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Upromise Privacy Notice
Last Updated: April 2016
This policy covers Upromise, Inc.'s practices relating to the information it collects from or about its current and past members, website visitors and users of its mobile applications, including your rights to limit the sharing of certain information we may have about you. References in this policy to the Upromise website include any mobile websites we may operate. Our affiliates, including our subsidiaries, have separate privacy policies.
This privacy policy applies to the Upromise service, the Upromise website, and our mobile applications. We do not exercise control over any other websites or services made available to you through the Upromise service, such as those of our participating companies. These sites and services may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit information from you. We are not responsible for the actions or practices of these third parties. In addition, certain portions of the Upromise service, including sites, applications, programs, toolbars and utilities, may be operated by third parties, and your participation in those portions of Upromise may be subject to additional privacy policies provided by Upromise and/or the privacy policies of the third parties that operate them. If a portion of the Upromise service is subject to the privacy policy of a third party, we will disclose that and provide a link to the third party's privacy policy. We encourage you to review their policies carefully. Your use of the Upromise websites, services, applications and utilities operated by third parties may be subject to separate privacy policies and your use will constitute your consent to those separate policies. In the event of any conflict between this privacy policy and any such other privacy policy, the other privacy policy will govern only with respect to the applicable services covered by such other privacy policy.
We also work with third party advertisers and may make available third party applications, both of which, to the extent permitted by applicable law, may collect information about you and/or your online activities over time and across different websites and mobile applications (collectively referred to as "Sites"), including the Upromise Sites, and are further described below in the section below titled "Third Party Advertisers and Third Party Applications and Services."
Information We May Obtain
As part of providing you products or services, we may obtain information about you from various sources, including the following:
Information you provide. We obtain information you provide to us when you join Upromise, that you otherwise enter through our website or mobile applications, or that you provide to us in writing or by telephone, such as when you contact our customer care staff. This information may include items such as your name, address, mobile device ID (UDID), telephone number, location, social security number, credit card numbers and/or other financial account information such as student loan, savings account and/or 529 college savings account numbers. If you give Upromise your current physical location, for example, when you use a Upromise mobile application or give us your current ZIP code, we may use and store that information to provide you with location-based information or messaging, including, for example, offers or advertising. If you do not want to give Upromise your location, do not enter your current location on our website or mobile applications and do not allow your browser or mobile device to send it to us. Please also see the section titled "Log information" below for information we receive automatically when you visit our website or use our mobile applications.
Information from third parties. We may obtain information about you from third parties including Upromise participating companies, our affiliates, public sources and others. This information could include, among other things, information about your purchases with Upromise participating companies, information about your transactions and account activity with us, our affiliates and others, your location if you allow your browser and/or mobile device provider to send it to us, your mobile device ID, publicly available demographic data, and information needed to comply with regulatory requirements, ensure the accuracy of data, better understand your likely interests, and/or prevent fraud.
We also receive transaction information relating to your purchases with your registered card at participating merchants from third parties (including the applicable payment card network) to match transactions and calculate rewards you have earned through using the Upromise service and websites.
Cookies and other technologies. When you visit the Upromise website or open a Upromise e-mail, we send one or more Cookies to your computer or other device. We also use other similar technologies such as tracking pixels, tags or similar tools when you visit our website, open a Upromise e-mail, or use our mobile applications. These technologies can collect data regarding your operating system, browser type, device type, mobile device ID, screen resolution, IP address and other technical information, as well as navigation events and session information as you interact with our website or mobile applications. Among other things, this information allows us to understand how you use the Upromise service, website and mobile applications and what products and services may be of interest to you. The cookies we place can also be used to allow the advertising networks we work with to set and read their own cookies and collect similar information. Please see the section titled "Third Party Advertisers and Third Party Applications and Services" below for more information about our use of third party advertisers. You can generally remove, block, or disable cookies using the settings in your web browser. However, if you remove the cookies we place, it will impact your ability to use Upromise since you will be unable to enroll or log in to our service through our website. You will, however, be able to browse our website as a visitor. If you are a member of Upromise, information collected using cookies or similar technologies may be associated with personally identifiable information, such as name and e-mail address, we have about you.
One of the service providers we may use to track and analyze usage of our website and mobile applications is Omniture by Adobe, a third party analytics company. Omniture by Adobe uses our cookie and log information (described below), in combination with personally identifying information we may provide, such as name and e-mail address, to assist us in tracking Upromise website and mobile application usage in order to improve them and our products and services offerings. Omniture acts as our agent, and is authorized to use the information we share exclusively to provide this service to Upromise. For further information, including how to opt out, consult Omniture's privacy policies.
Log information. When you access a page of the Upromise Sites via a browser, application, other client or device, our servers automatically record certain information known as "log information." This may include information such as the web page you are coming from or going to, terms you search, pages you view on a Upromise website or mobile application, your interaction with a website, application or online service provider, your Internet Protocol address, mobile device ID or telephone number, browser type, browser language, device type, and data contained in one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser, your computer, your device and/or your Upromise account. This information is logged by our web servers, allowing us to deliver services or information you have requested, better understand user behavior on our websites and applications, assist in troubleshooting problems, and improve the quality of our service. Please be aware that in some cases your internet protocol address could be used to determine your general location.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we obtain in order to develop, offer, deliver and improve our products and services, to offer products and services of our affiliates, participating companies, marketing partners and other companies, to process transactions in your accounts, to fulfill legal and regulatory requirements, and as otherwise permitted by applicable law. For example, we may use the information to:
- Operate the Upromise Sites and services
- Deliver products and services to people who use our Sites and services
- Understand how visitors use our Sites, and determine whether the content on them is effective
- Improve our websites and services offerings
- Personalize your experience when you use our Sites and services and customize the communications and advertisements you receive from us and our affiliates and others
- Deliver advertisements and other information about products, services and applications offered by Upromise, our affiliates, our participating companies and others on the Upromise Sites, via email, and when you visit or use third party Sites
- To let us know which emails have been opened by recipients to understand the effectiveness of our marketing and other communications and to make those communications more useful and interesting to you
If you do not wish to receive marketing messages from Upromise, you may indicate your preferences through your account settings page after logging in to your Upromise account.
Please note that information you voluntarily post in bulletin boards, chat rooms and other online forums, such as the Upromise Community, may be viewed and used by anyone with access to those forums. Upromise is unable to control access to or use of such information. To request removal of your personal information from our bulletin board or other online forums, contact us as described below under "Contacting Upromise about this Privacy Policy." In some cases, we may not be able to reasonably accommodate your request to remove your personal information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.
Our Information Sharing Practices
Information about our members, former members, website visitors and mobile application users is an important part of our business. We do not share your personal information except as permitted or required by law, including as provided below:
Affiliates. We may provide personal information about you to our affiliates to the extent permitted by applicable law. Our affiliates are the family of companies controlled by SLM Corporation and include, among others, Sallie Mae Bank.
Unless you tell us not to, we may share with our affiliates all of the information we obtain about you. If you prefer that we not share with our affiliates consumer report information that we may receive about you, you may direct us not to do so by completing our opt out form with the requested information. Please be aware that we may continue to share any other information as permitted by law.
Sharing Information with Nonaffiliated Third Parties. We do not share your personal information with nonaffiliated third parties except as permitted or required by law, including as provided below:
- Agents and Service Providers. In order to provide our products and services, we may share personal information about you with agents and service providers located in the U.S. and in other countries to perform functions on our behalf, such as to send email and postal mail, analyze data, provide marketing services, process applications and credit card payments, and service accounts. When we use these third parties, we may disclose any of the personal information that we collect, although we give them only the personal information reasonably needed to perform the service. We contractually obligate these service providers to access and use personal information only as needed to perform their functions for us and for no other purposes.
- Financial Services Providers. In order to make certain financial products available to you (for example, credit cards, loans or insurance), we sometimes enter into joint marketing agreements with nonaffiliated financial institutions that offer those products. We may provide these entities with any of the personal information that we collect, although we give them only the personal information reasonably necessary under the marketing agreement. We select the financial institutions we work with very carefully, and these entities are permitted to use the personal information we give them only for the specific products being offered under our contract.
- Maintain and Service your Upromise Account. We may disclose personal information about you to third parties as reasonably necessary to maintain and service your Upromise account, including to facilitate transactions you've requested and to track and process your Upromise earnings.
- Protection of Upromise and Others. We may disclose personal information about you to third parties when we believe such disclosure is appropriate to comply with a legal requirement, such as a law, regulation, court order, subpoena or search warrant, or in the course of a legal proceeding. We may also disclose personal information as we believe appropriate to enforce or apply our rights under our agreements (such as, for example, our Member Agreement) with third parties, including our members, and to protect the rights, property or safety of Upromise, our members and others, including exchanging information for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
- Business Transfers. If there is a change of control in Upromise's business (whether by merger, sale, or otherwise), our members' information could be sold as part of that transaction and your personal information potentially could be used by the purchaser. If the purchaser intends to materially change the terms applicable to your personal information, you will be notified by a notice posted on the website or in another appropriate manner and be given appropriate choices with respect to previously collected personal information.
- With your consent. We also may share your personal information with a third party if you consent to the sharing.
Upromise does not share personal information with nonaffiliated, non-financial institutions to enable them to market their products and services directly to you. Occasionally, we engage third party service providers in the business of facilitating communications to send you information from certain participating companies, but only subject to strict confidentiality provisions that prohibit those third parties from providing your personal information to the participating companies. If we ever make the decision to share personal information with nonaffiliated third parties other than financial institutions as described above so that they may market their products and services directly to you, we will update this privacy policy and will notify you of the update by email and/or through a notice on our website at least 30 days prior to their implementation, and you will have the opportunity to opt-out of that information sharing.
Upromise may share with third parties, including nonaffiliated, non-financial institutions, information that does not personally identify individual members or visitors for any reason Upromise deems necessary or desirable.
Third Party Advertisers and Third Party Applications and Services
Some of our advertisements on third party Sites may use behavioral information (such as how you navigate to the Sites and/or your activity on our Sites) to provide relevant advertisements to you. Upromise uses third party advertising partners that may use cookies, other technologies and information about you: (i) to deliver these ads or other offers from Upromise, our affiliates, our participating companies and others on third party Sites, and (ii) to track the effectiveness of ads and other offers Upromise delivers on third party websites. These companies are authorized to use the information we provide and they collect when you navigate to a Site within the advertising partner networks to provide this service to Upromise. Each of the companies we work with participates in the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") or the Digital Advertising Alliance ("DAA"), or both. If you prefer not to receive these targeted ads or offers as you visit or use these Sites, you may opt-out by following the directions contained in both the NAI opt-out and the DAA opt-out. Please allow up to 10 days for the opt-out to take effect. Please also note that in order for the opt-out to work your browser must be set to accept third party cookies.
Furthermore, if you use a different device, change web browsers or delete the opt-out cookie, you will need to perform the opt-out task again. Please also note that if you choose to opt-out from receiving these targeted advertisements, you may still see advertisements while you're visiting or using third party Sites. However, the advertisements you see may be less relevant to you and your interests.
We also may make third party applications available for you to download. The information collected by third party application providers is governed by their privacy policies unless otherwise stated. For example, the Upromise RewardU Toolbar is provided by a third party on behalf of Upromise and is subject to a separate privacy policy which can be accessed from the page where you have the option to install the Upromise RewardU Toolbar application. To learn more about the information collected by the Upromise RewardU Toolbar, including how it may be used and shared, please read the RewardU Privacy Statement.
Your Choice to Limit Affiliate Marketing
Federal law gives you the right to limit some but not all marketing from Upromise affiliates. Specifically, you may limit all Upromise affiliates from marketing their products or services to you based on certain pieces of your personal information that they receive from Upromise. This information includes your income, your account history, and your credit score, in each case to the extent Upromise possesses such information and has used it, or permitted a third party to use it, for credit eligibility purposes. Your choice to limit marketing offers from all Upromise affiliates based on such information will apply for at least 5 years from when you tell us your choice. Before your choice to limit marketing expires, you will receive a renewal notice that will allow you to continue to limit such marketing offers from all Upromise affiliates for at least another 5 years. If you have already made a choice to limit marketing offers from Upromise affiliates based on the above information, you do not need to act again until you receive the renewal notice. If you wish to limit marketing by Upromise affiliated companies as described in this paragraph, you may do so by clicking here and providing the requested information. Your choice to limit marketing offers will not apply in certain circumstances as provided under applicable law, such as when you have an account with the Upromise affiliate that is marketing to you.
Security of Your Personal Information
Upromise is committed to earning and keeping your trust. We understand the need for our members' personal information to remain secure and private. To protect your personal information from unauthorized access and use, we use security measures that comply with federal law. These measures include computer safeguards and secured files and buildings. Further, only Upromise employees who have a business need to access your personal information are authorized to do so. No method of transmission over the internet nor any method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee absolute security over your personal information.
Please remember that you also play a valuable part in data security. You should never share your Upromise password with anyone. If you feel your password has been compromised, you should change it immediately. After you have finished using our site or applications, you should log out of your Upromise account and exit your browser so that no unauthorized persons can use our site under your name and account.
How can I access and update my Upromise data?
You may access and update information stored in your account profile by visiting the Upromise site. Please keep your contact, account, and preference information up-to-date. Doing so ensures that your contributions are properly tracked and received. It also helps us inform you of Upromise savings or other opportunities.
We will retain your information for as long as you are a Upromise member and/or we reasonably deem it necessary to provide you services, comply with our legal or other obligations, resolve potential disputes, audit our records and/or enforce our rights and obligations under our agreements. If you no longer want us to use your information to provide you services, you may terminate your Upromise membership.
State Laws
In addition to the rights described in this policy, please note that you may have additional rights under state law. For example, for accounts with a California mailing address, we will not share your personal information with a financial company for joint marketing purposes except as required or permitted by law. In addition, for accounts with a Vermont mailing address, 1) we will not share your consumer report information with our affiliates except as required or permitted by law, and 2) for joint marketing with other financial companies, we will only disclose your name, contact information and information about your transactions unless otherwise required or permitted by law.
Collection of Information from Children
Upromise's products, services, applications and utilities are not intended for purchase by children. Accordingly, Upromise does not knowingly collect, either online or offline, personal information from children under the age of 13.
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The "hiphop remix" one is pretty clever, and the bumpers shown here lasted for several years.
There are two Looney Tunes promos from Nickelodeon that still elude us...the "Definition of Looney" ad ("That's right folks! Now we're looney tuney!") There was also an ad for "More of the Looney Tunes you want to see, and no more Bosko. Sorry, Bosko!" If anyone runs accross those two gems, let us know!


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Reduced to spectator status for the second half of the Bruins' 4-2 loss on Long Island last night, defenseman Matt Bartkowski will now get a chance to log some decent ice time over the rest of this weekend.
The rookie who skated just 4:42 against the Islanders was assigned to the Providence (AHL) farm club this afternoon. He should be available to face Portland tonight and Bridgeport tomorrow.
Bartkowski's most recent emergency recall to Boston consisted of four games, no points and an even plus/minus rating.
The nearing return of injured defenseman Andrew Ference could relegate Bartkowski to playing for the P-Bruins for a while, or the former Ohio State standout could return should Ference not be ready to play Tuesday in Columbus.


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They had supporting roles in "Knocked Up," but Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann get center stage as they reprise the characters in writer-director Judd Apatow's amusing comedy about reaching midllfe.
The couple aren't entirely happy about the situation, given the complications posed by their careers and their children. Jason Segel also returns from the first film in a cast that includes Melissa McCarthy, Megan Fox, John Lithgow, Albert Brooks and Lena Dunham ("Girls"). DVD extras: audio commentary by Apatow; deleted scenes; outtakes; music by Graham Parker and the Rumour, and Ryan Adams. *** (R: AS, P) (Also on Blu-ray and On Demand)
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By Keith Coffman
DENVER (Reuters) - Colorado legalized same-sex civil unions on Thursday, reflecting a recent shift to the left in the political balance of power in the Denver statehouse.
Democratic Governor John Hickenlooper signed the measure that backers say makes gay and lesbian couples eligible for the most of the same benefits, protections and responsibilities currently extended only to heterosexual spouses.
However, Colorado still bans gay marriage and is one of 30 states with a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as exclusively between a man and a woman.
When the law takes effect May 1, Colorado will join eight states that recognize civil unions or domestic partnerships in lieu of gay marriage, according to the Human Rights Campaign.
Gay rights advocates thanked Hickenlooper for his "courage and leadership" in enacting the law, which they said gave the state's same-sex couples and their families access to critical legal protection.
"This historic victory belongs to the thousands of loving, committed couples across the state who have worked tirelessly for years to make it possible for their families ... to have these important legal safeguards," said Brad Clark, executive director of gay and transgender advocacy group One Colorado.
"For them, this moment was long overdue," he added.
The Catholic archbishop of Denver, Samuel Aquila, said the passage of the law was an effort to redefine marriage and family.
"Marriage is a stabilizing institution at the foundation of civil society. Religious liberty is a civil rights issue," he said. "Today both have been grievously harmed. Today our state and federal constitutions have been dealt a troubling blow."
Another nine states and the District of Columbia have legalized same-sex marriage. Among those states, Washington state, Maine and Maryland in November became the first in the nation to approve gay marriage at the ballot box.
Republicans, who previously controlled the lower house of Colorado's General Assembly, foiled passage of similar legislation during the past two years.
But Democrats gained a House majority in November's elections, giving them the votes needed to pass a civil unions bill earlier this month, after Hickenlooper opened the legislative session in January by urging passage of such a measure.
(Reporting by Keith Coffman; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Lisa Shumaker)


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Entirely Unimportant
The first lesson of handwork is this: Most things that you think are important are not important.
Most surfaces do not need to be true. Most edges do not need to be square. Most boards do not need to be four-squared (or even free of bark). Most dimensions – length, thickness, width – will only trip you up and cause you to make a mistake. Never add dimensions. Never subtract.
Instead, you should focus on form, close-fitting joints and fair surfaces. After achieving those three things, then you can satisfy your dial caliper.
When I first realized all this about handwork, it was a gift. I had been trying to get my hand tools to work like my machines.
Question: How should I set up a plane to give me a perfectly four-squared 3/4" board?
Answer: You never do.
Question: How can I quickly rip my case sides to 18-1/2" down from 20"?
Answer: Don't.
Today is the third day of a class where we are building "The Anarchist's Tool Chest" at Kelly Mehler's School of Woodworking. This is the day where I always hope that fatigue, heat and desperation will reveal the above lessons to the 11 students.
Sure, I've been trying to tell them this stuff since the git-go. But you cannot accept these ideas until you have an enormous tool chest's carcase to square up so that it can receive some dovetailed skirting. So this afternoon I told the students to true up the carcase and the bottom. They went to work.
After a couple hours, one of them asked the most important question of the week:
Student "How wide is the lower skirt?"
Answer: "Six inches."
Student: "Then the chest only has to be squared up in the bottom 6", right?"
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CHICAGO – Rick Majerus' formal connections to the NBA were modest. He spent one season as an assistant coach on Don Nelson's staff with the Milwaukee Bucks (1986-87), and for a number of years was a TV analyst of the college prospects on NBA Draft coverage.
But basketball is basketball. Xs & Os are the 1s & 0s of the game's binary code, a universal language across its many levels.
The man who died Saturday at age 64 after years of battling heart disease – for all his NCAA success at Marquette, Ball State, Utah and most recently Saint Louis – had friends, mentors and devotees who reached basketball heights (The Finals, the Olympics, the Naismith Hall of Fame). And he had fans and now mourners who never left the gyms and playgrounds of Salt Lake City or Milwaukee, where Majerus was most comfortable, after all.
Tom Thibodeau, coach of the Chicago Bulls, had known of Majerus through Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers -– it was Majerus, remember, who christened the kid formerly known as Glenn with that nickname (Rivers wore a Julius "Dr. J" Erving T-shirt to a summer basketball camp where Majerus was working). But after Thibodeau got hired by the Bulls in 2010, a friendship developed between the two basketball lifers.
That first year, Thibodeau met Majerus in Milwaukee for a long dinner about basketball and life – the stout and curious Majerus rarely had any other kind. Then in the summer of 2011, the two got together – with mutual hoops junkies Scott Layden (now Spurs assistant GM) and Jay Larranaga (Celtics assistant), and Majerus' girlfriend – for a week in Santa Barbara, Calif.
More coaching chatter. More lavish meals, no matter how low-rent the joint. More philosophizing. Genuine and not one of those sideline strutters from central casting.
"We'd talk basketball during the day," Thibodeau said late Saturday, after the Bulls' victory over Philadelphia at United Center. "Went out to dinner at night. Went for rides and stuff. He could talk about so many different things.
"The guy was just mesmerizing. He could talk about any aspect of the game. I have piles of notes about his basketball philosophy. He's probably one of the top five basketball coaches at any level."
Like many who knew Majerus, Thibodeau thought of him as a combination of the Marquette coaches who gave Majerus his start, part gamesman like Al McGuire, part details guy like assistant Hank Raymonds. But Thibodeau also saw, so many years later, the influence of Nelson, the Bucks' "mad scientist" coach, from their season together and subsequent friendship.
"Nellie is very innovative, and it opened up the way Rick looked at things," Thibodeau said. "He was one of those guys, I think he could have been a great coach in any sport. He understood things like team building."
Majerus had attended the Bulls' home game against Denver last spring at United Center – Nuggets coach George Karl was another of his great NBA friends. Thibodeau spoke with him in June, when Majerus' exit from Saint Louis was still a health sabbatical, not yet the forced retirement that was announced last month. They missed each other in L.A., unknowingly staying in the same hotel when Thibodeau went out to meet with free agent Omer Asik.
"It's so sad. I feel terrible," Thibodeau said. "He lived life to the fullest, that's for sure.
"The job he did at Utah – unbelievable, taking that team to the championship game against Kentucky. Think about that. Last year he had such a great year, too [with the Billikens] and he had that team coming back.
"He was one of those guys who got absolutely the most out of his teams. Whatever 'the most' could be, he did it year after year after year. To me, that's the mark of greatness, to be able to do it over a long period of time. And he did it so many different places."
Here are other reactions from Saturday night, from Majerus' NBA connections:
Rivers: "That's a tough one for me. He's the one that gave me my name. … I knew before the game that he wasn't going to make it through the night. I don't want to talk much about it."
Bucks assistant Jim Boylan, the point guard on Marquette's 1977 NCAA title team: "For me personally he's always been there. He's one of those guys where, you don't see Rick for a while and then when something is going wrong or you needed some help, boom, he'd be there. He did so much for me over the years when I was trying to get my career going, just extending himself and giving you whatever you needed, whether it was a phone call or having me come out to Salt Lake and stay with him 4-5 weeks at a time working. He would basically give you the shirt off his back if that's what you needed – whatever it took. He's going to be really missed. A great person."
Milwaukee scout Bo Ellis, top player on that Warriors squad: "When I came to Marquette, Rick was still very young. He was just getting started too. But always prepared. Great basketball mind. I remember, he stole all of [Al McGuire's] jokes. A good person and a fantastic basketball man."


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A while back I posted an entry about TLC's Geek Love, a reality show that chronicles a nerds-only dating service. It was on the extreme end of nerdiness and catered to more of a Comic-Con crowd. The principle of Sci-Fi Dating is that nerds have a better chance of finding love in their comfort zone, and the bar scene is not for them. But what if you fall somewhere between the clubgoer and the LARPer? Where do you go to meet new people?
There's a group in L.A. called Mindshare that purports to be a "mecca for intellectuals, artists, scientists and other progressive characters to meet, broaden their perspective and expand their networks." They hold monthly workshops and other more social events where great minds kind share alike. Sounds like a pretty snazzy place to meet someone, right? Let's forget I just used the word "snazzy." It sounds like an interesting place that weeds out the phonies and focuses on cerebral pursuits in a fun way. Mindshare sees itself as "enlightened debauchery" that anyone with a (high-functioning) brain can enjoy. I have personally never been to Mindshare, but have some friends who have had great experiences. Now, this place in no way defines itself as a meet market, but I think it has great potential to be one without feeling like a scene.
Even if you are attached, Mindshare sounds like a great place to get away from all the show-biz wannabes and hipsters to have some good conversations.
So, who's going with me?!


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Training Tuesdays: An Ounce Of Prevention, Cyclocross-Style
You already know that cyclocross is good for you — you are informed reader of Cyclocross Magazine, after all — and you certainly know 'cross is good for your body. It strengthens your legs, and it strengthens your arms and core. It's good for the heart, and for the lungs, and for the waistline. It's good for pretty much everything — except the skin of your calves and ankles that your pedals always tear up.


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The Keast Park Community Pavilion is the ultimate lawn sport facility with a dedicated bowling green just a stone's throw from the beach. Located on the coast outside of Melbourne this community pavilion combines a number of amenities for the local residents including toilets, recreation, meeting rooms, a cafe and a direct connection to the ocean. The community project was designed by Jackson Clements Burrows and built from sustainably sourced timber to maximize its solar resource and harvest rainwater for toilets and landscape irrigation.
The original community facility was in disrepair and badly in need of an update, so Jackson Clements Burrows worked with the city and local residents to design a multi-purpose space for everyone. The Keast Park Community Pavilion consists of a two-story timber pavilion with a large bowling green to the north and a boardwalk connecting the parking to the beach and ocean. The project provides space for the Carrum Bowls club, Sea Scouts, multi-purpose centre/cafe with toilets, provides greater opportunity for the overlap of different activities and age groups, and was considered as an important objective of the project.
Oriented to the east/west, the pavilion makes use of solar passive design with the help of a verandah and large overhangs to provide shading. Cross ventilation and natural daylighting through the louvered walls reduce artificial cooling and lighting. Water tanks underneath the building collect rainwater harvested from the roof so it can be used for toilet flushing and landscape irrigation. The project was built with sustainably sourced plantation timber, for which it received an Australian Timber Design Award. Jackson Clements Burrows and the community pavilion also received the 2012 Coastal Building and Design Award from the Victorian Coastal Council.
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Traditionally, smart investing has been thought of as a matter of selecting a basket of diversified equities. Cautious investors would add a bond allocation — say of five-year Treasury notes — using about 40% of their portfolio. Then, the investor simply stayed put for a sufficiently long period of time.
Over the past 40 years, this approach generally has worked. Returns have been generous. The S&P 500 stock index, the preferred proxy for a basket of stocks would have, all by itself, provided investors with a lucrative 9.84% compounded annual return, beating out most other individual investment vehicles. However, the index has sported a standard deviation (a statistical measure of volatility and an accepted proxy for risk) of 18.16%. This amount of risk is considered more than moderate. Cautious investors, those who also invested in bonds, would have generated a 9.48% return, but the standard deviation of their returns was a much more reasonable 11.42%.
An investment in equities alone in your portfolio would see your nest egg grow by almost 10% a year, but with a fair amount of volatility. Add in a bond allocation, and expected returns would fall slightly but with a much lower risk profile. This thinking is simple, straightforward and backed up by history and math. It would appear to be all a would-be investor needed to know for the past 40 years. However, there's no way to be certain the next 40 years will behave the same.
New way
Since the dawn of the 21st century, equity investors have sat through deep stock market declines, one of about 48% and then another of 55%, after a moderate recovery. They have little to show for taking on that nail-biting risk — only an itty-bitty 12-year compound annualized return of barely one-half of one percent. The cautious, bond-allocated investors fared somewhat better with a compounded 3.56% return.
Perhaps we can take a leaf from Darwinian biology and attribute the generous 40-year stock returns for equities to the approach's excellent fit with the investment landscape of the late 20th century. Yet, Darwinian biology teaches that landscapes are continually changing and good fits to one landscape are often not the best fit for a different environment. The investment landscape, like evolutionary landscapes, is changing constantly. An equity-only, or mostly equity, position also is a venture on the investment environment perpetuating the landscape. However, the prospect that the landscape has shifted is a real possibility. So, where does that leave investors?


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The Economist has a very concise explanation of how Google works, and how it became today's dominant search engine.
Mr Brin's and Mr Page's accomplishment was to devise a way to sort the results by determining which pages were likely to be most relevant. They did so using a mathematical recipe, or algorithm, called PageRank. This algorithm is at the heart of Google's success, distinguishing it from all previous search engines and accounting for its apparently magical ability to find the most useful web pages.
Most importantly, the article gives a detailed, but easy to understand explanation of how they do this.


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Pirates manage just 1 hit vs. Padres
Andrew Cashner, San Diego beat Pittsburgh, 2-0
Pirates manage just 1 hit vs. Padres
Andrew Cashner, San Diego beat Pittsburgh, 2-0
Andrew Cashner carried a perfect game into the seventh inning and faced the minimum 27 batters in a one-hitter that sent San Diego Padres past the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-0 on Monday night.
Cashner (10-8) retired his first 18 batters before Jose Tabata grounded a clean single into right field leading off the seventh. Tabata was erased when Andrew McCutchen grounded into an inning-ending double play, and the right-hander cruised the rest of the way for his first complete game in 31 career starts.
Cashner struck out seven and did not walk a batter.
The Pirates lost for the second time in eight games after entering the day tied for first place in the NL Central with the St. Louis Cardinals, who played later at Colorado.


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Alcatel-Lucent is a telecommunications equipment vendor, the result of a 2006 merger between Alcatel and Lucent. As one of the largest telecommunications vendors in the world, Alcatel-Lucent offers wireless, wireline, convergence, and enterprise communications equipment.[1] Based in Paris, France, the company sources revenue evenly from North America, Europe and the rest of the world.
Since the merger ALU has performed poorly, posting a $751.8 million loss in 2009 and a loss of $7.29 billion in 2008. Telecommunication equipment providers depend heavily on a small group of service companies such as Verizon Communications (VZ) and AT&T (T), which provide consumer services such a Internet access, wireless voice and data, and video. On the positive side, Alcatel-Lucent's broad offerings allow the company to sell a suite of products, services and upgrades, effectively locking in service providers for periods of time.
Alcatel-Lucent depends on continuous innovation in order to meet demands for newer, faster telecom products. While the company has 40% market share of CDMA (wireless) and DSL (Internet access) technologies, both are reaching maturity and may be displaced by newer equipment, which the company may or may not currently offer. The company has made a significant bet on third generation (3G) wireless, which allows high-speed concurrent transmission of voice and data over wireless networks. One potential threat to this technology is the emergence of WiMAX, a 4G technology that could potentially leapfrog 3G as wireless service providers migrate directly to this even faster, newer standard.
Alcatel-Lucent resulted from the 2006 merger of two large telecommunications equipment vendors, Alcatel and Lucent. The merger of the two competitors into the Paris-based Alcatel-Lucent led to the creation of what is now one of the world's largest vendors of telecommunications equipment.
First Quarter 2010 Results
Alcatel-Lucent's earnings were driven down during the quarter because of an industry-wide component shortage that prevented it from being able to meet product delivery timelines. The company reported a quarterly profit only twice since Alcatel purchased Lucent Technologies in 2006. Its first quarter loss was $660.3 million, steeper than the $515.4 million loss it reported in the first quarter of 2009.[2] Alcatel-Lucent's revenue dropped $4.16 billion, a 9.8 percent decrease from $4.61 billion in Q1 2009.[2] Revenue declined 18 percent from Q4 2009. Alcatel-Lucent's main competitors-Ericsson (NasdaqGS: ERIC) and Nokia Siemens Networks--reported a 9 percent drop in Q1 sales.[2]
This includes including IP communication product offerings specializing in the education, finance, healthcare, and hospitality industries.[3]
Leigh,Well I do see your point. All that money the government spent on cortepums and such and Texas Instruments wound up with the profits. Terrible. Heck, they even paid me (indirectly). Back in '67 I think it was.Of course if you'd like to turn off your computer and stop using the son of Arpanet forever I will understand. Just to keep your moral purity intact.
The enterprise segment of Alcatel-Lucent provides telecommunications services for businesses, from call center networking to inter-business IP networking. Enterprise business represents 9.4% of revenues.[4]
Their services sector deals with professional services like networking as well as maintenance, and is often sold in conjunction with carrier and enterprise equipment and installation. Services represent 20.3% of overall revenues.[4]
The patent ssteym has been broken for a long time.One problem stems from when a judge replaced the old understanding of what patents were for with pure rent seeking.Another (and very old) problem is correctly identifying what is and isn't patentable. Old example: barbed wire. It was a significant breakthrough when someone figured out how to manufacture the stuff, but the patent turned out to be all but useless, because it depended on the pattern of the product, not the innovation in manufacturing. Which is why there quickly developed over a hundred different styles of barbed wire soon after it was invented. The inventor would have been better off working on licensing the manufacturing technology, rather than trying to be a monopoly manufacturer.Patents are useful to society when they promote the publication of inventions so that others can leverage off of new ideas and invent even more new stuff. If an invention is so obvious that anyone in the field can look at the product and go "Ah ha! That's how they did it.", then a patent on it does society no good.
Marc, I'm from New Jersey and I DO adjust! I never thguoht of it that way before. I looked for my brother in your class picture but I didn't see him. Of course you were right I had Sycamore and Cedar streets mixed up. Oakwood and Lee are parallel and yes, that would have been the Ochs farm that we went to for corn and cucumbers. I don't know why, but my brothers and I didn't go towards Oakwood when we ventured away from Lee Road. We went the other direction except when we walked down Martin Rd. to school.I'm glad you found the Secular Jewish Circle!Oh, and I'd love to see someone performing Counting Flowers on the Wall. That's all,Polly
Alcatel-Lucent's products are not sold to a general market; much of its revenue is concentrated between a small number of telecom service vendors. Because there are so few telecom service providers and equipment vendors--especially in the wireless sector--there is a high concentration of revenue between firms. This tight ecosystem may lead to volatile cycles for equipment vendors as they are at the beck and call of a few key service providers, like Verizon and AT&T.
To insulate against this effect, Alcatel-Lucent has been aggressively playing the field by making deals with many major carriers, including international ones. Examples of recent deals include:
The fate of Alcatel-Lucent is intimately connected with the fate of the service vendors. If a carrier's market strategy shifts away from utilizing the products that Alcatel-Lucent specializes in (i.e. IP networks, optical fibers, and 3G technologies), business may drop adversely. That said, there are very few telecom technologies that are not produced by Alcatel-Lucent and its broad offerings offer potential to cross-sell a suite of products and services to customers.
Alcatel-Lucent is one of the world's largest telecom equipment vendors but competes heavily in specific sectors with Cisco Systems (CSCO), Ericsson, Nokia (NOK), Motorola (MOT), and other, smaller companies like Nortel Networks (NT).
Huawei and other Chinese vendors have put price pressure on the market. As a result, Alcatel-Lucent had to scale up and save costs, and will have to continuously save costs in the future. Huawei spends heavily on R&D, is the market leader in Asia, and is taking market share from the rest of the world.
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|Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei
|Ericsson, Nokia
|Optical Networking
|Nortel, Huawei, Nokia, Fujitsu
|Nokia, Ericsson, Huawei
|Ericsson, Nokia
|Legacy Voice
|Nortel, Ericsson, Nokia
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In this interview with Dr. Daniel Redwood, Dr. Ballentine, who created and directs the Center for Holistic Medicine in New York City, defines his idea of transformative medicine, emphasizing the need for the healing arts to focus on ways to "bring us back into synchrony with the rest of nature." Natural healing methods including herbs, homeopathy, yoga, and meditation are central to his approach. Describing his visit to a hospital in China, Ballentine also addresses a growing worldwide crisis: the fact that demand for herbal medicines is outrunning supply, causing a severe depletion of therapeutic plant biodiversity. He proposes a radical solution: a shift to homeopathic herbal formulations, which require only a tiny fraction of the plant material used by traditional herbal methods. Also included in this interview are Ballentine's recommendations for people seeking to explore holistic health approaches for the first time.
Redwood: In Radical Healing, you speak of integrative or transformative medicine as involving far more than combining a group of different therapies under one roof. For you, what are the main qualities of transformative medicine?
Ballentine: That the combination of therapies used should result in the person going through a sort of reorganizational process, something that does indeed transform you, so that you come out on the other side of the healing a different person than the one who went into the process. That's the crux of it. This kind of healing is really a process of personal growth and transformation. The illness is used as an opportunity to make fundamental changes in how you are "being" in the world.
Redwood: What do you believe are the most important basic principles of natural medicine?
Ballentine: This is something we really have trouble wrapping our minds around, because it's bigger than our conceptual tools. Our way of seeing is more limited. But there is something about the use of natural medicinals like herbs, that have a tendency to bring us back into synchrony with the rest of nature, so that in a way we're healing the piece, but we're also healing that piece back into integration with the whole. To me, a principle even more fundamental than transformation is that healing is a process of reconnection. It's like bringing pieces back together that were split apart. That's inherent in the whole sense of the word "to heal." It's "to make whole," and that comes from the same root as the word "holy."


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The Gaming Club
This has been great, but my, haven't we been serious! All of us have been so busy weighing industry trendlets and esoteric points of game design that I almost fear we have come to resemble the chin-stroking, self-styled sophisticates that made the arts writer such a lampoonable stereotype in the first place.
Of course games raise serious questions. No need to shy from them. But amid all the intellectual theorizing, remember that most people play games simply to have fun. For some players, fun means an abstraction like Tetris. For others, fun means a story like Mass Effect. For some folks, fun means blowing stuff up. For others, it means grooming their virtual pet dog.
But what ties together all those experiences, what makes them all games, is that taste of fun, of glee, the unrepentant giggle and the unrepressed grin, that moment of the fist pump or the two arms extended in a self-generated halo of triumph.
Those are the moments we play for. And one of the great things about any good game is that you don't have to "finish" the game (if it is even finishable) to experience them. The fact that most people don't finish most games is irrelevant if they are enjoying the time that they are actually playing.
There are two guys who hang out at a bar near my house who are always playing Ms. Pac-Man. And they straight-up suck. Sometimes, they don't even get to first intermission. I asked one of them why they keep pumping quarters into the machine, month after month. He said: "We don't take it too seriously. We just like to play."
Goals come and go—once you achieve one, there's usually another sitting right out there—but the pleasure of seeking persists. One of the hit games we haven't talked about is Pokemon, which remains fabulously popular with children. (The new Pokemon incarnations, Diamond and Pearl, are among the best-selling titles of 2007.) The franchise's tag line has been "Gotta catch 'em all!"—a reference to the hundreds of collectible monsters that have appeared through the series' history.
Almost no one ever does catch them all. Does that mean that Pokemon is too long or too big? Does that mean Pokemon should include only a fraction of its monsters, so more people can "finish" the game. Of course not. As with so many things, the real pleasure in gaming is the journey, not merely reaching some kind of finish line.
Here are some of my personal moments in gaming this year that were especially enjoyable, thought-provoking, or both.
Becoming the first level 70 character on my server in World of Warcraft. After playing for 76 hours over less than five days, I became the first person on my copy of the game world to hit the new level cap after the introduction of the game's expansion in January. It felt like a triumph at first but then a little anticlimactic (though it was necessary for the online journal I was writing), because I was literally alone at the top. It would be weeks before most of my guildmates reached the same plateau, and it helped me understand why games are best played with friends.
The Attack at Klogori. For pure adrenaline, nothing this year compared to my first solo battle against another player in Eve Online. So there I was, minding my own business, flying my Rupture-class cruiser in a low-security star system called Klogori. All of a sudden, a Thorax blastership flown by a pilot from the then-powerful RISE alliance appears on my heads-up display. His railguns rip into my shields as I fumble to launch my attack drones and target my autocannons. We circle one another, dodging the asteroids tumbling about, as my ship's Nosferatu modules relentlessly suck away the energy stored in his ship's batteries and add it to mine. Soon, he can no longer power his repair systems, and I blow the Thorax to high-tech splinters. And none too soon. A few more seconds and it would have been me waking up in a cloning station.
Mass Effect's beach scene. Others may spill spoilers, but I can't give away exactly what happens in the most powerful dramatic scene in the most story-driven game of the year. All I'll say is that a hard choice in a video game usually means deciding between a rocket launcher and a machine gun. Mass Effect's beach scene brings together choices of personal loyalty, the desire to serve the greater good, and plain old combat-oriented game mechanics.
Putting the band, or at least the team, back together. I'm really bad at most sports games, so I've never had a ton of fun with the Madden series, which practically requires several years of intense study to be able to play at a competent level. But I did enjoy assembling teams of past National Football League greats in All-Pro Football 2K8. As a fan of the 49ers teams of the 1980s, it was great to mess around with players like Joe Montana and Jerry Rice. The game also reminded me of something Shaun Alexander, the Seahawks running back, once emphasized to me, which is that football is a team game. "You should be able to make a team and play together with your friends," he said. "Like if you have 10 friends, you could all play different positions and be in 10 different houses and play together over the Internet. Or maybe you just have like five people, and you control the skill positions and the program controls the other guys." Imagine a Rock Band-like football game where you could play Randy Moss and get open while your buddy plays Tom Brady, scrambles, and then delivers the ball. Now that's a sports game that perhaps even the most multiplayer-phobic gamers could enjoy.
Why are these little anime guys making me crazy? My favorite portable game of the year was actually a remake of an old PlayStation game, Final Fantasy: Tactics, which recently arrived on the PSP. Tactics is great because it is another reminder that when it comes to puzzle-solving and strategy games, graphics usually don't matter. What matters is depth of gameplay, in the sense of offering players multiple ways to achieve their goals. Final Fantasy: Tactics is both complicated and difficult. I hear there's an end to the game out there somewhere, but I'm nowhere near it.
Making like Tarzan in God of War 2. The swing-like-an-ape sequence in God of War 2 is not very challenging, and it is certainly not one of the game's many ingenious puzzles. But it is a cinematic scene that reinforced for me how fully formed the game is as a piece of modern interactive entertainment.
The Cringe Award. This is actually high praise, because the cringing doesn't refer to the quality of the game. Rather, it refers to how well Konami's PSP game Brooktown High evokes some of the elements of that social crucible known as high school. It is not meant seriously, but Brooktown High, which lets the player decide if they want to be a jock, a nerd, or a rebel in their pursuit of popularity and a hot prom date, comes as close as any game I've seen recently in turning the real world into a game experience. One of the most striking differences between games and other media is that most films or TV shows, for instance, are set in an approximation of the real world, while most games are set in some fantastic environment purposely detached from reality. Of course, as Bill Roper, chief executive of Flagship Studios, told me: "No one wants to play a game where they are a C.P.A. trying to figure out a deduction." But perhaps games like The Sims and Brooktown High are early steps toward interactive soap operas or the kinds of in-game story lines that don't require aliens and mutants and evil masterminds everywhere.
In all, I see little reason to be pessimistic or cynical about the future of gaming. This is a medium still in its infancy, and it will continue to grow in all sorts of directions. That is why the touchstone of gaming is still ambition. That means the ambition to find new ways to engage new audiences with new forms of entertainment. That means the ambition to explain and discuss games in an engaging way for the masses, not just the cognoscenti.
But most of all, it means the ambition to have fun, because that is what games are all about.


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Discover IrelandBook this package
- from$1399Tour Only
- from$1799Tour + Flights
- 10days
|Explore Ireland in depth: Dublin, Ring of Kerry, Cliffs of Moher, Limerick, Killarney, Connemara, Galway, Lough Corrib Cruise & Clonmacnoise
|Value VacationTravel in larger groups than our Small Group tours, but at fantastic value prices. These group tour packages are operated by our carefully selected partners and may be shared with other English speaking passengers ensuring guaranteed departures. More of these packages
37 travelers max, dedicated tour escorts & guides throughout
|Scheduled Dates; select from 7 open departures, April – October 2019
|Price Includes
|New York City (NYC); other gateways on request
|History & Culture
|What to Expect
|This moderately-paced, escorted tour includes a reasonable amount of walking or hiking and requires an average level of physical fitness.
Prepare for your trip Already booked? Find everything you need to know before you go, including information about passport & visa requirements, flights, luggage, and more.
Join us on our 10-day tour package to Ireland and take the time to savor exploring this beautiful and charming country, where people are friendly, service is great and the places to discover just go on and on. You'll kiss the blarney Stone for good luck, see the Cliffs of Moher and cruise on the River Corrib. Travel through the Connemara Region, on of the most picturesque in all of Ireland, where Gaelic is still spoken, and enjoy the sites of Dublin, Ireland's lovely, intimate capital. Enjoy tourist class hotels, included sightseeing and more, all of an incredible price. Take your time when traveling around the country. Although it's possible to drive the length of Ireland in less than a day and to traverse the width of the country in a few hours, we prefer to settle in and explore a particular region, whether on foot, on horseback or behind the wheel - mindful, of course, of wandering sheep on small back roads.
Dates, Prices & Options
Departure Dates & Prices
Departures & Prices
per person, double occupancy*, with coupon**
|Depart / Return
|Package Price
|Early Bird
Good Thru
Departs: Mon, Sep 17, 2018
Returns: Wed, Sep 26, 2018
|Sep 17 – Sep 26
Departs: Mon, Oct 1, 2018
Returns: Wed, Oct 10, 2018
|Oct 1 – Oct 10
|Depart / Return
|Package Price
|Early Bird
Good Thru
Departs: Mon, Apr 1, 2019
Returns: Wed, Apr 10, 2019
Book by Thu, Oct 25, 2018 (midnight ET) to get the current early bird discount!
|Apr 1 – Apr 10
|Oct 25
Departs: Mon, Apr 22, 2019
Returns: Wed, May 1, 2019
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|Apr 22 – May 1
|Oct 25
Departs: Mon, May 27, 2019
Returns: Wed, Jun 5, 2019
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|May 27 – Jun 5
|Oct 25
Departs: Mon, Jun 17, 2019
Returns: Wed, Jun 26, 2019
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|Jun 17 – Jun 26
|Oct 25
Departs: Mon, Jul 15, 2019
Returns: Wed, Jul 24, 2019
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|Jul 15 – Jul 24
|Oct 25
Departs: Mon, Aug 26, 2019
Returns: Wed, Sep 4, 2019
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|Aug 26 – Sep 4
|Oct 25
Departs: Mon, Sep 30, 2019
Returns: Wed, Oct 9, 2019
Book by Thu, Oct 25, 2018 (midnight ET) to get the current early bird discount!
|Sep 30 – Oct 9
|Oct 25
If you want a few extra days to explore on your own, we may be able to arrange for you to stay later than the scheduled dates, including extra hotel nights and separate airport transfers, for an additional charge. Ask us about prices and availability when you reserve. More information Want to extend your trip?
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|Discover Ireland
|Rooming Selection
|Double Occupancy
|Single Room Supplement
|Sep 17, 2018; Oct 1, 2018
|All other departures
|Optional Early Check-in1
|Double Occupancy
|Single Occupancy
|Optional Excursions
|Medieval Banquet at Bunratty Castle
|Music & Dinner at a Pub
1. Regular check-in time is at 3pm.
So that we can offer you the best deals, our packages are, like most hotels and cruises, priced based on double occupancy rooms or cabins. We charge solo travelers an extra fee to cover the extra costs of single occupancy rooms or cabins. (Consider: if you booked a $200/night hotel room solo, you would pay the $200 yourself; but if a couple booked the same room, each one would pay only $100.) But you only pay extra for the rooms or cabins, nothing else, including meals, sightseeing, tips, etc.
Want to find a roommate and avoid single occupancy fees? We can help! Learn more Why are single rooms more?
Flights & Departure Cities
|Departure Airports
|New York City (NYC)1
|Land Only (no flights)2
1. NYC departures will be from either JFK or EWR based upon availability when you make your reservation. Your flight itinerary showing which airport that you are departing from will be emailed to you in 24-48 hours.
2. If selecting Land Only, arrival and departure transfers are included provided your flight details are provided in advance, or make your own arrangements to join the tour in Dublin on Day 2 and to depart from Dublin on or after Day 10.
This package includes round-trip flights from the city listed above.
Want to fly from another city? We can arrange flights from most major cities. Ask us for a quote for flights from your preferred city when you reserve, and we'll get back to you with the price and availability within 3 business days. Of course, you can also book your own flights. More information
How to Make a Reservation
To make a reservation, simply select an available departure date and reserve online using our secure booking system. Or call one of our travel specialists at 800-555-5765. But first, check out our Things to Know section.
We only require a per-person deposit payment, which you can pay with your credit card or PayPal account. This deposit will be applied towards the cost of your package, and is generally non-refundable. The balance is due 75 days prior to departure (or within 72 hours, if you're booking less than 75 days prior to departure), and can be paid by credit card, PayPal, check or money order.
Day 1: Depart USA/Overnight Flight
- Depart the USA on your overnight flight for Dublin
Day 2: Dublin
Accommodations: 1 night Ashling Hotel, Hotel Riu Plaza The Gresham, O'Callaghan Mont Clare Hotel or similar, Dublin. Included meals: Dinner.
- Upon arrival, you will be met and transferred to your hotel
- Balance of the day at leisure
- Meet your fellow travelers for an included dinner at your hotel
Full Day Itinerary: Upon arrival in Dublin, you will be met and transferred to your hotel. Most flights arrive early in the morning, but your hotel will allow you to safely store your luggage while you explore the city on your own. Today is yours at leisure to discover Dublin independently, or relax at your hotel. This evening, join your fellow travelers for dinner at your hotel.
Day 3: Ireland's Midlands, Blarney Castle & Kerry
Accommodations: 2 nights Randles Hotel Killarney or similar, Kerry. Included meals: Breakfast.
- Visit Blarney Castle and kiss the Blarney Stone
- Time for shopping at Blarney Woolen Mills
Full Day Itinerary: Today, you will board your touring coach, depart Ireland's capitol and travel to County Kerry. En route, stop in the town of Blarney for a visit to Blarney Castle. Dating from 1446, the castle is a tower house built on solid limestone. At the top of the Tower you will find the legendary Stone of Eloquence (Blarney Stone). Kiss it and you will never again be lost for words.
Enjoy some time for shopping at Blarney Woolen Mills. The existence of the Woolen Mills during the famine shielded Blarney from the worst effects of the great famine, due to its employment of local workers. The success story at the mills continued until a disastrous fire in 1869. By August 1871, the mill was once again operational with a labor force of over 200 and in 1976 Chris Kelleher, himself a mill worker, bought the old mill property. Within a short period of time Chris and his family transformed the mill into what is perhaps the largest quality craft shop in Ireland.
Continue through Ireland's Midlands to your hotel in the Kerry region.
Day 4: Ring of Kerry
Included meals: Breakfast.
- Tour the Iveragh Peninsula
- Enjoy a jaunting car ride through Killarney National Park
Full Day Itinerary: Today you can enjoy a superb tour of the Iveragh Peninsula, which will give you the opportunity to discover the Ring of Kerry, taking in the spectacular scenery: mountains, peat bogs, lakes and magnificent views of the Atlantic Ocean. Leaving Killarney, pass through Killorglin, famous for its Puck Fair and Glenbeigh, where the cliff road affords panoramic views of the Dingle Peninsula and Dingle Bay. Passing through the peat bogs, arrive at the sea town of Waterville. Continue to Sneem Village, famous because of its brightly colored houses. The road continues through the mountains to Moll's Gap and Ladies View with superb views of the famous Lakes of Killarney.
Next, enjoy a ride through Killarney National Park by pony and trap, also known as a jaunting car, to discover areas of the park that you might not otherwise visit by foot. Relax aboard the jaunting car as your jarvey (driver) takes you through the magnificent scenery of Ireland's first National Park.
This evening enjoy dinner on your own in one of the many restaurants or pubs in Killarney town.
Day 5: Burren & the Cliffs of Moher
Accommodations: 1 night George Hotel or similar, Limerick. Included meals: Breakfast.
- Take a short ferry ride across the mouth of the river Shannon
- Explore the Cliffs of Moher and the Atlantic Edge Interpretive Center
- Tour the Burren Region
Full Day Itinerary: Travel northwards to Tarbert and take a short boat ride across the mouth of the river Shannon, landing on Clare's shore at Killimer. Travel along the coast to the Cliffs of Moher. The most majestic cliffs in Ireland, the Cliffs of Moher rise 700 feet above the Atlantic Ocean and extend over four miles in length. On a clear day, you can admire the Aran Islands, the Connemara Mountains and the many sea birds that colonize this place to nest in spring. Visit the Atlantic Edge Interpretive Center built into the natural landscape. The center is a huge domed cave that contains various exhibits showcasing the mighty Cliffs of Moher.
Later enjoy a tour of the Burren Region, a strange and unique region in Europe. "Burren" means "large stones", an apt description for this impressive scenery. Often described as lunar, the Burren is a high plateau of porous limestone situated in Northern Clare, between Ballyvaughan and Kilfenora. No trees grow here and no soil covers the stone, but the Burren is not deserted, as different types of flowers grow from the cracks all year round. The Burren Region is also historically rich, with many castles and monastic ruins.
Continue to Limerick and check into your hotel. Enjoy the balance of the day at leisure.
Optional Excursion: Medieval Banquet at Bunratty Castle, $70. Take advantage of an optional Medieval Banquet at Bunratty Castle on the banks of the Raite River including entertainment, a four-course meal and wine.
Day 6: Galway & Lough Corrib
Accommodations: 2 nights Clayton Hotel or similar, Galway. Included meals: Breakfast & dinner.
- Enjoy an orientation tour of Galway
- Visit Galway Cathedral
- Embark the Corrib Princess and cruise the River Corrib and experience an Irish coffee demonstration
Full Day Itinerary: This morning, travel to Galway, a delightful city of narrow streets, old stone and wooden shopfronts, good restaurants and busy pubs. The city has attracted a bohemian crowd of musicians and artists, whom add much to its character.
Upon arrival enjoy an orientation tour of the city. Start at the Galway Cathedral, built between 1958 and 1965 on the site of the old city jail. One of the largest and most impressive buildings in the city, its architecture draws on many influences. The dome and pillars reflect a Renaissance style, and other features, including the rose windows and mosaics, echo the broad tradition of Christian art. The cathedral dome, at a height of 145 feet, is a prominent landmark on the city skyline. The exterior design may not be to everybody's taste, while the interior, with its high curved arches and central dome, has a simple but solid elegance.
Later, embark the Corrib Princess and cruise the majestic River Corrib. The journey offers wonderful views of the historic monuments and scenery, which make this one of the most spectacular waterways in Ireland. While you cruise along, enjoy an Irish coffee demonstration sampling this classic beverage and freshly made scones.
Continue to your hotel and enjoy the balance of the day at leisure. Later this evening enjoy dinner at the hotel.
Day 7: Connemara & Kylemore Abbey
Included meals: Breakfast.
- Visit Connemara National Park
- Explore Kylemore Abbey
Full Day Itinerary: Today, travel through the beautiful Connemara Region. Connemara is a land of lakes and rivers, bogs and mountains. In this area of small villages Gaelic is still the spoken language and little has changed since the beginning of time. It is without a doubt the wildest and the most romantic part of Ireland. Connemara is a vast peninsula bordered by the arid and rocky coastline of Galway Bay in the south, a land characteristic for its stone walls and thatched cottages. On its northern shore the land is harsher and more secret, with spectacular views of the ocean, the fjord of Killary Harbour, as well as the steep mountains overlooking numerous lakes and large bog areas.
Enjoy some leisure time in the Connemara National Park, which encompasses 11 square miles from Letterfrack in the west to the peaks of the Twelve Bens Mountains. Stop at the visitors' center and learn about the park's unique landscape and wildlife.
Next visit Kylemore Abbey in the Kylemore Pass in Connemara. Mitchell Henry built the House in 1868, after having spent his honeymoon in the area. The architecture is best described as neo-gothic and the house still displays all the characteristics of that period. One of Kylemore Abbey's most famous features is its miniature cathedral, built in 1870 and known locally as the Gothic church. Today, the Abbey is home to the Irish order of Benedictine nuns. They bought the house in 1920, having fled their convent in war-torn Belgium in 1914.
Day 8: Clonmacnoise & Dublin
Accommodations: 2 nights Academy Plaza Hotel, Ashling Hotel, Hotel Riu Plaza The Gresham, O'Callaghan Mont Clare Hotel or similar, Dublin. Included meals: Breakfast.
- Visit 6th century Clonmacnoise and view the original Celtic crosses
- Set out on a panoramic tour of Dublin
- View the Book of Kells in the ancient library of Trinity College
Full Day Itinerary: Depart Galway for Dublin via Clonmacnoise. Situated in the wilds, on the banks of the Shannon, 6th century Clonmacnoise is nowadays partly in ruins. Stop at the Visitor Centre where the original Celtic crosses are exhibited, followed by a tour of the site where you will see high towers, the 11th century cathedral and the wonderful reproductions of the High Crosses.
Continue to Dublin and set out on a panoramic tour to discover the fair city of Dublin. The north side of the River Liffey offers great striking monuments such as the General Post Office (GPO) on the city main thoroughfare, O'Connell Street, or the Custom House along the quays, as well as the Phoenix Park, one of the largest public parks in Europe. The south side appears more sophisticated with its vast Georgian squares, such as Merrion Square where Oscar Wilde's House can still be found, its colorful doors, along with Grafton Street and its quality shops. Not so far from St. Stephen's Green, in Kildare Street, you can see the house of Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula.
Visit Trinity College, the oldest University in Ireland, founded in 1592 by Elizabeth I. Within its walls, you will be able to admire Parliament Square and its 18th century edifices. The visit of the ancient library, containing over twenty thousand manuscripts, is often surprising by its splendor. The 9th century Book of Kells, famous for its precious illuminations, is exhibited in these premises. Enjoy the balance of the day at leisure.
Optional Excursion: Music & Dinner at a Pub, $65. Take advantage of an optional evening of festive entertainment at a local pub including a 3-course dinner & live music. Price excludes beverages.
Day 9: Dublin
Included meals: Breakfast.
- Full day at leisure
Full Day Itinerary: After enjoying a leisurely breakfast at your hotel, discover Dublin independently. Make your way to one of its most famous sights and continue exploring the city at your own pace with an included hop-on, hop-off bus tour voucher, visiting a number of Dublin's sightseeing highlights. If by the end of the day the touring has left you feeling parched, stop by a traditional Irish pub for a complimentary pint of Guinness, courtesy of Friendly Planet.
Day 10: Dublin/USA
Included meals: Breakfast.
- Transfer to the airport for your return flight to the USA
Academy Plaza Hotel
Tourist Class
The Academy Plaza Hotel is located in the center of historic Dublin. This modern seven-story hotel is just a short walk from shopping, Temple bar, Trinity College, St. Stephens Green, galleries and famous city sights.
Ashling Hotel
First Class
The Ashling Hotel is a 4 Star hotel located near the center of Dublin, adjacent to Heuston Station, the National Museum of Ireland, Guinness Storehouse, Dublin Zoo, Phoenix Park, and Kilmainham Gaol. The warm welcome, spacious bedrooms, strategic location and friendly, professional staff all combine to offer you a comfortable stay.
Clayton Hotel
First Class
The Clayton Hotel is conveniently located minutes from the center of Galway City, Galway Airport, and all major routes. Ideal for both weekend getaways and business events, it is the perfect base for exploring the local charm of Galway City. This 4 star hotel caters to any traveler's needs and provides a warm welcome accompanied by friendly professional service.
Dromhall Hotel
First Class
Located just a 5 minute walk from Killarney Town, the Dromhall Hotel is an ideal base to explore Kerry and Killarney National Park.
George Hotel Limerick City
First Class
The George Hotel is conveniently located in Limerick city center, close to shopping and entertainment. The George Hotel boasts an eclectic mix of contemporary style and comfort in a premier central location.
Hotel Riu Plaza The Gresham Dublin
First Class
Hotel Riu Plaza The Gresham Dublin is located in the heart of Dublin, in a historic building on the famous O'Connell Street, and become one of the city's emblematic sites. This Irish hotel offers you the best facilities for you to enjoy an unforgettable holiday with RIU Hotels & Resorts.
O'Callaghan Mont Clare Hotel
Tourist Class
The Mont Clare Hotel is located within walking distance of countless things to see and do. Merrion Square and the iconic Oscar Wilde statue are across the road, Trinity College is literally around the corner, and Grafton Street (famous for buskers and boutiques alike) is just a 10-minute walk away. Pearse Street train station is also nearby, providing access to beautiful stretches of the scenic east coast.
Randles Hotel Killarney
First Class
With panoramic views of the Kerry Mountains, the Randles Hotel Killarney is ideally situated just a few minutes' walk from Killarney town center. Famous for its Irish hospitality, guests will enjoy the comfort and elegance of an era long since passed.
In the unlikely event that a particular hotel is not available, a similar or better hotel may be substituted.
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Things to Know
- Any tips before I depart? Yes! We've compiled a handy checklist of everything you need to know before you go, including information on how to pay your balance due, flights & transfers, packing & luggage, and more.
- I'm traveling solo. Can you help me find a roommate? Yes, you can connect with other travelers to share a room and avoid single occupancy rates.
- Can I make changes to my trip? Want to upgrade your seats? Depart from another city? Stay a few extra days? Something else? Just ask!
- Can I bring my kids? Are there any age restrictions? To book this package, you must be 18 or older. Your traveling companions must be 8 or older at time of travel.
- Do I need a visa or any other documents? Please review the requirements about which documents you need before you travel.
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- What's the fine print? Review the terms & conditions for this package.
- What should I know about Ireland? Check out our guide for travel tips, the best time to go, blog posts, videos, and more.