When someone asks me what to buy for a starter automatic watch, my answer is always the same: the Seiko 5.

Why? Because, price per quality, it's one of the best watches you can buy. Period.

It's not only one of the cheapest automatics out there, it also comes with an in-house movement developed by Seiko: the 7S26.

Horological experts praise this movement for its reliability and for the price — a better one is impossible to find. Watch aficionado blog Hodinkee says the movement has been known to run for "decades without complaint."

It also includes Seiko's "magic lever" technology, which increases the effectiveness of winding.

For comparison, most automatic watches at this price point (if you can even find them) house cheap Chinese knockoff movements.

The Seiko 5 is also steeped in horological history. When it stepped onto the scene in 1963, it was revolutionary. Seiko set out to build a watch with five attributes, from which the watch gets its name: a self-winding automatic movement, resistance to water, a day-date in a single window, a recessed crown, and a durable case.

Over 50 years later, the watch is still a favorite of those looking for the perfect intersection of reliability, style, and price.

It's also quite a handsome watch, if subjective appreciation has any merit here. The 5 is actually a range of watches with slightly different movements and styles, including the military, pilot style pictured above, but also dressier versions and even a diving watch.

There are three main drawbacks of the 5:

•  First, you can't manually wind the movement even if you wanted to. However, as Hodinkee notes, many watches that cost much, much more are also unable to wind manually. 
• Second — and this is the annoying one for me — the watch has a pretty small power reserve. Often, the watch will even die overnight, and if I don't wear it all day, every day, it reliably dies. My other watches, which have 40-hour power reserves, are a little easier to wear, because I don't need to worry about setting them if I've worn them within the nearly two days of reserve.
• Thirdly, the straps that come with the 5 are god-awful. As you can see in the picture above, I've swapped out the hideous canvas strap that came with the pilot version for a NATO strap, which are cheap and pretty easy to come by.

For the price, however, there's no way to go wrong with the Seiko 5.

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Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara, credited with building the foundations of Japanese medicine and helping make Japan the world leader in longevity, often practiced what he preached.

The physician, chairman emeritus of St. Luke's International University, and honorary president of St. Luke's International Hospital recommended several basic guidelines for living a long, healthy life in an interview with Japan Times journalist Judit Kawaguchi. Among them: Don't retire. And if you must, retire much later than age 65.

In the interview he explained that the retirement age in Japan was set at 65 years old back when the average life-expectancy was 68 years old. Now, people are living much longer — the average life expectancy in Japan as of 2015 was almost 84 years — and so they should be retiring much later in life, too.

Up until a few months before his death on July 18 in Tokyo, the New York Times reports Hinohara continued to treat patients, kept an appointment book with space for five more years, and worked up to 18 hours a day. He was 105 years old.

"He believed that life is all about contribution, so he had this incredible drive to help people, to wake up early in the morning and do something wonderful for other people. This is what was driving him and what kept him living," Kawaguchi, who considered Hinohara her mentor, told the BBC.

"He always had today's goals, tomorrow's, and the next five years'," she said.

Hinohara's other guidelines for living well included:

Worry less about eating well or getting more sleep and have fun. "We all remember how as children, when we were having fun, we often forgot to eat or sleep. I believe that we can keep that attitude as adults, too. It’s best not to tire the body with too many rules such as lunchtime and bedtime."

If you want to live long, don't be overweight. "For breakfast I drink coffee, a glass of milk and some orange juice with a tablespoon of olive oil in it. Olive oil is great for the arteries and keeps my skin healthy. Lunch is milk and a few cookies, or nothing when I am too busy to eat. I never get hungry because I focus on my work. Dinner is veggies, a bit of fish and rice, and, twice a week, 100 grams of lean meat."

Don't blindly follow what your doctor says. "When a doctor recommends you take a test or have some surgery, ask whether the doctor would suggest that his or her spouse or children go through such a procedure. Contrary to popular belief, doctors can’t cure everyone. So why cause unnecessary pain with surgery? I think music and animal therapy can help more than most doctors imagine."

To conquer pain, have fun. "Pain is mysterious, and having fun is the best way to forget it. If a child has a toothache, and you start playing a game together, he or she immediately forgets the pain. Hospitals must cater to the basic need of patients: We all want to have fun. At St. Luke’s we have music and animal therapies, and art classes."

Always take the stairs and carry your own belongings. "I take two stairs at a time, to get my muscles moving."

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Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders opened the White House press briefing on Wednesday by telling reporters about her own experience as a working mother, noting that she is the first mother to have the job.

"That says less about me than it does about this president," she said. "Empowering working moms is the heart of the president's agenda, particularly when it comes to things like tax reform."

Sanders added that her oldest child, a daughter named Scarlett, will begin kindergarten within weeks.

"Scarlett and every little girl in America should grow up in a country that — if we deliver on the president's agenda better jobs, better healthcare, and a better tax system — incentivizes women to work and raise children," Sanders said.

"As a working mom, it's not lost on me what a great honor and privilege it is to stand here at the podium."

Yet critics of President Donald Trump, such as the left-leaning Center for American Progress, have pointed out in the past that his policies could dramatically roll back certain gains working mothers have made in recent years.

Repealing or repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, for instance, could raise the uninsured rate among mothers. That rate had fallen to 13.6% from 17.4% in 2014 under the law, commonly called Obamacare, and had a particularly significant effect in states that opted for the Medicaid expansion, according to a 2016 Urban Institute study.

Only two other women have held the title of White House press secretary — Dana Perino under President George W. Bush, and Dee Dee Myers under President Bill Clinton. Neither had kids while they were in the role.

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In a changing world, few things have remained as constant as the British royal family.

People all over the world follow Queen Elizabeth II and her large family of kids and grandkids for their dose of inspiration, fashion, and even scandals throughout the years. Acting as a bellwether, the royal family is also a way of tracking the changing times.

Here is what everybody's favorite royals were doing on the year you were born:

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1950: Queen Elizabeth II was a young princess in line to take over the throne after her father, King George VI.

Source: Britroyals.com

1951: Queen Elizabeth II had married Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark and given birth to two children, Charles and Anne.

Source: Britroyals.com

1952: After several years of ill health, King George VI died in February 1952. Princess Elizabeth was on a royal tour of Kenya when she found out.

Source: Britroyals.com

Psychopaths lie.

While that's typically not the only characteristic of someone with antisocial personality disorder — the umbrella term the National Institutes for Health uses to define psychopathy — it is recognizedglobally as a major red flag.

It was previously assumed that people with antisocial personality disorder were natural-born liars — that something about the way their brains are wired made them inherently better at deceiving those around them. But a small new study suggests that's not the case. Instead, it appears that people who score highly on so-called "psychopathic traits," such as impulsive behavior and a lack of remorse, may actually be better at learning to lie than people who don't.

"The stark contrasts between individuals with [and without] these traits ... are quite shocking," Tatia Lee, a neuropsychologist at the University of Hong Kong and one of the lead authors on the paper, told Business Insider.

The new study, published July 25 in the journal Translational Psychiatry, involved 52 college students — roughly half of whom showed low levels of psychopathic traits and half of whom showed high levels of those traits. Lee and fellow University of Hong Kong researcher Robin Shao had the students look at photographs of friends and strangers. When asked whether they knew the person in the photo, the participants were given a cue to either lie or tell the truth. During the exercise, the researchers measured how long it took them to respond and used fMRI technology to look at their brain activity.

The students were subsequently given a computer training designed to teach them to lie faster, then were asked to repeat the photo exercise.

The lie-training seemed to change their performance remarkably — when the students with high levels of psychopathic traits were instructed to lie, they did so much faster than the students with low levels of the traits. The students with low levels of psychopathic traits, on the other hand, performed about the same before and after the training.

In addition to being able to lie faster, students with high levels of psychopathic traits also appeared to do so with less cognitive effort, judging by the fMRI scan data. Lee said this could suggest that for psychopaths lying is more like a skill that can be learned — and learned fast.

"The results are very impressive since first, all participants were mentally healthy ... students with comparable gender and age compositions and second, no lying performance difference was observed at all prior to training between the high- and low-psychopathic groups," Lee said.

It's important to keep in mind that the study was small and exclusive to college students at one university. Nevertheless, the finding sheds some light on the mechanisms behind one of the most enduring questions about people with antisocial personality disorder.

"Our findings, for the first time, suggest that ... individuals with higher psychopathic tendency may not have a ‘natural’ capacity to lie better, but rather show better ‘trainability’ of lying," Lee said.

In other words, they might simply learn to lie better.

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On the long driveway looping its way into Stone Barns, you hit a speed bump. It's time to slow down.

 You come here to taste vegetables picked just that morning, assuming their true forms in unconventional combinations, elevated beyond anything you'd find in a supermarket.

Thirty-two miles outside New York City, the "foodie destination" Blue Hill at Stone Barns takes the farm-to-table concept to a new level. It's a world-class restaurant situated on acres of farmland where produce and the very idea of food are constantly being reinvented. 

Thirteen years and countless awards later, Chef Dan Barber's masterpiece is still a magical journey into the very soil.

Here's what it's like to tour the Stone Barns farm and eat a 10-course meal at the legendary Blue Hill restaurant.

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Sitting on 7.5 acres of farmland, 23 acres of pasture, and 40 acres of woodlands in Pocantico Hills, New York, the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture is a living laboratory.

Source: Stone Barns

Philanthropy operations manager Maggie Nolin, who led the tour of the grounds the day we visited, said that Blue Hill doesn't have the neat rows of a conventional farm. "That's the whole point. We're farming in harmony with nature here," she said.

They practice the "three C's": crop rotation, cover crops, and compost, to keep the soil as healthy as possible. The roughly 20 people who regularly work the land here grow over 500 varieties of fruits and vegetables — everything from apples to zucchini.

EyeEm, a global community and marketplace for photography and video, is in the middle of its fourth and largest photography competition yet.

With more than 590,000 submissions from 88,000 photographers in over 150 countries, EyeEm's contest has become the largest photo competition in the world.

Categories included portraiture, photojournalism, and architecture, but the largest number of submissions were entered into the street photography category. Over 136,000 images were submitted into the category and judged by a panel of creative professionals.

Below, see the 20 street photography finalists. Winners will be announced during the EyeEm Photography Festival, which is being held in Berlin on September 15-17.

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New York City by Michael Kowalczyk

Vigeland Park in Oslo, Norway by Alp Peker

Bangkok, Thailand by Angkul Sungthong

Andrew Zimmern, the host of "Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern" on the Travel Channel, is spending his new season traveling around the US searching for interesting foods to try. He has a special way to serve an American barbecue staple: steak. Following is a transcript of the video.

The big mistake people make is eating their grilled beef hot.

I prefer room temperature or cool. When the meat rests and starts to get cool, all of that fat goes back into the muscles and becomes much more tender.

If you were coming to my house for dinner tonight and you said, “Please grill me steak.” I would grill the steak and take it off the grill about 45 minutes before we eat it. And I would let it rest, and it would ultimately be at room temperature. And I think it has its best beef flavor that way, when some of those fats are actually in the muscles themselves.

Sometimes I will cook my grilled steak black and blue and eat it the next day. I’ll actually put it back in the fridge, and then I let it come to room temperature. I cut out the tenderloin. I cut out the strip loin. I slice them really thin, spread them out. A little bit of sea salt. A little bit of olive oil. Serve it with some lemon and a big arugula salad. I’d rather eat steak that way almost more than any other way.

When I go into a steakhouse and order a steak, I’ll order the cut of my choice, and I’ll order it black and blue. And I’ll ask them to bring it with my first course and I’ll just let it sit there.

I know, I’m such a food nerd. How? I mean I’m horrible. I’m just — I am just horrible.

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As far as dress codes go, summer is a tricky time.

Men, especially, have a tendency to go too far toward the relaxed end of the spectrum, getting themselves into trouble by dressing inappropriately.

We've created a list of seven items that are best avoided, as well as exactly what they should be replaced with in the warmer weather.

These seven simple upgrades will take your summer wardrobe to the next level.

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DON'T: Wear a Hawaiian shirt to work.

Hawaiian-style aloha shirts in subtle patterns and colors are trending these days, taking over the sidewalks and bars with their pronounced style. One place they're not taking over: the office.

DO: Wear a solid button-up in short sleeves.

But just because the patterns of Hawaiian shirts are too much for the office doesn't mean short-sleeved shirts themselves are. These days, offices are casual enough in the summer to allow for short-sleeved shirts, without running afoul of established dress norms.

Make short-sleeved shirts a staple of your work and weekend wardrobe this summer. Just make sure you follow our guide to looking good in a short-sleeved shirt.

DON'T: Wear sandals.

Sandals — either with (shudder) or without socks—are completely unacceptable for men. Your toes and feet should be covered at all times while indoors, even in the summer. 

We've said it before, and we'll say it again: wearing open-toed shoes is disgusting unless you're on the beach or going to the beach.

In a changing world, few things have remained as constant as the British royal family.

People all over the world follow Queen Elizabeth II and her large family of kids and grandkids for their dose of inspiration, fashion, and even scandals throughout the years. Acting as a bellwether, the royal family is also a way of tracking the changing times.

Here is what everybody's favorite royals were doing on the year you were born:

SEE ALSO: Here's what the royal family actually does every day

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1950: Queen Elizabeth II was a young princess in line to take over the throne after her father, King George VI.

Source: Britroyals.com

1951: Queen Elizabeth II had married Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark and given birth to two children, Charles and Anne.

Source: Britroyals.com

1952: After several years of ill health, King George VI died in February 1952. Princess Elizabeth was on a royal tour of Kenya when she found out.

Source: Britroyals.com

Jeff Bezos has overtaken Bill Gates to become the richest person in the world.

A jump in Amazon's share price has propelled the CEO into top place, knocking Gates off his post after four years running. If this holds until the end of the day's trading, Bezos will have a net worth of roughly $90 billion. 

Technology tycoons continue to dominate lists of the richest people in the world. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, one-third of the 30 richest billionaires have earned their fortunes in this sector. 

Tech money proves to be hard-earned as well: All nine of the richest billionaires are self-made, thanks to the powerful companies they built themselves, including Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google.

For the ranking, Business Insider culled data from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index as of July 27, as well as live data from Amazon's share price. The index updates daily to provide up-to-the-minute data on the world's wealthiest men and women. You can read the full methodology here.

Below, read on to see the nine richest billionaires who made their fortunes in tech.

Emmie Martin contributed reporting to an earlier version of this article.

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9. Steve Ballmer

Net worth:$30.6 billion

Age: 61

Country: US

Industry: Technology

Source of wealth: Self-made; Microsoft

Steve Ballmer dropped out of business school at Stanford in 1980 to join Harvard friend Bill Gates at Microsoft as the company's first business manager, earning a $50,000 salary and a stake in the company. During his tenure, Ballmer held positions as vice president of marketing, vice president of systems software, and executive vice president of sales and support, and was often referred to as "the numbers guy."

He became CEO of the company in 2000 after Gates stepped down, and he remained in charge of the software giant until Satya Nadella replaced him in 2014. While running Microsoft, the company's revenue grew by 294% and profits by 181% — although its market share was surpassed by Google and Apple during the same period. Still, the early stake Ballmer acquired in the company made him immensely wealthy. 

After stepping down as CEO, Ballmer fulfilled his dream of owning an NBA franchise, paying $2 billion in a deal to buy the Los Angeles Clippers, now his main venture. 

Ballmer's net worth has increased $4.18 billion in the last year.

8. Ma Huateng

Net worth: $31.1 billion

Age: 45

Country: China

Industry: Technology

Source of wealth: Self-made; Tencent Holdings

Software engineer Ma Huateng (aka Pony Ma) founded China's largest internet portal, Tencent Holdings, in 1998. He was 26. Ma's company has a number of successful and widely used platforms in its portfolio, including QQ, its instant-messaging service, which is one of the world's 10 largest websites; a mobile-texting service (WeChat) with over 900 million users; a mobile-commerce product (WeChat Wallet); and an online-gaming community (Tencent Games), the largest in China.

Ma's wealth has increased by $10.3 billion in the past year.

7. Jack Ma

Net worth: $43.8 billion

Age: 52

Country: China

Industry: Technology

Source of wealth: Self-made; Alibaba

The richest person in China, Alibaba founder and executive chairman Jack Ma reportedly started China's first internet company in 1988: China Yellowpages. He lost control of that company to a state-owned telecom in 1996 and started Alibaba three years later with just $60,000. Fifteen years after its inception, the e-commerce company broke records with a $25 billion initial public offering— the world's largest ever.

Post-IPO, however, Alibaba's good fortune began to slip. The company's shares dropped 22% in 2015, most likely because of China's slowing economy and concerns over counterfeiters using the company's platform. Ma didn't worry, though. He acknowledged that 2016 would be a trying time for the Chinese economy, but remained confident in Alibaba's long-term success.

Ma's wealth has increased by $10.5 billion over the past year. 

Since July 2013, retirees Michael and Debbie Campbell have lived in 150 different homes around the world, all booked through short-term rental service Airbnb.

On July 22, they spent their 1,000th night in an Airbnb in Strasbourg, France, the same country where they began their journey four years ago.

Throughout their Airbnb-hopping adventure, the Campbells have become a poster couple for the Silicon Valley-based travel company. They've visited Airbnb offices in Portland, San Francisco, and Dublin, spoken at a company conference in Paris, and penned a manual for Airbnb hosts called "Your Keys, Our Home." They've also mastered the skill of traveling on a budget, sticking to a $90 nightly rate and finding the best free and low-cost activities in each city they visit.

Business Insider recently caught up with Michael, 71, and Debbie, 61, to learn more about their ongoing trip around the world.

Scroll through to learn more about how they do it, and follow their adventure on their website, Senior Nomads.

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The Campbells' journey as self-proclaimed "Senior Nomads" began more than four and a half years ago when their daughter Mary was visiting them in Seattle for Christmas. Mary noticed a lengthy list of countries posted on the couple's fridge that they'd hoped to visit during their impending retirement.

Mary presented an idea: go visit those countries, but instead of spending money on pricey hotels, try to find affordable short-term vacation rentals through Airbnb. Michael and Debbie were intrigued.

Michael, a former sports promoter, and Debbie, a graphic designer, had always been travelers, even moving from the US to London for five years when their four children were young to experience life overseas.

Fox News commentator Sean Hannity says a story about him spending thousands of dollars dining at the Trump Hotel in Washington, DC on inauguration weekend is "fake news."

A waiter told GQ that Hannity ran up a $42,000 tab at the hotel's restaurant.

According to the waiter, the huge check included the cost of getting an eight-pound, 70-year-old lobster delivered to the hotel from Maine. 

Politico's Hadas Gold spotted the bizarre tidbit in GQ's article about the hotel on Thursday. 

Soon after, Hannity took to Twitter to call the waiter's story "Ridiculous Fake News."

Fox News had previously denied the story to GQ on Hannity's behalf. 

Hannity has been a steady source of pro-Trump coverage on Fox News. In June, controversial conservative commentator Ann Coulter published a column saying that the host "would endorse communism" if Donald Trump did.

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Ticks and mosquitoes and sunburn, oh my!

Summer might be the time when most of us try to take it easy, but there are a few nasty health hazards that can ruin your fun in the sun.

We're not talking about things like sharks, which might seem scary but pose almost zero risk to the average person.

These are the real hazards that can cause injury, illness, or death. Preventing them can sometimes be as simple as drinking water and wearing sunscreen and insect repellant.

So practice caution — your life may depend on it.

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Tick bites can give people Lyme disease, red meat allergies, and other illnesses.

This year is particularly bad for ticks, which are spreading and bringing the diseases they carry along with them.

Lone Star ticks, originally found in the South, have been expanding their normal range farther north and west. Something in the bites of some of these creatures causes what's known as alpha-gal allergy, which makes people allergic to red meat.

Blacklegged or deer ticks, common in the Northeast, South, and Midwest, can carry at least six different diseases. These include the very rare Powassan virus, which can cause permanent neurological damage or death; babesiosis, which damages blood cells and is a problem for the blood supply; and Lyme disease, which infects about 300,000 Americans a year and can cause meningitis or partial paralysis if it's not treated.

Experts recommend regular tick checks, wearing long clothes when hiking through the woods, using DEET to protect skin, and treating clothing with permethrin.

Not drinking enough water can make you feel fatigued and increase your risk for kidney stones.

Despite the prevailing assumption, there's no definitive evidence that we need to drink eight glasses of water a day. Depending on what you are doing and what else you consume, you might need more or less.

Mild dehydration can be serious, impairing memory and mood, making people feel faint, and causing fatigue and weakness. At more severe levels, dehydration increases the risk of kidney stones and can cause a dangerous drop in blood pressure.

In the summer, you should make sure you drink water whenever you feel thirsty.

Heatstroke can kill.

In a typical year in the US, heat waves kill more people than tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, or freezing. 

When the heat index creeps above 110 degrees Fahrenheit, it becomes dangerous for the very young, the very old, and the infirm. This weather is also known for striking down young athletes in their prime.

As the body overheats, it can quickly cause damage to the kidneys, muscles, heart, and brain. Physical exertion, alcohol consumption, and dehydration can all make it harder for your body to regulate its temperature.

When it's particularly hot out, stay hydrated and try to stay out of the sun.

A king cobra is not what you expect to find when you open a canister of potato chips.

Yet that's exactly what United States Customs and Border Protection officials discovered on March 2 when they inspected a package sent from Hong Kong to California, according to a news release by the US Attorney's Office of the Central District of California.

Specifically, they found three live, highly venomous king cobras hidden in the cans. The snakes were young, each about two feet long. Adult king cobras can grow to more than 18 feet long. Their venom can kill a human within 30 minutes and an elephant within hours.

The package also held three albino Chinese soft-shelled turtles.

Agents from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) arrested Rodrigo Franco, 34, of Monterey Park, California, on July 21 on charges of federal smuggling.

According to court documents described by NPR, Customs officials initially suspected the package from Hong Kong might contain drugs. They called the USFWS when they spotted movement. A special agent on that team recognized the Hong Kong address and told them not to open the containers until they were taken to a controlled environment.

It turns out that was a good call.

According to the Department of Justice press release, officials removed the snakes from the package because of the danger they posed, but allowed the US Postal Inspection Service to deliver the turtles to Franco.

They then executed a search warrant in Franco's house, and found a number of other protected species in a child's bedroom, including a baby Morelet's crocodile, alligator snapping turtles, and diamond back terrapins.

That same day, Franco allegedly sent a package to Hong Kong containing six protected turtles, including desert box turtles, three-toed box turtles, and ornate box turtles. The USFWS intercepted that shipment as well.

Franco had allegedly received at least 20 other king cobras in previous shipments. He told authorities that they had died in transit, though phone records also showed him discussing how to feed the snakes. There were also messages discussing delivery of five snakes to another contact in the US.

The illegal wildlife trade is one of the largest criminal enterprises on the planet, ranked alongside the drug trade, human trafficking, and arms dealing in terms of illegal profits.

In some parts of the world, such animals are consumed as delicacies or medicine; in others, they are bought and sold as pets.

If convicted, Franco faces up to 20 years in prison.

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Hundreds of Wall Streeters packed a Manhattan venue this week to play poker and raise money for an education nonprofit.

The crowd included a who's-who of financiers, politicians, athletes and show biz folks, including Kase Capital's Whitney Tilson, one of the event's chairs; Greenlight's David Einhorn; Avenue Capital's Marc Lasry; New York Senator Jeff Klein; and Brian Koppelman, executive producer of Showtime's "Billions."

There were also pro poker players, like Vanessa Selbst, the highest earning female poker player of all time.

The July 26 event, called the Take ‘Em to School Poker Tournament & Casino Night, raised money for Education Reform Now. It's an annual event with familiar faces, and we've covered it before.

Different hedge funds sponsored the poker tables, including Mudrick Capital Management.

Take a look inside.

The event was held at Gotham Hall in Manhattan.

You could play blackjack on the side.

There were several tables to choose from.

Beach season is in full swing. If you're fantasizing about owning a summer home within spitting distance of the ocean spray, your dreams could look eminently affordable or completely far-fetched depending on where you decide to buy.

Some spots will run you less than $125,000. In other places, you'd better be a millionaire or billionaire if you want to get a showing.

Realtor.com dug through its database to find the most affordable and the most expensive beachfront locales in America. It limited its scope to beach cities with populations between 1,000 to 100,000 and that had at least 30 properties on the market. And to ensure some geographic diversity, Realtor.com capped its list to two towns per state separated by at least 30 miles.

First, let's look at the eye-popping properties, where your neighbors are likely to be grizzled Wall Street titans and young tech stars.

In these ritzy summer vacation spots — think the Hamptons, Malibu, or Nantucket — the median price for property currently exceeds $3 million, according to a report from Realtor.com.

In Malibu, the most expensive beach town in the US, one neighborhood along the surf has earned the moniker "Billionaire's Beach." Music mogul David Geffen reportedly sold his home there last year for $85 million.

As fun as excursions to the Hamptons and Nantucket can be, these exclusive housing markets will sap your entire savings in a hot minute if you're not careful.

But if you look beyond the traditional summer hot spots, your dream of owning a sun-drenched cottage next to the ocean air may not be so far-fetched.

These are the 10 most affordable beach towns to buy a home in — each of which has a median home price below $250,000.

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As millennials continue to migrate to high-priced urban areas, some are choosing to live in co-living spaces: dorm-style residential buildings in which they rent a single room and get access to shared amenities.

In Hong Kong, Dutch architecture firm Concrete has designed a luxury complex for millennials with that co-living model in mind.

Called Skypark, the building opened in March 2017. Residents rent traditional apartments, ranging from studios to two-bedrooms, rather than individual rooms. But according to the Skypark designers, their goal was to fill the building with communal spaces, including a swanky rooftop lounge and indoor pool, where residents can get to know their neighbors and escape city life.

Take a look inside the building, where residents pay up to $3,400 per month.

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Skypark is located in central Kowloon, a neighborhood in northern Hong Kong.

Its name refers to the building's rooftop garden, called the Lawn, which features greenery and views of the city's skyline. Recycled rainwater is used to water the plants.

The rooftop's steps have amphitheater-style seating where residents can hang out.

Source: New World Development

If you've ever dreamt of owning your own vineyard, now's your chance.

This seven-bedroom property listed with Sotheby's International Realty is in the heart of California's wine country and costs $42 million. 

The home is decked out with a spa, infinity pool, and guest house. It also comes fully furnished and with a winery license that allows for a 10,000-gallon-per-year production. 

If the property sells for the hefty price it's asking, it will be the most expensive property ever sold in the area. It's located in St. Helena, a beautiful city in Napa Valley.

Take a look around inside:

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The estate known as Whitehall first came onto the market for $38 million in 2014, and at that point, it was not fully constructed.

Source: Sotheby's

Three years later, it's now a fully furnished property with its own commercial winery license and a vineyard that will soon be ready for harvest. It has a new listing price of $42 million.

Source: Sotheby's

The house is surrounded by 20 acres of wine land.

One month after a Bosnian-Serb assassinated Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, on a street corner in Sarajevo, the Austro-Hungarian Empire on July 28, 1914 declared war on Serbia, effectively beginning World War I.

Ferdinand's murder sent the Great Powers into a war that would last five years and cost the lives of 10 million troops.

Thought of as the "war to end all wars," World War I marked a number of firsts in military conflict, including the use of planes, tanks, and chemical weapons. 

On June 28, 1919, the victorious Allied leaders signed the Treaty of Versailles, officially ending World War I and spurring German nationalism, which in turn gave Nazi leader Adolf Hitler a political platform.

Here's a few colorized photographs published by The Open University showing life during World War I.

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Trench warfare was one of the hallmarks of World War I.

Soldiers could spend the majority of their deployments in the trenches. Here, a soldier receives a haircut from a barber on the Albanian front.

Here, a German Field Artillery crew poses with its gun at the start of the war in 1914.