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Inside the marriage of Kellyanne and George Conway, who are worth $39 million and increasingly facing off over Trump

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  • Kellyanne and George Conway have been married since April 2001 and have four kids together.
  • Though they've spent years in prominent circles, the lawyer and former pollster shot to the top of the national political stage when Kellyanne became the first woman to run a successful presidential campaign for Donald Trump.
  • Later, George entered the spotlight with public hits on Trump and vice versa.
  • Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

Kellyanne and George Conway have been married for April 2001, have four kids together, and have risen to prominence on the national political stage in recent years.

The couple has seemingly been at odds politically, however, since President Donald Trump took office.

Kellyanne, who ran Trump's campaign and now serves as his counselor, is one of Trump's fiercest and most vocal supporters. While George supported Trump at first, he now publicly trolls the president on Twitter.

Trump has lashed out at George, calling him names like "a stone cold LOSER & husband from hell!" George has spoken out against the president after major legal developments against Trump, like special counsel Robert Mueller's report and House Democrats pursuing an impeachment inquiry. On both occasions, George has slammed Trump as unfit for office. 

Here is an inside look at one of the most interesting marriages in Washington in the face of an impeachment inquiry and the 2020 presidential election, aided by a lengthy feature on the couple from the Washington Post.

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After spotting the DC pollster Kellyanne Fitzpatrick on the cover of a magazine in the late 1990s, George called his friend Ann Coulter to introduce him to her.

Source: Washington Post



After Coulter introduced the two, Kellyanne and George began spending time together in The Hamptons and at baseball games. Kellyanne once said, "I find that his near-constant presence doesn’t annoy me."

Source: Washington Post



The two were married in 2001 at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Philadelphia. It was reportedly a "decadent affair" — the cake was so big it had to be cut into pieces so it could fit in the door.

Source: Washington Post



"It was the biggest, fanciest wedding I've ever been to in my entire life," a guest recalled to The Post. "All seven of the members of the right-wing conspiracy were there. The rest were just Republicans."

Source: Washington Post



That guest was referring to George's alleged role in fanning the flames of former President Bill Clinton's impeachment, which former first lady Hillary Clinton once called a "vast right-wing conspiracy."

Source: Washington Post



The newlyweds moved into an apartment at Trump World Tower in Manhattan. It was here where Kellyanne and George met Trump.

Source: Washington Post



George argued against taking Trump's name off the building, and the real estate developer called to thank George for what he did, offering him a spot on the condo board.

Source: Washington Post



George declined the offer, but Kellyanne volunteered for the position. "My laziness led her to meet Donald Trump," George told the Post.

Source: Washington Post



But George now says that he regrets introducing Kellyanne to Trump. "Knowing what I know now, I would have said no, and never mentioned it when I got home," George told The Post.

Sources: Washington PostBusiness Insider



The years that followed living in Alpine, New Jersey were quieter. Kellyanne and George raised their four children: a set of twins named George IV and Claudia, Charlotte, and Vanessa.

Source: Washington Post 



While Kellyanne's polling work had her in both New York and Washington, DC, George worked in New York as a litigation partner at the firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz.

Source: Washington PostStar LedgerWachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz



Between their two jobs, the Conways have done well financially. When she joined the Trump administration, they disclosed assets worth up to $39.3 million.

Source: Business Insider



Kellyanne joined Trump's team in July 2016. She would later become the first woman to run a successful presidential campaign.



Kellyanne made occasional TV appearances through her polling work, but it was nothing like when she began working for Trump. George even hired security to keep the family safe.

Source: Washington Post



"I remember going on Google after she was announced as campaign manager and seeing her name was the most-searched term in the country," George told The Post. "I knew right then our lives would never be quite the same."

Source: Washington Post



Kellyanne and George would watch the "Saturday Night Live" impressions and found them to be funny until they started to seem mean.

Source: Washington Post



When the networks called the election for Trump, George reportedly began to cry and say to everyone at the Midtown Manhattan Hilton about Kellyanne: "She did it! She did it! She made history."

Source: Washington Post



"I couldn't have done this without him," Kellyanne said of George taking care of the kids while she was on the road campaigning.

Source: Washington Post



After Kellyanne moved down to DC, George and the kids joined her after the school year finished. Their 15,000-square-foot home near Embassy Row reportedly cost almost $8 million.

Sources: Town and CountryWashington Post



Trump was reportedly considering George to either run the Justice Department's civil division or serve as US Solicitor General. But George withdrew his name from consideration to stay in the private sector.

Source: Washington PostCosmopolitan



George reportedly turned down the offer after Trump fired FBI director James Comey and the special counsel's investigation of Russia's interference in US elections gained traction.

Sources: Washington PostBusiness Insider

 



According to his friends, George did not want to be a part of a Justice Department that found itself targeted by the president.

Sources: Washington PostBusiness Insider



Since arriving in Washington, George has not been afraid to take shots at Kellyanne's boss on Trump's favorite social media platform.

Source: Business Insider



When Trump vented about the striking down of his travel ban in June 2017, Conway criticized Trump's approach by suggesting that Trump's tweets would ultimately hurt the president's case.

Sources: Business Insider, Twitter



"This is flabbergasting," Conway said in March 2018, in response to a report that Trump discussed pardoning former national security adviser Michael Flynn and former campaign chairman Paul Manafort in the Russia probe.

Source: Business Insider/Twitter



In a now-deleted tweet in March 2018, George described Trump's string of hirings and firings at the White House as "absurd," and in another tweet, described Trump's statements as "false and misleading."

Source: Business Insider



When Trump said in April that attorney-client privilege was dead, Conway responded on Twitter with a section of a Justice Department manual listing guidelines for executing proper searches of potentially privileged material.

Source: Business InsiderTwitter



Kellyanne told The Post she thought George's tweets were "disrespectful." She elaborated, saying, "It's a violation of basic decency, certainly, if not marital vows."

Sources: Washington PostBusiness Insider



Kellyanne tried to be quoted about her husband as "a person familiar with their relationship," but the reporter refused because she was already on the record for the interview.

Source: Business Insider



In June 2018, George wrote a column for Lawfare defending the special counsel Robert Mueller and his authority in the Russia investigation.

Source: CNN



In another interview with the Post, George said he gives Kellyanne a harder time about working for Trump than anyone else. He also said that "it's just endless selfies" when people approach them out in public.

Source: Washington Post



Kellyanne embraces her popularity. "Nobody knows who I am because of my husband," she told The Post. "People know of my husband because of me."

Source: Washington Post



But the two are increasingly at odds over Kellyanne's boss. "If there's an issue, it's because she's in that job, for that man," George told the Post.

Source: Washington Post



Kellyanne suggested to The Post that she feels torn between the two of them. "I feel there's a part of him that thinks I chose Donald Trump over him. Which is ridiculous. One is my work and one is my marriage."

Source: Washington Post



"I'm just saddened by how things turned out," George told The Post.

Source: Washington Post



Trump's tense relationship with George reached a fever pitch in March 2019 after Trump spent St. Patrick's Day weekend on a Twitter tear against "Saturday Night Live," Fox News, and the late Sen. John McCain.

Source: Business Insider



George posted the cover of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders hours after the first leg of Trump's tweets, followed by the book's pages that describe narcissistic personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder.

Source: Twitter



When asked about the tweet, Kellyanne said she doesn't "share those concerns" about Trump's psychological state.

Source: Politico



Trump himself capped off the drama when he called the lawyer "A total loser!"

Source: Twitter



George responded with several tweets of his own, starting with, "Congratulations! You just guaranteed that millions of more people are going to learn about narcissistic personality disorder and malignant narcissism! Great job!"

Source: Twitter



"This was the article that first got me to really understand you, @realDonaldTrump," George tweeted, with a link to a Rolling Stone story about Trump's mental health. "Once someone understands narcissistic personality disorder, they understand you—and why you’re unfit and incompetent for the esteemed office you temporarily hold."

Sources: Twitter, Rolling Stone



On Wednesday, Trump escalated the feud, calling George "a stone cold LOSER & husband from hell!" George retweeted it, with the comment, "The President of the United States."

Source: Twitter



Washington Post White House reporter Ashley Parker asked, "why is it considered the ultimate insult to call a man 'Mr. [Insert Wife’s Name Here]'?" To that, George responded, "It isn't—except perhaps to the extremely juvenile and boorish. What I really wouldn't want to be called is 'Individual-[ ],'" referring to the way Trump is characterized in Muller's court filings.

Source: Twitter



In a February interview with Politico, Kellyanne said she had discussed George's criticisms with Trump "in passing," and that the president "left it alone for months out of respect for me." She added that the rift hasn't affected her job in any way.

Source: Politico



"But you think he shouldn’t respond when somebody, a non-medical professional accuses him of having a mental disorder? You think he should just take that sitting down?" she told Politico's Daniel Lippman in February, adding that Trump was a "counterpuncher."

Source: Politico



As Trump's legal battles ramped up, so did George's jabs against the president. In an op-ed after special counsel Robert Mueller released his report in April 2019, George called him "unfit for office," and that his "narcissism makes it impossible for him to carry out the duties of the presidency in the way the Constitution requires."

Source: The Washington Post

 



George was pulled closer into anti-Trump territory when Joe Walsh, a former Republican congressman from Illinois and vocal Tea Party figure, reportedly recruited the lawyer to advise his run against Trump in the 2020 Republican primary.

Sources: Business Insider, The New York Times, CNN



After months of shrugging off questions about her marriage, Kellyanne notably attended the September 20 State Dinner with the Australian first couple alone.

Source: Business Insider



After House Democrats announced an impeachment inquiry in late September against Trump after a bombshell whistleblower report questioned his contact with foreign leaders, George championed the move and repeated his arguments that Trump is mentally unstable, corrupt, and unfit for office.

Sources: Business Insider, The Atlantic



An Insider poll found that that the Conways aren't the only couple where Trump has caused some conflict, with 39% of respondents saying the Trump administration caused at least a little stress in their partnerships.

Source: Business Insider




The life of Rachel Maddow: How a Rhodes scholar and AIDS activist became America's most unlikely cable television host

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  • Rachel Maddow never set out to be a television news host. Friends thought she'd be a professor or an activist.
  • After studying at Stanford and Oxford, she got her start as a news announcer for a local Massachusetts radio station. She went on to be a radio host on Air America, before becoming a regular political commentator on MSNBC and CNN.
  • Since 2008, she's hosted "The Rachel Maddow Show." She's the first openly gay host of a primetime news program in the US.
  • She's a new type of host, forgoing confrontational attack-style interviews for deep-dive monologues on whatever news item she thinks is worth analyzing.
  • Here's her life so far.
  • Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.

Rachel Maddow might be the most unlikely cable television host in the country.

Combining humor, empathy, and some serious research, Rachel Maddow was the first of a new kind of less angry political television host. She's also the first openly gay host.

Maddow is known for being extremely intelligent — she earned a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, and it's obvious in her lengthy, well-researched monologues that she opens her show with every day. She's also more civil than some of her peers. She's chided Pat Buchanan for telling another commentator to "shut up," and she refuses to act as a referee while guests fight, unlike on her competitor's shows.

Maddow did not come straight to journalism. Friends thought she'd be a professor or an activist. But after deciding that she liked explaining things to people on a local radio station, it was only a matter of time. She went from that radio station to a bigger radio station, to television, to the face of MSNBC.

As Ben Wallace-Wells put it for Rolling Stone: "What Maddow is trying to build is a different channel for liberal anger, an outsider's channel, one that steers the viewer's attention away from the theater of politics and toward the exercise of power, which is to say toward policy."

Here's her life so far.

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Rachel Maddow was born on April 1, 1973.

She grew up in a centrist house in Castro Valley, east of San Francisco — Maddow later described it as a "middle-class, suburban upbringing." Both her parents, Bob and Elaine, were Democrats, but they voted for President Ronald Reagan.

Maddow has no memory of reading children's books, instead she inhaled local newspapers and her dad's law school texts.



She went to Castro Valley High School.

In high school, she was athletic. She was particularly good at swimming, basketball, and volleyball. But when she injured her shoulder in her final year, she had to decide whether to carry on as an athlete, which meant getting surgery and delaying college, or to push on. She pushed on.



In 1990, when she was 17, she enrolled at Stanford University to study public policy.

Roger Noll, Stanford's director of public policy at the time, said Maddow was the sort of brilliant student who appeared only every few years. Her professor Debra Satz often showed her students Maddow's undergraduate thesis on changing perceptions of AIDS.

Early on as a freshman, Maddow came out in an open letter she stuck up in bathroom stalls in her dormitory. She said she wrote the letter so that anyone who was homophobic would have a chance to be open about how they felt, and she could face any hostility head on.

The university's newspaper, The Stanford Daily, published a story about it and described her as was one of two openly gay freshmen. When a reporter later asked whether the other person was her girlfriend, she said, "Funnily enough, only one other person was out, and she was not one of the many girls I was sleeping with."

As Jill McDonough, a college friend of Maddow's, told Rolling Stone: "No one at Stanford was saying they were gay — there were no other out lesbians — and she saw that it was a lie. The choice was, 'I'm not going to be a hypocrite. I'm going to have courage.'"

A clipping of that article was mailed to her parents, which was how they found out she was gay. They didn't take it well right away.



For a year after college, she worked as a prison AIDS activist with Act Up and the AIDS Legal Referral Panel in San Francisco.

"We were taking this overwhelming, maddening, depressing, very sad thing that my community and my city were going through and figuring out what pieces of it we could bite off and fix, finding winnable fights in something that felt like a morass and was terrible," she told The New Yorker.

For years she would continue working with AIDS groups and studying how people perceived and dealt with it.



In 1995, Maddow moved to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar — she was the first openly gay women to do so. She studied AIDS in prisons for her doctorate.

She was also on a Marshall Scholarship, for "intellectually distinguished young Americans" likely to be future leaders.

Despite her scholarships and undergraduate success, she felt out of place and put her studies on hold. She moved to London and worked for an organization called AIDS Treatment Project.

After several stops, she ended up finishing her doctorate, on AIDS health care outcomes in prisons, in western Massachusetts. She told The Nation she wanted to live somewhere where'd she be unhappy.

"And I have no interest in New England, hate winter, don't like the country, not fond of animals," she said.



Maddow was friends with Cory Booker at Stanford and Oxford.

Booker, now a New Jersey senator, said that while he was surprised she went the way she did, she was always about making a contribution.

"She wasn't just about giving commentary; she was an activist," he told New York Magazine in 2008. "She wanted to change the world."



After getting her Ph.D., she continued working as an activist. But to pay the bills, because she wasn't "a trust-fund kid," she delivered packages, did yard work, and cleaned out buckets at a coffee-bean factory.

She was also rejected from a job at a video store.



When Maddow worked with AIDS advocacy organizations, she wasn't particularly interested in politics, but she did donate to Harvey Gantt's campaign for North Carolina's Senate.

His opponent, Jesse Helms, vehemently opposed funding AIDS research because of his views on homosexuality, according to The New York Times.

She does vote now, at the voting booths in Massachusettes. But it's not a lengthy process. She registers for a party right before primaries and unregisters right after



Maddow had a life-changing year in 1999. She started dating the artist Susan Mikula ...

The couple met in Massachusetts, while Maddow was still finishing her thesis. Mikula was looking for someone to clean her yard, and Maddow applied.

It was love at first sight. "Bluebirds and comets and stars. It was absolutely a hundred percent clear," Maddow told The New Yorker.

It helped that Mikula had her initials in metal leaf on her jeep's door — which Maddow, a fan of kitsch, told New York magazine was very hot.

Their first date was at "Ladies Day on the Range" hosted by the National Rifle Association. They went because they both like shooting, though Mikula is the only one with the hand-eye coordination for it, Maddow told Rolling Stone

Maddow told The Nation that their relationship was her "proudest accomplishment."



... and her first break as a host came when she entered a local radio's open audition to be a sidekick on a show called "Dave in the Morning."

The radio station held auditions for a morning news announcer, and she got it.

Dave Brinnel, the show's host, said she had a beautiful voice.

Maddow told Rolling Stone that though she stumbled into the job, it "really clicked." She liked explaining things to people.

It helped that she was also allowed to play her favorite music, Radiohead and Lucero.



In 2004, Maddow landed a job cohosting a program on Air America called "Unfiltered," with Chuck D and Lizz Winstead.

While the new radio station hoped to profit from well-known names, it was those with radio experience, like Maddow, who thrived. It was on the radio that she established herself as a "smiling but obstinate liberal."

In 2005, she started hosting her own show three-hour show.



In 2006, while she was still working for Air America, she started becoming a guest political commentator on CNN and MSNBC, appearing alongside Tucker Carlson, Larry King, and Paula Zahn.

She was a guest on cable news for about three years, described by The Nation as a "ballsy gremlin of the left."

It was her appearances on Carlson's show that made her want to be a host. She wanted the ability to choose what was discussed.

"Story selection is half the battle and more than half the fun," she told Rolling Stone.



She was invited on Fox News only once, when Madonna and Britney Spears kissed.

Maddow declined the offer.



In January 2008, she became a political analyst at MSNBC.

She was brought on as a left-wing commentator — but she told The New Yorker that though she's a liberal, she doesn't have strong feelings against the Republican Party. She's interested in the sociology of the political styles, especially the "arcane" style of conservatives.



In 2008, "The Rachel Maddow Show" was launched.

It was a milestone. She's the first openly gay woman to host prime-time news in the US. In her first month, she beat Larry King in ratings, which was unheard of for MSNBC.

Maddow was a different type of news host. She did things like wear pajamas on her show to show solidarity with bloggers.

And the actual show is shot differently from other talk shows. Typically, Maddow sits to the side, whereas other cable shows tend to focus on the face of the host. Other hosts focus on their own personality, while Maddow is about creating a narrative outside of her.

As Rolling Stone's Benjamin Wallace-Wells wrote: "Bill O'Reilly, on Fox News, is a combatant and a champion. Maddow is a guide. O'Reilly's show says, 'Look at me.' Maddow's says, 'Picture this.'"



When Maddow's show began, MSNBC's president, Phil Griffin, said his channel had more "swagger" than it had ever had, because of Maddow.

"And trust me. The other guys see it. They are watching. And they are scared," he told New York magazine.



On the Sunday night before her first show, at a party thrown for the staff, she told the group who had been working on "Verdict with Dan Abrams" and would now be working with her to forget everything they had ever learned.

Maddow didn't like the gimmicky show that had preceded hers and wanted to be nothing like it, according to Rolling Stone.

But the staffers' reaction wasn't great, and she realized right away that she had not worded her speech very well.



At "The Rachel Maddow Show," her workday typically begins at 12:30 p.m.

Before work, she goes to the gym, fishes, or spends time with Mikula. Her show airs at 9 p.m., and she doesn't start writing until 4:30 or even 6:30.

She has said she tried writing in the morning, but it didn't work for her.

"It's not that I have anything so important going on in my life that I wouldn't trade it to be better at my job, but it's that you can only have your brain lit up for that long before it starts to break down and you stop making sense and stop being creative. What I don't want to give up is the originality," she told The New Yorker.

She's called herself the "hermit of Rockefeller Center," because unlike her host colleagues she's not networking, she's too busy writing or meeting with her team to work out what will be in their news agenda. 



Maddow is known for her lengthy and in-depth opening monologues.

They go on for a long time, up to 24 minutes, without interruption. She makes sure not to repeat stories that have already been in the news cycle, so that what viewers get is something else. And that's important, because as Amanda Hess wrote for The New York Times Magazine, her viewers are already familiar with the news cycle. What they want from her is someone to take all of the facts and create a cohesive explanation about what is going on in the world. 

In regards, to how she does this, The New Yorker's Janet Malcolm wrote,"By reducing the story to its mythic fundamentals, Maddow creates the illusion of completeness that novels and short stories create. We feel that this is the story as we listen to and watch her tell it,"

Maddow also marks up the teleprompter with notes about when and how to physically act, like whether to laugh, frown, smile, move her hands, or pause for a moment.



It also only takes her about 15 seconds to get dressed, and it's only from the waist up. She's worn her uniform of dark clothing, mostly blazers, for 11 years, and she does it so that the focus of her show is on content and not her outfit.

On air, she wears makeup too, but it's swiftly removed afterwards. Behind the desk, her jeans and sneakers stay on.



Maddow takes her job seriously, but she has hobbies too — she's an amateur bartender and has served her peers at the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner.

Maddow researches vintage cocktails and makes them for herself and Mikula.

She doesn't like mingling with politicians and attends only the afterparty for the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner, not the actual dinner, as long as she's allowed to be the bartender.

To relax, she also likes to fish and watch films on her laptop. Her favorite film is the original "Manchurian Candidate."



In 2012, she published her book "Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power," which was on The New York Times' bestseller list.

Maddow's book is about the United States at war and how it's changed.

The New York Times said the book, published by Crown, was a reminder that Maddow was a Rhodes scholar, but it also is filled with Maddow's "cheerfully snarky voice."

It's not a piece of left-wing writing either — one of the book's blurbs was written by Roger Ailes, the former chief of Fox News, who said the book was worth reading. "People who like Rachel will love the book," he wrote. "People who don't will get angry, but aggressive debate is good for America."

Of the writing itself, she told New York magazine: "Writing makes me want to blow my head off. I was very open with Crown about that. They assured me it wouldn't happen."



In 2012, Maddow clashed with the Republican strategist Alex Castellanos over whether women earn less than men.

Castellanos said that women didn't make any less than men and kept interrupting Maddow. He finished by telling Maddow he loved how passionate she was.

"I wish you were as right about what you're saying as you are passionate about it. I really do," he said.

Maddow told him that he was being condescending and clarified that her passion was based in fact.

It was instances like these that her producer Bill Wolff thought was what Maddow's fans liked. He told Rolling Stone that they liked to see her defending rights: "voting rights, reproductive rights, women's rights, really any kind of rights."



In 2012, Maddow also spoke openly for the first time about having depression.

She called it "cyclical" depression and said it made her struggles to focus.

"If I'm not depressed and I'm on and I can focus and I can think through something hard and without interruption and without existential emptiness that comes from depression, that gives me — not mania," she told Rolling Stone. "But I exalt. I exalt in not being depressed."



In December 2015, Maddow focused in on the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, while other national media outlets paid it little attention.

The watchdog organization Media Matters said Maddow had distinguished herself for her show's in-depth coverage of the Flint water crisis, adding it looked into the issue more than all the other major television networks combined.

In January 2016, she hosted a live town hall in Flint about the crisis.



In 2016, Maddow and Chuck Todd hosted a Democratic debate between Bernie Sanders and Hilary Clinton.

Maddow and Todd were praised for letting the candidates do most of the talking, though they did step in to ask pointed questions.



After the debate, Maddow hugged Clinton and Sanders. Some criticized the gesture, saying it showed her "liberal bias."

Some people, like Fox News' Howard Kurtz, said that the hug was a step too far and that her left-wing views should have disqualified her from being a debate moderator.

But others, including Fox's Greta Van Susteren, said it was fine — that a hug was a gesture not unlike a handshake.

Regardless, the hugs didn't do long-term damage to Maddow, and she took the criticism in stride.



During the 2016 presidential election, MSNBC centered its coverage on Maddow and the "NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams.

According to Forbes, Maddow's position as a "dominant prime-time star" stemmed from this coverage.



In 2016, Maddow's show brought in the most viewers in the 9 p.m. slot that she had ever had at MSNBC.

Source: Variety



From 2017 on, after Trump became president and started dominating the news cycle, Maddow has drawn in more viewers. She's been seen as a rival to Fox News' Sean Hannity, although Hannity still gets more viewers.

Hannity refers to her as "Roswell Rachel Maddow." he has also called her a conspiracy theorist, "tin foil hat Maddow," and "the single biggest liar."

According to The New York Times, Maddow's fans are the "MSNBC Mom" who have been radicalized by the election enough to begin consuming a lot more news. 

Deciding how they should cover Trump wasn't simple for Maddow and her news team. After some thought they decided they would focus on what the White House did, not what it said. This means Trump is barely ever quoted on her show, instead Maddow summarizes for him. 



In 2017, Maddow homed in on the possibility that President Donald Trump had collaborated with Russia.

From February 20 to March 31, 2017, she covered Russia more than any other single news item, according to The Intercept. During the six weeks, 53% of her broadcasts were about Russia.

With the intense focus on Russia, Maddow had less time to talk about other issues arising from the Trump administration.



In March 2017, Maddow was criticized for a disappointing show about Trump's tax returns.

To build anticipation, Maddow had tweeted hours before her show that she had Trump's tax returns. MSNBC put a countdown on for her show.

But instead of demonstrating that he hadn't paid his taxes, as many people had expected, she showed that he had paid taxes on over $150 million of income in 2005.

Many were disappointed, and the show was criticized on the late-night comedy shows. But over 4 million people watched the episode, her biggest audience ever.



In late 2018, Maddow thrived as she explained the documents released by Robert Mueller, the special counsel leading the Russia investigation.

According to The Washington Post's media commentator Erik Wemple, Maddow "devoured" the documents, explaining to her audience what was in them, what it meant, and what was missing.



She briefly had the most viewers on cable news in 2018 — more than 3 million — before dropping down to fifth place in July 2019. But despite her popularity, she keeps most of her personal life from the media.

Maddow has said that part of her is on television every night, but not all of her.

"The rest of me is my own," she told The New Yorker. "It's not for everybody else. You sort of pick a slice of your life that you're going to share as your non-TV persona and you give that to people — and they find it more or less interesting."



To help with the privacy, she and Mikula escape from their apartment in New York to their farmhouse in western Massachusetts on the weekends.

They've said they love the house, which was built before the Civil War, but that one issue was a bathroom at the top of a very steep staircase. So they built an outhouse, which also has a television that Maddow can watch football on, with the volume way up.



In 2019, One America News Network sued Maddow for $10 million after she called it "paid Russian propaganda."

On her show, Maddow spoke about how an employee of One America News also worked for the news agency Sputnik, which has ties to the Russia government.

"The most obsequiously pro-Trump right-wing news outlet in America really literally is paid Russian propaganda," she said.

The network claimed that Maddow knew what she said wasn't true and that it was "as American as apple pie."



Strategists have told Politico that Democratic candidates have to get on Maddow's show to distinguish themselves from their competitors — showing how influential Maddow has become.

Politico called her the "new Democratic kingmaker." 



In September 2019, when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called for Trump's impeachment, Maddow's rating rose again, this time to 3.3 million viewers.

Source: The New York Times Magazine 



In October 2019, Maddow published her second book called "Blowout." It's about the relationship between politics and the oil and gas industry.

A number of topics are covered by Maddow, including enviromental issues and disasters like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and fracking in Oklahoma. But it also looks at Russian interference in the 2016 US election. The theme of the book, Maddow says, is that "it all ties."



Despite her success, Maddow doesn't take being the face of MSNBC for granted.

She still worries about whether "being a pundit is a worthwhile thing to be," she told New York magazine. But she said she thinks it's a good thing to be an outsider — a pattern of hers all her life.

"Yeah, I'm the unlikely cable news host," she told the magazine. "But before that I was the unlikely Rhodes scholar. And before that I was the unlikely kid who got into Stanford. And then I was the unlikely lifeguard. You can always cast yourself as unlikely when you're fundamentally alienated in your worldview. It's a healthy approach for a commentator."



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1. Save up to $500 on sofas, chairs, and sectionals at Burrow

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Direct-to-consumer furniture startup Burrow is known and loved for its contemporary designs and affordable prices — and now they even offer sectionals. During the fall sale, you can save anywhere from $10% on orders with no minimum all the way up to $500 on orders of $3,000 or more. Burrow has a long list of promo codes as part of this sale; there are six (each will depend on how much you end up spending) so we'll spare you the list here — just click to their home page above and you'll see the codes.



2. Save up to 25% on Nike at Nordstrom Rack

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Nordstrom Rack always has great deals, but one of the best sales going on is from Nike. Until tomorrow, October 5, you can save up to 25% on Nike products for men, women, and kids. The sale includes a good mix of apparel and footwear. 



3. Buy one, get one 50% off all face products at Milan

Shop the Milani Cosmetics sale now

Milani Cosmetics has a full range of makeup, plus all the tools and brushes you'll need to complete your look, and they're having a sale that makeup lovers will want to get in on. This weekend only, you can buy one face product and get one 50% off. If you're looking for concealer, bronzer, blush, or highlighter, this is a great chance to stock up on your favorites or try something new. 



4. Save 25% on full-price styles at Brooks Brothers

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If you have to wear formal and semi-formal clothes on a regular basis, Brooks Brothers is having a sitewide sale that will help you spruce up your fall work wardrobe. Now through October 14, you can save 25% on all full-price styles automatically at checkout. With choices for men, women, and kids you'll find everything from sweaters, button-up shirts and suits to khakis, dresses, and more. 



5. Save big on Citizen Watches on Amazon

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Japanese watch brand Citizen is largely responsible for the popularity of Quartz movement watches. They're extremely accurate at timekeeping and usually much more affordable than Swiss-made movements. Although full retail prices are generally pretty reasonable, you can get them at a huge discount today on Amazon. One of the best deals is on the Eco-Drive Promaster Diver for 64% off. 



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The Chase Sapphire Preferred Card is a great option if you're new to earning points and miles, as it has a reasonable $95 annual fee. You'll earn 2 points per dollar on all travel and dining purchases and 1 point on everything else, and the card includes some valuable benefits like trip delay coverage and primary car rental insurance.

You can earn 60,000 Chase points with the Chase Sapphire Preferred when you spend $4,000 in the first three months from account opening. That's worth at least $750 toward travel. Read our review to learn more about the card's benefits.

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7. Save 15% on mattress and bedding at Allswell

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Mattress and bedding brand Allswell was founded with the firm belief that a good night of sleep shouldn't be expensive to attain — and its affordable prices are a direct reflection of that.  While their prices are generally lower than other bedding companies, we teamed up with the brand to create an exclusive offer for Business Insider readers. You can save 15% sitewide by using the exclusive promo code "INSIDER15" at checkout. 



8. Save 15% on all orders at Framebridge as a new customer

Shop the Framebridge sale now.

In addition to offering customizable framing options for your prints and original paintings, Framebridge will turn your favorite digital images and smartphone pictures into beautifully framed artwork that's suitable for display. Simply pick a frame, upload your image, and Framebridge will ship it to you ready to be hung and shown off. Right now, new customers can save 15% sitewide by using the exclusive promo code "INSIDER15" at checkout. 



Interior design startup Modsy uses 3D models to let you see furniture in your space before you buy it — here's how it helped me make the most of my small apartment

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  • Modsy is a service that makes 3D models of the rooms you want to decorate based on pictures you send and its basic dimensions.
  • The company's interior designers will create two versions of the room, decorated with furniture from popular home stores that you can actually buy through Modsy, and which match your tastes and budget specifically. 
  • For as low as $49 (but typically $199), you'll get two draft designs of your space, plus two updates from your designer and communication with them via email.
  • For $129 (typically $299), you'll get more features, like one-on-one time with a designer via email or phone and unlimited rounds of updates to your two original drafts.
  • I've used Modsy for my last two apartments, and I recommend it to anyone who can comfortably afford the service. You can see what my bedroom redesign process was like with Modsy.

If you've ever bought a piece of furniture online and realized only after the setup that it either didn't fit the space physically or aesthetically, you can already name at least one time when you would have benefited from a service like Modsy.

Modsy is an online company that lets you upload photos and dimensions of any room and then creates a 3D model, complete with recommendations from an interior designer on how to fill it using furniture from popular home-decor and furniture stores. If you've already got a nightstand or bed frame, you can pay $15 and Modsy will make a 3D model of it as well, so you truly never have to wonder about what something will look like once put together. You also don't need to crawl around your house with a tape measurer. 

The furniture the Modsy designers use is all chosen to fit your preferences. If you're not sure if you like "traditional" or "urban" design, as I wasn't, or if your style has changed over the years, as mine had, there's a quiz you can take to help identify what you like.

Once you get your designs, you can then buy anything from your model at a discount through Modsy, which matches the lowest advertised price on the day you place your order, including any applicable sales and promotions. So, you could save on top of sales at other retailers and potentially pay for the service itself with the discount.

There are four pricing options, with most shoppers probably deciding between the first three. The Luxe option will be the closest resemblance to traditionally hiring an interior designer for your home.

Modsy package options and pricing

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My experience with Modsy

I've used Modsy twice — once immediately after college, and again for the apartment I moved into immediately after that one. In my experience, the value is definitely worth the price. The 3D designs are extremely helpful and also allow me to be more creative with my space.

The first time I used Modsy, I was moving to a new place after college and wanted to take furniture shopping more seriously, but didn't have a natural gift for interior design. I could appreciate when things looked put-together, and I knew what I liked, but being on the other side of things is never easy, particularly with the visualization (which Modsy takes care of for me). Not being able to imagine all of the furniture, light fixtures, and rugs together also had me buying more basic furniture simply so that I would know it would go together. Modsy allowed me more freedom and creativity. 

The second time around, it helped me find a way to blend my past taste (mid-century modern) and furniture with my new taste (eclectic). It also helped me become better at visualizing the possibilities elsewhere in my home, even without using Modsy again on those areas.

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In terms of price, I find the unlimited drafts with a designer help justify the higher price of the premium option. If you're indecisive, it's probably worth splurging. If you're only looking for a few tweaks, you can get by with the cheaper tier. 

Even if you can't afford all the items Modsy uses to fill your space (although they do customize the selection to your budget), it's still a great way to get ideas from experts at an affordable price. I pay a lot in rent so that I can enjoy where I live, and I felt like Modsy was a valuable tool as an extension of that. ke the most out of my apartment and made sure I did so without wasting money on furniture I would later hate.

If you're moving and don't have the mind of an interior designer but want to love your space, I can't recommend the service highly enough.

Try Modsy, starting at $49

Keep reading for a full breakdown of what it's like to use Modsy.

Getting started

To begin, head to the Modsy homepage and click "start your project" to begin the questionnaire. 



Select which room they'll be creating a 3D model of for you.



And select what the reason for the redesign is.

If you're moving and looking to completely revamp your space, or just want to update your living room, Modsy will be able to help.

Sign up to get a 3D model of your own home decorating project here.



Describe how "finished" the space is.

For me, I worked with a room that had a few pieces I owned already in it. You can pay $15 and have the Modsy team make a 3D model of any item you own and want to be incorporated into your designs. As an alternative, Modsy can find a similar item to stand-in from their curated catalog.



Choose your service level.

You choose between the classic, premium, and luxe (most like the experience of hiring your own interior designer) — whichever best suits your needs. 



Complete your profile.

You'll send in photos and crucial measurements of your design space, have the option to continue the design quiz and set budgets for items you really want to buy, and tell the Modsy team more about your vision for the space. If you have existing furniture to add, this is where you can add it. 



Take the style quiz.

Take the style quiz and get a nuanced report of your personal style. If you don't agree with the results, you can retake the quiz. 



List your budget.

You won't be getting a room filled with exorbitantly priced things you can never buy for yourself (unless you're purposefully going that route).



Get your designs.

Modsy designers took my room measurements and pictures and created a 3D rendering that they dropped personal recommendations into. They also included 3D renderings of furniture I already owned so I could visualize it in the space, like my The Inside bed frame, for $15 per addition. 

You can find a curated shopping list of everything in the room to the immediate right, and you can search and swap in alternative products yourself, too.

 



Once you see the initial design, request adjustments.

If you don't love something in the design, request adjustments to be made. However, it'll take two to three days to get anything back. 



Play around with your design.

I played around with the designs inside the Modsy 3D rendering tool, which you have access to, so I could swap in different products and recommend different layouts and items to my Modsy designer. This was also a good way to feel productive in the days I was waiting for my adjusted design to come back, and something my designer referred to later on. 



Get the final result.

I requested a different furniture layout, and asked them to refer to the room I had done most of my personal adjustments in. 

They also helped curb my worst design habits, and answered my questions regarding texture and colors so I could make better design decisions outside the platform. I also bought some of the furniture suggested by Modsy, and I actually saved money on shipping by buying through the site. They also alerted me to sales prices on items in my designs, which saved me money, too.

All in all, my designer helped me make the most out of my space and was helpful throughout the process. She offered up recommendations that helped utility look fashionable, provided stand-in products for things like gallery walls that I wanted to configure, and Modsy itself helped me be more imaginative and excited about the purchases I was going to make. 

Sign up to get a 3D model of your own home decorating project here.



This $85 camping cutlery set is the only one you'll ever need — here's what it comes with

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  • Opinel makes lightweight stainless steel and carbon steel knives that will shave the hair off your forearm right out of the box.
  • I took its new travel-friendly Nomad camping cutlery kit ($85) out to the beach to see how I'd make out with nothing but its three knives, cutting board, and microfiber cloth.
  • It was everything I needed, nothing I didn't, and from now on I'll be taking it just about everywhere with me.

 

My uncle gave me my first Opinel pocket knife (a No. 9) when I was in my late teens. I took it fishing, camping, and once even used it to skin and eat a rattlesnake that was getting a little too flirtatious with the idea of slipping into my sleeping bag.

The Opinel enchanted me from the start with its lightweight wooden handle, paper-thin stainless steel blade, and the traditional aesthetic of the thing overall (I'm a sucker for that stuff, but I know I'm not the only one). I felt like Huck Finn or Jeremiah Johnson. Meanwhile, I was about the furthest thing from them: just a suburbanite adolescent kid with a pocket knife and a dream.

Opinel makes lightweight stainless steel and carbon steel knives that will shave the hair off your forearm right out of the box. Sure, they'll eventually dull, but only in due time. And when it does come time to hone and sharpen, they're much easier to work with than a lot of other stainless steel blades, which can be a chore and a half to get an edge on.

But what I received in the mail from Opinel this past month was something that possessed me, body and soul.

Opinel Nomad cooking kit

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The Opinel Nomad cooking kit is an everything-you-need, nothing-you-don't set of knives. You'll get a No. 10 (10 centimeters/3.9 inches) folding paring knife with a 3.9-inch blade and built-in folding corkscrew, a No. 12 (12 centimeters/4.7 inches) folding serrated knife, and a No. 6 (6 centimeters/2.4 inches) peeler. It also comes with a small but still accommodating 10-by-3-inch beechwood cutting board, which, no, you won't be filleting fish upon, but can handle your basic hiking and camping meal prep.

All the handles are varnished beechwood, a tough, tight-grained, abrasion-resistant wood often used in construction. In other words: They'll last. Each knife also comes with Opinel's signature Virobloc Safety Ring, which keeps your blades open and closed. (This might seem like it's something that goes without saying, but a couple of the brand's knives don't come with the ring, and I'm afraid that I have the scratched sunglasses lenses to prove it).

Everything fits and wraps tidily into the microfiber dishcloth, also included, which doubles as a travel pouch for the whole kit: Each of the knives fit into their own elastic tab, and there's a loop at the corner that straps everything shut.

My field notes

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The knives all worked as they should have, and that was no surprise. But I take Opinel's quality for granted in the same way that a lot of those familiar with the brand do.

What I really liked about the Nomad was that after prepping, when everything was a mess cilantro, pepper seeds, hot sauce, and steak juice had gotten everywhere — I could easily do a preliminary cleaning before I neatly folded everything into the cloth to contain the mess, and even after I forgot it in the back of my sun-drenched truck for two weeks, it was still exceptionally easy to clean. 

The bottom line

Whether you're a regular camper or just a veritable bon vivant, you probably won't find a cutlery kit for life on the move that's designed as well or will last as long as the Opinel Nomad. No, $85 isn't cheap. But then, what's a good paring knife run for these days? A serrated one? A corkscrew? A veggie peeler? A microfiber cloth that doesn't pill or shed? How about a solid hardwood cutting board? Chances are that your arithmetic has led you to a tally somewhere around $85.

Suffice all that to say that from now on, this kit is going to be coming with me just about everywhere.

Pros: Small, stowable, lightweight, excellent knife blades

Cons: Cutting board could be a little larger

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The best KitchenAid attachments you can buy

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  • The best attachments for your KitchenAid mixer can do all kinds of things, from making pasta to churning ice cream. They can even replace other appliances in your kitchen.
  • Our favorite KitchenAid attachments include two pasta makers, a strainer, a meat grinder, a grain mill, a spiralizer, a food processor, and an ice cream maker. 
  • Check out our guide on the best KitchenAid stand mixers you can buy.

When it comes to mixers, KitchenAid stand mixers are in a class of their own. In addition to mixing batters and kneading doughs, these mixers work with a wide array of attachments.

If you own a KitchenAid already, you are only one attachment away from making your own pasta, straining and grinding fruits and vegetables, making sausage, spiralizing vegetables, creating homemade ice cream, grinding your own flour, or turning your mixer into a food processor.

Most of the attachments in our guide work with all KitchenAid mixers. The Pasta Extruder Attachment is the only accessory on our list that doesn't fit every model.

We pored over the expert and user reviews to find out which attachments are worth buying based on value, long-lasting performance, and versatility. We chose the KitchenAid attachments for our guide after assessing the most common positive and negative attributes of the most popular accessories available.

Here are the best KitchenAid attachments in 2019:

Updated on 10/4/2019 by Caitlin Petreycik: Edited copy, links, and updated prices.

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The best KitchenAid attachment for pasta

With the KitchenAid 3-Piece Pasta Roller & Cutter Attachment Set, you turn your stand mixer into an all-inclusive homemade pasta maker.

If you have ever had fresh pasta, you know the pre-packaged dry stuff doesn't compare. With the KitchenAid 3-Piece Pasta Roller & Cutter Attachment Set, you turn your KitchenAid stand mixer into a one-stop pasta shop. This set comes with a pasta roller that rolls six-inch sheets of pasta to eight different thicknesses, a fettuccine cutter, a spaghetti cutter, and a cleaning brush. All of the pieces are made in Italy.

How does it work? First, you prepare the dough using the mixer, then you flatten the dough and feed it into the rollers on the 2-speed setting. This will knead it. You repeat the rolling process until the dough is smooth and pliable. You slowly decrease the thickness of the dough until it is at your desired thickness. Then, to make the noodles, you either feed it through the spaghetti cutter or the fettuccine cutter.

FabulousPasta is a website that reviews all types of pasta-making devices and accoutrements. The site gave the 3-Piece Pasta Roller & Cutter an expert assessment and liked that it provided an excellent rolling and cutting speed, the attachments were easy to switch out, and they took up little space and were lightweight. The testers didn't like that a KitchenAid stand mixer was required and found that it made it pretty hard to lug their pasta-making operation to the homes of friends and family. However, if you're just making pasta at home, it's perfectly fine.

Amazon reviews mention that it takes some practice to get accustomed to the attachments. Buyers also commented on how durably constructed each piece is and how easy they are to clean.

Pros: Built to last, easy to use when you follow the directions

Cons: Takes a little practice to get the pasta just right



The best KitchenAid attachment for grinding and straining

Whether you want to make your own sausage or you have a bounty of garden produce to process, the KitchenAid Fruit & Vegetable Strainer Set with Food Grinder Attachment can handle a broad range of tasks.

The KitchenAid Fruit & Vegetable Strainer Set with Food Grinder Attachment is really two accessories in one set. The strainer converts cooked pears and apples into sauces for immediate consumption or preserving. Making fresh tomato sauce is also a popular use.

The grinder comes with fine and coarse plates for making fresh hamburger, processing vegetables for salsa, and grinding your own cheese. These accessories work with any KitchenAid stand mixer, and if you want to make sausage, we recommend adding the Sausage Stuffer Kit Attachment to your order.

The top site that reviewed the strainer set with grinder attachment was Foodal, and the tester found it to be quite useful. The reviewer focused mainly on the ability of this set to strain fruits and vegetables for making purees, jams, baby food, jellies, and applesauce. The tester found it did an excellent job with all of these tasks, including creating a sorbet base to use with the Ice Cream Maker Attachment.

Pros: Handles any soft meats, fruits, vegetables, or cheese

Cons: Made of plastic, not suitable for all meats



The best KitchenAid attachment for spiralizing vegetables

Why you'll love it: The KitchenAid Spiralizer Attachment with Peel, Core & Slice is ideal for low-carb eaters, paleo dieters, individuals sensitive to gluten, and anyone else who wants an easy way to peel, slice, core, and spiralize vegetables, fruits, and more.

The KitchenAid Spiralizer Attachment comes with a versatile system of four quick-change blades plus a peeling blade. The blades include:

  • Fine Spiralizer Blade for sweet potatoes, beets, and zucchini
  • Medium Spiralizer Blade for sweet potatoes, potatoes, and zucchini
  • Spiral Slice Blades for Small and Large Cores for zucchini, apples, beets, and pears
  • Spiral Peeling Blade for potatoes and apples

All of the pieces fit into a simple storage case, and the set comes with a one-year replacement warranty.

Your Better Kitchen commented that the KitchenAid Spiralizer Attachment is a good buy because it is backed by a respected manufacturer and is made of durable metal. The site found it was useful for peeling potatoes and creating low-carb vegetable dishes. Heavy gave the spiralizer high ratings because of the multiple quick-change blades that make meal preparation simple. Heal With Food liked that this attachment streamlined healthy cooking, but questioned the high price tag.

Many Amazon reviewers compared the KitchenAid Spiralizer Attachment to manual, hand-cranked spiralizers, and they found it was a "dream" to work with. For instance, with a hand crank, it would take a couple minutes to spiral a zucchini, but with this attachment, it's a matter of seconds. There were a couple minor complaints about how the device leaves about half an inch of the vegetable at the end, and the thinnest the spirals get is about 3/8-inch thick. (you can get thinner with the optional thin blade set).

Pros: Mostly metal construction, convenient storage for the four blades

Cons: Stops short of spiralizing the entire vegetable



The best KitchenAid attachment for extruding pasta

If you are looking for an easy way to make fusilli, rigatoni, macaroni, bucatini, and several other types of pasta, the KitchenAid Pasta Extruder Attachment is the best attachment for you.

The KitchenAid Pasta Extruder Attachment provides a fun way to make traditional Italian dishes at home. It comes with a combo tool, cleaning brush, six pasta plates, a wrench, pasta ring, and auger and hook. All of the pieces store snugly in the included case.

How does the Extruder differ from the 3-Piece Pasta Roller & Cutter Attachment Set? There are four major ways. First, unlike most other KitchenAid stand mixer attachments, the Extruder only works with certain models. On the Amazon page, you can type in your model number to see if this attachment is compatible with your machine.

Another way they differ is that the Pasta Roller & Cutter is basically only good for making two types of pasta: fettuccine and spaghetti. The Extruder allows for many other options. Also, the Pasta Roller & Cutter requires less effort to use and clean up. Lastly, the extruder attachment costs over $70 more than the pasta roller and cutter set.

The Kitchn stated that its reviewers "absolutely love" the Extruder because it is fun, makes great pasta, and is simple to use. They also found that the auger inside the press did an excellent job of forcing the dough through the pasta plates, which are easy to change out. Ben Starr — a former contestant on "MasterChef" — reviewed an extruder he received. The price was a bit much for him, but in the end, he gave it 10 out of 10. 

One note: many Amazon reviews note that the pasta ring breaks easily. To avoid this issue, you should skip the dough recipe found in the user manual since it produces a dough that is stiff and could lead to problems. Instead, consider using a recipe like this. Also, do not put too much dough in the attachment at once. Overall, the users liked how making homemade pasta was painless with this device.

Pros: Sturdy design, intuitive assembly, fun to use

Cons: Expensive, hard to clean



The best KitchenAid attachment for making ice cream

The KitchenAid Ice Cream Maker Attachment allows you to make whatever ice cream you want without the additives found in store-bought brands.

The KitchenAid Ice Cream Maker Attachment makes up to two quarts of gelato, sorbet, or ice cream in less than half an hour. Your ingredients are mixed, spread, and scraped thoroughly using the dasher that rotates inside the bowl. Once you are done, the drive assembly, adapter ring, and dasher are all dishwasher safe, and the bowl is easy to clean with soap and water. The unit comes with a one-year replacement warranty.

I own the Ice Cream Maker attachment and use it with my KitchenAid Professional 5 stand mixer. The process is incredibly easy, but it does require a little bit of planning. The batter must be cooled, and all of the other elements should be frozen. KitchenAid recommends keeping the freezer bowl in your freezer when not in use so it is ready to go when you need it. You also need to allow the ice cream batter to cool for at least eight hours. I do it using an airtight pitcher stored in my fridge The pitcher makes it easy for me to pour the batter into the ice cream maker.

The first couple times you use the ice cream maker, you should follow the directions closely. There are a lot of user complaints that could have been remedied if they had read the directions. For instance, all of the ingredients you add to your ice cream should be frozen so they do not heat up the ice cream and stall the thickening process. Also, make sure the dasher (at speed 1: stir) is running when you pour the batter in, or else the batter will freeze immediately and make it hard for the dasher to do its work.

Overall, the ice cream maker attachment works great, but it is not less expensive than buying store-bought ice cream. However, it does give you the opportunity to create whatever ice cream concoctions you want with about 15 to 20 minutes of active cooking time. Ever had candied bacon ice cream? It's unlikely you will find it anywhere, but with this attachment, you can make it at home. Just make sure to freeze the chopped candied bacon before you add it to your batter in the final few minutes of churning.

Several expert sites have taken the Ice Cream Maker Attachment for a test drive, and the reviews are generally positive. Foodal gave it 4.2 stars because it is an affordable, low-effort way to make homemade ice cream. Top5Reviews compared the attachment to other ice cream makers. The site liked that it didn't require salt or ice and that the setup and cleanup were effortless. However, the tester would not recommend buying the KitchenAid stand mixer just so that you could make ice cream with this attachment.

There were a few complaints on Amazon about the device cracking and dripping a blue liquid. This is likely due to extreme temperature changes. To avoid this, wait until the bowl is thawed before washing it. And, dry it completely before you put it back in the freezer.

Pros: Reliably makes delicious ice cream

Cons: Have to read the directions closely, takes some forethought



The best KitchenAid attachment for milling grain

If you use your KitchenAid mixer to make bread and are always looking to improve the flavor profile, the KitchenAid All Metal Grain Mill Attachment will be a real game changer.

The KitchenAid All Metal Grain Mill Attachment is designed to mill any non-oily, low-moisture grains, such as barley, rice, rye, wheat, millet, buckwheat, oats, and corn. Do not put coffee or peanuts in this attachment because it could damage the grinding mechanism. Before you use the attachment, clean it with a mild detergent to remove any oils used to protect the device from rust. Also, the mill is not dishwasher safe so use the brush that comes with the kit to clean it off or wash by hand if you need to.

The mill can produce cracked to extra fine consistencies. The mill features symbols for the finest grind and the coarsest grind, and there are several notches in between. First, you choose a setting, put the grain in the hopper, and start the mixer at speed 10. If the grind is not precisely to your liking, adjust the knob until you get it as coarse or fine as you want. If the mixer appears to be overheating, turn it off for at least 45 minutes before continuing.

Bread Maker Bargains reviewed the All Metal Grain Mill Attachment and found that it was reasonably priced, versatile, strong, sizable, attractive-looking, and durable. The site considers it to be one of the best mixer grain mill attachments on the market. Frugal + Urban liked that this accessory can mill very coarsely, which makes it useful for multigrain mixes for bread and cracking grains for porridge. The reviewer tested it using an Artisan mixer and cautioned against milling massive amounts of grain on the finest setting at high speeds.

A common sentiment on Amazon is that the flour the mill produces leads to a more complex, flavorful bread. And, for the price, it does an excellent job. However, there were some negative comments and cautionary tales. The mill appears to work best with newer models in the Professional and Artisan series. It seems to be geared more toward the home baking enthusiast who needs about two or three pounds of flour per week.

Pros: Easy to clean and use

Cons: Loud, has trouble with larger tasks



The best KitchenAid attachment for food processing

Drastically decrease the time it takes to prep ingredients for your meals by using the KitchenAid Food Processor Attachment to slice, shred, and julienne vegetables, cheeses, and fruits.

The KitchenAid Food Processor Attachment comes with shredding, julienning, and slicing discs. Plus, the ExactSlice System has a lever that allows you to adjust the thickness of the slicing. It is made out of plastic with metal blades and comes with a one-year replacement warranty.

This Food Processor Attachment is the more-affordable sibling of the similar KSM2FPA. The main difference between the two is the higher-end KSM2FPA comes with a storage case, commercial style dicing kit, and currently costs about $15 more. If you purchase the Food Processor we recommend and find you cannot live without the storage case or dicing kit, you can purchase them separately.

Opera Girl Cooks performed an in-depth review of the Food Processor Attachment. She liked that if you already have a KitchenAid stand mixer, you can have a food processor without having to give up the countertop or storage space of a standalone unit. She also notes that it does everything that a top-quality food processor should be able to do.

The most common negative feedback on Amazon was that the feed tube is fairly narrow, which may necessitate you chopping up your ingredients before putting them in the processor.

Pros: Streamlined design is easy to clean, durable

Cons: Unlike your standard food processor, it does not mix food together



The best KitchenAid attachment for sausage and ground meat

If you like burgers, sausages, and other dishes that call for ground meat, the KitchenAid Metal Food Grinder is a must-have attachment.

The KitchenAid Metal Food Grinder Attachment is not the first mixer attachment that can handle meat, but it is the first put out by KitchenAid that is made entirely of metal. This makes it ideal for heavy-duty grinding projects and ensures long-term durability.

The attachment comes with the main housing, a removable tray, a grind screw, the blade, three grinding plates, the collar for securing the plates, a plastic sausage stuffer plate, small and large plastic sausage stuffer tubes, a food pusher, and a cleaning brush.

KitchenAid sent me the grinder to test, and I fell in love with it. I no longer buy ground meat. I do it all myself, and the results are always far superior to what you would buy pre-packaged at the store. I keep my grinder in the freezer so it's always ready to go when I want ground meat. It's important to chill the grinder to protect against temperature increases that could lead to bacteria growth while grinding.

One of my favorite creations was half pork jowl bacon/half beef burgers. I also made beer bratwurst for the first time with spectacular results.

And, cleanup was a snap. All of the metal parts should be washed by hand, and I recommend cleaning the grinder immediately after use or rinsing it off at least. Otherwise, bits of meat dry onto it and are hard to remove.

Pros: Produces better tasting and more affordable ground meat, easy to clean, works well for sausage making

Cons: There's a small amount of wasted meat

Learn how to grind meat and make sausage with your KitchenAid and attachments. 



The best KitchenAid mixers you can buy

The best KitchenAid mixers serve as an indispensable tool as you bake cakes, pies, bread, cookies, and other delicious treats. They can knead the toughest dough for long periods of time, and they are versatile enough to make pasta and sausage. We've rounded up the five best models in our buying guide, below. 

Here are the best KitchenAid mixers you can buy in 2019: 



How to zoom in and out on your Apple Watch using its Zoom function

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An Apple Watch is a pretty amazing device, fitting impressive technology into a small package and offering access to an array of software, data, and content kept on a paired iPhone

However, due to the small size of its screen, it's often hard to see what you're looking at on your Apple Watch face. 

The good news is that you can easily zoom in and out on your Apple Watch, getting a clear view quickly and then returning to the full view.

Here's how to do it. 

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How to zoom out on your Apple Watch 

First, you have to enable the zoom function on your Apple Watch. 

Launch the Settings app, then tap the General tab, and then the Accessibility tab. Now tap Zoom and toggle its switch to on.

Now you can quickly zoom in on your Apple Watch by double tapping the screen with two fingers. 

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While zoomed in, pan by dragging your fingers around the screen or turning the digital crown on the side of the watch. To zoom even closer, double tap on the screen, holding and dragging up on the second tap.

To zoom out on the Apple Watch, double tap on the screen with two fingers and release after the second tap. 

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This $10 dry-cleaning kit has saved me tons of money and trips to the dry cleaner

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  • Special-care clothing, particularly pieces with a "dry-clean only" label, can be a pain to take care of. Trips to the dry cleaner can be inconvenient and expensive.
  • To extend the life of my special-care clothing, I use the Dryel At-Home Dry Cleaner Kit ($9.99).
  • It's an affordable way to keep your dry-clean-only garments in great condition, and it couldn't be easier to use. Plus, it has saved me tons of money and trips to the dry cleaner over the years.
  • While the kit works wonders on denim, wool, and cashmere, it's worth noting that it can be damaging to certain fabrics like leather, velvet, and silk. 

Is it just me or does anyone else's heart drop a bit when you find an amazing clothing item just to inspect it and find "dry-clean only" inscribed on the tag?

Let's face it: Dry cleaning is kind of a pain. Living in New York City, where a laundromat sits on just about every corner, it's not so bad. But getting your clothes dry cleaned can be pricey, and if you have multiple pieces it can add up quickly. If you want to keep your clothes in good condition, though, there's really nothing you can do — you just have to suck it up, put down those extra dollars, carve out some extra time to head to the laundromat, or incessantly google how long your clothes can last without a wash. At least, that's what I thought until my mother introduced me to this very simple solution (thanks, Mom). 

The Dryel At-Home Dry Cleaner Kit does just what it says — it works to clean your special-care pieces from the comfort of your own home.

The starter kit comes with everything you need to complete the cleaning process: a garment bag, booster spray, and the patented "ultracleaning" cloth. It's a three-step process that truly couldn't be easier to use.

How to use the kit

Step 1

Place your garments (up to five) and one ultracleaning cloth into the reusable bag. If any of the pieces are stained or particularly dirty, pretreat them with the included booster spray before placing in bag.

Step 2

Put the bag in the dryer and tumble on medium heat for 15 minutes for a quick refresh. If you're looking for a deeper clean, tumble on medium heat for 30 minutes instead. 

Step 3

Hang your garments so they are wrinkle-free. The end!

How it actually works

You may be wondering if this is some sort of laundry machine magic, but there's actually a very simple explanation. Dryel's ultracleaning cloths are concentrated with a heat-activated cleaning solution that, when met with the heat of your dryer, is released as a steam that penetrates fabric to remove stains and odors. The garment bag protects your special care fabrics from the intense heat of the dryer, so nothing will shrink on you. In the end, you're left with clothes that feel softer and smell fresher. 

For ease of use, Dryel gets an A+, but it also does wonders for your wallet. A starter kit with enough supplies for four loads is only $9.99. When you do the math, that's just about $2.50 per load. If you consider the maximum capacity of five garments per load, you're down to just about fifty cents per garment. Just a few weeks ago I got five pieces dry-cleaned at my local laundromat for about $24. That one trip cost me more than double this entire kit, which has the capacity to clean four times the amount of garments. 

Of course, there are some important things to note. While the kit works wonders on denim, wool, and cashmere, it can be damaging to certain fabrics like leather, velvet, and silk. 

When you compare the prices, it's hard to believe this easy dry-cleaning solution isn't more widely used — or, maybe it is, and I'm just the last one hopping on the bandwagon. 

Get the Dryel At-Home Dry Cleaner Starter Kit, $9.99, at Amazon

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How to use the flashlight on your Samsung Galaxy S10, and rearrange your icons to make it easier to find

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The list of tools inside a Galaxy S10 is massive — it has a camera, a map, a calculator, and even a gaming console. 

You can also add "flashlight" to that list, because you can turn on the Galaxy S10's camera flash at any time, and use it as a flashlight to find your way around in the dark. 

It's always just one swipe away in the phone's Notification bar. 

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How to use the flashlight on the Samsung Galaxy S10

1. From any screen — even if the Galaxy S10 is locked — swipe down from the top of the screen. You should see your notification bar with a row of quick settings icons at the top. If the screen is locked, you'll only see the icons.

2. Find and tap the Flashlight icon. 

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3. If you don't see the flashlight in the first row, pull down on the divider between the icons and notifications to display more rows of icons. Tap the Flashlight when it appears. 

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4. When you no longer need a flashlight, pull down the Notification Bar and tap the Flashlight icon a second time to turn it off. 

How to move the Flashlight to the top row of the Notification bar

If you find that you use the Flashlight a lot and it's buried in one of the lower rows of icons in the Notification bar, you can easily move it to a more convenient location.

1. Swipe down from the top of the screen to display the Notification bar. Swipe down a second time to display only the icons. 

2. Tap the three vertical dots at the top right of the screen and then tap "Button order" in the pop-up menu.

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3. Tap and hold the Flashlight icon for a second, and then drag it to a new location. You can rearrange all of your icons in this way.

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4. When you're finished, tap "Done."

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These compression socks prevent heel chafing and keep your feet cool even on long runs — here's why they're worth $13 a pair

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  • Socks are usually not top of mind when it comes to getting dressed, but the right pair of socks really can do wonders for your feet. 
  • Feetures performance socks offer compression, a seamless toe, sweat-wicking fabric, and other features to keep your feet comfortable and supported. 
  • I've been wearing the Elite Ultra-Light Running Socks ($13) and while they're more than I'd pay for a value pack of socks elsewhere, I wouldn't hesitate to get another pair. 

When it comes to picking out an outfit, socks tend to be an afterthought. Most of us just get a few pairs that fit well enough and call it a day. But not all socks are created equal. If you're looking for some of the best, it'd serve you well to check out Feetures.

Hugh Gaither had worked in the sock industry for more than 25 years prior to founding Feetures, a performance sock brand, in 2002. His goal? Create a better performance sock, one that takes advantage of clever design innovations to improve comfort and performance. Out of this desire, Feetures was born. Since its launch, it's become one of the most popular sock brands among runners and athletes of all kinds — and if you don't identify as either, you'll probably like these anyways. 

Feetures' features

If you're going to spend over $10 on a single pair of socks (the same price you'd pay for a value-pack on Amazon), you want to know what makes them special.

All of Feetures socks are engineered with Targeted Compression, which provides comfort and support to the areas where your feet need it most. An anatomical design, based on how our feet naturally move, creates a just-right fit that feels like it's made for you. While most socks can be worn on either foot, Feetures are designed differently for your left and right feet — and they're labeled with an "L" and "R" so you never get confused. This construction helps prevent blisters and keeps the socks from slipping down.

Every pair of Feetures also has a seamless toe, so you never have to deal with any irritating seams. The iWick material, a blend of natural and synthetic wicking fibers, helps keep your feet cool and dry. Across their line of active and everyday socks, you'll find all of the features mentioned above. 

 

My experience wearing Feetures socks

After wearing the Elite Ultra-Light Running Socks to the gym, I see why they boast such a solid reputation. The socks are lightweight and stretchy, but still feel really durable — the fabric doesn't seem like it will rip or pill any time soon. The no-show tab adds some cushion between the back of your shoes and your ankle, so you don't have to deal with any chafing.

These are perfect for running on the treadmill, or running errands just as well. The socks stay put, no matter how much you move your feet or what footwear you're wearing, and they stay cool and dry even through your sweatiest workouts.

In the past, I've never really noticed a difference with compression socks I've tried. With Feetures, I can actually feel the compression. My feet feel like they're wrapped in a bear hug, cozy and supported.

Beyond the compression zones, which are made to boost performance, the fact that these socks won't slip off, heat up, or irritate your feet at all ensures you can focus solely on your workout or long walk in the park. Overall, they fit like a glove, whether you're at the gym or not. 

How the brand gives back

A commitment to improving communities is another thing that makes Feetures stand out. The brand has been involved in a number of different charitable initiatives over the years, partnering with organizations to provide socks to those in need. The brand also sponsors the non-profit Let Me Run, which teaches young boys important life skills and encourages them to be active through a running-based curriculum. 

The bottom line

While they may seem like an afterthought to some, a good pair of socks can change the way you, and your feet, feel. Feetures socks are not only really comfortable, but provide your feet with ample support for whatever your day brings. Choose from their active or everyday lines to find what sock fits your lifestyle best. And, if you don't like them, Feetures has a lifetime guarantee — so you can return them whenever, no questions asked. 

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Phil Knight, the billionaire cofounder of Nike, just listed his golf course retreat for $1.55 million, months after selling a neighboring parcel of land for $2 million. Here's a look inside.

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Nike cofounder Phil Knight was just ranked No. 16 on Forbes 400 list. With a current estimated net worth of $35.9 billion, real estate is just a drop in the bucket for him.

Earlier this year, The Real Deal reported that he'd unloaded a plot of land in La Quinta's exclusive Madison Club. According to the Los Angeles Times, the property was flanked by fairways and purchased by the now-billionaire for $2.5 million a decade ago. In March, Knight sold the parcel for $2 million.

Read more: Nike founder Phil Knight only hired accountants and lawyers to lead the company in its early days — here's why

Now, he's selling his nearby three-bedroom, three-bathroom home on the grounds of La Quinta Resort and Club community for $1.55 million. 

According to the property's listing, it boasts an open floorplan, plenty of natural light, and breathtaking mountain views in addition to golf course views. The 4,437-square-foot home sits on the 12th fairway of La Quinta Resort and Club's Mountain Course.

Keep reading for a look inside the home. Kay Bastasini of Desert Vintage Realty holds the listing.

SEE ALSO: Alex Rodriguez just sold his Hollywood Hills mansion at a loss — take a look inside the $4.4 million 'experimental' home he bought from Meryl Streep

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Phil Knight, the founder and premier shareholder of Nike, has an estimated net worth of $35.9 billion.

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He just listed a 4,437-square-foot home in La Quinta, California, for $1.55 million.

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The home is located on the 12th fairway of La Quinta Resort and Club's Mountain Course. It offers uninterrupted views of the area's leading golf destination.

Source: Desert Vintage Realtyvia Zillow



The home is separated from the fairway by light landscaping.

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The patio has both a pool and a spa.

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The home is equipped with floor-to-ceiling windows and sliding doors to ensure maximum natural light.

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The open floor plan connects the foyer, the living room, the dining room, and the kitchen.

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The kitchen has a breakfast bar, a center island, and granite counter tops throughout.

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The master bedroom has an octagonal shape with a vaulted ceiling, making the already spacious suite feel even larger. There are two other bedrooms.

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The private ensuite bathroom has an enormous shower and a spa-like soaking tub. There are two other bathrooms.

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15 things you're doing that make people dislike you immediately

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  • It's not hard to make someone dislike you, whether you're interacting online or in real life.
  • If you share something overly personal too soon or hide your emotions, for example, you may unwittingly repel people.
  • Even the smell of your sweat or a hard-to-pronounce last name — things that are mostly out of your control — can be a turn-off.
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Generally speaking, you've only got a few seconds to make someone want to spend more time with you.

And in those precious few seconds, everything matters — from your last name to the smell of your sweat (unfair and gross, we know).

Making a good first impression is vital when it comes to job interviews, first dates, or important meetings with your boss — therefore, it's really important to know if some of your behaviors are bringing people in, or totally turning them off.

Below, you'll find a list of 15 various scientific findings on the traits and behaviors that make people dislike you, both online and in person.

SEE ALSO: 14 habits of the most likable people

Sharing too many photos on Facebook

If you're the kind of person who shares snapshots of your honeymoon, cousin's graduation, and dog dressed in a Halloween costume all in the same day, you might want to stop.

A 2013 discussion paper from researchers at Birmingham Business School suggested that posting too many photos on Facebook could hurt your real-life relationships.

"This is because people, other than very close friends and relatives, don't seem to relate well to those who constantly share photos of themselves," lead study author David Houghton said in a release.

Specifically, friends don't like it when you've got too many photos of family, and relatives don't like it when you've got too many photos of friends.

Ben Marder, of the University of Edinburgh, also worked on the study and warned: "Be cautious when sharing and think how it will be perceived by all the others who may see it. Although sharing is a great way to better relationships, it can also damage them."



Having too many or too few Facebook friends

In a 2008 study, Michigan State University researchers asked college students to look at fictional Facebook profiles and decide how much they liked the profiles' owners.

Results showed that the "sweet spot" for likability was about 300 friends. Likability ratings were lowest when a profile owner had only about 100 friends, and almost as low when they had more than 300 friends.

As for why 300-plus friends could be a turn-off, the study authors write, "Individuals with too many friends may appear to be focusing too much on Facebook, friending out of desperation rather than popularity."

On the other hand, the college students doing the evaluation each had about 300 Facebook friends themselves. So the researchers acknowledge that in a population where the most common number of Facebook friends is 1,000, the sweet spot for likability could be 1,000.

Keep in mind, though, that a 2014 survey found that the average number of Facebook friends among adult users was 338.

Interestingly, the study also suggested that participants weren't consciously aware that they liked people less when they had too many or too few Facebook friends.



Disclosing something extremely personal early on in a relationship

In general, people like each other more after they've traded confidences. Self-disclosure is one of the best ways to make friends as an adult.

But psychologists say that disclosing something too intimate — say, that your sister is having an extramarital affair — while you're still getting to know someone can make you seem insecure and decrease your likability.

The key is to get just the right amount of personal. A 2013 study led by Susan Sprecher at Illinois State University suggests that simply sharing details about your hobbies and your favorite childhood memories can make you seem warmer and more likable.



Asking someone questions without talking about yourself at all

That same 2013 study by Sprecher found an important caveat to the idea that self-disclosure predicts closeness: It has to be mutual. People generally like you less if you don't reciprocate when they disclose something intimate.

In the study, unacquainted participants either engaged in back-and-forth self-disclosure or took turns self-disclosing for 12 minutes each while the other listened. Results showed that participants in the back-and-forth group liked each other significantly more.

As the authors write, "Although shy or socially anxious people may ask questions of the other to detract attention from themselves, our research shows that this is not a good strategy for relationship initiation. Both participants in an interaction need to disclose to generate mutual closeness and liking."



Posting a close-up profile photo

If your LinkedIn profile features an image of your face practically smushed up against the camera, you'd be wise to change it.

Research from 2012 suggests that faces photographed from just 45 centimeters — about 1.5 feet — away are considered less trustworthy, attractive, and competent than faces photographed from 135 centimeters, about 4.5 feet, away.



Hiding your emotions

Research suggests that letting your real feelings come through is a better strategy for getting people to like you than bottling it all up.

In one 2016 study, the University of Oregon researchers videotaped people watching two movie scenes: the fake-orgasm part of the movie "When Harry Met Sally" and a sad scene from "The Champ." In some cases, the movie-watchers were instructed to react naturally; in another, they were instructed to suppress their emotions.

College students then watched the four versions of the videos. Researchers measured how much interest the students expressed in befriending the people in the videos, as well as their assessments of the personalities of the people in the clips.

Results showed that suppressors were judged less likable — as well as less extroverted and agreeable — than people who emoted naturally.

The researchers wrote: "People … do not pursue close relationships indiscriminately — they probably look for people who are likely to reciprocate their investments. So when perceivers detect that someone is hiding their emotions, they may interpret that as a disinterest in the things that emotional expression facilitates — closeness, social support, and interpersonal coordination."



Acting too nice

It makes logical sense that the nicer and more altruistic you seem, the more people will like you. But some science suggests otherwise.

In a 2010 study, researchers at Washington State University and the Desert Research Institute had college students play a computer game with four other players, who were really manipulations by the researchers.

Here's how one of the study authors explained the study procedure in The Harvard Business Review: "Each participant was placed in a five-person group, but did not see its other members. Each was given endowments that they could in their turn choose to keep or return, in whole or in part. There was some incentive to maximize one's holdings, but not an obvious one."

"The participants were told that, at the end of the semester, a random drawing of their names would be held and those few who were chosen would have their holdings converted to Dining Services coupons redeemable at campus eateries."

Some of the fake participants would give up lots of points and only take a few vouchers — a rather altruistic behavior. As it turns out, most participants said they wouldn't want to work with their unselfish teammate again.

In a similar, follow-up experiment in the same study, some said the unselfish teammate made them look bad; others suspected they had ulterior motives.



Humblebragging

In an effort to impress friends and potential employers, some people disguise bragging as self-criticism. This behavior, otherwise known as "humblebragging," could be a turn-off, according to a working paper from Harvard Business School.

The authors of that paper asked college students to write down how they'd answer a question about their biggest weakness in a job interview. The results suggested that more than three-quarters of participants humblebragged, usually about being a perfectionist or working too hard.

Yet independent research assistants said they'd be more likely to hire the participants who were honest, and found them significantly more likable. Those students said things like, "I'm not always the best at staying organized" and "sometimes I overreact to situations."

Another alternative in a job-interview situation is to talk about weaknesses that don't directly relate to the position — for example, a fear of public speaking if you're applying for a writing role.



Getting too nervous

Never let 'em see — or smell — you sweat. Research suggests that the odor of your nervous sweat may subconsciously influence people's judgments of your personality.

In 2013, researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center had participants watch videos of women in everyday situations, like working in an office and taking care of a child. While watching the videos, they sniffed three kinds of sweat: sweat that someone had produced while exercising, sweat produced during a stressful situation, and sweat produced during a stressful situation that had been covered up with antiperspirant.

Participants were then asked to rate the women on how competent, confident, and trustworthy they seemed.

Results showed that participants rated the women lower on all measures when they smelled the stress-induced sweat. When they smelled the stress sweat that had been covered up with antiperspirant, they rated the women more positively.



Not smiling

When you're at a networking event and meeting lots of new people, it can be hard to keep a smile plastered on your face. Try anyway.

In 2016, researchers at Stanford University and the University of Duisburg-Essen found that students who interacted with each other through avatars felt more positively about the interaction when the avatar displayed a bigger smile.

Bonus: A 2015 study found that smiling when you first meet someone helps ensure that they'll remember you later.



Including a smiling emoticon in an email

Here's where things get confusing. Even though smiling in person can make you more likeable, research suggests smiling virtually can work to your detriment — especially in more formal settings.

2017 article published by researchers in Israel and the Netherlands found that including smiling emoticons in an email makes you seem less competent — and doesn't make you seem warmer.

In the first of a series of studies, participants read an email that included either just text or text plus a smiley. The email was written by a hypothetical project teammate. Results showed that the hypothetical teammate was perceived as only slightly warmer and as significantly less competent when the person included a smiley.



Having a hard-to-pronounce name

We know: This one's really not fair.

But here's the science: A 2012 study by researchers at the University of Melbourne, the University of Leuven, and New York University found that people with more complicated last names are judged more negatively.

In one experiment included in the study, undergraduate participants read a mock newspaper article about a man running for an upcoming local council election. Some participants read about a man with a relatively easy-to-pronounce last name (Lazaridis or Paradowska); others read about a man with a harder-to-pronounce name (Vougiouklakis and Leszczynska).

As it turns out, participants who'd read about the man with the simpler name said that candidate was a better fit for the government position than participants who'd read about the man with the more complicated name.



Name-dropping

It can be tempting to mention that famous author who graduated from your alma mater or that time you met Kylie Jenner in order to impress your conversation partner. But the tactic can backfire.

That's according to researchers at the University of Zurich. In 2009, they published a study suggesting that name-dropping makes people seem both less likable and less competent.

For the study, University of Zurich students interacted with "partners" via email (the emails had really been generated by the researchers).

In some emails, the partner mentioned that Roger Federer was his friend and that they'd worked out together. In other emails, the partner only mentioned that Federer was a friend. In another set of emails, the partner mentioned that he or she was a fan of Federer. And in some emails, the partner didn't mention Federer at all.

Results showed that the stronger the supposed association between the partner and Federer, the fewer participants liked their partner. The researchers found that was largely because participants felt their partners were manipulative.



Offering a weak handshake

Extend a limp noodle to a new acquaintance and you could undermine the positive impression you're trying to make, according to an article by psychologist John D. Mayer published in Psychology Today.

2000 University of Alabama study found that people could predict the personalities of undergraduates they shook hands with. Specifically, the handshake raters intuited that the students with firm handshakes were more positive, more outgoing, and less socially anxious.

Meanwhile, a 2008 study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology found that, in mock interviews, students who had a firmer handshake at the beginning of the interview were ultimately perceived as more hireable.



Acting like you don't like someone

Psychologists have known for a while about a phenomenon called "reciprocity of liking": When we think someone likes us, we tend to like them as well.

In 2009, researchers at the University of Waterloo and the University of Manitoba found that when we expect people to accept us, we act warmer toward them — thereby increasing the chances that they really will like us. So even if you're not sure how a person you're interacting with feels about you, act like you like them and they'll probably like you back.

If, on the other hand, you don't express fondness for the person you're meeting, you could potentially turn them off.

 

 



The FDA just leveled a stark warning against using any vapes containing THC amid an outbreak of lung disease

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  • The FDA is warning consumers not to use any THC-containing vapes, whether purchased on the street or in retail stores, amid a lung disease outbreak.
  • So far, the lung disease outbreak has sickened 1,080 people in the US, with 18 deaths reported, the CDC said on Thursday.
  • The FDA has also opened a criminal probe into the matter. 

The Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to purchase or use any vaporizers that contain THC amid an outbreak of vape-related illnesses.

So far, the outbreak has sickened 1,080 people in the US with 18 deaths reported, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday. Of the 578 cases that researchers have information on, 78% of them indicated they had used THC-containing products.

"[T]he agency believes it is prudent to stop using vaping products that contain THC or that have had any substances added to them, including those purchased from retail establishments. Simply put, inhaling harmful contaminants in the lungs could put a patient's health at risk and should be avoided," the FDA said in a statement from acting director Norman Sharpless.

Read more: A California cannabis lab tested counterfeit vapes and found high levels of dangerous chemicals including vitamin E, pesticides, and hydrogen cyanide

While the FDA has not yet identified the specific cause of the illnesses, some experts have pointed to chemicals like vitamin E acetate — which are used to thicken the oil in illicit vape cartridges — as a potential cause.

The FDA is continuing to investigate the illnesses and has not ruled out nicotine-containing e-cigarettes and co-use with THC products, and has not been able to determine if there is a specific substance associated with all of the cases, the agency said. 

The FDA has also opened a criminal investigation into vaping illnesses.

"If we determine that someone is manufacturing or distributing illicit, adulterated vaping products that caused illness and death for personal profit, we would consider that to be a criminal act," the agency said. 

"As this complex investigation continues, we urge consumers to take heed of our warning and stop using THC vaping products, and to not use vaping products of any kind that are purchased off the street or from unknown sources." 

States including Massachusetts have put bans in place on the sale of THC vapes, and other states are weighing limited bans.

Despite the FDA's warning on all THC vapes, Business Insider reported on a study that showed illicit vapes contained harmful chemicals including pesticides and vitamin E acetate, while legal vapes purchased in California dispensaries did not contain any of these chemicals. 

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American vs. Delta vs. United — we compared the 3 most popular airline credit cards

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  • If you fly even just a couple times a year, it's worth having an airline credit card.
  • The perks and benefits that come with these cards, such as free checked bags, priority boarding, and lounge passes, that make flying easier and more enjoyable — and can save you money.
  • We compared some of the most popular mainstream credit cards from the three big US airlines — American, United, and Delta.
  • The Gold Delta SkyMiles® Credit Card from American Express is worth an extra-close look right now, as it's offering a welcome bonus of 60,000 miles after you spend $2,000 in the first three months (but only until October 30).

One of the best ways to earn a bunch of frequent flyer miles quickly is to open an airline credit card and earn the new card member bonus.

While a card that earns transferable points — like the Chase Sapphire Preferred Card — typically has more valuable and flexible rewards than fixed program cards, airline cards win in two respects.

If you generally fly with one preferred airline and earn frequent flyer miles on that program when you travel, it can make sense to earn the same kind of miles from your credit card. Between the mileage earned from both, your miles will add up quicker.

Also, airline credit cards come with various perks specific to that airline that can save you a ton of time and money. Things like complimentary checked bags, priority boarding, and even day passes to airport lounges will have you feeling like you're flying first class even when you're in basic economy.

Each of the three major US airlines (American, Delta, and United) offer a few different credit cards, but among the most popular are the "mainstream" cards. These products have annual fees between $95 and $99 — often waived the first year — and feature benefits that appeal to everyone from casual fliers to road warriors.

While they all have similar features and benefits and all offer a great value to cardholders, we've compared them and found that one stands out above the rest. Read on to see which one it is.

Keep in mind that we're focusing on earning rewards and perks, not things like interest rates and late fees, which can far outweigh the value of any rewards or benefits.

When you're working to earn credit card rewards or take advantage of travel benefits, it's important to practice financial discipline, like paying your balances off in full each month, making payments on time, and not spending more than you can afford to pay back — or spending more than you would otherwise. Basically, treat your credit card like a debit card.

Click here to learn more about the United Explorer Card.

Click here to learn more about the Gold Delta SkyMiles card.

First up is the Gold Delta SkyMiles Card from American Express.

Welcome bonus: Earn 60,000 Delta miles after you make $2,000 in Delta purchases in the first three months. Plus, receive a $50 statement credit when you make a Delta purchase in the first three months. This offer is available until October 30, 2019.

Annual fee: $0 introductory annual fee for the first year, then $95

Earning miles: 2 miles per dollar spent on Delta purchases, and 1 mile per dollar on everything else

Top benefits: Free checked bag on Delta flights, priority boarding, 20% off in-flight purchases, no foreign transaction fees

In addition to the welcome offer, the Gold Delta Amex card comes with a handful of incredibly useful — and valuable — perks.

If you have the card open, you get a free checked bag on Delta flights, as does each other person on your reservation. Delta normally charges $30 for the first checked bag on each flight — so $60 for a round-trip — meaning that for a family of four, the free checked bag benefit could save $240.

The card also offers priority boarding to everyone on the cardholder's reservation. If you aren't checking a bag, that can come in useful — by boarding a little earlier, you'll get better access to the overhead compartments and won't have to worry about space running out. 

For those who travel periodically, but not often enough to justify investing in a lounge membership (or getting access to Delta Sky Club lounges through the Amex Platinum Card), the Gold Delta SkyMiles card also offers discounted day passes to Delta's lounges: $29 per person. That can be a useful backup to have in case you ever find yourself with a long layover or a delay.

Other benefits include a 20% discount on in-flight purchases (in the form of a statement credit), such as food or drinks, and no foreign transaction fees.

While the Gold Delta card is a great option, you may also want to consider the Platinum version (the Platinum Delta SkyMiles® Credit Card from American Express). Although it has a higher annual fee —$195, not waived the first year — it offers a companion pass each year on your cardmember anniversary. You can learn more about the companion pass benefit and the Platinum SkyMiles card here.

Note that starting in 2020, Delta credit cards will be updated with new benefits including additional 2x bonus categories for earning miles (US supermarkets and restaurants) and a $100 Delta flight credit after you spend $10,000 on the card in a year. The Gold Delta Amex annual fee will also be increasing to $99.

Click here to learn more about the Gold Delta SkyMiles card.



Next is the United Explorer Card.

Welcome bonus: Earn 40,000 United miles after you spend $2,000 in the first three months. (While the card has occasionally offered higher targeted bonuses, those don't always waive the $95 annual fee for the first year — this current public offer does.)

Annual fee: $0 introductory annual fee the first year, then $95

Earning miles: 2 miles per dollar spent on United purchases and at restaurants and on hotel stays, 1 mile per dollar on everything else

Top benefits: Free checked bag, priority boarding, two complimentary United Club lounge passes each year, up to a $100 application fee credit for TSA PreCheck or Global Entry, access to additional award space, no foreign transaction fees

The United Explorer Card from Chase is a solid option for United flyers. Like the other airlines' sub-$100 cards, the United card offers a free checked bag for the cardholder. Up to two traveling companions booking at the same time can also get a free checked bag each. This is especially useful since United raised the price of a checked bag to $30.

Unlike the other airlines' cards, though, you'll have to actually buy the tickets with the United card in order to get the free checked bags — simply having the card open and tied to your account isn't enough.

For those who don't have luggage to check, the card offers priority boarding for everyone on your reservation — you'll get this benefit even if you pay for the tickets with another card. By boarding earlier, you can make sure to snag overhead space for your carry-on.

One excellent perk with the United card is that you'll get two complimentary passes to United Club lounges each year. If you get to the airport early or end up dealing with a delay, you can head to the lounge and enjoy free snacks, drinks, Wi-Fi, and more comfortable seating than what you'd find in the terminal. 

When you spend $25,000 in a calendar year, you'll also get a PQD waiver — PQDs, or "Premier Qualifying Dollars," count toward earning elite status with the airline. When that requirement is waived, you'll earn status just based on how much you've flown, rather than a combination of how much you've flown and how much you've spent that year.

The card earns 2 miles per dollar spent on all United purchases, and it also earns 2x miles on all dining and hotel spending. It will continue earning 1x mile on everything else. There are no foreign transaction fees.

Other features include a fee credit to cover the cost of enrolling in Global Entry/TSA PreCheck, and a 25% discount on all in-flight United purchases.

One unique — but unpublished — perk of the card is that having it helps you access additional United award space. That means that you'll have an easier time finding the flights you want when it's time to actually use your miles.

Click here to learn more about the United Explorer card.



Finally there's American Airlines: the Citi/AAdvantage Platinum Select World Elite Mastercard.

Welcome bonus: Earn 50,000 American Airlines miles after you spend $2,500 in the first three months.

Annual fee: $99; waived for the first 12 months

Earning miles: 2 miles per dollar spent on American Airlines purchases, at gas stations, and restaurants, 1 mile per dollar on everything else

Top benefits: Free checked bag on domestic flights, preferred boarding, 25% off in-flight food and beverages, no foreign transaction fees

50,000 miles (or at least 52,500, when you factor in the miles you'll earn for completing the minimum spending requirement) can get you far on American Airlines — as long as you can find "SAAver" availability. Based on American Airlines' award chart, it's nearly enough miles for a round-trip flight to Europe or South America during peak season, a one-way ticket to Europe in business class, or at least two domestic round-trips (or more, depending on the distance).

The Citi/AAdvantage Platinum card earns 2 miles per dollar spent on American Airlines purchases, and Citi also recently added a few new bonus categories — new card members will earn 2x miles on restaurants and at gas stations, too. You'll earn 1 mile per dollar on everything else.

The card comes with a suite of useful benefits for American Airlines flyers.

You and up to four companions traveling on the same reservation each get a free checked bag on domestic flights (since American Airlines is a full-service carrier, most international flights include the first checked bag for free). Because the first checked bag is usually $25 each way, this benefit can save you $50 on a round-trip itinerary.

In addition, you and everyone on your reservation get preferred boarding — joining an earlier boarding zone. That gives you more time to settle in — and earlier access to the overhead bins, so that you can make sure you'll have room to store your bag.

A small, but useful new perk: When you spend $20,000 or more on the card in a card membership year, you'll get a $125 discount on your next American Airlines flight (that's in addition to the miles you'll earn on those purchases).

The card also offers a 25% discount on in-flight purchases, such as food and drinks, and access to discounted mileage award flights.



How do the cards stack up?

Each card has strengths and weaknesses. Let's look at each:

Delta: the Gold Delta SkyMiles card from American Express

Pros:

  • Free first checked bag for you and any traveling companions, regardless of whether or not you use the card to buy your tickets
  • Priority boarding
  • Discounted day passes for Delta Sky Club lounges — though this benefit will be discontinued in 2020
  • Discounts on in-flight purchases

Cons:

  • No bonus earning categories (besides Delta purchases), but this is changing in 2020, when the card will offer 2x miles on US supermarket purchases and at restaurants
  • No extras (like a discount on flights, extra points, or help toward elite status) if you spend a lot on the card in a year, but in 2020 the card will add a $100 Delta flight credit when you spend $10,000 in a calendar year

United Airlines: the Explorer Card from Chase

Pros:

  • 2x miles on dining and hotels, as well as on United purchases
  • Two complimentary United Club lounge passes each year
  • Priority boarding for you and your travel companions
  • Discount on in-flight purchases, Global Entry/TSA PreCheck credit
  • Access to additional saver-level award seats

Cons:

  • To get the first checked bag free, you'll have to use the card to buy your tickets
  • The free checked bag is only extended to up to two traveling companions — that's not helpful if you're traveling with a family of four

American Airlines: the Citi/AAdvantage Platinum Select

Pros:

  • 2x points on dining and gas — not just on airline purchases
  • Offers a solid sign-up bonus
  • Free first checked bag for you and up to four traveling companions, regardless of whether or not you use the card to buy your tickets
  • Priority boarding
  • $100 discount on an American Airlines flight if you spend $20,000 in a year
  • Discount on in-flight purchases

Cons:

  • No lounge passes or discounts
  • No spending bonus that counts toward elite status


So, which is best?

The best card is the one for whichever airline you find the most useful. Although there are some differences between them, each of these cards comes with a version of free checked bags and priority boarding, which are the most valuable reasons to have the cards. Plus, they help you earn more miles — and quickly.

However, if you're ambivalent about your choice of airline, the Citi/AAdvantage card for American Airlines is probably the most appealing card right now.

Between 2x miles on several categories and a solid sign-up bonus, this card represents a great value. However, keep in mind that it's always possible that the sign-up bonus increases at some point in the future, although there's no guarantee.

However, starting on January 30, 2020, the Gold Delta Amex will give the Citi AAdvantage card a run for its money thanks to the introduction of new bonus categories and perks. But it could be worth applying before those new benefits take effect in order to lock in the higher welcome bonus available now.

As benefits continue to be added and removed — and, crucially, as sign-up bonuses and welcome offers fluctuate — this evaluation could always change. One way or another, an airline card is a must-have and represents significant value for anyone who flies even just a few times a year.

Click here to learn more about the United Explorer card.

Click here to learn more about the Gold Delta SkyMiles card.

This content is not provided by the card issuers. Any opinions, analyses, reviews or recommendations expressed here are those of the authors' alone, and have not been reviewed, approved or otherwise endorsed by any issuer.



How to change the language on a Samsung Galaxy S10, and choose among regional variations

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  • You can change the language on your Samsung Galaxy S10 between about a dozen different languages, and even more regional variations.
  • When you change the language on your Galaxy S10, the entire phone (including many third-party apps) will use that language.
  • You can choose a language in the Settings app, in the "General Management" section. 
  • After you change your Galaxy S10's language, you can quickly switch languages later through the Language settings page. 
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Your Samsung Galaxy S10 supports close to a dozen languages. In addition to English, you can use it in Spanish, French, German, Korean, Chinese, and more. 

Once you've set a new language, all of the screens, menus, and dialog boxes on your phone will appear in the selected language. Many third-party apps will change, too. 

You can add multiple languages to your Galaxy S10, and switch among them easily.

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How to change the language on the Samsung Galaxy S10 for the first time

1. Start the Settings app.

2. Tap "General Management."

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3. Tap "Language and input."

4. Tap "Language."

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5. If this is your first time changing the language on your phone, you should see only an entry for English, and the option to add a language. Tap "Add language."

6. Tap the language you want to add to your phone. You'll now see all the regional variations that are available — for example, English (US) and English (UK).

7. Tap the desired region. 

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8. In the pop-up window at the bottom of the screen, tap "Set as default."

The phone has now been set to the new language, and you should see all the text change accordingly. 

How to change the language on the Samsung Galaxy S10 after adding languages

Once you've added a language to the Galaxy S10, you don't need to "add" it again — you can simply select it from the list of default languages on the Language page. 

1. Start the Settings app.

2. Tap "General Management."

3. Tap "Language and input."

4. Tap "Language."

5. Find the language you want to use and drag it to the top of the list using the arrows on the right edge of the screen. 

6. Tap "Apply." (The Apply button will be in whatever the current language is.)

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Ritz-Carlton's first-ever yacht — a luxury cruise ship for the '1% of global travelers' — is reportedly delayed and millions over budget. Here's a closer look at the planned design.

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The Ritz-Carlton Hotel's launch of its debut cruise ship has been delayed by four months, reported Jessica Montevago for Travel Market Report. A spokesperson for the Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection told Business Insider "the yacht's first voyage will now take place on June 14, 2020."

The spokesperson didn't comment on reports that the project is over budget by roughly $55 million, as reported by Montevago.

In 2017, the brand revealed plans for its luxury cruise line, with three cruise ships set to begin sailing in early 2020. In 2018, reservations were finally opened for its inaugural 2020 season, now pushed to mid-year.

Somewhere between a private superyacht and a small ocean liner, the Ritz-Carlton cruise ships will accommodate the "the 1% of global travelers," according to Bloomberg. Starting prices for voyages can range anywhere from $3,100 to $10,100, depending on length of trip and location.

The new Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection is designed to defy all cruise ship stereotypes, with larger rooms, relaxing common spaces, and an on-board spa. The cruise ships boast 149 suites — each with their own private terrace — accommodating up to 298 guests. There will also be high-end dining options, including a restaurant from Sven Elverfeld of Aqua— the three Michelin-starred restaurant at The Ritz-Carlton, Wolfsburg.

"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 a press release.

"From the yacht's design, to programming onboard and ashore, every aspect of the voyage has been carefully created to embody the signature service and casual luxury of a Ritz-Carlton resort," said Lisa Holladay, Global Brand Leader for The Ritz-Carlton, in a news release.

Here's a look at one of the designs for the anticipated Ritz-Carlton cruise ship, created by the firm Tillberg Design of Sweden.

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Starting prices for voyages range from to $3,100 for four nights to $10,100 for 12 nights, depending on location. The all-inclusive fare comes with onboard gratuities, 24-hour in-suite dining, beverages in-suite and throughout the yacht, Wi-Fi, and onboard entertainment and enrichment.



The first of the three Ritz-Carlton cruise ships will set sail in 2020. With ten decks, it can accommodate up to 298 passengers and has a space ratio of more than 89 square feet per person.



The third deck features The Marina. With direct ocean access, it's the perfect spot to sunbathe and jump on a water toy or go for an ocean swim. There's also a terrace for a drink and a light bite.



Inside, there are endless glass walls, and elegantly comfortable decor. The living room is on the fourth deck. It features a library and turns into a cocktail lounge complete with piano bar and live music at night.



The main dining room, which serves locally inspired meals that change every day, and living room cafe with espresso counter and baked pastries are also on this level. The cafe also serves treats during the day and at night.



The pool is on the deck above, where guests can enjoy all-day dining, frozen treats, and water mistings. There are also a few whirlpools.



On deck six, there are two luxe restaurants and a Champagne bar which serves caviar pairings. Guests can indulge in the restaurant Aqua, designed by the chef behind the three Michelin-starred Aqua in the Wolfsburg Ritz-Carlton.



They can also enjoy Southeast Asian cuisine at Asian Fusion, which has a sushi bar. Guests can eat whenever they wish at any of the restaurants on board, rather than the traditional set meal times that are customary on cruises.



If that doesn't suit your fancy, there's always the outdoor grill on deck eight that serves fresh local catches for a sunny lunch or al fresco dinner.



Guests can work on their wellness on deck nine, which has a gym that offers offers personal training, sunrise yoga, and a wellness program customized for each guest. There's also spa with a full-service beauty lounge, sauna, steam room, and gentleman's grooming salon. Spa treatments can be enjoyed in a private room or al fresco.



On deck ten, you'll find a humidor and an observation lounge to soak in views of the endless blue, enjoy sunset cocktails, and dance into the night.



Across five of the decks are 149 rooms. Unlike most cruises, rooms will not be called staterooms, but rather, suites.



Each of the 149 suites has its own private terrace and comes with a dedicated personal assistant, who can do everything from making your dinner reservation to organizing a destination excursion.



Two of these suites are Owner's Suites, which are 1,098 square feet. They have two bathrooms and a private whirlpool on the 592 square-foot terrace.



The View Suites range from 571 square feet to 624 square feet and have stunning floor to ceiling windows.



At 700 square feet, the Loft Suites are two stories, with a luxurious modern living and dining area upstairs, and sleep area downstairs. They also have picture windows.



The Grand Suite is 635 square feet with a spacious terrace of 108 square feet.



There are also the Signature Suite and the Terrace Suite (shown here). Both are less than 500 square feet, but are still spacious and just as luxurious as the other suites, with impressive ocean views.



Certain suites can be combined into larger spaces "by removing soundproof, blind wall sections," Douglas Prothero, Managing Director of the Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection, told Forbes. This gives guests more accommodation flexibility.

Source: Forbes



Prothero also told Forbes The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection will have the highest staff to guest service ratio in the cruise industry, with almost as many staff members as guests to fulfill all your wishes.

Source: Forbes



During each trip, local talent — such as chefs, artists, and guest lectures — will join for a variety of entertainment throughout the cruise. There are also in-house classical and jazz musicians.



But there's also plenty of entertainment off board. Trip itineraries will offer less time at sea with more time to explore intimate, remote ports that bigger cruise ships don't have access to because of their size. Guests have the option to book back-to-back voyages without repeating ports.

Source: Forbes



Some voyages are packaged into themes. There's Escapes of Discovery, which explores the azure waters and sunshine of the eastern Caribbean, such as St. Lucia and the Grenadines.



There's also Yachting Playgrounds, with programs that cruise through the best of the Mediterranean: the Greek Isles, Balearic Islands, and French Riviera.



The Marquee Voyages are designed to take passengers to events around the world, such as the Monaco Grand Prix in Monte Carlo or the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo in Scotland.



There are also voyages for the holidays, from Thanksgiving to Christmas, and luxury crossing voyages for endless days at sea.



Baltic and Northern Europe voyages explore everything from the palaces of St. Petersburg and the glaciers of Iceland to the beaches of Normandy and Norway's fjords.



Voyages in Canada and New England take place in the autumn months, exploring fishing villages, Maine harbors, and Canadian maritime ports. There's also the chance for some whale watching.



To complement the unique itineraries, there are six themed shore excursion tracks. Iconic Sights can take one from the opera to a museum, Stirring the Senses has guests practicing yoga on a private beach and learning Feng Shui, and Active Explorations can involve snorkeling through a reef or zip-lining through a rainforest.



Epicurean Experiences can involve the behind-the-scenes of a Michelin-starred restaurant, visiting a winery with a sommelier, or learning to grow baby oysters in France, while Cultural Connections will have one helping the wildlife or environment. Guests can also opt for Concierge Ashore to customize a bespoke event.



'What are network settings on an iPhone?': A guide to your iPhone's network settings, and how to reset them

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  • Network settings on an iPhone are the options that control how your iPhone connects to Wi-Fi, and to your cellular network.
  • Sometimes, these settings can be misconfigured, and your iPhone will have trouble connecting to Wi-Fi or mobile data.
  • Resetting an iPhone's Network Settings should allow it to properly connect to the internet.
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There's nothing more frustrating than not being able to use your iPhone for what it was built to do, like scrolling through websites, loading apps, giving directions, sending emails — essentially, running your life. The link between all these tasks is that they all require an internet connection.

Occasionally, an iPhone is unable to access the internet, even when it says it's connected to Wi-Fi or mobile data. When this happens, it means that the device's network connection has been disrupted. 

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What network settings are on an iPhone

An iPhone's network settings control how the device connects to both Wi-Fi and the cellular network. You can easily reset your network settings to solve the problem, but first, it's important to ensure that you've accurately diagnosed the issue, as resetting network settings also resets stored Wi-Fi passwords and cellular settings. 

Make sure that your phone isn't in Airplane Mode, which turns off your phone's wireless features, that your Wi-Fi router is working properly and that you're within its reach, and that your phone is connected to the correct Wi-Fi network. 

If all of the above check out, try restarting your iOS device by turning the phone off and on.

If the problem persists, it's time to reset your network settings.

How to reset network settings on an iPhone 

1. Open the Settings app.

2. Tap the "General" tab.

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3. Scroll down to the end of the page and tap the "Reset" button.

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4. Tap "Reset Network Settings."

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5. If needed, enter your passcode. 

Your phone will take a moment to restart. Once it's back on, all your network settings will be cleared.

Note that by resetting your network settings, you're also resetting Wi-Fi networks and passwords, cellular settings, and VPN and APN settings, so be prepared to re-enter any previously stored Wi-Fi passwords. 

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This Burrow couch is made with full-grain leather that will last for years — here’s what it feels like and why it’s worth $3,800

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Burrow Nomad Leather Couch

  • After our 5-year-old faux leather couch started showing signs of wear, my husband and I decided to invest in a real leather couch. 
  • We tried a Nomad Leather King Sectional with a chaise and ottoman from Burrow, costing $3,790. 
  • It's definitely not cheap but it's customizable (so yours can definitely be less expensive than our set), ships directly to you within four days, and can be put together yourself to save installation fees. 
  • After using it for six months, I'd recommend it to anyone who has the budget and is looking for a classic leather couch that'll last years.

One of the most frustrating things about furniture (aside from said furniture shopping) is the delivery and installation. There are extra charges and 10-hour delivery windows that come and go — it just seems like an old-school way of doing things. 

When my husband and I were looking to replace our 5-year-old faux leather couch that was showing signs of wear, we decided to shop online and only at places that offered free delivery and had modular styles that we could put together ourselves. Like Ikea, but not. 

I've known about furniture startup Burrow for a few years but never had a reason to look at it much since we had a couch. Around the same time that we were looking to replace ours, Burrow launched a full-grain leather version of its popular Nomad couch.

We ended up getting the Nomad Leather King Sectional, a full-grain leather couch that would last years, if not, decades. We added a chaise and ottoman, all in black leather with walnut legs. The total cost was $3,790 — definitely not cheap or affordable by any means, but reasonable given the amount of pieces we ordered and the quality of the full-grain leather.

Six months in, there's still not a scratch, tear, or ripped seam to be found. And we've had young kids and dogs on it too. 

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Our new Burrow couch arrived in clearly labeled boxes and installation was tricky but manageable; it took about an hour

Burrow Nomad Leather Couch

The couch arrived a few days after ordering, and in several clearly labeled boxes. That was helpful as we unpacked boxes in the order of installation — seats first, then the side panels with low armrests, and finally, the legs. The chaise includes a long cushion that lays on top of a base and any seat you want, and the ottoman, well, it's an ottoman. 

Thee boxes also helpfully have holes for handles and easy carrying, and each item is wrapped in thick plastic so it doesn't get dirty during transit. We reused the plastic to carry our old couch to a local donation center. 

The couch a boxy modular design, so you can move the seats around however you want or even remove them to make your couch smaller, and the overall design and function of the couch will be the same.  

Once we took out different parts of the couch to assemble, there was a big initial cardboard smell, especially on the right side. Thankfully, it's up against a wall and the smell has since dissipated. 

Here are some of the specs of our king couch with the chaise and ottoman:

  • General Dimensions: 112 inches L x 36 inches W x 35 inches H
  • Seat Height: 17 inches
  • Arm Height: 23 inches
  • Seat Depth: 22 inches
  • Leg Height: 7 inches
  • Chaise Length: 61 inches
  • Ottoman General Dimensions: 26 inches L x 26 inches W x 17 inches H
  • Seat Height: 17 inches
  • Seat Depth: 26 inches
  • Leg Height: 7 inches

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Burrow Nomad Leather Couch

Instruction manuals are provided and easy to follow, so we didn't have any trouble there. You basically put two seats next to each other and secure with a metal latch between the seats and on the underside, then you move onto the other seats and armrests.

We had a lot of issues connecting the seats though because the metal latches between and under the seats were so hard to find and secure. One person would have to use their entire body weight to force the seats flush against each other while the other would fumble around with the latches. 

It took about an hour to set up the couch because of the latch issues, but some reviewers said it took 15 to 20 minutes. I'd imagine the latches were hard to deal with because the seats are well-padded and extend past their wooden frames, but if there's a way to make this process more efficient in the future, I'm all for it. If it weren't for the latches, I would imagine it'd take us much less time too. 

The couch has a wooden frame covered in full-grain leather, but the underside is covered in thin fabric and secured with staples that is surprisingly cheap for such an expensive piece of furniture

Burrow Nomad Leather Couch

The general frame of the couch is made with Baltic Birch, a type of light-colored wood that resists warping. So far, I haven't had any issues with the seats bending in the six months we've had the couch. 

But the underside is covered in thin black fabric secured via staples that is unexpectedly cheap for a $3,000+ couch. During installation, I accidentally ripped through the fabric as I was securing one of the latches and I noticed that one of the staples is just a little too close to the edge and is exposed when looking at the couch straight on.

Thankfully, both issues are on the underside of the couch so you don't see anything. These are things I wouldn't expect from a couch that costs so much and especially when it's made with full-grain leather, but I guess there are bigger issues to have. 

The Burrow couch has held up well in the past six months we've had it — the frame is sturdy and the leather hasn't ripped  

Burrow Nomad Leather Couch

Despite doubling as a trampoline for two kids and a bed for a dog (sadly, neither are ours), the couch still looks great and the frame hasn't warped or bent anywhere. It's really sturdy and doesn't shift or squeak.  

My husband has had a full-grain leather wallet for the past five years, so if that's any indication of quality, our couch will last a long time. Full-grain leather is the highest quality of leather and ages well; it'll develop a slightly glossy patina with variations in color. 

Despite the quality, I was personally worried about the feel and that it would get sticky and gross during the summer, but it was actually quite cool even after sitting on it for hours watching "Veronica Mars." 

The seat cushions were initially too padded for my liking, but it has squished down slightly. I guess that's a good problem to have though since that means the seats are well-padded and comfortable. There's a strip of fabric on the edge of the cushion so it doesn't slide down the seat, a thoughtful design detail that goes a long way. 

The couch also has a built-in USB charger which is tech-y and helpful, especially for guests crashing on our couch.

Read more: Sofa startup Burrow has launched a 'sleep kit' that makes the couch a more comfortable place for guests to crash

If you have the budget, I'd suggest taking a look at Burrow's full-grain Nomad couches for their durability, ease of set up, and modular design

Couches aren't cheap in general, but given the quality of Burrow's full-grain leather, I'd recommend the investment. Similar to a bed, you're sitting on it for hours every day so you should prioritize quality and durability if you can. We have a full set (four-seater couch with a chaise and ottoman) so ours was expensive. But depending on the size you need, it can be a lot cheaper. 

This is Burrow's first leather couch so there are definitely certain things that can be improved down the road such as a different fabric for the underside of the seats and the staples, but ultimately, these are small issues that didn't impact quality or integrity.   

Buy the Nomad Leather King Sectional, $3,295 at Burrow 

Buy the Nomad Leather King Sectional with Ottoman, $3,790 at Burrow

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How to soft reset or factory reset a Nintendo Switch to fix software issues and glitches

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  • You can soft reset a Nintendo Switch that's experiencing software errors to help restore it to working order.
  • If a soft reset doesn't work, or if you want to wipe the Switch's system clean before you get rid of the console, you should perform a factory reset.
  • A factory reset will erase all of your data and can't be undone, so only take this step if you're sure it's warranted.
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If your Nintendo Switch is freezing, lagging, or experiencing other glitches during use, you should try a soft reset to get the system running properly again. This essentially entails turning it off and then back on again.

On the other hand, if you want to wipe all your data off the Switch, such as before you sell it, donate it, or send the system in for repairs, you might want to complete a factory reset.

Here's how to do both.

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How to reset a Nintendo Switch

Soft reset

1. Press the small circular power button on top of the Switch console, and hold it down until the system powers off. This should take about ten to fifteen seconds.

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2. Wait a few seconds, then press the power button again.

3. The Switch should display the Nintendo logo, and then turn on again within a few moments.

On the other hand, if you want to wipe all your data off the Switch, you might want to complete a factory reset. This is a good idea if you want to sell it, or donate it.

Factory reset

1. Launch the System Settings page from the toolbar under your games and apps. Its icon is a gray gear.

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2. In System Settings menu, scroll to the bottom of the left menu and select "System."

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3. In the System menu, scroll all the way down to the words "Formatting Options" and select them.

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4. Now scroll down to "Initialize Console" and select it.

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5. On the next screen, click "Next" to confirm your choice and reset the console.

It'll take a few moments for the console to wipe all your data.

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The cofounders of Juul have both lost their billionaire status after less than 10 months in the 3-comma club

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Juul cofounders Adam Bowen and James Monsees are no longer billionaires, according to Forbes estimates. 

The majority of the pair's respective net worths are tied to their 1.75% stakes in the e-cigarette maker, Forbes' Sergei Klebnikov reported. One of the company's biggest investors, hedge fund Darsana Capital Partners, reportedly cut the company's valuation by more than a third on October 3, slicing Bowen and Monsees' net worths, too. The pair first became billionaires in December 2018.

Juul did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment on Bowen and Monsees' net worths or their status as billionaires.

Read more: The precarious path of e-cig startup Juul: From Silicon Valley darling to $38 billion behemoth under criminal investigation

Juul is now worth $24 billion, down from the $38 billion valuation the company hit after an investment from tobacco maker Altria in December 2018, Markets Insider previously reported. Altria's $13 billion investment made Bowen and Monsees billionaires for nearly ten months, according to Forbes estimates. 

The pair founded Juul after meeting on smoke breaks while studying product design at Stanford University in 2004, Business Insider previously reported. Ploom, a precursor to Juul, was launched in 2007 and first released Juul products in 2015. The company's Juul line was spun into a separate firm in 2017.

Juul has faced widespread public concern over its youth-focused marketing and the long-term health impacts of its products amid a rising number of vaping-related illnesses and deaths. The Trump administration is currently exploring a ban on flavored vaping products, The Wall Street Journal reported. Such products are responsible for nearly 80% of Juul's sales in the US, according to The Journal. The e-cigarette maker is also reportedly under criminal investigation by the US Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California.

Juul CEO Kevin Burnes resigned on September 25. Juul also said it would suspend US advertising and some lobbying efforts. Additionally, the company is preparing to scale back its staff, The Wall Street Journal reported on September 24.

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