Buck Hill Ski Resort in Burnsville, Minnesota is providing fun all year round with the help of these plastic mats. They are made by a company called Neveplast. The brush-like material is slippery like snow which allows you to do virtually everything you would do on a snowy mountain.
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Here at Business Insider, we have the luxury to play around with a large number and wide variety of smartphones, and it's my duty to rank them.
I take into account a smartphone's price, design, features, and ecosystem, and I make the hard decisions to put certain smartphones ahead of others.
You'll find in this list a variety of premium and mid-range smartphones I think you should seriously consider. With that said, these 20 smartphones are all excellent and they all deserve a good hard look before you make your purchase.
Here's our list of the best smartphones you can buy.
Note: Prices may vary depending on the retailer.
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If you were a BlackBerry fan in the company's heyday, you're going to love the BlackBerry Classic. It looks similar to older BlackBerry models but features a sharp touchscreen and an excellent physical keyboard.
Price: $173
The BlackBerry KeyOne with Android is the company's successor to the Priv, which also ran Android and had a slide-out physical keyboard. With the KeyOne, BlackBerry returned to basics and kept the keyboard as a permanent exterior feature.
This could be a great device for those who want a physical keyboard but still want access to Google's apps and services that aren't available on other BlackBerry devices.
Price: $550
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The Galaxy Note 5 is a killer big-screen phone, and it's still technically the latest Galaxy Note phone you can buy as a result of the Galaxy Note 7's exploding battery issues. Like previous versions of the Note, it has a large, vibrant display and a stylus for taking notes. The metal-and-glass design is great, too.
Price: $430
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It started with rotting flesh.
Slicing into the green skin of a Hawaiian papaya ordinarily yields juicy, salmon-colored fruit that's almost custard-like in its consistency and sweetness. But in the early 1990s, one Hawaiian farmer instead found bits of whitish, dried-out flesh in his recently harvested fruit. On the skin were discolored spots resembling tiny rings.
It was a sign of trouble for hundreds of Hawaiian papaya farmers who, for the next several years, would lose field after field of their crop — altogether an $11-million dollar industry. The culprit was an incurable virus called Papaya Ring Spot Virus (PRSV).
In 1992, Dennis Gonsalves, a plant pathologist at Cornell University who grew up in the region most acutely affected by the virus, came up with a wild idea to stop it. He wanted to vaccinate the papaya crop from the virus using genetic engineering. To do it, Gonsalves and two other scientists (his wife Carol Gonsalves and David R. Lee) opened up the papaya genome and carefully inserted a gene from the ring spot virus into its genetic code.
After nearly a decade of work, Gonsalves and his team created a papaya plant that was genetically resistant to ring spot. The Gonsalves' crops blossomed across farms that had been decimated by the virus. Today, their fruit, which they named the Rainbow papaya, dominates Hawaii's papaya exports.
"We saved the papaya industry," Gonsalves says in a new film narrated by Neil de Grasse Tyson called "Food Evolution", which is set to premier on June 23. "That's it."
This wasn't the first time scientists tried to improve a fruit by tweaking its DNA — in 1994, the FDA approved the Flavr Savr brand of tomato, which scientists had genetically engineered to last longer by using a backwards copy of a ripening gene. But the Rainbow papaya represented the first time the technique was widely successful.
Yet instead of ending a storm, as the crop's name might suggest, the Rainbow papaya unleashed its own tempest.
"Food Evolution" dives into the controversy surrounding genetic modification, and opens with a 2013 scene of the Maui County Council floor. At the time, council member Margaret Wille was introducing a bill to ban GMOs from the Big Island.
"We are at a pivotal time in the history of this island," Wille told the Maui County Council in September 2013. "We have an opportunity to act, to do something. We would make history on this island. Let's make this island a model for the rest of the world."
Wille's proposed ban received more vocal support than any bill the council had previously considered — even more than its "perennially popular bids to decriminalize marijuana," according to a 2014 New York Times story by Amy Harmon.
Anti-GMO activists from around the world were video-conferenced in to the hearing to speak in support of the ban. Scientists, on the other hand, were not given as much time to speak.
Papaya farmers voiced staunch opposition to the bill, which forced Wille to amend it to "grandfather in" the fruit. Essentially, that meant the Rainbow papaya was exempted from the ban, so long as farmers registered with the county and paid a $100 yearly fee.
"They're treating us like we’re criminals,” Ross Sibucao, the chair of the growers' association, told the Times in 2013.
The ban was approved and signed into law in 2014 but subsequently entered a kind of legislative limbo. In 2015, the federal government suggested it might overturn the ban, and sent to the US Court of Appeals for further debate. The following year, a federal judge killed the legislation, ruling that Hawaiian counties could not enact their own GMO bans.
But the GMO debate in Hawaii unleashed a cascade of bills around the country that aimed to limit or ban foods made with genetically modified ingredients. More than 20 other states, including California, Florida, and New York, have active anti-GMO campaigns; activists in many of them have pushed for legislation banning the products or requiring them to be labeled. Last year, Barack Obama signed the first national GMO labeling law, which requires food makers to list any genetically-modified ingredients in their products.
A majority of scientific groups support genetically modified foods, citing dozens of studies that suggest the crops are safe for human consumption.
Organizations like the National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the European Commission have publicly proclaimed GMO foods to be safe to eat. A large 2013 study on GMOs also found no "significant hazards directly connected with the use of genetically engineered crops." Last summer, Soylent, the producer of Silicon Valley's favorite meal-replacement drink, announced that it made its drinks with GMO ingredients.
Several scientists have also argued that nearly all the food we eat today has been genetically modified in some way. Over thousands of years, farmers have hand-picked the traits they want to see in their crops, breeding and cross-breeding plants with the sweetest flesh and the smallest seeds until they arrived at many of the fruits and veggies we eat today.
According to the USDA, the following American-grown products are genetically modified:
"I hope people wake up one day and realize, 'Hey, almost everything is GM' — it's in the air, on our bodies, in our medicine. Maybe we can get over the GM foods controversy," Harvard geneticist George Church told Business Insider last year.
Gonsalves agrees. "We did the research and I stand by it," he said.
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Rebecca Burger, a widely popular French fitness blogger, died over the weekend after a whipped cream dispenser exploded into her chest. Citing local reports in France, the BBC reported that she died of cardiac arrest after the accident, despite being attended to by medics.
Her family announced her death on Facebook, calling it a "domestic accident." A warning about what her family described as a faulty dispenser involved in her death has also been posted on her Instagram. The message said the canister "exploded and struck Rebecca's chest, causing her death."
The canisters shoot gas into a metal capsule to maintain their pressure. A French consumer group had warned readers for years about faulty connectors that could break and permit the gas capsules to be ejected at high speed, the BBC reported, adding that faulty canisters were involved in enough accidents that the French government issued a warning and said the accidents stretched back as far as 2010.
It is unclear precisely how the canister explosion triggered Burger's cardiac arrest, but the condition is more common than you might think.
In the US, some 325,000 people experience sudden cardiac arrest each year, when the heart stops suddenly as the result of a malfunction. A surprising number of people who suffer from cardiac arrest are in good health with no prior indications of heart disease, though the exact figure remains hotlydebated.
About 90% of them die.
Cardiac arrest is different from a heart attack, which involves a blocked artery that causes the heart to stop. It also affects a different set of people — middle-aged men and women, a surprising number of whom exercise regularly and eat right. You can think of a heart attack as a "plumbing problem," according to the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation, while you can think of sudden cardiac arrest as an "electrical problem."
Survival rates for sudden cardiac arrest vary immensely by state and even by county in America. In an ER in Seattle and King County, a story in The New York Times noted, your average chances of surviving it are nearly 20%. In Detroit, your chances are 3%.
It all comes down to the tools and protocol applied by the people who receive you. Depending on which hospital or ER you end up in, you may get some treatments but not others.
"It's all sort of voluntary — it's a patchwork. And it's created the situation we're in today where survival is very variable depending on where you live," Ben Abella, the Clinical Research Director of the Center for Resuscitation Science at the University of Pennsylvania, told Business Insider in 2015. "I think a lot of people think you dial 9-1-1 and you get the same care, but no, it's vastly different."
Survival rates are dismal.
According to a 2015 report from the Institute of Medicine, the average rate of surviving cardiac arrest outside a hospital is 6%. When a patient is treated by first responders, the rate rises to 12%, according to a 2016 report from the American Heart Association.
The problem comes down to time and a lack of standards.
The most common phrase doctors use to describe what it looks like when someone is having cardiac arrest is "they drop." After that moment, each minute is critical to their survival.
"The biggest thing we can do ... is control what happens outside of the hospital before they get in, because those are some of the most critical minutes a patient has," John Greenwood, the Medical Director of the Emergency Department Critical Care Resuscitation Unit at the University of Pennsylvania, told Business Insider in 2015.
Burger had 160,000 Instagram followers and shared thousands of photos of her life.
During that time, a person's blood isn't circulating. Their brain isn't getting the oxygen it needs. The more time that passes, the less chances a person will have a full recovery.
But the US has no standards, either for training people to apply the necessary life-saving procedures or for requiring the machinery that could help to be installed in public places like restaurants or shopping malls. A 2016 report from the American Heart Association again urged for the implementation of these standards.
"We're faced with a problem of implementation," said Abella. "We don't know how many Americans have been trained in CPR. You'd think that would be a number we should know, but we don't. We also don't know cardiac arrest incidence and survival. There's no national mechanism to look at that."
The IM report estimates that less than 3% of Americans get CPR training. And they found that defibrillators — the heart-jump starting machines popularized by medical soap operas — are used by bystanders in just 4% of non-hospital cardiac arrests.
"Not all buildings require defibrillators. So even though these have been proven as life-saving devices, we're sort of at the mercy of local businesses. You'd think, well, we have fire alarms that are hardwired into building codes. But defibrillators are not," Abella said.
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Suffice it to say that deep-dish, or Chicago-style pizza is controversial. Is it a casserole? Is it a pie? According to comedian Jon Stewart, it's "not pizza."
We recently took a trip from Business Insider HQ in New York City to a famous Chicago institution, Lou Malnati's Pizzeria. Here's what it's like.
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Located in a quiet neighborhood of Omaha, Nebraska lies the home of billionaire Warren Buffett. He bought the house for $31,500 in 1958 or about $250,000 in today's dollars. It's now worth an estimated $652,619. He calls it the "third-best investment he's ever made."
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This week the Ritz-Carlton Hotel revealed plans for its luxury cruise line, with three ships aimed to set sea starting in late 2019. Somewhere between a private superyacht and a small ocean liner, these ships will accommodate the "the 1% of global travelers," according to Bloomberg.
With larger rooms, more dining options, and common space for guests to relax onboard, the new The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection has been designed in an attempt to defy all cruise ship stereotypes.
"This unique combination of yachting and cruising will usher in a new way of luxury travel for guests seeking to discover the world," said Herve Humler, President and Chief Operating Officer of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company in the press release. Ahead, a look at one of the designs for the cruise boat, created by the firm Tillberg Design of Sweden.
Olive oil is perhaps one of the most delightful food staples on the planet.
But unfortunately, it's also one of the most commonly counterfeited foods.
As Larry Olmsted, author of the book "Real Food/Fake Food: Why You Don't Know What You're Eating and What You Can Do about It," told Business Insider, this is a real problem because people buy olive oil both for its amazing flavor and health benefits.
So if you're not getting the real thing, you're missing out — big time.
There are all kinds of ways that people either pass off lower quality (or even rotten) oils for true extra-virgin olive oil.
In the book, Olmsted writes that it has become less common recently to cut olive oil with sunflower oil or some other form of oil, though this still happens. As he explains, every time the FDA has looked for adulterated oil, they've found it.
That's not the only type of consumer fraud, though.
Often, extra-virgin olive oil might be diluted with low-quality and chemically refined oil. Or, as he explains, some producers will use "older — and often rancid — stocks of oil held over from bumper crops of previous seasons" that might pass inspection on the day they are bottled but will certainly be rotten by the time they reach consumers.
As FiveThirtyEight has pointed out, many people in the US are so accustomed to rancid olive oil that they like that flavor, which is less bitter than fresh, higher-quality olive oil. But those rancid or low quality oils may not have the same health benefits as quality olive oils. Plus, if you're paying for extra-virgin olive oil, you should get a product that's up to standards.
If you're looking for the true high-quality product, here's what Olmsted recommends.
As Olmsted previously told Business Insider, it's worth seeking out the real thing.
"It's the real foods that are really important," he said. "They're being knocked off because they're good."
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Baboon politics say a lot about human politics: It's tough to be on top, and the key to staying there is to know when to stress over the competition.
Professor of Neuroscience at Stanford University, and author of Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, Robert Sapolsky tells us what humans can learn from the baboons. The following is a transcript.
And the embarrassing thing is, like, I can do like weekend seminars in hot tubs in like Big Sur with baboons in there, teaching them how to be chill about this stuff in terms of how intuitively obvious it is.
You're a baboon and you need some advice as to how not to be stressed out in the world. If you got a choice in the matter between bbeing a high-ranking baboon or a baboon that does a lot of social grooming, cchoose the latter if you want to have low blood pressure.
If you're going to be a high-ranking baboon, your health is going to be a whole lot better if you could tell the difference between your worst rival on Earth threatening you in your face, or your worst rival taking a nap 100 yards away.
If your worst rival snoring over there gets you just as agitated and worked up, you're going to have stress hormone levels in your blood streams as if you’re number 400 in the dominance hierarchy there.
If you're going to be a high-ranking baboon and you are being threatened, can you at least take some control over the situation? Do you decide when the fight begins? Can you exert some control? That's a predictor of much better health.
Can you tell the difference between whether the outcome of a fight was good or bad?
Like if you can't tell the difference, you can't tell if you just gotten a promotion or demotion, your health is going to be much worse.
And finally, if you’ve just have had a bad social outcome, can you go and come up with some social outlet grooming or, really depressingly, beating up on somebody smaller than you? Or do you go and mope by yourself in the forest? What's that telling you?Can you tell the difference between the big things and the little things? If it's a big thing that's bad can you at least get some control? Can you tell if the outcome is good or bad and if it's bad you have some coping mechanisms?
And it doesn't take a whole lot of work to see how this translates from that primate species to another one.
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Don't let the name fool you — Samuel West's "Museum of Failure" is an act of celebration. On June 7, West, a collector and self-described innovation researcher, debuted 51 failed products in a museum exhibition in the Swedish city of Helsingborg, all in the name of honoring the creative process.
Visitors will get reacquainted with familiar names like Betamax and Blockbuster, and perhaps meet lesser-known flops — Twitter Peek, anyone? — all of which West has been collecting for the past year.
"Even the biggest baddest most competent companies fail," West tells Business Insider. "The trick is to create an organizational culture that accepts failure so that you can fail small ... rather than failing big." Here's a taste of the products that are getting a second life on display.
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Amazon has introduced its own clothing brands in recent years.
Some of the clothing is Amazon-branded — Amazon Essentials — but most of it is sold under private labels.
For men, those labels are Goodthreads and Buttoned Down. Both are available only to Amazon Prime subscribers.
Amazon still isn't as well known for selling pants and shirts as it is for selling batteries and Bluetooth speakers.
We tried Amazon's clothing to see if it's worth the money.
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Typical for clothing ordered online, but Amazon's pieces seemed to have been sitting for longer than normal, creating deep creases that were impossible to smooth out without an iron.
That makes it necessary for the clothes to be either washed or ironed before wearing. Common sense for some, but for others it may be an unexpected hassle if you need to wear the shirt immediately.
It would be a mistake to call Amazon's private labels "fashion brands." They're mostly just functional clothing, with absolutely zero frills. It's clothing created for people who don't care that much about clothing, but still want to look neat, nice, and put together. I'd wager that's a good number of people.
The styles aren't boring, but they're not exactly adventurous either. It feels like they were created in a lab somewhere to appeal to the broadest swath of men possible.
It's clear the Amazon is chasing the crowd that usually shops at mall stores. "If you like J. Crew or Banana Republic oxford shirts, check out Goodthreads’ selection of effortlessly stylish oxfords," one caption reads for the Goodthreads Oxford shirt.
We weren't able to test any of the clothing in the long-run, but generally all of it felt solidly made with decent fabrics for the price. Quality was comparable to a mall outlet store, with a slight edge in fabrics used.
At 5'3", Alison Brie seems like the last person who could play a convincing professional wrestler, but her trainer is here to tell you she's the real deal.
For Brie's new show, Netflix's "GLOW" (available June 23), the funny actress busted her butt for months with trainer Jason Walsh to not just look the part, but also to actually withstand the rigors of playing one of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.
"Alison did all her stunts," Walsh recently told Business Insider. "I'll tell you right now, I've worked with a lot of people and she's a little bad a--."
In "GLOW," Brie stars as Ruth Wilder, a struggling actress who gets invited to audition along with 12 other women for the professional wrestling promotion Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (G.L.O.W.), which was indeed a real promotion started in the '80s.
Walsh, who's worked with everyone from Emily Blunt on "Edge of Tomorrow" to Matt Damon for "Jason Bourne," put together a workout plan for Brie that was a mix of cardio and strength training four days a week (often with a workout in the morning and afternoon each day) so her body could take the abuse.
"Alison would be jumping off ropes and landing on people and flipping. I wanted to get her resilient so she didn't run the risk of injury," Walsh said. "The science of training has really shifted the past decade to that more than glamour muscles."
Walsh did this through two different workout methods of his creation: Rise Movement, which is one-on-one strength training, and Rise Nation, a cardio class in which clients use a VersaClimber.
Here's a glimpse at the exercises Walsh put Brie through:
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Here's Brie (center) with Molly McQueen (left) and Mika Kelly (right) doing this insane workout.
"This is a full-body, explosive workout for conditioning," Walsh said.
They would do 6 sets of 5 reps.
Another full-body workout. Walsh said Brie was deadlifting 165 pounds and did 6 sets of 3-5 reps.
"Great way to get the body warmed up," Walsh said. Brie held onto 65-pound dumbbells and did 45-second walks for 3-4 sets.
Summer isn't just for rosé.
To get an idea of which other bottles you'll want for the table, boat, or beach, we asked Jörn Kleinhans, owner of the The Sommelier Company, for his current summer favorites.
Keep scrolling for Kleinhans' picks — all under $25.
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Try: NV Domaine J Laurens Brut Rose, Cremant de Limoux, Languedoc-Roussillon, France, $20
"The greatest sparkling wines in the world are certainly from Champagne, but they are usually not great bargains," Kleinhans told Business Insider.
"There are a few little-known regions in France that make great sparkling wine under $25, with nearly the same quality as the great Champagnes. Make sure you always have enough sparkling wines from Limoux in the house — nothing is more refreshing on a summer morning."
Try: 2014 Sineann Pinot Gris, Willamette Valley, Oregon, $20
"Oregon has given the classic French grape Pinot Gris a great new world spin that shows its floral notes beautifully on warmer days," said Kleinhans.
Try: 2014 Weingut Rebenhof Riesling Trocken "Von Wurzelechten Reben" Mosel, Germany, $19
"Not all Rieslings are sweet," said Kleinhans. "Dry Riesling is the great secret of Germany, and these acidic and lively wines can be very aromatic."
Ash Fox is a professional proposal planner and photographer.
Since she started her business in 2012, she's helped plan and photograph almost 1,000 marriage proposals.
Her favorite part of her job is seeing a proposal executed from start to finish. She enjoys being a part of an amazing moment, she told Business Insider. "These days, people feel like there's no such thing as romance anymore and that chivalry is dead, but these clients are really making it happen."
In her experience so far, no one has ever said no.
Fox works with clients from all over the world. From the time they contact her asking for ideas to the moment they get down on one knee, she's there through it all.
A tech worker once publicly berated for his negative comments on the homeless population is floating an idea to put people living without shelter on a cruise ship.
In an interview with The Guardian, Greg Gopman, a serial entrepreneur and a former Twitter contractor, revealed plans to build a homeless shelter in the San Francisco Bay aboard a 13-deck vessel that was retrofitted for use in the Mediterranean refugee crisis. The project would be funded in part by listing select cabins on the ship on Airbnb, The Guardian reported.
The proposal comes at a time when San Francisco is in desperate need of an affordable housing solution. An estimated 7,499 people live without permanent shelter in the city. San Francisco has one of the widest wealth gaps and largest homeless populations in the country.
The cruise ship would allow a homeless person to stay up to two years. Job training and personal development programming would also be offered.
Gopman told The Guardian he hopes the education component will help lift people out of low income brackets. "Someone who's homeless can be a computer developer at Google," he said.
The project has drawn mixed reactions from local organizations that work with the city's homeless population, largely because of the past controversies surrounding Gopman.
In 2013, Gopman, who was working at the fourth startup he founded, wrote a Facebook post slamming the "homeless, drug dealers, dropouts, and trash" he came across in downtown San Francisco. "The degenerates gather like hyenas, spit, urinate, taunt you," he wrote. "There is nothing positive gained from having them so close to us. It's a burden and a liability."
The post went viral. Industry blogs and social media condemned his insensitive remarks. In 2013, Gopman was fired from his contract job at Twitter when a TechCrunch article resurfaced his inflammatory comments from the past.
Since then, Gopman has sought to educate himself on issues around homelessness and become involved in causes that help those individuals get back on their feet. In 2015, he founded an advocacy group called A Better San Francisco, which champions housing solutions for the poor.
The cruise ship idea was inspired in part by an op-ed by former San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos published in the San Francisco Chronicle earlier this year. Agnos, who led the city from 1988 to 1992, recommended creating a temporary homeless shelter aboard a retired Navy ship.
Gopman and Agnos are working together to get the Mayor's Office to consider the proposal.
The cruise ship is currently on the market for $13 million. The costs of renovating the vessel for more permanent housing could add millions more to the listing price.
Gopman hopes to see the proposal through, despite his past.
"It's very possible [that] for this thing to happen, people would have reservations about me being involved," he told The Guardian.
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Celebrities have a new favorite workout that's a throwback 1980s.
The VersaClimber is a cardio machine that mimics the sensation of climbing a mountain.
It's been around since 1981 when it was first created in a mechanical engineer's garage in California.
"The big heyday for VersaClimber was the late '80s. It was running on all cylinders. It was very, very busy," Brett Collins, the sales manager of Versaclimber, told ESPN.
Now, it's experiencing a comeback and everyone from Lady Gaga to Hilary Duff swear by the machine.
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Most people think that the walls alongside highways, often made of concrete, brick, or wood, are for crash safety or privacy. But those walls were actually constructed for noise reduction.
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Although Olympic medals are not made out of the pure, precious metals, they are extremely valuable. That is why we wonder how athletes keep them safe. Dara Torres, five-time Olympic swimmer and 12-time Olympic medalist, told us where she keeps her medals.
Torres has teamed up with SHOW MORE OF YOU from Celgene and Otezla — a campaign that is shining light on the psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis. To learn more about psoriatic disease, visit the campaign's website. Following is a transcript of the video.
When I introduce myself, I don't like to brag and say, "Oh, I won these many medals."
But, I actually have four golds, four silver, and four bronze medals, from five different Olympic games.
I am Dara Torres. I am 5 time Olympic swimmer and I am here because I have teamed with Celgene and Otezla for the Show More Of You campaign.
OK, so where do I keep my medals?
Well, I use to keep them under my bed, especially when I lived here in New York, because
I didn’t have a safe in New York and it was just an easy place to leave them.
When my mom asked where I was keeping them, I told her that and she was not a happy camper.
So my mom made put it in a safety deposit box at the bank. But then, I go to an appearance — maybe leave on a flight at seven at night — I go to the bank after four and they are closed. I am like, “Uh! I can’t get my medal.” So, I am like, “Uh! That’s not a good idea.”
So, now that I leave in a house in a nice neighborhood, I put them in a safe as easy access
and they are very much protected.
But it is funny, because when my mom was on me about trying to keep them in a safe place, at that point in time, I had given her one of my gold medals — because I just wanted her to know how much I appreciated and thanked everything that she had done for me. So one Christmas I did that.
When I came back to visit her, I walk into her house and there’s the medal — the golden medal — in glass —plexiglass case, with a light shinning on them.
I am like, “Wait. Mom, what happened to, like, protecting the medal, so no one steals it?”
So, she may say one thing but definitely does another thing.
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Pinterest is one of the most popular social networks in the world, with 175 million monthly active users and legions of diehard fans pinning their favorite outfits, recipes, housewares, and more.
But most people are probably missing out on hidden features and cool tricks that enhance the Pinterest experience, or simply make life easier.
We asked Pinterest for help discovering some of the best tips and tricks of the platform. So whether you're a first-time user or daily pinner, here's how to get the most out of Pinterest.
By tapping the magnifying glass in the corner of a pin, you can look up specific items in the image. Pinterest will then show you similar pieces and items that you can actually purchase. If you see something you like, you can add it to your cart from a third-party retailer without ever leaving the app.
If the situation arises where you need to transfer several pins to a new board, Pinterest offers an easy tool to make it happen. By clicking on one of your boards on the desktop version, you'll see a select tool at the top of the page. That will let you select multiple pins and move them, copy them, or delete them altogether.
Pinterest offers a browser extension to help you save links you find on the web to the Pinterest app. Once it's enabled, you'll see a red "Save" button when you hover over images on the web. The extension is available for Chrome, Safari, and Firefox.
Want to pick up some good habits?
The best approach is to start small.
In the Quora thread "What are some good 'mini habits' to practice each day?" readers shared the simple habits you should follow every day to become a happier, healthier, or more productive person.
The best part is, each one takes only a few minutes to complete.
Here are some of our favorites:
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Quora user Pankesh Bamotra says brushing and flossing your teeth not only prevents gingivitis and tooth decay, but it can also save your life.
The American Dental Association recommends you brush twice a day for two minutes and floss once a day. If you don't, you could be putting yourself at greater risk for developing dementia, diabetes, kidney disease, and cancer, among other things.
Just after you brush your teeth, look at yourself in the mirror and smile, holding the smile for 10 seconds, suggests Quora user Nistha Tripathi.
Dr. Robert Zajonc, a renowned psychologist, believed facial action leads to changes in mood, and in a 1989 study he found that participants who watched themselves smile in a mirror experienced a greater boost in mood than those who simply smiled.
Also known as "eating the frog," decide on the one task you must perform that day to be successful and do it first thing when you get to work, writes Quora user Patrick Mathieson.
