Waching daily Feb 1 2018

Brussels, 1928

The surrealist Magritte paints a highly curious work.

Brussels, 2008

This time it's the politicians' turn.

It's an ambitious project:

to pump up to 120 billion cubic metres

of Caspian gas across six countries to Europe.

The inspiration?

To meet Europe's future energy demands.

And to gain energy independence

from

Russia.

Currently,

Russia provides nearly 30% of the EU's natural gas.

Given Russia's previous behaviour,

Europe has good reason to worry.

So,

to diversify energy supplies,

getting gas from Azerbaijan instead makes sense.

Or does it?

Azerbaijan has never had a free and fair election.

Political arrests,

torture

and disappearances

are common.

Recently

the regime was accused of bribing EU politicians

to soften them up for the pipeline deal.

... A deal that's very interesting to

Turkey,

currently in a state of emergency

and also becoming extremely authoritarian.

If the EU is so critical of Russia,

should it really be enriching these regimes?

The pipeline is already causing suffering on the ground.

In Italy, there will be impacts on tourism,

water quality

and people's livelihoods.

In Albania and Greece,

the pipeline crosses farmers' land,

with little compensation.

And then there's the wider problem of our changing climate.

The Paris agreement states

we need to aim for a low carbon economy.

But building massive new gas infrastructure

will lock us

into this damaging fossil fuel

for decades to come. Each dollar invested

will result in damage

of up to 13 dollars from global climate change.

If we end up using it:

The dropping price of renewables

is casting Europe's future demand for gas

into doubt.

When renewables come fully online,

this pipeline

will end up as a huge,

useless source of debt

for European citizens.

And there's another can of worms.

The gas emerging from the Azerbaijani gas fields

has been much less than promised - certainly not enough to justify the pipeline's cost.

So more gas will be needed

to fill the pipeline.

Guess where from?

That's right.

Since its gas may end up

coming through the pipeline anyway,

Russia won't be too troubled

by this project.

In fact,

Russia may well find it amusing

that Europe has given billions to countries

with terrible human rights records,

undermined its own values and principles,

spent its budget on a white elephant,

and locked us into fossil fuels,

all whilst undermining

the renewable energy revolution:

the real threat

to Russia's oligarchy.

This pipeline,

however the EU paints it,

is the true

Treachery of Images.

For more infomation >> This is not a pipe - The "treachery" of the EU gas plans - Duration: 3:09.

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What is a sales team- The Sales Wiki | Michael Humblet - Duration: 2:26.

- What is a sales team?

A sales team is a team of individuals or people

that are trying and that are pushing to sell

your product or service.

And the way you structure that is you have several

elements to do it.

One let's talk about people.

People, you have different type of personalities

because you also have different type of buyers.

That means the typical first one you will see

is somebody that's called a hunter.

That is a personality that likes to kick in doors

and that likes to,

that likes to close the first deal.

And then they're bored and they wanna do something else.

Typically role names for that would be

business development and those kind of roles.

The other side is what they call farmers.

That is somebody that doesn't really like

to do the first opening,

that doesn't like to close the first deal,

but rather wants to come in when that has already happened.

And what they do is their main goal is to upsell,

so to make sure there is more product and services

within the same account.

Typically roles for that is account manager,

key account manager,

account director, alliance manager,

those type of personalities.

Then you also have something called direct

and indirect sales.

Direct sales means I go and sell directly to a customer.

The other route could be indirect.

I go and sell to a partner that has a sales team

that will sell for me.

Typically roles there are things like partner manager

or alliances could also be a typical role there.

So how do you structure your team?

Well you're gonna structure the team

based either on geography or where you say,

well this team is gonna focus on let's say a city,

a country, a whole region, the U.S., Europe,

India, that kinda stuff.

Or you will have a team that could be sitting

on a certain industry specific like

I'm just saying something here, FMCG,

fast-moving consumer goods.

You could combine all of that,

all combinations, you can do all of them.

Then within the team you have seniority levels

going from junior to let's say more senior,

and you also have roles like inside sales,

people are sitting inside.

Then you have the account managers,

then you have the alliance manager.

So it can get very large up to thousands of salespeople,

or it can be very small, one or two.

Each has its own perks and its own choices

you need to make to scale your business.

For more infomation >> What is a sales team- The Sales Wiki | Michael Humblet - Duration: 2:26.

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Devoted: When Is It Okay To Judge? (John 8:7) - Duration: 2:01.

Yesterday, we started a conversation, about the difference between judging actions and judging the heart, we talked

About when it is appropriate to judge and i'd like to give you an example to demonstrate this further

Let's say you're starting up a business and an acquaintance, wants to partner with

you, the trouble

Is he's bankrupted for our businesses in the last

10 years he owes several people money and a few trusted friends have

Confided that he took advantage of them in business deals when you, ask him, about it he takes no responsibility

And places the blame on everyone else now if you're not supposed to judge does that mean you should take him at his word

Should, you ignore his track record, and trust that he's going to treat you differently than he's treated others

No, trust should, always be earned and we need to be discerning when looking at, someone's behavior at the same time

We can't assume to know, why people do what they do it would

Be wrong to call the man a shady, businessman or a snake because now we're attacking his character

We also can't, assume that he meant to take advantage or that he doesn't care about others because, we do not know

This, we don't know?

His motives and intentions all we know is his track record and wisdom says not to partner with him

Unless he earns himself a new track record

Can you think of an example in your, own, life, where you judge someone's heart with this example in mind would you now

Approach this situation differently

As you meditate on today's verse remember, god loves you, very much rest in this fact and know

That jesus came to give you, abundant, life, claim, this promise over yourself and tune in again for more of devoted

you

For more infomation >> Devoted: When Is It Okay To Judge? (John 8:7) - Duration: 2:01.

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Throwback Thursday: Ocean City Is so so Cool - Duration: 0:41.

They can give the ocean

oceans are so fun people can

live at oceans ocean city

and they can live at ocean city

Ocean city is so so cool

ocean city is just so so cool

just so so cool