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Best Since Bradman?
I think we can all agree that 2018 will be another big year for Test cricket.
Joe Root will be trying to put the pieces together of his once promising team, blown apart by Australia, humbled at home by the juvenile West Indies, punch drunk and stumbling into New Zealand (who have lost just one of their last nine Tests at home). Star all-rounder Ben Stokes will somehow have to mend this most crucial of relationships of English cricket after his unscheduled leave of absence during these fledging, dark days of Root’s captaincy.
The great Dale Steyn – who has played just 9 Test matches since Jan 1 2015 and will not be featuring in the rest of the Indian series – must prove he has any sort of future left in the game. Nathan Lyon must back up a magnificent 2017 ([email protected]). He certainly wasn’t magnificent in the previous seven ([email protected]) and his career numbers remain ambivalent at best ([email protected], 3.07 econ). He still has much to prove.
Sri Lanka and Pakistan, combatants in a late 2017 series will look to put a disaster year behind them with a surge of youth. The Windies will look to build on a year when they won not just one, but two Test matches away from home against relevant opposition – 2017 was the brightest year for them in perhaps twenty. Bangladesh take their first confident steps into a new “Big Nine”. India look to silence the doubters by embarking on their now familiar round the world expedition (which began brightly enough at Newlands).
But there’s one man who, presumably, has no pressure entering 2018. One man who can kick his feet up and enjoy the fact that even if his hands were amputated tomorrow, would comfortably find himself enshrined in cricket’s hall of fame at just 28.
Of course I’m talking about Steve Smith.
But this image is wrong, Steve Smith is poised in front of a gargantuan 2018. Smith has a chance to do what no cricketer in my lifetime has done – this could be the year Steve Smith leaves orbit. And it’s remarkable enough for me to post for the first time in two years – this is truly historic stuff.
Cricket has always featured virtuoso, attention grabbing batsmen. Batsmen with cult like followings of the faithful. I’ve seen them come and go, Lara, Tendulkar, Dravid, Sangakkara, Ponting, Steve Waugh, Hayden – the list goes on and on. And we love to discuss them, advocate our favourites, cherry pick the most dazzling stats, downplay the weaknesses, provide apologies for that down year or that particular bowling attack or country which they just couldn’t solve. In the final analysis, we have to (perhaps silently) conclude that these discussions just don’t amount to much. All of the above players average above fifty and a half. None average fifty seven and a half or higher. Sure, there is better and worse, but we’re all in roughly the same postcode here.
Those looking to downplay the Smith phenomenon might point to the fact that what we’re talking about here amounts to essentially four years – 2014 to the present day. Forty five Test matches. In those Test matches (deep breath) Smith has scored over five thousand runs. Such a pace has him poised to approach 10,500 runs by his hundredth Test. By his 150th Test, becoming a routine landmark for great contemporary batsmen (Ponting, Tendulkar, Kallis, Sangakkara, Dravid, Cook, Chanderpaul, Waugh and Border have all hop, skipped and jumped over it), he will have scored over sixteen thousand runs and left Tendulkar in his dust.
Consider, Tendulkar played 200 Tests.
And that’s not even getting to the rate numbers. Smith hasn’t averaged below 71.93 in a year (including the infant 2018) since 2013. He averages 75.92 over this period. He’s knocked 21 centuries in these four years, coming at better than once every four innings (3.8). He averages 50+ in every continent except Asia, where he averages 49.47 and has centuries in four of his last five matches. He averages 94.00 in 22 home Test matches. Ninety four. Even in the humiliating 3-0 loss in Sri Lanka, he averaged north of 41. Smith has not averaged less than 40 in a series of at least three Test matches since the 2013 tour of England.
And everything seems to be speeding up – in no year did he pile up the centuries as quickly as last year, slamming six in just twenty innings. He has fourteen single figure scores against twenty one centuries, but only one single figure score in his last ten innings and three centuries. He’s been dismissed in single figures five times since Jan 1 2016 (against eleven centuries).
The undefeated century is becoming a feature of Smith’s resume (and taking his average to ever more dizzying heights). Four of his last seven centuries have been undefeated and his not out rate of 14.4% is unusually high historically (the king of this trick, Chanderpaul, averaged 17.5% for comparison). During the four year Reign of Terror, Smith is being dismissed less than 84% of the time – we’re approaching a point where one in five times, you don’t get Smith at all, for any price.
But it’s still just four years. Let’s take a tour around Smith’s peers and see if we can find similar patterns over four years. Our yardstick is Smith’s 2014-present day – 5,087 [email protected], 48.8% score percentage and 3.8 century rate.
Brian Lara finished his career with a wet sail, and even accounting for a down 2002, his best five year period went 5,134 [email protected]/37.6%/5.3 between 2001-2005. Alternatively, his early career burst from 1992-1995 went 2,999 [email protected]/46.0%/7.1. Whichever you choose, both are manifestly weaker than Smith’s record.
But Lara famously played in weak teams (even when he debuted the West Indies had begun declining and by mid-career were in crisis). What about Ricky Ponting? Surely with Ponting’s notorious late career train derailment, there must have been some juicy years there in the middle? And there was. From 2002-2006 (split by a middling 2004) Ponting piled on 6,141 [email protected]/45.4%/4.1 and this is indeed close to Smith.
Close, but no cigar. All metrics remain weaker than Smith (albeit over an extra year and 12 Tests) and it’s worth noting these were the 28-33 years in Ponting’s career – the peak years of a batting career. Smith, on the other hand, has performed this in his 25-28 years, usually good, but developing years of a batsman’s career.
I have profiled Tendulkar and Sangakkara previously. For Tendulkar, the closest comparison is either 2,694 [email protected]/55.6%/3.8 (1997-1999, three years) or 3,658 [email protected]/39.4%/6.0 (2008-2011, four years). Sangakkara had a much flatter career and his “peak” (such as it was) was 2009-2012; 3,520 [email protected]/40.0%/5.2. He actually had an eleven year period averaging north of sixty, but still, we’re looking at 75 for Smith here with no idea how high it might conceivably go.
And that makes 2018 a huge year for Steve Smith. As the above demonstrates, what Smith is doing so far is not quite unprecidented and while it’s tempting to say that it is to open a career, we must remember that Smith actually has been playing for eight years now, debuting in 2010 (as you have probably heard ad-nauseum by self satisfied commentators – as an all-rounder).
But another year averaging above seventy and this really will be unprecidented. The greats strain to keep up with this four year run of Smith savagery, but they can – just barely. Add another year and this not only will be a horrifying new normal for fielding teams against Australia, it will put Smith truly in a class with Bradman alone. Australia are scheduled to play ten Tests this coming year (ominously, one in Zimbabwe and two against Bangladesh in Australia). Averaging his last four years, we can expect a year something like 1,130 [email protected]. If Smith continues at this pace, this time next year we will look at a player averaging not 63.75, but 65.33 after 71 Test matches.
Even the short career novelties of Voges, Graeme Pollock, Headley and Eddie Paynter will be firmly in the rear view mirror at that point (the nearest, Voges, averaged 61.87 in his West Indian fueled batting career). Sutcliffe, generally considered the most legitimate claim (54 Tests) for historical second place, will be nearly five runs adrift (60.73). Smith’s career will then be nearly 50% longer than Bradman’s when measured in Test matches and approaching the level of the pre-1980 greats entire careers. He would need to score nine ducks in a row to be reduced to the level of Sutcliffe. There will be no dismissing him then: he will have a completely unrivalled case as the second greatest batsman of all time.
The only argument remaining will be the Bradman argument, for those who wish to make it. This will require the opening of a dusty old book thought closed seventy years ago, Smith will remain an eccentric choice in such an argument but then, who’s to say what the future holds?
2018 will decide whether that argument will be possible at all. The stakes for cricket history could not possibly be higher.
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Kane and Toews face off (from ESPN.com) [12\10\2013]
THE POWER-PLAY partnership of Blackhawks cornerstones Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews has already yielded two Stanley Cup championships and a Conn Smythe Trophy for each and they're only 25.
But off the ice, there is no neutral zone; the former roommates are hockey's version of The Odd Couple. Toews, who became the franchise's youngest captain at age 20, is the contemplative Canadian. Kane, the first American forward named Stanley Cup playoffs MVP, is the brash Buffalo native. Their chemistry clearly works, but how long can they keep it going?
We turned the mic over to Kaner and Jonny and let them face off.
Patrick Kane: Jonny, the last time we played against each other, in the 2010 Olympics, we got into it. I don't know if you remember.
Jonathan Toews: Oh, I remember. Wasn't it inside your blue line, along the far wall? We were just horsing around, weren't we? No?
Kane: I thought it was pretty serious.
Toews: You were worked up.
Kane: That's because you came over and said something. I don't remember why we were chirping back and forth, but it sent me over the edge. Do you envision that happening again if our teams meet in the Olympics [in Sochi]?
Toews: We're probably safer being on opposing teams than we would be playing on the same line or sitting close to each other on the bench.
Kane: That gold-medal game in Vancouver, even though we were pissed we lost and got silver, was awesome for hockey. Something like 30 million people watched it. Even in the U.S., a game like that can help grow the game.
Toews: I had to sneak around the city [after Canada won]. My family and I went to The Roxy with Brent Seabrook and a couple of other players after the game. We snuck through the back of the bar and went downstairs to the basement. Vince Vaughn and some other Chicago people were there. When we'd try to go upstairs into the crowd, it was just nuts; you couldn't move.
Someone ordered a round of 50 shots and started celebrating with tons of random, crazy Canadian fans. It was awesome. If we have a chance to go to [Sochi] I don't really know what to expect. You hear the stories of how different it is to play hockey in Russia.
I don't know if you've ever been there, Kaner, but I had the chance to go to Moscow for the World Championships in 2007. It's a whole different experience. You never know if it's going to be like that -- or if the athletes will be sheltered away from things. But Sochi looks beautiful.
Kane: You hear that Sochi is really nice, but that where the families are staying could be an hour and a half away from where the players are staying. It seems like it's going to be a lot different than Vancouver. You might look back to Vancouver and say that was the first time you got to play in the Olympics and it was almost like you were spoiled there. It was so nice, everything was set up awesome.
You could almost walk to see your parents and family. It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world. It would be great to get that opportunity.
Toews: Who drank more beer or champagne out of the Cup in 2010 and 2013 combined: me or you?
Kane: Are you trying to make me look worse or better here?
Toews: You can say me.
Kane: Well, as the captain, you had two days with the Cup.
Toews: Yeah, I logged a few more hours with it and I took advantage of it. OK, how about this: Who did more community work or kissed more babies with the Cup? I'm trying to rebuild your image here.
Kane: That's good. I did charity events with the Cup all the time. What else did you do during the offseason?
Toews: I just went fishing, boating, hung out at my cabin at the lake. My buddies saw pictures of your jet skis and boats, and now they're always asking if mine are as sweet as yours. They'd rather go party with you because you've got the big shack and the swimming pool with no deep end.
Toews: Which teammate would you let date one of your sisters?
Kane: A couple of years ago I might have said you.
Toews: But not anymore?
Kane: Not anymore. There are some guys you definitely would not want dating your sister especially hockey players. I'd have to go with Nick Leddy though. He's the nicest guy in the world.
Toews: Nicest ever.
Kane: He's a really nice, shy kid.
Toews: He's undercover, though. Be careful with that.
Kane: People ask if you and I ever fought off the ice.
Toews: Are you kidding me?
Kane: We were roommates for five years. There were certainly times when we weren't happy with one another, but I think that's natural. You spend enough time with someone, you're going to have your run-ins.
Toews: Can I tell the Toronto story?
Kane: [Laughs] That's the one I don't want you to bring up.
Toews: C'mon! It's funny ... now. We were just getting to know each other. It's the night before one of our first games in Canada as rookies. We're in Toronto and the game's going to be on "Hockey Night in Canada," so I'm in bed early. Probably 10 o'clock. I'm nervous thinking about the game, but you're out having a late dinner or whatever.
You come in and start causing a ruckus. Doors slam. People are in the hallway. Five minutes after you lay down, you're passed out and snoring. Now I'm awake, absolutely livid. My blood is just pumping as I lie there awake. Another hour goes by and I can't sleep. It's maybe 1 o'clock in the morning. You're still snoring. I get up and start punching your bed. You wake up and start hitting me with a pillow. I don't know if you remember that.
Kane: Oh, I remember.
Toews: We were so mad at each other that we were going to fight right there in the middle of the night.
Kane: You were so pissed the next morning. Stormed out of the room.
Toews: I felt like s--- after a sleepless night.
Kane: Remember what happened in the game? We were down 3-1 or something, but came back and won 6-4. After the game, you were still pissed off. You said, "Thanks for ruining my game on 'Hockey Night in Canada.'"
Toews: No way I said that.
Kane: I was like, "C'mon."
Toews: I never said that.
Kane: Yeah, you did. For sure.
Toews: Not a chance. You had two points, for god sakes! Lit it up. Led the comeback. I just sat on the bench. Steaming.
Kane: Still steaming from the night before.
Custance: Do you ever discuss your next contracts? Both of your deals expire after the 2014-15 season, but negotiations can start next summer.
Kane: It's funny that people even bring it up now. We just got over the hump of our five-year contract. It's still two years away. I mean, who knows what's going to happen in that amount of time? I'm sure you want to stay here, Jonny. I'd love to stay here, too.
Toews: Are you hinting at who deserves more?
Kane: I'm leaving if you make more. [Laughs.]
Toews: We'll both pretend that we're not bothered by it [if the other makes more]. Look at [Ducks forwards] Corey Perry and Ryan Getzlaf, who both signed for, what, eight more years? It's a debate you can go on and on about: Who is more valuable to their team? There are arguments to be made either way, but if you let ego get in the way, that's when it becomes an issue. You've scored more points and done certain things in your career while I've contributed to the team in other ways.
At the end of the day, I don't think we'll be complaining about the situation. We'll both be pretty darn happy if we get a chance to continue the relationship with the team here.
Kane: It's not like I wouldn't pass you the puck because you're making more money than me. [Pittsburgh's Evgeni] Malkin is making more money [in average annual salary] than Sidney Crosby, right? He's signed for less years or whatever it may be. But Crosby has a long-term deal.
Kane: At the end of the day, do you really care? I don't know. What's the difference? You're making a couple hundred thousand more than the next guy.
Toews: Will you ever play in [your hometown of] Buffalo?
Kane: I'm pretty happy here right now. The better question is will you ever play in [your hometown of] Winnipeg? They booed you when we played there.
Toews: Yeah, I got booed in my hometown. So I'm not [signing there] anytime soon. People told me I would get cheered because fans did that for some of the former Jets players, but I never played for the Jets, so I didn't know what to expect.
The Winnipeg fans, especially the ones in the top concourse ... they're crazy. So I didn't rule out the possibility that people might jump on that bandwagon and start booing me. My own buddies were probably the ones getting the boos going.
Kane: Winnipeg was a cool place to play. We heard going in that fans there like to boo the other team's top players, so a few times when I had the puck I held on to it a little longer to hear the boos get louder.
I used to go to games [growing up] in Buffalo. [Eric] Lindros came to town, and the whole game all the fans were all over him. He got kicked out of the game in the first period. The rest of the game wasn't even fun anymore because he wasn't playing. If anything, the booing is a compliment to that player.
Custance: An NHL team has never repeated in the salary-cap era. What makes you believe the Blackhawks can do it?
Toews: We have the same team, pretty much, except for a couple of guys. When you go to the Stanley Cup finals and you win, a lot of players step up to the occasion. Guys like Bryan Bickell, Andrew Shaw and Corey Crawford made names for themselves [in the playoffs]. Of course they're going to deserve a little bit more financially. So it's always tough -- especially in a salary-cap sport -- for managers and owners to keep their talent together when that happens.
Kane: You look at our team, and the better question would be, Why couldn't we keep winning and have good year after good year? We have a lot of guys locked up for a long time.
Like last year, we would be tough to beat in a seven-game series where a team has to go through us four times. As long as we don't get satisfied or complacent, we could have a pretty good winning atmosphere here for awhile.
Toews: Do you remember the first time we played on the same team, the Junior Flyers?
Kane: Yeah. When we were what, 13?
Toews: Glory days. Your good buddy, one of the biggest loudmouths I've ever met -- was the goalie. Never stopped talking. Kaner, you were the opposite. Same way you are now ... seemingly quiet but definitely confident.
You just walked into the [dressing room] wearing your flip-flops, put your bag down and slowly put on your gear. Then you'd just go onto the ice. I was used to being the top scorer on the team. Then you came along and started beating me in points every single game. I was like, "How does this little guy go out there and do that?"
Kane: A year or two earlier we had played your Winnipeg team. We beat you guys by a couple of goals, but everyone was like, "Who's this Toews kid? We have to get him on our team." We'd try to get all the best players from the Detroit area, the Buffalo area, the Toronto area.
We started branching out and they brought you in for that tournament. Everyone was amazed. You were pretty much the same player that you are today. Two-way center, same stride. Low to the ice.
Toews: One of the questions I get a lot now is, "How do you think Kaner has matured? He just seems to be more composed a guy off the ice and it's showing in his play." I tell you, that stumps me every time.
Kane: I'll read articles about myself, and they always have to go back to what happened off the ice. The media likes to ask me, "Are you more focused this year? Are you more mature?"
That question ticks me off because what happened in the past seems like long ago. I'm not that person anymore. I'm sure there's something I've changed here and there. At the same time, I do still feel like the same person.
Toews: It's storylines. Fairy tales.
Kane: I'm not mature, though. [Laughs.]
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Way too early college basketball top 25 rankings for 2019-20
We’ve got way too much time between now and the 2019-20 season tipping off. That’s not gonna stop us from doing this.
Over the next two months we’re going to see hundreds of college hoops roster shakeups thanks to NBA Draft declarations, transfers, and other early offseason madness. After that, the summer months will bring even more unforeseen changes to a number of teams on this list.
And yet, these early top 25 rankings are guaranteed to be 100 percent accurate throughout college basketball’s offseason. There’s no argument to the contrary, so don’t even try.
Just enjoy these ridiculous(ly accurate) rankings:
1. Virginia Cavaliers
2018-19 Record: 35-3
2018-19 Finish: National Champions
The biggest criticism these rankings received a year ago stemmed from Virginia being at No. 2 despite being just three weeks removed from its historic first round loss to UMBC. There figures to be less pushback on the Cavaliers’ lofty early status this year.
The recently crowned national champions are definitely losing Jack Salt to graduation, almost certainly losing De’Andre Hunter to the NBA Draft, and might very well be losing Ty Jerome to the professional ranks as well. Even if both those underclassmen stars leave, Tony Bennett will return key contributors in Kyle Guy, Braxton Key, Mamadi Diakite, Jay Huff and Kihei Clark. Recent history has shown us that those pieces should be more than enough for Bennett to put together yet another national title contender.
2. Michigan State Spartans
2018-19 Record: 32-7
2018-19 Finish: Final Four
If reigning Big Ten Player of the Year Cassius Winston chooses to return, Tom Izzo will likely bring back his top four scorers from a team that came two wins away from a national championship. Included in that group is junior guard Joshua Langford, who missed all but 13 games this season because of a stress injury in his left foot. Gifted forward Aaron Henry showed glimpses of his potential late in the season, and has the potential to be a star as a sophomore. Tom Izzo will also bring in a top 25 recruiting class headlined by 4-star point guard Rocket Watts.
3. Michigan Wolverines
2018-19 Record: 30-7
2018-19 Finish: Sweet 16
Charles Matthews seems committed to keeping his name in the NBA Draft this go-round, which means the stay or go decisions of Jordan Poole and Iggy Brazdeikis will be even more important than they were before. If both return, John Beilien will lose just one contributor from a team that was one of the eight best college basketball all season long in 2018-19. Even if both choose to bolt, there’s still more than enough talent returning to Ann Arbor for this to be a preseason top 10 team.
4. Duke Blue Devils
2018-19 Record: 32-6
2018-19 Finish: Elite Eight
The big three are gone, but point guard Tre Jones has already announced that he’ll be back in Durham for his sophomore season. Some mixture from the group of Marques Bolden, Alex O’Connell, Jack White, Javin DeLaurier, Jordan Goldwire and Joey Baker will have to step up and flourish in expanded roles. Another elite recruiting class headlined by 5-star big man Vernon Carey will also help to make life after Zion more than tolerable for the Cameron Crazies.
5. Kentucky Wildcats
2018-19 Record: 30-7
2018-19 Finish: Elite Eight
As always, the who stays/who goes postseason shuffle will play a large part in determining how high the preseason expectations in Lexington will be. Also per usual, an elite incoming crop of freshmen guarantees that said expectations will be respectably lofty. If Tyler Herro or Keldon Johnson were to make an unexpected decision to return, the Wildcats would have a legitimate claim to be a spot or four higher on this list.
6. Gonzaga Bulldogs
2018-19 Record: 33-4
2018-19 Finish: Elite Eight
Josh Perkins is definitely gone, and the assumption is that Rui Hachimura and Brandon Clarke are as well. If either return, the Zags will be in the top five when these rankings are updated. If oft-injured Killian Tillie decides to get an early start on his professional career as well, Mark Few’s team will be a few spots lower.
7. Auburn Tigers
2018-19 Record: 30-10
2018-19 Finish: Final Four
Leading scorer Bryce Brown is gone, but there’s a chance Auburn’s top five other scorers could return. The decisions of Jared Harper and Chuma Okeke will loom large here. If both return, Bruce Pearl should have a team capable of making its second Final Four in as many years. The addition of top 50 freshman Isaac Okoro will give Pearl yet another tool to work with.
8. Marquette Golden Eagles
2018-19 Record: 24-10
2018-19 Finish: First Round
There may not be an offseason decision that looms larger for a player’s respective team than Markus Howard’s does for Marquette. If the 2019 Big East Player of the Year comes back, the Golden Eagles could easily be Final Four good. If he doesn’t ... that’s going to be a much tougher sell.
9. Texas Tech Red Raiders
2018-19 Record: 31-7
2018-19 Finish: National Runners-Up
Jarrett Culver is off to be a lottery pick, but at this point, does it really even matter who Texas Tech is returning? As long as Chris Beard is back in Lubbock, a preseason top 10 spot feels justified.
10. Kansas Jayhawks
2018-19 Record: 26-10
2018-19 Finish: Second Round
They occupied just about everyone’s top spot in these rankings a year ago and wound up having a season that didn’t come close to meeting those expectations. Now, this figures to be an extremely interesting offseason for a Kansas program that’s in something of a weird place. Even so, if Devon Dotson, Quentin Grimes, and Udoka Azubuike all return to Lawrence, this could be yet another preseason top 10 team for Bill Self.
11. Oregon Ducks
2018-19 Record: 25-13
2018-19 Finish: Sweet 16
Oregon had preseason expectations that were this high a year ago, but never really figured things out until the season’s final three weeks. Bol Bol going down less than halfway through the season certainly played a part in that. Assuming Louis King chooses to delay his professional career by a year, the Ducks should be good at a far more consistent clip in 2019-20. Dana Altman has the team to beat in the Pac-12.
12. Villanova Wildcats
2018-19 Record: 26-10
2018-19 Finish: Second Round
Leading scorers Phil Booth and Eric Paschall are gone, but there’s still reason to believe Villanova will be better in 2019-20 than they were this past season. Collin Gillespie, Sadiq Bey, Jermaine Samuels and Dhamir Cosby-Rountree should all take steps forward. Jay Wright will also welcome a top five recruiting class headlined by two five-star players — Jeremiah Robinson-Earl and Bryan Antoine — who should be good enough to start from day one.
13. Tennessee Volunteers
2018-19 Record: 31-6
2018-19 Finish: Sweet 16
Admiral Schofield and Kyle Alexander have exhausted their ability, and Grant Williams and Jordan Bone both seem more likely to leave than they are to come back. Even so, Lamonte Turner and Jordan Bowden are coming back, and so is head coach Rick Barnes, who officially spurned the advances of UCLA on Monday. Top 20 recruit Josiah James has the potential to be a star.
14. North Carolina Tar Heels
2018-19 Record: 29-7
2018-19 Finish: Sweet 16
It seems impossible for UNC not to take a sizable step back after losing Luke Maye, Cam Johnson, Kenny Williams, Coby White and Nas Little. Roy Williams will always find a way to make his teams contenders, but no team in the country needs to sign a recruit more than the Tar Heels need to sign Cole Anthony right now.
15. Seton Hall Pirates
2018-19 Record: 20-14
2018-19 Finish: First Round
Head coach Kevin Willard turned down Virginia Tech, now the Pirates need star Myles Powell to turn down the NBA. If that happens, Willard should have a team fully capable of making Seton Hall’s first appearance in the Sweet 16 since 2000.
16. Louisville Cardinals
2018-19 Record: 20-14
2018-19 Finish: First Round
Chris Mack’s first season at Louisville was a success in the eyes of most. Year two should be even better. If Jordan Nwora, the ACC’s Most Improved Player for 2018-19, chooses to come back for his junior season, Mack should return all but one of his top eight scorers from last season. He’ll also welcome in a top five recruiting class headlined by 5-star McDonald’s All-American Samuell Williamson.
17. Maryland Terrapins
2018-19 Record: 26-10
2018-19 Finish: Elite Eight
Jalen Smith has already announced he’s staying, which is massive for a team that was just a few seconds away from the Sweet 16 last season. If Anthony Cowan also returns, the Terps should have an opportunity to right that wrong in about 11 months.
18. Houston Cougars
2018-19 Record: 33-4
2018-19 Finish: Sweet 16
The loss of Corey Davis Jr. is big, but on paper, it shouldn’t be bigger than the loss of Rob Gray was a year ago. Without Gray, Houston somehow managed to get better, and was one shot away from playing Auburn for a spot in the Final Four. At this point, Kelvin Sampson has earned the benefit of the doubt. Bank on the Cougars being back in the national picture.
19. Purdue Boilermakers
2018-19 Record: 26-10
2018-19 Finish: Elite Eight
Matt Painter will lose two senior starters as well as star junior Carsen Edwards, who’s off to the NBA. Nojel Eastern, Matt Haarms, Trevion Williams and Aaron Wheeler might not form a nucleus strong enough to get back to a regional final, but it’s certainly a nucleus strong enough to once again finish near the top of the Big Ten standings.
20. Cincinnati Bearcats
2018-19 Record: 28-7
2018-19 Finish: First Round
Assuming Mick Cronin stays put in The Queen City, he should have another club capable of flirting with 30 wins. Unanimous All-AAC selection Jarron Cumberland has the potential to be an All-American.
21. Arizona Wildcats
2018-19 Record: 17-15
2018-19 Finish: No Postseason
With the team’s three leading scorers returning and the nation’s (currently) top-ranked recruiting class on its way to Tucson, it’s looking like last season’s disaster may wind up being an isolated incident.
22. Saint Mary’s
2018-19 Record: 22-12
2018-19 Finish: First Round
The Gaels only got into the Big Dance because they stunned Gonzaga to win the WCC tournament. Their inclusion in the 2020 field of 68 shouldn’t be laced with nearly as much drama.
23. Iowa Hawkeyes
2018-19 Record: 23-12
2018-19 Finish: Second Round
Tyler Cook declaring for the draft with no intention of returning knocks the Hawkeyes out of the top 20, but Cook and Nicholas Baer should be the only two players Fran McCaffery doesn’t bring back.
24. VCU Rams
2018-19 Record: 25-8
2018-19 Finish: First Round
The Rams should return their nine leading scorers from a team that was a single digit seed in the 2019 NCAA tournament.
25. Memphis Tigers
2018-19 Record: 22-14
2018-19 Finish: NIT Second Round
There’s no question that Penny Hardaway can generate headlines, but the jury’s still out on him as one of the next big-time coaches in college basketball. We’ll be much closer to a verdict after next season when Penny has had a chance to coach a talented roster led by the nation’s No. 1 freshman, James Wiseman.
The Next 10:
26. Florida State
27. Ohio State
28. Utah State
29. LSU
30. Arizona State
31. Xavier
32. Colorado
33. Oklahoma
34. Baylor
35. Mississippi State
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5 significant reasons to lose weight: Forget heart attacks and skinny jeans. This is why weight loss is important.
Avoiding heart disease and looking ‘fab’ aren’t always great reasons to lose weight. However, here are 5 immediate and significant ways your life can change when you trim the fat.
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I’d like you to join me in a thought experiment.
I promise there’s a point to it. In fact, we’ll soon talk about why most popular reasons for losing weight are either uninspiring or scientifically worthless.
But, for now, let’s begin by setting our feelings, insecurities, assumptions, stories, and beliefs about body fat aside.
You might feel confused. Or defensive. Or saying “Yes, but…”
Please bear with me. Just for a few minutes.
Forget, for a moment, about looking good.
Forget about “thin privilege”. Forget about “fat privilege”.
Forget about personal rights or civic obligations.
Forget about abs and guns and lats and whatever other laundry list of nonsense is now used to describe various body parts.
While you’re at it, forget about whatever other wretchedness the Internet has spawned this week. (Thigh gap? Duck lips? Bikini bridge? Manscaping?)
So, yeah, forget about body image.
Forget, for a moment, about disease.
Forget about all the big-name medical scares including atherosclerosis, arterial plaque, cardiac arrest, pulmonary hypertension, stroke, all the cancers, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome.
And forget about what some randomly chosen biomarker says.
“My glucose tolerance is good. I’m healthy and fat!”
“My triglycerides are low. I’m healthy and thin!”
“My cholesterol is excellent. I’m healthy and jacked!”
For a moment, let all of that go. (More on why in a second).
And, most of all, forget about “health at any size”.
Yes, obese people do have the right to be treated with dignity.
Absolutely and certainly.
And, yes, obese people should be supported in efforts to become more healthy outside of weight loss. As we all know, health isn’t a direct function of your weight.
However, the “health at any size” movement goes one step too far in suggesting that obesity is harmless. That it’s not bad for you. That having excess body fat is of no more consequence than wearing a red sweater or driving a Nissan Sentra.
This is simply not true; it contradicts most of the available evidence.
So, for now, forget a) looking good, b) disease, and c) “health at any size”.
Each of these obscures the real, significant reasons people should consider losing weight.
For example: The mainstream conversation about fatness and health focuses on medical conditions that can kill or disable us. While these make for great headlines, this angle isn’t very compelling.
Why not? Well, imagine that bacon (or broccoli, or some other food) causes a 10 percent increase in some horrible cancer-type disease. Scary, right?
Not when you realize that your chance of dying from that horrible cancer-type thing without bacon (or broccoli) is only 1 in 100,000 (or 0.00001 percent). And that a 10 percent increase from eating bacon (or broccoli) means your chance rises to 1.1 in 100,000 (or 0.000011 percent).
Meh.
Since we’re all going to die anyway, medical scare tactics simply don’t come off as scary (especially when you know what the data really mean). Nor do they motivate change.
The fitness industry, of course, takes another approach.
In fitness it’s all about looking great in a certain type of clothing, or on the beach, or at your high school reunion. And while that can seem inspiring for a minute, it’s not proven to be a sustainable way to achieve long-term weight loss and maintenance.
5 GOOD reasons for losing weight.
In the end, the most popular incentives — scary disease statistics and fitness industry vanity trips — aren’t very effective, useful, or scientifically valid ways to promote weight loss.
That’s a huge missed opportunity, because there are much better reasons to lose weight. More pressing, more evidence-based, more quality-of-life focused reasons.
Sadly, they’re not often talked about in the public debate.
(Notice that I said public debate. Scientists and doctors talk about them all the time. They’re well established in research. They just haven’t made it to the public yet).
So let’s talk about them now.
Reason #5: Your knees and elbows will thank you.
Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease, in which we lose cartilage and gradually destroy the bones of our joints.
Imagine two rocks grinding together and you get the idea of how fun that is.
In my experience, healthy people don’t think much about osteoarthritis because it’s common. Aging makes it more likely. Everyone’s grandma has a twinge of arthritis.
So we think it’s normal.
This hides the degree to which it can be very unpleasant and debilitating.
Like most chronic illnesses, osteoarthritis is a vicious cycle.
Your joints hurt, so you move less.
Moving less means your joints don’t get loaded.
Less joint loading means muscle weakness.
Muscle weakness means force doesn’t get cushioned correctly.
Less cushion means the condition worsens.
More osteoarthritis means more pain.
And, onwards, we circle the drain.
The point? Obesity makes it much more likely that you’ll get osteoarthritis.
In one study comparing the heaviest patients to the lightest, the chance of being diagnosed with osteoarthritis in one knee was more than 6 times in the heavy group. For both knees it was almost 18 times.
(Naturally, other studies over the last 20 years have investigated the same relationship. Some estimates are higher, some are lower. But the association between body fat and osteoarthritis has been replicated several times.)
The reason this happens is complicated.
It isn’t just that heavier people put more weight on their joints, and those joints then degrade over time. It’s also that there seems to be a relationship between the presence of excess fat tissue and inflammation.
Thus, osteoarthritis probably comes from a combination of excess joint loading plus the inflammatory chemical and hormonal environment that having too much body fat creates.
Bottom line: One important reason to lose weight is to reduce joint pain and improve your movement. These are things you can benefit from almost immediately.
Reason #4: You’ll get a good night’s sleep.
Think of what happens when a rockslide blocks a tunnel.
That’s sleep apnea: The upper airway collapses while you sleep, cutting off that oxygen tunnel.
Just so you know, sleep apnea is more than a little snoring.
Sleep apnea means you stop breathing. Over and over and over. As you sleep.
Which is bad.
More body fat means more potential for sleep apnea. This comes from a few combined factors:
Fat in your airway narrows the space available. This makes your airway more prone to collapsing.
Fat in your upper body puts weight on your lungs and reduces the space available to them. You need more oxygen but you can’t get it as well.
Fat — a hormone-producing organ — changes your hormonal signals. This rewires your respiratory systems.
While around 25 percent of adults have sleep apnea, 50 percent of obese adults have it.
Even more scary: If you have mild sleep apnea, and you put on weight, the chances of you graduating to moderate or severe sleep apnea are:
5 percent weight gain = 250 percent increase of severe sleep apnea
10 percent weight gain = 650 percent increase of severe sleep apnea
20 percent weight gain = 3,700 percent increase of severe sleep apnea
(And it’s scariest for children: 46 percent of obese children have sleep apnea, while the typical incidence in children is approximately 3 percent).
So, why is sleep apnea bad?
Sleep is a major regulator of our metabolism. If our sleep is bad, so is our metabolic health.
This means things like elevated inflammation, rapid cell aging and oxidation, and hormonal disruption (and, yes, higher risk for all kinds of nasty chronic diseases in the long term).
Bottom line: Another important reason to lose weight is so that you can sleep better. Not only does this help regulate metabolism, hormone systems, and more. It helps you feel, think and live better right away.
Reason #3: You’ll actually start to taste your food.
This may sound weird, but it seems that people who struggle with their weight don’t taste food as well.
Wait, what? People who often eat more food can’t taste as well? Exactly.
Why? We’re not sure. We don’t yet know whether excess body fat changes your tastes. Or whether your tastes change your appetite and cause weight gain.
We also don’t know whether this is an issue of:
“wanting” tastes: seeking and craving the reward of tastes
“liking” tastes: actually enjoying tastes
chemical signaling: how taste is created in the mouth and interpreted by the brain
Here’s what we do know.
People vary in how well and sensitively they can perceive different flavors and textures such as fattiness or sweetness.
One hypothesis is that if we can’t taste as well, we eat more food to compensate.
On the flip side, people with high BMIs seem to avoid bitter foods more, and have a stronger “disgust” response. As it happens, many vegetables are bitter or astringent (think of kale, Brussels sprouts, green peppers, etc.).
So there seems to be a relationship between:
excess body fat;
wanting and liking fat / sweet foods and pleasant tastes;
eating fat / sweet foods; and
avoiding unpleasant tastes.
How might this happen?
Animal models are handy here since we can control their food intake and they don’t seem to care much about food advertising.
So, in animal models:
Overfeeding obesity-prone mice changes how their taste cells function.
Rats with obesity-related changes in fat/sugar reward can at least somewhat reverse those changes with weight loss.
Rats given weight loss surgery (yes, that’s a real thing) appear to go back to their “normal” liking/wanting behavior.
Put simply, what this could mean is:
Many people with excess body fat also have altered flavor perception.
The flavor perception could pre-date gaining fat.
Or, the flavor perception could be caused by gaining fat. Or both.
The only observation I’ll add is that the foods we consider to be the most responsible for obesity just happen to pander directly to this dysfunction by having aggressively over-sweet, over-salty, over-fatty, etc. flavor profiles.
We eat and eat and eat them, but they never seem to satisfy. It’s a Sisyphean irony.
The good news is that in both humans and rats, tastes are changeable.
This means that losing fat, getting fit, and consistently building healthy habits can actually change how we perceive flavors. In a good way.
(One day, you might just find you like Brussels sprouts after all).
More importantly, when you truly enjoy food, you eat less, but you feel much more satisfied.
Bottom line: Obese people have altered taste perceptions leading to eating more and eating more of the wrong foods. By losing weight you’ll end up craving less high-sugar and high-fat food. You might even enjoy an extra veggie or two.
Reason #2: Your immune system will work properly again.
We tend to think of body fat like an ATM: a place where we deposit or withdraw energy. It isn’t.
Instead, fat is an active endocrine organ. That means it secretes hormones and cytokines (cell signaling molecules).
Hormones and cytokines have effects throughout the body. They “talk” to one another chemically.
Like all things, balance is important. If we have a healthy amount of fat, our hormones and cell signals work properly. If we have too much, things go wrong.
For example, with too much body fat our immune systems get off kilter.
There’s a huge, scary pile of evidence here so let’s keep it simple.
Increased BMI and more body fat is associated with greater risk for several kinds of infections including:
gum infections,
nose and sinus infections,
stomach infections, and
herpes (thankfully, the mouth kind).
Why? Too much adipose (fat) tissue can release large amounts of immune chemicals. Over time, this chronic high exposure can interfere with the body’s ability to spot and stop actual outside infections.
Bottom line: Losing body fat can mean a healthier, more responsive, more robust immune system. And that means fewer colds, fewer infections, and a healthier daily life.
Reason #1: You’ll survive surgery and childbirth.
People with a lot of body fat:
are harder to intubate,
have a higher risk of incisional hernia post-laprascopy
(i.e. popping open again),
have a longer operation time,
have a higher risk of catheter site infection, and
have a higher rate of serious postoperative complications.
Surgery is a risky business for people who are obese.
This is a double whammy because people who struggle with obesity also struggle with more health issues that may require surgery.
So obese people may need surgery… but not be able to get it, or not recover as well when they do.
Pregnancy is a good example of this.
Among women who are significantly obese, about 50 percent of them must undergo Caesarean sections, compared to only about 20 percent of the general population.
Even if they give birth vaginally, obese women may have to have a lot more instruments and medical procedures involved.
After surgery, mothers with obesity may end up with more surgical site infections.
This is aside from other pregnancy complications, which also go up significantly as body fat increases.
Bottom line: Every surgery patient wants a safe and speedy recovery. And every mother wants a safe birth and a thriving, bouncing baby. Having a healthy range of body fat makes those happy outcomes much more likely.
What to do next:
Some tips from Precision Nutrition
Let’s forget about all the “shoulds”, as in, “You should lose weight because blah blah terrible thing will happen.”
Let’s focus on how awesome life can get when your body is as functional, mobile, and metabolically healthy as it can possibly be.
1. Go toward the good
We’ve noticed a trend in the stories of people who lost a great deal of weight:
They focus on the small blessings and achievements of everyday life.
“I can live in a walk-up apartment now.”
“I can run around with my kids.”
“I don’t get tired through the day.”
“Food tastes better. I can’t explain how.”
“My random aches and pains stopped.”
“I can carry my two-year old without wheezing.”
“I have so much more energy.”
“I bounce back from illness straightaway now.”
And they always sound so satisfied.
2. Seek incremental change
“Thigh gap” and “healthy at any size” are the two extremes of one problem: an all-or-nothing approach to health and body weight.
Real, lasting changes in diet and lifestyle require a different approach.
Precision Nutrition Coaching clients who achieve the most success come to realize that incremental change serves them best — and, to their surprise, produces immediate improvements in quality of life.
3. Focus on the tangible benefits
Losing weight isn’t magical. Your life is still your life, regardless.
Yet with a healthy amount of body fat, your life often becomes a little bit easier and better. You’re a little more functional and mobile. A little more able.
So if we talk about fat, let’s not tell people (or ourselves) how to feel. Or how to cheat death.
Keep the focus on positive changes you could see in your life in just a few weeks’ time:
Knees that work.
Colds that go away.
A good night’s sleep.
Food that tastes nice.
A straightforward recovery after surgery.
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“There is, perhaps , nothing most likely to disrupt the coolnes of nations than their being bound to reciprocal contributions for any common objective that does not furnish an equal and coincident benefit. For it is an observation, as genuine as it is trite, that there is nothing people differ so quickly about as the payment of money.”- Alexander Hamilton , Federalist No. 7
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Trump job performance
Average endorsement : b> 39.6 percent
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Net Score: -1 5.4 points
Change from one week ago: down 2 points
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Control of House
Republican average: 40.2 percent
Democratic median: 49.4 percent
Advantage: Democrat plus 9.2 points
Change from one week ago: Democratic advantage up 0.4 points
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OBAMA RETURNS TO CAMPAIGN TRAIL WITH FIERY SPEECH
Fox News : “Former President Barack Obama propelled his return to the campaign trail Friday with a fiery speech alleging President Trump and the GOP of fueling' split and resentment’ -- but the convening chairman responded with a rhetorical yawn.' I'm sorry, I watched but I fell asleep, ’ Trump taunted, speaking at a political mobilize minutes later for GOP Senate candidate Kevin Cramer in North Dakota . ... The back-and-forth between the sitting and onetime chairmen placeds the stage for a battle of the mega-surrogates honcho into the November midterms. Trump has promised to ramp up his expedition illusions for GOP nominees and, with Obama flexing his political muscle once again, he will have a worthwhile opponent. Obama's campaign season debut launches his midterm effort to revival Democrat to the ballots and dissolve Republicans' grip on power in Congress. The former chairman advised Friday that the stakes are high and the consequences of climate remaining on the sidelines' dire.’ Delivering some of his toughest broadsides against the GOP since leaving office- and referring to Trump by mention, something he used to avoid- Obama said there are certain' strong and privileged’ people who want to' keep us angry.’”
Pence goes on defense in three Senate hastens - Politico : “Vice President Mike Pence is going on the breeze in three Senate scoots -- not so much to pump up Republican nominees but to tear down Democratic incumbents. Pence rends Sens. Jon Tester of Montana, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Joe Donnelly of Indiana over a range of highly charged partisan issues, from opposition to the GOP tax bill and Obamacare repeal to support for sanctuary cities and Contrived Parenthood funding. With Republican facing headwinds going into the November midterms, the party is waging an intensive slash-and-burn expedition aimed at disqualifying Democratic candidates. The TV blots paint Tester, Heitkamp and Donnelly -- all of whom face the burden of flowing for reelection in states that President Donald Trump prevailed by doubled toes -- as greatly out of step with their constituencies.”
California Dems Newsom, Feinstein drop to single-digit heads in latest referendum - Fox News : “Two of California's best-known Democrat are stealing in the tallies as the schedule boosts closer to Election Day. In detail, both Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein have just been single-digit causes over their opposings, research results evidence. In the hasten for bos, a Probolsky Research poll, conducted between Aug. 29 -Sept. 2, registers Newsom producing Republican businessman John Cox by a mere 5 points, with 17 percent of respondents undecided, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Feinstein faces same troubles, with the tally indicating her with simply an 8-point advantage over progressive challenger Kevin de Leon . A one-quarter of the respondents told the pollsters they remain undetermined. Both Cox and de Leon have chipped their opponents' produces since the primaries in June. Newsom made 34 percent of the vote while Cox received 25 percent. In California's' jungle primary’ organisation, the two top finishers face off in the general elections held, regardless of party.”
Sen. Carper defeats progressive challenger - CBS News : “A combat between Delaware's elderly senator and an upstart challenger journeying an antiestablishment waving within the Democratic Party spotlit the state's primary elections Thursday. Democratic Sen. Tom Carper , 71, hasn't lost a scoot in more than four decades in politics, including on Thursday. He successfully protected his tush against a primary objection from political stranger and society activist Kerri Evelyn Harris , 38. Carper won with 64 percent of the vote. Carper, who famously says he always campaigns as if he's 20 details behind, made no chances against Harris, an Air Force veteran trying to stage one of the most appalling disturbances in modern Delaware political history.”
Poll evidences confined scoot for Georgia minister - AJC : “The hasten for Georgia governor couldn’t be closer simply two months before the election, as an Atlanta Journal-Constitution/ Channel 2 Action News poll demo Democrat Stacey Abrams and Republican Brian Kemp deadlocked at 45 percentage. The referendum of likely November voters registered the two competitives are fighting to win over a flake of the electorate: Simply 8 percent of survey respondents were undecided, and an additional 2 percent support Libertarian Ted Metz. The close mood of the race could be an indicator of the rage attaching behind Democrats trying to flip-flop the state’s top office for the first time since 2002, propelled by Abrams’ adopt of progressive issues such as her entreat to grows the nation’s first pitch-black dame elected governor.”
Illinois Rep. Mike Quigley considers run for Chicago mayor - Roll Call : “Democratic Rep. Mike Quigley said he is considering a run for mayor of Chicago after Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced he would not run for re-election.' Who wouldn’t are keen to being mayor of Chicago? ’ he told the Chicago Sun-Times. Quigley said he is considering it despite the fact he' loves’ his hassle in Congress where he baby-sit on the Grant and Intelligence committees. The Democrat baby-sit on the Cook County Board before his elected to Congress and said any candidate for mayor should' focused on one issue or really being anti-Rahm Emanuel.’ ... Quigley said he is not in a rush to make a decision. ... Quigley is expected to easily win re-election in November in a territory that Inside Elections with Nathan L. Gonzales proportions Solid Democratic.”
KAVANAUGH AVOIDS DEM TRAPS, CONFIRMATION VOTE LOOMS
Fox News : “Democrats have invested the week trying to catch Judge Brett Kavanaugh in a lie and implement age-old emails to give him as a revolutionary republican. But as Kavanaugh’s chaotic approval hearing winds down Friday, Republicans say they conclude Democrat failed to estate the kind of lethal gale who are able to thwart the nomination. The department of Sen. Chuck Grassley , R-Iowa, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said in a statement that Democrat fought' to make a legitimate case’ against Kavanaugh after 2 day of questioning . ... After grilling Kavanaugh for 2 day, senators on Friday are sounding to areas outside witnesses both supporting and opposing the campaigner. This will distinguish the conclusion of its hearing process. Among those invited by the Democrats on the committee on conferences is John Dean , the onetime Nixon White House counsel who turned against the administration during Watergate. The committee, in the coming daylights and weeks, is expected to vote on Kavanaugh’s confirmation before the nomination heads to the full Senate for a final vote.”
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Hungry
The sound of feet hitting the pavement of the dark alleyways was the only sound in the night. Through the dimly light back alleyways of the city streets a small body moves, sliding from shadow to shadow, ducking from trash can to trash can. Skidding to a stop under a low lamp a woman stands, the lack of light hiding most of her appearance from anyone who could glance out their windows, but Vivian Shekah did not feel safe.
Letting out a slow breath the woman reaches up brushing her thumb over her bottom lip only to let out a small curse as she pulls it away finding it stained red. A small shiver runs through her body as she breathes in the metallic scent and the feel of the syrupy texture on her thumb makes her shove the red stained thumb into her mouth greedily lapping away the red with her tongue. She breathes slowly as she pulls her hand away again the dull throbbing in her gums reminding her that it isn't enough. Quickly she shakes her head breathing in deeply again, this time only inhaling the disgusting scent of the rubbish bins that surround her. She blinks her eyes wide before turning her head slowly from side to side trying to decide where she is relative to her own apartment.
"Pathetic," she mumbles to herself as she turns around again forcing herself to walk back the way she came. Vivian glares at the dark walls of the alleyway as the light falls of her steps echo off the walls around her. Trying to escape she had ran too far from her alleyways, forcing her to backtrack the smelly cement mazes.
She huffs out a low breath before catching a passing glance of her reflection in a broken window to her right. She pauses in her steps before turning to face the aged glass head on. Her deep auburn eyes stare back at her as a strand of her black curls fall in her face. She blows it away before allowing herself to take in the state of herself. Holding back a grimace, the woman reaches up to lightly touch the collar of her, at one time, cream colored dress, lightly rubbing at the red stain that now had bleed into the fabric. She drops her hand after a minute of rubbing, wiping her fingertips on the hip of her dress watching as the color spreads but knowing there is no helping it.
She raises her eyes again to her own face ignoring the red stain around her jaw and below her neck as she takes in the light flush to her pale skin. She nods in satisfaction before turning and starting down the alleyway again. As she walks the small sounds of the city reach her ears- the sound of rats running under the trashcans, some people laughing and shouting in their apartment. She allows a small smile to stretch across her full lips before turning the corner only to run into a tall warm body.
She stumbles back almost hitting the ground before a warm arm wraps around her waist and holds her up and a soft voice calls, "Are you alright?"
Raising her head a sharp retort on the tip of her tongue, Vivian looks up at the stranger only to fall silent at her beauty. The woman couldn't be older than 25, tall (at least much taller than Vivian), with warm blue eyes and skin the color of milk chocolate. The woman's eyes stare into her own as Vivian quickly pushes away, "Uh, fine." Very intelligent V, she thinks to herself in annoyance.
The stranger raises an eyebrow at her less than impressive reply before glancing over her. The woman clears her throat, sudden uneasiness sliding through her elegant body, "Is that blood?"
Vivian has to hold back the curse that pools in her mouth before glancing down at her dress again. She blinks before mumbling, "No?" distracted by the sweet smell slipping from the woman's throat. She smells heavenly.
"That's not a question you're suppose to answer with another question," the other woman retorts, some of the uneasiness leaving her stance but true curiosity slips into her eyes.
Nervously Vivian shifts her weight sliding a bit to the side of the woman letting out an unintelligent, "Um..." before taking her chance and pushing past the stranger and sprinting away. Behind her she hears the raised voice of the woman calling for her but in a blind panic she quickly slides from alley to alley until getting to low fire escape ladder beneath her apartment. She quickly grabs the lowest rung and yanks herself up the rusting metal, stumbling a bit as she steps onto the platform.
Forcing herself to stay standing she rushes up the next two flights of rusting stairs to get to the window of her apartment. She pushes it open easily and rolls through the small opening to land on the floor of her living room. She breathes deeply taking comfort in her own smell- mint leaves, honey, rain -before sitting up and grabbing the bottom of the window pulling it closed to a crack and breathing out a sigh of relief. It had been so long since she was close to being caught that if it could, her heart would be pounding.
After taking a minute to compose herself, Vivian forces herself to her feet and walks to her bathroom, carefully avoiding the furniture in the dark room, before pushing open the door and flicking on the light. The brightness makes her duck her head before and clinch her sensitive eyes closed before glancing up, blinking her eyes rapidly as they adjust to the lighting, and meeting her own eyes in the mirror.
She cringes at her reflection and mumbles lowly, "Vivian Shekah, 200 year old vampire, 220 year old social recluse."
It has been two days, and Vivian was hungry.
God she was beyond just hungry, it was a hunger like she got when she was first turned, like a burning fire had been sparked inside her throat and was burning her from the inside out. Her fangs throbbed viciously in mouth, as she rolls onto her side eyes facing the living room window. She blinks slowly body feeling like it was being pressed down into the ground by some unknown force. She allows her mouth to fall open and her tongue to swipe over the aching skin of her lips.
The moon leaks through the window, sliding over the room softly calling to her to hunt and the ache in her throat tightens. God, she was starving. The desperation seeming to pour off her in waves as she presses her face slowly into the carpet breathing slowly into it catching the lingering scent of those who lived there before. She cringes a bit at the horrible scent tipping her head away quickly looking out the window again.
She hasn't been living in the city for very long. It couldn't have been more than three months, seeing as she had to constantly keep moving from place to place, hoping no one would notice when she didn't age. She was always hiding from everyone in the small towns she took refuge in before, but here in the city it was so very hard. The humans living together like colonies of ants, smelling of food and prey. They snap and fight together to try and be the best at pointless things. Feeling the pull in her throat tighten her body shifts closer to the window begging her to go, to kill and feed.
Vivian tries to look away from the window but it is almost like her body is possessed as her legs slowly push her to raise, knees pressing into the carpet as she drags herself forward. She reaches up grabbing the edge of the window she pushes her small fingers between the bottom of the window and the ledge pushing it open before crawling out, stumbling to her feet on the metal landing. She sucks in a deep breath searching for the scent that has been clogging her mind for the last two days.
As the scent fills her nose, stale and almost lost, she moves down the fire escape dropping to the cement below with in human grace. Tilting her head to the side she starts moving forward in the dark night, the moon light the only witness as she passes through the alleyways. Her mouth open tasting the air as she moves the scent getting stronger as she goes body seeming to be lost in the night shadows. She pauses at the bottom of a fire escape, the scent's source close as she reaches up climbing the mental silently until she comes to a stop before a cracked window.
She crawls forward into the dark room before her, breathing in hungrily the scent of her prey is so strong in the room that she shakes a bit. Moving forward into the room she tilts her head to the sound listening for the loud pulsing of the humans heart easily pinpointing it moving forward toward a closed door. She pants lowly feeling the ache in her throat harden as she pushes open the old door, counting her luck as it doesn't make a sound. Vivian enters the room slowly feet silent on the carpet and her eyes focused at the sight of the woman sleeping in her bed.
The vampire moves forward into the room falling on her knees next to the head of the bed staring down at the sleeping woman. With no restraint she leans forward and presses her nose into the crook of the other woman's throat, choking a bit at the intoxicating scent that comes off of her. Her hands shake as she reaches up gripping the corner of the bed sheet ignoring how it is pulled to tight, before lightly rubbing her nose against the others neck basking in her scent.
The human shifts in her sleep causing Vivian to tense, not daring to risk waking the other, before relaxing as the sleeping woman settles into sleep again. She pulls back a bit to look at the other noticing the moonlight entering the room from the single window near her head illuminating the human's face. The look of quiet peace is almost enough to make her stop, to turn away and leave the room as quickly and quietly as she entered. Normally she doesn't drink from humans, it was a rule she chose almost 50 years after her turning deciding she couldn't watch some one slowly die as she drained them of their life force. She couldn't handle looking into their faces as they eagerly pleaded with her not to stop.
The thoughts slip away from her as the human lets out a small breath turning her face away giving the vampiric woman total access to her throat, causing another shiver to run down her body. Vivian sucks in a deep breath before leaning down to press her plush lips against the others throat, right over her pulse point, enjoying the feeling of her blood being pushed through out the woman's body. She shakes harder before opening her mouth slowly tasting how the woman smells, as if she was made only of Vivian.
Allowing her teeth to elongate, she shifts closer, pulling gently on the sheet that she has claimed hostage in her hands. The burning in her throat worsens as she allows her fangs to gently press into the skin, eyes slipping closed tensing her jaw to bite, until the feeling of something cold and metal is pressed to her throat.
"What the fuck do you think you're doing?"
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Ramblings: 25 Stats to Contemplate This Christmas (Dec 26)
Merry Christmas everyone! With no games to run down, my gift to you is 25 stats to consider in your fantasy league:
1. 4:14 – That’s the number of power play minutes Mikko Rantanen has averaged per game, leading the entire league. Somehow, the sophomore is only at 50% ownership on Yahoo despite this tremendous opportunity that includes exposure to Nathan MacKinnon at even strength and on the PP. It isn’t as though Rantanen has failed to produce either, as he has 31 points in 35 games including 14 power-play points. The former lottery pick is legit and should be at or near universal ownership. The top line with Rantanen, MacKinnon and Gabriel Landeskog has been one of the league’s best since being put together, don’t sleep on them.
2. 19 – Josh Bailey’s league-leading total of secondary assists, helping him to a tie with Jakub Voracek for the lead in totals assists with 36. Voracek has only seen 13 of his 36 as the secondary type, demonstrating a greater involvement in driving offense. We shouldn’t diminish what Bailey has done too much, but there is little question that he has overachieved skating alongside John Tavares and Anders Lee. There is no questioning the skill and chemistry on this line, but Bailey has typically scored on 60-65% of the goals with him on the ice. This season, his IPP is at 79%. With his usual luck in terms of secondary assists Bailey would have closer to 37 points than his 46 thus far. Those points are banked, but don’t be shocked if the bubble bursts here in the second half.
It’s no leap to suggest that you should sell high on Bailey, but that’s always relative to what you can net in return. Be prepared to simply ride it out with Bailey even if you should only expect ~35 points the rest of the way. For those who aren’t doing the math that would still leave Bailey with ~81 points thanks to the points already banked. That would be a wildly successful season.
3. 38.1% – Mike Green’s primary point percentage, the lowest in the league among players with at least 20 points (Green has 21). This isn’t necessarily an indictment of Green as we expect defensemen to pile up secondary assists. However, since Green is teetering on the edge of fantasy relevance this isn’t necessarily a good omen, especially as the Red Wings’ offense has taken a step backward.
4. 42.3% – Right behind Green on the primary point percentage list is Henrik Sedin, which is much more alarming. The Sedins have seen a resurgence thanks to the emergence of Brock Boeser, and an increase in power play usage. Henrik has always been a particularly assist-heavy player, but relying on secondary assists for over half of his points is not a sustainable strategy. Even if Brock Boeser continues to score at an elite rate the Sedins aren’t always skating with the rookie at even strength to bank on a continuous flood of goals. The puck will be spread out enough on the power play that Sedin won’t continue to be so fortunate.
Another forward with over half of his points coming from secondary assists: Mitch Marner. Not great!
5. 96.0% – James van Riemsdyk’s league-leading primary point percentage (among players with 20 points or more). Just one of his 25 points has been a secondary assist. This makes sense as he is primarily a net-front option, but this is an extreme rate. Last season, a quarter of his 62 points were secondary assists. It is true that the line with Marner, van Riemsdyk and Tyler Bozak has taken a big step back, but even with that considered van Riemsdyk is leaving some meat on the bone.
Other forwards with at least 90% of their scoring coming from primary points: Brian Gibbons, Derick Brassard, Tyler Seguin, Michael Grabner, Brendan Gallagher, Bo Horvat.
6. 22:31 – Aleksander Barkov’s average time on ice, tops among forwards. This is both promising and terrifying. I cannot imagine a player as injury prone as Barkov racking up this many miles and coming out unscathed.
7. 101 – Nikita Kucherov’s league-leading point total in the 2017 calendar year, comprising 78 games. Connor McDavid sits just behind at 100 points.
8. 64 – The number of power-play goals scored by the Lightning in the 2017 calendar year, tops in the league. Pittsburgh (63), Toronto (60), Washington (60), Boston (59), Winnipeg (59), Nashville (58) are the only other teams with more than 50 PPGs this year. No surprise that these have been some of the best teams for fantasy value.
9. 27 – Columbus’ league low for power-play goals in 2017. Technically, this title goes to Vegas (23), but considering the expansion team is half a season behind we’ll give them a pass. How sad is it that Columbus has a 50-game head start and only a four-goal lead?
Other teams with less than 40 PPGs this year: Anaheim (35), Chicago (38), Carolina (39). Columbus deservedly takes a lot of shit for their miserable power play, but how is it that a team with Patrick Kane has been so inept while up a man?
10. 0.812 – Scott Darling’s save percentage while shorthanded this season. His PK save percentage had floated around .900 in his previous two seasons, but has tanked with the normally stout penalty-killing Hurricanes. The only starters who have been worse than Darling are Jacob Markstrom and Cam Talbot. I’m buying low on two of these goalies.
11. 57 – The number of points Justin Williams has scored in the 2017 calendar year, as many as Alexander Radulov, Sasha Barkov, Kyle Turris, Max Pacioretty and Mark Stone. It is really hard to find under-the-radar talent any more, but he’s a great example.
12. 56 – Joe Pavelski’s point total in 78 games this year? He has been hurt and has picked up his scoring of late, but still represents the worst kind of under-performer: the kind you cannot drop. Kudos to those who have hung on and stayed in the running, Pavelski should be better in 2018.
13. 47 – Seth Jones’ point total in the 2017 calendar year. This eclipses Zach Werenski’s mark of 41. Both are studs and there is room for both to be relevant, but Jones is inching ahead as the top dog in Columbus. As teams trend towards the 4F-1D look there is often room for only one defenseman of significance. Jones has gained an upper-hand, which may come as a surprise.
14. 62 – Erik Karlsson’s point total this year, fourth among defensemen. An ankle injury notably cost him some games, but Karlsson has not had the outsized production that has pushed him far above his peers. Brent Burns (65), Victor Hedman (64), John Klingberg (62) and Nick Leddy (57) have all offered similar value at the shallowest skater position.
15. 335 – SOG for Evander Kane this calendar year, second only to Alexander Ovechkin (338). Better yet, Kane has scored on over 10% of those shots. No longer the king of the empty-calorie shot, Kane has been good in every format imaginable. The only question is if Kane can carry this over to his new team, assuming he is traded before the deadline.
16. 5.2% – The shooting percentage over the past year for the new king of the empty-calorie shot: Patrick Sharp.
Other contenders for the crown: Daniel Sedin, Derek Stepan, Boone Jenner, Derick Brassard, Patrice Bergeron. Father Time remains undefeated, but also, what is Jenner doing in here?
17. 6:23 – Tyler Johnson’s PP time in his last game. Johnson has already been on a tear since being bumped into the top six with points in nine straight games, but this becomes more sustainable if he can stick on the Lightning’s top PP unit. Johnson displaced Alex Killorn who has hardly taken advantage of his top unit usage with just seven PPP so far.
18. 16.3% – The highest jump in shooting percentage from last season to this season goes to William Karlsson whose breakout season didn’t come out of left field, it came out of parking lot four zip codes over. His 22.5% shooting is 10th among players with at least 20 games played. There’s little doubt that Karlsson has benefitted from an increase in ice time, and improved linemates, but players don’t typically improve their efficiency in greater minutes. Karlsson’s 16 goals, nearly match his total from the previous three seasons (18) in a third of the games. His shot rate has climbed from just over 1.0 per game to 2.0 per game.
Is it possible that with so few shots we didn’t see enough of a sample to determine Karlsson’s true shooting value during his time in Columbus and Anaheim?
19. 0.930 – John Gibson’s save percentage in the 2017 calendar year, tops among starting goaltenders. With the Ducks getting healthy, watch out for him in 2018. Rounding out the top five: Sergei Bobrovsky (0.926), Jonathan Quick (0.924), Andrei Vasilevskiy (0.924), Pekka Rinne (0.922).
20. 67 – The number of starts made by Frederik Andersen in 2017. No other starter made more appearances (not including playoffs). Not bad for a goalie who has struggled with injuries at times. Rounding out the top five: Cam Talbot (65), Mike Smith (64), Braden Holtby (64), Sergei Bobrovsky (62).
I cannot help but notice that the only overlap between the last two groups is Bobrovsky, the best goalie in fantasy hockey.
21. 59.4% – Pierre-Luc Dubois’ league-leading Corsi-For%, besting even noted stalwarts like Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand. Columbus has stumbled onto something great with Dubois, Artemi Panarin and Josh Anderson, as they boast the ability to tilt the ice at elite levels. Their goal-scoring still leaves something to be desired, but this trio is developing into a legitimate top line. I see plenty of potential for Dubois in the second half. Since getting jumped up the lineup he has 16 points in 25 games, a 53-point pace. Not bad for a rookie.
22. 22 – The number of penalties that Matthew Tkachuk has drawn this season, tops in the league. Other leaders in this stat: Mathew Barzal (20), Brad Marchand (20), Bryan Rust (19), Nico Hischier (18), Nikita Kucherov (18), Nazem Kadri (18), Johnny Gaudreau (17), Nikolaj Ehlers (17), David Pastrnak (17), Kevin Fiala (17).
I continue to believe that penalties drawn, or penalty differential, should be a fantasy stat. It’s trackable and unlike PIM, is actually a positive action. We want to reflect who the best players are, and penalties drawn is another means of doing so.
The best argument I’ve heard against this stat is that it favours the best players too heavily and that categories like hits, PIM and blocked shots are a better way to diversify the player pool. Penalty differential would be particularly taxing to the defenseman position that already struggles for relevance. However, defensemen who avoid taking penalties like Oscar Klefbom could gain value, which would be a net positive.
I also think that sometimes peripheral categories can skew things too far in the wrong direction. Play in a league with PIM and SOG and assist-heavy guys like Alexander Wennberg can be questionable options even when producing at a high rate. Add in FOW and centermen become overvalued. Add in blocked shots and defensemen have too much pull.
My longest-running league is in it’s 11th season. We started with Goals, Assists, PPP, Plus/Minus, PIM, and GWG as categories, but have since evolved to score Goals, Assists, Points, PPP, Plus/Minus, PIM, and SOG.
Game-Winners was an easy category to punt and Shots an easy category to add. We felt the need to bring on Points In lieu of Shutouts (as a fourth goalie category alongside Wins, Save% and GAA) because there was too much of a skew towards goalies. In this setup replacing PIM with penalty differential might be going too far, but I’d argue for simply dropping the points category and going to nine scoring categories. I also think that the category system pales in comparison to a points-based system, but that’s another can of worms.
23. 35 – Jack Roslovic’s AHL leading point total this season accrued in just 31 games. The 20-year-old has crushed the AHL with 83 points 96 games over the past two seasons. It’s only a matter of time before his next cup of coffee with the Jets, although it may require an injury.
Bryan Little has been locked in to a six-year contract extension with all-kinds of trade protection, which doesn’t click in until next season. A ruthless team would consider moving Little now while he has only a modified no-trade clause to escape an extension that won’t look great as the 30-year-old declines. They already have Roslovic on the cusp of filling that #2C spot. Of course, at $5.3M annually, Little’s deal won’t be too harmful if he can at least be a reasonable #3C for the next few years.
Don’t be shocked if Roslovic takes longer to arrive because of Little, but also don’t be shocked if Roslovic reduces Little’s fantasy relevance once he finally arrives. The Jets have ANOTHER good one.
24. 24 -The number of players with at least 10 games played who are averaging a point-per-game pace or better. Last year, there were only seven players sustaining that pace, with nine eventually managing the feat. I’m sure we’ll see a good deal of attrition as the season wears on, but it’s very impressive how many have held out this long.
25. 19.8 – The number of shot attempts per 60 minutes Jesse Puljujarvi has averaged this season, seventh in the league. The rest of the top-10:
Vladimir Tarasenko (24.1)
Brent Burns (23.5)
Jeff Skinner (22.8)
Brendan Gallagher (21.6)
Patrice Bergeron (20.8)
Viktor Arvidsson (20.2)
Max Pacioretty (19.6)
Yohann Auvitu (19.5)
Josh Anderson (19.4)
That’s some elite company. Puljujarvi hasn’t been particularly productive thanks to skating just 13:34 per game with minimal PP time, but the exposure he is getting to Connor McDavid is encouraging. I suspect Puljujarvi’s shot rate will continue to soar if he sticks on McDavid’s wing, as it’s the most lucrative spot in pro hockey. Eventually, Puljujarvi will displace Mark Letestu in the Ovechkin spot on the Oilers’ top PP unit, which will turn him into a 30-goal threat at the very least.
One quibble with Puljujarvi, he’ll have to battle with Kailer Yamamoto for this role. Yamamoto put up similarly gaudy shot rates (19.4 shot attempts per 60) during his nine-game trial. Puljujarvi needs to take advantage of his opportunity to gain a foothold before Yamamoto arrives. Ultimately, Puljujarvi could develop relevance even without exposure to McDavid and makes an excellent bet long-term.
Boxing Day Bonus! 26 – The point total for the league’s leading scorer among players skating fewer than 15 minutes per game. That belongs to Kevin Fiala who has averaged 14:31 per game. His ice time has spiked since Kyle Turris arrived and Nashville’s elite second line was formed. Fiala has 19 points in 20 games since the acquisition of Turris in 15:08 per game.
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New York City: Insider Travel Guide
(CNN)Trying to do the best of New York City in a few days is like announcing you plan to see Africa in a week: it minimizes just how much there is to experience and completely disregards travel times.
Hotels
Luxury
Mandarin Oriental New York
Located atop one of the twin sentries comprising the Time Warner Center, the five-star Mandarin enjoys unobstructed views through its floor-to-ceiling windows of the Hudson River, Central Park, Brooklyn and Portugal (at least, it feels that way).
Its best of New York City position in bustling Columbus Circle centralizes it near perfectly — just north of Midtown — with subways linking to virtually every part of the city.
Unlike in much of the rest of the United States, there’s no shame in walking in New York.
Plenty of attractions are within an easy stroll, including Lincoln Center, Broadway, Hell’s Kitchen and Times Square.
Crosby Street Hotel
With high ceilings and full length windows reflective of SoHo’s history as a factory cum gallery district, Hotelier Firmdale’s only non-London property is an all-new structure built in the neighborhood’s classic style, its 86 guest rooms each receiving their own individual designs.
As charming as the cobblestone street out front, the hotel has an outdoor sculpture garden, all-day afternoon tea service with cakes and sandwiches in the bar and a 100-seat screening room with a Sunday Night Film Club open to all.
The neighborhood’s overall lower profile makes the Crosby’s upper floors all the more recommended.
Mid-range
The Standard, High Line
If aesthetics are a requisite, The Standard, High Line — situated directly above a stretch of old elevated railway now known as High Line Park — is a best of New York City landmark in Manhattan’s most model-intensive neighborhood.
The decor is mod and the vibe is downtown, so go ahead and pack your shiniest shirts for the clubs, bars and bistros of the surrounding Meatpacking District.
Among the property’s greatest draws are its views.
Of models, yes, but also of the Hudson River, downtown and, to a lesser extent, New Jersey.
Ensure you see as much as possible by getting a room ending in 24, which will net you two walls of windows.
The Bowery Hotel
Two hundred years ago, the Bowery was a poor man’s Broadway. By the turn of the last century, it was just poor.
But those familiar just 10 years ago with this erstwhile skid row would hardly recognize it today, and the Bowery Hotel embodies its new, loftier status.
Lying right at the intersection of hip and elegant, the hotel is appointed with luxurious old world refinements and dcor while retaining a vibe that’s lively and modern.
Factory windows offer 360-degrees of the city, while several rooms have their own terraces, complete with outdoor showers.
Budget
The Pod Hotel
The only way you can stay overnight in Manhattan for less than one of the single rooms in this Midtown budgetier is by staying with family in the area.
And if you stay at the Pod’s 51st Street location, in some cases it, too, requires you to share a bathroom with people you may not like.
But rooms at the newer Murray Hill location all feature private bathrooms, along with free Wi-Fi and an emphasis on communal space typified by the Pod 39’s rooftop lounge.
The hotel’s perks are few and the rooms are barely bigger than the beds, but if you want hip and affordable, you won’t likely do better.
Insider tips for more American cities: Chicago | Los Angeles | San Francisco
Dining
Per Se
With its modern decor and swanky address at the tip of Central Park, Per Se strives to turn your dinner into “a journey that returns you to sources of pleasure you may have forgotten,” which would seem pretentious if that wasn’t precisely what it accomplishes with nearly every dish.
Hailed by food critics ever since its doors opened, Per Se is the brainchild of Thomas Keller, the only American chef to have been awarded three Michelin stars for two different restaurants (including Per Se).
Per Se is the East Coast version of his flagship French Laundry in California, having since far surpassed it on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list.
While the chef’s tasting menu changes daily, there are mainstays, such as Keller’s well-known twist on “oysters and pearls,” which combines succulent oysters, tapioca pearls and caviar.
Keens Steakhouse
Americans tend to value massive portions; fine dining is inevitably about small but perfect items.
Keens earns best of New York City marks by seeking to combine the best of both philosophies.
While up against worthy steakhouse competitors including Peter Luger, Old Homestead and The Strip House, Keens has an edge by serving the city’s top mutton chop.
The chop comes flanked by pieces of lamb bacon.
Keens also has the edge in decor. Its ceiling is stippled with thousands of clay pipes that represent an erstwhile club membership including American icons Theodore Roosevelt, Babe Ruth and General Douglas MacArthur.
Atera
With novelty as a guiding, but not solitary, principle, chef Matthew Lightner is dazzling diners at his tiny new tasting room in Tribeca.
Foraged ingredients and innovative ideas drive a constantly changing 22-course menu that’s designed as much to stir emotions as it is taste buds, which can go unrewarded in any given moment in favor of a gastro-narrative revelation four courses later.
Modernist creations like gin-cured scallops, cedar-oil-drizzled lamb and a baguette colored with squid ink to resemble a razor clam are served on flat rocks, hay and driftwood in the naturist style pioneered in Portland, OR.
The award of two stars by Michelin isn’t doing anything to ease accessibility to an already modest space, so reservations are vital.
Osteria Morini
“New York” magazine recently called Michael White “the city’s hottest Italian chef,” and “Esquire” put his bustling new Osteria Morini on its list of best restaurants in the city.
So why shouldn’t we put it on our best of New York City list?
White has earned praise with his knack for taking home-style fare and providing a gourmet twist, like tortellini with a duck-liver cream sauce.
Of course, man cannot live on food alone, and Osteria Morini’s cocktails are also superb.
The Dutch
Dress code at The Dutch?
“This ain’t no country club, but it’s no ball game either,” states the American bar/restaurant’s website.
“This is New York. Do what you feel, but keep it fresh.”
That casual but earnest logic lies at the heart of Andrew Carmellini’s latest offering in New York.
Inspired by a mix of cafs, country inns and seaside shacks, diners get reinterpretations of American classics like the good old porterhouse steak and fried chicken served with biscuits.
Just remember to look up from your food occasionally, or else you’ll miss the celebrities meandering through the dining room.
Caf Nougatine
Jean-Georges Vongerichten is one of the most celebrated chefs in New York.
If you want to experience his creations at reasonable prices, try the lunch deal at Jean-Georges’ Caf Nougatine in the Trump Building.
The French haute cuisine goes for around $25 every lunch hour at the acclaimed restaurant.
Miss Lily’s Cakes
While the name promises cakes, this hip diner in downtown Manhattan serves remarkable Jamaican dishes.
The most revered item at this best of New York City diner is jerk chicken.
The decor is simple, but you won’t care as you watch leggy servers carry hearty platefuls of curry goat, oxtail stew and, yes, even cakes if you so desire.
Warning to anyone looking for a relaxed island vibe: the atmosphere of Miss Lily’s tends to get clubbier and the music louder as the night goes on.
Joe’s Pizza
For a best of New York City experience, there’s no more quintessential fast food than a slice of pizza.
Joe’s modest storefront unloads exceptional slices to an uninterrupted queue of patrons nearly 20 hours of every day.
Stand in line, point, pay, apply Parmesan and chili flakes from the public shakers, fold, eat and hustle back to work.
Hey, now you’re practically a local.
Best rooftop and sky-high restaurants in the world
Nightlife
Campbell Apartment
Step back in time and behold fully restored glasswork, furnishings and architectural appointments of a cavernous lounge that was once the massive private office of 1920s magnate John W. Campbell.
Now a swanky club, Campbell Apartment evokes images reminiscent of the more elegant side of “The Great Gatsby.”
(For Gatsby-esque smoking ruins, you’ll have to look elsewhere.)
Having a cocktail amid such elegance comes at a price: no jeans or sneakers allowed.
The Breslin Bar & Dining Room
In the lobby of the Ace Hotel, The Breslin is separated into small rooms for eating, drinking and generally feeling good about rubbing shoulders with trendy New Yorkers.
There’s a good chance you won’t even get a table in the bar, which has dark wood, antique pendant light fixtures and the feel of a private British club — but the buzz and people scenery will make up for it.
The Breslin’s lamb burger draws raves from regulars.
The dining room is the place for pork in all its marrow and other modern guises.
The Breslin Bar & Dining Room, 16 W. 29th St. (between Broadway and Fifth Avenue); +1 212 679 1939
GoldBar
Anyone who feels every New York nightclub is the same should hit this NoLita (North of Little Italy) establishment with an interior every bit as eclectic as its playlist, which includes new wave, rap, rock and pop.
How eclectic? For one, the entire space is swathed in gold.
For another, it includes a wall studded with gilded human skulls. (That’s right, skulls.)
Be advised that while you’ll likely want to capture an evening here for posterity — it’s pricy enough that it’s less a night out than an investment — photography is not permitted.
McSorley’s Old Ale House
As at Campbell Apartment, you feel like you’re stepping back in time. McSorley’s, however, is the sort of place that would welcome those traveling steerage as warmly as those in first class.
Rough-hewn wood floors, workmanlike bartenders and assorted memorabilia said to have been in the building since 1910 make you feel like you’re in a simpler age.
There are only two options for sale here: dark beer and light beer, the latter being called “light” not for its caloric value, but because it’s not the former.
Since beers here must be ordered in pairs, try one of each.
ReVision Lounge
ReVision’s theme is reclamation, with a front room furnished in bar stools made of recycled snow skis and a countertop of shredded, outdated U.S. currency glazed to a smooth finish.
But it’s the best of New York City back room you’ll remember.
Filled with couches fashioned from old coffins, porcelain bath tubs and the back ends of 1970s American luxury cars, it’s got a DJ table formed by the front end of an old Cadillac.
If you get in early in the evening you might be able to dodge the often unbearable late crowds.
Just be sure not to show up wearing real fur. (Seriously.)
World’s best cities for nightlife (and yeah, NYC is on the list)
Shopping/Attractions
Bergdorf Goodman department store
All high-fashion roads lead to this city institution, where the merchandise, layout and presentation are first-class, the staff is renowned for obsessive courteousness and historic New York department store shopping is still a dignified experience.
Bergdorf’s offers some impressive sales, though half off a US$1,000 sweater is still 500 bucks
BG’s four on-site restaurants are surprisingly good, a find for anyone who normally wouldn’t dream of eating in a store.
Century 21
For expensive stuff cheap and cheap stuff even cheaper, there’s no more beloved and simultaneously bemoaned retailer in New York City than Century 21.
Shoppers ascend C21’s five floors, slipping through the hordes searching for deeply discounted designer fashions, mainstream basics and mall-brand overstock, as well as items including luggage, watches and handbags.
If you’re willing to brave masses of consumers, C21 probably has a version of whatever clothing item you desire at every level of the economic spectrum, whether it’s a $1,200 coat for $400 or a $25 pack of socks for $10.
B&H Photo Video
B&H does a healthy amount of Internet business, making it known to many planet-wide, but the brick-and-mortar version is a hive of retail wonderment that really must be observed offline.
Thousands of daily customers seek counsel and competitive prices from hundreds of employees on photo and video cameras, computers, audio and lighting equipment, TVs, portable media devices and all of their associated accessories.
It’s worth it alone to buy something just to watch it travel via the store’s overhead rail delivery system.
National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Finally opened on September 12, 2011, after years of legal and architectural haggling, the 9/11 Memorial replaces the footprints of the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers with reflecting pools fed by gargantuan ground-level waterfalls.
While the scale is massive, the aesthetic is in many ways quite personal, making the experience imposing yet touching all at once.
As long as construction continues around the site, visits require advance reservations; go to the official site to secure your visit time.
Top of The Rock observation deck
Like Meg Ryan and King Kong, you may be filled with a yen to rush to the top of the Empire State Building.
Unfortunately, this is an impulse shared by a zillion or so other tourists.
Instead, check out the observation deck at Rockefeller Center, which offers 360-degree views that are nearly as stunning and can be seen after a fraction of the wait.
Central Park
The expanse of green in the middle of Manhattan is your chance to do everything from seeing Shakespeare in the Park (there’s also a Marionette Theater at the Swedish Cottage if your little ones aren’t ready for Titus Andronicus) to challenging old Italian men to a game of bocce on the green near Sheep’s Meadow.
In the summer, Conservatory Water is filled with model boats. For even bigger kids, rental rowboats are available.
In winter, you can ice-skate at either Wollman or Lasker Rink.
Seasonal attractions
Visitors might experience completely different New Yorks depending on the time of year.
Here are some seasonal suggestions.
Winter
Madison Square Garden
Hopes are high again at the Garden as the resurgent New York Knicks NBA franchise has emerged from one of the bleaker stretches in its proud history to contention for the top seed in the Eastern Conference.
If you prefer your athletes with fewer teeth, the Garden is also home to the New York Rangers, one of six original members of the National Hockey League.
Citi Pond at Bryant Park
Ice-skating at Rockefeller Center may be the most iconic activity available for any winter visit to New York City.
Unfortunately, every other visitor willing to lace on skates knows this, as well.
If lines prove too horrific, consider heading south to the seasonal Citi Pond at Bryant Park.
The park also fills up in winter with holiday shops to amuse those who choose to stay off the ice.
Admission free, skate rentals US$14.
Spring
Hudson River Park
New York’s west side waterfront has undergone wholesale improvements over the last decade, including the installation of an eight-kilometer bike and walking path, tennis and basketball courts, soccer fields, batting cages, playgrounds, skate park, trapeze school, open lawns and free kayaking at Piers 96, 40 and 72nd Street.
Yes, that’s right, trapeze school.
Good burgers and beers can be found at the Frying Pan, a wartime barge turned bar and grill at 26th Street.
Yankee Stadium
From April through September, the Bronx comes alive for the most successful sports franchise in North America, which supplies New York with a good chunk of its swagger — it’s easier to call yourself “the greatest city in the world” when you’ve won 27 World Series, not to mention those two by the Mets.
Take the B, D or 4 subway trains to 161st Street for a game, including time to stroll the team’s new billion-dollar stadium.
Beware purchasing tickets from street scalpers: counterfeiters here are among the best in the world.
Summer
Brooklyn Bridge
Ironically, one of the best ways to appreciate Manhattan is to leave it.
Get off the F train at York Street in Brooklyn and enjoy the two-and-a-half kilometer walk back to the city via its most historic gateway, enjoying a remarkable view of Manhattan that will make you feel like you’re living a particularly charming moment from a Woody Allen film.
Before making the journey, spend some time in Brooklyn.
Check out Brooklyn’s bridge-side DUMBO neighborhood, which offers a waterfront view and features warehouses converted into an array of residences and businesses.
If you enjoy waiting in line for food that you eat with your hands, check out Grimaldi’s, one of New York’s best-rated brick oven pizzas.
Fall
The Cloisters
If you’re looking for a museum missed by most tourists (and a surprising number of New Yorkers), make time for the Cloisters, located in Fort Tryon Park.
A reassembled French building houses the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s medieval Europe collection, but for many visitors the best part of the visit occurs when you step outside and see gardens patterned faithfully after medieval designs for landscaping and architecture.
You’ll be going far further north than most visitors, but when you witness an attraction unlike anything else in New York you’ll know it’s worth the journey.
source http://allofbeer.com/2017/12/12/new-york-city-insider-travel-guide/
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New York City: Insider Travel Guide
(CNN)Trying to do the best of New York City in a few days is like announcing you plan to see Africa in a week: it minimizes just how much there is to experience and completely disregards travel times.
Hotels
Luxury
Mandarin Oriental New York
Located atop one of the twin sentries comprising the Time Warner Center, the five-star Mandarin enjoys unobstructed views through its floor-to-ceiling windows of the Hudson River, Central Park, Brooklyn and Portugal (at least, it feels that way).
Its best of New York City position in bustling Columbus Circle centralizes it near perfectly — just north of Midtown — with subways linking to virtually every part of the city.
Unlike in much of the rest of the United States, there’s no shame in walking in New York.
Plenty of attractions are within an easy stroll, including Lincoln Center, Broadway, Hell’s Kitchen and Times Square.
Crosby Street Hotel
With high ceilings and full length windows reflective of SoHo’s history as a factory cum gallery district, Hotelier Firmdale’s only non-London property is an all-new structure built in the neighborhood’s classic style, its 86 guest rooms each receiving their own individual designs.
As charming as the cobblestone street out front, the hotel has an outdoor sculpture garden, all-day afternoon tea service with cakes and sandwiches in the bar and a 100-seat screening room with a Sunday Night Film Club open to all.
The neighborhood’s overall lower profile makes the Crosby’s upper floors all the more recommended.
Mid-range
The Standard, High Line
If aesthetics are a requisite, The Standard, High Line — situated directly above a stretch of old elevated railway now known as High Line Park — is a best of New York City landmark in Manhattan’s most model-intensive neighborhood.
The decor is mod and the vibe is downtown, so go ahead and pack your shiniest shirts for the clubs, bars and bistros of the surrounding Meatpacking District.
Among the property’s greatest draws are its views.
Of models, yes, but also of the Hudson River, downtown and, to a lesser extent, New Jersey.
Ensure you see as much as possible by getting a room ending in 24, which will net you two walls of windows.
The Bowery Hotel
Two hundred years ago, the Bowery was a poor man’s Broadway. By the turn of the last century, it was just poor.
But those familiar just 10 years ago with this erstwhile skid row would hardly recognize it today, and the Bowery Hotel embodies its new, loftier status.
Lying right at the intersection of hip and elegant, the hotel is appointed with luxurious old world refinements and dcor while retaining a vibe that’s lively and modern.
Factory windows offer 360-degrees of the city, while several rooms have their own terraces, complete with outdoor showers.
Budget
The Pod Hotel
The only way you can stay overnight in Manhattan for less than one of the single rooms in this Midtown budgetier is by staying with family in the area.
And if you stay at the Pod’s 51st Street location, in some cases it, too, requires you to share a bathroom with people you may not like.
But rooms at the newer Murray Hill location all feature private bathrooms, along with free Wi-Fi and an emphasis on communal space typified by the Pod 39’s rooftop lounge.
The hotel’s perks are few and the rooms are barely bigger than the beds, but if you want hip and affordable, you won’t likely do better.
Insider tips for more American cities: Chicago | Los Angeles | San Francisco
Dining
Per Se
With its modern decor and swanky address at the tip of Central Park, Per Se strives to turn your dinner into “a journey that returns you to sources of pleasure you may have forgotten,” which would seem pretentious if that wasn’t precisely what it accomplishes with nearly every dish.
Hailed by food critics ever since its doors opened, Per Se is the brainchild of Thomas Keller, the only American chef to have been awarded three Michelin stars for two different restaurants (including Per Se).
Per Se is the East Coast version of his flagship French Laundry in California, having since far surpassed it on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list.
While the chef’s tasting menu changes daily, there are mainstays, such as Keller’s well-known twist on “oysters and pearls,” which combines succulent oysters, tapioca pearls and caviar.
Keens Steakhouse
Americans tend to value massive portions; fine dining is inevitably about small but perfect items.
Keens earns best of New York City marks by seeking to combine the best of both philosophies.
While up against worthy steakhouse competitors including Peter Luger, Old Homestead and The Strip House, Keens has an edge by serving the city’s top mutton chop.
The chop comes flanked by pieces of lamb bacon.
Keens also has the edge in decor. Its ceiling is stippled with thousands of clay pipes that represent an erstwhile club membership including American icons Theodore Roosevelt, Babe Ruth and General Douglas MacArthur.
Atera
With novelty as a guiding, but not solitary, principle, chef Matthew Lightner is dazzling diners at his tiny new tasting room in Tribeca.
Foraged ingredients and innovative ideas drive a constantly changing 22-course menu that’s designed as much to stir emotions as it is taste buds, which can go unrewarded in any given moment in favor of a gastro-narrative revelation four courses later.
Modernist creations like gin-cured scallops, cedar-oil-drizzled lamb and a baguette colored with squid ink to resemble a razor clam are served on flat rocks, hay and driftwood in the naturist style pioneered in Portland, OR.
The award of two stars by Michelin isn’t doing anything to ease accessibility to an already modest space, so reservations are vital.
Osteria Morini
“New York” magazine recently called Michael White “the city’s hottest Italian chef,” and “Esquire” put his bustling new Osteria Morini on its list of best restaurants in the city.
So why shouldn’t we put it on our best of New York City list?
White has earned praise with his knack for taking home-style fare and providing a gourmet twist, like tortellini with a duck-liver cream sauce.
Of course, man cannot live on food alone, and Osteria Morini’s cocktails are also superb.
The Dutch
Dress code at The Dutch?
“This ain’t no country club, but it’s no ball game either,” states the American bar/restaurant’s website.
“This is New York. Do what you feel, but keep it fresh.”
That casual but earnest logic lies at the heart of Andrew Carmellini’s latest offering in New York.
Inspired by a mix of cafs, country inns and seaside shacks, diners get reinterpretations of American classics like the good old porterhouse steak and fried chicken served with biscuits.
Just remember to look up from your food occasionally, or else you’ll miss the celebrities meandering through the dining room.
Caf Nougatine
Jean-Georges Vongerichten is one of the most celebrated chefs in New York.
If you want to experience his creations at reasonable prices, try the lunch deal at Jean-Georges’ Caf Nougatine in the Trump Building.
The French haute cuisine goes for around $25 every lunch hour at the acclaimed restaurant.
Miss Lily’s Cakes
While the name promises cakes, this hip diner in downtown Manhattan serves remarkable Jamaican dishes.
The most revered item at this best of New York City diner is jerk chicken.
The decor is simple, but you won’t care as you watch leggy servers carry hearty platefuls of curry goat, oxtail stew and, yes, even cakes if you so desire.
Warning to anyone looking for a relaxed island vibe: the atmosphere of Miss Lily’s tends to get clubbier and the music louder as the night goes on.
Joe’s Pizza
For a best of New York City experience, there’s no more quintessential fast food than a slice of pizza.
Joe’s modest storefront unloads exceptional slices to an uninterrupted queue of patrons nearly 20 hours of every day.
Stand in line, point, pay, apply Parmesan and chili flakes from the public shakers, fold, eat and hustle back to work.
Hey, now you’re practically a local.
Best rooftop and sky-high restaurants in the world
Nightlife
Campbell Apartment
Step back in time and behold fully restored glasswork, furnishings and architectural appointments of a cavernous lounge that was once the massive private office of 1920s magnate John W. Campbell.
Now a swanky club, Campbell Apartment evokes images reminiscent of the more elegant side of “The Great Gatsby.”
(For Gatsby-esque smoking ruins, you’ll have to look elsewhere.)
Having a cocktail amid such elegance comes at a price: no jeans or sneakers allowed.
The Breslin Bar & Dining Room
In the lobby of the Ace Hotel, The Breslin is separated into small rooms for eating, drinking and generally feeling good about rubbing shoulders with trendy New Yorkers.
There’s a good chance you won’t even get a table in the bar, which has dark wood, antique pendant light fixtures and the feel of a private British club — but the buzz and people scenery will make up for it.
The Breslin’s lamb burger draws raves from regulars.
The dining room is the place for pork in all its marrow and other modern guises.
The Breslin Bar & Dining Room, 16 W. 29th St. (between Broadway and Fifth Avenue); +1 212 679 1939
GoldBar
Anyone who feels every New York nightclub is the same should hit this NoLita (North of Little Italy) establishment with an interior every bit as eclectic as its playlist, which includes new wave, rap, rock and pop.
How eclectic? For one, the entire space is swathed in gold.
For another, it includes a wall studded with gilded human skulls. (That’s right, skulls.)
Be advised that while you’ll likely want to capture an evening here for posterity — it’s pricy enough that it’s less a night out than an investment — photography is not permitted.
McSorley’s Old Ale House
As at Campbell Apartment, you feel like you’re stepping back in time. McSorley’s, however, is the sort of place that would welcome those traveling steerage as warmly as those in first class.
Rough-hewn wood floors, workmanlike bartenders and assorted memorabilia said to have been in the building since 1910 make you feel like you’re in a simpler age.
There are only two options for sale here: dark beer and light beer, the latter being called “light” not for its caloric value, but because it’s not the former.
Since beers here must be ordered in pairs, try one of each.
ReVision Lounge
ReVision’s theme is reclamation, with a front room furnished in bar stools made of recycled snow skis and a countertop of shredded, outdated U.S. currency glazed to a smooth finish.
But it’s the best of New York City back room you’ll remember.
Filled with couches fashioned from old coffins, porcelain bath tubs and the back ends of 1970s American luxury cars, it’s got a DJ table formed by the front end of an old Cadillac.
If you get in early in the evening you might be able to dodge the often unbearable late crowds.
Just be sure not to show up wearing real fur. (Seriously.)
World’s best cities for nightlife (and yeah, NYC is on the list)
Shopping/Attractions
Bergdorf Goodman department store
All high-fashion roads lead to this city institution, where the merchandise, layout and presentation are first-class, the staff is renowned for obsessive courteousness and historic New York department store shopping is still a dignified experience.
Bergdorf’s offers some impressive sales, though half off a US$1,000 sweater is still 500 bucks
BG’s four on-site restaurants are surprisingly good, a find for anyone who normally wouldn’t dream of eating in a store.
Century 21
For expensive stuff cheap and cheap stuff even cheaper, there’s no more beloved and simultaneously bemoaned retailer in New York City than Century 21.
Shoppers ascend C21’s five floors, slipping through the hordes searching for deeply discounted designer fashions, mainstream basics and mall-brand overstock, as well as items including luggage, watches and handbags.
If you’re willing to brave masses of consumers, C21 probably has a version of whatever clothing item you desire at every level of the economic spectrum, whether it’s a $1,200 coat for $400 or a $25 pack of socks for $10.
B&H Photo Video
B&H does a healthy amount of Internet business, making it known to many planet-wide, but the brick-and-mortar version is a hive of retail wonderment that really must be observed offline.
Thousands of daily customers seek counsel and competitive prices from hundreds of employees on photo and video cameras, computers, audio and lighting equipment, TVs, portable media devices and all of their associated accessories.
It’s worth it alone to buy something just to watch it travel via the store’s overhead rail delivery system.
National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Finally opened on September 12, 2011, after years of legal and architectural haggling, the 9/11 Memorial replaces the footprints of the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers with reflecting pools fed by gargantuan ground-level waterfalls.
While the scale is massive, the aesthetic is in many ways quite personal, making the experience imposing yet touching all at once.
As long as construction continues around the site, visits require advance reservations; go to the official site to secure your visit time.
Top of The Rock observation deck
Like Meg Ryan and King Kong, you may be filled with a yen to rush to the top of the Empire State Building.
Unfortunately, this is an impulse shared by a zillion or so other tourists.
Instead, check out the observation deck at Rockefeller Center, which offers 360-degree views that are nearly as stunning and can be seen after a fraction of the wait.
Central Park
The expanse of green in the middle of Manhattan is your chance to do everything from seeing Shakespeare in the Park (there’s also a Marionette Theater at the Swedish Cottage if your little ones aren’t ready for Titus Andronicus) to challenging old Italian men to a game of bocce on the green near Sheep’s Meadow.
In the summer, Conservatory Water is filled with model boats. For even bigger kids, rental rowboats are available.
In winter, you can ice-skate at either Wollman or Lasker Rink.
Seasonal attractions
Visitors might experience completely different New Yorks depending on the time of year.
Here are some seasonal suggestions.
Winter
Madison Square Garden
Hopes are high again at the Garden as the resurgent New York Knicks NBA franchise has emerged from one of the bleaker stretches in its proud history to contention for the top seed in the Eastern Conference.
If you prefer your athletes with fewer teeth, the Garden is also home to the New York Rangers, one of six original members of the National Hockey League.
Citi Pond at Bryant Park
Ice-skating at Rockefeller Center may be the most iconic activity available for any winter visit to New York City.
Unfortunately, every other visitor willing to lace on skates knows this, as well.
If lines prove too horrific, consider heading south to the seasonal Citi Pond at Bryant Park.
The park also fills up in winter with holiday shops to amuse those who choose to stay off the ice.
Admission free, skate rentals US$14.
Spring
Hudson River Park
New York’s west side waterfront has undergone wholesale improvements over the last decade, including the installation of an eight-kilometer bike and walking path, tennis and basketball courts, soccer fields, batting cages, playgrounds, skate park, trapeze school, open lawns and free kayaking at Piers 96, 40 and 72nd Street.
Yes, that’s right, trapeze school.
Good burgers and beers can be found at the Frying Pan, a wartime barge turned bar and grill at 26th Street.
Yankee Stadium
From April through September, the Bronx comes alive for the most successful sports franchise in North America, which supplies New York with a good chunk of its swagger — it’s easier to call yourself “the greatest city in the world” when you’ve won 27 World Series, not to mention those two by the Mets.
Take the B, D or 4 subway trains to 161st Street for a game, including time to stroll the team’s new billion-dollar stadium.
Beware purchasing tickets from street scalpers: counterfeiters here are among the best in the world.
Summer
Brooklyn Bridge
Ironically, one of the best ways to appreciate Manhattan is to leave it.
Get off the F train at York Street in Brooklyn and enjoy the two-and-a-half kilometer walk back to the city via its most historic gateway, enjoying a remarkable view of Manhattan that will make you feel like you’re living a particularly charming moment from a Woody Allen film.
Before making the journey, spend some time in Brooklyn.
Check out Brooklyn’s bridge-side DUMBO neighborhood, which offers a waterfront view and features warehouses converted into an array of residences and businesses.
If you enjoy waiting in line for food that you eat with your hands, check out Grimaldi’s, one of New York’s best-rated brick oven pizzas.
Fall
The Cloisters
If you’re looking for a museum missed by most tourists (and a surprising number of New Yorkers), make time for the Cloisters, located in Fort Tryon Park.
A reassembled French building houses the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s medieval Europe collection, but for many visitors the best part of the visit occurs when you step outside and see gardens patterned faithfully after medieval designs for landscaping and architecture.
You’ll be going far further north than most visitors, but when you witness an attraction unlike anything else in New York you’ll know it’s worth the journey.
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New York City: Insider Travel Guide
(CNN)Trying to do the best of New York City in a few days is like announcing you plan to see Africa in a week: it minimizes just how much there is to experience and completely disregards travel times.
Hotels
Luxury
Mandarin Oriental New York
Located atop one of the twin sentries comprising the Time Warner Center, the five-star Mandarin enjoys unobstructed views through its floor-to-ceiling windows of the Hudson River, Central Park, Brooklyn and Portugal (at least, it feels that way).
Its best of New York City position in bustling Columbus Circle centralizes it near perfectly — just north of Midtown — with subways linking to virtually every part of the city.
Unlike in much of the rest of the United States, there’s no shame in walking in New York.
Plenty of attractions are within an easy stroll, including Lincoln Center, Broadway, Hell’s Kitchen and Times Square.
Crosby Street Hotel
With high ceilings and full length windows reflective of SoHo’s history as a factory cum gallery district, Hotelier Firmdale’s only non-London property is an all-new structure built in the neighborhood’s classic style, its 86 guest rooms each receiving their own individual designs.
As charming as the cobblestone street out front, the hotel has an outdoor sculpture garden, all-day afternoon tea service with cakes and sandwiches in the bar and a 100-seat screening room with a Sunday Night Film Club open to all.
The neighborhood’s overall lower profile makes the Crosby’s upper floors all the more recommended.
Mid-range
The Standard, High Line
If aesthetics are a requisite, The Standard, High Line — situated directly above a stretch of old elevated railway now known as High Line Park — is a best of New York City landmark in Manhattan’s most model-intensive neighborhood.
The decor is mod and the vibe is downtown, so go ahead and pack your shiniest shirts for the clubs, bars and bistros of the surrounding Meatpacking District.
Among the property’s greatest draws are its views.
Of models, yes, but also of the Hudson River, downtown and, to a lesser extent, New Jersey.
Ensure you see as much as possible by getting a room ending in 24, which will net you two walls of windows.
The Bowery Hotel
Two hundred years ago, the Bowery was a poor man’s Broadway. By the turn of the last century, it was just poor.
But those familiar just 10 years ago with this erstwhile skid row would hardly recognize it today, and the Bowery Hotel embodies its new, loftier status.
Lying right at the intersection of hip and elegant, the hotel is appointed with luxurious old world refinements and dcor while retaining a vibe that’s lively and modern.
Factory windows offer 360-degrees of the city, while several rooms have their own terraces, complete with outdoor showers.
Budget
The Pod Hotel
The only way you can stay overnight in Manhattan for less than one of the single rooms in this Midtown budgetier is by staying with family in the area.
And if you stay at the Pod’s 51st Street location, in some cases it, too, requires you to share a bathroom with people you may not like.
But rooms at the newer Murray Hill location all feature private bathrooms, along with free Wi-Fi and an emphasis on communal space typified by the Pod 39’s rooftop lounge.
The hotel’s perks are few and the rooms are barely bigger than the beds, but if you want hip and affordable, you won’t likely do better.
Insider tips for more American cities: Chicago | Los Angeles | San Francisco
Dining
Per Se
With its modern decor and swanky address at the tip of Central Park, Per Se strives to turn your dinner into “a journey that returns you to sources of pleasure you may have forgotten,” which would seem pretentious if that wasn’t precisely what it accomplishes with nearly every dish.
Hailed by food critics ever since its doors opened, Per Se is the brainchild of Thomas Keller, the only American chef to have been awarded three Michelin stars for two different restaurants (including Per Se).
Per Se is the East Coast version of his flagship French Laundry in California, having since far surpassed it on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list.
While the chef’s tasting menu changes daily, there are mainstays, such as Keller’s well-known twist on “oysters and pearls,” which combines succulent oysters, tapioca pearls and caviar.
Keens Steakhouse
Americans tend to value massive portions; fine dining is inevitably about small but perfect items.
Keens earns best of New York City marks by seeking to combine the best of both philosophies.
While up against worthy steakhouse competitors including Peter Luger, Old Homestead and The Strip House, Keens has an edge by serving the city’s top mutton chop.
The chop comes flanked by pieces of lamb bacon.
Keens also has the edge in decor. Its ceiling is stippled with thousands of clay pipes that represent an erstwhile club membership including American icons Theodore Roosevelt, Babe Ruth and General Douglas MacArthur.
Atera
With novelty as a guiding, but not solitary, principle, chef Matthew Lightner is dazzling diners at his tiny new tasting room in Tribeca.
Foraged ingredients and innovative ideas drive a constantly changing 22-course menu that’s designed as much to stir emotions as it is taste buds, which can go unrewarded in any given moment in favor of a gastro-narrative revelation four courses later.
Modernist creations like gin-cured scallops, cedar-oil-drizzled lamb and a baguette colored with squid ink to resemble a razor clam are served on flat rocks, hay and driftwood in the naturist style pioneered in Portland, OR.
The award of two stars by Michelin isn’t doing anything to ease accessibility to an already modest space, so reservations are vital.
Osteria Morini
“New York” magazine recently called Michael White “the city’s hottest Italian chef,” and “Esquire” put his bustling new Osteria Morini on its list of best restaurants in the city.
So why shouldn’t we put it on our best of New York City list?
White has earned praise with his knack for taking home-style fare and providing a gourmet twist, like tortellini with a duck-liver cream sauce.
Of course, man cannot live on food alone, and Osteria Morini’s cocktails are also superb.
The Dutch
Dress code at The Dutch?
“This ain’t no country club, but it’s no ball game either,” states the American bar/restaurant’s website.
“This is New York. Do what you feel, but keep it fresh.”
That casual but earnest logic lies at the heart of Andrew Carmellini’s latest offering in New York.
Inspired by a mix of cafs, country inns and seaside shacks, diners get reinterpretations of American classics like the good old porterhouse steak and fried chicken served with biscuits.
Just remember to look up from your food occasionally, or else you’ll miss the celebrities meandering through the dining room.
Caf Nougatine
Jean-Georges Vongerichten is one of the most celebrated chefs in New York.
If you want to experience his creations at reasonable prices, try the lunch deal at Jean-Georges’ Caf Nougatine in the Trump Building.
The French haute cuisine goes for around $25 every lunch hour at the acclaimed restaurant.
Miss Lily’s Cakes
While the name promises cakes, this hip diner in downtown Manhattan serves remarkable Jamaican dishes.
The most revered item at this best of New York City diner is jerk chicken.
The decor is simple, but you won’t care as you watch leggy servers carry hearty platefuls of curry goat, oxtail stew and, yes, even cakes if you so desire.
Warning to anyone looking for a relaxed island vibe: the atmosphere of Miss Lily’s tends to get clubbier and the music louder as the night goes on.
Joe’s Pizza
For a best of New York City experience, there’s no more quintessential fast food than a slice of pizza.
Joe’s modest storefront unloads exceptional slices to an uninterrupted queue of patrons nearly 20 hours of every day.
Stand in line, point, pay, apply Parmesan and chili flakes from the public shakers, fold, eat and hustle back to work.
Hey, now you’re practically a local.
Best rooftop and sky-high restaurants in the world
Nightlife
Campbell Apartment
Step back in time and behold fully restored glasswork, furnishings and architectural appointments of a cavernous lounge that was once the massive private office of 1920s magnate John W. Campbell.
Now a swanky club, Campbell Apartment evokes images reminiscent of the more elegant side of “The Great Gatsby.”
(For Gatsby-esque smoking ruins, you’ll have to look elsewhere.)
Having a cocktail amid such elegance comes at a price: no jeans or sneakers allowed.
The Breslin Bar & Dining Room
In the lobby of the Ace Hotel, The Breslin is separated into small rooms for eating, drinking and generally feeling good about rubbing shoulders with trendy New Yorkers.
There’s a good chance you won’t even get a table in the bar, which has dark wood, antique pendant light fixtures and the feel of a private British club — but the buzz and people scenery will make up for it.
The Breslin’s lamb burger draws raves from regulars.
The dining room is the place for pork in all its marrow and other modern guises.
The Breslin Bar & Dining Room, 16 W. 29th St. (between Broadway and Fifth Avenue); +1 212 679 1939
GoldBar
Anyone who feels every New York nightclub is the same should hit this NoLita (North of Little Italy) establishment with an interior every bit as eclectic as its playlist, which includes new wave, rap, rock and pop.
How eclectic? For one, the entire space is swathed in gold.
For another, it includes a wall studded with gilded human skulls. (That’s right, skulls.)
Be advised that while you’ll likely want to capture an evening here for posterity — it’s pricy enough that it’s less a night out than an investment — photography is not permitted.
McSorley’s Old Ale House
As at Campbell Apartment, you feel like you’re stepping back in time. McSorley’s, however, is the sort of place that would welcome those traveling steerage as warmly as those in first class.
Rough-hewn wood floors, workmanlike bartenders and assorted memorabilia said to have been in the building since 1910 make you feel like you’re in a simpler age.
There are only two options for sale here: dark beer and light beer, the latter being called “light” not for its caloric value, but because it’s not the former.
Since beers here must be ordered in pairs, try one of each.
ReVision Lounge
ReVision’s theme is reclamation, with a front room furnished in bar stools made of recycled snow skis and a countertop of shredded, outdated U.S. currency glazed to a smooth finish.
But it’s the best of New York City back room you’ll remember.
Filled with couches fashioned from old coffins, porcelain bath tubs and the back ends of 1970s American luxury cars, it’s got a DJ table formed by the front end of an old Cadillac.
If you get in early in the evening you might be able to dodge the often unbearable late crowds.
Just be sure not to show up wearing real fur. (Seriously.)
World’s best cities for nightlife (and yeah, NYC is on the list)
Shopping/Attractions
Bergdorf Goodman department store
All high-fashion roads lead to this city institution, where the merchandise, layout and presentation are first-class, the staff is renowned for obsessive courteousness and historic New York department store shopping is still a dignified experience.
Bergdorf’s offers some impressive sales, though half off a US$1,000 sweater is still 500 bucks
BG’s four on-site restaurants are surprisingly good, a find for anyone who normally wouldn’t dream of eating in a store.
Century 21
For expensive stuff cheap and cheap stuff even cheaper, there’s no more beloved and simultaneously bemoaned retailer in New York City than Century 21.
Shoppers ascend C21’s five floors, slipping through the hordes searching for deeply discounted designer fashions, mainstream basics and mall-brand overstock, as well as items including luggage, watches and handbags.
If you’re willing to brave masses of consumers, C21 probably has a version of whatever clothing item you desire at every level of the economic spectrum, whether it’s a $1,200 coat for $400 or a $25 pack of socks for $10.
B&H Photo Video
B&H does a healthy amount of Internet business, making it known to many planet-wide, but the brick-and-mortar version is a hive of retail wonderment that really must be observed offline.
Thousands of daily customers seek counsel and competitive prices from hundreds of employees on photo and video cameras, computers, audio and lighting equipment, TVs, portable media devices and all of their associated accessories.
It’s worth it alone to buy something just to watch it travel via the store’s overhead rail delivery system.
National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Finally opened on September 12, 2011, after years of legal and architectural haggling, the 9/11 Memorial replaces the footprints of the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers with reflecting pools fed by gargantuan ground-level waterfalls.
While the scale is massive, the aesthetic is in many ways quite personal, making the experience imposing yet touching all at once.
As long as construction continues around the site, visits require advance reservations; go to the official site to secure your visit time.
Top of The Rock observation deck
Like Meg Ryan and King Kong, you may be filled with a yen to rush to the top of the Empire State Building.
Unfortunately, this is an impulse shared by a zillion or so other tourists.
Instead, check out the observation deck at Rockefeller Center, which offers 360-degree views that are nearly as stunning and can be seen after a fraction of the wait.
Central Park
The expanse of green in the middle of Manhattan is your chance to do everything from seeing Shakespeare in the Park (there’s also a Marionette Theater at the Swedish Cottage if your little ones aren’t ready for Titus Andronicus) to challenging old Italian men to a game of bocce on the green near Sheep’s Meadow.
In the summer, Conservatory Water is filled with model boats. For even bigger kids, rental rowboats are available.
In winter, you can ice-skate at either Wollman or Lasker Rink.
Seasonal attractions
Visitors might experience completely different New Yorks depending on the time of year.
Here are some seasonal suggestions.
Winter
Madison Square Garden
Hopes are high again at the Garden as the resurgent New York Knicks NBA franchise has emerged from one of the bleaker stretches in its proud history to contention for the top seed in the Eastern Conference.
If you prefer your athletes with fewer teeth, the Garden is also home to the New York Rangers, one of six original members of the National Hockey League.
Citi Pond at Bryant Park
Ice-skating at Rockefeller Center may be the most iconic activity available for any winter visit to New York City.
Unfortunately, every other visitor willing to lace on skates knows this, as well.
If lines prove too horrific, consider heading south to the seasonal Citi Pond at Bryant Park.
The park also fills up in winter with holiday shops to amuse those who choose to stay off the ice.
Admission free, skate rentals US$14.
Spring
Hudson River Park
New York’s west side waterfront has undergone wholesale improvements over the last decade, including the installation of an eight-kilometer bike and walking path, tennis and basketball courts, soccer fields, batting cages, playgrounds, skate park, trapeze school, open lawns and free kayaking at Piers 96, 40 and 72nd Street.
Yes, that’s right, trapeze school.
Good burgers and beers can be found at the Frying Pan, a wartime barge turned bar and grill at 26th Street.
Yankee Stadium
From April through September, the Bronx comes alive for the most successful sports franchise in North America, which supplies New York with a good chunk of its swagger — it’s easier to call yourself “the greatest city in the world” when you’ve won 27 World Series, not to mention those two by the Mets.
Take the B, D or 4 subway trains to 161st Street for a game, including time to stroll the team’s new billion-dollar stadium.
Beware purchasing tickets from street scalpers: counterfeiters here are among the best in the world.
Summer
Brooklyn Bridge
Ironically, one of the best ways to appreciate Manhattan is to leave it.
Get off the F train at York Street in Brooklyn and enjoy the two-and-a-half kilometer walk back to the city via its most historic gateway, enjoying a remarkable view of Manhattan that will make you feel like you’re living a particularly charming moment from a Woody Allen film.
Before making the journey, spend some time in Brooklyn.
Check out Brooklyn’s bridge-side DUMBO neighborhood, which offers a waterfront view and features warehouses converted into an array of residences and businesses.
If you enjoy waiting in line for food that you eat with your hands, check out Grimaldi’s, one of New York’s best-rated brick oven pizzas.
Fall
The Cloisters
If you’re looking for a museum missed by most tourists (and a surprising number of New Yorkers), make time for the Cloisters, located in Fort Tryon Park.
A reassembled French building houses the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s medieval Europe collection, but for many visitors the best part of the visit occurs when you step outside and see gardens patterned faithfully after medieval designs for landscaping and architecture.
You’ll be going far further north than most visitors, but when you witness an attraction unlike anything else in New York you’ll know it’s worth the journey.
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(CNN)Trying to do the best of New York City in a few days is like announcing you plan to see Africa in a week: it minimizes just how much there is to experience and completely disregards travel times.
Hotels
Luxury
Mandarin Oriental New York
Located atop one of the twin sentries comprising the Time Warner Center, the five-star Mandarin enjoys unobstructed views through its floor-to-ceiling windows of the Hudson River, Central Park, Brooklyn and Portugal (at least, it feels that way).
Its best of New York City position in bustling Columbus Circle centralizes it near perfectly — just north of Midtown — with subways linking to virtually every part of the city.
Unlike in much of the rest of the United States, there’s no shame in walking in New York.
Plenty of attractions are within an easy stroll, including Lincoln Center, Broadway, Hell’s Kitchen and Times Square.
Crosby Street Hotel
With high ceilings and full length windows reflective of SoHo’s history as a factory cum gallery district, Hotelier Firmdale’s only non-London property is an all-new structure built in the neighborhood’s classic style, its 86 guest rooms each receiving their own individual designs.
As charming as the cobblestone street out front, the hotel has an outdoor sculpture garden, all-day afternoon tea service with cakes and sandwiches in the bar and a 100-seat screening room with a Sunday Night Film Club open to all.
The neighborhood’s overall lower profile makes the Crosby’s upper floors all the more recommended.
Mid-range
The Standard, High Line
If aesthetics are a requisite, The Standard, High Line — situated directly above a stretch of old elevated railway now known as High Line Park — is a best of New York City landmark in Manhattan’s most model-intensive neighborhood.
The decor is mod and the vibe is downtown, so go ahead and pack your shiniest shirts for the clubs, bars and bistros of the surrounding Meatpacking District.
Among the property’s greatest draws are its views.
Of models, yes, but also of the Hudson River, downtown and, to a lesser extent, New Jersey.
Ensure you see as much as possible by getting a room ending in 24, which will net you two walls of windows.
The Bowery Hotel
Two hundred years ago, the Bowery was a poor man’s Broadway. By the turn of the last century, it was just poor.
But those familiar just 10 years ago with this erstwhile skid row would hardly recognize it today, and the Bowery Hotel embodies its new, loftier status.
Lying right at the intersection of hip and elegant, the hotel is appointed with luxurious old world refinements and dcor while retaining a vibe that’s lively and modern.
Factory windows offer 360-degrees of the city, while several rooms have their own terraces, complete with outdoor showers.
Budget
The Pod Hotel
The only way you can stay overnight in Manhattan for less than one of the single rooms in this Midtown budgetier is by staying with family in the area.
And if you stay at the Pod’s 51st Street location, in some cases it, too, requires you to share a bathroom with people you may not like.
But rooms at the newer Murray Hill location all feature private bathrooms, along with free Wi-Fi and an emphasis on communal space typified by the Pod 39’s rooftop lounge.
The hotel’s perks are few and the rooms are barely bigger than the beds, but if you want hip and affordable, you won’t likely do better.
Insider tips for more American cities: Chicago | Los Angeles | San Francisco
Dining
Per Se
With its modern decor and swanky address at the tip of Central Park, Per Se strives to turn your dinner into “a journey that returns you to sources of pleasure you may have forgotten,” which would seem pretentious if that wasn’t precisely what it accomplishes with nearly every dish.
Hailed by food critics ever since its doors opened, Per Se is the brainchild of Thomas Keller, the only American chef to have been awarded three Michelin stars for two different restaurants (including Per Se).
Per Se is the East Coast version of his flagship French Laundry in California, having since far surpassed it on the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list.
While the chef’s tasting menu changes daily, there are mainstays, such as Keller’s well-known twist on “oysters and pearls,” which combines succulent oysters, tapioca pearls and caviar.
Keens Steakhouse
Americans tend to value massive portions; fine dining is inevitably about small but perfect items.
Keens earns best of New York City marks by seeking to combine the best of both philosophies.
While up against worthy steakhouse competitors including Peter Luger, Old Homestead and The Strip House, Keens has an edge by serving the city’s top mutton chop.
The chop comes flanked by pieces of lamb bacon.
Keens also has the edge in decor. Its ceiling is stippled with thousands of clay pipes that represent an erstwhile club membership including American icons Theodore Roosevelt, Babe Ruth and General Douglas MacArthur.
Atera
With novelty as a guiding, but not solitary, principle, chef Matthew Lightner is dazzling diners at his tiny new tasting room in Tribeca.
Foraged ingredients and innovative ideas drive a constantly changing 22-course menu that’s designed as much to stir emotions as it is taste buds, which can go unrewarded in any given moment in favor of a gastro-narrative revelation four courses later.
Modernist creations like gin-cured scallops, cedar-oil-drizzled lamb and a baguette colored with squid ink to resemble a razor clam are served on flat rocks, hay and driftwood in the naturist style pioneered in Portland, OR.
The award of two stars by Michelin isn’t doing anything to ease accessibility to an already modest space, so reservations are vital.
Osteria Morini
“New York” magazine recently called Michael White “the city’s hottest Italian chef,” and “Esquire” put his bustling new Osteria Morini on its list of best restaurants in the city.
So why shouldn’t we put it on our best of New York City list?
White has earned praise with his knack for taking home-style fare and providing a gourmet twist, like tortellini with a duck-liver cream sauce.
Of course, man cannot live on food alone, and Osteria Morini’s cocktails are also superb.
The Dutch
Dress code at The Dutch?
“This ain’t no country club, but it’s no ball game either,” states the American bar/restaurant’s website.
“This is New York. Do what you feel, but keep it fresh.”
That casual but earnest logic lies at the heart of Andrew Carmellini’s latest offering in New York.
Inspired by a mix of cafs, country inns and seaside shacks, diners get reinterpretations of American classics like the good old porterhouse steak and fried chicken served with biscuits.
Just remember to look up from your food occasionally, or else you’ll miss the celebrities meandering through the dining room.
Caf Nougatine
Jean-Georges Vongerichten is one of the most celebrated chefs in New York.
If you want to experience his creations at reasonable prices, try the lunch deal at Jean-Georges’ Caf Nougatine in the Trump Building.
The French haute cuisine goes for around $25 every lunch hour at the acclaimed restaurant.
Miss Lily’s Cakes
While the name promises cakes, this hip diner in downtown Manhattan serves remarkable Jamaican dishes.
The most revered item at this best of New York City diner is jerk chicken.
The decor is simple, but you won’t care as you watch leggy servers carry hearty platefuls of curry goat, oxtail stew and, yes, even cakes if you so desire.
Warning to anyone looking for a relaxed island vibe: the atmosphere of Miss Lily’s tends to get clubbier and the music louder as the night goes on.
Joe’s Pizza
For a best of New York City experience, there’s no more quintessential fast food than a slice of pizza.
Joe’s modest storefront unloads exceptional slices to an uninterrupted queue of patrons nearly 20 hours of every day.
Stand in line, point, pay, apply Parmesan and chili flakes from the public shakers, fold, eat and hustle back to work.
Hey, now you’re practically a local.
Best rooftop and sky-high restaurants in the world
Nightlife
Campbell Apartment
Step back in time and behold fully restored glasswork, furnishings and architectural appointments of a cavernous lounge that was once the massive private office of 1920s magnate John W. Campbell.
Now a swanky club, Campbell Apartment evokes images reminiscent of the more elegant side of “The Great Gatsby.”
(For Gatsby-esque smoking ruins, you’ll have to look elsewhere.)
Having a cocktail amid such elegance comes at a price: no jeans or sneakers allowed.
The Breslin Bar & Dining Room
In the lobby of the Ace Hotel, The Breslin is separated into small rooms for eating, drinking and generally feeling good about rubbing shoulders with trendy New Yorkers.
There’s a good chance you won’t even get a table in the bar, which has dark wood, antique pendant light fixtures and the feel of a private British club — but the buzz and people scenery will make up for it.
The Breslin’s lamb burger draws raves from regulars.
The dining room is the place for pork in all its marrow and other modern guises.
The Breslin Bar & Dining Room, 16 W. 29th St. (between Broadway and Fifth Avenue); +1 212 679 1939
GoldBar
Anyone who feels every New York nightclub is the same should hit this NoLita (North of Little Italy) establishment with an interior every bit as eclectic as its playlist, which includes new wave, rap, rock and pop.
How eclectic? For one, the entire space is swathed in gold.
For another, it includes a wall studded with gilded human skulls. (That’s right, skulls.)
Be advised that while you’ll likely want to capture an evening here for posterity — it’s pricy enough that it’s less a night out than an investment — photography is not permitted.
McSorley’s Old Ale House
As at Campbell Apartment, you feel like you’re stepping back in time. McSorley’s, however, is the sort of place that would welcome those traveling steerage as warmly as those in first class.
Rough-hewn wood floors, workmanlike bartenders and assorted memorabilia said to have been in the building since 1910 make you feel like you’re in a simpler age.
There are only two options for sale here: dark beer and light beer, the latter being called “light” not for its caloric value, but because it’s not the former.
Since beers here must be ordered in pairs, try one of each.
ReVision Lounge
ReVision’s theme is reclamation, with a front room furnished in bar stools made of recycled snow skis and a countertop of shredded, outdated U.S. currency glazed to a smooth finish.
But it’s the best of New York City back room you’ll remember.
Filled with couches fashioned from old coffins, porcelain bath tubs and the back ends of 1970s American luxury cars, it’s got a DJ table formed by the front end of an old Cadillac.
If you get in early in the evening you might be able to dodge the often unbearable late crowds.
Just be sure not to show up wearing real fur. (Seriously.)
World’s best cities for nightlife (and yeah, NYC is on the list)
Shopping/Attractions
Bergdorf Goodman department store
All high-fashion roads lead to this city institution, where the merchandise, layout and presentation are first-class, the staff is renowned for obsessive courteousness and historic New York department store shopping is still a dignified experience.
Bergdorf’s offers some impressive sales, though half off a US$1,000 sweater is still 500 bucks
BG’s four on-site restaurants are surprisingly good, a find for anyone who normally wouldn’t dream of eating in a store.
Century 21
For expensive stuff cheap and cheap stuff even cheaper, there’s no more beloved and simultaneously bemoaned retailer in New York City than Century 21.
Shoppers ascend C21’s five floors, slipping through the hordes searching for deeply discounted designer fashions, mainstream basics and mall-brand overstock, as well as items including luggage, watches and handbags.
If you’re willing to brave masses of consumers, C21 probably has a version of whatever clothing item you desire at every level of the economic spectrum, whether it’s a $1,200 coat for $400 or a $25 pack of socks for $10.
B&H Photo Video
B&H does a healthy amount of Internet business, making it known to many planet-wide, but the brick-and-mortar version is a hive of retail wonderment that really must be observed offline.
Thousands of daily customers seek counsel and competitive prices from hundreds of employees on photo and video cameras, computers, audio and lighting equipment, TVs, portable media devices and all of their associated accessories.
It’s worth it alone to buy something just to watch it travel via the store’s overhead rail delivery system.
National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Finally opened on September 12, 2011, after years of legal and architectural haggling, the 9/11 Memorial replaces the footprints of the World Trade Center’s Twin Towers with reflecting pools fed by gargantuan ground-level waterfalls.
While the scale is massive, the aesthetic is in many ways quite personal, making the experience imposing yet touching all at once.
As long as construction continues around the site, visits require advance reservations; go to the official site to secure your visit time.
Top of The Rock observation deck
Like Meg Ryan and King Kong, you may be filled with a yen to rush to the top of the Empire State Building.
Unfortunately, this is an impulse shared by a zillion or so other tourists.
Instead, check out the observation deck at Rockefeller Center, which offers 360-degree views that are nearly as stunning and can be seen after a fraction of the wait.
Central Park
The expanse of green in the middle of Manhattan is your chance to do everything from seeing Shakespeare in the Park (there’s also a Marionette Theater at the Swedish Cottage if your little ones aren’t ready for Titus Andronicus) to challenging old Italian men to a game of bocce on the green near Sheep’s Meadow.
In the summer, Conservatory Water is filled with model boats. For even bigger kids, rental rowboats are available.
In winter, you can ice-skate at either Wollman or Lasker Rink.
Seasonal attractions
Visitors might experience completely different New Yorks depending on the time of year.
Here are some seasonal suggestions.
Winter
Madison Square Garden
Hopes are high again at the Garden as the resurgent New York Knicks NBA franchise has emerged from one of the bleaker stretches in its proud history to contention for the top seed in the Eastern Conference.
If you prefer your athletes with fewer teeth, the Garden is also home to the New York Rangers, one of six original members of the National Hockey League.
Citi Pond at Bryant Park
Ice-skating at Rockefeller Center may be the most iconic activity available for any winter visit to New York City.
Unfortunately, every other visitor willing to lace on skates knows this, as well.
If lines prove too horrific, consider heading south to the seasonal Citi Pond at Bryant Park.
The park also fills up in winter with holiday shops to amuse those who choose to stay off the ice.
Admission free, skate rentals US$14.
Spring
Hudson River Park
New York’s west side waterfront has undergone wholesale improvements over the last decade, including the installation of an eight-kilometer bike and walking path, tennis and basketball courts, soccer fields, batting cages, playgrounds, skate park, trapeze school, open lawns and free kayaking at Piers 96, 40 and 72nd Street.
Yes, that’s right, trapeze school.
Good burgers and beers can be found at the Frying Pan, a wartime barge turned bar and grill at 26th Street.
Yankee Stadium
From April through September, the Bronx comes alive for the most successful sports franchise in North America, which supplies New York with a good chunk of its swagger — it’s easier to call yourself “the greatest city in the world” when you’ve won 27 World Series, not to mention those two by the Mets.
Take the B, D or 4 subway trains to 161st Street for a game, including time to stroll the team’s new billion-dollar stadium.
Beware purchasing tickets from street scalpers: counterfeiters here are among the best in the world.
Summer
Brooklyn Bridge
Ironically, one of the best ways to appreciate Manhattan is to leave it.
Get off the F train at York Street in Brooklyn and enjoy the two-and-a-half kilometer walk back to the city via its most historic gateway, enjoying a remarkable view of Manhattan that will make you feel like you’re living a particularly charming moment from a Woody Allen film.
Before making the journey, spend some time in Brooklyn.
Check out Brooklyn’s bridge-side DUMBO neighborhood, which offers a waterfront view and features warehouses converted into an array of residences and businesses.
If you enjoy waiting in line for food that you eat with your hands, check out Grimaldi’s, one of New York’s best-rated brick oven pizzas.
Fall
The Cloisters
If you’re looking for a museum missed by most tourists (and a surprising number of New Yorkers), make time for the Cloisters, located in Fort Tryon Park.
A reassembled French building houses the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s medieval Europe collection, but for many visitors the best part of the visit occurs when you step outside and see gardens patterned faithfully after medieval designs for landscaping and architecture.
You’ll be going far further north than most visitors, but when you witness an attraction unlike anything else in New York you’ll know it’s worth the journey.
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GHMC to reassess fine on property tax
The haste with which penalty was levied on unauthorized constructions throughout assets tax assessment of the last economic year has positioned Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation(GHMC) in a gap.
After being flooded with proceedings from residents, the Property Tax wing currently sent around to all zonal offices to re-evaluate the belongings and cope with the grievances of folks that had objected to the ‘unfair consequences’ slapped on them. Though the penalty slabs for unauthorized production are 25%, 50% and a hundred% of the entire belongings tax for minor to fundamental deviations, the valuation officials had imposed a penalty of 100% in lots of instances without well studying the prison popularity of the residences.
In Malkajgiri Circle on my own, more than 400 proceedings were obtained within the final one month and it becomes located that among the complainants had been right and the penalties had been later decreased.
“Each case is specific and numerous parameters should be taken into consideration before selecting a penalty. In some instances, the primary few floors can be permitted but any other ground or room is probably unlawful.
Some may even absorb unauthorized production after regularizing the assets and show the documents simplest to idiot the officers,” stated a senior officer of the GHMC belongings tax wing adding those subject level officials did now not have a smooth venture.
“We are aware that a few buildings which have been built before 2013 have been penalized one hundred% even though the rule of thumb says a most of only 25% can be levied. Similarly, the officials in a gated community imposed 100% penalty for all of the homes without verifying the files. In a month’s time, all of the lawsuits may be attended to”, the officer said.
Some of the valuation officers blamed the citizens for no longer displaying the documents when asked, forcing them to impose the maximum excellent.
Some of the owners of antique homes had lost their authentic files making it greater complex to evaluate the volume of violation, they introduced.
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Experts predict the world’s city populace will double by using 2050 – because of this, we’re adding the equivalent of seven New York Cities to the planet every unmarried yr. As our planet turns into the extra city, our towns want to get smarter. To manage this massive-scale urbanization, we’re going to want to find new ways to manipulate complexity, growth efficiency, reduce fees, and enhance exceptional of life.
With this rapid boom ahead of us, imagine if our towns ought to speak if they may deliver us live status updates on site visitors styles, pollutants, parking areas, water, strength and mild. Imagine how that sort of facts could enhance the financial and environmental health of the city for residents, traders, and site visitors. Imagine how it can enhance operating situations and productivity for the folks who maintain the city.
Smart City: A smart metropolis is one which has digital technology embedded across all city features.
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Before you close up your home, reexamine your market location as defined by using town and zip code inside the instant vicinity. Ask yourself how plenty have the homes at your improvement long gone up all through the build-out? Ask for copies of the contemporary charge sheets from the builder’s model domestic agents. All of those latter questions are very crucial vital points to decide and factor into whether or not you have got a buy or skip opportunity. Because if it is now not a sellable product the day after you shut it, you then shouldn’t also be thinking about buying the property and signing the loan documents. If the raw records comes returned, and it would not appearance favorable upon the belongings (i.E., indicating that the property has virtually long past up), then you definitely’s doing a whole lot of wishful thinking and it is gonna be a “would have, may want to have, need to have”-kind situation. And if it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and looks as if a duck, it’s a duck, meaning your supposed flip is a laggard and shouldn’t be closed upon.reassess in a sentence.
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First, the cost of the house has long gone up, but is it real? Is it possible the improvement you are at has artificially been inflated in price with the aid of the builder? Or maybe that the surrounding marketplace location of comparable-sized homes doesn’t guide in which your house is at in charge? Be conscious that pricing can be very illusionary and can be like seeing a mirage. To combat “charge creep”- a phenomenon wherein the developer advances the pricing at the subdivision’s homes quicker than the actual marketplace appreciation goes to a unfastened MLS, which includes ZipRealty.Com or Realty.Com.
Once there, look at the same road and/or identical zip code vicinity within a one- to three-mile radius of your situation flip, and spot what comparable-sized homes and age are promoting at. Since a public MLS won’t display ultimate information, you could expect at the least a 1 percent to a few percentage variance than the stated asking fee vs. The actual closing rate. This fact, or “comps” as they are known as will help you make a decision on whether or no longer to shop for or stroll far from your intended turn. If you are lucky sufficient to have to get right to entry to actually closed comps, visit the MLS and notice what has sincerely closed and what pending sales there are for similar houses throughout the beyond six months. Looking for closed or pending sales can also require which you sincerely be certified as part of the local MLS wherein your flip candidate is domiciled.reassess in tagalong
If not, visit the private Internet-primarily based MLS subscription carrier which you’re the use of to marketplace your property and ask for comps, assuming of the route you are already the usage of the enterprise from a previous turn. They’re commonly pretty first-class approximately imparting comps, thinking about you’ve spent $195 to $495 for his or her services, which more often than not consists of just importing a few list statistics that takes less than thirty minutes to collect. They’ll customarily give you a short stack of ten to twenty comps, and sometimes that’s a part of their provider. If you can not reap this type of statistics out of your subscription provider, you’ll possibly rely on a loose MLS (Ziprealty.Com or Realty. Com), or in case you know someone that has get entry to a neighborhood MLS, kindly ask them.
How Do I Become A Property Finder
Being a finder/sourcing agent is one of the pleasant methods to get started out in assets. The cause for that is two-fold:
Firstly, you get to take a finder’s charge
This charge is usually set via you and varies relying on the amount of labor you have got needed to put into the deal.
Secondly, you are becoming beneficial enjoy in studying how to examine offers and put them together.
As a property finder, you may charge whatever from £75 upwards. A lot of belongings finders charge a flat charge between £one thousand and £2,500. Others price among 1% – 2% of the rate of the assets. As you may consider, this can be quite profitable if the assets are well worth £750,000.
Most property finders might keep in mind being bendy with the price, depending on the kind of carrier they needed to offer. For instance, they could fee you greater in the event that they needed to supply a belongings and find out how plenty work turned into needed to renovate/refurbish it, go out and get rates from builders and then negotiate a suitable cut price for you, then in the event that they simply went out and determined a assets beneath marketplace cost in a place of your choice.
By sourcing for traders, inside the beginning specifically, you’ll be bringing offers to them that they’ll reject. But they’ll typically let you know precisely why they’re rejecting them so you won’t be bringing them the equal deals once more. Hence, there might be no faster or higher way in an effort to find out about what offers are profitable and why, and what deals appearance correct on the floor, but once you dig deeper are higher averted.
There are two capacity approaches to set yourself up as a belongings finder
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5 significant reasons to lose weight: Forget heart attacks and skinny jeans. This is why weight loss is important.
Avoiding heart disease and looking ‘fab’ aren’t always great reasons to lose weight. However, here are 5 immediate and significant ways your life can change when you trim the fat.
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I’d like you to join me in a thought experiment.
I promise there’s a point to it. In fact, we’ll soon talk about why most popular reasons for losing weight are either uninspiring or scientifically worthless.
But, for now, let’s begin by setting our feelings, insecurities, assumptions, stories, and beliefs about body fat aside.
You might feel confused. Or defensive. Or saying “Yes, but…”
Please bear with me. Just for a few minutes.
Forget, for a moment, about looking good.
Forget about “thin privilege”. Forget about “fat privilege”.
Forget about personal rights or civic obligations.
Forget about abs and guns and lats and whatever other laundry list of nonsense is now used to describe various body parts.
While you’re at it, forget about whatever other wretchedness the Internet has spawned this week. (Thigh gap? Duck lips? Bikini bridge? Manscaping?)
So, yeah, forget about body image.
Forget, for a moment, about disease.
Forget about all the big-name medical scares including atherosclerosis, arterial plaque, cardiac arrest, pulmonary hypertension, stroke, all the cancers, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome.
And forget about what some randomly chosen biomarker says.
“My glucose tolerance is good. I’m healthy and fat!”
“My triglycerides are low. I’m healthy and thin!”
“My cholesterol is excellent. I’m healthy and jacked!”
For a moment, let all of that go. (More on why in a second).
And, most of all, forget about “health at any size”.
Yes, obese people do have the right to be treated with dignity.
Absolutely and certainly.
And, yes, obese people should be supported in efforts to become more healthy outside of weight loss. As we all know, health isn’t a direct function of your weight.
However, the “health at any size” movement goes one step too far in suggesting that obesity is harmless. That it’s not bad for you. That having excess body fat is of no more consequence than wearing a red sweater or driving a Nissan Sentra.
This is simply not true; it contradicts most of the available evidence.
So, for now, forget a) looking good, b) disease, and c) “health at any size”.
Each of these obscures the real, significant reasons people should consider losing weight.
For example: The mainstream conversation about fatness and health focuses on medical conditions that can kill or disable us. While these make for great headlines, this angle isn’t very compelling.
Why not? Well, imagine that bacon (or broccoli, or some other food) causes a 10 percent increase in some horrible cancer-type disease. Scary, right?
Not when you realize that your chance of dying from that horrible cancer-type thing without bacon (or broccoli) is only 1 in 100,000 (or 0.00001 percent). And that a 10 percent increase from eating bacon (or broccoli) means your chance rises to 1.1 in 100,000 (or 0.000011 percent).
Meh.
Since we’re all going to die anyway, medical scare tactics simply don’t come off as scary (especially when you know what the data really mean). Nor do they motivate change.
The fitness industry, of course, takes another approach.
In fitness it’s all about looking great in a certain type of clothing, or on the beach, or at your high school reunion. And while that can seem inspiring for a minute, it’s not proven to be a sustainable way to achieve long-term weight loss and maintenance.
5 GOOD reasons for losing weight.
In the end, the most popular incentives — scary disease statistics and fitness industry vanity trips — aren’t very effective, useful, or scientifically valid ways to promote weight loss.
That’s a huge missed opportunity, because there are much better reasons to lose weight. More pressing, more evidence-based, more quality-of-life focused reasons.
Sadly, they’re not often talked about in the public debate.
(Notice that I said public debate. Scientists and doctors talk about them all the time. They’re well established in research. They just haven’t made it to the public yet).
So let’s talk about them now.
Reason #5: Your knees and elbows will thank you.
Osteoarthritis is a degenerative joint disease, in which we lose cartilage and gradually destroy the bones of our joints.
Imagine two rocks grinding together and you get the idea of how fun that is.
In my experience, healthy people don’t think much about osteoarthritis because it’s common. Aging makes it more likely. Everyone’s grandma has a twinge of arthritis.
So we think it’s normal.
This hides the degree to which it can be very unpleasant and debilitating.
Like most chronic illnesses, osteoarthritis is a vicious cycle.
Your joints hurt, so you move less.
Moving less means your joints don’t get loaded.
Less joint loading means muscle weakness.
Muscle weakness means force doesn’t get cushioned correctly.
Less cushion means the condition worsens.
More osteoarthritis means more pain.
And, onwards, we circle the drain.
The point? Obesity makes it much more likely that you’ll get osteoarthritis.
In one study comparing the heaviest patients to the lightest, the chance of being diagnosed with osteoarthritis in one knee was more than 6 times in the heavy group. For both knees it was almost 18 times.
(Naturally, other studies over the last 20 years have investigated the same relationship. Some estimates are higher, some are lower. But the association between body fat and osteoarthritis has been replicated several times.)
The reason this happens is complicated.
It isn’t just that heavier people put more weight on their joints, and those joints then degrade over time. It’s also that there seems to be a relationship between the presence of excess fat tissue and inflammation.
Thus, osteoarthritis probably comes from a combination of excess joint loading plus the inflammatory chemical and hormonal environment that having too much body fat creates.
Bottom line: One important reason to lose weight is to reduce joint pain and improve your movement. These are things you can benefit from almost immediately.
Reason #4: You’ll get a good night’s sleep.
Think of what happens when a rockslide blocks a tunnel.
That’s sleep apnea: The upper airway collapses while you sleep, cutting off that oxygen tunnel.
Just so you know, sleep apnea is more than a little snoring.
Sleep apnea means you stop breathing. Over and over and over. As you sleep.
Which is bad.
More body fat means more potential for sleep apnea. This comes from a few combined factors:
Fat in your airway narrows the space available. This makes your airway more prone to collapsing.
Fat in your upper body puts weight on your lungs and reduces the space available to them. You need more oxygen but you can’t get it as well.
Fat — a hormone-producing organ — changes your hormonal signals. This rewires your respiratory systems.
While around 25 percent of adults have sleep apnea, 50 percent of obese adults have it.
Even more scary: If you have mild sleep apnea, and you put on weight, the chances of you graduating to moderate or severe sleep apnea are:
5 percent weight gain = 250 percent increase of severe sleep apnea
10 percent weight gain = 650 percent increase of severe sleep apnea
20 percent weight gain = 3,700 percent increase of severe sleep apnea
(And it’s scariest for children: 46 percent of obese children have sleep apnea, while the typical incidence in children is approximately 3 percent).
So, why is sleep apnea bad?
Sleep is a major regulator of our metabolism. If our sleep is bad, so is our metabolic health.
This means things like elevated inflammation, rapid cell aging and oxidation, and hormonal disruption (and, yes, higher risk for all kinds of nasty chronic diseases in the long term).
Bottom line: Another important reason to lose weight is so that you can sleep better. Not only does this help regulate metabolism, hormone systems, and more. It helps you feel, think and live better right away.
Reason #3: You’ll actually start to taste your food.
This may sound weird, but it seems that people who struggle with their weight don’t taste food as well.
Wait, what? People who often eat more food can’t taste as well? Exactly.
Why? We’re not sure. We don’t yet know whether excess body fat changes your tastes. Or whether your tastes change your appetite and cause weight gain.
We also don’t know whether this is an issue of:
“wanting” tastes: seeking and craving the reward of tastes
“liking” tastes: actually enjoying tastes
chemical signaling: how taste is created in the mouth and interpreted by the brain
Here’s what we do know.
People vary in how well and sensitively they can perceive different flavors and textures such as fattiness or sweetness.
One hypothesis is that if we can’t taste as well, we eat more food to compensate.
On the flip side, people with high BMIs seem to avoid bitter foods more, and have a stronger “disgust” response. As it happens, many vegetables are bitter or astringent (think of kale, Brussels sprouts, green peppers, etc.).
So there seems to be a relationship between:
excess body fat;
wanting and liking fat / sweet foods and pleasant tastes;
eating fat / sweet foods; and
avoiding unpleasant tastes.
How might this happen?
Animal models are handy here since we can control their food intake and they don’t seem to care much about food advertising.
So, in animal models:
Overfeeding obesity-prone mice changes how their taste cells function.
Rats with obesity-related changes in fat/sugar reward can at least somewhat reverse those changes with weight loss.
Rats given weight loss surgery (yes, that’s a real thing) appear to go back to their “normal” liking/wanting behavior.
Put simply, what this could mean is:
Many people with excess body fat also have altered flavor perception.
The flavor perception could pre-date gaining fat.
Or, the flavor perception could be caused by gaining fat. Or both.
The only observation I’ll add is that the foods we consider to be the most responsible for obesity just happen to pander directly to this dysfunction by having aggressively over-sweet, over-salty, over-fatty, etc. flavor profiles.
We eat and eat and eat them, but they never seem to satisfy. It’s a Sisyphean irony.
The good news is that in both humans and rats, tastes are changeable.
This means that losing fat, getting fit, and consistently building healthy habits can actually change how we perceive flavors. In a good way.
(One day, you might just find you like Brussels sprouts after all).
More importantly, when you truly enjoy food, you eat less, but you feel much more satisfied.
Bottom line: Obese people have altered taste perceptions leading to eating more and eating more of the wrong foods. By losing weight you’ll end up craving less high-sugar and high-fat food. You might even enjoy an extra veggie or two.
Reason #2: Your immune system will work properly again.
We tend to think of body fat like an ATM: a place where we deposit or withdraw energy. It isn’t.
Instead, fat is an active endocrine organ. That means it secretes hormones and cytokines (cell signaling molecules).
Hormones and cytokines have effects throughout the body. They “talk” to one another chemically.
Like all things, balance is important. If we have a healthy amount of fat, our hormones and cell signals work properly. If we have too much, things go wrong.
For example, with too much body fat our immune systems get off kilter.
There’s a huge, scary pile of evidence here so let’s keep it simple.
Increased BMI and more body fat is associated with greater risk for several kinds of infections including:
gum infections,
nose and sinus infections,
stomach infections, and
herpes (thankfully, the mouth kind).
Why? Too much adipose (fat) tissue can release large amounts of immune chemicals. Over time, this chronic high exposure can interfere with the body’s ability to spot and stop actual outside infections.
Bottom line: Losing body fat can mean a healthier, more responsive, more robust immune system. And that means fewer colds, fewer infections, and a healthier daily life.
Reason #1: You’ll survive surgery and childbirth.
People with a lot of body fat:
are harder to intubate,
have a higher risk of incisional hernia post-laprascopy
(i.e. popping open again),
have a longer operation time,
have a higher risk of catheter site infection, and
have a higher rate of serious postoperative complications.
Surgery is a risky business for people who are obese.
This is a double whammy because people who struggle with obesity also struggle with more health issues that may require surgery.
So obese people may need surgery… but not be able to get it, or not recover as well when they do.
Pregnancy is a good example of this.
Among women who are significantly obese, about 50 percent of them must undergo Caesarean sections, compared to only about 20 percent of the general population.
Even if they give birth vaginally, obese women may have to have a lot more instruments and medical procedures involved.
After surgery, mothers with obesity may end up with more surgical site infections.
This is aside from other pregnancy complications, which also go up significantly as body fat increases.
Bottom line: Every surgery patient wants a safe and speedy recovery. And every mother wants a safe birth and a thriving, bouncing baby. Having a healthy range of body fat makes those happy outcomes much more likely.
What to do next:
Some tips from Precision Nutrition
Let’s forget about all the “shoulds”, as in, “You should lose weight because blah blah terrible thing will happen.”
Let’s focus on how awesome life can get when your body is as functional, mobile, and metabolically healthy as it can possibly be.
1. Go toward the good
We’ve noticed a trend in the stories of people who lost a great deal of weight:
They focus on the small blessings and achievements of everyday life.
“I can live in a walk-up apartment now.”
“I can run around with my kids.”
“I don’t get tired through the day.”
“Food tastes better. I can’t explain how.”
“My random aches and pains stopped.”
“I can carry my two-year old without wheezing.”
“I have so much more energy.”
“I bounce back from illness straightaway now.”
And they always sound so satisfied.
2. Seek incremental change
“Thigh gap” and “healthy at any size” are the two extremes of one problem: an all-or-nothing approach to health and body weight.
Real, lasting changes in diet and lifestyle require a different approach.
Precision Nutrition Coaching clients who achieve the most success come to realize that incremental change serves them best — and, to their surprise, produces immediate improvements in quality of life.
3. Focus on the tangible benefits
Losing weight isn’t magical. Your life is still your life, regardless.
Yet with a healthy amount of body fat, your life often becomes a little bit easier and better. You’re a little more functional and mobile. A little more able.
So if we talk about fat, let’s not tell people (or ourselves) how to feel. Or how to cheat death.
Keep the focus on positive changes you could see in your life in just a few weeks’ time:
Knees that work.
Colds that go away.
A good night’s sleep.
Food that tastes nice.
A straightforward recovery after surgery.
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