...M.T Anderson once stated “And how much I legitimately do think that the technology-based information resources at our command now are incredible… We have at our fingertips knowledge and power that’s intoxicating… This is indeed a brave new world, but there is a cost.” This quotation means technology has built a world that is faster growing, filled with unlimited knowledge and resources that humans can’t wait to use. However, there is something to lose or give up when humans interact with technology. This is valid because technology brings people from all over together but also brings a bad influence to people of all ages and around the world. Feed by M.T. Anderson, Growing up Digital, Wired for Distraction by Matt Richtel, and in the 2013 film, Her, by Spike Jonze are used to support why new-media technology is detrimental. The Feed presents an implicit argument that the feed technology is detrimental because it was specifically designed for educational purposes but, then, became used for social and entertainment. It is clearly ironic when Titus speaks about the feed for education, but then, he uses the feed for chatting, shopping, and hanging-out. Titus’s speech pattern is very uneducated using childish words showing he does not use the feed for education. “People were really excited when they first came out with feeds. It was all da da da, this big educational thing, da da da, your child will have the advantage, encyclopedias at their fingertips, closer than their fingertips...
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...Nicholas Bottois Mrs. Lamers Media Awareness 5 November 2015 Feed Analysis: Conflicts Contributing to Theme Imagine a future where all of the products, information, and media you desire could be yours with just a simple thought thanks to a small chip implanted in your brain. That scenario is exactly what M.T. Anderson depicts in the Young Adult novel Feed. In this dystopian future however, technology has changed our society and the way we think entirely. In Feed it is very clear that almost no one cares anymore about their own intelligence or ability to think freely anymore because they have completely lost their sense of self. People are superficial, uneducated, and easily manipulated by consumerism. All of these conflicts that the feed...
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...Full Length Research Paper Locally produced fish feed: potentials for aquaculture development in subsaharan Africa U.U. Gabriel1, O. A Akinrotimi2, D. O. Bekibele2, D. N Onunkwo2 and P. E. Anyanwu3 Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Environment, Rivers State University of Science and Technology, P.M.B 5080, Port Harcourt, Nigeria. 2 African Regional Aquaculture Centre/Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research, P.M.B 5122, Port-Harcourt, Nigeria. 3 Aquaculture Division, Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research, P.M.B. 12729, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria. Accepted 30 May, 2007 1 Aquaculture development and growth in Africa have been on low ebb despite the vast aquatic resources that abounds on the continent. Since the introduction of aquaculture to Africa, some decades ago, there have been a lot of innovations, technological advancement and progress in the areas of genetics, seed propagation, pond construction and farm management in general. Despite breakthroughs recorded in these areas most farmers in Africa still rely heavily on imported feed ingredients and fish feeds from European countries, which makes fish farming expensive as fish feed account for at least 60% of the total cost of production. This has contributed in no small measure to the slow pace at which aquaculture is advancing in Africa. This article, however reviewed critically the potentials of locally manufactured fish feed in enhancing, improving and sustaining aquaculture...
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...While correlation between both works are present, Feed and Wall-E are not identical; each works have differences, starting off with the human’s habitat. In Feed, everyone lives on Earth. Due to the abundant amounts of pollution, Earth is uninhabitable. Because of this, everyone lives in “tubes” on Earth to keep away from the pollution. While the characters do travel into space and on various planets and moons (Mars, one of Jupiter’s moon, the Earth’s moon, etc.), they still live in the wrecked junkyard of which is Earth. Also, no one seems to mind the degrading environment. Everyone in the novel tries to make the scenario vague; everyone treats lesions (which are caused by the contaminated air) as a norm instead of worrying about the air conditions. However, in...
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...1. Is feed an opportunity? Based on this case, I think feed is an opportunity. First of all, when Shane worked in Laurence Candle Company, he found out that “ new brand of customer was willing to pay a premium for environmentally friendly products” (Bygrave & Zacharakis, 2010). Secondly, clean technologies, especially around combating global warming became an explosive upward investment trend. One reason is large price increases in gas and other fossil fuels. The other one is the raised awareness of global warming by prominent figures. Furthermore, this crisis of global warming also bring new opportunities for new jobs and new profits, building clean engines, harness the sun and the wind, stopping wasting energy, and using our planet’s plentiful coal resources without heating the planet. More precious thing is “ the climate crisis also offer us the chance to experience what very few generations in history have had the privilege of knowing a lot of things according to Bygrave & Zacharakis (2010). More and more customers and public are expecting companies to be more eco-friendly which makes it a big opportunity. On the other hand, “ with the wealth of interest by angel inventors and venture capitalists alike, many new companies have hit the ground running and have found success” (Bygrave & Zacharakis, 2010). Except those environment reasons, here hits the FEED in details. FEED combine composting technology and waste conversion technology together, which raw materials...
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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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...industry took off in the United States. With Dr. Lyons expertise in fermentation, he took up a career in the production of biofuel. But after the unexpected collapse of the fuel alcohol business forced Dr. Lyon out of the industry he decided to pursue something with less world politics and energy influence, which led him to the assumption that if yeasts, certain bacteria, and enzymes could help animals digest their food better, that it would lower the cost of production. The idea of producing animal feed additives was not commonly accepted during the time he started, but it did not take long for producers of livestock to raise awareness of the company. This was also influenced by Alltech’s desire to produce the most amount of feed at the lowest possible price. They also had the perception to “be the first to produce and the first to find conclusions” Alltech’s main headquarters was founded in Lexington, KY. But this was no constraint to the global expansion to the Alltech feed company. Due to the reduction of the trade barrier, Alltect has successfully installed factories all over the country including; European Union, Canada, Mexico, Ireland, Brazil, Japan, and many more. Alltech is a very widespread company in many different countries producing a variety of products. But being so globally spread it is easy to run into difficult situations. During the 1990’s there was a decline in livestock by 45% which accumulated an excesses...
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...worked with a software firm and has working experience on various technologies and tools. She is new to the university and needs social media to catch up with her friends and keep track of ongoing activities at the campus. She joined facebook 6 years back and has 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...
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...Valery Marinov, Manufacturing Technology Cutting Forcess 71 5.3 CUTTING FORCES Introduction Cutting is a process of extensive stresses and plastic deformations. The high compressive and frictional contact stresses on the tool face result in a substantial cutting force F. chip tool F` cut F workpiece Total cutting force F and reaction force F` in orthogonal cutting Knowledge of the cutting forces is essential for the following reasons: v v v v proper design of the cutting tools proper design of the fixtures used to hold the workpiece and cutting tool calculation of the machine tool power selection of the cutting conditions to avoid an excessive distortion of the workpiece Cutting force components In orthogonal cutting, the total cutting force F is conveniently resolved into two components in the horizontal and vertical direction, which can be directly measured using a force measuring device called a dynamometer. If the force and force components are plotted at the tool point instead of at their actual points of application along the shear plane and tool face, we obtain a convenient and compact diagram. chip tool cut F FC FD workpiece Total cutting force F is conveniently resolved into horizontal component FC and vertical component FD The two force components act against the tool: Cutting force FC : this force is in the direction of primary motion. The cutting force constitutes about 70~80 % of the total force F and is used...
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...Agricultural Research Priority : Vision- 2030 and beyond Sub-sector: Livestock Professor Dr. A.M.M. Tareque And Dr. Shah Md. Ziqrul Haq Chowdhury Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council Farmgate, Dhaka April 2010 Research Priority in Agriculture and Vision Document-2030 and beyond Table of Contents Sl. No. 1 2 3 4 Subject Methodology/Work plan Terms of Reference (TOR) of the Group Leader Executive Summary Vision Document 2030 and beyond: Livestock Research in Bangladesh Background Review of the past Plans Targets: Achievable goals of livestock sub-sector under Vision 2021; Bangladesh for Resolution of Crisis and a Prosperous Future” Problems/Constraints Research Areas Commodity wise Research Priority Large Ruminants (Cattle and Buffalo) Small Ruminants (Goat and Sheep) Poultry Common to livestock health and production Hill Research Conclusion References Page No. 2 2 3 5 5 6 7 5 11 13 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 13 15 18 19 24 27 30 31 33 33 1 Research Priority in Agriculture and Vision Document-2030 and beyond Methodology/Work plan Twelve Experts Team have been formed in BARC in connection with the preparation of Vision Document–2030 and beyond vide letter No.ARC/P&E/103/2008/1540, dt. 29-10-09. Livestock Sub-sector group composed of Professor Dr. A.M.M. Tareque, as Group Leader and Dr. Shah Md. Ziqrul Haq Chowdhury, CSO (Livestock), BARC, as Member-Secretary. The work started with the convening of a day long workshop on SPGR priority setting...
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...Social media, instant communication and instant access to information pose serious obstacles to a person’s ability to self reflect and think seriously as depicted in M.T. Anderson’s novel Feed. Through his characters, the issue repeatedly surfaced that their lack of awareness of the outside world and their ability to seriously reflect on the negative impact that has on their personal lives. It appears by cutting down on the reliance of technology (for example: spending less time on the “feed”), having real face to face conversations, and taking the time to be present in what is going on in the news and with environmental issues, people can practice serious reflection in our always connected and instantaneous world. In the story, all of the characters seem to be engrossed in the feed, which is basically the internet but inside of your head. Everyone ranging from Titus’s younger brother smell factor to his dad are connected in it. This causes issues because it creates a dependence on the feed, meaning the characters can’t create actual relationships with each other because they are always too busy with other things to have face to face interactions. For example, after the coalition hacker attacked Titus and friends and his dad came to visit them in the hospital on the moon he didn’t seem to have much emotion and was more focused...
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...developed countries. U.S. poultry meat exports to Sub-Saharan Africa expanded 180 percent from 2009 to 2011. • Given population growth and rising incomes, it is estimated that the demand for food will rise by 70 to 100 percent by 2050. To meet this need, the United Nations estimates that production in developing countries will need to almost double. • In 2010, the U.S. helped launch the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program, an international, multilateral trust fund that has already awarded $658 million to finance country development plans in 18 low-income countries, with 8.2 million beneficiaries. Building Local Capacity, Increasing Productivity, and Improving Markets and Trade • Since 2010, USDA has aligned appropriate programs to Feed the Future plans to support agriculture development in target countries and regions: Ghana, Kenya, East Africa, Bangladesh, Haiti, Guatemala and Central America. USDA supports global food security through in-country capacity building, basic and applied research, and support for improved market information, statistics and analysis. • USDA...
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...television news reporters. However, several trends are developing that alter the tasks performed by PR people. In most cases these changes are the result of new Internet technologies that are quickly gaining widespread acceptance among Internet users and are becoming new media outlets in their own right. Trends include: Updating Corporate News Corporate Blogs Social Media RSS Feeds Podcasting Search Engine Optimization PR Trends: Updating Corporate News Developing websites has long been a time-consuming and often overly technical undertaking for the vast majority of marketers. However, this changed with the evolution of easier to use website development applications, called content management systems (CMS), which allow for quick creation and convenient updating of site information. With CMS those with access, including public relations personnel, can add information on a regular basis. In addition, posting company news to websites can be tied to social media and RSS feeds, thereby allowing for automatic notification. Many journalists and other media members are finding social media and RSS feeds to be a more convenient way to acquire information, particularly if they follow certain industries and can monitor specific industry information websites. By subscribing to relevant social media and RSS feeds, members of the news media have information delivered to them, rather than spending time searching. PR Trends: Corporate Blogging Blogs may be most famous...
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...on the amount of carbon that can be emitted • The Cap: Each company, will have a limit on the amount of greenhouse gas that it can emit. • The Trade: More efficient companies can sell their extra permits to companies that are not able to make reductions. Source: Text from “Cap and Trade 101”, Center for American Progress Emission Permit Market • Emission permits are traded in market; Creates a new market for ‘Clean Air’(Carbon-less air) Source: “Review of Forestry Carbon Standards”, Imperial College London More on Cap & Trade • The profits: – The program would generate $50 billion per year, but could reach up to $300 billion – The revenue can be used to invest in renewable energy, efficiency, low-carbon transportation technologies, green-collar job training etc Carbon Reduction Targets Source: “Review of Forestry Carbon Standards”, Imperial College London More on Cap & Trade • The cons: – Hard to quantify the effects of carbon emissions, hence put a price – Implementing, monitoring is a challenge – Highly political, highly manipulative Source: Members’ understanding EU-Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) • • • • • • Largest multi-national emissions trading scheme in the world. The objective of EU-ETS is reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in a costeffective and economically-efficient manner. It currently limits CO2 emissions from approximately 12,000 facilities in the 27 EU Member States. Operational Mechanism is via the allocation and trade...
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...relatively simple and sometimes challenging, which can provide instant access for any user. What I found to be challenging though, is applying all of these tasks, readings, and learning to how it all works in the library setting. Can this be used as education for our users? Are these elements we can use to improve our work settings? As I performed each task, I tried to imagine a scenario where the specific item would be implemented into the workplace. The technical tasks involving RSS feeds were especially interesting in regards to information sharing and seeking. Webopedia defines a feed aggregator as “a software or a hosted application that collects feeds from various sources and displays it in a single consolidated view, either in a window on your desktop or in a Web browser.” Before it shut...
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