* Loyal Reward Program: Consumers collect points, miles, or credits for purchases and redeem them for rewards.

** Reward: Adventure rewards usually increased a skill by a number of points with a high reward / cost ratio.

In addition to HBC companies, HBC Reward points can be collected at Esso, Thrifty Car Rental, Dollar Rent A Car, Travelodge and MotorPlus.

HBC Reward Points can also be exchanged using the Third-party service offered by points. com.

Individuals do not earn or deserve Sanctifying Grace ( see below ), and as such cannot claim it as a right, though they can merit Actual Graces ( the Latin word ' meritum ' meaning ' Reward ') that lead one further on the journey of Sanctification to the perfect holiness of Heaven.

It is also known for having introduced a number of innovations, including Ireland's first supermarket loyalty cardin 1993, SuperClub re branded in 2007 as Reward Card.

Gavin Dein son of ex-Arsenal Football Club Vice Chairman David Dein, is the founder and CEO of Reward ( company ), a loyalty programme management company.

Gavin's company, Reward, is a loyalty programme management company that develops specific passion loyalty programmes for companies around the world.

In 2006, in association with Natwest Streamline, Barclaycard Business and Lloyds TSB, Reward developed a new technology to track and reward programme member shopping without the need for a loyalty card.

Tom Thumb offers a loyalty card ( Reward Card ) that provides a discount on gasoline, as well as a portion of sales proceeds donated to charity.

On June 1, 2006, Office Depot launched the Worklife Rewards program, which combined several benefits of the former “ Advantage Reward ” and Star Teacher programs.

The expansion adds four new characters ( Magus, Cleric, Chivalric Knight and Dread Knight ), 72 new Adventure cards, 16 new Spell cards, 24 Quest Reward cards, 12 Stables cards, 4 Neutral Alignment cards and 3 new Alternate Ending cards: Demon Lord, Judgement Day and Sacred Pool.

When the Casaya tribe won the combined Reward / Immunity Challenge in that episode and sent Sally Schumann to Exile Island ( making her immune from the Tribal Council vote ), Barry's fate was sealed.

She appeared as herself in in the following films: Risk / Reward, the documentary about the lives of women on Wall Street ( 2003 ), The Taking of Pelham 123, an action film about armed men who hijack a New York City subway train ( 2009 ), the drama film Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps ( 2010 ) and in the documentary Inside Job ( 2010 ).

Best known for their Top Ten UK single " Reward " ( which is still a staple of 1980s alternative pop compilations ), the group originated as a key band in the emerging Liverpool post-punk scene of the late 1970s, the group also launched the career of group frontman Julian Cope as well as that of keyboard player and co-manager David Balfe ( later a record producer, A & R man and the founder of Food Records ).

* Reward ( psychology ), a positive stimulus that can be presented in the process of reinforcing behavior

* Reward ( Shelltown, Maryland ), a historic home in Shelltown Maryland

Cardless Reward Technology ( CRT ), nominated for " Innovation of the Year 2007 " at the Credit Card awards, allows shoppers to register any payment card ( Visa, Maestro etc.

Swift ’ s use of gripping details of poverty and his narrator ’ s cool approach towards them create " two opposing points of view " that " alienate the reader, perhaps unconsciously, from a narrator who can view with ' melancholy ' detachment a subject that Swift has directed us, rhetorically, to see in a much less detached way.

: For a detailed presentation of the various points of view around the definition of " algorithm " see Algorithm characterizations.

Note, however, that the fifth article did not completely deny perseverance of the saints ; Arminius, himself, said that " I never taught that a true believer can … fall away from the faith … yet I will not conceal, that there are passages of Scripture which seem to me to wear this aspect ; and those answers to them which I have been permitted to see, are not of such as kind as to approve themselves on all points to my understanding.

According to this view, though Mark has Jesus as the Son of God, references occurring at the strategic points in 1: 1 (" The beginning of the gospel about Jesus Christ, the Son of God ", but not in all versions, see Mark 1 ), 5: 7 (" What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God?

A common adaptive method is recursive subdivision, in which a curve's control points are checked to see if the curve approximates a line segment to within a small tolerance.

Dretske points out that what it is like to see the one forest is different from what it is like to see the other.

These locations are also filled with objects with which the player can interact, that either benefit the player in some form ( light switches make it easier to see, while water fountains and broken hydrants provide some health points ) or simply provide diversion ( tipping strippers provokes a quote from Duke and a provocative reveal from the dancer ).

* In the plane ( d = 2 ), if there are b vertices on the convex hull, then any triangulation of the points has at most 2n − 2 − b triangles, plus one exterior face ( see Euler characteristic ).

These E and B fields are also in phase, with both reaching maxima and minima at the same points in space ( see illustrations ).

Neither of these men saw the geometrical interpretation of the formula: the view of complex numbers as points in the complex plane arose only some 50 years later ( see Caspar Wessel ).

Enki and later Ea were apparently depicted, sometimes, like Adapa, as a man covered with the skin of a fish, and this representation, as likewise the name of his temple E-apsu, " house of the watery deep ", points decidedly to his original character as a god of the waters ( see Oannes ).

By 1918, two French mathematicians, Pierre Fatou and Gaston Julia, though working independently, arrived essentially simultaneously at results describing what are now seen as fractal behaviour associated with mapping complex numbers and iterative functions and leading to further ideas about attractors and repellors ( i. e., points that attract or repel other points ), which have become very important in the study of fractals ( see Figure 3 and Figure 4 ).

* For “ fixed points ” in physics, see Renormalization group

Image: Bodhidarma. jpg | Scroll calligraphy of Bodhidharma, " Zen points directly to the human heart, see into your nature and become Buddha ", Hakuin Ekaku ( 1686 to 1769 ), Japanese

Traditional Christian thought on the subject points to St. John the Apostle as the author of the Gospel, the three Epistles and the Book of Revelation that bear his name, and there is some internal textual evidence to suggest they may have been authored by the same person ( see textual criticism ).

Hoping to see the revolution spread to Germany, in 1848 Marx moved back to Cologne ( Köln ) where he began issuing a handbill entitled the Demands of the Communist Party in Germany, in which he argued for only four of the ten points of the Communist Manifesto, believing that in Germany at that time, the bourgeoisie must overthrow the feudal monarchy and aristocracy before the proletariat could overthrow the bourgeoisie.

( For more information see extreme points of the United States ).

For other points of view on online inputs to algorithms, see streaming algorithm ( focusing on the amount of memory needed to accurately represent past inputs ), dynamic algorithm ( focusing on the time complexity of maintaining solutions to problems with online inputs ) and online machine learning.

Some high-performance boats are capable of traveling faster than the true windspeed on some points of sail, see for example the Hydroptère, which set a world speed record in 2009 by sailing 1. 71 times the speed of the wind.

If one measures by arc length one finds that the shortest path connecting two points lying entirely in the sphere is a segment of the great circle containing the points ; see geodesic.

In April 2006 an instance with 85, 900 points was solved using Concorde TSP Solver, taking over 136 CPU-years, see.

* In the Euclidean TSP ( see below ) the distance between two cities is the Euclidean distance between the corresponding points.

In marketing generally and in retailing more specifically, a loyalty card, rewards card, points card, advantage card, or club card is a plastic or paper card, visually similar to a credit card or debit card, that identifies the card holder as a member in a loyalty program.

In the United Kingdom it is typically called a loyalty card, in Canada a rewards card or a points card, and in the United States either a discount card, a club card or a rewards card.

) Major retailers Best Buy and Sears offer loyalty programs that offer points redeemable for dollar-amount discounts after accumulating a set number of points along with other discounts from time to time.

Ladbrokes Poker also operates a loyalty program for its online poker players where players are able to exchange their poker points for gift & prizes.

Hilton HHonors is Hilton's guest loyalty program in which frequent guests can accumulate points and airline miles by staying with the various Hilton family of brands.

Wim Vandekerckhove, senior lecturer at the University of Greenwich, points out that in the late 20th century there sprung forth the notion of a bidirectional loyalty between employees and their employer.

It offers Nordstrom customers cards under Nordstrom Fashion Rewards-its customer loyalty program-where customers earn a minimum of two reward points per dollar spent at Nordstrom when using a Nordstrom debit or credit card.

Loblaw also promised a new loyalty program that would allow customers to redeem ' points ' for free groceries-which later became " PC Points.

It has a loyalty program called " Petro Points " where the customers get points for fuel, car repair and store purchases.

Each toy packaging had special access codes that allows users to earn the points (" the Bionicle equivalent of a loyalty scheme ") that can be used to play web games.

Some of their points seem more national loyalty than evidence: Americans tended to reject any suggestion that baseball evolved from an English game, while some English observers concluded that baseball was little more than their rounders without the round.

The major symbol Gangster Disciples make use of is the six-pointed star ( identical in appearance to the Star of David ) The fact that this star is known as the Star of David pays homage to founder David Barksdale, and the six points are said to represent love, life, loyalty, understanding, knowledge, and wisdom ( respect ).

The village and parish are key focal points around which sporting rivalries and other forms of local identity are built and most people feel a strong sense of loyalty to their native county, a loyalty which also often has its clearest expression on the sports field.

Tickets are given via a weighted lottery ; students accumulate loyalty points for claiming and attending games and Maryland Madness.

For example, a student with 10 loyalty points will have his or her name entered 11 times for the game he or she wishes to attend ( once by default, and once more for each point ); by contrast, a student with zero loyalty points will have his or her name entered only once.

As a result, many " diehard " fans complain that a significant number of students " scan and leave " games, even well-attended conference games, as a means of building up loyalty points for games later in the season with a greater degree of perceived significance and / or a higher chance of demand exceeding supply.

Papa Gino's and participating D ' Angelo's have also started a Customer Loyalty program in which customers sign up for a free loyalty card and are rewarded with points that convert to dollars, at 50 points equals $ 5, for dining at either of the two chains.