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The Duke of Sussex made a surprise appearance alongside the Duchess of Cambridge to commemorate Anzac Day at a thanksgiving service at Westminster Abbey. |
Is it impossible for an actor to play Princess Diana? |
The fact is, screen history suggests playing Diana is not an auspicious route to lasting fame and great reviews. |
The Duke of Cambridge has been embedded with MI5, MI6 and the GCHQ in an unprecedented secondment to learn more about how they are protecting the country. |
YOU may never have had a really terrific taco, especially if you live on the East Coast. There are a lot of tacos around, certainly, and many of them can be satisfying enough. But the genuine article is often hard to come by — except in Mexico, on the West Coast and in the Southwest, where taco passion runs deep. And w... |
They sit around over coffee or tequila, complaining, sharing tips on where they heard there might be a good taco hiding. |
Just about anything can be called a taco, which essentially means “sandwich.” You take a tortilla and you put some stuff in it and you eat it; that’s a taco. (If you roll the tortilla, it’s a burrito, which appears to have been created in the American Southwest; if you layer food on top of it, it’s an enchilada; if you... |
The good news is that without too much effort you can, believe it or not, create an admirable taco at home. What that means is not crisp-fried tortillas loaded with some weird ground beef mixture, lettuce and rice, but corn tortillas with some spicy slivered pork, grilled beef or maybe fish or chicken. |
Turkey would probably be most traditional; the native Americans of what is now Mexico not only hybridized corn as we know it but also raised turkeys. |
Machine or no, a good taco starts with a good tortilla. |
Your best bet is not the supermarket but a Mexican grocery store, or if you’re lucky, a bakery. In any case, it should be fresh and have that particular flinty aroma that all corn-lime products have. |
One common approach, starting with ground meat and “taco seasoning mix,” is a bad idea. Just think about a taco as having a number of components, and take it from there. My favorite, easy to find at taco trucks in Los Angeles or small shops in Mexico, is difficult to make at home. This is the taco al pastor, closer to ... |
More commonly, a good taco is loaded with several components: something crunchy (lettuce or cabbage usually, but chopped onion or salted radish are also good); the protein; some moisture — crema, sour cream or guacamole will do nicely; and maybe cheese. Many people add salsa for brightness as well. |
To make tacos for a crowd, you can’t do better than to begin with slow-roasted pork, called carnitas. If you start with a piece of shoulder (especially from a well-raised pig), you won’t go wrong; the high fat content makes it self-basting, and almost any combination of spices and heat will produce something delicious.... |
Chicken thighs — again, from a good chicken rather than a super-mass-produced one — are another good option, and can be quickly simmered in a flavorful braising liquid that will turn them super-tender and leave them quite moist. Here again, the seasonings can be varied as you like. I see the spice mixtures here as sugg... |
Then there is carne asada, which means “grilled meat,” which in turn means pretty much anything. But skirt steak is what you most often see made into carne asada (and in many Los Angeles supermarkets, skirt steak is actually called carne asada). Because of its high fat content, it’s perfect here. Rub it with a few spic... |
Bobbi Kristina and her mother Whitney. |
Bobbi Kristina Houston wanted to sing, act and dance like her megastar parents, Whitney Houston and R&B artist Bobby Brown. Instead, she has mostly made tabloid headlines for drug use and family disputes - the same perils that derailed their careers. |
Just like her mother three years ago, Bobbi Kristina was found face-down and unresponsive in a bathtub as the music industry prepared for the Grammy Awards. |
As the pop star's 21-year-old daughter lay hospitalised on Monday, police in Roswell, Georgia, issued a very brief incident report, saying officers were called on Saturday in response to her "drowning" at her home in suburban Atlanta. |
Her husband, Nick Gordon, was at the scene and tried to revive her while a friend called 911. |
"Bobbi Kristina is fighting for her life and is surrounded by immediate family," a Houston family statement said on Monday. |
"We are asking you to honour our request for privacy during this difficult time. Thank you for your prayers, well wishes, and we greatly appreciate your continued support." |
With no details forthcoming from police or family about her condition or what may have caused the tragedy, many people looked to see what she's been posting online. |
Her last tweet, from Thursday, reflected obvious frustration over her failure to break out as an entertainer: "Let's start this career up&&moving OUT to TO YOU ALLLL quick shall we !?!???!" |
The circumstances were eerily similar to those of February 11, 2012, when Houston's assistant found the singer's lifeless body face-down in a foot of water in her bathtub at the Beverly Hills Hotel. |
Authorities found prescription drugs and listed heart disease and cocaine use as contributors, but concluded that she accidentally drowned. |
Bobbi Kristina, then 18, became so distraught that she needed to be hospitalised. |
"She wasn't only a mother, she was a best friend," she told Oprah shortly thereafter. |
Bobbi Kristina identified herself on Twitter as "Daughter of Queen WH", "Entertainer/Actress" with William Morris & Co, and "LAST of a dying breed". |
But her mother was an impossible act to follow. |
Houston had her first No. 1 hit at 22, and then a flurry of No. 1 songs, selling more than 50 million records in the US alone. |
Bobbi Kristina inherited her mother's entire estate, but not her voice. Aside from her family's short-lived reality TV show The Houstons: On Our Own, she has mostly appeared in online "selfies" and paparazzi images. |
Houston met R&B star Bobby Brown at the Soul Train Music Awards in 1989. The gifted singer and her bad boy partner married in 1992, much to the dismay of Houston's family. It was a toxic relationship, characterised by domestic violence and drugs. |
Bobbi Kristina was born a year later, and was just a toddler when Houston described herself as a "functioning junkie" to S2SMagazine. Her husband also struggled with addiction, so by 2002, the family moved to suburban Atlanta to attend the healing services of a singer-turned evangelical preacher. |
The girl made a few appearances on "Being Bobby Brown", the reality show that infamously captured her parents fighting, swearing and appearing in court. |
Soon, Gordon joined the family. Houston never formally adopted him, but he became like a brother to Bobbi Kristina. And when Houston sought rehab in California in 2004 and divorced Brown in 2007, she kept the kids with her. |
The pair called each other big brother and little sister back then. A month after Houston's death, however, they went public with their relationship. |
Icon Viewer is a freeware tool that pictorially displays all of the icons contained in any given folder as well as the number of icons therein. |
Supposedly, it will do the same with all the icons in a given directory, but I could not persuade it to do this. Instead, the Icon Viewer insisted there were none to be found. |
MARCO ISLAND — Stock Custom Homes has completed a two-story, waterfront estate on Marco Island at 617 Hernando Drive. Open for viewing, the 3,629-square-foot home features a casual, relaxed interior with furnishings selected by Sheila Corasaniti-Cook, IDS of Vogue Interiors. |
The waterfront estate is well-appointed with five bedrooms, five-and-one-half baths, an expansive great room that opens to the second floor above, a formal dining room, optional study, and a generous outdoor living area. |
Extending the length of the home, covered balconies on the second floor overlook the aqua-toned tiling of the pool, spa and sun shelf. The first-floor master suite boasts a view of Collier Bay and is complete with a sitting area, dual walk-in closets, and direct access to the outdoor living areas. |
An array of natural elements, such as shells and live-edge driftwood, punctuate the estate’s interior to mirror the easy, casual lifestyle of Marco Island. The home exudes comfort and relaxation with its neutral and aqua color palette. |
Modern styles carry through the home, including in the open-concept great room which flows into the 455-square-foot outdoor living area’s kitchen, conversation area and spa. Ideal for families and entertaining, the interior kitchen features an enormous island for gathering that is adjacent to the formal dining area. Th... |
Stock Custom Homes will continue to expand in the Marco Island area and beyond, including the construction of models and private residences. Visit stockcustomhomes.com. |
COUNTER-BASED KERNELS: It's funny to us that we rarely hear about popcorn being a centerpiece at Oscar parties. Cocktails, sure; appetizers, of course. But rarely is the main food associated with a darkened theater on the TV-close coffee table. That could change. You could do the ALL popcorn Oscar party. Toppings aplen... |
Oakland Athletic's General Manager Billy Beane said the biggest advantages pro sports teams can gain today come from monitoring health and wellness. |
Interviewed by CNBC's Julia Boorstin at a Disruptor 50 event, Beane said he expects scouts to use AI in recruiting, soon. |
The A's went 97 - 65 and made it to the playoffs in 2018. |
Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, is famous for using advanced, statistical analysis and software to gain a competitive edge in recruiting and to make up for his team's limited payroll relative to the rest of the league. |
Beane, who was portrayed in "Moneyball," Michael Lewis' 2003 book, told CNBC's Julia Boorstin in an interview in San Francisco this month that the rest of the league has caught on to a lot of his old data-driven tricks. |
"Every baseball team, every sports team, every business — managing large amounts of data is a part of every business now," Beane said. |
Oakland Athletic's General Manager Billy Beane on stage at the CNBC Disruptor 50 Celebration in San Francisco on November 8, 2018. |
So what's next for Beane? One area to look is health and wellness. Beane is predicting that health tech and artificial intelligence will transform professional sports. |
"The healthiest teams in NFL are the most successful," Beane said. "The correlation between health and success is remarkable. It's an incredibly strong correlation. Same is true in baseball. So, the frontier for all of us is getting our arms around preventing and minimizing injuries. It's a lot of lost time to some of ... |
He noted that the A's and other pro baseball teams use devices like sleep trackers, and have hired sleep coaches who dictate players' travel schedules. But managers still need to evaluate more player health data to see which benefits are marginal or massive when it comes to winning games. |
Beane also said that AI is poised to transform the business of baseball by helping teams predict who will be the next major league players, and what they have to do to chart a successful path. But the A's aren't using AI for scouting yet, he admitted. |
"One of the reasons we haven't been more aggressive with using AI is because we don't have the money," he said. "That's almost a venture project for a business like ours. It might be a five-year, six-year project. And it could turn into nothing, you know, when it's all said and done. That's the challenge of being with ... |
Even without AI scouting assistants, and years of MLB player health data, the A's won 97 games and made it to the playoffs in 2018. And they accomplished it with a payroll to start the season of $66 million, the smallest in baseball. |
Asked about his secret sauce, Beane said, "I can't tell you that!" He added that, "At some point, we're going to have an efficient market where payroll dictates where you finish. But we're not there yet." |
I am proud to join the fight against breast cancer this year, riding 50 miles with Team Amiel's, on Sunday, October 7th. Proceeds support the Breast Cancer Research Initiative at the Wilmot Cancer Institute. I know too many people who's lives have been, and are currently impacted by Breast Cancer, which is why I am ver... |
Towpath Bike Shop and the Towpath Community Foundation are hosting this annual Go Pink! ride and run on Sunday, October 7, 2018 at Mendon Ponds Park in Rochester. Please show your support by joining me at Towpath Go Pink! or giving a donation today! |
Implementing an SOA includes implementing a governance model that supports SOA. In fact, without a robust SOA governance model, an SOA implementation will not realize the benefits that the architecture has to offer. Without effective governance, an SOA project — no matter how big or small — will fail. |
Organizations with data-sharing environments, complex information and systems hinder business responsiveness and decision makers’ ability to make informed decisions. This white paper will describe how engaging in a master data management (MDM) project enables effective governance of data - specifically master data - an... |
I've not been giving much consideration to Rock Band's new music releases, what with the franchise skipping a year and interest in the rhythm genre waning in general. It turns out all Harmonix had to do to get my attention was say Yes. |
Yes as in the British progressive rock group, not the affirmative response. Active on and off for more than 40 years, it's a band that's been with me my entire life. My brother used to play them in the pitch black darkness of my grandmother's attic when I was but a wee boy, and I remember being slightly frightened by t... |
Rock Band 3 came with the classic "Roundabout" on the disc, the perfect song to introduce me to the third title's keyboard addition. I must have played it several dozen times. Now I am ready for more, and Harmonix delivers. |
Yes Pack 01 features five tracks covering many facets of Yes' storied history, from winding musical journeys of "Heart of the Sunrise", "South Side of the Sky", and "Starship Trooper", to the straightforward songs non-fans have likely heard on the radio: "Owner of a Lonely Heart" and "I've Seen All Good People." |
The five tracks will be hitting the Rock Band Music Store on July 26 for $8.99, or roughly two dollars a track if purchased separately. Both "Owner of a Lonely Heart" and "I've Seen All Good People" will have pro guitar and bass add-ons available for an additional dollar. |
Now where did I put those damn instruments? |
UPDATED Tuesday, 11:40 a.m.: Snowy roadways and frigid temperatures are creating treacherous commutes for many drivers and walkers Tuesday morning. |
Bitter cold temperatures moved in overnight, freezing all the snow that fell Monday. |
Many road continue to be covered in snow and slush, especially ramps and side streets. Snow-covered sidewalks are pushing pedestrians into the street, creating arduous travel conditions for both drivers and pedestrians. |
"Having snow in March is not unusual, but having snow with an arctic air mass entrenched across our area in March, that is unusual…or at least fairly rare," says ABC7 Meteorologist Brian van de Graaff. |
Temperatures plummeted into the single digits in the early morning and some areas reached record lows. Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport broke a 141-year-old record low temperature, reaching 4 degrees. |
The record-challenging cold that started Tuesday morning is making the roads even worse. The snow on the ground has frozen, meaning lots of slick spots to start the day. |
There will be plenty of sunshine for the next couple of days, but temperatures will remain well below average. Many areas will not climb out of the 20s Tuesday. |
For Wednesday, expect partly cloudy skies and continued cold with highs in the 30s. |
Get the full forecast on WTOP.com. |
The federal government and D.C. government will open on a two-hour delay. |
Several area school systems will be closed Tuesday. Read the full list of closings and delays on WTOP.com. |
There are no major traffic delays at this time. For the latest traffic updates, follow @WTOPTraffic on Twitter. |
Officials are still asking drivers to stay off the roads if possible. Many roads are covered in snow and slush, which has turned into ice -- especially on ramps and side streets. |
Some highways in the region have been cleared and are in good condition. |
All Metrobus service was restored at 7 a.m. There will be snow detours for many routes, Metro says. |
Metrorail continues to run on a normal, weekday schedule. |
VRE, MARC and MTA's Commuter Bus will operate at full service on Tuesday. |
The snow emergency has been lifted in D.C. as at 9:30 a.m. |
All three area airports are open, but all are warning of delays and cancellations and advise travelers to check with their airlines before heading to the airport. |
Hear the latest on weather and road conditions on WTOP.com. |
Metrorail will operate a regular, weekday schedule. |
Click here for complete snow route information. |
Service will begin with the first scheduled trips of the morning. More routes could be restored as conditions improve. |
MetroAccess will resume service at noon Tuesday and the call center will open at 10 a.m. Riders should expect delays due to road conditions. |
A passing snow plow covers a news reporter covering the aftermath of the snowstorm in New Jersey . |
The Washington Wizards will play the Memphis Grizzlies tonight at the Verizon Center as scheduled. |
Tip off is at 7 p.m. |
Montgomery County will lift its snow emergency at 5 p.m. Monday. Parking will again be allowed along designated routes and taxis will charge regular fares. |
Parking will remain free at county-owned lots and garages for the remainder of the day. |
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