Новости за 28.12.2016

SINGAPORE (AP) — Smartphone cameras have seen dramatic improvements, but technology alone won't produce shots that grab attention. Here are eight tips to keep in mind when composing that shot, whether of family during the holidays or sights during a vacation. At a party, for instance, avoid wide shots of random people mingling in a room, as the room becomes the subject — and that's boring. People mingling can still be part of the shot, but in the background, to give people a sense the party's well attended. Читать дальше...

(AP) — A man who was the longtime chancellor of the University of Missouri campus is Kansas City before serving as the four-campus university system's president has died. The World War II veteran who spent 20 years in the Navy served as Missouri-Kansas City's chancellor from 1977 to 1991, when he was appointed the University of Missouri system's president.

Wonder no more, because some genius put together their respective “Carpool Karaoke” clips with James Corden and made it look like the two were riding and singing together. “I’m an emotional guy, man,” Bieber tells his companion, prompting Gomez to give him a gentle pat on the arm. Gomez and Bieber first sparked relationship talk in February 2011 when they appeared on the red carpet of the Vanity Fair Oscar party together.

The rookie center, who will be available for Golden State’s game Wednesday night against Toronto at Oracle Arena, is fresh off an eight-point, four-rebound, two-block outing in Santa Cruz’s 115-98 win Tuesday over Sioux Falls. Jones, 21, is averaging six points, 5.9 rebounds and 1.7 blocks in 10 games with Santa Cruz this season. Because he is unlikely to play significant minutes for Golden State, Jones figures to be back with the D-League club soon.

(AP) — A Pennsylvania woman who walked 26 miles through the snowy Arizona backcountry for help after her family's car got stuck says she survived by eating twigs and snow and a desire to rescue her stranded husband and 10-year-old son. Klein, recounting her roughly 30-hour journey in an interview from her hospital bed in Utah, said the family realized too late Thursday that their GPS sent them onto forest roads covered in dense snow. Husband Eric Klein had recently suffered a back injury, so his 46-year-old wife... Читать дальше...

The “Star Wars” star’s tell-all has no estimated ship date, but the online retailer is still accepting orders for the book and says it will deliver once it becomes available. Watch Carrie Fisher's Brilliant Last TV Appearance on British Panel Show (Video) “The Princess Diarist,” released Nov. 22, is Fisher’s memoir based on diaries she kept while filming Star Wars Episode IV:

"These faults seem to synchronize. Once one goes, they all go."

A triple earthquake swarm along the California-Nevada border is far from over shaking the West, with dozens of strong aftershocks continuing, in a pattern unlike other regions of the world.

"You need to be able to withstand not only one earthquake and its aftershocks, but potentially multiple earthquakes and their aftershocks," said seismologist Graham Kent.

ATLANTA (AP) — Un coyote silvestre anda vagando por el parque de un distrito bullicioso de Atlanta y las autoridades de vida silvestre temen que desee quedarse en la zona porque algunas personas le han dado comida. Según un video de la televisora WSB-TV (http://2wsb.tv/2izdHYw), al coyote parecía no molestarle los ladridos de los perros ni los observadores que se le acercaban.

New Orleans Police welcome final recruiting class of 2016 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans Police Department's final recruiting class of 2016, Class 179, has started its academy training.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A high-ranking polygamous leader was released from jail Wednesday after pleading guilty in a multimillion-dollar food-stamp fraud case, becoming the second of 11 defendants to accept a plea deal in the crackdown on the sect based along the Utah-Arizona border. Federal prosecutors said deals could be coming with other defendants implicated in the scheme in which at least $12 million in food stamps was misused — some diverted to front companies to buy tractors, trucks and other items. Читать дальше...

El diario Johnson City Press (http://bit.ly/2i7KrqN) informó que la herencia de Glenda Taylor DeLawder para el refugio de animales fue anunciada el Día de Navidad en el sitio web del gobierno del condado de Carter por el alcalde Leon Humphrey. También servirán para comprar una nueva furgoneta que se modificará para transportar a los animales para que sean esterilizados.

[...] the Chandler Republican is already settling into the office and setting his priorities. Yarbrough sat down with The Associated Press to discuss his view of the job and the top legislative issues in the coming year. Is your goal to shape the chamber's business or put your stamp on it? (A panel of judges, sitting as the state Supreme Court, ruled this year that the Legislature can't boost employee pension contributions.) If we can't adjust the contribution rate to prevent the plan from falling into insolvency, that is a big problem. Читать дальше...

NEW YORK — The sight of two men holding hands is far from uncommon, but a mural of two men doing just that is showing up in an unusual place — on the walls of a new subway station in New York City. “It was like winning the lottery,” Thor Stockman, 60, said of finding out that he and his husband of 3½ years, Patrick Kellogg, were going to be part of artist Vik Muniz’s “Perfect Strangers,” a series of life-size mosaic portraits of everyday New Yorkers gracing the walls of the new subway station at 72nd Street. Читать дальше...

The spate of high-profile deaths has led to lots of 2016 bashing on Twitter, and it’s also raised a question: Will the “In Memoriam” sequences on next February’s Grammy and Oscar shows be the biggest and most wrenching ones ever? The Oscars ceremony, which always includes the most watched, discussed and often criticized memoriam sequence of any awards show, will no doubt feature a large number of iconic figures. The Oscars memoriam doesn’t cover the calendar year, but the 12 months beginning in early February... Читать дальше...

Justin Timberlake, Pharrell, Sting and 9 More Oscars Best Song Contenders (Exclusive Photos) TheWrap’s Oscar Magazine: A look at some of this year’s biggest music stars vying for Academy glory in the Best Original Song category TheWrap’s Oscar Magazine: A look at some of this year’s biggest music stars vying for Oscar glory in the Best Original Song category. Read original story Justin Timberlake, Pharrell, Sting and 9 More Oscars Best Song Contenders (Exclusive Photos) At TheWrap

Woman leaves entire $1.2 million estate to animal shelter The Johnson City Press reports (http://bit.ly/2i7KrqN) Glenda Taylor DeLawder's bequest to an animal shelter was announced Christmas Day on the Carter County government website by Mayor Leon Humphrey.

TheWrap Oscar magazine: “I don’t know that I’ve ever walked home from a movie set and felt I’d done a good job,” actress says [...] Read: 'Manchester by the Sea' Director Kenneth Lonergan: I Loved Yelling at Casey Affleck Andrew Garfield on His Eagerness to Shed 'Spider-Man' Tights for 'Hacksaw Ridge,' 'Silence' In one scene early in the film, Williams and Affleck sketch their relationship in a myriad of little details as Lee comes home from a day of fishing to find Randi in bed sick. When I would go to rough bars in the area... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City Uber driver is boasting that he drove through 240 green traffic lights before hitting a red light. The recording shows him slowing to a crawl on some blocks to avoid hitting a red, and taking numerous turns to avoid having his path forward blocked. The city Department of Transportation didn't immediately respond to a query about the viability of his claim.

It seems the 49ers' hopes of having the No. 1 pick for the first time since 2005 aren't completely dead yet.

La ciudad de New Haven, en Connecticut, está entre las más recientes en instalar los equipos, que se erigen en las aceras y recaudan donaciones en efectivo o a través de tarjetas de crédito para programas que benefician a la gente sin techo. La ciudad colocó cuatro recolectores de dinero, que son de colores brillantes, en áreas donde la mendicidad ha sido un problema y planea instalar seis más para apoyar a organizaciones locales sin fines de lucro que ayudan a las personas sin hogar. Recientemente se instalaron en Pasadena... Читать дальше...

Lori's Diner to close its original space on Mason StreetLori’s Diner on Mason Street is closing after 32 years. Photo: Justin Phillips Lori’s Diner, the popular San Francisco diner known for its cheap food and vintage decor, is closing its original location at 336 Mason St. The restaurant opened there roughly three decades ago and according to a few different postings from the business, the last day of operations will be Jan. 2. (Tip of the hat to Hoodline for posting the news.) The closure is the... Читать дальше...

Growing up around the movie biz, she entered it herself before the age of 20, nabbing a plum role as a sexually precocious teenager in Hal Ashby’s “Shampoo,” one of the shining lights of the 1970s New Hollywood movement. In films like “When Harry Met Sally…” (she and Bruno Kirby deserved their own spin-off movie, wagon-wheel coffee table and all), “Amazon Women on the Moon” (where she brilliantly spoofs wide-eyed naïveté and bad acting in a parody of sex-ed scare films) and “Soapdish” (her sexually... Читать дальше...

Fans have taken it upon themselves to write Fisher’s name into an empty space on the Walk of Fame — on Hollywood Blvd. near Orange Dr. — to memorialize the late actress, turning it into a place of mourning. [...] that memorial will be preserved “for a few days,” Walk of Fame producer Ana Martinez told TheWrap. According to Martinez, the legendary “Star Wars” actress has never been nominated for her own official star. Rules set by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, which oversees the iconic landmark... Читать дальше...

Alan Dershowitz accused President Obama of stabbing Israel in the back, saying he will be remembered “one of the worst foreign policy presidents ever.” “He called me into the Oval Office before the inauguration — he said he wanted my support, and he told me he would always have Israel’s back,” Dershowitz said on Monday’s edition of Fox & Friends. Israel’s government was upset last week after the U.S. abstained from voting on a U.N. Security Council resolution that called Israeli settlements... Читать дальше...

SUPERIOR, Wis. (AP) — Police in northwestern Wisconsin say the deaths of two people found outside a residence was apparently due to exposure to cold temperatures. Superior police said Wednesday a preliminary autopsy shows 83-year-old Richard Ellison and 78-year-old Shirley Johnson were exposed to the cold for a prolonged period because they were locked out of a home a week ago. Police say a final autopsy report and toxicology results are pending.