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Online Reservations
OpenTable Terms of Use
These OpenTable Terms of Use (this "Agreement") apply to your consumer use of (1) the OpenTable website at http://www.opentable.com and all affiliated websites owned and operated solely by OpenTable (collectively, the "OpenTable Site"), (2) the restaurant reservation services made available by OpenTable through the OpenTable Site, any OpenTable-branded application for your mobile or other device (collectively, the "OpenTable Application"), and any other online properties of OpenTable or third parties, as described in Part I below (the "Reservation Services"), (3) the payment services made available by OpenTable through the OpenTable Application as described in Part II below (the "Payment Services"), (4) gift card purchases and related services provided by OpenTable as described in Part III below, (5) any OpenTable Application, and (6) any other services or features made available by OpenTable through the OpenTable Site or any OpenTable Application. Together, the items in (1) through (6) are the "Services".
In this Agreement, "OpenTable" and "we" mean OpenTable, Inc., and "User" and "you" mean any user of the Services. This Agreement incorporates OpenTable's standard policies, procedures, and terms and conditions for use of the Services that are referenced by name or by links in this Agreement (collectively, the "OpenTable Policies").
By accessing or using the Services or clicking "accept" or "agree" to this Agreement, (1) you acknowledge that you have read, understand, and agree to be bound by this Agreement, and (2) you represent and warrant that you are of legal age and not prohibited by law from accessing or using the Services (including, if applicable, purchasing, giving, using, or redeeming any OpenTable Gift Card (as defined below) or Merchant Gift Card (as defined below)). THIS AGREEMENT CONTAINS, AMONG OTHER THINGS, AN ARBITRATION PROVISION CONTAINING A CLASS ACTION WAIVER.
OpenTable may update or revise this Agreement (including any OpenTable Polices) from time to time. You agree that you will review this Agreement periodically. You are free to decide whether or not to accept a modified version of this Agreement, but accepting this Agreement, as modified, is required for you to continue using the Services. You may have to click "accept" or "agree" to show your acceptance of any modified version of this Agreement. If you do not agree to the terms of this Agreement or any modified version of this Agreement, your sole recourse is to terminate your use of the Services, in which case you will no longer have access to your Account (as defined below). Except as otherwise expressly stated by OpenTable, any use of the Services (e.g., the use of the Reservation Services or the Payment Services or the purchase of an OpenTable Gift Card) is subject to the version of this Agreement in effect at the time of use.
Part I - Reservation Services
1. Restaurant Reservations. OpenTable provides the Reservation Services to User for the purpose of assisting User in securing dining reservations at participating third-party restaurants (each, a "Restaurant"). In response to a User's online request for a Restaurant reservation through the OpenTable Site or OpenTable Application, OpenTable directly contacts the Restaurant's computerized database of reservations. The availability of reservations is determined at the time of User's query. Once a reservation is made by User through the OpenTable Site or OpenTable Application, OpenTable will provide confirmation of the reservation to User by email. By using the Reservation Services, User agrees to receive reservation confirmations by email after booking a reservation through the Reservation Services.
2. No-Show Policy. OpenTable is committed to providing superior quality services to Users and Restaurants. To assist us in maintaining a consistently high level of service for the Restaurants and their patrons, Users must cancel any reservations that they will be unable to honor at least 30 minutes in advance of the reservation. You may cancel your reservation via the OpenTable Site or OpenTable Application or by calling the Restaurant directly. Some Restaurants may require a debit or credit card number to finalize your reservation. In order to use the Reservation Services for these Restaurants, you must provide valid debit or credit card information, and you may be required to cancel your reservation in accordance with the Restaurant's cancellation policy, which will be disclosed at the time the reservation is made. OpenTable uses this debit or credit card information as described in our privacy policy and shall have no liability for any charges made to the debit or credit card account for any failure to cancel your reservation in accordance with a Restaurant's cancellation policy.
If you are unable to keep your reservation and you fail to cancel at least 30 minutes in advance of the reservation, OpenTable will send you an email letting you know that our records indicate that you were a no-show. By using the Reservation Services, User agrees to receive no-show notifications by email after a report that your reservation was not honored, whether or not that was in fact the case. Your Account will be terminated if you are a no-show for four reservations within a 12-month period. If you receive a no-show notification email in error, please click here for information on how to dispute it. User agrees that all final no-show determinations will be made by OpenTable in its sole discretion.
3. OpenTable Dining Rewards. User may be able to participate in OpenTable's User rewards program ("OpenTable Dining Rewards"). Participation is subject to the OpenTable Dining Rewards Terms and Conditions.
4. Usage Guidelines. User agrees to use the Reservation Services only to book reservations at Restaurants and then honor those reservations by arriving at the Restaurants on time and ordering and paying for meals. User further agrees not to book more than one reservation for User's personal use during any one meal time (e.g., lunch, dinner, etc.). User may be able to book multiple reservations through OpenTable's Administrative Assistant and/or Concierge programs. Resale or attempted resale of reservations is prohibited and is grounds for, among other things, cancellation of your reservations or termination of your access to the Services.
Part II – Payment Services
5. General Description and Requirements. The Payment Services allow Users to pay bills at participating Restaurants through the OpenTable Application. In order to use the Payment Services at a participating Restaurant, you must: (1) install the OpenTable Application on a compatible mobile device; (2) make a reservation for the Restaurant through the Reservation Services; (3) provide valid payment card information through the OpenTable Application as further described below; (4) provide and verify your mobile phone number as further described below; and (5) have an Account in good standing. The Payment Services may not be available for all Restaurants; for a list of participating Restaurants, please visit the OpenTable Site or OpenTable Application. There is no fee to you to use the Payment Services, but your mobile carrier's standard text message and data charges may apply; you are responsible for any fees charged by your mobile carrier in connection with your use of the Payment Services and OpenTable Application.
6. Payment Card Information. In order to use the Payment Services, you must provide account information for at least one valid debit or credit card through the OpenTable Application. OpenTable uses this debit or credit card account information as described in ourprivacy policy. You may add, delete, and edit the debit or credit card account information you have provided from time to time through the OpenTable Application. If you provide account information for more than one valid debit or credit card, you must select which debit or credit card you want to use to pay your Restaurant bill. Merchant Gift Cards may not be redeemed to pay your Restaurant bill through the Payment Services.
To confirm that the payment card information you have provided is accurate, we will place a temporary $1.00 authorization hold on your debit or credit card at the time you provide your payment card information through the OpenTable Application. After we verify that your payment card information is accurate, usually within a few days, the $1.00 hold will be removed. In no event will your payment card actually be charged for this $1.00 authorization.
To the extent permitted by applicable law and subject to our privacy policy, you acknowledge and agree that we may use certain third-party vendors and service providers to process payments, manage debit and credit card information and detect and prevent fraud.
By providing debit or credit card account information through the OpenTable Application, you represent, warrant, and covenant that: (1) you are legally authorized to provide such information to us; (2) you are legally authorized to perform payments from the debit or credit card account(s); and (3) such action does not violate the terms and conditions applicable to your use of such debit or credit card account(s) or applicable law. When you authorize a payment using a debit or credit card account via the OpenTable Application, you represent, warrant, and covenant that there are sufficient funds or credit available to complete a payment using the debit or credit card account.
7. Verified Mobile Phone Number. In order to use the Payment Services, you must provide a valid mobile phone number through the OpenTable Application and verify such number as instructed by us. To verify your mobile phone number, we will send you a code via text message to the mobile phone number you provided, and you must enter that code as instructed in the OpenTable Application. If you change your mobile phone number, you must promptly provide and verify your new mobile phone number. When you provide your mobile phone number, you expressly consent to receive direct dial calls, autodialed and prerecorded message calls, and text messages relating to the Payment Services at that number.
8. Account Settings. You may establish certain default settings for your use of the Payment Services through the OpenTable Application, such as your preferred payment card account. You may change these settings through the OpenTable Application.
9. Payment Authorization and Settlement. After you place an order at a participating Restaurant, you may indicate through the OpenTable Application that you intend to pay your Restaurant bill using the Payment Services. You may review your bill and select the gratuity from certain options through the OpenTable Application. When you indicate through the OpenTable Application that you intend to pay your Restaurant bill using the Payment Services, you authorize the Restaurant to charge your debit or credit card for the full amount of your final bill, which may include adjustments for any errors or omissions. You may only use the Payment Services to pay the full amount of the bill; no split checks or partial payments are permitted. This Agreement does not alter your payment obligations to Restaurants; you are responsible for timely payment of all amounts owed by you to any Restaurant. Except to the extent otherwise required by applicable law, OpenTable is not responsible or liable for any payments authorized through the OpenTable Application using your payment card information.
10. Receipts and Transaction History. As a courtesy, we will email a receipt to the email address associated with your Account upon completion of a transaction using the Payment Services. You may print and save copies of these receipts. If you would like a paper receipt, you must request one from the Restaurant at the time of the transaction.
11. Certain Limitations. You acknowledge and agree that OpenTable provides the Payment Services only as a convenience and is not a party to your payment transactions performed using the Payment Services. OpenTable is an independent contractor for all purposes and is not your agent or trustee. OpenTable is not responsible, and has no liability for, the products or services that are paid for with the Payment Services. OpenTable is not responsible for any overcharges or other payment disputes with Restaurants. Users must resolve payment and other disputes directly with Restaurants.
OpenTable is not liable for any payments that the Payment Services do not complete because: (1) your debit or credit card account does not contain sufficient funds to complete the transaction or the transaction would exceed the credit limit or overdraft protection of the debit or credit card account; (2) you have not provided us with correct payment account information; (3) your debit or credit card has expired; or (4) circumstances beyond our control (such as, but not limited to, power outages, interruptions of cellular service, or any other interferences from an outside force) prevent the execution of the transaction. To the extent that any amounts owed cannot be collected from your debit or credit card account through the Payment Services, you are solely responsible for paying the applicable Restaurant(s) by other means.
Part III – Gift Card Services
12. Purchase of OpenTable Gift Cards. You may purchase electronic gift cards and gift certificates issued by OpenTable (each, an "OpenTable Gift Card") through the OpenTable Site and OpenTable Application in increments of $5.00, up to a maximum of $500.00. When you purchase an OpenTable Gift Card, we notify the person you have designated as the recipient of the OpenTable Gift Card by email. Unless otherwise required by applicable law, OpenTable Gift Cards are non-returnable and non-refundable, except that unredeemed OpenTable Gift Cards may be returned within 24 hours of purchase for a refund of the purchase price to the debit or credit card account used for the purchase.
13. Redemption of OpenTable Gift Cards. OpenTable Gift Cards may only be redeemed through the OpenTable Site and OpenTable Application for electronic gift cards or gift certificates issued by participating third-party restaurants (each, a "Merchant") in available U.S. locations (each, a "Merchant Gift Card"). In order to redeem an OpenTable Gift Card, the recipient must activate it by selecting a Merchant in an available U.S. location. A recipient may only redeem the entire value of the OpenTable Gift Card for one Merchant Gift Card of equal value; no partial redemptions. Upon redemption of an OpenTable Gift Card by a recipient, we will email the Merchant Gift Card to the recipient and notify the applicable Merchant, as further described in our privacy policy. OpenTable Gift Cards may only be redeemed for Merchant Gift Cards in the same currency which the OpenTable Gift Card was purchased. Except to the extent required by applicable law, OpenTable Gift Cards are not redeemable for cash. Resale of OpenTable Gift Cards is prohibited. Merchant Gift Cards shall be subject to their applicable terms and conditions.
14. Lost or Stolen OpenTable Gift Cards. OpenTable is not responsible for any OpenTable Gift Cards used without your permission or for any lost or stolen OpenTable Gift Cards. OpenTable may, in its sole discretion, cancel and replace a lost or stolen OpenTable Gift Card (if it has not already been redeemed) with a new OpenTable Gift Card if you provide via the OpenTable Site or OpenTable Application the email address to which the original OpenTable Gift Card was sent.
15. OpenTable Gift Card Customer Service. If you have any questions about OpenTable Gift Cards, please contact OpenTable Customer Service at 1-888-503-7558.
16. Purchase of Merchant Gift Cards. You may also purchase Merchant Gift Cards from OpenTable through the OpenTable Site and OpenTable Application. When you purchase a Merchant Gift Card from OpenTable, we will email the Merchant Gift Card to the person you have designated as the recipient and notify the applicable Merchant, as further described in our privacy policy. Merchant Gift Cards shall be subject to their applicable terms and conditions. Unredeemed Merchant Gift Cards purchased from OpenTable may be returned within 24 hours of purchase for a refund of the purchase price to the debit or credit card account used for the purchase.
17. Merchant Responsibility. You acknowledge and agree that the applicable Merchant, not OpenTable, is the issuer of the Merchant Gift Cards and is solely responsible for honoring the Merchant Gift Cards and that OpenTable acts only as a seller of the Merchant Gift Cards. OpenTable provides the Services only as a convenience and does not review, approve, monitor, endorse, warrant, or make any representations with respect to any Merchants or Merchant Gift Cards. Each applicable Merchant is solely responsible for the products and/or services provided in connection with the use or redemption of a Merchant Gift Card. You agree that you purchase Merchant Gift Cards at your own risk and shall not hold OpenTable, any of its affiliates, or any of their respective employees, officers, directors, agents, representatives, or service providers responsible for any act or omission of any Merchant. Each Merchant is responsible for ensuring that it and the Merchant Gift Cards that it issues comply with all applicable laws and regulations, including, without limitation, laws regulating gift certificates, gift cards, and stored value cards and unclaimed property laws. You further acknowledge and agree that OpenTable is not responsible for any act or omission of Merchant in connection with the issuance, sale, or redemption of, or unclaimed property law compliance with respect to, any Merchant Gift Card, including, without limitation, any failure by any Merchant to honor any Merchant Gift Card or the imposition of any terms and conditions on any Merchant Gift Card that violate any applicable laws or regulations. For any and all issues or questions related to Merchant Gift Cards or any other products or services offered by Merchants, you must contact the applicable Merchant. Except as set forth in Section 16, you must settle any returns, disputes, and any other issues relating to Merchant Gift Cards directly with the applicable Merchant.
18. Payment and Debit and Credit Card Information. You agree to pay the listed purchase price of the OpenTable Gift Cards and Merchant Gift Cards, as applicable, that you purchase at the OpenTable Site and OpenTable Application (including, without limitation, through an SMS or web browser command originating from your Account). You assume all liability for and shall promptly pay any and all such charges. Except to the extent otherwise required by law, you agree that all purchases made by you through the OpenTable Site or OpenTable Application cannot be returned or exchanged and are non-refundable, except as expressly provided in this Agreement. To purchase an OpenTable Gift Card or a Merchant Gift Card, you must provide valid debit or credit card information, including the card's CVV number. OpenTable uses this debit or credit card information as described in our privacy policy.
19. Other Disclosures. For clarity, OpenTable Gift Cards and Merchant Gift Cards are not the same as OpenTable Dining Rewards. OpenTable Gift Cards and Merchant Gift Cards are products that you can purchase from us for redemption in accordance with their applicable terms and conditions. OpenTable Dining Rewards are points that automatically accumulate when you make and keep reservations at Restaurants through the Reservation Services, subject to the OpenTable Dining Rewards Terms and Conditions.
Part IV – Terms for All Services
20. Privacy Policy. OpenTable is committed to helping you safeguard your privacy online. Please review our privacy policy for details about how we collect, use, and disclose information in connection with the Services.
21. Your Account. You may (but are not required to) create an account with OpenTable through the OpenTable Site or OpenTable Application ("Account") in order to use the Reservation Services or to purchase, gift, or redeem (as applicable) OpenTable Gift Cards and Merchant Gift Cards. However, you must have an Account in order to use the Payment Services. When registering for an Account, you must provide true, accurate, current, and complete data about yourself on the OpenTable registration form ("Registration Data"). You also agree to promptly update the Registration Data to keep it true, accurate, current, and complete. You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your Account and the information in your Account, and, except as otherwise required by applicable law, you are solely responsible for all use of your Account, whether or not authorized by you. You agree to immediately notify OpenTable of any unauthorized use of your Account or any other breach of security related to your use of the Services.
22. Communications from OpenTable. The OpenTable Application may use GPS locator capabilities to identify your current location. If you provide a mobile phone number, you hereby expressly consent to receive SMS text messages from OpenTable regarding the Services and as otherwise described in our privacy policy. The communication standards for the Services include, but are not limited to: SMS, GPS, and web-based browser technology. In order to use the SMS-based Services, you must maintain an active account with a carrier of electronic communications through mobile devices and you may not use a prepaid cellular phone to access the Services.
24. Modifications to Services. OpenTable reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to modify the Services from time to time and without notice, including, without limitation, by removing, adding, or modifying portions of the OpenTable Site, OpenTable Application, Restaurants, and/or Merchants. OpenTable shall have no liability to you for any of the foregoing actions. If you object to any such changes, your sole recourse shall be to cease using the Services. Continued use of the Services following any such changes shall indicate your acknowledgment of such changes and satisfaction with all the Services.
25. Intellectual Property Rights and Grant of Rights to User. The features, information, and materials provided and depicted through the Services are protected by copyright, trademark, patent, and other intellectual property laws. All text, graphical content, video, data, and other content made available through the Services (collectively, the "OpenTable Content") are provided to User by OpenTable or its partners or licensors solely to support User's permitted use of the Services. The OpenTable Content may be modified from time to time by OpenTable in its sole discretion. Except as expressly set forth herein, no license is granted to User for any other purpose, and any other use of the Services or the OpenTable Content by User shall constitute a material breach of this Agreement. OpenTable and its partners or licensors retain all rights in the Services and OpenTable Content and any associated patents, trademarks, copyrights, mask work rights, trade secrets, or other intellectual property rights. No license, right, or interest in any trademarks of OpenTable or any third party is granted under this Agreement.
26. Application License. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, OpenTable grants User a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to use the OpenTable Application, in object code form only, on User's compatible mobile devices, solely to support User's permitted use of the Services.
27. Use Restrictions. The Services and OpenTable Content are offered solely for User's personal use for the purposes described in this Agreement. Any and all other uses are prohibited. OpenTable expressly reserves all its rights and remedies under applicable state and federal laws. OpenTable reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to refuse service, terminate Accounts, remove or edit content, cancel reservations, or deny access to the Services. You agree not to (and not to allow any third party to): (1) use any deep-link, robot, spider, scraper, or other automatic or manual device, process, or means to access, copy, search, or monitor any portion of the Services or OpenTable Content, except as expressly authorized by OpenTable; (2) take any action that imposes or may impose (in OpenTable's sole determination) an unreasonable or a disproportionately large load on the Services or OpenTable's infrastructure; (3) utilize any device, software, or routine that will interfere or attempt to interfere with the functionality of the Services; (4) rent, lease, copy, provide access to or sublicense any portion of the Services or OpenTable Content to a third party; (5) use any portion of the Services or OpenTable Content to provide, or incorporate any portion of the Services or OpenTable Content into, any product or service provided to a third party; (6) reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise seek to obtain the source code or non-public APIs to the Services, except to the extent expressly permitted by applicable law (and then only upon advance notice to OpenTable); (7) modify any Services or OpenTable Content or create any derivative product from any of the foregoing; (8) remove or obscure any proprietary or other notices contained in the Services or OpenTable Content; (9) use the Services or OpenTable Content for any illegal purpose; or (10) publicly disseminate information regarding the performance of the Services or OpenTable Content or access or use the Services or OpenTable Content for competitive analysis or benchmarking purposes.
28. Government End Users. The Services constitute a "commercial item" as defined at 48 C.F.R. 2.101, consisting of "commercial computer software" and "commercial computer software documentation" as such terms are used in 48 C.F.R. 12.212. Consistent with 48 C.F.R. 12.212 and 48 C.F.R. 227.7202-1 through 227.7202-4, all U.S. Government end users acquire any OpenTable Application with only those rights set forth therein.
29. Export Control. You may not use, export, or re-export any OpenTable Application or other aspects of the Services (or any copy or adaptation of the foregoing) in violation of applicable law, including, without limitation, United States and foreign export laws and regulations. You represent and warrant that you are not located in a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a "terrorist supporting" country and that you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
30. Termination. OpenTable may suspend your ability to use all or any element of the Services or may terminate this Agreement effective immediately, without notice or explanation. Without limiting the foregoing, OpenTable may suspend your access to the Services if we believe you to be in violation of any part of this Agreement (including any OpenTable Policies) or, with respect to purchasers of OpenTable Gift Cards or Merchant Gift Cards and Users of the Payment Services, if we receive excessive chargebacks on the debit or credit card associated with your Account. After any suspension or termination, you may or may not be granted permission to use the Services or re-establish an Account, and you may lose access to and be unable to use any accumulated dining points as described in the OpenTable Dining Rewards Terms and Conditions. You agree that OpenTable shall not be liable to you for any termination of this Agreement or for any effects of any termination of this Agreement. You are always free to discontinue your use of the Services at any time. You understand that any termination of your Account may involve deletion of any content stored in your Account for which OpenTable will have no liability whatsoever.
31. Reviews, Comments, Communications, and Other Content. The Services may permit you to submit reviews, comments, and ratings; send emails and other communications; and submit suggestions, ideas, comments, questions, or other information for publication and distribution to restaurants and other third parties ("User Content"). Any such User Content must not be illegal, threatening, obscene, racist, defamatory, libelous, pornographic, infringing of intellectual property rights, promoting of illegal activity or harm to groups and/or individuals, invasive of privacy, purposely false or otherwise injurious to third parties, or objectionable and must not consist of or contain software, computer viruses, commercial solicitation, political campaigning, chain letters, mass mailings, any form of "spam" or references to illegal activity, malpractice, purposeful overcharging, false advertising, or health code violations (e.g., foreign objects in food, food poisoning, etc.). You may not use a false email address, impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise mislead as to the origin of User Content. OpenTable reserves the right (but has no obligation) to monitor, remove, or edit User Content in OpenTable's sole discretion, including if User Content violates this Agreement (including any OpenTable Policies), but you acknowledge that OpenTable may not regularly review submitted User Content. If you do submit User Content, and unless we indicate otherwise, you grant OpenTable a nonexclusive, perpetual, royalty-free, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable (through multiple tiers) right to use, modify, reproduce, adapt, translate, publish, create derivative works from, distribute, display, and otherwise exploit such User Content throughout the world in any media. OpenTable takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any User Content submitted by you or any other User or third party.
32. Your Representations and Indemnity. You represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to any User Content submitted by you; that all User Content submitted by you is accurate; and that exploitation of such User Content by OpenTable and its other Users, partners, and licensees will not violate this Agreement, cause injury to any person or entity, or infringe any third-party rights (including, without limitation, intellectual property rights and rights of privacy or publicity). You will indemnify, hold harmless, and (at OpenTable's request) defend OpenTable, its affiliates, and its and their representatives, agents, directors, managers, officers, employees, and shareholders (collectively, the "OpenTable Parties") from and against all claims resulting from (1) any User Content submitted by you, (2) your use of the Services, or (3) any breach or alleged breach by you of this Agreement.
33. Liability Limitations. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY SPECIFIED BELOW WITH RESPECT TO OPENTABLE GIFT CARDS AND MERCHANT GIFT CARDS, IN NO EVENT SHALL THE OPENTABLE PARTIES BE LIABLE FOR ANY INJURIES, LOSSES, CLAIMS, OR DIRECT DAMAGES OR ANY SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE, AND EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, WHICH ARISE OUT OF OR ARE ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH (1) THIS AGREEMENT, (2) ANY USE OF THE SERVICES, THE OPENTABLE CONTENT, OR THE USER CONTENT, (3) ANY FAILURE OR DELAY (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE ANY COMPONENT OF THE RESERVATION SERVICES OR PAYMENT SERVICES), OR (4) YOUR VISIT TO ANY RESTAURANT OR THE PERFORMANCE, NON-PERFORMANCE, CONDUCT, OR POLICIES OF ANY RESTAURANT OR MERCHANT IN CONNECTION WITH THE SERVICES. IN ADDITION, YOU SPECIFICALLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT ANY THIRD PARTY DIRECTING YOU TO THE OPENTABLE SITE BY REFERRAL, LINK, OR ANY OTHER MEANS IS NOT LIABLE TO USER FOR ANY REASON WHATSOEVER, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES OR LOSS ASSOCIATED WITH THE USE OF THE SERVICES OR THE OPENTABLE CONTENT. OPENTABLE IS NEITHER AN AGENT OF NOR OTHERWISE ASSOCIATED WITH ANY RESTAURANT FOR WHICH A USER HAS MADE A RESERVATION OR PAID A BILL USING THE PAYMENT SERVICES OR ANY MERCHANT THAT ISSUES A MERCHANT GIFT CARD.
You and OpenTable understand and agree that the disclaimers, exclusions, and limitations in this Section 33 and in Section 34 are essential elements of this Agreement and that they represent a reasonable allocation of risk. In particular, you understand that OpenTable would be unable to make the Services available to you except on these terms and agree that this Agreement will survive and apply even if any limited remedy specified in this Agreement is found to have failed of its essential purpose.
34. Disclaimer of Warranties. THE SERVICES, ALL OPENTABLE CONTENT, AND ANY OTHER INFORMATION, PRODUCTS, AND MATERIALS CONTAINED IN OR ACCESSED THROUGH THE SERVICES, ARE PROVIDED TO USER ON AN "AS IS" BASIS AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. OPENTABLE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES, CONDITIONS, OR INDEMNITIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT, OR ANY WARRANTY ARISING FROM A COURSE OF DEALING, PERFORMANCE, OR TRADE USAGE. OPENTABLE DOES NOT WARRANT THAT YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT OPENTABLE WILL REVIEW THE INFORMATION OR MATERIALS MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SERVICES FOR ACCURACY OR THAT IT WILL PRESERVE OR MAINTAIN ANY SUCH INFORMATION OR MATERIALS WITHOUT LOSS. OPENTABLE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR DELAYS, INTERRUPTIONS, SERVICE FAILURES, OR OTHER PROBLEMS INHERENT IN USE OF THE INTERNET AND ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS OR OTHER SYSTEMS OUTSIDE THE REASONABLE CONTROL OF OPENTABLE.
35. Links to Third-Party Websites. The Services may contain hypertext links to websites operated by parties other than OpenTable. Such hypertext links are provided for User's reference only, and OpenTable does not control such websites and is not responsible for their content. OpenTable's inclusion of any hypertext links to such websites does not imply any endorsement of the material on such websites or any association with their operators. OpenTable assumes no liability whatsoever for any such third-party websites or any content, features, products, or services made available through such third-party websites.
36. Release. Restaurants and Merchants are solely responsible for their interactions with you and any and all claims, injuries, illnesses, damages, liabilities, and costs ("Claims") suffered by you (or, if applicable, any recipient of an OpenTable Gift Card or a Merchant Gift Card) as a result of your (or such recipient's) interaction with or visit to any Restaurant or Merchant or from any product or service of any Restaurant or Merchant. You hereby release the OpenTable Parties from any and all such Claims. IN CONNECTION WITH THE FOREGOING, IF YOU ARE A CALIFORNIA RESIDENT, YOU HEREBY WAIVE CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE SECTION 1542, WHICH STATES: "A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE CREDITOR DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS OR HER FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE, WHICH, IF KNOWN BY HIM OR HER MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS OR HER SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR." You hereby expressly waive and relinquish all rights and benefits under that section and any law of any jurisdiction of similar effect with respect to the release of any unknown or unsuspected claims you may have against the OpenTable Parties pertaining to the subject matter of this Section 36.
37. Notify Us of Infringers. If you believe any of the Services violate your copyright, notify our copyright agent in writing. The contact information for our copyright agent is at the bottom of this Section.
In order for us to take action, you must do the following in your notice:
(a) provide your physical or electronic signature;
(b) identify the copyrighted work that you believe is being infringed;
(c) identify the item that you think is infringing your work and include sufficient information about where the material is located so that we can find it;
(d) provide us with a way to contact you, such as your address, telephone number, or email;
(e) provide a statement that you believe in good faith that the item you have identified as infringing is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law to be used in connection with the Services; and
(f) provide a statement that the information you provide in your notice is accurate, and that (under penalty of perjury) you are authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner whose work is being infringed.
Here is the contact information for our copyright agent:
Copyright Enforcement
OpenTable, Inc.
1 Montgomery St., Suite 700
San Francisco, CA 94014
Again, we cannot take action unless you give us all the required information.
38. Severability. If any of the provisions, or portions thereof, of this Agreement are found to be invalid under any applicable statute or rule of law, then, that provision (or portion thereof) notwithstanding, this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect and such provision or portion thereof shall be deemed omitted.
39. Assignment. This Agreement and the rights granted and obligations undertaken hereunder may not be transferred, assigned, or delegated in any manner by User, but may be freely transferred, assigned, or delegated by OpenTable.
40. Waiver. Any waiver of any provision of this Agreement, or a delay by any party in the enforcement of any right hereunder, shall neither be construed as a continuing waiver nor create an expectation of non-enforcement of that or any other provision or right.
41. ARBITRATION AGREEMENT AND JURY TRIAL WAIVER, CLASS ACTION WAIVER, AND FORUM SELECTION CLAUSE. Any and all controversies, disputes, demands, counts, claims, or causes of action (including the interpretation and scope of this clause, and the arbitrability of the controversy, dispute, demand, count, claim, or cause of action) between you and the OpenTable Parties or their successors or assigns shall exclusively be settled through binding and confidential arbitration.
Arbitration shall be subject to the Federal Arbitration Act and not any state arbitration law. The arbitration shall be conducted before one commercial arbitrator with substantial experience in resolving commercial contract disputes from the American Arbitration Association ("AAA"). As modified by this Agreement, and unless otherwise agreed upon by the parties in writing, the arbitration will be governed by the AAA's Commercial Arbitration Rules and, if the arbitrator deems them applicable, the Supplementary Procedures for Consumer Related Disputes (collectively, the "Rules and Procedures").
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FAQ: Some things appear "unintelligently designed" or are poorly designed. Is ID falsified by "sub-optimal design"?
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In science, theories are confirmed or disconfirmed comparing the data to predictions that the theory makes. A prediction of a scientific theory must be generally true for the theory under all circumstances, such that it can be confirmed through repeated experimentation by any scientist. In intelligent design theory, some claims about what designers produce are true in all circumstances, but some are not. In other words, there are some characteristics of designers which are universal among all possible intelligent agents, and some characteristics which are particular to only a subset of intelligent agents. Although it is clear that specified complexity is always the product of design, because designers may act with intentions unknown to us, it can sometimes be difficult to make broad scientific claims about what a designer would or would not produce in all situations. Such non-universal claims about what a designer would or would not create something enter us into the realm of theology and philosophy. To assess whether a claim about a designer is philosophical or scientific, we must turn to philosophy.
The Greek philosopher Aristotle realized that we can explain the origin of any object or entity through various "levels" of causation. Often called Aristotle's "four causes," these ideas have been the bedrock of introductory philosophy courses for the past 2000 years. A brief look at these four causes will help show how they are relevant to this discussion.
Final Cause: Final causes are the ultimate purpose for the existence of something. The final cause asks "what is a thing's meaning or reason for existence in the grand scope of reality?" For example, if we ask, "why are there chairs?" the final cause would be "because people need something to sit in." In the case of chairs, their final cause is not necessarily moral or religious, however final causes very often are of a moral or religious nature. For example, if you ask a Christian, "Why do humans exist?," the traditional answer is "To know God personally and glorify Him." Final causes thus can have strong moral and religious implications, as they tend to account for a metaphysical reason for existence.
Efficient Cause: The efficient cause is the mechanism or method by which something is created—the "how." Returning to the chair example, the efficient cause of a chair might be a woodworker. The efficient cause has great importance in the intelligent design - evolution debate, which is essentially a debate over the efficient cause of life—"how did life arise?" Evolutionists, even theistic evolutionists, would claim that our efficient cause is the Darwinian mechanism--mutation and selection. In contrast, design theorists claim our efficient cause is some combination of intelligent design and evolution (microevolution). Questions about the efficient cause thus look to universal predictions of the two theories which allow us to determine which mechanism was involved in the production of a biological structure.
Formal and Material Cause: These lower levels of causation are less important here. Formal causes ask about the pattern, essence, or physical structure of a thing. The formal cause of a chair is the shape into which it is made so people can sit in it. The formal cause of a human is more complicated, and would include our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual construction. A material cause is the physical matter from which a thing is made. Thus, the material cause of a chair could be wood, or plastic. More specifically, it could be atoms and molecules. A human's material cause would be cells, proteins, and biomolecules, etc.
In assessing the claim "a designer wouldn't design…" we must determine a claim is against a final cause or an efficient cause. Objections to final causes, the moral or religious reason something exists, lie outside of the realm of science. These theological objections can be answered through theological explanations, and are not relevant questions for the science of intelligent design. However, some objections could deal with the efficient cause. Let's try to distinguish between the two.
Distinguishing between "Final" and "Efficient" Objections to Design
At the Hillsdale College intelligent design debate, Darwinist philosopher Michael Ruse objected to intelligent design because he claimed a designer would not create people with the disease sickle-cell anemia. Others have objected that a designer would not create things like viruses (or perhaps one might include "Type III Secretory Systems"), which are designed to kill. In fact, many early evolutionists promoted their theory not necessarily through scientific evidence for evolution, but rather through negative theological claims of what God would or would not have created. One such example comes from Darwin himself, who wrote:
The science of intelligent design theory quickly disposes with such moral objections through the simple observation that even things with an evil moral purpose can be intelligently designed. Torture chambers and electric chairs, terrible as they may be, are full complex specified information. Though some designers do not create evil, such as the God of the Bible, such a claim is not true for all designers in general, and thus does not attack the scientific theory of intelligent design. This shows how questions about final causes are not typically applicable to the science of intelligent design theory, because designers can create for a variety of different metaphysical reasons, though their products are still designed. Having addressed the scientific issue, such theological objections still beg for theological answers.
Most religions attempt to provide solutions to the problem of evil at some level. Volumes have been written by religious commentators on this subject, as coping with evil is a fundamental struggle with which all human beings must contend. We all lose loved ones, we all experience pain and loss. In writing an intellectual explanation for the "problem of evil" Christian author C.S. Lewis prefaced his discussion saying:
Christianity solves the "problem" by explaining that evil is ultimately not the fault of God, but rather is the result of human sin and the sin of evil spiritual beings. Both groups have rebelled against God, who is fundamentally loving and good. God thus did not create the physical or spiritual world full of evil, but His creations, in their own free will, chose evil. Additionally, though the world chose evil, Christianity teaches that God has redeemed it from evil. An analogy is that humanity was on a boat with God, and it was safe, dry, and happy. Humanity chose to jump off the boat into the swirling ocean, incurring the consequence of imminent drowning. Yet, while drowning in this ocean of evil, God in His mercy has thrown us a life-ring, Jesus Christ, if we choose to grab on to him. This is the essence of the Christian solution to the problem of evil.
Though it is easy to dispense with moral objections such as the one made by Ruse, there is another form that is less blatantly theological. Ruse objected that God would not create disease. While Ruse may have been arguing that God would not morally create the evils of disease, another possibility is that Ruse is simply claiming that as far as designing an organism is concerned, it is sub-optimal design to produce something that easily might die. Thus, Ruse might say, we would not expect any designer to create something which functions below the optimal level. This objection hits closer to the efficient cause, because a firm statement can be made that designers tend to create things that are functional. A similar objection was made by Stephen J. Gould, saying that the "panda's thumb" is poorly designed to grasp the bamboo upon which pandas feed. Phillip Johnson describes the crux of such arguments:
Every engineer realizes that when designing a machine, one must act within design constraints. Sometimes one aspect of the functionality of a machine must be compromised in order to allow for another more crucial design parameter to be met. The final result is a machine that has overall optimal design, though perhaps functioning at a lower than possible level of performance with regards to some particular aspect of functionality.
At the scientific level, "sub-optimal design" can also be explained because designers may not intend for certain aspects of the design to operate at 100% energetic efficiency. This objection really gets at the final cause of why in the grand sense something is the way it is. Operating at less than 100% energetic efficiency does not address the question of the efficient cause, because there are many plausible reasons for why intelligent design might produce less than 100% optimal functionality with regards to all aspects of performance. Finally, this really is no different from the problem of evil objection. All one is really objecting to is the pain or deficiencies (i.e. evil) caused by the design, and assumes that the designer must never allow for such deficiencies. Indeed, genetics has revealed that we are even programmed to die! Indeed, unfortunately, many individuals with many diseases face a shortened lifespans. Does that mean we were not designed? Perhaps we were intelligently designed to die because it was not a part of the designer's final reason for creating us that we should live in these physical bodies forever. One might think that the designer is therefore cruel, but remembering that this is a theological issue, it can be pointed out that Christianity explains how "evil" in the world is ultimately not the fault of God. Objections pointing out "sub-optimalities" do not address the scientific question of evolution vs. design. Something can be sub-optimal, and yet be designed. Ever driven a Pinto?
Only questions about the "efficient cause" (i.e. the mechanism) which produced the design are relevant to the scientific inquiry of intelligent design theory.
For an excellent treatment of this subject, see also "Can ID Explain the Origin of Evil," by Jay W. Richards (published in Salvo Magazine, Issue 4, 2008).
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The summer before his freshman year of high school Alex went to a camp at the Hank Haney Junior Golf Academy at Hilton Head Island in South Carolina. He was then offered a scholarship to go to the world famous academy fulltime as a student. That's where he spent freshman and sophmore years.
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The experience has opened up many opportunities.
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This year, Shattuck is spending his junior year in Lake Mary, Florida, where's working everyday with Mike Bender, who's also the coach of PGA Tour player Zach Johnson.
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By Viator, October 2013
In the first half of the twentieth century, an English academic called Tolkien dreamed up a world called Middle Earth, largely based on his childhood in Birmingham, Middle England. The result was the written trilogy, The Lord of the Rings. In the first years of the twenty-first century, a New Zealand film-maker called Jackson took those stories of Middle Earth and made them into visual feasts, a trilogy of films – The Fellowship of the Ring in 2001, The Two Towers in 2002, and Return of the King in 2003. Peter Jackson also turned to the landscapes of his childhood for Middle Earth, but halfway across the world, in the stunning landscapes of New Zealand.
At home in Wellington, Peter Jackson had at his fingertips a diversity of landscape and locations film-makers around the world would envy. He chose the rolling hills of Matamata for Hobbiton, the volcanic region of Mt Ruapehu as the fiery Mt Doom where The Ring was forged, and Queenstown and its surroundings for the Eregion Hills, the Pillars of Argonath and other scenic locations.
His use and adaptation of the landscape was so visionary and so committed, that many sites where filming took place have been kept as he left them – you can visit the Shire, the Gardens of Isengard where Gandalf rode to see Saruman and Orcs felled the trees, the River Anduin where Aragon was washed ashore after the attack of the Wargs, and Helms Deep. The magnificent Fernside Lodge was used for Lothlorien and the white bridge lives on keeping Lothlorien alive. Rivendell, where Frodo recovered from his knife attack, still resounds with storytelling.
Lord of the Rings on film won a total of 17 Academy Awards, a mammoth haul, and firmly put New Zealand on the map as a place to make movies – both for its talented actors and crews and for its amazing natural beauty. Middle Earth became a real and lasting place in the world. Now that's a testament to good storytelling.
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Published: May 25, 2012
Indonesia's Lion Air is close to signing a deal for 10 Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner passenger jets, with a total list price of USD$ 1.9 billion, as the budget carrier aims to tap the long-haul market.
Two sources involved in the deal told reporters that Lion Air prefers the newer carbon-composite 787 to the Airbus A330. The deal is expected to be signed in Jakarta on June 8 as Lion Air celebrates its 12th anniversary.
Such a move by Lion Air would put more pressure on Garuda Indonesia and Malaysia's AirAsia because it would be able to serve a broader range of destinations.
Lion Air's founder and chief executive Rusdi Kirana said in February the Indonesian low-cost carrier was in negotiations with Airbus and Boeing to buy Airbus A330s or Boeing 787s.
One of the sources said the 787 would help Lion Air's marketing campaign with an image of fuel efficiency and the latest technology.
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While it is virtually a matter of standard practice to execute a general durable power of attorney for finances and a power of attorney for health care as part of a comprehensive estate plan, it is far less likely that any consideration is given to planning for young adult children. I would not say that this is a complete oversight in the planning process, but recently I have become more interested by this idea and the benefits that just a small amount of additional attention can bring. By young, adult children I am referring to children that have reached the age of 18, but whose parents are still very much involved in his or her financial and health care related world due to the fact that the child is not married or otherwise in a position where someone else could step in to assist them in a time of need. This scenario is not atypical considering the normal life cycle of people today. It is typical to see a child graduate high school, go on to college or out into the workforce for a number of years, and then at some point in his or her mid to late 20s he or she gets married. The interplay with the law, privacy rights, the age of majority (18), and parental rights makes this a very interesting issue.
It is assumed in most cases that a parent is responsible for a child and privy to information regarding that child until the child reaches the age of majority, which in Wisconsin is 18. The question then becomes what happens to these rights and responsibilities once the child turns 18? The answer may be surprising but the truth is the parents really are not in the same position. Universities will not discuss the contents of a students file with a parent without the student's written consent. Additionally, banks and other financial institutions will not discuss the child's account or allow the parent access for any reason. Finally and possibly most importantly, hospitals and doctors will not allow parents to make health care decisions or access medical records without the student's written consent.
One way of addressing these issues is for the adult child to execute powers of attorney to nominate either the parents or another person to make health care and financial decisions for the child in the event they are unable to do so themselves. This approach uses the same documents that one would find in a typical estate plan: General Durable Power of Attorney for Finances and a Power of Attorney for Heath Care.
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At 8:46 a.m. on Tuesday, September 11, most national news outlets took a break from their regular programming to air a special "moment of silence" from New York City and Washington D.C. to honor the victims of 9/11. We say "most" because, as it turns out, not everyone was a participant. While FOX, CBS, ABC, CNBC and MSNBC went quiet at this time, which was the moment 11 years ago when the first plane hit the Twin Towers, NBC continued on with the 'Today' show, which just so happened to feature an interview with Kris Jenner of 'Keeping Up with the Kardashians.'
Holidays are right around the corner and as I was cleaning up the KORD studio this morning I found Greg's wishlist for Christmas.
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There are all sorts of taboo fetishes out there that can eventually catch up with a person and force the proverbial hammer of the law to come swinging down something rotten, spoiling all of the fun.
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PROCTOR Joy Anne Jones, 72, of Proctor and a former longtime resident of Castleton, left this life peacefully, surrounded by her family, on Friday, March 22, 2013, at the Rutland Regional Medical Center, following a short illness.
She was born on October 7, 1940, the daughter of Nelson and Pauleta Langdon.
Mrs. Jones was employed as a nurses aide at the Rutland Regional Medical Center for 15 years prior to her retirement.
She enjoyed crocheting, knitting and reading.
Survivors include three sons, William Jones, Richard Jones and his wife Michele and Kenneth Jones and his wife Theresa, all of Proctor; a sister, Darlene Langdon Hurd of Bronx, N.Y.; a brother, Micheal Langdon of Springfield; a granddaughter, Kimberly Jones, grandson Adam Jones, a great-granddaughter, Kaylee Manning; a niece and a nephew.
She was predeceased by her husband, Griffith Morris Sonny Jones, who died on October 16, 2001.
The graveside service will be held at a later date in Cedar Grove Cemetery in Fair Haven.
Arrangements are under the direction of the Durfee Funeral Home.
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- TOMORROW'S HEADLINES TODAY: Patrick McArdle reports and the theft of an $89,000 shotgun, police release a video of the Monday Castleton robbery, O'Gorman reports a lawsuit by a local man claiming his vehicle unlawfully seized, police leave him in cold.
- RICHARD'S POOR ALMANACK: Giles Corey of Salem, Mass., is pressed to death during the Salem witch trials; on this day in 1952, film comedian Charlie Chaplin, while traveling to England, is denied re-entry into the United States by U.S. attorney general.
- RICHARD'S POOR ALMANACK: Dutch father of microbiology Antonie van Leeuwenhoek discovers the existence of one-celled organisms; in 1967, The Doors are booked to play the Ed Sullivan show; in 1858, freedom fighter Dred Scott dies on this day in St. Louis.
- TOMORROW'S HEADLINES TODAY: No money this year for western rail project, Lola Aiken memorialized in Montpelier, Supreme Court Castleton murder suspect will remain in jail, Shaftbury man fires shots from his AK-47 into neighbor's home.
- RICHARD'S POOR ALMANACK: On this day in 1959, Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev arrives in U.S. for historic 13-day visit; in 1987, Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze sign nuclear reduction agreement.


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Fool Me Once, Shame On You; Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me; Fool Me Thrice, Shame on Gruber
As the fallout continues over last week's Halbig decision by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, so does the walking back of words by Obamacare architect and MIT professor Dr. Jonathan Gruber. The case, which ended with a ruling that Obamacare subsidies can't be distributed in federal exchanges, has the potential to send the health care law into a death spiral. While the right-wing blogosphere celebrated, many on the left and Gruber himself were quick to deflect.
But now they may have an even bigger problem on their hands.
Before the release of contradictory video evidence, Gruber went on MSNBC to defend the law that he helped craft:
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Jonathan, was this a typo saying that only if you had a state exchange you could get a subsidy and therefore be required to participate or was it some significant policy decision not to include states that didn't have exchanges?


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Elizabeth Holt,
Contact Information
615 N. Wolfe St
Baltimore , Maryland
SciVal Experts Research Profile
Primary reaserach interest centers on childhood immunizations - improving vaccination coverage in the US and less developed countries.
Currently managing data for the reaccredidation of the School.
- International Health
- childhood immunizations
- data management
Asturias EJ, Soto M, Menendez R, Ramirez PL, Recinos F, Gordillo R, Holt E, Halsey NA. Meningitis and pneumonia in Gautemala children: the importance of Haemophilus influezae type b and Streptococcus pneumoniae. Rev Panam Salud Publica 2003: 14(6):377-384.
Boerma JT, Holt E, Black R. Measurement of biomarkers in surveys in developing countries: opportunities an problems. Population and Development Review 2001:27; 303-314.
Minkovitz C, Holt E, Hughart N, Hou W, Thomas L, Dini E, Guyer B. The effect of parental monetary sanctions on the vaccination status of young children. Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine 1999: 153;1242-1247.
Hughart N, Strobino D, Holt E, Guyer B, Hou W, Huq A, Ross A. The relation of parent and provider characteristics to vaccination status of children in private practices and managed cared organizations in Maryland. Medical Care 1999: 37;44-55.
Hughart N, Holt E, Rosenthal J, Ross A, Jones A, Keane V, Vivier P, Guyer B. Effectiveness of pediatric practice consultation on missed opportunities for immunization. A Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 1998: 75;123-134.


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Moving to Ghost
I've moved to the ghost blogging platform you can find my new blog at https://lavinski.me/
I've moved to the ghost blogging platform you can find my new blog at https://lavinski.me/
Many of use git pull and merge frequently in an effort to keep a branch up to date while working a feature. However it's actually recommended not to merge into a feature branch until it's complete and ready to be integrated back into the development branch.
The reason for this is that merge is a is a semantic action and actually has additional meaning than just update this branch. For example a feature branch should only be concerned with adding a single feature to a point in time. This makes development easier, you don't want the system changing around you as you develop a feature. Merge does a great job at integrating branches when they're ready (As long as you're project isn't completely different [if it is you have bigger problems]). It also lets you become more flexible, branches can merge with other branches or features without getting changes they're not interested in.
It's also good to remember if you just want to sync with a remote such as the origin you can use fetch which avoids the implicit merge of pull.
The first day at TechEd offered two main sessions the developer kick off and the Keynote. The developer kick off touched on a new Visual Studio 2013 feature called Browser Link for ASP.NET and Team Foundation Service.
The kick off started by introducing One ASP.NET which is the unification of all web related .NET technologies, frameworks and libraries like MVC, SignalR and Web Forms can be mixed and matched however you like and all fall under the one ASP.NET umbrella. There has been a range of improvement to intellisense across the board particularly in html and CSS editors. The main highlight was the introduction to Browser Link by the creator of Web Essentials for Visual Studio.
Brower link enables a persistent link from Visual Studio to whatever web browser you use. It enables a few interesting scenarios the first of which being changes made to CSS are instantly reflected in all the browsers connected by Browser Link. Edits to razor files require a little more than a save (one key combo) because behind the scenes you're telling each connected browser to refresh the page but you neve have to leave Visual Studio. Imagine you're trying to iron out a few CSS quirks across two or more browsers. You can have two browsers open at the same time and CSS changes appear instantly on both browsers as soon as you save the file making comparisons efficient and easy.
Browser link also lets you do the inverse, you can use the web browser to jump to the exact line in your razor template that an element corresponds to via the inspector (Ctrl-Alt-I). You can also go one step further, ctrl-alt-d enables edit mode which can let you do thinks link edit html or Action Links and other
Html helpers which are updated in real time and this all works in any browser.
The next session introduced Team Foundation Service which has a set of features coming to the next version of Team Foundation Server. There are a few interesting features including git support, a free tier for up to 5 users, a scrum style backlog and Trello-esk cards. Also notably was the addition of an integrated persistent chat room through which you can share news and chat with other members but also see general activity in the project such as build and code review events.
The primary keynote had a few speakers, the main talk was from the CEO of Yammer. This was the one of the best talks I've seen and it talked about organisations and change. The theme was Blink and you'll miss it. The rate at which technology is changing is happening so fast that it's becoming even more important for people and organisations to be able to learn and react faster. If you wait too long it's already irrelevant. This means instead of long release cycles where failure means 2-3 years of work goes down the drain, moving to pushing updates every month. This means the cost of failure is much smaller as well. What's worse changing one month of work or one year's worth. This is so important for organisations and this quote by Jack Welch describes it perfectly.
"If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near."
There have been an increasing number of disruptive changes happening in the last 5 or so years. Communication has enabled modern society to move ideas and information much faster than ever before. The problem we see in companies these days is that people inside organisations don't communicate very well, especially across departments. The outside world is moving so fast because it's a network of self motivated people and we need to bring that into our companies and organisations. These types of organisations are called Responsive Organisations and you can read more about what it means to be one at http://www.theresponsiveorg.com/manifesto.
John Carmack's keynote this year was a fantastic talk about software engineering. Parts three and four of the keynote touched on all the key hot topics including Code Quality, Functional Programming, Static Typing vs Dynamic Typing, Static Analysis and Garbage Collection. Defiantly worth watching if you're into professional development, and if not it's still worth watching.
This is my PowerShell profile, it does a few nice things such as add
open and
edit commands to the shell. Most importantly though it customizes my prompt to shorten it while still showing how deep I am in the directory hierarchy. I've also set up
poshgit as well as a few other helpers and functions.
function Open($path) {
explorer $path
function Edit {
[Parameter(Mandatory = $False, ValueFromPipeline = $True, ValueFromRemainingArguments = $True, Position = 0)]
Process {
$app = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe"
if ($File -ne $null) {
$parameters = '"' + $File + '"'
$options = New-Object "System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo"
$options.FileName = $app
$options.Arguments = $parameters
$options.WorkingDirectory = $pwd
$temp = [Diagnostics.Process]::Start($options).WaitForInputIdle(500)
Invoke-Item $app
# This was already here
function elevate-process
$file, [string]$arguments = $args;
$psi = new-object System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo $file;
$psi.Arguments = $arguments;
$psi.Verb = "runas";
$psi.WorkingDirectory = get-location;
set-alias sudo elevate-process;
# WebGet
function get-html([string]$url)
$webClient = (New-Object System.Net.WebClient);
function shorten-path([string] $path) {
$loc = $path.Replace($HOME, '~')
# remove prefix for UNC paths
$loc = $loc -replace '^[^:]+::', ''
# make path shorter like tabs in Vim,
# handle paths starting with \\ and . correctly
return ($loc -replace '\\(\.?)([^\\])[^\\]*(?=\\)','\$1$2')
function prompt {
# our theme
$cdelim = [ConsoleColor]::DarkCyan
$chost = [ConsoleColor]::Green
$cloc = [ConsoleColor]::Cyan
$default = [ConsoleColor]::White
# Reset color, which can be messed up by Enable-GitColors
$Host.UI.RawUI.ForegroundColor = $default
write-host (shorten-path (pwd).Path) "" -n -f $cloc
return '> '
# gci . *.cs -Recurse | select-string . | Group Filename | Measure-Object Count -Min -Max -Average
function CountLines($directory)
$pattern = "*.cs"
$directories = [System.IO.Directory]::GetDirectories($directory)
$files = [System.IO.Directory]::GetFiles($directory, $pattern)
$lineCount = 0
foreach($file in $files) {
$lineCount += [System.IO.File]::ReadAllText($file).Split("`n").Count
foreach($subdirectory in $directories) {
$lineCount += CountLines $subdirectory
$msbuildPath = "C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\"
$gitPath = (Get-Item "Env:LocalAppData").Value + "\GitHub\PortableGit_93e8418133eb85e81a81e5e19c272776524496c6\cmd\"
$env:path += ";$gitPath;$msbuildPath;"
function Enable-Git {
. 'C:\Users\me\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\posh-git\profile.example.ps1'
#Write-Host "For git use 'Enable-Git'"
function Load-Profile
. $Profile
function Edit-Profile
edit "C:\Users\me\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Profile.ps1"
function Git-Log([switch]$OneLine, $Length)
$Length = 1000;
if ($OneLine) {
git log --pretty=oneline -n $Length
} else {
git log -n $Length
Testing emails can sometimes be a bit challenging. smtp4dev is a small program that intercepts all received emails so you can quickly send and view emails from any application that uses it as the SMTP server.
For a .NET application just add this to the config file.
<network host="localhost"/>
Now all emails that the application sends will appear for your viewing pleasure in the email list (pictured below).
It's always a good idea to be as consistent as possible when you're writing code. So when you're using settings from a configuration file it's a good idea to avoid sprinkling
ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["MySetting"] around the codebase, especially if you've making multiple calls to it.
A great way to provide consistency and to remove this duplication is to create a settings class either one static global one or multiple instance classes which I'll then manage with dependency injection. Then I load all the settings from configuration into that class on start up.
I've also written a little library that makes use of reflection to make this even easier.
Once my settings are in my config file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<add key="Domain" value="example.com" />
<add key="PagingSize" value="30" />
<add key="Invalid.C#.Identifier" value="test" />
I make a static or instance class depending on my needs. For simple applications with only a few settings one static class is fine.
private static class Settings
public string Domain { get; set; }
public int PagingSize { get; set; }
public string ICID { get; set; }
Then using my library call either
Inflate.Static or
Inflate.Instance and the cool thing is I can use any key value source.
using Fire.Configuration;
Inflate.Static( typeof(Settings), x => ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[x] );
var settings = new SpecificSettings();
Inflate.Instance( settings, x => ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[x] );
All the code for this is in bitbucket at https://bitbucket.org/Lavinski/fire
There is even a nuget package http://nuget.org/packages/Fire/
Install-Package Fire
If you've ever wanted to setup a wildcard entry in your hosts file so you don't have to add an entry for every IIS binding you'll be happy to know there is a way.
The trick however is not to use the hosts file but a local DNS proxy instead. Acrylic DNS is a free and open source which you can download here. You use it in much the same way you would use a hosts file.
Stackoverflow has a great answer detailing how to set it up:
To configure Acrylic DNS Proxy, install it from the above link then go to:
Add the folowing lines on the end of the file:
127.0.0.1 *.localhost
127.0.0.1 *.local
Restart the Acrilic DNS Proxy service:
You will also need to adjust your DNS setting in you network interface settings:
Set "Use the following DNS server address":
Preferred DNS Server: 127.0.0.1
When working with websites that require https (SSL) developers always ending up facing the problem: Why can't you use hostnames with https. This is because hostname is encrypted so IIS needs to establish the SSL connection before it can even read the hostname.
However we can get around this problem by making use of a wildcard certificate. Then it won't matter what the hostname is and we can happily use SSL on all our internal dev sites.
You can't actually use IIS to setup a wildcard certificate so I'll be using a bit of Powershell to move things along.
The first step is to create the self signed certificate. Any clients will also have to trust this certificate.
$cert = New-SelfSignedCertificate -DnsName "*.company.internal" -CertStoreLocation cert:\LocalMachine\My
Export-Certificate -Cert $cert -FilePath "company.internal.cer"
$password = ConvertTo-SecureString -String "SecretHeHe" -Force –AsPlainText
Export-PfxCertificate -Cert $cert -FilePath "company.internal.pfx" -Password $password
Next add the bindings to IIS, this script will add a http and https binding for each combination of site and environment.
$sites = @(
$envs = @(
Import-Module WebAdministration
foreach ($name in $sites) {
foreach ($env in $envs) {
$name = "$name ($env)"
$siteName = "$name ($env)"
New-WebBinding -Name $siteName -Port 80 -Protocol http -HostHeader "$env.$name.company.internal"
New-WebBinding -Name $siteName -Port 443 -Protocol https -HostHeader "$env.$name.company.internal"
Just one thing left, setup IIS to use the certificate. To do that open IIS and import the certificate. Then select the open one of the https bindings and select the certificate (it won't matter which one, any site on that port will use it).
It always takes me ages to kind what properties Visual Studio makes available to the MSBuild project files so here's the full set.
$(RemoteMachine) Set to the value of the Remote Machine property on the Debug property page. See Changing Project Settings for a C/C++ Debug Configuration for more information. $(Configuration) The name of the current project configuration (for example, "Debug"). $(Platform) The name of current project platform (for example, "Win32"). $(ParentName) (Deprecated.) Name of the item containing this project item. This will be the parent folder name, or project name. $(RootNameSpace) The namespace, if any, containing the application. $(IntDir) Path to the directory specified for intermediate files relative to the project directory. This path should have a trailing slash. This resolves to the value for the Intermediate Directory property. $(OutDir) Path to the output file directory, relative to the project directory. This path should have a trailing slash. This resolves to the value for the Output Directory property. $(DevEnvDir) The installation directory of Visual Studio 2010 (defined as drive + path); includes the trailing backslash '\'. $(InputDir) (Deprecated; migrated.) The directory of the input file (defined as drive + path); includes the trailing backslash '\'. If the project is the input, then this macro is equivalent to $(ProjectDir). $(InputPath) (Deprecated; migrated.) The absolute path name of the input file (defined as drive + path + base name + file extension). If the project is the input, then this macro is equivalent to $(ProjectPath). $(InputName) (Deprecated; migrated.) The base name of the input file. If the project is the input, then this macro is equivalent to $(ProjectName). $(InputFileName) (Deprecated; migrated.) The file name of the input file (defined as base name + file extension). If the project is the input, then this macro is equivalent to $(ProjectFileName). $(InputExt) (Deprecated; migrated.) The file extension of the input file. It includes the '.' before the file extension. If the project is the input, then this macro is equivalent to $(ProjectExt). $(ProjectDir) The directory of the project (defined as drive + path); includes the trailing backslash '\'. $(ProjectPath) The absolute path name of the project (defined as drive + path + base name + file extension). $(ProjectName) The base name of the project. $(ProjectFileName) The file name of the project (defined as base name + file extension). $(ProjectExt) The file extension of the project. It includes the '.' before the file extension. $(SolutionDir) The directory of the solution (defined as drive + path); includes the trailing backslash '\'. $(SolutionPath) The absolute path name of the solution (defined as drive + path + base name + file extension). $(SolutionName) The base name of the solution. $(SolutionFileName) The file name of the solution (defined as base name + file extension). $(SolutionExt) The file extension of the solution. It includes the '.' before the file extension. $(TargetDir) The directory of the primary output file for the build (defined as drive + path); includes the trailing backslash '\'. $(TargetPath) The absolute path name of the primary output file for the build (defined as drive + path + base name + file extension). $(TargetName) The base name of the primary output file for the build. $(TargetFileName) The file name of the primary output file for the build (defined as base name + file extension). $(TargetExt) The file extension of the primary output file for the build. It includes the '.' before the file extension. $(VSInstallDir) The directory into which you installed Visual Studio 2010. This property contains the version of the targeted Visual Studio, which might be different that the host Visual Studio. For example, when building with $(PlatformToolset) = v90, $(VSInstallDir) contains the path to the Visual Studio 2008 installation. $(VCInstallDir) The directory into which you installed Visual C++ 2010. This property contains the version of the targeted Visual C++, which might be different that the host Visual Studio. For example, when building with $(PlatformToolset) = v90, $(VCInstallDir) contains the path to the Visual C++ 2008 installation. $(FrameworkDir) The directory into which the .NET Framework was installed. $(FrameworkVersion) The version of the .NET Framework used by Visual Studio. Combined with $(FrameworkDir), the full path to the version of the .NET Framework use by Visual Studio. $(FrameworkSDKDir) The directory into which you installed the .NET Framework. The .NET Framework could have been installed as part of Visual Studio 2010 or separately. $(WebDeployPath) The relative path from the web deployment root to where the project outputs belong. Returns the same value as RelativePath. $(WebDeployRoot) The absolute path to the location of
. For example, c:\inetpub\wwwroot. $(SafeParentName) (Deprecated.) The name of the immediate parent in valid name format. For example, a form is the parent of a .resx file. $(SafeInputName) (Deprecated.) The name of the file as a valid class name, minus file extension. $(SafeRootNamespace) (Deprecated.) The namespace name in which the project wizards will add code. This namespace name will only contain characters that would be permitted in a valid C++ identifier. $(FxCopDir) The path to the fxcop.cmd file. The fxcop.cmd file is not installed with all Visual C++ editions.
Source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/c02as0cs.aspx


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"Glee" star Lea Michele has totally split from actor boyfriend Theo Stockman. Read full story at UsWeekly.com.
Here are more "Extra" Scoop headlines for September 20!
David Arquette and Courteney Cox Are Still Working Together - Gather.com
Zooey Deschanel is Adorkable in New FOX Show "New Girl" - Boston.com
Netflix Move Sets Up Possible Sale or Spinoff of Qwikster - Business Week
Journey's Neal Schon: 'Been Waiting' for Michaele Salahi for 15 years - USA Today
Lisa Kudrow stopped by The Grove on Tuesday to analyze her new role as short-tempered Dr. Fiona Wallice in "Web Therapy." The Showtime series, which first began online, moved to a 30-minute comedy on TV.
Kudrow revealed, "It's a horrible woman I play."
As Dr. Wallice, Kudrow offers online therapy sessions, which last exactly three minutes. The actress explained where the three-minute idea came from. "We thought because of the Internet and everyone trying to get everything done at work... it's probably one thing that would be offered and it's a horrible idea and that's what makes it funny."
Jennifer Aniston threw a get-together, inviting close pals Courteney Cox and Chelsea Handler, to introduce them to her new beau of a few weeks, Justin Theroux.
Full story on People
Get more "Extra" Scoop headlines for Thursday, June 2!
Jessica Simpson Adopts her Fiance's Airdale Terrier, Bentley -- UsWeekly
Bradley Cooper Just Got Hotter: Watch Him Speak Fluent French! -- PopEater
Courteney Cox & David Arquette Are the Happiest 'Un-Couple' in L.A. -- RadarOnline
Jamie Kennedy Handcuffed Over a Girl -- TMZ
Actor Brad Pitt enjoyed an evening with ex-wife Jennifer Aniston's BFF Courteney Cox at an industry dinner Wednesday night.
The two joined a group of 12 people at Hollywood hotspot Beso (owned by Eva Longoria), honoring their manager Cynthia Pett-Dante's birthday. "They hugged and kissed when they greeted each other," an onlooker told People.com. "They talked for a while."
"Extra" caught up with "Cougar Town" stars Josh Hopkins and Courteney Cox at a special event where the show was honored by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Josh asserted that he and Courteney, the famous ex-"Friend," are "just friends."
The pair sparked rumors of romantic involvement after they were snapped in their swimwear during a paradise getaway to St. Bart's last month. Hopkins unexpectedly said of their island adventure, "She [Courteney] was actually trying to help me look for ladies. She's a good wingman," adding, "Every guy knows when you are with a hot girl, all the other hot guys are like, 'What's he got, he must be cool,' so it only helps."
Actress Courteney Cox made a surprise appearance on Howard Stern's show Thursday morning -- crashing Stern's interview with Cox's estranged husband, David Arquette.
For the first time, the two explained why there were problems in their marriage. Cox said, "Whenever I would, like, need consoling from David... he could not literally put his arm around me for one second without completely getting a boner."
Actress Courteney Cox's recent trip to St. Barths with "Cougar Town" co-star Josh Hopkins caught the paparazzi's attention, along with her amazing bikini bod. The paps managed to snap a photo of Cox in the water after one side of her bikini top accidentally slipped off, and when she mentioned the incident to David Letterman on his show, the host pulled out the photo.
"They actually did get something... I had a little nipple slip," Cox admitted. Right on cue, Letterman showed the photo of the bikini malfunction and a surprised Courteney laughed, "Wow, Dave, that's not pixilated or anything!"
Check out the funny video!
"Extra" correspondent Jerry Penacoli caught up with actors Courteney Cox and David Arquette at the premiere of their film "Scream 4" -- and as they both posed for pictures, they seemed happy to be joking around. Could this mean they may get back together?
"I don't know. We're not divorced," Cox said. "We couldn't be in a better place. It's better than before we were separated because we're getting to know each other in a different way."