Those who visit a particular place (such as a restaurant or a pub) are given badges.
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The app had fun matching and fill-in-the-blanks games, as well as a reward system of badges.
You have to be a friend of CNN on Foursquare to earn the badges.
After three check-ins from specially designated venues, you'll earn one of the badges.
Later this year, IMVU will begin including multilanguage support and will introduce MMORPG-like features such as leveling up and badges.
Hiring managers who have trouble sorting through traditional resumes might need even more time to decode a patchwork of online badges.
In medieval times hawkers would sell lead-alloy badges to travellers and the exhibition, faithful to this tradition, contains many such badges.
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National Security forces strictly control visitors, and those who have seen the collateral are mostly people with press passes, or police and military badges.
Mr. Host says he devotes at least half a classroom session each semester to teaching students about the design of name badges.
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We wear our cellular phones on our hips like gunslingers, and whip out our Palm Pilots as if they were police badges.
The blue badge scheme which operates throughout the UK is managed by local authorities, who deal with applications and issue the badges.
We packed light and paid for it, taking far too much assurance from our dozens of day hikes and old Eagle Scout badges.
The company could have marketed these cars under new non-Prius badges.
Richard Pauli worked side-by-side with company employees who wore blue badges.
In the 1950s, Ford worked on what it called internally the "E Car" E for experimental to be priced between its low-cost Ford and more upscale Mercury badges.
"It kind of becomes a contest, " Mr. McKain says, adding that it is not unusual to see attendees with eight or 10 ribbons attached to their badges.
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They further completed the makeover with metal law enforcement badges.
Since discovering cool venues on your own is part of the fun of using Foursquare, we won't give you a list of everywhere you can earn the CNN badges.
We obviously do some stuff with Foursquare, we are an event, and our sponsor Bombay will come back this year to do a festival with map integration and custom badges.
Teachers and students can also design their own badges.
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From that bewildering array, he has selected just under 200 items which inspired, amused and intrigued him -- from an earring with part of the wearer's ear still attached, via religious artifacts, to cheap souvenir pin badges.
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Among some bug fixes, you can now make use of a built-in browser, "Send and Archive" messages, filter specific folders and labels, clear your spam and trash bins and even set which accounts you'd like to show or hide dock badges for.
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As any serious fur enthusiast knows, the blaring horns and red-paint baths are simply badges of pride.
Sooty is being offered with a number of other items including a magic wand, books, badges and rosettes.
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