Новости за 30.03.2018

FRUITPORT TOWNSHIP, Mich. — About 30 dogs are believed to have died in an early morning fire Friday at a boarding kennel in western Michigan, leaving owners of the animals and the facility devastated. Janet Rehfus, one of the owners of Storm’s Ahead Kennels in Muskegon County’s Fruitport Township, said she awoke about 4:40 a.m....

From SABR member Jay Jaffe at FanGraphs on March 30, 2018:

A celebrity chef and restauranteur, a philanthropist, an icon in two cities, an All-Star in three, and the only player to collect at least 500 hits with four different franchises — Rusty Staub was all that and more. “Le Grand Orange,” who played in the major leagues from 1963 through 1985 and collected 2,716 hits including 292 homers, passed away on Thursday, hours before the start of the 2018 season and three days shy of his 74th birthday. Читать дальше...

The national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Prince Uche Secondus, has threatened to take the minister of information and culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, to court for including his name in the alleged list of looters

No. 11 seed Loyola-Chicago takes a nation's-best 14-game winning streak into its Final Four game against Michigan

Tickets to the Masters are considered the second-hardest to obtain in sports, trailing only the Super Bowl.

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• Tickets to the Masters are considered the second-hardest to obtain in sports, trailing only the Super Bowl.
• Tickets are cheap if you are lucky enough to be a patron or win the annual lottery.
• If you don't get tickets directly from Augusta National, be prepared to spend thousands.

Want tickets to the Masters? It's possible, but it is not easy unless you are willing to shell out the big bucks.

Tickets — or badges — to... Читать дальше...

• Weddings can have an astrological chart, just like birthdays.
• Astrologers analyze wedding date, time, and location to determine where the planets will be on the day of the wedding.
• The most important planet to consider when it comes to weddings is Venus, the planet of love.

We look to the stars when we start a new relationship, so why wouldn't we check in with them before tying the knot?See the rest of the story at Business Insider

French lawyers staged a walkout Friday while Air France staff went on strike over pay, adding to a growing wave of industrial unrest that threatens to slow President Emmanuel Macron's reform drive. Air France cancelled a quarter of the day's flights as its pilots, stewards and ground crew press for a six percent pay rise. And courts postponed hearings as hundreds of lawyers, clerks and magistrates stopped work across the country to protest judicial reforms, among a slew of changes by the ambitious... Читать дальше...

Crews have gotten a handle on a fire at a home on the southwest side of the metro, Friday afternoon.

For years now the narrative du jour in online news circles has been that the news comment section is an irredeemable menace. Outlet after outlet has informed us that they care so much about the integrity of public dialogue online that they've decided to ban website visitors from commenting on news articles entirely. Usually, these bans are accompanied by some sanctimonious claim that banning people from speaking on site was done because the outlet in question just really "valued conversation,"... Читать дальше...

Spotify's imminent IPO isn't the only indication that the music streaming subscription business is a success: a recent study reveals that music streaming services make up for more than half of the total music revenue in the United States. As this chart by Statista shows, the leading source of revenue within the music industry are streaming services like Spotify, Apple and Amazon. The streaming music business generated more than $4 billion in revenue last year, and its share of the music industry's revenue keeps growing. Читать дальше...

SCRANTON, Pa. — Two married Pennsylvania teachers are accused of sexually abusing a teenage student, according to WNEP. The two teachers from Lackawanna County, Ruth and Nick Baggetta, were arraigned Thursday afternoon on charges of institutional sexual assault. They’re also charged with corruption of minors and endangering the welfare of children. Ruth Baggetta is a music teacher at Lakeland High School and the school’s band director. Her husband teaches at Fell Charter School near Carbondale. Both... Читать дальше...

Sunderland moved off the bottom of the Championship table as a surprise 4-1 win at play-off hopefuls Derby County earned former Wales coach Chris Coleman his second victory of 2018. Craig Forsyth deflected a shot into his own net and gave away a penalty in a miserable individual display, fifth-placed Derby's winless streak stretching to eight matches following an awful team performance at a sodden Pride Park on Friday. George Honeyman gave the Black Cats an early lead when his strike was glanced beyond Scott Carson by Forsyth... Читать дальше...

New details about rapper Fabolous’ aggravated assault incident have surfaced.

Aliaskhab Khizriev stayed undefeated in style.

The 29-year-old Russian welterweight became an interim titleholder at Fight Nights Global 85 in Moscow, Russia, on Friday, needing just 58 seconds to put away UFC veteran and former World Series of Fighting champion Rousimar Palhares in the evening’s co-main event.

Before the match even began, there was a cloud over Palhares, who came in overweight for the title bout and was thus ineligible to capture gold himself. When the bell rang... Читать дальше...

Heidi Klum continues to prove that age is nothing more than just a number with her latest sexy shoot.

Michal Kwiatkowski's build-up to the Tour of Flanders took place a long way south of the grey steeples and low skies of the Flemish Ardennes, but even from the remove of his training base on the Côte d'Azur, the lie of the land was clear. The road to victory in Oudenaarde on Sunday runs through his old teammates at Quick-Step Floors.

Les Irlandais peuvent désormais étancher leur soif dans des pubs ou acheter de l'alcool en magasin lors du Vendredi saint, une journée traditionnellement sobre où la vente d'alcool était prohibée depuis près d'un siècle, jusqu'au vote récent d'une loi levant cette interdiction.

The US Navy’s F-35C has been scheduled to reach initial operational capability (IOC) in 2018 since at least 2013. However, in yet another turn in the expensive F-35 saga, the F-35C is now likely to miss its 2018 deadline.

And how the U.S. president can try to avoid getting played

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's unscripted remark this week about pulling out of Syria "very soon," while at odds with his own policy, was not a one-off: For weeks, top advisers have been fretting about an overly hasty withdrawal as the president has increasingly told them privately he wants out, US officials said.

Only two months ago, Trump's aides thought they'd persuaded him that the US needed to keep its presence in Syria open-ended — not... Читать дальше...

Rogues Gallery wrote:

So if Escare was unfit, and Sam couldn't play which two experienced players would you have brought in and where would you have played them?

OKLAHOMA (KFSM) — The following schools in our area are closed Monday (April 2) in support of the teacher walkout: Arkoma School District Cameron Schools District – also closed Tuesday, April 3 Moffett School District Monroe School District Muldrow School District Panama School District Poteau School District Roland School District Sallisaw School District Vian School District Wister School District Governor Fallin signed HB101XX, a $447 million tax increase that would fund an average $6,000 pay increase for teachers... Читать дальше...