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19.4 The healthcare system in Australia is complex, involving many funders and healthcare providers.[2] Responsibilities are split between different levels of government, and between the government and non-government sectors. As a generalisation, the Australian Government is primarily responsible for the funding of healthcare, through health insurance arrangements and direct payments to the States and Territories, while the States and Territories are primarily responsible for the direct provision of services.[3]
19.5 The Australian Government operates universal benefits schemes—the MBS for private medical services and the PBS for pharmaceuticals. It also contributes to the funding of public hospitals in the States and Territories through the Australian Health Care Agreements. Public hospital services, including outpatient clinics such as those that are part of clinical genetics services, are usually delivered by state and territory governments. The private sector's provision of healthcare includes private medical practitioners, private hospitals, pathology services and pharmacies.
Healthcare funding
19.6 The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare has estimated that total Australian health expenditure was $66.6 billion in 2001–2002.[4] This represented 9.3% of gross domestic product.[5] The healthcare system is largely government funded. In 2001–2002, governments funded an estimated 68.4% of the total amount spent on health services. The Australian Government met 46.1%, and state, territory and local governments met 22.3% of total funding.[6]
19.7 Most of the Australian Government's healthcare funding was applied to medical services, including those provided under the MBS (30.7% of federal funding), and public hospitals (27.3%).[7] A further 16% of federal funding was directed to pharmaceuticals, including those provided under the PBS. Most state, territory and local government healthcare funding was applied to public hospitals (64.4% of state, territory and local government funding).[8]
Funding decisions under the MBS and PBS
19.8 Decisions about Australian Government funding under the MBS and PBS are made by applying clinical and economic criteria to determine whether, and in what circumstances, the cost of new medical services or pharmaceuticals should be subsidised.[9] These criteria apply, for example, if funding is sought under the MBS for medical genetic testing or under the PBS for drugs based on therapeutic proteins.
19.9 The Medical Services Advisory Committee (MSAC) provides advice to the federal Minister for Health and Ageing about the strength of evidence relating to the safety, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of new and emerging medical services and technologies and under what circumstances public funding, including listing on the MBS, should be supported. Similarly, the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) makes recommendations on the suitability of drug products for subsidy, after considering the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and clinical place of a product compared with other products already listed on the PBS, or with standard medical care.
19.10 Where items are recommended by PBAC for listing on the PBS, the Pharmaceutical Benefits Pricing Authority makes recommendations on the price to be paid by government. In doing so, the Pricing Authority takes account of a range of factors, including PBAC advice on clinical and cost-effectiveness; prices of alternative brands; comparative prices of drugs in the same therapeutic group; cost data information; prescription volume and economies of scale.[10] The pricing methodology does not provide a mechanism for the recognition of patent rights by way of a price premium. Price determination under the PBS is based on price referencing using comparative price and cost-effectiveness data, and does not take into consideration the patent status of a drug.[11]
The challenge of new medical technology
19.11 New medical technologies have the potential to strain the capacity of the healthcare system to afford them. There are concerns that new technology, in the context of fixed budgets set by governments, may distort the balance of resources devoted to various aspects of the healthcare system.
19.12 Most experts consider that new technology is a driving force behind the long-term rise of healthcare spending.[12] However, costs attributable to patent rights are only one component of the costs that may be involved when new medical technologies are introduced. For example, while it is sometimes claimed that patents are the predominant cause of high prices for new pharmaceuticals, the price of pharmaceuticals depends on a wide variety of factors, including the cost of research and development, production, distribution and marketing.[13]
19.13 The effect of technological developments on the practice of medicine is one of the most important problems facing health policy makers in Australia. It has been asserted that genetic technologies will come to affect every sector of healthcare provision.[14] If so, health expenditure attributable to genetic technology may increase.[15] Moreover, the extent of any increase in expenditure, or compensating savings through better diagnostics or therapeutics, in other areas is uncertain.[16]
19.14 Whether new genetic diagnostics and therapeutics will be as costly to bring to the market as the products of today, or whether greater knowledge of genetic sequences will shorten development times and reduce their costs is a matter for debate. It is also uncertain whether patients will demand new genetic tests or new medicines that give only marginal health benefit.[17]
[2] See Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australia's Health 2002 (2002), 238–243.
[3] See G Palmer and S Short, Health Care and Public Policy in Australia: An Australian Analysis (3rd ed, 2000), 10.
[4] Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Health Expenditure Australia 2001–02 (2003), 6.
[5] Ibid, 8.
[6] Ibid, 23.
[9] See Medicare Services Advisory Committee, Funding for New Medical Technologies and Procedures: Application and Assessment Guidelines, Department of Health and Ageing, <www.health.gov.au/msac/pdfs/guidelines.pdf> at 16 June 2004; Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee, 1995 Guidelines for the Pharmaceutical Industry on Preparation of Submissions to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee: Including Major Submissions Involving Economic Analyses, Department of Health and Ageing, <www.health.gov.au/pbs/general/pubs/pharmpac/ gusubpac.htm> at 16 June 2004.
[10] Pharmaceutical Benefits Pricing Authority, Procedures and Methods (2003).
[11] Department of Industry Tourism and Resources, Submission P36, 13 October 2003.
[12] Other factors include population growth, demographic changes, increasing fees and costs of delivering health care services, growth in the medical workforce and greater community expectations. See M Fett, Technology, Health and Health Care (2000) Department of Health and Ageing.
[13] Biotechnology Australia, Consultation, Sydney, 22 May 2003.
[14] Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Genetics, Testing & Gene Patenting: Charting New Territory in Healthcare: Report to the Provinces and Territories (2002), 61.
[15] See Ibid, 61; R Zimmern and C Cook, Genetics and Health: Policy Issues for Genetic Science and their Implications for Health and Health Services (2000), 3–4.
[16] While many genetic technologies offer the promise of longer term savings through better disease management, in the short to medium term they are likely to increase healthcare costs, eg, certain medical genetic tests may allow disease prevention to be practised, and consequently reduce health care costs, but the clinical benefits may not be observable for many years: Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Genetics, Testing & Gene Patenting: Charting New Territory in Healthcare: Report to the Provinces and Territories (2002), 61.
[17] R Zimmern and C Cook, Genetics and Health: Policy Issues for Genetic Science and their Implications for Health and Health Services (2000), 4.


does the FIA require a criminal conviction to ban someone from the sport though?
at the least i think its fair to say that ,right or wrong, BE's level of importance to the sport places him in a different category to VM.
slightly different comparison in that Flav and Symonds misdeeds were directly related to a motorsports race but the FIA didnt require a criminal conviction to hand down their bans.
if the Indian courts rule against VM in his absence and seek to place liens and appropriate his property, which is looking increasingly likely, what happens if and when they try to take hold of his F1 assets? is the sport supposed to wait for that to happen first?
surely everything is shielded and protected through a myriad of shell corporations but the perception will taint F1 regardless and that is exactly the type of thing which people have become fed up with.
in all likelihood FOM, CVC, FIA will do nothing proactively and will wait for the PR fallout before they do anything, if they even want to do anything at all.
for me though it would be nice if they did do something proactively for a change and really it costs them nothing to look to exclude VM and may even help them to build up some goodwill among the fans they are currently bleeding away.
I hear what you are saying, chillibowl, but if the FIA steps in to the Mallya problem, who is it going to benefit?
His chum Roy is behind bars in India and has to find about a $1 billion that the authorities there want as a surety for bail. The problem faces is that he can't raise the cash because the very fact that he is desperate is forcing the price that buyers are prepared to pay for his assets right down. Sahara, which is Roy, own some prize assets such as hotels that would normally have suitors fighting over. In this instance, the best offers are only about a third of a fairly lowly valuation.
I don't think that there would be many suitors for Force India at the moment, and I don't think that Mallya or Roy are in a position to sell.
fair point...who would it benefit? other then my indignation of course.
the wider public's perception of the sport is one thing but with no certainty can i attest to how that translates over to viewing numbers.
many wont care, others will chalk it up to business as usual, but one has to think that these types of scandals still have a negative affect.
so i would say the benefit would be to F1, its fans and its sponsors who dont want to risk becoming more associated with the culture of the super rich while trying to sell consumer goods to us fans.
that Mallya and Roy cant get an equitable return on their f1 investment is not a big concern for me although i would think that selling now at a lower price today and having a chance to keep some of that money is still better then waiting for a sale conducted by the Indian gov't who will no doubt want to keep all of the money for themselves.
anyways, i think we agree with the fact that the guy is a clown. just no sure what the best way to go about getting rid of him is though.
Baking soda or something like Gaviscom would help you with that ailment.
i find complaining about things here is all the relief i need.
If they can finally get hold of VJM I think creditors will chase around the world after assets and it depends how they are all structured. As Mike says it is all well and good having assets but if they can't be realised or only sold undervalued then generally there are no winners.
This has been rumbling along for several years and it has taken this long to get to where they are with VJM, wherever that is!
If he's smart he will another passport from some country of convenience.
I don't know when that article was written, but it is hopelessly out of date. He no longer owns or controls an airline nor a brewery, and he was booted out of the alcohol business by Diageo recently.
However, although he may be the beneficial owner of some rather nice assets, it is very difficult to actually pin them all down because they are all nominally owned via various nominee controlled companies in opaque tax havens. However, he is not as wealthy now as he was a few years ago, and in fact it may well be that most of his assets might be secured against some serious loans. I think that his empire might be starting to unwind.
He is currently in the UK in one of his homes here, but is not answering to enquiries. It is not believed that he has access to any other passports, and so for the time being he is stuck here, hiding from the Indian authorities. All a great loss to the z-list celebs who liked to attend his lavish parties; it looks likely that the big bash on his yacht at Monaco will not take place this year, or if it does, he will be missing.
The Home Secretary has declined to action a deportation as he arrived in this country legally. However, the Home Office has advised the Indian government that it would assist them if they made a formal extradition plea to the UK courts. The next move is up to India.
And I very much doubt that he would be offered a British passport, because that would cause a huge stink.
Talking of passports, I needed to renew mine. Took the old one and the application form into the local Post Office last Thursday, and the new one was put through the letter box by a courier before 8 am this morning. Can't complain about that service.
I think they're full booked this week.
Disappointing to see Alfonso Celis Jr in the car for both of the Barcelona test days. Not much in his career so far to suggest he's anything special, so I can only assume this is about £££.
Maybe but FI have always been good at running new drivers be testing or FP1 at GPs. Also teams have to run new drivers for at least 2 days at the in season or post season tests if my memory serves me correctly.
They do, but Celis's previous single-seater record is pretty unimpressive.


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Coros Vertix review: For the mountaineer in all of us
The Coros Vertix is the smartwatch for month-long treks through the wilderness
By Kelly Hodgkins	 October 10, 2019 9:50AM PST
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"Coros Vertix excels in battery life and fitness tracking, but it's short on advanced features."
Altitude acclimation
No web companion
No music, apps, or payments
Expensive for its feature set
Coros is known for its Pace and Apex smartwatches that combine a low price tag with ample features for the triathlete in training. The company's third watch, the Vertix, attempts a similar feat in the adventure watch category. With its outdoors-centric design and $600 price tag, the Vertix takes on the Garmin Fenix series and the Suunto 9.
How does the Coros Vertix hold up against these two established brands? I hit the trails with the Vertix to find out.
Big and burly
Coros didn't skimp when designing the Vertix. The materials in the watch are top-notch. It has a scratch-resistant sapphire glass display and a 48mm titanium casing. I wore the Vertix non-stop for more than a month, and there are zero scratches on the display or the casing. Except for dirt and grime, the watch still looks brand new.
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At 76 grams, the Vertix is heavy compared to most fitness watches, but it is lighter than competing adventure watches which offer stainless steel casings. Even though the Vertix falls into the bulky watch category, it doesn't fit like a big and burly watch. I thought it would be a behemoth, but the Vertix is surprisingly comfortable to wear, even on my small wrists. The 22mm band is soft and flexible and had plenty of adjustments to expand from my small wrists to my husband's larger wrists. The casing fits smoothly against my wrist.
Even though the Vertix falls into the bulky watch category, it doesn't fit like a big and burly watch.
The Vertix has two buttons and a central digital crown button on the right-hand side of the watch. The watch buttons are flush with the casing, but the digital crown sticks out quite a bit making it awkward to wear the watch on your left hand. You can flip the display for left-hand use, but then the labels on the casing are upside down. I ended up wearing the watch on my right hand, which was convenient for me since I am left-handed.
The 1.2-inch, 240 x 240 display was easy to read both inside and outside in the sunlight. I never had any issues seeing my hiking stats on the screen, even when I was out on an exposed ridge line in full sun. I do wish the screen was slightly larger, but Coros cleverly hides the black space around the display with markings that represent a clock dial.
Coros nailed it in the interface department. The watch uses two buttons – one that turns on backlighting and one that functions as a back/lap button. You can hold down the back button to access the shortcuts menu. In the center, there is a digital crown button that you can use to scroll through the menu system and then press to select the items on the screen.
The crown sticks out a bit, but that makes it easy to use it with a glove. Like the Apex before it, the menus on the Vertix are so intuitive that you don't need a manual to figure out the menu system.
Sticking to the basics
Underneath the rugged exterior of the Coros Vertix is a capable watch to track your fitness. All the standard metrics are there – heart rate monitoring, pace, cadence, elevation, and distance. Measurement of these metrics is accurate — right in line with the Garmin Fenix 6S Pro. You can view these metrics by scrolling through the data screens during a workout. Like most high-end watches, these data screens can be customized on the mobile app. It was motivating to know the grade and how fast (or slow) I was able to ascend or descend it.
Coros uses the training data to calculate the training effect, which measures how the workout improves your fitness. I found the Vertix constantly underestimated the effort of a workout. On a recent run when I pushed myself, my Garmin 6S Pro logged me as overreaching, while the Vertix rated the run as inefficient. I saw a similar effect on a recent hike up Mount Katahdin in Maine.
The Coros app breaks down each workout and displays the metrics using colorful, easy-to-read charts. Unfortunately, it only shows the single workout and does not let you see any trends. You can't go back a week or a month to see how your pace or heart rate has changed. It also doesn't recognize a run at the same location, so you can't track your performance on that route over time. Other brands, like Garmin, offer trend analysis, so its disappointing not to see it in the Coros.
Because it is targeted at the outdoors and mountaineering community, the Vertix ships with a pulse oximeter that is designed for altitude acclimation at high elevations (2500m). When enabled, the Vertix will take readings every hour and will alert you when your oxygen levels dip too low. Though I live in a mountainous area, there are no peaks in the 2500m range.
There's a barometer, temperature gauge, and an altimeter to track elevation and external conditions. I did take advantage of these when climbing Mount Washington. The Vertix is also waterproof down to 150 meters so you don't have to worry about getting it wet.
Coros nails the basic metrics, but the Vertix is missing the advanced features that aid in your workout and help improve performance.
Coros nails the basic metrics, but the Verix is missing the advanced features that aid in your workout and help improve performance. I like Garmin's new PacePro pacing assistant which sets a pace using elevation data and Suunto's FusedTrack algorithm which extends battery life by dialing down GPS and using motion sensor data to track a run. For a $600 watch, I expected to see some advanced ways of using the sensors on the device and innovative ways of analyzing the data.
The Vertix does a decent job detecting when you go to sleep and when you wake up. Each morning you can view your resting heart rate along with a graph of your sleep broken down into deep sleep, light sleep, and awake times.
This data is interesting to look at, but it doesn't provide a lot of insight into your sleep patterns. What is lacking in the Vertix is your sleep history. Yes, you can scroll backward day-by-day, but you cannot view a month worth of sleep in one chart as you can on other platforms.
The Vertix also is lacking extras that are found on other competing devices; the watch ships with a pulse oximeter, but it is only used for altitude and not for sleep.
GPS and mobile app
GPS is key for an adventure watch and the Coros Vertix delivers most of the time. The watch connects quickly to satellites — either GPS or GLONASS. Its tracking was accurate most of the time, but there are occasions when it would drop. Unlike the Suunto and Garmin devices which seem to be able to fill in all the gaps, the Vertix would sometimes drop the GPS connection and lose a portion of my track.
You can navigate a route using the Coros Vertix, but it is limited to breadcrumb mapping where your location is marked by an arrow and your route is a series of dots on the screen. Routes can be created using your computer, sent to the mobile app, and then synced to the watch using the mobile app. You can create a route directly within the Coros app using the GPS track from an existing exercise, but you cannot create one from scratch from within the app.
Speaking of the app, I love it. It has a clean, uncluttered interface that is easy to use. Its use of colors to display your data is outstanding. The app syncs quickly with the device, transferring workout data and delivering firmware updates with ease. Speaking of updates, get used to them as Coros updates its watches regularly, improving watch performance and adding new features all the time.
Coros syncs to a handful of third-party services such as Strava, Training Peaks, Health Kit, and others. The watch syncs quickly to these services — so quickly that my stats are on Strava before I even untie my running shoes. You can also manage the watch settings and upload GPS routes using the mobile app, but I really wish there was a web platform.
It is so much easier to import and export fitness data and GPS routes on a computer.
Unbelievably long battery life
The standout feature of the Coros watch lineup is battery life. I don't know how Coros manages battery life, but the company has perfected it. The battery life of the Vertix far exceeds any other fitness watch I have tested. The Vertix promises up to 45 days of regular use, 60 hours in full GPS and 150 hours in Ultratrax mode and comes close to delivering these times.
I routinely go 30 days between charges and that is with routine workouts and a steady stream of email alerts to drain the battery. I wore it for a 12-hour hike and still had 75 percent battery left. It is downright amazing. The only downside to this stupidly long battery life — I kept losing the charging cable because I used it so infrequently.
Price, availability, and warranty information
The Coros Vertix is available for $300 from Coros and retailers such as Amazon. Coros warranties its products from defects in quality and workmanship for two years after the original purchase date.
There is a lot to love about the Coros Vertix. Its durability is outstanding and its battery life is unrivaled. It covers all the basic fitness metrics you need, but it falls short in the feature department when compared to its rivals. It's hard to justify spending $600 on the Vertix when you can spend a bit more to snag an entry-level Garmin Fenix 6 Pro with music, maps, mobile payments, and more.
Is there a better alternative?
The Coros Vertix delivers when it comes to battery life, but its lack of fitness and lifestyle features is a detractor. Those looking for the most features for their buck should consider the $700 Garmin Fenix 6 Pro. The Fenix 6 Pro doesn't have the sapphire screen or the titanium casing of the Vertix, but what the Fenix lacks in materials, it makes up for in features. It is one of the most feature-filled GPS watches available today.
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The build quality on the Coros Vertix is rock solid. The watch should last at least three years under normal use. The company regularly updates its devices, adding new features and improving existing ones, so expect to see steady improvement during its lifetime.
Should you buy it?
Yes. If battery life is important to you and you don't need every whizzbang feature under the sun, then the Coros Vertix is an excellent choice.
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Sneak peek at the First Fabrication Laboratory Facility in Indonesia
Jababeka officially opened a Fabrication Laboratory (Fablab) in the Medical Science Center area, Kota Jababeka Cikarang.
Jababeka Fablab is the result of collaboration between a subsidiary of PT Jababeka Tbk, namely PT Jababeka Infrastruktur with President University, and the first Fablab credit in Indonesia which is located in an industrial area.
"We present this Jababeka Fablab as a facilitator and forum to pour out all the innovations from all levels of society, from students, technicians, workers, communities, startup companies, thus enabling them to learn and implement Industry 4.0," said Board of Director of PTJababeka Tbk Tjahjadi Rahardja in a statement. written in Jakarta, Monday (1/3/2021).
Jababeka Fablab will focus more on competency development and development of invoice prototypes for industrial tenants. Tjahjadi explained that the Jababeka Fablab carries five main pillars, namely showcase, capability, ecosystem, delivery and innovation, where these five pillars are in line with the goals of PIDI 4.0 (Center for Digital Industry 4.0 Innovation).
PIDI 4.0 is a government program in developing innovation and human resources for the realization of Indonesia 4.0.
In addition, through the Jababeka Fablab, it can improve individual capabilities through group discussion forums (FGD), workshops, training and seminars that will be held by the Jababeka Fablab. The Jababeka Fablab is also said to be the first fablab to have the support of a mature ecosystem that is ready to welcome the Industry 4.0 era.
This ecosystem is formed from the participation and collaboration of a number of stakeholders in the Jababeka area such as educational institutions, communities, Living Labs, investors, Accelerators, companies, media and government. It is hoped that the support of this ecosystem can accelerate the conventional industry towards Industry 4.0 and bring together Industry 4.0 solution providers with other companies that need this solution.
Jababeka Fablab presents a number of modern industrial facilities and equipment that can be used by the participants. Starting from software for design, metal cutting machines, grinders, Arduino, drills to 3D printers, 3D scanners, 3in1 Snapmaker, Armrobotic and Cnc Plasma.
All these facilities are open to the public such as students, academics, communities, start-ups, practitioners and industry by registering through the Jababeka Facebook website.
"We are open to anyone who wants to develop themselves or their products by joining the Jababeka Fablab, because this is the place to learn, collaborate and implement Industry 4.0 technology," explained Tjahjadi.
This is in line with the Jababeka Fablab jargon, namely Create – Innovate – Collaborate. With the presence of the Jababeka Fablab, Jababeka is prepared to welcome the transformation of Industry 4.0 in Indonesia with pentahelix collaboration between the government, private sector, academics and the community.
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Date of Birth 24-May-1923
Place of Birth Nihonbashi
(Tokyo, Japan)
Also know as Seitaro Suzuki, Suzuki Seitarō, Suzuki Seijun, 鈴木 清太郎, 鈴木 æ¸…é †, Seitaro Suzuki, Suzuki Seijun, Suzuki Seitarō, 鈴木 清太郎
Profession Film director, Writer, Television Director, Actor
Seijun Suzuki, born Seitaro Suzuki on 24 May 1923, is a Japanese filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter. His films are known for their jarring visual style, irreverent humour, nihilistic cool and entertainment-over-logic sensibility. He made 40 predominately B-movies for the Nikkatsu Company between 1956 and 1967, working most prolifically in the yakuza genre. His increasingly surreal style began to draw the ire of the studio in 1963 and culminated in his ultimate dismissal for what is now regarded his magnum opus, Branded to Kill, starring notable collaborator Joe Shishido. Suzuki successfully sued the studio for wrongful dismissal, but he was blacklisted for 10 years after that. As an independent filmmaker, he won critical acclaim and a Japanese Academy Award for his Taishō Trilogy, Zigeunerweisen, Kagero-za and Yumeji. His films remained widely unknown outside of Japan until a series of theatrical retrospectives beginning in the mid-1980s, home video releases of key films such as Branded to Kill and Tokyo Drifter in the late 1990s and tributes by such acclaimed filmmakers as Jim Jarmusch, Takeshi Kitano, Wong Kar-wai and Quentin Tarantino signaled his international discovery. Suzuki has continued making films, albeit sporadically. In Japan, he is more commonly recognized as an actor for his numerous roles in Japanese films and television.
Awards by Seijun Suzuki
Check all the awards nominated and won by Seijun Suzuki.
Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year
Honored for : Zigeunerweisen
Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year
Japan Academy Prize for Picture of the Year Zigeunerweisen
Japan Academy Prize for Director of the Year Zigeunerweisen


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Academy Awards To Add "Best Popular Film" Category
By RJ Johnson - @rickerthewriter
Winning "Best Picture" at the Oscars is about to take on a brand new meaning.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Wednesday that it would be adding a new category to help acknowledge the major blockbusters and crowd-pleasing movies that have found themselves snubbed by the awards ceremony in recent years. That means, mega-blockbusters like "Star Wars" and "Black Panther" will soon have a real shot at winning a gold statue.
"Change is coming to the #Oscars," the Academy tweeted. "Here's what you need to know: A new category is being designed around achievement in popular film."
Critics of the annual movie awards ceremony say the Academy has ignored mega-blockbusters like "Star Wars: The Force Awakens", Wonder Woman, Deadpool" in the past, even as they bring in huge audiences with rabid fans. However, the hugely popular movies rarely find themselves nominated for "Best Picture," or for any award really other than a technical category.
In a memo sent to members, Academy president John Bailey and CEO Dawn Hudson explained some of the new steps the Academy was taking to help expand the program.
"We have heard from many of you about improvements needed to keep the Oscars and our Academy relevant in a changing world. The Board of Governors took this charge seriously. We are excited about these steps, and look forward to sharing more details with you."
The idea of a category recognizing mainstream movies isn't as new as you might think. At the first Academy Awards, AMPAS presented two "Best Picture" awards to eligible entries, one for "Outstanding Picture," and another for "Best Unique and Artistic Picture."
(For your bar trivia nights, or if you just want to show off, "Wings" won Best Picture, and "Sunrise" won Unique and Artistic Picture at the 1st Academy Awards).
The Academy also announced they were moving the show up on the calendar as well starting in 2020, on February 9 saying they plan on a "more globally accessible, three-hour telecast."
The shake up comes as the Academy Awards has seen its broadcast ratings plummet over recent years. This year's Jimmy Kimmel-hosted show clocked in at 3 hours and 50 minutes, and saw a record low audience of 26.5 million viewers, which was down 20 percent from 2017's broadcast.
AMPAS also announced that selected categories will be broadcast live from the Dolby Theater in Hollywood during commercial breaks with winning moments to be edited and aired later in the broadcast.
The 91st Oscars telecast is scheduled for February 24, 2019. There's no word on when the new category will be added to the ceremony.


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New Emeryville bicycle-pedestrian bridge above Union Pacific railroad tracks hoisted into place
Bay City News
EMERYVILLE, Calif. -- City officials and boosters are celebrating after a long-awaited pedestrian-bicycle bridge was hoisted by crane and installed late Saturday night and early Sunday morning over the Union Pacific Railroad tracks in Emeryville.
The arched South Bayfront Bridge was hoisted by crane and set into place by Santa Rosa-based contractor Ghilotti Construction during a four-hour overnight window allotted by the railroad, which could have assessed a financial penalty if the project took too long.
When it opens next year, possibly by summer 2021, the bridge will provide a long-sought connection safely over the eight railroad tracks below between Ohlone Way and the Bay Street area with Horton Street.
City Councilman John Bauters, a self-described "transportation nerd," was among those who watched the overnight installation.
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Southern California officials have announced plans for a highway overpass for wildlife, saying that they aim to break ground in 2021. ABC7 has obtained some preview footage of what it might look like from Utah's equivalent "Critter Bridge."
"The City of Emeryville achieved a significant milestone in the early hours of Sunday morning," Bauters said. "Long bisected by both the Union Pacific Railroad and the I-80/580 Freeway, east to west connectivity and access between residential neighborhoods, local shops, and the Bay Trail for bicycles and pedestrians has been limited to a couple routes dominated by cars."
He said the cost of the bridge project is about $22 million, with additional costs still to come for connecting paths and the creation of Horton Landing Park on the east side of the train tracks.
"Pathways in the park will connect the bridge to adjacent streets at Horton Street just south of 53rd Street and near Stanford Avenue," the city says on the project website. "The greenway within Horton Landing Park will connect to a future greenway segment that extends southward to Sherwin near Halleck Street."
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"The South Bayfront Bridge is representative of Emeryville's reprioritization of active transportation in building a livable city and our commitment to safe streets, as well as a major step forward in our efforts to build a network of safe routes for all transportation modalities," Bauters said. "I am excited to have witnessed the 'Great Hoist' and know we are just getting started."
Bauters, vice chairman of the Alameda County Transportation Commission, noted numerous projects coming online in Emeryville, saying, "The completion of the new Doyle Street separated greenway segment next week, the parking-protected bike lane on 59th, expansion of protected bike lanes onto north Horton and now the bridge has really made this week amazing."
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Amateur cryptologist group solves serial killer's 'unbreakable' cipher, decades after mysterious disappearance
Three private code-breakers from the United States, Belgium, and Australia solved the infamous Zodiac Killer Code that was deemed indecipherable for over half a century. The team, composed of software developer David Oranchak, computer programmer Jarl Van Eyche, and Mathematician Sam Blake, all had their hands in cracking one of the most well known unsolved codes in modern history [CNN].
An unidentified male suspect, who self identified as 'The Zodiac Killer', brutally murdered multiple victims in the San Francisco Bay area during the 1960s. While there are five murders definitively associated with the Zodiac, he has claimed an upwards of 37 [Wired]. The whereabouts of the killer have been investigated for decades, but no arrests were made and the cases are still open, as told by Biography.com.
A staple of The Zodiac Killer's reign of terror during the mid 19th century were his daunting messages to news outlets. The killer sent numerous letters to San Francisco papers that claimed responsibility for the victims' deaths, as well as detailed specific information about murders that led authorities to cite him as the true killer.
The first of the Zodiac's ciphered letters was decoded rather quickly, however the second stumped both authorities and private code-breakers. The unsolved cipher -nicknamed the '340 cipher' for its 340 characters- remained unsolved well after the Zodiac mysteriously disappeared, and until it was broken recently by the international cryptologist team [BBC].
The broken cipher reads as follows: "I hope you are having lots of fun in trying to catch me that wasn't on the TV show which brings up a point about me I am not afraid of the gas chamber because it will send me to paradice [sic] all the sooner because I now have enough slaves to work for me where everyone else has nothing when they reach paradice [sic] so they are afraid of death I am not afraid because I know that my new life will be an easy one in paradice [sic] death."
The letter gives no personal information about the Zodiac, nor any clues to his current whereabouts, but it is a significant breakthrough for the world of cryptology, and a long awaited moment for those who have been following the case for decades.
The San Francisco FBI released a statement acknowledging the achievement of the private code-breakers, and announced that they will continue to work to bring justice to the victims' families. "The FBI is aware that a cipher attributed to the Zodiac Killer was recently solved by private citizens," wrote the official San Francisco account in a tweet. "The Zodiac Killer case remains an ongoing investigation for the FBI San Francisco division and our local law enforcement partners…we will continue to seek justice for the victims of these brutal crimes."
The FBI division stated that they will not provide any more comments at the time out of respect for the families of the victims.


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His eye-witness experience of a changing Arctic environment makes a compelling argument for ocean and wilderness protection.
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Maa Amritanandamayi
Birth Place : Alappad, Kerala, India
Zodiac Sign : Libra
Chinese Zodiac : Snake
Birth Element : Water
Maa Amritanandamayi Biography, Life, Interesting Facts
Childhood And Early Life
Hindu spiritual leader and guru Mata Amritanandamayi Devi was born on the 27 September 1953. Today she is known as Amma, meaning Mother. Her followers believe her to be a saint. She was born to Sugunananthan and Damayanti and has six siblings. Her family was not wealthy, but she managed to find food to give to poorer people. When still a girl, she spent hours meditating and praying to Lord Krishna.
When Amritanandamayi Devi was young, her mother fell ill, and she had to leave school to help raise the family.
Amritanandamayi Devi was not interested in marriage and in 1981 founded the Mata Amritanandamayi Math (MAM), a foundation focusing on spiritual and charitable activities. By 1987 she was operating internationally.
Mission And Charitable Work
In 2014 all the major religions came together to sign a commitment against modern-day slavery organized by the Global Freedom Network, calling for an end to slavery and human trafficking by 2020.
Amritanandamayi Devi delivered an address at the United Nations Academic Impact conference in July 2015 that was co-hosted by Amrita University. Her speech focused on the upliftment of the poor and a halt to suffering when undertaking technological research.
Mata Amritanandamayi Devi gives Darshana by hugging people. She has embraced millions of people around the world for over thirty years.
She follows the same spiritual path presented in the Vedas and followed by subsequent traditional scriptures including the Bhagavad Gita. She has said that she accepts spiritual practices and prayers of all religions as different methods moving towards the same goal which is the purification of the mind. She has also spoken of the importance of karma yoga, selflessness and cultivating compassion, patience, self-control, and forgiveness. All of which she believes leads to the understanding of self and eternal consciousness known as jivanmukti.
Amritanandamayi Devi has a network of charitable organizations which provide education, food, housing, and medical services to the poor around the world. Her global network carries out services in over forty countries.
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Resolve to Return
Published December 31, 2010	Alumni , General News Closed
Desktop Calendar for January
Welcome in 2011 by signing up for Alumni Weekend 2011!
Scheduled for May 12-15, the event is for the classes of 1961, 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1986, 1991, and 1996. The Alumni Office has blocked hotel rooms and will notify alumni when these rooms are released for reservation. At the end of January, alumni will receive the Alumni Weekend information packet and will be notified of online registration .
In the meantime, you can whet your appetite for the activities by visiting the Alumni Weekend website, where you'll find the schedule for the weekend and can participate in a straw poll to let people know you're coming (and to see who else from your class is planning to attend).
And as long as you're turning the page on a new year this weekend, don't forget the W&L desktop calendars featuring photographs from the campus. You can have new computer wallpaper for every month of 2011. Just go to the Desktop Calendar page to download the images.
Have a safe and happy New Year!
Temple Cone's New Book of Poems
Temple Cone
Temple Cone, of the Class of 1995, has published his second collection of poems. The Broken Meadow, which was published this fall, won the 2010 Old Seventy Press Poetry Series Contest. We wrote about Temple's first collection, No Loneliness, in 2009.
Three of Temple's poems have also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize by the magazines in which they were published: "Cleansing," nominated by Off the Coast; "Offertory," nominated by Poetry Kanto; and "Oneliness," nominated by Beloit Poetry Journal
Temple is an associate professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis.
You can read some of Temple's poems on his own website, Temple Cone, where he also blogs occasionally about topics ranging from Troy Polamalu's Hair to Hip-Hop & Homer.
Farmer Matt
By day, Matt Strickler, of the Class of 2003, puts his Washington and Lee public policy major to work as the legislative assistant to Virginia State Senator Ralph S. Northam, a Democrat who represents District 6: the counties of Accomack, Mathews and Northampton and parts of Norfolk and Virginia Beach.
But in his spare time, Matt has become an oyster farmer on Virginia's Eastern Shore. The Virginian-Pilot featured Old Plantation Oyster Company LLC, which Matt owns with a friend, Clark Mercer.
As the Pilot's story relates, Matt studied aquaculture and sustainable development at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, a branch of the College of William and Mary. The oyster farm venture is putting that academic background into practice on Old Plantation Creek near Cape Charles, at a site on his grandparents' estate.
Although Matt has taken a few samples of the oysters to special events in the area, Old Plantation has not sold any of its oysters yet. They anticipate that the 150,000 oysters in their first batch should reach market size this spring.
The short video below by Brian Clark of The Virginian-Pilot features an interview with Matt about his hobby. Have a look.
Hank '51, left, and Andy '91 Waters
In a time when many daily newspapers are closing their doors, the Columbia Daily Tribune in Columbia, Mo., is staying open, and in the family. First published in 1901, the paper has been owned by the Waters and Watson families since 1904 and is currently owned by W&L alumnus Hank Waters, of the class of 1951. Earlier this month, the paper announced an agreement that keeps its ownership in the Waters family for the foreseeable future.
Under the agreement, Andy Waters, a 1991 W&L graduate, and his sister, Elizabeth — Hank's two youngest children— are buying out four other family members to take full ownership of the newspaper and publishing company on Jan. 1, 2011.
Hank will become publisher emeritus and continue writing editorials while his wife, associate publisher Vicki Russell, will become publisher. Andy Waters gives up his current title as vice president for interactive media and becomes president and general manager. Hank's two other children will retire.
Family newspapers don't always stay in families. That fact was noted by the executive director of the Missouri Press Association in the Daily Tribune's article on the ownership change. Doug Crews noted that "There are times when families, several individuals, can't agree what to do in the future. The temptation is to throw up their hands and say, 'Let's sell the newspaper.' "
The decision clearly pleased Hank. In his column on Dec. 22, he wrote: "As the current reigning patriarch, I am proud of my descendants for working out a mutually agreeable transfer of Tribune ownership." He went on to note that his columns will continue: "Through all of this, the owners have not been able to get rid of their aging meddler, the prolific if not always brilliant writer of this column."
Andy, a journalism and mass communications major at W&L, had been a reporter with Associated Press prior to joining the family business in 1995.
Stories of the Semester
Published December 24, 2010	General News Closed
Iowa Connection
Published December 23, 2010	Alumni , General News , School of Law Closed
Sam Langholz '02
As new Iowa Governor-elect Terry Branstad fills positions in his new government, it's clear that we'll need to establish a Washington and Lee alumni chapter in the state capitol in Des Moines.
First, Gov.-elect Brandstad announced that he is retaining Donna Mueller, a 1979 graduate of the W&L School of Law, as chief executive officer of the giant Iowa Public Employees' Retirement System. Gov.-elect Brandstad is keeping Donna in the post she has held since 2003. The IPERS system is a public pension fund for state and local government workers. It has more than 300,000 members, 2,200 participating employers, and assets in excess of $21 billion. The director of the independent agency is responsible for overseeing operations, investments and benefits paid through the program. Donna previously headed the Boston Retirement Board. In addition to her W&L law degree, she is a graduate of the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Program for Senior Executives at Harvard University.
Then, one day later, the governor-elect named Sam Lanholz, a member of the Class of 2002, as the Iowa State Public Defender. A politics major at W&L, Sam received his law degree from the University of Iowa, where he was managing editor of the "Iowa Law Review." He is the Founding President of the Iowa Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society and an active member of the Iowa State Bar Association. He has previously served as a prosecuting intern in the Muscatine County Attorney's Office and judicial law clerk based in Des Moines for Judge Steven M. Colloton in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Prior to law school, Sam served as Chief Floor Assistant for then-U.S. House Majority Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO). He is currently an associate attorney at Davis, Brown, Koehn, Shores & Roberts, P.C. in Des Moines.
The Iowa State Public Defender coordinates legal representation for those who come under arrest and cannot afford their legal representation. Either the State Public Defender's offices or private attorneys who are contracted by State Public Defender's office provide the representation for these individuals.
Six Million Barrels
Published December 22, 2010	Alumni Closed
Max L. Shapira '65
Earlier this month, Heaven Hill Distilleries, in Bardstown, Ky., celebrated its 75th anniversary on the same day that it filled its six-millionth barrel of bourbon. Presiding over the celebration was Heaven Hill president Max L. Shapira, a member of Washington and Lee's Class of 1965.
Max is the third generation of his family to own and operate the distillery, which is the nation's largest independent, family-owned, distilled-spirits producer, and the world's second-largest holder of aging Kentucky straight bourbon whiskey.
In an interview with Fox 41 TV in Louisville, Max admitted that the decision the five Shapira brothers made to start a company in the middle of the Great Depression was risky, but he also said that the benefits of running a family business are significant.
Said Max: "It provides us with the flexibility to run our business as we think it should be run over the long term. We are indeed here for the long term. The bourbon industry is all about thinking into the long term and the future. We age our product years and years, so the long-term perspective is what's important to us."
Watch the Channel 41 broadcast here.
Max represents the third generation of Shapiras in the business. Three years ago, a fourth generation entered the picture when Max's son, Andy Shapira, of the Class of 1996, joined Heaven Hill as director of sales analysis.
Heaven Hill produces and markets national brands in every category of distilled spirits. You can see their category leaders on the website. The company was also voted best distiller in the U.S. in both 2008 and 2009, the first time a distillery had won that award from Whisky Magazine in consecutive years.


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"You want true love? Get a dog."
Sheesh, some people are cynical.
Alright. This plays on my feelings more than usual.
I do not even need military background.
This is something that always crept me out.
Promotion after death. It is like... I dunno.
Service and all plus the ultimate sacrifice. People (at least in this region) do not give much credit to soldiers and only take them as those who like to kill for fun. I just need to ask the general mentality here and... point dropped for having the opposite opinion.
Not saying there are no monsters. War is one, after all.
Though this is kind of... creepier.
The fact they visit her every (insert time) and promote her like this.
MJ, Stonewall's in a coma. So you could take this as a snarky commentary on what it takes to get SFC in the US Army, but that's not the point of this page.
Generally it's awards that show up post-mortem, not promotions. Been there, done that... guh.
It amazes me how quickily you can change the emotional gears of this comic with out derailing it.
Yep. Judging by your comment and Prof's and some other people, I guess my exact same "confusion" is mutual, haha.
I live foroff your feelz!
'alive dead.... or otherwise.... ' it is great to see the way you echo the imagery through the text as if it were all one, which of course, it should be.... and still get a thought provoking effect in there as well..
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"""
Django settings for municipal_finance project.

For more information on this file, see
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/settings/

For the full list of settings and their values, see
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/ref/settings/
"""

# Build paths inside the project like this: os.path.join(BASE_DIR, ...)
import os
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))

# Quick-start development settings - unsuitable for production
# See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/howto/deployment/checklist/

# SECURITY WARNING: don't run with debug turned on in production!
DEBUG = os.environ.get('DJANGO_DEBUG', 'true') == 'true'

# SECURITY WARNING: keep the secret key used in production secret!
if DEBUG:
    SECRET_KEY = '-r&cjf5&l80y&(q_fiidd$-u7&o$=gv)s84=2^a2$o^&9aco0o'
else:
    SECRET_KEY = os.environ.get('DJANGO_SECRET_KEY')

GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_ID = 'UA-48399585-37'

ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['*']

# Application definition

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'municipal_finance',
    'scorecard',
    'wazimap_mapit',
    'wazimap.apps.WazimapConfig',
    'census',

    'django.contrib.sites',
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.humanize',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'pipeline',
    'django_extensions',
    'corsheaders',
)

# Sites
# 2: Scorecard
# 3: API

if DEBUG:
    SITE_ID = int(os.environ.get('SITE_ID', '2'))

# Wazimap
from wazimap.settings import WAZIMAP
WAZIMAP['name'] = 'Municipal Money'
WAZIMAP['url'] = 'http://municipalmoney.org.za'
WAZIMAP['comparative_levels'] = []
WAZIMAP['country_code'] = 'ZA'
WAZIMAP['geometry_data'] = {}
# TODO: district
WAZIMAP['levels'] = {
    'country': {
        'children': ['province'],
    },
    'province': {
        'children': ['municipality', 'district'],
    },
    'district': {
        'children': ['municipality'],
    },
    'municipality': {
        'plural': 'municipalities',
    },
}
WAZIMAP['profile_builder'] = 'scorecard.profiles.get_profile'
WAZIMAP['ga_tracking_id'] = GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_ID
WAZIMAP['twitter'] = ''
WAZIMAP['geodata'] = 'scorecard.geo.GeoData'

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
    'municipal_finance.middleware.SiteMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
    'corsheaders.middleware.CorsMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.auth.middleware.SessionAuthenticationMiddleware',
    'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
    'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
    'municipal_finance.middleware.ApiErrorHandler',
)

ROOT_URLCONF = 'municipal_finance.urls'

WSGI_APPLICATION = 'municipal_finance.wsgi.application'

SESSION_ENGINE = 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.signed_cookies'

# Database
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/ref/settings/#databases
import dj_database_url
DATABASE_URL = os.environ.get('DATABASE_URL', 'postgres://municipal_finance:municipal_finance@localhost:5432/municipal_finance')
db_config = dj_database_url.parse(DATABASE_URL)
db_config['ATOMIC_REQUESTS'] = True
DATABASES = {
    'default': db_config,
}

# Caches
if DEBUG:
    CACHES = {
        'default': {
            'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.dummy.DummyCache',
        }
    }
else:
    CACHES = {
        'default': {
            'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.filebased.FileBasedCache',
            'LOCATION': '/var/tmp/django_cache',
        }
    }

# Internationalization
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/topics/i18n/

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-za'
TIME_ZONE = 'Africa/Johannesburg'
USE_I18N = True
USE_L10N = True
USE_TZ = True
USE_THOUSAND_SEPARATOR = True
FORMAT_MODULE_PATH = 'municipal_money.formats'

# CORS
CORS_ORIGIN_ALLOW_ALL = True

# Templates
TEMPLATE_DEBUG = DEBUG
TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
    "django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth",
    "django.core.context_processors.debug",
    "django.core.context_processors.i18n",
    "django.core.context_processors.media",
    "django.core.context_processors.static",
    "django.core.context_processors.tz",
    "django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages",
    "wazimap.context_processors.wazimap_settings",
    "municipal_finance.context_processors.google_analytics",
)

# Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/howto/static-files/

ASSETS_DEBUG = DEBUG
ASSETS_URL_EXPIRE = False

# assets must be placed in the 'static' dir of your Django app

# where the compiled assets go
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'staticfiles')
# the URL for assets
STATIC_URL = '/static/'

STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
    "django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder",
    "django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder",
    "pipeline.finders.PipelineFinder",
)

PYSCSS_LOAD_PATHS = [
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'municipal_finance', 'static'),
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Summer is always a shoo-in for lovely floral prints in an array of colors. However, this year we have been delivered worldly abstract prints spun a bit more toward the sophisticate, enabling us to feast our eyes on clothing to stimulate our left brains and get our creative juices flowing. Below we've curated a collection of stand out pieces from Summer collections by Weston Wear, Language, Velvet and Kensie... showing that we all have a taste for the arts.


You've read this before: you are the family chef, house cleaner, social organizer, counselor, taxi driver, financial provider, etc. How does a family navigate multi-tasking and still find inner peace? We will discuss strategies that are relevant to your family followed by guided meditation. Please bring your favorite blanket and/or pillow.


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Pictures from Italy
Dickens takes time off his novels to give an account of travels which he and his family undertook in France and Italy. There are vivid descriptions of the places, but also of the people and their lives.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens. It is a mystery indeed; the serial novel was just half completed at the time of Dickens' death – leading to much speculation how it might have ended.
The novel is named after Edwin Drood, one of the characters, but it mostly...
Barnaby Rudge
A wayside tavern where the local men drink and gossip; an unsolved, twenty year old murder at a nearby mansion; a very talkative black raven; a London locksmith and his family; a man apparently returned from the dead; a hangman who enjoys his job way too much; an anti-Catholic lord; a large and...
No Thoroughfare
Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, with disastrous consequences in adulthood. Two associates, wishing to right the wrong, are commissioned to find a missing heir. Their quest takes them from fungous wine cellars in the City of London to the sunshine of the...
Like most of Dickens' work, the book is used to call the public's attention to various contemporary social evils, including the workhouse, child labor and the recruitment of children as criminals. The novel is full of sarcasm and dark humor, even as it treats its serious subject, revealing the...
The Old Curiosity Shop tells the story of Little Nell, a beautiful and virtuous young girl who lives with her grandfather in his shop of curiosities. Her grandfather loves her dearly, and Nell does not complain, but she lives a lonely existence without friends of her own age. Her only friend is...
The Uncommercial Traveller
The Uncommercial Traveller is a collection of literary sketches and reminiscences written by Charles Dickens. He seems to have chosen the title and persona of the Uncommercial Traveller as a result of a speech he gave to the Commercial Travellers' School London in his role as honorary chairman...
Born in the Marshalsea Prison for Debtors, Amy—Little Dorrit—the daughter of the ruined, but self-respectful William Dorrit, has put her entire heart in caring for her dear father, until one day her humble path is crossed by Arthur Clennam. Their meeting proves providential not only for Amy's...
The Battle of Life
While "The Battle of Life" is one of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books - his annual release of a story just before Christmas - this one breaks the tradition by not being concerned with Christmas. Rather, its subtitle, "A Love Story", reveals more of the plot.
The major events of this book...
A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens. The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation after the supernatural visitations of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and Yet to Come


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The Lost Tapes Live
Mar 25/21 08:00 PM - Mar 25/21 11:59 PM
https://www.losttapesofthe27club.com/#about
Notable artists and mental health advocates will band together in a free virtual broadcast on Thursday, March 25 at 8 p.m. ET to shine a light on the music industry's mental health crisis. The "Lost Tapes Live" broadcast, produced by Lemmon Entertainment and recorded at Toronto-based studio The HUB, will be hosted by Canadian music journalist Alan Cross.
The virtual broadcast is part of a campaign launched in February by Over The Bridge, a Canadian nonprofit that aims to change the conversation about mental health in the music community. The Lost Tapes of the 27 Club campaign used artificial intelligence to create an album of new music that the 27 Club (a list of musicians who died at just 27 years old, such as Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison, among others) "never got the chance to create,".
The event will be free to view but registration is required. For the full lineup, more information and to register, visit www.losttapeslive.com.


The FAW X40 SUV in China has surpassed its sibling the FAW R7 in terms of success and sales figures.
The FAW R7 crossover SUV saw tremendous success right from the day it was launched. Launched in May 2016 and placed under the Senia (Xenia) sub-brand, the R7 sold more than 43,000 units in 2016 (7 months from May to December).
In the following year 2017, FAW R7 saw even more success as it sold 61,617 units in the land of Dragons. However the FAW X40, which is based on the same R7 platform and even carries the same 1.6 liter engine that powers the R7 has been doing even better in terms of sales.
Launched in March 2017, placed under FAW's up-market Besturn sub brand, the X40 sold 70,501 in just 10 months (March to December) in 2017. In the first 5 months of calendar year 2018, FAW has sold 15,579 units of the R7 whereas 29,832 units of the X40, almost twice as much as the R7.
The X40 SUV has a very stylish design with a front fascia that seems well connected with the Besturn family of cars produced by FAW. The car on display features hexagonal chrome grille, dual-tone exterior color, skid pads under the bumpers, roof rails, alloy wheels, while key features include driver & passenger airbags, ABS with EBD, tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS), auto-dimming rear view mirror, 8-inch LCD screen and vehicle stability assist.
FAW has launched the facelift of the R7 in China, called as the R7 City which is supposed to improve the sales of the SUV. The R7 City gets a revised front end appearance using a huge mesh grille design, with sharp fog lamp enclosures on both sides of the redesigned bumper. 'SENIA' has been written on top of the front grille. The rear bumper also gets a revised treatment. The R7 City also features double five-spoke alloy rims and red brake calipers. Inside, the R7 City carries the same interior with some improvements. The steering wheel and seats are wrapped in leather and equipped with Yijiazhi entertainment system.
Al-Haj FAW is working on to introduce the R7 SUV in Pakistan in 2019. The crossover SUV is expected to enrich FAW's product portfolio in our country.


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Home » TV & Movies » Grim fates of Jingle All The Way cast – from bloody murder-suicide to car crash and child star 'bullied out of acting' | The Sun
Grim fates of Jingle All The Way cast – from bloody murder-suicide to car crash and child star 'bullied out of acting' | The Sun
IT might have left the critics cold, but 26 years after its release, Jingle All The Way has become a Christmas classic.
Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and comedian Sinbad, it saw two fathers go head-to-head as they desperately tried to buy an action figure for their sons on a trolley dash before Christmas.
Since the film's release, Arnie has gone on to become no less than governor of California and star in a swathe of Hollywood hits, including the Terminator sequels.
And while other stars of the festive flick have enjoyed successful careers, a haunting number of others have been less fortunate.
From shocking car crashes to a grisly murder-suicide, here is what happened to the stars of Jingle All The Way.
Sinbad – Recovering after stroke
Comedian Sinbad – real name David Adkins – co-starred with Schwarzenegger as postal worker Myron Larabee, competing against him in the film.
He made a name for himself in the 90s as a stand-up comedian, and this role cemented his status as a cult favourite.
He's continued to work on his stand-up and still does tours and shows to this day.
David has also featured in a number of smaller roles on TV, with cameos in both Family Guy and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
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He has also branched out into children's television with a role in Cartoon Network's Steven Universe, as well as lending his voice to The Lion Guard.
In November last year it was revealed that the now 66 year-old was recovering after suffering a stroke.
Rita Wilson – Covid and cancer survivor
Playing the role of Liz Langston, Rita has gone on to enjoy a successful career and happy life despite having to endure multiple hardships.
After Jingle All The Way, she went on to star in multiple other films like The Story of Us, Runaway Bride and Raise Your Voice.
She also starred in Larry Crowne alongside long-time husband and Hollywood superstar Tom Hanks, whom Rita is still happily married to, and the pair have welcomed two kids together.
On top of appearances on Broadway, the 66-year-old has been recognised with a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.
The star was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2017 and had to undergo a double mastectomy.
In March of 2020, Rita and Tom were one of the first celebrities to reveal they had caught Covid-19, but thankfully quickly recovered.
Jake Lloyd – Bullied into quitting acting
Child actor Jake Lloyd played the role of Jamie Langston, son of parents Howard and Liz, in the cult film.
After the relative success of Jingle All The Way, Jake landed a career-defining role playing young Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
Despite having a role in one of the most well-known movie franchises the big screen has ever seen, Jake quit acting in 2001, saying the role caused intense bullying from his classmates.
"My entire school life was really a living hell, and I had to do up to 60 interviews a day," Jake, now 33, told Best Life.
"Other children were really mean to me…They would make the sound of the lightsaber every time they saw me. It was totally mad."
In 2015 he was back in the news after being arrested for reckless driving, driving without a license and resisting arrest.
The unfortunate incident led to the ex-actor being imprisoned for a year.
Soon after his release he was reportedly diagnosed with schizophrenia and has stayed out of the spotlight since.
Phil Hartman – Victim of murder-suicide
Phil Hartman, who played the Langstons' annoying next-door neighbour, was a beloved SNL comic who was well known for his roles in the 80s and 90s.
On top of appearing on eccentric sitcom NewsRadio, Phil voiced a plethora of characters in the cartoon staple The Simpsons.
The Springfield star had his life cut short however in a tragic turn of events just two years after the films release.
He married Brynn Omdahl in 1987 with whom he had two children.
An unhappy marriage, their relationship was marred by Brynn's frequent drug use and repeated domestic violence against Phil, who in turn was often absent from their house.
In 1998, after a particularly heated argument, Brynn shot him 3 times whilst he was asleep and, after confessing her crime, killed herself in the twisted incident.
The 49 year-old died on the scene.
His death was met with a wave of tributes, described as "a decidedly regular guy, beloved by everyone he worked with".
He was posthumously added to the Hollywood walk of fame in 2014.
Robert Conrad – Car crash left him paralysed
Robert Conrad was known for his role as Officer Hummel in the cult film.
After this, Robert almost dropped off the face of the Earth, appearing in numerous small roles before his final film part as Reed Wilson in a 2002 production Dead Above Ground.
His career ultimately came to an untimely end after he was involved in a catastrophic car accident that left his right side partially paralysed.
The other driver, Kevin Burnett, died a number of years later with injuries that the family attributed to be as a result of the accident.
Robert was tried on felony charges, to which he pleaded no contest to and was convicted of drunk driving.
He was sentenced to six months of house confinement, alcohol counselling and five years on probation. A civil lawsuit was also filed against him by the other driver before his death, settled for an undisclosed amount.
In February of 2020, Robert died of heart failure at the age of 84.
Jim Belushi – Cannabis farmer
American star Jim Belushi played the character Mall Santa and has since featured in a number of films and TV shows.
He was one of America's top paid actors and enjoyed wild success both before and after Jingle All The Way.
His ABC sitcom 'According To Jim' did particularly well, running for 8 seasons from 2001-2009, with him apparently making up to $500,000 an episode at its peak.
His other acting roles include him being cast as a publishing executive in Roman Polanski's Ghost Writer and featuring on the 2017 reboot of Twin Peaks.
More recently, however, he has seemingly removed himself from the acting world to south Oregon where he has started a weed farm.
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Despite this, Jim claims he isn't a pothead himself but is known to have a weed brownie every now and then.
Now 68, the veteran actor documented his process for all to see in the film Growing Belushi.
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Pruitt's Plan to Make Climate Denialism Law
Trump's EPA pick has tried it before, and he'll likely try it again. Only this time, he'll be working from the inside.
Dec 09, 201610:56 AM
Scott Pruitt arrives at Trump Tower on Wednesday in New York City.
When President-elect Donald Trump sat down for an in-depth interview with the New York Times last month, there was a brief moment when it seemed possible, though unlikely, that he might acknowledge climate change is real. When he nominated Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, those illusions flew out the window.
Pruitt, like Trump, denies the scientific consensus about manmade climate change. Unlike Trump, however, Pruitt has been unwavering in that denial and, more troubling still, has experience trying to let these misconceptions inform our laws.
The way he could do this is a bit technical. Despite Trump's campaign promises, the incoming president won't be able to unilaterally abolish the EPA, and rescinding the climate rules already in place would be an arduous process, thanks to lengthy public comment periods and other requirements that will allow environmental groups and their allies in state governments to try to preserve them. More importantly, though, the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act both mandate our right to, you guessed it, clean water and clean air. The EPA is essentially tasked with executing the actions necessary to ensure this. If Pruitt and Trump neuter the EPA, the federal government would still need to find another way to hold up the demands put forth by these two laws or face legal action.
But when these fundamental environmental rules were put on the books—in the 1970s—global warming wasn't on legislatures' radars. And this is where Pruitt's appointment gets scary. The only reason the Clean Air Act is able to regulate greenhouse gases is thanks to a 2009 endangerment finding, in which the EPA showed that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases pose a risk to human health. It was thanks to this finding that the agency was able to claim the authority and legal responsibility to regulate GHGs under the Clean Air Act. Without it, there would be no new fuel economy rules for cars and trucks, Clean Power Plan for the nation's power plants, or any other number of rules and regulations designed to curb U.S. emissions.
So, without the endangerment clause, the EPA wouldn't even have the ability to regulate greenhouse gases. And consider this: If Pruitt had gotten his way four years ago, the EPA's endangerment finding would be gone. In 2012, he joined with a dozen or so other conservative attorney generals to ask a federal court to strike it down. That challenge was rejected by the science-accepting D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, but it's hard to overstate just how much was at stake.
Now that he's about to put in charge, he'll get the chance to take an even bigger swing, this time from inside the EPA itself.
Fortunately, scrapping the endangerment finding would be a heavy lift even with Pruitt as EPA chief. While agencies are allowed to change their minds, they are required to offer a rational explanation for the reversal. As Harvard Law professor Jody Freeman has argued, that would be near-impossible for Pruitt when it comes to the endangerment finding, given that the courts were already won over once by the comprehensive scientific record that the finding was built on.
Nonetheless, the president-elect's team appears undeterred. A leaked memo authored by the head of Trump's energy transition team promises the endangerment finding will be "reconsidered and possibly revoked." The document was authored before Pruitt was officially tapped to lead the EPA, but there's no reason to believe he thinks any differently than its author.
Even if we assume Pruitt won't succeed in revoking the endangerment finding, the fact the incoming Trump administration appears willing to even try is evidence of the dangers the next four years could hold. Trump, after all, has promised to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate agreement and to scrap the EPA's Clean Power Plan (which is currently being challenged in court by, yep, one Scott Pruitt). Trump may not consider himself bound by the pledges he made on the campaign trail. His selection of Pruitt, however, suggests that his science-denying bluster on climate is at least one exception.


The Sturgeon Bay School District continues to work on informing the public about its upcoming three-year nonrecurring revenue cap override referendum on the April 5 ballot.
Sturgeon Bay is coming to the end of a three-year nonrecurring operational referendum. In spring 2013 district taxpayers approved allowing the district to exceed the state-imposed revenue limit by $1 million for the 2013-14 school year, $1.3 million for 2014-15 and up to $1.6 million for the current 2015-16 school year.
Letters have gone home to parents and the district has worked to get additional information out into the community.
According to a referendum information sheet available to Sturgeon Bay community members, "Impact of the total increase from the previous year on $100,000 house" is expected to $38 or $3.17 a month the first year, $45 or $3.75 a month the second, and $58 or $4.83 for the third year.
The funds would be spent on educational programming, Superintendent Dan Tjernagel said.
"(The referendum) is going for educational programming, which in our case, is driven by the staff that provides programming," he said. Approximately 80 percent or $4 out of every $5 goes toward staffing, Tjernagel said.
Property valuation, the amount of equalization aid the school receives from the state and the state's biennial budget, will dictate whether the board levies to the full amount for each year, he said.
The Sturgeon Bay School Board has declined to vote on a list of possible cuts to be used if the referendum does not pass, but there will be positions eliminated in the coming years, he said.
"There are three elementary teaching positions that we will be eliminating through attrition regardless whether the referendum passes or not," he said.


I am approaching you with a kind request for help/advice from a professional in finance system in USA.
I have a challenge with obtaining credit card for our small but rapidly growing business.
We have an account in Chase Bank, opened in person.
We are happy to go for secured credit card, though most of application require same points as SSN.
Do you see the way out of this blind alley?


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How I Did It: Building an Integrated Card and Expense Program
Nov. 14, 2018 by Mary Hayat, Dealer Tire
Cleveland, Ohio-based Dealer Tire manages replacement tire and parts programs for more than 20 automotive OEMs in the U.S. and China. In this guest blog post, Mary Hayat, Dealer Tire's director of accounting, explains how the company lets business flow by building an integrated card and expense program.
Expense Management, For CFOs
Is Your Travel Expense Policy Keeping Up With the Times?
Nov. 8, 2018 by Tim Wheatcroft
Your organisation must ensure that its travel and expense policy stays updated, to support the requirements of both the employer and also those who need to submit expense claims. With services such as Uber/Lyft and Airbnb now in the mainstream, is your policy keeping up?
Expense Management, Expense Policy, For Travel Managers
How I Did It: Modernizing Invoice Approval for a Rapidly-Growing Organization
Nov. 7, 2018 by Steve Kelly, University of Pennsylvania Health System
The University of Pennsylvania Health System is a diverse research and clinical care organisation that includes four hospitals, two regional medical centers and a multitude of clinical care providers. In this guest blog post, Steve Kelly, UPHS' director of disbursements, outlines how the organisation lets business flow by delivering a mobile, highly-automated integrated expense and invoice automation solution.
Accounts Payable, For CFOs
How I Did It: Speeding up Expense Reimbursement with Automated Policy Compliance
Oct. 31, 2018 by Lisa Leyshon, Idaho State University
Idaho State University (ISU) is a public research university in Pocatello, Idaho. Founded in 1901 as the Academy of Idaho, ISU now has 14,000 undergraduate and graduate students and more than 2,000 faculty and staff. In this guest blog post, Lisa Leyshon, assistant controller at ISU, explains how the university let business flow by automating expense policy compliance and speeding up the approval process, getting reimbursements back in travellers' accounts much more quickly.
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There When You Need It: Leverage Business Intelligence Data with Scheduled Reports
Oct. 29, 2018 by Raj Udeshi
Effective business analysis improves the decision-making process by allowing finance staff to track, process, and analyze data and - perhaps most importantly - transform it into actionable insights that drive strategy. Chrome River customers leverage our deep analytics capabilities so they can control spend by transforming expense spend data into insightful reports.
How Can Expense Automation Benefit Your Organization?
Oct. 24, 2018 by Tim Wheatcroft
New research shows that expense automation technology is firmly in the mainstream, and the majority of organisations that have made the switch have adopted dedicated cloud-based expense automation software. If your organisation hasn't yet made the leap, what are the main benefits that you are missing out on?
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How I Did It: Upgrading to Chrome River from Another Expense Solution
Oct. 4, 2018 by Neil Ackley, Latham & Watkins
Latham & Watkins was founded in 1934 and is one of the world's largest and most prestigious law firms. It has annual revenues of more than $3 billion, and has 2,500 attorneys. In this guest post, Neil Ackley, Latham & Watkins' director of global accounting explains how he let business flow for the firm by upgrading its expense management solution to Chrome River.
Will Your Expense Management Solution Evolve with Your Organisation?
Sep. 26, 2018 by Tim Wheatcroft
Change is a constant in the business world. New business units. International growth. Acquisitions. For an organisation's software solutions to keep up, it needs to be flexible and robust enough to adapt as a company evolves. When choosing an expense management solution, how can organisations ensure that it will be able to adapt to the changing tides?
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7 Magnificent Reasons Why Technology Leaders Choose Chrome River
Sep. 14, 2018 by Julie Roy
We're proud to support our 800+ customers in their goal of controlling employee expense costs and streamlining invoice and expense approvals. However, we're particularly excited that an ever-growing number of global technology leaders have chosen Chrome River as their expense management technology provider. Here are seven of the reasons they trust Chrome River.
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On a long 7 miles walk in San Francisco passing through these neighborhoods: Nob Hill, Mission District, Castro, Noe Valley and Lower Haight, I found the most beautiful houses, victorian style. I just love how cute they are, like a doll house. Ended the evening recharging the energy eating a good mexican gourmet meal at Padrecito.


Hey Evie could you make me a graphic with the backround you used for your example of the Selena Gomez but just write my name in there (TrinityTeddy28) If you don't mind? just no picture just like a signature.
oh gosh! that's awesome thanks! can you make it smaller and you spelled scene wrong aha i would do that too! lol!!
Evie remember please make it untill 2-4 hours Please only.
Annalise- I deleted the background I made for the example, I only saved the picture, so is there anything else I can to?
No there is nothing else thanks though.