Podcasts about 11B

Adore Beauty has achieved its first profit - in its first year as a public company - following a big 12 months of lockdown-inspired sales.   Crown Resorts, the $6.3 billion Aussie casino operator, has lost $261 million after COVID forced its venues to shut.   TikTok is following Facebook and Snap by building its own ‘augmented reality' platform, as the AR ad industry gets set to balloon to $11B by 2024.   ---   Flux Daily Quiz: - Win AirPods Pro: https://quiz.flux.finance/   ---   The content in this podcast reflects the views and opinions of the hosts, and is intended for personal and not commercial use. We do not represent or endorse the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, statement or other information provided or distributed in these episodes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

During his years leading the residential lending division of a major bank, Patrick Boyaggi closed over $11B in residential mortgages. Yet, he knew there had to be a better way. Did you know that …depending on the mortgage they select… consumers can spend an extra $30,000 over the life of their loan? So he started & is CEO of Own Up This Boston-based fintech business is on fire. Own Up has changed the way that consumers shop for & secure a mortgage. The service includes a marketplace of lenders who have agreed to charge below-market prices. So consumers save a ton on their mortgage. Clearly, Patrick is onto something. He's raised $25 million from Link Ventures, Listen, Techstars Ventures, Alumni Ventures Group, and Brand Foundry Ventures. In this 20-minute interview, Patrick reveals how he's scaled the 120-person team that's turning mortgages upside-down.

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Hear from Elastic founder and CEO, Shay Banon, about his founder story and key takeaways he learned when growing Elastic from an open-source platform moderated from his living room to an $11B global enterprise. 

Drew Stevens has over 30 years of investment banking, private equity and merger, and acquisition experience. Drew has worked with middle market special and turnaround situations, to affect change, propagate growth, and transition the business. During his tenure, he reviews deal flow, helps to scale revenue, and then assists organizations with exit or merger. Drew's expertise in private equity and capital lending have led to assisting organizations in achieving over $11B during his 25-year tenure. Many of his exits and mergers include targets bought by ESPN, Standard and Poors and Dow Jones. Mr. Stevens work also includes successful due diligence and advisory for IPO's on the NYSE and NASDAQ. Specialties include capital raise for hedge funds, middle market investment banking transactions, family offices, and as an independent private equity sponsor. He has relationships with over 400 potential lending partners helping to match a borrower and lender. Where to connect with Drew, see below: LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/drewstevens/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drewstevensphd +++++ Subscribe to the Podcast! ▶︎ PODCAST | https://bit.ly/3bU6D3l Please Follow & Connect with me! Link's Below ▶︎ WEBSITE | https://tyzerevans.com ▶︎ YOUTUBE | https://youtube.com/c/tyzerevans ▶︎ INSTAGRAM | https://instagram.com/tyzerevans ▶︎ FACEBOOK | https://facebook.com/grindsellelevate ▶︎ LINKEDIN | https://linkedin.com/in/tyzerevans ▶︎ TWITTER | https://twitter.com/tyzerevans ▶︎ TIKTOK | https://tiktok.com/tyzerevans ▶︎ PATREON | https://patreon.com/tyzerevans

Sgt. Maj. of the Army Daniel A. Dailey, U.S. Army retired, joined the staff of the Association of the U.S. Army, where he serves as vice president of Noncommissioned Officer and Soldier Programs. A native of Palmerton, Pennsylvania, Dailey enlisted in the Army in 1989 and attended basic training and advanced individual training as an 11B (infantryman) at Fort Benning, Georgia. During his career, Dailey held every enlisted leadership position in the mechanized infantry, ranging from Bradley Fighting Vehicle commander to command sergeant major. Dailey has served with the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Infantry Divisions stateside and overseas. In March 2009, he was selected as the 4th Infantry Division command sergeant major, where he served as both the command sergeant major of Fort Carson, Colorado, and U.S. Division‐North, Iraq. In 2011, Dailey was selected to serve as the command sergeant major of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC). Dailey was sworn in as the 15th sergeant major of the Army on Jan. 30, 2015, and relinquished the position on Aug. 9, 2019. In addition to four tours in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and New Dawn, Dailey deployed in support of Operations Desert Storm and Desert Shield. He earned the Bronze Star with Valor for his leadership during the 4th Infantry Division's two‐month Battle for Sadr City in 2008. Dailey is a graduate of class 54 of the U.S. Army Sergeants Major Academy and the Command Sergeants Major Course. Dailey holds a Bachelor of Science (Summa Cum Laude) from Excelsior College. Dailey has been married to his wife, Holly, for 28 years. They have one son, Dakota.

You only turn 400 once. So for this special 400th episode of Recruit Rockstars Podcast, I knew you were counting on me to land a very special guest. I think I bagged the elephant. David Cohen is Co-Founder (and now Chief Instigator) of the legendary Techstars venture accelerator. It’s birthed over 2,300 startups. (You know their names: SendGrid, Outreach, SalesLoft…) And for 20-minutes, we discussed a very delicate, sensitive, personal subject: Stepping Aside. What if the Founder isn’t the right person with the right skills to scale the business? (Odds are, they’re not) How do we get the Founder into their “zone of genius”? When & how should a Founder be “promoted” to Chairman, and a new CEO appointed? If it doesn’t happen, when & how should a VC & Board member make this very difficult decision? How do you separate the Founder (and their identity) from the business, which needs to have its own life & legs. While Mark Zuckerberg Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Elon Musk went from Founder to CEO to Mega Industry Changer, that type of tenure is rare. (You can safely assume that you are none of those people.) So for you, the day will come when your business outgrows you. Your skills. Your passions. Or both. And then what? David is uniquely qualified to address this topic. Many startups …including those birthed by Techstars… go thru this transition. He’s sat on the Boards of countless companies who have successfully gone thru a transition from Founder to a new CEO. And last month, David - and Techstars Co-Founders David Brown, Brad Feld, Jared Polis - recruited a new CEO to lead Techstars next phase of growth. After evaluating 350 candidates, they selected Maëlle Gavet, an outstanding global business leader. She’ll build on Techstars’ heritage, which is pretty remarkable to consider: - Over 2,300 startups funded & launched - 85% of which have been acquired or are still active - Funding 500 companies per year - 8,000 mentors advise the 3 month program in 35 cities in 16 countries - The average company raises $1M - They’ve raised over $11B in total - Cumulative market valuation a $32B In this 20-minute conversation, David gets vulnerable & no-BS about how to make the most challenging people decision in the life of a company: When to Step Aside.  

It's not everyday you have a conversation with a gentleman who: -Has taken the stage with Tony Robbins while serving as the VP of Tony Robbins Companies-Led sales for a small tech company while growing it into an $11B international brand called Gateway-Has coached executives from Fortune 500 companies for over two decadesAnd has done all of that while focusing on one key ingredient in his life: PERSONAL DEVELOPMENTRegarded as one of the Nation's most effective business growth experts, Gene McNaughton has spent more than 25 years generating results. It has led him to being an accomplished Consultant, Public Speaker, Sales Trainer, and Best-Selling Author. In this episode we dive into how his commitment to personal development and personal growth led to an incredibly experiential life!The Sales EDGEThink and Grow RichZig ZiglarRich Dad Poor DadGritJohn AssarafGrowthSmartGeobearMindset—Explore past episodes: XperienceGrowthPodcast.comSign up for our newsletter here: XperienceChrisSuarez.comIf you enjoy the podcast, please leave us a short review on Apple Podcasts. I love reading reviews and engaging with our community.Follow Chris:Twitter: twitter.com/Xperience_ChrisInstagram: instagram.com/xperiencechrissuarezFacebook: facebook.com/XperienceChrisSuarez

Reflexión de 1 minuto y 06 segundos! Hoy les traemos la reflexión del evangelio del día Miércoles 19 de mayo del 2021, san Juan 17,11B-19. Te alabamos por siempre y para siempre, Señor. Amén. Vive la Palabra meditando El #EvangelioDeHoy #VenganyVean # miércoles19demayo # mayodel2021 #EucaristiaDigital Recuerden seguirnos en nuestras redes sociales e interactuar con nosotros, para que está linda familia en Cristo siga creciendo día con día. Un abrazo fraterno les desea su Párroco Luis Díaz Rubio. Los esperamos. ¡Vengan y Vean! Nuestro Sitios y Redes Sociales: ► https://www.facebook.com/Vengan-y-vean-101953198599721/?view_public_for=101953198599721 ► https://www.instagram.com/vengan_y_vean_/ ►https: //www.tiktok.com/@venganyvean? Lang = es ► https://open.spotify.com/user/31opocqbwjv7rjcl5ujahkca4azy

Earlier this week Procter & Gamble (#PG) reported earnings and beat analyst expectations! The company announced GAAP EPS of $1.26 (beats by $0.07) and revenue of $18.11B (+5.2% Y/Y). Organic sales were up +4% and the company announced that they expect them to keep growing while simultaneously increasing its share buyback program. Should investors buy any dip in PG stock?

As Certified Financial Planner, Stephany has long had a passion for helping families manage their money. And as a seasoned tech executive, Stephany realized that the most effective way to help hundreds of millions of families was to build new fintech infrastructure from the ground up. In 2019, she started Orum to make money movement smart and real-time—working to improve upon the 50-year-old system of ACH. Stephany shares why the self-driving wallet is coming sooner than we think, how Orum will lower the $11B consumers currently pay in overdraft fees each year, and why her secrets to success as a founder include Whoop and ice cream.

David Payne served our nation in the Army as an 11B (infantrymen) in the 82nd Airborne Division. After getting out of the military, there was a loss of camaraderie and being part of a team. This led him to picking up alcohol and drinking for several years. Regret set in and he didn't want to deal with any of his problems. After he stopped drinking, he had to face his demons head on. We speak about the excuses people will tell themselves for a reason to drinking alcohol. David kept coming up with excuses to drink, broke ties with family members and had a wake-up call when he found himself on the other side of the law. When David quit drinking, he had to make amends with those he broke ties with previously. Some of these people were his close friends and relatives. David finally realized he needed to take responsibility and action in his own life. Nothing would be handed to him for his life to change. What led David to starting GI Resupply was Covid when he kept hearing organizations closing their doors. He saw a need that needed to be filled. So much was shutting down and David knew he needed to step up. GI Resupply was created out of a need and now you can help those that are serving with key necessities that will help raise their morale and way of life. Join David with his mission by going to https://www.GIResupply.com You can also follow him on: Instagram: @giresupply or @davidpayne3 Facebook: GIResupply If you were struggling with clarity or the meaning of life, sign up for one free coaching call with me where we can begin to mold that process for you. Go to https://www.ForgingLife.org and schedule a free coaching call. To connect on other social media or learn about my other offers, this link will get you there! https://linktr.ee/Treyryder I hope that this podcast has helped raise awareness in yourself so that you can make tiny shifts in your life. If this is helped you, I ask that you take a moment and rate the podcast and invite your friends to listen as well. You were the reason why I do this podcast and I can't thank you enough! If there is a topic that you want us to cover, head over to our Facebook page and let us know. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/forginglife/message

This episode I sit down with my long-time friend Toby. He served in the army as a 11B and 15A from 1966 to 1993. He was part of 8 different commands and was sent on 3 deployments during his time. He was awarded with the Legion of merit, meritorious service medal and a Southwest Asia service medal. After his service time Toby published his own book called Proof Through The Night which can be found in the link below. Proof Through The Night By Toby Quirk Link: https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=B07JYBN2VM&preview=newtab&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_1vUcGbEZVDEP6 Mission 22 website link: https://mission22.com/ Mission 22 Phone number: 1-800-273-8255 Press 1 Mission 22 Text number: 838255 Podcast Website link: https://americanvetpodcast.com/ Intro link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_klMTpsE9M Outro video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiuFzpl28io #podmmunity #podcast #veterans #rodecasterpro #igy6 #dontgivein #mission22 #military #newepisode #veteransuicide #podcasting #podcastguest #instagood #instalike #strong #mi22ion #facebook #like #UnitedWeHeal #22aday #supportourveterans #warathome #CallABuddy #yournotalone --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/americanvetpodcast/message

Rene Thomas Folse, JD, Ph.D. is the host for this edition which reports on the following news stories:Sub-Contractor Lacks Standing to Challenge Privette Doctrine Dismissal. EDD Fraud Losses Now Estimated at $11B. Feds Pursue Pharmacist for Carelessly Filling Opioid Prescriptions. O.C. Healthcare Group Resolves $40M Respirator Fraud Claim. CA DOJ Launches Worker Rights and Fair Labor Section. DWC Adjusts OMFS - Pathology and Clinical Laboratory. Cal/OSHA Form 300A Summary of Illnesses and Injuries Due on Feb 1. NAIC Study - PC Insurance Premium Increase as Losses Flat. Study Shows Healthcare Lab Workers at Highest COVID Risk. Officials Say 33% of L.A. County Residents Were COVID Infected.

Amanda and Amber are two veterans that believe we all have a story to tell and they are here to tell that story!They are very passionate about bringing awareness to Veteran Suicide and Mental Health. They will be using this platform to bring continued awareness for this cause. They both strongly believe in veterans helping veterans and they can't think of a better way than this podcast to help spread that message. In this episode they are talking to Nicholas Howard. He served in the Oklahoma National Guard as an 11B and 88M. He discusses the difference in todays soldiers compared to when he started out and the concerns he has with becoming a veteran very shortly.  If you would like to contact Nicholas, he can be reached on Facebook at @nicholas.howard40, Instagram @thenick40, or TikTok @thecrazyonehoward.We are looking for veterans that would like to participate in upcoming episodes. If you are a veteran and have a story, send us a message to veteransdrinkingvodka@gmail.com If you would like to support one of our chosen charity for this episode, they can be found at https://tilvalhallaproject.com/ or https://thefallenoutdoors.com/If you would like to support our podcast, we now have merchandise available at https://www.bonfire.com/store/veterans-drinking-vodka/

When Ethan Brown started Beyond Meat in 2009 he did it with a simple question in mind. Why do you need an animal to create meat and why can't you build meat directly from plants? Well It turns out you can and Ethan Brown and his company Beyond Meat figured out a way to do it. Today, his company is valued at over $11B. He is a purpose driven Entrepreneur and one who has achieved enormous success but he will not stop until he changes the world for the better.

When Ethan Brown started Beyond Meat in 2009 he did it with a simple question in mind. Why do you need an animal to create meat and why can't you build meat directly from plants? Well It turns out you can and Ethan Brown and his company Beyond Meat figured out a way to do it. Today, his company is valued at over $11B. He is a purpose driven Entrepreneur and one who has achieved enormous success but he will not stop until he changes the world for the better.

This week is a really cool show everyone, I had the pleasure of speaking with criminal defense attorney and former Army infantryman turned officer: Takura Nyamfukudza! Takura was full of great stories covering everything from what enticed him to join the Army in the first place, all the way to defending the Constitution in a different way as a criminal defense attorney! Takura is a true success story, moving to the United States, joining the Army as 11B infantry, becoming an officer, and now defending constitutional rights. Listen to some of the amazing things he's doing now in his law practice, including some interesting trials and plans for the future! Also, listen to Takura and company on their podcast: "Constitutional Defenders" where they discuss high profile cases, changes in laws, and other hot topics in the legal world. Hope you all enjoy!.Please rate, review, and subscribe!.If you would like to be a guest on the show, send an email to: onceuponabootpodcast@gmail.com..Takura Nyamfukudzahttps://www.instagram.com/tnyamfukudza/https://www.facebook.com/tnyamfukudzahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/takura-nyamfukudza-esq-22010a27.Law Practicehttps://www.cndefenders.com/https://www.facebook.com/cndefenders/https://www.linkedin.com/company/cndefendershttps://www.buzzsprout.com/556159..Once Upon A Boothttps://www.instagram.com/onceuponaboohttps://twitter.com/onceuponaboothttps://www.facebook.com/onceuponaboothttps://linktr.ee/Onceuponaboot..MusicMajor Label Interest - Combat Boots..ArtworkKrisamando:https://www.instagram.com/krisamando/.Buzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREESquadCast Record studio-quality podcasts from anywhere!Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/Onceuponaboot)

Eric Bakken was born and raised in Minnesota and joined the United States Army at 20 years old. He has a wonderful wife named Nikki and a beautiful daughter named Finnley who is named after his best friend Eric Finniginamm who was killed in Afghanistan during their first tour in 2009. He served in the army for almost 8 years as a 11B infantry. During that time, he deployed several times for operation Enduring Freedom along with attending school and holding most leadership positions in an infantry line platoon.  He left the Army in 2015 to pursue my dream of growing The Fallen Outdoors to its full potential. Eric has been an avid outdoors-man his whole life. From fishing to big game and everything in between with a preference for waterfowl hunting.

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Robinhood, the trading app that took young people and financiers by storm, now boasts 13 million user accounts. Its zero-commission trading model prompted an overhaul of the online brokerage ecosystem, although the company has run into SEC investigations, hackers, and performance outages along the way. In an extended interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin, CEO Vlad Tenev discusses the role Robinhood plays in the financial system and the risks and rewards of retail investors engaging in high volume trading. Tenev addresses wide ranging criticisms of his platform, and considers what’s next for the $11B-valued app.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Peloton’s announcing something special this week: Peloton+. T-Mobile’s splurging $11B on a back-to-school initiative for students to help crush the Homework Gap. And Retail Ecommerce Ventures is buying up the big bankrupt brands you miss, then digitaling re-launching them. $PTON $TMUS Want a shoutout on the pod? We got the form for Snackers to fill out right here: https//forms.gle/KhUAo31xmkSdeynD9 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this follow-up episode on the colossal merger between Builders FirstSource and BMC, Tony meets up with his close friends and LBM dealer presidents, Gary Poulos and Russ Kathrein. Having first-hand experience with BFS and BMC, Gary and Russ deliver insights about what makes these companies unique, the opportunities ahead for the now $11B business, and how this event will permanently change how the manufacturers and lumber mills interact with the national production builders.

In this episode, Jim and Tony discuss the merger of Builders FirstSource and BMC - two of the largest building materials dealers in the nation. Joining forces to create a company that is over $11B in annual sales, this also creates new challenges and opportunities for manufacturing suppliers, general contractors, and other dealer competitors.  Jim and Tony also give some guidance to professionals who are measuring the potential changes in their career path. 

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EP227 - Amazon Dash Cart and Other News Jason recent events: Publicis LinkedIn Livestream: Trends & Insights Live “The New Reality of Retail” RetailTouchpoints: Retail Strategy 2.0: Separating Urgent From Important Brick and Mortar Reborn Rob Gonzalez, Peter Crosby, and the Digital Shelf Institute/Salsify “Creative Commerce in the time of covid” Jason Upcoming Events NRF NXT Tuesday, July 21 11:45am–12:30pm EDT “Future of Platforms” CommerceNext July 29th 4:10 pm EE “Lesson Learned and Thoughts for the Future” The Great Debate Are we in a long-lasting, deep recession, or is at an artificial recession will quickly bounce back from? What should retailers and brands be planning for. Jason and Scot has it out. Who will be right? Amazon News Amazon Dash Cart Echo Frames are frames are shipping Q4 restrictions on 3pl warehouses Prime day in October Employee Health Clinics Amazon becomes worlds largest advertiser spending $11B a year Earning results next week Other News US Census Bureau Data for June is out. US Real Retail sales were up 5.8% in June, (down from 17.7% in May) but representing a 2nd month of retail recovery. Total retail sales back above Feb levels. (Numbers adj for inflation and including auto). E-commerce up 23% YoY. Nike leaves Google Shopping Google shopping fast shipping tags Nike RISE new store concept in Guangzhou, China Walmart and Amazon healthcare battle Walmart+ coming soon? Is digital grocery profitable? Don’t forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 227 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded live on Friday, July 17th, 2020. http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason "Retailgeek" Goldberg, Chief Commerce Strategy Officer at Publicis, and Scot Wingo, CEO of GetSpiffy and Co-Founder of ChannelAdvisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. Transcript Jason: [0:24] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show this is episode 227 being recorded on Thursday July 16th 2020 I’m your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I’m here with your co-host Scot Wingo. Scot: [0:39] Hey Jason and welcome back Jason Scott show listeners, Jason as you know the last three episodes we’ve had a what I would call a blue-chip roster of guests on the show and we want to take a little breather and catch up listeners on all the retail news going on first of all Jason I think we have to address this super awkward elephant in the room a lot of listeners have pointed out to me and I’ve seen it on Twitter that you have been presentation and pot cheating on me so go ahead and tell listeners all these other things you have going on. Jason: [1:13] I do plead guilty I feel like I’m vast as per usual in vastly Overexposed I’m gonna. Preempt your question with two other quick points I just wanted to throw out number one. I’m thrilled to be here alone with you we’ve we’ve had these like three great shows in a row with great guest that I super enjoyed but the bumper of that is I don’t get to just make fun of your wrong positions and things because it wasn’t just the two of us so. Scot: [1:43] Yeah we’re going to definitely carve out some time for that on the show so it’ll be fun. Jason: [1:46] Yeah so I’m thrilled to have some alone time with you Scott and I it’s come to my attention that there’s a few listeners that don’t listen to every episode, all the way to the end of the episode and so for those of you that don’t and I don’t forgive you for that. At the end of every episode there’s two very important things we make a plea for you to go onto iTunes, and leave us a 5-star review so for those of you that get so much value from the front half that you don’t listen to the back half I’m throwing it in now, after tonight’s episode you need to get yourself onto iTunes and leave us that five star review you owe it to us by this point I feel like we’ve earned it. And number two I have a witty catch phrase that I could include every episode with and I’m not going to tell you what it is so you. You’ll know what you’re missing. Scot: [2:39] I don’t know if I’ve ever heard of either I’m usually you usually put me to sleep by the time I get there it is an hour later I’m sorry. Jason: [2:44] Yeah yeah yeah it’s okay yeah no I’m grateful that you’ve never listened to a show after we published it because you wouldn’t realize how much of you is edit out of the show. Scot: [2:53] That’s totally true I hate listening to myself so then I could actually listen in now. Jason: [3:00] Oh my God yeah that could be a whole another show but I have all these horrible verbal crutches and it’s it’s crushing to hear me saying over and over again on the show and you don’t do that for the record. Scot: [3:12] Well sometimes I miss us going to trade shows together and so I play our podcast at half speed and I get to have drunk Jason it’s like being at a trade show. Jason: [3:19] Nice some. Scot: [3:21] Play Jason if I play Jason after three Starbucks I put you on 3x. Jason: [3:25] I like it I like. But so yes you have correctly busted me I’ve been I’ve done a bunch of stuff including cheating on you on some podcasts. So last week my company publish a pretty cool livestream on LinkedIn they called Trends and insights alive. And there’s sort of a beta tester of of live casting on LinkedIn. So they’ve done Eight Episodes this season that eighth is the final episode in the season and so you know that’s when they wanted to roll out the really big guns so the 8th episode was all about retail so we call the new reality of retail and, two of my colleagues and I got to chat about some of the big. Big evolutions and Retail that we’re seeing so you can watch a video of that on LinkedIn and I’ll put a link in the show notes. Scot: [4:20] Since nobody knows LinkedIn has this I’m sure there is a huge audience. Jason: [4:23] Yeah well it shows up in your activity feed so it’s like you you’ve. It’s a pretty big beta so not just anyone can stream yet although you’ll be glad to know that the Jason and Scot show has been pre-approved. For streaming on LinkedIn so if you want to do a show we could do it yeah we have clout with LinkedIn. Scot: [4:46] Influencers. Jason: [4:47] There’s also a retail publication out there that a lot of our listeners are probably familiar with called retail touchpoints and they do sort of video podcast Series so I sat down with them and did a, interview that they entitle the separating urgent from important because I think that was one of my topics that we talked about in the show so I’ll put a, LinkedIn to put a link to that in the show notes there is a podcast, specifically focused on the evolution of brick and mortar retail which I know you would you would have some strong thoughts about called brick-and-mortar reborn so I got to do an interview on that podcast. Scot: [5:28] Or alternatively the path to chapter 11. Jason: [5:31] Exactly maybe not but okay and then there’s a SAS Pim product out there called salsify in the the content team and the and one of the founders of salsify started a cool. Podcast about the digital shelf that’s in fact called the digital Shelf. And so I sat down with Rob Gonzalez who’s the one of the founders of salsify and Peter Crosby who’s the chief Storyteller there and we had a good. Good conversation for an hour so in the extraordinarily unlikely event that people don’t get enough of me on this podcast there’s like four more hours of me from the last two weeks you can get and. That’s not all if you want the freshest stuff I have like three things coming up next week too so. [6:22] Yeah so on start Monday Tuesday and Wednesday of next week is in RF next which is sort of the, the spiritual successor to to the shop dot-org trade show so normally this would have been a, in-person event in Las Vegas this year it’s going to be a virtual event it’s two days a bunch of great speakers and I’m doing a presentation on Tuesday the 21st, right around lunchtime 11:45 Eastern Time called the future platforms and I’ll be talking about sort of the evolution of e-commerce platforms and. What people should be looking for and what what pitfalls that they might make in choosing choosing a platform so that’s a topic I used to talk about all the time and I haven’t talked about in a while so I had to do a pretty. Pretty significant update of my appeal for that. Scot: [7:12] I would avoid going all in on Elliot just BTW. Jason: [7:15] Yeah yeah I debated whether to bring it up at all. And for westerners that are following closely Elliot’s that eCommerce platform whose one of their Founders was on this show and they imploded this month and I’m not clear whether. They just like weren’t able to ship and bring it over the finish line and kind of folded or whether it was. More significantly vaporware and was never close to the finish line but I don’t know if we’ll ever know. Scot: [7:44] There was an article that I tweeted that made it feel more of a prairie. Jason: [7:49] That seems entirely viable to me unfortunately and so then the week after that another former guest of the show Scott Silverman who was one of the founders of shop dot-org has his own. Event series that is also going virtual this year called Commerce next and so I’ll be giving a the the closing keynote on July 29th at 4:10 p.m. Eastern Time called Lessons Learned and thoughts from the future. So that will be cool and then in the event that you’re interested in my opinions but you can’t stand my voice well which you would not be alone I do have a column in Forbes and I have a new article I just put the finishing touches on and I think I’m gonna, publish that on Forbes over the weekend and that is called that retails great. From traffic to to revenue per customer kind of talking about how all retailers are having to make this big shift from. Trying to get as many people as possible in the store to having fewer people in the store and having to make more money on each one. Scot: [8:55] Nice Thanksgiving us all exclusive preview of that. Jason: [8:59] Exactly so I appreciate it if folks folks to take the time to read that and give me your feedback so that’s all my stuff I’m exhausted already is the show over. Scot: [9:09] So I guess if people listen to this save it for next week you could have a week of Jason essentially if I’m doing the math right you could read the article on that off day yeah got a week of Jason coming up. Jason: [9:20] Yeah yeah or you could just binge all 227 shows of the Jason and Scot show. Scot: [9:29] You do the math in a presentation what is it like 3 weeks or something if you didn’t go back to him. Jason: [9:36] It’s longer than any yeah I think that like if there was a remake of Abu ghraib we might feature prominently. Scot: [9:42] When you do that in audience ever looks at each other like to see really think we’re going to do that it’s hilarious in a office kind of a. [9:52] Cool my kids would say cringy, all right so before we jump into the news another piece of listener feedback that we’ve gotten is folks have really enjoyed hearing kind of our opposite views of the economy so in our covid show you and I had a little friendly Spar I guess I would say about you know what we think is going to go on so we’ve gotten a lot of there’s kind of a team Jason team Scott thing forming they’re obviously the team, Scot crew is huge than team Jason is a couple lonely Souls but in my experience when you have these kind of different opinions one of the best ways to kind of settle it is to make some predictions you and I do that on our annual prediction show which is kind of more about you know e-commerce Trends and things of that nature but I thought at the top of the show would be good for here for us to kind of like update our positions and then make a little bit of a prediction one of the one of the key differentiators where everyone’s disagreeing right now and I think you and I fall into different camps here too so this is probably a good framework is the shape of the recovery so so the options are V which would be you know we’ve kind of come down and we’ll come right back up as quickly as we went down so that V shape you which would be like a delayed recovery so you know call it Q3 kind of middle to late next year we do come back but it’s. [11:14] Takes over a year to get there then there’s the L some people call it a swish that’s kind of a super slow recovery so more like 20 22 before the economy’s kind of cooking and then there’s the dreaded W which is the we have a V and then we get into the fall, the virus surges and then we have to go back into the bottom of the V again which then you know and then you come back out so that forms that w and then you have seen some other shapes out there but those are the main ones so so. A do you agree with that Framing and then be why don’t you go first and give us our view if you agree. Jason: [11:53] Sure yeah so I feel like there’s some room for variance in in some of those descriptions but yeah those like those are certainly all all, versions of a recovery that have been hypothesized and and, my own opinion is that it is going to be a check mark shaped recovery which would be the Swoosh but maybe not quite as slow as you described so I think we are still going to be significantly impacted economically and likely health-wise by covid for all of 20 21 and so. You know I think holiday 2021 will be better than holiday 2020 which I’m not expecting to be very good but I don’t think we’re going to get back to true pre-pandemic well levels until 2022 so, so maybe it doesn’t take all the way till Q4 of 2022 I think January of 2022 might be on parity with January of 2019 so we may lose two years here. That is kind of my stick and I’m I like to call that the realistic position and then I think you we’ve given the the delusional position to so why don’t you tell us what that is. Scot: [13:14] This is why predictions matter so will some one of us will be right and it will at least be able to they’ll they’ll have they’ll be goalposts Elise so I I’m increasingly so I’ve fought for a while and I’m increasingly seeing that we’re in a v-shaped recovery so so first of all unemployment is interesting I think unemployment’s. Misleading because so so you made a point earlier about you know this is the worst economic. Depression since World War II which if you use the correct definition of depressant you’re right. But there’s you know those were not caused by a pandemic so those were caused by other you know. Economic impacts the government essentially cause this one is a reaction to the pandemic so, so it’s very unusual from anything else you can’t use those past things, this is my theory and prediction you can’t use those past like 2008-2009 which did have these very slow recoveries as a comp so I think it’s a v-shaped recovery the data I look at is first of all my favorite data point is consumer confidence. [14:29] And consumer confidence is actually right around a hundred which is pretty good you know I think people would say it’s kind of neutral it’s not super negative not super positive when it goes way over a hundred people are like super positive and then when it goes under a hundred if you look at 2008 at the bottom of the Great Recession it was like 20 I think it touched like 25 or somewhere in there and that was like one of the lowest ones I’ve recorded so so you have this anomaly where, GDP is low unemployment’s High yet people feel pretty good and what’s causing that is the fed and the government just pumping tons of money into the economy the unemployment thing is actually huge problem because in I’m sure you’ve heard this from retailers it’s actually impossible to hire anyone right now because they’re making so much on unemployment so once that once that goes away in July or is diminished we have to kind of see where the government lands on that but I think they’ll be something there I think you’re going to see employment come roaring back because essentially people will have an incentive to go back to work so so that’s going to, that’s going to solve a lot of things there and then the other data that’s really interesting and someone had kind of tweeted This Is Us retail sales is a perfect V we’re like literally already back to the pre covid levels now you could say well. [15:49] Yeah we don’t know if it’s going to be W or not that’s where time will tell that’s another one there’s also these really weird data points coming out where consumer savings are at one of the highest rates they’ve ever been so people are saving a ton of money that’s because they’re not traveling as much their they did they delayed their vacations and these kinds of things you know it’s not all that being said I do think, macro we’re gonna have the V shape but there are going to be some segments to get left behind I think the ones are going to be hit the hardest are Airlines you know so, people are not really traveling by are nearly as much as they used to it’s come back some so if you look at the TSA data we’re at about 750,000 Travelers a day, a year ago it was two, eight million so we’ve lost two million Travelers a day so the airline industry is going to have a huge challenge oddly enough it looks like the cruise industry is going to come back before their line I don’t understand that personally but, there you go. And then you know the other thing is I work with a lot of startups and there’s a fairly large percentage of companies that are not going to go back into office space for a long time and. [16:52] That part is going to be delayed so those Industries will be hurt but I think we’re going to see other parts of the economy pick that up and we’ll still have that V I also am bullish and I know you strongly disagree with us that there’s going to be a vaccine so I think we got two good candidates in moderna and Oxford and I get all my medical news from CNBC so don’t take any advice for me but this is this is my again I’m making predictions to try to, see where we land on this and I do think this project Manhattan thing is interesting and you know there’s all these arguments that say well we’re going to need three billion vaccines I don’t think that’s right I think if you go and vaccinate there’s a clear, there’s a clear set of people that have a much higher impact from this virus so if you start at the 85 and older the people that are immunocompromised and have existing conditions that’s a significantly smaller number you’ve protected a really big part of the population that buys you time to go do the other ones you also have herd immunity kind of meeting in the middle so I think there’s probably, and the US are 20 million thing over three or four months that get you there so so I’m very bullish and all that and so my prediction just kind of summarize all that is it’s going to be a V shape and you know definitely by q1 of 20, one we will be at the kind of back where we were and I think it may be as fast as Q4 so. Jason: [18:18] Wow Q4 of 2020. Scot: [18:19] Yeah. Jason: [18:20] Okay I write so let the record show I hope to God that I’m wildly wrong in your wild rewrite like I’m certainly rooting for you. Like a couple of things that caused me to have some concern like first of all you have a hypothesis which is perfectly reasonable but I don’t agree with that it’s a government caused recession so I for sure, we took actions that that. Substantially contributed to a recession and potentially triggered the recession in the US but there’s but worldwide there’s a bunch of countries that didn’t take any of those actions and they’re still in a recession right so sweet and in shutdown people aren’t spending in Sweden in a bunch of people are unemployed Taiwan didn’t shut down people aren’t spending their right so, there’s some evidence that even if there had been like you could debate whether the government action was helpful or not helpful and, and if there could have been better government action almost certainly there could have been but if there were no action. [19:25] The my hypothesis based on all the international evidence is we would still be in a recession. It could be worse could be better the truth is we’ll never know. I would also say I actually think there’s a very good chance we’ll have a vaccine I mostly agree with you it’s it’s possible we won’t like as much as we all want to be optimistic and we’re we’re. Making the most prompt medical progress in the history of humankind to potentially create this vaccine it was described to me once that like making a vaccine is very hard it’s like. Scoring a goal in hockey from half half ice but the good news is we have more Wayne Gretzky’s on the ice taking shots right now than ever before right so. I think it’s totally possible we make a vaccine most vaccines have. [20:20] Problems with limited efficacy. Aren’t effective in everyone that takes it vulnerable populations often are the ones that are least likely to be able to take it it does, it is difficult to distribute a vaccine there’s a bunch of people in the US that just don’t believe in vaccines and aren’t going to take it, even if we do have one and so for all of those reasons even if the science goes perfectly and we have a decent vaccine in q1. I just don’t think you have enough immunity to turn the economy around and toll Q4 and that means you won’t start seeing the economic results of that turn around and talk q1 2022 which is where my. My estimate sort of comes from and again I desperately want to be wrong I hope you’re right but that’s my my concern. Scot: [21:14] Well we’ve got our stakes in the ground on there’s a good year in there too. Jason: [21:18] Other depressing news on this point from this week just to throw out there is all the banks had their earnings call this this week and the common theme from all of them is they’re all reserving tens of billions of dollars because they. Massive default on all of their. Their loans and mortgage properties right like that the you you hit the hammer the nail on the head it’s the weirdest recession ever because there’s this. Very high unemployment and very high savings rate like because per your point like all this stimulus money and stuff caught and and bolstering unemployment benefits, caused everyone to like the average American had a huge cash influx. At the same time they weren’t working so that’s a weird weird dichotomy but all those benefits are scheduled to end in. Couple of weeks there was a more people than ever that miss their rent payment this month there’s a even higher cohort of people that say they don’t know how they’re going to pay next month’s rent and then all these benefits are going to, expire so there’s a chance for. All sorts of cascading negative Financial events to happen and it feels like all these earnings calls from the banks are kind of a foreshadowing that they think it’s going to happen for whatever it’s worth. Scot: [22:39] Yeah it’s really weird because I heard someone say that it’s like having two different movies playing on one screen because then like car sales are up. Jason: [22:47] Yeah so you know it’s funny about that like you mentioned like oh retail sales are kind of back like the V is there. That’s a hundred percent true if you include Auto Sales like are are, what month did we get the reporting came out for June today so so the June retail numbers with Auto in there, the June total sales number is higher than the February total sales number so complete recovery but if you take Auto out of that like we’re still definitely trending in the right direction but we are still below are like February level. So it’s weird like cars are disproportionately affecting that I’ve heard one hypothesis is because. Air travel is so curtailed a lot more people are taking, are using their cars more I’ve heard Harley-Davidson as having a huge Resurgence people are buying motorcycles and going on on, driving vacations instead of flying vacations, you would know more about this than me but I have heard that as all the rental car companies declare bankruptcy and and sell off their their fleets that that’s going to put a damper on the auto sales as there’s going to be a, full out of inventory. Scot: [24:01] The other kind of treating them internally so we’ll see I don’t know how much of this so-so. I would say real car usage is. Going crazy right now which is odd because it’s usually tied to air travel but they become disconnected because people are saying I don’t want to travel on airplanes therefore I will drive from Chicago to Detroit and I you would normally fly that so and then they kind of say well I don’t want to put those what does that 3,000 miles on my car I’ll bring the car and do it that way, yeah so it It’s tricky to read and that’s what makes the prediction that much more fun we’ll see. Jason: [24:39] And before we jump into other e-commerce news several listeners have asked over the last week there’s been a lot of get spiffy news and I’m wondering if you can just share a quick update on on some of that for our listeners. Scot: [24:52] Yeah yeah I guess the biggest new so we are we’re experiencing this V which is what I think probably influences think so we definitely had a huge dip in demand largely from fleets and then obviously office Parks have been hit that hasn’t come back but the fleet stuffs come back pretty dramatically consumers have come back so it’s actually been pretty tough hiring so we’re hiring technicians at a pretty good pace and then one of the biggest inbound requests we get is for people that want a franchise so we’ve kind of carved out the 50 what I would call Amazon Prime cities as you know and. [25:28] Love Amazon and there in about 50 cities with Prime and those tend to be the cities we want to Target as well I figure Amazon has a pretty good idea where those Prime households are so but then we get tons of requests from smaller cities like Wilmington North Carolina a will see Memphis Tennessee that are will probably not be able to get to you for years because we’re in 17 of these 50 that we’re focused on so we’ve decided to open up those kind of next to your market so three hundred thousand eight hundred thousand people in the Metro areas to franchising so we were able to announce that, feels like last week yeah last week and that has had a really good response so that’s been fun you know at Channel visor one of the things I loved every day was I got to work with thousands of entrepreneurs some of them were intrapreneurs they were like you know early digital people in the side of Nike like we’re leading the charge but then at the same time you would deal with these entrepreneurs like rock-bottom Golf and these crazy brothers that were selling golf stuff and so there’s a lot of fun so I’m looking forward to look at working with a bunch of other entrepreneurs in that capacity. Jason: [26:38] Yeah that’s awesome I just take it as a good sign because I’m thinking about all of the those that cumulative carwash and capacity and I’m doing the math on how much crystal meth you must be selling to need to launder that much money so that. Seems really encouraging. Scot: [26:55] Yeah I get this a lot as a car wash guy the reference it for those who don’t know is the TV Show Breaking Bad the guy by his car washes to essentially you know clean his cash so. Jason: [27:09] Literally and figuratively yeah. Scot: [27:10] Yeah we do not for fully of total transparency we do not do that. Jason: [27:18] Or so you say okay. Scot: [27:19] Cool well it would not be a Jason Scott show with Al. Jason: [27:26] Amazon news new your margin is their opportunity. Scot: [27:39] Yes this was a weird one and I want to check your memory because I feel like I’ve lived seven years in the last four months so I got this notification that said congratulations Scott you are in the day one program for Amazon Echo frames so I ordered those and they’re coming this weekend and, I forget if we knew about this or not and if we talked about it on the show so is this new or has an I just like him. Jason: [28:08] No it’s super it’s super annoying so, it was announced over a year ago when they launched the echo buds they actually announced a variety of new Alexa enabled devices so they, they had, the earbuds they also showed a a ring that you wear on your finger and they announce these frames that you get prescription lenses in, and for the the ring and the. The frames you had to apply and you and I I know for a fact both applied on the first day that you could apply, and so the reason I’m super annoyed is not even that you got in and I didn’t and that you don’t remember, registering the reason I’m annoyed is because after I found out you got in, I went into my Gmail spam and found out I got in in March and my invitation is already expired. Scot: [29:04] Well next time you see me I’ll be having a conversation with my eyeglasses and you’ll be you’ll be. Jason: [29:11] This is another reason why I see Jeff Bezos point that I should whitelist him but I’m still not going to do it. Scot: [29:18] I think Jeff loves me best. Jason: [29:20] He probably does your more lovable to me frankly you’re more of a wide-eyed Optimist the the he has definitely experienced a v-shaped recovery. Scot: [29:28] Yes he he’s well on the he’s on a V with a rocket ship on the tail, which is actually interesting because they are going to announce results next week they haven’t announced the day I’m thinking July 23rd If you kind of look at last year so we’ll do a whole show dedicated that because I do think you know, as Amazon goes it’s really a good indicator of what’s going on in online I’m going to, predict it’s going to be a blowout quarter based on everything I’ve seen but another thing that was really interesting kind of in your world of grocery and there was a very robust discussion on Twitter was this idea of the Amazon – cart and you and I were aligned on this one oddly enough so let you know so this is a cart that. [30:21] It’s really weird because everyone had one image of this thing so you can tell it was like from a press release it’s going to be in the store that is not a ghost or a not a Whole Foods I don’t know what this evening to be called I don’t know if you know the name of it and it’s gonna be this cart that you can put some items in, it’s really hard to tell from the pressure release if it uses image recognition when you look at the card it clearly has some cameras mounted on it and then it has a digital display most of these cards use RFID in my experience so it’s not clear if it’s going to have some kind of belt and suspenders where there’s an image recognition and an RFID or not. [30:55] W my guess but it’s really interesting cart and then online we had this really interesting discussion where someone said and I think it was the target guy so he met, be a it may be you know on a different team here but he was kind of like this is the stupidest thing why would you have Amazon go and do this dumb cart you’re wasting time in Cycles what’s going on this is or you know I think the conclusion he came up with this is this is an admission that Amazon goes not going to work, and then you and I and other people pointed out hey you know, Amazon’s a 1.6 trillion dollar company I don’t think because they’re trying three or four things you can kind of say this is a signal that they have failed at, thing number one in fact Amazon has enough experiments they could run 50 grocery experiments and to me it actually the opposite is essentially saying Amazon is really serious about groceries so they’re running a lot of experiments these are the ones we know about there’s quite another 50 coming that we don’t know about so that was a really interesting discussion what did you think about that car. Jason: [32:01] Yeah so well I was first and foremost excited so I’m excited about this whole deal. Amazon has had home delivery of groceries for a long time in Amazon Fresh and dirty secret Amazon Fresh hasn’t been very successful are caught on very well in fact. Walmart basically is kicking Amazon fresh as but. Um so then Amazon bought Whole Foods and they started delivering and doing curbside pickup from 80 of the Whole Foods and that’s been a pretty successful service and so, pandemic kids people want way more digital grocery in and in typical Amazon fashion they dramatically scaled their delivery of Whole Foods from 80 stores 260 stores and, and all kinds of amazing things to expand their capacity so so Amazon’s main success in grocery is Whole Foods and so what I’ve been excited about for a long time is. Whole Foods is super expensive groceries that only cater to affluent markets in Big City centers. So it doesn’t you know solve the grocery problem for the bulk of Americans so a while ago it became clear that Amazon was going to open a new physical grocery store. The first of which would be in Woodland Hills California which is a suburb of La that is not a Whole Foods brand a grocery store so this is not something they acquired this is a grocery store that Amazon is inventing and. [33:26] You know my experience Amazon does a lots of cool inventions if they’re going to reinvent grocery I want to see what they think is going to work, so we’ve all been excited I visited the construction site before covid where this thing was scheduled to open it was supposed to open this summer. [33:42] It did not open instead the rumor has it that they’ve been using that location as a dark store for deliveries, and the reason they’re probably doing that is one of the things we figured out over time about this grocery store is it has a big micro fulfillment center in the back of it so it has a robot, there holds a bunch of the groceries and automatically fills a bag with a customer’s order so it’s much more efficient at, feeling bags of groceries for curbside pickup or delivery then humans are and that is clearly part of this new grocery concept that Amazon has, um I’m super interested to shop a store see how that all works they have now discovered another one of these grocery stores under construction that’s promise to open sometime in 2020, in a suburb of Chicago so I’ll get to visit one whether we’re flying or not so I’m excited about that so the new news this week is yes that, one of the other things they’re going to have in this grocery store are these smart carts and my guess is a little different than you, I think it’s a little simpler I’ll be shocked at the store has RFID I don’t think they’re going to put RFID tags on all the products for sale and in fact, I think they might have a lot less products that you put in the cart yourself because I won’t be surprised. [34:57] If you use the micro fulfillment center even when you shop in the store so you order your, peanut butter and mayonnaise and cereal and the robot picks them and puts him in the bag won’t surprise me if you’re only pushing the cart around in the Meat and Deli area and picking your own produce and your own meat. [35:14] We’ll see how that works but to me the smart cart looks like it’s primary feature is, scan and go self checkout so lots of retards let you use your phone in the camera on your phone at products and kind of check out as you go Sam’s Club has a store that that’s the only way to check out call them, Sam’s Club now you can do scan and go in all the other Sam’s Club, Apple was one of the very first people to have this experience and they still use it broadly a problem with that is the the, the camera in the phone isn’t perfectly situated not everyone has the right apps on their phone there’s a lot of user are it’s not the fastest experience in the world so my theory is there’s Amazon grocery stores going to let you do skin and grow on your phone of you want but it’s also going to let you push around in one of their carts that has a. Special-purpose camera dedicated to the task of doing scan and go in the cart so I think the. [36:14] That cart is going to be a way to do scan and go but the cart also has a screen in it and I think they’re going to use that for media so I think they’re going to sell ads, two vendors as part of the Walmart Amazon Media Group, and they’re going to pop up ads in that grocery store when you’re in the appropriate section of the store so I think that’s another way to monetize it and I think there’s going to be a bunch of secret cameras and sensors on that cart, that are carefully keeping track of everything you do while you’re in the store and they’re going to use that for analytics and data for for you know future experiments and Improvement so. I think that’s going to be the main use case of the card I don’t think you’re going to have to use a card to shop in there I just I just think it’s going to be an option and I like per your point I totally agreed with Chris that like. It’s just walk out or nothing like I do agree with Chris. Doing just walk out technology in a 50,000 square foot grocery store is actually. [37:13] More than linearly more difficult than doing it in a 2000 square-foot convenience store so I think there are reasons to think. Amazon Go technology might work in a bunch of categories but grocery wouldn’t be the most obvious one where works so it doesn’t surprise me the Amazons trying to invent something else that fits better for these bigger stores and I also think if the smart cart thing. Wear to work well and become popular it would be much easier to retrofit that into all the Whole Food stores they already own whereas. Um you know go would be easiest to deploy if you’re building a store from the ground. Scot: [37:47] I can’t get over the mental image of you in a construction site wearing a hard hat where you’ve taken an Amazon sticker and put it on there and. You’re just like walking through like you know what’s going on in your like using a tape measure to be like oh this is where the robots going to go and. Jason: [38:02] You just described a way smarter cooler version of what I actually did now. Scot: [38:07] You’ve got a laser measuring device. Jason: [38:09] Coach I should have gotten some coaching from you I probably would have gone inside but yeah. Scot: [38:13] And then you do like a mission impossible repel and they like you’re hovering two inches off the ground and you’re like then a bead of sweat drops that how it. Jason: [38:20] That’s basically how I roll that’s that’s what I like to call Tuesday. Scot: [38:24] Oh man that kills me. Jason: [38:30] Yeah so it’s exciting I think Amazon’s inventing new stuff I don’t know whether this like, smart cards have been tried before and didn’t work it’s not going to shock me of Amazon Does It Better Than People have done it before there are some smart cards that are better than this that do cooler stuff in China that apparently people do like so there there are you I think you commented man that smart cart looks like it has a huge bed or if it’s just running the the electronics that’s kind of weird I wonder if it’s self-powered and there are smart cards in China JD.com has a store with smart cards that actually, like follow an RFID tag in your on your wrist around you in the store so you don’t even have to push the cart there the car just follows you around. Scot: [39:10] Yeah almost wondered if there’s a little Kiva robot hiding in there and it looked just like pop out and just start moving products room W fun mmm, so couple of their Amazon items in Q4 they announced they’re going to be restrictions on third party stuff and warehouses this has been kind of an ongoing thing where they’re just kind of totally tightening the screws of the one area of Amazon where they raise prices which is access to the Fulfillment by Amazon side of things and then Prime day didn’t they so they had moved it they were going to have like, Prime Vibes and then nothing really happened there and then they moved Prime day to September and now haven’t they just totally punted on it. Jason: [39:52] Yeah so the latest rumors are that it’s going to be October I somehow got some inside information and for the life of me I don’t know how but I somehow knew it was going to be in October for several months so everyone’s like oh my gosh we just heard it was in October and I’ve been like wait it’s been there for a month so somehow someone did me a favor and I didn’t, I didn’t realize it and I will say super quick on that on the on the 3p Warehouse I agree with you they’re gonna have a good earnings this quarter and there’s lots of reasons to think they are. It does seem like fulfillment capacity is likely to constrain them like if anything slows them down it’s going to be, capacity and the thing that jumped out at me in this announcement was not that they’re constraining, capacity it’s that they’re like by the way we’re bringing 60 fulfillment centers online this year to increase capacity and. We’re still going to have to constrain it and you and like I don’t know if people are falling at home but like the next biggest e-commerce site in the United States of America has 8 fulfillment centers total. Scot: [40:55] Yeah it’s just its fulfillment centers matter and I think they do it is so far game over it’s not even funny there’s no way anyone could you have to spend like. Foreigner billion dollars or something to catch up with where they are where they’ve been you know they just been like knocking in these things out over so long the asset they have built there is massive, it’s a Death Star. Jason: [41:17] Another thing I’m watching kind of closely is Amazon has made some some minor health. News lately they have announced that they’re opening health clinics in a couple cities in these clinics are adjacent to fulfillment centers because these are not health clinics at the moment, that we believe are to treat their public there to provide Health Services for Amazon employees and so it definitely seems like. As we’ve talked about for a while Amazon has some significant Healthcare aspirations and it feels like they’re dogfooding a lot of those aspirations by, using by testing, new health care approaches internally so you know for a while like Amazon’s had some interesting telemed services for employees they bought some some. Digital diagnostic tools companies and they made those available to employers and now they’re going to open some dedicated health clinic so. What’s interesting to me is that it’s probably a precursor to them having some big big consumer offering in healthcare space and so we’re watching that closely. Um Scot: [42:26] Yeah you’ve kind of predicted Walmart would get into this and hasn’t. Jason: [42:29] Yeah and they have yeah I thought we were going to maybe talk about this later but the Walmart has opened. Clinics that are pretty substantial in Atlanta and now they’ve announced a bunch of other states including Chicago where they’re going to open these clinics, and they’re pretty impressive stand-alone clinics that provide a bunch of services at. You know Walmart level prices shockingly low prices even without insurance and that has kind of been Walmart’s ammo like they did a big thing with Pharmacy where they sell almost all generic prescriptions for four dollars so you know a bunch of people. Even with insurance had some deductible they could never achieve and so they like literally couldn’t take the The Chronic prescribed medicines that their physician prescribed. And you know now through Walmart they can afford them and in much the same way lots of families can afford to get an annual physical and have their kids get an eye exam and dental cleanings and things like that even with no insurance through these Walmart clinic so it’s kind of a. Interesting approach to cost reduce Health enough to make it accessible to all the, the Americans that that are pretty vulnerable with regards to Health Care at the moment so, this is another initiative I hope to God Walmart and Amazon beat each other’s brains out with awesome new inventions and healthcare because we we need it. Scot: [43:48] Yes so bad that there’s like so much room for. Jason: [43:50] Yeah it’s a huge industry and it’s you know ripe for disruption and you know Walmart and Amazon are probably the two company like unless maybe Apple also wants to get into that. You know those are two pretty good private companies to be solving it’s a shame that we’re having to depend on private companies to solve our health care problems but, venturing into politics and we don’t want to go there my funnest fact of the week. [44:16] Is add a age and they’re probably mad at me because it’s 50/50 whether I’m thinking a De Jour adweek in there too competitive Publications but one of them published a report that Amazon is now the largest Advertiser in the world. So they’re spending 11 billion dollars a year on ads they have this novelty stat that means they’re spending twenty one thousand dollars a minute on ads but to me what’s cute about that is. We keep talking about their ad Network and how they’re becoming a meaningful seller of ads and they’re kind of the Third. Biggest digital platform behind Google and Facebook and you know the forecast were that they were going to sell like around there on a run rate to sell about 10 billion dollars in ads, in a calendar year which is still a distant third from Google and Facebook but it’s it’s bigger than, Twitter and a lot of other Pinterest in a lot of other digital Network so it’s pretty impressive, but what where their unique is they’re the only company in the world that’s buying 11 billion dollars of ads and then selling ten billion dollars of ads so they’re they’re buying eyeballs and then selling them back to Brands which is kind of funny. Scot: [45:26] Yeah I would not have expected him to be the largest Advertiser because you you know when you think about what you watch on TV you don’t see a ton of Amazon ads on TV. Jason: [45:36] Then they do they have ads in Market all the time they are like a big Super Bowl Advertiser which is a big big chunk but the bulk of their spend is not TV it’s digital it’s like they’re there Google’s biggest customer. Scot: [45:50] Yeah living the dream it’s funny because for the longest time they said we’re going to we’re not going to spend money on Advertising we’re going to put it all into free shipping and stuff like that and I guess they finally got to the point where. They just had so much money they had to spend some one-on-one marketing. Jason: [46:05] Well another thing where they’re a complete anomaly is I guarantee you they are the only top 10 an Advertiser in the world where nobody can name their CMO. [46:20] Yeah I mean I yeah but the like they do not have like a big public-facing. Marketing department right like you think of the mark Pritchards of the world that are like you know constantly out there for PNG which has historically been one of the biggest advertisers and it’s a it just Amazon is a very different approach so it’s going to be interesting. Scot: [46:40] Cool stats that was a lot of Amazon news what other news is on your radar. Jason: [46:45] Well today I alluded to this earlier but the middle of the months it’s been super fun for me because there, the US Census Bureau publishes the retail data for last month about 18 days into the month so, this morning they published the June retail sales data and. I don’t know if we want to get into all the technicalities of it like there’s a bunch of different ways to slice the data so everyone reports the data and the numbers always look different and it’s because it’s this. This Rich data set you can report retail sales without, food or restaurants you can report it with restaurants you can report it without gas and Automobiles or with gas and Automobiles you can report it with adjusted for inflation and you can report it seasonally adjusted so. If you’re reading I say all that to just tell you if you’re reading any of these statutes. [47:42] If the person cited and did a good job they told you all those details but that’s why you’ll see a lot of variance in the data but so in general the. The adjusted for inflation month-over-month retail sales were up. Five point eight percent in June over May which is a, um by historical standards of very large jump it was a smaller jump than last month which was the hugest jump of all times and that obviously followed a couple months that were the hugest, drop of all times but it it per your point on the economy it is trending in the right direction and it’s trending in the right direction pretty fast. Um The so that’s two months in a row of retail sales growing know basically you know forget the number and no matter how you slice it it’s above above average growth. Um and basically as we discussed you we’ve kind of caught back up to our February sales levels which were the kind of pre covid-19, numbers especially if you if you keep car in there, a weird one this data is really bad I hate it for reporting e-commerce sales but they try they have a thing called non-store sales which used to be catalog sales and now it’s, it still has catalogs in it but it’s mostly calm and their number there is weird it’s down 2.4% so you go. [49:10] Since when is e-commerce been down and why would it be calm down now when everyone’s adopting digital as a result of covid and a couple of reasons. Month over month growth like is not a awesome metric you have to really. What you’re thinking of yeah I mean seasonality is a problem but also it just it’s so dependent on what anomaly happened the month before right like it’s much better to compare. June of 2019 with June of 2018 and spoiler alert. June of I’m sorry June of 2020 is 23 percent better than June of 2019 so so the real Trend here is e-commerce as way up. E-commerce was so way up in the beginning of the pandemic that now. As it normalizes a little bit e-commerce books down also the e-commerce number in the Department of Commerce isn’t huge and so the number of days in a month can actually impact it so there was one less day, this month and so that you know if you take that out you know month-over-month it was actually up two percent so. So yeah I wouldn’t I wouldn’t agonize over that number they have slightly better e-commerce data that they report quarterly and the next reporting of that quarterly data is, August 18th so August 18th is going to be a big date because we’ll get the quarterly e-commerce and we’ll get the July retail numbers to see if we can make it three months of recovery in a row. Scot: [50:34] Yeah I think Amazon’s cleaner data than all the stuff. Jason: [50:38] Yeah, most of the people that like even like the adobe’s that you know have a lot of clients and aggregate their data like most of the the comscore panels and stuff they’re all going to tell you e-commerce is up so when the the, Census Bureau reports is down its kind of goofy. Scot: [50:56] A couple quick ones on Google shopping so they rolled out this is kind of the consulate testing thing so it’s hard to know if this is a test or a permanent feature but you know a one of our guests saw that they have this fast shipping tag and then another one of our guests Faisal said hey it’s only been 15 years and they finally realized people that shop online want to know when they’re getting the products boom I want to report a murder and then another astute online person know. Jason: [51:28] It’s a side note on that comment faysal actually works for Google. Scot: [51:33] That’s it no it. Jason: [51:35] Yeah yeah he works like in in the like especially like he’s in the autonomous vehicle division of Google. Scot: [51:43] Okay that’s alphabet it’s different he’s in he’s in a whole nother part. Jason: [51:47] Yeah those those crappy sales. Scot: [51:49] He’s a w and that’s all day. Jason: [51:51] Are still paying his salary I guarantee you. Scot: [51:53] Yeah he’s over in W crap it over on G so it’s alright it’s he’s like in the whole back end of the alphabet all right and then Nike someone noticed pulled all their listings from Google shopping which is interesting because you know I think we just reported. Like a week ago that Nike CEO said they’re going to move to 50% direct cells so they must have thought they weren’t getting the brand, whatever Roi and they wanted from Google shopping. Jason: [52:22] Yeah and Nagy does have this philosophy which is pretty bold that they’re really only going to sell their product through retail experiences that offer a differentiated experience and so mostly you know people took that to me, retail and so what that means is. If you’re a boring store that puts the Nikes right next to the Reeboks and doesn’t give them a Nike a chance to tell their unique Brand Story in any way that they’re going to fire you as a customer and they have fired them bulk of their retailers and even the ones they haven’t fired. Are increasingly not getting the good hot new Nike products and so to me this Google move feels a little bit like that right like the Google shopping still isn’t a very good experience it still has a bunch of flaws as Joe pointed out like it’s a complete cluster with regard to win am I going to get it shipping times and so to me it feels kind of on brand for Nike to say I’m not just going to put my shoes in a catalog tile in a mediocre selling experience. Scot: [53:21] He had this this data points like three to five years old but I just have a hard time believing night not the Google solved it but a lot of Brands not just in the shoe category but we’ll use that as ample they get they get really frustrated with how Google presents their products right so so there’s all these crawlers this algorithm spits out and says but here’s here’s here’s the best Nike running shoe or something like that and then Nikes like well that’s like six years old and you pulled it off eBay and it’s used that that’s that’s not if you’d asked us that’s like not even in the zip code of like one of our top shoes and you know where the heck did you get that as a top shoe. Jason: [53:57] It’s weird because everyone tells me that AI is perfect it’s weird. Scot: [54:00] I don’t yeah it’s maybe Nikes wrong. Jason: [54:03] Yeah the the fun side note on my favorite Google shopping story is someone a couple of Reed here’s got together and they’re like hey I’m seeing something really weird in my analytics the you know we always have a lot of cart abandonment and carbonates Hoover High and we’re always trying to you know figure out what it is and we do cord cohort analysis and stuff to try to figure out you know who’s who’s abandoning carts and we notice there’s one user that has huge cart abandonment, across all of our sites and his name is John Smith like someone’s typing John Smith in in a bunch of cards and abandoning their carts and they’re like. You know who is this what is it and you know they did some some digital Sue thing and found out that it’s a Google bot for Google shopping. Scot: [54:49] Driving a cart abandonment stats everywhere. Jason: [54:54] Yeah speaking of Nike the the the more interesting Nike news to me. Is that Nike has announced yet another new, Nike owned retail concept so in Nike store that they’re calling Nike rise this first one is opening in China in the, ganju District just opened a week ago. And you know I’ve been kind of impressed with Nikes digital in-store efforts so Nike has a store concept called Nike live which is very personalized order that leverages, data from local Shoppers to a sort the store and it has some cool omni-channel amenities then they open this huge flagship store concept called House of Innovations there’s now several of those and they’re to me the best example of letting customers, use their phone in the store to legitimately enrich the shopping experience and now they have this other concept which I actually obviously haven’t been to yet, but that also its primary emphasis is around digital shopping in a physical store and using your mobile phone in the store so, I feel like there the market leader in doing that and I’ll be interested to see how Nike rise is different than the house of innovation. Scot: [56:14] Yeah when it opens I want to have a suture Rita on the show because her tweet was your like oh my God I’m getting about Nike rise I can’t wait to just like can someone explain this to me in English I don’t understand what this is supposed to be this store is supposed to reflect quote the pulse of sports and a member City and quote this is like the retail equivalent of abstract art. So I’m picturing going in and it’s like a Picasso painting where like the shoes are all in cubes and melty and stuff. Jason: [56:43] So my interpretation like so a every retailer when they open a new store concept they issue this like you know fluffy press release with all the cool experiences in it and the reality is. [56:54] One or two of those experiences are super valuable to customers and customers like them and resonate with and other ones are ones that some executive thought was cool but that no customers ever going to care about right so maybe I’m just more cynical than suit Cerrito I’ve never had a press release for a new retail store that didn’t have some silly fluff in it and I suspect she’s right, some of the features that Nikes touting of this door probably will end up being super silly fluff and I think the one she’s pointing to the way I interpreted them is they have some kind of. Um augmented reality experiences where you can use your phone to kind of have a, a virtual Sports tour of the activities in the city where the store is so you’re a tourist and you know maybe you get the experience if you’re if there were a Nike rise in New York you might get the experience of being at the finish line of the New York Marathon or you know being in jet Stadium or something like that so, I don’t know if I’m interpreting that right but I would kind of agree with her like that’s like a kind of tangential shopping experience. Other experiences on that list I’m much more excited about for example there instead of using those Oldham rulers to measure your feet they’re using, image recognition to to measure your feet and prescribed shoe sizes to you and I think. [58:20] It’s shocking that it’s taken this long to improve on that that shoot of ice that’s now a hundred years old. Scot: [58:26] Do you step on it or like it you walk in the store and a camera sees. Jason: [58:27] It’s just a camera that like it when there’s a home in the US there’s a home version that you can use in the Nike app but I’m guessing this is going to be a slightly more optimized version that the so the sales associate uses in the Nike rise store. Scot: [58:42] We’re up against time and we have 60 more topic let me so the one I really want to hear about what we reward folks are making it this long is there’s been a lot of chatter about Walmart’s new kind of quote-unquote prime killer I thought I thought it’s kind of funny because, I think people are missed it it’s really grocery Focus so I was kind of because you’re the grocery Guru I was curious about your take on that. Jason: [59:08] Yeah I’m of two minds so like to summarize it Walmart is launching a subscription program you you get a membership I think the speculation is that it’s like a hundred bucks and you get some shopping benefits for that that. That bent that subscription. Walmart has announced any of this and in fact Jenny Whiteside the chief customer officer who was on our show a few months ago just did an interview on LinkedIn yesterday and they asked her and she said I have nothing to announce right now. But but stay tuned because it’s it is going to be out in like a month so we don’t know what’s really in it, and here’s my two minds if it’s pay $100 to get free one-day shipping for your general merchandise, I think that’s going to be stupid because like it’s going to be trying to compete with Amazon Prime with a way Lamer offering right like. [1:00:09] Amazon has way more assortment than Walmart and and whatever assortment Walmart can ship in one day is a small subset of Walmart’s assortment so– it’s not just a matter of like some products can get there in one day like way more Amazon products are going to get there in one day than Walmart products I’m pretty confident in that so if that’s all it is, it’s not going to be very interesting but I will be surprised and disappointed if that’s all it is I’ll bet you they’re going to bundle some sir some Walmart benefits in there that are different than things Amazon can bundle right so, um therefore there has to be a grocery component in there like you could imagine that there’s free fast home delivery of grocery included in that, I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a healthcare offering in that that they’re offering some premium Healthcare stuff so I’m going to reserve judgment until I see whether offering I hope it’s not an Amazon me-too product, if they can come up with a compelling list of values super smart and important. [1:01:15] That they build us a recurring Revenue model for Walmart like you know as retailers are getting more and more strained on margins recurring revenues where it’s at like the the most successful in the retailer in the US by many standards is Costco, and it’s because of that membership fee like you know when you look at Amazon success it’s all around Prime, so I think Walmart smart to figure out what its recurring revenue is going to be eager just like everyone else to see. [1:01:44] If this first offering next month is unique and differentiated and it can attract people or if it’s a silly shadow of Amazon Prime. Scot: [1:01:54] Yeah I think that’s compelling it’s like hey pass $99 will give you two flu shots and a bag of groceries let’s see how that sells. Jason: [1:02:06] Yeah well but I mean you can omit like there’s a bunch of healthcare services that people have to pay for like you could imagine them taking a hundred hours a hundred dollars out of the cost of that and then you getting all these other benefits right and that’s. That sounds wacky but like you know when Amazon first rode up the the memo and said we’re going to give free shipping and free movie rentals, in Prime that sounded wacky to now everyone’s like well of course you get those. Scot: [1:02:32] Two billion dollar behemoths battling each other is good for consumers so I’m all for it. Jason: [1:02:37] I and I think more retailers need to invent this there was I know we’re crushing time there was a bane report that came out that got widely distributed where they sort of did the math on the profitability of grocery and, this is a these numbers unfortunately are painfully familiar to me but like a normal profitable growth Grocer in store makes two to four percent gross. [1:03:01] So it’s a pretty pretty thin margin business and so anytime you then pick the groceries for the customer and drive them to the customer’s house. Um you’re going to lose money right so all of this digital grocery stuff is not profitable there’s been a lot of Articles written about and Walmart. Digital grocery not being profitable the easiest way you’d make it profitable as you charge more fees for that right and in general consumers haven’t been willing to pay those fees and so. The the hypothesis is like that a recurring membership program may be the best way to collect fees to make grocery profitable, and so you can kind of think about Walmart plus being Walmart’s answer to the profitability conundrum of digital grocery. I will tell you we talked about the micro fulfillment centers and doing automated picking for groceries, and that’s actually the real way to make groceries profitable if you use a robot to fill the bag and you have the customer pick it up in the parking lot instead of driving it to them, you can basically make digital grocery higher capex than a regular grocery store but hit the same operating margins so then. You don’t have to charge any fe

Gospel of John, Chapter 17, verses 11B-19

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, announced their Q1 FY20 earnings which included an announcement that Google Cloud (GCP and G Suite) now has quarterly revenue of $2.78B, giving them a $11B run rate. Both GCP and G Suite continue to maintain strong growth that should not slow down any time soon based on the continued interest from enterprises. In this podcast, Adam Mansfield, shares his thoughts on what to expect from Google Cloud and how enterprises with interest in adopting should approach Google with their interest.

Woodrow Levin was playing fantasy football with the CEO of Draft Kings when one of his players got hurt, causing him to lose a bet. What started as a joke about buying insurance for players quickly spiraled into "what if I can offer insurance/extended warranties on all online products?" It was on this premise that Extend, an extended warranty company that works with online retailers responsible for over $11B gross annual sales, was founded. The company has since raised $16M in VC funding. Extended warranties have become a big business with more than $45B a year in plans sold. Only the top 1% of merchants (Amazon, Costco, and BestBuy) offer extended warranty, leaving a massive portion of the market unable to offer their customers protection plans. By leveraging machine-learning technology and a network of top-rated insurance companies that cater to merchants of all sizes, Extend now offers a solution to the rest of the market to drive incremental bottom-line net income. But also increase overall purchase conversions, and create loyal customers with a digitally native customer experience. However, I felt compelled to find out more about the story behind Woody's tech journey and how serendipity is just as important as technology.      

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The most controversial news of the week went almost entirely unnoticed, covered under a plethora of COVID-19 articles: Donald Trump issued an order to block the sale of the cloud-based suite of hotel management solutions, StayNTouch, to Chinese Goliath, Shiji, on the ground of “national security.” Still on Oracle. Moving to the cloud made the company extremely agile. The downside is that Oracle today needs a fraction of the human workforce it used to, so it is planning to cut 1,300 jobs in Europe, mainly in the Dublin, Amsterdam, and Malaga offices, in order “to adapt the spending of the company to the revenue situation.”In 2019, Expedia Group and Booking Holdings spent over $11B on marketing. Even though today is more a competitor than a partner, most of this budget went straight to Google. According to eMarketer, travel ads accounted for about 10.9% of total search ad spend in 2019 on Google, generating $10.7B out of the $98B total search-related Alphabet revenue.Tech.According to the AI-fueled advertising platform, AdsHotel, campaigns for Italian hotels showed a decrease of about 60% in clicks. UK, Spain, and Germany are decreasing approx 20%, while no significant reduction in clicks is registered on the US domestic market. Interestingly, conversion even increased.ReviewPro launched Guest Experience Automation™, an “AI-powered solution for hotels that seamlessly provides the correct information to improve the guest experience while reducing costs and increasing efficiency. “I was the first knowledge worker whose job was threatened by a machine,” said chess GrandMaster, and personal hero of mine, Garry Kasparov. 23 years after he was defeated by IBM’s Deep(er) Blue, Kasparov came back to New York to discuss AI with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Meliá Hotels International is pioneering the adoption of RPA (Robotic Process Automation) technology n the hospitality industry, automatizing most repetitive processes that, so far, had to be performed manually by humans. The company is implementing RPA in several areas, from Credit and Insurance to HR.Amazon opened Amazon Go Grocery, its first cashier-less grocery store. The grocery industry is worth $800B, so it’s a very interesting one for Bezos. How does it work? You enter the store by scanning your app, then cameras and sensors record what you take from the shelves. When you leave, you’re charged on your Amazon account.Hotel.“The ability of hotel companies to remove (or at least reduce) the transactional friction from the guest experience relies in large part on the capacity to make payments as “invisible” as possible,” wrote James Montague, Shiji Group, on an interesting piece on payments accessible here.ITB launched its virtual convention platform. You can access the on-demand videos here, or watch my session here below:Welcome to Digital., your weekly recap of the best travel news of the week: day in, day out. Everything you need to know about hotel distribution, digital economy, travel, tourism, hospitality, startups, market stocks, reports, staff movements, industry events, innovation, and more. Hosted by best-selling author, journalist, futurist, founder of Travel Singularity, toy collector and retired punk rocker, Simone Puorto.

On today’s show I’m going to make a bold economic prediction, and its not a popular one. I don’t frequently make large predictions, but this one seems obvious to me. I haven’t seen anything in the media talking about this as of yet. I believe that we will see a global recession in 2020. The trigger for this recession is the outbreak of corona virus that has the city of Wuhan in China as the epicentre. British Airways suspended flights to China today, and it remains to be seen if governments or other air carriers will implement travel restrictions. Air travel is one of the most effective methods for transmitting illness. You have a few hundred people in close proximity for several hours with a high percentage of recirculated air. The older the aircraft, the more air is recirculated. Even if infection isn’t transmitted on the aircraft, you have the possibility of infected persons exporting the disease to other parts of the world making it that much more difficult to contain. The Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 infected an estimated 500 million people and killed an estimated 50 million people. Think about it, the world had just experienced WW1, and all of the horrors of that multi-national conflict. It was the war to end all wars and hot on the heels of that, along comes a strain of H1N1 that killed another 50 million people. Back in 2003, the SARS outbreak killed an estimated 800 people worldwide and it too had a high mortality rate. A few years later in 2009, the so-called swine flu pandemic was another H1N1 virus. Remember, the world was already in recession in 2009. We were in the middle of the largest economic downturn since the great depression. So the impact of a downturn in the global travel and leisure industry was hard to measure. It was just more bad news on top of a mud puddle of bad economic news. There are no official estimates. Some economists estimate the impact of somewhere between 0.5% of GDP and 1.5% of GDP. But here’s what we do know. After 911 in 2001 travel on a global basis was hit hard. It triggered a downturn in hospitality. People still took vacations at that time, but they were increasingly driving vacations that didn’t involve air travel. In 2001, the global airline industry was weak and were already forecast to have somewhere between $1-2B in losses. In the wake of 9/11, the industry losses grew to $11B and a portion of this was offset by government bailouts of the airline industry. Midway airlines shut down. US Air went into bankruptcy and United Airlines was on the brink of bankruptcy. The only profitable airline in the US that year was Southwest. In total, 13 airlines applied for relief under the stabilization act. With the SARS outbreak in 2002-2003, the same thing happened. Travel numbers were down dramatically for leisure. Even business travel was restricted and business people held more video conferences than ever before. At the time, video conference technology was not nearly as widely used as it is today. So here we are at the beginning of 2020. Several countries are working hard to develop a vaccine for the corona virus. It will be at least 6 months before a vaccine is approved for use in humans and still longer before it is manufactured and available in meaningful quantities. A lot can happen in the spread of the disease in 6 months. We have already 6,000 reported cases in Wuhan, an increase of 50% in about a week. The virus is now reported in 17 countries. Containment is vitally important to prevent a global pandemic. This will affect global travel patterns. I’m going on record as saying that 2020 will experience a global slowdown in the travel industry that will be of sufficient magnitude to push most major economies into economic recession. This will have a ripple effect into other sectors of the economy.

Ethan is joined by Danny Kim, Head of Growth at SFOX, a crypto trading platform and prime dealer for whale traders and institutional investors that's connected to over 20 exchanges and OTC desks to provide a single point of access to crypto markets. SFOX has quietly performed over $11B in transactions and works with some of the biggest names in crypto. Topics covered include: • Danny's Career: What lead him from his traditional banking job into the then unknown, wild world of crypto, ignoring concerns from his mentors and peers. (And whether it was worth it.)
• Danny tells us about SFOX – and what even is a Prime Dealer? Why a single point of liquidity to all the major crypto exchanges and OTC desks is key for institutional and retail adoption of crypto trading. • How SFOX is designed for traders: SFOX's suite of algorithms – and SFOX's FoxEye suite of trading tools for personalized trading strategies.  • Traders Insurance: SFOX provides its traders with industry-first FDIC-insured accounts; why qualified insurance is vital for institutional adoption.  
 • What type of institutions are getting into crypto? From family offices and hedge funds to money managers, SFOX is seeing a wide variety of institutional investors gaining exposure to digital assets.  • Why segregated accounts are crucial to institutional investment in cryptocurrencies, and how the QuadrigaCX debacle exposed the current model as flawed.        

Roshan Vani is the COO of Nexus PMG, an engineering firm that specializes in built-to-spec solutions for large scale infrastructure projects Mr. Vani is a Project Management Professional with experience in the EPC, EPCM & PMC industry working on large capital projects ranging in value from $0.5B to $11B in the Power and Mining & Metals industries. He has experience in managing lump sum and cost reimbursable contracts in North America and Saudi Arabia. Prior to starting Nexus he was a Risk Manager & Project Controls Manager for a Fortune 500 firm and subject matter expert in project planning (Primavera), schedule (Primavera Risk) risk analysis and cost risk (@Risk) analysis. Mr. Vani is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP certificate from the Project Management Institute) and holds a B.S in Electrical Engineering from the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park. www.NexusPMG.com

siman 447:11B-12 in Chelek Hey- Hilchos Pesach by Rabbi Tzvi Thaler

Bio for Aaron L. Pettigrew, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Tennessee   Birth: June 23rd, 1975, Honolulu, HI.   Home town: Sinclair, Wyoming.   Education: High school graduation, 1993, Rawlins High School, Rawlins, Wyoming. Self-educated beyond that.   Military:  I did try to serve in the U.S. Army but I turned out to be one of those people that have physical problems because of being flat footed and was EPTS medically discharged, status General, at the beginning of basic training during a bottleneck from training class cuts in 1993. My MOS would have been 11B, infantry.  I found out the hard way during PT runs while waiting and was sent home from Fort Benning.   Work experience:  Starting at age 10, I mowed lawns, shoveled sidewalks and babysat as was able. I also did some spot work at cattle ranches on occasion, riding fence and the like. At 16, I also started work as a dishwasher. I did some other restaurant work and various spot jobs into early adulthood. After my discharge, I did several things for a while trying to make a new plan for my life, had a union job for a while in Ohio and moved to Tennessee shortly after I turned 21, ran vending machines for a while and made my first try at business as a contracted courier for a year. After that I tried a few things including microfilm, a truck stop shop and did temp work for Metro Water in Nashville. I returned home to help mom and grandma, working at a truck stop, then in April, 2004 went to truck driving school in Salt Lake City. A year after that, I made my second attempt at business as an owner operator, 10 months later someone hit my truck so I started driving for Sinclair Oil in Sinclair, Wyoming which is where my education in laws and regulations really began as the terminal safety supervisor and working a vac-truck with the refinery’s EPA rep.  When mom didn’t need me home anymore, I returned to Tennessee and drove for Crete Carrier, then got back into business as an owner operator again, this time successfully for four years. During that time was the event that made me consider running for office the first time.  Between that and some issues with the truck as it approached a million miles, I chose to return to being a company driver and during the 2018 campaign started working for the company I drive for now.  Throughout my life, I have also volunteered to help in hardship situations such as the tornado that hit Nashville in 98, I think that was the year. Because of work and losing my own vehicle in it, I wasn’t able to help in the 2010 flood though.   Politics:  My first exposure to politics was President Ronald Reagan, on the news and on TV shows like Johnnie Carson.  I watched his first inauguration in Kindergarten and watched the news coverage of the shot that hit Brady in school as well. My parents and grandparents didn’t really talk about politics much but my dad and grandpa did watch the news. As a young kid, I liked his sense of humor and growing up, I started seeing how things he said make sense. After that he left office my next exposure to political talk was catching the Rush Limbaugh TV show after school, I don’t remember if it was live or a replay but he made sense to me as well. Like most teenagers, I didn’t have much interest in it but I paid attention enough to know that the Federal Government wasn’t doing things the way the Constitution says and slowly learned more over the years. I was excited over Ross Perot for many of the same reasons I support Trump now but wasn’t old enough to vote yet.  As a young adult I was an independent but tended to vote for Republicans.  I had voted for a Democrat in a couple local elections but I knew him personally. I’d missed some votes but I was already cynical about politicians even then. One election when I was in Nashville the first time, I didn’t think to vote and that was the first time I heard the expression that if you don’t vote, you have no right to complain and I started paying a lot more attention to it.  Some votes I left alone because I didn’t know anything about the candidates or the position but as I learned more, I started filling in more boxes.  When I started driving, I gravitated to Conservative Talk Radio because what hosts like Rush, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin were saying just made sense to me and it allowed me to stay generally informed and kept my mind active. Eventually I started reading the books and articles they were talking about as well.  Then, I found satellite radio and found Sirius Talk Right which eventually became SXM Patriot. The first few years, there was a Catholic, Libertarian host in the morning that really got me interested in studying the Constitution and history surrounding it.  I must interject that my family had always been Liberty loving and 2nd Amendment supporting people, I was the same.  About 6 ½, 7 years ago, after one of the infamous shootings, Senator Alexander pushed for a gun control vote and having a deeper understanding of the Constitution, that angered me, I had also tried volunteering my transportation knowledge with Alexander, Corker and Desjarlais but only got 2 form emails and ignored by Alexander in response, which didn’t help my opinion of either of them.  After that, I said that if I don’t start seeing Constitutional candidates, I would run for office.  Over the next couple years, I started studying all of the offices in my political “chain of command” and compared them to my beliefs and my abilities.  Because of the basis of my knowledge, I chose to run for the U.S. Senate.  I don’t really fit in State and Local Government because in those issues and responsibilities, I believe there are people better suited, at least for now but on the big picture, U.S. Constitutional issues, I was already very well versed.  Looking at the different responsibilities in Article 1, sections 2 and 3, the Senate was clearly the better fit for me. Since then, I have spent almost all of my time off work, including my relaxing time at night studying to serve well.   Constitutional and political reading that I’ve done: The surviving records of the Constitutional Convention Eliot’s Debates, which are the ratification debates coupled with everything I could find on the Amendment ratification debates of all the Constitutional Amendments.   Blackstone’s Commentaries, The Magna Carta, English translations of Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, and historical accounts of England, Greece and Rome that the framers relied heavily on to develop the Constitution.  Now, I don’t have it all memorized but I can find my way around all of it to use when necessary. I’ve also studied quite a bit from various published works from people who have served in both chambers of Congress and even read the entire U.S. Code and the rules of the Senate.  Again, I don’t have it all memorized but I can search my way through it and understand it well enough to use it for the duties of the office.   I’ve read the works of others, Locke, de Tocqueville, the Federalist and Anti-federalist papers, Common Sense, Patrick Henry, Bastiat and more.  I have also studied various free market forms of economics and I lean toward Austrian.   I have also studied many of the economic and governmental systems we conservatives are trying to fight against here in the United States, such as Socialism, Communism, Maoism and Keynesian economics so I can hold my own when arguing against them.   Affiliations:  I am a life member of the NRA and the Tennessee Firearms Association. A member of my County GOP and the 917 Society which gives Constitutions to 8th graders in Tennessee and is trying to expand past Tennessee next year.  Through Social Media, I am affiliated with The Constitutional Grassroots Movement (not endorsed,) Constitutional Patriots (conpats.com, endorsed,) the Paleolibertarian Coalition (endorsed,) III% Republic, the National Constitutional Coalition of Patriotic Americans and other Constitutional, conservative, pro-Trump, gun rights and trucker groups.   Pledges I have taken:  Americans for Tax Reform, although I need to sign a new one for this cycle.  U.S. Term Limits.  ConPats (also in affiliations) 10-point pledge.  Oath Keepers, even though that is more for Sheriffs and local Government officials, I still agree with it in principle.  There was another Term Limits group last year as well.  A pledge to support the Life At Conception Act and other pro-life legislation or Amendments. A pledge to support building the wall and to end chain migration and the VISA lottery.   Campaign slogan: Nothing’s going to change until WE THE PEOPLE change it!   Stated political platform: Read the entire Constitution, including all the Amendments, think of all the things the Federal Government does that is NOT in there, then go back and read the 9th and 10th Amendments again. That IS my platform.   Website: http://aaronpettigrewfortennessee.com 

Meet a father son team, Ricky France Sr. and Ricky France Jr. both combat veterans. Sr an 11B during the Vietnam War and Jr a Purple heart recipient during the War in Iraq after 9-11. It was so nice to take both of these guys fishing and talking with them during the podcast. What I loved most about this podcast is how Reeling Freedom helps and how them being on the water not only gave them the opportunity to relax, but it also helped to build their father son relationship. Hope you enjoy. Please rate and review!!!

Dcn. Steve Vallero, Nativity of Our Lord Catholic Church | June 23, 2019 | The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ | First Reading - Genesis 14:18-20 Second Reading - 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 Sequence Lauda Sion Gospel - Luke 9:11B-17

Fr. Emanuele Fadini, Nativity of Our Lord Catholic Church | June 23, 2019 | The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ | First Reading - Genesis 14:18-20 Second Reading - 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 Sequence Lauda Sion Gospel - Luke 9:11B-17

Fr. Leon's Homily on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ given at the 1pm Mass on June 23rd, 2019 Check out the reading here: http://usccb.org/bible/readings/062319.cfm First Reading: GN 14:18-20 Pslam: PS 110:1, 2, 3, 4 Second Reading: 1 COR 11:23-26 Gospel: Luke 9:11B-17

Fr. Michael's Homily on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ given at the 9am Mass on June 23rd, 2019 Check out the reading here: http://usccb.org/bible/readings/062319.cfm First Reading: GN 14:18-20 Pslam: PS 110:1, 2, 3, 4 Second Reading: 1 COR 11:23-26 Gospel: Luke 9:11B-17

Fr. John Trout preaches on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, Corpus Christi, June 23, 2019. Mass Readings:  First Reading: Genesis 14:18-20 Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 110:1, 2, 3, 4 Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 Gospel: Luke 9:11B-17

Fr. John Hennessey preaches on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, Corpus Christi, June 23, 2019. Mass Readings:  First Reading: Genesis 14:18-20 Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 110:1, 2, 3, 4 Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 Gospel: Luke 9:11B-17

Fr. Robinson Ortiz preaches on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, Corpus Christi, June 23, 2019. Mass Readings:  First Reading: Genesis 14:18-20 Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 110:1, 2, 3, 4 Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 Gospel: Luke 9:11B-17

Fr. Martin Luboyera preaches on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, Corpus Christi, June 23, 2019. Mass Readings:  First Reading: Genesis 14:18-20 Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 110:1, 2, 3, 4 Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 Gospel: Luke 9:11B-17

Fr. John Kartje preaches on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, Corpus Christi, June 23, 2019. Mass Readings:  First Reading: Genesis 14:18-20 Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 110:1, 2, 3, 4 Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 Gospel: Luke 9:11B-17

First Reading: Genesis 14:18-20 Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 Sequence: St. Thomas Aquinas, Sequence Lauda Sion Gospel: Luke 9:11B-17

Disney Cruise Line Staterooms - What do all those numbers and letters really mean? This week on the Disney Park Princess Podcast, Sara, Sharla & Heather break down the differences between a 5A and a 11B. (And all the numbers in between!) Plus some Disney news!

Pepsi rose to an all-time high as advertising’s rescued its soda biz. Wish is reportedly raising $300M to reach an $11B valuation as 2018’s most-downloaded ecommerce app. And you haven’t ridden on Kansas City Southern Railroads, but it just jumped 4% and has a special stake in geopolitics.

News espresso: U.S. considering $11B tariffs on EU goods, Ghosn maintains his innocence, Virginia claims NCAA title

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With the Industrial Revolution and the development of a mechanistic mindset, we have come to view ourselves as entities separate from the earth. In fact, the earth has become a subset from which we extract profits. This attitude has led to industrial farming practices that destroy the land and an industrial food complex that strips the nutrients from the foods we consume. What if we combined the best of science and mechanics with the indigenous understanding that we are dependent on the earth to sustain us? What if we adopted—on a large scale—the regenerative agricultural practices that produce nutrient-rich foods, restore the soil, and remove carbon from the atmosphere? Dr. Charles Massy is a farmer, writer, and self-professed shit-stirrer. He has managed a 5K-acre sheep and cattle property for the last 40 years and conducted research in the areas of innovation in the Merino sheep and wool industries, regenerative landscape management, and climate change. Charles is a research associate with the Fenner School of Environment and Society at Australian National University and the author of Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture, A New Earth. Today, Charles joins Ross, Christophe and Paul to explain how the industrial approach damaged his own family farm and how draught and debt led him to the practices of modern regenerative agriculture. He discusses the dangers of economic rationalism and how we can work within the capitalist framework to profit from sustainable practices. Charles offers insight around the lack of nutrients in food produced by the industrial complex, describing the health impacts of processed and fast food as well as the opportunity to reestablish a human connection to our food through community gardens. Listen in to understand how an emergent mind combines the best of science with an indigenous or organic worldview and learn how regenerative farmers and urban consumers can collaborate to initiate the healing process and reverse climate change along the way!   Resources Climactic Podcast Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture, A New Earth by Charles Massy In a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson Aldo Leopold A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold Books by Wendell Berry Books by Carolyn Merchant Ian and Dianne Haggerty Companies vs. Climate Change Dialectic of Enlightenment by Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno Mary Oliver Don Huber The Poison Papers Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science by Carey Gillam UN Food & Agriculture Organization Patagonia Acres USA Landcare Australia Paul Hawken Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming edited by Paul Hawken   Connect with Nori Nori Nori’s Crowdfunding Campaign Nori on Facebook Nori on Twitter Nori on Medium Nori on YouTube Email hello@nori.com Nori White Paper Subscribe on iTunes   Key Takeaways [1:28] Charles’ path to regenerative agriculture Took over 5K-acre family farm at 22 Industrial approach led to damage/debt Search for alternative led regenerative ag [6:16] The geology of Australia 2/3 up to 3.8B years old (scarce nutrients) Western prototype suited for different climate [7:58] The indigenous mindset People indivisible with Mother Earth Mechanistic mind views as separate [10:42] The profitability of regenerative practices Must function within capitalist framework Haggerty’s doubled yield with 1/6 cost input [14:36] The idea of economic rationalism Must revolutionize system from within Danger in arrogance, focus on profits [19:56] The truth about industrial agriculture Food empty of most essential nutrients Poisoned by chemicals (e.g.: glyphosate) [23:16] The myth around the necessity for industrial ag 70% of food supply comes from peasant farms Current farmland could feed 11B [24:57] The cost to consumers for shifting to regenerative Low if grow own food, use community gardens Opportunity cost to human health if don’t change [30:00] The idea of the innovator’s dilemma Big companies lose connection with consumer Difficult for mammoth corporations to pivot [31:53] Charles’ insight on developing an emergent mind Combine best of science with caring for earth Humility keeps open to adaptation [35:00] How self-interest is tied to sustaining the earth Best regenerative farmers are top businesspeople Take care of ecosystem that facilitates profitability [37:58] Who Charles is trying to reach Farmers open to new practices Health-conscious urban consumers [43:12] How agriculture can take the lead in healing the earth Industrial agriculture played major role in destruction Best climate solutions come from regenerative ag [45:08] Charles’ take on our spiritual connection to the earth Spiritual element critical to emergent mind Elimination is ‘what got us into trouble’

America’s farms are disappearing at an unsustainable rate of 1.5 million acres per year. Yes, this has implications in terms of food production, but it also impacts our ability to deal with climate change. Through conservation practices and regenerative innovation, agricultural lands have the potential to sequester a great deal of carbon in the soil—and that can’t happen if development continues to erase our farms and ranches. So, how do we protect our best land and promote agriculture as a natural climate solution? Jimmy Daukus is the Senior Program Officer at American Farmland Trust, an organization dedicated to saving the land that sustains us. AFT is working to protect the best farmland, promote environmentally sound practices and keep farmers on the land. In his current role, Jimmy is focused on national initiatives to combat climate change, engage non-operating landowners in conservation practices, and save America’s most productive, versatile and resilient agricultural lands. Jimmy has been with AFT for 21 years, serving as VP for Programs and Managing Director for Agriculture & Environment, and he led the organization’s campaign to transform US policy through the 2008 Farm Bill.  Today, Jimmy joins Ross, Christophe, and Paul to discuss the importance of American Farmland Trust’s mission to protect farmland and explain the significant impact of land use on climate change. He describes AFT’s role as a protector of food-producing land, offering insight on how they work with both farmers and policymakers to identify the barriers to implementing conservation practices and advocate for policy changes and incentives. Jimmy addresses the need to make progress across the continuum of agricultural practices, elevating farming and ranching as a natural climate solution. Listen in for Jimmy’s take on the competition for land use and learn how agriculture can be a major player in reversing climate change.   Resources American Farmland Trust Ben Kessler on RCC EP037 Farms Under Threat Report Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warmingedited by Paul Hawken NRCS Conservation Stewardship Program IPCC Report Gabe Brown Jennifer Moore-Kucera   Connect with Nori Nori Nori’s Crowdfunding Campaign Nori on Facebook Nori on Twitter Nori on Medium Nori on YouTube Email hello@nori.com Nori White Paper Subscribe on iTunes   Key Takeaways [0:47] Jimmy’s path to reversing climate change Grew up in CT, farmland converted to suburban homes Work at AFT combines interest in land, ag and environment  [3:11] Where farmers fit into the climate issue Front lines of impact (weather-based industry) One of most important solutions (sequester carbon in soil) [4:37] The importance of AFT’s mission to protect farmland How we use land has big impact on climate change Sprawling development increases vehicle miles, energy use Farmland protection + compact growth = less emissions  [7:15] The barrier for new and beginning farmers Access to affordable land  [9:41] AFT’s role as a protector of food-producing land 5M acres of ag land converted annually (unsustainable) Identify most productive, versatile and resilient land Promote use of marginal lands for solar, reforestation More attention to carbon sequestration on ag lands  [15:22] How AFT works with farmers and policymakers Identify barriers and test solutions on ground Tweak policy based on what works best [17:56] Jimmy’s insight on the need for policy incentives Ag land can’t compete dollar for dollar with housing Better off to protect best land, promote smart growth [20:00] How a carbon market could make a difference for farmers Low margin, risky business Benefit from additional revenue streams [22:44] The disconnect between renters and landowners Extend leases to facilitate conservation practices (5 years) Establish communication and trust to change dynamic  [26:21] How to make progress across the continuum of ag practices Conventional—conservation—organic—regenerative Convert 100M acres of conventional to cover crops Innovations in regenerative ag to lead way Elevate agriculture as natural climate solution in policy [29:08] Agriculture’s role in reversing climate change Cropland potential to sequester 11B tons/year Ag and forests could be 37% of global solution [31:19] Jimmy’s view of the politics of climate change Emphasize what matters to particular audience Address productivity, resilience with farmers [35:53] The policy changes necessary to promote conservation Current subsidies favor conventional ag Crop insurance premiums to reflect lower risk

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Happy Birthday, to Jason's wife, Leila! Scot Wingo is contributing the Forbes Digital Council, and writing about his new Vehicle 2.0 Framework.  Introducing Vehicle 2.0.  Jason Goldberg is also contributing to a regular retail column on Forbes, starting with his first article: What Competitors Are Missing About Amazon's New 4-Star Retail Concept. Scot is appearing in a national TV spot promoting his alma mater, North Carolina State, "Think and Do!" Jason is leading several sessions at GroceryShop October 28-31 in Las Vegas, including a keynote interview with Sam's Club Chief Merchant Ashley Buchanan. Amazon Earnings: Amazon's third-quarter earnings beat Street estimates, but its revenue and fourth-quarter outlook fell short of expectations. Revenue: Revenue increased +29% Y/Y (+30% ex-FX) to $56.58B, 1% below the Street's $57.11B. 29% Revenue growth was below consensus expectations as Int’l revenue disappointed with a ~$1B shortfall. North America revenue (ex-AWS and ex-WF) of $30.10B was up 25%, in line with 2Q18 growth. International revenue of $15.55B was up 13% (+15% ex-FX), a notable deceleration from 27% growth in Q2 (+21% ex-FX). AWS revenue of $6.68B was up 46%, down from +49% growth in Q2 but in line with expectations. Physical Stores revenue of $4.25B was slightly ahead of consensus expectations. Amazon's "other" category, aka advertising, jumped 123% to $2.5 billion in revenue AWS revenue: $6.68 billion vs. $6.71 billion estimated, according to FactSet Net income, meanwhile, grew more than 10-times from the year-ago period, to a record-high $2.8 billion, marking the fourth straight quarter of topping $1 billion in profits. The $3.7 billion in operating income far-exceeded Street estimates of $2.1 billion GAAP Operating Income of $3.72B was higher than the Street's $2.12B. Gross margin of 41.7% came in above the Street's 40.5%. GAAP Operating Income margin of 6.6% was higher than the Street's 3.7%. Profitability, once again, was a positive surprise with Op Inc ~$1.5B ahead of consensus expectations, Other News: Implications of the US pulling out of UPU Treaty Implications of Sears bankruptcy Don't forget to like our facebook page, and if you enjoyed this episode please write us a review on itunes. Episode 149 of the Jason & Scot show was recorded on Thursday, October 25th, 2018. http://jasonandscot.com Join your hosts Jason "retailgeek" Goldberg, SVP Commerce & Content at SapientRazorfish, and Scot Wingo, Founder and Executive Chairman of Channel Advisor as they discuss the latest news and trends in the world of e-commerce and digital shopper marketing. Transcript Transcript Jason: [0:25] Welcome to the Jason and Scott show this is episode 149 being recorded on Monday October 25th 2018 I'm your host Jason retailgeek Goldberg and as usual I'm here with your co-host and television spokesmodel Scott Wingo. Scot: [0:46] Hey Jason welcome back Jason Scott show us nurse yeah yeah yeah. So if you're at the front should I guess we'll will preface it's been a couple weeks but a show out so apologies to everybody we have been just crazy busy and what Jason's referencing there is I did a small video for this NC State thing and then end up being in a promotion that they are nationally a lot of people have seen it so that's been fun we'll put a link to it in the show notes so NC state has the motto which is thinking do, I am and I'm featured in there talking about they can do. Jason: [1:26] And they are airing at like on ESPN during the games. Scot: [1:30] Yeah when the when the college's nobody watch college football UIC usually during halftime they get two spots that they can kind of do a promotional video about University each University gifts and this is one they've been running for. Jason: [1:45] That's it's totally awesome I'm just saying it's my animated screensaver now so just so you know. Scot: [1:50] It's a little creepy but whatever floats your boat Jason. Jason: [1:56] Not even the weirdest thing about me. Scot: [1:58] Another fun fact is we are both contribute to Forbes you had a really good article where you you went through your Amazon go store the force Star Story. Jason: [2:13] Yeah and you are like some fancier CIO contributor if I'm not mistaken. Scot: [2:21] Yeah if you have the tech Advisory board or some such and I am writing about vehicle 2.0 which is a framework we've developed its if he for thinking about the future of cars which seems like it wouldn't have anything to do about e-commerce but it's kind of interesting. The first of all you have a. Perspective on how fast or how slow this vehicle stops going to go in and then second of all there are overlaps there so for example imagine autonomous vehicles delivering packages. Jason: [2:54] Yep for sure and I suspect in the not-too-distant future will be ordering a lot of packages from our vehicles and in many cases getting delivered to our vehicles. Scot: [3:05] Yes sir that's good and then the in exciting car news so Tesla's new operating system came out so that that has been fun to play with and a lot of the folks that are in the same demographic issue and I the most exciting part about the parade this is the Tesla West Nine is they have an Atari simulator in there as one of the new Easter eggs so that you can't do this while you're driving so full disclosure there. Sadly but I guess safely but it is a lot of fun to play on the touch-screen the various old Atari games, most fun one probably is Missile Command because he was always super frustrating to have to deal with that track ball and you can never get faster left right it in your little basis would get destroyed so now you can kind of do a two-finger thing and it makes it a lot easier to save your bases file. Jason: [3:57] I am always jealous when you get a new upgrade because I just think that's the coolest thing that you're you go to bed and wake up in your car has been upgraded it makes me want to like go out and get a fancy new cup holder or something for my car. Scot: [4:10] Yes you could. You could get a Tesla you should. Jason: [4:14] Yep despite the fact that my wife and I have no commute in the car is almost exclusively used by a three-year-old shirt. Scot: [4:21] Call Anna Jason you got a lot of stuff you can be doing here either this week or next week. Jason: [4:31] Yeah the the these next two weeks are super busy for me on the personal front this is the busiest week of the year for me tonight is my wife's birthday, inside of a side-note shout out to you honey happy birthday she most wanted to celebrate it by having me catch up. With the podcast cuz she knew the listeners were frustrated with the, the Gap we've had and her main request for her birthday is she wants to go to the Star Wars experience in Orlando on a joint vacation with the windows so we're going to have to. I think we're gonna have to find a way to make that happen. Scot: [5:13] Absolutely that is one birthday gift I'll be happy to help make happen. Jason: [5:17] Exactly and then it's a crazy fertility week apparently in my family because in addition to my wife's birthday. Tomorrow is like my mother's birthday my mother-in-law's birthday and my father-in-law's birthday. So so we're doing a lot of birthday celebrations this week and then Sunday I shoot out to grocery shop which is this new trade show in Las Vegas this will be the first year. Mainly focused on digital disruption of the grocery category. It's put on by the same folks that started money 20/20 and Shop talk. And I think they were hoping to get like a thousand attendees in this first year and they actually sold out capacity of the venue at 2200 people. So it's it's shaping up to be a really good event and I'm dramatically Overexposed at the event so Sunday night I'll actually be doing the keynote interview with Ashley Buchanan who's the chief Merchant at Sam's Club. So I get to talk to him about digital at Sam's and we'll talk about scan and go and some of their partnership with instacart and some of the other things they're doing hopefully I'll have some. Samara tough questions I'm doing a piano on. [6:36] Brands using product content help build a brand since we got. Folks from the Boston beer company which is like Sam's Sam Adams we've got Chobani what unit or disrupted the the yogurt space and we've got the wonderful company with the almonds and pom wonderful Fiji Water and all that stuff. And then I'm doing a panel on the evolution of the cpg retail relationship we've got constellation Brands which is. A big house of brands in alcohol space I think has Corona amongst others you have a elf Beauty and then a Fairway Market which is a great bespoke grocery retailer in the New York City area so. Some topics that are near and dear to my house heart and I'm looking forward to seeing everyone at grocery shop and the. I do have plan I know you're not going to go to join us so that always makes me sad but I do think we're going to get the opportunity to record a couple shows from there with some of the the grocery industry makers. Scot: [7:38] Next year they're going to Rebrand the sink to Jason talk or something like that cuz it seems like you're just doing everything there. Jason: [7:45] Yeah I think that was actually there original premise and then they found out like that the only for family members I could possibly get to attend we're all celebrating their birthday and so they decided to scrap. Scot: [7:56] Expanded to smother people in the loss of that that looks good I look forward to seeing all the social media that comes out of that and and he ran to the interviews any trip reports. Jason: [8:11] I do so, we've talked about Amazon go on the store on the show we did talk after they open the first go store in Chicago they have open to other go stores in Chicago so now we have a. A fleet of ghost tours and then this week or last Thursday Google opened a pop-up shop shop here in in Chicago for the holidays. So Google has done pop ups for several years but they've always been in New York this is their first year in Chicago so I was eager to see. What that look like and I I went and visited it this week so I'll talk about that in just a minute and then. They have announced their first permanent retail store in the US and that is going to be in Chicago there's no official date on when that's opening yet so we're continuing. To watch for updates on that but I'll be interesting to see what a permanent Google Store looks like but the pop-up is really sort of. [9:12] Very similar to pass Google pop-ups it's it's focused on the Google Hardware products so the pixel 3 phone their new home hub which is there a voice assistant that has a screen built-in so it sort of. Competing with Amazon Alexa show. [9:32] They you don't have a a couple cool accessories I've never really smart a wireless charger for the pixel phone. So you know you go to the pop-up they have all the products they had them on launch day. Which would which is kind of cool as the first place outside of Verizon you can get the pixel 3 phone. And they set up a couple of fun vignettes to sort of demo the capability so they have sort of a. A fake record store you can go into and play music using the the Alexa assistance in there that their new high-end audio Fidelity speaker. You can go into a tree house and do a bunch of home automation stuff so you can you know give commands to Google and you know see the shades in the tree house go up and down or change the lighting in a few different things. And they have a kitchen vignette and in the kitchen vignette you can have a bunch of Easter eggs you can give commands and it'll like pop open a drawer with candy in it and some stuff like that so. Some some fun little vignettes to kind of get you experimenting with a Google product but sorta in typical. [10:44] Pop-up shop fashion you know it it really felt more like some sort of Museum exhibits where you could go in and try products rather than a working retail store. [10:57] And you know the it was very sales assisted experience you know there more Google employees in the store then there were customers. [11:06] You know if if you are specifically looking to get Hands-On a Google product it was great opportunity to do that but I'm not sure as a pure retail store. [11:15] It was all that that interesting or or Works particularly well and in my mind the big change from previous Google pop-ups was just sort of the. The visual treatment so in the past they've done he's really kind of techno treatments with a lot of like. Animated light things and fiber optics and you kind of got a very sort of Tron feel from the the Google pop-ups in this Google pop-up was a much more. Sort of the Vintage organic feel so you know instead of a house they had a tree house and they they don't sell these other they should they they're like merchandising all of the. The the phones and he's cool Google tool boxes that they made for the store and so is very white. Sort of organic store with a fake tree in the middle of it and it was two stories and so if you live in Chicago you're interested in some Google products totally worth we're checking it out there are a couple features in the pixel 3 that I'm super jealous up as a. IPhone user they have dramatically improve new spam telephone spam filters which. I feel like I'm getting a lot more telephone spam so that seem cool and they have a great new visual search built into the the camera and incredible new will light features for the camera that seem to be class weaving. Scot: [12:40] Awesome I don't want to. Get you an agitated but I am ambidextrous and my pixel 3 actually just arrived today and I'm going to crack it open after this podcast so I'll do it boxing next week and tell you about all the awesome teacher missing. Jason: [12:57] Exciting I I probably will add one of the beat to I think it is going to be fun and if you have already gotten one spot I do suggest you get the the Google pixel. Wireless charger. It's really smart and clever like unlike traditional wireless chargers it recognizes each individual phone and you can have different settings for each phone it basically turns the phone into a mini Google home hub when you put the phone on the charger it has a bunch of unique features that I feel like everyone else should have thought of but give always the first ones to implement. Scot: [13:31] Awesome I didn't know about that so I appreciate that cool wall decals caught up on outside and it wouldn't be a Jason and Scott show without. Amazon news your margin is there a opportunity. [13:59] Yes Jason said at the top of the show it's Thursday October 25th and. After the market closes today Amazon announced their third quarter earnings and just kind of position awareness if you listen to podcast setting up for Holiday 18 and I like good stuff going on in a little while kind of shaky here in the last couple weeks the stock market's gyrating a bit tariff kind of stuff is accelerating were to talk about some things there later than the show around China impacts so for me this is a really important set up cuz this is kind of the one the last data points work it going into holiday 18. Add a reminder for everybody we tend to think of e-commerce as Baseline going about 15% 1/5 overall retail tubilee grows low-single-digit so 4% so with that being said Amazon did announce their ornax and it's kind of a mixed bag so he was a little light and and I'll go into why but then profitability exceeded expectations so as of the recording of that show the stock is down a tad and a smoke so. [15:20] When you peel the onion on on the top line revenue came in at. 30% year-over-year growth is 56 billion and that was about 1% will at the street was looking for so that one person. Turns out to be about a billion dollars so what's a billion dollars between friends who was largely on the international side Amazon doesn't really give any details about things but reading the tea leaves their you know it feels like there's there's some stuff going on they did annualize some things like suck exertion of some changes they made in India but then also you know I think a lot of the Wall Street analysts are or feeling like this is Felix of tariffs and packed so when item is sold from China and us that counts as it's where the seller is that that counts is international Judy and Skip Bayless so so that could be Amazon on the little bit of that passes Air Force they're going on Ding and revenue little bit more when you look at North America and you take out just when you just get the retail North America that snow cloud computing. [16:33] Whole Foods is a 25% begin to put this in perspective Amazon overall grew about 30% even that it's amazing you know huge 800 lb scale North America grew at 25% and then International only grew about 15% which is a pretty steep deceleration from last quarter is 27% of us continue to do really well that 46% and a physical stores came in right at expectations one of the stupidest things we like to talk about on the show is the advertising that continues to grow triple digits that grew a hundred 23% and is now 2.5 billion dollars and yeah that that just kind of looking at the trend overtime book with this the show notes so you'll get you one of 18 at 132% U2 under 29% you 323% so little bit of a slow down but really just continues to be white hot that eternity Jason for some other highlights. Jason: [17:42] Yep it's always hard to talk about a Slowdown in growth when it's still over 100%. That's a first world problem for sure but it's it was sort of a bifurcated story you I got the, the revenue was a slight Miss for the quarter but earnings for the quarter were really strong so they were. 2.8 billion for the quarter which is the their highest earnings ever that means that's four straight quarters that they've earned over a billion dollars in profit hopefully that. Scot: [18:18] Jason. Jason: [18:20] I was just going to say I hope I hope that finally puts to bed the the silly myths that they're not profitable. That is wildin more profitable than they were just a short time ago so that is like 10 x their profit from a year ago and that earnings was a pretty solid beat on the market expectation so on the one hand you go man they say we miss Revenue but they blew away earnings that should be a great story but then you know they gave their guidance for Q4 which was a little soft and disappointing to the market and the ramifications of that is this after hours trading their stock took a meaningful dipso their stock was down 9% tonight, if that holds tomorrow it is conceivable that Microsoft which had a good earnings report yesterday well at least briefly pass Amazon is the second most valuable company so I'm not sure that says anything particular negative about Amazon but that's a pretty impressive run for Microsoft will get themselves on the mixer. Scot: [19:31] There's a little bit of overlap so one of the reasons Microsoft doing well is azure which is their competitor to AWS it seems to be really doing well and and kind of sticking out of a definite second position and nudging out IBM in Google that were trying to get that that second position by the Amazon seems like seems like it's pretty quickly becoming a two-horse race between Microsoft and Amazon. Jason: [19:56] An in general Microsoft is still way behind in Cloud but. As a result able to grow much more quickly and of course in our category of retail what are the one category where you know Amazon faces some headwinds and their major retailers that obviously don't want to use AWS and there's some big powerful retailers like Wal-Mart they really discourage their vendors from using AWS so retail is one one particularly lucrative category for Microsoft azure. Scot: [20:26] Yeah on the. On the marketplace side one of the metrics than Amazon does discloses 2% of orders are units that came from Marketplace sellers last quarter it was 53% and it held steady at 53% again. Don't spend picking up about 1% every quarter so stabilize here at 53%. Jason: [20:53] Yeah and then there you know there after their names there's always the Q&A with a couple of the Business Leaders and, I'm always looking for tidbits there and one question that that Amazon got asked is about ads on the Alexa platform and I was. Happy to see there the guy that weaves investor relations for Amazon say that that they have no plans to, put in the ads on the Alexa platform in the day exclusively want to focus on it being a good customer experience so. Not shocking but but good to affirm that that they're not going there. [21:40] The and then you know kind of following up on the analysis of of the quarter I think you know people are definitely looking at that International softness and you called out like that they laugh their suit. Acquisition so that that probably had a material impact on International growth and then there's this big. Indian holiday it's right on the cusp of a shopping holiday that's right on the cusp of Q3 and Q4 so. Last year it was in Q4 this year it's in Q3 and so they're cute their comps. Mirror over a year are challenge cuz the holiday was in in one year and not the other. One piece of speculation is another report out there estimating the size of the Prime Membership. And that they are reporting that that growth in frying is dramatically slowing down which is, not a huge surprise you know the Amazon themselves they said they have over a hundred million Prime households and that's a global number but in North America there's only like 120 or 240 million households depend on how you count so it and it has to be getting harder for Amazon acquire more. Prime households and if it is in fact true that they're requiring us households than that certainly would have an effect on on future quarters growth so that's going to be an interesting thing to what. Scot: [23:09] Yeah yeah once you've kind of have every household on Prime then it becomes a saturation game to see the one thing on the fourth-quarter guides that you mentioned is it was a little soft on Revenue but but about 8% off on the prophet side and Amazon's not being specific about it but one thing they did announce that we haven't heard on the stove is there increasing everyone's wage for warehouse workers to $50 there's a lot of controversy around this so so this was a reaction to a lot of politics going on Bernie Sanders has been kind of lighting them up these ladies kind of but I think as an ox we're kind of silly things where they'll take Jeff bezos's net worth in / 365 and don't say that that's how much he makes a day or so. [24:05] Forgets the 20 years where he you know took tons of building Amazon but whatever I do dress and there is a point there that there is a large disparity between his of the top echelons of Amazon warehouse workers to Amazon straighten that out by $50 an hour doing so they get rid of stock options and some other things that they don't like that I can't win so that in the lot of people trash come over getting rid of those things so that being said it is a prematurely and talk to literally hundreds of thousands of employees so a lot of speculation that. Big head wind on the bottom line going in the fourth quarter is going to be that that wage increase Warehouse her. Jason: [24:52] Yep and I I think they were specifically asked if that it was going to have a material impact and Amazon didn't comment on the exact impact of the wage increase but that that wasn't pretty like from my view a pretty Savvy move you know there's been this trend in retail for a while you don't return a really competing for talent you know unemployment is low so it it's hard to get people and we've seen both Target and Walmart you like dramatically increase there starting wages in an effort to improve the quality of the workforce and then you know Amazon came in and LeapFrog them in and Amazon is competing for four people at this point to fill those Protomen centers in so that like I'm sure there was some political advantage in doing that like that you know I do think in a lot of ways it's the right thing to do I was here for the employees. [25:48] But it also just is a capitalistic thing to do in terms of making sure that you get the input the workforce that you need in this competitive environment so be interesting to see even what economic impact it has but the other question that they got about the financial impact in this going to happen thank you for is the u.s. postal rate increase that is coming and am I was pretty clear that they did not feel that the postal increase was going to materially affect them into me this is another one of these sort of funny ironies where. [26:28] You know that the president that appears to have some animosity towards Jeff Bezos adopts an issue and then some some which situation gets past like the sales tax Supreme Court ruling or now this postal rate and you know that you like him superficially is tweeting that this is going to have some negative impact on Amazon Amazon. [26:52] Has more ways to deliver packages than everyone else they have more of their own package delivery and so the operations folks and Amazon or like no we're just going to be smarter about which of our delivery vehicles we use only think we're going to be able to absorb that rate increase and of course no other retailer has those levers to pull in so like the postal rates going up actually is a competitive Advantage for Amazon versus the rest of the market that doesn't deliver 15% of their own packages like Amazon does. Scot: [27:24] Yeah to that vein couple of tidbits so there's a lot of video surfacing of Amazon order to something like 20 to 40,000 Prime delivery dance these are really nice there these Mercedes sprinters and I don't know about you in Chicago but in the Research Triangle the Raleigh-Durham area I probably see four or five of those a day right now and it started where they were going to large corporations so where were there a lot with my stuffy and your folks are reporting to Neo at Cisco and Citrix and MetLife. All these large employers there seeing the Amazon big ants go there a couple times a day and then now it seems, large Prime neighborhoods deserve this kind of replicating the FedEx Ground model to FedEx ground not realize this but the next error is W-2 employees FedEx Ground as a 1099 network of local stores that are given license to FedEx brand and they operate ground on behalf of their local businesses so, Amazon your kind of started. [28:35] This mix of some fulfillment center employees are driving these things and I talked to several of them and the ones I've talked to her are full on Amazon employees but a lot of them also are these 1099s ramazan will set you up in your own little 1099 delivery to you certain number of packages and effectively a dollar per package so your point pretty fast meeting at Amazon that really wrapping that up. Jason: [29:05] Yep. A couple of other pieces of Amazon news not necessary related to earnings but Amazon did launch a new credit card in partnership with Amex this I think maybe you last week that was targeted at small businesses and it has some interesting features it's a no fee Amex or if the first time you can get a free MX and. They sort of have variable terms for each purchase that you can select at the time of purchase in Amazon so that so there's a unique user interface in Amazon for purchases better. Completed with this credit card and so you can say for example that I want to use my Amazon reward points to pay for this purchase or you can say I'm going to, pay back this credit card charge in the next 30 days and you get 5% back for doing that or you can select these 90-day terms. You know take 90 days to pay for the purchase so kind of an interesting tighter integration between Amazon and Amex. You know what I'm always interested in those kinds of tie-ins because you know payment is such a. A potential competitive advantage in the e-commerce pay so it's interesting to see Amazon doing that. [30:26] I mentioned earlier that we now have 3 ghost tours in Chicago we also had the the first go store open in San Francisco this week so these things are rapidly opening. Side note kudos to the Amazon real estate team they've actually done a phenomenal job of hiding a lot of these stores from the media which is you know. Carefully carefully watching property managers to figure out where all these stores are and I I know it's Amazon's been a pretty good job of surprising us all with some of these openings. I had an interesting little debate with some folks on Twitter this week. [31:01] You know as as it seems clear that they're opening a network of these stores and there is that Bloomberg report that they're going to have it three thousand of these go stores buy. 2022. Doug Stevens a retail author and and subject matter expert me to tweet saying. You know that 7-Eleven is now on the clock. They're going to get dramatically disrupted by Amazon and they're really not ready for it and I sort of made a smart alec or reply. You know while I've never would tell anyone not to worry about Amazon I'm not sure that first and foremost Amazon go is likely to affect 7-Eleven I said that. You know probably print amazed year or hobo pie. Are at much more risk from the Amazon go store then 7-Eleven is and my contention is the ghost or is really a restaurant. You know whose main mission is to get you lunch when you only have a half hour lunch break and that it's it's not really a competitor to a traditional convenience store in so some folks on Twitter jumped in and we had a we had a good healthy debate about that then. Obviously the Ender Wintergreen I'm right. Scot: [32:11] Or they got blocked. Jason: [32:14] Yeah alright I just scream them exactly a side-note top three categories at 7-Eleven. 7-Eleven sells a ton of gas which Amazon go stores don't sell yet 7-Eleven sells a lot of tobacco which Amazon doesn't sell at all and then they sell a lot of alcohol which Amazon go only sells in one store in Seattle so you know where food is in a growing part of 7-Elevens business it's not even a top 3 category and it's it's like 95% of the skews in this this ghost or so that's why I think Joe is much more of a restaurant than a traditional convenience store. Scot: [32:53] When one last reminder is it's been a little over a year since it was on announce their hunt for hq2 so Alaska chelation is that we should be hearing about that here in the fourth quarter. Amazon said it would take about a year now it's firm you this involves a lot of details and local governments and stuff so I. Adders reversing a ramp up of speculation around hq2 stuff I'm kind of interested. You know there's a lot going on in Chicago not pick on Chicago's great City. For all the other stuff they've done the kind of event Seattle York and Chicago but now they're just really pouring it on in Chicago I wonder if that so I could slide indication that maybe Chicago's kind of pulling into one of the top. Possible locations for hq2. Jason: [33:50] Yeah it would be interesting with my wife and I were driving around town today and there's a ton of trains building conda commented like do the the condo developers know something about Amazon that we don't know. That. Why do you think Chicago is a interesting market for Amazon and you know it's a good test Market because it is it does. I have a broad representative demographic I personally would be a little surprised if it's here but that being said I suspect we're all going to know pretty soon. Scot: [34:28] And then you use it surfaced at nursing little spot between Amazon and eBay. Jason: [34:34] Oh yeah so you may actually filed a lawsuit against Amazon and it related to Amazon potentially trying to steal top Marketplace Sellers from eBay and the reason I was a lawsuit is the allegation is that the way Amazon was doing this is they very systematically infiltrated a private chat board for these eBay sellers and created a bunch of fake personas and you know what we're reaching out in Contin privately contacting sellers, through like a pretty sophisticated alleged hacking of this this site eBay communication platform and you like it it seems like they have a fair amount of evidence it is true it's a little surprising to me that there's someone in Amazon's position would do, you know I would certainly presume that wasn't a corporate directed to do this but that you know someone had enough autonomy to do this and can put off of that scale it would be interesting so I don't know what the real story is there but it's going to be fun to watch the lawsuit play out as a an interested Observer. Scot: [35:55] Cool so that that kind of wraps up our Amazon part of the show and then we had a lot of listeners that were sad that we we took a little break there so apologies for that and then two other topics that it looks really wanting this hit on IR Sears and then this really big change to the u p u which is squarely in your. [36:18] Your wheelhouse Jason saw the Sears side there was kind of two buckets of questions we got from listeners one was really you know some folks selling on the Sears Marketplace or are you in this would apply a guest to vendors yo what what should I do to Sears in her chapter 11 bankruptcy what percentage of the time companies come out of bankruptcy other times they don't and when they don't they're they leave creditors sitting there kind of holding the bag and a lot of times adders even a Marketplace seller would be considered under their left holding the bag and then the other thing so I'll tackle that one in the other one Jason was over all kind of Redan what's this really mean for retail my guidance would be you know it's all a risk tolerance question and Anna scale question so if you're you know if if you did have a speed bump and you lost you know usually is inside of trailing 30-day payment type cycle skiers of material enough that you did lose 30 days of that cash because of a bankruptcy if that is you know pretty. [37:32] Material to your business to be getting packs it out of 10 percentage I would start trimming my sales for selling on Sears and reduced to a tryst September set yes it was I think that's the prudent thing from a risk management perspective when a company goes into bankruptcy to start limiting your risk, now if you're someone that that is super risk intolerant and it is going to bother you make me time to phase out that Marketplace because and and see what happens with the chapter 11 you can always come back and it when the risk is diminished so I would kind of you know. Figure out your risk tolerance a spectrum of hey I go bungee jumping off Bridges as a super sweet. Each risk for breakfast all the way to I don't own stocks I keep cash under my mattress and level and then apply that to to your. Your strategy for selling on Sears and also put it through a filter of materiality is is this more than 10% of your business or not. Jason: [38:38] Yeah that seems like totally Sound Advice I can't believe you you gave out my mattress strategy online though. Scot: [38:47] Yeah they will talk about inflation some other time. Jason: [38:51] Okay. Scot: [38:53] It's actually. Jason: [38:55] You know every time one of these is a significant retailer goes under there's always this question like who's going to benefit from them going under or what what's the impact going to be on the rest of retail you know Sears is still like a 10 billion dollar a year retailer in so that you know it today. Assuming they don't emerge from the realreal organization and and retain a significant portion of their. There are 10 million dollar Revenue run rate a bunch of other retailers are going to benefit. [39:31] The thing I like to point out is Sears has already donated most of its market share to the rest of the market so you know. There there was a time when they were 40 billion dollar retailer and they've been slowly a roading since 2006 and they probably have donated. Over a hundred million a billion dollars in in share to other retailers. Over these last 12 years or so and so you know the the bulk of. [40:03] The benefit of them going out of business like has already paid off two other retailers. And you know there's a lot of analysis that goes in a who's going to benefit most from these stores closing and you know who has favorable, merchandising categories that are similar to Sears who has similar geography to Sears to benefit from the. The specific store closures. But in general I think if you look at the macro Trends I I sort of have this premise that were really seeing a bifurcation of retail and where were essentially seeing. A few huge aggregators that focus on selling every product that's available in doing so at a really low price and super efficiently. And if that sounds familiar to you in North America and that's because I just described Amazon. There would be a good argument that Walmart is also one of those aggregators that that's going to continue to do well and in the future we might have a duopoly if he's too big. Big aggregators and then everyone else is in a really focused on selling curated assortments to specific. Target audiences and really selling exclusive products that you can't get from the big aggregators in so those big aggregators are. In the best position to benefit when. [41:24] You know someone else that used to win based on assortment and scale goes away so like obviously Amazon Walmart or. Going to take a significant percent of that share that Sears losses in Sears specific case because of a big portion of the revenue is soft goods at a low price point poles is particularly well positioned to. To get a nice benefit from the Sears stores going away and because appliances what a big chunk. Of Sears Revenue Best Buy is also in a position to get. A nice lift from the the the Sears market share lost so I think those are the retailers. Will see benefit the most but you know. At this point we're not losing the big one of the biggest retailers in America we're losing eyeshadow up there once was one of the biggest retards in North America so I don't think this is going to be a title change in the Retail Landscape by any means I think you know it's more sad because of. The history of Sears and what a dominant position they want had and how important they were to the evolution of retail in North America and frankly in many ways how important they were to the actual development of North America. Scot: [42:41] Anderson so you can take off the mattress all the money from of your mattress and put it. It sounds like. Jason: [42:48] That probably would be far from the worst investment I ever made. Scot: [42:53] What will save that story for a future ship so that's that's good perspective now tell us about this whole Universal Postal Union treaty and what's going on. Jason: [43:07] So this is a very little known thing that suddenly is getting a lot of ink so you know back in 1874 at the treaties burn the world establish this thing called the universal Postal Union later got rolled into the to be sort of a subsidiary of the United Nations and then the idea of this poster 3D was that every country you would agree to uniform rates for postal delivery so when you're in France and you want to mail something to Germany you could know in advance what the cost would be to mail that and the cost ought to be, the same for mailing between every country and each because that mail requires the, cooperation of at least two Postal Services the one that picked up the package from you and hands it to that that foreign country and then that terminal country that the country that gets it and has to deliver it. [44:11] They ate their handling of that package the treaty agreed on how those two postal entities would share the the rates for that shipment and they agreed that that the international shipments would get equal trip treatment with domestic shipment so if the. Is the terminating country you know couldn't for example deliver International Post much slower or less reliably or with West tracking are these kinds of things. [44:44] And so it sort of made it very easy and possible for 4 people all over the world to mail things to each other and know in advance how how much it was going to cost and have pretty good confidence that it was going to get delivered and then overtime this treaty added some other useful things they added some standards like a big stamp should be they added electronic data interchange so that the the Post Oak interchanges could be more efficient and they added some you know things to catch fraud and crime and and share databases and things like that so so we've all had benefited for a long time from the Disposable 3D it's got a hundred and ninety-three member countries in it now. [45:26] So if I feel like that's that's good for the world it's super important in a lot of e-commerce. Pretty good cross-border e-commerce still gets delivered via the post office so there's a lot of artists that make beautiful art here in the US and they sell it to people in Europe in the primary way they deliver that is. They mail it via post a post so the one sort of real challenge is, did there was a clause built into this postal treaty that essentially said developing nations, would get charged less terminal fees. And so what that essentially said is more developing poor or countries would not have to pay as much to have their their post delivered by richer countries and so if you're in one of these more developed countries you are obliged to accept packages at a lower cost from a developing country and if you lost money delivering that the way you would have to make up that money is by charging the people in your home Market. More for postage and like there's probably a good argument that that. [46:43] That mechanism for developing countries was probably fair and had some benefits and made it easier for more countries to participate in the treaty, one of those countries that was flagged as a developing country was China. And the treaty is super slow and it takes a long time to change like I think there's not a good argument that China should still be considered a developing economy for purposes of this treaty but but they were and so what that essentially meant is that a seller in China could sell something on Amazon to it to a buyer in the US and they could very cost-effectively, male that that good via post and frankly it was much cheaper to send something from Shanghai to San Francisco then it was to send something from Chicago to San Francisco and ironically that that seller in Chicago selling the San Francisco was having to pay a higher postal rate to subsidize that cheap delivery from that Chinese seller so treated this really unfair situation where Chinese sellers had a much lower cost of postal delivery for cross-border trade then did for example American companies and so a lot of people felt that was unfair and so now the Trump Administration is threatening to pull out of the treaty, because of that that fundamental unfairness which frankly totally agree is unfair the problem is. [48:13] If we do in fact pull out of the treaty. What that also means is that all those sellers in the US that want to ship via post anywhere else in the world can only do it if the United States negotiates a individual treaty with a country you want to ship your goods to sew. [48:30] That that potentially would mean we need a hundred and ninety-three postal trees that we have to negotiate one and one with each of these countries, many of those countries we don't have an ambassador with right now so I guess it would be a big Challenge and so while I think pulling out of the upu fixes this this. Fairness imbalance with China it's going to create a bunch of new headaches for people in the US that do cross-border trade and so what you know frankly the best out come here and what what I think a lot of his hope is the case is Milli by threatening to pull out of the upu we could put. Pressure on the the governing bodies of the upu to sort of fix this this China Gap to keep us in the treaty and so hopefully this is just some sabre-rattling it causes them to rethink the developing nation clause and we stay in the treaty but if we do pull out that'll be you no good news for some people that are competing with China but it'll be bad news for a bunch of other US base sellers. Scot: [49:32] One of the companies that seems potentially most impacted is wish so Bocas wishes Marketplace are Chinese sellers Supervalu oriented so they're not using FedEx or anything like that they are using the postal system and the wish founder was actually kind of saying to you earlier point about it is kind of ironic that. By raising the postal rates it actually kind of helps Amazon versus other retailers that this is another interesting kind of example actually oddly benefit Amazon because you know now there won't be the goods from wish that you're competing with Amazon isn't the middle sister where they bring products are from China on boats called Dragon Boat so it'll have to get a lot of their goods they skirt this this this just don't understand how that works correctly. Jason: [50:25] Yeah. You're exactly right and this is again the biggest sellers I actually have more options right and so even and I don't know how true this actually is Betty wish claims that hey this isn't going to be you know to join material to us because we are selling enough stuff from China to the US that we can be a cost-effective freight forwarder so we can put all those small packages on our on boats bring containers over here and then dump them in the US Postal System to be delivered domestically and not have international right and because we're a big seller we have enough volume to aggregate to do that where as you know smaller sellers wouldn't wouldn't have that option so remains to be seen whether which will be able to follow through on that if we pull out of the upu treaty but like certainly it's your point Amazon. [51:16] Already doing that and there was a I think Jason Delray did an interview with the CEO of wish and he had a funny comment like when the the Diplomat talk about pulling out of the UVU one of the reasons they say it is it's totally unfair the US Post Office is losing three hundred million dollars on. On postage as a result of this deal and the wish CEO offered to pay it and obviously like that's not the the total cost that's lost from from this this imbalance but it I thought it was a funny snide remark. Scot: [51:57] Hearing you describe it almost could be an eBay proxy on eBay benefits from a lot of this stuff too so it'll be interesting to watch that and then in the world that talk a lot about ePacket do you know what that is and if it's a fact about us. Jason: [52:12] Yep like so that is a specific postal product and it if I'm remembering right it's indexed to the upu rates but it's not actually governed by the upu rate so it would be possible for us to change the ePacket rates without pulling out of upu but it would require the US Post Office to change some of their their pricing policies and I think that might require a vote of Congress if I'm if I'm not mistaken so it's a a slightly special case but it basically is indexed to the rest of this problem. I'm so it's all it's all going to be interesting to watch like I never thought I would get a chance to talk so much about the nuances of international postage systems. I think my my father-in-law the stamp collector would really enjoy it. [53:09] And that's going to be a great place to wrap it because it's happen again we've used up all our a lot of time as always if we got anything wrong or are you have further questions or want to discuss anything from Today Show would love it if you jump on Facebook and leave us a comment will try to reply right away as always if you benefited from the show now would be a great time to jump over to iTunes and give us that 5-star review if you hate it today show Scott's a personal cell phone number will be in the show note so you can give him a call and let him know. Scot: [53:44] Absolutely look forward to hearing from everybody thanks for joining us everyone have a great week. Jason: [53:49] And until next time happy commercing.

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Fred talks with Mike Dunford, a Human Resources and Leadership consultant. Mike talks about his early career as an officer in the Marine Corps, and how he transitioned into a Human Resources career; rising to the top HR leadership role in an $11B organization. Mike reflects on what personal qualities and organizational skills were key to his success. He also comments on the challenges inherent in the military to civilian transition many people face; and what he has done and is doing to enable companies to better assimilate veterans and utilize and their potential.

The year was 1963 when President John F. Kennedy and Congress passed the Equal Pay Act, prohibiting gender-based wage discrimination in the United States and mandating equal pay for equal work. Yet, research indicates that women are still being paid less than men for the same work. Why is this? What can organizations do to ensure they are not discriminating based on gender or race? Kelley School of Business Professor Kim Saxton explains in episode 35 of The ROI Podcast. ---- Do you have a question? Looking to get help on a business decision? Know a great guest for our show? Email roipod@iupui.edu so we can help your organization make better business decisions. ---- Ready to take your next step? Check out if a Kelley MBA is right for you: https://bit.ly/3m2G6D5 ---- Show Notes: Shane: Before we start today's episode I want to bring up something that's no secret and is going to revolve around our discussion today and that's the issue of equal pay. So I was online the other day and I read an interesting study that found 83 percent of women believe men are paid more than women for the same work – compared to 61 percent of men who believe that statement… So where are we today with equal pay in the workplace? Where did it all begin? That's what we'll be discussing today. (ROI Podcast Music) Shane: It's time for episode 35 of The ROI Podcast presented by the Kelley School of Business on the IUPUI campus here in downtown Indianapolis… Of course, I'm one of your hosts, Shane Simmons. And I've got my friend, Phil Powell, who's the associate dean of academic programs at the Kelley School, sitting beside me co-piloting the podcast. How are you today, Phil? Phil: (Replies) Shane: As our listeners heard in the opening of this show – we're talking about a topic that's hard to believe we're still having to have this conversation and that's pay equality. Phil, as a dean to a business school, as a scholar, and as a person in general, when people are paid unequally, doesn't it hurt our economy? Phil: (Replies) Kim: Great question and I don't know if the MeToo initiative is giving rise to this, but it's something first, people need safe working conditions, but in addition, they ought to be the same people being paid for the same work, irrespective of gender or race. We know it's an issue, so if I were talking to a man, the first thing I would say is just own up that it exists. There's still some people who are debating whether in fact this gap exists – study after study, done as rigorously as possible, controlling for all different kinds of factors does show that there is a gap. We need to recognize that it's there, first of all, and why has it gotten there? The other thing about the gap is that it's not a new gap, it's been around for a long time. If you pull up articles from the ‘60s, there were talking about equality of opportunity for women in 1961. Phil: And if we go back to 1963, President Kennedy passed The Equal Pay Act which made it illegal to differentiate pay based on skills, effort, responsibility, or working conditions in the U.S. Kim: And yet, we still have a big pay gap. How does that happen? Well, there are systematic differences that are occurring that are difficult to control for. First of all, one of the ways that pay does get differentiated is based on experience – remember I said skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions. Experience is a valid reason to differentiate pay. Women tend to take time out of the workforce, therefore, they tend to have less experience – so that's one thing that people can justify is, “I should pay him more because he's been working at this longer”. The second thing is that women tend not to negotiate for their pay, while men do - women just don't ask that question. Personally, with a group of women that I mentor, I encourage every one of them who is changing jobs to ask for something. It's really shocking got me that many of them would say, “Oh, I love this offer, it's exactly what I wanted!” - I said, “Now pretend you're a man, what would you want?” One hundred percent of them have gotten more than what they were asking for at the start. That tells me that companies are used to people negotiating, and if women are negotiating, it must be the men who are. But some companies are trying to take these steps to fix this! Phil: But before we get into what some companies are doing to combat this issue of gender pay equality, there are still the behavioral economics that some would argue are embedded within us – even if we don't think we're biased… Shane: Kim said something that I did not realize, and that plays into this whole conversation, and that's when men and women are judged on their performance, both men AND women will evaluate the same performance from a man as better than the performance from a woman. And so when you have pay being based on performance, you can see how this causes an unfair reality for women. Phil: You're right, Shane. And Kim explains how some of these experiments worked to give us a better idea. Kim: Some of it was looking at objective performance – maybe you would look at a group of people and say, “Subjectively, how do I evaluate their performance?”, and then we might look at some objective criteria like the time it took, number of errors, those kinds of things. There's been some research where they had violin players play a piece, and when the audience could see what the gender was, they rated the men more highly - when they couldn't see what the gender was, they rated them equally. Occasionally, some studies have actually found the women's performance was better when you didn't know who it was! Phil: Harvard actually sets this test up in the classroom with a case and Kim discussed these eye-opening results. Kim: Yeah, so this was an interesting case that they did where they took the profile of a really good networker - someone who created connections out in Silicon Valley, an actual real person - and had jobs that moved towards creating these connections with technology and venture-capital firms. They gave the case to half the students where it was a man, and the other half got a woman. Before they came into class, they had to fill out a survey about things like, “how much do you like this person”, “how much would you be willing to work for this person?” When the group that had the person as a woman was always significantly rated lower than the man. It was like, yes, they're an effective networker, but no I wouldn't want to work for them, and no, I don't like them. Kim: I think there are maybe three or four things we could do, or that I would think about doing if I was a male CEO looking at this situation. First of all, you need to have a periodic review - where are we? Let's lay everything out by skill, effort, responsibility, and working condition, and let's just see, are we paying people equally? Salesforce did this in 2016 and 2017, and each year, they had to adjust pay by $3M, women were being underpaid. Now, I would say on an annual basis, $3M out of $11B is probably not a bad investment, but it repeated the next year! Even in one year, they saw it creep back in, so you have to have a periodic inspection of it. The second thing is, we make assumptions about what people are interested [in] and willing to do. Maybe there's an overseas assignment, and you look around and say, “Who should we give this overseas assignment to? Well, she's a woman and she's got kids, she's not going to be able to travel.” Why are you making that choice for her? Instead of making assumptions as to who would be interested in what, open the playing field - give everybody a chance at all the promotions, let themselves select if they want that kind of responsibility or that work life. Being mindful that you are eliminating people is important. The third thing is you have to actually ask yourself who's not at the table – the easiest thing is that we tend to support people who are like us: white men tend to support white men, white women tend to support white women. Ask yourself, do I have a diverse team? Who's not been invited? Find those people – it's not that they don't exist, it's that they don't occur to you to invite them. Every time I step back and ask that question, I find somebody and I say, “Wow, that person is a great asset, I wish I had thought about that!” - those are little promotions that add up to bigger ones. Phil: And lastly… Kim: The last thing is, and back to that periodic thing, we know that the wisdom is that people respect what you inspect. Some people are really excited about the latest news out of Iceland about equal pay - and really, it wasn't so much the equal pay, because they already had that in place, they knew it wasn't working. What Iceland did is they put in an annual certification for employers with more than 25 employees that they have to prove that in fact, they're paying them equally. In your own organization, set up annual inspection of the strategic outcomes that you want to accomplish, and people will perform to them! Shane: So if we were to step back and explore what we can do is managers in an organization when it relates to these issues – we've talked about some different things to look out for… But where do you start? Phil: Kim sums up some practical steps that an organization can take immediately. Kim: The first thing is, look around and ask yourself, are we biased? If there are awards, who's winning the awards? Are people of color or women winning awards at the same rate men are? Promotions? Leaving? Just observe! Many organizations and managers never ask the question, “Do we have a bias?” The first most important thing is to sit back and ask if we have a bias, maybe get some data and see if there are any. What helps for me is I have someone who keeps me accountable – because I know these biases are natural, my significant other will actually be objective and ask, “Now, are you saying that because of that person's gender or race? Or is that what you're really thinking?” So it causes me to step back and ask myself, “Am I being biased?” I don't always like how I answer, but I like that the question got asked. (The ROI Podcast Music) Shane: We'd like to thank professor Kim Saxton for taking the time to chat with us about a topic that's so important in our world… Of course, we'd be honored if you subscribed to The ROI Podcast and leave us a review on iTunes… That really helps us out and gives us some feedback on how we're doing. And Phil, next week we'll be continuing this conversation from a legal angle with professor Julie Manning-Magid so be sure to look out for that episode next week. Have a great day and thanks for listening!

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Questions answered this episode: John – Hey guys. Just wanted to follow up on your ADA Shop Talk discussion regarding yellow detectable warnings. I understand your logic for yellow not being required at curb ramps, islands or cut-through medians being that those elements are not ‘specifically’ identified in 11B-705.1.1.3 for the yellow requirement, but if a […] The post Episode 040 – The door landing is on the public sidewalk, what do I do?, Are signs required to comply on the second floor of a CMDU?, More on truncated domes. appeared first on ADA Shop Talk.

Warriors in the Woods with Mike Goffos Mike Goffos….I was born and raised in North East Ohio and grew up hunting/fishing. After I graduated from high school I joined the U.S. Army as an 11B. I was stationed with the 1st ID out of Ft. Riley KS. I had the privilege of serving in both…

Warriors in the Woods with Mike Goffos Mike Goffos….I was born and raised in North East Ohio and grew up hunting/fishing. After I graduated from high school I joined the U.S. Army as an 11B. I was stationed with the 1st ID out of Ft. Riley KS. I had the privilege of serving in both…

Questions about how to make smart investment choices? Whether you’re just starting out, retirement is around the corner, or you’re somewhere in the middle: This episode of Training Matters is for you! Suzie Jones will inspire you to look at your investments differently and take action! Tune in to get a better understanding of how to make sure your investment portfolio matches you!About our GuestSuzie Jones has 40 years of experience in the financial industry. Suzie recently retired as an Executive Vice President with a large regional financial organization where she helped found and grow the Investments Division from a team of two to a team of 70 with assets in excess of $11B.  For decades Suzie Jones worked passionately with investors at every age and financial stage helping them gain financial peace.  She is known for her energetic and engaging training style and keen ability to talk about investing in terms people care about. She is a graduate of Leadership Houston Class XXV, a Senior Fellow of American Leadership Forum Class XXXII and holds the Certified Financial PlannerTM (CFP®) professional designation.

Welcome to Episode 006   of the “Awakening with Nathanael Wolf” podcast and radio broadcast.    In this episode, Nathanael continues the series of broadcasts on the importance of desiring God in the journey of spiritual awakening. In this episode, you’ll discover: That your desire of God is born of His desire for you. One definition of holiness is being "wholly His". That certain fragrances in scripture have special meaning. Notable episode quotes: Song of Songs 4:11B-14 TPT "The fragrance of your worshipping love surrounds you with scented robes of white.  My darling bride, my private paradise, fastened to my heart. A secret spring are you that no one else can have—My bubbling fountain hidden from public view. What a perfect partner to me, now that I have you.  Your inward life is now sprouting, bringing forth fruit. What a beautiful paradise unfolds within you. When I’m near you I smell aromas of the finest spice, for many clusters of My exquisite fruit now grow within your inner garden. Here are nine: Pomegranates of passion, henna from heaven, a spikenard so sweet, saffron shining, fragrant calamus from the cross, sacred cinnamon, branches of scented woods, myrrh, like tears from a tree, and aloe as eagles ascending." Download the Sent Ones Unlimited app: The Sent Ones Unlimited app is the best way to listen to the podcast.  Please download the Sent Ones Unlimited app at the Apple App Store or on Google Play (search using the words Sent Ones Unlimited) for the latest episodes as well as our blog posts, ministry schedule, and much more--all right on your smartphone.  Plus, our app has a Bible with fourteen English translations (including the Amplified Bible and The Message) and an audio Bible in the English Standard Version. Another advantage of listening on the Sent Ones Unlimited app is that you don’t have to load iTunes on your computer, subscribe, and then manually sync to your phone. The app does all the work for you and downloads each new episode. We post each weekly broadcast to the website and the app on Monday mornings. If you have the app, you will automatically get every episode for free. You may also get every episode for free by subscribing to the podcast.  You can subscribe to this podcast at: iTunes Google Play RSS Feed Link: http://awakeningwithnathanaelwolf.libsyn.com/rss If you are not going to listen using the Sent Ones Unlimited app, iTunes, or Google Play then we would suggest that you could use a podcast application on your iPhone or Android phone such as Instacast.  Another popular application for listening to podcasts is Downcast.    Applications like these make it easy to discover, subscribe, and listen to podcasts. You simply copy and paste the link to the RSS feed (also shown above) into the search bar of the app and it will find our podcast. They also automatically update your podcasts every time a new episode is released. Share the love: If you enjoyed the show, please rate it on iTunes and write a brief review. If you are listening on another platform that allows ratings and reviews please do the same.  That would help tremendously in getting the word out by raising the visibility of the show. We hope you enjoyed this podcast.  God uses people just like you to support the ministry of Sent Ones Unlimited.  Please visit https://sentonesunlimited.org/donate/ to give a single gift of any amount or become a monthly partner. More about us: If you’d like to learn more about Nathanael Wolf, the ministry of Sent Ones Unlimited, read Nathanael’s blog posts, see other resources, or view Nathanael’s upcoming schedule please visit www.sentonesunlimited.org. Connect with Nathanael or Sent Ones Unlimited: Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube Periscope Contact Us: info@sentonesunlimited.org We hope you enjoyed this podcast.  God uses people just like you to support the ministry of Sent Ones Unlimited.  Please visit https://sentonesunlimited.org/donate/ to give a single gift of any amount or become a monthly partner.

http://www.ajiterapia.com   AjiTerapia LLC PO Box 800218 Coto Laurel, Puerto Rico Oficina: 787-432-8092   Que te gusta de Guánica? El mar dice Miguel Ríos Maldonado. No me gusta pescar en él, ni correr en botes, prefiero mirarlo desde la montaña. Las experiencias como niño escucha, que caminábamos por ensenada, el Bosque Seco de Guánica y tantas aventuras. Me acuerdo de los cactus del Bosque Seco de Guánica, las hincadas que me di.   El Quijote Con Molleros   Hizo una escultura, un Quijote con molleros. El material usado fue plastilina, un tipo de plasticina. Explica que si El Quijote creía que los molinos eran gigantes, y aun así los atacaba, entonces él era un héroe.   Extraterrestres   Dios nos dio todo lo necesario para vivir y ser feliz. Nos dio el aire, la naturaleza, las aves. Nos dio la capacidad de casarse y procrear. Que hace el hombre buscando vida y otros mundos si aún no conoce ni saber manejar el planeta en que vivimos.   Hay creaciones de Dios fuera del alcance de nuestra capacidad de entendimiento. Vivamos la vida terrenal en paz y armonía con la naturaleza. Si hay vida fuera de esta galaxia, eso a nosotros no debe importarnos. Dios no tiene que revelar todos sus secretos a la humanidad. El que existan otros mundos habitados no cambia mi creencia en Dios. Habían avistamientos de objetos no identificados en Adjuntas. Empecé a buscar información. Compre libros y revistas hasta que un dia, al escuchar un ruido en el patio, me di cuenta que me estaba sugestionando. Decidí detener mi búsqueda. Queme todas las revistas y libros.     La Guerra   A los diez y nueve años estaba en la guerra. Miquel, que aprendiste en la guerra? Ya había aprendido a amar y apreciar el ser humano antes de llegar a la guerra. Aprendí lo cruel que es la guerra. Vi ancianos acribillados y escenas de muertes impactantes. Aun los enemigos son mis hermanos. Yo le he rezado el padre nuestro a soldados del ejército vietnamita porque son seres humanos, son también mis hermanos.   Los Estudios   Hablaba con un psiquiatra y al ser preguntado qué cursos había tomado en la universidad. El le dijo que tomó cursos en religion, filosofia, antropologia, psicologia, español. Le dice la doctora, tú eres un humanista.   Estudió en la escuela Juan Serralles hast noveno grado con buenas notas. De ahí se graduó en comercio de la Ponce High School. Bargain Town y Serralles fueron sus trabajos durante estudiante, esos de verano y navidades.   La Central Mercedita fue su trabajo luego de graduarse. Trabajaba en la parte administrativa del almacén.   "Yo sufro por el ser humano, comprendo lo que es la guerra, la pobreza, el dolor, el sufrimiento y la maldad." Solo le pide al Padre misericordia con el ser humano.   Servicio Militar Mandatorio 1968   Recibió una cita para presentarse a un centro militar en San Juan, Puerto Rico. Sin saber, salió del trabajo directamente a la cita. Examen escrito y físico fue administrado y los llevaron a una barracas. Sin celulares para entonces, sin teléfono en la casa, no pudo comunicarse con su familia para informarle de su paradero.   Miguel no regresó a la casa, el Army lo tomó y lo llevó a entrenamiento militar. Su madre, viuda, no sabía dónde estaba por meses. Finalmente logró comprar sobre papel y sellos para informar a su familia de su paradero. Los montaron en unas guaguas y los llevaron a la base Ramey y de ahí a Carolina del Sur.   Escuche el podcast de www.ajterapia.com para que escuche la historia completa.     El entrenamiento básico lo tomo en Fort Gordon, Georgia. En Fort Polk Louisiana tomó el entrenamiento, su MOS, 11B, infantero.  Le dieron veinte y ocho (28) días de pase y vino a Puerto Rico. Regreso a San Juan y llegó hasta California. De ahí a Vietnam. Viajó en ropa liviana y paso frío en ese viaje.   Llegada a Vietnam   De la ventana de su asiento en el avión, veían los fogonazos sobre el campo de batalla. Todo baldío y anaranjado por los fuegos causados por las bombas.   Fue asignado a la Compañía Alpha.   La crueldad de la guerra se hizo evidente. Sus navidades 1968-69, las paso haciendo una emboscada al enemigo. No paso el enemigo por allí. El 9 de abril de 1969, recibió órdenes para hacer un perímetro a una compania de ingenieria. Los llevaron en helicóptero. Su primera tarea era fue hacer un recon verificando que no hubiese bombas plantadas en el suelo. Su "'Squad Leader" piso una y murió junto a otros cinco del platoon. Miguel Rios Maldonado y su amigo Pedro Pérez Acosta fueron heridos. Los únicos puertorriqueños del platoon. Pedro cayo risco abajo. Miguel sabía que estaba herido pero estaba preocupado por su amigo y lo busco hasta en encontrarlo. Hoy en dia, 2016, siguen en contacto aqui en Puerto Rico.   Fueron vendados y llevados a un hospital de avanzada. Un general de dos estrellas les agradece su sacrificio. Lo enviaron a un hospital pensando que tenía malaria. Le operaron y recupero. Todos los días le cambiaba el vendaje tres veces. El vendaje se pegaba y era doloroso. Pudo ver a su amigo Pedro en ese hospital. Estaba en recuperación también.   En Japón   Con veinte dólares cambiados en moneda japonesa, la piastra para entonces, compró unos regalos y les envió a su madre en Puerto Rico. Su experiencia con la comida local. Este huesos no parecen de pollo. El arroz blanco estaba bueno. Era carne de perro.   Nevada, Estados Unidos   Lo trasladaron a Nevada. Le dieron terapia para su brazo. Ya en silla de ruedas, lo llevaban a comer buena comida, arroz, habichuela, carne y aguacate. A los dos meses le llegan nuevas órdenes para Fort Dix, New Jersey.   Fort Meade, Maryland   Llega a una compañía de caballería. Su rango era especialista E-4. Rango con el que se retiró. Ya se acercaban los días de terminar su contrato obligatorio con el servicio militar.   Lo enviaron a Texas. Tomó sus vacaciones acumuladas, unos 60 días, y los pasó en Puerto Rico. Se licenció en el 1970.   Llega a Puerto Rico   A los tres meses de estar en Puerto Rico, tomó cursos del correo y otros entrenamientos ofrecidos a los veteranos. Le llegaron dos ofertas de trabajo. Una para la academia del FBI para trabajar de Air Marshall. Implicaba estar en el aire un setenta y cinco por ciento  (75%) por ciento del tiempo. No lo aceptó.   Trabajo en el Ponce Federal Savings. Tenía problemas con estar a puerta cerrada en una oficina.Lo enviaron a San Juan para una evaluación. Al mes recibe una compensación del cien por ciento (100%) de las fuerzas Armadas.   Un ser humano bien balanceado, Don Miguel Rios Maldonado   Cómo ves el futuro de la gente puertorriqueña?   Las naciones son como una cabalgadura. Según cabalgas vas echando de lado a lado. Te puedes caer. Las naciones tienen su nacimiento, niñez, adultez y vejez. La nación vuelve a nacer y el comienzo se repite.

Hear from Jason Andera on his High School football Power Rankings in South Dakota Class 11AA, 11A and 11B. Yankton head coach Arlin Likness and Harrisburg head coach Brandon White also give their input on the upcoming season.

The ol' country is an amazing place to visit, but there's a lot to see and do. So we wanted to provide these easy Italy travel tips for you. While this is not an extensive list by any means, it will give you some basics to help save you time and money when traveling to Italy, and maybe avoid some headaches as well. Topics we cover: First, our new sponsor Audible.com. Sign up and get a free book AND a free 30 day trial membership. Just go to audiletrial.com/cappelli How our last podcast really touched a nerve on the Internet. Listen to that here: http://www.livingvillacappelli.com/032-traditional-italian-food-what-not-to-do-when-it-comes-to-cooking-eating-italy/   Now, the all important travel tips for Italy 1. Come in the "off-season" Obviously this tip is harder to follow if you're traveling with kids, who are traditionally off in the summer months, but if you can make it during April, May, September, and October, Italy can be a little easier to navigate for a few reasons. It's a lot cooler. July and August can be brutal in Italy. So if you can make it during the late spring or early fall, you're more likely to find much nicer weather. Tons of great fresh fruits and vegetables. Fall is almost like a second spring in Puglia, and a lot of amazing produce comes back into season after a hot summer. You'll avoid the crowds of the high season. If you're traveling to any of the major destinations like Rome or Venice, the crowds can be overwhelming at times. But during the off-season, the city takes on a whole new life. My first time in Venice was in January, and I thought it was amazing. Mainly because Paul and I were about the only tourist on the street. So it felt like we had the city all to ourselves. 2. Plan to come more than once — or for an extended period of time There is sooo much to see in Italy. And if you are coming for the first time, you'll want to hit the major hot spots first. A lot people have a very specific idea of what Italy is like based on what they've seen in movies or on television. And a lot of that based on Rome or Tuscany or Venice. So you might want to plan on hitting at least one of two of these areas so you won't be disappointed in Italy not living up to what you have in mind. And we definitely recommend visiting those places, as they are iconic for a reason. But after that, whether it's after your first week or your first trip, try and visit places like Puglia, Calabria, and Sicily. You'll get a bit more the feeling of what it's like to really live in Italy. A more "authentic" and "old world" tour if you will. Plus, since you're "off the beaten path," i.e. not the major, major tourist sites, you can avoid the crowds. 3. Skip the big bus tour packages While these kinds of tours have their place, they probably aren't in Italy. Italy is meant to be savored like a fine wine. These trips try to cram as much into each day as possible, starting with having your luggage outside your hotel door by 5:30 AM. So don't be afraid to "go it alone." Italians love tourists and are always willing to help you, even if it's only through sign language because you don't speak the same language. If still want a guide, so for something smaller.  We work with an agency called HETravel who puts together some nice small tours usually of no more than 15-20 people.  Here the culinary tour that do with us as an example: http://hetravel.com/tour/gay-travel-italy-puglia-villa-culinary-experience/ We've also worked with tons of travelers to design personal tours for them while staying at the villa. If interested, you can click the tab above that says Stay at the Villa. Full disclosure: I have not experienced one of these trips myself in Italy, but I have heard nothing but bad accounts from others who have done them here. If you know differently, just let us know in the comments. 4. Travel with friends and family and use sites like VRBO, Homeaway and Flipkey If you are not familiar with these sites, these are sites that allow you to rent homes, like our villa, directly from the owner. VRBO stands for Vacation Rental By Owner. One of Homeaway's newest ad campaign says, "Whole House. Whole Family. Whole Vacation." Which pretty much sums up the idea. While you all still get the privacy of your own room, your family gets the privacy of an entire home. You don't have to share your vacation with anyone! And the savings can be phenomenal. This Homeaway info graphic does an amazing job describing the advantage. 5. Don't eat at restaurants that have pictures of the food on the menu While you might be afraid of getting something wrong ordering in a language you aren't familiar with, these restaurants usually cater to the masses and are just pumping out food...just food, not necessarily good food. Trust your waiter to bring you the best in the house. Ask locals, like a cop or garbage man, yes, the workers, and they'll send you to the local places that will give you great food at a great price. If language is an issue, but sure to check out a site like TripAdvisor before you leave. Be aware, most hotel concierge people are going to send you to a restaurant that has cut a deal with the hotel to send them customers. Paul recommends going somewhere where you don't have to order off a menu. While this sounds strange, just sit down, ask the waiter what they are making that day or what is good that day. This will usually ensure you are getting fresh, amazing food that is a specialty of the chef. 6. Try to fly as close to your final destination as possible, forgetting the train or car Unless you are a large family, this will save you a lot of time, energy and headaches. So what do we mean? Say you are flying from in from the states and you are landing in Italy in Rome or Milan, but your final destination is Puglia. Book a flight that takes you to Bari. Don't get off at Rome, then attempt to drive or train the final leg of the trip. When driving, you have to figure in the cost of the rental, the cost of gas (NOT cheap in Italy) and the cost of tolls (also not cheap). So at the end of the day, it won't save you much money at all and take you easily twice as long if not longer. The train isn't much better. You have to deal with getting your bags in Rome, lugging them to the train, and paying for a ticket, which is usually the same amount as a plane ticket. Plus, again, it takes a lot longer. When you fly from the major hubs into the smaller airports, customs is almost non-existent, so you'll fly right through and there's a lot less waiting time for your bags as well. 7. When taking a flight inside of Italy, use the company's .it site This goes mainly for Alitalia.it: https://www.alitalia.com/it_it/ You can easily save a hundred Euro or more booking a ticket through this site. Use Google translate if you're nervous about booking anything in the foreign language, but it's all pretty basic at the end of the day. NOTE: This is for INTERNAL flights while your staying in Italy. So if landed in Rome, spent a few days in Rome,and now want to fly to Venice. This in what this is for. You do not want to use this if you are flying into Rome and want to then fly to Venice that same day (your final destination). You want to book your flight all they way through to final destination then (see tip above), otherwise you might get a airline attendant who refuses to book your luggage all the way through to your final destination, saying you bought to separate tickets so it's impossible. This is not true, but it just depends on who you get. This would mean you'd have to get you bags in Rome and then recheck in, go through security again, and spend a lot of time waiting in lines, which you don't want to do.  So use this only if you are flying around within Italy after being here awhile. Also, don't forget Alitalia is not the only airline to choose from. Look at Ryan Air or EasyJet as well. 8. Bring a portable luggage scale Airlines are getting more and more strict about luggage weight. So if you plan on picking up some souvenirs while in Italy, be sure you're not overweight and spending a lot of extra money just to get them home. This especially true if you are traveling via one of the discount airlines I mentioned above like RyanAir or EasyJet. They don't charge you much for a ticket, so they are trying to make money anyway they can and can be very strict when it comes to weight. Here's a link to one on Amazon: http://geni.us/1OcJ 9. Watch your bags & do NOT trust a stranger to watch your bags This goes for whether you're taking a car, bus, train or plane. Crime is not rampant here by any means, but it happens. You get off a train and start looking at your map or guidebook.  The thief easy grabs your back and jumps on the train. And before you know, it the doors have closed and the thief and your bag are off to the next destination. We actually had a friend who stay with us recently who asked the bus driver to watch his bag while he went inside. When he came back out, the bus and his bag were gone. Listen to the podcast for the full story on that one. 10. Get going early Yes, you are on vacation. Yes, you'd love to sleep in. But, I can't recommend the mornings enough in Italy. 1. You'll avoid a lot of the tourist crowds. Especially if you are in the major cities like Rome or Venice, this can be especially magical as you really do see the city in a whole new way. 2. Italy is just so gorgeous in the morning. The light and the silence seem to transport you right into the old world. 3. You'll get a lot of sight seeing in, then you can just relax, have a long lunch and live like an Italian. Plus, you might find a lot of places closed in the afternoon, so you can't do a lot anyway. And, come summer, you might not want to be walking around the Italian sun during those hours anyway! 11.  Sleep on the flight over Take a sleeping pill or a couple big glasses of wine, whatever it takes! Even if you just get 5 hours or so on that flight, you'll wake up and be in Italy and can enjoy a full day in Italy rather than taking a whole day (or two or three) to recover in your hotel room. In other words, you hit the ground running and get a lot more into your vacation starting from day one! 11B. If you need alcohol to get your sleep in, buy it at Duty Free before you leave Get a small bottle, open it on the plane and have a much more affordable drink that you would buying your alcohol from the airlines. Remember, however, if you are connecting to another flight in Italy that same day, you will need to leave ther remaining alcohol behind on the plane. You have to go through security again when you land in Rome or Milan before making your connection, and you won't be able to take an open bottle through security. 12. Use an ATM to get your cash Do NOT exchange your money at the currency exchange booth at the airport! You will be spending WAY more money than necessary. Plus, then what do you do with all that cash? Carry it around with you? Leave it in the hotel? You're also going to get the best exchange rate this way as well. Hands down. 13. Be prepared to pay in cash Some places will not take credit cards. They may say their phone line is down or the credit card machine is not working, but really, they just want you to pay in cash. See #12 above on tips about getting this cash. Also, many will not take American Express or Discover. Bring your Visa or Mastercard.       14. Use Skype and WhatsApp to communicate back home Think about when you will be using your phone to call home. Mostly back at your hotel or rental home. Which usually have WiFi nowdays. Both of these applications work over the Internet. Skype is more for calling, WhatsApp is for texting. Both are free to download to your phone. Here are the links: Click here for Skype. Click here to get WhatsApp. Have whoever you want to call in the states download Skype to their phone or computer, set up an account, and you can call them for FREE. If that's too much work, you can also add $10 to your Skype account, and make international calls for pennies. WhatsApp is the same principal, except its mostly for texts. Just have whoever you are wanting to text download WhatsApp to their phone. 15. Let your bank or credit card company know you are leaving the country Your bank or credit card company is always trying to protect you from identity theft. So if they see a charge from Italy and they don't know you are traveling there, they could easy freeze your account. 16. When renting a car, use the local Italian sites just like the airlines Paul threw this tip on the podcast. He says put you are a resident of Italy, but you can still put in your American information. Basically, tell them you are coming from Italy, and you'll get a much better rate. 17. Be aware of everything closing between 1PM and 4PM We've talked about this before, unless you are in major cities, a lot of times you'll find shop owners go home from lunch. So they go home, eat their pasta, and then take a nap. Now they will stay open later, until 8 or 9 PM, but if you are traveling in and around smaller towns, be aware you could be stuck not even finding a restaurant open. So plan accordingly. 18. You have to call a taxi — if there's even one around At places like Rome or Milan, you will find them at the airports or at a taxi stand. But they are not so common otherwise. If you need one, be sure to ask your hotel, rental home owner or restaurant to call one for you. 19. If you order a martini, you will not get an American martini Normally, if you just say you want a martini, they will serve a drink called Martini Bianco. A sweet drink served over ice. Even if you use terms like James Bond to get them to understand what you want, be careful in that a lot of people want to make you a mixed drink. So they will put two parts vodka to one part vermouth, and they'll use a sweet vermouth instead of dry vermouth. It's just all wrong. Try and head off this problem and explain what you really want if you can. Or stick to vodka on the rocks or wine!   So that's it for our Italy travel tips. Did we miss something? Let us know in the comments below. And be sure to sign up for our newsletter below to get tips, trick, recipes and more every Thursday.

"Do Not Seek to Create the Perfect Mind" by Ajahn Prasan, English Course II, Day 3 file no. 11B

動漫萬歲 - 11B by Denka Team

Episode Eleven, Part Two

[audio http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/ofb.s3.amazonaws.com/OFB56_SayThankyouToCustomers.mp3] OFB 56 | Saying thank you should not be reserved just for Thanksgiving, HP has no thanks for Autonomy, WalMart survived “no thanks” from workers, SAC Capital are just thankless bastards. On this edition of OFB Tom, Ken and Brian get in the spirit of the season and discuss saying thanks. First, some Hot Potato News items …. HP took another black eye in their strategy with a writeoff of $8B of the $11B acquisition of Autonomy, alleging accounting irregularities and fraud. Can you find a more dysfunctional Board and Management team in what was a great technology success? http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomgroenfeldt/2012/11/20/hp-and-autonomy-buyers-remorse-or-worse/ OUR WalMart (Organization United for Respect at WalMart) staged demonstrations at WalMarts throughout the country. The impact -- not that much. Maybe WalMart needs to learn more about saying thank you. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/22/walmart-strike-dallas_n_2175697.html SAC Capital is in hot water again with the SEC, this time for a $276M insider trading windfall. Mathew Martoma is the trader who was arrested. Steven Cohen is the owner of the fund and is under SEC investigation for the umpteenth time. Maybe this time it will stick? http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-11-21/business/sns-rt-us-sac-insidertrading-falloutbre8ak1h6-20121121_1_cohen-and-sac-insider-illicit-trades Discussion Item -- Saying Thank You The Thanksgiving season is a time when we all pause, take a breath, and reflect. We give thanks for all of the good things in our lives. Focusing solely on business (we are OFB after all), we should all take time to say thanks. Say thanks to family and friends. They support you so you can continue on. Say thanks to your employees. Without them you cease to exist. Say thanks to customers. Without them you cease to exist. And most importantly, don’t have the business say thank you. Get personal. You say thank you. Tell us what you think. How do you make 30 seconds work for you? Email Tommy or Ken at OpenForBusiness@OnTheHORN.com. Open for Business – Seven days of Fun in Less than an Hour. Click Here to Subscribe in iTunes: Open for Business http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/open-for-business/id533309378?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Purpose: To investigate retinal thickness and optic disc parameters by the Retinal Thickness Analyzer (RTA) glaucoma program in older normal subjects and to determine any age effect. Methods: Subjects over 40 years of age without any prior history of eye diseases were recruited. Only subjects completely normal on clinical ophthalmologic examination and on visual field testing by Humphrey Field Analyzer (HFA) using the SITA 24-2 program were included. A total of 74 eyes from 74 subjects with even age distribution over the decades were enrolled and underwent topographic measurements of the posterior pole and of the optic disc by RTA. The `glaucoma full' program in software version 4.11B was applied. Results: Mean patient age was 59.9 +/- 10.3 years with a range from 40 to 80 years. The only parameter intraocular pressure (IOP) correlated with was retinal posterior pole asymmetry (r=0.27, p=0.02). IOP itself increased significantly with age (r=0.341, p=0.003). Mean defect and pattern standard deviation of the HFA did not correlate with any of the retinal or optic disc measurements. Increasing age correlated significantly with some of the morphologic measurements of the RTA: decreasing perifoveal minimum thickness (r=-0.258, p=0.026), increased cup-to-disc area ratio (r=0.302, p=0.016) and increased cup area (r=0.338 p=0.007). Conclusions: An age effect exists for some of the retina and optic disc measurements obtained by the RTA. Copyright (C) 2005 S. Karger AG, Basel.

Durch die systematische Umsetzung von Lithiumtetrahydroboraten mit verschieden substituierten Pyridin-Liganden gelingt es, Regelmäßigkeiten in den erhaltenen Strukturen zu erkennen. Bei Substitution an der para-Stellung der Pyridinringe ändert sich die Zusammensetzung der Verbindung im Vergleich zu LiBH4ž3 py (1) nicht. Das Tetrahydroborat zeigt m2- oder m3-Koordination zum Lithiumion. Bei einfacher ortho-Substitution der Pyridinringe wird eine Verbindung der Zusammensetzung (LiBH4ž2 L)2 erhalten, in der das Tetrahydroborat über ein 2m1 1, m1 2-Koordinationschema zwei Lithiumatome verbrückt. DFT-Rechnungen bestätigen, dass dieses Dimere sich durch besondere Stabilität auszeichnet. Hingegen wird bei zweifacher ortho-Substitution eine monomere Verbindung der Zusammensetzung LiBH4ž2 L erhalten. Durch die Verwendung von Pyridin als Lösemittel gelingt es, Solvate von Lithiumtetrahydroborat mit den Liganden Ethylendiamin und Diethylentriamin darzustellen. Der Vergleich zwischen den Solvaten des Lithiumtetrahydroborates und Lithiumhalogeniden zeigt, dass nur bei guter Solvatation des Lithiumkations analoge Strukturen vorliegen. Pyridin als Lösemittel eignet sich auch zur Darstellung der Kronenether-Solvate von Natrium- und Kaliumtetrahydroborat. Mit KBH4ž18-Krone-6 (24) gelingt erstmalig eine Einkristallstrukturanalyse eines KBH4-Solvates. Durch Verwendung von 18-Krone-6 kann die Struktur des Kaliumborinats KH2BC5H10 (25) aufgeklärt werden. Da zwischen dem Borinat und dem Kaliumion hauptsächlich ionische Wechselwirkungen auftreten, zeigt es deutlich andere Bindungsparameter als die analoge Zirkonverbindung. Insbesondere ist der Bor-Kohlenstoff-Abstand signifikant länger. Ferner gelangt es, Strukturen von vier Amin-Solvaten des Magnesiumtetrahydroborates zu bestimmen. Dabei zeigt sich, dass das Tetrahydroborat-Ion durch Liganden vom Magnesiumatom verdrängt werden kann. Während in Mg(BH4)2ž3 tBuNH2 (28) der durchschnittliche Magnesium-Bor-Abstand 2.537(2) Å beträgt, wird in Mg(BH4)2ž4 py (30) ein Abstand von 2.988(4) Å gefunden. In [Mg(BzlNH2)6](BH4)2 (31) wird das Tetrahydroborat vollständig von dem Magnesium-Ion verdrängt. Durch den Zusatz von einem Äquivalent Wasser gelingt es, Pyridin mit LiBH4 zu Dihydropyridin zu reduzieren. Ohne Wasserzusatz verhält sich LiBH4 gegenüber Pyridin inert. Das Produkt Lithiumtetrakis(1,4-dihydropyridyl)boratž4 py (32) konnte durch Röntgenstrukturanalyse charakterisiert werden. Es handelt sich um das Bor-Analoge des Landsbury-Reagenz, das Aluminium als Zentralatom enthält. Nach Hydrolyse wird 1,4-Dihydropyridin erhalten. Die Umsetzung von Tetrahydroboraten mit Alkoholen und Carbonsäuren eignet sich nur in wenigen Fällen zur Darstellung substituierter Hydroboraten HnB(OR)4-n - bzw. HnB(O2CR)4-n -. Durch die Reaktion von LiBH4 mit 2,2´-Dihydroxybiphenyl in den sekundären Aminen Piperidin, Morpholin und Pyrrolidin als Lösemittel (Gleichung 35) werden gemischte Borate leicht erhalten. Auch bei der Umsetzung von Alkoholaten mit BH3žthf werden verschiedene, von dem eingesetzten Alkoholat abhängige, Reaktionsprodukte erhalten. Auf diesem Weg gelang es NaBH3NCS darzustellen. Mit NaBH3NCSž15-Krone-5 thf (37) war es erstmals möglich, eine nicht fehlgeordnete Struktur mit dem Anion BH3NCS- zu untersuchen. Wie durch IR- und 14N-NMR-Spektroskopie vorhergesagt, liegt 37 als Isothiocyanato-Komplex vor. Der B-NAbstand wird zu 1.575(5) Å bestimmt. Die durch DFT-Rechnung für das Anion BH3NCS- vorhergesagten Bindungsparameter stimmen gut mit den experimentell erhaltenen überein. Phthalsäure reagiert mit BH3žthf unter Bildung von Phthalatohydroborat. Dies kann als Edukt für die Synthese von Monohydroboraten HBR3 - mit sterisch anspruchsvollen Resten R verwendet werden. Deren Darstellung gelingt für R = tBu, OtBu und NMePh. Doch nur für R = tBu wurden Einkristalle erhalten. Für R = OtBu konnten Kristalle isoliert werden, die neben zwei Zersetzungsprodukten auch NaHB(OtBu)3 enthalten. Die Umsetzung von Nukleophilen mit Catecholboran führte in keinem Fall zu dem erwarteten Monohydroborat. Wird Lithiumpiperidid als Nukleophil verwendet, so gelingt es Li2Cat2BHždmežthf (43) zu isolieren. 43 ist formal als Additionsprodukt des bislithiiertem Catechols mit Catecholboran aufzufassen. Das Auftreten von 43 gibt wertvolle Einblicke in den Mechanismus des Ligandenaustausches. Neben NaHB(OtBu)3 (40) ist 43 bisher das einzige durch Röntgenstrukturanalyse charakterisierte Trialkoholatohydroborat. Die Verbindung Na[CatB(NCS)2] (42), die bei der Umsetzung von Catecholboran mit Natriumthiocyanat als Nebenprodukt auftritt, zeigt ein außergewöhnliches NMR-Spektrum. Sowohl im 11B- als auch im 14N-NMR-Spektrum ist die 1J(11B-14N)-Kopplung aufgelöst. Sie beträgt 24 Hz. Mit 42 gelang es zu erstem mal, eine Verbindung, die diese Kopplung zeigt, zu isolieren und in ihrer Struktur aufzuklären. Die Zusammensetzung des Reagenz BBN-CN, das durch Umsetzung von 9-BBN-H mit Natriumcyanid entsteht, wurde durch 11B-, 13C-NMR-Spektroskopie und Einkristallstrukturanalyse aufgeklärt. Es handelt sich bei 44 um das doppelte Addukt von 9-BBN-H an CN-. Die Umsetzung von Thiocyanat mit 9-BBN-H führt zu dem 1:1 Isothiocyanato-Addukt 45. Die experimentellen Befunde, dass Amide und Alkoholate zur Destabilisierung von substituierten Hydroboraten HnBR4-n - führen, wohingegen Cyanid und Thiocyanat diese stabilisieren, wird durch DFT-Rechnungen bestätigt.

Im Hauptteil dieser Arbeit werden Synthese und Charakterisierung neuer Azidverbindungen des Elementes Bor beschrieben. Anhand der Azidierung von Catecholborchlorid konnte gezeigt werden, daß sich das kommerziell erhältliche Me3SiN3 am besten für den Aufbau von Boraziden eignet. Durch die Reaktion von 9-BBN-Cl mit Me3SiN3 sollte 9-BBN-N3 (7) dargestellt werden. Dabei zeigte sich jedoch, daß es unter Eliminierung von N2 überraschenderweise zur Bildung des Umlagerungsproduktes 8 kommt. Um die Bildung von 8 zu verstehen, wurde die Reaktion 11B NMR spektroskopisch bei tiefen Temperaturen untersucht. Dabei konnte gezeigt werden, daß sich bei Temperaturen unter −30 °C zuerst das erwartete 9-BBN-N3 (7) bildet, welches bei höheren Temperaturen unter N2-Abspaltung zu 8 weiterreagiert. Für die Bildung von 8 wurde ein „Synchronmechanismus“ vorgeschlagen, bei dem das α-N Atom der Azidgruppe des intermediär gebildeten 9-BBN-N3 (7) zunächst an das Boratom eines weiteren 9-BBN-N3 (7) Moleküls koordiniert. Gleichzeitig kommt es, unter Eliminierung von N2 zur Bildung einer B−N Bindung. Ein zweiter denkbarer Mechanismus („Iminoboranmechanismus“) fordert das Entstehen eines zyklischen Iminoborans, welches sich durch Addition eines 9-BBN-N3 (7) Moleküls stabilisiert. In einem großen Teil dieser Arbeit wurde eine Reihe von Boraziden mit elektronenziehenden Substituenten untersucht. Dabei wurde zunächst das bereits in der Literatur beschriebene (BF2N3)3 (10) durch Reaktion von BF3 mit Me3SiN3 dargestellt und schwingungs- und NMR-112 spektroskopisch charakterisiert. Es konnte gezeigt werden, daß 10 bereits in Lösung als Trimer vorliegt. Dies ist mit den quantenmechanischen Studien im Einklang, welche zeigen, daß die Trimerisierung von BF2N3 (→ (BF2N3)3) gegenüber der Dimerisierung [→ (BF2N3)2] sowie der Dismutierung (→ BF3, B(N3)3) bevorzugt ist. Einen weiteren elektronenziehenden Substituenten stellt die Pentafluorphenylgruppe (C6F5) dar. Es konnten alle möglichen Kombinationen Pentafluorphenyl-substituierter Borazide sowie deren Pyridin-Addukte synthetisiert und vollständig charakterisiert werden, wobei neue oligomere Festkörperstrukturen erhalten wurden. (C6F5)2BCl [(C6F5)2BN3]2 Me3SiN3 Py [Ph4P][N3] [PPh4][(C6F5)2B(N3)2] 11a 12 13 - Me3SiCl (C6F5)2BN3 Py . Es konnte gezeigt werden, daß sich (C6F5)2BN3 (11) im Festkörper unter Ausbildung von Dimeren [(C6F5)2BN3)]2 (11a) stabilisiert. Somit kann 11a als erstes Beispiel eines substituierten N,N´-Diazo-diazadiboratacyclobutans angesehen werden. Durch Reaktion mit Pyridin oder [Ph4P][N3] konnten 12 und 13 erhalten werden. Im Gegensatz zu 11a, liegt C6F5B(N3)2 (14) im Feststoff als Trimer [C6F5B(N3)2]3 (14a) vor. C6F5BCl2 [C6F5B(N3)2]3 - Me3SiCl Me3SiN3 C6F5B(N3)2 [Ph4P][N3] Py [Ph4P][C6F5B(N3)3] C6F5B(N3)2 Py . 14a 14 15 > 35-37 °C < 35-37 °C An dem Beispiel von 14a konnte der Unterschied von verbrückenden und terminalen Azidgruppen in einem Molekül untersucht werden. Wie durch Ramanspektroskopie gezeigt werden konnte, dissoziiert 14a bei seinem Schmelzpunkt 35−37 °C reversibel in seine Monomere 14. Durch Umsetzungen mit Pyridin und [Ph4P][N3] wurden das Pyridin-Addukt 15 und das Pentafluorphenyltriazidoborat 16 erhalten. Da die Pentafluorphenyl-substituierten Borazide 11a und 14a im Festkörper oligomer vorliegen, wurde der Einfluß der schwächer elektronenziehenden o-Difluorphenyl- und o- Fluorphenyl Substituenten (RF = 2,6-F2C6H3, 2-FC6H4) auf die Struktur der Borazide (RF)2BN3 (23, 24) und RFB(N3)2 (26, 27) untersucht. Die für die den Aufbau der Borazide benötigten nicht beschriebenen Ausgangsverbindungen (RF)2BCl (19, 20) und RFBCl2 (21, 22) wurden durch Reaktion von (RF)2SnMe2 (17, 18) mit BCl3 erhalten. Dabei konnte gezeigt werden, daß (2,6-F2C6H3)2BN3 (23) wie 11a im Festkörper als Dimer vorliegt. Aufgrund von ramanspektroskopischen Untersuchungen, wurde auch für 2,6-F2C6H3B(N3)2 (26) eine oligomere Struktur vorausgesagt. Im Gegensatz dazu ist die 2-FC6H4-Gruppe zu wenig elektronegativ, sodaß (2-FC6H4)2BN3 (24) und 2-FC6H4B(N3)2 (27) keine Oligomerisierungstendenzen zeigen. Ein weiteres im Festkörper monomer vorliegendes Azid ist 2,4,6- [(CF3)3C6H2]2BN3 (25). In diesem Fall verhindern sperrige Nonafluormesityl-Substituenten eine Oligomerisierung. Die hochenergetischen Bortriazid-Addukte B(N3)3·Chin (42), [B(N3)3]2·Pyr (43) sowie das Tetraazidoborat [B(N3)4]− als Li[B(N3)4] (44) und [tmpH2][B(N3)4] (46) konnten synthetisiert und vollständig charakterisiert werden. Im Fall von 46 wurde das [B(N3)4]− Anion in einem neuen Weg aus tmpB(N3)2 und HN3 dargestellt. Begleitend zu den experimentellen Untersuchungen wurden auch quantenmechanische Rechnungen durchgeführt, die gute Übereinstimmung mit den experimentell erhaltenen Daten zeigen. Die starke Lewis-Säure (C6F5)3B (32) wurde in einer Eintopfreaktion aus C6F5Li und BCl3 in Hexan bei −78 °C in guten Ausbeuten erhalten. Die alternative Literatursynthese aus C6F5MgBr und BF3·OEt2 in Diethylether liefert eine ganze Reihe an Nebenprodukten, von denen [(C6F5)2BOH]3 (33a) und (C6F5)2BOEt (34) isoliert und charakterisiert werden konnten. 32 bildet mit einer Reihe von ausgewählten Stickstoffdonoren stabile 1:1 Additionsverbindungen, wobei die Addukte 37−41 vollständig charakterisiert werden konnten. Durch Reaktion von 32 mit [Me4N][N3] wurde 35 als letztes noch fehlendes Glied in der Serie der Pentafluorphenyl substituierten Azidoborate dargestellt. Es konnte gezeigt werden, daß in 38 entgegen der Basizität Cyanamid über den Nitril- Stickstoff koordiniert. Weiterhin konnte gezeigt werden, daß 11B sowie 19F NMR Spektroskopie einen guten Hinweis auf die B−N Bindungsstärke liefern. Dabei zeigt sich der Trend, daß eine schwache B−N Koordination (lange B−N Bindung) einen Tieffeldshift sowohl im 11B als auch im 19F NMR Spektrum, im Vergleich einem Hochfeldshift bei einer starken B−N Bindung (kurze B−N Bindung), bewirkt. Im letzten Teil dieser Arbeit wurden Synthese, Charakterisierung und Untersuchungen zur elektrophilen Fluorierungskapazität von [(ClCN)3F][BF4] (50) beschrieben. Aus quantenmechanischen Berechnungen wurde ein FPDEB3LYP Wert (Fluorine Plus Detachment Energy) von 226.8 kcal mol−1 erhalten, welcher zeigt, daß 50 ein starkes oxidatives Fluorierungsmittel darstellt. Dies wurde qualitativ anhand der Fluorierung ausgewählter Aromaten experimentell bestätigt.

In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurden drei verschiedene Schwerpunkte gesetzt: (a) Phosphonium- und Diphosphanium-Kationen, (b) Phosphor-Bor-Addukte und (c) Phosphorazid-Verbindungen. •= Es konnte gezeigt werden, daß die Phosphortrihalogenide PCl3, PBr3, PI3 und P2I4 wie auch die Phosphor-Chalkogenide P4S3 und P4Se3 aufgrund ihrer schwachen Donoreigenschaft nur sehr schwachgebundene Spezies mit Elektronenacceptoren bilden. So sind die gebildeten Komplexverbindungen X3P⋅BY3 (X = Cl, Br, I; Y = Br, I) und (P4E3)⋅(BX3) (X = Br, I) wie auch die PX4 +- (X = Br, I) und P2I5 +-Salze nur im Festkörper stabil. In Lösung hingegen neigen diese Spezies gewöhnlich zur Dissoziation. Die Donorfähigkeit von Phosphinen hingegen ist aufgrund des positiven induktiven Effekts der Alkyl- oder Arylgruppen deutlich höher. So konnte z.B. gezeigt werden, daß die Verbindungen H2PMe2 +AlCl4 − und n-Pr3P⋅BX3 (X = Cl, Br, I) im Gegensatz zu den oben genannten Komplexen auch in Lösung stabil sind. •= Die 31P-NMR-Resonanzen der PI4 +-Spezies zeigen in Abhängigkeit vom jeweiligen Anion ungewöhnlich starke Hochfeldverschiebungen im Bereich zwischen −295 ppm (PI4 +GaI4 −, ∆ δcoord = −532 ppm, Abb. 61) und −519 ppm (PI4 +AsF6 −, ∆ δcoord = −756 ppm, Abb. 61), welche auf Spinbahn-Effekte zurückzuführen sind. Durch Röntgenstrukturanalyse (PI4 +AlCl4 −, PI4 +AlBr4 −, PI4 +GaI4 −), 31P-MAS-NMR- und Schwingungsspektroskopie konnte gezeigt werden, daß das PI4 +-Kation je nach Eigenschaft des Gegenanions "isoliert" oder polymer vorliegt. Die intermolekularen Kation ⋅⋅⋅ Anion- Wechselwirkungen in den PI4 +-Komplexen nehmen in der Reihenfolge PI4 +GaI4 − ≥ PI4 +AlI4 − > PI4 +GaBr4 − ≥ PI4 +AlBr4 − > PI4 +AlCl4 − > PI4 +SbF6 − ≥ PI4 +AsF6 − ab. Die dadurch steigende P-I-Bindungsordnung (kürzere P-I-Bindungslängen, stärkere P-IKraftkonstanten) im PI4 +-Kation verursacht eine Verschiebung der 31P-Resonanz zu niedrigeren Frequenzen (höherem Feld) bzw. eine Verschiebung der Normalschwingungen zu höheren Wellenzahlen (ν1 (PI4 +) = 150 − 180 cm−1). Dieses Phänomen ist in den PBr4 +-Spezies weniger ausgeprägt ( δ = −72 bis −83 ppm, ν1 (PBr4 +) = 250 − 266 cm−1) (s. 3.1). •= Durch Auftragen der P-I-Bindungslänge gegen die 31P-chemische Verschiebung bzw. gegen die ν1-Streckschwingung des PI4 +-Kations konnte zum ersten Mal der P-I-Abstand in PI4 +AsF6 − abgeschätzt werden (d (P-I) ≈ 2.352(2) Å, s. 3.1). •= Mit den Reaktionssystemen PBr3 / I3 +MF6 − (M = As, Sb) und PBr3 / IBr / EBr3 (E = Al, Ga) gelang es erstmalig, die Existenz der bisher unbekannten gemischt substituierten Bromoiodophosphonium-Kationen PBrnI4−n + (0 ≤ n ≤ 3) durch 31P-MAS-NMRSpektroskopie nachzuweisen. Es konnte sowohl experimentell als auch durch quantenchemische Berechnungen gezeigt werden, daß der Hochfeldshift für PBrnI4−n + aufgrund der anwachsenden Spinbahn-Beiträge entlang PBr4 + < PBr3I+ < PBr2I2 + < PBrI3 + < PI4 + ansteigt (s. 3.1). •= Die Verbindungen P2I5 +EI4 − (E = Al, Ga, In) sind auf zwei unterschiedlichen Synthesewegen darstellbar. Das P2I5 +-Kation wird im Festkörper durch schwache I ⋅⋅⋅ IKontakte mit den EI4 −-Anionen stabilisiert. Die 31P-Resonanz des Phosphoratoms des PI3- Fragments zeigt eine deutliche Hochfeldverschiebung von der Resonanz von P2I4 (∆ δcoord = δ (−PI3 +, P2I5 +) − δ (−PI2, P2I4) = −267 ppm, Abb. 61), welche − wie auch in den PI4 +- Spezies − auf Spinbahn-Beiträge der schweren Iodsubstituenten zurückzuführen sind (s. 3.2). •= Durch Röntgenstrukturanalyse von H2PMe2 +AlCl4 −, welches aus HPMe2, HCl und AlCl3 dargestellt wurde, konnte die strukturelle Aufklärung der Dimethylphosphonium-Kationen HnPMe4−n + (0 ≤ n ≤ 3) vervollständigt werden (s. 3.3). •= Die Umsetzung von PBr3 mit Ph3P führte zu einer definierten Verbindung, welche durch 31P-MAS-NMR-Spektroskopie als Ph2P−PBr2 +Br− identifiziert wurde. Im Gegensatz zu früheren Arbeiten, in denen oft über die Zusammensetzung und Struktur der durch die Umsetzungen von Phosphorhalogeniden mit Alkyl- oder Arylphosphinen erhaltenen Reaktionsprodukte (orange Niederschläge) spekuliert wurde, konnte hier gezeigt werden, daß die Festkörper-Spektroskopie eine geeignete Methode zur Untersuchung derartiger Verbindungen darstellt (s. 3.4). •= Im Zusammenhang mit der Untersuchung des Koordinationsverhalten von Phosphor- Basen (Elektronendonoren) gegenüber Lewis-Säuren (Elektronenacceptoren) wie BX3 (X = Cl, Br, I) konnten zahlreiche Addukt-Verbindungen dargestellt werden (Gleichung 20). Base + BX3      →  Base⋅BX3 (20) für X = Br, I: Base = PCl3, PBr3, PI3, n-Pr3P, P4S3, P4Se3 für X = Cl: Base = n-Pr3P •= Strukturell konnten die zum Teil sehr schwachgebundenen Komplexe Br3P⋅BBr3, I3P⋅BBr3 und n-Pr3P⋅BBr3 durch Röntgenstrukturanalyse am Einkristall bestimmt werden (s. 3.5 − 3.6). •= Aufgrund der 31P-MAS-NMR- und Schwingungsdaten und konnte gezeigt werden, daß die Reaktion von BX3 (X = Br, I) mit P4S3 zu apikalen Addukten, mit P4Se3 jedoch zu basalen Addukten führt. Zusätzlich konnten die Molekülstrukturen von (P4S3)⋅(BBr3) und (P4S3)⋅(BI3) durch Röntgen-Pulverbeugung eindeutig bestimmt werden (s. 3.7). •= In Analogie zu früheren Arbeiten konnte bestätigt werden, daß die Acceptorstärke (Lewis- Acidität) von BX3 (X = Cl, Br, I) in der Reihenfolge BCl3 < BBr3 < BI3 ansteigt. So bildet die schwache Lewis-Säure BCl3 nur noch mit starken Phosphor-Basen wie Alkyl- oder Arylphosphinen stabile Komplexe. Bezüglich der Stabilität der Reaktionsprodukte konnte für die BX3-Addukte (X = Br, I) sowohl theoretisch (quantenchemische Berechnungen) als auch experimentell folgende Reihenfolge beobachtet werden: P4S3 < PCl3 < PBr3 < P4Se3 < PI3 < n-Pr3P (s. 3.5 − 3.7). •= Durch Analyse der Bindungsorbitale (NBO) von X3P⋅BY3 (X = Cl, Br, I, Me) konnte gezeigt werden, daß: (a) die Bindungsordnung entlang der BCl3- < BBr3- < BI3-Addukte zunimmt und (b) der Ladungstransfer in der gleichen Reihenfolge ansteigt. blaue Balken: Koordinationsshift ∆ δcoord = δ (Komplex) − δ (PI3); roter Balken: Koordinationsshift ∆ δcoord = δ (Komplex) − δ (P2I4); grüne Balken: Koordinationsshift ∆ δcoord = δ (Komplex) − δ (PBr3); brauner Balken: Koordinationsshift ∆ δcoord = δ (Komplex) − δ (PCl3); orangefarbene Balken: Koordinationsshift ∆ δcoord = δ (Pap; Komplex) − δ (Pap; P4S3); lila Balken: Koordinationsshift ∆ δcoord = δ (Pbas; Komplex) − δ (Pbas; P4Se3). •= Die bei der Koordination in der Reihe Cl3P⋅BBr3 (∆ δcoord = −110 ppm) < Br3P⋅BBr3 (∆ δcoord = −149 ppm) < I3P⋅BBr3 (∆ δcoord = −268 ppm) < I3P⋅BI3 (∆ δcoord = −278 ppm) ansteigende Hochfeldverschiebung der 31P-Resonanz (Abb. 61) ist ebenfalls (vgl. PI4 +- und P2I5 +-Salze) auf Schweratomeffekte zurückzuführen (s. 3.5). •= Ein entgegengesetzter Trend wurde für die Addukte (P4E3)⋅(BX3) (X = Br, I) und (P4Se3)⋅(NbCl5) gefunden: Der Koordinationsshift der Phosphor-Chalkogenid-Komplexe ist im Gegensatz zu den Komplexen X3P⋅BY3 positiv (Verschiebung zum tieferen Feld) und liegt für die apikalen P4S3-Addukte bei ca. 50 − 60 ppm (Abb. 61). Für die basalen P4Se3-Addukte ist der Tieffeld-Koordinationsshift deutlich größer und steigt in der Reihe NbCl5 (∆ δcoord = +64.2 ppm) < BBr3 (∆ δcoord = +104.1 ppm) < BI3 (∆ δcoord = +177.0 ppm) an (s. 3.7, Abb. 61). •= Durch die Umsetzung von [PhNPCl3]2 und [(C6F5)NPCl3]2 mit TMS-N3 konnten die Phosphorazid-Spezies [PhNP(N3)3]2 und [(C6F5)NP(N3)3]2 dargestellt werden. Durch Kernresonanz- und Schwingungsspektroskopie konnte gezeigt werden, daß [PhNP(N3)3]2 sowohl in Lösung als auch im Festkörper als dimere Verbindung zweier monomerer PhNP(N3)3-Einheiten vorliegt, während das analoge Pentafluorphenylderivat durch die elektronenziehende Wirkung der perfluorierten Phenylgruppen in Lösung überwiegend monomer als (C6F5)NP(N3)3, im Festkörper jedoch als Dimer [(C6F5)NP(N3)3]2 vorliegt (s. 3.8). •= [PhNP(N3)3]2 und [(C6F5)NP(N3)3]2 konnten durch Röntgenbeugung am Einkristall charakterisiert werden (Abb. 62) und sind somit die ersten strukturell charakterisierten Phosphorazid-Spezies, in welchen das Phosphoratom verzerrt trigonal-bipyramidal von drei Azidgruppen umgeben ist. Die Molekülstruktur von [PhNP(N3)3]2 zeigt eine ungewöhnliche Bindungssituation mit vier deutlich unterschiedlichen Phosphor- Stickstoff-Bindungslängen. Sowohl im 14N-NMR-Spektrum als auch in den Schwingungsspektren (Raman, IR) konnte eine Aufspaltung durch die chemisch nicht äquivalenten Azidgruppen (eine axiale, zwei äquatoriale N3-Gruppen) beobachtet werden (s. 3.8). Zusammenfassend sind die in der vorliegenden Arbeit dargestellten Verbindungen und ihre Charakterisierung in Tabelle 58 aufgeführt. Sofern die Verbindungen bereits publiziert wurden sind die Orginalarbeiten als Literaturstelle angegeben. Tabelle 58 Im Rahmen der vorliegenden Arbeit dargestellte Verbindungen Verbindung Schwingungsspektroskopie Kernresonanzspektroskopie Röntgenstrukturanalyse Lit. PBr4 +AsF6 − Raman, IR 31P-MAS-NMR 14 PI4 +AlBr4 − Raman, IR 31P-MAS-NMR Einkristall 14 PI4 +GaBr4 − Raman, IR 31P-MAS-NMR, 71Ga-MAS-NMR 14 PI4 +AlCl4 − Raman, IR 31P-MAS-NMR Einkristall 14 PI4 +GaI4 − Einkristall 6,7,14 P2I5 +AlI4 − a Raman, IR 31P-MAS-NMR 27,31 P2I5 +GaI4 − Raman, IR 31P-MAS-NMR Einkristall 31 P2I5 +InI4 − Raman, IR 31P-MAS-NMR 31 H2PMe2 +AlCl4 − Raman, IR 31P-, 13C-, 1H-NMR Einkristall 45 Ph3P−PBr2 +Br− Raman 31P-MAS-NMR Cl3P⋅BBr3 b Raman, IR 31P-MAS-NMR 54,73 Cl3P⋅BI3 b Raman 54,73 Br3P⋅BBr3 b Raman, IR 31P-MAS-NMR Einkristall 52,73 Br3P⋅BI3 b Raman 54,73 I3P⋅BBr3 b Raman, IR 31P-MAS-NMR Einkristall 56,73,74 I3P⋅BI3 b Raman, IR 31P-MAS-NMR 57,73 n-Pr3P⋅BCl3 Raman, IR 31P-, 11B-, 13C- ,1H-NMR n-Pr3P⋅BBr3 Raman, IR 31P-, 11B-, 13C-, 1H-NMR Einkristall 74 n-Pr3P⋅BI3 Raman, IR 31P-, 11B-, 13C-, 1H-NMR (P4S3)⋅(BBr3) Raman, IR 31P-MAS-NMR Pulver 119 (P4S3)⋅(BI3) Raman, IR 31P-MAS-NMR Pulver 119,120 (P4Se3)⋅(NbCl5)a Raman, IR 31P-MAS-NMR 112,119 (P4Se3)⋅(BBr3) Raman, IR 31P-MAS-NMR 119 (P4Se3)⋅(BI3) Raman, IR 31P-MAS-NMR 113,119 [PhNP(N3)3]2 Raman, IR 31P-, 14N-, 13C-, 1H-NMR Einkristall 142 [(C6F5)NP(N3)3]2 Raman, IR 31P-, 14N-, 13C-{19F}-, 19F- NMR Einkristall 143 a Verbindung bekannt, bisher nur durch Röntgenstrukturanalyse charakterisiert; b Verbindung bereits bekannt, wurde aber in der Literatur nur schlecht charakterisiert. Durch die vorliegende Dissertationsschrift konnten neue Aspekte und Einblicke über die vielfältigen chemischen Eigenschaften und Bindungsverhältnisse binärer und ternärer kationischer Phosphor-Spezies sowie Phosphor-Bor-Addukt-Komplexe und Phosphorazide gewonnen werden. Insbesondere gibt diese Arbeit einen Überblick über den Einfluß und das Ausmaß relativistischer Effekte am Phosphor in Gegenwart schweren Halogensubstituenten, denn: "Aufgabe der Naturwissenschaft ist es nicht nur, die Erfahrung stets zu erweitern, sondern in diese Erfahrung eine Ordnung zu bringen." Niels Bohr (1885 − 1962), dänischer Physiker, Nobelpreis für Physik (1922).