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PROBLEM: The White House confirmed Sunday that  Russian President Vladimir Putin  spoke with President Donald Trump in what Russian state media has described as a thank-you call following a CIA tip about a bomb threat in St. Petersburg.
Russia's main state broadcaster  Vesti  said Sunday that  Putin  called Trump to thank  him  for a CIA tip that helped Russian police thwart a terrorist attack in St Petersburg.
According to  Vesti  Putin  asked Trump to thank CIA Director Mike Pompeo for providing the information  and  he  told the U.S. president that "the Russian security services  in the case where they receive information regarding terrorist threats in relation to the U.S. and its citizens  will without question and immediately pass it to their American colleagues."
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders confirmed the call from Putin to Trump took place and said a readout would be provided to the press shortly.

SOLUTION: Putin

PROBLEM: American Icon and Playboy Founder  Hugh M. Hefner  passed away today.  He  was 91. #RIPHef
Born in Chicago   Hefner  served in the military and worked in journalism before founding Playboy  at age 27  with a small loan. The first issue featured Marilyn Monroe in the centerfold  with images taken for a nude calendar four years earlier  before she became famous. In 2011   Hefner  bought the crypt next to Monroe at the West Hollywood Cemetery  though the two never met.
"You know I'm a sucker for blondes  and  she  is the ultimate blonde " he told CBS2  calling Monroe "the definitive sex icon of our time."
 Hefner 's magazine began publishing its now-iconic centerfold in 1955 — a two-page spread with a titillating photo of a woman. As the magazine took off in the '50s   Hefner  shed a marriage to  his  former classmate Mildred Williams and embraced the sybaritic life depicted on those glossy pages. In 1962  the magazine introduced the "Playboy Interview " which was lauded for its great writing  starting a long-running joke that people read the magazine for the articles  rather than the pictures.  Hefner  also hosted television shows related to the brand  including Playboy's Penthouse in 1959 and Playboy After Dark in 1969.
 Hefner  was married three times  and while  he  himself grew older  his bride was always twentysomething as  she  walked down the aisle. Hailing from a Methodist family in the Midwest   he  styled  himself  as someone who transcended the sexual puritanism endemic in the United States  despite  his  carefully tailored embodiment of an old-fashioned form of masculinity.  He  read Alfred Kinsey's research enthusiastically and experimented with bisexuality in the 1950s;  he  claimed to be a proponent and an instigator of the "sexual revolution"; and yet  he  acknowledged in  his  autobiography that Playboy was "a romantic reflection of earlier times." Although the Playboy fantasy was inherently conservative  the philanthropic Playboy Foundation was a financial supporter of the fight for abortion rights. "Women were the major beneficiary of the sexual revolution "  Hefner  said in Esquire in 2007. "Unfortunately  within feminism  there has been a puritan  prohibitionist element that is antisexual." In the same piece   Hefner  called himself a feminist. Playboy's circulation peaked at 7 million in the '70s  around the time  Hefner  moved from Chicago to the storied Playboy Mansion  where he continued to live and work for the rest of his life.  His company  took a dive in the 1980s  when many of the Playboy Clubs were shuttered  and again in the 1990s  with the rise of easily accessible internet porn  which made his pornographic magazine seem irrelevant. In 2015  the magazine abruptly announced that it would stop publishing nude photos  although it reversed that decision earlier this year. Hefner and a collection of his live-in girlfriends also managed to reach a new audience  starring in an E! reality TV series called The Girls Next Door from 2005 to 2010. He married one of those girlfriends  Crystal Harris  in 2012. It was at this time that he also announced his youngest son  Cooper  would take over Playboy Enterprises.
 Hefner  is survived by  his  wife  Crystal Harris;  his  three sons  David  Marston  and Cooper Hefner; and a daughter  Christie Hefner.

SOLUTION: Hugh M. Hefner

PROBLEM: LONDON (Reuters) -  When Comcast (CMCSA.O) boss Brian Roberts  was weighing up a $31 billion offer for British broadcaster Sky (SKYB.L)  a trip to see Skyâs products in store  and the knowledge of the London cab driver that took  him  there  helped to make up  his  mind.
 Chief Executive Roberts  said the visit was one of a number of things that confirmed Sky as a âjewelâ that his company should try to acquire  as Comcast looks to boost international revenues as growth in the United States slows.
 Roberts  said  he  had closely tracked what Sky had been doing for years  but last November   he  had an unexpected reminder of Skyâs influence as Europeanâs biggest pay-TV provider while in a cab with a colleague.
âI suggested that we jump in a taxi and go to one of the malls and get a demo of Sky in one of their shops. And we had a fabulous experience â  Roberts  told reporters on a call.
 Roberts  said that while the experience wasnât the deciding factor in moving forward with the bid  it reiterated the media groupâs value to the chief executive.

SOLUTION:
Brian Roberts