London Borough of Hounslow increase investment in JCAD software - 24dash.com
Published by Phil Waldon for JC Applications Development in Local Government
The London Borough of Hounslow have been using the JCAD claims handling software, LACHS, since 1995. The system has enabled the authority to increase the effectiveness by which insurance claims are managed and also produce useful management information.
More recently, and after much investigation of the market place, the authority has also invested in the JCAD RISKLite application. This software, is a sophisticated yet simple to implement risk management tool aimed at improving the way that risk is managed across the enterprise. A representative at Hounslow advised, "the JCAD system offers a range of sophisticated risk management features but it will also enable the Council to evolve our own practices".
More information regarding JCAD software can be found here. www.jcad.co.uk
London 2012: Road cycling tickets go on sale - BBC News
More tickets for road cycling events at the London Olympics are on sale, organiser Locog says.
Tickets are available for Box Hill in Surrey - where the road races can be viewed - and Hampton Court Palace, for the time trials.
Tickets priced from £5 to £15 are available on a first come, first served basis until they are sold out.
Box Hill is a special conservation area, but Locog said it was working to minimise the impact on wildlife.
The decision to charge for the 15,000 tickets being allocated to the prime viewing point has angered some local people, including local councillors, who say any profits from the event should go to ensuring the Olympics leave a legacy for the area.
Tickets providing access to The Hill and the big screen at Wimbledon - where the Olympic tennis events are being held - are also on sale, as well as tickets for the Orbit sculpture on the Olympic Park, Locog said.
The Orbit, which is between the Olympic Stadium and the Aquatics Centre, will give visitors a view of the entire park and across London's skyline.
BBC's Olympics correspondent James Pearce said he had been "inundated" by reports from people complaining that the London 2012 website was not working.
But the organisers said the problem had been resolved.
A London 2012 spokesperson said: "The sheer volume of demand meant that we managed transactions slowly in the first 20 minutes. However transactions now flowing through in their thousands."
Our correspondent tweeted that the site was meant to cope with 250,000 transactions an hour.
Unsold ticketsVisitors will be able to take a trip up the structure in a lift and have the option of walking down the spiral staircase.
Tickets for the Orbit are available only to those who have Olympic Park tickets or tickets for an event in the park, and only for the day they are due to visit, Locog said.
On Friday, the BBC reported that about 300,000 Olympics tickets that went on sale earlier this month remain unsold.
That is out of 928,000 put on general sale earlier this month and are in addition to the more than one million football tickets which remain unsold so far.
All tickets have been sold in some sports, including athletics, track cycling, equestrianism, rhythmic gymnastics and swimming.
The opening and closing ceremonies are also fully sold out.
But tickets are still available for sports including boxing, basketball, beach volleyball, weightlifting and football.
London close: Gains erased as Spanish yields advance - Life Style Extra
- Newsflow improves in Greece; New Democracy support increases
- Spanish concerns weigh on sentiment
London blue chips finished broadly flat on Monday as the initial optimism surrounding the Greek elections was outweighed in afternoon trade by ongoing concerns about Spain's finances.
Several opinion polls published this weekend showed the pro-bailout party New Democracy as the favourite to win the elections in Greece on June 17th. Specifically, five separate polls show New Democracy leading by a margin of 0.5 to 5.7 points. This would put the group ahead of the radical left wing Syriza party that opposes the terms of the second bailout signed with the "troika" (name given to the combination of the EU, the IMF and the ECB).
"The lead is only slim and could change before the elections on June 17th however this is looking very good for the Eurozone as it shows that Tsipras' promises of rejecting austerity while staying in the euro are starting the wear thin with the Greek public and with around 85% opposed to leaving the euro we could see New Democracy's lead grow," said Alpari analyst Craig Erlam.
However, concerns about Spain were also in focus today after the government was asked for 19bn in aid from troubled financial institution Bankia in order to strengthen its solvency. Rumours of further re-capitalisations across the sector were also doing the rounds. The yield on a Spanish 10-year bond jumped 16.8 basis points to 6.479% today. The STOXX Europe 600 Banks index finished 1.08% lower.
Equity markets are closed in Austria, Denmark, Hungary, Norway, Switzerland and the US today for a bank holiday.
FTSE 100: IAG flying low, BP drops on TNK-BP CEO resignation
Shares in British Airways parent International Airlines Group (IAG) fell after the president of Bankia (which holds a 12% interest in IAG) said the bank would sell assets to raise much needed funds. There were also reports that Madrid will look to privatise stakes in some state companies, which would include selling its stakes in companies such as IAG.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Russia's third-largest oil producer, TNK-BP, resigned today, with sources citing a breakdown in the relationship between BP and its joint venture partner, AAR. Fridman's resignation "represents a further breakdown in the relationship between TNK-BP's shareholders," one source close to AAR was reported to have said on Monday, adding that AAR has lost trust in the British firm. BP's shares were down nearly 2% by the close.
Retailers were firmly out of favour today with Kingfisher, Tesco and Sainsbury among the worst performers.
Heading the other way were miners with copper giants Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton tracking tracking copper prices higher on the back of falling stockpiles in China and favourable comments by Citigroup; Citi analyst Heath Jansen this morning adjusted his short-term view on the copper industry from bearish to neutral.
Outsourcing group Capita was on the up after UBS upgraded the stock from neutral to buy on the back of improving trading momentum combined with a depressed valuation. Aggreko was also benefitting from an upgrade from AlphaValue from sell to add.
FTSE 250: AVEVA jumps after full-year results
Engineering software company AVEVA surged on the second-tier index after it reported record profits for the 12 months ended March 21st as the firm capitalised on growing demand from deep-water oil and gas exploration. ??
Satellite group Inmarsat rose strongly after Jefferies upgraded its rating on the stock from hold to buy, saying that it now has greater visibility on the issues cited behind the August 2011 profit warning.
FTSE 100 - Risers
Weir Group (WEIR) 1,614.00p +3.99%
ITV (ITV) 78.95p +3.07%
Xstrata (XTA) 939.80p +2.98%
Capita (CPI) 629.00p +2.95%
Tullow Oil (TLW) 1,432.00p +2.65%
Rio Tinto (RIO) 2,857.50p +2.24%
Whitbread (WTB) 1,860.00p +2.14%
Burberry Group (BRBY) 1,401.00p +2.11%
ARM Holdings (ARM) 501.50p +2.10%
Rexam (REX) 400.70p +2.09%
FTSE 100 - Fallers
International Consolidated Airlines Group SA (CDI) (IAG) 137.10p -2.70%
BP (BP.) 399.70p -1.88%
Kingfisher (KGF) 274.90p -1.79%
Tesco (TSCO) 304.50p -1.63%
Resolution Ltd. (RSL) 199.50p -1.43%
Severn Trent (SVT) 1,680.00p -1.23%
British Sky Broadcasting Group (BSY) 691.50p -1.07%
Petrofac Ltd. (PFC) 1,562.00p -0.95%
National Grid (NG.) 678.50p -0.88%
SSE (SSE) 1,348.00p -0.81%
FTSE 250 - Risers
Aveva Group (AVV) 1,638.00p +10.60%
Cape (CIU) 225.70p +10.10%
Aquarius Platinum Ltd. (AQP) 74.00p +8.74%
Dixons Retail (DXNS) 14.97p +7.01%
Ruspetro (RPO) 157.10p +5.72%
Ashtead Group (AHT) 231.40p +5.57%
Renishaw (RSW) 1,422.00p +5.18%
Ferrexpo (FXPO) 216.20p +4.75%
Genus (GNS) 1,247.00p +4.61%
Perform Group (PER) 345.10p +4.58%
FTSE 250 - Fallers
Essar Energy (ESSR) 109.00p -4.89%
Dunelm Group (DNLM) 486.50p -3.66%
PayPoint (PAY) 606.00p -2.26%
Heritage Oil (HOIL) 120.60p -1.71%
Beazley (BEZ) 135.00p -1.68%
Britvic (BVIC) 340.80p -1.50%
Computacenter (CCC) 353.00p -1.34%
Cranswick (CWK) 800.00p -1.23%
Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) 31.13p -1.17%
ITE Group (ITE) 195.00p -1.02%
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Greaves eager to regain world record in London - Leicester Mercury
DAN Greaves saw his BT Paralympic World Cup title and world record both taken away from him by reigning Paralympic champion Jeremy Campbell but he is confident he will get his revenge come London.
The 29-year-old F44 discus thrower has the full set of Paralympic medals having picked up gold in Athens in 2004, four years after silver in Sydney, while he ended up third behind American Campbell in Beijing in 2008.
He bounced back from his bronze in the Chinese capital with a sensational 2011 when he won World Championship gold in New Zealand with a record-breaking throw of 58.98m, going on to throw 59.85 later that year.
Campbell smashed that mark in Manchester yesterday reaching 62.18m to become the first man to throw over 60m.
But while Greaves was understandably frustrated to see his record go, relinquishing the title he won last year, he insists he will be much stronger in London.
He said: "I feel like I'm in much better shape than my performance suggests. But it's all about London. We've got 6-8 weeks of speed work to do which hasn't shown up yet so I've just got to keep on doing what we've been doing in training, it's still a pretty heavy phase at the moment.
"It's the first big one I've had so I'd have liked to get closer to a personal best. Last year I got the world record but it was coming back off a world record in New Zealand and a short period of rest whereas this time we are peaking towards September."
After Campbell's record-breaking performance at the City of Manchester Arena, Greaves knows that he will have to find more than two metres to catch his American rival in London.
However the 29-year-old revealed that there is a lot more to come having settled for silver with a throw of 56.88 in Manchester.
He added: "We will do everything in our power to make sure it goes over 60 in London.
"London 2012 is the real goal for me so I'm just going to stay positive and focus on what we are doing and all the speed stuff we put in should pay dividends come London."
The BT Paralympic World Cup is taking place in Manchester from 22-26 May with elite international athletes competing in Athletics, Football 7-aside and Wheelchair Basketball. Go to www.btparalympicworldcup.com for tickets and more information.
© Sportsbeat 2012
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