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The regional competitions consisted of the following three categories. Category ACulinary Art, which included two show platters, displayed cold; one festive, cold display platter for eight and six different hors doeuvres; Category BCulinary Art, which included one vegetarian platter as a main course for four, displayed cold; one, three-course menu with hors doeuvre, main course and dessert, prepared hot, displayed cold, and four
different main courses, prepared hot, displayed cold; and Category CPâtisserie, which included one showpiece, one platter and four different exclusive desserts. Now, all 23 international regional teams wait as the judges tally points. The winner of the 2008 IKA Cup and trophy will be announced at the final awards ceremony, Thursday, Oct. 23. Todays ACF Culinary Regional Team USA gold-medal win is in addition to AAC Culinary Regional Team USAs gold-medal win in cold food, Monday, Oct. 22.
We absolutely jumped 10 feet into the air when they called our team, Jill Bosich, CEC, CCE, AAC, team manager of AAC Culinary Regional Team USA, said, recalling Mondays competition. They were still announcing silver medals when they said our team name, paused, and then said, gold medal! I had my head in my hands when I heard the name come up, and when they said gold, we all jumped up and screamed. We
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Integral Futures Methodologies
Special issue of Futures Vol 40 No 2, March 2008
Special Issue Wins Award from The Association of Professional Futurists for One of the Top Three 'Most Important Futures Works' of 2008
This special issue highlights the spread of ideas around Integral Philosophy popularized by Ken Wilber and introduced into foresight by Richard Slaughter in his tenure with the Australian Foresight Institute, which has carried on with this work. The special reflects how academics and practitioners are making increasing use of Integral ideas in a practical and applied manner.
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Richard A Slaughter
As is well known the futures field emerged during the mid-Twentieth Century because people could see that, far from there being any single 'destination' for humanity, there were instead many possible futures, some of which were not greatly to their liking. 'Thinking ahead' became more than a personal pastime or indulgence. It became an imperative – at least to those who were paying attention. While some remained 'asleep' in the routines and assumptions of everyday life, others were 'waking up' to the implications: humanity might be headed for the stars or its own early extinction. Moreover there were profound ethical issues involved in passing on a compromised world to future generations. Everything depended on how the species responded to a range of emerging challenges and opportunities that could be seen with increasing clarity.
As is also well known, several new futures organisations were formed, methods were developed, scholars and practitioners alike rendered their insights and experiences into a rich and extensive literature. But as the field was maturing so an ideology that undermined it was also growing in strength and power. Despite some successes the futures field remained a social and cultural side-show that was unable to effectively counter or respond to the immense challenges posed for it (and the world) by the spread of economic liberalism – the ultimately futile but, in the short term, extremely powerful, view that markets were to be the dominant mechanism by which humanity would order its affairs and thus select its main pathway(s) into the future.
If the 'invisible hand' of the market was in charge of the compass then no one really needed futurists for any serious top level decisions. To many of those in positions of power and influence FS smacked of old-fashioned and discredited notions of centralised planning - and everyone knew where that led! Some governments, states, a few government agencies and various corporations turned to futurists on occasion to help with second-order concerns such as strategic planning, identifying emerging market segments, deciding which technologies to pursue and other such instrumental questions. Scenarios became popular for a number of reasons, among which is that they did not entail a commitment to any particular future. One could 'play' in a range of well-drawn future environments, then return to the here-and-now with dominant ideologies largely unchallenged and with ones deepest assumptions pretty much intact. One could say that scenarios were the perfect tools for market oriented users.
By the early Twenty-First century, the view of reality represented by economic liberalism had run its course and one could begin to hear intelligent voices even within the corporate sector admitting publicly that 'markets have failed; we now need progressive governments'. [2] In one respect the market view had succeeded – it had 'produced the goods' as it were, for affluent, and near affluent, populations. More people than ever before found themselves living at higher material standards of living than previous generations could have dreamed of. Unfortunately, however, these material gains were very unevenly distributed. So, for example, while these well-off minorities became entranced with innovations like the internet, SUVs and plasma televisions, they forgot that a significant proportion of humanity still did not have access to clean water, basic health care or telephones – to say nothing of a life free of endemic conflict. They also overlooked the fact that behind the facade of compulsive global marketing lay a much more challenging reality – the real costs exacted upon the world system (including the less-privileged) of what had been portrayed as unambiguous advances. [9]
It's helpful to remember that, since growth is the engine of capitalism, and markets are the mechanism by which this growth is achieved, the system we've been living with for several decades contains no inherent principle of limitation. Even as the evidence of a compromised planet mounts to a point beyond contradiction, so the marketeers re-double their efforts to stimulate consumption. [1] All of which reflects rather poorly on the futures field. If we are, in fact, now heading into a period when the unrestrained effects of economic growth and affluent over-consumption are generating increasingly serious consequences, we have arrived at the point when futures work, as it has been known, becomes all-but redundant. In the coming chaos of the post oil era – which is far closer than most yet realise - humanity will experience the effects of an over-stressed and compromised planet, not merely seek to avoid such effects through applied foresight. [4] The fact is that, in spite of several decades effort, neither the growth dynamic mentioned above, nor the resulting tide of destruction that goes with it, has been dented by futurists or others. Experience looks increasingly likely to be the agent that stimulates broad-based grassroots demands for more foresight that the politicians will hear and respond to. And that leads into extremely difficult territory.
A more hopeful role for futures studies, and improved prospects for the wider world, requires a reinvigorated, re-positioned and fundamentally re-vitalised field. The times are too late for anything else. It needs to achieve significant advances in understanding itself as well as new ways of operating effectively in an ever more unstable world. At its best the promise of Integral Futures is that it can help bring the field to this new level of operational capability. Whether it will actually do so or not is anyone's guess, and there are of course many obstacles, but, in my view, the goal is within reach.
This can be stated with confidence because, over several years, a new generation of fearless, integrally informed futures practitioners has been emerging. Anyone who has read their work, spent time with them, listened to their accounts of working in organisations of all types, both public and private, and noted the results cannot but be impressed. What distinguishes them is that they share a number of characteristics that emerge from 'growing into the field' through an Integral framework. For example they:
• are very clear about their own immersion in, and debt to, particular cultural traditions;
• are keenly aware of their own values and perceptual filters;
• have a systematic overview of the main 'reality domains', how each interacts with the others and what methods of enquiry, tests of truth, are appropriate to each;
• have broad access to what I call the 'infinite tool kit' embracing a variety of related fields;
• are active in the process of reinvigorating traditional methods and evolving new ones;
• understand that 'solutions' emerge from complex processes of which they are a part and can seldom be pre-programmed; and, critically,
• work consciously from a post-conventional stance. [5]
Among the central discoveries of the Integral approach is that is it 'depth within the practitioner that determines how well or badly any particular method is used'. This is one of those rare 'new ideas' that changes everything. Among many other things it directs attention back and away from methods per se to the personal (and to some extent, social) interiors from which they emerged in the first place and upon which they entirely depend. Being a 'good futurist' or an 'effective foresight practitioner' is no longer a question that hinges on a one-dimensional concern for cognitive capacity! Many other lines of capability are involved along with requisite stages of development. A corollary is that the kinds of answers, solutions, that are now required cannot, in principle, be found in the domain of conventional thinking, conventional work (what I call 'problem oriented' futures). The latter has run its course and is now exhausted for non-trivial uses. [6]
Is the rise of Integral Futures part of a 'slow-burn' revolution? Time will tell. Meanwhile, here is a sample of work from what might be called the current 'leading edge'. Peter Hayward kicks off with a paper that sheds light on how the integral perspective has developed and explores some of the implications for those working in the field. He draws on the work of key theorists to suggest that integral futures work is based on perspectives, rather than methods per se. Gebser contributes a theory of the structures of consciousness. Habermas seeks to integrate social theory, philosophy, psychology and morality. Wilber proposes a multi-perspective rationality that challenges post-modern relativism. With this as background Hayward then explores three lines of development from the work of Kohlberg (on moral judgement), Graves (on values) and Loevinger (on ego development) to research the experience of two cohorts of students within a post-graduate foresight program. The particular value of this work is that it reveals some of the hitherto poorly-understood struggles, trade-offs and dilemmas to be faced as programs of study are undertaken that help people move from a conventional to post-conventional stance. The latter is more complex, systems aware and reflexive; it arguably leads to the most productive options for futures work yet available. [7] The dilemma, which is clearly revealed here for perhaps the first time, is that for many this takes them beyond what the commercial world requires, values and will support. The paper therefore clarifies some of the risks and rewards involved in pursuing advanced futures work of this kind. [3]
The present writer follows with a review of how the approach 'refreshes' several futures methods, including scenarios, the T-cycle, causal layered analysis (CLA) and environmental scanning. In each case it attempts to show how certain earlier limitations are revealed and corrected through an integral frame. Specifically, it shows how pre-integral work over-emphasised external factors (such as technologies and empirical trends) and largely overlooked the 'shaping interiors'. Critical futures work went some way to re-balancing the field, yet its focus on cultural interiors (languages, traditions etc) still failed to deal with individual interiors (the unique inner world of each person). Careful use of the four-quadrant model not only places the latter on an equal footing with more familiar domains, it also provides a depiction of ways that different forms of knowledge, and knowledge-seeking, 'fit together' in a wider pattern. Advanced futures enquiry can therefore become better grounded, more systematic and more directly applicable to major world issues than before.
Josh Floyd tackles the difficult subject of the integral renewal of systems methodology with admirable clarity. He distinguishes between systems theory (involving emergence, hierarchy, communication and control) and systems thinking (as epistemology, leading to theories of systems). He notes the 'subtle reductionism' that occurs when human subjectivity is overlooked and explores a number of ways that various players have sought to include it. As in other fields, a variety of systems methods address different aspects of the integral four quadrant model, eg, causal loop mapping (the shared IT world), soft systems analysis (the shared world of WE) and critical systems (the individual world of I). This is an immensely clarifying paper with many implications for futures thinking and practice. For example, by becoming familiar with the uses and limitations of systems-related tools and approaches, futures practitioners can enhance their capacity for understanding how complex systems unfold through time. Equally, by developing the capacity to integrate methodologies that explore systems from the perspectives of communicative and emancipatory interests (as well as often-dominant technical interests) subsequent practices, decisions and actions will more effectively contribute toward preferred futures.
Chris Riedy then casts a sympathetic look at one of the newer futures methods: causal layered analysis. After describing the four basic levels of analysis used in CLA (the litany, systemic causes, discourse/worldview and myth/metaphor) he suggests that Integral Theory treats the notion of development rather differently. The latter is not seen as a straightforward linear progression through levels. Rather, development is understood as a fluid process that occurs along many, relatively independent developmental lines, at varying rates. The lines are seen as distinct categories of development, or holarchies, identified by developmental theorists and practitioners. Reidy locates the sources of CLA's notions of depth within Indian philosophy and other sources. But the four layers identified by Inayatullah do not readily correspond to the levels identified in Integral Theory. Rather, they include a mix of what the latter defines as quadrants, levels and lines.
Some of the differences between CLA and Integral Theory are metaphorical, and easily resolved, while others are structural. For example, Riedy points out that the ability to reflect on the discourses in which one is embedded and the myths to which one subscribes is not available to everyone but emerges only after a long process of individual development from egocentric or pre-conventional stages. Thus, in applying CLA, practitioners need to bear in mind that some participants may not be able to step outside their identification with a particular discourse, worldview, myth or metaphor. Overall, CLA is one of the most successful of the new tools available and is widely used, in part because it provides numerous opportunities for reflection, understanding and new thinking. From an integral viewpoint, however, it tends to under-emphasise individual interior development and over-emphasise cultural factors.
What is perhaps most useful to practitioners is that the paper goes beyond critique to suggest how more integral versions of CLA embracing lines, quadrants and levels can be developed. To do so involves setting aside the view that discourse, worldview, myth and metaphor represent deeper realities than the various structures in the behavioural, systemic and psychological quadrants. The layered conception of reality can be retained, although layers would be redefined to coincide with the developmental levels identified in each quadrant. Instead of moving up and down four layers, an integral CLA would need to move across four quadrants and up and down multiple levels in each quadrant. Finally, Reidy concludes that CLA can be successfully applied within an Integral framework in at least two ways. First, to draw out deep cultural commitments alongside other methods that focus on the behavioural, systemic and psychological quadrants. Second, to dig down through the levels in each quadrant to deepen understanding of how reality looks and feels at each one.
Chris Stewart contributes a well-articulated piece on integral scenarios that breaks new ground in this highly visible, yet deeply contested, area. Drawing on the work of Gebser and Hayward he proposes a developmental overview of scenario practice through a series of 'worldviews of foresight' that move from relatively simple stages to more complex ones. Each of these is seen as useful and appropriate in relation to the complexity of the context. It's partly for this reason that the ability to recognise the signature strengths of each of the worldviews is regarded as a defining feature of the integral foresight worldview. Quality criteria for scenarios include relevance, diversity of worldviews and breadth/depth of discourses. The integral level adds further detail to such criteria through (a) including the strengths and avoiding the weaknesses of different scenario methods developed by the different worldviews; and (b) only including the different worldview approaches that are relevant to the originating context and purpose of the scenarios.
Two subsequent steps involve a review of Wilber' Integral Operating System (lines, levels etc), or IOS, which is then summarised in a quite straightforward generic scenario matrix. Of particular value here is the way the author provides summaries of several scenario projects in which features of the IOS are highlighted, along with some of the specific outcomes that they produced. The two distinguishing features of all integral scenarios appear to be a synthesis of the qualitative and quantitative dimensions of any human situation, and the ability to engage successfully with complex environmental dynamics. The paper will be of interest to all scenario practitioners who are willing to review their assumptions and methods and to explore some of these options in practice.
Mark Edwards takes us into related territory with an original piece that considers the mediation of social futures through his own version of the IOS. Edwards approaches the question of social mediation through the ways that the social informs the personal and how different internalisations are related to human consciousness. He considers how these dynamics play out in the interaction of 'mediated pasts and futures'; also how an integral lens brings helps to structure the fundamental worldviews involved. A key point about mediating all this complexity is to have recourse to adequate concepts, frameworks and structures. Another is that clarity of view in this context makes it possible to achieve coverage and balance of a large number of intervening variables. Considerable clarity is brought to the piece by the use of tables and diagrams. It is further focused by the use of three brief scenarios dealing with the future of health care. This 'worked example' permits the author to summarise his view of the 'mediating agents' in this specific context. He concludes that 'all visions of the future and products of foresight carry with them personal and cultural predilections (SIC) that are not often explicitly stated. The integral indexing of worldviews provides a means for analysing ... how imagined futures are given substance and significance in the present'.
Finally Joseph Voros sketches in the broad outlines of a philosophical and methodological approach to integral enquiry in general. He employs a well-known typology of research or inquiry paradigms (positivism, post-positivism, critical theory, constructivism and participatory). Each inquiry paradigm is shown to engender certain commitments and assumptions that are inherent in and constitutive of the paradigm. The paper tracks the shifts in these paradigms over several decades from broadly objectivist outlooks to subjectivist ones; also how, broadly speaking, developments in futures methodologies have followed this general trend. Four main purposes of these inquiry paradigms are defined. They are: 'prediction and control; critique and transformation (leading to emancipation); understanding and insight (leading to re-construction of prior constructions); and human flourishing (through political participation)'. Here, in an extremely compressed form, we can see the roots of many of the issues and motivations that permeate the futures domain.
Voros outlines some of the attributes of an integral approach to futures enquiry, many of which will be familiar to the reader from the above. What may be less obvious, at first sight, is that such an approach does not lead directly and unproblematically to any particular method! Rather, in Voros' view, it leads to choices about particular forms of practice and a concern that whatever forms are chosen are correct and appropriate. Overall, the value of the paper is the way it locates futures work in general, and integral futures in particular, within the matrix of established understandings about the evolution of enquiry paradigms. This makes it much easier to see how such work relates to, questions, and arguably contributes to the body of knowledge in general.
What, therefore, does this special issue contribute to the continuing development of the futures studies field? First, the authors have demonstrated that there is substance and value in this area. To clearly discern what this means does require a certain commitment of time and effort and a willingness to set aside earlier preconceptions. But if these papers demonstrate anything at all then it is that there is immense value in looking in more depth at this area. Its applications are very wide, affecting training, development, theory and practice at every level and in every location. Bear in mind, too, that this is merely a sample of new work and more will emerge over time in a variety of forms: papers, books, projects, methods and so on. Second, the emergence of Integral Futures seems to be a genuinely new stage of development for futures enquiry and practice. It brings into play quite new ideas and principles, providing structure where there was none and, in particular, casting light on the hitherto-obscured 'individual interiors'. As such it up-grades our capacities to understand and address the key issues of our time. [8]
One implication is that those involved in running futures projects may find it easier to move away from empty exhortations about the need for 'cultural change' and begin to incorporate some of the essential knowledge about how cultures and consciousness are both highly structured and interdependent. [10] Another is that an Integral approach gives us the capacity to move beyond many of the zero-sum games that turn on being ultimately 'right' or 'wrong' since, in this view, 'everyone is right' in the sense of having part of the truth! The rider is that 'not all truths are equal'. Yet since this question is addressed within the IOS, in principle it should be easier to transcend the 'paradigm wars' that have plagued the field in pursuit of a more unified stance.
Third, while it is true that Integral Futures is, in essence, a perspective, a way of understanding and operating, it is also true that the new breadth, depth, range and coherence that it encourages also lead directly not only to 'refreshing' earlier methods, but also giving birth to quite new ones. Indeed, an immediate task facing us may well be to attend to the generative encounter between, on the one hand, the depth insights emerging from Integral Futures enquiry and, on the other, the practical demands that emerge in the hands-on work that practicing futurists and foresight practitioners are engaged in day-by-day. Some hints of this process can be found throughout this special issue and it is to be hoped that they will emerge more fully in the near future.
Fourth, a depth understanding of the Integral perspective provides a welcome boost for understanding, promoting and applying foresight work in general, and especially progress toward the widespread implementation of social foresight, without which all our work may be in vain. It will not escape the attentive reader that 'stage development theory', clarity about worldview commitments, depth in the practitioner, enquiry paradigms, the Integral Operating System and so on all bring new dynamism and capability to this hard-pressed domain. It's therefore time to renew the push for futures thinking, methods, frameworks and so on to 'go mainstream' in education at every level, from primary schools to universities. The old questions about whether or not futures studies, applied foresight, are disciplines may never be resolved. What has been resolved is the fact that the domain supports serious and advanced enquiry into the most pressing concerns of our time. As such it should be fully represented in educational contexts.
Equipped with these gifts, futures studies, applied foresight, can emerge from the ghetto of insignificance and conventional thinking. Equally, practitioners can be increasingly clear about how they deal with the underlying interests, worldview, fundamental purposes, etc, of the organisations they work with and for. In the post-Enron era, perhaps the best reason to work for a multi-, or trans-national corporation is not simply to assist its 'bottom line' but, rather, to help transform it. The best reason to work for a government is to help it understand the centrality of effective social foresight and to put in place the means to support it. Beyond such 'middle range' tasks we need to wean this over-heated civilisation away from its destructive and divisive 'growth at all costs' path towards futures that are both sustainable and just. These are not tasks for the ill-equipped or the faint-hearted. They challenge us to our depths. Yet when we begin to take those depths seriously and become aware of what they hold we find all the resources we could possibly need.
Richard A Slaughter
Foresight International, Brisbane.
October 2006
1. Australian newspaper, Sydney. In 2006 this paper began publishing a monthly glossy magazine supplement called 'Indulgence'. It works against humanity's shared interests by seeking to persuade the already highly affluent that they can and should have more of the best of everything.
2. K. Courtis, MD Golman Sachs (Japan), at the Future Summit, Brisbane, 11th May, 2006.
3. P. Hayward, PhD thesis, From individual to social foresight, Swinburne, Melbourne, 2006.
4. J. Kunstler, The Long Emergency, Atlantic Books, London, 2005 provides an uncompromising view of the dangerous territory ahead. It is significant that the author is one of a growing number dealing with futures issues who is not a futurist.
5. R. Slaughter, Road testing a new model at the Australian Foresight Institute, Futures 36 (2004) 837-852.
6. R. Slaughter, Futures beyond dystopia, Routledge, London, 2005.
7. R. Slaughter, Beyond the mundane – towards post-conventional futures practice, Journal of Futures Studies 10, 4 (2006) 15-24.
8. R. Slaughter, review of Mapping the Global Future, NIC, Washington DC, 2004, in Futures 37 (2005) 1185-1192. This is a 'worked example' based on the metascanning work carried out at the Australian Foresight Institute, Melbourne, during 2003/4.
9. W. Steffen, (et al) Global Change and the Earth System: A Planet Under Pressure. The IGBP Book Series, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 2004. Also D. Meadows (et al) The Limits to Growth, 30 Year Update, Earthscan, London, 2004.
10. K. Wilber, Integral Psychology, Shambhala, Boston, 2000. Also, A Theory of Everything, Shambhala, Boston, 2000.


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Impact of reputational risks on organisational performance.
Reputation is as old as human existence. Organisations create reputation for themselves through their actions. The bizarre part of reputation is that it could be built subconsciously. This encourages increase in awareness of organisational reputation and attendance to stakeholders' demands. As well-resourced reputations is capable of reflecting the delivery of demonstrable performance criteria reinforced by effective communication with and between stakeholders. This is the motivation of the research topic.
Corporate reputation manipulates the products and services consumers' purchase, the investments investors make, the job offers prospective and current employees pursue and the regulation regulators make as well as the attraction of groups in a society towards or away from an organisation.
Organisations are striving to achieve positive perception from the various sects in the society to ensure their purposes, on which performances is assessed. Strong reputation can provide reasonable assurance that objectives are achievable as it creates stability and remove doubt.
The objective of research is to assess the impact corporate reputation (using quantitative and qualitative research methods) deduced from public ratings, to provide a basis on which achievement of organisational performance could be enhanced.
It was found out that individuals in a society belongs to at least one group of stakeholders and organisations inability to provide for their interests is likely to results in repulsive actions. Since these are depriver to organisational performance achievement, it could be asserted that corporate reputation ameliorates performance
KEYWORDS: Corporate Reputation, Reputation Management, Organisational performance.
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS: Reputation Management (RM), Corporate Social Responsibility CSR
1.1 An Overview
In the field of risk management, various researches have been conducted dealing with measurement and management risks. The same applies to reputational risk, as part of the enterprise risk management of an organisation. A number of researches has confirmed that efficient of all sort of risks ensure reduced losses. However, reputation, highlighted as risks of risks (Economic Intelligence unit, 2005) has limited research in integration of reputation risk into the Enterprise risk management.
As discussed earlier that reputational risk being difficult to measure and quantified should be focused on more with high level of awareness, this is not the case.
The research takes approach through the input it adopted in its questionnaire of seeking the perception of the public on reputation. The lack of this approach by governmental institutions, profit and non-profit oriented organisation in jointly seeking the overall perception of all its stakeholders which prompt this research aiming for the objectives:
To assess the effects of reputation risks on perspectives of organisational stakeholders who could influence performance of entities
It aim to provide an understanding of the structure and requirements of implementing effective reputation management in consistent with recent knowledge in this area.
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Is there a relationship between corporate reputation and performance?
What are the effects of corporate reputation on organizational performance?
Can these findings be generalized?
1.2 Problem Definition
Corporate Reputation of an organisation is ever - existing but not always thought of until an organisation realises it may influence its objectives, which it uses to gauge its performance or could be used to attain competitive advantage. The question that arises is that what constitute reputation and how to manage them to avert their negative impact on an organisation? As stakeholders of an organisation are numerous, it is therefore essential to acknowledge managing corporate reputation from all fronts of its stakeholders. The researcher considers the existence of different groups of stakeholders of an organisation based on sample selected along with their decisions in situations which go along their perspective on organisation reputation.
Essentially, I argue on the side of effective management of stakeholders is capable of influencing the direction an organisation takes, adopting its reputation as a means for such proposition.
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The objective of this research is to assess the effects of reputation risks on perspectives of organisational stakeholders which could influence performance of entities. It also aims to provide an understanding of the structure and requirements of implementing effective reputation management in consistent with recent knowledge in this area.
1.4 Theoretical Framework
Measuring the impact of reputation should be done through the major elements of RM, Although these elements are difficult to measure directly from the sample of the research, these elements are variables which prompts their components or causal characters which were identified as major independent variables; with relation to the dependent variable to be measured.
It should be noted this kind of analysis does not identify the weakness points. Therefore, to locate the major weaknesses that lie within the main elements, the components of those elements; minor independent variables; should be measured in order to locate the exact weakness components.
1.4.1 Dependant Variable
Corporate Reputation
1.4.2 Major Independent Variables
Pressure groups
1.4.3 Minor Independent Variables
Investment and Share price
Employee Productivity
Social Responsibility
Product Performance
Regulation infringement penalty
Each of the research variables will be measured by a set of statements covering all dimensions of a variable. These statements are demonstrated in the form of a questionnaire, in order to have standardized data allowing easy comparisons, which would also give more control over the research process. Such a strategy in collecting the data will keep the researcher independent. The research included the general public captured through various media which support easy access to suitable individuals needed for the research and who are likely to qualify for one or more of the independent variables.
The statement will be weighted individually depending on the importance of each using a five – point Likert scale where:
1 refers to very likely/ very unlikely
5 refers to very unlikely / very likely
In support of the position of questions in the questionnaire, this could either be positive or negative.
1.5 Research Questions
The research will attempt to find answers to the following questions:
Is there a relationship between corporate reputation and performance?
What are the effects of corporate reputation on organizational performance?
Can these findings be generalized?
Statement of Hypothesis
Null hypothesis: The level of reputation risks is not directly related to organisational performance.
Alternate hypothesis: The level of reputation risks is directly related to organisational performance.
1.6 Research Methodology
1.6.1 Data Needed
The data for this study will be collected from different sources. A questionnaire is designed for this purpose. The researcher will use specified questions for clarifying any questions that might be misunderstood by respondents, within some questions, to avoid misleading answers, and to provide additional data sources.
1.6.2 Sample Selection
The sample is open to the general public to ensure reasonable response needed for all sections on the questionnaire. The researcher will send out questionnaire to unlimited response from which results will be scrutinised.
1.6.3 Sample Size
The researcher limited the sample size to 600 which he deemed reasonable and for proper data analysis within the short time of the dissertation, for four weeks.
1.6.4 Data Analysis
All data will be analysed through 'Microsoft Excel' and simplified as per the needs and specific requirements of this research. The final data is transferred from 'Microsoft Excel' after being run through statistical tests to measure the strength of correlation between the independent and dependent variables by applying the chi test square and then the other statistical analysis. These are the minor independent variables, with their major elements. We shall then measure the overall effectiveness of each minor element to detect the weakness points, later measure the overall effectiveness for the major elements, and finally measure the overall effectiveness to the sample in order to represent the population and reach the objective of the research taken.
1.7 Assumptions and Limitations
1.7.1 Assumptions
Organisations are aware that negative actions or occurrence towards any stakeholders will have negative impact on their performance. The respondents of questionnaire belong to at least one of the stakeholders organisations have. Respondents understand terms used in the questionnaire as they attain at least degree level of education.
1.7.2 Limitations
There are numerous limitation faced during the research:
The Questionnaires may not be addressed with full attention and in good faith. As a result, the questionnaire was set so that many different questions would address same result, thus not directly focusing on one element or component.
Longer time limit for the duration of the research would have recouped more results, thus better representative sample, reliable data and analysis could have been done.
The researcher was faced with restricted resources to assess avenues which could have provided better insight.
Other data collection means inaccessible to the researcher will have added value to the quality of result.
1.8 Research Structure
Chapter one: Introduction: A brief introduction to the background of Corporate Reputation Management. It highlights the research objectives and questions and explains the structure of the research.
Chapter two: Literature Review: A discussion and analysis of available research on RM. The literature review sets the research work in the wider context of corporate reputation.
Chapter three: Research Methodologies: This chapter discusses different methodologies adopted in this research and the research strategy chosen. It describes the questionnaire made to measure the impact of reputation on organisations including statistical analysis used including the method of testing and validity of instrument used.
Chapter Four: Data Collection and Results: Data collected from the questionnaires, are being analysed in this chapter.
Chapter Five: Data Analysis: Findings from research are summarised. Attention is again directed at the research objectives, questions and hypothesis.
Chapter six: Conclusions and Recommendations: The dissertation ends with a summary and presenting of the final results and a discussion as well as recommendations. It discusses the limitations faced during the research and the contributions and recommendation for future researchers.
1.9 Conclusion
This chapter set the tone of the other chapters. Its framework focus on the acknowledgment that to achieve research objectives and provide answer to the research questions, an all-inclusive study based theoretical and empirical testing are needed. The details of approach adopted used in this research are later discussed in coming chapters with this chapter pointing to where to find areas of the research reader may be interested.
2.1 Introduction
This chapter is an overview of the concept of reputation management and available research on Corporate Reputation. This will give us an overview of Corporate Reputation, its elements and constituents, its importance to businesses and discussion on its measurements and management.
"Reputation is the opinion generally held of a person or thing" (Collins, 2009). This shows reputation is as old as man. One of the few old inferences of reputation could be traced back to 1961, where (Susan V. Scott, 2005) it was quoted that how an organisation and its products is regarded could influence the personnel it recruits, investors, legislations, adequate customers and relationships in the community it operates. Reputation is a reflection of how well or how badly different groups of interested people – stakeholders – view a commercial name (Larkin, 2003).
Reputation is a socially shared impression, a consensus about how a firm will behave in any given situation. It is based on a set of collectively held beliefs about a company's ability and willingness to satisfy the interests of various stakeholders (Helm, 2007).
Reputational risk is any risk to an organisation's reputation that is likely to destroy shareholder value. Reputational risk is one of the risks Basel 2 definition of operational risks excludes (Reputationsl risk, 2011)
Reputational risks range from physical failure (manufacturing fault or accident) to security failure, product/service shortfall, competitor targeting, bad behaviour, unfair employment practices, damage to health, safety or the environment, inconsistency in policies/practices, poor governance/ethics, regulatory intervention, threat of litigation, adverse stakeholder perception and so on. In fact, reputation has always mattered, but the assault on corporate reputation has intensified as a result of some compelling trends that are placing new pressures on companies (Larkin, 2003).
In brief, "Reputations reflect behaviour an organisation exhibits day in and day out through a hundred small things. The way it manages reputation is by always thinking and trying to do the right thing every day". Reputation risk can be considered in terms of corporate reputation (Larkin, 2003).
Until the turn of this century, after which the gathered momentum regarding reputation culminated into series of books, conferences and institutional ratings and legislations – a view which could be supported by the recent texts (Matteo Tonello, 2007) on the topic(mostly less than twenty years), recent establishment of reputation institute in 1999 which followed the quarterly Corporate Review Journal in answer to "demands by practitioners for answers to questions about how reputations affect competitive positioning, about how to examine and value corporate reputations" (Fombrun, 1999), corporate reputation is modestly regarded in risk management.
The abrasion of traditional authority
The respect in the judgement of experts has plummeted to a very low level. People don't longer hold on to comments of doctor, accountant, lawyer or priest. Industrialized societies are experiencing low levels of confidence in spite of recent stable economic and political conditions. Surveys suggested that trust in government is at an all time low, characterized by a pervasive decline in deference to authority. Economic growth over the last few decades was supported by the good modern welfare state, have resulted to economic security. Authority has shifted away from religion and the state and has moved to individuals, with growing preoccupation with the quality of lifestyles, opinions, values own autonomy (Larkin, 2003).
Nowadays, conventional authority is rejected, and people prefer to believe in their own sense of identity and individuality where as everyone has view and opinion believed to hold the same weight, regardless of the credibility of its source which is capable of prompting claims of discrimination or exclusion, when reinforced through the media and consumer action (Larkin, 2003).
Decline in trust
There is great concern about the human impact on the environment, as the growth of material consumption and population generate greater pollution and resource degradation. The economic and political structures of global and national development are, in some people's minds, starting to develop doubt and encourage inequality (Larkin, 2003).
A decline in the reputation of science
Lack of trust has generated motions that : The perceived purpose of science is crucial to public response, people now question all levels of authority, including scientific authority, people place more trust in science which is seen to be 'independent and there is a culture of institutional secrecy which invites suspicion (Larkin,2003).
Victim culture
Government policies have been increasingly oriented towards identifying and protecting victims, or potential victims, in the form of new 'rights'. Recently, the right to compensation and the recognition of a formal complaint was given an emotional dimension by a growing concern about the needs of victims. It has become the norm to form a victim's group, not only for compensation purposes, but to carry the mantle of demands for better safety and associated regulation (Larkin, 2003).
Organisations who do not appreciate the social and political status accorded to victims exposed themselves to reputation risks.
Corporate social responsibility agenda
The relationship between business and society has benefits, but also attracting new risks which will determine prosperity or extinction. Some of these impact on the environment, and on society in general and have created new challenges with implication for financial and reputation performance (Larkin, 2003).
Corporate social responsibility is based on the belief that trade brings obligations and that companies should be accountable for their use of resources. It covers a number of issues:
Employment – workforce diversity and appropriate workplace conditions and practices.
Environment – limiting environmental impact from any stage throughout product and process lifecycles.
Human rights – Respect for human rights anywhere a company operates.
Communities –Involvement in community activities of a company location.
Commercial relationships – dealing fairly with customers, partners and suppliers;
Numerous influential accreditation schemes relating to some or all of the above issues have emerged in relation to CSR performance and reporting. Achieving a balance between commercial success, environmental quality and social justice means that the stakes are becoming much higher for companies in their dealings with the outside world. Society expects more from business. Transparency and accountability have become the watchwords of modern business, and external perception of the way in which companies are seen to be behaving now has material consequences for corporate reputation(Larkin,2003).
Governance and liability
The pursuit for better institutional and business accountability, in response to a perceived decline in trust, has affected human existence. This is in the form of detailed and costly controls via extensive legislation and regulation. These new pressures for transparency and accountability are increasingly becoming enshrined in corporate governance guidelines and disclosure legislation (Larkin, 2003).
There is certainly no single or dominant definition or theory of corporate reputation. Part of the problem is that the academic research in this area of knowledge is still in its infancy, also reputation overlaps various disciplines of knowledge, each with a distinct perspective and research approach (Larkin, 2003). The lack of systematic attention to corporate reputations can be traced to the diversity of relevant academic and practitioner literatures that explore different facets of the construct (Fombrun, 1999).
Corporate reputation is defined as a collective representation of a firm's past actions and results that describes the firm's ability to deliver valued outcomes to multiple stakeholders (Fombrun, 1999). Corporate reputation is a set of attributes ascribed to a firm, inferred from the firm's past actions (Keith Weigelt, 1988).
Reputations are viewed as having some basis in organisations' actions, (providing a quality good/service, for example) as well as being constructed by others via their perceptions of those activities (Schweizer and Wijnberg, 1999, p. 251).
It is created through various media of information on a country, industry and corporation. This could be through word of mouth, personal contact of experience, direct mail, advertising, product design, price attractiveness, advertising, news, weblogs etc (Manchester Business School, 2002).
Information could be directly passed through interactions with an organization or mediated reports about an organisation to stakeholders. Majority of the information stakeholders receive about organisations is derived from the news media – reason media coverage is an important feature of reputation management (The Reputation Paradigm, 2001).
Reputation behaviour is strategically important in incomplete settings, for example where all players in an industry are not equally informed about parameters that define pay-off


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The Anne Carson Mad Libs contest has come to a close, and I'm here to announce the winners. First, a quick rehash of the contest itself: for a chance to win Carson's stunning new book-in-a-box, Nox, I asked people to fill in the generic parts of speech–adjective, noun, etc.–I'd interpolated into some of Carson's translations of Sappho's fragments.
I knew from the start that I'd set a tough assignment–and the results bore me out: we received only two entries, but both were very strong.
If you want to see what materials our entrants were starting with, you can take a look at the Mad Lib itself in the original post. And now to the first entry, from Eduardo X:
} quit
}shiftswift hips out
}luxurious woman
}ball frequently
} check for those
I treat well are the ones most of all
} they harm me
} chase feet crazy
} yes you a child once
}crow flap come sing these things
}black wing swing back talk to us, give us your
} She hiccups beautiful he
} sickeningly stirs up still things
} until chunks erupt slowly from exhaustion the mind
} mockingly settles down
} bouncing diaphragm bounce but come O beloveds
} giddy for day is near
Some really sharp lines there, no? "shiftswift hips out," for example, is so tightly made it's nearly palindromic in sound and appearance. I'm particularly fond of the closing lines of poem 3, which Eduardo transformed from
}[adjective] [noun] [verb] [preposition] talk to us, give us your
}black wing swing back talk to us, give us your
And now entry number two, from Damion Searls:
}drips silver tap down
}luxurious woman
}story frequently
}occurs for those
I treat well are the ones most of all
}who harm me
}need things crazy
}yes you a child once
}hands pick come sing these things
}all evening stared at talk to us, give us your
}you turn beautiful he
}later stirs up still things
}from the northwest swayed and leapt from exhaustion the mind
}on the way down settles down
}peaceful day, said but come O beloveds
}as for day is near
Poem four in particular hangs together impressively: the sound of the simple "you turn" that opens the poem, jibing sonically with "beautiful," prepares us perfectly for the way that Searls draws the consonance and the insistent meter of the second line down into and through the third, building drama until he sighs us into the "peaceful day."
And Searls did all this while going the extra mile. He explains,
Each mad-lib word in poem 1 is that part of speech, in order, from the first poem in Carson's first book of poetry, in poem 2 they are from the second poem in her second book, etc. (Some fudging around definition of what is a "poem" and so on.)
Now that's hardcore; such over-the-top dedication–when coupled with strong execution–is sufficient to make Searls the winner. Congratulations, Damion: a copy of Nox, courtesy of New Directions, will be winging its way to you as soon as you get me your address.
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Marquez Faling was shot multiple times in 2002.
18-year-old Vashaun Rozier arrested in Sunday morning vandalism
A tractor trailer flipped over under the I-16 bridge on Spring street
Latte wags her tail like a dog.
Mercer University sophomore Kyle Lewis added another national honor to his 2015 awards haul, as he was named a co-winner of the 2015 Gregg Olson Award presented by Toolshed Sports on Wednesday evening.
A Macon man is recovering in the hospital after he was shot Wednesday afternoon.
Former Macon Mayor C. Jack Ellis wants the statue of the Unknown Confederate Soldier to be moved out of downtown Macon.
If you're planning on using any fireworks this 4th of July weekend, the Macon-Bibb Fire Department has some safety tips for you.
How well do you know them?
Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones says the morgue is filling up.
Former Macon Mayor C. Jack Ellis is calling on local leaders to remove the Confederate Monument in downtown Macon.
Bibb County Coroner Leon Jones says he thinks seven deaths were because of the heat.
A man was found dead Monday afternoon at InTown Suites in Macon.
Tips to recognize IRS phone scam.
Bibb deputies are still looking for other teens who pulled merchandise off the shelves causing more than $2,000 in damages.
The Snellville native is the fist Mercer player to compete in the Home Run Derby.
More than 300 free lunches were given away to homeless men and women in Central City Park Saturday.
Middle Georgia Community Food Bank Backpack program held a 6K race that featured a couple of well known participants.
County and state rangers are on the look out this weekend for boaters driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol.
Dozens of people rallied in front of the Bibb County courthouse after the U.S. Supreme Court decision to legalize gay marriage.
20-year-old Shankeria Chasity Ray arrested for involvement in hotel robbery
Deputies found the 73-year-old Macon man on Forest Avenue about 11:30 p.m. Thursday.
Mercer University is building new lofts to accommodate the increasing number of students expected to enroll at the college.
Veterans Elementary is expected to open August 2016.
2 of 3 suspect caught in attempted burglary
30-year-old Jarvis Bass arrested minutes within burglarizing Marathon Convenience Store
Fire at God's Power Church of Christ investigated as arson
Two administrators at Central Georgia Technical College are helping to develop a two-year associate degree program at Kabul Polytechnic University in Afghanistan.
Middle Georgia State College denied opportunity to offer graduate degrees.
The current education penny sales tax ends in December. Do you know what projects your money helped fund?
Man shot in leg, released from hospital.
Macon-Bibb commissioners are working to bring a $16 million recreation center to South Bibb County, but they only have about half of the funds to build it.
Central City Park is getting an upgrade.
The Macon-Bibb Emergency Management Agency is working on its pre-disaster mitigation plan.
The Macon Chapter of the NAACP hosted a prayer vigil Monday night for the victims of the church massacre in Charleston, South Carolina and also for the violence in our community.
Reggie Moore was named the interim director for Macon-Bibb Parks and Recreation department.
Nearly 500 people packed into Steward Chapel A.M.E. Church for a prayer vigil for Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
It was supposed to open on Memorial Day, but the park developer pushed it back because of weather and site preparation.
The man who was shot in the neck on June 6th is dead.
Jim David, the monument's superintendent, says a bill is currently in the House subcommittee.
Michele Drinkard was announced as the team's new coach Monday.
The study, conducted between 2008 and 2012, found that a critically injured patient's proximity to one of the state's trauma centers increases their chance of survival.
Coliseum Medical Centers announced Monday is has used the da Vinci robot for the 2,000th time.
For the sixth straight year, the Little League® Baseball and Softball Southeastern Region Tournaments will take place in Warner Robins.
The Budgetel Inn and Suites manager said two men beat him in his face and head.
Bibb County Sheriff's Deputies are searching for a gunman who robbed a convenience store Saturday.
A man walking home after shopping at Walmart was robbed by a man with a machete.
Deputies are investigating a shooting in east Bibb County.
Bibb County Sheriff's Deputies are looking for four suspects wanted for aggravated assault and being involved street gang activity
The Bibb County Board of Education approved its FY 2016 budget and the new proposed ESPLOST during its meeting Thursday night.


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PC Sales Drop 14%
Is this the beginning of the end of the desktop computer as we know it?
In the first three months of 2013, Americans bought fewer personal computers at a sharper decline than any three-month period since 1994, when record-keeping began, Reuters reported Wednesday. Sales fell by 14%, which is particularly troubling for Microsoft and their new Windows 8 software, which was supposed to change everything for PCs.
According to Reuters, consumer spending has shifted towards tablets and smartphones. In fact, Windows 8 may have pushed potential buyers away who were enticed by the touchscreen and laptop combination, but hesitant because of the price point.
"Users are finding Windows 8 to offer a compromised experience that doesn't excel either as a new mobile interface or in a classic desktop interface," Jay Chou, of the International Data Corp told Reuters. "As a result, many users find a decline in the traditional PC experience without gaining much from new features like touch. The result is that many consumers are worried about upgrading to Windows 8, to say nothing of business users who are still just getting into Windows 7."
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It's no secret that tablets, phones, and smart tvs will meet most consumers needs. That's the more interesting side of the story.
While people would like to blame Windows 8 let's remember that 90% of people who use the Internet consume media and for that tablets are just fine. Why get a new PC when all you want to do is check email and surf the web?
"Oops." ~ Bill Gates


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The Fairfax County Public school board recently approved lessons about homosexuality and gender identity in its Family Life Education curriculum. The move has angered many parents who are concerned they cannot opt their children out.
This Fourth of July weekend we're taking a look at some of the stories the highlight our nation's history. CBN News also brings the heroic stories of men and women who keep America safe by serving in the armed forces.
The Supreme Court's ruling on gay marriage has church leaders grappling with how to respond to prevailing cultural views on same-sex relationships, particularly among the younger generation.
An Oregon official certified a ruling Thursday imposing a $135,000 fine against Christian bakers who refused to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple.
A Virginia pastor is counting his blessings after his family survived a frightening plane incident.
On CBN News Sunday, June 14: One of the world's oldest documents establishing certain civil and human rights turns 800. What we can learn today from Magna Carta.
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Radical for Jesus a New Kind of Legalism?
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The U.S. is stopping Middle East nations from arming the Kurds in the fight against ISIS.
Democrat Jim Webb is making a run for the White House, the former Virginia senator announcing Thursday he's in the race.
Chick-fil-A is way ahead of all other fast food restaurants for customer satisfaction, a new survey from the American Customer Satisfaction Index revealed.
The Egyptian army says it has killed scores of Islamic State-linked fighters following multiple attacks on military posts in the Sinai Peninsula.
A Sinai-based, ISIS-affiliate claimed responsibility for three Grad-style rockets fired at southern Israel on Friday.
This king "feared not God, nor respected men." But it was out of his hellish abuses that the greatest peace treaty ever made would become the cornerstone of liberty, law and democracy.
There's no question the next fight is religious liberty, as some fear the high court's marriage ruling will embolden those who seek to punish Christians who wish to live in accordance with their faith.


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Weird audible clock
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You know how can you hear the time from a audible clock? You might say by the recorded human voice. But this weird one will provide you a totally weird way to hear time. How? Just watch the video after the break


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Boise State to the Mountain West?
Decision could come next week
Weber noted other big considerations:
•The MWC divides its revenue pie among nine members. If the MWC added another member, it would have to divide it among 10, which could decrease each member's share — unless Boise helps increase the size of the pie to be divided. The MWC last expanded in 2005, when it added TCU.
"When it came down to TCU, we in effect made a bet that TCU would bring more to the conference than it took away by diluting the conference," Weber said. "That turned out to be right."
Before TCU joined, the MWC reported revenues of $6.2 million in 2004-05. In 2008-09, it reported revenue of $8.5 million. If adding Boise is enough to push the MWC toward an automatic BCS berth, it could mean an extra $900,000 to $1 million for each member.
•Realignment/expansion talk has swirled around the Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-10 and other leagues. The MWC can either wait to see what happens, possibly losing a member or two (such as Utah or TCU) to another league. Or it can strike quickly and strengthen its position.
"Is it a university we would like to welcome as colleagues, and will it dilute the share that everybody else gets?" Weber asked. "Those are real tests, and everybody is going to have a different view about those tests."
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Gobelet litron et soucoupe
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Gobelet litron et soucoupe
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory (factory)
Noël, Guillaume (painter) [ULAN info: French porcelain painter, 1734/5-1804, op.1755-1804]
soft-paste porcelain
Soft-paste porcelain cup and saucer, painted in enamels with mauve and white stripes, and with wreaths, bows, and posies in reserves, and gilded
Soft-paste porcelain painted in blue, green, yellow, pink, red, and mauve enamels, and gilded. Cylindrical cup with double-curved handle. Circular saucer with flat central area and deep, sloping sides. There is a hole for suspension in the footring of each piece.The cup has a ground of mauve stripes, each flanked by a gold line, a blue line and a line of gold dots, alternating with reserved white stripes decorated with small gold floral sprays. Encircling the cup there are two large and two small shaped reserves linked to each other. The two large ones contain wreaths of laurel leaves and red berries tied at the top with a bow of mauve ribbon from which is suspended a posy of three pink roses and leaves. The wreaths are linked by swags passing through the two small reserves, each composed of three posies of three pink roses linked by sprays of leaves. There are bands of gilding round the base and rim, lines down the sides of the handle and a stylised leaf. and two bell flowers separated by spots down its back. In the centre of the saucer there are two concentric gold circles from which radiate mauve stripes like those on the cup. They end at varying distances from the centre, so that they form a cross-shape with incurved sides and ends. The sides are decorated en suite with the cup with four large reserved linked by four small, each containing a posy of three roses and leaves. There is a band of gilding round the rim.
Production Notes
This is a gobelet litron and saucer of the second size with Savill's handle shape B.
Shades of mauve, lilac, violet and purple were fashionable from 1773 and throughout the reign of Louis XVI (see Documentation, Verlet, 1953).
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Sèvres (factory) (place)
Sèvres (painter) (place)
France (factory) (country)
French (factory) (nationality)
Technique Description
soft-paste porcelain, thrown, painted in blue, green, yellow, pink, red, and mauve enamels, and gilded.
height: (cup): 7.0
late 18th century
given: Clarke, Louis Colville Gray 1956-07-19 (Filtered for: Applied Arts collection)Louis Colville Gray Clarke; lent to The Fitzwilliam Museum in 1947; given by Louis Colville Gray Clarke, 1956
Given by Louis C.G. Clarke, MA
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C.7 & A-1956 (Applied Arts)
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A partnership to finance projects through microfinance institutions was signed in Douala February 13.
Various micro projects will soon receive financial support thanks to funds put in place by Banque de Développement des Etats de l'Afrique Central (BDEAC). A partnership convention between BDEAC and Fonds de Financement du Développement Social (FOFIDES) was reached in Douala Wednesday.
According to the convention BDEAC will disburse FCFA 535 million to FOFIDES, microfinance institution, for beneficiaries from various sectors of the economy such as agriculture, tourism, livestock, etc. Michael Ahande signed in his capacity as President for BDEAC while Hamidou Mana signed in his capacity as Board Chair for FOFIDES.
The two financial institutions above also signed an accord with Ecobank that spells out mechanism to secure the funds. Ecobank's General Manager Moustapha Fall signed on behalf of his institution.
The purpose of the funds is to assist affiliates of microfinance institutions to carry out projects that can generate income and change the economy. FCFA 500 million will be destined for small projects while FCFA 35 million will be used to construct FOFIDES headquarters.


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As with other Basher books, the humor, bright cartoon illustrations, and conversational ton of this small title will attract young readers. . . . Fun for browsing, this book also offers quick facts and trivia.
Readers might already know a lot of this, but Basher and Green serve it up in a hip, imaginative style and throw in some lesser-known facts, too.. . .Another fun entry.
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Reading this book will put you on first name terms with every single one of America's head honchos.


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"Obsolete, Part 8":
3 thoughts on "Night Music: EL Heath"
Aces. Chilling. I am SO GLAD I did not watch this last night. Tanks.
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Wow! How fantastic to see this featured on here. If you can excuse the impertinence, may I plug EL Heath's three free releases on Records on Ribs, which may be downloaded here: http://recordsonribs.com/artists/elheath/
I also recommend his (not free) album on Wayside & Woodland.
There's a whole load more from the same series as that video on YouTube (just search 'EL Heath Obsolete'), including this incredible video for epic45 (of whom he is a part-time member):
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