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Saturday, January 30, 2016

New Untappd Badge: February 2016



Name: Leap Beer (2016)

Message:
More elusive than the rarest of beers, this badge won't be back again for another 4 years. Congratulate yourself for unlocking it. Now, let's just focus on this whole extra day to enjoy some brews!

How To Unlock:
- Check-in to any beer on February 29th, 2016


Name: O’Hara’s Irish Craft Beer

Message:
Thanks for checking into O’Hara’s! Congratulations, you have now earned the O’Hara’s Irish Craft Beer Badge – have you tried our other craft beers? Find out more at http://carlowbrewing.com.

How To Unlock:
- Check-in to one (1) O'Hara Irish Stout, O'Hara Irish Pale Ale, OR O'Hara Irish Red.
- Active Date February 25th - March 25th (2016)


Name: Portsmouth Beer Week ­- Superstar (2016)

Message:
You’re Awesome! Thank you for attending Portsmouth Beer Week! Looking for more events? Check out http://portsmouthbeerweek.com. Looking for a brewery tour? Check out http://nhbeerbus.com.

How To Unlock:
- Check-in to at least ten (10) participating venues listed here
- Active Date February 19th  - 28th (2016)


Name: Portsmouth Beer Week (2016)

Message:
Thank you for attending Portsmouth Beer Week! Looking for more events? Check out http://portsmouthbeerweek.com. Looking for a brewery tour? Check out http://nhbeerbus.com.

How To Unlock:
- Check-in to at least three (3) different participating venues listed here
- Active Date February 20th - February 29th, 2016


Name: Omaha Beer Week 2016

Message:
You've unlocked the official badge for Omaha Beer Week! Your taste in breweries and bars is only matched by your excellent taste in beer. For a full list of OBW events, visit www.OmahaBeerWeek.com. Cheers!

How To Unlock:
- Check-in any beer at three (3) participating venues listed here
- Active Date February 19th  - 28th (2016)


Name: Founders Feel The Taste

Message:
What happens when you take some of your favorite Founders beers and infuse nitrogen? You get a creamier mouthful that feels like a soft belly rub for your tastebuds. Use the Founders mobile app to find them on draft near you and share how you #FeelTheTaste.

How To Unlock:
- Check-in to one (1) Nitro Rubaeus, Nitro Pale Ale, or Nitro Oatmeal Stout
- Active Date February 15th and March 15th  (2016)

Venue Example:


Name: Zwickelmania 2016

Message:
Welcome to Zwickelmania, your behind­the­scenes pass to 120+ Oregon breweries. Celebrate Presidents’ Day Weekend and Valentine’s Day by sampling Oregon beers on 2.13.16. Find out more about participating breweries at http://oregoncraftbeer.org/zwickelmania/.

How To Unlock:
- Check-in to any beer at one (1) participating brewery location listed here 
- Active Date 2/13 - 2/15 (2016)

Venue Example:


Name: Arizona Beer Week (2016)

Message:
Thank you for checking in to an Arizona Beer Week Event – find out more about our other events at azbeerweek.com.

How To Unlock:
- Check-in to any beer at one (1) participating brewery location listed here 
- Active date 2/13 - 2/15 (2016)

Venue Example:


Name: Mardi Gras (2016)

Message:
Beads and beers make the perfect combo this time of year. Cheers to another great Mardi Gras and happy Fat Tuesday!

How To Unlock:
- checkin to any beer on Fat Tuesday (February 9th).



Name: Brew Bowl 50

Message:
While the fight for grid iron superiority roars, knock back your favorite brew and cheer for your team!

How To Unlock:
- Check-in to any brew.
- Active Date Sunday, 7th Febr 2016 (Local Time) 


Name: 2X the IPA

Message:
Double your expectations, this is an ale that demands reverence. Consistently rated as a top DIPA, 2XIPA’s citrusy hops tease the senses while just the right balance of malts disguises its extra gravity. Thanks for drinking STBC beer!

How To Unlock:
- Check-in to at least one (1) 2XIPA.
- Active Date 5th - 15th Feb 2016 


Name: Bayou Bootlegger Hard Root Beer

Message:
Thanks for checking­in to Abita’s Bayou Bootlegger. This hard root beer is a decidedly adult take on the old­fashioned soda. It’s brash, bold and handcrafted with aromas of wintergreen, vanilla and sassafras. Made with Louisiana cane sugar and brewed with the swagger and rebellious spirit of our most famous pirate, Jean Lafitte.

How To Unlock:
- Check-in to at least one (1) Bayou Bootlegger Hard Root Beer from Abita and the “Bayou Bootlegger Hard Root Beer”.
- Active Date 3rd Feb - 3rd Apr 2016 


Name: Rogue Shout Out to Stouts

Message:
Thanks for checking into 2 Rogue Stouts during National Stout Month. This February, join Rogue Ales & Spirits in celebrating our world­class stouts by enjoying your favorite Rogue Stout and giving it a shout out.

How To Unlock:
- checking in to two (2) of the following Rogue stouts during the month of February


Name: Bell’s Smitten Golden Rye

Message:
Thank you for checking into our spring seasonal. Brewed with rye malt and Cascade hops, this beer is how Bell’s welcomes spring. Originally Golden Rye Ale, this recipe is one of Larry Bell’s oldest. Coming in at 6% ABV, this dry­hopped beer features an earthy, rustic rye malt character along with a citrusy, resinous hop aroma. Learn more at bellsbeer.com.

How To Unlock:
- check-in to at least one (1) Smitten Golden Rye from Bell’s during the month of February. 


Name: #GameDayLager

Message:
Win or lose, nothing can beat the full flavored taste of a #GameDayLager. So, grab a Yuengling® Traditional Lager and settle in for the game of the year. And if you need any last minute game day recipes, find them here: http://www.Yuengling.com/Football

How To Unlock:
- Check-in to one (1) Yuengling Traditional Lager
- Active Date January 31st and February 7th




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Friday, January 29, 2016

Google Doodles January 2016



Doodles are the fun, surprising, and sometimes spontaneous changes that are made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists, pioneers, and scientists.

How did the idea for doodles originate?

In 1998, before the company was even incorporated, the concept of the doodle was born when Google founders Larry and Sergey played with the corporate logo to indicate their attendance at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert. They placed a stick figure drawing behind the 2nd "o" in the word, Google, and the revised logo was intended as a comical message to Google users that the founders were "out of office.". While the first doodle was relatively simple, the idea of decorating the company logo to celebrate notable events was born.

Two years later in 2000, Larry and Sergey asked current webmaster Dennis Hwang, an intern at the time, to produce a doodle for Bastille Day. It was so well received by our users that Dennis was appointed Google's chief doodler and doodles started showing up more and more regularly on the Google homepage. In the beginning, the doodles mostly celebrated familiar holidays; nowadays, they highlight a wide array of events and anniversaries from the Birthday of John James Audubon to the Ice Cream Sundae.

Over time, the demand for doodles has risen in the U.S. and internationally. Creating doodles is now the responsibility of a team of talented illlustrators (we call them doodlers) and engineers. For them, creating doodles has become a group effort to enliven the Google homepage and bring smiles to the faces of Google users around the world.



31 January 2016


30 January 2016
Amrita Sher-Gil’s 103rd Birthday

Vivid color, graceful forms, and bold strokes mark the truly remarkable life and work of Indian painter, Amrita Sher-Gil. Today's Doodle honors the "Indian Frida Kahlo," who left no holds barred in her work, or in her life. Her paintings speak volumes of her passionate lifestyle and relentless desire to express herself through her canvasses.

Sher-Gil studied and practiced in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where she got her start as an artist and life consummate bohemian. Over time, her work became a clear salute to the feminine form, and Sher-Gil into an uncompromising talent.

28 January 2016
Hidetsugu Yagi’s 130th Birthday

Today we celebrate Hidetsugu Yagi's 130th birthday, and thank him for keeping our television and radio signal coming in loud and clear. Because of the Yagi antenna, radios and televisions can receive stronger signals from a specific direction, which helps avoid interference from surrounding signals.

Hidetsugu Yagi was a Japanese electrical engineer. He and his colleague Shintaro Uda developed and spread the technology for this antenna together, which is why the full name is the Yagi-Uda antenna. Their invention was patented in 1926 and is used today on millions of houses throughout the world for radio and television reception. If you look outside, you can probably see one or two of these right in your neighborhood—maybe even on your own roof!


27 January 2016
Beatrice Tinsley’s 75th Birthday

Today’s homepage celebrates the scientific genius of Beatrice Tinsley, whose work in cosmology and astrophysics made fundamental contributions to our understanding of the universe and the way galaxies behave within it. Despite her enormous intellect—she completed her Ph.D and wrote an “extraordinary and profound” dissertation on the evolution of galaxies in only two years—Tinsley was initially overlooked in the male-dominated world of astronomy. She eventually made her way to Yale University and in 1978 became a professor of astronomy and the chairman of the Conference on Cosmology’s organizing committee. January 27, 2016 would have been her 75th birthday. 

26 January 2016
India Republic Day 2016

Deep within the massive Thar Desert, a unique group of guards dutifully patrols the India-Pakistan border. But they’re not, as you might expect, stationed on foot.

Each guard, a member of India’s Border Security Force, rides high above the ground on a stately camel. And each year, without fail, a caravan of these mounted troops is “deployed” to Rajpath in New Delhi to march in the Republic Day parade, a festive celebration of the Indian constitution. The presence of these guards is now a long-standing tradition; this is the 66th year in which the BSF camel contingent will appear before all of India.


26 January 2016
90th Anniversary of the first demonstration of Television

On this day 90 years ago, an eccentric Scottish inventor herded a small group of Royal Institution scientists into his London apartment and showed them the future. 

John Logie Baird, who’d been working on a “televisor” apparatus for much of his career, was the first person to publicly demonstrate the system that would spawn the modern-day television. His discovery sent shockwaves through the scientific community, and certified his legacy as one of the 20th century’s great innovators.

26 January 2016
Australia National Day 2016 - D4G AU Winner - Ineka Voigt

Doodle for Google Australia Winner 2015. For the last 10 years we’ve been running the Doodle 4 Google program in Australia -- an opportunity for school-age artists to apply their own personal artistic vision to the Google logo and transform it into a work of art. The winners then have their artwork placed on the Google Australia homepage for all to see. It’s like a young artist’s work being pinned on the biggest fridge in the country.


21 january 2016
Grandfather's Day 2016 (Poland)

Every year on January 21st, people across Poland take a moment to honor their grandparents, so we thought we’d take a moment, too. We don’t presume to know your babci or dziadek, but hope, whether they’re your family’s best storyteller, the source of Poland’s finest pierogi or simply a cherished memory, that today’s Doodle by artist Lydia Nichols helps bring them to mind.


22 January 2016
Wilbur Scoville’s 151st Birthday

People have known about the tongue-burning, tear-inducing qualities of peppers long before Columbus reached the Americas. Before Wilbur Scoville, however, no one knew how to measure a pepper's “heat”. The doodle team thought his work in this field—and the development of his eponymous Scoville Scale—deserved some recognition. 

Born in Bridgeport Connecticut on January 22nd, 1865, Wilbur Lincoln Scoville was a chemist, award-winning researcher, professor of pharmacology and the second vice-chairman of the American Pharmaceutical Association. His book, The Art of Compounding, makes one of the earliest mentions of milk as an antidote for pepper heat. He is perhaps best remembered for his organoleptic test, which uses human testers to measure pungency in peppers.


21 January 2016
Grandmother's Day 2016 (Poland)

Every year on January 21st, people across Poland take a moment to honor their grandparents, so we thought we’d take a moment, too. We don’t presume to know your babci or dziadek, but hope, whether they’re your family’s best storyteller, the source of Poland’s finest pierogi or simply a cherished memory, that today’s Doodle by artist Lydia Nichols helps bring them to mind.  


21 January 2016
Naguib El Rihani’s 127th Birthday

Naguib el-Rihani was an Egyptian actor. He was born in Bab El Shereya, Cairo, Egypt to a father from Iraq by the name of Elias El Rihani who worked as a horse expert and trader and eventually settled in Cairo, where he met and married Naguib's mother, a Coptic Egyptian woman from Cairo, (he was one of three sons). He was educated in the French school "Les Frères" in Cairo.

He had a turbulent marriage with Badia Masabni, a Levantine actress and dancer who settled in Cairo, and established her famous cabaret, "Casino Badia." They separated before his death. He died at the age of 60 years in Cairo of typhus, while filming his last film, "Ghazal Al Banat"


21 January 2016
Lola Flores’ 93rd Birthday

Today's doodle displays the beautiful visage of "La Faraona", captured in a moment of fierce passion. Recognize those sparkling eyes and perfectly poised hands? She is the beloved Spanish dancer, singer, and actress Lola Flores. 

Flores’ legacy lives on in her many films, operas and songs—which are characteristically defiant and as powerful as one of her masterful flamenco performances. 


19 January 2016
José Alfredo Jiménez’s 90th Birthday

Today’s homepage features the beloved Mexican folk musician José Alfredo Jiménez, who was born in the state of Guanajuato on January 19th, 1926. The astoundingly prolific mariachi, whose songs have rung out at parties and mended broken hearts for over half a century, would have celebrated his 90th birthday today. Feliz cumpleaños, José.


19 January 2016
Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s 127th Birthday

Gracing the face of every Swiss 50 franc bill is the straightforward gaze of a dark-eyed woman. Behind this serious portrait lies one of Switzerland's most colorful artists: Sophie Taeuber-Arp, whose 127th birthday we celebrate today!

Taeuber-Arp was a Swiss artist, designer, architect and dancer. Notably, she’s one of the most important artists of geometric abstraction – her minimalistic style, which is reflected in her textile artwork, marionettes, interiors, drawings, paintings, reliefs and sculptures, makes her distinguished amongst other artists of the early 20th century. Together with her husband, Dadaist artist Hans Arp, she permanently moved to France in the late 1920’s.


18 January 2016
Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2016

Today's doodle honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a Baptist minister, community activist, philosopher and humanitarian. His leadership of the American Civil Rights movement, Nobel Peace Prize for non-violent civil disobedience in the face of racial injustice, and eventual martyrdom for the cause, cements his place as a hero for peace and justice worldwide. 

One of his most powerful tools was his ability to communicate poignant truths in beautiful and moving speeches, which guest artist Richie Pope highlighted in our doodle today. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. moved our country forward by committing to bettering the lives of American citizens, no matter their race. He told us, "Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." Today we're inspired to keep working towards a better future with grace and optimism.


15 January 2016: Teacher's Day 2016 (Thailand)
16 January 2016: Teacher's Day 2016 (Venezuela)

“A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present” -Confucius

Teachers are our mentors, friends, and catalysts. They’re the wild, eager sparks that can, with a word, set our passions ablaze. Not quite parents, they nevertheless raise us to be the very best versions of ourselves. And their impressions last lifetimes, as the lessons we’ve learned are passed down to others, like inheritances of wisdom. Today, let’s celebrate teachers, one of the noblest and most selfless of callings all across the world.

Happy Teacher’s Day!


16 January 2016
Taiwan Elections 2016

General elections were held in Taiwan on Saturday, 16 January 2016 to elect the 14th President and vice president of the Republic of China, and all 113 members of the 9th Legislative Yuan.[1] Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was elected President with 56% of the vote.




12 January 2015
Charles Perrault’s 388th Birthday

What's that story, with the glass slipper and the pumpkin that turns into a carriage? How about the one where a princess falls into a deep sleep when she pricks her hand on a spindle? We owe the Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty narratives we've known since childhood to Charles Perrault, the 17th-century French author and academician. Perrault was born in Paris 388 years ago today, and spent most of his life in the court of Louis XIV. He began writing his famous stories only in his late sixties, after having retired.


11 January 2016
Alice Paul’s 131st Birthday

“I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality.” -- Alice Paul

When the 19th Amendment to the Constitution became law in August of 1920, women finally won the right to vote after a very long fight. Many suffragists played vital roles in this victory, but none more so than Alice Paul. Paul first made a name for herself by organizing a successful women’s suffrage parade the day before Woodrow Wilson’s first inauguration. Paul thought that public demonstrations were the smartest ways to achieve voting rights. That belief put her at odds with the National American Woman Suffrage Association, so she founded her own organization, the National Women’s Party.


09 January 2016
41st Anniversary of the Discovery of the Mountain of the Butterflies

In 1975, after a decades long search that involved thousands of volunteers and spanned an entire continent, Ken Brugger and Catalina Trail unlocked one of nature’s most beautiful mysteries: the overwintering place of the monarch butterfly. Led by a team of Canadian Zoologists under Fred Urquhart, the couple followed clues left by tagged butterflies that had strayed or fallen on their migratory journeys south. The scene, in which millions of monarchs cling to oyamel trees in Mexico’s easternmost Sierra Madre Mountains, would have been overwhelming. “They swirled through the air like autumn leaves,” said Urquhart after his first visit, “carpet[ing] the ground in their flaming myriads on the Mexican mountainside.”


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Sunday, January 24, 2016

New 8tracks Mixtape: Grammy 2016: Song of the Year





58th Annual GRAMMY Awards Nominees





RECORD OF THE YEAR
- Really Love (D'Angelo And The Vanguard)
- Uptown Funk (Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars)
- Thinking Out Loud (Ed Sheeran)
- Blank Space (Taylor Swift)
- Can't Feel My Face (The Weeknd) 


ALBUM OF THE YEAR
- Sound & Color (Alabama Shakes)
- To Pimp A Butterfly (Kendrick Lamar)
- Traveller (Chris Stapleton)
- 1989 (Taylor Swift)
- Beauty Behind The Madness (The Weeknd)


SONG OF THE YEAR
- Alright (Kendrick Lamar)
- Blank Space (Taylor Swift)
- Girl Crush (Little Big Town)
- See You Again (Wiz Khalifa Featuring Charlie Puth)
- Thinking Out Loud (Ed Sheeran)


BEST NEW ARTIST
- Courtney Barnett
- James Bay
- Sam Hunt
- Tory Kelly
- Meghan Trainor



BEST POP SOLO PERFORMANCE
- Heartbeat Song (Kelly Clarkson)
- Love Me Like You Do (Ellie Goulding)
- Thinking Out Loud (Ed Sheeran)
- Blank Space (Taylor Swift)
- Can't Feel My Face (The Weeknd)


BEST POP DUO/GROUP PERFORMANCE
- Ship To Wreck (Florence + The Machine)
- Sugar (Maroon 5)
- Uptown Funk (Mark Ronson Featuring Bruno Mars)
- Bad Blood (Taylor Swift Featuring Kendrick Lamar)
- See You Again (Wiz Khalifa Featuring Charlie Puth)


BEST POP VOCAL ALBUM
- Piece By Piece (Kelly Clarkson)
- How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (Florence + The Machine)
- Uptown Special (Mark Ronson)
- 1989 (Taylor Swift)
- Before This World (James Taylor)


BEST DANCE RECORDING
- We're All We Need (Above & Beyond Featuring Zoë Johnston)
- Go (The Chemical Brothers Featuring Q-Tip)
- Never Catch Me (Flying Lotus Featuring Kendrick Lamar)
- Runaway (U & I) (Galantis)
- Where Are Ãœ Now (Skrillex And Diplo With Justin Bieber)


BEST DANCE/ ELECTRONIC ALBUM
- Our Love (Caribou)
- Born In The Echoes (The Chemical Brothers)
- Caracal (Disclosure)
- In Colour (Jamie XX)
- Skrillex And Diplo Present Jack Ãœ (Skrillex And Diplo)


BEST ROCK PERFORMANCE
- Don't Wanna Fight (Alabama Shakes)
- What Kind Of Man (Florence + The Machine)
- Something From Nothing (Foo Fighters)
- Ex's & Oh's (Elle King)
- Moaning Lisa Smile (Wolf Alice)


BEST ROCK SONG
- Don't Wanna Fight (Alabama Shakes)
- Ex's & Oh's (Dave Bassett & Elle King)
- Hold Back The River (Iain Archer & James Bay)
- Lydia (Richard Meyer, Ryan Meyer & Johnny Stevens)
- What Kind Of Man (John Hill, Tom Hull & Florence Welch)


BEST ROCK ALBUM
- Chaos And The Calm (James Bay)
- Kintsugi (Death Cab For Cutie)
- Mister Asylum (Highly Suspect)
- Drones (Muse)
- .5: The Gray Chapter Slipknot


BEST R&B SONG
- Coffee (Brook Davis & Miguel Pimentel)
- Earned It (Ahmad Balshe, Stephan Moccio, Jason Quenneville & Abel Tesfaye)
- Let It Burn (Kenny B. Edmonds, Jazmine Sullivan & Dwane M. Weir II)
- Really Love (D'Angelo & Kendra Foster)
- Shame (Warryn Campbell, Tyrese Gibson & DJ Rogers Jr)


BEST COUNTRY SOLO PERFORMANCE
- Burning House (Cam)
- Traveller (Chris Stapleton)
- Little Toy Guns (Carrie Underwood)
- John Cougar, John Deere, John 3:16 (Keith Urban)
- Chances Are (Lee Ann Womack)