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Earlier this week, the Russian president of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems outlined two geophysically weak US regions to attack in order to combat NATO's aggression toward Russia.

In his article, Konstantin Sivkov justifies the option of "complete destruction of the enemy" because NATO has been "moving to the borders or Russia."

Sivkov, listed as a "Docter of Military Sciences," described scenarios that involved dropping a nuclear weapon near Yellowstone's supervolcano or the San Andreas Fault.

Catalyze the eruption of Yellowstone's supervolcano

In the past 2.1 million years, Yellowstone's volcano has violently erupted three times and "blanketed parts of the North American continent with ash and debris," according to the US Geological Survey. 

Some scientists argue that Yellowstone's active supervolcano is long overdue for a colossal eruption. 

"Geologists believe that the Yellowstone supervolcano could explode at any moment. There are signs of growing activity there. Therefore it suffices to push the relatively small, for example the impact of the munition megaton class to initiate an eruption. The consequences will be catastrophic for the United States, a country just disappears," he said, according to a translation by Sydney Morning Herald.

According to a Discovery Channel documentary, an eruption of this magnitude would bury North America, drape the atmosphere in a sulfur haze, dim sunlight, and plunge the world into a volcanic winter. 

Trigger a mega tsunami to ruin America's infrastructure

Another option would be to drop a nuclear bomb near California's San Andreas Fault. "A detonation of a nuclear weapon there can trigger catastrophic events like a coast-scale tsunami which can completely destroy the infrastructure of the United States," he said, according to the Sydney Morning Herald's translation.

Since last year's illegal annexation of Crimea, Russian President Vladimir Putin has responded to international criticism and economic sanctions placed on his country by flexing his nation's military muscle around the world.

The crisis in Ukraine reflects a turning point in NATO's stance on Putin and emphasizes a growing concern stemming from the origins of NATO, which was formed for collective territorial defense.

"He wants to restore the Russian empire ... I don't know where he'll stop," Senator John McCain (R-Arizona) said of Putin earlier this month during a speech at the Center for Strategic International Studies.

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Over half of the world's oil supply moved through set maritime routes in 2013, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), often aboard massive tanker ships. To minimize costs, tankers transport oil along established paths that are as short as possible. Many pass through a small handful of maritime chokepoints.

Altogether, there are eight major oil chokepoints throughout the world, and a closure or disruption to any one of them could cause unpredictable price fluctuations. Fortunately, these locations are generally safe and are kept clear by the international community, whose economies and standards of living depend on these chokepoints remaining clear.

Uncertainty over maritime security can lead to a global shifts in oil prices. If one of these chokepoints were disrupted, ships would need to travel additional thousands of miles to reach an alternate route.

Oil prices surged the last week of March after Saudi Arabia began its  military operations against Yemen: 3.8 million barrels of oil a day pass through the Bab el-Mandab chokepoint on Yemen's southwestern coast. 

The following graphic displays the major oil chokepoints around the world:

Here's a look at each chokepoint individually — and at what could threaten maritime traffick through them.

Strait of Hormuz - 17 million barrels of oil per day

The Strait of Hormuz is the world's primary oil chokepoint.

According to the EIA, 17 million barrels of oil, representing 30% of all maritime-traded petroleum, passed through the strait each day in 2013. Oil from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Iran, and Iraq all pass through the strait and head mostly towards Asia, although tankers can also head west towards the Suez Canal and the Red Sea. 

The Strait of Hormuz is able to accommodate the largest oil tankers in the world. But Iran has indicated that it could be willing to disrupt the strait. Tehran has previously threatened to mine the waterway, and in February Iran carried out the destruction of a mock US aircraft carrier in the strait. 

Strait of Malacca - 15.2 million barrels of oil per day 

The Strait of Malacca is the shortest waterway which connects the Indian Ocean to the South China Sea and the Pacific Ocean. In 2013, the EIA estimated that 15.2 million barrels of oil a day passed through the strait, with the fuel from the Middle East primarily heading towards Indonesia, China, and Japan. 

The Strait of Malacca is also one of the most narrow chokepoints in the world. The narrowest point in the strait is only 1.7 miles wide, which creates a natural bottleneck for shipping. The strait has also become one of the newest piracy hotspots in the world.

Cape of Good Hope - 4.9 million barrels of oil per day

The Cape of Good Hope, the crossing at the southernmost tip of Africa, is not technically a chokepoint since it's open on one side. But the area is a critical trade route. In 2013, the route around the Cape saw 4.9 million barrels of oil a day, approximately 9% of the total maritime oil trade. 

The Cape of Good Hope also functions as the secondary route for oil if the primary chokepoints of the Suez Canal or the Bab el-Mandab were closed. But rerouting oil around the cape would increase cost considerably as it would add an additional 2,700 miles of transit from Saudi Arabia to the US, according to the EIA. 

Bab el-Mandab - 3.8 million barrels of oil per day

The Bab el-Mandab is one of the most precarious oil chokepoints in the world right now.

Only 18 miles wide at its narrowest point, the Bab el-Mandab connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and ultimately to the Indian Ocean. Instability or closure of the waterway could force tankers to have to travel around the southern tip of Africa.

Crucially, the EIA notes, the vast majority of southbound traffic through the Suez Canal must also pass through the Bab el-Mandab, so the closure of the waterway could have a cascade effect. 

In 2013, 3.8 million barrels of oil passed through the waterway each day. Oil prices took a recent jolt after the Yemeni government collapsed, raising the possibility of a security crisis in the Bab el-Mandab. On March 31, Houthi militants took control of a key Yemeni military base along the chokepoint. 

Danish Straits - 3.3 million barrels of oil per day

The Danish Straits, formed out of a series of channels passing around Danish Islands, is among the most secure oil chokepoints in the world. The chokepoint connects the Baltic Sea in the east to the North Sea in the west. Approximately 3.3 million barrels of oil a day flowed through the region in 2013. 

Despite rising tensions with Russia in Europe, and particularly the Baltics, shipping is unlikely to be affected by regional security issues. The EIA estimates that 42% of all oil shipped through the Danish Straits originated from the Russian port of Primorsk in 2013 to the West. A small amount of Norwegian and British oil also went through the straits to the Baltics. But if Russia ever blockaded the Strait, it would mostly just be blockading its own oil trade as well.

Suez Canal - 3.2 million barrels of oil per day

The Suez Canal passes through Egypt and connects the Red Sea to the Mediterranean. In 2013, a record 3.2 million barrels of oil a day passed through the canal, mostly to markets in Europe and North America. 

According to the EIA, the Suez Canal was expanded in 2010 to allow 60% of all tankers in the world to effectively pass through. The fall of dictator Hosni Mubarak in Egypt in 2011 and the resulting unrest did little to deter shipping through the canal. But security remains a primary concern and in September 2013 terrorists planned a failed rocket attack on cargo ships passing through the region. 

Bosporus - 2.9 million barrels of oil per day

The Bosporus is a narrow stretch of water that divides both Asia from Europe and splits Istanbul's European and Asian halves. The chokepoint connects the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. In 2013, approximately 2.9 million barrels of oil a day flowed through the Bosporus, with the petroleum coming from Russia, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan. 

According to the EIA, Russia has slowly been shifting its exports to the Baltics while Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan have further increased shipping through the chokepoint. The Bosporus is only a half mile wide at its narrowest point, and around 48,000 vessels travel through the waterway a year. 

Panama Canal - 0.85 million barrels of oil per day

The Panama Canal connects the Pacific Ocean to the Caribbean and ultimately to the Atlantic. According to the EIA, the Panama Canal transported 1.4% of all oil and petroleum products globally in 2013. This amounted to approximately 0.85 million barrels of oil a day in 2013.

The utility of the canal has waned in the years since it was built. Today, the narrowest point of the Panama Canal is only 110 feet wide at its narrowest point, forcing larger super-tankers to avoid the canal entirely.  

The canal is undergoing an expansion project which should enable larger tankers to pass through the region more easily. 

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Bill Gross' latest investment outlook is out and this one is a lot of fun. 

Gross divulges right at the top that he tried out for Duke's freshman basketball team and got cut.

Gross then attended a basketball camp for adults and missed a wide open layup, leading gross to the realization that:

If there ever was an economic concept that currently is not a layup, it would be what the future average level of Fed Funds will be. No one really knows and unlike the gimme layup that Coach K provided for me, there are no "gimmes" when it comes to scoring a Fed Funds basket.

The relevant investment theme that Gross addresses in the outlook are not really anything new for the former "Bond King."

Gross talks a lot about the "new neutral," which is his idea that interest rates will remain low for an extended period of time due to the over-indebted and over-leveraged global financial system.

This is not new for Gross.

As for how to deal with this environment, Gross says there are four main approaches:

• The Ray Dalio approach theme hat if borrowing costs center around 0% real, then assets can be cautiously levered, being cognizant at the same time of the fat tails inherent in our new world of leverage and extreme monetary policy.
• The Jeremy Grantham approach of waiting it out in low returning cash under the assumption of a 7 year reversion to the mean, instead of a 20 year cycle hinted at by Rogoff and others.
• The Warren Buffett approach that has a near perpetual closed-end fund purchasing stocks when fundamentally cheap. 
• And the Jack Bogle method of indexing at a low cost. 

Gross sees himself modeling the Bridgewater method, and you can read all of Gross' latest outlook here »

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Wall Street executives, entrepreneurs, and consultants are known for working crazy long hours. 

Logging 80 hours a week is not uncommon for them, and that number can hit the triple digits during especially busy weeks.

But some have figured out how to have a life outside of work, despite their insane schedules. 

We talked to several people who routinely put in 80 hours and successfully balance work and life.

Here's how they do it:

Tomasz Kucemba, CEO of  KARORA Cosmetics.

This CEO logs 100 hours a week at peak performance, and lives by the mantra, "work hard, play harder."

He achieves a work-life balance with help from his smartphone. "I do make time for a life outside of work. For example, right now I am coordinating a launch event, preparing for two international conference calls, and planning to take my girlfriend to the Dallas Food Festival. In this day in age we can do a lot of multitasking with our smartphones."

His best survival hack is paying attention to his body. "I eat clean, take good supplements, and exercise regularly. I have noticed that since I switched to a vegetarian diet last year my energy levels have doubled."

His career advice is to keep calm. "Don't panic and get good at managing your time, and you will make it.

Louise Fritjofsson, Cofounder and CEO of Vint.

This young entrepreneur is familiar with the startup grind, having experimented with several business ventures. She now oversees Vint, an on-demand fitness service, and works 75-80 hours per week.

She achieves a work-life balance by putting "me" time in her calendar. "I make sure to get in a workout every day, a long morning walk with my dog one day a week, and a couple of dinner or drink dates with my husband and friends each week. I also make sure to have private phone calls scheduled in my calendar. It sounds boring and some might argue 'fake,' but it works! Consider 'me time' appointments in your calendar as important as your board meetings, and suddenly you're forced into a work-life balance that makes you more creative, happy and clear-thinking."

Her best survival hack is a Swedish tradition. "In Sweden, all workplaces have a 3 pm fika. Fika means stopping what you're doing, getting together with your coworkers, and taking a 15 minute break. A proper fika is enjoyed with coffee, tea, and a pastry of your choice (think cinnamon buns, soft ginger cookies, cupcakes). Add a bit of Swedish culture to your life."

Her career advice is to get creative and have fun. "Do things because you love them, or because you really believe in the vision. Work should be an outlet for creativity, problem solving and having fun. If you truly love what you do, working long hours won't drain you, and should in fact energize you."

Deuce Thevenow, Cofounder of RECESS.

The cofounder of this touring music festival that inspires college students to become the next generation of world-changing entrepreneurs, consistently logs 80 hours, and puts in several more when RECESS hits the road for a tour.  

He achieves a work-life balance by blending his career and personal life. "My work life and personal life are very mixed. Even when I go out at night with friends, it's with people in the music or startup space. Those friends introduce me to other people and I'm constantly pitching our business and looking for business development opportunities. We like to say that real business gets done outside of the office."

His best survival hack is to make a zero-work day. "The weekends are my sanctuary. I usually try to make one day where I do zero work, and I really cherish this one day. I also enjoy camping, and the opportunity to get away from a computer and have no phone signal is a blessing."

His career advice is to find, and help create, a positive company culture. "Each job is different, but the key to having a career in a business with demanding hours is to keep a positive office environment. We order food, listen to music, do yoga, drink beers, etc. Being able to actually enjoy being in your office rather than counting down the minutes until your 'day ends' is an indication that you may be in the wrong career."

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Once you've landed a job interview, you have one shot to wow the hiring manager. To do this, there are a few things you should avoid at all costs.

In a recent LinkedIn post, recruiting manager John Kirschner shared the 10 "nevers" of interviews. Here are four of our favorites: 

1. Never show up without good questions. "Interviewing is like a sales call; you uncover a need and try to fill it," writes Kirschner. "Find the real need by asking good questions. You are interviewing them as well, so this is your chance to learn more about the job, the company, the manager, the culture, etc."

Some good questions to have in your back pocket:

• How do you see this position evolving in the next three years? 
• Can you tell me a little about the team I'll be working with?
• What constitutes success with this position and company?
• What concerns or reservations do you have about me for this position?

2. Never avoid eye contact or send negative non-verbal messages. "Hiring managers will watch how you communicate and try to envision you interacting with their customers and employees," explains Kirschner. Avoid fidgeting, maintain eye contact, and listen closely, he advises. "Never ramble when answering questions, and never do all the talking. Listen 60% and answer 40% as a rule."

3. Never ask about compensation, benefits, or vacation time. "They will think that it’s all about money with you and that you would leave them for the next best offer," he says. However, if the employer brings it up, that's a good sign and you can discuss the topic. "It's a buying sign," explains Kirschner. "Answer their questions openly and honestly, and follow their lead."

4. Never bad mouth your current company. Criticizing you company or manager is never a good idea. "They could think you can’t work well with others or have a problem with authority," he writes. "Also do not share anything that would be considered confidential information."

Read the full list of interview nevers here.

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Over the next five years, the number of Internet of Things devices will grow nearly tenfold — from 2.5 billion in 2014, to nearly 24 billion by 2019, according to BI Intelligence estimates.

However, one of the biggest barriers currently preventing widespread IoT adoption are security concerns. Business executives, government officials, and consumers are rightly worried that by installing IoT devices within their business, city, or home they are exposing themselves to a hacker who could either use their IoT device in a malicious way and/or steal the data associated with the device.

In a new research note, BI Intelligence examines the current state of Internet of Things security within the home, business and municipality. We examine the motivation behind IoT hacks, what data is commonly targeted, provide examples of security hacks, and provide summary and analysis of a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) report which provides suggestions for how IoT device companies can secure home IoT devices.

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Here are some of the key findings from the report:

• According to security experts with whom we have spoken, homes are fraught with the most security flaws, but businesses are the most targeted. IoT startups that produce devices for the home are often focused on getting their product to market quickly, and security isn't a top priority. Businesses are most at risk of attacks by hackers seeking to access consumer data.
• The FTC has numerous key recommendations for ensuring the security of consumer-facing IoT device makers. These include minimizing the amount of data collected and encrypting the data that is collected. With less collected data, hackers have less of an incentive to attack a system in the first place. 
• The FTC also recommends that IoT device makers should focus on security at the outset of a device's creation, rather than building it in once the device is completed. In addition, companies should promote strong security practices among employees—  the FTC recommends having a person in a higher position, such as in the C-suite, dedicated to overseeing security and not relegating this position to the tech team.
• It is inevitable that companies will collect data on IoT usage. Nearly half of IoT companies say they store IoT data for more than a year. But what data is collected and how it is used should be shared with consumers.

To access the IoT Security Primer and BI Intelligence's ongoing coverage of the future of the Internet of Things — including downloadable charts, data, and analysis — sign up for a free trial. 

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In 2009, actress Leah Remini left the church of Scientology after 30 years and she didn't go quietly.

Remini explained her departure was because "no one is going to tell me how I need to think, no one is going to tell me who I can, and cannot, talk to."

One of the few celebrities who has been as vocal about breaking from Scientology is Oscar-winning writer/director Paul Haggis, who has publicly criticized the church for requiring members to "disconnect" from those who have chosen to cut ties with the religion.

In the wake of Remini's break from Scientology, Haggis wrote an open letter thanking the actress in The Hollywood Reporter. After Sunday's HBO premiere of explosive Scientology documentary"Going Clear"— in which Haggis is prominently featured as an interview subject — the letter is more relevant than ever.

While Haggis begins his note by cautioning, "Leah and I haven’t spoken in quite a while" and "we were always friendly but never close friends," the director continues, "she called me as soon as she heard about my letter of resignation" from the church.

"Unlike the rest of my former friends, she expressed real sadness that I was leaving and concern for me and my family," Haggis writes.

So when he heard that Remini had later left the church, the "Crash" and "Million Dollar Baby" writer says "I read some things that really disturbed me."

"First was the way Leah was being attacked by her celebrity 'friends,' who were disparaging her character," he explains. "What was new to me was the report that Leah had run afoul of the church by challenging Scientology’s leader, David Miscavige, who is held to be infallible."

Remini reportedly questioned the whereabouts of Miscavige's wife, Shelly, who hasn't been seen in years.

"The next thing I learned made me feel terrible," Haggis explains in his open letter. "Leah got in trouble because of me, because when I was 'declared' a 'Suppressive Person' and shunned, she came to my defense — without me ever knowing it. She had shouting matches with Tommy Davis, then the church spokesman, who had come to try and keep her quiet."

Haggis concludes by applauding Remini's bravery, writing:

I can’t express how much I admire Leah. Her parents, family and close friends were almost all Scientologists; the stakes for her were so much higher than for me. Her decision to leave was so much braver...

I finally called Leah during the last week of July. Her answering service didn’t recognize my number, so it took a while to get through. It was good to hear her voice and great to hear her laugh -- though it was easy to tell she had been terribly hurt and shaken by the events of the last weeks. That said, Leah is an incredibly strong woman and will get through this with the help of her family and her true friends. She is kind and generous and loyal; she has always cared more about others than herself. She barely knew me, and yet she fought for me and my family, a battle she had to know in her gut she was never going to win. That takes an enormous amount of integrity and compassion. I will leave it to you to decide if the same can be said of Scientology’s executives and Leah’s many former friends — especially those Scientologists who are watching her be smeared now and are choosing to stay silent.

I will forever be grateful to her.

To read Haggis' entire open letter on The Hollywood Reporter, click here.

After watching "Going Clear" Sunday night on HBO, Remini tweeted:

She later tweeted links to her posts on Instagram:

After watching the film, Remini gave an official quote to Scientology blogger Tony Ortega: "I wanted to thank the people who are in it and have worked so hard. You, Mike Rinder, Marty Rathbun, Marc Headley, Tom DeVocht, Lawrence Wright, Alex Gibney, and HBO. And Paul Haggis in particular for what he wrote on your website the other day. What Paul wrote is so exactly right."

Read Scientology's lengthy response to "Going Clear"here.

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A recent analysis from Pew Charitable Trusts' Stateline blog found that the middle class shrunk in every state in the US between the years of 2000 and 2013 (the most recent data available).

"Middle class" is a tricky concept. Depending on where you live, you can feel middle class earning as much as $250,000 a year— about five times the US median income of $52,250 from the same time period.

In this analysis, Pew defined middle class households as those earning 67%-200% of a state's median income. So ... how much is that?

Below, we took the median income numbers from the US Census Bureau's 2013 American Community Survey that Pew used in their analysis, listed in the leftmost column. Then, we did the math to figure out how much middle-class earners make in each state, based on Pew's definition above. The states are listed in descending order based on median income.

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If there's ever a time for celebrating the Easter Eggs, today's the day. There are a few fun tricks hidden inside Hangouts, Google's chat platform.

Everyone using Hangouts has access to a bunch of emoji, but you can shock your friends my making a few unlisted animations appear if you know the secrets:

 Try typing "LMAO,""happy birthday," or "woot:"

Here's one to break out on January 1. Try "Happy New Year!":

There are a bunch of other ones too:

The effect of "/ponies" or "/ponystream" are seen above. "/Pitchforks" makes an angry mob stampede across the chat window, "/bikeshed" changes the background color of both parties' chat windows, the KONAMI cheat will only change your background color, and "/shydino" will bring you a cute little dinosaur. 

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"It's been a long day, without you my friend. And, I'll tell you all about it when I see you again. We've come a long way from where we began. Oh, I'll tell you all about it when I see you again." 

Those are the first lyrics to the emotionally-charged Paul Walker tribute at the end of "Furious 7" that will undoubtedly leave most fans of the series in tears. Walker, the costar of the "Fast and Furious" franchise, died in November 2013. 

Wiz Khalifa wrote the song, titled "See You Again," for the film. You can listen to it below.  

In the scene, Vin Diesel and Paul Walker drive along side by side for "one last ride," one of the phrases that has been synonymous with the film's marketing. 

The scene directly echoes the end of the first film from 2001 in which Diesel and Walker's characters street race and attempt to outrun a train. 

When the movie first premiered during seven early screenings for fans in mid-March, Vin Diesel asked them not to spoil the end for others who haven't seen it yet. 

"Know that you are a select few that have been allowed to see this movie before April 3," Diesel told an audience in Los Angeles. "So, think about that. And allow people to enjoy the movie and discover it for themselves."

Now, that the movie has been made available to the public, it's one of the biggest scenes fans are talking about from the film.

Mike Knobloch, president of film music and publishing at Universal Pictures, described the song and scene as a "celebration of Paul's life" to the Huffington Post. 

Fans agreed, taking to Twitter using the hashtag #ForPaul that appears at the end of the film to discuss the scene, Walker's performance, and the film in general.

Since the film's release Friday, the movie's emotional tribute to Walker has also found its way online.  

A quick search for the "Furious 7" ending on YouTube prompts several uploads of the movie's ending.

Here it is below. It will most likely be pulled from YouTube.

SEE ALSO: Our review of "Furious 7"

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White House photographer tweeted the official Easter photo of the US First Family:

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Google is known for offering appealing perks, great pay, and an exceptional workplace culture— so it's no surprise that undergraduate business students find the search behemoth to be the most desirable employer.

Universum, a global research and advisory firm, recently surveyed 25,606 of these undergraduates and asked them to choose the companies and organizations they'd consider working for from a list of 230 options.

Next they asked respondents to choose the five employers they most want to work for.

Universum then put together a ranking of the most desirable employers, based on the percentage of students who chose a company as one of their top five "ideal" employers. (They also did this for liberal arts students and natural science students.)

Google, which specializes in online advertising technologies, cloud computing, software, and, of course, search, landed at the top of the list, as a whopping 23.08% of business undergrads named it their dream employer.  

The Walt Disney Company, Apple, Nike, and JPMorgan Chase rounded out the top five.

Here are the top 50:

"For employers recruiting business students today, it's crucial to articulate the mission of the organization," says Melissa Murray Bailey, president of Universum Americas. "Doing this, as well as showcasing how each employee has an impact on that greater good, will help to make companies more attractive to this group."

Click here for the full list of the 100 most desirable employers for business undergrads. 

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Russia is just about to unveil its latest armored platform, the T-14 tank. 

The tank, called the Armata, has largely been kept under wraps, though technical details about the platform have steadily been emerging. The Armata is planned to feature considerable upgrades to the armor, engine, and armaments of the vehicle over previous Russian and Soviet tank models. 

Until the tank is actually seen in action, any claims as to the Armata's capabilities could be nothing more than propaganda, an overstatement reminiscent of Russia's improbable claims it is working on a supersonic transport jet.

Still, the following graphic from the Kremlin Tass translated by US Army's Foreign Military Studies Office provides insight into the kind of vehicle that Russia wants to add to its arsenal. 

One of the most important pieces of technology added to the Armata is the Afganit active protection complex, a system that uses Doppler radar to detect incoming projectiles such as rocket-propelled grenades and anti-tank missiles. Once detected, the active defense launches an interceptor rocket that destroys the incoming projectile. 

Rossiyskaya Gazeta Online notes that this protection could hypothetically allow the Armata to survive an attack from a US Apache helicopter. But the US Army's Foreign Military Studies Office takes a more realistic view of the tank's planned capabilities and writes that the Afganit system would most likely be capable of defending the tank only from "shaped-charged grenades, antitank missiles, and subcaliber projectiles." 

The Armata is also equipped with counter-mine defenses and a suite of high-resolution video cameras. These cameras would allow the Armata operators to have full 360-degree awareness around the body of the vehicle. 

Significantly, the Armata's chassis has been designed to support various other military vehicles. Moscow is reportedly considering using the chassis to also support a range of rocket-propelled flamethrowers, self-propelled artillery, recovery vehicles, amphibious transports, and more. 

The use of a single, highly adaptable chassis will help Russia cut costs while it is modernizing its military. Supply lines could also run more efficiently as the Russian military would not need to order as many varied parts to keep a range of machines running. 

The first deliveries of the T-14 started trials with the Russian military in February and March. According to Interfax, large deliveries of the tank will start in 2017 to 2018. 

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Miami (AFP) - World number one Novak Djokovic defeated Andy Murray 7-6 (7/3), 4-6, 6-0 on Sunday to win his fifth Miami Masters title.

Serbia's Djokovic pushed his career record against the Scot to 18-8, adding the triumph in the championship match on the hardcourts of Miami to victories over Murray this year in the Australian Open final and the semi-finals of the Indian Wells Masters.

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For humans, reaching the age of 100 is a rare milestone. For some animals, however, it's hardly uncommon.

Not all plants and animals age the way we do, and some are built for much longer lifespans than ours. 

Of the 10 animals that live the longest, all of them live well past 100, according to a recent post in Discovery News. At the top of the list, the ocean quahog (aka the clam) lives to be 400 years old, while the runner-up bowhead whale lives to be 211. But even the animal at the bottom of the list, the warty oreo, lives 140 years. 

Take a look:

There may be animals that live longer than the ones on this list (like sea sponges, a cave salamander called the human fish that seems to live to be 100, and the potentially immortal hydra), but these are the ones with lifespans that scientists have measured precisely.

These long-lived creatures raise a question: Why do some animals live so much longer than others? While dozens of researchers have asked this question, the short answer is we still don't know.

Here are some of the similarities and differences we observed in the animals above.

Slow and steady

Most of the critters on this list grow and reproduce slowly.

Take the female lake sturgeon (#7 on this list). She takes anywhere from 14-33 years just to reach sexual maturity, and she only spawns once every 4-9 years. (Male lake sturgeons develop a little faster, maturing in 8-12 years and spawning every 2-7 years). In contrast, steelhead trout mature in 2-3 years and live for only 11 years. 

Similarly, the orange roughy (#9), takes 20 years to mature. While it appears to help them with living for long periods, this slow development can be perilous for the population as a whole. Overfishing decimated the orange roughy population near Australia in the 1980s, and since the fish grows so slowly the Australian Fisheries Management Authority estimates it will take up to 65 years to get orange roughy stocks back to target levels. 

While most of the animals on this list grow slowly, the rates at which they mature and reproduce vary. Red sea urchins (#4) and ocean quahogs (#1) still spawn every year, for example. 

Mostly marine

Besides Galapagos tortoises (#5) and Aldabra giant tortoises (#8), all the animals on the list live in water. Of the water-dwelling animals, five are fish, two are invertebrates (the ocean quahog and red sea urchin), and only one is a mammal (the bowhead whale). 

Size doesn't matter

The two top contenders on the list, clams and bowhead whales, couldn't be sized more differently.

While the typical ocean quahog is between 2.8 to 4.3 inches long, the bowhead whale comes in at a massive 65 feet long. 

Surprisingly, these two creatures do have one thing in common as far as size is concerned: they eat similarly sized food. While the quahog eats microscopic algae it sucks into its stomach through a straw-like siphon, the bowhead filters microscopic animals like krill through its sieve-like "teeth," called baleen plates.

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Kentucky's chance to become the first undefeated men's college basketball team in four decades ended on Saturday night in Indianapolis, where they fell to 38-1 in a 71-64 loss to Wisconsin in the Final Four.

Students didn't take the loss well as 31 people were arrested in the aftermath:

 And here's an amateur video of the mayhem:

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According the March employment report, which was published on Friday, job growth in the US isn't what it used to be.

US companies added a measly 126,000 jobs in March, and the prior two months' worth of job estimates were revised down by 69,000.

For a while, job creation was the one economic indicator that hadn't deteriorated significantly since the beginning of the year.

So, what does that mean?

Here's your Monday Scouting Report:

Top Stories

• Some people think that the Fed will have to put off its plans to tighten... For several months, many economists were convinced June would be the month that the Federal Reserve would begin hiking its benchmark interest rate (or fed funds rate) as it tightens monetary policy. But following the March Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting and in the wake of the deteriorating economic data, many economists are now pushing their rate hike expectations back to September, December, and even next year.
  
  For Goldman Sachs' David Mericle and Sven Jari Stehn, the issue is more about the signs that inflation is falling short of even the Fed's own expectations. From their April 3 note: "Our analysis suggests that it is hard to be “reasonably confident” in the inflation outlook unless the data improve on multiple fronts. We therefore do not have much confidence in the inflation outlook and believe that the right policy would be to put hikes on hold for now. But Fed officials have continued to signal that a September hike remains the baseline. Our forecast for when the liftoff will occur— which is distinct from our opinion about when it should occur— remains September, but this is now a close call vs. December."
  
• ...But don't forget about the importance of the markets... While acknowledging the weak jobs report and the deterioration in other economic indicators, Allianz's Mohamed El-Erian believes that if were only about the economy, the Fed could still arguably raise rates in June. Instead, he notes that we can't ignore how the Fed sees the financial markets fitting into this picture.
  
  Here's El-Erian: "...the economy is not the only issue on the central bankers’ balance sheet. Having used the financial asset markets as the main transmission mechanism to pursue its economic objectives, the Fed is worried that any misstep on its part would cause disorderly price movements and thus undermine economic dynamism. Indeed, memories of the May-June 2013 “Taper Tantrum” are still fresh in the minds of some central bankers, as are more recent episodes (albeit short) of market malfunctioning and sudden liquidity stress."
  
  Indeed, concerns about the sudden disappearance of market liquidity are always hanging out there.

Economic Calendar

• Markit US Services PMI (Mon): Economists estimate this services index improved to 58.6 in March from 57.1 in February. "While the surveys signal that economic growth will have slowed in the first quarter from an already- modest 2.2% pace seen in the final quarter of last year, the upturn in the surveys in March provides a clear advance indication that stronger economic growth will return in the second quarter," Markit's Chris Williamson said.
• ISM Non-Manufacturing Index (Mon): Economists estimate this services index slipped to 56.5 in March from 56.9 in February. Here's BNP Paribas: "West coast ports are running more smoothly, following disruptions in the beginning of the year, and the harsh winter weather is abating. Downside risks include likely continued disappointment from the oilfield services sector."
• Job Openings And Labor Turnover Survey (Tues): Economists estimate the JOLTS report will reveal there were 5.003 million jobs openings in February, up marginally from the 4.998 million in January. From Credit Suisse: "Job openings rose slightly in January to 5.0M, keeping the ratio of vacancies to unemployed workers elevated at 0.56. There was a slight decline in this ratio from December, but this was largely due to the temporary increase in unemployment in January and the recent uptrend is likely to resume in February."
• Consumer Credit (Tues): Economists estimate consumer credit balances increased by $12.65 billion. Here's Nomura: "Non-revolving consumer credit growth accelerated last year (likely due to an increase in auto loans). However, revolving credit growth was slow, showing above-trend gains in only a few months. This slow trend continued into 2015, with revolving credit declining in January. Households’ risk appetite remains tenuous, despite improvements in labor markets and income. More solid growth in revolving consumer credit suggests that consumers are more confident about their finances and could provide a boost for spending going forward."
• FOMC Minutes (Wed): The Fed will release the minutes of its March 17-18 Federal Open Market Committee meeting, which is when it removed "can be patient" from its forward guidance. From Credit Suisse: "...the most interesting aspects of the March 17-18 FOMC meeting minutes probably will have little to do with "patience" and more to do with 1) the effect of the stronger dollar on domestic growth, 2) the likely contours of the upcoming tightening cycle, and 3) the operational readiness of the Fed's exit strategy tools."
• Initial Jobless Claims (Thurs): Economists estimate the weekly jobless claims climbed to 282,000 from 268,000 a week ago. "Claims have returned below 300k thus far in March and continue to point to solid improvement in labor market performance," Nomura economists said.
• Monthly Budget Statement (Fri): Analysts estimate the US ran a budget deficit of $43 billion in March.

Market Commentary

The most important drivers of stock prices are earnings and expectations for earnings growth. However, there are many ways to measure earnings. 

For one, there's earnings based on GAAP, or generally accepted accounting principles, which unfortunately includes any major non-recurring items like the big gain on sale of an asset or losses on a big asset write-down.

To address that, analysts often look to adjusted-earnings, which make adjustments for noise and non-recurring items. This is an effort to get a better sense of the longer-term earnings power of the core operations. Bloomberg offers a number. IBES, which is owned by Thomson Reuters, offers a number. Even S&P makes their own adjustments and offers something called operating EPS.

"There is no single perfect measure," Deutsche Bank's David Bianco writes.

It's something to be mindful of.

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