India has the fastest growing mobile phone market with seven million new handsets being sold every month. It's not hard to imagine that many people are gainfully employed at Vodafone's headquarters in Newbury thinking hard about how to increase their company's market share in India. So if a company moves a services job to India and in doing so assists in creating a new middle-class of consumer for mobile phones and domestic flights, do they actually create a new higher skilled job in Newbury or Bridgend?

The question really is why Britain does not have many companies that are true global leaders in their field? Could an island nation's desire to try and stick within our own shores actually be the problem? Is the UK market just big enough to sustain reasonably large companies such that there is no real need to explore new horizons? Helsinki is the most unlikely place to create Nokia, the largest mobile phone handset maker in the world, but maybe the narrow confines of the small domestic Finnish market forced their business leaders to look elsewhere for growth opportunities? Is it unrealistic to hope that British companies can be the global number one or number two in every sector of the FTSE listing, and if so, why? If our companies were true leaders, we would not have the question about British jobs, instead we would all be enjoying the spoils of being in a country with high GDP growth punching significantly above its weight.

Photos: TallyGenicom(R) Introduces the 2365 and 2380 Heavy Duty Dot ...

The 2365 HD is the ideal solution for organizations looking to process heavy workloads. It is capable of processing forms with up to nine parts, perfect for logistics and industry operations where multiple forms are used for various vital and time sensitive operations. The 2380 is capable of print speeds of 1000 characters per second (cps) and can process up to 50K pages per month -- all the while maintaining superior graphics performance and optimal paper handling. For heavy workload, demand document applications, this series features a metal tear bar, while other manufacturers use plastic.

TallyGenicom has also improved the print head life -- which is rated at an industry leading 750 million characters -- providing long lasting reliable operation and equipment value with base units starting at only $2,225.

Festival teens cue cameras

Filmmaker Peter Entell, center, discusses presidential politics with True/False Filmmakers Bootcamp participants, from left, Anthony Orazio and Justice Boyes, who interviewed him yesterday at Stephens College. Boot camp participants are gathering interviews and video to produce a 2-minute documentary over a two-day period. The workshop is being taught by local amateur filmmakers Myke Gemkow and Michael Wilson. .

Valley of the Heart's Delight Set for October Premiere

74 years ago, in a small idyllic northern California town, a crime-upon-crime took place: an event so shocking that even now, its reality and impact remain stunning. Writer / producer John 'Miles' Murphy has shattered a silence that has lasted nearly three quarters of a century with his controversial feature film Valley of the Heart's Delight (http://www.valleyoftheheartsdelight.com/, 98 minutes, Fixed Idea Films). Murphy's fictionalized account depicts one of the most unique -- and largely forgotten -- criminal and political conspiracies in United States history: the lynching of two un-arraigned men before a mob of thousands in a downtown San Jose park following its sanctioning by the Governor of California and a relentless drumbeat of media.


"Thanksgiving week 1933, two men accused of kidnapping and murder were convicted in the court of public opinion and executed by their fellow citizens," says Murphy, underscoring the fact that his film is based on the only eye-witness account of the original Brooke Hart kidnapping.

Films with a message: Students create anti-smoking, healthy eating ...

Students from around Beaufort County, including some from Bluffton High and Hilton Head Island Middle schools, have entered the challenge.