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• A lot of foods you eat regularly can be very dangerous if not prepared correctly.
• Cashews, for example, must be steamed in order to remove a chemical called urushiol, which is also found in poison ivy.

As we all know, the importance of food preparation is crucial. Rinsing off fruits and veggies is a common practice to clean off pesticides, and cooking raw meat thoroughly is hugely important. But what about when food prep is a matter of life and death? Most of us have probably heard of fugu, or the pufferfish, which is an extremely poisonous seafood if not prepared in exactly the right way. In fact hundreds die from eating poorly prepared fugu each year. Frighteningly enough, there are more than a few foods like the fugu, which can kill when not prepared correctly. So today, we bring you 10 foods that can turn deadly if not prepared just right.

Honey

It’s a little known fact, but honey is actually filled with poisonous toxins. Honey goes through a pasteurization process after being farmed to eliminate these toxins, but unpasteurized honey is extremely dangerous. Eating just a teaspoon of unpasteurized honey, or honey that did not go through the pasteurization process correctly, can lead to headaches, dizziness, weakness and vomiting that can last up to 24 hours. It is possible that more than one teaspoon can kill.

Ackee

This fruit native to Jamaica is an island favorite — in fact, the ackee is the national fruit of Jamaica! However, this beloved fruit can become one of the world’s deadliest foods if not prepared correctly. First of all, only the yellow parts of the ackee should be consumed, and those yellow bits have to be cooked just right for the fruit to be edible. Even more important when preparing the ackee is timing. Eating even a bite of the fruit when it’s too ripe or not ripe enough can result in “Jamaican vomiting sickness,” which causes seizures and fatal hypoglycemia.

Cassava

This root veggie is cultivated in South America and can be quite delicious if prepared correctly. If prepared incorrectly or eaten raw, however, cassava has this funny little tendency to turn into hydrogen cyanide. There are two varieties of cassava, sweet and bitter, and the sweet is 50 times less deadly with only 20 mg of cyanide per root. But even this less dangerous version, if consumed twice, is enough to kill an adult cow on the spot.

The stars have always shined their brightest at the Academy Awards, ever since the first ceremony in 1929.

The Oscars will take place this Sunday at 8:30 p.m. on ABC. To prepare for all the stunning dresses we're about to ogle, we took a look back through history to see some of the most iconic looks to ever grace the red carpet.

From a Gap button-down that shocked the world to a Grecian gown fit for a goddess, these are the 22 most iconic looks in Oscars history.

Gwyneth Paltrow stunned in her pink Ralph Lauren dress in 1999 when she accepted her Oscar for "Shakespeare in Love."

Paltrow previously told People Style that she has been saving every one of her Oscars dresses and hopes that her daughter Apple might wear one to prom.

"Maybe she'll wear [my pink Ralph Lauren dress] to prom and do a 'Pretty in Pink' thing and resew it and cut it up," she said. "I don’t know if I’d let her chop that one up."

Halle Berry made history in this dress as the first black woman to win a best actress award in 2002.

Berry gave a powerful acceptance speech for her role in "Monster's Ball" that night that was just as talked about as her Elie Saab dress. 

"I believed that in that moment, that when I said, 'The door tonight has been opened,' I believed that with every bone in my body that this was going to incite change because this door, this barrier, had been broken,"she said at the Makers Conference in 2016. "To sit here almost 15 years later, and knowing that another woman of color has not walked through that door, is heartbreaking."

Since her win in 2002, only four black women have been nominated for a best actress Oscar, including Ruth Negga ("Loving") this year.

When she won her award for "Monster" in 2004, Charlize Theron wore this incredible, shimmery gown.

Theron always stuns on the red carpet — look no further than her Oscars look in 2016— but this gorgeous Gucci gown was a showstopper, as was Theron herself "fresh off a trip to Brazil."

The election of Donald Trump has had reverberations around corporate America.

The president has a profound influence on the way companies do business and their bottom line. He is also prone to mentioning specific companies in Tweets and campaign speeches, sending share prices up or down in the process.

We used Sentieo, an equity-research platform, to search recent company-earning calls for mentions of Trump and the new administration.

Scroll through below to see what senior executives at companies across various industries are saying about the president's stance on trade, taxes, and array of other issues.

Chuck Robbins, CEO at Cisco Systems - 'I think the administration of President Trump understands that the US economy and the global economy are very intertwined.'

In response to a question asked at a Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference on February 16 about whether Cisco would increase production in the US, Chuck Robbins, Cisco's CEO, said:

We currently manufacture in 13 countries I think including the US by the way. So we never completely moved out of the US and I think it's almost a quarter of our revenue. We still manufacture here in the United States, but ... I think the administration of President Trump understands that the US economy and the global economy are very intertwined and that they are dependent upon trade. Now he clearly believes that we need fair trade and I think that will be the outcome, but I think that any of those I think will end up being good for us and we could continue to adapt how we -- our supply chain to the extent we should, which is what we've done for the last two decades. So we're staying very close to it though.

Jim Roberts, CEO and President at Granite Construction - 'Promises to rebuild America's infrastructure are great, but we remain cautiously aware of how slowly Congress acts.'

During an earnings call on February 17, Granite Construction President and CEO, Jim Roberts, commented on President Trump's infrastructure promises.

"Although rhetoric from the Trump administration remains extremely constructive, it remains too soon to estimate the timing or magnitude of incremental investment, without more detail. Promises to rebuild America's infrastructure are great, but we remain cautiously aware of how slowly Congress acts."

Masayoshi Son, Chairman and CEO at SoftBank Group - 'Deregulation is going to take place in many ways in the US and the President himself is saying that in public.'

During an earnings call on February 7, Softbank Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son responded to a question about Trump's protectionist inclinations.

"I will refrain from making political comments. But at least what I can say is that deregulation is going to take place in many ways in the US and the President himself is saying that in public. [That] will create a lot of business opportunities."

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• Jen Glantz has attended over 30 weddings as a professional bridesmaid.
• She advises against wearing white, bringing a surprise plus one, and getting wasted.
• Unplanned speeches and property damage are also major dont's.

Jen Glantz is a professional bridesmaid. Seriously. She's been to over 30 weddings and worked with her fair share of Bridezillas through her business, Bridesmaid for Hire. She even wrote a memoir chronicling her wildest wedding stories.

Sometimes, though, it's the wedding guests that go a little too crazy.

Glantz spoke to INSIDER about what you should never, under any circumstance, do at a wedding.

Wear white

Even if it doesn't look like a wedding dress, even if the color is more off-white than pearl, just don't do it. It makes it seem like you're competing with the bride for attention.

Bring a plus one without asking

Bringing a date could throw off seating arrangements and result in extra catering charges. Unless it's a fiancé or spouse, the most common rule is "no ring, no bring."

"If you think you want to bring a plus one, either go off the invitation to see if you've been invited with one, or just refrain from bringing one," she said.

Cling to the couple

The people getting married have endless socializing to do. If you don't know anyone else at the wedding, make an effort to make a few new friends.

"It's always good if you can meet people at the table you're sitting at, or try to make a friend or two at the wedding so you're not relying on the bride if that's the only person that you know," she said.

Americans are passionate about their grocery stores.

But some of the most popular chains in the nation only exist is particular regions, so it's likely you've never even heard of some of them.

The mobile search-and-discovery app Foursquare put together a list of the most visited grocery stores in each state across the US, based on its own visit data. 

Check out the full list below. 

ALABAMA: Publix

ALASKA: Safeway

ARIZONA: FrysFoodStores

The 89th Academy Awards are Sunday on ABC. Ahead of Hollywood's big night, ABC parent company Disney put together adorable parody posters of several movies that are up to receive Oscar gold.

The posters feature characters from Disney's 2016 hit "Zootopia." The Disney animated film is also nominated for an Academy Award for best animated picture.

If the concept sounds familiar, it's because Disney also did this last year with "Zootopia" and several of the best picture nominees. 

Keep reading to see the mashups below.

"La La Land" becomes "La La Lamb" starring Ryan Foxling and Emu Stone.

"La La Land" is nominated for 14 Academy Awards including best picture, best actress, best actor, and best director.

"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" has become "Fantastic Cheetahs."

"Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" is nominated for best production design and costume design.

"Nocturnal Animals" now stars Jag Jylenhaal and is called "Nocturnal Mammals." It's "directed" by Tom Furrd.

Michael Shannon is nominated for best actor in a supporting role for "Nocturnal Animals."

LONDON — Anonymous employee review website Glassdoor has released its ranking of the 20 hardest interview questions asked over the last year.

The website lets staff leave anonymous reviews on their employers as well as feedback on everything from the interview process to what the CEO is like.

To compile the toughest interview questions, Glassdoor reviewed all interview questions submitted by users between the January 16, 2016 and January 15, 2017. They ranked them based on community feedback — users could tag questions "very difficult," for example — and offered up a list of the 20 questions that they thought were the toughest.

David Whitby, UK Country Manager at Glassdoor, says: "Preparing for an interview thoroughly means being ready for anything, even a curve ball question not directly related to the job. Remember, it’s not necessarily about getting the right answer, more how you cope under pressure."

Here are the 20 toughest questions:

20. "Tell me about your childhood"— Learning and Development Employee, Next

High Street fashion retailer Next is the company that asked this difficult question. The question was posed to someone applying for the position of "learning and development employee"— presumably a HR role that involves staff training. The question may be trying to gauge the candidate's empathy skills, which can be important in training, or their own experiences with learning and training.

19. "Provide an estimate for the number of goals in the premier league." - Management Accountant, VAX

Vax may be humble vacuum cleaning manufacturers but they're clearly looking for talented thinkers. The company asked this question of a potential management accountant but these types of questions are often asked in management consultancy interviews. The idea is to see how logically candidates think and watch them tackle a problem in real-time.

18. "Are you a nice guy?"— Product Manager, Badoo

Tech companies often like to think of themselves as a little bit different and dating app Badoo is clearly no different. Asking a would-be product manager if they're a "nice guy" will keep candidates on their toes — is the right answer to say yes or do you need to be a little cut throat to get by at the company?

• Password managers are one of the quickest and easiest ways to help defend yourself against hackers.
• They store all your passwords — so you only have to remember a single, extra-secure one to protect yourself.

If you ask security experts for what simple advice they’d give to ordinary people worried about being hacked, the same thing comes up again and again: Don't re-use passwords.

This is because huge numbers of people re-use the same passwords across multiple accounts, putting all their data at risk if any one of their accounts is ever breached.

Of course, juggling dozens of passwords for all your different logins is tricky. And that's where a password manager comes in. A password manager is an app that stores the passwords for all of your services — meaning you only have to remember one.

Here's why you should be using one — and how to do it.

Most people are bad at passwords. Real bad.

There are two key problems with people's password habits: They re-use them all the time, and they're terrible at picking them in the first place. 

Throughout 2016, we saw dozens of celebrities and high-profile figures —everyone from Drake to Katy Perry — getting their Twitter accounts hacked. Twitter itself wasn't hacked, but these victims had re-used passwords that were also used on sites that were.

There have been numerous high-profile hacks come to light recently. Sites like MySpace, LinkedIn, and Tumblr have been breached, and hundreds of millions of people's login details leaked online. Hackers can then try these logins on other sites — like Twitter, other social media sites, online banking, or anything else.

On a long enough time frame, everyone gets hacked. It's basically impossible to avoid having your details end up in a leaked data dump sooner or later — and you can't do much to stop it happening. But by not re-using passwords across multiple sites, you can limit the damage.

It's not just tech-illiterate people who are getting stung this way. Even Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, has had his Twitter account breached.

Making matters even worse is people's password choices.

Put simply, people are awful at picking passwords. They go for predictable strings of letters, or simple words, or other basic possibilities — making it much easier for attackers to guess or crack them.

According to an analysis of leaked data from security firm Keeper, the world's most common password is the depressingly easy to guess "123456."The second most-used password was "123456789," according to Keeper, followed by the predictable "qwerty." Then came "12345678," and in fifth place was the obvious "111111." 

This is where password managers come in.

A password manager replaces all those awful passwords you use with just one you need to remember.

A password manager will solve both these problems. It means you can use a different password on every account, because you only need to remember one. And it'll also generate strong passwords for you, so you don't fall into the traps people often do when they pick their own passwords. (Easily memorable passwords tend not to be particularly strong.)

It stores and encrypts all your login data in its vault — keeping it safe and inaccessible without the correct master password that you set and remember.

There are other benefits to using one too, like remembering all those account logins that you only use very occasionally. If you only order from UberEats every two months, it'd be easy to forget your password (unless you re-used one, tut tut), but a password manager will keep it safe.

Some also come with extra features to differentiate them from their competitors, including file storage and encrypted note-taking.

Here's an example of a password manager — LastPass.

You add it as a extension for your web browser, then it stores all your different logins on its dashboard or encrypted "vault," making them accessible across multiple devices. (So you can use them on your phone, or your work computer, or your personal laptop, without any issues.)

As the likes of Facebook continue to muscle in on UK TV ad spend, The Drum takes a look at how much it actually costs to buy a slot on some of the UK's most popular channels.

While TV remains a central part of the mix, there's no denying that digital ad spend is leapfrogging it at a superheated pace, and eMarketer predicts that by 2020 online ads will account for 60% of marketing budgets while TV will represent just 21.5% - a decline from the projected 25% slice anticipated this year.

Although it's clear digital will continue on its path to domination, the effectiveness of TV is still likely to be a hot topic over the next 12 months. As such, The Drum has pulled together a rundown of the estimated costs for brands looking to stump up for a TV slot using data from independent TV planning and buying agency Guerillascope.

The figures below provide a guide to the average cost of a 30-second slot on each network, though pricing can change throughout the year.

ITV

A 30-second ad during ITV's breakfast schedule between the likes of "Good Morning Britain" or "Lorraine" costs between £3,000 to £4,000 on average.

For a daytime slot, ads of the same time length come in at £3,500 to £4,500, while a peak rate alternative can cost anything from £10,000 to £30,000.

Channel 4

On average ,Channel 4 is cheaper than ITV. A 30-second slot on daytime TV can cost between £1,000 to £2,000.

Peak rates during shows like "Hollyoaks" or "Catastrophe" clock in at £10,000 to £20,000.

Channel 5

Channel 5 is the cheapest national ex-terrestrial channel to advertise on according to Guerillascope's estimates.

The typical cost of a day rate ad is £800 to £1,600. A peak time slot - which can be purchased for breaks during programmes like "Neighbours" or "Big Brother" - can cost between £2,500 to £4,500.

Travel planning and booking site TripAdvisor has revealed the Best Beaches in Europe as part of its annual Travellers' Choice Awards.

The winners are chosen based on the quality and quantity of traveller reviews and ratings on the site over 12 months.

While beautiful, white spreads of sand in Spain and Greece feature on the list, some of the other choices are more surprising.

Dorset's three-mile-long Weymouth Beach came in ninth place, while Cornwall's Newquay also ranked within the top 15.

TripAdvisor spokesman Hayley Coleman said: "UK’s Weymouth Beach beating beaches in Sardinia, Greece and Spain this year, proves that the UK’s beaches can more than hold their own against destinations with sunnier climes."

From Dorset to San Sebastian, scroll down to see the stunning beaches that have been named the best in Europe.

25. Plage de Palombaggia — Porto-Vecchio, France

Best time to go: June to September

24. Praia Da Rocha — Praia da Rocha, Portugal

Best time to go: April to November

23. La Pelosa Beach — Stintino, Italy

Best time to go: May to September

Marine Le Pen is France's most controversial politician. 

Over the past five years, she has taken far-right party Front National (FN) — which was founded by her father — from a marginalised voice to one of the most important forces in French politics.

Le Pen officially launched her election campaign on February 5 and the latest polls show she is set to win the first round of the presidential election in April.

Polls then project she will lose the second round, which will ultimately decide who becomes president, to either centrist Emmanuel Macron or conservative François Fillon — but the gap between the candidates is diminishing quickly.

Although she has been in politics for the best part of two decades, and members of her family are in politics too, not much is known about Le Pen's private life, which she guards ferociously. This is a look at what we do know about Marine Le Pen, the controversial, charismatic far-right politician who might become the first ever woman to lead France in May.

Le Pen was born on August 5, 1968 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a commune just outside of Paris. She is the youngest of Jean-Marie Le Pen and his first wife Pierrette's three daughters.

They grew up between Paris and the palatial manor of Montretout in Saint-Cloud — a fact that journalists and politicians often point out when Le Pen says she is "the candidate of the people."

Jean-Marie Le Pen was an unpopular figure, which meant Marine's childhood was far from the ordinary. At some point she was even pulled out of school for over a month and hidden with family friends in the south of France because of a surge in death threats against her father.

The most notable of those incidents was the bombings of their Paris apartment in 1976, which was reportedly aimed at killing the whole family.

Le Pen's parents separated when she was 17 years old and the divorce, as well as the media furore that surrounded it, had a profound impact on her life.

Her mother ran away with the journalist writing a biography of Jean-Marie Le Pen. Le Pen later called it one of the most painful events in her life and railed against the media that, according to her, had little regard family's privacy.

One of the most extraordinary moments of the divorce was Le Pen's mother's naked shoot for Playboy, which she reportedly did to get back at her ex-husband. Le Pen harshly condemned her mother's actions, likening her to a "public dump," and did not see her for 15 years following the divorce.

Throughout different interviews, the Le Pen sisters all characterised their father and mother as absent parents — Yann Le Pen, Marine's older sister, even told Vanity Fair she wondered why her parents had children.

But the drama in the Le Pen family did not stop with their parents. Although all of the Le Pen girls fell out with their mother following the divorce, only Yann still speaks to her father now. The eldest daughter, Marie-Caroline, fell out with her father during an internal fraction of the FN in the late 1990s. Marine Le Pen also fell out with her other sister Yann in recent years and Yann's daughter also recently feuded with her aunt. Their latest spat was over abortion rights.

Le Pen read law at the Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas from where she obtained a Master in law in 1991. She passed the bar in Paris and worked as a lawyer until 1998 when she took up a role in the legal department of the FN.

She has been married twice: First to Franck Chauffroy who at some point worked for the FN, in 1997, with whom she had three children — a girl born in 1998 and twins born in 1999. Le Pen divorced Chauffroy in 2000 and got remarried, to Éric Iorio, who also worked for the FN, in 2002 before divorcing him in 2006.

She is currently in a relationship with Louis Aliot, the vice-president of the FN in charge of training and events. 

A difficult relationship with her father

In 1983, Le Pen had her first contact with the political world when she accompanied her father as he campaigned for municipal elections. She says she decided to go with him because she wanted to get to know her father and wanted her father to know her. Following him onto the political terrain was the only way to do that, Le Pen explained in a televised interview in 2006.

Proponents of Artifical Intelligence say it will be used for everything from helping treat diseases to driving your car.

It can also make some seriously mind-bending art.

Using Google's machine-learning technology TensorFlow, Christopher Hesse has built a website that transforms doodled pictures of cats into photo-esque images.

Anyone can have a go for free on Edges2cats, and the results are varied. Some are surprisingly realistic. Others are hellish nightmare fuel.

Here's an example provided by Christopher Hesse. Looks pretty normal, right? Pretty good, even. Most don't look like this.

Now here's an example drawn by my colleague James Cook. Its eyes are screaming.

The results get even more surreal if you tweak cats' physiology.

The slow and eventual extinction of the headphone jack is a threatening prospect for your favorite wired headphones.

For many, the only option to use wired headphones with devices that don't have a headphone jack, like the iPhone 7, is to use an adapter. For many reasons, adapters aren't an elegant solution.

Thankfully, there are gadgets out there that will future-proof your wired headphones by essentially turning them into pseudo-wireless headphones, which plug into an external device so they can communicate wirelessly with your new, headphone jack-less devices.

One of the most promising gadgets is the Jack by Podo Labs. So far, it's raised over $600,000 on Kickstarter, despite setting its goal at a humble $20,000 — and there are still three days to go. 

Podo Labs sells the Jack for $30 on Kickstarter, and $40 at full retail price. That's much cheaper than buying a brand new pair of good wireless headphones.

Here's how Jack can future-proof your wired headphones:

SEE ALSO: One of the original signature features in Android phones is all but dead

The Jack by Podo Labs is a small, lightweight device that connects to your Bluetooth devices, which is great if your phone doesn't have a headphone jack, for example.

It looks pretty simple to use. Just plug your headphones into the 3.5mm audio port on the Jack, then pair the Jack to your mobile device via Bluetooth.

It's a great solution if you own an iPhone 7 – or any other phone that lacks a headphone jack – but you want to keep using your wired headphones.

Miami's premier yacht show ran over the weekend and featured nearly 800 superyachts.

But while several yachts have made their appearance at different shows around the globe, the Princess megayacht debuted for Yachts Miami Beach for the very first time.

Scroll down for a closer look:

SEE ALSO: Take a look inside the 11 best yachts showcased at Miami's premier yacht show

The Princess yacht measures 131 feet and sleeps 12.

The first thing you see when you walk inside is the yacht's large saloon. It comes with balconies that can fold down electronically at the push of a button.

The yacht has five cabins, including the master suite pictured here. On the left you can see the master bedroom, which comes with its own office space.

The Oscars rule over the movie industry. But over the years, some stinkers get nominated and some stinkers actually manage to get a win.

Among the poorly received movies that are up for awards this year are "Suicide Squad" and "Passengers."

Movie trends come and go, and while the Academy likes to award lesser-known indie darlings, it's also known to award cheesy hits that were specifically made to win Oscars (known as "Oscar bait"). And then there are the bad movies that manage to get wins for less competitive categories, like makeup and costumes.

In 2008, for example, "Norbit," one of the worst movies of all time, was nominated for best makeup. Though it didn't win, the same can't be said for some other movies that are just as terrible.

These underwhelming movies put the Oscars to shame by having won even though they didn't deserve it.

Here are the worst movies that actually won Oscars:

SEE ALSO: 26 stars who shockingly still don't have Oscars

1. "Harry and the Hendersons" (1987)

Won: Best makeup

A family runs over a Bigfoot-like creature with their car. The family brings it home, thinking it's dead. But it comes back to life, and the family adopts him as a pet. This movie is abysmal and hard to watch, but it somehow managed to get an Oscar for best makeup, even though the makeup — even for 1987 — is bad. Maybe the fact that John Lithgow was in it made the Academy feel as if it had to give it something. 

2. "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (2000)

Won: Best makeup.

Best makeup can go to some really, really, really, really bad movies. The Academy really has to reach sometimes to give an award out in this category. The live-action "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" is a terrible movie. It's insulting to Dr. Seuss and to Christmas movies. Even kids hate it. And kids who love it will never acknowledge it when they're adults. The makeup on Jim Carrey's Grinch is OK, but did it deserve an award? No, it did not.

3. "Pearl Harbor" (2001)

Won: Best sound editing

Nominations: Best original song, best sound, best effects

Besides a catchy original song recorded by Faith Hill (which was nominated for best original song), this Michael Bay movie is a disaster and disrespectful to US history. Bay's war film uses Pearl Harbor as a catalyst for a self-indulgent love triangle involving self-indulgent, unlikable characters. It's offensive in many ways, and at over three hours long, it makes "Avatar" feel like a half-hour sitcom. 

New York City's Waldorf Astoria is one of the most legendary hotels in the world.

Its suites have hosted every US president since Herbert Hoover, and Hollywood legends Sophia Loren, Elizabeth Taylor, and Frank Sinatra have all at different times called the residential towers home. Countless lavish social events were held in its ballrooms, and its kitchens were the birthplace of red velvet cupcakes and the Waldorf salad.

Last year the hotel celebrated its 85th anniversary, but it will close indefinitely for renovations on February 28.

Since 2014, when the property was bought from Hilton Worldwide by the Chinese insurance company Anbang for $1.95 billion, plans for a major overhaul have been on the horizon. The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission is working to preserve parts of the interior, and Anbang has agreed to comply, Bloomberg reported in September. Though there are no blueprints to see yet, Anbang is reportedly planning to change most of the rooms into condominiums.

Business Insider recently visited both the hotel and the towers to talk to four employees and hear their firsthand accounts of over 100 years of combined experience there. Their stories, plus the history behind the iconic hotel, are below.

SEE ALSO: A former J.Crew exec just opened a menswear paradise for the modern guy who 'wants to look American'

The Waldorf Astoria was originally two separate hotels that were created because of a feud between two cousins, William Waldorf Astor and John Jacob Astor IV. The two hotels were next door to one another on Fifth Avenue and 33rd Street. Eventually, the cousins came to a truce, and they connected the hotels with a hallway. The hotels were demolished in 1929 to make way for the Empire State Building, and the Waldorf Astoria name was sold for $1 to Lucius Boomer, who began construction on the hotel's current location.

Source: History.com

The current hotel is at 301 Park Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets, and the primarily residential Waldorf Towers are at the top. When it opened in 1931, the new Waldorf Astoria was the tallest and largest hotel in the world.

President Herbert Hoover mentioned the brand-new hotel in a radio broadcast from the White House. "The opening of the new Waldorf Astoria ... marks the measure of nation's growth in power, in comfort, and in artistry," he said.

Source: Waldorf Astoria New York

The Oscars are notorious for not getting it right.

That's the reputation you earn when you don't reward "Citizen Kane" best picture or when "Crash" topples "Brokeback Mountain." But there are also plenty of times that the Academy got it right.

In truth, there's no way of knowing whether a film will have staying power through the years. But sometimes, voters make truly great and interesting choices.

Here are the 12 greatest best picture winners of all time.

SEE ALSO: The 12 worst movies to ever win Oscars

12. "Amadeus" (1984)

The stereotype of an Oscar movie is an overlong, stale, historical biopic. "Amadeus" could have been just that, but instead it turns the whole formula on its head. It brings 1700's Austria to life by making it feel just as alive as the present day.

By portraying a rivalry that might not have ever existed and turning one of history's greatest composers into a spoiled, giggling buffoon who might have been a genius by accident, the film says so much more about the past than any buttoned-up, historically accurate film could.

No movie can get the past completely right — that's both the power and the danger of the medium. The great thing about "Amadeus" is that it acknowledges that almost immediately by letting Salieri tell somebody else's story. And the fact that it works so well is a true stroke of genius.

11. "Schindler's List" (1993)

After years of snubs, Steven Spielberg rightfully won his first Oscar for "Schindler's List," based on the true story of a German businessman who saved hundreds of Jewish lives during the Holocaust.

It is truly incredible to see the way Spielberg handles the difficult subject matter. He spares none of the awful details, and yet finds a ray of light during a horrible time period. This is quite simply essential viewing.

10. "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991)

"The Silence of the Lambs" is notable for two big reasons.

First off, it's the only horror film to win best picture. The character of Hannibal Lecter himself is bigger than just one film, but "The Silence of the Lambs" delivers the goods. This is the perfect horror movie for the Academy, as it is one that relies less on gore (though it is there) and more so on mounting dread. If a horror movie was going to win the big prize, it was going to be the one with the most likable cannibal of all time.

Secondly, it was released on February 14, 1991, basically a full year before the actual Oscar ceremony. So it proved that awards aren't just for that stretch of movies released during the final two weeks of every year.

An activist investor just publicly ripped apart Buffalo Wild Wings for the second time in a little over six months.  

Marcato Capital Management sent a presentation to Buffalo Wild Wings' shareholders accusing the company of "overpromising and under-delivering."

"Buffalo Wild Wings has an unfortunate history of misrepresenting that they are on the verge of rolling out new initiatives that will improve the performance and shareholder value," the presentation says.

Mick McGuire, the founder and CEO of Marcato who has been called a Bill Ackman "protégé," said in a statement that the company is squandering its potential thanks to the ignorance and inaction of management.

"Buffalo Wings' shareholders deserve a board comprised of directors with the relevant restaurant experience and conviction to exercise much needed oversight and accountability," McGuire said. 

Marcato, which has a 5.2% stake in Buffalo Wild Wings, has recommended a list of replacement company directors and asked shareholders to submit ideas on how the company could be improved online, here.

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• TripAdvisor has released its 2017 Travelers' Choice Awards, naming the world's best beaches based on millions of user reviews.
• Baia do Sancho, a beach in Fernando de Noronha, Brazil, takes the top spot, followed by beaches everywhere from Cuba to India.
• TripAdvisor also calculated the cheapest month of the year to travel to each beach destination along with the average rate for a hotel room. 

Looking to mix up this summer's beach vacation? To help you choose a new destination, TripAdvisor has just released its 2017 Travelers' Choice Awards, revealing the world's best beaches.

The ranking is based on millions of reviews from the website's users collected between 2015 and 2016. It spotlights coastal stretches all over the world, including a white sand beach in the Caribbean and a beach in a scenic national park in Costa Rica.

TripAdvisor also worked out the cheapest month of the year to travel to each destination, and the average rate for a hotel room there during that month, to help you plan a trip.

Check out the winning beaches below, and start dreaming.

25. Ngapali Beach — Ngapali, Myanmar

Cheapest month to visit: September

Average hotel rate: $104/night

24. White Beach — Boracay, Philippines

Cheapest month to visit: October

Average hotel rate: $150/night

23. Playa Manuel Antonio — Manuel Antonio National Park, Costa Rica

Cheapest month to visit: October

Average hotel rate: $171/night

Everything around us is becoming connected. As a result, we are seeing shifts in investments and returns. There is already a great demand for network expansion, cyber security and insurance. And generally, the prices of hardware will fall as IoT becomes less of a novelty.

All of this opens up a huge opportunity for everyone to make and save a lot of money. We will invest $6 trillion in IoT between 2015 and 2020, which will yield $12.6 trillion ROI over the next decade. Enterprise will make up the majority of the investment dollars, followed by government and consumer.

BI Intelligence has created a slide deck exploring the most disruptive trends in IoT. To get a more detailed view of the progression, landscape and projections of the Internet of Everything, access the complete slide deck by clicking here.

Some of the topics covered include:

• The market drivers for the IoT.
• Forecasts for the IoT market.
• A breakdown of how many industries are utilizing IoT devices.
• A look at how governments are using the IoT to revolutionize their cities and defense.
• An examination of the smart home and connected car market.
• And much more.

Below are 8 sample slides from the 60-page deck. Want the full deck? Access it here for FREE >>

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