...Letters to the Editors Daily Dawn Karachi letters@dawn.com Outrageous is the word. For that is how the Prime Minister of Pakistan’s reported act of giving a three million rupee wrist watch to an actor of average propensity should be described. That the gift was made from public money to an actor who cannot even speak the national language properly (neither for that matter, can the prime minister himself) goes beyond doubt, for they are not there to squander their own wealth in rewarding citizens, or undertake those countless trips abroad, nor buy ostentatious livery commensurate with their station, except from the debt-infested economy where money can be borrowed at will to fuel their desires. Prime Minister of Pakistan has not only set an ungainly example of how a poor, hapless peoples’ hard earned wealth is laid waste as if it was enemy property, but he has no moral justification in doing so unless he was doing it from his own pocket. In order to atone for a bad deed the Prime Minister’s office must ask the gift back from the beneficiary. Since that is not likely to come about in the Islamic Republic, I urge upon the veritable political parties, through those public representatives peopling the assemblies and the senate, and those countless NGO’s with enough clout to apply enough moral pressure on the government to retract and deposit the gift back into the government treasury (Toushakhana), unless of course the beneficiary is prepared to buy it at the price...
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...alarming effect of photo editors. It will focus on how these editors can be used for destructive purposes, how their usage has altered people’s mind and created problem in businesses and personal life of individuals. Report will also include suggestions to the problem under discussion. * Photo Editors Photo Editors are those software that are used to manipulate, enhance, and transform images on a computer. With the advancement in technology, now a huge number of photo editors are available online i.e. there is no need to download photo editing software. There are hundreds of such software available and they all provide almost same functionality. Some basic features of such software are crop, resize, merge, and liquefy, adding texture, changing color and so on. * Adverse Use of Photo Editors * Photo editing can be used to destroy company’s reputation. Edited pictures, with fake results/effects of the product can be used to displease their consumers. * Edited pictures such as attaching someone’s face to someone else’s body can be used to give threats. The victim can be forced that way to provide money to the editor or obey his orders. * Companies can use it for fraud. They might show fake pictures to the customers and convince them to use their products. * Sometimes people use editors to display fake story. That story might get viral over the internet and bring fame/satisfaction to the person who created it. * Photo editors can be used to easily remove...
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...CIS 206 iLab 5 Using the Vim Editor Get Tutorial by Clicking on the link below or Copy Paste Link in Your Browser https://hwguiders.com/downloads/cis-206-ilab-5-using-vim-editor/ For More Courses and Exams use this form ( http://hwguiders.com/contact-us/ ) Feel Free to Search your Class through Our Product Categories or From Our Search Bar (http://hwguiders.com/ ) Lab #: 5 Lab Title: Using the Vim Editor Student Name: Date: Prepare this Lab Report when you have completed and lab assignment. Include any charts, graphs required to complete the lab. Refer to your initial lab plan to respond to the first questions. 1. Define the problem you were solving in this lab. (If any) This weeks iLab was instructing us on how to create files, enter and edit lines of text, search for text strings, replace text strings, and create a script file to work with directories and files. 2. What challenges did you meet in working towards completing the Lab? One challenge I faced was in Step 4. I was instructed in the video tutorial to Highlight the text “Hello World” and press the ‘N’ key to make that text highlighted. When I pressed ‘N’ I received a “Pattern Not Found: 640” error message. This is shown in the third Screenshot of Step 4 pasted below. I also initially had trouble with Step 6 Part A, changing “bit” to “five”. 3. Were you successful in solving the problem? Did you use methods you learned in class? If yes, explain your solution, if no, explain...
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...incompatibilities. To examine the theory, I collect monthly personnel data from about 200 journalists over three years in a Chinese newspaper, and provide evidence on their incentives and performance under two basic organizational forms — centralization and decentralization. Relying on an unexpected organizational reform from decentralizing to centralizing editorial power in some divisions of the newspaper, I …nd three main results: 1) centralization improves the quality of the journalists’performance, in terms of the newspaper’ inters nal assessment and the external measures of news content; 2) centralization reduces the journalists’activities for private gain; 3) centralization decreases the editorial activities conducted by managing editors. These results are in line with the theory: a more centralized hierarchy achieves better control over workers’ opportunistic behaviour, at the cost of depressing middle managers’initiative. Key Words: Authority, Organizational Structure, Incentives, Information, Action Distortion, Decision Bias, Media Bias JEL Classi…cations: D2 J5 L2 M5 Economics Department and Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK. Email: y.wu8@lse.ac.uk. I am extremely grateful to Oriana Bandiera, Luis Garicano, Stephen Redding and Daniel Sturm for their encouragement and support throughout this project. I would also like to thank Marianne Bertrand, Jordi Blanes i Vidal, Robin...
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...publishing process to give you adequate information to make your decisions. In addition you will need to know the following information: You will use the project scenario you worked on in Unit I. In addition to the Unit I information, your boss has given you a budget of $7 million to complete the projects you have on the table. You will be working with the marketing department, the IT department, and the school-level division department throughout the next three years in order to complete these projects. Also remember that you do not have all the resources you need for the multi-media project. The textbook revisions and Engineering project come from your department and use writers, editors, and, instructional designers. The writers and instructional designers must rewrite the textbooks and send them to the editors. The final products are then sent to the publishing department. The task force project will include instructional designers from your department (some of the same ones who need to work on the...
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...man who has joined his father business of newspaper in his early thirties and has changed the rules of game forever. Samir Jain who had a deep distrust of editors and feared for his ruthlessness has bring dramatically changes like abolishing the post of editor, increasing the profit 111times over a decade, evolving his news business into the advertising business. During this period he has been compared with personalities like Murdoch for creating phenomenal profit in small span of time and opposing diarchy in the office. He had faced lot of criticism not only from former editors like Dileep Padgaonkar but also from the rival publishers for the business and marketing strategies that he has been following. His business objective were clear he is aiming for the market share and not for market share of volume and revenue and as a result he has managed to gain the wealth in this process but other still criticized him saying that the strategy of price cutting only works in mature markets but in long run value addition is a better strategy to bet on. Key Issues * Change in organizational Structure: - Samir Jain wants the complete control over the business operations so he decided to abolish the post of the editors but due to certain legal restriction it is not possible to do so, therefore he has abolish the position of editor internally. He designed the hierarchy in such a way that give me complete control over the business operations. In this kind of structure the authority and...
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...contributions that advance the science and technology of membrane processes and phenomena.The primary emphasis is on the structure and function of non-biological membranes, but papers bridging the gap between non-biological and biological membranes are sought. A broad spectrum of papers is encouraged: • theory of membrane transport • experimental data on membrane permeation • membrane structure and its relation to transport • membrane processes with a focus on membrane science aspects The Journal of Membrane Science publishes Full Text Papers, State-of-the-Art Reviews and Letters to the Editors. Prospective Review authors are requested to contact one of the Editors prior to submission. Editor-in-Chief: A.L. Zydney Department of Chemical Engineering, 160 Fenske Laboratory, Pennsylvania State University, PA 16802-4400, USA; Tel: +1 814 863-7113; Fax: +1 814 865-7846; e-mail: zydney@engr.psu.edu Editors: P. Aimar, Laboratoire de Genie Chimique,118 Route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse Cedex, France, Fax: +33 5 6155 61 39 M.D. Guiver, National Research Council of Canada, Institute for Chemical Process & Environmental Technology, ICPET, Building M-12, 1200 Montreal Road, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0R6, Canada; Tel: +1(613) 993-9753; Fax: +1 (613) 991-2384; E-mail: michael.guiver@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca Y.M.Lee, School of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul 133–791, South Korea; Tel.: (ϩ82-2)2291-9683; Fax: (ϩ82-2)2291-5982; e-mail: ymlee@hanyang.ac.kr Y.S. Lin, Department...
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...Top 10 Deaths in the World of PlayStation, PC and Xbox Video game deaths can be comical, brutal, annoying, and also ridiculous. However, whatever the case sometimes when you die in a video game it is amazing. With this in mind, here are some of the greatest deaths in the world of PC, Xbox, and PlayStation. Also, please note that not every single one of these deaths will be in all three platforms. However, each death will be in at least one world between PlayStation, Xbox, and PC. 10. GRAND THEFT AUTO 4 I know this is going to take some flak, but every death is amazing in this PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 game. I know I am not being specific, but go through the game and pick your favorite death. There are too many too chose from, and that is why the entire game is number ten. 9. MANHUNT 2 Manhunt 2 is a brutal video game for the PC and PlayStation 2, and the deaths in the game will make you queasy. The most brutal of them all, though, is being killed by a crowbar. This tops every single death in the game, and watching the animation of the crowbar dismantling the skull is unsettling. 8. DEAD SPACE 2 One of the characters in Dead Space 2, for PC, PlayStation, and Xbox, was involved in a very unique death. The character was lying on a table and a laser was reading his eye. Then, the machine's arm dropped down and ripped his head to shreds. The scene was very bloody, and I can't think of a worse way to be killed. 7. RESIDENT EVIL 4 Although Resident Evil 4 was originally...
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...samanci95@hotmail.com to rs.eg@analys.urkund.se. The document has been allocated a reference ID - D8656461. Please save these details for future reference. Please fill in your name so that we can link your name to your e-mail address. https://secure.urkund.com/submitter/Submitter/Register/2024820-688395-156425 Regards, Urkund automatic registrar This is an automatic e-mail message. You cannot reply to it. If you have questions about Urkund and its use, contact our Customer Support: +46 (0)8 738 5210 (Mon-Fri 08.00-16.30) or by e-mail to support@urkund.se B 1. Give an outline of the various attitudes to the show Boys and Girls Alone expressed in “Letters to the Editor” (text 1) and “I was right to put TJ on TV” (text 2) In the first part of the text “Letters to the Editor” we read how Channel 4 explains to Dr. Richard House that the children are safe and it is all good. How the children’s welfare comes in first place and that the parents can talk to their child whenever they want to and even take them out of the show if that is necessary. The text is all positive and Andrew Mackenzie who writes the letter makes sure that it can’t be misunderstood in any way that the children are safe. The other part of the text is written by Dr. Richard House who is a Senior Lecturer in Psychotherapy. This part of the text is total opposite from the first. Dr. House means the program is “a grotesque social experiment conducted on child guinea-pigs”. It is easy to hear...
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...Letter to the Editor Letter to the Editor In trying to meet the needs of aging adults and the elderly there are many caregivers, and responsible parties to assist with aiding an aging adult. Each individual and each situation has unique circumstances. However there are many people involved in the care and decisions surrounding older adults. Many times when aging individuals begin to need assistance, or help the question is who will take this responsibility, who will protect the elderly? More often than not family members are the first to step and take on the responsibility of elderly family members. Granted family may not always be the best option for taking on the responsibility of another, there may alternate motives, or the family may not be providing the best care. This is why it will really depend because each individual’s situation will differ from another. In some instances an aging adult may not have any family that can take on this responsibility. Therefore in some instances close friends or acquaintance may need to take this role. As stated previously this will depend on the individual circumstance of the aging adult. There may be instances where friends or acquaintance may not be the best option; they may not be protecting the elderly. Additionally there are also times that elderly individuals are not able to make decisions; there may be diminished competency which does not allow the person to make choices for themselves. Hospitals, community organizations, and...
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...Kirsty Archer RE: ”Sydney cyclist loses function in hand after collision with car” I write to you in relation to the before mentioned article you have written in the Sydney Morning Herald. Though I do feel for those who were injured in this collision, it begs the question; should they be on our roads at all? In Sydney alone, tax payers have facilitated a bike path plan at the cost of $5.4 million that will now be removed. In its place the government has proposed spending an unimaginable $76 million on a European-style cycle way. So in a city already crippled by congestion, we have decided to narrow roads to assist cyclists? Yet they pay no registration, no green slip, have no motors, no indicators or mirrors and weigh a mere 9kg on average more than the pedestrians (weight of bike) we do our best to shelter on footpaths? In the article it is suggested that bike lanes be installed on the stretch of road where the collision occurred, where does it end? The common complaint amongst motorists about cyclists is that they ride in large groups. Instead of being in a single file formation, they resemble a cluster and ride dangerously close to road lanes. I frequently observe cyclists on the wrong side of the road, ignoring traffic laws, going through red lights and often fail to indicate their intention of turning. I strongly believe that something needs to be done in order for this unfortunate situation to not be repeated. If cyclists want to be treated like a motorist...
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...what is GIMP editor -GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. what are the tools that are used in GIMP editor -1. The Toolbox 1.1. Introduction 1.2. Tool Icons 1.3. Color and Indicator Area 1.4. Tool Options 2. Selection Tools 2.1. Common Features 2.2. Rectangle Selection 2.3. Ellipse Selection 2.4. Free Selection (Lasso) 2.5. Fuzzy selection (Magic wand) 2.6. Select By Color 2.7. Intelligent Scissors 2.8. Foreground Select 3. Paint Tools 3.1. Common Features 3.2. Dynamics 3.3. Brush Tools (Pencil, Paintbrush, Airbrush) 3.4. Bucket Fill 3.5. Blend 3.6. Pencil 3.7. Paintbrush 3.8. Eraser 3.9. Airbrush 3.10. Ink 3.11. Clone 3.12. Heal 3.13. Perspective Clone 3.14. Blur/Sharpen 3.15. Smudge 3.16. Dodge/Burn 4. Transform Tools 4.1. Common Features 4.2. Align 4.3. Move 4.4. Crop 4.5. Rotate 4.6. Scale 4.7. Shear 4.8. Perspective 4.9. Flip 4.10. The Cage Tool 5. Color Tools 5.1. Overview 5.2. Color Balance 5.3. Hue-Saturation 5.4. Colorize 5.5. Brightness-Contrast 5.6. Threshold 5.7. Levels 5.8. Curves 5.9. Posterize 5.10. Desaturate 6. Other 6.1. Overview 6.2. Paths 6.3. Color Picker 6.4. Zoom 6.5. Measure 6.6. Text 6.7. GEGL...
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...Prewriting for Letter Assignment 1. Theme/Topic: (Choose: Education, Technology, Family, Health and Wellness) Technology- Perils of social networking, using social network to background check prospective employees 2. Angle: Arguable topics are those that have at least two sides. Choose a side that you agree or disagree with. I am going to argue that it is an unfair practice for potential employers to use social networking to disqualify candidates for future employment. 3. Purpose and Thesis: The purpose identifies whether you’re writing to support, refute, or extend the ideas of the publication to which you are responding. The thesis statement lets the reader know what to expect in your letter. To complete your thesis, start with a formula such as “I agree with [topic/issue/author] because…” OR “I do not agree with [topic/issue/author] because…” I do not agree with the practice of prospective employers using Facebook to investigate their employees. 4. Reader/Audience Profile a. Readers’ Expectations: Write down the specific expectations of readers of the publication and how you plan to accommodate them. Readers would expect to read why prospective employers should not use social media to investigate their job applicants. I will use examples from my research of how this practice can negatively affect the process of finding qualified candidates. b. Readers’ Values/Attitudes: Write down your readers’ values and attitudes toward the issue and how they...
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...Letter to Editor Dear Editor: On August 8 in 2007 Barry Bonds broke the Major League Baseball (MLB) home run records by 31years. However, most major newspapers and magazines columns were indifferent and negative to his home run record. The expressions from them are very different from wild enthusiasms and cheers when he broke Mark McGwire’s single season home run record because Bonds is under suspicion for steroid use. Beside in these cases, major leaguers’ performance enhancing drugs stories rise out many different way such as Jose Canseco autobiography, Mark McGwire admits he uses the steroids and goes on to hit a then record 70 homers. According to the MLB official site, the investigation of MLB organization found that 5 percent to 7 percent of 1438 tests were positive about performance enhancing drugs during the 2003 season. The Major League player were used performance enhancing drug and even existence of the drug policy keep under suspicion about it nowadays . So, I think MLB need to improve current performance enhancing drugs policy. According to the MLB official site, Major League Baseball’s drug policy joint drug prevention and treatment program is established by agreement after the 2004 season between the MLB Players Association and the Office of the Commissioner of Major League Baseball in order to ban baseball players’ performance enhancing drugs including anabolic steroids and other illegal drugs. There was one unannounced mandatory test for...
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...The Honorable Gregory A. Ballard Mayor of Indianapolis 2501 City-County Bldg. 200 E. Washington St. Indianapolis, IN 46204 Dear Mayor, Today with the advanced progress of medical science and the health system capacity, the population‘s health care seeking behavior is much more improved. However the fact that people’s access to good health care should or should not depend on social factors such as their level of income or social status has so far aroused much concerns. As far as I am concerned, all people should be allowed to access health care services[->0] regardless of their social backgrounds. Good care access is considered as one of the essential human rights. This matter has become far more pressing in this modern society. People day by day suffer from inevitable new threats that strongly affect their length of life such as terminal illness, accidents, epidemics and other emerging diseases like stress and so forth. Health care service is therefore very important to ensure people’s survival first, and then step by step improve people’s quality of life. Getting accessed to health system[->1] for all people is one of the effective solutions to narrow down the gap between the rich and the poor. As the poor are offered chances to improve both physical and mental health, they are more likely to get jobs and work more efficiently. In this way, they are able to escape the overwhelming poverty and explore their potential capacity. Throughout so many years...
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