Новости за 23.06.2015

Pixar has a way of slipping unexpected ideas into its movies — little details or lines of thought that only reveal themselves with repeat viewing. But the studio’s latest offering — “Inside Out,” released last week — contains an element few people outside the Bay Area will ever notice: The dad is a total SF startup

Students will return to Newark Memorial High School in the fall to find that a gunfire detection system installed last month is fully operational. The software, which officials said is the first of its kind at a U.S. high school, is meant to both quicken school reactions and minimize police response time in case of a shooting. Gunfire detection company SST Inc., which is in Newark, announced Thursday that the school will begin detection alerts in the fall using the company’s SecureCampus system... Читать дальше...

Britney Spears and Charlie Ebersol in May 2015. (Photo by Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic) Britney Spears has fueled reports suggesting she and boyfriend Charlie Ebersol have split by removing all her photos of him from her Instagram account. Sources tell Us Weekly magazine the couple split recently, after eight months of dating. The pop star was last seen with her boyfriend at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards in May. If the split reports are true, Ebersol joins a trio of lovers the star split with in recent years ... Читать дальше...

(AP) — A University of Missouri summit to discuss sexual assault ended with no concrete policy changes but participants said it was important that several groups convened to discuss the problem. More than 250 people gathered Saturday in Stotler Lounge for the Chancellor's Summit on Sexual Assault and Student Safety in Greek Life. A sexual violence awareness video was shown at the beginning of the summit.

Harry Styles. (Photo by Karwai Tang/WireImage) British pop star Harry Styles exacted a little revenge on a high school pal on Friday after jokingly calling him out onstage for stealing his high school girlfriend. The singer was performing with his One Direction bandmates in Oslo, Norway, last week, when he decided to turn the spotlight on Jack Robinson, who was cheering Styles on from the audience. He pointed his old pal out in the crowd, saying, “I have a friend from school in the audience tonight called Jack Robinson. Читать дальше...

Instacart, the online grocery delivery service and one of the rising stars of Silicon Valley’s on-demand economy, is converting a large part of its contractor workforce into part-time employees. The shift comes amid a growing debate over how technology companies such as Uber, Lyft and the delivery service Postmates designate American workers who make a living using their services. Instacart has about 10,000 shoppers in 16 cities across the U.S., roaming the aisles of retail chains such as Whole Foods Market... Читать дальше...

(AP) — New Haven police say they declined to charge a father who brought a gun to his child's elementary school graduation because he made an honest mistake and had no criminal intentions. New Haven police say it's a crime to both bring a gun onto school grounds and to leave a weapon unattended in a vehicle.

BRUSSELS — Greece has finally offered economic reforms that creditors consider potentially acceptable, giving Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras a couple days to turn a spirit of goodwill into a deal that might keep the country from a painful exit from the euro currency. Even though a firm deal to get Greece more loans remained elusive Monday, leaders from the 19 euro nations and the International Monetary Fund said Tsipras’ new reform plan offered the basis to break a four-month deadlock in talks. In its compromise proposal... Читать дальше...

"The days when people looked to one person to tell them how to entertain, live tastefully are gone," said Allen Adamson, chairman of Landor Associates, a brand research firm. Stewart cultivated legions of loyal fans, all eager to know the best way to decorate a cake, set the Thanksgiving table or plan a cocktail party. No longer were people looking to get their information from a single source, but rather they were getting decorating and cooking advice from other domestic divas like Rachael Ray... Читать дальше...

JERUSALEM — A U.N. investigation on Monday accused both Israel and Hamas militants of committing possible war crimes in last summer’s Gaza war, finding that Israeli air strikes on residential buildings caused many civilian deaths and suggesting Israeli leaders knowingly endangered them. The report, which Israel rejected as biased, further strained its already troubled relations with the world body and could provide new ammunition in a preliminary investigation of Israel at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Читать дальше...

A man attempting to assemble a shotgun on the streets of San Francisco knocked a police officer unconscious Sunday evening, leaving the cop with a concussion, before the man was arrested, officials said. Officers responded to reports of a man, later identified as 23-year-old transient Joshua Boling, trying to put together a shotgun in front of a restaurant on the 1700 block of Octavia Street around 10:30 p.m., said Officer Grace Gatpandan, a police spokeswoman. Multiple officers responded as the... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON — President Obama says the history of slavery and segregation is “still part of our DNA” in the United States, even if racial epithets no longer show up in polite conversation. In an interview, Obama talked about the debates over race and guns that have erupted after the arrest of a white man in the racially motivated shooting deaths of nine black church members in Charleston, S.C. In the interview, Obama said while attitudes about race have improved significantly since he was born to a white mother and black father... Читать дальше...

War crimes case reopens against Ratko Mladic THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Prosecutors reopened their case Monday against former Bosnian Serb military chief Gen. Ratko Mladic at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal to present new evidence gleaned from a mass grave discovered in Bosnia in 2013. Prosecutors say evidence gathered there demonstrates the involvement of Bosnian Serb forces under Mladic’s command in the murder and burial of non-Serbs in the Prijedor region early in the country’s 1992-95 war. If convicted... Читать дальше...

Warnings are appearing on Instagram accounts in North Korea that say access to the popular photo-sharing app is being denied and that the site is blacklisted for harmful content. [...] they have also posed a quandary for North Korean officials who are highly concerned about the flow of information and images in and out of the country. The tiny village of Castrillo Matajudios — which means “Camp Kill Jews” — in north central Spain on Monday changed its name back to the original Castrillo Mota de... Читать дальше...

LUXEMBOURG — The European Union began a naval operation Monday to try to stop human-traffickers from bringing migrants across the Mediterranean to Europe in unseaworthy boats, a lucrative and at times deadly practice. The naval operation, which was officially started by EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg, will operate in international waters and airspace until the EU can secure a U.N. Security Council resolution endorsing its effort and permission from Libyan officials to enter their territory. Читать дальше...

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors, attorneys representing injured inmates and New York City lawyers have reached a deal to curb violence at the troubled Rikers Island jail complex. Prosecutors say in a letter filed in Manhattan federal court the federal consent decree will be monitored by an Oklahoma-based correction expert.

COVENTRY, Vt. (AP) — The National Weather Service has issued a flood warning for the Barton River in northern Vermont. The weather service says by 3:30 p.m. Monday, the river's water level in Coventry was 7.6 feet. Flood stage is at 8 feet, and the weather service expects the river will rise above flood stage Monday night, peaking at 8.4 feet by early Wednesday morning. If that happens, several roads will be flooded, and there would be extensive flooding in fields and lowlands. The flood warning... Читать дальше...

Part of the proposal unanimously passed allows the companies to update their apps without approval from the regulators — a change from the initial proposed rules — a small but important shift that Uber, the multibillion-dollar ride-hailing app that has exploded in New York City in recent years, hailed as a victory. The rules also include a requirement that companies provide the option for a wheelchair accessible vehicle and inform passengers that official complaints must go through the commission;... Читать дальше...

ATLANTA (AP) — Jury selection in the trial of a man accused of killing a police officer in Athens is temporarily on hold. A Supreme Court spokeswoman says jury selection remains on hold while the high court waits for the trial court clerk to forward that notice so the high court can decide whether to hear the appeal or dismiss it.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills were mixed in Monday's auction, with rates on three-month bills holding at their lowest level since late 2011 while rates on six-month bills declined. Separately, the Federal Reserve said Monday that the average yield for one-year Treasury bills, a popular index for making changes in adjustable rate mortgages, slipped to 0.27 percent from 0.28 percent the previous week.

The 16-year-old died June 8, but the cause was only made public late Friday when health officials, at the urging of the boy's parents, put out a warning to make sure others who may have visited his family's rural home near Fort Collins hadn't been sickened by the fleas that could have infected him. There are three main forms of the plague and all are caused by the same bacteria, Yersinia pestis, which is typically spread by fleas that have fed on infected rodents. In the most common form, bubonic plague... Читать дальше...

Maine's Democratic-controlled House of Representatives has endorsed a measure to ensure people seeking asylum in the state continue receiving municipal welfare benefits. Republican Gov. Paul LePage's administration is no longer reimbursing cities and towns for general assistance provided to certain immigrants, including asylum seekers and people who came to the U.S. illegally. A provision added by Democrats also requires the department to help organizations create initiatives to improve the diets of people in the food stamp program.

(AP) — Gov. Scott Walker's administration and the state troopers' union have negotiated a new contract that calls for higher insurance premiums in exchange for a pair of raises paid through back wages. The contract moves closer to what Republican legislative leaders wanted when they rejected a plan for a 17 percent average pay raise in March. Glen Jones, head of the union's negotiating team, said the association had to be realistic since legislators are struggling to find ways to fund DOT road projects in the 2015-17 state budget. Читать дальше...

Phoenix police say 33-year-old William Loren Bradshaw also is being held on suspicion of felony charges of aggravated assault and discharging a firearm in the city limits. A woman rushed out of the apartment and said she had been kidnapped by her Bradshaw and he allegedly had pointed a gun at her and later fired one shot outside.