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R.I.P Cable TV: Why Hollywood Is Slowly Killing Its Biggest Moneymaker – Variety
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R.I.P Cable TV: Why Hollywood Is Slowly Killing Its Biggest Moneymaker – Variety

Earlier this year, people started noticing something peculiar about MTV’s schedule: The network had quietly morphed into an almost 24/7 offering of just one show. At one point in late June, “Ridiculousness” — a half-hour viral video-clip show hosted by famed skateboarder Rob Dyrdek — aired for 113 hours out of the network’s entire 168-hour lineup. Many took it as a sign that MTV, a pioneering force in reality television that only a few years ago had also made major investments in original scripted programming, had just given up. Pundits had long predicted the death of broadcast TV, while basic cable feasted on a dual revenue stream of subscriber fees and advertising revenue. But that gravy train started going off the rails when the streaming services arrived. At first, Netflix w...
Backstage News On Original Plan For Kairi Sane, Why Shayna Baszler Was Brought Back – Wrestling Inc.
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Backstage News On Original Plan For Kairi Sane, Why Shayna Baszler Was Brought Back – Wrestling Inc.

On last night's RAW, Kairi Sane beat WWE SmackDown Women's Champion Bayley via pinfall. As noted, WWE taped both this and next week's RAW on Monday, which will also be Sane's last appearances for the company. Sane is reportedly heading back to Japan to be with her husband. On the latest Wrestling Observer Radio, it was reported that the original plan for Sane (as of yesterday) was to be injured by what looked to be Shayna Baszler. Baszler was brought back to WWE TV as backup to injure Sane as Natalya was originally scripted to be the attacker. Natalya hasn't been on WWE TV for weeks though. Dave Meltzer reported that as far as he knows, she didn't test positive for COVID-19. Natalya's husband, TJ Wilson, was really sick a few weeks back and tested negative for COVID-19, but WWE decided...
Trench Fever, a Rare World War I Condition, Found Among Denver Homeless – Military.com
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Trench Fever, a Rare World War I Condition, Found Among Denver Homeless – Military.com

DENVER — Dr. Michelle Barron, medical director of infection prevention and control at UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital, received an unusual call last month from the microbiology lab: Confirmation of the third case this year of trench fever, a rare condition transmitted by body lice that plagued soldiers during World War I. Barron’s epidemiological training kicked in. “Two is always an outbreak, and then when we found a third — OK, we clearly have something going on,” Barron recalled thinking. Barron, who said she’d never before seen a case in her 20 years here, contacted state public health officials, who issued an advisory Thursday and said a fourth person with a suspected case had been identified. They asked physicians to be on the lookout for a...
Senior Bradford nurse survives 40-day coronavirus coma – BBC News
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Senior Bradford nurse survives 40-day coronavirus coma – BBC News

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionAyesha Orlanda had been in intensive care for 41 days after being admitted in May.A senior nurse who had been in a coma for 40 days with coronavirus has been given an emotional send-off from hospital by her colleagues. Ayesha Orlanda, 52, a senior sister at Bradford Royal Infirmary, had been in intensive care for 41 days after being admitted in May. She had been critically ill but says she now has a "second chance at life". Staff from four wards gathered to applaud her leaving their care after nine-and-a-half weeks in hospital. Ms Orlanda, who lives in Bradford and is originally from the Philippines, had initially been looked after in the intensive care unit where she was put on a ventila...
Cinnamon linked to blood sugar control in prediabetes, study finds – CNN
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Cinnamon linked to blood sugar control in prediabetes, study finds – CNN

"We are looking for safe, durable and cost-effective approaches to reduce the progression from prediabetes to type 2 diabetes," said study author Dr. Giulio Romeo, a staff physician at Boston's Joslin Diabetes Center and the division of endocrinology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The study published Tuesday in the Journal of the Endocrine Society. "Our 12-week study showed beneficial effects of adding cinnamon to the diet on keeping blood sugar levels stable in participants with prediabetes," Romeo said. "These findings provide the rationale for longer and larger studies to address if cinnamon can reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes over time." Harvested from the inner bark of a tropical evergreen plant, cinnamon has been used in Ayurvedic medicine to treat respiratory...
Watch live: Pharma executives tell Congress they can make a safe coronavirus vaccine in record time – CNBC
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Watch live: Pharma executives tell Congress they can make a safe coronavirus vaccine in record time – CNBC

[The stream is slated to start at 10 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] Drug company executives plan to tell the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Tuesday they can make a safe and effective Covid-19 vaccine in record time, according to written testimony submitted ahead of the hearing. Public health officials are facing increasing resistance from some people in the U.S. who worry about the safety of the vaccines and say they won't likely get vaccinated — even if the drugs are widely available and affordable. Executives from AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Moderna and Pfizer will try to assua...
Kanye West posts series of rambling late night tweets – Reuters
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Kanye West posts series of rambling late night tweets – Reuters

(Reuters) - Rapper Kanye West posted a series of tweets late on Monday claiming his wife was trying to have him locked up on medical grounds, comparing himself to Nelson Mandela and suggesting the movie “Get Out” was based on his own life. FILE PHOTO: Rapper Kanye West makes a point as he holds his first rally in support of his presidential bid in North Charleston, South Carolina, U.S. July 19, 2020. REUTERS/Randall Hill The late night flurry of activity on West’s official Twitter account - the bulk of which was deleted a few hours later - came a day after he launched his U.S. presidential campaign with a rambling rally in Charleston, South Carolina. At that event, he tearfully referenced a decision he said he made with wife Kim Kardashian not to abort a pregnancy. “Kim was tryin...
Eagerly awaiting the Friends reunion? David Schwimmer has some good news – CNN
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Eagerly awaiting the Friends reunion? David Schwimmer has some good news – CNN

In an interview with Jimmy Fallon, Schwimmer, who played Ross Geller in the hit NBC sitcom, said that filming of the special would be dependent on safety considerations due to the coronavirus pandemic. "It's supposed to happen maybe in August, the middle of August, but honestly, we're going to wait and see another week or two if we all determine it's really safe enough to do," Schwimmer explained to Fallon in an appearance on "The Tonight Show" on Monday. "And if not, we'll wait until it's safe," he said. The special, which had been long rumored and anticipated by fans, was confirmed by HBO Max in February. HBO Max is owned by CNN's parent company. The reunion was put on pause because of the coronavirus pandemic, but according to Schwimmer, plans are still afoot to bring the show to ...
Hamilton: What Does Elizas Gasp at the End Mean? – Showbiz Cheat Sheet
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Hamilton: What Does Elizas Gasp at the End Mean? – Showbiz Cheat Sheet

The filmed adaptation of Hamilton has taken everyone’s quarantine by storm. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s famous musical has given us all something new to watch, re-watch, and dissect over and over again while we’re stuck at home, and we couldn’t be more grateful for the distraction. And dissect, the internet has! Even though the soundtrack has been out since 2015 and the musical is entirely sung-through (it has little to no dialogue and the songs tell the entirety of the story), there are still plenty of new things on-screen for fans to obsess over with Hamilton. One such moment happens in the last two minutes of the film — Eliza’s gasp. Wondering what it means? Let’s take a look. ‘Hamilton’ tells the story of founding father Alexander Hamilton Thank you for tonight....
Warner Bros. indefinite delay of Tenet is major blow to movie theaters – Yahoo Finance
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Warner Bros. indefinite delay of Tenet is major blow to movie theaters – Yahoo Finance

Warner Bros. delivered bad news for the U.S. movie theater industry on Monday: the studio has delayed the U.S. theatrical release of Christopher Nolan’s secretive action thriller “Tenet” indefinitely, with no new date given. That news comes after Warner Bros. had already pushed the film from July 17 to July 31, and then to Aug. 12. Warner Bros. said in a press statement that the studio “will share a new 2020 release date imminently.” But the move is a blow to movie theater chains, many of which had planned to begin cautious reopening in order to show “Tenet” and “Mulan,” Disney’s next big live-action remake which has been pushed from March 27 to July 24 to Aug. 21, and now, given the Warner Bros. move, could certainly get pushed again. (Disney had no comment.) “Tenet” and “Mulan” were se...