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1. The Sneakers Zone is a Venue
The Sneakers Zone acts as a venue to allow users who comply with The Sneakers Zone policies to offer, sell and buy certain goods within a fixed-price format. The Sneakers is not directly involved in the transaction between buyers and sellers. As a result, The Sneakers Zone has no control over the quality, safety, morality or legality of any aspect of the items listed, the truth or accuracy of the listings, the ability of sellers to sell items or the ability of buyers to pay for items. The Sneakers Zone does not pre-screen users or the content or information provided by users. The Sneakers Zone cannot ensure that a buyer or seller will actually complete a transaction. Consequently, The Sneakers Zone does not transfer legal ownership of items from the seller to the buyer. The Sneakers Zone cannot guarantee the true identity, age, and nationality of a user. The Sneakers ZOne encourages you to communicate directly with potential transaction partners through the tools available on the Site. You may also wish to consider using a third-party escrow service or services that provide additional user verification. You agree that The Sneakers Zone is a venue. The Sneakers Zone shall provide you with the "Service" which is a proprietary Internet-based Software as a Service ("SAAS") system that facilitates the trade between sellers and buyers of product. And as such is not responsible or liable for any content, for example, data, text, information, usernames, graphics, images, photographs, profiles, audio, video, items, and links posted by you, other users, or outside parties on The Sneakers Zone. You use the The Sneakers Zone service at your own risk.
2. Membership Eligibility
Age: The Sneakers Zone services are available only to, and may only be used by, individuals who are 18 years and older who can form legally binding contracts under applicable law. You represent and warrant that you are at least 18 years old and that all registration information you submit is accurate and truthful. The Sneakers Zone may, in its sole discretion, refuse to offer access to or use of the Site to any person or entity and change its eligibility criteria at any time. This provision is void where prohibited by law and the right to access the Site is revoked in such jurisdictions. Individuals under the age of 18 must at all times use The Sneakers Zone services only in conjunction with and under the supervision of a parent or legal guardian who is at least 18 years of age. In this all cases, the adult is the user and is responsible for any and all activities. Compliance: You agree to comply with all local laws regarding online conduct and acceptable content. You are responsible for all applicable taxes. In addition, you must abide by The Sneakers Zone policies as stated in the Agreement and the The Sneakers Zone policy documents listed below (if applicable to your activities on or use of the Site) as well as all other operating rules, policies and procedures that may be published from time to time on the Site by The Sneakers Zone, each of which is incorporated herein by reference and each of which may be updated by The Sneakers Zone from time to time without notice to you: • The DOs & DON'Ts of The Sneakers Zone • Fees Policy • Privacy Policy • Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy • Trademark Guidelines • Direct Checkout Terms of Use • Gift Cards Terms of Use • Billing Policy • API Terms of Use In addition, some services offered through the Site may be subject to additional terms and conditions promulgated by The Sneakers Zone from time to time; your use of such services is subject to those additional terms and conditions, which are incorporated into this Agreement by this reference. Password: Keep your password secure. You are fully responsible for all activity, liability and damage resulting from your failure to maintain password confidentiality. You agree to immediately notify The Sneakers Zone of any unauthorized use of your password or any breach of security. You also agree that The Sneakers Zone cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to keep your password secure. You agree not to provide your username and password information in combination to any other party other than The Sneakers Zone without The Sneakers Zone express written permission. Account Information: You must keep your account information up-to-date and accurate at all times, including a valid email address. To sell items on The Sneakers Zone you must provide and maintain valid payment information such as valid credit card information and a valid PayPal account. Account Transfer: You may not transfer or sell your The Sneakers Zone account and User ID to another party. If you are registering as a business entity, you personally guarantee that you have the authority to bind the entity to this Agreement. Right to Refuse Service: The Sneakers Zone services are not available to temporarily or indefinitely suspended The Sneakers Zone members. The Sneakers Zone reserves the right, in The Sneakers Zone sole discretion, to cancel unconfirmed or inactive accounts. The Sneakers Zone reserves the right to refuse service to anyone, for any reason, at any time.
3. Fees and Billing
Joining and setting up a shop on The Sneakers Zone is free. The Sneakers Zone does not charge fees for listing an item for sale. We simply charge an 5% commission fee only when an item is sold. Changes to the Fees Policy and the fees for The Sneakers Zone services are effective after The Sneakers Zone provides you with at least fourteen (14) days' notice by posting the changes on the Site. However, The Sneakers Zone may choose to temporarily change the Fees Policy and the fees for The Sneakers Zone services for promotional events (for example, free listing days); such changes are effective when The Sneakers Zone posts the temporary promotional event on the Site. The Sneakers Zone may, at The Sneakers Zone sole discretion, change some or all of The Sneakers Zone services at any time. In the event The Sneakers Zone introduces a new service, the fees for that service are effective at the launch of the service. Unless otherwise stated, all fees are quoted in US Dollars (USD). In certain situations, including but not limited to a void or invalid transaction, The Sneakers Zone may issue a credit for the applicable fees to a seller's billing statement. You are responsible for paying all fees and applicable taxes associated with using The Sneakers Zone. The Sneakers Zone will send an invoice to the seller's email address on file detailing the amount due for the prior month's commissions. The seller must pay the amount due in full within 15 days of the date of the invoice, or the account will be considered past due. Fees and Termination: If The Sneakers Zone terminates a listing or your account, if you close your account, or if the payment of your The Sneakers Zone fees cannot be completed for any reason, you remain obligated to pay The Sneakers Zone for all unpaid fees plus any penalties, if applicable. If the seller's account is not paid in full and becomes past due, the seller risks penalties such as the suspension of privileges and/or termination of the account and other collection mechanisms (including retaining collection agencies and legal counsel). If you have a question or wish to dispute a charge, contact The Sneakers Zone.
4. Listing and Selling
Listing Description: By listing an item on the Site you warrant that you and all aspects of the item comply with The Sneakers Zone published policies. You also warrant that you may legally sell the item. You must accurately describe your item and all terms of sale in your The Sneakers Zone shop. Your listings may only include text descriptions, graphics, pictures and other content relevant to the sale of that item. All items must be listed in an appropriate category with appropriate tags. Each listing must accurately and completely describe the item/items for sale in that listing. If the "in stock" quantity is more than one, all items in that listing must be identical. Each unique item must have its own listing. Shop Policies: All sellers are urged to outline shop policies for their The Sneakers Zone shop. These policies may include, for example, shipping, returns, payment and selling policies. Sellers must create reasonable policies in good faith and must abide by such policies. All shop policies must comply with The Sneakers Zone site-wide policies. Sellers are responsible for enforcing their own reasonable shop policies. The Sneakers Zone reserves the right to request that a seller modify a shop policy. Binding Sale: All sales are binding. The seller is obligated to ship the order or otherwise complete the transaction with the buyer in a prompt manner, unless there is an exceptional circumstance, such as: (a) the buyer fails to meet the terms of the seller's listing (such as payment method), or (b) the seller cannot authenticate the buyer's identity. The buyer is obligated to deliver appropriate payment for items purchased, unless there is an exceptional circumstance. Fee Avoidance: The price stated in each item listing description must be an accurate representation of the sale. Sellers may charge reasonable shipping and handling fees to cover the costs for packaging and mailing the items. Sellers may not charge excessive shipping fees or otherwise avoid fees. You may not alter the item's price after a sale for the purpose of avoiding The Sneakers Zone transaction fees, misrepresent the item's location, or use another user's account without permission.
5. Prohibited, Questionable and Infringing Items and Activities
You are solely responsible for your conduct and activities on and regarding to The Sneakers Zone and any and all data, text, information, usernames, graphics, images, photographs, profiles, audio, video, items, and links (together, "Content") that you submit, post, and display on The Sneakers Zone. Restricted Activities. Your Content and your use of The Sneakers Zone shall not: 1. Be false, inaccurate or misleading 2. Be fraudulent or involve the sale of illegal, counterfeit or stolen items 3. Infringe upon any third-party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary or intellectual property rights or rights of publicity or privacy (see also, The Sneakers Zone Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy) 4. Contain items that have been identified by the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) as hazardous to consumers and therefore subject to a recall 5. Appear to create liability for The Sneakers Zone or cause The Sneakers Zone to lose (in whole or in part) the services of The Sneakers Zone ISPs or other suppliers 6. Be defamatory, trade libelous, unlawfully threatening, unlawfully harassing, impersonate or intimidate any person (including The Sneakers Zone staff or other users), or falsely state or otherwise misrepresent your affiliation with any person, through for example, the use of similar email address, nicknames, or creation of false account(s) or any other method or device 7. Be obscene or contain child pornography 8. Contain or transmit any code of a destructive nature that may damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept or expropriate any system, data or personal information 9. Host images not part of a listing 10. Modify, adapt or hack The Sneakers Zone or modify another website so as to falsely imply that it is associated with The Sneakers Zone; 11. Link directly or indirectly, reference or contain descriptions of goods or services that are prohibited under this Agreement, the Privacy Policy, or other policy documents as posted on The Sneakers Zone. Furthermore, you may not list any item on The Sneakers Zone (or consummate any transaction that was initiated using The Sneakers Zone service) that, by paying to The Sneakers Zone the commission fee, could cause The Sneakers Zone to violate any applicable law, statute, ordinance or regulation, or that violates the Terms of Use.
6. Content
License: The Sneakers Zone does not claim ownership rights in your Content. You grant The Sneakers Zone a license solely to enable The Sneakers Zone to use any information or Content you supply The Sneakers Zone with, so that The Sneakers Zone is not violating any rights you might have in that Content. You grant The Sneakers Zone a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sublicensable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise the copyright, publicity, and database rights (but no other rights) you have in the Content, in any media now known or not currently known, with respect to your Content. You agree to allow The Sneakers Zone to store or re-format your Content on The Sneakers Zone and display your Content on The Sneakers Zone in any way as The Sneakers Zone chooses. The Sneakers Zone will only use personal information in accordance with The Sneakers Zone Privacy Policy. As part of a transaction, you may obtain personal information, including email address and shipping information, from another The Sneakers Zone user. Without obtaining prior permission from the other user, this personal information shall only be used for that transaction or for The Sneakers Zone related communications. The Sneakers Zone has not granted you a license to use the information for unsolicited commercial messages. Without limiting the foregoing, without express consent from the user, you are not licensed to add any The Sneakers Zone user to your email or physical mail list. For more information, see The Sneakers Zone Privacy Policy. Re-Posting Content: By posting Content on The Sneakers Zone, it is possible for an outside website or a third party to re-post that Content. You agree to hold The Sneakers Zone harmless for any dispute concerning this use. If you choose to display your own The Sneakers Zone hosted image on another website, the image must provide a link back to its listing page on The Sneakers Zone. Idea Submissions: The Sneakers Zone considers any unsolicited suggestions, ideas, proposals or other material submitted to it by users via the Site or otherwise (other than the Content and the tangible items sold on the Site by users) (collectively, the "Material") to be non-confidential and non-proprietary, and The Sneakers Zone shall not be liable for the disclosure or use of such Material. If, at The Sneakers Zone request, any member sends Material to improve the site (for example through the Forums or to customer support), The Sneakers Zone will also consider that Material to be non-confidential and non-proprietary and The Sneakers Zone will not be liable for use or disclosure of the Material. Any communication by you to The Sneakers Zone is subject to this Agreement. You hereby grant and agree to grant The Sneakers Zone, under all of your rights in the Material, a worldwide, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, fully-paid, sublicensable and transferable right and license to incorporate, use, publish and exploit such Material for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, including but not limited to incorporating it in the API, documentation, or any product or service, without compensation or accounting to you and without further recourse by you.
7. Information Control
The Sneakers Zone does not control the Content provided by users that is made available on The Sneakers Zone. You may find some Content to be offensive, harmful, inaccurate, or deceptive. There are also risks of dealing with underage persons or people acting under false pretense. Additionally, there may also be risks dealing with international trade and foreign nationals. By using The Sneakers Zone, you agree to accept such risks and that The Sneakers Zone (and The Sneakers Zone officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures and employees) is not responsible for any and all acts or omissions of users on The Sneakers Zone. Please use caution, common sense, and practice safe buying and selling when using The Sneakers Zone. Other Resources: The Sneakers Zone is not responsible for the availability of outside websites or resources linked to or referenced on the Site. The Sneakers Zone does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any content, advertising, products, or other materials on or available from such websites or resources. You agree that The Sneakers Zone 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 the use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services available on or through any such websites or resources.
8. Meetings
Users may arrange and attend online virtual meetings or in-person meetings ("Meetings") with one or more individuals. Users are solely responsible for interactions with others. Users must comply with The Sneakers Zone policies and acknowledge and agree to comply with the laws of the city, county and country in which the Meeting occurs. Additional eligibility requirements for a particular group or Meeting may be set by the group's contact person. The Sneakers Zone is not involved with user generated groups, the groups' requirements, or the Meetings. The Sneakers Zone does not supervise or control the Meetings, user-initiated online or offline gatherings, or the interactions among and between users and other persons or companies. Users are solely responsible for interactions with others. Users understand that The Sneakers Zone does not in any way screen its users. All users agree to exercise caution and good judgment in all interactions with others, particularly if meeting offline or in person. Groups or User Fees: Some user-generated groups on The Sneakers Zone may require or request that users pay fees in order to be a member of the group, participate in a promotion, or participate in Meetings. The Sneakers Zone IS NOT INVOLVED IN THE TRANSACTIONS, THE PAYMENTS OR THEIR PROCESSING. THE PAYMENT DOES NOT GO TO The Sneakers Zone; THIS MONEY IS SEPARATE FROM ANY FEES OR CHARGES ASSESSED BY The Sneakers Zone, AND The Sneakers Zone HAS NO CONTROL OVER THE MONEY, THE USER-GENERATED GROUPS, PROMOTIONS, THE MEETINGS, OR THE LEADER OF THE GROUP IN CONNECTION WITH ITS USE. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT The Sneakers Zone IS NEITHER INVOLVED NOR A PARTY IN ANY PAYMENT, TRANSACTION OR INTERACTION BETWEEN OR AMONG USER-GENERATED GROUPS, The Sneakers Zone USERS AND/OR THIRD PARTIES (together a "Third Party Transaction"), AND THAT YOU BEAR ALL RISK IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR THIRD PARTY TRANSACTIONS. Users should use common sense and be careful in deciding whether to contribute money.
9. Resolution of Disputes and Release
In the event a dispute arises between you and The Sneakers Zone, please contact The Sneakers Zone. Any dispute arising from or relating to the subject matter of this Agreement shall be finally settled by arbitration in Howard County, Maryland, using the English language in accordance with the Arbitration Rules and Procedures of Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services, Inc. ("JAMS") then in effect, by one commercial arbitrator with substantial experience in resolving intellectual property and commercial contract disputes, who shall be selected from the appropriate list of JAMS arbitrators in accordance with the Arbitration Rules and Procedures of JAMS. The prevailing party in any arbitration or other proceeding arising under this Agreement shall be entitled to receive reimbursement of its reasonable expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees, expert witness fees and all other expenses) incurred in connection therewith. Judgment upon the award so rendered may be entered in a court having jurisdiction or application may be made to such court for judicial acceptance of any award and an order of enforcement, as the case may be. Notwithstanding the foregoing, each party shall have the right to institute an action in a court of proper jurisdiction for injunctive or other equitable relief pending a final decision by the arbitrator. For all purposes of this Agreement, the parties consent to exclusive jurisdiction and venue in the United States Federal Courts or state courts located in the Southern District of Maryland. Use of the Site is not authorized in any jurisdiction that does not give effect to all provisions of the Agreement, including without limitation, this section. You and The Sneakers Zone agree that any cause of action arising out of or related to the Site (including, but not limited to, any services provided or made available therein) or this Agreement must commence within one (1) year after the cause of action arose; otherwise, such cause of action is permanently barred. Should you have a dispute with one or more users, or an outside party, you release The Sneakers Zone (and The Sneakers Zone officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures and employees) from any and all claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown, suspected and unsuspected, disclosed and undisclosed, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes. The Sneakers Zone encourages users to report user-to-user disputes to your local law enforcement, postmaster general, or a certified mediation or arbitration entity, as applicable. The Sneakers Zone, for the benefit of users, may try to help users resolve disputes. The Sneakers Zone does so in The Sneakers Zone sole discretion, and The Sneakers Zone has no obligation to resolve disputes between users or between users and outside parties. To the extent that The Sneakers Zone attempts to resolve a dispute, The Sneakers Zone will do so in good faith based solely on The Sneakers Zone policies. The Sneakers Zone will not make judgments regarding legal issues or claims.
10. The Sneakers Zone Intellectual Property
The Sneakers Zone, and other The Sneakers Zone graphics, logos, designs, page headers, button icons, scripts, and service names are registered trademarks, trademarks or trade dress of TheSneakersZone.LLC LLC. in the U.S. and/or other countries. The Sneakers Zone trademarks and trade dress may not be used, including as part of trademarks and/or as part of domain names or email addresses, in connection with any product or service in any manner that is likely to cause confusion.
11. Access and Interference
The Sneakers Zone may contain robot exclusion headers which contain internal rules for software usage. Much of the information on The Sneakers Zone is updated on a real-time basis and is proprietary or is licensed to The Sneakers Zone by The Sneakers Zone users or third-parties. You agree that you will not use any robot, spider, scraper or other automated means to access The Sneakers Zone for any purpose whatsoever, except to the extent expressly permitted by and in compliance with The Sneakers Zone API Terms of Use or otherwise without The Sneakers Zone prior express written permission. Additionally, you agree that you will not: 1. Take any action that imposes, or may impose, in The Sneakers Zone sole discretion, an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on The Sneakers Zone infrastructure 2. Copy, reproduce, modify, create derivative works from, distribute or publicly display any user Content (except for your Content) or other allowed uses as set out in The DOs & DON'Ts of The Sneakers Zone from the Site except to the extent expressly permitted by and in compliance with The Sneakers Zone API Terms of Use or otherwise without the prior express written permission of The Sneakers Zone and the appropriate third party, as applicable 3. Interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Site or any activities conducted on the Site 4. Bypass The Sneakers Zone robot exclusion headers or other measures The Sneakers Zone may use to prevent or restrict access to The Sneakers Zone
12. Breach
Without limiting any other remedies, The Sneakers Zone may, without notice, and without refunding any fees, delay or immediately remove Content, warn The Sneakers Zone community of a user's actions, issue a warning to a user, temporarily suspend a user, temporarily or indefinitely suspend a user's account privileges, terminate a user's account, prohibit access to the Site, and take technical and legal steps to keep a user off the Site and refuse to provide services to a user if any of the following apply: The Sneakers Zone suspects (by information, investigation, conviction, settlement, insurance or escrow investigation, or otherwise) a user has breached this Agreement, the Privacy Policy, The DOs & DON'Ts of The Sneakers Zone, or other policy documents and community guidelines incorporated herein; The Sneakers Zone is unable to verify or authenticate any of your personal information or Content; or The Sneakers Zone believes that a user is acting inconsistently with the letter or spirit of The Sneakers Zone policies, has engaged in improper or fraudulent activity in connection with The Sneakers Zone or the actions may cause legal liability or financial loss to The Sneakers Zone users or to The Sneakers Zone.
13. Privacy
Except as provided in The Sneakers Zone Privacy Policy The Sneakers Zone will not sell or disclose your personal information (as defined in the Privacy Policy) to third parties without your explicit consent. The Sneakers Zone stores and processes Content on computers located in the United States that are protected by physical as well as technological security.
14. No Warranty
The Sneakers Zone, The Sneakers Zone SUBSIDIARIES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AND The Sneakers Zone SUPPLIERS PROVIDE The Sneakers Zone WEB SITE AND SERVICES "AS IS" AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OR CONDITION, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY. The Sneakers Zone, The Sneakers Zone SUBSIDIARIES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES AND The Sneakers Zone SUPPLIERS SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF TITLE, MERCHANTABILITY, PERFORMANCE, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN ADDITION, NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION (ORAL OR WRITTEN) OBTAINED BY YOU FROM The Sneakers Zone SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE DISCLAIMER OF IMPLIED WARRANTIES, SO THE FOREGOING DISCLAIMER MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. THIS WARRANTY GIVES YOU SPECIFIC LEGAL RIGHTS AND YOU MAY ALSO HAVE OTHER LEGAL RIGHTS THAT VARY FROM STATE TO STATE.
15. Liability Limit
IN NO EVENT SHALL The Sneakers Zone, AND (AS APPLICABLE) The Sneakers Zone SUBSIDIARIES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES OR The Sneakers Zone SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, WHETHER DIRECT, INDIRECT, GENERAL, SPECIAL, COMPENSATORY, CONSEQUENTIAL, AND/OR INCIDENTAL, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THE CONDUCT OF YOU OR ANYONE ELSE IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OF THE SITE, The Sneakers Zone SERVICES, OR THIS AGREEMENT, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, LOST PROFITS, BODILY INJURY, EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, OR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. The Sneakers Zone LIABILITY, AND (AS APPLICABLE) THE LIABILITY OF The Sneakers Zone SUBSIDIARIES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AND SUPPLIERS, TO YOU OR ANY THIRD PARTIES IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCE IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT OF FEES YOU PAY TO The Sneakers Zone IN THE 12 MONTHS PRIOR TO THE ACTION GIVING RISE TO LIABILITY, AND (B) $100. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.
YOU AGREE TO INDEMNIFY AND HOLD The Sneakers Zone AND (AS APPLICABLE) The Sneakers Zone PARENT, SUBSIDIARIES, AFFILIATES, OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, AGENTS, AND EMPLOYEES, HARMLESS FROM ANY CLAIM OR DEMAND, INCLUDING REASONABLE ATTORNEYS' FEES, MADE BY ANY THIRD PARTY DUE TO OR ARISING OUT OF YOUR BREACH OF THIS AGREEMENT OR THE DOCUMENTS IT INCORPORATES BY REFERENCE, OR YOUR VIOLATION OF ANY LAW OR THE RIGHTS OF A THIRD PARTY.
18. Legal Compliance; Taxes
You shall comply with all applicable domestic and international laws, statutes, ordinances and regulations regarding your use of the Site and any The Sneakers Zone service and, if applicable, your listing, purchase, solicitation of offers to purchase, and sale of items. In addition, you shall be responsible for paying any and all taxes applicable to any purchases or sales of items you make on the Site (excluding any taxes on The Sneakers Zone net income).
21. The Sneakers Zone Services
The Sneakers Zone reserves the right to modify or terminate the The Sneakers Zone service for any reason, without notice, at any time. The Sneakers Zone reserves the right to alter these Terms of Use or other Site policies at any time, so please review the policies frequently. If The Sneakers Zone makes a material change The Sneakers Zone will notify you here, by email, by means of a notice on our home page, or other places The Sneakers Zone deems appropriate. What constitutes a "material change" will be determined at The Sneakers Zone sole discretion, in good faith, and using common sense and reasonable judgment.
23. Survival
Sections 3 (Fees and Services, Fees and Termination), 6 (Content, License), 7 (Information Control), 8 (Meetings, Groups or User Fees), 9 (Resolution of Dispute and Release), 10 (The Sneakers Zone Intellectual Property), 11 (Access and Interference), 12 (Breach), 13 (Privacy), 14 (No Warranty), 15 (Liability Limit), 16 (Indemnity), 17 (No Guaranty), 19 (Severability), 20 (No Agency), 22 (Choice of Law) shall survive any termination or expiration of this Agreement.
24. Notices
Except as explicitly stated otherwise, any notices shall be given by postal mail to The Sneakers Zone; Attn: Legal Department; Box 137 Savage, Maryland 20763 (in the case of The Sneakers Zone) or, in your case, to the email address you provide to The Sneakers Zone (either during the registration process or when your email address changes). Notice shall be deemed given 24 hours after email is sent, unless the sending party is notified that the email address is invalid. Alternatively, The Sneakers Zone may give you notice by certified mail, postage prepaid and return receipt requested, to the address provided to The Sneakers Zone. In such case, notice shall be deemed given three days after the date of mailing. For issues with intellectual property, please provide the notice as specified in The Sneakers Zone Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy.
25. Disclosures
The services hereunder are offered by TheSneakersZone.LLC LLC., Po Box 137 Savage MD 20763. If you are a Maryland resident, you may have this same information emailed to you by sending a letter to the foregoing address with your email address and a request for this information. Effective Date: Jan 20, 2015 - Updated: Feb 5, 2020 The Sneakers Zone reserves the right to alter these policies at any time.


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Morning Minutes: Oct. 28
Word of the Day
Crural KRUR-ul (adj.) Of or relating to the thigh or leg; specifically femoral -- www.merriam-webster.com
Web Site of the Day
Halloween Games
Are you planning a Halloween party and need some ideas for games? This site will give you suggestions on how to entertain kids all the way up to adults. There's also a section of printable games, like crossword puzzles and word searches.
Number to Know
41: Percent of adults who say they sneak candy from their own trick-or-treat candy bowls, according to www.candyusa.com.
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Oct. 28, 1886: In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
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Gai Yang – Thai Grilled Chicken Recipe
Well, it's actually just a Gai Yang or Thai grilled chicken. But it does look mildly obscene, don't you agree? The poor innocent chicken is stripped bare and spread out in a rather immodest position for all the world to see. It's also quite immoderately delicious, and inordinately easy to do.
There's a term for this flatten-out chicken, it's called "spatchcock". To spatchcock, a chicken is to remove its backbone and flatten it out before cooking. I doubt the folks grilling the chickens on the street in Bangkok know the proper culinary term, but this is precisely how they do it over there. It makes things a whole lot easier to do a whole chicken on the grill. I also think that it normalizes cooking time so that the breasts, legs, and thighs finish cooking at about the same time. I've never had dried-out breasts and undercooked thighs when grilled like this over low fire.
This chicken got a Thai seasoning rubbed all over and let marinate for a bit. It doesn't take that long, really, just prepare the chicken before you set your barbecue afire. By the time the fire dies down enough to cook the chicken, the marinade will have done its job.
In Thailand, a grilled chicken like this is usually served with two sauces: one is often referred to as "grilled-chicken sauce", which is basically a sweetish chili sauce you can buy in a bottle, and the other is a Jaew sauce, which is basically this dressing I used in my Ugly Salad post last week. You can use either, or both, or none at all.
Gai Yang, Thai Grilled Chicken
- 5 cloves of garlic
- 2 stalks of lemongrass, use only up to about 3 inches from the root (optional)
- 1-2 tbsp of chopped cilantro roots or the bottom part of cilantro stalks
- 1/2 tbsp white and black peppercorns
- 2 tbsp oyster sauce
- 1/4 cup fish sauce
- 3 tbsp canola oil or other mild-tasting cooking oil
- 1 tsp turmeric powder (or curry powder if that's all you have)
- a dash of rice vinegar
Peel and finely chop the garlic. Peel the tough outer part of the lemongrass, discard everything but the inner stalks, about three inches from the root. Finely chop the lemongrass.
In a mortar or food processor, pound (or process) the garlic, lemongrass, cilantro roots, and peppercorns together. In Thailand, we use only white peppercorns, but I like to mix a few black peppercorns in it as well. You can do as you wish, or as your kitchen pantry dictates. Work everything together into a fine paste.
Add the oyster sauce, fish sauce, oil, turmeric powder, and rice vinegar into the mortar and mix well. You might need to take the paste from the mortar into a bowl before doing this, depending on the size of your mortar.
Spatchcock your chicken. The only thing I suggest differently is to use a kitchen sheer instead of a knife to cut off the backbone–much easier that way, trust me.
Place your spatchcocked chicken on a large serving platter and massage the marinade paste all over that baby. Let chicken rest while you go take care of the fire. Let the fire dies down to almost ember before you place the chicken on the barbecue. You want to do this on a very low fire or your chicken will burn before it's fully cooked.
Grill the chicken, basting a few times with the remaining marinade until done. Serve with a chicken sauce or Jaew sauce.


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Does anyone have an example or link that shows the correct way to write up the "the paper work" for a database application? I've completed an application for a class project and now I need to write up an explaination of the application. Since I've never done this I'm not sure of what the professional style. What I have so far is:
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LONDON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - The former London home of Charles Dickens reopened on Monday, after an eight-month, 3.1 million-pound ($5 million) refurbishment celebrating the author's bicentenary.
Dickens lived at 48 Doughty Street in central London with his family between 1837 and 1839. There, in his mid-20s, he wrote "Oliver Twist" and "Nicholas Nickleby", novels that made him a rising literary star.
The four-storey brick row house was restored to its early Victorian splendour to feel less like a museum and more atmospheric, museum director Florian Schweizer told Reuters.
"We wanted to recreate it like a home, so visitors could feel like they're actually visiting Charles Dickens and that he might step back in at any time," Schweizer said.
Inaugurated in 1925, the museum is the author's only surviving London house. Its redesign, largely funded through the Heritage Lottery Fund, comes in the year marking the 200th anniversary of Dickens's birth in Portsmouth, Hampshire, and opens the house's kitchen and attic to the public for the first time.
Visitors are guided through the dimly lit home not by museum signage on the walls but painted silhouettes of a young Dickens, with long hair and no beard, challenging the mainstream image of "the older Dickens", said Schweizer.
They can tour the writer's dining room, wine cellar ("Dickens loved his booze"), bedroom and study. There, surrounded by ceiling-high bookshelves, stands the author's original desk, where he finished "The Pickwick Papers" and dreamed up the characters of Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby.
"He could have just been a one-novel sensation, but it was here that he built on that first reputation made with The Pickwick Papers, and by the time he moved out it was pretty clear he was there to stay," Schweizer said, noting the house had an "inspirational" dimension, especially for young visitors.
"It's the beginning of a career - that makes it special."
Dickens lived in the house with his wife Catherine, the eldest three of their 10 children and his sister-in-law Mary.
Mary died in the house at age 17, a heartbreaking episode which left Dickens incapable of writing for weeks and inspired many of the angelic heroines and heroes in his novels.
The bedroom she died in is a space to reflect on the author's relationship with death and displays extremely rare photographs of the 1865 railway accident in Staplehurst, Kent, which Dickens survived with his young mistress Ellen Ternan.
This "more evocative, more immersive" version of the 87-year-old museum will offer guided costumed tours and workshops for school groups, Schweizer said.
The museum has also expanded into neighbouring 49 Doughty Street, which has been transformed into a learning centre to accommodate school trips and improve access for the disabled.
It features, until February, costumes from the recent film adaptation of Dickens' novel "Great Expectations", including that of Abel Magwitch, played by Ralph Fiennes, and Miss Havisham, played by Helena Bonham Carter.
The Charles Dickens Museum has so far welcomed about 30,000 visitors per year, with almost half coming from overseas, and numbers are expected to rise to 45,000 in 2013.
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Auto Bits: Could compact pickup trucks have a future in America?
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There are no longer any compact pickups in the U.S. market. The new 2019 Ford Ranger and its peers are all larger mid-sized trucks. Could automakers be missing a golden opportunity?
Americans like trucks. They buy them in great numbers for use in businesses and as personal and family vehicles. Toyota is one of the few manufacturers who has consistently offered a smaller than full-size truck over the past decades.
However, even Toyota's top-selling midsize truck, the Tacoma, is significantly larger than the entry-level small trucks of the past. It's also much more expensive. The 1990 Toyota pickup (it didn't have a model name) had an MSRP of $7,998. Adjusted for inflation, that's about $16K today. A new 2018 Tacoma starts at $25,400. Mitsubishi was selling its Mighty Max pickup for about $500 less than Toyota's pickup, but dealers were offering bare-bones Mighty Max Pickups for around $7,000.
The inflation adjusted price doesn't tell the whole story, of course. In 1990, some bare bones trucks were so stripped you needed to buy your own rear bumper. A 2018 Tacoma comes with power windows, power steering, power locks, air conditioning, a decent radio with Bluetooth connectivity and a four-way adjustable power seat with lumbar support as standard equipment. So when you adjust for inflation, a similarly equipped truck from the 1990s is pretty close to what you'd pay for a 2018 edition. But at the end of the day, $25,000 is still a lot of money to finance.
Small pickups have many of the same advantages of large pickups. During the time of their sale, landscapers, construction companies and other businesses, large and small, used them as runabouts, parts and supplies chasers, and to get workers to job sites throughout the day. These small trucks had advantages small cars didn't. You can't load mulch or grass clippings into the back of a small car, but small pickups could handle that with ease. They were also great for moving items like refrigerators and other large bulky items.
With Ford and other "domestic" brands struggling to find a way to cost-effectively produce entry-level vehicles, compact trucks may be one way to continue to offer domestically-produced affordable entry vehicles. Unlike small imported cars, small imported trucks are protected by a 55-year old 25 percent import duty imposed by President Johnson.
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The car company recommends owners of affected vehicles install car seats using the vehicle's rear seat belts and not the LATCH bars until the recall repair is performed by a Cadillac dealer.
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This is when a decision is due on whether the US will complain to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that China is allegedly violating global trade rules by illegally subsidising its clean-technology sector - especially the wind industry.
In November, US President Barack Obama chided China, saying it should stick to global rules - a reference to allegations that China is manipulating its currency, which affects China's exports and imports including wind components. "We do want to make sure that everybody is operating with an international framework and sets of rules in which countries recognise their responsibilities to each other," Obama said.
Responding to the probe by the US Trade Representative (USTR), China said there could be repercussions if the case was taken to the WTO. China's top energy official, Zhang Guobao, warned harshly that Washington cannot win this trade fight. Zhang also said the US was playing election-season politics, that it subsidises its own clean-technology industries more than China does and that its real problem is its own flagging economy.
Post election, US energy minister Steven Chu pointed out that US subsidies are open to all industries, adding that China should reciprocate and help foreign manufacturers who want to set up in its country.
Chinese officials told the official press agency Xinhua they will slightly reduce quotas for rare-earth metals in 2011. This is in addition to having already slashed quotas this year by around 40% from 2009 levels.
China controls 97% of the world supply of rare-earth metals, which are used in permanent-magnet generators (PMGs), to make next-generation wind turbines more reliable. PMGs are likely to be installed in 15% to 25% of turbines by 2013-14.
Energy independence
The US political scene changed dramatically following the November midterm elections, with Republicans controlling the House of Representatives and Democrats holding the upper house, the Senate, by a whisker. While trade issues cross party lines, US energy independence and green jobs will supersede climate change and emissions trading as the green issues of the day. This will only add to the chill of the cold war.
A sense of the US's anti-China tone was evident in recent political advertisements by the National Republican Congressional Committee aired on TV and YouTube. In one example, Democratic incumbent Baron Hill of Indiana - who was later defeated - is accused of supporting President Obama's "failed $800 billion stimulus package that created renewable energy jobs in China". The slick cartoon ad closes with upraised fists in the style of Red China political adverts. This was more vehement than the usual rhetoric against China that escalates pre-election.
Even the Nobel laureate and economist Paul Krugman, in the staid New York Times, recently slammed China over rare-earth metals, trade and Chinese "state subsidies that help firms gain key contracts, (and) the pressure on foreign companies to move production to China". He accused China of waging economic warfare on the slightest provocation and being "a rogue economic superpower, unwilling to play by the rules".
Chinese rhetoric has been equally dramatic, in part for domestic political consumption. A senior Chinese official accused the US United Steelworkers, which prompted the USTR probe, of fabricating some of the information in its 5,800-page petition. And at the global climate meet in Tianjing in October, China's lead negotiator, Su Wei, called the US a hypocritical "pig preening itself in a mirror". China is now accusing the US of manipulating its currency through the US Federal Reserve's recent plan to buy $600 billion in Treasury bonds to stimulate the US economy.
Yet underlying the war of rhetoric is a real change in US-Sino trade relations. About five years ago, Chinese leaders started focusing more on state intervention and short-term economic growth rather than on opening up the economy globally, according to Bill Reinsch, president of the Washington-based National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC), which promotes US trade. China's political shift means there is a greater focus on subsidising domestic industries and - especially in clean technology - on extracting technology from foreign companies than casting them aside, he says. NFTC members include wind giants such as GE, Siemens and UTC.
Even so, much of the cold war over rare-earth metals is "hysteria", says Gareth Hatch of Technology Metals Research. "The words that come out of the mouths of politicians bear little relation to the facts on the ground," he says. "There is much wailing and gnashing of teeth." For example, China is indeed reducing export quotas, he notes, but politicians and much of the media are ignoring that there are 251 companies outside China involved in mining and exploring rare-earth metals.


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My country, the United States of America, is teetering on the brink of plutocracy. Our current President, a clever but ignorant aspiring autocrat, feeds the racist and misogynist proclivities of a minority demographic on a daily basis. I'm tempted to qualify these statements in detail, but fellow blogger Gronda Morin already has.
'Good' and 'evil' are relative terms. I see 'good' as that which advances the growth of the spirit, and 'evil' as that which subverts it. Manipulating the bigotry of others to suit one's own purposes falls under the latter. I'm ever reminded of this quote attributed to Edmund Burke:
My country has awakened to the dangers of apathy, as evidenced by the plethora of activism across the nation. We have to keep our thumb on the pulse of current affairs, but we must not feed the beast of bigotry. I'm focusing my energy on the change I wish to see. My eyes are open, as my heart has always been.
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Max Boot: President Trump Has Been Working To Normalize Racism
As a former republican until 2016, I have become painfully aware that there is a racist living in the white House but President Donald Trump could never have been elected without the help and support of the current republican party which created the environment to guarantee his success.
In 2013, I had started to become painfully aware of a strain of racism that had permeated the republican party to where I finally left it in 2016. It started with the Trayvon Martin case. Too many in my former party (2012-2013) were propping up as a hero the likes of a bum, George Zimmerman. Then there was the demonizing of Trayvon Martin as a pot smoking thug when he was just a kid walking home from a store. When George Zimmerman was declared "not guilty" by a Florida jury, a Pew poll indicated that the vast majority White older republicans favored this vote. This was my wake-up call.
Along came the democrat President Barack Obama (2008-2016). I can't tell you how many times I've had to push back on fellow republicans when they would spout their talking points, like President Obama was a Muslim, born in Kenya and not really an American. With rare occasions, did "we the people" hear FOX TV folks, and/ or republican leaders/ lawmakers out-rightly and firmly denouncing this talk?
I recall one example when Senator John McCain was running for the presidency in 2002 when he graciously corrected a woman in his audience who referred to President Obama as a Muslim who hates the USA.


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Mariners-A's postponed because of soggy field
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Mariners manager Lloyd McClendon walked toward shortstop and his right foot sunk some two inches, causing him to turn his right ankle. That was minor, yet everybody involved in the postponed game between the Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics on Friday night feared the worst if they had tried to play on a rain-soaked field.
Even the umpiring crew deemed the conditions too dangerous. McClendon had his doubts the field could be ready for a 1:05 p.m. first pitch Saturday.
"That's probably the worst conditions I've seen in all my years in baseball. It's not safe," McClendon said. "It was just a safety issue more than anything. They made the right decision."
David Rinetti, A's vice president of stadium operations, said the tarp was kept off the field overnight in an effort to let it dry out after a week of heavy rains in the drought-starved Bay Area but an unexpected downpour caused further problems and the grounds crew worked tirelessly on the infield dirt from 7 a.m. until the game was called about the time of scheduled first pitch at 7:05 p.m. A delay had previously been announced.
"Unfortunate misinterpretation of the forecast," Oakland general manager Billy Beane said.
The A's use a weather consultant to help make decisions during the wet weather and regarding use of the tarp. Rinetti said one-third of an inch of rain hit the area and the infield was under water when officials arrived Friday. The tarp went back on at about 4:35 p.m. when a steady rain began again.
"Over the last week we've had probably more rain at the facility than we've had as long as I've been here, which is many, many years," Rinetti said. "The field has taken a significant hit all week, and we've been working with a weather consultant get as much up to date information as possible. We had information last night that there was going to be a break in the storm. And because of that we wanted to use that opportunity to help dry out the field. Unfortunately we were wrong on the amount of rain, and we got about a third of an inch of rain last night."
Players on both sides decided to play one game Saturday afternoon rather than a split doubleheader, which will be played later. Felix Hernandez (1-0) will start as scheduled for Seattle against Dan Straily, who had been set to go Friday in his season debut.
"Prepare to pitch tomorrow," Hernandez said. "That happens."
Mariners athletic trainer Rick Griffin recalled a time in Chicago in the late 90s when Seattle played on a soggy field and lost one player to a groin injury and another to a pulled hamstring, prompting manager Lou Piniella to tell everyone, "Nobody run hard," Griffin said, quoting the former skipper.
This marked Oakland's third weather-related game to be called off in seven days after the preseason Bay Bridge finale against the Giants was canceled last Saturday. Tuesday's game was also postponed by rain and made up Wednesday as part of a day-night doubleheader.
For the Mariners, it was another strange visit to the rundown Oakland Coliseum.
Last June 16, a clogged pipe caused a sewage backup and flooding on the bottom floor of the ballpark that sent the Mariners and A's scrambling around in towels. They headed for higher ground, to shower in the Oakland Raiders' locker room.
A hazmat crew inspected the affected areas for E-coli and a huge cleanup operation ensued — including the installation of new carpeting and the removal of some lockers in the visiting clubhouse to repair water-damaged walls with new sheet rock and wooden supports. In addition, new drywall was put in about a foot above the floor.
New cabinets were needed in the visiting training room, and a new dining table and vanity in the nearby umpires' room.
Seattle GM Jack Zduriencik considers the incidents separate. He is more concerned with playing baseball.
"It's a dated facility, what can you say?" Zduriencik said. "It's unusual. Very unusual. But they just didn't get the tarp down is what they said. They couldn't get the field ready. We'll see what happens. They said they'll work on it all night and what that means, we'll have to see. But they have a lot of work to do to get it ready."


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Some chocolates and candies are always there. It's a comforting feeling to know you can have them whenever, like ice cream. Other pieces are ephemeral, but give great joy for the moments they cross our path. Artisan Easter bunnies, for example, and other seasonal specials.
The latter is the case with John & Kira's Fig Pumpkin Bonbons, perhaps the most charming treat of the fall season. Fragile calabacita figs from Spain are filled with a delectable whiskey clove ganache by John & Kira, masters of the spiced ganache. They are then dipped in a thin layer of white chocolate that tinted a perfect shade of orange. The net result: sweet little pumpkins, not even an inch and a half in diameter—precious, but not too precious to savor in two bites.
Each flavor is clearly articulated: fig, whiskey, ganache, white chocolate. With just twelve precious pumpkins in a box, it would be easy to treat oneself to one per night, as a post-prandial or bedtime treat. But there are other fine purposes to consider:
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Amid all the attention, bugs, and work happening at Healthcare.gov in light of the Affordable Care Act, potential registrants talking to phone support today have been told that all user passwords are being reset to help address the site's login woes. And the tech supports behind Healthcare.gov will be asking more users to act in the name of fixing the site, too. According to registrants speaking with Ars, individuals whose logins never made it to the site's database will have to re-register using a different username, as their previously chosen names are now stuck in authentication limbo.
The website for the Affordable Care Act (aka "Obamacare") launched just last week. With all the scrutiny and debate happening, if ever there was a website launch that was "too big to fail," this was it. So, of course, it did—depending on how you define "failure." The inability of Obamacare portals to keep up with the traffic demands initially put upon them has been seized by politicians and conservative pundits as evidence that Obamacare "is not ready for prime time" in the words of Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah). Now, a week later, the site appears to be stabilizing, with waiting times dropping dramatically for those who haven't been able to register before.
A test of the site this morning had me waiting four minutes to get to the signup page; others got on instantly. But problems persist beyond the front door. The contractors responsible for the exchange—CGI Federal for the website itself, Quality Software Systems Inc. (QSSI) for the information "hub" that determines eligibility for programs and provides the data on qualified insurance plans, and Booz Allen for enrollment and eligibility technical support—are scrambling to deploy more fixes. Technical support call center operators continue to handle an onslaught of calls from users who can't get back into the system after registering.
In addition to would-be Healthcare.gov registrants notifying Ars about the password reset and login limbos, Ars learned that changes made to profiles already within the system may not be saved either—a problem that is only indicated by a very non-descriptive error message.
Ars attempted to contact the contractors with Healthcare.gov but did not receive a response as of this writing.
Three years is not enough
CGI has had some experience with these exchanges in the past. It built the Web portal for Massachusetts' "Romneycare" and is building exchanges for a number of other states. So with that experience behind them, why, with three years to prepare, did these sites have such a rough first week?
Those familiar with how Federal IT projects usually roll will suggest an alternative question: with three years to prepare a system that is expected to cost $683.81 million—and much of that preparation being bureaucratic haggling over the rules for its operation—how did the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and CGI manage to get anything up at all?
Federal IT projects are infamous for blowing out the "iron triangle" of project management—cost, scope, and schedule. Healthcare.gov hits all three sides of the triangle. Because of the legislative mandate for Healthcare.gov and its state-run cohorts, the project was handed a massive scope. With Congress eager to cut its throat, the program has been highly budget-sensitive. And with a hard deadline of October 1 and a heavy up-front regulatory process required to create the specifications for the portal, three years was a very tight deadline.
Based on the Federal IT Dashboard, which tracks the project status and risk for most of the federal government's major IT programs, it would appear that HHS and the Obama Administration were relatively confident that the exchange sites would launch on time. However, they were less confident about it coming in under budget. Known as the "CMS CCIIO Healthcare Insurance Exchange IT Investment," the program was assigned a "medium risk" evaluation (A "3" on a scale of 5) at the end of July. That rating wasn't because there was concern about the schedule. Instead, the risk rating was assigned because HHS' Chief Information Officer Frank Baitman was concerned about potential cost overruns for the website implementation.
There were even earlier causes for concern. Back in March, concerns about the funding levels for the program prompted Baitman and HHS management to rate the program as "high risk"—giving it a score of 1 out of 5. In June, the Government Accountability Office, the nonpartisan auditing body that provides oversight reports to Congress, said that it was still a crapshoot as to whether the system would work on time. This uncertainty persisted because the hub being built by QSSI still hadn't been completely tested (the hub is responsible for making automated decisions about eligibility). While the policies to govern how the hub works—and how various state systems were supposed to work—had been completed, there was still a lot of code to be written to make those policies into an actual system.
All of that pushed the development of the system closer and closer to the deadline. As one reddit user posted when the site ran into trouble on October 1, "My wife works on this project but not as a developer. Last night she said, 'I have no idea how the site is going to go live tomorrow.'"
Garbage in, garbage out
The result of the headlong rush to October 1 was a system that had never been tested at anything like the load it experienced on its first day of operation (if it was tested with loads at all). Those looking for a reason for the site's horrible performance on its first day had plenty of things to choose from.
First of all, there's the front-end site itself. The first page of the registration process (once you get to it) has 2,099 lines of HTML code, but it also calls 56 JavaScript files and 11 CSS files. That's not exactly optimal for heavy-load pages.
Navigating the site once you get past registration is something of a cheese chase through the rat-maze. "It's like a bad, boring video game where you try to grunt and hack your way through to the next step," one site user told Ars.
Once you get through all that, it's not clear that it's going to do you any good. Underlying problems in the back-end code—including the data hub built by QSSI—have been causing errors in determining whether individuals are eligible for subsidized plans under the program. In DC, that means health care plan prices won't be available to people registering through DC's portal until November. It may also mean that others who have registered already at the federal and state exchanges may get sticker shock later.
Occasional Ars collaborator Jason Levitt contributed to this report.


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Texas homicide suspect caught after police chase
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BELLE PLAINE — Kansas authorities say a suspect in at Texas homicide is hospitalized in Wichita with critical injuries and burns after a police pursuit in south-central Kansas.
Kansas Turnpike Authority Lt. John Lehnherr says a trooper saw a vehicle driven by 27-year-old Anthony Ford heading south on the turnpike Thursday near Belle Plaine.
Ford is a suspect in the stabbing death of a 23-year-old woman in Mansfield, Texas, on Sunday.
When troopers tried to stop Ford's vehicle near Wellington, the driver fled. The chase reached speeds of 110 to 120 mph before Ford's vehicle left the road, flipped onto its top and caught fire. Ford is under guard at a Wichita hospital while being treated for his injuries.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton's upcoming book will be called "Hard Choices," a title that reflects how the potential 2016 presidential candidate may try to define her record as President Barack Obama's secretary of state while she considers another White House campaign.
Publisher Simon & Schuster said Friday the new book, to be released June 10, will offer Clinton's "inside account of the crises, choices and challenges" she faced as secretary of state and "how those experiences drive her view of the future."
"All of us face hard choices in our lives," Clinton writes at the start of the book, according to the publisher. "Life is about making these choices, and how we handle them shapes the people we become."
Clinton's State Department memoir will hit bookshelves as the former first lady and New York senator sits atop polls about hypothetical candidates as the leading Democratic contender should she seek the presidency. Since leaving the State Department, Clinton has traveled widely, giving speeches to industry groups, college students and others while joining the foundation led by her daughter, Chelsea Clinton, and her husband, former President Bill Clinton.
Clinton's potential candidacy has been eagerly anticipated by Democrats, who frequently ask Clinton about her intentions and encourage her to try to become the nation's first female president. A series of Democratic outside groups is already building support for a future campaign, and Republicans are actively critiquing her record.
Republicans have criticized Clinton's response to the killing of four Americans in the 2012 attacks on a diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, and questioned her handling of relations with Russia. In 2009, Clinton memorably gave Russia's top diplomat a red button labeled, "reset," to symbolize how U.S. relations had thawed, but the button was mistranslated into Russian. In the aftermath of Russia's bold annexation of Ukraine's strategic Crimean peninsula, Republicans have suggested it represented a naiveté.
Simon & Schuster said on a website promoting the book that Clinton and Obama "had to decide how to repair fractured alliances, wind down two wars, and address a global financial crisis. They faced a rising competitor in China, growing threats from Iran and North Korea, and revolutions across the Middle East."
"Along the way, they grappled with some of the toughest dilemmas of US foreign policy, especially the decision to send Americans into harm's way, from Afghanistan to Libya to the hunt for Osama bin Laden," the publisher said.
The book will chronicle Clinton's travel to 112 countries and nearly 1 million miles as secretary of state and "offers her views on what it will take for the United States to compete and thrive in an interdependent world. She makes a passionate case for human rights and the full participation in society of women, youth and LGBT people."
Clinton will also "offer readers a master class in international relations, as does her analysis of how we can best use "smart power" to deliver security and prosperity in a rapidly changing world — one in which America remains the indispensable nation."
Clinton is already a publishing powerhouse: Her 2003 memoir, "Living History," sold more than a million copies, and her new book's release is expected to include a publicity tour with stops around the country. The new book is expected to play an important role in shaping her legacy and setting up a White House bid if she chooses to run.
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Togo's Eateries, a "West Coast Original" since 1971, announced a royalty incentive for new multiunit franchise agreements. Franchisees who sign a new deal for three or more locations will receive reduced royalty fees for the first two years for each new restaurant.
Franchisees will pay a 3 percent royalty during the first year of operation, followed by 4 percent in year two and 5 percent in the third year and beyond.
The royalty incentive will allow franchisees to invest additional funds into local marketing to help grow sales at each new restaurant.
The brand is targeting new market growth in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Nevada, and Arizona. The new incentive only applies to development agreements within these seven states.
"As part of Togo's plan to grow the brand to 400 restaurants along the West Coast, we're offering an attractive incentive to encourage multiunit development and introduce our big, fresh, meaty sandwiches to guests in new markets," says Tony Gioia, chairman and CEO of Togo's Holdings. "Through reduced royalties, franchisees can invest more dollars into local marketing, allowing them to connect with even more guests and raving fans of the brand."
Togo's, which has experienced 12 consecutive quarters of same-store sales increases, is seeking qualified multiunit franchisees that have a passion for the brand and deep connection to their community.
Both new and existing Togo's franchisees will benefit from $10 million for remodels and transfers, as well as $5 million to build new restaurants in the state.
At Togo's, traditional restaurants experienced average unit sales in excess of $633,000, with 50 percent averaging more than $799,000 and 25 percent averaging more than $930,000.
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Happy Saint Patrick's Day…
"Scaffolding" by Seamus Heaney
Masons, when they start upon a building,
Are careful to test out the scaffolding;
Make sure that planks won't slip at busy points,
Secure all ladders, tighten bolted joints.
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For only the second time in its history, a Kentucky legislative committee will issue subpoenas...This time over Medicaid managed care and locally-owned pharmacies.The Program Review and Investigations Committee voted today to authorize subpoenas to Kentucky's three new managed care providers over reimbursement rates to independent pharmacies. Passport, based in Louisville, is exempt from the subpoena.At its weekly meeting, the committee heard testimony from independent pharmacy owners who said two managed care providers were squeezing them too tight by drastically cutting reimbursements. It is believed that Passport and Kentucky Spirit are not the two providers referenced. Even so, Kentucky Spirit will be sent a subpoena to testify.Rosemary Smith, a pharmacy owner in Eastern Kentucky, said providers are reaping their savings off the backs of independent pharmacies. And if it continues, Smith says those small and mostly-rural pharmacies will be forced to close."The state is right on the verge of losing independent pharmacies at an alarming rate," Smith said. "There is no more meat to trim from independent pharmacy. We are dying."Smith said other locally-owned health organizations were unhappy with the switch to managed care. But that none of them were hit as hard as pharmacies were."I've spoken with other local health providers and while they have felt the effects of the switch to managed care, they have been kept relatively intact," Smith said. "Why is the state allowing us to take the main brunt of the cuts?"Many lawmakers were upset over the testimony Smith gave. And they said they must introduce legislation to fix the major problems managed care has caused. State Representative John Will Stacy says if things don't change, rural areas will be without local pharmacies."There will not be a dozen, there will not be a hundred," Stacy said. "There'll be hundreds of these small pharmacies that'll be gone."Neville Wise, the state Medicaid commissioner, says the Cabinet for Health and Family Services is trying to broker deals between the operators and pharmacies. But apparently it's not enough for the committee.The committee is drafting the wording of the subpoena immediately and hopes to serve it in a few days. Lawmakers said they must fix problems with Medicaid managed care before the end of the 2012 session or risk have enormous holes in health providers for Medicaid.


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AppSuite:OX Mail App
- 2 OX Mail v2
- 3 Pricing, Availability and Branding
- 4 Download & Installation
- 5 Setup and Configuration
- 6 Known Limitations
OX Mail v2
The OX Mail v2 is a companion app for OX App Suite, and brings the power of OX App Suite web-based email to your customers' mobile devices. The OX Mail v2 is a native app designed specifically for Android and iOS smartphones and tablets.
With a focus on security and user-experience, OX Mail v2 serves all your email needs on the go. Most notably you can answer and process mails even when you are offline, mails are synced when you go online. For completing addresses, OX Mail v2 uses the address book of the device along with all received and sent mails. When you have deleted an email by accident, you can easily undo that. Furthermore OX Mail v2 provides a list of known features such as pushing new emails onto your device, supporting mail folders, handling attachments, showing the number of unread email, and so on.
Key Benefits
- Available for iOS and Android on both mobile and tablet devices.
- Quick and easy onboarding.
- Incoming emails are displayed instantly. Get notified about new mails instantly, depending the configuration of your server
- Glimpse at messages with the help of teaser texts.
- User-friendly, due to native design, with state of the art gestures.
- Offline capable – answer and manage previously read emails offline. Everything is synchronized once you are online again.
- Privacy features such as certificate pinning (Android only), securely stored credentials, securely stored email bodies, securely stored attachments and integration with Dovecot Anti-Abuse Shield.
This app is brought to you by Open-Xchange. You can choose between using our OX-branded app as part of your OX App Suite license or to order a version that is adapted to your brand and published under your name.
To use OX Mail v2 you need to be running OX App Suite v7.8.4 or above together with the new Mobile API Facade. The Facade module provides an API optimized for mobile use-cases.
OX App Suite v7.8.4
OX App Suite is a modular platform designed for Telcos, Hosters, and other Service Providers and delivers a wide range of cloud-based services. These include email, file sharing, collaborative document editing, document management, time management, cloud storage and metrics for monitoring end-user behavior. More information can be found at https://www.open-xchange.com/portfolio/whats-new/
The OX Mail v2 app requires at least OX App Suite version 7.8.4-rev22.
Mobile API Facade
The Mobile API Facade is a server component that brings the new native mobile mail apps together with the OX App Suite. We've built the facade based on the technology used and proven in the OX App Suite middleware. The facade is developed in Java, utilizing the OSGIFramework. Further information can be found at: http://oxpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=AppSuite:Mobile_API_Facade.
The communication between the OX Mail v2 app and its end points needs to be secured with TLS 1.2. Please make sure that your infrastructure is capable of handling TLS 1.2 HTTP requests without downgrading the connection.
Pricing, Availability and Branding
OX Mail v2 Availability
OX Mail will be available in May 2018.
Users will be able to download their respective client for their device from the corresponding app store free of charge. The availability of the various clients depends on the approval process of the store provider. Clients for iOS and Android will be made available from the App Store and Google Play. The availability of the various clients will be confirmed by Open-Xchange via the usual communication channels.
Please message firstname.lastname@example.com, or contact Open-Xchange Sales, for more information and pricing details about OX Mail v2.
OX Mail v1 Availability
In accordance with the supported platform policy, Open-Xchange will discontinue maintenance and support for OX Mail v1.0 by end of Q1 2018. Existing customers with OX Mail v1.0 in their portfolio, please contact Open-Xchange Sales or send a mail to email@example.com for further information.
There is no direct upgrade path for end users from the previous version of OX Mail to the latest. The OX Mail v1 is an online client and does not store anything locally. Therefore all email data is stored in App Suite and is immediately available in the OX Mail v2.
One exception is the custom signature. It is stored in the App Suite but is not used by the OX Mail v2. The custom signature is therefore not lost, but also not accessible anymore.
Branding for Partners and Customers
With OX Mail v2 it is possible for customers and partners to request the addition, and change, of a variety of branding elements in the app. This includes changing colors, graphical assets and icons.
For more information about branding, the cost of this service and what can be done please message firstname.lastname@example.com, or contact Open-Xchange Sales.
Download & Installation
Installation of the Clients
The OX Mail v2 is available via the different App Stores for iOS and Android:
- OX Mail v2 in Apple App Store
- OX Mail v2 in GooglePlay
Installation of Mobile API Facade
Installation Guide and configuration options can be found under: http://oxpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=AppSuite:Mobile_API_Facade
Download & Installation of Packages
OX Mail v2 is available with the following backend packages:
- mobile-api-facade-restricted - The Mobile Api Facade bundle for Push Notification Service
Installation on the server varies depending on the underlying distribution, details are available in the following chapters.
Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 or CentOS 6
Add the following repositories to your Open-Xchange yum configuration:
[open-xchange-mobile-api-facade-restricted] name=Open-Xchange-mobile-api-facade-restricted baseurl=https://[CUSTOMERID:PASSWORD]@software.open-xchange.com/products/mobile-api-facade/stable/mobile-api-facade-restricted/RHEL6/ gpgkey=https://software.open-xchange.com/oxbuildkey.pub enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 metadata_expire=0m
and run
$ yum install mobile-api-facade-restricted
Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 or CentOS 7
Add the following repositories to your Open-Xchange yum configuration:
[open-xchange-mobile-api-facade-restricted] name=Open-Xchange-mobile-api-facade-restricted baseurl=https://[CUSTOMERID:PASSWORD]@software.open-xchange.com/products/mobile-api-facade/stable/mobile-api-facade-restricted/RHEL7/ gpgkey=https://software.open-xchange.com/oxbuildkey.pub enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 metadata_expire=0m
and run
$ yum install mobile-api-facade-restricted
Debian GNU/Linux 8.0 (Jessie)
Add the following repositories to your Open-Xchange apt configuration:
deb https://[CUSTOMERID:PASSWORD]@software.open-xchange.com/products/mobile-api-facade/stable/mobile-api-facade-restricted/DebianJessie /
and run
$ apt-get update $ apt-get install mobile-api-facade-restricted
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
Add the following repositories to your Open-Xchange apt configuration:
$ zypper ar https://CUSTOMERID:email@example.com/products/mobile-api-facade/stable/mobile-api-facade-restricted/SLE_12 mobile-api-facade-restricted
and run
$ zypper ref $ zypper install mobile-api-facade-restricted
Setup and Configuration
Setup Middleware Notifications
The existing push framework of the Open-Xchange Middleware has been extended by the capability to spawn "permanent" listeners for incoming new message deliveries. Up to that point the life cycle for a listener was bound to at least one active session, which is associated with a client that is allowed to receive push notifications.
With introduction of the previously mentioned capability, listeners can be started without the need for an existent session right on the start of an Open-Xchange Middleware node. In addition those permanent listeners are spread approximately even over capable cluster members as - dependent on the underlying implementation - a listener representation may open/hold resources (socket connections) in order to receive notifications about new message deliveries.
To prepare a certain Open-Xchange Middleware node to spawn permanent push listeners the following properties need to be configured in file '/opt/open-xchange/etc/mail-push.properties':
- com.openexchange.push.allowPermanentPush
This is the general switch to enable/disable support for permanent listeners on a node. Thus needs to be set to "true"
- com.openexchange.push.allowedClient
Specify the comma-separated list of clients which are allowed to receive notifications about new mails, "open-xchange-mobile-api-facade*" should be added here if you plan to use for for the new OX Mail v2 apps.
- com.openexchange.push.credstorage.enabled
As permanent listeners are required to run without an active session, the credential storage can be used to store user credentials in installations that do not support a master authentication to the mail storage Hence, if the property com.openexchange.mail.passwordSource" (mail.properties) is not set to "global" this property is required to be set to "true"
- com.openexchange.push.credstorage.passcrypt
This property is required if "com.openexchange.push.credstorage.enabled" is set to "true". It does specify the passphrase to use to symmetrically encrypt the stored credentials. The passphrase is required to be equal on each cluster member.
- com.openexchange.push.credstorage.rdb
Once the credential storage is enabled, Open-Xchange offers two ways of storing the user-associated login/password combination. In cluster memory (default) or persisted to database. While the first way ensures that no user credentials are persisted nowhere in the Open-Xchange installation, it has the big disadvantage the stored credentials are gone once the last cluster members gets shut-down. Therefore there is also the possibility to store the credentials inside the database. Of course, no matter where the credentials are stored, they are encrypted using the value from com.openexchange.push.credstorage.passcrypt" property
With setting the properties above the configuration on the Open-Xchange Middleware node is prepared to spawn permanent listeners.
Now an appropriate push bundle/package needs to be installed that supports spawning permanent listeners. Currently Open-Xchange ships with three implementations:
- open-xchange-push-dovecot (also requires the optional open-xchange-rest package)
- open-xchange-push-imapidle (Not recommended, therefore disabled for IMAP-IDLE by default. com.openexchange.push.imapidle.supportsPermanentListeners=false)
- open-xchange-push-mailnotify
Putting all together the following execution flow is taken to decide whether permanent listeners are spawned or not:
To check at any time what listeners are currently running, there is a new command-line tool "/opt/open-xchange/sbin/listpushusers" that outputs the user-id/context-id pair along-side with the information if the listener is of permanent nature or bound to an active session:
An exemplary out put might look like: ~# /opt/open-xchange/sbin/listpushusers user=249, context=1, permanent=true user=402, context=1, permanent=true
Push Setup
The push setup requires a working OX App Suite and the Mobile API Facade.
Simply said the main purpose of the Mobile Push functionality is to register an OSGi event handler converting an incoming OSGi event with topic "com/openexchange/push" to an appropriate native push reaching the mobile device using either APN or GCM.
Setup Dovecot Push
Configuration of IMAP METADATA
Dovecot Push plug-in requires METADATA support on Dovecot side, but it should only be enabled for OX IMAP sessions and not for any other IMAP clients directly. Enabling can be done with e.g. the remote directive "remote 220.127.116.11/24 { imap_metadata = yes }" and specifying the IP ranges of OX.
Dovecot supports the [METADATA extension (RFC 5464)], which allows per-mailbox, per-user data to be stored and accessed via IMAP commands.
To activate metadata storage, a dictionary needs to be configured in the Dovecot configuration using the {{{mail_attribute_dict}}} option.
To activate the IMAP METADATA commands, the imap_metadata and mail_attribute_dict options need to be activated.
# Store METADATA information within user's Maildir directory mail_attribute_dict = file:%h/Maildir/dovecot-attributes protocol imap { imap_metadata = yes }
The following picture should demonstrate how the overall communication flow between OX Mail v2, Open-Xchange Middleware, and the Dovecot Push plug-in takes place. That communication flow requires the "open-xchange-push-dovecot" and "open-xchange-rest" packages to be installed on the Open-Xchange Middleware nodes and the Dovecot "http-notify" plug-in.
Once the Open-Xchange Mail v2 is installed on the user's mobile device and it is allowed to show notifications about a new message delivery, the OX Mail v2 performs a subscription call to the Open-Xchange Middleware Servers using a fully authenticated session.
When the "open-xchange-push-dovecot" package is installed, the previous subscribe call requests it to spawn a permanent listener. Such a listener simply tells the Dovecot server to notify about new message delivery events for the associated user by executing a special SETMETADATA command. Hence, it does not open or use any resources other than firing a single IMAP command to the Dovecot IMAP Server.
Whenever a "new message delivery" event occurs, the Dovecot Server performs a HTTP callback against a configurable HTTP end-point of the Open-Xchange Middleware providing crucial information about the newly delivered message with a simple JSON body. That incoming HTTP callback is then turned into an appropriate OSGi event with topic "com/openexchange/push".
That event is in turn handled by the Mobile Push event handler, which uses the event's information to request an APN/GCM push to the mobile device.
Configuration of Dovecot "http-notify" plug-in
To use push notifications, both the "notify" and the "push_notification" plugins need to be activated. For LMTP delivery, this is required:
protocol lmtp { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins notify push_notification }
If you also want push notifications to work for LDA-based delivery, you would need additional configuration:
protocol lda { mail_plugins = $mail_plugins notify push_notification }
The HTTP end-point (URL + authentication information) to use is configured in the Dovecot configuration file. The appropriate configuration options will contain the HTTP URL denoting the end-point to connect to as well as the authentication information for Basic Authentication as configured by properties "com.openexchange.rest.services.basic-auth.login" and "com.openexchange.rest.services.basic-auth.password". The URL to configure in Dovecot configuration follows this pattern.
<http|https> + "://" + <login> + ":" + <password> + "@" + <host> + ":" + <port> + "/preliminary/http-notify/v1/notify"
plugin { push_notification_driver = ox:url=http://login:firstname.lastname@example.com:8009/preliminary/http-notify/v1/notify }
Furthermore, it is also possible to specify more than one HTTP end-point to connect to if a new message delivery occurs. Thus the configuration section mentioned above may be extended by additional "push_notification_driver" entries; e.g. push_notification_driver2, push_notification_driver3, etc.
Please note that the path "/preliminary/http-notify/v1/notify" denotes the internal REST API of the Open-Xchange Middleware, which is not publicly accessible. The administrator can decide whether to add that path to the Apache configuration (see also AppSuite:Apache_Configuration and AppSuite:Grizzly) through a Location/ProxyPass directive:
<Location /preliminary> Order Deny,Allow Deny from all # Only allow access from servers within the network. Do not expose this # location outside of your network. In case you use a load balancing service in front # of your Apache infrastructure you should make sure that access to /preliminary will # be blocked from the internet / outside clients. Examples: # Allow from 192.168.0.1 # Allow from 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.2 # Allow from 192.168.0. ProxyPass /preliminary balancer://oxcluster/preliminary </Location>
In case the "user=" sent by OX in the push_notification_driver url data does not match the IMAP login of a user, Dovecot ignores it. This can be overridden by defining "user_from_metadata" in the push_notification_driver url, e.g.
push_notification_driver = ox:url=http://example.com/ user_from_metadata
Setup App Notifications
There are two possible ways to setup notifications for new mails from the Middleware to the new OX Mail v2 apps. One is to install the push configuration provideded in the open-change-mobile-api-facade-push-certificates pacakge, the other is to configure everything manually.
Push configuration provided by package
To be able to use the push configuration provideded in the open-change-mobile-api-facade-push-certificates pacakge its needed to enabled push notifications for Android and iOS in general first. This can be done in the file 'pns.properties':
- com.openexchange.pns.transport.apn.ios.enabled
General switch to enable/disable push notifications for iOS using the Apple APN service
- com.openexchange.pns.transport.gcm.enabled
General switch to enable/disable push notifications for iOS using the Google FCM service
Manually configuring push configurations
To manually configure push configurations for Android you need to configure a service key in the Google Firebase developer console, for iOS you need to request a certificate for push notifications in the Apple developer console.
Generally push notifications for both platforms needs to be enabled in the file 'pns.properties':
- com.openexchange.pns.transport.apn.ios.enabled
General switch to enable/disable push notifications for iOS using the Apple APN service
- com.openexchange.pns.transport.gcm.enabled
General switch to enable/disable push notifications for iOS using the Google FCM service
For Android the file 'pns-gcm-options.yml' needs to contain the following snippet with the proper server key: open-xchange-mobile-api-facade:
enabled: true key: 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890
For Apple iOS the file 'pns-apns-options.yml' needs to contain the following snippet with the proper values:
open-xchange-mobile-api-facade: enabled: true keystore: /opt/open-xchange/etc/apns-certificate.p12 password: 12345678 production: true
The identifier 'open-xchange-mobile-api-facade' might be different. When we provide multiple branded apps connecting to the same servers we append a specific string per brand, e.g. 'open-xchange-mobile-api-facade-brand1' and 'open-xchange-mobile-api-facade-brand2'.
Known Limitations
Starting with version v7.8.4 the OX App Suite supports flagging modes described here: https://documentation.open-xchange.com/7.8.4/middleware/components/mail_flagging.html. There are four different modes defined. These modes describe the handling of the IMAP FLAGGED flag and color flagging and how both work together. The OX Mail v2 support only two modes, "Flagged only" and "Flagged implicit". All users using the OX Mail v2 should be provisioned with one of these modes. The other two modes, "Color only" and "Flagged and color" are not supported currently and might cause bad user experience when the app is used in conjunction with other mail user agents.
The settings from the OX App Suite are not used by the OX Mail v2 app. This includes the signature so that it has to be maintained manually both in the OX App Suite and the OX Mail v2 app. Settings are also only available locally and not synced when using the app on multiple devices.
Multiple Account Support
This version of the OX Mail v2 app does not support the use of multiple accounts. The consequence is that only the primary OX App Suite account is usable from the app.
The used backend should support RFC 5256 in order for the app to show threads correctly. Dovecot is supporting this RFC out of the box. If the backend doesn't support RCF 5256 its possible to disable to disable threading support in the Mobile API Facade by configuring the following property in facade.properties:


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