Новости за 21.12.2017

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Willem Dafoe came into "The Florida Project" ready to be transformed, and working in a cheap motel helped him get there. The 62-year-old actor has been collecting accolades — including a Golden Globe Award nod and Screen Actors Guild Award nomination — for his performance in the Sean Baker film, which was set and shot at the Magic Castle hotel in the shadows of Orlando's Disney World. Dafoe said filming at a real hotel that houses homeless families like the one at the heart of the film changed his perspective as a performer. Читать дальше...

On this episode of Fault Lines, hosts Garland Nixon and Lee Stranahan will welcome guests discussing the Republicans’ tax bill. Will it help or hurt the overall economy? Who will benefit? Who will be worse off? Will the $1.5+ Trillion price tag force severe program cuts as Speaker Paul Ryan has said?

NEW YORK (AP) — Arguably the biggest thing that came from Hollywood this year wasn't a movie or a TV show. It had heroines and villains, but no script. And it went viral despite having no big publicity machinery behind it. The women who initially spoke out against sexual misconduct in Hollywood this fall — inspiring millions to tell their own stories of harassment and illegality on social media — have been named The Associated Press Entertainers of the Year, voted by members of the news cooperative and AP entertainment reporters.

NAIJ.com stumbled on photos of some female soldiers on the internet training at Achiase holding a big snake believed to be a python. See photos on NAIJ.com

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook and record label Universal Music Group have signed a multiyear deal that will let Facebook users share videos that have the label's music in them. Right now, if Facebook's regular users upload videos that contain Universal's music, the videos will get taken down. The companies did not say when users would be able to share music in videos on platforms owned by Facebook. They hinted that more music features could be coming. Facebook declined to comment about its music strategy beyond the press release. Читать дальше...

Harry Kane, believed by ex-Spurs favourite Darren Anderton to be the top man at Tottenham Hotspur football club, has issued a plea to frustrated Spurs fans to stick together. But is it too little, too late? 
 Following Spurs’ 4-1 drubbing by Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium a few days ago, it really does look like Tottenham have shot their bolt. They are now languishing in seventh position in the Premier League, and as far as challenging for the title is concerned it rather seems they have shot themselves in the foot. Читать дальше...

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• Boeing has held takeover talks with Brazilian plane-maker Embraer. 
• A deal would reportedly value Embraer above its $3.71 billion market cap.
• The report comes about two months after Boeing rival Airbus agreed to buy a majority stake in Bombardier Inc's CSeries jetliner program.

The Brazilian plane-maker Embraer confirmed on Thursday that it had held talks to be acquired by Boeing. 

Boeing and Embraer have been discussing... Читать дальше...

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When Eric Schmidt joined Google as CEO in 2001, the theory was that the company’s founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, needed a seasoned tech executive to help them run the burgeoning business they had created. When he gave up that position to Page almost a decade later, he famously tweeted “day-to-day adult supervision no …

Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda was joined by stars including Helena Bonham Carter, Jodie Whittaker and Ronnie Wood for the opening night of his hip hop musical in London’s West End.

NUEVA YORK (AP) — Las acciones de Embraer aumentaban 17% el jueves ante informes publicados en la prensa de que la fábrica brasileña de aviones está en conversaciones con Boeing acerca de una adquisición. Según la noticia publicada el jueves en el diario The Wall Street Journal, Boeing Co. estaría dispuesta a pagar una prima elevada por una empresa cuyo valor de mercado ronda los 3.700 millones de dólares. Boeing tendría una presencia mayor en la industria de los jets de alcance regional, como... Читать дальше...

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Louisville basketball parted ways with freshman wing Brian Bowen but allowed him to stay on scholarship and keep taking classes this year.

There are some folks in the AFC who shudder at the thought of facing the Ravens' defense in the playoffs. That's understandable, given Baltimore's propensity for takeaways (league-high 33) and its turnover margin (plus-17). That the offense is substandard tends to get ignored a bit, particularly if Terrell Suggs, C.J. Mosley and Matthew Judon are in an opposing quarterback's face all day. Should the Ravens (8-6) win out, something they have a very strong chance of doing by facing Indianapolis on Saturday... Читать дальше...

ESPN FC's Steve Nicol breaks down the latest rumours surrounding Antoine Griezmann, Javier Pastore, David Luiz and more. Roy Hodgson refuses to guarantee that Wilfried Zaha will remain a Crystal Palace player by the end of the January transfer window. Manchester City, Chelsea and Arsenal are reportedly in competition to sign a player valued at £40 million and who has been influential in the Eagles' recent climb out of the Premier League relegation zone. Hodgson gave Zaha his international... Читать дальше...

You'll probably recall that a few years ago, Netflix streams began mysteriously slowing down for users nationwide. Eventually, Netflix, Level3 and Cogent stated that the problem wasn't on Netflix's end, but was occurring at peering points, where they claimed incumbent ISPs had begun intentionally letting their networks congest by refusing to upgrade capacity. Why? The goal was to kill settlement-free peering and extract steep new troll tolls from content companies that wanted their traffic to reach incumbent ISP customers without... Читать дальше...

Instead of eliminating favoritism, the GOP’s reforms load the costs of the state upon disfavored persons, groups, and regions.

The charity, Doctors Without Borders reports preventable, long-forgotten diseases are re-emerging in Yemen due to the catastrophic war that has been going on since March 2015. Diphtheria has been eradicated in most parts of the world. The last outbreak of this highly infectious, but preventable respiratory disease occurred in 1982 in Yemen. But, this disease has made a deadly comeback after two and one-half years of catastrophic war and the blockade of humanitarian and commercial goods imposed by Saudi Arabia. Читать дальше...

Instagram loves to secretly test new features on some of its users and get feedback before deciding on whether it should roll them out for everyone.

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A house fire that killed a young child and two women in Pittsburgh was set by a man who smelled of gasoline and bragged "yep, I did it" as he watched the house burn, police said. Pittsburgh police believe Martell Smith, 41, set the fire early Wednesday after getting into a bar fight with a relative of the victims who also lived at the home. A witness told police he overheard Smith muttering "yep, yep, I did it," while fire crews battled the blaze around 2 a.m. Wednesday. The police... Читать дальше...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A house fire that killed a young child and two women in Pittsburgh was set by a man who smelled of gasoline and bragged "yep, I did it" as he watched the house burn, police said. Pittsburgh police believe Martell Smith, 41, set the fire early Wednesday after getting into a bar fight with a relative of the victims who also lived at the home. A witness told police he overheard Smith muttering "yep, yep, I did it," while fire crews battled the blaze around 2 a.m. Wednesday. The police... Читать дальше...

US life expectancy at birth has declined for a second year running, the first such two-year drop since the early 1960s, fueled by an escalating opioid crisis, statistics revealed Thursday.

It’s the holiday season, so let’s take some time to appreciate the NBA’s best gift-givers.

Given the many historic records for dreadfulness that 2017 handily destroyed, let's try and find some a tiny moment of joy upon which to end the year, shall we?