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Terms and Conditions
Youth Business USA is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization (EIN# 27-4333255) with a mission to empower underserved young adult entrepreneurs in the United States.
This user agreement ("UA" or "User Agreement") provides the terms governing your use of Youth Business USA services and programs, including Youth Business USA's digital platform, currently at skysthelimit.org. Your use of Youth Business USA Program Services constitute your consent to this Agreement.
Youth Business USA services ("we", "our", "us", "Youth Business USA Services", "Services", "digital platform", "skysthelimit.org", or simply "Program Services") mean all current and future services provided by or through Youth Business USA, including without limitation, access to an account on our system and the services offered through such account or otherwise, such as our services that collect information about your personal and professional history that allow us to match you with an advising/mentoring partner, allows your advising/mentoring partner to access information about you, and enables you and other users to find each other and connect for advice or industry expertise, as well as all assessments, diagnostic tools, and other materials provided by or through Youth Business USA, whether in electronic, hardcopy or any other form. The Program Services include the services themselves and all intellectual property rights therein.
We may change this Agreement by notifying you of such changes by any reasonable means, including by posting a revised Agreement through the Program Services. Any such changes will not apply to any dispute between you and us arising prior to the date on which we posted the revised Agreement incorporating such changes, or otherwise notified you of such changes.
Your use of Youth Business USA Program Services following any changes to this Agreement will constitute your acceptance of such changes. We may, at any time and without liability, modify or discontinue all or part of the Services (including access to the Services via any third-party links); charge, modify or waive any fees required to use the Services; or offer opportunities to some or all users of the Services.
This Agreement applies to all users of any current or future Youth Business USA Program Services, including, but not limited to advisees, advisors, mentees, mentors, internal consulting participants, volunteers, and program managers.
To become an Youth Business USA user, you must read and accept all the terms of this Agreement and the Youth Business USA Privacy Policy. In the case of any inconsistency between the Privacy Policy and this Agreement, this Agreement shall govern.
Nothing in this Agreement or the Privacy Policy shall be construed to confer any rights or benefits on any third-party.
If you do not agree to be bound by this Agreement, you are prohibited from accessing or using any Youth Business USA Program Services. We reserve the right to modify this Agreement or our Privacy Policy at any time, without notice, by posting amended terms on our website. Your continued use of our Program Services indicates your agreement to be bound by any such amended Agreement or Privacy Policy.
Our Program Services are not available to minors under the age of 18 or to any users whose accounts are suspended or terminated by Youth Business USA. Users are prohibited from having more than one account and are prohibited from selling, trading, or otherwise transferring or sharing their Youth Business USA account to or with any other person. If you do not qualify, you are not allowed to use our Program Services.
We may make available the ability to purchase or otherwise obtain certain products or services through the Program Services (a "Transaction"). If you wish to make a Transaction, you may be asked to supply certain relevant information, such as your credit card number and its expiration date, your billing address and your shipping information. YOU REPRESENT AND WARRANT THAT YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO USE ANY CREDIT CARD THAT YOU SUBMIT IN CONNECTION WITH A TRANSACTION. By submitting such information, you grant to us the right to provide such information to third parties for purposes of facilitating Transactions. Verification of information may be required prior to the acknowledgment or completion of any Transaction. By making a Transaction, you represent that the applicable Products and/or Services will be used only in a lawful manner.
You agree to pay all charges incurred by you or on your behalf through the Services, at the prices in effect when such charges are incurred. In addition, you are responsible for any taxes applicable to your Transactions.
Users of the Services may make available certain materials (each, a "Recorded Entry") through or in connection with the Services, including on profile pages (each, a "Profile") or on the Services' interactive services, such as message boards and other forums, and chatting, commenting and other messaging functionality (each, a "Forum"). Youth Business USA has no control over and is not responsible for any use or misuse (including any distribution) by any third party of Recorded Entries. IF YOU MAKE ANY OF YOUR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE OR OTHER INFORMATION PUBLICLY AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SERVICES, YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK.
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your login information and account, and are fully responsible for all activities that occur under your login or account with or without your knowledge. You shall not provide your login information to any other person. You agree to immediately notify us of any use of your account by any person other than yourself or any other breach of security.
For purposes of clarity, you retain ownership of your Recorded Entries. For each Recorded Entry, you hereby grant to us a worldwide, royalty-free, fully paid-up, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable and fully sublicensable (through multiple tiers) license, without additional consideration to you or any third party, to reproduce, distribute, perform and display (publicly or otherwise), create derivative works of, adapt, modify and otherwise use and exploit such Recorded Entry, in any format or media now known or hereafter developed, and for any purpose (including promotional purposes, such as testimonials).
In addition, if you provide to us any ideas, proposals, suggestions or other materials, whether related to the Services or otherwise, it will be deemed a Recorded Entry, and you hereby acknowledge and agree that such Recorded Entry is not confidential, and that your provision of such Recorded Entry is gratuitous, unsolicited and without restriction, and does not place Youth Business USA under any fiduciary or other obligation.
You represent and warrant that you have all rights necessary to grant the licenses granted in this section, and that your Recorded Entries, and your provision thereof through and in connection with the Services, are complete and accurate, and are not fraudulent, tortious or otherwise in violation of any applicable law or any right of any third party. You further irrevocably waive any "moral rights" or other rights with respect to attribution of authorship or integrity of materials regarding each Recorded Entry that you may have under any applicable law under any legal theory.
You agree that you will use your account and all other Youth Business USA Program Services at your own risk. We will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature whatsoever that you may incur in connection with any use of your account or of any of our Products or Services.
You agree that we may, at any time, with or without cause, and without notice, suspend or terminate your account and/or access to any or all Program Services.Without limiting the foregoing, the following may, at our discretion, lead to a termination of your use of our Program Services: (a) breach of this Agreement or any other agreement, policy, rule, or guideline, (b) request by law enforcement or other government agency, (c) technical issues or problems, or (d) extended periods of inactivity. Furthermore, you agree that any suspension or termination, partial or full, shall be made in our sole discretion and that we shall not be liable to you nor to any third-party for any suspension or termination of your account or access to our Program Services.
You agree not to use our Program Services directly or indirectly to:
Post any content, upload, make any email or other communication, or otherwise transmit or make available anything that is illegal, unlawful, libelous, defamatory, abusive, obscene, discriminatory, or otherwise objectionable.
Use our Program Services for any purpose or in any manner that violates any law, rule, or regulation.
Misrepresent your identity, or any facts about yourself or your background, or any facts about any other person, entity, or event, including but not limited to the use of a pseudonym, or misrepresenting your current or previous positions and qualifications, or misrepresenting your affiliations with any person or entity, past or present.
Post any content, upload, make any email or other communication, or otherwise transmit or make available anything that you do not have the right to disclose, including anything you are prohibited from disclosing under any law, contract, or fiduciary relationship (such as insider information, or proprietary or confidential information learned or disclosed as part of an employment relationship or under a nondisclosure agreement).
Post any content, upload, make any email or other communication, or otherwise transmit or make available anything that violates the rights of any person or entity, including without limitation anything that infringes upon any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or any other proprietary or intellectual property right.
Post any content, upload, make any email or other communication, or otherwise transmit or make available any advertising, promotional materials, junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or any other form of solicitation, advertising, marketing, or promotion. This prohibition includes but is not limited to: a) using Youth Business USA invitations to send messages to people who do not know you or who are unlikely to recognize you as a known contact; b) using Youth Business USA to connect to people who do not know you and then sending unsolicited promotional messages to those direct connections without their permission; and c) sending messages to distribution lists, newsgroup aliases, or group aliases.
Post any content, upload, make any email or other communication, or otherwise transmit or make available anything that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment.
Stalk or harass anyone.
Forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin or destination of any communication.
Post content in fields that aren't intended for that content.
Interfere with or disrupt any Products or Services or servers or networks connected to our Program Services, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to our Program Services.
Advising/Mentoring Program Participants
In addition to all other terms of this Agreement, you also agree that the following additional terms shall apply if you participate in any Youth Business USA advising/mentoring program:
You agree to honor confidentiality with your advising/mentoring partner and your advising/mentoring partner's organization (your "Partner"). You agree that a duty is owed your Partner to maintain the confidentiality of Confidential Information of your Partner provided by your Partner or obtained by you. This means you shall treat such information as confidential and shall not use, disclose, duplicate, copy, transmit or otherwise disseminate such information (or permit it to be used, disclosed, duplicated, copied, transmitted or otherwise disseminated) at any time prior to or after the termination of this Agreement, except in pursuit of your Partner's business or as specifically permitted in writing by your Partner, whether you have such information in your memory, electronically, or in writing or other tangible form. The term Confidential Information shall include:
Any information of your Partner not generally known to the public, including, without limitation any trade secrets or proprietary information concerning your Partner, its sales, personnel or accounting procedures, accounts, operations, devices, techniques, methods, business plans, software (regardless of its state of completion or form of recordation), data processing programs, data bases, models, product proposals, internally devised technology, system or network architecture or topology, secret processes, products, capacities, systems, security practices, research development, machines, inventions, legal agreements, research projects and Work(s), and other means used by your Partner in the provision of products or services to customers and in the conduct of its business, whether or not developed, acquired or compiled by your Partner.
Any information concerning customers and prospective customers of your Partner and/or the business activities of your Partner and/or its customers, including without limitation, trade secret and proprietary information concerning accounts, financial standing, investment holdings, your Partner's marketing strategies and other personal financial data compiled by your Partner and/or provided by customers, specific financial needs and requirements with respect to investment, financial position and standing, leads, referral and references to customers, holding book or customer book pages, assets and obligations carried in accounts of customers, and all records and documents concerning the business and affairs of your Partner and/or its customers (including without limitation copies and originals and any graphic format or electronic media) whether or not developed, compiled or acquired by your Partner.
The identity of any and all confidential or proprietary information or data belonging to or concerning any of your Partner's customers and any third parties that is in the possession, custody or control of your Partner.
Confidential Information shall not include information that (i) was or in the future becomes publicly available through no wrongful action on your part, (ii) was or in the future becomes known to you independent of your relationship with your Partner, (iii) was or becomes in the future developed by you without use of any Confidential Information and outside the scope of any arrangement with your Partner, or (iv) was or in the future becomes obtained by you from a third-party who has the right to provide such information to you at such time.
You agree that cross-recruiting is not allowed. This means that nominating, soliciting, or otherwise recruiting your advising/mentoring partner to work for you, for your organization, or for any other person or organization is prohibited.
You understand that your conversations with your advising/mentoring partner or a Youth Business USA staff member will remain confidential. However, information regarding your attendance at events may be shared with your organization. In addition, aggregate data regarding your satisfaction and involvement with any Youth Business USA Program Services may be shared with your organization. Without limitation of the terms of our Privacy Policy, you agree that we may disclose personally identifiable information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with legal process, enforce this User Agreement, or protect the rights, property, or safety of Youth Business USA, its users, or the public.
Participation in Online Communities
In addition to all other terms of this Agreement, you also agree that the following additional terms shall apply if you join, participate in, or view any of the Youth Business USA virtual communities.
You agree to: (i) maintain the confidentiality of other community members by not discussing personal or group matters in "off-line" conversations or other communications; (ii) not to share any information with non-group members without the permission of the person posting the information; (iii) recognize and respect the diversity represented among participants; (iv) not engage in personal attacks, flames, or profanity, nor make offensive comments or judgments; disagreement is permissible and sometimes necessary, but attacks are unacceptable; (v) not post comments that could be construed as sexist, racist, homophobic, intolerant, or demeaning by any individual based on gender, age, disability, politics, religion, or sexual orientation; (vi) not use access to this community to market any products or services or otherwise engage in any form of solicitation; and (vii) not proselytize spiritual or religious beliefs or promote political candidates or causes.
We have the right to monitor activity and content associated with virtual communities; however, we are not obligated to do so, nor are we obligated to take any action relating to any such monitoring. While we reserve the right to remove any post or any other content from any community at our complete discretion, we are under no obligation to do so under any circumstances. We will have no responsibility for the accuracy, integrity, quality, or anything else relating to any post or any other content.
Furthermore, we do not necessarily agree with or endorse the content of any posts or other content.
Without limiting the foregoing, we may investigate any content and may take any action that we believe is appropriate, including, but not limited to issuing warnings, removing the content or terminating accounts and/or subscriptions. However, we also reserve the right not to take any action. Under no circumstances will we be liable in any way for any content, including, but not limited to, errors or omissions in content, or loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of, access to, or denial of access to any content on the Youth Business USA website.
Program Services intended only for users in the United States
Youth Business USA is nonprofit organization with a social impact mission to empower underserved young adults in the United States. While we hope to expand our ability to provide Program Services outside the United States, we do not currently have the organizational capacity to do so. If you are a user who is not physically located in the United States at least 6 months a year, Youth Business USA's Program Services are not intended for you. If we can develop the organizational capacity to serve international users, we will update this document accordingly.
Information Provided on this Website
In the course of using any Program Services, users may provide information about themselves that may be visible to certain other users (see our Privacy Policy to learn more about information collected on the website). You understand that by posting materials on the Youth Business USA website or otherwise providing materials to Youth Business USA, you are granting us a royalty-free, world-wide, perpetual, irrevocable license to use this information in the course of offering our Program Services. Furthermore, you understand that we retain the right to reformat, excerpt, or translate any materials submitted by you. You understand that all information publicly posted or privately transmitted through any our Program Services is the sole responsibility of the person from whom such content originated and that we will not be liable for any errors or omissions in any content, or otherwise with respect to any content. You understand that we cannot guarantee the identity of any other users with whom you may interact in the course of using any of our Program Services, nor can it guarantee anything else relating to any such persons. Additionally, we cannot guarantee the authenticity or anything else about any information that users may provide.
No Crawling, Copying, Simulating, or Interfering
Use of manual or automated software, devices, or other processes to crawl or spider any web pages contained in our website is prohibited. You agree not to monitor or copy, or allow others to monitor or copy, our web pages or the content included therein. You also agree not to frame or otherwise simulate the appearance or function of this website. Furthermore, you agree not to take any action that interferes with the proper working of or places an unreasonable load on our infrastructure, including but not limited to unsolicited communications, attempts to gain unauthorized access, or transmission or activation of computer viruses.
Youth Business USA Communications
We may communicate with you (see our Privacy Policy to learn more about communications). To enable skysthelimit.org to process your application and contact you for interviews or matches with other members.You agree that we may contact you by telephone, text message, courier delivery, regular mail or email at any telephone number or address that you have provided to the Company, or will provide to the Company, including telephone numbers that are or may be assigned to wireless devices. You also agree to have your name and/or email address listed in the header of certain communications that you initiate through our Program Services.
You understand and agree that the Company may place telephone calls by voice call and/or text messaging (including SMS and/or MMS text messages). You understand that the Company may contact you by telephone, including text messaging, any day of the week and at any time, and understand that you may incur charges related to such contact in accordance with my wireless telephone plan or otherwise. You understand that you do not need to sign this agreement, or otherwise agree, as a condition of using skysthelimit.org services.
You agree to inform the Company if you wish to be removed from the telephone contact list. You understand that you may text "STOP" in response to any text message received from the Company, or use any other reasonable means to withdraw your consent to receive prerecorded/artificial voice messages, ATDS calls and text messages, including written communication, but that if you do so, cessation of texts and communications may prevent me from successfully learning about program and match opportunities. You further understand that if you withdraw your consent to receive text messages, prerecorded/artificial voice messages and/or ATDS calls, the Company may still contact you by other means, including live voice calls. You waive any right to a legal action under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, or any similar state or federal law, in connection with any telephone contact from the Company.
Monitoring and Enforcement
While we reserves the right to monitor activity and content associated with any of our Program Services; we are not obligated to do so. We are not responsible for anything relating to any inaccuracy, lack of integrity or quality, or anything else regarding any information provided by any user. In using our website or other Program Services, whether the community forums or any other products or services, you may be exposed to content that is unlawful or that you find offensive or otherwise objectionable. You can contact us to let us know of content that you find objectionable.
Furthermore, you may contact us if you receive off-line communication from a community member that you find objectionable. We may investigate any such complaint or otherwise on our own volition and may take any action that we believe is appropriate, including, but not limited to issuing warnings, removing content, or suspending or terminating accounts and/or subscriptions. However, we reserve the right not to take any action. Under no circumstances will we be liable in any way for any content, including, but not limited to, any errors or omissions in any content, or any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of, access to, or denial of access to any content on the website. Use of any of our Program Services will be at the risk of the user.
We reserve the right to charge for any of our Program Services or any portion thereof, and/or to modify the pricing of, add to, modify, or discontinue any of our Products or Services or any portion thereof without notice.
By accepting this UA, you agree to indemnify and otherwise hold harmless Youth Business USA, its subsidiaries and affiliates, and our and their officers, directors, employees, independent contractors, agents, subsidiaries, affiliates, advisees, advisors, mentees, mentors and other partners from any damage, whether direct, indirect, compensatory, punitive, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary or otherwise resulting from: i) your use of any Youth Business USA Program Services; ii) unauthorized access to or alteration of your communications with or through any Youth Business USA Program Services, iii) any other matter relating to any Youth Business USA Program Services; or iv) any personal or business dealings, activities, interactions, or transactions that may occur between users.
Without limitation of the terms of our Privacy Policy, you agree that we may disclose personally identifiable information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with legal process, enforce this Agreement, or protect the rights, property, or safety of Youth Business USA, its users, or the public.
Disclaimer of Warranties
YOUTH BUSINESS USA PROGRAM SERVICES ARE PROVIDED ON AN AS IS AND AS AVAILABLE BASIS AND WE DO NOT ASSUME ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR PROMPT OR PROPER DELIVERY, OR RETENTION OF ANY USER INFORMATION OR COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN USERS. WE ASSUME NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ACCURACY OR EXISTENCE OF ANY COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN USERS. WE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT: (i) OUR PROGRAM SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, (ii) OUR Program SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, (iii) THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM USE OF OUR PROGRAM SERVICES WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE OR USEFUL, (iv) THE QUALITY OF ANY PRODUCTS, SERVICES, INFORMATION, OR OTHER MATERIAL PURCHASED OR OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH THE YOUTH BUSINESS USA PROGRAM SERVICES WILL MEET YOUR NEEDS OR EXPECTATIONS, OR (V) ANY ERRORS IN THE SOFTWARE WILL BE CORRECTED. ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF OUR PROGRAM SERVICES IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE YOU MAY INCUR, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM YOUTH BUSINESS USA OR THROUGH OR FROM ANY YOUTH BUSINESS USA PROGRAM SERVICES SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THIS USER AGREEMENT.
Entire Agreement
This Agreement constitutes the entire and exclusive agreement between you and Youth Business USA and it supersedes any prior or contemporaneous agreements, understandings, or representations between you and Youth Business USA. This Agreement may not be modified orally, nor may any part or breach be waived orally. No failure or delay in exercising any right shall operate as a waiver of that or any other right, nor shall any partial exercise of any right preclude any further exercise of that or any other right.
Limitation of Liability
ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, COMPENSATORY, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF Youth Business USA KNEW OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES). SOME JURISDICTIONS MAY NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CERTAIN TYPES OF DAMAGES. ACCORDINGLY, SOME OF THESE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. SUBJECT TO THE FOREGOING, IN NO EVENT WILL YOUTH BUSINESS USA'S TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY DAMAGES CLAIM OF ANY NATURE WHATSOEVER EXCEED THE GREATER OF THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF FEES YOU HAVE PAID YOUTH BUSINESS USA IN THE TWELVE MONTH PERIOD PRIOR TO THE DATE WHEN SUCH CLAIM ACCRUED OR ONE HUNDRED ($100) DOLLARS.
Youth Business USA Intellectual Property
Youth Business USA, the Youth Business USA logo, and other Youth Business USA logos and names are trademarks and/or servicemarks of Youth Business USA (EIN # 27-4333255). You agree not to display or use these trademarks and/or servicemarks in any manner without our prior written permission. You also agree not to remove or modify any Youth Business USA copyright, patent or trademark notices or any Youth Business USA trademarks from any Youth Business USA web page or other electronic or hardcopy materials in which such notice or trademark is present.
This Agreement grants you a limited non-exclusive, non-transferable, terminable, restricted license to use our Program Services solely for your own use, subject to all the terms of this Agreement, including but not limited to our right to revoke that license at any time as provided in this Agreement.
You agree that we own all intellectual property rights in all Youth Business USA Program Services, including but not limited to all intellectual property rights in all web pages, assessments, diagnostic tools, and other materials provided by or through Youth Business USA, whether in electronic, hardcopy or any other form. Nothing herein or otherwise shall be construed to transfer any such ownership rights to you.
You shall not do any of the following: (i) copy or reproduce, whether in paper or electronic or other media, any Youth Business USA Program Services (or any part of them); (ii) modify any Youth Business USA Program Services or materials except for the data fields or prompts designed for input of data; (iii) create any derivative works of any Youth Business USA Program Services or materials; (iv) sell, lease, or sublicense any Youth Business USA Program Services or materials, (v) make any Youth Business USA Program Services or materials publicly available through a web site or other means; (vi) display or allow access to or use of any Youth Business USA Program Services or materials by persons or at facilities other than as authorized under an Agreement with Youth Business USA; (vii) use any Youth Business USA Program Services or materials in a way that would violate a law or regulation or that would be contrary to its intended use; (viii) decompile disassemble, reverse engineer, modify or enhance any Youth Business USA Program Services or materials; or (ix) refer to or otherwise use any Youth Business USA Program Services or materials as part of any effort to develop a program having any functional attributes, visual expressions or other features similar to those of any Youth Business USA Program Services or materials.
We may utilize rules and controls to protect the security of our Program Services and the online system through which they may be delivered, and you agree to comply therewith. These rules and controls are intended to protect our proprietary works, intellectual property, and other rights and interests. Your violation of any provision of this Agreement, including but not limited to any security rules or controls, is a material breach of this Agreement, and we may, in addition to any other legal remedy, immediately cease providing any or all Youth Business USA Program Services. You acknowledge that circumvention of any access controls is also a violation of 17 U.S.C. §1201 and we may take any action permitted by law or equity to enforce our rights thereunder or otherwise. All rights and remedies provided to us in this or any other part of this Agreement are cumulative and are in every case in addition to all other rights and remedies provided to us under law, equity, or otherwise.
Send any questions or comments, or report violations of the this agreement to:
Youth Business USA
2323 Broadway Ave
Oakland, CA 94612
Governing Law
This Agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of California, as applicable to contracts made and performed in California, without regard to the choice or conflict of laws principles or rules of any jurisdiction.
The terms of this Agreement are governed by the laws of the State of California, U.S.A., without regard to its principles of conflicts of law, and regardless of your location. EXCEPT FOR DISPUTES THAT QUALIFY FOR SMALL CLAIMS COURT, ALL DISPUTES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY ASPECT OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN YOU AND YOUTH BUSINESS USA, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT, STATUTE, FRAUD, MISREPRESENTATION OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, WILL BE RESOLVED THROUGH FINAL AND BINDING ARBITRATION BEFORE A NEUTRAL ARBITRATOR INSTEAD OF IN A COURT BY A JUDGE OR JURY AND YOU AGREE THAT YOUTH BUSINESS USA AND YOU ARE EACH WAIVING THE RIGHT TO TRIAL BY A JURY. YOU AGREE THAT ANY ARBITRATION UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL TAKE PLACE ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS; CLASS ARBITRATIONS AND CLASS ACTIONS ARE NOT PERMITTED AND YOU ARE AGREEING TO GIVE UP THE ABILITY TO PARTICIPATE IN A CLASS ACTION. The arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association under its Commercial Arbitration Rules and Supplementary Procedures for Consumer-Related Disputes ("Supplementary Procedures"), as amended by this Agreement. The arbitrator will conduct hearings, if any, by teleconference or videoconference, rather than by personal appearances, unless the arbitrator determines upon request by you or by us that an in-person hearing is appropriate. Any in-person appearances will be held at a location which is reasonably convenient to both parties with due consideration of their ability to travel and other pertinent circumstances. If the parties are unable to agree on a location, such determination should be made by the AAA or by the arbitrator. The arbitrator's decision will follow the terms of this Agreement and will be final and binding. The arbitrator will have authority to award temporary, interim or permanent injunctive relief or relief providing for specific performance of this Agreement, but only to the extent necessary to provide relief warranted by the individual claim before the arbitrator. The award rendered by the arbitrator may be confirmed and enforced in any court having jurisdiction thereof. Notwithstanding any of the foregoing, nothing in this Agreement will preclude you from bringing issues to the attention of federal, state or local agencies and, if the law allows, they can seek relief against us for you.
If any part of this Agreement or application thereof is ever held to be invalid, then it shall be deemed modified to the extent necessary to make it valid and as best to advance the spirit of the Agreement, and any such invalidity or modification shall not affect any other part or application of this Agreement.
Successors & Assigns
This Agreement is binding upon the parties and their respective successors and permitted assigns. You shall not assign this Agreement, in whole or in part. We may assign this Agreement, in whole or in part, and you hereby consent to any such assignment.
Youth Business USA Cookie Policy
Updated July 27, 2018
Youth Business USA is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization (EIN# 27-4333255) with a mission to empower underserved young adult entrepreneurs in the United States. Youth Business USA ("we," "our," or "us") places importance on the privacy of our users ("you," "your").
We use cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, mobile device IDs and similar files or technologies to collect and store the information we automatically collect about your computer, device, and use of the website operated by Youth Business USA at Skysthelimit.org ("Website"). You can find out more about cookies and how to control them in the information below.
If you do not accept the use of these cookies, please disable them using the instructions in this cookie policy, by following the 'opt-out' links provided below or by changing your browser settings so that cookies from the website cannot be placed on your computer or mobile device. If you do not agree to this Cookie Policy, please do not use the Program Services. Use of our website and participation in our program indicates that you agree to this Cookie Policy.
1. What is a cookie?
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you visit a certain webpage. Cookies are then sent back to the originating webpage on each subsequent visit, or to another webpage that recognises that cookie. Cookies are widely used in order to make the website work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the Website.
Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving the user experience. Cookies may tell us, for example, whether you have visited the website before or whether you are a new visitor. They can also help to ensure that adverts you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.
There are two broad categories of cookies:
First party cookies, served directly by us to your computer or mobile device.
Third party cookies, which are served by a third party on our behalf. We use third party cookies for [functionality, performance / analytics, advertising and social media purposes].
Cookies can remain on your computer or mobile device for different periods of time. Some cookies are 'session cookies', meaning that they exist only while your browser is open. These are deleted automatically once you close your browser. Other cookies are 'permanent cookies', meaning that they survive after your browser is closed. They can be used by the website to recognise your computer when you open your browser and browse the Internet again.
2. How do we use cookies?
We use cookies to:
track traffic flow and patterns of travel in connection with the website;
understand the total number of visitors to our Website on an ongoing basis and the types of internet browsers (e.g. Firefox, Chrome or Internet Explorer) and operating systems (e.g. Windows or Mac OS) used by our visitors;
monitor the performance of the website and to continually improve them; and
customise and enhance your online experience.
We do not provide advertisements on this platform.
3. What types of cookies do we use?
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Seattle Teacher Strike Cancels Students' First Day of School
Teachers in Seattle were absent on the first day of school after contract negotiations with the city's school district stalled.
Paige Cornwall reports for The Seattle Times that after the the Seattle Education Association bargaining team made the announcement that the strike would commence, the Seattle School Board voted that the superintendent should seek legal action to pressure teachers and school employees to get back to work. In the opinion of Board President Sherry Carr, such a move could shorten the length of the strike.
Wednesday was the scheduled day for school to begin, but Monday night, the district proposed a counter offer of $62 million to the $172 million union demand. The union made a counteroffer on Tuesday and the district considered the proposal. At about 6 p.m. the district made another offer, after which the union announced that its 5,000 members would be going on strike.
"We didn't think it was a serious proposal," said Phyllis Campano, Seattle Education Association vice president and bargaining chair.
If the district is granted legal action by the court, the union will vote on whether to advance the strike, according to Campano, and will continue actions toward receiving what they consider to be a fair contract. Campano said the strike will continue until the contract is right.
Over the weekend, there were some agreements between the two sides including a guaranteed 30 minute recess for elementary students and higher pay for certified and classified substitute teachers. Still unresolved are pay increases and increased instructional time.
The latest salary increase offer by the district is a 10% increase over a two year period and a state-approved cost of living adjustment. Over the weekend, the union countered with a proposal of 16.8% increase over the same time period. No competitive pay increases were included in the district's offer, said Campano.
Seattle's share of the state's $1.3 billion for school funding over the next two years is about $40 million, of which the union wanted a portion for teacher raises.
According to NPR's Marie Andrusewicz, teachers in Seattle have not gone on strike since 1985. This strike is because of pay, but KPLU's Kyle Stokes said it was "pay with a twist."
"The school district wants to increase the length of the instructional day for students and the way that they propose to do this is to take away some of the time that teachers get currently to prepare for school before or after classes and use that to help lengthen the school day."
The district's standardized test schedule has also been an issue. Teachers want to see the amount of testing reduced and want a say in which tests are selected. Educators have gone six years without a cost-of-living increase, making it difficult for some to afford housing in a city with rising living expenses.
"It's really the younger generation that is having issues with having a place to live in the city," said teacher Janine Magidman, who was walking the picket line at Roosevelt High School. "The cost of living is just ridiculous."
The state of Washington overall has faced difficulty after the state Supreme Court said lawmakers had not adequately paid for the schooling of 1 million children. Until the state can come up with a way to solve this problem, justices are fining the state of Washington $100,000 a day, reports Martha Bellisle of the Associated Press.
Teachers in Pasco, Washington, in the southeast of the state, voted to strike despite a court order to stop the action. The dispute is over pay and curriculum in the 17,000-student district.
The debate over charter schools also presents a divide. State Supreme Court justices ruled that Washington's charters are unconstitutional because they are not "common" schools according to the state Constitution and therefore cannot receive local funding. The state teachers union challenged charter schools because they are given money that they say belongs to the traditional public schools.
The strikes wreak havoc with parents' work schedules and has them scrambling to find daycare for their children. City parks have offered some solutions for parents, while moms and dads are also working from home, swapping childcare with other parents, or finding other programs for day-care services, writes Henry Austin, reporting for NBC News.
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The HTC HD2 is shaping up to be one powerful smartphone, with its 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU, 4.3-inch glass capacitive touch screen, and ultra-slim (0.43-inch) design. It turns out the U.S. version of the handset will now have 1GB ROM and 576MB RAM, which is a boost over the original quoted figures of 512MB ROM and 448MB RAM.
It gets better, though; some users at XDA Developers discovered that other editions of the HD2 may also be carrying the extra memory, albeit in a disabled state. This type of thing isn't unheard of, though it's always strange whenever a manufacturer purposely disables part of its product's features.
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I know. I've been off the grid a bit. Things are a little crazy, I leave for Miami soon and just trying to get a house prepared with children and a husband for a mother to be gone for a week is a task.
Lil Mama will be spending the week with her godmother so packing her and myself up, along with the fact that I had two photo shoots last week, three major events this week, and trying to put the final design touches on Divinitee's summer line has made for one frazzled mama. In the words of June Ambrose, I'm slightly "spiraling" these folks better stay out of my way!!
Enough ranting…time to rave
but not like that
Tuesday my very good friend Niya who is the owner and master bakestress over at Candy Cake Company did a press showing for her new cake pop flavors. So you know I am all about support and slid my way over to show my love
and eat tons of cake pops. So?
Her new flavors include Pistachio, Lavender Vanilla, Cookies and Cream, and Orange Chiffon
…and they are delectable.
If you are in need of cake pops or would just like to try them please reach out to her via the web. If you are in the Atlanta area she does deliver. If you are outside of Atlanta shipping is an option.
Shirt: Thrifted Jeans: Thrifted Arm Candy: Thrifted Shoes: Sole Society Purse: Thrifted!!! (it was the one I blogged about that I thought was gone)
How are you, and what has you spiraling? I haven't been around to your blogs but I promise I'll make my rounds. Thank you for reading!


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Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Lynndie England - Abu Ghraib Scapegoat
England was photographed with Iraqi prisoners in various poses, all of which were designed to "humiliate" the prisoner. While her actions were both ethically wrong and illegal under the UCMJ, I cannot help but think that she is being made the scapegoat in the entire prison scandal. England, the lowest ranking soldier accused in the scandal could serve prison time, whereas higher ranking officers accused in the scandal were "reprimanded."
What surfaced at the time of the incident were claims that the tactics employed by England and others were at the request of prison interrogators in an attempt to soften-up the prisoners for subsequent interrogations. That defense does not appear to have been used, however. England's defense attorneys tried unsuccessfully to argue that she had a "compliant personality" and was merely following orders given by a superior. Obviously, the argument didn't fly.
The part that I find very difficult to reconcile is the outrage sparked by England's actions contrasted with the "terrorists will be terrorists" shrug-off following the beheadings of several Americans that were detained. It's humiliating to stick panties on the heads of Iraqi prisoners but we're not outraged when Americans are beheaded? While one certainly doesn't justify the other, I'm finding it very hard to feel any sort of anger at Lynndie England's actions. Serving prison time for posing in photographs seems quite absurd, in fact. But then, that's what scapegoats do. She will serve time while her superiors get a "reprimand". Meanwhile, our enemies can have a field day pointing towards the inhumane treatment we savage Americans give Muslim prisoners while they continue lopping off heads and blowing up women and children. I can't quite put my finger on it, but something seems a bit out of place there.
Kannafoot Edit: Lynndie England was sentenced to three years in prison and given a dishonorable discharge. My comments regarding her position as a scapegoat stand as written.
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- Alan Fraser said...
Of course Americans are outraged at the treatment of American captives in Iraq and if Lynndie England had been an Iraqi and had done what she did to Americans, she would be in Guantanamo Bay for the rest of her miserable life. She is a scapegoat for sure but she deserves at least what she's been given as does everyone in the administrative food chain that allowed this disgrace to America and the military to take place.
- Kannafoot said...
I'm really having a hard time justifying the punishment. What she did really falls in the category of a mild - VERY mild - fraternity stunt. Toss in a keg of beer and a few discipline paddles and you have pledge week on every college campus in the country. Calling what she did "prison abuse" is a wild exaggeration. At best, she should have been busted a couple of levels and put on extended kitchen duty. Giving her 3-years in prison is absurd.


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The captains helm swap was a good time. More of the crap I like, and I found a couple neat gems. Thanks to all who came out and there will be another.
The picture of the Triumph on the top is a buddy of mine Alex. He's seriously built this thing from scratch up finding every part, figuring it out by mistakes and learning on his way. He rides his bike more than alot of the goons out there. It's cool to see someone put the time an effort into something and ride the piss out of of it every day. Good work


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This could be seen as working against myself, since when money's wasted on a book, I'm often the one who gets richer—but I hate seeing my clients spend more than they need to. I was a writer before I was a book designer (it's why I'm a book designer), and that's where my sympathies lie.
But I'll still charge for these things if they happen on your book, so listen up. Today we're talking about…
Inadequate proofing
"Yes, it's being proofed now. My friend was an English major. She catches everything."
This red flag is so big, it can be seen from space:
Your cousin who knows everything about grammar and your fellow writing group member who's really picky are first readers, or beta readers, or—to put it more simply—friends. They're not proofers, and they don't do what a proofer does. They're going to read the book and mark up anything they notice, but they're not trained to notice the things that are going to cost you money later—and, for the most part, they're not as right as they think they are about grammar and punctuation. (No, not even the English lit professor.) They probably also aren't solid on when to use small caps instead of italics or rigorous about en dashes, em dashes, 2-em dashes, 3-em dashes, and hyphens. And then there are all the differences between narrative and dialogue, fiction and collateral, essays and poetry.
People who don't proof for a living are as good at proofing as people who don't repair cars all the time are good at car repair.
I asked my favorite proofer, Chesley Hicks, for some examples for this blog entry. She said:
Do they know the difference between open, closed, and hyphenated compounds or how those change as modifiers and nouns? Can they spot a stack or a river? Do they have the whom/who thing down pat? Do they know how to style a program vs a series vs an episode title? According to AP? According to CMoS? Can they really tell when to not follow grammar and style rules? You gotta know the rules before you can break them.
To which I'll add: Are they going to go over every proof your designer sends, make sure every change was made correctly, catch where the changes introduced new stacks, rivers, or short chapter ends, and mark it up for the next round? Will they catch where prime marks were used instead of quotation marks—or vice versa? Do they have the habits of an experienced proofer, like making sure when you catch an error in one word, you don't immediately miss the error in the word next to it? (That's really common among non-pros.)
There's only one really excellent reason to use your friends: They're free.
Keep that really excellent reason in mind as you read this:
- I charge $1.50 per correction. That's if we're still working on the print book, which comes before the ebook. If a correction isn't made until I'm working on the ebook, it's $3, because now I'm making it twice: once in the print book, once in the ebook.
- 350 correx at the ebook stage = $1,050.
But 350 corrections is way more than you could possibly be looking at, right?
Maybe, maybe not. In a 350-page book, if each page has just one little misplaced comma, or mistyped space after a hyphen, or misspelled name, or misused word, and now that it looks like a book instead of a Word file, these things are really popping out at you, the result is that you just added a thousand dollars to your design invoice—which may only have been a thousand dollars to start with. Your free proofer wasn't free.
And that's assuming all the changes are little ones. If you decide to rewrite a chapter, or there are so many little changes that the text reflows and messes up the pagination, now we're into hourly rates.
Does this mean you must have your manuscript proofed by a professional proofer?
The answer is yes if you want a professional product. That's why publishers do it. It's not because they have some abstract love of perfection and higher callings; it's that everything in a book's production budget is pure, pragmatic business. If they didn't have to do it, they wouldn't.
The answer may be no if:
- you're sure your friend will do a truly professional proofing job or
- you're fine with a not entirely professional book—for example, because you know how many units you're going to move from tables at the backs of seminars, regardless of errors, and you don't want to eat into your profit by spending money that won't have any effect on the bottom line.
If you're thinking like a publisher (see "pure, pragmatic business" above), return on investment is your main priority, so (2) might be the right choice for you. However, if you're thinking like an author, every single tiny error will drive you nuts until you fix it. Plus, if there's more than just a couple of typos, that fact will start showing up in your Amazon reviews, which will probably affect your bottom line—and possibly the reputation of your brand and product line. (Whether that effect will be large enough to justify the expense of proofing, only you can decide.)
Depending on your goals, either approach can be the smart one.
Whatever you decide, go into it with your eyes open. If your friend isn't a professional proofreader, the results will not be as professional. Period. They just won't.
I say this as a guy who's spent years watching his invoices go up because of that very fact.


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It doesn't really matter how many tweets or retweets you get, or the urgency. It doesn't really matter if your friends, three celebrities and 30 WhastApp groups have shared your request. You might get lucky and find something, but when there's nothing left, there's nothing left.
The urgency, your contacts and some solidarity may get you something from the outside, but what if you need it for 5 or 10 days, for one patient, for two or three? We're reduced to being that person, the one that solves personal and family emergencies. We become smaller and desperate. Others act selfishly, and who can blame them?
For more than a year we have been getting the heart medicine we need because a guy had leftovers from a stash he brought from Colombia for his dad, but he didn't make it back on time and his dad died. We felt even worse after another donation: a gentleman had stopped taking his medicine and when he finally got it he died after going into shock with the first dose. Imagine his son having to say "I killed my dad, because I got him the medicine he needed".
You receive the donations, but you don't know how to be thankful. We were lucky enough to find another neurological medicine in Spain, 100 pills per box (50 days worth). We get it regularly now, but will it be enough to give some away to everyone who asks for a donation? No effing way. The shortages began in 2013 and we hadn't seen the medicine since 2014. I went to the lab and they have none left and they're not even planning to make them again. The Government hasn't paid them and the fact they haven't been able to collect has not only meant that their business has shrunk but that they've lost all credibility with their international suppliers, so it will be hard for them to reactivate that production line.
In the meantime, I had to help two people who were suffering convulsions in the street because without their pills they're basically walking time-bombs.
This year we're basically going to continue burying people. We're going to bury people and miss work and skip school because we're going to be taking care of the sick, because when someone in the family goes down, we all go down.
The state of emergency is real. The Venezuelan Pharmaceutical Federation made a formal request this week for international help to source 150 medicines. It's a humanitarian emergency. No other country in the continent is going through a similar situation right now, not even Haiti.
The decisions have been taken by someone who believes that the controls are not to blame, it's just that they haven´t been implemented with sufficient rigor. They've been taken by someone who prefers to kill us so that they can continue stealing, by someone who will tell you this isn't real socialism yet and that it is necessary to demolish everything so that the people finally embrace the idea and surrender.
It's probably even worse than that. Decisions have been taken by someone who will use a certain amount of US dollars in a week or so, not to pay the suppliers of food and medicine, but to actually make bond payments on debts that they themselves have issued and bought back, because the flight of capital they have orchestrated must continue, right before our eyes, on the graves of those who didn't ask for a socialist motherland and were left on the wrong side of the equation. The revolution has fulfilled more threats than promises, and death is just one of them.
After the results of the December 6 elections they threw in the towel. They're really not bothered about replenishing the shelves and seem intent on distributing even greater shortages among people who are increasingly worse off. When people stand in a queue for something it means they are in dire need of an immediate solution. These are people that have collapsed and been reduced to a mere transaction, people controlled by fingerprints, vulnerable and dependent.
I don't know if it's possible to resist and say "let's make a deal, let's not die", because it makes no sense. However, what we can do is tell these stories so we can build the necessary antibodies to prevent this tragic realism novel ever happening again. After all, we've got plenty of stories, what we haven't got are vaccines, treatments, reagents, catheters, chemo medicine, pills or plasma. When there's nothing left, there's nothing left.
Luis Carlos Diaz Vazquez
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The New Year is almost here which means that new styles and trends are starting to emerge.
The remodeling industry is flourishing with new ideas and directions that are created to benefit your home. We have all felt the punch of the flat economy, so the remodeling industry is taking a new approach this year and practical trends are blossoming to better your home.
Instead of going big and extravagant, people are now settling for more cost effective and useful features for their home.
Many homeowners are now installing steam showers. Soaking tubs were mainly a decorative piece for show and rarely used because it can be expensive. Homeowners remodeling their bathroom now focus their budget on a larger and more comfortable shower. Steam showers have risen in popularity for their therapeutic effects and conservation of water ultimately allowing the homeowner to relax and save money at the same time!
No one wants a house that is cluttered and disorganized. Drop Zones/Mud Rooms have captured many homeowners; because these drop zones serve as a great way to de-clutter. This room contains cubbies, hooks, or closets for items that you may not want to have out in the open, subjecting your home to clutter.
Many people view the formal living room as a wasted space, only used for holidays and special occasions. Opening the living room is a new trend that creates a great room that is warm and inviting. An open family room or great room will typically combine the kitchen, living room, and dining room. Creating one big room will help lessen energy consumption and positively effect the living environment by creating a sense of wholeness.
Instead of having an office, a lifestyle center is a room with a computer and various electronics that allows kids to do homework and helps parents monitor their children. You can use this room to work at home or pay the bills, instead of being isolated in an office that is closed off from everyone.
Radiant heating in every room; this trend to add radiant heating to rooms throughout the inside and outside of a house has become popular with many who are looking for a practical and efficient way to heat their home. With radiant heat, you can enjoy luxury and efficiency wrapped in one economical package.
Another new trend is adding a patio to your home, creating an outdoor living space! A patio can serve as a secondary dining room when the weather is nice which allows you to have more company for the holidays or celebrations! Making this outdoor living space available year-round with electric radiant heat, like slab heating or a snow melting system is the ideal way to keep this investment paying you dividends all year long. You can also make your house feel larger, by adding sliding doors that lead from inside your house to the patio.
These 2012 trends are definitely going to get everyone motivated for the New Year! Forget about expensive luxuries and go for practical, sustainable solutions in 2012.
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I have noticed these trends too! I got a lot of request for patios to be constructed, but the trend is dieing down now that its winter time in new york city.


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You scramble around your foes, moving and striking in an erratic fashion.
Prerequisite: Wis 13, Improved Unarmed Strike, Monkey Style, Acrobatics 8 ranks, Climb 8 ranks.
Benefit: While using Monkey Style, you gain a Wisdom bonus on Climb checks. You can also can climb and crawl at half your speed; you can take a 5-foot step by jumping, crawling, or climbing; and you retain your Dexterity bonus to AC while climbing. Further, while using Monkey Style, when you use your unarmed strike to hit an opponent twice or more on your turn, you can spend a swift action to take a 5-foot step even if you have moved this round.
Normal: You climb at one-quarter your speed, and you lose your Dexterity bonus to AC while doing so. A 5-foot step is made using your normal movement modes, and you can take one only if you have not otherwise moved this round.
Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Ultimate Combat. © 2011, Paizo Publishing, LLC; Authors: Jason Bulmahn, Tim Hitchcock, Colin McComb, Rob McCreary, Jason Nelson, Stephen Radney-MacFarland, Sean K Reynolds, Owen K.C. Stephens, and Russ Taylor.


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Transparency (and surveillance) is getting started
It is not Big Brother who is watching you, it is Every Brother… In this note we start our research in "Transparency and Surveillance in ePedagogy and education." As we had communicated at the seminar here in Hamburg we are going to make our process transparent to everybody – and therefore I have now set up a blog (panopticon.ferngespraech.net) and a wiki
(due to some problems with my Server only having PHP 4 my provider has to move my data to another Server, so the Wiki will be online tomorrow…) so that everybody can follow our thoughts and the work in progress.
Please have a look at our work – ideas, questions, recommondations etc. are higly welcome.


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FRANKLIN SPRINGS, Ga. - The Emmanuel College women's lacrosse team kicked off their season at home with two tough losses to Conference Carolinas opponents this weekend.
On Friday the Lady Lions fell to North Greenville University, 17-0. The strong Crusader offense commanded the field for the entire game while they held the Lions to only 7 total shots. Senior Tiana Machado tallied 8 saves.
On Saturday, the Lions had more success offensively, but were still defeated 21-9 by Erskine College. Emmanuel opened up the match with an early goal coming from Megan Shortt, assisted by Hanna Hernandez. Despite the strong start, the Lions found themselves facing a hefty deficit after the Flying Fleet retaliated with 9 straight goals. The Lions would go on to score 8 more goals by the end of the afternoon, but it wasn't enough to top the Fleet. Aleah Marijanich led the Lions with 5 goals. Hanna Hernandez and Megan Shortt put up 2 points apiece.
Next up, the Lions will take on Tusculum University at home on Tuesday, March 12th.
For more news on Emmanuel College Athletics, visit goeclions.com.


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Full details of our various trips are available on the corresponding pages
With several major international events held every year, Baseball is one of our most active areas, with international events being played on an annual basis for players from as young as Under 12, through to the senior National teams. We arrange tours to all the World Cup events, as well as our own tour to take in all the Major League action the the USA.


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Laptops are easily lost or stolen and in order to protect your emails, web passwords, encryption keys, etc., you should really think about encrypting (at least) your home directory.
If you happen to have
/home on a separate partition already (
/dev/sda5 in this example), then it's a really easy process:
Copy your home directory to a temporary directory on a different partition:
mkdir /homebackup cp -a /home/* /homebackup
Encrypt your home partition:
umount /home cryptsetup -h sha256 -c aes-xts-plain64 -s 512 luksFormat /dev/sda5 cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sda5 chome mkfs.ext4 -m 0 /dev/mapper/chome
Add this line to
chome /dev/sda5 none luks,timeout=30
Set the home partition to this in
/dev/mapper/chome /home ext4 nodev,nosuid,noatime 0 2
Copy your home data back into the encrypted partition:
mount /home cp -a /homebackup/* /home rm -rf /homebackup
That's it. Now to fully secure your laptop against theft, you should think about an encrypted backup strategy for your data...
Why not start with basics:
1. Set a strong BIOS password
2. Disable (in BIOS) booting from removable media
3. Set a global GRUB password, so ALL options in menulist require a password.
The ordinary thief will already pass after encountering those obstacles.
Then encrypt your home partition.
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Good post and good comments. I was wondering about the passphrase LUKS requires to decrypt.
Where should I setup it up to decrypt files upon user login?


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Watch the first Lighthouse Pitch & Demo at Startup Weekend EDU Seattle, November 23, 2014.
Lighthouse won "crowd favorite" and 1st place.
Lighthouse is a smart solution for teachers and students with special needs. It provides confidence students are where they are supposed to be and alerts you when they're not.
A small device is attached to the student, uniquely identifying them to the teacher. The teacher uses the Lighthouse app to keep track of their students while they are on school grounds, during school hours.
If a student wanders off or is with the wrong person, an alert is sent to their teacher. When a teacher requires assistance to bring a student back to class, they can notify all faculty with information about the student.
For the purposes of our demo, we used Estimote iBeacons as the Lighthouse device.
Our purpose is to keep students with special needs safe at school. Lighthouse does this by keeping you, the teacher, informed of your students location throughout the day. When an incident occurs, you're the first to know and can quickly get others involved to help.
At a quick glance, stay on top of your students location on school grounds during school hours.
Keep track of who each student is with throughout the day.
Stay informed if a student is no longer in the presence of a teacher or caretaker.
Set custom alerts for every student.
Receive instant notification if a student is out of range of a teacher or caretaker.
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Happy Father's Day to all my CornerstoneDads out there!
Keep anchoring that family!
Father's Day is around the corner and I want you to do old CSD a favor.
Is the message different that what you heard on Mother's Day?
If your Mother's Day message praised and exalted motherhood, do you expect the Father's Day message to do the same?
Unfortunately, in many churches that I've belong to, the exact opposite happened. Father's were lectured, told they needed to do more, and made-fun-of like and talked about like they are Homer Simpson more than Joseph, the earthly father of Jesus.
What is going on? Why don't men go to church? Why are women having to drag men to church?
Check out this two part series on True Riches With The Mission Men and leave us your comments.
Are we way off? Right on the mark? Too sensitive? Is the problem worse than what we even discussed?
We're on iTunes! Just click the link below to listen to Has The Church Become Too Feminized I and II.
Click link to see more: http://csdsnapshots.wordpress.com/2012/06/14/beauty-and-destruction/
CornerstoneDad has launched a new photo blog!
Feel free to check it out and comment on the photos, but go easy on me, I'm going to try and post many unedited shots on there.
Photoshop is a beautiful thing, but there's nothing like taking a fantastic shot the very first time.
Kory Devon and I discuss the latest happenings in the sports world and try to come to an agreement on whether college athletes should get paid (legally) or not. What do you think? Sound off and let us know in the comments section!
This was actually recorded before podcast #10, so please go back and check out that episode if you'd like to hear a continuation of our discussion.
Click Podcast #11 to listen!
When I heard the Toyota Prius C was coming out with its low price point (compared to other hybrid offerings), I was quite excited. After having one in the CornerstoneDad driveway for one night, I must confess, this ride is the real fuel-sipping deal as I nearly hit 60-mpg driving on rush hour traffic in my 45-mile commute.
The styling of this $25,000 model was nearly identical to the new Yaris. I drove the Yaris a few months back and was thoroughly disappointed with the road noise and lack of amenities. However, the Prius C makes up for this by adding the usual hybrid video game-type feedback in the dash screen, iPod connector and easy-to-use radio interface. While the radio doesn't shake the rearview mirror, it was more than adequate to drown out the road noise and wiper chatter I found from the Yaris. But who buys a hybrid for those things anyway?
The star of the show is the hybrid system. Toyota's hybrid system works flawlessly as once the Prius C gets going, it quickly drops down to using more electric motor power and less engine power. Featuring a nickel-metal-hydride battery instead of the more modern lithium-ion battery chemistry, allows Toyota to keep the price down low in a lighter vehicle where power density is less of an issue. I DO think the Prius V (a sure CSD car of the year finalist) would benefit more from a lithium-ion battery, as the engine and battery have to work much harder to get the vehicle moving in traffic which decreases fuel economy to levels on par with a conventional engine-only vehicle without the added tech-cost. But the nickel works just fine in the Prius C.
For $25K, I'd definitely consider putting one in my driveway. I could put three kids in the back without hearing the usual, "Ouch, get off me" or "Move, can't you're sitting on my seatbelt".
What do you think? Have you made the hybrid plunge and if not, could this be the vehicle to pull you in?
– Toyota Hybrid System (THS), it's everything it's supposed to be – did I say I got almost 60-mpg?
– Good space in small package
– Telematics/info screen
– Weird seat material that actually looked and felt pretty good
– A decent driving car…for a hybrid
– You make people behind you on the phone mad because you don't want to get out of EV-Mode
– Harsh ride had me afraid I'd blow out a tire on some of these mid-west roads…okay, that could happen in a Yukon as well but I'd at least keep my teeth-fillings
– Wind noise
– Brake regeneration-stopping feels risky when in stop-and-go traffic
– Some materials in the interior felt cheap, so just don't touch those too often
– You make people behind you on the phone mad because you don't want to get out of EV-Mode, so some get close to "push" you along.
A few years ago, I predicted this was going to happen and folks thought that I had the tin-foil hat on again. But State Farm (and I'm sure others are sure to follow soon) wants your data, urrr….car's data. Now this isn't completely new, and trust me, it will one day be common. But lets think about the ramifications.
1.) At least once per week, I travel to a high crime area. Now they already judge me on the number of days I drive my car to the office, and that's only part of the week, so why would they NOT develop an algorithm to determine the increased risk on the other days?
2.) For you vacation-draft-behind-truck-speeders…gotcha. Forget about your Fuzzbuster (my old school dads know what I'm talking about-that's a radar detector for those born after 1985), your car will just report that you averaged 79 mph with applied braking at high speeds.
3.) Don't get me started how they are messing people over by using their credit report as another factor in determining rates.
…can you give us a few more?
What other things do you think the insurance companies will extract from your ride and driving habits?
Oh yea, I bet the amount of the discount for good behavior is never as high as the rate increase for bad behavior. That's not justice, that's insurance company mathematics.
What do you think?


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The hesitant, almost diffident cry of the first cicadas of summer reminds us that the rainy season in Japan is ending. All we need to do is gaman, or "hang in there," and summer in all of its glory will finally be here. In the meantime, friends, listen…
In Japanese, jime-jime is that unpleasant, sticky feeling during the rainy season when the humidity has got its clammy hands all over you; mushi-mushi when it damn near smothers you.
To the Japanese ear, potan is the sound of a drop of water plopping into, say, a bucket; pota-pota, the tune a leaky faucet sings; and jah-jah, water gushing out of a pipe.
The Japanese will hear potsu-potsu as raindrops start falling upon dry ground; shito-shitowhen it drizzles; and zah-zah when it pours. More . . .


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