Новости за 26.02.2017

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A $3.7 billion hedge fund firm has some insight on how to hire top talent: Look for malleable people.

In an investor letter this month, Tourbillon Capital Partners' Jason Karp wrote that his firm had looked at dozens of experienced candidates in recent months. The exercise was not particularly fruitful, however.

"There are a lot of bad values and habits out there that have been learned from this last regime," Karp wrote in the letter, a copy of which Business Insider saw. Читать дальше...

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The Sunday night blues are a real thing.

A 2015 Monster survey found that 76% of people get bummed out on Sunday night.

However, Sunday can still be a fun day (not to mention a productive one). You've just got to have the right mindset and commit to something, whether it be getting tasks done, relaxing, or spending time with your loved ones.

Here are 15 things successful people do to capitalize on their Sunday evenings:

They spend quality time with their families... Читать дальше...

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Immigrants have long been a scapegoat when economies are sputtering, jobs are being lost or security is a concern.

President Donald Trump’s planned wall along the Mexican border, for example, is premised on the notion that immigrants are pouring across the border (they’re not), taking Americans’ jobs (they haven’t) and committing a disproportionate share of crimes (they don’t).

The presumed threats of immigration were also front and center in Trump’s recently... Читать дальше...

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Hollywood’s biggest night, the Academy Awards ceremony, goes down on Sunday. After months of talk about the movies lining up to be the frontrunners and millions of dollars spent by studios to campaign for them, we will finally get some closure.

"La La Land" leads the field with a record-tying 14 nominations, and we expect it to take home many of those Oscars. But there are titles including "Moonlight" and "Hidden Figures" that could play spoilers.

Then there's the best actor category... Читать дальше...

Thomson Reuters

ISTANBUL (AP) — The producers of a new movie about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have hosted a gala screening in Istanbul to celebrate the film and its subject.

The biopic, titled "Reis," portrays Erdogan's childhood growing up in Istanbul's rough Kasimpasa neighborhood and his years as the city's mayor between 1994 and 1998.

"Reis" means "the chief" in Turkish.

Production company Kafkasor Film Academy hosted the special screening on Sunday, Erdogan's 63rd birthday... Читать дальше...

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DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — Wendy's says it plans to install self-ordering kiosks at about 1,000 locations by the end of the year.

A typical location would have three kiosks, The Columbus Dispatch reported. Higher-volume restaurants will be given priority for the kiosks.

Wendy's chief information officer, David Trimm, said the kiosks are intended to appeal to younger customers and reduce labor costs. Kiosks also allow customers of the fast food giant to circumvent... Читать дальше...

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President Donald Trump has the environmental community understandably concerned. He and members of his Cabinet have questioned the established science of climate change, and his choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency, former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, has sued the EPA many times and regularly sided with the fossil fuel industry.

Even if the Trump administration withdraws from all international climate negotiations and reduces the EPA to bare bones... Читать дальше...

Thomson Reuters

Not long ago, Dr. Copper was sick. Today the doctor is looking a lot healthier.

It’s been a rough few years for copper. Since hitting all-time highs of US$10,250/metric tonne in February 2011, it has suffered nearly 6 years of tumbling prices. As shown in the graph below, copper fell 58 percent from its all-time highs to its lows in January 2016. But in the last year, the industrial metal’s fortunes have begun to reverse. Last year copper was up 17.4 percent, and in... Читать дальше...

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In the last five years, Snapchat has gone from a sexting app built in a Stanford dorm to a business that could soon be worth $22 billion on the public market.

Who are the early employees who've helped make the disappearing messaging app such a hit?

Back in 2013, Business Insider rounded up 20 of Snapchat's earliest employees. Many of them were Stanford classmates of founders Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy.

We're revisiting the list now that Snapchat is used by 158... Читать дальше...

During the depths of the Great Recession, Donald Trump counted among his many income sources a side gig as a pitchman for ACN Inc., a company whose “members” sold newfangled videophones and other products.

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NOW WATCH: Animated map shows the best and worst states to raise your family

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The “deep state” is the flavor of the month for conspiracy theorists, the “black helicopters” of 2017.

The idea of career intelligence and military officers and bureaucrats marshaling the institutional power they have spent decades mastering to advance their goals regardless of the whims or wants of elected public officials or the people at large is irresistible, Tom Clancy stuff.

But I’ve seen what there is of a deep state, and let me tell you, based... Читать дальше...

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As a barista, I'm usually the last person to judge a person's drink order. My motto? Give it a try! But time and time again, I find myself cringing when I hear the order "iced cappuccino."

Here's why

Let's begin by defining cappuccino and latte. A latte is shots of espresso with steamed milk topped with silky foam. Now a cappuccino, though very similar, consists of more foam than just steamed milk. This makes it physically lighter, and makes the taste of the espresso a bit stronger. Читать дальше...

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NOW WATCH: Animated map shows the best and worst states to raise your family

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NEW YORK (AP) — Samsung's product showcase Sunday is notable for what's missing: a new flagship phone.

Instead, Samsung is spotlighting new Android and Windows tablets after delaying the Galaxy S8 smartphone — an indirect casualty of the unprecedented September recall of the fire-prone Note 7 phone . The new tablets will carry the Galaxy brand and come with many of the Note 7's features, including the S Pen stylus and screens with rich colors.

Consumers will... Читать дальше...

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BARCELONA, Spain — There's a war raging between Google and Amazon over what could be the next major computing platform: voice-controlled AI assistants.

The two companies each have competing assistants, Google Assistant and Amazon's Alexa, and they're both rushing to get them into as many devices as possible. On Sunday, Amazon announced that it has recruited a useful ally for that mission: Motorola.

Virtual assistants are controlled using only your voice. Читать дальше...

Samsung's next major smartphone is coming in a little over a month.

On Sunday the company sent invitations to the press for an event in New York City where it will announce the Galaxy S8, its first major product since the Galaxy Note 7 debacle last year. The event takes place Wednesday, March 29.

Here's a look at the invitation, which teases the new phone:

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There's a lot of pressure on Samsung to nail the Galaxy S8 launch following the embarrassing Galaxy Note 7 explosions last year. Читать дальше...

Drake Baer

Dude, look around. Everyone in the room can totally tell you're high right now. And they're judging you for it. Don't hold your hands in your lap like that, you look bonkers. Quick, do something normal! Put them on your head. Both hands, on your head. Ahhhhh. Much better.

Weed, in case you haven't heard, often makes users super paranoid. The cliche of the freaked-out stoner makes a kind of intuitive sense. Marijuana is a widely banned substance with a strong smell and other tell-tale signs. Читать дальше...

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(The Sports Xchange) - Baltimore Ravens safety Matt Elam was arrested on multiple drug charges early Sunday morning in Miami.

Elam, 25, was booked at 3:45 a.m. at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami on charges of possession of more than 20 grams of marijuana, possession with intent to sell or deliver, and possession of a controlled substance. He also was charged with reckless driving.

Elam initially was pulled over for reckless driving and... Читать дальше...

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NOW WATCH: This is why Wall Street is able to stay one step ahead of federal investigations

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Some of the biggest names in the investing world are backing a hot new hedge fund, according to people familiar with the situation.

Philippe Laffont, the founder of Coatue Management; Louis Bacon, the founder of Moore Capital; and Dan Loeb, the founder of Third Point, are planning to invest in Ben Melkman's Light Sky Macro, a New York hedge fund that is set to launch March 1.

Billionaire Steve Cohen, the founder of Point72 Asset Management, is also investing in the fund. Читать дальше...

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It's been a rough year for veteran MLB pitcher Jake Peavy.

As detailed by ESPN's Jerry Crasnick, Peavy is currently unsigned and waiting to sort out some personal matters before joining a team.

According to Crasnick, last February, Peavy fell victim to a Ponzi scheme orchestrated by a financial investor named Ash Narayan, who took money that was supposed to go into "conservative investments" and funneled it into a failed ticketing business.

The investigation... Читать дальше...

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A Republican state lawmaker wants to remove the names of Arkansas' most famous Democrats from Little Rock's airport.

Sen. Jason Rapert says pilots have complained to him about flying into Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport. He says Little Rock's airport commission dishonored a National Guard captain when it renamed the airport in 2012.

Rapert says it is embarrassing to have the Clintons' name on the airport and has... Читать дальше...

Nathan Lee

When television producer Mark Burnett called Daymond John in 2008 to ask if he'd like to be on the upcoming series "Shark Tank," it was the perfect time in John's career for something new.

His clothing company FUBU was bringing in $300 million in revenue at its peak, but its popularity waned in the early 2000s. John had investments in about 10 different fashion companies, and all but two or three were severely hurt by the recession.

When Burnett called, John was... Читать дальше...

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BARCELONA — A major Samsung press conference at tech event Mobile World Congress was disrupted multiple times on Sunday by Greenpeace protesters.

Before it even began, protesters scaled the venue and attempted to unfurl a huge banner. And during the event, a protester came on stage and held up a banner.

The activist environmental group is protesting over a lack of clarity from Samsung over what it intends to do with 4.3 million Galaxy Note 7 smartphones it recalled in 2016 over dangerous battery defects... Читать дальше...