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Alabama hires top recruiter Jeff Banks as special teams coordinator
Alabama is losing a few coaches this offseason, as usual, but Nick Saban is making one noteworthy addition to his staff.
SI's Bruce Feldman reports that Alabama has hired Jeff Banks as their new special teams coordinator.
SOURCES: Former #TAMU special teams coordinator & recruiting coordinator Jeff Banks will become the new STC for #Alabama. Banks also had been one of the Aggies top recruiters, helped land Christian Kirk.
— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) January 12, 2018
Banks is switching SEC programs, leaving Texas A&M for Alabama. Part of the big draw of Banks is that he's regarded as a top recruiter. As Feldman noted, he helped the Aggies land top wide receiver Christian Kirk.
Alabama is losing Jeremy Pruitt, who is the Tennessee Volunteers' new head coach, and secondary coach Derrick Ansley. Banks is a nice addition to the Crimson Tide's staff.


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Joel Pobar is a compiler and languages nerd from the sunny Gold Coast Australia. He currently works at Facebook as an Engineering Manager working on the HipHop PHP Virtual Machine (https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php) which drives and scales www.facebook.com. Previously, he did time at an Investment Bank, and prior to that, worked on the .NET CLR team.
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A few billion likes and a few hundred million photos uploaded a day. A hundred or so petabytes of queryable data and a handful of power hungry datacenters. And it's all humming while code is being written and deployed twice daily without our users noticing. This talk will explore the "move fast" side of Facebook's software engineering culture: development process, organizational structure and the vast amounts of tooling we use to make sure we don't screw up. We'll also dig into how we "ship things": release process, A/B testing, gate keepers, test infrastructure and so on. You'll walk away with a prospective of how we build software at scale, for scale.


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As usual, very nice brief analysis.
Did you happen to notice the corporate structure of Entergy?
Based upon nothing more than the Yahoo! Finance profile for ETR, ETR appears to be a holding company with both regulated and unregulated business segments.
Again based upon nothing more than the Yahoo profile, it appears that the nuclear power generation business is the non-regulated portion of ETR while ETR also owns Entergy Texas, Entergy Mississippi, Entergy Lousiana, and Entergy Arkansas which are probably regulated utilities.
As you are aware, a particular regulated subsidiary's balance sheet may be in far better or far worse shape than the parent holding company's balance sheet. One would have to look at Entergy Mississippi's balance sheet and also assess the regulatory envirnnment in Mississippi.
Either way, I'm not interested in the bonds.....I'm just saying I don't think you can equate the balance sheet of the corporate holding company to the security of the bonds issued by one of the regulated utilities (Entergy Mississippi in this case).
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The way of living implies the standard of stay in the society today. A look to your place can make individuals comprehend of what you are, and where you stand. Yet, to pick up that standard we have to work a great deal harder, and it is the resultant of our diligent works that furnish us with the solace and place in the competitive society today.
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Acquiring the highest per capita pay in the entire NCR (National Capital Region), it is amongst the wealthiest community bodies in our nation. It is also positioned as the best city in Uttar Pradesh, furthermore stands to be the best city in Housing in all over India, in recompenses directed by ABP News, in 2015. It additionally supplanted Mumbai, as the second best reality destination, as indicated by the analyst report. So over everything you can see that it is a best suitable area for business and business centers. It has an extremely positive environment as a business zone, as it generally stacked into this division.
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As our clients and friends in the industry know, Neohapsis has been a key player in the security, risk and compliance market. Today, we are excited to announce plans to join Cisco, who we believe will be the perfect strategic match for us, given our services and research mission.
We share with Cisco a global enterprise customer base, and a commitment to help our customers address their most challenging threats, especially in the rapidly evolving mobile and cloud arenas. Because of Neohapsis' and Cisco's shared focus on the Internet of Everything, the opportunity to do groundbreaking work together is enormous. Together, what we bring to enterprise customers, IoT device manufacturers, and associated service providers will be unique in the market.
Please read Hilton Romanski's blog which outlines more about the strategy driving this acquisition: http://blogs.cisco.com/news/cisco-announces-intent-to-acquire-neohapsis.
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Francis Ford Coppola protégé Phillip Borsos directs this elegiac, low-key tale about real-life bandit Bill Miner that has become a classic of Canadian cinema. Having been released from jail in 1901 following a 33-year prison sentence for robbing stagecoaches, Bill Miner (Richard Farnsworth) finds himself living in a society that has completely changed from the one of his youth. He tries to put his life of crime behind him and settle down in Washington state with his sister, but the quiet life does not suit him. He feels restless but uncertain as to how to proceed next. The answer comes to him when he sees Edward S. Porter's The Great Train Robbery. Soon, Miner has slipped over the border into Canada and, along with his new partner, Shorty (Wayne Robson), robs the Canadian Pacific Railway Transcontinental Express. Later, while laying low after the crime in a remote corner of British Columbia, he meets the beautiful, strong-willed photographer Kate Flynn (Jackie Burroughs). In writing this script, Borsos reportedly made heavy use of contemporary court documents and testimonies. This film was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival in honor of its 20th anniversary.~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide


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Vancouver private mortgage lenders are mostly corporations or individuals that invest their money on second or third mortgages secured on properties provided by the borrowers. Private mortgage loans may be arranged through a Mortgage Broker.
Most private lenders capped their investment risk to not more than 85% of the real estate value. The interest rates payable on 2nd mortgage loans may vary from 12% to 18% per annum.
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Poem of the Week 1/30/2007: from Jerusalem. Plate 97.
from Jerusalem, a Poem.
Plate 97
Awake! Awake Jerusalem! O lovely Emanation of Albion
Awake and overspread all Nations as in Ancient Time
For lo! the Night of Death is past and the Eternal Day
Appears upon our Hills: Awake Jerusalem, and come away
So spake the Vision of Albion & in him so spake in my hearing,
The Universal Father Then Albion stretched his hand into Infinitude.
And took his Bow. Fourfold the Vision for bright beaming Urizen
Layed his hand on the South & took a breathing Bow of carved Gold
Luvah his hadn stretched to the East & bore a Silver Bow bright shining
Tharmas Westward a Bow of Brass pure flaming richly wrought
Urthona. Northward in thick storms a Bow of Iron terrible thundering
And the Bow is a Male & Female & the Quiver of the Arrows of Love.
Are the children of this Bow: a Bow of Mercy & Loving-kindness: laying
Open the hidden Heart in Wars of mutual Benevolence Wars of Love
And the Hand of Man grasps firm between the Male & Female Loves
And he Clothed himself in Bow & Arrows in awful state Fourfold
In the midst of his Twenty-eight Cities each with his Bow breathing-----
William Blake
What I am interested in for this poem is the tension in the third stanza between male and female, and the tension arising between opposites, or from struggle. Let us meditate on the image of an arrow and a bow. The tighter a bow is, the more tension there is within it, but the farther it can shoot an arrow. Tension leads to strength. Therefore, when the man chooses to clad himself in bow and arrows in the final stanza, he is not merely arming himself for war, but covering himself with strength. The "awful" state is also not one of horror, but of awe, of some kind of deep and abiding power within him. As for the fourfold nature of his state, he may be the symbol of the unity of the four Gods listed above (and many other things I am sure. Four is a key number for Blake, and the mode of thought in which he worked. There is little I know about this, but there are some things that I may say even in this small and limited space). He brings together the power of metals, gathering to him the power of metallurgy, which Blake equated with riotous transformation.
Yes! The melting of metals is "breathing bows," is the living fluid of struggle and overcoming.
This perhaps settles the initially offputting line, "Wars of mutual Benevolence Wars of Love"-- how can war and love go together? We don't tend to think that war is good for anybody. Surely Blake isn't merely talking about nationalism here. Maybe historicity is a part of it (I am not familiar with any historical references here; see Erdman for more on this), but it seems that the emphasis cannot just be a man loving his country like a man loves a woman. Romantic love (passioned?) involves reciprocated love. But here Blake seems to say that it also involves war, some kind of destructive tension. Men and women... that's reproduction, the sustained creation of a third through two who are different...
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Old Order Amish Rhoda Byler's unusual gift and her remarkable abilities to grow herbs and berries have caused many to think her odd. As rumors mount that Rhoda's "gift" is a detriment to the community, she chooses isolation, spending her time in her fruit garden and on her thriving canning business.
Miles away in Harvest Mills, Samuel King struggles to keep his family's apple orchard profitable. As the eldest son, Samuel farms with his brothers, the irrepressible Jacob and brash Eli, while his longtime girlfriend Catherine remains hopeful that Samuel will marry her when he feels financially stable.
Meanwhile, Samuel's younger sister Leah is testing all the boundaries during her rumschpringe, and finds herself far from home in Rhoda's garden after a night of partying gone badly. But Leah's poor choices serve as a bridge between Rhoda and the King family when a tragic mistake in the orchard leaves Samuel searching for solutions.
Rhoda's expertise in canning could be the answer, but she struggles with guilt over the tragic death of her sister and doesn't trust herself outside her garden walls. As the lines between business, love, and family begin to blur, can Rhoda finally open up to a new life? And what effect will this odd, amazing woman have on the entire King family?
Having recently read some of Cindy Woodsmall's novels, I was very excited about receiving a copy of A Season for Tending! Her characters always seem to live on and off the pages, inspiring me as I read their stories, and Rhoda, Samuel, Leah, Catherine and Eli are prime examples. Everyone has a unique back-story and a distinct personality, but it is the well-plotted circumstances that round out the mix. I loved reading about Rhoda's garden and how it shaped her emotions and experiences - she bloomed throughout the novel, becoming a very strong and well-developed character. As always, the story was written well, and the descriptive language brought me straight into the world of the Amish, stirring up emotions and, in some cases, bringing back memories. Overall, I really enjoyed the story, but the fruit of the story ripened at a very slow pace, and the ending felt unresolved, (no spoilers); hopefully, the second book in the Amish Vines and Orchards series will tie up some of the loose ends.
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DETROIT, Oct. 31, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — After an extensive search that included a roster of top-ranked shopper marketing agencies, the Tillamook County Creamery Association recently chose The Mars Agency as its new partner.
Situated on the Oregon coast, the 108-year-old farmer-owned cooperative, led by nearly 90 farmer families, makes premium Tillamook cheese, ice cream, yogurt, sour cream and butter, which are sold in both large and small retailers across the country.
"During the pitch process, the Mars team demonstrated a high level of strategic thinking and unique retailer insights and know-how. We are certain that they can help us achieve our significant and accelerated growth goals. In addition, we loved their independence and passion for what they do. Like us, they are a multi-generational, family-owned business that share similar values: commitment to the best quality, authenticity in relationships and a level of care in everything that they do," said John Russell, Tillamook's VP of Marketing.
The Mars Agency has already started to integrate with the Tillamook client team, helping them to transform from a more product-centric approach to true retailer- and shopper-centric planning and execution. The team's collective efforts will be in market in early 2018.
About Tillamook County Creamery Association
Founded in 1909 as a farmer-owned cooperative, the Tillamook County Creamery Association (TCCA) prides itself on its commitment to bringing to market the most consistent, best tasting, highest quality dairy products made in the most natural way possible. Guided by the belief that everyone deserves real food that makes them feel good every day, they have earned top awards for their cheese, ice cream, sour cream, butter and yogurt products. For more information on Tillamook, please visit https://www.tillamook.com/
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The Mars Agency is a full-service, global marketing agency, specializing in shopper and consumer promotion. It operates independently in 10 offices in North America and Europe. For nearly 46 years, the agency has been consistently recognized for its ability to drive brand growth across channels and commerce platforms. It has both an impressive and growing client base which includes Campbell's, Pepperidge Farm, Lowe's, Hallmark, Henkel and Pfizer. To learn more about The Mars Agency, please visit http://www.themarsagency.com/


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Allysa Seely and SpoFit's Paralympic Paratriathlon Clinic
The Paratriathlon is an adaptation of triathlon competition. It will first be held as a Paralympic event at the 2016 Summer Paralympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Allysa Seely (learn more about her here) is a top ranked competitor who resides in Phoenix. She was kind enough to sit in on a photo session and let SpoFit use the images to create a few posters to promote a training clinic. Pretty straight forward studio setup. Beauty dish up high, strip banks on each side.
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Paul Joseph Watson's latest video, once again, systematically deconstructs the hypocrisy of the left and their latest dangerous effort to undermine the entire 2016 presidential election by utilizing their friends in the media to spin the Russian election hacking narrative without a single shred of actual evidence. While the full video is posted below: … [Read more...]
House Passes Bill Targeting "Russian Propaganda"
The role of Russian "hackers" and fake Russian news during the election cycle continues to be a main stream narrative, even though no real evidence has been given that there has been any such intervention. By now I'm sure you've heard of the website propornot.org which was created Created on 2016-08-21 and has since compiled a comprehensive list of Russian Propagandist … [Read more...]
Jill Stein's Recount Costs Keep Raising
As Jill Stein's recount effort continues, it seems the total cost of the recount effort keeps climbing. As the total reaches the "goal" suddenly there are new costs associated with the effort. One has to wonder if they have no idea what they're doing, or if they're trying to bleed dry the disenfranchised Hillary supporters of their hard earned money. Now, as Jill approaches … [Read more...]
Jill Stein Admits No Evidence of Voter Fraud
Confirming what she has said previously, Jill Stein crushed her credibility a little further in 42 seconds of fun with CNN's Anderson Cooper. CNN: "Do you have any evidence at all of voter fraud?" Stein: "No... but it's like when you get into an airplane, you do not want to have evidence that the airplane is rapidly losing altitude... We must have a system we can be … [Read more...]
Is Donald Trump Your President?
Source: The Burning Platform Here is a simple flow chart for all the dear snowflakes out there. … [Read more...]


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When the purpose gets too broad, it gets confused with the subject. Keep these two separate and you're well on your way to focusing your talk. You may have to speak on "Corporate Leadership in the 21st Century"; if you think of that as the purpose of your talk, any panic is justified. A topic like that is just a broad subject; your purpose is to make a specific point about leadership—maybe even in a specific company—through examples, anecdotes, and various facts. So tackle some key trees, not the whole forest. Your purpose in such a speech could be to inform the audience of the skills necessary to achieve leadership in a corporation. Or it could be to convince people to start preparing now for changing leadership roles in the 21st century. The possibilities in the subject are vast, so you must be very clear and specific about your purpose.
The more focused and specific your talk, the better your chances that some words will resonate. Speak vividly about the leadership of one person, and your audience can glean much about leadership in general. Let people make the leap from the specific to the general, while you continue to be vivid. Broad subjects can be wonderful assignments if you give them a narrow—and therefore memorable—purpose and focus.
Always ask yourself how the purpose of your talk relates to your audience's interests. Knowing your audience is the only way to understand its attitudes and anticipate its objections. A dentist addressing a group of parents would talk about preventing tooth decay in their children, not about the latest equipment installed in his office. Study those in your audience; think of their needs. You must link the beliefs you are trying to impart with their existing concerns. Chapter 9 ("Not Meeting the Real Needs of Your Audience") goes into this crucial analysis in detail.


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The rise of Diabetes as a health problem has been astounding in the past couple of years worldwide according to Diabetes UK but the last year's record had been really scary especially in the United Kingdom as another 167,000 Britons have been diagnosed with diabetes in the past year bringing the number of sufferers to a record 2.6million and over 180 million worldwide.
This latest rise is more than double the total of 83,000 new cases record in the previous year, said charity Diabetes UK. A 6.4 per cent rise in England means the number of sufferers has passed 2million for the first time.
Diabetes UK chief executive Douglas Smallwood said the figures were 'truly alarming', although part of the reason for the rise was better screening and greater awareness by those under threat. However, he said: 'There is no getting away from the fact that this increase is linked to the obesity crisis.'
However, the most astonishing part of the whole story is that this disease unlike many other is totally avoidable. This could easily be achieved according to Smallwood through a healthy lifestyle which can drastically cut the risk of developing the disease, which costs the NHS £1milion an hour and a lot of pain and agony for a lot of people and it could even lead to death directly or indirectly.
The disease can go undetected for a decade and half a million people may have it without knowing it. About 90 per cent of sufferers have type 2 diabetes linked to obesity and unhealthy lifestyles.
Diabetes can cause heart disease, stroke, kidney failure and blindness and is linked to more deaths per year than the combined total for breast and prostate cancer.
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MOBILE, Alabama -- It doesn't look as if Mobile County's magnet elementary school for math and science is going to get any of the $100 million that the school board is doling out for construction projects.
That's because officials are planning to move the school, currently in Chickasaw, to Howard Elementary, which has been under-utilized for years on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue in downtown Mobile.
"We have an opportunity to be good stewards of our funds and that is the best location for this school," Mobile County schools Superintendent Martha Peek said recently.
Peek and her staff are still working out the details, but the consensus is that the school has plenty of room for the 350 currently enrolled in Chickasaw, as well as room to grow.
Chickasaw split from the Mobile County Public School System this summer. As part of the separation agreement, the county's magnet school located there agreed to move out within four years.
Mobile County Magnet School of Math, Science and Technology Principal Michelle Adams said she's preparing to move this summer. She and other folks were looking forward to the possibility of getting a new school, as was proposed for about $10 million on school system property in Crichton off Spring Hill Avenue.
This would be the school's third move in recent years. It moved from the former Chickasaw Elementary on U.S. 43 a couple of miles away to the former Clark School of Math and Science on 12th Avenue and is now at the former Hamilton Elementary in Chickasaw.
"I'm ecstatic," Adams said of the move to Howard. "It's is a gorgeous building in a wonderful neighborhood, surrounded by academia. And it's a building all under one roof line, which helps me keep my children safe."
And, there's room on the sprawling campus for her students to plant vegetables crops and raise some farm animals, as they've done in the past. She said she hopes to form some partnerships with Bishop State Community College, which the Howard campus sits adjacent to.
Adams said, though, that she hopes the community isn't hurt by the fact that the magnet school is moving in.
Last summer, another magnet school, Old Shell Road School for the Performing Arts, took over the former Spencer Elementary in Midtown Mobile, and Spencer combined with nearby Westlawn Elementary.
"I just don't want the community to think that we're coming into their neighborhood and that our children take precedent," Adams said. "I don't want people to think here we come, so move out and move over. I want them to be happy we're coming."
Board member Levon Manzie, whose district includes Howard, has been adamant that Howard students who want to stay at their campus and enroll in the magnet program be allowed to do so.
Peek said she agrees with that.
"Not everyone chooses a magnet," Peek said, adding that officials will have to decide which local schools will take in Howard's attendance zone.
Howard, built in the late 1990s, has a capacity of about 1,200 students. But due to the reconfiguration of public housing areas around the school, it has had many vacant classrooms for years. At one point, the school had only 180 students. Now, it has about 400.
The school board was expected to vote on how to spend a $100 million construction bond last week, but delayed the vote until next month.
The school system has six magnet elementary and middle schools that take in students randomly through a lottery. The goal is to have close to an equal number of black and white students.
Parents are attracted to sending their children to magnet schools because of the advanced and specialized curricula offered. Students don't have to have a particular grade point average to get in, but they must maintain at least a C average – and avoid getting into disciplinary trouble – to stay.


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No doubt about it. People are in love with their coffee. Mocha, Latte, Espresso. You name it, you can get it these days. Folks will make extra time on the way to work to get their morning elixir from their favorite barista.
It isn't cheap either. People see their coffee as a necessary treat. A way to pamper themselves.
According to Delish.com, a coffee shop in Sydney, Australia is letting its customers pay with a different kind of currency. A kiss. Yes you read it right. They are allowing customers to pay for their coffee with a kiss.
Single people seem to be left out, since this only applies to couples. A Metro St James coffee shop waiter says, "We'll watch you. It has to be a real kiss, I can see if it's a fake kiss."
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Al L. Katz is a veteran of the World War and one of Columbiana County's progressive and successful young men.
He is editor and manager of the Columbiana Ledger. Mr. Katz was born in New York City, Oct. 10, 1897, and is the
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After completing his early schooling in Brooklyn, N. Y., Al L. Katz attended high school at Des Moines, Ia., and
the University of Iowa. At an early age he became interested in the printing business and in 1915 was employed
on the Toronto Daily Star, Toronto, Canada. The following year he went to El Paso, Texas, and worked on the Morning
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in June, 1925, assumed his present position as editor and manager of the Columbiana Ledger.
On Aug. 29, 1919, Mr. Katz was united in marriage with Miss Ethel Bowers, the daughter of Isaac and Mabel Bowers
of Arkansas, and both deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Katz have a son, Alfred Lewis, born Oct. 9, 1922.
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Diane Prather: General 4-H Projects at 2013 State Fair
The 2013 Colorado State Fair is winding down, and the judging results are in for the general 4-H projects. Moffat County 4-H members brought home ribbons galore, including five awards in the champion/reserve champion categories. Logan Hafey, Christine Harris, Allie Dilldine and Samantha Pearce all received champion awards, and Alexa Neton received reserve champion.
Here are judging results and salutes all of the 4-H members who qualified to compete at the 2013 Colorado State Fair!
The results are as follows:
Veterinary Science
■ Unit 3-Senior Division — On the Cutting Edge
Hannah Coy, sixth place
■ Unit 2-Junior Division — Beginning Leather Carving
Pepper Rhyne, eighth place
■ Unit 3-Junior Division — Leather Carving
Cristiann Reyes, third place
■ Unit 3-Intermediate Division — Leather Carving
Kaylee Springer, eighth place
■ Unit 8-Intermediate Division — Advanced creative Stamping
Hali Reves, seventh place
■ Level 1-Junior Division —Focus on Photography
Logan Hafey, champion
■ Level 1-Senior Division — Focus on Photography
Mitchell Davidson, ninth place
■ Junior Division — Two-Page Layout
Tara Brumblow, fourth place
■ Intermediate Division — Two-Page Layout
James Brumblow, fourth place
■ Unit 1-Junior Division — Measuring Up
Garrett Wynkoop, sixth place
Artistic Clothing
■ Junior Division — Applied
Alexa Neton, qualifier
Cake Decorating
■ Unit 2-Senior Division — Single Layer Cake
Christine Harris, champion
■ Unit 3-Intermediate Division- Two Layered Cake
Alexandrea Suessmeier, eighth place
■ Unit 5-Senior Division—Cupcakes, Themed
Allie Dilldine, champion
Clothing Construction
■ Unit 1-Junior Division — Beginning Clothing
Haley Boatman, qualifier
■ Unit 4-Senior Division — Beginning Clothing
Samantha Pearce, grand champion
Food Core Projects
■ Unit 2-Junior Division — On the Road to Fun and Fitness
Liam Mounce, qualifier
Food Preservation
■ Unit 3-Junior Division — Pickles, Relishes, Jams and Jellies
Argyro Reyes, seventh place
Heritage Arts
■ Junior Division — Crochet
Argyro Reyes, sixth place
■ Intermediate Division — Crochet
Aurora Hodson, seventh place
Specialty Foods
■ Unit 21-Junior Division — Baking, 4 Biscuits
Cristiann Reyes, qualifier
■ Unit 21-Intermediate Division — Baking, 4 Biscuits
Hali Reyes, fifth place
■ Unit 23-Junior Division — Baking, Butter or Sponge Cake
Alexa Neton, reserve champion
■ Unit 24-Intermediate Division — Baking, Pie
Molly Neton, fourth place
Shooting Sports
■ Junior Division — Archery
Kimber Wheeler, qualifier
■ Intermediate Division — Archery
Brittany Schulze, ninth place
■ Junior Division — Shotgun
Trevor Hume, eighth place
■ Intermediate Division — Shotgun
Brayden Tuttle, eighth place
■ Senior Division — Shotgun
Jesse Kurz, eighth place
■ Junior Division — .22
Baryn Suessmeier, qualifier
■ Intermediate Division — .22
Kaitlyn Ahlstrom, qualifier
■ Senior Division — Air Pistol
Hunter Rummel, third place
Fashion Revue
Samantha Pearce placed in the top 15.
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16 January 2011
Creating Shared Value: The annunciation of socially responsible accumulation
"The capitalist system is under siege," announces the opening lines of the cover story of the Harvard Business Review's latest issue. This initiates the article's rhetoric that evokes the kinds of inspiring and visionary calls for renewed accumulation that have been conspicuously missing throughout this crisis (Porter & Kramer, 4). The authors Michael Porter and Mark Kramer, both based at Harvard, claim that more and more companies are beginning to develop a new form of corporate practice that will "drive the next wave of innovation and productivity growth in the global economy. It will also reshape capitalism and its relationship to society." They call this form "creating shared value" and with major corporations and academics placing this kind of hype around it we on the Left should take it seriously both as an object for critical examination and a potential vector in the changing space of political action.
Creating Shared Value or CSV, from the perspective of Porter and Kramer, who coined the term in a 2006 HBR article, amounts to a radicalization of "Corporate Social Responsibility" or CSR. Essentially they claim that corporations such IBM, Walmart and Nestlé are no longer viewing social concerns as something to be considered outside of profit, as a form of charity, but rather as vital parts of the production of profit itself. Under traditional CSR models a corporation establishes a meager budget to promote recycling or build schools in Africa after a company makes billions by "externalizing" carbon emissions and reaping the benefits of wages lowered by the existence of excluded populations, in the hopes that the good press will boost profits and prevent any more social pressure to ameliorate social ills. CSV, however, means conceptualizing the inclusion of populations and the preservation of ecology as themselves a basis for profit. This is not unrelated to the "cultural capitalism", whose semantic implications Zizek so nicely analyzed in his lecture to the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts (This link goes to the animated one because it's so charming! Here's the full live version), but instead of being a matter of the "sense" of contemporary capitalism, CSV is framed as a reconfiguration of the political economic structures of accumulation.
Three aspects of CSV seem particularly significant:
Exploding the Value Chain
The value chain is the sequence of practices and institutions that produce value along the path of production. Porter and Kramer argue that rather than conceiving of this as a process of internalizing benefits and externalizing costs, many companies are beginning look at the value chain as a set of mutual relationships between firms, government and social actors inside and outside of the firm.
They write that, "The concept of shared value resets the boundaries of capitalism. By better connecting companies' success with societal improvement, it opens up many ways to serve new needs, gain efficiency, create differentiation, and expand markets" (Porter & Kramer, 7). Essentially the argument goes that if companies prioritize social benefit, it will drive innovations in efficiency, productivity and product development because social ills are often caused by inefficiencies, and social needs can lead to new products to fill those needs. Beyond this, helping communities related to a company thrive will provide stable labor and consumer markets. Thus "value," in this view, must be thought of as proper to the entire ecology of actors involved. One firm or social group must make value through helping others do the same, hence shared value.
This amounts to a totalization of an economistic conception of value, as a margin of utility, in both economic and social calculations. In both corporate and social contexts, problems must be tackled according to cost benefit analyses. This seems only natural after forty years of neoliberal prioritization of circulation and exchange value, where the concept "value" is reduced even to the point of merely being a matter of distribution of information and the eradication of "value" from certain "Marxist" discourses. To this extent CSV's emphasis on value smells of a dangerous extension of this tendency to further render inaccessible a conception of value as related to time and labor that, as Postone argues, point to some of capitalism's most emancipating potential.
Relocalizing capitalism: Attention to "the cluster"
Continuing with this idea that firms must attend to the needs of those around them, Porter and Kramer emphasize the need for healthy "clusters" around corporate activity. Clusters are "geographic concentrations of firms, related businesses, suppliers, service providers, and logistical infrastructure" (Porter & Kramer, 12), Silicon Valley being a prime example. Under a shared value framework companies promote the sustainable growth and efficiency of these clusters. For example, Yara, a major fertilizer company, realized that a lack of infrastructure prevented farmers in Africa from buying their fertilizer. To fix this they invested $60 million to improve roads and ports that hopefully will create "agricultural growth corridors." The intention is to create the specific and localized dynamics that support capital accumulation.
Here we begin to see some rather novel aspects of economic life that creates shared value. Multi-nationals no longer act as homogenizing forces, destroying indigenous life and cultural diversity, but actively promoting and guiding its development in way that makes life better for those communities and serves capital. This amounts to radically flexible accumulation that can have a higher return on investment by paying close attention to local diversity. This rests on the belief that local knowledge is best suited to tackle local problems, and in the vision of micro markets served by production that can make profit off of extremely short runs of products. Creating shared value is then a possible recuperation of the multicultural revolt witnessed under neoliberalism. The Zapatismo call for "a world where many worlds are possible" may indeed be on the horizon, though with the slight modification of "a system of production and markets where many systems of production and markets are possible." (And I do very much intend to parallel "systems of production and markets" with "worlds")
Efficiently promoting efficiency
What is most at stake for Porter and Kramer is achieving new heights of efficiency and productivity. Walmart offers a good example. Walmart is "increasingly sourcing produce for its food sections from local farms near its warehouses. It has discovered that the savings on transportation costs and the ability to restock in smaller quantities more than offset the lower prices of industrial farms farther away" (Porter & Kramer 11). The minimizing of environmental and social impact can thus be solved through gains in efficiency.
What kind of efficiency are they promoting? It appears not to be a trivial example a raising the organic composition of capital (the reduction of socially necessary labor time at the point of production through the increase in "dead labor" in the form of machines). Here Walmart might end up employing more people to do more labor-intensive work (small-scale farming is incredibly more time consuming than industrial farm production), while still increasing the cost-to-value-added ratio in their balance sheets. How can we integrate this impulse into a larger political economic theory?
One important thing to note about this emphasis is that it does seem to be a re-emphasis on production. Whereas above I discussed the deepening priority of circulation in consciousness, there may be a real, material re-emphasis on production under shared value. We can't forget that transportation for Marx is still within the sphere of production. With more people working harder, and having a closer relationship to social production we may see a renewed relevance for certain neglected aspects of Marx and social movements with new perspectives on what another world might look like.
General Reflections, or, wild unfounded speculation
Porter and Kramer merely intend to name this new framework and give a call for more rigorous theorizing of it. It is unclear what CSV's potential is for gaining market share, or for capturing the imagination of political elites. In fact it is not even clear what metrics would be appropriate to determine if CSV is becoming the hegemonic regime of accumulation. In an era of crisis and presumably transition however, it is important to keep eyes on the horizon as new possible terrains come into view.
A word jumps to mind while considering all this, ecology. Conceptualizing the economy as a complex network of mutual relations sharing resources and promoting common flourishing sounds strikingly like discussions of the impacts of ocean acidification on intertidal kelp populations. If Chicago School economists all have penis envy for physics, perhaps the next generation of economic thinkers will do the same for ecology and dynamical systems theory. If I might coin a term extremely prematurely, we may be in for an era of "ecological accumulation."
The task however is not merely to coin terms or speculate on possible forms of economic life, but to outline what a Left position might be in relation to this possible future. Personally, if this becomes the dominant economic model for how we get out of the crisis, I'd be pretty darn pleased. It certainly would lead to a lot of social good being done. It is not an overcoming of capitalism and would certainly produce its share of limits and ills, but as with any regime it opens and closes certain doors to that overcoming. My provisional call for a program might then be to interrogate, both practically and theoretically, just what those doors are. I think we should also very seriously consider, in the absence of a vital revolutionary Left and an increasingly terrifying alternative, whether the Left response to this crisis should be to align with these folks. This does not have to be a defeatist position. Our goal then would be to do this in such a way as to lay the foundations for a movement that is adequate to the next phase, and has real historical potential.
Kramer, Mark R. and Michael E. Porter. "Creating Share Value: How to reinvent capitalism -- and unleash a wave of innovation and growth," Harvard Business Review Jan-Feb 2011.
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Great analysis. What strikes me is that the "shared value" framework parallels key aspects of the Fordist-Keynesian synthesis that finally ended the Depression. Rather than a predatory model of business behavior based on increasing exploitation and foisting costs onto anyone who can't defend themselves, this is a vision of an organic connection between capital and society. If it wins out, we'll face the same basic problem: the fundamental hostility of interests between capital and human beings will be effectively hidden behind the seeming congruence of interests.ReplyDelete
If it wins out. It took a powerful workers movement and ultimately massive state coercion during WWII to bring the capitalists over to the Fordist solution. Now the state cowers at the thought of infringing corporate privileges, and popular pressure is nearly inconceivable, at least in the US.
I agree, but I think we need to be careful about two things. First that, while it shares a basic outlook and "deal" quality with Fordism, there are fundamental differences. David Harvey argues that the nature of the "deal" of Fordism left definite groups excluded, ultimately laying some of the foundation for the civil rights movements. CSV wouldn't exclude around such biopolitical categories. I suspect any systematic exclusions it produced would be explained as inefficiencies that could be remedied by more careful cluster formation or a close attention to the value chain. The solution would then be deferred to the future, much the way neoliberal development discourse does. On top of this the patterns of exclusion would likely be economically motivated and in the ideal there would be exclusions where either shared value hadn't reached or for some reason could not reach. In the later case I can see there being a deepening consciousness that we as a society must choose between universal inclusion and a healthy economy. People might become very open about the fact that, "there are hard choices to make." That would be something new to both neoliberalism and Fordism.ReplyDelete
It's not completely new however, and I think that's something that will come out of this crisis no matter what the regime of accumulation is. There is a growing consensus, for example among state level politicians, that in the name of fiscal solvency some exclusion will have to happen. This is the axis that I think will divide society going forward. The options won't be "exclude" and "don't exclude" but "exclude ruthlessly" or "exclude sympathetically." The authoritarian capitalism that some talk about would be the former where militarized cities maintain order in hopelessly and eternally under served. CSV would be the later where we try to include more people into the economy but not as an end in itself, only as a means to a healthy economy. In this case a healthy economy will always, and most likely casually, be chosen over further inclusion when necessary.
As for the note about social movements needing to make this happenm, I agree in principle, but we can't get too lost in romantic visions of sit down strikes and barricades. I called this "ecological" accumulation as a double entendre. It's both based on a ecological framework, and an attempt to overcome the ecological limits currently facing capitalism. In the next 20 years we will face real choices about whether we as a society want to try and overcome those limits (possibly with CSV), or deal with the consequences (through intense militarization). CSV seems so strongly in line with a lot of dominant liberal thinking that it's entirely possible it could become popular, in the right circles that is. It doesn't necessarily matter that there's little chance of it being adopted by our government or becoming the new political center any time soon. In its design it's about business practice. Convince enough oil companies that CSV is the only way to exist 20 years from now and you might be in for a very different future. The US political climate might not palate this, but it's corporate climate might.
I think the better question is not how do we get this, but how can we put more potential into it if we do get it. What I mean by this is that a strong left presence in the next 10 years, while the next regime of accumulation takes hold, would change that regime in subtle if not essential ways. If we play our cards right, maybe this change could be such that a seed is planted for successful movements of overcoming 40 years from now. Of course this puts a lot of stake in our predictive power, but 40 years also isn't that long. Most of us will be around for it and can help dynamically shape how our predictions play out. ... wait now I'm excited.
Unfortunately I don't see the "shared value" framework becoming general without robust state intervention to at least establish the conditions required for its widespread adoption. These experiments that Porter and Kramer have described actually do seem like a viable new approach to accumulation if pursued on a wide scale, but they won't remain viable unless a new overall framework comes into being - just as the experiments of Ford and "welfare capitalists" in the 1920s weren't really workable before WWII established a new socioeconomic foundation upon which their hegemony could be built. Private businesses as currently constituted within a competitive market framework simply don't have the coordinative capacity that would be required to change the terrain on which they operate. It's these kind of changes to the underlying conditions of accumulation that would be necessary before currently unproductive populations could be profitably drawn into the economy or large-scale investment in environmental innovation would make sense.ReplyDelete
We can see some of this kind of state intervention happening in China, but obviously not in the US. So maybe we should be thinking about a politics that would support a move toward "shared value" as a corporate strategy. If, that is, "shared value" really is the best option on offer.
Just to revisit this discussion, as it has been brought up more recently, I am inclined to think that Earl may be right here, that CSV is ultimately about corporate practice, and that the momentum for it would come from the new opportunities for profit it makes available. If CSV can generate profits, it would be attractive to capital without the need for state intervention or mobilization. In light of the growing strength of anti-government sentiment in the U.S., the success of CSV might only be possible in the absence of state action. To speak directly to Walker's last comment, it may be precisely because of competition that something like CSV takes hold. But this would require the rate of profit from CSV activities to be higher than other potential uses for capital. In so far as one of the major features of the present crisis is that corporations are sitting on their cash, putting it in financial instruments, rather than investing in production, this would not seem to be the case. I am not clear if an adjustment in the rate of profit in the direction of CSV is something the markets will correct, the Left (as perverse as it sounds) could promote, or requires government intervention to create the incentives. So in other words, under current conditions, I don't know that we should be concerned with coordinative capacity of private businesses so much as the structural conditions that would create the rates of profit necessary to make CSV attractive.ReplyDelete


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BIT columns has been improved, and should now be much more reliable in a number of cases. (Bug #11572, Bug #11091, Bug #10617)
Recursion in stored routines is now disabled because it was crashing the server. (Bug #11394)
An attempt to create a
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mysql_real_escape_string() API function now respects
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InnoDB: Various optimizations. Removed unreachable debug code from nondebug builds. Added hints for the branch predictor in gcc. Made assertions occupy less space.
InnoDB: Make
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MySQL Cluster: When trying to open a table that could not be discovered or unpacked, the cluster returned error codes which the MySQL server falsely interpreted as operating system errors. (Bug #10365)
--master-data option for mysqldump resulted in no error if the binary log was not enabled. Now an error occurs unless the
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When a table had a primary key containing a
BLOB column, creation of another index failed with the error
BLOB/TEXT column used in key specification without keylength, even when the new index did not contain a
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--no-data option for mysqldump was being ignored if table names were given after the database name. (Bug #9558)
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Businesses that pay billions to Google and Overture to steer potential customers to their Web sites are increasingly questioning how much fraud lurks in the blossoming pay-per-click model of advertising.
There is evidence that at least some scammers are clicking away at the ads, or having programs called hitbots or clickbots do it for them, with the knowledge that each click costs an advertiser money. Some of the troublemakers are disgruntled employees; some are companies trying to force competitors' ad spending up; some are even Web page operators who let search engines deliver ads to their sites and then collect a cut when people click on those ads.
Ad buyers worry that "click fraud" could become rampant, if unchecked -- a development that could undermine confidence in the fastest-growing segment of Internet advertising.
Executives at Speedy Registrations, a British company that sells personalized license plates, said they believed that its pay-per-click ads were fraudulently hit last year.
The company, which has been advertising its site, www.speedreg.co.uk, on Overture since August, saw daily traffic from its keyword ads abruptly triple, from 400, for five days last October, said Des Elton, managing director. "We averaged 1,200 clicks a day, costing us £950 on average every day," or about $1,800, he said. "We'd been up to £450 to £500 before, but that was the extreme case."Continue reading the main story
The sudden boom in site traffic would have been welcome if it had produced increased sales, but conversions from clicks to sales actually plunged, Mr. Elton said. The company reported its suspicions to Overture in early November; three weeks later it collected a refund of £2,519.88 (about $4,800).
Mr. Elton said he remained dissatisfied with having to depend on search engines to make things right. "As of the present time, they are judge and jury on any suspect click fraud case such as ours," he said. "I believe there should be an unbiased independent arbitration by a separate specialist company. In other words, Overture should not be solely investigating click fraud on our behalf."
Jessie C. Stricchiola, the president of Alchemist Media and one of the first to examine click fraud, said yesterday that click fraud, was "a problem for advertisers." Ms. Stricchiola was on a panel discussing click fraud yesterday as part of the Search Engine Strategies Conference and Expo this week in New York.
A tangle of conflicting interests makes it hard to straighten out or even quantify the click fraud problem, Ms. Stricchiola and other panelists said. Google, Overture and the other search companies describe their fraud-prevention and detection programs only vaguely, explaining that scammers could use the details to cheat the system more effectively.
"There are a lot of players in this game," said Patrick Giordani, the head of loss prevention at Overture, part of Yahoo. "It's our job to stay one step ahead of them."
Mr. Giordani described a team of data analysts, statisticians, computer scientists and others working hard at Overture to prevent click fraud. Like Google, Overture runs clicks through scores of filters seeking suspicious traffic and does not charge advertisers for any clicks that fail the test.
"We do a series of very thorough investigations," Mr. Giordani said. "We're looking at hundreds of thousands of rows of data, looking for unqualified traffic. If we see any, we immediately credit the advertiser's account and update the filters."
In addition to monitoring and enforcement efforts under way at Google, a series of processes built into its systems limit the impact of click fraud, said Salar Kamangar, director for product management for Google. On the most basic level, the Internet remains a measurable medium, he said, adding that advertisers can help prevent or detect click fraud by closely monitoring their pay-per-click campaigns.
"There will be some component of this that will remain with us, but its scope is limited and manageable," Mr. Kamangar said.
Even at the margins of the revenue generated by a company like Google, small businesses feel roughly treated when scammers strike. Google, the most popular search engine, said in February it collected $1 billion in revenue during the last three months of 2004, both from ads that appeared alongside Google results when people searched for specific keywords and from ads it placed on other companies' Web sites based on the context.
As search engine marketing has gained mass, as well as scam artists, it has spawned a fast-growing consulting field devoted to pay-per-click ad campaigns.
Several years ago, nearly all the money spent on keyword advertising flowed directly from marketers to search companies. Now, half of that spending passes through a new cottage industry of middlemen, agencies that specialize in search engine marketing and click fraud detection, according to a report from JupiterResearch, which conducts business and technology market research.
These companies, some of which are new branches of existing online agencies and service providers, include Alchemist; Avenue A/Razorfish Search, part of aQuantive; Click Defense; Clickrisk; Did-It.com; Impaqt and Performics, a unit of DoubleClick. Their collective client roster includes Cingular, Dun & Bradstreet, Gateway, Match.com and PeopleSoft.
In a recent study conducted for the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization, a trade association, one-quarter of the search engine advertisers queried called click fraud a problem they had tracked. Another quarter said click fraud was not a serious concern.
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At Big River Farms we strive to work with our land in a symbiotic relationship, where we are able to produce delicious nourishing foods and our soils and wildlife remain healthy and thriving. We have the great privilege to work on land surrounded by one thousand acres of woods and lakes. While working in our vegetable fields we have seen deer, coyote, black bear, hawks, and eagles. In the fall of 2010 a pair of Sandhill cranes spent many weeks living, dancing, and raising their young with us. I have enjoyed few things more deeply than seeing the Sandhills, in the mists of an early morning, rise out of the field into flight.
We take our role in the ecology of this land seriously. As an Organically Certified Farm we can be fairly certain that we are doing little to no harm to all these wonderful creatures around us. We do not spray any synthetic chemicals of any kind.
Of course, making sure that the animals we live with are not being harmed is the easy part. What is much harder is nurturing the health of the soil we are using to grow food. At Big River Farms we view the farm and land as one living organism. Whatever we do in one place will certainly have an effect on the whole. We currently have 60 fenced-in acres that are our primary vegetable ground. In any one year we have 10 – 15 acres in Organic Vegetable production. The basis for our fertility program is providing aged compost to all acres in production, using an extensive system of covercrops, crop rotation, and mineralization of our soils. Vegetable growing land that is not in production will always be covered with a covercrop and we strive to have very little soil uncovered on our farm at any one time.
Anyone who has visited the farm will have noticed that we have much more land than we actually use. We are still a relatively young farm operation and we are trying our best to grow slowly and with great intention. It does not do us or our land any good if we grow so quickly as to do things poorly or without proper thought. That said, we do have intentions of using all the land we can in the most appropriate way possible. We have recently signed an agreement with NRCS (the National Resource and Conservation Services) to make many improvements on how we use the land. First, we are turning much of our unused ground into perennial hayfields. Secondly, we are working to create perennial borders to help attract beneficial insects to our farm. Lastly, we are looking at ways to create windbreaks to help with the erosion problems that may occur when winds reach high speeds on the farm.
Organic and Sustainable Farming is a practice in the same way that medicine is a practice. We cannot know that every action we take on the land is going to be a good one. In farming we deal with life and life is an incredibly dynamic and complex set of associations and interactions. At Big River Farms we devout ourselves to the practice of good farming and pledge to delight in the learning that comes from the land and our relationship with it.


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There was no breakthrough during recent World Trade Organization negotiations on ag. U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab said, "We remain fully committed to an ambitious, robust round that opens new markets for the world's farmers, manufacturers and service providers. This is the only way to deliver on the Doha promise as a development round. We have no intention of giving up hope." Another round of negotiations will take place this month.
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