By February, 80 percent of people have given up on their New Year's resolution – but there's always that end-of-year hope that your goals for the following year will stick.

This year we went out into the streets of Manhattan to find out what New Yorkers are hoping to accomplish in 2018.  

Below, a selection of our favorites.  

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"Our New Year's resolution is 'sober January,'" said Emily Watson. "Unless it's open bar or someone else is paying paying for our drinks," said Kyle-Christian Sandal.

"I want to take charge of my life and be more direct — do what I want to do, when I want to do it," said Diodra. Skatelinen, who's an artist, mentioned his business as part of his focus for next year, as well as simply be "more true to myself."

Dancer MaryAnne Massa wants to take her health more seriously. "My resolution is to stay fit and healthy. Go to the gym at least once a day, and no ice cream...I eat ice cream everyday, basically," she admitted.

• John Oliver said his exchange with Dustin Hoffman over the actor's sexual misconduct allegations "just made me feel sad."
• The "Last Week Tonight" host said he "tried and failed" to have the conversation lead to something constructive.

John Oliver spoke out about his confrontation with Dustin Hoffman over the sexual misconduct allegations against the actor, and he had some interesting reflections.

The "Last Week Tonight" host did an interview on Sky One's "The Russell Howard Hour," and talked about his exchange earlier this month with Hoffman, which occurred at a panel discussion for a 20th anniversary screening of "Wag the Dog."

“I had spoken to the organizers of this event twice before when it was clear he might be there,” Oliver said. “I said, ‘If he is going to be there, I have to ask him about this. I understand you might not want your event to be about this, so you might want to get someone else,’ and they said ‘No, no, we want you to do it.’ Then when he confirmed, I said, ‘I am going to ask him.’"

Oliver said he went into the event wanting the conversation with Hoffman to be constructive, but looking back on it now he said he "tried and failed" at that.

At the panel discussion, Oliver told Hoffman at one point that Hoffman's response to a November Hollywood Reporter guest column by Anna Graham Hunter — who alleged that Hoffman groped and sexually harassed her on the set of the 1985 movie "Death Of A Salesman" when she was 17 — didn't "feel self-reflective in the way that it seems the incident demands."

"Do you believe this stuff that you're reading?" Hoffman responded to Oliver.

"I believe what she wrote, yes," Oliver replied, "because there's no point in her lying."

“Well, there is a point in her not bringing this up for 40 years," Hoffman said.

“Oh, Dustin. Christ," Oliver said.

“It felt unavoidable and that we had to have a discussion about it,” Oliver told Howard about his conversation with Hoffman. “It wasn’t ideal that it became such a big media story because it became about my questions rather than his answers. The questions weren’t particularly remarkable, but his answers were … not great. That was the point of it. But it didn’t really go anywhere constructive, so the whole thing just made me feel sad.”

Since Oliver's confrontation with Hoffman, more women have accused Hoffman of sexual misconduct, including actress Kathryn Rossetter, who alleged the actor would grope her on a nightly basis while the two acted in the 1983 Broadway revival of "Death of a Salesman."

Watch Oliver's comments about the Hoffman confrontation:

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You can bet most millennials have heard of Snapchat, emojis, AirPods, and Drake.

But sea monkeys, Brownie cameras, milk chutes, and Ricky Nelson?

Not so much.

The Pew Research Center defines millennials as those who are between 20 and 36 years old in 2017, on the cusp of Generation X (and including the youngest "Xennials") and followed by Generation Z. They're the largest generation so far, and they influence everything from fashion trends to office layouts.

But they don't know everything.

Below, find 17 things that for many people are fond memories — but for millennials, they're almost unheard of.

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Green Stamps

The Sperry and Hutchinson company's wildly popular Green Stamps program was one of the first ever retail loyalty programs.

Shoppers at grocery stores, gas stations, and department stores would earn the small S&H stamps of various denominations with each purchase. They could then collect the stamps in special booklets and redeem them for rewards in S&H stores or catalogs.

The Green Stamps program was especially popular in the 1960s and 1970s, and S&H has since converted its model to digital "Greenpoints." But should you happen to be stashing a physical Green Stamps booklet in your attic, you're in luck — the company is still redeeming those for gift cards.

8-inch floppy disks

Even millennials are old enough to have used floppy disks in their younger days. But few of them likely had exposure to the 8-inch behemoths that predated the 3 1/2-inch floppy disks most are familiar with.

Eight-inch floppy disks were the first variety that were commercially available, introduced by IBM in 1971. In the late 1970s, they were replaced by 5 1/4-inch disks, which were in turn superseded by the 3 1/2-inch format, which ruled until the advent of USB drives in the early 2000s.

Tab

Tab was the most popular diet soft drink of the 1970s. Known for its bright pink packaging, enigmatic name, and slight chemical aftertaste, Tab quickly dominated the sparse sugarless-soda industry upon its introduction in 1963.

Health scares contributed to Tab's demise after scientists linked the drink's sweetener, sodium saccharine, to cancer. But the real nail in coffin for Tab was the introduction of another Coca-Cola company product, Diet Coke, in 1982.

New York City should be on everyone's list of once-in-a-lifetime New Year's Eve destinations.

The city is home to the world-famous Times Square ball drop, where last year more than two million people gathered in the chilly air to watch live performances and count down to midnight. And it's free.

Below, we've rounded up seven more fun events in New York City that won't cost you a penny on New Year's Eve.

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Dance at the Midnight Run in Central Park

While there's a fee to participate in the 4-mile run, spectating is free at New York Road Runner's Midnight Run in Central Park. The party starts at 10 p.m. with a live DJ, followed by a parade and costume contest at 11 p.m. and the race and fireworks at midnight. 

Cruise the harbor on the Staten Island Ferry

The Staten Island Ferry offers riders the best views of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and New Jersey. At no cost to ride, you'll see fireworks going off in each of the boroughs as you cruise the harbor on New Year's Eve. Bring a coat and get there early.

Listen to live music at the New Year's Eve Concert for Peace

A New York staple since 1984, the Concert for Peace takes place at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine every New Year's Eve. General admission seats are free and open to the public. This year's show features Cathedral Artist in Residence Judy Collins, and runs from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

• Flu season has started, but it's not too late to get vaccinated.
• The shot is easy and cheap to get, and it could be helpful in fighting off the virus this year.
• Even if you're ok with getting sick, you could spread the flu to more vulnerable people who could have a harder time fighting the infection. 

We're in the thick of flu and cold season — the time of the year when your office might start to sound like a cacophony of sniffles and coughs. 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that everyone over the age of six months get the flu shot once a year ahead of flu season, which lasts from October to May. But getting it now can still be useful. 

William Schaffner, medical director of the nonprofit National Foundation for Infectious Disease told Business Insider that it's hard for experts to determine how intense this flu season will be. 

"Amongst ourselves, we say if you've seen one flu season, you've seen one flu season," he said.

But we do know that flu season got an early start this year, so it could peak around now. There are a number of reasons why getting a flu shot is still a good idea, Schaffner said. Here are his five reasons:

1. The southern hemisphere had a rough flu season.

Australia, which heads into summer as the northern hemisphere goes into winter, got hit hard by the flu this year. That's especially because of the H3N2 strain of the virus. That doesn't necessarily mean it will be a bad flu season in the US this year, but the 2017 vaccine does protect against that strain, Schaffner said. 

"We can't be sure that that strain will come north, but we anticipate that it might," he said. 

2. Your health isn't the only thing you should consider.

For many young people with a stable immune system, the flu might be an inconvenience that knocks you out for a few days. But for people with compromised immune systems, or those over 65 whose system might be wearing down as they deal with a chronic condition like heart disease or diabetes, catching the bug could mean a stay in the hospital or a long-lasting hit to their overall health. 

So even if you're willing to get sick, keeping in mind that getting a flu shot could benefit your great aunt, grandmother, or even coworkers. 

3. You can't get the flu from the shot.  

"I'm afraid we still hear that. No, you cannot get flu from the flu vaccine," Schaffner said. According to the CDC, flu shots are either made using an inactive virus that isn't infectious, or a vaccine that doesn't contain the virus at all. 

What you may feel are some side effects associated with the vaccine. That includes soreness, swelling, redness where the shot was given, a low fever, headache, or muscle aches. 

4. The flu vaccine's not perfect, but it's better than nothing. 

Sure, it'd be nice to have a universal flu vaccine that meant you only had to get a shot once in your life. But until scientists crack that puzzle, it's better to get the yearly jab than have no protection at all. 

"We can do an awful lot of good with this pretty good vaccine, because it's the one we have to use today," Schaffner said. 

5. It's simple, fast, and often free to you.

There are plenty of ways to get vaccinated for free. Most insurers cover it as a preventive treatment, and Medicare covers the shot entirely. Most drugstore clinics, including Walgreens and CVS, have the vaccines available, so you don't have to go to a doctor's office.

"It's easy, it's quick, it's covered by insurance," Schaffner said.

For the 2015-16 flu season, 41% of adults in the US got the vaccine, while 59.3% of children did. In the past seven years, the flu has sent between 140,000 and 710,000 people to the hospital over the season. 

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"America the Beautiful" could be unrecognizable in the not-so-distant future.

In January 2017, a report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency hinted at the possibility of an "extreme" sea-level rise scenario that would put some American landmarks, towns, and cities underwater during this century.

That scenario is considered unlikely, but possible. If the worst climate change predictions come true, parts of the US will be devastated by flooding and greater exposure to storm surges.

Research group Climate Central took the projections laid out in NOAA's report and created a plug-in for Google Earth that shows how catastrophic the damage would be if the flooding happened today. You can install it (directions here) and see anywhere in the US.

Here's what major US cities might look like in the year 2100.

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In a worst case scenario, flooding caused by polar melting and ice-sheet collapses could cause a sea level rise of 10 to 12 feet by 2100, NOAA reported in January 2017.

Here's Washington, DC today. The famed Potomac River runs through it.

And here's what Washington, DC, might look like in the year 2100 — as seen on Climate Central's plugin for Google Earth. Ocean water causes the river to overflow.

Meghan Markle is a jetsetter.

Long before she was taking couple's trips with fiancé Prince Harry, she was already a frequent flyer, writing about her journeys on her now-defunct lifestyle blog, The Tig.

From girls trips to Spain and Italy, to attending weddings in Greece, to plenty of beach destinations, below is where she's vacationed over the past few years.

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Markle took a girls trip to Ibiza, Spain, last August.

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She also stopped in Madrid, Spain, during the same trip.

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She traveled to the white-sand beaches of St. Barts in 2014.

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• Both the House and the Senate voted to pass the final GOP tax bill and President Trump signed the bill into law on December 22.
• The tax bill is set to disproportionately affect homeowners in affluent parts of the US.
• Several housing markets in the Northeast will see home prices fall behind typical growth as a result of tax reform.

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President Donald Trump did a lot of tweeting in 2017.

On many days, Trump's tweeting provided the headline material for his roller-coaster first year as president.

He attacked everyone from former President Barack Obama to actress Meryl Streep. He tweeted about the Russia investigation, "fake news," 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, his travel ban, television hosts, and often what was airing on the "Fox & Friends" morning show in real time.

In total, Trump smashed the "tweet" button more than 2,500 times in 2017. And he is showing no signs of slowing down.

Here are the 60 most outlandish, eye-popping, and bombastic Trump tweets of 2017:

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When he chastised "so-called 'Russian hacking'"

When he hit back at Hollywood legend Meryl Streep for calling him out in an acceptance speech

When he asked if we are "living in Nazi Germany?"

• Once you enter a serious relationship, sex can get complicated.
• We asked Rachel Sussman, a NYC-based marriage counselor, about the most common problem couples have in the bedroom.
• Those problems include sexlessness and one partner being resistant to the others' fantasies.

Sometimes, getting into a serious relationship means that sex becomes less, well, sexy. Both people are busy and there's no time to do it. One person would rather have a glass of wine and watch "This Is Us." It's gotten boring.

These aren't reasons to be ashamed — you're hardly alone in your plight and there are plenty of potential solutions out there.

I recently spoke to Rachel Sussman, a relationship expert and marriage counselor in New York City, about the most common problems couples encounter related to physical intimacy, and her typical approach to helping them. Read on to see what's really going down in your friends' bedrooms.

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Partners have mismatched sex drives

Sussman said this is the most common problem she sees related to physical intimacy. Typically, one person wants to have sex more often than the other, who's either happy with the amount of sex they're having or wants even less.

Sussman usually takes a two-pronged approach. She'll work with the person whose sex drive is lower to see if there's anything they can do to increase it. She'll also work with the person whose sex drive is higher to be patient with their partner and to manage their expectations around sex.

Sometimes "the person with the higher sex drive takes on a predator-like role and that's not healthy," Sussman said.

She might even give the couple "exercises": For example, they have to try snuggling and the partner with the higher sex drive has to resist the urge to initiate sex.

The couple isn't having sex at all

Interestingly, Sussman said that couples in this situation "are not always upset about it." Instead, "they feel they should be doing something about it" and think, "This can't be normal."

Sussman's approach here is to "dig a little bit." She said, "I want to see what it was like when they were [first] dating. Did they both have a sex drive then? Did they have a lot of sex back then? What kind of sex did they have? What were the patterns? How did it feel?"

If it turns out the couple used to have a more active sex life, Sussman tries to figure out what's changed. It could be many things, she said: they're stressed, they've gotten too familiar with each other, they're repressing their sex drive, or they've gone so long without sex that now they're shy with each other. It's possible, too, that one person is having an affair.

In many cases, Sussman will assign the couple to have sex more often, then come back and report to her how it went. "More times than not, they'll come back and they'll say to me, 'That was a lot of fun. I don't know why we don't do that more.'"

Interestingly, Business Insider's Jessica Orwig reported that one study found couples assigned to double the amount of sex they were having didn't wind up any happier. The Carnegie Mellon researchers behind the study recommend focusing on quality, not quantity — though this strategy might not apply to couples who aren't having any sex.

The relationship isn't as passionate as it used to be

Sussman's view is that the inevitable decline of passion in a romantic relationship is evolutionary. Thousands of years ago, people didn't live long enough to have to sustain passion with the same person for 50 years. Now, many of us do.

So when it comes to sustaining that passion, Sussman said, "you've got to be creative."

One strategy is to schedule "sex dates" — a tip Business Insider has heard before. That's especially helpful if you're both busy, if you have young kids, or if one partner goes to sleep earlier than the other.

"Don't feel like something's wrong with your relationship if you don't naturally have [passion]," Sussman said. It takes work to develop and maintain it.

In fact, Pamela Regan, a psychologist at California State University, Los Angeles who studies romantic relationships, previously told me that's something couples in love-based marriages can learn from couples in arranged marriages. The level of passion in a relationship may fluctuate and it doesn't necessarily mean something is wrong — as long as you have faith that it will return and the willingness to help lure it back.

• Jack and Laura Dangermond, tech billionaires known as the parents of the digital mapping industry, have made the single largest private donation to The Nature Conservancy to date.
• They've given $165 million so the Conservancy can purchase an iconic, pristine stretch of undeveloped coastline in California.
• This is the spot where California bends inland. It can be seen from space.
• Not all tech billionaires have been known to act with such generosity when it comes to California's ecological wonders.

Here's a feel good story for your holiday season. In the single largest philanthropic gift The Nature Conservancy says it has ever received, tech moguls Jack and Laura Dangermond are donating $165 million to the organization.

The money is earmarked to purchase and permanently protect an iconic, pristine stretch of California's coastline: the 24,000-acre Cojo/Jalama Ranch at Point Conception in Santa Barbara County. The land includes eight miles of coastline and centuries-old coastal oaks.

This land is the point where California's coast bends inward, and is visible from space. It's a rare mix of warm and cold water that is home to at least 39 species of threatened or special status, the Nature Conservancy says. Animal life includes whales, porpoises, mountain lions and Monarch butterflies. Some people go as far as to say that this spot is more beautiful than the national parks Yosemite or Yellowstone.

The married Dangermonds, known for their outdoorsy ways, fell in love with this land in the 1960's during their honeymoon coastal camping trip, they told Forbes' Miguel Helft. 

The Dangermonds founded Esri, their best-known venture, in 1969 with $1,100 of their personal savings. Esri basically invented digital mapping. While Google's and Apple's maps get all the attention in the consumer world, Esri is the biggest player in the commercial market for digital maps today. Forbes estimates that the pair is worth $4 billion.

This particular piece of land caused some hand-wringing when it was sold for $140 million to some real estate developers in 2007, who ultimately were never able to develop it.

The Dangermonds are major conservationists, who give their mapping software away for free to thousands of nongovernmental organizations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which uses it to fight the spread of disease in Africa, as well as to many wildlife and nature conservation groups. The National Audubon Society has previously awarded the couple the Audubon Medal, one of the highest honors in conservation. 

This act by the Dangermonds acts as a counterpoint the image of how tech tycoons can sometimes behave towards California's ecological wonders. For instance, the billionaire cofounder of Sun Microsystems and VC Vinod Khosla blocked public access to a public beach after he purchased the 89-acre property surrounding the beach in 2009.

He was sued by an environmental group and after years of court battles, was ordered to open access again earlier this year.

And Facebook billionaire Sean Parker was fined $2.5 million back in 2013 when he and his bride damaged an an ecologically sensitive area in Big Sur, another Californian coastal region, for their wedding.

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• Prince Harry, the fifth in the line of succession to the British throne, recently interviewed former US President Barack Obama for the BBC.
• During the interview, which aired on Wednesday, the ex-president warned that irresponsible social-media use could lead to "a Balkanisation of our society."
• Obama also credited social media with part of his campaign success, though.

Former US President Barack Obama said that social media should allow "a diversity of views," not lead to "a Balkanisation of our society," in a wide-ranging, one-off interview with Prince Harry.

The prince was guest editor for Radio 4's Today programme on Wednesday morning.

Obama continued: "One of the dangers of the internet is that people can have entirely different realities. They can be cocooned in information that reinforces their current biases.

"The question has to do with how do we harness this technology in a way that allows a multiplicity of voices, allows a diversity of views, but doesn't lead to a Balkanisation of society and allows ways of finding common ground."

Despite the warning, Obama also credited social-media platforms with his electoral success. "It was that grassroots army that really fuelled my campaign — in part brought together by the new technologies of the time of social media," he said.

Prince Harry went on to call Obama the first social-media president.

US President Donald Trump, an avid Twitter user, was not directly mentioned during the interview.

Obama also said he didn't have a New Year's resolution as he didn't believe in them. "People typically tend to break them," Obama said. "I believe in making sure that each day you try to do a little better than you did before."

Kensington Palace said the interview was recorded during the Invictus Games in Toronto in September.

Harry, who recently attended the inaugural summit of the Obama Foundation in Chicago, has forged a strong bond with the Obamas, through his work with service members and his trips to America.

At this year's Invictus Games, Obama reportedly quizzed Harry on his romance with Meghan Markle as they watched the wheelchair basketball.

Obama was among those to congratulate the couple on their engagement, writing on Twitter: "Michelle and I are delighted to congratulate Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on their engagement.

"We wish you a lifetime of joy and happiness together."

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• Monopoly is a family favourite to play over the holidays.
• But you've probably been playing some "house rules," rather than sticking to the official ones.
• Here are some of the most common rules we've made up over the years.

Over the Christmas period, it's likely you'll bust out the Monopoly board at least once.

But this can turn nasty very quickly, with tantrums and flipped boards, because Monopoly isn't actually supposed to be a game that's fun to play.

We know this, because there's always one victor, while everyone else is left to feel miserable and defeated. But we play it every year regardless.

Have we been playing it right, though? As it turns out, there are several rules that people play when they get the Monopoly set out, but they aren't actually in the rule book. Instead, "house rules" have spread around and been passed down through the generations.

These are some of the most common made up rules — some of which are so well known they are just assumed to be in the rule book. (They aren't.)

1. Taking a lap

This rule was probably made to prolong the game and make sure nobody felt too hard done by if it was their turn last. But in the official rules, it says you can start buying property straight away. You don't have to go around the board once beforehand.

2. Free Parking

I've never met anyone who doesn't play the "Free Parking rule," where all the taxes go in the middle, and the person who lands on Free Parking gets it all. In fact, this is nonsense, and Free Parking is just a normal square that doesn't do anything.

3. Not auctioning off property

In November, people lost their minds because they became aware of a rule in Monopoly they had never played before. According to the official rules, when a property is landed on, and nobody wants to buy it, that property goes to auction. This means someone can buy the property for less than it's worth.

It's actually quite strategic, but many people don't play it this way, meaning the game can last hours and hours.

4. You can't earn money while in jail

Incorrect. While many people think being sent to jail is terrible, because you can't collect rent while incarcerated, this is untrue. This made up rule probably appeared because one family member wanted to be especially mean to another. In the official rules, you simply can't go around the board or buy anything.

5. Landing on "Go"

Some people like to add extra incentives of certain squares. One is that landing on "Go," awards you £400. This isn't in the official rules, and it's probably just another way of helping people out when they could really do with the cash.

6. Surrendering to the banker

When someone runs out of money, they are out of the game. But many people then give everything back to the banker. This means people have to go round and round the board to buy their properties again. In the official rules, the loser actually gives everything to the person they owe money to, meaning the game can be over a lot quicker.

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Clinic Compare, a British clinic comparison website, has put together a ranking of the most unhealthy countries in the world.

Using data from the World Health Organization (WHO), the CIA World Factbook, and the World Lung Association, the company analysed 179 countries, looking at alcohol and tobacco consumption per person, per year, as well as the prevalence of obesity.

The rankings for each factor were combined to give each country an overall score in order to determine which population has the unhealthiest lifestyle.

Eastern Europe dominated the top 10 most unhealthy countries, while Oceania came out as the "fattest region in the world." Scroll on to see the 20 most unhealthy countries in the world, ranked from best to worst.

20. Ukraine. The country took joint eighth place for alcohol consumption — each resident consumes the equivalent of 12.8 litres of pure alcohol every year.

19. United Kingdom. The UK ranks 19th for unhealthiness, with its residents being the ninth heaviest drinkers in the world.

18. Romania. On average, each resident smokes 1,619 cigarettes per year.

• There are tons of amazing and unusual cocktails that most people don't know.
• Instead of once again going for the eggnog this holiday season, try one of the fun, relatively unknown mixed drinks we selected.

It's the holiday season. You're at a party. And you go for the eggnog. Again.

A classic is always a solid choice, but variety is the spice of life. Sometimes, it's fun to go for a bolder, lesser-known drink. Plus, we're coming up on 2018, and you might as well start off the year trying something new.

Business Insider put together a list of outstanding but relatively unknown mixed drinks that you should try at your New Year's Party.

We pulled most of the recipes from Liquor.com and Serious Eats. The cocktails using Cointreau were created by the Cointreau team.

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Apple Rickey

To make this cocktail, muddle the apple and rosemary in a Highball glass. Then add the Cointreau and lime juice with ice, and top it off with club soda. Stir briefly and add the rosemary sprig and apple slices as garnishes.

Ingredients:

- 2 oz. Cointreau
- 1/2 oz. fresh lime juice
- 3 slices of a tart apple
- 7 leaves of fresh rosemary
- 4 oz. club soda or seltzer

Vieux Carré

The Vieux Carré comes from 1930s New Orleans. There's a lot going on, but it's an incredible cocktail when mixed by a pro.

To make the drink, put all the ingredients into a rocks glass, add ice, and stir.

Ingredients:

- 3/4 oz. whiskey
- 3/4 oz. cognac
- 3/4 oz. sweet vermouth
- 1 tsp Bénédictine
- 2 dashes Peychaud's bitters
- 2 dashes Angostura bitters

Hanky Panky

The Hanky Panky originated at the American Bar at the Savoy Hotel in London. The vermouth and gin play off the Fernet Branca's blend of botanicals.

To make the drink, put all the ingredients into a mixing glass with ice. Stir, and then strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Finally, add the garnish.

Ingredients:

- 1 1/2 oz. gin
- 1 1/2 oz. sweet vermouth
- 2 dashes Fernet-Branca
- 1 orange twist garnish

"The Last Jedi" has dazzled audiences around the world and introduced us to more characters and creatures in a single movie than ever before in the "Star Wars" saga.

The director Rian Johnson doesn't just push the storyline of Rey, Finn, Poe, and Kylo Ren forward in unique ways — with help from legends from the original trilogy like Luke Skywalker and General Leia — but also gives us a bunch of newbies to love (or hate).

Here we look back on 36 characters from "The Last Jedi" and rank them from worst to best:

Warning: Spoilers below if you haven't seen "The Last Jedi."

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36. BB-9E

The First Order's new droid had a lot of hype when it was first revealed before the movie opened, but it didn't get a lot of screen time. Maybe we'll see more of it in action in deleted scenes, but for now it's one of those cool-looking new things that feels as if it got thrown into the movie for merchandising reasons.

35. Maz Kanata (Lupita Nyong'o)

Maz's appearance in "The Last Jedi" is another thing that feels horseshoed in. She's off fighting someone, somewhere, but has time to take a call? She drops some knowledge on our friends in the Resistance, but it's a random appearance.

34. Bargwill Tomder

This Cloddogran is the mean master of the stable kids who look over the Fathiers (space horses) on Canto Bight at the end of "The Last Jedi." From his looks, I think grown-ups are frightened of him, too.

• Coworkers who seek to undermine you can be harder to spot than overt bullies — but they can cause just as much damage.

• Keep an eye out for certain subtle behaviors that indicate someone is trying to sabotage you at work.

• Insincere body language and gossip are major warning signs.

No one wants to feel like someone they know is out to get them — especially not at work.

Professional undermining is truly a frustrating thing to deal with. If it goes too far, it can make you want to quit a job that's otherwise a perfect fit.

That's why it's important to recognize the signs and symptoms.

Here are 15 signs that your coworker is undermining you:

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1. They're more than just competitive

Stephanie Vozza notes in Fast Company that competitiveness and outright sabotage are often difficult to tell apart, but the latter is comparatively rare.

Before you label someone as an underminer, make sure they're not just hypercompetitive. If your coworker is overly competitive, then they will want to beat out everyone. If they are actively undermining you, then they want to see you fail in particular.

The two aren't mutually exclusive, but it's still an important distinction.

2. They plant things in your head

If a coworker warns you about your boss's bad mood once in a while, they're probably just looking out for you.

But if they're constantly coming to you with negative stories, they might be trying to psych you out.

3. They gossip — a lot

Everyone partakes in a bit of workplace gossip every once in a while. Sometimes, it's the only way to figure out what's really going on at your job.

Still, it's not a good sign if one of your colleagues seems to constantly have his or her finger on the pulse of every nasty tale circulating around the office.

Basically, if your coworker is a gossip-monger, then who's to say that they aren't talking about you behind your back?

• There is a popular misconception that bees shouldn't be able to fly.
• In reality, this is not true, because they can and do fly all the time.
• The science behind how they can fly involves the way they move their wings, and the generation of tiny hurricanes that lift them upwards.

Bee Movie has quite the cult following. There are numerous YouTube videos devoted to it, such as "The bee movie: but every time there say bee it speeds up." Someone loves the film so much that they watched it on Netflix 357 times in 2017.

But Bee Movie is also spreading lies.

Here are the opening words to the film:

"According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way that a bee should be able to fly. Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground. The bee, of course, flies anyways. Because bees don't care what humans think is impossible."

It's a nice idea, but in reality bees do not disobey any laws of physics. If they did, bees would be responsible for ripping apart time and space whenever they flew around.

The myth dates back to the 1930s, when the French entomologist August Magnan noted that a bee's flight should be impossible, because of the haphazard way their wings flapped around. And if bees flew like aeroplanes, he would be correct.

Aeroplanes can fly because of a careful balance of four physical forces: lift, drag, weight, and thrust. The lift force must balance its weight, and thrust must exceed its drag, to make flying possible. Planes use wings for lift and engines for thrust. Drag is reduced thanks to a streamlined shape, and lightweight materials.

The wingspan of a plane is large enough to satisfy the lift equations for flight, so they don't need to flap. But the small wings of a bee compared to its relatively fat body are not. A regular Boeing 747 plane can also take off at roughly 184 mph, whereas bees do not reach anywhere near that speed.

Due to low speeds, and the high amount of drag when bees flap their wings, it might look like they shouldn't be able to fly. In reality, they simply fly in a completely different way.

One study from 2005 helped explain the way bees get themselves off the ground. The scientists compared bees to fruit flies, and found that a fruit fly has one eightieth the body size and flaps its wings at a rate of 200 times per second. In comparison, honeybees flap 230 times per second.

This was surprising because smaller insects generally have to flap their wings faster to compensate for decreased aerodynamic performance. To further complicate things, bees are also often carrying pollen and nectar, which sometimes weighs as much as their entire bodies.

In the study, the researchers put bees in a small chamber filled with oxygen and helium, which is less dense than regular air. Bees had to work harder to stay in the air, which allowed the team to observe how they compensated.

They saw that the bees stretched out their wing stroke amplitude, but didn't adjust the frequency.

"They work like racing cars," one of the authors of the study, Douglas Altshuler, told Live Science. "Racing cars can reach higher revolutions per minute but enable the driver to go faster in higher gear. But like honeybees, they are inefficient."

Another study from 2005, by biology professor Michael Dickinson from the University of Washington, also concluded that bees flap their wings back and forth, not up and down. This was previously a big misconception about the way insects fly, and could have originally been what tripped Magnan up in the first place.

An aeroplane's wing forces air down, which pushes the plane upwards. Insects sweep their wings in a partial spin. Rather than being like a propeller, the angle to the wing creates vortices in the air like small hurricanes. The eyes of these mini-hurricanes have a lower pressure than the air outside, which lifts the bees upwards.

So the next time someone tells you a bee shouldn't be able to fly, you should inform them that this is merely a myth perpetuated by popular culture. In reality, bees simply create mini-hurricanes wherever they go, which is a lot easier to get your head around.

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• Likability isn't necessarily inherent.

• You can practice certain behaviors in order to appear — and become — more likable.

• Practices range from smiling more to honing your listening skills.

Being likable is entirely under your control.

All it takes is the ability to pick up a few key social skills that build emotional intelligence.

To help you out, we sifted through the Quora thread "What are useful social skills that can be picked up quickly?," talked to an etiquette expert, and looked to some social psychology researchers.

Here are 19 simple ways to start crafting a "million-dollar personality" and become the most likable person in the room:

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Keep eye contact

As Heidi Grant Halvorson explains in her book "No One Understands You And What To Do About It," the very first thing people will try to decide about you when they meet you is if they can trust you — and it's fairly hard to like someone if you don't trust them.

Their decision is made almost entirely unconsciously, and it usually comes down to how well you can balance conveying two things: warmth and competence.

"Above all else, really focus on what is being said to you — people need to feel that they have been heard, even when you can't give them what they are asking for or can't be of particular help," Halvorson writes. One simple way to show you're paying attention is to make eye contact and hold it.

"It is an idiotically simple thing, but it remains one of the most impactful life hacks around," writes Quora user Brad Porter.

Halvorson says that making eye contact is also an effective way to convey competence, and studies have shown that those who do so are consistently judged as more intelligent.

Start this habit immediately, says Porter. It requires no practice or special skill — just the commitment to meet someone's gaze and look them in the eye while conversing.

Smile

Don't underestimate the power of smiling, another simple and effective way to convey warmth.

Additionally, laugh and tell jokes, recommends Quora user Craig Fraser. People unconsciously mirror the body language of the person they're talking to. If you want to be likable, use positive body language and people will naturally return the favor.

Show enthusiasm

"Along with a smile, show some enthusiasm and energy, also known as charisma," suggests Rosalinda Oropeza Randall, an etiquette and civility expert and the author of "Don't Burp in the Boardroom.

"This not only draws people to you, but it is contagious," she says. "After spending time with you, people will walk away with a warm and fuzzy feeling, which most likely, they'll pass on to someone else."

• Vicky Krieps plays Alma in "Phantom Thread," the muse of Daniel Day-Lewis' character, Reynolds Woodcock.
• Krieps didn't meet Day-Lewis until their first day of shooting and said he was in character as Woodcock every day of production.
• Being in the movie was grueling for Krieps, not because of working across from the demanding Day-Lewis, she said, but because her schedule was six days of shooting a week and her off day consisted of constant dress fittings.

Luxembourg actress Vicky Krieps is a veteran of over 30 movies, but many will see her for the first time as the star of Paul Thomas Anderson's "Phantom Thread" (currently playing in theaters).

Krieps plays Alma, the muse of renowned 1950s dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) who figures out an unconventional way to get him away from his work. Exploring obsessions and unconditional love, Anderson cast an incredible actress in Krieps to take on these themes opposite the all-consuming Method acting style of Day-Lewis.

Business Insider talked to Krieps about the experience of working with Day-Lewis and finding the strength to get through one of the most grueling shoots she's ever been a part of.

Jason Guerrasio: So when you got an email about auditioning for this movie you didn't realize it was a Paul Thomas Anderson movie, right? You've said at first you thought you were going out for a student film.

Vicky Krieps: That's right. It was more of me making things up out of not knowing anything. I basically got this email from an American casting agent, who I didn't know, and I certainly wasn't expecting someone from America to write to me. But I'm always interested in projects. Whatever I do, I'm interested in the color of the material, I'm not interested in who's making it. I'm more concentrated on the work. So I opened the email and scrolled to find not a script but just some text, really a monologue. So I did the lines on tape and sent it in. 

Why I thought it might have been a student film was because I didn't get a script, I thought maybe it wasn't finished yet or this is for a short movie. I never thought I wasn't getting it because of secrecy of the project and that it was in fact for a movie by a famous American director. [Laughs.]

Guerrasio: Looking back, are you happy you didn't know who you were auditioning for? Perhaps you would have been more nervous?

Krieps: Perhaps. I think I always try to prepare the same. I don't think I would have been different. But I think what was good was I was only relating and concentrating on the work, and that turned out to work well for me. 

Guerrasio: When you realized what the movie was about and who you would be playing, did you do a lot of research on the era?

Krieps: I prepared mostly on London around World War II and after the war. My character had lost her mother. This isn't in the movie, but Alma's mother is dead. So that was my backstory. And I learned as much as I could about models in the 1950s. I found on YouTube how they walked back then in fashion shows. It's very different in how models walk now. It's more human. I also learned hand sewing. But everything else I couldn't really prepare before shooting because I knew I wouldn't meet Daniel until the first day of shooting.

Guerrasio: Oh, wow. 

Krieps: He requested that we don't rehearse and that we meet for the first time on the first day of shooting. So my big thing was to find a way not to be nervous. Really, for a lot of this I did the opposite of preparing.
 
Guerrasio: So the first scene of Alma in the movie when you meet Reynolds in the restaurant, is that the first time you met Daniel Day-Lewis?

Krieps: Yes. [Laughs.]

Guerrasio: It's funny because Alma stumbles coming from out of the kitchen and she has this embarrassed look, it's really art imitating life.

Krieps: Exactly. I really blushed because I really tripped. 

Guerrasio: Really?

Krieps: Yeah. 

Guerrasio: Was it tough to act across from someone you barely knew?

Krieps: That's the thing, of course I was scared, but there was nothing I could do. I knew we would be working together and I just stayed calm as much as I could. I was really in a meditative state of emptiness and forget everything I was researching for the character and just reacted to him. Working with him was rather wonderful. Because of how he works, I could really fall into this world of Reynolds Woodcock. I just concentrated on the moment. Each scene in the movie I was just in the moment. Just reacting to the person across from me. 

Guerrasio: Can you say you even met Daniel while shooting this movie?

Krieps: No. 

Guerrasio: So you were with Reynolds Woodcock.

Krieps: Exactly. I never met Daniel on set until we finished. 

Guerrasio: So, as you said, you don't overthink how he wants to work. This is the job. You just react. 

Krieps: You go with it. I could only go with it.

Guerrasio: The way he worked, did that bring you deeper into the Alma character than you would have if you worked across a different actor?

Krieps: I think the way I work is similar to how Daniel works, I just don't call it Method acting. I don't have the time and money to prepare the way he does. I have more projects to work on in a year, so it's impossible for me to do it that way. But I definitely have the same dedication and I'm crazy enough to invent worlds around me. It becomes a reality and you are involved in what you invented. 

Guerrasio: American audiences don't know you as well as other parts of the world, but you've worked a lot in your career. Compare this job to what you've done in the past. Is this the most unusual production you've ever been on because of the way Daniel works?

Krieps: It definitely has been the most intense work I've ever done. It was also the only one where I was really struggling with my strength. In the middle of making this I said to myself, "Oh my god, I can't see the end." I felt that I would never get to it. "How can I find more strength in me to continue?" Because it was 16-hour days sometimes. We worked every day, except for Sundays. But on Sundays I had fittings of all the dresses that were made for me. It was endless fittings. So strength was the biggest challenge for me on this. 

Guerrasio: With all that said, if Paul called tomorrow and said "I just wrote a part for you in my next movie," do you say yes?

Krieps: Yes. [Laughs.]

Guerrasio: It's worth the pain, so to speak.

Krieps: Absolutely. In a second I would do it again.

Guerrasio: A lot of the talk around this movie is that Daniel says it's his final movie. What are your thoughts? Do you think he's really quitting acting?

Krieps: I respect him enough to believe that if he says so then he will. But I also respect him enough to leave the door open if he wants to change his mind. If he's determined to stop I understand. But if this is an emotional reaction and he changes his mind I would love that. I would be happy if he continued to be an actor. I just want him to get what he wants. 

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