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NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – London transit authority Transport for London is proposing to extend an agreement with U.S.-based fare collection system vendor Cubic Transportation Systems to license the authority's technology used in its pioneering contactless open-loop payments system.
Transport for London, or TfL, and Cubic in 2016 signed a five-year, £15 million (US$19.7 million) licensing deal for Cubic to adapt TfL's EMV contactless back-office software for use in other cities globally where it was bidding on or implementing new fare collection systems. TfL earned the maximum £15 million in licensing fees after only two years, thanks in part to a more than $500 million contract Cubic won last year to build a new fare-collection system for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York that will enable customers to pay for rides with contactless credit or debit cards and bank card credentials on NFC devices.
Cubic had exclusive rights to adapt TfL's software for use in New York, although the deal was nonexclusive elsewhere. And since making the agreement with TfL, Cubic has also announced contracts for large fare-collection system projects in Boston, San Francisco, Miami and Brisbane, Australia.
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NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Citing the increased demand for cashless payments because of the Covid-19 pandemic, Westpac today became the last of Australia's big four banks to adopt Apple Pay, ending a four-year holdout that had lasted months, even years longer than its major rivals.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – With Covid-19 lockdowns causing mass transit ridership in many cities to virtually fall off a cliff–with such cities as London, New York and San Francisco reporting drops of more than 90%–transport providers worry that some riders may not come back, even after the pandemic ends.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Government legislation will likely be needed for widespread adoption of Mobility-as-a-Service, or MaaS, to occur, according to UK-based Juniper Research, which believes that the regulations will be necessary to force MaaS providers, including transit service providers, to work together, as well as to persuade users to get out of their cars to cut carbon emissions.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Apple on Wednesday expanded support for closed-loop transit payments across China, incorporating China's T-Union interoperable transit cards in its Apple Pay service.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – While the Covid-19 virus outbreak is building awareness for contactless and NFC payments and is accelerating the increase in already low contactless transaction limits in Europe, it remains to be seen how much it will convince more merchants to accept contactless in the U.S.
NFC TIMES Exclusive – Since last May, when ride-hailing service Uber officially began enabling customers to book and pay for public transit tickets in Denver directly in the Uber app, use of the service remains relatively low, accounting for less than 3% of all mobile tickets purchased by customers of Denver public transit agency RTD, NFC Times has learned.
NFC TIMES Exclusive – The founders of former payments wearables provisioning company Fit Pay, which was acquired last September for $3.3 million by smartwatch and fitness band maker Garmin, have sued the device maker and two other parties, claiming they are owed millions in missed earn-out payments.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – The Helsinki Regional Transport Authority plans to accept contactless EMV payments on its multimodal system, including its buses, metro, trams and ferries. The rollout, expected to be completed in 2023, will also support daily and weekly fare capping.
NFC TIMES Exclusive insight – Transport for London's recent deal with Google to put the Google Pay Logo on more than 5,600 contactless gate readers across the large London Underground network is not the first time that the London transit authority has rented out its prime payments real estate to sponsors. Nor is it the only transit agency that has profited from sponsorship deals tied to its contactless EMV transit payments services.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Ecommerce giant Amazon expanded its no-checkout concept to its first "full-sized" supermarket Tuesday, in its headquarters city of Seattle, enabling shoppers to scan an app upon entering, pull products off of shelves and "just walk out," with hundreds of cameras and numerous sensors having recorded everywhere the shoppers went in the store and everything they put into their shopping carts. A card on file in the app is charged as the customers leave.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – Banks in the Czech Republic say they are seeing significant and growing use of NFC-enabled smartphones and wearables, ranging from 6% to nearly 25% of all contactless payments–three banks told NFC Times–although a large majority of consumers continue to tap their contactless cards, not NFC devices, for in-store payments.
NFC TIMES Exclusive Insight – The head of information systems for a major European transit operator says he believes public transit agencies should support interoperable fare payments globally, like mobile network operators offer roaming when their customers travel abroad.


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LARGE-SCALE AND HIGH-THROUGHPUT PATTERN MATCHING ON PARALLEL ARCHITECTURES by Yi-Hua Edward Yang A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING) December 2011 Copyright 2011 Yi-Hua Edward Yang
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For quick searches and questions, create a basic query to find the data you need and get your answers.
Create a query in Design view
Design view gives you more control over the query you create than the Query Wizard does.
Open Query Design view
To get started, select Create > Query Design.
Add data sources
First, add the table or query that contains the data you want to see. (Yes, you can create new queries from saved queries. For example, suppose you built a query that finds all the products from your suppliers and sorts them from highest to lowest sales numbers. Use that query as a data source for a new query that, for example, finds sales of products from suppliers in a specific region.)
In the Show Table dialog box, select the Both tab.
Select the data sources you want, and, after each source, select Add.
Close the dialog box.
Add output fields
The output fields are the data that you want displayed or included in the result set for the query.
Drag the fields you want from the data source in the upper pane down to an empty cell in the Field row in the lower pane.
Use an expression as an output field
To perform calculations or to use a function to produce query output, include an expression as an output field. The expression can use data from any of the query data sources, in addition to functions, such as Format or InStr, and can contain constants and arithmetic operators.
In an empty column of the query design grid, select the Field row.
On the Design tab, in the Query Setup group, select Builder.
Type or paste your expression. Preface your expression with the name you would like to use for the expression output, followed by a colon. For example, to label the expression "Last updated," start your expression with: Last updated:
Alternatively, use Expression Builder to build your expression with Expression Elements, Expression Categories, and Expression Values.
Note: Expressions are powerful and flexible, with many options. For more information, see Build an expression.
Specify criteria (optional)
Use criteria to limit (to field values) the records that your query returns. For example, you might only want to see the products with a unit price of less than $10.
To specify criteria, first drag the fields containing the values into the lower pane.
Tip: By default, when you add a field, its data returns in the query results. If you've added the field you want already, you don't need to add it again to apply criteria to it.
If you don't want the field contents to appear in your results, in the Show row for the field, clear the check box.
In the Criteria row for the field, type an expression that the field values must satisfy (if the record is to be included in your results). For example, <10. (For more examples, see Examples of query criteria.)
Specify any alternate criteria in the Or row, below the Criteria row.
If you specify alternate criteria, records are selected if the field's value meets any of the listed criteria. For example, if you included the State field from your Customers table, specified CA as the criteria, and included Or rows for ID and WA, you get records for customers living in any of the three itemized states.
Summarize data (optional)
You might want to summarize data, especially if your data is numeric. For example, you might want to see the average price or total sales.
If necessary, add the Total row to the query design grid in the lower pane. In Design view, on the Design tab, in the Show/Hide group, select Totals.
For each field that you want to summarize, in the Total row, select the function to use. The available functions depend on the data type of the field.
Run or save the query
To run the query, in the Results group, on the Design tab, select Run.
To save your query for later use, on the Quick Access Toolbar, select Save . Type a descriptive name for the query, and then select OK.
Want more?
In this video, you'll learn how to use the Query Designer to create a Select query from the ground up.
You'll select the data source along with fields from that data source.
As needed, you'll add criteria to filter the results, making sure your data types match.
Then you'll run the query and adjust the view of query results to show what you want to see.
Our query will answer this question: "How many orders did TailSpin Toys place last month?"
Let's get started.
On the ribbon, select Create, then Query Design.
This starts the Query Designer.
You can use the Show Table dialog box to add tables or queries as a data source, or you can just drag a source over from the navigation pane.
Let's use the Orders table for our data source. To answer our question, we specifically need customer names and order dates.
You can double-click to add a field to the design grid down here, or you can drag it.
If you run the query now, you can see it returns every order for every customer, and you can use the filtering tools here to narrow the results.
But, if you add criteria to a query, you can get the same result every time.
The thing is, adding criteria gets a little more complicated so keep in mind a couple of rules.
The first rule is: Know your data.
To show you what this means, let's open the Orders table, …
… select Fields on the ribbon, …
… and then select the fields in our query.
The Order Date field is a Date/Time data type field, …
… but the Customers field isn't a Text field; it's a Number data type field.
This leads to the second rule: Your criteria must match the data type of the field you're filtering.
For instance, you can only enter date values in a Date/Time field, numbers in a Number field, and so on.
So, how do we know which number corresponds to TailSpin Toys?
Let's select Database Tools, Relationships. In the Relationships pane, we see Customers in Orders are related by the ID and Customer ID fields.
Let's select Database Tools, Relationships. In the Relationships pane, we see Customers and Orders are related by the ID and Customer ID fields.
When we open the Customers table and locate TailSpin Toys, we see it has an ID value of 23.
Back in the query now, let's enter 23 in the criteria row of the Customer ID field.
Then we expand the Order Date field and add a pair of logical operators: "between" and "and". We enter a starting date here, and an ending date here.
Notice that we surround the date values with pound signs. Access requires these when we want to identify the value as a date and not text.
Run the query, and now we get the results we were looking for: just the orders placed by TailSpin last month.
Now let's go back and look at the Query Designer for a minute.
Do you see these check boxes? If you clear them, you hide your field from the result, like so.
The field is still in the query; you just don't see it in the results.
Also, if you want to return a portion of the result, such as the top five values or maybe the bottom 25 percent of a data set, select a value from the return list.
Then here in the design grid, go to the sort row and select Ascending or Descending. Ascending order returns the bottom items, and Descending returns the top items.
Next, look at the Totals button. This is a fast way to add sums, averages, or other calculations to a query.
Here's an example. You can see we have three tables with a field from each. If I run the query as it is now, we get a lot of repeated categories.
So, back to Design View.
Select Totals, … and notice that Access adds a Total row to the query grid, and sets all three fields to Group By.
Suppose we want to see how many items of each category have been ordered. We remove the Order Date field from the query.
We set the Quantity field to Sum, and leave the Category field on Group By.
And we move the Category field so it's the leftmost field.
Now when we run the query, it calculates the number of items sold in each category.
Sort the results, and you can see which categories sell the most or the least.
Now you've created a Select query by using the Query Designer.
You know how to select your data source and criteria, and also how to run and fine-tune your query results.


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Spitzer has granted several interviews recently, and will even appear in a new documentary (Client No. 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer) about the scandal that ended his short stint as governor of New York State.
And in a new GQ interview, Spitzer gets asked if he feels a politician should have to step down from office just for visiting a prostitute, which while calling into question his moral compass (it is infidelity and against the law), doesn't directly affect his ability to govern, necessarily. While he fails to directly offer his own views on the subject, he does pass on some advice form folks on the other side of the Atlantic he received to politicians who might want to be in public office, but keep a very private life.
"I'm probably the worst person to pass judgment on that," he told the interviewer. "The only thing I can tell you is that I know a surprising number of Europeans who say, 'Move to Europe - nobody cares.'"
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Join the East River Development Alliance for LIVE LOCAL REDUX, a fundraising event that will gather local artists, musicians, and the community to celebrate the vibrant culture of Western Queens. LIVE LOCAL REDUX (LLII) will offer guests an opportunity to explore No Longer Empty's museum exhibition "How Much Do I Owe You?" and listen to sets by DJ Three A Day and live music by Andrew Why and JT Paz. Savor FREE delicious Greek food from bZGrill, bid on amazing prizes in our silent auction, and soak in the culture of your local community. Experience what it feels like to Live Local at ERDA's LLII!
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Earth's oceans, lakes, rivers, streams and wetlands are increasingly focal points for global concerns about usage, pollution, and depletion. In addition, biodiversity loss has been identified as one of the great challenges of our time. The potential demise of one-fourth or more of the Earth's species before the end of this century represents an irreversible loss of nature and may significantly undermine the sustainable use of nature's services.
Conservation ecologists are working to reverse the environmental damage done by the rapid encroachment of human populations and economies, and build a long-term plan to sustain our precious natural resources.
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Mighty, politically well-connected oligarchs are in the mood for retail therapy, and their targets are media outlets. Their influence over journalism has begun to reach worrying levels.
Jack Ma of Chinese giant Alibaba, Rupert Murdoch of News Corp, Delyan Peevski from the tobacco maker Bulgartabak, Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris and Saudi prince Al-Waleed are all completely different businessmen. They look totally unalike and live in different places. One is obese, another one is skinny. One hails from Sofia, another one from Cairo. Their tastes are dissimilar.
But they also have some things in common: an unwonted wealth, close links with political power and a firm grip on much of the world's media.
The issue of ownership concentration in the media is not new. It goes back to the 1980s and 1990s when some of the now old media moguls began to build their holdings. The rise of disrupting internet behemoths in the past decade or so was expected to dent into their power. It didn't.


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The chemical mixture that sparked an explosion in a Boston basement apartment Friday morning that cost a man both his hands was consistent with the chemicals used to make fireworks, a law enforcement source told NECN.
Investigators were on the scene of the blast late Friday afternoon and were testing the air, after finding a number of chemicals in the Hyde Park home. The explosion just after 9 a.m. had blown out the window of the basement apartment, sparked a fire and filled the entire building with smoke.
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Exploring María Luisa Park by horse and carriage is an altogether different experience. Bringing together nature, peace and distinction, you will recover the charms of a romantic era, enjoying this delightful garden in the heart of historic Seville.
The first step to begin your romantic ride through Seville is to hire one of the varied carriages that you will find lined up beneath the Giralda – the spectacular Moorish tower alongside the Cathedral and opposite the "Reales Alcázares" (Royal Palace/Fortress). For an affordable price you can hire one of these typical carriages for an hour or more. They have become one of the most popular attractions for visitors to any city in Andalusia.
Once settled comfortably into your carriage you can begin to explore the city's most central streets. The rhythmic trot of horse's hooves and the driver's friendly, interesting explanations will accompany you as you take in the most important monuments en route. The Maestranza Bullring and "Torre del Oro" (Golden Tower) are a must.
You enter the park through Jerez Gate, next to the aristocratic Hotel Alfonso XIII. Time seems to have stood still here. The unique scent of orange trees is the first thing you will notice, while magnolias, palm trees, roses and immaculate hedges create an unmistakable atmosphere. The garden once belonged to the Royal Family and is nowadays one of Spain's most popular and most visited spots.
The Majestic Plaza de España (square) will be your first stop once inside the park. It was the natural backdrop for many scenes from the film Lawrence of Arabia and elaborate monuments contrast with a peaceful, simple atmosphere - summed up by the image of horses making the most of the rest to quench their thirst.
As you ride through shady avenues accompanied by the whisper of fountains, you will visit two more classic spots: the Plaza de América (square), where people traditionally stop to feed the hundreds of doves that have made their home there, and another square dedicated to Seville poet Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer – symbol of Spanish literary romanticism.
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JVM-compatible languages like Scala, Groovy and Clojure have struck a chord among many Java developers. But does any one of these JVM-compatible languages have enough to supplant the Java language altogether ? James Strachan -- Groovy commiter -- thought it was the case for Scala. In this his rebuttal response to his initial post, he provides further explanation on the topic including references to comments from various Java developers. Read James Stachran's rebuttal response to Scala being the long term replacemente for Java 'A groovy scala example': http://macstrac.blogspot.com/2009/07/groovy-scala-example.html
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Saint Adrian of Uglich
Saint Adrian of Uglich was one of the first ten disciples of Saint Paisius of Uglich (June 6), for whom he was the closest cell-attendant, disciple and co-ascetic. Together with Saint Paisius, Saint Adrian was accounted worthy of a vision of the Most Holy Theotokos in 1472. Saint Paisius was in one of the cells together with Saint Cassian of Uglich (October 2), and Saints Gerasimus and Adrian.
They were singing an Akathist to the Most Holy Theotokos. Suddenly, throughout all the monastery there shone an extraordinary light, and the monks heard a voice calling them to come out of the cell. The ascetics came out in fear and in confusion, and an angel showed them the Mother of God, sitting on an airy throne and holding the Divine Infant in Her arms. The ascetics fell frightened to the ground, but the angel raised them up and related to Saint Paisius the command of the Mother of God to build on this place a church in honor of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos. The vision ended, and the monks spent the whole night in vigil and praise.
In 1482, Saint Adrian participated in the building of the stone church in honor of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos at the place indicated by the angel. Afterwards, an icon of the Protection of the Most Holy Mother of God was found. In 1489, Saint Adrian assisted Saint Paisius in building a monastery dedicated to Saint Nicholas, near the Grekhova stream, on the right bank of the Volga.
As an experienced and virtuous Elder, Saint Adrian was put there as its Superior and was made a hieromonk. He was at the funeral of Saint Paisius on June 6, 1504 and later, according to his last wishes, he was himself buried near the grave. The memory of Saint Adrian is celebrated on August 26 (because of his namesake, the holy Martyr Adrian), and also on Cheesefare Saturday.


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Something is starting to bother me recently about data binding and the INotifyPropertyChanged interface. It's just that EVERY class you write ends up having to implement it (I am generally talking about writing WPF/Silverlight applications here). And that's just not sitting well with me!
It doesn't sit well because I believe it violates the principles of separations of concern. The major annoyance for me lies with calculated properties (those which are derived from another). Lets start with a simple class, Order, which contains two properties, ItemPrice and Quantity (other fields and methods omitted for sake of brevity):
public class Order : INotifyPropertyChanged { public decimal ItemPrice { get { return this.itemPrice; } set { this.itemPrice = value; this.RaisePropertyChanged("ItemPrice"); } } public int Quantity { get { return this.quantity; } set { this.quantity= value; this.RaisePropertyChanged("Quantity"); } } }
We need to add a property TotalPrice to this entity which will expose the total price of the order. What do we do here? This is a calculated value so should clearly be read only, and I usually implement the calculation within the property itself. What I have found myself doing many times in the past (and I have seen done in a lot of examples) is:
public class Order : INotifyPropertyChanged { public decimal ItemPrice { get { return this.itemPrice; } set { this.itemPrice = value; this.RaisePropertyChanged("ItemPrice"); this.RaisePropertyChanged("TotalPrice"); } } public int Quantity { get { return this.quantity; } set { this.quantity= value; this.RaisePropertyChanged("Quantity"); this.RaisePropertyChanged("TotalPrice"); } } public decimal TotalPrice { get { return this.ItemPrice * this.Quantity; } } }
This is nasty. We have had to modify our other two properties just because we have added this new one. It works, but as you add more and more dependent properties your code gets messy. Those properties shouldn't need to know that the TotalPrice property exists!
That pattern breaks down completely when you start using inheritance in your domain objects. Imagine if I now require a new type of domain object, SalesOrder, where I want to express the fact that there is a commission (expressed as a fraction) which needs to be paid to some salesperson on this order:
public class SalesOrder : Order { public decimal SalesCommision { get { return this.salesCommision} set { this.salesCommisionPercentage = value; this.RaisePropertyChanged("SalesCommision"); this.RaisePropertyChanged("TotalCommission"); } } public decimal TotalCommission { get { return this.TotalPrice * this.SalesCommission; } } }
Uh-oh! It's come a bit unstuck here. If the price changes in the base class, my UI is not going to redisplay the total commission! This could be great for my sales person but not so great for my accountant!
So what do we do here to get around this? We clearly can't modify our base class, so how about we listen to our own property notifications, like thus:
public class SalesOrder : Order { // Properties defined as previously // protected override void RaisePropertyChanged(string propertyName) { base.RaisePropertyChanged(propertyName); if (propertyName == "TotalPrice") { this.RaisePropertyChanged("TotalCommission"); } } }
Here we override the method which raises the event, check if the relevant dependent property is being raised, and if so we raise a changed event on our commission property. This works, but YUCK! Just imagine having to unit test all this! :-(
Note that we end up with the same problem if we use composition. Imagine that instead of storing the sales commission on our entity, it was actually stored on a related SalesPerson entity and we need to calculate it from there. Now we need to know that if the sales person's commission changes, the order's total commission has changed:
public class SalesOrder : Order { public SalesPerson SalesPerson { get { return this.salesPerson; } set { if (this.salesPerson != null) { this.salesPerson.PropertyChanged -= HandleSalesPersonPropertyChanged; } this.salesPerson = value; this.RaisePropertyChanged("SalesPerson"); this.RaisePropertyChanged("TotalCommission"); this.salesPerson.PropertyChanged += HandleSalesPersonPropertyChanged; } } public decimal TotalCommission { get { return this.TotalPrice * this.SalesPerson.Commission; } } protected virtual void HandleSalesPersonPropertyChanged(object sender, PropertyChangedEventArgs e) { if (e.PropertyName == "Commission") { this.RaisePropertyChanged("TotalCommission"); } } }
We subscribe to the PropertyChanged event on our sales person, and when its commision is changed, we act accordingly.
I think this is all a mess, and it just gets worse and worse as you build up your domain model and add more classes and more relations. It's easy to forget one of these dependencies. If you are building a fairly complex UI on top of this (e.g. one which allows you to drill down and navigate through the relationships and make changes to objects), I'm so sure you will introduce bugs due to not raising the event, I know it's happened to me!
On my next (real) WPF project this is definitely something I will be thinking about seriously.
Anyway I would be interested to know what people think about this. Is this a problem which other people have faced? How do you architect your applications to avoid this complexity?


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The 33-year-old is covering the latest issue of New York magazine and the tennis star has never looked hotter.
The chic cover image features Williams rocking a skintight black gown. The sports star poses with her arms above her head while staring into the distance. While her body is mostly covered by the long-sleeved dress, a thigh-high slit shows some skin on her right leg.
Inside the issue, Williams sports a very revealing look while doing the splits. The midriff-baring leotard shows off Williams' insanely muscular body as she is suspended in mid-air with her long legs split apart.
Williams shared a behind-the-scenes photo of her doing to impressive splits pose on Instagram with the caption, "Still working on that toe point @gqlew."
Williams also opened up to New York mag about her highly successful tennis career. "I have lots of trophies, and I'm just--I'm not that person that needs to see all these trophies," she revealed. "I have some in my house here, some in my house there, some I don't know what happened to 'em. I have my grand-slam trophies...somewhere."


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Wells Fargo (WFC) said Monday that it added 34 teams and some $5.4 billion in assets under management to the bank's independent-advisor channel during the first half of 2013. The bank says this is "the second-most successful half-year recruiting effort in its history." (Its top recruiting results came in early 2009, when the financial crisis led many wirehouse and other advisors to seek out new career options.)
With the latest additions, the Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network (or FiNet) includes 577 practices composed of 1,205 financial advisors. Overall, Wells Fargo has 18,608 registered reps, 15,268 of which are financial advisors; most of the rest–2,930–are in-bank advisors, with the remainder–408–working with clients via phone.
"Our success in the first half of 2013 is a testament to our commitment to a client-first culture," said Kent Christian (left), president of Wells' Financial Network, in a press release. "Our advisors are advocates for their clients' best interests, and we believe they are the cornerstone to our success. We're pleased that more and more advisors are seeing the independence of Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network as the right fit for themselves and their clients."
Some teams that joined Wells in May and June came on board with over $100 million in assets. They joined from wirehouse rivals–Morgan Stanley (MS), Merrill Lynch (BAC) and UBS (UBS).
Tysons Wealth Advisors of Reston, Va., moved from Morgan Stanley recently to FiNet with close to $530 million in client assets and $3.7 million in yearly fees and commissions. The group includes five advisors: Larry Hensle, George Fleeson, Mike Harper, Steven Skonberg and Scott McLaughlin.
Also moving to FiNet from Morgan Stanley are advisors Ralph Lynch and Maureen McPeek of Lynch McPeek Wealth Management of Glenview, Ill. The brother-and-sister team has 51 years of total industry experience. The practice has about $2.5 million in production and $406 million in client assets.
"Going independent allows us to own our own practice, make decisions at the local level based on our clients' unique needs, and still have the backing of one of the largest financial institutions in the country," said McPeek, in a statement. "With Wells Fargo's strength and stability backing our independent practice, we hope our clients find comfort knowing their assets are held at one of the most well-known institutions and that Lynch McPeek Wealth Management will continue to evolve to enhance their client experience."
J.D. Joyce opened J.D. Joyce Investment Management Group with FiNet in Houston after leaving UBS. With more than 19 years of financial-services experience, Joyce has roughly $1.8 million in production and $306 million of client assets.
"I've always considered myself an entrepreneur," explained Joyce, in a statement. "Having opened my first business when I was in high school, I've longed to have the opportunity to run my own company again, and now this goal has become a reality. Not only am I able to offer quality advice to my clients, I now have the backing of one of the most well-known financial institutions in the world behind the endeavor. "
In Highland, N.Y., the Hudson Valley Financial Group joined FiNet from Morgan Stanley with about $165 million in assets and over $1 million in annual production. The group's advisors are Ed Burke and Jeff Altomari, who have 36 years of combined experience in the financial-services industry.
"We feel Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network is highly focused on serving clients and providing us the tools to do that in our local communities," said Burke, in a statement. "Though we're independent, we liked that the name and stability of Wells Fargo resonates very well. The response from clients has been overwhelmingly positive."
Tysons Wealth Advisors located in Reston, Va., also joined Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. Combined, the team of advisors–Larry Hensle, George Fleeson, Mike Harper, Steven Skonberg, and Scott McLaughlin–has over a century of industry experience, $3.7 million in production and $529 million in assets under management.
In Alpharetta, Ga., Praxis Financial Partners came to FiNet from Merrill Lynch. Scott Christian, Cecil Loyd and Mike Masters have 58 total years of experience, $2.9 million in yearly fees & commissions and more than $345 million in assets under management.


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CARLSBAD, Calif., June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced the acquisition of Life Science Korea (LSK), a leading instrument distributor based in Seoul, South Korea. LSK has been Life Technologies' primary instrument distributor since 1994 and holds distribution rights to Applied Biosystems® products, including next-generation sequencing instruments, Sanger sequencing systems, forensics and PCR products.
"The acquisition of LSK is in line with our go-direct strategy in South Korea and builds on our current capabilities and platforms in this important market," said Mark Smedley, president of Life Technologies, Asia Pacific Japan region. "The combination of Life Technologies Korea and LSK – bolstered by our recent acquisition of consumables distributor KDR – enables us to offer one channel to serve the many different needs of our South Korean customers and to create a superior purchasing experience."
In addition to driving a superior customer experience, the combination of LSK and Life Technologies will help continue to build a strong Life Technologies brand in Korea to stimulate fast and sustainable growth and be well positioned to take advantage of Korea's focus on developing biotechnology. In the past five years, South Korea has shown solid growth in the biotechnology industry and with the Korean government's Bio-vision 2016 initiative, it's expected the country will continue to heavily invest in the life sciences industry.
LSK serves more than 1,000 customers in academia, government, pharmaceutical, biotech, hospitals and applied markets. Under the acquisition terms, the LSK name will become part of Life Technologies Korea. No other terms of the deal were announced.
About Life Technologies
Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) is a global biotechnology company that is committed to providing the most innovative products and services to leading customers in the fields of scientific research, genetic analysis and applied sciences. With a presence in more than 180 countries, the company's portfolio of 50,000 end-to-end solutions is secured by more than 5,000 patents and licenses that span the entire biological spectrum -- scientific exploration, molecular diagnostics, 21st century forensics, regenerative medicine and agricultural research. Life Technologies has approximately 10,000 employees and had sales of $3.8 billion in 2012.
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Then there was the stitch day at my house last Saturday, another very special time. In the end nine of us spent the day together over lots of food and coffee, great conversation and show and tell, and of course as quilters always do when they get together, much learning from each other. I adore my online virtual quilt friends, but it is so wonderful to meet these women and put faces to the blog names and email addresses!!! And I have
Kay from Shocking Hocking was up first with her beautiful almost finished quilt in French General fabrics. Her machine quilting on this was magnificent.
Kay also had this grey/citrus number. Kay is quilting this using both machine and hand quilting and it looks fabulous.
I need to make a quilt with those colours!!! Next up we made Chris the Quilter haul her incredible hexagon quilt into the garden to take a nice photo under the cherry tree!
This quilt in progress is a work of art, over 9000 teeny tiny hexies (so far!) made out of Kaffe Fassett and Brandon Mably fabrics. Kaffe and Brandon even got to see this amazing quilt when they were in Australia last year!! The back of it is so neat...
Even Millie loved wearing it for a little while!!
Next we had Christmas come early with Michelle from The Quilted Tortoise and her beautifully appliqued quilt also using the gorgeous French General fabrics...
The details in this are beautiful with buttons and embroidery to finish off each block.
Michelle is also making Trish Harpers pattern Camelot, this will be stunning, I love the text fabrics in there...
Miriam from Yellow Rose Quilts bought her almost finished Bordered Diamonds quilt that we started in Kaffe Fassetts class at Amitie last Feb (mine is still in pieces sitting in a box somewhere, oops!!). Miriam's quilt colours really catch the eye, like jewels I think.
Miriam is a prolific quilter and is a part of the Bloggers Bom, she is making up her blocks in two gorgeous colourways...
...as well as making up Janet Quiltsalott's incredible Trailing Vines pattern, wow!! (My poor photo does not do it justice).
Next was my friend Deb's (no blog) beautiful squares quilt. I love the orange, creams, turquoise and browns and the perle hand quilting will be in those colours too.
My friend Kathy (also no blog yet!!), is a relatively newer quilter (18 mths), but is incredibly prolific already. Her stars quilt in creams, greens and reds is a stunner...
Kathy is also making a lovely Japanese x and + quilt, the browns in the corners of these blocks are giving the quilt a stained glass window look to it. I will show this one when she is done!
Later in the day Bron Whippet Good dropped in with Emma Treehouse Textiles after their class. Bron had just spent the day at Treehouse learning to make the schoolhouse tunic, you can see her beautiful tunic here.
Wow, what a wonderful day! And so inspirational to be surrounded by such talented women. A huge thank you to each of you for spending your Saturday with me. Very special times! xo


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At the edge of the gathering the speedster is parked in between some RV's. Red and white with a classic stance. The sheet metal bonnet is popped up, hard shadows accentuate the cars footprint. What might become the picture of the day will turn to an everlasting experience. "Hi there, should I close the bonnet, so you can take better pictures?" "I can park it out there in the open space if you want."
The conversations unfolds as we get into detail. 300 something BHP. "Jump inside I you need to take close up shots. The sound is great, wait a minute, I'll rev her up". Larry is one of these driven and passionate owners who likes to share. He takes it very literally today. "You wanna join me for a ride, I'll show you around." Wind and whirring cogs, click clack, second gear. In between I hear something about ditching windscreens, dust, visibility and Bonneville. Click clack.
As we return at our starting point Larry unlocks the big round steering wheel to get our of the car and hands it over to me. "Slide over to this side, now that you know how it works, it's up to the two of you!" " I am damn serious buddy!"
An endless drive in open space. Hours later we get stuck into down town traffic as we hit Los Angeles. I still have the image of that smiling guy in his white Nascar sweater giving us signs every time we want to return him his V8 speedster. "Come on, go for another round!"


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Like millions of other farmers across Pakistan, Abdur Razzaq of district Kot Addu lost the majority of his crops and livestock to the floodwaters that swept through the country in August. He estimates his financial loss this year around $3,000 – a huge blow given the poverty in rural Pakistan.
But his problems are compounded by the $2,000 in rent he owes to his feudal landlord, who, he says, is not inclined to forgive.
"If I ask him to defer payment, I would only have to pay back with greater interest," he says. Instead, Mr. Razzaq says he will sell his animals at a discount and attempt to start fresh.
Those who refuse to pay – or can't – are forced out of their homes by armed gangs sent by the landlord's family, and sometimes set upon by dogs.
Razzaq's dilemma strikes at the heart of a phenomenon that is not only creating a hurdle in the post-flood rehabilitation phase, but has stunted Pakistan's political and economic development since the country gained independence from Britain in 1947: a deep division between classes, leading to abuse of power.
According to leading Pakistani historian Mubarak Ali, author of "Feudalism," the problem lies with Pakistan's two largest political parties, the ruling Pakistan People's Party and the Nawaz Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League (N), whose representatives in southern Punjab and Sindh province consist almost exclusively of wealthy landowners.
Since the floods hit, Pakistan's rural landowning class, who use their money and influence to gain seats in parliament, have made headlines for being conspicuously absent from their constituencies in their hour of need, diverting floodwaters to save their own lands, and for failing to disburse aid money entrusted to them to pass on to their communities.
While India managed to largely abolish feudalism, powerful landlords in the provinces of Punjab and Sindh who chose to side with the All Muslim League, the party led by Pakistan's founding father, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, were rewarded by being allowed to keep their land and titles. The situation has remained mostly unchanged, despite nominal attempts at land reform by populist leader Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in the 1970s.
The practice extends up the chain of command in Pakistan's government. Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani and Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi both hail from large feudal families in southern Punjab and have the added bonus of belonging to families with ancestors who are considered saints in the Sufi Islamic tradition.
Who owns the land?
Pakistan's Army, the country's most powerful institution, meanwhile, is unlikely to be the agent of change, says Dr. Ali, because of its own vested interests. "Over the years, the Army has granted large amounts of land to retired generals and brigadiers. So it's not in anyone's interest to have any land reform."
Feudalism, in turn, perpetuates inequality and prevents a genuine representative democracy from taking root, says Ali.
"I always call it feudal democracy because it's not the people's democracy, and they are not interested in solving the problems of common people," he says, highlighting the mismanagement evident during and after the floods.
Despite the fact that agriculture accounts for almost a quarter of Pakistan's economy, Pakistan's lawmakers have seemingly safeguarded their own interests by ensuring that there is no agricultural income tax.
Still bonded labor
In rural Sindh, where, through a combination of wealth and religious standing, landlord power is most pronounced, thousands of laborers remain in bonded labor for debts accrued by their forefathers, and are confined to their villages to carry out hard labor till their death, according to IA Rehman, secretary-general of the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, which regularly undertakes missions to have such laborers freed.
"Many peasants [in Sindh] are still standing in water or living in camps, and don't want to go back to their lands because of the loans they took. They're not in a position to pay a penny," says Younis Rahu, secretary general of the leftist Sindh Labour Relief Committee.
If the workers do not return to their fields to cultivate the lands, this might undercut the position of the landlords there, says Ali. But he's not hopeful.
"The whole local administration is under their control – the police and the bureaucrats. So it's impossible to have any peasant movement," he says.
"They [the landlords] are brutal towards their peasants, to make them realize that they don't have any power, and if you disobey they are in the power to punish you and put you in prison. Fear is their tool to dominate their people."


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A press release came from The Toronto History Lecture this morning, and I thought that you would be interested -
"Please join us again this year in spreading the word about The Toronto History Lecture. It will be held on October 24 at 7:30 pm at the City of Toronto Archives and is presented jointly by the Archives and the Toronto Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society.
To commemorate the bicentennial of the War of 1812, the City of Toronto Museum Services created a Book of Remembrance for the men of York who fell during the war and all the casualties of the Battle of York. Janice Nickerson's research on the militia men uncovered so many fascinating stories that she decided to put them together in a book, York's Sacrifice: Militia Casualties of the War of 1812.
For the bicentennial year's Toronto History Lecture, Janice will tell a few stories of the men, women and children whose lives were transformed by this pivotal event in the history of Toronto.
Admission is free, but reservation is required. Their website is at www.toronto.ca/archives
Many members of the heritage community contributed to the great success of last year's inaugural Toronto History Lecture. We look forward to a similar success on October 24th".
May I add that in the November 2012 issue of the Ontario Genealogical Society Families, we will have a book excerpt from Janice's book mentioned above, and a book review.
The website of the OGS is www.ogs.on.ca


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t-jr necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 59 diseños de 24 diseñadores freelance.
Every generation needs something to rebel against.
The JUSTICE REBELLION is a bridging organization specializing in connecting everyday people to causes, campaigns and charities that stand up against injustices both locally and globally. First stop - the logo. This contest is going to be fun because we promise to give all you great Designers LOTS of feedback in exchange for one thing...a professional and well thought out logo design. We need an identifiable logo that makes a statement without coming off as cliché.
The Justice Rebellion is a bridging organization that seeks to connect individuals, businesses, social clubs, associations and any other network of people to legitimate causes, campaigns and charities whose sole aim it is to pursue the cause of justice. This will primarily be done through an interactive online portal and through fundraising events held at venues such as clubs, lounges, cafes etc. The Justice Rebellion places a huge emphasis on everyday individuals being the face of justice in the 21 century.
Our core target market is that of 18 - 35 years olds who are full of life and want to be part of making a statement for change.
- a modern aesthetic
- reflect modern/ youth culture trends but have a lasting appeal
- be an inspiring icon and symbolic of the organization's work
- can be used for multiple purposes ie. Have the ability to be translated across different media.
- immediately recognizable to the target market, and have a strong branding and identity the logo should be neutral in opinions, gender, religion etc, an abstract identity would be ideal
- the logo can incorporate the letters JR
- the logo should be versatile, for instance the colour could be changed, but the meaning and identity would remain virtually the same.
- appealing, unique typography
- represent a bias towards opinions, gender, religion etc
- be a simple and generic font
- appear bland and overly corporate
- be overly aggressive, grunge or street
- be cliché
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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The shortlist for this year's BAFTA Film awards, to be held at the Royal Opera House on 12 February, has been announced.
Silent film The Artist, directed by Michel Hazanavictus, continues to cement its critical reputation with 12 nominations (including Best Film, Original Screenplay and Best Director) followed closely by Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy starring Gary Oldman and Colin Firth, present in 11 categories.
Other high profile nominations include The Iron Lady (four), Drive (four), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (four), We Need to Talk About Kevin (three) and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (two). Celebrity opera fan Stephen Fry will present this year's awards.
Director Martin Scorsese will be presented with a BAFTA Fellowship at this year's ceremony, the highest accolade the Academy can bestow on an individual. The award will be in honour of a career that has spanned six decades and produced cinematic highlights such as Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas.
We'll be blogging after this year's awards in a couple of weeks, until then here's our blog series of the 20 greatest uses of opera in film.
See the full list of nominations.
Which films are you hoping will do well at this year's BAFTA awards?


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Last Thursday I made a prerelease of gimp-perl (aka the Gimp module for perl), using the Gtk2 perl module. Still lots of stuff wrong, needing attention, but it either runs most of the scripts that come with it now or documents which ones are still broken. This type of QA is long long overdue. Am pretifying the interface, updating things to Gimp2 equivalents, etc while I'm at it.
Wasn't overly involved in the Gimp release proper; mostly just submitted bug reports that are clear enough to follow and I'm pretty sure were bugs. The mitch/sven combo dealt with most of them in sub-24hr timeframes - very impressive.
Have grown annoyed enough with one personality on #gimp that I've invoked /ignore. To that person if you're listening - if you don't know what you're talking about, please learn to listen rather than just spew garbage to my screen. Or at least learn to ask more sensible questions.


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Chicken, Chicken By-Product Meal, Corn Meal, Brewers Rice, Fish Meal (source of fish oil), Chicken Fat (preserved with Mixed Tocopherols, a source of vitamin E, and Citric Acid), Ground Whole Grain Sorghum, Dried Beet Pulp (sugar removed), Natural Chicken Flavor, Dried Egg Product, Brewers Dried Yeast, Salt, Potassium Chloride, Flax Meal, Sodium Hexametaphosphate, Calcium Carbonate, Choline Chloride, Ferrous Sulfate, Glucosamine Hydrochloride, Vitamin E Supplement, DL-Methionine, Zinc Oxide, Ascorbic Acid, Manganese Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, L-Carnitine, Beta-carotene, Manganous Oxide, Chondroitin Sulfate, Vitamin A Acetate, Calcium Pantothenate, Biotin, Rosemary Extract, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate (source of vitamin B1), Niacin, Riboflavin Supplement (source of vitamin B2), Inositol, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride (source of vitamin B6), Vitamin D3 Supplement, Potassium Iodide, Folic Acid, Cobalt Carbonate
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First ingredient is a named meat product.
Uses by products, low quality grains and other controversial fillers.
The first ingredient in this food is a named meat product. This is chicken inclusive of its water content which, once removed as it must be to create a dry food, will leave the ingredient weighing around 20% of its wet weight. It is thus unlikely that this is the true first ingredient in the food but would be more accurately placed further down the ingredient list.
The second is a by-product. It is impossible to ascertain the quality of by-products and these are usually products that are of such low quality as to be rejected for use in the human food chain, or else are those parts that have so little value that they cannot be used elsewhere in either the human or pet food industries. We recommend avoiding any pet food using such ingredients. The AAFCO definition of chicken by-product meal is a meal consisting of the ground, rendered, clean parts of the carcass of slaughtered chicken, such as necks, feet, undeveloped eggs and intestines, exclusive of feathers, except in such amounts as might occur unavoidable in good processing practice.
The main grain in the food is corn. Corn is difficult for dogs to digest and thought to be the cause of a great many allergy and yeast infection problems. The next ingredient is brewers rice, a low quality grain and by-product. The next ingredient is corn. Corn is difficult for dogs to digest and thought to be the cause of a great many allergy and yeast infection problems.
The inclusion of a second meat product (fish meal 5th on ingredient list) is appreciated. However the manufacturer does not claim to use ethoxyquin-free sources (ethoxyquin is a chemical preservative commonly added to fish meal, and that is banned from use in human food because it is believed to be carcinogenic).
We would prefer to see the use of whole eggs rather than egg product.
Beet pulp is another controversial ingredient it is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required.
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Henrik Bjørnskov has a quick new post with a security tip for those using the Symfony2 framework in its configuration.
Earlier when playing around with the Security component and SecurityBundle i found that for all paths you can specify a route name and the component will match it when check for the request paths.
Setting this up in your configuration gives you more control over the paths that are matched as well as more flexibility in defining them. He includes a note about a change you might have to make to the SecurityBundle's code to get the "check_path" part working correctly. You can find out more about the SecurityBundle's integration in this blog post from Pablo Bandin.


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Why am I here?
As organizers of the "40 Days of Purpose" campaign see it, that is life's most important question.
When Morenci First Baptist Church launches its 40 Days effort at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, it will join a worldwide network of thousands of other churches that have examined the basic question through this spiritual growth campaign.
First Baptist pastor Ned Newlin said an estimated 30,000 churches around the world have investigated the "why am I here?" question inspired by California pastor Rick Warren in his book, "The Purpose Driven Life."
Pastor Newlin proposed the idea for the campaign to his congregation and he was encouraged by the positive response. He's hoping to draw the interest of area residents beyond his own church members.
"This campaign is not just for the members of Morenci First Baptist Church," he said. "We see it as an opportunity to impact those of the whole community who desire to know more about 'what on Earth am I here for?' and discover real meaning for their lives and a higher purpose than personal peace and happiness."
Planning continues for home group activities and weekly services throughout the campaign that will end Nov. 9.
The program focuses on five aspects of purpose: worship, fellowship, discipleship, ministry and evangelism.
Following the kickoff service Saturday, the program involves a weekly message by the pastor, personal or family daily devotional reading, a weekly scripture verse for memorization and weekly small group events.
"People will hear about God's purpose for their lives in many different formats," Pastor Newlin said. "This will allow for the truths to sink deeper into hearts, which is essential for any permanent change."
For additional information about the campaign, call Pastor Newlin at 517/458-2271.