...Technology has been playing a big role, perhaps too big a role, in most peoples’ lives and has been rapidly accelerating over time. This technology is incredibly helpful to mankind, and though there are many positive results from technology, there are also many negative results that often get overlooked. These negative results are exemplified in the novel The Feed, in which computer-like devices are installed into peoples’ brains, making life “simpler,” at least for those who can afford it. Moreover, the negative results of technology shown in the Feed include encouraging people to not educate themselves or be lazy, being condescending of humans or morally unethical, and having one’s mind be controlled. Though there are many other negative...
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...1. Why is the plant’s production load imbalanced? What countermeasures can be taken? The plant’s imbalance is mainly due to the demand of the market of Tri Star Feeds products. The sudden change of product mix and volume forecasts at the beginning and middle of the month, plus the fact that the dealers always give the bulk of their orders in the second half of the month gives a lot of challenge to the Plant’s Production/Capacity Planning. Since the nature of their ingredients, animal feeds have a limited shelf life, which is estimated to be a maximum of four weeks after production. Maintaining large inventories of finished goods is risky. There are lots of countermeasure strategies that can be done in Tri Star Feeds; one of them is to increase productivity of the plant in order to meet peak demand. However, increasing the productivity level would incur a large amount of investment for the company, wherein most cases, companies tend to avoid incurring a huge investment cost if there are still other methods which are more cost efficient. Also investing in an additional plant might not be the best option since the Plant Capacity Utilization is only peak during the third and fourth of the month. During the first and second half of the month, Plant Capacity utilization can’t even reach half of its potential capacity. Another countermeasure that they can do is to build up a finished goods inventory in the first half of the month in preparation for the large demand in the second...
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...‘Feed’ by M.T. Anderson depicts a modernised future, where basic social value and attitudes seem to be crumbling under the changes that technology brings about. The text challenges out social perception of a trans-humanistic utopia, as it explores ideas such as isolation, over-dependance of technology and deterioration of humane common sense, maturity and intelligence. ‘Feed’ illustrates a satirical representation of modern youth, delves into the reality of evolving technology and darkens the lines that separate Isolation is a theme that the text subtly presents through the use of first person point of view. The author conveys the protagonist’s views on his friends and the world around him as disconnected and disinteresting, *QUOTE*, he is often left questioning many aspects of his social relationships. “I get lonely at party’s, but its worse when I leave. The feed tells me this is the music you heard, this is the music you missed”. This highlights the ‘mental invasion’ of technology as it examines and probes his insecurities. The use of 1st POV helps to add a degree of psychological depth to the story’s robotic atmosphere, which helps to reinforce the ideas of isolation and disconnection as well as Titus’s mental anguish. ‘Feed’ also explores ‘trans-humanism’ and the over-reliance that society has on modern technology. These ideas illustrate the negative affects of evolving technologically on a societal level.The author conveys over-dependence on technology leads to the...
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...‘Create Page’ button on the top right Choose the category most suitable for your business and complete your address and contact details Select an engaging and relevant profile picture which will represent your business all across Facebook Complete the ‘About’ section to describe your business, products and services Select a unique URL for your business by visiting www.facebook.com/username Use the ‘Build Audience’ option to start building your fan base by inviting your personal contacts, employees and customers to like your Page Be Found on News Feed News Feed is the home page on Facebook where people see updates from the friends and businesses they are connected to and spend 40% of their time. To ensure your business can be found on News Feed you can: Plan out your Page posts in advance, aim to post at least 1-2 times per week Include videos and images to drive engagement with your fans, making your posts more likely to show in News Feed Promote important posts to fans and friends of fans across Facebook Be Found on Nearby and Graph Search The Nearby feature on the Facebook mobile app allows people to find Places that are close to them by filtering by business category. To make sure your business can be found on Nearby you can: Ensure you have selected the accurate ‘category’ for your Page Verify that your location and contact information is up to date and...
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...company is ethical or not has definitely been one that has been under great debate. There are some individuals that feel it is just another tool to give the government as well as other people, in general, an avenue to spy on the majority of our population with. It collects data and stores it all for what reason? Are you a Facebook user? Why do you use it? The article, "Experimental Evidence of Massive-scale Emotional Contagion Through Social Networks" published last week in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), is an example how the masses can be purposely swayed. As summarized in this article, Facebook conducted an experiment in which it manipulated nearly 155,000 users news feeds (Table 1). They wanted to see if, by manipulating these users news feeds, whether the users’ emotions would be effected. The company’s research including this massive number of users included funneling positive posts from friends to one group and negative posts to another to see how the positive versus negative posts affected user responses. Max Masnick, a researcher with a doctorate in epidemiology, quoted in the article, "I do human-subjects research every day". He continues to stick with his opinion that the structure of the experiment displays that there was no informed consent - a key element of any studies on humans. "As a researcher, you don’t get an ethical free pass because a user checked a box next to a link to a website’s terms of use. The researcher...
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...‘The Watermelon Feed’, the title of chapter two in the book Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger begins by taking place in the Odessa high school cafeteria. The beginning of the chapter starts on a Friday night in the preseason of the Permian High School Panthers football team. Each player takes part in a prayer as well as watching a video of past heroes of the team. The squad is introduced player by player giving the town a preview of who is playing this year. Bissinger infers that Boobie Miles, a young player, has high hopes and dreams but feels great pressure from the team and town to fill the shoes of the past all-star. The author explains that in a few weeks the beginning of the season will begin and the town will observe the team closely. Bissinger explains to the reader that being able to play for a team such as the Permian Panthers is an honor. He states that the boys on the team will endure intolerable pain to have the privilege of playing for the team and being able to wear the Permian Panther beautiful black jersey. The author presents the idea that winning is more important that personal pain or suffering. As such the author tells how boys will use pain pills and about anything they can get their hands on to persist through the game. In addition, the team is starting to feel the pressure and how important each season is to the town as well as the players. Bissinger explains how children are exposed to the atmosphere of football from a young age and encouraged...
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...response or create something similar to a blog. An area which is rarely used in Facebook is the Notes section. It is a writing area which many bloggers find useful. The reason is because Facebook Notes does not have a character limit, as of yet. Users are directed to this area if they have very long status or comment to make. This can be used to someone's advantage if they have a longer post to make and wish to share it with their friends through tagging. At Facebook, users upload and post new photos every day. When uploading pictures, users may need to write a description, which has a 5000 character limit. Once uploaded, few friends will comment about the post, which should give them a character limit of 8000 characters. On news feeds, long posts only show the first 1,200 or so characters. To summarize Facebook character limits: * instant message (chat): 20,000 total * regular message: 5,000 * status: 63,206 * wall posts: 5,000 (truncated at 477...
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...1000+ friends but is in touch with just 5-10% of those friends. She enjoys quick updates from friends about their location and similar stuff, but those posts do not solicit gobs of clicks, likes, or shares. Consequently, she’s not seeing them as much as she wants to. Its irksome for her to have no control over what she sees in her news feed, she is still being trailed by many pages that she no more wants to see or were tagged in some posts that she never wanted to be seen attached to. She accesses facebook mostly via her cell phone and spends around 1-2 hrs daily just to check on updates unlike in the past where she used it to chat and strike conversations with her friends. She has no problem in navigation while going through the news feed, she feels it’s very intuitive and simple, but it’s not what she wants to see. Moreover, she has hard time interpreting the various functionalities provided by the facebook for example, she wanted to crop her profile picture after she mistakenly uploaded it but she couldn’t and has to delete and upload that picture again. She likes to read movie critiques and fashion but at the same time she does not want her news feed to be teemed with just them and would love to explore new and exciting things. Delving further, she has contextual identities, i.e. she wants many posts or pictures just to be shared with her immediate family members, or few friends but has hard time keeping them that way. She started using social platform to...
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...INDUSTRY PAPER OUTLINE I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This industry paper is generally about a animal feed industry , Tri-star Feeds, Inc. The study will discuss and analyze several factors of the animal feed industry. This industry, TFI are facing a few difficulties in operational and human resource management. Which later on will be further discussed and elaborated. One obstacle the company’s facing is balancing the plant’s production load, due to the plant producing different feeds which takes time and to set up and change over feeds for different animal and variants. Another issue is the shortage supply of quality raw materials and reliability of the adequate quality of raw materials. Orders of raw materials in bulk isn’t really advisable for that the animal feeds have a limited shelf life. Lastly is the need to pre-empt the entry of a disruptive labor organization into the company. Although resolving this issue will be costly and grim, the company has a few opportunities to even out this concern. And they are: customers are loyal and they do not like to switch from one brand to another for the sme batch of animal feeds, the company demands for goods are always high, the companies distribution chain is high and strong within the region, livestock farmers do not like to switch from one brand to another for the same batch of animals. TFI Inc. is attempting to fully comply with the orders of their clients, but due the plants limitation. Orders of Brief description...
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...Wal-Mart Company Analysis By Belton Bates Company Overview Name of Company: Wal-Mart Type of Company: Retail Chain Status in the Industry: Share of the Market 20% of Retail 45% of Toys Fortune 500 Standing 2nd in 2012, 1st in 2011 Sales (US) $446 Billion Number of Employees 2.2 Million (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walmart) Latest Stock Market Quote: http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=WMT&ql=1 As one can see, Wal-Mart has gone up in stock from the previous day by .66. Wal-Mart has also been climbing over the past 52 weeks from 57.57-79.50. The company is in good shape. http://www.macroaxis.com/invest/market/WMT--volatility--WalMart_Stores_Inc As one can also see, Wal-Mart (which is represented in blue) is performing much better than the rest of the retail market (which is represented in red) Recent News and Developments: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/wal-mart-ceos-pay-jumps-205428206.html Recently in the news, Wal-Mart CEO, Mike Duke received a $2.6 million increase in pay. This was due to Wal-Mart’s rising sales despite a nationwide economic slump. Mike Duke has been the Wal-Mart CEO since February 2009, and his base salary was $1.3 million plus possible incentives. To re-ignite its US business, he implemented low prices throughout its stores, and brought back cancelled...
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...Homes for the homeless The U.S. Government defines affordable housing as housing that consumes 30 percent or less of a household's income. Using that definition, millions of people in the United States do not have affordable housing; that number is presently growing .In this day in age there should be affordable housing for the less fortunate. The purpose of the suite of Make Home is to bolster a damaged and fragile economy by helping families who have difficulty making mortgage payments as a result of reduced or lost incomes, lost jobs, and other unfortunate situations that can arise during periods of economic decline that are beyond control such as debilitating illness and death. Started by the Obama administration, the Make Home Affordable program is designed to assist struggling families with a suite of programs, including targeting monthly mortgage payments with the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP), the FHA-backed Home Affordable Modification Program (FHA-HAMP), the Veteran’s Affairs Home Affordable Modification Program (VA-HAMP), the Principle Reduction Alternative (PRA), the Second Lien Modification Program (2MP), and the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Special Loan Servicing program. The homeless epidemic is constantly rising. Worldwide there is an estimate of 100 millon people are homeless worldwide. In the U.S. estimate about 1.37 million of the total homeless population in USA are children under the age of 18. 40% are families with...
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...Decision to breastfeed is a very personal. Breastfeeding topic always elicits strong opinions from family and friends. What matters is the infant getting proper nutrition for his optimal growth and development. The American college of Obstetricians and Gynecologist and American Academy of Pediatrics, to great emphasis on importance of breastfeeding. Every infant and mother is unique and has different challenges. Breast milk provides complete nutrition for infants. It has the perfect combination of protein, vitamins, fats and everything infants needs for its growth and development. Breast milk also contains antibodies that help infants fight off bacteria and viruses. Risk of having allergies and asthma are greatly reduced with breastfeeding. Infants who are exclusively breastfed for the first six months, without any formula tend to have fewer respiratory illnesses, ear infection and bouts of diarrhea. These infants also have fewer trips to the doctor and hospitalizations. Breastfeeding also results in higher IQ scores in some studies. The physical touch, closeness, skin-to-skin touch and eye contact, helps infants to bond with the mother and feel secure. Breastfeeding also linked to health weight gain in infants and fight childhood obesity. As per American Academy of Pediatrics, sudden infant death syndrome, risk of diabetes, obesity and certain cancers can be prevented by breastfeeding. Educating the new mother regarding breastfeeding is imperative, to make sure proper nutriment...
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...SECURING DATA COMMUNICATION FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISE USING CRYPTOGRAPHY ABSTRACT Information protection is one of the most important issues in every domain, especially when we are talking about enterprises. Information safety can be translated into three key terms: integrity, availability and data protection. There is a great number of means used in order to achieve the three objectives simultaneously. The most popular is cryptography because it offers a lot of techniques which nowadays are impossible to fail. In this paper we want to prove their efficiency by comparing the different types of crypto algorithms and by presenting their weaknesses and strengths. In order to maximize the benefits of the crypto techniques, we propose a hybrid approach that combines three crypto algorithms. INTRODUCTION Cryptography is a technique to scramble confidential information to make it "unreadable." It is commonly used in Internet communications to transmit data in secure way. Some potential problems during data communication on networking like unauthorized access, disclosure, interruption, use, modification, inspection, recording or destruction. The main ideas that security system has to respect are: confidentiality, data integrity, availability and authentication. These concepts characterize the data security achievement and must be accomplished by every secure communication that aims to be functional. Most security systems use cryptography because it offers various algorithms and...
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...Kiani Lane and Chelsea Carey October 28th 2015 Deepwater in Deep Trouble Summary: On April 20th 2010, the United States faced not only on of its largest environmental disasters but the biggest offshore oil spill in its history. Off the Gulf of Mexico a large oil rig, Deepwater Horizon, operated by British Petroleum, exploded killing 11 employees and leaking an estimated 4.9 million gallon of crude oil into the ocean. Furthermore, the explosion caused a subsequent fire resulting in the ultimate sinking of the Deepwater Horizon. Although this disaster was accidental there were many warning signs that BP neglected which could have prevented it. To begin with, the construction of the underwater drilling pipelines were shoddy and a vital valve was installed backwards. Consequently the pipelines became brittle, full of cracks, and flooded. In addition, equipment readings, internal documents from BP engineers, and other red flags warned that the rig wasn’t operating correctly and that there was potential for a dangerous explosion. However, all these signs were ignored and not addressed as threats by managers. In an effort to avoid incurring costs and to maximize profit, BP cut corners and underestimated the importance of safety. After initial investigations it became clear that BP not only missed significant signs but staff did not have proper training, maintenance of the rig was inferior, and overall BP lacked formalized emergency responses and a safety culture. As a result BP...
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