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BETHESDA, Md., March 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sapphire Group today released the results of a new study which found that levels of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) found in drinking water supplies are safe for human exposure. PFOA, sometimes referred to as C8, is a substance used in the manufacture of a variety of non-stick and stain resistant protective coatings.
Concentrations of PFOA found in drinking water supplies range from less than the detectable limit of 7.5 parts per trillion to 3.5 parts per billion near some manufacturing facilities. Studies of workers exposed to high concentrations of PFOA in manufacturing facilities have found no increase in the incidence of adverse health effects.
The Sapphire Group's examination of 239 peer reviewed human and animal studies found a safe level of lifetime exposure to PFOA in drinking water to be up to 6.5 parts per billion. One part per billion is the equivalent of one drop dissolved in 14,000 gallons of water. One part per trillion is the equivalent of a half drop dissolved in a 660 thousand gallon Olympic swimming pool.
"Our comprehensive examination, analysis, and integration of data from the available human and laboratory animal studies found that exposure to PFOA at the levels found in drinking water supplies today has no adverse effect on human health," said Dr. Robert G. Tardiff, the study's principal author and a former chief toxicologist for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
"Over the past decade, levels of PFOA found in drinking water have been falling steadily, in part because of a more than 90 percent reduction in PFOA emissions from manufacturing facilities. PFOA can be completely removed from drinking water supplies with a granular activated carbon filter. Unlike some other chemicals, PFOA does not accumulate in the human body. As PFOA levels in the environment continue to decline, levels in humans will also de
|SOURCE The Sapphire Group
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Private Practice News
The Seaside Wellness doctors staged an intervention for Amelia on Private Practice. Grab a tissue or two because you'll need them to watch this two-hour special episode.
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Private Practice Sneak Peek: An Intervention?!?
Private Practice airs a special two-hour episode tonight. Feast your eyes on the opening of Amelia's intervention now.
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Prepare to shed a few tears, Private Practice fans. Caterina Scorsone prepares you for an emotional episode in this interview.
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Amelia sinks even lower this week on Private Practice. Can the Seaside doctors get through to her? Read our review now to find out.
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Amelia will be in a very bad place this week on Private Practice. Check out the latest promo for the ABC hit now.
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Amelia continues to spiral out of control on Private Practice, while Addie and the Seaside doctors discuss their "sperm ball" picks. Find out more in our review!
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OTTAWA The Government of Canada is taking action to better control the sale of chemicals that can be used to make explosives. The Honourable Gary Lunn, Minister of Natural Resources, and the Honourable Stockwell Day, Minister of Public Safety, today announced that new regulations for these chemicals, known as explosives precursors, will be implemented under the Explosives Act.
Following extensive public consultation, the Government of Canada has developed new regulations for specific chemicals that reflect our commitment to public safety and security while minimizing impact on Canadian industry and end-users, said Minister Lunn. The new regulations will increase security measures related to the sale of these chemicals as well as prohibit the re-sale of ammonium nitrate by customers.
The new regulations will require that anyone who sells ammonium nitrate or any of the eight other chemicals be registered with the Explosives Regulatory Division of Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) and comply with security measures for storage, record keeping and customer identification.
Our government believes that new controls on explosives precursors are necessary to reduce the risk of terrorist acts, said Minister Day. This list of chemicals was drawn up on the basis of expert scientific and security analyses and includes chemicals that pose the greatest risk, and therefore, require regulatory control.
The nine chemicals to be controlled under the new regulations currently have a wide range of legitimate uses, such as ammonium nitrate, which is commonly used in agriculture as fertilizer. The chemicals are: ammonium nitrate; nitric acid; nitromethane; hydrogen peroxide; potassium nitrate; sodium nitrate; potassium chlorate; sodium chlorate; and potassium perchlorate.
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The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook
A Delicious Alternative for Lifelong Health
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more"Nancy Harmon Jenkins is a marvelous writer, a fine reporter, and addicted to travel, people, history, and good food, which makes this book a joy. That it points to a healthful way to eat, incorporating the freshness and clear flavors of Mediterranean cooking, also makes it a daily delight." —Barbara Kafka, author of Party Food
"Nancy Harmon Jenkins's new book is an irresistible invitation to share the healthiest diet in the world. It has one alluring recipe after another, each one fragrant with the fresh aromas of the ingredients I love the most: fish right out of the water, ripe vegetables from open-air markets, herbs from the garden. This book makes an overwhelming argument that the things that taste the best are good for you." —Alice Waters
"Although it's technically a diet book, this book is so much more—a superbly written examination of Mediterranean food and life and one of the most exciting cookbooks of the year." —Paula Wolfert, author of The Cooking of the Mediterranean
"A great body of scientific data indicates that a generous daily intake of vegetables and fruits, coupled with low consumption of meat and other animal products, is the basis of a healthy diet. In this book, Nancy Jenkins vividly demonstrates that giving up meat, potatoes, and gravy need not be a sacrifice but rather the beginning of a journey into a far more interesting and healthier world of eating." —Walter Willett, Chairman, Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health
"An essential…. This revised edition of her bestselling title includes updated nutrition information, notes on sustainable agriculture and similar concerns, and more than 90 new recipes."—Library Journal, starred review
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From the Outerbridge's Original Cookbook of recipes from Bermuda. Unfortunately, you must use the Outerbridge's sauce with this, which was given to me. I think you can buy it on line. The sauce is also excelllent on chicken!
YIELD: 4 servings
ACTIVE TIME: 10 min
TOTAL TIME: 30 min
Ingredients1/2 c freshly grated parmesan cheese
1-1/2 c sour cream
Juice of 1/2 a lemon
1 onion, minced
1/2 tsp salt
3 tbs Outerbridge's Original Sherry Peppers Sauce
1/4 tsp paprika
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REPORT: Joe Robert Cole In Talks To Write "Black Panther"
Creators | Political cartoonist Ted Rall talks to the local news about his firing by the Los Angeles Times, which concluded a post he wrote in May for its OpinionLA blog about being stopped by police in 2001 for jaywalking contained "inconsistencies." Rall, who worked for the Times on a freelance basis, insists the audiotape of the incident provided to the newspaper by the Los Angeles Police Department doesn't contradict his statements about being treated rudely and handcuffed. "I would do it all over the same way today," Rall told CBS Los Angeles. "I'm disgusted that the Times took the LAPD's word, based on nothing." [CBS Los Angeles]
Long recognized as the birthplace of Superman, Cleveland may at long last get a statue commemorating the creation of the Man of Steel.
According to The Cleveland Plain Dealer, plans are under way to erect a 12-foot burnished-steel statue of Superman near the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, about five miles from the house where teenagers Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster dreamed up the superhero in the early 1930s.
Sculpted by David Deming, who's been working on the project for nearly seven years, Superman will be mounted atop a 30- to 35-foot pedestal, with smaller, life-size statues of Siegel, Shuster and Lois Lane model Joanne Siegel looking up at him.
Even if you didn't make it to New York Comic Con, you can still view the pristine copy of Action Comics #1 that fetched a record $3.2 million at auction — every single page of it.
Certified Guaranty Company, which graded the copy 9.0, has a digital version of the entire issue, which contained not only the landmark 13-page story by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster that introduced Superman, but also 10 other tales. The debuts of Zatara and Tex Thompson have been overshadowed by the Man of Steel, and the rest of the contents — "Chuck Dawson," "Sticky-Mitt Stimpson," etc. — are now little more than footnotes, but they're still of historical interest.
Also, if you want a general idea of what a 76-year-old comic worth $3.2 million actually looks like … let's face it, this is probably your only chance. The viewer on the CGC website is actually pretty decent, too, allowing you to zoom in to read the text and study the art.
If you've ever wanted to lay eyes — but not hands! — on the world's most expensive comic book, here's your chance.
The owners of Metropolis Collectibles and ComicConnect, who in August paid a record $3.2 million for a pristine copy of Action Comics #1, will display "the Holy Grail of comic books" on Thursday at their New York Comic Con booth (#2630). Alas it's only on Thursday.
The first comic to fetch more than $3 million at auction, the issue is one of just two copies of 1938's Action Comics #1 — featuring the first appearance of Superman — to be graded 9.0 by the Certified Guaranty Company (the other is the comic once owned by actor Nicolas Cage, which sold in 2011 for a then-record $2.16 million; however, its pages aren't considered "pristine"). Only about 30 unrestored copies of Action Comics #1 are thought to exist.
This copy was acquired several years ago in a private sale by Darren Adams of Pristine Comics in Federal Way, Washington, and stored a temperature-controlled vault. He said the original owner bought the comic from a newsstand in 1938, and then kept in a cedar box for about four decades until a local dealer in West Virginia purchased it in an estate sale. The issue then passed to a third person, who held onto it for 30 years. Adams said he turned down an offer of $3 million, and instead opted to sell the comic in a highly publicized eBay auction.
The U.S. Supreme Court this morning declined to intervene in the copyright dispute between the Joe Shuster Estate and DC Comics, effectively ending the long, and frequently bitter, battle over who owns Superman.
By denying the estate's petition, the justices let stand a November 2013 ruling by the Ninth Circuit that Shuster's nephew is prevented by a 1992 agreement with DC from reclaiming the artist's stake in the first Superman story under a clause of the 1976 U.S. Copyright Act.
At issue was a now 22-year-old deal in which the Shuster estate relinquished all claims to the property in exchange for "more than $600,000 and other benefits," which included paying Shuster's debts following his death earlier that year and providing his sister Jean Peavy and brother Frank Shuster with a $25,000 annual pension. In October 2012, U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright found that the agreement invalidated a copyright-termination notice filed in 2003 by Shuster's nephew Mark Peary. Less than three months later, the Ninth Circuit overturned a 2008 decision granting the heirs of Jerry Siegel the writer's 50-percent share of the copyright to the first Superman story in Action Comics #1.
Blab founder and editor Monte Beauchamp's latest book, Masterful Marks: Cartoonists Who Changed the World, bears a subtitle that begs to be parsed, almost as much as it begs to be read.
He's gathered a Murderers' Row of great contributors and collaborators to tell the life's stories of 16 cartoonists, in the most obvious format to do so — comics, of course.
But what, exactly, constitutes a cartoonist? Some of those included might have worked at one point in the field, but made their greatest marks in other areas: people like Walt Disney, Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel and Hugh Hefner (whose inclusion will likely be the biggest surprise to more readers; and, make no mistake, the book is made as much for the casual reader as the expert, armchair or otherwise). Others you might not think of as cartoonists at all, like Edward Gorey or Al Hirschfeld.
And changing the world — the whole world?! — is a pretty bold claim, certainly bolder than changing, say, a genre, or a medium or an industry. Certainly Disney and Osamu Tezuka qualify, as do Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, who introduced the superhero as we know it, and Jack Kirby, who reimagined the superhero, made countless contributions to the form and who created or co-created characters and concepts that today make billions of dollars.
But what about Harvey Kurtzman, Robert Crumb and the aforementioned Hirschfeld? Are their influences and innovations on equal footing?
Less than a year after unveiling seven collector coins celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Man of Steel, this morning at Fan Expo in Toronto the Royal Canadian mint introduced four more, featuring iconic Superman comic book covers.
The superhero's milestone anniversary and Toronto roots were also celebrated last year with a set of stamps from Canada Posts. Although Superman was created in 1933 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster when they were teenagers living in Cleveland, Shuster was actually born in Toronto, and lived there until age 9 or 10. He worked as a newspaper boy for the Toronto Daily Star, whose building served as a model for the Daily Planet (originally called the Daily Star).
The finest known copy of Action Comics #1, featuring the first appearance of Superman, sold late this afternoon on eBay for a record $3.2 million. It's the first comic to fetch more than $3 million at auction.
The previous record price of $2.16 million was paid in 2011 for a copy of the same comic once owned by actor Nicolas Cage. While both are rated 9.0 by the Certified Guaranty Company, the Cage issue had "cream to off-white pages"; this one is considered to be in pristine condition. They're the only two copies of Action Comics #1 to receive that high of a rating.
This copy was acquired several years ago in a private sale by Darren Adams of Pristine Comics in Federal Way, Washington, and stored a temperature-controlled vault. He said the original owner bought the comic from a newsstand in 1938, and then kept in a cedar box for about four decades until a local dealer in West Virginia purchased it in an estate sale. The issue then passed to a third person, who held onto it for 30 years.
Halfway through the 10-day eBay auction, bidding for the finest known copy of Action Comics #1 has surpassed $1.95 million.
Owned by Darren Adams of Pristine Comics in Federal Way, Washington, it's just one of two copies of Superman's first appearance to receive a 9.0 rating from the Certified Guaranty Company. The other, previously owned by actor Nicolas Cage, sold at auction in 2011 for a record $2.16 million. The difference between the two is that the Cage issue had "cream to off-white pages," while Adams' copy is considered to be in pristine condition.
Bidding has slowed considerably as the price inches higher: The comic jumped from a starting price of 99 cents to more than $1.6 million in the auction's first day. Still, already this morning the price has moved from $1.8 million to a little more than $1.95 million. It appears just nine people have participated in the auction, for a total of 27 bids.
The auction continues through Aug. 24, with a portion of the proceeds going to benefit the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, dedicated to curing spinal cord injury. Adams, who acquired the comic several years ago, is only its fourth owner. He said he recently turned down an offer of $3 million, deciding instead to sell the book on eBay.
Just one day into the eBay auction, bidding has already surpassed $1.6 million for the finest known copy of 1938's Action Comics #1, featuring the first appearance of Superman.
It's just one of two copies to receive a 9.0 rating from the Certified Guaranty Company. The other, previously owned by actor Nicolas Cage, sold at auction in 2011 for a record $2.16 million. However, the Cage issue had "cream to off-white pages," while this copy is considered to be in pristine edition.
An opening bid of $1 million was submitted Thursday within four minutes of the auction's opening. Although the comic's owner, retailer Darren Adams of Pristine Comics in Federal Way, Washington, had said more than 75 people had applied to bid in the restricted sale, it appears as if just five have participated so far.
For serious collectors with seriously deep pockets, this is a momentous day: It's the beginning of the 10-day eBay auction of the holy grail of comic books — the finest known copy of Action Comics #1.
"I've been in business 28 years and you chase a lot of leads hoping to find something like this," retailer Darren Adams, who owns the CGC-graded 9.0 copy, tells Seattle's KCPQ TV. "This is the needle in the haystack, because most books are not preserved with such quality."
The owner of Pristine Comics in Federal Way, Washington, Adams acquired the comic several years ago in a private sale, and stored it in a temperature-controlled vault. He tells the Federal Way Mirror the original owner bought the comic (for 10 cents) from a newsstand in 1938, and then stored it in a cedar box for about four decades until a local dealer in West Virginia purchased it in an estate sale. The issue then passed to a third person, who held onto it for 30 years.
Horning in on Batman Day, eBay has announced it will auction a CGC-graded 9.0 copy of Action Comics #1, the finest known copy of the 1938 first appearance of Superman.
Just one other copy of Action Comics #1, the one previously owned by actor Nicolas Cage, has received a 9.0 rating from the Certified Guaranty Company, but it had "cream to off-white pages," while this comic is considered to be in pristine edition. The Cage issue sold at auction in 2011 for a record $2.16 million; the expectation is, of course, that this copy, owned by collectibles dealer Darren Adams, will fetch a considerably higher price.
"The quality and preservation of this Action #1 is astounding," Paul Litch, CGC's Primary Grader, said in a statement. "The book looks and feels like it just came off the newsstand. It is supple, the colors are deep and rich and the quality of the white pages is amazing for a comic that is 76 years old."
The eBay auction will be held Aug. 10-24, with a portion of proceeds going to the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, which is dedicated to curing spinal cord injury.
You can view the comic on the CGC Comics website.
Politics | Framing the controversy as part of a larger political battle between South Carolina's lawmakers and its public universities, The Washington Post wades into the ongoing saga surrounding the House of Representatives' vote to reduce funding to two schools after they selected gay-themed books for their summer reading programs. The newspaper uses as its entry point the Monday performances in Charleston of Fun Home, the musical adaptation of the Alison Bechdel graphic novel that was chosen last summer by the College of Charleston, drawing the ire of a South Carolina Christian group and conservative lawmakers. The Post reports that several state legislators suggested they viewed the staging of the musical as "a deliberate provocation," and will seek to cut even more funding in response. The South Carolina Senate has yet to vote on the state budget, which includes the cuts to the schools. [The Washington Post]
Although an appeals court seems to have brought to an end the Joe Shuster estate's bid to reclaim the artist's stake in Superman, The Hollywood Reporter reminds us that the fight by Jerry Siegel's heirs is far from over.
According to the website, attorney Marc Toberoff — he represents both families — is scheduled to file a brief next month on a pending appeal of a March 2013 ruling that affirmed the writer's family relinquished any claims to the Man of Steel by accepting a 2001 offer from DC Comics that permits the publisher to retain all rights to Superman (as well as Superboy and The Spectre) in exchange for $3 million in cash and contingent compensation worth tens of millions.
Toberoff maintains the Siegels never accepted the DC offer (the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals found otherwise), but even if there was a contract, then the publisher failed to perform. That explains the addition last year of the line "By Special Arrangement with the Jerry Siegel Family" to the credits of any DC title featuring Superman, a stipulation of the 2001 agreement.
However, Wright noted that breach-of-contract claims are a matter for state court, and don't affect the enforceability of the 2001 agreement. So, a separate lawsuit remains an option for the Siegels, even if — or perhaps when — they exhaust their copyright case.
As The Hollywood Reporter points out, while the Siegel heirs still face "incredibly long odds," their fight isn't over yet.
In the latest — and, quite possibly, final — legal blow to the estate of Joe Shuster, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has denied a petition for a rehearing of its November decision that effectively brought to an end what a three-judge panel described as "the long-running saga regarding the ownership of copyrights in Superman — a story almost as old as the Man of Steel himself."
Deadline reports that the one-page order closes the door to any more petitions for rehearing before the Ninth Circuit, leaving the Supreme Court as the only option left to attorney Marc Toberoff, who last year pledged, "My clients and I are prepared to go the distance."


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OAKLAND, Calif., June 5 /PRNewswire/ -- The Service Employees International Union is embracing the campaign rhetoric of Sen. John McCain's attack on Sen. Barack Obama's healthcare plan as a bludgeon to attack the nation's leading organization of registered nurses, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee noted today.
In a mailing to CNA/NNOC members this week, SEIU blasts CNA/NNOC for supporting a "government-run health care system." McCain has used almost identical language to disparage Obama's proposals for healthcare reform on an issue that will be a major focus of the fall campaign.
"By carelessly and cynically adopting the McCain language, SEIU is not only showing its contempt for the majority of Americans who have told pollsters that the government should guarantee healthcare for everyone as a solution to the healthcare crisis that has put so many of our families at risk.
"They are also giving aid, comfort, and ammunition to Sen. McCain whose own healthcare plan would be a disastrous continuation of the dismal and failed status quo," said CNA-NNOC co-president Malinda Markowitz, RN.
By using his language, SEIU is effectively "validating McCain's attack on Obama," she charged. "We can now expect that McCain will be able to quote SEIU as sharing his disgraceful attempts to subvert desperately needed efforts to transform our dysfunctional and broken healthcare system," she said.
SEIU's latest attack comes just days before a planned "mediation" session between SEIU and CNA/NNOC next week in Washington. But SEIU's tactics, said CNA/NNOC Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro, "make success in this forum less likely."
SEIU, she said, "will be using the meeting as a staging ground to attempt to show Democratic Party officials that it wants to end its war on RNs, even while it is quoting McCain in its attacks on us."
What SEIU says it is proposing, she noted, is a "no-raid agreement," at
|SOURCE California Nurses Association
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I hope no one actually spends money on this. I added this to my order after spending $35+, so I figured I might get a few samples. I wasn't expecting to be amazed by any means. However, what I received was a huge let down and almost a little deceptive. I was expecting to get something valued around $10, instead I got one sample size refresher for clothes (essentially a scented piece of fabric). So glad I did not pay for this or else I would have been even more upset. Some of the things I have received in my Birchbox boggle my mind (pencils, playing cards). I truly hope Birchbox steps up it's game.1
One of the greatest things about Birchbox is the SIZE of their samples....Most places will give you those tiny little "packets." But I just received two samples that would be considered "deluxe size". I received the Ursa Major face wash, Baxter of California facial scrub (something that I purchased in the full size.....definitely worth it!), and then got a pack of loose leaf teas! Very satisfied and happy about these samples! Keep up the great work, Birchbox!!!5
I had read some reviews and thought that this would be a flop, I mean its not worth the price but worth it if you spend the 35 bucks or whatever from the bonus shop. I got some fancy teas which are delicious, a deodorant which is natural and manly smelling, and a body lotion which surprisingly i catch myself using quite often.5
Not really a mystery anymore. I think this is probably the 4th time I've received the Plant face oil. You'd think they'd run out eventually...not the case. Please no more! Glad it was a bonus because a little tube of oil and an equally as tiny tube of cream is not worth $10.1


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Steps to create a self-signed certificate and configure Custom Identity and Custom Trust with Weblogic Server using Keytool...
By Puneeth-Oracle on Aug 24, 2013
Below are the steps to create a self signed certificate :
Command 1 :
keytool -genkey -alias mykey -keyalg RSA -keysize 1024 -validity 365 -keypass privatepassword -keystore identity.jks -storepass password
Note :
List of keytool commands which are changed in java 1.6 :
-export, renamed to -exportcert
-genkey, renamed to -genkeypair
-import, renamed to -importcert
All previous commands are still supported in this release ( keytool in java 1.6 ) and will continue to be supported in future releases.
Command 2 :
keytool -export -alias mykey -file root.cer -keystore identity.jks -storepass password
Command 3 :
keytool -import -alias mykey -file root.cer -keystore trust.jks -storepass password
< Additional Info >
To see the contents of the keystore use the following command :
Command :
keytool -list -v -keystore identity.jks -storepass password
To see the contents of an individual certificate ( like root.cer in our case ).
Command :
keytool -printcert -file root.cer
Copy the keystore files in the domain_home location :
Below are the steps to configure Custom Identity and Custom Trust with Weblogic Server :
Step 1 :
Login to Weblogic Admin console --> Environment --> Servers --> < server_name_where_ssl_has_to_be_configured > --> Configuration -> General --> SSL Listen Port Enabled ( Check )
Note : The default SSL Listen Port would be 7002, change it if required.
Step 2 :
Click on Keystores tab under " Configuration " tab :
Step 2a :
Click on the drop down menu next to Keystores and sleect " Custom Identity and Custom Trust "
Step 2b :
Now fill in the following information :
Custom Identity Keystore : < location_of_identity_keystore_that_you_have_created>
NOTE : By default WLS will look for this keystore file in domain_home location.
Custom Identity Keystore Type : jks
Custom Identity Keystore Passphrase: < This_would_be_your_storepass >
Custom Trust Keystore : < location_of_trust_keystore_that_you_have_created>
NOTE : By default WLS will look for this keystore file in domain_home location.
Custom Trust Keystore Type : jks
Custom Trust Keystore Passphrase: < This_would_be_your_storepass >
Step 2c :
Now save the changes and click on " SSL " tab :
Private Key Alias: < This_would_be_your_certificate_alias >
Private Key Passphrase: < This_would_be_your_keypass >
Step 3 :
Save the changes and click on the " >Advanced " field under the " SSL " tab :
Set the " Hostname Verification: " to None ( from the drop down menu ).
Note : We need to select the hostname verification as none if the CN of the certificate is not the same as the hostname of the machine where WLS is installed.
Now access your Weblogic Admin console over https URL :
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Tuesday 13 October 2015, PM
Former Daily Mirror editor Piers Morgan joins ITV breakfast TV show Good Morning Britain
Piers Morgan is to join the Good Morning Britain presenting team alongside co-host Susanna Reid. The average viewing figures for Good Morning Britain have been 600,000 in the year to date, according to ITV. - www.pressgazette.co.uk
Danny Cohen stepping down as Director of TV
Prior to the role he has performed since 2013, Danny was Controller of BBC One and BBC Three. Danny Cohen's deputy, Mark Linsey, who runs entertainment commissioning, will take on his responsibilities until an appointment is made. - www.bbc.co.uk
Tuesday 13 October 2015, AM
Privatised Channel 4 would need profits of £200m a year, says chief executive
Channel 4 chairman Lord Burns, who is coming to the end of his term in January, said that the government has not asked him to look at privatisation options for Channel 4. Burns said the channel had always competed for talent somewhere between the BBC and commercial broadcasters, and that 2014 had seen the company perform particularly well in terms of its creative output, while laying the groundwork for improvements in financial stability. - www.theguardian.com
Monday 12 October 2015, PM
Submissions needed for BBC Trust Impartiality Review
The BBC Trust is asking for submissions to its impartiality review on the BBC's reporting of statistics in its news and current affairs programming. Dame Jil Matheson, who is chairing the independent panel leading the review, is inviting interested organisations and those with specific expertise, to submit written evidence about the BBC's reporting of statistics. - www.bbc.co.uk
BBC needs a big bold creative vision
Make programmes freely available on the internet for download, without restriction or limitation, as far as possible worldwide and in perpetuity, under a creative commons style licence, with appropriate attribution and credit. Rather than attempting to sell programmes internationally, achieve global influence by making programmes freely available, worldwide. - informitv.com
Does the Future of Television Belong to the Device or the App?
The MPAA is even going so far as to suggest that a proposal to revolutionize the TV device market would violate both the First and Fifth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. At the moment, there are two big proposals on the table to replace the expensive, rarely used security protocols that were established in the mid-90s when Congress allowed companies like TiVo to offer competing devices to standard cable boxes. - www.hollywoodreporter.com
Logos released for UTV's new radio stations
We've got the new logos for talkSPORT 2, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio ahead of their launch next year. Virgin Radio's logo is familiar with small differences from other Virgin Radio stations around the world, and not too different from the logo used by Virgin 1215 before it was rebranded as Absolute Radio. - radiotoday.co.uk
Monday 12 October 2015, AM
BBC and Ofcom asked to help Norwich TV station cut the Mustard
Jeff Henry, the chief executive of regional newspaper group Archant, which owns Mustard, was speaking after financial filings revealed the local TV venture ran up a 657,000 loss last year. Ofcom would challenge Henry's assertion on this point having already allowed the capital's local TV channel, London Live, and last week six others in cities including Cardiff, Bristol and Belfast to cut back on local programming, news and current affairs. - www.theguardian.com
Friday 09 October 2015, AM
BBC rules out funding digital radio switchover | Media | The Guardian
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DTG :: News :: DTG publishes R-Book 6: practical guidelines for Freeview YouView aerial sy…
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Thursday 08 October 2015, AM
BBC seeks 11-year charter in green paper response | News | Broadcast
The BBC will call for an 11 year charter when it publishes its response to the government's charter review green paper later today.The corporation will address concerns over the politicisation of the charter review process by arguing the extension would separate the review process from the election cycle.Meanwhile it will repeat BBC Trust chairman Rona Fairhead's earlier call for licence fee payers to play a formal role in charter review in future and to be consulted in debates on the funding of the BBC. - www.broadcastnow.co.uk
Rita Ora, Sam Smith and Coldplay back campaign to protect BBC music | Media | The Guardian…
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Humax announces FVP-4000T Freeview Play set-box | What Hi-Fi?
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Tuesday 06 October 2015, AM
Channel 4's Rebrand Dismantles Its Iconic "4" Logo | Co.Design | business + design
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Monday 05 October 2015, AM
New digital process brings 10,000 programmes
So the UK broadcasters, including ourselves, ITV and C4, formed a digital production partnership called the Digital Production Partnership, of which I was founder and managing director. So the UK broadcasting industry, through the DPP, decided to create the equivalent of an HDCAM SR via a single common digital file format that everyone could use to submit finished programmes. - www.bbc.co.uk
Sunday 04 October 2015, AM
Freeview Play
This beautiful and inspiring ad charts the journey of a little television in a totalitarian world of zeppelins and goosestep marching. One sees echoes of Apple's 1984, a single figure rebelling against the brainwashed masses, a revolution of one. - adland.tv
Friday 02 October 2015, PM
A framework for spectrum sharing
Ofcom is today seeking views on a proposed new framework for thinking about spectrum sharing that would offer a model for considering whether frequencies have the potential to be shared. Identify barriers to sharing include regulatory tools and market and technological enablers that have potential to facilitate further sharing and, set out how sharing would be considered on a case-by-case basis, taking into account any existing uses and proposed new uses. - stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk
Freeview Launches Biggest Ever Advertising Campaign
Freeview, the UK's no.1 TV platform, is set to unveil its biggest ever advertising campaign to launch connected TV service Freeview Play. Since last Saturday Freeview has been teasing the new campaign with a version of the brand's Cat and Budgie advert interrupted by an evil TV from Set Yourself Free. - www.freeview.co.uk
DTG :: News :: "UHD is ready to roll": SES Ultra HD Conference @ the DTG, September 29th 2…
Opening the conference, journalist and industry analyst Chris Forrester said that UHD has taken huge steps forward over the past six months and cited UHD channels in China, Europe Japan, Korea, India as well as the USA. He went on to say that the first commercial 24/7 UHD channels are being carried by SES and expected that more would be announced shortly. - www.dtg.org.uk
Barb launches 'gold standard' for online viewing measurement
The TV Player report is BARB's first publication of data for viewing that takes place on laptops, desktop PCs, tablets and smartphones. The report currently includes data from the following TV players All 4, BBC iPlayer, ITV Player, Sky Go and UTV Player. - www.broadbandtvnews.com
Friday 02 October 2015, AM
Freeview launches biggest ever ad campaign |
Freeview, the UK FTA TV platform, is set to unveil its biggest ever advertising campaign to launch connected TV service Freeview Play. The TV campaign will also include 60 and 40 second versions plus product adverts which explain the features and benefits of Freeview Play. - advanced-television.com
EE TV review
You get a similar interface to the one you use on the TV which means you can do a lot more than the YouView app which is essentially the EPG so you can send recordings to the box. With the EE TV app you can watch live TV, watch recordings and make use of the Replay feature. - www.pcadvisor.co.uk
DAB Updates: October 2015
Events radio station Pop Up Radio has been authorised to pop up in more places on DAB digital radio. More information Bournemouth, Derbyshire, Exeter Torbay, North Devon, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire and South Hampshire Pop Up Radio will be added to these multiplexes Lincolnshire listeners can now tune into BBC Radio Lincolnshire, Compass FM and Lincs FM via the new Lincolnshire digital radio multiplex. - www.a516digital.com
Thursday 01 October 2015, PM
BBC releases stats to bolster Charter renewal
The document has been circulated to all former BBC employees who are in the BBC Alumni, a network designed to keep ex-BBC people up to date with the Corporation. 12.7m people a day start the day with BBC radio stations, according to the document 7.0m are listening to BBC Radio's drivetime output. - media.info
Thursday 01 October 2015, AM
New national radio station?
The new national digital radio multiplex, goes live early in 2016. At the moment, DAB stations can only be received on a proportion of digital radios in the UK. However, that's growing all the time with car radios and the digital tick mark helping to accelerate growth. - radiotoday.co.uk
Lincolnshire digital radio multiplex launched
Local DAB has arrived in Lincolnshire, with a new MuxCo multiplex carrying the services of Lincs FM, Compass FM and BBC Radio Lincolnshire. BBC Radio Lincolnshire's digital service was switched-on at 8am this morning when the Mayor of Lincoln, Andy Kerry pressed a big green switch signalling for the digital transmission to start. - radiotoday.co.uk
BBC Radio 5 live Sports Extra plans not approved
The Trust decided that the BBC's proposals had the potential to have a material impact on the market and could negatively impact talkSPORT especially talkSPORT 2 which was due to be launched at a similar time early next year. TalkSPORT raised substantive concerns that the proposal would put talkSPORT 2 in direct competition with the BBC in seeking to procure sports rights and programming relationships with sports governing bodies, and that any expansion of Sports Extra's remit would place commercial viability of its plans for talkSPORT 2 in question. - radiotoday.co.uk
Channel 4 facing 'disaster'
Key figures from Channel 4âs history have warned that privatising the PSB would be a âdisasterâ for the UK television industry.After a government official was photographed outside Downing Street clasping documents suggesting that privatisation is firmly on the agenda, industry heavyweights have rallied around the broadcaster.Former Wall to Wall chief executive Alex Graham, one of the founding fathers of an indie sector fostered by C4âs creation in 1982, said removing the broadcaster from public ownership would have grave consequences for producers.âWe have a delicate ecology in the UK and if you start messing around with it, itâs like drilling for oil in the Arctic â that which we all find precious could disappear almost overnight,â he said.Graham added that, although he has respect for culture secretary John Whittingdale, there is a âslightly thuggish qualityâ about government policy on broadcasting.Charlie Parsons, creator of The Big Breakfast and The Word, said it would be a âtragedyâ if the proposals were pushed through, adding that a privately owned C4 would have a âwatered downâ remit.âSelling off C4 is like selling off the family jewels,â he said..... - www.broadcastnow.co.uk
Wednesday 30 September 2015, PM
New HTML5 Player beta trial for BBC iPlayer
While opted in, whenever you visit BBC iPlayer to play a programme you'll see a reminder banner before you click Play, so you can be sure you're using our HTML5 player. During the beta period if we can't play a video in our HTML5 player you'll see the notification below, enabling you to load our non-beta player on a one-off basis. - www.bbc.co.uk
Wednesday 30 September 2015, AM
Jon Holmes explains all about DAB digital radio
A fun video explaining digital radio has been produced and played at the Radio Festival in London. The short guide, presented by Radio X weekend breakfast host Jon Holmes, gives a quick overview of getting digital radio in your car and includes appearances by Rosie Smith and Laurence Harrison. - radiotoday.co.uk
Zane Lowe: 'I'm not sure that Apple Music needs Beats 1'
Cooper asked Lowe to explain the circumstances which caused him to leave the BBC, prompting Lowe to squirm slightly in his seat. Previously, he worked at XFM and MTV, continuing to present MTV Two's Gonzo flagship music programme throughout his time at the BBC. Lowe was visibly moved after Cooper presented him with a Radio 1 award, and launched an impassioned defence of the corporation. - www.telegraph.co.uk
Tuesday 29 September 2015, AM
Channel 4 chairman to step down as ministers consider privatisation plans
The chairman of Channel 4 is to step down in January after ministers rejected a proposal that he stay on while trying to turn the state-owned broadcaster into a mutually owned not-for-profit company. The Shareholder Executive, the government body which now owns state assets and is looking to reduce the public deficit, is understood to have instructed advisers to value Channel 4 both with its current remit to commission diverse coverage and to support independent producers and without any public service obligations other than those broadly shared by other broadcasters such as Channel 5 and ITV to provide news and current affairs. - www.theguardian.com
Monday 28 September 2015, AM
Former Radio 4 announcer fears for the future of the Shipping Forecast
The Shipping Forecast is currently broadcast four times a day at 0048, 0520, 1201 and 1754 the last two forecasts are broadcast on BBC Radio 4 LW only. The Met Office will, via the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, continue to provide data for the BBC's Shipping Forecast beyond the end of the Met Office contract with BBC Weather. - www.a516digital.com
Sunday 27 September 2015, PM
Our TV talent is world-beating, so why are the Tories strangling it?
While our glorious car, oil and weapons systems industries get bigged up by ministers abroad, at home there's a choreographed attack on the BBC by Conservative MPs, possibly mounted on the basis that they get asked difficult questions on Newsnight and Radio 4's Today programme. At the Royal Television Society conference two weeks ago, he protested it was not his intention to tell the BBC what programmes it should make and when it should put them out, before telling the BBC that its main news shouldn't be broadcast at 10pm and maybe Strictly Come Dancing shouldn't be shown on Saturday night. - www.theguardian.com
'Wolf Hall' director says he rowed with Culture Secretary over BBC licence fee
Mr Kosminsky explained he argued with John Whittingdale over whether or not the licence fee was a tax, with Mr Whittingdale declaring that it was. Mr Kosminsky, 59, directed the recent adaptation of Hilary Mantel's book, but has otherwise not worked for the BBC in over a decade. - www.independent.co.uk
Friday 25 September 2015, AM
Government may privatise Channel 4, document reveals
The government has inadvertently provided further evidence that it is looking at privatising Channel 4, after an official was photographed entering Downing Street with a document setting out options for a sell-off. Channel 4's remit to cater for minority audiences and take risks is considered by some within the broadcaster as the greatest challenge to privatisation. - www.theguardian.com
Wednesday 23 September 2015, PM
ITV Hub to replace ITV Player and ITV.com
The move seemingly makes sense, as ITV claims 30 per cent of its usage on PC and mobile is from live streaming ITV's channels, which include ITV, ITV2, ITV3, ITV4, CITV and ITVBe, rather than the on-demand catch-up service through ITV Player. ITV also showed off new branding for ITV Hub that uses the different coloured dots from the various ITV channel logos and shows how ITV Hub is at the centre of all of ITV's content. - www.expertreviews.co.uk
Wednesday 23 September 2015, AM
Radio Times poll shows massive public support for BBC and licence fee
Huge numbers say that the BBC provides high-quality programming that is distinctive from other broadcasters and, as a result, the vast majority of you - regardless of your age - would even be happy to forgo a free licence when you're 75 rather than see the BBC lose out. Three out of four of you say that the BBC should not have its services cut back, even if it means a cheaper licence fee. - www.radiotimes.com
Classic British film channel new on Freeview |
Available from 1300 on Tuesday 22 September 2015, people watching Talking Pictures TV will be able to relax at home and watch vintage and rare films, 24 hours a day, and relive their memories of the 'Saturday morning pictures'. Talking Pictures TV is a family-run business, which first began as a classic films DVD label under Renown Pictures Ltd. With its own large library of rights for UK films and acquired programming from many major broadcasters, Talking Pictures began to see a huge demand for its DVD content, and saw the opportunity to launch a TV channel. - advanced-television.com
BBC quietly launches 'live rewind' for radio
The BBC has quietly launched 'live rewind' for radio stations allowing you to rewind back to the beginning of the current radio programme. Live rewind appears available for all BBC Radio stations and appears live now within the web console. - media.info
Tuesday 22 September 2015, AM
Broadcasters raise concerns over EE TV
ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 have raised major concerns about an innovative catch-up tool on fledgling television service EE TV.The commercial broadcasters have questioned EE TV's Replay functionality - a PVR service that allows users to bypass adverts by automatically recording hundreds of hours' worth of content.The recorded programmes are presented on EE TV's 1TB box in a VoD-style menu, allowing users to browse content by genre, channel and specially selected top picks.But unlike a VoD service, which will stream pre- and mid-roll adverts, users are able to skip through the commercials because the content is recorded.. - www.broadcastnow.co.uk
RT breached broadcasting rules over claims BBC faked pictures of Syrian chemical attack, s…
The media regulator instructed RT to broadcast two on-air statements after finding its reporting of the conflicts in Ukraine was not impartial and that its Syria coverage breached the broadcasting code on factual matters. The regulator ruled that the programme Ukraine's Refugees, broadcast in July 2014, was in breach of impartiality rules. - www.independent.co.uk
Simple.tv to Launch New Cloud DVR for Cord Cutters
Tv, which is about to unveil a major change in direction with the launch of a new cloud DVR. ShowDrive, as the new product is being called, will allow consumers to store up to a thousand hours of broadcast TV recordings in the cloud, and then stream those recorded shows and movies to internet-connected TVs, streaming boxes and mobile devices. The ShowDrive Freeview box doesn't come with an internal hard drive to record shows instead, it uploads recordings to the cloud, where they are instantly transcoded and made available for streaming. - variety.com
Monday 21 September 2015, AM
Chris Moyles launches the new national Radio X | RadioToday
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Sunday 20 September 2015, PM
Digital UK boss: Freeview Play will be a 'natural evolution of TV'
Digital UK has the figures to back up his statement over 90 of television is watched live on TV and 95 of the most-watched programmes are on Freeview. In just under five years' time around 15m homes will be affected by the government's decision to auction off a chunk of Freeview's airwaves to mobile phone companies. - www.theguardian.com
Saturday 19 September 2015, AM
Travel Channel trials live restart service
Travel Channel is to become the first broadcaster to trial Arqiva's live restart functionality, allowing viewers to instantly skip back to the start of any programme during its broadcast.The Scripps Network-owned channel, which features shows including Expedition Unknown, Shed and Buried and Baggage Battles will become the first client to adopt the media services business' Start Over functionality.Using the Arqiva technology, all Freeview HD homes will be able to press the red button on their remote control to immediately start watching the current programme from the moment it got underway.The service works using MHEG technology, with Arqiva constantly recording the playout feed rather than relying on directing viewers to a VoD service.It blocks users from fast-forwarding the stream to prevent ad-skipping, although pausing is possible. The service has been verified with Barb, which will count viewing as part of its viewed on same day as live (Vosdal) ratings measurement.. - www.broadcastnow.co.uk
challenging news scheduling and indie rules
He announced a major review of the BBC's market impact - not in itself a huge surprise given the questions asked in his own charter review green paper. His line - supported recently by BBC director general Tony Hall - is that consolidation amongst indies and increasing foreign ownership - often by companies that dwarf Channel 4 and even in some cases the BBC - needs to addressed if the health and welfare of Britain's world-renowned creative economy is to be assured. - www.theguardian.com
Watch: 5 live chief calls for industry to work together
We've already got our once every three month RAJAR so, once every two months, a future-proofing radio story where BBC and commercial radio come together. The former BBC Director of Radio, Tim Davie, held regular meetings with commercial radio CEOs. - media.info
Friday 18 September 2015, AM
Yentob brands plan to move BBC 10pm news ridiculous
Within six months, the BBC announced a plan to move its 9pm news bulletin to the unguarded 10pm slot. A shorter News at Ten programme then returned to ITV for three nights a week under orders from the regulator, setting the two broadcasters' main news bulletins against each other. - www.theguardian.com
Wednesday 16 September 2015, PM
Help Receiving TV and Radio
The Black Hill transmitter in Scotland, will be subject to interruptions on Radio 1-4 FM, and reduced power on Radio Scotland and Radio Nan Gaidheal to ensure engineers can work safely on the mast. This work will be weather dependent and will continue till the 30th September. - www.bbc.co.uk
Ex-Bank of England deputy governor to lead review into BBC regulation
The government has appointed a former banker to carry out an independent review into the way the BBC is governed and regulated amid increasing criticism of the existing BBC Trust. Three broad options were outlined to replace it reform the current trust system give the BBC a unitary board alongside a new standalone regulator or create a new BBC board with regulatory powers switched to existing media regulator, Ofcom. - www.theguardian.com
Wednesday 16 September 2015, AM
Television contest shows: Looking for the next generation of TV hits
Channel heads look on nervously at the fate of big new entertainment ideas such as Utopia, the latest offering from Big Brother creator John De Mol, in which a group of strangers try to create an ideal civilisation over the course of a year, which was rejected by American audiences and panned by critics. An Austrian game show idea in which contestants must escape from a matrix made up of 1,001 separate rooms, picking up rewards along the way. - www.independent.co.uk
Monday 14 September 2015, PM
Charter Proposals: Your Views
Two colleagues share their thoughts on the Charter proposals outlined on Monday by Director General Tony Hall at the Science Museum in London. Claire believes we must guard against complacency and also robustly defend ourselves against criticism. - www.bbc.co.uk
BARB reveals online viewing data
Average programme streams is an industry-agreed metric for the total viewing time of a programme on a television player by all devices in the reported period, divided by the full length of the programme. Sky Go, which currently only measures Apple iOS views, scored only 14,000 streams in a week for its most popular on-demand programme, Ex on the Beach, from MTV. It is early days for BARB measurement of online viewing, but these do not sound like numbers that will particularly excite advertisers. - informitv.com
Monday 14 September 2015, AM
John Hardie: ITN chief gives his take on the BBC and explains why TV news is here to stay
Not much of a headline you might think, given it comes from the news provider to ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5, but John Hardie's strident defence comes as evidence that news-watching, like everything else in the digital world, is changing. News at Ten, whose ratings have long lagged behind the BBC's Ten O'Clock News, is bringing in Tom Bradby in place of Mark Austin and Julie Etchingham to helm the bulletin this autumn. - www.independent.co.uk
The Media Column: British TV is being bought up and outgunned by the Americans, leaving th…
Read more The Last Kingdom, BBC - first watchiPlayer to offer 'binge watching' in challenge to Amazon and NetflixDaniel Radcliffe and Brian Cox lead BBC drive to 'get Britain coding'. One online platform, BBC Ideas, could be a replacement for BBC4. Another, iPlay for children, could mean the end of BBC children's channels on the goggle box. - www.independent.co.uk
Sunday 13 September 2015, AM
The BBC is loved by the nation. It can use that power to confront the Tories
The BBC must say loud and clear that its revenues - whether through the licence fee or the proposed household levy - are designed to be the public's to be spent on great programmes, not a surrogate tax to be raided by government. How about a sequence of citizens' marches on Westminster and Whitehall The BBC belongs to the British public, not to a transient Tory cabinet aiming for the country's Torification. - www.theguardian.com
Saturday 12 September 2015, AM
Cambridge small-scale DAB multiplex launches
The multiplex launches with five services being broadcast - they are UKRD's local station, Star Radio, community radio station Cambridge 105, Chris Country, Gaydio and student station Core Radio. If you have a vacancy in radio, post it on RadioTodayJobs.com for free, or go premium for extra coverage. - radiotoday.co.uk
Thursday 10 September 2015, PM
Tony Hall: 'We're creating a more bespoke BBC'
The BBC is to hire around 100 local reporters to work with local newspapers, under new plans announced by the BBC's director general Tony Hall. Speaking to journalists and staff on Monday morning, Tony Hall outlined the plans. - www.bbc.co.uk
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Showcase is a unique programme recommendations service with a team of telly experts choosing great content for viewers to watch across linear and On Demand. An image-based design makes Showcase stand out and elicits a strong emotional response from viewers. - www.metaphortv.com
Thursday 10 September 2015, AM
Multichannel doesn't cut it any more
The terminology used to describe non-PSBs must be modernised, says Susanna DinnageIt is more than 26 years since pay-TV launched in the UK, joining the PSBs of the time: the BBC, ITV and Channel 4.Then, the industry struggled to collectively name these new arrivals. 'Multichannel' was a clumsy solution to describe a range of independent channels specialising in a variety of genres. They were bucketed together and kept at arm's length from the PSBs.The world has moved on since then. These non-PSBs now contribute more than £725m to the UK TV production industry across entertainment, kids' TV, factual, sport and news – a 50% increase in five years. But the commoditised 'multichannel' name has stuck. And it still has a dismissive whiff about it.Surely it is time to update our terminology. 'Multichannel', 'terrestrial', 'digital' – these words no longer define channel groupings.Many PSBs are now multichannel networks. When people refer to the terrestrials, they largely mean the PSBs. Every channel is digital now.Let's move on. To my mind, there are only two ways to categorise the 'new' world of broadcasting: 'PSB' and 'non-PSB', or 'free-to-air' and 'subscription'. - www.broadcastnow.co.uk
Wednesday 09 September 2015, PM
BBC licence fee replacement gets backing from culture secretary
Whittingdale's comments to MPs on Wednesday came two days after the BBC itself backed the household levy system, outlined in the government's green paper on the future of the BBC, as one way of modernising the current system. The BBC said on Monday the new services will be dependent on increased government funding, due to be discussed in the autumn, although Whittingdale gave no indication as to whether the extra money would be forthcoming or not. - www.theguardian.com
Monday 07 September 2015, PM
BBC backs replacing licence fee with universal levy
The BBC is backing a new system of funding that would see all households pay a levy, replacing the current licence fee which only targets homes that watch live TV. The corporation says that it will make significantly more revenue from the move with TV Licensing, the body tasked with collecting the licence fee and chasing down evaders, costing more than 100m last year. The household levy system, a version of which was introduced in Germany in 2013, would help to solve issues that have arisen with the current licence fee system. - www.theguardian.com
Monday 07 September 2015, AM
Tony Hall speech at the Science Museum on the future vision of the BBC
Give you a flavour of what to expect from the BBC. And introduce you to the idea of an Open BBC for the internet age - redefining the BBC's relationship with the nation, with our world-class institutions and with its audiences. To deliver a more original BBC. A digital BBC. A universal BBC. A BBC that continues to help Britain be a creative powerhouse, recognised the world over. - www.bbc.co.uk
Heralding a bolder, more open and more distinctive BBC
Proposals announced today represent the start of a major programme of modernisation to preserve and enhance everything that is best about the BBC and public service broadcasting. Three further announcements before the end of the year will look at, in turn, the BBC's role in the creative economy and especially more on BBC studios and worldwide, secondly, our formal response to the questions the government set out in their Green Paper and, finally, how we will live within our means including how we will address the budget shortfall we have to tackle within this Charter period. - www.bbc.co.uk
Full line-up for Global's Radio X confirmed
Radio X will have a new multi-million pound national advertising campaign and Chris Moyles will hit the road with some of his favourite bands and artists to bring listeners across the country a series of exclusive live music events. The strapline for the brand new Radio X is 'Get into the Music'. - radiotoday.co.uk
BBC4 stars express horror at claim station could be axed
Read more BBC's Tony Hall The Tories won't close us downBBC to axe more than 1,000 jobs in drive to cut spendingAccepting cost of over-75 licences marks significant shiftViewers of BBC iPlayer could be charged to offset cuts. Proposals will be published today for a new multimillion-pound collaboration between the BBC and local newspapers, including a network of 100 public service reporters supplying news for local outlets. - www.independent.co.uk
Sunday 06 September 2015, AM
Nick Sutton on Twitter: "Sunday Telegraph reporting "BBC Four may be shut down" #tomorrows…
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Pure expand digital and internet radio range
The new line-up includes the Evoke F3 digital and internet radio with Bluetooth and Spotify Connect the third generation of the world's best-selling digital radio family, One Mini, Midi and Maxi a new bedside radio, Siesta Rise, and the Evoke C series, a range of all-in-one home audio systems. Digital radio coverage is increasing in Italy and, in France, the regulator is beginning a consultation on the second wave of cities to adopt digital radio, after Paris, Nice and Marseille. - media.info
Saturday 05 September 2015, PM
BBC plans daily news broadcasts into North Korea
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Saturday 05 September 2015, AM
Digital dreams and open skies: universal service and the BBC
The United Nations' educational and cultural body, UNESCO, suggested in 2005 that public service broadcasting might have 'an important role to play in providing access and participation in public life' it would serve 'the interests of people as citizens rather than as consumers' it would assist in 'strengthening civil society' and it would be 'a unique service providing universal access to information and knowledge'. The pressures for mobile growth are now suggesting to policy-makers, commercial interests and broadcasters alike that there may come a time when broadcasting will no longer be 'broad' - but banished from the airwaves as the age of plenitude and of 'free-to-air' transmission comes to an end. - www.opendemocracy.net
Friday 04 September 2015, PM
Freeview Play to launch in October
Freeview's next-generation smart TV platform will launch in October with upgrades to Panasonic TVs and further products from Panasonic, Humax, Manhattan TV and Vestel. The ongoing cooperation between Freeview, the DTG and Digital UK builds on the success and experience of Freeview HD, developing the technical framework and managing conformance of products entering the retail market, which has seen it become the UK's most-watched high definition TV platform. - dtg.org.uk
Local TV Creates Hurdle to Streaming
Networks need the affiliates because, beyond the stations they own, the affiliates are the ones that actually negotiate with traditional cable and satellite providers for carriage fees, after securing exclusive access to their network's programming in their market. One network, CBS, has had great success getting its affiliates to put their feeds on CBS All Access, its 6-a-month service that combines live streams of local CBS stations with a Hulu-like library of on-demand CBS content. - www.wsj.com
Friday 04 September 2015, AM
Culture secretary warned BBC over EU coverage
Whittingdale, who sent the letters in June but only made them public on Thursday night, said that the BBC and Ofcom should act on complaints about EU referendum coverage within 24 hours. The BBC Trust said that there will be an ability to fast-track complaints about BBC coverage during the referendum period. - www.theguardian.com
Nat Geo owner to launch UK free-to-air channel
Fox International Channels (FIC) is on the brink of launching a free-to-air channel with a raft of National Geographic factual content, as the battle for the free-to-air market heats up.Broadcast understands that the pay-TV network is launching Your TV to in October to target a female focused audience.It will air series including Corrupt Crimes, US legal drama Shark and repeats of Don't Tell The Bride.The channel will be one of the most significant moves made by FIC managing director Jeff Ford since he joined in May. Sources have indicated that it is likely to air a mix of existing Nat Geo content, as well as additional entertainment formats, which are likely to be acquired.- www.broadcastnow.co.uk
Wednesday 02 September 2015, AM
Labour's Jeremy Corbyn vows to reverse BBC cuts
Labour leadership frontrunner Jeremy Corbyn has vowed to protect the licence fee and reverse BBC funding cuts in a policy document on the arts.The MP for North Islington said the corporation is âunder threatâ from the Conservative government and Labour must lead a campaign to keep it strong.âThe BBC is a unique asset that defines our country,â Corbynâs document said. âGovernment must support a strong, independent and properly funded BBC so it can carry out its duties as a public service broadcaster.âIt added that the corporation was âseverely woundedâ by the 2010 licence fee freeze and a well-funded news operation should remain at the heart of its offering to audiences both in the UK and overseas through the World Service.- www.broadcastnow.co.uk
Global's radio stations now link DAB/FM together
The new technology will allow drivers radios to automatically switch between different local radio stations that are part of the same network. The technology has been developed and implemented by Global and Arqiva so that both digital radio receivers and FM receivers automatically transition between different Heart, Capital and Smooth local stations, picking up the best DAB or FM signal available and automatically switching over to the next transmission area as a driver passes from one area to the next. - radiotoday.co.uk
Tuesday 01 September 2015, AM
Netflix Losing Flicks: Why It's Actually Smart to Shed 'Hunger Games,' Other Epix Movies…
Netflix calls itself an Internet TV subscription service and compares itself to HBO and so, by extension, it's also really a competitor to Epix. Netflix decided a while ago it doesn't want sloppy seconds to pay TV. Yes, non-exclusive library content is important to buttress the proposition that there will always be something to watch in your Netflix queue, including TV and movie favorites. - variety.com
Monday 31 August 2015, PM
TV Networks Confront Ad Blockers Erasing Commercials Online
CBS.com began blocking the blockers in 2013, preventing visitors using the software from streaming episodes of shows. CBS Interactive sites fall in line with industry estimates for ad blocking more broadly, Mr. Morris said, with anywhere from 5 to 40 of users arriving with ad blocking software. - adage.com
Monday 31 August 2015, AM
Media Monkey: Martin Freeman, Armando Iannucci, and Frankie Boyle
Monkey's awkward moment of the festival when culture secretary John Whittingdale looked around and realised that all around him were getting to their feet to give a standing ovation to Armando Iannucci's MacTaggart speech in which he accused ministers of effectively trying to kill off the BBC. Ever politically astute, Whittingdale also stood up. Things got a bit heated during the Is the BBC Under Siege session, when Hat Trick co-founder Jimmy Mulville challenged BBC director of strategy James Purnell about the decision to make BBC3 online only. - www.theguardian.com
Manchester small-scale DAB service launched
Chris Country, Gaydio, The Steve Penk Wind-Up Channel, Revolution 962 and Unity Radio are now broadcasting across the city, whilst Manchester Business Radio is running a pre-launch promotional sequence ahead of its full launch on 21st September. MAX - a new format devised by former BBC Radio Manchester boss John Ryan is scheduled to launch on Tuesday followed by London Greek Radio on Wednesday and Panjab Radio on Thursday. - radiotoday.co.uk
Saturday 29 August 2015, PM
Chris Bryant says passing cost of free licences to BBC is 'spiteful' attack
Labour's Chris Bryant has challenged the culture secretary's claim that passing the cost of TV licences for over-75s to the BBC was purely driven by the need to reduce the national deficit, arguing that the government has pledged to clear it before the corporation even takes on the full 750m burden. Osborne said Whittingdale's letter stating the terms of the deal shows the government will support the BBC with 468m toward the 750m cost in 2018/19, then 247m in 2019/2020, before the corporation takes on the full burden in 2020/2021. - www.theguardian.com
BBC3 should follow Radio 1 in focusing on social media, says Google boss
BBC 3 is scheduled to go online only at the start of 2016, but the decision to take the youth-oriented channel off the airwaves has been criticised at a time when the BBC is trying to work out how to engage younger audiences. The strategy has involved creating a dedicated space on iPlayer for visual content from Radio 1, and posting to YouTube and other social media. - www.theguardian.com
Tony Hall a 'coward' for not challenging John Whittingdale, says Chris Bryant
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Lord Burns said to be examining options for Channel 4 sale
Lord Burns, the chair of Channel 4, is understood to be looking at options for a partial or full sell-off of the broadcaster as the government considers the sale of state assets to help reduce its budget deficit. Rumours about the possible privatisation of Channel 4 have re-emerged since the Shareholder Executive, which manages the government's ownership of the broadcaster as well as the Royal Mint, nuclear fuel company Urenco and other assets, was moved from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to the Treasury. - www.theguardian.com
Tycoon takeover puts Euronews funding in focus – POLITICO
Euronews is the European Union's biggest media commitment, having received 240 million from Brussels since it launched in 1992 - with 25.5 million pouring into its coffers in 2014, a third of the network's budget. In recent years, Euronews suffered funding constraints as the public broadcasters scaled back their commitment, making it more reliant on European taxpayers. - www.politico.eu
UTV reports pre-tax profits of 1m: Results down from 10m a year earlier
UTV Ireland had revenue of 4.9m - more than wiped out by an operating loss of 7.5m - while revenue for the Northern Ireland TV operation was 4.2m. And the company's chairman said the budget deadlock in Northern Ireland was likely to have an impact on TV advertising revenues in its Belfast-based channel over the next few months. Overall revenue at the plc - one of just three listed companies in Northern Ireland - was 58.3m. Operating profit was 2.5m, down from 11.1m a year earlier. - www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
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Arqiva has announced the launch of a new hybrid IPTV channel on the Freeview platform. ABN TV, the African-Caribbean family entertainment channel, will provide content 24 hours a day to audiences with internet-enabled Freeview devices. - advanced-television.com
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Before I hit the grocery store I make sure that I eat a healthy breakfast or lunch. In that way I am not hungry while shopping, and everything on the shelf is not calling my name. You know when the cashier's line is a bit long you end up by the candy or the chips don't bother getting one to satisfy your temptation remind yourself you've got a couple candy bars that added to the weight you're trying to get rid off. Works for me everytime.
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Add a handful of uncooked rice to your coffee grinder and grind away. The chopped rice cleans out the stuck coffee grounds, oils and absorbs stale odors. Afterward, throw away the rice and wipe the grinder clean.
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Before cleaning the ashes from my fireplace, I sprinkle damp coffee grounds over them. The coffee grounds weigh the ashes down and keep dust to a minimum.
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I tried this due to my water being increasingly high these few months. And to my surprise this actually worked. Fill a plastic bottle or 2 with sand cover tightly & place them in your toilet tank. Place them away from the operating mechanism. DONT USE BRICKS they will damage your toilet. The sand bottles add weigh in the tank and "trick" it into thinking it's filled to the top. You will save with EVERY FLUSH.
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Try this before seasoning and cooking your meat or fish. To get the freshness out of your poultry or seafood place contents in a bowl fill with a little water and squeeze a lemon or lime (juice) in it let sit for 5 mins and rinse. IF you dont have lemon use 1/2 cup flour make sure the water is covering your meat before adding flour. Use your hands to break down the lumps in the water and mix your meat. Rinse well & You can now season your meat and cook.
For added crunch with fewer calories, use cornflakes instead of breadcrumbs to coat fish fillets. Not only do cornflakes contain fewer calories than breadcrumbs, it's less absorbent and give the fish a lighter covering, and the fish will soak up less oil.
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If you have teenagers, try giving them an incentive to take shorter showers and save on your water bill. A great example is 5 mins added on to their curfew for every minute they shave off their shower time. It works every time.
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You may not realize that most electric companies charge more for power during the day than at night. You can call and find out if that is the case in your area. If it is, make sure you do all your laundry, dishwashing, internet, and other power intensive tasks at night. You will notice the difference on your bill.
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Here is a site I came across from my sister in law. The deals on here are cheap. The vacation packages are great. Booked a few on here and I haven't been disappointed yet.
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Here is a wonderful site I came across and fell inlove with. It teaches you how to get items for less and sometimes free. The other site (divas) have retail coupons that you can print. From Payless to Stein Mart to Children's Place and so on.
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The rising costs of regulation and lower investment fees will keep asset manager's profits down in the coming years, new research suggests.
Industry profits still lag their pre-recession levels by as much about 15 to 20 per cent, according to a trend report released by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) on Monday. And even though global assets under management are expected to climb from $63.9-trillion to $101-trillion by 2020, profit levels may not return to former levels.


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A New York Times report last month that the office of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has commenced an investigation into the widening practice of employers paying hourly employees through the use of prepaid payroll cards has triggered a group of 16 Democratic U.S. Senators to send a letter to the CFPB raising concerns about fees paid by low-wage workers using payroll cards.
The NY Attorney General is reportedly looking into whether card usage fees are excessive, insufficiently disclosed, or violate New York wage and hour and wage payment laws. (As we discussed in a previous legal alert, the use of payroll cards raises a host of legal issues in addition to those being investigated by Mr. Schneiderman.)
In their letter, the 16 Senators seek clarification from the CFPB on whether particular fees violate Regulation E, which implements the Electronic Funds Transfer Act, and whether Regulation E requires employers to offer employees a payroll payment option other than through a particular payroll card. (The letter was also sent to the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and asks the DOL to clarify its role in overseeing payroll cards and consider rulemaking in this area).
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PHILADELPHIA (July 20, 2009) A team of researchers from The Wistar Institute and the University of Pennsylvania reports new evidence refuting a popular hypothesis about the highly publicized failure in 2007 of the Merck STEP HIV vaccine study that cast doubt on the feasibility of HIV-1 vaccines. The findings were published on-line July 20 in Nature Medicine.
The phase II STEP vaccine trial was stopped after an interim analysis showed no efficacy in preventing HIV infection in at-risk individuals. It was noted that a subset of participants who had previous immunity in the form of neutralizing antibodies to the adenovirus 5 (Ad5) vector used to deliver the vaccine actually showed a trend toward an increased rate of HIV infection. Finding an explanation for this increased susceptibility to infection remains a major focus for HIV vaccine researchers.
These individuals were found to have high blood Ad5 neutralizing antibody (nAb) titers, the main immune gatekeeper in most vaccine strategies. Antibodies produced in response to previous infection neutralize viruses by binding to them and preventing their entry into host cells. They work in concert with other immune cells, including CD4 T-cells, which build a memory bank against future infection. In HIV infection, the virus attaches specifically to CD4 receptors on activated CD4 T-cells, establishing a stronghold and replicating.
Of the STEP findings, many researchers hypothesize that the T-cells of individuals in this high-Ad5-antibody group were activated by the Ad5-vaccine vector, creating more activated CD4 T-cells which then served as targets for the HIV virus to establish an infection.
"Our findings disprove the favored hypothesis," says co-lead author Hildegund C.J. Ertl, M.D., director of The Wistar Institute Vaccine Center. "There was nothing to indicate that pre-existing neutralizing antibodies correlated with numbers of activated CD4 T-cells to Ad5, which could
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RICHMOND, Va. (Sept. 9, 2010) The Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center is the lead institution in a national clinical trial of technology that will allow artificial heart patients to recuperate, rehabilitate and wait in the comfort of their own homes until a donor heart becomes available for transplant.
The VCU Pauley Heart Center is one of up to 30 centers that will investigate a portable, mechanical driver that can power patients' artificial hearts and enable them to recover outside the hospital environment, including at home and at step-down facilities.
"This is the kind of technology that changes lives," said John Duval, CEO of MCV Hospitals at the VCU Medical Center. "VCU has long been a leader in heart-assist technology, pioneering the implantation of the first Total Artificial Heart on the East Coast in 2006.
"This portable driver, if successful, will allow patients who once had to spend months, and sometimes more than a year in the hospital waiting for a donor heart, to recuperate in the comfort of their own homes," Duval said.
The VCU Medical Center received institutional review board approval in early September to participate in an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) clinical study of the Freedom driver, the first-ever U.S. portable driver designed to power SynCardia's Total Artificial Heart both inside and outside the hospital. The IDE clinical study is intended to demonstrate that the Freedom driver is a suitable pneumatic driver for stable Total Artificial Heart patients and can be used safely at home.
"Prior to this, everyone who was placed on a Total Artificial Heart had to remain in the hospital until they underwent transplantation," said Michael Hess, M.D., director of the VCU Pauley Heart Center advanced heart failure transplantation program. "The reason for this is that the only FDA-approved driver system for powering the Total Artificial Heart is a 418-pound console.
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About ICU Medical, Inc.: ICU Medical, Inc. develops, manufactures and sells innovative medical devices used in vascular therapy, oncology and critical care applications. ICU Medical's products improve patient outcomes by helping prevent bloodstream infections and protecting healthcare workers from exposure to infectious diseases or hazardous drugs. The company's complete product line includes custom I.V. systems, closed delivery systems for hazardous drugs, needlefree I.V. connectors, catheters and cardiac monitoring systems. ICU Medical is headquartered in San Clemente, California.
About Novation: Founded in 1998, Novation is the leading health care supply contracting company for more than 25,000 members of VHA Inc. and UHC, two national health care alliances, and 5,500 members of Provista, LLC, representing more than 30,000 sites. Novation provides alliance members sourcing and information and data services. Based in Irving, Texas, Novation develops and manages competitive contracts with more than 600 suppliers. VHA, UHC and Provista members used Novation contracts to purchase approximately $40 billion in 2010.
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HTML lets you mark up sections of text as headings, body text, hyperlinks, and other web page elements. However, these definitions have nothing to do with the meaning of the data: Does the text refer to a person, an organization, a product, or an event? Microformats and their successor, microdata make the meaning a bit more clear by pointing to business cards, product descriptions, offers, and event data in a machine-readable way. In this article, I describe some important microformats, such as hCard, hCal, hProduct, hReview, and Geo. You'll also get an introduction to microdata, and you'll learn about some open source tools for integrating awareness of microformats and microdata into your own programs.
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"Patients with positive influenza A test results can be treated by MinuteClinic nurse practitioners with the anti-viral medication oseltamivir (Tamiflu) or zanamivir (Relenza) to help them recover more quickly if they are seen within 48 hours of being symptomatic," said Troyen Brennan, MD, CVS Caremark executive vice president and chief medical officer. "These are the same anti-viral medications the CDC recommends for the treatment of the swine strain."
Anti-viral medication may also be prescribed for family members or other close contacts of anyone infected by the flu to help prevent the spread of the virus, added Brennan.
Consumers can protect themselves against the flu and other viruses and avoid spreading germs in public locations by remembering to: cover their nose and mouth with a tissue when they cough or sneeze and immediately disposing it in the trash; wash their hands frequently with soap and water or use an alcohol-based cleanser; refrain from touching the eyes, nose or mouth; avoid close contact with sick people; and stay home from school or work if they are infected with the flu.
CVS/pharmacy and MinuteClinic are following the CDC recommendations for infection control at stores and clinics to prevent the spread of any influenza virus, including swine flu. This may include the use of masks, gowns and gloves when appropriate.
MinuteClinic health care centers are open seven days a week. Go to www.minuteclinic.com/swineflu or call 866-389-ASAP for hours, locations and information.
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