Новости за 19.01.2017

Aiming to energize and unite city dwellers concerned about the president-elect's plans, activists and dignitaries planned to gather Thursday evening in front of Trump International Hotel and Tower, about a half-mile from his Trump Tower home. Cities and towns across the country have the power to protect people and the environment by joining together," actor Mark Ruffalo said in a statement, adding that the rally would signal to Washington "that we will fight, at every step, discrimination and harmful policies.

HONOLULU — A group of NASA-funded researchers was poised to enter an isolated geodesic dome on a remote Hawaii volcano to study human behavior in long-term space exploration, including a planned voyage to Mars. The team will have no physical contact with people in the outside world and will work with a 20-minute delay in communications, the time it would take for an email to reach Earth from Mars. The project is designed to help the U.S. space agency send humans on long space voyages including to Mars by the 2030s. Читать дальше...

(AP) — Minnesota would use state money to offset the health premium hikes for more than 100,000 residents under a measure legislators were considering Thursday, a novel approach as states across the country grapple with the rising costs and uncertain future of the Affordable Care Act. Even as President-elect Donald Trump plots a repeal of the law after taking office Friday, Minnesota officials from both parties agree they need to step in and help by tapping roughly $300 million in rainy day funds. Читать дальше...

MINNEAPOLIS — President Obama has denied a clemency request by American Indian activist Leonard Peltier, who has spent most of his life in prison in the killing of two FBI agents in South Dakota in 1975, Peltier’s attorney said Thursday. Peltier’s supporters say he was wrongly convicted in the killings of FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams during a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Tensions between AIM and the government remained high for years, providing the backdrop for the... Читать дальше...

The song, titled “How Does A Moment Last Forever,” is written by Alan Menken, the Oscar-winning composer who wrote all the songs from the original “Beauty and the Beast” with the late Howard Ashman, Disney announced on Thursday. “Celine was the unanimous choice of the filmmakers and studio to perform this song,” says Mitchell Leib, president of music at Walt Disney Pictures. The original motion picture soundtrack for “Beauty and the Beast” will be released on March 10, one week before the film starring Luke Evans... Читать дальше...

Grant, whose other credits include “Erin Brokovich” and “In Her Shoes,” recently earned a WGA nomination for Long Form Original for “Confirmation,” and will be honored at the WGAW 2017 Writers Guild Awards ceremony on Feb. 19. ‘Confirmation’ tells Anita Hill’s harrowing tale with grace, heart, and consummate craft, all the while hewing to the historical record. Grant had also served as a writer, producer and director on the Fox series “Party of Five” from 1994 to 1997, and in 2007, she created... Читать дальше...

CHICAGO — The first national estimate suggests that nearly half of U.S. men have genital infections caused by a sexually transmitted virus and that 1 in 4 has strains linked with several cancers. [...] high-risk HPV can cause cancer in the mouth and upper throat, cervical cancer in women and other cancers. High-risk HPV poses cancer risks to people who are infected and to their sexual partners, who can catch HPV even when the infections are silent.

[...] some regard the election of his successor as the price of black progress and the culmination of years of racist rhetoric directed at the Obamas — at times stoked by President-elect Donald Trump himself. "There's a great deal of melancholy and fear and despair," said Lester Spence, professor of political science and Africana studies at Johns Hopkins University. With his inauguration fast approaching, Trump took to Twitter last week to bash Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights legend who was nearly killed marching for voting rights in Selma... Читать дальше...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has paid $25 million to settle three lawsuits against his now-defunct Trump University, signaling that a judge's approval of a settlement agreement remains on track for March 30. Trump Entrepreneur Initiative LLC paid the money into escrow ahead of Wednesday's deadline, said plaintiff attorney Jason Forge, who represented people who took seminars that promised to teach success in real estate. Under terms disclosed last month, Trump was to pay $25 million... Читать дальше...

Steak and lobster headline Donald Trump's inauguration lunch menuU.S. President-elect Donald Trump prepares to speak at the Chairman’s Global Dinner at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017. Trump stated that he has “great respect for your countries” while addressing nearly 150 diplomats and foreign ambassadors at the event. Photographer: Kevin Dietsch/Pool via Bloomberg The menu for Friday’s inauguration lunch has unveiled to America. And it prompted plenty of reaction from the food world. Читать дальше...

Who decides which wines get served at the Inauguration Day lunch?Korbel’s Russian River Valley Natural Cuvée, in magnum, featuring the inaugural seal on its neck. Photo: Korbel Cellars Three California wines will be served at the luncheon following Donald Trump’s swearing-in ceremony on Friday. In a moment when many public figures are eager to disassociate themselves from the President-elect — even a Bruce Springsteen cover band — is having your wine served at this luncheon the equivalent of being Three Doors Down? Читать дальше...

Paramount Pictures has brought on Chinese film companies Shanghai Film Group and Huahua Media as part of a strategic agreement in which Shanghai Film Group and Huahua will co-finance the studio’s full slate of films for the next three years. A source with knowledge of the deal told TheWrap the agreement could be worth as much as $1 billion in slate financing, and Shanghai Film Group and Huahua can fund 25 percent or more of the studio’s full slate. “Shanghai Film Group’s long and successful history as a prolific studio... Читать дальше...

Last week, Johnson teased a meeting with DC Films co-head Geoff Johns, promising “hope, optimism & FUN.” Johnson has been attached to play the character since 2008, but there is currently no writer or filmmaker attached to “Black Adam.” The former WWE wrestler is currently in post-production for “The Fate of the Furious,” “Baywatch” and “Jumanji.”

Fox is strapping on goggles and diving into virtual reality, launching a new division focused on the technology Wednesday and announcing a content partnership with VR firm Within Thursday that will include a “Planet of the Apes” immersive experience and a VR film with Annapurna Pictures and Spike Jonze. FoxNext, a brand new division that works across the film and television businesses of 21st Century Fox, and Within will work together on several VR experiences, the first being an immersive project... Читать дальше...

PIORNAL, Spain (AP) — Dozens of people ran through the streets of this tiny southwestern Spanish town Thursday trying to pelt a beast-like figure representing a farm thief with, appropriately, tons of turnips. The so-called Jarramplas festival, celebrated every Feb. 19-20, centers around a town resident dressed up in a colorful costume and a horned helmet. Over the years the festival has seen some changes, and nowadays the chosen Jarramplas are well-protected by helmets, gloves and chest shields... Читать дальше...

From A-list producers (Matt Damon), to Youtube icons (Gigi Gorgeous and Tyler Oakley), and buzzy celebrity couples (Kate Upton and Justin Verlander), here’s who you will only see “off screen” around Park City. The model and Detroit Tigers pitching star fiancé will promote a branded content series they made for Condé Nast and Golf Digest. A two-time Oscar winner directed the YouTube Red Original, the video giant’s in-house studio which is part of an expansive program of consumer and industry events running in parallel during the festival. Читать дальше...

Next week, a new bar, Over Proof, will officially open on 16th Street inside ABV. ABV isn't closing its doors; instead it's opening the bar-inside-a-bar on its Mezzanine level. 

Streaming platform will not air new episodes of recently canceled Disney Channel sitcom The “Boy Meets World” spinoff was canceled on Jan. 4, immediately sparking fan backlash and campaigns for the series, about Cory (Ben Savage) and Topanga’s (Danielle Fishel) daughter Riley (Rowan Blanchard) and her friends, to continue on another platform. The series finale of “Girl Meets World” will air Friday at 6 p.m. ET on Disney Channel.

NEW YORK (AP) — Harry Belafonte is turning 90 in a few weeks, and he's planning to use the milestone to release an album that will underscore part of his life's work — fostering racial harmony. A multi-ethnic children's choir will perform a new version of his classic Island in the Sun for a new anthology of his music, When Colors Come Together:

Fences Brilliantly written (by playwright August Wilson) and directed by Denzel Washington, this is one for the ages, alongside “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “A Streetcar Named Desire,” as one of the handful of great movies made from great plays. The ensemble work is flawless, highlighted by Washington and Viola Davis as a working-class couple in the Pittsburgh of the 1950s. Julieta Pedro Almodóvar delivers one of his best films, the story of a woman from age 25 to 56, as played by two... Читать дальше...

Falcons offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan, the 49ers presumptive head coach, was named the Assistant Coach of the Year as selected by the Pro Football Writers of America. Shanahan, 37, oversaw an offense that scored 540 points, which matched the 2000 Rams for the eighth-most in NFL history. Ryan’s passer rating ranks fifth in NFL history and his yards-per-attempt average is 13th.

The “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” star has pleaded no contest to a disorderly conduct charge stemming from the Dec. 8 incident. The actor made headlines in December when he was arrested at Dallas Love Field airport after he allegedly confronted Transportation Security Administration employees. According to a press release issued by the Dallas Police Department at the time, officers were alerted by the TSA that an individual was “causing a disturbance” and refusing to submit to a screening at a checkpoint area. Читать дальше...

Giants, A’s fans gain option to stream games on mobile apps Giants and A’s fans who like to watch games away from home — at the supermarket, on the golf course, in a barber’s chair — got some welcome news Thursday. NBC Sports announced it has reached an agreement with MLB Advanced Media that will allow its regional sports networks to stream major-league games in-market.

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(AP) — A scientist in California has named a newly discovered moth species after President-elect Donald Trump, saying the white and yellow scales on the insect's head are reminiscent of Trump's blond hairdo. The moth was named Neopalpa donadltrumpi by evolutionary biologist Dr. Vazrick Nazari, who discovered it while dissecting moths and noticing that three specimens had a distinct wing pattern and unique DNA profile, the Sacramento Bee reported (http://bit.ly/2k6ZyTk ) Wednesday.