Instructions

Remote Assistance Host

1. Create an invitation from the host -- the computer you want to control remotely. Click “Start” and “Control Panel.” Type “Remote Settings” in the search bar and press “Enter.” Click “Allow Remote Access to Your Computer.” Ensure that there is a check in the box, and then click “Advanced.”
2.  Choose the length of time for the invitation to stay open, up to 30 days. Click “OK,” and then click “OK” again.
3. Click “Start” and type “Remote Assistance,” and then press “Enter.”
4. Click “Invite Someone You Trust to Help You.” Save the invitation as a file and attach it to an email if you use a Web-based client, or use Outlook to automatically attach it.
5. Email the invitation to an account that you can access from your remote location. The attachment automates the connection process; if you don’t receive the email, you can't control the host computer.
6. Change your host computer's hibernation and sleep settings, if applicable, via the Control Panel, in Hardware and Sound, under Power Options. If the host computer is hibernating or sleeping when the Remote Assistance request comes from the remote computer, you won’t be able to connect.

Remote Assistance Connection

7. Launch your email program or website on the remote computer. Open the email you sent to yourself and the attachment with the invitation. Windows then will automatically launch its Remote Desktop Connection software.
8. Connect to the host computer and perform your desired tasks. Enter your administrator password to allow changes to your system and to gain access through your computer’s firewall, if needed. 
9. Close the connection only when you've completed all desired tasks, as you won’t be able to reconnect without a new invitation from the host computer. Reconnect using the same process if you accidentally lose the connection on your end; if the connection is lost on the host end, you can't re-establish it.

Tips & Warnings

• Before you create a Remote Assistance invitation, you have the option to instead choose "Easy Connect," which allows you to bypass the email/attachment step and generate a unique password for remote access.

 

Should I stop eating meat? No need, experts say

The UN’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) warned Monday that processed meats like sausages and ham cause bowel cancer, and red meat “probably” does too.
Does this mean we should stop eating meat?
By the IARC’s own account, meat has “known health benefits”.
And the agency says it does not know what a safe meat quota would be — or even if there is one.
Other specialists insist the report is no reason to drop steak from the menu, though it is probably wise for big , protein and vitamin B12, they point out, as well as iron, which humans absorb more easily from meat than from plants.
“This decision doesn’t mean you need to stop eating any red and processed meat,” said Tim Key, an epidemiologist at Cancer Research UK.
“But if you eat lots of it, you may want to think about cutting down. You could try having fish for your dinner rather than sausages, or choosing to have a bean salad for lunch over a BLT (bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich).”
Nutritionist Elizabeth Lund from Norfolk in England said obesity and lack of exercise were a far bigger cancer risks.
“Overall, I feel that eating meat once a day combined with plenty of fruit, vegetable and cereal fibre plus exercise and weight control, will allow for a low risk of CRC,” she said, referring to colo-rectal cancer.
“It should also be noted that some studies have shown that if meat is consumed with vegetables or a high-fibre diet, the risk of CRC is reduced.”
Ian Johnson of the UK-based Institute of Food Research, said meat consumption was “probably one of many” factors contributing to relatively high rates of bowel cancer in the United States, Western Europe and Australia — parts of the developed world where more meat has traditionally been eaten.
However, “there is little or no evidence that vegetarians in the UK have lower risk of bowel cancer than meat-eaters,” he said.
The specialists point out that the cancer risk posed by a meaty diet was statistically much lower than other factors like tobacco smoking and air pollution.
The IARC report “does not mean… that eating bacon is as bad as smoking,” said University of Reading nutrition expert Gunter Kuhnle.
“Processed meat can be part of a healthy lifestyle — smoking can’t”.
According to the World Health Organization, bowel cancer is the third most common type, with some 900,000 new cases every year, and 500,000 deaths.
Generally, dietary advice is to limit red-meat intake to once or twice a week, said nutrition professor Tom Sanders of King’s College London — the equivalent of about two steaks or three hamburgers.
“The problem with this issue is that food is not like tobacco — we have to eat something.”

Glo named among Africa’s top 2 most admired brands

Globacom has been named one of Africa’s top two most  admired brands for the second year running, in the annual Brand Africa 100 rankings announced in Johannesburg, South Africa recently.  Globacom is the youngest brand in the Top 10 list, as other companies in the Top 10 including Dangote Group (Nigeria),   MTN (South Africa),  Tusker (Kenya), Mukwano (Uganda), Simu TV (Tanzania), Zenith Bank (Nigeria), Peak Milk (Nigeria), Sasco (South Africa), and Star Beer (Nigeria), were all established before the arrival of Glo, August 29, 2003.
The Award made a good outing for Nigerian companies as 11 of them made the list. South African and Kenyan brands were joint second with four places each on the list.  The rankings also showed that indigenous African brands are on the rise as they constitute nearly 25% of the the Brand Africa 100.
The Founder and Chairman  of Brand Africa and Chairman of Brand Finance Africa, Thebe Ikalafeng, said  the rankings were increasingly significant.   “They are an important metrics of the progress Africa is making in creating brands and services that respond to African conditions, needs and ambitions.”
He added that “the time has never been more opportune or urgent for Africa to develop ‘Made in Africa’ brands. The success of businesses behind these brands will enable Africa to drive its own agenda because they create jobs, contribute tax revenue necessary to fund public goods and help shape the image of Africa as an entrepreneurial and competitive continent.”
It is believed that Globacom’s commitment to innovation and affordable services since 2003 when it started business has set it apart from competition in its various markets. One of its major accomplishments is its international submarine cable,   Glo 1, which has provided the much needed Internet bandwidth in West African.
Globacom recently launched what is regarded as the most innovative offering since it pioneered per second billing in 2003. Called Free  Tomorrow, the promo gives back to the subscriber the next day the total value of credit spent on calls, texts and data the previous day.   The company has over 35 million subscribers across the three markets where it operates.