Новости за 18.07.2016

CHICAGO (AP) — A racially charged narrative has re-emerged in the U.S. due to fatal shootings of black men by white officers as well as the shooting deaths of eight officers in Texas and Louisiana. Castile, a 32-year-old school cafeteria supervisor, was driving in a St. Paul suburb with his girlfriend and her young daughter in the car when police pulled them over. The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension is investigating, while the federal Justice Department is staying on the sideline despite pleas from the governor and other officials. Читать дальше...

The two chains are implementing filtering technology that blocks customers using Wi-Fi from accessing porn sites, in response to a campaign by antipornography groups Enough is Enough and the National Center on Sexual Exploitation. ARM centers its business on intellectual property, especially in mobile computing, rather than chip manufacturing. Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk says he’s optimistic that a software update can improve his cars’ Autopilot system. Tesla has been working on changes since May... Читать дальше...

Based on the hilarious British sitcom, the film features most of the regulars, including Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley. Among some of the big names in the movie are Jon Hamm, Rebel Wilson and Dame Edna (wonder what she’ll be wearing). Jesse Eisenberg, Blake Lively, Kristen Stewart and Steve Carell are among the ensemble cast in Woody Allen’s latest film. In the 1930s, a young man from the Bronx moves to Hollywood, falls in love and then goes back to New York, where high society rules. The... Читать дальше...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — More Nevada students opted out of the state-mandated Common Core test this year compared to last year, when technical issues caused a system-wide meltdown that left most unable to finish the exam. Elementary and middle school students take the Smarter Balanced Assessment, which helps track the reading and math progress of each student and school in the country, the Las Vegas Sun (http://bit.ly/29OYrE8 ) reported. The unofficial leader of Nevada's opt-out movement, real estate agent John Eppolito... Читать дальше...

There are the familiar masterpieces that are brought out repeatedly, often with little sense of context, and the hidden gems that only see daylight on rare occasions. Music@Menlo, the estimable chamber festival that that began its 14th season Saturday evening, July 16, with a mostly first-rate concert in the Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton, promises some of each in the coming weeks. The Russian tradition forms the theme, and Artistic Directors David Finckel and Wu Han have planned... Читать дальше...

CLEVELAND (AP) — Republican officials reject request for roll call vote on rules, setting off uproar among delegates.

CLEVELAND (AP) — Delegates to the Republican National Convention approve rules of convention for a second time, again on voice vote.

CLEVELAND (AP) — Republican leaders hastily approved rules that will govern the Republican National Convention over loud objections from anti-Donald Trump delegates. The dissident delegates wanted to hold a state-by-state roll call vote on the rules. Instead, Rep. Steve Womack, who was chairing the proceedings, called a quick voice vote.

CLEVELAND (AP) — Chants of 'call the roll' and 'USA' roil floor of Republican National Convention after rules are adopted on voice vote.

A key argument Donald Trump makes in his presidential run is that he will keep America safe, both by fighting terrorism overseas and restoring law and order back home in the wake of a series of shootings against police. [...] Trump's comment Monday during an interview on "Fox & Friends," got out far ahead of what law-enforcement and security authorities have said about what may have motivated the man who shot and killed two police officers and one sheriff's deputy. [...] it is not associated... Читать дальше...

CELVELAND (AP) — Republican officials adopt rules by voice vote, setting off uproar at convention.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Donald Trump's gravity-defying hair has generated plenty of attention, but have you seen George Washington's? [...] he says it was once common for people to keep hair clippings from loved ones in "lockets, brooches, rings and pins."

SEWARD, Alaska (AP) — A mountain goat in Alaska jumped into the ocean to get away from crowds snapping its picture, and the animal drowned when it couldn't get back to land because of the crush of people on shore. In Alaska, troopers got a call about people harassing the goat and another about a large group following it onto the breakwater rocks.

(AP) — Given one last try, Boone County school board members have voted to cut employee pay and benefits following an ultimatum by the West Virginia state school board to overtake the county's education system. Boone County school officials have blamed their financial woes on a sudden, drastic decrease in property tax revenue from bankruptcies of major coal companies.

ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT — After inflicting heavy losses on weakened Afghan security forces a year ago, the Taliban under new leadership have been surprisingly slow to ramp up attacks at the midpoint of the traditional fighting season, senior American military officers said Sunday. Dunford said he found Afghan commanders and officials heartened by President Obama’s decisions to keep 8,400 U.S. troops in the country when he leaves office, more than previously planned, and to authorize more... Читать дальше...

Ohio State University, home of the Glenn College of Public Affairs, also wished the former senator, record-breaking aviator and combat pilot well. The John & Annie Glenn Historic Site of Glenn's boyhood home in New Concord, Ohio, marked the occasion Sunday.

3 Democrats, 3 Republicans in lieutenant governor primary A look at the six candidates vying for the Republican and Democratic nods in the Aug. 2 primary for Missouri lieutenant governor: POLITICAL PARTY: Bachelor's degree in public administration, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1979. State representative, 2000-2004; U.S. House of Representatives, 2005-2013. Wife, JoAnn Pierson, and three grown children. Bachelor's degree in secondary education, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1970. Master's degree in curriculum and instruction... Читать дальше...

Lake Tahoe will be the center of the celebrity world for a few days as dozens of legendary athletes, entertainers and, oddly, former Vice President Dan Quayle, descend on Edgewood Tahoe golf course for the American Century Championship.

A 42-minute video of Draymond Green's booking on misdemeanor assault charges has been released by the East Lansing (Mich.) Police Department.

Madeleine Peyroux brings Paris to the Symphony [...] the jazz singer is bringing Paris to Davies Symphony Hall, revisiting the songs she used to sing in the Latin Quarter — classics such as “La Vie en Rose” and “J’ai Deux Amours” — with the backing of the San Francisco Symphony. The Grammy Award-winning Peyroux, whose singing style often takes inspiration from greats like Billie Holiday and Patsy Cline, is working on a follow-up to her 2013 album, “The Blue Room.” Madeleine Peyroux and the San Francisco Symphony... Читать дальше...

The fairy tales made famous by the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm take a quick trip to midcentury American suburbia — the land of alcohol, adultery and Freudian analysis — in Anne Sexton’s 1971 collection “Transformations.” The chamber opera that the late Conrad Susa fashioned from Sexton’s material is a wondrous phantasmagoria of familiar material delivered with a knowing gloss. [...] because the distribution of roles is so determinedly egalitarian, it makes a perfect vehicle for the young singers of the Merola Opera Program.

Girlfly, a program created by San Francisco’s all-women aerial dance group Flyaway Productions, helps girls lift themselves up — literally and metaphorically. Each summer, the program takes a group of Bay Area girls ages 14 to 19 and spends a month teaching them aerial dance. Last year’s group investigated women’s contributions to their communities with a look at the Quesada Gardens Initiative, a resident-led engagement project in San Francisco’s Bayview district.

Film noir becomes theater noir at SF Playhouse She had the kind of face that a man could hang a dream on and a body that made the Venus de Milo look all thumbs. “City of Angels” features not one but two favorite masculine tropes of the genre: Bill English directs the Tony Award-winning musical, which has a book by Larry Gelbart, music by Cy Coleman and lyrics by David Zippel.

In Naomi Wallace’s play, which is in its West Coast premiere at Stanford Repertory Theater, factory workers say things like, “Unsheathe from your scabbard, you scoundrel, you fleabane, you scabrous snake.” There’s an intoxicating rhythm to Wallace’s wild language, even as characters stand under the heads of carcasses in the slaughterhouse where they work, even when they talk about things like “the crust over a wound.” In this, the festival’s first play, intra-union resentments mingle with race... Читать дальше...

Someone had to explain that you get transported to a virtual Poke-world only when there are digital monsters called Pokemon nearby. [...] you see the world through a digital map, similar to Google's or Apple's. The game turns into a virtual tour guide, as it forces me to notice little sights along my daily route, ones I've been too preoccupied to see until now — probably because my eyes were glued to my phone. [...] our midtown Manhattan office has a lot of weird little plaques and markers nearby... Читать дальше...