Los Angeles police continued to search for armed suspects who took 14 hostages at a Nordstrom Rack store in Westchester this...
Judge Halts California Internet Sex-Offender Law
Label: Technology A federal judge late Friday blocked enforcement of a California voter-approved measure that would have dramatically curtailed the online, First Amendment rights of registered sex offenders.Proposition 35, which passed with 81 percent of the vote in November, would have required anyone who is a registered sex offender — including people with misdemeanor offenses such...
Simon Rattle to quit Berlin Philharmonic in 2018
Label: LifestyleBERLIN (Reuters) – Renowned British conductor Simon Rattle said on Thursday he would step down as head of the prestigious Berlin Philharmonic in 2018 when his current contract with the orchestra expires and before he turns 64.“In 2018 I will be nearly 64 years old,” the 57-year-old said in a statement on the Philharmonic’s website. “As a Liverpool boy, it is impossible not to think of the Beatles’...
Former Lab Technician Denies Faulty DNA Work in Rape Cases
Label: HealthA former New York City laboratory technician whose work on rape cases is now being scrutinized for serious mistakes said on Friday that she had been unaware there were problems in her work and, disputing an earlier report, denied she had resigned under pressure. The former lab technician, Serrita Mitchell, said any problems must have been someone else’s. “My work?” Ms. Mitchell said....
Business Briefing | Retailing: Best Buy Shares Rally on Improved Holiday Sales
Label: Business The Best Buy Company had better-than-expected holiday sales, setting off a gain of $2, or 16.4 percent, in its stock price, to $14.21 a share on Friday. The holiday quarter accounted for about a third of Best Buy’s revenue last year. The chain said that revenue at stores open at least a year fell 1.4 percent for the nine weeks ended Jan. 5. The company’s performance in the United States was flat....
Jan
11
Southbound 5 Freeway at Grapevine reopened
Label: World Southbound Interstate 5 at the Grapevine was reopened Friday morning about 8 a.m. but the northbound lanes remained closed because...
Ford Wants to Teach You Some Off-Peak Electrical Tricks
Label: Technology LAS VEGAS — Electric vehicle owners eager to charge up in the greenest, most economical manner plug in during off-peak hours when rates are lowest. Ford wants to extend the concept of off-peak power to home appliances, further reducing an EV owner’s electric bill and CO2 footprint by allowing them to tap into the cloud and a proprietary power-tracking database.Here at CES 2013, the automaker...
Seattle bankruptcy hearing to decide Tully’s sale
Label: LifestyleSEATTLE (AP) — The auction for beleaguered coffee company Tully’s will likely conclude Friday in federal bankruptcy court, with an ownership group led by actor Patrick Dempsey in position to take over the chain. But Starbucks isn’t’ out of the running.Dempsey — dubbed “McDreamy” in the “Grey’s Anatomy” hospital TV drama — claimed victory last week after an auction.But a company that teamed up with...
The New Old Age Blog: Taking a Zen Approach to Caregiving
Label: HealthYou try to help your elderly father. Irritated and defensive, he snaps at you instead of going along with your suggestion. And you think “this is so unfair” and feel a rising tide of anger.How to handle situations like this, which arise often and create so much angst for caregivers?Jennifer Block finds the answer in what she calls “contemplative caregiving” — the application of Buddhist principles...
DealBook: Client Redemptions Loom for SAC Capital
Label: Business12:46 p.m. | Updated The hedge fund giant SAC Capital Advisors is steeling itself for a possible wave of withdrawal requests from clients amid the government’s intensifying scrutiny of its trading practices.Investors have about a month to decide whether to pull out money from SAC, the $14 billion fund owned by the billionaire investor Steven A. Cohen.While posting one of the best investment track...
Jan
10
Irvine City Council overhauls oversight, spending on Great Park
Label: World Capping a raucous eight-hour-plus meeting, the Irvine City Council early Wednesday voted to overhaul the oversight and spending...
Disk Jockey: Hear Your Favorite Theme Songs Played by a Floppy-Drive Orchestra
Label: Technology While making music with computers is nothing new, it’s rarely quite so literal as the melodies of Youtube user MrSolidSnake74, who transformed eight floppy disk drives into an orchestra of MIDI magic. In the gallery above, you can hear his arrangements based on popular themes from Super Mario Bros, Doctor Who, Ghostbusters, Mega Man, Star Trek: The Next Generation,...
Architecture writer Ada Louise Huxtable, awarded first Pulitzer for criticism, dead at 91
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Ada Louise Huxtable, the architecture critic who was awarded the first Pulitzer Prize for criticism, has died. She was 91.Huxtable, who was the architecture critic for the New York Times from 1963 to 1982 and, later, the Wall Street Journal, died Monday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, the Journal reported.Huxtable was a firm believer in the power...
F.D.A. Requires Cuts to Dosages of Ambien and Other Sleep Drugs
Label: HealthThe Food and Drug Administration announced on Thursday that it was requiring manufacturers of popular sleeping pills like Ambien and Zolpimist to cut their recommended dosage in half for women, after laboratory studies showed that they can leave people still sleepy in the morning and at risk for accidents. The agency issued the requirement for drugs containing the active ingredient zolpidem,...
Nokia Sees Results From New Smartphone Line
Label: BusinessBERLIN — Nokia said Thursday that its struggling mobile phone business was showing signs of a rebound, turning a profit in the fourth quarter fueled by sales of its Lumia smartphones that use Microsoft software. Stephen Elop, the Nokia chief executive, said sales of smartphones and more basic cellphones, as well as profitability at the Nokia Siemens network-equipment venture, all came...
Jan
09
Weight-loss regimen a preferred choice for countering diabetes
Label: World After all those well-intentioned New Year's resolutions have yielded to the force of habit, many of the nation's 79 million...
Galactic Pile-Up May Point to Mysterious New Dark Force in the Universe
Label: Technology LONG BEACH, California — By closely mapping the mass of an enormous galactic collision, astronomers may have uncovered a type of force that only affects dark matter.The results come from observations of the Musket Ball Cluster, a vast celestial object located about 5.23 billion light-years away in the constellation Cancer. Galaxies are usually gravitationally bound to other galaxies, creating...
Oprah to interview Armstrong for Jan. 17 show
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (AP) — Lance Armstrong has agreed to an interview with Oprah Winfrey in which he is to address allegations he used performance-enhancing drugs during a career in which he won seven Tour de France titles.According to Winfrey’s website on Tuesday, this will be a “no holds-barred interview.” It will be the first with Armstrong since his cycling career crumbled under the weight of a massive...
Economic Scene: Health Care and Pursuit of Profit Make a Poor Mix
Label: BusinessThirty years ago, Bonnie Svarstad and Chester Bond of the School of Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison discovered an interesting pattern in the use of sedatives at nursing homes in the south of the state. Patients entering church-affiliated nonprofit homes were prescribed drugs roughly as often as those entering profit-making “proprietary” institutions. But patients in proprietary...
Jan
08
LAPD force exceeds 10,000 for the first time, officials say
Label: World For the first time in the city's history, Los Angeles' police force now exceeds 10,000 officers, city officials said Monday.Appearing...
CES Day 2: Streaming Cubes, Robotic Snakes and Even More Activity Monitors
Label: TechnologyLAS VEGAS -- Ah, CES. We're waiting for the real action to start today, so we spent Tuesday taking one cab after another to press conferences, waiting in epic lines for events we'd already RSVP'd to and eating finger foods like mini crab cakes and cheesecake on a stick.Still, we managed to get some quality time with the latest tech and toys, including new robo-Legos, a wireless charger and yet another...
‘Downton,’ ‘Girls,’ ‘Idol’ and more this January
Label: LifestyleNEW YORK (AP) — Where once the post-holiday schedule was a blizzard of chilly reruns, January is aburst with premieres and finales.Already, the much-adored British miniseries “Downton Abbey” has made its much-awaited season return Sundays on PBS.On IFC on Fridays, the hilarious “Portlandia” is back for its third season of sketch comedy poking fun at the peculiarities of Portland, Ore., starring Fred...
Health Spending Growth Stays Low for 3rd Straight Year
Label: HealthWASHINGTON — National health spending climbed to $2.7 trillion in 2011, or an average of $8,700 for every person in the country, but as a share of the economy, it remained stable for the third consecutive year, the Obama administration said Monday. The rate of increase in health spending, 3.9 percent in 2011, was the same as in 2009 and 2010 — the lowest annual rates recorded in the 52 years...
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