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Resources RTO Standard 11 Mining Inductions – Surface
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September, 2011
In keeping with the spirit of innovation that infuses all of OHSA's programs, a 'Mine Awareness Program' has been developed to inform potential mine workers of the practical consideration of working in the mining industry. This program touches on personal and practical issues which anyone thinking of working in the mining industry should know. Topics covered include the following;
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Training For The Mining Sector
The enormous growth in the mining industry in Australia accompanied by the large salaries that mine workers receive has attracted people from all walks of life to work in this industry. Previously this was an industry reserved mostly for men but the frontiers have now been broadened at all levels to embrace jobs for women.
Mining activity in Australia has expanded rapidly over the past 20 years and this growth is set to continue for another 20 years or more. Coal mining in Queensland and iron ore mining in Western Australia make up the bulk of the mining activities. These mines have drawn a large selection of the workers from industry in city and rural areas and this exodus to the mines will continue to increase as more mines are established. The growth in mining has been fueled by the demand for raw materials from the growth powerhouses in Asia, i.e. China, India, Korea and Japan and the ability of the Australian mining industry to produce a quality product at a reasonable price delivered to their ports.
Unfortunately many workers accept employment in the mines without being sufficiently educated in the conditions and demands of the industry they are entering. They may be unprepared for the extremes of working in remote areas without the services and family support that they are accustomed to and consequently do not remain in the industry. Personal, family and financial preparation for this experience is essential to gain the most from working in the mines. Receiving training, medical clearances and the necessary inductions before applying for positions at the mines must also be done. All of the information needed to be prepared for this type of employment is available in 'Mine Awareness Programs' which should be undertaken before deciding on a change of employment.
First, find and enrol in a 'Mine Awareness Program' presented by knowledgeable presenters with sound industry experience. These programs will cover a range of topics such as gaining and maintaining your employment, building a sustainable future through wise financial management, maintaining your family, living in a remote location and much more.
From these programs you will also find how to receive the training to adequately prepare for your move into this industry, i.e.
· Determine what skills that you already have and if these can be transferred to mine specific skills,
· Consider the training that you can received that will enhance to your long term employability. This will help you to gain credibility and higher paid positions in the industry,
· Decide with your family how to maintain your present lifestyle / relationships while working. Do you relocate and rent or buy, fly in and out, etc,
· Engage the services of a financial planner to ensure that your finances are managed properly so the your financial future is secure and you gain maximum benefit from working in this industry,
· Investigate the best pathways to access the industry, i.e. through labour hire firms, employment services, service industries, training, etc, and use quality resume writers to improve your presentation,
· Contact companies where you may gain employment and make an appointment to see them. TAKE, not send your resume to these companies or it may end up in the bin. If you are serious about gaining employment go to where people are being employed and be prepared for an immediate start.
· Be flexible and be willing to respond to presented opportunities. Your future is in your hands and your decisions will mould that future so choose wisely and seek out the best advice for your situation.
Working in the mining industry can be as demanding as it is rewarding. It is extremely important that you not only have an entry and growth strategy for your time in the industry but also an exit strategy. Know how many years that you would like to work in mining, what you would like to achieve, including maintaining your safety and health, and what you would like to take from the industry when you leave. Try to calculate how much you that you would like to accumulate and what you would like to do on leaving the mines, i.e. retirement, less physically demanding profession e.g. training where you can pass on the knowledge and skills gained from previous experience, etc. Research what you would like to achieve in your life, remembering that you will only have one chance at life and you need to make every stage a winning experience.
Allan Tierney
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The course teachers a range of training and assessment activities, including how to design and develop learning programs, use training packages and accredited courses to meet client needs, how to plan, organise and deliver group-based learning, how to facilitate learning in the workplace, how to develop a presentation, etc. You will learn about the many facets of training and assessment activities and processes.
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September 2, 2005 CONTACT:
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Nadeau to Attend International Law Seminar at The Hague
CONCORD--New Hampshire Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Joseph P.
Nadeau has been selected by the International Judicial Academy to attend an
education program on international law and international courts in the
Netherlands this month.
International Judicial Academy is an organization whose purpose is to promote
the rule of law around the world through quality education, planning and
research. Nadeau will attend a one-week seminar at The Hague, site of the
International Court of Justice which is the principal
judicial body of the United Nations.
The program will consist of lectures and presentations by distinguished
international jurists and judges, including prominent members of the
International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court, and the
International Court Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
am honored and pleased to be part of this exciting program. Now, more than ever,
international events and the success of the rule of law have great impact for
all of us," Justice Nadeau said.
During his long career as a jurist, including eight years as Chief
Judge of the state trial court, Nadeau has been active as a volunteer for the
American Bar Association's Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (CEELI)
and has participated as a faculty member in programs throughout the region with
judges of countries of the former Soviet Republic, Europe and Asia, from Algeria
to Kazakhstan. He traveled to Tokyo
in 2003 to meet with lawyers involved in justice system reform in Japan.
Justice Nadeau, under the auspices of ABA/CEELI, participated in a program in
Bratislava, Slovakia, working with the Chief Justice of the Iraqi Supreme Court
and other Iraqi Supreme Court and senior Iraqi judges to draft proposals for
sections of Iraq's new constitution relating to the judiciary. The group also
reviewed such matters as educating judges, writing a judicial code of ethics,
and evaluating judges and lawyers.
Justice Nadeau is one of 20 United States trial and appellate
judges selected by the Judicial Academy to receive a scholarship to attend the
program at The Hague. The participants were selected based upon their interest
in international matters, past international activities, their judicial
backgrounds and their accomplishments.
Subjects of the seminar will include history and development of
international law and courts, international human rights law and structure,
procedures and jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice, and
arbitration and alternative means of resolving international public and private
disputes. The participants will also visit some of the international courts and
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Institutional Priorities Committee
The Institutional Priorities Committee (IPC) is the primary planning and budgeting group of the University, and serves as a principal advisory body to the President regarding the resourcing of University priorities.The members of the Institutional Priorities Committee include:
- The President
- The Provost and Vice Presidents
- Five faculty members (including one faculty member from either the School of Law or the School of Dentistry)
- A representative of the School of Law and the School of Dentistry if not represented in other positions
- Two Deans
- Two administrative representatives
- One staff member
- Two students
The IPC charge is to:
1. Review and update the University strategic plan and monitor University strategy and progress toward goals.
2. Further the integration of strategic planning and budgeting processes by:
a) recommending guidelines for strategic planning and budgeting processes;
b) ensuring that budgetary investments and allocations align to institutional priorities; and
c) integrating campus and program level plans and outcomes into institutional strategy.
3. Establish the institutional strategic budgeting context by:
a) recommending strategies to achieve planning priorities;
b) formalizing budget assumptions;
c) reviewing and making recommendations regarding drafts of the annual budget; and
d) evaluating and improving the ongoing planning and budgeting processes as appropriate.


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MMA Forum - UFC Forums - UFC Results - MMA Videos (http://www.mmaforum.com/forumindex.php)
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- - Entertaining card, but a sad night (http://www.mmaforum.com/ufc/107567-entertaining-card-but-sad-night.html)
Entertaining card, but a sad night
UFC on FOX 5 was a thoroughly entertaining card with some great match ups, but even despite all of the action, I didn't enjoy the other night at all.
BJ Penn and Shogun are two of my all time favourite fighters and seeing them lose like that was pretty horrible to watch for me personally. I guess I'm one of the dinosaur MMA fans now, because all of these old school fighters getting stomped on by the "new breed" athletes has left me feeling a bit bitter.
I really didn't want to see BJ come back after the Diaz fight at all initially, I wanted him to stay retired for good and just enjoy life in Hilo. But, the classic pre-fight hype and trash talk got to me and I started believing that BJ was "back" again. (Should have known better really).
It's always a joy to watch Shogun fight, the man defines true warrior spirit. I personally think he's one of the most undervalued and under respected fighters in the entire sport. Now seeing him fight on only heart alone makes me a sad panda. But it is actually quite amazing how well he's doing in the division fighting solely on heart, what a beast.
I was fairly neutral for the Diaz/Bendo fight (slight favouritism towards Nate, but I've been a fan of Bendo since his early WEC days) so I got to sit back and fully enjoy this fight. Man did Nate get tossed around all over the octagon like a rag doll lulz. Didn't expect him to get dominated so badly on the ground like that.
Any ways I'm rambling now. Any other dinosaurs out there who feels the same way about the other nights card? Seeing these new breed guys clear out the old schoolers is depressing.
Seeing Nate get rag-dolled 'hurt' me more than anything else. I had mentally prepared to see Shogun outpointed, but I expected Nate to work Ben on the feet yet perhaps lose a decision due to Henderson's superior wrestling. To see Diaz get battered standing was insult to injury.
That said, seeing Penn stomped put a :) on my face.
It shows how much conditioning matters. Penn and Shogun both looked like they just ran 5 miles, while Rory and Gus looked like they just rolled out of bed.
I have been following MMA/UFC since 07-08 so I won't be in this boat until the stars of now are in this state in 5-10 years, but I can see it being painful.
I was/am so goddamn happy to watch Penn get his ass whupped... Seriously hate that guy.
Shogun brought the fight more than I had expected him to, Alex definitely has some holes in his game.
I've seen the changing of the guard several times through the course of this young sport and it's certainly not easy to digest.
The absolute worst to see was Fedor, Crocop, Chuck, and even Wand getting brutalized. For so many years they ruled with an iron fist.
Before that Ken Shamrock was the most dangerous man on the planet at one point in time. He truly was this yoked out athletic specimen who could do heel hooks out of nowhere. He beat Bas Rutten. Then Tito came in and pounded him out into oblivion.
Royce drew with Ken in a super fight and barely beat Kimo. Years later he would be outmatched by Hughes.
Carlos Newton was "new school" combining all facets of the game beating Pat Militech then losing against Hughes in a controversial match. Anderson Silva would later on take him out in devastating fashion.
Frank Shamrock was the original GSP then he loses to Cung and Diaz which he NO DOUBT in his prime could have won. He's way bigger than Diaz and all he had to do was control em in the clinch and on the ground.
Mark Coleman the originator of the GNP was simply too outdated. Surprised he lasted all three rounds against Shogun.
BJ, Wandy, Belfort, Shogun, Big Nog, Lil Nog, followed by GSP and Anderson Silva will probably be next. Only the latter two seem to be dictating the outcome on their own terms.
In conclusion it's like seeing Michael Jordan leave the NBA. That sucked. But the show must go on.
Seeing BJ and Swick lose was disappointing. Especially in the manner that they lost. I had to take a step back and remind myself that Swick is the same guy that was outclassed by Dan ****in' Hardy for crying out loud. He's a likable guy, but very overrated. It just sucked because I wanted to see him make a comeback of the ages after several injuries and illnesses.
I expected to see BJ lose, but not in that fashion. Unlike most people I didn't buy into the hype. I've seen it time and time again with BJ. He looks good for three minutes, then gasses or has an adrenaline dump ala Frank Mir. Just a very mentally weak fighter, although the guy has a chin and heart like no other. But the way Rory went about beating him was just sad to watch, combined with the showboating.
I wanted Gustaf to beat Shogun, so I wasn't at all disappointed in that regard.
And while I wanted Nate to win, I was more in awe of Henderson's showcase than anything else. I expected Nate to win, or at least give Henderson a hell of a fight, and Henderson dominated Nate everywhere and made him look like an amateur instead of the guy who destroyed Gomi, Cerronne, and Miller.
I feel where you are coming from, but I've dealt with it and gotten over way before now. It was pretty heartbreaking to see Royce Gracie come back to get totally stomped by Matt Hughes. Along with many other fights that totally changed the landscape. I've since learned that nobody is invincible and everybody has an expiration date in this sport (even Randy). Although saddening at first it's going to continue happening and the sport will become more competitive and entertaining as it progresses. And for that I keep watching and loving this sport more as time progresses.
Thing about fighting is it's very different from a sports team or any other sport for that matter. Losing usually means your favorite fighter is getting put to the hospital which can make a grown man shed a tear.
I hope the UFC has pension plans ready cuz all those boxers are doing poorly in health and financially.
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Canine nutrition: Breed-specific versus all-breed diets
In developing specialized dog foods, consider marketing strategy in addition to differences in nutrient responses between breeds
Dog food marketing is dominated by trends. Differentiation, humanization and individualization are product trends initiated by the petfood industry. Dog owners' attitudes have inspired the natural trend.
Lifestage nutrition, as opposed to a single complete diet for all ages and breeds, and functional foods with health claims are forms of individualization. Another form is breed-specific, lifestage diets. Lifestage foods are justified by the age dependency of both nutrient requirements and risk of disease. Functional foods are justified by the influence of nutrition on disease management. What is the justification for breed-specific versus all-breed dog diets?
The nutrient composition of a complete dog food should guarantee optimal health. There is a general relationship between nutrient intake and the animal's reaction. Long-term, low nutrient intakes produce disease, growth retardation or impaired reproduction: the state of deficiency. Long-term, high nutrient intakes also cause disorders: the state of toxicity.
Between deficiency and toxicity there is a wide range of intakes that allow optimal health and performance. The animal can adapt absorption, excretion and metabolism of the nutrient (or its metabolites) so neither deficiency nor toxicity develops.
Between breeds there can be differences in the nutrient-response relationship. Great Danes have a greater calcium requirement for…


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The Wizard and True Star, Todd Rundgren is coming to the Kent Stage.
Rundgren will be making only his third appearance in Kent having played two shows at Kent State in the 1970s.
Todd's got a new album coming out (his 24th solo record) called State that will hit digitial store shelves on April 9.
His last one, the big guitar driven Arena was pretty good.
Let's see what's next...
What: Todd Rundgren
When: 8 p.m., Tuesday, May 14
Where: The Kent Stage, 175 East Main St.,Kent
Tickets: $33-$46
Information: 330-677-5005, www.kentstage.org
Here's Runt and Daryl Hall doing "I Saw The Light"


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My wife earns a lot more than I do. This was true when I met her and it's never bothered me. Since we've had children, I do more childcare and housework than she does. I read somewhere that US couples where wives are the higher earners have a 50% higher divorce rate than couples in which the husband earns more. Is this true?
The number of women working and the amount they earn have gone up (although men still earn 12.6% more, according to the Office for National Statistics), as has the divorce rate. But this is not cause and effect. Women who are the main breadwinners are in the minority. Most are not high-flying bankers, but low earners whose partners earn less or are unemployed. US research (there seem to be no equivalent UK studies) is not clear-cut. One study showed that, for every $5,000 increase in wives' income, the odds of divorce increased by 5%. Some studies show that wives' earnings reduce the risk of divorce by making the couples' lives more comfortable.
The traditional concerns about a wife earning more than her husband are that it's unnatural, that it will turn him into a resentful, inadequate girl's blouse and that she'll leave because she can afford to. However, attitudes have changed. A survey by the dating website True.com found that one third of its male users wanted women who earned more than they did.
Most studies citing higher divorce rates are old and flawed because they used individuals instead of couples, and so couldn't find out if divorces were due to one person holding traditional views about a man's income and status, rather than the fact that the wife brought home the larger slice of bacon. One of the better studies, of 286 dual-earning couples, found that only men who felt defined by their salaries were upset if their wives earned more. It showed that women didn't mind earning more: what made them happy was husbands like you, who did childcare and housework, and who were emotionally involved.
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The committee was appointed almost immediately after the hurricane to look into complaints that some state and local agencies didn't do a good job of preparing the public for the storm, and haven't done a good job of helping people in the aftermath.
The committee chairman, Houston State Representative Sylvester Turner, says they're reviewing the state and local government response to the hurricane, to find out what went right and what went wrong. He says the goal is to help the various agencies do better the next time they're faced with a public emergency of that magnitude.
The fourth in a series of six public hearings will be held tomorrow at 10am, at Lone Star College in Tomball. A fifth hearing will be held at 10am Thursday at the Parks and Recreation Community Center in Missouri City. The sixth and final hearing will be held January 7th in Galveston at the Galveston Island Convention Center on Seawall Boulevard.
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Time To Hunt For An Investment Pro?
David Lenkowsky, a manufacturers' sales representative in Montville, N.J., takes pride in being a hands-on guy. But last year, the 49-year-old father of three finally threw up his hands when it came to managing his own money. "I was constantly being deluged by no-name brokers from no-name firms. Once in a while, I bit, usually with disastrous results," he says. The last straw was a penny-stock investment that lost $25,000 in 60 days. "I finally said to myself, `I wouldn't do my own brain surgery. Why am I doing this?"'
Lenkowsky's solution: He turned his mid-six-figure portfolio over to a professional asset manager. Like the majority of Americans with money in the stock market--more than 41% of U.S. families, according to the Federal Reserve--you may be buying too much or too little of a fund, holding on to a stock too long or not long enough, or simply ignoring sensible investments out of ignorance or fear.
DIZZYING. If you've amassed a portfolio worth $100,000 or more, and you haven't the time, access to information, or desire to sift through a mind-boggling array of investment choices, you're not alone. Over the next decade, experts predict, more such investors than ever will turn to professional managers. This upsurge is already bringing some financial services companies a raft of new customers. Take Charles Schwab, whose AdvisorSource program (800 979-9004) steers clients with $100,000 or more to 440 independent managers who agree to trade through the discount broker's proprietary software. Only two years old, the program is already bringing in $150 million a month.
Baby boomers are driving the search for professional advice. These forty- and fiftysomethings are coming into their serious wealth-amassing years, thanks to a couple of decades in the workforce, the buildup of 401(k) plans, a generational inheritance that will top $10 trillion, and the long-running bull market. You may well be one of the fortunate 4% of investors, cited in a 1997 survey by the Securities Industry Assn., who feel they know everything they need to know to make good investment decisions. But if you're more like David Lenkowsky than Warren Buffett, this may be a good time to consider whether you, too, should turn your investments over to a pro (table).
HOW BIG? One thing a pro can do for you is to develop an asset allocation plan geared to your particular objectives. Some managers may turn their noses up at portfolios under $200,000, maintaining that the expenses of running smaller accounts isn't worth their while. But in truth, $100,000 is big enough to merit professional attention. "At $100,000, mistakes start to matter," says Robert Powell, research editor at Boston-based Dalbar, which does market research for financial services companies. "You may want to manage your money in the way the affluent always have--with personal attention, fiduciary responsibility, and direct contact."
Putting an asset allocation plan together on your own is harder than it looks. For instance, you may not realize that a mutual fund you bought for large-cap growth stocks has 10% of its assets in cash, thus skewing the nice allocation scheme you thought that you had devised. Or you may have fallen in love with your assets, and thus have been unable to take a timely gain or loss and move on. Says Evelyn Somers, senior vice-president of marketing at Fidelity Investments: "The buy decision is so sexy, but the sell decision is so hard." Such love affairs can be especially detrimental if you have to liquidate savings to pay for college, support ailing parents, or finance your retirement.
Then there's the problem of how to handle a portfolio that's bursting at the seams. Let's say you own mutual funds worth upwards of $500,000, plus a large amount of unexercised stock options from your employer. You feel you should diversify your portfolio into individual stocks or bonds. But you're unsure how to evaluate your opportunities, much less figure out whether to hold, exercise, or flip your options. A professional should be able to help.
SET A LIMIT. If you're handing less than $1 million over to a pro, many will insist on putting your money into funds, however. "For the typical investor, I am unequivocally on the side of mutual funds," says Timothy Chase, a principal of Wealth Management Services in Towson, Md. That way, he says, you'll get a variety of managers with different styles. He recommends staying strictly with funds until a portfolio reaches the $2 million to $4 million level.
But bear in mind that if a portfolio manager puts you only into funds, you may end up paying a double layer of fees--to the manager and the funds, too. Moreover, "funds are frequently overdiversified, can underperform the market, and have too much turnover, so the aftertax result suffers," says Douglas Bean, director of research at Philippe Investment Management in New York. He insists a money manager can help you diversify adequately with individual securities and time any sales to minimize taxes. But even Bean cautions that individual securities alone are suitable only for portfolios of $500,000 and up.
When manufacturers' rep Lenkowsky sought out a money manager, the first thing he wanted to do was bring order to a portfolio that had been constructed helter-skelter. "A little voice in my head kept saying, `You should pay attention to asset allocation. Everybody talks about it,"' Lenkowsky recalls. "But the response was always: `gotta go."' The problem was he didn't have the time or knowledge to do it himself. So about a year ago, on a suggestion from his father-in-law, he presented his portfolio to Allan Eyre, president of asset-manager JAE Consulting in Berkeley Heights, N.J.
Lenkowsky's holdings comprised more than 20 stocks, 9 equity funds, and a half-dozen municipal bonds. But this portfolio, says Eyre, "was overdiversified to the point of diminishing returns." Further, several funds owned the same stocks.
Eyre, who charges Lenkowsky an annual fee of 1.5% of his assets under management, started his overhaul by having his new client articulate his goals. Lenkowsky wanted his portfolio to generate some cash flow, provide growth at a reasonable risk level, avoid additional taxes, build an education fund for his children, and reduce the potential for catastrophic losses. It quickly became clear his original investments, which included too many speculative small-cap stocks, would have been risky for a hot-dogging Generation Xer, let alone a settled baby boomer.
SHORTER LIST. Eyre then set about selecting assets that emphasize value over growth to reflect Lenkowsky's conservative objectives. He trimmed the stock list to about a dozen, including GTE, Home Depot, and Deere. He then picked a diversified group of no-load funds, among them Janus High-Yield Bond, Pioneer Europe, and Fidelity Real Estate Investment. He also kept Lenkowsky's municipal bonds. Over the past four quarters, the new portfolio has grown by about 20%, a result that makes Lenkowsky "ecstatic."
If you want to choose a money manager, there are more objective ways available to you than simply asking a relative for a recommendation. Turning over your life's savings to the care of a professional manager is a big step. But think of the upside: In addition to the potential for bettering your financial future, you get to tell the cold-calling brokers to scram. Says Lenkowsky: "Now, when Joe Blow phones and says, `Hi, Dave, how've you been?,' I refer him to my money manager."


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Could you please measure the depth from the top of the main stove body (not with the pot stand) down to the fire grate?
I am a Scoutmaster and as a project to encourage my scouts to cook with fire, I'm building some DIY wood stoves out of soup cans inside 1 qt paint cans. My prototype didn't burn as well as I thought it should and I suspect the grate is too low in the can.
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Sony's EyeToy successfully employed a digital camera to translate a player's movements onto virtual environments, but the Gametrak system uses a seemingly more primitive method - strings!
Surprisingly, the system offers far greater precision than EyeToy, converting your three-dimensional movements to on-screen actions with impressive accuracy.
Players will feel like a Muppet wearing the Gametrak gloves, which attach to a USB floor unit using thin retractable cords to measure hand movements. Fortunately, you soon forget about the apparatus once you hit the virtual greens.
The package includes an amusingly dinky plastic club, although you could grab a real seven iron as long as you have the necessary lounge-room space (and the inclination to damage something).
The Gametrak system ensures Real World Golf is the most realistic golf game controller available for the home. It can judge even the slightest difference in swing speed, and changing your stance or swing will result in hooks or slices. With practise, you can even spin the ball.
This weekend hacker found he could drive greater distances and with improved accuracy on Real World Golf compared to when swinging a real club. But as testimony to the Gametrak system's sophistication, much of my game still suffered from the same quirks that prompt the occasional profanity and lost ball when strolling around a local course.
The weakness of the package is the quality of the software simulation. The layouts of the five fictional courses are challenging enough, but the graphics and ball physics are unconvincing. Putting is particularly below par.
Tournaments and mini-games such as multi-player target-practice competitions are engaging enough, but we wish the developers had simply spent their time converting the control system so it would work with higher-quality golf simulations such as EA's Tiger Woods series.
Endgame: Any golfer will be able to pick up and play in seconds, and the sensation of playing real golf is astonishing. Pity the software simulation is so drab.
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Whether you're just dipping your toes into the water on DFS golf or a longtime fantasy golf guru, it's crucial to understand the fundamentals of the game. While many DFS sites are just starting to adopt golf into their repertoire, DraftKings has served as a pioneer in the golf realm for multiple years. For those transitioning from year-long leagues or general golf betting lines, many of the same strategies for finding good players and value plays apply to DFS golf, so congratulations on having a head start. For those hitting up DraftKings golf as your first go at fantasy golf, get ready for the enhanced excitement of the back nine on Sunday.
Below are some building blocks and tips for crafting successful squads on DraftKings
Game Types
• Tournaments (also known as Guaranteed Prize Pools or GPPs): top-heavy contests with big prizes for the top finishers, but not without added risk.
Perfect for: players seeking the big payout while competing against the masses.
• Satellites and Qualifiers: smaller-scale feeder contests that reward winners with entries into future higher-stakes contests like the Fantasy Golf Millionaire GPP.
Perfect for: players looking to get into big tournaments at a discount.
• Leagues: range from 3-100 players with varying prize pools depending on the number of entries. You can also create your own leagues to play against friends or challenge others from across the country. Overall it's a good way to start with friends who you can trash talk on Mondays.
Perfect for: players who want to play against their friends or have control over the structure of their own league.
• Head-to-Heads: a straightforward match against one opponent, winner takes all (after the rake). You can play for free or start with as little as $1; a timeless format that's simple and fun.
Perfect for: beginners who want to keep it simple or players looking to build up their cash flow at a steady pace.
• Double Ups, 50/50s and Multipliers: smaller events where the upside is capped but chances of winning are still sensible. In 50/50s, you win if you outscore half the total entries, earning you about $1.90 for every $1 entered (the missing $0.10 is the rake). You can double your entry fee in Double Up contests, but you'll need to finish better than just the top half. The same concept applies for Triple Ups, Quintuple Ups and 10x Boosters, which get increasingly more difficult to win, but come with greater rewards.
Perfect for: players looking for better payouts than head-to-head while having a better chance to cash than a GPP. It's a good middle ground between head-to-heads and tournaments.
So where do you start? If you're new to DraftKings, you can leverage beginner contests against other newcomers for your first 50 entries, which keeps the experienced sharks away while you build experience of your own. These contests are the same game types as described above.
Beyond beginner contests, your choice of game type should reflect your risk tolerance. If you love the notion of chasing the huge payday, tournaments might be your thing, but know that it comes with higher risk. If you want to improve your chance of winning more consistently over the long haul, head-to-head, 50/50s and double ups are your best bet, though the rewards are smaller. It's not uncommon to see both experienced and novice players enter multiple game types to increase upside while limiting their risk as much as possible.
Know the Rules
If you do nothing else before entering a contest, read the rules and know the scoring system. In DraftKings Golf, once you know the game types, the rules are simple: draft six golfers and stay under the $50,000 salary cap. The scoring system, however, typically gets overlooked.
Without getting too detailed, players get points for:
• Each hole of their rounds (positive for par or better, negative for bogey or worse)
• Their finishing position (if it's in the top 50)
• Arbitrary streaks and bonuses (like a streak of three birdies or a hole-in-one)
The reality here is that, on average, hole-by-hole points make up over 90 percent of a player's final fantasy points. Players who finish in the top 10 are usually the only exceptions. Points from finishing position become trivial after the top 10, and streaks and bonuses are rare and extremely unpredictable.
Making the Cut is Crucial
Knowing that over 90 percent of a player's final points come from hole-by-hole points, it becomes obvious that playing all four rounds instead of just two (by missing the cut) is a huge deal. This may be the most important thing to focus on when building a lineup – choosing six players with good odds of making the cut. Even if just two of your six players miss the cut, that's around a 15-20 percent loss of your potential point total.
RotoWire Lineup Optimizer
With the new DraftKings community guidelines in place, the RotoWire Lineup Optimizer will no longer give you the pre-built "optimal" lineup for the week – it needs your input first. In the new setup, you'll need to lock in at least two players before letting the optimizer do its magic. This is a positive in my eyes, as players will now use this more as a supportive tool and less as a crutch. Putting your own brain to work makes fantasy golf that much more rewarding and fun.
Check Injuries and Withdrawals
Both RotoWire and DraftKings are timely at labeling players who are injured or withdraw (WD) before the event, but it's good to double check before the event starts so your team isn't disadvantaged from the beginning. Starting a player returning from injury is risky because of the possibility of re-aggravating and withdrawing mid-event, so tread with caution.
These are just a handful of key fundamentals, but look for more articles to come that go beyond the basics and share how to strategically build a lineup and how you can use publicly available golf stats to do your own research and gain an advantage on the field.


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I am wondering if it is worth it to try to split my hive. I live in Maine and it's the middle of June. Today I put a super on top of two deeps and the bees seem to be going strong. I was thinking about transferring three frames that have larvae on them into a new hive that has drawn out comb and some honey stores from last year. I was not planning to buy a new queen, just hoping the bees on the transferred frames would make a new queen themselves.
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When a company has a really huge data center and needs to use cloud tech to make it more efficient, it comes to Joyent. Joyent's tech costs "pennies on the dollar" compared to clouds built with tech from VMware, founder and CTO Jason Hoffman says. Hoffman left a successful career as an oncologist to start Joyent and it's really paid off. Famous angel Peter Thiel was an early investor—long before he became a Facebook billionaire. Since then, Intel has invested, as has Dell and EMC. In January, Joyent got an $85 million boost, too.


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3D printing leading to global manufacturing on demand, the complete reshaping of the idea of going to school, fleets of driverless cars... these are just some of the innovations Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen describe in their new book, The New Digital Age. In the book, Schmidt and Cohen don their Nostradamian hats and offer a slew of predictions about how emerging technological innovations will dramatically change our lives. The authors are interested in the wide array of impending … [Read more...]
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Rachel Held Evans' latest post at CNN's religion blog has stirred up controversy in just the way RHE knows how to do so well. See here and here for some reactions. Part of what's challenging about her piece (and all her writing, really) is that it contains a lot of truth. In her comments on liturgy, authenticity, and a broader Christian cultural-political mandate, RHE offers or, at least, approaches some important insights. The merits of some of her points have not been fully appreciated by some … [Read more...]
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In a recent post over at NPR, Adam Frank reviews Religion without God, Ronald Dworkin's posthumously published book on religion. In his book, Dworkin attempts to expand the definition of religion beyond its traditional boundaries, arguing that you can be religious even if you don't believe in God. For Frank, this innovative thesis shifts the ground on which science/religion debates take place. A broader definition overcomes the apparent cultural rift between "evangelical vs. scientist, believer … [Read more...]
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In his book The Plot to Kill God, Paul Froese outlines the Soviet Union's unsuccessful campaign to exterminate religion, drawing out the lessons we can learn from the campaign about the possibility of secularity. In order to completely remove religion from the socio-cultural landscape, Soviet authorities oppressed religious leaders and practitioners, strangled religious institutions, replaced religious rituals with secular versions, and waged rhetorical war on the legitimacy of religious belief … [Read more...]
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In reading a recent post on John Wesley's failed marriage, I was reminded of a similar story from my own field: the church in China. John Sung was an evangelist who travelled throughout China during the Republican Era. Like Wesley, he had a troubled marriage. Despite marrying and having a child, Sung spent little time at home. His sense of mission and purpose were so strong that care for his family figured very little into his ministry plans. A telling example occurred when Sung, his wife, and h … [Read more...]
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I recently wrote about an interview I conducted with sociologist Robert Bellah in preparation for a talk he gave this past week at Notre Dame. The talk introduced his thoughts on the next step in his work, following up on his argument in Religion in Human Evolution.A good portion of the talk drew on recent work by Ian Morris on the historical relationship between development and the fate of civilizations. In particular, Bellah found that a developmental "hard ceiling" consistently h … [Read more...]
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There are huge differences between Aurora and SA. Aurora was a trageted mass shooting that was planned with a guy dressed like a wantabe SWAT guy and had an evil AR with a 100 round magazine. Many people were killed.
In SA it appears the man was targeting a co-worker at a resteraunt and it spilled over to the theater. Two people were wounded, not a bunch killed.
The off duty deputey was not a person that just happened to be there. She was employed by the theater.
In a nutshell: it was local news after it was found out that it was not another attempt of a mass shooting like Aurora.
Now...I know where you are going with this. Why isn't it reported nationwide and kept in the news? Is it because it was thwarted by a CC'er? Yes and yes. It was not national news for a while becuase a mass killing was prevented. They don't report good things. If you are looking for media bias or anything I disagree with you. If the man was stopped by a uniformed LEO it would not be news also.


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How do I get my dog to like baths?
My dog doesn't like taking baths. I thought the noise of the running water bothered him but its not. I would give a treat before and after a bath to convince him it is ok. He cringes at the word BATH. He doesn't get aggressive or any thing, he just tries to jump out of the tub. I have gotten him professionally groomed before and the people who do it say he is a doll. So my question is, how do I get him to like baths when I give him baths because he stinks. BOL
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Pretend to give him a bath every day. Use small cookies whenever he is a good dog, not just before and after the 'bath'. Time for bath, cookie, in bathroom, cookie, in tub, cookie, rubadubdub, cookie, out of bath, cookie. Add in the towel, a wet tub bottom, a wet washcloth, etc. Something special every time bath is over might be a good idea as well.
Keeping a leash on the dog really helps as the dog has fewer options. If you use a praise word every time you give a cookie the good feelings the dog gets from eating the cookie will transfer to the praise word and you won't need to cookie him for every good thing he does in time.
Agree with Aster, the food may not be agreeing with him. Sassy was always a stinky dog but since she is on home cooked food most of the stink is gone. Doesn't mean the food is awful quality, Sassy was always on premium kibble. One of the proteins or grains just may not agree.
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Brushing is more pleasent for both man and beast. Feed a decent chow and as little else as possible, seldom if ever bathe the dog, and brush it daily with a soft bristled brush.
Aster didn't have a single bath the last 5 years of her life, but still went out in public including some dinner meetings with never a complaint.
Aster answered on 5/15/09. Helpful? / 1
I agree with Sassy, pretend to give him a bath every now and then. Say "bath" and if he doesn't get worried, give him a treat. Take him into the bathroom, if he's fairly comfortable give him treats, but do it slow.
I only give my dog baths once a month, he doesn't need it any more often (unless he gets into something) but you aren't going to hurt his skin or anything unless you bathe multiple times a week.
Bailey answered on 5/15/09. Helpful? / 1
my small dog is the same, and I tried to get him use to it when he was young. I made it very pleasant and he still hates them.
The noise from the water does make him worse. But, some dogs do not like it. It doesn't matter also about size. I have tried food but, doesn't seem to make that much diff. He may never like baths. It has been 8 yrs. for him and he hates it. He likes light scratching on his back but that's about it. I even use a dryer on him. So sadly, that is the way it is. It is only way they are clean. poor doggies.
Baxter answered on 5/15/09. Helpful? / 1
My Samoyed hates baths as well. Here's what I've done:
He also tries to jump out of the tub when I'm bathing him. But he's gotten a bit better each time. What I do, is bring treats into the bathroom with me. I get him in the tub, and check the water temperature. (This can be a big tip-- maybe the water is too cold, or too hot for your dog. Their skin is very sensitive) Make sure the water's at a nice lukewarm temp. Fill the tub up far enough so that it will reach their underbelly when they're standing in the tub. Do this BEFORE you even say the word BATH to the dog. (Basically, you have to prepare first.) THEN bring your dog in, put him in the tub. Give him a couple small bite-sized treats. try to put him in a 'sit' while he's in the tub. Once he's calm, then start wetting him down and bathing him. Try to stay calm with him, because he's already anxious and will pick up on it if you are as well.
Good luck!
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When I bought my Brougham a few weeks ago, the power antenna was broken completely off and the bezel was gone...nothing more than a hole in the fender. I looked around and was unable to find a Cadillac replacement...so I bought an aftermarket replacement. I got it installed, but something happened that made me question the wiring setup...
The replacement antenna has, in addition to the solid antenna wire, three other wires...a black ground wire, a red power wire (to a "hot at all times" source) and a blue (switched) wire.
I cut the connector and a little bit of wiring from my old antenna and connected the blue (switched) wire to the green wire of the pigtail, attached the ground wire to a ground and ran a wire from the battery-positive post over the wheel-well to the red antenna wire. The gray and white wires on the pigtail remain unused.
I did not have any problems with the antenna working...it went up when the car was on and the radio on...went down if I turned off the radio...and went down when the car turned off. BUT...2 days later, I went to leave for work in the morning and my car was as dead as a floating tuna. With nobody around to jumpstart the car, I paid $55 to have a tow truck jump it and off to work I go. Before the tow truck got there, I disconnected the red power wire from the battery-positive post and never reconnected it. I've never had a problem with my go going dead again (knocking on wood).
Could it have been a coincidence and perhaps a door was left ajar? Maybe. It was 2 days later and I drove the car the night before with no problems. But I wanted to get y'all's opinion as to the wiring setup before I try to reconnect the power wire again.
I've yet to get a service manual for my car...but am working on it. So I don't know what the gray and white wires on the original antenna are connected to. I couldn't tell from testing them as to exactly what they do. Should I have wired the replacement antenna differently?
Thanks for your help.
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Pretty simple check. Connect an ammeter inline with the battery and the red wire. Any reading with the car off means your battery is going to run down.
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Brilliant. I'll do that then. Thanks much!
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The connector should have 3 colored wires; green, grey and white. To raise antenna up Green+ and Grey-; to lower antenna White+ Green-
When I bought an aftermarket antenna, I just hooked it up to the radio, so when radio is turned on, antenna goes up or when turned off, antenna goes down. Never had a problem like that you mention. But it's time for a new one, it finaaly gave out. Just like the original one, you can hear the motor on but the mast doesn't do anything...
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Thanks, 1980coupe, for the info. It is info that I wanted, for sure.
I've done a lot of wiring jobs in cars, but the wiring set up with the Green+Gray and the Green+White is more complicated, I guess. I'm trying to visualize it, but... (perhaps I'm in need of caffiene).
At any rate. Considering the aftermarket antenna's wiring setup...is there a way to connect the red (power) wire to either the gray or white wires (...or both?) and make it work properly? I don't particularly like having a wire running from the battery-positive post (above the wheel well) going round the front of the car to the other side to connect to the antenna. I'd like to make it neat in there, if possible.
I'm still going to check out the wiring with an ohmmeter this weekend to be sure the aftermarket wiring setup is not draining the battery...if I have to leave the wiring as it is.
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You shouldn't need any power from the battery. The wires in the factory harness have all the power it needs.
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just follow the instructions on the supplied wiring diagrams. that's what i did on mine, but never had any problems with it draining the battery of power. something else must be doing that on your car.
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are you connecting to a stock radio or an aftermarket? On mine it's connected to an aftermarket radio that I concealed in the glove box, the antenna wire is connected to the back of the radio, the red wire to a constant source (to battery, both antenna and battery on same side) ground wire connected to the ground lead on the blower and the blue "remote" wire to the remote wire leading out of the aftermarket radio harness. But as of right now the ground wire is disconnected because the antenna I replaced gave out, so time for a new one...
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I had a few days off, so I wasn't committed to needing my car if the battery drained. Therefore, on Saturday, I reconnected the antenna. So far, no battery draining (knocking on wood). I think you're right...something else caused it. I've been checking the car each night before going to bed to be sure the doors are closed properly and the glove box is not open. I now realize how much I miss the battery rundown protection on my 2001 Park Avenue.
By the way, it's the stock radio. When I removed the broken factory antenna, I kept its connector to the factory wiring connection. I used the blue (switched) wire from the replacement antenna to connect to the green factory (switched) wire on the factory antenna's wiring pigtail. The red (power at all times) is connected to the battery-positive post. The black is grounded to the fender (using one of the mounting screws under the hood) and the antenna cable itself was disconnected from the factory antenna and the aftermarket cable plugged into the end.
I'd love to not have the power wire running round the front of the car and would love to just use the factory antenna's wiring pigtail to supply all power...however, clearly, the factory antenna and the replacement antenna are internally wired differently, so...it is what it is. Perhaps one day, I'll find a factory replacement for it...
Thanks all for your help on this.
Re: Power Antenna Wiring
You could simply run that red antenna wire inside to a switched 12v+ on the fuse box. The antenna would only work when the car is on, but it would never drain your battery
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I make no secret of being an old hippie and a Deadhead. It's just what I did back then - I like to dance and there was nothing like the dance of the Dead. And I'm proud to be a geek, but I draw the line at being a nerd. So when one of my heroes in security and identity, Gunnar Peterson, talks about the roles of hippies and nerds in building your identity defenses, I've just got to give it a read.
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"The foundation of the Security Triangle shows the differing mindsets at work. Identity and Access Services are about doing the right things - authenticating and authorizing your employees, customers and partners. Have Hippie programmers build these. Defensive services are about dealing with malice - defensive coding, input validation, output encoding - have Nerd programmers build these."
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"Today we were saddened to learn of the passing of dear RL Bob Morgan who has metaphorically "migrated to the cloud" now. Bob, or "Uncle Bob" as some of us called him, made so many contributions to the Identity community at large. Notably via: Internet2 Middleware, IETF, IIW, ISOC, Kantara, OASIS… too many to list them all. Recently RL Bob was awarded the Internet2 President's Award for Leadership where many of his colleagues saluted him (in their best Hawaiian shirts)."
[Jeff Hodges: RLBob migrates to The Cloud]
[J Trent Adams: Bob's Clothing Paradigm]
- Nat Sakimura: Analyzing Yahoo! Voices Password Leakage
"Yahoo! Voice is a relying party to Yahoo! and is federating the authentication. This means that Yahoo! Voice should not have any password to be stolen. This is a contradiction. So, I went on to researching what Yahoo! Voice really is."
- Kim Cameron: Yes to SCIM. Yes to Graph.
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- Chris Ceppi: 8 Years at Ping Identity - IT Security Crosses the Identity Bridge
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- Patrick Harding: Comment: Passwords Are the Achilles' Heel of Cloud Security
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- Trends Driving the Adoption of Identity and Access Management Technologies
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- Has Nick Denton really reinvented comments?
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- Introducing Windows Azure Active Directory (AD) - Web Single Sign-on (SSO)
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The FICAM Access Control & Attribute Management Working Group (ACAGWG) is working to address the needs of the Federal Government for access control, lifecycle management of attributes, and the associated governance processes around entitlements and privileges. If you are interested in engaging with this cross-government (Federal, Defense, IC and more…) working group during our upcoming industry day, please read on..."
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- Ronnie Mitra: Are Open APIs Too Open for Big Business?
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- Scott Morrison: Hey Twitter: API Management = Developer Management
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- Cisco, Intel, Box and Layer 7 Address the Role of Identity in API Security at Cloud Identity Summit 2012
"Ping Identity, The Cloud Identity Security Leader, today announced Anand Sharma of Cisco, Vikas Jain of Intel, Francois Lascelles of Layer 7, Mark O'Neil of Vodel, and Andy Kiang of Box will address the role of identity in API security and management at this year's 2012 Cloud Identity Summit. Taking place at Vail, Colorado's Cascade Resort, the summit explores the role of identity as the new perimeter and examines ways cloud computing, mobile device access and social networking are transforming business and IT."
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[You're going to laugh and cry if you read this!]
- Mike Desai: Cloud Computing Trends: A Look Back and A Look Forward
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- John Fontana: NSTIC's $2.5 million grant for oversight chief goes to SI
"NIST names system integrator Trusted Federal Systems to oversee the Steering Group that will build policies and guidelines for the National Strategies for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace initiative"
- Building Federated Search Capabilities for Homeland Security and Law Enforcement Partners
"To create this capability among the four SBU/CUI systems – FBI's Law Enforcement Online (LEO), the National Security Agency's (NSA) Intelink-U, Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN), and the Regional Information Sharing Systems' (RISS) RISSNET – a common framework, including data models and schemas, must first be developed. The project was initiated on October 1, 2011 and is scheduled to be completed by September, 30, 2012."
- Chris Maher: "Identity and Resilience": A Prescient Paper from the Early Days of the New Administration
"While this paper, "Identity and Resilience" has been somewhat overtaken by events (or is that... *validated* by events?), I remain enchanted by this particular excerpt. It speaks to the pivotal role that government MUST play in advancing a vendor neutral (or as I like to call it, "supra agora") framework. Further, it is equally applicable in the context of "machine identity" and the standards-based hardware root of trust that NIST is now promoting. "
- Facebook wants to be your online bank
"The social media giant is quietly supporting new services for banks that want to engage socially with their customers: The decidedly unsocial business of online banking."
- LevelUp declares payment war, kills interchange fee for merchants
"Every month, it seems players in the mobile payment market try to outdo each other, offering merchants a slightly lower transaction fee in a game of one-upmanship. LevelUp, a Boston-based loyalty and payment startup, has played that game to some extent, pushing down its fee to 2 percent. But now, it's laying down the gauntlet to competitors by doing away with processing fees forever in what it calls a bid to achieve "Interchange Zero.""
- Chirpify Uses Twitter to Compete in P2P Payments
"Chirpify's payment service connects to a user's PayPal account and enables a person to send payments to individuals or businesses by tweeting at the recipient's Twitter handle. PayPal is the only supported payment method for now, but Chirpify has much grander plans for the future."


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