Новости за 30.12.2016

[...] it will be exactly one second late. On Dec. 31, 2016, the international time keeping community will tack an additional second, known as a leap second, on to the last minute of the year. [...] they are decreed by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service, or IERS, in Paris, which measures the Earth’s rotation and compares it with the time kept by atomic clocks. Today, however, scientists keep track of it by aiming a network of radio telescopes at a distant quasar. Duncan Agnew... Читать дальше...

Sigma Nu's Delta Xi Chapter on Thursday requested a hearing in front of the Student Conduct Board, which investigates violations of school rules, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported (http://on.rgj.com/2ipxv06). The school ordered the suspension on Dec. 19 after investigating what happened in the hours before the freshman student fell down a basement staircase. In addition to underage drinking, the Office of Student Conduct's probe revealed allegations of marijuana use and topless dancers at a pledging... Читать дальше...

(AP) — Harvard graduate students who are trying to unionize say the university wrongly prevented hundreds from voting in a union election. The Harvard Graduate Students Union filed objections Thursday with the National Labor Relations Board over the November election, which will decide if Harvard's graduate student workers will be represented by the United Auto Workers union.

Fans lined up all week for a last bite at the restaurant, which got a star turn in Woody Allen’s 1984 film “Broadway Danny Rose” and remained a stop until the end for out-of-towners looking for the classic New York deli experience. Aside from the long lines out on the sidewalk (and unusually high prices), the place screams old New York, from its vintage neon sign, to the items on the menu: slices of cheesecake, knishes, tongue and chopped liver, and a $30 reuben. Another patron dining in the final days... Читать дальше...

Access to valuable information before others is key in the opaque market — and social media plays a growing role. Collectors including commodities trader Andy Hall and hedge fund manager Dan Sundheim are on Instagram. Korean pop star T.O.P., who often posts art images to his 6.3 million Instagram followers, was a curator for Sotheby’s successful contemporary art auction in Hong Kong in October. The Menlo Park network, now owned by Facebook, was created in 2010 as a mobile app for sharing photos and videos. Читать дальше...

Twitter killed Vine back in October, but the six-second video platform legacy lies in a new crop of global superstars like Cameron Dallas, whose life is chronicled in a new Netflix reality series. The ending to Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij’s enigmatic sci-fi series still has viewers talking weeks after the show was released, proving that Netflix’s season-dump release strategy can still make for water-cooler television. Netflix’s sprawling, beautiful period drama starring Claire Foy as Queen... Читать дальше...

In an interview with Collider, the actor who played the diabolical Orson Krennic said many scenes were shot in different ways. “Rogue One,” which follows Jyn Erso (Jones) on a journey to steal her father’s plans for the Death Star, has made $375 million at the domestic box office since its Dec. 16 release date, making it the third-biggest North American release of 2016. Disney and Lucasfilm’s “Star Wars” spinoff features a cast that includes Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Donnie Yen, Mads Mikkelsen and Riz Ahmed.

Both supported Hillary Clinton, while the majority of the ship's crew voted for President-elect Donald Trump, said Runge, an aviation electronics technician on the aircraft carrier. [...] Runge said the ship's leadership kept the crew united and focused on the mission at hand, which included launching air strikes against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria. "[...] a conversation about (the election) wasn't going to split us," said Wright, who voted for Trump in part because of the candidate's... Читать дальше...

As driverless cars get closer to becoming a reality, they’re also about to have an unintended consequence: an organ shortage. A Slate piece Friday notes that as computers start taking the wheel of our vehicles, cars will become safer, and in turn, fewer people will die in car crashes. While on the surface that seems like

(AP) — A liberal arts college in eastern Pennsylvania is seeking approval to build a $75 million science center. The Express-Times reports (http://bit.ly/2iNiu4A ) the proposal from Lafayette College will have its first public review next week.

“The strength of these women live so vibrantly in you,” Bruce Bozzi wrote to the “Scream Queens” star about the passing of her famous mom... Billie Lourd got a public bear hug Thursday from her stepfather, Bruce Bozzi, in tribute to her mom, Carrie Fisher, and grandmother, Debbie Reynolds. Bozzi, who married Lourd’s father, Bryan Lourd, in October, posted an earnest message on Instagram, remembering the day Lourd graduated from NYU, and the pride and laughter that followed. Yankee Stadium your mom and I laughed our asses off... Читать дальше...

The case involved a woman, a sophomore, who had met a player on Stanford's powerhouse football team at a fraternity party one Saturday night. They went back to her room where, she said, he raped her. He said they had consensual sex.

The cast of “Doctor Who” all chipped in and got you your best TV ratings of 2016. “Doctor Who” Christmas special “The Return of Doctor Mysterio” on December 25 has now delivered 1.7 million total viewers, including three days worth of delayed tune-in.

Tycho heads into new year as Grammy nominee Tycho, the brainchild of producer and graphic designer Scott Hansen, closed out 2016 with a bang. The ambient electronic music act performed in the middle of a storm at the Treasure Island Music Festival; released its fifth album, “Epoch”; and picked up a Grammy nomination in the best dance/electronic music album category. Tycho kicks off the new year with a world tour that begins on Saturday, Jan. 7, at the Fox Theater in Oakland, with an itinerary that will take Hansen through Japan... Читать дальше...

(AP) — The top issue for Mississippi's Legislature when it returns Tuesday is education funding, but Republican leaders' plans remain to be seen. [...] any changes would result in losses for some districts and gains for others unless lawmakers find money to increase total spending. The formula calculates a cost per student, and then "adds on" more money for programs the state pays for on a cost basis, such as special education. In public comments, lawmakers remain focused on their concern that spending on administration ... Читать дальше...

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A North Carolina judge is temporarily blocking a new Republican-backed law that strips the incoming Democratic governor of his control over election boards just before he takes office. North Carolina's incoming Democratic governor has sued over a new law passed by Republican legislators to limit his powers as he prepares to take office. The lawsuit says the Republican-led legislature's radical changes two weeks ago to the administration of election laws are unconstitutional because they violate separation of powers.

‘Sister Wives': Kody, Meri Reach an Emotion Breakthrough in Therapy (Exclusive Video) The TLC reality show stars’ therapist seems pretty pleased with the mature decision to let the woman who catfished Meri just fade away into obscurity, instead of fighting back. Read original story ‘Sister Wives': Kody, Meri Reach an Emotion Breakthrough in Therapy (Exclusive Video) At TheWrap

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Trump on Twitter praises Russian president Putin for holding off on retaliatory actions, calls him 'very smart'

The back-to-back deaths of Carrie Fisher and her mother, Debbie Reynolds, have prompted HBO to move up the premiere of the new documentary about their relationship, “Bright Lights,” to Saturday, Jan. 7, the network announced Friday, Dec. 30. [...] HBO will rebroadcast the film of Fisher’s hit one-woman show “Wishful Drinking” on Sunday, Jan. 1, at 9 p.m. Pacific time. “Bright Lights” received a warm reception at the Cannes and Telluride film festivals, among others, and was filmed in 2015, when Reynolds still had a Las Vegas act.

The brightly colored female bird named Fern was spotted Tuesday in the rafters of a Yorba Linda auto repair shop. A service adviser made calls to animal experts including Omar's Exotic Birds, which dispatched an employee who captured Fern.

Vagittarius Rising: The feminist “fake band duo” from Berlin opens the Fresh Exchanges with Dis[rupt]-co-theque, which interrogates the concert as form. 7:30 p.m. Free, donations appreciated. Red Poppy Art House, S.F. http://redpoppyarthouse.org Quiet Lightning: A live “literary mixtape” performed by more than a dozen Bay Area authors on the steps of the Montgomery Street BART Station. 4:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Market Street between Montgomery and Sansome streets... Читать дальше...

The Dons (11-3) went 17-for-23 from the floor in building a 51-28 halftime lead. USF’s Chase Foster made four foul shots over the next 15 seconds to seal the win. “I thought we played extremely well in the first half and needed just about all of that 23-point lead,” USF head coach Kyle Smith said. Eric Mika had 19 points and nine rebounds as the host Cougars (10-4) rolled over the Broncos in a WCC opener. In another WCC opener, Nigel Williams-Goss and Przemek Karnowski each scored 16 points as... Читать дальше...

TheWrap magazine: “I wanted to express the pain and the oppression and the dehumanizing of a people,” says Oscar-winning songwriter A version of this story first appeared in the Nominations Preview issue of TheWrap’s Oscar magazine. Two years after winning the Oscar with John Legend for “Glory” from Ava DuVernay’s “Selma,” Common (né Lonnie Lynn) has written a song for a DuVernay’s new movie, a documentary that traces the oppression of African Americans from slavery to today’s mass incarceration of young black men. Читать дальше...