Новости за 15.02.2017

The Warriors are the NBA’s third most valuable franchise, per a Forbes report published Wednesday. The Knicks and Lakers, which checked in at No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, have long been the league’s most valuable clubs. [...] Golden State is the fastest-rising franchise, jumping an NBA-high 37 percent to $2.6 billion. Since the start of the 2014-15 season, they’ve posted a 186-33 regular-season record, won an NBA title, set a league-record with 73 regular-season victories and reached two straight NBA Finals. Читать дальше...

Kel Mitchell and wife Asia Lee make an epic 'Good Burger' baby announcement

The episode, called “Spectre of the Gun” and airing Wednesday, tracks a masked shooter attacking City Hall and the ensuing debate about gun control, both among the vigilantes of Star City and the politicians. “We went into Season 5 wanting to do an episode about an issue,” executive producer Marc Guggenheim told reporters earlier this week following a screening of the episode, lamenting that current broadcast dramas don’t often tackle topical issues the way shows like “LA Law” and “Picket Fences” did. Читать дальше...

The SFJazz High School All-Stars musicians are among a dozen finalists that will take part in the Charles Mingus High School Jazz Band Competition as part of the ninth annual Charles Mingus Festival. Other finalists in the competition include the Berkeley High School Combo; Rio Americano High School Jazz Combo from Sacramento; Jazz at Lincoln Center Youth Studio Ensemble, from New York; and groups from Massachusetts, New Jersey and Oklahoma. Outstanding soloists from the competition are invited... Читать дальше...

Hayley Atwell will star in the BBC, Starz co-production of the novel adaptation “Howard’s End,” which will be adapted by “Manchester by the Sea” director and writer Kenneth Lonergan, Starz announced Wednesday. Executive produced by Playground in association with City Entertainment and KippSter Entertainment, the series will explore the changing landscape of social and class divisions in turn of the century England through the prism of three families: the intellectual and idealistic Schlegels, the wealthy Wilcoxes from the world of business... Читать дальше...

Huevos + Chorizo = #eeeeeats #casuela #sfeats A post shared by Glena’s SF (@glenassf) on Feb 12, 2017 at 2:12pm PST Related Links Glena's: Former Kin Khao chef headed to Dogpatch for new restaurant Former Kin Khao chef Michael Gaines’ debut solo restaurant, Glena’s, opens its doors to the public on Wednesday (2/15). While the Dogpatch restaurant has been billed as a fast-casual tacos and margaritas concept, for now — until the liquor license transfer is finalized — it will just be tacos, along with... Читать дальше...

CNN’s Jim Acosta said “the fix is in” after President Donald Trump only called on conservative news organizations during a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The CNN reporter wanted to ask the president about a Tuesday night report by The New York Times that members of his campaign team and their associates had repeated contact with senior Russian intelligence officials in the year before the presidential election. Earlier on Wednesday, Trump expressed outrage at the media in a series of tweets... Читать дальше...

Clyde Phillips will take over legal drama’s day-to-day producing duties from David E. Kelley “Amazon is proud of ‘Goliath’ and Billy Bob’s amazing, Golden Globe-winning performance,” said Joe Lewis, head of Comedy, Drama & VR at Amazon Studios.

Photo by Audrey Dilling California’s high-speed rail system is the biggest infrastructure project in the state. This documentary dives into the project. Click the player above to hear what’s happening right now, what challenges the project faces and who will be impacted. See more at kalw.org.

(AP) — Stormy winter weather downed 17 power poles near a Wyoming resort last week, causing the region's residents and visitors to abandon several hotels and hundreds of homes. The Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce estimates that 1,500 rentable units were deserted last week, including all eight hotels in Teton Village, reported The Jackson Hole News & Guide (http://bit.ly/2kTpdhh ). The power outage cost local businesses more than $5 million in lost revenue and inventory, $2.5 million of which... Читать дальше...

DELPHI, Ind. (AP) — State police: 2 bodies found in Indiana are identified as those of missing 13-year-old girls; investigated as homicides.

Debbie Sebastian, a Travel Leaders agent in Danville, Kentucky, says she's seeing lots of groups traveling with Punta Cana being the most popular choice this year. Some ski resorts schedule fun events to mark the end of winter, from concerts to costume contests and parties with a beach-and-barbecue theme. Baseball fans often schedule trips to catch their favorite MLB teams getting ready for opening day. Wendy Perrin, founder of the travel planning site WendyPerrin.com, says her best spring vacations... Читать дальше...

The audit shows more than $1.1 million in disbursements from the travel fund were "undocumented and/or posted to the general ledger but not the travel log" between January 2007 and early September 2016. The audit alleges the former employee charged $30,037 in credit card purchases without evident business purpose from October 2015 through September 2016.

Vice President Mike Pence, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly also are expected to attend the event. With the help of JobsOhio and its regional partners, Ohioans have generated nearly 450,000 new private sector jobs since 2011 and diversified the state's economy with forward-looking industries. Online state expense records show travel expenses from the Ohio State Highway Patrol's non-highway enforcement fund have totaled about $102,000 so far this fiscal year.

COMPIEGNE, France (AP) — Conservative French presidential candidate Francois Fillon wants to prosecute 16 and 17-year-olds as adults, arguing it would prevent the kind of unrest that has rocked the low-income suburbs of Paris following an alleged police rape. A few dozen protesters were shouting "Fillon in prison!" near the entrance of the conference hall near Compiegne, where thousands gathered to listen to the conservative candidate's speech.

(AP) — A Missouri appellate court has ruled that the state's prison officials aren't obligated to publicly reveal the source of the drug used to execute prisoners. The appellate court's Western District decided Tuesday to overturn a 2016 trial court ruling that found the state wrongly withheld documents that would identify pharmaceutical suppliers, The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/2l6Ztwl ) reported. Missouri and many other active death penalty states refuse to disclose the source of their drugs... Читать дальше...

(AP) — A Louisiana state senator asked a court Wednesday to stall Senate efforts to remove him from office, even as his colleagues charged ahead with historic expulsion proceedings that stem from multiple domestic violence incidents. Senators seeking to oust him say that conduct makes him unfit to be a senator, but Brown's lawyer Jill Craft argues that he's being denied the opportunity to properly defend himself and that senators' disciplinary efforts go too far for misdemeanor crimes. Brown sought... Читать дальше...

PHOENIX (AP) — Phoenix police have released the name of a teenage boy who was killed in a shooting on the city's west side. They announced Wednesday that the victim was Carlos Villareal. He was transported to a hospital after Monday night's shooting and was later pronounced dead. Police say a 15-year-old boy was critically injured in the same incident. His name hasn't been released yet. Police say both teens were shot by one of two suspects who both then ran off. The incident occurred outside a residence near 35th and Northern avenues.

Legislators in both the House and Senate rose for a moment of silent prayer Wednesday to honor a legislator universally beloved by Democrats and Republicans, even though Neal often admonished the chamber's GOP majority as he fought for the underprivileged. The issues he advocated included better health care, education and infrastructure in poor communities. Neal's death stunned legislators, who described him as passionate yet never confrontational. Neal often rose last to speak on legislation ... Читать дальше...

An Arizona law that required doctors to inform women of the potential ability of qualified medical professionals to "reverse a medication abortion" was challenged in court and later repealed by the Legislature. Indiana's measure would require the State Health Department to create a form directing pregnant women toward more information on the potential to stop their drug-induced abortion midway through the procedure. ACOG has stated that claims about "abortion reversals" aren't supported by scientific... Читать дальше...

[...] the state's top Democrats, including McMahon's two former political opponents, have high praise for the former professional wrestling executive. Blumenthal says McMahon could drive benefits to Connecticut businesses and be a "voice of sanity and stability" within Republican President Donald Trump's administration regarding economic policy.

Minnesota Public Radio (http://bit.ly/2lLs2ml ) reports the farmer-lender program requires lenders to offer struggling farmers the chance to renegotiate debt terms with the help of a mediator before repossessing any property. The program began during the 1980s, when low crop prices, high interest rates and plunging land values sent thousands of farmers into financial collapse.

[...] another student group, the Harvard College Global Health and Aids Coalition, says the appearance "promotes and glorifies murderous financial practices." Shkreli was criticized after his company purchased a drug used by AIDS and cancer patients to fight parasitic infections and dramatically raised its price.

Immigrant workers, families to protest by staying home Trump has pledged to increase deportation of immigrants living in the country illegally, build a wall along the Mexican border, and ban people from certain majority-Muslim countries from coming into the U.S. He has blamed high unemployment on immigration.

Joey Mahmoud, executive vice president of Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners, said protesters have "assaulted numerous pipeline personnel," destroyed millions of dollars' worth of construction equipment and even fired a pistol at law enforcement during months of demonstrations against the 1,200-mile pipeline, which will carry North Dakota oil to an Illinois terminal. Mahmoud said in written testimony to Congress that the protest movement induced individuals to break into and shut down pump stations on four operational pipelines. Читать дальше...