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Khloe Kardashian & Scott Disick Grab Lunch on Kourtney Kardashian's Birthday

«Just Jared» 

Khloe Kardashian is decked out in all-white while out to lunch with Scott Disick at the Blu Jam Cafe on Monday (April 18) in Calabasas, Calif. The 31-year-old reality star and Scott, 32, filmed for Keeping Up with the Kardashians. It’s also Kourtney Kardashian‘s birthday today, and she is turning 37! Khloe didn’t attend Coachella [...]



Federal reserve speaks up on blockchain

BusinessInsider.com 

Reuters/Kevin Lamarque

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Lael Brainard, a member of the US Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, discussed the potential of blockchain in the financial industry in a recent speech to the Institute of International Finance Blockchain Roundtable, according to CoinDesk.

Brainard discussed the efficiency potential of blockchain as well as the challenges... Читать дальше...

Terrence Malick's 'The New World' & New Titles By Alain Resnais, Arthur Hiller & More Coming To Criterion In July

«Indiewire» 

Another month, another list of great titles from the Criterion Collection in July. Though you could call July a rather special month as it feature the inclusion of a new Terrence Malick film to the collection: the longer version of 2005's seventeenth-century America tone poem "The New World." Running 172 minute (nearly 3 hours), this version was never shown theatrically (though screened for critics) and as special as the running time sounds, it's the same one that's been available through a New Line DVD since 2010. Читать дальше...

Correction: Black Chessmaster story

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

NEW YORK (AP) — In some versions of a story April 18 about Maurice Ashley, The Associated Press reported that Ashley was the first African-American to become a chess grandmaster and the first African-American in the U.S. Chess Hall of Fame. [...] a correction appended at the bottom of some versions of the story said that Ashley is not the first black person to become a chess grandmaster. "For me to hear that I'm being inducted for everything I've given to the game, that I've done to promote the game... Читать дальше...

A massive strike has knocked half of Kuwait's oil production offline

BusinessInsider.com 

Reuters/Stephanie McGehee

While everyone is talking about the failure of the Doha negotiations, Kuwait has more than made up for OPEC’s failure all on its own.

Kuwait’s oil workers walked off the job this weekend, flexing their muscles over a pay dispute. The state-owned Kuwait Oil Company took to Twitter to report the damage done by the workers strike, announcing that oil production fell to 1.1 million barrels per day on Sunday, a catastrophic development considering it normally produces nearly 3 mb/d. Читать дальше...

Quakes hit southwestern Japan

Kyodo News (kyodonews.jp) 

MINAMIASO, Japan - Earthquake evacuees look at the ceiling of an evacuation center in the southwestern Japan village of...

Home min's house torched; tear gas fired in Visnagar

«The Times of India» (indiatimes.com) 

Agitating Patidars once again tried to torch Gujarat's junior home minister Rajnikant Patel's bungalow, while police lobbed 10 tear gas shells to disperse a mob that resorted to stone pelting near Visnagar town on Monday. Police also booked over 5,000 persons, including SPG leader Lalji Patel and others, for Sunday's violence.

Quakes hit southwestern Japan

Kyodo News (kyodonews.jp) 

MASHIKI, Japan - An elderly earthquake evacuee sits on a stairway on April 18, 2016, as an evacuation center in the s...





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