Новости за 26.11.2015

Stanford’s offensive line has some unusual positions. The No. 13 Cardinal will throw all of the above at No. 4 Notre Dame on Saturday in a duel of College Football Playoff contenders. Stanford’s playoff chances were considered dead after the Oregon loss on Nov. 14, but they’ve been rekindled. [...] the Cardinal (ninth in the CFP rankings) are favored over a team above them (No. 6). Redshirt freshman Brandon Fanaika, for instance, is a backup guard, but he’s also the pitbull or fullback in the so-called jumbo packages. Читать дальше...

TELOLOAPAN, Mexico — Carlos Sanchez lay in the backseat of a Honda sedan with his head in his wife’s lap, an oxygen tube in his nose, IV in his arm and three bullets in his body. Armando de la Cruz Salinas was blinded by the spotlight trained on them from a Guerrero state police truck on the shoulder of the road. A stocky man wearing a dark state police uniform with black steel-toed boots opened the front passenger door and pulled Carlos’ sister out of the car. The four family members were from Guerrero state’s Tierra Caliente... Читать дальше...

Balboa High School offensive coordinator McLeod Bethel-Thompson was putting a game plan together Sunday when his cell phone rang. [...] suddenly, he went from preparing for Mission High to readying for a return to the NFL. On Tuesday, the 49ers signed him to their practice squad. On Wednesday, Bethel-Thompson spoke to a group of reporters and was clearly thrilled to continue a winding four-team, five-season NFL career that has included four stints with the 49ers. A decade after he played for the school... Читать дальше...

Cal’s Kameron Rooks trims down to earn rotation spot Weight has long been an issue for Kameron Rooks, but these days, instead of fretting over smaller meals, the Cal center wants to add heft to his 7-foot, 248-pound frame. Three weeks removed from shedding his bulky left knee brace, Rooks has emerged as the Bears’ top true center. [...] on a team stockpiled with scorers, Rooks provides the key plays that don’t make the highlights: putback dunks, altered shots, help on ball-screens. “He has a... Читать дальше...

If the Seattle Seahawks are going to make a late charge toward a fourth straight playoff berth, they’ll do it without running back Marshawn Lynch. Lynch underwent surgery Wednesday to repair an injury related to a sports hernia and will be sidelined for at least three or four weeks. Seattle will keep the Cal alum on the active roster, but the Seahawks’ playoff hopes now rest in part on rookie Thomas Rawls. The surgery was the final option to correct an abdominal injury that had bothered Lynch for weeks. Читать дальше...

Jerry Hollendorfer goes into Thursday’s program needing one winner to reach 7,000, and he has even-money favorite Kiss n Scat and Cajun Cookin in the first race. Ricardo Gonzalez, second in the jockey standings, will be back riding Thursday after straining a tendon in his left wrist Friday. Code Warrior, unbeaten in two starts including the Golden Nugget Stakes against male opponents, and My Dynamo, who won two of three races at Del Mar, head a field of six 2-year-old fillies in the Golden Gate Debutante. Читать дальше...

NEW DELHI — For thousands of childless couples the world over, India has been the go-to destination to fulfill their dreams of becoming parents, thanks to its well-trained doctors, well-appointed fertility clinics and vast numbers of poor women willing to serve as surrogate mothers. The Indian government recently banned surrogate services for foreigners and ordered fertility clinics to stop the practice of hiring Indian women to bear children for them. India’s home ministry has ordered Indian embassies... Читать дальше...

(AP) — School officials in a Boston suburb say they are outraged by a bullying incident in which a group of middle school students kicked other students with red hair during a break in classes. A statement from Melrose Public Schools says the seventh-graders were imitating an episode from the TV cartoon series "South Park" when they sought out redheads last Friday at the Melrose Veterans Memorial Middle School.

Fourteen interfaith leaders were arrested after occupying the lobby of Oakland’s Wiley Manuel Courthouse for more than three hours Wednesday afternoon, calling for Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley to drop charges against a group of protesters who chained themselves to a BART train on Black Friday a year ago. The so-called “Black Friday 14” disrupted service on BART for two hours on Nov. 28, 2014, locking themselves to a train in West Oakland Station to denounce police violence against African Americans. Читать дальше...

Groundbreaking laws in two Western states will soon make access to birth control easier for millions of women by allowing them to obtain contraceptives from pharmacists without a doctor’s prescription. Even as the Supreme Court prepares to consider yet another divisive case involving access to contraception, public health advocates hope these arrangements could spread across the country, as states grappling with persistently high rates of unintended pregnancy seek to increase access to birth control... Читать дальше...

In 2013, he had just left his marketing job and was soul-searching for his next move when he ran across a set of dusty vinyl records owned by his late father. The Oakland startup, founded by Lichtenstein and Ben Yee, allows users to upload videos, audio, photos and links to websites onto digital timelines and share them publicly or privately with friends and family. [...] our digital content is great, but it’s getting so rapidly scaled and overwhelming to the point where our most meaningful moments... Читать дальше...

“Star Wars” fans will encounter more than the usual concession-stand popcorn and Raisinets. Theater chains, seeking to capture a bigger share of “The Force Awakens” bonanza, are creating pop-up stores to sell posters and key chains — and pouring “Yoda-rita” cocktails. The Force Awakens, which opens Dec. 18, is forecast by BoxOffice.com to be the top-grossing movie of all time, but exhibitors have to pay a higher share of ticket revenue than usual to distributor Walt Disney Co., putting extra financial pressure on the theater chains. Читать дальше...

HONOLULU (AP) — Federal wildlife officials say the world's oldest known seabird has returned to Midway Atoll. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Wednesday the Laysan Albatross named Wisdom was spotted at the remote island on Nov. 19.

For years, state pension funds have invested money earned by teachers, firefighters and other government employees with private equity firms without having a full picture of how much they were earning and what they were paying in expenses. The move by CalPERS, the country’s biggest state pension fund, to disclose the details of its investment profit — called carried interest — could help to pave the way to more transparency in the private-equity industry, historically one of the most secretive corners of the financial world. Читать дальше...

Amazon, of course, doesn’t have to pay for the cost of store upkeep, not counting its new bookstore in Seattle. [...] it makes money from other non-retail areas, such as cloud computing, so it can afford to offer delivery services others can’t. “Retailers trying to compete with Amazon on the road Amazon created will always be at a disadvantage,” said shipping industry expert Satish Jindel. During the first Internet boom, startups like Kozmo.com became ubiquitous in New York as employees with purple... Читать дальше...

After weeks of criticism from patients, doctors and other drugmakers for raising a life-saving medicine’s price more than fifty-fold, Turing Pharmaceuticals is reneging on its pledge to cut the $750-per-pill price. [...] the small biotech company is reducing what it charges hospitals, by up to 50 percent, for its parasitic infection treatment, Daraprim. Turing’s move comes after a pharmacy that compounds prescription drugs for individual patients, Imprimis Pharmaceuticals, started selling a custom-made version for 99 cents per capsule. Читать дальше...

A retail loss prevention company was slammed in a lawsuit filed by San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera, charging it violates California business codes and extorts shoplifting suspects by getting them to sign confessions to enroll in a “life skills” course in lieu of facing possible prosecution. Corrective Education bills itself as a “restorative justice” alternative to conventional prosecution of shoplifting suspects by allowing them to circumvent the justice system and avoid criminal charges by signing up for the program... Читать дальше...

While most of Monterey and Carmel’s summer guests arrive by car, winter brings an impressive number of travelers by air and sea: migratory wildlife, ranging in size from delicate monarch butterflies to sturdier-winged ducks and seabirds, on up to massive gray whales, whose trajectories sometimes overlap with those of humpbacks. These spectacular creatures in turn attract adventurous humans who don’t mind braving cooler (and occasionally rainy) days to see them in their winter haunts. [...] even on the most inclement of days... Читать дальше...

Though less famous than nearby Esalen Institute and even the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, the hermitage offers unique lodging and enlightenment for as little as $125 a night, robust vegetarian meals included. Three new private retreats are being built among the other personal and group accommodations and monk housing, with their own beds, kitchens, bathrooms and decks, with South Coast views to match those of spendier Big Sur resorts. Don’t leave without packing home a bag of their popular Holy Granola. Читать дальше...

After making sculptures for high-end hotels, he entered a double-blind open show and was the only sculptor chosen to join the Society of Portrait Sculptors, where he worked in tandem with the sculptor to the royal family. Whyte created busts of more than a dozen CEOs, politicians and athletes, including the Duke of Westminster, financier Sir Evelyn de Rothschild and the late Australian Prime Minister Sir Joseph Cook. Six of Whyte’s memorials are in England, and there are 10 in the United States... Читать дальше...

Officers arrived on scene incident at the intersection of S. Novato Boulevard and Lark Court around 8 a.m., said Novato police spokesman Sgt. Eric Riddell. Investigators learned the driver, identified only as a 17-year-old “juvenile male,” was heading north on S. Novato Boulevard when he struck the pedestrian, who was walking east across the boulevard in a crosswalk. The driver stopped as soon as he hit the woman and was cooperating with officers, Riddell said.

President Obama spared two turkeys named for one of the nation’s most admired presidents, continuing a White House tradition that provides a refreshing sense of amusement and bipartisan cheer no matter how troubled the times. The Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday withdrew approval of a controversial new weed killer to be used on genetically modified corn and soybeans. The EPA announced the decision after receiving new data from manufacturer Dow AgroSciences that a weed killer called Enlist... Читать дальше...

Blaine Gabbert can be a one man show, and as he found Wednesday during his press conference, Blaine Gabbert can also be a one man audience.

SEATTLE (AP) — The student body president of Western Washington University said Wednesday she has received death threats involving her race and no longer feels safe on the Bellingham campus. In a statement Wednesday, the university's vice presidents said students who received threats or were subject to hate speech have been offered "enhanced police protection." A series of threats against minorities were posted over the weekend on Yik Yak, an anonymous social media platform popular among college students. Читать дальше...

[...] the coordinated attacks in Paris — where 130 people were killed at cafes, outdoor terraces and a concert hall in several parts of the city — has officials reassessing the threat. “Iconic and symbolic targets are not as high on terrorists’ priority list as killing high numbers of people,” said Michael Downing, the Los Angeles Police Department’s antiterrorism deputy chief. Bus and railway stations, malls, event venues — they are now perceived to be on par with the Rose Bowl and Dodger Stadium when it comes to risk assessment. Читать дальше...