The much-anticipated move of Neymar to Paris Saint-Germain is now a done deal as the record-breaking transfer fee has been paid and Neymar is now signed.

Neymar has been compared to Pelé and some believe he can even better than Lionel Messi.

While that is debatable, what is not up for debate is that Neymar is now the highest-paid footballer in the world and he is also one of the world's most marketable athletes.

This all adds up to big contracts and a lavish lifestyle that includes boats, cars, and a famous on-again, off-again girlfriend. This is fitting for one of the biggest stars in the world's most popular sport.

Neymar signed his first professional contract when he was 17 with the Brazilian club Santos where he was making approximately US$1.2 million per year.

SOURCE: UK Daily Mail

In 2010, Santos rejected a $20 million bid for Neymar to join West Ham United in the English Premier League. He was just 18 at the time.

SOURCE: UK Daily Mail

At the time, Neymar's agent publicly rejected a pay raise from Santos.

SOURCE: UK Daily Star

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If your MacBook has been acting up or feeling sluggish, you may think it's time to upgrade.

But the truth is, unless you're doing very intense work — audio or video editing, graphics work, etc. — you may be able to extend the life of your machine for years. 

Whether you're running out of storage, or dealing with a battery that can't hold a charge, this guide has you covered.

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MacBook Air

The MacBook Air is less upgradable than older MacBook Pros, but there are still a couple of ways to extend its life. 

Every MacBook Air model made since 2011 has an SSD inside, but they used to be significantly smaller so it's possible you're running out of space. Transcend's JetDrives are available for certain MacBook Air models, and can potentially double the storage you currently have in your machine. 

If you've seen your battery life start to slip, Egoway's replacement option will fit most 13" MacBook Air models, and comes with all of the tools you'll need to open it.

Egoway Replacement Battery for Apple 13 inch MacBook Air, $69.99, available at Amazon

**Works with 13" MacBook Air Late 2010 through early 2014**

Transcend JetDrive 500 (240GB), $209.95, available at Amazon

**Works with 13" MacBook Air Late 2010 through Mid 2011**

Transcend JetDrive 520 (240GB), $209.95, available at Amazon

**Works with 13" MacBook Air Mid 2012** 

Non-retina MacBook Pro

Ironically, because of the changes Apple made to the way it makes its laptops, older MacBook Pros are the most upgradable computers on this list.

Getting into them is tricky though, which is why I'm recommending iFixit's 64-bit driver kit, which will make it easy to deal with the proprietary screws Apple uses on the inside and outside of its machines.

Once inside, you can swap out your traditional hard drive with an SSD (Solid State Drive), which will make everything you do on your computer significantly faster. You'll notice the difference whether you're loading apps, copying files, or even rebooting your machine.

I've performed this upgrade for a couple people, and they're always amazed at the improvement. Because older machines came with disk drives, you can also opt to remove that and use OWC's converter bracket to add an additional SSD for even more storage.

The next upgrade you should consider is increasing the amount of memory in your computer. Apple ships its current, top-of-the-line MacBook Pro with 16GB, but you can match that on a computer that's six-years-old for under $100. Having more memory lets you use more applications at once without lag.

Finally, if your computer's battery life has fallen sharply over the past few years, you can swap it out for a new one. Computer batteries typically last hundreds of "cycles," so if you've been using your computer constantly for years, there's a good chance it's at least started to hold less of a charge.

iFixit 64-bit Driver Kit, $32.99, available at Amazon

OWC Data Doubler Converter Bracket, $22, available at Amazon

Samsung 850 PRO (256gb), $109.99, available at Amazon

Crucial RAM (8GB), $63.90, available at Amazon 

**Works with MacBook Pro 13" or 15" Early 2011 through Mid 2012**

iFixit 13" MacBook Pro Battery, $74.93, available at Amazon

**Works with 13" MacBook Pro Mid 2009 through Mid 2012**

iFixit 15" MacBook Pro Battery, $99.95, available at Amazon

**Works with 15" MacBook Pro Early 2011 through Mid 2012**

Retina MacBook Pro

The upgrade story for the retina MacBook Pro is similar to the MacBook Air's. Apple engineered these machines to be thin and light, which unfortunately means they left little room for after market upgrades. 

You can still replace the battery for most models and upgrade their storage, but that's it. Thankfully, upgrades for these machines have become less expensive over the past couple of years. 

iFixit 13" Retina MacBook Pro Battery, $99.95, available at Amazon

**Works with late 2012 and early 2013 retina MacBook Pro**

iFixit 13" Retina MacBook Pro Battery, $119.95, available at Amazon

**Works with 2015 13" retina MacBook Pro**

iFixit 15" MacBook Pro Battery, $119.95, available at Amazon

**Works with Mid 2012 and early 2013 15" retina MacBook Pro**

iFixit 15" MacBook Pro Battery, $119.95, available at Amazon

**Works with late 2013 and mid 2014 15" retina MacBook Pro**

Transcend JetDrive 720 (240gb), $205.11, available at Amazon

**Works with mid 2012 and late 2013 13" retina MacBook Pro**

Transcend JetDrive 725 (240gb), $202.86, available at Amazon

**Works with mid 2012 and late 2013 15" retina MacBook Pro** 

As a species, we’re working on our seventeenth year into a new century and everything is on fire. The blurring of the lines that divide fact and fiction has grown so smeared and indecipherable as to allow climate change to still be questioned and corruption has been radically normalized to the point of borderline decriminalization.

Unavoidably, this international tendency to believe what we want as often as what’s factual has bled into moviemaking, both in regards to increasingly untenable productions in the big studios and in innumerable filmic takes on major (and minor) historical events seen in narrative films and, perhaps even more so, documentaries.

This is what makes docs like Waltz with Bashir and Tower, both of which rely heavily on animation to convey the tricks of memory that corrode and aggrandize the truth, so important. Then there’s more narrative-based tricks, such as the anxious shell game that is Banksy’s exuberant Exit Through the Gift Shop or the more existential narrative questions at the heart of Jafar Panahi’s This is Not a Film. Beyond the testing of boundaries between fact and fiction, these movies are infectiously curious about the importance and meaning of truth in movies. Outside of documentaries, one could see this concept being tossed around in the late Abbas Kiarastomi’s Certified Copy, one of the best films of this century full stop.

Nevertheless, these advances don’t discount the power of reinventing more classical stylistic choices in the documentary form. Frederick Wiseman, America’s greatest documentarian, has honed his own no-frills aesthetic over his many decades as a filmmaker and he has made the best documentary of the century thus far. Similarly, elder masters like Steve James, Claude Lanzmann, Werner Herzog, and Errol Morris arrived high on my (very rough) list of the 25 best documentaries of the century thus far. Truthfully, had I not limited myself to one movie per director, Wiseman would have dominated a quarter of this list between Boxing Gym, National Gallery, At Berkeley, Domestic Violence, State Legislature, and the upcoming Ex Libris.

Perhaps a list with those titles would be a more honest collection of the most revelatory documentaries that the last decade and this one have produced. More titles from Herzog, Morris, Chinese master Wang Bing, and several others would have also likely made the final cut. In doing that, however, one might not see the staggering breadth of transformation that the genre (or is it style?) has been going under since we all survived the millennium’s imagined doomsday.

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25. "Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno"

A thrilling tale of cinematic obsession found amongst the wreckage of an unfinished thriller about romantic obsession. Clouzot, who perfected the art of nerve-rattling with Diabolique and The Wages of Fear, had planned to make a tense, diabolic melodrama called L’Enfer with Romy Schneider in the lead as the beautiful bride to a vacationing bourgeoisie Frenchman who grows ravenously jealous of local male attention. Directors Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea find vast, feverish undercurrents of paranoia and self-obsession in the remnants of Clouzot’s footage but, more importantly, finds even stronger and stranger visions of the dark side to imagination and creative control in the story of Clouzot’s inability to fully realize his vision. In conflating the stories, this wildly entertaining near-masterwork evokes the infectious spirit of artistic creation, for better and worse.

24. "Zero Days"

Consider Alex Gibney’s latest work – one of the prolific filmmaker’s very best – as an alternate history of the Iran Nuclear deal, one in which the watchful Western eyes get poked by their own sharp stick. In this metaphor, the stick is StuxNet, a computer worm manufactured by Israel and the USA in secret to keep a leash on Iran. Things did not quite turn out that way, as Iran eventually utilized the cyber-weapon to their own advantage to give us our own national security hair-mussing. At once an engrossing, detail-oriented cyner-thriller and a brilliant primer on the era of cyber warfare, Zero Days renews and reinforces the argument that Gibney is one of the most thoughtful and direct political filmmakers out there.

23. "Bright Leaves"

Ross McElwee is primarily known for Sherman’s March, a poignant masterwork that conflated the director’s fascination with General Sherman’s destructive campaign through the South during the Civil War with McElwee’s own chaotic, ambling romantic life. There’s a similar rousing intermingling between geography, the crimes of history, and personal reflection in 2004’s Bright Leaves, which finds the filmmaker studying his family’s connection to tobacco – his great-grandfather was the man behind Bull Durham – while also studying the poverty and desperation that followed in the wake of the cash crop’s plummet in popularity. Obviously and tragically, the insights and images that McElwee stirs up while rambling around North Carolina still resonate in the age of Trump.

Larry Page is one of the most powerful people in the world.

The quirky, soft-spoken computer scientist cofounded Google with Sergey Brin in 1998 and now, almost 20 years later, still runs its parent company, Alphabet. 

So who's the man behind Google and how did he get to where he is today?

Here's his story.

Jillian D'Onfro contributed to an earlier version of this story. 

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Gloria and Carl Page had their second son, Lawrence, on March 26, 1973. They both taught computer science at Michigan State University and filled their home with computers and tech magazines that enthralled Larry from a very young age.

They enrolled him in a Montessori school. Such programs are known to foster independence and creativity, and Page now credits "that training of not following rules and orders, and being self-motivated and questioning what's going on in the world" as influencing his later attitudes and work.

Source: YouTube

At 12, Page read a biography about the brilliant inventor Nikola Tesla, who died in debt and obscurity. The ending made him cry, and inspired Page to not only want to build world-changing technologies, but to have the business sense to know how to spread them. "I figured that inventing things wasn't any good," he has said. "You really had to get them out into the world and have people use them to have any effect."

Source: Business Insider, Achievement.org

From his speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2004 that made him a household name to his farewell address in January, former President Barack Obama has captivated the world with his words.

Hailed as one of the greatest presidential orators in modern history (although the title is quitecontentious), Obama has a knack for public speaking even his political opponents can recognize.

On Obama's 56th birthday, we've compiled 17 of his most memorable inspirational quotes.

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Back in 2004, Obama was still an Illinois state lawmaker running for US Senate, unknown to most of America.

By 2008, he won the presidency with 365 electoral votes and 53% of the popular vote.

Democrats swept into office that year, as they took control of both houses of Congress and the first black president entered the White House.

Considering Tesla's recent Model 3 handover party, it's not all that surprising that the focus of Wednesday's earnings call was production for the company's first mass-market sedan.

But it was also the first earnings report since Tesla started accepting orders in May for its new solar roof — and Tesla was relatively hush about the new product.

A Tesla representative said the solar roof was sold out until well into 2018, but they declined to provide exact order numbers.

Tesla is selling the solar roof tiles and traditional solar panels after acquiring SolarCity in November as part of a $2.1 billion deal. The new roof has been successfully installed on employees' homes, Tesla said on the earnings call.

Here's what we know about Tesla's solar roof:

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Tesla will eventually offer four types of shingles to match different housing aesthetics in an effort to get homeowners to ditch clunky solar-panel add-ons for a beautiful roof. Only two shingles are available now, but the others will be up for grabs in 2018.

Here's Tesla's textured-glass option, one of the four that customers can order.

See how it shimmers?

I've been living in New York for about two years now.

And while Shake Shack's shackburger has become my go-to fast food in the city, I often feel like there's something missing from my greasy feast.

That's why the minute I get home to Chicago, I immediately seek out my favorite chain back home in the Midwest: Culver's.

To get a good look at what makes this burger chain — dare I say it — better than In-N-Out or Shake Shack, I visited Wisconsin, where I had my first Culver's experience many years ago.

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To start my culinary adventure, I found a Culver's in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, home of the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, the alma mater of Culver's CEO Craig Culver.

We went around 4:30 p.m. on a rainy day, and the place was already packed for the evening. The menu board greeted us with a host of options from frozen treats to full meals, called "baskets," that came with drinks and a side.

After placing our orders, we went to fill up our soda. Culver's is known for its signature root beer, which tastes even better with a dollop of Culver's vanilla frozen custard.

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Wedding season is well underway, and for men that means finding the perfect suit.

Although off-the-rack options are always readily available, new retailers are making it easier and more affordable for men to get a custom suit. 

Two members of the Insider Picks team recently went through the process with Black Lapel, a New York-based company that's been selling custom suits online since 2012.

Although we visited the brand's New York City showroom, which they encourage if you're local, you won't have much of a different experience when shopping from home. You'll need to sign up for an account, take a number of measurements, choose your fabric, color, fit, style, and any particular customizations you want. 

Taking your own measurements can seem a little intimidating — accuracy is key to good results — but a Black Lapel stylist will look over them before the suit is made, so you'll get a heads up if something seems off.

Those stylists are also available to help make suggestions once you've found a suit that you like; although you can always choose everything yourself if you'd prefer to. After picking your suit, you'll wait between between three and four weeks for it to arrive, at which point you can decide if any alterations need to be made.

Black Lapel will reimburse you for up to $75 worth of suit alterations, so they can offer tips on what to alter.

Although its suits can vary in price, most cost $549 — that's without any extra discounts or sales. A couple cost $499, with more premium options topping out at $1049 for a tux. Those prices are very competitive with suits you'd find in a nicer department store, but with a fit that's significantly better.

For our full thoughts about our personal experience with Black Lapel, and to get a sense of what their suits look like on average people, check out the slideshow below. 

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Brandt (right): I've never had a custom suit made before, and although I said as much to my stylist, I was never made to feel uninformed. During each step I was given suggestions, but I never felt pressured to choose what my stylist wanted.

Jeff (left): In the last year, I've had the opportunity to try out a few different custom suit makers, and I believe more than ever that you just can't beat the fit of something made specifically for your body type. My experience with Black Lapel was a breeze and reaffirmed this.

Brandt: I understood there would be a difference between a regular and custom suit, but didn't know how big it was. It's easier to be confident when you know everything you wear is going to fit just right.

Barack Obama, the nation's 44th president, turned 56 Friday.

He's a Leo, and, incidentally, Leos are ambitious, magnetic, and love being center stage — which sound like qualifications for the nation's top job.

One of the staples of the Obama presidency has been a penchant candid photos of Obama holding babies and hanging out with children.

We've compiled some of the best.

Amelia Acosta and Matthew Spieser contributed to an earlier version of this post.

SEE ALSO: 17 of President Obama's most inspirational quotes

The president is more amused than his young mohawked friend.

Obama greets one of his youngest fans in Prague in 2009.

Similarly sassy expressions.

Over the past decade, New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport has made a concerted effort to improve customer experience and integrate a higher level of luxury amenities. One of the most recent and impressive additions is the Etihad Airways Premium Lounge located inside JFK's Terminal 4.

"Everything we do at Etihad is about providing unparalleled luxury," Etihad senior vice president for the Americas, Martin Drew, told Business Insider during a tour of the facility. "We don't necessarily benchmark ourselves just against other airlines, but more so against some of the finest hotels and restaurants in the world."

Opened at the end of 2015, the lounge extends the Etihad's premium service beyond the aircraft — putting the airline in a prime position to attract highly lucrative business and high-class leisure travelers. In addition to the lounge, the Abu Dhabi-based airline is ramping up its New York operation with the adoption of the Airbus A380 superjumbo on its JFK-bound flights.

Here's a closer look at the JFK Terminal 4's Etihad Lounge.

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As the frosted glass doors slide open, we were immediately greeted by an Etihad Airways employee.

Once inside, the lounge features a fully stocked bar,...

... An assortment of fine dining options, as well as plenty of places to ...

Few video games are as gorgeous as "Cuphead," an upcoming Xbox One and PC game.

Just look at this:

That winking, sinister-looking cigar you see above is one of the game's many bosses. And that frustrated-looking guy with a cup for a head? That's actually not the eponymous "Cuphead," but instead is his trusty partner "Mugman." 

The game is so gorgeous because it's hand-drawn — something few games pull off, and no games pull off as well as "Cuphead." But what's the game about? What do you do in "Cuphead"? Let's dive in.

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First things first: What you don't do in "Cuphead" is deal with the devil. Don't! Seriously. He's The Devil!

More seriously, "Cuphead" is a 2D side-scroller — remember "Super Mario Bros."? That's a 2D side-scroller. "Cuphead" is reminiscent of games from the Super Nintendo era (early-to-mid-'90s) in terms of how it plays.

There's a lot going on here, I realize, so allow me to break it down:

-Both Cuphead and Mugman are playing through this level, moving from left to right — you can see Cuphead walking along the ceiling, while Mugman is hopping around on the ground.

-Usually, both Cuphead and Mugman (or just one of them) is walking along the ground. 

-Cars are moving along from right to left, both on the bottom of the screen and along the ceiling.

-A crazy duck with wheels appears to be a type of boss or enemy character.

-There's a twinkling playing card in the middle of the screen — maybe a power-up of some type? That's unclear.

Rather than jumping on the heads of your foes (a la "Super Mario Bros."), Cuphead and his compadre Mugman have handguns. I mean that literally — their hands shoot bullets.

Wartime posters are often striking, evocative images.

"The function of the poster today is to appeal to our subconscious feelings and our barely conscious needs and channel them so that we do what the sponsor of the poster wants us to do," writes Max Gallo in "The Poster in History."

Given the likelihood of devastation and mass loss of life in war, it takes a powerful illustration to convince people to support a war effort.

Online retail site Abebooks recently rounded up a collection of US, English, and Chinese vintage posters from the Mexican Revolution, WWI, and WWII. Many sought to push men to enlist, encourage women to volunteer, and convince everyone on the homefront to make financial contributions.

In order to accomplish those goals, these posters appeal to just about everything, including honor, mercy, and "gold and glory":

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Charles Buckles Falls illustrated this WWI recruiting poster, which depicts the commanding gaze of a beckoning sergeant, for the US Marines.

This 1920 poster dangles "gold and glory," along with famed Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa, to encourage US citizens to travel south and fight in the Mexican Revolution.

This 1917 World War I poster appealed to national pride to recruit British ex-pats living in New York.

Sure, you have the requisite pens, pads, notebooks, and folders at your desk. You probably think that means you're all set.

But there are things  we seldom think of until we need them. With some forethought, you can avoid getting caught in the rain or spending the whole day with stinky garlic breath. 

Be prepared for whatever happens during work — and after — with these essentials.

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A blazer to dress up office-casual attire when needed.

Even if the dress code at your office doesn't require one, keep a blazer at your desk at all times. A surprise client meeting or TV appearance can rattle the unprepared.

Make sure you can at least appear ready to take on the challenge.

Pictured:Club Monaco Made in the USA Wool Blazer

An extra pair of shoes.

They don't need to be fancy. They just need to provide a Plan B in case you step in something or get caught in a rainstorm.

Pictured:Jack Erwin Hubert

An extra pair of socks.

Speaking of a downpour, a dry pair of socks is the difference between an uncomfortable morning and an uncomfortable day.

While you're at it, stick a pair of underwear in your desk, too. You never know.

Pictured:Uniqlo Rib Socks

Who doesn't like a periodic dose of violence, gore, terror, and shock from a controversial film?

A lot of people, apparently.

There have been many a film out there that the public was just not cool with, and people en masse would go as far as protesting the films, which sometimes were banned before they could even be released. This, of course, still happens regularly – sometimes to films that really don't deserve such backlash.

We can look at movies like "A Clockwork Orange" and be repulsed by its shocking performance of violence and gore. But we can't pretend that the movie (and many like it) isn't an iconic, visually stunning, and incredibly affecting piece of film. Even films that have attracted a more uniform opposition present a difficult question: Should a film, even one that encourages the worst in people, be banned in a free world?

These films faced a mix of terrible production, legal trouble, and public outrage, among other obstacles. Some of these films were initially unreleased before later making their way to the public, while others are unreleased only in some countries. Some spoilers may lie ahead, so be wary!

Check out these 15 movies that were delayed or unreleased because of controversy:

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15. "Buffalo Soldiers"

The United States and its citizens will most likely never forget the atrocities that occurred during the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The event caused a surge in patriotism and a wider dedication to American troops that lasted many years. It perhaps makes sense why any film that shone a bad light on the US military would face scrutiny during that time.

"Buffalo Soldiers," a satirical film starring Joaquin Phoenix and based on a book of the same name, follows the story of a crooked, heroin-dealing American soldier who causes havoc in Berlin. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival just days before the terrorist attacks took place. The film remained unreleased in theaters until mid 2003.

14. "A Clockwork Orange"

We can't have a list of banned controversial films without mentioning Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange." The dystopian crime film, starring Malcolm McDowell, comments quite violently on morality, the faults of psychology, and social problems that plague British culture. The 1971 film boasts intensely violent scenes of rape, assault, and murder.

While American audiences enjoyed the film, which brought in nearly $24 million more than it cost to make, the movie was outright banned in the United Kingdom a year or so after its initial release. Protests, widening emulative violence, and pressure from the police led Kubrick to bar the film from the UK until the year 2000.

Ironically, the Anthony Burgess book it was based on has been banned off and on across schools in the US.

13. "Hippie Hippie Shake"

"Hippie Hippie Shake" is an unreleased British film starring Cillian Murphy and Sienna Miller. The film is based on the life of Richard Neville, the editor of satirical magazine Oz, which was the subject of a very public trial for producing obscene content in the '60s.

Production for the film began way back in 1998 and ran into repeated roadblocks. Directors kept getting switched out through the years, and numerous producers and screenwriters tossed the script back and forth. When things finally started to gain some traction, the film was abruptly delayed yet again in 2008 because of Miller's controversial personal life.

In 2009, both the director and the screenwriter left the project in postproduction. The real-life people depicted in the film also expressed distaste for its authenticity during test screenings, and it remains in movie limbo.

Treasure Island, a man-made island off the coast of San Francisco, looks more like a post-apocalyptic wasteland than a Bay Area suburb.

But as demand for housing in the tech capital continues to climb, developers have turned to Treasure Island in the hopes of creating the next big real-estate destination.

In 2011, the city of San Francisco approved a proposal that will add 8,000 new homes, 500 hotel rooms, 300 acres of parks, 140,000 square feet of retail, and 100,000 square feet of office space to the island over the next 15 years. It comes with a price tag of $5 billion.

With construction on infrastructure underway, we decided to spend the day exploring Treasure Island — and learned there's more to this former toxic waste site than meets the eye.

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You can live in San Francisco your whole life and never set foot on Treasure Island.

Treasure Island sits in the Bay halfway between San Francisco and Oakland.

It doesn't get many visitors outside of its two major attractions: a flea market held on the last weekend of the month and a music festival that draws tens of thousands of fans. In 2017, the festival was postponed because of the massive development project.

On a recent weekday, I learned that Treasure Island is closer to downtown San Francisco than my San Francisco apartment is. I reached the island from the city's SoMa district in about 15 minutes by bus.

You can see the length of the island from the exit road off Interstate 80. It's small.

The island was built on a rocky bank just north of Yerba Buena Island. It served as the fairgrounds of the 1939 World's Fair, which celebrated the city's two new bridges.

You can easily argue that the Chevy Bolt is the most important car General Motors has ever rolled out. What we have here is a $37,495 all-electric vehicle with a range of nearly 240 miles on a single battery charge. GM took it from intro to the assembly line in less than two years, in the process beating the avidly anticipated Tesla Model 3 to market by at least a year. 

So what makes the Bolt more important than, say, the Cadillac XT5 crossover SUV or a new Corvette? 

The Bolt is a completely different kind of "halo" car. Like the Toyota Prius gas-electric hybrid 15 years ago — based initially on the homely Toyota Echo compact sedan — the Bolt is anti-sexy. Teslas, of course, drip sex appeal.

We all know, however, that mass-market car buyers don't buy sexy. They bought the Prius because it promised low emissions and great fuel economy. And GM is betting that they'll buy the Bolt because it represents more of an idea about mobility than a specific experience of an automobile. The Bolt is accessible, affordable, versatile, high-tech, and is adaptable to ride-sharing and ride-hailing. It's also fun, but not crazy-knock-your-socks-off fun. 

A platform, not business as usual

In short, the Bolt is a platform rather than a commitment to a reliable automotive premise. For that, GM has Corvettes and Camaros — cars that do their thing and do it well, but that aren't flexible. 

The Bolt was designed and engineered to give GM options. They'll sell some, they'll lease some, but they'll also plug the Bolt into GM's Maven mobility division and into its partnership with Lyft for ride-hailing. They'll build in self-driving technologies developed both in-house and technologies acquired through the company's purchase of Silicon Valley startup Cruise Automation.

For a decade, Tesla has given us the car of the future: a sexy, high-performance, networked, and lately semi-self-driving luxury electric car. The latest example just arrive, as Tesla handed over the first 30 Model 3 sedans to customers on July 28. Hundred of thousands of more should follow, but it could take a while.

But last year, Chevy brought us the new car of the future: relatively inexpensive, with decent performance, also networked, and most importantly, plugged into multiple business models. Oh, and it's manufactured at massive industrial scale in the USA.

The Bolt went on sale in California and Oregon since last year; a broader rollout followed. Initially, sales were limited, about 1,000 a month. More recently, they've risen to about 2,000.

We were lucky enough to get our hands on a well-optioned 2017 Bolt Premier, tipping the cost scales at $43,015 (Chevy is offering only two trim levels of the car, the LT being the base version). We'd driven pre-production versions of the vehicle, but this was our first crack at sampling its talents in the wilds of the New York-New Jersey area.

Here's how it went:

Photos by Hollis Johnson.

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The base Bolt is $37,495, which means that a $7,500 federal tax credit drops the price to just under $30,000. Our tester was the Premier trim, which starts at $40,905. Once some options were added, we were looking at about $43,000.

Our Bolt was "Summit White" and sported the familiar Chevy bow-tie badge.

The Bolt was envisioned by the carmaker's Korean studio, a lab for the company's small-car platforms. Because it was engineered around its large, 60 kWh LG battery pack — which provides actual structural integrity to the car — the Bolt is distinctive within GM's global lineup. That said, it does have that compact-crossover-hatchback look.

Today marks the 227th anniversary of the creation of the US Coast Guard.

One of the five service branches in the US military, the Coast Guard is responsible for maritime rescue, drug interdiction, smuggling prevention, and humanitarian-aid distribution.

Tracing its history to August 4, 1790, the Coast Guard now operates throughout US internal waterways, the coasts, and even distant international waters.

In honor of the Coast Guard's 227 years of service, we have collected some of the most amazing images of it in a range of missions.

The Coast Guard in Alaska operates in some of the most isolated parts of the US. Here, a Coast Guard vessel gets underway during a winter Bering Sea patrol.

Before taking part in operations, Coast Guard service members must receive substantial training, including in how to rescue people from icy waters.

Crew members of Alaskan Coast Guard ships conduct 100-yard survival swims in 39-degree waters.

In a service whose mission includes rescuing lives in peril, it’s hard to pick and choose legends among so many heroes. The Coast Guard’s history is filled with ordinary men who rose to the challenges presented by extraordinary circumstances.

Here is a list of 13 folks who embodied the Coast Guard ethos:

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1. Douglas Munro

The ultimate hero of the Coast Guard is arguably Douglas Munro.

As he commanded a group of Higgins boats at the Battle of Guadalcanal, Munro coordinated the evacuation of more than 500 Marines who came under heavy fire, using his boat as a shield to draw fire.

During the evacuation, he was fatally wounded, but his last words were, “Did they get off?”

2. Thomas “Jimmy” Crotty

Lt. Thomas “Jimmy” Crotty was the first Coast Guard prisoner of war since the War of 1812 and served at the front lines of the Battle of Corregidor as the Japanese took the Philippines.

A 1934 graduate of the Coast Guard Academy where he was an accomplished athlete, Crotty served as an skilled cutterman before being attached to a Navy mine warfare unit. After several different positions in the Pacific Theater, Crotty found himself attached the Marine Corps Fourth Regiment, First Battalion, as the Japanese forces attacked the last American stronghold.

One eyewitness report says that Crotty supervised army personnel manning a howitzer dug-in until the American surrender on May 6, 1942. Crotty was captured by the Japanese and taken to Cabanatuan Prison, where he died of diphtheria.

3. William Flores

On January 28, 1980, the USCGC Blackthorn collided with a tanker in Tampa Bay, Florida. Seaman Apprentice William Flores, just eighteen years old and a year out of boot camp, stayed on board as the cutter sank, strapping the life jacket locker open with his belt, giving his own life jacket to those struggling in the water, and giving aid to those wounded on board.

He was posthumously awarded the Coast Guard’s highest non-combat award, the Coast Guard Medal.

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• Choosing the right midnight snack can help you stay full until morning.
• If you're craving something savory, go with popcorn or some peanut butter on whole grain toast.
• If you have a sweet tooth, trying reaching for dark chocolate or greek yogurt with honey.

We’ve all been there. You wake up in the middle of the night and your stomach is grumbling. You turn over and see that your alarm clock reads 12:45 am. Then comes the inner contemplation: do you try to ignore the loud grumble coming from your stomach, or do you head into the kitchen and pick up the very first thing you see? Whatever option you typically choose, here are some healthy midnight snacks that will satisfy you until light breaks through your curtain.

1. Peanut butter on a slice of whole grain toast

Peanut butter, almond butter, mixed nut butter—whichever you choose, all of these contain healthy fats that are guaranteed to keep you full until morning. Spread a thin layer over some toasted whole grain bread for a snack that's easy for your body to digest as you head back to sleep.

2. Dark chocolate

Dark chocolate is a powerful source of antioxidants, a brain booster, a protector of your skin, and it can lower your risk of developing cardiovascular disease in the future. Those are just a handful of benefits dark chocolate provides. If it's too tempting to eat an entire dark chocolate bar when your stomach is growling at full volume, find a compromise, such as Trader Joe’s 100 Calorie Dark Chocolate Bars. Midnight snacks are all about moderation. 

3. Greek yogurt with honey

Perhaps you ate a super early dinner and you wake up in the middle of the night truly starving. Don’t fret. Greek yogurt not only packs at least 12 grams of protein per serving, but it's also low in calories. Choose plain Greek yogurt and add some raspberries or blueberries. Drizzle on some honey, and your stomach will thank you.

In many sports, an athlete's prime comes in their mid-20s and may carry into their early 30s.

However, in some sports, even with younger ages, there are athletes who begin dominating exceedingly early.

Our list of the 50 most dominant athletes compiled athletes of all ages across the world who have reached the pinnacle of their sports. Here, we have 25 athletes who are yet to turn 25 and who have already reached new heights in their respective games.

In some cases, these athletes have already won championships, gold medals, and MVPs in their early 20s or teens. We took into account the feats they've already accomplished, while weighing their room to grow.

Here are 25 athletes under 25 who are poised to take over the world:

25. Carlos Correa

Houston Astros shortstop

Age: 22

Correa was off to a blistering start in 2017, batting .320 with a .966 OPS  and 20 home runs and 67 RBIs. Out with an injury until September, the first-year All-Star still ranks ninth in WAR this season and forms a dynamic duo next to Jose Altuve for the first-place Astros. As Correa gets healthy and continues to grow, the Astros should be an offensive force for years to come.

24. Dak Prescott

Dallas Cowboys quarterback

Age: 24

Prescott took the Cowboys starting job in preseason after Tony Romo got injured and never looked back. The rookie was so poised under center, boasting an impressive 23-4 touchdown-interception ratio, that when Romo was healthy, the Cowboys couldn't even go back to him. The expectations have been raised for Prescott in Year 2, but if his rookie year was any indication, he should handle it with aplomb. 

23. Christian Pulisic

American, Borussia Dortmund soccer player

Age: 18

Beyond getting crucial minutes for one of the best clubs in Bundesliga at just 18 years old, Pulisic has transformed into the future of US soccer. The wunderkind wing scored two goals in a must-win over Trinidad and Tobago, keeping the US in the hunt to qualify for Russia in 2018. Making the U.S. competitive in the World Cup would only raise his profile as one of the young stars in soccer.