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Jimmy Page, the Led Zeppelin guitarist who turned 71 last week, is reportedly dating 25-year-old actress Scarlett Sabet.

As radio station Q107 puts into context below, Page's daughter (also named Scarlet) is 43, which is 18 years older than his new girlfriend.

@JimmyPage dating 25 yr old "actress" Scarlett Sabet who is 18 yrs younger than his daughter Scarlet. @ledzeppelin pic.twitter.com/y9wRkrHf8c

— Q107 Toronto (@Q107Toronto) January 12, 2015

Jimmy Page has a history of dating much younger women, from his most recent ex-wife Jimena Gomez-Paratcha right back to the early led Zeppelin days. Rolling Stone reports that in the early '70s Page dated a 14-year-old, Lori Maddox.

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From this video by CollegeHumor.

"After I finish my shift at the bakery, I start my shift at Starbucks. I work 95 hours per week at three different jobs. One of my sons graduated from Yale, and I have two more children in college. And when they finish, I want to go to college too. I want to be a Big Boss. I’m a boss at the bakery right now, but just a little boss. I want to be a Big Boss."

Common knowledge dictates that most food plants can’t grow in areas fed by salty sea water. But a group of researchers in the Netherlands has found that perhaps that isn’t necessarily the case. Those researchers discovered that the humble potato can not only survive, but thrive in salty soil, and it could spell a food revolution.

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The GOODS from Oyama Sausage Company

Vancouver, BC | One of the best ways to beat the January blues is to keep warm while indulging in delicious comfort foods with the help of Oyama. Sausage! All month, they have a huge array of fresh and smoked sausages, including many exciting new ones to tempt your taste buds and give you fast, amazing dinners. Visit the store on Granville Island or place your orders via email at moreinfo [at] oyamasausage.ca and pick up through the “express line”.

Choucroute Festival – January 22nd – January 25th | Choucroute is a famous Alsatian dish preparing sauerkraut with sausages and other salted meats and charcuterie. Oyama does all the work for you, preparing the sauerkraut, all you need to do is choose from a wide selection of sausages, invite your friends and enjoy. And stop by Granville Island Brewery or your favourite artisan beer and pick up something thirst quenching.

Friday January 30th – Sunday February 1st – Boudin Noir | Don`t forget to preorder you delicious Boudin Noir, always a treat.

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Granville Island Public Market | 1689 Johnston St. Vancouver B.C. | V6H 3R9
Telephone & Fax: 604-327-7407
Email: moreinfo@oyamasausage.ca
Web: www.oyamasausage.ca | Twitter

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Owners: John and Christine van der Lieck

About Oyama Sausage Co.

We opened our store on Granville Island in the amazing Public Market in 2001, moving to Vancouver from the Okanagan, where we were in business for 15 years. The business is owned by John and Christine van der Lieck. John is a fifth generation master sausage maker from Europe who has worked all over the European continent and is a true master in the trade of artisanal charcuterie. Our background is German and Dutch. At varying times, we make over 400 products, from patés and terrines to salamis, to hams, prosciuttos and many other dry cured treats, to sausages (dozens of links – fresh and smoked), pork pies, sliders and snacks, taking inspiration from many different ethnic backgrounds. These products are handmade in our kitchen in Vancouver. Our wonderful products are made with Canadian inspected free range, organic or family farm raised meats (pork, beef, bison, duck, elk, chicken, turkey and more), with natural herbs and spices sourced from all over the world. We carefully source all our ingredients, only the best will do! You will find many of our products in many of Vancouver’s fine restaurants and eateries.

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We’re huge fans of stand-working here at Inhabitat, so when we spotted this cool work pod that channels the power of pedaling, we were immediately enamored. The WeBike is a super-eco-friendly work desk that not only promotes co-working and exercise, but it’s made from sustainable materials and turns all your foot motion into power for your gadgets!

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Video: Playful Platypus Gets Belly Rubs and a Snack

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Me if you use those fingers correctly.

omg I almost spit out the water I was drinking 

a million gallons of fun

The Daily Routines of Famous Creative People cleverly organizes the daily schedules of famous artists, philosophers, writers, and composers as recorded in their own diaries and letters. Not only does it show how they switched gears between creating, sleeping, and leisure time, but the chart is fully interactive including quotes from each individual. I would love to see a version of this with modern creatives (and more women) as well. (via Coudal)

Update: The information used to create the infographic comes from the book Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Currey.

A Canadian museum has snapped up the world's oldest-known ice hockey stick -- made out of maple -- for $300,000.

The "Moffatt stick" was hewn in the 1830s in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, "from a single piece of sugar maple," the Canadian Museum of History said Friday.

"Hockey is Canada's game -- we developed it and we cherish it like no other country in the world," said Mark O'Neill, the museum president, who called the stick an example of the facility's "national treasures."



The stick was owned by one family -- the Moffatts -- from its creation until the early 1980s, when it was given to a barbershop owner who then sold it in 2008 to the man the museum bought it from.

The museum, located in Ottawa's suburbs, said that genealogical evidence and oral histories, as well as scientific analysis of the stick's "wood, wear and paint," were used to verify its authenticity.

Hockey-mad Canadians will not be able to see the stick, however, until 2017, when renovations at the museum -- Canada's busiest with 1.2 million visitors per year -- are completed.


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That possum is straight up casting a spell. 

What makes the perfect meatball? For me, the goal is a plump, juicy ball of highly seasoned meat that's so tender a spoon can pass right through it with almost no resistance. Here's how to make 'em at home. Read More

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Goofy, Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse’s cameo in The Little Mermaid

Proof kingdom hearts actually happened

George and Amal Clooney made their first North American red carpet appearance as a married couple at the 2015 Golden Globes, and Ryan Seacrest may have been more excited to greet the newlyweds than anybody else.

The Cecil B. DeMille award honouree and his multi-hyphenate lawyer wife stopped to chat with the E! host on their way into the awards show, only to receive an unexpected gift. Still excited about the pair's marital status, Seacrest gave George a T-shirt that read "Game Over" to commemorate their new union and poke fun at his former status as one of Hollywood's eternal bachelors.

Amal's "Really?" expression and polite laugh said it all.

Seacrest then pointed out that each member of the crew was wearing the shirt, too. Once the camera came back to the Clooneys, George spun the sentiment and told the single Seacrest, "It's all up to you now."

Well, it's the thought that counts.

Amal Clooney is all of us. #GoldenGlobes pic.twitter.com/7hUsx9J4jh

— Elizabeth Plank (@feministabulous) January 12, 2015

WATCH the awkward moment at the video above.

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Hypebeast tours inside a California Sriracha factory, with narration by the sauce company’s founder, David Tran.

Tran walks us through the whole process of the iconic condiment’s lifespan, from inception of idea to execution of product. David started the company in 1980 by hand packing the infamous sauce by hand with a miniature spoon, sourcing only the freshest ingredients to be sure that the element of spice was just right. Now, 35 years later, the only thing that has changed is the process of manufacture, with the quality and origin of Sriracha chillies remaining the same. Quality control is of utmost importance to David with an idealistic business projection to make the sauce spicier in the future. Every detail is painstakingly monitored, even down to the ingenious packaging whereby the color of the lid serves a significant purpose. David Tran says Sriracha can be used on any food so squeeze some onto your breakfast/lunch/dinner and enjoy the video above.

TAKE ANOTHER BREAK

The post SMOKE BREAK #1134 | Inside A Sriracha Sauce Factory With Founder/CEO, David Tran appeared first on Scout Magazine.

Gone are the days of replacing batteries and the inconvenience of plugging your device in to charge after Misfit and Swarovski revealed the world’s first solar-powered fitness tracker. Misfit is know for its clever tracker design, which can look like jewelry depending on how you wear it, so it was a natural fit for the blingy Swarovski. But even though it may look like a flashy piece of arm candy, it is actually a very smart tracker that can help you get fit using the power of the sun.

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Here’s a great way to start enjoying more of your daily activities al fresco. Custom designed and handcrafted by Studio Souffle, these amazing inflatable structures are portable designs that can be popped up just about anywhere. There really are no limits to these distinctive structures, which can be used as everything from creative offices to movie theaters to quiet retreats.

+ Studio Souffle

 

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This is an instructional video from Dave Hax showing you how to steal extra pieces from a frozen pizza after you've cooked it. Basically you cut a strip out of the middle in both directions, then put the now significantly smaller pizza back together, then cut slices normally. Your friends will never know the difference! Or know immediately and call you fat and greedy. Hoarding extra pizza for yourself at your own pizza party? You need to take a good long look at yourself in the mirror. Keep going for the video.

The world’s oceans breed some of the most spectacular-looking creatures around – from the mantis shrimp to an apparent “living rock”, there’s all manner of aquatic eye candy to behold. And the two cartoonish, adorable species that fall into the delightfully nicknamed “fried egg jellyfish” category are no exception.

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Designer Kate Brown designed Etazin, a series of sculptural and interactive outdoor lounge chairs that turn a full 360 degrees to take advantage of surrounding views. Inspired by the Asian moon gate garden elements, the modern lounge chairs are made of steel and are approximately eight-and-a-half feet tall and wide. The striking art piece come in either a square or circle version, and is coated with a high-grade polyurethane to protect against rusting.

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The Autobahn 7, Germany's longest highway, runs straight through Hamburg. Over the years, it's grown more and more congested, now carrying about 152,000 cars and trucks per day.

To deal with the increasing traffic, the city is turning to a pretty conventional solution: widening virtually the entire stretch of the highway that runs through the city.

But to deal with the noise — and the way that the highway has severed neighborhoods that were connected before it was built in the 1980s — Fast Company reports that the city has come to a pretty interesting solution: they're burying a few miles of the highway and covering it with parks, community gardens, and housing development.

(City of Hamburg)

The project, which is called the Hamburger Deckel and is projected to cost $800 million, comes after 20 years of lobbying from a local residents' initiative called "Ohne Dach ist Krach" (German for "No Roof, Too Much Racket"). Burying the highway is a practical way to meet a city noise abatement ordinance passed in 2005, as the sound barriers built in most places (including virtually everywhere in the US) can only cut down on noise by a factor of about half.

The tunnel project also has some other benefits: in covering what will be an eight-lane freeway, it'll provide a substantial amount of new parkland, along with space to build a neighborhood of 1700 homes. At its northern end, the new park will also link existing parkland, establishing a new greenbelt. Work is starting this year, and it's projected to be finished in 2022.

(HOCHTIEF Solutions)

Of course, there's also another solution to eliminating traffic noise: tearing out urban highways entirely. In the US, Seattle is burying a downtown waterfront highway at a cost of $4.2 billion (and counting), and there's a pretty good case to be made that the city would have been better off removing the highway and replacing it with parks or pedestrian-friendly development.

But there are significant differences between the Hamburg and Seattle projects. One is that the Autobahn 7 is a crucial national highway that carries lots of traffic across the country — something that isn't true for Seattle's Alaskan Way Viaduct — making it much harder to tear down without major disruptions.

(HOCHTIEF Solutions)

Additionally, Hamburg's project is less ambitious, in an engineering sense. Its highway is simply being slightly lowered, with a six-to-ten foot cap placed on top of it. Seattle is taking on the huge challenge of digging the widest deep-bore tunnel ever, 120 feet underground — which explains why the boring machine got stuck last year, halting construction until April at soonest and leading to cost over-runs.

Further reading:

• Before-and-after maps show how freeways transformed America's cities
• The case for tearing down urban freeways
• The "fundamental rule" of traffic: building new roads just makes people drive more

The fifth season of Game of Thrones will premiere on Sunday, April 12, at 9 p.m. Eastern, HBO announced today at the Television Critics Association winter press tour. The show ended its last season with the characters even more scattered to the winds than usual, so it will be interesting to see how season five draws them back together.

Ostensibly, the fifth season will adapt material from A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons, the fourth and fifth books in George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series. However, many storylines from those books — most notably that of Bran Stark, who's traveling North in search of the source of his mystical dreams — have already been depicted in the series. (Indeed, it seems Bran is sitting season five out.)

What we expect to happen

As the show has gone on, it has deviated more and more significantly from Martin's texts, so it's impossible to say with any certainty just what will happen in season five. But we have high hopes for the story of Arya Stark, in particular, as she leaves behind Westeros and travels after her destiny across the Narrow Sea. If her story stays true to the books, she should be training for a very interesting career change soon.

In terms of stories that are deviating from the books, we're interested to see what happens with Arya's older sister, Sansa, who is slowly but surely becoming a master manipulator, with the help of her new, creepy mentor figure Littlefinger. And set photos — which we won't repost here but will link to — suggest big changes for Jaime and Tyrion Lannister.

The show has only grown in popularity with every year. Last season, it officially became HBO's most successful show ever. And with the April release date, we won't have to wait long to find out what happens next.

Veep and Silicon Valley premiere dates

Both the political comedy Veep and the tech world comedy Silicon Valley will also return with Game of Thrones on April 12. They will air at 10 p.m. Eastern and 10:30 p.m. Eastern, respectively.

Mercedes-Benz just unveiled its vision of the future of the automobile at Consumer Electronics Show“>CES 2015 – and it drives itself. The F 015 Luxury in Motion research vehicle is “an illustration of how the car will grow beyond a means of transport and into a private retreat bringing comfort and luxury to a new level.” The autonomous car is basically an ultra-luxe lounge on wheels where passengers can relax, chat, and even take a nap while being driven to their location.

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being an adult means that sourdough toast with provencal honey is dinner.

and no one can tell me different.

The Golden Globes are like The Academy Awards' more laid-back, fun-loving sibling.

Give celebrities ample alcohol and a more relaxed environment, and the funny just comes naturally. Don't believe me? Check out some of these greatest moments from recent Golden Globes ceremonies (in no particular order):

The 72nd Golden Globes will be held on Sunday, January 11, with the red carpet arrivals starting at 6 p.m. ET.


Their Love Will Go On

In 2009, Kate Winslet won two Globes in one night, and longtime co-star/pal Leonardo DiCaprio was there to blow her a kiss. One of the cuter moments we've seen at an awards show.





Telling It Like It Is

One of the reasons we love Cate Blanchett is she says what's on her mind. Just give her all the awards.





Weird For The Sake Of Weird

By now, we're used to Jennifer Lawrence's antics, but here's one of her first zany awards-show moments, sneaking up on an unsuspecting Taylor Swift.





Bringing The Vulgarity

Awards shows are usually unbearable because of their G-rated nature. Thankfully, people like Elisabeth Moss spice up the proceedings by doing things like flipping the bird on a live red carpet. (Too bad the deft cameraperson did their job and got out of there as fast as possible.)





Just Shameless

Emma Thompson became everyone's favourite celebrity when she tossed her Louboutins aside and gave her martini to the Golden Globe girl to hold while she read the damn card.





Impressions For The Win

In one of her best imitations of the night, co-host Tina Fey took on Johnny Depp. Nailed it.





Awk. Ward.

Sorry Diddy, even Bono doesn't wanna go there.





Living The Dream

Amy Poehler lived many peoples' fantasies by getting up-close and personal with (a then-single) George Clooney.





Saying Goodbye In The Best Possible Way

When "Breaking Bad" walked away with the majority of the TV drama Globes in 2014 (including Best Drama), series star Aaron Paul reminded us why we will never forget Jesse Pinkman, or any other "BB" cast member, ever.





Whoops!

Renee Zellweger took a trip to the bathroom while her award was being presented because she didn't think she was going to win. So much for these things being rigged!





Am I Hallucinating?

Sure, this can be said for us, the audience, as well as Glenn Close herself. Sometimes at the Globes celebs go all out, like when Close did ... um ... this.





Inappropriate City

The fact that this happened -- ever -- is so cringe-inducing it hurts. Yes, that's designer and red-carpet correspondent Isaac Mizrahi feeling the "boning" of Scarlett Johansson's dress. The fact that a) he's a designer and b) he's gay don't make this at all OK. In any universe.





We've All Felt It

Even though Steve Carell is joking (obviously), it's nice to see celebs not taking themselves too seriously with their fellow nominees. Hope the Globes make us laugh as much this time around!





Complete List Of 2015 Golden Globes Nominees

Marlboro Man, the kids, and I are in Colorado this week. We stay in the same place whenever we come here, and one of the challenges is always figuring out what everyone’s going to eat. This is one of my favorite snacks to whip up when we’re away from home, when all I have at my disposal is a single cookie sheet, an oven, a few other basic kitchen items, and whatever grocery staples I pick up at the supermarket the day we arrive.

Hyacinth first enlightened me about this kid-friendly (and mom-friendly, and dad-friendly, and anyone-friendly) snack years and years ago when we first started homeschooling our kids and we used to swap easy recipe ideas; these delicious wonders were all the rage among homeschooling moms (well, all moms!) at the time. They’re a cinch to whip up, and perfectly satisfying for a handful of kids. Think of them as little portable apple-peanut butter pies!

I made a batch yesterday after we finished skiing (Breaking News: I did not fall) and I decided to take a walk on the wild side and take pics of the process for you. It was kind of fun to do a cooking post in a foreign land!

Well, if you can call Colorado foreign. Which you can’t. So never mind.

 
Start with an apple or two or nineteen, depending on how many Apple Peanut Butter Delights you wish to wind up with.

These are Honeycrisp. I am obsessed.

 
 
 
If you have an apple corer, you can cut out the core. If you don’t, like I didn’t, just cut around the core like this!

 
 
 
Then just slice the apple pieces…

 
 
 
Into really thin slices. The apples will only cook in the oven for a short time, so the thinner you can go, the better.

 
 
 
Next, grab some English muffins! These are whole wheat, but you can use whatever kind you like.

 
 
 
Grab about a tablespoon of peanut butter per English muffin half…

 
 
 
And smear it all over the surface in an even layer.

 
 
 
Then come the apples! Lay a few slices on top, stacking them here and there.

And yes. Sometime before 2016, I hope to remove the last of the glitter polish from my thumbnail. It just hasn’t been much of a squeaky wheel lately.

It’s a good thing God doesn’t care about what fingernails look like.

 
 
 
Now, to make these delights especially delightful, throw some sugar and a little cinnamon into a bowl.

 
 
 
And mix it together.

 
 
 
I bought the very smallest size of sugar the supermarket had, but this was the smallest cinnamon container they had. If I were smart, I would have brought back the cinnamon I bought last year, or if I’d been really smart, the cinnamon I bought the year before that.

But who remembers to pack cinnamon when they’re going on a family vacation?

Not I, that’s who.

 
 
 
Next, sprinkle the mixture over the top of each muffin.

 
 
 
I’m pretty generous with the cinnamon sugar, because eventually it will caramelize under the broiler in the oven and…well, again, that’s where the whole *delightful* thing comes in.

 
 
 
Then just pop the pan into a 350 degree oven for 10 minutes for the first stage.

 
 
 
And here’s what will happen during that 10 minutes: The English muffin will toast slightly. The peanut butter will become warm and gooey. The apples will soften slightly. And the cinnamon-sugar mixture will settle into the whole thing and create a miracle.

But the miracle’s not over yet.

 
 
 
After this stage, turn on the broiler and pop the pan back into the oven on one of the lower racks for 2 to 3 minutes. Watch them the whole time to make sure they don’t burn….and here’s what will happen during that 2 to 3 minutes…

 
 
 
The edges of the English muffins will get slightly crisper, the apples will get nice and hot, and the cinnamon-sugar mixture will bubble and caramelize, and…

 
 
 
Well, it’s just darn delicious.

And here are some variations:

* Use softened butter instead of peanut butter. You’ll wind up with nice little apple pie treats.
* Use brown sugar instead of white sugar. Or do a mix of white and brown!
* Add a sprinkle of nutmeg to the cinnamon-sugar mixture.
* Change up the bread you use: Bagels, cinnamon-raisin bread, sourdough…yum!

Here’s the handy dandy printable. Enjoy!

 

Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor and 2008 Republican presidential hopeful who's considering a second run in 2016, has found another way to differentiate himself from President Obama: attacking Jay-Z and Beyoncé.

Huckabee is set to release a book titled God, Guns, Grits and Gravy on January 20, presumably as a move in the invisible primary. According to early excerpts obtained by U.S. News and World Report, Huckabee has some hot opinions about hip-hop's leading couple.

In the book, Huckabee talks about Beyoncé and Jay-Z's performance of "Drunk In Love" at the 2014 Grammy Awards where the two danced around a chair in a cloud of smoke and talent:

"My reaction: Why?" he writes. "Beyoncé is incredibly talented — gifted, in fact. She has an exceptional set of pipes and can actually sing. She is a terrific dancer — without the explicit moves best left for the privacy of her bedroom. Jay-Z is a very shrewd businessman, but I wonder: Does it occur to him that he is arguably crossing the line from husband to pimp by exploiting his wife as a sex object?"

Here's the performance:

Huckabee is right about Beyoncé being talented, but he gets into several levels of muddy sexism with where he goes next. First, Beyoncé's "explicit moves" are mostly done on her own on a chair, and fully fit the themes of the song. Second, any idea that Beyoncé herself is not a shrewd businessman is completely misguided. The woman dropped an album in the middle of the night and no one knew. They are at least equally good business people, and Beyoncé is her own person. If she wants to dance on stage sexily, she will. The idea that Jay-Z controls her decisions is absolutely absurd.

Huckabee's inclusion of the word "arguably" is a smart one. Because outright calling Jay-Z, a rapper, father, and husband, a pimp is actually insane.

To get people excited about outerspace, this is a small series of travel posters designed by NASA, advertising nearby (nearby being relative) earth-like planets that have the potential for liquid water on their surfaces. Obviously, I would vacation on any one of these, even without water, just to get away from the other people who live in my apartment building. The fine print on the three posters, in order:

Kepler-186f is the first Earth-size planet discovered in the potentially 'habitable zone' around another star, where liquid water could exist on the planet's surface. Its star is much cooler and redder than our Sun. If plant life does exist on a planet like Kepler-186f, its photosynthesis could have been influenced by the star's red-wavelength photons, making for a color palette that's very different than the greens on Earth. This discovery was made by Kepler, NASA's planet hunting telescope. Twice as big in volume as the Earth, HD 40307g straddles the line between "Super-Earth" and "mini-Neptune" and scientists aren't sure if it has a rocky surface or one that's buried beneath thick layers of gas and ice. One thing is certain though: at eight time the Earth's mass, its gravitational pull is much, much stronger. Like Luke Skywalker's planet "Tatooine" in Star Wars, Kepler-16b orbits a pair of stars. Depicted here as a terrestrial planet, Kepler-16b might also be a gas giant like Saturn. Prospects for life on this unusual world aren't good, as it has a temperature similar to that of dry ice. But the discovery indicates that the movie's iconic double-sunset is anything but science fiction.

Granted distant exo-planets are cool and all, but if we're going to advertise space tourism, why not start a little closer to home? I'm talking about the moon. You don't even need to build a base, just send me up there with a couple warm blankets and some astronaut ice cream and I'll camp it out. I guarantee you won't hear me complaining. "Because you'll be dead." Shhhhhhhhh -- it's how I want to go. Keep going for the other two posters.