| 2006 audit didn't fix problems
The purchasing-card program provides commercial charge cards "for purchases that otherwise would have been purchased and paid for by other means, such as petty cash, or through issuing a purchase order and check," according to the most recent audit by Walls, who works for County Commission and was helped by the state comptroller's office. More than 300 county employees had the cards early last year - 170 under Ragsdale and 163 in other offices, including the sheriff, school system, trustee, county clerk, register of deeds and property assessor. But after criticism over personal travel and gasoline charged by Bone in June 2007, the mayor revoked about 160 of the purchasing cards under his control. He also commissioned a purchasing-card review committee, which looked at the manual and the program.
Embed Any Video Or HTML Code Into Your Wordpress Blog Site: EmbedIt ...
Embed any HTML code in Wordpress without problems! A new, free Wordpress plugin, allows anyone to embed safely and reliably any piece of embeddable code, widget or Javascript inside any post on your blog site. Matteo Ionescu, explains in simple words what the new EmbedIt plugin for Wordpress is all about Hand-coded by SEO expert and POP partner advisor at Robin Good University, Matteo Ionescu, this truly simple utility resolves what for many has been a never-ending nightmare. Wordpress-based web publishers have learned the hard way how frustrating it can be to embed a video inside or many other types of "embeddable" objects inside Wordpress posts. Unless the embeddable code is specifically designed for Wordpress, once you have placed and published the code, things tend to run havoc: when you edit the post the embedded code is not there anymore, the published page breaks up the layout, the first time is there but not the second one...
TimeTrade Continues Growth and Leadership in Self-Service Appointment ...
BEDFORD, Mass. --(Business Wire)-- TimeTrade Systems, the leader in self-service appointment scheduling, today announced strong sales and increased adoption of the company's Web-based solution that helps enterprises increase customer satisfaction, reduce costs and drive more sales. TimeTrade won 30 new customers in the fourth quarter, 2007, across healthcare, retail, financial services, government and educational markets.
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Sri Lanka
On November 28, two bombings attributed to the LTTE killed 18 civilians in Colombo.
The Karuna group, which has been aligned with government forces since breaking away from the LTTE in 2004, openly engaged in child recruitment, extortion, abductions for ransom, and political killings. Its expelled leader Colonel Karuna was arrested by UK immigration authorities in London in October.
Internal Displacement
Nearly 315,000 people, mostly Tamil and Muslim, have fled their homes in the north and east because of renewed hostilities. Currently over 200,000 remain displaced in the east; many have been displaced multiple times. Returning IDPs face regular threats and occasional violence, including abductions, by both the LTTE and pro-government armed groups.
WiebeTech SilverSATA V
WiebeTech's SilverSATA V is a compact and stylish five-bay RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks). It delivers some impressive data transfer rates and shows the promise of port multiplication in the SATA II specification. WiebeTech offers the SilverSATA V in four configurations: with no drives installed (build your own RAID), 1.25TB, 2.5TB, and an absolutely massive 3.75TB—including five 750GB SATA drives. We tested the 2.5TB unit (with five 500GB drives) using WiebeTech's $140 PCI-11 port multiplication-enabled PCI-X SATA card. In the original SATA I specification, each hard drive needed its own dedicated data cable. The SATA II protocol added a port multiplication feature that lets multiple drives connect via a single SATA cable—a clever use of resources since it takes about five drives to saturate the 300 MBps throughput that is available with SATA II.
Work experience at icScotland
This week icScotland was lucky enough to have Coatbridge youngster, Craig Roe, in on work experience. These past few days he's written reviews, edited on-line content for our local newspaper sites and also helped our staff out on some video editing. From what he's learned Craig has created his own online article using all the skills he has learned here at icScotland. .
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