No matter how it happens, sitting for a portrait session is an awkward thing. You have to act natural and relaxed while you worry about your shirt being dirty or your smile looking weird, all as someone you probably don't know very well points a camera at you, snapping away. It can be a stressful situation.

Photographer Trevor Christensen noticed this and took some extreme measures to level the playing field. In order to become just as insecure as his subjects, Trevor strips down to his birthday suit, photographing his sitters reactions to his nudity behind the camera.

"The photographer-subject paradigm is one of inequality... Instead of focusing on bringing the subject to a place of ease, where I am, this project brings me to a place of vulnerability," explains Christensen.

He calls his series, of course, "Nude Portraits." The photos, which Christensen continues to shoot and post on his Instagram and Twitter feeds, cleverly explore concepts of power dynamics and body image.

Trevor says the idea first came when he was joking around with his friends. "I imagined the image of hapless photographer who simply didn’t understand that it was the subject who was supposed to be nude, not him," he says on his website. His friend Jordan, seen below, was his first subject for the project. "We were both incredibly uncomfortable," he explains.

The shoots usually last 45 minutes, all of which Christensen spends naked. All the subjects know he will be naked before sitting, but, nevertheless, things are initially a little weird. But, "as the shoot goes on, the experience gets more comfortable as the subject and I find our rhythm," he tells Business Insider. "However, I always look forward to putting my clothes back on."

Christensen says that a typical reaction is just what you would expect- shocked laughter and bemused, embarrassed chuckles. "The shoot becomes almost normal very quickly, which I think is the biggest surprise I’ve had though this series," explains Christensen. Madelyne, below, screamed when she first saw Christensen.

Zynga founder Mark Pincus has listed his Pacific Heights home for $18 million, a tipster at Redfin tells us.

The home is located in a part of San Francisco that's known as "Billionaire's Row," with Larry Ellison and Jony Ive among the most notable neighbors.

Pincus first purchased the home — a gorgeous Dutch Colonial house built in 1907 — in 2012, at a reported purchase price of $16 million. Before Pincus bought it, it had never before been on the market. 

It has seven bedrooms, 6.5 bathrooms, and 11,500 square feet of space perched on the top of a hill overlooking the Bay.

The house is located in the affluent San Francisco neighborhood of Pacific Heights.

It's perched atop a hill that's become known as "Billionaire's Row." Larry Ellison and Jony Ive also own homes nearby.

A long, gated driveway leads up to the house.

The Athabasca Oil Sands in Alberta, Canada are the largest known resource for crude bitumen in the world. Retrieving that oil from the earth is a major undertaking, one that requires massive amounts of machinery, facilities, and man power. But the results also produce a massive amount of profit for those involved.

While its presence has been known since the early 1700's, it was only in the last decade or so that production and development has picked up on a large scale, thrusting the Tar Sands into the national spotlight. Folks from all over Canada and North America are flocking to Fort McMurray, the epicenter of expansion, for the promise of high paying jobs.

With an estimated 133 billion barrels still available, things don't look like they'll slow down any time soon. Though that's a tough sell for environmentalists who worry about the devastation these oil sands are wreaking on the natural environment.

Artist and aerial photographer, Louis Helbig, has been photographing the Athabasaca region from above for seven years and has seen firsthand just how colossal an operation extracting and refining the Tar Sands is. He also has seen how beautiful a place it can be.

"It's an unbelievable sight," he tells Business Insider.

Helbig has compiled his work into a new book, titled "Beautiful Destruction," which will be out later this year. He also currently has a Kicksoilter campaign going, and it's proven to be one of the most successful projects in the history of the site.

Helbig started the project in 2007, when, he says, the expansion was not yet world news. It was, however, the topic of many conversations in Alberta, especially among those who wanted to head to the Oil Sands to find work.

Helbig, looking to see what all the buzz was about, decided to visit. "I thought I would go up there and do some aerial photography and see what was hidden in plain sight," he recently told Business Insider.

When he first flew over the Tar Sands with his now wife, Kristin Reimer, the sheer magnitude of what he saw amazed them.

Thanks to tight deadlines, crowded inboxes, constant meetings, and pressure to perform, it's easy to fall into the trap of working too much.

And while it's important to be dedicated to your career, finding time for a life outside of work is just as (or more) crucial. 

"As humans, we need other outlets in our lives, such as friends, family, and hobbies, to live the kind of lives that bring us greater satisfaction," says Scott Dobrowski, a community expert at Glassdoor, a site where employees can review their jobs and employers. 

Glassdoor recently sifted through its data to find which professions offer the most flexible schedules, the option to work from home, and allow employees to set their own schedules. In other words: the jobs that provide the best work-life balance. 

Data scientist, SEO specialist, and tour guide top the list.

"By maintaining a healthy work-life balance, we see employees who tend to be satisfied in their jobs," Dobrowski explains. Employees in these jobs are motivated and hard working, yet still avoid burning out, which is good for both the employee and employer.

20. Game Designer

Work-life balance score: 3.8

"Nice people with a high team spirit, a great work life balance, countless events, activities, and benefits and low hierarchies."—Wooga Game Designer (Berlin, Germany)

19. Real Estate Broker

Work-life balance score: 3.8

"Flexible schedule, unlimited income, great work environment."—Century 21 Real Estate Broker (location, n/a)

18. Carpenter

Work-life balance score: 3.8

"Lots of chances to move up or lateral moves if you don't like what you are doing. Environment values family and having a life outside of work."—Fluor Carpenter (Boulder, Colorado)

An underground pipe is being built in Bruges, Belgium that will carry 1,500 gallons of beer an hour underground, according to UK news website Sky News.

The pipe is the brainchild of the De Halve Maan brewery, and will be built to take the company’s beer from its historic brewery location to a nearby bottling plant.

The new processing plant was opened on the Waggelwater industrial estate in 2010, but according to the Associate France-Presse, De Halve Maan did not want to give up its five-centuries-old brewery.

The solution is the 1.86-mile-long pipeline that will be able to carry every gallon of the brewery’s famous “Brugse Zot” beer. It will also take the 500 delivery trucks that used to transport the beer out of the streets, greatly decreasing the city’s traffic and improving the quality of Bruges as a UNESCO World Heritage site.  

The brewery's CEO Xavier Vanneste told Belgium's Het Nieuwsbladsaid that, "The beer will take 10 to 15 minutes to reach the bottling plant. By using the pipeline we will keep hundreds of lorries out of the city center.”

The Bruges city council has officially given De Halve Maan the go-ahead. The cost and start date of the Bruges pipeline have not yet been revealed, but the brewery will pay for the project and the pipeline will be constructed using the latest computer-guided drilling technology so as not to harm the city’s Gothic architecture.

Though unique, this is not the first instance of a brewery installing a similar system — a German brewery created a 3-mile beer pipeline that brought 13,737 gallons of beer to bars in the Veltines-Arena in Gelsenkirchenm.

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Earlier this week, Alaska TV reporter Charlo Greene made headlines when she quit her job on-air to focus on being an advocate for marijuana legalization.

While quitting in public isn't the best idea for people's longterm career prospects, these acts of defiance are certainly entertaining for the rest of us.

We collected the stories of seven people who chose to give their bosses a little something extra when they resigned, using platforms ranging from a local radio broadcast to an op-ed in the New York Times.

Marina Shifrin tells Next Media Animation she's "gone" in interpretive dance video.

Chicago native Marina Shifrin was working in Taiwan as an editor for Next Media Animation, a company famous for its ridiculous cartoon spoofs of American news stories, when she decided she'd had enough of the long nights and the constant pressure to turn out more content.

In a bold move, she decided to film herself in the Next Media Animation newsroom doing an interpretive dance set to Kanye West's "Gone." On the bottom, she placed scrolling text explaining her frustrations with her job and announcing to her bosses that she was quitting.

The video struck a chord with overworked young people everywhere, and it spread like wildfire on the internet. In the year since it was posted, the video has collected 18 million YouTube views.

Flight attendant Steven Slater slides to freedom.

JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater became a folk hero in the summer of 2010 when an unruly passenger sent him into a fury while their plane was on the tarmac of New York's JFK Airport.

After the passenger refused to stay in her seat until the pilot said it was safe to get up, Slater got on the plane's public address system, dropped the F-bomb, and told passengers that after more than 20 years as a flight attendant, he'd had enough.

Slater then escaped the plane via its inflatable emergency slide and rushed home. He later pleaded guilty to criminal mischief and attempted criminal mischief, agreeing to undergo counseling and substance abuse treatment in order to avoid a prison sentence.

Puppeteer Gwen Dean quits her machine engineering job on the biggest stage of all.

At the 2014 Super Bowl, web hosting company GoDaddy decided to shed the raunchiness that had been pervasive in its previous ads at the big game, instead hoping to position itself as a facilitator for small business owners hoping to pursue their dreams.

And so, during a commercial break, former US Coast Guard member Gwen Dean told her boss Ted and 110 million other Americans that she would be quitting her job as a machine engineer to focus on her small business making puppets.

Dean told the Today Show the following day that her boss was supportive of her decision and actually texted her after the ad ran to say, "great commercial!"

The Ryder Cup kicked off today and action is already exciting, both on and off the golf course.

This year, the biennial golf tournament takes place at Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland. It's the first time since 1973 that the Cup is taking place in Scotland, and only the second time in history. 

Europe enters the tournament the favorites, with the United States a large underdog in terms of betting odds. But anything could happen.

No place could be more suited for high pressure golf than the courses at Gleneagles. The grounds, as well as the other hotel facilities, are held to the highest standards of perfection. Directors at the hotel have been planning for the Ryder Cup for years, preparing for the festivities and the influx of people.

Gleneagles will mark its 90th anniversary by hosting the eagerly awaited biennial Ryder Cup, which kicks off today and runs through Sunday.

Gleneagles was named the best golf resort in the world for the third year running at the 2014 ULTRA awards.

Linkman Duncan Hunter, who greets guests on arrival, poses for a photograph outside the hotel, which sits on 850 acres of beautiful land in Perthshire, Scotland.

Drama is brewing on the Upper East Side. 

Retired publishing tycoon Dick Snyder is suing his neighbors Meredith and Bryan Verona for $60 million after he was unable to sell his mansion, according to a New York Post report.

The problem reportedly started when the Veronas began a gut renovation of their $17 million mansion on East 78th Street, transforming it from a building with multiple units into a five-story, 36-foot-wide home.

Meanwhile, Snyder — a former chairman of Simon & Schuster — has been stewing next door in his own Upper East Side mansion, which he has had on the market for $25 million for the past three years. According to his lawsuit, he’s been unable to find a buyer because potential owners see the scaffolding and trash outside the Veronas' home, they balk.

One broker even refused to try and sell the home because of the construction next door, Snyder claims.

“Despite the fact that the residential market has been and continues to experience tremendous demand for residential real property, and although Snyder had several parties view the residence, astonishingly…not a single offer has been made to purchase the residence,” reads a section of his lawsuit, according to The New York Post.

Snyder’s 8-story home, which is currently listed with Brown Harris Stevens, has some awesome features. It’s 11,000 square feet, has 14 rooms, a private garden, massage room, and roof deck. The real estate agent John Burger really sells it on the listing page.

But 81-year-old Snyder claims in his lawsuit that he can’t enjoy any of these amenities because of all that noise next door, even with construction workers honoring “times of silence” when the home is being shown. 

So Snyder — who, it should be noted, is no stranger to lawsuits— is now suing Meredith and Bryan Verona for $60 million in damages. Apparently not being able to enjoy your private garden really takes its toll. 

Only time will tell if this lawsuit proves to be the publicity Snyder’s mansion so desperately needs or only another deterrent for potential buyers.

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Video games are a huge industry and a big part of our society — take a look at Microsoft's recent purchase of a game studio for $2.5 billion — but games get a bad rap.

They're often portrayed as antisocial, violent, and as an addictive waste of time that encourages obesity.  

But that's not necessarily accurate, and it's definitely not the full story. 

Lots of people play video games. According to the Entertainment Software Association, 59% of Americans play games. Despite problems with sexism in the gaming world, 48% of those players are women, and the average player is 31 years old.

It's a big business too. The global gaming industry was worth $67 billion in 2013 and is projected to grow to $82 billion by 2017. Robert Morris University announced this year that they would start giving scholarships to League of Legends players — a game that top competitors make a ton of money playing. 

Contrary to their reputation, many games have educational, physical, and psychological benefits for players. Games that use repetitive actions, such as the swinging of a bat or targeting a moving object, train the brain and muscles to perform better in real-life activities. 

Video game brain training has the same effect as reading a book or riding a bike — when the brain is learning, thousands of new connections are being formed. The addition of a reward system motivates players to continuously improve their skills.

People who play action-based games make accurate decisions 25% faster.

Fast-paced games require quick thinking and fast reactions to avoid being killed. In real-life situations, active gamers have a better sense of what is going around them and are able to make decisions faster, according to scientists from the University of Rochester. 

In the one study, participants aged 18 to 25 were split into two groups. One group played 50 hours of the action-packed first-person shooter games "Call of Duty 2" and "Unreal Tournament," and the other group played 50 hours of the simulator game "The Sims 2." The action game players made decisions 25% faster in a task unrelated to playing video games, without sacrificing accuracy.  

"Action game players make more correct decisions per unit time. If you are a surgeon or you are in the middle of a battlefield, that can make all the difference," study researcher Daphne Bavelier said in a statement.

A driving game improved memory, focus, and multitasking ability in older adults.

According to a study published in the journal Nature, researchers "discovered that swerving around cars while simultaneously picking out road signs in a video game can improve the short-term memory and long-term focus of older adults,"The New York Times reports.

A group of adults between the ages of 60 and 85 were were recruited to play a game called NeuroRacer for 12 hours over a month. Six months after playing the game, the older adults were better at multitasking, retained more information in a short period of time, and had stronger attention skills.

Video games encourage physical activity.

Endless hours parked in front a computer screen generally does not lead to weight loss. But games that pair virtual worlds with exercise could get people who are less inclined to workout to start moving.

Researchers have found that playing games on a Nintendo Wii that force people to get up and move for 20 minutes at a time is a legitimate and potentially more interesting alternative to traditional aerobic exercise.

Another study in the journal Pediatrics found that playing games like Dance Dance Revolution was equivalent to moderate intensity exercise for kids, making it a "a safe, fun, and valuable means of promoting energy expenditure," according to the study.

Video games may also be more effective at changing behavior. In a study from the University of Indiana, people who received workout advice through a game called Second Life reported more positive changes in healthy eating and physical activity than people who went to a traditional gym, even though weight loss was the same in both groups.

A wave of innovation is driving a dramatic shift in the way we make payments.

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Homes in some stage of foreclosure made up 13.5% of all property sales in August, according to RealtyTrac's latest foreclosure report.

The median price of U.S. residential properties sold in August was $195,000, up 3% from the previous month, according to the report. This includes distressed sales, which are properties owned by banks or in some stage of foreclosure.

We drew on the report to highlight the states that offered more than a 50% distressed discount, which is the percentage difference between the median price of distressed sales and non-distressed sales.

8. Kentucky

Annualized Sales: Not Provided

Median Sales Price: $120,000

Distressed Discount: 52%

Source: RealtyTrac

7. Oklahoma

Annualized Sales: 53,307

Median Sales Price: $132,000

Distressed Discount: 54%

Source: RealtyTrac

6. Ohio

Annualized Sales: 170,937

Median Sales Price: $130,000

Distressed Discount: 55%

Source: RealtyTrac

At the beginning of September, Apple announced the hire of industrial designer Marc Newson, a close friend of SVP of Design Jony Ive.

Newson, like Ive, has had his fair share of success leading up to his hire at Apple.

From exotic cars to coveted knighthoods, the London native has already lived a life most of us will only dream of.

Given his friendship with Ive, Newson is heading toward even higher echelons of money and fame.

Marc Andrew Newson was born in Sydney on Oct. 20, 1963.

He studied jewelry and sculpture at the University of Sydney, graduating in 1984.

In 1986 Newson debuted a piece of furniture for which he's now very famous, the Lockheed Lounge.

With its staggering scope and scale, Ramstein Air Base in Germany is one of America's most important and fascinating military facilities.

Located in southwestern Germany, it serves not only as the headquarters of the US Air Force in Europe and a NATO installation but also as a gateway to American military operations around the globe.

The base is part of a conglomeration of 12 Army and Air Force installations that make up the Kaiserslautern Military Community (KMC). This community, also known as K-Town, hosts almost 54,000 Americans across 300 neighboring German towns and cities, turning the Rhineland-Palatinate state of Germany into a tiny slice of America. The area has the largest concentration of Americans outside of the US, though it's also notably multicultural, including personnel from many countries.

Over two days in September, Business Insider was given an extensive and breathtaking tour of the base and its operations. 

Ramstein Air Base is a central hub of international US operations ranging from West Africa and Europe to Afghanistan, with almost 33,000 aircraft passing through the base in 2013 alone. After spending some days on base, we were blown away by how much happens there.

Ramstein is run by the 86th Airlift Wing, which is composed of six groups and 27 squadrons. The 37th Blue Tail Flies Airlift Squadron, which is part of the 86th, is a dedicated airlift unit that moves everything from hurricane evacuees to firetrucks to pieces of artillery.

The 37th flies the C-130J "Super" Hercules transport plane. The 86th has 14 of these aircraft.

We're constantly writing about the over-the-top salaries some software engineers make in Silicon Valley, where the need is high and talent is scarce.

But the truth is, not every company pays its software engineers a huge salary.

We asked job-hunting site Glassdoor to sift through its massive database of salary information to come up with a list of the companies that pay the best, among the most biggest companies in the world based on market cap. (Note: Glassdoor only included companies in which at least 20 software engineers reported their salaries in the past two years.)

The results are interesting: Being a software engineer (also called "programmer" or "software developer") is a good paying job, no matter where you work. But even in the tech industry, software engineers are not, on average, getting outrageous paychecks. And one huge retailer, known for low wages, pays its developers surprisingly well.

GE, $80,235

Company: General Electric

Average salary for a software engineer: $80,235

Market cap: ~$257 billion

Employee satisfaction rating: 3.6 (out of 5 points)

% of employees who think the business is going on the right direction and will improve in the next 6 months: 26%

Employee comment:"GE will constantly provide you with great challenges which will push you to your limit every day. The management tends to be friendly, and most people there care about you as a person and employee.” – GE Software Engineer (Louisville, KY)

Verizon, $86,859

Company: Verizon

Average salary for a software engineer: $86,859

Market cap: ~$206 billion

Employee satisfactionrating: 3.2 (out of 5 points)

% of employees who think the business is going on the right direction and will improve in the next 6 months: 48%

Employee comment:“Good benefits, flexible work environment, use of latest technology, diverse set of people to work with, education benefits, nice recreational facility.” – Verizon Software Engineer IV (Irving, TX)

Comcast, $91,984

Company: Comcast

Average salary for a software engineer: $91,984

Market cap: ~$140 billion

Employee satisfactionrating: 3.1 (out of 5 points)

% of employees who think the business is going on the right direction and will improve in the next 6 months: 48%

Employee comment:

"Good salary, great benefits package, generally relaxed atmosphere. To its credit, Comcast is attempting to emulate other successful high-tech companies in order to attract more high-tech talent, but these efforts have been only marginally successful thus far."– Comcast Senior Software Engineer (Littleton, CO)

If you told Ukrainian photographer Valeriya Myronenko six months ago that Donbass, the region in eastern Ukraine where she grew up, would erupt in a war, she wouldn’t believe you. Now, with conflict raging between Ukraine and multiple separatist movements, it has become apparent that the unthinkable has come true for Myronenko.

Myronenko, who now lives in Toronto, stayed with her family in Donbass for four months this past spring and summer and witnessed the region deteriorating firsthand, she tells Business Insider.

“All the conflict unraveled before my eyes,” Myronenko says. “It was incredible to watch how fast things can go from civilization to something crazy and burned down.”

At various points over the last year, Myronenko was in Donbass, photographing the local culture and people in an effort to “document a reality that I felt would soon disappear.” Looking back, she now sees foreshadowing of the conflict in the photos of her neighbors and countrymen.

Myronenko shared photos from her project, called "Donbass I and II," with us here. You can see more at her website.

Myronenko grew up in Alchevsk, a small city in Donbass. It is near Luhansk, the capital of the province and one of the centers of fighting in eastern Ukraine. The area is heavily industrial.

While there are plenty of young people in Donbass, most try to leave as soon as they are able because the only career prospects are in a mine or a factory. The result has been a rapidly greying population.

"The people that are better at school leave for Kiev or bigger cities. There is a huge outflow of young people from Donbass," says Myronenko. This is the interior of the OJSC Steel & Iron Works. It is the economic core of the area, if you can believe it.

Derek Jeter is retiring as the second highest-paid player in Major League Baseball history, having amassed $265.2 million in salaries during his 20 seasons as a big leaguer.

That is second only to his teammate, Alex Rodriguez, who has made $356.3 million (and counting) in his troubled career.

While Jeter is a no-doubt Hall of Famer, he was also a bit lucky to end up making so much, and he'll retire with plenty of money for a very comfortable life.

Let's take a closer look at how Jeter was the right player in the right place at the right time and made more than a quarter of a billion dollars in his career.

Derek Jeter got lucky right off the bat when five smaller-market clubs passed on him in the 1992 draft, including Houston, Cleveland, Montreal, Baltimore, and Cincinnati.

Instead, Jeter was drafted by a team that loves to hand out big contracts. Of the 11 highest-paid players of all time, eight played at least part of their career with the Yankees.

Jeter also got drafted at the perfect time, playing most of his career with the Yankees under the free-spending George Steinbrenner, but after Steinbrenner's suspension which allowed others to build a contender.

Up to 400,000 people descended on upper Manhattan on Sept. 21 to march in solidarity for climate change.

It was a lively gathering packed with people from all over the US and the globe, and one that outspoken activist and author Bill McKibben called "the largest political gathering about anything in America in at least a decade."

The People's Climate March was a gathering to raise awareness about climate change ahead of the United Nations' Climate Summit, where Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon has invited world leaders to take action on curbing global warming.

High-profile marchers included Moon, McKibben, Leonardo DiCaprio, former Vice President Al Gore, Jane Goodall, and Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY).

The protest was massive by any measure, even as it maintained the air of controlled chaos one might expect of a St. Patty's Day parade or another NYPD-sanctioned and monitored event.

We headed down to the march to get a feel for the scene on the ground.

March attendees gathered on the Upper West Side to form up before it began. Subways headed towards Central Park West were overflowing with people.

By the time we got to the march, the crowd was in full swing. About half the attendees were grouped into a column by a police barricades, but there didn't seem to be much of a point to them. As many people were gathered outside the barricades as in them.

It took a little while for the crowd to start moving.

In five seasons of ABC's reality pitch show "Shark Tank," we've seen some doozies. Hopefuls have pitched products including an energy drink for Cougars, a vortex chamber that generates gold, and flatulence-scented candles.

At times, contestants show up unable to even explain why anyone would want to buy their product.

With an average viewership of seven million and airtime that's worth about half a million dollars to the aspiring entrepreneurs who make it on, you'd think every pitch would be thoughtful, well-rehearsed, and airtight. But you'd be wrong.

Andrew Figgins, a Chicago-based entrepreneur and owner of the fan site InTheSharkTank.com, says nearly half of the hundreds of pitches that have been made on the show have been awful. The most common problems? Far-fetched ideas, wacky personalities, and a lack of basic business knowledge. "The people who have gone on the show and don't know their numbers get chewed up and spit out," Figgins says.

In anticipation of the sixth season's two-hour premiere on Friday, we take a look at some of the biggest duds in the history of the hit pitch show.

Jason Woods pitches the Kymera jet-propelled boogie board.

Episode 507: "Kymera"

In the most recent season, Woods asks for $250,000 for a 20% stake in his company, which he's been developing for 10 years. The problem is he doesn't have a business plan. Oh, and he's never sold a single one in a decade.

Mark Cuban calls Woods a "wantrepreneur," someone who's got ideas but not a shred of business acumen.

Episode 507: "Kymera"

Because Woods couldn't figure out how to finalize a product and sell even a few with the $130,000 he spent on development over the past decade, the Sharks conclude an injection of capital won't save him.

Brothers Richard and Albert Amini pitch a social media app for doctors.

Episode 501: "Rolodoc"

It would function as a secure platform for medical professionals to upload their medical records and put each other in contact, they say. They want $50,000 in exchange for a 20% stake. Sounds like there may be an idea there, right?

There was a time, believe it or not, that no one had ever heard of Sofia Vergara.

Then the 2009-10 TV season arrived. And suddenly she was everywhere: Selling soft drinks, killing people in “Machete,” standing on an actual pedestal at the Emmys, and of course starring on ABC's biggest comedy, “Modern Family.”

Even with viewership down from decades past, TV still has the power to make superstars. And one of the names below could be the next one. Is it Hudson Yang, the child of a Wall Street Journal reporter chosen to star in “Fresh Off the Boat?” The lead character in “Jane the Virgin,” Gina Rodriguez? Alfred Enoch, who plays a law student willing to do almost anything on “How to Get Away With Murder?”

We don't know. It could be none of them. Or all of them. 

Meet the 11 actors to watch >

Patina Miller, “Madam Secretary”

Soap opera fans might know Miller as Erica Kane's television producer on “All My Children.”

The actress — who'll appear as Commander Paylor in both “Mockingjay” installments of the “Hunger Games” movie franchise — will play Daisy Grant, press coordinator to Tea Leoni's Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord.

Suraj Sharma, “Homeland”

After anchoring an Oscar-winning film — “Life of Pi” — all by himself, Suraj Sharma is joining the legions of actors who have turned to TV.

He'll play a medical student who crosses paths with Claire Danes‘ Carrie Mathison as Showtime's CIA thriller sends her overseas to Pakistan.

Gina Rodriguez, “Jane the Virgin”

It takes a lead actress of rare charm and presence to get an audience to go along with a storyline as outrageous as this one: After years of holding on to her virginity, Jane is accidentally artificially inseminated.

Rodriguez is funny and empathetic in what could be a star-making performance. The role will finally introduce her to audiences who haven't yet checked her out in 2012 Sundance hit “Filly Brown.”

The Seahawks and the Broncos played the best game of the NFL season so far, and it did little to convince us that they aren't two best teams in the NFL.

Elsewhere at the top of our power rankings, the Chargers joined the top five and the Bears snuck into the top-10.

At the bottom of the power rankings, the Bucs and the Jaguars battled it out for the title of Worst Team In The NFL.

1. Seattle Seahawks (previously: 1st)

Record: 2-1

Week 3 result: 26-20 OT win over Denver

One thing to know: Seattle's offensive line — the biggest worry going into the season — looks fine. They're 3rd in the league in yards per rush.

2. Denver Broncos (previously: 2nd)

Record: 2-1

Week 3 result: 26-20 OT loss to Seattle

One thing to know: Denver is quietly the third-worst rushing team in the league.

3. Cincinnati Bengals (previously: 3rd)

Record: 3-0

Week 3 result: 33-7 win over Tennessee

One thing to know: We're going to learn a ton about this team when they face New England in Foxboro in Week 5.