Новости за 31.12.2018

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WASHINGTON — In a surprise reversal Friday night, Coast Guard officials announced that service members will receive their regularly scheduled paychecks next week, despite the ongoing government shutdown.

In a message to all Coast Guard members, Vice Commandant Adm. Charles Ray said that service and Department of Homeland Security officials “identified a way to pay our military workforce on 31 December.”See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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• United Airlines put out a cookbook that contains more than 40 recipes created by the airline's own executive chefs.
• The United "Polaris Cookbook" is currently for sale for $29.99 and is available at the online United Airlines shop.

United Airlines is hoping to change the perception of airplane food forever with its new offering, the "Polaris Cookbook."

According to The Daily Meal, the cookbook features more than 40 recipes created by the airline’s own executive chefs. Читать дальше...

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• 2018 was another "Year of Trump": he dominated the news as few of his predecessors have done.
• But by the end of his second year, the prospects that he would achieve his economic goals were in grave doubt as growth slowed and the stock market swooned.
• From 40 Republicans losing seats in the House of Representatives, to a worsening global outlook, below are 10 charts that reveal how politics and the economy fared under Trump in the past year. 

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• The royal family had a busy year in 2018. 
• Kensington Palace shared a video on Saturday of some of the family's favorite moments from the year.
• The video includes photos from Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's royal wedding, footage from Prince Louis' christening, and much more. 

The royal family has enjoyed a year arguably unlike any other, and they want to celebrate it! As we head into 2019, the Fab Four — aka Prince William... Читать дальше...

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• Miley Cyrus' mom, Tish Cyrus, shared a photo to Instagram on Saturday that was taken in Tennessee 25 years ago when she and Billy Ray Cyrus got married in their living room.
• She said "everything has come full circle," since Miley Cyrus wed Liam Hemsworth on December 23 in their Tennessee home.
• Both couples have experienced ups and downs in their relationships.

An old photo shows that Miley Cyrus' parents got married 25 years ago in their living room... Читать дальше...

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• NASA's New Horizons probe, which visited Pluto in 2015, is closing in on a mysterious object called Ultima Thule.
• New Horizons will fly past Ultima Thule, formally known as 2014 MU69, on New Year's Day.
• Ultima Thule will be the most distant object humanity has ever visited (if the flyby goes as planned).
• The nuclear-powered spacecraft will take hundreds photos of the space rock.
• The flyby is "about 10,000 times" more challenging than visiting Pluto... Читать дальше...

So schön die Vorfreude auf Weihnachten ist, oft ist es doch eine Veranstaltung, die einen ordentlichen Kater hinterlässt. Es ist eine kolossale Völlerei — zu viele und zu üppige Speisen, zu viel Alkohol — ganz zu schweigen vom Konsumterror rund ums Schenken.

Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel hat in ihrer Neujahrsansprache für mehr Verbundenheit und Solidarität 2019 geworben.

Ein hohes Maß an Wohlstand findet sich überall auf der Welt; von den reichsten Familien Amerikas bis hin zu den reichsten Königshäusern Europas. 

Mit der Inbetriebnahme der Boeing 737 Max, dem aufgefrischten Modell des US-amerikanischen Flugzeugherstellers Boeing, macht sich bei zahlreichen Flugzeug-Passagieren Unmut breit. Einem Bericht des „Handelsblatt“ zufolge beschweren sich die Fluggäste immer öfter über zu kleine Sitzabstände und zu enge Toiletten. Dabei ist genau das der Grund, warum viele Airlines das neue Boeing-Modell unbedingt haben wollten – es passen mehr Sitze hinein. Bei Bedarf werden Bordküche und Passagier-Toilette einfach... Читать дальше...

Der Präsident  des Bundesverbandes der Deutschen Industrie, Dieter Kempf, kritisierte zum Jahresende gegenüber der Nachrichtenagentur dpa die Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitik der Bundesregierung: „Die Koalition hat bisher auf die falschen Themen gesetzt. Im Koalitionsvertrag geht es so gut wie gar nicht um die jüngeren oder nachfolgenden Generationen.“

Auf der Website der britischen Zeitschrift „Time“ veröffentlichten zwölf erfolgreiche Personen die besten Ratschläge, die sie je in ihrem Leben erhalten haben.

Im Streit um die Ausgestaltung des schnellen mobilen Internets der Zukunft wollen die Netzbetreiber Telefonica und Vodafone eine juristische Klärung. Den Mobilfunkanbietern sind die Auflagen für den Kauf der teuren Frequenzen zu hoch.

Es wurde bis zuletzt gestritten und lauthals protestiert. Nun ist der italienische Haushalt endgültig unter Dach und Fach. Doch nur wenige glauben, dass er dem Land wirklich den nötigen Wandel bringt.

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The following video is pretty impressive. It shows an F/A-18C being hit by a lightning bolt.

Along with the flash of light, you can clearly hear a loud bang inside the cockpit, taking the pilot by surprise. Shock aside, the aircraft was probably not really damaged by the bolt.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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• A lion escaped from an enclosure and killed a worker at the Conservators Center, a wildlife non-profit in North Carolina.
• The lion was shot and killed after it attacked the worker in an enclosure that was being cleaned, Associated Press reports.
• Officials are withholding the name of the victim until the family is notified.

A lion has escaped from its enclosure at a wildlife conservatory in North Carolina and attacked and killed a worker, Associated Press reported on Sunday. 

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• New research from the University of Sussex found that participating in "dry January" — a month-long abstention from drinking alcohol — could improve health throughout the rest of the year. 
• Many participants reported having improved health, better sleep, more energy, easier weight loss, better concentration, and better skin. 
• Many also said that they drank less often throughout the year, long after the end of January. 

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