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Watch! Facebook's video platform similar to youtube going to compete with YouTube video platform. Earlier today, Facebook introduced its new video platform, Watch. Over the past few years, Facebook was in a real competition with YouTube, yet the Google's platform still ahead. 

The new Watch platform of the social network to watch shows, and apparently is trying to compete with YouTube.
  When you visit Facebook, the intention of Mark Zuckerberg is that you never have to leave the social network to interact or entertain yourself with images and video. But there are still many reasons to visit other services, and that is especially the case with the video. So this week Facebook launched Watch.

Watch is Facebook's new platform to watch shows on desktop, mobile, or Facebook TV applications. These programs can be any type of videos, which form episodes and can be live or prerecorded. They can follow a topic or an argument, and there is a great emphasis on interaction as you observe, so comments and reactions form an essential part of Watch's experience.

To help Facebook users keep track of programs they like, there will be a follow-up list. And as you'd expect, Facebook intends to customize what you see based on what your friends are seeing, as well as what is most talked about and what is making people laugh more at a given time.

Facebook sees Watch as the way to offer a broad range of online content, which allows celebrities to create their own series and broadcast live video, and even major sports broadcasts. Although not specifically mentioned, the fact that Facebook is emphasizing episodes and series suggests that Watch could become a destination for new commercial television shows.

Watch looks like Facebook's response to YouTube. It wants users to post original content, building followers, asking for feedback, sharing and generating feedback. Add to that live streaming, an open door for business partners, and plenty of potential for new advertising (creators can even monetize their shows through ads), and you actually have another YouTube, only this version requires an account of Facebook to access.

You Can Now Explore The Insides Of The International Space Station On Google Street View. Wouldn't it be awesome to look inside the life of a space traveler in space? 

On the off chance that you've at any point needed to investigate within a spaceship, you're in luckiness. You will most likely be unable to travel to the International Space Station and skim through its innards, yet now you can, at any rate, make due with a virtual visit. 


Google Street View has included the ISS as an explorable point, giving you a chance to encounter NASA space travelers' home far from home with your own particular eyes, appropriate from your own PC. 

With Street View, you can look at everything from the resting chambers to the space suit vault, the observatory, and the sky is the limit from there. What's more, through it all, the visit has checked information directs you can click toward reading an explainer of what you're taking a gander at. 

Obviously, the 360-degree photographs couldn't be gathered utilizing Google Street Views normal strategies i.e. their auto or rucksack mounted camera setup. Rather, Google worked with NASA and the Marshall Space Center to rather devise a without gravity strategy to gather the photographs, utilizing DSLRs and other hardware effectively accessible on board. The pictures were then arranged and communicate sensibly, where the Google group sewed them together to frame scenes. 

You Can Now Explore The Insides Of The International Space Station On Google Street View

"We did a great deal of investigating before gathering the last symbolism that you see today in Street View. The ISS has specialized hardware on all surfaces, with heaps of links and a mind boggling format with modules shooting off every which way—left, appropriate, up, down," ESA space traveler Thomas Pesquet composed on Google's blog." 


There is a considerable measure of deterrents up there, and we had constrained time to catch the symbolism, so we must be sure that our approach would work. Gracious, and there's that entire zero gravity thing."

The demonstration was full of people with posters and festive clothing dancing along the streets of Kalorama neighborhood in Washington DC, but it was a neighbor who took the full attention of the cameras.

Hundreds of LGBT people gathered last Saturday in Washington DC around the luxurious home of Donald Trump 's daughter Ivanka to protest her father's policies on climate change.

On the march, demonstrators marched and danced with posters, flashy clothes and music in a festive atmosphere along the streets of the affluent Kalorama neighborhood. However, it was another person who grabbed all eyes: the cameras focused on a smiling neighbor who left her house to enjoy the demonstration wearing a fur coat and a glass of wine in her hand.

After being photographed, the Network was immediately filled with messages that referred to this woman - identified as Dianne Bruce by New York Magazine - and her unusual appearance. "Aesthetic goals: Ivanka Trump's neighbor drinking wine with a fur coat while the protest unfolds," wrote a Twitter user.

"The neighbor who watches the LGBT protest in front of Ivanka Trump's house while drinking white wine is definitely invited to the gay brunch," another message reads.

Despite the success of the call, it is not clear whether Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner were at home at the time of the protest.

A few weeks ago, it came to light that the couple's neighbors were not very happy with their presence in the neighborhood - which also now live the Obama - as the security measures that surround them have disrupted their daily lives.

The four causes for the US to intervene in the Great European War. The causes of the entrance of the United States in World War I in 1917 were varied, emphasizing:

The German policy of re-attacking with submarines and without warning American ships. The most fragrant case of ship sinking occurred in 1915 when a German submarine fired torpedoes without warning the RMS Lusitania, a British ship engaged in passenger transport.

As a result of the attack, which took place off the Irish coast, 1198 people perished, many of them American, since the ship was on the New York-Liverpool route. The public protests in the United States were very active and, as a result, the Germans decided to stop the attacks in 1916.

But the rudiments never was forgotten, and it weighed in the spirit of the Americans to support two years later the entrance in the war against Germany.


Despite the high rejection of that German policy in 1917 Berlin publicly announced that the attacks would continue but this time they would focus on merchant ships. Behind this policy was the belief that Great Britain would capitulate if they managed to isolate it from supplies that came from the United States. This decision would lead to the rupture of diplomatic relations between the two nations on February 3.

The economic interests of the United States with the allied countries, especially Great Britain but also France.

Also influenced by the news in the American media about alleged cruel behavior by the German army, which predisposed the population to go to war on the side of the Allies.

Finally, highlight the play in the case by the Zimmerman telegram. By resuming submarine attacks on US merchants, the German government believed that it could lead to American entry into the war on the side of the Allies.

Faced with this eventuality, the Berlin government considered as a good idea that in that case, Mexico attacked the US to open a new front.

To this end, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Germany Arthur Zimmerman sent a telegram to his ambassadors in Washington DC and Mexico City, directing them to seek an agreement with Mexico for this country to attack the United States. In exchange, Germany promised substantial economic compensation and the return to Mexico of the territories lost during the Mexican-American War of the mid -nineteenth century (Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and part of California).

When the offer to Mexico to the government of Venustiano Carranza is made, he responds very politely that he is not interested since the plan has neither feet nor head. But meanwhile, the telegram had been detected and deciphered by the British during its transmission to the United States by a smooth line.

But as the British did not want to acknowledge that they had violated the secrecy of communications from a telegram sent to the US or that they had the ability to decipher the German codes they invented the story that they had succeeded in stealing an already translated copy of the telegram sent to Mexico by line commercial.

When the American press published the telegram in early March public opinion was definitely inclined to favor a possible entry into the war against Germany. Finally, the 4 of April of 1917 takes place the entrance of United States in World War I.

What did Americans think of the United States' entry into World War I?

The causes of the First World War were very different from the Europeans and the Americans. In these circumstances, a large number of Americans favored neutrality at the outbreak of the Great War, but with the passage of time and the succession of events, especially after the collapse of Lusitania, public opinion was for intervention. The side of the allies.

It can be said that no one supported the war on the German-Austrian side, not even the descendants of German immigrants who made up a good number of Americans. This group, as well as the descendants of the Scandinavian immigrants, were for nonintervention.

Although they were not the only ones, highlighting in that position the Irish-Americans who opposed to having like allies in a war to the British and also a good part of the feminist movement was for nonintervention.

The measure, according to the government, is due to the high number of applications accumulated in recent years, and that in some cases delays exceed 240 days.

The US government announced Friday that it will temporarily suspend priority processing of H-1B visa petitions for foreign professionals. "This suspension can last up to six months," the Office of Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said in a statement.

"As long as priority processing of H-1B petitions is suspended, petitioners will not be able to file Form I-907," an essential requirement to handle the document, he adds.

Form I-907 is to ask the USCIS to prioritize the processing of the I-129 Petition for Nonimmigrant Worker in exchange for payment of an additional fee.

USCIS said the temporary suspension of the priority processing program "will help reduce the total processing time of H-1B requests" while allowing it to process requests that have been pending for a long time due to the high volume of requests. Applications.

He added that he will also be able to prioritize the award of H-1B status extension cases that are close to reaching the 240-day limit.

H1B visas to become harder to get as Donald Trump starts the crackdown.

Who will affect

The federal agency said the temporary suspension applies to all requests for H-1B visas filed on or after April 3, 2017, when the window for the receipt of applications for the 2018 fiscal year visa quota is opened.

The measure will impact not only regular H-1B visa applications but also foreign graduates with a master's degree obtained from a US university, as well as petitions that are exempt from the annual fee.

USCIS has warned that it will reject all Forms I-907 submitted after April 3, as well as checks sent in conjunction with I-129 petitions (Petition for Nonimmigrant Worker) combined with Form I-907.

As for the I-907 forms submitted and received before April 3, USCIS said that "we will continue the priority prosecution" of those cases.

USCIS has ensured that temporary suspension of H-1B expedited procedures will not affect "other eligible nonimmigrant classifications filed through Form I-129." And although priority processing is suspended, normal procedures remain in effect if they meet the criteria of the H-1B visa program.

Under Scrutiny

In April 2016 the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) said that the H-1B visa program should not remain "limited" and asked Congress to adjust it to market demand taking into account business needs.

"When demand is greater than supply, all we are doing is creating obstacles to economic growth," the entity warned.

He also called on the legislature on that occasion to reform the program "in a way that responds to the needs of US companies, US workers, and our economy."

A year later, on February 2, Univision News reported that an internal White House document proposes that President Donald Trump reviews all regulations allowing foreigners to work in the United States, including the H-1B visa program.

The filtered recommendation, dated January 23, is accompanied by a proposed executive order entitled 'Job Protection for Americans by Strengthening the Integrity of Visa Programs for Foreign Workers.'

The possible executive order offers a 90-day deadline for the DHS secretary to "review all regulations authorizing foreigners to work in the US," and determine which immigration laws are against the national interest, so that Are eliminated.

In fact, the memorandum accompanying the proposed decree links immigration with the loss of jobs or salary power of some US workers.

If approved, the DHS chief would also have 18 months to file a report that states "any kind of harm done to US workers by employing foreign workers admitted under current visa programs."

Who uses the H-1B

The H-1B visa is used mainly by high-tech industry employees and is intended for international professionals with a university degree who perform specialized work requiring theoretical or technical knowledge.

The list of professionals includes scientists, engineers, journalists and computer programmers, among others.

Before the financial crisis of 2008, high-tech companies complained about this system and pointed out that the quota allocated by Congress was insufficient, to the point that between 2004 and 2007 the quota was exhausted within a few hours of opening the window for Receipt of applications.

In 2007 the window was open less than 24 hours. In 2016, on the fifth day of receipt of applications, the USCIS announced the closure of the window after the quota was exceeded.

During fiscal years 2001 to 2004, Congress authorized to extend the quota of 65,000 to 195,000 visas. But on September 30, 2004, this was reduced to the original amount of 65,000.

The quota was expanded in response to requests made by the American Information Technology Association (ITAA), among which are companies such as Microsoft, Oracle and Sun Microsystems.

But the same companies that lobbied Congress to increase the quota did not want to sponsor new applications for permits for foreign experts, one reason the legislature chose not to extend the temporary extension from 2005.

The H1B visa program was created by Congress in 1990.

Additional Fee

At the end of 2004, Congress debated an additional 20,000 visas for foreign graduates or a master's degree in the United States. The project came into force in 2005.

The expansion of the quota was made in response to requests from companies that require this type of permits.

In 2006 the companies of the sector went to the Senate and asked to include the H-1B visa in the debates on the immigration reform.

The H-1B visa program states that US employers must pay foreign workers the prevailing salary according to their field of work.

They must also demonstrate that qualified Americans are not being marginalized to hold the position or position they hold abroad.

The regulation requires that the foreign employee hired has at least a university degree or its equivalent.

On March 16, 2016, the USCIS had noted problems with expeditiously processing H-1B visa applications due to the receipt of "historic levels" of applications.

Katy Perry joins Sheeran and Radiohead for Glastonbury

Festival whose grill exceeds 80 artists is famous for the rainy weather and muddy terrain attended by thousands of people every year.
American pop singer Katy Perry will join artists like Ed Sheeran, Radiohead and Foo Fighters at this year's Glastonbury Festival, a massive outdoor music event in southwestern England.

Organizers presented on Thursday the list of artists who will participate in the festival, which will take place from 21 to 25 June, with a mix of singers, bands, and genres.

Among those who will perform this year include the British grime artist - a genre derived from rap, among others - Stormy, hip hop star Dizzee Rascal, R & B singer Emeli Sande and Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees.

Rock bands Radiohead and Foo Fighters had already announced their participation, as well as singer Sheeran.

Lord Solange, along with Toots and the Maytals, also joined the more than 80 artists named in the event poster, famous for the rainy weather and muddy terrain attended by thousands of people every year.

"I can not wait to see them and hopefully catch a cold, haha," Perry wrote on his Instagram account about his involvement.

The 2016 edition of the festival, which lasts five days and is organized in the county of Somerset, was attended by Adele and Coldplay.

American pop singer Katy Perry will join the likes of Ed Sheeran, Radiohead and the Foo Fighters to perform at this year’s Glastonbury festival, a huge green-field music event held in the countryside in southwest England.

"A unique find all over the world": Australian aborigines have kept a secret for years, but researchers have learned this: "Australia's own Jurassic Park" the researchers call the surprising discovery they have made in a remote coastal region.

Paleontologist Steve Salisbury and his team from the University of Queensland and James Cook University discovered thousands of large footprints of 21 different dinosaur species - some of which are the largest known traces of first creatures and up to 1.70 meters long.     

In the 140-million-year-old rock in West Australia, the footprints of stegosaurs are also found, which have not been known to have lived in Australia today.

Salisbury speaks of a "world-wide unique find," scientists around the world are in bright excitement. The Aboriginal people there, however, knew very long from the tracks.

It was only when the coastal region was selected for a massive liquefied petroleum gas processing plant that the native inhabitants were forced to report on the spectacular location. "We wanted to let the world know what is at stake here," says the chairman of the Goolarabooloo in a statement. 

They informed the paleontologist Salisbury, who then, with his team, examined the imprints. In 2011, the area was declared a National Heritage Site. Two years later, in 2013, the gas project was stopped. 

The researchers were then able to investigate the traces - for 400 hours. Their results have now been published in the specialist magazine of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. The tracks extend over a length of 25 kilometers.

Here you can see a video of "Australia's Jurassic Park":

Aboriginal DNA study reveals 50,000-year story of sacred ties to the land. 
A meteorite impact of about 66 million years ago was due to the disappearance of the dinosaurs. So the vast opinion. But what would have happened if the meteorites had not existed? Would the dinosaurs have ruled the earth for millions of more years? Probably not, because as a team of researchers from the universities of Reading and Bristol found out, the extinction of the dinos had begun long before the natural catastrophe. The meteorite gave them only the rest.

The paleontologists Manabu Sakamoto, Chris Venditti and Michael Benton, have studied the common history of the dinosaurs and have now published their results in the science magazine "PNAS". By a massive data set on hundreds of different dinosaur groups, the scientists analyzed the speed at which new species of dinosaurs formed and died out. 

Microsoft bot developers can now use new cognitive services and Bing APIs. Same applies for Bing bots developers. 

Microsoft surprised during the last Build with its Bot Framework. Those of Redmond consider that the future of the interaction from our smartphone will not be the apps, but the bots. In this way, the company allowed developers to create bots that can be used in multiple messaging services such as Skype, Slack, Telegram and Facebook Messenger. In fact, in Skype, we can try many of them.

The Bot Framework development team works on improving it steadily, adding new features for both developers and bot users. Yesterday, the company presented a significant update that further opens up the possibilities of the developers when creating the bots, providing them with a new set of cognitive and Bing service APIs.

To begin with, Microsoft has given them access to the Cognitive Services Computer Vision API, which basically allows developers to have their bots describe images. Also, they incorporate Speech APIs and Bing Image Search to the Bot Framework, which is the same API used by Cortana for speech recognition.

The Search Image API allows a bot to search for images in Bing. If the input method is a text, it will search the images based on the metadata and the context of the web where it is as usual in the search engine; If we introduce an image, it will look for similar images.

To begin with, Microsoft has given them access to the Cognitive Services Computer Vision API, which basically allows developers to have their bots describe images. Also, they incorporate Speech APIs and Bing Image Search to the Bot Framework, which is the same API used by Cortana for speech recognition.

The Search Image API allows a bot to search for images in Bing. If the input method is a text, it will search the images based on the metadata and the context of the web where it is as usual in the search engine; If we introduce an image, it will look for similar images.

Google, Alphabet Inc.'s main revenue engine, announced that it will change its advertising policies after several major brands removed ads from the platform because they appeared alongside offensive content, such as videos promoting terrorism or anti-Semitism.

The US company said in a blog entry that it would give advertisers more control over where their ads appear on YouTube, the video sharing service they own, and on the Google Display Network, which posts ads on third-party websites and Next to the results of the search engines.

The announcement came after the British government and the Guardian newspaper stepped up pressure on YouTube to watch the content on its platform, removing ads from the video site because they appeared alongside clips they deemed inappropriate.

The decision to withdraw the ads from Google came after an investigation by the Times of London, which revealed that ads from many large companies and the UK government appeared alongside content from people such as white nationalist David Duke and the pastor Steven Anderson, who praised the killing of 49 people in a gay nightclub.

Ronan Harris, chief executive of Google in the UK, said in the blog post that last year Google eliminated nearly 2 billion offensive ads from its platforms and also blacklisted 100,000 publishers of the AdSense program company. Despite this, Harris wrote on the blog, "we do not always do it right."

He said Google heard "loud and clear from its advertisers that we can offer simpler and more forceful ways to prevent their ads from appearing alongside contentious content."

The company will now review its policies and said it would make changes "in the coming weeks" to prevent customer ads from appearing on objectionable web sites or next to offensive videos, Harris said.

The ads appeared "alongside hateful and extremist videos," prompting Guardian News & Media to stop advertising through Google, the parent company of YouTube, the British publisher said in an e-mailed statement Friday. The UK government said it has suspended advertising on YouTube until the site can guarantee that it will not be placed next to content it does not approve.

"Google is responsible for ensuring that the high standards applied to government advertising are met and that ads do not appear alongside inappropriate content," the UK government said in an e-mailed statement. "We have set a temporary restriction on our YouTube advertising spending the assurances from Google that government messages can be distributed in a secure and appropriate manner."

The boycott reveals a growing adverse reaction against the so-called programmatic trade, which automates the buying and selling of online advertising, and against social media providers who are accused of not striving hard enough to deal with hatred scattered on their platforms.

Last year brought the realization that the network, as it was built in the last decade, has reached such a boiling point that returns have begun to decline in some areas. Not in the economic, but in the fundamental pillar on which the web was built: the content.

In recent years we had seen the Internet systematically failed to waves of cyber attacks against governments or corporations (famous cases of Sony or the intervention of Russia in the last US elections ). The network was not built with security in mind, and it is disheartening to hear renowned experts claim that we do not know what to do with the growing insecurity of the network. The other great failure that was brewing since the Arab Spring in 2011 was the rise of radicalism and the use of the network against everything that embodies the system, with Daesh leading the way using the platforms created by the West to recruit believers to help wreck it. And here the failure has not only been great but has ended up threatening the establishment itself.

 If anything, have demonstrated campaigns Brexit and Donald Trump in 2016 has been that in the era of so - called post-truth (one twist to the propaganda of life). The greatest instrument of knowledge created by the Humanity has become a tool at the service of the most shameless ignorance and misinformation. And has done so without asking permission or forgiveness, using to its benefit all the weapons that Internet giants have created in the last decade.

For years, the so - called bubble filter is a reality that we all experience to great Internet services (from Google to Amazon to Facebook or Twitter) because they use algorithms to "help" to consume content or products of our interest customizing our Results. It is an instrument that is supposed to benefit us but ultimately serves to reinforce beliefs or ideas or see us exposed to a reductionist version of reality. Elements of which the radicalism is fed in a systematic way.

If giants like Google, Facebook or Twitter are victims of the abuse of a few, in their hand and in their obligation is to stop their efforts.
And that is the problem. The "dominant forms of social organization" of which we spoke of Cluetrain Manifesto in 1999 also apply -oh, surprise or radical extremist groups, sometimes by a large force. We have had to make it to the 21st century for a handful of undocumented immigrants to make vaccines a public danger based on conspiracy theories of an asylum. Or that there are traditionally democratic countries that make difficult-to-understand decisions influenced by all kinds of scams reinforced - or directly disseminated - through social networks. Just compare Obama's campaign in 2008 and Trump's in 2016 to realize that we are going in the opposite direction to that set by the most elemental rules of logic.

The realistic techno manifesto already anticipated this in '98 began stating that technologies are not neutral: if we create a network of universal access through open and free protocols can not expect that in this extraordinary landscape does not grow weeds. He went on to say that the Internet is revolutionary, but not utopian: "as it grows, it will resemble society as a whole."

The enlightened, cosmopolitan, somewhat idealistic and, to deny it - absolutely naive, we thought that the Internet was an instrument that automatically improved society by putting enormous amounts of knowledge and data within reach of all. We are wrong, not because this contribution is not valid, but because societies are the ones who decide if they improve and use those instruments for their benefit or their detriment.

Probably these facts say more negative things of the nations that have perpetrated them than of the technologies that have used for it. But the question persists: if giants like Google, Facebook or Twitter are victims of the abuse of a few, in their hand and in their obligation is to stop their efforts. That, or risk that the whole speech of progress embodied in the Silicon Valley is simply unmasked as a supreme exercise of business hypocrisy.

"I Will Survive" against Donald Trump!! Emma Stone, Natalie Portman, Amy Adams, and More Oscar Hopefuls Perform "I Will Survive." Next Friday, January 20, Donald J. Trump will be sworn in. Many Hollywood figures were open supporters of the Democrat side.

The United States elections of 2016 proved to be the rarest in history, with allegations of ethical misconduct and official mail leaks. However, a constant during the campaigns of Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump was the support of many prominent Hollywood figures to the Democratic Party.

21 Hollywood actors sing "I Will Survive" against Donald Trump

Emma Stone, Natalie Portman, Matthew McConaughey and more stars were summoned by W Magazine to sing one of the most suggestive themes on the occasion of the arrival of the new president.

21 Hollywood stars were asked by the magazine W Magazine to sing the song "I Will Survive" as a symbol of the arrival of the new US president, Donald Trump.

According to the publication, the reason is quite clear: "While the song has long been interpreted through a conscious social lens, it is the kind of hymn that we need more than ever with the taking of possession over us. With the imminent arrival of Donald Trump to the presidency. I will survive ".


Emma Stone, Natalie Portman, Matthew McConaughey, Andrew Garfield, Felicity Jones, Dakota Fanning, Amy Adams, Chris Pine, Hailee Steinfeld, Taraji P. Henson, Michelle Williams, Greta Gerwig and Mahershala Ali. They all are some of the protagonists of the video in which They appear reciting, singing or what occurs to them with the song.

After the surprise victory of Trump, many actors have felt confronted by the president-elect and have even set a position of open opposition that in a week will be the 45th. President of the American Union.

Celebs Sing 'I Will Survive' Ahead of Trump Inauguration

W Magazine released a promotional video of its Best Performance edition where 21 actors such as Emma Stone, Natalie Portman, Matthew McConaughey, Andrew Garfield and Felicity Jones interpret a different version of the hymn to the Resistance in the adversities of Gloria Gaynor, "I will survive."

Next Friday, January 20, Donald J. Trump will take the oath and have had trouble attracting celebrities who want to be present on his Inauguration Day.

Golden globes awards: On Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017 the 74th Golden Globe Awards were held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel and the biggest stars in film and television showed up looking shiny and sharp. 

In spite of the revolution that has meant the arrival of Netflix, the primary driver of the era of Peak TV, transforming the consumption habits of millions of viewers and business that has increased its number of subscribers at a speed of vertigo, television awards They had not yet, to a great measure, rewarded any of their own productions. Neither the Golden Globes nor the Emmys. Yes, there had been awards for their performers, such as Kevin Spacey and Robin Wright, who won the Golden Globe for Best Actor and Drama Actress in 2013, or Uzo Aduba, who won the award for Best Comedy Secondary in the Emmys Of 2015. But never so far one of its series had won in the prestigious categories of better drama or better comedy.

Golden Globe Awards honored the best in film and American television of 2016 and was broadcast live on January 8, 2017 from The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California 5:00 p.m. PST / 8:00 p.m. EST by NBC.

It has been The Crown, a series created by Peter Morgan about the life of Isabel II, which has achieved the feat. Fiction, outstanding in the atmosphere and interpretations and the management of humanity of his characters in the context of political chicanery, has built a show between believable scenes while lifted up his protagonists, establishing itself as one The West Wing monarchist. This is a decidedly British series, both in style and, of course. The actor, and "British invasion" sure to be one of the most repeated holders of these Golden Globes. 
(in addition to The Crown and it's protagonist. Claire Foy, have also won three actors of the Night Manager. In a category in which it seemed that American Crime Story was going to take everything).

The debutante Stranger Things, the big television phenomenon last year, has followed the same path as Game of Thrones, being consistently ignored and disappointing to fans of Winona Ryder.
But in fact, the affiliation of the Golden Globes by the British fiction and in particular by the period dramas comes from afar. Just remember that Downton Abbey has been awarded three times at the Golden Globes, while Game of Thrones has only won once (and that each opine what seems to this fact). This year the series based on the novels of George RR Martin has returned to be without the prize, confirming once again that the Golden Globes do not award the series by its popularity. Unlike.

The debutante Stranger Things, the big television phenomenon last year, has followed the same path as Game of Thrones, being consistently ignored and disappointing to fans of Winona Ryder. For many, this was the great Netflix candidate to win awards, but in the end has been a series with a modest impact as The Crown which has achieved the award for Ted Sarandos. The other big loser of the night was HBO, as a victory of Westworld would have served to give a boost to a series that aims to be the new star of cable channel (and happen in a way to Game of Thrones ). The series' second defeat and its protagonist, Evan Rachel Wood, takes HBO to cross the fingers for the Emmys to see the set of the futuristic park with better eyes. Nor The Night Of that could have started any award in the category of limited series and TV movies. It has won awards at a difficult time for HBO, which began last year with the failure of his big bet, Vinyl. Prompting to an internal crisis and the dismissal of Michael Lombardo, head of programming of the last decade at a time of forced international expansion of its video-on-demand service (including our country) to slow the progress of Netflix in different territories.

As if that were not enough, one of HBO's biggest rivals in the US cable channel market, FX, has been the one to take the laurels in the other two broad categories. The award for the best limited series or TV- movie, which has been for American Crime Story, and the prize for best comedy, with the victory of Atlanta and its creator and star Donald Glover. The latter, with a marked biographical character, is the perfect example of the virtues that can have prizes such as the Golden Globes, which always try to surprise with their winners and distance themselves from the Emmys. This will have led in the past to be the first to reward series like Homeland, The Affair or Transparent, and this time has again hit recognizing the work of a comedy writer who manages to make something as complicated as explaining what being Black in the United States and also do it with humility. However, in his attempt to disassociate the Golden Globes are also able to give incomprehensible awards, such as that led Billy Bob Thornton for his role in Goliath. Not only it is far from being one of their best work, but the actor had already won an award for Fargo while other nominees as Matthew Rhys, the magnificent consistently The Americans, still unrewarded.

See the full list of film and TV stars who won big at the Golden Globe Awards 2017. Golden Globes 2017: Watch Andrew Garfield Give Ex-girlfriend Emma Stone a Lovely Tribute [Updated]. 

The musical comedy gets seven nominations. 'Moonlight,' 'Lion' and 'Manchester facing the sea' compete for drama category.  Emma Stone Andrew Garfield 

Hollywood has fallen surrendered at the feet of Los Angeles, or at least of an idealized version of the own city of a musical comedy. La La Land, the film Damien Chazelle that is both a tribute to the music, Hollywood and the city, won nominations in all the main categories of the Golden Globes, the awards granted by the Association of Foreign Press Hollywood (HFPA). La La Land (The Star City) got seven nominations, including best film comedy or musical, direction, and your main characters, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone.

This selection confirms the predictions of critics on the impact of La La Land. : In the main categories, two other titles backed several awards granted these days various critics associations are also selected Moonlight and Manchester facing the sea.
Golden Globes Nominees 2017: 'The La Land' is emerging as a favorite

The division that makes these awards between drama and comedy allows practically double rewards. Thus, the award for best drama is played Lion, Moonlight and Manchester beachfront three titles lauded by critics, with even the last man and Comancheria; while La La Land competes with films like Deadpool, Sing Street, 20th Century Women and Florence Foster Jenkins, who have not had the same impact on Hollywood.

This is because, even without awards, the Chilean Pablo Larrain year, which is competing with an American movie (Jackie) and another Chilean (Neruda). Natalie Portman is a finalist for Jackie, in which she plays the widow of President John F. Kennedy. And Neruda -winner the Phoenix better Latinoamericana- the film has entered the foreign film category, which is also the French Divines and Elle, the German Toni Erdmann, the winner Saturday at the European film awards, and the Iranian the journeyman. Among the absentees, are neither surprised Silence of Martin Scorsese, or Sully, Clint Eastwood.

These nominations are the first significant reference to know where the Oscars can go in late February. So far, the industry has only come together to deliver the awards of social criticism. La La Land eight awards were. The awards were interpreting for Natalie Portman by Jackie and Casey Affleck for Manchester by the sea.

 Golden Globe delivers the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, a club of international journalists, of whom 90 are active. This year's awards, number 74, will be given at the traditional dinner on January 8 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. The master of ceremonies this year will be Jimmy Fallon, host of the classic variety show The Tonight Show on NBC, which contrasted with crude and offensive humor British Ricky Gervais in the last gala.

This is the complete list of nominees in the film categories:

Best Dramatic Film

Hacksaw Ridge (To the last man)

Hell or High Water (Comanchería)

Lion

Manchester facing the sea

Moonlight
Best Comedy or Musical Film

20th Century Women

Deadpool

Florence Foster Jenkins

La Land

Sing Street
Best Director

Damien Chazelle, La La Land

Tom Ford, Nocturnal Animals

Mel Gibson, Hacksaw Ridge

Barry Jenkins, Moonlight

Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester waterfront
Best actor in comedy or musical

Colin Farrell, The Lobster (Lobster)

Ryan Gosling, La La Land

Hugh Grant, Florence Foster Jenkins

Jonah Hill, War Dogs (Game of Arms)

Ryan Reynolds Deadpool

Best Actor in Dramatic Film

Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea (Manchester beachfront)

Joel Edgerton, Loving

Andrew Garfield, Hacksaw Ridge (Until the last man)

Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic

Denzel Washington, Fences

Best actress in comedy or musical

Annette Bening, 20th Century Women

Lily Collins, Rules Do not Apply

Hailee Steinfeld, The Edge of Seventeen

Emma Stone, La La Land

Meryl Streep, Florence Foster Jenkins

Best actress in dramatic film

Amy Adams, Arrival (Arrival)

Jessica Chastian, Miss Sloane

Ruth Negga, Loving

Natalie Portman, Jackie

Isabelle Huppert, Elle

Best supporting actor

Mahershala Ali, Moonlight

Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water (Comancheria)

Simon Helberg, Florence Foster Jenkins

Dev Patel, Lion

Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Nocturnal Animals (nocturnal)
Best Supporting Actress

Viola Davis, Fences

Naomie Harris, Moonlight

Nicole Kidman, Lion

Octavia Spencer, Hidden Figures (Figures hidden)

Michelle Williams, Manchester by the Sea (Manchester beachfront)

Best Soundtrack

Moonlight

La Land

Arrival

Lion

Hidden Figures

Best Screenplay

Damien Chazelle, La La Land

Tom Ford, Nocturnal Animals (nocturnal)

Barry Jenkins, Moonlight

Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea (Manchester beachfront)

Taylor Sheridan, Hell or High Water (to a man)

Best Foreign Language Film

Divines

Elle

Neruda

The Salesman

Tony Erdmann
TV

In the TV categories, the extraordinary miniseries about the OJ Simpson trial that swept the Emmy seems the favorite for repeat win at the Golden Globes this year. Mozart in the Jungle, Veep, and Transparent again dispute the category of best comedy, with the Mexican Gael García Bernal nominated again for his role in Mozart in the Jungle. This is the complete list of nominees on television:

Best actor in a miniseries or television movie

Riz Ahmed, The Night Of

Bryan Cranston, All the Way

John Turturro, The Night Of

Tom Hiddleston, Night Manager

Courtney B. Vance, People v. OJ Simpson

Best actress in miniseries or television movie

Felicity Huffman, American Crime

Riley Keough, The Girlfriend Experience

Sarah Paulson, People v. OJ Simpson

Charlotte Rampling, London Spy

Kerry Washington, Confirmation

Best Supporting Actress in Television

Olivia Colman, The Night Manager

Lena Headey, Game of Thrones

Chrissy Metz, This Is Us

Mandy Moore, This Is Us

Thandie Newton, Westworld

Best Supporting Actor in Television

Sterling K. Brown, The People v. OJ Simpson: American Crime Story

Hugh Laurie, The Night Manager

John Lithgow, The Crown

Christian Slater, Mr. Robot

John Travolta, The People v. OJ Simpson: American Crime Story

Best miniseries or film for television

American Crime

The Dresser

The Night Manager

The Night Of

The People vs. OJ Simpson

Best actress in a comedy or musical television series

Rachel Bloom, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep

Sarah Jessica Parker, Divorce

Issa Rae, Insecure

Gina Rodriguez, Jane the Virgin

Tracee Ellis Ross, Black-ish

Best television series in comedy

Atlanta

Black sh

Mozart in the Jungle

Transparent

Veep

Best actor in television comedy or musical

Anthony Anderson, Black-ish

Gael Garcia Bernal, Mozart in the Jungle

Donald Glover, Atlanta

Nick Nolte, Graves

Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent

Best actress in dramatic television

Caitriona Balfe Outlander

Claire Foy, The Crown

Keri Russell The Americans

Winona Ryder, Stranger Things

Evan Rachel Wood, Westworld

Best actor in dramatic television

Rami Malek, Mr. Robot

Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul

Matthew Rhys, The Americans

Liev Schreiber, Ray Donovan

Billy Bob Thornton, Goliath

Best Drama TV Series

The Crown, Netflix

Game of Thrones, HBO

Stranger Things, Netflix

This Is Us, NBC


Westworld, HBO

The 74th Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel. 

The dance of La La Land. The city of stars and began at breakneck speed. At the Film Festival, where it premiered, the music of Damien Chazelle received an enthusiastic reception. Emma Stone, also, took the Volpi Cup for the best actress. The nominations for the Golden Globes, the film faces as favorite, reinforced the aspirations of this declaration of love for cinema, dreams and Los Angeles signed by the director of the already successful Whiplash. And while many place it as the work to beat in the next Oscars, La La Land. The Star City prepares for its theatrical release of much of the world. 
A Spain will arrive on January 13, but here anticipate an exclusive film advance under the notes of the theme City of Stars, nominated for Golden Globe for best song.

"The movie starts like everything in Los Angeles: on the highway," the official synopsis begins. There is unleashed the first, extraordinary musical moment of the film. And there Sebastian (Ryan Gosling) meets Mia (Stone), both dreamers imprisoned in their anodyne lives. "Both are focused on the usual hopes the city offers. Sebastian tries to convince people in the XXI century that you like traditional jazz and Mia just wants to finish for once proof casting without the interrupted with 'thanks for coming'. Neither of them hopes that their unexpected encounter will lead them along a path that they could never have traveled alone, "added the synopsis.

Chazelle himself had long dreamed of filming that movie. The Jazz enthusiast, and former student of the conservatory, the filmmaker had debuted just a musical, Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench. Now he takes up the genre with renewed ambitions and almost unanimous consensus, both for the film, for its cast and soundtrack.

Breakthrough Prize Ceremony 2017: Scientists Changing the World. Breakthrough Prize celebrates achievements in science with a star-studded ceremony. At the fifth annual Breakthrough Prize ceremony last night, 14 scientists received a total of $25 million in science prizes for fundamental contributions to human knowledge.

This year’s winners include five molecular biologists who won $3 million each for work in genetics and cell biology, one mathematician, a trio of string theorists who split one $3 million physics prize, and another 1,015 physicists working on the LIGO gravitational wave detector split a special $3 million physics prize. In addition, there were six smaller “New Horizons” prizes totaling $600,000 for 10 “early career” researchers, and a pair of high school students won $400,000 apiece for making science videos.
The Breakthrough Prize was founded in 2012 and is financed by Silicon Valley billionaires such as Milner, Google’s Sergey Brin and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg.

One of the prizes was already announced earlier this year. The physicists behind the LIGO experiment, which revealed the first detection of Einstein’s long-sought gravitational waves in February, will share the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in fundamental physics. Of that, $1 million will be split between three of LIGO’s founders: Ronald Drever and Kip Thorne at the California Institute of Technology, and Rainer Weiss at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The other $2 million will be equally split between 1012 contributors to the experiment.

Another $3 million prize in fundamental physics will be split between three physicists. Joseph Polchinski at the University of California, Santa Barbara, was recognised for his theories of what happens at the event horizons of black holes, and Andrew Strominger and Cumrun Vafa at Harvard University were honoured for contributions to quantum gravity and string theory.

In addition to the big $3 million prizes, there were six $100,000 New Horizons prizes – half in physics and half in mathematics. The young physics winners are: Asimina Arvanitaki of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Ontario, Canada; Peter Graham of Stanford and Surjeet Rajendran of the University of California, Berkeley, who split one prize; Simone Giombi of Princeton and Xi Yin of Harvard split another prize; and Frans Pretorius of Princeton.

In mathematics, the New Horizons winners were Mohammed Abouzaid of Columbia University; Hugo Duminil-Copin of the University of Geneva; and Benjamin Elias of the University of Oregon and Geordie Williamson of Kyoto University.

“If a few kids in a high school will get inspired by those incredible people, I think this effort is worth pursuing,” he says. “I think it’s really about the priorities of society: where we should put more resources in, and where the smartest people should go. If we can reach even half the audience of the Super Bowl globally, that would be amazing. But that’s a high bar.”

The richest awards in science were handed out Sunday night when the Breakthrough Prize organization presented a total of $21.9 million to physicists, mathematicians, life scientists and one talented high school student. The awards take the form of seven $3 million awards, one of which was split among roughly 1,300 physicists; $500,000 split among eight early-career researchers; and $400,000 to a high school student for creating a video communicating a scientific concept.

the fifth annual Breakthrough Prize awards
the fifth annual Breakthrough Prize ceremony. The event aims to shine a spotlight on scientists who are at the cutting edge of breakthrough discoveries. 
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World AIDS Day is observed December 1 every year to raise the awareness in the fight against HIV. The theme for World AIDS Day 2016 is Hands Up for #HIVPrevention. The United Nations' (UN) World AIDS Day, focuses on issues surrounding HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) and AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome).

On World Aids Day 2016 We Aim to Ending the AIDS epidemic

Hands up for HIV Prevention! this is the theme for World AIDS Day 2016.

Nearly 15 years ago, South Africa’s Constitutional Court faced a monumental decision: whether or not to provide HIV-positive pregnant women and their babies with treatment to protect the infants from contracting the virus from their mothers during birth. 
South African researchers and leaders are hard at work developing and delivering innovations that could turn the tide on HIV and also make significant gains against tuberculosis (TB), which is the most common illness South Africans with HIV develop.

The innovations we develop here at home will inevitably benefit people across the globe. Even now, while South Africa is the epicentre of both the HIV epidemic and the most exciting HIV research, other countries, including our neighbors, are benefiting from the same tools and strategies that have been core to our own progress.

Investing in innovation for HIV and TB will support South Africa beyond these epidemics as well. By building strong scientific and research capacity, we’ll have the opportunity to establish ourselves as a global leader in health and development.

Ultimately, the next generation of South Africans will be ready to develop and deliver solutions to the biggest scientific problems we don’t yet know about.

The next phase of the global response against HIV and TB is unfolding, and the world needs leadership committed to innovation for positive impact. We know South Africa is up for the challenge.

“Ever since AIDS, I believe our primary posture as a community has been indignation, and we just won’t be denied anymore,” Peter Staley, the AIDS and gay rights activist, said in an interview. “We really felt like we were being slowly slaughtered, and the country was just standing by and letting it happen. And once we realized if we came together and pushed back, we actually had real power and knew how to wield it, there was just no turning back.”

If the successful Global Plan was Act I, Start Free, Stay Free, AIDS Free is Act II. Launched over the summer, this effort builds on the successes of the past five years, while setting an ambitious new framework to end AIDS in children, adolescents and young women once and for all. This one-two punch, with continued support and funding, stands to change the trajectory of the epidemic in just a generation. We must build on the incredible progress we’ve made over the past several years and commit to achieving what would be one of the greatest public health achievements of our lifetime: ending AIDS in children, while supporting the ultimate goal of wiping out AIDS entirely.

Immunotherapy shows promise

The research is similar to the immunotherapy being done in the field of cancer. The technique uses proteins — antibodies — to attack cancer cells.

“When you think about oncology and cancer therapy with these immune-based therapies, what people are doing now in that field is to try to boost the immune system to eliminate the cancer cells. The problem of eliminating the HIV hideout is similar. You want to eliminate the cells that harbor the virus, and by making the immune system more active, in finding and eliminating those cells,” Tebas explained.

Researchers found that the antibodies suppressed the HIV virus for 21 days. The goal is to find a combination of antibodies that can suppress the virus for six months to a year. Then people infected with HIV will no longer have to take medicine every day for the rest of their lives.
A new trial using two antibodies should start in the next couple of months. 

World AIDS Day 2016 being observed in Bangladesh

Bangladesh has been observing World Aids Day to raise awareness of HIV and AIDS. Bangladeshi women and children from "Dhanmondi, Dhaka" a rehabilitation center for victims of sex trafficking, arranged to light candles on the eve of World AIDS Day in Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 1, 2016. Its amazing to see so much fundraising going on for #WorldAIDSDay already across the country!

Many volunteers organize art or slogan competitions, allowing students to show their creativity and promote awareness of HIV/AIDS. The winners are often displayed after World AIDS Day to educate people year-round.

World AIDS Day is a day dedicated to commemorate those who have passed on and to raise awareness about AIDS and the global spread of the HIV virus.

In addition to events to raise awareness, Peace Corps volunteers work with their communities to educate people about HIV/AIDS including transmission, prevention methods and testing. Many volunteers work with groups to raise nutrition levels, generate income and provide support for people living with HIV/AIDS.

Know About World Aids Day

The first World AIDS Day was held in 1988 after health ministers from around the world met in London, England and agreed to such a day as a way of highlighting the enormity of the AIDS pandemic and nations’ responsibility to ensure universal treatment, care and support for people living with HIV and AIDS.  

What is the red ribbon?

The red ribbon, as an awareness ribbon colored red, is used as the symbol for the prevention of illegal drug use and drunk driving and also solidarity of people living with HIV/AIDS.

What are the red ribbons on the X factor about?

It is also noteworthy that ITV allow its talent to wear AIDS ribbons during the World AIDS Day and the lead up period, with X-Factor judges sporting the iconic red ribbon this year.

What is the meaning of the red ribbon?

The red ribbon is internationally recognized as a symbol of the struggle around HIV/AIDS. It is a symbol of solidarity and a commitment to the fight against HIV/AIDS. Red Ribbon Week is an alcohol, tobacco and other drug and violence prevention awareness campaign observed annually in October in the United States usually held on the last full week of October.



The theme for World AIDS Day 2016 is Hands Up for #HIV Prevention.

Here is a brief report from ITV News on, World Aids Day 2016 

World AIDS Day, December 1, which also launches the start of Aboriginal AIDS Awareness Week in Canada, is a time for reflection: on what we have achieved with regard to the national and global response to HIV, WAD Imageand what we still must achieve.
For nearly three decades every December 1, we’ve heard about the tragedy of AIDS. Activists the world over put a spotlight on the AIDS virus on this day. They encourage testing and distribute leaflets with information on HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, including how it spreads and how to keep from getting it. The United Nations Secretariat Building in New York is lighted with the red AIDS ribbon.

AIDS has killed 35 million people since the start of the pandemic. It’s left millions of orphans in its wake. Every year, 2 million people acquire the virus, and the U.N. estimates that more than 1 million people die from the virus annually.

Still, a lot has happened since the first World AIDS Day in 1988. Countries in which the topic was once taboo now offer testing and treatment. Mothers with HIV can have healthy babies and live to raise them. Drugs can keep the virus from spreading. More than 18 million people are on lifesaving anti-retroviral drugs that keep HIV in check. And now, scientists are talking about vaccines and a cure.

People around the world are gathering today to recognize World AIDS Day and help raise awareness about the disease. Hands Up for #HIVPrevention!