I never told anyone I can still remember clearly.It was the newspaper headline one year ago that shook the entire Townsville. Lisa Davies‚ an eighteen year old student of the local high school had fallen off the balcony at a house party (under the influence of alcohol ) and died of severe internal bleeding. Lisa Davies was …my best friend. Memories of Lisa and I go way back in time.We were both ten‚ had just moved to town and were unfamiliar with our surroundings.our friendship came naturally
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RESEARCH PROJECT 1. Choose a research topic appropriate to this course and find a traditional newspaper article that reports on that topic. (News reports from scholarly journals‚ or websites like Physorg.com that publishes news releases from research institutes and universities are not acceptable.) The article must be written by a newspaper reporter‚ no newer than 6 months old‚ and may be as old as 15 years ago. A print or online newspaper is acceptable. A blog or wiki or other social networking
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On January 16‚ 2016‚ President Barack Obama declared the city of Flint‚ Michigan to be in a state of emergency due to the widespread lead poisoning of the city’s residents that later became known as the Flint Water Crisis (Southall 2016). The crisis began in April of 2014‚ when the officials of Flint decided that‚ in an effort to conserve dwindling funds‚ the city would switch their main water source from Lake Huron‚ to the Flint River (Southall 2016). Almost immediately‚ the residents of Flint began
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reported in the United States. Safety and health concerns were not limited to food. In November 2006 the retailer Target recalled 200‚000 Kool Toyz action figures because of lead contamination and sharp edges. On June 13‚ 2007 RC2 Corporation recalled 1.5 million of its Thomas & Friends toy trains because of high lead levels in the paint. RC2 quickly fired both the company producing the train vendor but disclose their names. Some 8‚000 toy factories in China employed 3 million people‚ producing
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Picking accuracy http://www.warehousecoach.com/images/A_simple_method_to_improve_picking_accuracy.pdf In this warehouse‚ they use a 2”x 3” piece of paper with a similar written message‚ and replaced the Employee Number with the packing person’s first name and photograph. In this warehouse the picker/packer is no longer an anonymous Number but becomes truly visible to the customer. The manger reported that the quality has increased so much‚ as measured by customer calls and returns as a percent
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Executive Summary Barilla SpA‚ an Italian pasta manufacturer‚ is experiencing greater levels of inefficiencies and rising costs due to variability in demand from its distributors. In order to restore things to order and to improve margins‚ Giorgio Magialli‚ the Director of Logistics at Barilla wants to implement a Just-In-Time Distribution (JITD) system that was proposed by his predecessor Brando Vitali. This system is completely different from the existing setup and is being opposed by both the
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Culture and Organization | Mattel and the Toy Recalls | Responding to recall notice of Mattel’s character toys for lead paint violations | Paulina Gorczyca9/26/2011 | Mattel’s Toy Recall The toy industry is estimated to be a 71 billion dollar market in 2007 (pg.167) with approximately 880 competitive companies with its clear industry leaders. Mattel being number one toy making company in the world has been faced with several conflicts due to the industries strict jurisdiction under
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Assignment 2 Poverty and Pollution Case April Carranza Dr. Cathy Parks BUS 309 – Business Ethics December 4‚ 2012 Poverty and pollution are both bad. Poverty is the lack of the things we need for everyday living. Everyone needs the following in order to stay out of poverty: food‚ water‚ shelter‚ education‚ medical care and security. People that do not have these items are considered below poverty. People that live in third world countries do not have access to these things. There are
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that we often see: 1. The process is composed of several resources. 2. Resources are shared across assembly lines (i.e.‚ individuals must multitask.) 3. The resource that limits hourly production is not the same resource that limits the process lead-time! The problem: Since 2002‚ Honda’s 1800cc cruiser style motorcycle‚ the VTX1800‚ has been assembled in its Marysville‚ Ohio plant from four major subassemblies. All resources are indicated in bold. • The first subassembly produces the engine
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Haldimand Auto Supply purchased their items to their supplier through phone and supplier visit. The in charge person only makes purchased order when he noticed that the item is only below 3 pieces‚ because some supplier of certain items has longer lead time wherein the items runs out of stock. Sometimes the supplier will go to the store and ask the owner if what
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