Новости за 19.11.2016

The Sports Xchange
All the momentum the New Orleans Saints created in winning four times in a five-game stretch, which helped them get back to the .500 mark after a rugged 0-3 start, has been erased.

Michael Flynn, the retired Army lieutenant general and intelligence officer who is Donald Trump's pick to serve as his national security adviser, is a harsh critic of Muslim extremism calling "radical Islam" an existential threat to the United States.

Julian Finney/Getty Images

Cellphone addiction, particularly among millennials, may be hurting the labor force and the economy at large.

That's according to a $3.7 billion New York hedge fund, Tourbillon Capital Partners.

"Perhaps we aren't in secular stagnation. Perhaps we need to put our phones down and get back to work," founder Jason Karp wrote in the firm's third-quarter investor letter, a copy of which was obtained by Business Insider.

"At the risk of sounding like an old-man curmudgeon and a Luddite... Читать дальше...

Paramount

Movie endings can leave you with a sense of satisfaction or make you want to throw your chair at the screen.

Every filmmaker strives for the former, and in some cases they manage to pull off something that will be remembered forever.

Whether it leaves you happy or sad, or has a visual or line of dialogue that just brings everything together, a movie ending can make or break how you feel about the story you just watched.

From "Gone with the Wind" to "The Shawshank... Читать дальше...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — A former top-secret nuclear bunker has been reopened as a museum in Albania's capital to show visitors how Communist-era police persecuted the regime's opponents.

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — A former top-secret nuclear bunker has been reopened as a museum in Albania's capital to show visitors how Communist-era police persecuted the regime's opponents.

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — A former top-secret nuclear bunker has been reopened as a museum in Albania's capital to show visitors how Communist-era police persecuted the regime's opponents.

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — A former top-secret nuclear bunker has been reopened as a museum in Albania's capital to show visitors how Communist-era police persecuted the regime's opponents.

There were five versions of the Gettysburg Address that were acknowledged by Abraham Lincoln in his lifetime. Here are those versions, along with the AP wire copy from November 1863.

Seven score and 13 years ago, Abraham Lincoln gave his Gettysburg Address, widely considered one of the greatest speeches in American history. But even today, there are still a few points about the speech that are misunderstood.

Rosatom to end of the current year will choose a foreign technology partner for construction of three wind parks in Russia, Rosatom’s First Deputy CEO Kirill Komarov said in an interview with TASS on Nov. 19 during the UN conference on the climate change.

– CBN’s representative, Mrs Nkechi Osuji, has hailed a programme recently launched by the federal government for the recent crash in price of rice – Local rice now reportedly costs N13,000 for a 50kg bag – Mrs Nkechi encouraged more states to join the scheme to enable more reduction in price of local rice Nigerians […]

Here are the best bets for this week’s NFL games, based on a mathematical model

Nuri Katz has heard it all before: whether it’s a pessimistic attitude toward the direction of the country, hoping to gain a new perspective of the world or avoiding tax hikes, thousands seek aid from the international citizenship expert on how to move out of the country in the wake of every national election.

Ajai Sahni

Security, Asia

Government negligence. 

The Indian government has framed the acquisition of 36 French Rafale Medium Multi-Role Combat Aircraft for the Indian Air Force (IAF) as a major event. It comes as part of a purported military build-up and wildfire expansion of military spending by the world’s largest importer of arms. But the acquisition represents an abject failure of India’s strategic planning—yet another worrying instance of India’s deficiencies in defense acquisitions. Читать дальше...

For Republicans, there will be no one left to blame. As they prepare to take control of the White House and both chambers of Congress next year, Republicans are celebrating … Click to Continue »

BOSTON (AP) — The forgotten music of Boston's early hip-hop and rap scene is being revived by two unlikely heroes: a local college and the public library.

BOSTON (AP) — The forgotten music of Boston's early hip-hop and rap scene is being revived by two unlikely heroes: a local college and the public library.

BOSTON (AP) — The forgotten music of Boston's early hip-hop and rap scene is being revived by two unlikely heroes: a local college and the public library.

BOSTON (AP) — The forgotten music of Boston's early hip-hop and rap scene is being revived by two unlikely heroes: a local college and the public library.

BOSTON (AP) — The forgotten music of Boston's early hip-hop and rap scene is being revived by two unlikely heroes: a local college and the public library. Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Boston have been working with the Boston Public Library to compile an online archive of demo tapes by the city's top hip-hop and rap artists of the 1980s. Like a growing number of U.S. colleges, UMass is encouraging students to approach hip-hop as a scholarly subject. Several students have already started research tied to the archive... Читать дальше...