Новости за 07.12.2017

December 7, 2017

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THIS WEEK

· The Dakota State (S.D.) University Trojan men's basketball team (7-4 overall record, receiving votes in the NAIA Division II Coaches' Top 25 national poll) steps aside their North Star conference play with a non-conference game on Saturday afternoon on the road.

· The Trojans take on the top-ranked team in the NAIA Division II, Northwestern (Iowa) (10-2 overall record) at Bultman Center (101 7th Street SW) in Orange City, Iowa. Читать дальше...

Wired's Nitasha Tiku reports that Justin Caldbeck, a venture capitalist with a number of sexual harassment claims made against him, sent apology emails containing the same wording to multiple recipients.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee has hired Alabama defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt as its head coach, capping a tumultuous search that cost an athletic director his job as the Volunteers attempt to recover from one of their most disappointing seasons. The school scheduled a news conference for 6:05 p.m. Thursday to introduce Pruitt. Pruitt's hiring comes six days after former Tennessee football coach Phillip Fulmer was named athletic director and put in charge of the coaching search. Fulmer took over for John Currie... Читать дальше...

WASHINGTON — With a bill like a duck but teeth like a croc’s, a swanlike neck and killer claws, a new dinosaur species uncovered by scientists looks like something Dr. Seuss could have dreamed up. It also had flippers like a penguin, and while it walked like an ostrich it could also swim. That’s the...

Une équipe américaine d'astrophysiciens a détecté le plus lointain trou noir supermassif à ce jour. Le phénomène céleste est situé au centre d'un quasar ultralumineux, dont la lumière n'a été émise que 690 millions d'années après le big bang créateur de notre Univers.

BEND, Ore. — Dr. Byron Maas surveys a supply of marijuana products for dogs that lines a shelf in his veterinary clinic. They’re selling well. “The ‘Up and Moving’ is for joints and for pain,” he explains. “The ‘Calm and Quiet’ is for real anxious dogs, to take away that anxiety.” People anxious to relieve...

Frankfurt/Main (dpa) - An der Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse wurden im elektronischen Handel (Xetra) am 7.12.2017 um 17:56 Uhr folgende Schlusskurse für die Werte des SDAX festgestellt. (Stand und Veränderung zur Schlussnotierung am vorherigen Börsentag bei Aktien in Euro, bei Indizes in Punkten). SDAX-Werte Dividende Kurs Veränderung Adler Real Est -,-- 12,34 (+ 0,03) Ado Properties 0,45 43,80 (- 0,71) Aroundtown Prop -,-- 6,45 (- 0,10) Bertrandt... Читать дальше...

Showing off on social media: Mugabe’s son Robert Jr was said to have launched his own clothing label which will be "competitive on the international scene"

Flickr / Joel Kramer

• Dippin' Dots sales and franchisee inquiries soared after a public feud with Sean Spicer.
• The company's CEO, Scott Fischer, told Business Insider that the feud had the impact of "50 Super Bowl ads."  
• "I think people have to have a hero and a villain," Fischer said. "We may not be the hero, but Spicer was definitely the villain."

Dippin' Dots' sales soared after a public feud with then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer.

Figure skater Evgenia Medvedeva is speaking out against the International Olympic Committee’s ban on Russian athletes competing for the nation in the forthcoming Winter Olympics. “In 2014, I was 14 years old,” the 18-year-old competitor wrote in a statement Tuesday to the IOC’s executive board, per Ice Network. “I have not even entered the adult...

As if Tory Burch‘s Black Friday Sale wasn’t epic enough, now the brand is celebrating the holiday season with yet another major sale where you can shop a huge selection of fabulous items for up to 60 percent off. The secret to gaining access to this incredible sale is actually no secret at all – the discounts are already applied for you, so you all you have to do is add your favorites from the sale section to your shopping cart and voilà!

An Edmonton gym has banned one of its co-founders — gymnastics coach Michel Arsenault — and Gymnastics Canada has suspended him amid allegations he sexually abused some of his former students.

An Edmonton gym has banned one of its co-founders — gymnastics coach Michel Arsenault, who is originally from Quebec — amid allegations he sexually abused some of his former students.

Frankfurt/Main (dpa) - An der Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse wurden am 7.12.2017 um 17:56 Uhr folgende Kurse für 18 ausgewählte Auslandswerte festgestellt. (Stand und Veränderung zur Schlussnotierung am vorherigen Börsentag bei Aktien in Euro). Aktie Kurs Veränderung Altria Group 60,21 (- 0,27) Apple 143,68 (- 0,06) Banco 5,48 (- 0,01) Santander BP Amoco 5,56 (- 0,10) Coca-Cola 39,00 (- 0,28) DowDuPont ... Читать дальше...

Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) announced his resignation "in the coming weeks" Thursday after two more women came forward Wednesday to allege he had inappropriately touched them. "I am aware of the irony that I am leaving while a man who has bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault sits in the Oval Office and a man who has preyed on underage girls is running for the Senate with the full support of his party," Franken told his colleagues from the Senate floor.

“I’m not looking to just have a bunch of pictures in a book. I want to make this a sacred object,” Lynn Goldsmith said of Kiss: 1977-1980, which the acclaimed rock photographer says is now the fastest-selling title that the storied art publisher Rizzoli has ever produced. When a heavy, silver-gilded volume arrived at my apartment a few days later, I understood exactly what she meant. Sure, Kiss’s “Alive!” is probably the greatest album of all time (like, name a better one), but I could never quite... Читать дальше...

It all has to do with a concert in Buenos Aires that at least one person won't admit ever happened. So, you know, normal stuff.

Frankfurt/Main (dpa) - Folgende Aktien des DAX, MDAX und TecDAX wiesen im elektronischen Handel (XETRA) der Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse am 7.12.2017 die beste und die schlechteste Entwicklung auf. (Stand und Veränderung zur Schlussnotierung am vorherigen Börsentag bei Aktien in Euro.)Gewinner Kurs Veränderung in Prozent 1. Aixtron AG 11,70 (+ 4,56) 2. Nordex 7,96 (+ 4,25) 3. Adva AG 5,99 (+ 4,06) 4. Читать дальше...

Estambul, 7 dic (dpa) - En la crisis desatada por el reconocimiento de Estados Unidos de Jerusalén como capital de Israel, no ha sido un país árabe el que con más dureza ha criticado la medida, sino Turquía: el presidente turco, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, se ha erigido en la voz más contundente hasta ahora contra Donald Trump.Erdogan acusó a Trump de haber lanzado "la región a una espiral de fuego". "Trump, ¿qué pretendes? ¿Qué significa esta forma de actuar? Los dirigentes políticos no están para agitar sino para conciliar"... Читать дальше...

A’s Coverage:

• Kurtenbach: It’s time for the A’s to move to Plan C — fixing the Coliseum...
• Ostler: A’s, Laney College stadium site faced long odds from the start...
• Oakland Athletics 2018 top-50 prospects: Eric Marinez, IF...

MLB News:

• Rafael Palmeiro, 53, says 'no doubt' he can make it back to MLB...
• Aaron Sanchez to resume throwing after injury-plagued season...
• Mariners, Angels add $1M apiece from Twins to pursue Shohei... Читать дальше...

Berlin (dpa) - Markus Hilgert (48), Direktor des Vorderasiatischen Museums in Berlin, übernimmt die Leitung der Kulturstiftung der Länder. Er folgt damit der langjährigen Generalsekretärin Isabel Pfeiffer-Poensgen, die im Juni als Kulturministerin nach Nordrhein-Westfalen wechselte. Das beschloss der Stiftungsrat unter Vorsitz der saarländischen Ministerpräsidentin Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer am Donnerstag in Berlin.Hilgert ist ein international renommierter Altorientalist. Nach seiner Habilitation... Читать дальше...

SINCE it launched in the US a decade ago, Google Street View cameras have captured much of the Western world and beyond.

On Thursday, Minnesota Senator Al Franken resigned from the United States Senate, he said in an announcement he made a day after a number of his Democratic colleagues called for him to step down following a growing number of allegations of sexual harassment.

London will host seven games during Euro 2020 after UEFA handed the four fixtures scheduled for Brussels to Wembley on Thursday. UEFA decided to reallocate the three group-stage games and one last-16 game originally given to the Belgian capital because of delays in the project to build a new 60,000-capacity Eurostadium on the site of Heysel. Cardiff's Principality Stadium and Stockholm's Friends Arena - the venues for last season's finals of the Champions League and Europa League, respectively - had hoped to pick up Brussels' games. Читать дальше...