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9 celebrities who say they'll move to Canada if Donald Trump becomes president

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With Election Day close and a Donald Trump presidency appearing increasingly likely, some of Hollywood's left-leaning stars are preparing to emigrate to the country up north if things go sour for them.

"Breaking Bad" actor Bryan Cranston is the latest celebrity to suggest that he would leave the US for Canada in the event of a Trump victory in Tuesday's election.

He joins the likes of Barbara Streisand, Chelsea Handler, and several others who are planning to cross the border into the land of liberal prime minister Justin Trudeau should Hillary Clinton lose. 

Here are 9 celebrities who say they'll move to Canada if Donald Trump becomes president:

SEE ALSO: 41 celebrities who are taking a strong stand against Donald Trump

Bryan Cranston

The "Breaking Bad" star, who previously called Trump an "anomaly to the human race," told The Bestseller Experiment podcast this week that he would "absolutely" move to Canada if Trump is elected president.

"I would definitely move," he said. "It's not real to me that that would happen. I hope to God it won't."



Chelsea Handler

While interviewing Univision's Jorge Ramos on her Netflix talk show last month, Chelsea Handler said she is "going to need to go to Canada if [Trump] gets elected."

"I don't know what the rules are to move there but a lot of us are feeling that way," she added. "A lot of us are going to want to leave the country."



Stephen King

In an interview with The Washington Post in September, best-selling horror fiction author Stephen King said he'd move to Canada from his home state of Maine because "a Trump presidency scares [him] more than anything else."

"It scares me to death. To the point where I've actually thought of moving to Canada, which is close to Maine," he said. "And I can hear a lot of my conservative friends saying, 'Ah, good! Go! Get out of here!'"



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5 easy ways to make your home look more expensive, according to 2 top real estate brokers in New York City

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Tom Postilio and Mickey Conlon are big players in the New York City real estate world. As stars of HGTV's "Selling New York," the two are known for their innovative marketing tactics and have closed $1.5 billion in residential sales. 

One of their most valuable tactics for selling property quickly and at its estimated market value is staging: reorganizing and designing rooms within a home to help potential buyers envision what it might look like if they were to move in.

While Postilio and Conlon generally work with a stager on massive projects that can cost up to six figures, the two have a number of valuable tips for sellers who want to try it themselves and are on a budget.

We got five of their most important tips on how to ready your home before it goes on the market:

SEE ALSO: 2 of New York's top real estate brokers share their best tactic for selling a home faster and for more money

Get your windows washed.

"The first rule is wash your windows," Conlon said. "The first thing that [potential buyers] do is gravitate toward the view. [If it's not washed] it's like looking at the world through dirty eye glasses."



Declutter by throwing things away, not stuffing it into a closet.

"Declutter," Postilio advised. 

Conlon agreed: "People have 400 bottles of shampoo on the floor of their shower, and you've just got to clear that stuff out. Instead of putting it in closets, throw it out, because storage is another important thing for [potential buyers]. If they don't feel like there's enough for their stuff, you're selling yourself short."



Make sure all bedrooms are staged as bedrooms.

These two advise against making one of a home's bedrooms into a media room or home office during the staging process. "We're always of the mind set for the resale value and getting the most that we can for our seller, and we want [potential buyers] to be able to [see] all the bedrooms [as bedrooms]," Postilio said.

"It's easier [for the potential buyer] to imagine the reverse," Conlon said.



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The PlayStation 4 Pro is about to launch — here's everything you need to know

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For the second time in 2016, Sony's on the verge of releasing a brand new version of its wildly successful PlayStation 4 game console.

This is the PlayStation 4 Pro:

PlayStation Pro

The console, which is set to launch on November 10 for $399, is a serious upgrade from the original PS4 in terms of horsepower. With some games, it's capable of producing much higher resolutions — prettier graphics — in addition to stuff like faster load times.

There is, of course, much more to know about the new PlayStation 4 Pro. And you want to be a pro on the Pro, right? Right.

SEE ALSO: Here's how the new PlayStation 4 Pro can make all your games look more gorgeous, even if you don't own a 4K TV

DON'T MISS: Here is every game that will be enhanced by the new PS4 Pro at launch

The PlayStation 4 Pro is a pretty big jump in power.

The PlayStation 4 Pro is slightly different internally from the current PS4. It's not a gigantic jump in power, but it is a notable lift. Here's the full rundown:

— Support for 4K resolution and high dynamic range (or HDR) on TVs that support them.

— More graphics processing power so traditional and virtual reality games can look and perform better.

— A 1TB hard drive.

Here's how Sony describes it:

"PS4 Pro’s advanced graphics processor unit incorporates many features from AMD’s latest 'Polaris' architecture, as well as some fully custom hardware innovations, and is considerably more powerful than the GPU included in the standard PS4."



But the PlayStation 5 this is not.

If you already own a PlayStation 4: Relax! You don't need to run out and buy a PS4 Pro. Again, every game that comes out for the Pro will also work on the regular PS4.

While there may be something called the PlayStation 5 someday, that's not what this is. This is an upgrade to the current PS4 that will allow developers to do a little more than they could before because technology moves quickly. 



Even though the PS4 Pro is more powerful, it's not getting any exclusive games. This is a technical upgrade.

Let's be totally clear: The PlayStation 4 Pro is intended for people who own 4K televisions (the next step after HD). Functionally, it's identical to the original PlayStation 4 (2013) and the newer, slimmer PlayStation 4 (2016). 

Here's how Sony describes the point of the PS4 Pro's upped processing power:

"All in all, this increase in processing power enables developers to tap into far more demanding visual features for PS4 Pro owners, including smoother or more stable framerates, support for 4K rendering, advanced graphics features, and more."



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How to move to Canada and become a Canadian citizen

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If the race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump has you feeling disillusioned with American democracy, you may find yourself imagining a move to Canada.

After all, it's a land where healthcare is free, people are friendly, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau explains quantum computing just for laughs.

But actually becoming a citizen is tough: You need to live in Canada for at least six years, stay on your best behavior, and know a thing or two about the country you'll soon call home.

For those who actually want to head up north, here's how you move to Canada.

SEE ALSO: How to move to Sweden and live in the future

Preface: Make sure you're not already a Canadian citizen.

Before you go through the hassle of applying for citizenship, take a short quiz to see if you may already be Canadian.

The government outlines several caveats for being a citizen even if you weren't born there, many of which depend on your parents' citizenship. Maybe you secretly inherited their status at some point along the way.



Be at least 18 years old.

If you're not a legal adult, you've got an uphill climb ahead of you.

Minors need their parent or legal guardian to fill out the application for them; they need to be permanent residents in Canada (more on that later); and the parent must either be a citizen or applying to become one at the same time.



Or enter the pool for skilled immigrants.

Canada has a fast-track system for immigration called Express Entry. It's how skilled workers transition into a role in the country.

All applicants into Express Entry are given specific scores based on their specific talents and job prospects and then ranked with other applicants. Those at the top of the rankings are invited to become permanent residents.



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NFL WEEK 9: Our official predictions for who wins on Sunday

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I can't stop thinking about that game. 

This is a football column, yes, and one that nominally has to do with making picks against the spread, either for (legal!) monetary reasons or just for sheer fun ... and we'll get to that. 

But first, Game 7.

If you spend even a little bit of time each week consuming sports, maybe you've experienced that moment where you wonder why, really, you have chosen to spend your time caring about the result of a game in which a ball is hit with a bat, or thrown through a ring, or kicked into a net. The result is ultimately meaningless, more often than not your team disappoints you, and there are countless other ways you might more productively or more intelligently or at the very least more healthily spend your time. 

Maybe you've especially felt that way during the election — as I admittedly have. The election, for better and for worse, has given us both the entertainment that sports provides and that feeling of greater importance, of stakes, that sports necessarily lacks. It's hard, I think, to really care about the Thursday night, or Sunday night, or Monday night football games right now. 

And then something like Game 7 happens, something so thrillingly incomprehensible and so damn fun, and all of a sudden you remember why it is you have chosen to spend your free time glued to the TV late into the night. 

Here's Roger Angell, the legendary New Yorker sportswriter, on this feeling exactly but in slightly more eloquent words:

"It is foolish and childish, on the face of it, to affiliate ourselves with anything so insignificant and patently contrived and commercially exploitive as a professional sports team, and the amused superiority and icy scorn that the non-fan directs at the sports nut (I know this look — I know it by heart) is understandable and almost unanswerable. Almost. What is left out of this calculation, it seems to me, is the business of caring — caring deeply and passionately, really caring — which is a capacity or an emotion that has almost gone out of our lives.

And so it seems possible that we have come to a time when it no longer matters so much what the caring is about, how frail or foolish is the object of that concern, as long as the feeling itself can be saved. Naivete — the infantile and ignoble joy that sends a grown man or woman to dancing and shouting with joy in the middle of the night over the hap hazardous flight of a distant ball — seems a small price to pay for such a gift."

Angell wrote that about the 1975 World Series. It couldn't possibly feel more relevant today. 

Anyway, I went 6-6 last week in my picks against the spread. Below are my picks for Week 9 (picks made prior to Thursday's game). 

LAST WEEK: 6-6

SEASON: 60-58-3

 

Atlanta Falcons (-2) at Tampa Bay Buccaneers (Thursday, 8:25 p.m. ET)

Tampa Bay remains winless at home, so I'll take the Falcons here. 

The pick: Falcons -2



Jacksonville Jaguars (+7.5) at Kansas City Chiefs (Sunday, 1:00 p.m. ET)

Gus Bradley's record as the head coach of the Jaguars is now 14-41. Why on earth would I bet on him last week? 

The pick: Chiefs -7.5



Detroit Lions (+5.5) at Minnesota Vikings (Sunday, 1:00 p.m. ET)

I can't figure out Norv Turner's resignation. Two consecutive losses is not ideal, but the Vikings are a playoff team. Unless they aren't, and the problems are worse than we know. Are we about to witness a free-fall? 

The pick: Lions +5.5



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16 photos from a year alongside one of America's militia groups

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Jim Urquhart had a tense introduction to the Oath Keepers in early 2015, but a medical emergency helped the Reuters journalist establish a level of trust with members of one of the most prominent militias in the US.

Months later, that trust helped Urquhart gain access to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon, where Ammon Bundy and others engaged in a 41-day standoff with the federal government.

In the wake of that encounter in Oregon, Urquhart met with members of the Oath Keepers and groups like it numerous times.

"I have since attended tactical defense training sessions, fired guns and camped out with members of those groups in Oregon, Idaho and Montana,"Urquhart writes.

"I've also spent time with men and women who didn't identify with any specific group but a larger movement that they say is defending the U.S. Constitution."

Urquhart listened with some empathy as these groups' members described their concerns about the state of country, and, as someone who grew up in Utah, he felt some measure of familiarity as he spent time with them in the wilderness of the northwest.

Bundy and six others who were present at the Malheur Refuge were acquitted of conspiracy charges at the end of October, a ruling that has lent credence to much of what these militia groups believe.

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"The groups see the ruling almost as a green light to further question government,"Urquhart writes. "They say they are even more confident in the constitution and all the more eager to protect it. They believe no matter the outcome of the presidential election, there's going to be social strife and they've won the right to fight against it."

In the photos below, a selection of images captured by Urquhart during his time with these groups, reveals what day-to-day life is like alongside these groups and their members.

SEE ALSO: The war in Afghanistan is 15 years old — here are 29 photos of one of the US's longest wars

Ammon Bundy talks to occupiers in an office at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon, January 6, 2016.



Supporters of those arrested after the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge attend a rally in Salt Lake City, Utah, March 5, 2016.



Brandon Rapolla, a founder of the Pacific Patriots Network, leads a firearms handling and safety class in Grants Pass, Oregon, March 26, 2016.



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We tried Kroger's game-changing new grocery service that moms are freaking out about

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I just got a glimpse into the future of food shopping, and my life will never be the same again.

Earlier this week I tried Kroger's ClickList, which lets you order groceries online and then pick them up at a store where employees load everything into your car.

The service — known in the industry as click-and-collect — has been popular for years in the UK, but it has just started taking off in the US.

Kroger started testing ClickList two years ago, and it recently started rolling out the service nationwide. ClickList is currently available at more than 500 stores, the company told Business Insider.

Other companies offering grocery pickup include Walmart, Harris Teeter, and soon Amazon.

Many customers have been praising the service, with parents in particular calling it a game changer. Articles and reviews of ClickList are popping up all over parenting and mom blogs.

"A few months ago I started to see my Facebook feed fill up with busy moms talking about how their life had been changed. Maybe you've heard of a little thing called Kroger ClickList?"one health blogger wrote in January. "I jumped on the bandwagon and tried it. And they are right. It is a game-changer!"

Customers with young children are highlighting the fact that they don't have to leave their cars to get their groceries.

"I used Kroger ClickList for the second time today," Melodie Shrontz wrote on Kroger's Facebook page. "Huge timesaver for the working mom, and no more dragging fighting kids through the grocery store."

Audra Logan wrote, "Dear Kroger ClickList... You have changed my life. I don't know if I'll ever go in a grocery store again. Ok maybe that's exaggerating but with twins and 20-degree weather, having groceries brought to my car was awesome!!!"

I tried ClickList at a Kroger in Richmond, Virginia. Here's what it was like.

SEE ALSO: Chick-fil-A has a new ad to hook millennial moms — and some dads are offended

The ordering process was so simple.

The site used my Kroger rewards number to populate the items I purchase most often. That made it really easy to start building my shopping list. 

For other items, I used the search bar and found exactly what I was looking for in a matter of seconds. This saved me at least 20 minutes of criss-crossing the sprawling store in search of random ingredients. 

And it was so easy to compare prices. 

Gone are the days of wandering around the condiments aisle trying to pinpoint the cheapest ketchup or mustard brands in a sea of dozens of choices. 

 



Once I placed my order, I selected a one-hour time slot to pick it up on the following day. Pickup times for this location run from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. and every time slot was available.



When I arrived at the store, I noticed that eight parking spaces near the store's entrance had been turned into a ClickList pickup area.



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A look inside $23 billion LinkedIn's New York office, where employees enjoy perks like free gourmet meals and a speakeasy hidden in the Empire State Building (LNKD)

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A whopping 467 million people in over 200 countries use LinkedIn to make professional connections and scout out new opportunities. In many ways, the company— which Microsoft purchased for $26.2 billion over the summer — has become an integral part of everyone's careers.

But what is it like to actually work at LinkedIn — the 9,200-person company with a market capitalization of $23 billion?

We decided to to find out by visiting LinkedIn's Manhattan office, which is located in the iconic Empire State Building in the heart of New York City.

Here's what we saw and learned:

SEE ALSO: A look inside the New York office of Yelp, a $3 billion company that offers its 4,000 employees around the world some of the most incredible perks

DON'T MISS: The most surprising perk for the 900 New York-based employees at Yelp costs the $2.4 billion company nothing

DON'T FORGET: A look inside Uber's Manhattan office, where employees of the $66 billion company have wine on tap and can bring their dogs to work

When we arrived at the office on a rainy Friday morning in October, we took one of the building's famous Art Deco elevators up to the 25th floor. Though LinkedIn is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, the company has 30 offices around the world. In total, 700 employees work in their Empire State Building location.



We waited for our tour guides in LinkedIn's colorful reception area, which has books and a coffee station for employees and visitors.



The company first moved into the Empire State Building in 2011. They've since taken over five floors of the building.



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Bill Ackman is moving his hedge fund to the far west side of Manhattan

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Bill Ackman is moving his hedge fund, Pershing Square Capital, to the far west side of Manhattan.

The new 67,000-square-foot office will be at 787 11th Avenue, a block from the West Side Highway, according to a new release from Georgetown Company, the developer.

The hedge fund takes its name from its first location, near Pershing Square north of Grand Central Terminal, so the move to its new digs, on a 15-year lease, puts it far from home.

The firm is currently located a few blocks south of Central Park.

The new digs will feature 24-foot-high ceilings in certain areas and a 12,000-square-foot rooftop, which is said to have a tennis court for use for all the building's tenants, Bloomberg reported previously.

The building will also provide shuttle service to the far-west location, the statement said.

The move comes as Ackman faces a second tough year for performance, with Pershing Square's flagship fund down 17.4% through October 11, Reuters reported. Last week, the firm announced it would shake up its fees.

Take a look at Pershing's new office:

SEE ALSO: Bill Ackman is shaking up his hedge fund's fee structure after another year of losses





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21 books billionaire Warren Buffett thinks everyone should read

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When Warren Buffett started his investing career, he would read 600, 750, or 1,000 pages a day.

Even now, he still spends about 80% of his day reading.

"Look, my job is essentially just corralling more and more and more facts and information, and occasionally seeing whether that leads to some action," he once said in an interview.

"We don't read other people's opinions,"he said. "We want to get the facts, and then think."

To help you get into the mind of the billionaire investor, we've rounded up 18 of his book recommendations over 20 years of interviews and shareholder letters.

Drake Baer contributed reporting on a previous version of this article.

SEE ALSO: 17 books Bill Gates thinks everyone should read

'The Intelligent Investor' by Benjamin Graham

When Buffett was 19, he picked up a copy of legendary Wall Streeter Benjamin Graham's "The Intelligent Investor."

It was one of the luckiest moments of his life, he said, because it gave him the intellectual framework for investing.

"To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information,"Buffett said."What's needed is a sound intellectual framework for making decisions and the ability to keep emotions from corroding that framework. This book precisely and clearly prescribes the proper framework. You must provide the emotional discipline."

Buy it here »



'Security Analysis' by Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd

Buffett said that"Security Analysis,"another groundbreaking work of Graham's, had given him "a road map for investing that I have now been following for 57 years."

The book's core insight: If your analysis is thorough enough, you can figure out the value of a company — and if the market knows the same.

Buffett has said that Graham was the second most influential figure in his life, after only his father.

"Ben was this incredible teacher; I mean he was a natural,"he said.

Buy it here »



'Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits' by Philip Fisher

While investor Philip Fisher— who specialized in investing in innovative companies — didn't shape Buffett in quite the same way as Graham did, Buffett still holds him in the highest regard.

"I am an eager reader of whatever Phil has to say, and I recommend him to you,"Buffett said.

In "Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits," Fisher emphasizes that fixating on financial statements isn't enough — you also need to evaluate a company's management.

Buy it here »



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13 smart 10-minute money decisions our coworkers wish they'd made sooner

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When it comes to handling your finances, some decisions, like buying a home or starting a business, take months of research and planning.

Others take 10 minutes.

From opening a high-yield savings account to deciding to be more generous, smart financial decisions don't always require a drawn-out process — so there's no reason not to go ahead and check them off your list.

Below, 12 Business Insider colleagues share the 10-minute money decisions they wish they'd made earlier in life. 

Responses have been edited for length and clarity.

SEE ALSO: I saved 50% of my income for a month — and it wasn't as impossible as I expected

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Stash your savings at a different bank than your checking account.

My suggestion/realization: Stash savings in an account of a completely different bank.

For a lot of younger people, having a savings account is a good first step, but if the savings account is connected to the checking account via the same bank or network, then it's too easy to transfer money from your savings to your checking, especially with all of the easy-to-use tech we have now (ex: smartphone banking apps).

However, when your savings is a series of other "next steps," it becomes a lot easier to force yourself to hold on to it.

I started doing that recently and the changes have been very positive, but had I known it when I was younger — it would have made a lot of future planning much easier.

Lamar Salter



Be generous with your money.

I wish I had been more generous when it came to money with friends and less strict about bill splitting earlier on.

When you're first starting out in New York and don't have the highest salary, it's easy to be frugal. And you definitely should be saving whatever money you can and be conscious of how much you're spending when money is tight. But money fights with friends are never worth it. In fact, money fights can end friendships.

I wish I had been less strict about making my friends and I split everything evenly and instead figured out how to say, "Don't worry about it" from time to time, whether that was me having to pick up more of a dinner bill every once in a while, paying for the cab, or buying an extra round of drinks.

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Get your taxes done professionally.

Have a tax pro do your taxes.

I did my own taxes for a couple of years — HUGE mistake. You don't know what you don't know. Paying H&R Block can be pricey, but what you'll save in deductions, refunds, and your own precious time is amazing. My taxes used to take days when I did them by myself. Now the I've got the entire process down to about three hours a year.

Jim Edwards



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We tried McDonald's, Wendy's, and Burger King's signature bacon cheeseburgers — and the winner is indisputable

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Bacon: The one food trend that deserves the hype.

Since the late 1990s, bacon has exploded in popularity beyond its breakfast origins — and with good reason. It's crispy, smokey, greasy, and it compliments a juicy beef patty like nothing else. 

A bacon cheeseburger is a fact of fast-food life; a double bacon cheeseburger is a dream come true.

Of the fast-food Big Three, both Wendy's and Burger King have serve a bacon-focused burger. McDonald's curiously doesn't serve a bacon burger, but you can build your own.

I gathered these bacon buttressed burgers with one goal in mind: to decide which towering ode to meat is truly the best bacon burger out there. 

ALSO READ: McDonald's just pulled the plug on its biggest menu change in years

SEE ALSO: We tried McDonald's, Wendy's, and Burger King's signature burgers — and the winner is unmistakable

Let's start with Burger King's bacon slathered "Bacon King," a whopping and wide sandwich.



Two quarter-pound patties with neon yellow American cheese melted on each are topped with a "hearty portion"— BK's words — of bacon, under a classic sesame seed bun. The sandwich is massive; it's practically wide enough to successfully land a 747. And it's beefy (pun intended). The Bacon King requires two hands at all times, lest one makes a big bacon mess.



Yet for such a regal and mighty name, one expects a tad more grandeur and clout than the simple bacon double cheeseburger it is. Ketchup and mayo are in the mix — nothing special there. It feels like a clone of the Wendy's Baconator that was widened with a rolling pin. There is nothing offered here that convinces me that this is the bacon burger of choice — it does not innovate, it merely mimics.



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These clever photos show how faces change as they age

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Bobby Neel Adams was 36 when he noticed how much he resembled a picture of himself at age 6. He was inspired to create a composite image, splicing a new photo of himself with the image of him as a kid.

This was back in 1989, so he couldn't use modern techniques.

"In the darkroom I sized up both images to the same proportions and made prints," Adams wrote in an email. "Once these photographs were dry I tore the most recent portrait and laid it on top of the school photo, gluing it down the rubber cement."

Adams continued using the same method for dozens of works in his "Age Map" series. Since then, he has explored other strange techniques, including splicing photos of couples and family members and, most recently, posing dead creatures in beautifully haunting scenes (currently showing in Brooklyn).

Adams shared a set from "Age Maps" below.

SEE ALSO: 10 photo visualizations that reveal hidden worlds

DON'T MISS: Here's how people judge you based on your face

Lorna at 7 and 25



Sally at 14 and 62



Chris at 12 and 45



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15 jobs that are impossible to explain to your parents

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woman sewing clothesMany parents have no idea what their adult kids actually do every day. But they want to understand.

In LinkedIn's 2016 global study, more than two thirds of the 16,529 parents surveyed admitted they aren't very confident in knowing what their child does for a living

To help bridge the gap, here are 15 of the most misunderstood jobs in America, according to LinkedIn's survey, and how you could explain them to struggling parents.

SEE ALSO: 13 jobs you should avoid if you don’t want to work a lot

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15. Laboratory executive

Parents who don't get it: 47%

They ensure that laboratories are fully supplied and up to standards so that scientists can run their tests and experiments.



14. Lumberjack

Parents who don't get it: 49%

They harvest timber from forests to provide the raw material for many consumer goods and industrial products.



13. Auditor

Parents who don't get it: 51%

They prepare and examine financial records.



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5 details you probably missed in the latest 'Westworld' episode

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Warning: Spoilers ahead for "Westworld."

"Westworld" episode six delivered new story twists and (perhaps unsurprisingly) even more mysteries for fans to parse through. But among some of the larger scenes involving Delos' executive board, Arnold's mysterious presence and Maeve's new super-brain, there were some small but significant moments.

Scroll down for a look at the five details you might have missed.

The episode opened with a piano version of Radiohead's "Fake Plastic Trees" playing.

Each episode of "Westworld" so far has contained a modern piano cover from composer Ramin Djawadi. The song choices are often telling of a deeper plot, and this week's is no different. "Fake Plastic Trees" played as Maeve went through a typical-but-twisted morning.

She manipulated a vicious guest into killing her so she would be sent back to the Delos headquarters and be able to speak with Felix again. Then as he walked her through the building, another Radiohead song ("Motion Picture Soundtrack") played.

The lyrics of "Fake Plastic Trees" relate back to Maeve's false existence:

"She looks like the real thing
She tastes like the real thing
My fake plastic love
But I can't help the feeling
I could blow through the ceiling
If I just turn and run."



Speaking of Maeve, let's take a closer look at her personality characteristic chart.

We know from the end of the episode that someone's been messing with Maeve's "paranoia" and "self-preservation" attributes, but this chart gives us a look at a sliver of the other characteristics programmed into Maeve. 

The chart we see here is only "Group 01" of her traits: candor, vivacity, coordination, meekness, humility, cruelty, self-preservation, patience, decisiveness, imagination, curiosity, aggression, loyalty, empathy, tenacity, courage, sensuality, charm, and humor.

Maeve's top qualities are candor (19) and charm/sensuality (both 18). Her weakest qualities are cruelty (1) and meekness (2). 



When Bernard goes down to the Delos sublevel, a host lurking in the dark is a callback to the original "Westworld" movie.

The figure is wearing a cowboy hat and has its hands tucked into its pocket. This looks exactly like the gunslinging robot character Yul Brynner played in the original 1973 "Westworld" movie.



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Every time the mysterious maze pattern has appeared on 'Westworld'

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Warning: Spoilers ahead for "Westworld."

One of the many mysteries so far in "Westworld" season one is the perplexing "maze"— a level to the game which the Man in Black has been searching for. We did a deep dive into everything we know about the maze so far, but thought it would be handy to simply list every time the pattern has made an appearance on the show.

Let's take a look.

The maze first appeared in episode one, when the Man in Black scalped Kissy.

Kissy was one of the robotic card dealers at the Mariposa Saloon. The Man in Black believed that because Kissy was a host with connection to "games," he'd be able to tell him more about the deepest level of Westworld. The hunch proved correct when Kissy's scalp revealed the maze pattern, and the Man in Black was next sent to Lawrence.



The next time we saw the pattern was when Dolores traveled to Las Mudas — Lawrence's hometown in Westworld.

Lawrence's daughter was the young girl who gave the Man in Black the next clue for finding the entrance to the maze: "Follow the blood Arroyo to the place where the snake lays its eggs."

The young girl was also in Las Mudas when Dolores traveled there in episode four, and Dolores found her by a fountain drawing the maze pattern in the dirt using a stick. When Dolores saw this pattern, and spoke with the young girl, a voice in her head said "remember" and then showed her a series of flashbacks or visions.



The maze turned up again when Dolores chose a tarot card in Pariah.

While in Pariah during episode five, Dolores went through a bizarre and unexplained experience. At one point she entered a fortune-teller's room. The woman held out tarot cards, and Dolores selected one with the maze drawing on it. When she looked up, the woman had turned into a copy of herself. This second Dolores told her to "follow the maze."



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The 19 most expensive homes for sale in the US right now

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It's no secret that real estate isn't cheap anywhere these days, but these palatial homes give expensive a whole new definition. 

With listing prices well over what most people make in a lifetime, the most expensive homes currently on the US market feature perks like full spas, enormous movie theaters, custom marble staircases, design details fit for royalty, and enough bedrooms and bathrooms to get lost in. 

With the help of real-estate-listing site Point2Homes, we've put together a list that reveals some of the most exquisite mega-mansions, penthouses, condos, and compounds around the country. 

With all that these residences offer, there's no need to ever leave the house. And when you've paid this much, why would you want to?

Brittany Kriegstein contributed reporting to an earlier version of this story.

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19. This 8,000-square-foot condo in New York City's famous 432 Park Avenue has all of the benefits of being built in 2015. Sleek, modern design details are present throughout, and spectacular Manhattan views can even be enjoyed from the bathtub.

Price:$82 million

Access to the building's state-of-the-art gym and pool, plus the rights to brag about living in the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere, make the property even more desirable.

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18. At 15,000 square feet, this six-story Upper East Side mansion is something out of a Gilded Age storybook. It's being sold by real-estate developer Keith Rubenstein of Somerset Partners.

Price:$84.5 million

Absolutely every detail is accounted for in this house, from custom marble and woodwork to steam-resistant mirrors in the bathrooms and a temperature-controlled room for storing fur coats. The dining room spans one full city block, and a two-story staff suite ensures that there is plenty of room for the help.

Click here to tour the home »



14. (TIE) Like something straight out of "The Great Gatsby," this magnificent estate in Great Neck, Long Island, boasts 13 bedrooms, 35 bathrooms, indoor and outdoor pools, health complexes, game rooms, a bowling alley, and an electronic casino.

Price:$85 million

Private gardens lead to a pier for a private yacht, and the iconic New York City skyline is visible from the extensive waterfront. The estate was previously owned by Tamir Sapir, a Russian émigré who made his fortune in New York real estate. He died in 2014.

Click here to tour the home »



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Gorgeous photos give a look inside the closets of 4 famous entrepreneurs

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Since 2011, the fashion website Coveteur has peeked inside the closets of hundreds of CEOs, tastemakers, and celebrities, allowing readers to get an inside look at the luxurious lifestyles of people like Cindy Crawford and Hugh Hefner. 

"Someone's closet reveals a ton about them," Stephanie Mark, Coveteur's cofounder and head of business development, told Business Insider. "It can speak to how they express themselves. What we have found is that a person's wardrobe and personal style tells a lot about their personality."

This year, the site released its first book, "The Coveteur: Private Spaces, Personal Style," with 40 profiles over 267 gorgeous pages. We talked to Mark about the process and got her thoughts on our four favorite profiles.   

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In 2012, Coveteur published a piece on Playboy founder Hugh Hefner. "The great thing about Hugh Hefner is that he's an inspiration to so many people in all different types of fields, not just fashion or media," Mark said.



According to "The Coveteur: Private Spaces, Personal Style," Hefner gave the photographer full access to the interior of his closet. "[It] was stocked with all of his signatures: slinky PJs in every color of the rainbow, loafers, bunny cuff links, velvet blazers, captain’s hats, and even a few novelty keepsakes from the Playboy archives."



"The fact that I wear sleepwear evolved early on," Hefner told Coveteur. "I started the magazine in 1953 and found myself taking the work with me, home to the Mansion. I was working at night — around the clock — and it just became a natural kind of thing to wear the pajamas; they were comfortable."



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Nintendo's Wii U was a flop, but here's why you should consider buying one on Black Friday

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Pity the poor Wii U.

When the game console was introduced in 2012 as Nintendo's successor to the smash-hit Wii, expectations were high that the Japanese game company would once again create a monster hit.

Instead, the Wii U has proved to be a huge flop, selling just over 13 million units in the past four years. The original Wii sold 84 million consoles in the same period.

Nintendo posted losses for the past three years, but it's now regrouping to work on its next big bet: the ambitious Nintendo Switch.

Last week, Nintendo halted production of the Wii U, according to Eurogamer, to pave the way for the Switch's arrival in March 2017. Meanwhile, the Sony PlayStation 4 and a revitalized Microsoft Xbox One are vying for leadership in the console market.

The Wii U's unique tablet design never really caught on with the mainstream. But don't listen to the haters — this Black Friday, you will be able to get some seriously great deals on the Wii U console and some top-shelf games, and it's more than worth your consideration.

Here's why the Wii U is actually a misunderstood work of genius:

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The Wii U's whole sales pitch is that its primary controller, the Wii U Gamepad, is also a touch-screen "tablet." But it stops working entirely if it gets too far from the console, so don't get any big ideas.



It means two big things. First, games can get touch-screen controls — games like "New Super Mario Bros. U" for the Wii U let one player touch the screen to freeze enemies or hold moving platforms in place.



Second, it means you can actually play many Wii U games on the smaller screen by itself, no TV required. It's a handy thing if you live somewhere where TV time is hard to come by.



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A travel hacker scored a $12,000 suite on Singapore Airlines for $100 — here's what it was like

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The INSIDER Summary:

• Dan Gillaspia of the travel website UponArriving scored a $12,000 suite on Singapore Airlines for only $100.
• From free-flowing Champagne to a double bed, Gillaspia takes us on a tour of what flying on world's best international airline was like.



Dan Gillaspia is an attorney by day and travel hacker by night. Armed with 45 credit cards and detailed spreadsheets, he's a pro at racking up miles and rewards to put towards his next adventure. He also shares his tricks on his website, UponArriving

Recently, his tricks got him a $12,000 suite on a Singapore Airline flight from Tokyo to Singapore for only $100.

Here's what it was like to travel in the most exclusive seat on world's best international airline.

Attorney Dan Gillaspia runs the website UponArriving, on which he covers the latest developments in credit cards, airline and hotel award programs, and other travel topics.



Using 100,000 miles from two credit cards, the $12,000 suite on Singapore Airlines only cost him $100 out of pocket.



The flight attendants greeted him and his partner by name when they arrived.



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