Tempo Wins CODiE Award
Jul 29th
Market Wire, May, 2010
Tempo announced today that its affinity debit card platform is the winner of the CODiE Award for Best Open Source Solution from the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the principal trade association for the software and digital content industries.
Tempo’s affinity debit platform was built entirely using open source software and enables consumers to design and apply for affinity debit cards online. Tempo’s cards are unique because they can be provided by any business or non-profit, connect to a consumer’s existing bank account and run on a major payment network.
“The SIIA’s CODiE Award for Best Open Source Solution is a great honor for Tempo,” said Tempo CEO Mike Grossman. “Using open source software exclusively, we are revolutionizing the debit card market with a web-based platform that provides consumers with new choices and empowers merchants with new debit-based affinity rewards programs.”
Tempo-enabled debit cards are affinity partner-branded, generate valuable cardholder rewards, and can be used for online and offline purchases and ATM withdrawals. Organizations offering Tempo-powered affinity debit card programs include the Breast Cancer Fund, Greenpeace, In Defense of Animals, the Manilow Fund for Health and Hope, Surfrider Foundation and World Emergency Relief. The cards are issued by Tempo partner First Bank & Trust of Brookings, SD, part of Fishback Financial Corporation. Working with First Bank & Trust, Tempo manages all aspects of card issuance, including risk management, application processing, card fulfillment, authorization and settlement.
“Now in its 25th year, the CODiE Awards continue to recognize those companies providing the best new technology products and services across a broad array of industries,” noted SIIA President Ken Wasch. “In addition, its winners are a prolific testament to the power of technology to deliver innovative solutions to businesses and consumers. SIIA warmly congratulates all of the winners and nominees of the CODiE Awards, whose innovation is essential for continuing America’s leadership in the global knowledge economy.”
One hundred eighty-eight products from 136 companies were selected as finalists from more than 785 nominations submitted by 374 companies. Nominated products underwent an intensive review by subject matter experts, analysts, journalists, and others with deep experience in the field, who selected 34 winners for the 2010 CODiE Awards
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Have your say on growth masterplan
Jul 29th
Have your say on growth masterplan
0 Comments | Lincolnshire Echo, Jul 28, 2010 | by Mel West
A BLUEPRINT for the regeneration of a Lincolnshire market town will be produced by the end of the year.
The plan, designed to guide growth and development in Sleaford, will be compiled over the next six months.
Leeds consultancy firm Gillespies is embarking on a massive research project to gauge the views and opinions of Sleaford’s population. Its results will be presented in a document that will detail potential proposals and priorities for the town over the next 10 to 15 years.
The masterplan comes as Sleaford continues to ride the wave of huge growth and regeneration that has unfolded over the past 20 years.
In 1981, the market town’s population was 9,000. Now it is 18,500. Commercial areas are rapidly filling up, with expanding local companies and new arrivals.
Many of them are supplying goods and services across the world, not just in Sleaford.
One of the most significant developments has been the construction of the town’s new Enterprise Park off East Road.
This development was completed earlier this year and all the units are currently let.
Agents Hodgson Elkington, which is marketing the development on behalf of Melbourne Holdings Limited, is now in negotiations with other businesses who are interested in buying land and building premises on the neighbouring 13-and-a-half acres of land.
Sam Heathershaw, of Hodgson Elkington, said: “Even after concluding the last letting, we were still receiving inquiries.
“This level of demand, which has exceeded expectations, indicates optimism in the market place and is certainly re-assuring to the developer who is reviewing further projects on the undeveloped areas of Sleaford Enterprise Park.”
The final tenant in the units was D P Private Hire, which operates and hires a 16 seater mini bus to businesses including Lincolnshire County Council schools services.
Proprietor Debbie Parkes said they were keen to snap up the remaining 1,000sqft unit.
She said: “We needed more space to garage the mini bus and to provide the flexibility to develop the business.”
Motorcycle engineering, valeting, Tarpaulin manufacturing, carbon fibre engineering and light industrial engineering businesses occupy the 22,000sqft of industrial space comprising 22 units on the 1.5 acre site.
Sam said: “The majority of tenants have relocated from smaller premises, with some benefiting from the flexible construction methods by taking multiple units and creating floor areas of 2,000sqft upwards.
“This development has demonstrated that if a developer is willing to offer sensible terms and competitive rents, local organisations are still willing and able to develop their businesses.”
Additionally, the last unit has just been let in the nearby Reedspire Industrial Units complex also built by Melbourne Holdings.
These 19 units of various floor areas totalling 21,000sqft
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When you?re an online
Jul 29th
When you?re an online student, it?s a good idea to have a
back up Internet connection. While your home connection may
be the most convenient way to access the web, many people
find themselves without service when they move to a new
location, experience a power outage, or have unreliable
connections.
If you?re trying to engage in an online class discussion or
post your midterm essay to your course Web site, the last
thing you want to worry about is whether or not you?ll be
able to access the web. When you find yourself without the
Internet in your home, check out some of these great
alternative places to catch a signal:
Libraries: The great thing about public library Internet
access is that it?s usually free. Many public libraries are
creating and improving computer labs for public use.
Depending on the consumer traffic at your local library,
this could be a great place to do your work or it could be
a giant headache.
Some library labs are overcrowded and a bit too loud for
writing that mid-term.
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Edwards and Doyle head Wolves win
Jul 29th
Edwards and Doyle head Wolves win
0 Comments | Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England), July 25, 2010
CHARLEROI 1 WOLVES 2 SECOND half headed goals from Kevin Doyle and Dave Edwards saw Wolves home in a tightly fought friendly against Charleroi last night with both strikes coming after long throw-ins from Greg Halford.
The game was arranged following a double switch from the Belgian club to Molineux. Adlene Guedioura has signed on for Mick McCarthy’s team after a loan spell while Geoffrey Mujangi Bia is to spend the forthcoming season on loan with Wolves.
While Guedioura played for the second half of the game, the unfortunate Mujangi Bia was forced to sit out the game against his parent club after suffering a hamstring strain.
There were few chances in the opening exchanges although home keeper Cyprien Baguette showed his preference for punching the ball clear rather than catching it as Matt Jarvis lifted over some early crosses from the right.
From one, the keeper just managed to divert the ball away from the head of young Welsh striker Sam Vokes.
A rare slip by Jody Craddock presented a chance to home striker Cyril Thereau. The veteran defender appeared to tread on the ball conceding possession to Thereau who raced towards goal before firing wide of the far post.
Powerful A free kick from Peter Franquart curled inches over Carl Ikeme’s bar then, at the other end, Vokes sent a volley high and wide before forcing a flying save from Baguette with a powerful header. Before the half drew to a close there were two bookings – Christophe Berra for a foul on Orlando Dossantoscosta and Naim Aarab for felling Vokes. There were wholesale changes to the Wolves team for the second period with just Craddock, Ikeme and Berra remaining. And it was two of the replacements that combined to break the deadlock in the 51st minute. Halford powered over one of his trademark long throws and Doyle planted a header beyond Baguette.
But it took the home side just seven minutes to draw level with the Wanderers defence failing to deal with Alessandro Cordaro’s driven cross allowing Ederson Tormena to turn the ball over the line from point blank range at the far post.
Charleroi almost stole into the lead just three minutes later with substitute Adekanmi Olufade seeing his header superbly blocked by Ikeme when a goal looked a certainty
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Times; Wellington, New Zealand – Half-hearted trauma cover leaves you in the deep stuff
Jul 29th
Half-hearted trauma cover leaves you in the deep stuff
0 Comments | Sunday Star – Times; Wellington, New Zealand, Jul 11, 2010 | by Rob STOCK
NO HEART attack can ever be called the right kind, but when it comes to trauma insurance, which covers serious life interruptions through illness, you can definitely find yourself having had the wrong kind at claim time.
That’s because there are differences between the diagnostic tests different insurers require claimants to pass before they will pay a claim, according to financial advice firm US Advice’s managing director Naomi Ballantyne.
In one case currently under dispute, said Ballantyne, the former chief executive of ING Life, a man had a serious heart attack in Australia requiring his hospitalisation for two weeks, but because he failed an “enzyme test” required by his insurer, he was judged not to have had a heart attack under the wording of the policy.
Under other policies, Ballantyne said, he would have had his payout by now, underlining how important it is to seek advice before buying what appeared on the surface to be a simple insurance.
“He didn’t meet the criteria for a heart attack exactly, and the company is fighting it tooth and nail,” Ballantyne said. “The broker concerned went to two other companies to see if they would have covered it, and they said they would.”
The refusal to pay the claim also came in spite of an eminent heart surgeon having found evidence of a serious heart attack, Ballantyne said.
It is not just heart attack definitions that can vary between policies, Ballantyne said. The level of severity of cancer and other ailments needed to trigger a claim varies from insurer to insurer.
For example, the definitions of melanoma vary greatly, as do the number of days required to spend in a coma to trigger coma cover (some also require 25% permanent brain damage after), or the number of days needed to be spent in an intensive care unit before an “intensive care” claim will be paid (the range goes from three to 10, Ballantyne said).
Ballantyne said the differing definitions are confusing, and people buying trauma cover without expert advice ran the risk of buying cover that is not the best suited to their circumstances and family medical history.
Often trauma cover, or “living death” insurance as it is sometimes called, is sold either directly, with buyers making the decision themselves, or by “aligned” advisers who largely distribute the policies of one insurer.
And, Ballantyne warned, the policies offering lesser cover are still not always cheaper
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Learner tried to swap seats
Jul 29th
Learner tried to swap seats
0 Comments | Carmarthen Journal, Jul 28, 2010
A LEARNER driver without L-plates tried to swap seats with his passenger after a police car pulled him over.
The police officer saw them clambering over each other in the front of their white Ford Transit van, Carmarthen magistrates heard.
The pair had been pulled over on the A48 at Nantycaws on June 23 after the officer saw the van cross a solid white line.
Michel John Joseph Valmont, aged 32, of Heol y Felin, Penparc, Cardigan, pleaded guilty to obstructing a police officer, driving without L plates and valid insurance.
Paul Simon Knight, aged 41, of Pont Sian, near Llandysul, also pleaded guilty to obstructing a police officer.
Knight said he had stopped driving because he had a migraine and did not realise Valmont was only a learner driver. Knight was given a conditional discharge and ordered to pay Pounds 85 court costs.
Valmont, who already had six points on his provisional licence, was given six more points and so banned from driving for a year. He was also fined Pounds 180 and ordered to pay Pounds 85 costs.
Apply a thin coat
Jul 29th
Apply a thin coat of shortening both inside and out
4. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line oven rack with foil to catch drips
5. Put cookware upside down on the upper rack of your oven and bake for one hour.
6. Let the cookware cool before taking it out of the oven.
7. Store it in a cool, dry place and allow air to circulate around it
8. Never wash in a dishwasher.
After using your cast iron, rinse with hot water and no soap. Dry it thoroughly and coat it with a think coat of cooking oil, shortening or pan spray.
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Snowy pictures and poor sound quality
Jul 29th
Snowy pictures and poor sound quality are a thing of the past. With digital HDTV broadcast television you’ll enjoy crystal clear life like pictures and CD quality Dolby surround sound, along with many more channels to choose from, all provided to you free of charge by your local broadcasters.
The nature of digital broadcasting allows each broadcaster in your area to provide up to six channels where there once was one analog channel. In other words digital broadcasting makes it possible for your local broadcasters to provide you with up to six times as many channels. Many areas of the country now have dozens of channels available, free for the watching.
The average American households spends more than $60.00 a month for pay TV.
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One way to improve vision
Jul 29th
One way to improve vision is to wear glasses. However, glasses can hamper one?s ability to participate in different activities. Many people also consider glasses to be less attractive. Contact lenses are a more attractive option. They are placed over the cornea and are thus in ?contact? with the eye. These lenses are made of plastic or other synthetic materials.
Leonardo da Vinci is believed to have been the first to sketch some ideas for contact lenses, way back in 1508. The first wearable lens was created by a German glassblower, F. E. Muller, in 1887.
You need the advice of an ophthalmologist, optometrist or optician to choose the right contact lenses, and a valid prescription to own and use contacts.
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Enjoy Coffee-House Creations That Won't Break the Bank
Jul 28th
Market Wire, May, 2010
(Family Features) A cup of specialty coffee can run an average of $3 per drink — and that’s without additional flavors, extra espresso shots and milk substitutions. For daily coffee drinkers, that adds up to more than $1,000 a year. But what if you could enjoy coffee-house creations without sacrificing taste and budget?
According to a recent study by the National Coffee Association, 86 percent of past-day coffee drinkers prepared their coffee at home. With the wide selection of gourmet blends, roasts and flavored syrups and creamers available, becoming a self-made barista is easier than ever. Plus, it’s a great way to balance your cravings while saving money.
Here are a few tips to making your own coffee-house creations.
Prep your kitchen with the essentials. A quality blender is key to creating delicious coffee-house recipes. Pick a favorite color for a punch of style that can be proudly displayed on the kitchen counter. And be sure to have a stash of Nescaf Taster’s Choice 100% Pure Instant Coffee on hand along with lowfat milk or unsweetened vanilla soy milk. Pair with a cup of ice and you have the building blocks to make a one-of-a-kind latte or mochaccino.
Add your flavor. For a no-fuss coffee transformation, flavored coffee creamers are a must-have when it comes to enjoying the perfect brew. From French Vanilla and Hazelnut to Irish Crme and Toffee Nut, Coffee-Mate has dozens of different ways to stir it up. Looking for great taste with fewer calories? Swap out original creamers with reduced fat and sugar free versions — a “feel good” way to perk up your cup
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