Confrontation between rival protesters looms in Egypt

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood called for a rally backing President Mohamed Mursi outside his palace on Wednesday and leftists planned a counter-demonstration, raising fears of clashes in a crisis over a disputed push for a new constitution.

Mursi returned to work at his compound a day after it came under siege from opposition protesters furious at his drive to ratify a new constitution in a snap referendum set for December 15 after temporarily expanding his powers by decree.

The Islamist president said he acted to prevent courts still full of appointees from the era of autocratic predecessor Hosni Mubarak from derailing the draft constitution meant to complete a political transition in the Arab world's most populous state.

The Brotherhood, from which Mursi emerged to narrowly win a free election in June, summoned supporters to a demonstration outside the palace in response to what it termed "oppressive abuses" by opposition parties.

Brotherhood spokesman Mahmoud Ghozlan was quoted on its Facebook page as saying opposition groups "imagined they could shake legitimacy or impose their views by force".

Leftist opposition leader Hamdeen Sabahy promptly urged his supporters to go to the streets as well, heightening the chances of confrontation between Islamists and their opponents.

A spokeswoman for Sabahy's Popular Current movement asked protesters to head to the palace to reinforce those still camped out there after Tuesday evening's protests, in which officials said 35 protesters and 40 police were wounded.

Although they fired tear gas when protesters broke through barricades to reach the palace walls, riot police appeared to handle those disturbances with restraint.

About 200 protesters camped out overnight, blocking one gate to the palace in northern Cairo, but traffic was flowing normally and riot police had been withdrawn.

"Our demands to the president: retract the presidential decree and cancel the referendum on the constitution," read a placard hung by demonstrators on a palace gate.

The rest of the Egyptian capital was calm, despite the political furore over Mursi's November 22 decree handing himself wide powers and shielding his decisions from judicial oversight.

Crowds had gathered on Tuesday for what organisers dubbed a "last warning" to Mursi. "The people want the downfall of the regime," they chanted, roaring the signature slogan of last year's uprising that ousted Mubarak.

But the "last warning" may turn out to be one of the last gasps for a disparate opposition that has little chance of stopping next week's vote on a constitution drafted over six months and swiftly approved by an Islamist-dominated assembly.

MURSI STANDS HIS GROUND

Facing the gravest crisis of his six-month-old tenure, the Islamist president has shown no sign of buckling under pressure, confident that the Muslim Brotherhood and its Islamist allies can win the referendum and a parliamentary election to follow.

Many Egyptians yearn for an end to political upheaval that has scared off investors and tourists, damaging the economy.

Ahmed Kamel, spokesman for the Congress Party led by former Arab League chief Amr Moussa, said Mursi should meet opposition demands, not call for an Islamist counter-demonstration.

Some protesters have already gone beyond opposition calls for Mursi to scrap his decree, defer the referendum and set up a "representative committee" to revise the draft constitution, instead demanding the president's overthrow.

"The demands of the street are moving faster than those of the politicians," said Elijah Zarwan, a fellow with the European Council on Foreign Relations. "Now is the time for the Egyptian liberals to negotiate without conditions."

COURT PROTEST

Dozens of pro-Mursi demonstrators, watched by equal numbers of police, waved flags outside the Supreme Constitutional Court, whose rulings have complicated the Islamists' rise to power.

"You are not a political agency," read one banner held by the demonstrators, addressing a court that in June ordered the dissolution of the Islamist-led lower house of parliament.

Mursi issued his decree temporarily putting his actions above the law to forestall any court ruling to dissolve the upper house or the assembly that wrote the constitution.

State institutions, with the partial exception of the judiciary, have mostly fallen in behind Mursi.

The army, the power behind all previous Egyptian presidents in the republic's six-decade history, has gone back to barracks, having apparently lost its appetite to intervene in politics.

In a bold move, Mursi sacked Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the Mubarak-era army commander and defence minister, in August and removed the sweeping powers that the military council which took over after Mubarak's fall had grabbed two months earlier.

The liberals, leftists, Christians, ex-Mubarak followers and others opposed to Mursi, elected in a close result against a secular rival, have yet to generate a mass movement or a grassroots political base to challenge the Brotherhood.

Protesters have scrawled "leave" over Mursi's palace walls, but the president has made clear he is not going anywhere.

"The crisis we have suffered for two weeks is on its way to an end, and very soon, God willing," Saad al-Katatni, head of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, told Reuters.

Investors have seized on hopes that Egypt's turbulent transition, which has buffeted the economy for two years, may soon head for calmer waters, sending stocks 1.6 per cent higher after a 3.5 percent rally on Tuesday.

The most populous Arab nation has turned to the IMF for a $4.8 billion loan to help it out of a crisis that has depleted its foreign currency reserves.

The government said on Wednesday the process was on track and Egypt's request would go to the IMF board as expected.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/egypts-mursi-back-palace-night-protests-090428384.html

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Ford Fusion Wins ?Green Car of the Year? Award at LA Auto Show ...

It?s no secret that car manufacturers are focusing most of their efforts on smaller vehicles. While SUV?s saw a huge jump in popularity in the ?90s and early 2000?s, concerns about the environment and rising fuel costs have seen that trend far in the other direction. Savvy car brands are listening to their customers, and what they want is efficiency. It?s better for the earth and better for the wallet. While Toyota?s Prius has led the way in the hybrid market for quite some time, U.S. auto manufacturers are beginning to make some serious inroads, based primarily on the quality of their offerings. The Chevy Volt has found a strong fanbase in the niche electric market, but it is Ford?s Fusion that may have the largest chance at long-term success. Ford showed just how seriously they are taking that challenge with a strong appearance at the Los Angeles Auto Show, and the jury rewarded their efforts, naming the midsize Fusion sedan their ?Green Car of the Year? for 2013.

The Ford Motor Company has made it clear they are aiming for increased fuel efficiency, while simultaneously trying to entice a large fanbase with a full gas, a hybrid and a plug-in hybrid electric version of the Fusion sedan. And that overall focus towards sustainability is certainly something to celebrate. But what won them the award, according to representatives from the Green Car Journal that sponsors the ?Green Car of the Year? prize, are the variety of powertrain options.

The Chevy Volt and Honda?s natural gas Civic have both won the award previously, and the hope at the LA Auto Show is that continuing to acknowledge the work of these car companies will help increase the prevalence of hybrid vehicles on the road. As of now, fewer than 3% of all new cars sold in 2012 are hybrids. Obviously that?s not going to make the sort of impact needed to stem mankind?s effect on climate change, or help push off the day the earth is finally bled dry of fossil fuels. Fully electric vehicles aren?t selling as well as industry experts have hoped, even as the price of gasoline hovers around all-time high numbers. The problem is that the batteries required to fuel cars like the Chevy Volt or Nissan Leaf are quite costly, which keeps the sticker price elevated and scares off shoppers worried about having to buy replacements. Traditional gas engines are also becoming more efficient, making the need to go hybrid less obvious than before.

Ford?s Fusion may be the best of both worlds. The gas model gets as much as 34 mpg when driving on the highway. The hybrid Fusion reaches just under 50 mpg. The plug-in model, known as the Ford Fusion Energi, has a hybrid powertrain but can also run 20 miles solely on electric power. That makes it ideal for quick trips around town, while still making it a useful vehicle for highway travel. It?s great news for consumers, and further proof that Ford is serious about fuel economy. In fact, they?ve raised the average economy of their entire fleet of vehicles more than three mpg over the past five years.

The winning vehicle was chosen by a panel of environmental leaders, and the finalists were all vehicles that are currently available for consumers. That?s a nice change as well,. If you?re in the market for a new vehicle and want to find low priced car insurance, you can pick up a hybrid and receive the green discount most agencies provide. So if you?d like to find out more about the nominees, head online and check out the Ford C-Max, the Dodge Dart Aero, the Mazda CX-5 SkyACTIV and the Prius c.

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Source: http://www.oureverydayearth.com/ford-fusion-wins-green-car-of-the-year-award-at-la-auto-show/

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Archives Gig - Telecommute: Social Media & Communications ...

SAA ACQUISITIONS & APPRAISAL SECTION ? SOCIAL MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS INTERNSHIP
The Acquisitions and Appraisal Section invites applications for an intern position to manage the social media and communications of the section. The intern will be responsible for developing and maintaining social media and communications efforts under the directorship of the section chair.

Position Description:

This is an unpaid appointment with an expectation of approximately one hour of work per week with a start date of approximately January 7, 2013. The position usually runs from August to August of each year. Preference will be given to applicants who can remain in the position until August 2014. The intern will increase and maintain the section?s social media presence. He/she/per will also provide support for the official communications of the section, including dissemination of any publications or newsletters. The intern will work closely with the Chair, Vice-Chair, and Web Liaison and will be responsible for keeping records of activities and procedures for his/her/per successor and staying current in acquisition and appraisal issues.
Requirements:
? Current enrollment in a graduate archival education program.
? Knowledge of social media outlets such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Google+, Pinterest, Twitter, etc.
? Knowledge of and willingness to keep updated with current research, tools, and methods in acquisition and appraisal topics
? Ability to participate in section meetings virtually or in-person. (Please note, the intern is not expected to attend the annual section meeting at SAA, but is expected to attend teleconferences/web conferences held throughout the year).
? Current SAA membership with preference given to section members.
? Ability to manage personal image online.
? Demonstrate initiative and identify new PR opportunities, innovative thinker, able to work independently
? Ability to communicate efficiently in writing
Application Procedures:
Submit a current resum? along with a brief statement (up to 150 words) on how the section could improve its online presence to the vice chair, virginia_hunt(at)harvard.edu and chair, luglean(at)uwyo.edu. Applications are due December 16, 2012.

Source: Thanks to Jen G. for this one!

Source: http://archivesgig.livejournal.com/758466.html

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Ingvild Bolme: Please welcome the next Blog Guest Designer!

Please welcome Maiko Kosugi!

My name is Maiko Kosugi. My friends call me Mai*.?I am so honored to be a Guest Blog Designer.?Ingvild is one of my favorite designers! Thank you so much for inviting me Ingvild!! ??

I live in Tokyo, Japan with my family.? We live in a beautiful town located 30 minutes by train from the center of the city.? Where we live, there is a lot of nature compared to downtown and my children love to play in the wide open parks near our house every day. ?I'm married to a professional violinist and together we have 2 adorable sons, 5 and 9 years old. I currently work from my home as a piano teacher to children.?

I started scrapbooking from March, 2009, and it has since become my favorite hobby. ?I really love Prima and everything Ingvild has designed for them.

When did you discover paper craft, and why do you still create within this craft?

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One day, I saw a flier for a scrapbooking classroom in our mailbox and got interested.
Since I already liked making things, I immediately became absorbed in scrapbooking.
I love decorating my memories with beautiful colors and flowers.
I like to preserve my children?s smiling faces, record their growth, and precious everyday moments through scrapbooking.
I also became friends with many people throughout the world through scrapbooking.
I am so happy about that!?

Where do you find inspiration to your work?

I get inspiration from my sons? smiles and from beautiful scrapbooking products.
I always use a lot of Prima flowers on my pages. Flowers are indispensable to my work!
My parents also love flowers - various flowers are in bloom in their garden all year round.
Their garden inspires my pages.?

Where, when and how do you prefer to have it when you create?

I get up at 4:00 a.m. and scrapbook early in the morning.
I create while listening to my favorite music in the quiet morning time, and drinking coffee.?

How does your scrap place usually look like?

Because I scrap in the living room, I always have to tidy it up.
When my scrapbooking time is finished, I have to make sure the room is clean!

Do you have any favorite Prima - Ingvild Bolme line products??

I love all Prima and Ingvild products!
If I had to choose just one Ingvild product, I would choose the Shabby Chic Resin Treasures.?They are so gorgeous and amazing!
Most of the scrapbooking products I have are by Prima. ?I love Prima so much!
Their flowers are my absolute favorite scrapbooking product!?

Here are some amazing works Maiko so kindly are sharing with us. Please grab a cup of something hot and lean back and get inspired!

Above; This beautiful soft layout from Maiko in a wonderful mix of summer colors are featuring many of Prima - Ingvild Bolme products. Maiko also used Chalk Edgers on this layout for different shades and effects.

Above; Maiko mentioned Shabby Chic Resin Treasures as some of her favorite Prima - Ingvild Bolme products, and here her love to these resins really shines trough. She so beautifully organized several different resins designs together in one little spot between wonderful layers of flowers and fussy cuts, and it looks just stunning!

Above; Some of the Shabby Chic Resin Treasures used on the detailed close-up above. "Birdhouses", "Window Frame" and "Miniature Windows".

Left; Maiko used several of these beautiful star shaped ?Prima Corine Collection flowers on her layout.
Above; Shabby Chic Resin Treasures "Woodland", which contains the little deer that Maiko used on her layout.
Above; Shabby Chic Metal Treasures "Street Lamps", which Maiko used on her layout above. These are little light weighted metal treasures which comes in white, but easily can be colored in color as desired with for example Chalk Edgers and then heat set it with a heat gun. ?
Above; Maiko so creativily added a Junkyard Finding "Typo Zippers" pull underneeth a Corine flower beside the photo of her beautiful son.?
Above; The Junkyard Findings "Typo Zippers" which Maiko used a white one of on her layout. Each little metal zip pull has a different word printed on, and they suit perfectly on to all kinds of projects, no matter style. Even though these products may look grunge in package, Maiko shows us how easily you can mix them up with soft and romantic styles as well!?
Above; This layout by Maiko shows us how beautiful lots of Prima flowers also looks on boyish layouts!?
Above; Again Maiko used layers and layers of different Prima products on this delicate and light colored layout where the beautiful photo stays in focus.

?Above; A beautiful flower cluster with a Typo Zipper pull and Prima Say it in Crystals.

Above; Look at her beautiful touches of white on the Prima flowers and leaves. Makes it all soft and her whole design floats perfectly together. Again she added a Shabby Chic Resin Treasure "Eros" in the flower cluster.Above; The two little resin angel Maiko used on her two works above, "Eros".
Above; The final project from Maiko today, this wonderful picture frame. Isn't this amazing?!? On this single piece she used five Shabby Chic Resin Treasure pieces! Her use of flowers on here is simply stunning. Lots and lots of small flowers put together with different matching soft colors. Photo and flowers framed in with "Windows III" (the window closers), "La Coeur" (the oval frame and the heart banner) and "Allure"?(the victorian chair) resins.
Now, this was a lot of beautiful inspiration, right??Thank you SO MUCH Maiko for sp kindly sharing your stunning works and all the inspiration with all of us! It's an honor to have you as my guest here today, thank you so much.Please make sure to drop in to Maiko's blog here to learn to know her a bit more and to see more of all her amazing works!

Source: http://www.ingvildbolme.com/2012/11/please-welcome-next-blog-guest-designer.html

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IRA Financial Group Introduces Customized individual 401(k)

Miami, FL (PRWEB) October 23, 2012

IRA Financial Group, the leading provider of individual 401K retirement plans, introduces a specially customized self-directed 401(k) retirement plan for self-employed professionals and small business owners with no full-time employees. An individual 401K Plan, also known as a solo 401K Plan or self-directed 401(k) plan offers one the ability to make annual contributions of up to $50,000 ($55,500 for those over the age of 50), borrow up to $50,000, as well as use his or her retirement funds to make almost any type of investment on their own tax-free and penalty free without requiring the consent of any custodian or person. ?Establishing an individual 401(k) retirement plan offers a self-employed individual a number of exciting tax, retirement, and investment advantages, including the ability to defer up to $55,000 annually as well as make real estate investments? stated Adam Bergman, a tax attorney with the IRA Financial Group. ?IRA Financial Group?s individual 401K plan is unique and so popular because it is designed explicitly for the self-employed professional and small business owners with no full-time employees who want a flexible retirement plan with no burdensome annual administrative requirements, ? stated Mr. Bergman.

There are many features of the IRA Financial Group?s individual 401K plan that make it so appealing for small business owners.

-High Contributions: Like all solo 401K plans, IRA Financial Group?s individual 401K plan will allow a plan participant to make annual contributions in 2012 up to $50,000 annually with an additional $5,500 catch-up contribution for those over age 50. The high contribution feature is one of the reasons a self-employed 401K plan is the most popular retirement vehicle for the self-employed.

Tax and Penalty free loan: IRA Financial Group?s individual 401K plan allows plan participants to borrow up to $50,000 or 50% of their account value (whichever is less) for any purpose, including paying credit card bills, mortgage payments, or anything else. The loan has to be paid back over a five-year period at least quarterly at a minimum prime interest rate (you have the option of selecting a higher interest rate).

-Checkbook Control: With IRA Financial Group?s individual 401k plan, a plan participant will be granted checkbook control over his or her retirement funds. With IRA Financial Group?s self directed individual 401K plan, the plan account can be opened at any local bank, including Chase, Wells Fargo, and even Fidelity. In addition, the plan participant can make almost any traditional as well as non-traditional investments, such as real estate, precious metals, tax liens, and much more.

-Roth Contributions & Conversion: IRA Financial Group?s solo 401K plan contains a built in Roth sub-account which can be contributed to without any income restrictions. In addition, the individual 401(k) plan allows for the conversion of a traditional 401(k) or 403(b) account to a Roth subaccount.

-Easy Administration: IRA Financial Group?s individual 401(k) plan is easy to operate. There is generally no annual filing requirement unless the self-employed 401(k) Plan assets exceeds $250,000, in which case a short information return with the IRS (Form 5500-EZ) must be completed.

The IRA Financial Group was founded by a group of top law firm tax and ERISA lawyers who have worked at some of the largest law firms in the United States, such as White & Case LLP, Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, and Thelen LLP.

IRA Financial Group is the market's leading ?provider of IRS approved self-directed individual 401(k) plans. IRA Financial Group has helped thousands of clients take back control over their retirement funds while gaining the ability to invest in almost any type of investment, including real estate without custodian consent.

To learn more about the IRA Financial Group please visit our website at http://www.irafinancialgroup.com or call 800-472-0646.

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/individual-401k/solo-401k-plan/prweb10040227.htm

Source: http://money.ca/money/2012/10/23/ira-financial-group-introduces-customized-individual-401k-retirement-plan-solution-for-small-business-owners-with-no-custodian-or-recordkeeping-fees/

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At least 10 pets perish in house fire | WAVY.com | Chesapeake

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) - Fire crews were able to save one cat from a house full of animals during a two-alarm fire Wednesday morning in Chesapeake.

Capt. Scott Saunders with the Chesapeake Fire Department said the first alarm went out at 8:49 a.m.? for a fire in the 2200 block of Ardmore Avenue. When crews arrived on scene five minutes later, firefighters found heavy smoke showing from a two-story home and a second alarm went out at 8:57 a.m.

The fire was controlled at 9:15 a.m., however, Saunders said numerous animals were found dead, including three dogs, four cats, multiple ferrets, two birds and one iguana.

"When you come to these house fires, it's hard enough that the people lose their property, but to lose a pet which is part of their family... it's hard on them and it's just something that we don't? like to see," Saunders said.

Crews were able to rescue and resuscitate one cat.

Two adults and one child reside at the home, but were not there at the time of the fire, Saunders said. No other injuries were reported.

A cause for the fire has not yet been released.

Source: http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/local_news/chesapeake/at-least-10-pets-perish-in-house-fire

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How Do You Say 'Greed is Good' in Malay? As Finance Goes Global ...

Alex Fine

Imagine a world in which Jamie and Lloyd and, uh, new Citigroup chief executive Michael Corbat take one last look at their tax bills and compensation costs, wave goodbye to those pesky New York State prosecutors and slip out of town. Imagine a ghost city of Midtown office buildings, a city where food trucks don?t serve lobster rolls, people actually use the best seats at Yankee Stadium, and models pay for their own bottles. Picture newspapers bereft of financial scandal, gossip sections subsisting on the political ambitions of sitcom stars and the real estate exploits of celebrity chefs and football coaches. Peer into an abyss in which tax revenues plummet, firehouses and police precincts close, streets go uncleaned, and artists and writers move back into Manhattan. Think what would become of Brooklyn!

New York without Wall Street: Picture that. Just as manufacturing jobs moved to Shanghai and call centers shifted to Bangalore, the banking jobs that for decades have represented the beating heart of New York?s economy could soon migrate to other cities.

It?s not just labor costs, but in a city where the average securities industry worker made $363,000 last year, according to the New York State Comptroller?s office, labor costs aren?t moot. Neither are high taxes, or a string of prosecutors who?ve sued Wall Street all the way to the governor?s office. As second-tier towns and the rising financial centers of the Far East eat away at New York?s lower-paying jobs, all the cultural cachet may not stave off the end of Wall Street.

?Banks are moving jobs out of the city as fast as they can,? said Richard X. Bov?, a banking analyst at Rochdale Securities. ?If New York didn?t have such a sunk investment, all those office buildings, all the houses people live in, would this industry select New York as the place they?d like to operate from? The answer is no.?

It was already decades ago that banks started shifting back-office jobs to points as near as Jersey City and as far as Pune, India, and now, middle-office operations appear to be following suit. JPMorgan is growing in Delaware, Deutsche is building out Jacksonville, and Goldman Sachs has expanded its Salt Lake City operations to house increasingly high-skilled workers.

Citigroup, Mr. Bov? told us, is already the third largest employer in Singapore, which is emerging as a financial hub of Asia. According to a survey conducted by British recruiting firm Astbury Marsden, 31 percent of investment bankers polled said that Singapore was their preferred place to live, ahead of 20 percent for New York and 19 percent who tabbed London.

New York and London are still tops in the minds of corporate executives, according to a recent study by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Partnership for New York City, but Asian cities are gaining ground. The study ranked Beijing and Shanghai in the top five for economic clout, and found that Singapore?s livability factor boded well for attracting professionals in the decades to come.

One New York-based banker who took higher pay and a fast track to promotion to move to Singapore told us that his investment bank did everything it could to make the transition seamless. ?They had the same desks, the same carpeting, the same color schemes,? he said. ?The pantries were full of American products.?

Closer to home, Goldman Sachs is hiring in Utah. ?If you make $250,000 in New York, you can probably make $150,000 in Salt Lake City and live infinitely better,? said Mr. Kotkin. Is it really worth living high on the hog if you have to do it in the Mormon capital? ?You?d think it would be hard to get them to Salt Lake City. But if you like skiing and have kids and want a nice house, it can be pretty damn nice.?

The Observer spoke to one recent business school graduate who turned down opportunities at New York investment banks for a finance job in a Southern city. He traded in his 1?-bedroom downtown apartment for a 3,000 square-foot house. In Manhattan, he said, ?you spend $40,000 a year on a tiny apartment, another $50,000 on private schools. It doesn?t leave you much left to feed yourself, let alone save for retirement.?

A New York banker who said he?s contemplated moving to Denver or San Francisco for the great outdoors told us that he notices the superior quality of life young financiers enjoy in lesser burgs. ?The junior-level guys in Baltimore all drive BMWs,? the mid-level executive told us. ?In New York, they?re living in 600-square-foot apartments.?

New York isn?t just more expensive for workers, of course. The city carried the nation?s highest commercial asking rents in the third quarter of 2012, according to commercial real estate firm Cassidy Turley, with average prices of $58.77 per square foot, some 16 percent more than Washington, D.C., the next most expensive city, and more than three times the cost of space in Charlotte.

Not that costs are the only issue. New York State authorities have made waves in the banking industry twice in recent months, first when Department of Financial Services chief Ben Lawsky broke ranks with federal regulators and charged Standard Chartered with violating U.S. sanctions with Iran, then again when Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sued JPMorgan over the mortgage-packaging practices at Bear Stearns, which the House of Dimon acquired in 2008.

?In New York,? Mr. Bov?? told us, ?whoever attacks the industry most gets elected governor, so they do it. In other states, the population says, ?This is where the jobs are. We?re not going to attack the livelihood of our biggest industries.??
He had a point: Eliot Spitzer and Andrew Cuomo won their seats in Albany after putting notches on their revolvers as sheriffs on Wall Street. A little further back, Rudolph Giuliani became a Wall Street pariah by prosecuting securities workers as the U.S. Attorney for New York?s Southern District.

The political question may soon hit closer to home. In a year, New Yorkers will elect a new mayor, a leader who may be many things that Mike Bloomberg is not?tolerant of the press, fluent in Spanish and accepting of our minor vices or bad habits?but who will almost certainly fail to understand or stick up for Wall Street to the degree Mayor Bloomberg has.

Hizzoner, of course, didn?t merely arrive at City Hall out of the same professional and social circles as the city?s financiers, he also popularized a wave of technological innovation that transformed Wall Street. He?s something of a talismanic figure, a one-man argument that the city appreciates the benefits that Wall Street brings.

Mr. Bloomberg opposed the Dodd-Frank regulations and then delivered a pep talk at Goldman Sachs on two days after Greg Smith published his infamous New York Times Op-Ed announcing his departure from the firm; it?s also worth remembering that thousands of financial services pros in New York alone sit in front of desk monitors bearing the mayor?s last name.

?To the extent that the financial services industry feels it has leadership in city government that will speak up for them when they get demonized in Washington or elsewhere, Mayor Bloomberg has been a uniquely qualified and successful leader,? Kathryn Wylde, president and CEO of the Partnership for New York, told us. ?It goes a long way to make up for the disincentives, the high-cost, high-tax, high-rent characteristics, if you have a mayor who understands and is willing to use his position to advocate for the industry.?

If Wall Street did leave New York, then what? Securities workers account for 5.3 percent of private sector employment but contribute 14 percent of state tax revenues, according to a recent report by New York State comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli, and any discussion of what the city stands to lose if finance sector jobs migrate starts there.

?It hits every possible part of the economy,? Ronnie Lowenstein, executive director of the city?s Independent Budget Office, told us. ?From the high-end apartments that change hands to the corner grocery store or the guy who?s shining shoes. If they?re buying their diamonds from Tiffany?s, eating at our restaurants and going to our shows, they?re doing things that support our economy.?
No one is saying all of that will suddenly disappear. Nearly every source we contacted for this story stressed New York?s enduring appeal to top talent. Even Mr. Kotkin, a champion of the notion that industries will decentralize in the age of technology, acknowledged that deal-makers were likely to remain in New York and London. ?They have to show off in the locker room,? he told us.

Meanwhile, former Gov. Eliot Spitzer, host of ?Viewpoint? on Current TV, played down the regulatory concerns. ?There?s a world out there that thinks the regulatory environment is oppressive, or too difficult. Most of that is hot air.? Could other cities use New York?s recent run of Wall Street cops to lure banks? ?What are they going to say?? Mr. Spitzer asked. ??Come here, commit fraud??? After a pause, he added, ?That would probably work.?

Even if the banks don?t shift their brain trusts to points south or east, the city will have to figure out how to keep hold of the industry?s middle-class workers, or find a way to replace them with good-paying jobs in other industries such as health care or tech. According to Ms. Wylde, the average salary in New York City?s financial services industry is about $78,000. City and state tax coffers may depend on the high wage earners, middle-class workers drive quality of life.

?These are the jobs that keep a strong middle class in the city,? Ms. Wylde said. ?They affect the quality of neighborhoods and overall city services.?
Still, we can?t help but wonder. Mr. Bov? reminded us that the energy industry left New York for Houston decades back and that manufacturing plants abandoned his home state of Massachusetts. ?All those giant shoe factories in Lowell are residences now,? he told us. What if 270 Park Avenue or 200 West Street were transformed into trendy condo buildings? (?David Viniar managed Goldman?s balance sheet from this living room!? goes the sales pitch.) On the other hand, there probably wouldn?t be anyone left who could afford them.

pclark@observer.com

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Source: http://observer.com/2012/10/how-do-you-say-greed-is-good-in-malay-as-finance-goes-global-will-wall-street-stick-around/

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? Awarded follow-on contract under Consolidated Single-Channel Handheld Radio program to provide Falcon III AN/PRC-152 handheld radios, along with accessories and training.
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MELBOURNE, Fla. & ROCHESTER, N.Y. ? Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company, has been awarded an Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract with a potential value of $397 million to continue providing Falcon III? handheld tactical radio systems to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).

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The two-year contract, awarded by Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command on behalf of the U.S. DoD, enables U.S. forces to acquire radios from the Falcon III AN/PRC-152 handheld radio family, along with accessories and training. The contract includes two additional 1-year options that if exercised could increase the potential value to $712 million.
Harris is one of two suppliers to receive new contracts in connection with the Consolidated Single-Channel Handheld Radio (CSCHR) program. Harris has provided the U.S. military with more than 100,000 AN/PRC-152 radios under the CSCHR program since 2007.

?The new CSCHR contract provides the government with important new flexibility in meeting the emerging needs of warfighters for tactical communications,?? said George Helm, president, Department of Defense business, Harris RF Communications. ?The contract gives the government the option to make awards using ?best-value? contract criteria to deliver added capability to warfighters as technology allows. We applaud the joint program office for taking this step to encourage innovation, which will drive greater competition in tactical radios.??
The Falcon III family of radios was developed by Harris using its own research and development funds.

Harris RF Communications is the leading global supplier of secure radio communications and embedded high-grade encryption solutions for military, government and commercial organizations. The company?s Falcon? family of software-defined tactical radio systems encompasses manpack, handheld and vehicular applications. Falcon III is the next generation of radios supporting network-centric operations worldwide. Harris RF Communications is also a leading supplier of assured communications? systems and equipment for public safety, utility and transportation markets ? with products ranging from the most advanced IP voice and data networks to portable and mobile single- and multiband radios.

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Free To Be

Free to be ... who??All the musicians, artists, feminists, and other figures mentioned in this series.

And lo, the word went out to New York?s songwriters and children?s book authors and frustrated Broadway bards and William Morris clients in the spring of 1972: Marlo Thomas, the star of That Girl, is putting together a children?s album, and she needs material. Sexist pigs need not apply.

To get things rolling, Thomas held a series of late-night brainstorming sessions that spring at her East 71st Street apartment: wine, pizza, and consciousness-raising. Carole Hart, the young producer Thomas had chosen for the album, and her husband, Bruce, a lyricist, came. So did Letty Cottin Pogrebin, the editor at the brand-new Ms. magazine who was serving as the project?s ?feminist Jiminy Cricket,? making sure the album stuck to core principles of the movement. Mary Rodgers, the songwriter and children?s book author (and daughter of composer Richard Rodgers), was there, sent by her legendary editor at Harper & Row, Ursula Nordstrom. From Thomas? circle of friends there was boyfriend Herb Gardner, Shel Silverstein, the screenwriter and playwright Peter Stone, and Gardner?s good pal Paddy Chayefsky. Thomas posed a simple question to them all: What lessons or stories do you feel were missing from your childhood?

121015_DK_MarloOutfits Marlo Thomas in publicity stills for the 1974 Free To Be TV special.

Courtesy Marlo Thomas.

From those conversations, many of the album?s themes emerged. Thomas remembers Gardner saying, ?I wish that somebody had told me that it was all right to cry without being called a sissy.? Thomas herself wished for a story where the princess wasn?t blond and she didn?t marry a prince at the end.

Together, Thomas and Pogrebin and the rest of the informal creative team honed in on four overarching ideas that the album should convey. As Thomas later described them to the New York Times:

  • ?The celebration of the self, the idea that a child should feel, ?It?s terrific to be me; I?m unique.? ?
  • ?What parents can be.?
  • ?Children should be themselves in what they do and what they feel.?
  • ?Boys and girls should play together.?

?I wanted the Free To Be project to be a cushion underneath children,? Thomas says now. ?Something that would be a springboard, to say, ?Yes, you can. You can do it.??

So now they had a list of ideas. All they had to do was write an entire album and hire a cast of performers famous enough to sell it. Not only that, but they had to get the backing of a record company. Thomas? agent at William Morris offered the project to several without success. Eventually the album ended up at Bell Records, a brand-new label under the Columbia umbrella. Bell paid an advance of $15,000 to the Ms. Foundation for Women, a nonprofit formed by Thomas and Gloria Steinem as a repository for profits from the record. Not that they thought there would be any; a Bell exec told Thomas they expected the album to sell no more than 15,000 copies. That was still better than the response Carole Hart remembers from a different music executive: ?What would I want with a record produced by a bunch of dykes??

Untitled Stephen Lawrence, the musical director of Free To Be ... You and Me, in 1975

Courtesy Stephen Lawrence.

Carole asked her husband, Bruce, to write a theme song for the whole record to give the project a name. ?Bruce came up with the phrase Free To Be You and Me Jamboree,? Carole says. ?You can?t stop a lyricist from liking those triple rhymes.? But Carole convinced Bruce, who died in 2006, to drop the ?Jamboree? and presented the title to Thomas, who thought it sounded bland. Bruce and his frequent collaborator Stephen Lawrence wrote a song to go with the title anyway: an folk-pop anthem inspired by ?This Land Is Your Land.? They just had to sell Thomas on it.

?I hadn?t worked with Marlo, and she was very strong and had very specific tastes, and I wanted to please her,? Lawrence says. ?And I wanted to get it out of the way so I didn?t have to think about it because the stakes were so high.?

Thomas and Carole Hart and Pogrebin went to Lawrence?s squalid bachelor pad on West 56th to hear the writers perform the song on his piano. ?I didn?t like to wash dishes,? Lawrence recalls, ?so to keep the roaches at bay, I would fill the sink with soapy water and put dirty dishes in there, sometimes for a long time.? Thomas asked if Lawrence could get her a glass of water, and he replied, ?I don?t know.? But the jaunty song was a hit, and the album had a title.

Thomas reached out to other friends. She and Hart asked Shel Silverstein for something funny, edgy, not at all sentimental. He turned in a tart song, ?Helping,? and a scathing poem, ?Ladies First,? which Mary Rodgers adapted for performance. Peter Stone asked his friend Carl Reiner to write a variation on his popular ?2000 Year Old Man? sketches, a two-hander in which two babies speculate on their own genders. Also in their circle was the writer Dan Greenburg; he was about to leave for Martha?s Vineyard to shoot his movie I Could Never Have Sex With Any Man Who Has so Little Regard For My Husband, but Thomas and Hart still asked him to contribute. He wrote two short, funny poems by hand one afternoon while on break from shooting and sent them in.

121019_FTBYAM_carolHall2 Songwriter Carol Hall in 1970

Photo by Richard Blinkoff.

Other assignments came about through more traditional industry channels. Carol Hall got a phone call from her agent, Scott Shukat. The Texas-born singer-songwriter?s debut album had not sold particularly well, and she was still several years away from writing The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, so she threw herself into her first Free To Be gig: Write a song about how mommies and daddies are people, too. She?d been tipped that Thomas was going to sing some of the songs on the album and that she was nervous enough about her voice to have hired a vocal coach. Hall wrote a simple, hummable melody with lines she thought might get Thomas? attention, as when she noted that some daddies are ?funny joke tellers??like Thomas? own father, comedian Danny Thomas.

Thomas and Hart were on the hunt for a musical director for the album?someone who could arrange, conduct, and control the way the songs sounded. As part of his audition for the role, Lawrence, later an Emmy-winning composer for Sesame Street, met Thomas? voice coach, Colin Romoff. ?He had to bless it every time she opened her mouth in song,? Lawrence remembers. ?She relied on him very heavily.? Lawrence and Romoff discussed Thomas? range and experience as a singer (limited and limited), and began preparing her for the songs she would perform on the album.

As summer arrived, so did the songs and sketches: on paper, on audiotape, performed in studios and living rooms for the three women. Abby Pogrebin remembers her mom, Letty, bringing demo tapes to their summer rental on Fire Island, N.Y., to test them out on the kids. ?I knew we had something amazing,? Letty says, ?because within three hearings they were singing along.?

Mary Rodgers recruited her neighbor and friend, Fiddler on the Roof lyricist Sheldon Harnick, to collaborate with her on ?William?s Doll,? based on the one book suggested by children?s publisher Ursula Nordstrom that Thomas liked. (It was written by Charlotte Zolotow, Nordstrom?s prot?g?e.) Harnick, on the advice of all the feminists he was meeting through Free To Be, read Sisterhood Is Powerful, and one chapter on the politics of cleaning inspired him to write a poem about how no one likes housework; Thomas added it to the roster. (A decision the team would later regret.) Hart?s literary agent suggested she contact children?s author Betty Miles; Hart assigned Miles an adaptation of the Greek myth of Atalanta, a princess racing against young Melanion, who desires her hand in marriage. Miles rewrote the tale?s original ending?in which Aphrodite helps Melanion win the race and ?get the girl?to reflect a more liberated time.

For Carol Hall's second assignment, ?It?s All Right To Cry,? she went to the Little Red Schoolhouse in downtown Manhattan and quizzed her son?s classmates on their feelings about crying. ?Crying gets the sad out of you,? one child suggested. ?It?s like raindrops from your eyes,? said another. Chuckles Hall today: ?Poor little darlings, their names are not on the copyright. Thank you, children!? Once again hoping Thomas might sing the song, Hall tailored it to her. ?How am I going to say this so that in print it sounds graceful?? Hall muses now. ?Marlo is a wonderful, wonderful performer, but she is such a perfectionist that I knew that singing was not something she was accustomed to doing that much. So because I thought that Marlo might sing it, I wanted to aim it to her, melodically, so I made it very, very simple.?

The song was accepted, and then, Hall says, ?I was about to pop to get a third thing on the record, because nobody else had three.? (She was getting updates from her agent, Shukat.) She composed a song for Kris Kristofferson, who?d written the liner notes for her first album and sent it to him without telling anyone. ?Oooh, Carole Hart was mad at me because I sent it to Kris directly.? Kristofferson turned the song down; he would later appear on the Free To Be TV special. And Hall did eventually land that third song, about friendship between boys and girls, ?Glad to Have a Friend Like You,? which wound up closing the album.

Friendships or no, this was still business. The project?s attorney, Robert Levine, husband of Ms. managing editor Suzanne Braun Levine, drew up deals for all the participants: Writers assigned their copyright to the Ms. Foundation for a period of five years, after which they could request reversion. The foundation would pay mechanical royalties?royalties due to composers?from dollar one and record royalties to performers after Bell Records recouped its advance. ?We all felt the contributors should be paid for what they did,? Levine says. ?I mean, Marlo never takes any money for anything, and a great many of the performers waived their financial interests for the benefit of the foundation. But we set up an accounting system to be sure that people were compensated.? And people were: Dan Greenburg marvels today that while the movie he went off to film in Martha?s Vineyard?the one he thought would make his career?was a total flop, the two poems he dashed off one afternoon on set have resulted in steady royalty checks every year since.

Pretty much everyone I spoke to credits Thomas with the project?s ultimate creative and financial success. She was a taskmaster, but an enthusiastic one. Even 40 years later, I kept hearing the phrase ?force of nature? spoken both admiringly and anxiously about her. Pogrebin, asked what Thomas was like at the time, gives a straightforward answer:

She is very strong, very opinionated, and tireless. People knew exactly what she wanted, and they gave it to her, and they knew when they didn?t. She was very direct. She was a real executive. She was comfortable in the authority role. And she had the last word on everything. She had a vision. You didn?t have to mess around. Her enthusiasm is infectious. She?s funny. I remember her with no makeup and exhausted after some of the recording sessions. She looked about as washed out as a movie star could possibly look, but she had this luminous look in her eye like, We got it. We did it. It?s right, it?s perfect, it?s great. And that?s what you want to see in a creative person.

In early summer, that creative energy was put to use assembling the cast of actors and singers who would perform Free To Be. Thomas, the daughter of a successful comedian and satellite Rat Packer, had grown up in Hollywood, and in 1972 she reached out to every famous person she knew, it seemed. And pretty much everyone said yes. ?Marlo ? is very persuasive,? laughs Levine.(Carol Burnett, who was originally meant to perform the poem ?Housework,? had a scheduling conflict. The only person anyone can remember flat turning the project down was Alan Arkin, who was, according to Mary Rodgers, ?very grumpy and totally uninterested.?)

121019_FTBYAM_alanAlda Alan Alda in 1972

Courtesy CBS Television.

One of the first calls Thomas made was to her friend Alan Alda, whom she?d met on the set of the 1970 drama Jenny. Alda agreed to perform on the album and also to direct the storytelling portions?the poems and short radio plays that made up half the record. Alda, Thomas, and Hart decided that those sketches, wherever possible, should use sound effects and Story Theatre-style acting techniques to make them come alive. Thomas still remembers running in place while recording the race sequence of ?Atalanta.?

The sketches were recorded at the grand MediaSound studio on West 57th Street over the course of a few days. Billy De Wolfe, Thomas?s co-star on That Girl, lent his distinctive voice to several roles on the record, including the dandyish principal who plays the flute for Dudley Pippin. (Dudley Pippin himself was voiced by ?Bobby Morse,? better known now as cranky senior partner Bertram Cooper on Mad Men.) Some of the sessions were quite impromptu: Dick Cavett remembers getting a call from Thomas in the morning??I had a show to tape that day, and I thought, well, God, I can?t really do it, but I like her, and she does good stuff, and also I was very familiar with her face because on my daytime show the promo for That Girl ran at least 10 times during each show??and walking the few blocks from his office to MediaSound to record that afternoon.?

Mel Brooks? session was more eventful. Thomas had written to him that the album ?would benefit the Ms. Foundation,? and when he came in the morning of his recording, he told her that he thought the material Reiner and Stone had written was funny but that he didn?t know what it had to do with multiple sclerosis. Once set straight about the MS in question, Brooks joined Thomas in the recording booth, where they would both play babies for the album?s first sketch, ?Boy Meets Girl.?

?When I directed,? Alda recalls, ?I would be meticulous and relentless. I would do a lot of takes. But Mel is not a guy who?s used to doing a lot of takes. He?s not used to taking direction from anybody?you know, he gives direction.? Alda didn?t love the first few takes of ?Boy Meets Girl?; in the end it took, Alda remembers, 10 or 15 tries, with Brooks improvising madly all along the way. Rodgers was there that day to record ?Ladies First,? and she still remembers standing in the control room laughing harder with each take. ?Mel was generous,? Alda allows, ?and he let me egg him on.?

Lawrence, the project?s musical director, assembled musicians and began recording the backing tracks at Phil Ramone?s A&R Recordings, on the corner of 48th Street and Sixth Avenue. He wasn?t much of a conductor, he admits. (But: ?I never ever turned down a job because I didn?t know how to do it.?) While recording the tricky ?William?s Doll? with its multiple tempo changes, Lawrence saw Sheldon Harnick, the song?s lyricist, standing in the control room and invited him in. ?Just stand next to me,? Lawrence said, ?and tell me how you want it as I?m conducting it.?

Diana Ross came down to the city from her house in Connecticut and nailed ?When We Grow Up? in one take. (For the 1974 TV special, the song would be rerecorded by Roberta Flack and a 15-year-old Michael Jackson. More than one person remarked to me how ghoulish and sad it was to see a dark-skinned, fresh-faced Jackson sing, ?We don?t have to change at all.?)

To rope in other singers, Thomas, Lawrence, and Hart went on the road. Former NFL star Rosey Grier was performing nightly at the Playboy Club in Chicago, so off to Chicago the trio went to record Grier singing ?It?s All Right To Cry.? Grier asked Lawrence to give the song a little bit more of a beat, so he added drums to the acoustic guitar in the mix; Thomas wanted Grier to speak-sing the lyrics, but Grier wanted to croon. He prided himself on his sensitive nature. (The next year, he would release a book called Rosey Grier?s Needlepoint for Men.) Even today, he gets upset when discussing the song. ?What right does someone have to tell a little baby boy not to cry because he?s a grown man?? he asks me. ?The hurt is just as bad, the pain is just as bad, there?s no feeling different than the girls. So why should he have to hold it in and be sniffing and trying not to cry? Because they?re going to make fun of him? Forget all that, man. If you want to cry, cry.? During the recording, he ad-libbed his final line: ?It?s all right to cry, little boy. I know some big boys who cry, too.? ?Oh,? Hart remembers, ?after he finished it I just jumped up and gave him a huge hug and said, ?Thank you! Thank you!? ?

The team flew to Los Angeles to record Tom Smothers for 48 seconds. Lawrence carried the instrumental recordings on big reel-to-reel tapes in cardboard boxes on his lap on the way out, then carried the vocal tapes in cardboard boxes on his lap on the way back. In Las Vegas, they recorded Harry Belafonte singing his part on ?Parents Are People.? Thomas had already recorded her side of the song at A&R in a key she felt comfortable in, but ?When it was all over,? Hart remembers, ?we played it back to him, and he didn?t like the way he sounded because it was in the wrong key. And he said, ?You can?t use it.? ? Thomas tried to convince Belafonte to change his mind; Hart followed up. By then it was days before the final mixes were due. ?He wouldn?t budge,? Hart says. ?I was at the end of my wits. And I just started sobbing. And that got to him!? She laughs. ?That was a feminine trick, I guess. I didn?t mean it as a trick. I was just so frustrated.? Belafonte relented, and the track went on the record.

Mastering and sequencing went right up until the very last day?Hart recalls pulling an all-nighter before the listening party at Ms. headquarters on 41st Street and Lexington Avenue the next day. The evening of the party, Hart and her husband, Bruce, brought the tapes to the magazine?s office. Gloria Steinem was there, and Letty Cottin Pogrebin, and the rest of the Ms. editorial team. Thomas and Alda and a number of the singers and writers were there. Carol Hall came and sat like ?a mouse in the corner?; no one knew who she was since she?d turned in every song through her agent. ?Listening to the record, though, with all these people whom I didn?t know all around, and I was thinking, ?I wrote three of those songs.? So it was kind of like a very nice secret I had.?

Carole Hart was too anxious to stay in the room while the master recording played. She sat in the hall with the door open and listened to the big laughs at Thomas and Mel Brooks as babies, the applause at the end of some of the songs, the sounds of the nine months she?d spent working day and night on a project that was about to head out into the world. ?I calmed down a little bit,? she recalls, ?but I still didn?t go in.? When the record ended, Hart exhaled and smiled. The first two women to walk out the door chattered as they strode past Hart. ?Well you know,? one said, ?it had a very heterosexual bias.?

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NFC mobile payments in Canada to be powered by RIM's Secure ...

When it comes to NFC adoption, RIM has been among the leaders in Canada with the inclusion of NFC in BlackBerry smartphones and various agreements with partners. What some folks may not know though, is the fact that RIM has been developing a system designed to securely manage credentials on SIM cards installed in all types of mobile devices, including BlackBerry smartphones, Android devices, and Windows phones.

As announced today, EnStream LP, a joint venture of Bell Mobility Inc., Rogers Wireless Partnership and TELUS Communications Company named RIM's Secure Element Manager Solution as the answer to power NFC mobile payments in Canada.

"RIM is very pleased to play a key role in this Canadian mobile payments solution," said Andrew MacLeod, Managing Director for Canada at RIM. "Working with EnStream, we're delivering a service that will enable speed, security and convenience in mobile, contactless payment. RIM's SEM solution will help deliver mobile payments and other NFC services to all carriers across all handset platforms that support NFC technology in Canada."

Using the security provided by the RIM network and infrastructure will make it easy on financial institutions as they will now only have to take care of one gateway to handle all transactions across carriers and mobile platforms. Something that will go a long way for even further widespread NFC adoption in Canada. If you're looking for the full details, the press release can be found below.

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RIM's Secure Element Manager Solution to Power NFC Mobile Payments in Canada

WATERLOO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Oct. 22, 2012) - Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ:RIMM)(TSX:RIM) today announced that it has been selected by EnStream LP, a joint venture of Bell Mobility Inc., Rogers Wireless Partnership and TELUS Communications Company, to provide its Secure Element Manager (SEM) solution to manage credentials on wireless handsets in Canada that support Near Field Communication (NFC) services. NFC is the technology that can make secure, convenient and contactless mobile payments a reality for Canadian wireless handset users.

RIM's SEM solution is designed to securely manage credentials on SIM (subscriber identity module) cards installed in all types of mobile devices, including BlackBerry? smartphones, Android? devices, and Windows phones. "We selected RIM for their long-standing relationships with mobile operators and financial institutions, and their track record of operating a secure network for connected services," said Almis Ledas, Chief Operating Officer of EnStream. "By adopting the secure GSMA Global Platform standard and using SEM infrastructure hosted and operated by RIM, consumers and financial institutions can have full confidence in financial credentials enabled through EnStream."

"More than 1 in 4 smartphones shipped worldwide in 2013 is expected to include NFC technology," said senior practice director Jeff Orr of market intelligence firm ABI Research. "With an additional 5 million NFC-enabled smartphones shipping to Canada next year and upwards of 65 million over the next 5 years, consumers will increasingly turn to mobile payments instead of a separate debit or credit card."

"RIM is very pleased to play a key role in this Canadian mobile payments solution," said Andrew MacLeod, Managing Director for Canada at RIM. "Working with EnStream, we're delivering a service that will enable speed, security and convenience in mobile, contactless payment. RIM's SEM solution will help deliver mobile payments and other NFC services to all carriers across all handset platforms that support NFC technology in Canada."

Through the infrastructure that RIM's SEM solution provides, financial institutions in Canada will have a single gateway allowing them to support any customer with an NFC-enabled smartphone that wants to enable a "mobile wallet" application. RIM's SEM solution provides the infrastructure that will securely manage information credentials for NFC payments, which can be used by any financial institution, carrier, or smartphone.

"For banks and for Canadian consumers, RIM's SEM solution is designed to make payment with your smartphone both seamless and secure. Whether you're filling your gas tank, picking up a coffee, or buying groceries, making a purchase will be as simple as tapping your smartphone," added MacLeod.

RIM has been recognized as a leader in providing mobile payments for some time with BlackBerry smartphones becoming one of the first smartphones to be certified for SIM-secure NFC payments using MasterCard PayPass?, and are also approved for use with Visa? payWave. More recently, RIM announced the ability to use NFC-enabled BlackBerry smartphones to replace access badges for buildings with secure entry requirements.

Currently, a range of BlackBerry? 7 smartphones, including the BlackBerry? Bold? series and select BlackBerry? Curve? smartphones, are NFC-enabled.

About Research In Motion

Research In Motion (RIM), a global leader in wireless innovation, revolutionized the mobile industry with the introduction of the BlackBerry? solution in 1999. Today, BlackBerry products and services are used by millions of customers around the world to stay connected to the people and content that matter most throughout their day. Founded in 1984 and based in Waterloo, Ontario, RIM operates offices in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. RIM is listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market (NASDAQ:RIMM) and the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX:RIM). For more information, visit www.rim.com or www.blackberry.com.

Forward-looking statements in this news release are made pursuant to the "safe harbor" provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and applicable Canadian securities laws. When used herein, words such as "expect", "anticipate", "estimate", "may", "will", "should", "intend," "believe", and similar expressions, are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on estimates and assumptions made by RIM in light of its experience and its perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factors that RIM believes are appropriate in the circumstances. Many factors could cause RIM's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements, including those described in the "Risk Factors" section of RIM's Annual Information Form, which is included in its Annual Report on Form 40-F (copies of which filings may be obtained at www.sedar.com or www.sec.gov). These factors should be considered carefully, and readers should not place undue reliance on RIM's forward-looking statements. RIM has no intention and undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

The BlackBerry and RIM families of related marks, images and symbols are the exclusive properties and trademarks of Research In Motion Limited. RIM, Research In Motion and BlackBerry are registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and may be pending or registered in other countries. All other brands, product names, company names, trademarks and service marks are the properties of their respective owners. RIM assumes no obligations or liability and makes no representation, warranty, endorsement or guarantee in relation to any aspect of any third party products or services.

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