Новости за 30.07.2017

AMHERST, Mass. (AP) — UMass-Amherst is hoping to save nearly $2 million in annual energy costs under a three-year agreement signed with the utility Eversource. The non-binding memorandum of understanding runs through the first half of 2020 and includes a tentative list of campus projects in which Eversource will participate as an energy adviser. It's the second such agreement between the university and the utility. UMass and Eversource are currently working together on campus improvements including additional LED upgrades... Читать дальше...

“Insecure” has some great characters and some not so great — there’s levels to this. Given all the drama that happened in Season 1, we’ve ranked the characters from our most favorite to the ones we don’t care for much. Molly (Yvonne Orji) Molly clearly has some issues she needs to work out for herself, but she’s still a ride or die friend. Molly is the best friend everyone wants but doesn’t deserve.   Frieda (Lisa Joyce) Frieda is the sweetest person ever. Even though she may be a little... Читать дальше...

Political events in the Bay Area Aug. 8 Town hall: Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, will host a town hall at 6 p.m. at the Rancho Cotate High School, 5450 Snyder Lane, Rohnert Park. Aug. 9 Nuclear weapons march: A rally and march to commemorate the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and to call for nonviolent action. Читать дальше...

BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Montana U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte will work off his sentence for assaulting a reporter by volunteering for an organization that builds custom wheelchairs for children. The Republican was ordered to perform 40 hours of community service as part of his sentence for attacking Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs the day before Gianforte was elected in the May 25 special congressional election. Gallatin County Court Services director Steve Ette says the congressman will work with ROC Wheels, a Bozeman nonprofit organization. Читать дальше...

With their wide releases coming next weekend, Annapurna’s “Detroit” and Paramount/Participant Media’s “An Inconvenient Sequel” made limited releases in New York and Los Angeles this weekend to big numbers at a very busy indie box office. “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power,” the follow-up documentary to Al Gore’s Oscar-winning doc “An Inconvenient Truth,” grossed $130,000 from four screens this weekend to earn the highest per screen average of the weekend with $32,500. The total was buoyed by special in-person appearances by Gore himself... Читать дальше...

PBS President and CEO Paula Kerger gave an update on the network’s place in the ongoing federal budget debate, warning that if Congress does not agree to continue funding public broadcasting, it could have serious ramifications on PBS and its affiliate stations. “This is what I believe would happen if the federal funding goes away,” Kerger said at the Television Critics Association press tour on Sunday. “PBS will not go away, but a number of our stations will.” The budget proposed by the Trump... Читать дальше...

In his last pregame interview before the non-waiver trade deadline, A’s manager Bob Melvin said he’s anxious for Monday’s 1 p.m. cutoff to come and go. A’s starting pitcher Sonny Gray, first baseman Yonder Alonso and infielder Jed Lowrie have been popular targets for contending teams on the rumor mill, but all three were still in Oakland uniforms for Sunday’s game against Minnesota. “It’s like getting down to the eighth or ninth inning and hoping you hang on,” Melvin said. Читать дальше...

Performing in a touring play isn’t altogether different from riding across country by bicycle. Both endeavors isolate you from the rest of the world. They can be so physically grueling as to alter your brain chemistry, possibly making you a danger to yourself and others. Both make their intrepid participants into refugees of sorts, subjecting them to laughably austere accommodations, impoverishing (or, more likely, further impoverishing) their bank accounts. Put together, into a... Читать дальше...

Angelina Jolie is contesting Vanity Fair‘s depiction of auditions she held for children in her upcoming Cambodian film “First They Killed My Father,” which some critics have called emotionally abusive. The Jolie profile piece described auditions for children from orphanages, circuses and slum schools as being presented as a “game, rather disturbing in its realism: they put money on the table and asked the child to think of something she needed the money for, and then to snatch it away. The director would pretend to catch the child... Читать дальше...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The University of Iowa has opened its newest and biggest residence hall to meet its student housing needs for the next few years. The Catlett Residence Hall officially opened Friday, in time to serve students for the fall semester. The 12-floor, 1,049-bed residence hall is named after world renowned sculptor and printmaker Elizabeth Catlett, a university graduate who was one of the nation's first students to earn a Masters of Fine Arts degree. Catlett came to Iowa City in the late 1930s. Читать дальше...

Teaching jobs in New Hampshire are projected to shrink by the end of next year. The Concord Monitor reports (http://bit.ly/2viVQvc ) that the education industry is expected to contract by 508 jobs between 2016 and 2018 even as the state sees an overall growth in employment. That's according to short-term employment predictions released this month by the labor bureau. The education industry includes teachers and assistants and employs more than 67,000 people in New Hampshire. The bureau's market analyst... Читать дальше...

GARY, Ind. (AP) — A community group is planning to dress up a vacant high school building in Gary with poetry. The Gary Poetry Project is seeking poetry submissions from Emerson High School graduates to be painted onto the plywood covering up parts of the building that closed in 2008. The Post-Tribune reports that the building has had graffiti painted over it and windows broken out before members of the nearby Progressive Community Church boarded many of them up last year. Calumet... Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — It's a question that has weighed on the minds of countless commuters, usually as they sit in a stalled train in one of the tunnels heading into the nation's busiest train station: Why does help seem to take so long to arrive? It's an issue that will persist long after Amtrak completes this summer's extensive repairs (and corresponding schedule cutbacks) at Penn Station. A linchpin in the northeastern U.S.' rail system, the station is undergoing accelerated repair work this month and... Читать дальше...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Tribal officials on Wyoming's Wind River Reservation are preparing for thousands of visitors looking for a prime spot to view next month's solar eclipse. The Star Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/2uKR7Ro ) more than 10,000 people are expected to come to Fremont County and the reservation, whose Crowheart community is on the center line of the Aug. 21 eclipse. Shoshone and Arapahoe Fish and Game director Art Lawson says he will have three game wardens on patrol, plus officers brought... Читать дальше...

BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the developments in the Syrian civil war (all times local): 6:45 p.m. The Russian broadcaster Russia Today says one of its correspondents has been killed in Syria. The broadcaster says Khaled al-Khatib, 25, was killed Sunday covering battles between the Syrian army and the Islamic State group in the country's central desert. It said he was killed by an IS bullet. An accompanying photographer was also wounded. RT's editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan said in a statement... Читать дальше...

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — She dances beneath 10-foot portraits of two smiling dictators, a modern young woman in a central Pyongyang plaza who twirls to music calling on North Koreans to die for their leader. When she speaks, a torrent of reverence tumbles out for North Korea's ruling family, as if phrases had been plucked at random from a government newspaper: "The revolution of the Great Leader" ... "Only by upholding President Kim Il Sung could the people win their struggle" ... "Laborers... Читать дальше...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is making a stop in rancher Cliven Bundy's hometown in Nevada, during his tour of national monuments on President Donald Trump's potential chopping block. Zinke plans a stop Sunday in Bunkerville ahead of visits Monday to the nearby Gold Butte and Basin and Range national monuments. Bunkerville is about 80 miles (129 kilometers) northeast of Las Vegas, and is the town closest to Bundy's ranch in Nevada. Bundy is the anti-federal cattleman accused... Читать дальше...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A lone intruder who managed to enter the home of Kenya's deputy president was killed more than 18 hours after he wounded a police guard with a machete and then killed another with a stolen rifle, Kenya's police chief said Sunday. The man kept police special forces engaged overnight at Deputy President William Ruto's residence on the outskirts of Eldoret, a town 194 miles (312 kilometers) northwest of Nairobi, Police Chief Joseph Boinnet said. Ruto was not injured. Kenyan media... Читать дальше...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Missouri's database of banned character combinations on license plates has grown over the past 40 years to include more than 7,000 arrangements of letters and numbers deemed too offensive. State legislators first got involved with personalized license plates in 1977 and the rules for obscene plates have remained the same since 1992, the Springfield News-Leader reported . The obscenity criteria used by the Department of Revenue includes plates that "describe ultimate excretory... Читать дальше...

BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) — A northwest Arkansas woman has been given eight years of probation after pleading guilty to causing the death of her 2-month-old son. The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that Molly Sullivan was sentenced Thursday in Benton County Circuit Court after pleading guilty in April to manslaughter in the boy's death. Sullivan had initially been arrested on a murder charge for the October death of the boy. Sullivan previously said she had awakened to find the boy was not breathing. Читать дальше...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's official IRNA news agency is reporting that an appeals court has approved the jail sentences for 10 people charged with attacking Saudi diplomatic missions. The Sunday report says that a lawyer associated with the case said the prison sentences for the 10 attackers, ranging from three to six months each, was approved by the appeals court. The report's unnamed attorney also noted that four of the defendants were clerics and therefore would have to appear before the Special Clerical Court. Читать дальше...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A study shows most of Charleston's hospitality workers drive to their jobs and must take parking costs from their paychecks. The Post and Courier of Charleston reports the study by the College of Charleston's Office of Tourism Analysis shows that about 60 percent of downtown Charleston's restaurant and hotel workers live outside the peninsula. About 80 percent of workers drive to their jobs alone, regardless of where they live. About 70 percent of the 503 workers the College... Читать дальше...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Royal Dutch Shell is shutting down most units at its refinery in Rotterdam, the Netherlands after a fire at a high-voltage electricity switch station. Shell spokesman Thijs van Velzen says the fire started late Saturday and was extinguished by Sunday morning. Nobody was injured. The Pernis refinery in Rotterdam's sprawling port is Europe's largest. It has the capacity to refine just over 400,000 barrels of crude oil per day. The shutdown led to Shell burning off excess gases at the plant... Читать дальше...

PORT FOURCHON, La. (AP) — Before the year is over, a 16-foot-tall statue of a mermaid rising from the water will stand on Louisiana's waterfront as a memorial to all who have died at sea. Cindie Roussel, whose son was lost diving in the Gulf of Mexico in 2011, worked with families of some of the men who died when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig caught fire in 2010 to commission The Lady of the Gulf Seaman's Memorial . The body of Roussel's son, Blake Terry, 27, was never found. "There's truly an emptiness... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump wanted more discipline and structure in the West Wing, and expects to get that from the retired general taking over as the new chief of staff, a top White House official said Sunday. Department Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly is among the military officers past and present, including Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Joseph Dunford and national security adviser H.R. McMaster, with prominent roles in the administration. "You... Читать дальше...