L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy announced Friday that as much as 30% of a teacher's evaluation will be based on student test scores,...
The Quirky World of Competitive Snow Carving Comes to California
Label: Technology Team Truckee entered the competition late, after Team Russia was unable to get visas in time. Their sculpture: "Rising Tide."The weekend at Northstar ski resort in Truckee, California, is beautiful, sunny, and in the 30s. For eight teams of snow carvers from around the world, though, it’s terrible — the melty snow is sloppy, hard to carve, and even dangerous.Teams of three from Finland, Japan,...
Scott Brown joins Fox News
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Fox News Channel has chosen another former politician to join its swelling ranks of contributors, and this one comes with TV-ready looks.The recently ousted Republican Massachusetts senator – who paid his way through law school with modeling gigs – has signed on as a contributor. Brown, who will offer political commentary on several programs, will make his debut Wednesday...
Livestrong Tattoos as Reminder of Personal Connections, Not Tarnished Brand
Label: HealthAs Jax Mariash went under the tattoo needle to have “Livestrong” emblazoned on her wrist in bold black letters, she did not think about Lance Armstrong or doping allegations, but rather the 10 people affected by cancer she wanted to commemorate in ink. It was Jan. 22, 2010, exactly a year since the disease had taken the life of her stepfather. After years of wearing yellow Livestrong wristbands, she...
The Boss: Bert Quintana of Sitel, on Making Career Choices
Label: BusinessI WAS born in Cuba, and I was 2 when my parents brought me to the United States in 1962 with my baby brother, Jorge. Bert Quintana is the president and C.E.O. of Sitel, a call center and telemarketing company based in Nashville. AGE 52 NAME OF HIS BOAT Sea GemFAVORITE SPORT Golf SPORTS HERO Don Shula, former Miami Dolphins coach We passed through the...
Feb
15
'Blade Runner' Oscar Pistorius weeps as he faces murder charge
Label: World JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee revered in South Africa for overcoming his...
CBS, Intel in Talks Over TV Programming Deal
Label: Technology Score one for Intel, which has picked up one of the big networks to provide content for its forthcoming set-top box.CBS boss Les Moonves told analysts during a fourth-quarter earnings call that the network is negotiating a programming deal with Intel, which wants to take on the likes of Dish TV and Roku. The company announced Tuesday that it is creating a set-top box...
Seth MacFarlane’s “Dads” series casts “Mindy Project” actor
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Tommy Dewey has been cast in the Fox comedy “Dads,” from “Ted” team Seth MacFarlane, Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild.Dewey, who’s appeared in a handful of episodes of Fox’s “The Mindy Project,” will play Warner, the co-owner of a successful videogame company and stable family man whose otherwise perfect life is cast into chaos when his feckless father Crawford moves in with...
Fat Dad: Baking for Love
Label: HealthFat DadDawn Lerman writes about growing up with a fat dad.My grandmother Beauty always told me that the way to a man’s heart was through his stomach, and by the look of pure delight on my dad’s face when he ate a piece of warm, homemade chocolate cake, or bit into a just-baked crispy cookie, I grew to believe this was true. I had no doubt that when the time came, and I liked a boy, that a batch of...
U.S. Manufacturing Weakens, but May Rebound Quickly
Label: BusinessManufacturing got off to a weak start this year in the United States as motor vehicle output tumbled in January, but a rebound in factory activity in New York State suggested that any setback would be temporary. In a further sign that the sluggish economic recovery remains on track, consumers were a bit more upbeat early this month even as they paid more for gasoline and a tax increase reduced...
Feb
14
Oscar Pistorius remains in jail facing murder charge
Label: World JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- South African athlete Oscar Pistorius, who made history last year as the first double amputee...
It's Do or Die for Military's Last Remaining Giant Spy Blimp
Label: Technology It’s 10 minutes to midnight for the U.S. military’s dream of mega-blimps strapped with powerful surveillance gear. There are reports that the last of those lighter-than-air ships is a casualty of the Army’s shrinking budgets. Its operators aren’t so sure — but if it goes, so goes a vision for a different paradigm of aerial spying. That would be the Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle,...
Lady Gaga needs hip surgery, cancels remainder of tour
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Lady Gaga canceled the remainder of her “Born This Way Ball” concert tour to undergo hip surgery, promoters Live Nation said on Wednesday.The 26-year-old singer announced she was suffering from an inflammation of the joints on Tuesday, but the tour operator said Gaga’s injuries were more serious than she realized.“After additional tests this morning to review the severity of...
Doctor and Patient: Afraid to Speak Up to Medical Power
Label: HealthThe slender, weather-beaten, elderly Polish immigrant had been diagnosed with lung cancer nearly a year earlier and was receiving chemotherapy as part of a clinical trial. I was a surgical consultant, called in to help control the fluid that kept accumulating in his lungs.During one visit, he motioned for me to come closer. His voice was hoarse from a tumor that spread, and the constant hissing from...
Higher Prices Help PepsiCo to 17% Gain in Profit
Label: BusinessInvestors in PepsiCo saw glimmers of the end of the tunnel on Thursday when the company reported a 17 percent increase in fourth-quarter profit after a long lackluster performance. Net income was $1.66 billion, or $1.06 a share, lifted by higher prices for the company’s products, significant investments in marketing of crucial brands like Pepsi and Lay’s and strong sales in Latin America...
Feb
13
Nicole Kidman, Halle Berry, Reese Witherspoon, Sandra Bullock presenting at Oscars
Label: LifestyleLOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) – Four former Best Actress winners will converge on stage at this year’s Oscar telecast, the show’s producers said Wednesday.Halle Berry, Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon will present an award, although the show’s producers were mum about whether or not they will take the stage together. If they do, it may mean a return to a format that was deployed and...
Phys Ed: Getting the Right Dose of Exercise
Label: HealthPhys EdGretchen Reynolds on the science of fitness.Fitness TrackerMarathon, half-marathon, 10k and 5K training plans to get you race ready.A common concern about exercise is that if you don’t do it almost every day, you won’t achieve much health benefit. But a commendable new study suggests otherwise, showing that a fairly leisurely approach to scheduling workouts may actually be more beneficial than...
Feb
12
'Hundreds of rounds' fired during Dorner gun battle
Label: WorldChristopher Dorner was engaged in a shootout with federal authorities in the Big Bear area. "Hundreds of rounds" were exchanged...
Intel Teases Set-Top Box to Compete With Cable
Label: Technology Intel is developing a set-top box that delivers video on demand and live TV over the internet, a move that would place it in competition with the likes of Roku and your local cable company.There’s no word on who’ll provide the all-important content we’d see on such a box or what we’d pay for it when it appears later this year, but Erik Huggers, Intel’s corporate vice president of media, promises...
Well: Straining to Hear and Fend Off Dementia
Label: HealthAt a party the other night, a fund-raiser for a literary magazine, I found myself in conversation with a well-known author whose work I greatly admire. I use the term “conversation” loosely. I couldn’t hear a word he said. But worse, the effort I was making to hear was using up so much brain power that I completely forgot the titles of his books.A senior moment? Maybe. (I’m 65.) But for me, it’s complicated...
Media Decoder Blog: Comcast Buying G.E.'s Stake in NBCUniversal for $16.7 Billion
Label: Business5:30 p.m. | Updated Comcast said Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire General Electric’s remaining 49 percent stake in NBCUniversal for approximately $16.7 billion, completing a sale process that was expected to take several more years.The acquisition will wrap up by the end of March, Comcast said in a news release. The move reflects Comcast’s optimism about NBCUniversal going forward, from its highly...
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