Daily Mail: The cost of repairing broken window blinds at London's iconic City Hall, which houses the offices of Mayor Boris Johnson, is set to top £730,000.
The glass-clad building on the South Bank of the Thames - which was designed by architect Norman Foster and is one of the capital's landmarks - has suffered from defective blinds for years, hampering efforts to clean its windows.
The bulk of the costs of the repairs are being met under an insurance policy. But the Greater London Authority (GLA) must contribute almost £100,000 in taxpayers' money - under an excess clause in the policy and for work that it does not cover.


Resident Evil 7 is about to get a lot weirder--considering how freaky the game's original Beginning Hour demo is, I'm both trepidatious and excited.
Capcom has announced a new Twilight content update for Resident Evil 7's excellent (and super disturbing) teaser demo, along with a fresh batch of screenshots and a new trailer.
Starting today the Resident Evil 7 demo (including the new Twilight update) will be available to all PS4 gamers and won't require PlayStation Plus, so be sure to check it out--it's definitely worth a playthrough, and has a very real PT vibe to it. Capcom has also announced that Resident Evil 7's Deluxe Edition will include a new story expansion, bringing up the grand total of season pass story missions to three. To make up for this extra bit of content, the deluxe edition will jump from $79.99 to $89.99, but if you pre-order it before the adjustment you'll get all three missions.
Basically Capcom is doing what Bethesda did with its Fallout 4 Season Pass price hike.
Capcom has confirmed that Resident Evil 7 will support 4K visuals and HDR upgrades on Sony's new PlayStation 4 Pro console, as well as HDR on the Xbox One S. Check here for a full list of confirmed PS4 Pro game upgrades.
Resident Evil 7 launches on January 24, 2017 on PS4, and will be one of the first full VR experiences on Sony's new PlayStation VR headset. For the most part PSVR games are bite-sized chunks specifically designed for virtual reality, but RE7 will be the same game across PS4 and PSVR.


High oil prices have replaced Greece as the chief threat to the world's fragile economic recovery, an HSBC report finds.
Fears of a Greek default and ensuing financial implosion in Europe have threatened global recovery, but spikes in already high oil prices will be even worse.
Tensions between the West with Iran over Tehran's nuclear ambitions have sparked major fears that saber rattling will escalate into conflict and threaten supply.
"Has Iran developed a nuclear capability, will there be a war with Israel or, indeed, the U.S., and, in a bizarre self-defeating act of retaliation, would Iran be tempted to seal the Straits of Hormuz?" HSBC Chief Economist Stephen King writes in a report, according to CNBC.
Iran has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway vital for oil tankers, to protest sanctions.
Worries are growing that Israel is mulling military strikes on Iran with or without the blessings of the United States.
Loose monetary policies in the United States and Europe have helped push prices up as well. Prices will stay high due to rising demand in the developed world anyway, but Middle East unrest could send prices skyrocketing.
Economists agree that high gasoline prices, which average $3.77 a gallon nationwide, threaten the U.S. economy.
"I don't think for a minute consumer confidence levels can be sustained in the face of sustained high gas prices," says Bernard Baumohl, head of the Economic Outlook Group, a Princeton, N.J., research firm, according to CNNMoney.


Athlon 64 3000+ vs Athlon64 X2 3800+?
Thread: Athlon 64 3000+ vs Athlon64 X2 3800+?
I am thinking of upgrading my CPU which is currently an Athlon 64 3000+ (socket 939) to an Athlon 64 X2 3800+. I have heard alot of good things about the X2's and i am a die hard gamer who loves to run graphics on high. So i guess my main question would be is it worth it? My current set up is below.
Re: Athlon 64 3000+ vs Athlon64 X2 3800+?
For gaming alone, it probably isn't worth it. But the boost you get when multitaskin and in multithreaded applications is definitely worth it. If you ever leaev anything running when you game or at least want to, then it will be worth it.


The Princeton University Mentoring Program, a program aimed at supporting ethnic minorities, is in the process of transitioning from three branches of mentorship programs to one inclusive program for students who identify as students of color.
PUMP was originally split into the Latinos Unidos for Networking and Advising, the Black Student Union’s Leadership and Mentoring Program and the Asian American Mentoring Program.
While the mentors and mentees were paired within ethnic groups under the previous construction, director of the Fields Center Tennille Haynessaid that under the new system freshmen can be paired with mentors of a different race if they wish. He explained that part of this change will be executed by including more detail on the mentee application by asking for the exact criteria that freshmen students look for in a mentor. Haynes addedthat mentors can also indicate how they want to be paired with mentees.
Margaret Wang ’14, the student coordinator for all of PUMP, said that PUMP hopes to recruit a diverse group of mentors this semester, which will then attract a diverse group of mentees.
The transition of PUMP will probably continue until the fall, Kevin Lopez ’16, co-coordinator of what was formerly LUNA,said, since the Class of 2018 will provide a new pool of mentees.
Part of the relevance of restructuring PUMP is that it relates to the dialogue about race that has been more present on campus with publications like The Daily Princetonian and Stripe Magazine, Wang said.
Jay Wilson ’17, who was a mentee in LAMP this year, said his involvement in LAMP was fantastic and important in his ability to establish himself in the school.
“I’ve gotten a lot of questions answered that I probably wouldn’t have been comfortable asking otherwise,” Wilson said.
Haynes said this effect on students is one of the reasons that mentorship for students of color is so important.
“There is numerous research that will show that mentorship for students of color helps them succeed,” Haynes said. “As [Princeton] is moving along, [PUMP] needs to change with it. The peer-to-peer mentorship that PUMP can provide for first year students entering college is really important."
Wang said the broadening of PUMP relates to the USG initiative of a campus-wide mentorship program, though she said PUMP would not conflict with a University-wide mentorship program. USG president Shawon Jackson ’15 said he thought the restructuring of PUMP would be a nice change to the centralization of underrepresented students in one program, noting that the USG hopes to pilot its new membership program for the Class of 2018.
The idea to transition PUMP was brought up last year, not long after Haynes was brought in as the director of the Fields Center. Wang explained that she saw a demand for a mentoring program for students of color that included more than just three racial groups.
“For example, during the activities fair, where we were advertising about PUMP for new mentors, students of other ethnicities were interested in it,” Wang said.
Wang said Haynes introduced the idea of an overarching PUMP to Wang and the other PUMP coordinator last year, and Lopez said that he, Haynes, Wang and the other coordinators of LAMP, LUNA and AAMP began debating how to go about the transition at the beginning of 2014.
One of the issues discussed was how to define a “student of color,” Wang explained.
Wang said that the decision to adopt an overarching PUMP was overwhelmingly unanimous. Lopez, however, said that though everyone ultimately came to the same conclusion, not all of the coordinators agreed when the idea was first introduced.
Haynes said PUMP does not aim to be a campus-wide program.
“Our priority is to serve students of color and other underrepresented students. We do want to keep that, but we do also want to respect the multiple identities that students of color or other underrepresented students have,” Haynes said.


West DunbartonshireWest Dunbartonshire councillors approve move to name and shame tax-dodging firmsIt's hoped the move will force a small number of non-paying local firms to cough up.
West DunbartonshireSharp rise in child protection referrals in West Dunbartonshire for second yearDomestic abuse and neglect have been highlighted as the main reasons for referrals.
West DunbartonshireCouncillors agree to lease Alexandria town centre site for churchFormer medical centre plot to be new base for Jehovah’s Witnesses in West Dunbartonshire despite opposition.
West Dunbartonshire NewsWest Dunbartonshire councillors urged to step up to fill roles on education committees.Committees are suffering from lack of voting members.
West DunbartonshireTwo new faces join iconic Maid of the Loch's board of trusteesBalloch-based paddle steamer gets expert help in push to get her sailing once again.
West Dunbartonshire NewsJudy Murray is a smash hit with Kirktonhill Tennis ClubThe famous tennis coach hosted the grand opening of the club's new pavilion.
West DunbartonshireAlexandria medical centre site set to be new Kingdom HallWest Dunbartonshire Council planning to sell land to Jehovah’s Witnesses.
West DunbartonshireRemote Iona cliff fall could have killed me says Helensburgh manGed Dunsmore was forced to crawl for his life despite several broken bones.
West DunbartonshireVeteran West Dunbartonshire charity runner using sport to tackle dementiaAlexandria's Maurice Donohue new Chief Operating Officer of Sporting Memories Foundation Scotland.
West DunbartonshireCampaign fury at threat to breast cancer service at Vale of Leven HospitalHospitalwatch vow to battle health board all the way over proposals despite "positive" meeting.
West DunbartonshireNetherlands own Loch Lomond during open water swimming eventsDutch win most medals at European Championships.
West DunbartonshireGame over for comedy duo but it's Still a fans favouriteWork starts on final series of Dumbarton-filmed sitcom Still Game.
West DunbartonshireRecord results in Higher exams as West Dunbartonshire pupils beat national averageThe results are 2 percent higher than the national average.
West Dunbartonshire NewsHaldane youth club get ready for European Championships festivalThe youngsters made headdresses to wear during the parade.
West Dunbartonshire NewsGood meal on the table at new Dumbarton lunch clubStruggling parents urged to take their primary school-aged kids to St Patrick’s Church Hall on Thursdays and Fridays.
AlexandriaPlans to turn former Alexandria Police Station into housesA move to turn the empty building into six houses has been submitted to West Dunbartonshire Council planners by Bingham Homes & Co Ltd.
AlexandriaCouncillor hits out at "broken promises" over closure of Alexandria social work officeA war of words have broken out following the closure of the Church Street office.
DumbartonCastle just outside Dumbarton on market for nearly half priceThe 14-bedroom house features the largest stained glass windows in a house in the UK, en suites, a basement with wine cellar, offices/ studies and a grand hallway with imperial staircase.
West DunbartonshireLoch Lomond Brewery gets a little help from the publicThe award-winning Alexandria business hopes to double production.


Conditions are ideal for grafting.
ITV2's new trailer for Love Island has us remembering all our favourite lingo from the show.
Featuring host Caroline Flack dressed as an airline pilot, the teaser is an in-flight safety video done Love Island-style.
First, Caroline lets us know that 'conditions today are ideal for grafting', meaning it's time to put the work in on the object of your desire.
But due to 'muggy' conditions, turbulence is expected (as always on the Island).
And in a cheeky nod to Chris and Kem's pop single, passengers are advised to 'little bit leave' their belongings in the event of an emergency landing.
Speaking of Chris, if you're in need of emergency options while onboard you can always tell them you're a polar bear.
And of course the onboard nuts are called 'Cash Hughes'.
For those passengers who aren't quite feeling the same about their partner anymore, there's a helpful 'ick bag' located in the front pocket.
And upon landing, Caroline reminds all passengers to fill out their landing cards which are helpfully titled 'my type on paper'.
Love Island series four will be 'landing soon' on ITV2.
Plus, the show can now officially call itself 'The BAFTA Award-wining Love Island', after it scooped the Best Reality and Constructed Factual gong at last Sunday's awards.
While you await Love Island's return, here's everything we know about the new series so far.


According to the internal document drafted in the Public Defender's Office, "the investigative and arresting authorities adopted a 'trigger-happy' policy [vis- -vis detained disengagement protesters] and the courts cooperated with it." In doing so, the courts allegedly created new procedural rules. For example, judges heard prosecution requests to remand entire groups of, rather than individual, protesters. The proof presented by the police to back allegations that detained suspects directly participated in the demonstrations was often "extremely weak." The prosecutors left it up to the judge to determine whether there was a cause for arrest. In some cases, they presented the court with hours of video tapes of a demonstration and left it to the judges to view them themselves in order to determine that the suspects brought before them had in fact acted illegally. The courts used remands in custody to deter other disengagement opponents from blocking roads and other protest actions. But according to the law, deterrence is not a criteria for remanding in custody. They often agreed to keep protesters in jail instead of considering alternative measures. The courts, particularly the district courts, did not take into account that the suspects were minors and that juvenile court procedures placed special emphasis on rehabilitation rather than punishment. The courts often refused the Public Defender's request to postpone judicial procedures so that juvenile workers could meet with the suspects and try to help them. The Courts Administration made a policy ruling that the trials of the anti-disengagement defendants, unlike regular trials, would be conducted without delay and heard on consecutive days until completion. This policy interfered with the rehabilitation aspect of the legal procedures. - D.I.


A new study of dogs published this week in Science offers a tantalising glimpse of how life-changing the gene-editing technology CRISPR could be for some people in the near future. It suggests that CRISPR can be used to treat an otherwise incurable, fatal genetic disorder known as Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD).
DMD is the most common form of muscular dystrophy, a blanket term for conditions that progressively destroy muscle throughout the body. This wasting away is primarily caused by the inability to use dystrophin, a protein that acts as a glue to stabilise muscle fibre.
These conditions are often caused by a genetic defect, and people with DMD have mutations in the gene responsible for dystrophin that prevent them from making any at all.
Because the dystrophin gene is found on the X chromosome, DMD primarily affects boys, since girls typically have two X chromosomes, and one healthy copy of the dystrophin gene is usually enough to prevent serious disease (women can still be carriers and pass on the disease to their sons though).
The symptoms of DMD show up around age four and only get worse over time, with many sufferers eventually losing the ability to stand, walk, and even swallow their food. And few live past the age of 30.
But, as seen with girls, it doesn’t take much dystrophin production to stave off these symptoms. So it’s been hoped that gene therapy could greatly improve the lives of sufferers or even cure the disease entirely.
The advent of the CRISPR-Cas system, a relatively cheap and easy gene-editing method, has only further raised that hope.
Already, there have been successful studies involving mice that used CRISPR to repair DMD mutations, which seemed to restore some muscle functionality — including by the team behind this latest study. Their new study is the first to test out whether the same could be seen in larger animals.
A few years back, it was discovered that dogs could be born with mutations that made them develop their own version of DMD, making them an ideal test animal. This mutation deletes a specific region of DNA on the dystrophin gene that codes for the protein, known as exon 50. Without this exon, exon 51 goes out of whack too, making dystrophin production impossible.
The researchers bred four beagles with DMD, then used CRISPR to edit exon 51, riddling it with errors. These errors, it was theorised, would cause the body’s affected cells to skip exon 51 altogether. The expected net result would be a reduced but still functional level of dystrophin production. And that’s apparently what happened.
The dogs were given CRISPR — via a harmless virus that makes its home in heart and muscle tissue — at one month old. Six to eight weeks later, the researchers found that dystrophin levels were 92 per cent and 56 per cent back to normal in the heart and diaphragm, respectively, in the dog that had received the largest dose.
It’s thought that even 15 per cent of normal dystrophin production would be life-altering for DMD sufferers.
Further, only around 15 per cent of people with DMD have this particular mutation, so other gene edits would be needed to help out the rest of the some-300,000 boys worldwide believed to have the condition.
And for the praise CRISPR has gotten, there are real, if sometimes overstated, fears it could cause unwanted gene mutations that can raise the risk of cancer or other health problems. If CRISPR treatments for DMD targeted a person’s stem cells, the authors noted in their study, both the beneficial and harmful effects could be permanent.
There were no specific off-target mutations seen with the dogs, but it’s a risk other future studies will have to continue watching out for.
Still, the researchers, who have formed a company to commercialise their technology, called Exonics Therapeutics, are eager to keep pursuing larger and longer-term studies involving not just DMD but other genetic disorders as well.


So how did the Windy City get chosen as one of the world’s 20 safest cities in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s rankings this year, beating out other American cities like New York, Washington and Dallas?
The short answer, according to Crain’s Chicago Business, could have something to do with digital security. The rankings don’t only look at personal security — they also look at digital security, health security and infrastructure security. Digital security, the index says, is how well city residents can freely use the internet without fearing privacy violations or identity theft — and how well-protected the city’s power grid, water supply and communications systems are from cyber attacks.
Crain’s reports that Chicago can thank Mayor Rahm Emanuel, at least in part, for high marks in digital security. Last year, Emanuel launched cyber security training in the city this year that teaches college students about digital security, with help from the U.S. Department of Defense, the index notes.
And digital security appears to be a strength across the country.
“Of the cities in the top ten in this category, four are North American,” the index authors write, listing Chicago, San Francisco, New York and Dallas.
One ding for all U.S. cities in the safety ranking, however, was infrastructure.
It’s also worth noting that, while Chicago has a high homicide rate, it’s far from the worst in the U.S., according to the Trace, a nonprofit news site that covers guns. Even though Chicago has more murders each year than Los Angeles and New York put together, the city’s per capita homicide rate is half St. Louis’ rate. Chicago also falls well behind cities like New Orleans, Baltimore and Detroit.
The top five cities in the Economist safety rankings, in order, were Tokyo, Singapore, Osaka, Toronto and Melbourne.


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That it is acceptable to refuse sexual attention is something every family does not teach their children, which sets them up to become victims.
(PULLMAN, Wash.) - Female college students who believe women are subservient and who endorse music/media's degradation of women are more likely to be involved in an unhealthy sexual relationship, according to research from Washington State University’s Murrow Center for Media & Health Promotion Research.
Stacey J.T. Hust, associate professor in the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication, and her colleagues found that college women who believe in traditional gender stereotypes were significantly less likely to ask for and adhere to their partner’s consent to sexual activity and were less likely to refuse unwanted sexual advances.
The research team also found that acceptance of music media’s degradation of women was associated with unhealthy sexual consent negotiation.
“Our findings suggest college women’s acceptance of degrading media portrayals of women, like those we see in current popular music videos such as DJ Khaled’s “I’m the One” or Katy Perry’s “Bon Appétit,” plays a role in their real-life sexual relationships,” Hust said.
“Holding stereotypical beliefs about sexuality and endorsing music that degrades women may be a reflection of a broader attitude that men hold power over women,” suggests Kathleen Boyce Rodgers, associate professor of human development and the second author of the study.
College should be an ideal time to encourage students’ participation in sexual assault prevention programs due to the prevalence of sexual experimentation and the subsequent risk for sexual assault victimization and perpetration during this time.
“Our study suggests that programs that utilize media to empower women to reject traditional sexual scripts could create awareness and stimulate conversation about consent, sexual expectations and stereotypes,” Rodgers said.
The study, “Scripting Sexual Consent: Internalized Traditional Sexual Scripts and Sexual Consent Expectancies Among College Students” was published in the journal Family Relations, at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/fare.12230/full.


This footage shows the moment an aircraft on approach to London’s Heathrow airport was struck by lightning.
The video, uploaded to the @FlightAlerts777 twitter, shows the aircraft flying over London and being hit by the lightning bolt.
The Icelandair plane was arriving from Reykjavik yesterday afternoon.
Plane just got hit by lightning on the descent into Heathrow. Didn't die #winning ✈⚡?
Plane got struck by lightning on the way into Heathrow. Good to be back in London.
Passenger Catherine Mayer told the Evening Standard that the strike was “sudden and loud and very bright and unmistakable for what it was”.
She added: “I think all the passengers were too shocked to react but when we landed everybody was talking about it.


seeing a model of the Homebiogas device on display at the June 26-27 Cleantech Israel 2018 conference and exposition in Tel Aviv, I paid a July 10 visit to the company’s headquarters in Beit Yanai Israel, to inspect a working model of the appliance that makes usable methane based bio-gas in one’s own backyard using a combination of manure, food scraps and other organic material.
is exposed to air” he said. This anaerobic breakdown process is what produces the mostly methane bio-gas that is then stored in the appliance for later home use.
The Homebiogas appliance, made almost entirely of PVC and polyprophane plastic materials, weighs only 23 KG “in the box” when delivered with a set of assembly and operation instructions. When completely ‘charged up’ with horse or cow manure (the best fertilizer for producing suitable bacteria for the breakdown process), water and food scraps, the appliance weighs as much as 1.5 tons. The entire bio-gas production process takes several weeks, Roy added, pointing to an appliance still in the bio-gas production process (photo).
After unpacking assembling on a dry, flat surface, around 100 KG of horse or cow manure is fed into the appliance’s intake inlet to create the needed bacteria. After a 3-4 week time period, organic waste such as vegetable and fruit, meat and dairy scraps (including bones) are fed into it. Up to 12 liters of “kitchen wastes” per day can be added via the intake “feeding tube”. Water is also added along with food wastes (up to 1200 liters).This is done until the water volume and food waste volumes are more or less equal.
the biogas production process, is removed. What remains from this process is a sludge that accumulates at the bottom of the appliance and is eventually removed.
Roy also showed a “bio-toilet” in operation ( above photo)in which human wastes are fed directly into a Homebiogas unit. The resulting fertilizer would not be suitable for fertilizing food crops, but can be used for fertilizing trees flowers, grass, etc. “Bio-toilets, which are like those used in boats and campers save water, due to their unique pumping systems” Roy adds.
Since Homebiogas was founded in 2012, some 3000 biogas appliances have been sold to customers in more than 90 countries. “We advise using our appliance in warmer climates where temperatures are at least 20 degrees Celsius during the daytime. Otherwise, a heating device must be used to keep the processing bacteria alive and functioning properly” , Roy said.
Due to the much lower gas pressure for the created bio-gas in its 700 liter storage compartment, the Homebiogas appliance is much safer to use than conventional LP gas; and has been certified safe to use by Israeli governmental authorities. The amount of daily bio-gas produced is enough to power a one burner gas unit for up to two hours. One of these gas burners is included with each appliance.
As to the future: “We are developing larger models for use in schools and other facilities. They will be much larger than the standard home model – as much as 5 times larger”, Roy said.


In 2005, the United States had over 160,000 troops deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq. The Pentagon was ramping up remotely piloted vehicle operations over both war zones and military operational requirements filled government satellites to capacity. This led the Department of Defense to ask commercial companies like Intelsat General to help satisfy requirements for both operational data from unmanned aerial vehicles and for troops to stay in touch with families back home. The satellite industry delivered the needed bandwidth, with Intelsat going as far as moving one of its satellites halfway around the globe to provide coverage in Southwest Asia.
A decade later, with turmoil spreading around the globe, is the DoD better prepared to use space-based resources for global communications in a time of conflict? Is there a better linkage between commercial and government satellite and ground capabilities that promotes resilience and survivability and meets the expanding needs of the U.S. military in a complex world?
Not yet, but we anticipate they will be soon. In fiscal year 2016 or early fiscal 2017, the DoD will conduct an analysis of alternatives to determine the way forward for next-generation wideband communications. The study will review and recommend potential architectures for satellite communications, which we hope will consider disaggregating certain protected tactical communications, and whether the DoD should continue to own global constellations to meet its bandwidth needs, or look more to commercial operators to fill most or all of its wideband satellite demand.
There are many reasons why the department would be wise to consider getting out of the wideband satcom business. At a macro level it gets to resources, but beyond resources there are three specific tactical reasons that I would also like to discuss.
Resources. The U.S. government has more important things to do with precious dollars and manpower than duplicate what can be done better commercially. Many senior DoD leaders agree with this, including one who recently remarked that for the money the Air Force pays to sustain the Wideband Global Satcom constellation, the service could pay a commercial operator to both sustain and fly the satellites. Commercial satellite operators employ a small fraction of the staff the Air Force traditionally uses to fly and operate its satellites. In addition the service often trains operators only to see them move to different jobs a few years later, making the commercial model even more attractive. We understand the growing complexity of the space mission — let those in uniform go solve DoD issues and leave “building Ford trucks” to commercial companies.
We know the mission. Whether providing communications on the move, supporting disadvantaged users or mobility applications, commercial capability has grown extensively and will improve dramatically in the near term. We have been there from the beginning — the addition of a commercial Ku-band satcom data link on the Predator drone in 1994 radically changed how remotely piloted vehicles were used. Commercial satcom companies have been partnering with the U.S. government for over 25 years to do missions from the mundane to the highly sensitive. We know how it’s done across an array of mission sets.
Commercial satellite capability is advancing rapidly and will continue to do so. Commercial companies are buying satellites with digital payloads and enhanced anti-jam capabilities, with increased flexibility and frequency reuse. From spot and steerable beams to protected tactical waveforms, the sky is the limit for what commercial can do. And due to the commercial acquisition cycle, industry is innovating faster than the military can. Commercial companies launch new satellites several times a year, providing the U.S. government with numerous opportunities to add new capabilities or get hosted payloads into orbit with the latest technology.
And these improvements are not just relegated to the space segment.
There are many upgraded, highly capable, mobile terminals for ground-based and airborne operations commercially available off the shelf. There is an explosion in innovative phased array and small form factor terminals, not just in response to the tactical needs of the DoD but for commercial broadband applications such as airline communications and the “Internet of Things.” The lines between commercial and military wideband requirements are blurring.
And like the U.S. government, commercial companies have a growing concern over cybersecurity and have invested appropriately to protect their space and ground networks. Banks, energy companies, retail networks and others who use commercial satellites are just as worried about data security as the government. Intelsat focused on network security long before our customers ever asked about it and has a security posture today that would rival any major network operator.
High-throughput satellites (HTS) will decrease costs. There has been a lot of coverage touting how commercial satcom is more expensive than government systems. We do not believe cost comparisons have been fairly represented. We believe that by using a more sound approach to acquiring commercial satcom (vs. single-year, spot-market purchases), and with realistic “fill” rates, the total ownership costs of commercial services would compare favorably. But historic comparisons will rapidly become irrelevant as HTS offerings will drive down pricing due to the dramatic increase in throughput. This, coupled with technology refresh, resilience and increasing capability, will make commercial capability the best value moving forward.
The best way to incorporate commercial capabilities into the DoD’s overall communications requirements is to partner with satellite operators in planning the next space architecture, because a lot has changed since the fight in Southwest Asia began. The upcoming analysis of alternatives study will set the path for the next decade, and commercial companies should be invited to participate. Bringing together the tactical experience of the DoD and commercial providers to improve and enhance the nation’s space capabilities is in the best interest of the U.S. government and the nation.
Kay Sears is president of Intelsat General Corp.


Marvel Comics Legacy & April 2018 Solicitations Spoilers: Captain America #700! Nuff Said!
Captain America #700! Nuff Said!
This Spring, OUT OF TIME will culminate with the release of CAPTAIN AMERICA’s milestone 700th issue, concluding the arc in an oversized story from creators Mark Waid and Chris Samnee!
Frozen in time, awakened in a decimated future and once again a man out of his era, there is only one way for Steve Rogers to restore order and rebuild civilization—and that’s to rule it as King Captain America!
Don’t miss the conclusion of an arc that has seen some of Steve Rogers’ most epic adventures in CAPTAIN AMERICA #700, on sale this spring!


BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Two men’s basketball games in the Bay Area have been called off because of poor air quality from wildfires in Northern California and the status of the Big Game between Stanford and California is in doubt.
Cal canceled its basketball game against Detroit Mercy on Thursday night because the Air Quality Index was well over the threshold of 200 — the very unhealthy range. A significant amount of smoke infiltrated Haas Pavilion leading to the cancellation.
San Francisco postponed its game Friday night against Arizona State because of unhealthy air quality as well. The schools are working on finding alternate plans for the game.
Cal says no decision has been made about the football game Saturday in Berkeley against Stanford. Officials are monitoring air quality in the area.
The Oakland Raiders were forced to move their practice off-site to an indoor facility Thursday because of the poor air quality. Oakland plays at Arizona on Sunday, while the San Francisco 49ers are off this week.
The air quality in the Bay Area got significantly worse Thursday as a result of the Camp Fire about 150 miles north in Butte County that has burning for more than a week.


Managers can list their profile on a page's timeline, but the feature is only optional.
Facebook just launched a way for page managers to identify themselves to the public. The new feature is now available on all pages, but it is optional and therefore unlikely to be used by pages involved in suspect activity.
BuzzFeed News identified an early version of the feature on a Russian-language news page run from Germany. The right-hand rail of the page features a section called "Team Members" and lists the name and profile photo of a man who manages the page. When contacted via Facebook Messenger, he confirmed it was a new feature.
After BuzzFeed News asked Facebook about the "Team Member" section, the company published a Help Center article that details how it works, and a spokesperson said the feature was now available globally.
"Adding yourself as a team member on your Page is a way to show other people on Facebook that you're a manager of that Page," says the help article.
The spokesperson, who agreed to talk on condition of anonymity, told BuzzFeed News the company has been testing the feature "for a few weeks," which aligns with the timing of this question posted to a Facebook help community.
Prior to this new feature there was no way to publicly identify the manager(s) of a page. This differs from Facebook groups, which list the admins of any group. The Facebook spokesperson told BuzzFeed News there are "no plans right now to make this mandatory" for pages.
In addition to showing the profiles of team members on a page's timeline, they will also be listed on the About page. The help article also said that the page will be listed on the Facebook profile of the team members.


Our cookbook of the week is Smitten Kitchen Every Day, by award-winning author and perennially popular first-wave food blogger Deb Perelman. Over the next four days, we’ll feature recipes from the book and an interview with its author.
To try another recipe from the book, check out: Grandma-style chicken noodle soup; and herb and garlic baked Camembert.
“Squash and richer vegetable dishes are something I intensely crave right through the holidays,” Deb Perelman says.
The flavours of her winter squash flatbread are Middle Eastern, with its hummus-yogurt sauce and sprinkling of za’atar (a traditional spice blend). But for its structure, Perelman looked to Italy.
Taking inspiration from Roman pizza di patate (potato pizza), she soaks thin slices of butternut squash in salted water until flexible, drains and blots dry before assembling.
Perelman recommends serving the flatbread for dinner or as a snack when entertaining; it holds up well and can easily be eaten with your hands.
Prepare the squash: Combine the water and salt in a large bowl and add the sliced squash. Soak for 25 to 30 minutes, after which the squash slices will be soft and bendy. Drain them in a colander, and press out as much water as you can; then spread the squash out on paper towels to blot it further.
Assemble flatbread: Heat the oven to 450°F (230°C). Brush either one 13-by-18-inch (33-by-46-cm) rimmed half sheet pan or two 9-by-13-inch (23-by-33-cm) quarter sheet pans with olive oil. (Divide the dough in half, if using two pans.) With oiled fingertips, press, nudge, and stretch dough to fit the shape of the pan(s). Thin, imperfect dough is just fine here. If holes form, patch them together.
In a large bowl, combine 4 tablespoons (60 mL) olive oil, cumin, coriander, Aleppo pepper, and several grinds of black pepper. Add the squash and toss to evenly coat. Spread the mixture over the dough(s), going all the way to the edges so that there are no uncovered spots. The edges brown more quickly, so you can make the squash slices a little thicker there.
Bake the flatbread(s): Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, until the squash is golden at the edges but tender and baked through. Remove from the oven and cool slightly.
Meanwhile, to serve: Stir together the yogurt and hummus, and add lemon juice and salt and pepper to taste. When the flatbread has cooled a bit, dollop the yogurt-hummus mixture all over, and sprinkle with za’atar, pine nuts, and herbs. Cut into desired shape.
In a large bowl, stir together the flour, yeast, and salt. Add the water and, using a wooden spoon or your hand, combine everything until it forms a craggy ball. Add more water, 1 tablespoon at a time, if needed to bring the dough together. Reach your hands into the bowl and knead the dough to form a more cohesive mass, just for 1 minute. Cover the bowl and let it sit at room temperature until the dough has more than doubled in volume, about 2 hours.
Excerpted from Smitten Kitchen Every Day: Triumphant and Unfussy New Favorites. Text and photographs copyright © 2017 Deb Perelman. Published by Appetite by Random House®, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited. Reproduced by arrangement with the Publisher. All rights reserved.


The hike will be the 7th in just over 2 years, with expectations of a further rate rise, possibly in June to 4%. However recent turmoil in the financial markets may put that in doubt, especially if the shocks from China continue for the next few months which will likely impact European economic growth. Jean-Claude Trichet will make the likely trend clearer in his statement following the ECB decision.
Meanwhile The Bank of England is expected to keep UK Interest rates on hold at 5.25% after Januarys surprise rise continues to have an impact on the UK economy and inflation, which showed a fall for January figures released in February. However traders are still wary of another surprise, hence the British Pound staged a rally on Wednesday as traders squared short positions in the lead up to the banks decision.
However, at least one further interest rate hike is expected later this year, possibly in May 2007, especially if the decline in CPI figures released in February prove temporary. The Market Oracle forecast is for UK Interest rates to hit 5.75% this year.
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Less than a year after selecting the design of Europe's future Ariane 6 launcher, government ministers will meet in Geneva on Friday to iron out lingering questions over the rocket after Germany's top space official last week called for the current form of the Ariane 6 to be ditched in favor of another configuration.
Johann-Dietrich Woerner, chairman of the executive board of the German Aerospace Center, or DLR, said Thursday that Europe could not afford proposed launcher developments presented to European Space Agency member states at a council meeting on March 19 and 20.
"Our opinion is we should at least have another discussion," Woerner said.
The discussions will continue Friday in Geneva, when the ESA member states participating in Europe's launcher program will meet to try to bridge differences in their visions for the future of the Ariane program.
ESA plans to complete testing of a new upper stage engine for the workhorse Ariane 5 rocket, start development of the replacement Ariane 6 launcher, and continue a series of upgrades to advance the lightweight Vega booster's position in the small satellite launch market.
"We are talking about a large amount of money for the next 10 years, and I question whether this is really affordable for Europe," Woerner said in an interview with Spaceflight Now.
Germany is ESA's leading overall financial contributor, but it ranks behind France in funding of Europe's launcher programs.
The upgraded Ariane 5 rocket, known as the Ariane 5 Mid-life Evolution, is scheduled to debut by 2018. It features a new Vinci upper stage engine capable of reigniting in space to boost heavier satellites into different types of orbits.
The current version of the Ariane 5, called the Ariane 5 ECA, flies with an HM7B upper stage engine that can only fire once per flight.
Backers of the Ariane 5 ME promise it will allow European governments to end subsidies to Arianespace, the French launch services company responsible for operating the Ariane rocket family.
"Our position is to continue and finish what we started, which means Ariane 5 ME, to get rid of the support we needed [to give Arianespace] for Ariane 5 ECA," Woerner said.
Europe's primary goal for its launcher program is to ensure independent European access to space. A secondary objective is to field a commercially-viable launch vehicle.
ESA member states in November 2012 endorsed funding Ariane 5 ME and to begin the design of Ariane 6, with an eye toward making a final decision on Ariane 6 at a ministerial-level meeting in December 2014.
ESA will ask its member states for 1.2 billion euros, or about $1.6 billion, to finish development of Ariane 5 ME for a first launch by 2018. The member states will also decide on a 4 billion euro, $5.5 billion, funding package for Ariane 6.
The Ariane 6 design endorsed by ESA and CNES, the French space agency, last summer includes first and second stages, along with two strap-on boosters, using solid propulsion and a liquid hydrogen-fueled cryogenic third stage powered by the same Vinci engine under development for the Ariane 5 ME.
Officials have dubbed the Ariane 6 configuration as the "PPH" design, using the French words for solid and hydrogen fuel.
It is this commonality, along with similarities between the solid-fueled stages and the light class Vega launcher, that European officials say will keep the Ariane 6 rocket's total development cost to around 4 billion euros.
That figure includes program management costs and design and construction of ground systems, including a new launch pad at the Guiana Space Center in South America.
The Ariane 6 should be launched for about 70 million euros, or approximately $96 million, per flight. The first test launch is set for 2021.
That is about half of the Ariane 5 rocket's current price.
Woerner said his impression after the March 19-20 ESA Council meeting was that Europe was overcommitting with simultaneous investments in Ariane 5 ME, Ariane 6 and the Vega upgrade program.
"Ariane 6 is based on solid propulsion. It has some similarities with the upper stage of Ariane 5 ME, and some commonalities with Vega, but it is not intended to have Ariane 6 flown in parallel with Ariane 5," Woerner said. "Our opinion is we better have a family which is flexible, meaning you can adapt to different missions with different modules -- or brickstones -- in even more than two versions of one launcher."
Germany is a major participant in Europe's launcher program. The Ariane 5 upper stages are assembled at an Airbus Defence and Space factory in Bremen, Germany, where structures from across Europe and the French-built engines come together.
But Germany has little interest in Ariane 6's development. The Ariane 5 ME and Ariane 6 upper stages would presumably be integrated at the Bremen site, but Germany's investment in launcher development would end upon completion of the Ariane 5 ME.
France and Italy would be responsible for developing the Ariane 6's propulsion systems.
Woerner outlined a follow-on Ariane launcher more heavily based on the Ariane 5 ME, with a liquid-fueled core stage with a Vulcain engine like the existing Ariane 5.
"Our intention is to use even more of the heritage, meaning also the main engine -- the Vulcain engine -- to use it for a future launcher," Woerner said. "Our perspective is cheaper, faster, and also more flexible for the future. We don't know what the satellite market will be like in 10 years' time. We don't know, so we better be flexible."
Such an "evolved" Ariane launcher could be augmented by strap-on solid rocket motors smaller than the large boosters used on Ariane 5 today, and Woerner said engineers could tailor the rocket with the correct number of boosters to lift a specific payload.
A similar concept was employed on Europe's Ariane 4 launcher and is used today by the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 and Delta 4 rocket fleets.
France's representative at the Geneva meeting will be Genevieve Fioraso, the French minister for higher education for research.
Speaking at a press conference last week, Fioraso said France had not determined whether it could afford both Ariane 5 ME and Ariane 6 proceeding in parallel, according to a report by Space News.
She also said France would need to consider the continued viability of the country's cryogenics industry, Space News said, hinting France might support a design change to incorporate more liquid-fueled propulsion on Europe's next-generation rocket.
Woerner offered a specific design concept that could be supported by Germany.
"We would propose to have a liquid first stage, maybe with some solid boosters, and then to have an upper stage with liquid propulsion," Woerner said. "By scaling it down, you could have it as a substititution of the Soyuz launcher."
The Russian Soyuz rocket is Arianespace's medium-class satellite launcher, serving a slice of the market between the heavy-lift Ariane 5 and the lightweight Vega. The Russian Soyuz started flying from French Guiana in October 2011 and has made six successful flights from the European-run spaceport.
"The Soyuz market seems to be interesting, about 3.5 tonnes to [geostationary transfer orbit]," Woerner said. "If we have bigger payloads, we have Ariane 5 ME, and we could even have modifications in between."
Stephane Israel, Arianespace's chairman and CEO, said in an interview March 11 that he anticipated the Soyuz rocket to continue flying into the 2020s, seeing no need for a European substitution.
"In Europe, we have made a huge investment to have Soyuz in Kourou, so we are quite sure there will be Soyuz in the next decade," Israel said. "There is no doubt on that."
The current Ariane 6 configuration could put about 6.5 metric tons of payload into geostationary transfer orbit, the target orbit for most communications satellites, Arianespace's primary market.
"Regarding Ariane 6, there are some comments which have been made that since Ariane 6 is 6.5 tonnes [to GTO] with no modularities, it's overpowered for Soyuz satellites, which means that you can have both rockets in parallel in the long term," Israel said.
Woerner said a "scaled-down" Ariane 5 would be cheaper and faster to design and develop.
"It is still possible that in the beginning of the 2020s, we might have an additional new launcher," Woerner said. "That is still possible for less money and more flexibility."
Israel said he backs the launcher strategy as proposed by ESA, with Ariane 5 ME debuting by 2018 and Ariane 6 following in 2021.
"Arianespace is interested in both projects," Israel said. "Both make sense. Ariane 5 ME increases the overall flexibility and Ariane 6 is a a good cost-reduction project. We favor both projects. We hope Europe will be able to confirm both of them at the end of the year."


GUNTERSVILLE, Ala. – Police are looking for someone who broke into two businesses in the city overnight into Thursday morning.
Police say at least one person broke into Lake Grocery on Highway 431, and then the Dollar General store nearby. Police released surveillance images Thursday afternoon of the burglar inside Lake Grocery.
The thief got away with cigarettes and other items.
This is the second time Lake Grocery has been broken into this month.
Anyone who has information about the burglaries is asked to contact the Guntersville Police Department.


Owen Hughes has been appointed business development manager for technology products for Oracle. Owen will be responsible for managing and developing customer relationships across all of Oracle’s technology market channels. Prior to joining Oracle, his previous role was as a technologist, providing architectural and business expertise to State and commercial companies in Ireland across the Financial Services, Communications and Service sectors. He has worked for companies such as Hibernian Insurance, VHI, An Post and Bank of Ireland; and holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Applications from DCU and a Masters in Technology Management from the National Institute of Technology Management in UCD.


The idea behind these sessions is to disperse myths about immunisation and encourage locals to take up immunisation of their newborns.
Sitting in a tiny room in a Govandi slum bylane, several religious leaders, some slum-dwelling women and adolescent girls, are all ears to what a health worker tells them. Sunita Choure calls it a “sensitisation session”. The idea behind these sessions is to disperse myths about immunisation and encourage locals to take up immunisation of their newborns. Choure, who also works with government health workers and organisation Apnalaya, says the human development index in the M-east ward, comprising Govandi area, is one of the lowest in Mumbai.
Siraj Ahmed Ansari (50), a maulvi in Babra Ahmed Mosque, says, “I had heard that immunisation leads to impotency and polio. Then I saw the immunisation shots myself and how they are administered. Since then I started to help this practise as much as I could.” “When I recently saw a woman breastfeeding her baby while she was lying down, I told her how this is not the right way and could be dangerous for the baby. I told her about the right posture to feed the baby and how breast milk boosts immunity in babies,” he adds.
Like Ansari, 40 local religious leaders in the slum cluster of Govandi spread the message related to health and importance of immunisation through sermons and casual discussions with community members. Mulana Shamim Ahmed, who conducts namaz at Namra Masjid, says locals are suspicious of vaccines and quick to believe that it does more harm than good.
“My children have been vaccinated. I hold them as an example to anyone one who has any doubts. The only way we can get through to these people is by showing actual change,” says the 45-year-old. Along with Ahmed, women and adolescent girls living in the cluttered lanes take out few hours every week to create awareness about maternal and child health. Located next to the dumping grounds, the condition of hygiene in the slum are poor.
“It is a high-risk area for sickness and infection, especially in women and children,” Choure says. Health workers in the area decided to pool in locals to help and improve the health conditions.
A Mother Support Group, which focuses on providing assistance to pregnant and lactating women, is currently 85-people strong. All local women, aged 25 to 42, share the knowledge they have received during pregnancy from local health post. Another local, Shefali Kadar Sheikh, 44, is a ragpicker, who now volunteers with the group. “My son was two years old when he fell seriously ill. I hadn’t vaccinated him earlier. That day, I saw the doctors insert needles in him, and I couldn’t bear it. I vaccinated my next child, because I didn’t want to risk him ever again. I’ve told this story to several women so that they understand that immunisation is important,” she says.


Music streaming service Spotify has announced that users can once again sign up to listen to the service for free.
The company allowed users to join for nothing when it launched, but last year ceased to offer free accounts to new members, unless they were invited by an existing premium member.
Now, a new account type, named Spotify Open, allows users once again to sign up for streaming music at no cost – but, like the older free subscriptions, includes adverts every few minutes between tracks. The catch? Spotify Open users can only listen to the service free for 20 hours a month.
The new account is part of a refresh of the company’s subscriptions policy, which sees it introducing Spotify Unlimited – essentially the old, unlimited free service with adverts. Only this time it’ll cost you a penny under a fiver each month.
Spotify Premium, which saves users from the bleating of ‘Jonathan from Spotify’ and the solicitations of various dating web sites, still costs £9.99 a month. It enables subscribers to use Spotify playlists offline on their iPhone, iPod Touch or Android mobile phone.
Existing users of Spotify’s Free service will be able to continue listening for nowt.
The return to offering free subscriptions may signal that Spotify is struggling to make ends meet with its Premium service. The company reported in March that 320,000 users had signed up to its Premium service, and now says the figure is even higher.
But the site has still not achieved the aim of its Swedish founder, Daniel Ek, to launch in the US – and, despite criticism over the low level of royalties it pays to artists, Spotify isn’t covering its costs.
Rival service We7 announced last month that it had begun to cover the cost of streaming purely using advertising revenue.


It’s spring time and with extra help needed in Poplar, Mother Mildred (Miriam Margolyes) decides to send Sister Frances (Ella Broccoleri) and Sister Hilda (Fenella Woolgar) to Nonnatus House, where they will live and work.
Everyone is excited for the impending arrival of the Queen’s baby. Violet (Annabelle Apsion) is holding a Teddy Bears’ Picnic and raising funds through a sweepstake on whether the Queen will have a boy or a girl.
The midwives are introduced to their new midwifery bags, but Sister Monica Joan (Judy Parfitt) is distressed when she sees Fred (Cliff Parisi) burning the old leather ones.
Lucille (Leonie Elliott) is caring for heavily pregnant Lesley White (Jordon Stevens), whose sister Cath (Emily Barber), an aspiring model, has been feeling extremely unwell. Back at the maternity home, Shelagh (Laura Main) has to step in to help Trixie (Helen George) with a birth that takes a surprise turn.


BANGALORE: WestBridge Capital Partners, a leading US-India Venture Capital firm with $140 million under management, on Thursday announced that they have completed the first round of funding for Strand Genomics as lead investors.
innovative products in the area of in silico biology. Sumir Chadha, senior managing director of WestBridge Capital Partners will join the Board at Strand Genomics. Other investors include UTI Ventures and angel investors. The consolidated first round of investment in Strand is $ 4.6 million.
Strand's business model is a combination of high-end proprietary products and informatics services which address productivity bottlenecks in drug discovery & development and diagnostic research. Strand Genomics was founded by a group of computer scientists from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore. It is the country's first venture funded company being spun out of a research university, and is widely regarded for its world-class computational capabilities in the field of life sciences and health care. Strand's vision is to accelerate the drug discovery and development process by developing a suite of products, "Oyster".
"Strand has created valuable Intellectual Property in a short span of time and this we believe is going to be a critical factor for success in the global market. WestBridge will help Strand leverage the international financial markets in the long run", said Strand's chairman and chief scientific officer, Dr. Vijay Chandru.


Six residents have applied to an open seat on the Minden Town Board.
Town board members are scheduled to meet 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the town's public works facility, 1330 Buckeye Road.
Member Glen Radtke resigned his seat on Feb. 21. Radtke, a 1985 Douglas High School graduate and longtime Valley resident, is retiring from Douglas County Public Works and plans to go on RVing across the country.
Applications for the town board closed earlier this week.
■ Mark Wlaschin is a retired U.S. Marine Corps major who has lived in Minden since 2015.
■ Robert Pohlman is a 25-year Winhaven resident, who has run for the board in the past.
■ Susan L. Jackson said she is a lifelong Minden resident who has 33 years and is currently a parole commissioner.
■ Ted Thran is a lifelong Carson Valley resident and former Douglas County clerk-treasurer.
■ Pat Bridges is former publisher of The Record-Courier. He has lived in Minden since moving here in 2012.
■ Sondra Condron has lived in Minden for 30 years. A retired chief deputy clerk, she moved to the county in 1958.
Each candidate will have five minutes to speak to the board.
Town Board members will interview candidates in open session and recommend one of them to Douglas County commissioners.
The seat is an elected position and will be up for election in 2020.


Shia cleric said the Lucknow district administration has assured him in writing that rules will be framed for entry of tourists in the two Imambaras, which he claimed, were religious places and not a place for recreation.
If the Uttar Pradesh government and Shia cleric Maulana Kalbe Jawwad have their way, tourists and visitors to the historical Bada and Chhota Imambaras will have to follow a dress code — which includes mandatory covering of the head and “no short dresses”.
Addressing the Shia community during Friday prayers, Jawwad said the Lucknow district administration has assured him in writing that rules will be framed for entry of tourists in the two Imambaras, which he claimed, were religious places and not a place for recreation.
While District Magistrate Raj Shekhar did not respond to calls, Additional City Magistrate-II Shailendra Mishra, who handed over the said letter to Jawwad, confirmed the decision.
“We have agreed to issue instructions for maintaining the religious sanctity of the Imambaras by framing rules barring short dresses and covering of heads for tourists,” Mishra said.
Jawwad said that while head scarf will be mandatory, “arrangements for women who are wearing short dresses” will also be made. “If they fail on their assurance, Anjumans will again start their agitation,” Jawwad said. He said the district administration had also given to him in writing that the state government had been apprised about their demand for a CBI probe in the alleged misappropriation of waqf properties.
“For CBI probe in waqf affairs, we can only apprise the state government about the demand, and we are doing that” confirmed Additional City Magistrate-II. Jawwad said the letter from district administration would be handed over to women who are protesting outside the Chhota Imambara. “If they are satisfied, they will end their dharna. It will be completely their decision,” he said.
Jawwad also gave the administration 10 days after Eid to fulfill its promises. “If they fail, we will launch a massive protest at Shahi Masjid in Hazratganj,” he added.
Protesting against the election of Syed Waseem Rizvi as chairman of Shia Central Board of Waqfs, the Shia community led by Jawwad had launched a protest. Later, the Shia women had locked the Chhota Imambara on June 4 followed by men from the community locking Bada Imambara on June 5. The locks of both the Imambaras were opened after court orders. However, the Shia women are still sitting at the main gate of Chhota Imambara blocking entry of tourists.


Hepatitis C is a viral infection is caused by the Hepatitis C virus. This infection results in abnormalities in the liver of the infected individuals.
Advanced hepatitis symptoms are liver scarring and liver cirrhosis. Hepatitis C progresses gradually and the infected person can be asymptomatic anywhere between several months to several years.
The body’s immune system fights the virus, but chronic infections need appropriate treatment. There is no vaccine for Hepatitis C.
Treatment for Hepatitis C uses antiviral medications such as interferon and the antiviral drug, ribavirin. These medications are taken for a period of 24 to 48 weeks for patients who either exhibit confirmed hepatitis symptoms or persistent abnormal liver functions.
Patients with acute infection see better results than patients with chronic Hepatitis C. The side effects of these medications are flu-like symptoms, anemia, cardiovascular abnormalities, and suicidal thoughts.
New medications for Hepatitis C treatment are in development. These are protease inhibitors, entry inhibitors, and polymerase inhibitors. The protease inhibitor has reached phase III trials and has so far been found to be more effective against the Hepatitis C virus.


OurGame’s MMO Tekken-style fighting game, World of JingWu, has been on the receiving end of some brand new content, including a new mini-game, more character accessories and a few new gameplay improvements.
The game is currently only supporting the Chinese language text but is available for just about any gamer who wants to play an online 3D fighting game. It sports a variety of fighting styles and customization options for each of the characters on the game.
The new update sees new clothing options and custom sets being made available for all the characters on the game, a new brick-breaking mini-game, and improved AI for the story quest mode.
You can check out an English translation guide for help with downloading and registering the game if your Mandarin is a little rusty. You can check out some new screenshots of the game below, as well. For more info on World of JingWu be sure to visit the Official Website.


No Friendship Is Safe on This Season of The Real Housewives of New York!
The Big Apple gals are back on Bravo tonight! The Real Housewives of New York returns for season 6 and they are bringing the excitement (and perhaps a little bit of drama) with them.
We caught up with cast members Aviva Drescher, Heather Thomson and newbie Kristen Taekman to get the scoop on this season and what we can expect to see. But not before the ladies weighed in on that insane trailer! Where is Carole swimming to?
Watch: The Real Housewives of Orange County trailer is here!
The RHONY ladies explain where their friendships are with each of the ladies in the cast and what’s to come, including some unexpected tiffs between friends you wouldn’t expect to see at odds.
OK! News: Did you see Lindsay Lohan’s reality TV debut?
The Real Housewives of New York airs tonight on Bravo at 9 p.m. ET.
What are you most excited to see on this season of RHONY? Tell us in the comments below or on Twitter @OKMagazine.
* WHAT IS CARLTON GEBBIA KEEPING IN HER BRA?


MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Minnesota coach Richard Pitino dared No. 22 Wisconsin to beat the Golden Gophers from the 3-point arc and the free throw line.
The Badgers weren't up to the challenge.
Amir Coffey scored 21 points and Minnesota put Wisconsin in an early hole before holding off a furious rally to win 59-52 on Thursday night. The Gophers (12-2, 2-1 Big Ten) ended an eight-game losing streak in the rivalry with their first victory at Wisconsin since 2009.
Minnesota held the Badgers to 14 percent shooting from 3-point range in the first half while building a double-digit lead. The Gophers then hung on as Wisconsin missed late opportunities at the foul line.
Pitino said a key part of his strategy was double-teaming Wisconsin leading scorer Ethan Happ in the post and then intentionally fouling him late.
Happ led the Badgers with 17 points on 8-of-13 shooting from the field, but he was just 1 for 7 at the line. And the Badgers, who came in shooting 39.1 percent from 3-point territory, second-best in the Big Ten, went only 5 of 22 in this one.
"He's such a unique, terrific player," Pitino said of Happ, who came in shooting 52 percent from the foul line. "You have to do something or he's going to torch you."
Coffey scored 15 straight Minnesota points in the first half as the Gophers opened a 29-14 lead at the break. He also made a key shot to end the final threat from Wisconsin (10-4, 2-1).
The Badgers still had a chance late even as they failed to convert free throws. That included a stretch of going 3 of 10 in the second half after cutting the deficit to seven with just more than eight minutes to go. Happ started the woes at the foul line by missing the front end on consecutive 1-and-1 situations, and the Badgers finished 7 of 17 after coming in shooting 69 percent as a team.
Happ's steal and dunk coupled with D'Mitrik Trice's floater, however, trimmed the margin to 49-47 with two minutes left.
But then Coffey hit a runner and Dupree McBrayer turned steals on back-to-back possessions into points as Minnesota pushed the lead back to eight.
It marked an uncharacteristic lack of discipline with the ball for the Badgers, who entered third in the NCAA with an average of just nine turnovers per game. They also set a season low for points in the first half as they shot only 23 percent from the field over the first 20 minutes.
"There's not making shots, and there's what we had in the first half," coach Greg Gard said. "That's a whole other level."
It was the second sports streak Minnesota halted this season against its archrival. The football team snapped a 13-game skid against the Badgers in November, also beating Wisconsin on the road.
Wisconsin guard Brad Davison was called for a technical foul in the first half after he missed a layup while taking heavy contact. No foul was called and he slapped the floor with both hands after hitting the deck. It was Davison's second foul in the first half, and Coffey converted one of the two ensuing free throws. Gard said he was told Davison slapping the floor was considered an unsportsmanlike gesture, though the coach sounded dubious about the explanation. "I don't know. I'll have to do some research to find that one in the rule book," he said.
Minnesota: Notched its first quality road win of the season.
Wisconsin: Unable to bounce back at home after losing 83-76 to Western Kentucky on the road last week.
Minnesota: Hosts Maryland on Tuesday.
Wisconsin: Plays at Penn State on Sunday.


Woody Allen's latest London-set picture, in cinemas now, provoked some predictably 'mixed' reviews. No news there then, so let’s change the subject and talk about his glasses instead.
We've long been great fans of Moscot eyewear, but the company’s continued rise over the last couple of years has been nothing short of phenomenal, leading to expansion which has seen it add nine stockists in Britain alone to its website, in addition to the two dedicated retailers in New York and a worldwide webstore.
Established nearly a century ago on New York’s Lower East Side, the family-run business has maintained its appeal by defying short-lived trends and sticking to the distinctive designs it built its name on, now selling from the same location since 1950.
The Moscot Originals line is based on styles from their archives between 1930 and 1970, while the Spirit range is a contemporary rethink of the established classics. Now with titanium editions and the newly-launched Moscot Sun range, 2011 looks to be their year, for the 96th time at least.


The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) has announced the honorees for the 31st annual ASC Awards for Outstanding Achievement. Edward Lachman, ASC; Ron Garcia, ASC; Philippe Rousselot, ASC, AFC; and Nancy Schreiber, ASC will be recognized for their contributions to the art of cinematography at the organization's awards gala on February 4, 2017, at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland. Lachman will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award. Garcia will be bestowed with the Career Achievement in Television Award. Rousselot earns the International Award, and Schreiber will take home the Presidents Award.
LOS ANGELES (October 13, 2016) - The American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) has announced the honorees for the 31st annual ASC Awards for Outstanding Achievement. Edward Lachman, ASC; Ron Garcia, ASC; Philippe Rousselot, ASC, AFC; and Nancy Schreiber, ASC will be recognized for their contributions to the art of cinematography at the organization's awards gala on February 4, 2017, at the Ray Dolby Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland. Lachman will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award. Garcia will be bestowed with the Career Achievement in Television Award. Rousselot earns the International Award, and Schreiber will take home the Presidents Award.
"The work of these individual cinematographers is varied, yet it all exemplifies a stellar level of achievement," says ASC President Kees van Oostrum. "As a group, they also are a prime example of great careers in the industry and, over the years, they have set creative standards of the highest order."
Lachman is a revered and award-winning cinematographer who has photographed over 90 titles in narrative, experimental and documentary forms. He has collaborated with directors such as Todd Haynes, Steven Soderbergh, Robert Altman, Paul Schrader, Todd Solondz, Sofia Coppola, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Volker Schlöndorff, Ulrich Seidl, and Jean-Luc Godard, among others.
Lachman's work with Haynes on Carol (2015) and Far From Heaven (2002) garnered him Academy Award® nominations, and the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce (2011) earned him an Emmy® nomination. He has also received the Golden Frog for Carol, the Silver Frog for Far From Heaven, and the Bronze Frog for I'm Not There (2007) at Camerimage, as well as the Director/Cinematographer Golden Frog with Haynes (2011). He is the only American to receive the prestigious Marburg Camera Award in Germany for his body of work. Other accolades for Lachman include Independent Spirit Awards for Far From Heaven and Carol, the British Society of Cinematographers Award for Best Feature Film with Carol, and many honors from film critic associations and film festivals throughout his career.
Lachman's many memorable credits include Wiener-Dog, Paradise, Howl, Life During Wartime, Import/Export, A Prairie Home Companion, Ken Park (which he co-directed), Erin Brockovich, The Virgin Suicides, The Limey, Selena, Mi Familia (My Family), Light Sleeper, London Kills Me, Less Than Zero, and Desperately Seeking Susan, to name a few. His next project is the upcoming Haynes film, Wonderstruck (2017).
In addition to narrative features, Lachman has consistently contributed to the documentary genre, shooting Don't Blink - Robert Frank, Collapse, Soldiers of Music, Mother Teresa, Ornette: Made in America, In Our Hands, Lightning Over Water, and La Soufrière. He also directed the documentaries In the Hearts of Africa, Life for a Child, Cell Stories, and Report From Hollywood. Lachman is also known as a visual artist who has had installations, videos and photography at The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Ludwig Museum in Germany, and many other museums and galleries throughout the world.
Garcia has collected Emmy nominations for Murder in the Heartland (1993) and The Day Lincoln was Shot (1998), both of which received ASC Award nominations. He earned additional nods from his peers in the ASC for Thomas Carter's Divas (1996) and the pilot of Twin Peaks (1991). In 1991, Garcia won a CableACE Award for HBO's movie El Diablo and another CableACE Award nomination for Peter Markle's Nightbreaker. His long list of memorable credits includes TV hits such as Rizzoli and Isles, the first season of the current CBS series Hawaii Five-O, Numb3rs, Providence, Gilmore Girls, EZ Streets, Michael Mann's Crime Story, and the pilots for L.A. Takedown and Stingray. He photographed numerous television movies, including Alien Nation: The Udara Legacy, Mutiny, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Baby, Deliberate Intent, Brave New World, and Diane Keaton's Girl With the Crazy Brother, among others.
Rousselot earned an Academy Award® for A River Runs Through It (1993), as well as an ASC nomination. Furthermore, he was Oscar-nominated for Hope and Glory (1987) and Henry & June (1990), with the former also receiving a BSC Award. His award-winning body of work includes Dangerous Liaisons (1988) and The Bear (1988), which garnered ASC nominations, and Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994), which won a BAFTA and BSC Award. Additional credits include The Miracle, Remember the Titans, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Planet of the Apes, Antwone Fisher, Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows, The Nice Guys, and the upcoming Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.
A native of France, Rousselot won his first Cesar Award (France's equivalent of an Oscar) for Diva (1981), and earned additional trophies for Thérèse (1986) and Queen Margot (1994). He's compiled around 70 credits, working with renowned directors such as Tim Burton, Stephen Frears, Neil Jordan, Robert Redford, Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington, among many others.
Schreiber is a Detroit native who, after receiving her psychology degree at the University of Michigan, moved to New York and worked her way up from production assistant to gaffer. Early in her career, she was gaffer on the Academy Award-nominated documentary The Other Half of the Sky: A China Memoir for co-directors Shirley MacLaine and Claudia Weill. As a cinematographer, Schreiber has an eclectic list of narrative film and television credits as well as commercials, music videos and documentaries. Her work includes Your Friends and Neighbors, The Nines, Visions of Light, In Plain Sight (pilot), HBO's The Comeback, episodes of ABC'S The Family, and the new FX series Better Things.
Schreiber's cinematography in Chain of Desire earned her an Independent Spirit Award nomination (1994), which she followed with an Emmy nomination (1996) for her work on the documentary The Celluloid Closet. She landed on Variety's 10 Cinematographers to Watch before taking home the coveted Best Cinematography Award at Sundance for November in 2004. She previously shared a Sundance Cinematography Award on My America... Or Honk if You Love Buddha (1997). In addition to serving on the ASC Board of Governors, she was on the board of Women In Film (WIF) and is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Schreiber has taught advanced cinematography at the American Film Institute and, between shooting, continues to guest lecture at film schools in California, New York, and around the world.
For information regarding the 31st ASC Awards, visit www.theasc.com or call 323-969-4333.


Host Fountain Valley and Ocean View are on a collision course in the Majors division of the Little League District 62 All-Stars Tournament.
Both teams won their first two tournament games to advance to face each other at 5 p.m. today at Mile Square Park in Fountain Valley.
Fountain Valley picked up its second win Tuesday with a 6-5 win over Huntington Valley. In the following game, Ocean View got win No. 2 by defeating Seaview, 11-1, under the lights.
Fountain Valley starting pitcher Steven Eldridge took a 6-4 lead into the top of the sixth but had to be pulled from the mound after reaching his pitch-count limit with two out in the inning. Wyatt McGinnis relieved Eldridge and gave up a few hits before being replaced by Ryan Foster who gave up a hit and a run before recording a strikeout to end the game.
Charlie Dysone had a two-run double in the first inning for Fountain Valley and was followed by McGinnis' one-run double. Shea Sueda had a two-run single in the second inning.
"It was just an exciting game that went down to the wire," Fountain Valley Coach Mike Romine said. "The kids held on and did a great job."
Fountain Valley began the tournament Saturday with a 7-4 win over Costa Mesa American.
Ocean View opened with a 13-0 win over Robinwood Saturday behind Logan Pouelsen's two-hit, complete-game shutout. Pouelsen, Steven Gingery and Nick Pratto all hit home runs and Chad Minato, Armando Duarte, Hunter Jackson and Michael Gates contributed hits in the win.
Games resume in each division at 5 p.m. today. No games are scheduled between Friday and Monday due to the Fourth of July holiday. The tournament resumes Tuesday. The championship series games in each division will be played Tuesday and Wednesday.


Julian Caddy, managing director of Brighton Fringe, says he is reasonably confident he and his team can raise £20,000 in time for the start of this year’s festival (May 4-June 3).
But already he is warning that if they don’t, there will inevitably be implications for next year.
Brighton Fringe has launched a crowd-funding campaign after the last-minute loss of their headline sponsor.
Ironically, the crisis comes with a fine festival in prospect, the festival bigger and selling more tickets than ever before. Ticket sales are up more than ten per cent on this time last year.
Now the fringe has to move on, with the crowd-funding bid just one part of the jigsaw: “We are looking for other sponsors and other funders.
“If we don’t get the £20,000, we will have to reduce our budget for next year. What does that look like? We will have to reduce the activities that we are able to deliver, and we will have to look at the size of our staff. The staff is our biggest outlay, and that affects us on all sorts of levels. You have got to think of the effect on staff morale and also think of the stress.
“But we have set ourselves the aim of finding the money before the festival starts. It’s a big marathon, but I would like to think that we will get there. Everyone is very supportive.
“The fringe is a fabulous thing. It is something that the community makes. It is a completely open-access festival, and that means that anyone, from whatever perspective, from whatever experience, is able to take part. It is just a question of putting it on. A huge cross-section of people are involved in it. The only festival that is comparable would be Edinburgh, and more than a third of our participants are from the local area or along the coast.
The fringe receives less than three per cent of its annual income comes from public funds. They receive no form of regular financial aid from the Arts Council England or Brighton & Hove City Council. Every year, Brighton Fringe distributes £25,000 in bursaries to performers, but this isn’t money that could be redistributed, Julian explains. It is money which is given for that specific purpose.
Since 2016, Brighton Fringe has lost more than £70,000 in headline sponsorship, almost 40 per cent of its total sponsorship – hence this year’s crowdfunding campaign. The loss of the fringe’s main corporate sponsor means this income has been almost halved for 2018, leaving a gap of more than 14 per cent in total income this year.
Brighton Fringe employs 15 year-round staff and 25 seasonal staff and creates 100s of employment opportunities city-wide. Brighton Fringe attracts more than 500,000 audience members each May filling the seats at more than 4,000 performances across 150 venues, featuring artists from across Brighton & Hove, the UK and across the world.
Visit the Brighton Fringe Crowdfund page at: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/fund-fringe to view the packages on offer to help secure the future of England's largest arts festival.


Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced in dramatic fashion last night the intelligence Israeli spies had captured from a warehouse in southern Tehran. More than 100,000 secret files prove beyond doubt that Iran was lying throughout the nuclear negotiations. The archive of records shows Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons before, during and after the 2015 Obama-orchestrated nuclear deal. Iran lied—as did the Obama administration—in order to sell the deal to the American public. That and more on today’s Trumpet Daily Radio Show.


Speeds of 80mph predicted, no engines allowed!
For the first time ever velomobiles will be taking part in the Isle of Man Cycle Challenge (CC), the annual cycle sportive held on the Isle of Man TT Mountain Course.
Velomobiles are human powered vehicles, typically a recumbent trike or quad, which are enclosed in an aerodynamic body or fairing. The Isle of Man CC is a British Cycling event that was established in 2012 and will be held this year on Saturday 22 September 2018. Participants can ride one, two or three laps of the 37.7 mile course, starting and finishing from the TT Grandstand.
For more details please visit www.isleofmancc.com.
The Isle of Man Cycling Challenge (CC) is organised and run by Greenrock Ltd, an independent company which specialises in challenge events and adventure tours.


Police would like to speak to the owner of the dog.
The incident took place in Spencer Gardens on May 6 at about 3pm.
A medium sized, brown dog was off the lead when it jumped up and bit a man, causing a minor injury.
The owner managed to get the dog onto its lead and spoke with the other man. A short time later, he came back into the park without the dog to apologise. However, no names or details were exchanged.
Police would like to speak to the owner of the dog, who was white and wearing a blue t-shirt, and are asking him to get in touch.
Witnesses to the incident, or anyone with any information, are asked to call Northamptonshire Police on 101, quoting reference number 17000208138.


The mother of a newborn baby in recovery from addiction has a new job. Her Wish List need is a new car for her new life.
The Enquirer and United Way of Greater Cincinnati have joined forces for the 31st year to promote the Wish List giving season providing assistance for families in need. Today, learn the story of Covington mother Shae Clem.
Shae Clem, 30, gave birth Nov. 1 to a daughter. The Covington resident is married and has two other children.
Her husband is in jail, and she's worked to overcome drug addiction. Clem wants to work to get her two other children and stepdaughter back into her custody.
"I've struggled with a lot of things, but I'm most proud of the mother I was to my children before I let drugs into my life," she said.
To that end, Clem has graduated from Life Learning Center's 12-week life skills program this fall. She successfully completed a 10-week drug addiction rehabilitation program prior to entering the life skills program.
Clem connected with Life Learning Center when the nonprofit's representatives came to her 10-week drug treatment class.
"When I started here, I immediately saw my life change," she said.
Methods for coping with pressure, managing finances and relationships are part of Life Center's method to put program entrants on a healthier life path, program director Denise Govan said.
"I learned so many things about how to just deal with daily stresses, finances and religion," Clem said.
Now, Clem starts work at a new job Monday, Dec. 4.
"Without a car, it's very hard to get to my job," she said. "It's a senior living facility in Florence. I want to be reliable in this job."
What is their wish for the Wish List giving season?
Receiving $5,000 will provide Clem with a used reliable car to get to work, a one-month deposit to secure permanent housing and Christmas gifts for her children. She wants to get a play kitchen for her 3-year-old daughter and a scooter for her 3-year-old son.
“To me, the holiday season means being with my kids and mom – it’s not about money or gifts," Clem said. "As long as I have them, everything else is a bonus."
Donations may be made online to help at this web address: www.uwgc.org/wishlist.


It’s about time. The liberal media has long been sticking it to Republicans.
In October 1992, during the presidential race between President George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton, Investor’s Business Daily found that over 90 percent of the economic news in newspapers was negative. At the time, the economy was well into a recovery, on its 19th consecutive month of growth. Yet much of the business news was sour.
The next month, November 1992, Bill Clinton won. Investor’s Business Daily found that suddenly only 14 percent of the newspapers’ economic news was negative, a dramatic decline in negativity and upswing in positive economic news.
ABC News’ Peter Jennings, NBC’s Tom Brokaw and CBS’ Dan Rather anchored the nightly news for the then-“Big Three” networks on the first day in office of both Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. On Clinton’s first day in office, he reversed a President Ronald Reagan policy forbidding the use of federal money for abortions. President Bush reversed Bill Clinton’s reversal.
So how did networks cover each president’s first day on their evening news broadcasts?
The media routinely refers to the recession President Barack Obama inherited as the “great recession.” But during the recession President Reagan dealt with, unemployment hit 10.8 percent, versus Obama’s peak of 10.0 percent. During Reagan’s presidency, prime interest rates hit 20.5 percent, and inflation, which was modest under Obama, averaged 13.5 percent under Reagan in the early ’80s.
Reagan lowered taxes, continued deregulation and slowed down the rate of domestic spending. Obama, of course, did the opposite.
Consider what Roosevelt’s secretary of treasury, Henry Morgenthau Jr., wrote in his diary: “We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. … I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises. … I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started and an enormous debt to boot!” Yet high school text books teach us that government spending, what the left today calls government “investments,” pulled the economy for the abyss.
To reverse media bias, President Trump has his work cut out for him. But his press conference was a good start.
The laws of the free market, as with the laws of nature, will always prevail. Politically deluded Americans all bought Chinese imported goods at lower prices and thought they were saving money, all the while running up unemployment costs and cost of non-productivity in manufacturing, into the BILLIONS, covered in a blanket of national Debt into the tens of TRILLIONS, because America no longer CREATED things in manufacturing, just redistributed things , created in the past American wealth lost overseas in lost jobs, living in an illusion of false prosperity, the cost of which was pushed on to future generations in TRILLIONS in debt who will pay for the illusion of a party of prosperity today, with generational debt slavery of tomorrow. This is how socialism works, and why it always eventually goes bankrupt, first is reality, then in morality and later in the definitive failure of its finances followed by the corruption of its government.
What we gained in cheaper chinese goods, we paid for in borrowed national TEN TRILLION in national debt and loss of productive jobs, unemployment and social discord,,a poor exchange. Wake up, the piper always gets paid.over government manipulation because the market always reveals what is real, while the politicians in government just try to delude the people from the reality of their own misguided attempts to refute the laws of the market and cover their own mistakes in the doing. Take the now unpopular but needed taxes on imports to relevel the fairness in trade that was unleveled by Chinese and other’s currency manipulation and slave waged labor.
And what we gained in cheeper goods, we LOST In quality. Notice, that we never saw these levels of auto recalls for defective parts in the 60s to 90s.. BUT have seen lots of recalls since.
Buildings, bridges and roads built in the 20s to the late 80s, are STILL standing, but in many cases, stuff built since, have had to be rebuilt, repaired, resurfaced etc..
HECK when i lived in England, there was a stretch of motorway near my home town that had NOT SEEN a repair/relaying to it, done in 45 years (since the late 30s), but other than some potholes in the side where the dirt met the concrete, it was STILL good.
YET there are DOZENS of other roads that seem to need to be resurfaced EVERY OTHER BLOODY year cause they pothole up like crazy so quickly..
So over due is right..!! The liberal and Leftist media deserve to be vilified..!! They are liars and distorters. They ignore stories that are conservative or twist the information. They don’t deserve the ‘check and balance on democracy’ status that they have been provided.
It is HIGH TIME Conservatives started pushing back against the BLATANTLY BIASED leftist propaganda the WORTHLESS media have been passing off as “news” for decades! If not for media complicity in covering up Obama’s radical background, HIDING his association with KNOWN leftist radicals, etc. I don’t believe he EVER would have been elected. Therefore they are COMPLICIT in his DISASTROUS FAILURE of a Presidency!
After Trump won the Republican nomination in the 2016 Presidential race, they declared him an “unfit” candidate, and seemed to think this declaration gave them license to be as blatantly biased against him as they pleased, because, you know, they were PATRIOTS trying to save the country from an unfit leader–or at least THAT was the narrative they used and have been using since he was elected President to justify their EGREGIOUS leftist slanting of news, and BLATANT ignoring of news that did not fit the leftist narrative. They even COLLUDED DIRECTLY with the Democrats to decide what was, and was not “news.” And ALL their coverage of the Trump administration is RELENTLESSLY negative!
I’d say their comeuppance is LONG overdue, and personally, I’m ENJOYING the hell out of watching President Trump deliver it to them.
This is why i really would love it if you were allowed to DUMP a specific network from your ‘TV cable bundle”.. SO you could show your displeasure by DUMPING these fake news outlets..
I would LOVE to see how CNN, MSNBC, NBC, and such would react if say 20 million Americans all at once had their cable network provider all dump them from their channel line up..


Longboard Media is celebrating its two year anniversary and has revealed some amazing growth numbers, crystalizing its position as the largest ad network in the ecommerce space.
Co-founded in November 2008 by former eBay and Shopping.com employees Scott Engler and Jim Barkow, Longboard manages ad inventory for thefind.com, shop.com, overstock.com, buzzillions.com and become.com.
Currently ranking #1 in shopping vertical audience, Longboard Media has also grown from 5 million monthly Comscore users in 2008 to more than 48 million monthly users in a span of two years, beating both Google Product Search and Yahoo Shopping by 50%. It ranks alongside Walmart.com at #6 in retail audience overall.
While self-funded, the startup also has some pretty notable advisors including former Digg Revenue officer Chas Edwards, Brightroll CEO Tod Sacredoti, Catalystsf’s John Durham and Threadsy’s Rob Goldman.
Taking advantage of this upward movement, Longboard plans to launch more products in 2011 and is focusing primarily on mobile.