Новости за 27.12.2017

HONOLULU (AP) — Authorities freed an adult humpback whale off the coast of Maui after it was found entangled in heavy gauge line. The crew aboard a whale-watching tour boat reported the distressed whale to authorities on Christmas Day, and a team of experts responded, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported . Personnel from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Humpback Whale Sanctuary found the whale off Maui's northwest coast, near Lahaina. The whale was trailing about 400 feet (122 meters) of line from its mouth... Читать дальше...

Frankfurt/Main (dpa) - An der Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse wurden am 27.12.2017 folgende Schlussstände der wichtigsten Indizes festgestellt: Index Schluss Schluss Veränderung Veränderung 27.12. 22.12. (Prozent) (Punkte) DAX: DAX-XETRA 13.070,02 13.072,79 - 0,02 - 2,77 L-DAX 13.072,58 13.085,84 - 0,10 - 13,26 MDAX: MDAX-XETRA 26.298,31... Читать дальше...

Three expectant canine moms found themselves caught outside with nowhere to go in freezing conditions right before Christmas.

Peru's president justified pardoning jailed ex-leader Alberto Fujimori by saying it would help heal the country's divisions. Cynics say it was really aimed at saving Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's own imperiled presidency.

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Oil prices retreated Wednesday, finishing the session lower, a day after touching levels not seen in more than 2 years. West Texas Intermediate crude oil for February delivery closed off 33 cents, or 0.6%, at $59.64 a barrel. On Tuesday, the benchmark finished at its highest level since June of 2015 on concerns over supply disruptions in the Middle East. Market participants attributed Wednesday's slide, in low-volume trade, on some investors cashing out of futures contracts after the previous day's rise to multiyear highs. Читать дальше...

When a young player fails at a top club, there is often an assumption that they’re not mentally equipped to be a success at that level. But no two footballers are precisely the same and no journey of development takes exactly the same course. Sometimes players need to go down the pecking order to bounce back up again, and sometimes that failure is the motivation they need to drive them to reach their fullest potential. Sometimes too, they simply make the move too soon or at the wrong time; that may... Читать дальше...

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• As many as 25% of malls may close in the next five years, according to a recent report.
• We visited Seattle's Northgate Mall, which originally opened in 1950, and is now trying to reinvent itself as a new downtown for Seattleites fleeing skyrocketing rents.
• Though intended to form an affordable neighborhood, the area lacks the public spaces, density, and pedestrian walkways that would make it attractive to urban millennials.

Opened in 1950... Читать дальше...

What are sisters for, if they can’t get you a date on Instagram?

The Bachelor‘s Becca Tilley took her hard-earned experience in matchmaking to find her brother, Chris, a date while sharing a sweet photo of themselves on Instagram for his 25th birthday Wednesday.

“Happy 25 to the sweetest brother in the world! Love you so much, @chrisvtilley1! He is single, so please send DM if interested,” Tilley cheekily wrote in the caption.

Chris’ other siblings also sent their well wishes on Instagram... Читать дальше...

Für Katharina Truppe und Carmen Thalmann ist die alpine Ski-Weltcup-Saison bisher schwierig verlaufen. Das soll sich am Donnerstag und Freitag bei den Technikrennen in Lienz ändern. Pushen sich die beiden Kärntnerinnen normalerweise im Training, so halten sie auch jetzt zusammen. "Wir bauen uns natürlich auf. Wie sagt man so schön, man leidet gemeinsam und man gewinnt gemeinsam", meinte Truppe.

It's okay, though. There's always next year's draft.

The United States has agreed to proceed to supply fighter jets to Nigeria as the country continues to make moves to defeat Boko Haram terrorism. The US expressed confidence that Nigeria has the capacity to defeat insurgency.

As we sat suffering that second - half surrender yesterday I couldn't help but wonder if the individual and collective IQ of our players was lower/higher or about par for professionals in the top 2 tiers of English football ?
Does it actually matter ?
If one or two hadn't switched off for the free kick which led to Norwich's first, who knows what result we'd have achieved ?
Is switching off more likely if the individual's IQ is lower than others ?
Are our mob bright enough ? Читать дальше...

VERNON, B.C.  DECEMBER 27th, 2017 The Vernon Vipers are pleased to announce the return of Defenceman Cameron Trott to the Hockey Club. The 20 year old spent the first half of the season with the University of Alaska Anchorage in the NCAA. Trott returns to the Snakes after posting 2 goals and 1 assist in 10 games in the NCAA this season. Last year in Vernon he recorded 3 goals and 17 assists in 32 games. The 6’3 205 pound product of Anmore BC has over 110 games of BCHL experience and will be a welcomed... Читать дальше...

The family of an Iranian-Swedish researcher sentenced to death in Iran for espionage says he had neither the will, nor the means to share state secrets.

A Massachusetts woman was arraigned on several charges Tuesday stemming from a hit and run that left an alleged drug dealer dead Christmas morning. The woman, Susan Dixon, 58, faced several charges including motor vehicle homicide and leaving the scene of an accident causing death. She pled not guilty. Worcester District Court Judge Mark Goldstein ordered the woman held on $35,000 bail. Prosecutors alleged that Dixon went to a BP Gas Station in Worcester around 5:30 a.m. Monday to buy crack cocaine from the victim, Felix Bonilla, 33.

Saturday-Sunday Proctors is bringing the funny to wrap up 2017. The venerable Schenectady venue has booked a trio of comedy gigs, one of them at Albany's Capital Repertory Theatre. The laughs kick off Saturday with comic Sean Conroy, who's set to headline the next installment of Proctors' Pretty Much The Best Comedy Show. The show heads to Albany for a New Year's Eve showcase with comics Liz Miele and Justin Herman. Proctors also has comedy the same night with First Night of Funny, featuring Jaye McBride... Читать дальше...

Newcastle United striker Aleksandar Mitrovic believes he must leave St James' Park in January for the good of his career. The Serbia international scored nine Premier League goals in his debut season for the Magpies, but has found regular action under Rafa Benitez much tougher to come by. Mitrovic has not started in the Premier League this season and was omitted from the matchday squad entirely for a fourth fixture in a row for Wednesday's clash with Manchester City. A return to one of his two... Читать дальше...

If you like both Twiddle and Twitter — and why should you not? — grab your device and get with @MadisonHouseInc, and you could win tickets to the Vermont-born jam band's shows at the Palace. Few things are cooler than getting stuff we want for free, yes? As they help fans do the old-year-out, new-year-in thing with two nights at the Palace, the Twiddle guys are already looking ahead to May, when they will play their first headlining show at Colorado's famed Red Rocks venue. The band's Facebook... Читать дальше...

The Skivvies, everyone's favorite seminude musical duo, are returning for a benefit show for Animalkind, Hudson's cat rescue center. Nick Cearley and Lauren Molina are Broadway veterans who, according to their website, ''met in 2003 performing in Theatreworks USA's national tour of the 'Just So Stories.' Quickly becoming best friends and musical collaborators, they began performing together in the city, with clothes on. The Skivvies were born in 2012, when they became YouTube sensations with their unique covers of artists like Robyn... Читать дальше...

The pilot of a flight which was headed to Tokyo, All Nippon Airways, has been forced to turn around and return to the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) for carrying a wrong passenger, after flying for about eight hours.

The pilot of a flight which was headed to Tokyo, All Nippon Airways, has been forced to turn around and return to the Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) for carrying a wrong passenger, after flying for about eight hours.

In Mathematics, there is an interesting puzzle :  ‘the grasshopper Q’:  A grasshopper lands at a random point on a lawn, then jumps once, a fixed distance, in a random direction. What shape should the lawn be in order to maximize the chance that the grasshopper stays on the lawn after jumping?
Cricket is a grasshopper; Grasshoppers are insects of the suborder Caelifera within the order Orthoptera, which includes crickets and their allies in the other suborder Ensifera. Grasshoppers are typically... Читать дальше...