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MJ65 posted a topic in New Member IntroductionsHi All I am new to the Forum, having moved from a Volvo V70 to fully spec'd Mondeo Titanium X sport estate 2.2. The car is probably one of the best value/performance/spec'd I've had though Ford and its customer "relations" service less so. The Titanium X Sport has effectively lower skirts on the front rear bumpers and on the sills all standard factory fit, the car was built to my spec in the factory in Belgium. The car is finished in moondust silver and immaculate, as I valet it and look after it well. The paint on the lower front bumper is bubbling and flacking and will have to be repainted. It is flaking from the inside out (no perforation or stone chips causing it). I would post pictures but not sure how as I have them on my PC. I would value comments as there appears to be no base coat applied at factory and while I fully understand that the warranty may be 12 months I believe the product is substandard and not fit for purpose as you don't expect paint to bubble on a 30k vehicle. Can you advise where best to post for advice and how I can drop a couple of pictures in for comment. Thx PS. I have had various Ford Focus and numerous other Volvo's Toyotas etc none of which showed such issues over many more years or miles.


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Bearing Witness
By Orville Schell
Published: December 14, 1997
The Rape
of Nanking
The Forgotten Holocaust
of World War II.
By Iris Chang.
Illustrated. 290 pp. New York:
Basic Books. $25.
What happened just 60 years ago this month in the city of Nanjing (then called Nanking), China, is almost beyond words. During the two months after their entry into the Nationalist capital on Dec. 13, 1937, Japanese troops perpetrated a massacre that has virtually no parallel in recent history. Expert witnesses at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East, held in Tokyo in 1946 to try Japanese war criminals, estimated that some 260,000 noncombatants were slaughtered in cold blood. Many experts now believe the number to be over 350,000, an extraordinary figure for a city with a population of only 650,000, several hundred thousand of whom had already fled. The carnage was the result of a secret order sent to Japanese forces in China under the seal of Prince Asaka, uncle of Emperor Hirohito: ''Kill all captives.'' Soon competitions arose among soldiers to see who could kill most efficiently.
After being coaxed into surrendering with promises of fair treatment, prisoners were shot, blown up with hand grenades, bayoneted or decapitated. ''The Japanese soldiers already encircled them in a crescent formation along the river,'' Cpl. Riichi Kurihara wrote in his diary. ''Suddenly all kinds of guns fired at once. The sounds of these firearms mingled with desperate yelling and screams.''
A Japanese newspaper reporter watched Chinese prisoners being bayoneted on top of the city wall. ''One by one the prisoners fell down to the outside of the wall,'' he wrote. ''Blood splattered everywhere. The chilling atmosphere made one's hair stand on end and limbs tremble with fear.''
And then there were the samurai-style decapitations. ''Those in the second row were forced to dump the severed bodies into the river before they themselves were beheaded,'' the military correspondent, Yukio Omata, wrote of one mass execution. ''The killing went on nonstop from morning until night, but they were only able to kill 2,000 persons in this way. The next day, tired of killing in this fashion, they set up machine guns. . . . Prisoners fled into the water, but no one was able to make it to the other shore.'' So great was the slaughter that Lieut. Gen. Kesago Nakajima was soon complaining in his diary that it was difficult to find ditches deep enough to bury the enormous piles of corpses.
During the same period, tens of thousands of Chinese women were raped, often in schools and nunneries. Thousands more were put into sexual slavery. In fact, Japan's first wartime ''facility for sexual comfort'' opened in Nanjing in 1938, with Chinese women forced into prostitution referred to in Japanese as ''public toilets.''
Neither young nor old could escape being raped. ''We sent out coal trucks from Hsiakwan to the city streets and villages to seize a lot of women. And then each of them was allocated to 15 or 20 soldiers for sexual intercourse and abuse,'' one soldier in the 114th Division in Nanjing recalled.
In her important new book, ''The Rape of Nanking,'' Iris Chang, whose own grandparents were survivors, recounts the grisly massacre with understandable outrage. So dehumanized did Chinese become in the eyes of the Japanese troops, she tells us, that ''many soldiers went beyond rape to disembowel women, slice off their breasts, nail them alive to walls. Fathers were forced to rape their daughters, and sons their mothers, as other family members watched. Not only did live burials, castration, the carving of organs and the roasting of people become routine, but more diabolical tortures were practiced, such as hanging people by their tongues on iron hooks or burying people to their waists and watching them torn apart by German shepherds. So sickening was the spectacle that even Nazis in the city were horrified.''
One of the most inspiring if unusual aspects of the massacre was the presence of John Rabe, an Oscar Schindler-like Nazi businessman who along with a number of other unsung foreign educators and missionaries not only stayed in the beleaguered city through the worst of the bloodshed, but helped set up an ''International Safety Zone'' to minister to wounded, homeless and starving Chinese and to protect those being preyed upon by Japanese soldiers.
Rabe, a bald, bespectacled and mild-mannered German, worked for the Siemens China Company and kept a diary that Chang, the author of a book about the Chinese missile industry, ''Thread of the Silkworm,'' unearthed while researching ''The Rape of Nanking.'' Rabe wrote: ''I want to make sure with my own eyes about this cruelty, so I can someday tell others about it as a witness.'' The day Japanese troops entered the city, he described the scene as one he would have ''scarcely believed if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes.''
With his swastika armband as his only protection, Rabe began making regular patrols of the city in an attempt to protect Chinese from Japanese predations. But perhaps his most important effort was his work in setting up the safety zone, a special area into which a quarter of a million desperate Chinese ultimately fled and were watched over by a small handful of heroic Westerners. As one of Rabe's Nanjing colleagues, the Harvard-trained surgeon Robert O. Wilson, wrote of Rabe, ''What a splendid man he is and what tremendous heart he has.'' However, Wilson hastily added, ''It is hard to reconcile his personality with his adulation for Der Fuhrer.'' Nonetheless, for his heroic efforts, Rabe earned the name ''the living Buddha of Nanking.''

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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO)-- The Tigers boys basketball team is thankful to have their whole team together and ready to begin the regular season.
Had the Tigers football squad still been in the 5A playoffs, the GJHS would miss Sean Rubalcaba and Jerreon Dennis in the Warrior Challenge to start the season. But now, the team is completely set for the season, and they return eight seniors.
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The 27-year-old opted out of Thursday's 20km individual after a bought of illness, that preventing him from potentially claiming every gold medal on offer to him in the Czech Republic.
However, with Svendsen returning for the men's 4x7.5km relay, it was back to winning ways as he claimed a fourth goal medal after wins in the mixed relay and the sprint and the pursuit.
It was also Norway and Svendsen's fourth men's relay medal in a row with their quartet dominating the field to once again force Frenchman Martin Fourcade to settle for silver, his fourth.
The Norwegian quartet of Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, Henrik L'Abee-Lund, Tarjei Boe and Svendsen combined to clock a winning time of 1:15:39.0hours in Nove Mesto.
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GoLive CS, CS2
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Article ID: 000145
Category: Browser Issues
I have been told to upload to the public_html, www, htdocs or similar special folder on my web host server. When I create this folder in my GoLive site, I cannot edit my menus or see them in the MenuMachine 2 Objects Palette. The menumachine folder is created at the folder level above the index page.
I either see the "No menus are defined in this site" message in the Object Palette or my menus don't work correctly online.
If you have been told to upload to a particular folder on the server, this should be set up in your site upload settings. You do not need to create this folder in your site. In fact, to do so will cause problems. The top level (root) of your GoLive site should be the folder that contains your index page.
What you see in the left pane of your site window should mirror what you see inside the public_html folder on the server. This means you should not have a public_html folder in your GoLive site.
Note: in this article, we use the name "public_html" for the special folder on the server, however it may be called "www", "htdocs", "mainwebsite_html" or other names, depending on your server configuration. Simply substitute the name of your special folder when you see public_html below.
A correct site and server setup
In the image below, the site hase been structured correctly in GoLive. The index page, GeneratedItems folder and menumachine folder are correctly located at the root level of the site. They are not buried inside another folder. On the Publish Server, the files are in the same order, inside the public_html folder. Inside the public_html folder are some additional files/folders which should not be removed or renamed. (These server files are not required in the local GoLive version of the site}.
In this article, you will learn how to achieve the correct site structure and how to set your site upload setting so that you will always login to the correct folder on your server.
NOTE: This article requires that you make major changes to your site. Please make a full backup of the entire site project (not just the .site file) so that if anything goes wrong, you can go back to the old site.
How the local site should look in GoLive
It is important that your local site (what you see in the left pane of the GoLive site window) looks similar to this even if you have been told to upload to the public_html folder on your server:
How to change the site upload settings
If you have been told to upload to the public_html, www or another folder on the server, you need to change your upload settings so you automatically upload into that folder.
Open the site and go to Site > Settings.... Click on Publish Server in the list on the left of the Settings window. Set up your login details as supplied by your web host.
To select the specific folder you have been told to upload to, click on the Browse button next to the Directory field:
You will then be logged in to the server and you will see a list of files and folders on the server. Locate and open the folder to which your host has told you to upload. e.g. public_html.
In the image below, we have opened the public_html folder. There may be some files in there that you do not recognize. Do not move, delete or rename these files on the server. Once you are inside the correct folder, click on the OK button.
You then are returned to the Settings window and the path to the public_html folder has been added to the Directory field. Click OK to save the site settings:
Now, whenever you login to the server, you will be taken directly into the correct folder. You can the path to the folder in the Publish Server Tab in the site window below:
Correcting the site structure in GoLive
If you have already created a public_html folder or www folder in your local site, you should remove this folder to restore the correct file structure.
In the image below, the site contents have been moved into a public_html folder. This public_html folder is not required and should be removed:
Having the index page, the GeneratedItems folder and the menumachine folder buried inside another folder will cause problems. GoLive and MenuMachine will not know that you intend the root of the site to be inside the public_html folder.
GoLive and MenuMachine understand the root level to be the first level within the web-content folder. MenuMachine is looking for the menumachine folder at the root level of the site. If it can't find it there, you will see a message in the Objects Palette "No menus are defined in this site" as in the image below:
You will need to move the contents of the public_html folder back to the proper root level.
In the image below, you can see that the entire contents of the public_html folder have been selected and are being dragged. Drag the files/folders to the Name heading in the site window as shown. This moves them to the level above the public_html folder:
Because you are moving files to a new directory, GoLive will prompt you to update the files. You need to allow GoLive to update the links in the files so they are correct once moved. Make sure all the files are checked as in the image below (you may have more files in your list but they must all be checked):
When the public_html folder is empty, delete it. Your file structure should then look similar to the image below with the index page, the GeneratedItems folder and the menumachine folder back at the root level:
How to retrieve your MenuMachine menus
To get your MenuMachine 2 menus back in the list in the MenuMachine 2 Objects Palette, click on the Refresh List button. MenuMachine will then attempt to find the menumachine folder at the root level of the site. It will display a message like this:
If you have correctly moved the menumachine folder, MenuMachine will find your menus:
If MenuMachine can't find the menus, your site structure may still not be correct. Please review this article again to make sure you have set up the site correctly.
If you cannot fix it, send your site to support.
See Article 000141 for Mac instructions.
See Article 000140 for Windows instructions.
Last updated: February 24, 2008
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Harpblog has moved! Harpblog.info will take you to its smart new look. Here, vintage Harpblog will remain online for the time being.
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Camac Harps
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All the best,
Camac Harps
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The Camac France team is now on holiday! Both our ateliers in Mouzeil and l'Espace Camac will reopen on Monday, August 17th.
While we're on the beach, we leave a glorious legacy of frenetic pre-hols summer activity for you to savour in our absence. CamacCam returns to the silver screen, with an only slightly wobbly video about the Rencontres Internationales de Harpes Celtiques in Dinan. The Dinan Rencontres is a wonderful lever harp festival, now in its thirty-second year, and unmissable for us, the Breton harp community and lever harpists throughout the world.
It has been an exceptionally productive season in our lever harp ateliers, with the launch of not one, but two revolutionary new instruments. Also on video, you can experience the incredible power of our Excalibur, the new harp we have developed together with François Pernel. Our Ulysse, now our top-of-the-range lever harp conceived in collaboration with Elisa Vellia, marries ultralight weight and travel-ready strength with an acoustic sound of the highest concert quality.
If you or your students have questions about our harps over the summer period, don't forget that we have a wealth of information available online. For beginners, there are our video guides about string changing, tuning, harp care and transport and using the rod tuner. For all our harps, we have the technical manuals, and for the electric and electroacoustic harp, an amplification guide, and our blue dictionary. For your string orders once we reopen, we have our string charts.
We hope you all have a wonderful summer! We look forward to seeing you again at the start of 2015-16.
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If you study history or English literature, or indeed music at a general university, you can take your BA and become a lawyer, a management consultant, an accountant, a business development manager, or many other things. You can even become a harpist, because many postgraduate performance courses do not require a first degree in music. If, however, you decide to study for a performance or pedagogic degree at a conservatoire or academy, your course is vocational - you definitely want to be a musician. Music colleges therefore have more concrete obligations than universities, to equip their students for the world of work.
The Akademie für Tonkunst in Darmstadt has known this for years: Germany's "oldest and most modern" music training centre is a "Berufsakademie", an academy for a job. It supports its students energetically, with a wide network of professional partners who provide diverse opportunities, from new music, to jazz, to pastoral directions. There is also a special focus pedagogic qualifications, with a sister music school allowing students to put their studies into practice.
Anne-Sophie Bertrand, Principal Harp with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, is the new teacher in Darmstadt. "I really appreciate the commitment the Akademie has to supporting its students, and preparing them for professional life", she says. "The students are motivated and enquiring, keen to seize every opportunity and make the most of what is on offer to them.
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We are delighted to present our new lever harp to you: the Excalibur.
In the image of its namesake, the enchanted sword of King Arthur, it is impossible to resist its magic. Like the legend, Excalibur will leave its mark on history. This spectacular harp is the result of our collaboration with a sensational artist: François Pernel.
The Excalibur is a large lever harp. Its specially-designed soundboard gives it an exceptionally powerful sound, and an incomparably rich range of frequencies. Its 38 fluorocarbon strings have a balanced tension throughout the range, facilitating great virtuosity and precision for the harpist.
It is not the first Excalibur harp we have made. In the time of Joël Garnier, Excalibur was already part of our lever harp range. Twenty years later, it has been reincarnated in a state-of-the-art form. It is the result of long years of research carried out by our engineers and our master craftsmen.
The lever harp has earned its respected position in music throughout the world. Lever harpists lead their instrument in ever-bolder directions, more dynamic and contemporary by the day. It is this creativity and modernity which particularly defines the music of François Pernel.
For all commercial enquiries relating to the new Excalibur, please contact us in Mouzeil, or via your nearest Camac partner.
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The box office is now open for the 32nd Rencontres Internationales des Harpes Celtiques. This major, longstanding lever harp festival takes place every year in Dinan, Brittany, and always features a fantastic programme from the most important Celtic artists from all over the world.
This year, the festival will welcome Elisa Vellia (Greece), Ensemble Sangineto (Italy, Erik Ask-Unmark (Sweden), Eva Fogelgesang (Lorraine), Floriane Blancke and Dermot Byrne (Ireland), Harriet Earis (Wales), Laura Perrudin (Brittany), Maz Plant Out (Ile de France), Monika Stadler (Austria), Morgane Le Cuff (Brittany), Norma Ortega (Paraguay), François Pernel's Oak Ink Trio (Anjou), Quentin Vestur's Trio (Brittany), Raphael Pinel (Provence), Sirin Pancaroglu and Bora Uymaz (Turkey), and Amelia Saad's Trio Keynoad (Provence).
Myrdhin, Artistic Director of the festival since its beginnings, will also perform in Trio, with flute (Philippe Launay) and African kora (Tidiane Dia).
Running alongside the concert schedule is an equally rich course schedule, workshops on Breton dance, and also the chance to build your own small harp. At 590€ for materials, instruction and tickets to all concerts from 5:30PM, this is a great chance to get started with the harp, and gain insight into its construction at the same time. There is also a series of very reasonably-priced children's workshops, and "Harpes en rue", street music bring the harp to the local community.
For participants coming from afar, we have a special harp hire offer for Dinan: ring us in Mouzeil on +33 2 40 97 24 97, explain the harp is for Dinan, and we and the festival will organise the transport of the harp to Dinan for you.
The Camac team are also looking forward to welcoming you personally in the salon des luthiers, where we'll be sharing the exhibition hall with a fine line-up of artisan harp makers.
All information and bookings can be done via the festival website.
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Isabelle Moretti will give two days of public masterclasses at the Conservatoirio Guido Cantelli in Novara, Italy, on June 26th and 27th. To register either to play for Isabelle, or as an auditor, please fill out the form below!
The event is also a collaboration with Enrico Tartarotti and Camac Italia, who will provide harps and hold an exhibition for the duration of the masterclasses.
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Our MIDI concert harp, launched in 2009, is not available to buy but is instead reserved for special projects. You can explore everything that has been done thus far on Harpblog's MIDI harp project page.
Elisabeth Valletti is an instrumental figure in this harp's development. She, and her work, notably her "Harp Haikus", are largely behind the MIDI harp being awarded the QWARTZ / Max Matthews prize for technological innovation in 2011. A subsequent residency with the MIDI harp at the IRCAM and at the GRM de Radio France saw the creation of her latest album: "Sacrum 5", now out on Megadisc Classics.
"Sacrum'5" is a development of Elisabeth Valletti's interest in microcosmic sound. "Fascinated by science and its wonders", she writes, "I've always imagined what the quantum world as well as that of the microcosm inside the human body would sound like." Her first project on this theme was String Theory, part of her Orfeo Project; this was followed by 'Harp Haikus' for MIDI harp - an "imaginary recording of the multitude of sounds that fill the brain at particularly intense moments in human life".
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Das Orchester, the German periodical for the orchestral profession (the one with all the jobs in), has a special point of focus in each edition. May's is "Beruf im Wandel: OrchestermusikerIn der Zukunft", or "Changing profession: orchestral musicians of the future". It examines the audition process, what lies ahead financially for orchestras in 2015, and how conservatoire students are prepared for work. The articles are in German, but there's an English overview here.
Coincidentally, it was also in May that we have been thinking about auditions. Our German partners the Harfengalerie Camac Berlin have sponsored two "Probespieltraining" (audition training) courses as part of their Vielsaitig touring project: one in Düsseldorf, one in Rostock, and both with Petra van der Heide of the Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam.
Once you are inside an orchestra, you can engage with the dynamic issue of your band's role(s) in society. But to get a job in the first place, you'll have to play the auditions you're offered. You will probably do this many times: in Germany, by far and away the country with the most available jobs, one thousand hopeful graduates compete every year for one hundred and fifty vacancies. Nor are auditions famed for their splendid conditions, allowing musicians instantly to blossom into the best they can be. You have to train for them, wisely and hard.
Some people are in a position to do something about the suboptimal elements of the audition process - Thomas Bäurle, for example, of the Staatsorchester Stuttgart, launched a critique of the current system in a symposium in Cologne (January 2015). But for those seeking a job, there is little alternative other than to get on with it. "No 'ifs', no 'buts", Petra van der Heide told the assembled students in Düsseldorf and Rostock. "No 'I would have played better if' or 'but it is impossible to perform well because'. You will be asked to perform excepts on strange harps, that are in effect unplayable on strange harps. You will be expected to play without warming up. You will sometimes be given useless instruments, and/or treated with scant respect. If this makes you angry, be my guest and lobby for change. I hope that by the time I retire, I will have made enough noise about the audition process actively to have improved it. But for now, this is how it is, and the better you understand this, the better prepared you can be."
Petra van der Heide / Vielsaitig auf Tour
Petra's audition training covers a broad spectrum of issues. For example: what repertoire you need to prepare, how to prepare it, and indeed how to get hold of the parts, because you cannot just buy the harp part to Acts I and III of Tannhäuser. The orchestral excerpt bible many an orchestral office will still tell you to use is full of misprints, and a conductor will not be interested in hearing that the office told you to use it. Petra also frequently incorporates mock auditions into her training, using unfamiliar harps and forbidding any warming up, to help you get used to this peculiar type of pressure.
We may not be able to throw up 'ifs' and 'buts' from our lonely benches behind the screens, but the musical community as a whole - and of whom we are all part - does have the power for positive change. Concepts like Petra's not only help you deal with the realities of the here and now: they also raise awareness for the future. There is, rightly, growing pressure from students on their music colleges to include much more job-orientated training. It would also be good if college and professional associations, and maybe indeed also the State and other funding bodies, would exert growing pressure on orchestras.
Competition is fierce and no orchestra owes, or can give, everyone a living. They could however be much more transparent and accountable about their recruitment processes, which would both help musicians prepare, and the orchestras themselves attract the best talent. The harp world is, in comparison to violin, flute or cello, very small. Yet we still have plenty of nasty audition experiences, and it must be the same, times a hundred, for larger instrumental groups. It is particularly depressing when, despite the ever-more stratospheric level from auditionees, the job remains unawarded, sometimes for years; you ask yourself if they are waiting for King David to walk in, or otherwise what or who is blocking the job. An audition - I learnt reading this month's Das Orchester - costs on average 17,000€ in extra services paid to the existing members (100 musicians, each paid an extra service or two services of perhaps 170€). A top-calibre orchestra could easily cost several times that. Yes: an orchestra is looking for a colleague to work in very close and special conditions for the next thirty years, and this is to be decided carefully. But with the level as high as it is, is it right that an orchestra repeatedly spends twenty thousand plus of public money on an audition, appoints nobody (or throws them out after the trial year), does this repeatedly, and nobody asks why?
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The results of the second and fourth categories of Dasson An Delenn are as follows:
Category II, fourteen years old and under:
First Prize: Céline BOURREAU
Second Prize: Emma PICHENOT
Third Prize: Klervi MONTFORT PERRIN
Category IV, twenty years old and under
Second Prize: Matthieu COURTEILLE
Congratulations to them all!
We have also been very touched and moved to receive a tribute from Mariannig Larc'hantec, who has been in the audience in Pontivy. Mariannig was so impressed after the first day of the competition, that she has written down how much it reminded her of when she launched the first Kan Ar Bobl competition. That competition was won by Kristen Noguès, the inspired Breton harpist who died too soon. And the first Dasson an Delenn competition has been taking place in the Rue Kristen Nogues...
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I have yet to receive a reimbursement on my credit card for services not rendered. ( a few hundred dollars )
On another note , I was told that the 15 x 20 foot red mulch stain that was left on my driveway would wash off on its own after a couple good rainfalls. This did not happen - I finally got my driveway pressure washed to remove the stain a few weeks ago.
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Social networking in perspective
Source: CIO magazine advice.cio.com
A CIO reader offers some advice for his fellow executives: Give social networking a rest.
The reader's point is this: Once people get into the Web 2.0 swing of Twitter, Facebook and related applications, they are likely to spend more time networking than they realize. The easiest test of whether that's happened is to quit for a while and see what difference it makes.
"I'm hesitant to go on record admitting it, mostly because I believe the productivity argument against social tools is used by shortsighted business leaders who ban social networks and Web 2.0 tools at work," the reader writes.
E-gov: Recommended listening
Source: The Kojo Nnamdi show
The Kojo Nnamdi show, which airs on WAMU, one of Washington, D.C.'s public radio stations, offered a spirited hour last week on "The Obama Era and the Digital White House." The guests were Lee Rainie, founding director of Pew Internet and American Life Project; Darrell West, vice president and director of Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution; and Andrew Rasiej, founder of Personal Democracy Forum and co-founder of techPresident.com.
Among other topics, they discussed the role of social networking in the Obama administration. Potentially, Web 2.0 tools could protect Obama from the "bubble effect," they said.
Battling botnets
Source: Policy Review
Lauri Almann, former permanent undersecretary of defense for Estonia, teams with John Kelly, president of Model Software, to discuss potential strategies for dealing with cyberattacks.
Almann, of course, learned the hard way about cyberattacks in 2007, when Estonian systems came under siege by botnets. Almann and Kelly recommend several steps organizations and governments can take to prevent the same scenario from playing out elsewhere. For example, "governments could work with [Internet service providers] to institute remote-automated audits for subscribers as a standard service," they write.
Advice for new leaders
Source: BNet
BNet, drawing from a recent Harvard Business Review article, provides some pointers for people who are stepping into new leadership roles.
The article begins by looking at some common mistakes new leaders often make, such as focusing too much on details. That happens when they try to ace one component of the new job and lose sight of others, Harvard Business Review researchers found.
They also warn against jumping to conclusions about existing problems, rather than working with their staff members on solutions.
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Steve Kelman contends that a recent report on agencies' prize challenges tells only half the success story.
OMB's Data Center Optimization Initiative gives agencies new metrics and goals for fiscal 2018.
NSA and the CIA have revamped themselves in the past year. FCW asked officials how well Fort Meade and Langley are collaborating in cyberspace in pursuit of their separate missions.
The latest version of the Defense Department-wide Enterprise Service Management Framework places more emphasis on managing IT risk.
Despite GSA's efforts to accelerate the FedRAMP approval process, the lack of agency reciprocity puts the program's central goals at risk.
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The agency software inventories required under the draft category management policy will be treasure maps that lead to efficient, effective, streamlined buying and unprecedented savings.
As experts warned of the "dire" threats posed by outdated federal technology, lawmakers grilled top feds, debated workforce issues and inched closer to backing a $3.1 billion fix-it fund.
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Complaint Review: Eric A Orozco / NMLS 224383
Eric A Orozco / NMLS 2243831200 Jorie Blvd, Suite 220 OakBrook, Illinois United States of America
Eric A Orozco / NMLS 224383 SecurityNational Mortgage Company 3116 Discrimmination OakBrook, Illinois
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mr. orozco came to my house and presented himself to be a very professional and able young man. only to find out he could provide what he promised.
so i looked around and applied with another company, all the while mr. orozco was stalking my home and telling me i owed him money - for what i ask?regardless to say when it was time to close my file with another company, i come to find out that mr. orozco won't release some file number associated with my house and loan. i sent an email as well as a letter to his office, and he refused to release the number until finally i called the corporate office in Utah and was then directed to his supervisor in Texas, who forced him to do what was required.
BEWARE ALL of this joker, he discriminated against me because i am a poor single african american lady, he tried to take advantage of me and RIP ME OFF, and then he harrassed me to no end.
If you are apply for a loan with this young man, BEWARE - he comes across as a nice and professional person, but he is the Devil
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Complaint Review: Nomorerack.com
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Re: Order Concern
AUTHOR: Vincent111 - (Canada)
SUBMITTED: Wednesday, July 25, 2012POSTED: Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Vincent here from Nomorerack and I wanted to thank you for bringing this to my attention and I do apologize for the concerns on your order.
I would like to look into this further and get this resolved for you but in order to do so, could I ask that you email me directly (email below) with your name and details so I can properly review and get this taken care of.
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I have run across the problem before that wordpress will not prevent the creation of duplicate slugs on our site. My business partner recently wrote a blog post with the same name as a page on our site and wordpress did not prevent the slugs from being the same which caused a little bit of confusion. This week something similar is happening, but I can't find the source of the problem.
My business partner once again has written a blog post that is scheduled to post on this Thursday (1/10/13.) The slug showing on her blog post is: http://www.journalinabox.com/trim-tip-14/ But, as you can see if you go to that link, this slug is already showing on our system. It looks like it is a media file, because instead of "Edit Post" as an option up on the menu bar, I am given the option to "Edit Media." But, I have searched every nook and cranny of our media files and can't find this slug. Where could this be hiding? I'm hoping to find the problem before Thursday so that her blog post will post correctly.
I'd rather not have to change the slug of her post as this is an ongoing series on our blog and I need users to be able to look up these Trim Tips easily based on the slug.
UPDATE: After a little bit of looking at the source code for this slug, I can see what post id# it is tied to on our site, but can't find that post id anywhere. There is no trash link showing for our posts, so I can't search there. I did search through trash for pages and there is one item there, but it is not related to this post or picture. Still confused...hopefully on the right track?


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Lovely!!! <3
So beautiful!
Wow! This is awesome.
Great work
It's super refreshing to see wire pieces that use bits of colored wire as well. The general color scheme (purple/gold/bronze) on this is gorgeous, and not normally something I see on jewelry. I also love the tight spiraled details on the large spirals themselves. Very pretty to look at!
Love the color of the stone - did you make the flowers and leaves, or just weave stock pieces into the wirework?
What gauges of wire did you use
thats so pretty and wonderful looking so well done on it =3
The colors in this are absolutely stunning. <3


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A number of sources today are reporting that there's rumblings that Steve Jobs might make an appearance at Apple's iPad 2 event tomorrow. For those of you that don't know, Jobs is on medical leave and some think he won't return. Personally, I hope he's not at the event tomorrow. I think his health is more important than the launch of a new iPad.
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Light up your indoor or outdoor space with this box of 100 mini lights from Brite Star. These clear lights are strung on a green wire that blends in with trees and other foliage. If one bulb goes out, the others will stay lit. This set has an end-to-end connector, so you can add on light sets as desired. Replacement bulbs and fuses are included.
Number of Pieces: 1
Indoor/Outdoor Use: Indoor, Outdoor
Bulb Type: Incandescent
Light Bulb Shape: miniature T2
Features: Connects End to End, Outdoor, Indoor
Includes: Light Bulbs
Lighting Effects: constant light (no effect)
Number of Settings: 1
Warranty Description: No applicable warranty
Battery: no battery used:
Lighted Length: 1.18
Cord Lead Length: 12.0
other Info.
- Prop 65 warning
- Online Item #: 14150522
- Store Item Number (DPCI): 051-04-1143
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