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We've been hearing about the eminent death of brick and mortar retail for a very long time. And while the industry continues to be squeezed as more people shift their buying habits online, retail is far from dead. It does, however, need to evolve and think about how it can remain culturally relevant. A lot's been said about how consumers today don't settle for just great products. They want their brands to reflect their lifestyle and values. Things like authenticity, ethical behavior, relevance to their identity matter more than ever before. Retail shopping is becoming more complex and is more than a place to make a purchase – the retail experience is a marketing platform. With the increased use of online shopping and the ease of access to a more and more locations, people are making choices based on underlying desires, not just functional needs. Thinking about the retail experience as a marketing tool will increase loyalty and sales. Treating your retail experience as a marketing tool involves six crucial elements:
- Tell a Great Story
The term "lifestyle" is thrown around fairly freely, but for us it's about storytelling and engaging with people in a conversational way. A retail brand needs to be viewed in the same way a customer might view a friend who's changing and evolving, but still has a strong sense of DNA. That means having a clear tone, but not being restricted by a rigid set of rules. It also requires that the brand communicate its story in everything it does, from traditional adverting, to how employees interact with guests, to its presence in social media. Every touch point needs to align with the other to create a clear, singular expression of why the brand exists, not just what it sells.
- Unexpected Topics
Your brand shouldn't be pigeonholed; it should be seen in a light where there is meaning and narratives are celebrated. A retailer can't be afraid to venture outside its vertical and engage with people in unanticipated ways. This isn't to say that the brand should jump into every conversation for the sheer sake of having a voice, but it should think creatively. For example, knowing banks need to attract younger customers, why not have a pop-up retail presence at a music festival? If your brand sells men's clothing, why not host a happy hour? The point is, being an unexpected part of a conversation makes your brand more relevant in daily life.
- Guides, Not Clerks
Going forward, in-store staff will have to be more educated and receive more training than retail staffers get today. That will of course lead to a larger training investment by the retailer, but the benefit is that there will be greater incentive to reduce staff turnover, which in turn will improve the shopping experience for consumers by making staff more knowledgeable and able to build lasting relationships with customers.
- Technology
Technology will continue to change the store experience. Not just technology for the supply chain that gets products into the store faster and more reliably, but technology that consumers can use in the store. The technology that's coming will recognize the consumer when they come into the store and make recommendations that are relevant and time-saving for them. It will also help retailers to organize and present products in ways that are more relevant to how consumers actually shop. With that in mind, staying ahead of the curve will ensure customers think of your brand first when deciding where to shop.
- Create a Stage
Shopping is seen by most marketers first as a function and secondarily as something that serves emotional and social needs. Even as we talk about retail therapy, we revert in marketing to discussions about seemingly rational behavior. In fact, entertainment and a memorable in-store experience probably have more to do with a sale than the product or the ease with which people find it. Choice equates with enjoyment, turning shopping from labor to entertainment. The retail environment is an expansive, immersive media platform. People create memories within places if storylines develop and form personal connections. The stronger the connection, the more likely they are to frequent the space and to buy.
- Foster Social Roles
When shopping is done with others, as a family or with a friend, it is as much about establishing social bonds and being an outing as it is about fulfilling specific needs. It has replaced the park, the lake, etc. Brands that encourage people to interact both with each other and the space leads to a greater sense of brand affinity, reinforces the roles people have adopted for that shopping excursion, and creates a shared cultural connection.
Even as we talk about retail therapy, we often revert in marketing to discussions about seemingly rational behavior. But it isn't so simple anymore. Shopping is about more than just getting more "stuff". Brick and mortar shopping as it is practiced today in particular jumps the line between a transactional and social experience. Shopping is as much about entertainment, establishing cultural roles and teaching cultural norms (or rebelling against them) as it is about anything else. No doubt we'll see a range of creative ways in the future of dealing with the diversifying modes of shopping. For example, product companies may provide space to relevant service businesses. A luggage or travel store can have space for a Kayak or Expedia kiosk or service desk. The point is that it's going to take creativity to get maximum leverage out of limited capital. But the payoff is a stronger connection to a brand, increased loyalty, and more dollars spent.


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It should be straightforward to hire a car in Europe, but with so many insurances and conditions of hire it can be difficult to make the right choice. Plus, it certainly doesn't help if you leave hiring a car in Europe to the last minute! Whatever you do, avoid picking a random car hire desk when you land. You'll have to queue, and you won't know if you're getting a good deal! To keep costs down, plan ahead and compare prices between car hire companies. Most importantly, ensure your EHIC card is up to date and renew your card with the likes of europeanhealthinsurancecard.org.uk to ensure you are covered if you were to have an accident on the road. Without further ado, here's how to hire a car in Europe:
Car hire excess insurance
Most, if not all, car hire companies expect you to pay the first part of any accident (or damage) claim upfront, unless you pay more for their 'super' insurance. Before you fly, you should arrange you own car hire excess reimbursement insurance. Not only will this often be less expensive that taking out car hire firms 'super' insurance, it's just as easy to find your own and just as quick.
Fuel options
Not all car hire firms give you a choice, but if you do, there are two ways that fuel is able to be supplied.
Supplied full, return full involves only paying for what you need. Whether you are familiar with the location enough to be able to identify the closest fuel station will determine how convenient this option is for you. More often than not there is a fuel station around the corner to the airport, but ask if you are unsure, otherwise you may find a service change on your credit card.
The second option is supplied full, return 'empty'. This involves paying up-front for a full tank of petrol and returning the car as empty as possible without running out of fuel during the manic dash to return your hire car. If you plan on driving from place to place, this option offers great value for money. However, if you only plan to drive to and from the local beach every day, consider how much petrol you will actually use during your stay.
When you arrive…
When you arrive at the car hire firm, carefully check the car for damage and ensure any found damage is scribed onto the complete rental agreement in pen. If you are particularly concerned, take photos or a video of the car's condition on both collection and return so you can't be blamed for damage made by a careless previous driver. Ultimately, though, if you feel uncomfortable about the car for any reason, exchange it for another hire car as soon as possible to ensure you aren't stung by any hidden costs at the end of what was a relaxing holiday abroad.
What if there's a problem?
If there's a problem, don't panic. Providing you have chosen a car hire company that is a member of the European car rental conciliation service scheme (ECRCS), such as Europcar, Firefly, Enterprise and Hertz, they will help resolve your complaint.

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A lovely boy of 9 month old is looking for a French speaking nanny. The nanny will have to take care of him Monday to Friday from 8am to 6pm.
However the father travels a lot and the mother (who will go back to work 80% in March) is a doctor and can be asked to stay longer at work on a last minute notice. That is why they are looking for a nanny flexible and happy to stay if needed. Your main duties will be to follow the baby boy's routine (he is well settled and sleeps twice a day) and to stimulate him in French. So the candidate needs to be pro-active, friendly, warm and smiley. A loving nanny interested in teaching the boy and following his development will be the perfect candidate.
The family asks for a good level of English as the parents could understand but do not speak French.
No housekeeping is required as there is a housekeeper but you will just have the usual duties for children (keep the house in order and cooking).
Starting date: ASAP or January
Location: Peckham
Salary: £10-12 net per hour regarding on experience


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Chris Waller has hit back at English racing commentator Matt Chapman, who on Tuesday questioned the form of legendary Australian mare Winx.
At Tuesday morning's Cox Plate barrier draw, ITV host Chapman mounted a case for Godolphin raider Benbatl, suggesting that the view abroad was that Winx had been beating 'fairly moderate horses' in Australia.
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The buyer decision process (or customer buying process) helps markets to identify how consumers complete the journey from knowing about a product to making the purchase decision.
Understanding the customer's buying process is essential for marketing and sales.
The buyer decision process will enable them to set a marketing plan that convinces them to purchase the product or service for fulfilling the buyer's or consumer's problem.
Consumers go through 5 stages in taking the decision to purchase any goods or services.
- Problem Recognition.
- Information Search.
- Evaluation of Alternatives.
- Purchase Decision.
- Post-Purchase Evaluation.
When making a purchase, the buyer goes through a decision process consisting of 5 stages.
Clearly, the buying process starts long before the actual purchase and continues long after.
The marketer's job is to understand the buyer's behavior at each stage and the influences that are operating. The figure implies that consumers pass through all five Stages with every purchase.
Let's explain all 5 stages of the buyer decision process.
1. Need or Problem Recognition
During need or problem recognition, the consumer recognizes a problem or need that could be satisfied by a product or service in the market.
Problem Recognition is the first stage of the buyer decision process.
At this stage, the consumer recognizes a need or problem. The buyer feels a difference between his or her actual state and some desired state.
This could be a simple as "I'm hungry, I need food."
The need may have been triggered by internal stimuli (such as hunger or thirst) or external stimuli (such as advertising or word of mouth).
2. Information Search
Once the need is recognized, the consumer is aroused to seek more information and moves into the information search stage.
The second stage of the purchasing process is searching for information.
After the recognition of needs, the consumers try to find goods for satisfying such needs. They search for information about the goods they want.
Consumers can get information about goods from different sources.
- Personal sources: This includes family, friends, neighbors, acquaintance, etc.
- Commercial source: This includes advertising, salespeople, dealers, packaging, display, etc.
- Public sources: This includes mass media, consumer rating organizations, etc. they also become confidential to provide information.
- Experimental sources: This includes handling, examining, using, etc. Such information becomes decisive and confidential.
3. Evaluation of Alternatives
With the information in hand, the consumer proceeds to alternative evaluation, during which the information is used to evaluate" brands in the choice set.
Evaluation of alternatives is the third stage of the buying process. Various points of information collected from different sources are used in evaluating different alternatives and their attractiveness.
While evaluating goods and services, different consumers use different bases.
Generally, the consumers evaluate the alternatives on the basis of attributes of the product, the degree of importance, belief in the brand, satisfaction, etc. to choose correctly.
4. Purchase Decision
After the alternatives have been evaluated, consumers decide to purchase products and services. They decide to buy the best brand.
But their decision is influenced by others' attitudes and situational factors.
5. Post-Purchase Evaluation
In the final stage of the buyer decision process, postpurchase behavior, the consumer takes action based on satisfaction or dissatisfaction.
In this stage, the consumer determines if they are satisfied or dissatisfied with the purchasing outcome. Here is where cognitive dissonance occurs, "Did I make the right decision."
Consumers go through the 5 stages of the buyer decision process in deciding to purchase any goods or services.


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I make no judgment in this matter and the title of my posting is simply a reflexive action which I hope might better contribute to the emergence of the truth in the matter of Father John Duffy's suspension.
Why do I frame my posting in such a controversial fashion? Simply because I have seen too many priests who have a deliberate bent to "Tradition" and the authentic teachings of Holy Mother Church come under fire by their superiors and end up severely damaged by a campaign of persecution from the Chancery, in much the same way as Fr. Duffy has described. In fact I do not find it much of a stretch at all to believe Father Duffy's description of the events. I believe that Father Duffy's case needs to come out into the disinfecting power of sunlight and remain there until all parties (yes, including the laity. We have a right to know) are reasonably satisfied that justice is properly served in this unfolding tragedy.
Father Duffy has made some very serious charges indeed against the Archdiocese. I do not see that his suspension could have come about without the nod of Toronto Cardinal Thomas Collins. To avoid all possibility of scandal the Archdiocese needs to specifically address the substance of Father's charges and add whatever details it can to justify its decision to suspend this priest. Is that really too much to ask? After all, Fr. Duffy has been a priest for over 20 years.
Please note that I do not know Father Duffy personally and I have never met him. All information I know of him I have found either online or from others that speak highly of him. I do know another priest who likewise believes that the Archdiocese tried to short circuit his priestly path due to his outspoken ways in regard to traditional Catholic teaching and what he felt was his responsibility to address scandalous situations. He was, however, not suspended as was Father Duffy.
Feel free to leave a comment if you think it may lead to a positive outcome. And please keep all parties involved in this contest actively in your prayers until a happier outcome is achieved.
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This Is A Very Very Very Sad Day For Our Church!!!
We NEED PRIESTS - GOOD PRIESTS and here we have lost one because of EVIL!
Father had the courage to STAND UP FOR THE TRUTH and the LIES have taken him down...BUT as in all things we know who will win!
PLEASE PRAY AND REMEMBER Fr. Duffy during this very difficult time!
God Bless.
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Please pray for my dear friend Fr. John Duffy who has been unjustly suspended by the Archdiocese of Toronto; yes that is the same Archdiocese who we have not heard a single word from concerning the evil sex education that is now in full force. I find it interesting that this diocese has time to make a video asking for money to support a family faith campaign (!!!) yet our children's souls are now in the hands of a satanic curriculum. Well folks this is the same archdiocese who has suspended a faithful, true, kind, generous, hardworking holy Priest who has always defended and upheld the Truth of Jesus Christ and Catholic traditions and beliefs. Please express your thoughts to the diocese in support of Fr. John Duffy who has given over 23 years of his life to the Priesthood. Our Priests are under attack and they desperately need our prayers to stay strong against the current winds of evil which we see becoming more and more apparent in our world today.
In Christ,(name redacted)
From an online petition in support of Father Duffy...August 8, 2015
Dear Friends of Father John Duffy
We have known and loved Father John for many years. We are fully aware of how Fr. John has dedicated his priestly life to serving his congregations in a selfless manner for the 23 years of his priestly vocation.
Fr. John has never failed to comfort, help, encourage and support young and old alike through the Holy Sacraments and through his friendship at any hour of the day.
You can find many wonderful testimonials about Fr. John when you read the comments people have posted on this website.
Fr. John has NOT RESIGNED from the priesthood and he left Sacred Heart under extreme duress.
Fr. John received verbal communication that he was to vacate Sacred Heart parish forthwith.
Fr. John if need be, will defend himself under the tenets of Canon (Church) Law, if he must do so, which is in fact the correct procedure for a priest to follow.
When you read Fr. John's final sermon (see below) to his beloved Sacred Heart parishioners, it will become clear that he desperately needs our FINANCIAL and SPIRITUAL support.
Please help us support Fr. John in his time of great need, as he has done for us.
Text of Father John's last address to the parishioners of Sacred Heart Parish:
With a broken-heart, I must announce to you that this is the last Mass I will celebrate in my life.
Effective 4:00 pm tomorrow, Monday 13 July 2015, I will be suspended by the Archdiocese of Toronto. "Suspension" is the most serious of penalties a priest can receive in the law of the Catholic Church. "Suspension" is a penalty that is typically given to pedophiles and other types of criminals. I am being "suspended" for hiring a civil lawyer to seek redress for grave injustices done to me.
Nobody in the Archdiocese of Toronto would help me.
How did this all happen?
Two and a half years ago, I found myself in need of appealing to the Archdiocese of Toronto for their help regarding a group of parishioners who were spreading the most unspeakable gossip possible against me. Without going into horrible detail, the object of these slanderous parishioners was to have me removed from the parish. As this most wicked slander continued for four years, my health was affected significantly.
Yet, when I asked for a "lawyer's letter" to be sent from the Archdiocese of Toronto to the person who started the worst of this most unspeakable slander, they refused - and I was shocked by their lack of care and concern. The Archdiocese of Toronto is loathe to send a "lawyer's letter" to the laity as they are terrified of the public. Very disappointingly, priests, on the other hand, are disenfranchised - and are not a threat to them. The senior ecclesiastic, who refused to have a lawyer's letter sent to the most vicious of the slanderers, said to me; "The squeaky wheel gets the oil". That is to say, the formation of policy in the Archdiocese of Toronto is based on expedience - and not the norms of Christ's Gospel.
When I pushed the matter further, I was aggressively threatened by men who were supposed to be my spiritual fathers. Nobody in the Catholic Church would help defend my good name, nor assist me in my efforts to govern and unify our Parish. Therefore, I was forced to seek out the services of a civil litigation lawyer to fight for my cause, namely my honour and good name - and for the good of our Parish.
I have been fighting for redress regarding these matters for the last two years. I am sorry that I kept this matter a secret - and certainly didn't think that obtaining justice would be delayed and dragged-on for this long. In May of this year, the Archdiocese of Toronto stated that they wanted this matter "resolved sooner than later". As my health and financial resources were exhausted, I felt relief and hope that justice would finally be served.
Last Monday, 6 July 2015, was the day arranged for the Archdiocese of Toronto to "mediate" for a "solution". I felt relieved and hopeful. When I arrived at the "mediation", I had the sinking feeling that the matter was "pre-determined". Rather than receiving justice, I was merely informed that I was "suspended" for life - yet I would receive a few shekels in return for keeping my mouth shut. I felt like I was all alone in the room - and had no recourse.
I felt forcefully coerced- telling me to sign a "document of discretion" whereby I would be "muzzled", that is, no longer able to defend myself and my honour. Yet, the "document of discretion" stated that the Archdiocese of Toronto would be allowed to "retain the exclusive right" to publish "whatever they deem to be the reason for Duffy's suspension". Though I am not a lawyer, something in my soul told me that, as well as being grossly unjust, there was something unholy about the "offer" from the Archdiocese of Toronto.
As well, the Archdiocese of Toronto threatened me - saying that if I "broke discretion" they would cut-off the few shekels offered me, and demand that I return whatever was given me in the past. I was threatened that if I refused the "offer" made to me, a pittance that would leave me starving in the street, I would be told to get out of my Parish, put on the street, receive nothing at all. I was filled with dread. Certainly, the suspension left me sickened the most. I felt hatred and evil in the "mediation" room towards myself. To add insult to injury, I was told that I was responsible for the legal fees - costs that have put me in great financial debt.
My efforts to reacquire my good name only resulted in my being stripped of my priesthood, my dignity, my good name, my home and parish, my financial credit - and what I cherished more than my very life... my honour. I politely left, but felt doomed. I refused to sign the "document of discretion". I will put my trust in the Lord, come what may.
Anyway, I could not leave without saying farewell to my parishioners! I hope that I have served you well over my six year tenure. As well, and at least, I will always have the consolation of knowing that I defended Christ's Church, speaking out publicly from this pulpit about corrupt politicians - and, yes, corrupt politicians in the Church who have acquiesced, capitulated and accepted teaching that will destroy the innocence of our children in our Catholic Schools - and religious - political careerists who, rather than vociferously and courageously lead, remain silent as pre-born children continue to be murdered.
I served Christ first !
As I say farewell, please pray for me, as I will for you, and - yes - I will pray daily for the lay people, priests and bishops that have worked so hard to destroy my good name - and my priesthood. In particular, I would like to thank, from the bottom of my heart, all of those who have faithfully supported me, aware of my situation, over these past years.
I love you all very much! Please continue to keep me in your good prayers - and also pray for our church fathers.
Farewell, my friends !


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It's the year 2019!! We made it!! It's a new year which means a brand new start. I'm calling this year #SelfLove2019! This year I want everyone to fall madly in love with themselves the good and bad qualities. Let's start taking better care of ourselves this year. Join me on this Self Love Journey!!
With my journey i'm learning how to stop hiding from my emotions and release negative energy. I needed to stop bottling up my emotions and my negative thoughts about myself. The self love journey isn't an easy one. I have cried, became frustrated with myself and I have failed myself many times.
When you're taking the proper steps to healing your heart and dealing with the past and current issues it brings up negative emotions. Emotions of anger and frustration that you've put on the back burner for years because you've distracted yourself so you want have to deal with it. But, that's why a situation that occurred years ago is still affecting you because you haven't taken the time to embrace the pain. You haven't allowed yourself to heal and find peace.
& that's what I want you to find. Peace. Love and Happiness. Let's release negative energy and inhale positive energy. Enjoy life. Take frequent social media breaks. Do something that makes you happy. Meditate. I never knew how important silence was. How important it was to channel your energy, control your thoughts and just relax your mind. Having me time is necessary on this journey.
Below, I want you to speak this to yourself and into the atmosphere:
From this day forward I am choosing ME! I'm deciding to protect, heal and love myself unconditionally. I'm focusing on my needs and putting my best interest as my number one priority.
My physical health, mental health and my emotions are important. My heart is precious and should be treated with respect and love.
I am sorry self that I have neglected you. I should have been asking "What do I need?" more often. Sorry for allowing people to abuse you, mistreat you and walk all over you like you're nothing. Because you are something!! You are amazing, you are worthy and you are loved. Sorry it took me so long to realize your worth.
I am amazing. I love myself and I forgive myself!!! I am ready to enter the next phase in my life starting today…..


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Export Sales Manager - Medical Equipment Components
- Employer
- BMS Performance Ltd
- Location
- Manchester
- Salary
- £35000.00 - £50000.00 per annum + 20% Bonus OTE, Car + Benefits
- Posted
- Sep 17, 2019
- Closes
- Oct 15, 2019
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- Sector
- Engineering, Sales
Technical Sales Professionals Wanted - for a rewarding Export Sales position!
Our client is a well-established and formidable force in their sector - due to continued expansion they are looking to add to their already successful sales team. Offering a highly competitive base salary, this exciting role can also yield you an additional 20% in bonus opportunities.
THE ROLE: Upon joining this high performing business, as an Export Sales Manager, you have responsibility for sales to business within countries of Europe, North America and Asia. The role of Export Sales Manager is centred around developing relationships with OEM's of highly specialised medical machinery/equipment - in both an account management and new business capacity.
- Technical sales experience - mechanical or electrical products.
- International sales experience NOT required, but you will need to be happy with extensive travel and time away from home.
- Bright, articulate, proactive, autonomous salespeople are sought.
THE COMPANY: This well-established, highly reputable business are manufacturers of sophisticated engineering components for the medical equipment/machinery sector. They offer scope for real career development.
- Salary: £35,000 to £50,000
- Commission: 20%
- Car Allowance: £400 pcm
- Benefits: Pension, Health Care, Life Assurance, Laptop, Mobile, 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays
LOCATION: North West England
BMS specialises in sales recruitment. We'll enable you to develop your career. At the heart of our approach is listening. Getting to know you, your skills, experiences and most importantly what you want from your career.
By meeting candidates face to face we are in the unique position of understanding exactly what you are looking for in your next step, as well as taking the time to fully get to know you so we are able to represent you accurately to our clients. This results in a higher quality of interviews that are not only relevant to your experience but also character.
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How serious are politicians about fixing abuses within local Alcohol Beverage Control (ABC) boards? Newspapers in Charlotte and Wilmington have highlighted local ABC abuses and have helped to propel the story. However, one wonders where the scrutiny was when the Program Evaluation Division (PED) of the North Carolina General Assembly released a report in December 2008. The report recommended that North Carolina:
Modernize the current alcohol beverge control system by defining the mission of local boards, providing the North Carolina ABC Commission with management tools for better oversight of boards and modifying outdated statutes for ABC store elections and purchase-transportation permits.
Clearly, the PED report highlighted some major problems and made signficant recommendations. Still reports don't do much good if the General Assembly fails to act.


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On May 22, we celebrated National Maritime Day. Every year is filled with days and celebrations ascribed to any number of questionable "holidays" often meant to commemorate or spread awareness. For instance, I could find at least 8 other celebrations on May 22, including National Vanilla Pudding Day and Accounting Day. In light of so many seemingly inconsequential days, what is so special about National Maritime Day?
As someone who has joined this industry as a relative outsider, I can vouch for having previously not grasped maritime's continued influence on the world. Sure, ships have been at the center of worldwide colonization, commerce, and exploration for millennia, but with other, sexier means of modern transport pervading our consciousness, we forget how essential it still is to transport goods and services nautically.
The specific date itself commemorates the first trans-ocean voyage of the steamship Savannah, which set sail for England on this date in 1819. Prior to that voyage, and of course up until present day, maritime has served our country through wartime and peacetime, economically and militarily, recreationally and defensively. From the Navy and Coast Guard, to the fishing, shipping, and oil industries, mariners have provided a complex system of defense, along with forming the backbone of most international commerce. And maritime has no indication of ever going away. What other major industry can truly match the historical significance, the cultural and economic impact, and the staying power of maritime?
So, whenever you meet a mariner, be reminded that they form a small but essential working component in a vast and complex network of seafaring operations that make not only this country, but this world, go round!


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Watch the sessions from our 50th anniversary
Our 2019 conference took place at The Royal Society in
London, marking the end of a year's worth of celebrations in honour of our 50th
anniversary. The conference was packed full of interesting speakers, and if you
couldn't make the day then there is no need to worry, we have all the sessions
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Video 1: Psoriasis: Priority Setting Partnership - Dr
Helen Young (Consultant Dermatologist)
Here, Dr Helen Young, the Lead Investigator on the
psoriasis Priority Setting Partnership (PSP), reveals the Top 10 research priorities
for patients, carers and clinicians.
Video 2: Experiences of living with psoriasis - Gemma, Russ
and Jess
In this video we hear the experiences of what it is like to
live with psoriasis/psoriatic arthritis from three patients as they talk us
through their treatment journeys. Gemma, Russ and Jess also all took part in
our '50 for 50' project, where we shared 50 psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis stories for our 50th
anniversary. You can read their stories here.
Video 3: What role can genetics play in future treatment? -
Professor Jonathan Barker
In his presentation, Professor Jonathan Barker explains the
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from the Psoriasis Stratification to Optimise Relevant Therapy (PSORT) research project.
Video 4: Question Time - the Psoriasis Edition
On the panel - Prof. Jonathan Barker, Dr Sandy McBride, Prof.
Bruce Kirkham, Julia Wheeler and Gemma Boak.
We gathered a panel of experts together to answer important
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Decoding the Casters and LoL Roles 1
With both the EU and the NA LCS Summer finals happening this weekend, I figured it was a good time to create a guide to people who are watching either League of Legends (LoL) for the first time or aren't familiar with all the terminology used by the casters. Also, I'll talk about the primary LoL Roles.
What's the Goal of LoL?
The game is a five versus five team game. The ultimate goal for each team is to destroy the enemy base. Each player controls a unique character (a champion) and fulfills a position on the team. To get to the enemy's base and destroy it, there are a series of structures to destroy first. There are various large scale monsters on the map that once killed, aid that team in their ability in destroying those structures.
That's about as jargon free of an explanation of LoL as I can give you. So, with that said, let's translate some of the terminology you hear during a broadcast.
5 Primary Roles
- ADC, AD Carry, Attack Damage Carry, Marksman: if you have ever played a role playing game like Dungeons and Dragons the closest analog for this role is "Ranger." The role is the team's ranged carry threat. Champions played by this role are usually focused on auto attack damage and scale primarily by building Attack Damage items.
- Support: the best role playing analogy for Support is Cleric. While not necessarily based around healing the team, the Support provides aid in keeping up in vision control and providing roaming support to the other laners. Traditionally the Support is paired up with the ADC. Champions played by Supports tend to offer lots of crowd control and utility.
- Top: traditionally the Tank of the team. While the current meta allows for Top lane players to play more carry oriented champions, Top's role tends to be playing frontline bruisers that help protect both the Mid laner and the ADC. Top laners tend to equip the summoner spell Teleport, allowing them to make plays across the map.
- Mid: the team's Mage. Mid laners is the team's second carry role. Mid lane champions supply the team's magic damage and arguably, are the most versatile of the roles because of the champions open to them. Mid lane champions can be burst damage oriented assassins, zone control mages, or high utility champions.
- Jungle: the team's libero. Junglers primary jobs are to provide lane assistance and objective control. Unlike all of the other roles, Junglers are not tied to a specific lane on the map. Junglers tend to be similar to Supports and Top laners in that they tend to play frontline oriented champions that provide some form of crowd control or utility for the team. Junglers can also provide another damage threat for the team like Mid laners and ADCs.
Keywords You'll Hear During a Match
During the matches, you'll probably hear these terms thrown around many times by the casters:
- Creep Wave: Squadrons of weak, automated attackers, they push through a lane unless encountering enemy bots, buildings, or are themselves attacked. Manipulation of these minions allows for teams to force decisions between going for objectives like Dragon or Baron, or risk the creep wave taking down a tower.
- Freezing: a technique involving manipulating creep waves. By last hitting specific minions, a player can cause the creep wave to freeze in a specific part of the lane. It's done to prevent the enemy player from safely attempting to farm minions or as a way for a player who is behind to farm in the safety of their own territory.
- Dragon: a neutral monster that spawns in the Jungle. Defeating Dragon offers the entire team a permanent buff for the duration of the game. It respawns every six minutes. There are four different elemental dragons that can spawn. Each dragon gives a different buff.
- Infernal: gives bonus damage
- Mountain: gives bonus damage to objectives like towers and Baron
- Cloud: gives bonus out of combat movement speed
- Ocean: gives out of combat health and mana regeneration
After the 35 minute mark, the Elder Dragon spawns, and it temporarily amplifies the buffs your team has acquired from killing elemental drakes.
- Baron: a neutral monster that spawn in the Jungle. Defeating Baron gives the entire team a temporary buff. Baron is a highly contest objective because of the stats that the buff gives and allows champions to buff allied minions. Baron buff'd minions are more difficult to clear, thus allowing teams to set up for sieges.
- Siege: a strategic term referring to sitting at an enemy turret, aiming to damage it little by little every time an allied creep wave approaches it. It emphasizes the necessity of a quick and reliable wave clear ability in one's team composition, and disengage potential in case of an enemy engage and safe and swift turret push.
- Split Push: a term used when a single player on the team is pushing a lane on their own. Usually a side lane like Top or Bottom. The strategy behind this is to cause pressure in multiple lanes, thus splitting the opposing team's resources.
- Ganking: to "gank" is to show up in a lane with the intention to surprise the enemy player and score a kill. While any role can perform a gank, usually the Jungler or the Mid laner is the most likely to try to execute a gank.
- Rotations: know as rotational play, it refers to a team's strategic movement on the map. An example would be if a team set up a creep wave to hit the Bottom lane inner turret. Then, they proceed to defeat Dragon. After defeating Dragon, the team goes to siege the Bottom lane inner turret.
- Teleport Flank: players may take two Summoner Spells to strengthen the champion they select to play. Teleport is a Summoner Spell that allows a player to teleport their champion from a location to an allied unit, such as a minion or an allied turret. A Teleport flank is when a player uses an available ward to Teleport behind the enemy to perform a flank maneuver during a teamfight.
- Cooldown: almost all champion abilities in the game have cooldowns: a period of time where abilities are unavailable. Certain champion abilities are extremely crucial to team fights and players will try to play around their cooldowns. The same goes for Summoner Spells like Flash, Heal, and Teleport.
- Backline: usually refers to the Mid laner and the ADC. The backline is where the less tanky carries want to position themselves during a teamfight.
- Positioning: where players should have their champions standing during a teamfight. For example, and ADC rarely wants to be positioned in front of their tanks. This means that they are exposed and easy targets for crowd control effects and being taken out by the enemy team.
Looking Forward
This is by no means an exhaustive list of terminology nor does it cover all the complex things that happen during the game. As the EU and NA Regional Qualifiers come closer, I will release part two where I will cover more complex topics like an in-depth look at the Jungle role and what does Vision Control mean. Until then, you can always direct your League of Legends questions to me on Twitter at SageGnosis. Please don't be a TSM fan.


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It's been a great week! My first post as a writer went up on Christian PF (see link below). I'm excited about the opportunity to write for a great site like that.
The markets have been a little crazy this week and there still a lot of talk about our national debt. The best thing we can do is focus on changes to our own personal situation.
Anyways, This Week in Personal Finance takes a look at interesting articles, posts and news from the past week in the personal finance arena.
So give these articles a click!
- NPR takes a look at the decade ahead in jobs – this is an interesting graphic that shows what they project to be the best and worst employement areas.
- The question of giving and tithing is an oft-debated one in Christians circles. Questions of how much and to whom stir up lots of answers. Craig from Money Help for Christians looks at a healthy view of Christian giving and tithing. This is a great, in-depth post on the subject.
- Paul from Fiscal Geek takes a look at 10 Ways to Invest $100 – he covers just about anything you can think of to get you started.
- Miranda at Personal Dividends writes about 6 Things You Should Know About the 2010 Roth Conversion. This was a very solid post. For more on Roth Conversions, check out my guest post over at Wise Bread.
- This post from Linsey at Wise Bread was right up my alley – saving money on office supplies!
- Matt from Debt Free Adventure shares some pretty common ways people get into debt and how to dig out!
Don't miss out on another post!! Get Redeeming Riches delivered to your inbox!
R2 on the Web
I've recently been "hired on" as a writer over at Christian PF – one of the leading Christian personal finance blogs out there!
This was a great honor to be asked by Bob Lotich to contribute articles on a regular basis. You can check out my first on called Blueprint to Building Your Financial House!
Also, Tipd.com is a financial news website where users vote up their favorite articles. My article 6 Ways to Find Free Money received enough votes to be the #1 article on Tipd's Greatest Hits! Thank you to everyone who voted for it!
That article was also included at Fiscal Geek's Perma Friday Round Up and Canadian Finance Blog's Friday's Links post.
4 Money Lessons from a Fool was included in One Money Design's Friday Round Up.
Have a great weekend everyone!!


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Restoration of local economic cycles and conflict transformation in the Fizi region
Project description
Title: Restoration of local economic cycles and conflict transformation in the Fizi region
Commissioned by: German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)
Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Lead executing agency: South Kivu governorate
Overall term: 2011 to 2014
There have been conflicts over natural resources in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo for many years. Armed conflicts between economic competitors, ethnic groups and rival militias have profoundly destabilised the region. Hundreds of thousands of people have been internally displaced not only within the region but also in their own country.
Under difficult conditions, this project promotes a transition from humanitarian aid to sustainable development.
In Fizi Territory, local economic cycles and basic services have been restored. The conditions have been created for securing livelihoods and food on a sustainable basis.
The local administration has received training in the planning, organisation and implementation of community development activities and has been assisted with transport and communications. The administrative buildings have been renovated in cooperation with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and a partnership programme (BMZ-UNHCR).
Many families have been unable to work on the land and produce food for a long time. Thus, nearly 25,000 families received agricultural equipment and improved seed with assistance from the government's agricultural extension service. More than 200 young people have received training to become joiners, mechanics and masons in order to meet the great demand for skilled workers.
The administration and traditional authorities have learnt how one's actions can prevent and reduce conflicts. They have been supported in transforming conflicts through better trained village committees and through a number of new village committees.
Women bear the main burden of work in the home and in the fields. They are frequently the victims of sexual violence and are particularly at risk in the fields, which are often remote. Women's organisational and management skills have been promoted in civil society groups to strengthen the role of women and to make them more self-confident within their families and in local decision-making structures. In discussions on the subject, the male village population and local authorities are also sensitised to the subject of improving the division of labour within the family. This gives women better protection and the opportunity to earn an income of their own.
Results achieved so far
The local authority's renovated office buildings have rapidly developed into centres of communication between the government and civil society. For the first time in many years, civil structures are once again the focus of social life and fulfil visible tasks for the people. Since then, there has been increasing private investment.
Today, the reactivated local services once again advise farming families on questions of modern cultivation. The excess produce can be sold at local markets, providing the families with an additional source of income.
Simple hand-built earth roads now link previously isolated mountain areas with the markets on the shores of Lake Tanganyika.
The village committees that have been supported or newly founded by the project arbitrate in cases of conflict in the villages (usually over land rights) or pass on more difficult cases to the judiciary.
It was decided together with traditional authorities to revise and modernise traditional law and align it with national law. This is now being implemented in cooperation with judges and lawyers.


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A mother of the groom speech is similar to the father of the bride speech (with a few subtle differences), and they're becoming more popular. Not least, because of the rise of same-sex marriages.
Whatever the reason for your son asking you to give a speech, make sure you relish it.
Follow Speechy's expert advice, and you'll create a speech your son will love and you'll be proud to deliver. No clichés, Googled gags or potty training 'anecdotes'.
Why Is The Mother Of The Groom Speech Special?
Traditionally, there's not much for the groom to look forward to when it comes to the speeches. He has the pressure of delivering one but all he gets in return is comedic abuse from the best man. But why should it just be the bride's parents who get to mark the wedding as one of life's special moments. Whatever the gender of your child, their wedding is a big deal – for both of you. This deserves to be acknowledged, so make sure you grab this opportunity and give a great speech.
This means resisting the urge to start your speech with potty training stories (all children do it) or standing up and simply listing all his achievements (boring). Instead, paint a picture of his unique personality with your inside stories. Make people laugh, but leave them in no doubt how much you love your son and his partner.


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How do you feel when your laptop requires repairing, your Internet connection is broken, and your iPhone is left at home? Such perspectives seem to be too dangerous for you? If it is so, you are a representative of a modern digital nation which lives in our digital world.
What are the main peculiarities of this world? Why do the representatives of the digital nation differ from the people of, for instance, the 1970th – 1980th period? The information is the main concept of the digital world, and the value of the information technologies is the main peculiar feature of the digital nation. Today it is impossible to imagine our society without the Internet, mobile phones, and other technologies which give us the opportunity to access to the great amounts of the information at any place and at any time.
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New conditions of life which depend on the development of the information technologies create a new pattern of the public's life style. It is possible to say that the effects of the digital world on our modern life style can be considered as predominantly negative because the progress of the information technologies involves the changes in the typical life style of many people, influences their activities, their consciousness, and relations with the other persons.
The debates on the influence of the Internet on the young people's minds develop since the time when the Internet became such an ordinary part of our everyday life as the television.
Nevertheless, it was rather difficult to predict such an expansion of the Internet round the world and determining Web as the giant database or a library which can function as cinema, theatre, and museums at once. According to Adam Gopnik, "the Internet is just a loud and unlimited library in which we now live – as if one went to sleep every night in the college stacks, surrounded by pamphlets and polemics and possibilities" (Gopnik).
It is only several years ago researchers began to speak openly about such issues as the negative effects of the Internet on the public's minds and to develop the necessary investigations. The results of their researches accentuate the fact that every time when we use the Internet connection in order to find the necessary information or to participate in the virtual reality we experience the great impact which is provided by the information from the Internet.
This impact is considered as negative because our brains begin to function atypically in order to cope with a lot of the information of different kinds. This controversial information along with the discussion of many other provocative aspects is presented in the project created by Rachel Dretzin and Douglas Rushkoff which and known as Digital Nation ("Digital Nation").
However, those processes which can be observed in our brains when we are involved in the virtual reality are still not examined properly, but those findings which are available to the public provide rather pessimistic perspectives on the question of the influence of the Internet on our minds, intelligence, and consciousness.
In his article "The Information", Adam Gopnik also focuses on the fact that "the Internet breaks down our capacity for reflective thought" (Gopnik). Thus, a lot of the information which is offered in the Internet is given as the facts which do not stimulate the public's critical thinking. Moreover, people are always at risks to perceive the information which is not reliable without analyzing its main points and credibility.
The other aspect of the influence of the Internet on the public's minds is the special physical and moral state which is often the result of the everyday involvement in the virtual life. Thus, Adam Gopnik emphasizes the fact that many people when they describe their state while using the Internet are inclined to depict it in such words as "disassociation and fragmentation" and moreover, he states that "life was once whole, continuous, stable; now it is fragmented, multi-part, shimmering around us, unstable and impossible to fix" (Gopnik).
Paying attention to those effects which the Internet has on the people's minds and consciousness, it is not surprising to accentuate the numerous facts of the public's addiction from the Internet. Today many young people choose to spend all their spare time in the virtual reality which provides them with virtual friends, a lot of emotions and feelings. The level of the social activity of those persons who spend their days in front of their laptops is low because almost all their interactions take place in the space of the Internet.
Are their any dangerous effects in such a behavior or we should not worry? Ben Turner concentrates on the psychologists' investigations and concludes that there is "a link between the disinterest in public participation in local and national affairs and the increase of instances of Internet addiction" (Turner). The Internet addiction hides a lot of risks for young people which are connected with the character of their social interactions, real communication, and being aware of themselves as the part of the real society, bit not the virtual reality.
The Internet addiction can be considered as the abstract notion which will not be associated with us, but with somebody else. Nevertheless, according to the data from Digital Nation, today many young people in such a developed country as South Korea have to get rid of the Internet addiction ("Digital Nation").
The Internet addiction is interdependent with the feeling of the catastrophic loneliness which is typical for those people who made the Internet the major part of their life. In spite of the fact they spend much time communicating online with the help of chats and social networks, the feeling of loneliness which is the result of the real communication's lack is too painful for them. Many young people are inclined to check their e-mails and Facebook instead of communicating with the members of their family.
When they reject the real interactions with real emotions they create their own illusion of communication in the Internet. The Internet communication is effective for solving business matters, but it is rather unsuccessful for personal relations. Sharing interests in music and movie with our virtual friends, we become more and more distant from our relatives and real friends. In the most dangerous cases this situation can lead to the public's isolation.
To conclude, it is necessary to state that the rapid development of the digital world provides a lot of issues for our modern digital nation. To overcome all the provocative and controversial aspects of this process, it is significant to pay attention to the negative effects of the situation. It is impossible to imagine our life without the Internet, but it is possible to avoid the extremes in involving it in our life style.
Works Cited
"Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier". PBS Frontline. 2 Feb. 2010. Video. Web. 04 Apr. 2012.
Gopnik, Adam. "The Information". The New Yorker. 14 Feb. 2011. Web. 04 Apr. 2012.
Turner, Ben. The Internet's Effect on Relationships: Detrimental or Beneficial? 18 Mar. 2010. Web. 04 Apr. 2012.


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Zoom out far enough, and the gold chart becomes a steady ascent over thousands of years. But on a shorter time frame, the price is constantly moving up and down.
At the most basic level, these movements can be put down to changing supply and demand.
The supply of gold however is very steady. Even when a new deposit is discovered, it can take over ten years for it to be converted into a productive mine.
So unless a giant golden asteroid falls from space — which some analysts do think is a possibility — then the only force moving the price of gold is changing demand.
Geopolitical events, changes in interest rates, and the price of the dollar are all thought to alter levels of demand for gold, but which of these really makes the price move?
📈 Interest Rates
Ever since the gold standard was abolished, gold has been seen as a form of 'sound money' that banks aren't able to devalue by printing.
But, you've heard this story before…
Nevertheless, the story that goldbugs like to tell is true, and one of the biggest determinants of inflation is interest rates.
As interest rates are lowered, more people can borrow more money. This gives consumers more spending money, causing the economy to grow and inflation to increase. With increased inflation, fiat currency becomes less attractive, and demand for gold increases.
This is described in economic terms using words borrowed from the world of birds — gold is said to love doves, and hate hawks.
When the federal reserve takes a dovish stance — meaning that it will be cutting interest rates — gold is thought to move higher.
When the fed takes a hawkish stance — meaning that it will be raising interest rates — gold tends to drop.
This relationship was made very clear at the end of November 2018, when Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell made a speech suggesting that interest rates would be gradually hiked.
In response, two things happened immediately — the US dollar sank and gold soared.
Simple, right?
If only it were so easy…
The truth is that though interest rates do have an impact on the gold price, the relationship is not clear cut — there is no solid correlation between gold prices and interest rates.
Research from the World Gold Council found that only short-term gold movements are 'heavily influenced by US interest rates', and there is no strict correlation between the federal funds rate and the price of gold, with upwards movements in the price of gold sometimes being accompanied by rising interest rates.
So while gold traders should still pay attention to interest rates, there are other more powerful correlations to be concerned with.
💲 The Dollar
Most market commentators believe that the price of the US dollar has a bigger impact on gold than interest rates do.
The main reason the value of the dollar influences the price of gold is that its the global reserve currency: The dollar is usually used as the exchange mechanism in international trade, making it the benchmark pricing method for gold.
When the value of the dollar drops, buyers all around the world must pay more dollars to buy gold, And, those buying gold with other world currencies are able to buy more gold with less of their currency.
This results in an inverse correlation, where gold and the dollar move in opposite directions. This relationship is widely accepted, meaning that lots of demand for gold comes from people trying to get exposure to the opposite of movements in the dollar.
In fact, one of the biggest sources of demand for gold is from central banks seeking to minimize exposure to the dollar, which still represents over 60 percent of global bank reserves.
This chart from 2011 to 2018 shows the long-term correlation of the Dollar Index (DXY) with gold.
💣Geopolitical Turmoil
The other common source of demand for gold is from people treating the metal as a safe haven, and buying gold as a form of 'insurance' against systemic risk in the financial system.
During times of political and economic turmoil, demand for gold is thought to increase. And during times of high confidence, demand for gold is thought to decrease.
But in reality, how gold reacts to political and economic turmoil is unpredictable. On the day of the worst US stock market crash ever — Black Monday, October 1987 — gold sank with equities as investors panicked and liquidated all their holdings, and in the financial crisis of 2008, gold again crashed with equities before eventually rising again in 2009.
More recently, gold has reclaimed its safe haven title and has been pushing up on political turmoil as concerns over Brexit, the ongoing trade war, and tensions with Iran have brewed.
🐋The Real Force Behind Gold
Though these factors — the dollar, geopolitical turmoil, and interest rates —all have a role to play in moving the gold market, they don't always make an impact on price.
The only common theme behind all big movements in the price of gold is the presence of institutional money — the 'whales' in crypto parlance, and the big banks with very deep pockets.
This has been made apparent in the last year or so, with banks adding around 651.5 tonnes — worth around $27.7 billion — to their vaults in 2018 before a major move upwards.
These big players set the tone of the reaction to economic events, driving both short-term undulations and long-term trends in gold.


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U.S. Sanctions 13 Venezuela Leaders: Maduro 'Transition' Imminent?
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The United States imposed sanctions on 13 Venezuelan leaders Wednesday, fueling speculation that President Nicolas Maduro's weak regime is near its end.
The new additions to the U.S. list of specially designated nationals from the U.S. Department of the Treasury include the current and former directors of Venezuela's national police force, the head of the national electoral council, a former vice president of finance for the state-controlled oil company Petroleos de Venezuela or Pdvsa, and the country's ombudsman who is also president of Venezuela's "moral council." There remains speculation that the United States will impose harsher economic sanctions on Venezuela. The U.S. imports Venezuela oil, and the nearly bankrupt regime needs the revenue ahead of significant debt payments due this fall.
Wednesday's sanctions come ahead of the Venezuelan government's vote Sunday to create a new National Constituent Assembly that can supersede other elected bodies and rewrite the constitution. The opposition organized an unofficial vote in mid-July, with former Latin American presidents as poll watchers, and 98% of the 7.2 million voters rejected the proposed assembly. The turnout represented 37% of the country's electorate, CNN calculated.
Eurasia Group analysts Risa Grais-Targow and Agata Ciesielska think Maduro won't back down from this Sunday's vote, since abandoning it would be a major political cost. They expect President Donald J. Trump and his administration will impose economic sanctions "that materially increase the risk of a debt default" and undermine Maduro. The end will likely be a negotiated transition made imminent by Sunday's vote, they say, writing:
Sanctions restricting U.S. imports of Venezuelan crude
would have important implications for the company's cash-flow, given the fact that the U.S. represents its largest cash-generating export market. PDVSA would be able to divert its exports to Asian markets, but at a heavy discount, while transportation costs would also rise. If sanctions also restrict U.S. exports of diluents, PDVSA would also see its import costs rise, affecting some 250,000 barrels per day of extra heavy crude that rely on diluents to be commercially viable. Such dynamics would diminish the government's capacity and commitment to maintain its debt service, as one of its reasons for continuing to pay has been concerns about attaching oil cargoes, making a default much more likely.
But both sanctions and a default will also undermine Maduro's ability to provide key stakeholders with economic benefits, which will also factor into individuals' calculations about the sustainability of his regime. At the same time, prolonged social unrest and the violence necessary to defend the regime, will also continue to undermine the loyalty of the security apparatus.
All of this reinforces our view that the country is headed towards a negotiated transition that sees key stakeholders abandoning Maduro
in an effort to protect their individual interests a scenario to which we assign a 70% probability. This still seems likely to play out over at least several months, rather than a matter of days, but Sunday's vote and its consequences could be a catalyst."
In February, Venezuela's Vice President Was Slapped With U.S. Sanctions. He denied drug trafficking allegations. See our free posts on Venezuela's travails including:
Would U.S. Ban Or Sanction Venezuela Oil?
Buy Venezuela Bonds As Regime Change & Sanctions Risk Rises?
OPEC: June Oil Production Rose, Except In Venezuela
Why OPEC May Be Stuck With $50 Oil
Venezuela bonds are among the holdings in the iShares JPMorgan USD Emerging Markets Bond exchange-traded fund (EMB). Bonds in Venezuela's state-controlled oil company Pdvsa were among the holdings in the VanEck Vectors Emerging Markets High Yield Bond ETF (HYEM). The iShares Latin America 40 ETF (ILF) rose 0.2%.


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With Clyde Billington
Hippos/Sussita, one of the New Testament cities of the decapolis, is the home to at least a half dozen Byzantine churches which have been, or are being, excavated. The latest report from these excavations concerned beautiful mosaics found in one of the churches. The mosaics, among other things, portray Jesus and the feeding of the 5,000, which occurred (somewhere) nearby. We discuss this discovery and others that have been reported in the latest issue of ARTIFAX, our biblical archaeology news magazine, including a beautiful staircase at Hazor which is believed to lead to a plaza and a palace. Then there's the Goliath Wall at Gath, a massive city wall from the time of David and Goliath that is twice as thick as the later walls that were excavated on top of it. And finally, year-round excavations have begun at Assos, a city along the coast of western Turkey that was visited by the Apostle Paul (Acts 20:13). Archaeologists have been working here for 38 years, but are now picking up the pace, to make the site more interesting to visitors.
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Dead Sea Scroll Fragments & the Hippos Theater
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There are a number of unpublished Dead Sea Scroll fragments in the possession of U.S. institutions. We discuss the significance and meaning of this situation, and whether they will be published soon. This story is one of the news digest items from the latest issue of ARTIFAX magazine. The discovery of a large theater, apparently used for cultic worship, at the decapolis city of Hippos/Sussita is another news development reported in ARTIFAX. We discuss these stories and others from the latest issue.
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Archaeologists found a bronze mask of the Greek/Roman god Pan at the decapolis city of Hippos/Sussita. Who was Pan and how did he relate to the biblical story? That's one of the topics we discuss in this program, reporting on news digest items from the latest issue of ARTIFAX magazine. Other topics include an ancient Christian grave yard found in Saudi Arabia, and a cache of Egyptian seals from in the Negev desert.
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Hippos/Sussita - a city of the Decapolis, part 2
With Prof. Mark Schuler
More conversations about the Byzantine church excavations at Hippos/Sussita, as well as a couple of tie-ins to the gospels and a reference Jesus may have made to this decapolis city.
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Hippos/Sussita - a city of the Decapolis
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When we first discussed Hippos/Sussita in the early days of The Book & The Spade, it was a major site just waiting to be excavated by archaeologists. Finally, a dozen years ago, the archaeologists arrived. We have been reporting on exciting discoveries at Hippos/Sussita in the last few years, finally our chance to talk with an archaeologist who has been working there: prof. Mark Schuler of Concordia University in St. Paul. Prof. Schuler is in charge of the excavations in the NE quadrant of this hilltop city overlooking the Sea of Galilee, including one of the eight Byzantine churches that have been identified.
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With the beginning of the 21st century, the growth of gourmet spaces made the brand's products increasingly sought after and desired in various markets. Internationalization: 80% of the manufactured products are destined to the export market, being present in multiple countries, covering several continents.
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I took Mister and Sister to a local park today, as the heat index was a bit lower than in the past week. These photos were too cute not to share.
While at the park, I cracked my head on a piece of playground equipment. Ouch. When I told my husband about it, he jokingly said he was going to have to make sure I stay indoors for the rest of the week, since I fell on Monday as well. Right.
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I'm looking for advice on how to resolve this issue arising from bluetooth earbuds/earphones connected to iPhone. When I speak into the bluetooth mic, the output at any receiving phone is garbled (digital artefacts).
iOS: 12.1.4
Mumble: 1.3.1
By borrowing, I have found that some bluetooth devices don't cause this problem (they work fine on Mumble), but these are too expensive for me to own permanently. These are:
- Bose
- Jabra Stealth
All other cheap/generic bt earbuds/earphones cause the problem.
Also, I've found that replaying the recorded messages directly off the Mumble server is fine (no garble/artefacts)! This implies that the corruption seems to be happening on the receiving parts of the end-to-end transmission.
- Has anyone found a root cause to this pattern, e.g. the cost of chipset in the bt device, or hard-coded bluetooth parameter in the device?
- Is there any workaround that preserves full-duplex messaging?
P.s. Here is a similar old post, on the same topic.
Bluetooth mic input creates garbled sound on the iOS client
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Column: Anthony Davis saga continues in New Orleans as Pelicans fire GM Dell Demps
New Orleans coach Alvin Gentry stood outside his team's locker room Thursday night and added imagery to the toxicity surrounding his team.
"This whole thing has been a dumpster fire," he said.
Dell Demps didn't start that fire. The match was lighted and flicked into the dumpster by Anthony Davis and his agent, Rich Paul, when they went public with a trade request seemingly designed to get the All-Star forward from New Orleans to the Lakers with a year-plus left on his contract.
Firing Demps, which New Orleans did on Friday, is a step toward extinguishing the flames that have engulfed the organization for the last month. Whatever New Orleans decides to do next will have a massive influence on the Lakers — and maybe the Clippers.
"As difficult as these decisions are, my responsibility is to provide the leadership and resources necessary to deliver a winning team to our fans and community," Pelicans owner Gayle Benson said. "My expectations, and the expectations of our fans, are that this team will compete at a high level for the remainder of the season. While we still have many more critical decisions to make when this season comes to an end, I am focused on making sure we are properly positioned to succeed and that we are headed in the right direction."
Danny Ferry, who had been working for the team as an advisor, will act as the interim general manager.
The Pelicans' last month has been unsettling for people like Gentry. The speculation about Davis' future has been tremendously awkward, and that frustration boiled over Thursday night in a 131-122 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder.
The Pelicans, forced to play Davis or risk being fined up to $100,000 per game, watched the six-time All-Star forward injure his left shoulder during the first half. Television cameras caught Davis leaving the arena before the game ended, reportedly to get an MRI exam on his shoulder. He is expected to play in the All-Star game on Sunday after the exam showed only a bruised shoulder.
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Demps failed to build a winning roster around Davis, with the team's record at 26-33 heading into the All-Star break, six games behind the Clippers for the eighth and final playoff spot. As the days and hours ticked down to the NBA's trade deadline, speculation about Demps' future added another layer to the Davis drama.
The Los Angeles Times reported the Lakers offered New Orleans a trade package that included Brandon Ingram, Kyle Kuzma and Lonzo Ball plus two first-round picks, but Demps and the Pelicans didn't accept the offer.
The Pelicans should be able to attract better candidates for general manager because of it, too. Had the Pelicans made a move and then fired Demps — people with knowledge of the situation expected his ousting at the end of the season regardless — the new general manager would've inherited a team he didn't construct.
Benson, who owns both teams, said there will be a search for "a new leader of our basketball operations, directly reporting to me."
Demps' replacement will be charged with rebuilding the Pelicans, and likely rebuilding relationships and trade talks with the Lakers.
The Clippers, who stockpiled assets thanks to trading Tobias Harris to Philadelphia, could also get involved in the bidding for Davis. The Boston Celtics are expected to be a strong suitor as are the New York Knicks, particularly if they land the No. 1 overall draft pick.
There are problems for the Pelicans to solve. Davis' position in the team's rotation doesn't seem sustainable. That's a problem for now. The future, which can't come soon enough for New Orleans, is what matters most.
A dumpster fire will eventually burn out. The old way of doing things in New Orleans wasn't extinguishing the flames any faster.
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