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Competition between online video streaming services is now greater than ever before. These companies are dumping hundreds of millions of dollars in the production of original content, while sparing no expense in order to get exclusive streaming rights for some of the most watched content. For example Amazon recently inked a deal with HBO which gives it exclusive streaming rights for some of the cable giant’s popular shows. Hulu now has an exclusive deal to brag about as well, all 17 seasons of South Park will be available for streaming on Hulu Plus.

This was announced earlier in the week at the Television Critics Association Press Tour. Not only will Hulu Plus subscribers get access to all existing episodes of South Park on demand, they will also be able to stream new episodes just a day after they have been aired on Comedy Central.

While it wasn’t officially revealed how much this deal cost Hulu, The New York Times reports that it may have cost north of $80 million for all 240-plus episodes to be exclusive to Hulu.

South Park episodes have been available through different sources on the internet such as Hulu or Netflix and even SouthParkStudios.com. However as competition heats up exclusivity becomes more appealing. Craig Erwich who is the head of content at Hulu believes that this deal will help the service “cut through the clutter.”

Hulu Bags Exclusive Rights To All Seasons Of South Park

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As the 2014 World Cup draws to a close, now is the time to enter an era of good governance of the world’s most popular sport. That means FIFA, football’s governing body, must change to ensure this beloved sport is a force for good in the world.

The world has changed since the founding of FIFA in 1904. FIFA needs to reflect those changes and implement full reforms that ensure fair play both on and off the field.

We call on supporters, sponsors and national football associations to come together to ensure FIFA and football uplift all the communities where the game is played.

We ask for positive leadership at all levels, and we join the call for FIFA to:

Institute all of the reforms recommended by the Independent Governance Committee FIFA appointed in 2011, which has called FIFA’s reform process incomplete.

Appoint independent people from outside FIFA to the executive committee, and place a limit on how long top people can stay in power.

Publish, in full, the investigation into bribery allegations surrounding the voting for host countries for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.

We call on host countries, sponsors and FIFA to implement accountability measures that incentivize and promote fairness and respect for all international norms and laws, including the rights of workers and local communities where World Cups are held.

By encouraging and supporting strong leadership from FIFA, for the good of the beautiful game, we can all help to build peaceful, healthy and equitable communities.

This statement is issued by The B Team including:

Richard Branson, Kathy Calvin, Arianna Huffington, Mo Ibrahim, Guilherme Leal, Strive Masiyiwa, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Paul Polman, Jochen Zeitz

The B Team is a not-for-profit initiative formed by a global group of leaders to create a future where the purpose of business is to be a driving force for social, environmental and economic benefit.

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AVON LAKE, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio woman who called 911 to report that her husband committed suicide by suffocating himself has been charged with his 2011 murder.

A three-year investigation into the death of 55-year-old Michael Gabel concluded that he didn’t commit suicide and that his wife, Jeane Harrington, had killed him, police said. She had reported Gabel’s death to police, saying she found him dead with plastic wrap around his head. “We know that suicide in this manner is very unusual,” Duane Streator, police chief of Avon Lake, told reporters Friday.

Streator said there was no immediate evidence of a struggle, but the Lorain County coroner ultimately determined Gabel died of asphyxiation, blows to his head and body, and electrical burns.

Harrington, 56, was arrested Thursday, and her son — 11 when Gabel died — was turned over to a relative.

In the 911 call, Harrington had reported that Gabel, a local car salesman, left a suicide note, and she described heavy debts coming due, suggesting he’d taken his own life.

Harrington told police she owned a stun gun and had used it several times on Gabel in a fight earlier that evening that she described as “mutual.” She said the disagreement centered on the couple’s financial woes.

“He got a letter from the Internal Revenue Service the other day wanting $17,000,” Harrington said during the call. “And then the following day he got a letter from some collection company wanting $16,000. And tomorrow they’re supposed to sell our home at sheriff’s auction.”

Harrington said she last saw her husband alive at 2 a.m. on Aug. 16, 2011, when he walked from the den to the bathroom. She found his cold body on a sofa later that morning after she returned from errands, she said.

Authorities now believe she stunned Gabel multiple times before suffocating him with industrial-strength, restaurant-grade plastic wrap.

It wasn’t immediately clear who is currently representing Harrington. A message was left for a lawyer who represented her in 2005 during divorce proceedings, which ended in reconciliation, and with another lawyer who represented her in a 2007 foreclosure case.

Divorce filings indicated Harrington’s pay at the Avon Public Library gift shop had been halved and that Gabel had used money from a 401(k) account and from mortgaging the couple’s rental property to pay gambling debts.

Streator said police had been called to the couple’s address before on domestic issues.

In her music video for “Try,” Colbie Caillat takes a stance against Photoshop. She starts off the video looking like (as MTV put it) “a cartoonized version of Mariah Carey in a Dove ad” and proceeds to un-Photoshop herself, ending the song as her natural, unedited self, alongside a wonderfully diverse set of women, who undergo the same transition.

“When I shot the first scene with no hair and makeup on in front of an HD camera in my face, flashed with bright lights, everyone was watching,” she told Elle. “I thought, ‘Oh my god, I bet they’re all looking at my blemishes, thinking that I should cover them up, or that I should put some volume in my hair.’ But it also felt really cool to be on camera with zero on, like literally nothing on. And then when it got to the full hair and makeup, I actually felt gross. I was just so caked on.”

Watch the video above and remember to take off your fake eyelashes before you start tearing up over how beautiful it is.

FEASTERVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A dead body on a gurney fell out of a coroner’s van when a door malfunctioned, sending the corpse into the middle of a busy roadway in Pennsylvania.

The Bucks County Courier Times (http://bit.ly/1rhI80E ) reports the accident happened around noon on Friday near a shopping center in Feasterville, Pennsylvania. A photo on the newspaper’s website shows the corpse, wrapped in what appears to be a white sheet, lying in the street as cars buzz by. The Bucks County Coroner’s Office says the driver realized immediately that the door had opened and retrieved the body within minutes. The office says it “deeply regrets” the incident.

A passer-by who helped get the body into the van says he thought it was a prank, calling it “the most bizarre thing” he’d ever seen.

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Information from: Bucks County Courier Times, http://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com