Новый год…

Уже наступил в России. У нас он наступит еще не скоро. Вот так мы “отстаем” от всего остального мира

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Оливер Стоун любит конспирологию…

Во всяком случае, конспирологические теории он выстраивает неплохо. Это о перевороте на Украине

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Пусть все у нас будет хорошо!

2014-ый был очень тяжелым. По-моему, это самый тяжелый год за последние три десятка лет

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Человек, который “обрушивает” рубль…

Посматривая на сайт RBC.Ru, с удивлением для себя, обнаружил сегодня что на курс рубля по отношению к доллару влияет дешевеющая нефть и… отношение власти к Алексею Навальному

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Плохая новость…

Как я понимаю, это не очень хорошая новость для всех тех людей, кто пытается сейчас прокормить свои семьи на Украине

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Бей своих!..

Кажется, порожденное и пошедшее в гору именно в этом году Исламское Государство, по жестокости, на порядок выше чем старое и, по сравнению с ISIS, менее кровожадная Al-Qaeda

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Удивлен…

В хорошем смысле этого слова, я очень удивлен своим обновленным телефоном. Обычно, самое слабое место у всех новых устройств, энергопрожорливость оных

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Декларация на подпись…

Подписи собираются до 13-ого января 2015-ого года по электронному адресу . СОЛИДАРНОСТЬ С РОССИЕЙ в час украинской трагедии Уже почти год украинские события глубоко волнуют каждого из нас, потомков белой эмиграции, тем более что, в отличие от окружающих нас людей, мы в силу нашего происхождения имеем доступ к разносторонней информации

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“Клюква развесистая”, — других слов нет…

Посмотрел серию, о которой писал. Честно говоря, большей чуши придумать было сложно

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Быстро работают, однако…

Сериал Transporter, второй сезон. Очередная серия о том, как нужно вывезти что-то важное для беглого “крымского” миллиардера

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Северная Корея победу не одержала…

По поводу этого фильма недавно даже Обама высказывался в том смысле, что не допустит нарушения Свободы Слова… И не допустил

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Тенденция, однако…

Если, вдогонку к этому. Отношения с НАТО В новой редакции военной доктрины РФ, которая сегодня была опубликована на сайте Кремля, наращивание силового потенциала НАТО и приближение инфраструктуры альянса к границам России отнесены к основным внешним угрозам страны

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К чему бы это?..

Вот это все к чему? “Банк России с декабря 2014 года предоставил кредитным организациям новый сервис по передаче финансовых сообщений в форматах SWIFT по внутрироссийским операциям

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Мигрировал…

Закончил переносить данные на новый телефон. Странно. Купил телефон уже два месяца как и все это время присматривался да примеривался к тому, как бы безболезненнее переползти на новый телефон

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Невнимательность…

Хотел активировать новый телефон, воспользовавшись сервисом активации на вебсайте Sprint

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И снова сам с собой…

Нашел ответ на свой вчерашний вопрос. What CDMA vs. GSM Means to You For call quality, the technology you use is much less important than the way your carrier has built its network

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Вопрос к знатокам мобильных телефонов и стандартов…

У меня сейчас провайдер Sprint со стандартом CDMA. Следовательно, я и купил себе телефон, который должен работать в Sprint

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Почти по горячим следам…

…Почти, — потому что все случилось вчера. И я, вчера, — немного уже написал об этом.

Пересматривал сейчас матч Portland “Trail Blazers” — Oklahoma City “Thunder”.

Команда Портланда проигрывала 10 очков, когда до конца матча оставалось 1 (одна) минута и 33 (тридцать три) секунды.

Каким-то чудом счет удалось сравнять. После этого было назначено дополнительное время, — 5 минут.

Выиграли!

И огромная заслуга в этом, вот этого парня. Дэмиан Лиллард (Damian Lillard).

Это он сумел сравнять игру. Последний трех очковый бросок — его работа. Тот самый бросок, который перевел игру в дополнительное время.

Нужно сказать, что это был точно такой же бросок, один в один, который тот же Лиллард забросил, победив команду Houston “Rockets” в прошлом сезоне. Точно такой же бросок.

Вот он.

Тогда до конца игры оставалось меньше секунды. Если точно, то 0,9 секунды. Все видно на видео.

Во вчерашней игре у Дэмиана оставалось больше времени. 5 секунд.

И 40 очков за всю игру.

А, вообще, вся команда… хорошая команда, в обшем.

Счет той игры 115 — 111.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) In a matchup of star Western Conference point guards, Portland’s Damian Lillard made the big shots and Oklahoma City’s Russell Westbrook didn’t.
Lillard scored 40 points, making a tying 3-pointer with three seconds left in regulation, and the Trail Blazers rallied from a 13-point, fourth-quarter deficit to beat the Thunder 115-111 on Tuesday night.
Lillard’s 40-point outing was his second in Portland’s last four games, following a 43-point outburst against San Antonio on Friday. Lillard, who also had 11 assists and six rebounds, went 8 of 12 from 3-point range. He had seven points in the extra period.
“Every time we get in a situation like that, I try to find a spot on the floor where I feel like I can get to for sure, and tonight was just another one of those times,” Lillard said.

Westbrook scored a season-high 40 points and added 10 rebounds and six assists, but missed a potential game-winner at the regulation buzzer before fouling out with 1:39 left in overtime. Oklahoma City played for a third straight game without NBA MVP Kevin Durant, who has a sprained right ankle.
LaMarcus Aldridge overcame an upper respiratory illness to score 25 points and grab nine rebounds for the Blazers, although he shot 9 of 28 from field. He and Oklahoma City’s Serge Ibaka, who scored 16 points, both were ejected with 9.5 seconds left in overtime after getting involved in a scuffle underneath Portland’s basket.
Reggie Jackson scored 21 points for the Thunder, including seven straight during a 67-second span to build a 78-73 lead with 10:58 left in regulation. A jumper by Westbrook extended that margin to 91-78 with 5:04 left and the Thunder led 95-85 with 1:40 left.
But Oklahoma City faltered down the stretch. Lillard scored six straight points in a 34-second span – one on a free throw after Westbrook was whistled for a technical foul with 1:33 left.
“That was my fault,” Westbrook said. “I think that was the turning point in the game, for us and our energy. I didn’t think I deserved it . but I’ve got to do a better job of controlling my emotions, especially when the game is on the line like that. I take the blame for that. It turned the whole game around for them and it gave them a chance to win the game.”
Westbrook went 1 of 2 from the line with 5.2 seconds left to give the Thunder a three-point cushion before Lillard’s jumper over a charging Ibaka tied the game at 98.
“I was just pointing to the watch,” Lillard said of his celebration after the shot. “That’s Lillard Time. That was the first time anybody’s seen that. I was just feeling myself a little bit at the moment.”
Wesley Matthews scored 22 points and went 5 of 8 from 3-point range. Portland hit a season-high 17 3-pointers in 31 attempts.
TIP-INS:
Trail Blazers: After official Sean Corbin called a foul on Lillard that sent Westbrook to the free throw line, Portland coach Terry Stotts yelled at Corbin, saying he shouldn’t reward Westbrook “just because he cries every time.” . Portland is 6-1 this season against Northwest Division foes and leads the division standings by 9 1/2 games . The Blazers have won 11 of their last 14 road games.
Thunder: Oklahoma City’s Steven Adams and Portland’s Joel Freeland each were issued a technical foul with 32.8 seconds left in the first half after jostling with each other following Westbrook’s 3-pointer.
INJURY UPDATES
Oklahoma City coach Scott Brooks said Durant’s ankle is improving every day, but wouldn’t commit on a timetable for his return. . Stotts said starting forward Nicolas Batum aggravated a sprained wrist during the Blazers’ loss Monday at Houston. Batum sat out Tuesday but should be back quickly, possibly as soon as Friday.
QUOTE OF THE NIGHT:
Aldridge, on the altercation with Ibaka: “It was just a long night, I thought, of unnecessary stuff going on. This (pointing to scar on his face) is unnecessary. I’ve got scratches on my shoulder. That’s unnecessary. The game was over with, and he was doing a little bit of extra stuff, and it wasn’t needed.”

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Советы сумасшедшего экономиста…

Того самого экономиста, высказывания которого я приводил здесь. “Дважды в сутки даже неработающие часы показывают правильное время

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Угроза для всего мира…

И угроза самая настоящая. Членов террористической организации «Исламское государство» заметили уже на севере Афганистана

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Как хвост виляет собакой…

Набрел, здесь на мнение американского экономиста о российской экономике и о ситуации сегодняшней

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Три из четырех…

Сегодня моя любимая команда в NBA завершила серию из четырех игр на выезде. Все четыре команды были из тех, которые находятся в верхней части турнирной таблицы

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Великий Михал Михалыч!…

Просто так… — Не отдавайте концы! — просит государство свое население как-то неуверенно и поздновато

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Российская Армия, — взгляд…

Нашел статью о Российской Армии, как ее видят отсюда.

Статья не новая…

PEREVALNOYE, Crimea — The soldiers guarding the entrances to the surrounded Ukrainian military base here just south of the capital, Simferopol, had little in common with their predecessors from past Russian military actions.

Lean and fit, few if any seemed to be conscripts. Their uniforms were crisp and neat, and their new helmets were bedecked with tinted safety goggles. They were sober.

And there was another indicator of an army undergoing an upgrade: compact encrypted radio units distributed at the small-unit level, including for soldiers on such routine duty as guard shifts beside machine-gun trucks. The radios are a telltale sign of a sweeping modernization effort undertaken five years ago by Vladimir V. Putin that has revitalized Russia's conventional military abilities, frightening some of its former vassal states in Eastern Europe and forcing NATO to re-evaluate its longstanding view of post-Soviet Russia as a nuclear power with limited ground muscle.

Across Crimea in the past several weeks, a sleek new vanguard of the Russian military has been on display, with forces whose mobility, equipment and behavior were sharply different from those of the Russian forces seen in the brief war in Georgia in 2008 or throughout the North Caucasus over nearly two decades of conflict with Muslim separatists.

Past Russian military actions have often showcased an army suffering from a poor state of discipline and supply, its ranks filled mostly with the conscripts who had not managed to buy deferments or otherwise evade military service. Public drunkenness was common, as were tactical indecisiveness and soldiers who often looked as if they could not run a mile, much less swiftly.

Not so in Crimea. After a Kremlin campaign to overhaul the military, including improvements in training and equipment and, notably, large increases in pay, the results could be seen in the field. They were evident not only in the demeanor of the Russian soldiers but also in the speed with which they overwhelmed Crimea with minimal violence.

The troops in Crimea may be the elite of the new Russian military. But the Kremlin's investment, analysts said, has revived the military, which has now shown that it can field a competent and even formidable force, and both guard the nation and project power to neighboring states.

"The development of Russian armed forces is going in two big trends, first strengthening of strategic nuclear forces, giving a guarantee that no one country in this world will try to attack Russia," said Aleksandr Golts, an independent military analyst in Moscow.

"Second, the development of these rapid deployment forces," he said, "to deal with any kind of local conflict, such as the war against Georgia, or this operation in Ukraine or anywhere."

"As a result of these reforms," Mr. Golts added, "Russia now has absolute superiority over any country in the post-Soviet space."

One Western official who analyzes military forces in the region said the differences from the past were striking. "It does seem to us that they are much more professional this time around," the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly. "It's impressive."

The transformation of the armed forces has been a personal priority of Mr. Putin, who as prime minister from 2009 to 2012 and more recently in his return to the presidency has overseen billions of dollars in new military expenditures. The military was one of the few areas of the Russian budget to receive big spending increases, along with preparations for the Sochi Olympics, the 2018 World Cup and improvements to the railroad system, which is also a military asset.

Since the start of 2012, salaries for most military personnel have roughly tripled, to between $700 and $1,150 a month for privates and sergeants — a respectable amount in Russian terms. The Kremlin has also expanded housing and education benefits.

In a speech to military officers in February shortly after the raises were enacted, Mr. Putin declared, "I have always believed that military servicemen should be paid, as has always been the case in Russia, by the way, even more than skilled specialists in the sphere of economics or administration or other civilian sectors."

The spectacular rise in military spending, which is expected to increase to about $100 billion in 2016 from about $80 billion this year, even as the economy shows signs of recession, was one of the main reasons that Russia's respected finance minister, Aleksei L. Kudrin, who was credited with steering Russia safely through the 2008 financial crisis, left the government in 2011.

Mr. Putin has been unapologetic. He has repeatedly emphasized that rebuilding the military is crucial to Russia's future.

At his direction, a comprehensive, multiagency military strategy was developed for the first time, with ambitious goals that included bringing all units to permanent combat readiness and upgrading weapons systems.

As commander in chief, Mr. Putin has also presided over unprecedented training exercises, including what the Kremlin billed as the largest peacetime mobilization ever — about 160,000 troops, officials said, in Russia's Far East in the summer of 2013 — and an array of drills in western Russia to prepare for potential threats along the borders with Europe and the Caucasus.

"Our goal is to create modern, mobile and well-equipped armed forces that can respond rapidly and adequately to all potential threats, guarantee peace, and protect our country, our people and our allies, and the future of our state and nation," Mr. Putin said in a meeting with military leaders in February 2013.

The lightning-quick seizing of strategic installations and the surrounding of military bases in Crimea, including the base here in Perevalnoye, provided a clear show of the new Russian military's capabilities.

It was a sharp contrast to the brief war with Georgia in 2008, when Russia overwhelmed its much smaller foe on a tiny patch of ground, but also revealed the sorry state of its own forces — problems that stretched back to the two military campaigns in Chechnya. (In Georgia, Russian military vehicles were commonly seen broken down on the roads, with cursing soldiers beside them.)

"First of all, there were communications problems, because the communication is the basis of troop management," said Mikhail Khodaryonok, editor in chief of Military-Industrial Courier, a weekly newspaper focused on the Russian armed forces.

"Problems with communications were so obvious that sharp measures were taken to improve all types of communications, including the confidential communication," Mr. Khodaryonok said.

The upgrade was visible down to the smallest unit levels in Crimea. Here at Perevalnoye, many soldiers on guard duty wore new push-to-talk encrypted radios — a piece of equipment long used by American soldiers but only recently provided to conventional Russian units.

The Western official said the wide distribution of the encrypted radios suggested more than procurement. It might also mean that Russian noncommissioned officers were exercising more tactical latitude and decision-making, a deeper type of overhaul that could make Russian units nimbler and more effective.

"That is a rather empowering device for the Russian Army," the official said.

The radios were one part of a broad element of Mr. Putin's military overhaul: the replacement of equipment carried by individual soldiers. Known as the Ratnik program — from the Russian word for warrior — the upgrade includes new helmets, flak jackets with bulletproof plates, ballistic goggles, kneepads, uniforms, and communications and navigation equipment, as well as thermal and night-vision sights for firearms.

Apparently modeled after the equipment upgrades visible on Western soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq for more than a decade, the Ratnik kit has not yet been fully fielded. But many of its signature components were evident in Crimea, including the uniforms, helmets, goggles, flak jackets and kneepads.

Out on the roads, Russian forces could also be seen deploying electronic-warfare platforms, including the new Tigr-M and the R-330Zh jamming station, which can block GPS and satellite telephone signals.

Like many of the Russian military vehicles visible in the crisis, these vehicles contrasted with those seen in Georgia or the North Caucasus in that they had fresh paint jobs and new tires, and seemed to be in an excellent state of repair.

While analysts said that there was now better equipment and training throughout the Russian military, some cautioned against drawing too broad a conclusion based on the forces in Crimea, many of which were part of elite units that were among the first to benefit from the overhaul.

"It is certainly a step up from where they were in 2008, but how far of a step up we don't know yet," said Dmitry Gorenburg, a senior analyst with the Center for Naval Analyses, a Virginia-based research group financed by the United States government. "Is the Russian military now a conventional threat to NATO? I don't think so. I don't think it's that much of an improvement yet. It could be down the road."

Mr. Gorenburg noted that the Russian troops had faced no opposition, and that there had been no fighting. "Essentially they were taking over facilities and buildings from troops that had been given no orders or who had been given orders not to resist," he said. "There was no actual combat."

Mr. Khodaryonok, the editor of Military-Industrial Courier, said it would be a while before the modernization campaign spreads to all the armed forces. Nevertheless, he said, the military had made extraordinary strides.

"Everything is in order," he said. "There is no more such shame as broken tanks and A.P.C.'s on the road and outdated weaponry."

More important, he said, the military was able to make it all work. "The biggest achievement, in my opinion, is how the management was organized," he said. "The operation's cover, its quickness and suddenness. There were no data leaks."

"The epoch of decay has been fully overcome," he said. "And the armed forces of the country are on the rise."

Отсюда.

Если совсем коротко, то Российскую Армию времен Путина оценивают неплохо.

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Спрашивали? — Отвечаем!

Это я сам с собой, как бы..

На свой собственный вопрос нашел ответ.

Еще не прбовал на практике, правда..

Congratulations: you just got a brand new Android phone! If you’re lucky, you got a great deal and a huge upgrade. Even so, your old handset has been with you for years and it’s set up how you like it—with all of your apps, contacts, and settings. Here’s how to move all of that precious data to your new phone.

For some people, setting up a new phone is fun, but if you just want to start using your new Android phone, here are some ways to get everything from the old phone to the new one as quickly as possible.

We’ve broken this guide into three categories: The first section is all about how backups work in new Android Lollipop devices. The second section is for stock devices, for users who don’t want to go through the hassle of rooting their old phone, or who have a new phone that hasn’t been rooted yet. The third section is for rooted phones, for users who know their way around under the hood of their Android device.

How Backups Work in Android Lollipop

Android Lollipop may not quite be here for everyone yet, but if you’ve been using the Developer Preview on your Nexus devices, you may have noticed that the way backups are handled are completely different—and much much better. Here’s how it works.

When you set up a new phone running Lollipop, you get two options while you walk through the setup process, and both of them make bringing data from your old phone to your new one quick, painless, and seamless:

• Tap & Go uses NFC on both devices to transfer data like accounts, passwords, installed apps and app data, saved Wi-Fi networks, and more. Once you’ve tapped the two devices together (or really, just put them near each other), you’ll be prompted to log in to your Google account on the new device. Once you do, the transfer begins, and your apps start downloading on the new device. You just sit back, wait, and let the process finish. The video above from originiative shows you how it works. You have to have access to your old device, and both devices have to have NFC, of course, but if that sounds like you, it’s easy, fast, and super simple.
• Get Your Apps & Data is equally impressive. After you’ve logged into your primary Google account, this step uses everything Google knows about your registered Android devices to give you the choice to restore directly to your new phone. You can see (in the screenshot to the left) your list of Android devices, choose the one you want to restore from, and even tap the list of installed apps and app data to restore as well (if it’s supported.) Select any device, and then go through the list of apps to either install them all and download their app data, or leave them off your new phone. It’s more of a “manual” restore, but it’s still incredibly easy.

Both of these methods require that you have your new and old phone registered with the same Google account, and that your apps sync app data with Google Play automatically. Most newer apps do this, but you may run into a few that still leave their data littered around your phone and you’ll find something missing. For more, check out this walkthrough by Android Central.

Either way, it’s remarkable how much data your Google account holds on its own, even in KitKat—your wallpaper, installed apps, app data, contacts (via Google Contacts), saved SMS messages (especially if you’re using Hangouts for SMS and IM), and more. There are still some things your Google account won’t save, however. Recent calls, saved photos and video (which is why camera backup via Google+ Photos or Dropbox is a good idea), downloaded files, and locally saved music are all things you’ll need to make sure you move on your own, either via cloud storage like Dropbox or Google Drive, or using a different backup tool, discussed below.

Moving Between Non-Rooted (Stock) Phones, or From an Old Device to a New One

If you just bought a new phone and there’s no method to root it yet, or you just don’t want to root your device at all, you have options too. The tool for the job here will be Helium App Sync and Backup. The pro version will set you back $5, but includes features like Android to Android app sync and cloud backup, which we’ll need here. Here’s how to get started:

1. Head to Google Play and install Helium, along with the Pro license (you’ll only have to pay for it once) on both your old and new phones.
2. Download and install the Carbon desktop application for your Windows, Mac, or Linux PC. If you’re installing the Windows version, you’ll also need to get the drivers for your Android phone.
3. The first time you launch Helium, it’ll ask you to connect your phone to your computer via USB and open the desktop app. Go ahead and do this on your old phone first. Once they’re paired, you can back up to your desktop, or, since you have the Pro version, back up to the cloud or directly to another Android device.
4. On your old phone, you should see “0 apps selected for backup” at the bottom of the screen, then a square directly underneath. At the top of the screen, you’ll see a scrolling list of the apps installed on your phone. Tap each one you want to move (along with its data) to your new phone, or tap “select all” at the bottom of the screen to get everything on your device.
5. Below the “Backup” button, you’ll see a checkbox for “App Data Only.” If you uncheck it, you’ll be prompted on your new phone to download the app from Google Play, and your Helium backup will only include app data (save games, SMS messages, recent calls, photos, etc.) This means the backup file will be smaller and the backup will take less time, but you’ll have to install each app on the new phone before your can restore the data. Unchecking the box will streamline the process. We recommend unchecking it, but you can go either way.
6. Once you’ve selected your apps, tap “Backup.” You’ll get a popup asking you to choose your backup destination. Internal storage, Google Drive, Dropbox, and Box are all listed by default. You have a choice here: You can back up to Dropbox or Google Drive if you prefer (since you have a Pro account), or you can back up to your device’s internal storage or SD card. The latter makes it easier to sync any changes you make to your new phone, but if you’re only doing this once, either method works.
7. Select your backup destination. The backup will begin immediately. Wait for it to finish (and sync to cloud storage, if you opted for that.)
8. Now it’s time to move your data to your new phone. Open Helium on your new device, and connect it to your computer the same way we did in step three above. Next, tap the “Restore and Sync” tab.
9. Next, choose where you stored your backups. If you stored them in the cloud, tap “Add Cloud Storage Account” to log in to your Dropbox or Google Drive account and find your backups. If you stored your backups locally on your other Android phone, you should either see it in the list here, or you can tap to log in and view your other devices. Do this, then your old device will appear in the list.
10. From here, if you backed up to the cloud, you can tap your cloud service of choice, log in, find your backup, and browse the list of apps and app data in the cloud. If you backed up to another device, tap that device name to get the same list of available apps and data to restore.
11. The same way you backed up the items, you can either select apps individually to restore, or you can tap “Select All” at the bottom of the screen to grab everything at once. If you opted for the smaller backup, you’ll have to tap each unchecked app to download it before restoring from it. Helium will kick you over to the right download page for each. If you went for the full backup, just tap “Restore.” The restore will begin, and you can sit back and wait.
12. You’ll see a progress bar across the screen, and when your restore is complete, you’ll be notified. You may have to rearrange your home screens the way you like them, but all of your apps and their data should be back on your device.

Helium has come a long way from its original release. The app now supports a number of devices it didn’t before (including Motorola phones,) and still doesn’t require root to take full backups (although some protected app data may not come along for the ride.) If you run into issues, or the app isn’t working the way you expect, check the support wiki here. It’s remarkably complete, and has answers to a number of common questions. For a detailed walkthrough of PC backups as well as grouping, deleting old backup jobs, and more, this guide to Helium from The Android Soul is a good read as well.

Our only dig on Helium is that for backup-to-cloud or device-to-device syncs, it doesn’t make total sense to have the computer “activate” Helium on each phone before performing a backup or restore, but it’s not a huge deal. The price is nice, and Helium also supports scheduled backups, automated backups, and more.

Moving Between Two Rooted Phones: Use Recovery or Titanium Backup

If your old and your new phone are both rooted already (or even better, they’re Nexus devices), the process is straight-forward, and even though a lot of great backup apps have come and gone, Titanium Backup is still king. That said, Titanium requires root. If you haven’t rooted your device, especially the old one that you’re leaving behind, now is a great time to do it. Check out our guide to rooting any Android device to learn how to root your phone.

Once your phone is rooted, the tools you need will depend on whether you just want to move apps and app data to your new phone, or you have a replacement phone you want to image and set up quickly:

Replacement Phones (The Same Model As Your Old Device)

Replacement devices are easy. You could pop out the SD (assuming your device has one) and SIM cards and put them in the new phone, but you’ll find your new phone missing data that lived on your old device’s internal storage.

An easier way is to just take a entire backup of your phone, ROM and data and all, put it on the replacement device, and then flash the new phone with the image from the old device. Here’s how to do it.

1. Boot your old phone into recovery mode (more on how to do that here, or you can use ADB to do it.)
2. Once your phone is in recovery mode, select “nandroid,” then select “backup.” Your phone will start the backup job immediately.
3. When the backup is complete, your phone the backup file will be on in the root directory on your phone’s internal storage or SD card.
4. Transfer the backup file from your old phone to your new phone. You can copy the backup file to your Dropbox account and download it on the new phone, swap SD cards, or connect both phones to a computer and copy it-whatever’s easier for you.
5. Boot into recovery on the new phone, follow the same process in step one and two, except choose “restore.” Select your backup file. The restore will start, and when it’s finished, reboot your phone. The ROM you just created-complete with all of your apps, settings, and data-will be restored to your new replacement phone.

This process essentially takes an image of your old phone and then writes that image to the new one. It assumes both phones are the same, and can run all of the same things. If there are differences between the old phone and the new phone, it won’t work. If you’re having problems with the old phone, you’re moving them to the replacement device. You should only do this if you’re wiping temporarily, or you’re moving to a replacement phone of the same model due to a hardware issue.

A New or Different Model Phone (Also Rooted)

If both your old and new phone are rooted and they’re different models, the app you need is Titanium Backup. It’s not the only powerful backup tool in the app store, but we still think it’s the best. It’s also a really powerful tool for automated, hassle-free backups of your Android device.

Shell out $6 USD for the Pro version, and you get additional features like the ability to verify your backups, save your backups to Dropbox, and a no-click batch restore. You don’t need the pro version to back up your old Android phone and restore to a new one, but having it will make the process much easier and less time consuming-we recommend it.

Once both devices have Titanium installed and are rooted, here’s what you’ll need to do:

1. On your old Android phone, open Titanium Backup and grant it superuser rights if prompted to do so. If you paid for the Pro version, head into the preferences to enable Dropbox, so your backups can be stored there.
2. When the app loads, tap the menu button and select “Batch.”
3. Choose “Backup all user apps + system data” from the batch operations list. Make sure all of the apps you want to back up are selected (or select any that aren’t) and tap “Run the batch operation.”
4. The backup job will run (and it’ll take a while.) When it’s complete you’ll be dumped back to the welcome screen. All of the backup files will be dumped to your phone’s root directory (or the root of your SD card) in a Titanium Backup folder. If you have Dropbox configured, tap “Sync to Dropbox now” to upload everything to Dropbox.
5. Now it’s time to transfer the backup to your new phone. If you’re using Dropbox, as long as you have it configured in Titanium Backup on the new phone, you’re done here. If you’re not, you can transfer the data by copying the folder and its contents from the old phone to the new one via USB-however you do it, make sure it goes into the Titanium Backup folder on the SD card.
6. Once the data is in the right place on your new phone, head to the welcome screen and tap “Batch.”
7. Choose “Restore all missing apps + system data.” This way you’ll restore only the apps that aren’t already on your phone, and the data for them. If you have the pro version, the process will take place automatically. If you don’t, you’ll be prompted to authorize each install, one at a time.
8. Reboot your phone: all of your apps and their data should be right there, the way they were on your old phone.

This method works really well if you’re moving between ROMs, or if you’re moving from one phone that you have set up nicely to another with a number of apps that are already installed that you don’t want to mess with (or that has some newer or different versions of the same apps you had, and you don’t want to disturb them.)

It’s even better if you’re moving from one old rooted phone to a new one—like a Nexus device—and you don’t feel like spending a ton of time setting everything up. If you follow our guide to making this process automated, you’ll always have a good backup of your Android phone, just in case something tragic happens.

Полностью статья здесь.

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Еще один совет

…От того же экономиста. — И все-таки вы сказали, что ЦБ бесполезно повысил ключевую ставку

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Советы бывалого экономиста…

..Про российский кризис говорит тот, кто когда-то уже принимал участие в вытаскивании страны… — Виктор Владимирович, вы, наверное, в курсе последних событий в стране, испытывающей шок от ситуации с рублем и девальвацией, точнее, его обвалом

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“Кровь за кровь!..” — ©

После протестов в Нью-Йорке, которые были поддержаны Мэром Нью-Йорка, в этом городе начала литься кровь полицейских

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Вопрос про мобильник…

..Не про телефон, в общем-то, а про то, как и с помощью чего, можно перенести данные с одного мобильника на другой

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Северная Корея атакует Северную Америку…

…Во всяком случае, какую-то часть Северной Америки.. И, — в Сети… Lynton said he would be “fibbing” to say he “wasn’t disappointed” in Obama’s remarks

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“Кардинал и галантерейщик — великая сила!” — ©

Вспомнилась эта фраза из известного фильма, когда я увидел это: Смотрел сегодня Путина, Наташа Колесникова проходила мимо с сфотографировала нас: Друзья, к вам вопрос

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Цена на бензин в Орегоне…

Цена на бензин в США упала сильно. Я за рулем не сижу, но, когда куда-то еду, посматриваю цены на автозаправках

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“Сила русских…” — ©

Джордж Фриман… Russians’ strength is that they can endure things that would break other nations. It was also pointed out that they tend to support the government regardless of competence when Russia feels threatened

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То что представлено…

Очень расходится с тем, что есть на самом деле… Про кризис в России.. Российские артисты и звезды телевидения в социальных сетях организовали флешмоб под хэштегом «SaveOurMoney» («Спасите наши деньги»)

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Это уже весело!..

Раньше, я обращал внимание на подобные видео от Анатолия Шария, как на средства информационной войны

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Все тот же кризис в России…

Точнее, нашел любопытное. Оказывается, в падении рубля есть и техническая сторона

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“…И опыт, сын ошибок трудных,..” — ©

О повышении ставки… Великобритания Когда повысили ставку: 16 сентября 1992 года Размер повышения: с 10 до 15% Обстоятельства: Банк Англии (на фото слева) повысил ключевую ставку с 10 до 12% утром 16 сентября

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Во! — Сумасшедший дом!!!

Это уже что-то и с чем-то… 16:15 На розничном рынке валюты во вторник днем наблюдается ажиотаж

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Quotes…

Today it is a Quote of the Day in Russia.. “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” — Albert Einstein Do you need translation

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Процентная ставка…

Как я понимаю, ЦБ поднял ставку до 17+%. Много ли найдется кампаний, которые будут брать кредиты по таким процентам

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“Что скажет начальник транспортного цеха?..” — ©

Когда что-то подобное случалось в США, выступил Президент.. Сенаторы забеспокоились

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Последний вздох господина ПэЖэ…

Прочитал внимательнее статью Медведева. Учитывая тот пост, который занимает г-н Медведев, эта статья, как бы, последнее предупреждение, или, даже уже и не предупреждение

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“…И на дуде игрец..”

Медведев написал статью об Украине. Мне кажется, лучше бы он занимался экономикой России

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Заложники в Австралии…

То, о чем многие предупреждали, — случилось. В Австралии захвачены заложники

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Это уже серьезно…

На улицу вышли десятки тысяч.. Если и после этого в США ничего не будет изменено в плане убийств полицейскими всех остальных, то… (CNN) — The families of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner and other unarmed black men felled by bullets or police force filled a podium in the nation’s capital

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Пьющая собака…

Кто-нибудь видел пьющую собаку? А, — долго пьющую? А, — очень, очень долго пьющую собаку

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“…Америка! Америка!..” — ©

И, вот этим “расследованием” окормляют россиян?

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Совсем немного, — к предыдущему…

К этому… В России сейчас много говорят о том, что цены на нефть специально делают низкими, то есть, против цены на нефть кто-то “играет”

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Попытка понять…

Честно говорю, я в этом никак не разбираюсь, но.. очень хочется понять; российскую экономику спасают или

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Quotes…

..One more for today.. “The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.” — SOPHOCLES, Philoctete

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Урок английского…

Очень познавательно, однако…

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Что делает ЦРУ…

Утешает только то, что доклад этот рассекретил Сенат США. Обнародованные во вторник документы содержат краткий итог сенатского расследования, а также взгляды республиканского меньшинства и отдельно – сенатора-демократа Джея Рокфеллера

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Родина напоминает о себе очень настойчиво

В продолжение к “Привету с Родины”. В России возбуждено первое уголовное дело за неуведомлении о втором гражданстве По версии следствия, 51-летний житель Ленинградской области, являясь гражданином России, получил в Эстонии вид на жительство и приобрел статус лица без гражданства, подтверждающие право на постоянное проживание в этой стране

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Западная пресса о России…

Не очень частое мнение…

Well, well, well. Gloating is unseemly, especially in public, but give me this one, will you?

It has been a long and lonely winter defending the true version of events in Ukraine, but here comes the sun. We now have open acknowledgment in high places that Washington is indeed responsible for this mess, the prime mover, the "aggressor," and finally this term is applied where it belongs. NATO, once again, is revealed as causing vastly more trouble than it has ever prevented.

Washington, it is now openly stated, has been wrong, wrong, wrong all along. The commentaries to be noted do not take on the media, but I will, and in language I use advisedly. With a few exceptions they are proven liars, liars, liars — not only conveying the official version of events but willfully elaborating on it off their own bats.

Memo to the New York Times' Moscow bureau: Vicky Nuland, infamous now for desiring sex with the European Union, has just FedExed little gold stars you can affix to your foreheads, one for each of you. Wear them with pride for you will surely fight another day, having learned nothing, and ignore all ridicule. If it gets too embarrassing, tell people they have something to do with the holidays.

O.K., gloat concluded. To the business at hand.

We have had, in the last little while, significant analyses of the Ukraine crisis, each employing that method the State Department finds deadly: historical perspective. In a lengthy interview with Der Spiegel, the German newsmagazine, none other than Henry Kissinger takes Washington carefully but mercilessly to task. "Does one achieve a world order through chaos or through insight?" Dr. K. asks.

Here is one pertinent bit:

KISSINGER. … But if the West is honest with itself, it has to admit that there were mistakes on its side. The annexation of Crimea was not a move toward global conquest. It was not Hitler moving into Czechoslovakia.

SPIEGEL. What was it then?

KISSINGER. One has to ask oneself this question: Putin spent tens of billions of dollars on the Winter Olympics in Sochi. The theme of the Olympics was that Russia is a progressive state tied to the West through its culture and, therefore, it presumably wants to be part of it. So it doesn't make any sense that a week after the close of the Olympics, Putin would take Crimea and start a war over Ukraine. So one has to ask oneself, Why did it happen?

SPIEGEL. What you're saying is that the West has at least a kind of responsibility for the escalation?

KISSINGER. Yes, I am saying that. Europe and America did not understand the impact of these events, starting with the negotiations about Ukraine's economic relations with the European Union and culminating in the demonstrations in Kiev. All these, and their impact, should have been the subject of a dialogue with Russia. This does not mean the Russian response was appropriate.

Interesting. Looking for either insight or honesty in Obama's White House or in his State Department is a forlorn business, and Kissinger surely knows this. So he is, as always, a cagey critic. But there are numerous things here to consider, and I will come back to them.

First, let us note that Kissinger's remarks follow an essay titled "Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West's Fault." The subhead is just as pithy: "The Liberal Delusions That Provoked Putin."

Wow. As display language I would speak for that myself. And wow again for where the piece appears: In the September-October edition of Foreign Affairs, that radical rag published at East 68th Street and Park Avenue, the Manhattan home of the ever-subverting Council on Foreign Relations.

Finally and most recently, we have Katrina vanden Heuvel weighing in on the Washington Post's opinion page the other day with "Rethinking the Cost of Western Intervention in Ukraine," in which the Nation's noted editor asserts, "One year after the United States and Europe celebrated the February coup that ousted the corrupt but constitutionally elected president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, liberal and neoconservative interventionists have much to answer for."

Emphatically so. Here is one of vanden Heuvel's more salient observations:

The U.S. government and the mainstream media present this calamity as a morality tale. Ukrainians demonstrated against Yanukovych because they wanted to align with the West and democracy. Putin, as portrayed by Hillary Rodham Clinton among others, is an expansionist Hitler who has trampled international law and must be made to "pay a big price" for his aggression. Isolation and escalating economic sanctions have been imposed. Next, if Senate hawks such as John McCain and Lindsey Graham have their way, Ukraine will be provided with arms to "deter" Putin's "aggression." But this perspective distorts reality.

I can anticipate with ease a thoughtful reader or two writing in the comment thread, "But we knew all this already. What's the point?" We have known all this since the beginning, indeed, thanks to perspicacious writers such as Robert Parry and Steve Weissman. Parry, like your columnist, is a refugee from the mainstream who could take no more; Weissman, whose credentials go back to the Free Speech Movement, seems fed up with the whole nine and exiled himself to France.

Something I have wanted to say for months is now right: Thank you, colleagues. Keep on keeping on.

Also to be noted in this vein is Stephen Cohen, the distinguished Princeton Russianist, whose essay in the Nation last February gave superb and still useful perspective, a must-read if you propose to take Ukraine seriously and get beyond the propaganda. (Vanden Heuvel rightly noted him, too, wrongly omitting that she and Cohen are spouses. A report to the Ethics Police has been filed anonymously.)

These people's reporting and analyses require no imprimatur from the mainstream press. Who could care? This is not the point. The points as I read them are two.

One, there is no shred of doubt in my mind that the work of the above-mentioned and a few others like them has been instrumental in forcing the truth of the Ukraine crisis to the surface. Miss this not. In a polity wherein the policy cliques have zero accountability to any constituency — unbelievable simply to type that phrase — getting accurate accounts and responsibly explanatory copy out — and then reading it, equally — is essential. Future historians will join me in expressing gratitude.

Two, we have indirect admissions of failure. It is highly significant that Foreign Affairs and the Washington Post, both bastions of the orthodoxy, are now willing to publish what amount to capitulations. It would be naive to think this does not reflect a turning of opinion among prominent members of the policy cliques.

I had thought for months as the crisis dragged on, this degree of disinformation cannot possibly hold. From the Nuland tape onward, too much of the underwear was visible as the trousers fell down, so to say. And now we have State and the media clerks with their pants bunched up at their ankles.

The Foreign Affairs piece is by a scholar at the University of Chicago named John Mearsheimer, whose publishing credits include "Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics" and "The Israel Lobby and American Foreign Policy," the latter an especially gutsy undertaking. He is a soothsayer, and you find these people among the scholars every once in a while, believe it or not.

Mearsheimer was writing opinion in the Times with heads such as "Getting Ukraine Wrong" as far back as March, when the news pages were already busy doing so. In the Foreign Affairs piece, he vigorously attacks NATO expansion, citing George Kennan in his later years, when Dr. Containment was objecting strenuously to the post-Soviet push eastward and the overall perversion of his thinking by neoliberal know-nothings-read-nothings. Here is a little Mearsheimer:

… The United States and its European allies share most of the responsibility for the crisis. The taproot of the trouble is NATO enlargement, the central element of a larger strategy to move Ukraine out of Russia's orbit and integrate it into the West. At the same time, the EU's expansion eastward and the West's backing of the pro-democracy movement in Ukraine—beginning with the Orange Revolution in 2004—were critical elements, too. Since the mid-1990s, Russian leaders have adamantly opposed NATO enlargement, and in recent years, they have made it clear that they would not stand by while their strategically important neighbor turned into a Western bastion. For Putin, the illegal overthrow of Ukraine's democratically elected and pro-Russian president—which he rightly labeled a "coup"—coup—was was the final straw. He responded by taking Crimea, a peninsula he feared would host a NATO naval base, and working to destabilize Ukraine until it abandoned its efforts to join the West.

Drinks for Mearsheimer, for his plain-English use of "coup" alone, any time the professor may happen into my tiny Connecticut village. It is an extensive, thorough piece and worth the read even if Foreign Affairs is not your usual habit. His conclusion now that Ukraine is in pieces, its economy wrecked and its social fabric in shreds:

The United States and its European allies now face a choice on Ukraine. They can continue their current policy, which will exacerbate hostilities with Russia and devastate Ukraine in the process — a scenario in which everyone would come out a loser. Or they can switch gears and work to create a prosperous but neutral Ukraine, one that does not threaten Russia and allows the West to repair its relations with Moscow. With that approach, all sides would win.

Mearsheimer has as much chance of seeing this shift in policy as Kissinger has finding honesty and insight anywhere in Washington. One hope he is busy in other matters.

As to Dr. K., he reminds me at 90 of the old survivors of the Maoist revolution in China, the last few Long Marchers. They enjoy a certain immunity in their sunset years, no matter what they may say, and for this reason I have always appreciated meeting the few I have. So it is with Henry.

Did Washington in any way authorize Kissinger's interview, as it may have the Foreign Affairs piece, given the revolving door at East 68th Street? I doubt it. Did it know this was coming. Almost certainly. A nonagenarian, Henry still travels in high policy circles. His critique on Ukraine has been evident here and there for many months.

Interesting, first, that Kissinger gave the interview to a German magazine. Nobody in the American press would have dared touch such remarks as these — they cannot, having lied so long. And Kissinger understands, surely, that the Germans are ambivalent, to put it mildly, when it comes to Washington's aggressions against Russia.

I have been mad at Kissinger since throwing rocks at the CRS, the French riot police, outside the American embassy in Paris in the spring of 1970, when the U.S started bombing Cambodia. And I am not with him now when he asserts "the Russian response was not appropriate."

Why not? What was Putin supposed to do when faced with the prospect of NATO and the American Navy assuming privileges on the Black Sea? Was it appropriate when Kennedy threatened Khrushchev with nuclear war during the Cuban missile crisis? Arming the contras? Deposing Arbenz? Allende? Let us not get started.

Here is the thing about Henry. European by background, he understands balance-of-power politics cannot be ignored. He understands that spheres of influence must be observed. (My view, explained in an earlier column, is that they are to be acknowledged but not honored — regrettable realities that our century, best outcome, will do away with.)

We reach a new moment in the Ukraine crisis with these new analyses from people inside the tent urinating out, as they say. I have hinted previously at the lesson to be drawn. Maybe now it will be clearer to those who object.

Whatever one may think of Russia under Vladimir Putin, it is secondary at this moment — and more the business of Russians than anyone else — to something larger. This is a non-Western nation drawing a line of resistance against the advance of Anglo-American neoliberalism across the planet. This counts big, in my view. It is an important thing to do.

Some readers argue that Putin oversees a neoliberal regime himself. It is an unappealing kind of capitalism, certainly, although the centralization of the economy almost certainly reflects Putin's strategy when faced with the need to rebuild urgently from the ungodly mess left by the U.S-beloved Yeltsin. See the above-noted piece by Stephen Cohen on this point.

For the sake of argument, let us accept the assertion: Russia is a neoliberal variant. O.K., but again, this is a Russian problem and Russians, not Americans, will solve it one way or the other — as they like and eventually. Important for us is that Putin is not pushing the model around the world, chest-out insisting that all others conform to it. This distinction counts, too.

Joseph Brodsky wrote an open letter to Václav Havel back in 1994, by which time the neoliberal orthodoxy and its evangelists were well-ensconced in Washington. The piece was titled "The Post-Communist Nightmare." In it Brodsky was highly critical of "the cowboys of the Western industrial democracies" who, he asserted, "derive enormous moral comfort from being regarded as cowboys—first of all, by the Indians."

"Are all the Indians now to commence imitation of the cowboys," the Russian émigré poet asked the new president of the (also new) Czech Republic.

I view the Ukraine crisis through this lens. A huge mistake has now been acknowledged. Now it is time: Instead of complaining about Putin and what he is doing to Russians every prompt given, like trained animals, now we must complain about what America proposes doing to the rest of the world, limitlessly.

Full article.

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Это так они пытаются исправлять дела в экономике?..

При процентной ставке от ЦБ в 9,5%? Банки начали поднимать ставки по ипотечным кредитам еще в сентябре–октябре

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Привет с Родины…

Друг прислал привет! К административной ответственности за несвоевременное уведомление о наличии иного гражданства привлечено 510 человек Опубликовано 07 Дек 2014 – 08:51 Изменено 07 Дек 2014 – 09:13 С момента вступления в силу федерального закона от 04

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Имена…

Это имена погибших афро-американцев погибших на улицах только одного города

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Песня Хиллари…

По Сети распространяется рекламная песня Хиллари Клинтон. Это к ее президентской кампании в 2016-ом

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Заложник погиб…

Американские силы специального назначения предприняли попытку спасти заложника.

К огромному сожалению, попытка неудачна.

Заложник погиб.

U.S. Special Forces members got within about 100 meters of the Yemen compound in which Al Qaeda affiliates were holding American hostage Luke Somers before his captors discovered them and foiled the raid, Defense Department officials said Saturday.

The rescue mission was the second in recent weeks and an eleventh-hour attempt to save Somers, following a threat late Wednesday by al Qaeda Arab Peninsula, backed by intelligence reports, that he would be killed on Saturday morning unless unspecified demands were met.

Defense officials said the team of roughly 40 U.S. commandos touched down in Osprey helicopters about 10 kilometers from the new hostage site, then continued on foot across rugged terrain under the cover of night.

At some point early in the roughly five-to-10-minute firefight, an Al Qaeda member apparently went into the holding chamber and shot Somers, 33, and South African Pierre Korkie.

Both were alive and received emergency care from surgeons onboard the V-22 helicopters but neither could be saved, officials said.

One victim died en route to the USS Makin Island and the other died aboard the U.S. warship.

Officials have not said how the U.S. commandos were discovered.

However, none was killed or injured in the mission, which lasted roughly 30 minutes and included rescuing Korkie, a teacher, and +Somers, an American photo-journalist with duel U.S.-British citizenship.

At least five members of al Qaeda were killed in the fight but none was taken hostage.

The raid, in southern Yemen, was approved on Friday by President Obama and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. It started Saturday about 1 a.m. local time (5 p.m. eastern standard time) and was monitored in real time by U.S. officials in Washington and by Hagel who was flying to Kabul, Afghanistan.

Somers, a freelance journalist, was kidnapped just over a year ago in Yemen’s capital. The 56-year-old Korkie was abducted 18 months ago in the city of Tazi.

The rescue attempt this weekend followed U.S. drone strikes in the area, U.S. officials said.

There are conflict reports about whether the raid included support by Yemeni ground forces.

U.S. officials said there was no possibility that Somers or Korkie were struck by American gunfire, based on the location in which they were being held.

The first rescue mission occurred Nov. 25 at a remote Al Qaeda safe haven in a Yemen desert region near the Saudi border.

Eight captives, including Yemenis, a Saudi and an Ethiopian, were freed.

Somers was not at that location. He and five other hostages had been moved days earlier, officials later said.

Roughly a dozen people are believed held by Al Qaeda militants in Yemen.

Korkie was abducted in May 2013 along with his wife, Yolande, who was doing relief work. She was released in January without ransom as a result of negotiations by the South African relief group, Gift of the Givers.

But Al Qaeda militants demanded a $3 million ransom for Korkie’s release, according to those close to the negotiations.

Somers was kidnapped in September 2013 as he left a supermarket in Sanaa, according to Fakhri al-Arashi, chief editor of the National Yemen, where Somers worked as a copy editor and a freelance photographer during the 2011 uprising in Yemen.

Отсюда.

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Какие-то они нервенные…

С очень острым восприятием, однако… Одного моего вопроса… Почему в Ваших “аналитических” записях не бывает ссылок

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Очень мне это знакомо…

Жуткая история… By Maria Tsvetkova SLOVYANOSERBSK, Ukraine, Dec 3 (Reuters) – Anna Tsvirinko takes her hand out of the jacket she is wearing over her nurse’s uniform to keep warm and points at a dirty mattress in the unheated ward of the Ukrainian psychiatric hospital where she works

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А в России что-то подобное будет?

..Или было?.. В Китае исключен из рядов Коммунистической партии Китая (КПК) и арестован экс-член Постоянного комитета Политбюро ЦК КПК Чжоу Юнкан (Zhou Yongkang)

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Популярность…

Больше 15 000 000 (миллионов)!.. Женская теннисная ассоциация (WTA) подвела итоги голосований среди болельщиков в различных номинациях

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“…Тем крепче наша оборона!”

Опора на армию. А армия опирается на… По словам главы управления культуры Минобороны Антона Губанкова, военных всех времен объединяет небольшой, но намоленный набор ценностей

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Реакция на Послание Путина…

Попытался поискать, что же думают умные люди о Послании.. То, что нашел, сплошные общие фразы и подхалимаж

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Прослушал Путина

Несмотря на поздний час у меня здесь. Впрочем, я и позже засиживаюсь. На первый взгляд, все достаточно толково

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Западная пресса об Украине…

Что-то начали замечать. Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, recently cautioned Americans against intervention fatigue: "I think there is too much of 'Oh, look, this is what intervention has wrought'

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Георгий Свиридов. Метель.

Возвращаюсь, к “Моей музыке”. Вот это мне очень нравится.

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Все-таки, удивителен мир…

До сего момента я даже не знал, что я могу понимать то, что пишут болгарские газеты

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Про Крым…

“Новая Газета” никогда не была среди почитателей Путина и его правления… Шансом не воспользовались

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Кино и жизнь…

Мне кажется, Голливуд очень хорошо предугадывает будущее. Или, во многом, создает его

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Проблема с Эболой…

Как оказалось, все не так… Всемирная организация здравоохранения (ВОЗ) проверила данные по количеству умерших в результате заражения вирусом Эбола в трёх наиболее заражённых странах, их число сократилось до 5 987 человек, говорится в официальном сообщении ВОЗ

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Вопрос проснувшегося…

Кто скажет, о каких таких “жетонах” говорят в ЖЖ? Что-то я проспал?..

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Когда нефть, — это валюта…

Смотрю, доллар уже 52 рубля и это не предел… Вот что значит, быть сырьевой страной

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Дети и война…

Страшное и несопоставимое одно с другим. Дети с войной. Но, когда приходит война, выбирать, видимо, уже не приходится

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Интересные изобретения…

Практически, прорыв в изготовлении “нелетального вооружения”. Я не смотрю украинских СМИ, по причине проблемного понимания украинской речи

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Взгляд Анатолия Шария на проблему…

..По Украине… Вполне все логично, нужно сказать… Поговорю с виртуальным собеседником

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Джесси Джексон в Портланде…

Во времена, еще СССР, этого уже немолодого сейчас, а тогда — ого-го, Гражданина, часто показывали по ТВ, когда “весь Советский Народ” наблюдал за Президентской гонкой в США

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Как нужно писать “аналитику” или… плагиат?

Читаю сейчас текст и вдруг понимаю, что я это уже где-то встречал. Попробовал вспомнить… Найдите два отличия… Несмотря на то, что официально Вашингтон отказывается поставлять оружие Киеву, в реальности ситуация обстоит прямо противоположным образом — потоки оружия на Украину только растут

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Мальчики под снегом…

Двух мальчиков, 7-ми и 9-ти лет спасли, после того как они провели несколько часов под снегом

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Цены на нефть рухнули…

В буквальном смысле этого слова. Сейчас цена уже меньше $70 за баррель. Но я сейчас смотрю Bloomberg TV

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История Дня Благодарения!

Сегодня в Америке День Благодарения. Мне лично, этот праздник очень нравится

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Про “бедного” юношу и злобного полицейского…

Все о том же, о Фергюсоне и, в общем-то, о “бедном” юноше писать ничего не буду

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Погода совершает кульбиты…

Такое ощущение, что в Портланд снова пришла.. весна. В декабре. Удивительное здесь в том, что еще неделю назад было очень холодно, дул пронзительный ледяной ветер и метеорологи говорили о приближающемся снеге

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Quotes…

And more… "When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be." &

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Quotes…

…One more.. “Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” — John F

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Это все дотянулось до Портланда…

В Центре Портланда протесты, которые начались в Фергюсоне, превратились в противостояние с полицией

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Фергюсон. Надолго? Видимо, да!

Когда утром я писал о Фергюсоне, взял, как довод, статью с нашего локального новостного сайта

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Фергюсон. Надолго…

Присяжные, все-таки, решили предъявить обвинения офицеру полиции, который застрелил “подростка” в Фергюсоне.

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — A grand jury has reached a decision about whether to indict a Ferguson police officer in the shooting death of Michael Brown, a spokesman for St. Louis County's top prosecutor said Monday.

The panel has been considering charges against Darren Wilson, the white suburban St. Louis officer who fatally shot the black 18-year-old after a confrontation in August.

In a brief email to reporters, spokesman Ed Magee said the decision would be announced later Monday. He offered no immediate details.

The prosecutor's office has told Brown's relatives that the decision will be made public after 5 p.m., family attorney Benjamin Crump told The Associated Press.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon was traveling to St. Louis from the Capitol on Monday afternoon, spokesman Scott Holste told the AP, but did not say why.

Speculation about the timing of an announcement swirled and largely peaceful protests took place during the weekend after the grand jury met Friday but apparently did not reach a decision.

Reggie Cunningham was among Sunday night's protesters. He said he doubted Wilson would be indicted and felt like authorities were delaying an announcement "to spin this in the most positive way possible."

"The more that they drag this out, the angrier people are going to be," said Cunningham, 30, of St. Louis. The shooting triggered riots and looting during the summer, and police responded with armored vehicles and tear gas.

Many had thought a grand jury decision would be announced Sunday, based partly on a stepped-up police presence in the preceding days.

St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch's office had said he expected a decision by mid-to-late November, but it was not ultimately not in his control. The 12-person grand jury deliberates in secret and sets its own schedule depending upon when the members are available.

Crump said Sunday the family was frustrated that the prosecutor did not charge Wilson himself or suggest a charge to grand jurors.

As it is, "you don't have any direction, you're just putting all the evidence out there and you're going to let them figure it out and they can make up their own minds," Crump said. "You know, it just boggles the mind why he thinks this is fair."

It's not uncommon for deliberations to take a while in complex cases when self-defense is alleged or when there are two widely conflicting versions, according to Cole County Prosecutor Mark Richardson, who is not involved in the Ferguson case.

During Sunday's church services, some pastors encouraged their flocks not to fret. The Rev. Freddy Clark of Shalom Church in Florissant told the mostly black interdenominational congregation that "justice will be served" no matter the decision goes, because God will take care of it.

Meanwhile, daily protests continued.

Отмюда.

В то же время, полицейские в других штатах, проводят своеобразную акцию протеста. Три офицера полиции Портланда разместили на Фейсбуке фотографии своих удостоверений полиции со словами, “Я — Даррен Вильсон”. Сегодня им было предписано все это с Фейсбука убрать.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN 6) — Three Portland police officers who posted a picture of a PPB badge with a banner that said, "I am Darren Wilson" were ordered to remove them from their personal Facebook page by Chief Mike Reese.

Darren Wilson is the Ferguson, Missouri police officer who fatally shot unarmed teen Michael Brown in August. A grand jury reportedly has reached a decision whether to charge Wilson in the incident. That decision has not yet been announced.

In a statement, Reese said, "I was alerted to these images this morning and immediately ordered their removal through the officers' chain of command. The image displayed does not represent this organization and was very inflammatory in nature."

Reese also said officers have the right to express their own personal opinion, "but not using an official badge of the Portland Police Bureau."

Mayor Charlie Hales also issued a statement.

"Chief Reese did the right thing by immediately ordering the officers to remove these symbols, and by ordering Professional Standards Division to review this matter for possible policy violations," Hales said in the statement.

The mayor added, "Recently, police participated in specific dialog related to possible reactions to the upcoming release of a verdict from the grand jury in Ferguson, Mo.

"The actions taken by these three officers here in Portland do not help get us to that goal."

KOIN 6 News will continue to follow this story.

Отсюда.

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Подхалимы в России явление серьезное…

Это я к этому. Президент России Владимир Путин в интервью ТАСС заявил, что не намерен пожизненно руководить государством

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Коротко, — о личном…

…Только сейчас сообразил, что с момента когда Йипу увезли к ветеринару и до этого момента, — прошло чуть более суток

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Просто интересно, почему кто-то “против”?

Я об этом… 19.12.2013 — В штаб-квартире ООН в Нью-Йорке на пленарном заседании 68-й сессии Генеральной Ассамблеи ООН была принята внесенная делегацией Российской Федерации резолюция «Борьба против героизации нацизма и других видов практики, которые способствуют эскалации современных форм расизма, расовой дискриминации, ксенофобии и связанной с ними нетерпимости»

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Пересчитывать будем?!

На, так называемых, промежуточных выборах, в бюллетени для голосования были внесены, также, вопросы, которые выносились на референдум.

О легализации марихуаны я уже писал.

Однако, в бюллетенях, был также и референдум о том, стоит ли на продаваемых продуктах питания, на этикетках давать информацию о том, является ли этот продукт, или какие-либо составные части продукта, генно-модифицированным, или не давать такой информации?

После подсчета оказалось, что победили те, кто убежден, что обязывать производителя информировать потребителя о генно-модифицированности продукта лучше не нужно.

Но, голосующих “за” и “против” было почти одинаковое количество. 48.98% и 51.02%.

Сейчас все идет к тому, что голоса будут пересчитывать… 13 000 бюллетеней оказались “проблемными” из-за подписей.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN 6) — It's been a rollercoaster ride for the "Yes on 92″ campaign. Staff and volunteers packed up, then upacked again as the vote gap narrowed in the weeks since the elction.

"I feel great right now to have come to this point, to be so close after a really long and hard-fought contest," said Yes on 92 campaign director Paige Richardso

Part of the reason the vote narrowed is the 13,000 ballots that had signature issues. The state contacted those voters to confirm their signature before their vote could be counted.

That list of voter names was made public – the first time that ever happened.

"We then looked for our supporters on that list and encouraged them to correct their error," Richardson said.

Political analyst Jim Moore said Multnomah County "had a bunch of ballots it hadn't been able to process election night," and when they did, the vote narrowed.

New results showed the ballot measure's margin of defeat at .1% – a margin that would trigger an automatic recount.

A total of 1079 ballots separates the Yes from the No, as of 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 21, 2014. But the final results won't be known until Monday, when counties are required to submit their final election tallies to the state for certification.

If a recount happens, it would happen in the first week of December.

Moore doesn't think the Yes on 92 campaign has a real shot of winning

"I don't think it does," he said in the early afternoon Friday. "At this point there are 1500 votes between the two sides, and when you look at the number of votes that are out, the counties they come from and the amounts the measure won or lost in those counties, it's hard to see how there would be (a) 1500 votes (swing) out of just 7,000 left."

Recounts, he said, typically don't change the outcome of an election.

On Friday, the "No on 92″ campaign issued this statement: "We are confident that Measure 92 has been defeated."

Отсюда.

Лично я голосовал за то, что потребитель должен знать, чем он питается.

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Израиль…

Уникальная страна. С уникальной историе и… очень мужественными людьми. Богом избранный народ

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Состояние покоя…

Йипа, все-таки, успокоилась. Бродила по комнате, то ложась, то вставая, — часа три

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“Снегопад, снегопад…” — ©

Сегодня многие мои друзья говорили мне о небывалом снегопаде в Баффало..

Сам я новости по ТВ смотрю очень нерегулярно. В основном, просматриваю разные новостные сайты, и, по большей части, локальные.

Поскольку снегопад не рядом, решил сам посмотреть.

Очень хорошая фотография, позволяющая иметь представление о буйствовании стихии.

Фотография сделана беспилотником. Найдена здесь.

Там же, очень много видео, снятые беспилотником.

Buffalo’s first snowstorm of the season could give the area a year’s worth of snow — around 8 feet — in just three days.

More than 5 feet of snow was already on the ground Wednesday, and another round of lake-effect snow is forecast to bring an additional 3 feet of snow to the Buffalo area on Thursday and Friday. The average snowfall for an entire year: 93.6 inches, or close to 8 feet.

“This is a historic event. When all is said and done, this snowstorm will break all sorts of records, and that’s saying something in Buffalo,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said during a visit to the city.

Christopher Burt, a weather historian with the Weather Underground, said this Lake Erie snowstorm “will go down as the most extreme on record.”

For the second straight day, overnight temperatures in all 50 states Wednesday fell to freezing or lower — even in Hawaii, atop the high mountain summit of Mauna Kea on the Big Island.

At least seven deaths in western New York were blamed on the snow, including three from heart attacks while shoveling.

While the worst of the cold will ease Thursday, temperatures will still be below-average in the East, the National Weather Service said.

Record cold was reported Wednesday morning in New York City (22 degrees at LaGuardia), Washington (13 at Dulles), Raleigh, N.C. (19), and as far south as Jacksonville (27).

In Corpus Christi, Texas, experts are caring for about 140 turtles stunned in a cold snap that left the reptiles stranded on Gulf Coast beaches.

In western New York, the cold just added to the misery of the massive mounds of snow.

The storm came in so fast and furious over Lake Erie early Tuesday it trapped more than 100 vehicles along a 132-mile stretch of the New York State Thruway that remained closed Wednesday.

Some areas have so much snow that road crews said it was like plowing a brick wall. Rescuers, who have been using snowmobiles, also walked car to car to try to dig out people stuck in their vehicles.

A bus with the Niagara University women’s basketball team was stuck on the Thruway for more than 24 hours while returning from a game in Pittsburgh. State troopers eventually were able to pick them up and bring them to a nearby police station, Niagara guard Tiffany Corselli said.

The last time a storm this huge hit was in December 2001, when 80 to 90 inches of snow fell on the region in a five-day period.

Shoveling snow is indeed hard work: The weight of the snow on a typical Buffalo driveway is about 25 tons, WeatherBell meteorologist Ryan Maue estimated.

The Buffalo Bills’ game on Sunday against the New York Jets could be in jeopardy, as their stadium is buried under 220,000 tons of snow, according to the team. “We have not had this much snow, as far as we know, in the history of our team,” said Andy Major, the Bills’ vice president of operations and guest experience

In New Hampshire and elsewhere, icy roads led to accidents. Lake-effect storms in Michigan produced gale-force winds and as much as 18 inches of snow.

In Atlanta, tourists Morten and Annette Larsen from Copenhagen were caught off-guard by the 30-degree weather as they took photos of a monument to the 1996 Summer Olympics at Centennial Olympic Park.

“It’s as cold here as it is in Denmark right now. We didn’t expect that,” Larsen said, waving a hand over his denim jacket, buttoned tightly over a hooded sweatshirt.

Отсюда.

Здесь же, найдена фотография, приведенная выше. Там еще много любопытных фотографий.

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