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Victoria Oil & Gas Live Discussion
Totally_Wired 23 Dec 2019
General Interest Cameroon must fulfill 55 conditions to disburse 31 billion FCFA from the 2nd budget support of the European Union December 21 2019 [link] (Investing in Cameroon) - We have known for a month. Cameroon is expected to conclude a second program with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after the one that ends in June 2020. The European Union (EU), which considers it "judicious" that the country should continue its "fruitful collaboration" with the IMF, has just pledged to support it in this direction through a donation of 50 million euros, or nearly 33 billion FCFA. A small part of this money (2 million euros, or over 1.3 billion FCFA) is intended for "complementary measures". The rest (48 million euros, or 31.44 billion FCFA) must be transferred to the Treasury to help finance the budget. This is the reason why this funding is called budget support. But the disbursement of these 31.44 billion FCFA is subject to the implementation of a set of reforms agreed between Yaoundé and Brussels. They are contained in the addendum to the Sector Reform Contract (CRS), signed on December 16, 2019, by the Minister of the Economy, Planning and Regional Development (Minepat), national authorizing officer of the European Fund for development (Fed) where this money comes from, Alamine Ousmane Mey, and the head of the EU delegation to Cameroon, Hans-Peter Schadek. This endorsement covers a period of two years (2020-2021). [link]
General Interest New AfDB 52.7 Billion Funding for Cameroon December 20, 2019 (Business in Cameroon) - The Cameroonian government, through the Ministry of the Economy, signed on December 19, 2019 with the African Development Bank (AfDB), a new loan agreement in the amount of just over 52.7 billion FCFA, we officially learned. This funding is granted to the country as part of the Competitiveness and Economic Growth Support Program, launched in 2017. This program, which thus enters its 3 rd phase, reaches with this new funding, an overall envelope of 269, 2 billion FCFA made available by the AfDB. According to the Cameroonian Minister of Economy, Alamine Ousmane Mey, this other financing agreement is the recognition of the results obtained by Cameroon, within the framework of this program. The country has indeed succeeded in " stabilizing its macroeconomic framework with economic growth once again oriented upward, despite (…) the fall in oil prices in 2016 ", he stressed.
General Interest Translated via Google: A 28 billion FCFA PPP will provide the economic capital of Cameroon with a shopping center of 3350 shops 04 December 2019 (Invest in Cameroon) - In 18 months, will be born in the city of Douala a gigantic shopping center with 3350 shops, merchant facilities, restaurants and 300 parking spaces. The laying of the first stone of this modern commercial space, which will be built on the site of the Congo market, successively licked by flames in 2012 and February 2019, has just taken place in the economic capital of Cameroon. In order to avoid a similar disappointment, the promoters of the project underline that the future shopping center will be equipped with a " last generation fire safety system ". This investment of nearly 28 billion FCFA is the result of a public-private partnership (PPP) between the Douala Urban Community and the Cameroonian economic operator Emmanuel Neossi, promoter of Neo Industry, a processing unit recently inaugurated cocoa beans in Kekem, Western Region. Called Neo Congo Mall, the commercial center in preparation will allow Emmanuel Neossi to realize his first major project in real estate, after the signing, in September 2019, of a joint venture with the French engineering company CIOA business. This agreement led to the creation of a company called Neo Real Estate, 49% owned by CIOA and 51% by Neo Industry. According to the agreement, this joint venture will license the Bati-Fablab micro-plant technologies of the CIOA group, which will allow the production in Cameroon of 80% of the materials needed for building construction. This joint venture, we learn from authorized sources, also provides for the installation of a Bati-Fablab pilot with a capacity of 1000 homes per year, in the region of western Cameroon. Thanks to this partnership with the French CIOA, Emmanuel Neossi is more likely to realize the Neo Congo Mall project, a feat not realized by Southwest International Construction Corporation (SICC), a joint venture between US investors and Cameroonian Soppo. Ngale. In fact, SICC's BOT (Built Operate Tranfer) contract for the construction of a shopping center (1400 shops) at FCFA 7 billion, on the Congo market site in Douala, was terminated by the Douala Urban Community, after the fire of February 2019. The super-mayor of the Cameroonian economic capital then spoke of the " failure " of his partner, who launched the project in 2013, for a delivery in 2018. But that was not to mention the financial difficulties and the beginnings of those responsible of SICC, all things that finally got the better of this first project. [link]
General Interest Cameroon: Natural gas can contribute 20-30% of the energy mix , SNH says Friday, 29 November 2019 "(Business in Cameroon) - The SNH has demonstrated, since 2012, that gas can make a significant contribution to the development of the electricity sector in Cameroon by ensuring a continuous supply of the 216 MW natural gas power plant built in the coastal city of Kribi, the first-ever in Cameroon. Gas could contribute between 20% and 30% of the energy mix at the national level." This was the reply of Adolphe Moudiki, director and chief executive officer of the National Hydrocarbons Corporation of Cameroon (SNH) when asked how his company could contribute to the diversification of the energy mix in Cameroon. According to an internal publication (SNH Info), relaying the director's answers, the SNH remains faithful to its ambition to contribute to the diversification of the country's electricity supply sources. This explains some of the projects, such as the installation of a 300 MW gas power plant in Limbe and the conversion of many diesel or oil-fired power plants, already being studied. As of July 2019, according to figures published by electricity distribution company ENEO, gas accounted for 17.7% (representing 1,391.98 MW) of Cameroon's electricity production. Hydro (55.8%) and oil/diesel (26.5%) were the other energy sources while the contribution of solar energy remains close to zero. [link]
legionrider 28 Nov 2019
I have finally given up on this share, I have been invested here since 2011 and have just had enough. The share had potential, but the corruption in both the company and country has seen my holding drop in value for £10k to £1k and I might as well take that out before I lose the lot. This was by far the worst performing share in my portfolio.
Totally_Wired 18 Nov 2019
In The Media The role of gas in powering Africa's future 2d ago In Ghana, gas is already a central part of the power generation mix (accounting for nearly 40% of power generation)3 and its role is likely to increase as oil is displaced. Anticipated demand for gas-fired power generation is such that increasing domestic gas production, pipeline imports and LNG imports may all be required. In Cameroon, Victoria Oil & Gas PLC, through its subsidiary Gaz du Cameroun (GDC), is the sole supplier of domestic gas for power generation. The government has said it requires additional grid power to meet growing demand. In July 2019, GDC agreed commercial terms to supply gas to a proposed new 150 MW gas-fired power station, a project we are advising on, and there is likely to be scope for further growth in the country. In Tanzania, material expansion of gas-fired power generation capacity is likely to be contingent on a positive final investment decision or its proposed LNG export plant, which seems some way off. Equinor has disclosed that its production sharing agreement would allow for 10% of gas to go to the domestic market. [link] And link to DLA Piper: [link]
RNS-Historic 14 November 2019 Victoria Oil & Gas Plc ("VOG" or "the Company") Directorate Change Victoria Oil and Gas Plc announces that John Knight has resigned as an independent non-executive director of the Company in order to focus on other business committments. Mr Knight joined the VOG board on 3 April 2019 and was nominated as senior independent director. The Company will appoint a replacement independent non-executive director as soon as possible, the process for which has already commenced. Roger Kennedy, Chairman of VOG, said, "We thank John for his service and contribution to the Company this year and we wish him well in his future endeavours." [link]
Totally_Wired 16 Oct 2019
General Interest World Bank/Cameroon: $200 Million to Boost Inclusive and Sustainable Growth WASHINGTON, October 15, 2019 – World Bank Country Director for Cameroon, Abdoulaye Seck, signed today with Cameroon's Minister of Economy, Planning and Regional Development, Alamine Ousmane Mey, a $200 million Development Policy Credit (DPC) which aims to strengthen fiscal sustainability, enhance competitiveness and protect the poor and most vulnerable. This operation, the second in a series of three, is aligned with Cameroon's economic growth, poverty reduction, and reform priorities as set forth in its long-term development agenda, Vision 2035. "Cameroon's ambitious fiscal consolidation efforts and structural reforms are showing positive results", said Abdoulaye Seck, World Bank Country Director for Cameroon "With this program, Cameroon is expected to address critical bottlenecks to foster inclusive growth and ensure that poorest households are not left behind". Cameroon's GPD growth rate is estimated at 4.2 percent in 2019, compared to 4.1 percent in 2018. Growth momentum has been driven by an increase in gas production, a slower contraction in the oil sector, continued dynamism in construction, and a robust service sector. More specifically, the program will support efforts to rationalize and reduce tax expenditures, broaden the nonoil tax base, increase the efficiency of public procurement, improve civil-service management, greater financial sustainability of the energy sector, improved road maintenance, a more climate resilient road network, improved performance of logistics platforms and supply chains at the Port of Douala, and increased access to health services and protection for the poorest households. The World Bank supports Cameroon through 15 IDA, IBRD and Trust Funds operations with a net commitment of $1.81 billion, in addition to a comprehensive program of analytical services. The support contributes to the country's inclusive and sustainable growth, through the implementation of economic reforms, improvements in agriculture and livestock sectors, energy, transport, healthcare, education and social safety net for the most vulnerable. [link]
Totally_Wired 30 Sep 2019
In The Media Victoria Oil & Gas interims confirm substantially improved performance after ENEO supply resumed 30 Sep 2019 Daily production rates improved by some 190% while revenue jumped to US$10.68mln. Victoria Oil & Gas PLC's (LON:VOG) half yearly numbers revealed a substantial improvement, as expected, thanks to the restart of sales to its key customer, a neighbouring gas-fired power plant. Supplies to ENEO, Cameroon's national power utility, in December 2018. Subsequently, in the first six months of this year, gross gas sales from the Logbaba field amounted to 1.78bn cubic feet for the six months ended 30 June, versus 650mln in the same period of 2018. Sales to thermal gas and industrial power customers both increased (to 731mln and 50mln cubic feet, from 619mln and 31mln), but, the most significant change was the supply of just over 1bn cubic feet for grid power generation where there had been none in the comparative period. VOG generated some US$10.68mln of revenue in the six months ended 30 June, marking a rise from US$5.01mln in the comparative period of 2018. Daily production rates improved by some 190%, to 9.9mln cubic feet per day, thanks to ENEO supply coming back online as well as the addition of new independent customers – and, during the subsequent reporting period, the company has signed a deal with Aksa Energy which sees up to 25mln cubic feet per day sent to a planned 150MW power stations. "Signing of the term sheet with Aksa Energy is very positive and bringing that to fruition alongside additional increasing production with thermal customers will be the focus over the coming twelve months," said Roger Kennedy, executive chairman. Kennedy became chairperson formally in April as predecessor Kevin Foo stepped down at the company's AGM, and a number of other management changes also took place during the half year with John Daniel and John Knight joining as non-executive directors. Financial results The company reported a US$6.79mln operating loss, including some US$4.91mln as depreciation, a US$5.55mln impairment on an investment and spent US$6.7mln on admin expenses. VOG reported a US$5.88mln gross profit from continuing operations. Earnings (underlying EBITDA) was stated as US$3.76mln compared to just US$27,000 in the first half of 2018. And, it reported a US$7.75mln loss before tax. It had some US$14.38mln of cash and equivalents at the end of June. [link]
RNS-Historic 30 September 2019 Victoria Oil & Gas Plc INTERIM FINANCIAL REPORT FOR THE SIX MONTHS ENDED 30 JUNE 2019 Victoria Oil & Gas Plc, the integrated natural gas producing utility, today announces its unaudited interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2019. Operational Highlights · Average daily Logbaba field gross production rate increased by 190% to 9.9mmscfd (six months to 30 June 2018: 3.4mmscfd) · 1,785mmscf of gross gas sold from Logbaba (six months to 30 June 2018: 650mmscf) · Gas consumption by grid power customer ENEO Cameroon SA ("ENEO"), throughout the period · Two additional industrial customers consumed gas during the period (with a further two commissioned post period) · 18% increase in industrial customer gas consumption for thermal use compared to H1 18 · 61% increase in industrial customer gas for power usage compared to H1 18 · International Organization for Standardization compliance ("ISO") 9001, 14001 & 45001 audits successfully completed, emphasising the Company's commitment to international standards in its management systems Financial Highlights · $10.7 million Revenue (six months to 30 June 2018: $5.0 million) · $3.7 million Adjusted EBITDA (six months to 30 June 2018: $0.03 million) · $4.2 million cash generated from operating activities prior to movements in working capital (six months to 30 June 2018: utilised cash of $1.3 million) · $5.9 million Net Debt position (at 31 December 2018: $17.4 million) Corporate Highlights · The Company raised $17.0 million net proceeds via a fundraise on 4 April 2019 to strengthen the Company's financial position and provide a stable growth platform for the business · Completion of board changes effective 3 April 2019: Ø Kevin Foo stepped down as Director and Executive Chairman Ø Roger Kennedy assumed the role of Executive Chairman. Ø Appointment of John Daniel and John Knight as Independent Non-Executive Directors Subsequent Events · GDC signed a non-binding term sheet with Aksa Enerji Uretim A.S. ("Aksa Energy") to supply Aksa Energy with up to 25mmscfd of gas to Aksa Energy's planned 150MW power station · John Bryant resigned as Independent Non-Executive Director on 8 July 2019 · Retrieval of the tool string on the La-108 remediation programme, which is ongoing More via link below: [link]
General Interest The link opens an Investor presentation dated 20th August 2019 from AKSA Energy and on page 19 under the heading of 'Potential Opportunities for 2019 & Beyond' Cameroon is highlighted! This is the first time I have seen AKSA Energy mention Cameroon but you can only assume it's related to VOG/GDC but of interest anyway. [link]
Ripley94 16 Sep 2019
58 or 50? VOG… Order lifted @ 10.6 on 10th September, did not note that here.
Ripley94 30 Aug 2019
58 or 50? VOG… XXXX Dropped below 11p yesterday.
Totally_Wired 16 Aug 2019
General Interest A bit more regarding the above: Electricity supply: ENEO commits to permanently resolve load shedding in 7days he electricity distribution company, ENEO has said it will restore constant power supply to some affected neighborhoods in Yaounde in the next 7days. Gaston Essomba Eloundou, Minister of Water and Energy, the government spokesman and Minister of Communication, Rene Emmanuel Sadi and other stakeholders in the electricity supply chain briefed the public during a joint press conference on 14th August 2019 in Yaounde. Following frequent power cuts in some neighborhoods in the capital city, the government has taken measures to speed up the rehabilitation of the damaged Geological and Mining Information Brigade – GMIB substation at the Melen neighborhood. The structure was razed by fire on Tuesday, 7th August 2019, interrupting constant power supply to 28% of Yaounde's population. During the meeting, Minister Rene Emmanuel Sadi disclosed that new equipments have been acquired, and engineers from the electricity transmission and distribution companies, SONATREL and ENEO are respectively working hard to fix the problem. Minister Gaston Essomba Eloundou says repair work must take place twenty-four hours daily, in order to meet up with the 7days deadline. As repair works intensify, ENEO has come up with a rationing plan that ensures minimum power supply to all neighborhoods in Yaounde. However, areas with sensitive social and humanitarian importance like hospitals and water supply facilities will have constant power supply. The government commends the collaboration of the public this far, and promises to resolve the problem as soon as possible. [link]
General Interest Roughly translated by Google. The companies who have Gensets supplied with VOG gas will obviously not be affected by these outages : Yaoundé: rationing of electricity following a giant breakdown causes inconvenience among the population Thursday, August 15th, 2019 (Invest in Cameroon) - An important part of the population of the city of Yaoundé, the Cameroonian capital, now lives at the rate of alternating power cuts. ENEO, the structure in charge of electricity distribution, whose first shareholder is Actis, a major British private equity firm, issued a statement explaining that one of its major power stations in the city had burned, causing network disruption " A plan of rotation of electricity supply will extend gradually decreasing until the end of the month, " reads the release. In fact, the crisis situation should last between 2 and 6 months, the time that will take the reconstruction of the dispatch position. Meanwhile, the lack of precise information on the rotation schedule is not without causing inconvenience. In the university district, which is home to small and medium-sized reprographic services, the promoters have blamed the coup more than 6 days in a row without having a precise explanation. Some have already chosen to switch to generators, but for the vast majority, we already make the balance sheet of the losses. Several other small economic players who depend on the electric current say their concern. No cause was given as to the origins of the fire. But the populations living near this post do not seem surprised, because the installations were perceived as very old. It is difficult to know who of the acquiring shareholder or the state had the responsibility to invest in the renewal of the equipment. The specifications of the concession are not public. Access to energy remains a major challenge in Cameroon. Many government initiatives, both in terms of investment and improvement of the legislative framework, have been carried out, but their effectiveness is still expected. Many localities located in peri-urban areas still lack fluid electricity, and in the major cities of Yaoundé and Douala, the cuts remain frequent. [link]
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Discussion in 'Site and Forum Feedback' started by max2, Mar 18, 2019.
There is no rule against other members following you.
If you click the link above, it will show forum activity of people you follow, so some people use it for that. Otherwise, it is just sort of an informal "friends" thing.
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I follow @AngerDanger as a form of endearment. Also it doesn't violate the terms of the restraining order he set up against me.
Neither is keeping locks of his hair, apparently. To be honest the terms are pretty loose, probably because he's playing hard to get. Boy he's such a tease.
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Dude, you have to cut this **** out. Sure, keeping locks of hair is probably fine or whatever, but how you got those locks of hair violates something.
Last week, I woke up with a pageboy haircut that I can't pull off.
Honestly, nothing at all to worry about! Just as an aside, if you hear heavy breathing eminating from your bedroom wardrobe, ignore it. It's probably the wind or something.
Weaselboy and stridemat like this.
But, I don't think anyone uses that.
Just tried that link. Amazing, what a God send!
Now it'll be much easier to stalk, err, monitor ceaselessly, wait, salivate, umm, just see what's going on with the people I follow I guess.
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Come on EA, You Really Don't Get It.
by David Klemke on July 4, 2013
In the digital distribution world there's really only one player: Steam. Sure there are alternatives like GoG or Desura but they're essentially niche branches that cater to a specific audience, ones that favour no DRM and modding respectively. The one notable competitor to Steam is Origin, the platform that was built solely for the purpose of distributing EA's games. Love it or hate it if you want to play one of their games you're going to have to download Origin and, for people like me who like to review games, this means a non-zero portion of my game library is on there. The only reason it exists is so EA can capture that part of the market that it was losing to Steam although if the words of EA's EVP Andrew Wilson are to be believed it's all about creating a better experience for gamers:
"I think your perception is absolutely correct," Wilson agreed. "I think when I look at the journey that service has taken, I think the transaction component of that service has taken a disproportionate amount of the communication and mindshare of what we really try and provide, and the barrier that that puts in between you and the game that you want to play."
"We think of Origin, in this new world, as the gracious host of the party. It's not the center of attention; it's not the DJ, it's not the dance director, it's just a gracious host. It's someone who greets you at the door and ushers you in to where you want to go and points you in the direction of your friends so that you can go and party with them together. That's really how we see it."
Wilson is trying to change the narrative around Origin, pushing it away from the widely held perception that it's just a money grab (which it is, there's no doubt about this) and trying to guide it more towards it being something of a value added service. Indeed this is apparently where the future of Origin lies, in adding more features to it that mimic those that have been a major part of Steam for years. He'd like to think of Origin as the place gamers go to play their games because that's where all their friends are, they're just the facilitator that allows them to join up. The rest of the interview reads like the ramblings of someone trapped in a fever dream as the world that Origin exists in is so vastly different from the one Wilson paints for it.
I'll be frank when I say that any game that's on Origin puts up an instant barrier for me, both as a player and as a reviewer. As a player I know that a game being on Origin means that the vast majority of my friends won't be playing it because they just can't be bothered with Origin as a service. Indeed for many recent games that I played on there like Simcity and Crysis 3 I was either alone or one of 2 people on there at any given time despite the long list of friends I have on there. Worse still trying to simple maintenance tasks on it, like backing up game files so I can move them (and the fact that that link is on the Steam forums should tell you something), is a royal pain in the ass which eats away at the time I could be doing what I wanted to be doing: playing the damn game. This is on top of the lack of screenshot functionality which means I have to run FRAPS in order to get the screenshots for review which doesn't help to endear Origin to me.
It's not just the simple fact that Origin is yet another piece of software we have to install and maintain, that's just the beginning, more it's because Origin is an inferior service, one that we're locked into using should we want to play an EA published game. It may make the experience for EA games better due to the common installation and patching platform but that's all it does and it's not something that couldn't be accomplished through other, more established channels. It's akin to all those social services that every game seems to have these days (and as we've seen are massive security risks) which are required to play the game.
Gamers don't want this; it took us years to warm up to Steam and the idea that we'll somehow cosy up to yet another service that provides next to no benefit for us is a ludicrous proposition. If EA really did understand gamers like they're purporting to they wouldn't have bothered with Origin as a digital distribution service in the first place, they would've just made it a back end platform that all their games can use should they not want to use Steam's. EA might think that it's just a matter of layering on some more services and features but it's going to need so much more than that before gamers will consider it on the same level as Steam. With Origin's primary focus being EA games I don't believe that will ever be achievable, especially when Valve keep going from strength to strength with Steam.
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The Viability of Cloud Gaming.
by David Klemke on October 12, 2012
The idea of cloud gaming is a seductive one especially for those of us who lived through the times when upgrading your computer every 12 months was a requirement if you didn't want to be watching a slide show. Abstracting the hardware requirement away from the user and then letting them play on any device above a certain, extremely low threshold would appear to be the solution to the upgrade and availability issues of dedicated gaming platforms. I've long made the case that the end product is something of a niche market, one that I was never quite sure would be viable on a large scale. With the demise of OnLive I could very easily make my point based around that but you can never write off an industry on the failures of the first to markets (see Iridium Communications for proof of this).
Providing even a small cloud gaming service requires some rather massive investments in capital expenditure, especially with the hardware that's currently available today. For OnLive this meant that only one of their servers could serve one of their users at a time which was terrible from a scalability point as they could never really service that many customers without bleeding money on infrastructure. For cloud gaming services of the future however they might be in luck as both NVIDIA and AMD are working on cloud GPUs that will enable them to get much higher densities than the current 1 to 1 ratio. There'll still be an upper limit to that's much lower than most cloud services (which typically serve thousands per server) but at the very least the scalability problem is now an engineering issue rather than a capital one.
The second major challenge that cloud gaming companies face how latency sensitive a good portion of the games market is. Whilst you can get down to very low latency numbers with strategically placed servers you're still going to be adding a good chunk of input lag on top of any server latency which will be unacceptable for a lot of games. Sure there are titles where this won't be an issue but cutting off a large section of the market (FPS, RTS, RPGs and any mix of them inbetween) further reduces the viability of any potential cloud gaming service.
In fact for many of the titles that could benefit from a cloud gaming service can already be ported to the web thanks to things like Unity or the use of OpenGL extensions in HTML5. Indeed many of the games that I could see being published on a cloud platform (casual MMORPGs, turn based strategy games, etc.) wouldn't be much different if they were brought to the traditional web instead. Sure you lose some of the platform agnosticity because of this but you can arguably reach the same number of people using that as you could with a cloud platform.
User expectations are also set rather high for cloud services with many of them being flat fee, unlimited usage scenarios (think Pandora, NetFlix, etc). The current business models for cloud gaming didn't gel well with this mindset as you were paying for the games you wanted to play (often cheaper than retail, sometimes not) for a limited period of time, akin to a long term rental. Whilst this works for some people most users will expect to be able to pay a flat fee in order to access a catalogue they can then use at their leisure and this has significant ramifications for how publishers and developers will license their games to cloud developers. It's not an insurmountable problem (the music industry came around eventually so the games industry can't be far behind) but it does introduce a market dynamic that cloud gaming services have not yet investigated.
With all these things being considered I find it hard to see how cloud gaming services can viable in the near term as whilst all the issues are solvable they all work against delivering something that can turn you a profit. Cloud GPUs, ever increasing quality of Internet connections and the desire by many to migrate completely to cloud based services does mean that there's a trend towards cloud gaming services becoming viable in the future however the other, fundamental limitations could see those pressures rendered null and void. This is something I'm willing to be proven wrong on though as I've invested myself heavily in cloud principles and I know that its capable of great things. Whether cloudifying our gaming experience is one of them is something that I don't believe is currently feasible however and I don't see that changing for a while.
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Will The Cloud Kill The IT Admin?
by David Klemke on March 7, 2012
IT is one of the few services that all companies require to compete in today's markets. IT support then is one of those rare industries where jobs are always around to be had, even for those working in entry level positions. Of course this assumes that you put in the required effort to stay current as letting your skills lapse for 2 or more years will likely leave you a generation of technology behind, making employment difficult. This is of course due to the IT industry constantly evolving and changing itself and much like other industries certain jobs can be made completely redundant by technological advancements.
For the past couple decades though the types of jobs you expect to see in IT support have remained roughly the same, save for the specializations brought on by technology. As more and more enterprises came online and technology began to develop a multitude of specializations became available, enabling then generic "IT guys" to become highly skilled workers in their targeted niche. I should I know, just on a decade ago I was one of those generic IT support guys and today I'm considered to be a specialist when it comes to hardware and virtualization. Back when I started my career the latter of those two skills wasn't even in the vernacular of the IT community, let alone a viable career path.
Like any skilled position though specialists aren't exactly cheap, especially for small to medium enterprises (SMEs). This leads to an entire second industry of work-for-hire specialists (usually under the term "consultants") and companies looking to take the pain out of utilizing the technology without having to pay for the expertise to come in house. This isn't really a surprise (any skilled industry will develop these secondary markets) but with IT there's a lot more opportunity to automate and leverage economies of scale, more so than any other industry.
This is where Cloud Computing comes in.
The central idea behind cloud computing is that an application can be developed to run on a platform which can dynamically deliver resources to it as required. The idea is quite simple but the execution of it is extraordinarily complicated requiring vast levels of automation and streamlining of processes. It's just an engineering problem however, one that's been surmounted by several companies and used to great effect by many other companies who have little wish to maintain their own infrastructure. In essence this is just outsourcing taken to the next level, but following this trend to its logical conclusion leads to some interesting (and, if you're an IT support worker, troubling) predictions.
For SMEs the cost of running their own local infrastructure, as well as the support staff that goes along with it, can be one of their largest cost centres. Cloud computing and SaaS offers the opportunity for SMEs to eliminate much of the cost whilst keeping the same level of functionality, giving them more capital to either reinvest in the business or bolster their profit margins. You would think then that this would just be a relocation of jobs from one place to another but cloud services utilize much fewer staff due to the economies of scale that they employ, leaving fewer jobs available for those who had skills in those area.
In essence cloud computing eliminates the need for the bulk of skilled jobs in the IT industry. There will still be need for most of the entry level jobs that cater to regular desktop users but the back end infrastructure could easily be handled by another company. There's nothing fundamentally wrong with this, pushing back against such innovation never succeeds, but it does call into question those jobs that these IT admins currently hold and where their future lies.
Outside of high tech and recently established businesses the adoption rate of cloud services hasn't been that high. Whilst many of the fundamentals of the cloud paradigm (virtualization, on-demand resourcing, infrastructure agnostic frameworks) have found their way into the datacenter the next logical step, migrating those same services into the cloud, hasn't occurred. Primarily I believe this is due to the lack of trust and control in the services as well as companies not wanting to write off the large investments they have in infrastructure. This will change over time of course, especially as that infrastructure begins to age.
For what its worth I still believe that the ultimate end goal will be some kind of hybrid solution, especially for governments and the like. Cloud providers, whilst being very good at what they do, simply can't satisfy the need of all customers. It is then highly likely that many companies will outsource routine things to the cloud (such as email, word processing, etc) but still rely on in house expertise for the customer applications that aren't, and probably will never be, available in the cloud. Cloud computing then will probably see a shift in some areas of specialization but for the most part I believe us IT support guys won't have any trouble finding work.
We're still in the very early days of cloud computing and its effects on the industry are still hard to judge. There's no doubt that cloud computing has the potential to fundamentally change the way the world does IT services and whatever happens those of us in IT support will have to change to accommodate it. Whether that comes in the form of reskilling, training or looking for a job in a different industry is yet to be determined but suffice to say that the next decade will see some radical changes in the way businesses approach their IT infrastructure.
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Google+ and The Future of Google Services.
In the mere months that it has been released Google+ has managed to accumulate quite the following, grabbing 40 million users. It's still quite small compared to the current incumbent Facebook (who's users outnumber Google+ 20 to 1) but that's an incredible amount of growth, more than any other social network has ever been able to achieve before. Google has finally got it right with this attempt to break into the social networking world and it's paying off for them in spades. What's got everyone talking now is where Google is heading, not just with Google+ but also with the rest of their vast service catalogue.
Over the past 6 months or so, ever since co-founder Larry Page took over as CEO of Google, there's been a rather interesting/worrying trend that's been developing at Google. For as long as I can remember Google had a habit of experimenting openly with their users, cheerfully opening up access to beta products in order to get the wider public interested in them. However most recently they've begun to shutter these types of projects with the first signal that this trend could end coming with the closing down of Google Labs. In the months that followed many of Google's other ancillary services, like Google Health and Google Power Meter, have been shut down with many more facing the chopping block.
For anyone following Google the writing had been on the wall ever since Page announced back in July that they were going to be focusing more closely on their core services. What's really interesting however is that the direction that Google's now heading in is not Page's thinking alone, but one that was heavily influenced by the late great Steve Jobs. Just before Page took the top job at Google he placed met up with Jobs to get some advice on what he should be doing and it's easy to see where Page's motivation for cutting the fat from Google had come from:
Jobs didn't mince words when Page arrived at Jobs' Palo Alto home. He told Page to build a good team of lieutenants. In his first week as Google's CEO, Page reshuffled his management team to eliminate bureaucracy. Jobs also warned Page not to let Google get lazy or flabby.
"The main thing I stressed was to focus," Jobs told Isaacson about his conversation with Page. "Figure out what Google wants to be when it grows up. It's now all over the map. What are the five products you want to focus on? Get rid of the rest because they're dragging you down. They're turning you into Microsoft. They're causing you to turn out adequate products that are adequate but not great."
Just over a week ago Google announced that another 5 services (Buzz, Code Search, University Research, iGoogle Social and Jaiku) would be shut down in favour of the features of those applications being taken over by Google+. Indeed any Google service that has some sort of social bent is getting integrated under the Google+ umbrella, with many of the sharing features in things like Google Reader being moved out to Google+. For Google this is done to both encourage people to use their still nascent social network as well as reducing their large application portfolio. Integrating everything they can into Google+ may seem like a desperate move to try and grab more market share away from Facebook but Google is betting a lot on the Google+ platform, and I believe it will pay off for them.
The momentum that Google+ has gained over the past few months has shown that Google can do social and do it well. After nailing that down it makes a lot of sense to combine services, especially those ones that are considered core to a social network, under the Google+ umbrella as that builds out the product and makes it far more enticing to end users. It's sad to see some other services get completely shut down but that does open up the market to start-ups who can take up the slack that Google leaves behind as they increase their focus on their core products.
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Two Factor Authentication Should Be Standard.
by David Klemke on May 16, 2011
Security is one of those things that many people put aside when developing a new product since it's one of those things that doesn't get you any closer to launching and adds no face value for your end users. For many people it's usually the last thing on their mind until they have an incident, and then afterwards it becomes the top priority (as we've seen with Sony recently). With the average data breach running a company something in the order of $7 million you can see why a lot of companies go belly up once they've been hit and that's why I still find it frustrating when new start-ups and companies put security on the backburner. They're really shooting themselves in the foot.
It's not like basic security is that hard either. I've said in the past that SSL isn't that hard and I stand by those comments, especially if you're building something on any of the popular frameworks. SSL is just the beginning though as you can still fall prey to security problems like SQL injection and cross-site scripting attacks even if your site is using SSL for the more sensitive aspects. Again though since the vast majority of new web applications are built on some kind of framework most of this leg work is taken care of for you, as long as you make a token effort to implement them.
I think why I get so uppity about this is because some of the most secure institutions, like banks, fail to implement security on the same level that others, say game developers, manage to do quite well and surprisingly cheaply. The best example of this would have to be Blizzard who implemented their authenticator program to combat the constant problem of accounts being hacked. Compare this to the 3 or 4 banks I've had dealings with over the past couple years, none of which have offered me such a service, and you can begin to understand why I'm a little annoyed that my World of Warcraft character's epics are more secure than the cash I use to pay for them.
It's not all bad news however as the era of the smart phone has made it possible to replicate two factor authentication quite cheaply. Both Google and Facebook have now made it possible to login to their services using two factor authentication via an application on your smart phone. Whilst I'm sure the vast majority of people will not bother (until after something bad happens of course) it still shows that they're at least thinking in the right direction, unlike many other services which just don't bother.
What really surprises me is that how this isn't a commodity service yet. The idea behind two factor authentication is simple, you have to know something (your password) and have something (your smartphone) in order to gain access to the system with the specified user account. Realistically the password problem is already solved and the second factor is really just a simple random number generator that's seeded by a particular value that both you and the server know. Couple that with decent time synching (easily done on any phone with GPS) and your well on your way to better security. Sure there's a bit more too it than that but since I've been considering doing this as a weekend project ever since I thought of it should give you a clue to just how easy it is to put decent security in an online service.
I'm hardly an expert at this whole security stuff, hell I bet if you hacked away at any of my projects for 10 minutes you'd find some awesome exploit, but even in this day and age of malware/crimeware/scamware I find it surprising just how lax some people can be we it comes to rudimentary security measures. You're never going to be able to stop the most determined of intruders but it's the casual hacker tourists that you want to keep out. Realistically you only need to be more secure than the next guy they have a go at and judging by the terrible level of security present online these days that's not going to be too hard. So you developers of online web services you have no excuses for not at least attempting to put security into your product and should I catch you sending my login details in clear text over the Internet you can be sure I'll be the first in line to blast you for making such mistakes.
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Summary: A research team has developed a simple, innovative method to directly convert white fat to brown fat outside the body and then reimplant it in a patient.
Brown fat tissue in the body can burn enormous amounts of energy to generate heat, and studies in humans and animals have suggested that increasing the amount of healthy brown fat might help weight management and reduce symptoms of diabetes. However, how to safely and effectively increase brown fat has been a significant challenge for researchers. A research team from the Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science has developed a simple, innovative method to directly convert white fat to brown fat outside the body and then reimplant it in a patient. Other methods to increase brown fat include chronic cold exposure, which is uncomfortable for most people, and pharmaceuticals that can cause side effects by targeting other organs. The study findings were published in the journal Scientific Reports.
The technique uses fat-grafting procedures commonly performed by plastic surgeons, in which fat is harvested from under the skin and then re–transplanted into the same patient for cosmetic or reconstructive purposes. The team converted white fat to brown fat by culturing tissue fragments in media containing growth factors and other endogenous browning factors for one to three weeks to stimulate the "browning" process. They assessed the browning of the white fat by measuring levels of several brown fat biomarkers, including mitochondrial activity and the brown fat protein marker UCP1. The study demonstrates a simple and scalable tissue-grafting strategy that increases endogenous brown fat. The researchers are now refining their techniques and dosages and running further studies on the impact of their methods on metabolism and weight regulation.


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Canada's set of experiences is immortally safeguarded in the absolute most excellent engineering in Toronto. These living antiquities worked with wood, stone, blocks and concrete in the course of recent years keep on addressing us. However the actual demonstration of perception changes this state since we experience our own variant of the vaporous shaking of our economy, profound quality, logical idea, otherworldly money - constantly shifting the pivot of human building.
Church Street has forever been a social affair place. Asylum to new workers, the destitute, the inquisitive and the devoted. St. James Cathedral Church was based on soil saturated with blood from hundreds of years past - giving sanctuary to the injured and the dead during the War of 1812.
The extraordinary human battle proceeds, as worldwide monetary commotion shakes the actual feelings of 21st Century progress. The Occupy Movement picked this objective to camp out in 2011, a pivotal occasion in Toronto's municipal stewardship.
On Canada's 145th birthday celebration and the bicentennial of the War of 1812, I stuffed my camera and journeyed the sloppy roads of York, inquisitive to find the tribal way of my progenitors. I was searching for Schrodinger's feline. All things being equal, I tracked down Toronto
The Little Muddy York that could
In 1791 Canada was isolated into Upper and Lower Canada. Lieutenant Governor Simcoe commandingly decided to name the capital York, however mapmakers in Britain had assigned it Fort Toronto as soon as the 1720's. In 1787, Governor General Lord Dorchester organized the 'Toronto Purchase' from the Missisaugas Ojibway (Anishinabe) Nation, a region covering the present Metropolitan Toronto and York Region. In this manner, Toronto was conceived. Extra reasoning for this name change was that York could be mistaken for New York and different Yorks, and in light of its epithets (Muddy York and Little York).
It appears to be that we have not lost our craving to be a 'little New York'. Backs away from St. James Cathedral Church, monetary pinnacles aim high - striking moderate glass and steel symbols - projecting the shadows of a post-current world on a city that has not neglected to focus on the sky.
"The grounds of St. James' Cathedral have filled some needs - a position of love, a graveyard, and surprisingly a recreational area. Barely any today know about the most savage part in the site's set of experiences, when the first Church was utilized as a tactical clinic by the British and Canadian powers during the heaviest battling of the War of 1812. At the episode of battle against the United States onjune 18th,1812, military framework in Upper Canada was negligible. While bigger posts, for example, Fort York had simple medical clinic offices, these were little structures, appropriate just for the normal requests of a peacetime post. As military powers and losses expanded, the town of York turned into a key gathering point for the debilitated and injured staff attributable to its vital and political significance as the capital of Upper Canada. The town's just church was to assume a significant part in the treatment of these setbacks."
Notes taken from report, "A Place of Mercy and Medicine: 'The Church' at York as a Military Field Hospital, 1813-1815" Gareth Newfield, Research Fellow, Canadian War Museum, Ottawa
Following the War of 1812, Toronto experienced fast development, meanwhile the growing Anglican gatherings loved in a little Georgian style wooden design that was based on Church Street. It was ultimately supplanted by a stone church with a pinnacle. It would torch in 1849. John Strachan, first Bishop of Toronto would lead a global contest to plan a Gothic-styled church. Around then the vast majority of the city's populace of 18,000 resided south of Queen Street, backs away from where this congregation stands today.
The congregation that stands today was worked of nearby block and the best Ohio stone. The tower, the zeniths and yards were brand name Henry Langley plans - Canadian conceived, apprenticed to Scottish draftsman William Hay, Langley's inheritance incorporated the structure of 70 temples across Ontario, and his Toronto milestones that remain incorporate the Metropolitan United Church, St. Luke's United Church, and St. Michael's College. Langley was introduced as the primary seat of the Department of Architecture at the University of Toronto, where he educated during the 1880s and 1890s.
In 2011, these exact same grounds would turn into the focal social occasion spot and impermanent camp for the Occupy Movement, as a component of an overall reaction to expanding financial disparity.The occupation kept going a couple of brief months, and keeping in mind that the St. James Cathedral Church didn't support this demonstration of dissent, it treated the nonconformists with poise and regard.
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2020 Open Doors World Watch List Heightens Urgency of Persecuted Christians Worldwide
Save the Persecuted Christians Points to Nigeria's Unchanged Ranking, Even Amid Especially Violent Year in African Nation
WASHINGTON—Open Doors USA, a community of Christians who come together to support persecuted believers in more than 60 countries with more than 60 years of experience, released its 2020 World Watch List this week. The annual report ranks the top 50 countries where Christians are persecuted for their faith.
Open Doors, a coalition partner of Save the Persecuted Christians (STPC), supports persecuted Christians by providing Bibles, emergency aid, discipleship training, vocational instruction, trauma counseling, advocacy and many other kinds of support. STPC is a bipartisan, multi-faith coalition of nearly 200 civil society, faith and community leaders who—bolstered by thousands of impassioned Americans and others—advocate for the hundreds of millions of persecuted Christians globally.
"Persecuted Christians in the 50 most dangerous countries have increased to 260 million, up from 245 million in 2019," noted Dede Laugesen, executive director for Save the Persecuted Christians. "Interestingly, the African nation of Nigeria remained unchanged at No. 12. Although still rated 'very high' for persecution, due to the methodology used, the country is not ranked for 'extreme' persecution despite their account of 1,350 confirmed deaths of Nigerian Christians martyred for their faith. Open Doors does, however, recognize Nigeria as the second most violent country for Christians after Pakistan. As such, the World Watch List is a valuable platform to call out the genocide of Christians in Nigeria and West Africa. Christians in Nigeria are certainly experiencing extreme consequences for their faith in Jesus."
STPC is urging the appointment of a U.S. special envoy to Nigeria and the Lake Chad region because of extreme and heightened violence against Christians there. At least 1,000 Christians were killed in 2019, with more than 5,000 killed since 2015. While the murders of Christians in Nigeria are down from 2018, abductions-for-ransom, which provide funding for terrorists, have increased significantly and cause many to flee their homes. ISWAP beheaded 10 Christian aid workers at Christmas, and others held captive by jihadist groups are subjected to sex slavery and other horrific abuse.
According to the 2020 World Watch List, 260 million Christians are victims of high to extreme levels of persecution (i.e., torture, rape, sex-slavery, expulsion, murder and genocide), an increase of nearly 6% over 2019. Open Doors also estimates 1 in 8 of the world's Christians experience persecution, and that in 2019: 2,983 Christians were killed for their faith, with nearly half of those in Nigeria, 3,711 were detained without trial, arrested, sentenced and imprisoned; and 9,488 churches or Christian buildings were attacked.
Additional significant facts and trends from the 2020 World Watch List report include the following, according to Open Doors:
In the most populated countries on earth, Christians live in a surveillance state, such as China (No. 23) and India (No. 10).
Violent Islamic extremism spikes in sub-Saharan Africa, including Burkina Faso (No. 28, a rise of 33 spots from 2019), Mali (No. 29), Central African Republic (No. 25), Cameroon (No. 48) and Nigeria (No. 12).
Militant Islam spreads violence and fear in Southeast and South Asia, including Sri Lanka (No. 30, up from 46 in 2019) and Pakistan (No. 5).
Christianity is on the verge of disappearing in Iraq (No. 15) and Syria (No. 11).
Released at the beginning of each year, the World Watch List uses data from Open Doors field workers and external experts to quantify and analyze persecution worldwide. Countries are ranked by the severity of persecution of Christians, calculated by analyzing the level of violent persecution plus the pressure experienced in five spheres of life. For detailed methodology, visit ODUSA.org/WWLMethodology.
Save the Persecuted Christians has a mission to save lives and save souls by disseminating actionable information about the magnitude of the persecution taking place globally and by mobilizing concerned Americans for the purpose of disincentivizing further attacks on those who follow Jesus.
One method is through "The People of the Cross" exhibit, which features images, facts and quotes about the persecution of Christians in multiple countries. Banners feature countries such as Nigeria, Turkey, North Korea, China and others. A majority of the nations highlighted on the banners are high on Open Doors' 2020 World Watch List.
"The People of the Cross" exhibit has been joined by another, "Warfare on Women," which reveals the specific terror-tactic used to demean and degrade female believers to instill fear into the heart of Christian communities. To learn more about hosting a traveling exhibit contact Save the Persecuted Christians or visit the website.
Save the Persecuted Christians has developed a dedicated news aggregator—ChristianPersecutionNews.com—to capture current instances of persecution and to provide readers with an easy way to share these heartbreaking stories with others. Stories are categorized and resource reports are easily accessible.
With so much of the world's Christian population being attacked, imprisoned and/or exiled for their beliefs, the need has never been greater for the sort of grassroots campaign STPC's SaveUs Movement is working to foster. Its efforts are modeled after a miraculously successful one that helped free another population suffering from heavy persecution—Soviet Jews—by penalizing those in the Kremlin responsible for such repression. Through this movement, Save the Persecuted Christians endeavors to provide American policymakers with the popular support they need to effect real change worldwide and alleviate systemically the suffering being experienced by so many of those following Christ.
To interview a Save the Persecuted Christians representative, contact Media@HamiltonStrategies.com, Patrick Benner, 610.584.1096, ext. 104, or Deborah Hamilton, ext. 102.


Last year I fulfilled a long held dream to do a bohemian horse photoshoot at the beach, thanks to the beautiful @elle_a_bell and her Palomino horse, Bee.
The City of Kingston was once a rich training ground for race horses, dating back to European settlement. Nowadays, locals can still take their horses to the beach for leisure. Hopefully it will be preserved for many decades to come.
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Every day is busy in the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit at Bristol Regional Medical Center. However, no day is too busy for Travis Rife, who is thankful for a work schedule as busy as his.
After receiving a permanent layoff notice in 2009, Travis sought the assistance of the dislocated worker program at the Bristol Virginia Workforce Center.
Travis was able to complete the nursing program at Virginia Highlands Community College and earned his Associate of Applied Science Degree in nursing. Within three days of graduation, Travis obtained a position at Bristol Regional Medical Center and is now employed as a Registered Nurse.
Whether you are looking for a second chance at a career like Travis, or just starting out, Virginia's Community Colleges are a great stepping stone to a gainful career. There are currently 448 credentials for which Virginia's Community Colleges offer preparation coursework.
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Kingston Police had 83 calls for service during the 24 hour period starting from 5:00 a.m. on January 3, 2017. Of these 63 calls occurred in the city central area, 15 in the west end, one in the east end, and one north of Highway 401. Some of these included:
3 domestic calls
1 harassment call
1 weapons offence call
1 undesirable call
1 alarm call
1 neighbour dispute call
1 Mental Health Act call
6 theft calls
1 shoplifting call
6 motor vehicle collisions
1 driving complaint
6 suspicious activity calls
There were seven individuals arrested within the last 24 hours, with two women and one man, between 20 and 41 years of age, held for later release or to attend bail hearings for the following offences: uttering threats, possession of stolen property, obstruct police and breach of Undertaking.
Witnesses Sought Who Heard Call for Help and Assisted Sexual Assault Victim on New Year's Eve
Kingston Police detectives are wanting to speak to two male witnesses who heard and responded to a cry for assistance from a female victim in relation to a sexual assault in progress shortly after New Year's Eve.
At approximately 2:50 a.m. on Sunday, January 1, 2017 the victim had just left a licensed establishment named "The Spot Nightclub" with a man she had just met that evening. The bar is located in the area of Division Street and Princess Street.
While in the covered walkway that also contains the nearby Burger King drive-thru the male suspect began to sexually assault the victim. She resisted and screamed for help, which a group of men heard and responded to. This caused the suspect to flee from the area.
Two men from this group then assisted the woman into Burger King, where staff was alerted to what just occurred, and a Kingston Police officer responding to another matter was notified. These two men, who are witnesses to the event and could have valuable first-hand information, did not stay at the scene and were not identified by police. The victim was assessed and taken to hospital as a precaution and to collect potential evidence through Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence (SADV) nursing staff.
The victim was able to provide a detailed description of the suspect, who had also given her some personal information about himself when they first met inside the nightclub. This information was distributed amongst uniform patrol and as a result a male matching the descriptors was observed by an officer leaving a taxi to attend the front lobby of a Queen Mary Road apartment building at approximately 3:45 a.m. Having reasonable grounds the 20-year-old local man was arrested for sexual assault. He was transported to police headquarters, lodged in cells and was later remanded into custody following a bail hearing.
While an arrest has been made, detectives in the Sexual Crime Unit want to obtain as much evidence as possible, and feel the two male witnesses could greatly assist in this matter by providing statements. They are asked to please contact Detective Brenda Lavigne at 613-549-4660 ext 6270 or via email at blavigne@kpf.ca.
Anonymous tips can be made to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS) or on the website at www.tipsubmit.com. Tipsters are eligible for a cash reward of up to $2,000. Tips can also be left by private message to the Kingston Police Facebook Page, or via a Direct Message to the official Twitter account.
Woman Uses Stolen Identification in Attempt to Obstruct Police
Kingston Police would think a basic rule of thumb for thieves is that if you've stolen a person's identification, don't hand it over to an officer when attempting to give a false name, which one woman recently did.
At approximately 4:30 a.m. on January 4, 2017, a uniform patrol officer in the area of Princess Street and Victoria Street observed a woman carrying multiple bags, whom he believed to have an arrest warrant in effect for her apprehension. The officer stopped and spoke to her but she provided a name and age different than what he believed it to be.
When asked for identification the woman produced a driver's licence with the same name and date of birth given. Being suspicious, the officer had the name run on CPIC which verified the woman with that name had reported her I.D. stolen from her vehicle in October of 2016.
The female was arrested for being in possession of stolen property and two counts of breach of probation. Her true identification was verified and it was discovered the arrest warrant the officer was aware of had already been dealt with the day before. A search of the woman and her bags resulted in the discovery of a Travelers cheque and a personal cheque made out to and from different persons, a laptop, a cell phone, and a key fob apparently associated to a Toyota Camry. All of these items were seized as evidence for further investigation and to determine if additional charges are warranted. The woman was transported to police headquarters and lodged in cells to attend a bail hearing.
Trio of Theft Suspects Distracts Toys "R" Us Cashier, Stealing Merchandise and Money
Kingston Police are looking for two men and one woman who, while having a child with them, acted as a team to distract a Toys "R" Us cashier while they stole items and short-changed the employee.
At approximately 9:30 p.m. on December 12, 2016, while at the Midland Avenue store, a man and a woman pushing a shopping cart with a child inside approached the cashier. As they spoke to her they put items into and below other merchandise that they hadn't paid for. A second man who was with the couple also attended the checkout and placed an unpaid for item in the same cart as the employee continued to be distracted.
When it came time to pay, all three suspects worked together and were able to short-change the cashier a total of $350. This wasn't discovered until the end of the shift and after reviewing video surveillance it was discovered an additional $320 in merchandise was also stolen, totaling a loss of $670.
Anyone with information is please asked to contact Constable Craig Morton at 613-549-4660 ext 6287 or via email at cmorton@kpf.ca.
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Kingston Police Attempt to Identify Couple who Stole Lobby Artwork
Kingston Police are looking for male and female suspects who stole a three pictures located in the lobby of a Queen Mary Road apartment building.
Back on November 17, 2016 the pair, who appear to know and be associated to each other, attended the lobby of 180 Queen Mary Road. The female suspect then proceeded to remove from the wall, located above the mail boxes, a three-part scene depicting a tree and forest. Both suspects were kind enough to look directly into the video surveillance camera.
The female is described as Caucasian, in her twenties, medium build, wearing a dark toque with possible hair braids coming out from underneath, patterned long-sleeve shirt and dark pants. The male is described as Caucasian, 25-30 years of age, medium build, has a beard and tattoos on his left forearm. He is wearing a dark toque, light-grey hoodie, dark grey shirt underneath, and dark pants.
Anyone with information is please asked to contact Constable Ashley Rathbone at 613-549-4660 ext 6345 or via email at arathbone@kpf.ca.
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ERP Software supports multi-lingual organizations.
Lilly Software Associates, Ltd Jun 12, 2007
With region and time zone support throughout system, ERP LX features multi-currency and transaction translation capabilities, payment options, and localized settings. It enables wide variety of payment options for credit card processing, allows organizations to handle their data and transactions in appropriate date and time for manufacturer, facility, warehouse, customer, or vendor, and displays costs in customers regional currency for global support.
Infor Helps Process Manufacturers Expand Global Market Share
Infor ERP LX Feature Pack 2 Delivers New Features; Enables Multinational Organizations to Drive Business Growth
ATLANTA - May 22, 2007 - Infor today announced new functionality for Infor ERP LX that will enable process manufacturers to more effectively compete in the global marketplace. The new features will allow companies to expand into foreign markets by delivering enhanced multi-language and -currency capabilities, allowing organizations to deploy a single instance of LX around the globe.
LX has always provided users with comprehensive multi-currency and transaction translation, expanded payment options and localized settings. Feature Pack 2 expands these global capabilities by adding region and time zone support throughout the system, cost inventory in local currencies, and enhanced multi-language capabilities. Additionally, multinational companies will benefit from a single global ledger across their operation, thereby reducing the need for data consolidation and improving operational efficiency.
Manufacturers face many challenges as they try to lower costs and enter new markets, such as local regulatory and reporting requirements. Without a comprehensive view of the entire enterprise for accurate demand and compliance planning, companies risk regulatory exposure and losing market share. The new features in LX allow companies to extend best practices in these areas to operations in other markets by supporting regional variances such as language, currency and time.
"Entering foreign markets can seem like a daunting task for many process manufacturers," said Mike Frichol, vice president of industry and product marketing for Infor. "LX is a great example of how Infor continues to evolve its solutions to help companies face the challenges of today's global economy and ensure sustainable market growth."
LX FP2 continues to help manufacturers improve planning, promotional governance and customer service, reduce total cost of quality, minimize total cost to serve, improve, enhance overall efficiency and productivity, and streamline complex manufacturing and distribution processes. LX on IBM System i continues to minimize the total cost of ownership.
Highlights of LX Feature Pack 2 include:
Credit Card Processing - Enables a wider variety of payment options to be offered to customers
Region and Time Zone Enhancements - Provides organizations the option of handling their data and transactions in the appropriate date and time for the manufacturer, facility, warehouse, customer, or vendor
Multi-Language Segment Descriptions - Supports multi-lingual organizations
Enhanced Costing - Displays costs in customers regional currency for greater global support
Ohio-based industrial packaging and services company Greif chose LX FP2 for its enhanced capabilities which enable the manufacturer to manage its more than 160 locations around the world. With LX, Greif is well positioned to serve its multinational customers.
"Globalization offers an epic opportunity for growth and profitability," said Ken Andre, vice president, corporate controller and CIO for Greif. "The latest enhancements to LX will allow us to more effectively manage our global operations to provide our customers with unsurpassed service."
LX is a comprehensive ERP solution for enterprising organizations in multi-mode manufacturing, with business-specific capabilities for food and beverage, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and consumer packaged goods. New customers will benefit from LX's expanded facility parameters which improve an organization's ability to plan, source, schedule, and store items in a multi-facility environment by allowing each facility to determine the best way to manage an item within that facility.
Infor delivers business-specific software to enterprising organizations. With experience built in, Infor's solutions enable businesses of all sizes to be more enterprising and adapt to the rapid changes of a global marketplace. With more than 70,000 customers, Infor is changing what businesses expect from an enterprise software provider. For additional information, visit www.infor.com.
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Operating successfully for over 60 years, the bedrock of BAM's success has always been an understanding of our clients' needs and a willingness to deliver innovative solutions that ensure cost savings and meet and surpass their environmental requirements. Our track record for delivering large and small scale projects on budget and ahead of schedule has enabled us to become one of Ireland's largest and strongest construction businesses.
BAM has collaborated with government bodies and major national and international clients and consultants to produce landmark projects that support the development of Ireland and its economy.
BAM is widely recognised in Ireland and overseas for its sustainable project delivery. This is driven by the company's significant investment in technologies that reduce the environmental impact of construction activity. The company has led the way in the Irish market in pioneering BIM, which provides 3D computer models for efficient visualisation and analysis of proposed works to increase efficiency in the design and construction phases.
CSR is at the core of BAM's strategic agenda, it's at the heart of everything we do, focusing on people, communities and the environment.
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Google (GOOG) has claimed the top spot on Glassdoor's annual list of the 50 best places to work, as well as Fortune magazine's annual list of the 100 best companies for whom to work multiple times over the years. This is in part because Google offers some of the best employee perks, opportunities for career growth, work that positively impacts the human race and innovative culture.
Google has everything that an employee would expect from one of the largest companies in the United States in terms of market capitalization: Bicycles and electric cars to get staff to meetings, gaming centers, organic gardens and eco-friendly furnishings. Google wants to make its employees' lives easier, and it's constantly searching for ways to improve the health, well-being and morale of its Googlers.
Google offers on-site physicians, nurses, medical services and health care coverage to keep its employees happy and healthy. Googlers can travel without worries; employees are covered with travel insurance and emergency assistance on both personal and work-related vacations.
Google also offers some of the best paid parental leave for new parents. Its employees have paid leave up to 18 weeks if the father is the primary caregiver. Mothers are still entitled to 22 weeks of maternity leave. Google cares so much about new parents that it offers parents one-on-one consultations to figure out their scheduling for daycare options, $500 to spend on baby bonding time and well as four child care centers on one of its campuses.
Google even offers death benefits to deceased employees' families. If a Google employee passes away, his or her domestic partner or spouse receives a check for 50% of the employee's salary every year for 10 years. In addition, surviving spouses see all of the deceased employee's stock option immediately vested. Children of a deceased employee receive $1,000 per month from Google until they reach the age of 19 – or 23 if they are full-time students.
Google also offers a Global Education Leave program, which enables employees to take a leave of absence to pursue further education. All of this education is covered by Google.
Since Google is one of the most well-known technology companies in the world, it offers employees better job prospects should they decide to leave the Googleplex. It also offers growth within the company, whether it be for middle management or higher-level management opportunities.
Working at Google provides employees with the sense of contributing to the worldwide population. Google employees positively impact society with the applications and technology on which they are working. These technologies would surely benefit the human race; for example, self-driving cars could enable its passengers to catch up on sleep during their commutes. Its accident rate is uncanny, with just a handful of accidents in 1.7 million miles driven, many of which were determined to be caused by human error. Google is developing new wearable technology – contact lenses with technology that could read the user's blood glucose level, which is highly beneficial to diabetics.
Google only looks for the best and brightest minds, and employees are always exposed to other amazing employees and intelligent thinkers. Being around other intelligent thinkers allows for a creative work environment, collaboration and disruptive innovation.
Google offers its employees one of the most innovative work environment cultures. Google cares so much about innovation that it has set forth nine principles of innovation. One of the principles encourages Google employees to spend 20% of their time pursuing innovative ideas about which they are passionate. Products and applications, such as Google News, Google Alerts and Google Maps Street View, have been born from this principle.
To help with morale, employees are free to bring their pets to work. Some Googlers describe that being able to bring their pets to work keeps their energy levels up, as well as bringing joy to other employees.
Although there are highly intelligent employees at Google, there is no rocket science that goes into Google offering one of the best work environments. Google simply treats people with respect and supports its employees creative and innovative endeavors.
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Central Coast Living: Historic Pozo Saloon reopens with Cinco De Mayo celebration
A local staple that's been shuttered for the last year will reopen this weekend.
The Central Coast's Wild West roots run deep in the tiny town of Pozo.
It was once a bustling stagecoach stop with a general store, blacksmith shop, school and several bars.
Aside from a handful of rural residences, the Pozo Saloon is the only remaining relic of Pozo's turn-of-the-century heyday.
Walk into the Pozo Saloon and take a step back 160 years in time.
It was established in 1858. The saloon's interior reflects Pozo's rich history of cowboys, country barbeque and good music.
Bob Righetti and Albert Kelley are considered the godfathers of the Pozo Saloon. They grew up in Pozo and still live there today.
Righetti moved to Pozo from Santa Maria when he was four-year-old.
""They had a dance hall here and my parents would bring us up here. They would dance and we would crawl up on a bale of hay and go to sleep," Righetti said. "It was a community place."
Kelley brings his grandkids to the Saloon and shares stories of when he was their age.
"There was a big pool table and one of the other kids in town here and I used to sneak in here and play pool on this thing until we got caught," Kelley said.
Dusty memories are coming back into focus, as the old watering hole gets ready to welcome guests back in.
"We're planning to reopen May 5," said Dean Marchant. He is the new owner of the Pozo Saloon.
Marchant is working on renovations while preserving the rustic, rural feel.
"The support the town of Pozo, Santa Margarita and folks all around San Luis Obispo have been so remarkably supportive and forgiving." Marchant said. "I just want to tell everybody I appreciate it."
When you walk into the saloon, your attention is immediately drawn upward to the dozens of dollar bills tacked to the ceiling.
Righetti says the dollar bills on the ceiling have been there as long as he can remember.
"You took a dollar bill and you put a 50 cent piece in there and folded it up and threw it up and then the 50 cent piece would fall out," Righetti said. "When they did away with 50 cent pieces it was harder to get them to stick up there but they were putting a couple quarters in there to get that done."
"We wrote our names in [on the dollar bills] and the year and flicked them up there, so somewhere, mine is up there," said Righetti.
The Pozo Saloon's previous owners, Levi and Rhonda Beanway, suddenly gave it up in April 2017 due to personal health issues after more than 30 years of running the place.
When the Beanways stepped down, Marchant stepped in.
"I knew the Pozo Saloon was important. I didn't understand how important it was until I was spending almost every day here for the last three and a half months," Marchant said. "It is important to these people around here."
In recent years, the Pozo Saloon was the site of popular music festivals and concerts like Pozo Stampede and Higher Grounds.
Kelley is among the locals who would prefer that concerts do not return to the Pozo Saloon with its reopening.
"When they were having those big concerts, there were too many wrecks out here," Kelley said.
However, many others are wondering if and when the concerts will happen.
"Yes, we have to have concerts but it needs to be safe," said Marchant. "They need to be sometime in the future."
For now, Pozo residents are just grateful to see their old saloon come back to life.
"I'd like to see it back like it used to be where you could come in here, sit down, eat a burger and you could go out on the back deck and maybe there'd be a guy out there playing a guitar, singing," Kelley said.
"[Dean Marchant] trying to get it back to the way it used to be and looking at what he has done is amazing," said Righetti. "They have done a beautiful job."
The Pozo Saloon's grand opening celebration is Saturday, May 5 from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Everyone is invited to celebrate Cinco de Mayo Pozo-style with live barbecue, local beer and wine, plus live music and entertainment.
Going forward, the Pozo Saloon will be open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays for dinner service. Marchant hopes to add afternoon hours and possibly open on Thursdays as well.