Winter is finally loosening its hold, so it's time to start thinking about spring fashion.

Spring is typically a preppier season: think  Hamptons rentals, sail boats, and pastel colors.

Elijah Clark Ginsberg of the Chesterfield Report— a website devoted to a preppy lifestyle — was kind enough to share a helpful graphic of some of the shirts, shoes, belts, outerwear, and more that will take guys into the new season.

Check it out below.

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American John Stanmeyer's "dignified" photograph of African migrants in Djibouti attempting to catch a cellphone signal from Somalia was named the best press photo of the year by the World Press Photo contest.

The preeminent photojournalist contest, now in its 57th year, reviewed more than 98,000 images from nearly 6,000 photographers, representing 132 nationalities. 

Photographers compete in one of nine categories, including general news, spot news, contemporary issues, daily life, people (observed portraits, staged portraits), nature, and sports (sports action, sports feature).

We are featuring a selection of the winners with the prizes noted below each pictures. You can see the rest at World Press Photo's website.

Be warned that some of the pictures show disturbing images, including dead bodies and violence.

Last November, Typhoon Haiyan destroyed large parts of the Philippines, leaving more than 4 million homeless and killing more than 8,000 people. Here, survivors march during a religious procession.

On September 21st, gunmen opened fire at the upscale Westgate mall in Nairobi, Kenya. A woman and her children hide in the mall. It took four days to end the attack.

Syrian rebel fighters take cover amid flying debris after being hit by a tank shell fired by the Syrian Army in Damascus.

Some billionaires choose to spend their money on huge mansions and swanky cars. Others use their disposable income in a less flashy way. 

As tech entrepreneurs have seen their companies grow and become financially successful, many have turned to art collection as a pastime and form of self expression.

"An engineer will look at a photograph or video art in a way a banker couldn't — we think in ones and zeros, we think in terms of screens," tech entrepreneur and collector Trevor Traina said to the Wall Street Journal last year. 

We've come up with a list of the biggest art aficionados in the tech world. These executives all have their own unique sensibilities — Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, for example, owns a huge collection of Japanese art, while Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer prefers quirky pop art like Jeff Koons' balloon dogs. 

With a collection that reportedly contains as many as 500 pieces, Oracle founder Larry Ellison is a big fan of Japanese art.

According to SF Gate, the Oracle billionaire first became interested in the art of Japan when he worked there in the 1970s, and he "personally studies and approves every proposed acquisition." Pieces from his collection were on display at San Francisco's Asian Art Museum last June. 

Ellison's preference for the Eastern style is also apparent in his home in Woodside, Calif., which was modeled after a 16th-century Japanese emperor's residence. He reportedly rotates the artwork in his home every other week, in keeping with traditional Japanese practices.

Famed VC Marc Andreessen favors contemporary art.

Midcentury artists Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns are among the famed Silicon Valley investor's favorites, according to Businessweek. 

Andreessen's wife, Laura Arrilaga-Andreessen, holds two degrees in art history and reportedly carries a lot of weight in the process of deciding what pieces they buy for their home. 

The offices at Andreessen Horowitz are also filled with abstract art pieces, including Roy Lichtenstein's "Reclining Nude, 1980."

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer prefers "happy art."

Mayer is known for having a sophisticated sense of style, regularly wearing glamorous pieces by Oscar de la Renta and Carolina Herrara.

She also has a taste for quirky pop art — according to Vogue's August 2013 profile on Mayer, the Yahoo executive has several balloon dog sculptures by Jeff Koons in her kitchen, in addition to works by Roy Lichtenstein. She also reportedly owns several glass sculptures by Dale Chihuly, which sell for an average of $15,000 each. 

Mayer serves on the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's board of trustees. 

Artist Jon Rafman spends hours culling through Google's Street View images to find bizarre and stunning moments happening all over the world.

He created a Tumblr, 9-eyes — named after the 9 cameras Google Street View uses— where he curates the best images he finds.

Rafman says sometimes he picks a location and "just wanders," captivated by what he sees.

He also doesn't document where exactly the photos were taken. 

He told The New York Times in 2013: 

There’s also this excitement that potentially I was the first to ever look at this image because there’s no cameraman — it’s just a robot. There’s something inherently exciting knowing that you might be the first person to ever gaze upon a scene that happened in the past.

The photos are truly amazing.

A beautiful image of a forest covered in the purple shield plant.

A lone cabin in a forest.

This photo of a horseback rider.

While Hollywood has cashed in on book series after book series, it's no secret directors have failed to perfect the art of bringing popular video games to the big screen.  

Unless it's a "Lara Croft" or "Resident Evil" film led by Angelina Jolie or Milla Jovovich, most game adaptations suffer from poor scripts, weak dialogue, and acting from unrecognized talent that resulted in awful reviews and box-office reception.

When "Need for Speed" comes to theaters Friday, DreamWorks hopes it can break that cycle with the help of "Breaking Bad" star Aaron Paul.

Based on the popular franchise that's turning 20 this year, the film cost an estimated $66 million to make. 

Current estimates are tracking the film for a $19 million debut. That number may be tough to crack as many reviews pouring out for the adaptation aren't positive.

We’ve compiled the worst-performing video game adaptations. Movies are ranked according to monetary intake compared to its budget. 

12. "Silent Hill: Revelation 3D" (2012)

Budget: $20 million
Worldwide: $52.3 million
Distributor: Open Road Films

The sequel to the 2006 adaptation received a 5% on critic aggregator Rotten Tomatoes for being a jumble of jump-scare tactics combined with weak performances. That's probably why it made about half as much as the original at the box office.

The first film’s director Christophe Gans turned down the sequel. Writer Roger Avary didn’t return after he was sentenced to a year in prison for vehicular manslaughter.

(Source: Box Office Mojo) 

11. "House of the Dead" (2003)

Budget: $12 million
Worldwide: $13.8 million
Distributor: Artisan

You probably see Sega's "House of the Dead" in nearly every arcade you step foot inside. The film adaptation was considered a cheesy horror adaptation.

Watch the trailer

(Source: Box Office Mojo)

10. "Doom" (2005)

Budget: $60 million
Worldwide: $56 million
Distributor: Universal

The first-person shooter from id Software was tossed around at movie studios for a while (the rights went from Universal and Columbia Pictures to Warner Bros. before finally returning to Universal). 

Reviews for director Andrzej Bartkowiak’s (“Romeo Must Die”) adaptation were pretty awful. Fans of the game were upset the film strayed from the game’s plot of a virus to an invasion of demonic creatures on Mars.  

Here’s how Roger Ebert described the film:

“'Doom' is like some kid came over and is using your computer and won't let you play.” 

This was also one of The Rock’s first movie roles.

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(Source: Box Office Mojo)

The Bitcoin community was nearly unanimous in expressing its displeasure at the controversial Newsweek story purporting to out "Satoshi Nakamoto," the anonymous person who coded and created the famous digital currency.

The common critique is that it doesn't matter who's behind Bitcoin, that the technology is so transformative for how money moves around the world that the genie's already out of the proverbial bottle.

The identity of the creator has nothing to do with a Bitcoiner's current task at hand — to educate people on Bitcoin and figure out new ways to apply it.

Whoever dreamed up Bitcoin certainly seems to want nothing to do with mainstream attention, and that's okay. There are plenty of public-facing people in the Bitcoin world more than happy to play cryptocurrency advocate. Let's skip the speculation over who Satoshi is and instead look to people who are happy to talk about Bitcoin and its implications.

Andreas Antonopoulos, Blockchain.info

Antonopoulos is the Chief Security Officer of Blockchain.info, a popular Bitcoin wallet service that also records every single Bitcoin transaction as it happens. He's also likely the closest thing there is to a Bitcoin missionary, traveling from conference to conference to educate people on what Bitcoin is and how it works.

Many of his presentations are on YouTube. This one in particular is especially accessible.

When there began to be doubts that Newsweek had properly identified"Satoshi Nakamoto" (it suggested that he was actually Dorian Nakamoto of Temple City, Calif.), Antonopoulos started a Bitcoin fundraiser to send money to Nakamoto for his troubles in being hounded by the media. Antonopoulos raised 44.64 Bitcoins worth over $28,000.

Gavin Andresen, Bitcoin Foundation

Andresen is Chief Scientist of the Bitcoin Foundation, a non-profit organization that exists to "standardize, protect and promote the use of Bitcoin cryptographic money for the benefit of users worldwide."

He became project lead for Bitcoin in May 2010 and has communicated directly with "Satoshi Nakamoto" in the past, but only  ever via email and Web forums. Andresen has rather high-level access to the Bitcoin network as well, holding an "alert key" that lets him send messages about the status of the Bitcoin network that enables those messages to appear in every single Bitcoin client as users run them.

Barry Silbert, Bitcoin Investment Trust

Consider the following two sentences from Crain's:

At 13, Barry Silbert was making a business out of trading baseball cards. He spent his bar mitzvah money on stocks, and at 17 was the youngest person to pass the Series 7 stockbrokers' exam.

Barry Silbert knows a thing or two about money, so it's only natural that the CEO and founder of SecondMarket, a place for buying and selling illiquid assets, would also be interested in Bitcoin. Silbert founded the Bitcoin Investment Trust, a "private, open-ended trust that is invested exclusively in Bitcoin & derives its value solely from the price of Bitcoin." His business exists to help Bitcoin speculators buy, store, and protect large numbers of Bitcoins.

When Social Security Administration software engineer Ben Marcin gets off work, he heads back out into the streets to photograph people who have fallen through America’s safety net. 

In the spring of 2011, Marcin stumbled on a phenomenon that was spreading across the city of Baltimore. Homeless people were leaving the streets and the shelters and setting up camp in the woods in and around the city.

Over the course of the year, Marcin stalked through the metropolitan area to photograph the makeshift homes of Baltimore’s homeless. When he returned a year later, he found all of the homes gone.

“This was their last stand,” Marcin told Business Insider in a recent interview. “Many of them were on their way out. If they had anywhere else to go, they’d be there.”

While Marcin's project ended in 2011, homelessness and the makeshift camps have remained a chronic issue in the Baltimore area, leading to the establishment of The Journey Home, a 10-year program seeking to end the problem in Baltimore.

Marcin shared some photos of the homes with us here, but you can see the rest at his website. Marcin is running a new project on America’s new urban high-rises at the Detroit Center of Contemporary Photography.

Marcin came across the first homeless settlement he encountered while hiking in the wilderness surrounding and in Baltimore.

The more he explored, the more camps he found. Because Baltimore's numerous green spaces are rarely used, area homeless people found them an ideal place to set up camp.

Most of the homeless people live in tents or under tarps, which they buy from Walmart or Target.

Many chefs and restaurateurs believe Yelp is the bane of their existence.

The crowdsourced business review site has spawned lawsuits, been accused of killing businesses, and been criticized over the way reviews are policed.

It's also been decried by restaurant royalty. Ruth Reichl, the last editor-in-chief of the now defunct Gourmet magazine, has said: "Anybody who believes Yelp is an idiot. Most people on Yelp have no idea what they’re talking about." And Travel Channel host Andrew Zimmern once ranted, "I don't like the idea of Yelp. The problem for me is that crowd sourcing is very beneficial except when it comes to things like restaurant criticism and restaurant reviews and restaurant recommenders…Yelp essentially gives a tremendous forum for a bunch of uninformed morons to take down restaurants." 

Yet we found a surprising person who actually approved of Yelp — acclaimed chef and restaurateur Joël Robuchon. Robuchon, who's restaurant empire includes 22 locations around the world and has racked up 28 Michelin stars, knows what he's talking about when it comes to food.

In a recent interview with Business Insider in Las Vegas, he expressed support for the restaurant rating site. Robuchon explained in French (translated):

These types of sites I don't look at, it's not something that bothers me. If it gives guests satisfaction to say what they think then that's great, but it certainly doesn't bother me. Why not give a voice to the people you are feeding?

Traveling around the world, we hear quite a few things. But it's like life in general: there are crazies, there are intelligent people, and there are people who don't know anything. And there's always going to be a percentage attributed to each.

And I know, I've heard of people who own restaurants and who write reviews of other restaurants. But to the contrary, I believe that Yelp is a very good thing, I think it can guide people to the right venues.

It should be noted, however, that Robuchon — whose U.S. restaurants almost all have 5-star ratings on Yelp— has nothing to worry about when it comes to the online review site.

Disclosure: Our trip to Las Vegas, including travel, food, and lodging expenses, was sponsored by MGM Resorts International.

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A new terminal at the Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport in Shenzhen,which opened late last year, is helping to alleviate the problem of China's overcrowded airports. 

Terminal 3 mirrors the look of a manta ray, a fish that can change its own shape. Designed by the Italian Studio Fuksas, the three-floor, 123-acre facility cost about $1.4 billion to construct, according to the South China Morning Post. 

Passengers reported issues with miscommunication and missed flights in the opening days, but The Verge reports the issues seem more due to the growing pains of a new facility and will probably rebound more quickly than other airports in the country, like the Beijing Capital International Airport, where more than 80% of flights take off late.  

Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport's new steel-and-concrete terminal was designed to look like a manta ray.

The skin of the structure is made of alveolus-shaped metal and glass panels of different sizes that can be partially opened.

Italian firm Studio Fuksas designed Terminal 3.

No place captures the warmth and friendliness of the Irish quite like an Irish pub, but you don't have to head to Dublin to find that kind of authenticity.

With St. Patrick's Day right around the corner, we rounded up 32 Irish pubs in 20 big cities right here in the U.S. that have the best drinks, the best food, and the best craic (that's Gaelic for "good times").

Sláinte!

ATLANTA: The Marlay House

426 W. Ponce De Leon Avenue (Decatur)

Irish owned and operated, The Marlay is "a little bit of Dublin in Decatur." They serve tasty, traditional Irish pub fare, brunch on the weekends, and have over 20 beers on draft. Known for their Atlantic cod fish and chips, The Marlay also operates "The Mobile Marlay" to bring this specialty all over Atlanta.

On St. Patrick's Day, The Marlay has a full line-up of live Irish music, dancing, and face painting for the kids.

Try also: Mac McGee, which gives free Jell-O shots to anyone who dresses like a leprechaun (but only on St. Paddy's Day).

AUSTIN: B.D. Riley's

204 East 6th Street

Except for the building itself, everything in B.D. Riley's pub comes straight from the motherland. They take particular pride in pouring the perfect pint, and feature a number of Irish whiskeys behind the bar.

B.D.'s has live music all day long On St. Patrick's Day, as well as a menu full of Irish favorites, and promises "no green beer."

BALTIMORE: Mick O'Shea's

328 North Charles Street

Mick O'Shea's happily mixes its Irish heritage with a liberal sprinkling of Baltimore pride. Regulars rave about the happy hour deals, as well as the local Maryland crab soup.

On St. Paddy's Day grab yourself a traditional Irish breakfast, starting at 9am, and then come back at 5pm for live music.

Or try: The Life of Reilly Irish Pub & Restaurant, which has a "stew and a brew" special — half an order of Guinness Stew and a pint of Guinness for less than $10.

Pete Sampras and his wife, actress Bridgette Wilson, bought Albert Brooks' former Bel Air estate for $5,996,000, according to Trulia.

The 5,100-square-foot home has a living room with 20-foot wood-paneled ceilings, skylights, and massive floor to ceiling windows. 

Outside, a serene and spacious yard features an infinity pool with a view of Los Angeles.

Previous owners of the home include Merv Griffin and Brooks, who purchased the property for $3,650,000 in 1992.

The yard

The living room

The kitchen

People living in Vermont must be lookin' svelte.

According to the new Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, adults living in the "Green Mountain" state are the most likely in the U.S. to report exercising three or more days a week for at least 30 minutes.

Hawaii came in second place, and Montana, Alaska, and Colorado rounded out the top five.

This is the third time Vermont has taken the top spot, earning the title for most active state in 2008 and 2009. Last year's winner, Alaska, fell three places to number four.

Here are the top 10 states for exercise in 2013 along with the percent of people who said they exercised three or more days per week for 30 minutes:

1. Vermont (65.3%)

2. Hawaii (62.2%)

3. Montana (60.1%)

4. Alaska (60.1%)

5. Colorado (59.8%)

6. Oregon (58%)

7. Idaho (57.7%)

8. New Mexico (57.4%)

9. Nebraska (56.3%)

10. North Dakota (56%)

On the other end of the spectrum, four states — Indiana, Ohio, New Jersey, and Alabama — continued their five-year streak of placing in the bottom 10 most active states. Delaware was the worst offender, however, with only 46.5% of adults saying they exercised three or more times a week.

Here's the full bottom 10, none of which made it above the United States average of 51.6%.

1. Delaware (46.5%)

2. West Virginia (47.1%)

3. Alabama (47.5%)

4. New Jersey (47.7%)

5. Rhode Island (48.2%)

6. Tennessee (49.2%)

7. New York (49.3%)

8. Ohio (49.3%)

9. Indiana (49.4%)

10. South Carolina (49.7%)

To see the complete set of data, click here.

SEE ALSO: What Life Is Like In North Dakota, America's New Happiest State

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Like our smartphones, social media accounts and even refrigerators, autos are finding their place among the hyper-connected Internet of Things.

At the same time, as our living spaces evolve to include more green space and pedestrian walkways, auto manufacturers are re-envisioning how we’ll be getting around the cities of tomorrow.

During the 2013 Tokyo Motor show last November, in a remote wing of the Tokyo Big Sight Event Center tucked away from the usual hubbub and media frenzies standard at any auto show, Japanese manufacturers presented their vision for the coming decades—and the future looks both closer and more foreign than ever.

Smart Mobility City, a consortium between Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Mazda and Mitsubishi, proposes solutions to congestion, pollution and pedestrian fatalities in the form of alternative fuel sources (electric, hydrogen); assisted, or even fully automated, drive vehicles; and personal mobility cars perfect for short-range commutes.

For the Japanese, historically our planet’s most tech-savvy, earliest adopters, it may be a foregone conclusion that this is where things are headed, but back in North America, what was proposed in Tokyo still seems like the stuff of science fiction or straight out of a Syd Mead painting, with globular vehicles that think for themselves and talk to each other, flowing smoothly and quietly through the city.

These nimble pods are part car, part motorcycle, dancing through density. According to Jim Pisz, corporate manager of North American business strategy at Toyota, tomorrow may not be that far off, even stateside.

The i-Road, Toyota’s three-wheeled update on the micro car that debuted at last year’s Geneva auto show, is ripe for pilot programs in “campus” communities, such as Florida retirement developments or gated neighborhoods, where golf-cart culture has already taken hold.

And with the success of alternative transportation solutions like New York City’s Citi Bike program, Pisz is optimistic that the i-Road and its more aggressively designed successor, the FV2, will begin to be integrated in American cities within the next decade.

I had a chance to drive Toyota’s i-Road at the company’s secret proving grounds.

Though I was fully expecting an anesthetic experience that paled in comparison to driving a full-size auto, this tiny car—can we even still call it that?—was zippy, pairing the secureness of a closed-cabin vehicle with the maneuverability, especially when leaning into a curve, of a motorcycle or scooter. Which means though our roads are changing, the fun of driving will not.

The i-Road and similar vehicles currently in development, such as Honda’s Mc-beta and BMW’s i3, are meant to reduce pollution and congestion, but not at the expense of an enjoyable trip. It’s unlikely that your SUV will go the way of the woolly mammoth anytime soon, but the days of driving it downtown may numbered.

SEE ALSO: Korea Invents An 'Armadillo' Car That Folds Up After You Park It

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In 2011, the MARADMIN 621/11 policy came down from Marine Corps. headquarters.

In a nutshell, it was determined that Marines would no longer roll up their shirt sleeves of their combat utility uniform while in garrison.

A small detail really. Yet that small detail led to many heated debates, including this interesting one over at the Marine Corps Times.

My point? Men — and this goes for Marines and civilians alike – often care about the rolling of their sleeves, and if you’re going to do it, you might as well learn how to do it properly.

Now let me be clear: I don’t believe there is only one “right way” to roll your sleeves. But I do think that some ways look better than others. The goal of this article is to help you understand when sleeve rolling is appropriate and to give you three how-to options when doing so.

When and why to roll your sleeves

Practical necessity

Washing your hands, doing heavy lifting where your wrists and forearms are strained, working on something dusty, and so on are all perfectly normal reasons to pull back the shirt sleeves.

Anytime your sleeves might get in the way or dirty or caught in a moving part — roll ‘em up. Thus it is the universal “men at work” style.

Examples of this include unclogging a toilet, or perhaps rescuing a cat from a tree (though in the latter case you might actually leave the sleeves up to avoid scratches on your skin). 

On a side note — did you know that men used to roll up their jacket sleeves as well?  To accommodate this, jackets had working buttons along the end of the sleeve that made the practice simple.  

Over the last 100 years, as mass manufacturing took over, the buttons became non-functional, but for decorative reasons clothing designers kept them in place.  

You might also roll up the sleeves of a shirt that fits well, except for sleeves that are too long. But this is only a temporary solution! Be sure to get your shirt tailored for the best fit (and the ability to roll down your sleeves with confidence when the situation calls for it!)

Heat

When it’s very hot and stagnant, rolling up your sleeves lets air flow directly over more of your skin. Every little bit helps. While the appropriateness of rolled sleeves varies by workplace, anytime you’ve got direct sunlight on your skin, rolled sleeves are acceptable.

They’re also nice when you work or live inside a place where the temperature fluctuates a great deal, as it’s nice to be able to roll them down when the A/C’s blowing on you, and roll them up when the room gets stuffy.

Casual dress

As a purely stylistic expression, rolled sleeves mostly serve to “dress down” something that would otherwise be too formal/dressy for the occasion; rolling back the shirt sleeves sends a visual signal that says “relaxed.”

For example, upon leaving the office for a less-formal work function or social gathering, men with their jackets off and their sleeves rolled up is classic “Happy Hour” style. A collared shirt with rolled up sleeves is also a popular look for men out at clubs and bars over the weekend. And when in charge of a meeting or hosting a party, it’s a great way to signal to others that it’s okay to not worry about formalities.

This is why the question of whether rolled up sleeves at the office is appropriate comes down to the culture of a particular workplace: in a casual, informal office, rolled sleeves are often the norm, while in a very conservative corporate environment, sleeves may never leave a man’s wrists.

Check out your fellow employees to see what the prevailing norm is, and even if you do work in an office where rolled sleeves prevail, I’d recommend rolling them down when meeting with an important client, or when a head honcho is visiting the office, to give yourself a more professional appearance.

To sum up: When you’re wearing a long-sleeved dress or work shirt, it’s best to wait for one of the three circumstances listed above before rolling the sleeves up. If it’s not achieving one of those practical effects, you risk looking sloppy or thoughtless.

How to roll your sleeves

Before we talk about three specific sleeve folds, here are some important guidelines for any style of rolled sleeve:

• Several inches of wrist visible, at minimum. You don’t want it to look like the shirt is too big for you and you had to roll the sleeves just to keep your hands from being swallowed.
• Forearms yes, elbows only if you’re going to be working. For casual situations, keep the big, pointy, outer bone of your elbow inside the shirt.
• Suit or sport jackets usually aren’t rolled (and when they are, they are more pushed up than rolled) unless there’s an immediate and practical need. You can do it (if your jacket has working sleeve buttons), but be aware that it’s a fashion-forward look.

1. The Casual Forearm

This is a casual shirt roll that is also, conveniently, the easiest to roll back down without wrinkles. It involves the least folding.

• Unbutton the cuff and any “gauntlet” buttons further up the sleeve.
• Flip the cuff back and inside out.
• Fold over once, hiding the cuff behind a band of sleeve fabric.
• Stop there, tucking the corners of the cuff in neatly.

The result should be a single small roll around the middle of your forearm. It doesn’t need to be tight because it’s already as far down the arm as it’s going to slide. This is a particularly good style to use when you have multiple layers involved, such as a dress shirt under a light sweater. It also looks good on men with thin arms.

2. The Master 

For the most stylish look, this roll gives you a deliberately casual fold that’s not quite symmetrical and can be adjusted at will.

• Unbutton the cuff and gauntlet buttons.
• Flip the cuff back and inside out.
• Pull the flipped cuff all the way to just below your elbow without folding, turning the sleeve inside out as it goes.
• Take the bottom of the inside-out portion and fold it up until it traps the bottom of the cuff.
• Leave as much or as little of the inside-out cuff showing above the fold as you desire.

This looks particularly striking when the inside of the cuff has a contrasting lining. Let enough of the inner cuff show to clearly display the lining, making it clear that you’re deliberately showing off the shirt’s accent as well as rolling your sleeves for comfort.  It is also very simple to unfold; just pull and you’re done.

3. The Basic

This style is the most intuitive way to roll your sleeves.  I only recommend this roll if you’re going to be working and need your sleeves rolled past your elbow.

• Unbutton the shirt cuff and any gauntlet buttons.
• Flip the cuff back inside out.
• Fold back, using the cuff to set the width.
• Continue folding until the band of rolled cloth is just below your elbow.
• Continue past your elbow if you’ll be engaged in physical labor.

To see how each of these three folds are done, watch the video below:

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The rivalry between the two best smartphone makers in the U.S. continues. 

Samsung recently unveiled its new flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S5, and it's pretty awesome. 

So awesome, in fact, that it does a lot of things that Apple's latest iPhone can't do (and we're not even including the differences between iOS and Android's OS). 

The Galaxy S5 will launch in the U.S. in April, but pricing and precise availability will be up to the wireless carriers.

Because Samsung partnered with PayPal, you can use your fingerprint to make secure payments from your phone.

You can drop it in water for a few minutes without it breaking. We all know what happens after an iPhone takes a dive...

The rear camera flash works as a built-in heart rate monitor so you can easily check your pulse right from your phone.

For nearly three decades, music has been an integral part of the experience gamers get out of their favorite past times.

Just as with movies, music can help set the tone in a video game. It can get you pumped up for an adrenaline-fueled action sequence, or lay the emotional tracks for a scene full of important dialogue.

But unlike movie viewers, the player has control over many situations they encounter in a video game.

In a game — but especially in an open-world game like "Grand Theft Auto" or Sony's upcoming "Infamous: Second Son"— the music has to react to what you're doing so that it doesn't sound mismatched.

You don't want percussion-heavy combat music when you're just walking around taking in the sights, and you don't want quiet, emotional pieces playing while you mow down dozens of enemies in an intense fire fight.

Today, I got to tour PlayStation's state-of-the-art music studio, where I met the guys responsible for creating blockbuster-quality music for the games that make people buy Sony's consoles.

Here's what Sony's new PlayStation headquarters in San Mateo, Calif., looks like from the outside.

Inside the lobby, there's a statue of the PlayStation Move controller in each corner.

They're right next to PlayStation 4 demo booths, like you'd see in a GameStop.

Even those of us who are not shaky-handed drunks often find ourselves fumbling in the morning. I speak of breakfast, a meal nearly always made badly, and always in the same way.

I’m 46 years old and it is only in the past few years that it has ceased to be a disaster, a catastrophic start to what was sure to be a demoralizing day.

But thanks to a few dope moves I’ve picked up, now each day begins with a shimmer of absolute confidence. These moves are preceded by the problem that begat them.

1. Cook bacon in the oven

Like everyone else in the world, bacon is my favorite food. But cooking it has almost always been problematic.

The pan is round, but the slices are long, so they don’t all fit. The part in the middle gets cooked while the ends are half raw. And the fat splatters in every direction, leaving the stove a greasy mess and the cook lucky to escape with first-degree burns.

The Hack: Cook the bacon in the oven. The slices lay out easily in a roasting pan, they all cook at the same time, at the same rate, and what splattering goes on is out of sight and contained.

2. Add softened butter to eggs

Eggs are among the trickiest of all foods to cook, because they come together all at once, and irreversibly. Runny, slimy eggs are easy enough to fix; all they need is a little more heat.

But what happens once they begin to dry up? Then they become tasteless, pasty lumps, the kind you eat in airport buffets. 

The Hack: A teaspoon of softened salted butter bathes and softens even ruined eggs, tricking your mouth into thinking they are good. (Note: The same trick works for steak as well, as all steak houses are aware.)

3. Run potatoes over a grater for crispy hash browns

Few people even have the patience to try cooking hash browns, but those that do are inevitably disappointed.

Instead of the wonderfully crisp, buttery confections produced by Denny’s or Waffle House, they get tan, un-browned chunks that are hard inside or mushy, and in neither case ever really browned. 

The Hack: Of all these moves, this is the one I’m proudest of. Are you sitting down? OK. Here is the secret to preparing hash browns at home.

One: Take a big pan with lots of butter sizzling in it. Two: Take an unpeeled potato and grate it into the pan. That’s it! Just don’t get greedy. You need plenty of space in there, or the steam from the potato will have nowhere to go.

A bonus feature: As the shreds cook, the release their starch and bind to each other, forming a great lacy latke.

4. Butter your pancakes before you stack them

I call them “cupcaked” because they suffer from the same fatal error as most cupcakes. The top is covered with a giant mass of syrup and butter, while pancake two and pancake three are dry and tasteless.

The Hack: As each pancake comes out of the pan, spread it evenly but liberally with soft butter and syrup. The final pile will be a layer cake of buttery sweet deliciousness, instead of a top-heavy cupcake.

5. Mix water incrementally with oatmeal

The back of the oatmeal container always says the same thing. Add some water, a pinch of salt and then the oats.

But who has the presence of mind to carefully measure out the water and the oats? Especially since once the measuring cup (or whatever) is wet, a good part of the oatmeal sticks to it.

Anyway, the measures are nearly always wrong, just like the spaghetti box that tells you to boil eight gallons of water. So either the oatmeal sticks and seizes up, or comes out as a nasty, watery mess if you over correct the other way.

The Hack: Start out with the suggested amount of water and just a handful of oatmeal. Add a little bit at a time, constantly stirring, as if you were making risotto. You might also consider flavoring the added liquid, with, say, butter. This is what they call “process control” in chemical engineering, and it will work for you too.

6. Fry eggs in bacon grease

No matter how long you cook a fried egg, the yolk never gets quite done. And if you flip the egg, the yolk gets done too much. Also, the things are never greasy enough.

The Hack: Cook them in bacon grease, and plenty of it. As the egg cooks, constantly spoon sizzling hot grease on top, so that the thing cooks on both sides. As a bonus, it now tastes like bacon. 

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Happy Pi Day!

It's March 13, or 3/14. Those are the first three digits of Pi, the ratio that enables us to compute the circumference of a circle.

Pi is just one of an infinite number of numbers. And there are infinitely many ways to combine and manipulate those numbers.

Mathematicians often represent numbers in a line. Pick a point on the line, and this represents a number.

At the end of the day, though, almost all of the numbers that we use are based on a handful of extremely important numbers that sit at the foundation of all of math.

What follows are the eight numbers you actually need to build the number line, and to do just about anything quantitative.

Zero

In The Beginning, There Was Zero.

Zero represents the absence of things. Zero is also an essential element of our number system. We use zero as a placeholder when writing numbers with more than one digit — zero lets me know the difference between having 2 dollars and 20 dollars.

Zero as a number on its own is also extremely important in math. Zero is the "additive identity"— any time I add a number to zero, I get that number back: 3 + 0 = 3. This property of zero is a central aspect of arithmetic and algebra. Zero sits in the middle of the number line, separating the positive numbers from the negative numbers, and is thus the starting point for building our number system.

One

We Can't Get Very Far Just Having Zero, So We Turn To One.

As zero was the additive identity, one is the multiplicative identity — take any number and multiply it by one, and you get that number back. 5 x 1 is just 5.

Just using one, we can start to build up the number line. In particular, we can use one to get the natural numbers: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and so on. We keep adding one to itself to get these other numbers: 2 is 1 + 1, 3 is 1 + 2, 4 is 1 + 3, and we keep going, right on out to infinity.

The natural numbers are our most basic numbers. We use them to count things. We can also do arithmetic with the natural numbers: if I add or multiply together any two natural numbers, I get another natural number. I can also sometimes, but not always, subtract two natural numbers, or divide one natural number by another: 10 - 6 = 4, and 12 ÷ 4 = 3. Just using zero and one, and our basic arithmetic operations, we can already do a good amount of math just using the natural numbers.

Negative One

Natural Numbers Are Pretty Great, But They Are Also Quite Limited.

To start with, it is not always possible to subtract two naturals and get another natural. If all I have to work with are these counting numbers, I have no idea how to parse a statement like 3 - 8.

One of the wonderful things about math is that, when we are confronted with a limitation like this, we can just expand the system we are working with to remove the limitation.  To allow for subtraction, we add -1 to our growing number line. -1 brings with it all the other negative whole numbers, since multiplying a positive number by -1 gives the negative version of that number: -3 is just -1 x 3. By bringing in negative numbers, we have solved our subtraction problem. 3 - 8 is just -5. Putting together the positive numbers, zero, and our new negative numbers, we get the integers, and we can always subtract two integers from each other and get an integer as the result. The integers provide the anchor points for the number line.

The negative numbers are useful in representing deficits — if I owe the bank $500, I can think of my bank balance as being -500. We also use negative numbers when we have some scaled quantity where values below zero are possible, such as temperature. In the frozen wasteland of my hometown of Buffalo, we would get a few winter days each year down in the -20° range.

Before last weekend, I was a Las Vegas virgin.

I had never walked the Strip, taken a ride on the New York New York roller coaster, or even gambled. The only things I knew about Vegas were what I had seen on TV.

I ended up having a blast — it's impossible not to in Sin City. But there were quite a few things I didn't realize about Vegas until I went.

These are the 9 things everyone should know before they travel to Las Vegas for the first time.

1. You Cannot Walk Everywhere

All the hotels are much farther apart than they first appear. Technically, the entire Strip is over four miles long, and it will take you at least a 15-30 minute walk to get to a different hotel than your own. Before the weekend is over, you will end up taking a few cabs.

But you should walk at least part of the Strip once. There are fun elevated walkways and outdoor elevators, not to mention plenty of photo opportunities. Just don't do it in 4-inch-heels (better yet — leave those heels at home).

2. You Can Take Your Drinks To Go

Are you headed to another club or restaurant, but you're not quite finished with your drink? Ask for a to-go cup!

Seriously — even classy establishments will let you take your drink outside as long as you use a disposable cup instead of their fancy glassware.

Oh, and once outside, you can imbibe with impunity since Vegas lets you drink (most) everywhere.

3. Bring Cash — ATMs Are Crazy Expensive

Unless you can find your own bank ATM, the standard fee at most Vegas ATMs is a staggering $5.99 — a charge that may not bother the high rollers, but gets really old, really fast for the rest of us.

If I ever went to Vegas again, I'd bring plenty of cash.

4. You Can Get Free Drinks By Gambling

There are a few things Vegas casinos do to keep you gambling (no clocks, no windows, plenty of lights and sounds), but the trick that works the best is plying customers with free drinks to keep them playing, and playing poorly.

While I'm not much of gambler, my friend told me to go sit at the bars with the gambling machines built into the counter. You stick in a $20, order a drink, and make minor bets of $.25. I played until I had won all my money back and knocked back a few glasses of wine while I was at it.

Basically, you can just drink for free (but don't forget to tip your bartender).

5. There's Art All Around

Most of us go to Vegas to gamble, drink, and party. But take a moment to realize there's art all around you on the Strip.

There are sculptures by famous artists behind the check-in desks, in the hotel lobbies, on the street, not to mention the fact that certain hotels like the Bellagio and The Cosmopolitan have their own galleries that display touring collections from around the world.

There's even the Picasso restaurant in the Bellagio, which is filled with sculptures, drawings, and paintings from the late artist.

6. Everyone Smokes, Everywhere

In Vegas, it's permissible for people to smoke inside casinos. To try and counteract that, the casinos will attempt to cover up the smell with what they call "signature scents."

The smell isn't incredibly offensive (especially if you're in a nice hotel), but if you're sensitive to cigarette smoke, you may want to stay somewhere that is non-gaming, such as the Trump International Hotel.

7. The Food Is Incredible

Almost every single Vegas hotel restaurant on the strip was phenomenal. No one thinks of Vegas as a foodie city, but from sports bars to three-star Michelin establishments, Vegas delivers.

Many of these huge hotels have fantastic relationships with seafood and produce providers, and prepare their meat and make their breads in-house. Personally, I'd make the trip back just for the food.

8. Men Must Buy Tickets (Or Bottles) To Get Into A Club

Vegas may be bachelor-party central, but no group of guys is going to get into a club without buying tickets, bottle service, or a table. Period.

I saw several groups of rejected men begging women to join their group to try and get in for free, but at the bigger clubs like XS, TAO, LAVO, and Marquee, that's just not going to happen.

Either chip in together for bottle/table service, buy a ticket to a DJ show, or don't try to go to clubs. You'll just be disappointed.

Ladies, you probably won't pay for anything. Enjoy.

9. Downtown Las Vegas Is Far Away (But Worth Checking Out)

My friend who I traveled with was a seasoned Vegas veteran, but she had never been to downtown Vegas. Neither of us knew what to expect.

Turns out, it's nice to get away from the expensive strip and see a different side of the city. Plus, there's a Mob Museum, you can see the remnants of Old Vegas before the Strip was built (there's still gambling, too), and you can try some kitschy establishments like the Heart Attack Grill.

It's worth seeing at least once, even though it is a $30 cab drive away.

Disclosure: Our trip to Las Vegas, including travel, food, and lodging expenses, was sponsored by MGM Resorts International.

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When Kelly McGonigal first told her audience that a belief in the harmful effects of stress — and not stress itself — was a serious health risk, many people laughed.

But by the end of her talk, most of them were willing to accept that a change in their perception of stress rather than the elimination of it could save them from a premature death.

McGonigal is a health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University who gave a TED Talk last June that has racked up almost 4.8 million views on TED's site and over a million views on TED's YouTube page.

Her presentation, "How To Make Stress Your Friend," draws on three recent studies that reveal how stress is a natural reaction to adversity, and if you stop becoming anxious about your stress, the body can naturally cope in a healthy way.

Here are the highlights:

In the first study McGonigal looked at, University of Wisconsin researchers tracked 30,000 American adults for eight years. They found that subjects with a lot of stress had a 43% increased risk of dying — but only if they believed stress was harmful.

By extrapolating their data, the researchers estimated that a negative view of stress coupled with lots of it kills over 20,000 Americans each year. This would put it above skin cancer, HIV/AIDS, and homicide in this list.

In a second study from Harvard University, participants' hearts were monitored in times of induced stress. Most respondents showed restricted blood vessels (top circle), but those who were told stress was a "helpful" reaction to a threat showed relaxed blood vessels (bottom circle).