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“Parts Unknown” Host Anthony Bourdain Dead At 61

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Source: Paul Bruinooge / Getty CNN Host Anthony Bourdain has died. Bourdain was unresponsive in his hotel room Friday morning. CNN reports the cause of death is Suicide. CNN released a statement: “It is with extraordinary sadness we can confirm the death of our friend and colleague, Anthony Bourdain,” the network said in a statement Friday morning. “His love of great adventure, new friends, fine food and drink and the remarkable stories of the world made him a unique storyteller. His talents never ceased to amaze us and we will miss him very much. Our thoughts and prayers are with his daughter and family at this incredibly difficult time.” Bourdain, a world-renowned chef began his television career as host of “A Cook’s Tour” on the Food Network. Afterward, he joined the Travel Channel as host of “Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations.” “No Reservations earned Bourdain two Emmy Awards.  In 2013, Bourdain joined CNN has the host of “Parts Unknown,” travel and food show which showed the chef going all around the world in lesser parts of the planent exploring different cultures and food. This is the second celebrity suicide this week. Designer Kate Spade was found dead in her home June 5th. Source: CNN RELATED:  Janet Hubert Blames Will Smith For Her Son’s Attempted Suicide RELATED: Here’s Everything We Know About The Alarming Suicide Rate For Black Children

“Parts Unknown” Host Anthony Bourdain Dead At 61

Mackenzie McKee Shows Off INSANE Post-Baby Body!

Mackenzie McKee is best known for her time on Teen Mom 3 , but it’s probably safe to say that you’re about to know her for her remarkable ability to bounce back. See, Mackenzie just gave birth to her third child on August 14th. She had a little boy she named Broncs Weston McKee , for whatever reason, and she did not have a dainty little bump. Not by a long shot. There’s no shame in that, and it’s not like we’re judging her. It’s just that when she’s always been very thin, so when she’s pregnant, her bump gets huge. Like, the thing looked downright painful. But in addition to having babies and giving them bizarre, unfortunate names, Mackenzie is also really into fitness. So when she hopped on Instagram yesterday to share a picture of what her body looked like exactly two months after giving birth, we perhaps shouldn’t have been surprised. But we were. We really, really were. That’s almost unbelievable, right? Like literally unbelievable. It seems physically impossible that she’d be able to have that big of a transformation in just two months — and with three kids, one of them a newborn, to care for — but here we are. And it sounds like Mackenzie’s a little bit of a sweetheart too, because she’s willing to share her magic secrets. She captioned her photo “Two months PP today… Follow me on snapchat to see my daily meals and workouts.” Thanks but no thanks, girl. We would, we really would, but we’re pretty sure that your daily meals consist of air and lettuce and mystical potions and that your “workouts” are really just ritual sacrifices. Seriously, how else could she possibly have snapped back that fast, especially after her third child? It’s witchcraft, we tell you. Really impressive, really baffling witchcraft. View Slideshow: 10 Celebrities Proud of Their Post-Baby Bodies

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Chrissy Teigen Throws MAJOR Shade at Stacey Dash’s Oscar Appearance

If you watched the 2016 Academy Awards last then you the night’s most memorable moment was not Spotlight’ s mild upset win for Best Picture, or even Leonardo DiCaprio finally taking home the gold for his work in The Revenant . No, the moment that really that got the attention of the (surprisingly small) TV audience watching at home was a random, unexplained, and completely baffling cameo from actress-turned-conservative-commentator Stacey Dash: Stacey Dash Appears in Most Awkward Oscars Moment EVER As far as we can tell, Dash’s appearance was meant to be funny . This morning, the 50-year-old Fox New pundit wrote a blog post in which she purported to explain why she was at the Oscars, but really just rambled on about the difference between “free-thinking blacks” and “cookie-cutter blacks.” Needless to say, we’re still pretty confused. Thankfully, we have Chrissy Teigen’s amazing facial expression to help sum up our feelings about the whole awkward situation: This isn’t the first time that Chrissy’s grimace has given us awards show gold, but this time, she accomplished the remarkable feat of summarizing an entire nation’s embarrassment with one epic cringe. When some Twitter followers mistakenly thought that Chrissy was reacting to Sarah Silverman’s jokes about James Bond’s dong, Mrs. Teigen-Legend quickly cleared things up: “I was making the face from the Stacey Dash moment ahhhhhhh not Sarah!” Chrissy tweeted. “No I am not good at poker.” Thankfully, she is good at making us laugh with a simple contortion of her facial features. View Slideshow: Oscars 2016: The Most Memorable Moments

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Straight Up Tribal: The Many Faces Of Kenya’s Maasai People!

Writer and photographer Stuart Butler spent a month walking with Kenya’s Maasai people and came back with some stunning portraits that show their remarkable stories.  Continue reading

Put It In Rice: Dolphin Retrieves Cell Phone From Atlantic Ocean For Miami Heat Dancer Teressa Cee

Dolphin Retrieves Cell Phone From Atlantic Ocean For Miami Heat Dancer In some Friday awesomeness news … Via HuffPo : NBA Miami Heat dancer Teressa Cee posted footage of the remarkable feat which saw Cacique swim from the depths to the water’s surface with the phone in his mouth. In a Facebook post, Cee wrote: “True Story: While in the Bahamas, I had the opportunity to go swimming with dolphins on#BlueLagoonIsland. We were filming on this floating platform in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. “So, against my better judgment I asked someone to hold my phone for me and he accidentally dropped my phone into water and it sank to the bottom. “Cacique, the dolphin, actually retrieved my phone and brought it back up to me. Cutest thing ever!#Unbelievable #Bahamas #DolphinEncounter” Put it in rice!!!! YT

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A Little Positivity: Coaches Who Have Gone Above And Beyond For Their Players

Take one for the team! Coaches Who Have Gone Above And Beyond For Their Players Coaches can be make or break a star athlete and bring out the full potential of any team. Although it seems like the ballers can take the spotlight, a good coach is the foundation behind any winning team. In anticipation of the new movie ‘From the Rough,’ starring Academy Award nominees Taraji P. Henson and Michael Clarke Duncan and Tom Felton, which tells the inspirational true story of Catana Starks from historically black university Tennessee State, the first woman ever to coach an all-men’s team at the collegiate level. Through grit and determination, she overcame incredible odds and deep-seated prejudice from all corners to guide a rag-tag group of golfers to an all-time record championship season. From the Rough celebrates this remarkable woman’s triumph. Check out more great coaches who have gone above and beyond for their players next!

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Nobody Is Perfect: Charity Creates Mannequins That Mimic Real Disabilities To Promote Awareness That No One Is Perfect [Video]

This is really special. Via MailOnline : A Swiss charity has created mannequins based on the bodies of disabled people in a bid to raise awareness that no one has a perfect body. Pro Infirmis, an organisation for people with disabilities, worked with people suffering from scoliosis (a curved spine), shortened limbs and a woman in a wheelchair. Each had a mannequin made to perfectly reflect their body shape – which, to their delight, was then displayed in a high street store in Zurich’s main shopping street. The project was devised to mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities this week. Called ‘Because who is perfect? Get closer’, the story is captured in a moving four-minute film directed by Alain Gsponer. The film follows four volunteers who enter a warehouse with trepidation. The models are radio host and film critic Alex Oberholzer, Miss Handicap 2010 Jasmine Rechsteiner, athlete Urs Kolly, actor Erwin Aljukić and blogger Nadja Schmid. Each is measured before mannequins are painstakingly crafted to mirror their bodies. Each person returns to the warehouse to see their carefully created model – hidden under a blanket when they first enter. The film captures the remarkable moment each person sees their unique sculpture – and reveals the internal struggle some of those involved have accepting their appearance. Upon seeing her mannequin, one woman declares: ‘It’s special to see yourself like this, when you usually can’t look at yourself in the mirror.’ YouTube

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Maddie on Things: A Super Serious Projec Review

Theron Humphrey’s “Maddie On Things” is lighthearted and funny, but it is SO much more. It is the visual story of inter-species trust, collaboration, and (yes) love. Theron didn’t set out to document the patience and prowess of his adopted coon hound. In fact, he was engaged in a much more “serious” documentary project at the time these images were made. Hopefully, the documentary work will also be published, but for now, we have this remarkable, life-affirming testament to everything that is

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Playmate Nikki Leigh Is Talented

Most of you guys don’t have a clue who this chick is, but according to her very low budget website , Playmate Nikki Leigh is a full time Golden Key Honor Society student at California State University. She has the remarkable body measurement with 34C bust, 26 waist and 32 hips and is extremely talented since she can hold a coffee in one hand and a ferret in the other. Oh that’s a dog! My bad, but honestly why can’t girls let their toy dogs walk on a leash and not carry them as fashion accessories? Anyway, I don’t want to be too hard on Nikki’s animal training methods since we may date in the near future, so I’ll tone it down. Call me.

Race Matters: NBA Baller Jeremy Lin Says Colleges And Pro Scouts Were Prejudiced Against Him Because He’s Asian

There’s a shocker… Jeremy Lin Says Colleges And NBA Scouts Snubbed Him Because He Is Asain Via NYDailyNews Former New York Knicks sensation Jeremy Lin says his ethnicity is to blame for why he was not offered scholarships to major colleges and why he was passed over during the NBA draft. In a “60 Minutes” interview that was excerpted Friday, the Houston Rockets point guard was asked why he didn’t get a free ride to play hoops at UCLA or Stanford after he led his high school team in Palo Alto, Calif., to a state championship. “Well, the obvious thing in my mind is that I was Asian-American … I think that was a barrier,” Lin told interviewer Charlie Rose. CBS will air the full interview on Sunday. It explores his meteoric rise to fame after he came off the Knicks bench last spring as a relative unknown and created the phenomenon known as “Linsanity” with his remarkable play. Ethnicity has no bearing on athletic skill, Lin says. But he acknowledges that outdated perceptions about race still exist. “It’s just a stereotype,” he said. Lin said he believes that if he were white or black he would have gotten a scholarship to his dream school, Stanford. He went to Harvard, where no athletic scholarships are granted. The fact is, Jeremy is probably right. Hell, even in a pick-up game at the park he’d more than likely get picked last. That said, we bet that 3-year, $25 million contract is keeping him very warm at night. Image via AP

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