22 years later, and id Software’s Doom is still an interesting game to study and discuss. This is no more apparent than with John Romero’s new commentary and insights, shared as he plays the game. Romero is id Software’s co-founder and was the lead designer on 1993’s Doom, the game that cemented the first-person shooter genre. His commentary, broken down … Continue reading
Microsoft International President Jean-Philippe Courtois didn’t hesitate when asked what new technology makes him say, “Wow.”
“We presented something very cool. It’s called HoloLens,” he told HuffPost Live’s Alyona Minkovski at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Saturday. “This is the very first holographic computer, which enables you to be in this place … and have this wearable which is not just a pair of glasses. It actually provides you access to mixed reality,” Courtois said.
Mixed reality, he added, is “a way you can actually interact with 3-D holograms.”
HoloLens wearers will be able to use the device for everything from trying on clothing to exploring other planets, according to Microsoft. Through a partnership with NASA, the company said, HoloLens will let you virtually travel to Mars.
The HoloLens is “going to have a huge impact because developers are going to build a lot of new applications enabling people to do great stuff together,” Courtois predicted.
Below, live updates from the 2015 Davos Annual Meeting:
As global leaders converge in Davos to evaluate how best to solve some of the world’s greatest challenges, I can’t help but reflect on my 10-year career at leading global corporations, and my impact on those same challenges (or lack thereof).
Before graduating with an MBA from NYU Stern in 2009 in the midst of one of the worst global recessions, I already had two full time offers; one from leading consulting firm Booz & Co. and another from GE Capital. Most students were hard pressed to find one offer, and quite a few didn’t have any until well after graduation. I had the choice between buy-side investment and strategy consulting, and common wisdom suggested I was ‘the man’.
After a fully paid ‘sell’ trip to Miami that included lavish social events, a 30-foot yacht cruise, and four nights at the Ritz Carlton, I signed an offer with Booz & Co. and collected a handsome signing bonus. Immediately, I was assigned to interesting projects across the globe advising some of the world’s senior leaders on public finance, public private partnerships, and operating strategy. As expected, the hours were unmerciful, the travel constant, but the exposure and learning were unparalleled. My experience across public and private sector clients in both developed and emerging markets laid the foundation for the beginning of my doubts. I started to understand that measuring success either in terms of profit (private sector) or societal impact (public sector) was not an optimal approach.
Later on, at GE Capital, I was responsible for evaluating investments into renewable energy projects across the United States. After many months reviewing $2bn of deals, modeling wind and solar farm financials, and preparing endless investment committee presentations, I found myself again doubting that profit, as measured in financial terms alone, was an advantageous and complete way of measuring value.
At Barclays Capital, as a member of the COO team, I worked with senior management through one of the bank’s most challenging time periods (LIBOR scandal, etc.), helping to navigate increasing regulatory scrutiny and shifting capital requirements, evaluate new product investments, re-design the operating framework, and build the US wealth business.
My doubts only grew stronger. I was reminded constantly of the taxing personal commitments required to succeed in business, and wondered whether shareholder enrichment was good enough cause.
As I matured professionally and personally, I came to better understand the missing link in all of my corporate experiences — the source of my consistent unease. Although these jobs had each provided me with great friends, best-in-class training, opportunities for growth and development, and senior level exposure, none of them gave me purpose.
In choosing to leave a successful corporate career to join the Hult Prize Foundation, for the first time, I am choosing impact and purpose as my main drivers. I am allowing my doubts in some of the existing models of corporate being, and my experience over the last decade, to make me believe in a new, better corporation.
The Hult Prize Foundation seeks to create the economic and social incentives that allow the launch and capitalization of a new breed of business, one that marries social impact and profitability.
Last year’s Hult Prize competition received 20,000 applications, and is set to revolutionize the way we think about business. Bill Clinton and TIME Magazine named it “one of the top five ideas changing the world.” It is built on the premise that great business should first and foremost address an unmet social need, and then make money doing so. The foundation has thus far disbursed 6 million dollars of startup funds and has inspired dozens of new startups across the globe.
I am honored to be part of the team, and am confident that my time and energy are having real impact, leading a shifting paradigm around the role of business in society.
This post is part of a series produced by The Huffington Post to mark the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2015 (in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, Jan. 21-24). Read all the posts in the series here.
Peggy Charren used to call me up periodically to check on me. “Cookie, are still teaching that class on children’s media?” she’d say. “These college kids need to understand that just because they’ve grown up with media doesn’t mean they understand it.” No one knew this better than Peggy. And no one knew better Peggy why it was important.
Peggy Charren, sometimes referred to as “the godmother of children’s television,” died last week. It’s a little hard to believe that the New York accented quick witted voice of this indomitable woman will no longer be heard. But it’s clear that the many legacies of her words and deeds will be.
I came to know Peggy in 2008, when I phoned her to let her know we wanted to honor her at Tufts with an Eliot-Pearson Award for Excellence in Children’s Media. Her immediate and off-the-cuff response was unforgettable: “You know, Cookie, I have a whole shelf of awards at home. But getting one from a department of child development really means something. I think I can make room for it.”
Indeed, Peggy Charren’s tireless work to try to improve the landscape of children’s television had earned her a Trustee’s Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, an Annenberg Public Policy Center Award, a Peabody, an Emmy and a Presidential Medal of Freedom. As I came to know her, I realized that she hadn’t been kidding me – her complete dedication to promoting children’s literacy and media literacy meant that a plaque from a department of child development was every bit as meaningful to her as the other extremely prestigious awards with which she had been honored.
The “housewife from Newton Massachusetts,” as she was often referred to (“I think that word should be stricken from everyone’s vocabulary,” she once told the Jewish Women’s Archive), found herself frustrated in the 1960s when she could not find either quality or variety in the children’s television programming available to her two young daughters. Peggy resolved to do something about it. She wanted to see more book-based programming and more educational programming. So along with a few like-minded moms, she founded Action for Children’s Television (ACT). ACT’s approach focused on lobbying the FCC and FTC to create regulations that would advance their goals of increasing quality children’s programming and decreasing the amount of advertising on when children’s shows were aired. They were remarkably effective.
In a tribute written by Boston Globe correspondent Joseph Kahn, Senator Ed Markey (D MA), called Peggy “the principal defender of children’s television in America.” Markey, a longtime ally of Peggy’s in the fight to push through sensible telecommunications legislation that would improve the landscape of children’s media, was the principal sponsor of the landmark Children’s Television Act of 1990 and the 1996 Telecommunications Bill. These important pieces of legislation limited the number of minutes broadcasters could air commercials in times when children’s programs were aired and established the airing of at least three hours of “educational and informational programming” as a requirement for renewing a broadcast license.
To be sure, though these were key acts at the time, they didn’t go far enough. There was still a lot of advertising targeting children. Three hours of “E/I” programming wasn’t a lot. And the FCC had yet to refine what it meant by “educational and informational” programs, so that some broadcasters could easily get their licenses renewed by including shows such as The Jetsons in their lineup – “educational” because the show would “teach children what life in the 21st century would be like.” Peggy realized that these acts didn’t go far enough, or as far is she wanted them to go. She acknowledged this when she accepted her Eliot-Pearson Award at Tufts, but said, in her typically feisty manner, “We had to get the big boys to play, and this was a start.”
Peggy continued to speak up and speak out for quality children’s media after she disbanded ACT in 1992. Though sometimes accused of trying to censor the networks, in fact Peggy was an ardent supporter of free speech. One of the many organizations to which she served as an advisor was the Massachusetts chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Equally passionate about liberal political causes and arts organizations, Peggy was a tireless advocate for all in which she so firmly believed. On the esquire.com political blog this week Charles Pierce wrote, “Almost alone, she stood up against the networks — Ask your folks, kid — and hollered to anyone listening that children’s television need not be an excuse to use animated idiocy to sell the nation’s youth on plastic toys and sugar-bombed breakfast cereal…If you, or your kids, grew up loving Sesame Street, or Reading Rainbow, or even the essential Schoolhouse Rock, you can thank Peggy Charren for forcing the issues that made all of them possible.”
And on the Paley Center for Media’s website, former ACT lawyer Henry Geller said of Peggy, “She’s a fighter who won’t give up…she shows that one person really can effect change.”
I’d add to that that one person can make an indelible mark on the lives of others in ways she probably doesn’t even realize.
The last time I spoke with Peggy was perhaps a year or so ago. She phoned me out of the blue, as she sometimes did, and said, “Cookie, I saw something about Tufts in the news today. Was that about your program?” I told her I didn’t think so. “Well it should have been!” she replied, indignantly. “There’s nothing that’s more important than what you are telling those kids about media literacy.”
Thank you, Peggy Charren, for all your work on behalf of children’s media. You certainly made a difference in the life of this “cookie,” and so many others.
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Gov. Bobby Jindal continues to court Christian evangelicals for a possible presidential campaign with a headlining appearance at an all-day prayer rally.
Holding his Bible, Jindal opened Saturday’s event — called “The Response” — by urging a spiritual revival to “begin right here, right here in our hearts.” While thousands of people sang and raised hands in prayer in the LSU basketball arena, hundreds protested outside.
Protesters say the event host, the American Family Association, promotes discrimination against people who are gay or of non-Christian faiths. They accuse Jindal of using the rally for political gain.
Jindal says the rally is a religious event, not a political one. But former Texas Gov. Rick Perry headlined a similar prayer event in 2011 only days before launching his White House bid.
This is the Alamo of Texas Tech.
In a video uploaded to YouTube Thursday, a group of brave college bros can be seen banding together to protect a sacred, erected monument to man from, well, the man.
As our warriors take their positions, standing up to the might of a bulldozer, cries of war echo through the campus.
“Everyone sit on the dick!” a student shouts with vigor.
“Solidify it! Start pouring water!” says what was probably a mechanical engineer.
Our noble heroes then begin pouring jugs of water around the base of the statue. Unfortunately, these first-year students have not yet realized that bulldozers don’t give a f**k about a little ice.
Another suggests they wait until they are able to contact the President. As in, the President.
As the mechanical beast rumbles forward, our protectors of beauty and freedom stand firm.
“Shit’s getting real!” a bard sings.
“Don’t move!” yells someone who has already moved.
Eventually they do move, because it is important to respect adults — but not before taking a selfie.
Our patriots explain further on their website:
They repeatedly asked us to move while we protested it. After awhile, they told us we had to move or would get into trouble, so we obliged but not before taking one last picture.
We will never forget your sacrifice, young men.
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Cold weather giving you the blues? Try brightening up your winter recipes with some fresh citrus fruits! Lemons, limes, grapefruits and oranges are at their sweetest and juiciest during the cold winter months, and they add a refreshing burst of flavor that will make you think of sunshine.
1. Citrus & Pomegranate Fruit Salad
In this refreshing and gorgeous winter fruit salad, oranges, grapefruits and pomegranate arils are soaked in a combination of their own juices. The fruit soaks up the syrup, and the syrup is so good you’ll want to drink it straight from the bowl. With only three ingredients, it’s easy enough to make for for breakfast but also elegant enough to serve company.GET THE RECIPE
2. Lemon Buttermilk Pound Cake
If there were ever a cake for lemon lovers, this is it. Lemon zest and lemon juice are added to the batter, which lightly perfume the cake with lemon. Then, while the cake is still warm from the oven, it is doused with a lemon syrup to further enhance the lemon flavor. Finally, the cake is drizzled with a tart lemon glaze, which adds a pop of intense lemon flavor to every bite. What’s more? The cake keeps well for days, and is actually best made a day ahead of time. GET THE RECIPE
3. Crispy Tandoori Chicken with Mango Chutney and Limes
Tandoori chicken is simply chicken marinated in yogurt, citrus and spices, then grilled or broiled. The name comes from the cylindrical clay oven — or tandoor — in which the dish is traditionally prepared. This is my favorite version: the chicken is deliciously spiced with super-crispy skin, and the mango chutney served alongside adds fruity, tangy flavor. GET THE RECIPE
4. Moroccan Carrot & Chickpea Salad with Citrus Vinaigrette
Fragrant spices, bright colors, sweet and savory flavors — this Moroccan salad is a feast for the senses. It’s essentially an exotic twist on the classic carrot-raisin salad, yet you don’t need any exotic ingredients to make it. The magic is made with spices you likely already have in your spice cabinet. GET THE RECIPE
With a crisp and buttery shortbread crust topped and luscious, tart-yet-sweet lemon filling, these are the perfect lemon squares — and they’re as pretty as they are delicious! GET THE RECIPE
6. Peruvian-Style Roast Chicken with Green Sauce
This is my take on Pollo a la Brasa, the delicious spit-roasted chicken made popular by so many Peruvian restaurants. The chicken is first marinated in lime juice, olive oil, garlic and spices, and then oven-roasted until tender, juicy and crisp-skinned. The accompanying green sauce, which gets it’s color from cilantro and jalapeño peppers, is spicy, creamy and downright addictive. You can put it on virtually everything, and it even makes a fabulous dip or salad dressing. GET THE RECIPE
7. Oranges, Caramelized Red Onions and Baby Spinach in Balsamic Vinaigrette
Here I’ve taken a classic Italian combination — oranges, red onions and greens — and given it a Moroccan twist by adding cinnamon and nutmeg to the vinaigrette. Sounds unusual but it really works, and the flavors are perfect for right now. GET THE RECIPE
8. Crispy Tilapia Fingers with Lemon-Garlic Mayonnaise
If you’re wondering how to get your children to eat — or even love — fish, try feeding them this. They’ll think it’s kid-friendly food for them, but I promise you it’s anything but. Tilapia fillets are lightly coated with panko, pan fried to crispy perfection, and served with a tangy garlic and lemon mayonnaise. In my opinion, it’s the best way to transform ordinary tilapia into a seafood sensation. GET THE RECIPE
9. Pear & Dried Cherry Crisp with Orange Syrup & Walnut Streusel
This rustic fruit crisp is a stand-out thanks to the combination of sweet D’Anjou pears and tart dried cherries, which are plumped up in an orange-scented caramel syrup before baking. GET THE RECIPE
10. Baby Kale Salad with Lemon, Parmesan & Crispy Roasted Chickpeas
Kale doesn’t always taste great raw but a good kale salad, prepared properly with the right mix of ingredients, can be a revelation.This version — made with tender baby kale, crispy roasted chickpeas (love!), nutty Parmigiano-Reggiano and a zingy lemon vinaigrette — is just that. It makes a satisfying and healthy lunch all on its own, or a perfect side to jazz up a simple rotisserie chicken for dinner. GET THE RECIPE
Mandy Moore and husband Ryan Adams are calling it quits after almost six years of marriage, People confirms.
“Mandy Moore and Ryan Adams have mutually decided to end their marriage,” a rep for Moore told the magazine in a statement. “It is a respectful, amicable parting of ways and both Mandy and Ryan are asking for media to respect their privacy at this time.”
The pop icon and alt-country singer tied the knot back in March 2009 in Savannah, Georgia. The couple has since remained notoriously private about their relationship, with Adams once hanging up during a radio interview when DJs continued to prod him about Moore.
The pair — who have collaborated on songs including 2011’s “Empty Rooms” — did, however, publicly celebrate their five-year anniversary last year, sharing snaps of their party to Instagram.
“Celebrating love w the greatest friends and family last night,” Moore wrote at the time. “Feeling incredibly grateful today.”
Kanye West is notorious for keeping a straight face in photos, and now we know the reason why. While at The Daily Front Row’s Fashion Los Angeles Awards, West revealed the reason he doesn’t show his teeth is because of a book from the 1800s he came across while working on “Yeezus”:
I looked at all these people’s photos and they look so real and their outfits were incredible and they weren’t smiling and people, you know the paparazzi, always come up to me, “Why you not smiling?” and I think, not smiling makes me smile … When you see paintings in an old castle, people are not smiling ’cause it just wouldn’t look as cool.
So there you have it. Smiling just isn’t cool. If you need any more proof, just take a look:
Cool.
Not cool.
The difference is astounding.
West’s significant other, Kim Kardashian, previously explained in an Instagram that the reason she doesn’t smile is to prevent wrinkles. Aversion to smiling doesn’t seem to be hereditary, though. The couple’s daughter, North West, is clearly not afraid to show off those pearly whites:
This post originally appeared on Bustle.
By Kat George
The worst thing about getting cheated on is that the pain doesn’t end when the infidelity does, or even when the relationship does. Once you’ve found out you were betrayed, kicked the loser who hurt you out of your life, and found yourself alone in bed for the first time in a while, you’ve got to face a whole new, seemingly insurmountable challenge: getting over being cheated on. It’s not easy. Jennifer Aniston made it look easy. She was so graceful, and not at all screaming and crying and having snot run from her nose onto her shirt (at least in public, which is quite an accomplishment). Then she made herself look fantastic, spent lots of time with her best friends, went on vacations, worked her ass off, eventually started dating Justin Theroux, and looked absolutely glowing the entire time, making the rest of us look like we totally missed the memo on how to get over being cheated on with any kind of dignity.
But dignity’s overrated; I bet behind closed doors, Jenny went through the exact same stages of grief and getting over her pain that the rest of us do. I bet when Courtney Cox came over for their weekly BFF white wine in the afternoon session, she found our J on the couch, twisted in blankets, chugging wine straight from the bottle and chain smoking cigarettes. We feel you, Jen. We understand. We will still fight Brad for you if you want us to. If you’ve ever been cheated on, you’ll understand the following stages you need to go through before you can get over it (and hopefully Jennifer is right there with us too):
1. Complete, utter, ruinous devastation
I think this part is important. It’s important to feel the weight of everything that has happened and been done to you and just to let it unleash in torrents of tears and body-convulsing sobs. Go for it! This is your time to shine (with tears and snot).
2. Crying and taking a lot of showers
I don’t know what it is about processing grief that requires a lot of showering, but when you’re really sad, the shower feels like a safe place to be. Naked and alone, it will make you feel cinematically vulnerable, and you can rest your head against the tiles or sit in the corner hugging your knees and crying and pretend you’re in a really dramatic movie in which Jennifer Lopez does “acting.”
3. Listening to “Torn” a lot
“I’m all out of faith, this is how I feel I’m cold and I am shamed, lying naked on the floooooooooooooooooooooooor!”
4. Misplaced self-loathing
Before you blame anyone else, like the person who cheated on you, you’ll blame yourself. You’re an idiot! You listen to old Natalie Imbruglia songs when you’re in crisis; What sort of a person are you? Plus you’re ugly and dumb and don’t wear the right kinds of sweaters. You’re so unloveable — how didn’t you see this coming? If you were anyone else, this never would have happened! (Obviously, none of this is true, and you’ll come to that realization later).
5. Over-dramatic nostalgia
Still listening to “Torn,” you’ll smell the pillow where the cheater used to sleep. You’ll walk around your apartment fingering the things he touched. Remember when you made pancakes with this bowl? If your life was actually a movie, this is the point at which you’d pull out your miraculously convenient home videos of your ex laughing in some sort of dappled light with diaphanous white curtains blowing all around.
6. Psychopath level anger
Very suddenly, the wallowing will stop, and the Patrick Bateman-level bloodlust will set in. Anything could set you off: A revenge plot on TV, your friends talking about it, a reminder on social media that the person who cheated on you is just going about their life as though nothing happened. You’ll start swearing a lot, getting your act together and plotting all types of delicious, far-fetched revenge scenarios.
7. Listening to “There You Go” a lot
“Now when I say I’m through, I’m through. Basically I’m through with you. What you wanna say, had to have it your way, had to play games, now you”re begging me to stayyyyyyyy…”
And so it begins…
8. Putting your freakum dress on
The next phase involves online shopping, getting your hair and nails done, long exercise sessions listening to “Hit ‘Em Up Style” and Carly Simon, your best friends and a montage in which you go from one stunning look to another.
9. Plotting revenge
Once you look the part, you’ll start plotting your revenge. From something as small and do-able as having photos in which you look flawless and joyful in the arms of a handsome stranger on social media to big things you’ll never do like tire-slashing, every revenge fantasy is relevant. Stick to the small ones, though; breaking the law isn’t really a great way to feel better about anything. Making sure he sees a photo of you backstage at his favorite band’s show is a more acceptable form of revenge.
10. Partying like it’s 1999
This involves the aforementioned freakum dress, your best friends and a playlist with all the good Britney Spears songs on it. Then you take all of that out on the town, turn ALL the heads, and sleep with all the cutest people in all the cutest bars and just be your most fabulous happy, party self.
11. Fake zen-style “forgiveness”
In the midst of all the fun, you’ll make up some dumb proverb like “Carrying around hatred only makes the soul hateful,” or something like that (I just made that up now, not too bad). and pretend that you’re all zen and forgive-y and that you’re not going to harbor anger towards your ex any more. This will last a week, if you’re lucky.
12. Admitting your zen-style forgiveness was actually fake
It might take you an hour, or it might take you a week, but you’ll inevitably realize that your forgiveness thing was a crock of shit. The answer isn’t forgiving someone who willfully treated your trust like a doormat — it’s just learning to be okay with it and getting to the point where your life is so wonderful that you forget to feel sorry for yourself every day. It’s okay to hate/be indifferent to someone forever.
13. Wanting to be alone
It’s the beginning of the end when you renounce relationships all together. When you stop fucking every hottie in sight and just settle into yourself. While it’s extreme to say you’ll never date again, it’s pretty essential to spend some time completely alone, if only to remind yourself of how fabulous you really are. This phase is accompanied by Robyn’s “Body Talk” on repeat.
14. Calming down a bit
Once you resume normalcy in your routine and in your thinking, you’ll calm down and put the cheating in perspective with the rest of your life. It will stop being the first thing you think about when you wake up in the morning and the last thing you think of before you go to sleep at time. It will just be a thing that once happened to you, and as the days go by you’ll find yourself thinking about it less and less.
15. Realizing that one day, you won’t care about this anymore
This all serves to get you to the point where you realize that you care less today about being cheated on than you did yesterday. The comfort of knowing that one day, your care percentage will be so small that there will barely be a decimal to describe it, will lead you forward as you become hungry for that place. Self-pity will be replaced with you just being you again, and everything being fine.
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