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Hire an attorney and sue them. In the US, you can ask for additional damages, so this could be profitable. Even if you tell the attorney to take the case on contingency it is worth a shot.
This photo is not free: Nikken EU & copyright infringement
One would expect a big multi-national company like Nikken Europe to respect copyright. But when confronted over unauthorised use of my photo in a March 2012 product launch and advertising/publicity campaign, their "head of legal" in Milton Keynes, England was defiant. She claimed that the photo ...
Your link to the jazz festival is broken. It should be:
http://www.citedelamusique.fr/minisites/1209_jazzalavillette/index.aspx
August 2012 Eye Need to Do's: Rock en Seine, Cinema Plein Air, and Parc La Villette Jazz Festival
Rock en Seine France's answer to Woodstock, Rock en Seine is an annual, multi-day music festival with camping grounds. Acts this year include Green Day, Sigur Ros, The Black Keys, Passion Pit, Bombay Bicycle Club, Frank Ocean, and Placebo, so rock on. August 24, 25, 26 http://www.rockensein...
That pitcher is stunningly beautiful! I don't know how you can stand to part with it. I'm certain it is quite expensive as well.
Re-opening my etsy shop Paris Parfait
Et voila! I have re-opened my etsy shop Paris Parfait to sell some of my way-too-many French treasures collected during ten years in Paris. These photographs show some of the items currently for sale (19th-century Jugendstil Art Nouveau claret pitcher above and French enamel cafetiere below, i...
Based on this review, this was the very first place we went to in October 2010. He doesn't speak great English and don't sit at any tables across the street to eat unless you want to be insulted by various restaurant owners (even if you plan to eat there at the same time!). His food was great and we enjoyed the area even through the rain we had that day.
Best of Eye Prefer Paris: Francois the Paella Man
I dropped and broke my camera last week, so my "eye" is temporarily out of order for the next two weeks until my camera is fixed. If you Eye Prefer Paris addicts have withdrawal problems, I am sorry to say there are no 12-step programs to help you, but you can always email me if you can't mak...
After much Googling, I found this for photo number three of the above statues:
Paul Dubois's sculpture, Le Chant (Song) was erected on the main facade of Opéra National de Paris Garnier, between 1860 and 1869.
Hanging over Le Chant is Charles-Alphonse-Achille Gumery's medallian of Giovanni Battista Pergolèse. Pergolèse, or Pergolesi(1710–1736) was an Italian composer, violinist and organist and one was one of the most important early figures in opera buffa (comic opera).
Ladies of the Opera
I am always interested in photographing the less obvious and more intimate details of well-known monuments and buildings. Today it's the female statues adorning the Opera Garnier. The first four statues are underneath the busts of the famous composers in the front of the building.The second s...
As a SharePoint consultant with 40 years in IT (yeah I have coded in COBOL, so get over it already), my interview technique is pretty simple.
I ask the interviewee to give me a detailed description of their SharePoint experience.
Then I might intersperse more detailed questions during their dialog. I figure if you can't tell me exactly what you have done, then you actually haven't done it.
One problem with ALL technical interviews is that you can always find obscure questions with equally obscure answers to either eliminate a candidate or throw them off of their interview game.
So allow the candidate to tell their own story and make your judgement from that.
The Non-Programming Programmer
I find it difficult to believe, but the reports keep pouring in via Twitter and email: many candidates who show up for programming job interviews can't program. At all. Consider this recent email from Mike Lin: The article Why Can't Programmers... Program? changed the way I did interviews. I ...
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