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1. The Giant's Causeway, Antrim, Ireland
Northern Ireland's only UNESCO World Heritage Site The Giant's Causeway is a magnificent picture of 40,000 large unique polygonal columns of layered basalt resulting from a volcanic eruption 60 million years ago. Be spoilt for choice with four different trails, picnic areas, and country walks to witness the stunning views.
2. Knockvologan Beach, Scotland
Tucked away on the Isle of Mull's western shore in Scotland, Knockvologan Beach is covered with glossy white sand and crystal clear waters. Apart from the crashing waves and a majestic skyline, you'll find seals basking on the rocks under the sun. This beach is also said to have inspired Robert Louis Stevenson's famous novel, Kidnapped.
3. Snowdonia, Wales
Snowdonia boasts its National Park and Snowdon, the biggest mountain standing at 3,560 feet in Wales and England. Fine sandy beaches, amazing estuaries and looming cliffs stretch along the coastline, promising breathtaking views. For a touch of civilisation, wander into picturesque yet quaint villages like Betws y Coed and immerse yourself in the local Welsh history and culture.
4. Tresco Abbey Gardens, Isles of Scilly
Originally a private garden established in the 19th century, sub-tropical Tresco Abbey Gardens in the Isles of Scilly is now open to visitors and is bursting with a range of over 20,000 exotic plants. For a deeper dive into its history, visit the Valhalla Museum where you'll discover a collection of shipwrecked figureheads and other decorative ship carvings.
5. Polperro, Cornwall
Nothing is quite as quaint as the old yet unspoilt Cornish fishing village Polperro. Delightful cottages dot the hillsides around a small harbour with little cafes and galleries filled with work by local artists. Take a stroll along the coasts of the harbour or pay a visit to the Polperro Heritage Museum of Smuggling and Fishing where you'll delve into the village's notorious history for smuggling activities in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
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After last November's divisive and controversial election, Chris Pratt wants to unite the country (and possibly the world), and we're 100 percent down with this idea.
When he's not checking out his own butt cheeks in the mirror or getting insanely upset about his diet for the upcoming Jurassic World sequel, we know that Chris Pratt is actually a sweet, sensitive, and caring guy. The actor regularly shares adorable Instagram posts giving shout outs to his family, especially his partnerAnna Faris and son Jack.
But now, like Star Lord, Chris Pratt is setting his sights a little bigger.
The 37-year-old actor graced the cover of Men's Health, where he talked about how, following the election, he felt that the country was super divided, and we have to say we totally agree.
"I really feel there's common ground out there that's missed because we focus on the things that separate us," he said. "You're either the red state or the blue state, the left or the right. Not everything is politics. And maybe that's something I'd want to help bridge, because I don't feel represented by either side."
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Hi All! This is Jason Sim from Malaysia coming in with an old deck tech with a turbo engine using (insert grumblings and moans here) Reflect/Refrain! I had meant to play with this deck last weekend at my Asia Pacific Open Qualifiers, but I dumped it halfway through for a more consistent Valentina deck that was brewed together with the other FOW US admins. With the R/R nerf coming in on Feb 1st, I figured I would share this with you guys before this deck is slowed down tremendously.
As we all know, R/R enables you to triple-rest an Elvish Priest to pump out a Fiethsing before your second turn. But why stop there? Why not draw and discard 3 cards so you can get your Yamata online and lethal on turn 2? With this concept in mind, here's a Yamata deck that enables you to kill on Turn 2 even with a blocker on the field, and (very consistently) be able to kill on Turn 3 most of the time.
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4 x Cheshire Cat, the Grinning Remnant
3 x Forty Thieves
4 x Guinevere, the Jealous Queen
4 x Knight of the New Moon
1 x Nyarlathothep, the Usurper
4 x Yamata-no-Orochi, the Eight Disasters
4 x Book of Eibon
4 x Change the World, Orb of Illusion
4 x Laevateinn, the Demon Sword
4 x Necromancy of the Undead Lord
4 x Soulhunt
1 x Spiral of Despair
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1 x Magic Stone of Dark Depths
4 x Magic Stone of Moon Shade
1 x Magic Stone of Scorched Bales
4 x Ruler's Memoria
"How does this deck kill on Turn 2?"
"How does this deck kill on Turn 2?" You might ask. With a hand of:-
1 Knight of the New Moon, 2 Laevateinn, 1 Yamata, 1 Necromancy, 1 Book of Eibon
Turn 1: Put down a Laevateinn, Call a Stone, Play Knight of the New Moon. At the last priority sequence at the end of your turn, use R/R to recover the Bunny at the end of your opponent's turn.
Opponent's Turn: use R/R's ability again to recover the Bunny. By this time, you'll get to rest the Bunny twice for her ability and still have her recovered. Draw a card and discard Yamata, draw a card and discard Necromancy.
Turn 2: Draw a card, and use the Knight's ability one last time to look for whatever missing cards you need. Recover everything, call a stone, discard the extra Laevateinn to produce a fire will, and rest both your stones for the Book to get your Yamata back together with a Necromancy attached. Use R/R's ability to give Yamata another +200/+200 boost to make it a 600/2600 (600 x 8 = 4800). Even with a blocker on the field you'd still be able to deal a lethal 4200 damage to your helpless opponent.
Although it needs a 6-card setup for this to go off, you could have potentially drawn up to 14 cards ( mulligan 5 cards + draw another 5 new cards + 3 draws from Bunny Knight + 2nd turn draw) to find your combo pieces, which isn't really that impossible to pull off.
If you factor in another turn, then you could more than always be able to get Yamata online even without the Laevateinn, or you could still pitch the extra Laevateinn for a fire will and flip Reflect into Refrain to immediately search for your last combo piece (thanks again to the Laevateinn).
"But this deck will lose to Dark Alice"
That's what you want them to think. This is where the Nyarla and Spiral comes into play. Most Dark Alice decks do not have the sufficient draw power, and we'll bank on this point to clear them off of their hand before we go for the kill with their own resonators.
Recycle the Knights back into the bottom of your main deck (you would want to keep your graveyard as small as possible) and bait them with your other resonators (Cheshire Cats, Guineveres, Forty Thieves). The DA players would not let themselves tapped out lest you explode on them in one turn, so this would be a fairly slow game. Let them Scorn and Spiral you, keep the Soulhunts and Books until you reach 4 stones. At this point you're ready to flip and look for the Spiral / Nyarla and start going for their hand. Use Soulhunts to deal with their resonators, and use your Books to resurrect their resonators (a dead Arthur without 3 resonators in their graveyard is great, a Mephistopheles in their graveyard would be perfect!).
In the off chance that your opponent flips her Dark Alice, then you'd have one or 2 turns to go off with your original plan. Burn off all the counters to look for your combo pieces, and go for the OTK!
Possible Sideboard Plans
Because everyone has a different meta of their own, I'll leave it to your own devices to sideboard accordingly. The ones I've found interesting (and useful) are:
Barrier of Shadows: works great against Val 2.0 decks, slows down RR decks
Realm of Pure Spirits: Protects your Yamata against Refrain's bounce / removals
Shadow Doppelganger: to be played together with Realm; uncancellable when playing against RR decks in the mid-late game (unless if they're playing Xeex)
Spiral of Despair: extra discard power against Dark Alice decks
That's all for now, feel free to give your input and good luck for your upcoming AGP's!
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The economy could stay mired in recession until the end of the year, according to the latest official figures and forecasts from a leading economic think-tank.
Industrial production fell by 2.5 per cent in August, having barely stabilised in July, the Office for National Statistics said yesterday. The news shocked City economists, who had hoped the vast fiscal and monetary stimulus pumped into the economy would have yielded some increase in output by now.
The results leave British manufacturing output at its lowest level since 1992, and represent a severe setback to the prospects for recovery. Hopes of a swift end to recession were also dimmed by the latest estimates of growth from the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR). Its analysts said that, contrary to the consensus view, the UK economy did not in fact grow at all in the three months to September, meaning that the official end to the recession may have to be postponed until fourth-quarter figures are released in January.
"Our monthly estimates of GDP suggest that output was unchanged in the quarter to September as compared to the second calendar quarter of the year," the NIESR said. "Industrial production was much weaker than we expected in August. In part, this was because of reduced activity in the oil industry, which is known to be erratic. But the manufacturing sector showed further weakness as well."
If the economy does fail to improve, it will have further dire consequences for jobs, with unemployment already predicted to hit three million next year, and the public finances, which are showing the largest peacetime deficit in history. It implies that the Bank of England will leave interest rates low for even longer, and may even be tempted to increase it programmes of quantitative easing [QE] next month.
Even if the economy does register some growth in the third quarter, it looks increasingly likely that the positive number could be extremely small. Allan Monks, an economist at JP Morgan, said: "The drastically altered outlook industrial production is enough by itself to lower our GDP estimate in the quarter to between 0.1 and 0.2 per cent. While we stick with the view that policy will be left unchanged at this week's meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee, the chance of more QE in November has gone up significantly."
Yesterday, there was mounting speculation that the MPC might say it was extending QE by £25bn or even £50bn in November. Last month, the Bank of England's Governor, Mervyn King, warned: "For most businesses and households, the recession will continue for some while – in the sense that they will be experiencing levels of demand and output, including employment, well below the levels that we have got used to."
Other pieces of apparent good news about the economy yesterday – more cars registered because of the scrappage scheme, and the Halifax house prices index rising sharply – were largely discounted by City economists. Car registrations climbed by 11.4 per cent in September to 367,929, led by private buyers taking up the Treasury's £2,000 contribution towards a vehicle.
Howard Archer, a UK economist at Global Insight, said: "There is the danger that car sales will fall back markedly once the scrappage scheme ends, particularly because the upside for consumer spending is likely to be limited for some time to come by high and rising unemployment, low earnings growth and consumers' need to improve their balance sheets amid heightened debts." Meanwhile, Nick Hopkinson, the director of Property Portfolio Rescue, suggested that the 1.6 per cent rise in house prices in September had weak foundations.
"These monthly numbers simply reflect 'cherry-picked' lending to high earners with big deposits on prime property by the lenders concerned," he said. "House sales volumes are still at rock bottom and overall mortgage lending is falling, as any ordinary buyer will testify. Anyone wanting to sell their home should move fast before the harsh economic winter really sets in."
Although unemployment and a weak recovery is likely to adversely affect consumer confidence, the Nationwide's index, released today, shows it is past its all-time lows. The consumer confidence index rose by six points in September, increasing to 71 from 65 in August; it is now at its highest since April 2008.
Also out today is the KPMG/ Recruitment and Employment Confederation Report on Jobs for September which "signals further slight increases in both permanent and temporary staff employment".
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A call came from an excited young couple, due to move on Friday into a new £200,000 apartment in Borehamwood. I arranged to meet them there on Thursday evening to hand over the keys.
Next, I went to visit a client in Mill Hill to see how he was settling into his all-singing, all-dancing £500,000 new house. In his elegant drawing room I was surprised to find only two deck chairs and an old sun lounger.
Furniture not turned up, I asked. No, it seems he had stretched himself so much to buy the house, he now couldn't afford to buy any sofas. Recounted the story to my colleagues later, sparking many funny memories.
The winning story came from a colleague who recalled that while he was showing a prospective buyer around the site of an almost completed new property in Stanmore, and was chatting animatedly about the home's attractions, he stepped backwards and fell down an open manhole.
While he was rushed to A&E with a suspected broken ankle, the purchaser nobly staffed the show house until my colleague's replacement arrived.
Went to see how an elderly lady, who had downsized from a vast seven- bedroom house in Edgware to a very nice two-bedroom apartment, was coping with the move. I had been warning her for weeks that she would have to part with some of her belongings, but she was attached to so many of them.
Sure enough, the new apartment was already stacked from, floor to ceiling when I arrived and you couldn't close the front door because of the boxes in the communal hall - and the removal vans were still only half empty.
I frantically phoned round trying to rent garages and storage facilities. She did agree to part with a few sacks of knickknacks, which I distributed among the local charity shops, although it took all day and I still have some bags in my car.
What I can't do is accept any of these things myself: I am still trying to lose a green-and-pink jardiniere - the size of a small monument - that was given to me by a grateful client, who was also a bit of an acquaintance.
But what am I to do if she comes round and finds I don't have her generous gift standing in my lounge?
Eagerly awaited the arrival of a Manchester family moving into a new £1 million, six-bedroom house in Stanmore. Business commitments meant they had not supervised the final stages of the build and I had had to check tile colours and door knobs myself.
This would be their first sight of their finished home. Fortunately, they were delighted and gave me a gift of a hotel voucher for a romantic weekend away. All my other half wanted to know was whether there would be a TV so he could watch the rugby.
Some romance ...
A second viewing with a couple at a show home in Bushey Heath. I let them wander upstairs by themselves, but when I went to look, the husband had launched himself onto the bed, boots and all. People just can't resist showhome beds. I rather crossly remade-this one, which made me late for the Borehamwood keys hand-over I had arranged on Monday.
Arrived at 6.10pm to find the couple standing on the doorstep looking shocked. They had found the apartment open and had walked in. Singing led them to the en-suite bathroom, where they found a security guard enjoying a bubble bath in their new flat. He had leapt out, grabbed his clothes and fled, leaving a trail of wet footprints and a holey old bath towel.
They eventually saw the funny side, but the contract with the security firm will be cancelled in the morning.
A 6am start. Having been let down by a cleaning company late last night, I'd had to rally the troops for cleaning duties at some new show homes in Stanmore prior to a big champagne launch party later in the day.
Just had time to dash home and change for the grand event, which was a great success. More than half of the properties were reserved on the spot.
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But Mr Quy's situation is anything but normal. The policethink the 24-year-old former croupier is the most likely person to have murdered his 21-year-old wife and the mother of the two children just before Christmas and hidden her body.
Detectives have searched at the couple's home on three occasions - the last time bringing with them an X-ray machine similar to the one being used to look for missing IRA victims in Ireland. Despite electronically scanning the floorboards and back garden, no body has emerged.
For the past four months Lynsey's parents, brothers and sister have spent most evenings probing the countryside and waterways around Southport in search of a corpse.
Mr Quy is, not surprisingly, outraged and believes he is being victimised. He insists his wife has run off and abandoned him and the children.
Despite his assertion that he has seen his wife in Southport shopping and twice in the passenger seat of a black Mercedes, along with his discovery of an anonymous note claiming Mrs Quy has run off to Spain with a married man, the police say she has been murdered. They say they are 99.9 per cent certain she is dead and her body is lying buried - most likely in a field or lake.
Lynsey and Mitchell had a tempestuous relationship almost from the moment they married, following a whirlwind courtship of five weeks. He was 19. She was 16 and pregnant from a previous relationship. Their rows were frequent and on one occasion Mitchell trashed their rented flat, smashing every item and hurling the television through the window.
They split up in 1997 and charges were brought against Mr Quy, who moved to Southport from Essex as a boy, of incitement to cause his wife grievous bodily harm and incitement to cause criminal damage. But these were dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service on the grounds of insufficient evidence. Lynseywho had spent all her life in the Merseyside town, eventually sought help from a women's group. She set up home with her children at the house from which she later disappeared.
Last October the couple got back together, but Lynsey seemed to regret it immediately and arranged to see a solicitor to finalise divorce proceedings.
But the former barmaid never made it to the appointment on 15 December. She was last seen by anyone other than her husband the day before.
According to Mr Quy she left at about 2pm on Christmas Day after a night out with friends without saying goodbye to her children - who she clearly loved - taking just a suitcase of clothes.
Her disappearance was not reported until 5 February, when prompted by a concerned social worker the police went to visit the couple. Mr Quy told them they had planned to split up after Christmas but that "she upped and left before me".
The police announced earlier this month that Lynsey's disappearance was being treated as murder. There were no records of any withdrawals of money. Relatives and friends said she would never leave her children. Stories of her foreign trips were also dismissed. She had never been further than Blackpool on holiday and did not own a passport.
Detective Superintendent Geoff Sloan, of the Merseyside Police, who is heading the inquiry, said: "She could walk in tomorrow, but I'm 99.9 per cent sure she is dead."
He added: "Mr Quy is a valid suspect. He is the person who had the last sighting and the opportunity and motive. She was going to go ahead with the divorce proceedings and that would have been a valid reason to kill her."
Det Supt Sloan said the breakthrough they are waiting for is the discovery of the body. Some clothes found on waste ground which could have belonged to Lynsey are being examined by forensic scientists.
Mr Quy, however, speaking in his back garden believes the police are wasting their time. "I think they have hit a dead end. All they want to do is put pressure on me. At first it did really get me down, but I have got nothing to hide."
He admitted that their relationship had become a "nightmare". "There was never any trust - we got married too soon," he said. But he denied any foul play. "People don't just disappear. I didn't expect her to leave the kids, I thought she was going to take a couple of weeks on her own and then come back."
Meanwhile Lynsey's parents, Linda and Peter Wilson, have bought a minibus and spend their spare time searching for a body. They even sought the help of the spoon bending psychic, Uri Geller, who after studying clothes belonging to Lynsey predicted that her body would be found near water.
Mrs Wilson recalls the attractive, "bubbly", and "big hearted" daughter, who was particularly close to her dad. A person who could storm off in a rage and would not be seen for weeks, but would then walk miles to deliver you a birthday present. "It's hard to think that your daughter has been murdered," she said.
"It took some time before I was convinced, but her father knew immediately she was dead. I want to find my daughter to lay her to rest and I want the person responsible to be caught."
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The Albania full-back, performed at Euro 2016 has been strongly linked with a January move to The Red Devils.
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Chelsea manager Antonio Conte watched Hysaj's amazing development in Italy first-hand and is watching progress surrounding the footballer's future at Napoli.
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Clever Hans: A Horse, a House and a Little History
Wilhelm von Osten was born into the German squirearchy in 1838 and went on to work as a maths teacher. He moved to the eastern Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg in 1866 and purchased a house at 10 Griebenowstraße. A befitted his background, he was a keen rider and huntsman with an appreciation of horses. When one of his carriage horses, Hans, seemed unusually observant of the logisitics of drawing a carriage around the city, he taught the horse to count to five by striking his hoof on the ground. This promising equine savant sadly died at the age of twelve, but his replacement, a black Russian trotter also called Hans, was to become famous worldwide.
Thanks to von Osten's tuition – which involved a lot of carrots and bread – "Clever" Hans developed an extraordinary array of abilities. He would count by pounding his right hoof on the ground and concluding when he reached the correct number with a strike of his left fore. He nodded, shook his head, and moved his head to indicate up, down, right or left. His talents included
- the ability to count up to 100 (sometimes higher) and work on calculations involving six decimal places;
- the ability to spell (where "A" = one hoof tap, and so on);
- the ability to change common fractures to decimals and vice versa;
- the ability to read German, printed or handwritten (but only lower case);
- an understanding of the value of all German coins;
- an understanding of the calendar;
- the ability to tell the time on a watch;
- the ability to recognise people he knew from old photos;
- the ability to identify musical notes and chords and whether or not they were "pleasant";
- the ability to pick out groups of people among the spectators – say, women wearing spectacles or men in hats, or even children climbing on nearby rooftops.
One observer described von Osten as "extremely patient and at the same time highly irascible" and "fanatic in his conviction" that Hans was "capable of inner speech". Von Osten tried to draw attention to his horse's talents by posting advertisements in the military press. He gave exhibitions of Hans' skills in the yard of 10 Griebenowstraße, and many came to watch and try to work out if the horse was really all his owner claimed. Word spread and the man and his horse became a global phenomenon.
Hans was turned into toys, featured on product labels and postcards and written into the lyrics of vaudeville songs. Not unlike his owner, he was also prone to stubborness – he had little respect for those who did not handle him with the same confidence as von Osten. He also bit, which perhaps isn't that astonishing given the number of treats he'd grown used to expect from humans.
One local journalist, Fedor Freund, pointed out a curious aspect of the horse's spelling: it was not merely phonetic. When von Osten read out the name "Treskow" to him he spelled it correctly, although it was pronounced "Tresko". But though many sceptics visited and examined Hans, plenty of prominent and educated men admitted defeat. Head Berlin zoo keeper Ludwig Heck, whom you may have come across in The Age of the Horse, was one of those unable to determine Hans' secret, even after a year and a half of concentrated study. Von Osten's horse, it was believed, was intellectually "at about the stage of development of a child of 13 or 14 years."
It was a team led by psychologist Oskar Pfungst that finally broke the spell in 1907. Hans was not "capable of inner speech" (well, not in any provable way). He was simply watching for changes in the posture and expression of whoever set him each task, whether it was von Osten or an independent investigator. Hans was "clever" because he had noticed that when von Osten relaxed, he only had to strike the ground with his left hoof to finish "counting" and then he would be rewarded. And of course, von Osten relaxed whenever Hans reached the right answer or sum. Presumably, over time the horse didn't even need a carrot as a reward for this. He was adept in one language – that of the body.
A few years after his debunking, von Osten died, and Hans – rather like Black Beauty – had a series of new owners. This was a time of transition for horses – the beginning of the end of the use of horses for public and private transport – and the odds of ending up as sausage were high. Hans was conscripted into the army at the outbreak of World War One. He vanishes off the records in 1916 – killed in action, perhaps, or victim of disease or the desperation of soldiers.
When I was researching images for the Power section of The Age of the Horse I kept coming across black and white pictures like this one of families in inner courtyards in Western cities, proudly showing off their working horses. Our great-great grandparents often lived alongside their equine workmates or metres away from the mews and multi-storey stables that kept nineteenth- and early twentieth-century cities functioning. Berlin was no exception, and it's still possible to see some traces of long-since demolished stables, like the parallel metal tracks for cart wheels that are laid in the entryways to some buildings from the period. The old brewery near me hasn't produced beer in decades, but you can take special tours around the underground stables, which have been preserved. I'm told that one of the multi-storey stables – repurposed as housing – is still standing, but have been unable to locate it. When I realised that von Osten's house was just ten minutes' walk from my own, I set out to see if there were any traces of Hans left over.
I live in what's known as an "alt bau" or "old building" very like 10 Griebenowstraße. Berlin expanded hugely from the mid-nineteenth century onwards, and the same basic building unit was thrown up around the city. It consisted of five storeys (any higher and the fire brigade could not reach the upper floors) around a square courtyard, with cellars, high ceilings and large windows. In areas like Kreuzberg, Schoneberg and Charlottenburg, these buildings are hefty and grand, as Christopher Isherwood described them in the Weimar years, "shabby monumental safes" with "top-heavy balconied façades".
In Prenzlauer Berg, these "rent barracks" were a little slapdash as the area's population tended towards the working class. The front would have perhaps some stucco for the better off, like von Osten, and the wings and rear of the courtyard would be plainer.The courtyards sometimes contained small industrial plants, stables or other outbuildings. Often there was more than one courtyard; the record is seven, for a building around the corner from Clever Hans' home on Kastanienallee, a model of which can be seen in the Deutsches Historisches Museum. These yards got progressively smaller and darker; many were demolished in slum clearances just a few years after they were constructed.
Number 10 Griebenowstraße is on a corner of sorts near the Zionskirche. When I peeked into the yard I found a large shared garden, bike park and recycling area that was shared between an entire block of alt baus; only one outbuilding was still standing and, when I checked a map from 1895, it was impossible to see what else might have stood there, or if there were further inner courtyards. The outbuilding did not resemble anything that appears in the backdrop of the images of von Osten and Clever Hans. The building has been renovated with plain plaster and there's not even a plaque to mark the story.
In his report on Hans, Oskar Pfungst concluded that "the horse's ability to perceive movements greatly exceeds that of the average man." What interests me most is what he went on to say, because it's one of those extracts that, like the ancient Taoist book, "Horses' Hoofs", can sound strikingly modern: What results, he asked, might a more horse-centric form of training and upkeep yield? And how could this benefit the horses themselves?
Our horses are, as a rule, sentenced to an especially dull mode of life. Chained in stalls (and usually dark stalls at that,) during three-fourths of their lives, and more than any other domestic animal, enslaved for thousands of years by reins and whip, they have become estranged from their natural impulses, and owing to continued confinement they may perhaps have suffered even in their sensory life. A gregarious animal, yet kept constantly in isolation, intended by nature to range over vast areas, yet confined to his narrow courtyard, and deprived of opportunity for sexual activity,—he has been forced by a process of education to develop along lines quite opposite to his native characteristics. Nevertheless, I believe that it is very doubtful if it would have been possible by other methods, even, to call forth in the horse the ability to think. Presumably, however, it might be possible, under conditions and with methods of instruction more in accord with the life-needs of the horse, to awaken in a fuller measure those mental activities which would be called into play to meet those needs.
Happy Halloween!
No headless horsemen, but a suitably atmospheric shot of an undertaker and black horse in funeral plumes in 1913 (which was obviously unlucky for some).
The Emininently Recyclable Horse
In The Age of the Horse I gave readers some idea of the ingenuity humans used to recycle the bodies of horses used in the nineteenth century west. Of course, this inventiveness was not restricted to the Victorian era nor to the more rapidly industrialised nations – and we're still finding new uses for horses' bodies. Here is a brief, morbid and often suprising list of them, from armour to face lifts.
As shelters in the eighteenth century by the Puelche and Pehuenche of Argentina and Chile. (Horse Nations: The worldwide impact of the horse on indigenous societies post-1492, by Peter Mitchell, 2015, p281)
The skin from colts' and mares' lower legs were used to make gauchos' "bota de potro" footwear. (Mitchell, 2015, p282)
Drumheads; Blackfoot Indians, (The Role of the Horse in Man's Culture, by Harold B Barclay, 1980, p177)
Leather for covering large boardroom and office tables (Waste Products and Undeveloped Substances: Or, Hints for Enterprise in Neglected Fields by Peter Lund Simmonds, 1862, p364)
"Leather guards on [German] cavalry trousers", carriage roofs or whip lashes. (The Horse-World of London by W J Gordon, 1893, p187)
Shoe leather or "porpoise hide" ("Horse Meat for Food" by Frank G Carpenter, The National Tribune, 19 January 1893, p9)
Saddles and boot tops (twentieth century America)
For making braided reins, bridles, girths, cruppers and whips in Kazakhstan. (Barclay, 1980, p319)
Bags and shoe soles in Mongolia (Barclay, 1980, p302)
Cordovan leather, shield and buckler parts, coat worn under armour, harness (Barclay, 1980, p133)
Distilled for use in lamps, etc. (Waste Products and Undeveloped Substances: Or, Hints for Enterprise in Neglected Fields by Peter Lund Simmonds, 1862, p364)
Sausage skins, gut strings (Simmonds, 1862, p364)
Grease and bones burned for fuel on the Pampas in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. (Barclay, 1980, p187)
"Lucifer matches" (Simmonds, 1862, p340)
Knife handles, phosphorus, super-phosphate of lime (Simmonds, 1862, p364)
Oil for candlemaking, leather dressing and lubricating. (Gordon, 1893, p186)
Ground and mixed with sulphuric acid for fertiliser, or simply ground into bone meal for manure making. (Gordon, 1893, p186)
Button-making (Gordon, 1893, p186)
Ribs and scapulae for smoothing clay pots, cannon bones for spear heads, jawbones to scrape leather thongs, pastern bones to make ornaments. (Copper Age Botai culture, Kazakhstan)
As necklaces by some Native American groups, (Barclay, 1980, p177)
Glue and gelatine (Simmonds, 1862, p364)
"Nithya" – a botox-like cosmetic treatment that stimulates the cells that produce collagen.
Hair of Mane, Tail
Tapestry making, girths, ropes, fetters, collars for horses and cattle, shoe covers, rain hats and fishing nets in Buryatia, Siberia.
Hair-cloth, mattress stuffing, woven into bags for crushing seed in oil mills (Simmonds, 1862, p364)
Furniture stuffing, fishing lines. (Gordon, 1893, p187)
Plaited to make ropes, nets, lassoes and fly whisks by the Yakut of Siberia, who also use it for decorative work and stuffing saddles. (Barclay, 1980, p327)
Tipi decorations among some Native American groups (Barclay, 1980, p177)
Clothing or harness decoration by some Native American groups, (Barclay, 1980, p177)
The shirts of penitents (Barclay, 1980, p133)
Mixed with rubber to create "hairloch", which was used as padding for the equipment dropped into Occupied France for use by the Special Operations Executive in World War Two (The Women who Lived for Danger, Marcus Binney, 2002, p26)
As crests for helmets (Ancient Greece, Persia) and on war standards carried by the Mongolian Army.
For bows for violins, cellos, double basses, violas and other stringed instruments (fascinating facts to be found here) including the Mongolian morin khuur or horse-head fiddle.
Callouses/Chestnuts (?)
Used in perfume making by the Blackfoot (Barclay, 1980, p177)
Boiled for men, dogs and poultry (Simmonds, 1862, p364)
Cat and dog meat (Gordon, 1893, p187)
Fed to animals on fur farms (Horse meat for fur farms: its chemical composition by Sedgwick E Smith, Washington, Department of the Interior, 1940)
Fed to zoo animals in Central Park (The Daily Yellowstone Journal, 2nd December 1887, p1)
Fed to hunting hounds (UK)
Fed to pigs raised at knackers yards and sold for commercial pork-pie making in the UK (Among Horses in Russia by Captain M H Hayes, 1900)
Trimmings turned into funeral wreaths (Luc Sante's The Other Paris); bright blue dye (Simmonds, 1862, p340)
Gelatine, prussiate, "fancy snuff boxes" (Simmonds, 1862, p364)
Glue, blue-maker manufacture (Gordon, 1893, p186)
As pendants by some Native American groups, (Barclay, 1980, p177)
Armour – "These mares [the Sarmatians use] not only use for war, but also sacrifice them to the local gods and eat them for food. Their hoofs they collect, clean, split, and make from them as it were python scales. . . . These pieces they bore and stitch together with the sinews of horses and oxen, and then use them as breastplates that are as handsome and strong as those of the Greeks. For they can withstand blows of missiles and those struck in close combat." (Description of Greece, Pausanias, translated by W H S Jones)
Button manufacture; albumen extracted and used for making photographs (Carpenter, 1893, p9)
For making cores/loose internal parts of casting moulds in foundries "in some foreign countries" (Simmonds, 1862, p368)
Collected, moulded into cakes for fuel and sold (China) (Simmonds, 1862, p369)
To insulate roofs (Copper Age Botai culture, Kazakhstan)
For making PreMarin, a hormone used to allay menopause symptoms and in feminizing hormone therapy for transwomen.
Boiled to preserve seeds, in a mythical Chinese pharmacopoeia.
Bezoar (a solid mass that forms in the digestive tract of some animals)
"It has the medicinal properties of settling fright and resolving phlegm, clearing heat and dispelling poisons. It is used to treat internal proliferation of phlegm-heat, manic depression (diankuang) and fright epilepsy (jingxian), malign poisons, ulcers and swellings, disturbances of consciousness, etc." (Bencao gangmu, a Chinese Systematic Materia Medica by Li Shizhen, 1590)
Shipped to China, straightened and sharpened into razors (Carpenter, 1893, p9)
Horse-shoe Nails
"Horse-shoe nails, kicked about the world by horses innumerable, are not the useless fragments we might naturally deem them. Gun-makers tell us that no iron is so well fitted for their purpose as that which is derived from horse-shoe nails and similar worn fragments. The nails are, in the first instance, made of good sound iron, and the violent concussions they receive when a horse is walking over a stony road, give a peculiar annealing and toughnening to the metal, highly beneficial to its subsequent use for gun-barrels" (Simmonds, 1862, p418)
If you've had your horse cremated, the cremains can be transformed into diamonds or glass jewellery as a keepsake.
Alternatively, the horse can be allowed to break down into compost.
The End of an Era
May 1911: Disused harnesses hanging up in a stable after horse buses were replaced by motor buses. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images/Hulton Archive)
World War One and Britain's Equine Army
The Equine Army is a BBC documentary about Britain's horses and mules in the First World War, and the people who sourced, trained and handled them. It's on BBC4 today at 8pm, and features yours truly squinting into the sun with a migraine. And some cavalry charging. And mules. And some fascinating stories delivered by historian Saul David.
If you're interested in finding out more about women, horses and the Great War, here are two lovely long reads I prepared earlier.
Women, Horses and World War One
Russley Park Remount Depot, Women, Horses and Sources
If the history of humans and horses is your scene, you might like If Wishes Were Horses, which takes you from Lascaux to My Little Pony, with many nostalgic stops in between (Pat Smythe and the W H Smith Win a Pony contest, anyone?)
A Mule's Life in the Trenches – with Whisky Chaser
Tommy's Ark is a collection of first-person accounts of animal life in the trenches of the Western Front, compiled and elegantly edited by Richard Van Emden. This story is from Captain Charles McKerrow, an RAMC attending the tenth Northumberland Fusiliers in 1916.
A very funny thing happened yesterday. One of our transport mules turned up in the transport lines of another battalion, covered with mud. It appears that this mule was affected with colic, right up near the line, three days ago. Llewelyn went out from our HQ and gave it a bottle of whisky. With tears in his eyes he returned to the others and said that the mule had drunk the whisky, given a groan (presumably of satisfaction) and died. He described very graphically how its eyes glazed and it shuddered. A burial party was sent out, but, as it was very dark, could not find it. They went out next night and again missed it. Meanwhile, the mule recovered and went home. Probably, being tight, it thought it had better go to some other transport lines. We are all roaring with laughter at the story.


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Church Revitalization Employing mergers for Church Revitalization Presented by: Martin Boelens CRAT Member November 3, 2013
The Bible says in Colossians 1:15-20 Jesus is described in this passage as God, as the Creator, as the Sustainer, and as the Reconciler of everything. Jesus died for our souls, but he also died to reconcile all that he created, in other words to put into right relationship our fallen world. As King of kings and Lord of lords, Jesus is making all things new. This is the good news of the gospel. Yet...
This is a Conference about Revitalization Many of us are here because, like Nehemiah, we lament that as we Many of us are here because, like Nehemiah, we lament that as we look around at our churches, our crumbling walls, and we feel like we are a reproach to the name of our Lord (see Neh. 1:3). Every Sunday all we begin to see through discouraged eyes are an empty parking lot, an empty building, an empty heart, and we are discouraged and defeated. We wonder how to reconcile the Words of the Bible concerning our Lord and King and the purposes for which He called us into the ministry and gave us our Churches. In the words of Tom Cheyney, we find ourselves in the 7 th and deepest level of Church decline in desperate need of revitalization.
The Seven Pillars of Church Revitalization and Renewal Most merger discussions occur in this 7 th stage of Church Revitalization and Renewal called the "Restarting or Repotting" stage. According to Tom, "This final Pillar of Church Revitalization is the hardest and often only happens once the church's patriarchs and matriarchs have tried everything else they could think of to grow the church with no success." That may be why you are here today – you tried everything else – and you hope this may work!
When it comes to the idea of a Church Merger as a "last resort" This idea is simply wrong!
Mergers An Exciting Opportunity
Why Consider a Merger? Mergers are not the answer to bad financial situations, lack of leadership, poor attendance, or a change of demographics in your neighborhood. A merger is about your spiritual witness to the community. If a church is failing, there is no glory to God for closing its doors. The efforts and donations of countless families go to waste by shutting the church doors. But at the same time handing the keys over to the bank or a bankruptcy trustee is not appealing either. In a merger both churches keeps the doors open for people to minister, regardless of what happens to the facilities, which is key to keeping a ministry alive. Mergers are about VISION – God's call on you, the Church's Shepherd, to reach people for Jesus Christ with the Gospel. Mergers are about asking the right questions regarding your church's approach to God's mission for the people He has called for you to reach.
With Vision Mergers Increase Your Ministry Opportunities The most important benefit to a potential merger is when one or more churches discover that they can be on mission with God in their community more effectively together than apart! "Though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him. And a threefold cord is not quickly broken". Ecclesiastes 4:12
Merging Congregations Ecclesiastes 4:12 is a spiritual principle, as well as, a business principle. The business world has embraced this concept for years. Mergers and Acquisitions are a common business solution celebrated by the stock markets and investors world-wide. Companies like DuPont, US Steel, G.E., International Paper, Exxon-Mobil, Citicorp, AOL-Time Warner, AT&T, Pfizer, J.P. Morgan-Chase, Google, Microsoft, and 181 banks between 1923 and 2013 have all used this process.
If there is a message for the church considering mergers today; it is to recognize "mergers" as a call to a new level of cooperation: We are after all "One Body in Christ" for the sake of His mission. coupled with Successful mergers are a new hope for the spreading of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, coupled with an honest grasp of the current circumstances that have precipitated a need for change.
Mergers require Sacrifice According to Tom, in this level of revitalization " According to Tom, in this level of revitalization "Until the church is ready to make drastic changes, [a merger] will fail: There will be at least three to five things depending on how your church is structured and the polity it works within that will need to be surrendered by most participants if your church has a chance of revitalization and renewal: Evaluating who is in Charge? Giving up the Change ($) Letting Go of the Charter (Constitution stuff) Loosening of the reins of the Church. Making changes to the ones in Control
Technical - Legal For churches that are incorporated entities under a State's Non-profit Corporation Act, merging two or more churches is mechanically a matter of State Law and Procedure, as well as, compliance with I.R.S. rules regarding nonprofit entities. A merger or consolidation occurs when two or more churches decide to combine into one entity. Mergers and consolidations are technically different. If a merger creates a new entity, it is generally considered a consolidation. When a church or surviving entity absorbs another, it is a merger.
Technical - Legal In Florida, Articles of Merger are pursuant to section 617.1105, Florida Statutes In Florida, Articles of Merger are pursuant to section 617.1105, Florida Statutes Technical – legal issues "matter", but there are far more important relationships that need to be developed long before the lawyers are called in. Technical – legal issues "matter", but there are far more important relationships that need to be developed long before the lawyers are called in. We will explore many of these issues today.
Mergers are about the Community of Faith. The focus in a merger must remain pastoral: the pastoral care of the people of your existing church communities: their hopes for the future; their spiritual and formational needs; the concerns, and difficulties they may be experiencing at the loss of their present church must be front and center; the participation of your people in the process of building a new church community is vital for a merger to have a chance; effective communication with the people of both churches is essential – they must know that their presence and involvement in the new church community is welcomed and needed.
Church Members support winners When your church understands the vision, they will support it. They'll give to it, talk about it, share it, and get excited about it. The merger conversation must center on the vision of the church and how the merger will be used in fulfilling the vision. But, "successful" mergers only happen when everyone involved is willing to let go of their former identities and power bases and allow God to reshape and form two ministiries into a new church. Set the right expectations - The new church will not be what everyone expects. "So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation; everything old has passed away; see everything has become new!" (2 Corinthians 5:17 NRSV)
How to begin the merger process: "Know Thy Self" In 1750 Benjamin Franklin, in his Poor Richard's Almanack, observed: "There are three Things extremely hard, Steel, a Diamond, and to know one's self." Before jumping into a merger, each congregation needs to take a "hard look" at who they are and what vision(s) they have for themselves as a church. The congregations also need to assess their motivation, readiness, willingness and suitability for a merger. All alternatives to merging should be explored. The churches considering a merger need to find out if they will be compatible. Each congregation has its own unique "congregational culture" and that includes, but is not limited to, worship, theology, leadership, views on everything from music to women's roles in the church, and the use of space and time.
Do we really speak the same language? The language problem is not that we mean different things when we use the same words, but the fact that we believe that we mean the same thing. This misunderstanding causes many of the problems that we run into in our relationships and indeed in every form of human interaction. The assumption that what I am saying is that which you are understanding is false. In most cases, both Churches may be speaking English, but you actually will mean very different things.
To Prove Point: Let's Try and Eat In London! Ordering what you want can be more than a play on words: Our American may:In London: Want French fries? Ask for chips. Want potato chips? Ask for crisps. Want tea? Ask for tea. ( But remember, this is tea land. You will get hot tea with milk. If you want sweet iced tea, good luck.) If you want a cookie, Ask for a biscuit. Want a biscuit? Ask for a scone. Want jelly? Ask for jam. And if you want cakeAsk for sponges or tarts (be careful with the tarts)
Will both Churches be speaking English? Leadership and Church "Polity" Church "polity" is that branch of ecclesiology (study of the church) that addresses the organizational structure and hierarchy of the church; i.e. its government or leadership type. There are typically three main types of church governments, but mentioning any one of these types get us no closer to understanding any particular church's type of government.
By Illustration... XYZ CHURCH says: Our Church is a "congregationally-led" church. What does that mean to you? Stephen B. Cowan, in his book: "Who Runs the Church?: 4 Views on Church Government", he offers the following:
Congregational means a "single elder/pastor led" church To many, a congregational church is led by a single pastor who exercises primary leadership in all decisions and doctrinal determinations. Typically, this leader performs the duties of a lead pastor who also provides the preaching and teaching ministries for the church in addition to administrative leadership.
Others mean a "Democratic" congregational church In a congregational church led by a democratically elected leadership board or council, final authority for all decisions and doctrinal determinations are vested in a plurality of representative leaders selected by the congregation. But even among these congregations...
The titles of the individual leaders and the structure of the leadership board varies. One common use of this structure involves the election of "elders" to an "elder board". The "elders" make business and spiritual decisions for the congregation by committee and serve individually as examples and mentors to the rest of the congregation. Often "deacons" are also elected to provide leadership within specific committees, ministries or administrative functions. Often "deacons" are also elected to provide leadership within specific committees, ministries or administrative functions. In these churches, "deacons" are subordinate to the authority of the "elders". Yet, in many Baptist congregational churches, "deacons" serve on a unified "board" essentially as "elders" with voting authority and the concept of "elders" and "deacons" are blended into one.
The titles of the individual leaders and the structure of the leadership board varies. Another common use of this structure acknowledges the "pastor" as the single "elder" for the congregation who participates in decision-making with a "deacon board" comprised of the "pastor" and "deacons" all of whom are selected by the congregation. The "pastor" also typically serves as chief executive officer for the congregation in implementing the decisions of the leadership board on a day-to-day basis Sometimes, the "pastor" is no more than pulpit-fill.
Plural elder-led In a congregational church led by a plurality of elders, final authority for all decisions and doctrinal determinations are vested in a plurality of elders acting in committee. This structure is very similar to the "elder board" approach to the democratic congregational structure, often differing only in the method used to select the elders and/or in the term of service of each elder. In some congregations, elders are appointed by someone or some entity respected by the congregation and allows this authority. In some congregations, elders serve until they resign, die or are removed by the congregation or their peers for doctrinal or moral failures. This structure can, but does not always, include the use of "deacons" or other leaders subordinate to the authority of the elders.
In all versions of the "congregationally-led church" There is form and there is reality! Is the "pastor" truly one of the team or is he "first among equals"? The dictator surrounded by "yes" men? Or is power really in some other influencer on or off the board? Are you even consciously aware of how things work? Is your board? What about your merger team?
The Key Point Before you begin discussion with another church about uniting ministries for the furtherance of the Body of Christ everyone on the leadership team, regardless of type of governing structure, needs to have a thorough understanding of your own form of government and your operating documents – Constitution, Bylaws, Policies, Employee Handbooks, and practices. Leadership should also have in-depth discussions with appropriate church staff in-order-to fully understand how your church actually operates. Do not take it for granted that your lay leadership knows how things work. Ask yourself out of the roughly 168 hours in a week; how many hours do your leaders personally spend at the church?
GOBA & CRAT Your Greater Orlando Baptist Association and Church Revitalization Action Teams have checklists and manuals that can help you explore your Church's existing governance and practices, as well as, key merger steps and processes. There are also a number of great books and articles written on the subject to assist in this process Legal and Accounting Services will also be essential.
B. Merger exploration and the intent-to-merge resolution Communication and Discovery are key components of a successful merger. Mechanically, each church forms a merger committee to identify possible merger partners, meet with the other church's merger committee and see whether there is agreement to go forward. The committee serves as the scout for the church as well as its negotiating team.
This Process is Vital In sum, the closer both churches are in alignment to the other church's government the better; however, you cannot assume just because both churches are "elder-led", "deacon-led", "congregational" or "pastor-led" that it means the same thing in both churches. Furthermore, there is no guarantee they operate as advertised! There are hundreds of details to examine.
Speaking English Beyond Polity In Pastor Larry Osborne's book Unity Factor (www.amazon.com) "The Unity Factor Developing a Healthy Church Leadership Team", he talks about having a three-fold unity: www.amazon.com Doctrinal Unity, Philosophical Unity, and Philosophical Unity, and Relational Unity. Relational Unity.
Culture and "Signature" Ministries Most churches are not aware of their own unique identity and "church culture" until there is a merger. After merger, congregations often discover that "the way things have always been done" is not the way the other church has functioned. A feeling of "us" verses "them" develops. Things that are "sacred" to one group may not even be known to the other. Fall Festivals, types of bible studies, women or men events, that "carving" in the foyer that the missionary gave us in 1820!
C. The Merger Agreement As the merger teams meet, they will find it helpful to begin with an outline of the points to resolve and fill in the blanks as they agree on one issue after another. Detailed records of these discussions and the resolutions reached are crucial Some of these points may include:
KEY POINTS TO RESOLVE IN MERGER NEGOTIATIONS Timeline Mission and vision Leadership (Elders, Deacons, Congregation) Executive leadership (staff & assistants) Budget Church Name Corporate Structure
Key Point Continued... Signature Ministries, Programs, Sacred Cows Location (Multi-site or single site) Due Diligence – reputation, past and current "situations" Debt Pending or anticipated legal matters Membership Issues – Corporate Docs; Who? How? When? Bequests, endowments, Grants and contracts
CAPACITY FOR CHANGE Big changes, like a merger, aren't always popular. People simply don't like change, and some people may not like this type of change in particular. The key is communication and lots of it. Don't be discouraged. Do not underestimate the resolve of your congregations for good!
"Top Ten Common Pitfalls for Church Mergers" by Tom Bandy There are individuals "hidden controllers" who are unable to surrender ego or self-interest to the larger purposes of God. "Controllers" are dysfunctional people who want to shape the church around personal lifestyle, and are unwilling to shape personal lifestyle around the mission of the church. Their intimidating personalities or personal neediness can sidetrack the church from its higher purpose.
Pitfalls... The organizational model, governing documents, leadership and staff fail to transform into a truly streamline, team-based, visionary structure. Instead, bureaucracies in each church that are already too large are integrated by artificial representation to form an even larger and more unwieldy board and committee structure. Decision-making can slow down and innovation can become secondary to program protection.
Problems persist if: The merger cannot eliminate "sacred cows" (properties, programs, technologies, or people) that no longer fit the mission and vision of the new church. Leaders are not able to measure the real productivity of traditional ministries for the changing mission field. Income and energy continues to be sidetracked away from the agenda of God's purpose to redeem the world into silos. Staff additions, subtraction, Christ-centered H.R. decisions Making the "Hard" choices
Key Topics Lead Pastor Who will be the lead pastor? What role, if any, will the other lead pastor fill? How will the transition occur? Staff Do not assume, cost savings on staff are a given! Hard choice or role changes are common. Will there be multi-site or a single church campus?
Committee Notes KEY PRACTICE NOTE: During the exploration and negotiation process, minutes should be kept detailing the language agreed upon by the committees as they resolve each issue. This running record becomes the Merger Agreement/ term sheet that lays the foundation for the governance, programs, finance, personnel, and overall structure and vision for the merged organization.
D. Legal Enactment Upon approval of the Merger Agreement – a layman's agreement – the boards must enlist joint legal counsel to "translate" the agreement and prepare the legal documents. An attorney will prepare the documents appropriate for the churches' respective state regulations, ensure that the formal votes are taken and file the documents with the appropriate government agencies. With Churches, we probably won't merge legally. Instead one Church may continue and the other may legally dissolve and transfer its assets under IRS rules. Sometimes we may use a new legal entity and dissolve both churches.
E. Launch The merger launch can be a very exciting community event where both churches showcase all the benefits that will come from the union. At other times, a board may decide that it is in their best interest not to draw attention to a merger, keeping it a non-event, due to the specifics surrounding their particular situation. Celebrate!
The merger is just the start Merger integration happens at various levels. For staff, there are systems that need to be integrated, cultural habits that need to be taken into consideration and cross training issues to resolve. For board members, integration translates into the ability of the merging boards to create a team from the fusion of the pre-merger boards For members, a new frontier!
6 Steps to the Merger Process A. Initiation B. Merger exploration and negotiation C. The Merger Agreement D. Legal enactment E. Launch F. Organizational integration GOBA IS HERE TO HELP!
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