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6 Nights 7 Days Himachal Tour Packages
The word Himachal literally means "The land of snows". The sheer meaning of the name of the land, we hope issatisfactory to give you a thought of what's in store here. So if you like everything without exception about snow, a trip to Himachal Pradesh should be mandatory. So, pack your bags and come with us by selecting one of our Himachal tour packages. A land full of majestic mountains, an unbl Read more.
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Customer Reviews
Review from Himanshu jaiswal for Himachal trip.
Mam I am not going trip
By indias lockdown
Am going from
After14th April
Review from Minal for Himachal trip.
Trip planned was very amazing. Mr.Nitin was very cooperative and helpful throughout our journey; he kept strong follow up with us till the end of our trip.
Hotels and camps provided were nice and clean.
Looking forward to make more trips with Tourist traingle in future.
Strongly recommend Tourist Triangle for planning any trip especially in North India.
Review from Akshay Patil for Himachal trip.
That was a great experience and good service by local guide.
Thanks Travelsetu
Review from Hemant for Himachal trip.
It was a really a good tour package with Travel Setu and travel Mahavir tour travels Shimla.Every thing was organised properly .We whole family enjoyed trip very much. Especially we thanks to Mahavir tour travels, Miss Nikitathakur who has coordinated with us during whole trip . If in our future if we plan for any tour program I will give you the 1st preference & also suggest my friend or relative to give you a chance if they plan for tour
Review from Patel moulik for Himachal trip.
We had a fantastic trip.thanks to mahavir tour & travels for arranging smooth travel experience.special thanks to Nikita
Review from Abhinav Gour for Himachal trip.
It is a very good travel agency. I had planned shimla manali honeymoon trip with this agency. I can say its value for money service for me. Nikita mam's nature is fabulous . She always speaks politely in any situation. If you are planning to travel himachal this may be best travel agency for you. I strongly recommend it for great & economical service.
Review from Parth for Himachal trip.
Review from Prathamesh Bhusari for Himachal trip.
Trip was good. Hotel stays and tempo traveller was good. Driver was cooperative. Only dinner menu was limited and same at every stay should have some more variety. Looking forward to have more trips with tourist triangle.
Review from Gohil Yogesh for Himachal trip.
Really very good memorable trip to Manali - Dharamshala- Dalhousie- and Amritsar organized by My Trip My Way Shimla we are very much satisfied with the organization and the person in contact Mr.Hitesh sharma or Mr. Jagdish Service the most friendly tour adviser ever had, right from the thinking of the tour till the day we reach our home he was in touch with me, and about the management - right from the start pickup it was awesome, the vehicle and driver were up to mark, Hotels organized were great, hotel staff were very helpful, food was great both hotels, Everything was great, Cheers to the whole tour's management for being so delightful and making the trip so cheerful for us, and the best thing was no hidden charges, we paid only in shopping, definitely the best tour organizer in India, and surely you will be our organizer in future every tour.Thanxs My trip My way .
Review from Manish pal for Himachal trip.
They provide me best services in cheapest price...i recommend to all please book tour packages from tourist triangle..
Review from ABHIJEET for Himachal trip.
Tourist traingle is one the best for tours in north, the accomodation and travel was available in much reasonable price. Mr Nitin was very helpful and he was in touch with us throughout the trip. Every small request was fulfilled with in no time. Thank you Nitin sir and travel setu.
Review from rahul kadam for Himachal trip.
Good Package
Review from Arpit for Himachal trip.
Good communication and nice service provider
Review from ANVIN for Himachal trip.
Very Good
Review from Rafakat for Himachal trip.
An amazing trip. Thanks to all those who made this happen. Especially the travel agent who helped in getting all my concerns rectified as soon as its raised .
Review from Sagar for Himachal trip.
Review from Abhishek for Himachal trip.
Well managed
Review from Adnan for Himachal trip.
Zara resort 3rd class service please change the hotel fully worst resort.
Review from Karankoul for Himachal trip.
Its an awesome experience with our planner karan kaul ... we all enjoy alot nd explore the whole manali ... its an awesome experience only because of our planner karan kaul ... thanks karan
Review from Yuktha for Himachal trip.
The whole trip was awesome.
They give the best out of them.
Review from Ashok for Himachal trip.
My concern person NITIN from tourist triangle was very good all credit goes to NITIN trip also ok some places hotel and cab service was not good but NITIN coordination cover all problem
Review from Harsh for Himachal trip.
Its a good trip
Hotels are also gud kalpana cottage and rajat hotel
(Mohan palace is worst hotel i have seen ever)
Except this everything is good in this trip ......
Thanks upasana maam and neha ... For trip advisor
Review from Sneha for Himachal trip.
One of the bestest place i have ever visited. The weather, climate , sight , food everything was amazing. From my childhood days i always wanted to visit himachal trip and finally i got to do this year i have enjoyed my visit at this place the most and this was only possible just because of Mr. "Hitesh And Jagdish" because the services provided by them was the best.. My Trip My Way made our trip the luxrious and the comfortable one... I would highly recommend My Trip My Way for Himachal Tour Package..
Review from Shaikh Tabrez for Himachal trip.
I enjoyed the trip.hotels and room are very good and safety and service is awesome
Review from Subah Parkar for Himachal trip.
The trip was good.. could have been better, but it wasnt bad overall.
Review from ashutosh Dubey for Himachal trip.
Well the facilities provided by the company was really nice. These 7 days are great for my life whether it's about management or comfort it's really great. The hotel staff was really great people to hangout and also the cab driver was very nice person to me because he helps me a lot. At last in future wherever I have to go i will try to contact tourist triangle for package at affordable prices.
Thank you
Review from akshit for Himachal trip.
very nice trip arrangement. must go with this.
Review from SACHIN MHATRE for Himachal trip.
It was fantastic... Everything planned was smooth and as per schedule.....
Karthik five stars... Is all yours.. Thanx a ton for superb vacation...
Review from Sandeep singh for Himachal trip.
Good trip
Review from Pradeep for Himachal trip.
Dear Upasana,
Thank you so much for giving me the best package to plan my trip to Kullu Manali, shimla and Agra for 7 Nights and 8 days.
The nature and it's beauty of Himanchal cannot be explained....My 10 years old daughter enjoyed to the maximum though i fell sick for 2 days.
Very pleasant hotel with nice food especially in Manali lovely view from my room.
A hassle free trip right from planning the itinerary till the last day of my trip.
Special thanks to Mr. Dilbagh the Driver who was very polite, drove very smoothly and was on time every day.
Hope to have many more trips with Tech India Global Travels.
Thanks & Regards,
Divya Pradeep
Review from Shashi Kiran V for Himachal trip.
It was very well organized and we thoroughly enjoyed the continued support.
Review from Dinesh for Himachal trip.
Trip was really awesome and my family enjoyed a lot, the place I visited is really good , first time we saw the snow fall , my children enjoyed by playing in snow. Thanks for making our trip enjoyable
Review from Pathum for Himachal trip.
Well organized trip.
Review from Prasenjit Debnath for Himachal trip.
It was the gud trip and also my best memories... thanks #Sheetal'ji who guid every time,and her hospitality is awesome.
And again thanks to #Himachal_travel_way
If my relatives, friends or anybody comes and visit Manali then i always refar and suggest to contact ur site.
Thank you so much 😊 for my happy trip
Review from Vikas Shah for Himachal trip.
Overall great experience and good customer experience, my special thanks to Tanu.
Review from Kunal for Himachal trip.
We enjoyed every moments of the tour. Arrangements are good. Travel company was very much co operative.
Review from Dheeraj for Himachal trip.
It was a well organised trip
Review from Brijesh for Himachal trip.
Best facilities provided in package good supporting staff (Nitin sir) ⛄👌🏻👍🏻
Review from Umang for Himachal trip.
thank you so munch to manali traveller for taking care all our needs, Just fantastic experience with your tour management .
Review from Jyoti Chakma for Himachal trip.
5 days four nights
Review from Gaurav Sharma for Himachal trip.
Very good arrangement by travel setu
Review from Ritesh for Himachal trip.
A pretty Good hotel with enthusiastic staff. Beautiful, comfortable and well designed rooms. Hospitality and care was just too good.really enjoyed my stay.i will certainly be staying here again.would recommend this hotel.The rooms was cleaned,comfortable and well maintained.Staff was copretive, helpful and active. One of the best things was ala carte menu, it's so yummy tasty and fresh but beverage was limited.. Ambience was remarkable ..Last but not the least I would like to thanks upasana and team from tech india who fulfill our commitments which they have given at the time of first stage ...They are very professional and terms on Commitment ..
I wish all the best for their future projects .
Ritesh Khanna
Review from Lavanya for Himachal trip.
We had a fantastic trip.thanks to travel setu for arranging smooth travel experience.special thanks to sharu and nithin for their co ordination during the trip. We have got good deal compared to other travel agencies.We have got comfortable volvo seats and we got zara resort in manali for stay. Resort location wise far from the mall road so we had to spend our evening in the hotel itself. One good thing about the resort is food was amazing in the zara resort and staff is very helpfull there.
The only discomfort i faced during the trip is only with my cab driver. He expedite us to spend minimal time at each loaction as he wants to drop us in the hotel at the earliest due to his personal works.he always requested us to finish the site seeing as soon as possible as he has some personal works to finish.
Except that the trip was amazing and once again thanks to sharu and nithin from tourist triangle.
Review from Rathan for Himachal trip.
Everything is good.... satisfied
Review from Mihir Bavisiya for Himachal trip.
Good experience
Thank u travel setu
Review from Ravi for Himachal trip.
Very nice Tour and tour planer
Review from Vishal for Himachal trip.
Review from Rahul for Himachal trip.
Himachal trip was awesome.Some misbehave with us by M P Residency hotel staff..
Silicon Inn hotel is the best services provided with us.. .
Review from Muskan chauhan for Himachal trip.
Very very enjoying my trip amazing experience!
Review from pradeep for Himachal trip.
Best Package in My Budget, and specially Thanks to Shalu Mem she is Suggest Me Best Hotel,
and cab Driver is Also to Friendly Person, But your Volvo Bus that pickup from Delhi to manali is not Comfortable, Overall is good.
Review from ASLAM Khan for Himachal trip.
Hey .... firstly a big thanks to my trip my way & travels recently I had a tour with them MR .Jagdish assisted me the hotels booked were very good and specially the location was awesome the feeling was like we are in heaven our tour was for 5 nights and six days shimla kullu manali the travel company drafted itinerary in such a manner that all the sights were covered yes there were some long journeys but they customizedvit such a way that it was not hectic at all also 5* to the food of the hotels I will suggest every to take the hotels with breakfast and dinner you will breakfast and dinner you will have a great experience of north Indian food I just loved it we were 2 members in the family and all of we are very happy with the services provided by My Trip MY Way
Review from Akshay Jadhav for Himachal trip.
Nice service.. Enjoy himachal trip
Review from Nitin Zine for Himachal trip.
It was a great and lovely service and experience with my trip my way
A very good assistance by Ms. Hemlata Madam.
Thanks to all
Eagerly waiting for next trip with my trip my way..
Review from BABUDAS E for Himachal trip.
I am from Kerala, we were in a trip to dehradoon and we thought of visiting Manali, we were so much confused, and we came to travelsetu, two - three agents contacted with quotes among which Meghna Gill from Holidays Icon really helped with suggestions and alterations according to our ideas. So we decided to choose their service and she proved we were right, although the driver was bit unprofessional some ways Meghna was there to solve any concerns, I really appreciate the commitment..
She arranged the whole trip in a very short time..I am not giving 5 star just because next time you should be more careful while choosing drivers!
Review from Yogeshwar for Himachal trip.
My Trip My Way did a good job of planning, implementing and following up on your tour. My honeymoon package is very memorable . It was a great time with them, Mr. Jagdish and Hitesh Sharma was very much cooperative. Car was in good condition and the driver was really co-operative. All hotels were nice..Thank you so much My Trip Ny Way. Really they are very professional people ad give there1000 percent to make your holidays best.
Review from Parth for Himachal trip.
This Trip Is my Life's best Trips😃
Review from Manish sharma for Himachal trip.
Best management of whole trip...
Able to connect at any time to get help.. . It provide best rooms and food...
Review from Akshay bhavsar for Himachal trip.
Nice time with travel setu.
Nice hotel and nice hotel staff .
My life best journey with travel setu.
Next time I will with travel setu.
Akshay bhavsar
Review from Jimi for Himachal trip.
Nice trip through my trip my way... Mr. Jagdish is so helpful in entire trip... He is continuously in contact with me... All Hotels provided by them are very nice and in good location... View from balcony is awesome in shimla & Dalhousie hotels... Food was good... our driver Sukhvinder Singh is very professional.... So, Overall Very good, Excellent Tour of Himachal Pradesh with My Trip My Way... Thanks to Mr. Jagdish, Mr. Hitesh Sharma & Driver Sukhvinder... Thank u All.... I highly recommend my trip my way to book your tour of himachal... thanks...
Review from Vinod Kashyap for Himachal trip.
How a wonderful trip made by tourist Triangle best hotel best travelling best food thank you travelling
Review from Rahul for Himachal trip.
Our journey shimla and manali with p.p travel was awesome and p.p travel service was good there agent was friendly and there driver was also good they behave like a friend . And p.p travel was 100% trusted website. In sort full journey was awesome
Review from Baren Sahoo for Himachal trip.
My trip my way is the best agent to go with.
Review from Rohit for Himachal trip.
It was good.
Review from Sunil for Himachal trip.
A valuable & adventurous trip...
Thanks Jagdish G for such a wonderful trip
Review from Krishnendu biswas for Himachal trip.
Nice arrangements and best trip. My daughter r enjoying camp stay very much.
Review from Nandini for Himachal trip.
Hlo Hitesh ji / Jagdish ji
We r really very thankfull to you this journey was awesome nd memorable 😊😊
We r glad that we were a part of my trip my way
Hotel facilitie's nd service was really good👍🏻👍🏻
Cab service was awesome😌😌
Special thanku to Andy He was very supportive nd a good guider also 😌😌
Nd specially jagish ji bahut paresan kiya apko mene 😊😊
But Really appericiated ki aapne hamare issue's solve kiye nd itni achi service di👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Very well done job 😊
I m really very happy
If i will plane next time than i'll definetly contact you 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Review from Darshna for Himachal trip.
it was nice trip
Review from Shyam Kumar Mahto for Himachal trip.
Travelsetu is good...they are care very properly me. I like so much
Review from Amol shelke for Himachal trip.
Thanks Hitesh sir and Tram
Review from Sagar for Himachal trip.
Gud service
Review from Rajesh for Himachal trip.
Good arrengment and well mantain trip
We have lots of fun
Review from Abhinav dokania Dokania for Himachal trip.
Very nice nd memorable trip thanks my trip my way
Review from Kanchan Pal for Himachal trip.
Review from Sushant for Himachal trip.
It was a awesome trip ,the guy Mr Hitesh was very much co operative throught the trip .on a stage due to weather issue we had to rescheduled the preapproved plan ,but Hitesh managed very well.
Some of the minor lagging point like
Vehicle driver was not that aware of local sightseeing guide,which i believe in future they ll arrange such driver who can also do the tourist guide job as well.
Review from Mayank for Himachal trip.
Its really good trip of Himachal through Nature star in. The service is Very better provide by nature star in and hotel. But due to heavy rain in Himachal Pradesh I missed to visit Rohtang pass. And due to landslide and heavy rain all roads has blocked. And therefore we have stay two more days in manali. Now finally on 21st I have leave from Manali.Especially Meera Mam has good support to me in this situation. Once again thank you so much nature star in.
Review from Dheeraj for Himachal trip.
Review from Abid for Himachal trip.
Very well organized trip. Pocket friendly also.
They will provide you complete itinerary,travel and stay is well taken care of. Professional driver is assigned for cab travels. Highly recommended .
Review from HIREN JADHAV for Himachal trip.
Awesome Management, Good Service Provider, Very Helpful At Each And Every Moment Of The Trip, Shimla Manali Trip Was One Of My Memorable Trip Just Because Of Himalayas Expedition.
Keep It Up.
I Hope U Serve This Type Of Service To Each And Every Person Or Family And All The Very Best For Future.
Review from Sanjay B Udar for Himachal trip.
Best ...I will come again
Review from Hemal Patel for Himachal trip.
The Himalayas Expedition (Mohit Thakur) arrange my Himachal trip is very Good And problem in Journey. All Services are best.
Review from for Himachal trip.
Very good service By travelsetu.com. Highly recommended to all.
Review from mukul for Himachal trip.
Jagdish ji's behavior was very good during the whole trip & very good communication to start to end.
Review from Noman khan for Himachal trip.
The name surely says it all. Recommended by a friend to go ahead and book with them and they surely lived up to their reputation. Quite literally the best travel experience you can get of the country. Mr Hitesh & Rakesh was always helpful and available for any query you'd throw at him. This enhanced our experience all the more. Dharminder our driver cum guide was extremely patient, supportive and well mannered as well. He allowed us to enjoy the beauty of every location we visited without any fuss and also guided us on things we should or shouldn't do.
Overall a splendid experience thanks to Mr Hitesh and his wonderful team.
Great job!!
Review from Balwant Ninama for Himachal trip.
Best travels by my trip my way
Review from sagar chaudhari for Himachal trip.
I booked my family trip for himachal. Everything was planned and managed perfectly. Staff was very kind and always guides as well as takes the status for safety while we were on trip. Booked hotels and car driver, every service was funtastic. I would recommend this travel agency to anyone for amazing trips.
5 out of 5.
Thank you for such a good service. I will definately look for you for my next trip 😊. My family is very happy and got great memories because of you. Keep up good work.
Review from Neeraj Gupta for Himachal trip.
Great experience and good support booked a tour for dalhousie and dharamshala. Hotels they provided are good and also the cab driver is very friendly and understand the route well.
Overall experience is good.
Review from Raju charaniya for Himachal trip.
Review from Magesh K for Himachal trip.
Review from Ashutosh tripathi for Himachal trip.
Best services and good staff ,
Review from Akhil for Himachal trip.
Superb experience ...covered all the trip ...
Thank you for providing the good hotels and rooms and also superb vies from the hotels. And mainly Driver was awesome shared all the things and guided us all the things in the trip (chotu)
Review from Rama Sharma for Himachal trip.
Under budget good trip
Review from Shah Ankur y for Himachal trip.
Nice agents ,also I get nice hotels and nice food ,all are very comparative and good service
Review from Manika for Himachal trip.
I had a great time wid travel setu diksha doing her job vry nicely she is every time available thanks for travel setu to make my b'day special.
Review from Naimesh Chunara for Himachal trip.
It's very good tour for me
Review from Srivijay for Himachal trip.
Travel plans was good. Well Organized for transportation. Hotel room was as expected.
Review from Udaykiran for Himachal trip.
Hotels exactly as described in the itinerary, food in wood bine (manali ) not up to standards expected of it, but the stay and view from it is amazing, I repeat "amazing"
Review from Sudhanshu Bhatt for Himachal trip.
Travel and Time comes with high regard, they were able to put together a wonderful trip to Himachal for us and we are so exceptionally cheerful about it. We would like to tell everyone how nice everything was and how well planned it was as well. They took the time to make sure the details were perfect and that is very rare in this day and age. Well done team Travel and Time and we will travel with you guys again indeed!...Always happy with you.....and sure I suggest my friends and family members .....
Review from Sudhanshu Bhatt for Himachal trip.
Fantastic Trip wonderful .... I have visited a lot of places in India so I wanted to explore more destinations but I was not really sure about which places to cover. I'm so glad to choose Travel and Time for my Himachal trip. It was so amazing and relaxing. Manali is really beautiful and their availability 24/7 helped us too. The resort we stayed in was more than our expectations that too at so reasonable prices. It was the best trip till date, looking forward to more.... Wow....
Review from Ankit verma for Himachal trip.
Everything is jst awesome staffs are well behaved and cab driver too service is also good inshot our trip is jst amazing.
Thanks global tour holidays
Review from RITURAJ for Himachal trip.
One word to describe the trip managed by Him Travels "awesome".
All promises made by them were fulfilled by 110%. During our entire trip , everything went so smooth.
They helped us plan our trip right from the start and managed everything for us at very reasonable cost.
They were always available for all our queries and helped us create a memorable visit to DevBhoomi Himachal.
Special mention to our cab driver ,Chaman Bhaiya . Throughout the trips and road journey we had a friendlier person to accompany in his form and he guided us to each and every thing which we could have seen , enjoyed and taken back with us.
Thank you HimTravels , you made our trip a memorable one .
Q. How to Reach Himachal?
Himachal Pradesh is the epitome of nature's bounty and climatic disparity. The state boasts its enormous variety of flora and fauna and biodiversity. On a Himachal tour package, you can reach your destination in many ways. Himachal Pradesh is properly connected with all modes of transportation and frequent services to some of the major neighbouring states like Punjab, Haryana, Uttarakhand and J&K. If you are planning a Himachal family tour package, choose from any of these 3 modes of transportation: By Rail: Kalka is the nearest railway station, approximately 90km away from Himachal. As the state has lift hills, there are no railway tracks. Travellers can access Himachal Pradesh via Indian Railways and explore major Himachal attractions. By Air: Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, is the nearest airport from Himachal Pradesh, approximately 357km away. If you are coming for a Himachal trip from a foreign country, this is the only option. Kullu, 23km from Himachal, also has a domestic airport. By Road: Himachal has an excellent road network connecting all major cities. Himachal is 343km from New Delhi via Chandigarh, 240km from Dehradun, and 151km from Ambala.
Q. What is the best time for Himachal Honeymoon Package?
Ideally, May to June is the best time to visit Himachal. Whether you are visiting the state with family, friends, or as newlyweds, you can see the best of Himachal during this season. Pleasant weather, colourful vegetation, and nature's bliss make Himachal heavenly.
Q. How many days Himachal Tour Package is perfect for a family trip?
Himachal is a land of several sub-destinations. The ideal stay depends on the places you want to cover. There are Himachal tour packages varying from 3 nights/4 days, 4 nights/5 days, 5 nights/6 days, 6 nights/7 days, and even beyond.
Q. What are the places to see in and around Himachal?
There are many places to visit in Himachal. This beautiful state offers a dais to showcase nature's tranquillity and picturesque hill stations. Visit hill stations like Shimla, Kullu Manali, Dharamshala, Kasauli, Chamba, and Dalhousie. Other interesting places to visit include Rajgarh Valley, Sujanpur Tihra, Pragpur, Kangra Fort, Maharana Pratap Sagar, Great Himalayan National Park, and Chail.
Q. Himachal Summer Camps are Popular? Is it customizable?
Yes, you can enjoy customized Himachal tour packages and summer camps.
Q. What are the local foods of Himachal to try?
When you are in Himachal, do try Madra (found in Kangra and Chamba), Dhaam in Chamba and Manali, Tudkiya Bhath in Chamba, Bhey, Chha Ghost, Siddu in Kullu, Babru in Shimla, Aktori, Kullu Trout Fish, Mittha, Kaale Channe ka Khatta, and various Tibetian delights.
Q. What are the things to do in Himachal?
- Heli-skiing at Hanuman Tibba - Tibetian Opera at Dharmashala - Visit the oldest brewer in Kausali - Downhill cycling to Naggar - Trekking through the Great Himalayan National Park - Paragliding at Bir Billing - Go rafting at Kullu Valley - Trekking to Manala - Camping and snowcapped Mashorba - Rock climbing at Vashisht - Mountain biking at Spiti
Q. What to shop for in Himachal?
Himachal shopping is famous for its local items like souvenirs, jewellery, handicrafts etc. Shopping destinations include: - Nicholas Roerich Art Gallery, Naggar - Gandhi Chowk Shopping Plaza, Dalhousie - Sobha Singh Art Gallery, Palampur - Lakka Bazaar, Shimla - Manu Market, Manali - Thankas and Gifts, McLeod Ganj - Palaco Handmade Crafts, McLeod Ganj - City Centre Mall, Shimla Plan your Himachal tour package and get the best deals.
Q. Which are the famous fairs and festivals of Himachal?
Numerous fairs & festivals are held in Himachal enjoyed by locals and tourists alike. Few are Manali Winter Carnival, January Halda, January Dechhang, New Year Phagli, December/January Baba Barbhag Singh Mela, February Lossar and February Gochi.
Q. How can one acclimatize to Himachal's weather?
Acclimatizing to the weather here, you need to layer up completely. Then ensure that your neck, ears and head are fully covered. Carry along some medicines to overcome altitude sickness and nausea.
Q. Can you travel solo in Himachal?
Solo travelling by men and women can be enjoyed by in Himachal. People here are very much friendly and also helpful. Tourists are welcomed throughout the year and respected.
Q. Is it safe for women travellers to travel alone in Himachal?
This place is termed to be among the safest destinations even for women travellers. There is no need to worry as local help is always available to ensure getting out of trouble.
Q. When is the off season in Himachal?
In Himachal, off season begins from March to last until April. It is cited to be the best time to travel with children and the elderly and also enjoy heavy discounts.


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Beyond the user interface, the Android laptop will run applications such as Skype that are not yet supported on Chromebooks. Android also boasts better printer support than the Chrome OS.
HP has had to make choices in the past on whether to use the Chrome OS or Android in PCs. HP chose Android over Chrome for its Slate 21 Pro all-in-one, partly because Android was heavily customizable as an open-source OS, while features in Chrome OS were controlled by Google. HP also said that Android was cheaper to implement than Chrome OS, which had to comply with specific hardware requirements.
The laptop is expected to be shown at Computex this week in Taipei.
Agam Shah covers PCs, tablets, servers, chips and semiconductors for IDG News Service. Follow Agam on Twitter at @agamsh. Agam's e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com

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Should More States Require Racial Impact Statements for New Laws?
Most states evaluate new legislation for how it might affect the economy or the environment, but what about measuring a law's effect on minorities?
Earlier this month, Oregon became the third state to require racial impact statements for any changes to state criminal laws or sentencing codes. Any new criminal justice proposal must be evaluated if at least one member of each party requests a report. The report, produced by a sentencing commission or legislative analyst, must show how a proposed law could have consequences for sentencing, probation or parole policies affecting minorities disproportionately, and that information is shared with lawmakers before they vote on the bill.
Iowa and Connecticut require racial impact statements before lawmakers can vote on any new criminal laws, and Minnesota's sentencing commission regularly drafts racial impact statements for new legislation.
Attention to racial bias in the criminal justice system has been growing. In May, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights began a national review to determine if controversial self-defense laws, known as "stand your ground" laws, promote racial bias.
These laws are on the books in at least 21 states and gained national attention after the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Fla. Martin was an unarmed black teenager killed by neighborhood-watch volunteer George Zimmerman.
More states are considering requiring minority impact statements in the wake of Zimmerman's not-guilty verdict and the recent Supreme Court decision ending the federal preclearance requirement for election law changes in states with a history of voter discrimination, said Wayne Ford, a former Iowa state representative. Sponsor of the nation's first racial impact statement bill, which passed in Iowa in 2008, Ford is in talks with lawmakers from 29 states interested in adopting racial impact statements.
"There's no doubt in my mind that minority impact legislation has national, historic implications in regard to enactment and expansion of 'stand your ground' legislation," said Ford. "Its scope can be expanded to make legislators and the public aware of the potential effects of 'voter suppression' legislation, too."
Lawmakers in Oregon were motivated to enact their legislation by reports of disproportionate numbers of minorities in the child welfare system and in state prison.
"These racial and ethnic disparities suggest that we are using state resources inefficiently and ineffectively," Democratic Rep. Joseph Gallegos, the bill's sponsor, said in a statement. He was referring to statistics showing that African Americans make up less than 2 percent of Oregon's population, but 9 percent of the state's prison population.
Similar statistics convinced Iowa to become the first state to adopt minority impact statements. In a scathing report published in 2007, researchers from The Sentencing Project, a national advocacy group which highlights racial disparities in the criminal justice system, found that Iowa had the nation's highest racial disparity in prison populations: African-Americans account for 24 percent of Iowa's prison population, but only 2 percent of the state's population.
Those numbers made Iowa lawmakers eager to act. "We did not want to be recognized as the nation's leader in the incarceration of black men," Ford said. Both chambers passed the minority impact statement bill nearly unanimously.
Racial impact statements aren't a panacea, however. Even though Iowa has required them for more than four years, the state still has wide racial disparities in its justice system. The state has the worst racial disparity in the U.S. in marijuana arrests, according to an ACLU study. Blacks are more than eight times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than whites, even though usage is about even, according to researchers.
Minnesota, which also uses racial impact statements although not required by law, ranked third behind Iowa in the ACLU report, with blacks more than seven times more likely than whites to be arrested for marijuana possession.
Still, the statements are a helpful tool for lawmakers to evaluate outcomes of new legislation, said Nicole Porter, advocacy director at The Sentencing Project.
"We don't claim that racial impact statements will resolve all disparities, but it will allow lawmakers to be intentional about the effects of the laws they enact," Porter said.
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Three years ago, posting as Bookman, I created GNI BOOK CLUB. The response was encouraging.
Following Bookman's self-exile in late 2011, however, the book club faded into the netherworld.
Today I'm pleased to launch GNI BOOK CLUB [2]. All members are invited to share information about books they're reading and discuss book-related matters.
I just finished reading "MY LIFE WITH CHE: The Making of a Revolutionary" by Hilda Gadea. She was the first wife of the legendary revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevara. This book was first published in 1972, five years after Che was assassinated in Bolivia. Hilda Gadea died of cancer in 1974.
Last week I also read another memoir by Che's second wife, Aleida March. That book, "REMEMBERING CHE:My Life With Che Guevara", was first published in 2008.
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Based on the original stories by Michael Bond, a new Paddington adventure with real mail to open and enjoy!
This funny interactive picture book explores Paddington's new life in London after travelling all the way from Darkest Peru and meeting Mr and Mrs Brown at Paddington station. Open the six envelopes inside and find out all about his new home, family and friends. These include Paddington's first letter to Aunt Lucy, a half-price voucher for his favourite buns, a very special birthday card – and more!
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The new U.S. Embassy in London, criticized last week by President Donald Trump as too expensive and poorly located, opened its doors to the public Tuesday for the first time.
The gleaming embassy, in the formerly industrial Nine Elms neighborhood in south London, replaces the embassy in Grosvenor Square that had for decades been associated with the U.S. presence in the United Kingdom. That building has been sold to a Qatari government investment fund planning to turn it into a luxury hotel.
U.S. officials say it would have cost hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade security at the older building and bring it up to modern safety standards.
Trump tweeted last week that he would not come to London to open the new embassy because it represented a poor investment.
The president's tweet read: "Reason I canceled my trip to London is that I am not a big fan of the Obama Administration having sold perhaps the best located and finest embassy in London for "peanuts," only to build a new one in an off location for 1.2 billion dollars. Bad deal. Wanted me to cut ribbon-NO!"
There were no ceremonies to mark the public opening of the facility and some landscaping features were still being put in place. A line of evergreen trees was being planted at the edge of the site, and only a relatively small number of people showed up on official business.
The formerly rundown neighborhood is littered with cranes as a number of major towers are shooting up in the blocks surrounding the embassy, which is helping the area's rejuvenation.
Visa processing was beginning in a "soft" rollout of the new facility. Officials said 50 applicants were processed Tuesday.
The embassy initially planned to process 200 people per day for the rest of the week, but doubled that figure to 400 late Tuesday afternoon because the procedures had worked well during the day.
Though Trump blamed predecessor Barack Obama for the expensive new embassy in his angry tweet, the project was in fact announced in October 2008 during the presidency of George W. Bush.
Trump's plans to visit Britain have met resistance from some politicians and activists who disagree with his policies on a number of fronts, including his actions on immigration and climate change. Substantial protests were expected.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan, who Trump has repeatedly criticized, said Trump seems to have "got the message" that many Londoners find his policies to be intolerant and wrong.
Trump is still invited for a state visit — to be hosted by Queen Elizabeth II — but no date has been set. The invitation was extended by the British government nearly a year ago during Trump's first days in office.
U.S. officials say the new embassy cost $1 billion (1.38 billion pounds) and was paid for entirely with money raised by the sale of other U.S. government properties in London.
The new building, with its distinctive cube shape, is nearly twice as large as the Grosvenor Square facility. It is the single most expensive embassy building ever built by the United States.
Robert Johnson, appointed by Trump as U.S. ambassador to Britain, called the new energy-efficient embassy a "bargain" during a pre-opening tour for journalists last month. He said the embassy, which does not have a perimeter fence, is both welcoming and secure.


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Yep, still fall
Mileage: 22.4
October mileage: 52.5
It was strange to come home from my wintry Yukon bike tour to a place where the temperature was 62 degrees and partly sunny, as it was in Juneau on Tuesday morning. In retrospect, September was more like a summer month here than most of our actual summer months. In fact, I think September may have been my favorite summer month of 2008. That or June. Those were both good months. July and August ... well, we'll call it a wash.
Fall has been creeping in though, ever so slowly. Our first big Taku windstorm barrelled through last night - 126 mph gust on top of Sheep Mountain. I almost didn't notice. We had our big VP debate dinner and, after being disappointingly bored by the proceedings, went outside to sit on the deck and look at the stars (actual stars!) It was such a calm, clear night - good food and good friends. The strong winds came through while I slept. They were mostly gone again by morning.
I hoped to complete a more ambitious hike ahead of the Grand Canyon, but low-lying clouds just wouldn't allow it. I did a little cycling in the morning. Then, when the weather stayed dry, I headed up to Granite Creek Basin. Patches of clear sky rolled through, and fleeting streaks of freed sunlight cast the basin in startlingly rich colors - mostly greens. But the fall colors, the ground-level crimsons and golds, burned bright as well.
Alpine level is where Juneau gets its best fall colors, in my opinion. The sea-level trees try, they really do, but it's just too wet here. The moment any hint of yellow settles in to the leaves, they're overtaken by brown spots like a rotten banana. Then they fall off the trees like wet rags, so our roads are littered with soggy clumps of blah green/brown/tiniest-bit-of-yellow leaves. My opinion of fall color in Juneau is probably tainted by my childhood near the Wasatch Mountains in Utah, where aspens, maple, oak and crisp dry weather made for the most brilliant autumn collages. But I can still see those same hues in Juneau if I hike above tree line and look at the ground.
Then there are, of course, still places up there where winter never ended. I climbed up to the Juneau Ridge, where I could feel for the first time that cold, cold wind that started blasting through last night. I spent some time trying to scout out a route to the top of Mount Olds, but the cloud cover above the ridge was pea-soup thick and the wind chill was fierce. Clinging to the snow-streaked talus in those conditions, it wasn't too much of a stretch to imagine myself on the face of some extreme climb like Mount Rainier or Denali. I guess the thick air at 4,000 feet should have given it away, but eventually I spooked myself off of Olds and back down to the basin.
On my way back, a met a sow black bear and her two cubs grazing right next to the trail. There was a bit of a standoff where she stared at me and I stared at her and had no freaking idea what to do, whether to back away slowly or hold my ground. Eventually she deemed me not a threat and went back to eating - but showed no interest in moving from the trail. I turned and walked stiffly in the other direction (and did not stop to shoot this photo until I had put a fair distance between myself and the three bears.) I had few options for getting around her. Just off the trail was a large thicket of alders that would have been a beast to bushwhack through - not to mention probably crawling with more bears. I eventually decided to walk right down the middle of Granite Creek - frigid, fast-flowing, knee-deep Granite Creek. But at least it was on the other side of the valley.
Between that and the windy summit attempt on Mount Olds, I was seriously chilled by the time I returned to my bike and began the long descent home through an isolated downpour. I went to dinner and a play with my friend Brian tonight and spent most of the evening drinking things like hot apple cider and just trying to get my body temperature back up to normal. But all in all, it was a good weekend. Next weekend, I'm headed to a place that could very well still be locked in the deep heat of summer. Hard to imagine what that might feel like.
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Hypothermia and "good weekend" all in the same sentence. We truly are an amazingly diverse species, and fascinating to observe!ReplyDelete
Mmmmm....hot apple cider! Your pics are so pretty. I can't say it enough. And bears! Wowser...ReplyDelete
I haven't seen any bears, and only one moose, since arriving in Anchorage 2 months ago!
Wow, how incredibly beautiful!ReplyDelete
Where are you going next weekend?
Those bears look less menacing from far away. I can dodge plenty of taxis riding in NYC and by, extension, here in DC, but I probably would not have the faintest idea what to do if I came across a bear with her cubs...ReplyDelete
hope you enjoyed the play. i'm in a hotel somewhere in the middle of BC (it's been raining all day and my tent/sleeping bag were wet from last night). definitely not going to make the monday ferry but i should have no problem catching the wednesday one. can't wait to see yout then.ReplyDelete
Lovely autumny and wintry photos, and fun bear story - "I had no freaking idea" - neither would have I! =)ReplyDelete
I am glad you didn't get eaten by the bears! It makes me laugh that our experience with bears as children were that of seeing them with a group of other people standing from our cars in Yellowstone. They are a little more wild in Alaska.ReplyDelete
When we saw those black bears up at Exit Glacier I was terrified! So I don't blame you for wading through the creek. You probably caught a mild hypothermia. Hope you finally warmed up!
Oh and it is no longer summer (well 85 degrees) we had a cold front come in this weekend. So it is like 60 today but should be up in the 70's by the end of the week. Sara and I are going to pick you up from the airport. Can't wait to see you!!
Awesome photography. You really capture the fall colors. Quite a shot of those bears. Is that a moose cow and calf in the first pic?ReplyDelete
Glad you're getting down to the Caynon for your annual trip with your pop.
I think what you're supposed to do when you stumble across a group of black bears is pee your pants and start cryingReplyDelete
. No, wait, sorry, that's what I WOULD DO.


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May 3, 2002
Statement by the Press Secretary
United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Children
The United States will send a delegation to the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Children in New York, May 8-10, 2002. The Special Session on Children will be an important gathering of world leaders and child advocates committed to advancing international cooperation designed to improve the lives of children. The United States delegation will be headed by Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson. The Delegation will include the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, Andrew Natsios, who will lead the delegation May 10, following Secretary Thompson's departure.
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A week ago I speculated here about what listeners might do with BBC radio content if allowed to play with it. I came up with something quite linear – a kind of listener-curated Pick of the Week. Here's something a bit more playful (or dumb, depending). It's the fifteen clips from Sunday's Pick of the Week, selected by Graham Seed, all at once.
Click play to hear the cacophony. I think it adds up to quite a pleasing, BBC radio-shaped lump of sound – and another way of expressing the variety and unpredictability that is BBC radio. Wouldn't it be fun if we could provide tools for listeners to play in this way? Respectful apologies to all the programme-makers involved (and to Graham Seed too, of course).
It's not entirely unproduced – I stacked the fifteen clips as tracks in Garageband, trimmed them all to 30 seconds each and then staggered them to come in at four-second intervals. This means that the maximum you'll hear at once is eight. There are no fades, apart from the final clip, which seemed to need one.
You'll hear: Supermarket Symphony (Radio 4), Composer of the Week, Gian Carlo Menotti (Radio 3), Barbara Windsor's Funny Girls, Hylda Baker (Radio 2), George Bernard Shaw, Widowers' Houses (Radio 3), Bird Fancyers Delight (Radio 4), Afternoon Play, Gilda and her Daughters in Looking for Goldie (Radio 4), Twenty Minutes, Romance (Radio 3), Down and Out in the the City of Angels (Radio 4), The Robeson Files (Radio 2), Johnnie Walker meets Neil Diamond: New York City Born and Raised (Radio 2), Tim Key's Suspended Sentence (Radio 4), A Hundred Years of Mervyn Peake (Radio 4), Afternoon Play, Whenever I Get Blown Up I Think of You (Radio 4), Desert Island Discs, John Graham (Radio 4) and I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio 4).


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Pelosi unplugged
Striking a tone of disgust, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi ridicules the GOP as obsessed with its loathing of President Obama and hell-bent on hurting him politically, regardless the cost. She assigns little to no blame to the president (even though Democrats privately say that's laughable) and instead portrays him as saintly, above reproach and the victim of jealousy or something worse.
After 26 years in the House, she says, "I haven't seen anything like it. I haven't seen anything like it."
Throughout a 50-minute interview on Thursday in her second-floor Capitol office, where the late Speaker Tip O'Neill used to receive supplicants, Pelosi was sharply derisive about the scorn Republicans have for this president.
( PHOTOS: Nancy Pelosi's career)
"You know why it is," she said. "You know why it is. He's brilliant, … he thinks in a strategic way in how to get something done … and he's completely eloquent. That's a package that they don't like."
She sees echoes of the condescension many Republicans had for Bill Clinton: "They didn't think he was one of them … because of his upbringing and his personal story of success … Although he had the Ivy League and the Georgetown education, he wasn't rooted where most of the former presidents came from."
Pelosi, age 73 and with no signs of mellowing, had just spent 10 minutes on the phone with Speaker John Boehner, 32 months after surrendering the gavel to him. She said she has "no idea … no idea" whether he will depend on Democratic votes to avoid default or a government shutdown, or whether he has plans that can eventually pass with Republican votes alone. Her private opinion: he has no idea either. All she knows for sure is that the Republicans' initial plan to keep the government running past Sept. 30 — including the anti-Obamacare provision demanded by the right — is a dead letter with her caucus.
( POLITICO's Behind the Curtain series)
"The Speaker knows that," she said. "I call it the tea party continuing resolution, because they are obviously driving the ship. … We can do it the hard way — well, we can do it not at all, which is the path that they're on now … They don't want our vote. I believe that the path the Republicans are on is designed to shut down government. … [T]he question is: Can they have their ideological dream come true, or will there be some voice of reason?"
She sounded equally pessimistic about increasing the debt ceiling: "The Speaker has said that he does not want to default. But it's one thing to say you don't want to default, … then have all the building blocks for default put in place to do so." She said she hopes the business community will convince Republicans not to walk that plank: "They bought them the gavel, didn't they? … They should not be able use that gavel to clobber the economy over the head."
Asked about her new relevance, with the possibility that Democratic votes will be needed to avoid a calamity, Pelosi jumped in: "I've not ever felt irrelevant." Then she added: "I'd rather feel less relevant. I'd rather the Republicans just pick up the mantle, be responsible, pass a debt ceiling — that we can work with them more."
( WATCH: Pelosi says not lifting debt limit 'a river of no return')
Pelosi said Obama is getting a bad rap from Democrats who complain – usually privately — that he doesn't stroke them enough. "I've served since President Reagan," she said. "I don't know any member of Congress who ever said, 'I'm satisfied with the communication that we have from the White House.' That's just the way it is. … I'm very proud of the president."
Then she added a line that she has used before, that drives Republicans batty: "He has been … open, practically apolitical, certainly nonpartisan, in terms of welcoming every idea and solution. I think that's one of the reasons the Republicans want to take him down politically, because they know he is a nonpartisan president, and that's something very hard for them to cope with."
Members have complained about the White House's cancellation earlier this month of the annual congressional picnic. Pelosi said she doesn't think it's a big deal, but she understands the grumbling. "You're talking about real power within your home: 'We're going to see the president of the United States,'" she said. "So, it was disappointing when that was canceled. … [I]n some ways, President Bush was a lovely person, and I had a good rapport with him. But we wanted to end the war in Iraq, he wouldn't even talk about it. … I think not communicating on the war in Iraq is a lot different than canceling the family picnic."
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In another dose of Politics 101, she added: "I was so thrilled when [Bill Clinton] became the nominee. And some senior member said to me: 'Prepare yourself to be disappointed, because you're thinking that you are all going to be in this together. He is the president and this is the Congress.' And as they predicted, there would be some triangulation — which people were unhappy with at the time, if you recall. So, what's new?"
"This president, I think, has to do a better selling job," she said. "I assume the people know the difference his presidency has made in taking us from … the verge of depression … One thing I would like to see the president do more — and many of us can help with that — but people want to hear it from him: … 'This is what I said I was going to do. This is what I have done. These are the obstacles that the Republicans have put forth.' … It's not only important to do the right thing, … it's important to prepare the American people for some of those decisions."
Pelosi sounded surprisingly bearish about Democrats' chances of picking up the 17 seats they need to win control. "We can win back the House," she said. "I'll know a little bit better in a … couple more months."
( PHOTOS: 25 unforgettable Obamacare quotes)
As to how long she'll stay, her marker was: "What is important to me is the implementation of the Affordable Care Act," which begin next month.
The only time Pelosi bristled was when we asked her who the next House Democratic leader will be. "You must be kidding," she said, not kidding. "We have a House Democratic Leader. So not so fast on the next one."


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Obama's New Deal is on a smaller scale
Its focus on smaller, shovel-ready projects precludes a grander vision.
Minutes after President Obama signed the $787 billion stimulus package on Feb. 17, grizzled hard hats started banging on a new bridge over the Osage River outside Tuscumbia, Mo., an $8.5 million project that will employ 45 workers for two years.
In Clinton, Mont., Kathryn Dougherty calls the $600,000 her town will receive to fix broken water pipes a "miracle."
Mr. Obama's recovery act has been hailed as a new New Deal to transform America. But there will be no Grand Coulee Dam or Golden Gate Bridge. Instead, there are thousands of small shovel-ready projects designed to bring transformation quickly – not through projects on an awesome scale, but rather in the mundane rumble of jackhammers in countless communities.
To critics, this is money wasted: The outlay of billions of dollars without deeper strategic planning about how the projects could be knitted together into some greater rebuilding of America. To others, however, the pressing need to save jobs now makes such delay impossible.
"What you need to do is get the money in people's hands quickly, and that really precludes taking the visionary approach and looking at big projects," says Jim Berard, communications director for the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. "We found it's better and quicker to do the small projects that are just as necessary ... that aren't sexy or postcard material but are just as needed."
Construction gets $135 billion
In all, some $135 billion of the stimulus package is labeled for construction projects, though some of that total is included in other parts of the bill, such as education. The actual figure devoted solely to infrastructure is $86 billion, and states have to assign at least 50 percent of their share to shovel-ready projects – those that are ready to go within 120 days. Otherwise, they risk losing their funds.
About 5,000 highway projects are being planned, the equivalent of 1-1/2 for each county in the United States. Tens of thousands of smaller projects are also in the works, including "weatherization" incentives to improve energy efficiency in low-income families' houses and new roofs for urban schools.
The federal spigot opened last Tuesday, when Obama proclaimed "shovels are already in the ground" as he released $27 billion for paving jobs and bridge makeovers.
The concern is that the stimulus amounts to "a grab bag of pet projects" unlikely to spur either an economic or physical transformation, says Bob Poole of the Reason Foundation in San Francisco.
Moreover, the focus on shovel-ready projects could limit the impact on the nation's jobless rate. In order to be shovel-ready, most projects have already been approved and hiring is already done. As a result, the stimulus package is likely to save jobs more than create new ones.
To some economists, the lesson from the New Deal is that public-funding packages aren't enough – private investment is the key to turn around a recession. "Basically they're going to shove too much money – more bad money – down a hole," says Addison Wiggin, publisher of the Daily Reckoning website, which covers Wall Street.
Stimulating hope
Yet a glimpse at a handful of shovel-ready projects around the country shows that, at least in the Rocky Mountain towns and "blues belt" burgs where dirt moving and road milling has begun, federal money is renewing a sense of hope.
Built by New Deal money in 1933, the Route 17 bridge in Tuscumbia is literally crumbling, its concrete sloughing and iron spans rusting. The state had scheduled its replacement for 2012, but the federal infusion enabled the Department of Transportation to move it up by three years. The new bridge will span 970 feet and stretch 24 feet wide – hardly a modern-day Golden Gate Bridge.
The project may not be transformative, but 5,000 such highway projects around the country – all to be marked with newly created federal signage – can change both local and national dynamics, argues Tom Wright, a local county commissioner.
"Forty jobs is a huge percentage for this area," says Mr. Wright. "Just driving by this project and seeing a guy you know driving a bulldozer is going to make you feel better."
"You're not going to have tourists standing in front of a mile of new blacktop taking each other's picture," says Mr. Berard of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. "But there's a certain egalitarianism to having smaller projects being done in every state instead of only creating jobs in one or two places."
After layoffs, one rehire
Tuscumbia surveyor Rocky Miller had to lay off nearly half of his 19-employee staff during the past year. Now, he's been able to hire one back and hopes to rebuild his company at least in part based on the Osage River bridge project.
"I don't necessarily agree with President Obama's politics, but I do agree the stimulus money is important when it comes to infrastructure and putting people to work," says Mr. Miller.
Questions remain about who, exactly, this money will put to work. "One assumption of the president's employment estimates is that labor is homogenous, that if you have unemployed people they can do anything," says William Beach of the Heritage Foundation, a think tank in Washington. "But we know that's not true. Labor is heterogenous. I have a hard time understanding how the labor market is going to be elastic enough to respond."
The sheer philosophical and geographical expanse of the shovel-ready package will be key to its effectiveness, others say.
"The point is that the recession is so broad-based geographically and across industries, there's slack out there in the economy," says Gus Faucher, director of macroeconomics at Moody's Economy.com. "Scattershot may be too pejorative, but the plan is to try a bunch of different things with the expectation that some will work better than others."
Tears of joy for a water system
For the 100-or-so low-income residents of the Lewis & Clark trailer park just east of Missoula, Mont., the economic benefits equal $24 a month. That's the money each household won't have to pay to upgrade a 40-year-old water system that leaks so much that the county sends 3 million gallons a month out to a community that only uses 300,000.
Struggling for years with low pressure, sediment in the lines, and frequent shutoffs, some residents had even shed tears as they pleaded with the county commission for help to repair the system.
In a month or so, work will begin on a $600,000 project to replace the old system. "This is going to change our lives," says Ms. Dougherty. "I am even more energized by the fact that some of this money is going to actually trickle down to small projects like this that need so badly to be completed."
A few states are planning some New Deal-size projects. New Jersey wants to build a multibillion-dollar Hudson River tunnel to New York, and Virginia intends to extend a commuter-rail line from Washington to Dulles Airport.
Yet, the stimulus money may make a more immediate economic and physical impact in a place like Mound Bayou, Miss., the self-styled "Jewel of the Delta." Mayor Kennedy Johnson promises to personally pick up the unemployed on the street corners to bring them to work on a $9.8 million repaving of the entire town.
The roads in this town of 2,000 people look like a moonscape. Jobs to repave every inch of the town won't be unionized, nor will they go to outside contractors, says Mr. Johnson. Currently unemployed townspeople are likely to do much of the work, directly enriching a town where the median household income is now $17,000.
Johnson also hopes that sprucing up the town's bedraggled appearance will help entice new businesses.
"Small communities like us, we don't have a tax base to do this on our own," says Johnson. "So this stimulus package, if it reaches down to this small community, will be a godsend."


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We are a dealer for PlayCraft Pontoons, Berkshire Pontoons, Polar Kraft Fishing Boats. We are also a full line Honda Outboard Motor dealer and Mercury Outboard Motor dealer.
We are fully certified in Mercury/Mercruiser & Honda, however, we service and repair all makes and models of boats and motors. We take trades, and sell quality used boats, as well. We are the best kept boating secret in the Cedar Valley, but we are worth finding.


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F.A.Q. - Frequently Asked Questions
Windows Vista/7/8/10
Double click on the downloaded setup program and follow the instructions.
Go to Start > Control panel.
Click on Programs and Features.
Double click on Uninstall PanoramaStudio.
Type Uninstall PanoramaStudio in the search field in the Windows start menu or the Windows start screen and click on Uninstall PanoramaStudio.
Mac OS X
Double click on the downloaded setup program and follow the instructions.
Drag the PanoramaStudio application symbol to the Trash.
You can look up your license key in your user account at the registration service share-it!, which delivered your license key normally.
Click here to log in.
If this isn't possible, please write an e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com.
The standard version of PanoramaStudio stitches only a single row of images. The Pro version of PanoramaStudio supports multi-row panoramas as well as arbitrary image arrangements.
PanoramaStudio Pro can stitch vertical panoramas in the multi-row mode.
The standard version of PanoramaStudio can this not directly. But it is possible to create a vertical panorama by stitching the input images which were rotated before by 90 degress. In this case you should leave the horizon line at the default setting of 50%. After the stitching process you can save the panorama as an image and rotate it to the final position with an image editing sofware.
This will result in a vertical parorama in cylindrical or spherical projection.
However, further processing as interactive panorama is not possible for these panoramas.
There are two possible causes. First, it could be a wrong focal length set or an error in the stitching process. Please read chapter '4.6.2 Adjust focal length/horizon' in the manual for that purpose.
Second, some kind of bended lines are inevitable in a flat panoramic projection. A panoramic image is a flat projection of a sphere or a cylinder (spherical or cylindrical projection). There, long horizontal lines above and below the horizon seem to be bended. Only with this kind of projection it is possible to show a complete 360 degree full view within a flat image.
However, there is the function Panorama->Perspective projection for the creation of correct perspective views of parts from the panoramic image.
Not in theory. Practically the available RAM and the windows memory management respectively sets the limit. You can calculate that every Megapixel needs 4 MB of RAM. This is easily resulting in images with a size of several hundred MBs (not to confuse with the file size of the image - this size is normally highly reduced by strong compression).
Single-row panoramas with a size of 150 to 200 Megapixel should be possible in practice without problems. Such high-resolution images still can be printed in a size of several meters - even in high quality. A down-scaling of the input images could be necessary, if there are too many input images or if the images are too big. The down-scaling can be done with the function Input images->Change size of all images.
For multi-row panoramas PanoramaStudio allows a lot more images, because this mode shows only a preview with reduced image size. The limiting factor of a multi-row panorama is mainly the available hard-disk space. So you can even stitch gigapixel panoramas in this mode.
There is no Undo available yet, indeed. But for the individual editing steps exists in each case the possibility to modify or reset changes.
Before the stitching of the panorama all changes on the input images can be reset by the function Input images->Restore original images.
After the alignment of the images all steps of the assembly can be edited with the functions in the Edit menu.
All steps of the post-processing can be reset by calling the Render function again.
As a matter of principle PanoramaStudio can stitch digital images from any conventional camera.
But it is helpful for a fast and high quality processing of images into a panorama, if PanoramaStudio knows some technical data of the camera. Thus, there is the integrated camera database, which contains already more than 2100 models. In the case your camera is missing, you can add it quite easily.
But even without this data your images will be stitched to a panorama.
Sure! Therefore you can download the free trial version here from the download page.
The trial version is already fully functional.
The most common reason are a too wide overlaps of the input images. For best quality image overlaps with a maximum of 50% are recommended.
All overlaps exceeding this value are just boosting memory consumption and are extending the stitching time. The maximum value processed is 70% (this can be changed in the program settings). Wider overlaps of input images can't be matched, even in the manual correction mode.
If you have a row of input images with too wide overlaps, you can solve this problem by removing every second image from the row.


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The North American Summer School on Logic, Language, and Information (NASSLLI) is a summer school that meets approximately every other summer. It is geared towards gradaute students and advanced undergraduate students in fields such as Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Linguistics, and Philosophy. Instructors are senior researchers who have helped to found and advance the research in these fields, as well as junior researchers helping to expand upon previous work and shape new directions of these fields. One of the strongest aspects of NASSLLI is an excitement about interdisciplinary research that brings people across these fields together.
NASSLLI 2016 will take place July 9-16, 2016. Click here to go to the NASSLLI 2016 website.


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Breakfast Topic: What will the next WoW expansion be?
What will the next WoW expansion be? With only one major content patch left in Mists of Pandaria, and BlizzCon 2013 around the corner, it won't be long before we know what's next. But what do you think is coming? Will we be venturing into the Emerald Dream alongside Malfurion, or was Anne Stickney onto something when she speculated that the Mists of Pandaria might be our Emerald Dream expansion?
What about the ongoing legendary questline with Wrathion? Wrathion has been referencing the return of the Burning Legion in much of his quest text. Does that mean demons will be descending upon Azeroth in the next expansion? Will we finally get to see Sargeras?
Also, you wouldn't want to forget Queen Azshara. You would think we'd have seen her and the city Nazjatar in the Cataclysm expansion, but so far she's only made minor or indirect appearances. Azshara is the perfect accompaniment to some recent fan speculation about the naga being the next possible playable race. Unfortunately, Ghostcrawler pretty much shot that down by pointing out the naga's lack of legs would make it difficult to design armor for them.
And, of course, there's always ... Trolls? Wait, really? More trolls? You wouldn't think it, but in the same interview where Ghostcrawler killed our naga dreams, he said that trolls were an option the game lore could still explore in future content. Huh ... Go figure.
So, what do you think the next WoW expansion will be?


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For thousands of years an enigmatic and astonishingly beautiful piece of Roman art has captivated those who have come in contact with it.Made before the birth of Christ, the Portland Vase, as it is called, is renowned for both its beauty and its mystery.
In The Portland Vase, Robin Brooks takes us on a vivid journey across Europe and through the centuries, as this delicate piece of glass, less than ten inches in height, passes through the hands of a stunning cast of characters, including the first Roman emperor, Augustus; a notorious tomb raider; a reckless cardinal; a princess with a nasty gambling habit; the ceramics genius Josiah Wedgwood; the secretive Duchess of Portland; and a host of politicians, dilettantes, and scam artists.
Rich with passion, inspiration, jealousy, and endless speculation, the story of The Portland Vase spans more than two thousand years and remains one of the art world's greatest enigmas.
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Day 4 — Education Trade Mission in Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh CityApril 6, 2011
Amanda Lawrence is an intern working with the U.S. Commercial Service to support the Education Mission to Indonesia and Vietnam.
Everyone is very excited to kick off the Vietnam stops of the Education Mission! Yesterday was a travel day and it was nice to briefly relax before embarking on our busy day today in Ho Chi Minh City. First thing this morning we attended a market briefing session with U.S. Commercial, U.S. Consular, and EducationUSA officials. Under Secretary Sánchez welcomed us to Ho Chi Minh City and spoke of the strong growth of Vietnamese students to the United States, an average of over 30 percent in the past five years! A briefing roundtable discussed the education environment in Vietnam.
After the briefings, we all attended an Education Partnering Workshop at the Rex Hotel. The workshop consisted of roundtable discussions as well as opportunities to network with local schools hoping to create partnerships. Next, interested schools participated in matchmaking sessions with education agents. There many agencies represented and the mission participants were very pleased with the business relationships they established as a result of these meetings.
We spent the rest of the day at the student fair. The Institute of International Education organized the event, which consisted of 56 exhibitors and 1,000 participants. Each trade mission participant exhibited at the fair and met with students and parents. They also had the choice to meet with local universities, potential recruitment partners, or have high school visits. Despite our very busy schedule, participants were very pleased with today's meetings and fair.