Новости за 27.05.2017

Andreas Rentz / Getty

HAILEY, Idaho (AP) — A judge has blocked actor Bruce Willis' plan to build a private airstrip in central Idaho.

The Idaho Mountain Express (http://bit.ly/2r6T4Gr ) reports that 5th District Judge Robert Elgee ruled that Camas County commissioners violated state law when drafting an ordinance allowing individuals to obtain conditional-use permits to build a private airport in agricultural-zoned county lands.

Willis began construction on an 8,500-foot dirt runway last year. Читать дальше...

Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The parents of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick were both in a boating accident on Friday. His mother passed away, and his father is currently in the hospital in "serious" condition. The New York Times' Mike Isaac was the first to report the news on Twitter.

Uber provided Business Insider with the following statement:

“Last night Travis and his family suffered an unspeakable tragedy. His mother passed away in a devastating boating accident... Читать дальше...

Thomson Reuters

(Reuters) - Gregg Allman, whose soulful vocals made the Allman Brothers Band one of rock's top acts in the 1970s in a career that also was marred by tragedy and drug abuse, died on Saturday at the age of 69, his official website said.

"It is with deep sadness that we announce that Gregg Allman, a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band, passed away peacefully at his home in Savannah, Georgia," it said.

Drummer Butch Trucks, another founding member of the band, died aged 60 on Jan. Читать дальше...

Getty

You may have heard on the internet last week that, according to "multiple sources close to the intelligence, justice, and law enforcement communities," the marshal of the Supreme Court had commenced the sacred impeachment-notification rite—you know, the one you learned about in civics class, in which the marshal marches to the White House in a cool costume and tells the president that proceedings for his removal have begun.

"The notification was given, as part of the formal process of the matter, in order that Mr. Читать дальше...

Thomson Reuters

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has reported cases of the Zika virus, the World Health Organization said, adding that efforts should be made to strengthen surveillance.

The WHO said that on May 15 India's health ministry reported three confirmed cases from the western state of Gujarat. Cases were detected during testing in February and November last year, while one was detected in January this year, according to the statement, which was released on Friday but did not gain public attention until Saturday. Читать дальше...

Public Domain

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A recent fire has put a national laboratory's ability to operate safely into question.

The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board announced Friday that it will hold a hearing next month to discuss the future of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported. The board is an independent panel that advises the U.S. Department of Energy and the president.

A fire broke mid-April at the lab's PF-4 plutonium building where... Читать дальше...

Stackin

Watch your back Cheddar.

Scott Grimes cofounded the entertainment-focused digital media company Woven (now Uproxx), which brought the world the edgy young male-aimed site BroBible. Now he wants to help young people better manage their wallets with a new web video venture.

Stackin aspires to become a go-to outlet for millennials looking for help with personal finance. The media property quietly rolled out a series of short videos on Facebook and Instagram last month... Читать дальше...

REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Michael Hayden, the former director of the NSA and the CIA, told CNN on Saturday that the reported content of Jared Kushner's conversations with Russia's ambassador in December may have motivated former national security adviser Susan Rice to request his name to be unmasked in intelligence reports.

Most of the controversy surrounding Rice's reported attempts to "unmask" Trump officials has centered on former national security adviser Michael Flynn's communications with Russian officials. Читать дальше...

Shutterstock

An experimental drug derived from cannabis to treat epilepsy is on the brink of becoming the first of its kind to win US government approval.

The drug's active ingredient is cannabidiol, the compound in marijuana thought to be responsible for many of its therapeutic effects. Cannabidiol doesn't contain THC, marijuana's main psychoactive ingredient, so it doesn't get users high.

According to results from two large clinical trials released over the past two months... Читать дальше...

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has faded from the public view over the last few weeks as the Trump administration continues to deal with fallout from President Trump's abrupt decision to fire FBI director James Comey.

Bannon was a prominent behind-the-scenes voice during the election and the presidential transition period. But after a number of policy blunders like the immigration order and Obamacare replacement bill, and ideological spats with Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner... Читать дальше...

Carl Court/Getty Images

Investment managers are in for a wave of consolidation the likes of which the industry has never seen before.

Several factors are driving this “the largest competitive realignment in asset-management history," according to a new report from consulting firm Casey Quirk, which is part of Deloitte.

Among them:

• The rise of passive, or index, investing — which is much cheaper than actively managed investing — is pushing down fees that asset managers have historically charged their clients.

It's relentless.

Every year, the number of bankers and traders employed by the largest banks on Wall Street shrinks a little. Headcount across investment banking, equities and fixed-income trading at the top 12 banks dropped by 1,900 from the first quarter of 2016 to the first quarter of 2017, a fall of 3%, according to new data from industry consultant Coalition. The data includes: Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs... Читать дальше...

See story here.

NOW WATCH: I wear these computer glasses every day even though I have perfect vision — here's why

Getty Images / Andy Lyons

When the horses enter the gate for the 143rd Kentucky Derby, their jockeys will hail from Louisiana, Mexico, Nebraska and France.

None will be African-American. That’s been the norm for quite a while. When Marlon St. Julien rode the Derby in 2000, he became the first black man to get a mount since 1921.

It wasn’t always this way. The Kentucky Derby, in fact, is closely intertwined with black Americans’ struggles for equality, a history I explore in my book on race and thoroughbred racing. Читать дальше...

dvids/Flickr

Getting out of the military can be a challenging time, especially for those who only served one enlistment and are heading to college.

In my case, I dropped out of school in 2008 and enlisted, then in 2012 left the Marines and returned to college, except this time I had a new identifier permanently affixed to myself.

I was now a veteran, but I had no idea how that one little detail was going to impact and alter how I behaved.

I felt like I was equipped with a wealth of experience far beyond my peers. Читать дальше...

Reuters

Greenlight Capital's David Einhorn has been waging a battle ahead of General Motors' annual shareholder meeting to split the company's stock into two classes.

The hedge funder, who controls over 3% of GM in total, wants dividend-paying shares and "capital appreciation" shares that could capture GM's growth and deliver a return to shareholders superior to what the markets have since the carmaker's 2010 post-bankruptcy IPO.

GM has underperformed the markets over this period and is currently trading at $33 per share... Читать дальше...

Ethan Miller/Getty

While media companies dominate the list of top paid CEOs, leaders of tech companies aren't far behind. 

Combined, the top 30 CEOs in tech made $662 million in 2016, according to a new report out from Equilar, an executive compensation data firm, in partnership with the New York Times. 

The study only looked at executives at publicly-traded companies with more than $1 billion in revenue that had filed proxy statements before May 1. 

Each exec's total compensation for 2016 includes salary... Читать дальше...

REUTERS/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud

You've probably heard some productivity expert talk about the importance of making a to-do list, a schedule, or at least a tentative plan for the day.

It makes sense — when you get into work in the morning, you don't want to spend an hour trying to figure out what to do first.

And yet, sometimes, all that planning and scheduling can work to your detriment. Which is why they're best used in conjunction with the "do it now" rule.

The rule is the creation of Josh Zerkel... Читать дальше...

Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty Images

The FBI is examining whether Russian officials suggested to President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, that Russian banks could finance Trump associates' business ventures if US sanctions were lifted or relaxed, Reuters reported on Friday, citing a current US law enforcement official.

The possibility first came under scrutiny after Kushner met with the CEO of Russia's state-owned Vnesheconombank in December 2016. The meeting came on the heels... Читать дальше...

Thomson Reuters

President Trump rounded out his first foreign trip since taking office by joining other G7 leaders as they walked the streets of Taormina, Sicily. 

There was just one difference: as the leaders of the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, and Japan walked on foot, Trump followed in a golf cart, The Times of London reported on Saturday. 

"They walked the 700 yards from the traditional G7 group photo, taken at a Greek amphitheatre, to a piazza in the hilltop town... Читать дальше...

AP Images

Global central banks typically pursue two goals, maintaining low and stable prices while also promoting growth or employment. In contrast, the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) has several official and multiple unofficial goals, many of which conflict. At present it faces daunting challenges, including balancing growth, minimizing currency volatility, promoting economic stability, preventing asset price bubbles, ensuring adequate market liquidity and deleveraging the financial system. Читать дальше...

Unsplash / Haley Phelps

One of the hardest things about your 20s, or at least one of the hardest things about your later 20s, has to be the expectation that one day you will “feel like an adult,” which never, ever happens.

When most of us are 20, we are very much in an extension of teenage-dom, often in school or floundering just outside of it, figuring thing out and more focused on the pursuit of our next night out than anything having to do with bettering ourselves.

We look at Real Life as a thing that is yet to come... Читать дальше...

Sarah Jacobs

Who says offices have to be boring?

Not everyone toils the day away in a drab cubicle farm. There are some pretty incredible offices out there.

At Business Insider, we've gone on numerous virtual and in-person tours of amazing workspaces — including those of Facebook, Twitter, and Spotify.

Here's a glimpse of some of the coolest offices we've visited:

Jacquelyn Smith, Jessica Mai, Courtney Verrill, Emmie Martin, and Tanza Loudenback contributed reporting. Читать дальше...

Joe Avella/Business Insider

I recently had the chance to get up before dawn and spend a day learning about leadership from two former US Navy SEAL commanders, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin.

Willink led SEAL Team 3 Task Unit Bruiser, the most highly decorated special operations unit of the Iraq War, and Babin was his second in line, the more senior of two platoon commanders. They formed a leadership consulting firm called Echelon Front in 2010, their 2015 book "Extreme Ownership" became a New York Times bestseller... Читать дальше...

Reuters

Brazillian doctors are taking an experimental approach to treating burns: using tilapia skin. 

Traditionally, burns are treated using pig and human tissue, which transfer collagen, a healing protein, to the victims' skin. In Fortaleza, Brazil, however, those tissues weren't readily available. 

That shortage led researchers at the José Frota Institute to turn to tilapia as an alternative treatment for people in the community who suffered from burns.

Here's the... Читать дальше...