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What's in the box: Seattle Sports SUPSTOW+ Fanny-Pak, Leash and Instruction Sheet
SUP Paddlers will appreciate this Great Fanny Pack that provides Low-Profile Storage with an Integrated Board Leash, so you don't have to Tether your Board to your Leg. SUPSTOW+ lets you Store Energy Bars, Smart Phones or Cameras*, Safety Gear or Sunscreen in the Storage Compartment and Zip-Open the Leash Pocket to reveal the Built-In Leash. Built in a High Visibility Green Durable Coated Nylon Fabric, the SUPSTOW+ gives you added Daytime Visibility as well. The SUPSTOW+ is Not Waterproof Storage for Electronics. For proper Waterproof Storage of Electronics you would require additional Waterproof Protection like Seattle Sports E-Merse Cases (see SKU's: SETEM7, SETEM9, SETEMYL, SETAK7, SETEW, SETAK9, SETDCC, SETEDAC, SETEMC or SETCC70 for all your Electronic or Document Storage needs.
The SUPSTOW+ has multiple Zippered Pockets for Organization, a Top Grab Handle and a D-Ring for Accessory Attachment. Fanny Pack has an Adjustable Waist Strap and a Locking Gate Clip for Detachment from the Board Leash. Fanny pack measures (H x W x D) 7.5" x 12" x 5" (19 x 30.5 x 12.7 cm) with a volume of 450 cubic inches (7 liters) and weighs 12.1 oz (343 g) when empty. Pack comes with an Instruction Sheet and is covered by a 12 month limited warranty.


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I'm a huge nerd for time management literature. I admit it is my beach reading. It is fun to learn about the crazy or complex or thoughtful systems people come up with. My favorite of all time is Getting Things Done by David Allen. While some of the time management literature just gives me the giggles for its OCD tendencies, GTD was the first to resonate with me as something actually doable. I read it many years ago and no matter how much I stray I always come back with my tail between my legs. The system, while it may be daunting to start, just works. Some people don't like it because the system requires a full understanding and recognition of your commitments. You have to be honest with yourself about everything you have taken on.
Every so often, especially when I am feeling overwhelmed, I skim through the book again and do a little check in to make sure I am aware of all of my open commitments and tasks. This semester has been insane for many reasons both personal and professional, so I felt the need yesterday to take some time to decompress and think through my life. I feel much more in control and know what I have on my plate the rest of the semester and year. I also know that I can say "No" without feeling guilty. It is a great feeling. If you haven't read GTD (or the many GTD summaries on the web), I encourage you to do so even if just to learn some little tricks for managing your time.
But, what does GTD have to do with ALA Council? In my overview of life yesterday I had to recognize that, yes, I am running for ALA Council again this year and, yes, I need to put some effort into running. So, here's my pitch. Why should you vote for me for ALA Council? I promise that my Council membership will not change the world or librarianship, but I can promise that I will be fully committed to the position. I can come with a willingness to work and an understanding of how I can fit this work into my life. My platform focused on early career librarians and mentoring (and you can read my platform here), but when it comes down to it, you should vote for me because I am good at my job and when I decide to add a commitment I commit to it as fully as possible. Ultimately, I know how to get things done.


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Mother's Day Names: Remembering TV Moms
Once upon a time—let's say pre-Roseanne—the TV mom was the paragon of domestic motherhood, as exemplified and epitomized by the Beaver's understanding mom, June Cleaver, who famously did her vacuuming in high heels and pearls and pencil-slim skirts on Leave It to Beaver. This idealized image persisted via later near-perfect parents like The Cosby Show's Claire Huxtable, who was able to effortlessly combine high-powered career with being the wisest and most compassionate of moms, never losing her cool.
Of course there were blips over the years, such as vibrantly vulgar characters like Roseanne Conner and Married with Children's Peg Bundy and later cranky (older) moms like Marie Barone and Estelle Costanza, but for the most part television moms set a pretty high—if not unattainable—bar.
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CAROL Brady—The Brady Bunch; CAROL Walsh—Beverly Hills 90210
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Manufacturer's SKU XPS3 Shipping Estimate Ships within 6-8 weeks. Manufacturer's Warranty Manufacturer defects - 2 years Brands EOTech - Description
Shortest model sight yet! This sight is smaller and lighter than the other HWS sights and runs on a single 123 battery. With the new single battery configuration, the XPS allows more rail space than ever, leaving more room for rear iron sights, magnifiers or NV mount. Smaller, lighter and always fast; the XPS series is a great compact option for your platform.
- Single transverse 123 battery to reduce sight length
- Shortened base only requires at most 2 3/4 inch of rail space
- Battery cap and latch are eliminated and replaced with a simple O-ring, tethered cap; better sealing is achieved
- Average battery life at brightness level 12 is roughly 600 hours
- The XPS3 is Night Vision compatible, for non-Night Vision compatible units see the XPS2 sights.
- Optics: Transmission holography - parallax free
- Magnification: 1x
- Eye Relief: Unlimited
- Length/Width/Height: 3.5"x 2"x2.4" (88.9X50.8x60.96)
- Weight: 8 oz (227 grams)
- Temperature: -40 to 150 F
- Waterproof: Submersible to 33 ft depth
- Sealing: Fogproof internal optics
- Adjustment (per click): 0.5 MOA (1/2" at 100 yds)
- Adjustment Range: +/- 40 MOA travel
- Mount: 1" Weaver or Picatinny (MIL-STD-1913) rail
- Return to Zero: Repeatable to 2 MOA after re-mounting
- Night Vision Comatibility: yes, 10 additional settings
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- Optical Surfaces: Anti-glare coating
- Window Dimensions: 1.20" x 0.85" (30 x 23mm)
- Front Window Material: 1/8" solid glass
- Rear Window Material: Shatter resistant laminate (3/16" thick)
- Field of View (100 yds): 30 yds (28m) at a 4" eye relief
- Brightness Adjustment Range: 146,000:1 brightest to lowest
- Night Vision Brightness Range: 1280:1 with NV switch engaged
- Power Source: (1) 123 lithium battery
- Battery Life: 600 continuous hours at nominal setting 12
- Brightness Settings: 30 settings with scrolling feature (10 settings for NV use)
- Auto Battery Check Indicator: Flashing reticle upon start-up
- Auto Shut-down: At 8 hrs- programmable to 4 hrs
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Value Quality Price I've owned three EOTech sights over the years and this one is hands-down the best. If you haven't used an EOTech before, then all I will say is BUY ONE. They are hands-down the best reflex-style sight on the market. Nothing else compares. All of the sights I have used are great, but this one is lighter, takes up less rail space, and used C123 batteries. A great combination. Well worth the price.
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Price Value Quality I had the 1 1 moa dot weapon sight. I like this optic, but I had to switch to the 2 moa T1 micro for battery life. This optic was good in that the 65 moa ring allowed you to sight in easier at cqb distances, and the 1 moa center dot made shots more precise at longer distances. But again, battery life was a key factor in making the switch to the T1 micro. Great optic if you don't need a long battery life.
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August 8, 2011 Crossing Over Into Cross-Channel Marketing [DMA11]
In today's crazy communications world, customers and prospects switch media in rapid-fire succession. One moment they're on their smartphone sending a Tweet and the next they're on a laptop updating their Facebook status or reading an RSS feed. Then they might decide to do some online shopping before settling down to watch TV.
To reach target consumers at the precise moment they need help or are ready to make a purchase, today's marketers need the ability to communicate and advertise on multiple platforms. Cross-channel marketing is the tricky discipline of listening to customers and engaging them with a consistent message, no matter what media they happen to be using at any given time. If your company is still focused on single channel marketing, it's time to cross over and start using cross-channel marketing to communicate.
Over 10,000 attendees will be in Boston from October 1-6 for the DMA2011 Conference and Exhibition. DMA believes this topic is so crucial that one of the nine educational tracks will focus solely on cross-channel strategy, while one session of the Sunday Master Class will also cover this topic. DMA2011 brings it all together so you'll have the perfect opportunity to learn cross-channel marketing.
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Hailing from Toronto myself, it always excites me when I stumble upon a local bloggers. People like Stephanie Sterjovski, who's blog is relatively new to me, but that just makes me feel as if I've been hiding under a rock somewhere. I mean, the girl is adorable! And she was sweet enough to share some of her 5 must have wardrobe essentials.
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This past week I was nominated for the Kreativ Blogger and Versatile Blogger Awards by collecthemomentsonebyone! I am so happy that people actually read and enjoy my blog — it's always nice to know your work is being appreciated. So thank you to all my followers and non-followers who read my posts and comment on what I write about. I've said this so many times before, but I created Bookmark Review to gather all bookworms together and to have fun while discussing topics we really are passionate about. So on that note, I'm going to go forward with my part of this award…
So with this award, I am supposed to write 10 random facts about myself. Here goes:
- I am obsessed with the Jane Austen/Victorian/Edwardian era. I know for a fact that if reincarnation exists, I lived during that time period because I have such an undeniable connection to those years. I love the fashion, the simplicity of life, the balls, the language (which, even though it was still English, the words were more elegant and intelligent), the gentlemen… simply everything. Except, perhaps, the lack of independence most women had back then.
- Star Wars is better than Star Trek. Just saying.
- I want to be a bestselling author one day but have yet to complete a book… I will one day though. I have the idea in my mind, know exactly what I want — so it will happen. The "bestselling" part is up to the readers.
- I could spend my whole day watching movies or reading and not feel like I wasted my time.
- I am crazy about all things paranormal. In grade 5, I only used to read ghost stories and that love of other-worldly things (like ghosts, demons, etc.) has continued to my ripe old age of 20. When I graduate from university in a year, I plan on going on a ghost hunt. So excited.
- I'm half East Indian but have never been to India. Before my grandpa (or Nanaji, as I call him) passed away last month, we had planned for him to take my sister and I to India as soon as she graduated from high school. I love being able to say that I'm part Indian because I absolutely love the culture, the music, the clothes, the films — everything about India.
- I'm a Scorpion. And based on what people say Scorpios are (passionate, loyal, observant, obsessive, prefer to be alone…), I think I'm well suited for the sign.
- I wish we could go back to the time of no computers. I hate that I'm constantly on it for school or fun. I wish I could be more like people in the past, where the imagination/nature/writing letters/walking about/meeting people were the highlights of the day. The Internet has given us many opportunities (without it, I wouldn't have this blog or The Student's Life) but sometimes I wish I could just stop everything and leave the computer behind.
- I have a double-jointed thumb. Just like Nanaji.
- My dream/goal is to live and work in New York City. There's just something about that place that I just can't get enough of. Either there or a small, more natural place like Maine or Victoria. Europe would be amazing, too. Either way, I want to write for a living.
Now, because I've been nominated for these Awards, I am also to nominate a few of my most favourite blogs. I know you'll enjoy them just as much as I do. Here are my nominations:
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A complex targeted virus has been discovered stealing data in the Middle East, security researchers announced today.
The malware -- dubbed Flame -- has been operation since 2010 and appears to be state-sponsored, Kaspersky Labs said today, but it was not sure of its origins. Flame is designed to steal information about targeted systems and stored files as well as computer display contents and audio conversations.
"The complexity and functionality of the newly discovered malicious program exceed those of all other cyber menaces known to date," Kaspersky Labs said in statement announcing the malware's discovery.
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Congresswoman Kaptur exposes NAFTA Superhighway live on house floor!!!!!!!!
May 28, 2008, 05:22:13 AM »
America is in un-chartered waters
Imagine This! - Super NAFTA
You Think NAFTA, CAFTA & the Economy is Bad Now? Wait...
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Re: America is in un-chartered waters : Imagine This! - Super NAFTA (video)
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May 28, 2008, 05:34:45 AM »
For all those who said that it did not exist (no one on this board) They are talking about it on the U.S. house floor. Good video, it says a lot.
Re: America is in un-chartered waters : Imagine This! - Super NAFTA (video)
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May 28, 2008, 08:49:58 AM »
Secret meetings. Taking farmers land cheap for the road. Leasing it to other governments. Ruining our currency.
Hmmmmmmmmm. So much to look forward to.
chris jones
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Re: Congresswoman Bodyslams SPP -Super Highway Video
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May 28, 2008, 09:36:10 AM »
Good one Rock.
I do remember this was denied over and over again. They are in full gear, their plan is coming to its end if we allow it.
Alteratives, MARCH, DC. June 12th.
Or we surrender to their dominance and witness the downfall of this nation. The first step is necessary.
Re: Congresswoman Bodyslams SPP -Super Highway Video
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May 28, 2008, 11:26:15 AM »
Could it be that the hyway is really intended for military use and is being built under the cover of economic reasons?. It effectively builds several 'berlin walls' that section off parts of the usa (Ten lanes with cameras and fences and barbed wire, all run by other countries. And why other countries? Because ours won't be here that long, that's why). The economy is being crashed, nobody will have the money to buy all the goods anyway. Everything else has been a lie, I think this is a big lie too. Ten lanes, rail lines, gimme a break here. No, it is going to be used for everything but what they tell us. Yet another distraction from the truth.
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Re: Congresswoman Kaptur exposes NAFTA Superhighway live on house floor!!!!!!!!
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May 29, 2008, 11:26:09 AM »
This is what a patriot looks like:
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Re: Congresswoman Kaptur exposes NAFTA Superhighway live on house floor!!!!!!!!
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May 29, 2008, 11:32:00 AM »
Title: The very real NAFTA superhighway
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Published: Aug 29, 2006
Author: Joseph Farah
Post Date: 2006-08-29 09:39:42 by Happy2BMe-OnLP
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The very real NAFTA superhighway
Posted: August 29, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Joseph Farah
© 2006
I'm getting a little tired of know-nothing Washington officials acting like they know something.
Or maybe it's a case of know-something politicians hiding something.
Either way, it's not funny any more. But I'll report, you decide.
There seems to be a concerted effort under way – from Washington to Salina, Kan. – to deny the very well-documented plans of the Bush administration and members of Congress to build a "NAFTA superhighway" from Mexico, through the U.S. heartland, into Canada.
Simple reporting on this plan, as WND alone has done, using the government's own words and documents, continues to result in tongue-in-cheek ridicule from the political class.
Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan.
For instance, last week, Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., was on one of his semi-annual pilgrimages to meet his constituents. One of his stops was a luncheon at the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce. The event was chronicled by the local birdcage liner, which dutifully reported everything the senator said without challenge.
According to the story, Gary Swartzendruber, the Democratic candidate for Saline County commissioner, asked what sounds like a very good question. It is one increasingly being raised by concerned members of the community there – including Democratic congressional candidate Nancy Boyda – and, for that matter, by informed people across the United States.
The question was basically this: What do you, the esteemed chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, who has just been lecturing us about the need to be vigilant against domestic terrorism here in the heartland, think about "discussions that are under way for a proposed NAFTA superhighway."
Roberts scoffed.
In fact, he tried to turn the legitimate question into a joke.
In fact, what he did was turn himself into a joke.
He said: "Actually, it's 12 lanes and it goes through K-State on game days so we don't have to mess with the orange barrels."
Now, being a bi-coastal kind of guy, I'm sure that answer makes some sense to the Midwestern sensibility – even if I don't completely understand it myself. But, the point is, Roberts was trying to be funny. Rush Limbaugh he is not.
He went on to add: "There's nothing I'm aware of in any authorization bill. I don't know where these things get started. This is one of those blogosphere things that makes you wonder what's going on."
Now, given that Roberts made an allusion to the Internet in this response, I get the feeling he knows precisely where this thing got started – right here at WND. This is not the blogosphere, however. This is WND, one of the largest news sources on the Net.
This is not a rumor.
This is not conjecture.
This is not conspiracy mongering.
This is simple reporting of what is public information on the public record.
It frightens me that Pat Roberts is the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee but doesn't know what's going on right here in the U.S. – in fact, right in his own backyard. Or, scarier still is the distinct possibility he knows very well what is going on but is determined, for whatever reason, to obscure the reality of what it taking place.
Is Roberts just pretending not to know about NASCO – North America's SuperCorridor Coalition? Or could he really be in the dark? Either option – and there are only two – represents a frightening scenario.
Let me take this opportunity to direct the man who oversees intelligence matters for the U.S. Senate to a speech by Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta of April 30, 2004, in Fort Worth, Texas, before North America's Superhighway Coalition. Read these words carefully and tell me if you think the "NAFTA superhighway" is a pipedream of those wearing tinfoil hats.
"President Bush is keeping America on track for a more prosperous future with his commitment also through international trade," he said.
"And it will not be news to anyone in this room that our top two trading partners are our northern and southern neighbors, Canada and Mexico. NAFTA has opened the doors to expanding and flourishing trade across our borders. Since its implementation, total U.S. trade with Mexico has increased almost 200 percent – with 70 percent of the U.S./Mexico trade passing through Texas. There are, however, some things that we still need to do in the United States to fulfill our obligations under the NAFTA treaty. One of them is to finally open the market between Mexico and the United States for trucking and busing. …
"And to our friends from Mexico who are here today, I say, 'Welcome, and get ready.' Opening the border is of mutual benefit. It will bring greater efficiencies in transportation so important in the competitive global environment. And it will bring robust opportunities for American companies, more jobs for American truckers, better deals for American consumers, and expanding activity along our trade corridors.
"I know that the members of NASCO are gearing up. And your efforts are very important not only locally, but also to the national – and global – economies. Indeed, I want to congratulate NASCO President Sandy Jacobs and the Superhighway Coalition for your leadership. You recognized the promise of this expanding trade relationship with our NAFTA partners early on.
"You also recognized that the success of the NAFTA relationship depends on mobility – on the movement of people, of products, and of capital across borders. The people in this room have vision. Thinking ahead, thinking long-term, you began to make aggressive plans to develop the NASCO trade corridor – this vital artery in our national transportation system through which so much of the NAFTA traffic flows. It flows across our nation's busiest southern border crossing in Laredo; over North America's busiest commercial crossing, the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit; and through Duluth, and Pembina, North Dakota, and all the places in between – like the Siouxland. Tuesday, I met with representatives of the Siouxland Chamber of Commerce who were in Washington, D.C., from Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota. They shared some of their plans along the I-29 portion of the NASCO corridor."
There is no question about plans – well-known to the Bush administration and many of Pat Roberts' colleagues in the Congress – for what is sometimes called "the NAFTA superhighway." The secretary of transportation knows about it. Perhaps he could give the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee a special briefing.
Or, alternatively, Pat Roberts could ask what has come to be known as the "NASCO Caucus" in Congress to bring him up to speed. Just check out NASCO's website to see about the meetings between the activists and those they consider to be in their "caucus" last March and in April 2005.
In addition, for Sen. Roberts' sake, I've compiled below some of the reports WND has done on this subject – dating back to 1999. Perhaps he could have a crack member of his intelligence staff peer through them to determine if any error can be found.
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May 29, 2008, 11:35:27 AM »
Ford Motor Company's global visioning continues to rank it in the top three of the automotive industry worldwide. This research explores Ford's long term strategic planning in terms of global operations, the North American hemisphere and the NAFTA.
Ford Motor Company started as a 10-man operation, with Henry Ford, in 1903. In 1905 Ford Motor Company of Canada, Ltd. started operations, positioning Ford for the future globalization in the automotive markets. Since then, Ford has held 13% of the world market and is "the second largest producer of cars and trucks, with active manufacturing, assembly or sales operations in the thirty countries on six continents" (
). With respect to sales, Ford ranks second on Fortune's list of the largest U.S. industrial corporations.
Anticipating that trade barriers would fall and a future for regional trade blocks, Ford established Ford of Europe (1967) 20 years before the EC´s arrival and the North American Automotive Operations (1971), and finally twenty-three years before the NAFTA. These strategic moves have facilitated Ford's global positioning in the automotive industry (
Relative importance of Canada, United States and Mexico
Ninety five percent (95%) of the total automobile production market share in the North American hemisphere is concentrated within four countries: United States, Brazil, Canada and Mexico. In 1996 the total Canadian, Mexican and American automotive unit sales accounted for a total of 16,857,000 trucks and cars, of which 92% were American, 7% were Canadian and 1% were Mexican. This did not include Brazil, which produced 44%, more units than Canada in the same year. (
In the Mexican automotive sector, 1995 and 1996 were depressed sales years as a consequence of the Mexican crisis. Despite an improvement from the previous year, sales remain inconsistent because of tight customer credit and an increase in retail prices for automobiles in the beginning of 1997. A total of 94,000 motor vehicles were sold in the domestic market during January-March of 1997, an increase of 33% from the first quarter of 1996. It is also worth noting that more than 85% of the total Mexican exports were heading to the U.S. and Canadian markets. As well, Mexican Motor exports increased during the first quarter of 1997 to such markets as Brazil, Chile and Panama (Mexico Economic News & Analysis on Mexico. April 23,1997).
Unlike the American and Canadian markets, the Mexican market is highly influenced by companies other than the "Big Three" (Ford, GM and Chrysler). Directly related to Mexican economical position and market prices, VW and Nissan have introduced their products and are able to achieve shares of around 20% of the total market share each. However, Ford de Mexico is the biggest producer of automobiles in the country registering 24.3% of the entire production share until 1995. According to the same data, Ford in Mexico until 1995 had the fourth place with 17.6% of the total market share, behind Nissan (22.3%), GM (21.8%), and VW (17.9%) and only a bit above Chrysler who registered 17.4% (Auto Case 2000).
The Canadian automotive market does present a "normal" American trend according to market share and relative importance of the companies. According to registered data until 1995, Ford held second place in market share with 22.4% of the total market. GM held first place with 33% and the third place by Chrysler with 18.8%.
The American automotive market presents a better view of Ford Motor Company.
Even though it holds second place of the market share, the distance between Ford and the first place is less than in the Canadian market. The first place, which is held by GM, shows a 32.2% of share, while Ford registers a 25.6%, 11.3% above the third place, Chrysler (14.3%).
Looking at the NAFTA countries as an entire region, Ford Motor Company has reduced its market share in accordance to its net exports from North America, struggling between 8% to the lowest registered at 2.5% in 1995. Ford's closest competitors show a similar trend. GM dropped their share from a top 12.5% in 1982 to a 4.5% in 1995. Chrysler hasn't been affected by this trend showing a continuous share around 2.5% and 4.5% (Auto Case 2000).
After the NAFTA, Ford product exports from Canada and the United States to Mexico has risen in a much bigger proportion than Mexico's exports to their trade partners. As well, sales have shrunk in Mexico's local market while Canada and the U.S. sales have grown in their local markets from 1993 to 1996. Prior to NAFTA, in 1993 Canada and U.S. Ford exports to Mexico accounted for only 3% of the Mexican market. It's worth noting though that the Mexican market shrank its sales 42% from 1993 to 1996. On the other hand, Mexican Ford exports to the U.S. and Canada remained around 1% of their markets even though the Canadian and U.S. market sales grew 8% in the same period (
Work Force
In 1996 Ford employed 226,000 people world wide, of which 84% were American employees, nearly 8% were Canadian and almost 8% were Mexican. Since the implementation of the NAFTA, employment has grown at around 10% in the three countries (
Most Important Products
In 1995 profits were very low in Ford's auto business, but the truck business was booming, especially in Canada and in the U.S. "the trend to trucks is good for Ford.
By the year 2000 half the vehicles sold in the U.S will be trucks, up from 43% today, and in Ford's case trucks will account for 60% of sales" (Flint: 44).
Truck sales for the Big Three show a very encouraging trend. Ford, Chrysler and GM registered from 1982 until 1995 a continuously increasing trend on the proportion of cars-trucks sold in their markets. Clearly, this trend can be seen as more encouraging for Ford's growing truck market, while in 1990 the firm registered for this product a proportion of around 50% of the total car sales and has gone up in 1995 to around 75% of the total car sales. Ford's principal competitor on this specific product is Chrysler who registered since 1991 a greater proportion of their total vehicle sales due to truck sales (Auto Case 2000).
Ford's U.S. market share registered at 26.3%. Today Ford has a wide range of products, although the most popular and profitable products are the Explorer and the big F series pick-up trucks. Other products include Taurus, which is priced in the middle segment; Expedition, which is one of Ford's big utility vehicles; Escort, which is just a "break even" product and the Windstar, as a minivan truck (Flint: 44). Ford is also planning to put on the market some new models, which are going to meet different customer needs, for example, a smaller utility vehicle to compete with the Japanese models, which, may be produced in Europe. Also, a smaller Jaguar and a related but probably lower –priced Lincoln version is coming too (Flint: 44).
In December 1997, Ford Canada's total unit sales were mostly a compound of trucks. Trucks accounted for 81% of the total units sold, and cars accounted for just 19%. Also a very important increase in sales took place from 1996 to 1997 when these products grew up 71.2% and 5.9% respectively. Canada's strong truck performance takes place with three truck types: Explorer, Windstar, F-Series pickups and Lincoln Navigator (
Plant Locations
Ford Motor Company has its Mexican headquarters in Mexico City, which was established as a national company in 1925. To this day there are three assembly plants around the country. The first plant to be established is the Cuautitlan industrial complex plant, constructed in 1964, which operates as an assembly and stamping plant. Its actual production concentrates on Ford Contour, Mercury Mystique, F-150, F-250 and F-350.
The second plant to be constructed in Mexican territory is the Chihuahua engine plant, which initiated its operations in 1983 and actually concentrates its production on the modern 1-4 Zetec motor. The last plant to be established in Mexican territory is the Hermosillo stamping and assembly plant in 1986 and is actually considered one of the most modern plants around the globe. This plant concentrates its production on the Mercury Tracer and Ford Escort, which are built to be exported to the United States and Canada (
The total production capacity of these three plants accounts for approximately 350,000 vehicles and motors per year. Ford de Mexico exports most of the vehicles and motors it produces in its Mexican plants. In order to satisfy national demand though, it imports other vehicles and motors produced in Ford's Canadian and U.S. plants (Escort, Mustang, Sable, Grand Marquis, Lincoln Town Car, Lincoln Continental, Explorer, Windstar, Expedition, Ranger and the new F-150 LOBO). In 1996, Ford de Mexico produced 213,000 vehicles and 215,000 motors, of which 84% were produced for exporting and 16% for domestic market. As well, it sold 66,000 vehicles in Mexico obtaining with it 20% market share. Nowadays, Ford de Mexico has 130 dealers in the country and employs more than 17,000 people throughout the country.
Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited was established in Walkerville, Ontario (now Windsor), on August 17, 1904 with 17 employees. Canada's headquarters is in Oakville, Ontario, near Toronto, as is the Oakville Assembly plant, which produces the Ford Windstar Minivan, and the Ontario Truck plant producing the F-Series pickups. Another plant is the St. Thomas Assembly plant situated near London, Ontario that concentrates its production on Ford Crown Victoria and Mercury Grand Marquis. In addition to these assembly plants, there are other plants such as the 3.8-liter motor and v-6 engine producer Essex Engine Plant situated in Windsor, Ontario.
Aluminum engine parts are produced in the Essex Aluminum Plant and the iron castings at the Windsor Casting Plant (
info/international/FATWCana.html). Its full production capacity is almost half a million vehicles, accounting cars and trucks. The Oakville plant builds the Windstar Minivan and exports its product to 40 countries. In addition, the Windsor and Oakville plants export their products worldwide (
Canada has accounted for the highest total of vehicles made outside of the United States. Since 1996, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ford Motor Company, the company will increase gains in the Canadian market. (
) It took Canada 72 years to make their first ten million cars. However, they were able to make the second ten million cars during the next twenty years, and it has introduced 10 new vehicles within the last 2 years. The company has also invested more than $5 billion in the last sever years in its Canadian operations.
Now a wholly owned subsidiary of Ford Motor Company, the company is gaining more market share in the Canadian market. For the first time they have become leaders in truck sales with a 22.9% market share. The sales for cars and trucks combined have been of 275,432 (5.2% increase). Taurus, Mustang, F-Series, Ranger, Club Wagon and Econoline Van were segment leaders. The Escort, Contour and Sable cars and the Windstar Minivan set calendar-year sales record (
United States
As mentioned earlier in the history of the company, Ford Motor Company was born in the United States and actually is considered between the "Big Three" automotive companies in the world, sharing that title with Chrysler and General Motors. Ford U.S. is the center of the corporation and has the largest concentration of assembly, stamping, and other different types of plants that the company has. The concentration of plants throughout the American territory consists of 37 manufacturing plants, including 15 assembly and 13 powertrain operations, 25 research and engineering facilities, more than 20 automotive parts distribution centers and hundreds of offices. The states of Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri hold the majority of Ford's manufacturing and assembly operations in the United States.
In addition, Dearborn, Michigan is the central concentration for all of the research and engineering activities. Ford U.S. with all of these listed activities provides job opportunities to more than 166,000 employees and more than 5,300 Ford and Lincoln-Mercury dealers in the United States. (
1965 Canada-US Auto Pact
The 1965 Auto Pact, by establishing a conditional duty-free manufacturing environment, led to a full-integrated Canada-US automotive sector, with efficient world-scale plants. The Auto Pact combined duty-free access to the US market based on origin with conditional access to the Canadian market based upon Canadian assemblers meeting performance requirements (Johnson 89). Ford has been integrating its auto production within Canada and the US since implementation of this agreement.
The Auto Pact's conditionally allowed the US to address alternative industry conditions in the mid-1980s. In 1965 the Big Three dominated the Canadian assembly industry. By the mid-1980s Asian transplants were increasingly becoming a major factor in the North American automotive market. In addition, while in the mid-1960s disparities between Canadian and US industries were such that the US could accept safeguards, by the 1980s Canada's need for safeguards had all but vanished. The US thus wanted revisions to this pact that would lead to them having free, and not provisional, access to the Canadian market (91).
1988 Canada-US FTA
By signing on to the FTA, Canada relinquished its future capacity to use duty remission as a means of assuring performance in Canada in return for the guarantee that duty-free entry to the US market would continue.
The FTA offers duty free entry for Canadian automotive goods to the US market based solely on established rules of origin of 50%. The FTA clearly reinforced Canadian and American integration of the auto sector that had begun in 1965.
Mexico Automotive Industry Pre-NAFTA
The Mexican automotive industry was only partially integrated within the North American automotive industry. Many Maquiladoras were owned by US assemblers and parts producers. Most of their production was already exported to the US and Canada. It should also be noted that Mexico's assemblers produced engines in world-scale plants for both the US and Canadian markets (Johnson 93). As an example, the Ford plant at Hermosillo achieved high levels of productivity (93).
Mexico's automotive policy was guided by a series of decrees, beginning in 1962 and climaxing in 1990 with the Automotive Decree. This Decree covered all vehicles except for tractors, buses and large trucks (94). The Decree significantly liberalized Mexican regulations governing the auto industry. Nevertheless, among other loosened restrictions, it stipulated that assemblers maintain positive trade balances and during a transition period which expired for all vehicles by 1993, there was a 40% national value-added requirement (97).
This subjection to a "trade balancing" system obligated Ford to export significantly more than it imported (Ford NAFTA: 1). Moreover, Ford was required to purchase a large percentage of vehicle's content from Mexican owned suppliers which in many instances, did not meet globally competitive sourcing standards in terms of quality or price (1). Consequently, Ford plants in Mexico operated at less than maximum efficiency and exports of cars from the US to Mexico were constrained. The Automotive Decree will be eliminated on a gradual basis by 2004 under the terms of NAFTA (Ramirez 73).
Ford's Response to NAFTA
Ford, along with Chrysler and GM, were key players involved in the negation of free trade in autos between Canada, the US and Mexico. A pivotal Big Three objective achieved in the negotiations was the opening up of Mexico's highly protected automotive market. Mexico was becoming one of the fastest growing auto markets in the world (Hufbauer 37). As a result, achieving enhanced access to this market was a pre-condition for the Big Three's approval of a NAFTA. The automotive provision in the annex to chapter 3 dealing with autos, as they relate to Mexico, outlines in four interrelated parts how increased access was achieved: decrease in import barriers; liberalization of investment laws and regulations; seizing of performance requirements by Mexico; and rules of origin (Weintraub 13).
The Big Three wanted to enhance an already prominent presence in Mexico. After Pemex, they were Mexico's three largest exporters (Hufbauer 37). Ford supported NAFTA because of its allowance for increased regional market access for its automotive products (Ford, Ford Perspectives: 3). This would permit Ford to establish plants in Mexico more efficiently.
Ford would be able to consolidate all production regionally rather than country by country; thus permitting Ford to enhance its competitiveness by gearing production to meet the needs of North America and not specific country markets. Ford would be able to select production sites and scale based on business factors rather than the need to locate behind tariff or other trade barriers. Finally, Ford believed that their firm's competitiveness and viability would be impacted in such a way that there would not be a large migration of production or jobs to Mexico
(Ford, NAFTA: 1).
The most pugnacious matter in the automotive negotiations was establishing the rules of origin. For automotive goods, Chapter 4 lays out how the regional value content that makes a vehicle qualified for free trade under the NAFTA will increase in two steps, to 62.5% after 2002 for passenger autos and light trucks and engines and transmissions for such vehicles, and to 60% for other vehicles and parts.
Ford's support of high regional value content rules was attributable to their desire to discourage non-US manufacturers from developing autos with low North American content in Mexico for export to the US. NAFTA would thus effectively defuse any potential for Mexico to become an "export platform" to the US for Japanese, particularly, and other foreign-based producers. Ford would now be able to protect its position within North America while forcing Japan and other foreign-based producers to do more sourcing in North America.
Finally, Ford expected that the slow phase out of the domestic content requirement would ensure that any new auto assembly firms establishing operations in Mexico would have to encounter the same obstacles as existing firms already established in North America must confront.
Ford's Strategic Plans
Prior to the NAFTA, Ford Motor Company's United States and Canada sales in Mexico were less than 1%. However, as a result of the NAFTA, sales have continued to climb with 1996 sales reaching 11 percent of the Mexican market. NAFTA then continues to help shape Ford's vision for its global operations and will act as a springboard for deeper market penetration into Latin America.
In addition, pre NAFTA Ford had to assemble its vehicles in Mexico if it hoped to meet the "trade balancing system" that required Ford's Mexican operations to export more than it imported. Ford was also required to use a high percentage of Mexican parts suppliers in its vehicle assembly. Often the Mexican suppliers did not meet global standards, which further compromised Mexican vehicle productions (Ford Perspective, Trade Policies).
The NAFTA has changed these production inefficiencies and helped to open the door for global economies of scale in terms of consolidating Ford's manufacturing operations to help lower costs while maintaining quality of products. In that sense the NAFTA is integral to Ford's strategy. Without the NAFTA Ford would not be able to reduce its vehicle platforms and establish cross-functional flexible matrices for its global operations. Ford's strategy has included consolidation of operations in specific Mexican plants. Prior to the NAFTA, "Ford of Mexico produced four separate car and truck lines at its Cuautitlan plant…"(Ramirez). Since the trade agreement, Ford now manufactures Contour/Mystique and F-Series Trucks at this facility.
Ford has also made major plant upgrades investing up to $60 million at the Cuautitlan plant alone in order to improve its production capabilities. Furthermore, Ford slated $450 million in 1995 to "retool plants and boost production of components" in a variety of other Ford de Mexico operations (Reed & Malkin).
Prior to the NAFTA, the United States and Canada had already forged a bilateral trade agreement, and under that agreement both countries had experienced explosive trade growth. Clearly though, NAFTA reached Ford in Canada with more than $700 million being invested in their Oakville, Ontario facility to produce Windstar minivans…"and another $1.5 billion to upgrade its Ontario truck and engine plants" (Symonds). In addition, the NAFTA has been instrumental in moving other operations to more productive regions throughout North America. The Contour's automatic transmission parts are produced in Ohio. Side benefits to the NAFTA include increased trilateral employment within the Ford Motor Company (See Appendix: Table 6).
Concerning the environment, NAFTA side benefits have included maintaining United States environmental emission control standards in all Ford vehicles throughout the trilateral countries. In addition, prior to the NAFTA, Ford invested millions in upgrading Mexican manufacturing facilities to improve their emission and water treatment facilities. All of which continues to demonstrate the positive spill over effects of the NAFTA in a variety of areas.
The North American Free Trade Agreement then has acted as a catalyst for change within the Ford corporate structure. It has contributed to this new Ford 2000 vision in global manufacturing; centralized leadership coupled with decentralized implementation. Clearly, the NAFTA has served Ford well in its restructuring initiative.
Ford 2000
Rather than being a single cause of massive change throughout Ford's infrastructure, NAFTA represented an additional indicator of the world's shift towards freer trade. In order to remain competitive in this new environment, Ford realized that it would have to become a much leaner, flexible organization.
As a result, the Ford 2000 strategy was developed and adopted by the company. The phrase "Ford 2000" embodies the company's vision of being a global firm and the world's lowest-cost volume producer while creating the highest-quality vehicles ("Trotman Forces Ford 2000 into UAW Negotiations" 4).
The vision came from the thinking that "Ford needed to be much leaner, faster, and more competitive, eliminating duplication of effort and spreading best practices around the world". As a result, Ford has reorganized its structure and began pursuing a total cost management strategy ("Auto Operations Q&A" 2). If Ford is successful with this approach, the company will:
Offer more and better vehicles
Increase its global market share.
Become the world's largest vehicle maker
Increase profits substantially (Connelly1).
Ford 2000's Approach to Reorganization
Ford's new approach to reorganization seeks a balance between centralized strategic leadership and decentralized implementation. Centralized leadership and creating a single global profit center (i.e., merging Ford's European and North American Automotive Operations into a single entity named Ford Automotive Operations) allows top management the flexibility to manage the company strategically and steer its course into the 21st century. Through centralized decision making, Ford can consider the broadest range of market opportunities and subsequently gain the most efficient use of the product development dollar by creating products to satisfy the consumer needs in multiple markets ("Auto Operations Q&A" 2).
Decentralized implementation allows Ford to take advantage of the corporation's centralized strengths as well as the flexibility and rapid responsiveness of much smaller companies. Several layers of management have been eliminated in order to improve communications and encourage empowerment. Empowerment represents a critical component to the new structure since there simply is no longer time for managers to micro-manage. The "span of control" has now become the "span of empowerment" ("Auto Operations Q&A" 2).
Ford 2000's Total Cost Management
Ford 2000's "heart" lies in Total Cost Management (TCM)—a system designed to eliminate excess costs in every aspect of the corporation. Engineering personnel has been reduced by 30%. Hundreds of dollars are being cut from vehicle material costs. The company now uses one process to develop cars rather having each engineering center operate under a different process. Such cost reductions help the company become leaner and more competitive (McElroy et al 100).
However, the biggest benefits have been seen within purchasing operations. In 1996, Ford reduced its overall costs by US$2 billion, primarily by lowering its total purchasing bill. In addition, cuts across the board in 1997 equaled US$2.5 billion (McElroy et al 101). Purchasing has become a global enterprise rather than a regional function. Ford has reduced its supplier base by cutting its number on non-production suppliers from 58,000 to 28,000 and plans to reduce that number to 5,000 by the year 2000 (McElroy et al 101). Ford plans to focus on a small group of suppliers that will earn "full-service" status.
More importantly, Ford will help these suppliers develop their R&D, design, and engineering abilities so that they can meet Ford's specific criteria. Ford also consolidated its internal supplier operations into one organization called Automotive Parts Operations, which operates as a self-funding profit center (McElroy et al 101).
V. Conclusion
Ford Motor Company continues to reinvent itself in the face of our changing global economy. By consolidating its operations, streamlining its production platforms, and utilizing CAD systems worldwide, Ford is able to meet the needs of a globally diverse marketplace. Clearly, the North American Free Trade Agreement is but one element in Ford's overall strategic plan to meet these global demands.
"Automotive Industry Registers Recovery in Domestic Sales but Slump in Exports in First Quarter of 1997" Mexico Economic News & Analysis on Mexico. April 23,1997.
Auto Operations Q&A." Ford Motor Company 1994 Annual Report
Connelly, Mary. "Ford 2000: A Cultural Revolution." Automotive News. 31 October 1994: 1.
Flint, Jerry. "Ford´s Future". Forbes. July 29, 1996 : 44,45.
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thanks for that post. Finally hard proof my friends cant deny!!!!!
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May 30, 2008, 02:21:51 AM »
This woman is a real patriot, and there are too few in congress. I wonder if the camera panned around if there would be many faces there to see. Maybe Ron Paul, and Dennis Kucinich. Most of the folks in that body don't want to know, or don't want to admit they know. They are traitors.
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I applaud Congresswoman Kaptur for doing this let's see the naysayers explain away this.The one thing I'm worried about is when Kaptur comes up for reelection TPTB will do everything they can to force her out of politics much like the neo-cons tried with Ron Paul.
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We need to get some more media attention to stories like this.
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Now look at how long she waited to blow the whistle ? They're all in the cesspool together. What an adult life we have to live in, it's insane ?
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Quote from: bigron on May 28, 2008, 05:22:13 AM
America is in un-chartered waters
Imagine This! - Super NAFTA
You Think NAFTA, CAFTA & the Economy is Bad Now? Wait...
The guy that uploaded that bit says his youtube account has a lot more stuff to offer than that vid alone.. I promised him I'd spread that fact so here I am telling you all to go check out "rodneykingman"'s vids.. cheers and Godspeed.
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A great map of the NAFTA Superhighway can be found in this article:
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Kaptur is the truth here
It doesn't matter who in the hell gets elected, both parties support this.
I'm not a fan of either party, I'm an American and a partiot and thank god ron paul gets my vote.
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One of the organizations that is a "member" is called "Alliance Texas"
and in little tiny letters it says.....
a Perot Company
And here he was talking about how NAFTA was terrible! RAN ON THAT! He was a fraud. A complete and total fraud.
As Alex would say...
"It's all over, folks."
Matthew 5:37
But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no: and that which is over and above these, is of evil.
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We are near 10 trillion in federal debt, 5 trillion in state government debt, 4 trillion consumer credit card debt, 1 trillion trade deficit a year....Just how in the hell can the world allow this crap currency to even be used for toliet paper let alone for goods and services? I moved most of my investments into silver
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i am soo happy that there are politians like her who actually care about America!!!
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Quote from: Gator on June 01, 2008, 07:28:32 AM
Now look at how long she waited to blow the whistle ? They're all in the cesspool together. What an adult life we have to live in, it's insane ?
I agree with Gator on this one, If she (and others in "congress") knew about this years ago, why the hell did they vote for and PASS Nafta,Cafta and all the other anti-american "free trade" agreements?They are not only in the same cesspool together, they are applying suntan lotion to each others backs while their country is dying!
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Here is a link to some creations using my latest filters. Please note that the filters aren't uploaded to the Filter Forge site yet, but hopefully they will be shortly. I will be adding more, so just click on the URL below for updates.
Any filters that are not tiled can be, by opening them in photoshop, selecting the image, clicking on edit and choosing define pattern.(easy) Hope you like my designs http://flic.kr/p/bDuHtS |
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Congratulations on the works you have on your Flickr account, and I like them are well done.
Specially like this one http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevincz/7131403339/ and this http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevincz/6988302290/ and this too http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevincz/6988707220/ |
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I have just seen that your filter "tiles and stained glass" is more than it seems at first and when changing the settings there is more to discover. Now I discovered preset 13 and have seen that this is what you used to make this one here below, well done.
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