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General business terms regarding the provision of service consisting of leasing capacity, computing, and program resources of a computer connected to the internet network for the purpose of operating internet applications and domain names via the hosting service Nuclear.Hosting, in effect from 1. 4. 2018.
All2U services s.r.o.
Residing at: Klincova 37/B, 821 08, Bratislava, Slovak republic
Company number: 52500471
(further referred to as "Provider")
For the purpose of these terms, a Client is any subject who submits an order for hosting services Nuclear.Hosting by the means of www presentation, mail, telephone, in person, or any other means accepted by the Provider or by registering a hosting service.
A Client is also any person who expresses interest in becoming a member of the Nuclear.Hosting community by registering at the Provider's www presentation.
(further referred to as "Client" and/or "User")
(further referred to jointly as "Contractual Parties")
2.1 The purpose of these business terms is to establish the legal relations between the Provider and the Client while providing the hosting service Nuclear.Hosting and associated services which the User is entitled to use as a member of the Nuclear.Hosting Community according to the Provider's offer. The contractual relationship established according to these business terms is created between the Contractual parties at the moment of approval of a properly submitted order or the moment the Client is registered by the Provider, and it follows the provisions in the Commercial Code and subsequent prescriptions.
2.2 Definition of terms used in these business terms:
2.2.1 Hosting service (and/or "Service" "Webhosting") – providing the services intended for operating and ensuring the operation of internet applications and services associated with the operation of domain names via the resources of the service Provider. The content and subject of the service is defined by the current offer of the Provider, published on the Provider's www presentation at http://nuclear.hosting. Typically, "Electronic mail" service is a part of the "Webhosting" service. These services may be provided separately.
2.2.2 The "Electronic mail" service is a service allowing the User to create a specific amount of email addresses, aliases, as well as a domain basket, electronic mail redirecting, and access to electronic mail via web interfaces, protocol POP3, or IMAP.
2.2.3 User – the Client ordering hosting services Nuclear.Hosting, whose hosting service was appropriately established by the Provider according to valid rules of service provision, published at the Provider's www pages http://nuclear.hosting, or established temporarily for trial purposes.
2.2.4 Server – a computer permanently connected to the internet network, by the means of which the hosting service is provided.
2.2.5 Leasing of capacity, computing, and program resources of the server – shared leasing of hardware and software resources of the server by the Client for the purpose of processing requests of operated applications. The rate of usage capability of the server's resources by one User at a particular moment is limited by the rate of usage of the server's resources by other Users.
2.2.6 Internet application operation – the operation of the application (especially web pages) by means of the servers, to the benefit of the User and third parties. While operating applications, Users are enabled to use program resources of the servers provided as a part of the hosting service (PHP, database…).
2.2.7 Domain name and domain name operation – domain name is the title provided by the domain name administrator, intended for identification on the internet (further referred to as "Domain"). The operation of the domain name is a service consisting of administration and maintenance of NS data of the operated domain.
2.2.8 "Other associated services" are, in particular, the following services: Server housing, server leasing or leasing or operation of virtual server, domain redirecting, shell account, administration of services provided to the User, as well as other services which the Provider provides or will provide in the future within the scope of its business.
2.2.9 Unlimited disc space – disc space with the capacity (maximum capacity limit) which corresponds with a typical user standard for a particular type of user, with regard to the Provider's capabilities and to maintaining the continuity of operations of the Provider's equipment. Upon request, the Provider may increase the disc capacity without increasing price of service, or with an increase to the price of service, with regard to the Provider's capabilities and to maintaining the continuity of operation of Provider's equipment. The Provider reserves the right to deny an increase of disc capacity to a User if it threatens the continuity of operation of the Provider's equipment.
2.2.10 Unlimited number of e-mail inboxes – the number of e-mail inboxes corresponding with typical user standards for a specific type of User, with regard to the Provider's capabilities and to maintaining the continuity of operation of the Provider's equipment. Upon User's request, the Provider may increase the maximum number of email inboxes without increasing price of service or with an increase to the price of service, with regard to Provider's capabilities and to maintaining the continuous operation of Provider's equipment. The Provider reserves the right to deny a repeated request for increase of maximum number of email inboxes should it threaten continuous operation of Provider's equipment.
2.2.11 Unlimited data transfer – flow of data directed to the domain held or used by the User from the internet network or from the domain held or used by the User directed into the internet network, and the flow data corresponding with the typical User standard for a particular type of User, with regard to Provider's capabilities and maintaining continuous operations of Provider's equipment or equipment of subcontractors.
2.2.12 Warez – illegally obtained or offered software or data file which contains work protected by legal prescriptions about protection of intellectual property or industrial property (e.g., books, music, films), illegally obtained or offered access rights to the usage of software or instructions for illegal acquisition of software or other data.
2.2.13 Price of service (services) is a contractual price and it represents the total prices of all specific actions provided within the service. The price of provided service is stated in the pricelist on the provider's website, http://nuclear.hosting. The provider may, based on their own decision and on previously and published conditions, provide a part of the service or the service in its entirety for free to a User who fulfills stated conditions. The appropriate value added tax rate will be added to the price according to legal prescriptions, valid at the time the service is provided.
2.2.14 "Community" – the association of users of the Provider's services. Community gathers mostly on the web portal https://community.nuclear.hosting. Community actively communicates with its members, with the provider, ensures technical support by other community members, assists with directing further operations and development of provider's services.
2.2.15 "Community membership" – Client becomes a member of the community at the moment of registration or moment of submitting an order for the provider's services and after appropriate approval and activation of registration on the Client's side. As a condition to membership in the community, the Client must register at the web portal of the Community, https://community.nuclear.hosting, in order to be able to participate in the community's activities. Other rights and obligations of Clients in the Community are established and listed in the rules of the Community, accessible at the www portal https://community.nuclear.hosting.
2.3 The day of actual establishment of the hosting service is the day the Provider approves the order or registration and the Client pays the agreed-upon price for services, if the service is subject to charges for services or membership. If the service is not subject to payment of price, the service is established after approval of registration by the Provider. The period of temporary service establishment for the purposes of a trial starts, if not otherwise stated, on the day the service is ordered and ends on the day the hosting service is established. The day of extending the service for another service period is the day the service price for another period is paid by the User. The day of taxable charge realization is the day of service establishment or the day of service extension.
2.4 While operating the service, the Provider requires data from the Client which are necessary for service operation and for communication with the Client. The Client gives permission for the processing of personal data for the purpose of ensuring operation of the ordered service, especially for communication with the administrators of domain names. When processing data, the Provider will follow the EU regulation 2016/679, Personal data Protection Act no. 101/2000 Collection (CZ), and Data Protection Bill (UK).
2.5 Hosting service Nuclear.Hosting is provided for the purpose of operating a specific domain name. When ordering the hosting service, the Client always agrees to the rules of registration and operation of a particular domain name type (e.g., .cz – according to CZ NIC, domains .eu according to EURid, etc.).
2.6 Terms and expressions defined or used in these business terms will be used and have the same meaning in all binding legal relationship between the Client and the Provider with regard to services unless stated otherwise in a generally binding legal regulation or explicitly agreed upon by the contractual parties.
2.7 By paying the price for the ordered service the Client confirms that he is familiar with the content of these general business terms.
3.1 The Client orders the hosting service Nuclear.Hosting specifically in order to operate a domain name. A domain name is chosen by the Client. If the Client does not use the hosting service Nuclear.Hosting, he or she is still a full member of the Nuclear.Hosting community and has the right to use "Other related services" based on the Provider's offer upon registration.
3.2 Creation of service entitles the Client to the use of all standard services (marked on the website http://nuclear.hosting as regular, part of a program, part of membership, etc.), offered by the Provider with the hosting service/type of VIP membership and Basic membership. The Client has the right to order additional services based on the Provider's offer or based on written or spoken agreement with Provider.
3.3 Client agrees to pay the service price as well as registration fees for his domain to the Provider, who will then make a payment of fees to the appropriate administrator of domain names, if such service is established by the Provider for the benefit of the Client. The Client may, after previously notifying the Provider, use the option of direct payment of fees to the domain name administrator (registration body).
3.4 The Client may use the server's resources which have been provided to him upon the establishment of service, without limits. The rate of server resource usage by one User is only limited by the Provider when conducting maintenance and system tasks on servers and during excessive server use by the Client in such cases that may cause a disadvantage to other Users of the service. The volume of data transferred between the server and the client's computer is not limited.
3.5 The User has the server resources at his disposal for the purposes of operating his own internet applications (especially www pages). In order to access the servers, the User uses only the services designated for this purpose by the Provider (FTP, phpMyAdmin, etc.).
3.6 The User is responsible for technical accuracy and security of all applications, scripts, and programs placed on the server, and is also responsible for all means of communication with hosting servers. The responsibility for security is particularly in regard to the possibility of script, program, or application misuse by a third party for the purpose of unauthorized use of server resources (e.g., allowing a third party to run any php code or other codes, any SQL inquiries under an identity assigned to the User, and enabling third parties to send emails from server without stating the origin of the email (web pages/domain from which the mail was sent).
3.7 If the Provider, based on a verbal or written notification, requests from the User the removal of defects in a User-operated application, the User is obligated to remove the technical defect immediately, and no later than 24 hours from being notified. If the User is not able to remove the defects due to objective obstructions within 24 hours, he is obligated to remove the application from the server operation. If he doesn't do so, the Provider has the right to suspend the User's services until defects are removed. The User is responsible for any damages caused to third parties by technical defects of an application operated by the User and damages caused to the Provider.
3.8 User may not establish website pages with a content which is in breach of the law or good morals. Also, the User may not publish pages with erotic themes. Pages with such content are not permitted even under the condition of password-protected access. Furthermore, the User may not establish and run web pages which offer content inciting national, religion-based, or ethnic hatred, which spread or incite extremist views or promote fascism, communism, or other similar ideologies. Furthermore, the User may not store data containing warez on the Provider's servers, as well as data linking to servers focused on warez or other similar focus, download servers, chat servers, or servers focused on spreading spam. Violating this section gives the Provider the right to suspend or cancel all services provided to the User.
3.9 The User may not use the services in such a way that would lead to violation of the Provider's rights, rights of third parties, or which could cause disadvantages to other Users during shared use of server resources. The User may not use the provided resources in such a way that would give him an unauthorized advantage over other Users, or in a way which could lead to a violation or damages to server operation. An attempt to disrupt the continuity of service operation and security are especially considered to be a major violation of User responsibilities.
3.10 The client is required to submit his contact details when ordering the service, with the purpose of invoicing, registration, and operation of domain name, as well as communications with the Provider. The User is required to keep these contact details updated for the purposes of communication with the Provider.
3.11 User is obligated to protect provided access names and passwords to established services and program resources of the server from misuse by third parties. The actions of third parties who were (intentionally or unintentionally) enabled by the User to use the Provider's services (e.g., web administrators, employees, partners, suppliers, etc.) are, in regard to rules and responsibilities of the User stated in these business terms, considered to be the actions of the User himself.
3.12 The User is required to promptly inform the service provider about a discovered technical or security defect in the service operation by sending an email to the address firstname.lastname@example.com.
3.13 The User is responsible for all intentional or unintentional damage caused while using this service. The Provider reserves the right to request damage compensation from the User, as well as lost earnings. The damage compensation in particular includes time spent by the Provider on removal of the defective state caused by unauthorized or improper handling of server resources by the User, damages caused to server operation, damages caused to third parties and in particular to other Users, damages caused by an interruption of server operation, etc. The lost earnings compensation is defined as, primarily, compensation for lost earnings in the amount of 800 CZK excluding VAT or an equivalent amount in EUR or GDP currencies, calculated with the effective Czech National Bank exchange rate for each started hour of Provider's work while removing the defective state, as well as compensation for average earnings which the Provider would gain during the interruption to the continuous service operation, compensation for lost earnings caused by damages to good reputation of the Provider and loss of Users, expressed as the price of service ordered by the User, etc.
3.14 User may not operate such servers on the Provider's servers which would overload database systems, contain an excessive amount of music or movie files (mp3, mpeg, avi), excessively strain the line, links, information, and data related to gambling services without an appropriate license according to legal prescriptions valid on the EU territory, including providing illegal gambling offers, promotions or operation of gambling games available on the EU territory without a license according to specific laws.
3.15 User may not use the data space and transfer capacities for the purposes of storing, archiving, or backup of other data which is not related to the website of the User, or as a space for data transfers between Users.
4.1 Provider is obligated to ensure continuous operation of the contracted Hosting service. An exception to this obligation occurs in situations which are outside of the Provider's control and cannot be prevented (e.g., acts of God, disasters, public telecommunications network outages, etc.), or actions necessary to ensure the running of Provider's services (e.g. hardware maintenance, software updates, etc.).
4.2 Provider is required to conduct continuous monitoring of server traffic and ensure continuous server administration in order to secure optimal service operation.
4.3 Provider is required to protect the service from service interruption by third parties or from misuse from the side of the User, depending on the type of provided program resources. If such a situation occurs in which the security and range of provided services are in conflict, service security takes precedence.
4.4 Registration of domain name is carried out by the Provider upon accepting payment for domain name based on the terms and the valid pricelist published on the Provider's web pages http://nuclear.hosting. The Provider will register the domain and pay the registration fee to the domain registration body within 3 days of accepting the payment from the User.
4.5 When registering a new domain, the Provider is not responsible for the completion of a faster registration of an ordered domain by a third party, if it is carried out during a time period necessary for regular tasks related to order processing, especially time necessary for crediting the payment for hosting services to the Provider's account, communication tasks within the domain registration environment, or execution of non-standard requirements specifically stated by the User.
4.6 When registering a domain name, the Provider uses the information provided by the User when ordering hosting services. The Provider is not responsible for possible mistakes caused by erroneous data entered by the User.
4.7 Provider is required to notify the User in a timely manner about the approaching end of the time period for which he had prepaid his services or domain name. This shall be done in the form of an electronic mail message sent to the contact email provided by the User. The provider is not responsible for any damages caused by the expiration of a domain name if the User sent payment for domain name directly to the registering body, without the Provider's agency.
4.8 The Provider has the right to cancel the services provided to the User if the User has is more than 14 days late with payment for services. If service is cancelled for the reason of User failing to pay fees for provided services, the Provider is not responsible for any damages caused by loss of data on the User's side and loss of access to operated applications.
4.9 Provider does not carry any responsibility for a User's breach of property rights to trademarks and breach of law by using a domain name, e-mail address, or other labels used by the User if they represent business names and trademarks of third parties.
4.10 If the Provider interrupts continuous service operations due to circumstances outside of Provider's control (e.g. electricity blackout, disaster, internet outage at a connection point, etc.) or interrupts service operations due to system interventions into server operations by the Provider, it does not constitute a breach of Provider's responsibility to ensure continuous service operation. Provider is required to inform about planned intervention on the website http://nuclear.hosting or https://community.nuclear.hosting.
4.11 Provider has the right to unilaterally exclude the User from operations and thus suspend services provided to the User if the User's application causes or may cause damages to other Users or the Provider, and furthermore in cases when a breach of responsibilities included in sections 3.6 – 3.9 and 3.11 occurs on the User's side. The Provider may, in these cases, exclude the User from operations even without prior notification.
4.12 Provider has the right to demand a manipulation fee from the User for a cancellation of a processed order, in the amount of 500 CZK excluding VAT or an equivalent amount in EUR or GBP as calculated with the effective exchange rate provided by the Czech National Bank.
4.13 Provider has the right to unilaterally change service functions. If service functions change, the provider will publish a description of the changes on the website http://nuclear.hosting.
4.14 Provider is only responsible for actual damages caused by neglecting his responsibilities defined in these business terms, in the maximum amount of the equivalent of the monthly price of services negotiated for a typical period of time. Unless the contractual parties arrive to a different arrangement, the Provider will give the User a reimbursement for damages caused in the form of free services for the amount of time which corresponds with the appropriate amount of damages.
4.15 The Provider has the right to not provide services or to pause an already provided service even without reimbursement in cases when the User intentionally or unintentionally submits incorrect contact or identification details according to section 3.10. The duty to prove the correctness of his data lies with the User.
4.16 The Provider has the right to temporarily limit the size of the user's reserved disc space, the User's transfer speeds, or any other activities of the User on the Provider's equipment to a specific limit if a threat exists or if significant reductions occurred in the continuity or functionality of the Provider's equipment, his subcontractors' equipment, or other User's activity by that time.
5.1 The price of services / membership is determined in the Provider's offer of services published on the web site http://nuclear.hosting, valid on the day the order is created by the Client.
5.2 If the Provider offers services for an advantageous price when certain conditions are met, the Client has the right to obtain services for the advantageous price if he meets all the conditions. If the Provider creates an order or registration with the promise of fulfilling all conditions necessary for obtaining the advantageous prices or by ordering in a so-called "action", and subsequently fails to meet all the conditions necessary for obtaining the advantageous price, the Client will pay the regular price based on the valid pricelist on the day the Order was submitted.
5.3 The Client is obligated to pay for the service when prompted to do so by electronic mail sent by the Provider to the e-mail address specified by the Client when placing the order for services. The payment is made to the bank account of the Provider. The day of payment is defined as the day the payment is credited to the Provider's account.
5.4 The Client pays the service price in advance, according to chosen time period: either annually, bi-annually, or quarterly. The Provider notifies the Client about the last day of pre-paid service period with sufficient advance notice, by prompting the Client to make a payment for the next period's services.
5.5 The Provider will issue a tax receipt once the payment for services has been received for establishment or extension of services.
5.6 If payment is not made, the Provider has the right, based on section 5.4, to interrupt service operation even without prior notice, until owed fees are paid in full.
5.7 The Client is obligated to cover bank fees in full in case of foreign payments.
5.8 The Provider has the right to charge the Client the contractual interest for late payment for services in the amount of 0.1 % for each started day the payment is late.
6.1 If the User believes that the range, quality, or the price of the provided services is not in accordance with the business terms and therefore the services are defective, he has the right to make appropriate claims to the Provider. Claims must be made in writing, by sending an e-mail to the address firstname.lastname@example.com or on the web portal https://community.nuclear.hosting, without unnecessary delays after the defects are discovered.
6.2 When making claims of defective services, the Client is responsible for providing an appropriate reason for his claims and for sufficiently proving that the claims are legitimate. At the same time, the Client is obligated to present a proof of provided service to the Provider – a copy of an order, an invoice, etc.
6.3 The Provider will process the complaint in a time limit set by the law.
6.4 In all other cases, the claims regarding responsibility for defective services and processing the claim follows, in particular, the Civil Code, the Commercial Code and legal prescriptions regarding customer protection.
7.1 Service operation is arranged for a particular length of time specified in the terms of service published on website of Provider at http://nuclear.hosting and based on the time period chosen by the User. The service is automatically extended if the User does not deliver a written request for service termination to the Provider within 14 days from the date on which the time period of prepaid services has been completed. The minimum length of ordered services is stated in the Provider's pricelist and on website http://nuclear.hosting.
7.2 Service operation may be terminated without stating a reason. The termination must be requested in writing and must be delivered to the other party within 14 days before the day the termination comes into effect. If either contractual party commits a serious breach of responsibilities, termination may be effective immediately.
7.3 If the domain name undergoes a change in a way that makes it impossible to operate it according to original contract (particularly in the case of changes in the DNS records, domain's technical contact, etc.), the Provider is not obligated to continue operating the agreed-upon services. This occurrence is considered a termination of service operation on the User's side without stating a reason.
7.4 If the operation of services is terminated on the Provider's side, the User is entitled to a reimbursement of a proportionate price of service, paid for the unused period of time. The User is not entitled to a reimbursement of a proportionate price of service for unused period of time if the service was terminated due to a serious breach of responsibilities on the User's side, as stated in article 3 of these business terms.
7.5 If the operation of services is terminated on the User's side, the User is not entitled to a reimbursement of proportional price of service for unused period of time. The User is entitled to a reimbursement of a proportional service price for unused period of time if the Provider does not fulfill his responsibilities.
7.6 The proportionate reimbursement for the price of service does not apply to domains, certificates, and other services where the minimum time period of use is set as 1 year or longer in the conditions set by domain registration bodies, certificate-issuing authorities, etc., who provide these services.
7.7 User and Provider have explicitly agreed that the Provider is entitled to completely destroy user data of the User after a proper or premature termination of services.
7.8 Transfer of services provided to the User to a new User is not possible. In order for such transfer to occur, current services have to be terminated (including deletion of data, deleting the domain from the Provider's system, etc.) and new services will have to created again under a new User.
7.9 An effective delivery of termination or withdrawal from contract also occurs when the party to which the document is addressed refuses to accept it, as well as an unsuccessful delivery of the document at the address listed in the header of the Contract or given to the other contractual party by means stated in these general business terms, or failure to collect the document at the post office within the set time period for pick up. An e-mail message is considered to be delivered even when the other contractual party receives a confirmation of e-mail delivery to their computer ("Return receipt – displayed") or when the period of 7 days has passed since the delivery of confirmation message to the e-mail inbox of the other party ("Return receipt – delivered"). In case of uncertainty about delivery via e-mail, proper delivery is considered as the sending of the document to the last known e-mail address of the other party, as listed in the Contract (Order) or in the identification data entered by the User into the administrative interface of the Service.
8.1 User who is a natural person confirms by signing the Contract or by submitting an Order or registration that the personal data entered by him and which include name, surname, address of residence, e-mail address, and phone number, and in the case of the domain registration service also the date of birth and number of identification document, are correct and truthful and gives his permission to the collection, storage, and processing of personal data by the Provider and their use for invoicing purposes, domain registration, and other activities related to the ordered and provided Service, including further communications with the User (complaints, withdrawal from contract, etc.), as well as for marketing needs of the Provider, for the purpose of offering services, sending information about products including by electronic means (e-mail, SMS messages, telemarketing). The User bears full responsibility for damages caused by incorrectness or provided personal data or failure to update them.
8.2 User gives Provider the permission in regard to section 8.1 voluntarily, until such permission is revoked. The User is entitled to withdraw the permission at anytime in writing. The withdrawal of permission is effective from the day of its delivery to the Provider.
8.3 The Provider is obligated to not use or provide personal data outside of the range necessary for operation of services and ensuring their function. Personal data are not provided to any third persons with the exception of products which explicitly state otherwise.
8.4 All personal data is protected in the sense of valid legal prescriptions, especially the Personal Data Protection Act and EU directive 2016/679.
8.5 Provider is not permitted to interfere with the content of User's internet presentations, or permitted to monitor or delay User's electronic mail, with the exception of carrying out link backup activities for the User, as based on his Order/Registration.
8.6 The Provider is obligated to carry out all steps in order to ensure the highest security for personal data of the User, as well as to prevent loss, damages, or destruction of all data, database, and mail files of the User.
9.1 These general business terms have higher legal standing over other agreements between User and Provider about services provided, unless a legal relationship is established in different contract which explicitly states that the said relationship is not subject to these general business terms. In a potential dispute, these general business terms will have priority during resolution of dispute, and only such actualities which are not addressed in these business terms will follow other agreements between Provider and User.
9.2 Contractual parties are mutually bound to not provide to third parties, except in potential reference documents, any information about this contractual relationship or its participants, which have been made accessible in relation to the fulfillment of this contract, with the exception of section 2, par. 2.4. Contractual parties have an obligation to maintain business secrets unless the other party gives written permission to provide information.
9.3 Provider reserves the right to unilaterally alter these business terms. The provider will carry out such alterations to business terms by publishing the new version of these terms on the website http://nuclear.hosting.
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In Seth Priebatsch's highly anticipated keynote, the SCVNGR founder discussed how the game layer is poised to change the way we interact with brands and each other over the next decade. Referring to Facebook's implementation of Open Graph protocol, Priebatsch noted our advantage as we stand at the beginnings of location-based services — we have the ability to define the game layer's purpose and direction before we've created a framework to use its data.
Gaming in education
Priebatsch used education as a prime example of a "game that's broken." Schools are nearly perfect game ecosystems because they have motivated players, rules, rewards, levels, and incentives/disincentives, among many other characteristics that fit the profile of a good game. The problem, he theorizes, is that the real rewards of education (learning for learning's sake) have been replaced with fake rewards (grades), and once that switch occurs, the real incentives can no longer be seen as valuable (even if the false rewards are removed). Between lack of student engagement and the issue of cheating, Priebatsch sees a game worthy of and in need of fixing.
One of the main themes Priebatsch returns to as a solution is the shift of power from those in charge to the students themselves — community managers would refer to this as a "self-regulating community." To allow for this, the rules themselves must be changed. Princeton's honor code, consisting of simple rules that make complicity as punishable as cheating itself, significantly reducing Princeton's annual reported violations as compared to other institutions.
Customer acquisition
Groupon was presented as a prime example of using game mechanics for customer acquisition. By combining "free lunch" with communal gameplay (a complex problem can be solved by a large decentralized group of people if the rules are clear) and a countdown (limiting time in which a deal can be acted on), Groupon has taken an e-mail list and made it incredibly profitable.
Creating loyalty to businesses in the real world
Priebatsch took this portion of the presentation as an opportunity to preview SCVNGR's new LevelUp program, which is currently testing in Boston and Philadelphia. It operates on the notion that games work best when they include multiple levels that can be unlocked by performing particular actions. He also differentiated between location-based tools that operate on "inclusive ownership" (ex. Whrrl and their creation of societies) and those that operate on "exclusive ownership" (think: Foursquare mayor specials).
Moving location-based services to the mainstream
Though we'd like to think location-based services are the "next big thing" for marketing on the web, the reality is that just four percent of internet users are using them — and just eight percent of online adults 18-29 (Pew Internet). How do we move LBS into mainstream use? Priebatsch suggests a multi-pronged approach, involving partnering with big brands (think: Pepsi's partnership with Foursquare). He also suggests that we loosen the rules a bit, to allow more than just strictly present individuals to interact with a place. "Will be visiting later" or "want to visit here" should also count as valid interactions in location-based networks, and provides more opportunities for businesses to connect with their customers.
Are early adopters spoiled?
One of the "moral hazards" Priebatsch pointed out to early adopters of LBS is the conditioned expectation of receiving a reward for every check-in. Should users expect to get a discount or special recognition every time they check in to a location on Foursquare? Will SCVNGR users participate in treks only for the prizes, or simply for the fun of it? This is something builders of location-based tools should be mindful of.
Playing games to save the world
By addressing impossibly large world problems with game mechanics, Priebatsch believes we're poised to help solve them. By participating in a game that contributes to a real-world cause, we derive "epic meaning" — feeling part of something bigger than ourselves, and feeling more productive in a large group than we could be on our own.
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SCVNGR has posted on their blag on Seth's keynote coverage in the media. You can also view Seth's keynote slides here.
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In Originals, Adam Grant shares several stories about the importance of role models—peers, historical figures, fictional characters—and how they can actually elevate your goals, dreams, and aspirations. In this episode of Getting Work To Work, I talk about Grant's book, identify a few of my heroes, and share five ways you can get more value from your role models.
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Five Ways to Up Your Value From Your Role Models
- Identify your role models and write down why you look up to them.
- Apply lessons and strategies that you observe to your life.
- It's not about comparison. It's about emulation and inspiration.
- You might be a role model to others, so don't be afraid to share successes and failures. Be accessible to others.
- If they are still alive, reach out to your role models.


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Get Rs 100 Free Amazon India Gift Voucher
Hello friends, Today i am going to show you the Shopping trick for getting free Rs 100 Amazon Voucher.Using this free Rs 100 Amazon Gift card, you can buy anything from Amazon without paying a single penny or without any promo code. You have to follow the simple steps below:
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Sell your Own Creative Works on Internet
Internet has now become a place where everyone remains connected 24×7 from all across the globe. People like me who always love to be unique and if you are one of them who makes digital products; you too can make a good amount of money from the internet itself.
There are many websites over Internet that allows your to sell your Creative Works. These works may be any real life objects (paintings, pottery art, etc) or digital objects (digital images, digital videos, software, program modules, etc). Sell real life objects maybe a bit difficult but you can always showcase them in your own websites.
The real fun comes into action when you'r selling the digital objects specially if you'r a photographer. Sites like SMUGMUG allows users to put up their creative photos into their website for sell or in sites like FreeMarket you can sell your own digital photos, designs, softwares, ebooks or any kind of file.
Initial popularity is very essential that is why I marked this Technique as a Low Earner [LE], once you get the popularity it can be turned into Medium Earner and even to a High Earning Techniques. For getting the popularity you need to build your website traffic so that more and more people comes and visits your website. Soon there will be an article to show how you can build your website traffic absolutely free.
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Building Traffic for your WordPress.com blog
WordPress.com is simply an amazing platform to blog and one of my favorite web 2.0 blogging platform. Hats off to all those developers at WordPress.com for creating such a marvelous online blogging software with the magic of PHP. It's truly amazing and I wish that everyone in the world must at-least have one WordPress.com blog.
Now once you make a blog it's important to popularize your blog so that more and more people all around the country visit your blog. The amount to incoming and outgoing connections that are formed due to visiting your blog is called "TRAFFIC". Thus the more TRAFFIC you have on your blog stats, the more are your chances to get popular around the world. Here are some of the simple tricks that has always worked for me. Continue reading
How to learn new foreign Languages free of cost ?
Learning new languages has always been fun. Most of the people around the world who learns new languages needs to pay something to the organisation which could be offline located at some specific place or online. Get ready as I reveal, one of the best technique to enroll yourself in a language learning program and that is also free of cost. But in this case you too will be acting like a teacher and teach the other partner while he/she does the same. As a result, you will learn a foreign language and your partner too.
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It is estimated that under 6% of the UK population are of the Muslim faith, yet this minority frequently have the majority of the UK population quaking in their boots. Sometimes this 'quaking' manifests itself in the form of anger while at other times it appears as fear. The most contentious issue is 'Halal'.
What is Halal?
In Arabic, the word halal means permitted or lawful. Halal foods are foods that are allowed under Islamic dietary guidelines. According to these guidelines, which are taken from the Qu'ran, Muslim followers cannot consume the following:
• pork or pork by products
• animals that were dead prior to slaughtering
• animals not slaughtered properly or not slaughtered in the name of Allah
• blood and blood by products
• alcohol
• carnivorous animals
• birds of prey
• land animals without external ears
Prohibited foods and ingredients are called haram, which means forbidden in Arabic.
Throughout the World Muslims must follow a strict code based on religious guidelines when slaughtering animals for meat consumption. The arabic word for these guidelines is; zabihah and they apply to halal slaughterhouses as well as to the killing of single animals at home.
The zabihah slaughter itself must be performed by a physically able Muslim on a healthy animal which is permissible to eat. The slaughter-man must say"Bismillah" (in the name of God) and "Allahu akbar" (God is the Greatest), before making a quick, single incision to the throat of the animal. Blood rapidly drains from the animals jugular and only when the blood has fully drained is the animal hoisted for skinning and butchering.
Although the zabihah forbids suffering to the animals during the slaughter process there has been a lot of contradiction and criticism of the method used. Film has been released on the internet of animals awaiting slaughter inside Muslim slaughter houses that are in obvious distress. In apparent contradiction of the zabihah the beasts have their throats cut and are then whisked away on a high-level conveyor, some still twitching, while the blood drains from their bodies. The concern here is, they are not supposed to be hoisted until they have been exsanguinated. Also, when viewed on the internet, no incantation of the words Bismillah or Allahu Akbar could be heard prior to each throat cutting. That is not to say it did not happen but it was not apparent.
However, the biggest concern of all is that the UK is being deliberately allowed to be slowly Islamised. Supermarkets, Tesco being a prime example, only sell halal meat in the fresh meat sections of their stores. When tackled about this a spokesperson said that all meat is clearly labelled as non halal that has not gone through the "zabihah" process of slaughter. Now surely they have this the wrong way around. They are a British company operating in a Christian country – Great Britain! The labels should be on halal meat and not the other war around.
We now hear that SubWay have stopped using bacon and ham in over 200 outlets as it offends Muslims. Again, why? At the risk of sounding like a broken record; the UK is a Christian country with a way of life and Laws based on Christian values, was any thought given to the fact that taking this produce off the shelves might offend Christians? Now I know that it isn't fashionable to spout Christian values or a Christian way of life through fear of being labelled as some sort of zealot but as an atheist I feel that I can do so. 'Call Me Dave' might want to embrace other cultures and religion into this country but we shouldn't have to embrace them to the extent that they come before our own MAJORITY religion! I am neither xenophobic, homophobic or racist but a line has to be drawn. Already Sharia Law is to be enshrined into the British legal system. Equality campaigner Baroness Cox said the Law Society document 'violates everything we stand for'.
I have to agree with her on that.
Not only have our self-serving politicians given away our Laws and dignity to the EU they have now totally disgraced themselves by giving our souls to Islam!


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Toronto's Top Desserts of Summer 2016 | Bar Ape
Welcome to our latest blog series featuring our review of the top desserts of summer 2016 in Toronto. You've seen countless photos of these desserts on Instagram, but do they live up to the hype? Follow our blog series to find out! Bar Ape (pronounced "Bar Ah-pay") has been a Toronto standout for quite some time now – you may have noticed them selling their handmade gelato bars out of their imported Piaggio Ape truck all around Toronto. It used to be quite challenging trying to locate their truck, as you would need to be constantly monitoring their Twitter or Instagram account, but fret not as they've finallyRead More →


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All areas of seating for our RISE – ASCENT Tapings to be held in the Pittsburgh Market are now on sale! This historic event takes place May 12 at the White Oak Athletic Association located at 1798 Lower Heckman Rd. in White Oak, PA 15131. We will be taping 6 episodes in all for RISE – ASCENT, our new weekly series debuting at riseascent.com in late May 2018.
Front Row have already sold a significant amount, but still available in limited quantity at $50. Second Row: $40, Third Row: $30 and General Admission: $20. All tickets now on sale at pipeline.ecwid.com.
Pricing and on sale date TBD: We will be hosting a VIP Meet and Greet with IMPACT Wrestling Hall of Famer and Knockouts Producer Gail Kim! All the stars of RISE will also be on hand for this VIP Event.
Already announced as the Main Event of RISE – ASCENT, Episode 1: IWC Women's Champion Britt Baker vs. Tessa Blanchard! Providing Color Commentary will be IMPACT Wrestling Knockout Sienna.
Also appearing throughout the course of these tapings: Phoenix of RISE and SHIMMER Tag Team Champion Delilah Doom, SHIMMER Champion Nicole Savoy, Mercedes Martinez, Paradise Lost: The Team of IMPACT Knockout Rosemary and Dust, The Killer Death Machines: The Team Jessicka Havok and Nevaeh, Kikyo, Deonna Purrazzo and Shotzi Blackheart! Many more TBA, plus the Seminar's Prospective Talent Pool!
"There is a lot more in store for these tapings then we have revealed here. We will be taping 'at least' 6 Episodes of RISE – ASCENT, and each one will have 'at least' one can't-miss match advertised. With the talents committed thus far and the early Seminar signups, I am very excited about the cards presented in this first taping," said RISE Executive Producer, Kevin Harvey.
The Producers and Executive Team from IMPACT Wrestling will remain on hand May 12 to oversee the execution of these first episodes of RISE – ASCENT, written by Kevin Harvey, Jimmy Jacobs and Rosemary.
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What makes you stand out from the crowd..? That's what we'd call a company profile.
200 words or so explaining who you are, your background, experience and why clients
should book training or courses with you.
Most companies already have a brief executive summary such as this, all you need do is copy that text and post it as your company profile. You can add this text in your Xyz account and we will display that both in snippet form on your homepage and in more detail on your about us page.
From experience and merely as a tip, try not to get too overly elaborate when writing your company profile, too much information tends to turn visitors off. And do try not to trick the system by suggesting visitors go to another web address in order to make contact - anything that confuses a web visitor or makes them suspicious is not good for business. Embrace the site we've created for you, stick to telling your visitors about you and your business and why you are such a great company to deal with and your mytraininwebsite will work wonders for you, either as your main website or as a backup to your existing one.


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Clara Street Gallery in association with the Tom Bass Sculpture Studio School is pleased to invite you to the exhibition Nature's Shadows that will showcase wire animal sculptures by TBSSS student Allison Garoza.
Please join us for exhibition drinks on Friday 11 August, 6.30 – 8.30pm. All welcome!
Nature's Shadows
Opening Sunday 11 August, 6.30 – 8.30pm
12 August – 1 September 2017
Mon – Fri (except Tuesdays) 10am – 2pm
Saturday's 10am – 1pm
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Even by the standards of liberal Democrats, Hillary Clinton is running the most frankly redistributionist presidential campaign in years. She promises massive new spending initiatives and balanced budgets, achieved by raising taxes on higher-income Americans in ways that other Democrats have rejected in the recent past.
At a fundraiser in Seattle Friday night -- with her growing lead over Donald Trump, Clinton holds few actual campaign rallies -- Clinton described her spending agenda: the "biggest investment in jobs since World War II," higher spending on prescription drugs, billions more for Obamacare, pre-school, family leave, college affordability, roads, bridges, tunnels, ports, airports, a new electric grid to "distribute all the clean, renewable energy we're going to be producing," half a billion new solar panels, advanced manufacturing, climate change, and more.
Clinton conceded that was a lot to pay for, but argued America's wealthy have more than enough cash to hand over to the government. Chief among them, Clinton said, is her billionaire opponent, Donald Trump, whom she promises to target after the election.
"When people ask me, so how are you going to pay for infrastructure jobs and paid family leave, I say well, I'm telling you I'm going to pay for everything," Clinton told the fundraiser audience. "I'm not going to add a penny to the national debt. We're going to go where the money is. We're going to make the wealthy pay their fair share. And we're going to finally close those corporate loopholes. And it would be a good idea to start with my opponent."
It's not clear whether Clinton meant there might be some specific retaliation against Trump under her administration or whether Trump would simply pay more taxes along with other wealthy Americans.
Clinton often uses the phrase "go where the money is" to describe her tax-raising proposals. (The phrase comes from a legendary 20th Century criminal, Willie Sutton, who was asked why he robbed banks and supposedly replied, "Because that's where the money is.")
Clinton used the phrase at three separate rallies last month, as well as over the summer when she was asked on CBS's "60 Minutes" what the term "middle class" means to her. "Well, we say below $250,000 because here's what we want to do," Clinton said. "We want to go where the money is. Most of the wealth increase, the increase in income, both active and passive, has gone to the very top of the income scale."
Of course, $250,000 per year, while more than the vast majority of American households make, is also not the "very top of the income scale." A household bringing in that amount would be in the top 3 percent of American earners nationwide. In some areas of the country, like Secretary Clinton's home, the New York metropolitan area, it would be in the top 5 percent. In any event, Clinton's precise figure, $250,000, is one that has given Democrats fits in their previous efforts to raise taxes.
In 2008, candidate Barack Obama pledged to raise taxes on couples making more than $250,000 a year and individuals making more than $200,000. The idea was that in 2010, when the Bush tax cuts on all U.S. earners were set to expire, taxes on the wealthiest would go up.
It didn't happen. By the time the Bush cuts expired, Obama had already raised taxes on higher earners through Obamacare, and some key Democrats joined Republicans in opposing another hike. Clinton's old New York colleague in the Senate, Charles Schumer, and the Democratic leader in the House, Nancy Pelosi, proposed to raise taxes only on households above $1 million. With the economy still in a terrible trough in late 2010, Congress declined to raise taxes on anybody.
In 2012, Obama came back, with a proposal to further extend the great majority of the Bush cuts but again to raise taxes on families with income above $250,000. Schumer and a bunch of other Democrats facing re-election balked. Obama compromised, and the final deal raised taxes on families making more than $450,000.
Now Clinton, with an eye on her left flank after a primary fight with Bernie Sanders, proposes to go back to the old $250,000 threshold for tax increases. Whether that will succeed is anybody's guess; on the other side of the Democratic divide will again be Schumer, this time leading the party in the Senate, either as minority or majority leader. Even if all Democrats agree to "go where the money is," it seems unlikely they'll be able to agree on precisely how to do it.
At about this time in the 2008 campaign, Barack Obama had a brief encounter with an Ohio man named Joseph Wurzelbacher, who later became known as Joe the Plumber. "Your new tax plan is going to tax me more, isn't it?" Joe asked the Democratic candidate at a stop in Holland, Ohio.
"It's not that I want to punish your success, I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a chance for success, too," Obama answered. "I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."
For Republicans, Joe the Plumber became the embodiment of opposition to Obama's redistributionist plans. But Obama back then was vastly more subtle than Clinton is today; rhetorically, "We're going to go where the money is" is a hard-edged threat compared to "spread the wealth around."
Clinton doesn't need subtlety. With the political world fixated on all things Trump, she could resurrect Willie Sutton himself, and threaten to sic him on everyday Americans, and it's possible nobody would notice. Clinton is being blunt about her intentions because she can.
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There is something in common among thought leaders. Their thought innovations simply disrupt an existing paradigm. Today we will see a few of those who really disrupted the Software Industry, be it in Development or Testing or Databases through their inventive and innovative thinking.
Kent Beck:
Kent Beck is the creator of the revolutionary ExtremeProgramming or XP as it is shortly called, along with 2 other notable thought leaders and improvisational Test DrivenDevelopment. He is also the mastermind behing JUnit, the xUnit class of Unit Testing Frameworks. These innovations eventually formed the basis for what we currently call Agile SoftwareDevelopment.
Martin Fowler:
If you don't know him, then probably you are not in touch with the Software industry recently. MartinFowler is a chief Scientist in Thoughtworks. He is a highly reputed international speaker and is a guru who popularized Agile and NoSQL to a great extent. He along with other thought leaders formed the Agile Manifesto. Some of his notable writings include Evolutionary Design, Agile, ContinuousIntegration, ContinuousDelivery, NoSQL and Mobile and is a author of several best selling books.
Ward Cunningham:
He is one of the 3 inventors of the Extreme Programming. Also a pioneer in Design Patterns, Extreme Programming and the Agile movement and one of the thought leaders who framed the Agile Manifesto. He is also the inventor of the Wiki and the popular FITframework.
Ron Jeffries:
He is also one of the 3 inventors of the Extreme Programming. He is also the author of one of the best selling books "ExtremeProgramming Adventures in C#" where he wrote about his journey through XPing using a new programming language (C#).
James Bach:
James Bach is a revolutionary thought leader in the field of Software Testing. He is most notable for his works on Exploratory Testing along with other thought leaders, Session Based Testing and Context Driven School ofTesting.
Ken Schwaber and Dr. Jeff Sutherland:
Inventors of the ever so popular Scrum methodology in Agile, which revolutionized the way of working for teams and brought a new perspective to Agile Projects. They are also the initial signers of the Agile Manifesto. Ken Schwaber is also a founder of the Agile Alliance and Scrum.org. He is also a book writer and has written on varioustopics in Scrum.
Michael Stonebraker:
A computer scientist and one of the fathers in the Database Management Systems. He is the inventor of the RDBMS Ingres and Postgres. He is a pioneer in the field of Big Data and is most notable for his work in Vertica and VoltDB. He is also one of the criticsof the NoSQL movement.
There are a handful lot of other Thought leaders in the industry, but unfortunately we would not be able to cover everyone in this post. Do you aspire to become a Thought Leader? Who is your most favorite and respected Thought Leader?
About the Author
Rajaraman Raghuraman has nearly 8 years of experience in the Information Technology industry focusing on Product Development, R&D, Test Data Management and Automation Testing. He has architected a TDM product from scratch and currently leads the TDM Product Development team in an IT MNC. He is passionate about Agile Methodologies and is a huge fan of Product Development, Agile Development and Agile Testing. He blogs at Test Data Management Blog & Agile Blog. Connect with him on Google+


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Diversity on House Financial Services
The eight Republicans who will join the House Financial Services Committee next year include a former ambassador to Luxembourg, a farmer and the founder of a real estate company.
But despite their varying backgrounds, they share common goals for the panel: scaling back Dodd-Frank, protecting community banks and taking on housing reform.
The incoming members struck an optimistic note that there can be bipartisan cooperation on the panel. But they also expressed little interest in meeting Democrats in the middle on some of the more contentious financial regulatory issues.
What follows are excerpts of interviews with seven of the incoming GOP members — Rep.-elect Andy Barr of Kentucky declined to be interviewed — about their backgrounds and goals for the committee:
Rep. Randy Hultgren of Illinois
Hultgren says he's had plenty of practice to prepare himself for a committee that has the reputation for partisan gridlock.
"I served on a couple of committees that have always been thought of as very bipartisan and where things move quickly — the Agriculture and Transportation committees — and we struggled there as well to get bills through," he said.
"So it doesn't surprise me that Financial Services also had struggles and some very strong differences in opinion of what the role of federal government ought to be in our banking system and in finance," he added.
Hultgren, a former investment adviser who was first elected to Congress in 2010, is set to join the panel as several of its Illinois Republicans, including Reps. Judy Biggert and Robert Dold, depart the committee after failing to win reelection.
Like many of his Republican colleagues, Hultgren says one of his major goals is to scale back regulations conservatives contend will paralyze financial institutions.
"I have my strong opinions, but I'm not going to come in saying, 'I'll never do this.' I want to look and see," he said. "I'm not going to shut down and say, 'I'll never look at a compromise.'"
Rep. Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina
The conservative South Carolina Republican says he regrets not being able to have one of the committee's most outspoken liberals — Barney Frank — serving alongside him on the panel next year.
"My big disappointment is that Mr. Frank is leaving because I know him and I know that I could have worked with him. And I'm sure that if I could work with him, I know that [Chairman-elect] Jeb [Hensarling R-Texas] could," he said.
Of Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), the incoming ranking member, he said, "I don't know Ms. Waters that well … it'll be very interesting to see the tone that she sets in the first couple of meetings. I hope that it's not intransigent. I hope it's not going to be the politics of obstruction."
Mulvaney, who ran a family real estate business before starting a home-building company, says he's committed to working with Hensarling on what is expected to be one of the incoming chairman's top priorities: GSE reform.
"Even if you talk to folks like Mr. Frank, they recognize the fact that these systems are broken," he said. "That's the important first step — for everybody to acknowledge that Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, [and the Federal Housing Administration] cannot continue in their current form forever."
Rep. Dennis Ross of Florida
Ross says he developed an interest in financial services when his home state was ravaged by hurricanes in 2004 and 2005.
The Florida Republican explained that when he was serving on the state Legislature, the aftermath of the devastating storms brought forth a "mad dash to overregulate the insurance industry."
The surge in regulatory red tape was to the detriment of consumers, Ross says, and he touts his efforts to cut back the state-level overregulation.
"I fought it tooth and nail because I did not believe that, one, the government should be in the business of business," Ross said.
"What I call an ominous parallel in Florida when I was chairing the House Insurance Committee was also happening on the federal level at the same time," he said. "We saw it in health care. We saw it happen to the banking industry. All in the name of consumer protections, we restrict and cripple industries."
A former state representative who was first elected to Congress in 2010, Ross is particularly interested in serving on the insurance subcommittee.
Rep. Marlin Stutzman of Indiana
Growing up, Stutzman had dreams of one day being a banker.
The Indiana congressman recalls going to the bank with his father as a boy, "always sitting on the one side of the desk and the banker being on the other side and understanding the challenges for a small-business owner having a good loan officer, and I wanted to be on the other side of the desk someday."
But Dodd-Frank was his wake-up call.
"Well, after Dodd-Frank, I told my banker friends, 'I'm glad I'm on my side and not theirs!'" he said, letting out a chuckle.
Stutzman, first elected to Congress in 2010 and co-owner of a family-run farming operation called Stutzman Farms, says he would like to see the committee operate in a "strong two-party process" under Hensarling's leadership.
"I realize there's going to be differences, but at the end of the day, it's very important for everybody to remember that all of these issues — whether it's access to capital or whatever, has real-life impact on families and businesses," he said.
Rep.-elect Tom Cotton of Arkansas
The incoming freshman says he is determined to shield community banks from Dodd-Frank .
"Community banks faced some of the most significant harms under Dodd-Frank … so I wanted to be on the committee to try to alleviate some of the regulatory burdens," Cotton said. "Hearings are very critical because Dodd-Frank, like Obamacare, in some ways wasn't really a law so much as it was a vesting of vast discretion in regulators."
A graduate of Harvard College and its law school, Cotton was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan during his service in the Army and subsequently worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Co.
He says he has long admired Hensarling and sees his own philosophical views in the Texas lawmaker.
Rep.-elect Robert Pittenger of North Carolina
Pittenger's 9th District includes Charlotte, home to Bank of America, but he says one of his biggest concerns as he prepares to join the Financial Services Committee has to do with small banks.
"[I want to] make sure the community banks are not lost in the entire process — they could become extinct," Pittenger said. "You have too-big-to-fail and just mountains of regulatory requirements on community banks."
Pittenger, who founded a real estate company and served on the board of a community bank for 14 years, said Dodd-Frank looks more like a "knee-jerk overreaction" to the financial crisis.
"We need to get back and look at how we can try to modify that bill to bring some relief," he said. "We ought to just see how we can tweak it. It's the law of the land, we understand that, but we need to work together to see common areas of support that we can find."
Rep.-elect Ann Wagner of Missouri
The incoming congresswoman says it was during her four-year tenure as U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg that she "really got involved in the financial-services sector."
Wagner says she sees plenty of parallels between the Western European country and her 2nd District, which includes St. Louis.
"It is a national and regional center for a lot of financial services activity," she said, as she listed off the number of community banks, credit unions and people employed in the financial-services industry in St. Louis. "So the committee is very reflective of the district that I have the privilege of representing."
Wagner first dipped her toes in politics when she served as a committeewoman in Lafayette Township. She would go on to chair the state Republican Party before serving as co-chair of the Republican National Committee during President George W. Bush's first term.
The Missouri native says she expects the committee to focus on two priorities: housing reform and oversight of Dodd-Frank.
"Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac collapsed and brought the housing market and economy down with them, and this concept of too-big-to-fail is not good when it comes to the large financial institutions," she said. "I want to be a part of ending bailouts and abuse of taxpayer dollars."


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My XX stuff that I put on over the winter was getting sloppy so I decided to give Gripshift and Type 2 a try. I've always liked the look of XO better than XX so considering the weight is the same in the internal components are the same except for the shifter cable it's used I just decided to go with the X0. The Gripshift is very smooth but not too smooth. It's still a SRAM product. The only issue I had with these is they sort of force you to use more of the end of the brake lever rather than the middle of the brake lever. So if you have smaller hands you may have difficulty reaching the brake lever. I use a size large glove and it was still a little bit of a stretch for me. I'll have to play with the lever a little bit and just get used to it. Optionally I could cut the grip itself shorter and that would bring the brake lever closer to my finger but then you're forced to rest your hand on the shifter itself and that could get a little uncomfortable with the type of texture that it is. Sort of hard to explain what I mean there unless you actually put your hand on one to understand. Overall I like it though.
Not a whole lot to say about the Type 2 rear deraileur. It's extremely quiet and shifts incredibly well. I feel like it shifts a lot better than my XX did. It shifts on par with my SRAM red road bike. Also the cage lock mechanism is really cool it really helps quite a bit for taking the wheel on and off.
If you're in the market to buy some new components, definitely give these two new products a try.
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One of the many artistic forms that I have attempted in my life was ceramics. I really enjoyed it, even if I could never get the hang of the wheel. I took lessons and open studio for several years at a community art center near my work, mostly hand building, until the cost of going there got too high.
One of the big draws of polymer clay for me is it's ability to mimic almost any other medium. And since I still love the look of ceramics, I have played around with PC attempting to make faux ceramic beads.
This is a necklace and earrings that I made a while back. I made the base beads by stamping into white clay and cured them. I then mixed alcohol inks into liquid polymer clay and applied to the backed beads. I semi-cured them with a heat gun, to set the LPC so it would not drip in the oven during the second baking. I like the glazed look this technique achieved.


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Hyspero has been ruled for thousands of years by the Scarlet Empresses, creatures of dangerous powers -- powers that a member of the Doctors own race is keen to possess herself: the eccentric time traveller and philanderer known only as Iris Wildthyme.
As the real reasons for Iriss obsession become clear, the Doctor and Sam must embark on a perilous journey across deserts, mountains, forests and oceans. Both friends and foes are found among spirits, djinns, alligator men and golden bears -- but in a land where the magical is possible, is anything really as it seems?
The TARDIS brings the Doctor and Sam to Hyspero, an ancient world full of magic and stories. While the Doctor reads tales from the Ajaib, an amusing book of weird and fantastic adventures, Sam goes exploring and finds a man with scaly alligator skin, Gila, chained up in a double-decker London bus in an old graveyard full of flesh-eating djinn. She brings the Doctor to the bus, which he recognizes as the transport of his old flame Iris Wildthyme. The Doctor pilots the bus to a pit in the desert where Iris has been trapped by wild dogs -- Gilas, set upon her as revenge for her kidnapping him. Iris finally admits to Gila that shes on a mission for the Scarlet Empress to reunite the Four, Gilas old mercenary band. Gila agrees to accompany her for the sake of the adventure, but the Doctor suspects that Iris isnt telling them the whole truth. His suspicions seem borne out when they are attacked at a desert cafe by guards of the Scarlet Empress, sent to spur on the expedition and monitor Iris progress.
After piloting Iris bus-TARDIS across the mountains -- and enlisting the aid of an insect-djinn, a kabukij, to escape from a sandpit -- the Doctor and his companions arrive in Fortalice, a town which refuses to tolerate anything which inspires change. They have arrived on the day of the Grand Fracas, when the town Executioner uses an emotional inducer to inspire the populace to bloodshed, ridding them of the emotional repression that has built up through the year. Iris is drugged and sold to the Executioner for public torture and execution. Sam and Gila are trapped outside as the citizens turn on each other, but are rescued by Our Lady of the Flowers, the only outsider whom the citizens tolerate, due to her mysterious ability to grow beautiful flowers and luscious fruit.
The Doctor, meanwhile, goes to the town library and forces the reluctant librarian to let him browse the books at random. The librarian tolerates him until he sees that the Doctor is carrying a copy of the Ajaib; scandalised, he gasses the Doctor and turns him over to the glass Vizier. The Vizier turns the librarian into stone, confiscates the Ajaib and forces the Doctor to watch Iris pending execution. The Doctor memorises the spells the Vizier chanted over the Ajaib, and uses them to release a hydra from the book upon the town. As the townsfolk flee in terror, the Doctor releases Iris, but the furious Executioner uses his emotional inducer to generate a hallucination of a gryphon which battles the Doctors hydra. The Executioner is killed as the beasts battle, and the Doctor is knocked unconscious. Iris takes him aboard her bus and flees, leaving Sam and Gila to their fate -- much to the Doctors fury once he finds out.
The metal hands of the cybernetic Duchess, another of the Four, lead Sam and Gila out of Our Ladys indoor jungle to an underground river, where disembodied voices haunt them with doubts, fears and literary analysis. They emerge in the forest of Kestheven, where they are captured by the hairless bears ruled by Major Angela -- the Bearded Lady, the third of the Four. The Doctor and Iris have also reached Kestheven, but have been captured by birds who demand to be told stories with a proper beginning, middle, end and moral. Iris slips away while the Doctor tells stories to the birds, but the guards of the Scarlet Empress track them down and set fire to the birds nests to spur on the expedition. Iris finds the Duchess waiting at the bus, and at her urging the Duchess rescues the Doctor from the burning nests from which the birds have already fled. They return for Iris only to find that she has fainted -- and the depth of her faint confirms the Doctors suspicions that theres more to her weakness than
shes letting on.
Major Angela, shocked by her unexpected reunion with Gila and the Duchess, admits that the Scarlet Empress is really after the body of Cassandra -- the preserved and still-living embodiment of the first Scarlet Empress. Iris, meanwhile, has an out-of-body experience and sees the current Empress plotting to send her daughter Julia in the pirate ship Kristeva to capture the expedition once it reaches the sea. She recovers to find that the Doctor has sat up with her all night, and, touched, she admits that she is dying -- and that she has made a deal with the Scarlet Empress to cure her if she keeps her side of the bargain and returns Cassandra.
Angela doesnt want to leave her kingdom, but is forced to concede that the Scarlet Empress will never leave her alone now; the current Empress is power-mad and wont rest until she rules all of Hyspero and has separated it into easily classifiable and controllable sections. At the Doctors urging, Angela releases the spirit of Cassandra from her jar, and Cassandra agrees to help them stop the current Empress, who has brought the name of their dynasty into disrepute. Before confronting the Empress they must fetch the last of the Four -- the Mock Turtle, who is imprisoned in a land of ice and snow beyond the next gateway. The worlds have been separated by the Scarlet Empress, who has set a giant spider to guard the gateway, but the Doctor convinces the spider to join their expedition and fight the cruel Empress.
In the snow arena, the spider and the Duchess -- the two least human of the party -- fall in love and merge into a symbiotic entity which fights off a giant walrus sent by the Empress to attack the expedition. Gila, who is beginning to revert to an animalistic alligator state, fires a cannon at the fighters, killing the walrus and grievously injuring the Spider Duchess. The wounded Spider Duchess remains behind to recover if possible and to hold off the pursuing guards, while the others carry on and awaken the Mock Turtle from his prison. But they are all captured by the pirates of the Kristeva, and the Mock Turtle summons an unusual sort of help -- the oldest fish in the world rises and swallows him, Iris, and the Doctor. The Doctor demands to be let out, and the fish spits out its passengers on a desert island. Iris bus drives under the sea to her rescue, and the Doctor prepares to pilot it back to the Empress palace for the final showdown -- but Iris faints for what may be the last time, and her body enters a healing coma.
Angela admits to Sam and Gila that she stole Cassandras jar to seek the answers to the great questions of life, but all Cassandra has ever done in reply is laugh. The Kristeva launches into the air to return to the palace, but it is attacked by the angry birds of Kestheven. Sam, Gila and Angela escape in a flying lifeboat as the Kristeva crashes into the sea, killing all on board. The lifeboat lands in the city of Hyspero, where Sam, Angela and Gila are captured by palace guards and taken before the Empress. But as the Empress confronts them, demanding the return of the jar, Iris TARDIS materializes in the throne room. To the Empress horror, the Doctor releases Cassandra, who informs the current Empress that she has sullied the name of the dynasty, and sets out to restart time again and clean up the mess left by the last few Empresses. Gila loses all humanity and becomes a full-blooded alligator, while the Doctor and the others shelter out the remaining changes inside Iris bus.
Once the changes to Hyspero are over, the Doctor emerges to ask a favour of Cassandra -- he needs the life-restoring gel which keeps past Scarlet Empresses preserved in order to save Iris life. Cassandra sends the Doctor to the hives of the giant bees which produce the honey, where the Doctor uses the Ajaib to summon the kabukij which helped him earlier and asks for its help. The Doctor returns to the palace a month later with honey for Iris, who recovers and departs without fanfare during the night. The Doctor and Sam depart Hyspero as well, and as they go they receive a transmission from Iris -- a video of her successful regeneration.


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Ellen DeGeneres has finally met the teen who's on track to defeat her legendary record for most retweets ever. And she definitely threatened him to help her keep her Oscar selfie on top.
Carter Wilkerson made headlines earlier this month after Wendy's told him he'd have to get 18 million retweets for a year supply of chicken nuggets. Currently, Wilkerson's tweet is at 3.1 million retweets.
Ellen's Oscar selfie is only at 3.3 million.
"Why are you trying to sabotage my selfie?" Ellen asked Wilkerson during his appearance on her show. "Why are you trying to do that? I worked really hard."
All the 16-year-old wanted was some chicken nuggets and now he has almost 76,000 Twitter followers. Wilkerson has become an internet sensation since his tweet went up on April 5, even earning himself the coveted Twitter verification checkmark.
Last week, Ellen enlisted the help of Bradley Cooper to ask everyone retweeting Wilkerson's tweet to simultaneously retweet their Oscar selfie. And now she's both bribed and threatened Wilkerson to help, as well.
"If somehow you pass me, Carter, I will come to your house," Ellen told Wilkerson after giving him a free gifts. "I will take that TV back. I will take the underwear back. And do more."
Looks like things are about to get interesting.


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Level 1 Certificate in Wine
Saturday + Sunday, October 24 + 25, 1pm – 5pm each day
Level 1 is an introductory course for beginners and enthusiasts. It assumes some exposure to wine but little or no formal wine knowledge. This program is appropriate for both consumers and professionals in all wine, food, hospitality and service industries.
Students will learn technical wine tasting, the major wine grapes, wine and food pairing basics, and fundamentals of wine style. The emphasis in Level 1 is on providing an overview of wine and wine tasting, plus an introduction to wine and food pairing concepts.
8 hour classroom program
20 – 24 wines tasted
Seven "S" System Of Wine Tasting
The Big Four: Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, Cabernet Sauvignon
Understanding Wine Grapes: Pinot Grigio, Riesling, Rosé, Montepulciano, Syrah, Merlot
Wine Styles: Old World Versus New World
TASTING SYLLABUS (tentative)
Part 1 The Big Four
2017 Riverdell Sauvignon Blanc, Marlborough NZ
2017 Villa degli Olmi Chardonnay, Vicenza, Veneto, NE Italy
2017 Poiema Pinot Noir, Edna Valley, San Luis Obispo, southern California, USA
2013 Aresti "Trisquel" Cabernet Sauvignon, Valle Central, Chile
Part 2 Grape Expectations
2018 i Lauri "Tavo" Pinot Grigio, Veneto, NE Italy
2015 Jakob Gerhardt "Das Meer" Riesling Trocken, Nierstein, central Rhine, western Germany
2018 Atlantique Cabernet Franc Rosé, Loire Valley, NW France
2016 Colle Corviano Montepulciano d'Abruzzo, Abruzzo, east-central Itay
2017 Villa degli Olmi Merlot, Vicenza, Veneto, NE Italy
2013 The Woodhouse "Dessek" Syrah, Washington, Pacific northwest, USA
Part 3 Wine Style
NV Palacio de Palau Cava Brut, Castilla, north-central Spain
2018 Atlantique Sauvignon Blanc, Loire Valley, NW France
2015 En Passant Cinsault + Syrah. Languedoc, SW France
2014 Siglo Rioja Crianza, Rioja, northern Spain
2017 Antico Colle Chianti Colli Senesi, Siena, Tuscany, central Italy
2014 Tacchino Barbera del Monferrato, Piemonte, northwest Italy
Part 4 New Worlds Of Wine
2018 Casa de Fonte Pequena "Mare Alta" Vinho Verde, northern Portugal
2018 Menhir "Minutolo" Fiano, Salento, Puglia, southwest Italy
2016 Vigna Roda "Espero" Cabernet Sauvignon + Carmenere, Colli Euganei, Padua, Veneto, northeast Italy
2014 Cavalo Preto Malbec, Mendoza, western Argentina
2013 Aresti "Trisquel" Cabernet Sauvignon + Syrah + Petit Verdot, Valle Central, Chile
2016 Tenuta Santo Pietro "Viper" Super Tuscan, Pienza, Tuscany, central Italy
Guests, students and certificate candidates must meet the legal minimum age for the retail purchase of alcoholic beverages in the country where the program is being held: 21 in the USA and China.
Complete classroom program
Complete classroom wine tasting exercise
Multiple choice exam of 25 questions
Minimum passing score 75%
JONATHON ALSOP is founder & executive director of the Boston Wine School, author of The Wine Lover's Devotional and In Vino Veritas, and a commentator for National Public Radio on WGBH | Boston Public Radio and Under The Radar.
He began writing about wine, food and travel in 1988 and emerged as a wine expert through his syndicated wine column. He has contributed numerous articles to the Associated Press, Frequent Flyer Magazine, La Vie Claire, Beverage Business Magazine, Mobil Travel Guides, Fodor's Travel Guides, Boston Globe, and many others.
Jonathon founded the Boston Wine School in 2000 where he teaches wine and food classes in a dedicated 100% snob-free zone. His new book Wine Life: A Collection Of Verses will be published in 2020.


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Research by TechCrunch found that the volunteers for the scheme had been paid up to $20 a month in return for opening up their phones to analysis.
However, Facebook has rubbished the accusation of spying, saying it was an unfair and inaccurate characterisation of the situation.
A spokesperson for the company explained: "Key facts about this market research program are being ignored.
"Despite early reports, there was nothing 'secret' about this; it was literally called the Facebook Research App. It wasn't 'spying' as all of the people who signed up to participate went through a clear on-boarding process asking for their permission and were paid to participate.
"Finally, less than five percent of the people who chose to participate in this market research program were teens. All of them with signed parental consent forms."
Facebook has also stressed that its market research policies are not unusual.
The social networking platform said: "Like many companies, we invite people to participate in research that helps us identify things we can be doing better.
"Since this research is aimed at helping Facebook understand how people use their mobile devices, we've provided extensive information about the type of data we collect and how they can participate.
"We don't share this information with others and people can stop participating at any time."


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Not Quite Rock Star Status:
Moving Beyond the Public Perception of Caregiving
by Shelley Colquitt and Linda Kruger
You might be viewed as a Rock Star for being able to handle a child who, in many ways, is like my Mighty Z—whatever your child's diagnosis or even if you have no formal diagnosis. People who have typical kids look at you in awe and they should, because you are a Rock Star.
However, these people cannot see the real feelings swimming around in your head, or hear the not-so-good thoughts. The thoughts of, "I can't do this anymore," or, "I am so terrified of this syndrome." Even the REALLY bad thoughts of wanting to run away. I remember driving home from the hospital when Mighty Z was just a baby and the thought, "just keep driving and never look back," popped into my head. I am not proud of that, but it did flash through my mind. I quickly banished the thought, and felt guilty for thinking it. Other times I thought it would have been better if I hadn't gotten pregnant, or maybe, it would have been for the best if my baby hadn't made it.
Thoughts like these are the real thoughts that have gone through my head at different times in Mighty Z's life. I think to myself that if anyone could look inside and see or hear the thoughts that have just popped into my head, they would know I am not a Rock Star.
I don't think like that now, but when I was first introduced to this journey I balked. In my head, all I heard was, "I can't, I can't do this," while everyone around me kept saying, "Wow, you are so strong, you are so great, I could never do this, and you are such a Rock Star." In many ways I wanted to scream that I am not great, strong, or a Rock Star! I am doing everything that I can just to survive the day!
I have made horrible decisions, and sometimes forgotten how to do simple stuff or just forgot to turn on a pulse ox machine. I have allowed doctors to do stuff to Mighty Z that I should never have allowed. I still think of the times I have allowed doctors to let her sleep off the ventilator, and yes, in my heart of hearts, I was hoping that she really would be fine.
These are the thoughts and feelings that I have felt. They are not very nice thoughts and definitely not Rock Star status thoughts and feelings, but there you have it. I guess I am just human at times.
Why I am I telling you this? Because we all can't be Rock Stars all the time. Sure we can resuscitate our children, change a trach with the skill of a PICU nurse, tube feed our babies, rig up a device to let our babies have some sort of physical movement, change a colostomy bag, and strap on AFOs without blinking an eye. But that doesn't stop the thoughts in our heads.
All we can do is realize we are not super human and can only do the best we can at the time. Love yourself, be kind to yourself and know you are a Rock Star.
Author: Shelley Colquitt and Linda Kruger • Date: 3/12/2013
About the Author
Shelley Colquitt is the mommy of two beautiful girls, Lauren and Zoe. Her youngest daughter was born at 40 weeks. As she was celebrating the success of the labor and delivery, her baby stopped breathing. Later, her daughter was diagnosed as having a rare disease that only 163 babies in the world had at the time (11 years ago). She had to learn to take care of a baby who had a trach and was on life support machines 24 hours a day.
Not only is Shelley busy with her two girls and works very hard to keep her youngest chronic medically complex child healthy, she also volunteers at a shelter for abused/neglected children and also volunteers as a teacher's aid for children who are globally delayed. She writes about the ups and downs of dealing with a child who is complex, chronically and critically ill. Read her blog at http://confessionsofasleepdeprivedmomma.blogspot.com/