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JFL42: Marc Maron at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Much has changed for Marc Maron since he was last in Toronto.
In 2010, he played the downtown Yuk Yuk's club to a small contingent of early-adapting listeners of his WTF podcast and in-the-know comedy nerds. What a difference three years make: three million downloads a month, a new book and tv series, and two shows Tuesday at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre for JFL42.
Things are good. Despite that, he was the same angst-ridden, self-examining Marc.
"I still have the same brain," he told the first of his two audiences.
It's a good thing, because that brain still supplies Maron with exactly what makes his standup what it is: hyper-aware examinations of his own hostilities, judgments, and obsessions.
It all seems to co-mingle just fine with his happiness.
"I'm not self-loathing, I'm not hating on myself that much, so my brain decided to subcontract that job out," he said.
He was referring to his long-term relationship, which he told audiences (in both this show and in his late-night guest spot on the Alternative Show) is going through a rough patch. He said he's unsure if his wedding is still going to happen, but for the sake of the show, "we'll go ahead as if it is."
His fiancé has been picking on him, he said, as he recounted an evil and hilarious way she recently insulted him using a sound effect. But she's adamant about having a baby, an ongoing possibility that he's shared with his listeners.
"If I cum within a foot of her vagina, I have to keep an eye on it," he said. "I don't want a finger baby."
Maron's material can appear to be about any subject on the surface, but it's always really about the inner workings of his own mind. For example: his bit about auto-erotic asphyxiation isn't just a comment on or observation of the practice. It's an analysis of his own hypothetical attempt to try it, laying out in great detail exactly how his inner monologue would lead him to failure should he ever try.
Maron coined a word for one of his commonly-felt emotions: "contempathy," the feeling of instant hatred of a person that switches to empathy upon the realization that they're "sad". He illustrated the definition with his story about judging a man's choice of clothing at the Montreal edition of Just For Laughs, and then noticing a large scar on his head, presumably from a surgery.
He recapped the events of his first two marriages, outlined his fascination with Hasidic Jews and hatred of atheists, and told a candid story about getting cured of hypochondria after one too many visits to the urologist.
If he's stressed about his success, he isn't talking about it on stage. His main external complaints are the minor career trappings, like getting a replacement toothbrush from a hotel while he's on the road, or when he has to "get up early and enter a 'morning zoo' situation."
Maron's colour commentary of his own internal monologue remains sharp, uncompromised by his career success. He seemed genuinely touched by the standing ovation he received from the early show crowd, and even returned to sign a few items for fans in spite of the venue's tight turnover time.
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Discussion in 'GoldBase' started by Anonymous, Jul 1, 2011.
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Yes indeed, like the sign on the hill says "welcome to hollywierd mexico."
On the Colbert Report tonite... journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, a gay undocumented immigrant who found work in the U.S. and by virtue of paying income taxes, declared himself to be an American without the right papers.
http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/thu-july-14-2011-jose-antonio-vargas
http://multiamerican.scpr.org/2011/...ican-i-just-dont-have-the-right-papers-video/
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I advocate compilation of Jeff Stone's misdeeds on an easy-to-access website as a response to Stone's "split the state" proposal.
Reporters nowadays are underpaid and lazy, and when there's officially-sourced material that's easy to quote they often will. Right now, virtually none of the media reports has taken Stone's proposal much deeper than the curiosity level.
Providing text of past critical coverage of Jeff Stone from articles of the Riverside Press Enterprise, as well as images of official settlements of investigations from the Pharmacy Board and the Fair Political Practices Commission to back that up, will help the media and interested citizens to think twice before they generate additional publicity (or financial donations) for this self-serving sleazoid. Collecting this information in one place like a simplified easy-to-read "Jeff Stone critical website" would enable that, as information now is spread out in various bulletin board threads and 2010 election commentary sites.
Ultimately this will help the cause of Anonymous, as it will help everyone to recognize Jeff Stone as a scam artist who denigrated citizen activists in exchange for the cash of cultists. Stone's efforts to fund his personal ambition, may also not be as successful when his next group of would-be suckers learn of the character of who they are dealing with.
It's called a "dead agent pack".
JohnnyRUClear, Jul 16, 2011
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Anonymous said: ↑
No U, old fart. Jeff Stone is an oily, smarmy, low-level politician that enjoys being the center of attention and being cozy with a cult. He is not the Anti-Christ. Members of the public don't need to be "made aware of his background". It's been publicized often in the past. TomVorn has a record of turning ant hills into mountains.
Nobody said he was the anti christ, you git. And yes, your history tells a story about the kind of person you are. Even a dumb twat posting anonymously should know that, as it applies to Scientology as well.
Run along and stay the fuck off my lawn.
xenubarb, Jul 16, 2011
treadmill?
Aww, I kept waiting for his dress to get caught in the machinery. I apparently speak Arabic now...I could swear he's yelling TURN IT OFF! TURN IT OFF!
Anonymous Member
Triumph said: ↑
When will it End??? lets look into the crystal ball shall we
instead of becoming a state-the Republic of Scientologia is created ...with Jeff Stone declared as its puppet dictator
Scientologia is a PERFECT name for Stone's plan.
Anonymous, Jul 16, 2011
I need some help - whilst I am not as in depth into the farce that scientology is - I definitely know it is a load of crap - with that being said - I really am into the corruption that lies within scientology and our local head case - Jeff Stone. I moved to Riverside county recently and am appalled at what Stone does for this group - along with all of his other corruption - and it seems to have leaked down into my local city government ....... with players I didn't know it existed until now that support scientology and I don't need it here too - help!
00anon00 Member
Were you told to come to us?
00anon00, Jul 18, 2011
LOL...this isn't a recent thing, it's been ongoing for years. Corrupt? Riverside? O hailz yeah. Drop by one of the board of supervisors meeting and hook up with some of the people who often get up to speak. There's a very small yet persistent group that shows, but they're all really old and need someone to pass the torch to. These folks have deep knowledge of Riverside politics that goes back decades.
An0n0nym0us said: ↑
We're not hard to find...
Supervisor's latest crazy idea
By CARL LOVE
Special to The Press-Enterprise
Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone and controversy? Tell me something I don't know, like it gets hot here in the summer. Stone has been on the local political scene going on two decades, and it's been pretty much nonstop headlines.
It started when he opposed an incentive package for a Wal-Mart in Temecula and people said he was crazy. So crazy that the project was rejected and now the Temecula mall is there instead. Hmm, maybe he had a point. Then Stone got really outrageous and threw a fit over Jeff Gilooly wanting to change his name to Jeff Stone. Now you're thinking, Gilooly, what was his 15 minutes of fame again? Remember ice skaters Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan and the guy (Tonya's husband) involved in the knee bashing of the latter? Oh yeah.
Anyway, Jeff Stone came out for all the Jeff Stones in the world -- OK, he came out for himself -- and said don't you dare change your name to mine. He got lots of attention, even made the late night TV funnies. Then there's his latest idea: that California should split into two states. Stone said he was serious, that California has too many problems. Stone's got a point there, but does that mean people with an acne problem get their head cut off? Maybe if they just give it some time, it'll clear up. Just like our state's problems.
His secession idea at Tuesday's Riverside County Board of Supervisors meeting morphed into a proposed statewide forum to talk about what ails California. It would be in October and Temecula City Councilman Mike Naggar has already talked about the possibility of pitching in $10,000 to the idea. It'll be interesting to see how that flies with his colleagues and constituents. Meanwhile, Stone has succeeded in making a name for himself again.
At one point in the mid 1990s -- after he'd submitted something that aired on "America's Funniest Home Videos" and after Stone flew to Oregon to feed the media frenzy about the name change -- southwest Riverside County's most famous politician figured he'd been on national TV five straight weeks. Bashful he's not. Today, Stone acknowledges the Gilooly affair was "a publicity stunt," he says his other ideas are serious proposals that prompt real change.
Think how much better off financially Temecula is today because there's a mall at Winchester and Ynez, rather than a Wal-Mart, Stone notes. Murrieta paid a price too, considering the mall would have gone to that community instead in the Golden Triangle at the 15 and 215. Murrieta, it's all Jeff Stone's fault. So, call him crazy, but Stone the proud patriot says some also considered the Founding Fathers crazy for daring to separate from England. I think that turned out OK.
Does this mean Stone has history on his side? Now that's funny.
http://www.pe.com/columns/carllove/stories/PE_News_Local_S_slove17.407148e.html
http://www.solidprinciples.com/blog/
but I'm not going to download it
Anonymous, Aug 13, 2011
Help quash the state's Internet tax law
Aug 13, 2011 -
Help quash the state's Internet tax law. By JEFF STONE. ... Jeff Stone represents the
Third District on the Riverside County Board of Supervisors.
Help quash the state's Internet tax law - Help quash the state's Internet tax law. By JEFF STONE. ... Jeff Stone represents the
Jeff Stone has alot of support on this campaign... has zero to do with Scientology.
Anything lulzy about Jeff Stone has something to do with Scientology, he is there chore boy on the Riverside County Board of Supervisors.
Jeff Stone is a fucking idiot. Just look at his hair.
His opposition to the Internet tax law has nothing to do with Scientology. Ask Californians, in general, what they think about paying even more taxes?
Smurf, Aug 13, 2011
Diablo Member
Smurf said: ↑
STONE = ASSHOLE cubed (to the 3rd degree for you fucking idiots in Co$ who never went to school).
NEWSFLASH TO SEAORGers: School makes your smarter...learning cult speak makes you, well it makes you...TOMMY DAVIS (getting assfucked by an inferior midget)!!!!
Diablo, Aug 13, 2011
Diablo is a funny sob...jus sayn'
I enjoyed the cubed description. So glad 'someone' pointed that out.
Our little friend in Riverside is making news again:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/03/riverside-charges-inmates_n_1075129.html
http://www.wesh.com/r/29727191/detail.html
He was on KFI this morning (and is supposed to be on the Bill Handel show again tomorrow morning) spewing his new plan to make prisoners pay for being in jail. And this one was passed unanimously among the supes.
I can see it now. He gets protesters arrested and convicted on the behalf of the cult and then they have to pay for their own incarceration. I also see how this works on the behalf of the cult - the cult gets people arrested and convicted in the jurisdiction of INT and the prisoner then has to face paying $143/day for their own jail sentence.
When will this troll be stopped????
Anonymous, Nov 9, 2011
RightOn Member
are they out of their fucking minds?
Someone has to look out for the children of these inmates. Or are Stone and his cronies forgetting that people in jail also have children too?
It is evident that Stone an the other dolts could care less about the inmate's families.
If he wants money out of inmates, he can have some of the less dangeous inmates do community service/labor in place of the people who do it now. That outta save a few bucks? Actually it would save Riverside a whole lot of cash. But then I guess that gets into labor unions and insurance and all.
But making inmates pay every day will end of hurting their families. And especially putting liens on their property if they don't pay. What will the family living there do? And why should they suffer? I bet the crime rate goes up, just out of rage! lol!
Now Stone sitting in jail is a different story. And would be a delightful one.
RightOn, Nov 10, 2011
I would think a "Jeff Stone wants to hurt inmate's familie's quality of life and take food out of their kid's mouths AND also their property just to make more money for Riverside" isnt' too far fetched.
Jeff Stone's prison system:
Anonymous, Nov 10, 2011
3rdMan Member
I'm not seeing what he is saying in these articles. It is all overshadowed by the "look at me! look at me! I am somebody!" message he keeps putting out with these publicity stunts.
3rdMan, Nov 10, 2011
xenubarb said: ↑
I was wrong the Purif does look fun! lol
http://www.pe.com/local-news/politi...-members-challenge-supervisors-at-meeting.ece
RIVERSIDE COUNTY: Union members challenge supervisors at meeting
They are going to make the employees pay for their own retirement benefits. The supervisors are looking at doing the same thing themselves but its not final.
00anon00, Nov 10, 2011
LocalSP Member
Stone is probably working towards getting the prison system privatized. And guess what religious cloaked group will then get into the privatized prison business.
LocalSP, Nov 10, 2011
On a serious note, Jeff Stone can't be solely blamed for all that is ailing Riverside County.. evidently, the economy is really hit the county hard, and the Board of Supervisors are doing alot of creative things to generate much-needed revenue...
http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/de...sh/7c/9e/7c9eb45a158401d636384ce18773fac4.jpg
http://www.kesq.com/news/29735310/detail.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/10/riverside-county-california-prisons_n_1085983.html
This may be true, but we all should question his every move and see how it benefits the cult. Mr. Stone doesn't do ANYTHING for the greater good, he always acts when it benefits one of his donors or himself. He keeps coming up with ways to get himself in the headlines, and I suspect he's positioning himself for a new campaign of some sort.
tax the cult that should bring in some revenue
DeathHamster Member
Put him on his own little piece of California, then push it out to sea.
DeathHamster, Nov 10, 2011
LocalSP said: ↑
I thought cult was ALREADY in the prisoin business...
Diablo, Nov 11, 2011
http://www.michaelwilliamscompany.org/documents/contact_request_6.html
Riverside County Supervisor
Jeff Stone
Holiday Fundraiser
Home of Jeff & Regina Stone
33413 Susan Grace Court
Pizza?
Anonymous, Dec 9, 2011
Damn... he hasn't died yet?
Smurf, Dec 9, 2011
Does supporting the dinner include a free intensive?
How intense do you want to get with the ungodly schlub?
Lucky door prize: One free viewing of the Scio Orientation Video.
wonder if any of his Sci buddies are attending?
Second prize: Two free viewings of the Scio Orientation Video.
Maybe he'll get another Harley for Xmas, lol
xenubarb, Dec 9, 2011
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Home Examining The Automotive Industry In Malaysia Economics Essay
Examining The Automotive Industry In Malaysia Economics Essay
The industry I have chosen is the automotive Industry in Asean in particular Malaysia and to go more indepth I took proton as a good case study what is happening to the Malaysian automotive industry.
Why Malaysia?
Malaysia has a "strong driving culture" and "one of the highest penetration rates of cars per capita in the
world" (Bonami, 2005, p. S3), as well as the growing clout of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) markets, Perusahaan Otomobil Nasional Berhad (PROTON) as an appropriate sample
available at (http://www.proton.com)
Brief introduction about proton
The first national car project by Malaysia was undertaken with the establishment of Perusahaan Otomobil Nasional (PROTON) in 1983. The Proton Saga was produces 1985. Proton nowadays produces a number of car models and variants, including the Iswara, Perdana,Wira, Satria, Putra,Waja and most recently, the GEN-2 and Satria Neo. The latest 104 M. Rosli & F. Kari models, as reported, use Malaysian developed engines through collaboration between Proton and its subsidiary, Lotus (United Kingdom) .
Political and economic structures, including cultural attitudes relevant to the business;
According to ( Rasiah, 2005) Malaysia continues to protect its automobile industry against the
conditions in the Trade related Investment Measures (TRIMs)
agreement of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the inclusion of automotives
under the common effective preferential tariffs (CEPT) under the Association of
South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Free Trade Area (AFTA) process has brought
increasing pressure for the removal of localization-based tariff protection of
automotives and parts production in the country
Stimulatory and Protective Measures set by the Malaysian government
The development of the Malaysian automotive industry is heavily depending upon
the undivided support of the government. Various stimulatory and protective
measures, such as investment incentives, a local content policy, and tariff and nontariff
barriers were implemented to stimulate the development of both local
automotive and parts production. Proton in particular is a unique case because of
its status as the first national project.
To date, the largest shareholders in Proton are still government-controlled
agencies, namely Khazanah Nasional Berhad (42.7 per cent), the Employees
Provident Fund (12.6 per cent), and Petronas (9.8 per cent). Temasek Holdings
Pte. Ltd, a Singapore investment merged as a new shareholder with a 5 per cent
Holding ( Rosli.M & KariF 2008).
The government has also provided many incentives under the 1986
Promotion of Investment Act. In particular the Pioneer Status and Investment
Tax Allowance are the two most lucrative tax incentives granted to companies involved
in promoted activities or products that are, from time to time, determined by the
Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI).
In order to help to develop national capabilities in the automobile Industry in a sustainable but competitive way, the Malaysian government initially provided protection, allowing Proton( and other Malaysian car manufacturers) to withstand some early environmental downturns (Todd, 1986). For example, import duties were set at roughly 21% on domestic components, as compared to 40% on the equivalent foreign parts. This implies that there was a substantial difference in price between foreign imported cars and proton cars.
Moreover, PROTON cars required excise duties of only 11%, while foreign
branded automobiles were taxed up to 25%. Further, the authorities demanded car assemblers charge a profit margin of 16 to 17% to avoid price wars (Zafar A. & Humpreys J. 2008). This all resulted into that Proton was totally protected in any kind of way of the way to potential success was predetermined in Malaysia.
Economic structure & Cultural attitudes
In Malaysia there is general consensus that the automobile industry
is one of the drivers of world economic growth and has the potential to shape "how we make things . . . , how we work . . . , what we buy, how we think and the way we live"(Womack, Jones, & Roos, 1990, p. 11). Therefore the Malaysian economy has always been heavily depending upon the automobile industry or product which are complementary to that, such as petrol in which Malaysia has one of the biggest oil( Petronas) producing companies in Asia.As mentioned earlier a strong driving culture exists in Malaysia and owing a car is culturally considered as a status symbol of wealth and prosperity.
Moreover, the plan has been since the 1970's to turn Malaysia into the League of Developed Nations under the visionary leadership of Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, and was introduced in a national development policy document entitled Vision 2020(Zafar A. & Humpreys J. 2008)
This is important, from a economical points of view as Malaysia has not
gone through the usual industrial stages, which implies highly skilled, labor-intensive to mass production (semi skilled, limited products) to multi skilled, mass customization (Simpson, Sykes, & Abdullah, 1998).
Nature of international trade in ASEAN, now and historically (say ten years ago);
Currently, Asean is near to create an integrated economic community that will free movements of goods, services, investment, capital and skilled labor within the 10 Asean countries. An AEC characterized by a single market and production base allows for economies of scale, investment flows and building business linkages and network to promote further commerce.
The future looks bright for Asean due to fully rebound of the economic crisis. It is expected that Asean private demand picks up, export will increase and social safety will be more enhanced.
However, the Economic Community pillar has introduced at AEC scorecard, which list down the measures to be undertaken and the achievements to date. Thus, far Asean only has a 75.5% achievement rate for the 2008/2009 measures. Asean has to do a number of things if it is to achieve its goal of building an AEC by 2015.
This current year exports of Asean are expecting to rise between 4.9% and 5.6 % after a 1.5% growth in 2009.
In the area of services Asean members are close to completing the 7th AFAS package of service commitments covering varying levels of commitments in 65 services
Hub sectors. The service sector of Asean received the highest amount of FDI, accounting for more than 50% of total Asean's FDI.
The sign are good and Asean will see a further increasing growth this year and currently capital flows are increasing, inflation remains low and manageable and Asean currencies appreciate slightly versus the Euro and US$.
Since the adoption of the AEC blueprint in 2007, significant progress has been made towards achieving the AEC in 2015.
In Janaury 2010, The Asean-6 achieved zero tariffs covering 99& and for the CLMV 98% and at 0.5 % tariff rates of the total tariff covering under the common effective preferential tariffs for asean free trade area(CEPT-AFTA).
Also in the same month Asean saw the realization of Asean-China and Asean-Korea free trade agreements and the commencement of the implementation of the Asean- Australia-New Zealand free trade agreements and Asean India free trade agreement.
Since 2000 Asean exports rose from US$68 billion to US$162.5 billion in 2009. Asean imports of services from the world market has also expanded markedly, of similar trend and magnitutude as exports, increasing two-fold from US$ 86.6 to US$ 180.4 billion in 2009
In investment, Asean has witnessed a steady increase in intra-Asean FDI flows accouting for 18.2% ( US$ 10.8 billion) of total Asean FDI ( US$ 59.7 billion) inflows in 2008, compared with a share of 13.82% in 2006. For the same period, total FDI inflows increased by 8.59%.
Source: Asean Roundtable 2010. Achieving the asean economic growth 2015: Challenges for Member countries 29th April 2010. Asean's Readinesss in achieving the Asean economic community 2015. Pushpanathan Sundram
Regional government's attitude towards international trade and investments, both outward and inward;
The ASEAN Free Trade Agreement (AFTA) is a regional free trade agreement among Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand,the Philippines, Indonesia, Brunei, Vietnam, Cambodia,Laos, and Myanmar. The ten participating countries agreed to develop a free trade area that would become a single market with more than 550 million potential consumers (Bonami, 2005). An integrated ASEAN would be the eighth-largest automobile market, with 1 million new car sales each year. With projected growth trends, it has the potential to actually become the fourth largest auto market, with as many as 2.2 million new autosales annually ("Seeking for Bigger Share," 2002).
The creation of the free trade zone in Southeast Asia allowed PROTON greater access to its neighboring countries. While good news from the marketing front, AFTA would also set the stage for greater future competition for which PROTON was inadequately prepared. (Zafar A. & Humpreys J. 2008)
The protective tariff regime, which imposed rates of up to 300% on imported cars and helped PROTON to gain dominate market share has been phased out. In line with AFTA, all but a few import tariffs will be reduced to between 0 and 5% by 2008 (Shameen,2005).
The increasing level of international competition puts the Malaysian firm in a very "vulnerable position" (Savage, 2005, p. 20). With plants, contract assembly, and/or joint ventures in Britain, Italy, Iran, Indonesia, Vietnam, and China (Bonami, 2005),
Although Malaysia's overall automobile sales increased dramatically in 2005, the escalating competition saw PROTON continue its domestic decline (Edwin, 2005). Even
with limited protective barriers still in place, the firm's Malaysian market share had declined from roughly 70% to 45% in the previous five-year period (Burton, 2005).
In response, PROTON is looking to expand its export efforts within the ASEAN region, the "Mediterranean countries . . . , the Middle East, China, as well as India and
Russia to a lesser extent" (Bonami, 2005, p. S5). While this is clearly a reasonable course of action, as exports account for less than 5% for Malaysian automakers versus
the roughly 60% in Japan (Bonami, 2005), production capacity is still comparatively very small.
PROTON, notwithstanding its earlier intentions of a large-scale strategy, is
simply not big enough to gain economies of scale to compete effectively in the export market against giant global competitors (Shameen, 2005).
The company has also been slow to market itself effectively around the world. Recent years have seen the organization neglect its prior efforts at branding, which has led to a "cheap car" image, even in the domestic market (Savage, 2005, p. 20). According to Rajeev Lochan, general manager, Asia-Pacific, TNS Automotive, "While the short-term challenge is to provide a promotional thrust to models in its current line-up, the long-term requires PROTON
to invest in revamping its aging product portfolio and reposition its brand to reach a wider base of prospective car buyers" (Savage, 2005, p. 20).
The stakes are very high, as approximately 100,000 jobs are on the line when considering PROTON and its component supply chain (Burton, 2005).
By signing the AFTA agreement by the Malaysian government PROTON has to find alternative ways how to compete successfully with all its foreign competitors.
Specify potential areas of intra-regional conflicts (if any) and synergies;
As mentioned before Proton is a classic case of a long-protected
national champion that is struggling as the market opens up and a perfect example of intra-regional conflict with its neighboring countries such as Thailand and Indonesia where the car market is liberalised. In 2002 its domestic market share was more than 60%. That has now fallen to 44% after Malaysia reluctantly agreed with its partners in the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) to drop import barriers on ASEAN cars to around 20%, from up to 300% previously. And the process is just beginning: Malaysia actually fudged the market opening by simultaneously hiking excise taxes on the imported cars. But by 2008 the country has to do away with such sophistry and cut import duties to 5%
The trouble is that Malaysia's politicians and managers have failed to realise how vulnerable
Proton is, says Graeme Maxton, director of automotive research group Autopolis. The Malaysians see it as a world-class carmaker with great export potential;
the reality is that it is too small to survive in a global market dominated by just a dozen huge carmakers. "Proton is off the scale in terms of economies of scale," says Mr Maxton, "and it will slowly die once the market opens up." Hence, I argue that it is that it is undesirable to pursue such a strategy because on the long term this expensive project( proton and the automotive industry in Malaysia) will impose heavy costs on the government.
The establishment of PROTON has to be attributed to the vision of the Malaysian government. The firm successfully positioned itself as the national car and pride of Malaysia, a symbol of its country's accomplishment on the global stage. I agree that government initiation of a national champion (Donnelly et al., 2002) is certainly a powerful force for the vision and subsequent emergence of a developing country. The conflict which might arise is that Malaysia still is not willing to open up its car market completely to protect its own interest.
This might result into intra-regional conflicts between Asean members. Especially between its neighboring countries because there is sufficient expertise available and this can be applied and used at the Malaysian carmarket (Zafar A. & Humpreys J. 2008). This is the key problem that has prevented the government of Malaysia from signing ant bilateral Free Trade Agreements despite several attemps. For example the partnership with Japan in 2006, is called Economic Partnership Agreement is not compared to a fully eligible fta.
Currently in Malaysia the call for liberalization and subsidies faced by industries (automotive) has remained an obstancle to greater integration in AEC.
Synergies regarding the automotive in Malaysia are not available, futher it is difficult to determine the synergies between other automotive industries such as Thailand and Indonesia because the Malaysian automotive industry is a unique example compared to relative liberased automotive markets( Thailan & Indonesia).
Asean Roundtable 2010. Achieving the Asean Economic Community 2015:Challenges for Member countries. 29 April 2010, Singapore.
Towards an Integrated Asian Economic Community. Where is Malaysia? Rajah Rasiah
Application of suitable management model(s) to analyze findings
According to the literature both models of porter can be applied to the Malaysian Automotive industry, however, Porter's diamond also acknowledges the role the governmental forces and luck can play in national competitive advantage in which the 5 competitive forces is lacking. (Sledge, 2005)
Demand conditions
Demand conditions describe the level of domestic demand that Proton faces. Demand conditions depend both on the quantity of demand as well as the sophistication level of consumers in a home market.
In Malaysia, the demand for cars has been risen steadily due to increasing living standards and consumer expenditure. However, the difference between supply in terms of Malaysian cars and foreign cars is substantial ( Due to tariff barriers and special incentives dedicated to Malaysian car manufactures which results in significant higher prices for foreign cars). In fact the Malaysian government can largely influence the demand since most of the Malaysian lack the purchasing power to buy foreign manufactured cars.
Generally, demand conditions are associated with a country's level of economic development.
Malaysia is has been having a sustainable economic growth of an average of 5% per year since the 1980's.
The company has also been slow to market itself effectively around the world. Recent years have seen the organization neglect its prior efforts at branding, which has led to a "cheap car" image, even in the domestic market (Savage, 2005, p. 20).
Thus, the general consensus is Malaysia is that Proton/Malaysian cars are perceived as one of the cheapest car in their segment and this can result that very demanding consumers create an awareness in firms that causes them to focus on the needs and preferences of the consumer.
Also, quantities of demand drive firms to higher levels of efficiency and productivity. Thus, high levels of demand in a nation would drive the firms in that industry to become globally competitive (Sledge, 2005), however this is not applicable yet because Malaysia is still a developing country.
Factors conditions
According to Porter, factor conditions include any factors of production that a firm uses in its businesses. These include the traditional factors of production, this includes manmade structures that facilitate commerce,
Still other factors would be educational and legal systems. Porter classifies these factors into five major categories:
Human resources, physical resources, knowledge resources, capital resources and infrastructure. The more advanced these factors are the more they will enhance the success of businesses located in the country. These factors provide needed inputs and systems that businesses use to gain competitive advantages over their rivals. Without them, firms would have to expend their own resources to provide such structures for commerce and transactions. (Sledge, 2005)
Many of these important factors are still not completely utilized and developed to a certain level. Malaysia automotive industry is lacking most of the important factors such as human resources, knowledge resources many skilled Malaysian labors went abroad due to better labor conditions and highly skilled foreign labor has been brought into the Malaysian automotive industry. In order to expedite the transfer of technology to Malaysia, PROTON was proactive in initiating programs between local vendors and numerous established overseas technical collaborators. By 2002, some 222 collaborative arrangements were in place representing specialized assistance from various regional neighbors (primarily Japan, South Korea, and Chinese Taiwan), as well as Western Europe (Ahmed & Humphreys, 2008)
The Malaysian governments still plays a large role in their own industrial global competitiveness. It has been the initiative of the Malaysian government to set up its own automotive industry and therewith complementary industries will arise( such as car part suppliers). The aimed result was to create an advanced business infrastructure and an emphasis on innovation, however this is still not the case in the Malaysian automotive industry .
Related and supporting industries
This aspect of the model includes the importance of enterprises that indirectly or directly affect the automotive industry. Porter describes these ancillary businesses needed by firms as related and supporting industries. These most often encompass suppliers or distributors that serve the industry at hand. The model proposes that the stronger these industries are the stronger the local industry will be. The underlying assumption is that highly competitive supporting industries will drive the focal industry to be more competitive (Sledge, 2005).
Hypothesis 3: Strong and dynamic related and supporting industries in a firm 's home market will positively impact the firm 's global competitiveness.
PROTON, notwithstandingits earlier intentions of a large-scale strategy, is
simply not big enough to gain economies of scale to compete effectively in the
export market against giant global competitors (Ahmed & Humphreys, 2008)
And according to (ROSLI & KARI, 2008)a research shows that foreign suppliers performed better than local suppliers. Interviews suggest that access to superior technology from abroad is the prime determinant of the inferior performance of local suppliers compared to foreign suppliers. Local firms lack firm-specific advantages that foreign multinational suppliers enjoy
It points to the need for companies and governments to encourage and support ancillary industries to enhance global competitiveness. In both models, this parameter estimate was the second largest and the most statistically significant. This underscores the importance of related and supporting industries in the context of global competitiveness. Without a network, firms can not hope to be worldwide leaders.
Firm strategy, structure and rivalry is the fourth clement in the model. This point on the diamond refers to several key strategic factors that characterize a firm. Strategy describes the types of actions firms utilize to achieve both long-range and short-range goals. These are often either low-cost, differentiation, focus strategies or some combination thereof Other common strategies include growth, maintenance or restructuring activities. Growth
strategies would be associated with higher competitiveness because the ability to pursue growth intemally or extemally would be indicative of overall business health, Stmcture refers to the industry composition.
This describes the degree to which an industry is concentrated or dispersed, competitive or monopolistic, or global or domestic. A more crowded structure would indicate multilevel competition and therefore greater competitiveness.
Rivalry indicates both the number of players and the level of competition among firms in an industry. This could be heated, mid-range, non-rivalries' or somewhere in between. Greater rivalry in an industry would lead a firm to higher levels of competitiveness vis a vis its rivals. Rivalry is thought to be the most comprehensive of the three factors, as it often indicates the underlying strategy and structure of the competitors Thus, a greater number of firm
actions as well as a greater number of competitor responses in the focal industry lead to greater competitiveness of
the firm.
Hypothesis 4: Greater rivalry within a firm s home market will positively impact the firm's global competitiveness
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Patron of Krakow Simon of Lipnica has been canonized
Pope Benedict XVI canonized Blessed Simon of Lipnica in the Vatican on Sunday June 3. During the same celebration another three saints from France, Malta and Holland were canonized reported Dziennik Polski. Canonization is a process in the Roman Catholic Church by which a person is classified as a saint.
Over a thousand pilgrims from the Malopolska region participated in St. Peter?s Square holy mass, including: the President of Poland, Lech Kaczynski, with his wife; the Archbishop of Krakow, Stanislaw Dziwisz; the Arc Bishop of Poland, Jozef Glemp; and the Bishop of Tarnow (Lipnica is under Tarnow church administration) Wiktor Skworc. Holy Father Benedict XVI received the presidential couple in St. Peter?s Basilica after the celebration.
Father Simon is one of Krakow?s patrons, as well as a patron of young academic people, women giving birth and women who have problems delivering during pregnancies.
Saint Simon lived in Krakow in the 15th Century. He was a Polish Franciscan who gave his life for those suffering from the plague. Simon was born in Lipnica Murowana, a small village 60 kilometers from Krakow located in the south of Poland. The exact year of his birth is unknown. It is estimated that Simon was born between the years 1435-1440.
To attend the Jagiellonian University he moved to Krakow in 1454. Inspired by the preaching of the Franciscan St. John of Capistrano, in 1457 Simon asked to be received into the convent of the Friars Minor at the convent of St. Bernardine, in Krakow. He was given the honor of being the first of the Friars Minor to preach at the Wawel Cathedral, the home of Poland?s monarchy in 1463.
The love of Simon for his brothers and sisters was manifested in an extraordinary way during the last year of his life, when an epidemic of plague broke out in Krakow. The city was under the scourge of the disease from July 1482-January 6, 1483. The Franciscans of the convent of St. Bernardine tirelessly did all they could to care for the sick as true consoling angels, informs the Vatican?s Internet service.
Simon held it to be a ?propitious time? to exercise charity and to fulfill the offering of his own life. He went everywhere comforting, giving succour, administering the sacraments and announcing the consoling Word of God to the dying. He himself soon became infected. He suffered the pain of the disease with extraordinary patience and, near his end, expressed his desire to be buried under the threshold of the church so that all could trample on him. Simon died in Krakow on July 18, 1482.
From this date, the cult of the Blessed Simon started developing in the Stradom area (near the Kazimierz district) and at his birthplace.
Simon of Lipnica was beatified by Pope Innocent XI on February 24, 1685. Beatification is a step in the canonization process and it should not be confused with canonization.
Canonization takes place later and only after further study of the Blessed?s life and virtue and the approbation of an additional miracle attributed to his intercession.
At the time of canonization, the Pope declares that the Blessed is among the Saints in heaven and inscribes the person?s name on the canon ? official list of the Church?s Saints.
The cause of Simon?s canonization, taken up by Holy Father Pius XII on the June 25, 1948, has reached its happy ending on Sunday, following the recognition of his heroic virtues and of the miraculous cure which occurred in Krakow in 1943 and attributed to the intercession of the Blessed. The respective Decrees were promulgated by Holy Father Benedict XVI on December 19, 2005 and December 16, 2006.
The thumb of the Saint is placed in the Simon?s chapel at the Bernardines monastery at Stradom Street in Krakow. On April 27, the tomb has been opened for the first time since 1957. 120 capsules with relics have been prepared. The cult of Simon is celebrated in over 100 places, not only in Poland.
The special thankful mass for canonization is planned for July 18 in Lipnica Murowana.
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