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The Thrills Of Indiana Jones … As A Bed-And-Breakfast
Some movies are so amazing that their greatness can’t be contained on a simple movie screen. It’s why the Wizarding World Of Harry Potter is a multi-billion-dollar venture and Disney continues to insert employees into permanently smiling horror-beasts. But not every tie-in attraction can be a runaway success — or attract throngs of rabid superfans who will trash your property (see: Breaking Bad) — especially these ones. 6The Thrills Of Indiana Jones … As A Bed-And-Breakfast Paramount Pictures There are an endless number of things an Indy-themed attraction could involve — rolling boulders, snake pits, or melting Nazis come to mind. And the Indiana Jones Bed & Breakfast provides none of them. It’s just got beds. Also breakfast. EasyBuy4u/iStock Admittedly, this isn’t just any house; it was featured in Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade, where you’ll recall it as the least memorable location in the film. Venice, Nazi castles, a city carved into a cliff, and this: tripadvisor.ca It gets maybe 20 seconds of film time, during which it communicates all the glamour you might expect to find in any old house. Glamour it carries to this day. Indiana Jones Home Bed & Breakfast There’s really not much Indiana Jones in it at all. The room names are cute (The Cortez and Coronado rooms sound interesting; the Holy Grail room sounds better), and there are a few other plausibly Indy-related thingamabobs strewn about the house as well. But, honestly, if you’ve ever been camping or ever met a German person, you’ve probably had a more authentic Indiana Jones experience than this. Indiana Jones Home Bed & Breakfast 5The Twilight Tour That Doesn’t Show Anything From Twilight Summit Entertainment Despite the best efforts of internet snark-merchants, Twilight ended up being a pretty big deal. The books and the movies were incredibly popular, which has inspired throngs of fans to descend on the small town of Forks, Washington, where the franchise was set, to meet their own ancient, powerfully sexual vampires. As a result, the town of 3,500 has slapped a thick coat of Twilight on everything in it. “Twilight” now clings to the name of many of the town’s establishments, to help remind everyone why they’re there. You know. Just in case someone drove to Forks, Washington, by accident. Bobak Ha’Eri/Wiki Commons There are Twilight-themed coffee shops, and mailboxes, and quilts, and while that certainly is an impressive collection of Twilight, uh, physical matter, it’s lacking something, isn’t it? Like authenticity. Where are the actual shooting locations? Well, there aren’t any. Because it turns out none of the movies were actually shot in Forks. Which means the Twilight tour must be at least a little disappointing. Although the tour guides are up front about it, at least a few fans have realized sadly that the only thing this place has in common with the Twilight franchise is a name and a preponderance of pale teenagers. The tour apparently consists of places in town that, shrug, might have been places from the books. (“There’s a house! It might have been Bella’s house!”) Evidently, the only thing there that looks remotely like something from the movie is a replica of Bella’s pick-up truck, and you’d better believe the town knows this. This is from the Forks chamber of commerce’s website: forkswa.com 4The Zombie Museum That Will Not Die United Film Distribution Company The Living Dead Museum has seen better days. It was originally located in Pennsylvania’s Monroeville Mall, which is a fantastic place for a zombie museum, being the shooting location of George Romero’s 1978 zombie classic Dawn Of The Dead. Sadly, though, it was forced to relocate after the mall succumbed to the bloodthirsty menace known as gentrification. mapio.net The museum is now housed in Evans City, a small town an hour away. This was, admittedly, the place where Night Of The Living Dead was filmed. But that was a substantially less iconic location, and, well, it kind of shows. Google Maps Inside, it’s not that bad. It’s got photos, and posters, and a bunch of creepy mannequins, as you’d hope. It’s also got a wall covered in bloody hand prints for some reason. Living Dead Museum But like every museum in the world ever, the real point here seems to be the gift shop, which is where it gets a little sad. Remember that mall the museum got kicked out of? Well they’re selling tiny pieces of the J.C. Penney escalator. Which seems a little clingy. The mall’s just not that into you, dude. Let it go. (Follow-up reaction: Also, what the hell is anyone going to do with a piece of an escalator?) livingdeadmuseum.com 3The Twister Museum Is Located In The Thirstiest Town Ever Warner Bros. Somewhere in the tiny Oklahoma town of Wakita, an elderly local is telling a hapless visitor about the time Helen Hunt and a cow were attacked by a tornado. That time was 20 years ago now, but to Wakita, that time was everything. Google Maps In the mid ’90s, Wakita welcomed the Twister production into town with open arms. And why wouldn’t they? The producers promised to upgrade the town’s facade, knock down some old unwanted buildings, and clean up a bunch of debris. Which they did! On top of that, the locals hoped the film would revitalize the town’s economy, provide a steady tourism income for years, and make Wakita the go-to destination for Hollywood productions. Which it didn’t. Google Maps But for two decades now, the town has steadfastly refused to see the uninterested writing on the wall. It’s even erected a Twister museum to pay homage to the 1996 blockbuster. Which is, uh, not exactly a big-budget affair. From the models depicting tornado ravaged dollhouses: To the “Twister debris” that’s really just a bunch of random detritus haphazardly scattered in a corner: tripadvisor.com It’s all very, very quaint. The museum’s success has been so limited that residents are willing to drop literally anything they’re doing for the opportunity to guide someone around piles of Hollywood rubble and spend hours chatting about their close encounter with film-industry elite. This museum is quite literally their only form of entertainment in town: So if you’re a die-hard Twister fan who also happens to be in the middle of nowhere, maybe check it out? The locals seem like nice people, at least. They could maybe use someone to talk to, as well. Also, maybe try showing up and talking about how much you love Armageddon, as a goof. Let us know how that goes. 2Kevin Costner’s Kevin Costner-Themed Restaurant Is A Little Kevin Costner Heavy Orion Pictures Back in the ’90s, if you wanted to make a baseball movie or post-apocalyptic piece of crap, Kevin Costner was your guy. Warner Bros. But Kevin Costner hasn’t been in too many movies recently, possibly because of all those jokes we made, but also because he’s been busy with his restaurant and casino! Located in Deadwood — which is an actual real-life town in South Dakota, apparently — it’s called the Midnight Star, and according to Kevin Costner, it’s the highlight of Deadwood. themidnightstar.com With the bare walls of the establishment — of all establishments, really — just begging to be Costner-ized, Costner hasn’t sat idle and has filled the place with memorabilia from his life. Props and costumes from classics like Field Of Dreams and Dances With Wolves line the walls, while a Bull Durham poster sexily watches people eat their baskets of calamari. Orion Pictures But the downside of an extensive collection of Costner-bilia is that it reveals just how many turds he’s been in. What is The Guardian? Or Mr. Brooks? Up on the wall is some kind of doctor costume from the movie Dragonfly, which was about … dragons? Dragons that need doctors? To help fly again? Also there must be some Waterworld stuff there too, just haunting the place, making all the drinks taste a little bit like urine. (OK, that’s probably not true. But it should be.) 1The Official Cheers Bars Had Dead-Eyed Robot Versions Of The Cast CBS Cheers taught us that all it takes to make your crippling substance-abuse problem tolerable is for everyone to know your name. Which is a fine premise to base an actual bar on as well, once you remove that pesky need for knowing or even caring about your customers’ names. Which is how Cheers-branded bars began popping up in airports and hotels across the world in the 1990s. Not only were these bars called Cheers, perched at the end of the bar in many of them were horrific Chuck E. Cheese’s automaton versions of Norm and Cliff. United States Court of Appeals As you can probably tell, the replicas were less than perfect. Cliff had no mustache, Norm had aged a good 20 years, and both looked quite a bit less like human beings than they did the embalmed corpses of political cartoons. These discrepancies may not have been an accident, perhaps done to avoid paying likeness rights to the actors; the robots’ names were also changed to “Hank” and “Bob.” If you think that seems like bullshit, you’re not alone: John Ratzenberger and George Wendt, the actors who played Cliff and Norm, thought so too and ended up suing Paramount over it, in a case that almost made it to the Supreme Court. Roger L. Wollenberg/Pool via Bloomberg Yup, the United States Supreme Court had to decide whether shitty robot doppelgangers of sitcom characters swilling beer in airport bars were worth their time. Their eventual decision — “Nah, not really” — left it in the hands of a lower court, where the actors eventually settled with Paramount. We don’t know what the terms of that settlement were, but seeing as there don’t seem to be too many of those robots around anymore, we kind of hope they all ended up in George Wendt’s basement, where they’ve become his best friends. You can check out Carolyn’s depressing Twitter account here. What’s The Best Fictional School To Attend? In the muggle world, we’re not given the opportunity for a magical hat to tell us which school we should go to. Usually we just have to go to the high school closest to where we live or whatever college accepts our SAT scores and personal essay. This month, our goal is to determine what would be the best fictional school to go to. Join Jack, Daniel, and the rest of the Cracked staff, along with comedians Brandie Posey and Steven Wilber, as they figure out if it’s a realistic school like Degrassi or West Beverly High, or an institution from a fantasy world like Hogwarts with its ghosts and dementors, or Bayside High, haunted by a monster known only to humans as Screech. Get your tickets here! Also check out 7 Movies That Were Filmed In Terrifying Locations and 5 Photos That Shatter Your Image Of Horror Movie Locations. Subscribe to our YouTube channel, and check out 8 Places You’ll Recognize From The Background Of Every Movie, and other videos you won’t see on the site! Also, follow us on Facebook, and we’ll follow you everywhere. Source: http://allofbeer.com/2017/10/28/6-movie-locations-you-can-visit-but-probably-shouldnt/ from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2017/10/28/6-movie-locations-you-can-visit-but-probably-shouldnt/
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WOOO WOOO WOOO! Its the no-fun police, and were here to ruin your bachelorette partyor, keep you from ruining it with your sometimes questionable taste in these things. Getting married is like, slightly scary, and the least you, the maid of honor or one of the top bridesmaids, can do is make it as amazing as possible for your soon-to-be married bestie. We arent sure how it started, but these parties celebrating the last round of slutty single behavior for a bride-to-be have gotten out of hand. Penis themed everything, weird outfits, over-scheduled days filled with drinks and food and activities plus other tacky shit has got to stop, and were here to lead you in the right direction.
1. Dont Make The Bride Pay For ShitThis is like, rule number one. Literally. If youre the one planning this monumental shit show, make sure all the other betches understand that the bride isnt paying for anything, be it drinks, hotel, or meals. The ONLY exception would be if the bridezilla in question is demanding a 5-star bachelorette party in Vegas; sister can pay for her own airfare in that case. But for the majority of the other shit, take care of your girl. Like, she has enough on her plate planning this 2. Be Sensitive To The TimingSince the bride-to-be is going to be hella stressed with everything concerning her actual big day, make sure the bachelorette party is planned far enough in advance that she isnt on the phone with caterers and photographers putting finishing touches on shit while you’re all at boozy brunch. A good rule of thumb is to set the bachelorette party about a month or two before the wedding. That way, its far enough out from the big day that the bride can relax, but its close enough that the excitement is setting in. 3. Stop Over-schedulingA bachelorette party does not need to have something scheduled every hour of every day youll be there. Like, definitely schedule a nice dinner, or have it on the radar to head to a wine tasting, but you want to have down time too. The bachelorette is sort of an excuse for everyone to get fucked up AND relax, so having a strict schedule to stick to is just going to stress everyone out more. Plus, nobody wants to be that girl with a clipboard at the winery, MONICA. 4. Chill With The DicksYeah, dick tattoos and water bottles and gummies and shit are funny I guess, but sometimes its just like, too much. Definitely get a few hilarious dick itemslike gold tattoos or strawsbut dont go overboard. Its the same rule for bride sashes and tiaras: its cute for about an hour, then its just obnoxious. 5. You Dont Have To Black Out Every NightDont get me wronggoing out and getting fucked up as part of your bachelorette party is like, amazing. But getting blackout every night just ups the chances for Jen to throw up on a new friend, for Kalyn to get beer in her hair and sleep in itthus ruining the Airbnbs trust circleor for Sarah to cry-vomit and end up showing her future sisters-in-law her boobs without remembering it later. Like yeah, those incidents are hilarious, but you dont really want to relive them multiple times over the course of the bachelorette party. Aim for like, one night to be the shit show night, then take it sorta easy from there. Youll feel bettertrust us. 6. Stop Matching OutfitsOkay, hear me out: Having cutesy matching shirts that you wear for one activity one of the days is FINE. What tends to get a little obnoxious, though, is forcing all the girls to wear matching tanks, then matching dresses, then matching sunglasses, and matching sashes for every scheduled event/outing the entire trip. Like, relax. Everyone is using your wedding and subsequently paired activities as an excuse to hang out, drink, and chill. Dont make this weird by insisting everyone stick to a uniform. There will be enough of that when they have to put on those fug bridesmaids dresses. 7. Listen To The BrideAt the end of the day, this shit is for the bride and everything needs to, like, revolve around her. For my bachelorette, my betches knew I was obsessed with foodso we went to the top restaurants in Savannah. They know I love animals, so I got to drunkenly pet horses and dogs. Make it about her and what she wants. If you have a Debbie Downer who wants to sit with her arms crossed cause shes tired at the piano barlet her go back to the hotel. If the bride is happy, keep it that way. Dont let other selfish betches take the focus off your main bitch. Source: http://allofbeer.com/2017/10/27/tacky-things-everyone-needs-to-stop-doing-at-bachelorette-parties/ from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2017/10/27/tacky-things-everyone-needs-to-stop-doing-at-bachelorette-parties/ To reach gluemaker Delo Industrie Klebstoffe GmbH, you drive an hour from Munich, past villages with onion-domed churches and the Ammersee, a cobalt-blue lake with views of the Alps, before turning into offices nestled between a cornfield and a grove of beech treeshardly the kind of place youd expect to find a global leader in its industry. Yet one of Delos adhesives is used in 80 percent of the worlds smart cards, and its customers are spread across Europe, the U.S., and Asia. That success is testament to Germanys commitment to globalismnow a dirty word in some countriesand helps explain a political puzzle: How, in 2017, can Europes biggest economy have a normal, even boring, election while crusading populists have upended the political order elsewhere? “Other countries havent had the stability weve enjoyed,” says Delo Managing Partner Sabine Herold. “Its a mistake to believe that you can save your castle by building more walls.” When Germans vote on Sept. 24, theyre likely to back the same pair of centrist parties that have run the country since World War II, selling pretty much the same policies and messages theyve advocated for decades. Neither side has made Trump-style appeals to restrict trade or pare back globalization. They havent even bashed the European Union. Chancellor Angela Merkel, the sensible shoes of global politics, is all but certain to win a fourth term by pledging to, well, keep things more or less the way they are. When Germans look at countries that have elected populists, they get scared back toward the political center, says Christina Tillmann, a political analyst at the Bertelsmann Institute, a think tank. And then theres the countrys history: “The whole appeal of a nationalist ideal,” Tillmann says, “just doesnt resonate very well here.” Merkels longevity is doubtless due to her skills as a politician, but its also because most Germans recognize theyre globalizations winners. Germany has thousands of midsize, family-owned enterprises like Delowhat they call the spread across the country, distributing wealth rather than concentrating it in a few cities. And employees typically feel they have a share in a companys success. Delo, for instance, doesnt use any temporary staff, so everyone from janitors to research scientists is a full employee. Delos adhesives, which can top €3,000 ($3,600) for a container the size of a soda can, are all made at the companys factory outside Munich. And as a private company, Delo can prioritize long-term growthits sales have more than tripled in the past decadeover short-term profits. That glue for credit cards? It took seven years to develop. “A big company would have axed the project long ago,” says Herold, an engineer who in 1997 took over the company with her husband. Successive German governments have nurtured the Mittelstand, which supplies the world with everything from tiny screws that penetrate concrete, to automated ovens for grilling 400 chickens at a time, to tunnel-boring machines as long as oil tankers. The sectors strength helped bring unemployment down to 5.7 percent in July, from almost 12 percent in 2005. Industry still accounts for more than a quarter of German jobs, a level not seen in the U.S. since 1984, the World Bank says. About 1,500 Mittelstand companies are leaders in their niches, vs. only about 300 in the U.S., says Carsten Linnemann, a lawmaker with Merkels Christian Democratic Union and head of the partys group that coordinates relations with the Mittelstand. “Most Germans know that they profit from trade,” he says. Although the U.S. has also been a winner from globalization, the wealth has flowed mostly to the top, fostering resentment and the rise of figures such as Donald Trump. In Germany, where exports account for 46 percent of the economy, quadruple the U.S. level, stressing the benefits of globalization plays well with the electorate. A recent study by the Bertelsmann Institute found that calls to overthrow the political elite or erect trade barriers alienate German voters. Merkel isnt shy about her fondness for free trade, and she frequently praises the Mittelstand in campaign stops. On Sept. 1 she dropped in at the annual meeting of a lobbying group for the sector in Nuremberg. “The backbone of the economy is the Mittelstand, so thank you very much,” Merkel tells hundreds of delegates packed into the citys convention hall. “We must fight to ensure we keep our status as a great exporter, and that Made in Germany continues to mean something.” Germany, of course, isnt immune to populism and has an active neo-Nazi movement: Last year the interior ministry recorded more than 22,000 right-wing extremist crimes, the highest number on record. But no hard-right party has made it into the Bundestag since the 1950s. Thats likely to change this time around, with polls showing the populist Alternative for Germanyknown by the acronym AfDwill get about 10 percent of the vote in this months elections. The party is strongest in the formerly communist East, where the Mittelstand has shallower roots. Jobs are more scarce and salaries are about 30 percent below those in the West. Across Germany, income inequality is an increasingly hot topic, and long-suppressed nationalism is slowly rising. In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, a rural state on the Baltic Sea in the former German Democratic Republic, theres a sense of having been left behind after two decades of brain drain to the West. The AfD really took off after the 2015 refugee crisis, and last year it won 21 percent of the vote in the states elections, trailing only the Social Democrats (31 percent) and pushing Merkels CDU into third place, with 19 percent. Over a tankard of beer before a campaign event in Friedland, a two hours drive north of Berlin on an EU-funded autobahn, AfD candidate Enrico Komning insists his party is neither far right nor xenophobic, despite racist remarks from some leaders and a platform that dismisses Islam as un-German. Komning says that while the German economy is thriving, the benefits dont reach many of his supporters. For people who feel traditional parties dont represent them, “along comes the AfD, and we say: Well look after you,” he says. The party taps into national pride that Komning says has been wrongly stifled in the decades since the Nazi era. For most Germans, the memory of Hitlers rule still acts as an antidote to nationalist appeals. But Komning argues that “its wrong to focus on just these 12 years of National Socialism and ignore the good in the rest of German history.” Komning defends a key AfD strategy: cranking up the heat on the current government in whatever way the party canan approach that came into sharp focus at a Merkel rally an hour further north, in the Hanseatic port of Greifswald. As Merkel makes her way to the podium in Fishmarket square, a plane flies low overhead trailing a blue banner that reads “Vote AfD.” When whistling AfD demonstrators interrupt her, Muttior “mother,” as the chancellor is often calledbreaks from her speech to mock the hecklers. “I dont think whistling will build Germanys future,” she says before returning to her speech. She promises to boost security and avoid a repeat of 2015, when a million-plus migrants crossed into Germanyher biggest point of vulnerability with voters. But mostly she talks about maintaining the countrys economic edge: improving technology in schools, shoring up infrastructure, and helping automakers develop new, cleaner engines. The message resonates with Hans-Christian Schwieker, a 79-year-old vacationer from Cologne. Tucking into a bowl of hearty pea soup with bockwurst, he says hes not a big Merkel fan but nonetheless plans to vote for her. Sure, the campaign is boring. But thats as it should be, says Schwieker, who as a child in 1945 fled whats now Poland with his family. “Germany has experience with extremism,” he says. “We dont want change.” Source: http://allofbeer.com/2017/10/26/thank-economic-growth-for-germanys-boring-elections/ from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2017/10/26/thank-economic-growth-for-germanys-boring-elections/ HARRISBURG, Pa. – Members of a Penn State fraternity facing charges related to the death earlier this year of a pledge after a night of heavy drinking are due in court Monday for a hearing about whether there’s enough evidence to head to trial. Prosecutors in the case against the now-shuttered Beta Theta Pi chapter and 18 of its members are leaning heavily on video surveillance recordings made the night 19-year-old sophomore engineering student Tim Piazza was injured in a series of falls at the fraternity after a pledge acceptance ceremony that included heavy drinking. The defendants face a variety of charges, with eight accused of dozens of crimes, including involuntary manslaughter and felony aggravated assault, while five others are accused only of a single count of evidence tampering. Centre County District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller says prosecutors will play video in court, and she expects the hearing to last all or most of the day. Authorities have said members of the fraternity resisted summoning help until well into the next morning. A grand jury report described how members of the fraternity carried Piazza’s limp body upstairs, poured liquid on him and even slapped him on the face. When one of them argued to call for medical help, he was confronted and shoved into a wall, the grand jury said. Piazza, of Lebanon, New Jersey, died at a hospital Feb. 4 from traumatic brain injury and had suffered severe abdominal bleeding. His blood-alcohol measured at a dangerous level. “I believe this is a case where the defendants have been overcharged by the district attorney’s office,” said defense attorney Michael Engle, whose client Gary DiBileo, 21, faces 56 counts, including involuntary manslaughter. “We hope to develop more information during the preliminary hearing process, and beyond, that will demonstrate that many of the charges in this case are just not applicable to the conduct.” Engle said DiBileo, a junior from Scranton who recently withdrew from Penn State, was said by a witness to have advocated for calling an ambulance at some point. “It’s a tragedy, but that tragedy does not necessarily mean that Gary is criminally responsible for that young man’s death,” Engle said. In a May 18 letter to fraternity members, Beta Theta Pi house corporation attorney Mark Bernlohr said he reviewed the tapes and disagreed “with the vast majority of the factual and legal conclusions” prosecutors have reached. Bernlohr said Piazza tripped over two sorority members, causing him to fall down the stairs. He said active members and pledges “cared for him as though he was simply inebriated and needed to ‘sleep it off.’” “We believe that there is significant evidence that will show that drinking was not forced … and that the conduct of the active members did not rise to the level of hazing under Pennsylvania law,” wrote Bernlohr, who did not respond to requests for comment. Parks Miller said in response that Bernlohr was “ignoring completely the basis of liability under criminal law for recklessly causing a death.” Other defense lawyers said they have not had access to the video. “I am anxious to see it, and I believe that the video will be subject to individual interpretations,” said attorney Bill Brennan, who represents Joseph Ems Jr., of Philadelphia, charged with one count of reckless endangerment. He cautioned against a rush to judgment. The grand jury report said that rush chairman Ems, 20, was seen by a witness near a station where pledges were directed to guzzle beer, and was one of four people to strap onto Piazza a backpack loaded with books to prevent him from rolling over. Ems also participated, with two others, in picking up Piazza from the floor in and then slamming him onto a couch, the report said. Attorney Peter Sala said the 55 charges against his cousin’s son, Joe Sala, 19, of Erie, “don’t fit the conduct. We’ll leave it at that.” Lawyers for the other defendants either declined comment or did not return phone messages. Penn State has permanently banned the fraternity, saying the school found “a persistent pattern” of excess drinking, drug use and hazing. Source: http://allofbeer.com/2017/10/24/fraternity-brothers-due-in-court-in-pledges-fatal-fall/ from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2017/10/24/fraternity-brothers-due-in-court-in-pledges-fatal-fall/ Indebted tycoon Vijay Mallya has been bailed on security of 650,000 after appearing in court in London. He was arrested on Tuesday by the Metropolitan Police on behalf of the Indian authorities, over fraud accusations. India has been seeking the extradition of Mr Mallya, who faces charges of financial irregularities at his defunct Kingfisher Airlines. Mr Mallya is said to owe banks 600m but he denies wrongdoing. He appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday and a case management hearing was scheduled for 17 May. A brief statement on Mr Mallya’s Twitter account said: “Usual Indian media hype. Extradition hearing in court started today as expected.” The 61-year-old former Indian MP entered the UK on a valid passport in March 2016. Airline collapseMt Mallya made his fortune selling beer under the Kingfisher brand before branching out into aviation and Formula 1 racing. He is the co-owner of the F1 team Force India and also owns the Indian Premier League cricket franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore. However, Mr Mallya’s airline was grounded in 2012 and its flying permit lapsed the following year. Kingfisher made annual losses for five years in a row and finally collapsed after lenders refused to give it fresh loans. In March last year, Mr Mallya was blocked from receiving $75m in severance pay from the UK drinks giant Diageo. He was due to receive the money after being ousted from the firm, but a consortium of banks and creditors had demanded the money should be used to settle some of Mr Mallya’s outstanding debts to them. In April last year, India revoked Mr Mallya’s passport. The following month, it began seeking his extradition from the UK. 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The hamburger obsession isn’t going anywhere, people. From the original meaty versions to newfangled vegetarian options, people just love burgers. Now you can have your burger and drink it, too. Red Robin’s Grilled Pineapple golden ale (debuting at theGreat American Beer Festival on Oct. 6 in Denver, Co.) isn’t just made to complement burgers…it’s actually meant to taste like them. This particular beer (which contains no beef) is modeled after Red Robin’s Banzai Burger, which has a teriyaki glaze and grilled pineapple as a topping. The restaurant chain’s beverage development manager Katie Burkle tells Mashable there were other burgers on the menu considered as flavor inspiration, but none measured up to the “unique flavor profile” of the Banzai. The Golden Ale style brew is made in conjunction with New Belgium Brewing Company. Dave Glor, Innovation Brewer at New Belgium, said the brew is infused with molasses, pineapple and, “apple smoked malt to give the beer its umami and meaty-ness.” The beer will be available for a limited time at Colorado-area Red Robin eateries, though Burkle says, “if it turns out they [consumers] love having their burger and drinking it too theres always the possibility of crafting another innovation in the future!” The beer is vegetarian, has an “umami” taste and considering how many other oddball beers have followings, this could be the the next big news in burgers. Or would that be the next big news in beer? It seems like a tasty line to blur. Source: http://allofbeer.com/2017/10/24/burger-flavored-beer-just-makes-so-much-sense/ from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2017/10/24/burger-flavored-beer-just-makes-so-much-sense/ In his “apology” issued Friday night, Donald Trump immediately pivoted to attacking Bill Clinton. Expect more on Sunday night.”> Donald Trump signaled very clearly in his apology video where hes going now. Yeah, I may have said some awful things, but the Clintons did them: Ive said some foolish things, but theres a big difference between the words and actions of other people. Bill Clinton has actually abused women, and Hillary has bullied, attacked, shamed, and intimidated his victims. We will discuss this more in the coming days. See you at the debate on Sunday. A normal politicianwell, first of all, a normal politician would never have said these things on tape to a reporter. So theres that. But what I was going to say was, a normal politician, confronted with a revelation like this, would try to pivot away. Hes spend three days apologizing, and not just publicly but privatelymaking phone calls to key supporters, eating the requisite humble pie, pleading for them to stick with him. We know Trumps not going to do any of that. Then hed let the media decide theyd kicked him around enough on this one and try to roll with a change of topic. But that aint Trump. Hes leaning in. Imagine the transcript of last nights conference callTrump, Roger Ailes, Steve Bannon, maybe Roger Stone, and Kellyanne Conway (not poor Kellyanne Conwayshe has free will, and she decided to do this). I can imagine Conway, who was brought in to stop him from doing stuff like this, begging him to just apologize and leave it at that. But its not hard to see how she would have been outvoted. Interestingly, it has echoes of Bill Clintons own nationally televised apology to the American people in August 1998. It was the night of the day that his testimony before Ken Starrs grand jury was released, which was when America heard him admit for the first time that yes, he did have inappropriate relations with Monica Lewinsky. But then he went after Starr, saying the investigation had gone on too long, cost too much, and hurt too many people, insisting that even presidents have private lives. The media savaged Clinton. Trump did exactly the same thing, except, being Trump, he did it on steroids. And he signaled where hes going to drag this election for the final month. Perhaps inevitably, Donald versus Hillary is going to end as a war of the sexes. I would expect that in Sundays debate, hes going to rip into Bill and Hillary about Lewinsky, Gennifer Flowers, Juanita Broaddrick, and who knows who else. This might be difficult given that its a town hall, with questions from regular voters; but surely the subject will come up in some way, shape, or form. And depending on how it goes, hes going to, ahem, keep it up, the whole rest of the way, getting coarser and coarser as he becomes more and more desperate. What Trump has done this entire election has been to reduce arguments to their crudest and most basic form: We white people just dont want this many brown people around. Thats essentially what he communicated to voters. A large enough percentage of Republicans generally agree, which is why he won the nomination. Americans generally dont, which is why hes behind now. Thats what he does. He reduces everything to the caveman level. So thats what hell do here. Emotionally, his play will boil down to: Yeah, Im a cad. So what. But Bills a cad too. All men are cads. Grow up, America, and deal with it. As with all of Trumps caveman declarations, there is some (emphasis on some) truth to it. All men arent cads, but a lot are. And I would imagine that far more 60-year-old men talk like this sometimes than many people would prefer to think. In the coming month, Trump will represent that America. Hillary will represent the America that doesnt think like that anymore. Which America is bigger? Im not entirely sure. I actually suspect Trumps might be. Today, across America, men will fill sports bars to watch their favorite college football games. Some women will be at those bars, too, of course, but itll be 80 percent men. Theyll talk about Trump. Wont a lot of them laugh and kind of sympathize? Sure they will. Howevermost of these men will probably also know that a guy who talks like that, while they might buy him a beer and a shot, maybe shouldnt be the president of the United States. And by the way, of course he talks like that. He said in his statement that anyone who knows me knows these words don't reflect who I am. Right. In 16 months of serial lies, that may have been the lie-i-est lie of them all. Trump and Ailes were probably talking like this last week. This week. Unfazed, because theyre utterly un-faze-able people, theyll probably do it today. But yes, these sports-bar men will know that Trump crossed a line. So that may be the saving grace here: The fact we as a society agree publicly that there have to be such lines. Conservatives call it political correctness, and they revile it. Other people call it manners. Whatever you want to call it, I think it will prevail here. But not before Trump drags us all through yet another gutter, the most sordid and Freudian one of all. Hard as this concept may be to grasp, Id advise you to grasp it: We havent even seen nasty yet. Source: http://allofbeer.com/2017/10/23/donald-trump-just-revealed-his-next-debate-strategy/ from https://allofbeer.wordpress.com/2017/10/23/donald-trump-just-revealed-his-next-debate-strategy/ We may be buying into gender stereotypes here, but if there’s one thing that most dads love, it’s solving problems. So forget about buying his yearly tie, belt or argyle socks, and take your pick from our carefully collected list of twenty-five problem-solving products. 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