Food Day 2015 raises public awareness about healthy food

Mark Jones grew up learning about the value of food from his father, who worked in urban and homeless communities as a master gardener in Los Angeles.

“I was fortunate to have a father with a green thumb,” said Jones, who is now the owner of Big Day Catering in Los Angeles.

Jones was one of four chefs that hosted booths at Food Day 2015 held at Los Angeles City Hall by the Food Policy Council. An annual gathering, Food Day is meant to help people appreciate their access to healthy food and raise public awareness of giving back to the community.

During his first time participating in Food Day, Jones presented two dishes: a turkey meatball crostini sub with kale and a creamy corn soup.

Jones’ father worked for nonprofit organizations such as Food From the ‘Hood and Dome Village, Jones said. Growing up in Los Angeles in an environment that promotes providing healthy and sufficient food to low-income communities, Jones learned the importance of food and volunteering. Jones said his father provided organic food to the poor before the term “organic” was even created.

“As a child, I was blessed to see farm-to-table organic from the time I was born, and as I got older, I experienced the time and love it takes to prepare homemade food,” Jones said.

Similar to Jones, chef Lane Gold said she aims to provide food for the homeless. It was also Gold’s first time at Food Day, as she wanted to promote healthy eating for the homeless.

Gold worked at South Central Farm, one of the largest urban farms in the United States, for more than two decades, though the farm has battled settlement issues for years between clothing stores and park space.

“We are on the front line fighting to save South Central Farm,” Gold said. “The rest of the food that we provide goes to Skid Row, homeless people in Los Angeles.“

Artist chef Genevieve Erin O’Brien served two types of popcorns. One of them is called “Post-Colonial Popcorn,” since it has the strong flavor of Indian curry.

“You can think of it as a reverse colonialism,” O’Brien said.

The other popcorn, O’Brien said, was called “Orientalize This!” and was meant to represent Asian American feminists. It was made of organic white chestnut, honey ginger and Yuzu salt. O’Brien said while some people think of Asian Americans as a sweet and docile group, the ginger gives a sharp and fun twist.

She holds spice workshops several times a month, and teaches culinary lessons to children from 8 to 12 years old at Common Threads, an edible schoolyard in Los Angeles. She uses these activities to raise public awareness of and interest in food.

“I enjoy sharing the experience of making food with people,” O’Brien said. “I joined Food Day because my ethics match with the Food Policy Council’s ethics.”

O’Brien said she insists on using quality ingredients for making her food and pays her employees more than minimum wage to protect the rights of people in the food industry.

“I strive for an ethical approach at all levels of production,” O’Brien said.

Chef Bryce Fluellen, on the other hand, is more experienced with Food Day. Fluellen works on the Los Angeles Food Policy Council, specifically on the subcommittee called Healthy Cornerstone Committee. This is his second time presenting dishes at Food Day. He made sweet potato chipotle bisque topped with crispy collard strips.

Fluellen said that as a black man he wants to help improve access to healthy food for communities of color. He added that communities of color have higher chances of acquiring food- and lifestyle-related diseases such as diabetes.

“My vision for food equity is that we continue to challenge and push back against the status quo that says our food system is too complex and big to fix,” Fluellen said. “My vision is that the good food soldiers fighting the fight for justice every day have on their long-distance shoes and are prepared to keep running until we reach the finish line.”

Study Suggests Autism Is Being Overdiagnosed

Autism may be overdiagnosed in as many as 9 percent of children, U.S. government researchers reported Friday.

It might be because autism covers such a broad range of symptoms and behaviors and is difficult to diagnose, and it may also be because increasing awareness about autism means there are resources to help kids who get the diagnosis, the team at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the University of Washington

The survey also suggests that up to 4 percent of children are helped with early therapy, or outgrow their symptoms, Stephen Blumberg of the National Center for Health Statistics and colleagues found.

"The results of this study suggest that some children with developmental delays, attentional flexibility problems, or other conditions may be receiving provisional yet inaccurate diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder from nonspecialists," they wrote in their report published in the journal Autism.

It fits in with what other researchers have found.

The CDC found a 30 percent spike in autism diagnoses among 8-year-olds between 2008 and 2010 to one in 68 children. It was a startling finding and one that fueled fears that something was causing more children to develop the condition.

But a report published earlier this year suggested that many cases of developmental delays had simply been reclacyfied in recent years.

Autism spectrum disorder can range from mild symptoms to profound mental retardation, debilitating repetitive behaviors and an inability to communicate. Genes have a strong influence and autism runs in families.

There's no cure, but experiments with early treatment suggest it might be possible to help children overcome some difficulties.

Blumberg's team followed up on a national survey of more than 1,500 parents of kids with autism.

"Approximately 13 percent of the children ever diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder were estimated to have lost the diagnosis, and parents of 74 percent of them believed it was changed due to new information," Blumberg's team wrote.

This means 9 percent of the children originally diagnosed with autism got that diagnosis changed. Many got a new diagnosis of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder or ADHD, the researchers found.

"It is possible this is the result of the high overlap between the symptoms of these disorders," they wrote.

It's possible that language and developmental delays look like autism, and it's also possible that kids with other learning disabilities are given an autism diagnosis because services are more available in some places for children with autism, they said.

Did you drink enough water today?

Eight, 8 oz. glasses of water a day: it's a rule that's been burned into our brains for years as the ideal amount of fluid to drink each day. Yet no matter how many times experts say that's not quite accurate, many still believe "8×8" is the magic amount.

The truth: How much water you should drink each day really, truly depends on the person, Robert A. Huggins, PhD, of the University of Connecticut explained to Health. "Fluid needs are dynamic and need to be individualized from person to person. Factors such as sex, environmental conditions, level of heat acclimatization, exercise or work intensity, age, and even diet need to be considered."

What this means is that simply listening to your thirst is the best way to gauge when to drink. Another way to monitor hydration is to look at your pee before you flush. You want it to look like lemonade; if it's darker than that, you should down a glass.

But what about exercise? To gauge how much water you specifically should take in during exercise, Huggins recommends doing a small experiment on yourself.

First, before you work out weigh yourself wearing with little to no clothing. "If you can, [make sure you're hydrated beforehand] and avoid drinking while you exercise to make the math easy," Huggins says. But if you get thirsty, don't ignore it: drink some and make sure to measure the amount.

After you're done exercising, weigh yourself again. Then, take your first weight and subtract the second weight, and you'll end up with how much fluid you lost. Convert this to kilograms (if you search it, Google will return the number for you or try a metric converter), then drink that amount in liters. (If you drank some water during exercise, subtract the amount of water you drank from your final total.)

This is your "sweat rate," Huggins says. It's the amount of water you should drink during or after your next workout to replace what you've lost. (You can also use an online calculator for sweat rate; just plug in your numbers.)

Complicated much? We agree. Huggins estimates that most people lose between one to two liters of sweat for each hour of moderate intensity exercise. But ultimately thirst should still be your guide.

Why it's important to get the right amount You already know that dehydration can be dangerous, but over-hydrating may actually be just as bad.

In fact, a new consensus report in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found that many athletes are at risk of exercise-associated hyponatremia, which is an electrolyte imbalance that can be caused by drinking too much liquid. This can lead to nausea and vomiting, headaches, fatigue, and in serious cases, coma and even death.

While it was previously thought to only be a concern for long-distance athletes competing in events like marathons and Ironmans, the paper (which was funded by CrossFit, Inc.) concluded that many athletes are actually dangerously over-drinking during events as short as 10K races and even bikram yoga classes, Tamara Hew-Butler, PhD, lead author of the paper, explained to Health.

Because "it is impossible to recommend a generalized range especially during exercise when conditions are dynamic and changing, there is not one size that fits all!" she adds.

So the best method to keep you in that sweet spot between over- and under-hydrated is, as with many things, to listen to your body.

Nextbit Robin Goes Up for Pre-Orders in Several Regions Including India

The "cloud-first" smartphone Nextbit Robin is now available for pre-order in many regions including India. The handset, which starts at $399 (roughly Rs. 26,000), will cost you another $70 (roughly Rs. 4,600) to get it shipped to India.

Next bit, a startup that boasts of veterans from Apple,Google, and HTC on its team, has given the Robin top-of-the-line hardware specifications, and addresses the limited storage issue in smartphones with a cloud-based storage solution. It automatically backs up photos and other data that you haven't used recently to the cloud to free up space on your device.

The company had put the smartphone up on Kickstarter for financial support, where it recived n overwhelming response. For the $500,000 (roughly Rs. 3.26 crores) goal the company had set, it received $1,362,344 (roughly Rs. 8.9 crores) in funding.

The Nexbit Robin comes with a 5.2-inch full-HD (1080x1920 pixels) display which is embedded in a funky plastic body. It is powered by Qualcomm's hexa-core Snapdragon 808 processor coupled with 3GB of RAM, and 32GB of inbuilt storage that can't be expanded using a microSD card. The device also comes with a fingerprint sensor.

Other features of the Nextbit Robin include a 13-megapixel rear camera, a 5-megapixel front-facing camera, a 2680mAh battery, and a USB Type-C charging port. The single-SIM capable device supports LTE, 3G, Wi-Fi and other connectivity options. On the software side, the device will ship with Android 6.0 Marsmallow. The company noted that the Robin is completely carrier unlocked. The bootloader of the device is unlocked too, which essentially means that one could flash their own favoured custom Android ROMs on the handset. The handset comes in two colour variants: Mint, and Midnight.

WikiLeaks Publishes CIA Director John Brennan's Emails

The WikiLeaks organization posted from what appears to be CIA Director John Brennan's personal email account, including a draft security clearance application containing personal information.

The material presumably was taken in a compromise of Brennan's email account by the hacker who told The New York Post he is a high school student protesting American foreign policy. The hacker claimed he posed as a Verizon employee and tricked another employee into revealing Brennan's personal information.

Brennan was seeking a security clearance while applying for a job as White House counterterrorism adviser. It was not immediately clear whether any national security information was compromised in the release of the clearance application, which includes his wife's Social Security number and the names of people Brennan worked with over a long prior career at the CIA.

A CIA statement called the postings a "crime."

"The Brennan family is the victim," the agency said in an unattributed statement, in keeping with agency policy. "This attack is something that could happen to anyone and should be condemned, not promoted. There is no indication that any the documents released thus far are classified. In fact, they appear to be documents that a private citizen with national security interests and expertise would be expected to possess."

The documents all date from before 2009, when Brennan joined the White House staff; before that, he was working in the private sector. Aside from the partially completed clearance application, none of the documents appears to be sensitive.

In a section of his security clearance application covering foreign contacts, Brennan writes that in August 2007: "I have had lunch twice and dinner once with Alan Lovell, a UK colleague with whom I worked closely during the last three years of my government career. Alan is currently posted at the UK Embassy in Washington."

Brennan's "government career" to that point consisted of decades at the CIA. It's not clear what Lovell's role was at the British Embassy. The State Department in 2009 listed Lovell as a "counselor" in the British Embassy. His LinkedIn profile currently lists him as working at the British Ministry of Defense.

The documents include a partially written position paper on the future of intelligence, a memo on Iran, a paper from a Republican lawmaker on CIA interrogations and a summary of a contract dispute between the CIA and Brennan's private company, the Analysis Corporation, which had filed a formal protest after losing a contract dealing with terrorist watch lists.

In a post-election memo, purportedly written to Obama, Brennan laid out a pragmatic roadmap on dealings with Iran. His suggestions are similar to the carrot-and-stick approach the administration would eventually use in nudging Tehran toward joining negotiations over slowing the momentum of its growing nuclear reactor program.

"The United States has no choice but to find ways to coexist - and to come to terms - with whatever government holds power in Tehran," Brennan said in the three-page memo. He added that Iran would have to "come to terms" with the US and that "Tehran's ability to advance its political and economic interests rests on a non-hostile relationship with the United States and the West."

In the memo, Brennan advised Obama to "tone down" rhetoric with Iran, and swiped at former President George W. Bush for his "gratuitous" labeling of Iran as part of a worldwide "axis of evil." Brennan also said the US should establish a direct dialogue with Tehran and "seek realistic, measurable steps." Although he didn't specifically call for the regime of financial sanctions that the Obama administration, along with Europe, Russia and China, pushed against Iran, Brennan told the president-elect to "hold out meaningful carrots as well as sticks."

Back to the Future Day – The 2015 Gadget Predictions That Happened!

To some today is only October 21st 2015. But to many of us this is more than just another date on the calendar, because according to popular 80s sequel Back to the Future II this is the day when Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) arrives in the time-travelling DeLorean from 1985. Yes, it really is the correct day and this is not based on another annoying internet meme trying to blur our childhood memories!
Today will be filled with mostly celebration but also a tinge of disappointment as some of the big predictions according to the 2015 as seen in BTTF2 have not yet come true as many would have hoped. We still need roads, despite Doc Brown’s suggestion that we won’t need them. Excitable child fans of 30 years ago were this morning grumpy grown-ups sat in traffic because we’re not really any closer to getting those waste-fuelled flying cars.

But it’s not a total nightmare future because some of the cool stuff from the movie has actually happened. You might not have noticed some of these smaller details while you were waiting for your hover board to show up, but there’s a fair amount of modern tech you can spot inBack to the Future II if you look closely.

For example – You’ve probably forgotten all about the dog-walking drone, right? Yes there are drones in future Hill Valley – and in the real 2015 these unmanned aerial vehicles are becoming common place for combat and reconnaissance as well as being widely retailed for personal use.
Also think back (or forward) to the McFly family home. It’s filled with wearable tech and items that could be considered modern smart-devices. From Marty Jr’s video spectacles (which in the film are JVC branded) that appear to work much like the Sony Project Morpheus and Oculus Rift – and the front door of 3793 Oakhurst Street on which there was a finger print scanner used to unlock it. This is a feature similar to the one recently introduced on smartphones including the Samsung Galaxy S6 and Sony Xperia Z5.

There are also references to holograms in the town square (Jaws 19!), touch screens, video calling and wireless payments/internet banking when Marty Snr. is asked to wire funds electronically to a colleague and virtual reality gaming is touched on, so to speak, in the Café 80s scene when Marty demonstrates his skills on a shooting game and is teased by kids about having to ‘use your hands’ to play it (coincidentally, in our 2015, one of those youngsters is Lord of the Rings star Elijah Wood).
So, you don’t have it so bad in this version of 2015, do you? And despite many of Back to the Future II’s 2015 predictions begin fairly tongue-in-cheek and fantastical you can look forward to owning that hoverboard very soon as they’re actually being developed as we speak. Heavy!

Asenal Beat Bayern munich 2-0 at the emirates stadium,theres the five talking points

1 Arsenal go toe-to-toe and conjure up a famous result
Rarely has an Arsenal triumph tasted so sweet for their supporters. The north London club are back from the brink and if there were individual heroes, not least Petr Cech and the defensive players in front of him – the efforts of Per Mertesacker and Laurent Koscielny to suppress the previously irrepressible Robert Lewandowski were a sight to behold – the overall impression was of a club showing their mettle. Bayern Munich had arrived in seemingly invincible touch and with Arsène Wenger describing them as the best team in Europe. The visitors looked good for long spells but they could not breach an Arsenal side who, as Pep Guardiola had predicted, fought like animals. But this was no mere rearguard triumph. Arsenal went toe-to-toe with Bayern; they created (and missed) chances before they bent the result to the sheer force of their will. A 16th consecutive qualification for the Champions League last 16 is back on.

2 Costa and Thiago enjoy a skill-off
In what was a gripping and often thrilling encounter, two Bayern players appeared to be engaged in their own private duel. Would Douglas Costa or Thiago Alcântara out-skill the other to win the super-fly player of the night award? Costa, the winger, took the brinkmanship to another level in the first half with two quite dazzling moves to flummox Héctor Bellerín. The Arsenal full-back was not the only one inside the stadium who wondered what had happened and how. Costa was a slippery menace and on a couple of other occasions he fizzed shots narrowly off target. Thiago’s moves were smoother but the midfielder’s balance and awareness were as much a feature of the evening. He was central to Bayern’s possession game, which at times felt strangely mesmeric while his quick feet got him out of tight spots with ridiculous ease.

3 Cech makes belated Arsenal debut in Europe
When Petr Cech signed for Arsenal from Chelsea over the summer, in what was the club’s only major signing, the goalkeeper might reasonably have expected to have tasted Champions League action by the middle of October. Not so. Wenger had preferred David Ospina against both Dinamo Zagreb and Olympiakos – and to disastrous effect in th second game. Ospina will be haunted by his own goal handling blunder for some time. Ospina was ruled out here with a shoulder injury, which allowed Wenger to restore Cech without any loss of face, and there were several flickers that both manager and player could enjoy. Cech made a big block from Thiago in the 11th minute and another diving save from Arturo Vidal later in the first half. His handling was true throughout and in the second half, he twice stood tall to deny Robert Lewandowski.

4 Neuer veers from the sublime to the ridiculous
Theo Walcott had to do better. From such a distance, completely unmarked, in a central position and in such a big game, the very best finishers do not give goalkeepers a save to make. What Manuel Neuer did next, however, sent jaws dropping to the floor and fingers across the continent reaching for expression in 140 characters or less. Not only did Neuer read Walcott’s intentions to get across his line but he had the strength in one of those mighty paws to bat the header clear. At that point, the eulogies about the world’s best goalkeeper were being penned. And yet Neuer would finish as a villain, courtesy of the rush of blood that saw him leap and flap at Santi Cazorla’s late free‑kick, from which the substitute, Oliver Giroud, scrambled home his goal. Neuer appeared to be distracted by Laurent Koscielny and Thomas Müller in front of him. He had no excuses.

5 Fans show solidarity over ticket prices
A sizeable chunk of the visiting enclosure had been empty at kick-off time, as Bayern’s fans voted with their feet and boycotted the opening minutes. They had wanted to express their anger at having been charged £64 per ticket and, when they began to filter into the stadium after six minutes, their counterparts in the Arsenal seats stood to applaud them. The home fans have long been unhappy at the monies they must find to watch their team live at the Emirates and it was lost on nobody that for the price of two tickets to this game you could afford the cheapest season tickets at Bayern. Once all of the Bayern fans were inside, they ratcheted up the volume while the Arsenal crowd were also full square behind their team. They had got the evening under way by raising red and white cards to create a mural around the ground.

Eton Mobius Solar Battery Case For iPhone 4

Eton introduced the Mobius rechargeable battery case with solar panel. Designed for the iPhone 4, the rechargeable battery case features a high-efficiency monocrystal solar panel that needs only one hour in the sun to provide an additional 25 minutes of talk time.

Differentiating itself from solar-charging solutions on the market today, Mobius features a quick charge time and the ability to store charge until you need it. The high-efficiency monocrystal solar panel re-charges the 1800 mAh Rechargeable lithium ion battery pack on the back of the case. Only one hour of solar charging provides an additional 25 minutes of talk time, 20 minutes of internet use, 35 minutes of video playback and more than two hours of audio playback. Mobius can also be charged via the included Micro-USB cable and will sync with iTunes for maximum convenience. Once the battery has been re-charged, the user is in control as to when the extra battery power is used. Mobius features a standby switch to turn off direct power transfer to the iPhone 4, allowing the case to charge and store energy in its own battery — only using the power when you need it.

The durable and ergonomic battery case has both a battery charge and solar charge indicator, so the user always knows the power status of the Mobius. Weighing only 3.4 ounces, Mobius also features a USB connection to charge the battery via computer, as well as the unique and proprietary snap fit design protects the glass on the back of the device.

Price and Availability 
The Eton Mobius is available now for $80 at Amazon.com.

How wifi works? you wanna know?

Young woman using mobile phone and laptop in coffee shop, smiling

For many frustrated web users, this is one of life’s great mysteries

Most computer users know little about how Wi-Fi works. In fact, one of the only things many do know is that sometimes it doesn’t. But even a little bit of background knowledge can go a long way towards making your Internet connection zip along.

Initially developed as a way to replace your ethernet cable — the cord that used to connect computers to the web after we ditched dial-up — Wi-Fi is a popular technology that provides interconnectivity between devices.

“People are probably most familiar with using Wi-Fi as a way to connect to the Internet, since for most people it’s the network they use at home or at work,” says Wi-Fi Alliance CEO Edgar Figueroa. “However, Wi-Fi has evolved and now it’s a replacement for many different cables such as video cables, audio cables, USB cables.”

But most importantly, Wi-Fi currently carries more than 60% of the world’s Internet traffic. Interestingly enough, this great achievement is basically done with radio waves, though it’s a little more complicated than your car stereo. Unlike the FM receiver in your car, Wi-Fi is essentially two radios communicating back and forth that use lower power and broadcast over a much shorter distance. These two radios let web users download data from the Internet as well as upload information — even just submitting addresses via your browser counts in this two-way communication.

Another way Wi-Fi is more sophisticated than terrestrial radio is that it uses the Internet Protocol to communicate. This language of the Internet makes Wi-Fi very resilient and very structured. “Every single transmission that we send and receive has that requirement for confirmation,” says Figueroa. “It takes a lot of investment and orchestration.” Imagine instead of sending data, you’re shipping a package across the world with request for delivery confirmation, says Figueroa. That’s what the Internet Protocol is like, only it applies to every single byte transmitted.

And once that data is flying through the air in radio waves, it’s subject to interference, victimized by everything from other Wi-Fi signals to radio waves emitted by microwave ovens to cement walls. That’s where Wi-Fi’s two frequencies, 2.4 gigahertz and 5 gigahertz, come in. Wi-Fi can broadcast on both frequencies, a benefit that helps its signal cut through all the noise and deliver a fast, strong signal from your wireless router to your computer.

“Essentially these frequencies are like two different FM radio stations,” says Figueroa. According to physics, the lower the frequency, the farther a transmission can go. With Wi-Fi, 2.4 gigahertz is the lower frequency, so it can reach computers located farther away than than the 5 gigahertz band can. But 5 gigahertz offers the capacity to carry more transmissions. “Imagine if you had a highway that went very far but it was only a one lane highway,” says Figueroa describing 2.4 gigahertz Wi-Fi. By comparison, 5 gigahertz Wi-Fi is a highway that doesn’t go as far, but it offers 6 lanes, so it can make traffic move faster.
“Five gigahertz Wi-Fi offers enough coverage in terms of area that it can cover the whole home,” he says. “So for most people, the distance is not really as much of an issue as the speed.”

But ever since the age of cordless phones, people have had problems with radio signals crossing. The issue continues today with neighbors and their Wi-Fi networks. One way to get around this is by setting your frequency to broadcast on a certain channel. While that sounds technical, it’s really not. Most routers are good at automatically detecting the best channel to use. And 5 gigahertz networks have many more channels than networks broadcast on the 2.4 gigahertz frequency, another reason to use the new standard, if you can.

For people who have patchy Wi-Fi, fine-tuning their network is a better idea than simply installing a network extender. “Network extenders are becoming more popular,” says Figueroa. “They’re repeaters, so they take what might be a faint signal coming from upstairs into the downstairs environment and then, essentially, they’re repeating that signal.” But the problem with these extenders is that they propel an already weak signal. So, if your wireless Internet is only transmitting at half the speed it should, the extender will repeat that signal, pushing out an even weaker signal itself. You could be standing next to the extender and have full bars on your phone or laptop because, technically, you’ve got a strong wireless signal, but your Internet speed and performance will be degraded and poor.

Wi-Fi also has a number of security features. To access the network, users must have a password for WPA2, also known as Wi-Fi Protected Access (the 2 represents the fact that this feature is in its second generation). This is where you put in your password to get onto the Wi-Fi network. There’s another security feature called Advanced Encryption Standard (better known as AES) that was developed by the U.S. government to keep data safe as it transmits from one device to the other. “Every instance of every communication that goes over Wi-Fi is exclusive in that it’s encrypted and only the two parties involved understand it,” says Figueroa.

But perhaps the most important feature of Wi-Fi is that it’s backwards compatible. This is how all your old computers are able to connect with your new, super-fast routers. “If you go buy a Wi-Fi (router) today, it works for that device you may have bought back in 2000,” says Figueroa. “There’s not too many technologies that you can say that about.”

Making Cream-Based Ice Cream

1.) Mix your base. It's easy to make a wide variety of ice cream flavors by starting with a good vanilla ice cream base. Cream-based ice cream is a bit icier and lighter than custard-based ice cream. This recipe will make one quart of ice cream, so double it if you want more. Mix up the following ingredients in a saucepan:
2 cups heavy cream
1 cup whole milk
2/3 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extractOptional:
Add 1/2 cup cocoa powder for chocolate ice cream

2) Heat until the sugar dissolves.Place the saucepan over medium high heat and heat the mixture, stirring constantly, until the sugar completely dissolves.

3) Chill the mixture in the refrigerator. Pour the cream base into a bowl, cover it, and place it in the refrigerator to cool down for an hour or two.

4) Freeze the ice cream in an ice cream maker. Pour the chilled base into your ice cream maker and freeze according to the manufacturer's instructions. Depending on what type of ice cream maker you have, the freezing process might take one or more hours.

5) Add mix-ins. When the ice cream is partially frozen, add yourfavorite mix-ins to flavor your ice cream. A vanilla base tastes wonderful with just about any type of fruit, candy or nut. Add a cup (more or less to taste) of one or more of the following:
-Sliced strawberries
-Chopped cherries
-Chopped peaches
-Chopped chocolate bar
Chopped candy bar
-Butterscotch chips
-Shredded toasted coconut
-Peanut butter
-Candied pecans
-Chopped pistachios

6) Finish freezing the ice cream.Turn the ice cream maker back on to finish the freezing process, then put the ice cream in the freezer for about 3 hours to firm it up. Enjoy your ice cream once it's frozen solid and creamy.

7 hidden and scary makeup facts

Excessive makeup can usually frighten people but as it turns out there is something much scarier in cosmetic products that we put on our faces, These are 7 scary makeup facts we arent told about in commercials, magazines or by the nice lady in the cosmetics aisle.

When you arrive home with a new red lipstick – the last thing on your mind is what’s inside it. The question we usually want to know is “Is it durable or not?”, “is it matte or glossy?”, we really don’t want to know what its made of.

1. There really aren’t any hard restrictions on makeup
The Food and Drug Administration in the United States does not check the materials that make the make-up because it is not food or medicine. This means that stuff confiscated in other places are allowed here. Parabens are related to breast cancer, Ethylene oxide or any other substance can get a straight OK in the manufacturing process.
The FDA does supervise this, but under the FD&C Act, which only checks for adulterated materials or logo authenticity.

2. Make-up companies do not have to check their products
At Least not in a way that’s seen to the public. the FDA has no authority to approve products but the companies has “legal responsibility” to make sure their products are safe.
The way to do that is to claim their product is legitimate and compare it to similar substances in other products. as long as this goes on – there is nothing to stop the product from reaching your hand

3. 80% of self-use makeup products has not been tested for safety and safe use.
This is pretty much self-explanatory.

4. “Fragrance” can actually be anything

It could be some oils boiled together in a lab or something chemical altogether, who knows? smell is smell though – it could be ANYTHING.

5. “Organic” probably doesn’t mean what you think it means
There is no standard about what can be defined as “natural” or “organic”, as long as its not leading you astray – for the FDA it’s just enough. If a product is made out of cucumber essence and 97% chemical – it can be defined as organic.

6.”Not tested on animals” and “cruelty free”?
There is no legal definition for these terms. not whatsoever. This is under ‘recommendation’ only. (although some serious companies probably don’t do experiments on animals)
So while you put on your blush, you cant really know what went on with the fluffy soft bunny in the lab.

7. The average woman put around 13 products on her face a day, this means 515 different substances on her skin.

Bradley Cooper Talks About The Fake Baby In 'American Sniper'

Bradley Cooper was nominated for an Oscar for his much-talked about performance as Chris Kyle in "American Sniper." But there's one thing people just can't stop talking about in the movie -- the fake baby used as a prop.  

Cooper visited "The Ellen Show" on Monday and discussed the fake baby gaffe with the host.
Sienna Miller, Cooper's co-star in the movie, was on "Ellen" last week and also talked about the fake baby. 

"It looked like something from 'Alien,'" said Miller. 

Correction: A previous version of this post said that Bradley Cooper played Chris Kelly in "American Sniper." He played Chris Kyle. 

"I literally, I couldn't believe it," said Cooper, who wiggled the fake baby's arm at one point during a scene to make it look more real. "I couldn't believe that we were working with the plastic baby. I was just like, 'This is nuts.'" 

In between laughs, Cooper continued, "Eat your heart out, 'Muppets."

Katina Powell: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

An escort has claimed in her new bookand in television interviews that she and others, including her two daughters, were paid thousands of dollars and given tickets to basketball games in exchange for sex with University of Louisville players and recruits.

Katina Powell, 42, alleges in the book,Breaking Cardinal Rules, that she attended more than 20 sex parties inside the basketball players’ dorm at Louisville between 2010 to 2014. She says the parties were arranged by former director of basketball operations and graduate assistant Andre McGee, who is also a former player at the school.

Five former players and recruits told ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” that they attended the parties.

“I looked in those young faces, and their eyes reflected their fear and loss of innocence. (We’ve) done so many recruits, it is sickening,” Powell said in apress release promoting the book.

Here’s what you need to know:

1. Powell Says McGee Set Up ‘Side Deals’ for the Women to Have Sex With Players

Powell told ESPN’s “Outside the Lines”that during the second stripping party she had at the players’ dorm, Andre McGeeasked her if some of the dancers would have sex for money.

“He asked me, ‘Is there any girls that want to make extra money,’ pretty much a side deal with the players. … So I asked the girls and their eyes lit up like, ‘Well, yeah,'” Powell told ESPN. “… ‘Side deals’ were sex, and if they [the dancers] wanted to make extra money, that’s what the ‘side deal’ was, sex.”

“The recruit would pick out what girl he wanted. Andre would come to me, tell me what girl the recruit wanted, and I would tell the girl and she would say her price,” Powell said.

She says McGee paid her about $10,000 during the four-year period.
Powell’s daughters, Lindsay Powell, now 24, and Rod Ni Powell, 22, were among the women who allege they were paid to have sex with players, including star guard Russ Smith, who now is in the NBA.

“I believe that McGee came to my mom and said something to her about it, and my mom came to me and I was like ‘OK,’ and we went in another room and we had sex,” Lindsay Powell told ESPN.

2. The Book’s Details Come From Journals & Text Messages She Kept During the 4-Year Period

Powell’s book, Breaking Cardinal Rules,was published by the Indianapolis Business Journal Publishing company in early October.

According to a press release promoting the book, Powell based it on five journals she kept with “details of her escort escapades, sexual encounters, murdered relatives and activities at the University of Louisville. Most of the U of L services she provided took place in the men’s dormitory where basketball players reside. Her main contact and the man who paid for her services–the school’s former director of basketball operations and former graduate assistant, Andre McGee–kept Powell and her girls busy from 2010 to 2014. She has hundreds of text exchanges with him to set up her services as well as pictures of her girls with players and recruits.”

3. A Player Said It Was ‘Like a Strip Club’

One of the players interviewed by ESPN, who spoke anonymously, described the parties as being like a strip club.

“I knew they weren’t college girls. It was crazy. It was like I was in a strip club,” the player, who did not attend Louisville, told “Outside the Lines.”

A former player who said he had sex with one of the women told ESPN that Andre McGee gave him one-dollar bills for the dancers, and then paid one of them to have sex with him in a separate room.

Another player told ESPN, that McGee “would give us the money, just the recruits. A bunch of us were sitting there while they danced. Then the players left, and the recruits chose which one [of the dancers] they wanted.”

Some of the players named in Powell’s book have denied the allegations.

Montrezl Harrell told the Houston Chronicle, “I don’t know anything about it,” Harrell said. “I didn’t too much stay at the dorm. I stayed off campus. I had a girlfriend off campus. … It was pretty shocking that took place, if it did. I’m right there with Coach [Pitino], as shocked as he is.”

Powell’s daughter, Rod Ni Powell, told ESPN that she was paid for sex with Harrell, who is now playing for the Houston Rockets in the NBA.

“Montrezl was there, and I don’t know, I guess he felt left out. He just kind of asked me if I would do it, and I did it. I got paid maybe $100, maybe a little more,” she said.

4. McGee Is Working for a New School & Has Been Placed on Administrative Leave
McGee, 28, was a Louisville player from 2005 to 2009. After his playing career ended, he became a graduate assistant, a position he held from 2010 to 2012, according to his biography on the Louisville website. He then was hired as the team’s director of basketball operations in 2012.

The Moreno Valley, California, nativemoved on to the University of Missouri-Kansas City last year. The school hasplaced him on administrative leavepending an investigation into the allegations. 
Louisville Athletic Director Tom Jurich told reporters at an August press conference, “I’m not going to turn my back on Andre McGee. He’s done a terrific job for us here as a player and a coach and I’d be shocked if he was in any way involved with something like this.”

McGee has hired a lawyer and has not commented publicly.

5. Hall of Fame Head Coach Rick Pitino Has Denied He Knew About the Parties

Head Coach Rick Pitino has denied Powell’s allegations that he knew about the parties.

Powell told ESPN that she believes Pitino knew. She says she once asked McGee if the head coach was aware of what was going on, and he replied, “He’s Rick. He knows about everything.”

She said it’s hard to imagine Pitino didn’t know. “Four years, a boatload of recruits, a boatload of dancers, loud music, alcohol, security, cameras, basketball players who came in [to the dorm] at will …”

Pitino told ESPN last week, “Not myself, not one player, not one trainer, not one assistant, not one person knew anything about any of this. If anyone did, it would have been stopped on a dime. Not one person knew anything about it.”

The coach also addressed the allegations at a press conference in August when they first emerged.

“I’m heartbroken that under my watch that anything like this could ever happen,” Pitino said. “We’re all very involved in this program and not one of us have ever heard one word about this. That bothers me. I can’t say what’s true and not true. But I can say as soon as we found out, within minutes the NCAA was called.”

Katina Powell's daughters claim having sex with UofL players

It is a story Rick Pitino and the Louisville Cardinals cannot shake.

On Tuesday, we heard from Katina Powell and her daughters for the first time about "Breaking Cardinal Rules."

Powell said there is no way she could make up the details in the book. But in an interview that aired on ESPN she had to answer tough questions, including if she let her three daughters strip and have sex with recruits when they were underage.

"That is not true. That is not true. Everyone that I dealt with was grown and were able to make their own decisions about what to do," Powell said.

A defiant Powell denies accusations her daughters or any of the other two dozen dancers she claims to have supplied for U of L basketball recruits were underage. Instead, Powell said, from 2010 to 2014, the women consented to strip and in some cases provide "side deals" for players and recruits.

"Side deals were sex and if they wanted to make extra money, that is what the side deal was," Powell said.

Two of Powell's daughters are speaking out.

Lindsay Powell, 24, admits to having sex with former Louisville star Russ Smith after being requested.

"My mom came and asked me and I was like, OK, and we went in another room and we had sex," Lindsay Powell said.

Her sister, 22-year-old Rod-Ni Powell, claims she was paid for sex with another Louisville Cardinal turned NBA player.

"Montrezl Harrell was there and I do not know, he just, I guess, he just left out so he just kind of asked me if, you know, I would do it and I did it. I got paid like a hundred, maybe a little more," Rod-Ni Powell said.

Katina Powell said she did what she did as a way of helping with the university's recruiting process. Once, she said, former Director of Basketball Operations Andre McGee orchestrated.

"He would start the music and usually the girls would come out one by one," Powell said.

WLKY reached out to the University of Louisville and Coach Pitino on Tuesday but we were told they will not comment until the review process is complete.

Olivia Newton-John's daughter reveals wedding plans at 'DWTS' appearance

Olivia Newton-John's once-troubled daughter Chloe Lattanzi supported her mother as the iconic pop star was a guest judge on Monday night's episode of "Dancing with the Stars."

After cheering in the audience during the show that paid tribute to famous movie and music video dances, Chloe and her fiancé James Driskill accompanied her mom backstage.

Chloe, 29, admitted to FOX411 that she and the handsome martial arts instructor have dragged their feet on setting a wedding date: "We've been engaged for four years. We're both lazy and we're thinking sometime next year."

Newton-John's daughter fought a well-publicized battle with anorexia and told FOX411, "I think my fiancé had a lot to do with helping me get through it.

"I'm grateful I'm recovered fully, I'm healthy, I have a lot of fat on my body."

She recalled on Monday that recovery from the dreaded starving disease was hard: "Terrible, awful having people taking pictures of you, writing about you when you're that sick."

Chloe said getting through it involved "working on yourself, healing. It's years and years and years of life experience."

It also helps having a "gorgeous" tough guy behind her, who teaches Gracie Barra Jiu-Jitsu. "He got his black belt from the best martial artists in the world," she boasted of Driskill.

Chloe also told reporters, "I like to be someone that girls can reach out to and sort of, I don't want to say [be] an inspiration, but [tell them] you can get through it. It's a really difficult disease and has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric illness, so I like to be a positive story."

Meanwhile, her famous mother Newton-John, 67, has also been through a lot, as she's a breast cancer survivor.

"I feel amazing. I have a cancer wellness center in Australia that bears my name," she told FOX411 after judging "DWTS."  

"I'm very proud and grateful for that so I put all my passion into funding the wellness programs so that other people going through cancer can have those healing experiences."

Marking Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Newton-John, who was diagnosed in 1992, said her best advice to women is "to do regular self- breast exams because I found my lump myself and if I hadn't been doing that, I maybe wouldn't have found the lump. When I found it I went to the doctor and they initially told me there was nothing wrong. I did a mammogram, it was negative. I had a needle biopsy and that's when it showed up. So you have to trust your own intuition. I didn't feel right."

The pop icon, who watched Hayes Grier and his partner Emma Slater recreate her "You're The One That I Want" dance with John Travolta from "Grease" on Monday's "DWTS," also shared her memories about the hit 1978 musical.

"It was so long ago," she said. "It was like going to a school that I never went to. I went to a very strict kind of school where they wore uniforms and they separated the boys and girls at either end of the school so [filming "Grease"] it was like going back to my childhood. I was 29 when I made the movie, that's Chloe's age [now]. It was really a blast, the music and the camaraderie."

Newton-John has recently been teaming up with her singer/actress daughter; the two have a single out called, "You Have to Believe," a remix of the singer's 1980 hit, "Magic."

And fans can still catch Newton-John's Las Vegas "Summer Nights" show at the Flamingo as she has extended her residency through January.

The star, now married to second husband John Easterling (she divorced Chloe's dad Matt Lattanzi in 1995) loves Las Vegas. "I like being in the same bed every night," she said. "I can take my husband, my dog, and cat. Vegas is a really cool place. There's not just the strip. There's a lot going on."

Why the moon is always facing the earth

Probably you have noticed that the same part of the moon is always facing the earth (the other side of it being called the dark side of the moon - also a famous Pink Floyd album :-) ). It appears therefore to be standing still. What really happens is that the moon rotates around its axis at exactly the same speed as earth does. As a result when the surface of the earth turns a little bit, the moon has turned by the same bit and as a result the same people on the surface always see the same side of the moon.

Of course, the real question is why does the moon rotate at the same speed as earth. This is due to a procedure called mode locking, a nonlinear phenomenon common in many electrical and mechanical systems. The basic principle behind it is that when there are two systems oscillating (in the general sense) with certain frequencies, and these systems can be affecting one another, then they tend to alter their frequency of oscillation so that they finally match.

In the case of the moon and the earth, when the moon was first created it didn't have the same period as earth, and at that time different sides of it were visible from earth. However due to the gravitational attraction between them, the earth's much stronger attraction caused the moon to eventually alter its period so that it matched earth's. At this situation the systems locks, because it is the more convenient way of oscillating for both systems.

Why the earth has atmosphere

This is a combination of 2 reasons. First, gravity. The gravitational force keeps air molecules close to the earth. This reason would be enough in an ideal place, but not when there is the sun nearby. The sun creates the solar wind: trillions and trillions of charged particles traveling with great speeds arise from the sun and crush on the planets, every single second. Mercury has no atmosphere because of the solar wind since all the atmosphere it once had has been destroyed from the solar wind. Even Mars has less atmosphere than the earth because of the solar wind, which is a reason that even if life existed once in Mars, now the thinner layer of air cannot allow it.

Earth wouldn't have the atmosphere capable of holding life too, if it weren't for the second reason: magnetic field. Earth's magnetic field stops the solar wind from penetrating into the atmosphere, and therefore allows its existence.

THOMAS SILVERSTEIN, THE MOST VIOLENT PRISONER … IN AMERICA

Especially when he joined the Aryan Brotherhood — Silverstein was his stepfather’s name — and the murders started.

The first he may or may not have done. But while the charges were later dropped, they weren’t dropped soon enough to keep him from drawing his first life sentence and being transferred from the relatively “cushy” confines of Leavenworth and shipped off to the much heavier federal prison in Marion, Illinois. And when he showed up at Marion — a place, despite the name, not known for nuance — the racialagita of the outside world followed. When his first life sentence was overturned, Silverstein had actually killed someone.
continued pleading innocence, ahigher-ranking member of the D.C. Blacks had vowed to kill Silverstein and tried on several occasions as they had been placed in cells next to each other. He tried right up until Silverstein and another inmate killed him.

Even then, it probably wasn’t that Silverstein had killed him — after all, killings happen in prison all the time. But that Silverstein stabbed him 67 times? And then dragged the man’s bloodied and broken body all around the tier like Achilles dragging Hector? Yeah. Major institutional cause for alarm.

Enter Officer Merle E. Clutts. His fateful job was to snap that unit back into shape.
Which is where the stories start to diverge. Silverstein, who had gotten into art as a way to soothe his savage beasts (much like his U.K. counterpartCharles Salvador), had started to imagine that Clutts’ attempts to snap the unit back into shape were personal, involving as they did destruction of some of Silverstein’s artwork. One day out of his cell and on his way to shower, Silverstein let Clutts walk ahead, up in front of him, and as they passed another cell another inmate handed Silverstein a shank and uncuffed him with a crudely constructed key.

Clutts never made it off the floor. “I just go all the way off,” Silverstein said in a recorded jailhouse interview with Pete Earley. “We’re fighting and stuff, but I just keep stabbing him. All I see are his hands moving and I’m stabbing … it was like a big weight was lifted off me.”

Except it wasn’t. In the immediate aftermath — including another, almost simultaneous, stabbing of a corrections officer by someone else in the Aryan Brotherhood — Silverstein was transferred to another prison. Standard operating procedure. But what wasn’t so standard was him being slapped in a “no human contact” cell. As in 23 hours a day inside, and then one hour in an enclosed exercise yard where only the sky was visible.

“It’s pretty fucking impossible to keep your sense of proportion in there,” saysSam McBride, a now-paroled convicted murderer who himself was in solitary confinement for five months. “Humans, even bad ones, are social beings. Take that away and what do you have?”

“Though I know that I want to live and have always been a survivor, I have often wished for death,” Silverstein said in an Amnesty International report. “I know, though, that I don’t want to die. What I want is a life in prison that I can fill with some meaning.” Complicated in the face of considering what that might mean in light of life at the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colorado, or ADX, one of the so-called supermax prisons, where Silverstein is currently housed. Along with Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols, and Zacarias Moussaoui, a 9/11 conspirator.

“No one said they were nice guys,” says McBride, “but to not attempt some form of rehabilitation is not right.”

“The courts have decided it is right,” said Eddie Williams, a former cop and corrections officer. “And the reality of it is even in prison there has to be a clear system of punishments to correct behaviors. I mean, what kind of message would it send if you could stab an unarmed guard to death in the morning and take it easy in relative comfort at night?”

A message that since 1983 Silverstein’s had 32 years to think about. And his response, as unrepentant as it is erudite, concluded that “after some long, hard years in some of America’s most cruel and harsh prisons — Soledad, San Quentin, U.S.P. Leavenworth, Atlanta, Marion and Florence — I now know exactly why the Irish dramatist, novelist, poet and wit, Oscar Wilde, said after his imprisonment for homosexual offenses … that if you ever want to see the scum of the earth, go to your local prison and observe the changing of the guards.”

Curiously enough, places where you’d expect sympathy to run deep, white pride circles, it does not at all, despite the Aryan Brotherhood pedigree. “The AB sell dope, engage in prostitution both in and out of prison, and are well-known to act as enforcers for the Mexicans,” said John Smithy, aStormfront member. “In short, they are criminal, opportunistic trash that take payments from, work with non-whites when and if that is profitable.”

Silverstein may be going nowhere, but he is nonetheless getting and garnering attention for his art, his sole contact with the outside world that doesn’t involve sentencing issues. His portfolio reveals an untrained but steadied eye, and the world he’ll never again know is taking notice. “Nice command of the form that bristles with an interesting sort of emotionalism,” says Michael Manning, artist and author of The Spider Garden graphic novel series, assessing Silverstein’s talent after perusing his work at our behest. “Who is he?”

Meet Justin Trudeau: Canada's Liberal, Boxing, Strip-Teasing New PM

Justin Trudeau swept to a stunning victoryin Canada's federal elections Monday, coming from a position of relative outsider just a few months ago. But who is the country's new liberal leader - a man who has tried his hand at boxing and once performed a partial public striptease? Here are five things you should know.

1 - He is pledging to bring liberalism back to Canada

Justin Trudeau ended nearly a decade of Conservative rule in Canada when his Liberal Party secured 54 percent of the country's seats in Monday's federal election. Stephen Harper, the outgoing Conservative prime minister, had sought to reverse Canada's image as a liberal haven during his time in office by cutting corporate taxes and engaging in what opponents said was a damaging environmental policy.

By contrast, Trudeau has pledged to attend the United Nations climate conference in Paris in November and to introduce a national plan for combating climate change within 90 days of that summit.

The 43-year-old is pro-choice, proudly declares himself a feminist, and says he would work to legalize marijuana "right away" based on the system used in Colorado. He has also pledged to "end tax breaks for the wealthy, to give Canadian families more money to raise their children."

2 - His dad was one of Canada's most famous leaders

Trudeau's father, Pierre Trudeau, remains one of Canada's most recognizable figures in politics. He swept to power on a wave of so-called "Trudeaumania" in 1968, drawing comparisons with U.S. President John F. Kennedy, and governed for 16 years until 1984.
He cut a glamorous figure, dating stars such as Barbra Streisand and divorcing Justin Trudeau's mother, Margaret, who herself earned a reputation for partying with the Rolling Stones and at New York's Studio 54, according to The Associated Press.
Justin — Pierre Trudeau's eldest son — was born in 1971 while his father was serving his first term. His destiny seemed written from an early age. When the heir-to-be was just four months old in 1972, U.S. President Richard Nixon told a state dinner in Ottawa: "I'd like to toast the future prime minister of Canada: to Justin Pierre Trudeau," according to the AP.

3 - He has fought in the boxing ring

Before becoming a lawmaker in 2008, Trudeau tried his hand at several professions including teaching, engineering, bungee-jump coaching and environmental geography, according to the Guardian.
He even starred in the 2007 film "The Great War," about Canada's involvement in World War I, playing war hero named Talbot Papineau who died at the Battle of Passchendaele.
However, his most striking career sojourn came in 2012 when he brawled his way to victory over Canadian Conservative Sen. Patrick Brazeau in a charity boxing match.
Trudeau won in three rounds, with the referee having to check several times whether Brazeau, the 3-1 favorite, was fit to continue,according to Canada's National Post.
The newspaper reported that Canada's new prime minister "pounded his foe into submission with a series of unschooled but powerful haymakers."

4 - He has a tattoo on his left bicep

"As far as anyone knows, Justin could become the first prime minister with a tattoo," wrote Canada's Global News. Trudeau's foray into the boxing ring revealed inky artwork on his upper left arm.

This originated as a small depiction of Earth, which Trudeau had done when he was 23, according to Global News. Just three years ago, when he was 40, he surrounded this with a raven drawn into the style of the Pacific Northwestern Haida peoples.

5 - He once gave a partial striptease for charity

Trudeau raised CA$1,900 (around $1,500) while performing a partial striptease at a charity event in 2011. He stripped to his white tank-top in front of a whooping audience at the What a Girl Wants gala in aid of research into liver disease, the Huffington Post Canada reported.

Video from the event showed him throwing off his suit and tie and whipping the crowd into a frenzy, as bids came in for the chance to have lunch with Trudeau at Ottawa's Parliamentary restaurant

Are Eagles turnovers all Sam Bradford's fault?

PHILADELPHIA —Eagles quarterback Sam Bradford has thrown nine interceptions in six games, some of his passes you look twice and try to guess who the intended receiver was.

Is Bradford, who has also shown signs of why the Eagles traded quarterback Nick Foles and a second-round pick for him, that bad? Is it all his fault?

Eagles head coach Chip Kelly and offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur don't think so.

"It's on both,'' Kelly said of the obvious miscommunication between Bradford and his receivers. "Sometimes we're reading coverages and routes are supposed to work a certain way. So it's not all on Sam, it's on both.''

In Monday's 27-7 win over the Giants, Bradford threw three interceptions and seem to misfire throughout the night. He threw for 280 yards, but his quarterback rating was a season-low 61.3.

but again is it all the quarterback's fault. Is he solely to blame?

"We had a couple of (miscommunications),'' Shurmur said. "Some of it is we have some guys out there who are pressing. They just have to relax a little bit. 

"But It certainly has to be corrected. It's not all Sam. It's a combination of things. We certainly work on it in practice. We just have to get better at it.''  

Kelly has been bothered by his receivers running incorrect routes all season. It's been everyone from rookie Nelson Agholor to veteran Riley Cooper and all the others in between.

He seemed perturbed Monday night when the line of questioning dealt with the subject.

"We had some miscommunication today on a couple routes where the quarterback and the receiver were not on the same page, but we have to clean that up,'' Kelly said.

"We've talked about that. (Bradford) is getting more familiar, in terms of what we're doing, but we can't continue to do that against really good football teams. We were fortunate that we did it and got away with it today, but in this league you can't do that and sustain things and sustain winning. So, we've really got to clean that up.''

Bradford admitted to being at fault for some of the mistakes being made.

"I am not really sure,'' the quarterback said of why there are communication problems six games into the season. "I think a couple of them fall on me. A couple of them I just felt like were lacking some attention to detail; things that need to be cleaned up. We just had too many mistakes."

Joe Biden has no room for error

Joe Biden’s 2016 path gets trickier by the day, but people who’ve been through presidential campaigns can still see it — provided they squint hard enough and nearly everything goes his way.

If he decides to run, he’ll have to count on a unique campaign landing exactly right in what’s already proved a weird cycle.

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He'll also have to hope that the argument being made by his advisers is correct: that 2016 is the Joe Biden election, with an electorate desperately yearning for the authenticity that’s always been his brand and searching for the middle-class values that no one else running strikes quite like he does, And, critically, that voters will think he’s the man who can unite the Democratic Party, and the country.

People who’ve spoken to him about running say he believes all that could fall into place. But to win a presidential race — and to start by winning the nomination in a field that already has a strong front-runner and an alternative lighting up the lefty base — he will also have to pull off an almost perfectly-executed campaign. With just over three months until the Iowa caucuses, there's no time for error or stumbling

“I don’t think the Biden campaign has to follow traditional rules, he’s coming at this in a very nontraditional way,” said Simon Rosenberg, founder of the New Democrat Network and a longtime Democratic strategist who worked on Bill Clinton’s 1992 race. “He’s going to feel his way through this as he’s been feeling his way past the last few months.”

“If there’s one person who could climb that mountain and could come out on top, it is Joe Biden,” said Democratic consultant Joe Trippi. “It’s at least conceivable. How? It ain’t going to be easy.”

Here’s list of six big hurdles Biden needs to clear to make a White House run take off.

A message that resonates — that’s not about Clinton
Biden would be getting into the race as the credible alternative to Clinton. He would, in many ways, be a direct challenge to her weaknesses, with electoral strength drawn from his ability to connect with voters and a feeling that he generates in people that they’re getting the authentic, not consultant-concocted, version of him. He won’t have to go on "Saturday Night Live" to prove how loose he can be.

But his campaign, strategists say, would have to make people believe right away that Clinton is not the reason he’s getting in the race.

“He has to have a message,” said Bob Shrum, a veteran of numerous presidential campaigns and John Kerry’s 2004 top strategist.

“It has to be rooted in who he is — and once it’s rooted in who he is, it can be about the voters: from the middle class, for the middle class," said Shrum, who thinks a Biden run would be uphill, but very possible.

For all that he’d counter Clinton with, she would have some easy responses: she’s old, but he’s older; she’s been around Washington and national politics forever, he’s been around Washington and national politics even longer.

Part of what Biden would have to overcome, said Bob Kerrey, a former Senate colleague and a candidate in the 1992 race, is that his record is so similar to Clinton’s and that Bernie Sanders has already put a claim on being the candidate of inspiration on the issues.

“They’re not going to doubt his competency, they’re not going to doubt his likability,” Kerrey said. “But he’s got to provide a compelling reason for people to say, ‘I’m going to pick you first.’”

Immediate momentum
There’s no time for a ramp-up. For Biden’s campaign to seem like more than a lark, he’d have to count on an immediate surge in the polls, analysts agree, leapfrogging Sanders and cutting into Clinton’s support right away.

“There’s not a natural opening for him in the poll numbers that we’re looking at nationally and in places like Iowa and New Hampshire,” said Patrick Murray, the director of the Monmouth Poll — which showed Biden losing support since September in a new survey released on Monday. “While a lot of voters welcome him to the race, it’s not clear that he would be able to steal the kind of support that he needs, because voters appear to be happy with Clinton and Sanders as their two choices.”

Most agree he’d get some bump just from getting in, but it would have to be about more than just the numbers, people considering the prospect agree. Starting with a kick-off rally, he’d have to show that he can draw the kind of numbers and enthusiasm that have become commonplace for Sanders. From the start, the campaign would have to become a movement, with big crowds demonstrating his appeal across demographics and elements of the party: overflow crowds of union members and people of every color, young and old and lots of women to counter any pushback from Clinton allies that Biden is standing in the way of history.

Success begets success, and in politics, there’s nothing like momentum. He and everyone else will know right away whether that’s there.

“He has to be within 5 points of Clinton in order to send a clear signal,” Murray said. “He’s likely, if he jumped in, to still be about 10, 12 points behind Clinton, and that’s not enough right now.”

Trippi, who ran Howard Dean’s 2004 campaign, said that the question comes down to how Barack Obama barely beat Clinton in 2008: by winning the white progressives and crushing Clinton among African-Americans.

“If Bernie Sanders is winning every white progressive within the party, are you, Joe Biden, with your record on stuff, going to actually be able to get those people to come to you? That’s a problem. I don’t think so,” Trippi said. “He’s Barack Obama’s vice president. Can that get her to 60-40 with African-Americans? But can he get to 80-20?”

Campaign cash by the bucketful
What fuels all of it is money, and lots of it. Every trip Biden takes would require a paid ride on Air Force 2. Between that and the Secret Service and advance staff that’s required when the vice president goes anywhere, each campaign stop could run to the tens of thousands of dollars. Then there’s campaign staff and rent. Then there’s money to pay for television advertising, campaign signs, website design. A super PAC can cover some costs, but as Rick Perry and Scott Walker learned, they can't do the whole job.

Biden would need to start putting millions in the bank by the end of the month. Clinton and Sanders already have $60 million combined. He’d be starting with $0.

“Don’t overlook how critical it will be to get high-level fundraising and field staff on immediately, because his name ID is already very high and there will be a natural moment of excitement if he announces,” said Brent Colburn, communications director for 2012 Obama-Biden campaign. “But he’s going to need the infrastructure to capture that energy and turn it into resources, volunteers and votes.”

Kerrey said that’s the part leaving him a little bewildered as he thinks about a late entry.

“How in God’s name do you raise the kind of money you need today to manage a campaign? It’s four or five orders of magnitude greater than it was the last time he ran in 2008,” Kerrey said.

“My wife said to me: 'He can just take Amtrak,'” Shrum said. “I think you can get to Iowa that way, it would just take a while.”

A super PAC superstar
A well-funded campaign is one thing. A well-funded super PAC is a different animal entirely.

While Sanders has pledged to not associate his campaign with any of the big-money groups, Biden has made no such promises, and many professional Democrats think he would likely need at least one big-time donor to go all-in if he wants to get such an operation off the ground. The good part for him, potentially, is that there are some people with big checkbooks eager for someone other than Clinton and devoted to Biden.

While Clinton has a handful of tycoons who have pledged her millions of dollars — the primary pro-Clinton super PAC raised $40 million from January to mid-September — Biden’s mogul support is still hypothetical.

So he would likely need a major check of well more than $1 million from one of the potential marchers whose names have been circulated — Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos, hedge fund manager Jim Chanos, LGBT rights activist Scott Miller and his husband, entrepreneur Tim Gill — in order to go toe to toe with Clinton.

If that kind of cash doesn’t flow in, the vice president would run the risk of having his bid overwhelmed by ads he simply wouldn’t be able to combat.

A full-scale, professional staff
Biden would find himself at a staffing disadvantage, since he has no political operation in place while both Clinton and Sanders have full-scale teams up and running. Clinton, in particular, has hundreds of aides on her payroll already.

In order to run a competitive, nationwide race that incorporates top-to-bottom fundraising, a media and messaging strategy, field organization, travel planning, policy work, and political tactics, the vice president would need to immediately hire a host of professional Democrats who are either willing to jump ship from another campaign or, more realistically, to reel in some pros who were planning to sit out 2016. For donors, Democratic poobahs and reporters gauging how serious a campaign this is, the kind of people who come to work on a campaign would be a major indicator.

The calendar makes this difficult, said a handful of Democrats, and that’s not just because so many political hands are already signed on with Biden’s opponents: it’s because unless Biden looks like a front-runner, his campaign could be short-lived.

“There’s a lot of talent out there that’s sitting this cycle out, and it could be a challenge to get people to join up knowing there’s only a three-month runway,” Colburn said.

A presidential blessing
No one thinks Obama will go so far as to endorse his vice president over his former secretary of state. But if someone close to Obama were to take that step, it might serve as a flashing signal to insiders and donors that Biden has the White House's blessing. That could instantly turn the vice president into a real contender.

Obama's innercircle is extremely tight, making such backing tough to secure. Such an endorsement would likely have to come from one of the president's long-term strategists like David Axelrod or David Plouffe, whose imprimatur would indicate a level of legitimacy that gives Biden "serious candidate" status.

If Biden doesn’t get such a nod, he could run into negative headlines that question why his boss and colleagues won’t side with him, especially as two of his fellow Cabinet members — Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Housing Secretary Julian Castro — have already come out for Clinton.

“There’s only a small inner circle of people who could be seen as Obama proxies,” explained Colburn, detailing Biden’s conundrum. “And in many ways, Biden himself would be the type of person you could look to for that role."

Still, this kind of surrogate nod couldn't guarantee success. Trippi said it would be only a matter of time before someone said directly to the president, “Dude, Hillary and the vice president: who are you for?”

If Biden’s running, a squirmy answer probably won’t work for anyone. And even if it’s somehow firmer, Trippi argued the Democratic Party has changed so much since 2008, it might not push him over the edge.

“I’m not sure if Obama said, ‘Vote for Joe,'" Trippi said, “that would be enough"