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The men's basketball season has reached its midway point. Along with the Power Poll rankings, ACC Digital Network host Jeff Fischel reveals the top candidates for ACC Player of the Year. Is someone being overlooked? And, how much shake-up did the Poll see after some ultra-competitive basketball over the weekend? | 1 | 7,900 | sports |
LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) -- John Fox was not backing down from the challenge as the Chicago Bears' new coach. No matter how tough it is, he was not shying away. "I'm looking forward to this challenge," Fox said Monday. "I can't tell you exactly what that challenge is yet, but I understand that it starts with being successful in your division." The Bears finished last in the NFC North at 5-11, missed the playoffs for the seventh time in eight years and fired general manager Phil Emery and coach Marc Trestman. They hired Ryan Pace as GM and then turned to Fox last week, just days after he coached the Denver Broncos in the playoffs, to replace Trestman. Fox did not provide any answers about the futures of quarterback Jay Cutler or receiver Brandon Marshall at his introductory news conference. He is more focused on filling out his staff. Fox brings a 119-89 regular-season record in 13 years with Carolina (2002-10) and Denver (2011-14), with six division titles and seven playoff appearances. He is one of six coaches to lead two franchises to Super Bowl appearances, joining Don Shula, Bill Parcells, Dan Reeves, Dick Vermeil and Mike Holmgren. "John Fox is a proven winner and when he became available, honestly, the game changed," Pace said. "The more time I spent with him and his family, the more it became apparent that he's the perfect man to lead our charge." Fox oversaw turnarounds in Carolina and Denver, and the Bears are hoping for a similar result this time. It won't be easy, considering how chaotic last season was in Chicago. There was no shortage of drama, whether it was Lance Briggs missing practice the week of the opener to open a restaurant in California, former offensive coordinator Aaron Kromer leaking a critical story of Cutler or Marshall repeatedly drawing headlines for reasons that had little to do with his play. Fox brings credibility. He led the Broncos to division titles all four years, even if those seasons ended in ugly losses. He oversaw an impressive turnaround in Carolina, with the Panthers going from 1-15 in 2001, the year before he arrived, to the Super Bowl in his second season. Denver went from 4-12 to the AFC West title in Fox's first season with Tim Tebow at quarterback. The Broncos got to the Super Bowl last season with Peyton Manning, only to get blown out by the Seahawks. They got knocked out this season by Indianapolis. Fox and the Broncos agreed to part ways the following day, and a week later, he was standing at a podium in the Bears' practice facility, embarking on a new chapter after the last one ended in bitter fashion. Denver GM John Elway had said he was disappointed the team did not go out "kicking and screaming." "We did disagree," Fox said. "Not on anything specific, obviously we parted ways. Felt good about it. Hugged walking out. I said that a week ago today and I still feel that." Once Fox became available, it didn't take long for Pace to call him. They interviewed Wednesday at Bears headquarters and again the following day in Denver in a less formal setting. On Friday, they finalized the deal. "I just wanted to be thorough with it. Obviously, we still needed to conduct an interview, and then even more so, I wanted to go out there and meet him just more thoroughly. I felt good once we went through all those steps that we had the perfect guy for the job." Fox talked about establishing the run, an area the Bears abandoned at times last season, and re-establishing Chicago as a force on defense after getting shredded for two seasons. He also insisted that the Bears won't ignore the pass, saying, "I can promise you, you better be able to throw it." There's no question they have a talented quarterback. But Cutler's future is in question after he tied for the league lead with 18 interceptions. A massive seven-year contract that he signed after last season makes him difficult to trade. Cutting him is an option if the Bears are determined not to have him back. Pace said the quarterback situation came up in every interview the Bears conducted. Fox did not tip his hand when asked if Chicago can win with Cutler. He said he wants to meet with the quarterback. "I know everybody makes a big deal about the quarterback -- and I get that," Fox said. "But it's still a team game. We all have to do it for our teammates and for something bigger than ourselves. I look for that in any position." NOTES: TE Martellus Bennett was selected to the Pro Bowl with New England's Rob Gronkowski headed to the Super Bowl. ... The Bears hired Jeff Rodgers as special teams coordinator. He spent the past four years in the same role with the Denver Broncos under Fox and spent two seasons on Fox's staff in Carolina. ... Pace when asked if the Bears have offered former San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator Vic Fangio their job: "No. I mean no. We're talking to a lot of guys right now." | 1 | 7,901 | sports |
1. Cable TV Though cable providers still have plenty of subscribers roughly 101.7 million Americans, in 2014, according to research firm IBISWorld those numbers are declining. The firm predicts that cable providers will lose a net of around one million subscribers for each of the next several years, reaching 97 million in 2019. One of the reasons for this subscriber defection: Consumers are increasingly embracing (often cheaper) cable alternatives. Indeed, PricewaterhouseCoopers notes that subscriptions to cable alternatives like Netflix (up 25% over 2013), Amazon Prime (up 14%) and Hulu (up 3%) each of which costs around $8 a month are on the rise. You may have more reason than ever to cut the cord, as cable TV rates are rising, even as more relatively inexpensive streaming options emerge. In 2015, research group NPD expects the average pay-TV bill (for basic and premium channels) will hit $123 a month, up from $86 in 2011. What's more, in 2015, there will be even more streaming options to watch: In October, HBO, Univision and CBS all announced new stand-alone streaming services. "There are a lot more options out there so we don't all have to subscribe to cable anymore," says Sarah Kahn, an industry analyst for IBISWorld. Catey Hill 2. Name-brand razorblades Americans love their Gillette razorblades so much so that the shaving giant controls 66% of the nearly $13 billion shaving industry. But just because Gillette is popular doesn't mean it's cheap, especially if you're buying the blades (or cartridges, to be exact) at the corner drugstore. Which is why more shavers are turning to membership programs; the Dollar Shave Club, whose membership has grown by nearly 200% in the past year to 1.3 million, is perhaps the most prominent example. Such clubs sell blades on a mail-order subscription basis for a fraction of the cost. A blade purchased through Dollar Shave can run as little as $1.50; by contrast, a Gillette blade can run as much as $5. And the blades aren't necessarily inferior: A survey by the grooming-oriented Sharpologist website gave high marks to just about every low-cost Gillette competitor. Still, what if a shaver swears by Gillette? Gillette and shopping experts says consumers can still find ways to save on their beloved blades by buying them at discount retailers (Costco is an oft-mentioned example) or creating what amounts to their own subscription model--meaning purchasing the brand-name blades in larger quantities on a recurring basis through sites like Amazon.com and Drugstore.com. Charles Passy 3. Bottled water Who would pay $2 for a what amounts to a bottle of tap water? Millions of Americans, it turns out. In the four decades since Perrier water was launched in the U.S. market in the mid-1970s, U.S. consumption of bottled water has surged 2,700%, to 10.1 billion gallons in 2013, according to the Beverage Marketing Corporation. And sales in the U.S. rose 4% year-over-year in 2013 to $12.3 billion. The Beverage Marketing Corporation predicts that bottled water will become the top-selling packaged beverage in 2020, up from No. 2 currently. Scares over possible water contamination have helped boost demand for bottled water over the last few decades, experts say. The American public thinks bottled water is going to be safer and cleaner than tap water, says Mae Wu, attorney in the health program at National Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group based in Washington, D.C., but "for the most part, that's not true." Indeed, 45% of bottled water brands are sourced from the municipal water supply that's the same source as what comes out of the tap, according to Peter Gleick, a scientist and author of "Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water." Bottled water sourced from municipal water supplies include Dasani, owned by Coca-Cola and Aquafina, owned by PepsiCo. Consumers can purify their own tap water for a fraction of the cost, says Nick Colas, chief market strategist at ConvergEx, a brokerage and a services firm. It's more economical and better for the environment to filter tap water at home, "and one way to avoid using a lot of scrap plastic," he says. Filters from companies such as Brita and Pur start at around $15 for a year's supply. Quentin Fottrell 4. Credit monitoring services and identity theft insurance The year 2014 saw an almost unrelenting avalanche of security breaches that struck retailers, banks and medical providers, among many others. At least 744 data breaches have been disclosed this year, with more than 115 million consumers' records exposed, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center. To protect themselves and their data, consumers may opt for credit monitoring services or identity theft insurance. But such coverage, which can cost anywhere from $25 to more than $100 a year, may not be worth paying for, consumer advocates say. "It depends on how important peace of mind is to you, because that's essentially what you're buying at the end of the day," says Al Pascual, senior analyst for security, risk and fraud at Javelin Strategy & Research. Some credit monitoring services place all of a person's financial information in one place, making it easier to check your account for fraudulent activity. These services also often help victims of identity theft get through the crisis, aiding with paperwork and potential fees or expenses like lost wages, if a person has to take off work to deal with the fallout, though such extensive cases are rare But you may not need that kind of help. Banks have zero liability policies that protect consumers from unauthorized charges For free, people can opt to receive alerts each time a transaction is made over a certain value; they can also ask the credit bureaus to put a security freeze on their account to prevent fraudsters from opening new lines of credit. And if you decide you want the protection, chances are you already have multiple offers in your inbox that can give it you free given that many breached companies extend these services to customers free of charge to save their reputations. Priya Anand 5. DVDs and CDs Compact discs and DVDs have going the way of the dodo, and streaming media will keep that trend going in 2015, experts say. Sales of DVDs and high-definition Blu-ray discs dropped by 8% to $7.78 billion in 2013, and are expected to have fallen even further in 2014, according to Digital Entertainment Group, an industry trade group. Revenue for DVD rental subscriptions from companies like Netflix and Red Box plummeted 19% in 2013 to $1.02 billion. And while digital movie purchases are playing catch-up on DVDs, revenue still soared by 47% to $1.19 billion last year. Digital music tracks also declined for the first time in 2013, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and that slide continued throughout 2014. On-demand streaming of music rose 42% year-over-year to 70 billion songs in the first half of 2014, while digital track sales fell 13% to 594 million in the same period. Sales of compact discs dropped by 19% year-over-year to $716 million in the first half of 2014, according to by revenue in the Recording Industry Association of America, although vinyl LP sales surged 43% to $146 million in the same period. Quentin Fottrell 6. Memory sticks and thumb drives Computer memory sticks and thumb drives are becoming obsolete as the online storage wars heat up. Microsoft announced last October that it's offering unlimited cloud storage to Office 365 subscribers (although subscriptions themselves cost $70 to $100 a year). That came shortly after Google Drive slashed storage prices for its monthly online storage plans to $1.99 from $4.99 for 100 gigabytes. Microsoft and Google also offer free storage under a certain gigabyte limit, and many tablets and computers also come with free storage for new buyers. "Cloud storage costs companies so little due to economies of scale, and they get the benefit of deepening their relationship with you," says Avram Piltch, online editorial director of Laptop Mag and Tom's Guide. "It makes it that much harder for you to bail on them in the future, even when they eventually charge you for the space." Memory sticks can sometimes be cheaper than cloud storage: Their prices typically start at around $25. But they can spread viruses from computer to computer and, unlike the cloud, they can be left behind in a cafe. Of course, the cloud isn't invulnerable, as a security breach of Apple's iCloud system showed this fall. And some consumers fear losing access to cloud data if storage providers suffer more technological problems, or opt to raise their prices. Quentin Fottrell 7. Mini tablets When Apple launched the iPhone 6 Plus phablet in 2014, it may have harmed the sales of another one of their product lines--mini tablets. "Phones are getting bigger and better, and there is no reason to have a mini tablet," says Howard Schaffer, vice president of retailing website Offers.com. Brent Shelton, spokesman for deal site FatWallet.com, argues that mini tables like the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8 ($270) and iPad Mini 3 ($399 for 16 gigabytes) are becoming a "redundant technology," especially with the introduction of the 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus ($299 with a two-year contract) and Samsung Galaxy Note 4 ($399 with a two-year contract). The popularity of phablets roughly defined as smartphones with 5.5-inch and larger screens is causing many people to "second-guess" smaller tablet purchases as the larger screens are often adequate for tasks once reserved for tablets, says Tom Mainelli, program vice president of devices and displays at IDC. Shelton notes that consumers can make phone calls on phablets (without FaceTime or Skype) and that they're easier to handle for taking photos. "Plus, you can put them in your coat pocket quite comfortably." iPhone 6 Plus sales made up more than 40% of all phablet sales in the fall of 2014, according to market research firm Kantar WorldPanel ComTech, even though it didn't debut until Sept. 19 in most countries, including the U.S. Meanwhile, people who are buying iPads appear to be turning up their noses at the 7.9-inch iPad Mini: According to a recent survey released by e-commerce firm Slice Intelligence, some 93% of iPad preorders are for the larger 9.7-inch iPad Air 2. Quentin Fottrell 8. Paid online dating services Love might be priceless, but the dating industry is expected to earn $2.2 billion in revenue in 2014, according to IBISWorld. In addition to Match.com and eHarmony, the two most popular paid services, niche options abound: VeggieDate.com, FarmersOnly.com, GlutenFreeSingles.com, Meet-an-Inmate.com and even ClownDating.com. One in five 25-to-34-year-old adults has online-dated, according to Pew Research Center data and 5% of Americans in marriages or committed relationships said they met their significant other online. And Match.com and eHarmony, the two most popular paid services, charge love-seekers between $20 and $60 monthly, depending on the type of subscription. Still, The Beatles may have been on to something when they sang that "money can't buy me love." Free dating apps are surging in popularity. Tinder users swipe right or left on their smartphones more than 1.4 billion times in aggregate daily, indicating interest in or rejecting potential matches. Tinder might be better known for hooking people up with flings, unlike Match and eHarmony, which advertise their algorithms as the ones that can find you a lasting relationship. But other free apps, like OkCupid, say that their matching algorithms are now competitive with those on the paid sites. Like the paid sites, OkCupid, which claimed about 10 million users in the past year, also offers basic questionnaires that allow users to rank their priorities in a potential date and match people based on compatibility. Hinge, another free app, matches users with contacts of each other's Facebook friends to filter the pool of strangers and, hopefully, avoid psychopaths and creeps. To be sure, paid services (and premium versions of free sites) often include more detailed compatibility questionnaires, more filtering options for candidates or anonymous browsing of profiles, and could weed out daters who are just looking for a quick fling. "Do you like expensive restaurants, or do you feel like you can get a great meal at a cheaper restaurant that's well-chosen?" says Dan Slater, author of "Love in the Time of Algorithms: What Technology Does to Meeting and Mating." "Whether or not you pay, it's always going to be hard to find someone you have that spark with." Priya Anand 9. Boutique moonshine In recent years, Americans have rediscovered quality whiskey: Sales of single-malt Scotch alone have grown by 134% since 2002, according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the U.S. But these days, there's a lot of clear or "white" whiskey meaning un-aged corn or rye whiskey competing for space on liquor store shelves with the classic brown spirits. Brands based everywhere from Kentucky to New York are touting what amounts to a boutique version of moonshine or white lightnin', costing as much as $40 a bottle. The trend started to take off around 2009, particularly as states looking for ways to boost business during the Great Recession started relaxing regulations governing the production of spirits, according to one published report. Indeed, from 2010 to 2012, sales of moonshine in the U.S. quintupled to more than 250,000 cases, according to Technomic, a prominent firm that analyzes the beverage industry. But while these new-school moonshine makers speak of estate-grown corn and proprietary recipes, some spirits experts say that consumers shouldn't be fooled un-aged whiskey simply lacks the depth and character that an aged one, be it a Scotch or bourbon or even a Taiwanese spirit, can attain. Basically, time in the barrel equates to more flavor. "I've never had a white whiskey that I would say I prefer to an aged whiskey," says Clay Risen, author of "American Whiskey, Bourbon & Rye," a buying guide. Charles Passy 10. 4K Televisions With their super-sharp pictures, 4K and other ultrahigh definition (UHD) televisions are tempting for those who spend hours in front of the TV. (And, ahem, that's most of us: The average American watches nearly three hours of TV a day, according to government estimates). But experts say that despite their perks, you shouldn't buy these yet. For one, despite rapidly plummeting prices, 4K TVs are still quite expensive: Research firm NPD Group notes that they have an average price of $2,400, compared with about $450 for flat-screen TVs overall. Plus, there isn't a lot of ultrahigh definition content for owners of 4K TVs to watch right now. "Realistic expectations are that content to match the display is approximately two to three years out," says Phong Vu, CEO of deal intelligence site DealScience.com. "There's little logic in paying a premium for a TV that consumers will rarely get to enjoy in UHD." To be sure, prices for 4K/UHD TVs will likely drop. Flat screens also made their debut at a high price point: Stephen Baker, the vice president of industry analysis for NPD Group, notes that a 42" flat-screen in 2006 or 2007 might have cost about $3,000, while now you can get one for $200 to $300. "The decline in the prices of flat screen televisions is due to greater manufacturing capacity that has increased supply, the entrance of low-cost manufacturers, and technological developments that have lowered production costs," says IBISWorld analyst Darryle Ulama. With the 4K/UHD market, we might see similar forces bring prices down. Catey Hill | 3 | 7,902 | finance |
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Cheapest Times to Visit Vacation Hotspots in 2015 One of the best ways to save money on travel is to time your trip right. By visiting during the off-season, you can score deeply discounted airfares and accommodations. In fact, discount travel site Hotwire found that you can get up to half off on hotel rooms by visiting popular destinations when they're not overrun by tourists. And often those lowest-of-the-year hotel rates correspond with low airfares, according to data from CheapAir.com. Hotwire surveyed people ages 18 to 35 to see which places they would like to visit in 2015 to come up with a list of the year's most sought after destinations. Then it looked at hotel rates in those cities (as published on Hotwire) to determine the best month to visit each city for the most savings. We asked CheapAir.com to compare average airfares to the top ten cities on the Hotwire list to find the best months for discounted flights. Here you'll find the thriftiest times to fly to and stay in vacation hotspots this year based on probable airfares and hotel rates. Destinations are listed in order of popularity. Las Vegas Best month to visit: January January through mid-February is off-season in Las Vegas, so prices are lower during this time - aside from weeks with major conferences, says Henrik Kjellberg, president of the Hotwire Group. Room rates are $66 per night, on average, in January; you'd pay 44% more for a room, on average, during peak season. Airfares to Las Vegas also are at their lowest in January - 25% less, on average, than in the peak season, says CheapAir.com CEO Jeff Klee. Although room rates and airfares are lower in January, there still are deals to be found in other months. Kjellberg says you can find discounted rooms even in the peak season if you wait until the last minute to book because hotels lower prices to fill rooms. Honolulu Best month to visit: May May is on the tail end of Hawaii's off-season, so Kjellberg says travelers can find great deals before peak summer months, when average hotel rates are 46% higher. Airfares are 31% lower, on average, in May than during the peak season, Klee says. Another time of year to consider is shoulder season during September through November because travelers can still experience warm, tropical weather without the summer and holiday crowds, Kjellberg says London Best month to visit: January If you're willing to bundle up and brave the cold, you can save 30%, on average, on a flight by visiting London in the heart of winter. And room rates are $129 per night, on average; whereas, in peak months rates can be up to 55% higher. Otherwise, consider a trip in late summer to take advantage of lower shoulder-season prices, Kjellberg says. Rome Best month to visit: January On average, you'll pay half as much for a hotel room per night in the capital of Italy in January than during peak summer travel season. Given that the average temperature is 53 degrees in January, you won't freeze as you soak up all the history and pasta the city has to offer. Airfares actually are lowest in March, Klee says, but you'll still save 30% by flying in January rather than in summer. And Kjellberg says travelers actually can find deals on rooms throughout winter and early spring. Miami Best month to visit: September The best month to visit Miami is during the tail end of off-season in September, when room rates average nearly half what they would during the peak winter season, Kjellberg says. September also is the cheapest month for airfares, which are $99 less per ticket, on average, than in December (the most-expensive month), Klee says. Paris Best month to visit: February Summer is prime tourist season in the capital of France, so the deals are better and the crowds are smaller in winter. Room rates are lowest in February - $117 per night, on average - but Kjellberg says low rates can be found through May (except during fashion week in early March). Prices on flights also are lowest in February - $498 less, on average, than the July peak, Klee says. New York Best month to visit: February Flights to the Big Apple are 21% cheaper, on average, in February (and January and September) than other times of the year, Klee says. You'll also score the biggest savings on a hotel when the average nightly rate is $136 in February. During peak season, hotel rates shoot up an average of 77%. However, there are deals to be had throughout the year on weekends when business travelers clear out and hotels lower prices to fill rooms, Kjellberg says. Madrid Best month to visit: August Travelers can find great deals during this month as many businesses owners around the city close up shop for their annual holiday, Kjellberg says. That doesn't mean there isn't plenty to do as major attractions are still open. And nightly room rates are just $71, on average. You'll pay up to 77% more, on average, for a room during peak season. However, airfares aren't the lowest of the year in August - but it is the cheapest month to fly during summer, Klee says. San Francisco Best month to visit: January Winter is off-season in the City by the Bay, so room rates average $116 per night in January, according to Hotwire. You'll pay up to 88% more for a room in peak summer season. And flights to San Francisco are about $100 lower than average in January, Klee says. Kjellberg also recommends visiting San Francisco from September to November for discounted room rates. You'll also find airfares that are about $100 lower than average in September than in December, when fares are highest, Klee says. Los Angeles Best month to visit: January Hotel rates are $99 per night, on average, in January, according to Hotwire. And airfares also are the lowest of the year in January, Klee says. However, deals can be found throughout the year, even during peak months, if travelers are flexible, Kjellberg says. For example, there were plenty of deals in the Downtown Los Angeles and West Hollywood/Beverly Hills areas last summer during peak season because the majority of visitors booked their stay on the beach in places such as Santa Monica, he says. Copyright 2015 The Kiplinger Washington Editors | 2 | 7,911 | travel |
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Seattle Vs. New England: Recipe Edition Seattle and New England are going head-to-head in the big game, but how do the cuisines of these great cities shape up next to each other? Here is a little comparison of what you should eat and drink, depending on which team you support. Seattle Cedar Planked Salmon Salmon is a classic Seattle food. This cedar planked salmon brings extra flavor into the fish. Get the recipe Watch: How to Test Salmon for Doneness (2:34) Smoked Salmon Pizza Seattle has a reputation for smoked Salmon. Try a new take on the classic with this salmon pizza. Get the recipe Make: Perfect Pizza Dough Chocolate Espresso Crinkles The city that birthed Starbucks knows a thing or two about coffee, both in your cup and on your plate. These chocolate espresso cookies are sure to score some points. Get the recipe Rainier Cherry Tart Recipe with Lime and Lemon Thyme The sweet Rainier Cherries are a Seattle favorite. Up your game with this beautiful (and fresh) cherry tart. Get the recipe Watch: What Is Blind Baking? (2:07) Grilled (or Broiled) Oysters with a Sriracha Lime Butter Oysters are served at many restaurants around the greater Seattle area. Try these ones at home and add a little heat! Get the recipe Watch: How to Open an Oyster (00:45) Everything Bagel Dogs The 'Seattle Dog' is a stadium favorite: a hot dog with cream cheese. Get the recipe Crab Cakes Dungeness crab is local to the Seattle area and is often made into delicious crab cakes. Get the recipe Watch: How to Remove Meat From a Crab (1:56) Roasted Apples The apple state has many different apple recipes that delight. This simple treat is a great place to start. Get the recipe Mussels in Coconut-Cardamom Curry Penn Cove Mussels are local to Washington State. Try this recipe that adds a little kick. Get the recipe Watch: How to Open a Clam (00:34) Grilled Scallop-Stuffed Sweet Onion Walla Walla onions are a sweet onion that the people of Seattle love. Pair them with seafood and you've got an instant Seattle-esque recipe. Get the recipe Watch: How to Open a Scallop (00:53) and How to Make Scallop Pops (4:56) Wine: Seattle Rooting for the Seahawks? Grab a bottle of Washington State wine from Walla Walla Valley's Gramercy Cellars . The reds combine the power of Marshawn Lynch with the grace of Russell Wilson. More: Get to know Walla Walla's Gramercy Cellars, one of the Top 100 Wineries in America Cocktail: Seattle The Old Fashioned is a cocktail that is a lot like Seattle. It's a little rough around the edges and bursting with flavor. Get the recipe New England A Traditional Lobster Roll Maine lobster is an attraction that brings people to New England from all over the globe. This traditional sandwich is a great way to bring lobster to the party. Get the recipe Watch: How to Remove Meat From a Lobster (1:18) Clam Bake A clam bake, a New England favorite, can really be whatever you want it to be. Start with some seafood staples and add whatever your friends and family fancy. Get the recipe Watch: How to Open a Clam (00:34) New England Clam Chowder New England clam chowder is a dairy-based, thick chowder, traditionally served with oyster crackers. Make a big pot for the game! Get the recipe Meaty Boston Beans Boston baked beans are cooked with molasses, brown sugar, and (traditionally) pork. This recipe will keep your team happy. Get the recipe Watch: Cooking Dried Beans (2:56) Frozen Boston Cream Pie The Boston cream pie is actually a cake, but who's coutning? Filled with a custard and covered with a chocolate glaze, this dessert is sweet no matter what name you give it. Get the recipe Chestnuts with Squash and Cranberries Squash and cranberries are two very popular ingredients in New England. Try this recipes to add a little color to your game-day menu. Get the recipe Watch: Roasting & Testing Vegetables (2:23) Fried Oysters Oysters may be popular in both of our battling cities, but you are sure to get very different flavors from each city's recipe. These fried oysters are great for an appetizer and have crunch that you cannot pass up. Get the recipe Watch: How to Deep Fry Foods (5:13) Kenyon Johnnycakes The Johnnycakes are a cornmeal cake with about as much history as New England itself. There are many different varieties of Johnnycake, and they are all winners. Get the recipe Maple Caramel Spread Maple syrup is a classic in the New England area. Try this maple caramel spread to put on just about anything! Get the recipe Corn, Sweet Potato and Lobster Chowder Sweet corn, lobster and chowder. Now, I ask you, does a recipe get more New England than that? Get the recipe Wine: New England What better way to toast the Patriots return to the Super Bowl than with a bottle of bubbly from Massachusetts? Westport Rivers , about sixty miles south of Boston, makes sparkling wine serious like Bill Belichick yet fun like Gronk. Browse: Wines from Westport Rivers Cocktail: New England Bostonians, and New Englanders alike, love their martinis. This take on the classic adds a little spice, making it perfect for the big game. Get the recipe | 0 | 7,913 | foodanddrink |
A wrap up of the day in sports Vonn makes history with 63rd victory Lindsey Vonn of the U.S. is airborne as she clears a gate to win the women's World Cup super-G race on Monday in Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy. Vonn became the most successful female in Alpine skiing World Cup history when she won the super-G, her 63rd victory in the competition. IMAGES: LINDSEY VONN, ON AND OFF THE SLOPES Knicks snap 16-game skid The New York Knicks' Jose Calderon, right, receives a hug from Lou Amundson after Calderon hit a big 3-point shot in the final minute against the New Orleans Pelicans on Monday in New York. The Knicks snapped their 16-game losing streak by winning 99-92. IMAGES: NBA SEASON Tiger on the scene, sans tooth Tiger Woods walks in the finish area of an alpine ski, women's World Cup super-G, on Monday in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. Woods was at the event to support his girlfriend Lindsey Vonn, who won the super-G for her record 63rd World Cup victory. Tiger's agent says he lost a tooth when knocked by a camera lens during the awards ceremony. Georgetown sinks No. 4 Villanova Georgetown forward Isaac Copeland dunks in front of Villanova forward JayVaughn Pinkston (22) and guard Darrun Hilliard II (4) on Monday in Washington, D.C. Copeland had 17 points as Georgetown won 78-58. IMAGES: COLLEGE BASKETBALL SEASON Court is in session Roger Federer of Switzerland serves against Lu Yen-Hsun of Taiwan during their men's singles first-round match at the Australian Open 2015 tennis tournament on Monday in Melbourne, Australia. Federer won 6-4, 6-2, 7-5. IMAGES: AUSTRALIAN OPEN Using every inch Maria Sharapova of Russia plays a backhand in her first-round match against Petra Martic of Croatia during day one of the 2015 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Monday in Melbourne, Australia. Sharapova won 6-4, 6-1. IMAGES: AUSTRALIAN OPEN Coach K wins his 999th Duke head coach Mike Krzyzewski reacts during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Pittsburgh on Monday in Durham, N.C. The 79-65 victory was Krzyzewski's 999th career win. IMAGES: COLLEGE BASKETBALL SEASON Double air France's Perrine Laffont, left and Germany's Laura Grasemann compete at the freestyle skiing dual moguls women's event at the Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World Championships on Monday in Kreischberg, Austria. Laffont placed sixth and Grasemann was eleventh. Fox in Bear country New Chicago Bears head coach John Fox speaks during a press conference at Mugs Halas Auditorium on Monday in Lake Forest, Ill. First-round revelry Rafael Nadal of Spain celebrates after defeating Mikhail Youzhny of Russia in their men's singles first-round match at the Australian Open 2015 tennis tournament on Monday in Melbourne, Australia. IMAGES: AUSTRALIAN OPEN Jayhawks outlast Sooners Kelly Oubre Jr. #12 of the Kansas Jayhawks battles Isaiah Cousins #11 of the Oklahoma Sooners for a loose ball at Allen Fieldhouse on Jan. 19 in Lawrence, Kan. IMAGES: COLLEGE BASKETBALL SEASON All eyes on the puck Aaron Ekblad #5 of the Florida Panthers tangles with Bo Horvat #53 of the Vancouver Canucks at the BB&T Center on Monday in Sunrise, Florida. Vancouver won 2-1. IMAGES: NHL SEASON Leaving the competition behind Sho Kashima of the U.S. crashes against Marc-Antoine Gagnon of Canada during the men's dual moguls bronze medal finale of the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World Championship 2015 on Monday in Kreischberg, Austria. Going head-to-head Mame Biram Diouf, right, of Senegal challenges Ghana's Daniel Amartey during their 2015 African Cup of Nations Group C soccer match on Monday in Mongomo, Equatorial Guinea. Senegal won 2-1. Team spirit A Memphis Grizzlies cheerleader performs during a game against the Dallas Mavericks on Monday at the FedExForum in Memphis, Tenn. IMAGES: NBA DANCERS Philly gets dunked Washington Wizards center Kevin Seraphin (13) dunks in front of Philadelphia 76ers forward Robert Covington (33) during a game on Monday in Washington, DC. The Wizards won 111-76. IMAGES: 2014-15 NBA SEASON In the light Andy Murray of Great Britain serves in his first-round match against Yuki Bhambri of India during day one of the 2015 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Monday in Melbourne, Australia. Murray won 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (3). IMAGES: AUSTRALIAN OPEN Andy Murray's No. 1 fan Kim Sears, girlfriend of tennis player Andy Murray of Great Britain, arrives in his players box in his first round match against Yuki Bhambri of India during day one of the 2015 Australian Open at Melbourne Park on Monday in Melbourne. IMAGES: LOOK WHO'S WATCHING Team colors A fan cheers during the Group C soccer match between Ghana and Senegal at the 2015 African Cup of Nations on Monday in Mongomo, Equatorial Guinea. MLK day The image of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is projected onto the Philips Arena court before a game between the Atlanta Hawks and the Detroit Pistons on Monday in Atlanta. IMAGES: 2014-15 NBA SEASON Going over the defense Croatia's Jakov Gojun, left, in action against Iran's Sajad Esteki, center, during the 24th Men's Handball World Championship's preliminary round Group B match between Iran and Croatia at the Lusail Multipurpose Hall on Monday in Doha, Qatar. Croatia won 41-22. Meyer makes a friend Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer waits with Cleveland Cavaliers mascot, Moon Dog, before a presentation of the college football national champions at an NBA game between the Chicago Bulls and Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday in Cleveland. IMAGES: LOOK WHO'S WATCHING Bouchard hits hard Canada's Eugenie Bouchard hits a return against Anne-Lena Friedsam of Germany during their women's singles match on day one of the 2015 Australian Open tennis tournament on Monday in Melbourne, Austalia. Bouchard won 6-2, 6-4. IMAGES: AUSTRALIAN OPEN Thwarting a triple threat Mike Conley #11 of the Memphis Grizzlies goes to the basket against the Dallas Mavericks on Monday at the FedExForum in Memphis, Tennessee. IMAGES: 2014-15 NBA SEASON Fostering the defense Ben Foster of West Brom catches the ball during the Barclays Premier League match between Everton and West Bromwich Albion at Goodison Park on Monday in Liverpool, England. A crunching blow Paddy Brennan and Pitter Patter fall whilst leading at the last in The Super Sunday 8th February Mares' Handicap Hurdle Race at Exeter Racecourse on Monday in Exeter, England. IMAGES: PREVIOUS DAY'S PHOTOS | 1 | 7,914 | sports |
Waste less money on food Every bit of unused produce, leftover dinner, and expired canned food equates to dollars lost from your pocket. Over the course of a year, this can add up to a loss of $2,275 for a family of four, according to a recent report from the National Resources Defense Council. For the average family, this total represents about one quarter of all food and beverage expenses. By adopting the following 10 techniques, both in your shopping and eating habits you will squander less food -- and money. Stick to your shopping list Avoid impulse buys. Maybe something looks especially good or the price is drastically reduced. No matter what your rationale is, unless you had a plan for the item before entering the store, don't buy it. Sure, an extra product or two doesn't seem like a huge deal, but if it ends up going to waste, it wasn't a good deal at all. Go to the grocery store on a full-stomach to avoid the spur-of-the-moment purchases that look so tempting. Shop realistically If you live alone, don't buy the big bag of apples. Instead, purchase loose produce to get the exact amount you know you'll consume before it spoils. Ditto for a recipe that only calls for, say, three potatoes; ignore the big 3-pound bag unless you have another plan, already in place, to use them. Don't get sucked into thinking a bigger bag is a better deal; you are paying more for the overall product, so anything unused is a waste regardless of the unit price. Check the dates in the store Don't buy the "Manager's Special" or other deeply discounted items without checking the use-by date. Put the item in your cart only if you're sure you'll consume the foodstuff before it expires. Be especially wary with deli salads, bakery items, and meats that last only a few days, or at most, a couple of weeks. If the expiration date is quickly nearing and the plan is to freeze the item, do so immediately. Stock your refrigerator and pantry by date Put items that will expire first in the front of the fridge and pantry. For example, line up yogurts with the newest containers in the back and the oldest in the front. Grab from the head of the line so that you work your way through chronologically. Even though products in your pantry often last far longer, you still run the risk of squandering food and money by forgetting to take note of expiration dates. Organize canned items and dried goods using this same method. Consider portion size If a recipe says it feeds eight and you are a family of four, either halve the recipe or immediately freeze some. This money-saving tip particularly applies if your family includes small kids who may not eat the equivalent of a full portion and no one is wild about eating leftovers a second night. Before you start to cook, consider how much everyone at the dinner table will eat. Should the kids split a chicken breast? Maybe your partner eats a full portion, but you only eat half. Count the number of portions instead of people. Learn what freezes well One option for leftovers, foods that are on sale, or items that expire quickly is to freeze them. Certain fruits and vegetables can survive in the freezer for up to several months -- with the proper preparation. Casseroles, meats, and even milk are also freeze-worthy. Foods still have a shelf life in the freezer, though, so this isn't a foolproof method of eliminating waste. Label and date everything you freeze so you know when to use and when to toss. Reuse leftovers Disguising leftovers is a tricky technique that brings new life to an old meal, while adding money savings to the mix. Leftover shredded chicken from a sandwich also works in a pot of chili or an enchilada casserole. Cut-up vegetables from yesterday's salad go well in soup or omelets. The key is to reuse the ingredients quickly before they go bad. Know when to stop stockpiling When it comes to food, stocking up on good deals can be risky. Do you really need six bottles of barbecue sauce or mayo? (Remember, check the expiration date.) If there is any doubt, just say no. It's more cost effective to pay a bit extra for one unit that will be used than to shell out for multiples that will end up going to waste. Of course, donating the additional items to a food pantry before they expire is a solution for foods that may not make it into your meals by the deadline. Use kids' plates with lids Children are notorious for not finishing their dinner, and then claiming an hour later that they're hungry. Instead of throwing out what they didn't eat at mealtime, put a lid on it and store it in the refrigerator. This is an easy way to reheat the plate and waste less food. Split take-out orders One take-out order may be more than one person wants or needs to eat in a single sitting. But take-out often tastes less delicious the second day and, in many homes, winds up in the garbage pail. If you know for sure that you'll consume the leftover portion for lunch or dinner the next day, then stow it away. Otherwise, split an order with your dining partner and skip the leftovers altogether. | 3 | 7,915 | finance |
The NFL confirmed that they are investigating the New England Patriots for using slightly deflated balls against the Indianapolis Colts. Do deflated balls make a 38-point difference? | 1 | 7,916 | sports |
Jan. 20 -- The richest 1 percent are about to control a majority of the world's wealth. That's according to anti-poverty charity Oxfam, which said the slice of global wealth held by the world's most affluent reached 48 percent last year, up from 44 percent in 2009. Bloomberg's Yvonne Man has more on "First Up." | 8 | 7,917 | video |
We're a few weeks into January and vacation is on everyone's mind. Because, winter. The cold weather has a way of inspiring our most exotic daydreams. Deep in our sofas for the second day strong, we envision ourselves sunbathing on tropical beaches, venturing on a safari, or touring the world's greatest cities. Packing up is the next logical step especially for those of us actually getting away. So, we've put that ruminating to good use and styled seven outfits for retreats to Sydney, Chiang Mai, Marrakesh, Istanbul, and more. Bon voyage, and don't forget to bring home souvenirs. Like this post? There's more. Get tons of style secrets, insider shopping dish, fashion news, and more on the Refinery29 Fashion Facebook page! Photo: Image Source/REX USA. Cape Town, South Africa The Temperature: 80 to 90°F Cape Town, South Africa Whether you're keeping near Cape Town's waterfront or going on safari (with a tour guide, we hope), you'll want to make sure your outfit is breathable. Thin fabrics think linen and light cottons and sun-protective accessories are optimal choices. Photo: Cultura/REX USA. Florence, Italy The Temperature: 50°F Florence, Italy Southern Europe is only mildly warmer than New York City right now, with temperatures in the 50s during the day and 40s at night. Layering is going to be key keep this in mind when packing. Additionally, be sure to bring comfortable shoes for all the sightseeing you'll be doing on foot. Photo: Paul Brown/REX USA. Chiang Mai, Thailand The Temperature: 80°F Chiang Mai, Thailand Lovers of pad thai: Take your food obsession to the source. Chiang Mai is fast becoming a premiere tourism city in Thailand, for its rich culture and always lush environs. Take it all in wearing tropical-printed culottes and a simple white tank. Add orange Birkenstocks, because why not? Photo: Charlotte Grubb/REX USA. Marrakech, Morocco The Temperature: 50 to 60°F Marrakech, Morocco You count Casablanca among your favorite films, but have yet to visit Morocco. To fix that, start with a trip to Marrakech. Peruse the street markets where color is king in your own bohemian prints and a denim jacket. Sneakers won't hurt, either. Photo: Stock Connection/REX USA. Dubai, United Arab Emirates The Temperature: 75°F Dubai, United Arab Emirates If you're fancy enough to be vacationing in Dubai, make sure your wardrobe lives up to the city's glamorous nightlife while remaining respectful of local values. A high-neck midi-dress and white blazer is dressed up, but modest. Photo: Cultura/REX USA. Sydney, Australia The Temperature: 80 to 90°F Sydney, Australia It's summer in Australia, and a bathing suit should top your list. Don't forget your beach cover-up, sandals, and sunscreen! Photo: Mikael Buck/REX USA. Istanbul, Turkey The Temperature: 50°F Istanbul, Turkey Similar in climate to Florence, it's cold outside, but not freezing. Here, if you're visiting any of the city's famous mosques, you'll want to make sure your style isn't too provocative. Long-sleeve tops and midi-length hems should keep you in the clear. | 4 | 7,918 | lifestyle |
Countdown of baseball's biggest contracts by a pitcher, by total value. Countdown of baseball's biggest contracts by a pitcher, by total value: 19. Kevin Brown, $105 million (1999-2005) 18. Jordan Zimmermann: $110,000,000 (2016-20) 17. Cliff Lee, $120,000,000 (2011-15) 16. Mike Hampton, $121,000,000 (2001-08) 15. CC Sabathia, $122,000,000 (2012-16) 14. Barry Zito, $126,000,000 (2007-13) 13. Matt Cain, $127,500,000 (2012-17) 12. Johan Santana, $137,500,000 (2008-13) 11. Cole Hamels, $144,000,000 (2013-18) 10. Zack Greinke, $147,000,000 (2013-18) T-8. Masahiro Tanaka, $155,000,000 (2014-20) T-8. Jon Lester, $155,000,000 (2015-20) 7. CC Sabathia, $161,000,000 (2009-15) 6. Felix Hernandez, $175,000,000 (2013-19) 5. Justin Verlander, $180,000,000 (2013-19) 4. Zack Greinke, $206,000,000 (2016-21) 3. Max Scherzer, $210,000,000 (2015-21) 2. Clayton Kershaw, $215,000,000 (2014-20) 1. David Price: $217,000,000 (2016-22) | 1 | 7,919 | sports |
SN's Ross Tucker says the reported investigation of whether the Patriots deflated footballs in the AFC championship game calls into question New England's accomplishments. | 1 | 7,920 | sports |
Former TE for the Denver Broncos Byron Chamberlain used to play for Gary Kubiak and joins us to talk about the Broncos hiring Gary Kubiak. How can Kubiak help Peyton Manning? | 1 | 7,921 | sports |
Pitcher Max Scherzer has signed a seven-year, $210 million deal with the Nats. Half of the contract is deferred, which means he will collect $15 million over the next 14 years. What do you make of this contract structure? | 1 | 7,922 | sports |
The Islanders puts seven past the Flyers in the 7-4 matinee win. Nikolai Kulemin scored twice and had an assist for the Isles. | 1 | 7,923 | sports |
Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll questions reporters' questions. | 8 | 7,924 | video |
For many people from colder European climes, Gran Canaria is a favorite winter getaway.But it has a lot more to offer than just sun-drenched beaches. For Euromaxx extra tour, our reporters crossed the island from north to south, discovering the many facets of the 3rd largest of the Canary Islands. | 8 | 7,925 | video |
Things got a little testy in Florida when Jannik Hansen started a fight with Jonathan Huberdeau, leading to an all-line brawl. The Canucks went on to win, 2-1. | 1 | 7,926 | sports |
Do the Nationals have the best starting rotation in baseball after adding Max Scherzer? The crew weighs in on the potential starters. | 1 | 7,927 | sports |
From old Hong Kong taxis to a DeLorean, architect Ian Foster has revved up his passion for classic cars. | 8 | 7,928 | video |
Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski tweeted a picture joking that his smash was the cause of the deflated ball accusations. | 1 | 7,929 | sports |
Sprinter Usain Bolt judged babies on Twitter who were doing his victory pose. | 1 | 7,930 | sports |
Wide receiver Randall Cobb is a free agent this offseason and wants to stay in Green Bay. Will the Packers be willing to give Cobb a pay raise? | 1 | 7,931 | sports |
The Hurricanes and Maple Leafs were involved in two separate fights throughout Monday's game. When all of the dust settled, the Hurricanes got the 4-1 win over the Leafs. | 1 | 7,932 | sports |
Howard Kurtz weighs in | 8 | 7,933 | video |
Russell Wilson broke Tom Brady's record as the youngest quarterback to reach two Super Bowls. Is Wilson becoming the new Brady? | 1 | 7,934 | sports |
What is the biggest challenge that faces new Buffalo head coach Rex Ryan? The guys discuss how Ryan can turn the team around. | 1 | 7,935 | sports |
Watch Georgetown's fans rush the court after their upset win over (4) Villanova. | 1 | 7,936 | sports |
DeMarco Murray didn't get a ring this year, but his girlfriend did. The Cowboys running back asked his girlfriend Heidi Mueller for her hand in marriage, and according to the photo she posted on Instagram Monday, she said yes. The couple has one daughter together. Congratulations! MORE FROM FOX SPORTS SOUTHWEST: - Highest paid coaches in college football - Ranking NFL quarterback salaries - Oldest player on every NBA team - Famous Dallas Cowboys fans | 1 | 7,937 | sports |
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TAKE a ride inside the world of a group of flamboyant Lamborghini fanatics who light up Tokyo's streets after dark. Filmed by American car enthusiast Steve Feldman, the surreal footage shows a fleet of supercars customised to look like moving fireworks displays. Aside from the distinctive LED lights, the group also wrap their cars in chrome and holograms, add powerful strobe lights and even fit flame shooting exhausts leading to comparisons with the Fast and Furious film series.New Jersey born filmmaker Feldman, who learned Japanese at college, said adding garish lights to already flashy sports cars is something unique to Japan. Videographer / Director: Steve's POV Producer: Nick Johnson Editor: Kyle Waters | 8 | 7,939 | video |
A few weeks ahead of the world premiere in Geneva, Honda has announced the details of its latest CR-V crossover, which has more power and more on-board tech than the previous edition. Honda will offer the 2015 CR-V with a 1.6 i-DTEC diesel engine (up to 160hp) paired with a nine-speed automatic transmission, or with a 2.0 i-VTEC fuel engine (155hp) coupled with a five-speed automatic transmission. A six-speed manual gearbox is also available with either option. The most powerful version of the new crossover, which combines the 160hp diesel engine with all-wheel drive, can reach a top speed of 202km/h and does 0 to 100km/h in 9.6 seconds. On the other hand, the most efficient solution is the same diesel engine coupled with a manual gearbox and front-wheel drive, which brings fuel consumption down to 4.4l/100km for the equivalent of 115g/km of CO2 emissions. Predicting "cut-ins" In its Executive trim package, the 2015 CR-V Honda will introduce a brand new smart cruise control system, which Honda says is capable of predicting when other cars are likely to cut in front of the equipped vehicle. Dubbed Intelligent Adaptive Cruise Control (i-ACC), the system relies on a camera and radar at the front of the car to sense the position of other vehicles on the road. An algorithm uses this data to calculate the probability that one of these cars will cut into the equipped car's lane. When necessary, the system signals the driver of the cut-in through a dashboard icon and applies the brakes -- lightly when the distance from the car ahead is moderate, or more aggressively only as needed to maintain a safe following distance. Finally, Honda has also upgraded the interior of the new CR-V with its latest Bluetooth-enabled infotainment system, which is compatible with Android and controlled through a seven-inch screen. The system includes GPS navigation and a back-up cam. The 2015 Honda CR-V will be officially unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show (March 5-15) just before arriving at dealerships this spring. The CR-V has been distributed in North America and Europe since 1997. | 9 | 7,940 | autos |
Everton head coach Roberto Martinez is not blaming Kevin Mirallas despite the Belgian's penalty miss in Monday's 0-0 draw against West Brom. | 1 | 7,941 | sports |
Buzz Aldrin: Life in pics Former American astronaut Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr. also known as Buzz Aldrin was a member of the three-man crew consisting of Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins of NASA's Apollo 11, the first manned moon mission in history in 1969. On his 85th birthday on January 20, 2015, here's some interesting glimpses of his life. Education A doctorate of science in Astronautics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge in 1963, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1951 from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York and graduated from Montclair High School, New Jersey in 1947. (Pictured) This interior view of the Apollo 11 spaceflight shows Buzz Aldrin, prior to the moon landing on July 20, 1969. Military service in United States Air Force (USAF) Before he completed his Ph. D from MIT, Aldrin was selected as a second lieutenant in the United States Air Force, where he flew F-86's Saber Jets for 66 combat missions while on duty in Korea. (Pictured) Buzz Aldrin descends the Lunar Module called Eagle to walk on the Moon on July, 20, 1969. NASA calling After his doctoral dissertation at MIT on piloting and rendezvous of two spacecraft in orbit, he was assigned to the Gemini Target Office of the Air Force Space Systems Division in Los Angeles before his selection as an astronaut by the NASA. (Pictured) The former astronaut is seen standing beside the US flag deployed on the moon during the Apollo 11 July 1969 expedition. Extra-Vehicular Activity (EVA), or "space-walks" record During NASA's Gemini 12 expedition with command pilot James Lovell, Buzz Aldrin set a record for extra-vehicular activity (EVA), or "space-walks", by spending five and a half hours outside the spacecraft. NASA's Gemini program was to evaluate an astronauts' ability to perform tasks in the space. (Pictured) Major Aldrins helmet photographed during the Gemini XII mission on November 12, 1966. Total space time Buzz Aldrin has logged 289 hours and 53 minutes in space. (Pictured) Buzz Aldrin (left, in blue), Charles Bassett (1931 - 1966) (top, in blue), and Theodore Freeman (1930 - 1964) (bottom, in orange), experience weightlessness in a reduced gravity aircraft as part of their NASA mission training in 1964. Mankind's venture into space This picture of Buzz Aldrin's bootprint on the moon, taken while investigating the soil mechanics of the lunar surface on July 20, 1969 became synonymous with mankind's venture into space. Arrival from moon The three Apollo 11 astronauts, happy to be back on earth again after their epic voyage to the moon, smile as they answer questions from quarantined isolation unit aboard the United States Navy aircraft carrier, USS Hornet after splashdown and recovery on July 24, 1969. (Pictured) From (L-R) Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, holding microphone, and Buzz Aldrin smile as they answer questions. Honoring the moonwalkers During the Apollo 11 Parade, Mayor John Lindsay presents city's gold Medal of Honor to Buzz Aldrin as Neil Armstrong (L) and Mike Collins stand by at City Hall on August 13, 1969. Retirement from NASA In July 1971, Aldrin resigned from NASA. After retiring, he held the position of a Commandant of the Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base in 1972. Congressional Gold Medal He has been honored several times and has received numerous decorations and awards, including the Presidential Medal for Freedom in 1969, the Robert J. Collier Trophy, the Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy, and the Harmon International Trophy in 1967. (Pictured) Buzz Aldrin poses after he was presented with the Congressional Gold Medal during a ceremony in the Rotunda of the Capitol on November 16, 2011 in Washington. Improving technolgy Buzz Aldrin speaks at the Humans to Mars Summit on April 22, 2014 at George Washington University in Washington, DC. With the goal of sending a manned spacecraft to Mars within the next two decades the summit helps promote the improvement of technologies that will make travel to the planet more feasible. National Aviation Hall of Fame He was inducted into National Aviation Hall of Fame at the Air Force Museum in Dayton, Ohio on July 15, 2000. Aldrin - the author Authoring eight books including Return to Earth (1973), Men From Earth (1989), Reaching for the Moon (2005), Look to the Stars (2009) and Magnificent Desolation (2009), he is seen here with a copy of his latest book - Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration (2013) at the launch of the PayPal Galactic initiative in Mountain View, California. Competing on Dancing With the Stars Buzz Aldrin and his partner Ashly Costa perform on the celebrity dance competition series, Dancing With the Stars on March 22, 2010 in Los Angeles. Buzz meets Buzz He is seen here with his wife Lois Aldrin posing with characters Buzz Lightyear (L) and Woody (R) at the world premiere of Toy Story 3 at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, California on June 13, 2010. Film and television cameos He appeared as himself in several TV series like The Simpsons in 1994, Numb3rs' episode Killer Chat in 2006, 30 Rock in 2010 and Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011). Inspiring generations After meeting Apollo 11 astronauts during the 45th anniversary of the expedition on July 22, 2014, the White House issued a statement in which President Obama thanked the astronauts for "serving as advocates, role models, and educators who've inspired generations of Americans myself included to dream bigger and reach higher." (Pictured) Buzz Aldrin and President Barack Obama wave from the stairs of Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base on April 15, 2010. | 5 | 7,942 | news |
AN ADORABLE happy lamb hops his way to internet fame after a brush with death. Hilarious videos of little Winter bouncing down hallways and on beds has made the fluffy creature a Vine star. And despite being just five months old he has amassed a dedicated following of 25,000 people who follow his every move.Shannen Hussein, 21, from Melbourne, Australia, found the young lamb during a cold winter night after being abandoned by their mother. Videographer / Director: Shannen Hussein Producer: Nick Johnson Editor: Joshua Douglas | 8 | 7,943 | video |
As Wall Street investor Thomas Gilbert Sr. stood under the giant elm trees shading Princeton University's stately Nassau Hall on a sunny June Commencement Day in 2009, he saw a gleaming future for his son, Thomas Jr. "He's going to run a hedge fund!" the senior Gilbert, also a Princeton alumnus, declared with pride when asked what the handsome, 6-foot-3, blond-haired Tommy planned to do with his economics degree. Things turned out very differently for both Tommy and his father. Tommy, now 30, never held down a job after graduating and lived off his parents' handouts. And on January 4 he was arrested on suspicion of shooting his 70-year-old father in the head inside his parents' eighth-floor Manhattan apartment. Tabloids and TV news were riveted by the drama of the wealthy scion who, according to an indictment, killed his father on a Sunday afternoon with a .40-caliber Glock pistol after asking his mother, Shelley, to run out and fetch him a sandwich. When she returned to her tony Beekman Place apartment shortly after 3:15 p.m., Tommy was gone and her husband was dead in the bedroom, the Glock not so artfully placed on his chest, as if to suggest this was a suicide. She called 911 and reported that she thought Tommy had murdered his father, court papers show. When cops descended on Tommy's shabby, one-bedroom apartment in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood around 11 o'clock that night, after tracking him down by pinging his iPhone and ordering him to return to his apartment, they found ammunition for a .40 Glock, a Glock manual and carrying case, a speedloader, a red dot site for a handgun, 21 blank credit cards and a "skimmer" device used to steal credit card numbers. Arrested on the spot, Tommy was indicted by the Manhattan district attorney's office a few days later. The details of the Tommy Gilbert case have captured the imagination of a certain portion of society in Manhattan and the Hamptons. After all, if money, good looks, an Ivy League education and an entrée to Wall Street aren't sufficient ingredients for happiness and success, what is? "People are calling him a monster, but the person I knew wasn't a monster," a former Princeton classmate tells Newsweek . "He was a human and a likable one." Marc Agnifilo, a lawyer for Tommy, declined to comment. With his J. Crew looks (and a closet full of J. Crew clothes, according to a former girlfriend, Anna Rothschild), Tommy seemed like a classic New York WASP. He enjoyed the best education, starting with Manhattan's elite Buckley School and the Deerfield Academy boarding school in Massachusetts. The family belonged to the obsessively exclusive Maidstone Club in fashionable East Hampton, New York, close to where his father and mother own a house worth more than $10 million in the elite Georgica Association enclave. Nearly every weekend, even in winter, Tommy surfed the notoriously rough waves off Montauk, and he went to NASA space camp as a child, a former Princeton classmate said. "I remember him saying once after graduation, 'I always wanted to work there,'" the classmate said. Shelley, a former debutante and the daughter of an AT&T executive, attended the all-female Ethel Walker boarding school, in Simsbury, Connecticut, and the all-female Hollins College in Virginia, two institutions known to draw proper, well-heeled young women. She worked briefly at a New York investment bank that later became known as Rothschild Inc. Shelley's society wedding in 1981 to Thomas Sr., at St. Bartholomew's church on Park Avenue, a Byzantine-Romanesque structure in which Vanderbilts worshipped, was followed three years later by Tommy's birth. Thomas Gilbert, Jr. is walked into Central Booking at Manhattan Criminal Court on Jan. 5, 2015. Gilbert is charged with murdering his father, hedge fund owner Thomas Gilbert, Sr. Jefferson Siegel/NY Daily News/Getty As blogs bristled with barbs about a "spoiled brat" and "trust-fund baby," NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce indicated at a press conference on January 5 that money was behind the ghastly crime. The senior Gilbert had been paying the $2,400-a-month rent on Tommy's Chelsea apartment, and New York's tabloids reported that Tommy was not happy with his father's threat to cut his weekly allowance to $300 from $400 hardly a princely sum in Manhattan. Tommy is "clearly a bright, troubled kid" who had a "difficult relationship with both parents," says a person close to him who spoke on condition of anonymity. "He needs serious psychiatric long-term treatment." While no evidence has emerged of a diagnosed mental health problem, there were some disturbing signs. Last September 18, court records show, Tommy was charged by police in Southampton with violating a June 2014 protection order taken out by Peter Smith Jr., whose father rode the Hampton Jitney bus on weekends from Manhattan with Tommy's father. Only three days earlier, in nearby Sagaponack, the Smith home, a 17th century historic mansion, burned to the ground in circumstances that are unclear. Lisa Costa, a detective with the Southampton police who is investigating the fire, says Gilbert is a "person of interest" in the blaze. Tommy spent the five years since he left Princeton doing not much more than surfing, practicing Bikram yoga, working out, eating sushi and watching Netflix, according to Rothschild, who dated him in early 2014. Rothschild, a 49-year-old Manhattan socialite who runs a public-relations firm and is 19 years older than Tommy, encouraged him to attend black-tie gala events, where he would sip one glass of wine at most. Until he moved into the Chelsea apartment in May 2014, he lived in a dark, cramped basement studio apartment, also paid for by his father, near 86th Street and Lexington Avenue, where the Upper East Side starts to turn from pricey to gritty. "Tommy was quite well dressed and very clean, but that studio," with ragged furniture and a television with no cable service, "was appalling," says a person who saw it. His signature trait, friends and former classmates told Newsweek , was his quietness. "Basically, he has no friends, his phone didn't ring and nobody texted him," says Rothschild. When Tommy told her he was interested in acting, she said she told him, "I don't think that's the best option for you, because you don't talk a lot." But last April she encouraged him to set up a session with a photographer to get professional modeling pictures. Tommy apparently never talked, even to his former Princeton classmate, about why he had graduated two years later than expected, though court papers show he was busted for drugs on the eve of his original graduation date, in 2007. "He seemed kind of gentle but insecure," that former classmate says. "He always seemed ambivalent. He was sweet, but he seemed abnormally calm. He wasn't even anxious about his thesis." The 64-page thesis, titled "The Word Effect: Effects of the Word Content in the Financial Times on Firms' Earnings in the U.K.," is lightweight by Princeton standards. Wei Xiong, the economics professor who was Tommy's thesis adviser, says, "I honestly don't remember this student." Despite his father's bold prediction at that commencement, Tommy was skeptical of Wall Street. He saw it as "having way too much power and control," the former classmate says. Others say that was a reflection of his attitude to his father, who was also a Harvard Business School graduate. "He would talk about how anything he attempted to do, it wasn't good enough" for his father, Rothschild says. "He probably figured, What's the point of having a job?" Last May, Tommy did register a hedge fund, though it never raised any money, securities filings show. In an industry where fund names typically convey meaning, he called his the Mameluke Capital Fund. The Mamelukes were medieval slaves who rose up against their Egyptian rulers in 1250 and held on to power for nearly three centuries. While wealthy in absolute terms, the Gilbert family was not superrich by New York standards. A will filed in Manhattan Surrogate Court shows Gilbert Sr.'s estate worth $1.627 million. Slayer laws would prevent Tommy from inheriting his one-third share if convicted. In a possible sign of a cash crunch, according to a former colleague of the father, the Gilberts listed their East Hampton home for sale last month for $11.5 million. (The listing was canceled after the murder.) Thomas Gilbert Sr. "was driven by power, money and success," the former colleague tells Newsweek particularly in recent years, as he struggled to grow a small hedge fund, Wainscott Capital Management, that he started in 2011 after four decades in private equity. The older Gilbert would typically sleep only four to five hours a night and fire off emails at 4 a.m. that were "frenetic," this person says. Frenetic was the last word people would use to describe Tommy. At the Main Beach Surf Shop in East Hampton, George "McSurfer" McKee remembers Tommy as someone who always took the path of least resistance, who was "a little below-average in turning and catching waves. He was kind of fooling around." While he always had plenty of surfboards, he tended to avoid the tough-to-control short boards, preferring a longer, wider "fishtail" board. "He would always," McKee says, "ride the easiest one to ride." | 5 | 7,944 | news |
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MIAMI Danny Jacobson was a 26-year-old Army sergeant, thousands of miles away from his hometown of Muskogee, Okla., when he penned a four-page letter to his wife back in the states. World War II was winding down, Hitler had committed suicide six days earlier, and half a dozen administrative clerks from the 179th Infantry had set up shop in a Munich apartment. But this wasn't just any apartment. It was one of Adolf Hitler's many German residences, where he had lived with his longtime companion Eva Braun. And the off-white stationery Jacobson used for his letter? Hilter's very own. It included the Fuhrer's name and the Nazi swastika printed on the top left corner. "Dearest Julia," wrote Jacobson in a tidy script on May 6, 1945. "And so, Hitler's treasured stationery has come to this. Imagine how many times he would turn in his grave if he knew a Jew was writing on his precious personal stationery." The almost seven-decades-old letter is now a part of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington. How it got there, after being kept in obscurity until last year, is the tale of a committed son and a doting family who persuaded a 95- year-old man that this missive was worth attention. Still, the retired jeweler can't understand what the fuss is about. "I don't get it," says Jacobson, sitting in the tidy living room of the Sunrise, Fla., apartment he shares with his third wife, Joy. "It's just a letter. I must've sent 20 others on that stationery." This one, however, survived. His son Joe Jacobson, a thoracic cancer physician and chief quality officer at Boston's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, donated the letter and an early 20th century Rosenthal statuette, both souvenirs Jacobson took from Hitler's living quarters, to the Holocaust Museum last fall. "I had held onto the letter for the past 20 years, pretty much out of sight all that time," the younger Jacobson said. "But I realized the letter was an artifact, and I was afraid it would get lost somehow. I was nervous about holding on to it." The letter is rich with the telling details of a soldier's daily life. Written to a woman he had married a month before shipping out, it has a light tone and a hopeful message as he describes Hitler's personal quarters as relatively untouched in a city that had been bombed "beyond repair." In the first page, he calls the Nazis "the Supermen of the world ... a very defeated and broken people." He characterizes the weather as "warm enough to get along without a heavy jacket" and gushes about a stack of five letters he had received from her. He also writes about the mundane: "Uncle Sam gave us another Typhus shot yesterday morning; he's certainly taking care of his boys." And he closes in the loving fashion of a young newlywed: "Loving you forever sweetie." Teresa Pollin, a curator at the Holocaust Museum, says history comes alive with these personal mementoes. The letter is now being treated by museum conservators, but no decision has yet been made about where or when it will be displayed. The staff is working on an exhibition of Americans in the Holocaust, "and this seems like it would fit in very well with that." She says the first line of the letter says it all. "It's quite unusual and ironic that he, being a Jewish solder, is using Hitler's stationery." Jacobson, who was drafted in the fall of 1940, worked mostly as an administrative clerk during the war, following his division through seven major campaigns from Africa to Italy to France to Germany. When he and his fellow soldiers were given the order to go to the apartment building in bombed-out Munich, he had no idea they would be walking around Hitler's living quarters. "When you're in the Army, no matter what your position, you do whatever they tell you to do," he says. "And wherever we went we took our rifles with us." Once in the apartment, which obviously had been abandoned in haste, Jacobson realized where he was but didn't consider it a big deal. "At that particular time it didn't hit me that I was in this special moment in history," Jacobson adds. "We were just doing our job." The wife he had written to was living in her hometown of Baltimore with her mother, a sister and two cousins. The couple had met because their fathers were good friends. "It was somewhat of an arranged marriage," Joe Jacobson says. That marriage lasted more than 30 years, until Julia died of cancer. Together they would raise two children Joe and his older sister, Joyce Fox of Sarasota, Fla. and build a successful jewelry business in Baltimore. Jacobson retired shortly after Julia's death. He remarried, and the daughter of his second wife was the first to discover the letter among other war mementos. She had it framed in the 1970s, but Jacobson paid little attention to it. Finally in the early 1990s, he gave his son the letter. Jacobson's second wife died, and he married his current wife, Joy, in 1978. He attributes his longevity to her care, but she jokes that he doesn't listen to her about the importance of the letter. "We've been telling him what a big deal this is forever," Joy says. "It's part of history." Joy's daughter's fiance, Joey Terranova, tries to get him to tell a few war stories. As a history buff, Terranova worries that these memories will be lost to future generations. "You can't forget what happened," Terranova urges him one morning as they sip black coffee together. Jacobson shrugs it off. At the museum in Washington, curator Pollin believes the letter holds special significance in these times, when European Jews are again facing rising anti-Semitism. "A letter like this," she says, "shows that justice prevailed. One has to hope that it will again." | 5 | 7,946 | news |
The NFL's investigation into claims that the Patriots may have been using deflated balls during the AFC Championship Game began following the Colts' lone interception of Tom Brady, according to a report. WCVB-TV reports that suspicions first arose when Indianapolis linebacker D'Qwell Jackson intercepted a Tom Brady pass early in the second quarter of the game. Jackson noticed the ball felt deflated and mentioned something to the team's equipment manager, who brought up the subject to Colts head coach Chuck Pagano. Pagano told the team's GM Ryan Grigson, who called the league. League officials called and spoke with the game's referees during halftime about the issue, leading the referees to change the balls on the field . WCVB cautions that referees changing balls is common and that balls can deflate for a number of reasons. Sources told Lynch that several footballs were taken out of play during the game Sunday night, but that's not unusual and there have been times in previous games that officials have changed footballs during play due to factors such as air temperature changed that cause the ball to over or under inflate. The Patriots have been brushing aside accusations of tampering with the game balls. Tom Brady called the claims "ridiculous ," while Rob Gronkowski had the best response of all when he joked that his spike caused balls to deflate. Ultimately it seems as if it will be difficult for the league to prove whether the balls being underinflated was due to external factors or the Patriots' intentional actions. Maybe a thorough video review will help answer questions. | 1 | 7,947 | sports |
Tyler Jacobs gets you caught up on Texas' victory over TCU, the Hawks beating the Pistons, and the Islanders rout of the Flyers. | 1 | 7,948 | sports |
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The militant group ISIS has threatened to kill two Japanese citizens unless Tokyo hands over $200 million within 72 hours. CNN's Will Ripley reports. | 8 | 7,950 | video |
We give Bubba Watson 120 Seconds of Glory for becoming a part owner of the Pensacola Blue Wahoos, a minor league baseball team. | 1 | 7,951 | sports |
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Longtime readers are no doubt aware we request a long-term test vehicle from the winners of our various of the Year competitions, but it's never been a tradition for Best Driver's Car . This is generally because BDC winners often are rare and expensive cars their manufacturers didn't want to loan for a year, but Chevrolet was so excited to win this year that it happily agreed to loan us a Z/28 for the next 12 months. The Z/28, you'll recall, is a stripped-down, track-ready analog supercar. It relies on the old-school formula of big power, big tires, rear-wheel drive, manual transmission, mechanical limited-slip differential, and impeccable suspension tuning to make an otherwise good Camaro into one of the best-driving cars you can buy. Sure, it's got some fancy (and frankly, impressive) computer hardware in the Performance Traction Management system, but the true beauty of the Z/28 is that you don't need it. Switch it all off and you still have an amazing driver's car that's just as fast and rewarding. You might also recall it doesn't come with many creature comforts, because they add weight. Though it's been said your only options are a full six-speaker stereo and air-conditioning, you can buy a few other things such as a cargo organizer or some gaudy stripes. Given that we'll be daily driving this car, we took the 50-pound weight penalty and ordered A/C and the stereo. You could make an argument for the Gurney-flap spoiler or auxiliary gauges, but they're not absolute must-haves. As such, our total bill shows only $1,150 in options for the air and tunes, plus $1,700 in gas-guzzler tax, which is humorously listed as an option. Grand total: $76,150. There's a pervasive rumor that suggests you can't daily drive a Z/28. Having driven our (un-air-conditioned) BDC winner 400 miles home from Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, I disagree, and I've got 12 months to find out how right or wrong I am. That is, when it's not at the track … which it will be. A lot. 2015 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 BASE PRICE $75,000 TESTED PRICE $76,150 DRIVETRAIN Front engine, RWD, 4-pass, 2-door coupe ENGINE 7.0L/505-hp/481-lb-ft OHV 16-valve V-8 TRANSMISSION 6-speed manual CURB WEIGHT (DIST F/R) 3882 lb (53/47%) LENGTH x WIDTH x HEIGHT 192.3 x 76.9 x 52.4 in 0-60 MPH 4.0 sec QUARTER MILE 12.3 sec @ 116.1 mph EPA CITY/HWY/COMB FUEL ECON 13/19/15 mpg ENERGY CONSUMPTION, CITY/HWY 259/177 kW-hrs/100 miles CO2 EMISSIONS 1.28 lb/mile | 9 | 7,953 | autos |
Monday night the 11th ranked Jayhawks handed the 19th ranked Sooners their 3rd conference loss of the season. Hear from Bill Self and Kelly Oubre on how the Jayhawks got the win. | 1 | 7,954 | sports |
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On Feb. 1, the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots will meet in Super Bowl XLIX at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. For Seattle, it will be the second consecutive trip to the big game. New England is making its sixth appearance in the Super Bowl since 2001, giving Bill Belichick the record for a head coach. Tom Brady is the only quarterback to ever start six Super Bowls, and is only the second player in history along with Buffalo Bills and Denver Broncos defensive lineman Mike Lodish to play in a half-dozen. When the flashbulbs go off with the opening kickoff, more than meets the eye will be on the line. The Seahawks are trying to become the next dynasty, a mantle unfulfilled since the Patriots won three Super Bowls in four seasons between 2001-04. Ironically, it is Brady and Belichick standing in their way, hoping to rekindle the magic once so familiar. New England has its best roster since going 19-0 before losing Super Bowl XLII to the New York Giants in Glendale back in 2007. The Patriots do not have ultra-explosive offensive weapons outside of Rob Gronkowski, but enjoy nice balance with LeGarrette Blount, Brandon LaFell, Danny Amendola and Julian Edelman. Defensively, the Patriots are reloaded with ability at all three levels. After suffering a torn Achilles tendon last year, Vince Wilfork looks rejuvanted up front. Behind him are Chandler Jones, Dont'a Hightower and Rob Ninkovich, one of the most underrated players in the game. The secondary features a pair of top-notch starters in Darrelle Revis and Devin McCourty. Then there is Seattle, winners of eight straight contests and defending champs. The Seahawks are nothing flashy on offense, but a consistent punch in the mouth. Behind the power running of Marshawn Lynch and the option-play of Russell Wilson, Seattle had the top rushing attack in football this season. Luke Wilson, Jermaine Kearse and Doug Baldwin are average targets, but collectively are greater than the sum of their parts. Of course, the defense is filthy. The Legion of Boom with Richard Sherman, Earl Thomas and Kam Chancellor gets all the headlines, but the front seven with Michael Bennett, Cliff Avril, Bobby Wagner and Bruce Irvin is incredibly athletic. What makes this matchup so great is the history on the line. New England is an aging dynasty, a symbol of what once was dominant in the NFL. Now, 10 years after their last championship, the Patriots are making one more run at a ring, hoping to swoop in before Father Time does. Seattle is attempting to make its place in history. A franchise tucked away in the Northwest, always forgotten by the national media, has commanded attention. With one more victory, the Seahawks will be forever remembered as one of the greatest teams to ever play. Enjoy the Super Bowl this year, it is going to be historic. | 1 | 7,957 | sports |
Burger chain Shake Shack plans to raise up to $80 million from an initial public offering of its common stock. The company said Tuesday that it anticipates its IPO of 5 million shares pricing between $14 and $16 per share. Last month Shake Shack disclosed in a regulatory filing that it was hoping to raise up to $100 million from its IPO, but it didn't say how many shares it planned to offer or at what price, so the figure was subject to change. Shake Shack cooks its burgers to order and promotes its use of natural ingredients. The company expects to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the 'SHAK' ticker symbol. | 3 | 7,958 | finance |
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Quickest celebrity engagements The New Year has started out with a bang for many couples who tied the knot shortly after announcing their engagement. English comedian and actor Stephen Fry wed his partner on January 17. Actress Cameron Diaz's married boyfriend Benji Madden after a whirlwind romance on January 5. Click through to see other celeb couples who didn't wait long to put on a wedding ring! Stephen Fry and Elliott Spencer Just 10 days after announcing their engagement on Twitter, comedian and writer Stephen Fry (57) married his boyfriend Elliott Spencer (27) on January 17, 2015. The couple married in the Norfolk town of Dereham, England, roughly after one year of dating. Cameron Diaz and Benji Madden The New Year started out with a bang with the news of Hollywood actress Cameron Diaz's wedding to boyfriend Benji Madden after a whirlwind romance. The couple met in May 2014 and got married on January 5. Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello Modern Family star Sofia Vergara and beau Joe Manganiello recently got engaged after the Tr ue Blood hunk popped a ring and the question while they were vacationing in Hawaii last Christmas (2014). The news comes in just six months after they became a couple. Katy Perry and Russell Brand Katy Perry started dating Russell Brand after meeting him in September 2009 at the MTV Video Music Awards. After just three months of dating, the couple got engaged on December 31, while vacationing in Rajasthan, India. They divorced after 14 months of marriage in December 2011. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes In April 2005, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes began dating and just two months later, Katie was wearing a ring on her finger. Cruise and Holmes were married for six years before getting divorced in 2012. Nicolas Cage and Alice Kim Nicolas Cage met Alice Kim in February 2004, at a Los Angeles restaurant, where she was working as a waitress. They got engaged in April and married in July 2004. Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries Kim Kardashian and basketball player Kris Humphries got engaged in May 2011, after six months of dating and said "I Do" in August 2011. However, the wedding did not last long, as Kim filed for divorce after 72 days of tying the knot. Kevin Federline and Britney Spears In June 2004, Britney Spears and her backup dancer beau, Kevin Federline, got engaged after three months of dating. The couple was married for three years before separating in 2007. Lamar Odom and Khloe Kardashian Khloe Kardashian and basketball player Lamar Odom met in July 2009. They dated for about a month and got engaged in September 2009. After over four years of being together, Khloe filed for a divorce in December 2013. Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth Reese Witherspoon began dating Jim Toth in February 2010. They announced their engagement the same year in December. Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson Jessica Simpson began dating guitarist Eric Johnson in May 2010 and announced their engagement in November 2010. The couple got married in 2014 in a ceremony in Montecito, California. Kaley Cuoco and Ryan Sweeting After just three months of dating, Kaley Cuoco, got engaged to her boyfriend Ryan Sweeting in September 2013. Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon After just six weeks of dating, Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon got engaged in April 2008. The duo was married for six years but split in August 2014. Naya Rivera and Big Sean American actress and singer, Naya Rivera, began dating rapper Big Sean in April 2013 and announced their engagement in October the same year. However, they called off their wedding the following year. Carey Mulligan and Marcus Mumford Carey Mulligan and Marcus Mumford began dating in February 2011 and got engaged four months later. They got married in April 2012. Scarlett Johansson and Romain Dauriac In November 2012, Scarlett Johansson started dating Romain Dauriac, the owner of an independent advertising agency. The couple got engaged in September 2013 and tied the knot the following year. Ryan Adams and Mandy Moore The musical duo started seeing each other in March 2008 and they were married by March 2009. Madonna and Sean Penn The star couple met each other for the first time in February 1985. Barely five months after they started dating, Madonna and Sean Penn got engaged. Reports of their divorce emerged two years later. (Pictured) A file picture of the couple attending a boxing match in Atlantic City, USA in 1988. Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez When best friends Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez started dating, it kind of crept up! They two started dating early 2004 and reports of their secret marriage leaked barely six months later. The A-list couple formalised their divorced in June 2014, after a decade of being together. Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley King of Pop Michael Jackson and daughter of the The King of Rock and Roll King's daughter Lisa Marie Presley got engaged four months after they started dating. The couple got married in May 1994 but couldn't continue their union for long and divorced in August 1996. Kate Hudson and Chris Robinson Actress Kate Hudson and The Black Crows' frontman Chris Robinson give whirlwind romance a new name. The pair met in the summer of 2000, moved in together four days later and were married six months hence. They divorced in October 2007. Renee Zellweger and Kenny Chesney Bridget Jones actress Renee Zellweger married US country singer Kenny Chesney after knowing him for approximately 120 days. The couple divorced 128 days later. Avril Lavigne and Chad Kroeger Nickleback frontman Chad Kroeger and Complicated singer Avril Lavigne were engaged a month after they collaborated for the song Let me go. They were married 11-months later. Now, 14 months, hence, rumours of their split is abound. Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee Jones Former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson and Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee Jones got married to each other in February 1995, less than 100 hours after meeting each other for the first time! Since then the couple have had a tumultuous history. They have two children and have been divorced twice. They split for good in 2008. Kat Von D and DJ deadmau5 Electronic music artist Joel Zimmerman who is better known by his stage name DJ deadmau5 proposed (via Twitter) to Mexican tattoo artist Kat Von D a month after the two patched up in June 2012. Round two did not last too long as news of their split was announced on Twitter six months later. Tara Reid and Zack Kehayov American Pie actress Tara Reid made news when she announced her engagement and marriage to boyfriend Zaack Kehavoy in quick succession on the same day ( August 13, 2011 ). She tweeted: "I just got engaged," and hours later another tweet went out saying "Just got married in Greece. I love being a wife!" Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen got married a month after the NHL star popped the question to the Brazilian supermodel in 2009, two years after they started seeing each other. The couple have two children together. Orlando Bloom and Miranda Kerr Lord of the Rings star Orlando Bloom quietly popped the question to his then girlfriend and Victoria's Secret model, Miranda Kerr, after three years of dating. They were secretly married a month later in 2010. They separated in October 2013 after three years of marriage. Nikki Reed and Paul McDonald Twilight star Nikki Reed got engaged to her boyfriend and American Idol contestant Paul McDonald after three months of courtship and married him four months later. Two years hence, their divorce was finalised in December 2014. | 6 | 7,961 | entertainment |
I wish I had bought a better camera sooner. The past decade my first date with my wife to our marriage, the Kansas City Royals' worst seasons to their World Series run, college, jobs, and everything in between has been captured on my cellphone camera. Like beer and pop music, it was easy to make do with what's cheap and available, only to look back on a life of Dave Matthews and Bud Light and wonder why I'd gotten by on "good enough." I regret that. On a recent trip to my childhood home, I discovered roughly a dozen shoeboxes buried beneath a pile of winter coats in the closet of my old bedroom. I brought them into the living room where I cut the shoeboxes open one by one with a pair of craft scissors. Each was stuffed with nearly identical materials: two dozen or so sleeves of developed 35mm film featuring younger versions of my family and friends I haven't spoken with in nearly a decade, beginning around my 13th birthday and ending with a shot from the night before I moved to New York City for college. A shoebox full of childhood memories Like so many angsty teenagers, I had proudly worn the affectations of a tortured artist: long hair dyed black, grungy corduroys, and of course my mother's hand-me-down Minolta camera. On weekends, I snapped photos of whatever suburban adventures I got myself into. On weekdays, I ran rolls through Walmart's 1-Hour Photo, sifted through the still-sticky prints for any winners, then added the rest to my growing shoebox collection, which at some point I (or more likely one of my parents) tossed in the closet with my Detroit Red Wings jacket from the winter of 1998. Picking through the photos spread across the floor, I had an unexpected epiphany: maybe all late 20-somethings, finally aware that they will actually die one day, become uncontrollably sappy but I now appreciate the hundreds of photos of my friends more than the countless close-ups of chainlink fences at the golden hour. Because I am aging, and because I have the memory of the original Tamagotchi, I am profoundly grateful to have these clear, high-resolution photos of the people I loved and love. Most members of my generation don't have a collection of photos like this sitting in the mustiest corners of their family home. In high school in late 1990s and early 2000s, the cameraphone was an odd, expensive novelty that captured the world with the resolution of a postage stamp. Instead, the disposable camera was king. Like most kings, its dominance had nothing to do with its quality. The disposable camera, made of plastic and cardboard, sucked. Its photos were hideous: the sharp contrast, the weak colors, and the way subjects tend to be blown out or lost in shadow. In close-ups, my school friends' eyes are always half closed, and you can see the blood beneath their skin. The last thing a teenager needs is a low-resolution camera that works like a highlight marker for acne scars. I was raised in the disposable camera generation By comparison, the photos from my 35mm camera the ones that aren't over or underexposed, of which there are admittedly dozens if not hundreds are like hand-sized windows into my past. I can see details I'd forgotten in adulthood: the greasy bangs, the Sharpied backpacks, the "I can't believe we ever looked like that" soft skin, and how even the most beautiful amongst us looked then like a child dressed as a 40-year-old. The 35mm Minolta captured everything I cared about in pristine color and resolution, but perhaps more importantly it inspired me or really, gave me an excuse to take photos of what at the time seemed trivial. Because when you're an amateur photographer, everything, from soda spilled on a Oldsmobile's dashboard to a stack of Vagrant Records CDs, becomes a font of inspiration. When I fanned the photos, I noticed a dozen carefully composed shots of a friend dazing through history class and nearly a hundred featuring the same iced coffee at the same junky downtown coffee shop. It's plenty obvious who and what teenage me really fretted about even if at the time I didn't known it. As I said, the shoeboxes have a conclusion: college. During my college years in New York City, the camera in my cell phone became my memory-maker of choice: first the Sidekick then the various iterations of the iPhone. I never printed the photos, and because I have issues with digital privacy, I rarely uploaded them to social networks. I shot indiscriminately, sometimes blindly, usually in bursts of a dozen or so, assuming I'd find the best when I uploaded the batch to my laptop, which I wouldn't do for months. When I did get around to unloading my phone, the bundle of pictures would be zipped into a folder and lost amongst a dozen identical zip files on my perpetually almost-full hard drive. Camera photos looked good enough After my trip home, I returned to the apartment I share with my wife and looked through our photos on the computer. It was a process. Out of fear, we've copied all of our digital photos onto multiple hard drives. Unlike the shoeboxes, sifting through them is unbearable. There are thousands and thousands of muddy photos. I remember how phone photos looked acceptable close enough to film that I couldn't really tell the difference. But now it's obvious these pictures have their own fussy disposable camera-like qualities. They're almost universally flat, grainy, and small. And because the phones' cameras couldn't handle even the slightest hint of darkness, they're scorched by the world's cheapest flash. I spoke with my wife about how I feared that if we stuck with iPhones for casual photography, then the best moments of the rest of our life would look like fuzzy adver-porn shot by Terry Richardson. I told her I wanted to spend a lot of money on a nice camera, and she respectfully asked me why I always compare everything I hate to Terry Richardson photos. Just before Thanksgiving, I purchased my Fuji X100T. According to my countless Google searches of the words "Good camera," "Best camera," and "Best camera 2014," the Fuji X100T is a good camera and arguably the best point-and-shoot camera of last year. The camera has a fixed lens, meaning I can't replace its lens with another lens. This is okay because I never learned to use lenses in high school and also because photography is expensive, and if I get in the habit of buying lenses, I will blow through my salary like the candles on a birthday cake. The x100t is arguably the best point-and-shoot camera of last year The Fuji could be mistaken from a distance for my old Minolta, except where I would have loaded film on the back there's instead a display and buttons, allowing me to perform all sorts of digital trickery. When I take a photo now, the result looks comparable to what's in my shoeboxes. (Though maybe I'm wrong again, and in a decade these photos, too, will have their only pockmarks I doubt it, though.) If anything, the Fuji's images are better. Shooting consistently passable photos is so much easier. I'm not locked into rolls of films, and I can preview an image before capturing it. After a couple days of practice, I was adjusting the aperture, shutter speed, and ISO and composing a decent shot with a confidence I've never really had. For now, I've limited my storage to a 16GB SD card. The small amount of space forces me to dump photos onto the hard drive once a week or so. I never learned this simple rule till now, but "keep the best and trash the rest" is an organization life saver. After harvesting the good stuff, I compile the truly precious photos into a desktop folder, which I'll eventually have printed into a book. What will I do with the book? Probably keep it beneath the winter coats in our closet where it will be joined by future photo books, but my hope is each book will live a happy life in our living room at least for a couple months. Either case, the purpose of this absurd little process is to have a collection of beautiful memories that won't disappear when my hard drive fails or gets lost amongst my thousands of desktop background images. Is this worth the money? For me, yes. Absolutely. God, I can't tell you how happy it makes me having these photos of the people and places I love. To have photos of my wife visiting Rockefeller Center during Christmas; of my friends on a polar bear swim; and of my parents just being my parents, because I'm so fortunate to have them and to have photos of them in good health. I am acutely aware that time moves onwards with an unfeeling consistent pace, and sooner than I'd like to process, I will want to look back, not to live in the past, but to appreciate it. When I look back, I want to see every dimple and every crinkle and every detail. Is this worth the money? For most, the markedly improved cameras in our cell phones are enough. But I do suspect there are people like me who unwittingly forgot the pleasure of good photography because their phone made things easier and it captured images well enough. And when it didn't, well, you could always add a filter. Of course, that's the other benefit of a nice camera. It doesn't have to serve as some pseudo-depressive tool for preserving the present. With an Eye-Fi card, which has its own Wi-Fi network, accessible through a cell phone, I have stepped up my Instagram game, an app that better than any other reminds you: "There's no better time than now." | 5 | 7,962 | news |
See the world solo Once, holidaying solo meant you'd be an object of pity or assumed to be on a desperate hunt for romance on a singles holiday. These days, more of us are travelling alone than ever. With Google searches for 'solo travel' in 2014 up almost a third on the year before, that lonely hearts reputation is long out of date and you're more likely to be exploring the world because you want to than stuck for friends to come along. So if worries are keeping you from planning a solo trip, Cathy Winston, editor of new site 101 Singles Holidays , has 10 reasons why you needn't fret any more. Click through to read more Worry 1: I don't know where to start Whether you want to flop on a beach, discover a different culture or explore a new city, you needn't be limited just because you're travelling solo. The only question is how you travel. If you're happy jumping on a plane alone, check out hotels and tour operators with no single supplements. If you'd prefer a few guaranteed travel companions, try group tours and companies focusing on solos. When you're heading off the beaten track, it's often practical and safer to join a guided trip so if you've always wanted to follow the Silk Road or head into the Australian Outback , go for it, like these options from Intrepid Travel or Adventure Worldwide . Worry 2: What if no-one else likes me? Joining a group isn't an instant guarantee of clicking with your fellow travellers, so it's worth doing some research before you book. Consider how many people there'll be smaller groups can be easier to get to know, larger groups mean there are more potential new friends. Check too who typically makes up the group, such as how many travel solo and what age they tend to be. The YOLO tours from G Adventures are aimed at 20-30s with a mix of men and women, around half of them single travellers. Worry 3: Travelling solo costs a fortune Tour operators are waking up to the fact that whacking on a huge single supplement is only putting off solo travellers. Everything from cruises to long-haul all-inclusives are starting to offer trips with no extra costs if you're travelling alone. And there's plenty for different budgets. Swap hostels for university rooms outside term time for a bargain city centre place to stay or indulge in a bit more style with doubles in boutique hotels such as Exclusive Escapes in Turkey. Worry 4: It will be no fun on my own Having the freedom to do what you want to do, when you want to do it is far more fun than being stuck with a fellow traveller who's got totally different ideas. But having someone to share new experiences is definitely a bonus, especially on activity holidays. Whether you're a novice or desperate to hit the black runs, Friendship Travel has solos ski weeks, including trips for beginners, or learn to dive with Regal Dive in the Red Sea, where the sociable atmosphere means you won't have any problem finding buddies on land as well as underwater. Worry 5: I hate eating alone The thought of a table for one near the kitchen, complete with sympathetic sneers from the waiter, is enough to put anyone off eating alone. One option is to look at bigger resorts where there's often less formal restaurants as well as communal dining, whether that's a spa retreat in Koh Samui (pictured) or all-inclusive in St Lucia . Worry 6: I'm too shy to meet others If the thought of being plunged into a group or having to get chatting to strangers in a hotel puts you off, technology has the answer. You can plan before you even leave with sites such as Meetup.com . Search for single travel and you'll find solo traveller clubs around the UK. And resorts are getting in on the act too. For example, Breathless Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic has its own smartphone app with access to a guest chatroom so you can head online to find someone to join you at the restaurant (pictured), cocktail bar or at one of the hotel's dance classes. Worry 7: There's too much to plan The best thing about travelling solo? Getting to tailor-make your own perfect trip. That usually means you have to organise it all yourself but you can still stay independent and get a travel company to sort out the boring details. A cycling holiday in Europe with an operator like Headwater means you get planned routes, hotels with plenty of character, a bike and maps plus your luggage transported between the accommodation each day. So you can simply head off and explore. Worry 8: It's not safe With some common sense, a bit of research and the right attitude, you needn't let fear put you off travelling alone. But there are some destinations where the security of a group is a sensible option, and reassuring if you're new to solo travel. Central America, for example, is home to some of 2015's hottest new destinations with Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador joining favourites like Costa Rica and Guatemala. Rather than heading off the beaten track alone, Journey Latin America's three-week small group tour packs them all in, typically with 40-50% travelling solo. Worry 9: It'll be like two weeks of speed dating Who fancies fending off amorous advances when they simply want to see the world? Singles holidays are far from a cheesy overseas match-making experience these days, but if you'd rather avoid the possibility altogether, there are women-only trips for female solo travellers. An operator like Walking Women has trips worldwide with different difficulty ratings so you could brush up on your photography en-route, go sailing along the Turkish coast or trek through Nepal. Worry 10: I'm going to be stuck with loved-up couples No singles supplements are all very well, but if you want to guarantee you won't be playing gooseberry all week, stick with a company offering a singles-only holiday. Friendship Travel and Solos Holidays are exclusively for single travellers, with trips to Turkey and Greece where you can socialise when you want or slope off and enjoy your own company when you don't. Some individual hotels, such as the Mistral in Crete specialise in those holidaying solo too (pictured). | 2 | 7,963 | travel |
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The 2014 NFL Playoffs will be most memorable for the New England Patriots, Seattle Seahawks and fans of both teams. But there have also been moments in this postseason that others especially Green Bay Packers players and fans would prefer to block out from memory. January is the time of year when legacies can be cemented. However, goats can emerge as well. And let's face it, no one wants to be the goat. Let's take a look at the winners and losers of the 2014 NFL Playoffs. Winner: LeGarrette Blount LeGarrette Blount landed on his feet after the Steelers released him in November, and the Colts once again learned how hard it is to get Blount off his feet. For the second January in a row, the Colts left Gillette Stadium with Blount's footprints all over them. The 6'0″, 250-pounder pounded out 148 yards and ran for three touchdowns to help the Patriots hammer the Colts 45-7 in the AFC Championship game. Last year, Blount rushed for 166 yards and four touchdowns in the Patriots' 43-22 divisional-round win over the Colts. He probably would have put up big numbers when the Patriots visited Indianapolis in Week 11 this season. But there was one small problem he was a Steeler at the time. Instead, the Patriots sprinkled a little Jonas Gray into their secret recipe for running on the Colts defense, and he cooked up 201 yards and four touchdowns. Eight days later, Blount pouted his way out of Pittsburgh after watching Le'Veon Bell surpass the 200-yard mark at Tennessee, and the Patriots promptly picked him up. On Sunday, it was like he never left. Loser: Demaryius Thomas Unlike Peyton Manning, Demaryius Thomas couldn't blame Father Time for his poor performance in the Broncos' 24-13 divisional-round loss to the Colts. The 27-year-old Thomas was second in the regular season in both receptions (111) and receiving yards (1,619). Against the Colts, however, he caught only five (and dropped two) of the 12 passes Manning threw his way. He caught a one-yard touchdown pass to give the Broncos a 7-0 lead less than five minutes into the game, but didn't catch another pass until late in the third quarter. The Broncos were down 21-10 by then. The last catch was inconsequential because it came with only nine seconds left in the game. That means Thomas caught only four passes while the Broncos had any hope of winning the game. You'd expect better from the team's No. 1 receiver. Winner: Marshawn Lynch After their epic 28-22 comeback win over the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Championship Game, the Seahawks could break the Internet with all the candidates they have for the winners' side of this list. Pete Carroll showed the guts to fake a field-goal attempt with the Seahawks down 16-0 in the third quarter. Holder Jon Ryan's 19-yard touchdown pass to offensive lineman Garry Gilliam woke up the Seahawks like a cup of Seattle's Best Coffee. Jermaine Kearse showed the resiliency to catch the game-winning, 35-yard touchdown pass in overtime after failing to come down with the ball on five previous targets, and letting the ball bounce off his hands for a few interceptions. Russell Wilson completed nine of his first 24 passes and threw four interceptions, but showed the mental toughness to complete his last five passes for 114 yards and the game-winning touchdown. But Marshawn Lynch was worthy of his gold cleats for the game's entire 63 minutes and 19 seconds. Lynch ran for 157 yards, including 112 in a second half in which he averaged eight yards per carry. While Lynch was breaking off big chunks of yardage, Wilson was still throwing picks, including one with just over five minutes left and his team trailing, 19-7. Seattle got the ball back with four minutes left and finally followed Lynch's lead when he opened the drive with a 14-yard run. Lynch caught a 26-yard pass to set up Wilson's one-yard touchdown dash and gave the Seahawks the lead on a 24-yard TD run with 1:25 left. The Seahawks have reportedly already decided to pay Wilson the big bucks in the offseason. If they don't do the same for Lynch, another team likely will (assuming he wants to keep playing). Loser: Packers' coaching staff You've heard of Mike McCarthy, but you may not have heard of Shawn Slocum or Tom Clements. Slocum is the Packers' special teams coach, and he's just as culpable as anyone for the Packers' collapse in the NFC Championship Game. The Packers led 16-0 and kept the Seahawks off the scoreboard until Ryan threw a 19-yard touchdown pass to 306-pound tackle Garry Gilliam on a fake field goal in the third quarter. Were it not for that, the Packers might not have needed their hands team out there to field an onside kick with two minutes left. Steven Hauschka kicked the ball in the direction of tight end Brandon Bostick and wide receiver Jordy Nelson two guys with 100 receptions between them. Even though Nelson had 98 of those catches, Bostick tried to come up with the ball in front of Nelson and muffed it. Half a minute later, the Seahawks had a 22-19 lead. Slocum's unit didn't execute. But Clements, the offensive coordinator, deserves more of the blame because of his play-calling. The Packers tried to grind out the clock too early. Even with Richard Sherman obviously playing hurt, they didn't attempt a pass to a wide receiver in the fourth quarter until they fell behind. This meltdown really started at the top, however. Twice in the first quarter, the Packers faced fourth down at the Seahawks' one-yard line. Both times, McCarthy decided to kick a field goal. Instead of being down 14-0 after running just three plays 10 minutes into the game, the Seahawks were down 6-0. If the number wasn't worn by Chris Matthews, who recovered the onside kick, the Seahawks could retire the No. 13 in honor of their "13th man" the Packers coaching staff. Winner: Carolina Panthers When the calendar flipped from November to December, the Carolina Panthers were 3-8-1. But when the Panthers cleaned out their lockers just over a week ago, they had advanced just as far in the playoffs as last year's 12-4 squad. Looking at it that way, the franchise didn't take a step back. The Panthers lost 23-10 at home to the San Francisco 49ers in the 2013 NFC divisional playoffs. They lost 31-17 at Seattle in the same round this year. If the Packers couldn't beat the Seahawks Sunday, then who in the NFC can? Cam Newton is 25 years old. Luke Kuechly, who has a chance to repeat as NFL Defensive Player of the Year, is only 23. Rookie Kelvin Benjamin caught two touchdown passes in Seattle, and it seems like the team may have found its No. 1 receiver to replace Steve Smith. If the Panthers keep their core in place, perhaps they can be the team that eventually knocks the Seahawks from their throne. Loser: Seahawks fans Insert the name of any team, and there will be fans of that team leaving the stadium when their squad turns the ball over down 12 points with five minutes left. More should be expected, however, when a team retires a number in front of its fans. And this was the case during the NFC Championship Game. Many of those Seahawks fans who left early probably paid more than the price of dinner at the top of the Space Needle for their tickets. You'd think they'd want to get every penny's worth and at least stay until the end to salute their players for two years of championship-level football. Instead, they tried in vain to get back into the stadium when the Seahawks pulled off a comeback for the ages. Serves them right. Even in defeat, the hobbled Aaron Rodgers showed more heart Sunday than the other "12" at the game. Winner: Julian Edelman Unless you're a quarterback who's married to a supermodel or a tight end who dances with his teammate's mom , it's difficult to stand out as a member of the New England Patriots. The organization resembles a well-oiled machine with replaceable parts that makes deep playoff runs every year, but there aren't many players who can do what Julian Edelman has done for the Patriots during this year's playoffs. Edelman has caught 17 passes during the postseason. Only Colts running back Dan Herron has more, but Herron had three games to catch 20 passes. Edelman led the Patriots with eight catches in their 35-31 divisional-round win over the Ravens and again led the team with nine catches for 98 yards in Sunday's 45-7 rout of the Colts. A seventh-round pick in the 2009 draft, Edelman hasn't scored any touchdowns in the playoffs, but he threw for one. The Patriots tied the Ravens 28-28 on Edelman's 51-yard pass to Danny Amendola on a gadget play in the third quarter of that game. Edelman also leads all receivers in the playoffs with 13 receptions for first downs. Now Bill Belichick has two weeks to draw up different ways to use Edelman. Loser: AFC North The division that set a record in November with all of its teams three games over .500 at the same time couldn't get one of those four into the conference championship game. The Steelers were without Le'Veon Bell and the Bengals were without A.J. Green, but that doesn't fully excuse those teams for their postseason flops. Cincinnati lost 26-10 at Indianapolis, becoming the first team to lose a wild-card game four years in a row. Andy Dalton fell to 0-4 in the playoffs, and Marvin Lewis fell to 0-6. The Bengals haven't won a playoff game since 1990. Expectations are much higher in Pittsburgh. The Steelers returned to the playoffs after a three-year absence only to lose 30-17 to the Ravens, the first home playoff loss to a division foe in franchise history. It was up to the Ravens to carry the AFC North banner, and they became the first team to blow two 14-point leads in the same playoff game, losing 35-31 at New England in the divisional round. The Carolina Panthers were eliminated a few hours after the Ravens, which is odd, as AFC North teams went 12-3-1 against NFC South teams this season. Yet somehow, the NFC South still had a team remaining in the playoffs while the AFC North didn't. | 1 | 7,966 | sports |
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WINSLOW, Ariz. Well, I'm a standin' on a corner in Winslow, Arizona. And I'm not alone. With me are a cute couple from Southern California, who are shivering in the winter chill; three giggling women on break from a holiday office party; and a beefy guy in blue jeans and a lime-green shirt who didn't say where he's from. But it's no secret why he came. We are among the estimated 100,000 people who will visit this same spot over the next 12 months, drawn by nostalgia to a town whose best days ended decades ago. "It's really crazy. People come here from all over the world," said Emma, a clerk at the souvenir shop across the street. "They are in such awe of the place." For that you can thank Jackson Browne, Glenn Frey and "Take It Easy," their 1972 rock song about women, the open road and salvation, which included a verse about standing on a corner in Winslow, Ariz. The song was the first single for a fledgling L.A. band called the Eagles, who would become the best-selling American rock group of all time. And the song helped propel the band and Browne into the Rock and Rock Hall of Fame. But it's been even bigger for Winslow, with that one inexplicable lyric about a nondescript street corner giving hope of a renaissance to a town whose economy has taken repeated body blows over the years. Born as a railroad hub, Winslow was once the most important city in northern Arizona. When train travel declined after World War II, the town reinvented itself, becoming an important stop along Route 66. Then Interstate 40 opened, and in 1979 a bypass, diverting traffic away from the town and bleeding Winslow dry. "It was immediate," local historian Ann-Mary Lutzick said of the impact the interstate had on the town. "Sometimes people think the bypass was the thing that primarily affected Winslow's downtown. But it was really sort of the final nail in the coffin." Without the tourists, the small brick stores and restaurants that make up Winslow's once-bustling city center went out of business. National chains, such as Wal-Mart and McDonald's, added to the misery by setting up shop next to the highway, drawing even locals away from downtown. "We were just like Radiator Springs. We dried up," said longtime resident Gregory Hackler, comparing Winslow to a fictional hard-luck Route 66 town in the Pixar film "Cars." So Hackler, a chiropractor, and some other city leaders hit on an idea: They found a spot on the eastbound side of Route 66, at 2nd and Kinsley streets, where kids used to congregate between a pair of drugstores. And in 1999 they dropped a statue of a floppy-haired troubadour with his guitar on the corner, then invited visitors to take a picture. And you know what? It worked. Lutzick, director of the Old Trail Museum around the corner from the Corner, estimates that 100,000 visitors come to Winslow each year to see the life-size bronze named "Easy," who stands before a mural depicting a flatbed Ford and other key passages from the song. "People were stopping and taking pictures on corners in Winslow anyway. So they were quite brilliant to realize that they should capitalize on this interest," Lutzick said of Hackler's organization, which became known as the Standin' on the Corner Foundation. "Whether you like the song or not, whether you like Winslow or not, you're going to take a picture of the corner." Speaking of which, neither Browne nor Frey say they had been there before writing the song, which the Eagles recorded seven years before the highway bypass opened. Browne was traveling through Arizona when he began working on the song. But the scene about the corner and a girl in the Ford was written by Frey after Browne related an incident involving a girl, a Toyota pickup and the parking lot of a Der Wienerschnitzel. "It was always Winslow," Browne said in an interview a few months after Standin' on the Corner Park opened. "But the image of that girl driving a truck was an image that came from east." To be precise, from East Flagstaff. So Frey exercised poetic license, and the result would later be voted one of the 500 most influential songs in rock history. But if "Take It Easy" helped put Winslow on the map, it hasn't loosened its load. Fifteen years after Standin' on the Corner Park opened, the U.S. Census Bureau says per capita income in Winslow lags well below the state and national average. Nearly a quarter of its 9,500 people 1,000 of whom reside in a prison on the edge of town live below the poverty line. A few yards up 2nd Street from the Corner, Stephen Rogers, the cook at Dar's Route 66 Diner, says the 1950s-style restaurant sees few tourists. From the diner's huge storefront window he can see the visitors pull up to the park, take their pictures and dash right back to I-40. "Not as much as I thought it would," he said of the park's impact on the restaurant. But for Emma, the store clerk (who has tired of visiting reporters using her full name), the park is more about momentum than money; it's a sign that Winslow doesn't need a railroad or highway to find its way. Without prompting, she pulls out photos of a massive 2007 fire that threatened the Corner, destroying half the block. Although the mural and the wall it graces were damaged, both survived. "Maybe it doesn't have magical powers, but it's been like a godsend to us," Emma said of the park. "It's helped us so much." And it's such a fine sight to see. | 5 | 7,968 | news |
Siwa: a hidden city of Egypt Siwa, located just 50 km (30 miles) from war-torn Libya, is witnessing declined tourism. The city received 9.5 million tourists last year, down from over 14.7 million tourists in 2010, before the uprising that ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak. Women ride on a donkey-drawn cart as they make their way home with their children in Siwa. Although motorised tricycles are getting more popular in the last few years in the city, donkeys are still used for transporting both people and goods. A general view of the centre of the city. Sheikh Abdulla, a blind man, uses his stick to climb to a mosque inside the old city Shali where he works as an Imam. A boy walks down the ruins of the old city. The ancient fortress was built on natural rock made of salt and mud-brick. Although now mostly abandoned and 'melted', Shali remains a prominent feature towering five stories above the modern town. A man stands on a small bridge over the salt lake at a farm near the Salinas of Siwa. Situated about 17 meters below the sea level, the city faces problems of salt water flooding the land. A goat pokes its head through a wall. A girl gestures from a window in her house. A boy, who has flies on his face, waits on the back of a tricycle near farm land. A man sits outside his home under graffiti that reads 'May God accept your pilgrimage and forgive your sins' an expression used for people returning from Mecca. Men smoke and use their mobile phones as they sit at a small cafe. A man unties his donkey and cart as he prepares to leave his house. A girl types on a computer where she works at the Centre for Reinforcing Cultural Heritage. Most of Siwa's population of 23,000 speak a dialect of Berber Siwi but children learn Arabic from an early age at school. Young men play table tennis in an internet cafe. Girls work at the 'al-Gawhara factory,' one of the biggest factories in Siwa for packaging dates. Traditionally, girls are allowed to work only until they get married. A man bathes in a natural hot water spring full of minerals. Tourists are drawn to the hot springs which locals claim have healing properties. A restaurant worker sits among empty tables as he waits for customers. Traditionally, people sit on the floor at homes and local restaurants when they eat. Men warm themselves by a fire outside their houses on a street. A man stands at a farm while a worker collects palm leaves to make a traditional basket used for storing food in front of his house. A worker collects dates from a palm tree at a farm. The cultivating of dates and olives is one of the area's key industries. Workers of a small hotel cook chicken in a traditional way called 'abu mardam.' Abu mardam is a method where meat is cooked in a pot in an underground fire. | 2 | 7,969 | travel |
Halliburton reported a rise in its top and bottom line for the fourth quarter, but warned of a challenging year ahead, as the price of oil continues to trade below $50 a barrel. Oilfield services companies like Halliburton have been under pressure to cut costs and adjust for lower demand, as the industry grapples with the low cost of oil. Net income was $901 million, or $1.06 per share, up from $793 million, or 93 cents per share, a year ago. The company reported a restructuring charge of $90 million in anticipation of lower demand, plus a $19 million charge related to its acquisition of Baker Hughes. Excluding one-time charges, net income was $1.19 per share. Revenue grew nearly 15% to $8.77 billion. Wall Street analysts had forecast net income of $1.10 per share and revenue of $8.78 billion. "We delivered an excellent 2014, but it is clear that 2015 will be a challenging year for the industry," said CEO Dave Lesar. "Halliburton has successfully weathered multiple industry cycles. We are confident that we have the right people, technology, and strategies in place to outperform throughout this cycle too, and emerge as a stronger company." Strength in North America has helped fuel top-line growth, while currency weakness in Russia has been a drag. Included in the company's efforts to cut costs are layoffs. Halliburton recently said it would eliminate 1,000 jobs; Fellow oilfield services company Schlumberger said it would cut 9,000 jobs in its earnings report last week. In November, Halliburton announced it would acquire Baker Hughes for $34.6 billion, a move that is expected to help both companies whether lower oil prices. Shares of Halliburton are down 21% over the last 12 months, but ticked up 2.1% in premarket trading to $39.97. | 3 | 7,970 | finance |
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This grainy, slowly rotating orb might not look like much. But this series of images, recently captured by NASA's Dawn spacecraft , are something pretty amazing: they're some of the best photos we've ever taken of the dwarf planet Ceres , which inhabits the asteroid belt, and orbits the Sun about 257 million miles away from Earth. Dawn was launched in 2007 in order to visit Vesta (a large asteroid), then Ceres. It successfully orbited Vesta in 2011, and after a journey of more than three billion miles , in March, it's scheduled to reach Ceres the largest unexplored rock between the Sun and Pluto. Wait. There's a dwarf planet named Ceres? Yes. The asteroid belt is a dense ring of orbiting rocks in between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. It's made up mostly of relatively small asteroids, along with a few larger ones. Vesta and Ceres are the two most massive objects in the asteroid belt the latter is about 38 percent of the surface area of the continental US. Dawn was designed to explore them for the first time. Ceres is officially considered a dwarf planet a technical designation for objects that are smaller than planets but bigger than most asteroids and comets. (Pluto was famously demoted to a dwarf planet in 2006.) Yet in many ways, Ceres and Vesta are similar destinations. When Dawn was launched, they were the two largest rocks in the inner solar system that we had yet to explore. Vesta is heavily cratered, and rocky, while Ceres is much smoother, and icy. Both of them, however, are rocky bodies that resemble the ones that coalesced to form Earth and the other terrestrial planets in the early days of the solar system so by studying them, scientists hope, we can learn more about the formation of these planets billions of years ago. Dawn has learned a lot about asteroids so far In 2011, Dawn entered Vesta's orbit and stayed there for 14 months. During that time, it took unprecedentedly detailed photos of the asteroid, spotting surface features that could be evidence of liquid water . The probe also collected geologic data that allowed scientists to map its surface. These observations led scientists to infer that Vesta is different than any other known asteroid: it has differentiated geologic layers , including an iron core. It's believed that in the early days of the Solar System, all other asteroids like this ended up crashing into each other and coalescing to form the inner planets, but somehow, Vesta did not. Dawn left Vesta's orbit in 2012, and began heading towards Ceres. If the mission is successful, it will be the first to ever orbit two different extraterrestrial objects, which it achieved by using an ion thruster system an advanced form of propulsion that uses charged particles, rather than conventional propellant, allowing it to change trajectory while consuming much less fuel. This is "The Year of the Dwarf Planet" Dawn is now approaching Ceres, and is projected to begin permanently orbiting it in March 2015. Some scientists believe the icy planet could contain a subsurface ocean. Data collected by Dawn in the coming years should tell us more. When Dawn took the new images of Ceres on January 13, it was still about 238,000 miles away so they're slightly less sharp than photos of Ceres taken by the Hubble space telescope years ago. But as the craft gets closer, it'll provide increasingly detailed images of the dwarf planet. By late January, NASA says, it'll be taking the highest resolution photos of Ceres we've ever seen about 100 times more detailed than the ones so far. Last week, the New Horizons space probe which is quickly approaching the most famous dwarf planet, Pluto officially began the "encounter phase" of its mission, and it's scheduled to become the first spacecraft to flyby Pluto in July. These two missions are why some experts are calling 2015 " The Year of the Dwarf Planet " together, they'll teach us more about these objects than we've ever learned before. | 5 | 7,975 | news |
If you had to identify the biggest reason the Detroit Lions won 11 games and made the playoffs in 2014, it would be the performance of their defensive line. It all started inside with All-Pro tackle Ndamukong Suh, but a deep rotation also contributed to this unit finally living up to the hype and expectations that were generated when the Lions used the No. 2 pick overall on Suh in 2010, the No. 13 pick on tackle Nick Fairley in 2011 and the No. 5 pick on end Ezekiel "Ziggy" Ansah in 2013. The Lions' defense, once considered a glaring weakness, was transformed into one of the best in the NFL this season, largely because of impact made by their front four. That dominating defensive line, however, could look considerably different next season, which has to be one of the major concerns for this team over the next few months. Not only are Suh and Fairley both free agents, but so are tackles C.J. Mosley and Andre Fluellen, along with ends George Johnson and Darryl Tapp. That's six of the Lions' top eight defensive linemen from the past season. The six combined for 20 1/2 of the team's 42 sacks, including 8 1/2 by Suh and six by Johnson, who was one of the league's biggest surprises. Ideally, based off their performance all season long, this would be a unit that would return intact for 2015, but that's not to happen. "I think you enter the offseason saying, 'We'd like to have all these guys back,'" coach Jim Caldwell said. "But the salary cap won't allow you to do so. It's just not realistic. "You have to make adjustments, make assessments and that's what we'll be in the process of doing. It's an ongoing process that will take us a while to get through." Suh is unquestionable the prized piece that made it all work up front for the Lions. All of other guys were better because of the focus opponents had to put on Suh play in and play out. There's nothing more disruptive to a quarterback than pressure up the middle, which is why Suh, Fairley and Mosley were so valuable. They are three of the top 11 defensive tackles eligible for free agency this year based on rankings by Pro Football Focus. Suh is No. 1. Fairley, despite missing the final nine games because of a knee injury, is No. 6. Mosley, who filled in admirably in the starting lineup for Fairley, is No. 11. Fluellen isn't ranked nearly as high, but he made a strong contribution after being re-signed yet again in early November following Fairley's injury. Fluellen hasn't fit into the Lions' plans to start the regular season either of the last two years, but both times he was brought back in the middle of the season. His reliability assured that the depth of the rotation up front remained solid even without Fairley. Johnson is only ranked as the No. 19 defensive end available in free agency, according to Pro Football Focus, but he emerged as a quality NFL player in 2014. The perception when he signed with Detroit was that he would be just another training-camp body and had little chance to make the 53-man roster, but he far exceeded expectations. Johnson, an undrafted player coming out of Rutgers in 2010, turned himself into a better athlete by losing weight in recent years. Don't assume that his performance this past season was an aberration. He needs to improve his run defense, but there's no question that Johnson emerged a legitimate threat as a pass rusher. Tapp, a nine-year NFL veteran, also filled his role impressively, making some big plays in limited action. After Suh and possibly Fairley, the Lions need to put their attention on trying to bring back Mosley and Johnson, too, and keep as much of this rotation intact as possible. More than likely, there will be a significant turnover, though, and the Lions won't be able to keep all four of them. There's even a question whether Jason Jones, a versatile veteran who can play tackle or end, might be a victim of the salary cap. The Lions could create more than $3 million in cap space if they release Jones. That cap space might be needed if they keep Suh. As a result, recent draft picks such as ends Devin Taylor and Larry Webster, along with tackle Caraun Reid, are inevitably going to have to play a bigger role going forward. Taylor, a fourth-round pick in 2013 out of South Carolina, lost some of his playing time because of Johnson's unexpected rise. Reid, a fifth-round pick last year from Princeton, got more than 100 snaps as a rookie, but the Lions ended up opting for Fluellen's experience down the stretch to help replace Fairley. Webster, who started his college career at Division II Bloomsburg University as a basketball player, is the real wild card of the group. He was a fourth-round selection a year ago, was active for only two games as a rookie and never even played a down, but coach Jim Caldwell had high praise late in the season for his development. "At some point in time, you're going to see that young man take the field for us and perform extremely well," Caldwell said. "Don't be surprised. He has made leaps and bounds in terms of his ability to rush the passer. He's tough. The guys (assistant coaches) do some extra work with him after practice and they've been raving about what he's been able to accomplish, just watching him grow and develop." Depending on how things sort out when free agency arrives in March, the Lions might have to rely on several new faces, perhaps even an unknown like Webster, to help their defensive line remain so productive. 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As a 20-something living in a big city, squeezing in a workout is tough. Some days it feels like I have to choose between hitting the gym or heading to happy hour - but I want both! So, though I'm definitely not a morning person, I embarked on a mission to master the morning workout. But there was just one little issue . . . To me, waking up earlier than needed is like a unique form of torture. It's like there is an epic battle between my motivated self and my lazy self - a sort of tug-of-war between the comfort of my large, plush bed and the energizing hum of the gym. And though I've felt like I'm getting into the swing of things, I sometimes lose momentum and struggle all over again. Still, I feel like I've come closer to conquering this all-consuming battle, and the more I work at it, the more I notice certain tips and tricks that make it much easier to successfully get my butt out the door. Armed with this arsenal of ideas, the morning is yours! Related: 5 Short Workouts, All 5 Minutes or Less 1. Set multiple alarms When I say I set multiple alarms, I don't mean two - I mean five or six, starting half an hour before I want to get up. If I'm not in the habit of getting up early to hit the gym, my body is not ready for the rude awakening, and I find myself hitting snooze and missing my workout. When you're just getting into the habit, bombard yourself with obnoxious alarms and know that while you're totally miserable in the moment, you'll thank yourself later. 2. Lay out everything the night before Shorts, check. Sports bra, check. Water bottle, keys . . . check, check. Scrambling around half delirious in the morning is not the most effective way to start the day. I've found that when I can plan ahead and have everything ready at arm's reach, it's much more likely I'll make it out the door and to my 7 a.m. Spin class on time. 3. Make it a date Some days it can be so difficult to get out of bed, especially when I know that there is nothing stopping me from staying snuggled under the covers. But when I know that someone is depending on me to show up, it's much easier to get out of bed and get my act together. Convince a friend to meet you for a morning run , and you won't be able to skip out. 4. Cut travel time My gym is a 10-minute walk from home (or five-minute jog, if I'm feeling ambitious . . . ), and the quick commute means that I can sneak in every extra minute of sleep possible. Since a longer commute would mean getting up even earlier, finding a gym that was literally around the corner meant that making an excuse about travel time was no longer an option. Even if a nearby gym isn't an option, running outside or doing a video in your living room can help you sneak in a workout, no matter how short on time you feel. 5. Leave no escape At my gym, signing up for a class and then not showing up is a major no-no that can lead to a ding on your account. So to get myself out of bed and into the gym, I've started signing up for morning classes the night before. If I know there are consequences for not showing up, it's more likely that I'll get up and get my act together. If your gym is more forgiving, make your own ultimatums. Live with a roommate or a significant other? Pay them $5 if you sleep in - when your money is on the table, getting to the gym will seem easy. 6. Don't sweat a slipup Some days I miss the mark and end up skipping my workout, especially after indulging a little too much the night before. It's important to accept that I'm not going to make my goal every time. If you miss a workout, don't beat yourself up; just pay attention to what went wrong - were you up too late the night before? Did you just turn off your alarm instead of getting up? Listen to your body, and learn from what didn't work instead of getting upset. 7. Plan a reward Call me crazy, but one of my favorite treats is a refreshing, rich iced latte. Since they can be pretty pricey, I try to keep this delicious treat to something I enjoy on the weekend only. But I've found that if I promise myself a slightly sweet, strong, and milky cup of deliciousness on the way to work if I hit the gym first, it's easier for me to face the day knowing that a treat is coming my way. 8. Crash early OK, I admit it - this is the puzzle piece I consider my weakness. I'm a night owl, and as hard as I try to hit the hay at 9 p.m., I'll just toss and turn until my body decides it's ready for sleep, usually around 1:30 a.m. I've found the longer I work at adjusting my schedule, the easier it becomes, but there are still days I wish that I was able to magically pass out. I've learned that turning off the TV and closing my laptop an hour before hopping into bed does seem to help, so be sure to shut off the screens when you're trying to go to bed earlier than normal. 9. Remember the results I never expected that switching my workout routine from after work to before it would affect my mood throughout the day, but I swear it has. Though I may feel sluggish getting out the door, once I've sweated out my morning weariness, I leave the gym feeling seriously refreshed and invigorated. Maybe it's the endorphins, or maybe it's the fact that the day is now full of possibilities - but I am ready to hit the ground running. If you're struggling to find the motivation, just remember the energy you will feel pulsing through your body as soon as you step out the doors and start the rest of your day. | 4 | 7,978 | lifestyle |
These positions pay well and are in demand Whether we're making it, spending it, saving it or in lack of it, we think about money a lot. As a result, money spurs why we work and often the professions we choose. Still, money isn't the be-all and end-all of a profession, nor is it the exclusive factor that determines your satisfaction with the work you do. That's what makes the following professions special. They're the 15 highest-paying occupations from our Best Jobs list , and they're also jobs expected to hire abundantly this decade. Physician To work in U.S. News' No. 4 job, you must complete at least four years of an undergraduate program, four years of medical school and up to eight years of an internship and residency. But the long training period literally pays off for many doctors. In 2013, a general internist made a median salary of $186,850 and an average salary of $188,440. Learn more about the the salaries of physicians . Dentist The biggest myth about visiting the dentist's office is that you're going to see the dentist every time. It's usually for non-routine issues like tooth decay or gingivitis that the dentist steps in to diagnose and recommend proper procedures and treatment. Dentists are well-compensated for their specialized skills: In 2013, dentists earned a median salary of $146,340. That same year, the average salary for dentists was $164,570. Learn more about the salaries of dentists . Marketing Manager Marketing managers watch consumer trends to devise a plan for promoting products or services to certain people in certain places, and they usually earn six-figure salaries for their efforts. In 2013, these professionals had a median salary of $123,220 and an average salary of $133,700. Learn more about the salaries of marketing managers . IT Manager The person who oversees information technology and computer-related activities for an organization has a tall task. He or she is concerned with coordinating workflows, devising a security strategy, making recommendations, budgeting new software and hardware, and hiring and directing information technology and computer support personnel. In 2013, IT managers earned a median salary of $123,950 and an average salary of $132,570. Learn more about the salaries of IT managers . Lawyer It's the job that launched a thousand bad "What do you call a lawyer who ..." jokes. Attorneys' pay varies depending on experience, location, specialty and even the size of firm they work for (assuming they work for a firm at all). Still, lawyers earned a median salary of $114,300 and an average salary of $131,990 in 2013. Learn more about the salaries of lawyers . Financial Manager Financial managers oversee all financial matters for an organization, set goals and devise strategies for maximizing profits. The job can be stressful at times and requires pulling long hours. Thus, these number crunchers are usually well-compensated. The Labor Department reports financial managers earned a median salary of $112,700 and an average salary of $126,600 in 2013. Learn more about the salaries of financial managers . Sales Manager While those on the cold calls or the display room floors actually sell the products, sales managers analyze trends, set goals and implement strategies for executing those goals. In 2013, sales managers earned a median salary of $108,540 and an average salary of $123,150. Learn more about the salaries of sales managers . Pharmacist Pharmacists should be well-compensated , because doing their job well plays a material part in how we handle our medical conditions, recuperating process and overall health and wellness. In 2013, pharmacists earned a median salary of $119,280 and an average salary of $116,500. Learn more about the salaries of pharmacists . Business Operations Manager You can't just become a business operations manager. Ascending to this position happens after years of hard work and experience managing tasks and people . The best of the bunch don't just have the chops to exceed expectations. They also have the emotional intelligence to motivate their staff. The work is hard, but it's accompanied by good pay: In 2013, those in this profession earned a median salary of $96,430 and an average salary above six figures: $116,090. Learn more about the salaries of business operations managers . Art Director The skills of an art director aren't strictly tied to aesthetics and creativity. Those in this field must also juggle marketing, public relations, business and operations duties. Fortunately, this multitasking profession also comes with a good salary. In 2013, art directors earned a median salary of $83,000 and an average salary of $96,650. Learn more about the salaries of art directors . Software Developer Software developers rank well on our list of Best Jobs from year to year. And with good reason: Duties for this job are challenging, unemployment is low and the salaries are comfortable. In 2013, these IT specialists responsible for developing, designing and engineering computer applications earned a median salary of $92,660. That same year, software developers earned an average salary of $96,260. Learn more about the salaries of software developers . Veterinarian Veterinary medicine isn't health care lite. Vets are qualified to care for all types of animals, from the cute and cuddly to intense and immense. Their work affects food safety as well as the spread of infectious diseases. In 2013, veterinarians earned a median salary of $86,640 and an average salary of $96,140. Learn more about the salaries of veterinarians . Nurse Practitioner The scope of responsibilities for advanced practice nurses vary by state, but they always include daunting duties essential for quality patient care: performing physical exams, running diagnostic tests and analyzing the results, counseling patients on proper treatment and prescribing medications, to name a few. In 2013, nurse practitioners earned a median salary of $92,670 and an average salary of $95,070. Learn more about the salaries of nurse practitioners . Physician Assistant Physician assistants endure the rigors of a bachelor's program followed by a full-time postgraduate program to qualify to examine patients, diagnose conditions, write prescriptions and counsel on and monitor treatment. But the intense years of study lead to job security and a handsome salary. In 2013, PAs earned a median salary of $92,970 and an average salary of $94,350. Learn more about the salaries of physician assistants . Information Security Analyst The Labor Department wisely predicts hiring for those who work this job will uptick. And our society needs them we barely shift from one news cycle to the next without hearing of another security breach, another violation of digital privacy, another warning to protect our files and learn the risks of saving to the cloud. In 2013, information security analysts earned a median salary of $88,590 and an average salary of $91,210. Learn more about the salaries of information security analysts . Copyright 2014 U.S. News & World Report | 3 | 7,979 | finance |
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Kansas freshman forward Cliff Alexander's season could be in jeopardy after his family apparently took out a loan from a finance company that works with agents and professional athletes, according to a report. Alexander sat out his third straight game Saturday when the Jayhawks lost 75-73 at Oklahoma on a last-second tip-in in their regular-season finale. Yahoo Sports reported that Alexander's mother accepted a loan from Ludus Capital, which works with athletes considered to be high draft picks in the NBA and NFL, after meeting with professional agents last August. College athletes are permitted to assess their market value, but it is a violation if they enter into an agreement or receive money before signing with an agent. According to the report, the family has sought legal counsel. The NCAA has yet to interview Alexander, and he would not be reinstated until he is cleared. Alexander is averaging 7.1 points and 5.3 rebounds this season for the Jayhawks, who enter the Big 12 Tournament next week in Kansas City, Mo., as the No. 1 seed. | 1 | 7,981 | sports |
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Very soon, every visitor to the Cooper Hewitt , the Smithsonian's recently reopened design museum, will receive a giant pen. This pen is not really a pen. On the table, it looks like a gray plastic crayon the size of a turkey baster. In the hand, it feels pleasing, chunky, hefty like a toddler's rubber ball. And at the museum, it does something magical. Next to every object on-display at the Cooper Hewitt is a small pattern that looks like the origin point of the coordinate plane. When the pen touches it, the digital record of that object is added to the visitor's personal museum collection. When they leave, they will have to return the pen, but information about and high-resolution photos of the object will be waiting for them. To people who photograph placards when they visit museums a group to which I belong the pen is a godsend. It anticipates a need and executes it; it is a straightforward, useful object. But it's something more. The pen does something that countless companies, organizations, archives, and libraries are trying to do : It bridges the digital and the physical. Last month, the Cooper Hewitt welcomed visitors again after a three-year-long closed-door renovation. Its leaders were rethinking what a design museum should be. And a five-member team inside it Cooper Hewitt Labs was thinking about questions which the pen addresses, questions about how to bind the vast possibilities of the digital with the finite fact of the physical. It is a good time for the museum to reopen, for design has rarely been so central to the American popular conversation. But its leaders have succeeded in something that should interest more than the chambray-wearing set. The Cooper Hewitt has transformed into an organization not unlike Wikipedia, Pinterest, or, for that matter, The Atlantic : Somewhere between a media and a tech firm, it is a Thing That Puts Stuff on the Internet. Or, more precisely, A Thing That Puts Things on the Internet. But to get to that point, the museum has made sweeping decisions about who it wants to serve, how it should serve them, and what that "service" should look like. The leaders of the Cooper Hewitt a national steward of well-designed things have ultimately had to shift their understanding of what a thing is in the first place. * * * Excepting the ones who are alive now, every human being who ever lived has died. Their belongings the objects that filled their life and helped give it meaning all met a similar fate. Some were destroyed. Some found new owners. And a tiny, tiny fraction of a fraction were saved. They would be preserved they belonged in a museum . If you wanted to see those objects, you had to go to that museum. In glass cases and on wooden shelves, you could survey the stuff that people made or used or prized. Saving this old stuff was so important that cities and states established institutions to do it, libraries and archives and museums that made sense of the receding past. Their job to steward the products of the past into the unfolding present was tough, but possible. As long as the government lasted, so would the objects. "All jokes about politics aside, the United States isn't going anywhere, and the Smithsonian is the national museum," Aaron Straup Cope tells me. "By definition, it not only traffics in the past, it has to traffic in the near future. It has to keep an eye on it, it has to have some sense." Cope is the lead engineer at Cooper Hewitt Labs . For years now, I'd come across intriguing updates from him and his colleagues. Led by Seb Chan a prominent Australian thinker on museums, who's also a DJ and music journalist Cooper Hewitt Labs seemed to be spinning a textile from that near future and releasing it strand by strand. A blog post here, a demo there: The ideas and software they put out represented such a complete vision for what a museum could be that I wasn't able to grasp it all at once. There was a sophisticated idealism in their output an idealism about what the Internet could be, especially for public institutions hooked up to it that felt rare, precious, and vital. I, at last, got to visit the museum's physical premises in November. It was in its frenzied final days of hibernation, and it smelled like sawdust. The Cooper Hewitt resides in Andrew Carnegie's old Manhattan mansion, an idiosyncratic testament to industrial domination that's now next door to the curvaceous Guggenheim. The building sports all the marks of its fin de siècle manufacture: carved ceilings, rococo columns, marbled steps. But it is also a recently renovated contemporary museum, so sometimes you climb those stone steps (carpeted with maroon velvet) and find yourself in a hall of pristine white drywall splashed with huge sans serifs. It's steampunk, but it's also Eamespunk. In this labyrinth of hardwood and cement, the Labs office looks like any other crammed New York tech outfit. Sheets printed with 64-point black Helvetica were taped to the wall and whiteboard. Desks had the regulation iMac, hand-scrawled notes, and (sometimes) a vinyl figurine or two. There was a DSLR and a half-disassembled Raspberry Pi. The Labs team is small, just five people. Cope has had many lives, including a stint at San Francisco star firm Stamen Design and a "self-imposed sabbatical" where he made parallel copies of private social networks , but his most famous gig is lead engineer at Flickr. It was his code that let users geotag their photos and hook them into third-party apps like Foursquare. Seb Chan came from the Powerhouse , Sydney's premier design and science museum. Katie Shelly produces films and multimedia for the museum; she's also made an all-graphic cookbook . Micah Walter was at the Cooper Hewitt first, the museum's old webmaster , but before that he was a photojournalist in the Middle East. And Sam Brenner's projects have ranged from an RPG about LiveJournal to an Internet-connected fantasy football trophy . When I visited, I talked to the Labs team in their office and then toured the then not-quite-finished mansion. We talked about the museum first the physical one we were in. Unlike leaders of other New York museums, who are investing in events, Chan (and the Cooper Hewitt generally) believe the heart of the museum is in its collection and its visitors. In other words: Its stuff and its people. "They don't want to have the burden of this preservation forever," he said of the increasingly event-focused Museum of Modern Art, 40 blocks south. "The beauty here is: We're the Smithsonian. We don't have a choice. No matter what other staff in this building might say, we don't have a choice but to keep all this stuff forever." The museum will forever be committed to its stuff. But it has to have a more enlivening presence, he believes, than placards and shelves. Cope held up his smartphone at one point and pointed at it. "Everyone walks in with one of these," he said. "We're gonna have to find a different way to air-quote compete, so why don't we just try to meet people halfway? All the visitors arrive with superpowers." * * * When visitors come to the Cooper Hewitt, what do they want to see? This is the question the entire museum staff has asked itself. It has decided to offer them something that can't be found anywhere else. So it gives them, first, yes, physical objects from the collection the artisanal and industrial specimens that distinguish the Cooper Hewitt alone. A 3-D printed urn , Milton Glaser's Dylan poster , and small model staircases built by Victorian woodworkers greet the visitors on the mansion's first and second floor. ("People love those freaking tiny staircases," Shelly said.) The Cooper Hewitt also wants to teach visitors about design-as-craft, so it presents science-museum-like interactive exhibits on the design process. It also has an expansive upstairs exhibit on tools and tools-making, that includes a "sand selfie" portrait-making robot . But the real treats are in the museum's interactives that draw from its collection. There's an "immersion room," which projects patterns from the museum's expansive wallpaper archive on the wall. Visitors can also draw their own patterns in there too, which tessellate on the projected walls like the original historical decorations. There are also large, "social" touch-screen tables think of giant iPads that let people alone or in groups sort through and look at objects in the collection. These have special search and manipulation functions: Someone can draw a shape on the table and see what items in the collection fit it. And the pen the jewel of the museum's collection-based interactives will function as a pen on these touch surfaces. The pen is the exact kind of object that the museum hopes to deploy in the mansion, as it augments a smartphone without requiring one. All three of these tools the pen, the touch-screen tables, and the Immersion Room were designed and manufactured by outside firms like DSR and Local Projects . But they were created in collaboration with the Labs team, and more importantly they used an infrastructure developed by the team. It is the infrastructure that lets the museum plan for the near future, that lets it bridge digital and physical, that lets it Put Things on the Internet: the API. API stands for "application programming interface." When combined with a network protocol like HTTP, an API lets computers talk to each other. Often, that talking looks like fetching information from an online database in a repeatable, organized way. Many big websites have APIs, because they let the website play nicely with the rest of the web: Twitter, for instance, has one that allows you to ask, for example, for a user's 10 most-recent tweets or for all the tweets tagged in a certain geographic region. Flickr's old API, which permitted far more, was considered so special that fans asked it be considered a National Historic Landmark . The most powerful, most important thing that Cooper Hewitt Labs has done for the museum is build one of these. No wonder it's being called "the API at the center of the museum." The Cooper Hewitt's API connects to the museum's two operational databases its vast collections database and its complex customer and ticketing databases and fuses them. Then it makes the collections part public and accessible. What the API means, for someone who will never visit the museum, is that every object , every designer , every nation , every era , even every color has a stable URL on the Internet. No other museum does this with the same seriousness as the Cooper Hewitt. If you want to talk about Van Gogh's Starry Night online, you have to link to the Wikipedia page . Wikipedia is the best permanent identifier of Starry Night -ness on the web. But if you want to talk about an Eames Chair, you can link to the Cooper Hewitt's page for it . Cope explained the importance of these permanent links. "If you and I have something we can share, then that starts to give that object weight and mass in the universe. It starts to exist," he said. In other words, these shareable and permanent URLs start to stand in for the locked-away object. "It's a proxy for sure," Cope said, "but because we can't let you run through the actual warehouse, the choice is nothing or something. And we choose something." "What 'digital' in the museum means is really that everything is available whenever you want. Wherever you want, whenever, however," said Chan. Then he asked himself the follow-up question: "How does that play out in the museum, physically? How does that begin to change the exhibitions and the ability of the exhibitions to do just different sorts of things and different ways of presenting the collection?" For his team, it's meant teaming up with design firms to build the pen and the immersion room. The API's fusion of collections and visitors is what lets the pen function. The API lets users look at their favorite objects after they leave the museum. It lets users link to those objects on Facebook and talk about them. The museum has built itself what programmers call a stack . At the bottom are two big, proprietary servers: the database that knows about the collection and the database that knows about the visitors. In the middle is the API. On top of the API is the website, where visitors can learn about the collection and buy tickets. (It's the website, therefore, that transfigures users into visitors .) And at the very top are the gallery interactives and the pen. Notice the trick the Labs team has completed. The API seems to be first for users and developers. It lets them play around with the collection, see what's there. As Cope told me, "the API is there to develop multiple interfaces. That's the whole point of an API you let go of control around how people interpret data and give them what they ask for, and then have the confidence they'll find a way to organize it that makes sense for them." But who is doing the most work around the collection the most organizing, the most-sensemaking? It's the museum itself. "When we re-open, the building will be the single largest consumer of the API," said Chan. In other words, the museum made a piece of infrastructure for the public. But the museum will benefit in the long term, because the infrastructure will permit them to plan for the near future. And the museum will also be, of course, the single largest beneficiary of outsider improvements to the API. It already talks to other APIs on the web. Ray Eames's page , for instance, encourages users to tag their Instagrams and Flickr photos with a certain code. When they do, Cooper Hewitt's API will automatically sniff it out and link that image back to its own person file for Eames. Thus, the Cooper Hewitt's online presence grows even richer. The Cooper Hewitt isn't the only museum in the world with an API. The Powerhouse has one , and many art museums have uploaded high-quality images of their collections . But the power of the Cooper Hewitt's digital interface is unprecedented. There's a command that asks for colors as defined by the Crayola crayon palette. Another asks if the snack bar is open. A third mimics the speech of one of the Labs members. It's a fun piece of software, and it makes a point about the scope of the museum's vision. If design is in everything , the API says, then the museum's collection includes every facet of the museum itself. * * * Why can the Cooper Hewitt build something like this? It comes down to money. Most museums or arts groups, or public institutions work on the grant model: Organizations apply for a large sum of money to be spent over a finite period of time. For example, a museum team might get 18 months to spend $500,000 on a big, one-off exhibit about Monet. In-house curators hire external developers and a design firm, both often discounting their time as pro bono work. The outside developers make a fancy Flash app about why Monet's brush stroke is different, and the designers produce elegant signage to teach visitors about just what they're seeing in the museum's halls. Then the money is spent, and the famous design firms leave. But this guess-and-fund model doesn't always work. If contractor code breaks, there's no money left over to fix it. Consider that the grant model is not only how many big exhibits get funded, but also similar to how Healthcare.gov was funded: "Expert" consultants got the specs, deployed a broken site, and departed. "We banked on being able to outspend consumer technology by just this much," Cope says. "So what we do is we raise a huge amount of money, and we go and we buy some very, very fancy ooo-shiny, and we put it in the galleries and amortize the cost over three or four years, and that gets people in the door, and then we do it again." "The museum I was at before this was a science museum, and in 1988, it launched with the most interactive experiences of any museum in the world… in 1988," said Chan. "Well, before I got there, most of those had stopped working." Even if things do work, the model turns museum websites into museums themselves, catalogs of once-snazzy apps built for special occasions before being discarded forever. Exhibits go away, but those apps never do. A museum's website the primary face of the museum to the world winds up looking like a closet of old prom dresses. When Bill Moggridge became the Cooper Hewitt's director in 2010, he wanted the museum to make its digital infrastructure more thoughtfully. Moggridge, it should be noted, is a legend. He helped design the first laptop computer. He founded the world-famous firm IDEO. And he invented the term "interaction design." Moggridge died in 2012, not living to see the renovation project he began. Moggridge created Chan's position and hired him for it. And while Chan could have kept outsourcing projects to big outside firms, he instead lobbied for funding and hire a staff. The museum's digital work was too important. It had to have in-house experts. "There's a lovely phrase we use a lot," Cope said. "The guy who invented the Perl programming language talked about Perl as being there to make easy things simple and hard things possible." "That's how we try to think about this. Not everyone's gonna understand what we've built or the potential of what we've built right away. It's gonna take some of the curators longer than others to figure it out. But the minute they get it, they should be able to turn around and be like, What if…? Can we do…? and if it's easy, it should be live in 15 minutes." "It's capacity-building for people to imagine new things, beyond a book, beyond what they thought possible," said Chan. "For people to go, Wow, I've always wanted to do an exhibition about this and now it's possible to do that." * * * The team has accomplished so much largely by accepting imperfection. When the Labs launched the API, it was missing a lot of information. Cope called the quality of its metadata at launch "incredibly spotty," before Chan clarified, "it's terrible." But that was on purpose. Better to put the museum's grand imperfection and incompleteness out in the world and let people make of it what they will, the team decided, then wait for it to be perfect. "It was a tactical play to say, don't obsess about that stuff , because its what people do with it that matters," said Chan. "We could spend the next 50 years trying to make that data perfect and it still would not ever be perfect. There was 70 years of collecting that had different documenting standards. Museums only started collecting policies in the eighties and nineties. How can you retrospectively fix everything? It just can't be done. So let's move on and figure out what we want to do with it," he said. This attitude popularized by Steve Jobs with the phrase, "Real artists ship" extends to how the team thinks through media production, too. "I can't sit on a video for six months, making these minute edits. I have to pitch it out door, so we can say: This interview got this many views, this thing got this many views, let's keep going with this," said Shelly. The Labs's work, as a whole, is an investment in a particular idea of cultural democracy. It's a view where imperfect speech can always and will always, and should always be augmented by further speech. It trusts in the discourse over the perfection of the original work. And that piecemeal vision of how culture should work is borne out by how the museum actually came together. The Cooper Hewitt is an institution agglomerated. The Hewitt sisters assembled their collection of designs and patterns as an educational resource. Like their grandfather, Peter Cooper father of the Cooper Union, which was until recently one of the last free undergraduate art schools in the country they hoped to tame the rugged American craftsman by exposing him to the Continent's fine decorative arts. And the collection only resides in the Carnegie Mansion now because both it and the Hewitt collection happened to enter the Smithsonian's stewardship at the same time and both were already in Manhattan. Maybe that's why, when the Labs team collected its first app, it open-sourced it. Planetary is an iPad app that let users explore their music collection like it was a galaxy of celestial orbs, with stars as artists, planets as albums, and moons as songs. Thanks to iOS updates, it hasn't worked perfectly for a couple years. "We didn't want to make the first thing we collected different from everything else except it was a different medium. It was: No, this is fundamentally different, because you have access to it," Chan told me. "The ability to see how a thing's changed through its development process is something that is potentially unique in that regard." And that open-source code has begun to restore the old purpose of the Cooper Hewitt: a kind of teaching database of physical objects. Writing about the museum in the early 20th century, Eleanor Hewitt made it clear that her main goal was not to save the objects in the collection, but the information within them. Naturally constant use will have a tendency to damage, even destroy certain objects (many of course, are indestructible), but irreparable damage could not be accomplished under a hundred years, and if in that time an artistic tradition passed on from father to son, as in Europe has been created, the existence or non-existence of these objects will not seriously matter, and during all that time the Museum will have been fulfilling its destiny. From the beginning, then, the Cooper Hewitt has prized information over object, discourse over perfection. And while it can no longer permit artists to destroy the physical objects it holds by copying them the Smithsonian's central job is preservation it can allow them to mess with the digital versions. Hence the API, hence the stable URLs, hence the open source code. And perhaps already, the Labs team believes, that digital information will be inextricable from the physical object. The Cooper Hewitt has long collected napkin sketches of famous logos and inventions. If it wants to collect the rough thoughts of today, it will have to work fast, because napkins last longer in files than sketch files do on iPads. "To collect a Nest absent of any data, what does that tell you?," asked Cope."It tells you it's a beautiful piece of industrial design. Well, maybe the museum should start thinking about some way of keeping that data alongside the object, and maybe it doesn't need to be privileged in the way the object is." In the past few years, technologists have mourned the "web we lost." Most websites used to have open APIs: Now, the gardens of user content on which the modern web was founded have been walled away. What the Cooper Hewitt suggests is that public institutions might take up this mantle, making their considerable extant collections public and beginning to preserve new ones. The Library of Congress already holds the Twitter archive. In two decades, that collection a considerable reserve of American speech circa the 2010s could look like a souped-up version of the contemporary Cooper Hewitt. But the team's aspirations are, for now, more commonplace. As I was leaving, Cope recounted how, early on, a curator had asked him why the collections website and API existed. Why are you doing this? His retrospective answer wasn't about scholarship or data-mining or huge interactive exhibits. It was about the web. "I want people to link to this," he said. "We're the national design museum. Ninety percent of the essays that are written online about the Eames chair or whatever link to Wikipedia, and good for them, they earned it. But people should link to us, because we're the Smithsonian. We should be that good. When it comes to social stuff, if we can provide that stability, if all it is is just people linking to us, to me, that's enough." This article was originally published at http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/how-to-build-the-museum-of-the-future/384646/ | 2 | 7,986 | travel |
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It may seem like all fun and games to masquerade as the university's mascot, but one member of Oklahoma's mascot program got the boot after his or her performance during Saturday night's "Bedlam" game against Oklahoma State. The University of Oklahoma did not identify the individual behind (underneath? in?) the Sooner Schooner pony costume that was dismissed from the program, nor did the school pinpoint what, specifically, the person did that was so egregious he or she got fired. MORE: Best halftime performances | 13 horrendous mascots | Coach K's 10 best wins The Sooners have two horse mascots: Boomer and Sooner. KFOR, a TV station in Oklahoma City , reported that the mascot in question was "taunting OSU supporters, at one point allegedly spilling popcorn on spectators." Regardless, OU issued a statement denigrating the individual's behavior while also confirming that the school had severed ties with the mascot handler in question. "The individual involved has been dismissed from the mascot program for unsportsmanlike behavior. The University of Oklahoma apologizes for this occurrence, which in no way reflects the standards of hospitality and sportsmanship of the University of Oklahoma." Source: Tulsa World | 1 | 7,991 | sports |
Spring releases from across the country to get you into the kitchen. Welcome to the Eater Spring Cookbook Preview. Here you will find Spring releases (January 1 to April 30) that are about, written by, or could be useful to chefs/restaurants. Eater Spring 2015 Cookbook Preview Spring releases from across the country to get you into the kitchen. Welcome to the Eater Spring Cookbook Preview . Here you will find Spring releases (January 1 to April 30) that are about, written by, or could be useful to chefs/restaurants. While Spring may be the slowest cookbook season, there are still some major titles heading your way over the next few months. These include a debut cookbook or manifesto, as he'd have it from Texas barbecue master Aaron Franklin, a guide to seriously tricking out your cookies from Chicago chef Mindy Segal, and a big glossy chef book from Corey Lee of San Francisco's Benu. There are vegetable books from Atlanta chef Steven Satterfield and New York City chef April Bloomfield, pasta books from Philadelphia's Marc Vetri and Portland's Jenn Louis, and much more. Now, onto the Spring cookbook preview. If you don't see something here that should be on the list, feel free to let us know in the comments. 1,000 Foods To Eat Before You Die: A Food Lover's Life List Mimi Sheraton Workman Former New York Times restaurant critic Mimi Sheraton has compiled an epic list of her favorite dishes, restaurants, cuisines, ingredients and more from around the world. Consider it an epic to-do list, compiled over a lifetime of eating and traveling. Sheraton spoke with Eater about the book, calling it "a jigsaw puzzle that when put together gives you an idea of what the world eats." Read an excerpt here . Order: Amazon , Barnes & Noble , Powell's White Heat: 25th Anniversary Edition Marco Pierre White Mitchell Beazley Forget Kitchen Confidential: London chef Marco Pierre White's account of life in the kitchen is the classic bad boy chef pirate memoir. Here it gets an update for the 25th anniversary of its publication: this edition is amped up with new photography and essays by the likes of Confidential author Anthony Bourdain, UK chef and sweary tv person Gordon Ramsay, Momofuku master David Chang, and many more. Preorder: Amazon , Barnes & Noble Pure Pork Awesomeness: Totally Cookable Recipes from Around the World Kevin Gillespie Andrews McMeel For his second cookbook, Atlanta chef and Top Chef alum Kevin Gillespie goes whole hog. According to the publisher, the book covers "selecting, cooking, and enjoying" the South's favorite meat, with recipes from Bacon Popcorn and Bourbon Street Pork Chops to Korean Barbecued Pork Bulgogi. Preorder: Amazon , Barnes & Noble , Powell's Root to Leaf: A Southern Chef Cooks Through the Seasons Steven Satterfield HarperWave Also out of Atlanta, chef Steven Satterfield has made a name for himself as a vegetable wizard at his restaurant Miller Union. Here he explains his approach to vegetables, and shares recipes that have a "decidedly Southern flair." Preorder: Amazon , Barnes & Noble , Powell's Mastering Pasta: The Art and Practice of Handmade Pasta, Gnocchi, and Risotto Marc Vetri and David Joachim Ten Speed For his newest cookbook, Marc Vetri once again teams up with his Rustic Italian Food collaborator David Joachim. Here the Philadelphia chef offers what he calls a "complete handbook" to pasta, covering pasta techniques in Italy and homemade pasta, as well as risotto, gnocchi, and crespelle. Preorder: Amazon , Barnes & Noble , Powell's Good Food, Good Life: 130 Simple Recipes You'll Love to Make and Eat Curtis Stone Ballantine TV man and chef of Los Angeles hotspot Maude, Curtis Stone turns to home cooking for his latest cookbook. The simple recipes focus on every meal of the day, family-friendly fare, dinner party show-stoppers, make-ahead dishes, and more. Preorder: Amazon , Barnes & Noble , Powell's Pasta by Hand: A Collection of Italy's Regional Hand-Shaped Pasta Jenn Louis Chronicle For her first cookbook, Portland chef Jenn Louis focuses on the hand-made pastas of Italy: gnocchi, orecchiette, gnudi, spatzli, and more. The book purports to offer recipes for some regional foods that have never been written about in English before. Pasta nerds, rejoice. Preorder: Amazon , Barnes & Noble , Powell's Franklin Barbecue: A Meat-Smoking Manifesto Aaron Franklin and Jordan Mackay Ten Speed Much like Ivan Orkin's ramen book was one long recipe, Franklin's first guide to smoked meats is a deep dive into his craft. If you're looking for a book that will explain how to make Texas-style barbecue, this is your book. It explains how to trick out a store-bought smoker for maximum effect, wood and meat selection, troubleshooting, and more. The subgenre of barbecue books has always been somewhat lacking; this could be the book we've been waiting for. Preorder: Amazon , Barnes & Noble , Powell's Benu Corey Lee Phaidon San Francisco chef Corey Lee gets the big glossy chef book treatment from Phaidon, which continues its series of high-end American chef books. Here Lee walks the reader through one of his restaurant's 33-course menus start-to-finish. The book has forewords by Thomas Keller and David Chang. Preorder: Amazon , Barnes & Noble , Powell's Milk Bar Life: Recipes & Stories Christina Tosi Clarkson Potter What does Momofuku Milk Bar bigwig Christina Tosi cook at home? After the success of her first Milk Bar book, Tosi offers up more savory fare, including "Kimcheezits with Blue Cheese Dip, Burnt Honey Butter Kale with Sesame Seeds, and Choose Your Own Adventure Chorizo Burgers." Preorder: Amazon , Barnes & Noble , Powell's A Girl and Her Greens: Hearty Meals from the Garden April Bloomfield and JJ Goode Ecco New York City chef April Bloomfield teams up with co-author JJ Goode once again, this time to focus on vegetables. A sort-of companion book to Bloomfield's last book, A Girl and Her Pig, Greens is divided into seasons and offers recipes such as "Pot-Roasted Romanesco Broccoli, Onions with Sage Pesto, and Carrots with Spices, Yogurt, and Orange Blossom Water." Preorder: Amazon , Barnes & Noble , Powell's New York in a Dozen Dishes Robert Sietsema Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Eater's own Robert Sietsema takes a look at twelve dishes that exemplify the New York dining experience. From "hipster joints in Williamsburg [to] the history of New York style pizza [to] egg foo young and the endangered 'American Chinese' cuisine," the book paints a multicultural portrait of New York through its food. Preorder: Amazon , Barnes & Noble , Powell's Big Gay Ice Cream: Saucy Stories & Frozen Treats: Going All the Way with Ice Cream Bryan Petroff and Doug Quint Clarkson Potter Riffing on high school yearbooks, the rainbow-bespangled duo behind Big Gay Ice Cream sets out to teach you the art of the cone. The book includes recipes, stories, unicorn art, and "celebrity cameos" including a foreword by Anthony Bourdain. Preorder: Amazon , Barnes & Noble , Powell's Made in America: A Modern Collection of Classic Recipes Megan Garrelts and Colby Garrelts Andrews McMeel Megan and Colby Garrelts, the husband-and-wife duo behind Kansas City restaurants Bluestem and Rye, have written a volume on the foods of their native Midwest. Expect classics like "Biscuits and Gravy, Corn Fritters with Fresh Sheep's Milk Cheese, Quick Pickles, Panfried BBQ Pork Chops with Tomato Horseradish Sauce, Grilled Garlic-Thyme Kansas City Strips, Garrelts Fried Chicken, Lemon Meringue Pie, and Chocolate Butterscotch Cookies." Preorder: Amazon , Barnes & Noble , Powell's One Sweet Cookie: Celebrated Chefs Share Favorite Recipes Tracey Zabar Rizzoli Cookie fanatics, here's your chance to get into some of the best kitchens in New York City: a collection of favorite recipes from the kitchens of classic restaurants like Le Cirque, Eleven Madison Park, Gramercy Tavern, Artisanal, City Bakery, Felidia, Daniel, and Blue Hill at Stone Barns and many more. Preorder: Amazon , Barnes & Noble , Powell's Cookie Love: 60 Recipes and Techniques for Turning the Ordinary into the Extraordinary Mindy Segal and Kate Leahy Ten Speed Here's Chicago chef Mindy Segal's heavily anticipated cookie book. Teaming up with cookbook author Kate Leahy, this book seeks to amp up your boring classic cookbook recipes into something fresh and, as they put it, extraordinary. What this means: recipes for "Peanut Butter Peanut Brittle Cookies and Fleur de Sel Shortbread with Vanilla Halvah, to Malted Milk Spritz and Peaches and Cream Biscotti." Preorder: Amazon , Barnes & Noble , Powell's Also Coming This Spring · Cooked Raw: How One Celebrity Chef Risked Everything to Change the Way We Eat by Matthew Kenney. Familius: January 13. · Noodle Kids: Around the World in 50 Fun, Healthy, Creative Recipes the Whole Family Can Cook Together by Jonathon Sawyer. Quarry: January 15 . · Bread: Over 60 Breads, Rolls and Cakes Plus Delicious Recipes Using Them by Nick Malgieri. Kyle: January 22 . · Experimental Eating by Tom Howells. Black Dog: January 27 . · New German Cooking: Recipes for Classics Revisited by Jeremy Nolan, Jessica Nolan, and Drew Lazor. Chronicle: January 27 . · Spice at Home by Vivek Singh. Absolute: January 27 . · Good Bread Is Back: A Contemporary History of French Bread, the Way It Is Made, and the People Who Make It by Steven Laurence Kaplan (translated by Catherine Porter). Duke University Press Books: January 30 . · Where Chefs Eat: A Guide to Chefs' Favorite Restaurants (2015) by Joe Warwick. February 7 . · Ruhlman's How to Braise: Foolproof Techniques and Recipes for the Home Cook by Michael Ruhlman. Little, Brown: February 10 . · Chocopologie: Confections & Baked Treats from the Acclaimed Chocolatier by Fritz Knipschildt and Mary Goodbody. HMH: February 10 . · The Cabot Creamery Cookbook: Simple, Wholesome Dishes from America's Best Dairy Farms . Oxmoor: February 10 . · Luke Nguyen's Greater Mekong: A Culinary Journey from China to Vietnam by Luke Nguyen. Hardie Grant: February 10 . · My Kitchen Alphabet: Restaurant Bon Bon by Christophe Hardiquest. February 28 . · Puerto Rican Cuisine in America: Nuyorican and Bodega Recipes by Oswald Rivera. Running Press: March 3 . · Curbside: Modern Street Food from a Vagabond Chef by Adam Hynam-Smith. Whitecap: March 15. · Jean-François Piège by Jean-François Piège. Flammarion: March 17 . · Cocktails on Tap: The Art of Mixing Spirits and Beer by Jacob Grier. STC: March 17 . · Back in the Day Bakery Made with Love: More than 100 Recipes and Make-It-Yourself Projects to Create and Share by Cheryl Day and Griffith Day. Artisan: March 17 . · The Classic Recipes for Modern People by Max Sussman and Eli Sussman. Weldon Owen: March 31 . · 12 Bones Smokehouse: A Mountain BBQ Cookbook by Bryan King, Angela King, Shane Heavner, and Mackensy Lunsford. Voyageur: April 1 . · Mikkeller's Book of Beer: Includes 25 Original Mikkeller Brewing Recipes by Mikkel Borg Bjergs and Pernille Pang. Jacqui Small: April 1 . · Food52 Genius Recipes: 100 Recipes That Will Change the Way You Cook by Kristen Miglore. Ten Speed: April 7 . · Staten Italy: Nothin' but the Best Italian-American Classics, from Our Block to Yours by Francis Garcia and Sal Basille. Grand Central Life & Style: April 7 . · Kyotofu: Uniquely Delicious Japanese Desserts by Nicole Bermensolo. 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PITTSBURGH This is home to the American Mustache Institute, and former Mustached American of the Year titleholder Adam Causgrove of Mount Washington. Now, he's in good company. Conor Barrett, 25, of Point Breeze, Pa., is the Wahl Man of the Year for best facial hair in the nation. He was one of 12 finalists who went "face-to-face" for the title. "I found out about a month ago, and I had to keep it a secret," he says. "Now it's a bit of a relief that I can tell people. So far, it's been pretty wild." The public had the chance to vote for its favorite face of hair on Facebook, and that pick made up 40 percent of the score. The rest was based on a review by a judging panel, which ranked finalists on general enthusiasm for facial hair, media readiness and potential brand ambassadorship for Wahl, which makes facial grooming products. Barrett credits the support of family members and friends especially members of the Steel City Beard and Mustache Club for helping him secure the top spot. Wahl visited places its research deemed to be the "Most Facial Hair Friendly Cities in America" (Pittsburgh ranks No. 20 on the list) and brought along a mobile barbershop to scout men with the best beards and mustaches. Barrett's full, burly beard earned him the name of Wahl Man of Pittsburgh and got him in the running for the grand prize. And the grand prize is (drum roll) ... $1,000, a national advertisement spot for Wahl grooming products and all the bragging rights and glory that go along with being Wahl Man of the Year. "I'm coming after (Pittsburgh Steeler lineman Brett) Keisel now," he says. | 5 | 7,996 | news |
Just in case you were wondering how common it is for NFL teams to mess with the amount of air that goes in or comes out of an official game ball, the Internet has uncovered an intriguing clip that seems to indicate Aaron Rodgers has admitted to "cheating" this way in the past. Earlier this season, Phil Simms explained during a CBS broadcast that Rodgers told him he likes to have a lot of air in the football and has even had the Green Bay Packers inflate balls beyond what is allowable. Mark Schofield shared the segment on Twitter . "He said something that was unique, 'I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it,'" Simms explained. "He thinks it's easier for him to grip. He likes them tight." Ironically enough, the Packers were playing the New England Patriots when Simms told his story. The NFL is still currently investigating whether the Patriots intentionally deflated balls to below the league standard to gain an advantage. We showed you a video earlier of the referees seemingly taking a ball out of play early in the second half of the AFC Championship Game. What now? Would Rodgers deny having told Simms that? Did Simms simply misunderstand him? Or is this really a non-issue that apparently started when an Indianapolis Colts linebacker intercepted a Tom Brady pass ? We'll have to wait and see. | 1 | 7,997 | sports |
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