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The following Terms and Conditions of Use specify, detail, and otherwise set forth your respective duties, obligations, responsibilities, and proper terms and conditions for your use and enjoyment of the Ballr website (i.e. "Site"), including, but not limited to all of the Ballr games, proprietary content, and intellectual property. You should also review the Ballr Privacy Policy which similarly specifies, details, and otherwise sets forth the professional and proper practices of Ballr in obtaining, securing, and otherwise protecting any personal information that you may provide to us in connection with your authorized use of the Ballr web site.
a The web pages available at Ballr.com, and all linked pages and content thereon (sometimes herein and collectively referred to as the "Site"), are owned, maintained, and operated by Ballr (hereinafter sometimes referred to as the "Company"), which is owned and operated by Ballr, Inc., a Nevada corporation and is accessed, reviewed, and used by you under the express terms and conditions of use set forth herein (sometimes collectively referred to herein as the "T&C of Use").
b You must read and fully understand all of these T&C of Use before you are authorized to use the Ballr Site. Should you not fully understand each and every one of the T&C of Use, you are not authorized to use the Ballr Site. By reviewing, accessing, and using the Ballr Site, including, without limitation, any games, content, materials, documentation, or otherwise using any part of the Ballr Site as well as any of its services as outlined within these T&C of Use or otherwise on the Ballr Site, you hereby knowingly, voluntarily, and consciously agree to become bound by each of these T&C of Use. If for any reason you do not agree to each and every one of the provisions, clauses, words, phrases, language set forth within these T&C of Use, then you shall not access the Ballr Site nor shall you use any of the content, materials, or any services contained within the Ballr Site. Should you violate this provision and access and use the site without such authorization, Ballr may take any reasonable and lawful action to stop your unauthorized access and use of the Ballr Site as provided for hereunder and as otherwise may be permissible under all applicable Municipal, State and/or US Federal laws.
Ballr and its duly authorized representatives hereby reserve the right to augment, change, alter, add to, delete from, and otherwise modify or replace the T&C of Use at any time. You as a User shall be responsible for reviewing and becoming familiar with any such modifications hereof. Use of the Site by you following such notification by Ballr of any such modifications shall constitute your acceptance of the modified T&C of Use as modified should you access and use the Ballr Site after such notification of modification is provided to you.
a You hereby state, represent, promise, and warrant to Ballr that you are a natural and individual person and specifically that you are not a corporate entity, limited liability company, business organization, trust, cooperative, partnership, limited partnership, association, or any other entity or organization. Only natural individual persons are authorized and eligible to access, review, and use the Ballr services or content. Only natural and individual persons are authorized and legally capable and competent to review, understand, and enter into the T&C of Use herein, including, but not limited to, all terms, conditions, obligations, affirmations, representations, statements, warranties and otherwise as specifically set forth within these T&C of Use. Only natural and individual persons are authorized by Ballr to enter into, abide by, and comply with the T&C of Use. In the event Ballr determines that you as a Site user are not a natural individual person, Ballr may take any reasonable and lawful action to stop your unauthorized access and use of the Ballr Site as provided for hereunder and as otherwise may be permissible under all applicable Municipal, State and/or US Federal laws.
b You may establish only one account per person to participate in the skill games and contests offered to authorized users on the Ballr Site. In the event Ballr discovers that you have opened more than one account per person, in addition to any other rights that Ballr has in law and equity, Ballr hereby reserves the right to suspend or terminate any or all of your accounts and to terminate, withhold, or revoke the awarding of any prizes hereunder.
c Ballr employees may use the Ballr Site for the legitimate purpose of testing the user experience, but shall not be able to withdraw money or prizes for themselves. Ballr third-party affiliates, consultants or promoters of the Ballr Site may play in skill games without limitation. Such individuals do not have any access to non-public Ballr Site data or any other information not generally made available to all Ballr users on the site and shall not receive any unfair, illicit, or improper advantages in their play on the Ballr Site.
dProfessional and Amateur Athletes shall not participate within any Ballr Site skill games or any other contests in which either they or any part of their respective team(s) are available for selection.
eIn order to deposit money to play real money skill games on the Ballr Site, you must be able to fully and truthfully state, represent and warrant that:
fIf you do not meet the eligibility requirements of this section for authorized use hereof as outlined above and otherwise in this section hereof, then do not use the Ballr Site content or any of its services. In addition to any other rights that Ballr has in law or equity, Ballr hereby expressly reserves all of its respective rights to temporarily suspend, indefinitely suspend, and/or terminate your user account, including, without limitation, the right to terminate, withhold or otherwise suspend or terminate payments or the awarding of any prizes associated with your account, in the event that you as a user of the Ballr Site content and/or services does not comply, comport, or otherwise meet any or all the requirements for authorized users of Ballr.
gIn the event Ballr has reasonable information that you are not such an authorized user of Ballr site and services, Ballr may require you to provide suitable proof that you are eligible and authorized to use the Ballr site and services in exercise of Ballr's sole and unfettered discretion to do so. In the event Ballr determines that you as a Site user are not eligible and authorized hereunder, Ballr may take any reasonable and lawful action to stop your unauthorized access and use of the Ballr Site as provided for hereunder and as otherwise may be permissible under all applicable Municipal, State and/or US Federal laws.
a Registration: In order to participate in games of skill on the Ballr Site, you must register for an authorized account. By registering as a user of the Ballr Site, you agree to provide accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted --such information will be recorded and kept by Ballr as your authorized registration information and data -- and Ballr will require you to periodically maintain and promptly update your registration information and other user data in order to keep it accurate, current and complete. If you ever provide any information to Ballr that is inaccurate, misleading, deceptive, fraudulent, or that is not current or incomplete in any manner, or alternatively, if Ballr ever has reasonable grounds to suspect that your user registration information and date is inaccurate, misleading, deceptive, fraudulent, or is not current or incomplete, Ballr in the exercise of its sole and unfettered discretion may deny you access to, use of, or participation in any games of skill or other contests on the Ballr Site. Additionally, Ballr may take any further reasonable and lawful action to stop your unauthorized access and use of the Ballr Site as provided for hereunder and as otherwise may be permissible under all applicable Municipal, State and/or US Federal laws.
b User Account Passwords, Security, and Integrity: At the time of registration for online account access, you must provide a valid email address and supply a Username and Password to be used in conjunction with your account. Many portions of the Site require registration for access (the "Restricted Areas"). You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your Username and Password, and are fully responsible for all uses of your Username and Password, whether by you or others. You agree to (a) keep your Username and Password confidential and not share them with anyone else; (b) immediately notify Ballr of any unauthorized use of your Username and Password or account or any other breach of security; and (c) use only your Username and Password to access the Site's Restricted Areas. Ballr cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to comply with this Section. You acknowledge and agree that Ballr is authorized to act on instructions received through use of your Username and Password, and that Ballr may, but is not obligated to, deny access or block any transaction made through use of your Username and Password without prior notice if we believe your Username and Password are being used by someone other than you, or for any other reason.
c Communications and Disclosure: As a result of your registration for the Site, you may receive certain commercial communications from Ballr related to content found on the Site. You understand and agree that these communications are part of your registration, and that you may opt out of receiving these communications at any time by either using the unsubscribe functionality or sending an email to info [at] Ballr [dot] com. You acknowledge, consent and agree that Ballr may access, preserve and disclose your account information and content if required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such access, preservation, or disclosure is reasonably necessary: (i) to comply with legal process; (ii) to enforce these Terms of Use; (iii) to respond to claims that any content violates the rights of third parties; (iv) to respond to your requests for customer service; or (v) to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Ballr, its users and the public.
dDisqualification: Ballr, in its sole discretion, may disqualify any entrant from the service, refuse to award fantasy points or prizes and require the return of any prizes, if entrant engages in conduct Ballr deems to be improper, unfair or otherwise adverse to the operation of the service or in any way detrimental to other entrants. Improper conduct includes, but is not limited to: falsifying personal information required to use the service or claim a prize; violating any of these rules, accumulating points or prizes through unauthorized methods such as automated scripts or other automated means; tampering with the administration of the service or trying to in any way tamper with the computer programs associated with this service; obtaining other entrants information and spamming other entrants; and abusing the Ballr website in any way. Entrant further acknowledges that the forfeiture and/or return of any prize shall in no way prevent Ballr from prosecuting criminal or pursuing civil proceedings in connection with such conduct. Further this Ballr Site shall NOT BE USED FOR ANY FORM OF UNLAWFUL OR ILLEGAL GAMBLING.
Ballr and any partners are not responsible for: any incorrect, invalid or inaccurate entry information; human errors; technical malfunctions; failures, including public utility or telephone outages; omissions, interruptions, latency, deletions or defects of any telephone system or network, computer online systems, data, computer equipment, servers, providers, or software (including, but not limited to, software and operating systems that do not permit an entrant to participate in the service), including without limitation any injury or damage to any entrant's or any other person's computer equipment relating to or resulting from participation in the service; inability to access any website, or any web pages of Ballr ; theft, tampering, destruction, or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, entries and/or images of any kind; data that is processed late or incorrectly or is incomplete or lost due to telephone, computer or electronic malfunction or traffic congestion on telephone lines or transmission systems, or the Internet, or any service provider's facilities, or any phone site or website or for any other reason whatsoever; typographical, printing or other errors, or any combination thereof.
Ballr and any agents, employees, representatives, partners, or consultants are also not responsible for incomplete, illegible, misdirected or stolen entries. If for any reason the Ballr Site is not capable of running as originally planned, or if the service or website associated therewith (or any portion thereof) becomes corrupted or does not allow the proper usage and processing of entries in accordance with the rules, or if infection by a computer (or similar) virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, actions by entrants, fraud, technical failures, or any other causes of any kind, in the sole opinion of Ballr corrupts or affects the administration, security, fairness, integrity or proper conduct of the service, Ballr reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual implicated in such action and/or to cancel, terminate, extend, modify or suspend the service, and select the winner(s) from all eligible entries received. If such cancellation, termination, modification or suspension occurs, notification will be posted on the Ballr Site.
The failure of Ballr to comply with any provision of these rules due to an act of God, hurricane, war, fire, riot, earthquake, terrorism, act of public enemies, actions of governmental authorities outside of the control of Ballr (excepting compliance with applicable codes and regulations) or other force majeure event will not be considered a breach of these terms and conditions under any such circumstances.
No professional sports league or any team associated with any professional sports league is a sponsor or in any way affiliated with this Company or the Ballr Site.
ePublicity: By entering a Contest, you consent to the use of your name, voice, likeness, and photograph in connection with the development, production, distribution and/or exploitation (including marketing and promotion) of the selected Contest and/or other Ballr Contests, unless otherwise prohibited by law. Contest winners agree that, from the date of notification of their status as a potential winner, and continuing until such time when notified that they no longer need to do so, they will make themselves available to Ballr for publicity, advertising and promotional activities relating to the Contest or other Ballr Contests. Ballr and Partners reserve the right to make public statements about the entrants and winner(s), on-air, on the Internet, or otherwise, prior to, during, or following the Contest. In all disputes arising out of the determination of the winner of Ballr Contests, Ballr is the sole judge and its actions are final and binding. Entrants agree that Ballr may announce any winner's name on-air or on any of its websites at any time in connection with the marketing and promotion of Ballr Contests or other contests or games operated by Ballr in connection with the marketing, promotion, or operation of the Ballr Site.
a Games of Skill: Ballr Site games are games predominantly of skill. Winners of the skill games on Ballr are determined by the criteria stated in each contest's rules. For each contest, winners are determined by the individuals who use their skill and knowledge of relevant professional sports information and fantasy sports rules to accumulate the most fantasy points. Fantasy points are accumulated through the performance of individual athletes across multiple sports events. All entries in Ballr must be made up of players drawn from a minimum of two (2) such sporting events and as otherwise is set forth on the Ballr Site.
b Entry Fees: Each Ballr skill game has a specified entry fee listed in US dollars. When you opt to participate in skill game contest, that amount in US dollars will be debited from your Ballr account. Then, follow the links and instructions provided for entry. In the event of a dispute regarding the identity of the person submitting an entry, the entry will be deemed submitted by the person in whose Username the entry was submitted, or if possession of the Username itself is disputed, the name in which the authorized email address on file was registered with the email service provider.
c Games & Contest Terms: Ballr Site offers games of skill and contests for multiple sporting events taking place on a single day or at most a week.
dPrizes: After each skill game contest ends, prizes are awarded, generally on the following day of any such skill game. The players in each contest who accumulate the most fantasy points will win prizes as set out in the details posted on the Site by Ballr. Prizes are added to the winning team's account balance. In the event of a tie, the prize is divided evenly between the tied players, unless otherwise specified.
Ballr offers a number of different types of contests. For each contest, we announce the entry fees and prizes in advance on the contest page. For a summary of entry fees and prizes for currently open contests please login and review the information posted on the Ballr Site.
Prize calculations are based on the results as of the time when final scoring is tabulated by Ballr. Once prizes are awarded, the scoring results will not be changed regardless of any official adjustments made by the sports leagues.
No substitution or transfer of prize is permitted. All taxes associated with the receipt or use of any prize is the sole responsibility of the winner. In the event that the awarding of any prizes to winners of the Contest is challenged by any legal authority, Ballr hereby reserves the right in its sole and unfettered discretion to determine whether or not to award any such prizes.
eNotification: Winners are generally posted on the Ballr Site after the conclusion of each contest on the following day. Winners may be requested to return via email or regular mail an affidavit of eligibility and appropriate tax forms. Failure to comply with this requirement can result in disqualification. Any prize notification returned as undeliverable may result in disqualification and selection of an alternate winner. In addition, a list of winners and winner's names for each competition period may be obtained by writing to: Ballr at PO Box 27740 Las Vegas, NV 89126.
fTaxation: In January of each year, all Ballr Site winners who have won greater than $600 exclusive of all skill game entry fees over the previous fiscal year will be contacted to provide address and social security details. These details will be used to file a 1099-MISC with the Internal Revenue Service.
gBonuses & Promotions: Ballr will frequently offer bonuses or other promotions to newly depositing users and for other marketing purposes. These bonuses are for entry into competitions on Ballr and can only be withdrawn if they have been previously entered into at least one game. Additionally, if a Ballr user immediately withdraws money after a deposit which delivers a deposit bonus then the bonus will be retracted. In the event of abuse of the bonus system, Ballr hereby reserves the right to retract user bonuses.
As a further express term and condition of use of the Ballr Site as outlined herein, you state and expressly promise not to use the Ballr Site for any purpose that is unlawful, improper, or otherwise prohibited by these T&C of Use, or any other purpose not reasonably intended by Ballr . By way of example, and not as a limitation herein, you hereby agree as an authorized user not to:
Violation of our rules may result in the removal of your content from the Site and/or the canceling of your account. You acknowledge and agree that Ballr may remove any User Content and terminate any Ballr account at any time for any reason (including, but not limited to, upon receipt of claims or allegations from third parties or authorities relating to such User Content). To report Terms of Use abuse, please click here to contact us.
You understand that all User Content, including but not limited to profile information and communications with other users, whether privately transmitted or made publicly available, is the sole responsibility of the person from which such User Content originated. This means that you, not Ballr, are entirely responsible for all User Content that you upload post, share, and email, transmit, or otherwise make available via the Site. Under no circumstances will Ballr be liable in any way for any User Content uploaded, posted, shared, emailed, transmitted or otherwise made available via the Site.
You acknowledge that Ballr may or may not pre-screen User Content, but that Ballr and its designees have the right (but not the obligation) in their sole discretion to pre-screen, refuse, permanently delete, and/or move any User Content available via the Site. Without limiting the foregoing, Ballr and its designees shall have the right to remove any User Content that violates these Terms or is otherwise objectionable in Ballr's sole discretion. You understand that by using the Site, you may be exposed to User Content that you may consider to be offensive or objectionable. You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use or disclosure of any User Content. You further acknowledge and agree that you bear the sole risk of reliance on any content available on or through the Site.
With respect to User Content you submit or make available on the Site, you grant Ballr an irrevocable, fully sub-licensable, perpetual, world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such User Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such User Content into other works in any format or medium now known or later developed.
You are solely responsible for your interactions with other users of the Site. Ballr reserves the right, but has no obligation, to monitor disputes between you and other users.
By using the Ballr service or accepting any prize, entrants, including but not limited to the winners, you agree to release and to hold harmless Ballr and each of their respective parents, subsidiaries, affiliates and agencies, as well as the officers, directors, employees, shareholders and representatives of any of the foregoing entities from any and all liability, claims or actions of any kind whatsoever, including, but not limited to, for injuries, damages or losses to persons and property which may be sustained in connection with participation in the service, the receipt, ownership, use or misuse of any prize and claims based on publicity rights, defamation or invasion of privacy.
You expressly understand and agree that your use of the Site is at your sole risk. The Site is provided on an "AS IS" and "as available" basis. The service, content, and site are provided on an "as is" basis, without warranties of any kind, either express or implied, including, without limitation, implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. You acknowledge that Ballr has no control over, and no duty to take any action regarding: which users gain access to the Site or use the Site; what effects the Content may have on you; how you may interpret or use the Content; or what actions you may take as a result of having been exposed to the Content. You release Ballr from all liability for you having acquired or not acquired Content through the Site or the Site. The Site may contain, or direct you to sites containing, information that some people may find offensive or inappropriate. Ballr makes no representations concerning any content contained in or accessed through the Site, and Ballr will not be responsible or liable for the accuracy, copyright compliance, legality or decency of material contained in or accessed through the Site.
YOU UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT BALLR SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF BALLR HAD BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM: (i) THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE SITE; (ii) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA; (iii) STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE SERVICE; OR (iv) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE SITE. NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN, BALLR 'S LIABILITY TO YOU FOR ANY CAUSE WHATSOEVER AND REGARDLESS OF THE FORM OF THE ACTION, WILL AT ALL TIMES BE LIMITED TO THE AMOUNT PAID, IF ANY, BY YOU TO BALLR FOR GENERAL USE OF THE SITE DURING THE TERM OF YOUR REGISTRATION FOR THE SITE, NOT INCLUDING ANY ENTRY FEES FOR CONTESTS COMPLETED PRIOR TO THE CIRCUMSTANCES GIVING RISE TO THE CLAIM.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain warranties or the limitation or exclusion of liability for incidental or consequential damages. Accordingly, some of the above limitations may not apply to you.
All title, ownership and intellectual property rights in and to the Site are owned by Ballr or its duly authorized licensors. You acknowledge and agree that the Site contains proprietary and confidential information that is protected by applicable intellectual property and other laws. Except as expressly authorized by Ballr , you agree not to modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute or create derivative works based on the Site, in whole or in part.
The Ballr Site provides, or third parties may provide, links to other World Wide Web sites or resources. Because Ballr has no control over such sites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that Ballr is not responsible for the availability of such external sites or resources, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products or other materials on or available from such sites or resources. You further acknowledge and agree that Ballr shall not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such site or resource.
Ballr may terminate or suspend the Site and any and all services and your Ballr account immediately, without prior notice or liability, if you breach any of the terms or conditions of the T&C of Use. Upon termination of your account, your right to use the Site will immediately cease. If you wish to terminate your Ballr account, you may simply discontinue using the Site or contact us via your account access with a clear and specific message to Ballr saying you wish to terminate your account. All provisions of the T&C of Use which by their nature should survive termination shall survive termination, including, without limitation, ownership provisions, warranty disclaimers, indemnity and limitations of liability. If any provision of these T&C of Use shall ever be deemed unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable by a court or tribunal of competent legal jurisdiction, then that provision shall be deemed severable from those other terms and conditions which shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining such provisions herein.
You agree that, except as otherwise expressly provided in these T&C of Use, there shall be no third party beneficiaries to these T&C of Use or any other agreement you may have with the Company.
Your privacy is important to Company. Company's Privacy Policy is hereby incorporated into these T&C of Use by this express reference thereto. You acknowledge, consent and agree that Company may access, preserve and disclose your account information or other information you have provided to Company if required to do so by law or in a good faith belief that such access preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to (a) comply with legal process; (b) enforce the T&C of Use; (c) respond to a claim that any material you have provided violates the rights of third parties; (d) provide certain customized features of the Company Site to you, if any, or respond to your requests for customer service; or (e) protect the rights, property or personal safety of Company, its users and the public.
Any dispute, claim or controversy arising out of or relating to these T&C of Use, or the breach, termination, enforcement, interpretation or validity thereof, including the determination of the scope or applicability of this agreement to arbitrate, shall be determined by final and binding arbitration in the State of Nevada, United States of America. Judgment on the Arbitration Award may be entered in any court having competent legal jurisdiction. This clause shall not preclude parties from seeking provisional or equitable remedies in aid of arbitration from a court of appropriate jurisdiction. The cost of arbitration shall be borne equally by the parties. The parties agree that, any provision of applicable law notwithstanding, they will not request and the arbitrator shall have no authority to award, punitive or exemplary damages against either party. In the event of a conflict or inconsistency between the rules and procedures of the arbitration administrator and this Agreement, this Section shall govern.
For any dispute not subject to arbitration, or where no election to arbitrate has been made, you hereby agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction of and venue within the federal and state courts located in the State of Nevada, United States of America. You further agree to accept service of process by regular first class US mail, and hereby waive any and all jurisdictional and venue defenses otherwise available to you.
The T&C of Use and the legal relationship between you and Ballr shall be governed by the laws of the State of Nevada and without regard to conflict of law provisions.
a Entire Agreement: These T&C of Use constitute the entire agreement between you and Ballr with respect to the Ballr Site and supersedes any prior agreements, oral or written, between you and Ballr, and its respective employees, representatives, assigns, agents, affiliates or consultants hereunder.
b Waiver and Interpretation: The failure of Ballr and its respective employees, representatives, assigns, agents, affiliates, or consultants to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the T&C of Use shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the T&C of Use is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the T&C of Use remain in full force and effect.
c Statute of Limitations: You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to the use of the Ballr Site or the T&C of Use must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action accrued and/or arose, or be forever barred.
dSection Titles: The section titles in these T&C of Use are for convenience only and have no legal or contractual effect hereunder.
The Company may provide you with notices from time to time, including, without limitation, those notices regarding changes to these T&C of Use, by email, regular first class US mail, or by postings on the Ballr Site.
If notice is by e-mail or regular first class US mail, it will be provided to the email and/or regular mailing address provided by you with your account information and it is your responsibility to update such account information for any changes
Notice to you will be deemed given twenty-four (24) hours after email is sent, unless Company is notified that the email address is invalid and if through postal mail, three (3) days after the date of mailing.
You may provide the Company with written notice only by first class US mail to Ballr at 2421 Atlantic Ave #203 Manasquan, NJ 08736.
Ballr Terms & Conditions of Use effective August 2013
Ballr was born out of a desire to give you the most fun, intuitive, lucrative fantasy sports experience possible. To revolutionize the way you play fantasy football, fantasy baseball, fantasy basketball, and other fantasy sports.
We're a team of 20 superstars who love technology as much as we love fantasy sports, and we've been building powerful web apps like Ballr since 2009. Our team has been recognized twice on Inc Magazine's 500 | 5000 List of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies, and two members of our leadership team have been recognized among Fast Company's 100 Most Influential People Online.
Our address is 6170 W Lake Mead Blvd #461-2014, Las Vegas, NV 89108, and you can call us at (855) 922-5577 or email us any time at hello(at)ballr.com. We'd love to talk with you!
Ballr fantasy sports games are legal contests of skill which are hosted and operated by Ballr in accordance with and pursuant to applicable laws of the United States. However, due to the uncertainty of the application of certain laws within some of the individual U.S. States with respect to cash-based prizes and other potential legal restrictions which may implicate real money fantasy sports gaming activity, Ballr does not currently allow customers physically located within of any of these following U.S. States to use the Ballr Site or any of its content, services, and games nor to participate in our skill-based fantasy sports contests: Arizona, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Montana, Vermont, or Washington. As provided for in the Ballr Terms & Conditions of Use, unauthorized users located within those proscribed States will not be permitted to play and shall be governed thereby, and until and unless said users are no longer located within these jurisdictions, they will be geographically blocked from attempting to play Ballr fantasy sports games while located therein.
Legality of Ballr Fantasy Sports Games effective August 2013
The fantasy sports games offered at Ballr.com are new, and we're in the process of gathering typicality data on earnings, revenue and profit.
We do not guarantee income or success, and examples shown at Ballr.com and in our advertising do not represent an indication of future success or earnings. We declare all information shared is true and accurate, and any claims made of actual earnings or examples of actual results can be verified upon request.
The earnings, revenue and profit that a player will generally achieve in circumstances similar to those depicted in the endorsements and testimonials on this site and in our advertising depend on many factors and conditions, including but not limited to learning ability, technical ability, use of the products and services, fantasy sports experience, daily practices, and competition to name a few. Because of impediments due to any one or more of the foregoing and other factors, it is generally expected that no earnings, revenues or profits will be achieved with the use of the fantasy sports games offered at Ballr.com in circumstances similar to those referenced in any endorsement or testimonial.
Ballr Earnings Disclosure effective March 2014
Your privacy is very important to Ballr, Inc., a Nevada corporation (hereinafter sometimes referred to as "Ballr", "we" or "us"), the owner and operator of the Ballr fantasy sports website located at ballr.com (the "Site").
We are committed to maintaining the confidentiality of the personal information collected by us in order to allow you to enjoy participating in the fantasy sports skill games online at the Site, by safeguarding it utilizing the best in class software and hardware architecture, techniques, methods and procedures.
You should carefully review this Ballr Privacy Policy which specifies, details, and otherwise sets forth the professional and proper practices of Ballr in obtaining, securing, and otherwise protecting any personal information that you may provide to us in connection with your authorized use of the Ballr web site.
By using the Ballr Site, you hereby agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy and changes will come into effect immediately upon such change being notified on the Site. Your continued use of the Ballr Site constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Policy and any amendments. Our Terms & Conditions of Use, take precedence over and shall govern any conflicting provisions within this Privacy Policy.
The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to enable Ballr authorized users to fully understand and appreciate how we collect, store, use, secure, and otherwise safeguard your personal information and data, and for our users to understand your rights and responsibilities with respect to that sensitive, confidential, and personal information.
As part of the Site account opening process and to allow us to provide services to you, we will ask you to provide us with certain personal information, including your name, postal address, telephone number, email address and password as well as to certify that you are at least eighteen (18) years old or older in jurisdictions in which the minimum age for use of the Site is greater than 18.
For the purposes of using the Site via any mobile device or software, you will be required to consent to the use of geo location-based services by us in order to detect your geographic location.
We may also use your information and data to verify your credentials from third parties including financial institutions, identification verification agencies and credit reference agencies for the purposes of us providing services to you.
In addition, when you use the Site we store certain personal information, including information on your activity on the Site and information held on mobile devices or systems that you use, to allow us to enhance the games and services that we provide to you. We, members of our Company, our affiliates and third parties providing services on our behalf will use your personal information for various permissible purposes such as:
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In the case of unconditional security, there are two different definitions. It has been proved that, for some particular cases of access structures that include the threshold case, a MSSS with the strongest level of unconditional security must have shares with length linear in . Therefore, the optimal solution in this case is equivalent to the trivial one. In this work we prove that, even for a more relaxed notion of unconditional security, and for some kinds of access structures (in particular, threshold ones), we have the same efficiency problem: the length of each secret share must grow linearly with . Since we want more efficient solutions, we move to the scenario of MSSSs with computational security. We propose a new MSSS, where each secret share has constant length (just one element), and we formally prove its computational security in the random oracle model. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first formal analysis on the computational security of a MSSS. We show the utility of the new MSSS by using it as a key ingredient in the design of two schemes for two new functionalities: multi-policy signatures and multi-policy decryption. We prove the security of these two new multi-policy cryptosystems in a formal security model. The two new primitives provide similar functionalities as attribute-based cryptosystems, with some advantages and some drawbacks that we discuss at the end of this work. 2015-04-28T17:42:09Z On the representability of the biuniform matroid http://hdl.handle.net/2117/24101 Title: On the representability of the biuniform matroid Authors: Ball, Simeon Michael; Padró Laimon, Carles; Weiner, Zsuzsa; Xing, Chaoping Abstract: Every biuniform matroid is representable over all sufficiently large fields. But it is not known exactly over which finite fields they are representable, and the existence of efficient methods to find a representation for every given biuniform matroid has not been proved. The interest of these problems is due to their implications to secret sharing. The existence of efficient methods to find representations for all biuniform matroids is proved here for the first time. The previously known efficient constructions apply only to a particular class of biuniform matroids, while the known general constructions were not proved to be efficient. In addition, our constructions provide in many cases representations over smaller finite fields. © 2013, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 2014-09-18T16:05:12Z Cropping Euler factors of modular L-functions http://hdl.handle.net/2117/20759 Title: Cropping Euler factors of modular L-functions Authors: González Rovira, Josep; Jiménez Urroz, Jorge; Lario Loyo, Joan Carles Abstract: According to the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjectures, if A/Q is an abelian variety, then its L-function must capture a substantial part of the properties of A. The smallest number field L where A has all its endomorphisms defined must also play a role. This article deals with the relationship between these two objects in the specific case of modular abelian varieties Af =Q associated to weight 2 newforms for the group t1(N). Specifically, our goal is to relate ords=1 L(Af =Q, s), with the order at s D 1 of Euler products restricted to primes that split completely in L. This is attained when a power of Af is isogenous over Q to the Weil restriction of the building block of Af . We give separated formulae for the CM and non-CM cases. 2013-11-25T17:05:43Z More hybrid and secure protection of statistical data sets http://hdl.handle.net/2117/17412 Title: More hybrid and secure protection of statistical data sets Authors: Herranz Sotoca, Javier; Nin Guerrero, Jordi; Solé Simó, Marc Abstract: Different methods and paradigms to protect data sets containing sensitive statistical information have been proposed and studied. The idea is to publish a perturbed version of the data set that does not leak confidential information, but that still allows users to obtain meaningful statistical values about the original data. The two main paradigms for data set protection are the classical one and the synthetic one. Recently, the possibility of combining the two paradigms, leading to a hybrid paradigm, has been considered. In this work, we first analyze the security of some synthetic and (partially) hybrid methods that have been proposed in the last years, and we conclude that they suffer from a high interval disclosure risk. We then propose the first fully hybrid SDC methods; unfortunately, they also suffer from a quite high interval disclosure risk. To mitigate this, we propose a postprocessing technique that can be applied to any data set protected with a synthetic method, with the goal of reducing its interval disclosure risk. We describe through the paper a set of experiments performed on reference data sets that support our claims 2013-01-17T18:24:07Z Kd-trees and the real disclosure risks of large statistical databases http://hdl.handle.net/2117/16561 Title: Kd-trees and the real disclosure risks of large statistical databases Authors: Herranz Sotoca, Javier; Nin Guerrero, Jordi; Solé Simó, Marc Abstract: In data privacy, record linkage can be used as an estimator of the disclosure risk of protected data. To model the worst case scenario one normally attempts to link records from the original data to the protected data. In this paper we introduce a parametrization of record linkage in terms of a weighted mean and its weights, and provide a supervised learning method to determine the optimum weights for the linkage process. That is, the parameters yielding a maximal record linkage between the protected and original data. We compare our method to standard record linkage with data from several protection methods widely used in statistical disclosure control, and study the results taking into account the performance in the linkage process, and its computational effort 2012-09-25T11:53:08Z Orders of CM elliptic curves modulo p with at most two primes http://hdl.handle.net/2117/15793 Title: Orders of CM elliptic curves modulo p with at most two primes Authors: Iwaniec, H.; Jiménez Urroz, Jorge Abstract: Nowadays the generation of cryptosystems requires two main aspects. First the security, and then the size of the keys involved in the construction and comunication process. About the former one needs a di±cult mathematical assumption which ensures your system will not be broken unless a well known di±cult problem is solved. In this context one of the most famous assumption underlying a wide variety of cryptosystems is the computation of logarithms in ¯nite ¯elds and the Di±e Hellman assumption. However it is also well known that elliptic curves provide good examples of representation of abelian groups reducing the size of keys needed to guarantee the same level of security as in the ¯nite ¯eld case. The ¯rst thing one needs to perform elliptic logarithms which are computationaly secure is to ¯x a ¯nite ¯eld, Fp, and one curve, E=Fp de¯ned over the ¯eld, such that jE(Fp)j has a prime factor as large as possible. In practice the problem of ¯nding such a pair, of curve and ¯eld, seems simple, just take a curve with integer coe±cients and a prime p of good reduction at random and see if jE(Fp)j has a big prime factor. However the theory that makes the previous algorithm useful is by no means obvious, neither clear or complete. For example it is well known that supersingular elliptic curves have to be avoided in the previous process since they reduce the security of any cryptosystem based on the Di±e Hellman assumption on the elliptic logarithm. But more importantly, the process will be feasible whenever the probability to ¯nd a pair, (E; p), with a big prime factor qj jE(Fp)j is big enough. One problem arises naturally from the above. 2012-05-08T11:42:08Z Classifying data from protected statistical datasets http://hdl.handle.net/2117/14416 Title: Classifying data from protected statistical datasets Authors: Herranz Sotoca, Javier; Matwin, Stan; Nin Guerrero, Jordi; Torra i Reventós, Vicenç Abstract: Statistical Disclosure Control (SDC) is an active research area in the recent years. The goal is to transform an original dataset X into a protected one X0, such that X0 does not reveal any relation between confidential and (quasi-)identifier attributes and such that X0 can be used to compute reliable statistical information about X. Many specific protection methods have been proposed and analyzed, with respect to the levels of privacy and utility that they offer. However, when measuring utility, only differences between the statistical values of X and X0 are considered. This would indicate that datasets protected by SDC methods can be used only for statistical purposes. We show in this paper that this is not the case, because a protected dataset X0 can be used to construct good classifiers for future data. To do so, we describe an extensive set of experiments that we have run with different SDC protection methods and different (real) datasets. In general, the resulting classifiers are very good, which is good news for both the SDC and the Privacy-preserving Data Mining communities. In particular, our results question the necessity of some specific protection methods that have appeared in the privacy-preserving data mining (PPDM) literature with the clear goal of providing good classification. 2012-01-05T13:01:13Z On the disclosure risk of multivariate microaggregation http://hdl.handle.net/2117/12852 Title: On the disclosure risk of multivariate microaggregation Authors: Nin Guerrero, Jordi; Herranz Sotoca, Javier; Torra i Reventós, Vicenç Abstract: The aim of data protection methods is to protect a microdata file both minimizing the disclosure risk and preserving the data utility. Microaggregation is one of the most popular such methods among statistical agencies. Record linkage is the standard mechanism used to measure the disclosure risk of a microdata protection method. However, only standard, and quite generic, record linkage methods are usually considered, whereas more specific record linkage techniques can be more appropriate to evaluate the disclosure risk of some protection methods. In this paper we present a new record linkage technique, specific for microaggregation, which obtains more correct links than standard techniques. We have tested the new technique with MDAV microaggregation and two other microaggregation methods, based on projections, that we propose here for the first time. The direct consequence is that these microaggregation methods have a higher disclosure risk than believed up to now. 2011-07-01T11:20:50Z How to group attributes in multivariate microaggregation http://hdl.handle.net/2117/12851 Title: How to group attributes in multivariate microaggregation Authors: Nin Guerrero, Jordi; Herranz Sotoca, Javier; Torra i Reventós, Vicenç Abstract: Microaggregation is one of the most employed microdata protection methods. It builds clusters of at least k original records, and then replaces these records with the centroid of the cluster. When the number of attributes of the dataset is large, one usually splits the dataset into smaller blocks of attributes, and then applies microaggregation to each block, successively and independently. In this way, the effect of the noise introduced by microaggregation is reduced, at the cost of losing the k-anonymity property. In this work we show that, besides the specific microaggregation method, the value of the parameter k and the number of blocks in which the dataset is split, there exists another factor which influences the quality of the microaggregation: the way in which the attributes are grouped to form the blocks. When correlated attributes are grouped in the same block, the statistical utility of the protected dataset is higher. In contrast, when correlated attributes are dispersed into different blocks, the achieved anonymity is higher, and so, the disclosure risk is lower. We present quantitative evaluations of such statements based on different experiments on real datasets. 2011-07-01T10:03:47Z The Diameter of undirected graphs associated to plane tessellations http://hdl.handle.net/2117/12662 Title: The Diameter of undirected graphs associated to plane tessellations Authors: Andrés Yebra, José Luis; Fiol Mora, Miquel Àngel; Morillo Bosch, M. Paz; Alegre de Miguel, Ignacio Abstract: Thi s paper studi es the di ameter of sorne fami I i es of undirected graphs that can be associated to plane tessel lations which fu1 ly represent them. More precisely, we concentrate upon maximizing the order of the graphs for given values of their diameter and degree, where the study always leads to the optima'l solutions. 2011-05-27T08:21:51Z On fields of definition of torsion points of elliptic curves with complex multiplication http://hdl.handle.net/2117/12251 Title: On fields of definition of torsion points of elliptic curves with complex multiplication Authors: Dieulefait, Luis Victor; Gonzalez Jimenez, Enrique; Jiménez Urroz, Jorge Abstract: For any elliptic curve E defined over the rationals with complex multiplication (CM) and for every prime p, we describe the image of the mod p Galois representation attached to E. We deduce information about the field of definition of torsion points of these curves; in particular, we classify all cases where there are torsion points over Galois number fields not containing the field of definition of the CM. 2011-04-05T14:47:47Z On the optimization of bipartite secret sharing schemes http://hdl.handle.net/2117/12185 Title: On the optimization of bipartite secret sharing schemes Authors: Farras Ventura, Oriol; Metcalf-Burton, Jessica Ruth; Padró Laimon, Carles; Vázquez González, Leonor Abstract: Optimizing the ratio between the maximum length of the shares and the length of the secret value in secret sharing schemes for general access structures is an extremely difficult and long-standing open problem. In this paper, we study it for bipartite access structures, in which the set of participants is divided in two parts, and all participants in each part play an equivalent role. We focus on the search of lower bounds by using a special class of polymatroids that is introduced here, the bipartite ones. We present a method based on linear programming to compute, for every given bipartite access structure, the best lower bound that can be obtained by this combinatorial method. In addition, we obtain some general lower bounds that improve the previously known ones, and we construct optimal secret sharing schemes for a family of bipartite access structures. 2011-03-31T10:21:07Z On secret sharing schemes, matroids and polymatroids http://hdl.handle.net/2117/11444 Title: On secret sharing schemes, matroids and polymatroids Authors: Martí Farré, Jaume; Padró Laimon, Carles Abstract: The complexity of a secret sharing scheme is defined as the ratio between the maximum length of the shares and the length of the secret. The optimization of this parameter for general access structures is an important and very difficult open problem in secret sharing. We explore in this paper the connections of this open problem with matroids and polymatroids. Matroid ports were introduced by Lehman in 1964. A forbidden minor characterization of matroid ports was given by Seymour in 1976. These results precede the invention of secret sharing by Shamir in 1979. Important connections between ideal secret sharing schemes and matroids were discovered by Brickell and Davenport in 1991. Their results can be restated as follows: every ideal secret sharing scheme defines a matroid, and its access structure is a port of that matroid. Our main result is a lower bound on the optimal complexity of access structures that are not matroid ports. Namely, by using the aforementioned characterization of matroid ports by Seymour, we generalize the result by Brickell and Davenport by proving that, if the length of every share in a secret sharing scheme is less than 3/2 times the length of the secret, then its access structure is a matroid port. This generalizes and explains a phenomenon that was observed in several families of access structures. In addition, we introduce a new parameter to represent the best lower bound on the optimal complexity that can be obtained by taking into account that the joint Shannon entropies of a set of random variables define a polymatroid. We prove that every bound that is obtained by this technique for an access structure applies to its dual as well. Finally, we present a construction of linear secret sharing schemes for the ports of the Vamos and the non-Desargues matroids. In this way new upper bounds on their optimal complexity are obtained, which are a contribution on the search of access structures whose optimal complexity lies between 1 and 3/2. 2011-02-21T11:19:18Z On server trust in private proxy auctions http://hdl.handle.net/2117/11383 Title: On server trust in private proxy auctions Authors: Di Crescenzo, Giovanni; Herranz Sotoca, Javier; Sáez Moreno, Germán Abstract: We investigate proxy auctions, an auction model which is proving very successful for on-line businesses (e.g.http://www.ebay.com), where a trusted server manages bids from clients by continuously updating the current price of the item and the currently winning bid as well as keeping private the winning client's maximum bid. We propose techniques for reducing the trust in the server by defining and achieving a security property, called server integrity. Informally, this property protects clients from a novel and large class of attacks from a corrupted server by allowing them to verify the correctness of updates to the current price and the currently winning bid. Our new auction scheme achieves server integrity and satisfies two important properties that are not enjoyed by previous work in the literature: it has minimal interaction, and only requires a single trusted server. The main ingredients of our scheme are two minimal-round implementations of zero-knowledge proofs for proving lower bounds on encrypted values: one based on discrete logarithms that is more efficient but uses the random oracle assumption, and another based on quadratic residuosity that only uses standard intractability assumptions but is less efficient. 2011-02-15T12:52:38Z Optimal symbol alignment distance: a new distance for sequences of symbols http://hdl.handle.net/2117/11063 Title: Optimal symbol alignment distance: a new distance for sequences of symbols Authors: Herranz Sotoca, Javier; Nin Guerrero, Jordi; Solé Simó, Marc Abstract: Comparison functions for sequences (of symbols) are important components of many applications, for example clustering, data cleansing and integration. For years, many efforts have been made to improve the performance of such comparison functions. Improvements have been done either at the cost of reducing the accuracy of the comparison, or by compromising certain basic characteristics of the functions, such as the triangular inequality. In this paper, we propose a new distance for sequences of symbols (or strings) called Optimal Symbol Alignment distance (OSA distance, for short). This distance has a very low cost in practice, which makes it a suitable candidate for computing distances in applications with large amounts of (very long) sequences. After providing a mathematical proof that the OSA distance is a real distance, we present some experiments for different scenarios (DNA sequences, record linkage, ...), showing that the proposed distance outperforms, in terms of execution time and/or accuracy, other well-known comparison functions such as the Edit or Jaro-Winkler distances. 2011-01-17T11:44:43Z


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I just returned from a presentation at the University of Oregon's Law Center given by James Hansen, head of Nasa's Goddard Institute forSpace Studies in New York City. Hansen has been dubbed the 'Grandfather of Global Warming' though he … Continue reading
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Rhythm'n'Blues, Rock'n'Roll, Tittyshakers, Northern Soul, Jazz e Boogaloo dos 50 e 60!
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WWE Returning To Rochester In June
Feb 14, 2011 - by Devin Cutting
WWE returns to the Blue Cross Arena in Rochester, New York on June 11th, 2011 at 7:30 PM. Tickets go on sale April 2nd, 2011 at 10 AM. Go to http://prowrestlingevents.tk or http://prowrestlingevents.webs.com for info about upcoming wrestling shows worldwide.


text: I tried something new tonight. I exported a Keynote presentation into a Quicktime video and uploaded to WyzAnt. In the description, I wrote that this is the third presentation, but I list three other presentations as well. Of course I'm aware that three plus one equals four. However, what I should have stated is that while we (my son and I) created a total of four presentations, only three have bells and whistles, so to speak. I included the names of all the presentations in case someone would like any of them made into a Quicktime video. A complete list of presentations, with and without bells and whistles: Stormalong The Power of W.O.W! How Tia Lola Came to Stay My Brother Martin My rationale for creating a Keynote presentation in the first place is based on the way my son learns: he's a visual learner. He didn't do well on his first vocabulary test, so I felt creating a presentation, with his help, would improve his recollection of the vocabulary words... read more


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With new foreclosure data, a look at the housing market
Jul 12, 2012
We're getting some new data this morning about the housing market. The foreclosure listing company RealtyTrac says there was an uptick in foreclosure activity last month, but it's down compared with a year ago. Which brings us to the eternal question: Has the housing market finally hit bottom?
The cost of foreclosure
Jun 22, 2012
How much does it cost to go through the foreclosure process?
Latest public health problem: Foreclosures
Jun 22, 2012
The stress of foreclosure is causing ill health for some.
Banks warm to short sales for strapped homeowners
May 31, 2012
Pre-foreclosure sales are offering more relief in the tough housing market.
Advocates fight for candidates to address foreclosures
May 31, 2012
Today housing advocacy groups from 22 cities and 17 states are launching a campaign to force the presidential candidates to address the specific topic of foreclosures.
Wall Street firms may rent out Fannie foreclosures
Interview by
Mar 19, 2012
Some of Wall Street's biggest firms want to bid on pools of foreclosed properties being sold by Fannie Mae to rent them out. What does that mean for investors and how might it affect homeowners?
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Feb 17, 2012
A report says U.S. taxpayers may end up on the losing side of the multi-billion-dollar housing settlement between banks and states. Former TARP Inspector General Neil Barofsky explains how we may be bailing out big banks again.
Nevadans scrutinize $25 billion foreclosure settlement
Feb 13, 2012
Banks will pay out billions over questionable foreclosure practices, like robo-signing. Will homeowners in hard-hit Nevada feel relief?
Who benefits from the national mortgage settlement?
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Feb 10, 2012
The settlement between states and banks is worth $250 billion, but few homeowners benefit.
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Butterflied Leg Of Lamb
|For mint sauce
|Cider vinegar
|4 Fluid Ounce (1/2 cup / 125 milliliter)
|3 Ounce (1/3 cup / 90 gram)
|Fresh mint leaves
|1 Ounce, chopped
|1 Pinch
|For lamb
|Dry red wine
|5 Fluid Ounce (2/3 cup / 160 milliliter)
|Olive oil
|3 Fluid Ounce (1/3 cup / 80 milliliter)
|Chopped shallots
|2 Tablespoon
|Chopped fresh rosemary/1 teaspoon dried rosemary
|1 Tablespoon
|2 Clove (10 gm), minced
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|Freshly ground pepper
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|Leg of lamb
|7 Pound, boned, butterflied and trimmed of visible fat (1 whole, 3.5 kilogram)
1. Prepare the mint sauce by mixing the vinegar and the sugar in a small saucepan. Bring this mixture to a boil and stir till the sugar dissolves. Remove from the heat and add the mint and salt and allow the flavors to mix well.
2. Place the meat flat on a baking tray.
3. Prepare the marinade by mixing together the wine, oil, shallots, rosemary, garlic, salt and pepper and then pour the marinade on top of the meat.
4. Let the meat marinate for 2 hours or till required.
5. Prepare a fire in the grill and place an oiled baking tray in the oven 4-6 inches away from the heat.
6. Remove the lamb from the marinade and sieve the marinade. Set it aside for use during the grilling process.
7. Remove the meat from the pan and pat dry. Place it on the rack and grill for 35-45 minutes. Turn the meat frequently and brush the meat occasionally with the reserved marinade to prevent it from drying out during the cooking process. The meat is done when it is still slightly pink on the inside.
8. Remove from the grill and set aside to rest for 5 minutes while covered loosely with aluminum foil.
9. Carve the meat into diagonal slices and serve with mint sauce, mashed potatoes and peas.


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In Memoriam: Biggest Celebrity Deaths of 2012
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Adam "MCA" Yauch
Also known as "MCA," Yauch was a platinum-selling rapper and bass player for the hip-hop group Beastie Boys. As pioneers of their genre, the group broke records with their initial record, License to Ill, which was the first rap album to hit No.1 on the Billboard Charts. On May 4th, Yauch succumbed to a 3-year-battle with cancer at the age of 47. He will be remembered for early hip-hop hits like "(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party!)".


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Tomato Consomme Madras
25 Sep 2009
|Jellied condensed consomme
|2 Can (20 oz)
|Tomato juice
|5 Ounce (Bottled)
|Curry powder
|2 Teaspoon (Or Paste)
|3 Tablespoon
|Grated lemon rind
|1 (To Taste)
|Lemon juice
|2 Teaspoon
|Heavy cream
|1 Tablespoon, whipped
|Chopped chives
|2 Teaspoon
Heat consomme very slightly to dissolve.
Add tomato juice and curry powder; mix thoroughly.
Add lemon juice.
Pour into soup cups; let chill.
Mix mayonnaise with lemon rind and juice; add whipped cream.
Put spoonful on center of each cup of soup; sprinkle with chopped chives.
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Biblical double entendre
Psalm 16:11. The Episcopal psalter renders this as: "in your right hand are pleasures for evermore."
Luke 18:5. The NIV renders it as: "because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won't eventually wear me out with her coming."
I suppose I have a dirty mind, but it's really, really distracting, at least to me. I stop thinking about the text and start thinking about the double entendre instead.
Edit: After I posted this, I thought of a case where I've seen translators deliberately duck such a misreading: Luke 11:7. The Greek has the man saying his children are *with him* in bed. This is open to misinterpretation in our cultural context, so different from the original context where a household might only own one bed. As you can see in http://bible.cc/luke/11-7.htm there are translations which work around this by saying "My children and I are in bed"; I'd be surprised if this wasn't a conscious choice to depart slightly from the Greek.
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From the blog of MLB.com's Benjamin Hill comes news of the "Three Dog Night" — the only reason to consider attending an Akron Aeros home game in 2011. Or ever go to Ohio, for that matter.
The Double-A affiliate of the Cleveland Indians has taken on the daunting challenge to somehow make the Midwest even fatter than it already is by announcing its intention to issue this gorgeous and slightly-insane coming-together of three sausages, sauerkraut and spicy mustard. Food porn below.
I haven't seen this much meat shoved between two white buns since I mistakenly Googled "Aurora Snow" before a trip to Illinois last February.
Anyway, to break down the meat schematics furthermore, the Three Dog Night features a hot dog set inside a brat, which is set inside a kielbasa. It, as Benny Hill's post mentions, is the sausage version of the ever-popular "Turducken." But Turducken is usually only consumed by people once each year (if at all), around Thanksgiving.
Surely, the Akron Aeros don't advise eating more than one of these per season, right? Wrong. With each 10-game Aeros package, fans receive vouchers for 10 Three Dog Nights.
To quote Aeros assistant GM Dan Foust:
"So, it's conceivable that we'll have fans who eat at least 10 of these next season," said Fouts [sic]. "And if they want to eat more, then more power to them."
Well, I suppose if you live in Akron for any extended period of time, it's pretty much preordained that you're going to kill yourself. You might as well do it in delectably delicious style.
(h/t to Al's Ramblings)
"I haven't seen this much meat shoved between two white buns since I mistakenly Googled "Aurora Snow" before a trip to Illinois last February."
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