Новости за 11.03.2016

(AP) — A Confederate soldier statue that has stood for generations in a prominent spot on the University of Mississippi's Oxford campus will soon be accompanied by a plaque giving it historical context. The addition is part of an effort announced in 2014 to promote racial diversity and provide context for Old South symbols. The plaque says the Confederate statue was dedicated by local citizens in 1906 and was one of many monuments built across the South as aging Civil War veterans were dying.

(AP) — A man accused of harassing the family of a teacher who died in the Newtown school massacre was given a deadline Friday to accept a plea agreement or go to trial. Matthew Mills is accused of approaching a younger sister of slain Sandy Hook Elementary School teacher Victoria Soto at a road race and angrily claiming the Connecticut shootings never took place.

(AP) — Florida voters are increasingly voicing a similar take on Republican front-runner Donald Trump: "Dice lo que piensa" — Spanish for "he speaks his mind." Trump boasts that he can win the Hispanic vote in a general election and next week, he faces his first major test in the winner-take-all primary in Florida, a highly contentious swing state with a large and diverse population of Latino voters. Trump's comments about building a southern border wall and his accusations that many Mexicans in the U.S. are "criminals... Читать дальше...

President Obama is taking heat from some conservatives for skipping Nancy Reagan's funeral Friday, opting instead to speak at a tech festival in Austin, Texas. Former first lady Nancy Reagan's children are recounting memories at their mother's funeral at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. Davis described her parents as "two halves of a circle," recalling a long-ago memory of seeing the two of them sitting on a Southern California beach at sunset in what she called... Читать дальше...

Ben Bagdikian, noted media critic, dies at 96 Ben H. Bagdikian, a noted media critic and former dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley, died Friday at his home in Berkeley. Mr. Bagdikian had a role as well in providing the famed Pentagon Papers to the media and to Congress. “What we are seeing now is a decrease in hard reporting ... and an increase of soft entertainment features,” he said in a television interview in 1999, referring to a concentration of power in media monopolies.

The Dallas Morning News (http://bit.ly/24V976C ) reports that the district doesn't routinely test water quality, even though school officials have known for years that many campuses have old plumbing systems, some of them potentially containing lead. There's typically problems that serve as a catalyst, he said. Besides corrosive water, changes to water usage pattern can affect lead levels, he said.

A state roads worker was given quite a scare Friday after he was dispatched to clear a mudslide on Highway 1 in Mendocino County and a second slide toppled his dump truck. The unexpected wall of mud poured down a rural hillside around 3 a.m., pushing the truck — and its lone occupant — on its side against a guardrail, leaving the employee fortunately without injury, according to the California Department of Transportation. The rugged stretch of Highway 1 about five miles north of Westport remained... Читать дальше...

Thirteen years ago, in 2003, the choreographer Bill T. Jones recorded an oral history of his 95-year-old mother-in-law, a Jewish activist and nurse who joined the resistance in German-occupied Vichy, France, during World War II. Rather it is a story, like millions of others from that war, of circumstance and character yielding unheralded acts of endurance, resourcefulness and courageous moral calculus. Yes, she was saving children and what adults she and her comrades could in the stark, euphemistically... Читать дальше...

Does the presidential race seem like a comedy of errors to anyone else yet?

In Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Lugansky adapted his formidable keyboard technique — which under other circumstances can register with more vigorous weight — to comport with the more understated, insinuating tone that the conductor had established. The keyboard passagework sounded more glittery and brittle than usual, and the expansive 18th variation — in which Rachmaninoff plunges the audience into a gorgeous sea of sentiment by turning Paganini’s theme upside down — registered as a fluid, exquisitely shapely interlude. Читать дальше...

The student representative position cycles amount the university system's four campuses in the order that they were founded. Graham is a vocal music education student and a member of the university's alumni association board.

[...] a computer forensic expert's report sent to the defense lawyers on March 2, said 274 files were modified and thousands of files had been accessed after the arrest and before the warrant was secured. Because there's no way to know what the laptop data looked like before the seizure, all evidence taken from the device should be thrown out, Browne said. "There was no excuse for the per se unreasonable warrantless intrusions into the laptop, which were clearly unconstitutional to any member of law enforcement," the motion said. Читать дальше...

(AP) — Scientists agree that armadillos are moving northward in the U.S., and one Southern Illinois University professor has taken notice. Associate zoology professor F. Agustin Jimenez has started studying the armadillo, commonly associated with Texas, Florida and other warm-weather states, but it has recently been sighted as far north in Illinois as the Mount Vernon area. The southern hemisphere is home to 23 species of armadillo, but only the nine-banded armadillo is moving northward. Warmer... Читать дальше...

(AP) — Police on Friday sought to identify the two men who ambushed a backyard cookout and methodically shot and killed six people, including a pregnant woman and her fetus. The gunmen appeared to have targeted one or two of the victims in the Wednesday night attack, and drugs haven't been ruled out as a motive, said District Attorney Stephen Zappala. Neighbors brought balloons, stuffed animals and prayers to the home Friday at a growing makeshift memorial. Four women, one of them eight months pregnant... Читать дальше...

The hottest debate heading into the session was whether to extend state anti-discrimination laws to include sexual orientation and gender identity following last year's national uproar over Indiana's new religious objections law. The package draws down the state's $2 billion budget reserve and does not include an election-year increase in cigarette and gas taxes backed by House Republicans that was staunchly opposed by Gov. Mike Pence and the GOP-controlled Senate. The plan also gives about $580... Читать дальше...

A man suffered life-threatening injuries in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset neighborhood Thursday afternoon, authorities said, after he ran into the street and was hit by a car, police said. Around 1 p.m., officers responded to reports of the crash near the intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Noriega Street, said Officer Grace Gatpandan, a police spokeswoman. The incident remains under investigation, but it appeared the victim, identified only as an Asian man between 70 and 80 years old, ran in front of a light-colored... Читать дальше...

[...] sometimes we need a cake that can function as a breakfast or brunch offering without too much explanation (chocolate cake requires a lot of justification before noon), or a midday snack, but also can hold up as a dessert offering. 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature, plus extra for the pan In a large bowl, use an electric mixer to beat together the 1 cup of butter and the sugar. In a medium bowl, whisk together the 2 cups of flour, the baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Читать дальше...

(AP) — The estate of former Penn State football coach Joe Paterno should have to turn over background details on a 2013 "critique" produced for his family in response to a university-commissioned report that criticized his handling of the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal, college sports' governing body argued Friday. The Freeh report, which concluded Joe Paterno and other high-ranking officials covered up complaints about Sandusky to avoid bad publicity, has been a lightning rod for criticism... Читать дальше...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is about to embark on an old-school search, swapping its Internet algorithm for a custom-built van that will cruise across the U.S. to find out how people use its online services and react to new features. The van will make multiday stops in seven states, stopping near colleges, libraries, parks and some of Google's own regional offices in hopes of finding out how average Americans are using the company's multitude of digital offerings. The plan to build a research lab... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The campaign of Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz updated its mobile app after an independent review found security flaws that could have allowed hackers to access personal data from users. The computer-security firm Veracode performed audits of the "Cruz Crew" app and those released by other 2016 presidential contenders at the request of The Associated Press. While AP was reporting on potential vulnerabilities with the Cruz app, a high-ranking Cruz staffer responsible... Читать дальше...

Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, both sons of Cuban emigres, say the crackdown on demonstrations in Cuba shows that President Raul Castro has no intention of responding to Obama's outreach with greater freedom for the Cuban people. "The fact of the matter is we don't have any expectation that Cuba is going to transform its political system in the near term," said deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes, one of the architects of Obama's Cuba policy. [...] things are worse than they were before this opening. Читать дальше...

KMGH-TV reports (http://bit.ly/228K1ic ) that the cab driver called police early Friday to say that a woman got in his cab and asked to go to a 7-Eleven store. Police say she then threatened him with a knife, kicked him out of the taxi and took off in the vehicle.

(AP) — The Minneapolis NAACP has demanded an apology from Joe's Crab Shack after diners at a restaurant in a St. Paul suburb complained that their table was embedded with a photo depicting the hanging of a black man in Texas in 1895. At a news conference outside the restaurant Thursday, the NAACP called the image "egregious," demanding an apology and the removal of racist imagery from all Joe's Crab Shack restaurants.

415-706-6703Chef David Lawrence David Lawrence knows how to keep busy. Related Links Daly City's Koi Palace expanding dim sum empire to SFO Fillmore's Black Bark BBQ ready to roll; meet its secret weapon Earlier this winter 1300 on Fillmore chef/owner opened his new BBQ joint, Black Bark, and now, according to the San Francisco Business Times, he will be expanding the 1300 brand to a second location at San Francisco International Airport. Lawrence is not the only local restaurateur making the move to SFO; last month Willy Ng... Читать дальше...