted 16 seconds.
Officials said in a news conference that the shooter was captured on camera reaching into a backpack, shooting five students, and then shooting himself.
"From the time that he withdrew the handgun from his backpack to the time he was on the ground with a gunshot wound to his head, was about 16 seconds," Capt. Kent Wegener of LASD Sheriff's Homicide Bureau said.
When first responders converged on the school's outdoor quad, they found multiple injured students, including the suspected shooter. They all were scooped up and taken to the hospital in the chaos of the situation.
LA County Fire Chief Daryl Osby said officials discovered six injured people suffering from gunshot wounds; the most critical was one found shot in the head, another in cardiac arrest.
Detective Daniel Finn of the Santa Clarita Sheriff's station had just dropped off a family member at the school and was driving away when he saw children running away from the sound of the gunfire, Villanueva said.
"And he turned around and became the very first person on scene," he said. "They entered the school literally within seconds of the shooting."
The victims were all Saugus students, according to officials. Two of them, a 16-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy, died later at the hospital. The other injured victims were described as a 14-year-old girl, a 15-year-old girl and another 14-year-old boy, Capt. Kent Wegener of the sheriff's homicide bureau said.
One victim was in stable condition at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital, and one was released, Dr. Larry Kidd said.
The weapon the shooter used was recovered at scene. It had no rounds left in it, Wegener said.
Aerial video showed students with hands raised being escorted by deputies from the school of about 2,300 students. They were taken to school buses with armed deputies on board.
"The impact this is going to have not only on school but community is tremendous," LA County supervisor Kathryn Barger said. "Many of the sheriffs and fire officials who work here, live here, and either have children who attended this school or (currently) attend this school. So this hit very, very, very close to home."
Student Malena Peters was running late, accompanied by her mom as she arrived to a stunning scene at the school.
"We just see all of these students, running out and screaming," Malena said. "I never thought it would actually happen."
Malena's brother and a cousin were in the school during the search for the shooter. Both are OK, she said.
Student Sharon Orelana Cordova said she took cover under a table in a nurse's office until officers came to get her.
"When I got out, I saw this person lying on the ground with blood all over," she said.
Nearby residents were urged to lock their doors and remain inside during the search for the shooter, which extended from the campus to a nearby neighborhood. Authorities said later Thursday that the shooter was no longer considered a threat.
Several patrol vehicles were seen in a neighborhood near the school, where deputies with guns drawn were positioned outside a house.
"It's one of my worst nightmares as a sheriff," Villanueva said.
There was no immediate word on a motive. The suspected shooter's girlfriend and mother were both at the sheriff's station, speaking to authorities.
"That's going to take us a while to go through," Villanueva said.
Undersheriff Tim Murakami said rumors that the shooter posted threats on social media will be investigated.
Distressed parents arrived at the high school looking for their children.
"It's a great school and a great community, and we never thought something like this would've happened here," a mother told NBC4.
Central Park on Bouquet Canyon Road was being used for a family reunification center.
"I'm a 52-year resident of Santa Clarita, and I grew up in the Saugus area. We need to say no more. As the FBI special agent said, this is a tragic event, and it happens too frequently. Across the nation I hear frequently, 'no more, no more, no more.'
"When are we going to come together as a community in Santa Clarita, and the rest of the communities, to say 'no more?'" Capt. Robert Lewis of the Santa Clarita Sheriff's Department said.
White House spokesman Judd Deere said President Donald Trump was monitoring the reports.
The Centre located at 20880 Centre Pointe Parkway will be open from 5-7 p.m. for families and community members who need support, per the city of Santa Clarita.
All schools in the Hart School District were to be closed Friday, Nov. 15, per a district spokesperson.
Two churches were holding services for the community to gather and mourn.
Grace Baptist Church 6-8 p.m., 22833 Copper Hill Drive, Santa Clarita
Real Life Church service 7-9 p.m., 23841 Newhall Ranch Rd., Valencia
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church 7 p.m., 24901 Orchard Village Road, Santa Clarita
NBCLA's Heather Navarro and the NBC4 I-Team's Eric Leonard contributed to this report.


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