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Dear Subscriber,

Walker Singleton, On behalf of the Liquidators of Caldew Ceramica Limited we are instructed to offer for sale by Tender the following assets located in Irvine, Ayrshire:

* Ceramic Wall and Floor Tile Retailers Entire Stock

Further details are available by visiting the Asset Disposals page at http://www.walkersingleton.co.uk

Specific enquiries regarding this sale should be directed to assets@walkersingleton.co.uk

Pugh & Company
I would like to inform you that our latest Electronic Auction Brochure is now available online. Although achieving over £12.5 million of sales, a number of lots remain available. This copy of the brochure can be viewed by visiting our website at www.pugh-company.co.uk, clicking on the AUCTIONS menu and then on 13th October 2004. The auction results are complete with individual pages for each lot (in a similar format to our hard copy brochure), the Gavel Price and details of property that is still available for sale. If you are interested in any of the unsold lots, please contact me to discuss. The site also provides information relating to the auction dates throughout the remainder of 2004, an opportunity to ask specific questions about each lot and general information regarding Pugh & Company.

Our next auction will take place on Wednesday 1st December 2004 and the closing date for entries into this auction is next Friday, 22nd October 2004.
Thank you for your interest and please e-mail auctions@pugh-company.co.uk with your views on how improvements may be made to the service we provide.
STEVE SWAINSON BSc (Hons) MRICS
Director of PUGH & COMPANY

Clarkson James
Hello
Just to let you know that our next Auction is to be held on 13th November 2004. To see a copy of our advert please click on the link or visit our web page.

http://www.clarksonjames.com/salescal.html


Regards
Yan

Clarkson James, 327 Southchurch Road, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, SS1 2PE
Tel: 01702 617722 Fax: 01702 612100.

Tilbury Auction List
Here is the list of stock due for the next auction at Tilbury. If transport is a problem, please give us a ring.
Park and Ride Service now in operation. For full details please visit the website on www.japaneseimportauctions.com

Fleet Auction Group (Trade)
FLEET SALE
Thursday 4th November 2004
11.00am

Peaker Pattinson, 28 High Street, Grantham, Lincs. Tel: 01780 410966. Viewing by appointment only, with tenders due by 4pm Wednesday 3rd November; a tender sale of fuel tank manufacturing assembly cells used in the production of Jaguar and Mercedes fuel tanks, also mechanical power presses. Taking place at The Works, Burnsall Road, Canley, Coventry.
Lithgow Sons & Partners, The Auction Houses, Station Road, Middlesborough. Tel: 01642 710158. Wednesday 3rd November at 11am; a sale of catering equipment, public house and restaurant furniture. Taking place at The Auction Houses.

Henry Butcher, 25 London Bridge Rd, London SE1. Tel: 020 7098 3700. Wednesday 3rd November at 11am; a sale of modern woodworking and general factory equipment. Taking place at Sylvas Cabins, Pine Close, Avis Way Ind. Est., Newhaven. Tuesday 16th and Wednesday 17th November from 10am; a tender sale of the contents of eight TV studios including photo reproduction machinery, office furniture and equipment, make up and wardrobe effects, selection of pictures from TV shows such as Peak Practice, Boon etc. Taking place at Carlton Studios, Lenton Lane, Nottingham.

Walker Singleton, Property House, Lister Lane, Halifax, West Yorkshire HX1 5AS Tel: 01422 430040. Friday 5th November from 10am to 4pm; tender sale of the entire stock of a ceramic wall and floor tile retailers. Taking place at Unit 8, Mackintosh Place, South Newmoor Industrial Estate, Irvine, Ayreshire.

Dreweatt Neate, Donnington Priory Salerooms, Donnington, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 2JE Tel: 01635 553553. Tuesday 9th November; sale of tractors, livestock, arable and grassland machinery. Taking place at Weybrook Farm, Sherborne St John, Basingstoke.

Shirlaw Cathcart, 12 Lambhill Quadrant, Kinning Park, Glasgow. Tel: 0141 420 6690. Tuesday 9th Novemebr at 12noon; a sale of welding and engineering plant and equipment, steel containers, builders plant and vehicles. Taking place at Forthwright Fabrication Ltd, Grangemouth Road, Bo'ness.

Frank Marshall, Chelford Agricultural Centre, Cheshire. Tel: 01625 861122. Tuesday 9th November at 11.30am; a sale of agricultural bygones and general goods. Taking place at High Leigh, Knutsford.
CJM Asset Management, Duchess House, Queensway Court, North Lincs. Tel: 01724 334411. Tuesday 9th November at 10am; a sale of engineering and woodworking machinery, industrial floor cleaners, bathroom retailers stock including sinks, hand basins, taps, shower components etc, miscellaneous business equipment including computers, photocopier etc, health and fitness equipment including rowing machine, stair climber, exercise bike etc. Taking place at 27 Brigg Road, Scunthorpe. Thursday 12th November at 11am; a sale of woodworking machinery, carousel spraying lines, wood burning boiler, vehicles and new furnishings. Taking place at Parker Knoll, London Road, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire.

Sweeney Kincaid, 17-19 Colquhoun Avenue, Hillington, Glasgow. Tel: 0141 570 4000. Wednesday 10th November at 10.30am; a sale of assembly plant including CNC machine shop, shot-blast facility, paint facility, cranes, welding and positioning equipment. Taking place at Cadzow Industrial Estate, Hamilton.

Google Spyware? Bad Guys & Spies
Using Google Desktop Search
By Mike Banks Valentine (c) Oct. 25, 2004

I suppose I was naive when I cheered the new Google Desktop Search tool thinking it was only a great way to help ease my computer info-glut and help organize my hundreds of hard-drive stored documents, emails and files. It seems that I have to worry about how bad guys and busybodies will use it to spy on me!

The Google Desktop Search Tool Poses a Security Risk to users of public or networked computers according to a new Information Week article. If you use public computers at work or at libraries, internet cafes, Kinko's or the local Mailboxes Etc. store, you've got to worry that previous users of that public machine, or worse, the business owner or employees, have installed Google Desktop Search on that machine to purposely spy on you!

It's possible to retrieve secure pages from the Desktop Search memory of machines running the program. While it is possible to turn off that function - bad guys using Google Desktop search specifically to spy on you won't be turning it off, eh? So I've got to find it and turn it off every time I use a public computer.

Although I wrote previously of my love for the Google desktop search tool - it appears to have a BIG downside. The slippery slope of good tools being used for illicit purposes could destroy a great piece of software because it is simply too powerful.
The public will be up in arms over Desktop Search and Google may have to withdraw it from public Beta. Though Google seems to have weathered the storm over a similar uproar about the searchability and thus the privacy of their beta G-mail webmail, it could be a bigger storm brewing over Desktop search. We'll watch for comment from privacy advocates on the subject.

At this point it is tempting to simply shrug and say, "I hope Google figures out how to stop illicit use of the Desktop Search Tool," it's not likely. More likely is that it will become one more headache to network administrators at businesses who have to write scripts to stop the installation of Desktop Search. Small business owners must find a way to stop employees from installing it on public computers at internet cafes, just as they must currently watch for key logging software and other spyware on public computers.

We'll all have to be extremely cautious when using public machines at those small businesses and libraries and we'll have to look for the Google Desktop Search icon in the system tray of virtually every computer we use to be certain that our use is not monitored.

Protecting private passwords for online banking sessions while in Kinko's and keeping online job searches out of the view of our bosses will get even tougher for employees using networked machines at work.

I'm still in love with Google Desktop Search on my own machine at home but fear Google Desktop Search on public machines. The issue doesn't stop with Google because both Microsoft and Yahoo are racing to develop a desktop search of their own.

It means they'll all have to either make it possible for all users to disable their desktop search tools temporarily or create entirely different machines for public use.

I've long made it a practice to open the browser preferences to clear the web history and dump the cookies from machines I've used at conference press rooms and internet cafes in dozens of cities. That drops my web mail passwords and online banking sessions from the cache, so I don't have to fret over who might be able to retrieve passwords after I'm gone. I do it automatically every time I use a public machine.

But I've got to look for Google Desktop Search before I use a public machine and turn it off while I'm using that machine. Grrrrr! You have to take the good with the bad I suppose. (Right-click the icon and choose "Exit")

There's a lot to love about Desktop Search but I simply hate that others can use it to spy on me. I have no doubt that it will be used by both bad guys for identity theft and by nosey snoops and busy-bodies who will be virtually looking over my shoulder in secret.

I'm sure Desktop Search will be used by parents to monitor instant messaging chats, emails and internet travels by their kids and possibly by spouses to check-up on their sweethearts. I'm not at all concerned that anyone will use my home machine and Google Desktop Search to check-up on me. (Although I've been startled at phrases that turn up in the occasional sp@m from my Outlook in-box from Google Desktop Search results) I'm more worried that people will use it as a spying tool on public computers.

I've also written before on the privacy risks of Google online searches in an article on how to protect yourself from the Google Reverse Phone Lookup. You can enter any telephone number in the search box at Google and see the owner of that telephone numbers' name, their address and a map to their front door! Google seems to be too powerful for its own good sometimes.

Fortunately there is a telephone lookup opt-out method at Google, but the databases they draw upon pose a greater problem. I address additional opt-out methods in one of my articles, but it seems impossible to escape determined snoops.
I'll continue to use Google Desktop Search on my home machine and will continue to love the tool for my web centered work online to search client emails, documents and previously visited researched web sites. But I'll be far more wary - on public machines - of bad guys and of Google Desktop Search. Damn those bad guys!

About The Author
Mike Banks Valentine practices Search Engine Optimism at: SEOptimism.com. As a privacy advocate, his love of search technology sometimes clashes with his privacy concerns at: PrivacyNotes.com..

The Positive Club

“You don’t have to be sick to get better!”
 
A friend of mine recently sent me this quote and I was intrigued to find out where it came from. It’s the title of a book by Michael Josephson.
 
I haven’t ‘yet’ read the book but I love the quotation.
 
Just think in how many ways we can use the idea contained within the expression.
 
How much better can we be in our communication with other?
How much better can we be at providing service to our customers or clients?
How much better can we be at achieving our goals?
How much better can we be at maintaining our attitude in the face of adversity?
How much better can we be at making money?
How much better can we drive?
How much better can we be at playing the piano?
How much better can we care?
How much better can we – well almost anything?
 
It’s true isn’t it – that most of what we do - we do pretty well otherwise we’d probably stop doing it out of frustration or negative feedback.
 
So at those ‘doings’ we aren’t sick – but we could get better!
 
The idea has certainly got me thinking – I hope that’s true for you too.

peter@tgimondays.com

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