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Terms of Service
September 16, 2020 at 7:46:32 PM
Adventure IO Inc. Terms of Service
Please read these Terms of Service carefully as they contain important information about your legal rights, remedies and obligations. By accessing or using the Adventure IO Platform, you agree to comply with and be bound by these Terms of Service. These Terms of Service may be updated from time to time without prior notification.
Please note: Section 19 of these Terms of Service contains an arbitration clause and class action waiver that applies to all Adventure IO Users. If your Country of Residence (as defined below) is the United States, this provision applies to all disputes with Adventure IO. If your Country of Residence is outside of the United States, this provision applies to any action you bring against Adventure IO in the United States. It affects how disputes with Adventure IO are resolved. By accepting these Terms of Service, you agree to be bound by this arbitration clause and class action waiver. Please read it carefully.
Last Updated: September 15th, 2020
Thank you for using Adventure IO!
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) constitute a legally binding agreement (“Agreement”) between you and Adventure IO (as defined below) governing your access to and use of the Adventure IO website, including any subdomains thereof, and any other websites through which Adventure IO makes its services available (collectively, “Site”), our mobile, tablet and other smart device applications, and application program interfaces (collectively, “Application”) and all associated services (collectively, “Adventure IO Services”). The Site, Application and Adventure IO Services together are hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Adventure IO Platform”. Our other policies and procedures referenced in this Agreement are incorporated by reference into this Agreement and can be found at https://adventure-io.com/terms-and-conditions.
When these Terms mention “Adventure IO,” “we,” “us,” or “our,” it refers to Adventure IO, Inc., a Utah corporation, with an address of 732 East Sunset Stream Way, Draper, UT 84020.
Guides alone are responsible for identifying, understanding, and complying with all laws, rules and regulations that apply to their Guide Service. For example, some cities have laws that restrict certain Guide Services. In many cities, Guides may have to register, get a permit or obtain a license before providing certain Guide Services. Guides alone are responsible for identifying and obtaining any required licenses, permits, or registrations for any Guide Service they offer. Certain types of Guide Services may be prohibited altogether. Penalties may include fines or other enforcement. If you have questions about how local laws apply to your Adventure(s) and Guides Service(s) on Adventure IO, you should always seek legal guidance.
Table of Contents
Scope of Adventure IO Services
Eligibility, Using the Adventure IO Platform, User Verification
Modification of these Terms
Terms specific for Guides
Terms specific for Participants
Booking Modifications, Cancellations and Refunds, Resolution Center
Ratings and Reviews
Damage; Disputes between Users
Rounding off, Currency conversion
Term and Termination, Suspension and other Measures
Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Agreement
Applicable Law and Jurisdiction
1. Scope of Adventure IO Services
1.1 The Adventure IO Platform is an online marketplace that enables registered users (“Users”) and certain third parties who receive payment for providing an Adventure to a Participant on the Adventure IO Platform, including but not limited to, Brands, Retailers, Media Outlets, Hotels, and individuals (Users who offer such services are known as “Guides” and the services they offer are referred to as a “Guide Service”) to publish such Guide Service on the Adventure IO Platform (“Adventures”) and to communicate and transact directly with Participants that are seeking to book such Guide Service (Users using Guide Services are “Participants”). Adventures may include single or multi-day adventures in various categories, access to unique locations, and a variety of other travel and non-travel related services.
1.2 As the creator of the Adventure IO Platform, Adventure IO does not own, create, sell, resell, provide, control, manage, offer, deliver, or supply any Adventures or Guide Services, nor is Adventure IO an organizer or retailer of travel packages under Directive (EU) 2015/2302. Guides alone are responsible for their Adventures and Guide Services. When Users make or accept a booking, they are entering into a contract directly with each other. Adventure IO is not and does not become a party to or other participant in any contractual relationship between Users, nor is Adventure IO an insurer. Adventure IO is not acting as an agent in any capacity for any Users, except as specified in the Payment Terms.
1.3 While we may help facilitate the resolution of disputes, Adventure IO has no control over and does not guarantee (i) the existence, quality, safety, suitability, or legality of any Adventures or Guide Services, (ii) the truth or accuracy of any Adventure descriptions, Ratings, Reviews, or other User Content (as defined below), or (iii) the performance or conduct of any User or third party. Adventure IO does not endorse any User, Adventure or Guide Service. Any references to a User being "verified" (or similar language) only indicate that the User has completed a relevant verification or identification process and nothing else. Any such description is not an endorsement, certification or guarantee by Adventure IO about any Users, including of the User’s identity or background or whether the User is trustworthy, safe or suitable. You should always exercise due diligence and care when deciding whether to participate in an Adventure or use a Guide Service, accept a booking request from a Participant, or communicate and interact with other Users, whether online or in person. Verified Images (as defined below) are intended only to indicate a photographic representation of an Adventure at the time the photograph was taken, and are therefore not an endorsement by Adventure IO of any Guide or Adventure.
1.4 If you choose to use the Adventure IO Platform as a Guide, your relationship with Adventure IO is limited to being an independent, third-party contractor, and not an employee, agent, joint venturer or partner of Adventure IO for any reason, and you act exclusively on your own behalf and for your own benefit, and not on behalf, or for the benefit, of Adventure IO. Adventure IO does not, and shall not be deemed to, direct or control you generally or in your performance under these Terms specifically, including in connection with your provision of the Guide Service. You acknowledge and agree that you have complete discretion whether to list Guide Service or otherwise engage in other business or employment adventures.
1.5 To promote the Adventure IO Platform and to increase the exposure of Adventures to potential Participants, Adventures and other User Content may be displayed on other websites, in applications, within emails, and in online and offline advertisements. To assist Users who speak different languages, Adventures and other User Content may be translated, in whole or in part, into other languages. Adventure IO cannot guarantee the accuracy or quality of such translations and Users are responsible for reviewing and verifying the accuracy of such translations. The Adventure IO Platform may contain translations powered by Google. Google disclaims all warranties related to the translations, express or implied, including any warranties of accuracy, reliability, and any implied warranties for merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.
1.6 The Adventure IO Platform may contain links to third-party websites or resources (“Third-Party Services”). Such Third-Party Services may be subject to different terms and conditions and privacy practices. Adventure IO is not responsible or liable for the availability or accuracy of such Third-Party Services, or the content, products, or services available from such Third-Party Services. Links to such Third-Party Services are not an endorsement by Adventure IO of such Third-Party Services.
1.7 Due to the nature of the Internet, Adventure IO cannot guarantee the continuous and uninterrupted availability and accessibility of the Adventure IO Platform. Adventure IO may restrict the availability of the Adventure IO Platform or certain areas or features thereof, if this is necessary in view of capacity limits, the security or integrity of our servers, or to carry out maintenance measures that ensure the proper or improved functioning of the Adventure IO Platform. Adventure IO may improve, enhance and modify the Adventure IO Platform and introduce new Adventure IO Services from time to time.
2. Eligibility, Using the Adventure IO Platform, User Verification
2.1 You must be at least 18 years old and able to enter into legally binding contracts to access and use the Adventure IO Platform or register an Adventure IO Account. By accessing or using the Adventure IO Platform, you represent and warrant that you are 18 or older and have the legal capacity and authority to enter into a contract.
2.2 You will comply with any applicable export control laws in your local jurisdiction. You also represent and warrant that (i) neither you nor your Guides Service(s) are located or take place in a country that is subject to a U.S. Government embargo, or that has been designated by the U.S. Government as a "terrorist supporting" country, and (ii) you are not listed on any U.S. Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
2.3 Adventure IO may make access to and use of the Adventure IO Platform, or certain areas or features of the Adventure IO Platform, subject to certain conditions or requirements, such as completing a verification process, meeting specific quality or eligibility criteria, meeting Ratings or Reviews thresholds, or a User’s booking and cancellation history.
2.4 User verification on the Internet is difficult and we do not assume any responsibility for the confirmation of any User’s identity. Notwithstanding the above, for transparency and fraud prevention purposes, and as permitted by applicable laws, we may, but have no obligation to (i) ask Users to provide a form of government identification or other information or undertake additional checks designed to help verify the identities or backgrounds of Users, (ii) screen Users against third party databases or other sources and request reports from service providers, and (iii) where we have sufficient information to identify a User, obtain reports from public records of criminal convictions or sex offender registrations or an equivalent version of background or registered sex offender checks in your local jurisdiction (if available).
2.5 The access to or use of certain areas and features of the Adventure IO Platform may be subject to separate policies, standards or guidelines, or may require that you accept additional terms and conditions. If there is a conflict between these Terms and terms and conditions applicable to a specific area or feature of the Adventure IO Platform, the latter terms and conditions will take precedence with respect to your access to or use of that area or feature, unless specified otherwise.
2.6 If you access or download the Application from the Apple App Store, you agree to Apple’s Licensed Application End User License Agreement. Some areas of the Adventure IO Platform implement Google Maps/Earth mapping services, including Google Maps API(s). Your use of Google Maps/Earth is subject to the Google Maps/Google Earth Additional Terms of Service.
3. Modification of these Terms
Adventure IO reserves the right to modify these Terms at any time in accordance with this provision. If we make changes to these Terms, we will post the revised Terms on the Adventure IO Platform and update the “Last Updated” date at the top of these Terms. We will also provide you with notice of the modifications by email at least seven (7) days before the date they become effective. If you disagree with the revised Terms, you may terminate this Agreement with immediate effect. We will inform you about your right to terminate the Agreement in the notification email. If you do not terminate your Agreement before the date the revised Terms become effective, your continued access to or use of the Adventure IO Platform will constitute acceptance of the revised Terms.
4. Account Registration
4.1 You must register an account (“Adventure IO Account”) to access and use certain features of the Adventure IO Platform, such as publishing or booking an Adventure. If you are registering an Adventure IO Account for a company or other legal entity, you represent and warrant that you have the authority to legally bind that entity and grant us all permissions and licenses provided in these Terms.
4.2 You can register an Adventure IO Account using an email address and creating a password, or through your account with certain third-party social networking services, such as Facebook or other SSO accounts.
4.3 You must provide accurate, current and complete information during the registration process and keep your Adventure IO Account and public Adventure IO Account profile page information up-to-date at all times.
4.4 You may not register more than one (1) Adventure IO Account unless Adventure IO authorizes you to do so. You may not assign or otherwise transfer your Adventure IO Account to another party.
4.5 You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality and security of your Adventure IO Account credentials and may not disclose your credentials to any third party. You must immediately notify Adventure IO if you know or have any reason to suspect that your credentials have been lost, stolen, misappropriated, or otherwise compromised or in case of any actual or suspected unauthorized use of your Adventure IO Account. You are liable for any and all activities conducted through your Adventure IO Account, unless such activities are not authorized by you and you are not otherwise negligent (such as failing to report the unauthorized use or loss of your credentials).
4.6 Adventure IO may enable features that allow you to authorize other Users or certain third parties to take certain actions that affect your Adventure IO Account. For example, we may allow eligible Users or certain third parties to book Adventures on behalf of other Users. These features do not require that you share your credentials with any other person. No third party is authorized by Adventure IO to ask for your credentials, and you shall not request the credentials of another User.
5.1 Adventure IO may, at its sole discretion, enable Users to (i) create, upload, post, send, receive and store content, such as text, photos, audio, video, or other materials and information on or through the Adventure IO Platform (“User Content”); and (ii) access and view User Content and any content that Adventure IO itself makes available on or through the Adventure IO Platform, including proprietary Adventure IO content and any content licensed or authorized for use by or through Adventure IO from a third party (“Adventure IO Content” and together with User Content, “Collective Content”).
5.2 The Adventure IO Platform, Adventure IO Content, and User Content may in its entirety or in part be protected by copyright, trademark, and/or other laws of the United States and other countries. You acknowledge and agree that the Adventure IO Platform and Adventure IO Content, including all associated intellectual property rights, are the exclusive property of Adventure IO and/or its licensors or authorizing third-parties. You will not remove, alter or obscure any copyright, trademark, service mark or other proprietary rights notices incorporated in or accompanying the Adventure IO Platform, Adventure IO Content or User Content. All trademarks, service marks, logos, trade names, and any other source identifiers of Adventure IO used on or in connection with the Adventure IO Platform and Adventure IO Content are trademarks or registered trademarks of Adventure IO in the United States and abroad. Trademarks, service marks, logos, trade names and any other proprietary designations of third parties used on or in connection with the Adventure IO Platform, Adventure IO Content, and/or Collective Content are used for identification purposes only and may be the property of their respective owners.
5.3 You will not use, copy, adapt, modify, prepare derivative works of, distribute, license, sell, transfer, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, broadcast or otherwise exploit the Adventure IO Platform or Collective Content, except to the extent you are the legal owner of certain User Content or as expressly permitted in these Terms. No licenses or rights are granted to you by implication or otherwise under any intellectual property rights owned or controlled by Adventure IO or its licensors, except for the licenses and rights expressly granted in these Terms.
5.4 Subject to your compliance with these Terms, Adventure IO grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, revocable, non-transferable license to (i) download and use the Application on your personal device(s); and (ii) access and view any Collective Content made available on or through the Adventure IO Platform and accessible to you, solely for your personal and non-commercial use.
5.5 By creating, uploading, posting, sending, receiving, storing, or otherwise making available any User Content on or through the Adventure IO Platform, you grant to Adventure IO a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual (or for the term of the protection), sub-licensable and transferable license to such User Content to access, use, store, copy, modify, prepare derivative works of, distribute, publish, transmit, stream, broadcast, and otherwise exploit in any manner such User Content to provide and/or promote the Adventure IO Platform, in any media or platform. Unless you provide specific consent, Adventure IO does not claim any ownership rights in any User Content and nothing in these Terms will be deemed to restrict any rights that you may have to use or exploit your User Content.
5.6 Adventure IO may offer Guides the option of having professional photographers take photographs of their Guide Service, which are made available by the photographer to Guides to include in their Adventures with or without a watermark or tag bearing the words "Adventure IO Verified Photo" or similar wording ("Verified Images"). You are responsible for ensuring that your Guide Service is accurately represented in the Verified Images and you will stop using the Verified Images on or through the Adventure IO Platform if they no longer accurately represent your Adventure, if you stop providing the Guide Service featured, or if your Adventure IO Account is terminated or suspended for any reason. You acknowledge and agree that Adventure IO shall have the right to use any Verified Images for advertising, marketing and/or any other business purposes in any media or platform, whether in relation to your Adventure or otherwise, without further notice or compensation to you. Where Adventure IO is not the exclusive owner of Verified Images, by using such Verified Images on or through the Adventure IO Platform, you grant to Adventure IO an exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual (or for the term of the protection), sub-licensable and transferable license to use such Verified Images for advertising, marketing and/or any other business purposes in any media or platform, whether in relation to your Adventure or otherwise, without further notice or compensation to you. Adventure IO in turn grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable, revocable, non-transferable license to use Verified Images outside of the Adventure IO Platform solely for your personal and non-commercial use.
5.7 You are solely responsible for all User Content that you make available on or through the Adventure IO Platform. Accordingly, you represent and warrant that: (i) you either are the sole and exclusive owner of all User Content that you make available on or through the Adventure IO Platform or you have all rights, licenses, consents and releases that are necessary to grant to Adventure IO the rights in and to such User Content, as contemplated under these Terms; and (ii) neither the User Content nor your posting, uploading, publication, submission or transmittal of the User Content or Adventure IO's use of the User Content (or any portion thereof) will infringe, misappropriate or violate a third party's patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, moral rights or other proprietary or intellectual property rights, or rights of publicity or privacy, or result in the violation of any applicable law or regulation.
5.8 You will not post, upload, publish, submit or transmit any User Content that: (i) is fraudulent, false, misleading (directly or by omission or failure to update information) or deceptive; (ii) is defamatory, libelous, obscene, pornographic, vulgar or offensive; (iii) promotes discrimination, bigotry, racism, hatred, harassment or harm against any individual or group; (iv) is violent or threatening or promotes violence or actions that are threatening to any other person or animal; (v) promotes illegal or harmful activities or substances; or (vi) violates Adventure IO’s Content Policy or any other Adventure IO policy. Adventure IO may, without prior notice, remove or disable access to any User Content that Adventure IO finds to be in violation of these Terms or Adventure IO’s then-current policies, or otherwise may be harmful or objectionable to Adventure IO, its Users, third parties, or property.
5.9 Adventure IO respects copyright law and expects its Users to do the same. It is Adventure IO’s policy, in appropriate circumstances and at its discretion, to disable and/or terminate the account or access of users who repeatedly infringe or are repeatedly charged with infringing the copyrights or other intellectual property rights of others.
In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998, the text of which may be found on the U.S. Copyright Office website at http://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf, Adventure IO will respond expeditiously to claims of copyright infringement committed using the Adventure IO website and mobile application (the “Site and Application”) that are reported to Adventure IO’s Designated Copyright Agent, identified in the sample notice below.
If you are a copyright owner, or are authorized to act on behalf of one, or authorized to act under any exclusive right under copyright, please report alleged copyright infringements taking place on or through the Site and Application by completing the following DMCA Notice of Alleged Infringement and delivering it to Adventure IO’s Designated Copyright Agent. Upon receipt of the Notice as described below, Adventure IO will take whatever action, in its sole discretion, it deems appropriate, including removal of the challenged material from the Site and Application.
5.10 DMCA Notice of Alleged Infringement (“Notice”)
Identify the copyrighted work that you claim has been infringed, or - if multiple copyrighted works are covered by this Notice - you will provide a comprehensive list of the copyrighted works that you claim have been infringed.
Identify the material that you claim is infringing (or to be the subject of infringing activity) and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material, including at a minimum, if applicable, the URL of the link shown on the Site and Application where such material may be found.
Provide your mailing address, telephone number, and, if available, email address.
Include both of the following statements in the body of the Notice:
“I hereby state that I have a good faith belief that the disputed use of the copyrighted material is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law (e.g., as a fair use).”
“I hereby state that the information in this Notice is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that I am the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of the copyright or of an exclusive right under the copyright that is allegedly infringed.”
Provide your full legal name and your electronic or physical signature.
6. Service Fees
6.1 Adventure IO may charge fees to Guides (“Guide Fees”) and/or Participants (“Participant Fees”) (collectively, “Service Fees”) in consideration for the use of the Adventure IO Platform. Adventure IO charges Guides who offer Adventures a Guide Fee of 30% of the gross amount charged for each Adventure. The Guide Fee is automatically deducted from the payout to the Guide. Adventure IO does not currently charge a Participant Fee for booking Adventure(s).
6.2 Adventure IO reserves the right to change the Service Fees at any time, and will provide Users adequate notice of any fee changes before they become effective.
6.3 You are responsible for paying any Service Fees (including any applicable Taxes) that you owe to Adventure IO. Adventure IO will deduct any Guide Fees from the Adventure Fee before remitting the payout to the Guide. Any Participant Fees are included in the Total Fees collected by Adventure IO. Except as otherwise provided on the Adventure IO Platform, Service Fees are non-refundable.
7. Terms specific for Guides
7.1 Terms applicable to all Adventures
7.1.1 When creating an Adventure through the Adventure IO Platform you must (i) provide complete and accurate information about your Guide Service (such as listing description, location, and calendar availability), (ii) disclose any deficiencies, restrictions and requirements that apply (such as any minimum age, proficiency or fitness requirements for an Adventure) and (iii) provide any other pertinent information requested by Adventure IO. You are responsible for keeping your Adventure information (including calendar availability) up-to-date at all times.
7.1.2 You are solely responsible for setting a price (including any Taxes if applicable, or charges) for your Adventure (“Adventure Fee”). Once a Participant requests a booking of your Adventure, you may not request that the Participant pays a higher price than in the booking request.
7.1.3 Any terms and conditions included in your Adventure, in particular in relation to cancellations, must not conflict with these Terms or the relevant cancellation policy for your Adventure.
7.1.4 Pictures, animations or videos (collectively, “Images”) used in your Adventure must accurately reflect the quality and condition of your Guide Service. Adventure IO reserves the right to require that Adventures have a minimum number of Images of a certain format, size and resolution.
7.1.5 The placement and ranking of Adventures in search results on the Adventure IO Platform may vary and depend on a variety of factors, such as Participant search parameters and preferences, Guide requirements, price and calendar availability, number and quality of Images, customer service and cancellation history, Reviews and Ratings, type of Guide Service, and/or ease of booking.
7.1.6 When you accept or have pre-approved a booking request by a Participant, you are entering into a legally binding agreement with the Participant and are required to provide your Guide Service(s) to the Participant as described in your Adventure when the booking request is made. You also agree to pay the applicable Guide Fees and any applicable Taxes.
7.1.7 Adventure IO recommends that Guides obtain appropriate insurance for their Guide Services. Please review any respective insurance policy carefully, and in particular make sure that you are familiar with and understand any exclusions to, and any deductibles that may apply for, such insurance policy, including, but not limited to, whether or not your insurance policy will cover the actions or inactions of Participants (and the individuals the Participant has booked for, if applicable) while participating in your Adventure or other Guide Service.
7.3 Adventures and other Guide Services
7.3.1 To list an Adventure or other Guide Service, you must create an Adventure and submit the Adventure or Guide Service to Adventure IO. Adventures or other Guide Services must at all times meet the quality standards as set forth below. Adventure IO reserves the right to decide, in its sole discretion, whether a submitted Adventure or other Guide Service will be published on the Adventure IO Platform. Once published, an Adventure or other Guide Service may be removed pursuant to the removal provisions below or pursuant to any applicable removal provision in the Adventure IO Terms of Service.
7.3.2 When listing an Adventure or other Guide Service, you must, where applicable, fully educate and inform Participants about (i) any risks inherent to the Adventure or other Guide Service, (ii) any requirements for participation, such as the minimum age, related skills, level of fitness or other requirements, and (iii) anything else they may need to know to safely participate in the Adventure or other Guide Service (including dress codes, equipment, special certifications or licenses, etc.).
7.3.3 Once your Adventure or other Guide Service is published on the Adventure IO Platform, you will have the ability to add dates and times when you offer your Adventure through the Adventure IO Platform. By making your Adventure or other Guide Service available for a particular date and time on the Adventure IO Platform (an “Instance”), you agree that only people who book through the Adventure IO Platform can attend that Instance of the Adventure or other Guide Service. You further agree that you will not allow people to attend any Instance of your Adventure or other Guide Service available on the Adventure IO Platform unless that person booked through Adventure IO (or was added as an additional Guest for a spot booked through the Adventure IO Platform).
7.3.4 Guides alone are responsible for the Adventure or other Guide Service that they submit, list and provide. Adventure IO merely provides the Adventure IO Services and is not itself an operator or provider of tours, activities, adventures or other Guide Services. Adventure IO does not own, sell, resell, furnish, provide, manage and/or control any such Adventures or other Guide Services. Adventure IO’s responsibilities are limited to making the Adventures or other Guide Services available through the Adventure IO Platform.
7.3.5 You are responsible for acquiring all equipment, including supplies, vehicles, venues and other materials (“Equipment”) necessary to provide your Adventure or other Guide Service. You are solely responsible for ensuring that the Equipment used in your Adventure or other Guide Service is in good working order and conforms to all laws pertaining to safety, equipment, inspection, and operational capability. Except as otherwise required by law, you assume all risk of damage or loss to your Equipment.
7.3.6 You are responsible for (i) understanding and complying with all laws, rules and regulations that may apply to your Adventure or other Guide Service(s), (ii) obtaining any required licenses, permits, or registrations prior to providing your Adventure or other Guide Service(s); and (iii) ensuring that your Adventure and/or providing of an Adventure, or other Guide Service(s) will not breach any agreement you may have with any third party. You must provide your Adventure or other Guide Service in person and may not allow any third party to provide the Adventure or other Guide Service on your behalf, unless authorized by Adventure IO.
7.3.7 Adventures are one-of-a-kind adventures that tell the story of the Guides’ unique perspective and passion, offering participants something that guidebooks or internet searches can’t. To help ensure all Adventures meet the community’s expectations, they must meet the following standards before participants can book. These standards can also help you earn great reviews. You can see how you’re doing by checking ratings and feedback from your participants. Keep in mind that if you consistently receive low ratings or there are other indications that you do not meet these standards, your Adventure may be temporarily or permanently removed from the platform. All Adventure(s) must meet our quality standards:
Hospitality Guides are friendly and welcoming to strangers or guests, and are able to facilitate connections between them.
Expertise Guides have skill or knowledge pertaining to the particular field relating to the Adventure
Insider access Guides demonstrate their exclusive ability to do things the average tourist wouldn’t likely discover on their own such as: going to a lesser-known place, meeting a private community, ordering off-menu, going after hours, seeing backstage, etc.
7.3.8 You may become eligible, upon completing additional training and credentialing to provide services to Adventure IO’s hotel, resort, or travel agency partners. You can request to provide these services by reaching out to your Adventure IO guide representative or by emailing [email protected]. Adventure IO reserves the right to deny any guide access to provide services under these partnership agreements.
7.3.9 During the period commencing on the date hereof and the terminating twenty-four (24) months after the termination of this agreement Guide will not directly or indirectly solicit employment or market guide and or adventure services as an independent contractor or otherwise directly to any of Adventure IO’s hotel, travel agency, brand, or retail partners outside of the Adventure IO platform without Adventure IO’s express written consent.
8. Terms specific for Participants
8.1 Terms applicable to all bookings
8.1.1 Subject to meeting any requirements (such as completing any verification processes) set by Adventure IO and/or the Guide, you can book an Adventure available on the Adventure IO Platform by following the respective booking process. All applicable fees, including the Adventure Fee, Participant Fee and any applicable Taxes (collectively, “Total Fees”) will be presented to you prior to booking an Adventure. You agree to pay the Total Fees for any booking requested in connection with your Adventure IO Account.
8.1.2 Upon receipt of a booking confirmation from Adventure IO, a legally binding agreement is formed between you and your Guide, subject to any additional terms and conditions of the Guide that apply, including in particular the applicable cancellation policy and any rules and restrictions specified in the Adventure. Adventure IO will collect the Total Fees at the time of the booking request or upon the Guides’ confirmation of the Adventure completion.
8.1.3 If you book a Guide Service on behalf of additional Participants, you are required to ensure that every additional Participant meets any requirements set by the Guide, and is made aware of and agrees to these Terms and any terms and conditions, rules and restrictions set by the Guide. If you are booking for an additional Participant who is a minor, you represent and warrant that you are legally authorized to act on behalf of the minor. Minors may only participate in an Adventure or other Guide Service if accompanied by an adult who is responsible for them.
8.1.4 Adventure IO allows for a Participant to book an Adventure on behalf of multiple other Participants but requires the Participant booking the Adventure to pay the Total Fees in full. Participants can only book an Adventure for multiple Participants if the Guide allows for the number of Participants requested to participate in the Adventure. Additional Participants are also subject to all terms and conditions found herein and any additional requirements specified by the Guide.
8.2 Booking Adventures and other Guide Services
8.2.1 You should carefully review the description of any Adventure or other Guide Service you intend to book to ensure you (and any additional Participants you are booking for) meet any minimum age, proficiency, fitness or other requirements which the Guide has specified in their Adventure. At your sole discretion, you may want to inform the Guide of any medical or physical conditions, or other circumstances that may impact your and any additional Participant’s ability to participate in any Adventure or other Guide Service. In addition, certain laws, like the minimum legal drinking age in the location of the Adventure or other Guide Service, may also apply. You are responsible for identifying, understanding, and complying with all laws, rules and regulations that apply to your participation in an Adventure or other Guide Service.
8.2.2 Before and during an Adventure or other Guide Service you must at all times adhere to the Guides’ instructions.
8.2.3 You may not bring any additional individuals to an Adventure or other Guide Service unless such an individual was added by you as an additional Participant during the booking process on the Adventure IO Platform.
9. Booking Modifications, Cancellations and Refunds, Resolution Center
9.1 Guides and Participants are responsible for any modifications to a booking that they make via the Adventure IO Platform or direct Adventure IO customer service to make (“Booking Modifications”), and agree to pay any additional Adventure Fees, Guide Fees or Participant Fees and/or Taxes associated with such Booking Modifications.
9.2 Participants can cancel a confirmed booking at any time pursuant to the Adventure’s cancellation policy, and Adventure IO will refund the amount of the Total Fees due to the Participant in accordance with such cancellation policy. Unless extenuating circumstances exist in accordance with our extenuating circumstances policy (as defined below), any portion of the Total Fees due to the Guide under the applicable cancellation policy will be remitted to the Guide by Adventure IO pursuant to the Payments Terms.
9.3 If a Guide cancels a confirmed booking, the Participant will receive a full refund of the Total Fees for such booking within a commercially reasonable time of the cancellation. In some instances, Adventure IO may allow the Participant to apply the refund to a new booking, in which case Adventure IO will credit the amount against the Participant’s subsequent booking at the Participant’s direction. Further, Adventure IO may publish an automated review on the Adventure cancelled by the Guide indicating that a booking was cancelled. In addition, Adventure IO may (i) keep the calendar for the Adventure unavailable or blocked for the dates of the cancelled booking, and/or (ii) impose a cancellation fee, unless the Guide has a valid reason for cancelling the booking pursuant to Adventure IO’s Refund Policy or has legitimate concerns about the Participant’s behavior.
9.4 For Adventures and other Guide Services, if inclement weather creates an unsafe or uncomfortable scenario for Participants, Guides may modify or cancel an Adventure or Guide Service. If there is a substantial change in the itinerary or the Adventure or Guide Service needs to be cancelled, Adventure IO will work with the Guide and/or Participants to provide Participants an alternative date for the Guide Service, an appropriate refund or a rebooking.
9.5 In certain circumstances, Adventure IO may decide, in its sole discretion, that it is necessary to cancel a confirmed booking and make appropriate refund and payout decisions. This may be for reasons set forth in Adventure IO's Refund Policy or (i) where Adventure IO believes in good faith, while taking the legitimate interests of both parties into account, this is necessary to avoid significant harm to Adventure IO, other Participants, third parties or property, or (ii) for any of the reasons set out in these Terms.
9.6 If a Participant suffers a Travel Issue pursuant to the Refund Policy, Adventure IO may determine, in its sole discretion, to refund the Participant part or all of the Total Fees in accordance with the Refund Policy.
9.7 If, as a Guide, your Participant cancels a confirmed booking or Adventure IO decides that it is necessary to cancel a confirmed booking, and Adventure IO issues a refund to the Participant in accordance with the Refund Policy or other applicable cancellation policy, you agree that in the event you have already been paid, Adventure IO will be entitled to recover the amount of any such refund from you, including by subtracting such refund amount out from any future payouts due to you.
9.8 Except as otherwise set out in these Terms, Participants may use the Resolution Center to send or request money for refunds, additional Guide Service, Co-Guide Service or Damage Claims related to bookings. You agree to pay all amounts sent through the Resolution Center in connection with your Adventure IO Account, and Adventure IO will handle all such payments.
9.9 Below is a list of circumstances covered by our extenuating circumstances policy. Before you cancel, check that your circumstance is included in the list below and that you can provide the required documentation.
The following circumstances require documentation:
Death of a Guide, Participant, or their immediate family member. You’ll be asked to provide one of these documents:
• Death certificate
• News article naming the deceased
Serious illness of a Participant, Guide, or any member of the traveling party. You’ll be asked to provide a general statement from a physician confirming that the person can't travel. The statement must be dated after the Adventure was booked.
Government-mandated obligations including jury duty, travel restrictions, court appearances, and military deployment. You'll be asked to provide a copy of the official notice dated after the Adventure was booked, including the name of the person fulfilling the obligation.
Airport and road closures that make it impossible to travel to your destination. This includes closures caused by natural disasters like earthquakes or severe storms. You’ll be asked to provide a notice of the road closure, or notice of the airport closure and proof that the flight was canceled.
10. Ratings and Reviews
10.1 Within a certain time frame after completing a booking, Participants can leave a public review (“Review”) and submit a star rating (“Rating”) about the Guide and Adventure. Ratings or Reviews reflect the opinions of individual Participants and do not reflect the opinion of Adventure IO. Ratings and Reviews are not verified by Adventure IO for accuracy and may be incorrect or misleading.
10.2 Ratings and Reviews by Participants must be accurate and may not contain any offensive or defamatory language. Ratings and Reviews are subject to Section 5 and must comply with Adventure IO’s Content Policy and Extortion Policy.
10.3 Participants are prohibited from manipulating the Ratings and Reviews system in any manner, such as instructing a third party to write a positive or negative Review about another User.
10.4 Ratings and Reviews are part of a User’s public profile and may also be surfaced elsewhere on the Adventure IO Platform (such as the Adventure page) together with other relevant information such as number of bookings, number of cancellations, average response time and other information.
11. Damage; Disputes between Users
11.1 As a Participant, you are responsible for your own acts and omissions and are also responsible for the acts and omissions of any individuals whom you invite to, or otherwise provide access to, the Guide Services, excluding the Guide (and the individuals the Guide invites to the Guide Services, if applicable).
11.2 Guides are solely responsible for ensuring that the Equipment used in the Adventure or other Guide Service is in good working order and conforms to all laws pertaining to safety, equipment, inspection, and operational capability. Except as otherwise required by law, you assume all risk of damage or loss to your Equipment.
12. Rounding off
Adventure IO generally supports payment amounts that are payable from or to Participants or Guides to the smallest unit supported by a given currency (i.e., U.S. cents, Euro cents or other supported currencies). Where Adventure IO’s third-party payment services provider does not support payments in the smaller unit supported by a given currency, Adventure IO may, in its sole discretion, round up or round down amounts that are payable from or to Participants or Guides to the nearest whole functional base unit in which the currency is denominated (i.e. to the nearest dollar, Euro or other supported currency); for example, Adventure IO may round up an amount of $101.50 to $102.00, and round down an amount of $101.49 to $101.00.
13.1 As a Guide, you are solely responsible for determining your obligations to report, collect, remit or include in your Adventure Fees any applicable VAT or other indirect sales taxes, occupancy tax, tourist or other visitor taxes or income taxes (“Taxes”).
13.2 Tax regulations may require us to collect appropriate Tax information from Guides, or to withhold Taxes from payouts to Guides, or both. If a Guide fails to provide us with documentation that we determine to be sufficient to alleviate our obligation (if any) to withhold Taxes from payouts to you, we reserve the right to freeze all payouts, withhold such amounts as required by law, or to do both, until resolution.
14. Prohibited Activities
14.1 You are solely responsible for compliance with any and all laws, rules, regulations, and Tax obligations that may apply to your use of the Adventure IO Platform. In connection with your use of the Adventure IO Platform, you will not and will not assist or enable others to:
breach or circumvent any applicable laws or regulations, agreements with third-parties, third-party rights, or our Terms, Policies or Standards;
use the Adventure IO Platform or Collective Content for any commercial or other purposes that are not expressly permitted by these Terms or in a manner that falsely implies Adventure IO endorsement, partnership or otherwise misleads others as to your affiliation with Adventure IO;
use the Adventure IO Platform in connection with the distribution of unsolicited commercial messages (“spam”);
unless Adventure IO explicitly permits otherwise, book any Adventure if you will not actually be using the Guide Services yourself;
contact another User for any purpose other than asking a question related to your own booking, Adventure, or the User’s use of the Adventure IO Platform, including, but not limited to, recruiting or otherwise soliciting any User to join third-party services, applications or websites, without our prior written approval;
use the Adventure IO Platform to request, make or accept a booking independent of the Adventure IO Platform, to circumvent any Service Fees or for any other reason;
request, accept or make any payment for Adventure Fees outside of the Adventure IO Platform. If you do so, you acknowledge and agree that you: (i) would be in breach of these Terms; (ii) accept all risks and responsibility for such payment, and (iii) hold Adventure IO harmless from any liability for such payment;
discriminate against or harass anyone on the basis of race, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, age or sexual orientation, or otherwise engage in any violent, harmful, abusive or disruptive behavior;
use, display, mirror or frame the Adventure IO Platform or Collective Content, or any individual element within the Adventure IO Platform, Adventure IO’s name, any Adventure IO trademark, logo or other proprietary information, or the layout and design of any page or form contained on a page in the Adventure IO Platform, without Adventure IO's express written consent;
dilute, tarnish or otherwise harm the Adventure IO brand in any way, including through unauthorized use of Collective Content, registering and/or using Adventure IO or derivative terms in domain names, trade names, trademarks or other source identifiers, or registering and/or using domains names, trade names, trademarks or other source identifiers that closely imitate or are confusingly similar to Adventure IO domains, trademarks, taglines, promotional campaigns or Collective Content;
use any robots, spider, crawler, scraper or other automated means or processes to access, collect data or other content from or otherwise interact with the Adventure IO Platform for any purpose;
avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, impair, descramble, or otherwise attempt to circumvent any technological measure implemented by Adventure IO or any of Adventure IO’s providers or any other third party to protect the Adventure IO Platform;
attempt to decipher, decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer any of the software used to provide the Adventure IO Platform;
take any action that damages or adversely affects, or could damage or adversely affect the performance or proper functioning of the Adventure IO Platform;
export, re-export, import, or transfer the Application except as authorized by United States law, the export control laws of your jurisdiction, and any other applicable laws; or
violate or infringe anyone else’s rights or otherwise cause harm to anyone.
14.2 You acknowledge that Adventure IO has no obligation to monitor the access to or use of the Adventure IO Platform by any User or to review, disable access to, or edit any User Content, but has the right to do so to (i) operate, secure and improve the Adventure IO Platform (including without limitation for fraud prevention, risk assessment, investigation and customer support purposes); (ii) ensure User’s compliance with these Terms; (iii) comply with applicable law or the order or requirement of a court, law enforcement or other administrative agency or governmental body; (iv) respond to User Content that it determines is harmful or objectionable; or (v) as otherwise set forth in these Terms. Users agree to cooperate with and assist Adventure IO in good faith, and to provide Adventure IO with such information and take such actions as may be reasonably requested by Adventure IO with respect to any investigation undertaken by Adventure IO or a representative of Adventure IO regarding the use or abuse of the Adventure IO Platform.
14.3 If you feel that any User you interact with, whether online or in person, is acting or has acted inappropriately, including but not limited to anyone who (i) engages in offensive, violent or sexually inappropriate behavior, (ii) you suspect of stealing from you, or (iii) engages in any other disturbing conduct, you should immediately report such person to the appropriate authorities and then to Adventure IO by contacting us with your police station and report number (if available). You agree that any report you make will not obligate us to take any action (beyond that required by law, if any).
15. Term and Termination, Suspension and other Measures
15.1 This Agreement shall be effective for a 30-day term, at the end of which it will automatically and continuously renew for subsequent 30-day terms until such time when you or Adventure IO terminate the Agreement in accordance with this Section 15.
15.2 You may terminate this Agreement at any time by sending us an email. If you cancel your Adventure IO Account as a Guide, any confirmed booking(s) will be automatically cancelled and your Participants will receive a full refund. If you cancel your Adventure IO Account as a Participant, any confirmed booking(s) will be automatically cancelled and any refund will depend upon the terms of the Adventure’s cancellation policy.
15.3 Unless your Country of Residence is the United States, without limiting our rights specified below, Adventure IO may terminate this Agreement for convenience at any time by giving you thirty (30) days' notice via email to your registered email address.
15.4 Adventure IO may immediately, without notice, terminate this Agreement and/or stop providing access to the Adventure IO Platform if (i) you have materially breached your obligations under these Terms, the Payments Terms, our Policies or Standards, (ii) you have violated applicable laws, regulations or third party rights, or (iii) Adventure IO believes in good faith that such action is reasonably necessary to protect the personal safety or property of Adventure IO, its Users, or third parties (for example in the case of fraudulent behavior of a User).
15.5 In addition, Adventure IO may take any of the following measures (i) to comply with applicable law, or the order or request of a court, law enforcement or other administrative agency or governmental body, or if (ii) you have breached these Terms, the Payments Terms, our Policies or Standards, applicable laws, regulations, or third party rights, (iii) you have provided inaccurate, fraudulent, outdated or incomplete information during the Adventure IO Account registration, Adventure process or thereafter, (iv) you and/or your Adventures or Guide Services at any time fail to meet any applicable quality or eligibility criteria, (v) you have repeatedly received poor Ratings or Reviews or Adventure IO otherwise becomes aware of or has received complaints about your performance or conduct, (vi) you have repeatedly cancelled confirmed bookings or failed to respond to booking requests without a valid reason, or (vii) Adventure IO believes in good faith that such action is reasonably necessary to protect the personal safety or property of Adventure IO, its Users, or third parties, or to prevent fraud or other illegal activity:
refuse to surface, delete or delay any Adventures, Ratings, Reviews, or other User Content;
cancel any pending or confirmed bookings;
limit your access to or use of the Adventure IO Platform;
temporarily or permanently revoke any special status associated with your Adventure IO Account;
temporarily or in case of severe or repeated offenses permanently suspend your Adventure IO Account and stop providing access to the Adventure IO Platform.
In case of non-material breaches and where appropriate, you will be given notice of any intended measure by Adventure IO and an opportunity to resolve the issue to Adventure IO's reasonable satisfaction.
15.6 If we take any of the measures described above (i) we may refund your Participants in full for any and all confirmed bookings that have been cancelled, irrespective of preexisting cancellation policies, and (ii) you will not be entitled to any compensation for pending or confirmed bookings that were cancelled.
15.7 When this Agreement has been terminated, you are not entitled to a restoration of your Adventure IO Account or any of your User Content. If your access to or use of the Adventure IO Platform has been limited or your Adventure IO Account has been suspended or this Agreement has been terminated by us, you may not register a new Adventure IO Account or access and use the Adventure IO Platform through an Adventure IO Account of another User.
15.8 If you or we terminate this Agreement, the clauses of these Terms that reasonably should survive termination of the Agreement will remain in effect.
If you choose to use the Adventure IO Platform or Collective Content, you do so voluntarily and at your sole risk. The Adventure IO Platform and Collective Content is provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind, either express or implied.
You agree that you have had whatever opportunity you deem necessary to investigate the Adventure IO Services, laws, rules, or regulations that may be applicable to your Adventures and/or Guide Services you are receiving and that you are not relying upon any statement of law or fact made by Adventure IO relating to an Adventure. If we choose to conduct identity verification or background checks on any User, to the extent permitted by applicable law, we disclaim warranties of any kind, either express or implied, that such checks will identify prior misconduct by a User or guarantee that a User will not engage in misconduct in the future. You agree that some Adventures may carry inherent risk, and by participating in such services, you choose to assume those risks voluntarily. For example, some Guide Services may carry risk of illness, bodily injury, disability, or death, and you freely and willfully assume those risks by choosing to participate in those Guide Services. You understand and acknowledge that You may be exposed to dangers and hazards, including some of the following (depending on the Guide Service): falls, fractures, concussions, dangerous weather, overexertion, overheating, injuries from my lack of fitness or conditioning, hypothermia, hostile or aggressive wildlife, death, equipment failures, traffic, collisions with obstacles, hazards, failure to wear a helmet and/or other protective equipment, and negligence of others. You assume full responsibility for the choices you make before, during and after your participation in a Guide Service. If you are bringing a minor as an additional Participant, you are solely responsible for the supervision of that minor throughout the duration of your Guide Service and to the maximum extent permitted by law, you agree to release and hold harmless Adventure IO from all liabilities and claims that arise in any way from any injury, death, loss or harm that occurs to that minor during the Guide Service or in any way related to your Guide Service. The foregoing disclaimers apply to the maximum extent permitted by law. You may have other statutory rights. However, the duration of statutorily required warranties, if any, shall be limited to the maximum extent permitted by law.
17.1 You acknowledge and agree that, to the maximum extent permitted by law, the entire risk arising out of your access to and use of the Adventure IO Platform and Collective Content, your publishing or booking of any Adventure via the Adventure IO Platform, participation in any Adventure or use of any other Guide Service, or any other interaction you have with other Users whether in person or online remains with you. Neither Adventure IO nor any other party involved in creating, producing, or delivering the Adventure IO Platform or Collective Content will be liable for any incidental, special, exemplary or consequential damages, including lost profits, loss of data or loss of goodwill, service interruption, computer damage or system failure or the cost of substitute products or services, or for any damages for personal or bodily injury or emotional distress arising out of or in connection with (i) these Terms, (ii) from the use of or inability to use the Adventure IO Platform or Collective Content, (iii) from any communications, interactions or meetings with other Users or other persons with whom you communicate, interact or meet with as a result of your use of the Adventure IO Platform, or (iv) from your publishing or booking of an Adventure, including the provision or use of an Adventure or Guide Service, whether based on warranty, contract, tort (including negligence), product liability or any other legal theory, and whether or not Adventure IO has been informed of the possibility of such damage, even if a limited remedy set forth herein is found to have failed of its essential purpose. In no way will Adventure IO’s aggregate liability arising out of or in connection with these Terms and your use of the Adventure IO Platform including, but not limited to, from your publishing or booking of any Adventures via the Adventure IO Platform, or from the use of or inability to use the Adventure IO Platform or Collective Content and in connection with any Adventures, other Guide Service, or interactions with any other Users, exceed one hundred dollars (US$100), or if you are a Guide, one hundred U.S. dollars (US$100). The limitations of damages set forth above are fundamental elements of the basis of the bargain between Adventure IO and you. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of liability for consequential or incidental damages, so the above limitation may not apply to you. If you reside outside of the U.S., this does not affect Adventure IO’s liability for death or personal injury arising from its negligence, nor for fraudulent misrepresentation, misrepresentation as to a fundamental matter or any other liability which cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law.
17.2 If your Country of Residence is in the EU, Adventure IO is liable under statutory provisions for intent and gross negligence by us, our legal representatives, directors, or other vicarious agents. The same applies to the assumption of guarantees or any other strict liability, or in case of a culpable injury to life, limb, or health. Adventure IO is liable for any negligent breaches of essential contractual obligations by us, our legal representatives, directors, or other vicarious agents. Essential contractual obligations are such duties of Adventure IO in whose proper fulfilment you regularly trust and must trust for the proper execution of the contract but the amount shall be limited to the typically occurring foreseeable damage. Any additional liability of Adventure IO is excluded.
You agree to release, defend (at Adventure IO’s option), indemnify, and hold Adventure IO and its affiliates and subsidiaries and their officers, directors, employees and agents, harmless from and against any claims, liabilities, damages, losses, and expenses, including, without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees, arising out of or in any way connected with (i) your breach of these Terms or our Policies or Standards, (ii) your improper use of the Adventure IO Platform or any Adventure IO Services, (iii) your interaction with any Users, participation in an Adventure or other Guide Service, including without limitation any injuries, losses or damages (whether compensatory, direct, incidental, consequential or otherwise) of any kind arising in connection with or as a result of such interaction, participation or use, (iv) Adventure IO’s Collection and Remittance of Taxes, or (v) your breach of any laws, regulations or third party rights.
19. Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Agreement
19.1 This Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Agreement shall apply if your (i) Country of Residence is in the United States; or (ii) your Country of Residence is not in the United States, but bring any claim against Adventure IO in the United States (to the extent not in conflict with Section 21).
19.2 Overview of Dispute Resolution Process. Adventure IO is committed to participating in a consumer-friendly dispute resolution process. To that end, these Terms provide for a two-part process for individuals to whom Section 19.1 applies: (1) an informal negotiation directly with Adventure IO’s customer service team, and (2) a binding arbitration administered by the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) using its specially designed Consumer Arbitration Rules (as modified by this Section 19 and except as provided in Section 19.6). Specifically, the Consumer Arbitration Rules provide:
Arbitrators must be neutral, and no party may unilaterally select an arbitrator;
Arbitrators must disclose any bias, interest in the result of the arbitration, or relationship with any party;
Parties retain the right to seek relief in small claims court for certain claims, at their option;
The initial filing fee for the consumer is capped at $200;
The consumer gets to elect the hearing location and can elect to participate live, by phone, video conference, or, for claims under $25,000, by the submission of documents;
The arbitrator can grant any remedy that the parties could have received in court to resolve the party’s individual claim.
19.3 Pre-Arbitration Dispute Resolution and Notification. Prior to initiating an arbitration, you and Adventure IO each agree to notify the other party of the dispute and attempt to negotiate an informal resolution to it first. We will contact you at the email address you have provided to us; you can contact Adventure IO’s customer service team by emailing us. If after a good faith effort to negotiate one of us feels the dispute has not and cannot be resolved informally, the party intending to pursue arbitration agrees to notify the other party via email prior to initiating the arbitration. In order to initiate arbitration, a claim must be filed with the AAA and the written Demand for Arbitration (available at www.adr.org) provided to the other party, as specified in the AAA Rules.
19.4 Agreement to Arbitrate. You and Adventure IO mutually agree that any dispute, claim or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the breach, termination, enforcement or interpretation thereof, or to the use of the Adventure IO Platform, the Guide Services, or the Collective Content (collectively, “Disputes”) will be settled by binding arbitration (the “Arbitration Agreement”). If there is a dispute about whether this Arbitration Agreement can be enforced or applies to our Dispute, you and Adventure IO agree that the arbitrator will decide that issue.
19.5 Exceptions to Arbitration Agreement. You and Adventure IO each agree that the following claims are exceptions to the Arbitration Agreement and will be brought in a judicial proceeding in a court of competent jurisdiction: (i) Any claim related to actual or threatened infringement, misappropriation or violation of a party’s copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, patents, or other intellectual property rights; (ii) Any claim seeking emergency injunctive relief based on exigent circumstances (e.g., imminent danger or commission of a crime, hacking, cyber-attack).
19.6 Arbitration Rules and Governing Law. This Arbitration Agreement evidences a transaction in interstate commerce and thus the Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this provision. The arbitration will be administered by AAA in accordance with the Consumer Arbitration Rules and/or other AAA arbitration rules determined to be applicable by the AAA (the “AAA Rules”) then in effect, except as modified here. The AAA Rules are available at www.adr.org or by calling the AAA at 1–800–778–7879.
19.7 Modification to AAA Rules - Arbitration Hearing/Location. In order to make the arbitration most convenient to you, Adventure IO agrees that any required arbitration hearing may be conducted, at your option, (a) in the county where you reside; (b) in Salt Lake County; (c) in any other location to which you and Adventure IO both agree; (d) via phone or video conference; or (e) for any claim or counterclaim under $25,000, by solely the submission of documents to the arbitrator.
19.8 Modification of AAA Rules - Attorney’s Fees and Costs. You and Adventure IO agree that Adventure IO will be responsible for payment of the balance of any initial filing fee under the AAA Rules in excess of $200 for claims of $75,000 or less. You may be entitled to seek an award of attorney fees and expenses if you prevail in arbitration, to the extent provided under applicable law and the AAA rules. Unless the arbitrator determines that your claim was frivolous or filed for the purpose of harassment, Adventure IO agrees it will not seek, and hereby waives all rights it may have under applicable law or the AAA Rules, to recover attorneys’ fees and expenses if it prevails in arbitration.
19.9 Arbitrator’s Decision. The arbitrator’s decision will include the essential findings and conclusions upon which the arbitrator based the award. Judgment on the arbitration award may be entered in any court with proper jurisdiction. The arbitrator may award declaratory or injunctive relief only on an individual basis and only to the extent necessary to provide relief warranted by the claimant’s individual claim.
19.10 Jury Trial Waiver. You and Adventure IO acknowledge and agree that we are each waiving the right to a trial by jury as to all arbitrable Disputes.
19.11 No Class Actions or Representative Proceedings. You and Adventure IO acknowledge and agree that we are each waiving the right to participate as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class action lawsuit, class-wide arbitration, private attorney-general action, or any other representative proceeding as to all Disputes. Further, unless you and Adventure IO both otherwise agree in writing, the arbitrator may not consolidate more than one party’s claims and may not otherwise preside over any form of any class or representative proceeding. If this paragraph is held unenforceable with respect to any Dispute, then the entirety of the Arbitration Agreement will be deemed void with respect to such Dispute.
19.12 Severability. Except as provided in Section 19.11, in the event that any portion of this Arbitration Agreement is deemed illegal or unenforceable, such provision shall be severed and the remainder of the Arbitration Agreement shall be given full force and effect.
19.13 Changes. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3 (“Modification of these Terms”), if Adventure IO changes this Section 19 (“Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Agreement”) after the date you last accepted these Terms (or accepted any subsequent changes to these Terms), you may reject any such change by sending us written notice (including by email) within thirty (30) days of the date such change became effective, as indicated in the “Last Updated” date above or in the date of Adventure IO’s email to you notifying you of such change. By rejecting any change, you are agreeing that you will arbitrate any Dispute between you and Adventure IO in accordance with the provisions of the “Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Agreement” section as of the date you last accepted these Terms (or accepted any subsequent changes to these Terms).
19.14 Survival. Except as provided in Section 19.12 and subject to Section 15.8, this Section 19 will survive any termination of these Terms and will continue to apply even if you stop using the Adventure IO Platform or terminate your Adventure IO Account.
We welcome and encourage you to provide feedback, comments and suggestions for improvements to the Adventure IO Platform (“Feedback”). You may submit Feedback by emailing us at [email protected] section of the Adventure IO Platform, or by other means of communication. Any Feedback you submit to us will be considered non-confidential and non-proprietary to you. By submitting Feedback to us, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, irrevocable, sub-licensable, perpetual license to use and publish those ideas and materials for any purpose, without compensation to you.
21. Applicable Law and Jurisdiction
21.1 If your Country of Residence is the United States, these Terms will be interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of Utah and the United States of America, without regard to conflict-of-law provisions. Judicial proceedings (other than small claims actions) that are excluded from the Arbitration Agreement in Section 19 must be brought in state or federal court in Salt Lake City, Utah, unless we both agree to some other location. You and we both consent to venue and personal jurisdiction in Salt Lake City, Utah.
21.2 If your Country of Residence is China these Terms will be interpreted in accordance with the laws of China (“China Laws”). Any dispute arising from or in connection with this Agreement shall be submitted to the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) for arbitration in Beijing which shall be conducted in accordance with CIETAC’s arbitration rules in effect at the time of applying for arbitration, provided that this section shall not be construed to limit any rights which Adventure IO may have to apply to any court of competent jurisdiction for an order requiring you to perform or be prohibited from performing certain acts and other provisional relief permitted under China Laws or any other laws that may apply to you. The arbitration proceedings shall be conducted in English. The arbitral award rendered is final and binding upon both parties.
21.3 If your Country of Residence is outside of the United States and China, these Terms will be interpreted in accordance with Irish law. The application of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) is excluded. The choice of law does not impact your rights as a consumer according to the consumer protection regulations of your Country of Residence. If you are acting as a consumer, you agree to submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the Irish courts. Judicial proceedings that you are able to bring against us arising from or in connection with these Terms may only be brought in a court located in Ireland or a court with jurisdiction in your place of residence. If Adventure IO wishes to enforce any of its rights against you as a consumer, we may do so only in the courts of the jurisdiction in which you are a resident. If you are acting as a business, you agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the Irish courts.
22. General Provisions
22.1 Except as they may be supplemented by additional terms and conditions, policies, guidelines or standards, these Terms constitute the entire Agreement between Adventure IO and you pertaining to the subject matter hereof, and supersede any and all prior oral or written understandings or agreements between Adventure IO and you in relation to the access to and use of the Adventure IO Platform.
22.2 No joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship exists between you and Adventure IO as a result of this Agreement or your use of the Adventure IO Platform.
22.3 These Terms do not and are not intended to confer any rights or remedies upon any person other than the parties.
22.4 If any provision of these Terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision will be struck and will not affect the validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions.
22.5 Adventure IO’s failure to enforce any right or provision in these Terms will not constitute a waiver of such right or provision unless acknowledged and agreed to by us in writing. Except as expressly set forth in these Terms, the exercise by either party of any of its remedies under these Terms will be without prejudice to its other remedies under these Terms or otherwise permitted under law.
22.6 You may not assign, transfer or delegate this Agreement and your rights and obligations hereunder without Adventure IO's prior written consent. Adventure IO may without restriction assign, transfer or delegate this Agreement and any rights and obligations hereunder, at its sole discretion, with 30 days prior notice. Your right to terminate this Agreement at any time remains unaffected.
22.7 Unless specified otherwise, any notices or other communications to Users permitted or required under this Agreement, will be provided electronically and given by Adventure IO via email, Adventure IO Platform notification, or messaging service (including SMS and WeChat). For notices made to Users residing outside of Germany, the date of receipt will be deemed the date on which Adventure IO transmits the notice. If your booking is in respect of an Adventure in Japan, you agree and acknowledge that such notifications via electronic means in lieu of a written statement, satisfies Adventure IO’s obligations.
22.8 If your Country of Residence is in the EU you can access the European Commission’s online dispute resolution platform here: http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr. Please note that Adventure IO Ireland is not committed nor obliged to use an alternative dispute resolution entity to resolve disputes with consumers.
Adventure IO Policies
Table of Contents
Extenuating Circumstances Policy
1. Content Policy
By posting content in public areas on Adventure IO, you agree to abide by these guidelines and all other Adventure IO policies. We reserve the right to remove any content, in whole or part, that violates these guidelines or our Terms of Service, or for any other reason at our sole discretion.
In the event of repeated or severe violations, we may suspend or permanently deactivate the account(s) in question.
You can flag or contact us about posts that appear to violate these content guidelines.
We don't allow:
Advertising or other commercial content, company logos, links, or company names
Spam, unwanted contact, or content that is shared repeatedly in a disruptive manner
Content that endorses or promotes illegal or harmful activity, or that is profane, vulgar, obscene, threatening, or harassing
Content that is discriminatory (review our Non-Discrimination Policy for more information)
Attempts to impersonate another person, account, or entity, including a representative of Adventure IO
Content that is illegal or that violates another person’s or entity’s rights, including intellectual property rights and privacy rights
Content that refers to the details of an Adventure IO investigation
Content that is sufficient to identify a listing’s location or other content that may pose a personal safety risk to an Adventure IO community member
In addition to the above, the following guidelines apply to specific types of content on Adventure IO:
Adventures and profiles: Content that is fraudulent, false, misleading, or deceptive
Reviews that do not represent the author’s personal experience or that of their participant companions
Reviews incentivized by a promise for payment, additional services, or a discounted rate
Reviews motivated by a threat of extortion (review our Extortion Policy)
Content that is off-topic, doesn’t ask a question, or doesn’t offer knowledge in response to a question as part of a larger discussion
Trolling or repeatedly targeting community members
2. Community Standards
Your Adventure IO experience begins the moment you embrace adventure. That’s only possible when you trust this community and feel safe. As a result, safety is our first priority—we require that you refrain from endangering or threatening anyone.
Harming yourself or others You should not commit physical or sexual assault, sexual abuse, sexual harassment, domestic violence, robbery, human trafficking, other acts of violence, or hold anyone against their will. Members of dangerous organizations, including terrorist, organized criminal, and violent racist groups, are not welcome in this community. We take suicide, self-injury, eating disorders, and hard drug abuse extremely seriously and work to help people in crisis.
Threatening anyone You should not convey an intent to harm anyone by your words or physical actions. We also take threats of self-harm as seriously as we do actions and so this means that we will intervene if we become aware of a threat.
Creating hazardous situations You should not keep unsecured weapons, disease risks, or dangerous animals in your listing, nor should you create conditions that increase the likelihood of a fire or impede escape in the event of emergency.
If you’re experiencing a Guide’s Adventure as a Participant, you should trust that you will feel secure. We ask you to respect others’ property, information, and personal belongings.
Theft, vandalism, or extortion You should not take property that isn’t yours, use someone’s property without their permission, damage others’ property, remain after an Adventure is concluded, or threaten anyone with bad ratings or any other penalty or harm to obtain compensation or other benefits.
Spam, phishing, or fraud You should not make transactions outside of Adventure IO’s payments system; commit booking fraud, credit card fraud, or launder money; attempt to drive traffic to other sites or market unrelated products; divert payments meant for others; abuse our referrals system; or make false claims against other members of the community.
Violating others’ privacy or intellectual property rights You should not spy on other people; cameras are not allowed in your Adventure unless they are previously disclosed and visible, and they are never permitted in private spaces (such as bathrooms). You should not access others’ accounts without authorization or violate others’ privacy, copyrights, or trademarks.
The global Adventure IO community is as diverse, unique, and vibrant as the world around us. Fairness is what holds us together, what makes it possible for us to trust one another, integrate seamlessly within communities, and feel as if can we can truly belong.
Discriminatory behavior or hate speech You should treat everyone with respect in every interaction. So, you should follow all applicable laws and not treat others differently because of their race, ethnicity, national origin, religious affiliation, sexual orientation, sex, gender, gender identity, disability, or serious diseases. Similarly, insulting others on these bases is not allowed.
Bullying or harassing others You should not share personal information to shame or blackmail others, target others with unwanted behavior, defame others, or violate our review and content standards.
Disturbing the surrounding community You should not disturb common spaces, create a pervasive nuisance for those around you, or persistently fail to respond to local or community concerns.
Your Adventure IO experiences should be full of delightful moments and surprising adventures. Since our community is built on trust, authenticity is essential—it requires a balance of shared expectations, honest interactions, and accurate details.
Misrepresenting yourself You should not provide a false name or date of birth, maintain duplicate accounts, or create an account if you’re under 18.
Misrepresenting your listing You should not provide inaccurate location information, have incorrect availability, mislead people about the type, nature, or details of your listing, substitute one listing for another, set up fake or fraudulent listings, leave fraudulent reviews, engage in deceptive pricing, or fail to disclose hazards.
Every Adventure is unique and each detail specific to a Guide. Since our community makes commitments based on these details, we have to be able to trust each other’s reliability—whether it be in timely communication, the condition of the listing, or in the expectations we set.
Breaking commitments Absent extenuating circumstances, you should not cancel after the deadline set in the relevant cancellation policy. You should also not fail to make check-in possible, fail to pay, or break the Guide’s rules.
Being unresponsive You should not have persistently and pervasively low ratings, be unresponsive during booking or throughout an Adventure, fail to provide an adequate point of contact, or refuse to participate in our resolution process.
3. Extenuating Circumstances Policy
What if I need to cancel because of an emergency or unavoidable circumstance?
We may be able to give you a refund or waive the penalties if you have to cancel because of an unexpected circumstance that’s out of your control. Below is a list of circumstances covered by our Extenuating Circumstances Policy. Before you cancel, check that your circumstance is included in the list below and that you can provide the required documentation.
Circumstances that require documentation
Death of a Guide, Participant, or their immediate family member. You’ll be asked to provide one of these documents:
News article naming the deceased
Serious illness of a Participant, Guide, or any member of the traveling party. You’ll be asked to provide a general statement from a physician confirming that the person can't travel. The statement must be dated after the Adventure was booked.
Government-mandated obligations including jury duty, travel restrictions, court appearances, and military deployment. You'll be asked to provide a copy of the official notice dated after the Adventure was booked, including the name of the person fulfilling the obligation.
Airport and road closures that make it impossible to travel to your destination. This includes closures caused by natural disasters like earthquakes or severe storms. You’ll be asked to provide a notice of the road closure, or notice of the airport closure and proof that the flight was canceled.
Circumstances that require special review
There’s no required documentation for these circumstances, but our specialized team will review each case to confirm that you’re directly affected.
Severe security advisories for political or civil unrest in the area that the Participant is traveling from, traveling to, or that the Guide’s Adventure is located in. Examples include:
Increased military presence
Severe damage to the area’s infrastructure
Changes to visa or passport requirements that make it impossible to travel to the destination. This doesn’t include lost or expired travel documents.
Natural disasters that prevent the Participant from traveling to or from the destination, or that make it unsafe to host Participants. Examples include:
Blizzards or severe winter storms
Endemic disease or illness that suddenly affects a region or an entire group of people. This doesn’t include existing diseases that are associated with an area, for example Malaria in Thailand or Dengue Fever in Hawaii. Examples of endemic disease include:
What to do next
If you’ve confirmed your circumstance meets the requirements above, first cancel your reservation and then contact us to file a claim. We’ll walk you through the next steps, which will include submitting any required documentation and waiting for our team to review your case. Claims must be submitted within 14 days of the extenuating circumstance.
4. Extortion Policy
Reviews are a way for Adventure IO Participants and Guides to share their experiences with the community. Any attempt to use reviews or review responses to force a User to do something they aren’t obligated to do is a misuse of reviews, and we don’t allow it.
This policy applies to situations including, but not limited to:
Participants threatening to use reviews or ratings in an attempt to force a Guide to provide refunds, additional compensation, or a reciprocal positive review.
Guides requiring a Participant to leave a positive review or rating, or to revise a review in exchange for a partial or full refund, or reciprocal review. Guides also can’t offer a free or discounted Adventure in exchange for a Participant revising an existing review.
Guides asking a Participant to take specific actions related to a review in exchange for a resolution to a dispute between the parties.
This policy does not prohibit:
A Participant from contacting a Guide with a problem prior to leaving a review.
A Guide from asking a Participant to leave an honest positive review or rating reflecting a positive experience.
A Guide or Participant from revising a review within the time constraints for revision.
Guides and Participants cannot edit reviews after they are published.
By posting a review, you agree to follow all Adventure IO guidelines and policies, including the Extortion Policy, which Adventure IO may enforce at our sole discretion. Failure to do so may result in the restriction, suspension or termination of your Adventure IO account.
If you think you've experienced extortion, please contact us.
5. Nondiscrimination Policy
Specific Guidance for Guides in the United States and European Union
As a general matter, we will familiarize ourselves with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. Guides should contact Adventure IO customer service if they have any questions about their obligations to comply with this Adventure IO Nondiscrimination Policy. Adventure IO will release further discrimination policy guidance for jurisdictions outside the United States in the near future. Guided by these principles, our U.S. and EU provider community will follow these rules when considering potential Participants:
Race, Color, Ethnicity, National Origin, Religion, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, or Marital Status
Adventure IO Guides may not
Decline a Participant based on race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status.
Impose any different terms or conditions based on race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status.
Post any Adventure or make any statement that discourages or indicates a preference for or against any participant on account of race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status.
Adventure IO Guides must
Where applicable, fully educate and inform Participants about (i) any risks inherent to the Adventure or other Guide Service, (ii) any requirements for participation, such as the minimum age, related skills, level of fitness or other requirements, and (iii) anything else they may need to know to safely participate in the Adventure or other Guide Service (including dress codes, equipment, special certifications or licenses, etc.).
Provide factually accurate information about the physical considerations and conditions in relation to the Adventure, allowing for Participants with disabilities to assess for themselves whether the Adventure or Guide Service is appropriate to their individual needs.
Make the final determination of the eligibility of a Participant to participate in the Adventure based on the Participant’s size, weight, height or other limitation.
Adventure IO Guides may
Decline to provide an Adventure to a Participant based on factors that are not prohibited by law.
Nothing in this policy prevents a Guide from turning down a Participant on the basis of a characteristic that is not protected under the civil rights laws or closely associated with a protected class.
Participants should be in good health to participate in Adventures. Only you know your physical conditions or limitations. Extremely large or small individuals, Participants who have heart, back or neck trouble or conditions, pregnant women, people who have had recent surgery or an illness, people with casts, braces, restrictive devices or certain disabilities may not be safely accommodated by certain Adventures. If you suspect your health could be at risk for any reason, or you could aggravate a pre-existing condition of any kind, DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE ADVENTURE. In order to participate in certain events or conditions, the Participant might be asked to maintain a certain position or meet the requirements and appropriately utilize restraint systems, if required. All Participants must also be able to demonstrate a willingness and ability to comply with verbal and written participant requirements. Guides may turn down any Participant that cannot meet the safety systems designed by the manufacturer. All Participants have a duty to exercise good judgment and act in a responsible manner while participating in an Adventure and to obey all verbal and written warnings and instructions. Participants also have a duty to properly use all Adventure safety equipment provided.
When Participants are turned down.
Guides should keep in mind that no one likes to be turned down. While a Guide may have, and articulate, lawful and legitimate reasons for turning down a potential Participant, it may cause that member of our community to feel unwelcome or excluded. Guides should make every effort to be welcoming to Participants of all backgrounds. Guides who demonstrate a pattern of rejecting Participants from a protected class (even while articulating legitimate reasons), undermine the strength of our community by making potential Participants feel unwelcome, and Adventure IO may suspend Guides who have demonstrated such a pattern from the Adventure IO Platform.
Specific Guidance for Guides Outside the United States and European Union
Outside of the United States and the European Union, some countries or communities may allow or even require people to make accommodation distinctions based on, for example, marital status, national origin, gender or sexual orientation, in violation of our general nondiscrimination philosophy. In these cases, we do not require Guides to violate local laws, nor to accept Participants that could expose the Guides to a real and demonstrable risk of arrest, or physical harm to their persons or property. Guides who live in such areas should set out any such restriction on their ability to provide particular Participants in their Adventure, so that prospective Participants are aware of the issue and Adventure IO can confirm the necessity for such an action. In communicating any such restrictions, we expect Guides to use clear, factual, non-derogatory terms. Slurs and insults have no place on our platform or in our community.
What happens when a Guide does not comply with our policies in this area?
If a particular Adventure contains language contrary to this nondiscrimination policy, the Guide will be asked to remove the language and affirm his or her understanding and intent to comply with this policy and its underlying principles. Adventure IO may also, in its discretion, take steps up to and including suspending the Guide from the Adventure IO Platform.
If the Guide improperly rejects Participants on the basis of protected class, or uses language demonstrating that his or her actions were motivated by factors prohibited by this policy, Adventure IO will take steps to enforce this policy, up to and including suspending the Guide from the platform.
As the Adventure IO community grows, we will continue to ensure that Adventure IO’s policies and practices align with our most important goal: To ensure that Participants and Guides feel welcome and respected in all of their interactions using the Adventure IO Platform. The public, our community, and we ourselves, expect no less than this.
6. Refund Policy
The Refund Policy
An Adventure is fully refundable if:
You cancel within 24 hours of reserving it.
You cancel at least 30 days before it is scheduled to start.
You cancel due to an extenuating circumstance (as defined below).
Cancellations Related to Identification
Some Adventures require all Participants to have an Adventure IO Account and provide ID before attending. If you or any Participant on your reservation don’t complete this process within 3 days of purchase, the entire reservation will be canceled and fully refunded.
Cancellations Related to Weather
Guides plan for changes in the weather and will try to continue the Adventure as planned, even in bad weather. If severe weather conditions make it unsafe for you and your Guide to continue as scheduled, the Guide may adjust the itinerary. If the Adventure is substantially changed or canceled altogether, you can request a refund using the Resolution Center after the Adventure has ended.
Adventure IO empowers Guides to set and manage their cancelation policies. If a Guide or Participant needs to cancel a reservation, it’s their responsibility to cancel as soon as possible. At times, certain circumstances outside of a Guide or Participant’s control can impact their ability to meet the terms of a reservation. In rare instances, if Adventure IO determines that a Participant’s reason for cancellation falls within the extenuating circumstances policy, Adventure IO may override the Guide’s cancellation policy (ex: flexible, moderate, strict) and make refund decisions. If Adventure IO determines that a Guide’s reason for cancellation falls within the extenuating circumstances policy, Adventure IO may waive the Guide cancellation penalties outlined in Adventure IO’s Terms of Service and Adventure IO’s Payments Terms of Service.
What might be covered under the extenuating circumstances policy?
Valid circumstances include:
Unexpected death or serious illness of a provider, participant or immediate family member (spouse/partner, child, parent, legal guardian, grandparent, or sibling)
Serious injury that directly restricts a participant’s ability to travel or a guide’s ability to host an Adventure
Significant natural disasters or severe weather incidents impacting the location of destination or location of departure
Urgent travel restrictions or severe security advisories issued after the time of booking, by an appropriate national or international authority (such as a government office or department)
Endemic disease declared by a credible national or international authority (such as the US Centers for Disease Control or the World Health Organization)
Severe property damage or unforeseen maintenance issues that directly impact the ability to provide the Adventure safely
Government-mandated obligations issued after the time of booking (ex: jury duty, court appearances, military or government assignments)
Claims can only be considered after a reservation has been canceled. Once you've informed your Guide or Participant and canceled a reservation, if you feel that your reason for cancelation is covered by the extenuating circumstances policy, contact Adventure IO for consideration. We generally require claims to be submitted no later than 14 days from the original check-in date and we may require valid supporting documentation.
7. Review Policy
All the reviews on Adventure IO are written by Participants from our community, so any review you see is based on an Adventure that a Participant had in a Guide’s Adventure.
You have 14 days after your Adventure to write a review.
Writing a review
To leave a review for a recent Adventure, go to your reviews. Reviews are limited to 500 words and must follow Adventure IO’s Content Policy. You can edit your review for up to 48 hours, unless your Guide or Participant completes their review.
To see reviews you've written or reviews about you, go to your reviews. You'll also see any private feedback that people have left you.
Our community relies on honest, transparent reviews. We will remove a review if we find that it violates our Content Policy.
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If you’re itching to take a trip to the boot, you’re not alone. Italy is gearing up to have a banner year for tourism. According to ENIT, the national tourism board, an estimated 141,000 visitors arrived in the country for Easter week in spring 2023, representing a 29 percent increase over the same period last year. The number of Americans increased by 50 percent. And that’s only the beginning of the season. Luxury tour operator Imago Artis Travel is estimating that it will get twice as many clients visiting Italy this year as it did last year.
Between the cultural capitals of Rome, Florence, and Milan, picturesque villages, countryside destinations like Tuscany and Umbria, more than 4,700 miles of coast, and the islands of Sicily and Sardinia, there’s more than one could feasibly see and do in a lifetime. There are the classic sights, of course, but also plenty of new hotels, restaurants, art exhibitions, and cultural events. So how do you choose where to go and what to do in Italy? Here’s our guide to some of the biggest news and emerging destinations to consider this season, whatever kind of trip you’re looking for.
Where should I start my journey through Italy?
While many first-time travelers to Italy go the classic route of combining Rome, Florence, and Venice, visiting all three in the same trip might have you suffering from sensory overload. It’s better to start with one. Rome is one of the most exciting cities in Italy right now, thanks to a postpandemic spark of energy that has it riding high on a wave of new openings. More than a dozen new and soon-to-open hotels are changing the city’s hospitality scene, bringing with them new restaurants and bars, innovative design, and more chances to connect with locals. The buzziest openings include the Bulgari Hotel Rome, Six Senses Rome, the Rome Edition, and the InterContinental Rome Ambasciatori Palace, all of which have opened over the last three months.
Exciting exhibitions and cultural happenings are taking place in the Eternal City this summer, too. A retrospective of work by Michelangelo Pistoletto, one of the leading artists in Italy’s arte povera movement from the late 1960s, is on at Chiostro del Bramante until October 15. Following the huge success of the exhibition Casa Balla: From the House to the Universe and Back, MAXXI (the museum of 21st-century art) has opened Casa Balla—the apartment of futurist artist Giacomo Balla—to visits again. A new walking tour by ArcheoRunning’s founder Isabella Calidonna, an art historian and personal trainer, leads participants to dig deeper into Michelangelo’s contributions to Rome beyond the Sistine Chapel. And a new Vespa tour developed by leading tour company Scooteroma exclusively for Hotel de la Ville celebrates the 70th anniversary of the release of Roman Holiday by bringing guests to some of the iconic spots featured in the film.
Where to stay
Book now: Hotel de la Ville
Check into Hotel de la Ville atop the Spanish Steps, which has one of the city’s best rooftop bars, or book a room at the new wellness-focused Six Senses Rome, which opened in March 2023, so you can retreat to the spa for a soak in the Roman baths after exploring the city.
I’m interested in art, architecture, and design. Where should I go?
Italy’s design capital, Milan, is a must-visit destination for architecture and design lovers with plenty to do and see, from perpetual favorites to exciting new exhibitions.
Architecture fans should visit Villa Necchi Campiglio, an icon of 1930s design by Piero Portaluppi that appeared in Luca Guadagnino’s 2009 film I Am Love. At Triennale Milano, the city’s design museum, Ettore Sottsass: La Parola focuses on the written word in the work of the artist and designer known as one of the founders of the Memphis movement. Next to the Duomo, itself worth visiting to admire the Gothic architecture and sculptures, the Palazzo Reale di Milano is hosting Argentine contemporary artist Leandro Erlich’s first large-scale solo European exhibition, which will be on view until October 4. And the Museo del Novecento has an exhibit called Futurliberty: Avant-garde and Style, which focuses on the work of futurist artists like Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini, and Umberto Boccioni.
Where to stay
Book now: Portrait Milano
The talk of the town is the new Portrait Milano by the Ferragamo family, which restored a 16th-century seminary, opening it up to the public for the first time in its history. The residential-inspired design by lauded architect Michele Bönan is the epitome of Italian style, with lots of polished wood, art tomes, archival Ferragamo sketches, and marble bathrooms. Be sure to book a table for lunch or dinner at the hotel’s 10_11 restaurant so you can try rising star chef Alberto Quadrio’s elevated take on pasta in bianco.
I’ve sipped my way around Tuscany’s wineries. Where next?
Piedmont (Piemonte in Italian) is more under the radar than Tuscany, except perhaps when it comes to wine tourism. The region is known for producing the pricey barolos and barbarescos that have wine collectors clamoring to stock their cellars. A top winery is Gaja—Angelo Gaja was one of the trailblazing winemakers who put Piedmont on the map in the 1970s—which will organize a tour and tasting for people who donate at least €300 to a local charity. There are also plenty of more accessible wineries, like the historic Cantine Damilano, which has a couple of wine shops where you can taste and purchase its barolo, barbera, and dolcetto.
Where to stay
Book now: Casa di Langa
Casa di Langa, in the Beyond Green portfolio of sustainable hotels and resorts operated by Preferred Travel Group, is conveniently located in the heart of the Langhe Hills near the top wineries. The 39-room hotel operates on 100 percent renewable energy, is plastic free, and recycles all of the water used to irrigate its vineyards. After exploring the nearby wineries, relax with a massage incorporating local honey and hazelnut oil at the spa.
I want the beautiful scenery of the Amalfi Coast, but without the crowds.
Ischia and Ponza
Try one of the islands, like Ischia in the Bay of Naples or Ponza, an island off the coast of Lazio. Ischia has become an increasingly popular destination, but it’s still scrappier than Capri, its glamorous sister island. Plus, it’s much larger than Capri, so there’s more room to spread out and more chances to explore the many beaches, charming towns like Forio, full of lively restaurants, bars, and boutiques, and wineries, and attractions like La Mortella and the Giardini Ravino botanical gardens. Ischia has been drawing travelers to soak in its natural thermal hot springs since the ancient Greeks arrived on its shores; you can enjoy the benefits of the island’s mineral-rich waters at thermal parks like Negombo and the Fonte delle Ninfe Nitrodi.
Ponza is popular among domestic tourists (especially Romans, given its proximity to Rome and its affordability) but lacks the international travelers that flock to Italy’s larger islands.
The landscape looks much like the Amalfi Coast, with Mediterranean plants, winding roads leading up vertiginous cliffs, and aquamarine waters, but it’s more down to earth and affordable. The action is mainly near the port, lined with pastel buildings housing holiday homes, restaurants, bars, and shops. Most of the beaches are rocky, but if you prefer sand, head to Cala Feola, a sweet little beach where you can spread your towel.
Where to stay
Book now: Albergo della Regina Isabella
In Ischia, the Albergo della Regina Isabella was created by publisher and filmmaker Angelo Rizzoli in the 1950s; staying there feels like stepping back into that era, thanks to the hand-painted tile floors and original furnishings. The place to stay in Ponza is Hotel Chiaia di Luna, which exemplifies the island’s breezy retro style.
OK, but where are the beaches that Italians actually go to?
Italy has more than 4,700 miles of coastline, so if you were to ask 100 Italians what their favorite beach is, you’d probably get 100 different answers. That said, Italians tend to flock south to Puglia, Sicily, and Sardinia in the summer.
Over the past 10 years, American travelers have started to become aware of Puglia, but the region has long been a favorite summer destination for Italians. The heel of the boot, Puglia has gorgeous beaches on both the Adriatic and Ionian coasts as well as at its southern tip, where the two seas meet. The Valle d’Itria, a particularly picturesque part of central Puglia, is home to whitewashed villages like Alberobello, Polignano a Mare, Cisternino, and Ostuni as well as gently rolling hills dotted with olive trees and trulli, ancient dwellings with conical roofs.
For the best beaches in Puglia, many Italians swear by those in Salento, the southernmost part of the region. There’s even a beach called Pescoluse that’s sometimes referred to as “the Maldives of Salento.” The beaches on the Ionian side are especially nice, with large stretches of sand and clear water that tends to be calmer than on the Adriatic side.
Where to stay
Book now: Borgo Egnazia
This member of the Leading Hotels of the World in the lush Valle d’Itria was a trailblazing resort in the region. It’s still one of the best places to stay because of its many amenities, including a Michelin-starred restaurant, beach club, luxurious spa, two pools, and events like the annual cherry festival that let guests experience a bit of Pugliese culture. Or you could rent a villa by the Thinking Traveller and stay in a trullo or a converted masseria (farmhouse).
I want to combine a bustling city with relaxation in the countryside. What’s a good combo?
Florence and the Val d’Orcia
These two make for a classic combination. You can have all the excitement of visiting one of Italy’s most important cities and then retreat to the Tuscan countryside for some R&R.
First-time visitors to Florence will want to see the city’s main sights, including the Duomo, Piazza della Signoria, and Ponte Vecchio, gaze upon artistic treasures at the Uffizi and Galleria dell’Accademia, and indulge in local cuisine, like pici (a sort of long, thick spaghetti) and a hearty bistecca fiorentina, a steak of local Chianina beef. You’ll need a minimum of two or three days to see Florence’s major sights, like the Baptistery, whose 12th-century mosaics visitors can see up close while they’re being restored. Stay longer, or if you’re planning a return trip, dig a bit deeper by exploring the artsy Oltrarno neighborhood across the river from the centro storico and make time for smaller museums and galleries like Palazzo Strozzi, where you can see contemporary art exhibitions in a Renaissance palazzo.
After a few days in Florence, rent a car and venture about 70 miles south to Val d’Orcia in southern Tuscany. You can bike through the rolling hills, visit vineyards in Montalcino and Montepulciano, and take a cooking class at Podere il Casale, a working farm that produces cheese, charcuterie, olive oil, and wine. Spend an afternoon exploring the appealing Renaissance town of Pienza, where you can admire the hanging gardens of Palazzo Piccolomini and meet local artists and designers like Paolo Porcu Rodriguez, who makes leather bags, scarab jewelry, and colorful scarves with geometric prints inspired by the floors of the nearby Monte Oliveto Abbey at Officine 904.
Where to stay
Book now: Borgo San Vincenzo
In Florence, consider staying in Oltrarno to escape the crowds. Betty Soldi and her partner Matteo Perduca—a modern-day Renaissance man and woman (he’s a lawyer and she’s a calligrapher)—run a handful of eclectically decorated B&Bs in historic buildings, including OltrarnoSplendid, AdAstra, and SoprArno Suites. In the Val d’Orcia, check into Borgo San Vincenzo, an intimate new resort occupying a handful of buildings from the 1700s with a lovely pool, bikes you can borrow, and a concierge team ready to customize an itinerary of the best things to do in the area.
I travel for the food. What’s the next emerging foodie destination?
You’ve likely had some great pizza in cities like Rome and Naples, but for Italy’s best pizza, head to Caserta. This small city about 25 miles north of Naples has two claims to fame: the Reggia di Caserta, an 18th-century royal palace built to rival Versailles, and pizza. The best mozzarella di bufala comes from this region, and where you have excellent mozzarella, you’re bound to have incredible pizza.
It’s not just the superior ingredients that make the pizza special though. It’s the pizzaioli like Franco Pepe and Francesco Martucci, who are transforming those ingredients in innovative ways, using the techniques and equipment—dehydrators, flash freezers, fermenters, and sous-vide machines, for example—more often found in Michelin-starred restaurants than humble pizzerias. An innovator when it comes to pizza, Franco Pepe and his pizzeria Pepe in Grani, in the hilltop village of Caiazzo, 25 minutes north of Caserta, were featured on the Netflix show Chef’s Table: Pizza. Meanwhile, Pizzeria I Masanielli run by Francesco Martucci a few minutes from the Reggia di Caserta, was crowned the world’s best pizzeria by the judges at 50 Top Pizza. Both offer pizza tasting menus as well as à la carte options. But be warned: You’ll need to book a table a month or two in advance.
Where to stay
Book now: A Corte
There aren’t a lot of great hotels in Caserta, but there are plenty of modest B&Bs, like A Corte, which has four rooms near the medieval part of the city and a friendly owner who will drive you there.
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Our pretty and happy girl out on a walk recently.
What isn’t pretty and doesn’t make the Momz happy is when we get home to find these little burr-like things stuck in Sheba’s fur. Has anyone else seen these, and do you know what these are or what kind of bush they come off of? Every fall she gets covered in them at some point, and we have to pick and brush them out. Then we still find them around the house all week!
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Spiral Organic’s Instant Rice Noodles are the perfect accompaniment to any asian-style dish. Made with organic ingredients they offer a versatile neutral taste, soaking up the flavour of the dish to create an authentic meal at home. Simply soak in boiled water for two minutes and add to stir fries, as the star of a noodle dish, or use in rice paper rolls.
Ingredients: Organic white rice (93.4%), Organic Tapioca starch, Natural Salt
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Fayetteville, NC—8/30/13 – Affordable Suites of America announced the hiring of a Resident Manager for their brand new facility in Fayetteville NC, scheduled to open November 1. The property is located at 4660 Lake Valley Dr, near Cross Creek Mall and operated by Affordable Suites of America.
Keith Spell is a lifelong resident of Fayetteville and his family has been in Fayetteville for generations. Keith has worked for the past 5 years at Ft Bragg. Keith is married and has 3 children.
The new Affordable Suites property, which will open in October, boasts features designed for guests who need accommodations for an extended period of time, offering full kitchens, high speed internet access and separate living and sleeping accommodations. “We’re excited about the new hotel that will be unveiled at the new Fayetteville location”, stated Chris Rutherford, Chief Operating Officer for Affordable Suites of America. Rutherford stated, “Fayetteville is a healthy market with a client base that is a great fit for our product. “Our guests enjoy the accommodations which are typically much larger than a typical hotel room or many other extended stay hotels, and typically pay less than they would at other facilities” Rutherford continued. The new hotel will offer 32” LCD HD televisions in both the living and sleeping areas as well as a redesigned living area. The facility will also provide an on site guest laundry and exercise facility. The Affordable Suites Fayetteville NC represents the 19th location for the Affordable Suites brand. Online reservations will be available soon at the Affordable Suites website at www.affordablesuites.com.
About Affordable Suites of America
The Affordable Suites of America LLC portfolio currently includes 18 hotels in the states of VA, NC, SC and GA. Online reservations and more information can be found at the Affordable Suites website at www.affordablesuites.com. For franchising or investment opportunities, please contact Tammy HartCoon at firstname.lastname@example.org or call at 704-277-5069. | <urn:uuid:0a95ea22-c8ab-44a4-aa4c-30c46d4c453e> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.affordablesuites.com/affordable-suites-of-america-names-new-resident-manager/ | 2023-09-28T18:32:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.952332 | 431 |
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Plunging consumer stocks are the canary in the coal mine for the corporate sector, and Tuesday’s rate rise will expand the pockets of pain investors are seeing.
- James Thomson
Taylor Collison has been appointed as lead manager alongside Morgans, Ord Minnett, Canaccord Genuity, Shaw and Partners and Bell Potter.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Geoff Wilson should have more time for ice baths and franking credits lobbying, as his WAM Leaders parks its mooted $731.5 million raising amid falling markets.
- Anthony Macdonald, Sarah Thompson and Kanika Sood
Taking a punt on the underlying assets of some listed investment companies is a strategy that could pay off, but there are risks in premium and discount distortions.
- Emma Rapaport
Income-specific managed funds can offer less risk than owning individual shares for yield.
- Tony Featherstone
Taylor Collison is seeking buyers for a $50 million parcel of shares in ASX-listed WAM Leaders.
- Anthony Macdonald and Yolanda Redrup
Fundies expect this earnings season to produce a tidal wave of M&A activity as ASX 200 directors capitalise on frothy valuations and strong balance sheets.
- Alex Gluyas
Wilson Asset Management’s flagship fund underperformed the index by 9 per cent in fiscal 2019. It was only the third time in 20 yearsit has missed its benchmark, and Bill Shorten is partly to blame.
- Tony Boyd
Wilson Asset Management's Geoff Wilson predicts the long bull market is coming to an end, having pushed up valuations to "ridiculous levels".
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Agroscope welcomes proven expert in organic farming and agroecology Lucius Tamm on board. Tamm will be responsible inter alia for the strategy process as preparation for the new 2026–2029 Work Programme, as well as for the further development of international collaborations. Most recently, Lucius Tamm headed the Department of Crop Sciences at the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture FiBL.
As of 1 June 2023, Lucius Tamm will take on a role in Agroscope’s Corporate Strategy Division, which reports to Head of Agroscope Eva Reinhard. One of Tamm’s main tasks will be to manage the strategy process for the new 2026–2029 Work Programme together with the Executive Board. He will also continue cultivating Agroscope’s international research relationships.
Bringing past experience to new challenges
One of the aims of a productive and sustainable agricultural and food sector is the sparing use of natural resources. The challenges here are the same for all production systems: to feed the growing population with increasing yields whilst protecting soil, water, air and biodiversity as much as possible. “Future production systems must further reduce the trade-offs of established systems and combine and refine what is best from all previous experience” stresses Eva Reinhard. Here, the concepts of agroecology serve as guiding principles.
This approach will also be of great importance in Agroscope’s 2026–2029 Work Programme. The strategic work in this regard kicks off over the course of 2023. Lucius Tamm’s longstanding experience and Agroscope’s specialist knowledge and research potential combine to form the best possible conditions for fleshing out this process with the aim of supporting the Swiss agricultural and food sector as it heads into the future. “To my way of thinking, taking the best from established approaches and developing new solutions from them is a necessary yet interesting challenge that I am more than happy to take on” commented Tamm.
International collaboration gaining in importance
To ensure this successful transformation into a more sustainable food sector, problems in the agriculture and food system as a whole must be investigated. International experts agree on this. Many countries are facing similar challenges. Enhanced cooperation across specialisms and institutions, both national and international, is thus advantageous. Here too, Lucius Tamm brings the ideal background to the table for expanding collaborations, being ideally networked both nationally and internationally. | <urn:uuid:562f49ce-8bac-4abb-945f-6b0c66c5a727> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.agroscope.admin.ch/agroscope/en/home/news/newsroom/2023/03-02_corporate-strategy.html | 2023-09-28T17:47:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.912113 | 496 |
American Industrial Hygiene Association Joins OSHA’s Ambassador Program.
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FALLS CHURCH, Va. (February 21, 2020) — The American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA®) announced today that it has joined the Ambassador Program of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
The program builds upon OSHA’s Alliance Program and will be used to improve workplace health and safety by sharing information and guidance and providing access to vital training resources.
Under the agreement, AIHA and OSHA will strengthen relationships between AIHA’s Local Sections and OSHA’s national, regional, and area offices to address workplace health and safety issues.
“AIHA has always been a proud partner of OSHA. Joining the Ambassador Program shows our members’ commitment to worker health and safety, as well as to collectively moving forward together to ensure the standards, best practices, and methods are applied,” said AIHA President Kathy Murphy during the signing ceremony.
Founded in 1939, AIHA is a nonprofit organization serving professionals dedicated to the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, control, and confirmation of environmental stressors in or arising from the workplace that may result in injury, illness, impairment, or affect the well-being of workers and members of the community. We provide comprehensive education programs and other products and services that help its members maintain the highest professional standards.
More than half of the nearly 8,500 members are Certified Industrial Hygienists (CIHs), and many hold other professional designations. AIHA serves as a resource for those employed in the industrial, consulting, academic, and government sectors. Learn more at www.aiha.org. | <urn:uuid:534febfe-1ce5-4ae5-8b68-59ed6ba91585> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.aiha.org/press/american-industrial-hygiene-association-joins-oshas-ambassador-program | 2023-09-28T18:27:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.938153 | 411 |
We all look forward to when Christmas rolls around, because we get to enjoy a bit of low-key relaxation and delicious food with family and friends. Something that we look forward to less is the complicated cooking processes and messy cleanup. This year, make your Christmas savory and simple by booking our Christmas catering services from us here at Aioli Burger!
Choices for Your Christmas Event
If you’re throwing a pre- Christmas office party, or even a big gathering of friends, we offer several different catering options, and can provide the right catering service for your specific celebration requirements. For larger, casual outdoor gatherings, our food truck is a great catering option and offers an excellent catering menu. For smaller crowds and venues, we also offer our burger cart catering – the same fun, colorful delivery as our food trucks, but with a smaller footprint and a little quieter presentation. And for those formal occasions, we offer full catering with full sit-down service. Or try our in-between buffet style service, with or without our service staff to man all those tables loaded with yummy burgers or BBQ. Of course, an excellent choice for a casual Christmas party catering, (or an almost last-minute, impromptu holiday get-together), is our drop-off catering service, complete with disposable utensils that will make the cleanup a breeze. Try something new this Christmas and take advantage of our effortless catering services!
A Christmas Feast Sure to Impress
Burgers for Christmas might seem like a novel idea, but with our delicious gourmet creations you’ll feel like you should have been doing it all along! Our burgers range from classics like our Aioli Burger—aged sharp cheddar, applewood smoked bacon, caramelized onions, vine ripe tomato, crisp lettuce, and our signature garlic aioli—to extravagant creations like our White Truffle Swiss Burger, featuring roasted mushrooms, Swiss cheese, caramelized onions, and white truffle aioli. Good news, both come served up on a buttery brioche bun. We also offer a vegetarian burger option – a delicious Falafel Burger made with our fresh, homemade falafel, mango sauce, pickled red onion, cucumber, and black pepper aioli, served on our tasty brioche bun. It’s a treat for both vegetarians and meat lovers. And rest assured that our burgers come with your choice of golden or sweet potato fries, and we also offer a caprese salad and assortment of beverages, including our handcrafted jarred lemonade.
This could be the year that you have that holiday party you’ve always wanted to – you know, the one where you invite everyone you know, with your entire extended family and all your friends, to celebrate the holiday. Now imagine everyone indulging in delicious, juicy Kobe beef burgers, loaded fries dripping with aioli, and mini cannoli for dessert as they jockey under the mistletoe. Or everyone enjoying yummy, messy Mexican street corn or three cheese mac & cheese bites and peanut butter chocolate shakes. It’s a party so you can put together any kind of menu you’d like, whether you include all of our famous Aioli burgers and sides or throw in some of our buttermilk fried chicken or BBQ. We have a wide variety of menu options (including Asian, Mexican, and Mediterranean) to choose from, and aren’t limited to just serving our famous burgers – although you can’t go wrong with our burgers! This will be a Christmas dinner like you’ve never had before, and you might even want to make it a yearly tradition!
Take the Difficulty Out of Christmas
We all know the precious time it takes to cook Christmas dinner and cleanup—time that could be spent relaxing or enjoying our loved one’s company! The holidays can be stressful enough, without having to worry about catering. Make it easy on yourself and let us take some of the worry out of your celebration planning.
We offer many different menu options and serving options, you may end up asking us to cater several different events! We can plan varying menus and different serving options for your family Christmas dinner, that pre-holiday celebration, the office party – there are so many get-togethers this time of year, you may need us more than once! Serve the kids with our drop-off catering and let them do their own thing in one room (or outside) while the adults enjoy our full buffet style catering. Same menu or different, it’s your choice.
We travel to areas all over the valley and can give you a Christmas catering experience whether you’re centrally located or on the mountainous city outskirts. Have a stress-free Christmas you’ll never forget with Aioli Burger catering!
Book Your Christmas Catering with Aioli Burger Today
Imagine a holiday where you don’t have to waste time worrying about what food to serve—that’s exactly what we offer with our Aioli Burger catering. Browse our online catering menu and contact us to order your Christmas party catering today! | <urn:uuid:ff420ee6-4fe7-47d4-bd36-348bec5dcf53> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.aioliburger.com/christmas-catering/ | 2023-09-28T16:52:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.918273 | 1,052 |
With plenty of available vacation rentals, Airbnb and other vacation rental platforms are still open for business and totally ignoring the mandates that caused hotels and other law-abiding businesses to close shop. Instead of complying with the regulations to stop the spread of the virus, Airbnb is complaining about how sad it is that they might not be able to go public this year and expand their multi billion business.
Well, here is a piece of advice and it is all free: Do not pay any compensation for cancellations to hosts in buildings that forbid short term rentals. There, that should save a pretty penny and we are happy we could help.
Now, (and this applies not only to Airbnb, but to all the vacation rental businesses that care more about money than stopping the Covid-19 virus) please shut down the rentals in buildings that do not allow short term rentals. We have been asking for that for a couple of years now, and we have been ignored. The people in residential buildings have been ignored, good neighbors and families that just want to live in peace, have been ignored.
However, on behalf of buildings, HOAs and communities that do not want to sacrifice their privacy by billionaires’ quest for more money, we will continue to demand that unallowed short term rentals be shut down. | <urn:uuid:b7dcc839-2422-4612-ab8a-c635747a61a0> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.airbaware.com/2020/04/why-is-airbnb-so-irresponsible/ | 2023-09-28T17:50:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.967864 | 261 |
Ghana is definitely on the rise… E.L.’s sick beats are paired with an equally bad arse video courtesy of BBnZ Live. Seriously, where else can you see African geishas? Identify two or more of the cameos and get a freebie from us, just drop a comment below!
LadyJaywah‘s first official single – and nope, it’s not the fantastic soulful jazz we’ve been getting used to at her live performances here in Ghana. She hits us from a totally different angle, hard spittin’ raps over a tight azonto beat, courtesy of EL, also featured on the song.
Monkey money… some of that easy come easy go sakawa cash… LadyJaywah is not easily acquired however, and this song is a hilarious chase between her and a big money man – played by EL. | <urn:uuid:1ab40c9f-8ded-4a77-a9ff-a81ab915ef71> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.akwaabamusic.com/blog/category/artists/e-l-artists/ | 2023-09-28T17:27:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.930105 | 190 |
What does “Faith at Work” look like at Alexandria Industries?
For those who choose it, practicing our faith in God at work is intended to help us be our best. While we strive to live every day in our faith, being patient, kind, caring, loving, and truthful with others, we realize we will not be perfect. We are simply seeking to be better people ‒ to be empowered by our faith in God ‒ so we can rise above what we could ever be on our own.
Faith at work...means we can reach out to our friends at work to ask for prayers when we or someone we love is going through a difficult time. It is heartwarming to know that our coworkers are praying for us and supporting us by checking in and helping out when we are struggling. Having this available to us at work provides us with an enormous sense of relief that we do not have to keep a definitive line drawn between our work and our personal lives and that it is okay to be human at work.
Faith at work...means our employer offers us opportunities to live and strengthen our faith through otherwise unconventional ways. We can participate in our prayer chain. We can opt-in to receive weekly faith-based email messages from our Corporate Chaplain. We can participate in a recently commissioned faith growth group, “The Me I Want to Be,” or a lunchtime Bible study group.
Faith at work...means that we are assured that our leadership will pray about the direction our organization will take, with the understanding of how each decision will affect every one of our employees.
Faith at work...means we can privately confide with our Chaplain when we are struggling with a spouse or a child or friend, and receive a God-inspired perspective.
Faith at work...means that we can love other people who are different from us, so that we can work together, be powerful together, and make a difference together.
Faith at work...means that we can push our coworkers to be the best people we can be, and if we struggle, we can count on each other to lead us down a path that will bring us to something even better!
Faith at work...means our supervisors will always be looking out for our best interest, and they truly care about us as individuals, as well as our families and loved ones.
Our faith at work is not about a Bible collecting dust in our boardroom or forcing our faith in God on other people. It means actions and activities that are made available to our employees, vendors and customers, to help us all become the people we strive to be. | <urn:uuid:c0b4311d-3fb9-412a-b51b-bf4df4b37748> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.alexandriaindustries.com/e-newsletter/doing-things-differently/faith-at-work-2/ | 2023-09-28T18:57:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.954393 | 541 |
Dr. Ritish Chhabra
Dr. Ritish Chhabra received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and then went on to receive his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry in 2018.
Professional and Personal Life
Dr. Chhabra focuses on making sure his patients not only understand their treatment needs, but also are comfortable and satisfied with each and every visit. He is a member of the American Dental Association, Michigan Dental Association, and the Academy of General Dentistry.
When Dr. Chhabra is away from the office, he likes to spend his time golfing, playing and watching basketball, and spending time with his family and friends. | <urn:uuid:41a9c1d9-2992-42dc-ac90-7138f9104936> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.algonacdental.com/about-us/meet-the-doctor/ | 2023-09-28T17:47:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.986626 | 154 |
A&L Goodbody's London office provides Irish legal advice to UK and international companies and their advisors with interests in Ireland. We also advise Irish corporates who are doing business in the UK by working closely with local lawyers and other advisors.
ALG opened a permanent office in London in 1988 which is now located in Austin Friars in the heart of the City. Our London office forms a key part of our international network and is an important part of our relationship with our UK clients who have an international focus.
Our expertise & experience includes:
- Asset Management & Investment Funds
- Banking & Finance
- Capital Markets - Debt
- Employment, Pensions & Incentives
- Energy, Infrastructure & Natural Resources
- EU, Competition & Procurement
- Financial Regulation
- Inward Investment
- IP & Technology
- Corporate and M&A
- Private Equity
- Restructuring & Insolvency
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The decision is made. All-Inline organizes his first ‘6 hours of All-Inline’ on the 28th of August 2016 from 12.00 pm until 6.00 pm. The trail of about 2.0 km is located in the center of Overpelt (Belgium).
Our ‘6 hour’ is a relay race for inline-skaters of minimum 14 years old. In 6 hours the participants have to make as much trails as possible. The children, aged 9 to 15, will start at 2.00 pm for a 4 hours during competition.
Following rankings will be made: solo-skaters, duo-skaters and teams from 3 to 5 skaters.
The number of participants will be limited to 270. So be fast to register.
How to register:
- Download the form: Inschrijvingsformulier 6 uren
- Send the completed form to: email@example.com
- Prices per person:
- 24€ / 12€ for all the subscriptions received between 17/06/16 and 20/8/16 and paid before 24/8/16.
- 30€ / 15€ for all the subscriptions received after 20/8/16: to be paid at the event
- 9€, available in all sizes ranging from XS to XXL. (not after 10/08/16) | <urn:uuid:d3e262c7-4069-4743-8b38-a0faf2cf1e64> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.all-inline.be/6-hrs-all-inline-28082016/ | 2023-09-28T17:23:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.942196 | 299 |
Date(s) - 03/15/2019
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in style as you learn to prepare a delicious menu of Irish-themed dishes.
Menu: Cheddar & Guinness Dip, Shepherd’s Pie, Bailey’s Irish Brownies
Each ticket includes a welcome snack, dinner and a wine or beer of your choice.
NOTE: PARTICIPANTS MUST BE 21+ TO ENJOY ADULT BEVERAGES.
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Knit a Beautiful Dishcloth
A beautiful dishcloth can elevate the look of any kitchen and provide a great opportunity to showcase your knitting skills. Not only is a knitted dishcloth pleasing to the eye, but it is also highly practical and can be easily washed and reused. Additionally, knitting dishcloths is a great way to use up leftover yarn and can be an environmentally friendly alternative to disposable cleaning cloths. By choosing a soft and absorbent cotton yarn, your dishcloth will be gentle on dishes and countertops while effectively cleaning spills and messes.
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Living in the mountains provides a unique setting to connect with nature, but it also requires a good understanding, especially when it comes to gardening. In this article, we will...
Born in the Swiss Alps' heart, the Alpen brand provides solid, functional, and reliable tools to professionals and home gardeners.
Mission 1: Respecting the Elements of Nature
Our brand was born in the heart of the Alps. We are committed to Swiss values and respect the power of the elements of nature. We are the craftsmen of nature, and ALPEN's work is to provide them with the tools to shape this natural beauty. Our mission is to promote and embody respect for nature through our tools. We encourage our customers to adopt sustainable gardening methods, to observe nature, recognize biodiversity, and to responsibly utilize natural resources. By working together, we contribute to preserving the beauty and health of the nature that surrounds us.Discover more
Mission 2: Equipping You Sustainably
To create the ALPEN range, we drew inspiration from the pragmatism of mountaineers. Like them, we believe in the importance of spending at a fair price, preserving, and taking care of the objects that accompany us in our daily lives. Our mission is to create durable and quality gardening tools designed to withstand the rigors of the mountains and outdoor activities. We encourage our customers to invest in carefully crafted products, maintain them properly, and replace worn-out parts when necessary, without replacing the entire tool. By adopting this pragmatic approach, we value objects and cultivate a sustainable relationship with our environment.Discover more
Mission 3: The Pride of Transmission
At ALPEN, we take pride in the knowledge and expertise passed down by our elders. Our mission is to preserve and transmit this heritage. We are committed to creating gardening tools that blend the legacy of the past with technical innovation. By collaborating with the top experts in the field of cutting tools, we preserve traditional techniques and craftsmanship while adapting them to contemporary needs and requirements. We take pride in sharing this knowledge with our customers by offering them superior quality products and expert advice. Embracing the pride of transmission, we honor our roots and contribute to the preservation of a rich and diverse cultural heritage.Discover more
Great model! And Swiss quality on top of that!
Impressed by the quality and sharpness of the hedge trimmer blade!
Practical and lightweight: I highly recommend the Gelbhorn pruner.
Finally, a cordless pruner that can be used all day long.
I love the black leather holster.
Light enough to be worn all day, yet super efficient: I've adopted the Wildhorn!
From the journal
Discover the secrets and emotions that fueled the filming of the Alpen film, a true ode to nature, the pride of men, and mountain pragmatism. Dive into the behind-the-scenes of...
Choosing the right tools is essential to make your gardening tasks easier and more cost-effective. In this article, we will guide you on selecting durable and quality tools that meet... | <urn:uuid:8e779667-4cd3-4977-9ece-6a26ba6ba9f3> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.alpenswisstools.com/ | 2023-09-28T18:24:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.90594 | 651 |
Tina Johansen brings a passion for creating beautiful spaces that enhance people’s lives to each project she undertakes. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Interior Design and a Master of Arts in Interior Design from Washington State University and is NCIDQ certified. Tina is thankful for the opportunity to collaborate with talented co-workers at ALSC to make something come to life that a client is envisioning.
The way Snøhetta’s Petter Dass Museum in Norway connects with the ocean and landscape makes it one of Tina’s favorite buildings. If she could travel anywhere, Tina would head to the black sand beaches and relaxing hot springs of Iceland. When Tina isn’t designing, she enjoys sewing and creating unique patterns. | <urn:uuid:f8f40c51-78c0-4ad3-b0aa-702d47a15845> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.alscarchitects.com/about-alsc-architects/people/tina-johansen/ | 2023-09-28T17:23:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.931526 | 169 |
A New Wave of Corporate Land Grabbing Is Worsening Global Conflicts, Food Insecurity and Climate Change
Industrial agriculture and financial sectors are hand-in-hand worsening climate change and then profiting from it, with an unprecedented number of land grabs over the last eight years, according to a report released Tuesday.
The campaign group GRAIN explained that land grabs are heightening food insecurity, entrenching corporate agriculture schemes, and increasing and intensifying land conflicts.
The wave of global land grabs borne out of the 2008 food and financial crises has now reached tsunami proportions, as GRAIN’s research shows that the number of land grab initiatives has ballooned from 100 in 2008 to 491 in 2016, spanning 78 countries across the globe with large concentrations in Africa, and to a lesser extent in Latin America, East Asia and the Pacific.
And climate change is compounding the situation.
“We now have even more evidence that climate change is caused not just by burning coal and oil for transport and energy, but by the industrial food system itself and the corporate quest for profits that drives its expansion,” the report states. “Indeed, climate change and land grabs are inextricably linked.”
The people suffering the brunt of this are small-scale farmers, pastoralists, and Indigenous communities, who are displaced by multinational corporations and financial investors scrambling for arable lands and water resources.
According to Kartini Samon, a GRAIN researcher from Indonesia, land grabs are also a form of neocolonialism.
“If we reflect on the old style of colonialism ... (it) is really about extracting natural resources and cheap labor; expanding plantations in colonial lands like the case in Indonesia,” Samon told teleSUR. “The pattern is the same now, but using different strategies either through trade and investment agreements or implementing laws that legalize the process to happen.”
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, for instance, is a trade agreement on the verge of passage spearheaded by the United States that includes 11 Pacific Rim countries that encompass almost half of the global economy. It facilitates export-oriented industrial agriculture and allows corporations to sue governments over public interest laws that could cover anything from land to labor and environmental policies. And the TPP is just part of a decades-long legacy of free trade agreements perpetuating this pattern that Samon mentioned, starting in 1994 with the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which has served largely as a model for all the trade deals that came after it. These same principles are also championed by international financial institutions such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
According to the GRAIN report, policy makers and corporate board rooms are trying to mask these destructive land deals in the language of "corporate social responsibility," through voluntary “frameworks" and “guidelines” to minimize social and environmental costs.
“Yes, the language has been used to greenwash new land grabs,” said Samon. “Both politically and in practice, it rarely works to the advantage of local communities. Rather, it creates a mirage of accountability … these so-called responsible investment schemes or corporate social responsibility is nothing more than a public relations exercise.”
Violent land conflicts are another component of the past decade’s land grabbing phenomenon, which are hard to mask.
“The major issue for us comparing 2008 to now is that now we have seen so many conflicts erupt, people have died and people have been arrested,” Devlin Kuyek, a Canada-based GRAIN researcher, told teleSUR.
Kuyek said that this has a lot to do with the fact that now these deals have gone from being signed agreements to actually being implemented.
His colleague Samon agreed.
“In recent years we see how there’s growing repression and human rights violations happening to grassroots resistance and land defenders,” she said. “From Cambodia to Cameroon, from Indonesia to Ivory Coast, we see increasing threats and the use of violence to repress communities fighting back.”
But amid the violence, poverty and desperation caused by these land grabs, grassroots resistance is growing.
“There is more of a convergence of peasant movements, farmer organizations and of larger civil society movements recognizing the major issue here, and that is it's a structural change that is required,” said Kuyek.
He added that because the policy making process is “so captured by corporate interests,” social movement organizing may be the best, if not last hope, to reversing, or even curbing the land grabbing scourge.
“The issue is about the transformation of power and you see the social movements that are active in agriculture and active on land issues understand that it's about social transformation and I think where there’s a promise for change and where social movements have their strength is that sort of convergence of struggles,” said Kuyek. | <urn:uuid:7dd77df0-ef80-404b-ac66-ef9ddff89a5e> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.alternet.org/2016/06/new-wave-corporate-land-grabbing-worsening-global-conflicts-food-insecurity-and-climate | 2023-09-28T18:30:10Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.942946 | 1,029 |
Trump's EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Caught Living in Prime D.C. Condo Owned by Top Energy Lobbyist's Wife: Report
President Donald Trump’s environmental chief has been living in a townhouse co-owned by the wife of a top energy lobbyist.
EPA administrator Scott Pruitt occupies the home a short distance from the U.S. Capitol, but neither the agency or lobbyist J. Steven Hart would say how much the Trump administration official has been paying to live in the prime location, reported ABC News.
The cost of the rental agreement will be a key question in determining whether the property is an improper gift, according to ethics experts.
Hart confirmed to ABC News that Pruitt lived in the condo, which is owned through a limited liability company that links to an address owned by the lobbyist and his wife Vicki Hart — who is a lobbyist specializing in health care.
The Harts were described in 2010 by the newspaper Roll Call as a “lobbyist power couple.”
Steven Hart, chairman and CEO of Williams and Jensen, previously served in the Reagan Justice Department and is a top Republican fundraiser, and his firm reported more than $16 million in federal lobbying income last year.
“Among his many clients are the NRA and Cheniere Energy Inc., which reported paying Hart’s firm $80,000 a year,” ABC News reported. | <urn:uuid:b777a735-dbaf-4f06-b5a8-c53a8e86f2f8> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.alternet.org/2018/03/pruitt-caught-living-dc-condo-owned-top-energy-lobbyists-wife | 2023-09-28T17:15:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.973219 | 284 |
Patient Participation Group
Alton Practice Patient Participation Group (PPG)
The Alton Practice Patient Participation Group is an important forum, providing patients with a further opportunity to help shape and improve services that are provided by the practice and in the local area.
The PPG meetings on a regular basis and is attended by both patients and practice representatives.
If you would like to join the PPG, please speak to a member of the reception team. | <urn:uuid:1e593bf9-8dbb-44a4-8165-d093c3ef782c> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.altonpractice.com/ppg | 2023-09-28T16:33:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.953924 | 92 |
A Shawl for Hekate
Mistress who burst forth from the earth,
Dog-leader, all-tamer, crossroads goddess, triple-headed,
Bringer of light, August virgin, I call you,
Fawn slayer, crafty, O infernal one and many-formed,
Come, Hekate, goddess of three-ways,
Who with your fire-breathing phantoms
Have been allotted dreaded roads and harsh enchantments.
-Greek Magical Papyri, PGM IV. 2723-2730
My path to working with Hekate is a hard tale to tell. It started in 2017/2018 when there was a lot that happened in my life. My partner and I bought a house, I finished two of my masters degrees, I started a new exciting job, and my husband and I got married; but then when we turned the corner into the year of 2019 ,things took a turn for the worse. Our beloved dog, the most beautiful Great Dane you’d ever seen, Asgard, wasn’t acting well. He was a little over six years old, however his mobility had rapidly declined and he was needing to use the bathroom every hour throughout the day and night. We tried to take him to the vet, but we couldn’t even get him into our vehicle.
We called an emergency vet service to help transport him, and the specialist diagnosed him with a disease that was rapidly disintegrating his spine. Our options were to put him under an expensive spinal surgery, with an unacceptably low success rate, or to put him down. We didn’t have the heart to put him down, so we babied him for months, trying to give him the best possible life we could despite his limitations. I even learned acutonics, a type of sound healing that utilizes the acupressure meridians to try to treat his symptoms, which I believe helped extend his life. However, in March came the day when he was completely paralyzed and we weren’t left with a choice. That same week, a massive rainstorm hit our house and poured through our roof, soaking our second floor bedroom and the dining room below it. It was a nightmare.
During all of this, I had come to know Hekate’s face. She had shown up prior to 2018, but I didn’t fully recognize her for who she truly was. With Asgard, however, things quickly became very clear. I prayed to her to keep him safe, and asked her that when the time was right, that she would take Asgard as one of her own in her pack of dogs so that he wouldn’t experience suffering. Since his passing, I have continued my devotion to her, growing a garden for her with all her dangerous beauties, and practicing the deipnon every moon cycle. Fast forward to 2020 where collectively we ALL were thrown into the crossroads.
To say that 2020 was a strange year is an understatement. I truly don’t think I have enough distance on it yet to fully extract the lessons it has taught me, however, it gave me the opportunity to immerse myself into my work. One of my favorite, most meaningful projects that has come out of the year has been what I have come to know as my Saffron Solstice Shawl. Having collected the marigolds I grew in my garden throughout the summer (deadheading throughout in order to encourage more blooms!) I used them to dye and then knit a prayer shawl for Hekate. Primarily based on Hekate’s historical correspondence with being saffron-cloaked, and marigolds, aka “poor man’s saffron," the project evolved into a devotional act of its own. With every step in the process, from extracting the dye from the marigold petals, to knitting each stitch, the time I spent working on the project was time spent in reflection for the presence of the goddess in my life. I spoke to her my dreams and aspirations. I offered gratitude for all that I have experienced in my life. I whispered “IO Heka IO HO” every time I made a purl stitch, working away with my golden yarn in the liminal space of my mind.
I had started the project around November, leaving plenty of time to have it finished for the Winter Solstice celebrations, but I enjoyed working on it so much I finished it within a long weekend. There was immense satisfaction in draping it around my shoulders for the first time. It was like a warm embrace by divine spirit, almost an affirmation for having taken initiative for myself (something I’ve come to know Hekate is very fond of). I’ve always understood my fibercraft has been something of magic, but the approach of it as deity work had never really struck home until I completed this project.
I am happy to announce that I have published a written guide based on my personal practice of creating this devotional shawl to Hekate with the hope that others may embark on their own experience. Deciding to self-publish was a choice I determined was best for this specific project, and the excitement of sending it off to the printer this week was, I admit, a little overwhelming. I have written the guide so that it is loose enough to fit an individualized practice, while being accessible enough for both beginners to fibercraft (specifically natural dyeing and knitting) and Hekate. I have ordered 100 copies that are expected to arrive by April, and for those who are curious, I am putting together 20 kits that include everything you need to complete the project. To learn more about the guide and the kits, or to pre-order yours, please visit my Etsy. May she guide you with every step. | <urn:uuid:a71fb9af-48ae-48f4-95f6-2de3758c527f> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.amberroseostaszewski.com/post/a-shawl-for-hekate | 2023-09-28T17:23:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.98343 | 1,214 |
Large observational studies have found beneficial cardiovascular effects with moderate alcohol consumption. The effect of alcohol consumption on the cardiovascular system has been the source of much debate over the past few years. Heavy alcohol consumption is associated with detrimental effects on many of the body’s systems, as well as with an increased risk of addiction, motor vehicle accidents, trauma, violence, cancer, and suicide. However, large epidemiological studies also point to a multitude of potential beneficial effects with chronic moderate alcohol consumption – defined here as up to two standard alcoholic drinks (44 mL spirits, 148 mL wine, or 355 mL beer) per day for men and up to one drink per day for women. Observational studies have compared subjects abstaining from alcohol with subjects consuming alcohol and found differences in all-cause mortality and mortality due to cancer, stroke, and coronary artery disease. Despite some adverse effects on arrhythmogenesis and blood pressure, alcohol has been found to generally benefit vascular health and to lower the risk of coronary artery disease. Evidence regarding the effects of alcohol on the cardiovascular system indicates that moderate consumption of up to two drinks per day for men and one drink per day for women is associated with the greatest potential benefit at the lowest overall risk. However, randomised controlled trials are still needed to determine whether the observed associations result from alcohol consumption alone and whether the benefit found relates to the kind of alcoholic beverage consumed. Heavy alcohol consumption is associated with detrimental effects on many of the body’s systems, as well as with an increased risk of addiction, motor vehicle accidents, trauma, violence, cancer, and suicide. However, large epidemiological studies also point to a multitude of beneficial effects with chronic moderate alcohol consumption. Evidence regarding the effect of surrounding moderate alcohol consumption on the cardiovascular (CV) system is well worth considering. Definitions Many different definitions are used in the literature for a “standard” drink and “moderate” alcohol consumption. In this article we use the Department of Health and Human Services and the US Department of Agriculture definition for a standard drink, which is 17.74 mL or 14 g of alcohol. This represents 44 mL (1.5 fl. oz.) of 80-proof spirits, 148 mL (5 fl. oz.) of wine, or 355 mL (12 fl. oz.) of beer. Moderate alcohol consumption is defined in the same guideline as up to two alcoholic drinks per day for men and up to one alcoholic drink per day for women. Alcohol and mortality The relationship between alcohol consumption and all-cause mortality has been found to conform to a J-shaped curve, which is attributed to a combination of the beneficial and harmful effects of chronic alcohol consumption. This was clearly demonstrated in a large meta-analysis involving the study of over 1 million subjects. The greatest benefit on all-cause mortality was observed in subjects consuming 6 g of alcohol per day (approximately half a drink per day), while parity with abstainers was reached with subjects consuming around 44 g per day (approximately three drinks per day). Thereafter, higher levels of alcohol consumption were associated with an increase in all-cause mortality. While both sexes benefitted from chronic alcohol consumption, the authors noted a gender difference with respect to degree of benefit and level of consumption. Although the observed maximum protection of alcohol was similar between the sexes (18% in women and 17% in men) the slopes of the two curves differed, as seen in Figure 1. Whereas up to three drinks per day remained protective in men, women only derived benefit if they consumed less than two drinks per day. Multiple studies have attempted to subquantify the effect of alcohol consumption on the various modalities of death with remarkably similar results. When taken together, the risk of dying a cardiovascular death appears to conform to an inverse or L-shaped mortality curve, with apparent risk reductions even with consumption of more than two drinks per day.[2,3] The beneficial effects of increasing alcohol consumption on cardiovascular mortality seem to apply to most subtypes of cardiovascular disease, and are generalisable to the elderly and those with a lower baseline risk or type 2 diabetes.[2-4] Unfortunately, the cardiovascular benefit of increasing alcohol consumption is offset by an increase in noncardiovascular death.[2,3] Specifically, there is a significant association between increasing alcohol consumption and risk of death from cirrhosis, trauma, and cancer (Figure 2).[2,3] Not surprisingly, alcohol-related cancers (mouth, esophagus, pharynx, larynx, and liver) increase in frequency with increasing consumption (RR 1.5 for two to three drinks per day [confidence interval (CI) 1.1–2.1 for men and 0.9–2.5 for women]; RR 2.8 [CI 2.1–3.8] in men and 3.0 [CI 1.7–5.3] for women for more than four drinks per day). Somewhat unexpectedly, there was an observed increase in breast cancer mortality for women who consumed even one drink per day (RR 1.3 [CI 1.1–2.6]). There was no observed relationship between colon cancer risk and alcohol consumption. When compared with either heavy consumption or abstinence, moderate alcohol consumption is associated with a lower risk of all-cause mortality. With increasing consumption, the risk of cardiac mortality continues to decrease, but the risk of noncardiac mortality (hemorrhagic stroke, cancer, cirrhosis, trauma) increases. The benefit of moderate alcohol consumption applies to the middle-aged and the elderly, as well as to those with diabetes. A gender difference exists, with women deriving less benefit than men at increasing levels of alcohol consumption. Alcohol and arrhythmia The association between alcohol consumption and arrhythmia has long been described, with acute episodes of “holiday heart” (acute rhythm disturbance) occurring in association with episodes of binge drinking. But what of the risk of atrial fibrillation with chronic alcohol consumption? The literature on this topic suggests that the higher risk is confined to heavy drinking, although the threshold of risk differs between studies.[5,6] After adjusting for confounders, the Framingham study demonstrated a 34% increase in the risk of developing atrial fibrillation or flutter with consumption of more than 2.5 alcoholic drinks per day, while data from the Copenhagen City Heart Study suggest the risk of atrial fibrillation only increases with consumption above five drinks per day (hazard ratio 1.45 [CI 1.02–2.04]).5, Neither of these studies demonstrated a significant association between alcohol consumption and atrial fibrillation in women, although the reason for this remains unclear. In terms of ventricular arrhythmias, there is a known association between heavy alcohol consumption and sudden cardiac death. However, as with all-cause mortality, the risk of sudden cardiac death appears to decrease with moderate alcohol consumption. After adjusting for confounders of sudden cardiac death, there was an observed U-shaped curve describing the relationship between alcohol consumption and sudden cardiac death, with significantly reduced risk in men who consumed two to four drinks per week (RR 0.4 [CI 0.22–0.75]) and five to six drinks per week (RR 0.21 [CI 0.08–0.56]) compared with men who rarely or never consumed alcohol. With two or more drinks per day the relationship approached unity. Alcohol is proposed to increase arrhythmogenesis by way of the hyperadrenergic state of drinking and withdrawal, as well as by way of associated proarrhythmic electrolyte abnormalities such as hypomagnesemia. Likewise, alcohol is known to impair vagal heart rate control, and prolong the QT interval. Most of these effects are observed at high levels of consumption. Therefore, at lower levels of consumption the arrhythmogenic effect of alcohol is minimal and is largely outweighed by the other beneficial effects that alcohol can have on overall vascular health. Alcohol and CV risk factors The proposed benefits of chronic moderate alcohol consumption are thought to derive from the effects of alcohol on overall vascular health. Specifically, studies have shown that regular moderate alcohol consumption is associated with improved endothelial function, reductions in inflammation, plasma viscosity and platelet aggregation, as well as induction of a favourable lipid profile.9-12 Some of these effects are almost instant (such as the increase in serum HDL-C within 1 hour of alcohol consumption), whereas others appear to be long lasting even without regular consumption (such as the lowered plasma viscosity even after 3 weeks of abstinence).[13,14] But not all cardiovascular risk factors are affected equally. Specifically, the adverse role of alcohol on blood pressure is well described. The Canadian Hypertension Society estimates that 4.0% to 9.2% of Canadian men and 0.6% to 2.6% of Canadian women have hypertension attributable to alcohol consumption. In the large INTERSALT trial, consumption of three to five drinks per day was associated with a 2.7/1.6 mm Hg rise in blood pressure in men and 3.9/3.1 mm Hg in women. For men, blood pressure increased by 4.6/3.0 mm Hg for five or more drinks per day. Whereas moderate alcohol consumption was not associated with an increased risk of high blood pressure in the INTERSALT trial, a recent Mendelian randomised trial showed an estimated 0.24 mm Hg rise in systolic blood pressure per gram of alcohol consumed daily (3.36 mm Hg per drink per day).17 That being said, a study of 14 125 known hypertensive men showed that the risk of all-cause mortality and cardiovascular mortality decreased with moderate alcohol consumption when subjects were compared with abstainers (multivariate RR 0.56). Alcohol and CAD The role of moderate alcohol consumption has also been examined with respect to the risk for developing coronary artery disease (CAD). In a prospective study of over 20 000 apparently healthy men, moderate alcohol consumption had a strong, independent, inverse association with the risk of developing angina pectoris (RR 0.69 [CI 0.59–0.81]) or sustaining a myocardial infarction (RR 0.65 [CI 0.52–0.81]). This observation appears to be independent of baseline CV risk with similar trends observed in the healthiest subset of the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study. Even when CAD is established, moderate alcohol consumption continues to be associated with improved outcomes. In a study of over 2100 subjects consecutively undergoing coronary angiography, moderate alcohol consumption was the only negative predictor of cardiac mortality over a median follow-up of 93 months (hazard ratio 0.84 [CI 0.71–1.0]). Likewise, in patients followed after coronary artery bypass grafting, moderate alcohol consumption was associated with a nonsignificant trend toward less angiographic progression (odds ratio 0.7 [CI 0.4–1.1]) and fewer clinical events—death, MI, stroke, bypass surgery, or angioplasty (hazard ratio 0.7 [CI 0.5–1.1]). In patients with acute coronary syndrome, chronic alcohol consumption appears to play a favourable role, perhaps secondary to the aforementioned beneficial platelet aggregation and blood viscosity effects. After adjusting for propensity to drink and other confounders, increasing alcohol consumption over the year prior to MI remained predictive of lower total and cardiovascular mortality (adjusted hazard ratio 0.79 for less than one drink per day [CI 0.6–1.3], and adjusted hazard ratio 0.68 for one drink or more per day. [CI 0.45–1.05]). Alcohol and heart failure It is well known that heavy alcohol consumption is associated with significant abnormalities in both systolic and diastolic function. This same observation does not necessarily hold true for moderate levels of alcohol consumption, based on multiple large observational trials where subjects who consumed moderate levels of alcohol were compared with abstainers and found to have a lower incidence of symptomatic heart failure (adjusted RR 0.41–0.66 for one drink per day).[25,26] In patients with established heart failure the benefits of ongoing moderate alcohol consumption are dependent on the underlying cause of cardiomyopathy. A recent analysis of the SOLVD (Studies of Left-Ventricular Dysfunction) cohort examined patients with predominantly NYHA functional class I and II ischemic and nonischemic cardiomyopathy with a left ventricular ejection fraction of less than 35%. The authors demonstrated that moderate alcohol consumption significantly decreased all-cause, noncardiovascular, and MI-related mortality in the ischemic but not idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy population over an average of 3 years of follow-up. Up to this point we have not discussed the role of chronic alcohol consumption in alcoholic cardiomyopathy, a specific form of dilated cardiomyopathy related to longstanding heavy alcohol use (5 to 20 years of more than six drinks per day). Conventional wisdom has been that alcoholics with alcohol-induced cardiomyopathy must abstain from alcohol. This assertion was supported by a study showing improved ejection fraction and 7-year transplant-free survival in those who completely abstained (45%) versus those who continued to abuse alcohol (27%). However, a separate study of alcohol abusers (more than seven drinks per day for more than 10 years) with established alcohol-induced cardiomyopathy demonstrated comparable persistent improvements in ejection fraction when those who were able to moderate their drinking (less than four drinks per day) were compared with abstinent subjects. The improvement in ejection fraction was blunted in those consuming four to six drinks per day, and continued consumption more than six drinks per day resulted in progressive ejection fraction deterioration. Caveats Detractors may question the ability of studies using self-reported data to accurately estimate consumption and adequately control for confounders such as social status and access to health care. While only observational in nature, these studies did attempt to address these concerns. First, it is known that self-reported alcohol consumption is generally reliable, particularly regarding mild to moderate levels of consumption. Although heavy drinkers have a tendency to underreport their consumption, inadvertently including their data with the mild-to-moderate group would only serve to cause an underestimation of the beneficial effects of moderate levels of consumption. Second, we know that levels of moderate alcohol consumption tend to remain reasonably stable over time, with 95% of nondrinkers continuing to abstain or drink less than two drinks per week 10 years after enrollment. Likewise, 78% of the current drinkers remained in the same or adjacent (usually lower) category of consumption. Lastly, nearly all of the included observational studies made adjustments for common confounders, and the adjusted relative risks and odds ratios are those that are reported here. Another criticism of the mostly large-scale, cross-cultural observational studies described here cannot be addressed so easily. Unfortunately, these types of studies are based on the false assumption that culturally or genetically diverse populations have similar susceptibilities to environmental factors. Despite a pressing need for randomised control trials, these have yet to be performed, so it is unclear whether the observed associations result from factors other than alcohol consumption. Yet another concern about most of the evidence presented here relates to the fact that only ongoing, chronic consumption is considered. This means we have limited knowledge regarding the potential benefits of initiating moderate alcohol consumption in abstainers. A recent study from 2008 showed that after four years of follow-up, new light-to-moderate drinkers (up to two drinks per day in men, up to one drink per day in women) had a 38% reduction in their chance of developing CV disease when compared with persistent abstainers. This difference remained after adjustment for demographic and CV risk factors (odds ratio 0.62 [CI 0.4–0.95]). However, over this limited follow-up period there was no difference in mortality between the new drinkers and persistent abstainers. 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Lazarevic AM, Nakatani S, Neskovic AN, et al. Early changes in left ventricular function in chronic asymptomatic alcoholics: Relation to the duration of heavy drinking. J Am Coll Cardiol 2000;35:1599-1606. PubMed Abstract 25. Walsh CR, Larson MG, Evans JC, et al. Alcohol consumption and risk for congestive heart failure in the Framingham Heart Study. Ann Intern Med 2002;136:181-191. PubMed Abstract 26. Djoussé L, Gaziano JM. Alcohol consumption and risk of heart failure in the Physicians’ Heath Study I. Circulation 2007;115:34-39. Full Text 27. Cooper HA, Exner DV, Domanski MJ. Light-to-moderate alcohol consumption and prognosis in patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction. J Am Coll Cardiol 2000;35:1753-1759. PubMed Abstract 28. Gavazzi A, De Maria R, Parolini M, et al. Alcohol abuse and dilated cardiomyopathy in men. Am J Cardiol 2000;85:1114-1118. PubMed Abstract 29. Nicolas JM, Fernandez-Sola J, Estruch R, et al. The effect of controlled drinking in alcoholic cardiomyopathy. Ann Intern Med 2002;136:192-200. PubMed Abstract 30. King DE, Mainous AG 3rd, Geesey ME. Adopting moderate alcohol consumption in middle age: Subsequent cardiovascular events. Am J Med 2008;121:201-206. Full Text 31. Mukamal KJ, Conigrave KM, Mittleman MA, et al. Roles of drinking pattern and type of alcohol consumed in coronary heart disease in men. N Eng J Med 2003;348:109-118. Dr Andrade is a cardiology fellow at the University of British Columbia. Dr Gin is a clinical professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia and director of the UBC postgraduate cardiology programme. 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Publication Type : Journal Article
Publisher : Journal of Electrical Systems
Source : Journal of Electrical Systems, Volume 8, Number 4, p.433-441 (2012)
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Keywords : Algorithms, Arc furnaces, Blind signal processing, Blind Signal Separation, Blind source separation, Estimation, FICOMB, Furnaces, Harmonic analysis, Harmonic frequency, Joint approximate diagonalisation, Primary objective, PWM inverter, Signal processing, Silicate minerals
Campus : Coimbatore
School : School of Engineering
Department : Electrical and Electronics
Verified : Yes
Year : 2012
Abstract : Extensive use of non linear loads like arc furnace and PWM Inverters generate considerable voltage harmonics. These harmonics need to be estimated and quantified using minimum knowledge about the topology of the system. Blind Signal Processing Techniques like Fast ICA (FICA), Joint Approximate Diagonalisation of Eigen Matrices (JADE) and Entropy Bound Minimisation (EBM) are applied for harmonic voltage estimation in a simple four bus system. Conventional ICA algorithms like FICA and EBM algorithm break down when only the arc furnace load contributes to the harmonics in the power system. An algorithm termed as FICOMB which is a combination of Fast ICA and COMBI is employed for harmonic voltage estimation. The graphical results and error indices of a simple four bus system indicate that FICOMB and JADE are suitable for harmonic frequencies like h = 3 and EBM is suitable for h = 5.The primary objective of the present work is to use the estimation further for either the design of mitigation equipment or for identifying the perpetrators of harmonics with accuracy being more significant for both the applications. This calls for an optimal estimator to choose a definite algorithm for a particular frequency.© JES 2012.
Cite this Research Publication : Supriya P. and T. N. Padmanabha Nambiar, “Blind signal separation of harmonic voltages in non-linear loads”, Journal of Electrical Systems, vol. 8, pp. 433-441, 2012. | <urn:uuid:0473a43e-63d8-45c1-8418-af62813f75a4> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.amrita.edu/publication/blind-signal-separation-of-harmonic-voltages-in-non-linear-loads/ | 2023-09-28T18:27:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.757422 | 502 |
Abstract:Given a polynomial equation of degree d over the complex domain, the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra tells us that there are d solutions, assuming that the solutions are counted by multiplicity. These solutions can be approximated by deforming a standard nth degree equation into the given equation, and following the solutions through the deformation. This is called the homotopy method. The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra can be proved by the same technique. In this paper we extend these results and methods to a system of n polynomial equations in n complex variables. We show that the number of solutions to such a system is the product of the degrees of the equations (assuming that infinite solutions are included and solutions are counted by multiplicity)$^\ast$. The proof is based on a homotopy, or deformation, from a standard system of equations with the same degrees and known solutions. This homotopy provides a computational method of approximating all solutions. Computational results demonstrating the feasibility of this method are also presented.
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The GT1R Display Creator Calibration takes your R35 equipped with a MoTeC C127 display and MoTeC M1 ECU to the next level.
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The GT1R Display Creator Calibration takes your R35 equipped with a MoTeC C127 display and MoTeC M1 ECU to the next level. The C127 is a powerful piece of hardware and a huge step up from the stock cluster in terms of form and function, but off the shelf doesn’t make the best use of all available information the R35 is capable of showing. The custom GT1R specific calibration takes in this information and provides you a gorgeous highly functional and informational display.
In order to use this calibration you will need to have MoTeC Display Creator unlocked already (may be purchased below). If you already own a C127 the physical unit will need to be sent in to us for flashing (or bring us your car).
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There was a time — we’re talking more than a decade ago — when business blogs were the exception rather than the norm. In fact, like Facebook, Twitter and other social media tools, the concept of a blog was initially designed for personal use and consumption.
However, it didn’t take long for some progressive businesses — followed by the masses — to realize that there was “gold in them blog hills,” and so business blogs went from being a curiosity on the digital landscape, to being a basic staple.
Yet, the fact that business blogs are ubiquitous doesn’t mean that all of the businesses behind them are taking full advantage of this opportunity, or reaping significant bottom-line rewards and results. On the contrary, most businesses are committing one, a few, or in many cases all seven of the following fatal mistakes:
- They aren’t posting original content. It’s occasionally fine to re-publish unoriginal content (provided that it’s legal and appropriate to do, like posting a strategic partner’s press release). However, the rule is that blogs need to deliver fresh, original content.
- They aren’t posting relevant content. Simply put: content has to be of interest (or every now and then, entertainment) to prospective and current customers. For example, if your business is a car wrap shop, then blogging about care and maintenance tips, differences between wrapping vs. a paint job, and sharing design ideas (etc.) should be part of the editorial calendar.
- They aren’t posting frequently enough. Just like going to the gym once or twice a year is going to have zero impact — in fact, you might tear a muscle or break a bone — posting once or twice a month isn’t going to do much good at all. The best practice is 3-5 posts per week (yes, you read that right: per week!).
- Their posts are too short. The short-lived era of micro-blogging is over, and has been taken over by social media. These days, people who visit business blogs expect to see something that is at least 400 words, but can certainly be longer and exceed 1000 or sometimes even 2000 words.
- Their blogs are poorly written. If people feel as though reading a blog is going to be hard work, then they won’t do it. Even if the blog is 2000+ words long, it has to be crafted, formatted and structured for maximum readability.
- Their blogs don’t have images or embedded video. Choosing the right visuals is essential for driving engagement.
- Their blogs aren’t promoted across their social media accounts. Every blog should be highlighted on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and so on.
The Bottom Line
Blogs aren’t magic wands that instantly turn potential customers into loyal, lucrative and long-time raving fans. Obviously, there’s more to the story than that! However, a good business blog — which is one that doesn’t make any of the mistakes described above — is a profitable asset, rather than a costly liability. | <urn:uuid:2835a80e-71c6-4aea-aec2-bbac561d1ff2> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.andysowards.com/blog/2018/7-fatal-mistakes-businesses-make-blog/ | 2023-09-28T18:43:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.955817 | 652 |
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Following last week’s preview of what new Meet features are coming soon, Google today introduced two usability tweaks. Google Meet can automatically exit a call when nobody else is around, while host management controls are getting centralized.
Host (and co-host) controls will soon be consolidated into the bottom-right corner (shield with lock icon) of the Google Meet web interface instead of being found in multiple locations. It makes for a longer but more centralized settings list:
We hope this change makes it easier to manage your meeting settings by reducing the need to switch between various menus.
Meanwhile, Google Meet is getting a “Leave empty calls” preference that “Removes you from a call after a few minutes if no one else joins.” The initial prompt features a countdown, with Google wanting to “help prevent situations where your audio or video is unintentionally shared.” This is especially useful if you’ve muted audio on your device and have left the Meet tab open in the background.
Now, when you’re the only person in a meeting for five minutes, you’ll receive a prompt asking whether you want to stay or leave the meeting. If you don’t respond after two minutes, you will automatically leave the meeting.
This feature will be enabled by default, but can be turned off under Settings > General. It’s rolling out to the Meet desktop and iOS clients in the coming weeks, with Android following “soon.” | <urn:uuid:6352f8dc-ee5d-4b39-9869-35ed7ddb35e7> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.aoworkspace.com/google-workspace/google-meet-centralizes-host-controls-will-auto-remove-you-from-empty-calls-2/ | 2023-09-28T17:10:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.896145 | 306 |
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Jackson came to Apollo after a summer working on Microsoft’s VS Code, and helped contribute to our open source offerings. One of Jackson’s first contributions was creating a seamless and automatic update experience for users running a distributed GraphQL layer. Jackson experimented with snapshot testing, made critical improvements to the VS Code extension, implemented schema roll-over functionality for the Apollo Gateway, integrated Apollo Gateway within Apollo Server and added polling of Apollo Graph Manager, and took on the herculean task of re-writing graphql-js in Typescript! Being part of the most distributed team, Jackson collaborated with engineers in Helsinki, Amsterdam, South Carolina, and New York! Way to go, Jackson!
How did you get into in Computer Science?
At my high school some parents wanted to make an app for the school. They made an app for the students but they had no idea what students really wanted. So I made an iOS app to replace it and it worked really well but under the hood it was really bad since it was my first time writing code. My high school didn’t offer computer science class so I had to teach myself.
What made you choose Apollo?
I felt the idea of GraphQL was pretty cool compared to REST. I liked working in developer tooling for a while and Apollo had similar kinds of developer tool projects. I also really liked the company culture vibe! Eating lunch together was really cool!
What was it like working on commercial products?
It didn’t seem all that different it’s just code! It was all stuff that i was exposed to during my previous internship at VSCode and I understood the repository really quickly.
What’s a unique challenge you worked on this summer? How did you overcome it?
One of the more different things was the process of converting GraphQL JS to TS. Especially with the GraphQL foundation that we didn’t have enough control over. I came up with different solutions that seemed reasonable and even the GraphQL foundation could get behind.
Did you discover any new passions this summer?
The work I did here was pretty similar to the work that I was doing at VSCode. I guess snapshot testing is really cool! I also find it a bit dangerous. I first discovered it in Apollo Server when snapshots would break and I would fix it by editing the snapshot. In the server codegen I used the TypeScript compiler API as a way to test generated type definitions which isn’t something that I’ve seen any one else doing.
What surprised you the most about the team?
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Oratorio di San Siro di Tresinara di San Giovanni di Querciola
San Giovanni di Querciola - 42030 Viano
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San Giovanni di Querciola is easily reached from Viano, it's 10 km away, taking the SP 89 up to Regnano, where you take the SP 63 in the direction of Casina: the town is found on this road.
An estimate of 1315 mentions for the first time the church of San Siro.
In the XV century S. Siro was united to the church of S. Michele di Pulpiano, buried at the end of the following century.
In 1584 a pastoral visit registered the building as being in terrible condition and completely abandoned.
In 1636 Bishop Coccopani during his pastoral visit found the church semi-destroyed and ordered it to be partially demolished and made into an oratory.
ON December 7th 1672 reconstruction was completed and the oratory, also called "Madonna delle rondine", was reopened for worship.
During the course of the XVIII century it appeared in good condition.
In 1856 and in 1862 the oratory underwent works of restoration which led to its being lengthened.
The 1920 earthquake caused severe damage which was subsequently fixed;
The complex rises isolated on the peak of a clay terrace to the left of the Tresinaro torrent.
It has a sloping façade ending with the impost of the frontispiece with composite characteristics without any particular praiseworthy features.
The architraved portal is flanked by two two slit windows.
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The goal of this Cinematography Quadcopter is to create an open-source platform that can be used for aerial photography and cinematography and provide a platform that can be adjusted or manipulated based on the objectives of the quadcopter.
Background[edit | edit source]
The goal of this project is to create an open-source quadcopter platform that is able to capture 4K resolution pictures and videos. This platform is based on previous open-source hardware to control the software and electronics of the quadcopter, and the frame is designed using the open-source software FreeCAD to make a 3D printed frame. This 3D printed frame and open-source components makes the cost of this project minimal while maintaining a reliable and customizable platform. The quadcopter also contains features to make it weather resistant in order to increase its longevity.
Problem Statement[edit | edit source]
The current market options for a quadcopter that supports a 4K resolution camera are limited and expensive. Using common quadcopter components and open-source options, this solution allows the common user to build off this existing platform to create the quadcopter to fit their needs. This platform allows the user to manipulate or change features on the frame while using software that is completely open source and free to the public. This eliminates the expensive costs of prototyping and allows the user to customize the quadcopter to add additional payloads.
Project Significance[edit | edit source]
This quadcopter allows the user to create a customized platform to suit their cinematography needs. It allows the user to add additional payloads or alter the dimensions of the frame to make a larger or smaller quadcopter to fit each scenario.
- Create a frame platform using open-source software
- Use FreeCAD to create 3D models of the frame
- Use open-source plugins in FreeCAD to create a 3D assembly of the frame
- Use open-source plugins in FreeCAD to perform FEA analysis
- Withstand a fall while in flight
- Utilize PETG filament to 3D print the frame
- Control the quadcopter using a handheld remote control
- Utilize an Arduino Uno R3 to control the operations of the quadcopter
- Weather resistant
- Create a cover to house the essential components inside the center of the quadcopter
- Verify each components works properly on its own as well as with each other
- Create a demo of the quadcopter in flight and sample photos and videos
- Create mounting for an additional payload
- The quadcopter will have an attachment on the underside to attach additional cameras or equipment
- Utilize the GoPro mounting system
- Attach a LiDAR sensor to the quadcopter
- Allows for the "Follow Me" function as well as autonomous hover
- Attach a GPS unit
- Allows for GPS location lock when paired with a LiDAR sensor for autonomous hovering
Part Choices[edit | edit source]
Because this quadcopter is open source, the components used to build the quadcopter must be accessible to everyone. Because of this, an Arduino Uno R3 was chosen as it is open source based and minimalistic. This Arduino is paired with the MultiWii drone software which allows the user to input the components chosen into the code and make adjustments. Because this software was chosen to fly the quadcopter, typical components were chosen to simplify the prototyping process. Emax MT2213-935KV motors were chosen as each motor can produce a maximum of 935kV, generating an excess of lift when paired with 10" propellers. This combination allows the quadcopter to carry an additional payload of a camera or other equipment without suffering from a lack of power. Because these high power motors were chosen, 30A BLHeli-S Rev16 V3 ESCs and a 3S lip battery were also chosen to power the motors. These components ensure that the motors are provided with plenty of power while being able to fly for an extended period of time. In order for the quadcopter to accurately determine its pitch, yaw, and roll, a GY85 9 degree of freedom IMU was implemented. Each of these components allows the quadcopter to fly safely and effectively. After these components were chosen, a camera must be chosen to deliver the 4k photos and videos. The camera that was chosen for this task was the RunCam Hybrid Micro FPV camera. This camera uses an onboard microSD card to capture the photos and videos eliminating the use of an external module.
Filament Choice[edit | edit source]
Since this quadcopter contains powerful motors, the frame must be able to withstand not only the forces of the motors, but also the force generated from a fall or crash. Because of this, PETG was the chosen material for the quadcopter to be made of due to its impressive material properties. The frame components were 3D printed using a Lulzbot Taz Pro using a nozzle that accepts 2.85mm filament.
Printing Settings[edit | edit source]
In order for the frame to be strong enough to survive a fall, a high infill density is used. An infill density of 80% with an infill pattern of triangles was used. This infill pattern and density allows the frame to be strong enough to survive a fall but reduces the weight when compared to 100% infill pattern. The high detail setting was also used with a layer height of 0.18mm.
Frame Components[edit | edit source]
|Bottom Plate with mount for the RunCam Hybrid Micro FPV Camera.||1|
|Top plate with mounts for Arduino Uno R3.||1|
|Front Left Arm.||1|
|Front Right Arm.||1|
|Sliding covers for the arms.||4|
|Center cover to protect the essential electronics.||1|
Fall 2021 Senior Design Paper[edit | edit source]
Executive Summary[edit | edit source]
The Open Source Hardware Enterprise is a team of engineers, working to expand the open-source community by providing and building upon new or existing platforms. These platforms are entirely community built, tested, and driven, allowing any user to recreate the project or tailor it to their own needs. An open-source quadcopter was developed by the Open Source Hardware team to allow hobbyists and researchers to attach various equipment to it to capture any kind of data. To do this, the quadcopter was created utilizing open-source software, tools, and hardware to create a platform that can be used and modified by anyone. To show the expandability of the quadcopter, a 4K First Person View (FPV) camera, the RunCam Hybrid Micro, is being used as a payload to demonstrate its capabilities as a cinematography quadcopter.
The frame of the quadcopter was designed with a large, flat surface area on the bottom, combined with a high-resolution camera allowing the user to capture high quality photos and videos while attaching additional equipment, sensors, and payloads for various tasks. The design of the quadcopter combined with the components and materials chosen, allows it to be easily modified, while retaining its strength during flight and impact. A 3D computer aided design (CAD) model was created using FreeCAD, an open-source CAD software. This software allowed the team to create the frame and test it using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to ensure it was able to withstand the load of the quadcopter under operation. The FEA results yielded low stress and displacement values under maximum thrust and impact, with various components designed to fail under impact loads to reduce the damage to the main frame components. This frame design was then manufactured using 3D printing technology, using Polyethylene terephthalate glycol (PETG) to retain its strength, while reducing the weight of the frame, allowing for addition payloads to be carried. To carry the payload, the Emax MT2213-935KV motors will be used, combined with 10" propellers. This motor and propeller combination allows the quadcopter to carry heavy payloads and be agile during flight.
The open-source software, MultiWii, is used to control the quadcopter, giving the user the ability to modify every part of the code. Because MultiWii is an open-source project, its features and accessibility are constantly expanding with a large support base from the community, making it an excellent choice as a flight controller. This software runs off an Arduino microcontroller, making every portion of the quadcopter open source besides the standard essential quadcopter components. Utilizing open-source flight controller software allows implementation of devices normally not found on quadcopters, allowing its use by researchers to gather sensitive data from a remote location. MultiWii offers an extensive library of features and an enhanced GUI allowing testing to be done prior to initial flight to ensure that each component will work properly. Preliminary testing of both the motors inputs and responses as well as the Internal Measuring Unit (IMU) were done through the MultiWii GUI prior to connecting the components to a power source to test the balance, responsiveness, syncing of the quadcopter during flight.
Acknowledgements[edit | edit source]
The cinematography quadcopter team would like to extend its gratitude to the rest of the Open-Source Hardware Enterprise (OSHE) team for their support with this project, as without the team's input, various elements of the project would not have been reconsidered, weakening the design of the quadcopter. The team would also like to thank Dr. Shane Oberloier for assistance with understanding complex electrical circuits and Arduino coding, and Rick Berkey for his support and guidance throughout the project, offering insight as to how to improve the design. Their support and guidance allow the team to continuously improve their skills and knowledge, leading to more innovative and effective solutions. I would also like to thank Harris Neill for his help during the first semester understanding the MultiWii code, and Joaquin Ganoza for his help during the building and testing phase of the project, helping me troubleshoot various problems that arose during the project.
Introduction[edit | edit source]
The basis of a quadcopter is to allow data to be collected from an aerial point of view. This data can be anything from pictures, air density, temperatures, or other forms of data from additional sensors. The most common use of a quadcopter is for cinematography, as many users attach a camera to capture high-resolution photos and videos. Due to the design limitations of many quadcopters on the market, additional accessories are rarely added to existing quadcopters, leading users to either build a new design or buy another frame for each device. The opportunity exists for a design that can be adapted to each user's requirements by being semi-modular or having the ability to mount multiple different components to the frame with minimal complexity. Creating such a design would be to create an open-source platform for users to consistently expand and support new an innovative ideas and solutions.
Objectives and Constraints
The goal for this project is to design and manufacture an open-source quadcopter that is designed around the expandability by any user. This means that the design should be easy to manufacture for anyone with basic open-source tools, and should be easy to operate and set up, while having the ability to be adapted to any needs the user has (additional payload, visual changes, performance changes, etc.). To do this, the goals of the project are as follows:
- Open-Source frame design
- FreeCAD will be used allowing anyone with access to a computer to make changes and use the design.
- Open-Source code controlling the quadcopter
- Open-source project (MultiWii) will be used as a foundation to control the quadcopter.
- Water-Resistant design
- 4K video capture
- Integrating a common 4K quadcopter camera to be used through the Arduino coding to capture up to 4K photos and video.
§ Photos and videos will be saved to the onboard micro-SD card inside the Arduino.
- Open-Source controller hardware.
- Eliminates the proprietary microcontroller found in every quadcopter on the market.
- Allows the community to use different styles of Arduino controllers to add functionality or reduce weight for purposes such as racing.
- 3D printed frame
- Allows changes to the frame to be printed easily and quickly reducing the manufacturing time.
- Perform basic quadcopter flight maneuvers
- Ability to be controlled from a handheld transmitter.
- Take off and land safely.
- Precise and accurate controls.
Constraints[edit | edit source]
Due to the nature of the project, many users will not have access to proprietary/specialty software and tools. This limited accessibility leads the user to seek out other means of design and operation. Other concerns such as strength and durability need to be considered as damage to the quadcopter can be dangerous to both the components, pilot and bystanders. To address these concerns, multiple limitations are placed on the project to make it accessible to everyone:
- Open-source software will be used to design and develop the frame and electronics
- FreeCAD (Open-source CAD software) will be used to design the 3D model of the frame
- MultiWii Arduino software will be used to generate the code required to fly the quadcopter
- Open-source tools will be used to manufacture the frame of the quadcopter
- 3D printing will be the basis of manufacturing for this project, as it allows almost any user to manufacture the frame of the quadcopter
- Must be able to withstand forces both during flight and during an uncontrolled landing
- Every component needs to be covered and the quadcopter needs to be water-resistant in the event of inclement conditions during flight or landing
- Reduce cost to under $550 for final product minus testing equipment.
- Complete the project within a 2-semester time frame.
- Follow FAA regulations8.
- Thrust to weight ratio of 2.
Project Planning and Timeline[edit | edit source]
The project's timeline can be found below in Table 1, where the majority of the design work was the focus during the first 14 weeks, while the remaining duration of the project was focused on the electrical, coding and testing of the quadcopter. This timeline was determined due to the large presence of Covid-19 during the initial 14 weeks of the project, while the second 14 weeks allowed the team to shift focus back to the lab to continue testing and analysis of the quadcopter. This timeline was followed with minor changes being made to the second semester, as unforeseen problems during the coding and testing phase utilized more time than initially intended.
Table 1: Cinematography quadcopter weekly project timeline.
|Week||Milestone (Spring 2021)|
|Week 1||Begin semester / Initial contact with advisor|
|Week 2||Draft project plan and submit approval request|
|Week 4||Finish BOM item selection and have parts on order|
|Begin design of the quadcopter frame|
|Week 8||Finish design of quadcopter frame|
|Begin coding Arduino and adapting selected parts|
|Week 9||FEA analysis on the quadcopter frame|
|Begin printing quadcopter frame|
|Week 10||Test fit printed parts and make adjustments|
|Exam week||Enterprise Review|
|Week||Milestone (Fall 2021)|
|Week 1||Begin semester|
|Week 2||Finish code for the Arduino|
|Week 3||Begin testing code|
|Week 4||Make revision in code|
|Week 5||First test flight|
|Week 6||Achieve stable hover and control while flying|
|Week 7||Generating video and photo from the onboard camera|
|Week 10||Begin documentation|
|Week 14||Final documentation and presentation|
The estimated cost can be seen in Table 2 below. This budget is divided into multiple different categories, as some components were used strictly for testing and were not used in the final design of the quadcopter. Because of this, the total cost for the quadcopter can be reduced by eliminating these parts. Other components that were used may or may not be available due to the rapid growth in the quadcopter community, as certain components are often replaced quickly with updated versions. An example of one of these components would be the IMU, but a replacement for this component can be easily sourced if it has the same degrees of freedom as the one that is currently being used. Many of these parts can be sourced directly from the manufacturer's website/store, while most of them were sourced from a third-party source. As seen in Table 2, the team was able to undercut the budget of $550 by $30.37 including the testing equipment (goal was to keep the budget below $550 without testing equipment).
Table 2: Cinematography quadcopter itemize project budget.
|Arduino Uno R3||1||$23|
|1045 Propellers||1 package||$11.99|
|FrSky Receiver and Transmitter Combo||1||$58.59|
|Arduino Uno R3 Prototype PCB||1 package||$18.99|
|M4 socket head cap screws||1 package (12 used)||$7.81|
|Tapered Heat set inserts||1 packager (12 used)||$6.58|
|40 pin snap headers||2||$1.94|
|Bullet Connectors||1 package||$7.99|
|12awg Wire||1 package||$9.36|
|18awg Wire||1 package||$6.98|
|PETG Filament||2 rolls||$63.98|
|Battery Voltage Meter||1||$7.23|
|Power Distribution Blocks||2||$11.08|
|Power Distribution Block Jumpers||2||$6.04|
Conclusions and Future Work[edit | edit source]
This cinematography quadcopter integrates open-source software and hardware to create a foundation for the open-source community to build upon. This quadcopter utilizes a 3D printed frame using PETG to achieve the desired strength, although the design can be easily printed in other materials based on the needs of the application, while being designed using the open-source CAD software FreeCAD. The use of FreeCAD allows any user to make changes to the frame by changing the design, such as adding mounting locations for additional equipment without the need for specialty software. The frame was designed to achieve the maximum rigidity in the key components such as the arms and base plates, while other components were designed to flex and break under high loads. The arms were designed with a FOS of 5.51, allowing it to withstand large impacts before yielding, while the feet of the quadcopter were designed to take the impact load during landing by flexing. FEA was performed to determine resistance to a drop 1m above the ground, resulting in a FOS of 1.68, being the first component to yield upon impact. Because the frame was designed to be rigid, the main components had minimal displacement under load, while minimizing the weight of the quadcopter, increasing its ability to carry larger payloads.
Standard quadcopter components were utilized with the open source MultiWii software which allows for control over every aspect of the quadcopter. The MultiWii software allows the user to input the specific components being used, and automatically determines the proper PID gains to control the motors. This software also allows the quadcopter to recognize its position in space relative to each axis and make corrects automatically when it experiences unexpected angle. Utilizing this software, the quadcopter can fly safely and reliably with enough power to carry an additional payload.
To continue the design of this quadcopter, additional sensors could be added to increase the quadcopter's utility. The addition of a LiDAR sensor or altimeter will allow the quadcopter to achieve a stable hover without any user input by referencing either the ground or using GPS positioning to determine its altitude. Another addition to the quadcopter that can be implemented in future work would be the optimization of the frame in order to reduce its overall weight while retaining its strength. This can be done with specialty software such as Altair's Inspire software which allows the user to import geometry and automatically optimize it. This would allow the quadcopter to become much lighter utilizing unconventional geometry and modeling techniques. Because of the nature of the quadcopter being an open-source project, there are an infinite number of revisions that can be made to improve its design, and the participation by the open-source community will likely implement these ideas and carry the design further.
Further investigation into the fatigue life of the different components of the quadcopter will also determine which components need to be reworked in future iterations. The fatigue life of each component will determine how many take off or full thrust maneuvers can be done before the arms of the quadcopter fail. This required more research and testing of the PETG material to determine where the infinite life range lies and whether the maximum stress applied to the arms under full throttle lies inside this infinite life boundary. Fatigue strength can also be looked at to determine what the maximum stress is before failure at the life cycle of the part, guiding further iterations.
References and Research Findings[edit | edit source]
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Dear Secretary Buttigieg:
On behalf of America’s public transportation industry, which directly employs 450,000 workers and supports millions of private-sector jobs, I write to strongly urge the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to support projects that will improve our nation’s public transit, passenger rail, and multimodal infrastructure in your selection of Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) grant recipients.
In August 2022, DOT announced more than $2.2 billion in RAISE capital grant awards to 166 projects in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Of these funds, APTA estimates that DOT provided $418 million to 31 public transportation-related capital projects, equal to 18.6 percent of available funding. The public transportation investment is, by percentage, slightly less than FY 2021 and greater than FY 2020.
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We investigate whether the universe was homogeneously in the false vacuum state at the critical temperature of a weakly first-order phase transition such as the electroweak phase transition in terms of a series of numerical simulations of a phenomenological Langevin equation, whose noise term is derived from the effective action but the dissipative term is set so that the fluctuation-dissipation relation is met. The correlation function of the noise terms given by a non-equilibrium field theory has a distinct feature if it originates from interactions with a boson or with a fermion. The spatial correlation function of noises from a massless boson damps with a power-law, while the fermionic noises always damp exponentially above the inverse-temperature scale. In the simulation with one-loop effective potential of the Higgs field, the latter turns out to be more effective to disturb the homogeneous field configuration. Since noises of the both types are present in the electroweak phase transition, our results suggest that conventional picture of a phase transition, namely, nucleation of critical bubbles in a homogeneous background does not apply or the one-loop approximation breaks down in the standard model.
Numerical approach to the onset of the electroweak phase transition
Department of Physics, University of Tokyo
Tokyo 113, Japan
Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University
Kyoto 606-01, Japan
PACS number : 98.80.Cq
In modern cosmology our universe has presumably experienced a number of phase transitions in the early stage of its evolution. Among them those at the grand unification scale, which may be related with inflation and/or formation of topological defects, are very speculative in that we know neither the symmetry-breaking pattern nor the initial state before the transition which must be highly non-thermal due to the rapid cosmic expansion then. In contrast, the dynamics of the electroweak phase transition (EWPT) in the standard model is a much more solid subject of study because we have a perturbative expression of the effective potential with only one undetermined degree of freedom, namely, the Higgs mass, , and we may well assume the thermal state before the transition since the relevant particle interaction rates are much larger than the cosmic expansion rate by that time.
Nevertheless the dynamics of EWPT is not fully understood yet, mainly because, although one-loop effective potential of the Higgs field, , shows it is of first order, the potential barrier between the two minima at the critical temperature, , is so shallow that it has been doubted if the conventional picture of nucleation of critical bubbles in the homogeneous false-vacuum background really works. Whether the transition is of first order with super-cooling is a very important cosmological issue to judge if electroweak baryogenesis is possible.
Much work has already been done on this topic. For example, Gleiser, Kolb, and Watkins considered the role of subcritical bubbles of the correlation volume as a noise effect in a weakly first-order phase transition, and Gleiser and Kolb concluded that for the Higgs mass larger than 57GeV, the universe is not in the false vacuum state uniformly with but in a mixture of and the true vacuum 111At the critical temperature, the notion of the false and the true vacua are not well defined since the both minima are degenerate. Here we use the same terminology as in lower temperatures.. See also Gleiser and Ramos . Gleiser and Borrill and Gleiser have confirmed occurrence of such “phase mixing” by numerical simulation of a phase transition, solving a simple phenomenological Langevin equation of the form
at the critical temperature . Here an overdot denotes time derivation, is an effective potential, and is a random Gaussian noise with the correlation function
satisfying the fluctuation-dissipation relation . Later Shiromizu et al. treated the size of a subcritical bubble as a statistical variable and discussed its typical size is smaller than the correlation length. They concluded that for any experimentally allowed value of the Higgs mass, or GeV , the phase mixing does occur already at the critical temperature. Furthermore, in the Monte-Carlo lattice simulations of the Euclidean four dimensional theory or the reduced three dimensional model of the finite-temperature electroweak theory, analytical cross-over behavior is observed for most values of the Higgs mass permitted from the experiment .
On the other hand, Dine et al. calculated root-mean-square amplitude of the Higgs field on the correlation scale, or the inverse-mass length scale at at the critical temperature and concluded that for the Higgs boson with GeV it is much smaller than the distance between the two minima and the fraction of the asymmetric phase of the Universe is negligible () so that subcritical fluctuations do not affect the dynamics of EWPT. Bettencourt confirmed their conclusion by estimating the probability that the mean value of averaged over a correlation volume is larger than the distance to the maximum of the effective potential separating the two minima and finding that it is extremely small. Finally in response to Shiromizu et al., Enqvist et al. treated both the amplitude and the spatial size of subcritical fluctuations as statistical variables and discussed that subcritical bubbles, if they exist at all, resemble the critical bubbles and that the usual description of a first-order phase transition applies. Their analysis, however, has a problem that it suffers from severe divergence and they had to introduce cut off ad hoc.
Thus a number of independent analyses have drawn different conclusions about how EWPT proceeds. In the present paper we attempt to elucidate why such discrepancy has arisen with the help of numerical simulations of a phenomenological Langevin equation which is better motivated than (1) and (2) from a non-equilibrium field theory. In fact the origin of the discrepancy is quite simple: it only reflects at which spatial scale one estimates the amplitude of fluctuations. We try to approach the problem step by step.
The rest of the paper is organized as follows. We start with a re-analysis of the simple Langevin equation (1) with white noise (2) in Sec. II. First we consider a non-selfinteracting massive scalar model and show that numerical calculations of (1) and (2) on a lattice can reproduce the finite-temperature spatial correlation function of a massive scalar field correctly as long as we take the lattice spacing comfortably smaller than the correlation length or the Compton wave length. We then solve the same equation but with an effective potential in the standard model as was done by Borrill and Gleiser . We find not only the behavior of the correlation function but also the limit on above which phase mixing occurs change drastically depending on the lattice spacing. In order to obtain a sensible bound on , therefore, we should choose a reasonable value of the lattice spacing with the help of a fundamental theory. This issue is discussed in Sec. III and a new phenomenological Langevin equation is proposed. In Sec. IV we report the results of numerical simulations of the dynamics of the field based on this equation. In Sec. V we give an intuitive explanation for the numerical results by using a simple Boltzmann equation. Finally Sec. VI is devoted to summary and discussion.
Ii Re-analysis of the simple Langevin equation
In this section we elucidate the origin of the discrepancy in the previous literatures. For this purpose, we first solve the simple Langevin equation (1) in the case only the mass term is present in the potential, namely,
where is a random Gaussian noise satisfying (2) with .
After discretizing the system on a lattice, we follow the time evolution from the initial condition, and , on each lattice point. The dimensionless variables , and are introduced for numerical calculations, but we omit the tildes below. We arrange three different lattices for comparison. One has the total lattice points, , grid spacing, , time step, , and total run time, , another has , and , and the other has , and . Using the second order staggered leapfrog method, the discretized master equation reads
where represents spatial index and temporal one, and is set to be . The correlation of the noise is given on the lattice by
Since it is white both spatially and temporally, we have only to generate Gaussian white noise on each grid,
where is a Gaussian random number with a vanishing mean and a unit dispersion. The periodic boundary condition is imposed. Under the above conditions we take the ensemble average over five different noises for each case. The correlation function with , is numerically obtained by calculating all the combinations of the product satisfying .
On the other hand, the analytic expression of the equal-time correlation function of a non-selfinteracting scalar field with mass at temperature is given by
where , , , and is the modified Bessel function of the -th order. This correlation function damps exponentially above the inverse-mass scale.
Both numerical and analytic results are depicted in Fig. 1 in the dimensionless unit 222The correlation function derived analytically is reguralized by subtraction of the vacuum energy.. We find that the correlation functions obtained from numerical calculation damp in a manner independent of the lattice spacings and also that they coincide with the analytic formula (7), namely, exponentially damp with the correlation length of the inverse-mass. Thus for the case of the massive non-selfinteracting scalar field, not only the simple Langevin equation (1) with the random noise (2) but also its numerical solution on a lattice can reproduce its actual finite-temperature behavior.
Next we consider an interacting scalar field borrowing the one-loop improved effective potential, , of the Higgs field in the electroweak theory following Borrill and Gleiser . The master equation is given by
for GeV, GeV, GeV, and GeV . We also find
and the temperature-corrected Higgs self coupling is given by
where the sum is performed over bosons and fermions with their degrees of freedom and . The Higgs field, , appearing in the potential (9) in the actual electroweak theory is of course the amplitude of an doublet complex scalar field. But in solving the Langevin equation (8), we neglect the gauge-nonsinglet nature of the field for simplicity and constrain its dynamics along the real-neutral component to treat as if it was a real singlet field as in Borrill and Gleiser . Thus this should not be regarded as the simulation of the actual Higgs field, although our results would be suggestive to it.
Here dimensionless parameters are defined as . Hereafter we omit the tildes. The effective potential is depicted in Fig. 2. For there is only one minimum at . At appears the inflection point . As the temperature further drops, another minimum, which is metastable, appears and at the critical temperature, , the two minima, , and , are degenerate. Below , the symmetric state becomes metastable in turn and at disappears the local maximum at . This is a typical model which represents a first-order phase transition.
We investigate whether the universe is in a homogeneous state of the false vacuum at the onset of the phase transition or the critical temperature following Borrill and Gleiser . Taking the initial condition as
for all , we follow the evolution of the field to trace the fraction of the symmetric phase, , which is defined by the fractional volume of the lattice space with , while the fraction of the asymmetric phase, , is that with . As in the non-selfinteracting case, the system is discretized and the second-order staggered leapfrog method is used. The noises are also generated in the same way. We have confirmed in all the cases of our interest the change of affects only the relaxation time scale but properties of the final configuration are insensitive to it . So hereafter we report the results with . Contrary to Borrill and Gleiser , we perform numerical calculations with various values of the grid spacing, which turn out to affect the final configuration greatly as seen below.
First, as often assumed in the literatures , we adopt so-called “correlation length” or the curvature scale of the potential at , , as the coarse-graining scale, namely, the lattice spacing. We thus set and arrange a lattice with , , and For several ’s, the fraction of the symmetric phase, is depicted in Fig. 3. For () corresponding to the Higgs mass GeV , the phase mixing does not occur. The result shows that if the Higgs mass is not too large, the phase mixing does not occur, which is consistent with the results of . In Fig. 4 we have depicted the correlation function, , at , which does not necessarily approach zero for large separation due to the fact that the average value of is not equal to zero. In this figure we have also depicted theoretical curves Eq. (7) with in a dimensionless unit, namely,
Next we investigate the dependence of results on the grid spacing . Two lattices are arranged, one with , , and, , and the other with the same properties except for . The results are depicted in Figs. 5(a) and 5(b). The former case reproduces Borrill and Gleiser’s result. Comparing both results, we find that the smaller the lattice spacing becomes, the phase mixing occurs for the smaller values of corresponding to the lighter Higgs mass. This result can be understood as follows. Taking lattices is equivalent to cutting off the momentum. As is seen in Eq. (6), the smaller lattice spacing we take, the larger momentum dominates and the more easily the phase mixing occurs. The correlation function are depicted in Figs. 6(a) and 6(b). In the former case with , it has a similar curve to the analytic one (19) except for the offset, while in the latter with the correlation damps more rapidly.
In order to examine dependence of the lattice spacing further, we have also performed numerical simulations with , and fixed at . As is seen in Fig. 7, the results depend on the lattice spacings very much. is critical and if we take smaller, the phase mixing is manifest. Therefore unless we specify the lattice spacing from a physical argument, we cannot draw any quantitative conclusion about whether two phases are mixed or not. From the analogy with the non-selfinteracting massive scalar field analyzed in the beginning of this section, many people have adopted the Compton wavelength or the inverse-mass scale at as the coarse-graining scale. In the present case, however, the correlation function changes significantly depending on the lattice spacing as shown in Figs. 6(a) and 6(b) contrary to the case of non-selfinteracting field. Thus the above results suggest that the previous analyses adopting the correlation length, or the inverse-mass at , as the coarse graining scale are inappropriate in the case of interacting potential. Thus we must reconsider the derivation of the Langevin equation before performing further numerical analysis based on the simplified equation (8).
Iii Properties of the noises derived from a non-equilibrium quantum field theory
Here we review a field theoretic approach to derive an effective Langevin equation with particular emphasis on the origin of its noise term. The standard quantum field theory, which is appropriate for evaluating the transition amplitude from an ‘in’ state to an ‘out’ state for some field operator , , is not suitable to trace time evolution of an expectation value in a non-equilibrium system. In order to follow the time development of the expectation value of some fields, it is necessary to establish an appropriate extension of the quantum field theory, which is often called the in-in formalism. This was first done by Schwinger and developed by Keldysh . Here, following Morikawa and Gleiser and Ramos , we first review briefly the derivation of an effective Langevin-like equation for a coarse-grained field using the non-equilibrium quantum field theory based on the in-in formalism and then extract necessary information on the noises which are essential for generating inhomogeneity of the system.
iii.1 Non-equilibrium quantum field theory
Let us consider the following Lagrangian density of a singlet scalar field interacting with another scalar field and a fermion for illustration.
Although the above Lagrangian density is much simpler than the standard model, it turns out that this model fully accounts the nature of bosonic noises arising from interactions with gauge particles and Higgs self-interactions as well as fermionic noises from quarks and leptons.
In order to follow the time development of , only the initial condition is fixed, and so the time contour in a generating functional starting from the infinite past must run to the infinite future without fixing the final condition and come back to the infinite past again. The generating functional is thus given by
where the suffix represents the closed time contour of integration and a field component on the -branch ( to ), that on the -branch ( to ). The symbol represents the time ordering according to the closed time contour, the ordinary time ordering, and the anti-time ordering. , and imply the external fields for the scalar and the Dirac fields, respectively. In fact, each external field and is identical, but for technical reason we treat them different and set only at the end of calculation. is the initial density matrix. Strictly speaking, we need couple the time development of the expectation value of the field with that of the density matrix, which is practically impossible. Accordingly we assume that deviation from the equilibrium is small and use the density matrix corresponding to the finite temperature state. Then the generating functional is described by the path integral as
where the classical action is given by
As with the Euclidean-time formulation, the scalar field is still periodic and the Dirac field anti-periodic along the imaginary direction, now with , , and .
The effective action for the scalar field is defined by the connected generating functional as
We give the finite temperature propagator before the perturbative expansion. For the closed path, the scalar propagator has four components.
with , , and . Similar formulae apply for field as well.
Also, for a Dirac fermion we find
iii.2 One-loop finite temperature effective action
The perturbative loop expansion for the effective action can be obtained by transforming where is the field configuration which extremizes the classical action and is small perturbation around . Up to one loop order and , is made up of the graphs as depicted in Fig. 8. Summing up these graphs, the effective action becomes
The last term of (LABEL:eqn:a3effe) gives the imaginary contribution to the effective action . We can attribute these imaginary terms to the functional integrals over Gaussian fluctuations and . That is to say, we can interpret that the imaginary part of the effective action comes from random fluctuations onto the expectation value. Thus we rewrite (LABEL:eqn:a3effe) as
with the probability distribution functional
where is a normalization factor and .
iii.3 Equation of motion
Applying the variational principle to , we obtain the equation of motion for .
¿From (41) and (LABEL:eqn:a3effe), it reads
where . Though and has two contributions from and fields, they have the same properties except for the values of coefficients and masses. From now on, we consider only the contribution from field for simplicity and omit the suffix . The right-hand-side of (44) are the noise terms, while the last two terms of the left-hand-side are combination of a dissipation term and one-loop correction to the classical equation of motion which would reduce to a derivative of the effective potential, , if we restricted to be a constant in space and time.
The above equation (44) is an extension of equation (3.2) of Gleiser and Ramos in that we have incorporated not only self-interaction but also interactions with a boson and a fermion . In Gleiser and Ramos proposed to adopt several further approximations to reduce their equation to the form of the simple Langevin equation like (1) and (2). In particular, for the purpose of simplifying the equation to a local form they handled spatial nonlocality by considering only contributions with zero external momentum, which is physically equivalent to dealing only with nearly spatially homogeneous fields. With this approximation the correlation function of the bosonic noise (37), for example, becomes
We thus obtain spatially uncorrelated noise, which would violate spatial homogeneity of in the severest manner and lead to a self-inconsistent result.
Since the noise term in (44) are the only source of inhomogeneous evolution of , we should not adopt the above approximation (46) for their correlations. Instead, keeping the original form of the correlation functions of the noises, (45) with (37) through (39), we can obtain important informations about inhomogeneous fluctuations which help us to set the lattice spacing of simulations. For this purpose we calculate the spatial correlation functions of the noises more explicitly in the next subsection.
iii.4 Spatial correlation of noises
¿From the above discussion, we see the correlation length of the noise is the most important scale in order to investigate the effect of fluctuations on the dynamics of the phase transition. The correlation function of the noises are given in (45), which are, unfortunately, too complicated to apply for numerical simulations directly. Since nontrivial temporal correlation is expected to affect the relaxation process and its time scale only, we adopt an approximation that temporal correlation is white but take spatial correlation fully into account. So we evaluate the equal-time spatial correlation.
First we consider the case of the bosonic noise. The equal-time propagator in momentum space is given by
Then that in configuration space propagator reads
which of course has the same form as (7). Using the above representation, the equal-time spatial correlation of the bosonic noise becomes
which damps exponentially for
For the massless bosonic noise, we can calculate the sum of the infinite series to yield
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Rob Dauster of NBC Sports had a blog post today that, to put it mildly, has the Big Blue Nation in an uproar on social media, particularly on Twitter.
Dauster's story features the headline, "Sleaze is alive and well in the recruiting world" and featured a picture of Kentucky coach John Calipari just under the headline. The clear message? Calipari is Sleaze Exhibit A.
Normally, Dauster writes thoughtful and fairly interesting articles, and this one was in response to the obligatory "recruiting is so sleazzzzzzy!!!" piece in USA Today -- you know, the kind we get every single year at this time? But along with Calipari as the photo and "sleazy" in the lede, this paragraph has doubtless drawn some ire:
It’s a thought that has crossed my mind many times. I don’t spend nearly as much time in recruiting circles as lot of the more well-known writers and I’ve heard numerous rumors about Recruit X getting Y amount of dollars from Coach Z. I’m sure there are guys out there that can detail you precise figures for all of the transactions that have occurred over the last decade. How much did OJ Mayo get from USC? Why is John Calipari cornering the market on the blue-chip recruit? What amount of money did it take for Adidas to keep Shabazz Muhammad in the family? [My emphasis]
One of these three things is not like the other two. John Calipari himself explained why he has "cornered the market" in the very USA Today article Dauster links. The other two things are clearly illegal, but is "cornering the market?" Only if you are subject to the Sherman Anti-trust Act, and I don't think that applies to Coach Cal.
Naturally, the Big Blue Nation responded, and somewhat understandably so. I've known Dauster a long time through his work, and he is not a hater of Calipari, although I would criticize him mildly for including Calipari's success along with two other examples of illegality. As a blogger, though, I can easily excuse that -- we all get criticized for inferences we didn't necessarily mean to draw. As to his selection of pictures, well, I like mine better.
To his credit, he also cites some relevant facts in the Maryland Terrapins - Kentucky Wildcats recruiting battle over Aaron and Andrew Harrison, although they are probably not nearly the factor that his narrative would have us believe.
Here's a few examples of many angry responses. Note that I don't really agree, I just present them as an example:
Sleaze is alive and well in the recruiting world--& pic of John Calipari to show it? Rob Dauster/NBC, that's pathetic. collegebasketballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/08/01/sle…— KentuckySportsReport (@MyKSR1) August 2, 2012
But I really like this one from Mike Miller of NBC Sports:
Sigh. Once again, it's clear I've given— Mike Miller (@MikeMillerNBC) August 2, 2012
@robdauster too much leeway on what he writes. (Hilarious because he loves Coach Cal, too)
Are Wildcats fans being a little defensive? Yeah, but hey, I resemble that remark, and from any rational viewpoint, the outrage is somewhat justifiable. The article does look a little bit like an attack, even though I'm pretty sure Calipari wasn't the intended target, but "sleaze" in general. Sadly, for many, Calpari is the poster boy for that word. Yes, that's unfair, but since when was life fair?
Here is the only mention of Calipari in the USA Today piece, almost at the very end:
No coach in the modern era has had more success recruiting elite prospects than John Calipari, who has also fought the perception that his longstanding relationship with influential power broker William Wesley helped him land top-rated recruiting classes at Memphis and Kentucky. Wesley often sits in the stands behind Kentucky's bench and at times was given access to the Memphis locker room when Calipari coached the Tigers.
When asked if the presence of third-party recruiting influences has become more common, Calipari said: "If I were where I used to coach, it probably would be more of an issue for me, you know what I'm saying? There's always been more than just the high school coach or the kid you're talking to in recruiting to figure out who is who. I'm at Kentucky now. When I was at Memphis and Massachusetts, it was a lot harder than it is now. Fifteen NBA draft picks the last three years, it's gotten easier."
You can see here that this is straight reporting. The reporter, Eric Pisbell, didn't accuse Coach Cal of sleaze, or imply he was doing anything wrong. He pointed out, quite accurately, that Calipari's relationship with William Wesley is perceived to be somehow a linchpin of his recruiting success. That's nothing new or shocking.
Prisbell then asks Calipari about the effect of third-party recruiters, as Wesley is commonly suspected of being for Coach Cal, and Calipari gives him a straightforward answer that makes a lot of sense (as well as answers Dauster's question in the paragraph I quoted above). There is no rational doubt it is easier to lure players to UK than to UMass or Memphis --even Calipari's harshest critic would admit that. And after 15 draft picks, it's a whole lot easier.
Calipari wasn't asked, and did not deny using third-party recruiters, even though you and I might think it would be an obvious thing for Prisbell to ask. Prisbell's article has some things worthy of criticism as well, but not so much of what he wrote but what he was told by others. Take this for example:
"A lot of people have lost players," Izzo said. "And I am not saying that cheating is 80 percent of the game. It's probably 20 percent. But it's probably 70 percent of the top 20 percent [of player recruitments]. College basketball is a business. This [recruiting] is a business now because it leads to ours."
This is the kind of comment that a coach has no business making without something to back it up. It is completely passive-aggressive, and nobody, especially a coach in Izzo's position, could make a reliable estimate like that. This is very similar to the reporting in the Chicago Sun-Times about Anthony Davis' father hunting hundreds of thousands of dollars for his signature on an LOI -- damning, unsubstantiated and based on hearsay and speculation. Some might claim Izzo is in a position to know, but I very much doubt that.
Whether Izzo is right or wrong in his percentages, there's no doubt that there is cheating in college basketball recruiting, especially among the best players -- this is not news. In fact, this entire article is not news, it's simply a story about something we all are well aware of. We've seen its ilk before, many times, usually once or twice a year, and it always draws the requisite outrage, like Dauster's post.
But there is a bottom line here that nobody is willing to admit, or even say. The NCAA cannot police the process more than it does primarily because it doesn't want to. It can and does act when it gets reliable information, but many, especially guys like Dauster, fail to realize that probably not even federal law enforcement could act on this problem effectively, and they have subpoena power, which the NCAA does not. There are too many people involved that can't be directly connected to each other except by general association -- a Constitutional right under the First Amendment. Everybody involved in the recruiting game has money, or has friends with money, or has friends who have friends with money. Anything, and I mean anything where this much money is involved is going to contain corruption.
In the end Izzo, probably inadvertently, gets it right:
"It's just sad," Izzo said. "I don't see any way of stopping it, unless everything is curtailed and AAU basketball goes under USA Basketball. It just seems like they can't take on that animal. So everyone makes money off basketball."
Everybody. Including the NCAA, and Izzo, and Calipari, and... well, everybody. How much motivation does the NCAA really have to bust the cheaters and deprive the college game of great players? Suppose that all 70% of the top 20 recruits, whom Izzo claims are on the take, got busted. Would that actually mean more or less money for the NCAA? I'm thinking less, and I'm thinking they're well aware of that, and that awareness matters.
Is the NCAA deliberately looking the other way? No, I doubt that, but they spend an awful lot of time explaining that it's an impossible job. And one other non-basketball example -- Cam Newton -- simply bolsters the argument.
If you showed me the three famous monkeys with their various senses blocked, and said they might have something remotely in common with Indianapolis, I would probably agree. As Izzo suggests, the money train is what its all about. The NCAA won't let you cheat in broad daylight, but if you stick to the shadows, it becomes an intractable problem for them that is given much hand-wringing and many speeches, but precious few dollars toward stricter enforcement.
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Fear is good for you!
Fear is one of the most basic human emotions and is programmed into our nervous system and works like an instinct.
Fear alerts us of danger and prepares us to deal with it.
A faster heartbeat, rapid breathing and an increase in blood pressure are a few physical responses.
Blood pumps to muscles to prepare the body for physical action.
The skin produces sweat to keep the body cool.
Sensations in the stomach, head, chest, legs, or hands readying for fight or flight.
The body stays in this this state until the brain receives an "all clear" message and turns off the response.
Feeling afraid is very natural — and helpful — in some situations.
Fear can be like a warning, a signal that cautions us to be careful.
Then why all the fuss around fear?
Why does fear cripple us?
Why do we relate to fear as a bad thing?
How does fear cause ailments in our body and reduce the disease fighting capability of our body?
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It’s hard to believe that just a few years ago, Arno Faraji was a high school student whose interest in rap music didn’t extend much further than early Drake mixtapes and making beats between assignments.
Initially finding his footings in music through guitar covers he’d upload onto YouTube, the Zimbabwe-born rapper and musician gained an interest in hip-hop through his sister, who introduced him to early hip-hop and R&B – T-Pain, for example, being an early highlight. After relocating to Perth from West Australia’s northern Pilbara region when he was 13, Arno’s fascination in hip-hop grew alongside him, broadening his taste through trading everything from Big Sean cuts to boom-bap classics to his friends at school. His interest in the making of hip-hop deepened as well, and his guitar covers were replaced by beat-making and production; the experimentation with rapping itself following shortly after, as he struggled to find people to feature on his beats.
Flash forward some five years later, and Arno Faraji is an essential of Perth’s bustling hip-hop scene and on the forefront of a greater, nation-wide rap explosion. He took out triple j’s career-making Unearthed High competition in 2017 with his single destiny’s (which would later find itself in the Hottest 200 the next year), thrusted into the national limelight in the middle of exams – much to the disarray of his family, who wanted to keep him focused on school (“Jumping headfirst into music seemed so risky and scary to them, and I knew they were worried,” he says, and – for the record – they’re 100% on board with his career now).
Basking in the limelight following his Unearthed High win, he quickly followed it up with Bless (What It’s Like), an example of his collaborative skillset featuring two of his idols in REMI and Sensible J. Later that year, there was also things change, a tropical-tinged moment somewhere between lax hip-hop and dancehall that brings Arno Faraji back to his roots: completely self-written, with Arno playing a major part in its production too.
The Milan Ring-assisted Scalin’ showcases his laid-back grooves amplified by smart collaboration, while the following, self-produced Sneakers contrasts it with sharpness – a joint “inspired by teen perspective and sadboi energy,” he says. A recent appearance on triple j’s Bars Of Steel is one of the program’s most widely-praised, while in media, he’s branded with the sayings you’d expect from an artist quickly making their skills noticeable: “a reckoning force” (Pilerats); “really damn good” (Acclaim); “leading the charge for the next generation” (Purple Sneakers).
Musically, he sits somewhere in between his biggest influences, taking notes from the best and emblazing that distinct Arno Faraji charm to it, elevating it to the next level. The grooves of Kaytranada and Smino are not uncommon through his work, while his raps have the versatility to move between the relaxed playfulness of Goldlink and the ferocity of early Childish Gambino – occasionally within the same track. In saying that, Arno Faraji’s sound is malleable. On one track, his vocal may dance between tropical steel-drums and sun-soaked synth, while on the next, his raps could become quick-paced and focused, layered above trap-inspired beats and jagged melodies that showcase his versatility both in production and rap. At the end of the day, Arno Faraji’s versatility – his ability to triumph regardless of whatever genre he’s working with – is what makes him stand out from the pack.
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Astral People are proud to present Detroit legend Omar S for an Australian & NZ Tour this June. The super producer is something of a mythological figure in dance music and is noted for his raw, stripped-back techno and production. The well established producer has curated a compelling sound that is completely his own, equally famed for his funky sets as his solo productions. Releases on his own FXHE Records and Theo Parrish’s Sound Signature imprints have proved game changing within the industry, and, in light of his latest offering 1992, there’s no doubt Omar-S will continue to shape the modern house landscape.
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For all its simplicity, the origin of the Bee's Knees cocktail is murky. It was created some time during Prohibition and appeared in print after the repeal of the eighteenth amendment in 1933. Because of the secretive nature of drinking during Prohibition (in the States at least) it's not likely to pin down a date or creator. I've read that it was created in Paris at the Ritz by Frank Meier, or it was created by the Unsinkable Molly Brown of Titanic infamy, or came to be in an American speakeasy.
Prohibition was ratified as the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1919, it outlawed the manufacturing, sale, import, and export of liquor for drinking purposes in the United States. People could get medicinal alcohol through their physicians, but otherwise they would have to enter a Speakeasy and drink illegally. Prohibition was repelled with the 21st Amendment in 1933.
The first known use of 'The Bee's Knees' was in 1921 as an idiom meaning someone or something excellent, perhaps from the idea that bee's carried honey in sacs on their legs. The actual cocktail is though to have been created in the middle of Prohibition but the first record of it comes from the 1934 Boothby anthology. Bill Boothby wrote a cocktail compendium (that can still be purchased) titled World Drinks and How to Mix Them.
There is a thought from some historians/mixologists that the saccharine aspect to the drink was to hide inferior gin (or "bathtub" spirits). Prohibition meant that any alcohol created had to be industrial (which is used for perfume, inks, fuel, etc.). To deter bootleggers and adventurous dipsomaniacs, the Volstead Act was implemented, this was the impetus to allow enforcement of the 19th Amendment. Deterrents (denaturants) were added to industrial alcohol to make it undrinkable. These initiatives barely slowed bootleggers but it did cause a rise in tainted-alcohol induced death, as at least one third of all industrial alcohol created during Prohibition was thought to have been diverted for personal drink. A 1927 report from New York noted that of the half million gallons confiscated that year contained various forms of toxic additives.
I'm reading a book about the way the New York Coroner's Office detected poisonings, and there is an entire chapter about wood alcohol (and other prohibition era related alcohol deaths). it's called The Poisoner's Handbook by Deborah Blum. PBS did a documentary on it as well. It's truly excellent.
November's box was quite snuggly themed, with the overarching theme being "Sweater Weather." Very comfy. It had some different types of products and I really liked them. I've used most of the items so I can talk about them!
I managed to get my kitchen mostly clean, it's still very dated in decor/looks but it's on the list for a renovation. I know some people managed to gut their house during Covid but I have not had the time to get that going. Also, I can't quite figure out what I want. Part of me wants a really basic white-neutral kitchen while the other part wants striking colored cabinets. Like black, green, or blue. Not yellow, orange, or red. Decisions!
Continuing on with this series. I've officially read all the books published in it so far (a new one is coming out...and I've put in a purchase for a pre-order). So one of these books takes place mostly in America and the other takes place back in London. They're both quite fun but I have to admit really enjoying the Queen of Hearts mostly for the Hollywood tie in. Malice at the Palace was also interesting, it has more of a true historical bent (far more royal as well).
I redesigned the website. Well, I changed themes/templates. I was going to learn how to do all the stuff and build from scratch but I was down so much from migraines that I did the normal thing instead.
I quite like this one, it's more compact but brighter. I was going to make everything dark because that's my normal mode but I do like the color scheme. Anyways.
I've downloaded quite a few new podcasts. I've given two a whirl. I'm still on Spotify and they've changed things up again. I can't get rid of the episodes (it's on "all episodes" instead of "un-played") which is quite annoying.
The one I finished was older and already famous. It's called Cold; the first season is about a missing woman named Susan Powell. It's a really horrible and sad murder case. In short, Susan marries a man named Josh Powell and their marriage falls apart. It's a truly unhappy marriage and while the podcast covers how Josh abuses Susan (especially financially) it also covers the insanely creepy actions of her father-in-law. Susan begins the process of divorce and then one day disappears. She's never been found, and is assumed to have been murdered (by Josh). Josh had a legal fight for the two boys that he and Susan had (her parents requested full custody), and while on visitation he locked the social worker lady out of his house and killed his children and himself. The father-in-law was unknown to me until I watched a Dateline episode (and it's covered in the podcast). He has delusions that Susan was in love with him (she was not) and he was very creepy towards her, eventually telling her that he loved her. There are a lot of video tapes from Josh and his father, and a few from Susan. The podcast spares no detail and is disturbing. As they've never found Susan, her family and friends are channeling their resources into domestic abuse causes, which is a lovely thing for them to do.
The second podcast is more unusual for me. It's called Wind of Change. So it begins with the introduction of a German band called the Scorpions (I know them from "Rock You Like A Hurricane") and their song "Winds of Change." That song was really popular in many European countries at a certain time (like when the Soviet Union collapsed and when the Berlin Wall came down). Patrick Radden Keefe, a writer for the New Yorker, is the host and investigative reporter for the podcast. He hears from a friend (who is connected to people who may or may not be CIA operatives) that the famed song was written by the CIA, as part of a psy-ops mission. Keefe explores several subtopics as he tries to find out if there is any truth to this rumor, so I learned quite a lot (including where the phrase "We can neither confirm nor deny" originated from). Keefe talks to people from the USA to Russia, from CIA operatives to the band itself. It's honestly fun but I'm a cynical person so I don't think the CIA wrote it. Did the CIA pay songwriters in Europe/America/Asia as a soft power play? They could have! My guess is they throw money at a lot of things.
My Chronicle Book Box is a subscription from the UK, that I fell in love with. I willingly pay for the international shipping, that's my level of love. The "extra" goodies are better quality (and less) which I appreciate. I don't need any more junk.
I also like that most of the books included are British or European focused. As I'm across the pond, I don't always have access to them (or get the media, so I might miss the roll out).
This is a seasonal box, with three books (sometimes signed). it's a mix of hardcover and paperback.
The options are mystery or science fiction/fantasy. I think. I get the mystery box so I don't always pay attention to the other box.
They also have an online shop, so if you miss a book in another box, it's available (sometimes) for purchase.
There are always letters from the authors (or author Q&As), plus a letter from Louise, who is the CEO of the box.
I've started a new podcast that seems to have promise (or might be the weirdest thing I've ever listened to). This week is already starting oddly. I started the past weekend with a migraine, but was able to figure out my "trigger" for it fairly fast. Since I caused the migraine, it was pretty bad and my sleep schedule is still pretty messed up.
The cause of my migraine was carpet cleaner! Apparently this is known but I didn't know because I've just not been around when the carpets were cleaned. I bought a little Bissell machine because my old one died after more than a decade and I had spilled foundation on my white carpet. So, I guess it was worth it.
Anyways, lets get back to the books!
I know, I know. So late. I feel like it's a reoccurring theme of my life being in chaos (or at least, my office) so I'm behind. It's really because I can't decide on a layout or organizational method that works for me.
I finally have my TBR pile slightly under control. It doesn't look like it because it's so large, but I'm making huge amounts of progress. I'm in the middle of a project though, so everything else is just piled in a thematic way whilst I plow through it.
Right, the box then. This was such a fun box (and I've used most of it). Since it was October, the theme matched the fun season. It was "witchcraft and wizardry." The card featured a cauldron, broomstick, witch's hat, potions and all sorts of books. Super cute. I actually don't know who designs these cards but they do such a lovely job.
I don't know if I've mentioned this, but Lavish is changing up their model and going quarterly. Mostly because every box I like does this to me (ok, ok, that's not the reason). I've signed up for the new quarterly model but I don't know how they're going to play it as they haven't shipped anything my way yet. I have seen some sneak peaks and it looked good. I'm excited!
I've given the other Rhys Bowen series a try but I can't get into them as much (I think they're more "cozy" in genre than this one?). These are from her "Her Royal Spyness" Series, which is so amusing for me as I'm not a monarchist and they are cozy. Cozy mysteries are not my jam. I get so utterly frustrated with them for silly reasons. During Covid, I gave some of the cozy books in my TBR pile a go and it seemed to work out better (well, I only hated most of them).
This was a poor introduction, but anyways. The next two books in the series don't take place in the UK as much. Instead, they take place on the European continent. Many of our favorite characters make appearances. This is also the first appearance of Rhys Bowen taking themes from classic literature. I enjoy retellings or hints to the classics for the most part, so I enjoyed it thoroughly.
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Want a nourishing protein shake that is delicious and satisfying all at the same time? This Chocolate Banana Peanut Butter Protein Shake is the absolute best you’ll ever taste!
Protein (and its benefits) is one of my fave topics. Because y’all know that protein is super important. It’s a muscle-building, body-repairing nutrient that we can’t do without.
Sometimes we don’t get enough protein and I am always looking for ways to remedy that. This chocolate banana peanut butter shake is one of them!
So we’re going to take a look at how delicious this shake is and how good it is for you. But first, if you want to know a little about protein, I’ll give you the scoop.
- Protein is the best source for energy
- Protein is called a building block because of amino acids
- Protein helps us make and burn energy
- Protein helps our metabolism work the way it should
But a creamy and smooth protein shake is a fun, grab n’ go way to get needed protein, too.
How To Make A Protein Shake
Delicious shakes are made this way:
- Base: Add ice or fruit like a banana to thicken (note: chia seeds can thicken a shake also)
- Protein source: In this case, peanut butter, almond milk and protein powder
- Sweetener: If required (you can add a natural sugar like raw honey or pure maple syrup)
- Liquid: I like milk such as almond, cashew or coconut
- Blend it: If the mixture is too thick, add a bit more milk until you reach the desired consistency
Benefits Of Protein Shakes
Protein shakes satisfy hunger. That’s a big benefit in my mind because, after a workout, I’m ravenous. And maybe I’m heading off to work or to take the kids on an outing and need energy fast. That’s when I reach for a chocolate banana peanut butter protein shake!
- Protein shakes are great for muscle recovery
- Protein shakes can replace a meal
- Protein shakes can help increase muscle mass when you exercise
Is It Bad To Put Peanut Butter In Your Protein Shake?
It’s definitely okay – and smart – to put peanut butter in your protein shake. Peanut butter is a healthy ingredient! Peanut butter has all 3 of the macronutrients we need daily, those being fat, protein, and carbs.
So yes, go ahead and add peanut butter to your shake as I did in this recipe. It tastes great, too!
Is A Chocolate Banana Protein Shake Good For Weight Loss?
I think chocolate banana protein shakes are good for weight loss. Why? Because you are filling up with nutrients after exercise instead of reaching for that processed, empty of nutrition, calorie-laden protein bar.
BTW, looking for a healthy protein bar? See what makes a healthy protein bar and see my top 7 here.
Enjoying a shake made with power-packed protein powder can help you lose weight:
- The decrease in hunger keeps you away from junk food
- Protein helps you lose weight slowly (instead like a crash diet), maintaining lean muscle mass
- Protein helps beat belly fat (see my post on blasting belly bloat)
Types Of Protein Powder
Some of the types of protein powder on the market are:
Overall, however, my absolute favorite protein powder is cleanish plant-based protein. In fact, it’s my own company, and I personally designed the ingredients and flavors. I wanted to create a protein powder I could enjoy any day without having to mix it into a smoothie if I didn’t want to. So, I created cleanish to be a great-tasting protein powder without all the junk!
What Can I Add To My Protein Shake To Gain Weight?
To gain weight by drinking protein shakes, add ingredients like avocado, nut butter, healthy oils like coconut oil, and extra protein sources like oats. Make sure you have a full-fat milk in there such as dairy milk or coconut milk.
Almond and cashew milk are good for adding in calories, too.
Have 2-3 small protein shakes a day and be sure to focus on healthy foods like whole grains and lean proteins for extra muscle-building power.
Stay away from processed foods – they will not help you gain weight in a healthy way. Instead, they can lead to inflammation.
What’s In This Chocolate Banana Peanut Butter Protein Shake?
This chocolate banana peanut butter protein shake has so much goodness in it. It’s so easy to throw the ingredients in a blender and have a nutritional snack in less than 5 minutes!
- Almond milk
- Peanut butter
- Ripe banana
- Chocolate whey powder
- Ice cubes
- Honey is optional
When Should You Drink Protein Shakes?
I prefer to drink my protein shake after I exercise. That’s because I want that source of protein to help my body build and maintain muscle mass. I’m typically hungry also, so a quick-to-make shake is the best thing to curb my hunger pains fast.
But if you like to drink your protein shake before you head to the gym or out for a walk, that’s okay as well because you get the energy you need to complete your exercise goal.
You want to spread out your protein intake throughout the day for optimum results, so as long as you are getting what you need, when you drink the shake is up to you.
How Often Should You Drink Protein Shakes?
How often you drink protein shakes depends on your goals. If you want to gain weight, you can have a protein-filled shake every time you do resistance training to help build muscle. For weight loss, you can reduce your calorie intake and ensure that you are still getting enough protein by maybe drinking two shakes a day.
But remember, the important thing is that the protein shake is not a protein replacement. You still need to get your requirements from other sources, too.
More Healthy Protein Shakes
Over the years, since I created this delicious Chocolate, Banana, Peanut Butter Protein Shake, I’ve come up with some new faves as well. If you’d like more protein shakes and smoothie recipes, check out the following:
- Green Protein Smoothie
- Almond Butter, Coffee, And Chocolate Shake
- Orange Protein Shake
- Strawberry Protein Shake
- Banana Protein Shake
- Blueberry Shake
- Peach Protein Shake
What’s your favorite shake recipe?
Are you looking for a nourishing protein shake that is delicious and satisfying all at the same time? This Chocolate Banana Peanut Butter Protein Shake is the absolute best you’ll ever taste!
- 1 cup almond milk
- 1 tbsp creamy peanut butter
- 1 ripe banana can be frozen, broken into large chunks
- 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 scoop chocolate + sea salt cleanish protein Buy here (can substitute with chocolate protein powder of your choice)
- 5-10 ice cubes depending on how thick you like it
- optional: 1 tsp. honey
Add all ingredients in blender, starting with the almond milk.
Blend until smooth.
If too thick, add more milk. If too thin, add some more ice.
This protein shake is by far the #1 shake we have in our home. It’s sweet, creamy, chocolatey, and full of satisfying goodness. Plus it’s so simple to make. We often have it as a quick pre-workout meal or even as a sweet treat to end the day.
If you like it even sweeter, you can opt to freeze your bananas instead of using fresh bananas. That way, you can opt to not add any ice into the shake, which will make the flavor more intense and less watered down.
I also like to add a sprinkle of dehydrated espresso powder for a little flavor boost to the chocolate. And don’t forget that cinnamon – it’s seriously life changing.
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Pump 3G – Zero Stimulant 375g Pre-Workout
Applied Nutrition Pump 3G – Zero Stimulant 375g
Pre-Workout • Next Generation
375g | 50 Scoops
5g Citrulline | 3g AAKG | 3g Creatine | 2g Beta-Alanine
Pump 3G Zero is the Stimulant Free version of our Pump 3G, now more concentrated than ever, stacked with a host of the most popular and researched ingredients to help improve pump, focus and performance. Pump 3G Zero was formulated whilst having the PUMP FACTOR prioritised at all stages of development in order to maximise gains, without a potent stimulant dose.
- ZERO Stimulant – Perfect for late night workouts
- Creatine Monohydrate increases physical performance in successive bursts of short-term, high intensity exercise
- Vitamin B12 contributes to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue
- Tested for Athletes
- Halal Certified Product
Mix 1 serving 15g (2 scoops) with 200ml of cold water 30 minutes prior to exercise and consume immediately.
*Scoops are estimate only, weighing scales are recommended.
|per (100 g)||per serving (15 g)||*RI %|
|Energy||71 kJ / 17 Kcal||11 kJ / 3 Kcal|
|Fats||0 g||0 g|
|of which Saturates||0 g||0 g|
|Carbohydrates||4.2 g||0.63 g|
|of which Sugars||0 g||0 g|
|Fibre||0 g||0 g|
|Protein||0 g||0 g|
|Sodium||1.137 g||0.171 g|
|Salt Equivalent||2.843 g||0.426 g|
|Citrulline Malate 2:1||33.3 g||5 g|
|AAKG||20 g||3 g|
|Creatine Monohydrate||20 g||3 g|
|Beta-Alanine||13.33 g||2 g|
|Taurine||1667 mg||250 mg|
|L-Tyrosine||1667 mg||250 mg|
|L-Theanine||1667 mg||250 mg|
|AstraGin®||333 mg||50 mg|
|BioPerine®||33 mg||5 mg|
|Vitamin B3||400 mg||60 mg||375|
|Vitamin B12||333 mcg||50 mcg||2000|
* Reference Intake
Citrulline Malate 2:1, Arginine Alpha Ketoglutarate (AAKG), Creatine Monohydrate, Beta-Alanine, Natural Flavour, Acidity Regulators (Citric Acid, Sodium Bicarbonate), L-Theanine, Silicon Dioxide, Calcium Silicate, Vitamin B3 (Nicotinamide), BioPerine® (Black Pepper Extract), Sweetener (Sucralose), AstraGin® (Astragalus & Panax Notoginseng Extract), Natural Colour (Beetroot Red), Vitamin B12 (Cyanocobalamin).
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Citrulline Malate 2:1, Arginine Alpha Ketoglutarate (AAKG), Creatine Monohydrate, Beta-Alanine, Natural Flavour, Acidity Regulators (Citric Acid, Sodium Bicarbonate), L-Theanine, Silicon Dioxide, Calcium Silicate, Nicotinamide (Vitamin B3), BioPerine® (Black Pepper Extract), Sweetener (Sucralose), AstraGin® (Astragalus & Panax Notoginseng Extract), Natural Colour (Spirulina), Cyanocobalamin (Vitamin B12).
TESTED FOR ATHLETES
Every ingredient within this batch undergoes rigorous scrutiny and testing for banned substances prior to production under a monitored programme. Final products are then produced and packaged at an ISO 22000, BRC, GMP & Halal accredited lab to provide the highest level of assurance that they are safe for athletes to use.
Check with a qualified health professional before using this product if you are under the age of 18, pregnant or nursing a baby or if you have any known or suspected medical condition(s) and or are taking any prescription or OTC medication(s). Not to be used as a substitute for a varied diet and healthy lifestyle. Store this product in a cool dry place, away from children. Do not exceed suggested use. For allergens see ingredients in Bold.
Fruit Burst, Icy Blue Raz
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Clint Bruce sat down with us for our winter 2018 issue. He talked about his transition from the love of playing football to love of country, duty and serving in one of the most elite branches of the United States military. Focus, hard work and determination has made Clint a successful entrepreneur and valuable contributor to the veteran community.
Skillset: What made you want to join the Navy after high school?
Clint Bruce: I grew up watching “Magnum P.I.” and a lot of Chuck Norris movies. I’m joking, but at the same time there’s some significant truth in that. We often become what we read about and watch, especially at that age. I loved learning about heroism, sacrifice and protecting the less fortunate. I was raised in an extremely patriotic family with farming and ranching in our history. There was a deep sense of service. It’s almost like there’s a debt to the land. You have this awareness that the land isn’t free and you have to work it.
I was also raised with the desire to be a part of something larger than myself. I think that’s why I was drawn to team sports. It can’t be just about you, or you’ll only go as far as you can take yourself — which isn’t meaningfully far. The military beats the “you” out of you, so you become useful. The Marine Corps, in particular, does this as well or better than anyone else in history. They really beat the “you” out of you, and you are of great use to the nation as a result. It’s about being part of the group, a tribe. I love being part of a tribe.
SS: So, football was your ticket in?
CB: It was. I was playing football in high school with a big and successful program. During my senior year, my dad got sick and passed away. There were a lot of colleges talking to me about coming to play for them, but only the Navy would allow me to provide for my family the way I needed to as the oldest son of a hurting family. I had always loved the Army-Navy game because it was truly special, and was attracted to Annapolis in part because of that tradition.
My experiences at the Naval Academy were a blessing. The brotherhood we have there as football players is powerful and lasting. I know Annapolis, and the football brotherhood smoothed some of the rougher edges I had from my childhood and from losing my father. While I was there, I was blessed with both the opportunity to go into the NFL and the chance to go into BUDS and to become a SEAL.
SS: Was the goal from day one to become a SEAL?
CB: Yes, my “big dream” goal was to become a SEAL. It’s the reason I went to Navy versus the other service academies or schools with an NROTC program that I had a chance to play for. And I learned it’s probably the hardest way to earn a chance to become a SEAL. The competition at the Academy to be a SEAL is intense. My senior year there were only 16 billets and everyone trying out was fiercely competitive and highly qualified.
The one everyone probably knows of (or should know of) is Mike McGreevy, who we lost in Operation Red Wings. “Groove” was my classmate. For some reason, he didn’t get a billet. But as was typical of Groove, he had no quit in him. He came into the Teams after great service to another warfare community in the Navy, and he ended up being one of the most spectacular leaders we had in the community until we lost him. So, as you can tell, it was an enormously competitive class of peers.
SS: Tell us about going into the NFL after Annapolis.
CB: It was another great privilege, but a conflicted one. I already knew football, and the game had taught me a ton about life, leading and following — all those lessons team competitions uniquely share with us. It was an achievement to be invited to compete at that level. A lot of people don’t know I had the opportunity to spend time in the NFL with the Ravens because I played the same position as Ray Lewis, and he’s really good. I’d be at practice watching him and think to myself, “Man, it might be easier to become a Navy SEAL than to beat this guy out.”
It was cool to be there briefly and see the difference between collegiate and professional football, especially the linemen. I’d seen guys that big before playing in college, but not who could also move like that. The size and agility of the offensive line and the power of the defensive line was a glimpse into what “elite” is. But I knew football. I had drunk deeply from that well and didn’t know if I could become a SEAL — so I go where I don’t know. I needed to go toward a ridgeline I’d never been on before to see if I could keep up with men like Groove and these incredible warriors I had the chance to serve alongside.
The NFL was a great preview of what I would experience in the SEAL Teams, though. There is a cross-section of humanity that can do what the rest of us can’t; they are almost superhuman in their physical giftedness. There were guys in BUDs who made it look easy and natural. I wasn’t like that in football or in BUDS. But BUDs’ design levels the playing field. Sometimes the tough won’t slow down enough to learn technique. Guys who make it through SEAL training are both smart and hard.
SS: What is Trident Response Group?
CB: TRG came on the heels of an unsuccessful foray into wealth management. I was so bad. I think I became the worst financial advisor on the planet faster than anyone else. I’d sit down and ask someone if I could manage their wealth, and if they said no then I would say, “Well, I don’t want to manage your stupid wealth anyway. I hate you and everything about you.” (I was processing some anger issues at the time.) And I was honest, too. If potential clients asked if I was better than the advisors they had I would say, “No, they are so much better than me. If they die then call me, but otherwise I’d stay with them.”
When Hurricane Katrina happened, we went in and pulled a lot of people out. That changed things. When we came home I had a lot of very successful business leaders see what we did and ask if we could do things for them, things which didn’t have anything to do with wealth management, but with what I was gifted at and had done for years while serving. Private sector parallels to our operational experiences positioned us to be skilled at managing their risks from business, personal and family angles.
In 2005, we laid the plank for TRG to help these people and their businesses plan for the unexpected. Since then, we’ve simply listened to what these CEOs need and we provide it for them. We have also created a platform for career transitions for other veterans when they get out of their service.
SS: Tell us about TRG and veterans.
CB: Most veterans undervalue their ability to think. Many of them I know marginalize their intellects. It’s fun to watch them discover how their primary assets, their primary warfighting capabilities, are their intellects. The American veteran is one of the most dynamic problem solvers and team players on the planet. We put them in position to show that to leaders in the business world as we do what TRG does. And if you’re a CEO, you want that around you. You want these dynamic problem solvers who are willing and capable teammates who know how to work. It’s been fun and rewarding for me to try and create professional transition opportunities for veterans which may result in long-term tenures with us, or through opportunities with leaders they did not know, doing something they didn’t know they could do. Seeing both outcomes really is a win-win.
SS: You have a lot going on and seem to always be moving forward with your concepts and with helping veterans. Would you consider yourself a serial entrepreneur?
CB: I would consider myself a serial adventurer and competitor. Being an entrepreneur is just the field I get to play on now. I think my adventurer and competitor mentality has predated all this. So, for me this is just a new map. And like I did with football and the SEAL teams, I want to find the best adventurers and competitors out there, and I want to try to keep up with them. To get time with these people you have to add value to what they’re doing.
I don’t care how rich or successful you are, time is the one thing you can’t buy more of. So, with everything we’ve done, it’s been important for us to earn a place at the table with the business people we want to be around by offering a unique set of value propositions. Because when you’re married with three kids and you’ve been in the special operations community since you were 17 years old, you don’t always have a lot of time. You might not have time to go back to school, and you have to hit the ground running since you have to provide for your family.
We pay a lot of attention to the mid-twenties veteran, the door kicker — and we should — but we don’t lose sight of that senior enlisted who has a family and who has been in the profession of arms for more than 20 years. How do you create a business platform for them? They have so much experience to offer and amazing credibility. I loved being an officer, but the enlisted is the backbone of the American fighting machine. And the senior enlisted is the spinal cord. That’s where so much skill, experience and ability resides. Basically, I just hide among the talent all my other guys have and pretend I can direct it to a degree.
SS: You speak to large companies and groups across the nation. What advice would you give our readers?
CB: To the veteran reader, I would say that everything that worked inside the military will work outside it. You just have to understand where you fit on the map. Hard work, being a teammate, being an excellent communicator, being humble and accountable and being trustworthy is gold to CEOs. But, we must learn the language of the map we’re on now. If you’re an excellent land navigator, but you’re at sea now, the ability that made you a great land navigator is going to make you a great sailor as well. But you should recognize you’re on a different map. You need to learn the equivalencies.
To the civilian reader, when I say that this is the next “greatest generation,” I don’t say that as a disservice to any generation that came before. I think if we took a hard look at what Vietnam veterans did when they came back, we would be blown away. They came back without support or fanfare and created a booming economy during the Cold War. But I think this generation of veterans makes it an exciting time to see what’s happening in “Hometown USA” as they return home and get to work. I’m thankful to be in a great position to work with some of them. | <urn:uuid:f1ae9aee-aef8-4e7b-bbce-8c781f3d3a04> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.athlonoutdoors.com/article/combat-entrepreneur-seal-clint-bruce/ | 2023-09-28T18:38:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.985379 | 2,461 |
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Atkin Chambers was the first ever UK chambers to win the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in international trade, the UK’s highest recognition for international business success, and it won the award for the second time in 2020. Chambers is ranked band 1 in international arbitration in the most recent Chambers UK Bar Guide and has been so for many years. | <urn:uuid:9ab3dfc5-4bdb-4339-806c-3e41d7f5282d> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.atkinchambers.com/expertise/markets/ | 2023-09-28T17:29:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.967419 | 239 |
Impressive Chandelier by Stilux Milano, Italy Mid-Century. This Chandelier has five branches and is made of copper and crystal glass. The top is a copper plate that can be mounted to the ceiling. The glass is diamond shaped. This chandelier gives a luxurious and warm look and feel to your dinner table or any other room in your house that you want to decorate with high-end design items. It is in great condition with some nice patina due to its age.
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Corn Harvester Cutting Table with Adjustable Spacing
- 10.2991/iceat-16.2017.49How to use a DOI?
- corn harvester, agricultural machinery, adjustable row spacing, folding, image recognition
Mechanical harvest of corn can greatly improve the efficiency of harvesting. Corn harvester have to adapt to different regions of China's growing habits, such as different row spacing and plant spacing. The improvement of harvesting efficiency depends on the continuous innovation and improvement of the design of the cutting table. This cutting table can be folded and adjust row space, and thus solved the current technical problems of corn harvester. Compared with the traditional cutting table, the harvest efficiency increased by 50%. The design will achieve a major breakthrough in the corn harvester industry.
- © 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Chong WANG AU - Shukun CAO AU - Changzhong WU AU - Shengnan WANG AU - Yingying ZHAO PY - 2016/05 DA - 2016/05 TI - Corn Harvester Cutting Table with Adjustable Spacing BT - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Engineering and Advanced Technology PB - Atlantis Press SP - 236 EP - 239 SN - 2352-5401 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/iceat-16.2017.49 DO - 10.2991/iceat-16.2017.49 ID - WANG2016/05 ER - | <urn:uuid:484bd496-0b6a-43b6-ad50-19cdaa9c27ed> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.atlantis-press.com/proceedings/iceat-16/25869740 | 2023-09-28T17:21:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.819883 | 372 |
Music Education Effect on Improving Students' Comprehensive Quality
- 10.2991/isss-16.2016.15How to use a DOI?
- Music education; students' comprehensive quality
Since the 1990s, cultivating the students' comprehensive ability has drawn attention from the society widely. On May 15, 1999, comrade Jiang Zemin made a speech on the third national education workshop in which he emphasized that, “We must comprehensively implement the educational policy of the party, persisting that education serves for the socialism and the people, persisting that education combines with the social practice, taking improving our national quality as our basic objective, focusing on improving students' innovative spirit and the practice ability, diligently molding our students as having ideal, having morals, having knowledge and having discipline, making their moral, intellectual, physical and esthetic ability develop fully, making them as our socialism constructor and successor”. Therefore, improving students' comprehensive qualities becomes one of the essential targets of cultivating high-quality students.
- © 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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TY - CONF AU - Qi Li PY - 2016/05 DA - 2016/05 TI - Music Education Effect on Improving Students' Comprehensive Quality BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Social Science (ISSS 2016) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 63 EP - 66 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/isss-16.2016.15 DO - 10.2991/isss-16.2016.15 ID - Li2016/05 ER - | <urn:uuid:df82bea7-277e-4ebd-b244-002c05e5709d> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.atlantis-press.com/proceedings/isss-16/25853947 | 2023-09-28T18:45:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.88834 | 390 |
Chief Executive Officer
Jon’s expertise is to take companies of Atmosera’s size and attributes to the next level of growth through a high degree of focus on clients and operational excellence. During his career, Jon has held senior executive positions at successful startups and Fortune 500 companies in the telecom, consumer packaged goods, and energy industries. He has a Master’s in Business Administration from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Willamette University.
Chief Financial Officer
As Chief Financial Officer, Barry leads the accounting operations, financial planning and analysis, legal, and IT functions for the company. Barry has executive level financial (CFO) and operational (COO) experience at both public and private companies.
Chief Technology Officer
Scott leads the engineering team driving innovation and efficiency into the products and services Atmosera offers. Scott is focused on defining and executing the development of new hybrid services including the evolution towards an increasingly software-defined cloud service platform. Scott brings a highly technical and hands-on leadership style that delivers quality, practical and innovative solutions to complex business and technical problems. Scott previously held leadership positions at APCON, Overture Networks, Fujitsu, Siemens, and Gilbarco. Scott holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from North Carolina State University, and one US Patent.
Executive Vice President of Professional Services
Jacob Saunders is responsible for guiding clients as they accelerate product innovation and transform their digital estates. His team brings together all our areas of expertise to form holistic technical and advisory partnerships with our customers. He loves “unsolvable” problems, and most recently led the technology innovation portfolio at HAVI. He has also built and led several high growth consulting organizations, having previously served as CTO of 10th Magnitude (now Cognizant Microsoft Business Group), National Practice Director at Neudesic (now an IBM Company), and in various other leadership positions.
Chief Strategy Officer
Todd Fine is Chief Strategy Officer at Atmosera and the Microsoft Regional Director for Atlanta, and works extensively with Microsoft in various forums and capacities. Prior to Atmosera, Todd was the CEO of Wintellect LLC, the Managing Director of RDA Corp’s southeast regional office; and a Software Manager for the Naval Research Lab’s Special Projects group of the Tactical Electronic Warfare division in D.C., where he led the software design of radar receiver systems. Before that, Todd worked in experimental physics at the University of Maryland’s Charged Particle Beam Lab, publishing scientific papers in such journals as the Review of Scientific Instruments and the Bulletin of American Physics. An aviation enthusiast and pilot for over 30 years, Todd enjoys flying many different types of aircraft, including gliders, helicopters, and hang gliders. He is currently building a WW1 fighter airplane in his basement. His wife, who wanted that space for a media room, is not amused.
Chief Learning Officer
Jeff Prosise is a cofounder of Wintellect who makes his living writing software and helping others do the same. He has written nine books and hundreds of magazine articles, trained thousands of developers at Microsoft, and spoken at some of the world’s largest software conferences. Jeff’s passion is teaching software developers how to build cloud-based apps with Microsoft Azure and introducing them to the wonders of AI and Machine Learning. In his spare time, Jeff builds and flies large radio-control jets. He loves the smell of jet fuel in the morning.
Head of Human Resources
Amanda has been working in the Human Resources field for over 13 years with a focus in the technology industry. She started her career as an HR administrator and has continued expanding her role within all areas of human resources from onboarding and payroll to benefits administration and recruiting. Previously, Amanda was the HR Generalist at ServerLogic, a Northwest IT staffing and MSP consulting firm in Portland where she ran all aspects of Human Resources. Amanda has a Bachelor’s in Business Administration from Southern Oregon University and holds a certification in Professional Human Resources. | <urn:uuid:be468bce-32ec-4d6a-9078-5a19fd9be403> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.atmosera.com/company/leadership-team/ | 2023-09-28T18:11:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.953558 | 838 |
If you are eager for a fresh, artsy and ladylike magazine to follow, today you are in luck. Lividity Magazine is and has been published and it amalgamates gothic fashion with the arts, music and culture. The magazine, however, offers more than just breathtaking photographs illustrating its pages as their primary goal is to give you a closer look at the brilliant minds that fuel the fashion and art communities with a beautiful landscape of photographs to help along the way.
This is the premiere issue of the magazine and I must confess that, while looking through its pages, they are definitely doing something divergent. Each photograph as well as design is beautifully captured and elaborate in a careful and thoughtful manner and filled with revealing interviews on some of the most talented folks in the gothic fashion and the art world related to it.
The spread on Kicka Custom Design, the go-to brand for Custom Couture, is simply alluring. Wearable art has never looked this sensational before. Meanwhile, The Secret Garden section lets Ryder Make-Up Labs Studio take you on a beautiful, summery tour.
Music fans will love Oklahoma natives, All About A Bubble. Their infectious pop rock with an emotional wave hooked up with a couple of musical influences that craftily transit with an alternative rock flair that serves as the perfect theme song to your most critical moments. On this issue, Lividity Magazine magnificently illustrated their interview with band photographs across its pages, giving predominance to both contextual words as well as visual concept, through four pages.
Other features include the incredible aerial theatre act, Paper Doll Militia, from Atlanta, Georgia. Paper Doll Militia currently offers teacher training intensives around the United States, United Kingdom and Europe. A five-day, hands-on intensive training of thirty hours which includes safety technique and training for teaching beginner level skills on trapeze and silk. Their training focuses on a comprehensive and holistic approach to aerial instruction, with emphasis on creating a well-rounded class setting and Paper Doll Militia’s quintessential creative approach to the apparatus.
Atlanta’s uber-talented American hairstylist, Daniel Holzberger, also emphasizes on their pages. He earned the Avant Garde nomination this year. Daniel Holzberger is also a finalist in this year’s Editorial Stylist category.
Grab your copy for free online or support the magazine by ordering a print edition over at Magcloud. The digital version is available for free. Meanwhile, you can get a paper copy for roughly $ 15.00 EUR, a magnificent illustrated 8.25″ x 10.75″ magazine containing 62-pages perfect-bound.
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Since a large measure of my fieldwork has been in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, I will spend some time here talking about the Edmonton underground metal scene. Edmonton has an interesting, unique and vibrant underground extreme metal scene with some obscure yet pivotal acts.
According to my interviews, two historically significant acts from Edmonton set the tone for the city’s underground scene — Disciples of Power and Revenge.
Disciples of Power and Revenge was a very proficient, technical, serious band that formed in the mid-1980s and performed a mixture of thrash and death. Always on the verge of mainstream success, Disciples of Power and Revenge became legendary in Edmonton and was well known across Canada for their atypical technicality and ferocious performances.
Disciples of Power and Revenge officially broke up in 2003, but they have since performed live and on the internet.
Coming out of this style of death thrash is Death Toll Rising which formed in 2002, and has released one demo, one EP, and two full-length albums — ‘Defecation Suffocation’ (2010), and ‘Infection Legacy’ ( 2013 ).
Death Toll Rising has developed a strong following in the Edmonton scene in their 13 years of existence, playing Edmonton regularly and drawing relatively large crowds. Initially performing in blood-soaked clothes with their lyrics in the style of gore and horror-focussed death metal, the band moved into a more serious technical and progressive death thrash, especially on their last album.
‘Infection Legacy’ has made the rounds with the major international zine and magazine reviews and received positive reviews based on their technical skill, their speed and precision, and their brutality. The vocals range from death style false chord vocals to high scream fry vocals, similar to the US death metal band Exhumed. The drum work is particularly impressive, talented, technical and frenetic.
Another important band in the Edmonton Underground scene is Revenge, an international underground, blackened death metal band. ‘Blackened’ refers to the influence of black metal sonic and musical components and lyrical themes within a death metal framework. A blackened band makes increased use of tremolo picking and harmonic chordal patterns with explicitly anti-Christian and satanic lyrics.
While only performing once in Edmonton (January 2015), Revenge has toured with the likes of legendary black metal acts such as Mayhem and Watain. Prior to the forming of Revenge in 2000, lead member James Read had joined a few other important acts in the scene including Cremation, which released four demos in the early 1990s.
This band developed into Conqueror, which also included Ryan Förster (under the pseudonym Deathlord of Abomination and War Apocalypse), a member of Blasphemy, the pivotal Canadian black metal band from Victoria of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
James Read then played with Axis of Advance between 1998 and 2007, releasing two EP’s, two full-length albums and a split. Read meanwhile formed his own band, Revenge, for which he writes the music, sings and plays drums. Fellow bandmate in Axis of Advance, Vermin, also serves as a session musician on the Revenge project.
Revenge can be described as somewhat ideological in the sense that each of their albums follows a consistent aesthetic, conceptual, and sonic structure, producing music that incorporates jarring, brutal, and abrasive musical and aesthetic elements.
Revenge’s lyrics follow militaristic themes including a might-is-right and the-strong-eat-the-weak attitude. Revenge, however, prefers to remain obscure with few interviews, lyrics that are not printed in their liner notes, and limited exposure in Edmonton. Tim, now bassist for Revenge, recounted to me his experience of coming to Edmonton with the expectation that Read would be worshipped in the scene. Instead, he saw people at metal shows migrating past Read, a doorman at the local metal venue, Mead Hall, unaware of his significance within the genre.
There are many other underground blackened death metal bands in the scene that have received some recognition such as Warmarch, with singer and guitarist Paulus Kressman, previous member of Sacramentary Abolishment. A very active member of the scene, Kressman also fronts the talented blackened death metal band Rites of Thy Degringolade. He previously performed with Weapon, Ouroboros, and others.
Coming out of a similar aesthetic, Antediluvian is an Edmonton based underground, blackened death metal band that has also seen international recognition, touring throughout Canada and the United States, as well as a recent tour of Europe.
Formed in Ontario in 2005, they have released three demos, four split albums, two EP’s and two very well received full-length albums entitled ‘Through the Cervix of Hawaah’ ( 2011 ), and ‘λόγος’ (2013).
Their music can be described as brutal, primitive, dark, bleak and suffocating. Initially, in the vein of death doom bands such as Incantation, Antediluvian has been more recently compared to a more aggressive, bleak, and dark Portal.
Very low and indecipherable false chord vocals, dissonant chordal patterns and solos, and destabilizing tempos and drum work characterize Antediluvian. Tim, playing under the pseudonym Haassiophis, described his reason for forming Antediluvian as growing out of his dissatisfaction with the conservative second wave Scandinavian black metal he played previously.
As such, this music is a mixture of the philosophy of black metal with the likes of Beherit and Mystifier and the slowness and heaviness of US-style black and death doom metal of bands such as Demoncy and Incantation.
Antediluvian uses lower tunings, a low B on the lowest guitar string, and employs black metal style pendulum picking but with less of a focus on the full-chorded tremolo strumming of the Scandinavian styles. Instead, they focus on quicker power chord progressions, selective use of dissonant chords, and chromatic scalar structures.
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Complexity Kills Your Sales
We waited with anticipation, like so many millions, for the announcement of one of the greatest discoveries of this century (perhaps any century).
A distinguished scientist took centre stage and said a few scientific sentences. He concluded with the following words:
‘…they combine to give us a significance of 5 standard deviations…’
The audience broke into applause. That is how – The Higgs Boson (or God Particle) was announced to the world. You can see the video on YouTube.
Great science, but poor communication. But then it is a mistake that is made by many sales teams and buyers too.
Do You Keep It Simple?
The key thing to remember is, you are NOT selling features, but solutions to people's problems.
The question for sellers is: Are you driving for complexity when your customers really want things kept simple? We all do it for our own area of expertise – adding complexity and creating confusion in the following ways:
Focusing on features and feature related benefits, rather than exactly what the customer wants to achieve.
Getting into too much detail too fast and using technical language that most customers don’t understand or doesn't care about (yet) – we fail to check what the buyer wants to know.
Complicating the customers stated needs by proposing extras and add-ons that the customer didn’t ask for – we fail to measure exactly how much the customer needs the extras.
Failing to provide simple explanations, including visual representation, customer case studies – we make the dangerous assumption that the customer gets it.
Failing to find out how much the customer knows and understands and tailoring the solution and how it is communicate accordingly – we fail to test the level of sophistication of the customer and pre-qualify customers appropriately.
Selling too low down in the organization where the focus is on the features of the product, or solution being bought, as opposed to the results that are to be achieved.
Vendors are not perhaps the best placed to judge what level of complexity, or sophistication their customers need or want. All too often vendors are product, or technology led. There needs to be a change in sellers' way of thinking - and it's not as simple as telling them to simplify.
To turn a product driven person into a good salesman, they need proper sales methodology, sales tools, and perhaps most importantly, guidance through the change in mentality.
Buyers Can Over-Complicate Too
A key question for salespeople – are your prospects driving for complexity when they should be keeping it simple?
High involvement buying process and cross functional buying teams – have the potential to drive complexity up as opposed to down.
Buyers typically want more for less. That can lead to demands for the latest technology, the full list of features and a wish list of requirements.
Making assumptions about what the end user wants can be costly. Ask the end user, you may be surprised at the results.
It is the sellers job to ensure that the buyer does not over-complicate things.
Complexity Eats Competitive Advantage
The reality is that competitive advantage is rarely feature driven, it certainly is not complexity driven.
Keeping it simple should give the seller an edge. It means clearly demonstrating to the buyer the results that the solution will deliver . All else is secondary.. This means that most of the sale is done before actual technical specifications are discussed.
One of the most effective means of doing this is by means of credible customer success stories to which the buyer can relate to. What customer stories are you using to engage potential buyers?
Sell To Laggards, Not Innovators
A key mistake made by many sellers is to treat customers and prospects as early adopters and innovators. This flies in the face of the reality that most people are laggards when it comes to embracing complexity and technology.
In any respect most organizations don’t want early adopters and innovators making vitally important business decisions around technology, the risks are often too great.
So, the lesson for buyers as well as sellers is to treat end users as laggards, rather than innovators. That means putting a priority on reducing complexity.
Features Drive Complexity
Sellers try to outdo each other on features. But more features means more complexity and that isn’t necessarily a good thing - especially not in a sales process. Complexity can:
Cloud the results that the customer wants to achieve
Increase buying, technical, and other forms of risk to your sale
Slow adoption or implementation
Drive cost (direct and indirect) and increase the total cost of ownership.
Even if you do sell a complex solution, the key question is: ‘Just how much complexity does the customer want, or can the customer cope with?’
The ‘S’ In Selling Stands For Simplify
Making the complex simplified is the job of the salesperson. That means managing the level of complexity and adjusting it to the profile of the customer.
Here are some tips that will help you to make a make a virtue out of simplicity in selling:
Your solution is more complex than you think it is. Complexity is in the eye of the beholder – as seller we all too often underestimate the level of perceived complexity of our solutions.
Engage more effectively with the customer in understanding needs and exploring solutions.
Meet the customer where he or she is at by measuring the customers level of sophistication/complexity/maturity.
Simplify the decision, break it down into its component parts and explain it more clearly and more slowly.
Let people play with your solution, providing trials, phased implementation, etc.
Provide a solution that grows with the customer in terms of level of complexity, but start simple.
Simplify the solution for the buying team – break it down into its components, strip it back and focus on selling the solution before selling features.
Analyze needs by buying team member end user usage scenarios.
Align your solution with the people and processes and systems of the organization. You need different approaches for buyers, users, deciders, etc.
Don't lose customers because your think your solution is too complex to be simple!
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Thanks to a longstanding relationship with The Topps Company, Atomic-Nerd is launching four new pins on Friday, July 23rd at 9AM PST in celebration of COMIC-CON@HOME.
These special limited edition GLOW IN THE DARK enamel pins licensed exclusively by Topps measure approximately 2” x 2.5” ea. on 4”x 3” backing cards. The four different exclusive pins feature fan favorites, Blasted Billy, Adam Boom, Charred Chad and Fryin’ Ryans. Each pin comes with an exclusive, officially licensed Promo Trading Card officially licensed by Topps! These special pins and promo cards are available ONLY from Atomic ToyBox.
Collect all FOUR exclusive pins specially created for Comic-Con@Home. Limited to 200 pieces each.
We decided on an Adam Boom 💥 Fryin' Ryan 🔥 mash up card as the promo card. These promo cards are based on the original art by John Pound for the trading card series. Every buyer will get one promo card with the purchase of a new pin.
Expect them to go fast since there are only 200 pieces of each pin being made. Last year, the entire collection of Alien Ian and Outerspace Chase versions for Comic-Con@Home sold out in the first 19 minutes. | <urn:uuid:6bc5a211-c894-4fb1-9be7-a6a304fc0c3a> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.atomic-nerd.com/blogs/news/garbage-pail-kids-limited-edition-glow-in-the-dark-enamel-pins-and-exclusive-promo-trading-cards-launch-july-23rd-at-9am-pst | 2023-09-28T16:47:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.925444 | 271 |
Intuitive Systems is an IT company and has been supporting businesses with innovative software since 2000, both in New Zealand and overseas. The company specializes in EDI, electronic data interchange, to provide automatic transfer of business files between business partners.
Real-time data transfer allows businesses to save time and money.
We have been helping busy companies win the paper war for over 15 years.
Phone: (09) 828 1404
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Fax: (09) 966 3810
Address: PO Box 25835, St Heliers, Auckland 1740
Member Contact: Lucy Addison
Email Address: firstname.lastname@example.org
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$10.99 | Sale: $7.70
In this final book, Clementine is having a feud with her father - she's so mad she can't even speak to him. Besides that, she has to deal with the end of the school year and all the goodbyes she must say - Clementine does N-O-T, not like saying goodbye. (Neither do I! I had a lump in my throat all the time I was writing the book - I am going to miss this girl and her family so much!) Luckily there are some new beginnings in the book, too, and lots of funny Clementine moments. I had a wonderful time wrapping up the storylines of all the characters I've become so fond of. | <urn:uuid:04d81b68-8055-4f4a-a895-51fbbee377d5> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.audiobooksnow.com/audiobook/completely-clementine/918713/ | 2023-09-28T18:21:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.979732 | 169 |
Vancouver, B.C., October 2, 2020 – Titan Mining Corporation (TSX:TI) (“Titan” or the “Company”) announces the proposed repricing of 2.5 million warrants issued to Augusta Investments Inc. (the “Lender”), a company controlled by the Company’s Executive Chairman Richard Warke, expiring on January 20, 2024 in connection with the Credit Agreement between the Company and the Lender pursuant to which the Lender agreed to extend and has advanced to the Company a second-ranking secured non-revolving credit facility of up to US$20.71 million (the “Facility”). The exercise price of the warrants will be repriced from C$1.40 to C$0.75 (the “Warrant Amendment”) subject to shareholder approval. In consideration for the repricing, the Lender has agreed to extend the due date for repayment of the Facility by one additional year from November 30, 2020 to November 30, 2021.
The Company is required to seek shareholder approval of the Warrant Amendment pursuant to and Section 608(a) of the TSX Company Manual because the Warrants are held by an insider of the Company. Such shareholder approval is to be obtained at a duly called meeting of security holders of the Company.However, the Company is relying on exemption under section 604 of the TSX Company Manual where written evidence that more than 50% of the holders of the Company’s issued and outstanding common shares, other than the common shares held by the Lender are familiar with the terms of the proposed warrant repricing and consent to it, the Company is permitted to proceed without holding a meeting of security holders to formally seek such approval.
The committee of independent Board members (the “Independent Committee”) and the Board of Directors of the Company has approved the Warrant Amendment on the following basis (i) The Lender is a significant shareholder of the Company holding more than 50% of the issued and outstanding common shares of the Company, and the Lender has continued to support the Company through the original Facility, as well as subsequent advances; (ii) The Lender provided the Company with a waiver on August 2, 2019 waiving the requirement to pay interest as required pursuant to the Facility, enabling the Company to defer the payment of interest under the Facility, (iii) the Lender has agreed to extend the repayment date under the Facility for one further year to November 30, 2021; and (iv) since issuance, the Warrants have not been in the money to make it economical for the Lender to exercise and the Warrant Amendment would provide a greater possibility for the Warrants to be exercised prior to the Expiry Date providing the Company with additional capital.Accordingly, the Independent Committee and the Board of Directors of the Company believe it is in the best interests of the Company to grant the Warrant Amendment.
Titan CEO, Don Taylor, commented, “The proposed repricing is a small gesture compared to the tremendous support that Mr. Warke has provided, and continues to provide, to the Company. With the closing of the recent C$8 million financing, we are excited to commence the Company’s first drill program on the Mineral Ridge property with a target to rapidly expand resources around the existing open pits, which have been vastly under-explored to date, and thoroughly test the other targets with the potential for new discoveries.”
In accordance with TSX Policies, subject to the receipt of the necessary shareholder consent and final TSX approval, the Warrant Amendment is expected to take effect after the close of business on Friday, October 9, 2020.
About Titan Mining Corporation:
Titan is an Augusta Group company which produces zinc concentrate at its 100%-owned Empire State Mine (“ESM”) located in New York state. In addition, Titan has an option to earn a 100% interest in the Mineral Ridge gold property in Esmeralda County, Nevada that is drill-ready, fully permitted and hosts a current known gold resource of 350koz with tremendous exploration potential. Titan is built for growth, focused on value and committed to excellence. The Company’s shares are listed under the symbol "TI" on the Toronto Stock Exchange. For more information on the Company, please visit our website at www.titanminingcorp.com.
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NAFA has made a number of changes to the 2019 I&E to improve upon the association’s conference, which includes a new community program, updates to its certification program, and a larger focus on strategic fleet practices.
Phil Russo, CEO of NAFA, broke down the significant changes to NAFA I&E 2019 into several segments, detailing the specific changes, and why they were made.
One of the most significant changes at the 2019 I&E was the addition of a mobility day, which will be held on Wednesday, April 17. It will feature a number of forward-thinking sessions, including a panel of fleet management executives revealing their vision on the future of fleet; a keynote address from Lukas Neckermann, managing director of Neckermann Strategic Advisors, who will cover the impact the mobility revolution will have on the fleet management industry; and several forward-thinking educational sessions.
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Welcome to Oh Gay Cupid! Autostraddle’s OkCupid series. We get lots of questions on Formspring regarding online dating, so we finally got a bunch of people together to talk about it. While OkCupid isn’t the only online dating site for queers, and maybe isn’t even the best, it does seem to be the one we use most often. We’ll be discussing all things OkC, including meeting friends, first dates, profiles, fuck-ups, letdowns and more. Even though it’s the ‘OkCupid Series,’ the advice given in this series could easily be applied to any online dating site.
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It’s Friday! Do you have a date tonight? Do you want a date tonight? Why don’t you get on your computer and find one? If you’re anything like my neurotic self, getting an online date requires two days of meticulously editing your profile, two months of cherry picking your city’s offerings, two weeks of nonchalantly bantering back and forth with your potential date and two hours of debating the merits of the city’s different beverage slingers. Which is all well and good if you want to meet someone before the end of 2013, but tonight is Date Night! You just don’t have time for that shit.
So what if you were to throw out all of your preconceptions of How to Properly Meet Someone and actually just met someone? Like saw a stranger across the internet and asked them out on a date without knowing their Google search history? A little more A/S/L and a little less “Will you teach your children to believe in Santa?” I’m a bit ashamed to admit how many profiles I’ve skipped when I saw they liked a movie I hated, were not as enthused by food as I was or were “too into” politics. You and I have an arbitrarily metered match compatibility of less than 98%? This shit’s never gonna work!
There’s something to be said for a bit of mystery and that’s exactly what Crazy Blind Date is trying to embrace. CBD is OkCupid’s foray into the world of instant mobile dating. Fuck crafting the perfect profile. See a person? Meet that person! While Grindr has the market cornered when it comes to gay male mobile hook up apps, there is always room for improvement when it comes to the ladies.
CBD was designed with women in mind, but what does that mean? Is it pink? Does it sparkle? Will it dispense chocolate and Kleenex if I get stood up? Well yes, there are parts of the app that are pink and there is a confetti-like motif on some pages, but sorry, it isn’t that perfect. It just takes a different approach which you’ll discover soon enough. As with all great things, you have to start somewhere.
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Four questions. You can handle four questions. Especially when one of them is, “What’s your name?” (Please don’t overthink that one.) Just like the OkC interface, it’ll respect if you’re only looking for ladies.
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Are you scheduled to be bored tomorrow? Okay you could go on a date instead.
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Pick your favourite venue and suggest a date there. You can also suggest dates in other cities if you’re going to be travelling in the upcoming week.
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The app’ll let other date-seekers in the area know that you’re available. Both of you feel like coffee on a Tuesday? Score! Start a chat an hour before you meet up to ensure neither of you will flake and you’re good to go.
Wait this app sets you up with a random stranger? That sound sketchy as fuck!
Hold up unbeliever, let’s hear the app out for a second. When CBD keeps ladies in mind, it’s trying to think about safety. Even though you don’t know a lot about the person you’re going to go on a date with, you’ll know a bit about where you’re going. CBD utilizes FourSquare’s resources so you/they can only suggest dates at frequented locations. When you’re choosing your venue, simply click the > to access its FourSquare entry and verify that you are indeed going to a cafe and not Hal’s Back Alley Murder Emporium.
Pulling yet another page from FourSquare’s design, you get to review your date and the app when it’s over. Did you meet The One? Were they actually a fifty year old man? Were they worthy of a second date? You have an opportunity to give a monetary Kudos to the app for a successful or not-so-successful date. But just like your well-meaning great aunt gets offended when you won’t consider going on a date with the wonderful boy she met on the sidewalk, CBD gets in a bit of a huff if you ignore its offerings. Turn down too many dates? Refuse to acknowledge that it helped you find a winner? You’ll notice that the “Available Dates” gets less and less populated. However, if you treat it nicely it’ll keep setting you up and hopefully find a decent date.
In the spirit of getting things done, the app puts a lot of time limits on you. It will only let you schedule dates for the upcoming week. It’ll only let you chat for an hour leading up to your date.
In a weird feat of technology, this app actually manages to get people to meet offline. While that sounds like a lot of pressure, it’s a bit of a comfort to an overthinker. You simply don’t have the opportunity to psyche yourself out of a date. You can’t spend forty minutes a day crafting a witty yet thoughtful response to, “What’s your favourite colour?” You also can’t go into daydreaming overdrive and create ridiculously inflated expectations of them based off of their witty yet thoughtful responses. Y’all just get to be yourselves.
Given that it’s such a fussy app, will it work? Excuse me for a second while I put away my matchmaking crystal ball and pull out my fortune telling crystal ball instead. CBD has an advantage over mobile dating apps since it can piggyback off the success of OkCupid. You can skip the five steps you took in crafting your CBD profile and use your OkC one instead. The apps are connected to one another, allowing you to choose how you’d like to meet someone that day. Feel like a game of forty questions? Open up OkC. Just wanna share popcorn with a stranger? Open up CBD.
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Last Week: 3-3 ATS 5-1 SU
For the Year: 22-19-1 (.537) ($70) ATS 28-14 (.667) SU
Quick Thoughts From Last Week:
Clay Helton Made it Past the Tarmac? Kedon Slovis was back under center for the Trojans, and he actually outplayed Notre Dame quarterback Ian Book (255 passing yards, 2 TDs vs. 165 passing yards, 5.2 yards per attempt), but the Irish ran over USC to the tune of 308 rushing yards.
Alabama Gives Up 28 Points, Still Covers Tua Tagovailoa threw four touchdown passes to beome the all-time leader in passing touchdowns at Alabama (79) as the Crimson Tide toyed with the Aggies for much of the day.
Bayou Boom The LSU offense keeps rolling, as quarterback Joe Burrow completed 21 of 24 passes for 293 yards and three scores, leading the offense to a 10.6 yards per play clip (a LSU SEC record) against a stout Florida defense. I like to poke fun at Ed Orgeron as much as anybody, but he is now 8-3 against Top 10 teams since leaving Ole Miss.
Iowa State Rolling West Virginia quarterback Austin Kendall was knocked out of the game on the second series of the game and the Mountaineers didn’t stand much of a chance after that against an Iowa State team that seems to be finding itself. Backup QB Jack Allison completed 12 passes for 33 yards in the second half as West Virginia was shut out in the half.
Baylor & Texas Tech Refuse to Win, Finally Baylor Says We’ll Do it This game featured six lead changes in regulation time as Baylor quarterback Charlie Brewer threw for 352 yards and rushed for three touchdowns. Brewer threw his first, second and third interception of the season but also drove the length of the field with 1:21 left to tie the game after having a winning touchdown grab dropped.
Texas Hosts Mack Brown, Greg Davis Back for Retro Weekend I don’t know what that was in the Cotton Bowl on Saturday, but that felt like a Mack Brown/Greg Davis Dallas Special (except we all know Mack would have lost that game by 30). Texas shot itself on offense (305 total yards), defense (NFL teams now tanking for CeeDee) and special teams (no returners at all would have worked out better).
It you read last week’s column, I implored the offense to not blink against Oklahoma like they did against LSU. It was going to take 40 points to win this game, and they blinked.
And nearly went blank for an entire half.
The offensive coaching staff apparently didn’t feel the need to watch tape of the Oklahoma defense this season, despite it being readily available, instead choosing to trot out the same game plan (attack the perimeter) from last year’s October contest…with disastrous results against an eager to prove it, “we’re better dammit and gosh darn it people like us” defense.
Texas fans were in denial at the time, but you knew from the first offensive play for -2 yards that you were in for a rough day.
Like stated earlier in the column, it felt like a Mack Brown/Bob Stoops game, where Oklahoma looked more motivated, better prepared, and more physical.
Yep, the Horns were physically whipped by a Bennie Wylie coached unit.
This probably isn’t a popular opinion, but I felt like the defense played well – particularly in the first half. If I told you before the game that Oklahoma would score 10 points in the first half, and if I told you that they would score 34 for the game, each and every one of you would have taken that to Vegas and bet the house (or mobile home for our Oklahoma friends) on the Texas money line.
Sure, the Texas defense looked like they had a few of those Cotton Bowl beers when trying to tackle Jalen Hurts or CeeDee Lamb. Sure, Todd Orlando inexplicably played a game against a running quarterback without a spy and let him run for a bajillion yards in the first half. They bent plenty but did not break, forcing two red zone turnovers and forcing perhaps the best offense in the country to settle for field goals instead of touchdowns on two occasions.
They did break plenty in the second half, but when you consider the average starting field position for the game was Texas at their own 18-yard line and Oklahoma at their own 35-yard line, they were playing with fire all afternoon and got burnt.
Show me the defensive coach that stops Oklahoma and LSU and I’ll show you a head coach at a blue blood program next season.
Jalen Hurts was who I thought he was, “big game” in name only, dependent on the scheme to make plays instead of making them on his own, but Sam Ehlinger was not who I thought he was on this day, he didn’t appear sharp all afternoon and looked flat out indecisive at times. The inability to make Oklahoma pay for their pressure up the middle all day was infuriating, this should be 2 + 2 stuff for a supposed top offense with a proven Junior quarterback.
And for about the umpteenth year in a row, it appears the Texas special teams are coached by Mr. Buttermaker.
But now that we have lit the kingdom on fire, here is a fire extinguisher because Texas brought their “C” game to a dogfight…and damn near won.
Yes, the final score was closer than it actually was, but the fact of the matter is that Texas was down by three entering the fourth quarter, a quarter they should own on conditioning alone, and failed to get a defensive stop the rest of the game and failed to score a touchdown instead of a field goal when they drove to the Oklahoma 14-yard line with 8:20 remaining.
It wouldn’t have been the prettiest victory in the annals of Texas history and probably won’t have been “deserved”, but not a single one of us would have cared.
It was altogether a frustrating and infuriating afternoon, because that game was there, and they let it slip away.
With that went their College Football Playoff hopes, but there is still plenty to play for – a return trip to New Orleans as the Big 12 champion should be the attainable goal here. It won’t be easy – it can be argued that the three toughest games on Texas’s remaining schedule will all be played on the road – but this is the hole that you have dug for yourself.
And none of those three are Oklahoma or LSU.
How satisfying would it be to knock the Sooners out of the playoff down to the Alamo Bowl and see Lincoln Riley with failed smile for a week of fun on the San Antonio Riverwalk?
Don’t know where
Don’t know when
But I know we’ll meet again some sunny day
Keep smiling through
Just like you always do
’Till the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away
So will you please say hello
To the folks that I know
Tell them I won’t be long
They’ll be happy to know
That as you saw me go
I was singing this song
Oregon -3 @ Washington:
One of the most under reported stories of this 2019 college football season has to be the Oregon Ducks defense, which has not allowed its last five opponents to score double digits in points, and have only allowed 49 points all season.
Mix that defense with a quarterback who is going to be a top pick in next year’s NFL Draft in Justin Herbert (1,602 passing yards, 17 touchdowns, 1 interception), and you have an Oregon team who is riding a five-game winning streak after that heartbreaking defeat in the opener against Auburn when they led the entire ballgame until the last few seconds.
Oregon has won 13 of 15 in this series, but Washington has won two out of the last three, including last season’s 38-3 blowout in Eugene. An Oregon win here would effectively eliminate Washington from the Pac-12 title contention, and I think they get it done.
Oregon 31 Washington 20
ATS – Oregon
SU – Oregon
Michigan @ Penn State -9:
What a weird series this has been lately. Look at these last three games:
2018: Michigan 42 Penn State 7
2017: Penn State 42 Michigan 13
2016: Michigan 49 Penn State 10
Michigan held Penn State to 186 total yards last year in Ann Arbor, but Michigan at home against anyone but Ohio State has never been the problem. The Wolverines go on the road this week sporting a 2-7 record when facing ranked opponents on the road…Not Top 5 or 10…simply ranked.
The Wolverines also can have some trouble with unranked teams, as they were up 28-0 last week at Illinois before prompting giving up 25 straight points to make it a tight one in the fourth quarter.
Last week Penn State became the first FBS team since Louisville in 2013 to allow no more than 13 points in each of its first six contests, but the trouble is that their offense isn’t scoring much better than that.
As if Penn State wasn’t creepy enough, they are scheduled to do one of those inane “white-out” events this weekend. I’m not sure Michigan needs more distractions.
Penn State 23 Michigan 16
ATS – Michigan
SU – Penn State
TCU -3.5 @ Kansas State:
Kansas State was looking a lot more impressive in the first quarter of the season, when they had a win over a SEC team on the road, but then that SEC team lost to dreadful Tennessee last week so literally any team can beat Mississippi State when you put it like that.
Also since that game they have lost two conference games by a combined score of 57-25, largely because of an unimpressive offense. Their best passing game all season was Skylar Thompson throwing for 218 in K-State’s loss to Baylor two weeks go. Their best rushing performance against a Power Five team this year is the 94 yards that James Gilbert put up in that game, but in the two previous games he only had 103 rushing yards, total.
Not to be outdone, TCU’s best passing performance this year was the 219 passing yards that Max Duggan put up against Iowa State two weeks ago, largely in garbage time. Other than that, he doesn’t have another individual game in the 200s all season.
Whatever this game ends up being, the under is probably a safe bet.
Kansas State 23 TCU 16
ATS – Kansas State
SU – Kansas State
Iowa State -7 @ Texas Tech:
The Cyclones come into this one with a two-game winning streak, but what a streak it is, dismantling TCU and West Virginia in the process, with the latter on the road.
Texas Tech, meanwhile, has lost three out of four after their loss to Baylor last week, with that one victory the inexplicable affair against Oklahoma State. Jett Duffey has been an adequate replacement at quarterback (910 yards 5 touchdown 2 interceptions) after the loss of Alan Bowman five weeks ago but he’s going against an Iowa State defense that hasn’t allowed more than 24 points in regulation all year.
Iowa State has won three in a row in this series, including last year’s 40-31 victory in Ames, and I don’t see any reason why they can’t make it four in a row.
Iowa State 37 Texas Tech 31
ATS – Texas Tech
SU – Iowa State
Baylor @ Oklahoma State -3.5:
The Baylor Bears are 6-0 and have their eyes on the Big 12 Championship game, and with good reason with the way their defense is playing and the fact that they get Oklahoma and Texas at home this season.
That defense took a blow last week with the loss of middle linebacker Clay Johnston to a season-ending injury. Johnston was a cog in the middle who Baylor coach Matt Rhule pointed out would make up for a lot of mistakes for with his play.
Not a good injury to have with Chuba Hubbard next on the schedule.
Baylor has been to Oklahoma State what Oklahoma State has been to Texas, winning 4 out of 5 in this series, with the Cowboys’ one victory coming in the 1-11 season for the Bears.
The Bears are much improved, but I have a hard time believing they come out of the Big 12 with less than three losses. This will be one of them.
Oklahoma State 33 Baylor 28
ATS – Oklahoma State
SU – Oklahoma State
Kansas @ Texas -21.5:
The song referenced in the intro to this column is “We’ll Meet Again”, a British song made famous by Vera Lynn in the Second World War. It is a song of optimism and hope for a generation that needed quite a bit of both…two idealistic concepts that are far gone from the lexicon of any Kansas football fan.
October 4, 2008 was the last time that the Kansas Jayhawks won a Big 12 game on the road, and no matter how many times your friend had to save you from Final Destinationing yourself this week, it isn’t going to happen this week, either, so relax.
You need to calm down.
That week was one week before Jordan Shipley parted The Red Sea with the great kickoff return of TX/OU 2008. In fact, that day Texas defeated Colorado 38-14 in Boulder behind the arm of Colt McCoy (262 passing yards), the legs of Chris Ogbonnaya (71 rushing yards and a touchdown) and 10 tackles from Roddrick Muckelroy. Dan Buckner and Brandon Collins caught passes that day, and John Chiles even had a couple of rushing attempts.
Hell, if that doesn’t tell you how long ago it was, the Jayhawks were ranked.
This year’s Jayhawks come into Austin under the tutelage of Les Miles, who has such a firm grip on things in Lawrence that he fired his offensive coordinator in his first year before they even got to October.
Carter Stanley is the quarterback for Kansas, and even though he was last seen throwing for 230 yards and three touchdowns against those same Sooners the Longhorns couldn’t figure out, he also threw for 107 yards and two interceptions against Coastal Carolina earlier in the season, so let’s heed the words of Winston “The Wolf” Wolfe first.
Kansas’s feature back is sophomore Pooka Williams, who racked up 1,400 total yards and 9 touchdowns as a freshman, with 115 of those yards and one of those touchdowns coming against Texas the day after Thanksgiving last season.
The KU defensive coordinator comes from Colorado and before that Kentucky. If you can remember either one of those teams having a good defense you have a better memory than I do. The Jayhawks rank next to last in the conference in both yards allowed and points allowed and 103rd in the country in defensive efficiency which is good if you are tanking for Tua but this is college football.
Kansas has visited Joe Jamail Field at Darrell K. Royal Texas Memorial Stadium eight times since the Big 12 was formed, and the Jayhawks have allowed an average of 50 points and lost by an average of 31 points in eight losses.
Time to take out some frustrations.
Texas 51 Kansas 17
ATS – Texas
SU – Texas
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There are several ways to stay connected to weather channels, the Coast Guard, and friends and family.
Cell phones allow you to access information when they are in range. Call the Coast Guard for help using *16. Access your applications for weather and navigation. Check your carrier’s map for their coverage (not always guaranteed).
A VHF radio connects to the Coast Guard, other boaters and the Coast Guard and provides a continuous weather broadcast. You can communicate within your group on and off the water. Be prepared and take a VHF course.
Satellite phones, communicators and locators can personally locate you within a 100 meters in an emergency situation and some will send text messages. Check out an outdoor or a marine store to find out more.
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Canadian Coast Guard Vessel Traffic Services broadcast channels are:
- VHF Ch 11 (South of Ballenas – Merry Is., Straight of Georgia, Gulf Islands to Victoria)
- VHF Ch 71 (North of Ballenas – Merry Is.)
- VHF Ch 12 (Vancouver Harbour, English Bay, Howe Sound)
- VHF Ch 74 (Fraser River)
Canadian Coast Guard Marine Safety Search & Rescue Communications channels are:
- VHF Ch 16 (Calling & Distress) *16 (Cell phone)
- VHF Ch 83A (Working Channel)
Continuous Marine Broadcast (CMB)
Provides 24 hour up to date weather information and navigational hazards:
- VHF CHANNEL WX3 Mt. Helmcken (Victoria) & Bowen Is.
- VHF CHANNEL WX1 Texada Is.
- VHF CHANNEL 21B Mount Parke (Mayne Is.)
- 250-363-6880 Mt. Helmcken
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Luxurious Penthouse Over Tampa Bay
SOARING ATOP THE PRIME LOCATION ON BAYSHORE THIS VENETIAN STYLE PENTHOUSE showcases exquisite craftsmanship and extraordinary 360-degree JETLINER VIEWS of the water, the TAMPA skyline to the Gulf of Mexico. This highly coveted penthouse at the Bellamy is the ultimate address for a luxurious lifestyle. This one-of-a-kind 21 & 22nd floor residence delivers miles of unforgettable views. Enter the Italian cypress double doors onto a series of voluminous, light filled reception rooms. The views extend in every direction, with staggeringly high ceilings and 30’ solid glass windows spanning the entire east side. The palpable feeling of arrival continues to the west side of the penthouse, where you see the Gulf beaches, and on a clear day, as far south as the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. Designed with a reverence for craftsmanship; venetian murals, glittering chandeliers, and extraordinary millwork are just a glimpse of the details across two living levels. The residence offers 6,000 square feet of lavish living and entertaining areas. The grandly scaled reception rooms are decorated with original Columbian hand-forged iron wrapped columns and an Italian frescoed ceiling with 24k gold, as well as gilt moldings and wood paneling, accented with imported chandeliers. The chef’s kitchen features dramatic views, dining area, beautiful custom wooden cabinetry, Miele/Wolf appliances, gas range, granite counters and breakfast bar. The kitchen opens to the family room and a balcony. Lavish formal dining room is open to the reception rooms with faux painted ceiling and crystal chandelier. Majestically elegant circular iron and wood staircase encircling the views and a sitting area with room for a Grand piano. The theater room is screaming for a large family to make it their own. Nestled in the heart of the penthouse near the guest/kid’s suites, elegant while still retaining a quiet homey feel. To complete the first floor are two large bedrooms with ensuite luxury baths, grand walk-in closets & breath-taking views and balconies. Immense entertaining balcony with gas cast stone fireplace and reclaimed wood timber ceilings. The entire top floor, accessible by staircases or a private elevator, is dedicated to the owners. The master suite is impeccably sumptuous & lavishly detailed with amazing sunset views and a private balcony, oversized his and her closet/rooms (gym, nursery, wine room), and a resort-like bathroom with wine refrigerator, double shower head carwash style shower. Soak in the jetted tub and enjoy views over the city. Work from home in this gorgeous office with amazing hardwood paneling, library-style shelving, and hidden TV and views for your Zoom meetings! Hardwood floors throughout the home combine with other wood elements to give the rooms glowing warmth. Floor-to-ceiling windows keep the view on constant display. Nothing is left to want. While Versace’s mansion may have helped launch this penthouse’s prominent elaborate style, it’s the views that are here to stay! The penthouse comes with 3 assigned covered parking spaces! PLUS large separate 500’ AC storage room. The Bellamy's amenities resemble those of a 5-star resort: elegant 2-story lobby, 24-hr concierge, poolside garden, pool, spa, fitness center, theater, library, wine cellar/wine storage, cigar room, multiple social rooms & gathering areas.
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LOCATION! This 4-bedroom, 3,600 SF sea front home is perfectly located on the iconic sandy beaches of St Pete Beach in the most southern coastal city in Pinellas County. “Casablanca on the Beach" is an exclusive beachfront 3 residence mansion featuring one of the largest prime Gulf of Mexico lots, with jaw-dropping sea views. This estate along Florida’s coastline is inspired by tropical villas found in the Caribbean. Watch in awe nightly as the sun dips into the Gulf of Mexico in a magnificent array of pink and orange. Custom details throughout this beachside one-level beauty will impress even the most elusive buyer from double paned windows, neutral paint, granite counters, wet bar, imported Italian tile flooring, custom handcrafted crown molding and cabinets, chef’s kitchen, builtin custom shelving and plenty of storage in this beach gem. Relax from any of the master suites as you watch sailboats moor by. The two master suites have sliding doors to the balcony for enjoying the sights of the Gulf, ensuite bathrooms, large walk-in closets and spectacular sunsets nightly over the Gulf of Mexico. Entertain family and friends on the incredible 1000 SF beachfront balcony with panoramic views of the water. This huge residence’s most elevated luxury lifestyle begins with a private, gated and porte-cochére entry, followed by a warm greeting in the private, secured lobby with access to your foyer. The grounds offer imported palms, tropical landscaping and paver driveway & walkways. This magnificent home provides large living areas with amenities not found in most homes on the beach; private beach access, sea side pool, spa, double garages and plenty of outdoor patios for entertaining. This luxury home has stunning views of the Gulf from generous balconies and most windows. A sea oat covered beach berm adds additional privacy and elegance to the hidden and secluded access to the beach. Owners that want a quiet, peaceful beach experience will enjoy this upscale mansion on the beach. Gulf facing large condos are always in high demand, unlike other condos this sea-facing unit’s lot extends from Gulf Blvd to the water’s edge (over 370 feet). Prime real estate without too many neighbors! Amazing location, stellar views day and night and Gulf front entertainment year-round. Welcome to the "Jewel on St Pete Beach". Walk from your building to the Don Cesar, Zamora, and steps to the beach that features great events and nearby dining, entertainment and shopping. | <urn:uuid:cb22d737-45b5-4e27-9e08-d3bf250f0a6d> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.beach2bayhomes.com/cp/waterfront-home/ | 2023-09-28T17:43:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510427.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20230928162907-20230928192907-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.921903 | 1,780 |
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Patrick Mauries. With an essay by Ettore Sottsass. Foreword by Christopher Wilk.
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Recap: Sohn, Davidson Nomination Hearing
The Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing to consider the nominations of Gigi Sohn to be a commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission and Alan Davidson to head the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Sohn has a history of advocating for open and affordable communications networks. She is a distinguished fellow at the Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy and a Senior Fellow and Public Advocate at the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society. Between 2003 and 2016, Sohn served as a counselor to former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler. Davidson is currently a senior advisor at the Mozilla Foundation, a global nonprofit that promotes openness on the internet. He served in the Obama administration as the first director of Digital Economy at the Department of Commerce. And he started Google’s public policy office in Washington (DC) in 2005, leading government relations there until 2012.
During her opening statement, Sohn said if confirmed, she would serve on the FCC during a “critical” time in the country and would work to advance universal connectivity in the U.S. and close the country’s gap between those who have access to affordable high-speed internet and those who don’t. During the hearing, Sohn also stressed the importance of upgrading FCC’s broadband maps to be more accurate.
Throughout her career, Sohn has been an advocate of net neutrality rules that prevent broadband providers from blocking, throttling, or favoring internet content. Sohn frequently repeated her support for reinstating such rules that were rescinded under the Trump administration.
Sohn seemed to face the toughest questioning, mainly for Republicans on the committee. “All who know her would agree she is knowledgeable and a determined advocate,” Ranking Member Roger Wicker (R-MS) said in his opening statement about Sohn. “I am concerned about her record of expressing hyper-partisan views on many critical matters that have come before the commission and which may come before the commission again in the future.”
Sohn mainly had to answer for some posts she made on Twitter. She handled the grilling skillfully and confidently, conceded her tweets might have been a bit too sharp. But she didn’t back off from them, saying that was part of her job as an advocate.
Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) asked Sohn about comments she made in the past about Fox News, including a tweet from 2020: “For all my concerns about #Facebook, I believe that Fox News has had the most negative impact on our democracy. It's state-sponsored propaganda, with few if any opposing viewpoints. Where's the hearing about that?” Sen Sullivan said, “You are clearly indicating your bias against more conservative news sources, and yet you are now up for confirmation at one of the most powerful positions in America on free speech? I think that disqualifies you completely." Sohn responded that the comments she tweeted were made in the context of a hearing that took place about Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a controversial provision which provides a liability shield for tech companies over content posted on their sites by third parties. Sen Sullivan said he was uninterested in hearing about context. “As a public interest advocate, as part of my job, those were my words, those were my opinions, but they would have no bearing on how I would act if I was confirmed as an FCC commissioner,” Sohn said. Whatever her opinions, she said, as a commissioner she would put those aside and look at the totality of circumstances of any particular instance and decide accordingly. [Sen Ted Cruz (R-TX) raised similar concerns.
Sen. Wicker asked Sohn about her support for network neutrality, and another of those sharp comments, that Sen. Wicker himself had spread "disinfo" about the issue. Sohn said what she had been talking about was the senator’s position that net neutrality rules she supported discouraged investment because there was evidence that was not the case. The rules had no negative impact on broadband investment, something operators themselves told Wall Street.
Sen. Wicker asked Sohn what bad things had happened under the FCC’s “light-touch” regulatory approach, after the agency under Trump-era chairman Ajit Pai voted to eliminate the Wheeler FCC’s rules against blocking, throttling and paid prioritization. Sohn said there was some evidence of such blocking and throttling, but that the bigger issue was that it was no-touch, rather than light-touch, due to the reclassification of internet service providers as information services under Title I of the Communications Act.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) requested yes or no answers to questions, including if the Pai FCC’s repeal of net neutrality rules in any way stopped the commission from its broadband deployment mission. Sohn answered, "No." Sen Blackburn asked, if the FCC were to reclassify internet access under Title II, forbearing from rate regulation, couldn’t a future FCC just "un-forbear"? Sohn said, "Yes." Asked whether she supported broadband rate regulation, Sohn said, "No."
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) asked Sohn about the affordability requirement in Biden administration broadband subsidy programs overseen by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and whether it wasn’t essentially rate regulation. Sohn said that was more in NTIA’s wheelhouse. But she said that affordability did not necessarily equate with rate regulation.
Not all Republicans on the committee appeared opposed to Sohn's nomination. Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS) said he was impressed by Sohn’s experience and intellect and that he was pleased by her emphasis on collaborative skills. Sohn pointed out that she had reached out to her Republican colleagues at the FCC—when she was a top adviser to Chairman Wheeler—and that for her, policy differences are not personal.
Senators have until Monday, Dec. 6, to submit written questions and the witnesses will have a week to respond. A committee vote on confirmation will not happen before that.
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Season's Greeting Berlin Natural Bakery Family!
Wow! What a year it has been. Just when you think you’ve dealt with all the “unprecedented” the world has to offer and then BAM! 2022 appears with its own unique set of challenges and circumstances that leave you upended! It seems impossible to get through and then suddenly you end another year amazed that you made it through and so incredibly blessed by a year of learning, repositioning and a new richness in relationships.
We’ve tried to be transparent with our struggles this year but as we get ready to close the chapter on 2022, I’d love to write about all we are grateful for.
First, we are so grateful to have recently added some incredible GEMS to our Berlin Natural Bakery team. We have obviously been understaffed but we made a few new hires that have given some new liveliness to both our packaging and baking departments! Change oftentimes seems scary and there were definitely moments this year of “yikes! We need more hands. How are we going to do this?” But thankfully we’ve got a spectacular group of people on our hands and we’re so incredibly close to having a full roster once again!
To piggyback off of that, I’d be remiss not to highlight and honor our incredible leaders who literally stood in the gap while we were on the lookout for new hires. Our General Manager Cindy and our Operations Manager Karl are truly examples of excellence and honor and commitment and extraordinary leadership. They spent a lot of time in the trenches - this year and many others - and their presence was inspiring and uplifting even during the Cyber Monday avalanche sale!
Speaking of Cyber Monday - WOWZA! Now that was one doozy of a sale and we couldn’t be more in awe of the response to it. A record breaking Cyber Monday that leaves us feeling humble and grateful. It wasn’t without its challenges but we couldn’t be more grateful for your support, your kindness and your patience as we dug ourselves out of that incredible avalanche!
This truly is the type of year that creates refinement and resilience. The kind of year that develops leaders and confidence and extraordinary faith because despite the odds, we’ve made it through. We’ve weathered literal storms, we’ve gotten creative, we’ve grown, we’ve dug deep and we’ve made it to the holidays. We have continued doing what’s right even when it isn’t easy and we excitedly look forward to 2023.
So we raise a “toast” to you and your family! To your health and your growth and your peace! May you have a gentle holiday season that ushers in a New Year of happy memories and joy!
With all our best,
Nicole & The Berlin Natural Bakery Family
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Continuous Testing with QuerySurge for DevOps
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Ongoing changes to data requirements, mappings, and environments necessitate unending updates to new and existing test queries and their source and target data connections.
Continuous testing is the process of executing automated tests as part of the delivery pipeline to obtain immediate feedback on the business risks associated with a release candidate. Continuous testing in the data world means executing automated data tests that are triggered by another process and provide immediate feedback on business risks. Continuous testing cannot be implemented without test automation.
The QuerySurge for DevOps Solution
QuerySurge, the smart data testing solution that automates data validation & testing of critical data, is the first-of-its-kind full DevOps solution for continuous data testing.
With our new QuerySurge for DevOps release, users can now drive changes to their test components programmatically without having to manually access the QuerySurge user interface. Testers will now have the capability to dynamically generate, execute, and update tests and data stores utilizing API calls. QuerySurge for DevOps has 60+ API calls with almost 100 different properties and integrates with virtually all DevOps solutions in the marketplace. This will enable a higher percentage of automation in your current data testing practice and a more robust DevOps for Data, or DataOps pipeline.
API Features Include:
Create and modify source and target test queries
Create and modify connections to data stores
Create and modify the tests associated with an execution suite
Create and modify new staging tables from various data connections
Create custom flow controls based on run results
Integration with virtually all build solutions in the market
QuerySurge for DevOps integrates with:
Continuous integration/ETL solutions
Automated build/release/deployment solutions
Operations and DevOps monitoring solutions
Test management/issue tracking solutions
Scheduling and workload automation solutions
QuerySurge for DevOps Use Cases
Intelligent Test Execution
As changes are made to the data environment, custom code takes advantage of QuerySurge for DevOps to create on-demand tests to validate the specified changes, minimizing overall test case creation and execution.
Requirements Driven Updates
As a requirements management system receives approved updates, custom code takes advantage of QuerySurge for DevOps to have the effected tests automatically modified to reflect the requirement changes.
New Environment Deployments
As new environments are deployed in the DevOps pipeline, custom code takes advantage of QuerySurge for DevOps to create QuerySurge connections to the new environment and automatically setup test to execute against these environment.
Result Driven Testing
Control testing based on execution outcomes using QuerySurge for DevOps to auto-select the optimal test sets based on result criteria.
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