Новости за 05.07.2016

Ralph Pini, the company’s chief operating officer and general manager for devices, said the Classic has long surpassed the average life span for a smartphone in today’s market. The BlackBerry Classic hit the market in December 2014, offering customers a 3.5-inch screen, which was 60 percent larger than the previous BlackBerry Bold 9900, with longer battery life and a standard keyboard and touch-screen. BlackBerry has faced calls to stop making cell phones in favor of focusing on its burgeoning software business... Читать дальше...

A sober look at post-war Poland, from a woman’s angle Set in the aftermath of World War II, it’s the story of Mathilde (Lou de Laage), a young French doctor working for the Red Cross in Poland, who comes upon a convent with many pregnant nuns — victims of rape by the victorious Soviet Army. The Soviet Army is still controlling the area, and the possibility of further assaults remains. The capacity of French cinema to keep producing actresses that radiate gravity and maturity at a young age has always been astonishing... Читать дальше...

Philadelphia's main transit agency is looking to lease equipment from other states after sidelining 120 regional rail cars due to structural problems. The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority says cracks were discovered Friday in beams in the suspension system on its fleet of Hyundai Rotem-made Silverliner V rail coaches. At least one other transit authority in the United States has begun inspecting some of its rail cars after Philadelphia's main transit agency pulled 120 of a similar model out of service. Читать дальше...

Tesla Motors Inc. fell after the electric-car maker missed second-quarter forecast for global deliveries and lowered its full-year outlook, citing an “extreme” increase in output in the period’s final month. Deliveries of 14,370 vehicles trailed a projection of about 17,000, after an “extreme production ramp” came too late in the quarter to get the cars to their buyers, Tesla said Sunday. “Tesla’s ongoing difficulty in managing launch and production of its vehicles reinforces our concerns around... Читать дальше...

FBI Director James Comey's announcement Tuesday that he will not refer criminal charges to the Justice Department against Clinton spared her from prosecution and a devastating political predicament. [...] it left much of her account in tatters and may have aggravated questions of trust swirling around her Democratic presidential candidacy. A look at Clinton's claims since questions about her email practices as secretary of state surfaced and how they compare with facts established in the FBI probe... Читать дальше...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Hillary Clinton is coming to Atlantic City to bash Donald Trump's handling of his former gambling empire, but striking casino workers say their beef is with a different billionaire. Local 54 of the Unite-HERE union went on strike Friday against the Trump Taj Mahal casino, which bears the name of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee but now belongs to his friend Carl Icahn. According to a statement from her campaign, Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee... Читать дальше...

Abbott Laboratories said its Absorb cardiac stent, designed to hold open heart arteries for three years and then slowly dissolve back into the body, won Food and Drug Administration approval, making it the first device of its kind on the U.S. market. The biodegradable plastic stent had in March received the backing of an FDA advisory panel of doctors and academics, which said the benefits of the product outweigh its risk and recommended the approval in a 9-0 vote, with one abstention. The device... Читать дальше...

A day after making the biggest possible splash of free agency by reaching a contract agreement with seven-time All-Star Kevin Durant, the Warriors on Tuesday continued trying to make waves by canvassing the market for minimum-contract bargains. Considering all goes as planned with Durant and center Zaza Pachulia, who agreed to a one-year, $2.9 million deal, when the NBA moratorium ends Thursday, the Warriors will have 11 players locked up and will have to fill out the final three or four roster spots with minimum contracts. Читать дальше...

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is defending his management of Atlantic City's Trump Taj Mahal casino, which is in the fifth day of a strike by unionized workers. [...] striking workers say their beef is with Icahn, not with the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. According to a statement from her campaign, Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, intends on Wednesday to highlight Trump's management of Atlantic City casinos in the 1980s and '90s, including three bankruptcy filings under his reign.

Snyder spokeswoman Anna Heaton says Tuesday that the "payments are necessary for the long-term financial stability of the retirement system teachers rely on for health care benefits." The state appeals court ruled last month that initial salary deductions were improper.

In “Schooled,” the San Francisco Mime Troupe argues that the purpose of education is to build citizens, to prepare young adults to make informed decisions in their civic life. The company’s free summer show of its 57th season also makes a compelling case that art is foundational to a healthy democracy. In “Schooled,” the evil corporation is Learning Academy of Virtual Achievement, or LAVA, which seeks to “spread” to Eleanor Roosevelt High School. The set for all this bravado is, if anything, even... Читать дальше...

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Just a few years ago, Islam al-Bayed spent seven months in an Israeli prison for allegedly throwing stones at Israeli troops. [...] the 26-year-old Palestinian man has become an unlikely symbol of tolerance after rescuing an Israeli family whose car crashed following a deadly roadside shooting by Palestinian militants in the West Bank. Israel has responded by imposing a closure around the city of Hebron and beefed up its troop presence in the volatile area. [...] al-Bayed... Читать дальше...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Irvin Mayfield has officially resigned as artistic director of New Orleans Jazz Orchestra. NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune reports (http://bit.ly/29jAFQd ) the Grammy-winning musician has been under scrutiny for the mingling of orchestra finances with money from the charity supporting the city's library system.

Palatial dimensions, sleek finishes, spacious terraces and peerless views await inside this five-bedroom penthouse in Telegraph Hill. Located in San Francisco’s northeastern corner, the luxury listing basks in bay views and natural light. Shops, boutiques and dining options are found in close proximity to the residence set near North Beach, Fisherman’s Wharf and Russian Hill. The living room’s grand scale, wet bar and outdoor access makes it a natural for entertaining, while an elevator accessing all levels provides additional convenience. Читать дальше...

While Americans have fiercely debated how to respond to the massacre last month at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., Brazilians have been confronting their own epidemic of antigay violence — one that, by some counts, has earned Brazil the ignominious ranking of the world’s deadliest place for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people. “And these numbers represent only the tip of the iceberg of violence and bloodshed,” said Eduardo Michels, the group’s data manager, adding that the Brazilian... Читать дальше...

ROME — Italian police have detained a homeless man in the death of a 19-year-old American student whose body was found in the Tiber River in Rome two days after his credit card had been used in Milan. The Italian news agency ANSA said preliminary autopsy results indicated that Solomon had suffered injuries consistent with a fall and with days spent in the water. Solomon had just completed his first year as a personal finance major at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Comcast is going to add Netflix to its X1 set-top boxes in the latest deal to blur the lines separating cable TV from Internet video services. The arrangement announced Tuesday signals an apparent truce between two companies that have been antagonistic toward each other in recent years as they publicly bickered how much each side should pay for delivering Netflix's video to the Comcast's Internet subscribers. [...] Comcast and most other cable providers also sell high-speed Internet services that are still growing... Читать дальше...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — President Barack Obama says there's never been any man or woman more qualified to be president than Hillary Clinton.

The death of an American college student who was studying in Rome underscores the importance of safety guidance issued by universities to young people who venture overseas. The University of Wisconsin's website, while touting John Cabot's location "in the heart of Rome," offers prospective overseas students safety tips ranging from how to prevent sexually transmitted diseases to how to access U.S. government resources in a foreign country. NAFSA has long pressed for policies to expand the number... Читать дальше...

"To me that was a relief," MacCausland said. Because I know if it wasn't they'd come looking for me. The money was returned to the unnamed man after police determined he was the rightful owner.

Because of its complexities and ambiguities, Shostakovich’s life defies biography. Laurel E. Fay begins her 2000 study, “Shostakovich: A Life,” by conceding that the evidence she relied upon was often incomplete, inaccurate or contradictory and calling an earlier Russian biography “a minefield of misinformation and misrepresentation, incorrect dates and facts, errors of every stripe.” Authenticity was at issue in Julian Barnes’ breakthrough novel, “Flaubert’s Parrot” (1984), in which, trying to track down the avian model for a Flaubert story... Читать дальше...

Didn’t those first benighted listeners manage to enjoy the music without the wisdom dispensed by a self-appointed priesthood of expert connoisseurs? [...] don’t critics have a professional incentive to mystify their subjects in order to justify the necessity of their explanations? [...] even if critics do not play such an exalted or essential role, they can plausibly aspire to the more modest ambition of deepening the pleasure and understanding of nonexperts in some artistic domain. Gioia opens... Читать дальше...

Allison Amend’s fourth book of fiction, “Enchanted Islands,” follows two mismatched American spies to the Galapagos Islands in the 1930s. Amend draws her dramatic depiction of passion, betrayal, murder and survival from the memoirs of Frances Conway, published in 1947 and 1952. The novel’s evocative language and robust pacing turn this improbable story into a fascinating rumination on identity, friendship and love. Each character is drawn with nuance and Franny is eminently appealing — smart, witty, modest, inventive, brave and lonely. Читать дальше...

Sit tight and cherish this gem of a conspiracy theory: That Nike pushed Kevin Durant to sign with the Warriors so that they could loosen Under Amour's hold on the Bay Area.

If you’re going to write a novel that ostensibly has baseball as a major part of it, you’re going to want to make sure you do two things. [...] baseball has to be an irreplaceable part of the story, such that you couldn’t slot in any other sport, passion or pursuit, and have the novel be the same. The baseball people will find their ardor revved up, but what’s even more important is the second going concern, and that’s rendering this story such that the non-baseball people will never feel lost... Читать дальше...