Новости за 17.06.2019

1. Sports Illustrated Has a New Publisher, Digital Company TheMaven  The New York Times
2. Sports Illustrated's Media Operations Pawned Off To Unproven Start-Up Helmed By Longtime Media Creeps  Deadspin
3. Sports Illustrated Editorial Control In New Hands  NPR
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Are BoJack Horseman veteran Lisa Hanawalt’s 30-year-old BBFs (Best Bird Friends) in her new Netflix animated series, Tuca & Bertie, a sort of surreal Mary Richards and Rhoda Morgenstern for millennials?  Or are insecure songbird Bertie, voiced by Ali Wong, and her crazy Toucan gal pal Tuca, portrayed by Tiffany Haddish, inspiring young women to compare themselves […]

If you weren’t scared of scuba diving before, you might be after watching this video. Intense footage shows the moment when a diver from Mayak Gamov, Russia, was grabbed by a giant octopus in the Sea of Japan. The animal strongly latched onto his body for a few moments, but he was able to escape...

KUWAIT: More than 200 people were arrested in a massive security campaign that covered several industrial areas in two governorates yesterday. Capital and Ahmadi Security men cordoned Ahmadi Industrial, Bnaid Al-Qar and Sharq Industrial before inspecting the identities of around 900 people, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. Police arrested 232 people including those […]

Reinvent the bake sale and win at the cookie swap.

The protesters used low tech gear and street smarts to defeat China's many efforts to disrupt the protests. Here's how they did it.

• Protesters in Hong Kong, numbering more than one million and skewing young, defeated the will of China's powerful Communist Party by beating a bill that would allow China to make Hong Konger's face trail on the mainland.
• China has delved into techno-authoritarianism, where it uses technology to surveil virtually every aspect of people's lives, and then assigns them social credit scores based on how good or bad the Communist Party finds them. 
• The protesters used low tech... Читать дальше...

Rodney Dangerfield may finally be getting some respect in the halls of higher education. MGM Television is developing a docu-series inspired by the 1986 Dangerfield film “Back to School,” in which the comedian’s character, millionaire Thorton Melon, enrolls in college with his son to keep him from dropping out. In typical Dangerfield fashion, he triggers […]

Let’s not pretend first means there’s a good place to start.

The law now blamed for mass incarceration is on few Democratic voters' radar, a new HuffPost/YouGov survey suggests.

An order of protection couldn't prevent the fatal shooting of a Fort Benning soldier who survived two combat tours in Afghanistan.

Menthol cigarettes have been disproportionated marketed to black communities for decades, and the effects of that promotion had a lingering effect, new findings show.

NEW YORK (AP) — Officials say they're assigning an extra 500 police officers to New York City's transit system amid a jump in fare evasion and assaults on workers.

MOORHEAD, MN- The official statistician of the American Association, Pointstreak, has announced that Sioux City Explorers’ RHP Tyler Fallwell has been named this week’s Pointstreak Pitcher of the Week for the week ending June 16, 2019. The Explorers swept this week’s weekly awards with SS Nate Samson winning the Pointstreak Player of the Week Award […]

Tottenham Hotspur’s pursuit of Lyon midfielder Tanguy Ndombele is already on track to be this summer’s ‘Jack Grealish’. Ndombele revealed […]

Stuff reports: Questions have been raised over whether the Government knew meningitis vaccines were available for every Northland child, despite an apparent state rationing. A community outbreak of a rare strain of Meningitis (W) has been confirmed in seven cases in Northland in 2018, resulting in three deaths of children under 20.  … The documents show Clark was […]

A study found that dogs, but not wolves, have a muscle that allows them to make their eyes look bigger and sadder -- a move that may have elicited human care during domestication.

CLEARFIELD – On June 11, Bobby Cadabra entertained families and children at the Joseph & Elizabeth Shaw Public Library and started off the Summer Reading program, which runs through the end of July.  Open to all ages, the Summer Reading program has activities scheduled for each week that are free to the public. The Shaw […]

The badly damaged eye that ended Donald Cerrone's battle with Tony Ferguson will need a doctor's clearance following UFC 238.

Watch Japan vs England Live Stream & Highlights Video Watch Japan vs England live streaming online for free and highlights goals. FIFA Women’s World Cup match between Japan vs England on 19 June 2019 at Allianz Riviera, Nice. Watch this game live online streams and football highlights goals. When Is Kick Off? 19 June 2019 […]

MOORHEAD, MN- The official statistician of the American Association, Pointstreak, has announced that Sioux City Explorers’ SS Nate Samson has been named this week’s Pointstreak Player of the Week for the week ending June 16, 2019. The Explorers swept this week’s weekly awards with RHP Tyler Fallwell winning the Pointstreak Pitcher of the Week Award […]

The name Zack Wheeler may resonate with casual baseball fans more than that of Mike Soroka, but the Braves’ Soroka has been by far the better starting pitcher. Soroka has allowed more than one earned run in two of his 11 starts this season while giving up two home runs over the course of 70...

CT Current Conditions as of 03:00 PM EDT Monday, June 17, 2019

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City/Town;Weather Condition;Temp (F);Wind Direction;Wind Speed (MPH);Humidity (%)

Bridgeport;Cloudy;76;SW;4;72%

Chester;Cloudy;76;N;4;66%

Danbury;Cloudy;74;N;7;66%

Groton;Cloudy;74;SW;10;70%

Hartford;Cloudy;77;Calm;0;55%

Meriden;Cloudy;77;Calm;0;59%

New Haven;Cloudy;76;N;6;66%

Oxford;Cloudy;73;S;5;73%

Willimantic;Cloudy;77;NNW;6;55%

Windsor Locks;Cloudy;76;Calm;0;55%

LIBERALS CAN’T GET ENOUGH of Pope Francis. His calls for tolerance toward Muslim refugees and gay people receive headlines the world over, and his Tweets on the need to address poverty and climate change routinely break the internet. This fascination is somewhat paradoxical because the Catholic Church, at least in the liberal imagination, is usually […]