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Winning numbers drawn in 'Lucky Links Night' game

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Lucky Links Night" game were: 01-03-05-07-09-14-19-22 (one, three, five, seven, nine, fourteen, nineteen, twenty-two)

Winning numbers drawn in 'Cash 5' game

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

ROCKY HILL, Conn. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Sunday evening's drawing of the Connecticut Lottery's "Cash 5" game were: 05-12-27-29-30 (five, twelve, twenty-seven, twenty-nine, thirty)

AFM wijzigt hypotheekregels

Tubantia 

De Autoriteit Financiële Markten wijzigt een belangrijke regel rond de hypotheekverstrekking. Voortaan geldt niet langer het moment dat huizenkopers een lening aanvragen als officiële peildatum, maar het moment dat de bank akkoord gaat.



2016, the year of the 'sensation' that is Virat Kohli

WN.com 

CHENNAI: Virat Kohli's 235 at Wankhede on Sunday rekindled some memories. It was January 2012 and India were getting hammered by Australia Down Under. In the fourth Test in Adelaide, the feisty Delhi lad completed a century - the first by an Indian on that tour - and celebrated as if there was no tomorrow. The Aussies appreciated his effort, but they knew immediately that in his exuberance, Kohli might have lost his focus. It didn't take them too long to dismiss him and a 4-0 walloping was just a matter of time. Читать дальше...

‘We are failing the elephants’

GantDaily.com 

The female elephant charges through shrub, ears pinned back, silent. At least that’s how I remember it. I was 7. I’m wedged between a cousin and my father, my grandmother perched behind. We are in the back of an open pickup near the banks of the Olifants River in South Africa. “Drive!” we shout at […]

Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden, and the Modern Whistle-Blower

The New Yorker 

In the summer of 1967, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara commissioned a group of thirty-six scholars to write a secret history of the Vietnam War. The project took a year and a half, ran to seven thousand pages, and filled forty-seven volumes. Only a handful of copies were made, and most were kept under lock and key in and around the Beltway. One set, however, ended up at the RAND Corporation, in Santa Monica, where it was read, from start to finish, by a young analyst there named Daniel Ellsberg. Читать дальше...

Katniss Everdeen, White House Intern Application

The New Yorker 

I have wanted to be a White House intern ever since November 8, 2016. That night, my younger sister looked up at me and said, “What are we going to do, Katniss?” and I got out my computer, made a user name and password, uploaded my high-school transcript, and turned to her and said, “Go see if Peeta has any thread and old bread sacks, because I’m going to need business-casual clothes. And a recording device.”

David Attenborough’s Exploration of Nature’s Marvels and Brutality

The New Yorker 

No trip to the American Museum of Natural History in New York is complete without a visit to the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life. It’s a blue-tinged room, booming with surf-roar and the cries of gulls and rimmed with marine dioramas: teeming kelp forests and coral reefs, a walrus lost in thought, dolphins and tuna fleeting through twilit seas. The hall’s vaulting showcases a life-size blue whale, midway through an eternal dive. Whenever I crane to look up at the expanse of its light-dappled underbelly... Читать дальше...

Briefly Noted

The New Yorker 

Last Girl Before Freeway, by Leslie Bennetts (Little, Brown). The most notable revelation in this snappy biography of the comic Joan Rivers, who died in 2014, is that, after her husband’s suicide and a brutal professional failure, she considered killing herself, too. But the best parts of the book are tart evocations of the mid-century comic-club scene and of Rivers’s inimitable panache. Bennetts, who has previously written about women and work, doesn’t sugarcoat Rivers’s legendary harshness toward the rest of her sex... Читать дальше...

The Secret Life of Time

The New Yorker 

Some nights—more than I like, lately—I wake to the sound of the bedside clock. The room is dark, without detail, and it expands in such a way that it seems as if I’m outdoors, under an empty sky, or underground, in a cavern. I might be falling through space. I might be dreaming. I could be dead. Only the clock moves, its tick steady, unhurried. At these moments I have the most chilling understanding that time moves in only one direction.

Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden, and the Modern Whistleblower

The New Yorker 

In the summer of 1967, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara commissioned a group of thirty-six scholars to write a secret history of the Vietnam War. The project took a year and a half, ran to seven thousand pages, and filled forty-seven volumes. Only a handful of copies were made, and most were kept under lock and key in and around the Beltway. One set, however, ended up at the RAND Corporation, in Santa Monica, where it was read, from start to finish, by a young analyst there named Daniel Ellsberg. Читать дальше...

Motown’s True Visionaries

The New Yorker 

Motown was headquartered in Detroit, and so the Motown metaphors are industrial: the record label was a machine, a factory, an assembly line fitting songs together, part by part. But the heart of the company was human, and much of the art it produced can be traced to the exertions of two brothers, Brian and Eddie Holland, and their friend Lamont Dozier. With all due respect to Smokey Robinson, the Motown Sound as we know it was created by Holland-Dozier-Holland. “Heat Wave,” “Baby Love,” “How... Читать дальше...

How to Be a Stoic

The New Yorker 

The Stoic philosopher Epictetus was born a slave, around 55 A.D., in the Greco-Roman spa town of Hierapolis—present-day Pamukkale, Turkey. I first encountered his teachings in 2011, shortly after moving from San Francisco to Istanbul. I lived alone on a university campus in a forest. In the midst of a troubled long-distance relationship, I sometimes went days without talking to anyone but my boyfriend’s disembodied head on Skype. I was demoralized by Turkish politics, which made both secularists and religious people feel like victims. Читать дальше...

Our Automated Future

The New Yorker 

There are many accounts of the genesis of Watson. The most popular, which is not necessarily the most accurate—and this is the sort of problem that Watson himself often stumbled on—begins in 2004, at a steakhouse near Poughkeepsie. One evening, an I.B.M. executive named Charles Lickel was having dinner there when he noticed that the tables around him had suddenly emptied out. Instead of finishing their sirloins, his fellow-diners had rushed to the bar to watch “Jeopardy!” This was deep into Ken Jennings’s seventy-four-game winning streak... Читать дальше...

How Doctors Could Thwart Health-Care Reform

The New Yorker 

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump made many promises he doubtless won’t keep and a few he apparently doesn’t remember. But his nomination of Representative Tom Price, a hard-core conservative from Georgia, to be Secretary of Health and Human Services is a sign that repealing Obamacare is one promise he’d like to carry out. In every Congress since the Affordable Care Act was passed, Price has sponsored a bill to replace it. And there’s something else that should worry supporters of Obamacare: he’s a doctor. Читать дальше...

Spiderweb

The New Yorker 

It’s harder to breathe in the humid north, up there so close to Brazil and Paraguay, the rushing river guarded by mosquito sentinels and a sky that can turn from limpid blue to stormy black in minutes. You start to struggle as soon as you arrive, as if a brutal arm were wound around your chest, squeezing. And everything is slower; during siesta there is only a rare bicycle in the empty streets, the ice-cream shops seem abandoned, with their ceiling fans spinning for no one, and the chicharras shriek hysterically in their hiding places. Читать дальше...





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