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width="1" height="1" //divpThe family of Jean Charles de Menezes walked out of his inquest
yesterday as the coroner ruled the jury was forbidden from considering whether he was unlawfully
killed./ppSir Michael Wright said he did not believe the testimony justified him allowing them to
return a verdict which was tantamount to accusing police officers of murder or manslaughter./ppAs
the De Menezes family and their supporters walked out the coroner said he knew the jury's hearts
would go out to the dead man's mother, Maria Otone de Menezes. "But these are emotional reactions,
ladies and gentlemen, and you are charged with returning a verdict based on evidence," he
said./pp"Put aside any emotion - put them to one side."/ppOver the 10 weeks of the hearing jurors
have heard from 100 witnesses, including the two specialist firearms officers, C12 and C2, who shot
dead the Brazilian at point-blank range on a carriage at Stockwell station in London on July 22
2005./ppFor the first time, the public was given a full account of the incident from key witnesses
on board the underground carriage where the shooting took place./ppPolice mistakenly believed he
was Hussain Osman, one of a group of would-be suicide bombers who had attempted to set off bombs on
a number of tube trains and a bus the previous day. De Menezes was living in a block of flats
connected to one of the July 21 bombers./ppThe coroner is likely to send the jury out today with
the instruction to consider a verdict of lawful killing or an open verdict. They have also been
asked to answer a series of questions: yes, no or don't know./ppIn his legal ruling to the jury
before he sent them out to deliberate, Wright said they could not find the firearms officers who
fired the fatal shots or senior officers coordinating the operation liable under criminal or civil
law for the death because inquest law prohibited any jury returning a verdict that would lay the
blame at the door of an individual or individuals./ppHe told the court he had listened to
submissions from the legal teams for all the parties before making his decision. "After hearing the
submissions the conclusion that I have come to is that the evidence in this case taken at its
highest would not justify my leaving verdicts of unlawful killing to you," he said./pp"This is so
in respect of C12 and C2 concerning their direct involvement in shooting Mr De Menezes and also in
respect of any of the particular senior officers in relation to their management and conduct of the
operation."/ppWright said the decision did not indicate police did nothing wrong on July 22 2005,
but he said all interested persons agreed that a verdict of unlawful killing could only be
considered if jurors could be sure a very serious crime, such as murder or manslaughter, had been
committed to a criminal standard of proof, ie beyond all reasonable doubt./ppEven if the jury
concluded that a number of people made different mistakes which together resulted in the shooting
of De Menezes, unlawful killing should also not be considered./ppExplaining his decision he said:
"The accusation that is made against C2 and C12 on behalf of the family is an allegation of murder.
That is to say the deliberate killing of another human being without any lawful excuse; that is the
allegation of murder./pp"The response of the two officers to that accusation is that they were
acting in lawful defence of themselves and of many other people in that they fired their weapons in
order to prevent detonation of body-borne, improvised explosive devices."/ppHe said that given the
evidence did not amount to proving a verdict of unlawful killing, the jury must consider lawful
killing first and then an open verdict. They should find that De Menezes was lawfully killed if
they believed it was probable he died by "deliberate application of force against him" and that the
person causing the injuries used reasonable force in self-defence or defence of another person, or
to prevent a crime, or to assist in lawful arrest, even if the result of the action was
fatal./ppThe coroner added the jury may consider whether some witnesses were lying. As an example,
he said they may consider the testimony of C12, who said he shouted a warning of "armed police" to
De Menezes, which was contradicted by all the civilian witnesses./ppBut he urged caution on judging
anything they viewed as lying too harshly. "You must decide whether the person has lied or made an
honest mistake. If you can prove that the witness has lied you should bear ... in mind people tell
lies for a variety of reasons, not necessarily to put their own part./pp"In the context of this
case it might be to mitigate the impact of ... a tragic mistake or to support others in
explanations they may have put forward."/ppHe added that if they found C12 had been lying, it would
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Rhizome.org Calendar -
20 hours and 49 minutes ago
[b]Sandro Djukić[/b] was born 1964. in Zagreb. He graduated at the Academy of Fine
Arts in Zagreb in 1989. In period from 1989 to1993 he attended Art Academy in Dusseldorf (class of
prof. Nam June Paik and prof. Nan Hoover). At the same academy he attended postgraduate studies
(class of prof. Nan Hoover) in period from 1993. to 1994. Exhibited in Slovenia, Germany, USA,
Italy, Serbia, Austria and Croatia and lectured at the numerous conferences dedicated to media art
(Rijeka, Zagreb, Plasy). In 1991. he received Croatian Artist Association Award.br / br / br /
Taxonomy of technological transformation (by Igor Markovic)br / br / The exhibition of Sandro
Djukić is demanding. It’s demanding for the author, but even more demanding for
the audience. Not as much by its form – although certain level of technological
and visual literacy is requred – as by its content, more precisely by the issues
it inquires and their heaviness. One of these issues is the nature of photography as a form of art
in this, more and more, digitalized world. Althoug digitalization of photography began (in its
rudimentary form) more than half a century ago, recent development of technology, with particular
relation to lowering costs of personal computers, storage media and digital cameras, results in two
important things.br / br / Photography does not go through chemical processing anymore, which
change its values. Not necessary in positive or negative way, but in its essence. Increasing
megapixels are not necceserily technologically improving the quality of photography, but adversely
excluding numerous possibilities the classic, anolog photography has to offer: from the moment of
taking a photograph to developing and processing it. Of course, speed is obtained, as well as
authenticity to some degree, but the question which remains unanswered (and often unquestioned) is
what is lost. Question raised in mid-nineties by Critical Art Ensamble i Geert Lovink refering to
information technology and digital communication is emerging in its new variant. The speed of
information transfer, as well as its quantity and accessibility, is rapidly increasing, but time
needed for processing remains the same – limited by human cognitive ability.
Does the limitation go toward superficiality and prefering quantity over quality? In photographic
discourse this question may be: Does increasing quantity of digital photographies leads to less
time to observe, analize and process it visually and/or intelectually?br / br / Sandro
Djukić is going even further. In a way he is reversing the question that Benjamin
asked in the 1930s (how has photography changed art?) to make it: how has technologicaly mediated
art (applied as in graphic design, but also the art market) changed photography? More and more
common artistic practices transformed what was essentially an art born in print into a salon art of
single pictures on walls, often incorporated in some multimedia instalation in which digitaly taken
photograph is digitaly presented or screened – never getting a chance to be
present in its intrinsic medium.br / br / What is in that proces changed in visual economy? The
very notion of visual economy is developed from the work of Deborah Poole, and places emphasis on
the organization of the production and exchange of images, rather than relying simply on an
analysis of their visual content: The word economy suggests that the field of vision is organised
in some systematic way. It is also clear that this organisation has as much to do with social
relationships, inequality, and power as with shared meanings and community ... For Poole, a visual
economy has three levels: the organization of production, encompassing both the individuals and the
technologies that produce images; the circulation of ... images and image-objects; and the cultural
and discursive systems through which graphic images are appraised, interpreted, and assigned
historical, scientific, and aesthetic worthbr / br / By removing the images from their original
contexts of production and circulation, and placing them into a gallery, the visual economy that
produced these images is negated or obscured in favour of a more neutral sense of the photograph as
raw material or a window onto history. Whit such an action single photographs, but also their whole
(in the form of photography data-base) becomes repositioned in relation to the time/place of thir
origin, and at the same time in relation to the time/place of their initialy intented purpose. That
is leading us to (maybe) the crucial problem of digitaly mediated photography: the question of
clasification, of taxonomy. That is the question more and more essential in many branches of
information and library sciences (especially in the theories of so-called semantic web), but also
unavoidable one for consuments of visual images, ranging from pornophiles probing the Net in search
for a distinct fetish, marketing experts deciding on media campaign’s visual images, or
common people trying to handle ever biger family albums. How to find what one is looking for in the
seemingly endless piles of photos (not to mention that very often they are incredibly alike each
other)?br / br / Analogy with another problem of classification of visual material is almost
inevitable. Every human fingerprints is unique (although the final scientific verdict is still
awaited), but the clasification of them is a problem yet unresolved. In case of photohgraphy
confirmation is much easier. Acoording to the laws of physics two objects can not occupy the same
space in the same time, therefore, no matter how short exposition is, even bursted shooting allways
will result with a set of very similar (to the point of concealment), but not the same photographs.
System of clasification, however, can not benefit from such evidence, as analogy with the history
of dactiloscopy unmistakably shows.br / br / An important first issue is that any one image has
varied content, which may be available either consecutively or concurrently to the same or to
different viewers. These multiple ways of seeing have been discussed over the years, but it’s
still a very open field. It is worth noting here the contrast with textual data. While textual data
can have a multiplicity of content and meaning, in terms of the discrete elements of a query, the
visual and linguistic content are homologous. The fundamental building blocks of text databases are
ASCII character strings representing words that have a direct semantic interpretation.br / br / In
contrast, the pixel values making up digital images have no inherent significance. Considerable
processing of the image is necessary even to infer the presence of a simple shape like a circle,
let alone a complex object such as a tree. Direct comparison of image bitmaps can tell us only one
thing about a given pair of images – whether they are identical or not. Nothing
can be deduced about their similarity in terms of the objects they contain, or scenes they
represent.br / Art history and its pertaining theories are rich in narratological, iconographic,
multidiscursive and other attampts of clasification of visual material, ranging from already
classics like Panofsky to contemporary, technologicaly highly sofisticated theories of Ornager and
Rasmussen (among others), however there is still no universaly applicable method of catalogizing
photographies, other then on a very basic, bumpy level. Neither contemporary catalogization of
image types nor more traditional iconography just aren’t a match to the problem.br / br /
Maybe the premier value of Sandro Djukić’s exhibition lay in the fact that,
thorough playing with his own archive, thorough permutations and variations of its parts, excessing
from one media to another, from one technique and technology to another clearly pointing to the
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reduce greenhouse gas emissions to balance out the situation. br brIn addition to that, Ecorio
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iInternational journal of cancer. Journal international du cancer, Vol. 119, No. 9. (1 November
2006), pp. 2231-2235./ibr /br /Adult height has been positively associated with breast cancer risk
in epidemiologic studies, and recent evidence suggests that the timing and rate of growth may also
influence risk. We examined both adult height and age at attained height, an indicator of the
timing of the pubertal growth spurt, in relation to incidence of premenopausal breast cancer in the
Nurses' Health Study II. Participants were 108,829 premenopausal women who reported their height in
1989; of these, 37,572 provided information on their age at attained height on a later
supplementary questionnaire. During 12 years of follow-up, 1,041 cases of invasive breast cancer
were identified (402 with age at attained height). Cox proportional hazards models were used to
estimate relative risks (RRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Adult height was positively
associated with breast cancer incidence; the multivariate RR for participants 1.75 m or taller
compared to those shorter than 1.60 m was 1.57 (95% CI: 1.23-2.01, p trend < 0.0001), and each
5-cm increment corresponded to an 11% increase in risk (95% CI: 6-17%). There was no overall
association for age at attained height, however, with a multivariate RR of 0.96 (95% CI: 0.66-1.39)
for women who attained their maximum height at age 18 or older compared to those who reached it
before age 14 (p trend = 0.65). These results confirm previous findings that taller adult height is
associated with increased risk of premenopausal breast cancer but do not provide evidence that age
at attained height is related to risk.br /iHJ Baer, JW Rich-Edwards, GA Colditz, DJ Hunter, WC
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iAnnals of epidemiology, Vol. 2, No. 5. (September 1992), pp. 597-609./ibr /br /A study of 1529
breast cancer patients and 1901 control subjects enabled evaluation of risk in relation to lifetime
changes in body size. Tallness, regardless of when achieved, was associated with an increased risk
of breast cancer diagnosed at both young (< 50 years) and older ages, with adult height of 68 in
or more increasing risk by nearly 50 to 80% compared with statures of less than 62 in. The
association of risk with weight was less clear. Subjects who described themselves as heavier than
average at ages 8 to 9 or 16 years were at reduced risk, particularly for older-onset breast
cancer. Higher body mass indices based on reported weights during early adulthood were also
associated with reduced risk. Measures of body mass beyond the age of 20, however, were less
strongly related to risk. These inconsistent patterns appeared to be explained by an effect on risk
of weight gain later in life, which was related to reduced risks for young-onset breast cancer and
increased risks for later disease. The effect of weight change for early-onset breast cancer was
not restricted to in situ cancers and could therefore not be attributed to detection bias. The
direct relationship of body mass change with older onset disease was restricted to invasive
cancers, consistent with observations of poor breast cancer prognosis among obese women. Further
attention on the relationship of anthropometric variables to risk of breast cancer should focus on
the timing of weight gain as well as the distribution of body fat.br /iLA Brinton, CA Swanson/i

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iInternational journal of cancer. Journal international du cancer, Vol. 44, No. 1. (15 July 1989),
pp. 23-30./ibr /br /The height and weight of 570,000 Norwegian women, aged 30-69 years, were
measured and the subjects were then followed up for 6-18 years with regard to breast cancer
morbidity and mortality. They were arranged in 5-year age-groups. In all age-groups the tallest
women were found to have the highest risk for both morbidity and mortality. Overweight was a risk
factor for breast cancer mortality in all age-groups, but it was a risk factor only in the
post-menopausal age-groups in the case of morbidity. It appeared to protect against breast cancer
in the pre-menopausal age-group. Stages I and II-IV follow-up endpoints show negative and positive
associations, respectively, with overweight. It is not likely that this can be fully explained by
earlier detection of cancer among slim women.br /iS Tretli/i
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iEuropean journal of cancer prevention : the official journal of the European Cancer Prevention
Organisation (ECP), Vol. 11 Suppl 2 (August 2002)/ibr /br /To evaluate the evidence for the role of
weight control and physical activity in cancer prevention and to identify priorities for research
and for public health action in relation to the primary prevention of cancer, an international
working group of experts was convened in Lyon in February 2001 by the International Agency for
Research on Cancer of the World Health Organization. The expert group concluded that limiting
weight gain during adult life, thereby avoiding overweight and obesity, reduces the risk of
postmenopausal breast cancer and cancers of the colon, endometrium, kidney (renal cell) and
esophagus (adenocarcinoma). Limiting weight gain possibly reduces risk of cancer of the thyroid.
Weight loss among overweight or obese persons possibly reduces risks of these cancers, but no
definite conclusion can be drawn because of the paucity of the epidemiological evidence. The
working group also concluded that there was sufficient evidence for the role of physical activity
in preventing colon and breast cancers, and limited evidence for the cancers of the prostate and
endometrium. Some of these effects were independent of that of the weight control. Taken together,
the working group considered that excess body weight and physical inactivity account for
approximately a quarter to one-third of cancers of the colon, breast, endometrium, kidney (renal
cell) and esophagus (adenocarcinoma). Thus adiposity and physical inactivity appear to be the most
important avoidable causes of these cancers.br /iH Vainio, R Kaaks, F Bianchini/i

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iLancet, Vol. 360, No. 9339. (5 October 2002), pp. 1044-1049./ibr /br /BACKGROUND: Results of
epidemiological studies, assessing the relation between smoking and breast cancer, have been
inconclusive. Our aim was to assess the carcinogenic and possibly antioestrogenic effects of
cigarette smoke on risk of breast cancer. METHODS: We sent a questionnaire to 1431 women younger
than age 75 years who had breast cancer and were listed on the population-based British Columbia
cancer registry between June 1, 1988, and June 30, 1989. We also sent questionnaires to 1502
age-matched controls, randomly selected from the 1989 provincial voters list. We obtained
information on all known and suspected risk factors for breast cancer, and on lifetime smoking,
alcohol consumption, and occupational history. We assessed the effect of smoking separately for
premenopausal and postmenopausal women, adjusting for confounding variables. FINDINGS: 318
premenopausal women and 340 controls replied. Risk of breast cancer was significantly increased
(adjusted odds ratio 1.69, 95% CI 1.13-2.51) in women who had been pregnant and who started to
smoke within 5 years of menarche, and in nulliparous women who smoked 20 cigarettes daily or more
(7.08, 1.63-30.8) and had smoked for 20 cumulative pack-years or more (7.48, 1.59-35.2).
Postmenopausal women (700 breast cancer and 685 controls) whose body-mass index increased from age
18 to current and who started to smoke after a first fullterm pregnancy had a significantly reduced
risk of breast cancer (0.49, 0.27-0.89). INTERPRETATION: Our results suggest that cigarette smoke
exerts a dual action on the breast, with different effects in premenopausal and postmenopausal
women. Our observations reinforce the importance of smoking prevention, especially in early
adolescence, and draw attention to the timing of exposure in relation to susceptibility and
refractory windows in the design of studies to investigate associations between environmental
carcinogens or putative endocrine disruptors and risk of breast cancer.br /iPR Band, ND Le, R Fang,
M Deschamps/i

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iAmerican journal of epidemiology, Vol. 159, No. 8. (15 April 2004), pp. 732-739./ibr /br /Dietary
fiber, fiber fractions, carbohydrate, glycemic index, and glycemic load were prospectively assessed
five times over 18 years with a validated food frequency questionnaire in relation to breast cancer
risk among 88,678 women (aged 34-59 years at baseline) in the Nurses' Health Study. Incident breast
cancer occurred in 4,092 of these women between 1980 and 1998. The authors observed no material
association between carbohydrate intake, glycemic index and glycemic load, total dietary fiber
intake, and breast cancer risk. The relative risks for the highest versus the lowest quintile of
intake were 0.97 (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.87, 1.08) for carbohydrates, 1.08 (95% CI: 0.97,
1.19) for glycemic index, 0.99 (95% CI: 0.89, 1.10) for glycemic load, and 0.98 (95% CI: 0.87,
1.11) for fiber. The relative risk comparing those in the highest 0.7% of fiber intake (>30
g/day) with those in the lowest 10% of fiber intake (< or =10 g/day) was 0.68 (95% CI: 0.43,
1.06). Analyses stratified by menopausal status and body mass index also showed no clear risk
pattern. In this cohort of middle-aged women, no overall association was found for dietary
carbohydrates, glycemic index and glycemic load, and breast cancer risk. This study also confirmed
the lack of an overall association between intake of fiber and fiber types and breast cancer risk
observed in other prospective studies.br /iMD Holmes, S Liu, SE Hankinson, GA Colditz, DJ Hunter,
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1 days and 8 hours ago
iBreast cancer research : BCR, Vol. 6, No. 4. (2004), pp. 170-178./ibr /br /The role of specific
dietary factors in breast cancer causation is not completely resolved. Results from prospective
studies do not support the concept that fat intake in middle life has a major relation to breast
cancer risk. However, weight gain in middle life contributes substantially to breast cancer risk.
Alcohol is the best established dietary risk factor, probably by increasing endogenous estrogen
levels. Hypotheses relating diet during youth to risk decades later will be difficult to test.
Nevertheless, available evidence is strong that breast cancer risk can be reduced by avoiding
weight gain during adult years, and by limiting alcohol consumption.br /iMD Holmes, WC Willett/i
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iEndocr Relat Cancer, Vol. 11, No. 3. (September 2004), pp. 497-522./ibr /br /It is widely believed
that ductal breast cancer dissemination involves a succession of clinical and pathological stages
starting with carcinoma in situ, progressing into invasive lesion and culminating in metastatic
disease. Such changes have frequently been attributed to the sequential acquisition of various
alterations in a single cell followed by clonal selection and expansion, thus leading to
intra-tumor diversity. According to this multi-step view, extensive genotype and phenotype (marker
expression, grade) shift may occur in the same tumor during progression; this may lead to the
co-existence of molecularly and/or pathologically different areas within the same lesion. An
increasing amount of data of various natures now appear to challenge this concept: only a few
distinct 'portraits', in relation to estrogen receptor (ER) status and grade, may be found among
tumors. Moreover, although undergoing increasing genetic alteration, most individual lesions
largely maintain their phenotype when they evolve from in situ to the metastatic state. While many
of the data presented here are related to ductal tumors, lobular cancer is also discussed.br /iM
Lacroix, RA Toillon, G Leclercq/i

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The heart of Charles Nessons' a
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fines put on copyright infringement. The original fines were really meant for commercial copyright
counterfeiters -- and the law was never intended to be used against random internet users sharing
some songs off of their computer with no profit motive at all. The law also didn't anticipate songs
being sold for less than $1. So, with statutory fines for each act of infringement sitting between
$750 and $150,000, there are some big problems. Luckily, it appears some judges are beginning to
agree with the idea that these fines are ridiculous. Ray Beckerman highlights a
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target="_new"a recent ruling by District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin/a in the Southern District of
New York, where Schendlin stated: blockquotei "At the end of the day, 'statutory damages should
bear some relation to actual damages suffered'... and 'cannot be divorced entirely from economic
reality'" /i/blockquote Beckerman notes that a more reasonable standard would be somewhere between
zero and nine times the actual damages -- with the lost profit on a single download being
approximately $0.35 -- meaning damages per song should range from $0 to $3.15 per song file.
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iPod touch Fans forum -
1 days and 16 hours ago
as asked at the end of this thread - http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/forums/...ad.php?t=58930
- does anybody know what this terminal code thing is.
i had an answer in that thread, but it didn't tell me anything.
basically, what are terminal codes, in relation to do they effect me and how useful will i find
them? how do i use them? and why?
i just want to know :)
thanks
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Mac Forums - iPod touch -
1 days and 18 hours ago
Somehow, thinking I was working on a different drive, I repartitioned one of my drives today and so
lost some valuable data. I assumed Time Machine had been backing this and 2 other drives up, so I
wasn't too worried. Then I discovered Time Machine had only been backing up 2 of my drives (even
though I had NOT put the third drive of the exclusion list.
I bought Subrosoft's FileSalvage which has recovered over 25,000 files, trouble is of course I've
lost the original layout with the folders and their correct file names. It's as if I had tipped out
the contents of a filing cabinet onto the floor and now have 25000+ pieces of paper in one huge
pile, except the files now have names that bear no relation to their file names.
Is there any way program that can actually rebuild my original partition (folders and layout etc)
as it was?
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1 days and 19 hours ago
Societe : ASTON CARTER - Lieu de travail : Ile-de-France - Type de contrat : CDI - Salaire : ... -
Detail : Aston Carter recherche pour un de ses clients – Utilisateur final
– un Consultant fonctionnel Oracle e-business Suite Manufacturing pour un CDI
basé en région parisienne. Au sein des équipes, vous êtes en charge du
support Oracle application dans le domaine de la production : -Recueil des nouveaux besoins
-Rédaction de spec fonctionnelle détaillées -Paramétrage -Formation des
utilisateurs. Poste évolutif (en terme de responsabilité et de connaissance autour du
module manuf d’oracle appli : PO IC WIP ASCP MRP CRP....) Vous devez avoir une
première expérience en support Oracle e business suite domaine Manufacturing. La
maitrise de l’anglais est un réel plus. Merci d’envoyer vos candidatures a
Naoual Mauger – nmauger@astoncarter.com – 01.56.33.56.23
Aston Carter Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
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1 days and 19 hours ago
Societe : ASTON CARTER - Lieu de travail : Ile-de-France - Type de contrat : CDI - Salaire : ... -
Detail : Aston Carter recherche pour un de ses clients – Utilisateur final
– un Consultant Technico fonctionnel Oracle e-business Suite Finance pour un CDI
basé a Paris. Au sein des équipes internes, vous participez au support Niveau 2 dans
le domaine de la finance (plus particulièrement GL) : -Gestion des demandes utilisateurs et
correction du paramétrage ou des spécifiques -Rédaction des spec
fonctionnelles des évolutions ou correction + développements simples en PL/ SQL ou
Forms -Mise à jour de la documentation -Participation active aux clôtures mensuelles
Poste évolutif avec montée en compétence afin de gérer des projets en
toute autonomie. Vous devez avoir un minimum de 2 ans d’expérience en support Oracle
application Finance GL. La maitrise de l’anglais est un réel plus. Merci
d’envoyer vos candidatures a Naoual Mauger – nmauger@astoncarter.com
– 01.56.33.56.23 Aston Carter Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation
to this vacancy.

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