source Amazon Amazon is spending a boatload making TV shows and movies for its Prime service, and was one of the big winners at the 2018 Golden Globes, with two wins for “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” Amazon is aiming for another big hit with critics and audiences with “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan” starring John Krasinski, in a role very different from his iconic one as Jim Halpert on NBC’s “The Office.” And in October, Amazon premieres “The Romanoffs,” the first new series from “Mad Men” creator Matthew Weiner. The tech giant is also exploring ambitious genre projects. In November 2017, Amazon paid a reported $250 million to acquire rights to “The Lord of the Rings” series, which it will to turn into a prequel TV show, with plans for spin-offs in the future. With Amazon’s catalog continuing to grow, which shows are worth your time? To understand how Amazon’s shows ranked … [Read more...] about Amazon’s 28 original TV shows, ranked from worst to best
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Former Penn St women’s hoops coach Rene Portland dies at 65
The Associated Press Updated 1:28 pm PDT, Sunday, July 22, 2018 window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'thumbnails-c', container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-3', placement: 'Interstitial Gallery Thumbnails 3', target_type: 'mix' }); _taboola.push({flush: true}); Photo: Pat Little, AP Image 1of/3 CaptionClose Image 1 of 3 FILE - In this March 2, 2003 file photo Penn State women's basketball coach Rene Portland waves the net she cut down to celebrate their Big 10 regular season championship after defeating Wisconsin in State College, Pa. Portland, who built Penn State into a women's basketball powerhouse during a 27-year tenure, has died after a three-year fight with cancer. She was 65. D'Anjolell Memorial Home of Broomall in Pennsylvania confirmed her death Sunday, July 22, 2018. less FILE - In this March 2, 2003 file photo Penn State women's … [Read more...] about Former Penn St women’s hoops coach Rene Portland dies at 65
The one big winner of the Obamacare wars
The Trump-era attack on the Affordable Care Act has left the nation’s health system plagued with uncertainties: Will “Obamacare” insurance survive? Can independent hospitals make it? What’s next for doctors? And will patients ever really get “affordable” care?But one certainty is prevailing: No matter what the outcome, it will be a bonanza for health-care consultants.Health care, as the current president famously noted, is complicated—and the past decade of change has generated an immense new market for consultants, advisers, and a whole universe of ancillary experts who don’t practice medicine but promise to help navigate a landscape that seems to change every six weeks.From the newly minted college grad with a degree in health policy—an undergraduate major that scarcely existed a generation ago—to the copiously credentialed M.D.-MBA-JD-MPH-Ph.D. consultant, American health care has no shortage of saviors. Some have … [Read more...] about The one big winner of the Obamacare wars
Business News Roundup, April 10
Chronicle News Services Published 4:27 pm, Monday, April 9, 2018 Photo: Vincent Tullo / New York Times 2017 Image 1of/1 CaptionClose Image 1 of 1 Tyler (left) and Cameron Winklevoss Tyler (left) and Cameron Winklevoss Photo: Vincent Tullo / New York Times 2017 Business News Roundup, April 10 1 / 1 Back to Gallery Deficit headed to $1 trillion The combined effect of President Trump’s tax cuts and last month’s budget-busting spending bill is sending the government’s budget deficit toward the $1 trillion mark next year, according to a new analysis by the Congressional Budget Office. The office’s report says the twin tax and spending bills will push the budget deficit to $804 billion this year and just under $1 trillion for the upcoming budget year. CBO says economic growth from the tax … [Read more...] about Business News Roundup, April 10
Meet the pirate queen making academic papers free online
In cramped quarters at Russia’s Higher School of Economics, shared by four students and a cat, sat a server with 13 hard drives. The server hosted Sci-Hub, a website with over 64 million academic papers available for free to anybody in the world. It was the reason that, one day in June 2015, Alexandra Elbakyan, the student and programmer with a futurist streak and a love for neuroscience blogs, opened her email to a message from the world’s largest publisher: “YOU HAVE BEEN SUED.” It wasn’t long before an administrator at Library Genesis, another pirate repository named in the lawsuit, emailed her about the announcement. “I remember when the administrator at LibGen sent me this news and said something like ‘Well, that’s... that’s a real problem.’ There’s no literal translation,” Elbakyan tells me in Russian. “It’s basically ‘That’s an ass.’ But it doesn’t translate perfectly into … [Read more...] about Meet the pirate queen making academic papers free online