Новости за 17.02.2018

George Groves takes on Chris Eubank in a big tournament world title fight in Manchester.

Former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones has a message to all of his detractors.

Here's one of the simplest ways to qualify for the "pass-through" deduction.

It takes a special kind of scoundrel to demonize Americans calling for gun control as a way to prevent mass shootings in schools, such as yesterday’s mass school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. But the despicable Tucker Carlson was more than up for the job.

Quite the Friday that was for the Orange Moron, eh?

The Russia indictments, a key step for Mueller, strong evidence of interference with the investigation of collusion still ongoing, a clear repudiation of his "hoax" claims.

The Playboy Playmate affair, including a Weinstein-like effort to cover it all up (and other such affairs?).

Parkland students speaking up for gun control, expressing their anger and frustration (including rightly calling the NRA a terrorist organization), and telling him to stay away. Читать дальше...

With just two weeks before the regular season starts, United will be looking to show some fluency against a familiar foe

Two hundred years ago, one of the 19th century’s most significant Americans began his life in anonymity and bondage.

Like it or not, the middle class became global citizens through consumerism—and they did so at the mall.

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If you own a smartphone, you've likely experienced the feeling: you've got a few moments of downtime so you take out your phone to see what's new. 

Maybe you feel an urge to see what your friends are up to, a need to connect to other people. Maybe you want to squeeze in an extra bit of reading or language-learning or mate-finding or game-playing.

Does this mean you are addicted to your smartphone? Not necessarily. There are technical definitions... Читать дальше...

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The US smart home market has still yet to meet the expectations many observers had in the early part of this decade.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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• IoT networking startup Particle looks to bring Thread to enterprise settings
• I've owned an Amazon Echo for over two years now ... Читать дальше...

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• I am a middle-of-the-night smartphone user.
• I know I'm not alone. The tech industry is accused these days of deliberate "brain hacking" to encourage so-called "app addiction."
• Are those accusations just fear and hyperbole? Or are there true dangers to the way we use our devices?
• Business Insider is launching a new series to investigate.

There was a time not long ago when I considered it crazy to keep a smartphone by the bedside. Читать дальше...

Thomson Reuters

• The stress index is showing that investors are uncertain, as the Fed plans rate hikes this year.
• Long term bond yields are dropping, which doesn't suggest great confidence in the economy. 

The weekly St. Louis Fed Financial Stress index, released today, just spiked beautifully. It had been at historic lows back in November, an expression of ultra-loose financial conditions in the US economy, dominated by risk-blind investors chasing any kind of yield with a passion... Читать дальше...

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• While some of security measures seem sensible, overall there is little empirical evidence that such security measures decrease the likelihood of school shootings.
• We believe what is missing from the discussion is the idea of an educational response.
• Current policy responses do not address the fundamental question of why so many mass shootings take place in schools.

When deadly school shootings like the one that took place on Valentine's Day in Broward County... Читать дальше...

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• An excerpt from a new book that details Russia's geopolitical interests.
• But to better understand the Kremlin's perspective, one must first understand the country's history dating back to the end of World War II. 

At his dacha, standing before a map of the newly expanded Soviet Union shortly after Germany's surrender in May 1945, Josef Stalin nodded with approval.

The vast buffer he'd carved out of Soviet-occupied Eastern Europe would now protect... Читать дальше...

Linux and recursion are on very good speaking terms. In fact, a number of Linux command recurse without ever being asked while others have to be coaxed with just the right option. When is recursion most helpful and how can you use it to make your tasks easier? Let’s run through some useful examples and see.

Pyeongchang, South Korea (dpa) - Canada‘s Samuel Girard took gold in a madcap men‘s short-track speed skating 1,000 metres at the Pyeongchang Games, which saw only two skaters still on their feet at one point.Girard - who only made it through to the final on a referee‘s advancement - profited from falls by South Korea‘s reigning world champion Seo Yira and compatriot Lim Hyo Jun, who were knocked over when Hungary‘s Shaolin Sandor Liu tried to pass them on the inside.The Canadian took the tape at... Читать дальше...

Emergency services including an air ambulance have attended the scene of a collision at Barns Green level crossing in which two people sadly died this morning.

By Tony Attwood If you have been following this series of articles you will know that I’ve gone to some lengths to expose the first libel against Henry Norris – that he somehow managed illicitly to fix the election of Arsenal into the first division in 1919. That was such a gross libel that has taken a number of articles to tell the full story.  If you want to go through that tale in detail, the articles that tell the story are listed at the foot of this piece, along with a link... Читать дальше...

Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has asked the US to offer lower prices for the aircrafts and tanks that our country wants to buy.

Indian captain Virat Kohli, labelled the best batsman in the world by head coach Ravi Shastri, wants his team to rise to one more challenge before they finish their gruelling South African tour.

München (dpa) - Für Frieden und Abrüstung sind am Samstag, dem zweiten Tag der Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz, in der bayerischen Landeshauptstadt mehrere Hundert Demonstranten auf die Straße gegangen. «Nie wieder Krieg», «Nato auflösen» oder «Krieg kennt keine Sieger» lauteten die Parolen. Aufgerufen zu dem Protest hatte ein «Aktionsbündnis gegen die Nato-Sicherheitskonferenz». Ursprünglich erwarteten die Veranstalter etwa 4000 Teilnehmer. Nach der Auftaktkundgebung auf dem Karlsplatz war ein Demonstrationszug durch die Stadt geplant. Читать дальше...

Griechenland wird dem Internationalen Währungsfonds zufolge auch nach Auslaufen des Hilfsprogrammes unter enger Beobachtung stehen. "Wir gehen davon aus, dass im August das laufende Programm beendet wird", sagte IWF-Chefin Christine Lagarde der "Süddeutschen Zeitung" vom Samstag.

The former governor of old Kaduna state and national chairman of Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), Alhaji Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa on Saturday, February 17, called for the zoning of the 2019 presidency to the Igbo.