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31 - More Journeys - Georgia & Armenia 1997
Leaving Vienna on a Monday meant one arrived in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, early on Tuesday morning. This required a three hour wait in Istanbul, Turkey.
The Istanbul terminal was small, tidy, and modern. So modern, indeed, that a few months before the airport authorities had heralded Turkey's entrance to the late twentieth century by declaring all her terminals smoke-free.
Thus I sat securely beneath one of a dozen signs which read in loud letters, "Smoking Prohibited In The Entire Terminal." Such regulations were ostentatiously ignored by half the travelling population and a significant section of the uniformed officers present, doubtless empowered to enforce the law.
On the Turkish Airlines plane a woman asked, with that pleasant firmness unique to Americans, if she and her husband could be "relocated into the non-smoking compartment." Despite signs indicating a distinct divide between lung cancer and life the stewardess looked as bemused as if she had been asked to sing a Negro spiritual. Her bemusement was soon verified when smokers all over the aircraft lit up in response to the announcement "You may now smoke in the smoking section." This section begins at the Turkish border.
After midnight we landed in Georgia and colleague, Trisha Pitts, Program Director for World Vision International's program in Georgia and Armenia met me with Bacuri, our driver, who drove me to the guest bedroom.
Next morning we went by the World Vision office near the centre of Tbilisi. I was impressed by the grandeur of the city with its many elegant old buildings, ancient churches and monuments arrayed haphazardly over the hills. An old fort tumbled down one ridge above the town. World Vision's office was in a simple building down an inner city side street. Inside, someone's apartment had been converted into offices, although traces of a family's former home were evident in the chandeliers and wide opening glass doors between the big, high-ceilinged rooms.
There were some items of business to discuss and then the whole staff had lunch together, cooked by Mary, the staff cook. There was a variety of dishes—tomato and cucumber salad, egg-plant with a spicy walnut flavoured sauce, a meat casserole, cheese and bread.
The staff discussed the Georgian flag. "It is cherry red, with black and white in the corner. Black is for the earth and white for the sky. And the red is for the people."
Another had a different explanation. "The black represents our past which is bad. The white is for the future which is hopeful. And the red represents the present times, which we see all around us."
Our work in Georgia focusses on small business development. At first World Vision gave out grants to people to kick-start their small businesses. "The time for grants is over," Trisha explained. "People are learning about the free enterprise system and they are ready for loans." So now the program, funded by USAID, is moving into loans.
Accompanying the program was extensive training, for here was a society in which the subtleties of capitalism were being learned.
During the course of the day we visited four people who had benefited from the grants program and were now running successful small businesses.
We visited a lady who had used her grant of a few hundred dollars to buy an overlocker. She was an engineer made jobless when the State factory in which she worked went belly up. Fortunately she was also an excellent dressmaker and turned her hand to this. The overlocker added professional seams to her work and saved her hours of laborious hand sewing.
Showing my ignorance of the craft I asked what the machine was called. "I know the word in Russian," said Kote, translating, "It is called overlocker."
"Oh," I said, "it's the same in English."
Kote paused for a moment then was startled by the obvious. "It IS English!"
"Would you like coffee?" the woman asked politely and when we indicated assent she ushered us into the lounge room and busied herself in the kitchen. A half hour later we were invited back into the kitchen for "coffee."
The coffee was Turkish, rich, strong and tangy. Spread on an embriodered tablecloth was chocolate, walnuts, fruit juice and champagne. Fortunately, the champagne was unopened and we persuaded her to save it up for someone really important.
She had spent a little of the profit she had made in getting the telephone installed.
"The phone system here is great," said Kote, "the best in Tbilisi. It is brand new. From Korea." It rang a few times while we were there, but each time the line was dead.
I asked an innocent question that revealed more information than I expected. She was telling us how she did not need to advertise, that she had more work than she could handle at the moment. So I asked if she had her own personal label on the clothes. The idea seemed quite odd to her.
"Until recently, having your own label would have been illegal. So she doesn't feel comfortable with the idea."
Next was a doctor who had used her first grant to modify a section of her lounge room by her apartment's front door to create a consulting room. The front door itself now incorporated a small window from which she could dispense medicines after hours.
"This woman is incredible," Trisha explained. "She has the entrepreneurial heart. She began with a grant of a few hundred dollars and soon she was back with a plan to create an insurance company and a request for $80,000! We admired her pluck, but suggested a thousand."
Two sites were visited next as we inspected the two workshops of a television repair team. They were applying for a loan to buy a vehicle so they could make house calls.
"The vehicle will cost half as much as taking public transport," our loan officer, Dato, explained.
"Is that just petrol, or have you factored in repairs and maintenance," asked Trisha cautiously, aware from experience that full cost is a capitalist notion not always immediately grasped by post-communist entrepreneurs.
Finally we stopped by a computer school (which also taught English as a sideline). Here the use of the grant money was clearly in evidence, for the school had bought a generator and with the power temporarily off, the generator was proving its value in keeping the computers running for the students.
To qualify for a grant, clients must present a business plan. Then the plan is monitored for six months to ensure that things actually happen.
With the move into loan programs there is more control and lower risk that funds will be misused as clients are required to put up some collateral and, of course, are required to make repayments.
Nevertheless, the program in Georgia was boasting a 100% success rate for their program. Not a single failure to follow through on plan. The result of careful selection, training and follow through.
In the evening Trisha suggested we walk to a restaurant and we set off around 7.30. I joked after a half hour "Are you sure there is a restaurant here. I just want to be sure we eat before we reach the Caucasus mountains."
Trisha laughed generously but we soon discovered that her Plan A restaurant had closed. Short-lived businesses are a common phenomenon in a society which is still learning about capital reinvestment.
"Would you like to stop by one of these cafes," asked Trisha, "or would you prefer to go somewhere I know."
Somewhere she knew sounded more inviting so we retraced our steps to "some place really nice. I hope it is still open."
Plan B turned out to be spectacularly pleasant. We ate full-flavoured Georgian food and washed it down with salty mineral water, and smooth Georgian wine. This part of Georgian society was obviously still in good shape. And cheap too. At least by international standards.
To my naive surprise, we were entertained by a spectacularly competent jazz combo. I say "naive" because any real thought on my part would have recalled the renown of Georgian music and arts in general. The band had a pianist who floated somewhere between Wes Montgomery and George Shearing, a cool guitarist, drummer and double bass player. After a half hour or so Peggy Lee's younger sister appeared to serenade us and scat with the band.
She was received with enthusiastic applause by a sharp looking man at the bar. Aged in his sixties he was dressed in creams, including a cream panama hat. He had curly hair around his collar and an Austrian moustache. As the band samba-ed into "Besame Mucho" he glided onto the dance floor with a young red-headed woman and flamboyantly danced tango-style to the bossa nova rhythm. Only in Latin America had I seen such displays of unselfconscious pleasure.
After our meal we ordered dessert, or, as the menu said "Desert." Trisha and I discussed the unfortunate tendency of people from our cultures to consider the inability of foreigners to speak our language some kind of depressing disability. Privately we commended the serious attempt to communicate the menu contents in English to we visitors. Nevertheless, I presumed that "chocolate bar", listed among the desserts was likely to offer more in actuality than its prosaic description implied. Perhaps a chocolate and ice cream log with whipped cream and walnuts? Or a rich chocolate cake slice with hot fudge, cherries and Armagnac?
No. It was a chocolate bar. Belgian chocolate admittedly. Presented elegantly on white china, but still in its wrapper.
The walk back to the flat revealed more traffic at 11 pm than at 7 am. Clearly, Tbilisi is a night society.
Starlings inspired me next morning as I sipped my first coffee. Hundreds of these birds darted and dived in a busy frolic over and around the roof-tops of Tbilisi. They looked like small boys at play, dive-bombing one another for fun, pulling steep turns to miss the corner of a building, whipping around overhead cables. You never see one of them make a mistake and hit something, despite their speed.
"It would be nice to be a starling," I said to Trisha. "they don't worry whether they have sattelite TV or clean socks. They just enjoy flight."
An hour later I was flying without much enjoyment on the World Food Program aircraft to Yerevan. A Twin Otter, the reliable aircraft World Vision used to such good effect in Ethiopia during the famines of the 80s flew the route to Yerevan and back every day.
Forty minutes after leaving Tbilisi we were in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. The city is set on a wide plain already hazy in the morning heat. Through the haze the huge figure of Mount Ararat loomed impressively.
Robert Dira, our project manager in Armenia was there to meet Trisha and I and we were ushered through a side terminal without anyone showing any interest in seeing our passports. In twenty years of travelling I could not recall a single occassion when entry to a country had been so informal, courtesy of the VIP treatment given to World Food Program travellers.
Before lunch we visited the Patriarch of the Armenian Orthodox Church, Karekin III, whom I had met a few years before when the Patriarch was located in Bierut in a form of exile. Two years before he had come home to Yerevan and it was a pleasure to see him once again in the historic home of one of the first Christian churches outside of Palestine. The church was founded in Armenia in 301 and a cathedral has stood on the site of the Archbishop's present home since 304.
Much more happened on this journey, except later in the day I succumbed to a severe gastric complaint, brought on by Robert's cooking (or so I accused him regularly for years afterwards!). I do remember spending a few hours visiting loan applicants. It was interesting to see a cross-section of good and bad prospects. One, in particular, was more fiction than fact. The colleagues were pleasant but firmly disparaging of her attempts to extort money from World Vision. Naturally, she didn't get the approval. Or the money.
During that afternoon drive we had the misfortune to knock over a young boy who ran in front of the car. Fortunately, the car was doing less than 10 kmH at the time, crawling up a busy market street. Nevertheless, the boy, aged about 9, bounced off the front of the car and scraped skin from his knees and elbows. The driver was visibly dismayed over the event which somehow made me feel better.
We returned to Georgia and I discovered that my visa, previously obtained in Vienna, was for one visit only. This was solved by a combination of standing around in the official's face, and the payment of a large fee.
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For decades after its founding, America was really two nations--one slave, one free. There were many reasons why this composite nation ultimately broke apart, but the fact that enslaved black people repeatedly risked their lives to flee their masters in the South in search of freedom in the North proved that the "united" states was actually a lie. Fugitive slaves exposed the contradiction between the myth that slavery was a benign institution and the reality that a nation based on the principle of human equality was in fact a prison-house in which millions of Americans had no rights at all. By awakening northerners to the true nature of slavery, and by enraging southerners who demanded the return of their human "property," fugitive slaves forced the nation to confront the truth about itself.
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A lovely cut glass perfume bottle cut from cranberry to clear. The design is a simple, classic combination of crosshatched diamonds and fans. The shoulders of the bottle are panel cut, and the base is finished with a 24-point star. The lapidary-cut stopper is original to the bottle and is engraved with the same number as the inside of the bottle's neck. Origin: Europe, ca. 1900. Condition: excellent, no chips or cracks. Size: 5-3/4" tall.
A nice stoneware ewer in an unusual form by Doulton Lambeth. The bulbous body is decorated with raised flowers and foliage against a cobalt blue ground, while the foot and long tapering neck are finished in a simple pattern of incised rings highlighted with chocolate brown borders. The inside of the foot is stamped with the mark used 1891-1902 and also with the artist's mark which appears to be a conjoined "JH", "HL" or possibly just an ornate "H". There is also an assistant's mark, "b".
Origin: England, ca. 1895. Condition: no chips or cracks. Size: 11-5/8" tall.
A lovely sterling silver fancy serving fork in an unnamed Art Nouveau pattern by the Baird-North Co. The handle is beautifully decorated with a thorny vine of wild roses. The back is decorated in a simpler design of roses. The splayed tines are ornately pierced. A fork of this shape would probably have been used to serve bacon, but it might also be useful for cold meats. The reverse is marked "Sterling/Pat. 1903". There is no maker's mark (maker's marks were not legally required until 1906), but we've had pieces in this pattern that have bear Baird-North's hallmark.
Origin: America, ca. 1903-1906. Condition: excellent, sharp detail, no monograms. Size: 8" long. Weight: 35.5 grams.
A very pretty bracelet made from twelve Victorian gold slides. The slides are in a variety of styles and are set with various gemstones. From left to right: 10K with turquoise and pearls; 10K with repousse floral decoration; diamond-shaped 10K with synthetic rubies and sapphires set in a checkerboard pattern; 14K set with a rose-cut diamond in a double-sided repousse floral background; 14K set with an old mine cut diamond and enhanced with Etruscan revival bead and wirework decoration; 14K with decorative engraving and opaque black taille d'epargne enamel; large 14K shield-shaped; 14K collet-set with two very fine opals in a double-sided repousse floral background; 14K heart-shaped star-set with a pearl; 14K box-shaped with applied architectural revival decoration; 14K diamond-shaped with a star-set pearl; and 10K oval with pearls and turquoise cabochons bead-set in a star pattern. All the slides are very attractive, but the opal slide bears particular mention. The opals are of exceptionally good quality. One stone is a light-based black opal and the other is a white or crystal opal. The play of color is evenly distributed and represents the full spectrum, with a preponderance of red and blue flashes. The slides are strung on a double chain with a 14K fold-over clasp and are separated by 14K gold spacer beads. Tested and guaranteed for gold content.
Origin: America & England, ca. 1860-1900. Condition: excellent, light pinpoint dings on largest slide. Size: 7-3/4" long. Weight: 16.5 grams. Approximate Total Gemstone Weight: diamond, .03 ct; opal, .6 ct.
An exceptionally fine Art Nouveau 14K yellow gold pin in the form of a pansy blossom highlighted with enamel. The enamel decoration is absolutely spectacular. Shades of translucent pink, chartreuse and maroon blend to create a very realistic, soft appearance. The flower is centered with an old European cut diamond of very fine quality, estimated at I color, VS clarity. The back retains the original pinstem, clasp and eyelet for a watch hanger. Though unsigned, the brooch was made by Whiteside & Blank, one of the finest Newark makers. Tested and guaranteed 14K.
Origin: America, ca. 1900. Condition: excellent, no enamel damage. Size: 1-1/16" x 1-1/16". Weight: 7.6 grams. Approximate Total Diamond Weight: .20 carat.
A very pretty Art Nouveau honeymoon pin worked in 10K yellow gold enhanced with enamel and seed pearls. The iris blossom is beautifully decorated in translucent shades of purple and greenish-yellow enamel and is centered by a small seed pearl. The flower appears against a crescent moon studded with graduated-size seed pearls. In the Victorian language of flowers, these elements were understood to symbolize "honey" (the flower) and "moon" (the crescent), thus representing "honeymoon". These small pins were often given by grooms to their new brides as a wedding gift. For some reason, irises are somewhat uncommon in enameled jewelry. Though unsigned, the workmanship and style of this example suggests a Newark maker. The original clasp is marked "10K".
Origin: America, ca. 1900. Condition: excellent, no enamel damage. Size: 7/8" x 13/16". Weight: 2.3 grams.
A very fine Art Nouveau enameled 14K yellow gold cattleya orchid brooch by A. J. Hedges. This quality of this piece is stunning. The enamel fades from a milky semitranslucent texture near the center of the flower to very translucent pale shades at the edges of the petals. The color shifts from a greenish-cream color to a pure pink along the very edges. The orchid is fully three dimensional, and the throat is set with a small seed pearl. The stem, enameled in mottled pink and green extends below the flower. Hedges was among the very best of the Newark enamellers, but their products are very difficult to find. Along with Whiteside & Blank, their enamel flowers tend to be larger and more complex than those of most other American makers. The back retains the original pinstem and clasp stamped with Hedges' hallmark and "14K".
Origin: America, ca. 1900. Condition: excellent, no enamel damage. Size: 1-1/4" x 1-1/2". Weight: 7.6 grams.
An extraordinary pair of 18K yellow gold cufflinks in the shape of thistles. The leaves and choke of the thistle are bead-set with round cut emeralds, while the blossoms are set with pale round cut amethysts. The emeralds, though small, have medium-dark tone, intensely saturated green color. Though the individual stones are small, the strength of color creates a very good appearance, and there is no sign of treatment. The faces are connected by chains to ropetwist baton backs. Tested and guaranteed 18K.
Origin: America, ca. 1900. Condition: excellent, all original. Size: 7/8" x 7/8". Weight: 13.9 grams. Approximate Total Gemstone Weight: amethyst, .48 ct; emerald, 1.08 cts.
An elegant Art Nouveau glass vase decorated with enameled poppies. The blossoms are worked in shades of cream, yellow, rose and violet, while the foliage is stained a reddish-purple and highlighted with a complex, lacy pattern of gilding. The upper rim of the vase is decorated with a band of stained and gilt flowers, as well. The vase is blown in pillar form with an optic paneled design. The workmanship is very fine. Unsigned, but almost certainly the product of Mont Joye (also known as Verreries Saint-Denis or Legras).
Origin: France, ca. 1900. Condition: excellent, no cracks, no enamel or gilding wear, a 1/32" flake at the upper rim. Size: 8".
A very fine 14K rose gold brooch mounted with a Scottish Terrier carved from banded agate. The dog's head is beautifully rendered, using the stone's natural banded coloring to represent the dark colored muzzle and ears that contrast with the brighter carnelian of the fur. The eyes are represented by small round cut demantoid garnets set in a manner that nearly completely hides the gold collets holding the stones. The workmanship of the carving is first-rate. The setting is rather simple an does not detract from the beauty of the hardstone carving.
Faberge was a leading creator of hardstone carvings, and used carvings created in his own workshops as the shops of others. In Paris, Cartier was determined to compete with Faberge and also produced hardstone carvings. The Cartier versions, however, tended to be a little less realistic and rarely relied on the natural color variations of the stone material. The coloring technique strongly suggests that this carving is the product of a Russian workshop contemporary with Faberge, and possibly that of the master himself.
There appears to be a rubbed-out hallmark on the back side. This is occasionally seen in Russian pieces that had their marks obliterated shortly after the Revolution as their owners tried to smuggle jewels out of the country. Tested and guaranteed to be 56 zlotniks (slightly purer than 14K).
Origin: Russia, ca. 1905. Condition: excellent, all original. Size: 2-9/16" x 1-1/16". Weight: 15.3 grams. Approximate Total Demantoid Weight: .1 ct.
A lovely late Victorian 14K yellow gold and enamel floral pin in the Art Nouveau taste. The pin two flowers, one fully open and centered with a small seed pearl and the other still in bud form. The petals are enameled in delicate translucent shades of rose, green and ivory in the style typical of Newark jewelers. The back of the pin retains the original pinstem and clasp hallmarked by Whiteside & Blank.
Origin: America, ca. 1900. Condition: excellent, no enamel damage. Size: 1-5/16" x 11/16". Weight: 3.4 grams.
An elegant pair of Edwardian 14K gold and platinum double-sided cufflinks by Tiffany & Co. The round faces are set with plaques of black mother of pearl within engraved platinum borders. The faces are centered by natural seed pearls. The mother of pearl has strong iridescence, primarily in rose shades, against the silvery gray body color. Black mother of pearl is much less common than the lighter colors and creates a striking effect. The bright-cut engraving of the platinum borders adds a touch of sparkle. The backs of the faces are signed "Tiffany & Co." and are marked "14K" and "Plat & Gold".
Origin: America, ca. 1900. Condition: excellent. Size: 9/16" (15 mm) diameter. Weight: 9.3 grams.
A wonderful solid brass humidor, the top embossed with the double eagle insignia of Russia's Imperial Romanov family, and the front embossed with the double lions rampant of the British Empire. The top, front and sides are enhanced with scalloped punchwork borders. The box is raised on claw feet. The interior has a removable tin liner and a perforated platform that was used to keep a moist sponge separated from the surface of the cigars.
England and Russia signed the Anglo-Russian Entente in 1907, and along with the Entente Cordiale (England & France) and the Franco-Russian Alliance (France & Imperial Russia), the three nations formed the Triple Entente that eventually entered into World War I against Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Anglo-Russian Entente greatly leveled the balance of power in Continental Europe and was widely celebrated. This box was created in honor of that event and may have been a mid-level diplomatic gift from a British representative to his Russian peer. Although we have not seen it, we understand that the same box exists with the French arms on the lid in place of Romanov double eagle.
Origin: England, ca. 1907. Condition: excellent, sharp detail, all original; it appears that the perforated sponge screen was originally soldered to the inside of the lid, but it is now separated. Size: 10-7/8" x 6-1/2" x 6".
A very attractive pair of Victorian 10K yellow gold bean-back cufflinks, the faces collet-set with oval turquoise cabochons. The gold is enhanced with foliate engraving. The turquoise has a fine medium greenish-blue color with reddish-brown matrix. Marked "10K".
Origin: America, ca. 1890. Condition: excellent, all original. Size: 11/16" x 9/16". Weight: 4.3 grams.
Of the thousands of cufflinks we've handled over the years, this is the first pair of Art Nouveau bean-back cufflinks we've ever seen that have a matching design worked on both the primary face and the bean back. The 14K yellow gold links are worked with a repousse design of a maiden wearing an ornate headdress filled with the scrolls and whiplash curves typical of Art Nouveau design. The connectors are hallmarked by Krementz and are marked "14K".
Origin: America, ca. 1900. Condition: excellent, all original, sharp details. Size: large faces, 3/4" x 9/16; small faces, 1/2" x 3/8". Weight: 5.2 grams.
A beautiful early Edwardian hair or photo locket, the front worked in a bright pink transparent guilloche enamel over an engraved sunburst background. The enamel is centered by a lustrous natural pearl set in a reeded collet. The back of the locket features a glass window enclosing a space for a small portrait or lock of hair. The space is lined in ivory silk. Tested and guaranteed 10K gold.
Origin: America, ca. 1900. Condition: excellent, no enamel damage, original glass cover. Size: 1" diameter, excluding bale and jump ring. Weight: 7.4 grams.
A beautiful pair of heavy 14K yellow gold and platinum cufflinks by Larter, each face featuring a bezel-set old European cut diamond. The faces are worked with engine-turned engraving in a complex sunburst and floral pattern, while the platinum borders are engraved in a beaded pattern against a stippled background. Even the hinged bridge connectors are beautifully engraved. The diamonds are of nice quality and good color. The backs are stamped with Larter's hallmark and "14K".
Origin: America, ca. 1900. Condition: excellent. Size: 5/8" diameter. Weight: 11.9 grams. Approximate Total Diamond Weight: .392 carat.
An exceptional pair of Edwardian 14K yellow gold double-faced cufflinks by Carrington. Each of the cufflinks features one face centered with an old European cut diamond and on face with a round cut blue sapphire. The stones are surrounded by a band of opaque royal blue champlevé enamel enclosed within a laurel wreath border. This design is really one of the most elegantly sophisticated we've seen any of the classic Newark makers. The gemstones are of very good color and clarity. The backs are marked 14K and have Carrington's hallmark.
Origin: America, ca. 1900. Condition: excellent, all original, no enamel damage. Size: 19/32" diameter. Weight: 9.3 grams. Approximate Total Gemstone Weight: diamond, .18 carat; sapphire, .23 carat.


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111 days in the ice
This video shows Åse Ervik drilling holes into the ice with her colleague Annu Oikkonen. Film: Nancy Bazilchuk, NTNU
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Drilling down to understand sea ice
By	Nancy Bazilchuk
Published	30.07.15
Global warming is upending virtually everything that scientists know about the Arctic ice cap. During the first half of 2015, a multinational team of researchers froze the RV Lance into the Arctic ice to learn more about how this ice has changed. NTNU researchers were among the scientists seeking to learn more about this changing environment.
They called her "the ridge girl".
That's because Åse Ervik, a PhD candidate in NTNU's Sustainable Arctic Marine and Coastal Technology programme (SAMCoT), spent three weeks this spring aboard the RV Lance, drilling holes into the big ridges that form between the pack ice in frozen Arctic seas.
Ice ridges cause problems for ships and fixed structures in the Arctic, such as oil platforms and lighthouses. But relatively little is known about their physical characteristics — which is why Åse Ervik and her colleagues spent 3 weeks on the RV Lance to study ice ridges. Photo: Åse Ervik
These ridges – which can be several metres high and several times as deep – can cause problems for ships and fixed structures in the Arctic, such as lighthouses, bridges, oil platforms and quays. Researchers like Ervik need to know more about the physical properties of ice ridges so that they can further refine computer models used to design manmade structures for the ice. And the only way to get accurate information is to spend hours at a time taking painstaking measurements of how thick the ice is and how it is structured.
"You can read paper after paper about big ice ridges, but until you go out there and actually drill holes into a 15-metre-long ridge, you really don't know what it's like," Ervik said. "You may think the ice there is flat, but that is so wrong. There's ridge after ridge after ridge after ridge."
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A six-month cruise
Ervik was one of a select group of scientists who spent time on the RV Lance during the N-ICE 2015 cruise, funded by the Norwegian Polar Institute, the Fram Centre, and the Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment.
As the spring progressed, the Arctic ice cap broke up, and the RV Lance had to be moved to be attached to a new ice floe. Photo: Åse Ervik
The Lance was frozen into the Arctic ice for six months so that scientists could study ice conditions from winter's deep freeze to spring breakup – a cradle-to-grave approach. Researchers spent as long as 6 weeks on the ship, studying everything from the tiny plankton and alga in the Arctic Ocean to turbulent mixing in the waters under the winter ice.
"Overall the field campaign has been a great feat, and all the participants and support personnel have to be given all the credit for the success," said Harald Steen, N-ICE project leader and head of the Norwegian Polar Institute's centre for Ice, Climate and Ecosystems (ICE)."We have spent in total 111 days attached to an ice floe since January 15, where 68 scientists, 27 support staff, and 20 ship crew have been involved."
The N-ICE project has also generated an enormous amount of international media attention, including a four-part blog series on the National Geographic website.
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Thinner and younger
The Arctic ice pack used to be composed mainly of ice that was formed and survived over many years. But now, more and more of the arctic ice pack is melting away. The US National Snow and Ice Data Center reports that the smallest-ever summer Arctic ice cap was measured in 2012, while earlier this year, the center reported that the maximum extent of the Arctic sea ice for 2015 was the lowest ever in the existing satellite record.
Åse Ervik's three weeks on the RV Lance required four pallets of equipment, including this compression tester, which is used to test the strength of different ice cores. Photo: Åse Ervik
These changes are altering the very nature of winter ice in the Arctic: Now, instead of thick, multi-year ice, the winter ice cap is mainly composed of thinner, one-year-old ice. This ice is not only thinner, it reflects sunlight differently and it melts more easily than thicker, multi-year ice.
That matters because climate models used to predict how global warming will affect different parts of the planet rely on older data from the Arctic, when there was much more multi-year ice. It also matters because engineers who design for Arctic conditions need to know exactly what kinds of conditions they are designing for.
"There is a lot of focus on the Arctic," Ervik says. "If we are going to do anything there, it has to be safe, and we need to certain about how we design for those conditions."
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Drilling holes
Ervik's PhD thesis involves refining a computer model for ice ridges, which can be used to predict how much stress an ice ridge might put on a fixed structure.
Her three weeks on the ice required four pallets of equipment, loaded with ice drills and corers, two four-stroke engines, a temperature and salinity kit, a compression machine to measure the strength of different parts of the ice ridge, a sonar machine designed to create 3-D images of the ice, two toolboxes to fix broken equipment, and a thermistor buoy equipped with an 11-metre-long string of temperature sensors called thermistors that were placed to drift along with one of the two ridges she studied.
SAMCoT
NTNU's Sustainable Arctic Marine and Coastal Technology centre (SAMCoT) is a centre for research-based innovation that has been funded by the Research Council of Norway from 2011 to 2019. The centre's researchers study fixed and floating structures in ice, material (ice) modelling, ice management and coastal technology in the Arctic. They also collect and analyze field data on sea ice, icebergs, and coastal permafrost, and working with these data on models that are key to further research.
Centres like SAMCoT are designed to work cooperatively with industry partners to "enhance the capability of the business sector to innovate by focusing on long-term research," according to the Research Council. Among SAMCoT's main industrial partners are Statoil, DNV-GL, Total, GDF Suez and Shell. You can read more about SAMCoT and its different research programmes at www.ntnu.edu/samcot.
Each day, she would spend between 12 to 15 hours out on the two ice ridges that she selected for study, drilling holes and measuring something called porosity, or the gaps between big blocks of ice at the bottom of an ice ridge. She also tested the sonar equipment to see how it would work to provide 3-D images of the ice ridge, and participated in the testing of a geomagnetic measurement device (GEM) that hopefully can produce 3-D images of the porosity of the ice ridges in the future.
An ice ridge may sound like a simple structure, but it is anything but. The top layer is called the consolidated layer, which is frozen fairly solid. Underneath is the rubble, which is what exactly it sounds like: different-sized ice chunks frozen together in a crazy mix. There can be holes between the chunks – which are measured as porosity. Ervik worked with a Finnish PhD student, Annu Oikkonen; both researchers were always watched over by a polar bear guard.
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Polar bears and cakes
Working in the Arctic has its share of challenges. At one point, a polar bear ate the stick that Ervik used to support the thermistor buoy suspended in the ice ridge.
Polar bears weren't an everyday sight, but they were around. Photo: Åse Ervik
There are also benefits, too: there was usually a mid-afternoon coffee break on the RV Lance – one that Ervik and her colleague always missed, because they were out on their ice ridge, collecting data. On more than one occasion, however, the ship's crew drove out to where Ervik was working to deliver mid-afternoon coffee and cake.
"You get pretty spoiled with the food," she said.
Most of all, Ervik says, she is grateful she had the chance to be working out on the ice, collecting data that is otherwise impossible to get.
"If you are in the Arctic and you want to experience it, you should be out on the ice," she said. "You don't get to do something like that every day."
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A group of polar bear researchers wants you to do more than worry about the fate of these beautiful animals. They've calculated how much summer sea ice is melted per metric tonne of CO2 emissions. Then you can decide if the flight you're planning to take is worth destroying polar bear habitat.
Reindeer adapt to climate change by eating seaweed
The arctic archipelago of Svalbard is already experiencing dramatic effects from climate change. A new study shows how these changes can force wild reindeer to graze on seaweed, a strategy that increases their likelihood of survival— and is recorded in their poop.
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Ataki w Saskatchewanie – seria ataków nożowników, która miała miejsce 4 września 2022 roku w kanadyjskiej prowincji Saskatchewan. W ich wyniku zginęło 10 osób, a 19 innych zostało rannych. W związku ze sprawą służby kanadyjskie zaczęły poszukiwania dwóch braci – Damiena Sandersona i Mylesa-Brandona Sandersona.

Przebieg
Ataki rozpoczęły się około godz. 5:40 nad ranem czasu lokalnego gdy dwóch uzbrojonych w noże braci zaczęło atakować osoby w co najmniej 2 miejscowościach – James Smith Cree Nation i Weldon. Niektóre z ich ofiar były obrane za cel, ale pozostałe były przypadkowe; motyw ataków nie jest jasny, a dzień po ataku sprawcy wciąż nie zostali schwytani.

Sprawcy
Sprawcami ataków było dwóch braci – Damien Sanderson i Myles-Brandon Sanderson. Policja poinformowała, że sprawcy przemieszczają się samochodem marki Nissan Rouge, ale mogli zmienić pojazd. Motywy ich działań nie są znane, nie zostali oni też schwytani. 5 września 2022 roku odnaleziono ciało Damiena Sandersona, natomiast Myles Sanderson zmarł 7 września w policyjnym areszcie.

Odpowiedź służb
O godz. 7:12 Kanadyjska Królewska Policja Konna wydała pierwsze ostrzeżenia dla mieszkańców prowincji Saskatchewan w związku z atakami. Później alert rozszerzono także na prowincje Alberta i Manitoba. Na miejsce ataków zaczęły przybywać służby ratownicze, część rannych osób sama zgłosiła się do szpitali.

RCMP ustanowiło specjalne punkty kontroli pojazdów pomiędzy miejscowościami Regina i Prince Albert. Nie udało się jednak uchwycić sprawców, pomimo potwierdzenia ich obecności w mieście Regina, gdzie mieli przejeżdżać ich pojazdem.

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Wheesung meeting with fans
Wheesung
Singer Wheesung will be discharged from his military service today, where he has been serving since November 2011.
The singer, who served as a drill instructor at the military training base in Nonsan, South Chungcheong, will have a small fan meeting to celebrate his discharge.
As this will be his first public event in almost two years, demand is high to see the popular singer, in anticipation of discovering if he still has his full star abilities.
"Wheesung has been passionate about doing his military duty, and he gained about 10 different awards for his service," said an official at the singer's agency. "That is why we are having this small event, to thank the fans who have been waiting for him."
The singer, who was originally scheduled to be discharged Tuesday, had to serve three additional days in detention for having been caught possessing a cell phone without approval.
Reportedly Wheesung used a cell phone while he was hospitalized due to back pain last year. He had been accused of abusing the drug propofol but was cleared last month after proving he was taking the drugs for a legitimate medical purpose.


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With Songs And Hymns And Spiritual Songs
Good morning everybody NEW SONG Got my letter NEW SONG Go down Moses2 Going home Going to set down and rest awhile Going to shout all over God's Heaven. The gospel train There's great camp meeting To my father's house Trouble done bore me down Travelling shoes Tryin'to get home.
Hymns and Spiritual Songs, for the Use of the Lord's New Church, Signified by the New Jerusalem in the Revelation. by Joseph Proud. by J. Proud. Title Hymns and Spiritual Songs, for the Use of the Lord's New Church, Signified by the New Jerusalem in the Revelation.
God, they met regularly at specific time intervals for meaningful spiritual services. mentioned in the New Testament: (1) "And when they had sung a hymn, they. (5) "Speaking one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing. THERE IS A BALM IN GILEAD. This is a well-known negro spiritual, which has an interesting meaning.
Is the difference between a psalm, a hymn, and a spiritual song/song from the Spirit defined anywhere in scripture or church tradition? Paul said this to the Ephesians: Ephesians 5:18-20 Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit.
"That song changed the world of music," he said. Dorsey, who died in 1993, was considered the father of gospel and also wrote the hymns "Peace in the Valley" and "Sweet Bye and Bye." 'An artist' Boyer.
which is where he recently heard this gospel song. "They sing so passionately and so amazingly," he says. "That guy almost.
Song Lyrics I Hear Angels Singing Praises The Herald Angels Sing" is much better known than the Gutenberg cantata. Many people hear "Auld Lang Syne" exactly. 16th-century origins as an old English folk song. The original lyrics sang the. Writing and recording. Written in 1986, "Part of Your World" was the first song lyricist Howard Ashman and composer Alan Menken wrote for
N'Dour pays tribute to his past, reflects on the present and looks to the future on ten songs on his new album. She says she felt a spiritual connection to Celia throughout the recording.
"Gospel music has always played an important part in country music." Some of what are considered to be the first song.
Jul 28, 2012 · Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs is a new hymnal for congregational worship. It is an original and fully edited publication and the work product of worship leaders, hymn writers, and tune composers, as well as evangelists, elders, and teachers.
Allen's hymnal, A Collection of Spiritual Songs and Hymns Selected from Various Authors by Richard Allen, African Minister, was printed in 1801. It consists of fifty-four hymn texts (without tunes) drawn chiefly from the collections of Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, John Wesley, and other writers favored by the Methodists of the period.
We'll ask again: who cares? This deep cut from 1972's Honky Château (arguably John's best album; come at us, Yellow Brick Road stans) is a gospel song as only Elton John could make one, a soulful.
Amid twanging steel guitars, gospel backup singers and fiddle filigrees. It's music of conscience, heavy songs with a.
Sep 25, 2009 · I don't know hymns like that, and maybe some people would say, Well, I don't know praise choruses like that, seven-eleven songs, seven words repeated eleven times, or whatever. The hymns, you can take your pick, you can take your pick of praise choruses, you can take your pick of hymns, [and] there are a lot of hymns in a book.
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Jonathan also notes that writing songs focused on his faith is similar to composing tunes for Journey in that they both come.
Further proof, however, that hymns and spiritual songs are not man-made songs, but certain kinds of Psalms is found in Ephesians and Colossians. Ephesians 5:18 speaks of the necessity of being filled with the Spirit in order to sing these songs, something that is not necessary if.
Reba McEntire's first gospel album, "Sing It Now: Songs of Faith & Hope," consists of 10 traditional hymns of "faith" and 10 contemporary Christian songs of "hope." Image provided An abbreviated.
Due to the broad acceptance of Horae Lyrica in 1705, Watts then published his first significant contribution to hymnody titled Hymns and Spiritual Songs in 1707. This was a collection of hymns that.
Colossians 3:16 "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.".
The common thread of singing spiritual songs was shared by all, whether it was one of the five traditional Churches or one of the seven historic Black founded churches. The churches and choir masters and leaders have always been charismatic, creative voices who set history aflame with new innovative thinking and challenging growth.
Gospel music was nicknamed Negro spirituals, work songs and folk songs. It got the name from slavery. traditional choir, classic hymns and traditional a cappella music. Traditional gospel is not.
"These are songs that are mainstays in our country and to sing them, you get the feeling of thankfulness and celebrating our freedom, celebrating what our country is built on," Fortune tells Billboard.
Gospel singer Richard Smallwood has just deplaned from. released a best-of album, "Praise & Worship Songs of Richard Smallwood." For more than a decade, Smallwood wrestled with depression. Then one.
Nov 19, 2010 · The only way to really determine what Paul meant by "psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs" is to determine how these terms were used by Greek-speaking Christians in the first century. When interpreting religious terminology used by Paul in his epistles, there are certain rules of interpretation which should be followed.
Don't you love hymns and praise songs? Here are the best of the old and the best of the new, all in one user-friendly collection. Features: SATB hymnal format Easy-to-read large print Folio size.Chord symbols included All The Best Hymns, Songbook (9780834195844)
2019 Grammy Performances Video Uptown Funk He also was nominated for record of the year for "Really Love," but lost to Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars for their catchy "Uptown Funk. Grammy for the recording "Filament," which won in the category. Beaucoup de musiciens prétendent avoir "grandi à l'église", mais pour Robert Randolph, c'est littéralement le cas. Le célèbre joueur de
The gospel music will get started by 1:30. The rhythm and blues music will start at 4 p.m. and will feature Mac Arnold &.
It seemed an odd musical coupling at first, when Austin music's mystical past and wide-eyed future hunkered down in a South.
The series finale of "Catastrophe" achieved a kind of ecstatic perfection that gave me spiritual resolution in ways I cannot.
He frequently requested it of the gospel greats he ran across at benefits and other gatherings, and told Jackson she should sing it at his funeral if he died before she did. The song is fatefully.
Easier' Song You Need To Know: Halsey, 'Nightmare' If Washington's sound — specifically the large-scale, spirit-lifting.
While the film doesn't show exactly how the song came about (if we're to follow the film's fantastical rendering as gospel, then the song came to John as a child — it didn't), it is weaved throughout.
The senior choir led the congregation in hymns included in Gospel Pearls, 1921, the first African American publication of songs for worship services, and concertized spirituals (also known as "Jubilee.
Critique On Anything Goes Musical Numbers Mar 09, 2012 · Against the Theory of "Sexist Language" The word "sex" — clearly evocative of an unequivocal demarcation between men and women — has been replaced by the pale and neutral "gender," and the words "man" and "he" — now avoided as if they were worse than obscenities — have been replaced by the


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package mentalese

import (
	"nli-go/lib/common"
)

type Clause struct {
	AuthorIsSystem   bool
	ParseTree        *ParseTreeNode
	Functions        []*ClauseEntity
	ResolvedEntities []string
	Intents          RelationSet
}

func NewClause(parseTree *ParseTreeNode, authorIsSystem bool, entities []*ClauseEntity) *Clause {

	return &Clause{
		AuthorIsSystem:   authorIsSystem,
		ParseTree:        parseTree,
		Functions:        entities,
		ResolvedEntities: []string{},
		Intents:          RelationSet{},
	}
}

func (clause *Clause) SetIntents(intents RelationSet) {
	clause.Intents = intents
}

func (clause *Clause) GetIntents() RelationSet {
	return clause.Intents
}

func (clause *Clause) ReplaceVariable(fromVariable string, toVariable string) {
	newTree := clause.ParseTree.ReplaceVariable(fromVariable, toVariable)
	clause.ParseTree = &newTree

	for _, e := range clause.Functions {
		e.Replacevariable(fromVariable, toVariable)
	}

	clause.Intents = clause.Intents.ReplaceTerm(NewTermVariable(fromVariable), NewTermVariable(toVariable))
}

func ExtractEntities(node *ParseTreeNode) []*ClauseEntity {
	variables := collectVariables(node)
	functions := collectFunctions(node)
	entities := createOrderedEntities(variables, functions)

	return entities
}

func collectVariables(node *ParseTreeNode) []string {
	variables := []string{}

	for _, entityVariables := range node.Rule.EntityVariables {
		for _, entityVariable := range entityVariables {
			if entityVariable == Terminal {
				continue
			}
			if !common.StringArrayContains(variables, entityVariable) {
				variables = append(variables, entityVariable)
			}
		}
	}

	for _, constituent := range node.Constituents {
		for _, entityVariable := range collectVariables(constituent) {
			if !common.StringArrayContains(variables, entityVariable) {
				variables = append(variables, entityVariable)
			}
		}
	}

	return variables
}

func collectFunctions(node *ParseTreeNode) map[string]string {
	functions := map[string]string{}

	for _, tag := range node.Rule.Tag {
		if tag.Predicate == TagFunction {
			variable := tag.Arguments[0].TermValue
			function := tag.Arguments[1].TermValue
			functions[variable] = function
		}
	}

	for _, constituent := range node.Constituents {
		childFunctions := collectFunctions(constituent)
		for variable, function := range childFunctions {
			existingFunction, found := functions[variable]
			if found && existingFunction != function {
				// todo handle better
				panic(variable + " cannot be both " + existingFunction + " and " + function)
			}
			functions[variable] = function
		}
	}

	return functions
}

func createOrderedEntities(variables []string, functions map[string]string) []*ClauseEntity {
	entities := []*ClauseEntity{}

	allFunctions := []string{AtomFunctionSubject, AtomFunctionObject, AtomFunctionNone}

	for _, aFunction := range allFunctions {
		for _, variable := range variables {
			function, found := functions[variable]
			if !found {
				function = AtomFunctionNone
			}
			if function == aFunction {
				entities = append(entities, NewClauseEntity(variable, function))
			}
		}
	}

	return entities
}

func (c *Clause) AddEntity(entity string) {
	c.ResolvedEntities = append(c.ResolvedEntities, entity)
}


One of my favorite Olympic sports to watch is track relay. The runners make blindly reaching for a baton at 20 mph while staying in their lanes look incredibly easy. In fact, what they're doing is extremely difficult. I think of delegating in the same way. It sounds easy, and others who can do it well make it look easy, but passing the baton effectively takes a lot of trust, communication, and coordination. If you do it well, though, everyone on your team wins.
Being a great leader doesn't mean you do everything yourself. It means you've gotten really good at identifying who is best suited to tackle a task or project and empowering them to do so.
Of course, delegating tasks can lighten your workload, but delegating does much more than just get stuff off your plate, according to Dr. Scott Williams, professor of management at Wright State University.
For one, the people who work for you will be able to develop new skills and gain knowledge, which prepares them for more responsibility in the future.
Within customer-facing companies, delegation can improve responsiveness to customers, Williams notes.
"The people who have the most contact with customers – whether they are external customers or internal customers – are usually the ones with the most complete information about how best to serve them," he says.
There are some major myths and misconceptions around delegating that can make people wary of handing work to others.
They think delegating is just passing off work to someone else.
Delegation can be a chance to make workloads more manageable, but more than that, it can provide really valuable teaching opportunities for your employees, Mackay notes.
Delegation is not a sign of weakness; it's a sign of a strong leader.
They think they can do it better.
Watch for those biases in your work. They could be a sign that you need to focus on building more trust within your team.
They're nervous about letting go.
Letting go can be challenging, but accepting that you can't do everything yourself is important.
"Giving up being 'the go-to expert' takes tremendous confidence and perspective even in the healthiest environments," Carol Walker, the president of Prepared to Lead, a consulting firm that focuses on developing young leaders, told the Harvard Business Review.
Remind yourself that your team wants to do good work and be successful just like you do. If your employees succeed, you succeed.
"I've learned that people will seldom let you down if they understand that your destiny is in their hands, and vice versa," says Mackay.
Here are a few tips to help you delegate effectively so that your team shares the workload to make progress that benefits everyone.
It really helps when you provide context for why you're giving someone a responsibility.
Every good delegator provides basic and important information without micro-managing. Stephen Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, suggests that you delegate results rather than methods: "For example, 'Here's what we are doing, here's what we're after. I want you to get the sale,' instead of, 'Follow up on those leads," Covey says.
Tell someone your goals or the milestones you hope to hit and let them tackle the problem in their own way. Don't look for perfection or micromanage; someone else might complete a task differently than you would. As long as you get the result you're looking for, that's OK.
You've got to make sure the person tasked with a job or project has the tools and resources they need to be successful.
"A good training rule of thumb is "I do, we do, you do" (i.e. watch me do this, then let's do it together, now you try)," says Cavoulacos.
Make sure that when you delegate a task, the person has the tools and skills they need to complete the task, or provide a way for them to work on those skills. For example, if you ask someone to use a specific tool they've never used before to complete a task, make sure there's a plan for them to become familiar with the tool first.
You've probably been in a situation where you're tasked with something but don't feel fully empowered to make decisions, so the work stalls, and you end up having to ask for help. As a result, the task takes more time from both the employee and the manager.
"Managers who fail to delegate responsibility in addition to specific tasks eventually find themselves reporting to their subordinates and doing some of the work, rather than vice versa," writes Martin Zwilling, founder and CEO of Startup Professionals.
Foster an environment and culture where people feel they're able to make decisions, ask questions and take the necessary steps to complete the work.
When someone completes a task or project you delegated, show genuine appreciation and point out specific things they did right or well.
When you make note of those specifics, you're giving people a roadmap for what they should continue to do to be successful.
If you delegate well, you can increase trust and commitment with your employees while improving productivity and making sure the right people are performing the tasks that best suit them.
So don't be afraid to pass the baton. It might take some practice to become a great delegator, but if you work at it, you'll all go farther.


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There are three stages to get more leads from your marketing website: first impression, qualification, and action. To get more from your website, think of your visitor's experience as a process, and look at how you're helping them along.
Visitors need to instantly know they're in the right place. This could be as simple as a punchy strapline that summarises your specialisms, or images that set the scene. A professional design goes a long way in giving the right impression quickly, and people will respond to a website that has good quality images, a professional logo, and a clear and consistent colour scheme.
Content is the other half of the story, and your home page needs to project your image as a company. It should change often, give some sense of what's different about your organisation, and guide people to further content.
Visitors need to be convinced that you're good at what you do. For our own website, we know people like to see website examples in our portfolio. For your business, these examples could be case studies, customer testimonials, how your products are made, or how you provide your great service. This is not just about providing details but also the warmer side of your business: your values and your passion.
"All our products are handmade."
"Well, every product is unique and the quality is much higher."
"No-one else will own what you have, and it's guaranteed to last longer."
The last statement is much stronger than the first because it's closer to what the customer really cares about.
Make sure your content reads well and doesn't have spelling or typing errors. Try reading it out loud, or ideally get one of your customers to review it.
For most marketing websites, you simply want customers to pick up the phone, and it's important to cover the basics: make sure your contact details are prominent and really easy to find. Use more specific prompts to encourage action, for example, call me back, order a brochure, or get a quote. These could be links within your text or click-able graphics.
We recommend using "soft contact" options like social media, which are ways for you to stay in touch with potential customers who don't want to buy now. For every lead you get through your website, there are more people who were interested but not ready to contact you. If you can find excuses to stay in touch with them, they'll be more likely to come back later, or mention you to others.
Soft contact options could include social media accounts like Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn, or subscriptions to a regular email newsletter. Or encourage people to come back with free resources and changing content, like a blog. By adding social bookmarking links and an RSS feed to your blog, you can reach even more people.
Whatever you change with your website, it's important to track the results. Quantify your goals for the new website, whether that's more visitors, higher conversion to enquiry, or just a number of leads, sales or email subscriptions. And when people do get in touch, always ask how they found you. Keep improving things as you learn more about what works.
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Lead to Win: How Can Leaders Bring Certainty to Business in 2021?
By Mark Henderson Leary |
The coming of a new year always brings with it hope and optimism - and 2021 is no exception. Even with the economic turndown and the menace that was COVID19, another year means a blank slate, an opportunity to start again and make things even better.
Entrepreneurs are giddy and excited about the prospect of 2021. New goals, new challenges, new ideas - the possibilities are absolutely endless! Of course, business leaders know that not everyone has the same sentiment. If some of your employees don't feel like 2021 has anything new to offer, there are a lot of ways that you, as a business leader, can put your organization in a place of certainty and stability this 2021.
Allow Yourselves Some Long Term Goals
When COVID19 first struck, business leaders had to be on their toes. The amount of damage control and pivoting businesses had to do meant that Visionaries and leadership teams had to spend so many hours coming up with solutions to problems they've never faced before. As such, long term goals went out the window for the moment - short term goals were the bread and butter of wartime leadership because you never knew what tomorrow would bring.
Businesses that were able to adapt to the challenges that COVID19 offered are slowly recovering, but now it's time to take the next step. A lot of business leaders are still afraid of taking risks and making huge mistakes. Stop overthinking things - the worst is now behind you and if worrying about every single thing actually helped you during the beginning of the pandemic, it's going to stop you from moving past your ceilings for the coming year.
Go back to the long-term goals that you've had for the company before the pandemic hit. It's okay to start working towards those goals again. Acknowledge that it's safe enough to start thinking in terms of months and years when you make plans.
Give Yourselves a Pat on the Back
The easiest way to give your organization certainty this 2021 is to think positively. This may sound cliche, but intentionally choosing to believe that 2021 will be a better year when there's a pandemic still going around is actually harder than it looks. However, the fact that the company is still intact and you're still here thriving is reason enough to celebrate.
Acknowledge successes, no matter how minor they are. Give yourselves a pat on the back for making it this far - as sad as the thought is, you have to remember that not all organizations were as victorious as you are. A lot of startups and businesses closed in 2020, and the fact that you're still standing should be reason enough to strengthen your resolve for 2021.
Take Your Business To A Different Direction
Every tragedy has a silver lining, and with this pandemic, we at least saw a lot of good in humanity. Yes, there are people who reacted to this pandemic in the worst way possible, but I also saw a lot of companies who came together and made sacrifices together just to make it through. I saw struggling communities banding together in an effort to protect local businesses. I saw businesses that chose to serve their communities instead of making a profit from others' misfortunes.
I know a lot of entrepreneurs who emerged from this challenge with open eyes, able to see things from a different light. If there's a lesson that 2020 taught us, is that there's more to business than just meeting sales numbers and generating revenue. The majority of businesses that survived 2020 were businesses with great culture and purpose.
Businesses where employees cared about the company's survival as much as their employers did so everyone was willing to suffer for a little while just so they could all make it through. Purpose-driven businesses that made an impact in their community before the pandemic, and so when times were tough, the community had their backs. If your company places sales numbers above all else, then take this opportunity to start creating a culture of purpose over profit. That's the surefire way to building a stable and steadfast business this 2021.
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Leisure Sales is also steeped in caravanning history. For all you caravanning connoisseurs out there you can take a trip down memory lane & see " Lunar The Whole Story " exhibition, in which Brian Talbot (Chairman of Leisure Sales) co-founded 'Lunar Caravans' with Ken Wilcock. Come & see their story from humble beginnings from a barn in Wigan to multi million pound empire!
Thank you to John and Gareth at Leisure Sales for the help you gave when we purchased our new Bailey Madrid in Dec 2017.We were impressed very much with the efficiency and pleasantness you both showed. We would highly recommend you to any of our caravan friends.
Once again I find myself writing a review to praise the excellent customer service and workmanship received from the service department at Leisure Caravans. Always helpful and accommodating and always ready with a smile and warm welcome. Many companies could learn much from this organisation on how to make a customer's day! Thank you!
What a brilliant place this is. Walked around without hassle. When you have a question extremely pleasant and welcoming and lovely staff. They are friendly and make you feel at ease. An excellent place!
Sincere thanks to ' John and the Team' in providing us with the 'perfect' Swift caravan. Your attention to detail has been second to none! We would not hesitate to recommend you to friends.
To John, his lovely wife and all staff. Thank you very much for all your time and patience. We are very happy with our new caravan!
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Bought second hand caravan today the staff could not have been more helpful opening up endless caravans without any problems we like kids in a sweet shop trying to decide which van to have without any pressure.
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Mixed Wall Street Jobs Outlook in June
By Michael Mayhew July 9, 2018
While layoffs on Wall Street dipped modestly in June, new hiring plans remained unchanged at the lowest level seen since October of last year. Despite the mixed performance of these series, it is clear to us that US investment banks remain nervous about market conditions given rising interest rates, weak cash equities performance, and increased regulatory pressures.
June 2018 Challenger, Gray & Christmas Report
According to the June Challenger, Gray & Christmas monthly Job Cuts Report, the financial services industry saw planned layoffs dip 8% to 1,661 layoffs from 1,814 layoffs announced in May. Despite this modest improvement, June layoffs remain 226% higher than the 510 layoff total reported during June of 2017. During the first six months of this year, layoffs totaled 7,951 – 35% higher than the 5,911 total seen during the same period last year.
New hiring plans remained unchanged for the second consecutive month as no new jobs were available in June. The new hiring totals seen in May and June were the lowest number of new jobs available since October of 2017. New hiring in June was similar to the new hiring total seen in June 2017. During the first six months of this year, new hiring totaled 7,854 new jobs — 144% higher than during the same period last year.
As you can see from the above chart, new hiring on Wall Street has dipped steeply lower since the turn of the year, while layoffs have trended modestly higher over the same time frame. In fact, new hiring has remained consistently below the 12 month average for this series for five consecutive months. Layoffs, on the other hand, have remained above the 12 month average for this series for three straight months. These trends reflect the caution of most Wall Street executives due to rising interest rates, weak cash equities performance, and increased costs brought on by increased regulatory pressures.
Monthly Layoff Announcements
Last month, UBS Group AG announced that it was laying off at least 100 positions in its asset management unit in an effort to turn around the 792 billion-franc ($807 billion) business. The bank eliminated jobs in areas including distribution, and it is planning to focus its growth in China, as well as expanding its product line in passive and sustainable investing.
Wells Fargo Bank recently announced that it is planning to shed as many as 46 employees at its Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based asset management unit. The bank also announced that it will lay off another 100 employees at its Fort Mills, South Carolina-based mortgage office and 63 staff at its Frederick, Maryland mortgage lending unit due to low housing inventory, increased competition and decreased mortgage applications.
The mixed June Challenger Gray & Christmas monthly job cut report reveals continued weakness in Wall Street's job outlook as layoffs remain at high levels and new hiring has all but disappeared.
We believe that research hiring will remain subdued, as most investment banks and independent research firms are likely to limit their staff additions due to the uncertainty brought on by the roll out of MiFID II. Consequently, we expect most firms won't alter their research hiring plans until the third or fourth quarter of the year when they get more clarity on what the buy-side is willing to pay for their unbundled research services.


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Deadly Lullabyes Live es un álbum en directo de la banda de heavy metal King Diamond, publicado el 21 de septiembre de 2004. Grabado durante la gira The Puppet Master por los Estados Unidos.

Lista de canciones
Disco 1
«Funeral»
«A Mansion in Darkness»
«The Family Ghost»
«Black Horseman»
«Spare this Life»
«Mansion in Sorrow»
«Spirits»
«Sorry Dear»
«Eye of the Witch»
«Sleepless Nights»

Disco 2
«The Puppet Master»
«Blood to Walk»
«So Sad»
«Living Dead»
«Welcome Home»
«The Invisible Guests»
«Burn»
«Halloween»
«Introductions»
«No Presents for Christmas»

Créditos y personal
King Diamond  - voz
Andy LaRocque - guitarra
Mike Wead - guitarra
Hal Patino - bajo
Matt Thompson - batería
Livia Zita - voz (adicional)
Jody Cachia - actriz

Véase también
Anexo:Discografía de King Diamond

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 (en inglés) Sitio web oficial Deadly Lullabyes
 (en inglés) Deadly Lullabyes en Encyclopaedia Metallum

Álbumes de King Diamond
Álbumes de Massacre Records
Álbumes de Metal Blade Records
Álbumes en vivo de 2004
Álbumes de heavy metal
Álbumes en inglés


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