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Open air grounds for large-scale festivals and concerts
Added Skate Park at RFK Stadium
Farmers Market twice weekly
Metro accessible
Situated along the Anacostia River and providing entrance to Kingman and Heritage Islands, the RFK Stadium Festival Grounds has hosted several popular sporting events and music festivals. The grounds are also home to the DC Open Air Farmers Market located in Lot 6 and open from 7 am – 5 pm on Thursdays and Saturdays.
Major events held on the grounds include the Rock 'n' Roll USA Marathon, ShamrockFest and the DC101 Chili Cook-Off. The Rock 'n' Roll USA Marathon, the only marathon run entirely in the District of Columbia, features local bands along the course and culminates with a Finish Line Festival on the festival grounds. ShamrockFest, one of the largest St. Patrick's Day festivals held in the Mid-Atlantic region, features over 50 bands and DJ's on 10 stages plus food, beverages, craft vendors, carnival rides, games and other exciting activities. The DC101 Chili Cook-Off has raised more than $11 million for the National Kidney Foundation Serving the National Capital Area (NKF/NCA) and features national recording artists and a popular chili competition. New to the Festival Grounds is the DAYGLOW music tour, the premier music and paint party.
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The Walter E. Washington Convention Center has been a proud host to our nation's capital favorite hockey team, the Washington Capitals and their second and third annual Convention.
Our longest running show, the Washington Auto Show, was founded in 1921 when the car industry was in its fancy.


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You may not have images with the smaller dimension larger than 600 pixels. Please resize your images accordingly.
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How do I link to my brickshelf thumbnail?
Take your brickshelf image:
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As you probably know, the standard way to select or deselect an item in a WinRT list control is to slide it up or down a little. Although I rather like this gesture, it's not very intuitive for users unfamiliar with Modern UI. And it gets even more confusing, because my previous statement wasn't perfectly accurate: in fact, you have to slide the item perpendicularly to the panning direction. In a
GridView, which (by default) pans horizontally, that means up or down; but in a
ListView, which pans vertically, you have to slide the item left or right. If an application uses both kinds of lists, it becomes very confusing for the user.
Sure, in the default style, there is visual hint (a discrete "slide down" animation with a gray tick symbol) when the user presses and holds an item, but it's not always enough for everyone to understand. Many people (e.g. Android users) are used to do a "long press" gesture (known as "Hold" in Modern UI terminology) to select items. So, in order to make your app easier to use for a larger number of people, you might want to enable selection by long press.
A simple way to do it is to create an attached property which, when set to
true, subscribes to the
Holding event of an item, and toggles the
IsSelected property when the event occurs. Here's a possible implementation:
using Windows.UI.Input; using Windows.UI.Xaml; using Windows.UI.Xaml.Controls.Primitives; using Windows.UI.Xaml.Input; namespace TestSelectOnHold { public static class SelectorItemEx { public static bool GetToggleSelectedOnHold(SelectorItem item) { return (bool)item.GetValue(ToggleSelectedOnHoldProperty); } public static void SetToggleSelectedOnHold(SelectorItem item, bool value) { item.SetValue(ToggleSelectedOnHoldProperty, value); } public static readonly DependencyProperty ToggleSelectedOnHoldProperty = DependencyProperty.RegisterAttached( "ToggleSelectedOnHold", typeof(bool), typeof(SelectorItemEx), new PropertyMetadata( false, ToggleSelectedOnHoldChanged)); private static void ToggleSelectedOnHoldChanged(DependencyObject o, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e) { var item = o as SelectorItem; if (item == null) return; var oldValue = (bool)e.OldValue; var newValue = (bool)e.NewValue; if (oldValue && !newValue) { item.Holding -= Item_Holding; } else if (newValue && !oldValue) { item.Holding += Item_Holding; } } private static void Item_Holding(object sender, HoldingRoutedEventArgs e) { var item = sender as SelectorItem; if (item == null) return; if (e.HoldingState == HoldingState.Started) item.IsSelected = !item.IsSelected; } } }
You can then set this property in the
ItemContainerStyle of the list control
<GridView.ItemContainerStyle> <Style TargetType="GridViewItem"> ... <Setter Property="local:SelectorItemEx.ToggleSelectedOnHold" Value="False" /> </Style> </GridView.ItemContainerStyle>
And you're done : the user can now select items by holding them. The standard gesture still works, of course, so users who know it can still use it.
Note that this feature could also have been implemented as a full-fledged
Behavior. There are two reasons why I didn't choose this approach:
- Behaviors are not natively supported in WinRT (though they can be added as a Nuget package)
- Behaviors don't play well with styles, because
Interaction.Behaviorsis a collection, and you can't add items to a collection from a style. A possible workaround would be to create an
IsEnabledattached property that would add the behavior to the item when set to true, but then we would end up with a solution almost identical to the one described above, only more complex…


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We're excited about the recent news that Tom Hanks will be producing a six-season adaptation of Neil Gaiman's epic novel American Gods for HBO. And now for the real question: Who should be cast as the leads?
Take our polls and decide for yourself!
Painting by Curious Squid.
We've offered some suggestions for who should play the leads, but feel free to add other ideas in comments.


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The experience factor is the number that indicates how this company's claims
experience compares with the rest of that industry. It's used to raise or lower
the premium rate they pay to cover workers' compensation claims costs.
L&I calculates an experience factor by comparing a company's accident costs
to the average costs of other companies in the same risk classification. An
experience factor greater than 1.0 indicates a company has had
higher-than-average claim cost; lower than 1.0 shows lower-than-average claim
cost. New businesses usually start out with a factor of 1.0 until they are
"experience rated."


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To celebrate its 25th anniversary, Disneyland Paris is premiering the new Disney Stars on Parade.
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New models and fresh concepts at the Geneva Motor Show.
Here's our weekly round up of some of the best and most newsworthy photos from the past seven days.
In a city best known for fashionable beaches and world-class surf, bathers at one local watering hole take pride in the exact opposite – the no-fuss atmosphere of a giant, artificial pond.
It's hard to say how many animals are killed by vehicles around the world every year, but it's estimated that up to one million are killed every day on the roads of the US alone. As you can see from the list below however, some countries go to great lengths to ensure the safety of their wildlife.
The first animal bridges were built in France in the 1950s, and the longest in the world, called the Natuurbrug Zanderij Crailoo, can be found in the Netherlands and is over half a mile long! Scroll through this list, compiled by Bored Panda, to see some of the best animal crossings on the planet. Don't forget to vote for your favorite!
Highlights from the NBA All-Star Weekend in New Orleans.
Spring has arrived early in the Eastern Japanese town of Kawazu. The small town, located just outside of Tokyo, is famous for their 8000 cherry blossom trees that bloom early every year. The lush landscapes that greet millions of visitors each February are supremely romantic.
The blossoms, known as sakura in Japanese, typically bloom in late March or early April, but Kawazu's trees belong to a unique variety that flowers before others. A small locomotive train takes passengers on a journey through fragrant aromas and gradient shades of pink. At night, the trees are illuminated by floodlights, and their reflections dance along the still waters of the Izu peninsula.
Cherry blossoms are highly symbolic and culturally significant in Japan. The transient nature of their beauty is often equated to the brevity of life, so they not only represent the acceptance of karma and destiny, but the eventual welcoming of death. For these reasons, they appear often in Japanese art, and have become an identifying image of the country itself.
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Makha Bucha Day in Thailand, an overflowing dam in California, the Yanshui Beehive Rockets Festival in Taiwan, alpacas in Siberia, Beyonce at the Grammys, Carnival in Venice, protests in Romania and France, and much more.
Who can be a better guide of New Zealand (Middle Earth) than Tolkien's Gandalf himself? The guy has been traveling around that place for more than 2,000 years, so he probably knows his way around. That was the idea behind photographer Akhil Suhas's 6-month trip across the country with a Gandalf costume.
Suhas called his 9,000-mile adventure #GandalfTheGuide and documented it using photos. "I wanted a recurring subject in my photos and with so many photographers visiting the country, I figured that I needed to do something to set me apart!" he said. "I was watching the LOTR for the 5th time when I figured New Zealand is famous for 2 things: its landscapes and the LOTR + Hobbit Trilogies. So why not combine the two by having Gandalf in the landscapes?"
At first, he tried self-portraits: "I tried the camera on a tripod with a timer shot, didn't work for me," Suhas said. "So, I started asking the people I met along the way if they wanted to put on the outfit." Surprisingly, people agreed, and Suhas created an amazing small-person-big-landscape photo tour of New Zealand.
In the basement of a Canton home is a dusty yellow Kodak box that hasn't been opened in a half a century. Inside lies buried treasure, the 1967 Red Sox "Impossible Dream" season captured in 4,000 black-and-white negatives. It was the year that forever changed baseball in Boston, and Frank O'Brien was just a rookie Globe sports photographer who captured it all. Read the story


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What to do this weekend: April 19-21
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Friday Happenings
Zion Chapter No. 128 Order of the Eastern Star Spring Tea
The Zion Chapter No. 128 Order of the Eastern Star will have its Spring Tea, at 6 p.m. Friday, April 19 at the Winona Community Center on Powell Street. For more information, contact Eloise B. Forrest at 662-283-5947.
Good Friday Service at Haven United Methodist
Haven United Methodist Church will have Good Friday service 6 p.m. and Sunrise Service on Easter Sunday at 6 a.m.
Good Friday Prayer Service at Winona Baptist
Winona Baptist Church will have a Good Friday prayer service at noon on Friday April 19. It will followed by an egg hunt and a cookout. On Sunday, April 21, at 10 a.m. there will be a Youth celebration and worship service.
Saturday Happenings
BFA Fashion and Talent Show
Blessings For All Empowered by Faith, Inc. will have its fashion and talent show at 6 p.m. Saturday, April 20 at the Winona Community House. Admission is $3 and to enter into the show is $10. Trophies will be awarded to the first, second and third place winners as well as participation certificates given. Refreshments will be sold. All proceeds will go toward future community building events.
Duck Hill Library Bake Sale
The Duck Hill Library will have a Bake Sale and Book Sale from 8 a.m. until noon April 20. Help support the library and buy baked good for Easter. All books are in good condition and some are like new.
Moore Memorial Easter Egg Hunt
On Saturday, April 20, the church will have an Easter Egg Hunt at 9 a.m. on Saturday, April 20 at the Family Life Center. Bring your Easter baskets, and enjoy breakfast, crafts, face painting and more. Bring your family and friends. On Sunday, April 21, the church will have its Easter Service at 11 a.m. on Sunday, April 21 in the church's sanctuary.
Black Hawk School Singing
The Eddie Pilgrim Family Band and the Black Hawk String Band will perform at the Black Hawk School at 6 p.m. on Saturday, April 20th. Concessions furnished by the Black Hawk Homemakers Club..
Sunday Happenings
Annual Easter Eggxtravaganza
The New Millennium Men's Club, Blessings for All Empowered by Faith and Queens of Millennium Women will host its annual Easter Eggxtravaganza Sunday, April 21 from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m. behind the old school in Duck Hill. There will be bouncers, face painting, food, games, music and a special guest appearance. The big hunt with over 2,500 hard and stuffed eggs will begin at 3:45 p.m. For more information, call Mr. White at 662-440-0324, Ms. Woods at 662-753-1659 and Mr. Campbell at 662-417-6772.
Easter Program at Bethel Christian Church
Bethel Christian Church (Disciple of Christ) Youth Department will have its Easter program at noon, Sunday, April 21.
Sunrise Service at Young Chapel Missionary Baptist
Young Chapel Missionary Baptist Church will have its Sunrise Service at 6 a.m. on Sunday, April 21.
Homecoming Service at Bethlehem United Methodist
Bethlehem United Methodist Church will have its homecoming Sunday, April 21 at 11 a.m. Speaker will be Rev. Linda Malone, pastor of Bethlehem and Kilmichael UM Churches. Lunch will follow in the fellowship hall.
Easter Program at Bear Marsh Missionary Baptist
Bear Marsh Missionary Baptist Church in Carrollton will have its Easter Program at 11 a.m. on Sunday, April 21.
Easter Program at Pleasant Green Missionary Baptist
Pleasant Green Missionary Baptist Church will have its Easter program 11:30 a.m. Sunday, April 21. Pastor George Blake will bring the Easter message.
Revival Begins at Spring Hill Missionary Baptist Church
Spring Hill Missionary Baptist Church will have its Spring Revival at 6 p.m. Sunday, April 21 and 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, April 23. The speakers are, in order: Sunday- Pastor Darvis Purnell, pastor of Greater Pine Hill M.B. Church in Grenada, Monday- Pastor Leoda Topps, pastor of Auecy Chapel M.B. Church in Southaven and Pastor Tracy Foxx, pastor of Friendship M.B. Church in Calhoun City.
Revival begins at Holly Grover Missionary Baptist Church
Holly Grove Missionary Baptist Church, Philips Road in Lexington, will have its Spring Revival Sunday, April 21 through Tuesday, April, 23 at 7 p.m. The speakers are, in order, Assistant Pastor Oliver Benit, Pastor Dan March and Pastor Lazarus Taylor.
Pink Flower Missionary Baptist Church
Pink Flower Missionary Baptist Church will have its revival at 6 p.m. Sunday, April 21 and 7 p.m. Monday, April 22 and Tuesday, April 23. The speaker will be Rev. William M. Brown, pastor of Union Grove of Greenwood, Lockalonia of Money and First Baptist of Schlater.


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Yesterday I posted a user function for compressing/decompressing files using parallel processes in ODI. The same code you can pick up and use from an OWB process flow. Invoking the java function from within a Java activity from within the flow.
The JAR used in the example below can be downloaded here, from the process flow OWB invokes the main method within the ZipFile class for example - passing the parameters to the function for the input, output directories and also the number of threads. The parameters are passed as a string in OWB, each parameter is wrapped in ?, so we have a string like ?param1?param2?param3? and so on. In the example I pass the input directory d:\inputlogs as the first parameter and d:\outputzips as the second, the number of processes used is 4 - I have escaped my backslash in order to get this to work on Windows.
The classpath has the JAR file with the class compiled in it and the classpath value can be specified specified on the activity, carefully escaping the path if on windows.
Then you can define the actual class to use;
That's it, pretty easy. The return value from the method will use the exit code from your java method - normally 0 is failure and other values are error (so if you exit the java using a specific error code value you can return this code into a variable in OWB or perform a complex transition condition). Any standard output/error is also capture from within the OWB activity log in the UI, for example below you can see an exception that was thrown and also messages output to the standard output/error;
That's a quick insight to the java activity in OWB.


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Hi, I'm new to this forum but would really like some thoughts from others on what is causing my light leak. I have an Ebony SW45 and recently it has started to occasionally have a light leak. It often happens taking 4 or 5 shots of the same scene and then is fine on other scenes. Please take a look at these images and see if you think you know what is wrong. Originally I thought it was the film holder but I bought new ones and it still happened. Somebody has suggested it is where the bellows meets the body or the back spring.
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Best DUI Blog Posts: December 2009
I am starting a new list of the best DUI blog posts for the past month. I am admittedly stealing the idea after reading Kevin O'Keefe's Best In Law Blogs. However, as I am one of Kevin's clients, I don't think he will mind (as long as the check clears.) Here are the posts that I found most interesting for the past month:
- United States Tax Law Encourages Drunk Driving - I guess we have to give credit to a very clever accountant.
- DA Appeals Ruling in Massachusetts DUI Blood Testing Case - It should be obvious to any prosecutor that to get laboratory results into evidence, there needs to be a someone to testify to them. I am sure I just jinxed this attorney by making this statement.
- Minnesota DWI Lawyers Pissed about Urine Cases: What Happens When Judges Assume the Role of Scientist - This post is very technical. There is an excellent discussion regarding urine testing. More importantly, the post has a great title.
- DUI Innocence Project: 93% Wrong-False Use of Roadside Tests Can Lead to False Arrest - This post presents a very good idea and a clear presentation of the truth about field sobriety testing.
- And Introducing The Unethical Attention-Whoring Crappy Douchebag Lawyer - This is the most entertaining post of the month by far.
If there are any DUI lawyers that think I should have put their post here, let me know.


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Middlefield, Massachusetts
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Middlefield is a town in Massachusetts. It was formed in 1783 and was previously called Becket/Chester/Washington/Partridgefield/Worthington/Prescott's Grant. It can be found in Hampshire county. For more information, contact the county at 188 Skyline Trail. On the attached map, Middlefield is shown as 4 in Hampshire county.
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I was looking for a truncate function. Not finding one, I wrote my own. Since it deals with everything as a number, I imagine it's faster than the alternative of using string functions. HTH...
function truncate ($num, $digits = 0) {
//provide the real number, and the number of
//digits right of the decimal you want to keep.
$shift = pow(10, $digits);
return ((floor($num * $shift)) / $shift);


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Savannah Film Festival + Links
Last month, cinema scholar Caryl Flinn and I spent a few days at the Savannah Film Festival as guests of the cinema studies department of the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD). Our host was faculty member Tracy Cox-Stanton, who founded and edits the online cinema journal The Cine-Files. The three of us watched and talked films from morning to night, and I was reminded again of the special social value of the film festival experience. As a cinephile whose conversations about film are for the most part conducted online, I especially cherish these kinds of in-person social opportunities that only come along a couple of times each year.
In addition to attending the festival, we had an invigorating session with graduate students—the topic of our discussion was the "multiple modes of writing" about film—and also appeared on a panel during the festival. The panel was broadly devoted to explaining, to a public, largely non-cinephile audience, what "cinema studies" was; what work it did; and how it might be a useful lens through which to view and analyze the films we were seeing at the festival.
The three most interesting and rewarding features I saw at the festival were:
-- James Toback's Seduced and Abandoned, a documentary about Toback and Alec Baldwin going to the Cannes Film Festival with an experiment: to meet with producers and actors and raise money to make an erotic/political thriller called Last Tango in Tikrit. To what extent they are serious about making this film remains (productively) unclear; they are equally interested in taking the measure of the state of film financing today, and revealing its conservatism and its absurdities.
-- The Spectacular Now, a teen drama by James Ponsoldt with two gifted, charismatic lead actors (Miles Tellier and Aimee Finicky, the latter from Alexander Payne's The Descendants). It belongs in a lineage of contemporary teen films like The Myth of the American Sleepover that are influenced by art cinema—perhaps not quite as powerfully as Gus Van Sant's Elephant or Paranoid Park—but nevertheless using graceful, long takes that patiently observe the nuances of performer interactions.
-- Payne's Nebraska, impeccably shot and cut, with a great performance by Bruce Dern, but flawed because of the stark difference in the way it treats its aging male and female lead characters, who are played by Dern and June Squibb. Both characters are abrasive and bitter, but the man's personality and predicament acquire a tragic, moving quality over the course of the film while the woman character accrues no such dignity, remaining mostly shrill and grating …
Two short films made by SCAD students stood out—but in contrasting fashion. Dirt (Justin Andrews & Jae Matthews) is an unsettling and affecting mood piece set in a working-class milieu, with Dardenne-like attention to social detail; and Valiant (Rachel Horstmann) is a war film about several generations of an American military family, as unreflectively jingoistic and triumphalist as it is affluent in its production values.
After making a habit of attending only large film festivals like Toronto, I enjoyed the unexpected intimacy and relaxed feel of a smaller festival such as Savannah's.
-- "Screen and Surface, Soft and Hard: The Cinema of Leos Carax" by Adrian Martin and Cristina Álvarez López; and Cristina, translated by Adrian, on Leos Carax's Les amants du Pont-Neuf (1991). At Transit. Also: Adrian has a piece on Marlon Brando at Fandor.
-- Ricky D'Ambrose has made a video in which he speaks to Chantal Akerman about her 1970s films. At MUBI. Earlier: his terrific video interview with Dan Sallitt. Related: Christopher Small interviews Sallitt about The Unspeakable Act, which is now out on DVD.
-- J. Hoberman, "The Cineaste's Guide to Watching Movies While Stoned". At The Nation. In other news, Hoberman will be taking over the New York Times DVD column from Dave Kehr.
-- There is a new issue of Screening the Past, with a special section on "Aesthetic Issues in World Cinema".
-- Catherine Grant's post "Magnifying Mirror: On Barbara Stanwyck and Film Performance Studies". At Film Studies for Free.
-- Darren Hughes and Blake Williams have a conversation about Ramon Zürcher's The Strange Little Cat.
-- Ignatiy Vishnevetsky on "black-and-white" movies.
-- Steven Shaviro: "More on Accelerationism".
-- The new issue of NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies features the theme of "waste".
-- Jonathan Rosenbaum is a champion of the filmmaker Peter Thompson, whose work has just come out on DVD. Also at Jonathan's site: his essay "Gertrud as Nonnarrative: The Desire for the Image"; and an introduction to a just-released collection of Charles Schulz's Sunday color strips of Peanuts, in which he draws a comparison between Schulz and Ozu.
-- Lots of good links in this post from Matthew Flanagan.
-- Personal accounts by projectionists around the world. At caboose.
-- Chad Newsom, "Cahiers du Cinéma and Evaluative Criticism". At The Cine-Files.
-- Fredrik Gustafsson on "the deep focus conundrum".
-- Serge Daney on John Ford's 7 Women. Freshly translated by Laurent Kretzchmar and Ted Fendt.
-- An interview with scholar Gregory Ulmer. At Full Stop. Part of their series "Teaching in the Margins". Via Adrian.
-- Matthias Stork, "Chaos Cinema: Assaultive Action Aesthetics". At Media Fields Journal.
-- A 1996 interview with Jean-Luc Godard in Film Comment.
-- This looks very interesting: a series of films by Norwegian filmmaker Anja Breien, who made a film called Wives (1975), an 'answer' to John Cassavetes' Husbands (1970). At Museum of the Moving Image.
-- Brad Nguyen on televisual narrative vs. film narrative. At Screen Machine.
-- Albert Maysles interviewed by Jonathan Marlow. At Fandor.
-- An entertaining interview with Greta Gerwig. At The Dissolve.
-- Mark Fisher, "Anti-Humanism and the Humanities in the Era of Capitalist Realism". Via Steven Shaviro.
-- Letters between Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot, who is in prison, and Slavoj Žižek.


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We've just updated Elcomsoft Distributed Password Recovery with the ability to break master passwords protecting encrypted vaults of the four popular password keepers: 1Password, KeePass, LastPass and Dashlane. In this article, we'll talk about security of today's password managers, and provide insight on what exactly we did and how to break in to encrypted vaults. (more…)
We've analyzed 17 popular password management apps available for Apple iOS and BlackBerry platforms, including free and commercially available tools, and discovered that no single password keeper app provides a claimed level of protection. None of the password keepers except one are utilizing iOS or BlackBerry existing security model, relying on their own implementation of data encryption. ElcomSoft research shows that those implementations fail to provide an adequate level of protection, allowing an attacker to recover encrypted information in less than a day if user-selectable Master Password is 10 to 14 digits long.
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Both platforms being analyzed, BlackBerry and Apple iOS, feature comprehensive data security mechanisms built-in. Exact level of security varies depending on which version of Apple iOS is used or how BlackBerry users treat memory card encryption. However, in general, the level of protection provided by each respective platform is adequate if users follow general precautions.
The same cannot be said about most password management apps ElcomSoft analyzed. Only one password management app for the iOS platform, DataVault Password Manager, stores passwords in secure iOS-encrypted keychain. This level of protection is good enough by itself; however, that app provides little extra protection above iOS default levels. Skipping the complex math (which is available in the original whitepaper), information stored in 10 out of 17 password keepers can be recovered in a day – guaranteed if user-selectable master password is 10 to 14 digits long, depending on application. What about the other seven keepers? Passwords stored in them can be recovered instantly because passwords are either stored unencrypted, are encrypted with a fixed password, or are simply misusing cryptography.
Interestingly, BlackBerry Password Keeper and Wallet 1.0 and 1.2 offer very little protection on top of BlackBerry device password. Once the device password is known, master password(s) for Wallet and/or Password Keeper can be recovered with relative ease.
In the research we used both Elcomsoft Phone Password Breaker and Elcomsoft iOS Forensic Toolkit.
Many password management apps offered on the market do not provide adequate level of security. ElcomSoft strongly encourages users not to rely on their advertised security, but rather use iOS or BlackBerry built-in security features.
In order to keep their data safe, Apple users should set up a passcode and a really complex backup password. The unlocked device should not be plugged to non-trusted computers to prevent creation of pairing. Unencrypted backups should not be created.
BlackBerry users should set up a device password and make sure media card encryption is off or set to "Encrypt using Device Key" or "Encrypt using Device Key and Device Password" in order to prevent attackers from recovering device password based on what's stored on the media card. Unencrypted device backups should not be created.
The full whitepaper is available at http://www.elcomsoft.com/WP/BH-EU-2012-WP.pdf


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In the human embryo, the eyes are formed by a delicate and complex process. Problems in this process can lead to congenital (present at birth) eye malformations. These conditions are relatively rare, occurring in approximately five per 10,000 live births. Children with these problems need the kind of specialized experience found among the pediatric ophthalmologists at Children's National Hospital. Patients are regularly seen at Children's National for these conditions.
Children's National has a special Ophthalmic Genetics Clinic, headed by Brian P. Brooks, MD, PhD, one of the few physicians nationwide who is board certified both as a pediatric ophthalmologist and a clinical geneticist. Dr. Brooks conducts an active scientific research program on inherited eye diseases at the National Eye Institute, a division of the National Institutes of Health.All members of the Pediatric Ophthalmology Team help assess, refer, and manage cases of congenital/developmental eye anomalies.
What are congenital/developmental anomalies affecting the eye and orbit?
The human eye forms through a complex program during embryonic development. Problems in this developmental process can lead to congenital eye malformations, such as anophthalmia (no eye), microphthalmia (small eye), coloboma (failure of the optic fissure to close), aniridia (absent or partial iris), and optic nerve hypoplasia (underdeveloped optic nerve).
What are the symptoms of congenital/developmental eye anomalies?Symptoms include an abnormal-looking eye and reduced eye vision.
How are congenital/developmental eye anomalies diagnosed?The problems are usually apparent in an eye examination. A patient may occasionally require further systemic tests, such as an MRI, CT scan or ultrasounds.
What is included in treatment of congenital/developmental eye anomalies?Treatment focuses on maximizing visual potential with glasses and patching. Patients are treated by our ophthalmic surgeons, as necessary, for treatment of glaucoma, cataracts, or other associated anomalies. Genetic counseling and information access is also provided. At Children's National, treatment is almost entirely outpatient. The frequency of treatment can vary from once every month to once a year.
What is the long-term outlook for a child with congenital/developmental eye anomalies?After initial treatment, families can expect to have a broader understanding of the eye disease, its possible genetic background, and possible related conditions. Parents will be made aware of the visual potential of the child, the possible need for special educational placement, and the long-term prognosis and/or progression of the disease. In some cases low vision aids may be necessary or helpful.
All members of the Pediatric Ophthalmology Team help assess, refer, and manage cases of congenital/developmental eye anomalies. Members of the Pediatric Oculoplastics Team evaluate and surgically treat malformations such as lid deformities, lid coloboma (absence of the lids), ptosis (drooping of the lids) and small orbits due to extremely small or "absent" eyeballs.
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Toronto's "queen of cakes" offers up these delicious recipes to try at home. With three retail stores and bakeries, she's still wowing her loyal followers with new cheesecakes, pies, cupcakes, flans and wedding cakes. Serve her Lemon Bars or White Chocolate Tarts at a bridal shower, or her Pecan And Lemon Roulade as a light summer dessert. You'll find even more of Dufflet Rosenberg's recipes in our May 2010 issue.


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In an on-premise system, most of us start fulfilling business computing requirements by making decisions around buy or build. If there is a software package that fills the need of the business, depending on the price of the software and other factors you normally use that. some of these packages can be extended or adapted (Like SAP), so it isn't a purely off-the-shelf decision, but nevertheless you start by typing "setup.exe" or ".setup" on a physical server, or more often on a Virtual Machine hosted in an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) configuration. In fact, "boxed software" is probably the primary use of an IaaS solution.
If, however, you make a decision to build software, or perhaps your company actually sells software, the overall system architecture design is driven by multiple people and multiple decision points. In the past, the entire IT team worked together to create an architecture. Developers select the language for writing the software, the Infrastructure team configure various physical servers or VM's to run the software, each with its own complete environment. . Once those decisions are made, the rest of the architecture is often dictated by what servers (and licenses), networks, security, talent and other "Platform" elements including the operating system, the scale systems (up or out), High-Availability and so on are available for the organization.
But with the advent of Platform as a Service (PaaS) systems like Windows and SQL Azure, these decisions change – dramatically.
PaaS is not IaaS – meaning that the idea of having to build a VM, configure it in an IaaS provider, architect in scale, HA, DR, etc, goes away. PaaS already has a system of components running, which provide compute, storage, queue messaging, service busses, and many other operations. The PaaS provider monitors and manages these components. Scale is built-in (in the case of Windows Azure). Disaster Recovery (DR) is now a shared responsibility between the PaaS provider and the software architect.
The developer now chooses the languages he or she wants to run (.NET or open-source languages like Java) and designs the system from the component level. Since there is no infrastructure team involved, the developer and software architects now select the components they want to use, and how they want to use them. Licensing changes to a consumption model (pay for what you use). Because of these factors, the system design selections are pivotal – from cost, performance, HA/DR, and many other standpoints. In fact, done properly, the code now drives the way the systems are laid out and used – in effect, this type of computing is now a code-based infrastructure.
I'm often asked "how does IT adapt to distributed (cloud) computing? My team isn't involved in some of these decisions anymore." We adapt the way we always have – we look at the technology and understand where it fits. We tool up to make the best use of the technology to move our company or organization forward. Just like the inclusion of PC's and LAN's into the mainframe era of the past, we'll adapt to this new way of computing as well. This time, with the code in the forefront, not the physical (or even virtual) systems.
My recommendation is that you learn the architecture of systems like Azure, and use the same architecting skills you've developed for physical systems. Help developers figure out the way to handle large sets of data, code-near or code-far decisions and others. I've got information on these components here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckwoody/archive/2010/12/21/windows-azure-learning-plan-architecture.aspx


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Recent studies have been examining whether the rate in which we eat influences our weight. In one study, researchers gave women pasta at two different times. The first time, they were told to eat quickly. The second time, they were encouraged to slowly chew each mouthful 15 to 20 times before swallowing. On average, women ate 67 fewer calories when they took time to chew their food. The authors of this study noted that cutting 67 calories at dinner translates into seven pounds of weight loss per year.
Another similar study focused on examining how the speed of eating changes appetite and the rate of which food (energy) in our bodies is used. A calorimeter machine was used to measure how much energy a person burns throughout the day. On the first day, women ate lunch in a total of 10 minutes, on the second day they ate lunch in 20 minutes, and on the third day they ate a 40 minute lunch. Although the results have not yet been published, researchers are hoping to find a link between the speed of eating a meal and how energy is processed and how a person's appetite changes. If this research shows promise, simply slowing down the rate you eat dinner may result in decreased appetite leading to gradual, sustainable weight loss.
What do you think? Do you think there's a connection between the pace of eating and weight loss/gain? Let us know in the comments below!
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Cycle Indochina: Ho Chi Minh City to Siem Reap
About Cambodia
Many visitors to Southeast Asia spend much of their time rushing around clogged city streets. Break free and see the region from a bicycle seat on this 10-day trip. Roll past the temples of stunning Angkor Wat, cruise around Phnom Penh, and enjoy the villages and rural life around Siem Reap. It's perfect for pedal-pushers of all levels looking to explore less well-known regions at a leisurely pace. Consider this an introduction to the joys of Southeast Asia and cycling.
What's Included
Bicycle hire and helmet. Cu Chi cycling. Cu Chi Tunnels entrance and tour. Floating market visit (Mekong Delta). Oudong Trail Cycling (Phnom Penh). Tonle Sap cycling. Angkor Wat cycling. Angkor Wat complex entrance and guide. All transport between destinations and to/from included activities.
Cycle around the ruins of the Khmer Empire at Angkor Wat, keep an eye out for rare birds around Tonle Sap Lake, bike along the Mekong River to a village homestay.
Dossier Disclaimer
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.
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
More information about the equipment that we use for this trip, and any specifics about the route or itinerary can be found in the 'Important Notes' section of the trip details.
Important Notes
Cycling Grading – Moderate
• Some degree of experience required
• Mixture of road cycling and off road
• Occasional long days in the saddle or multiple ascents and descents
• Good fitness and skill level recommended
• Cycle usually between 35-70 km per day.
Equipment provided:
• Bike – Mountain bikes. Brand may vary, usually Giant, Trek and Merida
• Gears – 24 speed
• Brakes – V-Brake
• Frame sizes available (on request) – 13" to 22"
When making your booking, please inform our staff of your height – this will help us get the right size bike for you.
• Suspension – yes
• Panniers/bike bag type – not available.
• Water bottle holder – yes
• Water bottle – yes
• Adjustable Handlebars – no
• Option to fit own pedals: yes
• Female saddles available: no
• Gel saddles available: no
• Option to fit own saddle: yes
• Repair kit available: yes – guide carries repair kit for the whole group
• Helmet hire available: yes. We believe that helmets should be worn at all times, to ensure maximum protection while you are cycling. However, we are aware that some passengers may prefer to cycle without a helmet. If you choose to do so, this is entirely at your own risk.
If you would prefer to bring your own bike with you for this trip, or have some specific equipment that you would prefer to use then please advise us when you book. We recommend that you bring a hybrid or all terrain bike for this trip, with a minimum of 21 gears and suitable for riding along roads and on bike tracks. For this trip it would be best to have semi-slick tyres good for road and light off road use.
If you choose to bring your own bike, please be aware that you are responsible for the maintainance and support of the bike. It may be possible to hire some extra equipment as necessary for your cycle.
The region gets very hot in April and May and can experience monsoonal rains April to October but this will not affect the itinerary.
Group Leader Description
All G Adventures group trips are accompanied by one of our Chief Experience Officers (CEO). The aim of the CEO is to take the hassle out of your travels and to help you have the best trip possible. They will provide information on the places you are travelling through, offer suggestions for things to see and do, recommend great local eating venues and introduce you to our local friends. 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. We also use 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.
Group Size Notes
Max 15
Meals Included
9 breakfasts, 1 dinner
Bicycle, local bus, private vehicle, walking.
Local Flights
If required all local flights are included in the cost of your tours unless otherwise noted. It is important that we have your passport information at the time of booking in order to process these tickets. Internal flight tickets are issued locally and will be given to you prior to the flight departure.
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 (8 nts), basic family homestay (1 nt).
My Own Room Exceptions
Night 3, Village Homestay.
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
When arriving at Tan Son Nhat Intl Airport in Saigon you can get a metered taxi from just outside of the arrival hall. The taxis are lined up outside in an orderly queue and the fare is roughly 100,000 Dong (approx 7 USD) to get to your starting point hotel. DO NOT GO WITH TAXI TOUTS AS THEY WILL TRY TO RIP YOU OFF. The airport is only 7km from the downtown District 1 so taking taxis is easy and cheap if the meter is on. If you have paid for an arrival transfer when you booked your trip our driver will be waiting for you with a G Adventures sign with your name on it. Please check carefully once you exit the baggage hall as it can be busy outside the arrival area.
Unfortunately there have been cases in Vietnam of people misrepresenting themselves as G Adventures representatives at both Ha Noi and Ho Chi Minh airports. If you have a pre-booked transfer, please look for the G Adventures representative, who will be holding a G Adventures sign at the arrival halls. Please check carefully once you exit the baggage hall as there seem to be hundreds of people waiting outside in the arrival area. Please check that your driver knows your name, the hotel you are going to, and your booking number. If in doubt ask them to ring their manager to confirm your transfer.
If you are unable to locate our G Adventures representative, please wait up to 30 minutes, call our local staff on our emergency number, or take a taxi to the joining point hotel.
Arrival Complications
We don't expect any problems, and nor should you, but if for any reason you are unable to commence your trip as scheduled, as soon as possible please contact your starting point hotel, requesting that you speak to or leave a message for your CEO. Alternatively you can use the emergency contact numbers provided in these notes.
Emergency Contact
Should you need to contact us during a situation of dire need, it is best to first call either the G Adventures Local Representative (if one is listed below) or our G Adventures Local Office. 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.
If you have purchased an arrival through G Adventures or if an arrival transfer is included in the cost of your tour, please note that:
Your arrival transfer has been arranged based on flight information provided to us. If you are advised of a flight schedule change within 48 hours of your scheduled arrival time, we will do our best to rearrange your arrival transfer however we cannot guarantee this. If your arrival transfer does not arrive within 30 minutes after you have exited the arrivals area please take a taxi to your start point hotel.
G Adventures Local Representative (Vietnam)
Emergency Number: +66 87 929 5208 (087 929 5208 from within Vietnam)
G Adventures Office Bangkok, Thailand
During Office hours (Weekdays, 9am-5pm Local Time)
From outside Thailand: +66 2 508 8630
From within Thailand: 02 508 8630
After hours emergency number
From outside Thailand: +66 87 049 6074
From within Thailand: 087 049 6074
If you are unable for any reason to contact our local office, 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
What you need to bring depends on the trip you have chosen and the countries or regions you are planning to visit. We suggest that you pack as lightly as possible as your are expected to carry your own luggage. As a rule we try not to have to walk more than 15-20 minutes with your bags which is why we recommend keeping the weight of your bags between 10-15kg/22-30lb. Suitcases are not recommended for G Adventures trips! Most travellers carry a backpack or rolling bag of small to medium size (no XXL ones please!) as they need to fit under the beds when travelling on sleeper trains. You will also need a day pack/bag to carry water, cameras and other electronics like ipods and mobile phones. If your trip involves overnights in homestays, villages or camping then you usually have the opportunity to rent sleeping bags if need be instead of bringing them with you.
Packing List
Conservative Dress:
• Modest clothing that covers knees and shoulders (Long pants, long skirts, shirts that cover shoulders)
• Shawl or scarf (for temple visits)
• Bicycle pedals (optional)
• Bicycle saddle cover (optional)
• Bicycle saddle (optional)
• Biking gloves
• Cycling clothing (cycling shorts and cycling jersey)
• Cycling shoes
• Handlebar bag (optional) (For easy access to small personal items.)
• Personal cycling gear
• 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
Note: Please pack clothing for the season in which you will be travelling. From Nov-Feb weather can be cold, so please pack warm clothing. From May-Oct it is the wet season, so please bring waterproof clothing.
Laundry facilities are offered by some of our hotels for a charge. There will be times when you may want to or have to do your own laundry so we suggest you bring non-polluting/biodegradable soap.
Visas and Entry Requirements
Please note that visas for Vietnam and Cambodia are the responsibility of the individual traveller. The visa requirements for your trip vary depending on where you are from and where you are going. For the most up to date information please check your Governments Foreign Ministry website or with you travel agent as rules do change. It is important that you check for yourself. For most travellers there will probably be an Embassy or Consulate in the country that you live in.
CAMBODIA – Visas can be obtained in advance from your local Embassy. You will need at least one full working day to arrange this. You can also obtain your visa at the Cambodian border or Siem Reap Airport for approx. $30 USD very easily. Please have at least 2 passport photos with you as well.
*Please have extra USD on hand in case the customs officials charge more at the border crossing.
Cambodia has now also introduced an e-visa that can be applied for in advance. Please contact the Embassy for more details if you would prefer to get your visa in advance (please be sure to check that your nationality is eligible).
Please be aware that you will require two clean pages (minimum) in your passport and at least six months validity.
VIETNAM – If you require a visa for Vietnam, they need to be arranged ahead of time (BEFORE your trip) as the processing time varies and they are not available upon arrival.
As of March 2017, a select 40 nationalities are now eligible to enter Vietnam with an E-Visa. Please contact your Foreign Ministry or Vietnamese consulate to see if your nationality is eligible. Please note that you should ONLY apply for a Vietnam E-Visa if you are entering Vietnam by international airport – either Noi Bai International Airport (Hanoi) or Tan Son Nhat International Airport (Ho Chi Minh City).
If you are entering Vietnam by land border, please apply for a regular visa for Vietnam. Many of the land borders we travel through do not accept the Vietnam E-Visa.
Please note that while MOST countries require a Visa ahead of time for Vietnam, certain countries may be allowed entrance for 15 days with proof of exit. As of July 1st, 2015 this will include citizens of Scandinavian countries, Japan, Russia, the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy. However, we STRONGLY recommend checking with your Embassy on the requirements as these change often. Please contact your Foreign Ministry for up to date entry/exit requirements. Your sales agent can assist with departure documentation from Vietnam once we are within 30 days from departure.
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
During this tour the local currencies you will use are the Vietnamese Dong, US Dollar, and Cambodian Riel. As currency exchange rates in South East Asia do fluctuate, we ask that you refer to the following website for the most up to date daily exchange rates: www.xe.com for each of the above mentioned currencies. The best way to carry your money is in debit cards, withdrawing cash in local currencies from ATM machines. ATMs are found throughout South East Asia and will generally accept cards on the Visa and Mastercard networks. It is a great idea to travel with both a Visa and Mastercard if at all possible in case of loss or problems with one card, you will have a back up. Please note, your bank will charge a fee for overseas withdrawals. USD Cash is recommended for times when ATMs are not accessible. You should bring some cash with you for emergency situations (please refer to our trip dossier) but carrying only cash is a high safety risk. ATM card/s and some cash is the ideal mix. Travellers cheques can be tricky, timely and expensive to exchange. While we do not recommend that you bring them as your primary source of funds, it is great to have one or two cheques in case of emergency. Thomas Cook or American Express travellers' cheques in US currency are the easiest to exchange. Cash advances can also be made with some banks but are time consuming and tend to have high fees attached.Credit cards can be used at some upmarket restaurants, and at some larger stores if shopping for big items. If you are bringing US Dollars, please make sure that the notes are new and in good condition. Notes older than 2003, or with any tears or blemishes may not be accepted. Be fussy with your bank when buying cash!
Emergency Fund
Please also make sure you have access to at least an additional USD $250 (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!
Departure Tax
Usually included in international air ticket, check with your air travel agent.
It is customary in Asia to tip service providers such as waiters, at approximately 10%, depending on the service. Tipping is expected – though not compulsory – and shows an expression of satisfaction with the people 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 several times during the trip where there is opportunity to tip the local guides or drivers we use. You may do this individually, or your CEO will offer to collect the money and tip as a group. Recommendations for tipping drivers and local guides would range from $1.5-$3.5 USD per person per day 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 CEO did an outstanding job, tipping is appreciated. The amount is entirely a personal preference, however as a guideline $20-25 USD per person, per week can be used.
Optional Activities
No optional activities
Please note inoculations may be required for the country visited. It is your responsibility to consult with your travel doctor for up to date medical travel information well before departure.
You should consult your doctor for up-to-date medical travel information well before departure. We recommend that you carry a First Aid kit and hand sanitizers / antibacterial wipes as well as any personal medical requirements. Please be aware that quite often we are in remote areas and away from medical facilities, and for legal reasons our leaders are prohibited from administering any type of drug including headache tablets, antibiotics, etc. When selecting your trip please carefully read the brochure and itinerary and assess your ability to cope with our style of travel. Please refer to the Physical and Culture Shock ratings for trip specific information. For travellers over 70 years a completed Medical Form is required. G Adventures reserves the right to exclude any traveller from all or part of a trip without refund if in the reasonable opinion of our CEO they are unable to complete the itinerary without undue risk to themselves and/or the rest of the group.
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:
Trip Specific Safety
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.
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.
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Minimum Age
Minimum age of 18 years for this trip.
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), local guides.
Day 1 Ho Chi Minh City
Welcome to bustling Ho Chi Minh City, one of Vietnam's most thriving cities.
There are no activities planned, but there will be a scheduled group meeting in the evening around 6pm. After the meeting, opt to head out for an optional dinner to get to know the CEO and fellow group members.
Until the meeting, enjoy free time to relax and explore the city. Why not take the chance to visit Thien Hau and Giac Vien pagodas, Ben Than Market, Reunification Palace or the War Remnants Museum?
Additional Notes:
Please check at the reception desk or look for a G Adventures notice board with details of the actual meeting time. At this meeting the CEO will ask to see your travel insurance, double check your Vietnam visa, and complete some other paper work. Please note that most nationalities require a visa to enter Vietnam. Please double check this with your travel agent or local Vietnamese Embassy.
Included Activities:
Arrival Day and Welcome Meeting
Day 2 Ho Chi Minh City/Bến Tre (1B)
In the morning, visit the Cu Chi Tunnels and learn about the Vietnam-American War. The Cu Chi Tunnels are a complex network of tunnels that Viet Cong forces lived in to protect themselves from the opposing forces. They stored ammunition, had underground hospitals and served as a hidden base to attack the allied forces. If you are not claustrophobic, you may want to crawl through some of the tunnel network to get a feel for what it must have been like during the war.
Approximate cycling distance: 25km (15 mi)
Included Activities:
Củ Chi Cycling
Cu Chi Tunnels Guided Tour
Load up the support vehicle with bikes in the morning and head out towards Cu Chi.
Private Vehicle (1.00-1.50 hours)
Drive from Cu Chi into the Mekong Delta.
Private Vehicle (1.00-2.00 hours)
Take the ferry across the Mekong to Ben Tre.
Day 3 Bến Tre/Cần Thơ (1B, 1D)
Breakfast this morning offers the chance to visit the market and try some local foods. Take a boat ride to explore the surrounding area, where there are a number of islands situated in the river which are sometimes not connected to the mainland other than by a small ferry. Once on the islands, it's time for some cycling.
Included Activities:
Cycling Bến Tre to Cần Thơ
Boat (1.00-2.00 hours)
Day 4 Cần Thơ/Châu Đốc (1B)
Upon waking, you will be wishing your time in the Delta won't end, but there is still time to see the floating markets for which this area has become quite well known. As most people will head to the chaotic main market near Can Tho, the hosts will take us to a real, local floating market where vegetables are tossed from craft to craft and a little coffee vendor boat bounces in and out of the gaps, serving strong iced coffee to both vendors and customers.
After taking some time to experience this explosion of colour and activity, return to the mainland. End up with an hour transfer to the hotel in Chau Doc city.
Included Activities:
Floating Market Visit
Cycling Cần Thơ to Châu Đốc
Drive from Long Xuyen to Chau Doc.
Private Vehicle (1.00 hour(s), 60km)
Day 5 Châu Đốc/Phnom Penh (1B)
Our Cambodian driver welcomes the group on the Cambodian side and takes us to Phnom Penh. Visit the Choeung Ek Genocidal Centre on the way back to Phnom Penh. Learn about one of the darkest points in the history of Cambodia during the Khmer Rough Regime. Arrive in Phnom Penh early in the afternoon.
Phnom Penh has had a turbulent history. When the French colonialists arrived, it was little more than a collection of wooden shacks by the river, but they soon changed that and in doing so created what was once considered a very beautiful city. When the Khmer Rouge evacuated the city in 1975, they started it on its way to decay and decline, a theme that had carried through until only fairly recently when the country's economic development accelerated rapidly.
Included Activities:
Border Crossing (Vietnam – Cambodia)
Drive from Chau Doc across the border into Cambodia and on to Phnom Penh.
Private Vehicle (2.00-2.50 hours, 140km)
Day 6 Phnom Penh (1B)
Cycle the Oudong Trail, starting along railway tracks before passing through the countryside to Oudong Mountain.
Included Activities:
Oudong Trail Cycling
Return to Phnom Penh from Oudong Mountain.
Private Vehicle (0.75-1.00 hours, 45km)
Day 7 Phnom Penh/Siem Reap (1B)
Enjoy this highlight ride and gain a unique perspective of Phnom Penh and its surrounds.
Shared Van (6.00 hour(s), 320km)
Day 8 Siem Reap (1B)
As first light dawns and the roosters begin to crow, the day begins at the most important religious monument in the country, looking at the triple towers of Angkor Wat across a reflecting pool. After the sun rises as a giant orange ball behind the towers, the crowds will thin out as most people return to bed. Instead, make use of the cool temperatures and soft morning light to explore Angkor Wat. Monkeys and a handful of other travellers are the only others at the site. A delicious breakfast spread awaits just a short pedal away. After filling up, continue to explore the iconic Angkor temples and some hidden treasures of the Angkor area. Ride through some lovely back trails and even ride atop the wall of Angkor Thom, overlooking the moat on the way back to Siem Reap.
Included Activities:
Angkor Wat Guided Tour
Angkor Wat Cycling
Day 9 Siem Reap (1B)
Bike to Tonle Sap Lake, visit the floating communities who make their home here and observe some of the birdlife before returning to Siem Reap.
Included Activities:
Cycling in Tonlé Sap Lake
Day 10 Siem Reap (1B)
Depart at any time.
Included Activities:
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Violet these days22 Jul 2014
This post is all about the sweet little lady pictured above. She got to choose the classes at this summer camp and is donning Harry Potter swag from her favorite class. She also chose to learn about food science and underground caves.
Violet started piano lessons a year ago. At that point I wanted her just to try it for the summer and get exposure to the basic concepts. At the end of the summer I gave her the option to quit lessons but she wanted to continue. Here we are a year later and she is still taking piano.
I've noticed a pattern. Violet's lessons are on Tuesday. Most Wednesdays she wants to quit piano. It is her first day with her new assignments and the most difficult day for practicing. I always tell her to let me know on Tuesday when we are at the music school but by then she feels much better about piano and is very proud of her achievements for the week and not thinking of all about quitting.
Here a video from her second recital.
Violet has an entrepreneurial side to her and she likes to dream big. Earlier this summer she talked for days about setting up a lemonade stand. Then she had an idea of selling some of her things in a garage sale. We wanted to support her and thought it would be a good experience. We chatted with some neighbors and found a few who were also interested in the idea so we set a date for a quasi "neighborhood garage sale" with lemonade concession. A couple of weeks before the sale Violet decided completely on her own with no suggestions from us to donate the money she made to cats who needed help. She also wanted to make origami, bracelets, scarfs, etc to raise money for the cause. We took her to Austin Pets Alive to find out how she could help our local homeless kitty population. Of course she wanted to take kitties home but it isn't in the cards for our family right now. Instead she learned APA is in constant need of clumping cat litter and monetary donations. Here are pictures from our garage sale day. We are so proud of our girl!


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There are two more Integrity projects in the works with Ashton-Drake as well. One is Disney related and the other is vampire related. Both will be under a new Couture Fantasy label. I cannot wait to see this.
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