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Mapping America: Every City, Every Block - 1 views

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    This is an excellent GIS tool that will help you with your Urban Patterns Booklet. Browse local data from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, which was conducted from 2005 to 2009.
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India's elections could be bad news for Walmart - Quartz - 2 views

    • Nick Miller
       
      Why remove multi-brand retail stores from the Indian market?
    • Nick Miller
       
      This restriction of multi-brand retail stores would hinder the advancement of globalization. New products will not make it to other parts of the world if the governments place restrictions on them.
    • Nick Miller
       
      These connections to the largest cities within India will help the country with its transportation of products. This allows products to be sold faster because they reach the consumers in a short amount of time thus allow the company to make the profit they wish to achieve.
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    • Nick Miller
       
      This new policy will have its pros and cons. The "manifesto" should help the country's economy to kick start but locking out multi-brand retailers and genetically modified foods may not be the most intelligent choice but creating these railways and producing more food processing and manufacturing companies should be a step in the right direction.
    • Nick Miller
       
      It seems that even the people of India agree that some aspects of the "manifesto" should be reconsidered and updated. Even the Hindus believe that the "manifesto" needs to be reconstructed.  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-26933587
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    This article shows how when moving into a new country because of its economic potential could be dangerous if the government not yet completely stable. Though all the site and situation factors make India a prime country to set up shop, an unstable government can negatively turn the tables, making India a risky country to put a foreign owned company in.
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With so many unemployed, why are 7,400 manufacturing jobs open in this region? | clevel... - 0 views

  • For all the talk about the lack of jobs in Northeast Ohio, there are 7,400 open manufacturing jobs in the region.
    • Veronica Werner
       
      This is surprising, because the unemployment rate would be much lower if those jobs were filled.  It seems that even though the tertiary sector is most important to the American economy, a manufacturing job is still preferable to unemployment.
  • The number is so high because many workers don't have the skills that area employers need
    • Veronica Werner
       
      What would be some examples of skills or education people working in manufacturing would need? Would Fordist production eliminate this need, or would it only cause more productivity problems?
  • It's just the old job disappeared as new technology made the old job obsolete. For people to compete for the new jobs, "you need to get the new skills," he said.
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  • businesses, educators and community leaders started focusing more on the role of education in manufacturing
  • manufacturers will locate their plants in certain areas based on three factors: infrastructure, regulatory issues and trade and tax policies
  • Firms will locate where they believe they can innovate and tap into human capital.
  • The most recent recession was brutal for manufacturing,
  • manufacturing has long been the backbone of Northeast Ohio and the nation
  • representatives from local businesses, regional economic development organizations, national industry organizations and even from China.
    • Veronica Werner
       
      The inclusion of representatives from China shows the importance of globalization in the American economy.  This is mostly related to a regional issue, but even other countries are involved in American manufacturing.
  • collaboration among universities and the business community.
    • Veronica Werner
       
      This includes both the secondary and tertiary sectors.  The secondary sector includes the industrial portions of businesses.  The tertiary sector is found in the business people who handle the finances related to manufacturing, as well as the educators at universities.
    • Mr. Reidy
       
      Great review of the major sectors.
  • improve U.S. competitiveness, encourage innovation and help manufacturing thrive.
    • Veronica Werner
       
      This article contains information and suggestions on how manufacturing companies can fill the same jobs that are open right now in Ohio.  http://www.automationworld.com/operations/tips-filling-skilled-manufacturing-positions
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Current Events #9- Maquiladoras - 1 views

  • The anthropologist said that women are also organizing unions and becoming labor activists to improve working conditions in both the border-town maquiladoras and in Sinaloa's shrimp fisheries
  • research on the relationship between adequate fishing resources and food security in northwestern Mexico – where she has discovered that women in particular play a critical role.
    • Nicole Weenink
       
      I found it interesting that Maria Cruz was able to switch from beaming a doctor to become person who studied the environment and the effect it has on people. Also it was cool that she was able to use what she learned in medical school and apply it to her new course of study. 
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    • Nicole Weenink
       
      This relates to what we are studying in class because the maquiladoras are working for very low incomes. This is not very much but it is a site factor for the United States. They would rather transport materials across the border and have cheap labor. The problem is that the people that work in the factories are in very bad conditions and have to ban to gather to form unions to get better labor conditions. 
    • Mr. Reidy
       
      What are some cons to unions?
    • Nicole Weenink
       
      This relates to cultural landscape because the humans are modifying the landscape with the shrimp. There is pollution which modifies the environment and people are working to overcome this pollution and keep their families safe.
    • Nicole Weenink
       
      What kind of things are the women doing in order to try to get better wages and working conditions?
    • Nicole Weenink
       
      http://allafrica.com/stories/201403290105.html Relates to the article because it says that women make up the majority of maquiladoras. 
  • The anthropologist said that women are also organizing unions and becoming labor activists to improve working conditions in both the border-town maquiladoras and in Sinaloa's shrimp fisheries.
    • Mr. Reidy
       
      Veronica - great connection to point-source pollution ... I agree, seafood from the Gulf could be contaminated.
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    I found it interesting how the article referred to the point-source water pollution from the shrimp industry. The chemical pollution in the water comes from industrial and agricultural sources related to shrimp. While the shrimp industry is important to Mexico's economy, it also has downsides, including health issues coming from the pollution of water that may go untreated.
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U.S. Manufacturing No More Expensive Than Outsourcing To China By 2015: Study - 4 views

    • Danyelle Allen
       
      This directly relates to site factors because in Shanghai, the land is limited and expensive due to it being a dense urban region. It is cheaper for businesses to establish factories in rural and suburban areas with proximity to junctions and highways. Also, businesses prefer to build horizontally, therefore needing more land area.
    • Danyelle Allen
       
      I am surprised that the U.S. workforce had to be reassured that businesses wouldn't relocate all of their industries to China.
    • Danyelle Allen
       
      Can we expect the same trend to occur in other less developed countries that currently possess key site factors, such as India, in the future?
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  • As the cost of manufacturing in China has risen, so have reports of companies pulling their plants out of the country to find cheaper locations.
  • manufacturing in China has risen, so have reports of companies pulling their plants out of the country to find
  • Even with manufacturing costs rising in China, Prince Industries has benefited from expanding its operations outside Chicago to include a plant in China
  • move plants to inner or western China where labor costs are lower
  • The rising value of the RMB was expected and has made it more costly to ship goods built in China around the world.
    • Danyelle Allen
       
      This connects to Kelly Gallick's current event on the survival of U.S. manufacturing as businesses compete with low-cost labor in LDCs. This statement portrays that keeping industries in the U.S. and not outsourcing to China would be beneficial. The manufacturing costs would be the same, while the U.S. provides proximity to markets, which reduces transportation costs.
    • Mr. Reidy
       
      Danyelle - I like how you are connecting different topics together and making new inferences. Superb work!
    • Danyelle Allen
       
      Though rapidly declining, the profit that can be made with outsourcing to other countries with a cheaper labor force can prove to be beneficial to businesses. How much longer until businesses see the shift from profit to loss with outsourcing. 
    • Danyelle Allen
       
      Outsourcing links to the geography theme of globalization, for it increase involvement with transnational industries and corporations. In addition, outsourcing causes businesses to become known in the region where products are being manufactured, initiating a closer-linked globe. Globalization promotes the cooperation with other countries to become successful in the world markets.
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    It's interesting to read that manufacturing costs in China have risen, which could potentially cut back on the amount of outsourcing from the US.
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    I like that you chose an article about industry in china because of its profound amount of industry, and its BRICS status.
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    This relates to the article we read in class and I remember it saying that the government supports the increase in wages. Its interesting to see your comment on how companies who outsource will react.
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    This surprises me since it seems that there is such a push to continue to outsource. I wonder what the US will do: will we continue to outsource, or will more domestic jobs be created?
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Industry Awakens to Threat of Climate Change - NYTimes.com - 4 views

  • Both Nike and Coke are responding internally: Coke uses water-conservation technologies and Nike is using more synthetic material that is less dependent on weather conditions. At Davos and in global capitals, the companies are also lobbying governments to enact environmentally friendly policies.
  • Coke’s vice president for environment and water resources, listing the problems that he said were also disrupting the company’s supply of sugar cane and sugar beets, as well as citrus for its fruit juices.
  • global warming as a force that contributes to lower gross domestic products, higher food and commodity costs, broken supply chains and increased financial risk. Their position is at striking odds with the longstanding argument, advanced by the coal industry and others, that policies to curb carbon emissions are more economically harmful than the impact of climate change.
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  • ven the most conservative estimates peg the social benefit of carbon-based fuels as 50 times greater than its supposed social cost.”
  • n Europe, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Paris-based club of 34 industrialized nations, has begun to warn of the steep costs of increased carbon pollution.
  • Nike, which has more than 700 factories in 49 countries, many in Southeast Asia, is also speaking out because of extreme weather that is disrupting its supply chain. In 2008, floods temporarily shut down four Nike factories in Thailand, and the company remains concerned about rising droughts in regions that produce cotton, which the company uses in its athletic clothes.
    • Alexia Ometz
       
      Why is the cheaper electricity helping to raise so many people out of poverty? And why in China and Inda?
  • as high energy costs, declining industrial competitiveness and a recognition that the economy is unlikely to rebound soon caused European policy makers to question the short-term economic trade-offs of climate policy.
  • “There will be agriculture and economic effects — it’s inescapable.” He added, “I’d be shocked if people supported anything other than a carbon tax — that’s how economists think about it.”
    • Alexia Ometz
       
      I find it interesting and surprising that high energy costs are causing declining competitiveness between industries because it just doesn't seem to make a lot of sense. It maybe causes different companies to go broke or stop manufacturing different things because of the high costs of producing them. 
    • Alexia Ometz
       
      This part shows how this article is related to industry. Nike has different factories, which is part of industry. Also, it talks about how different factors would cause factories to shut down, such as droughts. Many people would go out of jobs because of this happening for a certain length of time, which we have talked about in the industry and service chapters. 
    • Alexia Ometz
       
      This section talks about globalization and nature-culture. It shows globalization because of the different factories that Nike owns, and even with most in the same place, Southeast Asia, they sell to the entire world. It shows nature-culture with the different factories having to close because of floods. 
    • Alexia Ometz
       
      http://environment.about.com/od/waterpollution/a/groundwater_ind.htm This article connects because the beginning of this article talks about how Coca-Cola is using up water and creating droughts to produce its drinks. 
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    Just an idea in all, but if this so-called carbon tax is passed wouldn't it raise the price of goods? But then again, I guess companies have to make up the deficient somehow.
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    It's crazy to think that a company has so much power that even though it is depleting water supplies and causing pollution it is still not shut down. This is probably due to lack of knowledge consumers have and the mass of money that the company has.
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The U.S. should encourage more manufacturing here at home: New Balance CEO | Daily Tick... - 1 views

  • The United States today has fewer people working in manufacturing than it had in 1941 before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the rush to produce weapons. But not all U.S. manufacturers are shadows of their former selves
  • Rising labor costs in foreign markets
  • incentives to make things closer to consumption
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  • Investment and innovation
  • global economy
  • U.S. manufacturing is expanding
    • Nathan Saphore
       
      It's surprising to me that 25% of New Balance's shoes are made in the U.S. and that 1300 employees are working in the U.S.
    • Nathan Saphore
       
      This connects to the theme of Mobility because New Balance has to determine what would be the best way for them to transport their goods to the markets and consumers, at the lowest costs.
    • Nathan Saphore
       
      This relates to industry because it shows that the labor costs are increasing in foreign countries, like China that is known for cheap labor, and it will cost less for the company to make their products in the U.S. and have them closer to markets. This is a situation factor because of transportation costs.
    • Nathan Saphore
       
      Will domestic product of goods increase and how would this affect countries that are currently "hubs" for cheap labor? How will those countries react?
    • Nathan Saphore
       
      http://businesstheory.com/136-increase-chinas-minimum-wage-compete-global-manufacturing/ The article above relates to this article because it talks about how higher wages in China will push factories to other places with cheaper labor, like Vietnam. The gap between U.S. and Chinese labor costs are shrinking, which helps explain why companies like New Balance are able to have industries in the U.S. instead of foreign countries.
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    This directly relates to how the tertiary sector is growing, because other sectors, like manufacturing is in, are declining.
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Dove's Latest Ad Entails Tricking Women to Wear Fake Beauty Patches - ABC News - 1 views

    • Jessica Wray
       
      I cannot believe that this is real; if I were to have a patch on my arm for a few weeks, I would hide it and wonder how it is possibly helping me...Does it really make them feel confident???!
    • Jessica Wray
       
      This relates to advertisement which relates to consumerism which relates to services. Services depend on and affect societies and culture. Different regions of the world have different types of society and culture. Thus, this article relates to the theme of REGION.
    • Jessica Wray
       
      This article deals with advertisement, which is a huge part of consumerism. Consumerism dictates services- if a service is not desirable by the people, then it will not thrive and will not be in a place. Dove attempts to become more popular by making a commercial in which woman wear fake patches that make them feel confident, and even more so upon the revelation that it is made of nothing and is worthless!
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    • Jessica Wray
       
      I don't understand how any woman would feel better by wearing the patch...? What did the patch claim to do exactly- why did they want to "show off" such a thing?
    • Jessica Wray
       
      This is an older article; I'll post another one, but it certainly relates!!!! http://weburbanist.com/2010/11/08/15-cool-crazy-controversial-advertisements/
    • Jessica Wray
       
      http://abcnews.go.com/Business/banana-republic-sued-allegedly-deceptive-discount-signs/story?id=23178043 This current event also involves silly and questionable advertisement tricks to attract customers...
    • Mr. Reidy
       
      How does marketing manipulate the range and threshold of services?
    • Jessica Wray
       
      This relates to advertisement which relates to consumerism which relates to services. Services depend on and affect societies and culture. Different regions of the world have different types of society and culture. Thus, this article relates to the theme of REGION.
  • advertising
  • Dove may have struck advertising gold last year with its “Real Beauty Sketches” ad, but not everyone is praising its latest attempt at a viral video in which women were given beauty patches for two weeks as part of an experiment and then told the whole thing was fake
  • sychologis
  • “I’m beautiful. I’m strong. I’m independent. And I can just be whoever I want to.”
  • Dove: Patches campaign was designed to evoke conversation about how the right state of mind can unlock a powerful feeling of beauty that lives inside all women.
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    This is really interesting. I wonder if any of the women at least suspected that something was going on. The whole idea seems kind of ridiculous, but I don't really see why so many people were extremely offended by it!
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    Jes, your article was fascinating. It is baffling how far people will go to "fit in." You made a tremendous point about Dove's advertisement. TV commercials are sources of globalization since they connect different people from around the world.
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American-Made Clothing Companies Find Ways To Survive As Others Chase Cheap Labor Abroad - 5 views

    • Kelly Gallick
       
      Most of the apparel that we wear is made in another country, and very rarely do I see something made in the US, which makes sense because the foreign-made clothing is much cheaper.
    • Kelly Gallick
       
      The topic of outsourcing is linked to globalization because industries aren't just located in one area, but have some branches in other countries that have cheaper labor or products, which is connecting the world.
    • Kelly Gallick
       
      In the industrial sector, you learn that in countries that have a surplus of workers, the wages tend to be very low. Large industries use this as an advantage and send some of their products to these countries to save money and to make more.
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    • Kelly Gallick
       
      New technologies are cutting down on production prices and therefore cutting down on the amount of outsourcing that industries do, but are the prices of the technologies cheaper than the prices of the cheap labor overseas?
    • Kelly Gallick
       
      http://www.epi.org/publication/bp336-us-china-auto-parts-industry/ This additional current event talks about the auto industry and how many are based in the US, but most of the small parts that go into making the cars are make in developing countries, like China. This is becoming a problem because some American workers are out of jobs due to the workers in China that do the same amount of work for less pay. Outsourcing of the apparel industry and the auto industry are very similar in this regard.
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  • Henry has been in the apparel business for three decades, enough to see nearly all of his competitors disband or head overseas in search of workers who will do the job for lower wages. Henry has taken the opposite route, shrinking the geographic scope of his supply chain and making that a marketing feature.
  • His “most sustainable” T-shirt, which uses certified organic cotton, a transparent supply chain, with a patented environmentally-friendly print and dye system, costs around $14 wholesale. The same type of shirt would cost about $8 to make overseas, he estimated
  • estimated .
  • Workers at TS Designs in North Carolina are paid an average of $15 an hour,
  • The average factory worker in Bangladesh makes $0.21 an hour,
  • bargains on store shelves in Los Angeles and Philadelphia may come at the expense of people toiling in unsafe conditions in Dhaka and Guatemala City.
  • quality of raw materials
  • His shirts are made in America, and not on the other side of the world, in a poor country in which workers may be mistreated.
  • If you take production overseas, the labor cost would be less than $1. The fabric and design cost doesn’t change much, he said, especially for a simple piece of apparel like a T-shirt.
  • “This industry is so mobile that it gets fixed in one place and then pops up somewhere else,” Rivoli said.
  • But American apparel manufacturing may eventually see a resurgence, some experts said. The garment industry is undergoing the kind of technological change reshaping many industries:
  • Machines are increasingly attending to tasks once performed by humans. That undercuts the overall cost advantages of going overseas in search of cheaper labor.
  • As automation emerges as a greater force in the apparel trade, that could send investment back to the United States, where mastery of machinery remains a core strength.
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    Kelly! I find your annotations and article to be very interesting, as myself often wonder how American-made clothing companies survive, with foreign-made clothes being so much cheaper!! I also totally agree with you that countries with a surplus of people who need jobs in that field have very cheap labor wages. For example, the maquiladoras in Mexico. I think American clothing companies DO have an advantage in the fact that many people respect American-made brands as they are seen as higher quality and more durable. Thanks for sharing!
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    What's up Gallick. You had a lot of annotations that were very helpful in understanding your article. It's unfortunate and shocking that the workers in Bangladesh only make 21 cents an hour, I find that hard to believe, although I know it's true.
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    Kelly, I find it very interesting how this article incorporates both the desire to reestablish manufacturing in the U.S. and the outweighing factors, such as labor costs, that attract businesses to LDCs. In addition, the article describes the evident connection between labor cost and working conditions. For example, workers in Bangladesh are only paid $0.21 and hour, while recently there was a factory collapse that killed many workers. This portrays that with low labor cost also comes poor working conditions.
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    Kelly G, great article! This article proved my hunch that American made clothing is better quality than ones made in foreign countries though more expensive. I found this very interesting and reminds me of some of the Made in America things that I have seen on TV. I believe that if American companies put more stress on the quality of clothing they are making that outsourcing competitors may start having troubles.
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    Companies have now started to transition to finding the cheapest cost for the production of their products instead of quality. What paths will companies have to take if countries like Bangladesh start to develop more and price of labor rises globally? I assume that greed has taken over in today's world that we look for the cheap way to make products instead of making a great quality one.
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    I found this article very interesting, mainly because of the difference in cost of apparel made in the United States versus in a lower wage country, such as Bangladesh. I find it very hard to believe that they only get paid 21 cents an hour! Overall, I think that our country needs to look at clothing not by how cheap it is, but how it was made and what certain people had to go through to make it.
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12 Reasons Teachers should use Diigo | resourcelinkbce - 0 views

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    Great article about Diigo.
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E-Cigarettes: FDA Regulation Looms for $1.5 Billion Industry - Businessweek - 0 views

  • booked a trip to China; and began meeting with manufacturers.
    • Allyson Fea
       
      I chose this article because it really interested me. Though I do not smoke myself, and I hope I never will, I have always wondered how E-Cigs work and how they are different than regular cigs
    • Mr. Reidy
       
      I think there is an E-Cig shop in Mechanicsburg, downtown.
  • it did work, it could upend the tobacco industry.
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  • Verleur saw right away that if e-cigarettes could be made as convenient and satisfying as a pack of smokes, he’d make a killing. He enlisted the help of his brother, an engineer working for an Agilent Technologies (A) spinoff; booked a trip to China; and began meeting with manufacturers. In 2009 he formed his company, V2Cigs, with four employees working out of an apartment.
    • Allyson Fea
       
      This article really display the effects of worldwide globalization, a theme we discussed in class. E-Cigs were created in China, but they quickly became a huge part of the US economy through electronic media and industry. Both of these are ways that new inventions can diffuse across the globe. Now many countries are using E-Cigs due to globalization.
    • Mr. Reidy
       
      Interesting graphic.
  • booked a trip to China; and began meeting with manufacturers.
    • Allyson Fea
       
      One thing we talked about in class was cheap labor. I find it very interesting that Verleur and his brother immediately thought to manufacture their product in China, almost as if this was the only place TO manufacture it. China provides very cheap labor for US companies and E-Cigs are probably not that expensive to ship, so they would save a lot of money.
    • Mr. Reidy
       
      I like your connection to this major site factor.
  • 250 employees, and 5 million customers worldwide.
  • six manufacturing facilities in Shenzhen, China
  • Miami headquarters,
  • commercially marketed device was created by a Chinese pharmacist, Hon Lik, and introduced to the Chinese market as a smoking cessation device in 2004.
  • iny fraction of what Americans spend on tobacco, but it’s pretty solid for an industry that barely existed five years ago.
    • Allyson Fea
       
      More examples of Globalization and Mobility as ECigs diffuse to different countries around the world. They were created through stimulus diffusion and now are expanding
    • Allyson Fea
       
      Will E-Cigs replace regular cigarettes in the near future? I wonder!
    • Allyson Fea
       
      This article relates to current events we looked at when we discussed the globalization of food products around the world, especially fast food, and how people in developing countries and developed countries all drink coca-cola, etc. Same with ECIGs
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    An article discussing how the E-Cigarette industry is quickly growing and diffusing around the world. 
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    Interesting choice of article Ally. I like how it show the production of the e cigarettes spreading all around the world, even to china, which shows globalization. Good Job!!
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    I think that it's very interesting how he moved to China immediately to build and produce his product. It must have had several appealing characteristics, perhaps cheap labor, resources, or less strict regulations. I wonder if the tobacco industry will try to combat e-cigs to protect their profits, maybe even by leading research on the effects of inhaling the nicotine vapors.
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    I Think that it was interesting that hey immediately thought to produce it in China. I have seen many start up businesses that was to get to manufacturing in China because it will cut down their production cost and it will increase their profit which is the goal of the business.
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    I was surprised to read that globally, cigarettes earn more than a half trillion dollars in sales annually because I thought the amount would be much less. With the rise in popularity of E-Cigerattes, the markets, as well as the inputs for cigarettes is likely to decline. In addition, I find it very interesting that the product, after improving it with access to technology and knowledge in the U.S., is produced in China. This is probably due to the cheap labor force, as well as the large amount of land available to produce the product, for production near urban and suburban areas could spark debate with health problems.
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    After reading Danyelle's article and the one we read in class, I wonder if the increase in Chinese wages will have an impact on the industries which produce the e-cig. If the factor of cheap labor is taken away, but available somewhere else, how will that shift the distribution and manufacturing of the cigarettes.
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    An article discussing how the E-Cigarette industry is quickly growing and diffusing around the world. 
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Growth Eases in China's Service Sector - NYTimes.com - 2 views

  • investors have sold stock and currency investments and moved them to developed markets. Signs of slowing or weak activity in China and other major emerging markets are further hastening this shift.
    • Padraic Manning
       
      I'm not surprised that business' are moving back to developed regions where they can target consumers with more range and money to buy there products.
    • Padraic Manning
       
      Cultural landscape is shown here as business' should expect growth to slow during this time because of cultural traditions in China.
    • Padraic Manning
       
      Shouldn't China's economy be growing since many manufacturing jobs are being outsourced from developed regions for cheap labor?
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  • The cooling growth in the service sector before the Lunar New Year, China’s biggest holiday, echoed a slowdown in its factories. Over the weekend, a government survey showed growth in Chinese factories slipped to a six-month low in January.
    • Padraic Manning
       
      I would have thought that a major holiday such as this would have caused a rise in the consumer services as people buy more goods to celebrate.
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    Padraic, I found your article to be interesting. You made a great point that China's manufacturing jobs should be increasing due to outsourcing. I agree that it is odd that growth is easing in China.
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    I am surprised by this, but yet again, I am not. Today we are seeing commercials on TV about "buying American" or even on news channels like ABC; they are pushing the regrowth of U.S. industry by purchasing domestic products. So this has the possibility for being a turning point for America.
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    I do agree that it is weird that manufacturing jobs in China are slowly decreasing but also at the same time it makes sense. Outsourcing takes a long time and even though transportation by ship is the cheapest transportation, it is also one of the most inefficient. With advanced technology, developed countries will be able to find ways to produce their own goods quicker and cheaper, causing outsourcing to be pointless. Until countries like China find a more efficient way of producing and transporting than the developed countries today, I believe that the amount of outsourcing will slowly decline.
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Construction industry seeing a shortage of workers - Business - The Buffalo News - 1 views

    • Elliott Bashore
       
      I'm surprised that with the current unemployment rate there is a shortage of people willing to do a job.
    • Elliott Bashore
       
      This is an example of nature culture because it displays how we as humans are interacting with the environment.
    • Elliott Bashore
       
      This is a direct connection to the industry sector because the most important site factor for companies is labor.
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    • Elliott Bashore
       
      Wouldn't the absence of unions make jobs less appealing in the construction industry?
    • Elliott Bashore
       
      This relates to the need for immigration reform in our country and the various points of view that must be looked at while creating a new bill. http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/04/07/raul-reyes-immigration-last-call/7424931/
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    It's interesting that there are less people going into construction even as a part time job since most college grads don't get a job right out of school. You would think that instead of working at a McDonalds or something people would do construction jobs where they have more of a chance to turn a profit and actually get a permanent job.
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    It is quite interesting to see that a large amount of construction workers are over the age of 55. This is going to cause problems within the field with less teens filling in their spots. As we learned in class those people over 55 will soon be added into the dependency ratio and they will no longer be able to work causing even more problems within the construction work force.
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