Новости за 07.12.2017

British illustrator Quentin Blake presented Thursday the 33 first editions of classic books, with jackets specially created by leading artists, which will be auctioned to benefit London's House of Illustration museum, which he founded.

Stevenson hasn’t made a mandatory title defense since 2013.

It’s been four years since WBC light heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson has made a mandatory title defense. Four years! And WBC regulations state that a champion must make at least one mandatory defense per year. That obviously hasn’t been the case for Stevenson, but it appears that run will finally becoming to an end in the near future.

WBC president Mauricio Sulaiman says he’s working on a resolution that, we hope, will see No. Читать дальше...

Two of the absolute best in the world do battle on ESPN this weekend when Vasyl Lomachenko meets Guillermo Rigondeaux. Get the fight preview here.

Rian Johnson’s Star Wars: The Last Jedi is finally opening next week, and there has been heavy fan speculation about everything from the origins of its characters and the fate of Luke Skywalker to the complicated relationship between Rey and Kylo Ren. But at a recent press conference in Los Angeles, the cast of the film was eager to highlight something else: the film’s progressive, modern portrayal of women.

Lyoto Machida suffered the quickest loss of his MMA career against Derek Brunson in the main event of UFC Sao Paulo on Oct. 28, but he still has big plans for his career.

Peter Sagan won his third consecutive world title in Bergen with a perfectly timed bike throw to beat Alexander Kristoff and Michael Matthews. He has won the Cyclingnews Most Memorable Moment in Men's Cycling of 2017 in a similar way, beating Alberto Contador's stage victory on the Angliru at the Vuelta a España by just 90 votes.

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Cerner Corp (NASDAQ:CERN) ranks in the top 10% of its industry group, Health Care Technology, and in the top decile of sector group, Health Care, with a market value of $23.3 billion. From an investment attractiveness vantage point, CERN is ranked in the top half of the sector with a ranking of 220 among the 782 companies in the sector; the ranking for CERN by Portfolio Grader places it 8 among the 24 companies in this industry group... Читать дальше...

I enlisted a team of experts to hack my own stress, while understanding what makes New York a vibrant and difficult city.

I want you to take a second and picture a world where you’re always looking over your shoulder, wondering if “it” might happen to you. You’re just going about your business, trying to get through the day like anyone else, but you can never relax, always having to remain on your toes “just in case.” Know the feeling I’m talking about? If you’re a man you probably do. If you’re a woman, however, this might be the first time you’ve been confronted with what it’s like to live in constant fear of being accused of sexual assault. Читать дальше...

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As a Harvard dropout, Bill Gates wasn't exactly a model student.

But as the second-richest person on Earth — and someone who is heavily involved in efforts to alleviate poverty and health burdens for billions of people —  he does know thing or two about finding success.

The Microsoft cofounder has given students his fair share of advice over the years through interviews, commencement speeches, and social media.

Here are some of Gates' best... Читать дальше...

JOHANNESBURG - Knights coach Nicky Boje knows that only two wins will suffice when they take on the Dolphins first and then the Highveld Lions in the Ram Slam T20 Challenge this weekend.
 
The central franchise were beaten by the Cape Cobras in a big result on Wednesday night and are now left in a sticky position going into the first of two critical games against their Durban-based opponents at the Mangaung Oval in Bloemfontein on Friday.
 
Boje’s side, who are left fifth on the table with 12 points... Читать дальше...

Russell Crowe made a joke about “sodomizing” his co-star in the 1992 movie “Romper Stomper” at Wednesday’s Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards, in a riff that was cut from the broadcast version of the ceremony. “I just want to talk about what binds us together. There’s two things really. One is an abiding passion for our pursuit and the other is sensitivity,” Crowe said as he took the stage to introduce the Best Asian Film of the Year, according to The Daily Beast.  But his... Читать дальше...

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• Dropbox founder and CEO Drew Houston started doing focused deep dives into an aspect of business he didn't understand while he ran his first company.
• To keep learning, he and his Dropbox leadership team read and discuss a book per quarter.
• One of their favorite books is Clayton Christensen's "Competing Against Luck."

When Drew Houston took a year off from MIT to start Accolade, an SAT tutoring company, it didn't take him long... Читать дальше...

Spectranet modem is perhaps the most popular in Nigeria. If you need to know how to UNLOCK Spectranet 4G MODEM, read this article for an easy step-by-step guide

Budapest (dpa) - Im Flüchtlingsstreit mit der EU wähnt die ungarische Regierungspartei Fidesz den liberalen US-Milliardär George Soros als den eigentlichen Drahtzieher hinter den Entscheidungen der Europäischen Kommission. «Das unter dem Einfluss des Soros-Imperiums stehende Brüssel hat das Sperrfeuer auf Ungarn eröffnet», teilte die Partei des rechts-nationalen Ministerpräsidenten Viktor Orban am Donnerstag in Budapest mit.Die EU-Kommission hatte wenige Stunden zuvor Ungarn, Tschechien und Polen... Читать дальше...

A FEDERAL court in New York is not the obvious setting for a trial that has sent panic through the Turkish establishment. But since he began testifying on November 29th, Reza Zarrab, a 34-year-old gold trader, has pled guilty to violating American sanctions against Iran; implicated Halkbank, a Turkish bank, and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s president, in his scheme; and confessed to bribing a former economy minister who, alongside an executive from Halkbank and six others, is a suspect in the case. Читать дальше...

UKRAINE is in turmoil—again. Protesters are blocking streets and chanting Bandu het! (“Bandits out!”). Smoke again permeates Kiev’s chilly air. The police are again trying to clear out protesters’ tents. The scale is smaller than four years ago, when demonstrators on Maidan square overthrew the corrupt regime of President Viktor Yanukovych. But once again, Ukraine’s viability as a state is at stake.

An uphill struggle for autonomy

STAND in Fozzano (pictured), a hamlet of stone houses perched above the spectacular western coast of Corsica, and it is easy to see why locals think of themselves as special. Rugged mountains tower behind. Below, the Mediterranean glimmers under a setting sun. Gilles Simeoni, a visiting politician in a duffel coat, tells a crowd that villages like theirs are the repository of the island’s true, “deep culture”. He earns appreciative nods and supportive muttering... Читать дальше...

Deep down in the bitcoin mines

RUSSIA’S recession had taken its toll on Yuri Dromashko, an entrepreneur from the Siberian city of Irkutsk. His property investments had floundered. A karaoke bar was flailing. A venture to make machines that print magnets from Instagram photos failed miserably. “We were all crying,” he recalls. Then in 2016 his brother proposed bitcoin mining. Mr Dromashko acquired servers from China and watched the cash roll in. “It’s almost like you print money out of nowhere,” he says. Читать дальше...

It has taken several investigative reports across three years. But at long last the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decided on December 5th to punish Russia for running a state-sponsored doping programme. Russian athletes hoping to compete in the winter games in February in Pyeongchang, South Korea, will have to do so under a neutral flag—after proving they are clean. The World Anti-Doping Agency provided extensive proof of cheating before the summer games in Rio in 2016, but the IOC still let Russia take a team to Brazil. Читать дальше...

JUSTIN TRUDEAU, Canada’s prime minister, set off for China on December 2nd amid speculation that the two countries would start free-trade talks. Canada needs new markets because the United States is turning inward. China wants to gain better access to Canada’s commodities and technology and to set a precedent for talks with other G7 countries. Although they have been talking about trade for more than a year, Mr Trudeau will return with no agreement to start negotiations.

FOR decades Cuban exiles in Miami dreamed of the day that Fidel Castro would die. They imagined that Cubans would then rise up against the communist dictatorship that he imposed. Yet when, a year ago this week, Castro’s ashes were interred in his mausoleum, it was an anticlimax. His brother, Raúl, who is now 86, has been in charge since 2006. For a while, he seemed to offer the prospect of far-reaching economic reform. Now, as he prepares to step down as Cuba’s president in February, he is bequeathing merely stability and quiescence. Читать дальше...

Who believes in Nicolás?

ON NOVEMBER 30th, as oil tsars from the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and Russia met in Vienna, Venezuela’s former oil minister, Eulogio del Pino, once one of their number, was seized by armed guards at dawn in Caracas, and taken to jail. His arrest was not publicly acknowledged in Vienna. His replacement, Manuel Quevedo, a general in the national guard, attended OPEC and was received with the usual deference.

Also unmentioned was how Venezuela... Читать дальше...

LIKE the ghosts that haunted Ebenezer Scrooge, the scandals of years past—summoned up by angry shareholders—will not let companies rest. In Britain this year, the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) paid £900m ($1.2bn) to settle a long-running investor lawsuit related to the bank’s behaviour at the time of the financial crisis of 2007-08. Also in Britain, Lloyds Banking Group faces litigation. And it is not just banks. Investors in Britain sued Tesco, a supermarket chain, for losses caused by an accounting scandal in 2014. Читать дальше...