Новости за 31.01.2017

St. Joe’s poised for Open call-up In 38 seasons, St. Joseph Notre Dame-Alameda boys basketball coach Don Lippi has won four state titles, but he hasn’t started a season 20-1. “I think I started 1-20 once,” he joked Monday. The Pilots’ championship run last season was their third in six years and fourth with Lippi as head coach. With an intensely upbeat, glass-half-full approach, the youthful 69-year-old has led the Pilots to six Division V state title games in eight years. [...] on the horizon is a completely new challenge... Читать дальше...

[...] Read: CBS Orders Hate Crime Investigation Drama Pilot With Katie Couric Producing Among the other pilots ordered at the network this season are: an untitled drama pilot about a team of investigators who specialize in hate crimes, a NASA drama called “Mission Control” written by Andy Weir; a thriller about a former CIA operative-turned-professor who is enlisted to catch a serial killer entitled “Killer Instinct;” and “Perfect Citizen,” about an NSA whistleblower who joins a Boston law firm.

“Really good arm,” said Gary Hughes, who was the Marlins’ scouting director when they selected Lynch, a pitcher from Stanford, in the second round of the 1992 draft. The Marlins entered the majors in 1993 as an expansion team, and Lynch started the first game in franchise history a year earlier, for the Erie Sailors of the New York-Penn League, a Class A affiliate. “Great guy, quality person, a heck of a football player,” Hughes said. Asked if he could have envisioned Lynch as a GM of an NFL team... Читать дальше...

49ers GM John Lynch transcript: ‘I’m eager to earn their trust’ Niners general manager John Lynch, who was hired Sunday, had a 25-minute introductory conference call this afternoon. Here is the full transcript, which was provided by the 49ers’ PR department: [...] I’m very humbled and as I said, excited, and I can’t wait to get going. In the recent months I’ve had a couple situations that arose with perspective owners and I’ve sat down with them and kind of shared my philosophies.’ [Denver Broncos... Читать дальше...

QUEBEC CITY — A French Canadian known for far-right, nationalist views was charged Monday with six counts of first-degree murder and five counts of attempted murder in the shooting rampage at a Quebec City mosque that Canada’s prime minister called an act of terrorism against Muslims. The 27-year-old, who has espoused support for the French far-right party of Marine Le Pen and had liked U.S. President Trump on his Facebook page, was known to those who monitor extremist groups in Quebec, said François Deschamps... Читать дальше...

(AP) — School administrators and local citizens urged Wyoming lawmakers Monday to avoid disrupting the state's public education system any more than absolutely necessary as they seek solutions to a looming $360 million K-12 shortfall. Several hundred people turned out for a House Education Committee public hearing on a comprehensive education finance bill that would change how the state calculates enrollment, shorten the school year by five days and freeze special-education funding. Wyoming faces... Читать дальше...

The Trump administration moved over the weekend to ban all immigration from seven Muslim nations, including stopping the entry of students and scholars with valid study and work visas from those countries. The program brings students to the U.S. to “expand their understanding of civil society, as well as the democratic process and how both may be applied in their home communities.” Iraq also has an active Fulbright program – an international exchange program meant to “increase mutual understanding... Читать дальше...

Major cybersecurity companies like Cisco and Symantec have projected that global demand for cyber professionals could grow to 6 million by 2019 – with as many as 1.5 million of those positions going unfilled for lack of qualified candidates. Federal and state governments, academic institutions and private companies are all scrambling to address this urgent need, spending millions of dollars on various efforts. Academic institutions are key elements in supplying cybersecurity workers because employers... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump fires acting Attorney General Sally Yates after she orders Justice Dept. lawyers to stop defending refugee ban.

SEATTLE (AP) — Washington state's attorney general declared Monday that he was suing President Donald Trump over his temporary ban on immigration from seven countries with majority-Muslim populations, making it the first state to announce a legal action against the Trump administration over one of its policies. Trump's executive order also suspended the United States' entire refugee program and set off nationwide protests over the weekend, including one that drew 3,000 people to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Читать дальше...

Rihanna is the most recent celebrity to get caught in the crosshairs of Azealia Banks’ rage, but there were many… many before her who got their own taste of the rapper’s rage. The battle of the Azaleas started in 2012, when Banks called out XXL magazine for placing Iggy on its “Freshman” cover after she spit lyrics like “runway slave master” on one of her tracks. In 2014, Banks called out Iggy for being quick to appropriate black culture while staying silent went it comes to black issues — like the police shooting of Mike Brown. Читать дальше...

The large San Francisco hotel and condominium complex proposed for 950 Market St. is set to move forward after the developer reached an agreement with a coalition of LGBTQ activists who had opposed the project. On Monday, developer Group I agreed to pay $300,000 into a fund that will be used to establish a transgender community center, to create a transgender historic and cultural district, and to support transgender-serving businesses and nonprofits in the district. In the weeks leading up to the deal... Читать дальше...

Sundance 2017: “We shot on the same floor, in the same building” the actress tells TheWrap about the biopic of hip hop pioneer Roxanne Shante. Newcomer Chante Adams stars in one of Sundance’s biggest hits this year, “Roxanne Roxanne,” as one of the pivotal figures of 1980s hip-hop, Roxanne Shante. Roxanne Shante (born Lolita Shante Gordon) became famous at age 14 for kicking off one of the earliest, if not the earliest rap beefs, the so-called “Roxanne Wars” between the rap group UTFO and the Juice Crew hip hop collective... Читать дальше...

Ben Affleck has stepped down as the director of the planned DC Comics standalone movie, “The Batman.” Both the star and studio Warner Bros. say he’ll still play handsome billionaire Bruce Wayne and his vigilante alter ego Batman in the undated film. “Warner Bros. fully supports Ben Affleck‘s decision and remains committed to working with him to bring a standalone Batman picture to life,” a WB spokesperson added. Though it was never dated, reports said it eyed a 2018 release date, a massively ambitious... Читать дальше...

The win came after Lyft co-founders John Zimmer and Logan Green sent a letter to members Sunday morning declaring opposition to Trump’s executive order on the travel ban and announcing a $1 million donation to the ACLU (split over four years). [...] Lyft’s fortunes were helped by Uber, currently in the midst of a public relations crisis thanks to the close ties between CEO Travis Kalanick and the Trump administration. Obama Breaks Silence to Back Travel Ban Protesters: 'American Values Are at Stake'... Читать дальше...

After a customer enters an order at the kiosk or through an app, a robot does the work of moving the cups around, first from the automated espresso machine and then to where customers can pick them up. When the drink is ready, the customer enters a code, and the robot places the cup on a small elevator that lowers it to that customer’s individual window. The three roasters who provide the coffee for Cafe X’s drinks programmed the espresso machines for certain grinds, tamping pressure and extraction time. Читать дальше...

“Body and Soul,” an eclectic program with dances by such choreographers as Christopher Wheeldon, Sonya Delawaide and Robert Dekkers, kicks off Diablo Ballet’s 23rd season this weekend. Wheeldon’s piece will be the pas de deux from “Mercurial Manoeuvres” with Dmitri Shostakovitch’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Minor being performed live by pianist Aileen Chanco. [...] on the schedule will be the second act pas de deux from Marius Petipa’s “Don Quixote,” which will be set by Diablo Ballet Artistic Director Lauren Jonas.

After a stint in rehab, Chaplin returns to America with his first solo album, “The Wave,” which he recorded with producer Matt Hales (Aqualung, Lianne La Havas). Rest assured, the booming voice and surge of emotions remain intact as the London native embraces his second chance. “I have to pinch myself sometimes when I realize it’s only two years since my life was in a complete downward spiral,” says Chaplin, who performs at Great American Music Hall on Friday, Feb. 3.

There's a new TCHO flavor in town.

(AP) — Republican Gov. Bill Haslam on Monday outlined a $37 billion annual spending proposal that would include the state's first gas tax hike in nearly three decades, extend his signature Tennessee Promise free community college tuition program to adults and boost salaries for state employees, teachers and college workers. The governor acknowledged that it may be tough to persuade fellow Republicans to "hit the green button" to vote for a tax increase, especially while the state enjoys a projected... Читать дальше...

Even better, the Pittsburgh Steelers running back is using his hip-hop skills to tackle his on-air nemesis, Fox Sports’ talent Skip Bayless. [...] while the Steelers won’t be playing in Super Bowl LI after being blown out by the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship game, Bell torched the “Undisputed” host with his diss track “Shrimp Bayless” on Monday. Bell continues to blast Bayless with his rhyming tunes, deftly mixing in soundbites from “First Take” and FS1 debate show “Undisputed” to attack the host with his own words... Читать дальше...

AT&T agreed to acquire Time Warner in October in an $85 billion deal that would combine assets including the Warner Bros. studio, CNN, HBO, DirecTV and AT&T Wireless in one massive conglomerate and make AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. [...] CNN is a very profitable asset that other media companies would certainly consider buying, and the company’s financial situation is healthy enough to conceivably stand alone. “Here’s the one caveat that bankers... Читать дальше...

For some reason, the proponents of the boycott had only just figured out what the premise of “Star Wars” was and decided to pretend that “Rogue One” was granting new, shocking subtext to this saga which has a central conflict that can best be summed us as “leftist rebellion led by women vs racist fascists.” Take “Selma,” the powerful Civil Rights film about the Martin Luther King, Jr-led march to Birmingham — a march which was contested at every turn by racist conservatives who were intent on maintaining... Читать дальше...

President Trump signed an executive order Friday that makes major changes to America’s immigration system, sparking confusion at airports, protests around the country and denunciations from leaders around the world. The order also calls for Homeland Security and State department officials, along with the director of national intelligence, to review what information the government needs to fully vet would-be visitors and come up with a list of countries that don’t provide it. Homeland Security Secretary... Читать дальше...

Sam Elliott takes a walk on the mild side in his latest film, “The Hero,” playing a washed-up Western actor who is relegated to making a living doing voice overs for barbecue sauce. The film follows Elliott’s Lee Hayden, “a sad, lonely guy, who smokes a lot of weed and hangs out with his drug dealer and best friend, played by Nick [Offerman],” writer-director Brett Haley said of the role. “[The] idea was to cast Sam and Katherine, who are a real life married couple, but she plays his ex-wife in the film... Читать дальше...