Новости за 03.12.2015

For 2016, fine-tuning is the name of the game, with GMC adding safety features and bling on the outside, while inside, the latest Apple and Android smart phones will be able to drive the Sierra's infotainment system. In our book, though, some of the biggest news is hidden under the sheet metal: GM's eight-speed automatic transmission will be standard on SLT and Denali models with the 5.3-liter V8. For 2016, the available Driver alert package, which gives audible and haptic warnings when following too closely or straying out of marked lanes... Читать дальше...

The world's largest social network is testing a new feature that will enable its 1.5 billion users to use their smartphones to shoot video so other people can see what they are doing as it happens. The idea is to allow people to feel as if they are on the same beach on a Hawaiian vacation, in the same kitchen while testing out a new recipe, in the same living room unwrapping Christmas gifts, or in the same row singing together during the concert of a favorite band. The live video option also could... Читать дальше...

Lenny Kravitz turns camera on paparazzi, fans in photo exhibit While shooting photos on his days off from touring, Kravitz set out hoping to capture soulful photographs and people in their everyday environments. After several frustrating encounters, the rocker turned the camera on the crowds and started clicking — almost a joke at first. Kravitz, who has lived in Miami on and off for decades, said the exhibit also speaks to the culture’s obsession with documenting everything from food to nail art... Читать дальше...

Why is that man dancing on a Highway 101 overpass?JaVonne Hatfield shows off his signature cut out heart atop his overpass dance floor. Photograph by Holly J. McDede. For JaVonne Hatfield, overpasses are the only dance floor necessary. Every Thursday and Friday afternoon, he shimmies, shakes, and smiles from the 101 overpass that crosses the freeway at 18th Street in San Francisco, all while holding up a giant cardboard heart to the commuters below. Continue reading at kalw.org.

The new Civic at 101 Polk Street opens with 162 units and 452-square-foot studios priced at $3,220 a month.

LOS ANGELES — The dramatic contenders at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival span history, genre and setting, from the slave days in the South to the gay-sex scene today in Los Angeles’ Korean spas. Recent Sundance success stories include Colin Trevorrow’s hyper-charged career trajectory, from premiering his first feature at Sundance in 2012 to directing the summer smash “Jurassic World”; and “Fruitvale Station” director Ryan Coogler and actor Michael B. Jordan, who followed up their 2013 Sundance hit... Читать дальше...

House Roll Call: The 359-65 roll call Thursday by which the House passed a 5-year, $305 billion bill that boosts highway and transit spending and assures states that federal help will be available for major projects. A "yes" vote is a vote to pass the bill. Voting yes were 181 Democrats and 178 Republicans. Voting no were 0 Democrats and 65 Republicans. Republicans — Franks, N; Gosar, N; McSally, Y; Salmon, N; Schweikert, N. Democrats — Aguilar, X; Bass, Y; Becerra, Y; Bera, Y; Brownley, Y; Capps... Читать дальше...

Like the earlier effort, this project — spearheaded by trumpeter Michael Sachs and President David Stull of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music — draws together an ensemble of the finest brass players from the American orchestral world, and unleashes them on music that is by turns ceremonial and intimate. The results are superb, a virtuoso display of gleaming tone, pinpoint intonation and vigorous ensemble playing. Most of the disc is devoted to excerpts from Gabrieli’s “Sacrae Symphoniae” of 1597... Читать дальше...

Kylie Minogue held back on making a holiday-themed album until now — so it’s no surprise that after 30 years in the business, the petite Australian pop marvel cuts loose on “Kylie Christmas.” There are lush big-band arrangements of the classics (see “It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” and “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town,” featuring the specter of Frank Sinatra) club-ready originals (“100 Degrees,” a duet with sister Dannii Minogue) and some odd covers (the Waitresses’ “Christmas Wrapping,”... Читать дальше...

An engrossing film version of Joe Orton’s odd couple The deliciously engrossing “Prick Up Your Ears” tells about both Orton’s life and his violent end at age 34, a death so bizarre it might have appeared in one of his plays. Consumed with jealously over Orton’s meteoric rise, his hapless longtime lover Kenneth Halliwell killed him with nine hammer blows to his head as he slept. Alan Bennett, at the start of a prolific screenwriting career extending to his new film “The Lady in the Van,” finds an ingenious way into Orton’s story. Читать дальше...

[...] — surprise! — duck fat, unlike beef fat and most kinds of poultry fat, boasts some of the same healthy attributes as olive oil. Kosher salt and ground black pepper 3 cups low-sodium chicken broth Heat the oven to 250 F. Remove the neck and giblets from the cavity of the duck, pat dry and reserve. Remove the excess fat from the cavity of the duck and cut off the flap of skin at the back end of the duck. (You can save the skin and fat to render into duck fat for future use.) Rinse the duck... Читать дальше...

The little guy sometimes wins: Ford's Police Interceptor sedan proved to be faster than the Dodge Charger in this year's police car evaluations.

Ellington on thin ice as 49ers’ kick returner ... maybe? On Wednesday special teams coach Thomas McGaughey strongly suggested Ellington was on thin ice as the team’s kick returner after he’d had fumbles in back-back games. McGaughey noted the Patriots released Chris Harper on Monday after he muffed a punt Sunday in an overtime loss to the Broncos. The 49ers, of course, waived punt returner Jarryd Hayne on Oct. 30 after he had three fumbles, losing one, on eight returns. In a loss at Seattle on Nov. Читать дальше...

The concerns of Patricio Guzmán’s documentary “The Pearl Button” are political and philosophical, but the spirit is closer to poetry. The latter became infamous for the political murders and other human rights abuses that took place during his rule. [...] some indigenous peoples virtually lived on the water — skilled canoers who subsisted on shellfish and other bounty from the sea. The European newcomers tried to impose their ways on the natives, but some whites had less patience — for a time... Читать дальше...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire linen company has admitted it hacked the computer system of a competitor in Massachusetts to try to steal customers. The two companies use software provided by one company and GLS was able to use default logins to download about 1,100 customer invoices from the Massachusetts company to try to gain a competitive edge.

PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a man's convictions and death sentence for a killing that prosecutors said was motivated by a desire to become a member of the Aryan Brotherhood, a white supremacist gang.

Montgomery leaves the FAMU board several weeks after trustees held a chaotic emergency meeting and almost voted to fire President Elmira Mangum from her $425,000 a year job. Mangum was hired last year as a "change agent" who could help FAMU restore its reputation following a tumultuous period that included the November 2011 hazing death of a FAMU band member.

In "My Girlfriend's Boyfriend," he tells how he was nearly killed in a car accident when a drunk driver rammed him. Birbiglia, who has multiple albums and TV specials, also has made appearances on public radio's "This American Life" and the storytelling organization the Moth.

(AP) — A former Hammond and Gary police officer facing financial problems has been charged with the murder of the mother of three of his children. The (Munster) Times reports Hammond's police chief fired Campbell last week after investigators identified him as a person of interest in a Portage homicide.

A federal prosecutor says that, to his knowledge, the conviction of former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship on a misdemeanor charge is "unprecedented." U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin made the comment at a news conference Thursday after the verdict was announced in Blankenship's criminal trial in Charleston. A federal prosecutor says the conviction of former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship on a misdemeanor charge marks a "landmark day for the safety of coal miners." U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin... Читать дальше...

Yellen said that even after the first rate hike, the Fed expects future rate increases will be at a gradual pace that will keep borrowing costs low for consumers and businesses. The Fed has left its target for the federal funds rate, the interest that banks charge on overnight loans, near zero since December 2008. Yellen said that a Fed move to start raising rates will be a sign of how far our economy has come in recovering from the effects of the financial crisis and the Great Recession. Yellen... Читать дальше...

Cal’s head football coach Sonny Dykes has been in contact with University of South Carolina and Virginia University about job opportunities at those schools, according to a source with knowledge of the situation. Dykes has a contraction extension offer from Cal, but has yet to agree to terms, a university spokesman reiterated Thursday morning. When he left Louisiana Tech for Cal in December 2012, Dykes was tasked with lifting the program’s academic profile and improving graduation rates. Challenges remain... Читать дальше...

(AP) — A rival labor group at the Volkswagen plant in Tennessee is urging skilled-trades workers to vote against union representation by the United Auto Workers. The American Council of Employees was formed by workers who opposed UAW representation in a February 2014 vote among all hourly workers at the plant.

No cause was immediately released for the fire at the plant owned by Western Gas Partners and operated by Anadarko, based in The Woodlands. Anadarko spokesman John Christiansen says the estimated 200 people at the plant are accounted for, with two suffering minor injuries.

(AP) — A judge has set a trial date for a man charged with fatally shooting a Memphis police officer in December 2012. Authorities say Lang was killed and another officer was injured when police entered a home where drug trafficking was suspected, and a suspect inside the house opened fire with a 9mm pistol with a high-capacity magazine.