News Articles Analysis

A supply chain is a net work of firms. Thus, each firm in the chain should build its own supply chains to support the competitive priorities of its services or products. Two distinct designs used to competitive advantage are efficient supply chains and responsive supply chains. Efficient supply chains work best in environments where demand is highly predictable. The focus of the supply chain is on efficient flows of services and materials keeping inventories to a minimum. The firm’s competitive priorities are low-cost operations, consistent quality, and on-time delivery. Responsive supply chains designed to react quickly in order to hedge against uncertainties in demand. Work best when firms offer a great variety of services or products and demand predictability is low. Typical competitive priorities are development speed, fast delivery times, customization, variety, volume flexibility, and top quality. Tables below show the environments and design features that best suit each design.

I think that it’s great that this man did something that he struggled with and persevered to learn how to read. So many people would have just called it good and never learned how to read, and it’s very encouraging that he did learn how to read. This article also makes me question our education system a little bit. I do not think that it’s a good sign that this man made it all the way through school not knowing how to read. Did teachers just not notice or did they just not care? Either way no student should attend school ant not learn how to read at some point. Over all, I think that it’s great that this man learned how to read. It is never to late to learn something new, no matter wat that might be.

For this week’s discussion board I used the article; Pardon the Interruption: Enhancing Communication Skills for Students with Intellectual Disability By: Bayes, Daniel A., Heath, Amy K., Williams, Carol, Ganz, Jennifer B., TEACHING Exceptional Children, 00400599, 20130101, Vol. 45, Issue 3.

The authors of this journal Alina Coman, a professor in social sciences and communication and Corina Sas, who has a PhD human computer interaction, believe that stigma of mental illness negatively impacts the people with mental illness leading them to avoid mental health services. This idea ties right in to what I will be discussing in my article. The avoidance of getting help from professionals is one of my reasons as to why stigma of mental health is worsening them. This stigma is making it harder for the mentally ill to seek treatment. Throughout the journal, they support their claim by presenting a novel strategy which is really useful because the they present scenarios and poems that express the emotional world mentally ill people face.

The author in the articles relates the advancement of technologies with the alienation of human being with the real world. The author acknowledge the reason of our alienation from real world as not being because of the dimensional scales but because we have been substituting dimensions for the things that count. The author believes that technology does not alienate us from the world it mediates. The author uses an example of a telescope, a scientific instrument used to observe galaxies, stars, moon, and the universe as deviating humans from experiencing nature by taking risks. Human beings these days tend to be focus more on taking pictures and capturing it as a memory than living in the moment. In this process, they tend to experience, feel nature less than other people would do. The author mentions how children these days do not

This article mainly focuses on the means-tested government assistance for lower-middle class couples that are married. The essential points in the article explain who should be given the assistance and those that cannot apply for it. They are not discouraging low-middle class couples from getting married, but in fact, their income as a couple can go slightly over that cusp, subsequently not enabling them to not receive government assistance. Couples that have children and who are unmarried get great assistance if it is needed, “The expanding reach of the welfare state means that a substantial share of lower-middle-class couples with children receive such aid—and many of these couples receive more generous support if they are unmarried”,

The news today can be reported and presented in such a manner where it can influence one's stance on any given topic. Newscasts can be bias, present information that favors or disfavors stereotypes, and can present information that is and is not from a credible source. To determine the perspectives of news, I chose to view newscasts from Fox News, specifically the Kelly Files news television program and a newscast from ABC News online. The following information analyzes the perspective of the news stories aired through these newscasts.

USA Today is one of the largest print newspapers, even today due to its innovative approach and format that it utilizes. Furthermore, this newspaper contains many features that fully engage its audience by offering colorful displays, short write ups, radiant exhibits of diagrams. One of the overall aspects of USA Today was the manner in which it fully engaged readers with its content than any other newspapers. USA Today is essentially known for its short stories, bright colors and its weather map. Moreover, it is becoming a serious newspaper in which people are beginning to notice more despite how it was ridiculed and thought as a humorous newspaper. Furthermore, it was a newspaper that was highly criticized and constantly under attack for the manner in which it was laid out. Nonetheless, no one took the paper seriously then. USA Today has become a much stronger news product that has increased its marketing efforts and shown the world that it certainly has had an impact on other newspapers in the manner in which they chose to model some of the very same ideas as USA Today, however, by other newspapers imitating what they coined as the less admirable newspaper with many gimmicks, flourishing color, and short stories, many other newspapers modeled only to fail after copying many of USA Today’s attributes that are landing them ahead of many other newspapers. Furthermore, many of the papers have taken and used USA Today’s unimportant ideas and are consistently losing out on

The "Tip of the Iceberg" article was very intriguing and I gained more information about Diabetes. I am a type 1 diabetic so it was beneficial to know all of the body parts that diabetes can affect. I was not aware that one could retain cardiovascular disease from uncontrollable blood sugars.

News of The World was a very successful album for Queen. Which was the successor to, A Day at the Races Album that became very successful. News of The World was Queen’s 6th album. The album came out November 7, 1977. The main genre of this album is pop/rock in this album. The band members are, Brian May(guitar), Freddie Mercury(Singer), John Deacon(bass), and Roger Taylor(Guitar/Singer). Queen changed type of song a lot, in this album. Possibly to stay original. They had a lot of hits on this album. But 3 made billboard top singles, We Will Rock You, “We are the Champions”, and It's Late. At the time everyone liked it's late the most.

Alberge, Dayla. “Concert Hall Simulator Helps Musicians Prepare To Perform.” The Guardian, March 22, 2015.

With the rapid emergence and massive growth in IT sector, there is a need for the IT industry to change itself according to the upcoming challenges in the near future. When it comes to IT sector investments in supply chain management, it is considered as spring board in removing the difficulties in the industry. It is essential for the executives dealing with supply chain to reconsider the IT investment strategies, when technologies such as Cloud Computing, Web, and social media are being used widely.

The class text states that Supply chain management is frequently divided into supply chain planning applications, supply chain execution applications, logistics management, and warehouse management. Often when companies fail at implementing an efficient supply chain because of the planning section, or inaccurate demand forecasts. The text states electronic data interchange is one of the earliest uses of information technology for supply chain management, Electronic data interchange is the use of the Internet for everyday business transactions. “In this era of information a firm’s supply chain should operate at speed of thought and this is possible only by enhanced e-speed communications and information sharing with their critical partners.” (4)

Most families tune into their local nightly news station to unwind after their long day of work to catch up on local and national news. Many people prefer local news stations, because they include light-hearted and community based stories. I have always been exposed to the local news my entire life, because that is the station that my family has always preferred. In the local news they also include many national stories and topics revolving around our government. For this analysis I watched three airings of a local nightly news station. I watched channel 12, FOX Providence, late night news. In addition to watching their late night broadcasting, I also watched their morning news segment. The last news airing I watched was channel 10, local

Obesity is on the rise in the United States in both adults and children. On average, 30% of children suffer from obesity and over the past years recognition of the disease and its consequences have elevated nevertheless, the disease remains untreated and undiagnosed (Moran, 1999). Studies show that overweight children are at a statistically greater probability of developing health issues, which eventually lead to death. The seriousness of the disease triggered many research studies; one of these researches is reviewed below. The process used to review the information is statistically based as to the accuracy of the data and the conclusions.