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Scientists have discovered another possible cause of the destruction of Atlantis

Европейские исследователи выдвинули новую теорию о гибели легендарного острова

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German and French scientists which investigate the mysterious island of the Atlantic ocean found probable cause of it’s death. “Culprit” of the incident could be the volcano on the Santorini archipelago.

The archipelago of Santorini, near Greece, was a single island, but that all changed, according to scientists, after the eruption of a volcano on the island in the XVI century BC. Fs a result, the middle of Santorini was destroyed and the entire island was instantly covered with volcanic sediments and debris of destroyed buildings, damaged mountains and trees. The eruption caused a tsunami, which affected Crete. Both Islands were inhabited by representatives of the Minoan civilization, the development of which is still considered as very high.

Scientists from France the study found that the eruption of the volcano occurred instantly. Such blazing speed was the cause of global changes of the island, namely its complete rupture. Only a hundred years of emptiness under the island of Santorini, was filled with magma. This magma began to expand, causing the island and began to deform, gradually turning into an archipelago. After analyzing the breed, the scientists were able to establish that the magma that formed the volcano in the middle of the island, reached the coastal zone and mixed with the water of the Mediterranean, and why was the explosion, from-for which the island was instantly flooded. Also the wave formed greater than 30 meters, which have reached Crete and damaged it.

Many believe that the island of Santorini is the Atlantis which fate in the III century BC was told by the famous ancient Greek philosopher Plato. According to him, a prosperous island with a prominent population suddenly disappeared in the depths of the sea without leaving a single trace.

Despite the fact that the theory of disappeared due to the explosion of the volcano island is very plausible, it has opponents. The fact is that in the works of Plato’s destruction of Atlantis is dated by about 9400 BC, that is over eight thousand years before the eruption in Santorini. This discrepancy is very confusing for many scientists, so this version still has decent support among researchers.

Deadly glow restaurant ratings

Ресторанные рейтинги вершат судьбы людей

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Famous French chef Benoit Viola in February this year, simultaneously with the release of a new release of the Michelin «Red Guide”, committed suicide. This is reported by “Facts and Comments”. This case reminds us the story of Bernard Loiseau, who was shot 10 years ago due to the fact that he could lose a third Michelin Guide stars.

That is the great reward chefs "Michelin stars", give them "scripture", ie "Red Guide"
That is the great reward chefs “Michelin stars”, give them “scripture”, ie “Red Guide”

The publication “Red Guide” evaluates French restaurants so-called “Michelin stars” with the help of true professionals of cooking, the best tasters.

In Russia, the guide is not discharged, but the French edition makes chefs let yourself bullet in the forehead in case of failures.

The logo of "Red Guide" in 2016
The logo of “Red Guide” in 2016

But recent status assessment is already losing its former power, people in the past decades have started to think more about the criteria for the evaluation of gastronomic temples that were always behind the curtain. For high scores, many restaurant owners have spent millions on beautification and decoration of the premises, the purchase of first-class, a rare, high-quality products. If the institution is deprived of stars or not getting them, all the costs are not paid off, but on the contrary there is a need to invest in a restaurant even more money.

The chef is cooking a delicacy
The chef is cooking a delicacy

However, some restaurant owners and chefs are still respected Michelin system.

“The Michelin for me – it is the prestige and the highest professional recognition, it remains the most important and sufficiently objective in France,” – says, according to the “Afisha Eda“, the founder of the Parisian restaurant Septime and holder of a “Michelin” star Bertrand Grebo.

Now more and more appears the new guides in the kitchen, the audience already does not trust Michelin assessment, and for example, prefers «The 50 Best», «La liste» and other, more simple – «The trip advisor», «Afisha daily» and “Yelp”.

To help out in prison

Пошаговая инструкция помощи заключенному

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1. Armed with Criminal and Criminal Procedure codes – help lawyer. Often criminal cases can be quite large( e.g. Swamp thing), in such cases, the defender is not able to track all the nuances. You can gather the necessary information and documents, to seek out new witnesses and other evidence. Strategy protection and processing of evidence for presentation in court should deal with the lawyer himself.

2. Don’t be afraid to give publicity to the violations of the rights of the prisoner. In jail the responsibility of the Federal service of execution of punishments (FSIN) in all regions there are special organs controlled by the office of the Procurator for supervision of observance of laws in correctional institutions. This is the first option where to go. But we cannot hope for an immediate response. In an emergency, when there is a threat to life and health (recent letter Ildar Dadin and subsequent events) not to procrastinate. First, the main aim of a lawyer or defender, who is currently near the scene of the incident (approximate price is 10 thousand rubles). FSIN denies appointment of counsel and a prisoner? It is necessary to attract media attention, contact one of the human rights organizations (“Human rights”, “Rus sitting”, “Committee against torture” and others)

3. Write letters, make passes. Mental condition of a prisoner deteriorates, due to the feeling of loneliness, so moral support from your side will help him cope with the shock. Keep in touch, send a letter by regular mail or through the service, the FSIN – letter. But remember that every text is viewed, so do not mention about the details of the case, and do not ask questions that potentially violate the law. Also give the prisoner what he asks (but there is a list of prohibited items on the website of the FPS of the desired region). There are weight restrictions: transfers (to 20 pounds), parcel (up to two).

4. You can improve his living conditions through the mechanism of registration of humanitarian aid. For example, to make minor repairs to camera, buy a TV, kettle or microwave.

5. Organize an interesting event. The administration of the colony do not rarely allows individuals and volunteer organizations to bring screenings, performances, lectures.

6. Don’t leave it after release. Help the person to adapt to life after the grid, push to seek employment, visit with him entertainment, for example cinemas or galleries. Do not let be closed in itself.

RateMe become a reality

Netflix выпустил шуточную версию социальной сети RateMe из сериала "Чёрное зеркало"

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In the series, the application has control over the life of the whole society and has a number of functions that regulate human rating and making it accessible to all. The “real” analogue allows only two actions – randomly display user evaluation (enough to drive his name in the specified field) and “evaluate” his friend or acquaintance.

The premiere of the third season of “Black Mirror” took place on October 21. Series “Dive” ( “dive”) received the greatest popularity and became the most talked-about episode of the new season, on kinopoisk assessment.

Page in the heroine's girlfriend application
Page in the heroine’s girlfriend application

Characters “dive” appeared in the world, where the application is able to manipulate people by virtue of their dependence on the social situation and public opinion. With this program, the characters can not just put the stars (from 1 to 5) on the photos and videos of each other, but also closer to the life of their dreams.

Reputation becomes the main advantage of the locals, as obtained scores affect the position of people in society, high levels (above 4.5) gives its holder certain privileges and bonuses (good accommodation, the best seats on the plane, and others.). The heroine of the first series of the new season set a goal to buy property, but to get a discount on the purchase of the house lacked its current rating, it became the start acquaintances among the famous and successful (the only way it was possible to improve the rating in the short term), from which in the end only I suffered, realizing that the numbers do not mean anything.

Rating of the main character from the TV serial "The Black Mirror"
Rating of the main character from the TV serial “The Black Mirror”

It is important to know that the ratings of the application can not be changed after they are received. To all the names of your average score is tied, and this has created a theme for jokes in many social networks. For example, some Twitter users have begun to compare the assessment of past and current US Presidents. So, Donald Trump has 4 points and Obama 3.

Sberbank proposes to create a national counterpart AliBaba and Amazon

Проект "национальной экосистемы" представил Герман Греф, сообщает "КоммерсантЪ"

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The article was translated via on-line translator. We apologise for gaffes and mistakes.

Sberbank has initiated the development of “national ecosystem”, according to “Kommersant“, citing close to the organization sources.

German Gref presented the project during a meeting with Vladimir Putin on electronic Commerce.

Ecosystem – a group of related organizations created around information platform and using its services allowing customers to access the generated suggestions. Major ecosystems include Amazon, Google, and AliBaba.

After 8 years the volume of Economics of the project may be close to 27% of revenue organizations in Russia, which amount to 65 billion rubles. A source familiar with the presentation, said that the Bank works with a large number of consumers, he available your platform, resources and analytical staff. The Bank believed that the project will provide various industry groups related to information goods, communications, government and business services, real estate and others.

According to one variant of implementation of the project, to create a system to be exclusively a savings Bank. In addition, possible collaboration with domestic or foreign, possibly Chinese Internet company.

According to the forecasts presented in this presentation, after 8 years, almost 30% of global revenue and more than 40% of the profits to organizations will bring the ecosystem. In addition, in this area, China could overtake America due to special factors. These include a large domestic market, which is widely used Internet, a high rate of economic development and the abundance of manufacturers, favorable regulation and low development of physical infrastructure, including the penetration of retail chains and the number of service points of banks.

Mark Zavadsky, head of representative office in Russia AliBabaGroup, said that their ecosystem is open to collaboration with companies from Russia, including with Sberbank.

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6 Reasons why Telegram is the best messenger

А вы уже пользуетесь Telegram?

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Number of messengers, which began to appear a little about every six months, is  incredibly large. Starting from the known to all Viber,WhatsApp, Messenger, Google Hello … they are endless! But in spite of their diversity, it seems to me that the most practical and easy to use is a telegram. And now I will try to briefly explain why I think so.

Correspondence will not be lost

The main problem of the messenger as WhatsApp – inability to keep the conversation. Update your phone or buy a second gadget? All your life has begun anew.
At Telegram – no. Firstly, it keeps in memory the whole story completely, and secondly it can be used with several devices simultaneously.

Stickers are simply divine!

If, for example, “Vkontakte” asks you to 70 rubles per set was a stupid stickers, and WhatsApp, it seems, does not know what it is, then the telegram you simply run away from the eyes of a huge number! And the great thing is that you can create your own set of stickers anduse them not just for entertainment, but to use them to save time when sending long messages.

Interface

Stylish, concise, intuitive and user-friendly – that’s what you can say about Telegram. Yes, Viber and WhatsApp popular, but that’s because they were the first. Updates to these applications as well come very rarely, which is not the telegram. Starting from the background correspondence, ending fonts and menu design – all this definitely makes Telegram the best.

Security

Most likely, regular users will not be very calm, but its still nice to know that your correspondence is not read by the CIA, FSB, etc. Telegram from the beginning was created as the confidential messenger in the world and so it remains. Durov contest at breaking in correspondence of the two bots Telegram (prize – 300 thousand dollars) left without a winner.

A great variety of different useful bots

Everything from news and ending with culinary bots. Here you can see the daily news, or to ask the bot that you cook, if you have chicken! The only thing you need to know – the name of the bot (and they can be easily found on the Internet).

Millions of different bonuses

The ability to create chat rooms up to 1000 people, the secret chats, chats with self-destructing messages, blacklists, the ability to watch attachments, work with cloud services – this is not the full list of utilities that provide us with the creators of the Telegram Pavel Durov and his brother Nicholas.

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Eat to live, not live to eat

Психология правильного питания

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The psychological and physiological health are inseparable, so if people are unhappy with their amounts, the “cure” is found not only a nutritionist, but a therapist.

Psychologists see the reason for obesity is that people eat not only when hungry but also when they are bored, want something to treat. Remember the famous saying: “well Done! Zippity-Doo!”, that is, we “reward” themselves with food: dry or sweet, and, as a consequence, high-calorie.

However, some not only encourage themselves with food, but also solve the problem: from depression to the banal boredom. In this scenario, “seizing up” quickly turns into a habit. Probably, many have noticed that when on for a long time remained at home doing nothing, then involuntarily began to coachnet: reading a book, eating pie with liver, watch the movie and send in your mouth a handful of caramelized popcorn… and time goes faster.

Man has will power and have to solve problems with reason, not to trust your life your digestive system! Of course, it’s easier to let it go than to analyze the reason, find out and take action. So you need to take to get rid of boredom, it’s easier to fill their soul with the 100th candy or 15th sandwich.

In the process of chewing creates the illusion that life goes on, and I are involved in this: afternoon – event hamburger – event. Life seems more fun, and the food becomes the main source of well-being, as if each piece is a brick of joy in the wall of destiny.

What is the psychology of healthy eating in addition to type recommendations: “you can eat some chocolate, it helps production of the hormone of happiness“? The fact that a healthy diet and a healthy mind are inseparable: there is no boredom, no “jamming”, no heartache, no desire to escape it using another piece of cake.

Sweet bun
Sweet bun

People tend to experience negative emotions, and then desire to focusassist increases. However, man is not only the digestive system, and something more: the spirit, consciousness, soul. When we understand this, then life will appear to us in the new color, and power in the motto “eat to live, not live to eat” will be the result of external psychological transformation.

The film “Duelist” opened the festival in France

Фильм Алексея Мизгирёва был показан на открытии фестиваля российского кино

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Released in the Russian hire on September 29 “Duelist” went to the festival in Honfleur. As recognized by the producer of the film Alexander Rodnyansky, it is the oldest and most important festival of Russian cinema in Europe. “Scrapper” – a dramatic, exciting, emotional story with an unexpected and strong character, and we hoped that it would find an echo in the hearts of the French audience,” added Rodnyansky.

Hopes for a French audience the producer was no accident – despite the fact that the festival is devoted only to the Russian cinema, to a greater extent evaluate the work come the French, not the Russians who had emigrated. For French spectators attend the festival – is already an annual November tradition established in Normandy for more than twenty years ago.

Mysterious, ambiguous painting with the slogan “On the dark side of honour” shows the Russian soul, with all its secret corners and non-healing wounds. It should be noted that only for the first two weeks in Russia “Wins” gathered 6,012,377$. The rating of film critics official website kinopoisk.ru was 85%. For the Director Alexey Mizgirev, whose films such as “Dismissal”, “Flint”, “Stone head”, “Tambourine, drum”, “Convoy” and TV series “Kulagin and partners”, “Duelist” was the debut project.

And high expectations from the festival in Honfleur: the jury is headed by French literary critic, writer, and actor, writer and filmmaker Frederic Beigbeder. While among the paintings, which are presented in the competitive program of Honfleur this year, the participants and winners of the Open Russian film festival “Kinotavr” movies “Collector” Alexey Krasovsky, “Fish-a dream” by Anton Bilzho, “Cloth Union” Michael Mestechko. In a parallel non-competition program “Panorama” will be shown the winner of the Grand Prix of the “Kinotavr” in 2015 – the film “About love” by Anna Melikyan.

After the festival, 2 Dec 2016 “Duelist” was released in us theaters, and a little later to watch a movie can the people of China.

HIV in Russia: new round of epidemic?

Новые данные оказались неутешительными

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The head of the Ministry of Health Veronika Skvortsova warned about the rapid spread of the virus immunodeficiency in the territory of some settlements of the country. The largest pockets – Ekaterinburg and Sverdlovsk regions.

Вероника Скворцова
Вероника Скворцова

“We have 57% of all sources of HIV infection – injecting this path, as a rule, heroin addicts, or analogs of heroin,” reports her words Interfax.

Mayor of Yekaterinburg Yevgeny Roizman urging people not to panic and connects with the last incidence of the turn of the 20-21 centuries drug trafficking. Despite the attempts of the Ministry of Health to establish a situation, the present state of affairs can be hidden from the public authorities. In Yekaterinburg, according to the mayor, effective medicine and doctors are fully prepared for new outbreaks.

Екатеринбург
Екатеринбург

According to the Health Department head Assistant Administration of Yekaterinburg Tatyana Savinova, a deadly virus is extremely dangerous – infected every 50th resident. The data are taken from the official statistics, while on other occasions silent disease.

Мэр Екатеринбурга Евгений Ройзман
Мэр Екатеринбурга Евгений Ройзман

In January, the number of HIV-infected people in the country has exceeded 1 million. According to statistics, last year the largest number seeking treatment using drugs (over 50%). Also among the common causes: heterosexual and homosexual sex.

About how after “God” appeared “Ministry”

Арундати Рой готовит к изданию второй роман

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“Ministry of Utmost happiness” is the second novel of Arundhati Roy which is preparing to come out in 2017, according to publisher Penguin 3. Her first book was “the God of small things”, released 20 years ago and which took the Pulitzer prize. We tried to find out what changes in Roy’s life has taken place and what they resulted.

The first Arundhati’s novel made her one of the most famous authors of the ‘ 90s. Then she put a career as a writer and changed roles. For a long time she was engaged in public activity: he criticized US foreign policy, led the fight for human rights, was an investigative journalist. The most popular project Roy was the struggle against the construction of a dam on the river Narmada, which was spent by her all of the money raised for the novel. Also the popularity was brought to her rejection of the most important literary prize of the Indian Sahitya.

About the new novel is little known. “Amazing, multi-layered book – perhaps the best novel we have read in recent years”, say the publishers of the book. In the making of this work Arundhati Roy highlights the special role of John Berger, her friend who persuaded her to continue working on a novel.

“The God of small things”, Arundhati brought fame, ranks first among the best-selling books by Indian authors living in his native country. And The New York Times awarded him the fourth place in the ranking of best sellers.