Новости за 30.03.2018

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says it is trying to find out what President Donald Trump meant when he made remarks linking the recently renegotiated South Korea-U.S. free trade agreement with talks on denuclearizing North Korea. South Korean President Moon Jae-in's office said Friday that it is working through various channels to find out the President Trump's intentions following his speech in Ohio. On Thursday Trump said he may hold up the free trade deal until after an agreement is reached with North Korea. Читать дальше...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Scientists haven't rendered a verdict on whether coffee is good or bad for you but a California judge has. He says coffee sellers in the state should have to post cancer warnings. The culprit is a chemical produced in the bean roasting process that is a known carcinogen and has been at the heart of an eight-year legal struggle between a tiny nonprofit group and Big Coffee. The Council for Education and Research on Toxics wanted the coffee industry to remove acrylamide from its processing ... Читать дальше...

Opening Day is one of few games equally meaningful to lifelong fans and first-timers at the ballpark. It's a moment, more than anything else.

WA Current Conditions as of 11:00 PM PDT Thursday, March 29, 2018 _____ City/Town;Weather Condition;Temp (F);Wind Direction;Wind Speed (MPH);Humidity (%) Arlington;Cloudy;46;N;7;93% Bellingham;Cloudy;48;S;8;86% Bremerton;Cloudy;47;SW;5;91% Chehalis;Cloudy;46;Calm;0;97% Deer Park;Cloudy;47;SW;9;60% Eastsound;Cloudy;48;SSW;10;87% Ellensburg;Partly cloudy;46;WNW;9;65% Ephrata;Mostly cloudy;53;W;16;48% Everett;Cloudy;47;N;5;95% Fort Lewis;Partly cloudy;46;S;7;100% Friday Harbor;Cloudy;47;N;7;86% Hoquiam;Cloudy;48;W;6;86%... Читать дальше...

'Magic and Miracles: 100 Years of Moving Imaging Science and Technology' comes from the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) and is a highly recommended (4 star) hard cover reference book is full of visual technology history.

Ugly Boys have it going on. Gorgeous vocal harmonies and a captivating melody make 'Old News' a definite winner.

'The Golden Shore' dishes up a sweet coalescence of sound with that of space.

I really like 'Preaching to the Choir.' It is mainstream pop in flavor and color, but different and refreshing.

'Swan and Wolf' is one of those albums defined as starkly scrumptious, dreamy, and haunting.

BEIJING (AP) — Huawei Technology Ltd., the Chinese maker of smartphones and telecom equipment, said Friday its profit rose 28.1 percent in 2017, boosted by strong enterprise and consumer sales. Huawei said it earned 47.5 billion yuan ($7.6 billion) for the year, a marked improvement over the previous year, when profit rose just 0.4 percent due to higher spending on research and marketing. Total revenue rose 15.7 percent over 2016 to 603.6 billion yuan ($96.2 billion). The company headquartered in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen is the No.

Shares rose in Asia on Friday after technology and consumer-focused stocks led an overnight rally on Wall Street, marking a dramatic end to the market's most volatile quarter in more than two years. Many regional markets were closed for Good Friday. KEEPING SCORE: Japan's Nikkei 225 index added 1.1 percent to 21,391.47 and the Kospi in South Korea climbed 0.8 percent to 2,455.35. The Shanghai Composite index edged 0.1 percent higher to 3,163.95 and shares rose in Taiwan and Thailand. WALL STREET'S SURGE... Читать дальше...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles judge has determined that coffee companies must carry an ominous cancer warning label because of a chemical produced in the roasting process. Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle said Wednesday that Starbucks and other companies failed to show that benefits from drinking coffee outweighed any risks. He ruled in an earlier phase of trial that companies hadn't shown the threat from the chemical was insignificant. The Council for Education and Research on Toxics, a nonprofit group... Читать дальше...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles judge has determined that coffee companies must carry an ominous cancer warning label because of a chemical produced in the roasting process. Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle said Wednesday that Starbucks and other companies failed to show that the threat from the chemical was insignificant. The Council for Education and Research on Toxics, a nonprofit group, sued Starbucks and about 90 other companies under a state law that requires warnings on a wide range of chemicals that can cause cancer. Читать дальше...

HONOLULU (AP) — The Latest on Hawaii lawmakers voting on doctor-assisted suicide (all times local): 3 p.m. A Hawaii cancer patient says he's grateful state lawmakers passed legislation legalizing medically assisted suicide. John Radcliffe was given a terminal diagnosis after doctors discovered colon cancer that metastasized and spread to his liver. The state Senate passed the legislation Thursday, which was already approved by the House. Gov. David Ige says he will sign it. Hawaii would be the latest... Читать дальше...

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii lawmakers approved legislation Thursday that would make it the latest liberal-leaning state to legalize medically assisted suicide. The all-Democratic state Senate voted 23-2 to pass the measure that has already cleared the House. It allows doctors to fulfill requests from terminally ill patients for prescription medication that will allow them to die. The governor has said he will sign the bill, which would make Hawaii the sixth state to legalize the practice, plus Washington... Читать дальше...

The Wenatchee World, owned for 111 years by the Woods family, has been sold to Arizona-based Wick Communications, a sale announced Thursday to employees of the newspaper.

The Wenatchee World, owned for 111 years by the Woods family, has been sold to Arizona-based Wick Communications, a sale announced Thursday to employees of the newspaper.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles judge ruled that California law requires coffee companies to carry an ominous cancer warning label because of a chemical produced in the roasting process. Superior Court Judge Elihu Berle wrote in a proposed ruling Wednesday that Starbucks and other coffee companies failed to show that the threat from the chemical was insignificant. The Council for Education and Research on Toxics, a nonprofit group, sued Starbucks and about 90 other companies, including grocery stores and retail shops... Читать дальше...

A political donnybrook is shaping up in the Inland Empire.

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii lawmakers approved legislation Thursday that would make it the latest liberal-leaning state to legalize medically assisted suicide. The state Senate voted 23-2 to pass the measure that has already cleared the House. It allows doctors to fulfill requests from terminally ill patients for prescription medication that will allow them to die. The governor has said he will sign the bill, which would make Hawaii the sixth state to legalize the practice, plus Washington, D.C. The legislation... Читать дальше...

HONOLULU (AP) — The Latest on Hawaii lawmakers voting on doctor-assisted suicide (all times local): 12:55 p.m. Hawaii lawmakers have approved medically assisted suicide. The state Senate passed the measure Thursday that has already cleared the House. The legislation allows doctors to fulfill requests from terminally ill patients for prescription medication that will allow them to die. The governor has said he will sign the measure. Hawaii would be the latest liberal-leaning state to allow the practice once the bill becomes law. Читать дальше...

HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii lawmakers approve medically assisted suicide that's legal in 5 states and Washington, D.C.; governor to sign bill.

DETROIT (AP) — Electric car maker Tesla is recalling 123,000 sedans worldwide to fix a problem with the power-assisted steering. The recall covers all Model S sedans built before April of 2016. Five bolts holding the power steering motor in place can corrode and either come loose or break, possibly causing a loss of power steering. Manual steering would still work. Tesla says the problem happens infrequently in places where salt is used to clear snow and ice from roads. It's recalling all the cars even in warm-weather states just in case. Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — The new director of the top U.S. public health agency on Thursday pledged to work to bring the nation's opioid epidemic "to its knees" and said he believes the AIDS epidemic could be ended in three to seven years. Dr. Robert Redfield Jr. made the comments at a staff meeting of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Redfield started the job Monday, less than a week after U.S. officials announced they were appointing him the CDC director. The 66-year-old rose to... Читать дальше...