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Shaw, Stanford (1982). Osmanlı İmparatorluğu. Çev. Mehmet Harmancı, İstanbul: Sermet Matb.
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COAI
Cellular Operators Association of India
Bharti Airtel Vodafone
Airtel, Vodafone, Jio submit call traffic details to Trai
The details submitted by the five operators pertain to call traffic patterns, it is unlikely to be directly relevant to the inter-connect dispute.PTI | September 19, 2016, 17:20 IST
NEW DELHI: Mobile operators, including Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Reliance Jio, have submitted call traffic data to Trai, a move that will enable the regulator to look at the pattern, including asymmetric traffic on networks, as part of its consultation on inter-connection usage charges.
"The data pertaining to incoming and outgoing minutes have been submitted by the operators - Bharti Airtel, Vodafone, Reliance Jio, BSNL and MTNL... The data will enable Trai to examine asymmetry of traffic in the context of the IUC consultation paper that has been floated recently," sources told PTI.
Although the details submitted by the five operators pertain to call traffic patterns, it is unlikely to be directly relevant to the inter-connect dispute that is currently playing out in the telecom sector where incumbent operators have clashed with Reliance Jio for unleashing "unprecedented asymmetry of traffic".
This is because the data pertain to July when the new entrant was still in a test phase, the sources added.
"Theoretically, the incoming calls should be equal to outgoing calls, that is, in 4-5 years, call traffic tends to become symmetric... but some operators claim there is asymmetry... so we sought operator-wise data on how much asymmetry exists, which operators are facing it, what is the reason... is it due to tariff plans or consumer behaviour," the sources added.
The operators, who had earlier not submitted these details even after a reminder, were given time till September 16 to submit the same.
Last month, Trai had issued a discussion paper to review inter-connection usage charges (IUC) following a complaint by the Cellular Operators Association of India against a BSNL service that allowed its subscribers to make calls on mobile and landline through a mobile app. COAI had alleged that the offer was in violation of licensing norms as well as inter-connection pacts.
Inter-connection enables mobile users to make calls to customers of other telecom networks and is therefore crucial for smooth functioning of a mobile service.
A mobile operator levies IUC for each incoming call it gets from subscriber of another network and the mobile to mobile termination charge is currently pegged at 14 paise. The regulator has sought comments from stakeholders on reviewing these charges under the IUC consultation process.
However, the incumbent operators - engaged in a bitter fight with the new operator Reliance Jio - have been claiming that the real cost of termination is significantly higher than the current inter-connect settlement charge of 14 paise per minute as prescribed in the present IUC regime.
The incumbent players claim that they are incurring increasing costs due to high level of asymmetric traffic coming in from the Jio network.
4G LTE: How Reliance Jio, Airtel, Vodafone, Idea, Aircel stack up
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ARCTIC AURORA WATCH: A magnetic filament on the sun erupted during the late hours of Sept. 10th, hurling a bright coronal mass ejection (CME) into space. The CME is not heading directly for Earth, but the cloud's southern flank could deliver a glancing blow to our planet's magnetic field on Sept. 12th or (more likely) Sept. 13th. People in Alaska, Canada, Iceland, Greenland and Scandinavia should be alert for Northern Lights in the nights ahead. Check http://spaceweather.com for updates and movies of the eruption that prompted this alert.
Get your batteries ready, folks in the high latitides, and prepare for the sublime torture of the aurora!
Ed Stockard, a contestant in the Air Greenland photo contest, has visited Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, in February a number of times to assist with flight operations for Summit Station winter staff turnover/resupply. So he's experienced the aurora cat and mouse game many times. "Aurora photography for me has been hit and miss," he writes. "Well maybe there are a lot of misses.
"I've found that I have to be proactive and have the camera ready on the tripod and batteries charged up. The northern lights can come and go quickly. On some trips to Kangerlussuaq I don't see any due to weather or lack of solar activity. I subscribe to alerts at spaceweather.com to give me clues of high activity times."
Have you voted for Ed Stockard to win the Air Greenland photo contest yet? Well, do it again!
Ed's photo has been selected by Air Greenland as a finalist in the contest. The artist has done all he can; now you need to vote. If he wins, Ed will receive two travel vouchers from Air Greenland. Vote for Ed!


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In bowl, whisk together eggs, 2 tsp (10 mL) water, salt and pepper. In small nonstick skillet, heat butter over medium heat; cook ham and green onion for 1 or 2 minutes or until onion softens.
Add egg mixture; cook for 3 or 4 minutes or until egg mixture starts to set around edges. Flip over and top with cheese slices; cook for about 2 minutes or until eggs are fully set and cheese is melted. Cut in half and serve on toasted bagel halves.
Tips: For a vegetarian sandwich, omit ham.
Serve with lettuce and tomato slices if desired.
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On the eve of Delia Derbyshire day in Manchester, we're reminded of the day we found her childhood gas-mask.
Derbyshire's neglected musical legacy has had a good dusting-off in the years since her untimely death, and people are a lot more aware of the amazing sound-worlds she created at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and as part of White Noise. (If you're not, check out Martin Guy's Audiological Chronology, or if you're in a hurry just watch this youtube clip.) There's barely a trace of her in her hometown though, so when we had the opportunity to put on a music/film event in Coventry, Delia was the natural focus.
A bit of digging in the local library revealed the address where she grew up, and a week before the gig I popped over there just to get a photo of it. While I was standing outside with the camera a man came outside to see what I was up to, and mentioned that there were some boxes in the attic that might be of interest. (Delia's mum had carried on living in the house right up until the 1990s.) Heart thumping, I went in for a cup of tea and a gentle rummage through Delia Derbyshire's childhood: school homework (including an essay bemoaning "the low standard of broadcast programmes"), doodles, cuttings, Girl Guide membership card, and a rusty round tin containing a gas-mask for a small child, with 'Delia Derbyshire' scratched on the lid. Her early years coincided with the bombing of Coventry, and given that the family lived just up the road from the Alvis armaments factory their neighbourhood took quite a battering. They temporarily relocated up north part way through the war, but the blitz left its mark on Derbyshire and can be heard in her work.
Three hours in that house flew by, and I remember being very late to pick the kids up from school. A little scrapbook of our findings went on show at the event the following week, and some of them can also be browsed on the 7inch website. I'm not sure what happened to the boxes, but I hope they've found their way to a good archive.


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October 1, 1997 / Fourth Quarter 1997 / Issue 9 (originally published by Booz & Company)
What Does Business Owe Society?
by Bernard Avishai
Tomorrow is my last day as C.E.O. The first was more than 23 years ago. I suppose you're expecting some words of gratitude -- you richly deserve them -- but indulge me.
I want to talk to you about something that has been weighing on my mind more and more in recent years, but I could never find the words or opportunity to raise. It is about what business owes society, what has fashionably and not improperly been called business' "social compact." Nothing could be more important than clarity about this, given the disturbing changes we've been living through. Everyone, from Business Week to former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, says we need a new one. But it seems to me there has been growing confusion about business' obligations under this compact because we have forgotten some first principles.
A friend of mine once quipped that America is the only country in the world where people tell you, "You're history," and they're insulting you. Whether I like it or not, I'm too old now not to know some history. Retirement brings one to consider the work of our lives, and, in any case, takes away the excessive fear of appearing tactless. So I want to start by examining what in the conditions of work has changed, and what has not. I'll build on that to argue what, if anything, needs to be changed in the compact between business and society.
The most direct way to get into this is to think about what has happened to the circumstances of "labor." I'll just touch on some points, which have been extensively debated in the press and in the recent election campaign.
Labor is a fast diminishing part of value. When I first joined this business, in 1954, the cost structure of our manufactured products included about 55 percent direct labor. Today, the number is less than 11 percent. There is a revolution underneath that deceptively simple number; you would not still be senior managers of this company if you didn't appreciate it.
Blue-collar jobs have been made redundant by robotics, flexible machine tools and automated inventory management systems, others by outsourcing to low-wage countries. White-collar jobs have been made redundant by scheduling, order entry, word-processing and dozens of other kinds of software -- and more recently by growth of our fledgling corporate intranet. Middle management is disappearing.
Some have called this a revolution of re-engineering. It is really a revolution in computer-integrated production, and we are only at the start of it. While the market capitalization of the Fortune 500 has grown three- or fourfold since the early 1980's, their work forces have shrunk by 25 percent.
Lost jobs? Good riddance. Remember Michael Dukakis's earnest promise of "good jobs at good wages." His campaign now seems quaint. The new entrepreneurial economy -- technology companies with 500 employees or less -- is responsible for virtually all of the job growth since 1988, and no Federal industrial policy could have precipitated so much dynamism. Investors, not the Government, have been picking winners and losers, and on the whole have not done a bad job of it. Businesses, not Department of Commerce officials, have made the necessary investments in crucial technologies.
What Mr. Dukakis neglected to add, moreover, was that the "good" jobs he wanted to assure through a Government industrial policy were mainly boring, soul-destroying and intellectually demeaning -- production-line assemblers, data processors, the kinds of jobs that were the hallmark of old manufacturing. Frederick Winslow Taylor once wrote that the best businesses were the ones in which workers "left their heads at home." He was right, which explains why socialism had always seemed so magical for working people who could not bring off the feat.
Anyway, much of this dehumanizing work is impossible in the businesses of the new economy. Manufacturing and service businesses like ours want fewer workers, but we want all of our people to be literate, numerate, imaginative and civil enough to engage in team-based problem-solving. We want a scientific mind for production, and an empathic heart for customers and fellow workers. We know that manufacturing matters, but that developing a piece of scheduling software for a plant in Taiwan is manufacturing. All in all, this new style of work is significantly more satisfying than what it has replaced. If socialism is dead, it is because the industrial capitalism it rose up against died first.
The game into which workers are recruited has changed. The new technologies have changed the rules of management: the old division of labor has been replaced by more integrative approaches, interfunctional teamwork, knowledge sharing. A business' most important asset is its "intellectual capital"-- the competencies of employees that allow them to be innovative in a thousand ways. Employees must be learners for their whole lives, not just specialists. They must also understand the business' strategy.
A company used to be like a football team, in which only senior managers, like quarterbacks, saw the whole field, and most everybody else performed a single, drudge task. Your plays (that is, your product lines) were mostly set for the long season; the few times you got close to the goal you had better score. Bigness mattered.
Now a company has to be more like a basketball team -- or really an alliance of basketball teams -- lean, versatile, disciplined in spontaneity. Marketing, design and production people take on problems together; senior managers must lead like a point guard. Real-time communication is key, and it must be horizontal, not just vertical. Networks are replacing hierarchy. The corporate office I run looks more like a holding company, a teaching center and a bank than it does a command center.
By the way, a football team can have too many Dan Marinos. A basketball team can never have too many Michael Jordans, and has no room at all for a 300-pound, barely educated tackle.
Labor's real crisis is not unemployment but unemployability. Of course, the only thing worse than a boring job is no job, which is why some people -- opponents of Nafta or the critics of outsourcing, for example -- view the loss of old industrial jobs with alarm. Their concerns are reasonable. Their solutions are not. Don't be fooled by apparent fluctuations -- last year's "downsizing" or this year's drop in unemployment. For the first time in the history of industrial labor markets, the problem for unskilled people is not cyclical unemployment but chronic unemployability. The bottom rungs of the ladder are disappearing; protection and macro-economic "stimulation" can do nothing to change the trend.
When I was a teen-ager, we would hear often about friends who dropped out of high school to start a family and "go to work." The very idea today would be ridiculous. For people with reasonably sophisticated skills, the job market will always recover: Lazard Frères has found that during the recovery of 1994-96, 1.5 million jobs were created for every million jobs lost, and most of the new ones are in smaller businesses. But people without skills will be heartbroken. The days of U.A.W. people making $18 an hour with nothing but a couple of years of high school are gone.
Unskilled labor is no longer being compensated, and can never be compensated, with a dignified wage. Advocates for protection and stimulation can, to be sure, create a demand for some low-end jobs in the short run. But nobody can raise a family on what these jobs pay. And the problem will only get worse. Any job that is still simple and repetitive enough to employ a semi- or non-skilled person is going to be even more pressured by new software or by contractor-suppliers in China and Brazil.
The result will be growing and tragic inequalities. Even the Harvard Business Review has worried about the development of an "apartheid economy" in advanced industrial countries, and for good reason. Income inequalities between people who can engage in team-based problem-solving and people who cannot are growing. According to H.B.R., between the early 1970's and the mid-90's, real income in the top deciles grew about 5 percent (personally, I think this is seriously underestimated), while it declined about 15 percent in the bottom deciles. College graduates earned about 43 percent more than high school graduates 20 years ago. They are earning 82 percent more today. The gap, in both cases, is widening. We are becoming two societies.
Labor unions will not make a difference. It was precisely because direct labor used to be so simple, mechanical and yet critical to value creation that labor unions made sense. Unions were a way for whole categories of workers to get some needed leverage in wage negotiation, and, let's face it, a psychological lift from solidarity -- and one could speak of "categories" of workers because tasks were so elementary, and skills so pathetically interchangeable. Unions were also a way for companies to negotiate a predictable supply of labor for a set period, though it took some growing up for management in manufacturing companies to learn that lesson.
Anyway, the logic behind unions may still apply to some kinds of work -- fast-food servers, apparel assemblers, hospital orderlies. But, again, any job that is simple and repetitive, that requires so little individual creativity that an employee would rather join a union than negotiate an individual career path, will become a prime target for the computer-integrative technologies as the years go by.
The U.A.W.'s recent fight with General Motors over outsourcing is like Canute trying to hold back the sea. No wonder less than 15 percent of workers are in unions today, whereas 35 percent of workers were in unions in the 1960's.
These changes in the circumstances of labor have, clearly, been both very much for the better and very much for the worse. They have meant that virtually all employees in our companies will have the chance for more agreeable work than factory "hands" ever had. As barriers to entry drop in virtually every industry, equality of opportunity is more assured than ever before.
But equality of result seems less assured. The number of people any individual company needs per dollar of sales is declining rapidly. People who create value, and are seen to create it, will do very well. People who cannot prove themselves will be in trouble. An "up or out" dynamic is taking over the management of knowledge businesses, that is, all business, just as it dominates all knowledge institutions.
These changes have presented democracy with more exciting opportunity and more terrible danger than ordinary citizens ever had to face before. On the positive side, one can see a true Jeffersonian republic taking shape at last, in which cyberspace presents a forever-opening frontier, and nobody has to become a machine put to work for somebody else. The outlines of this new republic are
already visible in Silicon Valley, in Tech Square in Cambridge, Mass., in Austin, Tex. -- or in Haifa, Israel.
Imagine an end to degrading work, imagine how the basic skills of business reinforce -- as never before -- the basic skills of democratic citizenship, skills like the capacity to navigate and analyze streams of information, the wit to make a succinct presentation, the acuity to read critically, write persuasively, organize material and communicate one's views about it.
And yet, who are we kidding? People who haven't the equivalent of something like early-college-level skills cannot hope to even get through the doors of companies like Motorola, General Motors, Fidelity or any of the start-ups of the new economy. Statistics are not definitive in this realm, but I think we can safely assume from basic literacy figures that at least 25 percent of the current American work force is not sufficiently educated to be qualified for jobs that would pay enough to sustain the middle-class life of, say, Archie Bunker. If you think about who votes, or reads the newspaper, we might be talking about 40 percent.
All of this means that 10 or 20 or 30 million people -- people with children, people hobbled by dullness and self-doubt, people who played by rules that simply evaporated from the time they were 15 to the time they were 35 -- are hard pressed to see a future. Or make sense of the past. After all, the school system we conceived, the union movements we adjusted to, the "leading" economic indicators we tracked, the Government programs we put in place -- none of these things assumed that virtually every member of society would need the equivalent of college-level skill just to get a decent job.
Something dramatic will have to be done, and market forces alone cannot be trusted here. Markets are fair by definition, but markets are not life. People cannot be expected to think that they deserve their fate simply because they were born into changing competitive rules. This is the only life they will live.
I am not quite old enough to have fought against the fascism of the 1930's, but I am not so young as to forget that resentment, ignorance and desperation breed violent kinds of politics. The riots of South Central Los Angeles, the militia movements and the increase in terrorism, the coarsening of mass entertainment -- all of these things should be taken as cautionary signs. We cannot assume that a third of our citizens will live in the Third World, and that we will live in the First.
What is business' responsibility in this crisis? Is this business' problem? Well, in some obvious sense it is. Social dislocation certainly makes problems for us, which I'll get back to in a little while. But that is not what most people mean when they try to enlist business in solutions. They mean that the crisis is caused by the actions of business, and that it is up to business to make things better.
They see that we lay off workers, or refuse to hire the undereducated. They see our growing profits, our rising salaries for entrepreneurial executives, our foreign operations, the resources at our command. They jump to the conclusion that corporate greed is the source of their problem. They imagine what a force for social good individual companies could be if only they acted "responsibly."
This kind of argument confuses cause with effect. But it is especially strong in cities where very powerful global corporations have a long history of trying to be "good corporate citizens" -- Ford in Detroit, Motorola in Chicago, Coca-Cola in Atlanta, Levi Strauss in San Francisco. Ironically, the more enlightened companies are, the more they contribute to public confusion.
Our best companies aspire to be learning organizations, investing as much as 2 to 3 percent of their payroll in training and retraining employees. They invest more than many universities in leading technologies. They aim to attract talent with excellent wellness and child-care benefits. They sponsor programs that encourage employees to speak their minds. They institute profit-sharing and stock-purchase plans. Motorola is rolling out, worldwide, a program called "Individual Dignity and Entitlement," in which every employee is encouraged to have regular conversations with his or her boss about whether the job is meaningful -- meaningful not only to the company, but also to the individual employee. Robert Haas, the chief executive of Levi Strauss, is proud to say his company is run by "values," like "permission to disagree," which can be an awful lot like the values of citizens: truth, learning, devolution of power.
Compounding this whole misconception about the role of companies is a certain nostalgia for the great American corporations of the 50's and 60's, corporations that supposedly made commitments never to fire middle-management people, corporations that seemed patriotic because they brought the American way all over the world, corporations in which a person could spend a whole life -- the place where pensions were vested, mortgages were secured, social connections were made.
Never mind that "America's" most profitable companies today are growing twice as fast in Asia, with Asian managers, as they are in the United States. Never mind that American companies were virtually monopolies in a postwar world, and now have competitors from everywhere -- Spain, Singapore, Indonesia. Never mind that products change every 18 months, and companies can't possibly guarantee lifetime employment even to their most prized technologists (whose expertise will be outdated anyway in five years), let alone to hourly employees. Never mind that people who were in companies all of their lives used to complain about feeling lost in a "lonely crowd."
Still, it's no wonder that people standing on the outside of our best corporations would get the idea that we are social institutions devised to further social good. From a certain naïve angle, companies look like introverted welfare mini-states, which need only to be forced to share their wealth with the rest of us. But companies were not designed to be engines of social good. Rather, it was the competition among companies that was designed to be an engine of social good. True, competition advances industry, focuses technology, cheapens goods, refines needs. But it also puts laggards out of business. The mandate of any business is to survive, and this is becoming harder and harder as the market boundaries between companies and countries blur.
I hope I will not be considered mean-spirited for saying these things. Now and then, companies can spare some funds for public purposes -- public broadcasting, local schools. But we will never get anywhere if we fail to acknowledge that we, the managers of businesses, have done what we have done, cut what we have cut, re-engineered where we could, simply to remain alive. Even C.E.O.'s who emphasize "values" are really speaking of what it takes to make the company more competitive; when they speak of in-house freedom of speech they really mean something like what Mr. Gorbachev meant by glasnost. Greed, too, is beside the point. Human beings are not perfect. But survival is what most managers mean by self-interest.
Citizens, to be sure, may need to take action to solve their social problems, and are bound to use some (or, at times, much) of the wealth created by corporations to achieve democratic ends. This country won the fight against fascism this way, after all. But companies contribute to democratic solutions by remaining capable of creating the wealth shareholders and governments appropriate, not by taking on the responsibilities of governments. Nobody would want their pension funds invested in companies that act like social agencies.
What, then, can be done about chronically unemployable people? What can businesses do? My answer would not be a new social compact, but a determination to remember the old one more precisely and live up to it more intelligently.
The old compact had always assumed that companies would self-interestedly support certain government actions to enforce the rules of the competitive game. Government would police property rights, establish the courts to punish criminals and settle judicial disputes, build roads and bridges, defend borders. Read "The Wealth of Nations." The mutual obli-gations of companies and governments were specified from the start, and haven't really changed. Though Adam Smith opposed anything like labor unions, one could find a rationale for most New Deal regulations, even collective bargaining, in what Smith had to say about government's obligation to protect competition from the dangers of private monopolies.
But in one crucial respect, the old compact clearly needs an amendment, the part that has to do with education. The old compact assumed that government would educate children to be qualified for work, and that businesses would go along willingly. But to be qualified for a factory job, all that was necessary was bare literacy. I confess that it was a little embarrassing for someone like me, who picked up "The Wealth of Nations" in business school after having been supported by the G.I. Bill, to read how Smith had assumed from the start that most youths would barely be taught "to read, write, and account," knowing that little had really changed in 200 years. Smith knew this was a shame but he also knew that education would be wasted on most. One passage he wrote has haunted me: "The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations has no occasion to exercise his invention, or exert his understanding ... He naturally becomes ... as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become."
In the new economy, however, this cannot go on. Businesses have an inexhaustible need for highly cultivated people. Our best companies cannot grow fully into global opportunities because they cannot hire the people they need. But none of this means businesses can themselves become responsible for education. Our companies invest more and more in training, but we cannot make our employees trainable. Businesses are more like specialized graduate schools than elementary schools; we need people to present themselves for work ready to learn and practice our marketing, design and production strategies, ready to learn our high technologies and quality systems. We cannot teach the basics.
At the same time, there are a number of things we can do to fulfill our old obligation to educate children -- to make them capable of work, to make them qualified for being recruited into our companies.
Stop complaining about higher taxation targeted to education. The first thing is simply to stop equating increased taxation with anti-business attitudes. The first and most fundamental investments in the intellectual capital of businesses will now be made by governments. Just look at China's economic takeoff since 1985. The Communist regime of the last 30 years is hardly worthy of emulation, but it did one thing right. It educated millions of young Chinese to read and write well and do advanced mathematics. The results for domestic and global companies doing business in China are astonishingly good. Look also at Israel, or Singapore.
As long as governments are focused on education, taxation should be regarded as a necessary investment pool, not a redistributive levy on profits. It is the responsibility of state governments to prepare our children for the rigors of a job in the global economy. This cannot come cheap. The cost of winning the Cold War may pale by comparison.
Governments currently spend upward of a quarter of a trillion dollars nationwide on schools of all kinds. To mentor the young people who are in danger of falling through the cracks, they will need to fund hundreds more preschool centers, hundreds of small boarding schools, hundreds of wellness facilities, thousands of Outward Bound-like programs. They will need to fund hundreds of experimental charter schools (even if this means defying teachers' unions). They will need to fund a new educational on-line network, chockablock with educational software. They will need to subsidize university tuition. They will need to create rural Boys' Towns and Girls' Towns for many lost adolescents from the inner city. Finally, when you look at, for example, the Israeli model, they will need to organize, say, 12 months of universal mandatory national service after high school graduation. Israel's Defense Forces have proven to be a kind of finishing school for recruits to the new economy.
Become a demanding customer. Many businesses have become active helping local school boards to understand the kind of curriculum they should institute to prepare children for work. Motorola, to name one, spends as much as $5 million a year in cooperative programs with K-12 systems and community colleges. Schools are often surprised to learn that what businesses really want are not one-dimensional technocrats, but graduates with a rounded understanding of classic texts, students who know how to argue and listen, students who know foreign languages.
But, in any case, businesses cannot sit on the sidelines and let curricular decisions be made by people who have stereotyped images of what companies need. I know one large insurance company that sponsors a school-to-work program, in which about 20 local high school students come to its headquarters a few times a week to take some classes and do odd jobs. The people who run the program assure me that it is the teachers who accompany the students who are the
real beneficiaries of this exposure.
Beyond this, the agenda for reform is ambitious: performance measures, a new curriculum, devolution of authority onto school principals and local administrators, elimination of school board bureaucracy and the provision of a whole new set of incentives and accountability measures that provide real rewards for school staff whose students make real progress. In all of these initiatives, business should be a kind of activist partner, providing funds for the work of educational foundations, working with community colleges on curriculum, offering a new language of explanation for city school boards and even innovating with institutions of higher education of their own. Schools, feeling the ambient pressure of business, would by this logic undergo a "quality" change something like the one other suppliers to big business have experienced over the past 10 years. Companies would not present school boards with "design specifications" but "performance specifications," targets of competence all students must meet. The school board would take the initiative on qualifying the schools.
Get into the education business. If a company is a learning organization, it is also a teaching organization. There is no reason why virtually any substantial company shouldn't be thinking about the business of teaching, of ways to offer services to children and teen-agers and profit from the enormous education market that is taking shape before our eyes.
Granted, not every company could contemplate setting up a school in the context of the growing charter school movement, or even a vocational training center. However, all major companies will have to develop teaching materials -- theoretical articles, multimedia software, instructional films, on-line simulations and so forth -- that reflect their peculiar competitive experiences and advantages. There is no reason why companies cannot market these products to school boards and universities, to new entrepreneurial teaching enterprises and to families.
The point is to make competition in teaching as robust as possible. We should be thinking about ways of instructing that are as creative as ways of selling. Our soft-drink and sneaker manufacturers have marketing groups that are at least as sophisticated about teen-age culture as our best sociology departments, yet they put all their energy into titillating, not mentoring, though the profits from the latter could be very good. What a waste.
Teen-agers from tragic homes are still curious -- often desperately so. If they can learn the zone defense, and enjoy Carmen Sandiego, why can they not learn "geography"? Why shouldn't the Coca-Cola Company, say, find a way to teach it on-line without trying to sell Coke? School principals should feel the heat. Is it possible that what most conventional educators mean by the evaporation of their students' self-discipline is that, given the experience of television, students no longer have the capacity to be bored to death?
Shame on us. It is time as well to acknowledge that commercial television is mostly a disgrace, and that companies are mostly responsible for this and have to do something about it. Children will see as many as 100,000 commercials before they come of age. The programs developed to get them to see the commercials are often just ways of selling, too.
When Newt Gingrich accused public television of not taking sufficient advantage of ways to license "Barney," how many of us thought, "Take advantage of whom?" We've implied to children that having stuff, now, is the point. We throw cheap thrills at them to get their attention. We turn them into couch potatoes who never quite test their own powers. We treat them like consumers of value, and are then amazed when they show up for work without the capacity to be producers of value.
Make no mistake. I am not for censoring the media. But I am for C.E.O.'s speaking out publicly as critics of their own and each other's commercials, marketing campaigns and sponsorships when these demean public discourse or undermine parents. Freedom of speech means that individuals cannot be silenced by a conformist majority. But it also means that a majority are free to try to make individuals feel ashamed of tactless, salacious or just plain dumb things. I am tired of hearing how parents have the responsibility to "turn off the set." Parents should not have to hover over the electronic gateways to their homes 24 hours a day to keep out junk, any more than over the physical gateways. Public standards matter, and they have fallen dramatically just when they need to be higher than ever.
Go to the library and read a Time magazine from the late 1940's and compare it -- the sophistication of its language, the moral tact, the implicit assumptions about its readers' knowledge of world affairs -- to the new Time. Companies now have as great a stake in raising the bar as universities have. Are we at all vigilant?
Make work in education. There is one final point. No matter how quickly we turn to the task of mentoring our young people, there will be millions of people of our own generation who
will never really be employable in the new economy. Their basic skills are not up to the environment of a knowledge economy. The revolution in standards for basic skills has come when they are too old to really be made over.
We have a choice with such people. We can insist that their bleak prospects are their own fault, and cast them into a scramble for survival, which they will half win, like the people of the Third World do. Or we can endeavor to employ them on public works projects that add to the environment of mentoring and cultivation we are trying to create for their children. Again, I am not talking here of a "stimulus" package. I am speaking of "make work" in the classical sense, employing people in building new parks, new schools, new transport, new fiber networks.
The downside of such spending is obvious. But the upside is too: not only a more attractive place to live and a reduced rate of crime, but improved chances for families to stay together. The Harvard sociologist William Julius Wilson has observed that men with jobs are nine times more likely to stay in their families than men who are unemployed. Do we want to continue to absorb the consequences of abandoned families as a "cost of doing business," the increased security and the rest of it?
There you have it. Not a new social compact, but a way of living better under the terms of the old one. I wish I could say that I expect other business leaders to adopt these attitudes before things get much worse. But I can tell you that many more will adopt them as things get worse. In any case, I have tried your patience long enough. If I have got something wrong, I expect you'll tell me.
Reprint No. 97407
Bernard Avishai,
Bernard Avishai is a Boston-based writer and knowledge management consultant. He is the former technology and strategy editor of the Harvard Business Review. His work on intellectual capital has appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Fast Company and the Wall Street Journal. Mr. Avishai has written for The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker and is the author of several books.
Topics: education, manufacturing, writers, board, skills
Us vs. them: Another way is possible
The new behavioral science of risk taking in business
Growth strategies for an uncertain world


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Girl from Nowhere
On a road to nowhere, a quarrelling couple, pick up a hitchhiker, wearing denim hot pants, carrying a small haversack, who, tells them nothing about herself, where she comes from, nor where she is going. Saddled with her, they take her to their romantic retreat in the mountains where things take a turn definitely away from the romantic into a far more archetypal journey into the land of myths.
Director: Mark Jackson
Actors: Scot Cooper
Jatt James Bond
Shinda was mistreated by his relatives therefore he finds other ways to have his love Laali. Shinda and his two other friends come up with a plan to solve all…
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Punjabi, Thriller
Dead bodies begin to turn up all over the city, each meeting their demise in a variety of grisly ways. All investigations begin to point the finger at deceased killer…
Mission Impossible Rogue Nation (Hindi Dubbed)
Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating the Syndicate – an International rogue organization as highly skilled as they are, committed to destroying the IMF.
Country: China, Hong Kong, USA
Genre: Action, Adventure, Dubbed, Thriller
How It Ends
A desperate father tries to return home to his pregnant wife after a mysterious apocalyptic event turns everything to chaos.
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a dangerous journey across the state in order to rescue his estranged daughter.
When a stunt man dies in Miami, his uncle, a New York mob boss, sends a hit man to tail the stunt coordinator, whom the boss wants dead. The hit…
The Rockville Slayer
A series of small-town murders with no apparent connection leads two detectives towards a horrific discovery in this terrifying tale starring Linnea Quigley, Robert Z'Dar and Joe Estevez, and directed…
911: Officer Down
A vigilante hijacks a police car and prowls the streets of Los Angeles disguised as a cop, serving his own brand of street justice.
Kill the Messenger ( Hindi dubbed )
A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua…
Genre: Crime, Drama, Dubbed, Mystery, Thriller
Nigerian Prince
After being sent to Nigeria against his will, a stubborn Nigerian-American teenager, joins forces with an internet scammer, in order to return to the United States.
Country: Nigeria, USA
Collateral Damage ( Hindi dubbed )
Firefighter Gordon Brewer is plunged into the complex and dangerous world of international terrorism after he loses his wife and child in a bombing credited to Claudio 'The Wolf' Perrini.
Genre: Action, Drama, Dubbed, Thriller
Jim Thompson was a good man, who did good things for fifty two years – Life did not return the favor.
Trailer: Girl from Nowhere


Photoshop CS6 – Old Feature Plug-in – Contact Sheet ll is Back !
Instead of being a separate Optional Plugin download as with CS5 (Free Optional Plugins download), Contact Sheets ll is included with the Photoshop CS6 Beta.
As you can see from the dialog box screenshot, you can choose many parameters for the making of your Contact Sheet.


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Goals of the WGSS Department
B - Basic
I - Intermediate
A - Advanced
S - Specialized
Goal 1:
The successful student will be able to question common-sense, dominant assumptions about what seems "natural," "timeless," "universal," "human," and "normal," by critically speaking, thinking, writing, and reading.
1.a. Interrogate a variety of dominant narratives especially as relating to sex, gender, sexuality, disability, race, ethnicity, nation, class, etc.
(B-1) Identify variances within and across cultures and contexts as they have developed across time and spaces.
(B-2) Recognize cultural assumptions and common knowledge as socially constructed in historical, cultural, political, scientific, religious, aesthetic, contexts.
(I-1) Detect dominant narratives.
(I-2) Analyze the role of power in upholding core cultural assumptions.
(A-1) Map dominant narratives to their particular historical, cultural, political, scientific, religious, aesthetic origins.
(A-2) Evaluate the connections between core cultural assumptions and various forms of injustice.
(S) Envision a more equitable and just society.
1.b. Evaluate counter-narratives that challenge dominant assumptions.
(B) Recognize and describe counter-narratives.
(I-1) Explain the production of counter-narratives.
(I-2) Compare and evaluate counter-narratives.
(A) Produce counter-narratives that contest dominant knowledge.
1.c. Analyze texts.
(B-1) Recognize that different schools of thought inform reading practices.
(B-2) Analyze texts using a feminist lens.
(I) Compare texts and interpretive frameworks.
(A-1) Identify the core argument of advanced texts.
(A-2) Connect complex texts to research questions.
(A-3) Use texts as evidence for research ideas.
(A-4) Apply different interpretive frameworks to texts.
(S) Put theories in conversation with each other.
1.d. Articulate clear and cohesive thoughts through writing.
(B) Demonstrate the components of clear writing.
(I) Practice appropriate writing styles for different audiences (e.g., blog posts, research papers, essays, creative writing, short response, letters, etc.).
(A) Provide formative feedback to improve writing.
The successful student will be able to work and learn compassionately and collaboratively.
2.a. Collaborate with people across difference.
(B) Explain differential privilege in lived experiences.
(I) Develop skills of critical listening.
(A) Decenter one's lived experience.
2.b. Engage with texts in an open and critical manner.
(B) Recognize texts as rooted in specific intellectual, ideological and cultural traditions.
(I) Examine the power differential between various intellectual, ideological and cultural traditions.
(A) Draw upon texts from different intellectual, ideological and cultural traditions while recognizing their roots.
2.c. Interact productively and openly across difference.
(B) Recognize that difference is produced through power.
(I-1) Examine how one's sense of self is produced through relational difference.
(I-2) Examine how one is complicit with power and actively enacting hierarchies.
(I-3) Interrogate the detrimental uses of difference to uphold dominance.
(A) Create inclusive spaces and processes that communicate productively and openly across difference.
The successful student will be able to understand "feminisms" as interdisciplinary, creative, theoretical and social movements.
3.a. Evaluate the multiple forms of feminist thought as derived from different feminist social movements.
(B) Articulate different feminist social movements.
(I-1) Connect feminist theories to feminist social movements, as they vary across time and space.
(I-2) Compare feminisms.
(A) Evaluate various feminist theories and/or social movements.
3.b. Evaluate the relationships between feminist theory and praxis.
(B) Analyze everyday social practices through feminist theoretical frameworks.
(I) Demonstrate how feminist theories and practices inform one another.
(A) Evaluate the relationships between feminist theory and praxis.
3.c. Differentiate various disciplinary methodologies and interdisciplinary connections.
(B) Identify different methodologies.
(I) Analyze different disciplinary assumptions and impacts.
(A) Evaluate the interdisciplinarity of research.
3.d. Evaluate the critical role of creativity in feminist theory and praxis.
(B) Identify feminist creative interventions in cultural production.
(A) Evaluate how creativity can contribute to and inform feminist theory and practice.
(S) Practice various forms of creative expression as modes of inquiry.
The successful student will be able to understand and critically engage categories of social difference (such as but not limited to gender, sexuality, race, class, language, ethnicity, nation, empire, geography, and (dis)ability) as intersectional, always shifting, and shaped by hierarchies of power.
4.a. Articulate how lived experiences and material realities of marginalized people have shaped knowledge production.
(B-1) Define marginalization.
(B-2) Explain lived experiences and material realities of marginalized people.
(B-3) Define consciousness.
(B-4) Define subjectivity.
(B-5) Define knowledge production.
(I) Explain lived experiences and material realities in relation to knowledge production.
(A) Explain the relationship among group consciousness, individual subjectivity, and knowledge production.
(S) Incorporate the lived experiences and material realities of marginalized people into original research.
4.b. Articulate how categories of social difference, including, but not limited to, gender and sexuality, are created and upheld by differentials of power.
(B-1) Describe how categories of social difference emerge, change and evolve across time and space.
(B-2) Map categories of social difference to hierarchies of power.
(I-1) Explain how social inequalities are maintained through interlocking multiple systems of power.
(I-2) Explain how categories of social difference shape each other's meanings.
(A-1) Analyze how categories of social difference have been reclaimed for the purposes of empowerment and social justice.
(A-2) Analyze theories of social difference and power.
(A-3) Interpret the world by taking into account that categories of social difference are contingent upon one another.
(S) Imagine new ways of cultivating interactions that create more just and equitable futures.
(S) Create intellectual, political, social, and economic practices that challenge inequities by embracing the complexity of social difference.
4.c. Interrogate the category "women of color."
(B-1) Describe the category "women of color."
(B-2) Discuss how systems of power work together to create distinct material realities for "women of color."
(B-3) Describe how "women of color" challenge universalizing assertions about womanhood.
(I-1) Demonstrate how "women of color" fit into a history of feminist thought.
(I-2) Appraise differences within the category "women of color."
(I-3) Articulate the relationship between studying "women of color" and "transnational feminism."
(A) Appraise how gender complicates "women of color."
(S) Design policies and conceptual and analytical frameworks that acknowledge "women of color" as a contested, multivalent, but useful category.
The successful student will be able to understand the interconnections between the local and the global.
5.a. Evaluate phenomena as expressions of the global and the local.
(B) Locate the U.S. within a global context.
(I) Map how local and global acts are mutually implicated.
(S) Evaluate phenomena as expressions of the global and the local.
(S) Formulate responses grounded in a feminist critique of the local and the global.
5.b. Enact everyday practices with awareness of local/global interconnections.
(B) Recognize the local and global in everyday practices.
(I) Evaluate the impact of the local and global on everyday practices.
(S) Propose everyday practices grounded in a feminist critique of the local and the global.
5.c. Locate feminisms geographically and historically.
(B-1) Recognize that feminisms vary geographically and historically.
(B-2) Reflect on the limits of one's own normative assumptions as informed by geohistoric specificities.
(I-1) Recognize that feminist frameworks emerge out of specific geohistoric contexts.
(I-2) Recognize that geohistoric contexts are shaped by differential accesses to resources.
(A) Analyze the hegemonic and normative power of western feminisms.
The successful student will be able to recognize, analyze and critique their position and identity in society, thereby understanding the potential to imagine themselves and act creatively as feminist agents of social change.
6.a. Engage feminist ways of thinking and acting.
(B) Identify the connections between feminist theories, practice and lived experience.
(I-1) Map and critique one's relationship to power.
(I-2) Compare different feminist subject positions.
(A) Reflect on feminism as a practice with the possibility to affect change.
6.b. Realize one's power to participate in feminist social change.
(B-1) Recognize how the personal is political.
(B-2) Recognize that feminist social change can be expressed through a variety of mediums.
(I) Articulate the many modes of the political.
(A) Reflect on one's interests and capacities to participate in feminist social change.
(S) Design feminist interventions that create a more just and equitable world.


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After the monarchy, state-sponsored religion is one of the strangest customs I've had to adapt to in the UK (and Germany, the other European country that I've lived in for a number of years). In the UK I've already written about the somewhat insidious role of state religion, such as the way it dictates which schools your children will be admitted to; that 26 bishops sit ex officio in the House of Lords (though it should be mentioned that the other state religion, Finance, has its own peculiar kind of special representation in the Commons); and that non-Anglican foreigners who wish to marry in the UK require permission of the Home Office, for which they must pay a substantial fee. (This Anglican exception may now have been rescinded; I know there was pressure from the European Court of Human Rights.) All UK state schools are required — following a Blair-era edict — to have daily Christian prayer (unless they are state-sponsored non-Christian religious schools, another Blair novum), though that law is not always followed, particularly in secondary schools — see par. 141 of this Ofsted report.
So the Church, which knows how to respond to a major breach of moral and ethical norms, clearly couldn't stand for the scandal of a social worker in their employ taking a public stand against sexual abuse of children. And while being Catholic was apparently not a requirement of the job to begin, the courts agreed that being an ex-Catholic is forbidden, particularly one whose break with the Church was provoked by something so unseemly as individual conscience.
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