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Sunrise Nha Trang Beach Hotel & SpaNha Trang 2 km from city centre 1072 reviews
Sunrise Nha Trang has 120 sea facing balcony rooms (35-79sqm) with a gorgeous view of Nha Trang Bay which belongs to the 29...
Sheraton Nha Trang Hotel & SpaNha Trang 582 m from city centre 1538 reviews
Location The hotel is on Tran Phu Street, one of Nha Trang's most beautiful streets. It offers guests a convenient location, just across...
Resort Evason Ana Mandara Nha TrangNha Trang 14.6 km from city centre 1150 reviews
A stay at Evason Ana Mandara Nha Trang places you in the heart of Nha Trang, minutes from Phu Dong Water Park and close to Vinpearl Land....
Vinpearl Nha Trang ResortNha Trang 6.4 km from city centre 893 reviews
Blending modern western and traditional eastern styles, this international entertainment-cum-tourism complex can satisfy the most...
Hotel Diamond Bay Resort & GolfNha Trang 598 reviews
Garden Superior room is a 38m2 spacious and well-appointed rooms with balcony or terrace. Flat television, in-room safe, hairdryer,...
Novotel Nha TrangNha Trang 1.6 km from city centre 1737 reviews
This 4 star hotel is located in the city centre of Nha Trang and was established in 2008. It is close to the Ponagar Cham Tower.
Hotel Six Senses Ninh Van BayNha Trang 1005 reviews
Beach Villas offer separate sleeping and living area, open-air bathroom with full amenities provided. Main restaurant serving...
Hotel Amiana Resort Nha TrangNha Trang 6.3 km from city centre 0 reviews
Bacaro - All across Asia,food is shared in small portions enjoyed throughout the day. Bacaro has mixed this delightful social tradition...
Hotel Nha Trang LodgeNha Trang 1.1 km from city centre 189 reviews
With a stay at Nha Trang Lodge Hotel, you'll be centrally located in Nha Trang, steps from Tram Huong Tower and minutes from Nha Trang...
Asia Paradise HotelNha Trang 2 km from city centre 106 reviews
Asia Paradise offers our guests 114 air-conditioned rooms and suites that provide the comfort of your own home with a touch for luxury....
Yasaka Saigon Nhatrang Resort Hotel & SpaNha Trang 2 km from city centre 297 reviews
With a stay at Yasaka Saigon Nha Trang Hotel, you'll be centrally located in Nha Trang, steps from Khanh Hoa Museum and minutes from...
Hotel White Sand Doclet Resort & SpaNha Trang 157 reviews
When you stay at White Sand Doclet Resort & Spa in Ninh Hoa, you'll be by the sea and convenient to Doc Let Beach. This 4-star resort is...
Hotel Nhat ThanhNha Trang 32 reviews
With a stay at Nhat Thanh Hotel, you'll be centrally located in Nha Trang, steps from Dam Market and minutes from Alexandre Yersin...
The Light Hotel & ResortNha Trang 284 reviews
With a stay at The Light Hotel and Resort, you'll be centrally located in Nha Trang, steps from Louisiane Brewhouse and minutes from Phu...
Prime HotelNha Trang 214 reviews
With a stay at Prime Hotel, you'll be centrally located in Nha Trang, steps from April 2 Square and Nha Trang Night Market. This hotel is...
Havana Nha Trang HotelNha Trang 895 m from city centre 0 reviews
The hotel is located at the right center of the most famost avenue Tran Phu on the coast city in Nha Trang Bay which is among one of the...
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When the Mets needed an emergency starter in 2001 they reached down to the minors and tapped Brett Hinchliffe, a career minor leaguer who had two brief stints in the majors with the Seattle Mariners and Anaheim Angels. Hinchliffe started against the Milwaukee Brewers on April 26 but lasted just 2 innings yielding 9 hits and 8 runs and suffered the loss in a game the Mets would lose 12-8. Following the game he was shipped back down to the minors. It would be his only appearance as a Met and his last appearance in a Major League uniform.
While with the Mets Hinchliffe wore number 32.
Brett Hinchliffe also played for the following teams:
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The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) ranked The University of Texas at Austin number one in the world in the discipline "Mathematics: Interdisciplinary Applications," the academic area addressed by the university's Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES).
ICES is an interdisciplinary unit that organizes, administers, and manages interdisciplinary research, and teaching of the University's offerings in computational science and applied mathematics. This includes the graduate degree program in Computational Science, Engineering, and Mathematics (CSEM).
CWUR has published a global ranking of universities since 2012, but this is their first set of subject rankings. The subject rankings list top 10 institutions in each field. They are based on the number of research articles in the world's most elite journals – using data from Clarivate Analytics, previously part of Thomson Reuters.
The CWUR Rankings by Subject 2017 represent the first national or international effort to include interdisciplinary mathematics applications programs, a relatively new academic area.
The University of Texas and ICES' number one ranking was followed by Stanford University; Northwestern University; Polytechnic University of Catalonia; University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign; Dalian University of Technology; University of California, San Diego; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; National University of Singapore; and Technical University of Munich.
Currently ICES oversees more than 164 interdisciplinary research projects involving faculty from 18 academic departments and five schools and colleges within the university.
"This ranking reflects the remarkable history of ICES over the last quarter century that led to UT's ranking as a world leader among interdisciplinary applied math programs," said J. Tinsley Oden, director of ICES. "We have acquired more than $500 million in research and philanthropic funding during that time, which produced research publications other scholars cited more than 500,000 times. To further share our scientific and mathematical insights and gain new perspectives, we have supported more than 1,000 visiting scholars from around the world whom we hosted at ICES."
The Institute supports 46 core faculty and more than 150 affiliated faculty who research and teach in the graduate program known as the Computational Science, Engineering, and Mathematics (CSEM) Graduate Studies program. The core faculty have generated more than 515,000 citations for their published work, have numerous honorary doctorates, and memberships in more than 20 national academies worldwide.
CWUR developed the largest academic ranking of global universities that measured the quality of education and training of students, as well as the prestige of the faculty members and the quality of their resources, without relying on surveys and university data submissions, as do some other rankings.


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With its Espresso Black ImPrint finish, crop circle pattern on the lid, and polished chrome trim, the dv7-3063cl is sure to turn a few heads, but you'll want to keep a polishing cloth handy as it attracts more than its fair share of fingerprint smudges. The system weighs in at 7 pounds (7.8 pounds travel weight), which is not unreasonable for a desktop replacement but not something that you'd want to tote around all day long either.
Beneath the massive lid is a beautiful 17.3-inch LED backlit display with a 1600 by 900 resolution and an HD-friendly 16:9 aspect ratio. Although the screen cannot display 1080p high definition video, it handles 720p wonderfully. Colors are bold and video plays smoothly, and the panel's wide viewing angle performance means you can watch videos with friends without experiencing color shifting or a darkened screen. Unfortunately, this model doesn't come with a Blu-ray drive or a TV tuner, so your HD content will have to come from another source. However, you do get a multi-format DVD burner, and there's a Webcam embedded in the screen's upper bezel.
The keyboard deck on the dv7-3063cl features the same ImPrint finish found on the lid. The touchpad and mouse buttons are done up in polished chrome, which looks nice until you use them, at which point they become gunked up with fingerprints. Additionally, the chrome finish does not offer the best surface for cursor control as it tends to add too much drag; a slightly textured surface would have been better. The mouse buttons are a tad loud, too. The full sized keyboard is roomy and comfortable, however, and it has a dedicated number pad. Above the keyboard are media player controls, a volume slider, and a Wi-Fi switch, all of which are touch-sensitive.
The embedded Altec Lansing speakers deliver good mid and high tones and are reasonably loud but not very deep when it comes to bass response. There are two headphone jacks and a microphone input mounted on the front of the unit, and you get a neat little media player remote that can be stored away in the ExpressCard slot.
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Driven by a low-cost dual-core 2.3GHz AMD Turion II M520 CPU and 4GB of DDR2 system memory, the dv7-3063cl performed like a budget system. It was unable to run FutureMark's PCMark Vantage benchmark test. Its CineBench R10 score of 4746 was a bit lower than that of the Dell Studio 1737 (s1737-USE0145), another big screen budget system, and it was more than 1,000 points lower than our current Editors' Choice multimedia system, the HP HDX18t. It completed our Windows Media Encoder test in 1 minute 9 seconds, which was slightly faster than the Dell 1737 and Intel-based Pavilion dv7-2173cl but still slower than the HP HDX18t. The ATI Mobility Radeon 4200 integrated graphics controller is adequate for very light, low-resolution gaming, but you'll need a more powerful GPU to play graphics-intensive 3D games.
The 8-cell Lithium Ion battery lasted 3 hours 45 minutes on our MobileMark 2007 test, which is not bad at all for such a big system, but chances are you won't stray too far from a desktop as a result.
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The main difference according to Ayers is that the Weather Underground, even with all its destruction of private and government property, never killed anyone. He justified what his group did back in the 60's and 70's as protests against U.S. foreign policy which resulted in thousands dying in the Vietnam War.
He said that he was being unfairly criticized for violence while John McCain got away with committing "daily war crimes" in Vietnam:
"…I get asked about violence when what I did was some destruction of property to issue a scream and cry against an illegal war in which 6,000 people a week are being killed. Six thousand a week being killed and I destroyed some property. Show me the equivalence. You should ask John McCain that question … I'm against violence. To conflate a group of fundamentalist people [in Boston] who are nihilistic in some way with a group of people who spent their lives trying to oppose the murder of 6,000 people a week … and still the killing went on. And still the killing went on. What would you have done? There's no equivalence [with Boston]. Property damage. That's what we did."
I'm sure like any "principled" liberal that he also opposes our current foreign policy that has seen many deaths of American soldiers as well as innocent Middle Eastern civilians. What if the Boston bombers turned out to be a couple of anti-war liberal protesters who ended up killing a few people and damaging property in their protest against U.S. foreign policy? Then would he be OK with it? After all, he might agree that the U.S. commits "daily war crimes" in the Middle East that have caused many deaths there, so what's a few deaths here? Three people dying here doesn't compare with the thousands that have died over there, he might say.
The real reason he objects to people comparing his group with the Tsarnaev brothers is that he doesn't want to be associated with terrorism. Left-wing terrorism doesn't exist. What he and his group did 40 years ago wasn't terrorism. It was "education." This is what he said in his book about his Weatherman experiences:
"Terrorists terrorize, they kill innocent civilians, while we organized and agitated. Terrorists destroy randomly, while our actions bore, we hoped, the precise stamp of a cut diamond. Terrorists intimidate, while we aimed only to educate. No, we're not terrorists."
I guess it's only fitting that Ayers was a professor at the University of Illinois at the Chicago College of Education.
And about his statement that his group never killed anyone, that's not entirely true. In March of 1970, a group of Weathermen were assembling an explosive device with dynamite, and it exploded prematurely, killing three people and injuring two others. It also leveled their 4-story Manhattan townhouse.
I'm sure Ayers would say that doesn't count, because it was completely accidental, and they wouldn't have intentionally killed their own people. But if it weren't for their group being so intent on destruction, they wouldn't have died.
Ayers and the Tsarnaev brothers may have had different ideologies driving them, but their methods were the same.


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To play in the highest settings and resolutions fluently, a mobile high-end graphics card like a GeForce GTX 560M or a mid range desktop card like the GeForce GTS 450 are needed.
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The Richard M. Allen Scholarship has been established with the SWOSU College of Pharmacy Alumni Foundation in Weatherford to provide an annual $1,000 scholarship to a deserving pharmacy student.
Classmates of SWOSU College of Pharmacy graduate Rick Allen of Dallas (TX) set up the fund to honor him and to show their SWOSU pharmacy pride.
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8 months later, I finally rooted my Verizon Galaxy Nexus because WugFresh makes it too easy not to
Rooting my phone and then flashing a custom ROM is something I've done on every Android device – except my Galaxy Nexus until 16 hours ago. The Nexus was the first phone I've ever used to provide access to every feature that I wanted or needed, so I never felt the urge to bother trying to fix something that already works.
But then Android Jelly Bean came out and I got hooked. It was annoying to use the 4.1 on a HSPA+ Nexus that I got at I/O, and then be stuck on 4.0.4 on my CDMA/LTE. When I thought about how long it took Verizon to deliver 4.0.4, I said, "To hell with that, I'm flashing something on here."
That's when I came across WugFresh's Root Toolkit, a Windows program that made it too damn easy for me not to give in to my root desires. The toolkit connects to the phone through USB and then guides users through a step-by-step process with no heavy lifting. My phone was rooted and unlocked within 20 minutes.
The process was so easy that I'm going to repeat the steps again in a few hours with my Nexus 7. I'm able to do this of course because the toolkit supports all modern Nexus devices, including the GSM and CDMA/LTE variants. You can get all the files and info you need here.
So why not after all this time did I decide to root?
I like to think it was the perfect storm of motivation, opportunity, and assistance. Wug's kit made it incredibly easy, even for a rusty user like me who hasn't done any tinkering in months. I wasn't about to put up with Verizon dragging its feet on the Jelly Bean update, and I've heard great things about Peter Alfonso's Bugless Beast, so it just felt like the right time.
Flashing custom ROM's is not something that I recommend to most users. It requires paying extra attention to detail and changes in the dev scene, and doesn't always provide the extra features that will appeal to you. I reached a point where being unwilling to wait made sense for me to dive back in, but I've got a lot of reading and catching up to do before I revert to my old ways of flashing a new ROM every time the moon changes. Be sure to think about why you're rooting and if what you'll gain is worth the effort, and always pay attention to instructions. Thankfully, there are tools that make the process far less daunting than when I first started.
[WugFresh] Thanks, Randy!


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TAXPAYERS would refund childcare teachers' study costs, under a new plan to deal with a daycare staffing crisis.
Treasury calculates the "forget-the-debt" scheme would cost about $10m over the next four years.
The Greens will ask the federal government today to waive a year's university debt for every year a teaching graduate works in a daycare centre.
National childcare regulations will force all centres to employ at least one university-qualified early childhood teacher by the year's end.
But the Australian Childcare Alliance, representing private centres, yesterday warned of a shortage of 3000 teachers.
Alliance president Gwynn Bridge said daycare operators would have to obtain staffing "waivers" from state and territory governments to avoid closure.
"In a year's time they will need to get waivers because this is a regulation many services won't be able to meet, not through any fault of their own," she said.
Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young said daycare was just as important as school.
"The big struggle for childcare centres is getting people appropriately trained and then getting them to stay in the sector,' she said yesterday.
"They're moving out and going to work in primary schools where they get better pay and conditions."
The federal government already waives university debts by up to $3488 per year, for five years, for early childcare university graduates who work in regional and remote areas, indigenous communities and suburbs of high disadvantage.
A graduate can receive up to $16,000 in exemptions from the Higher Education Loan Program (HELP) and the Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS).
But the Greens want the federal government to expand the scheme in the May budget, to pay $5868 per year over three years - or a total of $17,604 - for all graduate teachers employed in childcare.
Those working in priority areas would have their debts fully waived after just two years' work in a daycare centre.
Treasury estimates the scheme would cost $9.8m over the next four years, and assist 413 graduates in its first year.
The Productivity Commission has found that many early childcare teachers prefer to work in schools, where they are paid more to work less.
Most schools provide 12 weeks' holidays instead of four, and shorter working hours than long daycare centres.
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Looking for a super Halloween costume, ladies? Anybody who can get their hands on a red wig is probably going to be the "Avengers" Black Widow. But you're more discerning. You want a character with even cooler hair. And maybe some superpowers. We've got the perfect idea, a Storm X-Men costume. To inspire some Storm costume ideas, we're going to give you some inspiration for your Storm costume, DIY style.
Played by Halle Berry in the "X-Men" trilogy, Storm has gorgeous silver/white hair, a cool superhero costume, and the power to control the weather.
You can get the look with this white wig or this silvery one, depending on what floats your boat.
If you are looking for a short hair wig to match the newest version seen in X-Men: Days of Future Past, and the upcoming X-Men: Apocalypse film, try this silver superhero wig instead.
Silver Superhero Wig
And if you don't happen to have a black leather jumpsuit just lying around... well, try this one on for size. It's technically a Black Widow jumpsuit... but you could just make an X out of silver duct tape and put it over the buckle and no one would know the difference. Plus, next year you can get that red wig and recycle the costume for Black Widow. It's a great investment! We've also got an unofficial version of the classic Storm costume that includes a jumpsuit and cape. It's a great budget-friendly option - check it out!
Thunder Superhero Costume
In the upcoming film in the franchise, X-Men: Apocalypse, it appears we will be seeing a younger version of Storm. Played by Alexandra Shipp, young Storm will be rocking a silver mohawk and a purple version of the iconic jumpsuit with cape.
This deluxe velvet and satin hooded cape could be modified into a young Storm cape. You could also turn this adult deluxe batgirl cape inside out to highlight the purple. The bustier chest piece will be the trickiest part, with a clear look at the fabric and style currently unavailable. Our women's purple leggings will give you a great start, though...or should we say a leg up!
There are a few other steps you can take if you want your Storm costume to stand out. In the movies, when Storm uses her weather powers, her eyes go white, like so:
You can easily get this look from some creepy white contact lenses.
Also, in the comics, Storm went through a punk phase and adopted a sweet white mohawk.
If you're good with hair, you can get one of those white wigs and style it up! Storm has also been known to rock a cape. And you can, too! How about this one?
(Black Hooded cape)
Don't forget shoes. Storm should have some kickass black boots. You're probably wearing some right now, but just in case you don't have any, you could look at these, sexy knee-high boots are more your speed.
(Sexy knee high boots)
Whatever accessories you choose, you'll be sure to rock your costume party like a hurricane.
Renata Sancken is a staff writer for HalloweenCostumes.com


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As for mending, I think it's good to take the time to fix something rather than throw it away. It's an antidote to wastefulness and to the need for immediate gratification. You get to see a whole process through, beginning to end, nothing abstract about it. You'll always notice the fabric scar, of course, but there's an art to mending: If you're careful, the repair can actually add to the beauty of the thing, because it is testimony to its worth. -From The Art of Mending, page 14-
Elizabeth Berg has written a story of family secrets and ultimately forgiveness in her thirteenth novel. I don't believe this is Berg's best effort – the story felt a bit contrived to me and the characters are deeply flawed. And there is plenty of blame to go around in this dysfunctional family.
Luckily, Berg revealed her brilliance as a writer enough times to redeem the novel for me. The carefully drawn character of Laura (the narrator) along with her friend, Maggie, uncover the joy of women's friendships – a common theme in Berg's novels. Berg's ability to uncover the truths of every day life always astounds me. At one point, she describes Laura's addiction to quilting and her penchant to collect fabric – needed or not. It reminded me of a recent conversation I had on a book group where the participants were discussing "hiding" their newest purchases from their loved ones who thought they already had enough unread books in their home. It is passages like this that kept me reading:
One of the reasons I liked to be in fabric stores was that I was surrounded by people who shared the same benign illness as I. Once, waiting in line to pay for a nice selection of miniature florals, I'd heard the woman ahead of me say, "I have to hurry up and get home and hide this. If my husband sees me bringing in more fabric, he'll kill me." "Oh, I know," the woman she'd spoken to had answered. "I've been hiding mine for years. Try taking it home in a grocery bag. Just throw a box of Kotex on top and he won't go near it." That second woman had such a high pile of fabric in her arms she could hardly see over it. When the clerk who rang her up had asked what she was going to make with it, the woman answered with no sense of irony whatsoever, "Nothing." I smiled at the woman behind me, who shrugged and said, "You know what they say. Whoever dies with the most fabric wins." -From The Art of Mending, page 137-
This was a quick read and Berg's literary style and appeal kept me turning the pages despite the thin plot.
Cautiously recommended.


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Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Jacob Roberts '19
Produced by David Shayne '19
Lowell Small Courtyard
Friday, April 28, time to be announced
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A rollicking Shakespearean comedy. Come see this tale of misperception and misrule—outdoors in the Lowell Courtyard!
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The Great Dickens Christmas Fair is a one-of-a-kind holiday adventure into Victorian London – an elaborate party with hundreds of costumed players performing and interacting with patrons in over 120,000 square feet of theatrically-lit music halls, pubs, dance floors, and Christmas shops. It's a twilight evening in Charles Dickens' London Town – a city of winding lanes filled with colorful characters from both literature and history. Enticing aromas of roasted chestnuts and hearty foods fill the air. Cries of street vendors hawking their wares ring out above the bustling crowd. Dozens of lamplit shops are filled to overflowing with Christmas gifts. The Dickens Christmas Fair is a treasured Bay Area tradition since 1970 and a splendid way to celebrate the holidays.
December 2 & 3, 2017, Cow Palace Exhibition Halls, Daly City, CA.
Adult/General Admission (13+): $30.00
Children (5-12yrs): $14.00 (Children under 5 are always free!)
Pickwick Club 2017 Season Pass: $105.00 (a $330.00 value!)
Adult Twilight Tickets, available after 3:00 PM: $18.00 (available only at the box office)
Child Twilight Tickets, available after 3:00 PM: $10.00 (available only at the box office)
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I HATE this zoo for allowing my little chimp to die. He was cared for with a vet that specializes in Reptiles! For Goodness sake/ if you scroll down you can read all of the posts about our little Louie and the uncaring way they told us about him. Our hearts are broken to say the least. We thought they would be well taken care of. My other chimp, Mikey is still being housed all by himself after 2 years. I believe they have no idea what they are doing. Sometimes it just seems as though no one cares. I even contacted Bruce Wagman of the aldf (whom I thought was a friend of mine and cared for all animals,) BUT he wasn't interested in helping me get Mikey out of there where he could be safe and with other chimps. The place where he should be I have been there dozens of times and actually placed a monkey there who is thriving with his female friend.
If anyone can help my little chimp who I love soooo much please contact me through this blog. The writer of this article, if you would like to know some of the real truth about this zoo, I'm the one to tell you. I would be more than happy to tell you everything from my own experience and things that were told to me by one of the caretakers of the zoo. Just google my name for my history.
Contact: Catherine Doyle, 323-301-5730, firstname.lastname@example.com
Little Rock, Ark. (January 17, 2012) – The 2011 list of the Ten Worst Zoos for Elephants, released yesterday by In Defense of Animals (IDA), once again exposes the hidden suffering of elephants in zoos, where lack of space, unsuitably cold climates and unnatural conditions condemn Earth's largest land mammals to lifetimes of deprivation, disease and early death. The list is in its eighth year.
A promising trend toward the closure of inadequate elephant displays continued in 2011 and includes zoos that have appeared on IDA's annual list. The most recent are the Central Florida Zoo and Southwick's Zoo in Massachusetts. The Toronto Zoo's appearance on the 2009 list sparked a campaign that led to the closure of that exhibit in 2012. This brings the number of zoos that have closed or will close their elephant exhibits to 22, and zoo experts expect that number to rise.
The Little Rock Zoo appears for the first time on IDA's list with the following entry:
Little Rock Zoo (Arkansas) – Two's not a crowd. After the death of Mary in 2011, IDA urged the zoo not to seek a cage-mate for remaining elephant Ellen but to instead close its outdated exhibit and send Ellen to a spacious, natural-habitat sanctuary. Instead, the zoo recklessly rushed in two older elephants acquired from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus – even though Ellen and one of the elephants were predictably incompatible – in order to meet the required AZA minimum of three elephants. Ellen died less than a month later, and the zoo found itself with two elephants and again out of compliance. With a shortage of elephants in zoos, it's only a matter of time before this zoo is forced to end its elephant program. It should save Little Rock taxpayers some money and the elephants a lot of misery by ending its elephant program now.
The San Diego Zoo Safari Park (California) earns yet another dishonorable mention, and the San Antonio Zoo (Texas) becomes the newest inductee into the Worst Zoos for Elephants Hall of Shame, a special honor reserved for the worst repeat offenders.
Another result of IDA's relentless advocacy for elephants in zoos has been the creation of an historic management policy by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA). The new policy calls for an end to handling that requires keepers to share the same unrestricted space with elephants. If the AZA is serious about enforcing this policy, it will facilitate an end to the use of the bullhook, a weapon used by keepers to threaten and often inflict painful physical punishment.
"IDA's Ten Worst Zoos for Elephants list illustrates the many serious problems that condemn elephants to lives of misery in zoos," said IDA Elephant Campaign Director Catherine Doyle. "These include abnormal repetitive behaviors, hyper-aggression, social isolation, and deadly conditions such as foot and joint disease caused by lack of space and movement."
"Scientific research has shown what elephants need: space to walk miles every day, large families with whom to spend their lives, and rich natural environments," said Doyle. "Caging elephants in zoo displays is not humane and it is not conservation."
For more information, please visit www.HelpElephants.com.
Contact: Catherine Doyle, 323-301-5730, email@example.com
In Defense of Animals is an international animal protection organization located in San Rafael, Calif. dedicated to protecting animals' rights, welfare, and habitat through education, outreach, and our hands-on rescue facilities in India, Africa, and rural Mississippi.
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Ever since Rihanna introduced furry sliders into fashion land with Puma last year, fashionable slippers have actually become a thing. Back in the days we would only allow ourselves to wear this sporty footwear after gym class hoping nobody would see us leaving the shower in these horror pieces. Yet, this summer it's impossible to imagine a world without fancy sliders. From high end to affordable brands, everyone wants to have its share in this trend right now.
Get those pedicures done honeys, because this summer we want to spot sliders in every single color!
Below you will find our ten favorite picks for this season!
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Not many people know Palmer Luckey. He is the person who created his first virtual reality headset and eventually makes a company out of it. He is only 22 years old. Last year, Facebook bought his company for $2 Billion, making his wealth swollen to more than $500 million, according to Forbes estimation.
Let us take a look how his life has changed after the bought over.
Luckey currently lives in Silicon Valley town. Some of the known figure who is also lives in the area such as Google chairman, Eric Schmidt and HP CEO Meg Whitman. Apparently, he spends a lot of time in executive-level suite in Facebook Headquarter in Menlo Park.
Luckey is a laid-back person. He is known for his casual look. On a typical day, he wears a Hawaiian shirt and sandals. If possible he prefers to be barefoot. In an interview with Telegraph, "We invented shoes to protect our feet from the harsh environment, but I live in modern-day California. It's pretty safe here. Nothing's going to happen if I take them off".
After the Facebook deal, he bought a $120,000 Tesla Model S. He also drives 1986 GMC van which comes with a red shag carpet inside.
He spent the last year traveling, recruiting engineers and demoing in Rift. He also traveled to Cologne, Germany where the Gamescom exhibition took place. In October, his work in virtual reality has been honored by Smithsonian with an American Ingenuity Award.
Overall, Palmer Luckey tends to shy away from the media as he figured that it was not really about him but it was about something bigger than any of us.


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Terry Collins
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Terry Lee Collins[1] (born May 27, 1949,[1] in Midland, Michigan[2]) is the manager for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball. A former minor league shortstop, Collins has managed the Albuquerque Dukes of the Pacific Coast League, the Buffalo Bisons of the International League, and the Duluth Huskies of the summer collegiate Northwoods League at the minor league level, and the Houston Astros, Anaheim Angels, and New York Mets at the major league level. Collins is known as a "feisty and intense manager."[3]
- College career 1
- Playing career 2
Managing career 3
- 1981-1992 3.1
- 1993-96, Houston Astros 3.2
- 1997-99, Anaheim Angels 3.3
- 2006-2009 3.4
- 2010-present, New York Mets 3.5
- References 4
- External links 5
College career
Collins attended college at Eastern Michigan University from 1968–1971, where he played shortstop. In each of the four years he attended Eastern Michigan, Collins led the team in steals. He was on the Eastern Michigan team that won the NAIA national championship in 1971, at which he won the honor of Outstanding Defensive Player of the Tournament. Collins was inducted into the Eastern Michigan University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1994.
Playing career
In 1971, Collins was drafted by the
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- Career statistics and player information from The Baseball Cube, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)
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External links
- ^ a b c d "Terry Collins statistics".
- ^ a b Holtzman, Jerome (October 1994). 94 Astros Didn't Magically Become Contenders in N.L."'".
- ^ Waldstein, David (21 November 2010). "Collins Is Mets' Choice for Manager".
- ^ a b c d Martino, Andy (23 November 2010). "Mets manager Terry Collins brings stigma of rough go-round with Angels, but gains players' respect".
- ^ "Bisons All 25 Seasons' Team". Retrieved 29 August 2012.
- ^ a b c Rubin, Adam (December 8, 2010). "Leyland praises Collins". ESPNNewYork.com. Retrieved December 12, 2010.
- ^ a b c "Collins Hired By Astros".
- ^ "Buffalo Baseball Hall of Fame". Retrieved 29 August 2012.
- ^ a b c Peters, Ken (November 4, 1996). "Angels to Name Terry Collins".
- ^ http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?c_id=mlb&content_id=50514456&partnerId=as_mlb_20130613_8810044&vkey=pr_mlb&ymd=20130613
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- ^ Press Release. "Huskies Hire Former MLB Manager".
- ^ Costa, Brian (30 May 2010). "Q&A with Mets minor-league field coordinator Terry Collins".
^ a b DiComo, Anthony (November 23, 2010). "Fiery Collins takes over as Mets manager". MLB.com. Mets.MLB.com. Retrieved June 11, 2012.
Collins...requested uniform No. 10 in honor of one of his first managerial mentors, Jim Leyland.
- ^ Rubin, Adam (28 September 2011). "Mets pick up option for Terry Collins". ESPNNewYork.com.
- ^ "Collins, Johnson on NL All-Star staff". Associated Press. June 12, 2013.
- ^ "Mets give Collins extension". ESPN. September 30, 2013.
At the end of September 2013, Collins agreed to a two-year extension with the Mets with a club option for 2016.[17]
In 2012, after the Mets 46-40 record at the All-Star Break, Tony La Russa selected Collins as one of his coaches to the 2012 All-Star Game. In 2013, Bruce Bochy selected Collins as one of his coaches to the 2013 All-Star Game at Citi Field.[16]
On September 27, 2011, the Mets announced that they would pick up Collins' option for the 2013 season.[15]
Collins wears number 10 to honor his managing mentor and friend Jim Leyland of the Detroit Tigers.[6][14] Collins served on Leyland's coaching staff when he was manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1992 and 1993.[6]
[14] Collins was introduced as Mets manager on November 23, 2010, signing a two year deal.[13] Collins spent the 2010 season as the
2010-present, New York Mets
On July 20, 2009, the Duluth Huskies of the Northwoods League announced that Collins would manage the team for the rest of the season after firing their field manager a few days prior.[12]
Collins became the manager of the China national baseball team at the end of the year, in time for the 2009 World Baseball Classic.
At the end of the 2006 season, Collins signed a two-year deal to manage the Orix Buffaloes of the Pacific League in Japan.[4] Terry resigned as manager of the Buffaloes on May 21, 2008 after a 7-3 inter-league loss to the Hanshin Tigers.[4] Orix were in 5th place in the Pacific League with a 21-28 record, despite investments in players such as Alex Cabrera in the prior off-season. Injuries to the Buffaloes pitching staff certainly didn't help Collins' situation. However, the Buffaloes bounced back and finished second by the end of the season.
Less than a month after being dismissed by the Astros, Collins was hired as manager of the Anaheim Angels for the 1997 season.[9] His first two years with the Angels also produced winning records and second-place finishes. In 1999, the Angels were hampered by injuries and Collins resigned with 29 games left in the season. He apparently received a vote of confidence from the front office, but the players had petitioned GM Bill Bavasi to fire him.[4]
1997-99, Anaheim Angels
Adversity is part of baseball; if a manager can't cope with it his team will suffer. Terry Collins, the skipper of the Anaheim Angels learned this lesson when he was with Houston. The Astros were a talented team when Collins was there (1994-96). They finished second three times, but failed to make the playoffs because their manager exerted too much pressure on them. He was so uptight, his players thought each pitch was life-or-death. It wasn't anything Terry said; it was his demeanor. Collins was edgy in the dugout during games, always looking like someone who was just waiting for disaster to strike. At the moment anything actually went wrong you could smell the panic in him. Players picked up on that. To alleviate the tension the manger was bringing to the clubhouse, they put added pressure on themselves to perform well, which invariably choked off their natural abilities so that they can't play their best. Its no coincidence that the Astros became a post-season participant once Houston replaced Collins with Larry Dierker. I dont know if Larry knows more about baseball than Collins, but he does have a laid-back attitude that immediately puts his players at ease. Dierker kept the pressure off the team by reminding them that while the goal of winning is serious, the game is still essentially supposed to be fun. (By the way, I have been watching Collins since he joined the Angels and he's a much more laid-back skipper. When I complimented him on this change, he said former Angel infielder-outfielder Tony Phillips had spoken to him about relaxing more and that it has really made an impression.)[11]
Baseball analyst [11] Writing in 1999, Morgan says:
After the 1993 season, the Houston Astros fired manager Art Howe because the owner did not favor Howe's "deliberate style."[7] Astros General Manager Bob Watson replaced him with Collins,[7] who never had a losing season in his three years there. The Astros finished second all three years.[9] He was dismissed at the end of the 1996 season, after the Astros suffered a late-season collapse.[9] In 1995, Collins was a coach at the All-Star Game.[10]
1993-96, Houston Astros
In 1981, Collins began his managing career as pilot of the Dodgers' Class-A Lodi affiliate in the California League. In 1983, he managed the Albuquerque Dukes, the Dodgers' AAA affiliate, where in 1987, he won the PCL championship. He managed three years in Buffalo, the Pirates' AAA affiliate, winning 246 games in the process.[5] He was promoted to bullpen coach for the Pirates in 1992, where he coached until the end of the 1993 season.[6][7] In honor of his achievements in Buffalo, he was inducted into the Buffalo Baseball Hall of Fame in 1992.[8]
Managing career
[1].games played of .255 in 671 batting average and stood 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) tall. He compiled a right-handed Collins batted and threw [2] However, he never broke into the big leagues.[1]


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Thinking Through Healthcare
Below I briefly sketch out a possible way to reconcile the success of the VHA and the genomic revolution with the desire to preserve a pluralistic healthcare marketplace.
Despite the many strengths of the VHA, described in vivid detail by my friend and hero Phil Longman, a lot of us remain skeptical about the promise of state-run integrated care. Why? For some, it is a matter of reflexive ideological thinking: if it's state-run, it must be bad. Others wonder if we can successfully scale up the VHA, and if Britain's NHS is truly superior to a more pluralistic system. Then there is the concern that we might dampen innovation by putting a large and growing share of the economy under government, which is to say political, control. Though the role of government is already vast in healthcare, more than most conservatives realize, centralizing provision would represent a step-increase.
I approach these questions from another angle: Wired recently ran a cover story on 23AndMe, an innovative venture-financed company that has delivered (sort of) the $1,000 genome.
This new age of genomics comes with great opportunity — but also great quandaries. In the genomic age, we will no longer have the problem of not knowing, but we will face the burden of whether we want to know in the first place. We'll learn what might be best for us in life and then have to reckon with the risk and perhaps the guilt of not acting on that knowledge. We will, counterintuitively, face even more pressure to conduct our lives carefully, strictly, and cautiously; we'll practice the art of predictive diagnosis and receive a demanding roster of things to avoid, things to do, and treatments to receive — long before there's any physical evidence of disease.
So how will this revolution shape the insurance marketplace? Economist Stephen Ceccheti argues, convincingly, that it will inevitably lead to a bigger role for government in healthcare provision.
To understand the problem, think about a simple case in which there are only two kinds of people, those with high and low expected future medical-care-costs lives. Imagine that the insurance company can't distinguish the two types, so it charges all comers the average cost across the entire population. For the healthy people, the cost of the insurance will look very high, so they won't buy it. That means that the only people who will buy the insurance are the unhealthy. Realising this, the insurance company will have to raise their price further to compensate for the fact that only the high cost people are willing to buy insurance. This is the classic "lemons" problem that causes markets to fail and was first described by George Akerlof.
Alternatively, if my insurance company can obtain my health score, then, in the same way that lenders use my credit score to calibrate the interest rate they offer on a loan, they will adjust my health insurance premium based on their precise estimate of the cost of my future medical care. And, importantly, a clever insurance company that is precluded from learning my health score directly will find a pricing scheme that leads me to reveal it to them through the choices that I make.
When insurers can accurately predict our health outcomes, "the rationale for insurance disappears." Ceccheti goes on to explain because we view healthcare as meaningfully different from other goods and services, the political pressure to draw on the widest possible risk pool will become irresistible.
Before we reach that point, many will try to preserve "private" insurance by transforming "private" companies into even more of a regulated utility led by politically connected insiders, i.e., by using community rating and other means to create a more expensive, crude, messy, inefficient version of state-run healthcare. In essence, this "intermediate" system will "socialize risk and privatize profits." What an utter mess.
Or we could allow insurers to make genomic screening a precondition of coverage, and allow all kinds of precommitment mechanisms. Some individuals will find themselves uninsurable in the new private marketplace: thanks to genetic proclivities, private insurance would be far too expensive. These individuals could then be covered by an integrated public system modeled on the VHA, rather than a public-private system like Medicare. The system would be opt-out. Beneficiaries would be subject to rationing and rigorous attention to clinical effectiveness, etc. That will be part of the bargain. But again, a large, flourishing and truly private marketplace will exist in parallel to drive innovation.
It ain't perfect, but it makes sense. I think.
Or we could go with the excellent DeLong plan, which I think of as broadly similar.


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How to Design an Efficient Online ECI Collaborative Platform? It should be co-created with stakeholders
The Collaborative Platform for the European Citizens' Initiative being proposed by the European Commission should not just become another online forum but provide the technical infrastructure to actually reach out to citizens across Europe as broad as possible. It shall facilitate large-scale outreach to European citizens by providing the most modern platform technology for efficient online communication; and by genuinely simplifying the current online signature collection system (OCS). Furthermore, if it is to be genuinely successful, participatory methods should be applied to this participatory platform i.e. it should be co-created and co-managed together with civil society stakeholders waiting at the starting line.
By Carsten Berg, Director of The ECI Campaign
Europe has the potential to transform politics with the help of the internet and become a driving force for digital and participatory democracy in the world. By providing the legal basis for a European Citizens' Initiative right (Art. 11.4 of the Treaty of Lisbon), Europe has become the location of the world's first tool of participatory, transnational and digital democracy.
However, the promise of transnational electronic participation has not yet been fulfilled, due to technical and political problems which endanger the effectiveness of the new democratic instrument as a whole. The Commission's proposal for a new "Collaborative Platform for the European Citizens' Initiative" (hereafter described as the ECI Platform) is a genuine chance to change this. This new platform ought to serve as a "citizen participation infrastructure" that is open to and supportive of registered and future ECIs, as well as all interested European citizens, by facilitating the infrastructure for "efficient online campaigning". The latter is the major need, which in my view is still not sufficiently highlighted in the Commission's survey on the platform. We need general facilitation of efficient online campaigning, not just a pooling of the advisory tools.
Online platforms are the most important technical innovation in the history of civic engagement as they make political campaigning scalable and rapid and enormously increase the potential outreach. While "rapid" and "increased outreach" are self-explanatory, "scalable" here means that once a platform has been created, it costs very little to reproduce its services. It is thus very much worthwhile to make an adequate investment in such a platform.
The ECI Platform's key goal should be awareness raising
Among these three interdependent aspects the most important one refers to functions that increase the outreach to citizens. This is the biggest challenge at the European level; the one that makes the ECI so difficult to use. Most European citizens are still largely unaware of the ECI. How can we inform as many potentially interested European citizens as possible about their right to sign – or launch – a new ECI? How can we ensure that citizens are being notified about the ECI as a participatory tool? Politically neutral user-driven petition platforms like openPetition (but also public petition platforms) are the online campaigning platforms from which we can learn the most for the ECI. Such platforms send newsletters to millions of citizens who have previously indicated their interest in certain topics (while they confirmed their email address).
The key question, therefore, is how to guarantee a wide outreach to citizens across Europe who are potentially interested in signing an ECI. Can existing online platforms contribute to that? If so, how can we disseminate the message, so that as many existing platforms as possible from across Europe could contribute to the emergence of an ECI Platform? This would need to be evaluated together with the stakeholders in direct meetings and consultations. In fact, we started to co-facilitate that process years ago, as we relate below.
Creating a specific "ECI platform database" that recruits its data from ongoing ECIs seems essential for the success of any future ECI platform. The recruitment of interested citizens could and should happen by providing an optional tick box in the official signature form to indicate: "I want to be informed about future ECIs". This data could then be used for an "ECI Platform newsletter".
This feature is the key to making such a platform really useful and impactful. It is the most promising way to avoid 'losing' interested citizens as has happened so often with the ECIs in the first five years. The reason for this can be found in the overly strict ECI Regulation 211/2011. According to the current interpretation of Art. 6.4 (b) by the EU and Member State institutions, the option to indicate the willingness of a signatory to be placed on a contact list and thus allow for a compilation of contact information is precluded. We therefore suggest that this article be revised. Even on an optional basis one cannot ask the supporter if he or she wishes to be informed about the further development of an ECI. The current system only allows signatories to be redirected – in a second step – to a signup form on another web page completely distinct from the official signing form. This second step is unnecessary and confusing. User break up at this stage happens too often and further communication with citizens is prevented. In fact, this has been one of the most recurring complaints of past ECI organizers. If ECI supporters cannot directly opt in for updates, then too many of them will fall by the wayside.
The implication is that the debate on the ECI platform should be closely connected with the debate on the revision of the ECI regulation. This also should lead to the creation of a single centralized system for the Online Collection System (OCS) that would be provided through such a platform. There have been too many OCS related problems and costs both for ECI organizers and public authorities, which currently need to certify each and every OCS for each new ECI. These are all problems which an organizer of an ECI should not need to be concerned with. She/he should instead be free to operate in the most efficient manner on the specific ECI campaign – already a huge challenge in itself.
Let's use Participatory Methods
In parallel it would be enormously beneficial to connect with the databases of existing online platforms (public and private ones) and draw on their expertise and experience (see our first overview of online campaigning platforms as presented at the ECI DAY conference). We therefore recommend applying a participatory approach to co-creating this platform for the ECI with such players and stakeholders.
In recent years we have done this with the EESC on several occasions in order to co-create not only an ECI platform, but as a first step a new ECI Online Collection Software, with the participation of diverse online campaigning platforms (openPetition, Campact, Avaaz, Change.org et.al) as well as with Commission and EP staffers, see here. This has led to the currently most frequently used OCS software OpenECI.
We continued this debate on the ECI's digital dimension at our 2015 ECI Conference with the Council of the EU in cooperation with the EU Presidency and member state governments, (watch the video here) where the conclusion was: if you want to succeed in creating a participatory instrument you have to apply participatory methods. This means: let digital tools evolve in tandem with technical changes and be developed by citizen technologists – something which bureaucracies always try to resist as they are technocratic by nature. However, bureaucracies are increasingly addressing this problem. For example, co-creation was one of the key methodological proposals presented at the eGOV conference during the 2015 Luxembourgish EU Presidency in which we as a civil society organization and governments already made concrete proposals for an ECI digital platform.
It is also worth remembering that we have not seen a single successful ECI since 2013 and the only one currently likely to reach a million supporters, ECI Ban Glyphosate, is being co-organized by experienced online campaigning platforms which make use of the best technologies available. In fact, there was a registered ECI in 2012 calling for an ECI online platform (see also their report in our publication "An ECI that works – Learning from the first two years with the ECI"). Beyond that there have been previous attempts in the European Parliament to create such an ECI platform, which however failed due to insufficient funding and the lack of participatory methods of co-creating the platform. We consider this latter aspect to be of the main methodological needs for the successful emergence of this platform project.
In our view this also means that the platform ought not to be run by the Commission alone, but instead be co-created and managed by and with NGOs and foundations active in the field of EU democracy. This is also the best way to create genuine co-ownership of and responsibility for the new ECI online platform, and thus ensure its success.
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A new business relationship between a smallish Dallas greeting card company and a subsidiary of giant Hallmark should make rooting for the underdog a little easier.
The latest news from around North Texas.
Well, not exactly rooting for, but rather buying cards from a line called Hooray for the Underdog.
According to a piece published Tuesday by Pegasus News, the line produced by Dallas' wife-husband team HealeyGrisham — Janet and Joe, respectively — recently entered into a development and distribution agreement with Sunrise Greeting, which falls under the Hallmark umbrella.
The agreement means wider availability and, they hope, greater sales of Hooray for the Underdog cards.
The cards raise awareness of homeless animals and how they got that way — neglected spay and neutering, anyone? Each card, according to the write-up, features a picture of a homeless canine on the front and its back-story on the, um, back of the card.
Oprah planted her seal of approval on the card line — twice, mind you — by including it in her Gifts that Give Back series in 2008 and 2009, so you know they've got to be good.
Nice to see the underdog — four-legged homeless variety and two-legged small business variety — get some national love.
Bruce Felps owns and operates East Dallas Times, an online community news outlet serving the White Rock Lake area. He's all for anything that benefits homeless pets.


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15 October 2010
Looking for Reader Suggestions...Again
But when the KOTBR's dear godfather, Chris Maples, started this blog, he had one primary goal in mind: to drink beer--especially beer brewed here in Indiana--and to tell you what we think about that beer. Unfortunately, we haven't been so diligent lately in pursuing this goal. In fact, you might have noticed that the frequency which with we've held beer roundtables and published beer reviews has decreased a bit. Part of the reason for this is that we've become so busy with our other Hoosier Beer Geek activities. While we are very thankful that the Indiana craft beer community is so vibrant that we now have our hands full with it, we'd nonetheless like to pick up the pace on the roundtables.
Therefore, as we did back in early 2009, we ask for your help now. We ask you to tell us where you think we should have a roundtable. More specifically, we'd like you to suggest an Indiana bar or brewpub that we haven't visited yet--a place that we've overlooked but that deserves our attention.
The last time we did this, HBG reader Andy told us that we ought to visit the Dorman Street Saloon. We took Andy up on his suggestion and invited him to come out with us. That he did, and we had great experience when we visited not only Dorman Street, but also Ralph's Great Divide.
So if you have a favorite Indiana watering hole that you think we should visit, leave a comment below with your suggestion. Our standards are still the same: we're looking for a place that serves high-quality beer. We'd love to hear your suggestions, and we'd love to have you join us for a drink in the process. So, drop us a line.
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- AnonymousOctober 15, 2010 7:57 PM
Heorot, Fickle Peach, Savage Ale house triple threat in Muncie. 'Nuff said.ReplyDelete
I would love to take a trip up there. I went to school at Ball State and always went to the Heorot on Friday's for 2$ pizzas and a pint of great beer. The Fickle Peach opened the year after I left, and I need to make it to Savage's. I used to work with Joel in Muncie when I graduated. I am really happy to see him doing well.ReplyDelete
If I'm not mistaken, Mike and Gina sat in with the Good Beer Show crew at the Heorot several years back, but we've not roundtabled there. But I agree Matt - we should go.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 15, 2010 9:13 PM
patricks in zionsville. a nice little bar area and he always has a craft and local beers on tap. food is also good.ReplyDelete
Patrick's is definitely on our list.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 16, 2010 12:05 PM
Carrie from Upland is coming to Goose the Market's Enoteca Tuesday, Oct. 19, 5-7pm to pour Teddy Bear Kisses Imperial Stout...first time they're bottling it, I think, and Tuesday is the release day. Plus it's free! She's supposed to have Komodo Black IPA and three others, too. Short notice, but it'd be great to see the HBG there!ReplyDelete
Black Swan in Plainfield. They won't be brewing until January but they have the best Indiana beer lineup in Hendricks County. The food is great too.ReplyDelete


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- 2 tablespoons honey, dissolved in a 1/4 cup very warm or hot water
- 1 cup Pineapple Honey Vodka from Little Black Dress
- 1/4 cup freshly squeezed, lemon juice, strained
- 1/2 cup fresh basil leaves, loosely packed
- 2 dashes of bitters for each
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In a small pitcher add the vodka/ honey water and lemon juice. Add the basil and muddle with a wooden spoon. Fill 4 to 6 mason jars with ice cubes. Add the 2 dashes of bitters to each mason jar. Divide the cocktail evenly among the glasses. Top with club soda. Garnish with lemon slices and serve.


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"Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing." - Mother Teresa
"Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement." - Golda Meir
A warm smile is the universal language of kindness - William Arthur Ward
It's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring - Marilyn Monroe
Reach high for the stars are hidden in your soul. Dream deep for every dream precedes the goal - Pamela Vaull Starr
Look for something positive in each day, even if some days you have to look a little harder - unknown
A Rock Star does not age! - Anthony Kiedis
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Ever thankful for family. For random acts of kindness. For the community of parents who help look out for each other's children. For teachers who teach with a passion. For the wonder of learning something new. For having plenty for which to be thankful .
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Just in case you needed more evidence that the love for Lena Dunham is an unstoppable tide that will roll on forever, and will never, ever die: as of this morning, the creator and star of HBO's "Girls" is officially (figuratively) in bed with a whole other side of the entertainment biz.
According to the New York Times, the much-discussed book she was shopping last week has been sold to Random House for the nice, tidy sum of $3.5 million dollars.
Which is a lot! Even for a celebrity, in fact. But per the publishing gossip, everyone thinks it's worth it; people are expecting Lena's book to become an instant bestseller in the same vein as Tina Fey's "Bossypants." Meanwhile, we're mostly just psyched to have an entirely new delivery method for our Lena Dunham fix. (Next up: a way to inject her directly into our veins!) And while there's no official pub date on the table yet—possibly because Random House is too busy recovering from the exhausting process of bidding on the book—the NYT was able to peruse a copy of the proposal and confirm that it'll include writings on "work, friendship, travel, sex, love and mortality." Not explicitly mentioned: STD-related humor and naked public eating, but they'll probably be in there, too.
Will you be on the lookout for Lena's book?


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Posts tagged Tax planning
September 5, 2018
IRS Clarifies: Deductibility of Administration Expenses for Estates and Non-Grantor Trust
On July 13, 2018, the IRS announced in Notice 2018-61 that the Service will issue regulations confirming that estates and non-grantor trusts will continue to be allowed to deduct expenses that are unique to the administration of an estate or non-grantor trust. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 had created confusion over whether such expenses would be deductible given the changes the Act made to the deductibility of certain expenses by individuals.
September 5, 2018
TCJA Impact on Post Term QPRT Planning
Qualified Personal Residence Trusts (QPRT) have been a staple of sophisticated estate planning for some time. They are relatively simple to establish, they are well defined in IRS regulations, and can be structured with minimal initial tax consequences. Particularly for taxpayers living in areas with high property values, the QPRT was a popular choice to help minimize estate tax consequences.
September 5, 2018
Blast from the Past Keeps Giving: The Donor Advised Fund
Question: What tax planning tool was born almost 80 years ago and is still offering taxpayers a way to make charitable donations in a meaningful and tax-efficient manner?
Answer: The Donor Advised Fund
The donor-advised fund has a rich history of benefiting both taxpayers and charities. The charitable funds were first introduced in the 1930s by community foundations, but their use flourished as reporting requirements increased for private foundations in the 1970s and as the IRS approved commercial providers in the 1990s. The funds have now launched into the top 10 largest charities in the United States. Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund overtook the United Way as the largest charity in America in 2016. It held the top spot again in 2017 and was joined in the top ranking by the philanthropy funds from Goldman Sachs (#3), Schwab (#6) and Vanguard (#10). Using data from 2010-2016, National Philanthropic Trust found that there were about 285,000 individual funds with over $85 billion in managed assets.
September 5, 2018
Tax Planning for Individuals after the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
The passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act ("TCJA") in December of 2017 generated some of the most significant tax law changes seen since the Tax Reform Act of 1986. While we await further guidance in the form of Treasury Regulations and many questions remain as to how to apply the new rules, we attempt here to shed light on some planning options as we look ahead to the remainder of tax year 2018.


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Abortion takes spotlight at premiere Abortion takes spotlight at premiere
Though it made its Jamaican debut on Wednesday, there are already big plans for the American movie Unplanned.
According to Father Richard Ho Lung, head of the Missionaries of the Poor, the film will open in theatres next Wednesday. He said he and Douglas Graham, principal of Palace Amusement — Jamaica's sole motion picture exhibitor and distributor — came to an agreement earlier this week.
"I was told that. He (Graham) said that he was hesitant because so many of the scenes were not so nice, and he said he was disturbed by it. I said: 'You need to know where we are now, in terms of pro-choice, that 24,000 women last year in Jamaica committed abortion. You don't know how hurt they are and how guilty they are and distraught... little girls are confused. You don't know the effects of it.' He said: 'I didn't know it was so bad in Jamaica'. Maybe it won't be commercially successful, but it's important for Jamaica to see it and so he said that he would show it," Ho Lung told the Jamaica Observer.
Unplanned premiered on Wednesday evening at the Courtleigh Auditorium in New Kingston.
Missionaries for the Poor are a band of Roman Catholic brothers and sisters dedicated to serving the less fortunate.
Ho Lung said he and his team are doing their part to lessen abortions in the island.
"We have a home called Holy Innocents, where women come to us. So far, it has been well over 500 who were thinking of abortion and we take in the mothers…the babies. The mothers can stay as long as they want to, they can leave the babies behind or they can take the babies after they have had the child. The Superior there, Joanne, she's a nurse and so forth, but they stay there and it's free of cost," he explained.
Abortion was made illegal in Jamaica under sections 72 and 73 of the 1864 Offences Against the Person Act. Women and their doctors can be charged with felonious assault for procuring or facilitating an abortion, and they can be imprisoned for life if they are found guilty. However, statistics show that 10 per cent of pregnancies in Jamaica are aborted.
Also in attendance at the premiere were Dr Alveda King, niece of the Reverend Dr Martin Luther King Jr; and Janet Morana, executive director of Priests for Life and co-founder of Silent No More Awareness Campaign. Producer of Unplanned, Michael Manhardt, was also presence.
Produced by independent company Soli Deo Gloria, Unplanned was released in the United States on March 29. It follows the true story of Abby Johnson, former director of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Texas.
In 2011, Johnson and author Cindy Lambert wrote a book of the same title. Johnson's story chronicles her transition to Planned Parenthood and her departure eight years later. The R-rated drama shows why an abortion industry insider reversed her stance on this controversial topic.
It stars Ashley Bratcher, Emma Ella Roberts, Robia Scott, and Brooks Ryan.
Unplanned has, so far, grossed US18-m at the box office.
The producer dubbed the Jamaican premiere as a success.
"The turnout is phenomenal. I mean this is a 407-seater and it was an absolutely sold-out theatre, so thank God," he told the Jamaica Observer.
He highlighted the difference between the Jamaican premiere and the United States.
"It was different in the sense that it was planned a month in advance, we had 900 people come to Hollywood Boulevard where all movies want to have their premieres. We had a lot of VIPs and stuff like that, but it was different in the sense that there was a seriousness here tonight where people will know that they are potentially looking to make abortion legal. In the States, we've been fighting against abortion since 1973, but in Jamaica we are now facing it," he said.
Attendee Dadre Verley described the movie as "very important".
"It was very good! If we want to reduce abortion, that would be good because for me, I used to say in the case of rape and incest I probably would consider, but it's an additional trauma that would be placed on the woman," she said.
The film is currently banned in Canada, however, there is a petition to remove it.
"Canada is the only country we're having problems with, but there are 34 other countries that are saying: 'Bring it here, bring it here'," Manhardt added.
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