Новости за 29.12.2017

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Ketchikan officials are seeking an ordinance requiring health care practitioners in the city to disclose estimated medical costs to patients before they receive treatment. The proposed ordinance is modeled after a measure adopted in Anchorage earlier this year that aimed to make health care costs more transparent, the Alaska Journal of Commerce reported . At the Ketchikan City Council meeting last week, officials with the Greater Ketchikan Chamber of Commerce called for the ordinance... Читать дальше...

LOGAN, Utah (AP) — A Utah art teacher was fired amid complaints that images of classical paintings containing nudity were passed out in a classroom and seen by sixth-graders, a newspaper reported. Mateo Rueda said he wasn't aware that a set of educational postcards from the elementary school library contained a few works depicting nudity when he handed them out during a lesson, the Herald Journal newspaper said Thursday. He removed the cards when they made students uncomfortable, the paper reported . Читать дальше...

Heads are rolling in Taiwan after officials were forced to recall an estimated 285 passports and trash 200,000 others after designers included an image of the Washington Dulles Airport, instead of the country's Taoyuan International Airport, on its books.

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Already winter-weary parts of the Midwest and East Coast are dealing with a mounting number of weather-related headaches, from highway pileups to frozen pipes and a rash of car thefts. And there's more to come. Bitter temperatures and snow squalls have been blamed for a handful of deaths and canceled a long list of New Year's celebrations. Icy roads in central Michigan caused more 30 crashes on highways near Flint on Friday morning. Coastal South Carolina saw a rare bout of freezing... Читать дальше...

Damian Dovarganes/AP

• President Donald Trump's campaign website had an Easter egg message hidden in its source code.
• It was a joke about Obama golfing. The code containing the message was deleted shortly after it was discovered. 
• Trump has spent 71 of his 346 days in office playing golf.

There has never been a president with the same passion for golf as Donald Trump. 

Since he became president, he's golfed on 71 separate days, according to a count by The Washington Post. Читать дальше...

Another year is coming to an end, and it’s a good time to review what’s happening at this site.

Salt is a journey through warmth and sharpness. This collection of poetry explores the realities of multiple identities, language, diasporic life & pain, the self, community, healing, celebration, and love.

OKLAHOMA – The Better Business Bureau of Central Oklahoma is warning fans to beware of suspicious websites when ordering sports apparel or other merchandise online. The BBB says they recently became aware of a website claiming to offer OU apparel – OUFootballStore.com. The website “clearly bears a resemblance to the Fanatics Retail Group website Fanatics.com, a legitimate retail website, and BBB Accredited Business, based out of Jacksonville Florida.” “From the poor grammar throughout the site’s pages... Читать дальше...

If you had the Lakers holding a team meeting before the end of 2017 on your BINGO card, you nailed it.

HotelTonight gives its list of top New Year's Eve destinations

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored a career-high 24 points in Kentucky's 90-61 win against Louisville.

DENVER (AP) — The Colorado Rockies added a significant piece to what's becoming a formidable and high-priced bullpen by agreeing to a three-year, $52 million contract with All-Star reliever Wade Davis. His deal includes a fourth-year player option that vests should Davis reach 30 games in 2020, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity Friday because the deal has not been announced. A 32-year-old right-hander, Davis will be in line... Читать дальше...

Airbus

• Airbus is trying to catch Boeing in the race to sell the most planes in 2017.
• Boeing has the lead with nearly 900 orders.
• This is the last hurrah for retiring Airbus sales chief John Leahy. 

Airbus is pulling out the stops to try and take the lead in its annual order contest with Boeing, lining up a spree of billion-dollar deals to close a traumatic year dominated by management upheaval and corruption investigations.

Deals announced... Читать дальше...

Ohio Congressman Tim Ryan explains how the United States Postal Service must be closely monitored in order to prevent transport of opioids. Following is a transcript of the video.

BOSTON (AP) — The Latest on a deep freeze across the country. (all times local): 3:15 p.m. The frigid conditions in Boston are taking their toll on the nation's fifth-largest transit system. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has spent heavily to winterize what's known as the "T'' since it was crippled by record-breaking snowfall in 2015. But the agency reported "severe delays" on one of its lines Friday, citing a broken piece of track and a disabled train among other problems. Keolis... Читать дальше...

BOSTON (AP) — The Latest on a deep freeze across the country. (all times local): 3:15 p.m. The frigid conditions in Boston are taking their toll on the nation's fifth-largest transit system. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has spent heavily to winterize what's known as the "T'' since it was crippled by record-breaking snowfall in 2015. But the agency reported "severe delays" on one of its lines Friday, citing a broken piece of track and a disabled train among other problems. Keolis... Читать дальше...

Golf and tweets. Golf and tweets. Repeat. President Donald Trump has been largely out of sight the last two weeks of the year, ensconced at his Florida golf resort where he has played his favorite game almost daily, out of sight of the cameras (mostly). But he's not out of mind. With a regular but limited series of tweets, and an impromptu interview with The New York Times, Trump has kept himself the center of attention, affecting stock prices, triggering a defensive response in Beijing, and... Читать дальше...

First came the winners: America’s largest corporations, calculating how a 14-point drop in the corporate tax rate would impact their bottom line. The answer: Favorably! Over the course of December, dozens of U.S. companies announced stock buybacks and dividend hikes, and a few went so far as to issue raises, bonuses, or promises of major capital investment.

Alex Shephard, The New Republic
For the first time since the dot-com bust, tech companies are running scared. Last year exposed the ease with which social media could be weaponized, as platforms once hailed as revolutionary for democracy became tools for spreading disinformation and hate speech—and even enabled foreign interference in the presidential election. And this year, it became a rare point of consensus among many Republicans and Democrats that tech companies were both destructive and possessed too much power. Читать дальше...

Arsenal desperately need a win to keep the pressure on the top four when we take on West Brom at the Hawthorns on Sunday afternoon. Here is the team I would like to see Arsene Wenger select…. Goalkeeper: Cech Cech isn’t the goalkeeper he once was but he’s still a lot better than David Ospina. Defence: Bellerin, Chambers, Mustafi, Kolasinac Can Koscielny play 3 intense games in 7 days with a dodgy Achilles? It seems like it’s a risk not worth taking ahead of the crucial Chelsea game on Wednesday night. Читать дальше...

Tennessee running back John Kelly won't return for his senior season in Knoxville

The other evening, the UK smut-rag Daily Mail took an odd departure from their usual articles on which celebrities are getting fat to attack a young intern at the White House, labeling him as a “white nationalist.” Why would they attack him, label him a white nationalist, and attempt to ruin this young man’s life? […]

LONDON – Liverpool's teenage forward Rhian Brewster said he has been the target of racial abuse while representing the Premier League club and England since the age of 12.

HOUSTON (AP) — The NFL and the players' union announced a series of changes Friday to the way potential concussions are handled during games following an ugly incident in which Texans quarterback Tom Savage was allowed to return to the field after a hit left him on the ground, arms shaking. Among the changes is the addition of an expert watching games from a central location with the authority to alert sideline medical teams to look into an incident. And if a player shows signs of a seizure or similar responses... Читать дальше...

HOUSTON (AP) — The NFL and the players' union announced a series of changes Friday to the way potential concussions are handled during games following an ugly incident in which Texans quarterback Tom Savage was allowed to return to the field after a hit left him on the ground, arms shaking. Among the changes is the addition of an expert watching games from a central location with the authority to alert sideline medical teams to look into an incident. And if a player shows signs of a seizure or similar responses... Читать дальше...