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Terms & Conditions
I. General
- The Site is operated by ProgressPlay Ltd (the "Company"), with registered address at Level 3 (suite no. 1258), Tower Business Centre, Tower Street, Swatar, Birkirkara, Malta. The Company operates online games in accordance with a Class 1 on 4 licence issued in Malta by- Malta Gaming Authority licence number -MGA/CL1/857/2012 issued on the 16th April 2013 [Licence number MGA/CL1/957/2014] issued on 19th April 2014 and licence number MGA/CL1/1141/2015 issued on 16th December 2015 and is licensed and regulated by the UK Gambling Commission, License Number 000-039335-R-319313-008
- These terms and conditions ("Terms and Conditions") govern your ("You", "Your" or "Player") use of the online and mobile gaming services provided to You by the Company ("Company's Services"). These Terms and Conditions should be read carefully by You in their entirety prior to Your use of the Company's Services or products. Please note that these Terms and Conditions constitute a legally binding agreement between You and the Company.
- These Terms and Conditions incorporate the following components and by agreeing to these Terms and Conditions You confirm that You also accept and agree to these policies:
- Privacy Policy - Click here
- Withdrawal Policy- Click here
- Bonus Policy - Click here
II. Definitions
- In these Terms and Conditions, the following words and phrases shall (unless the context otherwise requires) have the meanings set out beside them:
- "£/$/€/kr" - shall mean the currency with which You registered Your Account.
- "Account" shall mean a personal account opened by an individual, solely for such individual to enable such individual to play the Games at the Site.
- "Games" shall mean any of the games made available on the Site.
- "Illegal Actions" shall mean illegal, unlawful, fraudulent, or other improper activities (including, but not limited to, (i) collusion between players, (ii) the use of devices and software such as robots, (iii) sale, transfer and/or acquiring Accounts from other Players, (iv) transfer of funds amongst Players' Accounts), as well as breaking into the Site or attempting to do the same.
- "Restricted Territories" shall mean the following countries: Belgium, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey and the United States of America and additional jurisdictions blocked by the Company at its sole discretion. This list may be amended by the Company, at its sole discretion, from time to time.
- "Services" shall mean the Company's Games and any other services and activities offered at the Site.
- "Site" shall mean any website and/or mobile site and/or mobile application owned, operated or hosted by the Company.
- "We", "Our" or "Us" shall mean the Company, and/or any subsidiaries, affiliates, employees, directors, officers, agents, suppliers, consultants and contractors.
III. Subordination to the Terms and Conditions and the Binding Effect Thereof
- By using the Site, registering at the Site, or by participating in one of the Services, You agree to be bound by and to act in accordance with the Terms and Conditions, as they may be updated from time to time, without any reservation.
- The Company reserves its right to amend these Terms and Conditions at any time, in its absolute and exclusive discretion. You will be notified of any changes to the Terms and Conditions prior to the changes coming into effect. Failure to confirm such amendment will prevent You from continuing using the Services. If You do not wish to be bound by such amendment You must stop using the Site and Services. Should You wish to stop using the Site and Services following any change to the Terms and Conditions, You may withdraw all available funds and close Your Account in accordance with these Terms and Conditions.
- These Terms and Conditions supersede all prior agreements between the parties in relation to its subjects matter and constitute the entire and whole agreement between You and the Company. You confirm that, in agreeing to accept these Terms and Conditions, You have not relied on any representation except for any express representation made by the Company in these Terms and Conditions.
IV. Who is Entitled to Participate
- You may only use the Services if You comply with all of the following:
- You are at least eighteen (18) years old or of legal age as determined by the laws of the country where You live (whichever is higher); in this respect, the Company wishes to draw Your attention to the fact that underage gambling is an offence;
- You are the owner of a valid payment method (or authorized to use a valid payment method by the owner of that valid payment method); and
- You do not violate any law or regulation as a result of using the Services. In this context, You agree that if You reside or are present in any jurisdiction that prohibits using the Services offered at the Site (including without limitation any of the Restricted Territories) You shall not participate in the prohibited activity.
- The Services are intended only for users who are not prohibited by the laws of any applicable jurisdiction from gambling on the internet and/or mobile devices. The Company does not intend to enable You to contravene applicable law. You represent, warrant and agree to ensure that Your use of the Site and/or the Services will comply with all applicable laws, statutes and regulations. The offering or availability of the Services shall not be deemed or interpreted as an offer or invitation by Us to use the Services, if You reside in a place in which such use is currently forbidden by law (including without limitation the Restricted Territories), or where the Company, in its sole discretion, elects not to offer Services. You shall be solely responsible for determining whether Your use of the Site and/or Services is legal in the place where You live and/or use the Site and/or Services. We make no representations or warranties, expressed or implied, concerning the legality of the Services and/or of the Site and/or of any person's participation in the Services through this Site, and shall not be responsible for any illegal use of the Site by You. It is Your responsibility to ensure that You comply with any and all laws applicable to You before registering or participating in any of the Services through this Site. You should consult with legal counsel in the applicable jurisdiction about the legality of Your use of the Site and/or the Services.
- Until We have satisfactorily completed age verification, You will not be permitted to withdraw any winnings from Your Account. In addition, if You deposited money using any type of payment method other than a credit card, and unless We have established that a third party has satisfactorily carried out age verification, if age verification has not been satisfactorily completed in respect of You within 72 hours of You attempting to register and open an Account and deposit money with the site, then (i) Your Account might be frozen, and (ii) no further gambling will be permitted via Your Account until age verification has been successfully completed. In addition, the Company reserves the right at any time to request from You evidence of age and if satisfactory proof of age is not provided within 72 hours of Our requesting such proof, then the above mentioned consequences will apply, mutatis mutandis. In the event that it is found that You are under the age of 18, or the legal age as determined by the laws of the country where You live (whichever is higher), then the Company shall close Your Account and return to You any money paid in respect of the use of the Services, but the winnings shall not be paid and will be confiscated.
- Employees, directors and officers of the Company, as well as members of their families, affiliates or subsidiaries, and all other persons connected, directly or indirectly, to the computer systems or the security system employed by the Company, as well as any person involved in the operation of this Site and the establishment thereof, including, but not limited to advertising, promotion and fulfillment agencies, insurers and legal advisers, webmasters and web suppliers and family members thereof, are not entitled to participate in any of the Services. For the sake of good order it is clarified that any person who is not entitled to participate as aforesaid - as well as any other person who substitutes such excluded person - is also not entitled to any of the prizes afforded or referred to by the Site, and the Company reserves the right to shut down their account and seize any funds held in those accounts.
V. Account Registration
- Anyone interested in participating in the Services is obliged to register and open an Account at the Site.
- At the first phase of the registration process, You must fill in all the obligatory fields in the registration form (which include a valid identification, an address and contact email or personal telephone number), as well as choose a user name and password(the "Identification Details").
- You shall be fully and solely responsible to reserve in confidentiality Your Identification Details and not to transfer them to another. The full responsibility for an unauthorized use of Your Identification Details lies solely with You, and You alone will bear all responsibility derived from any unauthorized use of Your Identification Details. If You misplace, forget or lose Your Identification Details because of anything other than the Company's error, the Company shall not be liable for any direct or indirect loss associated with such occurrence.
- The second phase in the registration process to the Site will be performed by You on the first date in which You deposit funds with the Site. At this second phase You must provide valid payment method details, as well as additional personal identification details (the Identification Details, as defined above, and the additional details required at the second phase will be referred to collectively as - the "Player's Details"); such Player's Details will be reviewed as a part of an additional "know your customer" process. The Company will carry additional "know your customer process" upon any special circumstances including, but not limited to, high fraud score, suspicious details provided, a high number of deposits, various IPs used to access the Account, abnormal game play activity and Your jurisdiction.
- You are only allowed to have one Account at this Site. If You open more than one Account, the Company may block or close any or all of Your Accounts at its sole and absolute discretion; in which case the Company may confiscate the winnings in the Accounts as well as seize and void any and all Accounts balance.
- The Company may at its own discretion and without having to provide justification, refuse to open an Account or close an existing Account. However, all contractual obligations already made will be honoured.
- You hereby represent that the registration of Your Account, in either phases, is done personally by You and not by any third party.
- By opening an Account, You hereby represent, warrant, acknowledge and undertake that (a) the details You submit during the registration process are true and correct, and that You will update them, immediately upon any change thereto, (b) Your Account is for Your personal use only and shall not be used by any third party, (c) any funds You deposit in the Account may and will be used by You solely for playing the Games and/or using the Services, (d) the Company is not a financial institution and any funds in Your Account shall not accrue any linkage differentials and/or interest, (e) You are of sound mind and You are capable of taking responsibility for Your own actions, (f) it is Your responsibility to read and understand the Games rules and procedures and that You fully understand these rules and procedures, (g) You understand that the use of the Games carries with it a risk of losing funds wagered in the Games, (h) You will cooperate with the Company and provide it with all requested documentation in a full, complete and truthful manner, (i) You have verified and determined that Your use of the Services does not violate any laws or regulations of any jurisdiction that applies to You, (j) You are solely responsible for recording, paying and accounting to any relevant governmental, taxation or other authority for any tax or other levy that may be payable due to Your use of the Site (including, but not limited to, payment of winnings), (k) You will use the Services in good faith towards the Company and others using the Services, (l) You will be solely responsible for all Your losses resulting from placing bets at the Site and playing the Games, (m) the Company may at its sole discretion, decide whether to open, maintain and/or close Your Account (provided that existing contractual obligations are honored), as well as close Your account and confiscate, seize, retain and/or hold all or part of the funds held in Your account and recover and/or forfeit any and all winnings paid to You or to which You are entitled - where You have broken any provision of these Terms and Conditions, (n) You shall be solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of Your Player's Details (including Your user name and password required for entering Your Account), and for any and all actions and transactions taken in connection with Your Account by anyone who enters Your Account while using Your Player's Details, and all such actions and transactions shall be deemed as actions and transactions taken by You, (o) You will immediately inform the Company of any suspected unauthorized use of Your Account, (p) You shall not make any charge backs and/or deny or reverse any payment made by You in connection with the Services, and You shall reimburse Us for any loss or damage We incur as a result of any such action, and in any event You will promptly pay any and all of Your debts to Us, and (q) You shall indemnify Us and hold Us harmless, from and against all claims, liabilities, damages, losses, costs and expenses, including legal fees, arising out of or in connection with any breach of these Terms and Conditions by You, and any other liabilities arising out of Your use of the Site or any unauthorized use of the Site by any third party using Your Player's Details.
- You further represent, warrant, acknowledge and undertake that (a) You will not use Your Account, and will not allow any third party to use Your Account, for any Illegal Actions, (b) in case You will perform any Illegal Action the Company shall be entitled to disclose any and all of Your Account details, Player's Details and information to the relevant authorities, and to suspend and/or cancel Your Account and confiscate any and all funds in Your Account, (c) all money that You deposit into Your Account is not tainted with any illegality and, in particular, does not originate from any illegal activity or source; (d) You shall be solely responsible for all losses, liabilities and damages incurred as a result of any Illegal Action performed by You and You shall indemnify Us for any such losses, damages and liabilities, (e) You have not had an Account in the past which was terminated or suspended by the Company, (f) the means of payment (e.g. credit card) information You provided the Company in connection with Your Account are of means of payment owned by You and in Your name (or that the owner of the means of payment provided You with all required consent to use that means of payment for placing a wager via the Site, and You are acting within the confines of that consent) and was not stolen or reported as lost, (g) We are not obligated in any form or manner to validate the consent granted to You by the owner of the means of payment which You use, and (h) You are not and You have not notified the Company that You are addicted to gambling.
VI. Account Operation
- It is unlawful to deposit any money in Your Account from ill-gotten means, and You will not make such deposits. Without derogating from the above, You hereby acknowledge that the Company will check all transactions to prevent money laundering, and will report any suspicious transactions to the relevant authorities.
- The following deposit methods are available to deposit money with the Company: Credit Cards, Wire Transfer, Neteller, Pay by Phone, Paysafecard, Trustly, Skrill, Sofort, GiroPay, Euteller, WebMoney, Qiwi and Fast BankTransfer. Availability of each payment method depends on Your registration country and chosen currency. Your Account will be credited with the deposit only after the deposit is confirmed by the Company and the relevant payment method; until such confirmation is received, Your Account will not include such deposit in the Account's balance. The Company does not provide credit, nor does it participate in, arrange, permit or knowingly facilitate the giving of credit.
- Your attention is drawn to the fact that the Company imposes certain deposit limits, at its discretion and subject to various reviews and verifications performed by the Company. These could vary over time and in accordance with various characteristics relating to each customer and deposit; by way of example, Pay by Phone deposits are from GBP 10 to GBP 30 per day, per site, Paysafecard – from £/$/€ 10 or 100kr to £/$/€ 700 or 7,000kr per deposit, per site.
- The Company is required by its licence issued by the UK Gambling Commission to inform You about what happens to funds which the Company holds on account for you, and the extent to which funds are protected in the event of insolvency Protection of customer funds. The Company shall hold your funds in a separate bank account so as to be kept segregated from the Company's own accounts, in accordance with the Company's regulatory obligations. These funds are not protected in the event of insolvency. This meets the Gambling Commission's requirements for the segregation of customer funds at the level: basic segregation.
- When You request to withdraw funds, the funds requested will be transferred to the payment method(s) and the same account You used to deposit the funds.
- If You have an outstanding deposit to the Company, the Company reserves the right to delay the withdrawal until all deposits are received and confirmed by the Company.
- The Company does not charge any processing fees (save for instances in which a withdrawal request is made after the Company ceases to offer its Services in certain jurisdictions). However, certain banks and payment methods may charge fees and/or commissions in connection with deposits and withdrawals, and such fees and/or commissions are not the responsibility of the Company.
- It is Your responsibility to notify the Company immediately of a lost or stolen payment method, or of any change in the payment method; any losses and damages caused due to Your failure to provide such immediate notification will be solely borne by You, and We will not be liable for any such losses and damages.
- You are not allowed to transfer funds from Your Account to other users or to receive money from other users in Your Account, or to sell, transfer and/or acquire Accounts from other users of the Site.
- The minimum withdrawal amounts are as follows: (i) Wire transfer/IDEAL/Trustly: £/$/€50 or 500kr per site. (ii) Cheque: £/$/€30 or 300kr per site. (iii) e-wallets, credit card, debit card: £/$/€20 or 200kr, per site. Withdrawal requests that are below the minimum amounts noted above will not be processed, save for exceptional situations.
- Subject to these Terms and Conditions (including, but not limited to, certain requirements from You in connection with such withdrawals), any withdrawal request will be processed in full within 5 business days; note that following which, each processor has an additional settlement time, which depends on the withdrawal method, as follows: (i) Credit and debit cards – up to 6 business days; (ii) Neteller – up to one business day; (iii) Skrill – up to one business day; (iv) Bank transfer – up to 10 business days; (v) iDEAL – up to 3 business days; (vi) Trustly – up to 3 business days; (vii) Qiwi – up to 3 business days; (viii) WebMoney - up to 3 business days; (ix) Euteller - up to 3 business days.
- We draw Your attention to the following additional withdrawal restrictions: (a) Visa credit and debit card withdrawals are not available in certain jurisdictions due to local issuer restrictions; (b) MasterCard credit and debit card withdrawals are not available due to issuer restrictions; (c) the maximum withdrawal amount per account is (i) £/$/€3,000 or 30,000 kr per week, per site and (ii) £/$/€6,000 or 60,000kr per month, per site. In case of progressive jackpots, the winnings can be withdrawn at once in full amount, except in case of Divine Fortune jackpot win where the maximum withdrawal amount per month is $30,000 / €30,000 / £30,000 / 300,000kr. LuckyAceCasino may, at its sole discretion, increase these limits to its valued members.
- As a measure to protect from online fraud, the Company may sometimes require identity verification before processing a withdrawal; without derogating from the above, a recent photographic identifying document is required to process Your first withdrawal. You will be asked to show one or more of the following documents (or additional documents not listed below) to the Company: (i) Credit/debit card used to fund an Account: A clear, legible copy of both sides of the card is required. For security reasons, the middle eight numbers on the front of the card and the three-digit code on the back of the card's copy must be crossed out; (ii) Proof of address: This can come in the form of a recent utility bill or bank statement (either not older than three months) that shows Your full name and address as listed in Your Account; (iii) Photo ID: The ID can be a copy of a valid passport, driver's licence or national ID card. Your name, photograph and signature must appear on the copy sent to the Company. In some cases, You may be asked to have Your documents signed and stamped by a qualified notary or solicitor as proof of legitimacy. Without derogating from the above, where Your cumulative withdrawals amount to £/$/€ 1,500 or 15,000kr per site, the provision of the documents noted in items (ii) and (iii) above is mandatory. Required documentation will have to be provided within 7 days following the request of the Company; should the documentation not be provided within this timeframe, or false or misleading documentation if provided, then the Company may, at its sole discretion, terminate Your Account, confiscate all winnings and seize and void any and all Account balance.
- Without derogating from any other provision in these Terms and Conditions, before any withdrawals are processed, Your play will be reviewed for any irregular playing patterns. Should the Company deem that irregular game play has occurred, the Company reserves the right to withhold any withdrawals, seize and/or confiscate the balance of Your Account and/or close Your Account.
- Your Account will be deemed an Inactive Account if You have not logged into Your Account for a period of 12 (twelve) months. Any Inactive Account will be charged with an administrative fee equivalent to 5 (five) Euros per month, provided the Company has notified You 30 (thirty) days prior to your account becoming Inactive, that such fees will be incurred; the maximum amount of fees thus incurred will be the balance of Your Account . If You have not logged into Your Account for a period of 30 (thirty) months, Your Account will be deemed a Dormant Account, in which case the Company shall remit the balance of Your Account (after deduction of the charges referred to in this section) to You, or to if You cannot be satisfactorily located - to the Malta Gaming Authority.
- If Your Account is regulated by the Company's UK online gambling licence, then the following arrangement will be administered instead of the arrangement in section 35: should You fail to use Your Account for six months then Your Account will be considered an Inactive Account. The six-month period will run from the date of Your last login to Your Account. In the case of an Inactive Account, the Company will levy a monthly administration fee at a rate of 10% of the balance in the Account on the date that it became Inactive, provided the Company has notified You 30 (thirty) days prior to your account becoming Inactive. The administration fee shall be deducted from the Inactive Account's balance commencing from the last day of the month in which the Account became Inactive and on the last day of every month thereafter, until the balance of the account has reached zero. In the event that You login to Your Account during the period in which the administration fee is levied, the Company will cease to levy the administration fee but shall not be obligated to return to You any funds already deducted from the Account at such time.
- In any case in which Your Account becomes a Dormant Account or an Inactive Account, is blocked from further use or closed, and without derogating from the Company's right to seize and forfeiture any and all funds held in Your Account, You may contact the Company at email@example.com and submit a request to reopen Your Account and/or return the balance of Your Account. For the avoidance of doubt, the Company is under no obligation to accept Your request, and such request will be reviewed in accordance with the relevant facts and circumstances and the provisions of these Terms and Conditions.
- You may ask at any time to close Your Account by sending an email to the Company's customer support at firstname.lastname@example.com, and You will be contacted by customer support accordingly in order to facilitate such request.
- The Company's default user history presentation provides only part of the game history; if You wish to receive all of Your game history, please contact the Company's customer support at email@example.com,
VII. Responsible Gaming & Self-exclusion
- Always remember that the Services are for Your personal entertainment; they are not meant to make You rich overnight and there are no winnings formulas. Make sure to budget Your money and know the game rules. We urge You to review information available at https://www.gamblersanonymous.org.uk/, http://www.gamcare.org.uk/ or similar websites so as to ensure You are gambling responsibly. Furthermore, We suggest that You employ measures aimed towards gambling responsibly, such as timers or other forms of reminders and/or duration, wagers and loss restrictions while gambling. We offer measures relating to deposit limits, wager limits, loss limits and session limits; any reduction in the limits will take effect immediately and any increase in the limits will take seven days (or 24 hours if Your Account is regulated by the Company's UK online gambling licence) before coming into effect. In addition, We offer self-exclusion and cooling off options (as further detailed in sections 41-46). We also wish to draw Your attention to the existence of software preventing an individual computer from accessing online gambling websites, such as www.cyberpatrol.com or www.gamblock.com/
- You may exclude Yourself from the use of the Services for any definite or indefinite time (or, if Your Account is regulated by the Company's UK online gambling licence - for a minimum period of between six months to 12 months (extendable by You for one or more periods of at least six months each)) via the responsible gaming section in the client interface or by contacting our customer support via (email@example.com), in accordance with Your decision to be provided to the Company. Prior to confirming Your self-exclusion request, You will be provided with information regarding the consequences of self-exclusion. Should You decide to be self-excluded, We encourage You to consider extending Your self-exclusion to other remote gambling operators currently used by You. Any undetermined bets at the time of Your self-exclusion will be settled in the normal way, according to the normal timescales and, if subsequently applicable, winnings paid to You. Any self-exclusion Account blocks cannot be undone during the agreed self-exclusion period.
- Following Your request to be self-excluded: (i) Your Account will be closed and any funds held in Your Customer Account will be returned to You (subject to the provisions of section 20); (ii) As soon as practicable after Your request to be self-excluded is submitted to the Company, You will cease to receive any marketing materials relating to the Services; provided, however, that this will not extend to blanket marketing which is targeted as a particular geographical area and where You would not be knowingly included.
- It is hereby clarified that regardless of the length of Your self-exclusion period, at the end of such self-exclusion period, such self-exclusion will end and you will be allowed to commence wagering with the Company and also receive marketing materials. If Your Account is regulated by the Company's UK online gambling licence, at the end of such self-exclusion period, such self-exclusion will remain in place unless You take a positive action in order to gamble again (subject to a minimum self-exclusion period of six months), and You will not receive any marketing materials unless You have taken a positive action in order to gamble again and agreed to accept such marketing materials. The positive action in order to gamble again must be made via telephone and not via the internet, and is accompanied by a one day cooling off period prior to allowing You to gamble again.
- In requesting self-exclusion, You agree to provide full and accurate personal details, now and in the future, so Your access/use of the Site and Services can be restricted. If You do choose to self-exclude, We will use all reasonable endeavours to ensure We comply with Your self-exclusion. However, in agreeing to self-exclude, You accept that You have a parallel obligation not to seek to circumvent the self-exclusion. Accordingly, We have no responsibility or liability for any subsequent consequences or losses howsoever caused that You may suffer or incur if You commence or continue to gamble through additional online accounts where You have changed any of the registration details or You provide misleading, inaccurate or incomplete details or otherwise seek to circumvent the self-exclusion agreed. Any self-exclusion, time out or any similar action will be valid across all websites operated by the Company.
- If You are uncertain whether to exclude Yourself from the site, ask Yourself the following:
- Have You been diagnosed with an addictive disorder previously?
- Do You place bets while under the influence of alcohol or other substances?
- Is gambling interfering with Your daily life?
- Are You trying to recover previous loses by placing more bets?
- If Your Account is regulated by the Company's UK online gambling licence, You may request a time out from gambling, which is a cool off period of between 1 to 42 days. A request for a time out period should be submitted via the Site in the casino client under the responsible gambling section. Once the cool off period requested is over, or if You asked to end it, then, despite anything to the contrary herein, You will be allowed to continue and gamble without any restrictions.
- You may set up a reality check timeframe through the responsible gaming screen. Once set, the time that has passed since You started to play the Games within the same session will appear on the screen (the "Timecount"). Once the Timecount will reach the reality check timeframe You have set, You will be prevented from continuing playing the Games during the same session until You acknowledge You wish to continue playing the Games. If You acknowledge You wish to continue playing the Games, Timecount until the next reality check will be reset, and the abovementioned process will recommence. Beginning a new session will cause the Timecount to reset as well. At any point in time, You may change and/or cancel the reality check timeframe, and such change or cancellation will enter into force immediately (and in the case of change, will reset the Timecount).
VIII. Bonus Policy
- All promotions, bonuses or special offers are subject to promotion-specific terms and conditions and any complementary bonus credited to Your Account must be used in adherence with such terms and conditions. Please review all such promotion-specific terms and conditions, located at the promotion page.
- The Company reserves the right to withdraw any promotion, bonus or special offer at any time. In the event that the Company believes You are abusing or attempting to abuse a bonus or other promotion, or are likely to benefit through abuse or lack of good faith, then the Company may, at its sole discretion, deny, withhold or withdraw from You any bonus or promotion, or rescind any policy with respect to You, either temporarily or permanently, or terminate and/or block Your Account without being under any obligation to pay You any funds held in Your Account. The abuses include, but are not limited to, registering multiple accounts within the Progressplay network, which means any and all websites operated by Progressplay limited, in order to take advantage of any of bonus and/or promotion. Where we identify abuse, we reserve the right to impose limitations on certain bonus offers at our sole and absolute discretion
- All winnings generated from the bonuses may be cashed out only after an amount totaling no less than 50 (fifty) times the bonus amount received has been wagered (unless stated otherwise in the specific terms and conditions of a specific bonus or promotion); You will not be able to withdraw the bonus amounts and any winnings attributed to them from Your Account prior to meeting this requirement regardless of the reason for not meeting this requirement, and such funds will be deducted from Your Account balance for the purpose of withdrawal.
- The bonus amounts cannot be cashed out, and can be used solely for wagering purposes; for the avoidance of doubt, the inclusion of the bonus amounts in Your Account balance does not mean that the bonus amounts can be withdrawn, and such bonus amounts will be deducted from Your Account balance for the purpose of withdrawal. Only 5% of bets placed on all versions of video poker and/or power video poker shall be counted toward wagering requirements for any bonus, unless stated otherwise in the specific terms and conditions for that bonus; only 10% of bets placed on all versions of Baccarat, Blackjack, Roulette, Jackpot, and/or poker table games shall be counted toward wagering requirements for any bonus, unless stated otherwise in the specific terms and conditions for that bonus.
- If you are yet to complete the wagering requirements of a bonus whilst claiming another bonus/es, you must complete the wagering requirements of the first bonus before starting to accumulate the wagers for completing the wagering requirements for any consecutive bonus/es, unless your balance reaches 0.00, in which case your wagers will start to be accumulated for the purpose of the wagering requirements of the next bonus.
- The Company reserves the right to prevent players registered, logging in or depositing from certain jurisdictions from participating and being eligible for any or all promotions and bonuses, at its sole discretion.
IX. Powers and Authorities of the Company
- The Company shall make commercially reasonable efforts to prevent any malfunctioning in the Site's activity. However, in any event of a technical failure (or any other error) in the Site's systems for any reason whatsoever, the Company will be entitled to cancel Your participation in any of the Games, concerning which the malfunctioning has occurred. In such an event, Our responsibility and liability will be limited only to the participation fee (wager) sum that was paid by You for participating in such Game, and Your Account will be credited with such participation fee (wager) accordingly.
- The Company reserves the right to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Services if for any reason, the Services cannot be conducted as planned, including, but not limited to, infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering or unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures or any other causes beyond the control of the Company. If any errors result in awarding winnings to You or in an increase in winnings owed or paid to You, You shall not be entitled to these winnings. You shall immediately inform the Company of the error and shall repay any winnings credited to Your Account in error to the Company (as directed by the Company) or the Company may, at its discretion, deduct an amount equal to those winnings from Your Account or set off such amount against any money owed to You by the Company.
- The Company reserves the right to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend its Services to You in its sole discretion, given that the Company will provide You with a clear notice in writing of its decision.
- The Company reserves the right to limit, refuse or cancel any bet, stake or other wager made by You or through Your Account, as well as cancel any Game (regardless of whether such cancellation was due to actions on Your part or of any third party), where the Company believes that any act of fraud or any other act of bad faith has been taken against the Company or any third party; in such circumstances You will only be entitled to receive the participation fee sum that was paid by You for participating in such Game, and Your Account will be credited accordingly. Without derogating from any other provision of these Terms and Conditions, in any case in which the Company may terminate an Account, the Company may confiscate the winnings in the Account as well as seize and void any and all Account balance.
- If You are disconnected from the internet while playing the Games (not through any intentional disconnection on Your part of any other bad faith action), the Games' results and Your Account's balance will be kept as they were before such disconnection. The Company will take all reasonable measures to ensure that if You experience interruptions and/or technical difficulties with any Game, after You had made a wager, You will be allowed to resume play and restore the Game as it was before the interruption and/or technical difficulties took place. If such restoration is not possible, the Company will ensure the Game is terminated, refund the wager to Your Account, immediately inform Malta Gaming Authority or the British Gambling Commission, as applicable, of the matter and refrain from re-commencing playing the Game if it is indicated that the failure which has occurred may re-occur.
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The Disability Services Office collaborates with students, instructors and staff to ensure equal educational and programmatic access for eligible students with documented disabilities. We provide students the opportunity to reach their full potential by creating academic accommodations and support services along with promoting independence and self-advocacy. Additionally, we serve as a campus and community resources on post-secondary disability issues.
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One of the most frequently asked questions in any department store across the South is how do you ever pick the softest set of sheets? Shopping for sheets for a bedroom is a very tricky matter as one has quite a few things to ponder when making a list of what matters most. In the South, especially with hot summers and chilly winters, our homerun winner for every room including guest rooms and children's rooms is always going to be the softest 100% cotton bedding. A cotton sheet may start off crisp, but with time they will only improve with every wash cycle. In a few months, you will have a luxuriously soft and cool bed to retreat to each evening. A soft set of sheets is extra important for a good nights rest. Satin, bamboo, brushed linen, jersey and other options are also great. The pricing ranges for soft sheets so make sure you are picking a set that you know will last!
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Starz is ramping up its promotions for the April 12 premiere of "Da Vinci's Demons," its reimagining of Leonardo Da Vinci's exploits as 20something artist-inventor-adventurer about town.
The network on Wednesday released the "Coins Teaser" above and a behind-the-scenes discussion with the cast and producers of the series.
"He was one-third Indiana Jones, one-third Sherlock Holmes and one-third Tony Stark," creator and executive producer David S. Goyer says of Leonardo da Vinci.
In the featurette below, Goyer, executive producer Jane Tranter, series star Tom Riley and co-stars Eros Vlahos, Lara Pulver, Tom Bateman, Michael Elwyn and James Faulkner discuss the series.
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Tom Riley ("Monroe," I Want Candy), brings Leonard da Vinci to life in "Da Vinci's Demons," a historical fantasy following the 'untold' story of the world's greatest genius during his turbulent youth in Renaissance Florence. Brilliant and passionate, the twenty-five year old Leonardo da Vinci is an artist, inventor, swordsman, lover, dreamer and idealist. As a free thinker, with intellect and talents that are almost superhuman, he struggles to live within the confines of his own reality and time. He begins to not only see the future, but invent it.
The series also stars Laura Haddock (The Inbetweeners Movie, "Honest," Captain America: The First Avenger) who plays the celebrated beauty with obscure motives, Lucrezia Donati, Elliot Cowan ("Marchlands," "The Fixer," "Lost in Austen") who plays the shrewd de factor ruler of Florence, Lorenzo Medici, Lara Pulver ("True Blood," "Sherlock," "Robin Hood"), who plays his wife Clarice Orsini and Blake Ritson (RocknRolla, Titus, "World Without End") as Pope Sixtus' (played by James Faulkner) ruthless bastard son, Count Riario.
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Whether it's good or bad for Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, Ann Romney's horse Rafalca qualified for the U.S. Olympic dressage team over the weekend.
Dressage, for the vast majority of the population who don't follow it, is one of three horse-related sports in the Olympics, and the only one that doesn't involve jumping. It DOES involve very large horses doing precise sets of movements, some of them to music. Dressage enthusiasts HATE when it is compared to ballet. (Full disclosure: I am a long-suffering practitioner of the art, which is harder than it looks.)
Rafalca, a 15-year-old Oldenburg mare, and her rider (and Ann Romney's longtime coach), Jan Ebeling, finished third in the trials held at Gladstone, N.J., nabbing the third and final team spot on the squad. Romney co-owns the horse with Ebeling's wife, Amy, and Beth Meyers, described by The New York Times as "a family friend."
The Romneys' involvement in dressage (French for "training"), often considered the snobbiest of the horse sports, has brought considerable attention to it of late, not all of it good.
For example, Stephen Colbert was his usual scathing self last week, when it appeared likely the Romneys might have a date in London this summer. Colbert suggested, tongue firmly in cheek, that being involved in dressage might give Romney some help "relating to Joe Sixpack" and teased the sport's fans for being "highfalutin'."
The U.S. Equestrian Federation struck back, if not to defend Romney, at least to defend dressage. At Saturday's last day of competition, the group handed out bottles of Budweiser (presumably to those of age) and foam fingers declaring "Dressage is No. 1," creating what must have been one of the stranger equestrian Olympic trials ever. Ebeling and Romney (and Rafalca) even posed with the props.
But now comes the real question. The Olympic dressage competition is scheduled for the first week in August. For some voters, it will be the first introduction to the Romney family. And that first image may well be that they co-own a horse worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in a sport practiced by a fairly small and mostly well-to-do segment of the population.
A Romney will take part in this summer's Olympics, or at least a half Romney. This weekend, Rafalca, a horse co-owned by Ann Romney, won a spot on the U.S. Olympic Dressage Team.
Dressage. It's considered the ultimate test of communication between rider and horse and the most artistic of the equestrian sports. To the untrained eye, it looks like a kind of horse dancing.
We wanted to know more. And guess what, we didn't have to go very far to find someone to talk with about this sport. We just went upstairs. It turns out that our health care correspondent, Julie Rovner, has been competing at lower level dressage for more than two decades and she's currently doing so with her quarter horse, Impressive Star Man, aka Hopper. Hi, Julie.
JULIE ROVNER, BYLINE: Hi, Robert.
SIEGEL: You're here to shed some light on what some people refer to as horse ballet. And, Julie, how do horse and rider actually compete in this sport?
ROVNER: Well, they're - it's a prescribed test. So, a horse and rider will enter the ring. There will be judges actually at several different places. And the horse does a set of movements.
SIEGEL: But this is different from jumping. Say, this is not about that at all.
ROVNER: That's right.
SIEGEL: This is turning left in a circle, turning right in a circle?
ROVNER: Yes. Although it's...
SIEGEL: Throw in a little mambo move.
ROVNER: It's more than that. These horses are doing really extraordinarily difficult movement. And it looks to the unpracticed eye like the rider is doing almost nothing. They're not allowed to talk to the horse. The movements on the rider's part are imperceptible. That's why the training is so exquisite.
I can tell you, as one who does it, it's really, really hard.
SIEGEL: But there is a kind of freestyle component to this?
ROVNER: That's right. There are three events, two actual tests where you do prescribed movements. Everyone...
SIEGEL: School figures.
ROVNER: Everyone will do the same movements, right. Like school figures and figure skating. The last one is a freestyle to music, as in figure skating, that everybody gets to go and then you get to sort of make up your own test, showing off what your horse does particularly well. If your horse does great cantor pirouettes, you'll have several cantor pirouettes. If your horse does the flying changes of lead, which is very exciting. It looks like the horse is skipping. You'll have several of those.
SIEGEL: This feels like a very 19th century kind of sport. What's its history?
ROVNER: It actually dates all the way back, really, to the Greeks. This started out as a military sport for military horses who needed to be obedient and maneuverable. That's - you know, basically, dressage is all about getting a horse to move with a rider on its back the way it moves without a rider on its back.
It began in the Olympics 100 years ago. This is the 100th anniversary of it, but only men - only military people - were allowed to ride until 1952. That's when the first women were permitted to ride in the equestrian events. And since then, women and men have competed on equal footing.
SIEGEL: And a medalist in Olympic dressage - it's the rider or it's the horse?
ROVNER: It's both. It's always been both.
SIEGEL: Now, which one gets the medal around the neck?
ROVNER: The rider gets the medal and the horse gets a ribbon, I believe.
SIEGEL: OK. Now, it's time to handicap the field for us since we know nothing about this sport. Who are the stars? Who's Ann Romney's horse up against?
ROVNER: Well, the Germans have dominated dressage, really, the way the U.S. used to dominate basketball. In recent years, though, the Dutch have come up. And, in fact, the individual gold medalist for the last three Olympics has been a Dutch rider, Anky van Grunsven. The Dutch have had another really breakout star, Edward Gal, who won the world championship two years ago, although he lost his horse. It got sold by his sponsor. But he apparently has two other horses. So, it's really the Germans and the Dutch who everybody will be watching.
SIEGEL: So we're not talking about a cheap sport here.
ROVNER: We are not talking about a cheap sport here. This is - at this level, it's hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars. At my level, it's not quite that expensive. I don't make that much money. But, no, it is not a sport for the faint of pocketbook.
SIEGEL: Julie Rovner, thanks for introducing us to dressage.
ROVNER: You're welcome.
SIEGEL: NPR health care correspondent and dressage devotee and competitor, Julie Rovner.
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Sorting the winners, losers in Super Bowl commercial derby
LOS ANGELES -- Unless you've been living under a rock this week, you know the Baltimore Ravens won the Super Bowl. But which automakers' commercials won the battle for the most eyeballs?
That's about as unclear as the game's outcome during that frenzied final minute. Since the game, analysts and car shopping sites have been releasing a steady trickle of auto commercial reports. And when it comes to throwing numbers around -- well, let's just say it didn't end with the broadcasters on game day.
A look at some of the scorecards:
Hyundai and Kia scored highest in a tally by AutoTrader.com. The car shopping Web site measured a 1,004 percent increase in search activity for the Hyundai Santa Fe after the commercial ran. That means 11 times as many people searched for Hyundai's family-hauling crossover on the site in the hour after Hyundai's Santa Fe spot ran than in the hour before.
Next highest was the Kia Forte at 750 percent and the Kia Sorento at 521 percent. The average for vehicles/brands that advertised during the game: 245 percent.
Edmunds.com, meanwhile, said the Mercedes-Benz CLA was the clear winner. Edmunds says the CLA's consideration rate, or the share of shoppers surfing Edmunds who looked at the CLA's vehicle detail pages out of all Edmunds surfers looking at segment competitors, soared 5,813 percent for the full day on Sunday.
Edmunds got its figure by comparing game-day searches with the average searches of the four previous Sundays. The site doesn't say how many people were checking out the CLA on Sundays in January, but you can bet the number probably wasn't very high. The car goes on sale in September and has been marketed mainly through word of mouth and appearances at special events.
The CLA was even a no-show at the Detroit auto show. Instead, journalists were shown the car at a private event in downtown Detroit before the show last month.
So if anything, Edmunds' data show that if you want people to know about your new car, spending nearly $8 million on a minute of Super Bowl airtime might not be a bad idea.
Edmunds says consideration for the Lincoln MKZ came in second, up 110 percent.
If the Holy Grail of Super Bowl advertising is getting viewers to think about buying a car, then Lincoln scored in the eyes of demand-analytics firm Autometrics. The firm said the MKZ's "Phoenix" spot generated the most "low funnel prospects" of all auto commercials during the big game. The metric is basically a tally of online shoppers surfing more than 100 third-party auto sites who request a dealer price quote about a specific model.
Lincoln received 1,244 online contact requests in the 10 minutes after its "Phoenix" spot aired. For perspective, Lincoln received about 200 quote requests in the hour before the game, Autometrics CEO Stephen Shaw told me. Next was Kia, which received 1,174 price requests for its Sorento crossover in the 10 minutes after its "Space Babies" spot aired while Hyundai ranked third with 747 requests for its Santa Fe.
USA Today's Ad Meter, the granddaddy of Super Bowl commercial scoring, said the top-scoring automotive commercial was Ram's "Farmer" spot. It was also third-best of all Super Bowl advertisers. Jeep was the second-highest ranked automotive spot and fifth overall, followed by Kia's "Space Babies" spot, Hyundai's "Team" commercial and Audi's "Prom" spot, giving the auto industry five of the newspaper's overall top 10.
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New Opportunities for Community Development
By Mark Macmurdo & Kate Monahan, with Carl Skelton
One of the primary goals of the 2012 Teaching with Technology Conference was to inspire attendees with concrete examples of the innovative and effective ways that NYU instructors are enhancing their pedagogy with technology. Carl Skelton's presentation about Betaville—an open-source collaborative online platform for proposals on urban design—fit that bill perfectly. As both an instructor and founding director of the Brooklyn Experimental Media Center (BxmC) and Integrated Digital Media programs at NYU's Polytechnic Institute, Skelton is at ease with the convergence of teaching and technology. As is so often the case, though, Betaville's success and significance relate less to the technology itself (impressive though it is), and much more to what it enables: improved community discourse, practical application of academic research, participatory creativity, and enhanced, meaningful student learning.
Skelton began developing Betaville as a "crossover software art/collaborative design environment." It is a free, open-source platform that allows anyone who is interested—individuals, classes, community groups, design firms or even government offices—to not only view realistic 3D computer models of their communities, but to experiment with the creation of new buildings, structures, and landscapes within that space. Whether someone is a student or neighborhood association president using a free 3D modeling program like Google's SketchUp or a professional architect using advanced CAD software, they are given the opportunity to modify their environment and develop their proposal on the fly. Options overlaid on the model of the city then provide anyone with the chance to browse and follow proposals through various stages of development, make modifications, offer feedback, and start conversations and new collaborations.
The result is a "beta" city where new projects can be proposed and critiqued with little up-front cost or technical skills. In this fashion, a proposal for a new apartment building from an established development firm and a design for a repurposed park by a high school student are on the same playing field:
… the future of a street corner, a blank wall, a vacant lot, or an entire city can now be tinkered with on an ongoing basis at negligible cost by the full spectrum of subject matter experts: the people who know what it's like to live there now, the people who know how to make new things happen… and people with great ideas to share, anywhere in the world, whenever they can and care to. [Source]
The "Neotechnic" Model
Though largely focused on and of benefit to the community beyond the classroom walls, Betaville also serves as a interesting model for what a 21st century university can achieve. Skelton proposes "There shouldn't be as hard of a line between education, public discourse, and government." One of the early partners in the development of Betaville was the M2C (Media2Culture) Institute for Applied Media Research at the University of Applied Sciences, Bremen. Embracing a broad view of the role of the university, this German engineering school describes itself as" decidedly innovative and practically oriented."
Skelton refers to its approach as the "neotechnic" model—having a strong emphasis on the application of research in the real world with less focus on the boundaries of disciplines. This model takes advantage of what has traditionally been the role of polytechnic institutions, while making use of the wide range of knowledge available at a university. As described below, Skelton has found this model, as explored through the development of Betaville, to be of great advantage to his students.
Student Inspiration and Collaboration
Skelton has found that Betaville offers a host of practical benefits and "meaningful competencies" for his students to help prepare them for professional life after they graduate. Because of the nature of the work on the platform and the longevity of the project, students learn how to collaborate effectively, pick up work from their predecessors and pass it on to others, and develop concrete, complex examples of their own work to show future employers. They also develop important interdisciplinary knowledge and communication skills that are highly sought after by employers who want someone who "can talk to everyone in the room."
In turn, the students contribute to the project in important ways as well. Like the platform's non-NYU user community, Skelton's describes his students as interesting citizens with diverse backgrounds and skills that often make them meaningful collaborators in the platform's development. He notes that sometimes students have more expertise in certain areas than the project's principal investigators, a fact which they respect and strive to harness.
One of the most interesting dynamics he has observed is the benefit of not only bringing together students from varied disciplines, but of encouraging participation from students with multiple skill sets themselves. An art student who also has programming experience, for example, can bring an entirely new perspective to a project. This diversity of knowledge, he believes, is an important concept for innovation in technology, and one that can and should be nurtured in academic environments (rather than the tendency towards specialization that is so prevalent). While most people interact with a given technology by using it for its intended purpose, both users and technologists can be empowered to impose a change on the terms of their engagement with the technology, influencing not only how it is designed, but what it is used for—"changing the medium to change the message."
Skelton has noted how the quality of work from many students increased markedly from involvement in the Betaville project, with them exhibiting a high level of professionalism and interest. He attributes this to the fact that they are empowered as creative technologists with meaningful work, and that "students do better work if they know it isn't going to get thrown out." Indeed, Skelton has found that students who work on Betaville often go above and beyond what would technically be required of them for a high grade—instead being motivated by and interested in the relevance and quality of their work to others. Knowing that they are responsible to a community for the quality and viability of their work, and that their efforts are part of something larger that will live on, are powerful motivators.
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Betaville is currently involved in several educational collaborations that empower students to envision the future of their urban environment, including at the Louis Armstrong Middle School in Queens, the ReGeneration exhibit at the New York Hall of Science, and a project with the Urban Assembly Gateway School for Technology in Manhattan. For more information about Betaville, including a link to download and experiment with the software yourself, see the Brooklyn Experimental Media Center (BxmC) website.


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Macbeth extolled "sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care," in Shakespeare's great tragic play of the same name. Soothing rest is not all that shut-eye provides, however. As sleep and cognition researchers Robert Stickgold and Jeffrey M. Ellenbogen explain in their feature article in this issue, the brain is very busy during a night's slumber. It is processing and sorting all the things we learned during the day, making valuable memories more resilient and tossing away irrelevant details. It finds hidden relations among our recollections and works to solve problems that arose during our waking hours. Read about it in our cover story, "How Snoozing Makes You Smarter."
While we are catching some zzz's, the brain preferentially strengthens memories that have important emotional content. A humming emotional-rewards circuit is also key to warding off depression in many of us, as neuroscientist and psychologist Kelly Lambert explains in "Depressingly Easy." Activities that stir our thinking, motor and pleasure centers—such as gardening, cooking, knitting—engage the brain in ways that make us mentally healthier, Lambert explains. Anticipating the ultimate result as we perform such laborious tasks can be more enjoyable than achieving the end goal itself. The swift ease of modern, push-button conveniences, in contrast, may undercut our brain's supply of hard-earned rewards, making us more susceptible to depression.
There is nothing like a good yarn to pluck our emotional strings, as Jeremy Hsu writes in "The Secrets of Storytelling". Stories are one of humanity's universals—they appear in all cultures—and certain themes arise repeatedly in tales around the world. Why do these narratives have such power over our feelings? The study of stories reveals clues about our evolutionary history and the roots of emotion and empathy. Indeed, as you will learn from Hsu's article, the stories we tell explain much about ourselves.


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Pollini released his first recording in 1971: Stravinsky's Three Movements from "Petrushka" and Prokofiev's Seventh Sonata. He has gone on to record numerous works from the classical, romantic and contemporary repertoire. His recordings of the complete works for piano by Schoenberg, and of works by Berg, Webern, Manzoni, Nono, Boulez and Stockhausen are a testament to his great passion for music of the 20th century.
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text: 6-1 Dominique Hawkins of Richmond, KY, the Kentucky player of the year, has offers from USC, Purdue and Western Kentucky among others. The one he is waiting on, however, is Kentucky, and Tuesday Wildcats' coach John Calipari met with Hawkins at his school. Hawkins expects to learn Friday if Kentucky will offer. That offer is expected to end his recruiting. If UK does not offer, Hawkins is likely to set up official visits with USC and others. Louisville has offered him as a walk-on but his coach has said he will only choose a school which has offered.


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Friday, March 7, 2014
From Inside USD -- It was billed as "An Evening with Industry," but the ramifications of what the University of San Diego's Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering and the USD student Society of Women Engineers (SWE) chapter provided students Thursday has the potential to last a lifetime.
The four-hour program, held in the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, consisted of a career fair with nine top companies — Illumina, NuVasive, Pratt & Whitney AeroPower, SPAWAR, Trane, General Atomics, L-3 Communications, ThermoFisher Scientific and Zimmer Dental — extended networking opportunities at dinner and a career-focused pep-talk presentation by keynote speaker, Delores Dos Santos, who is the senior director of engineering for Edwards Lifesciences.
The SWE student leaders, including President Harmonie Edelson (pictured top, foreground with Dos Santos) and faculty advisor, Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering Truc Ngo, PhD, organized an event that, for approximately 80 male and female current students in attendance, had a definite purpose.
"This is a really good opportunity for myself and for other students because you never know if something's going to take off for you," said Joshua Williams, a junior mechanical engineering student who, after attending a career fair last year, interned with Alpha Mechanical, Inc. Williams was back this time and his self-confidence to speak with prospective companies about their opportunities was noticeable.
Rachel Michel, a junior industrial and systems engineering major, said the career fair was a chance to continue her search as well as to keep working on her networking skills. Thursday's event came after she'd been to a pair of conferences via the SWE. "Those networking opportunities were good practice for me," she said between talks with companies with industrial engineering opportunities.
One way to ease any nervousness at all for the USD student engineers was to be sure to meet with those quite familiar to USD. Three engineering alumni — Ashlee Enriquez '09 (L-3), Chad Loftis '05 (NuVasive) and Colleen Sevier '13, pictured at far right, (General Atomics) — were on hand to represent their companies at the fair and at dinner to continue the conversation and provide advice to current engineering students.
All three alumni were pleased to represent their companies at the event and happy to see that the current group of Torero engineering students, including many nearing graduation or looking for summer opportunities, were poised, informed and eager for what was available.
After the dinner, Dos Santos, who has more than 30 years of experience in the textile, medical device and pharmaceutical industries, delivered a three-point plan for accelerating one's career: Having passion for what you do; Continuously practice leadership and; Believing in yourself.
When she spoke about passion and sought a volunteer to explain it, Chell Roberts, PhD, the founding dean of USD's newly christened Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering, stood up and likened it to what he's currently experiencing in his new role.
"They think about (passion), they dream about it, they wake up in the night with it on their mind. They're excited about it, it's what keeps them going and they want to do it, which is like building a school of engineering," he said.
Dos Santos then showed a Ted Talk by Ivan Joseph, a champion soccer coach and athletic director at Ryerson University, who spoke on "The Skill of Self-Confidence."
Given that all USD engineering students earn a unique dual BS/BA degree, essentially providing both the engineering science and the liberal arts education to become a "complete engineer," the night really delivered on both accounts. It combined an atmosphere with companies present and students having a chance to communicate what projects they've worked on and to match their skill set to company needs. Dos Santos' talk then spoke to the importance of developing and mastering soft skills to complement technical expertise.
In all, it was a great evening with industry, but the potential is definitely there to mean even more as USD engineering students continue their academic path to graduation, into the workforce and the future.
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The Chicago Bears obviously have hang-ups about giving Matt Forte a long-term deal, and now we might be getting a better idea just what they are.
The Chicago Tribune reported on Saturday that the team has "concerns over Forte's knees."
The Bears are privately concerned arthritis could set in, leading to a chronic problem for the fifth-year back. Forte hasn't signed Chicago's $7.7 million franchise tender, and is sitting out OTAs.
Questions about Forte's durability aren't new. According to the Tribune, the wear and tear of Forte's knees drew the attention of multiple teams before the 2008 NFL Draft. The Bears were among that group, though they took the Tulane star in the second round anyway.
Forte, 26, rewarded the Bears by becoming one of the most versatile running backs in football. Last season, he finished with nearly 1,500 total yards, this despite being shut down the last four weeks after spraining his MCL in a game against the Kansas City Chiefs.
When you factor in this report along with the signing of the very capable Michael Bush, it's beginning to appear Forte and the Bears aren't a marriage built to last. Stay tuned.


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Local Bishopville Branch information for The NAACP, the Premier Civil Rights organization in the United States, has been a leading force for equality. From its inception in 1909 until today the NAACP continues to push forward in political, economic, and social issues.
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The NAACP opened it's first branches in South Carolina in Columbia and Charleston in 1917. It was almost 10 years after the organization was founded in New York City by W.E.B. DuBois and others in 1909 (a brief history), that South Carolina would have the local branches to assist in local legal battles. By the 1920's other local branches were founded, namely, in Georgetown, Sumter, Florence, Cheraw, Rock Hill, Greenville and Aiken.
During the 1960's and 1970's, the NAACP in South Carolina had major challenges in confronting segregation and Jim Crow Laws. Court cases to implement desegregation, that became the "law of the land" since the landmark U.S. Supreme Court unanimous ruling in 1954 May 17th), Brown v. Board of Education, were major focuses in many areas through out the state. Challenging single member districts also became court fights in direct response to the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act of 1964 and 1965. Many jurisdictions, counties and cities, had no African-American representation due to at-large voting.
The South Carolina NAACP has also been leading the struggle to fight the ill placed reverence of relics of the Old Confederacy. The Confederate Battle Flag in particular and its position or prominence in state government as a symbol of the state's secessionist past has been a particularly difficult struggle.
In recent years, the NAACP has continued to work to stop the erosion of rights gained from the hard fought battles of the past. In same ways and in some areas around the state, segregation has reemerged. Even voting rights have begun to present similar challenges to those of years ago. The NAACP partnering with community leaders, religious leaders and federal officials continue the struggle.
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Remember those "Choose your own adventure books" from years ago? Perhaps I'm dating myself, but I thought they were great and I thought, what if I can design a sock with that in mind? This pattern is the result.
This pattern is for a top-down sock that comes with four different charted stitch patterns: 1) Deep into the forest (photo 3, right-hand side), 2) Look behind the waterfall (photo 4, left-hand side), 3) Under the ogre's bridge (photo 4, right-hand side), and 4) Down into the canyon (photo 3, left-hand side). You can use one stitch pattern four times around the sock, or you can work all four charts one time each (like me!). You can make symmetrical socks or completely unsymmetrical ones - the end result is entirely up to you!!! Depending on the kind of sock "adventure" you'd like to have!
So four charts, one pattern means you can make numerous different pairs of socks from this one design (which is also why it's a bit more expensive than my other patterns). Anyway, I really enjoyed creating this one and have ideas for at least two other "Adventure Socks" - ENJOY!!!.
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How much of a toll did July's hot, dry weather take on the 2006 cotton crop? How about enough to reduce U.S. production by nearly one-fourth, the National Cotton Council's chief economist says.
Although U.S. farmers planted about a million more acres of cotton last spring, July's 100-degree-plus temperatures and lack of rainfall may have pushed 2006 production to as low as 18 million to 19 million bales, according to Gary Adams, Council vice president for economics and policy analysis.
"Two or three weeks ago, we probably would have been looking at a crop in the 20-million-bale range," Adams said. "But we've seen the crop steadily deteriorate with the dry conditions and the high temperatures."
Adams, whose comments came during the joint summer meeting of the American Cotton Producers and The Cotton Foundation in San Antonio, based his assessment on the weekly, crop condition reports compiled by USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service.
The reports, which are released each Monday, list the percentages of the crop in each state that are very poor, poor, fair, good and excellent. NASS' first survey-based estimates of the 2006 crops were released on Aug. 11.
Adams conceded the crop progress reports are subjective and possibly less reliable than NASS' objective forecasts, which are based on surveys returned by growers and boll counts taken by NASS enumerators in the field. But they also provide a basis of comparing crops at different stages of development from year to year.
"We've seen some notable changes in the last two to three weeks in some Mid-South and Southeast states in terms of the percentages of the crops rated poor to very poor," he said.
"There's not much hope left for Alabama's crop," said Sam Spruell, Alabama's representative on the American Cotton Producers, the group that represents the producer segment of the Council. Spruell hails from Mount Hope, Ala., a fact that wasn't lost on his fellow ACP members.
Adams noted that the July 31 crop conditions report said that 75 percent of Alabama's cotton crop was rated poor/very poor. "If you go back over the last 20 years of these reports, we had only one state — South Carolina in 1986 — that was actually listed above the 75 percent poor/very poor level," he said.
"So these are some of the worst crop conditions we've seen in a number of years."
In the July 31 report, Texas and Oklahoma crops were listed at slightly above 50 percent poor/very poor; Georgia, 38 percent; Mississippi, 31 percent; and South Carolina, 23 percent. The U.S. crop was rated at 34 percent poor/very poor.
Texas producer, Ricky Bearden, chairman of Plains Cotton Growers Association, said that of the estimated 3.9 million acres planted on the High Plains this spring 1 million or nearly 25 percent have been reported "failed." Statewide, the latest forecast for failed acres is 1.54 million out of the 6.4 million acres that were certified as planted July 15.
"North of Lubbock, very little of the dryland cotton will be taken to harvest," said Bearden. "The irrigated acreage north of Lubbock looks very good, but, south of Lubbock, it's not as good."
Adams displayed a chart comparing the June-October U.S. Cotton Condition Index for the 2004 and 2005 crops, which produced record and near-record national average yields of 855 and 831 pounds of lint per acre, with that for the 2006 crop.
"In 2004, we had some of the highest rated crop conditions we've seen over the last 10 years," he said.
"2005 was a little lower than what we had in '04, but we still had very good crop condition ratings. The 2006 crop condition ratings are running not quite at the 10-year lows.
"I don't want to spend too much time on this chart, but when we look at this over a period of time, the higher ratings generally are correlated with higher yields and the lower ratings with lower yields and that could be born out in 2006."
USDA had been forecasting the 2006 crop at 20.5 million bales, based on historical trend yields and abandonment, said Adams. "We'll see on Aug. 11 whether USDA is picking up any actual declines in yield in its grower surveys and objective field counts."
The Agriculture Department's June 30 planting intentions report put the 2006 crop at 15.28 million acres, a 7.2 percent increase over 2005's actual planted acreage of 14.25 million acres. (The June 2005 planting intentions report had planted acres at 14.03 million acres.)
The Southeast, Mid-South and Southwest regions reported planting increases of 10.7, 6.5 and 8.3 percent, respectively, in 2006 while the West declined by 19 percent as California growers continued to shift more of their land to permanent crops.
"Going around the room to the different states represented here today, I don't think we would back off that 2006 figure by more than 100,000 to 150,000 acres," said Adams.
On the demand side, U.S. mill use appears to be continuing to slide with the annualized rate of spinning dropping to 4 million bales in recent weeks. That's down from 5.6 million bales in early June and more than 6 million bales back in March.
"Most of you know about Avondale, which was one of our bigger mills, and the problems they've had," he said. "July was the last month they planned to spin cotton. We don't know how much of that will be absorbed by other mills, but that's a concern that we have for the remainder of 2006."
Exports, on the other hand, have remained strong. USDA was forecasting nearly 17 million bales of exports with 10 days left in the marketing year that ended July 31. "With about a week and a half of reporting dates left, it looks like we will exceed the 17-million-bale forecast, which would put us at record levels," he said.
"It has all hinged on China, which has accounted for about 50 percent of the shipments of U.S. cotton. If you look back a few years, China barely figured in the export market. In the last couple of years, we've seen China expand to 19 million bales of imports in 2005 and to about 20 million bales in 2006 in purchases from all countries."
If current weather conditions continue, the resulting decline in U.S. production could push ending stocks and the stocks-to-use ratio to the lowest levels in several years, according to Adams.
A 20-million bale crop in 2006, for example, could push ending stocks to 4.5 million bales or a stocks-to-use ratio of 21 percent. An 18.5 million-bale crop would leave ending stocks of 3.9 million bales and a stocks-to-use ratio of 19 percent. That compares to 6.4 million bales and 28 percent in 2005-06 and 7.2 million and 36.8 percent in 2004-05.
(The figures for an 18.5-million-bale crop for 2006-07 are derived by adding expected beginning stocks of 6.4 million bales to 18.5 million for a total supply of 24.9 million bales. Subtracting mill use of 5.4 million bales and exports of 15.6 million bales (due to a smaller crop) or total use of 21 million bales would reduce ending stocks to 3.9 million bales and give a stocks-to-use ratio of 19 percent (3.9 million bales divided by 21 million).