Sunday, August 26, 2012

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Computer Repair Ascot

Computer Repair Ascot

We offer a personal and professional computer and repair service to both personal home computers and businesses in the Ascot & Sunningdale areas of Berkshire.

Below are just some of the services we offer, if there is something not mentioned you need help with please contact us and we will do our best to help.

All our services can be done either at your premises where practical or taken back to our dedicated workshop to be looked at.

We support Microsoft, Apple and Linux computers.

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Computer Repairs and Upgrades

If your computer has suddenly died or playing up we can diagnose the underlying problem and repair the machine for you. If the computer is beyond economical repair, we can transfer your files to a new machine or an external storage device for use later.

If your computer is under performing and or doesn?t have all the latest toys and you don?t want to go to the hassle of buying a new machine we can look upgrading it with you. ? Increase your memory size or speed, replace your slow processor for a faster version, increase the size of your hard disk or add a blu ray drive.

Virus, Malware & Spyware Removal

Computer Viruses, Malware & Spyware are unfortunately a common occurrence and are not only an annoyance but can also be a serious security risk. Spyware is often used as the name suggests to monitor your keystrokes and website visits so the spyware writers can access and steal your online accounts. We can identity your infections and then were possible remove them, sometimes it is the case where it is only possible to get rid of the infection be wiping your computer and starting again. If we need to wipe your machine we will back up your data and restore it afterwards.

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We primarily offer our computer services in the Ascot, Sunningdale, Virginia Water, Woking and Guildford areas. If you are just outside this area please still contact us as we can normally still help.

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If you would like to book a repair or get a quote please contact us or visit our Computer Repair and Support Page.

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Saturday, August 25, 2012

New bank notes symptom of old woes in Nigeria

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) ? Nigeria is set to unveil a bank note five times more valuable than its largest denomination bill as part of a major overhaul to its currency, a change some worry will further speed devaluation of its currency and hurt the poorest living in the nation.

The addition early next year of a 5,000 naira note, worth $31.25, comes less than a decade after the country introduced a 1,000 naira note. Over that time, the worth of the naira continued its long slide and analysts say that likely will continue.

The plan announced by Central Bank Gov. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi also calls for smaller denominations to be changed to coins.

In a nation where most earn less than $2 a day, any inflation could be a tremendous pinch on pockets.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bank-notes-symptom-old-woes-nigeria-131758843--finance.html

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Strategic Planning for Law Firms: A Practical Roadmap

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By John Sterling

Ark Group

ISBN: 978 1 908640 19 2

www.ark-group.com

RUNNING OR MANAGING A LAW PRACTICE? THIS ?ROADMAP? HELPS YOU PLAN A BETTER ROUTE TO CONSISTENT PROFIT AND GROWTH

An appreciation by Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers

One of the latest publications from the estimable Ark Group, ?Strategic Planning for Law Firms: a Practical Roadmap? gives you access to the kind of top-flight management consultancy and advice you need to position and grow your law practice, or firm as a profitable business. In our view it should emerge as a must-have purchase for anyone involved in the operation of a legal practice.

It will certainly be of special interest to law firms whose senior partners and/or practice managers are all too aware that law, as well as being a learned profession, is also a business, with in-built business concerns and objectives involving, for example, client service, competitiveness, profit and growth.

The book is obviously targeted to law firms in North America, but all the more interesting for that. It?s always valuable to gain access to insights on strategic business practice gleaned from one?s transatlantic peers and contemporaries ? especially in today?s competitive global markets.

In format and content, not to mention philosophical orientation, the book could be referred to as (and is) a management report, although it?s more than that.

Neither a ?manual? nor a ?practical guide?, it?s instead called a ?roadmap? ? which it more or less, is. It functions as a sort of ordnance survey of strategic management advice designed to guide you through those specific business territories through which law firms must typically navigate, while alerting you to possible wrong-turnings and obstacles that may confound and confuse you along the way.

The topics it covers are too extensive and numerous to list here in their entirety, but they do include, for example, the elements of a well constructed strategic plan? the strategies and resources needed to achieve it? the means of developing such strategies ? and the practical means by which they may be put into action on a day-to-day basis.

The book?s four-part structure includes a review of management tools and principles that drive winning strategies, together with a discussion of the strategic issues that face law firms, including people issues, knowledge management and financial management.

And, as example is often the best form of instruction, there are some rather fascinating case studies that demonstrate by illustration and anecdote how the strategic planning process actually works.

Author John Sterling, an expert in strategic planning, assures us that the principles and practices described are applicable equally to large, mid-size and boutique law firms, Within the UK context, we would also add that the book is a useful source of consultancy for firms of solicitors with international links and directly adaptable to the needs and aspirations of sets of chambers.

Indeed, with business having gone global, this ?roadmap? would be useful for just about any law firm anywhere, particularly firms specializing in commercial law. Whether or not you have sought out the services of a management consultant, this book will familiarize you with the systems, methods and processes of strategic business planning, which can only help you enhance the reputation and profitability of your firm.

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Mayor Bloomberg Gives Press Conference at Empire State Building on Shooting

At about 11:21 a.m. on Friday Mayor Michael Bloomberg staged a press conference outside of the Empire State Building, to release information about the details of the tragic shooting that killed two people, including the gunman, and wounded at least eight others.

Bloomberg, who called the shooting a "terrible tragedy," emphasized that the shooting was the result of a workplace dispute between coworkers at a local business and had "nothing to do with terrorism."

Bloomberg, who arrived on the scene with Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, Chief Joe Esposito, and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, identified the shooter for the first time as Manhattan resident Jeffrey Johnson, 53.

Johnson formerly designed women's accessories for Hazan Import Corporation, but was laid off last year, due to company downsizing. He returned to the business today, at 10 West 33rd Street, and then shot the manager in the head at close range with a 45 caliber handgun on the sidewalk at around 9 a.m.

Bloomberg revealed that the victim was 41 years old, but said that the police were withholding his identity until the victim's family had been notified.

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After fleeing the scene, Johnson was followed by a local construction worker, who alerted two police officers who Bloomberg said were stationed nearby "on their usual counter terrorism assignments."

"As the two officers approached Johnson he pulled his 45 caliber semiautomatic pistol," said Bloomberg. "[They] returned fire killing him." Bloomberg clarified that it was unclear from the tape whether or not Johnson got off any bullets before he was shot, but that the footage clearly showed him pulling out his weapon.

At least 9 other people were also shot in the scuffle, 7 men and 2 women, and all are currently in the hospital. Some may have been accidentally by the police, but Bloomberg said there is "no expectation that any of them will do anything other than recover quickly."

Police Commissioner Kelly added that no children or elderly people had been shot. When asked about the gunman's background, Bloomberg said that he had did not appear to have a criminal record as far as they police had found, but he emphasized that they were only in the preliminary stages of an ongoing investigation.

"New York City is the safest big city," said Bloomberg in his statement, adding carefully, "but we are not immune to the national problem of gun violence." He went on to praise the "heroic" efforts of the police for responding immediately, adding that they were aided by a number of local civilians.

The area around empire state building remains an active crime scene, and will continue to be blocked off for the foreseeable future.

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Source: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/377206/20120824/empire-state-building-shooting-mayor-bloomberg.htm

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Friday, August 24, 2012

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Sri Lanka braces for oil slick

Sri Lanka mobilised 500 volunteers on Friday to prepare for an oil slick heading towards its coast after a cargo vessel sank off-shore due to bad weather, a disaster official said.

The rusting 15,000-tonne Thmothrmopolyseara, a Cyprus flag carrier, took in water and went down late Thursday after remaining in anchorage for over three years following a dispute over its cargo of steel, local officials said.

"Much of the furnace oil in the ship had been pumped out, but we were told about 70 tonnes of fuel remained in its tanks and that is causing a slick," Disaster Management Centre director Sarath Kumara told AFP.

He said the slick measuring about 10 kilometres (six miles) long was about 20 kilometres (12 miles) off Sri Lanka's western coast, but could get washed ashore due to heavy monsoon weather.

"We have arranged small units of volunteers to clean up a coastal stretch of over 50 kilometres," Kumara said. "We have not experienced anything like this before."

The coast line from Mount Lavinia, a popular tourist resort just south of the capital Colombo, and Negombo, the first beach resort opened for tourism in the early 1970's, was at risk, the DMC said.

The foreign vessel had been detained by Sri Lankan courts following litigation over the cargo of steel valued at over $300 million, according to local media reports. It was not immediately clear who owned the vessel.

Sri Lanka's merchant shipping authority director Ajith Seneviratne said they were ready to tow the ship away to a salvage yard in the island's east, but were prevented by a court order against the removal.

"We knew that the ship could go down as the monsoon intensifies and we had pumped out most of the 600 tonnes of furnace oil it carried, but there was a residue that we could not pump out," Seneviratne said.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/sri-lanka-braces-oil-slick-170029302.html

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