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29 October 2013

Save on Spanish fiesta

Save at least NZ$257 on a 10-day adventure through Spain travelling from Barcelona to Madrid, through the ancient city of Valencia and on to the world famous nightlife and beaches of Ibiza with Topdeck.

The Spanish Fiesta explores Spains most wonderful cities, passionate culture, exquisite cuisine and stunning landscapes now from NZ$2313* per person, a 10% earlybird saving when booked by 15 January 2014.

The trip features a flamenco show in Barcelona, a free day to discover Gauds bizarre works such as La Sagrada Familia, Casa Batllo or Park Guell, a visit to Toledo, a walking tour of Valencia and three nights to explore the Mediterranean party paradise of Ibiza.

Spend your days soaking up the sun or checking out some of the islands World Heritage sites including Gods Finger in Benirras Bay and experience its electric atmosphere, buzzing nightclubs and top international DJs by night.

The trip features a small group size of between 16 to 20 people and includes nine breakfasts, five dinners, nine nights hotel accommodation in twin/double rooms, ferry crossing to Ibiza, a flight from Ibiza to Barcelona and services of a Topdeck trip leader.

For more information contact Topdeck on 0800 525 366, visit http://www.topdeck.travel or your local travel agent.

*Terms and conditions apply. 10% discount valid for new bookings made and paid in full by 15 January 2014. Advertised price includes 10% discount. Subject to availability.

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MIAMI BEACH, FL--(Marketwired - Oct 14, 2013) - Seth Gadinsky and Justin Schultz of Gadinsky Real Estate and legendary nightclub developers Cal Fortis and Ken Barilich -- of With Smith --announce the launch of their new collaboration: H3 Hospitality. The full service company will offer real estate, design, and operating services to hotels, restaurants, nightclubs and family entertainment properties.

The idea for the company came about when the four partners collaborated on a hotel project and realized that no other company in South Florida has the experience to provide all of these professional services to the hospitality industry.

"As Miami continues to grow as a global resort and nightlife destination, it is becoming more vital for hotels to activate every square inch of a property in order to flourish and stay profitable," says Gadinsky. "Yet many operators don't have the experience to make that happen, and that's where we come in. We evaluate space based on a hotel's branding objectives, and can either create and operate a one-of-a-kind concept or source the best restaurant, nightclub or retail operator to fit the vision for the property."

Further, as South Florida becomes more urban and vertical, many mixed-use projects are seeking entertainment operations to drive traffic.H3 scours the world for the newest and hippest concepts and currently works with international companies from Sweden, Russia, Ibiza and national companies in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York.

The four principals of H3 Hospitality will personally oversee every aspect of their client's projects from conceptualization and design, to operations and execution. They will also manage many of the more time consuming and tedious elements of the development process, such as facilitating licenses and permits, overseeing construction, and ensure projects are completed on time.

"We've assembled a formidable collective of diverse talent and experience at H3 Hospitality," says Fortis. "But the through line for us all is delivering high-concept, high-style commercial space environments. When you create a consistently unforgettable experience for guests and patrons, the result is a globally relevant brand that naturally drives revenue."

Fortis and Barilich, renowned for their vision and influence on the nightclub industry, are the creators and founders of the international award-winning brand CROBAR WORLDWIDE, which became the industry standard for DJ-driven nightclubs, with locations in Chicago, Miami, New York and Buenos Aires. Having also created Cameo, Rain, Vinyl and UK's mega club Gatecrasher, the duo has had a strong pulse on the nightlife scene for more than two decades. The two began working together in 1989 and continued their partnership in With Smith, a hospitality consulting firm with expertise in marketing, operations, concept development, and design.

Gadinsky and Schultz, who have worked together for the past four years, both have extensive experience in every aspect of retail, restaurant, and entertainment real estate from development and brokerage to consulting. They are preferred vendors for various national corporations and have an innate sense of the best locations for businesses and how to effectively monetize commercial space.Together they have structured and executed many high-profile south Florida retail and entertainment deals, including projects in Miami and Miami Beach.

H3 HOSPITALITYH3 Hospitality is a full service consulting company founded by nightlife visionaries Ken Barilich and Cal Fortis and retail real estate mavens Seth Gadinsky and Justin Schultz.Based in Miami Beach, the company's primary focus is to source, conceptualize, operate and consult on nightlife, retail, family entertainment and food and beverage to maximize revenue for the hotel and hospitality industry as well as for commercial developments. For more information, visit h3hospitality.com.

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Update: Gadinsky Real Estate Partners With Legendary Nightlife Duo to Target Under Serviced Market

MIAMI BEACH, FL--(Marketwired - Oct 10, 2013) - Seth Gadinsky and Justin Schultz of Gadinsky Real Estate and legendary nightclub developers Cal Fortis and Ken Barilich -- of Big Time Design Studios and With Smith -- announce the launch of their new collaboration: H3 Hospitality. The full service company will offer real estate, design, and operating services to hotels, restaurants, nightclubs and family entertainment properties.

The idea for the company came about when the four partners collaborated on a hotel project and realized that no other company in South Florida has the experience to provide all of these professional services to the hospitality industry.

"As Miami continues to grow as a global resort and nightlife destination, it is becoming more vital for hotels to activate every square inch of a property in order to flourish and stay profitable," says Gadinsky. "Yet many operators don't have the experience to make that happen, and that's where we come in. We evaluate space based on a hotel's branding objectives, and can either create and operate a one-of-a-kind concept or source the best restaurant, nightclub or retail operator to fit the vision for the property."

Further, as South Florida becomes more urban and vertical, many mixed-use projects are seeking entertainment operations to drive traffic. H3 scours the world for the newest and hippest concepts and currently works with international companies from Sweden, Russia, Ibiza and national companies in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York.

The four principals of H3 Hospitality will personally oversee every aspect of their client's projects from conceptualization and design, to operations and execution. They will also manage many of the more time consuming and tedious elements of the development process, such as facilitating licenses and permits, overseeing construction, and ensure projects are completed on time.

"We've assembled a formidable collective of diverse talent and experience at H3 Hospitality," says Fortis. "But the through line for us all is delivering high-concept, high-style commercial space environments. When you create a consistently unforgettable experience for guests and patrons, the result is a globally relevant brand that naturally drives revenue."

Fortis and Barilich, renowned for their vision and influence on the nightclub industry, are the creators and founders of the international award-winning brand Crobar, which became the industry standard for DJ-driven nightclubs, with locations in Chicago, Miami, New York and Buenos Aires. Having also created Cameo, Rain, Vinyl and UK's mega club Gatecrasher, the duo has had a strong pulse on the nightlife scene for more than two decades. The two began working together in 1989 with the launch of Big Time Design Studios -- a combination of design, fashion, music, branding and architecture services -- and continued their partnership in With Smith, a hospitality consulting firm with expertise in marketing, operations, design and architecture.

Gadinsky and Schultz, who have worked together for the past four years, both have extensive experience in every aspect of retail, restaurant, and entertainment real estate from development and brokerage to consulting. They are preferred vendors for various national corporations and have an innate sense of the best locations for businesses and how to effectively monetize commercial space. Together they have structured and executed many high-profile south Florida retail and entertainment deals, including projects in Miami and Miami Beach.

H3 HOSPITALITY H3 Hospitality is a full service consulting company founded by nightlife visionaries Ken Barilich and Cal Fortis and retail real estate mavens Seth Gadinsky and Justin Schultz. Based in Miami Beach, the company's primary focus is to source, conceptualize, operate and consult on nightlife, retail, family entertainment and food and beverage to maximize revenue for the hotel and hospitality industry as well as for commercial developments. For more information, visit h3hospitality.com.

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The drug and the music evolved together over years, making EDM a radically different culture today than it was when it started.

We dont know much about Meredith Hunter other than that he killed the American Hippie. We know that his friends called him Murdock, and that he was 18, and that there were three weeks until the last day of the 1960s. 300,000 people had gathered at the Altamont Raceway Park near San Francisco for Woodstocks Pacific reincarnation, but of the increasingly violent masses, he was the only one who stormed the stage with a gun, and the only one who was stabbed to death by a Hells Angel.

Today, we know Hunter mostly in the context of his death, but even there hes just a metaphor. In the rise-and-fall narrative of hippie culture, he is simply the Altamont tragedy, and Altamont is known as the day the music died.

In his reflections on the recent anniversary of the September 11th attacks, John Cassidy discusses the human saliency biasour habit of forming memories around jarring events rather than, say, a series of minor incidents whose impact nets about equal. This mechanism explains how and why history can link a generations implosion to one day at the end of the decade. For both sides of the culture, the tragedys gruesome rawness gave legitimacy to the concern that peace and love were quite literally killing the country.

Consider Olivia Rotondo, whose by-all-accounts-normal life suggests that her death could have happened to anyone. Four hours after tweeting her excitement about the Electric Zoo Festival on New York Citys Randalls Island, she collapsed in front of a paramedic, saying the seven words that in the weeks since have become a macabre Exhibit A in the campaign against the drug that is said to have killed her.

I just took six hits of Molly.

She died that night. Jeffrey Russ, a 23-year old also believed to have taken MDMA (the drugs proper name) had passed away 18 hours earlier. The following daywhat would have been the grand finale to the three-day gyration of 100,000 neon-clad raversRandalls Island was deserted and silent.

Since it first plugged in its equipment five summers ago, Electric Zoo has marked the end of the annual electronic festival season in the United States, the centerpiece each year of one of the countrys most mainstream and lucrative new artistic industries. In 2012, electronic dance music (EDM) spawned eleven platinum hits and increased the population of Miami by one quarter for one of the biggest American musical events since Woodstock. It has repackaged and commoditized the two-decade-old EDM mantra of Peace, Love, Unity, and Respect (usually abbreviated to PLUR) that apparently captures what this whole vision, with its bass drops and Day-Glo campiness, and a certain synthetic chemical stimulant, has always been about.

Its too soon to tell how the Electric Zoo tragedies will influence the cachet of either the music or MDMA use in America, though many believe they go hand-in-hand, to such an extent that its hard to determine exactly which came first.

If you look at electronic dance music culture, it seems to be more diverse, more accepting of the 'other',more welcoming of gay peoplea counter-ethos of were in it together, Dr. Rick Doblin, founder of the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), told me. Theres a spiritual aspect to it. For many, the drug serves that function. Theres something fundamentally wholesome about these communal dance parties.

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Electronic Dance Music’s Love Affair With MDMA: A History

The drug and the music evolved together over years, making EDM a radically different culture today than it was when it started.

We dont know much about Meredith Hunter other than that he killed the American Hippie. We know that his friends called him Murdock, and that he was 18, and that there were three weeks until the last day of the 1960s. 300,000 people had gathered at the Altamont Raceway Park near San Francisco for Woodstocks Pacific reincarnation, but of the increasingly violent masses, he was the only one who stormed the stage with a gun, and the only one who was stabbed to death by a Hells Angel.

Today, we know Hunter mostly in the context of his death, but even there hes just a metaphor. In the rise-and-fall narrative of hippie culture, he is simply the Altamont tragedy, and Altamont is known as the day the music died.

In his reflections on the recent anniversary of the September 11th attacks, John Cassidy discusses the human saliency biasour habit of forming memories around jarring events rather than, say, a series of minor incidents whose impact nets about equal. This mechanism explains how and why history can link a generations implosion to one day at the end of the decade. For both sides of the culture, the tragedys gruesome rawness gave legitimacy to the concern that peace and love were quite literally killing the country.

Consider Olivia Rotondo, whose by-all-accounts-normal life suggests that her death could have happened to anyone. Four hours after tweeting her excitement about the Electric Zoo Festival on New York Citys Randalls Island, she collapsed in front of a paramedic, saying the seven words that in the weeks since have become a macabre Exhibit A in the campaign against the drug that is said to have killed her.

I just took six hits of Molly.

She died that night. Jeffrey Russ, a 23-year old also believed to have taken MDMA (the drugs proper name) had passed away 18 hours earlier. The following daywhat would have been the grand finale to the three-day gyration of 100,000 neon-clad raversRandalls Island was deserted and silent.

Since it first plugged in its equipment five summers ago, Electric Zoo has marked the end of the annual electronic festival season in the United States, the centerpiece each year of one of the countrys most mainstream and lucrative new artistic industries. In 2012, electronic dance music (EDM) spawned eleven platinum hits and increased the population of Miami by one quarter for one of the biggest American musical events since Woodstock. It has repackaged and commoditized the two-decade-old EDM mantra of Peace, Love, Unity, and Respect (usually abbreviated to PLUR) that apparently captures what this whole vision, with its bass drops and Day-Glo campiness, and a certain synthetic chemical stimulant, has always been about.

Its too soon to tell how the Electric Zoo tragedies will influence the cachet of either the music or MDMA use in America, though many believe they go hand-in-hand, to such an extent that its hard to determine exactly which came first.

If you look at electronic dance music culture, it seems to be more diverse, more accepting of the 'other',more welcoming of gay peoplea counter-ethos of were in it together, Dr. Rick Doblin, founder of the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), told me. Theres a spiritual aspect to it. For many, the drug serves that function. Theres something fundamentally wholesome about these communal dance parties.

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Electronic Dance Music’s Love Affair With Ecstasy: A History