...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...Answers to the Chapter 3 Review Questions 1. You are in the vi editor and realize that you need to perform a file listing to check the name of a file. What command can you use from vi? Answer: c. :!ls 2. Your new assistant is trying to use vi, but each time he tries to type a line of text, it is not entered on the screen. What is the problem? Answer: a. He is not in insert mode. 3. In vi, a screen-oriented command ______________________, Answer: b. executes at the location of the cursor 4. You have been editing a file in vi and decide to undo the most recent two actions you have entered. What should you type? Answer: c. Press Esc, u, u. 5. You have placed the cursor in vi at the beginning of a line. While in the command mode, how can you delete the entire line? (Choose all that apply.) Answer: c. Type dd. 6. You are using vi to edit a configuration file, but decide to abort the editing session (you haven’t yet saved anything). What do you type from command mode? Answer: a. :q! 7. You open a large document in the vi editor and decide that you want to quickly place the cursor at the beginning of the last line. Which command mode option do you use? Answer: d. G 8. How can you start a Emacs and create a new file called budget at the same time? Answer: c. Type emacs budget at the command line. 9. You want to search for the word “egregious” in your text file while editing in Emacs. Which of...
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...The beginning of the industry The national demand of the public needing and wanting to be informed of local news stories, made William Caxton to set up the first English printing in Westminster in 1476. Oxford Gazette, printed in 1665 became The London Gazette in 1666 11 March 1702 - First daily newspaper named The Daily Courant The Times - first significant national newspaper (founded in1785 as Daily Universal Register) History development of the industry Time 17th 18th 19th 20th 21th What happened? • Pamphlets • First daily • The “golden • Newspapers • Decline of newspapers age” of have the industry newspapers emerged all over the country • News sheets • Sunday papers • First Ads • The format of papers changed • Decline of the industry • Online newspapers become more popular • Posters What the future may hold? Source Data: provided ABC What the future may hold? • It is estimated that newspaper market declined in 2007-2008 with 21% (Source OECD, 2010) What the future may hold? It is apparent that newspapers will no longer be in the format we are all used to seeing, as a hard copy; Hard copies will be replaced by online versions as a way for the industry to cope with the new technologies. What are the opportunities for a mediumsized player? Time spend on newspaper reading in the UK(2008) No time at all 32,3% Less than 0,5 hour 23,0% 0,5 hour to 1 hour 26,3 % More than 1 hour 18,3% Source:...
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...Journalism for this Harlow College alumnus began in 1980 at the age of 15 when he wrote an article about his local area cricket trip to Malta, earning him his first pay of £15 (thisismoney, 2011). This illustrates that it is vital for would-be print journalists to match their interest with corresponding action(s) early enough. This early start no doubt helped him to quickly become established in the profession while working as a reporter for The Wimbledon News and on The Sun in 1989 where he edited entertaining stories. As a reporter right from his days in the South London Press, Morgan had the dexterity of getting to make his interviewees talk even when they do not want to. This fact was corroborated by John Mulcaster, one-time associate editor of Sutton Herald, cited in Herbert (2012) as saying that he Morgan has a way of making people say what they would otherwise not have said. “Once sent on a story, he was sure to succeed”, Mulcaster stated (Ibid: 19). A typical example of this ability to make people open up can be seen during one of his interviews for Gentlemen Quarterly Magazine, when he had asked Boris Johnson, then Shadow Education Minister in UK, if “he could imagine having sex with Cherie Blair...
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...How to Create a Microsoft Access Macro to Import Information from a Text (.txt) File: Macros are operations used in Microsoft Access in order to automate functions in databases. They can be used to open reports, run queries, update the databases and import from various file formats such as Excel (.xls), database, (.dbf), and text (.txt). This article will explain, in a step-by-step format, how to import information from a text file, format the information for Access, and create the macro so each step will not need to be created every day. This will save you time and put some of the database operations into the hands of the end-users and freeing you to do other things. Prior to creating the macro, the creation and saving of the import specification will be explained. Importing from a text document (.txt) Prior to importing a text file, eliminate any spaces in front of the column headings. Usually, text file columns are separated by using semicolons. Ensure that there are no spaces between the semicolon and the column heading. By eliminating the spaces, you prevent importing errors and column heading issues so Access can recognize the headings. 1. Save then close the .txt file. 2. Next, go to "New" on the "Tables" tab. 3. Click on "Import table." 4. Change the "files of type" to Text Files. 5. Navigate to the text (.txt) file that you would like to import. 6. The "Import Text Wizard" dialog box will open. Select if your data is separated by characters...
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...The purpose of this programming assignment is to develop a file editor that supports both text as well as binary mode. You are already familiar with text editors, for example, while working with Linux OS you might have used vi, a full screen text editor or ex a line text editor. (If you do not know this then it is time you learn about it!) You would have noticed that neither of these text editors can be used effectively to edit non-text files, such as executable files, directory files or data files used for databases (try yourself). These files are not line oriented; they are not made up of lines of characters separated by newline characters. The binary file editing mode you will develop will be useful in studying and modifying such binary files....
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...other HTML tutorials, you may find that they mention certain things that HTML Dog does not. This is because many methods are obsolete, non-standard or just plain bad practice. Getting into the frame of mind of doing things the RIGHT way from the start will turn in to much better results in the end. Getting Started Most of the stuff on the web is no different than the stuff on your computer it's just a whole load of files sorted into a whole load of directories. HTML files are nothing more than simple text files, so to start writing in HTML, you need nothing more than a simple text editor. Notepad is a common example (on Windows this is usually found under the Programs > Accessories menu). Type this in to your text editor: This is my first web page Now create a folder called 'html' and save the file as 'myfirstpage.html' (it is important that the extension '.html' be specified - some text editors, such as Notepad, will automatically save it as '.txt' otherwise). To look at HTML files, they don't even need to be on the web. Open Internet Explorer, or any other web browser and in the address bar, where you usually type web addresses, type in the location of the file you just saved (for example, 'c:\html\myfirstpage.html') and hit return. Pow. There it is. Your first web page. How exciting. And all it took was a few typed words. Note...
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...Question 1. 1. (TCO B) Identify four categories of measures that might constitute a Balanced Scorecard of performance measures and provide an example of each. Also explain how a Balanced Scorecard could assist your organization. This answer must be in your own words—significant cut and paste from the text or other sources is not acceptable. (Points : 30) Spellchecker Question 2. 2. (TCO G) Explain the concept of the cost of quality model and then link your explanation to how quality can be defined by organizations. What are some advantages and disadvantages of the cost of quality model? This answer must be in your own words—significant cut and paste from the text or other sources is not acceptable. (Points : 30) Spellchecker Question 3. 3. (TCO G) Explain the concept of process management and specifically how flowcharting can be used to understand if changes are occurring in a process. This answer must be in your own words—significant cut and paste from the text or other sources is not acceptable. (Points : 30) Spellchecker Question 4. 4. (TCO C) Explain the concept of problem solving. Why is it important to gather critical information prior to defining a problem statement? This answer must be in your own words—significant cut and paste from the text or other sources is not acceptable. (Points : 40) Spellchecker Question 5. 5. (TCO C) Explain the concept of control charts. Why should control limits not be...
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...Lab 10: File Access This lab accompanies Chapter 10 of Starting Out with Programming Logic & Design. Lab 10.1 – File Access and Visual Basic This lab examines how to work with a file by writing Visual Basic code. Read the following programming problem prior to completing the lab. Write and design a simple program that will take 3 pieces of data and write it to a file. Create variables and set them equal to the appropriate values: Declare string firstName = “xxx” Declare string lastName = “xxx” Declare integer age = your age Write this information to a file called myRecords.txt. Next, read this information from the file and print it to the screen. Step 1: Create a new Visual Basic workspace and add the following code: Module Module1 Sub Main() Dim firstName As String = "XXXX" Dim lastName As String = "XXX" Dim age As Integer = #### Dim writer As System.IO.StreamWriter = System.IO.File.CreateText("myRecords.txt") writer.WriteLine(firstName & " " & lastName & " " & age) writer.Close() Dim reader As System.IO.StreamReader = System.IO.File.OpenText("myRecords.txt") Dim myInfo As String = reader.ReadLine() Console.WriteLine(myInfo) reader.Close() 'this causes a pause so you can see your program Console.Write("Press enter to continue...") Console.ReadLine() End Sub End Module Step 2: Change the...
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