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Jake Obetsebi Lamptey, the man who plotted the defeat of the NDC in the 2000 elections has been re-appointed as the campaign manager to return President Kufuor to the Castle.
Popularly known as 'Bukom Broni', Jake will be assisted by the Private Sector Development Minister, Kwamena Bartels and NPP General Secretary, Dan Botwe.
Its sources indicate that, Jake also the Minister for Tourism and Modernisation of the Capital City, received the nod when he met the President last week at the Castle, Osu.
His appointment, sources say was informed by the President's conviction that there was the need to maintain the team that won power for him.
“The President believes that a winning team should not be changed” a source said.
Recently announced federal funding will benefit six local sporting and community clubs who have received a total of just under $25,000 for much needed projects. The clubs include Georgetown Memorial Bowling Club who will receive $4,592 to purchase outdoor furniture and Gladstone Bowling Club who will used $2,399 to acquire a foldable engine crane that will improve volunteer safety. Also receiving funds is the Quorn Cricket Club who will be able to purchase a pitch roller with $5,000, Wirrabara Sporting Reserve committee who will top off their other funding with $4,950 that will be used to purchase a commercial dishwasher. The Gladstone Community Development and Tourism association were successful in receiving $2,500 for a much needed computer and printer and the Port Broughton combined sporting clubs will receive $,3800 for various equipment. Federal Member for Grey Rowan Ramsey says that these grants make a real difference in small community groups and need to be supported. "Our volunteer organisations have a profound impact on the ground for local towns- both socially and economically. They are the back bone of our rural and regional communities. I am pleased the government is supporting grass roots organisations," he said. Mr Ramsey advocates for the volunteers in Grey who contribute their skills. "I am very pleased with the increasing assistance we have been able to provide for community groups in regional areas through programs like the community sports infrastructure scheme, building stronger communities and the volunteer grants. they are really only possible on the back of us getting the economy back on track," he said.
"Our volunteer organisations have a profound impact on the ground for local towns- both socially and economically. They are the back bone of our rural and regional communities. I am pleased the government is supporting grass roots organisations," he said.
Mr Ramsey advocates for the volunteers in Grey who contribute their skills.
Lawrence Burgh has a sober outlook on life. A 48-year-old physician whose career has centred on treating seriously ill patients, Burgh was diagnosed with cancer in December 2006. Yet despite his clinical experience, he has taken an extraordinary step to try to rid himself of his illness, a step many would consider to be a medical heresy.
Microsoft reported surprisingly strong quarterly profits and sales growth in its core software products, sending its stock up 12 percent in after-hours trading.
Microsoft reported strong quarterly sales and profit growth yesterday, surprising Wall Street analysts with the sales of its core software products.
The company, the world’s largest software maker, continues to trail well behind Google in the new markets for Internet services and online advertising. But the new versions of its lucrative personal computer businesses — the Windows Vista operating system and Microsoft Office 2007 — appear to be selling better than industry analysts anticipated.
Microsoft, which reported its results after regular trading on the stock market closed, raised its financial forecasts for the current quarter and its fiscal year, which will end next June.
In after-hours trading, Microsoft shares jumped nearly 12 percent, to $35.76 a share. In the regular trading session, the shares closed at $32.01, up 76 cents for the day.
For its first quarter, Microsoft reported net income of $4.29 billion, or 45 cents a share, a 23 percent rise compared with a year earlier. Analysts had predicted 39 cents a share.
Microsoft reported revenue of $13.76 billion, an increase of 27 percent from a year earlier. The consensus revenue estimate of securities analysts, compiled by Thomson Financial, was just under $12.6 billion.
In an interview, Christopher P. Liddell, Microsoft’s chief financial officer, said the company had “outperformed expectations pretty much across the board,” led by the performance of its personal computer software products. Sales in the Windows group rose 25 percent, to more than $4.14 billion, while the Office division reported a 20 percent increase in sales, to $4.11 billion.
Mr. Liddell cited three factors for the exceptionally strong performance of the desktop products. The sales of personal computers worldwide grew 14 to 16 percent, he said, compared with the company’s anticipated range of 10 to 12 percent. Growth was highest, he added, in consumer and international markets, especially in developing economies like China, India, Russia and Brazil.
Microsoft also sold more of its premium-priced versions of Windows and Office than a year earlier. Mr. Liddell also said the company’s efforts to combat piracy were particularly successful, increasing sales of some product lines by as much as 5 percent from a year earlier.
Microsoft got another solid quarter from its server software group, which in recent years has become the company’s third big, profitable business alongside Windows and Office. Server products are the back-end software in corporate data centers, used to run e-mail systems, databases and corporate applications. Server software sales for the quarter rose 16 percent, to $2.9 billion.
Microsoft’s sales also got a healthy lift from its entertainment and devices unit, helped by the introduction of the hit video game Halo 3. Revenue from the entertainment and devices group rose 90 percent, to $1.9 billion. And after years of losses, the unit reported a pretax profit of $165 million, in contrast to a loss of $142 million a year earlier.
The mainstay businesses are thriving, but, analysts say, future growth will increasingly depend on how well Microsoft can do in selling online advertising and developing Internet services. This model of delivering software, information and entertainment over the Internet to personal computers, cellphones and other devices, sent from huge data centers, is often called “cloud computing.” Google, the search giant, is the runaway early leader.
“Strategically, looking forward, the challenge for Microsoft is cloud computing and Google,” said David Mitchell Smith, an analyst at the research company Gartner.
Mr. Smith pointed to Microsoft’s $6 billion purchase of aQuantive, an online ad agency, completed in May, and Web-based software offerings like Office Live Workspace as evidence that the company is starting to make progress in Internet services and advertising.
Microsoft clearly has ambitious plans for growth in the online market. Steven A. Ballmer, the chief executive, said at a recent conference in Europe that online advertising would grow to make up 25 percent of Microsoft’s revenue over the next several years.
Yesterday’s earnings report illustrates how far Microsoft has to go. Its online services unit grew 25 percent, to $671 million, but its revenue amounted to less than 6 percent of Microsoft’s quarterly sales. And the quarterly loss from online services more than doubled, to $264 million, from the loss of $102 million in the quarter a year earlier.
But yesterday’s financial results also underline the growth and profitability of Microsoft’s mainstay personal computer software businesses. That gives Microsoft the financial firepower — it had $21.5 billion cash at the end of the quarter — needed to pour money into new fields for the long term, making moves like its $240 million investment on Wednesday in the social networking start-up Facebook.
The funeral procession for Emmet County Emergency Management Director Terry Reekers drew officials from the area and around the state on Wednesday.
A walk along 170th Street, which was blocked off for the funeral at Grandview Baptist Church was lined with official vehicles from around the state.
The local emergency personnel led the way including Estherville police, Emmet County Sheriff and Armstrong police, as well as fire departments' vehicles from Estherville, Armstrong, Gruver, Ringsted and Wallingford.
Neighboring county emergency management vehicles came from, Palo Alto, Dickinson, Clay and Kossuth counties.
Other emergency management vehicles lining the road came from the counties of Blackhawk, Howard, Buena Vista, Harrison, Hancock, Benton, Adair/Guthrie, Polk, Butler, Floyd, Chickasaw, Humboldt, Bremer and Winnishiek.
A Wright County Sheriff's vehicle also was seen.
As Reekers' funeral started at 10:30 a.m., the tornado drill sounded in Estherville as part of Severe Weather Awareness Week.
Reekers passed away suddenly last Friday.
Kieran Read is moving offshore and the All Blacks are on the hunt for a new skipper. Who will fill his boots and get to call heads or tails? Rugby writer Steve Hepburn has a quick look at the contenders.
Positives: Done it before, top player in his position, calm and composed, vastly experienced, comes from Canterbury.
Negatives: Maybe getting a bit long in the tooth, seeking some Japanese yen, may not have enough gas left in the tank, comes from Canterbury.
Positives: On his game is the best in the world, a real follow-me leader, well respected.
Negatives: Picks up a few injuries, may become burdened by the leadership, still young in years.
Positives: Is the quarterback of the team, a class act when on form, natural fit around people, done it before.
Negatives: Has plenty on his plate, how often is a first five-eighth a captain in a team, may be headed offshore, does not feel like captaincy material.
Positives: A rampaging player, well liked, matured as a player, has captaincy experience.
Negatives: Injury list longer than a Lime scooter weekend, not sure of his place in starting side, not getting any younger.
Chances: Getting colder by the day.
Positives: Done it before, a top player, in the ideal position to captain the side.
Negatives: Coming back from a very serious injury, other things on his mind, may be usurped in his position.
Chances: Slightly above stone cold.
Positives: Works hard, leads well round the field, getting better as a player, well respected, good professional.
Negatives: Not sure of a start, too much of an organiser and busybody, finger would get tired from even more pointing he will do in a game.
Positives: Top player, barks well at his forwards, wiser in years.
Negatives: Never been a captain anywhere, best left to his own devices, chequered history.
Chances: Even Captain Oates would have been warmer.
Positives: Captained NZ Schools, certain to start every game, appeals to the younger folk.
Negatives: Remember Stu Wilson from 1983, too young, still plenty of other stuff to do.
Chances: The temperature on Uranus last night.
Position: In the stand, on the field.
Positives: It's all about the leadership group these days, trainers and medics are on the field every minute of the match, coaches can make calls from the stand.
Negatives: Miss out on those after-match interviews ... um, yes.
Chances: No chance but in modern reality is the biggest chance.
police to clear away hundreds of party followers.
public not to attend for fear of violence.
and nuns - the Oct 1 congress went ahead.
from traveling to Phnom Penh to attend.
were allowed through. BLDP members were not.
enforce a 10pm-5am curfew the night of Sept 30.
Ministry of Interior or National Police officials.
but that was what the police did, he said.
been discouraged or physically prevented from attending the congress.
was their duty as police to appear neutral."
official admitted to the Post.
of Ieng Mouly's had visited the Wat two days before the congress was held.
broadcast official statements urging people not to attend.
not to give any other coverage to the congress plans or the event itself.
for it to be held would not be given unless the two BLDP factions reconciled beforehand.
earlier publicly spoken of concern about security problems if the congress went ahead.
house, despite the grenade attacks the night before.
Wat Mohamontrey and another Wat.
moved in to clear all the people on the road outside the BLDP house.
they either had to be on the premises of the house or leave the area.
- and pistols. At least two were carrying electric "cattle-prodder" batons.
Sann as party president was held of only 360 selected people who were present.
up of the congress violated the right to freedom of assembly under the constitution.
to assemble on his premises but not to block the road outside.
the grenade attacks of Sept 30.
on a motorcycle, was a woman.
Others suggest it was a long-haired man.
that they would resort to this kind of thing."
Meanwhile, reaction to the violence has been swift.
acts", describing them as heinous.
of the country," he said.
thrown into a "holy place of worship".
There's a temptation when it comes to security in the cloud to limit the conversation to firewalls and the security paraphernalia that gets deployed at the edge of the network. But in reality, the conversation about security in the cloud needs to go much deeper than that.
When it comes to cloud security what customers are concerned about most is the security of their data. They want to know that employees working for the cloud services provider are not accessing sensitive data in violation of any number of compliance requirements. And they want to know that no other company that is accessing shared IT infrastructure can see their information.
To help move the cloud security providers further along in their understanding of these issues, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has come up with a stack of free governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) tools that cloud service providers or their customers can download here.
According to CSA executive director Jim Reavis, the organization wants to first make sure that the cost of GRC tools is not a limiting factor when it comes to cloud security. The CSA clearly recognizes that data security is a major customer issue when it comes to the cloud.
But longer term, Reavis says GRC issues in the cloud don't stop at the edge of the cloud computing service provider's network. In the near future, GRC will itself become a cloud computing service that encompasses the applications and systems running in the cloud and on premise.
Reavis says the tools that CSA is providing are not meant to be the ultimate GRC solution. But the CSA does want to set some minimum guidelines for assessing data security in the cloud.
There are a lot of legitimate concerns about data security in the cloud. There are also a lot of people who are using these issues as a stalking horse because they feel threatened by cloud computing. The time has clearly come to start moving past simply discussing cloud security in order to start putting the matter to the test. And the toolkit from CSA is as good as any place to get started.
This week's legal activity has seen Mansur Gavriel file for two design patents, and BareMinerals sign a major deal with a beauty influencer.

Jake Obetsebi Lamptey, the man who plotted the defeat of the NDC in the 2000 elections has been re-appointed as the campaign manager to return President Kufuor to the Castle.

Popularly known as 'Bukom Broni', Jake will be assisted by the Private Sector Development Minister, Kwamena Bartels and NPP General Secretary, Dan Botwe.

Its sources indicate that, Jake also the Minister for Tourism and Modernisation of the Capital City, received the nod when he met the President last week at the Castle, Osu.

His appointment, sources say was informed by the President's conviction that there was the need to maintain the team that won power for him.

“The President believes that a winning team should not be changed” a source said.

Recently announced federal funding will benefit six local sporting and community clubs who have received a total of just under $25,000 for much needed projects. The clubs include Georgetown Memorial Bowling Club who will receive $4,592 to purchase outdoor furniture and Gladstone Bowling Club who will used $2,399 to acquire a foldable engine crane that will improve volunteer safety. Also receiving funds is the Quorn Cricket Club who will be able to purchase a pitch roller with $5,000, Wirrabara Sporting Reserve committee who will top off their other funding with $4,950 that will be used to purchase a commercial dishwasher. The Gladstone Community Development and Tourism association were successful in receiving $2,500 for a much needed computer and printer and the Port Broughton combined sporting clubs will receive $,3800 for various equipment. Federal Member for Grey Rowan Ramsey says that these grants make a real difference in small community groups and need to be supported. "Our volunteer organisations have a profound impact on the ground for local towns- both socially and economically. They are the back bone of our rural and regional communities. I am pleased the government is supporting grass roots organisations," he said. Mr Ramsey advocates for the volunteers in Grey who contribute their skills. "I am very pleased with the increasing assistance we have been able to provide for community groups in regional areas through programs like the community sports infrastructure scheme, building stronger communities and the volunteer grants. they are really only possible on the back of us getting the economy back on track," he said.

"Our volunteer organisations have a profound impact on the ground for local towns- both socially and economically. They are the back bone of our rural and regional communities. I am pleased the government is supporting grass roots organisations," he said.

Mr Ramsey advocates for the volunteers in Grey who contribute their skills.

Lawrence Burgh has a sober outlook on life. A 48-year-old physician whose career has centred on treating seriously ill patients, Burgh was diagnosed with cancer in December 2006. Yet despite his clinical experience, he has taken an extraordinary step to try to rid himself of his illness, a step many would consider to be a medical heresy.

Microsoft reported surprisingly strong quarterly profits and sales growth in its core software products, sending its stock up 12 percent in after-hours trading.

Microsoft reported strong quarterly sales and profit growth yesterday, surprising Wall Street analysts with the sales of its core software products.

The company, the world’s largest software maker, continues to trail well behind Google in the new markets for Internet services and online advertising. But the new versions of its lucrative personal computer businesses — the Windows Vista operating system and Microsoft Office 2007 — appear to be selling better than industry analysts anticipated.

Microsoft, which reported its results after regular trading on the stock market closed, raised its financial forecasts for the current quarter and its fiscal year, which will end next June.

In after-hours trading, Microsoft shares jumped nearly 12 percent, to $35.76 a share. In the regular trading session, the shares closed at $32.01, up 76 cents for the day.

For its first quarter, Microsoft reported net income of $4.29 billion, or 45 cents a share, a 23 percent rise compared with a year earlier. Analysts had predicted 39 cents a share.

Microsoft reported revenue of $13.76 billion, an increase of 27 percent from a year earlier. The consensus revenue estimate of securities analysts, compiled by Thomson Financial, was just under $12.6 billion.

In an interview, Christopher P. Liddell, Microsoft’s chief financial officer, said the company had “outperformed expectations pretty much across the board,” led by the performance of its personal computer software products. Sales in the Windows group rose 25 percent, to more than $4.14 billion, while the Office division reported a 20 percent increase in sales, to $4.11 billion.

Mr. Liddell cited three factors for the exceptionally strong performance of the desktop products. The sales of personal computers worldwide grew 14 to 16 percent, he said, compared with the company’s anticipated range of 10 to 12 percent. Growth was highest, he added, in consumer and international markets, especially in developing economies like China, India, Russia and Brazil.

Microsoft also sold more of its premium-priced versions of Windows and Office than a year earlier. Mr. Liddell also said the company’s efforts to combat piracy were particularly successful, increasing sales of some product lines by as much as 5 percent from a year earlier.

Microsoft got another solid quarter from its server software group, which in recent years has become the company’s third big, profitable business alongside Windows and Office. Server products are the back-end software in corporate data centers, used to run e-mail systems, databases and corporate applications. Server software sales for the quarter rose 16 percent, to $2.9 billion.

Microsoft’s sales also got a healthy lift from its entertainment and devices unit, helped by the introduction of the hit video game Halo 3. Revenue from the entertainment and devices group rose 90 percent, to $1.9 billion. And after years of losses, the unit reported a pretax profit of $165 million, in contrast to a loss of $142 million a year earlier.

The mainstay businesses are thriving, but, analysts say, future growth will increasingly depend on how well Microsoft can do in selling online advertising and developing Internet services. This model of delivering software, information and entertainment over the Internet to personal computers, cellphones and other devices, sent from huge data centers, is often called “cloud computing.” Google, the search giant, is the runaway early leader.

“Strategically, looking forward, the challenge for Microsoft is cloud computing and Google,” said David Mitchell Smith, an analyst at the research company Gartner.

Mr. Smith pointed to Microsoft’s $6 billion purchase of aQuantive, an online ad agency, completed in May, and Web-based software offerings like Office Live Workspace as evidence that the company is starting to make progress in Internet services and advertising.

Microsoft clearly has ambitious plans for growth in the online market. Steven A. Ballmer, the chief executive, said at a recent conference in Europe that online advertising would grow to make up 25 percent of Microsoft’s revenue over the next several years.

Yesterday’s earnings report illustrates how far Microsoft has to go. Its online services unit grew 25 percent, to $671 million, but its revenue amounted to less than 6 percent of Microsoft’s quarterly sales. And the quarterly loss from online services more than doubled, to $264 million, from the loss of $102 million in the quarter a year earlier.

But yesterday’s financial results also underline the growth and profitability of Microsoft’s mainstay personal computer software businesses. That gives Microsoft the financial firepower — it had $21.5 billion cash at the end of the quarter — needed to pour money into new fields for the long term, making moves like its $240 million investment on Wednesday in the social networking start-up Facebook.

The funeral procession for Emmet County Emergency Management Director Terry Reekers drew officials from the area and around the state on Wednesday.

A walk along 170th Street, which was blocked off for the funeral at Grandview Baptist Church was lined with official vehicles from around the state.

The local emergency personnel led the way including Estherville police, Emmet County Sheriff and Armstrong police, as well as fire departments' vehicles from Estherville, Armstrong, Gruver, Ringsted and Wallingford.

Neighboring county emergency management vehicles came from, Palo Alto, Dickinson, Clay and Kossuth counties.

Other emergency management vehicles lining the road came from the counties of Blackhawk, Howard, Buena Vista, Harrison, Hancock, Benton, Adair/Guthrie, Polk, Butler, Floyd, Chickasaw, Humboldt, Bremer and Winnishiek.

A Wright County Sheriff's vehicle also was seen.

As Reekers' funeral started at 10:30 a.m., the tornado drill sounded in Estherville as part of Severe Weather Awareness Week.

Reekers passed away suddenly last Friday.

Kieran Read is moving offshore and the All Blacks are on the hunt for a new skipper. Who will fill his boots and get to call heads or tails? Rugby writer Steve Hepburn has a quick look at the contenders.

Positives: Done it before, top player in his position, calm and composed, vastly experienced, comes from Canterbury.

Negatives: Maybe getting a bit long in the tooth, seeking some Japanese yen, may not have enough gas left in the tank, comes from Canterbury.

Positives: On his game is the best in the world, a real follow-me leader, well respected.

Negatives: Picks up a few injuries, may become burdened by the leadership, still young in years.

Positives: Is the quarterback of the team, a class act when on form, natural fit around people, done it before.

Negatives: Has plenty on his plate, how often is a first five-eighth a captain in a team, may be headed offshore, does not feel like captaincy material.

Positives: A rampaging player, well liked, matured as a player, has captaincy experience.

Negatives: Injury list longer than a Lime scooter weekend, not sure of his place in starting side, not getting any younger.

Chances: Getting colder by the day.

Positives: Done it before, a top player, in the ideal position to captain the side.

Negatives: Coming back from a very serious injury, other things on his mind, may be usurped in his position.

Chances: Slightly above stone cold.

Positives: Works hard, leads well round the field, getting better as a player, well respected, good professional.

Negatives: Not sure of a start, too much of an organiser and busybody, finger would get tired from even more pointing he will do in a game.

Positives: Top player, barks well at his forwards, wiser in years.

Negatives: Never been a captain anywhere, best left to his own devices, chequered history.

Chances: Even Captain Oates would have been warmer.

Positives: Captained NZ Schools, certain to start every game, appeals to the younger folk.

Negatives: Remember Stu Wilson from 1983, too young, still plenty of other stuff to do.

Chances: The temperature on Uranus last night.

Position: In the stand, on the field.

Positives: It's all about the leadership group these days, trainers and medics are on the field every minute of the match, coaches can make calls from the stand.

Negatives: Miss out on those after-match interviews ... um, yes.

Chances: No chance but in modern reality is the biggest chance.

police to clear away hundreds of party followers.

public not to attend for fear of violence.

and nuns - the Oct 1 congress went ahead.

from traveling to Phnom Penh to attend.

were allowed through. BLDP members were not.

enforce a 10pm-5am curfew the night of Sept 30.

Ministry of Interior or National Police officials.

but that was what the police did, he said.

been discouraged or physically prevented from attending the congress.

was their duty as police to appear neutral."

official admitted to the Post.

of Ieng Mouly's had visited the Wat two days before the congress was held.

broadcast official statements urging people not to attend.

not to give any other coverage to the congress plans or the event itself.

for it to be held would not be given unless the two BLDP factions reconciled beforehand.

earlier publicly spoken of concern about security problems if the congress went ahead.

house, despite the grenade attacks the night before.

Wat Mohamontrey and another Wat.

moved in to clear all the people on the road outside the BLDP house.

they either had to be on the premises of the house or leave the area.

- and pistols. At least two were carrying electric "cattle-prodder" batons.

Sann as party president was held of only 360 selected people who were present.

up of the congress violated the right to freedom of assembly under the constitution.

to assemble on his premises but not to block the road outside.

the grenade attacks of Sept 30.

on a motorcycle, was a woman.

Others suggest it was a long-haired man.

that they would resort to this kind of thing."

Meanwhile, reaction to the violence has been swift.

acts", describing them as heinous.

of the country," he said.

thrown into a "holy place of worship".

There's a temptation when it comes to security in the cloud to limit the conversation to firewalls and the security paraphernalia that gets deployed at the edge of the network. But in reality, the conversation about security in the cloud needs to go much deeper than that.

When it comes to cloud security what customers are concerned about most is the security of their data. They want to know that employees working for the cloud services provider are not accessing sensitive data in violation of any number of compliance requirements. And they want to know that no other company that is accessing shared IT infrastructure can see their information.

To help move the cloud security providers further along in their understanding of these issues, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) has come up with a stack of free governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) tools that cloud service providers or their customers can download here.

According to CSA executive director Jim Reavis, the organization wants to first make sure that the cost of GRC tools is not a limiting factor when it comes to cloud security. The CSA clearly recognizes that data security is a major customer issue when it comes to the cloud.

But longer term, Reavis says GRC issues in the cloud don't stop at the edge of the cloud computing service provider's network. In the near future, GRC will itself become a cloud computing service that encompasses the applications and systems running in the cloud and on premise.

Reavis says the tools that CSA is providing are not meant to be the ultimate GRC solution. But the CSA does want to set some minimum guidelines for assessing data security in the cloud.

There are a lot of legitimate concerns about data security in the cloud. There are also a lot of people who are using these issues as a stalking horse because they feel threatened by cloud computing. The time has clearly come to start moving past simply discussing cloud security in order to start putting the matter to the test. And the toolkit from CSA is as good as any place to get started.

This week's legal activity has seen Mansur Gavriel file for two design patents, and BareMinerals sign a major deal with a beauty influencer.