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Pierre-André ATHANÉ
A French composer and performer born in Angers.
Pierre-André Athané studied the piano at the Conservatory of Angers. Passionately fond of improvisation and composition, he completed his training in harmony and counterpoint, orchestration, jazz arrangement as well as singing and the stage.
A composer of musical comedies for children, of music for images, the cinema and audiovisual art, the composer of more than 300 'musical library' works, Athané has worked in the worlds of animation, of video games, the stage and dance. He is also the lyricist and composer of songs, notably for the singer Marie Baraton, whom he accompanies in concerts on the guitar.See complete biography
Augustin BRAUD
A French composer born May 21, 1994.
Augustin Braud studied drums and percussion before tackling musical creation as an autodidact before studying composition at the Poitiers Conservatory as well as musicology at the University of Poitiers. At Ircam he attended masterclasses of Ivan Fedele, Michael Jarrell, Michaël Levinas and Yann Maresz, also receiving the advice of Martin Matalon and Yann Robin. Owing to his experience as a sound engineer, he obtained a master's degree in computer assisted music, resulting in his being a musician no less at ease in contemporary and current music.See complete biography
Jesper NORDIN
A Swedish composer born July 6, 1971 in Stockholm (Sweden).
Jesper Nordin studied at the Royal Music Conservatory of Stockholm with Pär Lindgren and Bent Sorensen, at Ircam in Paris with Philippe Leroux, at the University of Stanford and at the CCRMA (Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics) with Brian Ferneyhough. He also followed the masterclasses, notably of Jonathan Harvey, Denis Smalley, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Magnus Lindberg, Luca Francesconi and Sven-David Sandström.See complete biography
Lionel BORD
A French composer born September 17, 1976.
Lionel Bord studied the bassoon with Pascal Gallois at the Paris Conservatory as well as with Sergio Azzolini at the Musikhochschule of Basel. A bassoonist with Rouen Opera and later the Orchestre de Paris, the holder of a CA teaching degree, he taught at the Saint-Maur-des-Fossés Conservatory and then at the Paris Conservatory.
In parallel with his instrumental activity, Bord studied composition at the Paris Conservatory, notably following the classes of Frédéric Durieux and Alain Mabit (analysis), Luis Naon, Yann Geslin and Tom Mays (new technologies applied to composition) and Marc-André Dalbavie (orchestration).See complete biography
Enno POPPE
A German composer born December 30, 1969 in Hemer (Germany).
Enno Poppe studied conducting and composition at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin, notably with Friedrich Goldmann and Gösta Neuwirth. He also studied sound synthesis and algorithmic composition at the Technical University of Berlin and at the Arts and Media Centre (ZKM) in Karlsruhe.
As a conductor he has appeared with the ensembles Klangforum Wien, Musikfabrik and Resonanz. Since 1998 he has been musical director of the ensemble Mosaïk.See complete biography
Mirtru ESCALONA-MIJARES
A Venezualan composer born December 9, 1976 in San Felix (Venezuela).See complete biography
Thierry BALASSE
A French composer, improviser, performer, sound engineer and sound director born June 25, 1964.
Thrust into the world of music and sound after listening to the music of Pink Floyd, Thierry Balasse taught himself drumming before following a course for sound technicians at ENSATT, the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques du Théâtre. Thereafter becoming interested in the relationships between text, spoken voice and music, he became involved in sound engineering for the theatre.See complete biography
Stefano BULFON
An Italian composer born June 26, 1975 in Udine (Italy).
A pianist by training, Stefano Bulfon studied in parallel Greek literature and composition. He took advanced studies with Sylvano Bussotti and Ivan Fedele at the Strasburg Conservatory. He took part in courses at the Centre Acanthes and Royaumont, where he met some eminent composers, notably Jonathan Harvey and Brian Ferneyhough. He also followed the composition and computer music course of Ircam.See complete biography
Coralie FAYOLLE
A French composer born August 3, 1960 in Lyons.
Coralie Fayolle followed musicology classes at the Paris-Sorbonne and continued her training at the Paris Conservatory. She won a first place for her music aggregation then presented a thesis on operas for children.See complete biography
Januibe Tejera: Crossing languagesFilmed interview Interviewed by: Arnaud Merlin See the filmed interview
ANDRE Mark (1964)
ANDRES Bernard (1941)
ANDREYEV Samuel (1981)
ANDRIESSEN Louis (1939)
D'ANGIOLINI Giuliano (1960)
ANTIGNANI Luca (1976)
ANTUNES-BICALHO Lindolfo (1958)
ANTUNES Jorge (1942)
ANZAGHI Davide (1936)
APERGHIS Georges (1945)
APPLETON Jon (1939)
ARFIB Daniel (1949)
ARIZA Javier (1968)
ARNAUD Lionel
ARRACHART Jean-Marc (1945)
ARRIAGADA Jorge (1943)
ARRIGO Girolamo (1930)
ARRIGONI Danielle (1964)
ARROYO Juan (1981)
ARTAUD Pierre-Yves (1946)
ASCIONE Patrick (1953-2014)
ATHANÉ Pierre-André (1954)
ATHINODOROU Christina (1981)
ATTAHIR Benjamin (1989)
AUBER Chantal (1931)
AUBERTIN Valéry (1970)
AUE Thierry (1964)
AUZON Bruno D' (1948)


text: While Gabriel & Dresden's recent vocal trance release "Play it Back" gains momentum on the radio and YouTube, the boys are unleashing the instrumental monster "Shatter" to do the damage until their next vocal song drops in a month.For this release, Josh & Dave invited fast rising 18 year old Dutch DJ/producer D-wayne to their studio and in just several sessions made this tune that has been a showstopper in their sets since it's debut play at Escape From Wonderland in LA last October. D-wayne, while still being a teenager, is no stranger to success, with a bevy of releases on labels such as Dim Mak, Wall, Spinnin' and Protocol. He's also an accomplished remixer twisting the knobs for artists such as Enrique Iglesias, Jennifer Lopez, R3hab as well as G&D and Secret Panda Society's "No Reservations"The result of this collaboration is a fresh, electro-driven track that blurs the lines between electro house, trance and progressive with the greatest of ease. The riff will stay in your head for days and the buildups are guaranteed to cause mayhem on literally any dancefloor.What more could you ask for?

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Gossip: Messi 'wanted to join City' report Express
How true the story is we may never know, but the report that Lionel Messi allegedly wanted to join City last season in not an unpleasant one!
Only the player himself would be able to confirm or deny it, but when one of the most talented footballers of all time is linked to your club, who would complain?
The suggestion, put forward by the Daily Express (among many others) in this instance, says Messi had to be talked out of the move by team-mate Luis Suarez.
The Express write: "The Argentine was determined to leave Spain, although City weren't able to meet his buyout clause.
"Munro Deportivo say Messi dined a few times with his team-mate Suarez and the Uruguayan persuaded him to stay at the Nou Camp.
"Suarez was supposedly very persuasive and the pair spoke at great length before Messi made his decision.
"Pep Guardiola is keen to reunite with Messi at the Etihad, who he worked with at Barcelona, although any deal would be riddled with complications.
"And according to Spanish paper Mundo Deportivo, Messi came quite close to joining City last summer.
"City Chief Ferran Soriano recently conceded defeat in trying to strike a deal for the Barca superstar, as he said: 'I know Messi very well. He and his family are my good friends.
'At least next year, maybe he can finish that career. After that he can go to China or US, but now I think he will stay in Barcelona.'
Moving on to the present and Dani Alves continues to take up plenty of column inches this morning.
With Juventus reportedly admitting talks were underway to allow the Brazilian to leave Turin, the press believe his next destination will be the Etihad – though Chelsea are also believed to be keen.
The Independent write: "Juventus have agreed Dani Alves can leave the club this summer and talks are under way to secure an early release from his contract.
"The Brazilian right-back, formerly of Barcelona, has been widely linked with a possible switch to Manchester City.
"And Alves will be clear to make his next career move providing an arrangement can be struck for his exit from Juventus, the Italian champions confirmed.
"Juventus chief executive Giuseppe Marotta said on Wednesday, according to Tuttosport: 'We're not talking about a breakdown in the relationship, it's motivation that is fundamental for players.
'Alves has realised he has a desire to try a new experience, so we're trying to reach a mutual termination of his contract and we wish him good luck.'
The Sport Review, however, take the Chelsea angle in their story: "Chelsea are hoping to tempt Dani Alves to Stamford Bridge despite Manchester City being in pole position to sign the Brazilian, according to reports in the British media.
"The Daily Mirror is reporting that the Premier League champions are interested in signing Alves this summer to bolster their options ahead of a return to the Champions League next term.
"Indeed, Antonio Conte is thought to be a keen admirer of the South American's qualities and is a fan of the veteran defender's ability to play at left-back or right-back."
Moving away from transfer speculation and Brighton & Hove Albion's official website have started the countdown to the new season with a feature on the last time City visited the Seagulls nine years ago.
"Albion were drawn against the Premier League giants in the second round of the Carling Cup in 2008, and it proved a memorable night for the Seagulls, who were then plying their trade in the third tier of English football," the feature states.
"Under the guidance of Micky Adams, who returned for a second spell in charge at the club, Albion welcomed City boss Mark Hughes and his star-studded team to Withdean for a midweek cup clash under the floodlights.
"The likes of Vincent Kompany, Daniel Sturridge and Pablo Zabaleta lined up for the Blues, with a Hart on the bench for either side - England goalkeeper Joe for the visitors and striker Gary for the Seagulls.
"Weeks before the game, City spent £32.5m on Real Madrid striker Robinho, having been taken over by Arab investment company Abu Dhabi United Group. On the flip side, the Seagulls had recruited Preston North End striker Joe Anyinsah on loan."
There's more and it's worth a read if you are counting down the days to the new season.
In the style of News at Ten, our 'And finally…' story shows that Yaya Toure's Mancunian phrases video is going down a storm in Africa – in this instance, Kenya.
The Star (not the UK Daily Star) takes up the story…
"Although he has been in Manchester City for seven years, Yaya Toure does not quite know the city's language.
"The Ivory Coast international star was tasked at decoding some of the city's most famous slang words in a hilarious video.
"In a post on the club's official YouTube channel, Toure reads out the words then puts them in context in a sentence.
"But it is hilarious how each new Manc words he comes across perplexes the 34-year-old.
"He wears a confused expression as he reads 'buzzin': 'I'm proper buzzin' for next season mate.'
"When asked what he thought the word 'chuddy' meant he replied: "To be honest, I don't know."
"The midfielder seemed to have a headache when asked to read the word 'kecks' and tried to work out what it meant.
"Other words that also blew Toure's mind were 'mint' and the phrase 'our kid.'"
A nice way to round off this morning's paper talk and another excuse to watch Yaya's video…


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STAMFORD — Authorities say a 42-year-old woman has died after a mysterious fall from her 11th floor balcony at a Connecticut condominium building.
Officers and paramedics were called to the building in Stamford just after 6:30 p.m. Tuesday. A witness said she was conscious and responding to people talking to her immediately after she fell, but police say she died at about 9 p.m. at Stamford Hospital.
Police are investigating whether the fall was an accident, a suicide attempt or something else. Authorities are withholding her name pending autopsy results.
Building security guard Jelanee Allen told The Advocate of Stamford that he heard the woman scream and it sounded like she fell by accident.
Police say she lived alone and her door was locked when they went to her condo.


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Singer Angeline Quinto is Vice Ganda's guest on Gandang Gabi Vice this Sunday (March 16). Aside from Angeline, Brapanese models Daniel Matsunaga, Hideo Muraoka and Fabio Ide will also heat up GGV.
Watch as Angeline Quinto reveals her most touching secret that makes her cry. The telserye theme song queen will also render an Aegis song. Meanwhile, models Daniel Matsunaga, Fabio Ide and Hideo Muraoka will play a game with words and will also try to dance Open the Door, which was popularized on It's Showtime.
Don't miss GGV with Angeline Quinto and Brapanese models this Sunday (March 16) after Rated K. Watch the teaser below.
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Advisio necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 21 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
The logo should be more contemporary and cutting edge yet professional. Something incorporating a "compass" look in the logo is welcome, but I would like to see some without.
The Compass Group
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Desired Color Scheme:
no bright colors
Desired Style:
Balancing comtemporary and professional is the key.
Accepted File Formats:
File formats must be ready to send to printer.
The finished product must be scalable and ready to be sent to a printer. We do not have preference to color scheme, but a 2-color logo with a complimentary Black and White version is preferred.
This contest will last for 2 weeks. I hope to select 3-5 finalists after the first week and then choose a winner by the end of the 2nd week. I am always impressed with the work from the designers on this network, and I am looking forward to choosing another fantastic design.
Will need colors and fonts at the conclusion of the contest.
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text: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 Education Leadership Institute Fellowship Accepting Applications for 2014 APTA's Education Leadership Institute (ELI) Fellowship, a collaborative with the American Council of Academic Physical Therapy (ACAPT), Education Section, Physical Therapist Assistant Educators Special Interest Group, and APTA, now is accepting applications for 2014. Submission deadline is December 20, 2013. This yearlong invitational blended learning (online and onsite components) fellowship program includes mentorship and is designed to develop emerging and novice (0-7 years) physical therapist and physical therapist assistant education program directors with leadership skills to facilitate change, think strategically, and engage in public discourse to advance the physical therapy profession. Applicants are selected based on the strength of their application and meeting all eligibility criteria. To learn more about the Education Leadership Institute Fellowship, go to the ELI webpage.


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Vitti talks about school safety changes
More resource officers to be at elementary schools in new year
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The aftershocks of what happened in Newtown, Conn., are being felt in school districts all around the country.
Can lessons be learned from what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School? Would having a school resource officer in elementary schools prevent something like this from happening?
Duval County Superintendent Nikolai Vitti spoke Tuesday about changes he's looking to make in the local school system.
Since Friday, Vitti said, the school district has looked at everything from gates and perimeters to visitor passes when someone comes onto campus. One thing that will happen in the new year, students and teachers will see more of a presence by police.
Vitti said he wants to place more school resource officers in elementary schools.
"Right now, they're mainly positioned in our high schools and in our middle schools. We're looking at them serving more time at the elementary schools," he said. "Not permanently, but to be more visible in our elementary schools as well."
There are 183 schools in Duval County, and 104 are elementary schools. The Duval County Public School Police Department says there are roughly 75 officers, with usually only one assigned to a middle school or high school. So how many officers are needed and how long they would remain on guard at the elementary schools is unclear.
"Placing one in every elementary school right now would not happen permanently," Vitti said. "It's just more visible, expanding the role of those officers right now."
As for emergency drills, Vitti says schools run two at the beginning of every school year within the first 30 days of class. After that, schools conduct one lockdown drill every month.
Vitti said when the district tweaks the emergency and communication plans, teacher and administrators will be retrained when school starts back up in January. Student intervention is still one of Vitti's concerns.
"When we're seeing students that are struggling, that are showing signs of frustration, anger, are we intervening as a school district and as a school to ensure help is provided?" Vitti said.
State Rep. says lift gun ban in schools
In Florida, only law enforcement officers can carry a weapon into public schools. But what if teachers and principals were allowed to carry firearms into class?
State Rep. Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala, says he's open to the idea. Baxley told a reporter he favors ending the gun ban in schools.
It's a third-degree felony for those caught just bringing a weapon into a school. A lot of people think the answer to school shootings is more guns, not fewer guns.
"We need to be more realistic at looking at this policy," Baxley told a reporter Monday. "In our zealousness to protect people from harm, we've created all these gun-free zones, and what we've inadvertently done is we've made them a target. A helpless target is exactly what a deranged person is looking for where they cannot be stopped."
Baxley was talking about allowing teachers and principals to bring guns to school. On Tuesday, Baxley's office sent a statement regarding his comments and the recent Connecticut tragedy. It reads, "Our focus should be on the victims and their loved ones. Out of respect for them, we should not politicize a national tragedy. There will be plenty of time for debate in the near future."
"I believe we should have a robust conversation about solutions, but I don't think one of them should be giving firearms to teachers," Vitti said at Tuesday's news conference. "Again, I just don't think the solution is more guns. I think the solution is tighter gun control, proper training when individuals have guns and being more proactive when identifying individuals that are showing signs of doing something like this."
School Board Member Becki Couch agrees.
"We have people who are trained to use firearms, and those are police officers," Couch said. "Children deserve to have joy and happiness and not constant fear, and the presence of firearms on campus would give them that."
According to the Associated Press, Baxley said he doesn't plan on introducing any bill himself in the upcoming legislative session.
Seven years ago, Baxley sponsored the controversial "stand your ground" law, which went into effect in 2005.
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(Reuters) - Demand Media said on Thursday that a drop in search engine referrals and weak advertising sales sent its revenue down for the first time since the company made its public debut nearly three years ago.
Demand Media, which owns the websites eHow, LiveStrong and Cracked, mainly makes its money from articles and videos that surface high in search results. Its other line of business maintains top-level generic web domain names like ".actor" and ".social."
"There are challenges we are facing," said Chief Financial Officer Mel Tang. "Our content media business is still a very good platform. We are going to invest in areas of growth."
Founded in 2006, Demand Media was a closely watched experiment in how to create inexpensive content by tapping a network of thousands of freelancers for "how to" videos and articles. The content is designed to show up high in search results capitalizing on advertisers looking to place their dollars on popular articles and videos.
The problem with Demand's business model is that it is too dependent on Google. Over the past couple of years, Google has made several changes to its search algorithm specifically to weed out what it considers low-quality content.
This hurt Demand because some of its articles and videos were pushed down in search results, which in turn lowered its advertising revenue.
For the third quarter, Demand reported a 2 percent drop in total revenue to $96.3 million because of weakness at its media properties.
Its registrar business, which Demand plans to spin off, reported an 11 percent rise in revenue to $37.7 million. Revenue at the content and media division fell 7 percent to $57.7 million excluding traffic acquisition costs.
The company's co-founder, chief executive, chairman and ambassador to Wall Street, Richard Rosenblatt, left abruptly in October and Demand is currently searching for a permanent CEO.
Interim CEO Shawn Colo said the company is still searching for Rosenblatt's successor and has retained Spencer Stuart. The search for the top job has become Demand's priority even as it prepares to separate its registrar business.
Demand Media earlier this week said that Taryn Naidu, currently the company's executive vice president of domain services, was appointed chief executive and director of the newly named Rightside Group.
The company reported a net loss of $10.4 million or 12 cents a share compared with a gain of $3.2 million or 4 cents a share in the same period a year ago.
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Pedro Herrera III is a rapper, actor, comedian, and entrepreneur born to Mexican emigrants who came to the U.S. to achieve the American Dream for themselves and their children. A native to Houston, Texas, Herrera entered the music industry in the early 2000's as a premier underground rap artist under the Mexican/Chicano self-parodying alter ego 'Chingo Bling,' a over-the-top Mexican cowboy with an outrageous personal style that showed a juxtaposition between hip-hop and the Mexican/Tex-Mex culture. Known by a variety of punning nicknames––the "Ghetto Vaquero," the "Tamale Kingpin," the "Versace Mariachi"––Herrera has, over the course of the last decade, produced an extraordinary body of parodic music. Through his clever yet humorous lyrical wordplay ability and a satirical eye, Chingo Bling was able to amplify the stereotypes of Mexican American border culture while showcasing and exploring the Mexican American identity which is often overlooked and therefore becoming a true voice in a time of turmoil. Through the release of his numerous studio albums, Chingo Bling trespassed all the fences and borders to become a controversial breakthrough artist, quickly rising him to fame and achieving a level of independent success that only a few in his generation have accomplished. He has been featured across MTV, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Saturday Night Live, and the cover of USA Today, just to name a few. As a Trinity University graduate with a bachelor's degree in Marketing and Business Administration, Herrera was able to create a strategic marketing approach to his brand, focusing on creating and distributing valuable, relevant, and consistent content to attract and retain a clearly-defined audience––and, ultimately, to drive profitable customer action. Upon the advent of the digital era, Herrera utilized social media sites such as Facebook and Youtube to represent the Latino millennial generation, creating comedic art independently with a true connection to his fans and his finger on the pulse of emerging digital markets. Despite the little, if any, actual commercial activity in television and radio, Chingo Bling has stayed relevant in the minds of Latinos as his aggregate social media boasts over one million followers and his Youtube channel has racked up over 25 million views. After building a strong foundation in the music industry, Herrera became a renaissance artist as he stepped into the realm of acting and standup comedy.
In 2012, he appeared in the independent indie film "Filly Brown" alongside Gina Rodriguez and the late Jenni Rivera. From uploading online viral videos to currently acting live comedic monologues on his "Chingo Bling: No Mames Comedy Tour," Herrera has proven to constantly revolutionize the style of Latino hip-hop and satirical comedy as a humorist in the digital era.


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Hi All, my guild is having issues with this boss at the moment. This is our best attempt at him but we keep dying due to random reasons (tank taunt issue / windstep death / unseen strike death despite spirit shell). any feedback would be much appreciated ! is it a dps issue (too low?)?
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There aren't many Zimbabweans on here but I thought I'd make a thread anyway.
There are 5 new franchise teams, which include:
Mashonaland Eagles - Captained by Elton Chigumbura
Matabeleland Tuskers - Captained by Tawanda Mupariwa
Mountaineers - Captained by Hamilton Masakadza
Southern Rocks - Captained by Chamunorwa Chibhabha
Midwest Rhinos - Captained by Edward Rainsford
The squads have not been confirmed yet.. and they should be announced soon.
I'm really looking forward to this season of Zimbabwe Domestic Season and I will be supporting the Matabeleland Tuskers.


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From the Golden Gate Bridge to glowing canyon walls at sunset, this trip captures the beauty of the cities and wilderness of the western U.S. It's perfect for the traveller looking to breathe in the scent of the sequoias of Yosemite by day but wanting the comforts of a hotel at night. Prepare yourself for otherworldly hoodoos in Bryce Canyon National Park and desert scenery in Death Valley — the lowest spot on the continent — before taking an optional helicopter ride above the incomparable Grand Canyon. You won't just visit the west coast, you'll live it.
What's Included
Your G for Good Moment: Native Grill Food Truck Lunch
Your Discover Moment: Las Vegas. All national park and national monument fees. Orientation to San Francisco, Las Vegas, San Diego, and Los Angeles. Tioga Pass drive (seasonal). Death Valley visit. Zion National Park visit. Bryce Canyon National Park visit. Glen Canyon Dam visit. Horseshoe Bend scenic viewpoint stop. Jeep tour with local Navajo guide (Monument Valley). Grand Canyon visit with sunset at the rim. Sedona visit. Joshua Tree National Park visit. Free time in Las Vegas and San Diego. All transport between destinations and to/from included activities.
Meet the Navajo in stunning Monument Valley, marvel at the Grand Canyon, hike in beautiful Bryce Canyon and Zion NPs, roll the dice in Las Vegas, search for stars in Los Angeles
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The information in this trip details document has been compiled with care and is provided in good faith. However it is subject to change, and does not form part of the contract between the client and the operator. The itinerary featured is correct at time of printing. It may differ slightly to the one in the brochure. Occasionally our itineraries change as we make improvements that stem from past travellers, comments and our own research. Sometimes it can be a small change like adding an extra meal along the itinerary. Sometimes the change may result in us altering the tour for the coming year. Ultimately, our goal is to provide you with the most rewarding experience. Please note that our brochure is usually released in November each year. If you have booked from the previous brochure you may find there have been some changes to the itinerary.
VERY IMPORTANT: Please ensure that you print a final copy of your Trip Details to review a couple of days prior to travel, in case there have been changes that affect your plans.
Itinerary Disclaimer
While it is our intention to adhere to the route described below, there is a certain amount of flexibility built into the itinerary and on occasion it may be necessary, or desirable to make alterations. The itinerary is brief, as we never know exactly where our journey will take us. Due to our style of travel and the regions we visit, travel can be unpredictable. The Trip Details document is a general guide to the tour and region and any mention of specific destinations or wildlife is by no means a guarantee that they will be visited or encountered. Aboard expedition trips visits to research stations depend on final permission.
Additionally, any travel times listed are approximations only and subject to vary due to local circumstances.
Itinerary Notes
This tour runs year round with slight variations in summer and winter. If you are travelling mid-June through September, you will be on the summer itinerary. If you are travelling from Oct 1 to mid-June, you will be follow the winter itinerary. Additionally, we may revert to the winter itinerary in the shoulder seasons in the event of inclement weather.
Important Notes
In order to cover the vast distance in North America to be able to visit several different parks and cities along our trip, we will have a couple of long driving days.
All walks and hikes proposed by our CEO will be easy to moderate level. You may choose to participate or not, but exploring our national parks on foot is part of our way of travelling. It's a healthy way to discover North America's beauty and landscape.
Please note that some trips could be a combination of multiple G Adventure tours. You should expect some group members to join or leave the tour between tour segments.
Please note that the legal drinking age in the United States is 21 and in Canada, 19 (with Alberta and Quebec at 18). Many bars and clubs will ask for ID at the door, therefore listening to live music in certain bars or spending a night out in Las Vegas or New Orleans is not possible when you are under the legal age, even if you don't plan on consuming alcohol. Drinking laws in both countries are strictly enforced and our CEOs are unable to help those under age obtain alcohol of any kind.
While this should not stop those under legal drinking age from booking a tour, it is important to note that if a traveller is under-age there are certain optional nighttime activities that they may not legally be able to participate in. When trying to book the right trip, we recommend that travellers under legal drinking age take this into consideration when booking a tour that visits several big cities.
Las Vegas is known for glitz and glamour, and is an adult's playground for the senses. However, hotel standards are different than in many other cities. Most hotels have an onsite casino, and smoking is permitted indoors. Although we only use non-smoking rooms on our tours and do our best to offer a smoke free environment, please be aware that standards may result in smoke permeating non-smoking areas of hotels.
Please note that this tour combines with other G Adventures tours. As such, the staff and some travel companions on your tour may have previously been traveling together with G Adventures, prior to Day 1 of your tour. Likewise, some staff and travel companions may be continuing together on another G Adventures tour, after your trip concludeFO
Group Leader Description
This G Adventures group trip is accompanied by one of our group leaders, otherwise known as a Chief Experience Officer (CEO). The CEO will be the group manager, leader and driver – this person is experienced in the routes travelled and will organize and lead the meal preparations and has experience in cooking a variety of local and international dishes for large groups.
As the group coordinator and manager, the aim of the CEO is to take the hassle out of your travels and to help you have the best trip possible. While not being guides in the traditional sense, you can expect them to have a broad general knowledge of the countries visited on the trip, including historical, cultural, religious and social aspects. They will also offer suggestions for things to do and to see, recommend great local eating venues and introduce you to our local friends.
While our CEOs are trained and have resources to assist them along the way, the United States is the fourth largest country on the planet, and it is impossible for them to know everything about this massive country. We recommend local guides where we think more specific knowledge will add to the enjoyment of the places we are visiting – we think it's the best of both worlds
Please note that specific tour guide licenses are required to guide in certain cities and regions, and as such, our CEOs will oftentimes provide brief orientation walks to point out useful places like supermarkets, main squares and ATMs but for more specific or in depth destination information, an official guided tour is recommended.
Group Size Notes
Max 14, avg 10
Meals Included
1 lunch, 1 dinner
Air-conditioned private vehicle, walking.
About our Transportation
We use 15-passenger vans for up to 14 people plus the CEO/Driver for all our of our trips in North America. For groups of 8 and more travellers, we also use a trailer to carry luggage and camping equipment.
These vans are durable vehicles that allow us to drive on most types of roads in North America.
Each van has a front passenger seat and 4 benches that will accommodate 3 people each. No standing is permitted in these vehicles, but there is air conditioning to cool things down on warm days and mandatory seat belts to us secure and safe.
This is not a physically demanding journey. However, travelling can be difficult, with long drives and limited space in the van. Please take note of the travel times and distances in the above itinerary. Despite some of the long days, most clients feel that the diversity of the North American landscape, culture and wildlife are all well worth the experience!
Solo Travellers
We believe single travellers should not have to pay more to travel so our group trips are designed for shared accommodation and do not involve a single supplement. Single travellers joining group trips are paired in twin or multi-share accommodation with someone of the same sex for the duration of the trip. Some of our Independent trips are designed differently and single travellers on these itineraries must pay the single trip price.
Hotels (14 nts).
My Own Room
Please note that if you have booked the "My Own Room" option for this tour, you will receive your own single room for all night stops
About Accommodation
This trip uses 2-3 star hotels and motels in cities and near park entrances. Our chosen hotels vary in size, character, and amenities, but are of a good standard, and the rooms are double occupancy with a private bathroom.
Joining Hotel
For details of your joining hotel please refer to your tour voucher, G Account, the G Adventures App or contact your travel agent.
Joining Instructions
The international airport in San Francisco is located 14 miles (22 km) from downtown San Francisco. When arriving at the International Airport in San Francisco, proceed to the Arrivals Hall, where you have three transport options; public Taxi, door-to-door shuttle or the public Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART).
On the Arrivals/Baggage Claim Level continue to the designed taxi zones located at the roadway center islands right outside the Arrivals Hall. Uniformed taxi coordinators will help you with any questions you may have but it should be fairly easy to find a taxi. The approximate fare to downtown San Francisco is $40 (depending on traffic) plus gratuity.
Door-to-Door Shuttle also knows as "Shared-Ride Vans" This is probably the most cost effective way to get to your hotel and definitely cheaper than a taxi ride from the Airport. You will see quite a few shuttle companies, but you can save money and receive detailed joining locations by pre-booking at www.supershuttle.com. The fare to your hotel is around $15-20 plus gratuity.
BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) public transportation
The cheapest and definitely the most adventurous way to get to your hotel is by BART. The fare to downtown San Francisco is $8.10 (approximately 25 min). The BART station is located on the Departures/Ticketing Level of the International Terminal (Boarding Area G side). From any Terminal you can reach BART by taking the AirTrain to Garage G/Bart (no fare). Once at the station you need to get a ticket at the vending machine that accepts cash or credit card. Then you need to enter your ticket into the fare gate. The ticket will be returned to you since you will use the same ticket again when you exit BART at Civic Center/UN Plaza SF. From here transfer to the 19 Bus headed towards Fisherman's Wharf. Exit at the Polk Street and Lombard Street stop. The Hotel is a 2 minute walked from here.
Please note that Day 1 is an arrival day and no activities have been planned for that day other then your welcome meeting in the evening, so you can arrive at any time.
Your CEO will organize a short meeting soon after arrival, during which you will meet other tour participants and receive information about general and specific aspects of the trip. A welcome note will be left for you in the hotel so you have all the necessary information regarding the meeting time. If you arrive late, s/he will leave you a message detailing what time and where you should meet the next morning.
Emergency Contact
Should you need to contact us during a situation of dire need, it is best to first call the G Adventures Local Representative. If for any reason you do not receive an immediate answer, please leave a detailed message and contact information, so they may return your call and assist you as soon as possible.
G Adventures Local Representative (Las Vegas)
From outside the USA: 1-412-423-8143
From within the USA: 412-423-8143
If you are unable for any reason to contact our local representative, please call the numbers listed below, which will connect you directly with our 24 hour Sales team, who will happily assist you.
Toll-free, North America only: 1 888 800 4100
Calls from UK: 0344 272 0000
Calls from Germany: 0800 365 1000
Calls from Australia: 1 300 796 618
Calls from New Zealand: 0800 333 307
Outside North America, Australia, New Zealand, Germany and the UK: +1 416 260 0999
What to Take
You will be on the move a lot, so our advice is to pack as lightly as possible.
For days in the outdoors, we recommend the use of lightweight, breathable, moisture-wicking fabrics made of wool or synthetic fibers. Cotton is not recommended for days spent hiking as it does not allow for heat or moisture to enter or escape, and it will not dry easily once wet.
We recommend using a backpack for your convenience, or a medium-sized suitcase if you prefer. Heavy luggage is not recommended for the health of the CEO, who will take a lead in loading the storage trailer. Due to space in the trailer, we will not be able to accommodate more than one piece of main luggage per person. A good size day-pack (20-35L) is also essential to carry your personal gear for the day, as access to luggage between destinations will be limited. This daypack will be used to carry your personal gear for the day, your lunch and a water bottle.
It is important to pack clothes for warm days and cool evenings, as well as a light jacket. A set of smart casual clothes is also advisable.
Packing List
Cold Weather:
• Long-sleeved shirts or sweater
• Scarf
• Warm gloves
• Warm hat
• Warm layers
• Flight info (required) (Printouts of e-tickets may be required at the border)
• Insurance info (required) (With photocopies)
• Passport (required) (With photocopies)
• Required visas or vaccination certificates (required) (With photocopies)
• Vouchers and pre-departure information (required)
• Binoculars (optional)
• Camera (With extra memory cards and batteries)
• Cash, credit and debit cards
• Day pack (Used for daily excursions or short overnights)
• Ear plugs
• First-aid kit (should contain lip balm with sunscreen, sunscreen, whistle, Aspirin, Ibuprofen, bandaids/plasters, tape, anti-histamines, antibacterial gel/wipes, antiseptic cream, Imodium or similar tablets for mild cases of diarrhea, rehydration powder, water purification tablets or drops, insect repellent, sewing kit, extra prescription drugs you may be taking)
• Flashlight/torch (Headlamps are ideal)
• Fleece top/sweater
• Footwear
• Hat
• Locks for bags
• Long pants/jeans
• Moneybelt
• Outlet adapter
• Personal entertainment (Reading and writing materials, cards, music player, etc.)
• Reusable water bottle
• Shirts/t-shirts
• Sleepwear
• Small travel towel
• Sunglasses
• Toiletries (Preferably biodegradable)
• Watch and alarm clock
• Waterproof backpack cover
• Windproof rain jacket
Warm Weather:
• Sandals/flip-flops
• Shorts/skirts (Longer shorts/skirts are recommended)
• Sun hat/bandana
• Swimwear
Laundry can be done at least once a week while on tour. Some hotels and most cities have laundromats where you can buy soap and wash your laundry in coin-operated machines. Your CEO will advise you along the trip where you will be able to do your laundry.
Visas and Entry Requirements
All countries require a valid passport (with a minimum 6 months validity). Contact your local embassy, or consulate for the most up-to-date visa requirements, or see your travel agent. It is your own responsibility to have the correct travel documentation. Visa requirements for your trip will vary depending on where you are from and where you are going. We keep the following information up to date as far as possible, but rules do change and sometimes without warning. While we provide the following information in good faith, it is vital that you check yourself and understand that you are fully responsible for your own visa requirements.
Spending Money
Every traveller is different and therefore spending money requirements will vary. Some travellers may drink more than others while other travellers like to purchase more souvenirs than most. Please consider your own spending habits when it comes to allowing for drinks, shopping and tipping. Please also remember the following specific recommendations when planning your trip.
Money Exchange
The United States currency is the US Dollar (USD).
Credit cards are accepted almost everywhere in the US and can be used to purchase small and large items. When purchasing products or services with a foreign credit card in the USA, you may be charged additional fees by your credit card company for foreign purchases.
Credit cards and debit cards are very useful for cash advances but you must remember to bring your PIN number (be aware that many ATM machines only accept 4-digit PINs). Both Cirrus and Plus system cards are the most widely accepted debit cards. Both Visa and Master Cards are the most widely accepted credit cards. While ATMs are commonly available, there are no guarantees that your credit or debit cards will actually work check with your bank before you travel. A visit to an ATM can be arranged on Day 1 and other days of the trip.
Do not rely on credit or debit cards as your only source of money. A combination of US Dollars as cash (preferably smaller bills, 5's, 10's and 20's), traveller's cheques and credit cards is best. Currency exchange is best obtained prior to travel or at the airport, currency exchange is very difficult to find in the USA and most banks do not accommodate.
Always take more rather than less, as you don't want to spoil the trip by constantly feeling short of funds.
As currency exchange rates can fluctuate often we ask that you refer to the following website for daily exchange rates: www.xe.com
Emergency Fund
Please also make sure you have access to at least an additional USD $200 (or equivalent) as an 'emergency' fund, to be used when circumstances outside our control (ex. a natural disaster) require a change to our planned route. This is a rare occurrence!
It is customary in North America to tip service providers such as waiters, bartenders and taxi drivers, at approximately 18-20%, depending on the service. Tipping is an expected – though not compulsory – component of your tour program and an expression of satisfaction with the persons who have assisted you on your tour. Although it may not be customary to you, it is of considerable significance to the people who will take care of you during your travels. There are times during the trip where there is opportunity to tip any local guides used. Recommendations for tipping local guides would range from $2-8 USD per activity depending on the quality and length of the service; ask your CEO for specific recommendations based on the circumstances and culture.
Also at the end of each trip if you felt your G Adventures Chief Experience Officer did an outstanding job, tipping is appreciated. The amount is entirely a personal preference; however as a guideline $5-10 USD per person, per day can be used as a guide. If your CEO exceeded your expectations, feel free to tip more.
Optional Activities
Yosemite National Park
- Yosemite Bike Rental (12USD per person)
- Yosemite National Park Hike (Free)
Las Vegas
- VIP Party Bus Experience (45USD per person)
- Gambling at Vegas Casino
- Vegas Strip Visit (Free)
- Las Vegas Show (60-200USD per person)
Hoover Dam
- Hoover Dam Visit (65USD per person)
Zion National Park
- Hiking (Free)
Lake Powell
- Powell Horseback Riding (75-135USD per person)
Bryce Canyon National Park
- Scenic Flight
- Horseback Riding (65-90USD per person)
Antelope Canyon
- Antelope Canyon Tour (50USD per person)
Grand Canyon
- Grand Canyon Hiking (Free)
- Grand Canyon Helicopter Tour
Grand Canyon National Park
- Grand Canyon IMAX Movie (14USD per person)
San Diego
- Gaslamp Quarter District Visit (Free)
- Surfing Lesson (60USD per person)
- Surf and Boogie Board Rental (8-20USD per person)
- Old Town San Diego Visit (Free)
- Bike Rental
- Coronado Island Visit (Free)
Los Angeles
- Santa Monica Pier Visit (Free)
- Universal Studios Hollywood (90-150USD per person)
- Venice Beach Visit (Free)
Safety and Security
Many national governments provide a regularly updated advice service on safety issues involved with international travel. We recommend that you check your government's advice for their latest travel information before departure. We strongly recommend the use of a neck wallet or money belt while travelling, for the safe keeping of your passport, air tickets, travellers' cheques, cash and other valuable items. Leave your valuable jewellery at home – you won't need it while travelling. Many of the hotels we use have safety deposit boxes, which is the most secure way of storing your valuables. A lock is recommended for securing your luggage. When travelling on a group trip, please note that your CEO has the authority to amend or cancel any part of the trip itinerary if it is deemed necessary due to safety concerns. Your CEO will accompany you on all included activities. During your trip you will have some free time to pursue your own interests, relax and take it easy or explore at your leisure. While your CEO will assist you with options available in a given location please note that any optional activities you undertake are not part of your itinerary, and we offer no representations about the safety of the activity or the standard of the operators running them. Please use your own good judgment when selecting an activity in your free time. Although the cities visited on tour are generally safe during the day, there can be risks to wandering throughout any major city at night. It is our recommendation to stay in small groups and to take taxis to and from restaurants, or during night time excursions.
Protests and Demonstrations- Protests and demonstrations, even those that are well intended, have the potential to turn violent with no warning. Counter protests can also turn violent. Action by security forces to disperse demonstrators and protesters may occur at any time. If you are in an area where demonstrators or protesters are gathering, avoid the temptation of staying for a good photo opportunity and leave the area immediately.
Water based activities have an element of danger and excitement built into them. We recommend only participating in water based activities when accompanied by a guide(s). We make every reasonable effort to ensure the fun and adventurous element of any water based activities (in countries with varying degrees of operating standards) have a balanced approach to safety. It is our policy not to allow our CEOs to make arrangements on your behalf for water based activities that are not accompanied by guide(s).
Swimming, including snorkeling, is always at your own risk.
We take all prudent measures in relation to your safety. For ways to further enhance your personal safety while traveling, please visit:
A Couple of Rules
Illegal drugs will not be tolerated on any trips. Possessing or using drugs not only contravenes the laws of the land but also puts the rest of the group at risk. Smoking marijuana and opium is a part of local culture in some parts of the world but is not acceptable for our travellers. Our philosophy of travel is one of respect towards everyone we encounter, and in particular the local people who make the world the special place it is. The exploitation of prostitutes is completely contrary to this philosophy. Our CEOs have the right to expel any member of the group if drugs are found in their possession or if they use prostitutes.
Travel Insurance
Travel Insurance: Travel insurance is compulsory in order to participate on any of our trips. When travelling on a group trip, you will not be permitted to join the group until evidence of travel insurance has been sighted by your CEO, who will take note of your insurance details. When selecting a travel insurance policy please bear in mind that all clients must have medical coverage and that we require a minimum coverage of USD 200,000 for repatriation and emergency rescue. We strongly recommend that the policy also covers personal liability, cancellation, curtailment and loss of luggage and personal effects. If you have credit card insurance we require proof of purchase of the trip (a receipt of credit card statement) with a credit card in your name. Contact your bank for details of their participating insurer, the level of coverage and emergency contact telephone number.
Planeterra-The G Adventures Foundation
The Planeterra Foundation planeterra.org is a Canadian non-profit organization that helps empower local people to develop their communities, conserve their cultures, and create humane and supportive systems for their endeavours. Planeterra provides capacity building and catalyst grants to get community social enterprises off the ground. These businesses address local challenges by providing benefits for indigenous people, empowering marginalized women, and granting disadvantaged youth access to education, employment, and brighter futures. Planeterra also works to ensure these businesses have a thriving customer base by integrating programs into G Adventures' itineraries globally.
G Adventures is Planeterra's largest corporate donor, covering all operating costs so 100% of your donation will bring opportunity to people in need.
Dollar-a-Day Program
G Adventures' Dollar-a-Day Program provides travellers with the opportunity to give back to the people and places visited on our tours by donating one dollar for every day you are on trip. 100% of these donations go directly to support community development projects worldwide that are implemented by Planeterra.
After your travels, we want to hear from you! Your feedback information is so important to us that we'll give you 5% off the price of your next G Adventures trip if your feedback is completed on-line within 30 days of finishing your trip. Your tour evaluation will be e-mailed to you 24 hours after the conclusion of your trip. If you do not receive the tour evaluation link in the days after your tour has finished, please drop us a line at email@example.com and we will send it on to you.
Our adventure travel e-newsletter is full of travel news, trip information, interesting stories and contests. To avoid missing out on special offers and updates from G Adventures, subscribe at www.gadventures.com/newsletters/
Stay current on how our company invests in our global community through our foundation – Planeterra. Sign up for Planeterra's monthly news to learn more about how to give back and support the people and places we love to visit.
Minimum Age
You must be 18 to travel unaccompanied on a G Adventures tour. For minors travelling with a guardian over 21 years old, the minimum age is 12.
International Flights
Check-in times and baggage allowances/restrictions vary by airline and can change at any time. For the most up-to-date information for your flight, please contact your airline. We recommend checking in online in advance to avoid potential delays at the airport.
Group Leader
Chief Experience Officer (CEO) throughout.
Day 1: San Francisco
There are no planned activities until an evening welcome meeting.
We highly recommend booking pre-tour accommodation to fully experience this fascinating city.
Included Activities:
Arrival Day and Welcome Meeting
Day 2: San Francisco/Yosemite National Park
Head out on an orientation of one of the greatest cities in the world, San Francisco.
Discover some of the city's most iconic attractions such as bustling Fisherman's Wharf or the stately Golden Gate Bridge.
Included Activities:
California Produce Tasting
Golden Gate Bridge Visit
Travel time includes stops along the way.
Private Van with Wi-fi (7.00 hour(s), 225km)
Day 3: Yosemite National Park
Head to the Yosemite Valley. Take short hikes to majestic waterfalls, clear lakes, beautiful meadows or walk amongst giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park.
If lucky, spot black bears, deer or coyotes with a keen eye.
Included Activities:
Yosemite National Park Visit
Yosemite National Park Hike
Day 4: Yosemite National Park/Sierra Nevadas
Head into the Yosemite Valley. Take short hikes (weather permitting) to majestic waterfalls, clear lakes, beautiful meadows or walk amongst giant sequoias in Yosemite National Park. With a keen eye, you may be lucky enough to spot black bears, deer or coyotes.
Surrounded by peaks which soar more than 14,000 ft (4,593m) in elevation, Bishop, one of "America's Coolest Mountain Towns" sits directly in the centre of an incredible area of natural beauty.
Travel via the Tioga Pass viewing Mono Lake and the tufa towers on the way.
Additional Notes:
We intend on using the Tioga Pass, a scenic route through the Sierra Nevada mountain range that connects Bishop with Yosemite NP. The status of the road is monitored daily, and our travel plan for the area will be confirmed during the trip.
Included Activities:
Yosemite National Park Visit
Tioga Pass Drive
Travel time includes stops along the way.
Private Vehicle (7.00 hour(s), 360km)
Day 5: Death Valley/Las Vegas
Travel to one of the country's most rugged landscapes — the legendary Death Valley, California. Soak in the dramatic landscape.
In the afternoon, drive to Las Vegas, Nevada, the 'city of lights'. Explore the famous Vegas Strip and opt for a VIP limo experience.
Included Activities:
Death Valley National Park Visit
Travel time includes stops along the way.
Private Vehicle (5.00-6.00 hours, 430km)
Day 6: Las Vegas
Enjoy a full free day to explore Las Vegas. Wander the strip, do some shopping, and refuel at one of the many bars or restaurants. Opt to take in a glitzy Las Vegas show or to head out on a day trip to the Hoover Dam.
Day 7: Las Vegas/Bryce Canyon National Park
Arrive in Bryce Canyon just in time to witness one of the most spectacular sunsets in the Southwest.
Additional Notes:
Zion National Park/Bryce Canyon National Park
Included Activities:
Zion National Park Visit
Bryce Canyon National Park Visit
Private Van with Wi-fi (5.00 hour(s), 400km)
Day 8: Bryce Canyon National Park/Lake Powell
Explore Bryce Canyon National Park on trails among the amphitheatres and multi-coloured rock pinnacles called hoodoos before heading to Lake Powell. Opt for a barbecue dinner and a sunset horseback ride (seasonal).
Included Activities:
Bryce Canyon National Park Visit
Private Van with Wi-fi (3.00 hour(s), 265km)
Day 9: Monument Valley
Take an optional tour to Antelope Canyon, the second largest of its kind in North America.
Included Activities:
Glen Canyon Dam Visit
Horseshoe Bend Hike
Monument Valley 4×4 Tour
Private Van with Wi-fi (2.50 hour(s), 210km)
Day 10: Grand Canyon National Park (1L, 1D)
Wander along a trail and feel the sunshine and wind on your face while admiring awe-inspiring views. Or sit and watch the changing play of light and shadows.
In the afternoon, opt to watch the most spectacular IMAX Adventure of all, the Grand Canyon Movie.
Included Activities:
Native Grill Food Truck Lunch
Grand Canyon South Rim Visit
Grand Canyon Sunset
Private Van with Wi-fi (3.50 hour(s), 290km)
Day 11: Grand Canyon National Park/Lake Havasu City
Pre-book a bird's-eye view of the Grand Canyon with an optional helicopter flight. Travel to Sedona for lunch and check out the stunning landscape with a short hike overlooking the red and orange cliffs. Continue on and stop for dinner and to get some kicks on historic Route 66. After dinner, arrive to Lake Havasu City for the night.
Additional Notes:
Note: If you have pre-booked the Grand Canyon Helicopter Ride you will enjoy your 45-50min ride over the canyon today.
Included Activities:
Sedona Visit
Seligman (Route 66) Visit
Private Van with Wi-fi (6.00-7.00 hours, 560km)
Day 12: Joshua Tree National Park/San Diego
When the sun sets, experience the Gaslamp Quarter District with numerous pubs and nightclubs.
Included Activities:
London Bridge Visit
Joshua Tree NP Visit
Private Van with Wi-fi (2.50-3.00 hours, 240km)
Private Van with Wi-fi (2.50-3.50 hours, 260km)
Day 13: San Diego
San Diego is a great city to experience where life is lived outdoors.
Day 14: San Diego/Los Angeles
Discover why Santa Monica Pier and Venice Beach are highlights of Los Angeles. Opt to rent a bike.
Included Activities:
Orientation Drive
Private Van with Wi-fi (2.00 hour(s), 190km)
Day 15: Los Angeles
We highly recommend booking post-accommodation to fully experience this famous city.


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The Sea to Sky Gondola in Squamish has attracted up to 40 per cent more visitors than expected, according to company general manager and founder Trevor Dunn.
B.C.'s newest major tourism attraction is now moving ahead with long-distance trail races and yoga classes overlooking Howe Sound.
"We had forecast between 200,000 and 300,000 visitors (in the first year of operations) and we're well on track to exceed that," Dunn said of the $25-million project, which opened May 16 and carries visitors nearly 900 metres above sea level. "We think we'll do better than that by 30 to 40 per cent."
He wouldn't release actual visitor numbers.
Dunn said the attraction had to hire additional staff — bringing their employee count to 130 — as well as take on 14 volunteers from Squamish. Lengthy waits in the first two weeks have been largely rectified due to such practices as utilizing gondolas more efficiently and better queuing procedures, he said.
An extensive trail system at the top of the gondola was used for the Skyline Ridge Run, 17-kilometre and 10-kilometre races organized by Squamish endurance athlete Jen Segger that attracted about 200 runners. "It went off without a hitch and was very popular. We have some spectacular trails for hiking and trail running, so we're keen to expand that."
He said the gondola is also starting to host yoga classes and plans to expand that.
"We've started off on the summer solstice with yoga up top, and we're looking at continuing that. Both our yoga classes were sold out. We have some of the best decks in Canada and to be able to offer different activities like yoga is something people are interested in."
Dunn said that while the bulk of visitors are from Metro Vancouver, they're getting people from all over the world, including Europe, Africa, South America and Asia.
The gondola is located two kilometres south of Squamish on the Sea to Sky Highway. At the crest, there's a 9,000-square-foot summit lodge with a 6,000 square-foot-deck, restaurant and gift shop, along with the Sky Pilot suspension bridge, and access to 30 kilometres of trails including two kilometres of "stroller-ready" trails leading to several viewing decks and lookouts. There's also the Sea to Summit Trail from the base of the gondola to the crest (a three- to four-hour hike).


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I asked this question on Google group list of now dead Jail management tool for FreeBSD (iocage)
The timing of this post might be little unfortunate as iocage seems dead but one of the reasons that I foolishly chose to run several services on two FreeBSD jail hosts was ability to take advantage of ZFS via iocage. Namely I am taking regularly the snapshots of the jails using the cron job. I was wondering how people remotely replicate those snapshots (zfs send or zxfer or zfs-replicate) The idea is obvious. I would like to have hourly snaphosts of my current jail instances on the remote host and to be able to import them and fire them up on the short notice if the first host malfunction.
I just read Michael Lucas' FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS
and even though the whole chapter is devoted to Jail specific topics as well as parts of the last chapter Pot-pourri I could not find any authoritative advise to my question above. Any takers?
I don't have an answer, but from what I gather from https://github.com/iocage/iocage/com...313c5df5865183 rather than iocage being dead, it is being rewritten in ruby. (And like you, I'm troubled, as we'd planned to start using it for anything new. The author promises that the migration path will be easy, but who knows?)
Other discussion--and maybe it's being rewritten in go?
Which seems a bit more current.
(Sorry to take it off topic, just that I was completely unaware of that, so this is being written for the next person who comes across it and says, as I did, "WHAT???")
And apologies to everyone else for thread hijacking.
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I don't want to get into too much discussion about iocage future. It is going to be rewritten in Go. My understanding is that original author has being contracted by iXsystems to rewrite the tool. The old version 1.7.4 written in shell can be forked and maintained. Original author was very helpful when I had questions about the tool. I understand his logic completely. Long term he made the right decision as he was hitting the limits of what can be done in shell. I understand iXsystems position as well.
Unfortunately as I told him in a private e-mail I just many other people who came to depend on iocage have no luxury of waiting 2 years for his new code to stabilize before I can use so from my prospective iocage is dead. He also understand my logic. I am not the only one who thinks that way and there are several people who cut the losses and already moved on. I am for now sticking with the shell version. If I was not so vested into ZFS and Jails I would probably stay away as far as possible.
Thanks very much for the input. I understand their logic of course, and to be honest, I'm glad about iXsystems supporting it. Honestly, I don't know what we're going to do at this point, but we'll figure something out.
Thanks again.
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Today I'm excited to share this fun gift set called Family Favorites. It was accepted for publication in the December 2009 issue of Crafts 'n Things magazine and is on newsstands now! I used one of my very favorite sets of mystampBOX stamps called Neighborhoods to create this embellished cookie mix jar and matching card. Try using your stamps to jazz up premade packaging especially at holiday time. It will save you lots of time and make your family and friends feel extra loved by your handmade touch.
To celebrate we are giving away two free copies of the December 2009 Crafts 'n Things magazine that has the cookie recipe and more details about this gift set. For a chance to win, leave a comment here on this post about your favorite handmade gifts to give. For a second chance to win, click over to the myStampBOX blog and do the same thing. We'll accept comments until Sunday October 18th at noon EST. The winners will be announced at the mSB blog on Monday October 19th. Good luck!


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Following up our introductory post on World-Changing Dreamers revealed by the IF WE Challenge, this is a first post in a series about our three lucky winners.
Let's begin with the second runner-up, Andjelic Zoran. His IF WE Dream was: "IF WE have enough 3D printers, we could make custom made prosthetic limbs for all victims of landmines and renew their faith in science". Andjelic talks about his dream with great passion:
I currently work as an industrial equipment designer in Italy and often stay after work to use your software, I am simply in love with it. But I'm originating from Bosnia and Herzegovina and there are a lot of people injured by land mines in my country.
The main thing that bothers them with their prosthetics besides the limited functionality due to limited budget is the aesthetics. Usually they come in skin-color, that's pretty creepy because it looks like a puppet part. Many of them are young, have psychological issues and have lost their faith in science, because of its involvement in weapon design. Now they can see athletes at the Olympic games with state-of-art prosthetics, yet they can't have such prosthetics.
Since I have skills in surface design, my dream is to return in Bosnia and use my knowledge to help this people. Modern technology makes possible to scan injured limbs and 3D print custom, more ergonomic prosthetic limbs. Such equipment is very expensive and I know it is impossible to help everyone at the moment but I want to start and raise money to fulfill my dream. In Bosnia my friends have some CNC machines able to produce some parts for those limbs. I will find my way through humanitarian organizations to get appropriate 3D scanners and 3D printers for custom made parts but we will certainly need software that is able to use scanned dates, transform them in STL file, support 3D printing and CNC machining.
I hope that we will be able to produce prosthetics that will be more functional, more comfortable and make some people happy again. I also hope that your company will give a contribution. So I send you my concept of prosthetic limb. I will add outside parts when we become able to produce them.
As a winner of the third prize, Andjelic was provided with a high performance laptop and a CATIA licence. Here is what he wrote us when he received the package:
I have received the package with laptop and I am very happy right now. […] This will help me a lot to make my dreams come true.
We definitely hope so, Andjelic, and we're glad to bring a humble contribution to your world-changing dream! 😀


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Dear old dad didn't dispense many pearls of wisdom, but one about gambling has resonated through the years. "Don't just cap what you'll lose," he said. "Set a limit on what you'll win." The underlying logic was clear: While it's easy to get carried away during a winning streak, stay at the table too long and the odds will inevitably turn and catch up with you. This fact of media life came to mind watching an excellent "American Masters" documentary, "Johnny Carson: King of Late Night," in the context of Rupert Murdoch -- who appears to have hung on too long to enjoy a graceful exit -- and other CEOs who are more judiciously planning ahead. Carson famously walked away from "The Tonight Show" two decades ago and never looked back. While not exactly a recluse, he eschewed performing afterward, which longtime producer Peter Lassally once described, rightfully, as "an elegant end to his career," noting his old boss was "not dependent on the love and approval of an audience to feel complete." In that respect, both Carson and CBS anchor Walter Cronkite enhanced their legends by maintaining relatively low profiles (Cronkite's was markedly higher) in their senior years. Nostalgia has softened the edges a bit, since neither Carson nor Cronkite completely escaped succession drama. Both were nudged toward retirement in part through the machinations of an understudy (Jay Leno and Dan Rather, respectively) with an aggressive agent/manager, prodding the network to hasten the baton pass. Nevertheless, each managed to leave while still on top and did little or nothing to risk diminishing his prestige after a historic run. Murdoch, by contrast, has lingered at News Corp. because he clearly loves the place but also awaiting the arbitrary day when one of his heirs is deemed ready and could be handed the keys to the kingdom. Those plans have suffered a setback amid continuing fallout from the phone-hacking scandal, likely to cast an additional shadow over the mogul's already sure-to-be-controversial legacy. Given the sway Murdoch has exerted over politicians -- as much to advance corporate interests as ideology -- it must smart to be labeled "not a fit person" to oversee his company by a British Parliamentary committee. Even allowing for elements of payback, such a verdict coupled with the turmoil over the hacking and its aftermath suggest we haven't hung out the last of News Corp.'s dirty laundry. At a minimum, as New York Times columnist David Carr observed, "The Rupert Murdoch that we have known -- untouchable and evasive -- has become a man falling down stairs, slowly but surely." The scandal has also provided critics license to tee off on News Corp., and Murdoch hasn't particularly helped his cause by lately taking to Twitter to lament its incivility, indicating an unfamiliarity with the acidly bitter comments sections of most media sites. Meanwhile, two other CEOs, CBS' Leslie Moonves and Disney's Robert Iger, have quietly taken steps to engineer softer landings. The former added a production deal to his latest contract extension -- similar to that afforded former News Corp. chief operating officer Peter Chernin -- which will allow him to segue into producing if he chooses, while Iger announced he'll remain the studio's chairman after ceding his CEO title in 2015. As the PBS documentary notes, Carson was influenced by seeing comedy titans like George Burns and his idol Jack Benny perform until they became shadows of themselves, although it's not entirely clear even Carson knew he was going to disappear as completely as he did. Indeed, in his final "Tonight Show" sign-off the host told viewers he hoped they would again graciously welcome him into their homes "when I find something I want to do and think you would like." He even signed the obligatory development deal with NBC -- a seedling that never bore any fruit. Executives and performers obviously occupy different strata, and in terms of being allowed to age gracefully, the business tends to be more brutal on the latter. Nevertheless, for those lucky enough to leave any of these endeavors on their own terms, Carson offers a pretty good example of how, and when, to cash in one's chips.
Click here for more columns by Brian Lowry on Variety.com.


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First, a bit of history: In 2008, CPJ reported:
The high court in the western state of Gujarat defended the media, rebuking a prosecutor for demanding state regulation of newspaper content. The prosecution sought restrictions after the Ahmedabad police commissioner filed sedition charges against a Times of India editor and reporter, and a Gujarat Samachar photographer.
The criminal charges were still pending at the end of 2008, we reported. The journalists' crime had been to write a series of articles mentioning complaints against O.P. Mathur, who had recently been appointed police commissioner. Their reporting linked him to a leader of organized crime.
Fast-forward to this Wednesday, when those sedition charges were quashed. The Ahmedabad High Court ruled that the intent of the articles, which also polled readers on their opinion of the official's ability to perform his duties, were not illegal, and did not "incite the people against the police," as Mathur had claimed.
Reporting on the ruling, The Times of India quoted the court as saying the articles were a "strongly worded criticism and comment with intention to improve the condition and not to incite violence or disaffection among people" -- in other words, journalism.
That's four years of slowly grinding justice, but at least justice was eventually meted.
Justice systems vary from country to country, and reflect societal norms as much as they do the need for the rule of law. Given those political and cultural variations, it's difficult to rank justice systems. But at least by one standard, CPJ data finds India's to be the 12th worst in the world. When it comes to prosecuting the killers of journalists, India is not getting any better. According to CPJ's 2012 global Impunity Index:
With six unsolved murders, India retains its place on the index. All of the victims were print journalists who reported on crime, corruption, or politics. Despite India's status as the world's largest democracy and its tradition of having vibrant news media, its leaders have shown little political will to address impunity in attacks on news media. In March, India led opposition to the U.N. journalist safety plan that included anti-impunity efforts.
The Times of India staff members, given that they were "print journalists who reported on crime, corruption and politics," were fortunate only to be hit with a frivolous sedition case -- which is actually not so frivolous, given that sedition can lead to the death penalty in India. Those reporters, at last, got their day in court. There are six dead journalists who never got their day in court, and looks like they never will.


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InPraise of the Libertarian Party
byHarry Browne
June4, 2004
With the Libertarian Party (LP) on television last weekend choosing its presidential nominee, its time for the smug, superior types to come out of the woodwork and tell us what a sorry spectacle the party is.
Every four years around this time we get statements like these from libertarians who arent in the party:
"The Libertarian Party has finished its regularly scheduled exercise in futility."
"The LP has displayed a genius for assigning itself a role in American politics akin to irrelevance."
As though that werent bad enough, disgruntled party members also level broadsides when they dont get what they want:
"The LP attempted to shoot itself in the foot by not nominating [Aaron Russo] for president."
I recently received an email message from someone asking, "If the LP was a stock that you (or I) had bought 20 years ago, based on its performance would you still be holding onto it?" as though I would choose a political party or organization of any kind in the same way I would choose a stock.
After 33 years in operation, the LP presidential candidate has never received more than 1% of the vote, the party has elected less than a thousand office-holders, and currently has no one in Congress or a state legislature.
The armchair quarterbacks inside and outside the party know just what the party needs to do to reverse its fortunes. It must focus on a particular issue to the exclusion of all other topics, stage the right kind of media events, conduct a campaign thats more "in your face," merge campaigns with another third party, tone down the message, or find a celebrity to carry the partys banner.
If only it were so easy.
The armchair quarterbacks pay no attention to the obstacles that the LP is up against. Nor do they recognize the tremendous good the LP does.
America today is without question a two-party country. But this isn't because public opinion has demanded it, because its more convenient to have only two parties, or because theres any inherent benefit to the country.
America is a two-party nation because the politicians have used the force of government to make it so.
The Republicans and Democrats have imposed the two-party system on us with five major types of laws. These laws not only place direct obstacles to electoral breakthroughs, they also affect the way the media and the public perceive third parties thus creating enormous resistance to Libertarian breakthroughs.
Here are the five types of laws:
1. Campaign finance limits: The $2,000-per-person donation limit (formerly $1,000) works to the advantage of Republicans and Democrats. They can promise large governmental benefits to industry leaders, who in exchange will promise to collect large numbers of $2,000 donations for the candidates. We have nothing similar to offer, and so we have to raise the money one person at a time.
2. Reporting requirements: Because virtually all campaign donations must be reported, major donors can be afraid to finance anyone who challenges the existing two-party system. (The disclosure laws also inspire many wealthy interests to donate to both Republican and Democratic candidates so as not to be vulnerable to retribution for helping only the loser.) There is no practical, ethical, or historical reason to make the reporting of donations mandatory. Each candidate should decide for himself what his reporting policy will be. Every voter can then consider that policy when deciding whether to vote for him.
3. Campaign subsidies: Around $200 million of taxpayer money will go to the two major parties this year. Most third parties accept smaller sums from the government when they qualify but Libertarians would be hypocrites if they condemned corporate and personal welfare and then accepted political welfare. I probably would have received close to a $1 million subsidy in the 2000 campaign (which would have increased the funds available by better than a third), but I obviously wouldnt do so.
Real Campaign Reform is working very hard to overturn the various campaign finance laws.
4. The debates: The Debate Commission is comprised solely of Republicans and Democrats. Enough said.
5. Ballot-access hurdles: The two old parties have placed enormous hurdles in the way of third-party candidates wanting to be on state ballots. In 2000, we raised $2.6 million. Of that $250,000 almost 10% was consumed just trying to get on the ballot in Pennsylvania and Arizona alone.
Because people in the media recognize these hurdles intuitively, if not explicitly, they know we have virtually no chance of affecting the outcome of a presidential race. Thus they wont cover a Libertarian presidential candidate the way they do a Republican or Democrat.
And because theres so little media coverage, most people in turn consider a vote for a third-party candidate to be largely a wasted vote.
So why does the Libertarian Party run a presidential campaign?
Even though the candidate has a slim chance of getting a million votes or more, he can do a great deal for the party and the libertarian cause:
He can promote name recognition for the word Libertarian, so that millions of Americans realize that there are people trying to get the government out of our lives. This should be the major purpose of any Libertarian political campaign. By labeling specific proposals as "Libertarian," the candidate is telling hundreds of thousands of people that theres a party, a movement, a particular group of people that theres more to life than the tired big-government proposals they hear from the Democrats and Republicans.
On national TV and radio, the candidate provides great help to local candidates by promoting Libertarian ideas and labeling them Libertarian giving a headstart to each local candidate who presents himself to the public as a Libertarian. Local candidates cant get the kind of coverage a presidential candidate can get, so the national candidate must lay the groundwork for them.
The presidential campaign can help build the partys membership, so that someday we have the numerical strength to fund a first-class campaign that can bypass the normal media channels and reach the public directly with advertising. Not just a handful of ads here and there, but ads repeated over and over and over and over again that let the public know theres a huge movement promoting the message of smaller government.
Its important that the candidate emphasize the positive side the better life the listener can enjoy if we get the government out of health care, out of education, out of Social Security, if we repeal the income tax, if we end the Drug War, if we stop the government from meddling in foreign affairs. These are permanent issues that can create permanent libertarians whereas railing against the latest big-government proposals might attract short-term attention but not long-term converts.
The candidate must be able to provide short, persuasive answers to questions on current issues, and then point out the principle underlying his answer thereby making the case that we must keep government out of all areas of our lives.
The Libertarian Partys presidential candidate can get exposure that simply isnt available to any other libertarian within or outside the LP.
Between February and November 2000, I appeared on 53 national TV shows and 90 national radio shows and had a total of 852 media appearances along with making dozens of speeches.
Those appearances told millions of Americans that there was something well beyond the big-government proposals of George Bush and Al Gore. People heard that it was possible to have an America quite unlike anything they had seen in their lifetimes.
It is an America in which the government stays out of your life and government is so small that you don't pay any income tax at all. An America in which you're completely free from the oppressive and wasteful Social Security tax. An America in which the government doesn't foster gang warfare and violence through an insane War on Drugs. An America at peace because its government isnt threatening foreign countries or stirring up terrorists. An America in which government doesn't interfere in any way with your ability to defend yourself, your family, and your property.
It is an America of charity hospitals, free clinics, doctors who make house calls, low-cost health insurance accessible to almost everyone, and hospital stays that don't bankrupt you in short, the kind of health-care system we had before the government systematically destroyed it with Medicare and Medicaid.
If there had been no Libertarian presidential candidate, how many times would Americans have heard ideas like that on television and radio?
That's right: not once. No one else was describing possibilities that go beyond the narrow, depressingly pessimistic choices offered by Democrats and Republicans.
No one else was on TV and radio across the country proposing to reduce government dramatically. No one else was giving specific examples of government failing to achieve what it promises, or explaining libertarian proposals to large audiences.
Having a Libertarian candidate lets millions of Americans know that there's a large number of people who think as they do who want to get government out of their lives, who want them to be free to live as they think best, not as George Bush or John Kerry thinks they should. Such a campaign gives hope no matter how faint to people who had long since given up on the idea that anything would ever change or that government could ever be cut down to size.
It's true that other libertarians appear on TV and radio. But those appearances are very rare compared to those of a presidential campaign. More important, a non-campaign appearance is linked almost always to a specific issue of the day and usually an issue in which the Libertarian is being asked to argue against some new proposal, rather than presenting a picture of a better life.
During the presidential campaign, most of the time the Libertarian candidate can raise the issues he wants talking about a better world that would come from positive change toward truly smaller government.
The truth is that no other element in the libertarian movement gets the media exposure that an LP presidential candidate can generate.
And it can be exploited without compromising a single libertarian tenet. In the entire 2000 campaign, I never said a single government program was either effective or justified. In fact, one of my favorite approaches was to ask a host or talk-show caller to name one government program that works (I never got a single convincing answer).
Fortunately. . .
Yes, sometimes it seems that the LP is nothing but a debating society, although thats the case far less often than it might appear.
And its true that malcontents within the party often spread malicious rumors and do their best to sabotage party programs. But thats true not only of all political parties, but of most membership organizations that are engaged in business its members take seriously.
But I consider these to be small drawbacks when compared with the good the party does.
If the Libertarian Party didnt exist, we would have to invent it. but, fortunately, we dont have to.
It does exist, and it achieves a great deal that isnt accomplished by any other libertarian organization. The party is by no means the entire libertarian movement, but its a vital part of it.
Whether or not you decide to join the Libertarian Party, dont overlook what it does and give thanks that its there.
Click here for a complete report on the 2000 campaign, as well as my daily journal of campaign activities.


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