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The US is entering a new era – what does it mean for the Israeli tech community?
US-based Israeli VCs sharing their opinions about the changes to come along with the new administration
Jonathan 'Yoni' Frenkel 19 Nov, 2020
While most people would rather forget 2020, it looks like the next President of the United States will be Joe Biden, and as is usually the case when there is a changing of the guard, all that was done by a current Administration could be reversed. While the tech community, in general, has galvanized against this outgoing Administration many US-based Israelis in the tech community came to the US to focus on building their business and chose to stand on the sidelines of the politics ripping America apart.
The United States is entering a new era so it is worth exploring the views of US-based Israeli VCs, and how they view the changing political landscape that could impact the Israeli tech community. Covered below is a recap of what investors believe these changes will mean for Israeli startups building their companies in the US, particularly in the areas of visas, the general business environment, and what this will mean for the US-Israel relationship.
The challenge – visas and the permanence of US-based employment. Photo: Shutterstock
US-Israel tech relationship
On the macro-level, a major question mark is what will be the biggest change in US tech post-elections? While Israelis tend to believe that Trump was good for Israel, US-based Israeli investors on both coasts are generally optimistic about a Biden presidency, the coming changes in the US, and the overall approach to Israel (tech). Political donations are an indicator of views, and this Pitchbook article indicates that "Democrats received 79% of the funds contributed by the VC industry, up from 70% in the 2016 election cycle, Center for Responsive Politics data shows."
Bay Area based investor Oded Hermoni, Managing Partner at J-Ventures believes that "Trump, from the beginning, was not a big fan of Silicon Valley as Obama was. He was against many of the things the valley stands for – clean energy, data, tech, AI. Biden is a strong believer in tech as the way for the US to keep its place as a leading country and push the economy."
Eyal Bino, Partner at New York based ICONYC labs states that "while Trump was a big proponent of keeping business at home and limiting international trade, and in particular China's influence on the US economy, I believe we'll see a softer and more collaborative approach to global trade relations by the Biden administration."
When it comes to the US-Israel tech relationship Bino is optimistic that it will be business as usual: "I don't see any significant impact, as the tech ties have always been strong, no matter who is the president. In fact, I expect that it'll be easier for Israeli founders to move to the US given the friendlier approach of the new Biden administration to immigration, issuing work visas and lowering the hurdles for entrepreneurs looking to expand their companies to the US market."
Natty Nashman, Managing Partner at INcapital Ventures shared her thoughts on how the US-Israel relationship fits into the global picture in that "the biggest change will actually be Israel's relationship with China. The Trump administration has been and was looking to take a harsher look at the China/Israel relationship especially in infrastructure and tech. A tremendous amount of capital from China has flown into the Israeli tech ecosystem and that has created friction with the Trump administration."
Nashman adds that "furthermore, Biden's intention to return to the JCPOA may push the newly formed alliance between Israel and the Arab world even further. UAE, Bahrain and the rest of the Gulf states are great partners for tech collaboration and capital raising."
A major concern for Israeli companies looking to build their operations in the US is the challenge with visas and the permanence of US-based employment. When it comes to this vital area, the investors shared consensus that Biden's policies would be a net positive for immigration policy.
As Silicon Valley based Shuly Galili, Founding Partner of UpWest Labs stated, "the Biden/Harris administration will be restoring one of the driving engines behind US innovation, job creation and entrepreneurship and that is progressive immigration policy. Nearly 50% of the Unicorns in the US were founded by immigrant entrepreneurs which include companies such as Pfizer, Zoom, Google, Tesla, etc."
Bino believes that "the election outcome is going to have a huge impact on visas and immigrants. President-elect Biden plans to reverse the policies of the Trump administration by increasing the number of H-1B visas, eliminating the limit on the number of visas by country and reversing the law that revokes work permits to spouses of H-1B visa holders." Galili also reflects on the importance of these policies, that "for Israeli entrepreneurs, the visa access to the US is critical in order to build and scale category-leading companies."
Building a company
In post-election America Israeli founders need to understand there may be changes regarding US market entry, and building a company in the US. Hermoni believes that the "Biden/Trump change is part of larger macro changes, mostly due to COVID-19. The decentralization of Silicon Valley is in a way a blessing for Israeli founders. They can raise and expand over Zoom and can postpone opening offices in the USA. However, the Covid-19 also created a new reality – less openness to anything outside the box."
Galili states that "what we've seen over the years is that penetrating the US market is not a very obvious process for startups based in Israel. It's even more challenging under COVID19 with remote selling and distant product validation. However, US market access cannot be a "rinse and repeat" approach to the Israeli market."
Hashman concludes on where things may be headed in 2021 Biden America, "regardless of the election outcome, Israelis entering the US need to understand that the US is not a "monolith". Different states have different tax and regulatory policies. As such, I would suggest looking into business-friendly states with low taxes and a lower cost of living: Texas (Austin), Tennessee (Nashville), and Tulsa (which is looking to attract Israeli tech) as well as others."
Jonathan 'Yoni' Frenkel has been involved in the US-Israeli tech community for many years, mentoring startups on marketing, hosting events connecting investors with startups, and publishing on the topics of tech and venture regularly. He is currently in Israel leading the efforts of the Tulsa-based fund Atento Capital. He can be reached on LinkedIn here.
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How Many Miles Will A Chevy Suburban Last?
by Sarah Brennan twitter linkedin on February 17, 2021
On the hunt for a long-lasting SUV? Then you may want to put the Chevy Suburban on your list. But don't just take our word for it. This year's new Chevy Suburban has more going for it than its ability to go the distance.
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Is the Chevy Suburban reliable?
No one wants to be the owner of an unreliable vehicle. Unfortunately for the Chevy Suburban, it earns some pretty mixed reliability ratings. According to Consumer Reports, this year's model earned a two out of five reliability rating. However, past model years, including the 2019 Suburban, did earn much higher reliability ratings from Consumer Reports.
But Consumer Reports isn't the only one to have rated the Suburban. Repair Pal reports that this year's model earned an 'Average' reliability rating. Repair Pal added that the average annual repair cost for the Chevy Suburban is $944, which means that the Suburban will have you spending more on maintenance and repairs than other SUVs in its segment.
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The Chevy Suburban is ready to go the distance
While the Chevy Suburban may not be the most reliable SUV out there, it is ready to go the distance. After analyzing more than 15.8 million cars sold in 2019 to find out which models boast the highest percentage of cars that reached 200,000-miles, iSee Cars found that 4.9% of Suburban models sold in 2019 were able to reach 200,000-miles.
But how does that compare to other SUVs? Well, as it turns out, the Suburban snagged the fourth spot on iSee Cars' list of 'Longest-Lasting Vehicles to Reach 200k Miles.' With 5.2% of vehicles having reached 200,000-miles, the Ford Expedition landed in the third spot on iSee Cars' list. Meanwhile, the Toyota Sequoia managed to score the second spot on the list, with 9.2% of models sold in 2019 having reached 200,000-miles. And in the top spot? Well, that honor went to the Toyota Land Cruiser.
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What else does this year's Suburban have to offer?
If you're willing to look past the Chevy Suburban's average reliability ratings, you may be wondering what else the Chevy Suburban has to offer. While 4.9% of Suburban models sold in 2019 were able to reach 200,000-miles, if that's all the SUV has going for it, then it's probably not worth checking out. Fortunately, that's not the case at all.
This year's model comes standard with a V8 engine under the hood, and according to Car and Driver, it is "bigger and better than ever." It's offered in six different trim levels and boasts best-in-class second-row legroom, a larger third-row than previous model years, and best-in-class cargo volume.
This year's Suburban also earned a four out of five predicted owner satisfaction rating from Consumer Reports. Consumer Reports added that 75% of Suburban owners would repurchase the SUV if given a chance, which makes for a pretty sound recommendation, right?
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Is the Chevy Suburban a good SUV?
Now, the Suburban may get some mixed ratings in terms of reliability. But does that mean you should avoid it altogether? Not at all. Because when it really comes down to it, the Suburban is a good SUV, especially when you consider that 4.9% of Suburban models sold in 2019 were able to hit 200,000-miles.
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Allah and His Messenger have left no doubt about how this money should be portioned out, and on its minimum requirements. The Prophet, sallallaahu alayhi wasallam, said "There is no zakah on less than five awsuq (measure of grain). There is no zakah on less than five camels. And there is no zakah on less than five awaq (of silver)." (Muslim) In another hadeeth the Prophet, sallallaahu alayhi wasallam, said, "There is no zakah on less than five awaq of silver." (Muslim) Therefore the zakah due on cash moneys is one quarter of a tenth or two and one-half percent (2.5%).
Jurists, in general, say that this verse is discussing zakah on trade goods. Regarding the interpretation of this verse, Imam Tabari said, "Allah means that you should pay zakah on good legal earnings and pay the zakah from the good gold and silver and not the bad ones." In order for trade goods to be subject to zakah, jurists have established specific conditions that should be fulfilled. To fulfill these requirements, the owner should be in complete possession of the goods, the goods should constitute a nisaab as determined by gold or silver and a bawl should have passed on these goods. The zakah due on all types of trade goods is one quarter of a tenth or 2.5%. For example, if one were to own trade goods for R100,000, then the zakah that should be paid is R2,500.


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The Long-Range Nissan Leaf Is Delayed Because of the Carlos Ghosn Scandal
Justin T. Westbrook
The long-range 2019 Nissan Leaf has been delayed over the brewing accusations of financial misconduct of Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn, with Nissan basically saying they're waiting for the whole thing to blow over until there's some room for its marketing machine to ramp up. The delay follows a bewildering sluggishness to get the car to market in the first place.
The news comes via Reuters, which reported on the delayed long-range Leaf alongside news of Carlos Ghosn's ousting as Mitsubishi Chairman, who was also Chairman of Nissan until the accusations of financial misconduct were announced last week. Ghosn holds his seat as Chairman and CEO of Renault until further notice.
Here's more from Reuters:
While the automakers have stressed that operations and business are proceeding as normal, Nissan has postponed the launch of its high-performance Leaf electric car "to ensure that this important product unveiling could receive the coverage it merits", a Nissan spokesman said.
The current and only powertrain offered in the Nissan Leaf is a 40 kWh battery pack good for 151 miles of range, which puts in firmly in city-car territory and falling behind other new EVs, like the Chevy Bolt and Tesla Model 3.
Of course, Nissan has covered a lot of ground with the Leaf as it is in the past, as it's still the best-selling EV ever for now, making for a great second car to zoom around the city in. But when the second-generation model was introduced among stronger competition with not much practical improvement over the old car, it seemed a little counter-intuitive.
But Nissan promised a 60 kWh model would come soon, and it was supposed to be unveiled on Wednesday with a rumored range of 225 miles and a starting price around $36,000 before incentives, which would align it much closer to something like the Chevy Bolt.
Now it's unclear when exactly we'll finally know more about the long-range Leaf, as the company hopes to wait for the Ghosn scandal to blow over, though that could stay messy for a long time to come.
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Immigration reform requires assimilation and realistic employment visas rather than an enforcement-only approach, which treats the symptoms but ignores the human dimension of "illegal" immigration. The dominant religious heritage of this country calls upon us all to care for the alien, "because we were once aliens in Egypt."
Three years after the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) badly mangled the Child Status Protection Act (CSPA) section pertaining to over-21-year-old derivative beneficiaries of family preference petitions, § 203(h), by finding the provision ambiguous, three Circuit Courts of Appeal have found the same statutory provision clear and unambiguous. Two of the courts approved a second petition approach, but both suggested that the U.S.


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Q: update table when subquery matches I am trying this query but it outputs a syntax error in the subquery.
What is the problem and how can be solved? thanks
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A: Everything looks good in your query until the WHERE clause - at that point, it's all kinds of wrong. You can actually drop that block and use a regular WHERE clause comparison (instead of a second sub-query):
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West Cumbria Rivers Trust and the National Trust's next volunteer event in Wasdale will be balsam bashing along the banks of the River Irt. This invasive species can take over vast areas pushing out native flora. When the plant dies back over winter this leaves a bare patch of earth vulnerable to soil erosion.
Please could you let Chris West (chris@westcumbriariverstrust.org, 07496590987) or Andrew Porter (Andrew.Porter@nationaltrust.org.uk) know that you plan to attend so we have an idea of who to expect.


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6. Telegraphic Transfer (TT) receipt of the Application Fee (inclusive of EMGS payment) (receipt copies are to be uploaded during online registration or emailed to enquiry@rengcollege.edu.my.
For payment made by TT, please fax your full name and contact number to the Student Enrolment Centre at +603-8025 1725.
Upon meeting the entry requirements and receiving the payment (Applications Fee and EMGS Visa Processing Fee), the college will email a scanned copy of the Letter of Admission. RENG College will proceed to apply for the Visa Approval Letter on behalf of the student. This process will take approximately 30 days.
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Trash TV
Reality TV is the aesthetic of human surplus
Michael Thomsen July 09, 2018 share
Image: Still Life With Pearls by Valérie Belin. Copyright Valérie Belin, 2014. Courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, Zurich.
"That's right, just stay tight on my face, sweetheart," Frank Perry says into the camera after a rectal exam, the medical gown he's wearing momentarily flapping open as he gets up from the examination table. I first watched this scene, from Perry's autobiographical documentary On the Bridge, in 1993, a year after its release and two years before I finished high school; I'd stumbled on to it on PBS while rotating the dial on my bedroom television in a spell of teenage boredom during a Seinfeld rerun. It seemed shockingly out of place, almost a kind of emotional ambush, a fire alarm that played only ASMR whispers.
I was moved by the scene, and not just because it depicted a 60-year-old man with a tube in his ass. To watch someone speaking into the lens as if it were a dog he was teaching a trick, directing a camera from such a vulnerable position instead of performing for it, I had the impression I was watching something that wasn't actually television. Growing up without cable and before easy internet access, TV had become a kind of meditative self-hypnosis, way of erasing the excess hours between homework, meals, and sleep. But here was someone shaking the tether, adding a note of unrest to a peaceful school night. It was strange moment, both startling and comforting, as if I had gotten into a bed and felt the covers suddenly begin to fold themselves around my shoulders with their own invisible arms.
As electronic media began to broadcast an ever less coherent portrait of the present, the burden of truth-telling shifted accordingly. Narratives didn't speak to audiences; they resonated with them
Perry, a New Yorker who had built a Hollywood career in the 1970s directing minor and now mostly forgotten provocations, including Last Summer (about a teen love triangle on Fire Island that leads to a violent rape), Diary of a Mad Housewife (about a woman caught between an indifferent husband and an abusive boyfriend), and Play It as It Lays (an adaptation of Joan Didion's novel about the braided events that push an aspiring actor and model toward a breakdown), was diagnosed with colon cancer in 1992, and his first impulse was to film the proceedings, not knowing exactly how they would go or where they would lead. "I became a filmmaker and not a patient," he said in an interview at the Sydney Film Festival in 1993. "That's, I think, part of the dynamic that was going on, that the energy and focus was on making the film. So when I got a new black diagnosis or something, or a new prognosis that said it's spread to your ribs and it's gone to three or four new bones, and I thought, Well, this is good for the movie."
I had grown up in the glowing static of screens, but that was the first moment I felt the screen looking at me. I didn't know whether I was watching a movie, a show, a documentary, or an infomercial for an unrevealed product, but I was instantly persuaded by Perry's sentiment. His awareness of being watched made my watching feel like participating. It felt not just like the first real thing I had ever seen on television, but one of the first honest moments of reality I had experienced in general. It wasn't a representation of reality but reality itself, happening to me. It felt like a calling, a model for how to live, seen by an audience who wished only for your best and so deserved total transparency and intimacy. For the first time, I felt valued through a screen.
In the years since, I have become a reality-television fanatic. It wasn't that I felt less alone when I watched these shows — The Real World, The Challenge, The Hills, The City, Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, Chopped, Iron Chef, Tool Academy, Celebrity Rehab, Sober House, Supergroup, The Girls of Hedsor Hall, Hoarders, No Reservations, The Bachelor, The Ultimate Fighter, The Bachelor in Paradise, Naked & Afraid, Blind Date, Trailside: Make Your Own Adventure, Two Fat Ladies — but my feelings of isolation suddenly seemed to make sense as I watched. In the way a disco depends on darkness to make its neon spotlights dazzle, the solipsism of everyday life and its shifting labyrinth of manners, civility, and personal space made the cathartic crescendo of, say, a person getting over their fear of heights or learning to say "I love you" have a new depth and drama. It felt good to have my instinct to reject certain types of people or activities evaporate, undone by a handful of montages or a few perfectly edited lines cut into an emotional scene from a postmortem interview. It proved how easily and freely I could give away my own sympathies, which I sometimes worried weren't there at all. It also had the cross-canceling effect of making real human companionship feel more like obstacles breaking up those perfect moments of grace and clarity.
Over this same period, the logic of reality television — that the raw material for cinematic truth is dormant in all experience, merely awaiting its staging as entertainingly dramatic conflict — has roiled American culture. Donald Trump is the first American president to have appeared on reality television, in not just one series but several. In Vanity Fair, Andy Cohen, the executive producer of Real Housewives of New York, described Trump's reactionary appeal as having been drawn from his show's "playbook," on display in such acts as preemptively withdrawing a White House invitation to Stephen Curry, continually bringing up old grievances against Hillary Clinton, and making belligerent accusations without evidence to preserve his story arc. Cohen referenced a former Real Wives star, Aviva Drescher, who had been forced to leave the series because producers felt her behavior was so intensely theatrical it risked ruining the show's spell of authenticity. One scene in particular, in which Drescher removed her prosthetic leg in an upscale restaurant and threw it at another housewife in a fit of rage, was seen as particularly egregious. "Housewives like Trump don't last because there's no there there," he said. "When you throw your leg, what else is left?"
Yet that's just what's captivating about reality television. It's what was so captivating about Perry's self-documentation: the impression that formulas can no longer predict the future and writers' room machinations have become text rather than subtext. One begins to watch everything else to see how the formulas failed. We can begin to examine ourselves and each other with a new kind of forensics that focuses on the murky and now moribund link between our motivations and behavior as if each of us were specimens in an alien autopsy. We can identify all the traces of psychoanalytic proceduralism from scripted television and film, the detritus of generations of old selves and forgotten beliefs — here's why I used to want to be an oceanographer, here's my old high school crush posting anti-Obama invective in between photos of her toddler in her granite-counter topped tract home, here's why I was wrong to think Richard Nixon was a good president just because Michael J. Fox's character on Family Ties did — and marvel at how it was possible anyone could have believed in such strange things or behaved in such startling ways.
It's hard to pinpoint a precise point of origin for reality television, perhaps because it is premised on its endlessness. In a 2011 survey of the genre for the New Yorker, Kelefa Sanneh argues that the form was expansive, borderless from the beginning. One doesn't necessarily need to follow any particular show, Sanneh argues, because they all take place in the same "eerie" dimension: "no one fully belongs there, and, deep down, everyone knows it." Writing in TV Guide, Margaret Mead traced it back to PBS's 12-episode documentary series An American Family (1973), which followed the Louds, an upper middle-class family, through an unexpected divorce. Mead hailed the show as a new art form, "as significant as the invention of the drama or the novel."
This reflected an emerging preference in American popular culture for the aesthetics of documentation. In a 1975 interview, Susan Sontag described how the "triumph of the psychological ways of looking at everything" had helped transform fiction that strained toward the authentically nonfictive, like Philip Roth's My Life as a Man and the host of other works that preferred biography to diegesis. "I have friends who tell me that the only books by writers of fiction that really interest them are their letters and diaries," she said. Storytelling transformed into a form of documenting, something she ascribed not to a desire to better know history but to a sense of losing touch with the past, being disassociated from it. "Many people don't believe that one can give an account of the world," she went on, "of society, but only of the self — 'how I saw it.'" And without a sense of the past, everything in the present was framed with a amnesiac's aura of continual revelation.
As electronic media began to broadcast an ever less coherent portrait of the present, the burden of truth-telling shifted accordingly. Narratives didn't speak to audiences; they resonated with them. Truth was no longer something a person or a program could tell; rather it could only be reverse-engineered based on a kind of epidemiological evidence — how patterns of thinking and behaving spread across populations. One year we're dancing Gangnam style and quoting Maya Angelou by way of Oprah ("When a person shows you who they are, believe them"); the next year we're reading Gramsci and explaining the commodity form to our racist uncle. Taste or conviction start to matter less than the intensity with which either are held or defended. People formed imaginary associations with strangers based on a shared mood or aura, projecting a community where there was any kind of generalized reactivity. "The real star today is no longer the performer," anthropologist Edmund Carpenter wrote in They Became What They Beheld (1970), "but the public. A public relations man can now mold a public as he used to mold a star. A public is born!" The only question was finding a form for it — one in which a public could gaze on itself the way an actor might look upon their own face blown up onto a 65-foot theater screen, falling in love with how much more themselves they appear projected in an auditorium instead of a mirror.
One of the reasons reality television always appears faker than fiction is its pretense that recording things gives them significance
A year before An American Family debuted, the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare also wanted to mold a public, building the broadcasting infrastructure for what would eventually become the network TLC, now one of the most prominent reality-television distributors. But before TLC was home to Dr. Pimple Popper, Long Island Medium, and My 600 Lb. Life, it was a more conventional attempt to turn rural Appalachians into well-educated and productive workers. The region was one of the poorest parts of the U.S., with one in three below the poverty line and per capita income 23 percent lower than the national average. More than 2 million people had been forced to relocate at least once due to lack of work. As a small, experimental part of the much bigger Appalachian Regional Development Act, a $1 billion aid program Lyndon Johnson helped push through Congress in 1965, NASA would deliver short broadcasts from one of the agency's satellites to deliver "real education through the medium of TV," focusing primarily on people living in remote or underserved areas.
Starting in 1972, fifteen receiver sites in eight states along the southern stretch of the Appalachian mountains received short broadcasts a few times a week intended for teachers, who were encouraged to use them to improve their lesson plans. But in 1978, the NASA satellite used for the initiative was taken offline, and the project was forced to buy time from a commercial satellite and cable providers. The program was reincorporated as an independent nonprofit and rebranded as The Learning Channel, and then gradually shifting from educational material for students enrolled in specific math or medical courses to more general programming, with shows that explained sailboat maintenance or the finer points of bookkeeping. In 1991, Discovery Communications acquired the program's assets and shortened the channel name to TLC a few years later.
The channel's programming began to focus on dramatizing information instead of relaying it. One of its early hits was The Operation, which in each 30-minute episode followed a patient from intake to the operating theater and finally into the recovery ward. The series was produced by Bill Hayes, who'd made a living in North Carolina producing instruction videos for surgeons but had always wanted to show the human stakes of the procedures. The Operation didn't stand out as a cultural sensation in the era of Friends, Seinfeld, E.R., and Law & Order, but it felt like forward momentum for the executives at TLC, who kept it running for six years.
Encouraged by the positive reception, Hayes built a production company, Figure 8 Films, to expand on The Operation's aesthetic of vocational drama in the American suburbs: There was a series about the inner workings of a hospital, called Hospital, and another that explained the histories of different dog breeds, Breed All About It. He also made movie-length documentaries for TV about everything from transgender teens, called Transgender Teens, to a family of dwarves, called Dwarf Family: Meet the Fooses. In 2006, he produced a TV documentary on a family raising sextuplets and twins, Surviving Sextuplets and Twins. TLC's executives liked the one-off and made it into a regular series, turning Jon and Kate Gosselin into newsstand celebrities and completing TLC's transformation into a reality-TV powerhouse. What had begun as an initiative to bring marginalized groups into the American economy ended up capitalizing on their stories, transforming them into a kind of cinematic national anthem, the same essential story of alienation cured by prosperity of screentime. Ostracism became a currency, a precondition of fame and success that some steered after like storm chasers.
In 2010, Hayes turned from sextuplets to polygamists, launching Sister Wives, which would become his longest running series; it was renewed for a 13th season earlier this year. The show was conceived three years after polygamist Warren Jeffs's conviction on two counts of rape on his compound on Arizona-Utah border, where he was said to have more than 70 wives, and during investigations into the Kingston Group, a Mormon polygamist offshoot of more than 2,000 people living in a compound where child marriage was the norm and members worked for "scrip" on commune businesses ranging from coal mining to doll manufacturing.
The version of polygamy practiced by Sister Wives' central figure, Kody Brown, with his three-going-on-four wives, seemed almost utopian in comparison. The way the wives described "plural marriage" — their preferred term — it was more about companionship and life bonds women formed to support one another. "I wanted the family, I didn't just want the man" Christine, Kody's third wife, says during the show's opening credits. After a few episodes, though, it becomes clear the show is less about Mormonism or polygamy — the show mostly omits religious specifics — than the monotonous hustle of middle-class suburbanites trying to live above their means. The Browns lived a life held precariously in place by second mortgages, credit card debt, food stamps, car loans, and Brown's annual salary from his work in marketing, which he listed in 2005 as just below $48,000. Before the show began airing, the family had filed for bankruptcy three times, first through his second wife Janelle in 1997. In 2005, Kody and Meri jointly declared bankruptcy, citing more than $229,000 in debt spread across two mortgages, two car loans, and more than $85,000 in credit card debt. They claimed to have only $5 left in cash and $10 in savings. In early 2010, just a few months before filming on the first season began, Christine declared the family's third case of bankruptcy, citing more than $25,000 in debt, most of which came from credit cards.
Though not explicit, this precarity peeks through the minor plot distractions. On hearing she's qualified for a mortgage on one of four new tract homes the family wanted to buy in a cul de sac, Christine says tearfully, "There's just a lot of things I feel like I'm failing right now, and so being approved was huge. It was huge." Though TLC has never disclosed the payment given the Brown family; veteran reality TV producers say that stars typically get around 10 percent of an episode's budget, suggesting a fee of about $40,000 and potentially much higher, as celebrity enhances their negotiating power. Even if they were at the lower end of the scale, payment for the first season's nine episodes must have seemed like salvation. You can hear the gospel of American prosperity overtaking Kody — a pathologically sober man who somehow reacts to everything as if he's on his third glass of chardonnay — when, in another episode, he says, "I've gotta start believing that I deserve more than a dirt farm." It's an inadvertent echo of what the Johnson administration might have hoped TLC's original Appalachian audience might have said to themselves.
One of the reasons reality television always appears faker than fiction is its pretense, belied by its endless editing interventions, that recording things gives them significance. But the documentary fragment is never enough on its own; it's increasingly dependent on other fragments for context and meaning. So reality TV has the uncanny effect of making individual documents, if not individuals themselves, seem disposable.
This may be why trash so readily comes to mind when trying to think of ways to describe reality television. There's something hateful about it. I knew I would hate Kody Brown before I had ever seen him, when a friend described him to me, told me how he calls his feathered, rosacea-blond hair his fifth wife because of how much maintenance it required. Reality television invites us to rummage through a person's behavioral tics and life choices: Who is this person, what are they worth? In scripted shows, this impulse was often diffused by the skein of fiction: One had to read the characters in order to understand the story. But in reality TV, the story is a means of getting the characters to show their personality flaws and it can take any form it wants as long as it produces them. This is why so many reality sets have the same sterile air of institutionalization, with actors stripped of cell phones, pulled away from friends and family, given a generous stock of alcohol, and then scheduled for regular confessional interviews with producers to unpack their encounters.
Confronted with this spectacle, what else could you do but lament the state of the world and feel an isolating pinch of self-pity, seeing how unaffected reality is by your moral instincts. If that's how people are, then solipsistic separation must be the only sane choice. Gary Cavendar, an Arizona State University criminologist, observed the acuity of this dynamic with regular viewers of Cops, who were more likely believe that "there's more crime than there actually is, … that they're more likely to be a victim of it than they are, … that black people commit more of it than they do, and … that police are better at catching perpetrators than they are."
One could say, likewise, that competition shows like Hell's Kitchen, RuPaul's Drag Race, American Idol, and Shark Tank are driven by their own set of self-affirming false presumptions about how many more opportunities for success there are in America. In today's era of endless gigging and sub-minimum wage contract labor, steady fulltime jobs have become the fantasy. In place of the old lottery fantasy of early retirement, the idea that one might actually find a job one likes and which pays a livable salary is presented as a glamorous prize. The resentful, horrified gaze pervading reality television stems from that: the fact that we live in a culture that has made survival seem so desperate and zero-sum. We begin as exiles in the internet economy, contestant outsiders who have to prove our worth to celebrity overseers before we can indulge even the fantasy of being included. Reality television is the aesthetic of human surplus.
I assume they call reality shows trash not because they revel in immorality or hedonism but because they anticipate their own disposability
When I read of bankruptcies behind Sister Wives, it was hard not to think of the entangled optimism and panic of trying to make a living on $50 and $100 bylines, each time the thought rising, like a trout swimming against the spring current, that the money may not be enough but the visibility may lead to something better. There's no day so good that it can't be ruined by peeking back at a story I wrote in 2008 or 2011 or last year or any year. To have written online for any prolonged period is to leave so much of yourself in public that it's hard not to start hating yourself, a habit that's easy to practice on reality stars and turn on oneself when the screen goes blank. As with reality shows, there was a common aesthetic among many of the hopeful new platforms in the 2000s, whether it be Village Voice's once expansive network of regional blogs, or Gawker, or Thought Catalog: a flood of vaguely nonfictional microhistories whose primary aesthetic was incompletion. The whole undertaking began to seem purposefully unconsidered, on the basis that these half-formed gestures worked better as data points whose meaning would emerge sometime later, richer and more useful, from some postmortem analysis. More careful writing, with its elegant elisions and graceful glissandos across life's ugly excesses, seemed a kind of falsification. Looking back on what this approach produced, it seems like I had invented a false dichotomy between incoherence and artifice, because I knew in advance I would only be able to manage the latter with what I had to work with.
I assume they call reality shows trash not because they revel in immorality or hedonism but because they anticipate their own disposability, would-be data points that have become single-use pastimes instead for an audience that didn't seek a greater synthesis or a better analysis but evidence that life could only ever make sense in postproduction. They would have to trust that someone would survive them to add the right music and make all the right cuts.
I thought of Sister Wives again earlier this year, when another friend mentioned it was still on the air. It felt like stumbling backward into a former life trying to catch up with everything that had happened over the seven seasons I hadn't watched. The four tract homes whose financing and construction had occupied two seasons of dramatic angst had faded into the background — four stucco-and-drywall prayers that had been answered and forgotten as life inched forward. The camera seems to have outlasted the narrative, waiting for some climactic action to come from any of a dozen tearful conversations. The climax of plot lines are postponed to the point where it's not even clear what the conflict is, nor who cares. Each commercial-break stinger, every episode cliffhanger, leaves the viewer wondering about which minor point of friction — an argument over whether to install French doors or sliding glass doors in one of the family's homes, a disagreement over parking spots on a family vacation in Hawaii — will be the starting point of some new catastrophe. But the moment never comes.
As I watched the season play out, it reminded me of Perry's cancer film. His cancer too kept forgetting its lines and missing its marks. The film spun its way through every emotion of cancer treatment — the shock, depression, false hope, morbid fear, genuine hope. The only thing left was for Perry to die, but the cancer went into remission and deprived him of what should have been his tragic, tear-stained third act. I tried to find the film again, which proved difficult. It had never been picked up for wide release, nor was it distributed on VHS or DVD. It's untraceable on Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Mubi.
Always a showman, Perry knew that it's bad manners to end a story with an ellipsis, but looking back on his year of self-documentation he couldn't find any patterns, no organizing principle emerged, no parting wisdom to stain his story with the touch of immortality. It ended with him atop a snowy mountain in Aspen, Colorado, where he decided to take up full-time residence after reconsidering his life in light of his diagnosis. As he delivers his final monologue to the camera, he stammers with a new question — not how to face the end of his life but how to accept that it's going to continue regardless of the conclusions he came to about its significance. Finally, he simply gives up talking, leaves the camera on its snowy mountaintop, and skis downhill and out of the frame.
When I saw that moment at 16, it felt poignant. The camera, which had only seemed like a tool for capturing, became a vessel for sharing, for giving. Watching it now, 25 years later, it seems to commemorate the last time I watched something on television without the burden of my own pre-emptive judgments. As Perry casually departs the frame and abandons his own story, I get the sense that he had reached the limits of his own intuition, leaving in his wake the eerie calm of someone who has nothing left to say, something I have never felt from a screen since. His story had ended in advance of his life. He died three years later. No cameras were present, maybe one of the last moments in American life it would have been possible to say such a thing.


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Obama extends Jerusalem embassy waiver
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Obama extended for six months a waiver on a 1990s law that would move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
"I hereby determine that it is necessary, in order to protect the national security interests of the United States, to suspend for a period of 6 months" the provisions of the 1995 Act, Obama said Tuesday in a memorandum for the secretary of state.
Every president since the law's passage has waived its provisions, citing national security, a reference to fears that such a move could hinder Palestinian-Israeli peacemaking and ignite anti-American violence.
Also Tuesday, a group called the Israel Allies Foundation drew lawmakers from around the world to a Jerusalem Day reception on Capitol Hill, where U.S. Congress members spoke in favor of moving the embassy.
A number spoke up for a bill that Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) is ready to submit that would remove the presidential waiver.
"We need to make it the policy, finally, without any caveats, without any waivers," declared Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colo.).


Warren Buffett's Mantra To Mint Money !
Warren Buffett's letters to shareholders are a treasure trove of information and packed with good strategies and loads of wise words. The letters give an insight into his thoughts, hopes and aspirations. According to him, there are many rules to win the game. The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule. An investor needs to do very few things right as long as he or she avoids big mistakes. Want high value? Focus on return on equity, not earnings per share. Calculate "owner earnings" to get a true reflection of value. How to choose the right companies to invest? In the 2007 letter, he says Charlie and I look for companies that have a) a business we understand; b) favorable long-term economics; c) able and trustworthy management; and d) a sensible price tag.What makes a great biz? Look for companies with high profit margins. A truly great business must have an enduring 'moat' that protects excellent returns on invested capital. The dynamics of capitalism guarantee that competitors will repeatedly assault any business 'castle' that is earning high returns. When to say Yes and No? The ability to say 'no' is a tremendous advantage for an investor. Want great results? Always invest for the long term. It is not necessary to do extraordinary things to get extraordinary results.
Flashy degrees? No, we need good brains! Buffett doesn't believe in flashy degree and titles: He says, Susan came to Borsheims (jewellery shop) 25 years ago as a $4-an-hour saleswoman. Though she lacked a managerial background, I did not hesitate to make her CEO in 1994. She's smart, she loves the business, and she loves her associates. That beats having an MBA degree any time. Charlie and I are not big fans of resumes. Instead, we focus on brains, passion and integrity, he says. Great managers? One of our great managers is Cathy Baron Tamraz, who has significantly increased Business Wire's earnings since we purchased it early in 2006. She is an owner's dream. It is positively dangerous to stand between Cathy and a business prospect. Cathy, it should be noted, began her career as a cab driver.
In Berkshire's 1977 annual report, Buffettt described the central principles of his investment strategy: "We select our marketable equity securities in much the way we would evaluate a business for acquisition in its entirety. We want the business to be one (a) that we can understand; (b) with favorable long-term prospects; (c) operated by honest and competent people; and (d) available at a very attractive price."The critical investment factor is determining the intrinsic value of a business and paying a fair or bargain price. Buy companies with strong histories of profitability and with a dominant business franchise. Weigh the pros and cons: Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy only when others are fearful. It is optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer.
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MARION—When George Magera moved to Marion County in 1950, the U.S. Navy veteran of World War II soon discovered it was going to be a major challenge to practice his faith.
Eventually, he and other members of Marion's small Catholic population started attending holy day Masses in local residents' homes.
That small but growing community eventually worked with Father Anthony Plikunas to get a church of their own. The Church of the Infant Jesus Mission was formally dedicated by Bishop Ernest L. Unterkoefler on Jan. 22, 1967, and today it serves about 80 families.
Now, 50 years later, Magera is the oldest living member of the mission community, and he celebrated that milestone anniversary with more than 100 others on May 7.
Current and former members, plus visitors from Dillon and other nearby cities, attended a reverent, beautiful Mass of Thanksgiving celebrated by Father Noel Tria, pastor.
All photos by Christina Lee Knauss/Miscellany: Father Noel P. Tria, administrator of Church of the Infant Jesus Mission, celebrates Mass with Deacon Donald DeNitto.
Father Tria congratulated the congregation on the anniversary.
After Mass, everyone crowded into the parish hall adjacent to the church for a catered brunch and a reception that included emotional speeches from Magera and others.
When Church of the Infant Jesus was built, it became the first and only one in Marion County, where the Catholic population has always been small.
The earliest documented visit of a priest to the town was Father John Schachte, who traveled up from Sullivan's Island in 1883 because his mission territory included Marion. Catholics in the county during that era had to travel to attend Mass like Magera did, or on rare occasions priests such as Father Schachte would arrive to celebrate Mass in someone's home. In the early 1900s, priests from Sumter and Florence tended to the small flock in Marion. In 1943, Marion County became a mission of St. Louis in Dillon.
In the 1950s and '60s, the Catholic population started to grow as people moved from the north to work in various industries in the area.
According to a published history, land for a new building was purchased from Douglas Wiggins and the late E.J. Wiggins. The mission was designed by James E. Cooney, an architect from Myrtle Beach, and was built by Owens Construction Company, also from Myrtle Beach. It cost about $65,000, mostly financed by the local community. Generous donations came from the Diocesan Development Fund, and also from the Catholic Extension Society in memory of Anna Kraus.
The new church received its name because Father Plikunas, who worked so hard to have it built, had a special devotion to the Infant Jesus of Prague.
Parishioners check out the photos of past pastors at the anniversary celebration.
In the early years of the mission, the church was partitioned so religious education and other activities could be held in one part of it. As membership grew, a parish hall became necessary and Degan Hall, named after Father David Degan, was eventually built in 1996.
A serenely beautiful rosary garden, located in front of Degan Hall, was dedicated in January 2010. The garden was the idea of Father Marcian Thet Kyaw, administrator from 2009-2012, who had a goal of increasing the devotion to Mary wherever he served. Anonymous donors from Rock Hill gave money for the statue of Mary and its pedestal.
Beth Lett attended the celebration with her mother, Barbara Bishop Taylor, who is also one of the mission's founding members. Lett was 12 when her family moved to Marion and she raised her children at Church of the Infant Jesus.
"I've been thinking that there are so many memories connected to a church over a lifetime — our family has had five marriages, four funerals and about 12 baptisms at this place," Lett said.
Top photo: Members of the Knights of Columbus greet people as they arrive for the Mass of Thanksgiving to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Church of the Infant Jesus Mission in Marion.
After Mass, people enjoyed fellowship at the 50th anniversary reception.
The Mass of Thanksgiving was held on May 7.


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Is Section 279 cognizable?
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The offence punishable under Section 279 of the IPC is a cognizable Offence, which means that the police can arrest someone for a crime without a warrant, but such Offences are bailable. The issuance of bail in a bailable Offence is a matter of right.
Is road accident a criminal offence in India?
In some instances, such as hit-and-run accidents, reckless driving, driving under the influence (DUI), and driving while drunk, the same can be both a tort and a criminal (DWI). Under the Indian Penal Code of 1860, such offences are punishable.
What is the section 279?
—Whoever drives any vehicle, or rides, on any public way in a manner so rash or negligent as to endanger human life, or to be likely to cause hurt or injury to any other person, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to one ...
Is rash driving illegal in India?
Under Section 279 of the Indian Penal Code, any individual who is driving or riding a vehicle on any public way in a rash or negligent manner, which may endanger human life or injure other people, will be punished by law. The punishment under this section is imprisonment up to six months, a penalty of ₹1,000, or both.
How do I report a rash driver in India?
To report rash driving in India, you can call the police and can even submit a report online about the incident. If you have footage of the whole incident, you can share that with the police as well.
IPC SECTION 279 in hindi.Indian Penal Code,1860 |-(LAW)271 @280]dhara ipc section#भारतीय दण्ड संहिता
Is IPC 279 a criminal case?
The offence punishable under section 279 of IPC is cognizable offence where the police has a right to arrest a person of an offence without a warrant, but such offences are bailable in nature and is triable by the Magistrate who is having the authority over the area wherein such offence has been committed.
Is road accident a cognizable Offence?
Imprisonment for 6 months, a fine of Rs 1000 or both can be imposed on a driver for rash driving or injuring another person on the road. The offense committed under section 279 is bailable and is cognizable by the district magistrate.
What if I hit someone with my car in India?
Pull over and stop. Find out if the person was injured. If yes, dial 911 to report the accident to the police and to request an ambulance if needed.
What are the ingredients of IPC Section 279?
The common ingredients of both the sections 279 and 304A of IPC are that the accused must have done such an act or omission and that such act or omission of the accused was rash and negligent. The difference is in Sec. 279 that act must be rash and negligent driving and under Sec.
How do you prove a rash and negligent driving?
The Madras High Court has said only eye-witnesses can prove charges of rash and negligent driving, without any such witnesses, such charge would not hold good.
Is 304A cognizable Offence?
Is IPC 304A cognizable offence or non-cognizable offence? IPC 304A is a Cognizable.
Is IPC 338 bailable?
IPC 338 is a Bailable offence.
What is the section for accident case?
The Indian Penal Code mentions an accident for the first time in Section 80 as a general exception. The Section says that nothing is an offence which is achieved via accident or misfortune besides any intention of criminality.
Is driving away from an accident a criminal offence?
Am I guilty of an offence? Yes, save for in exceptional circumstances. You may have a defence if you were unaware at the time of the accident that personal injury and/or damage was caused.
Can you go to jail for hitting someone with a car in India?
1. If the victim dies the punishment is 2 years of imprisonment, which may now be enhanced by an amendment in the law in view of the repeated suggestions made by the Supreme Court and Law Commission. 2. If the victim does not die but only suffers an injury the accused can be punished for up to 6 months imprisonment.
Does accident case affect visa?
Any conviction in accident cases will not affect visa and jobs.
What is rash and negligent act?
By 'rash act' we mean any act which is done restlessly. By the term 'negligent act' we mean a breach of duty due to omission to do something, which a reasonable man will do. There are four basic elements that a person has to fulfill in order to do a negligent act.
What is the meaning of Compoundable offence?
In certain offences, the parties involved can effect a compromise while the case is under trial in the court. This is called 'compounding', further action in trial is discontinued. Cases in which this is permissible are called compoundable offences.
What happens if you get caught driving without a license under 18 in India?
A fine of Rs 25,000 with three years imprisonment will be imposed and the juvenile will be tried under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act while the registration of the vehicle will be cancelled.
Will accident case affect my career?
An accident is an accident it does not involve any moral turpitude. It will in way affect your selection for any government job. Even in offences involving moral turpitude if the aspirant gets clean acquittal that will not have any adverse impact.
Who is liable in case of accident owner or driver?
The owner is not in the car at the time of the accident: Whether it's a case of negligent driving or a case of drunken driving, the onus is on the person driving. The car owner can be liable if the car was not in roadworthy condition.
Can you file a police report days after an accident in India?
While in case of any minor child/children of the victim(s) of the accident, the notification said the IO shall provide blank Form-VIA to the victim(s), who shall fill up the relevant information/attach the relevant documents and submit the same to the investigating officer within 60 days of the accident.
Is Section 279 impact on government jobs?
Typically the offences that affect one's chances to be recruited in a govt. job are those that involve "moral turpitude or deparavity". 279/304A IPC don't fall under the category of such offences. However, there is no guarantee how this will be perceived by the prospective employer.
What is rash act?
Intuitively, using ordinary English language, one would have thought that a "rash" act requires a person to be aware of a risk, and then commit a deliberate act or omission despite the awareness of that risk.
Is Section 304A bailable?
If a driver, not under the influence of alcohol, causes someone's death in an accident, police can apply IPC section 304-A (causing death by Negligence), which is a bailable offence.
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For our first blog post I thought I would tell you the story of how Prestige Homes of the Tri-Cities, Inc began.
Imagine being able to pick and choose the people you spend the most time with at work?
That is exactly what we do at Prestige Homes.
Prestige Homes of the Tri-Cities is one of the youngest and most innovative residential real estate companies in the Tri-Cities of East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. We were born in September of 2009 and have had an exciting and fulfilling early childhood. We have grown from two to twenty agents and two staff over the last five years.
How did we get our start?
It all began at the urging of an agent who wanted to come to work with me. The problem was she didn't want to work in commercial real estate. Her passion was interior design and putting people in homes they love. Our company at that time (Bob Callahan REALTORS®) specialized in commercial real estate only. She asked me "Would you consider opening a residential company?"...... and well the rest is history.
Thanks to her urging, we are now building an exciting business helping people buy and sell homes all over the Tennessee Tri-Cities and Southwest Virginia. I am not sure I would have done it, if I had attempted to plan the business. It would have scared me senseless to see a monthly advertising budget! Nope, no plan then, but a huge plan now. We want to fill all the cracks we perceive to exist in our area market and keep filling them until no one wants or needs homes anymore.
We have fun, enjoy each other and sell real estate. It's such a pleasure to work with people you actually like and respect...what a novel idea.


Child restraints are designed as accessories to be used to provide protection for children in the event of car accidents. They provide protection normally over and above that provided by the manufacturer for young vehicle occupants. Children will get this high level of protection only if the child restraint is installed and used correctly. Incorrect installation can and does reduce the performance causing serious injury or death to a child. Choosing and using child restraints can be quite difficult, fitting can be even more so. This is reflected by the number of studies as well as restraint fitment days which have shown an alarming 9 out of 10 vehicles restraints were found to be incorrectly fitted. The only way a restraint can work effectively is if it is fitted to the car in the manner designed by the manufacturer, and that can only be done by an RTA approved Restraint installer. The Children?s Hospital at Westmead admitted more than 26,697 children for treatment; it provided 626,239 treatments and consultation for children in outpatients and performed 13,561 operations, with the emergency department treating almost 40,037 every year. If ever there was a target audience in which to change and promote the correct use of occupant restraints, their proper use and fitment and increase awareness it should and would be here. The development of this project enabled Parramatta city council an opportunity to join in partnership and support with Kids health and the Children?s Hospital at Westmead. This active co operation of key stakeholders from a community development prospective has combined to train 20 selected hospital and allied health staff in the correct installation and checking of child restraints in cars and pass their knowledge on to parents of patients, other staff members and other stakeholders.


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World Pro Ski Tour World Championships
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Taos Ski Valley will host the World Pro Ski Tour World Championships event April 7-10, 2022. This prestigious event draws professional athletes from all over the world, and for the first time will include both men's and women's races. Thousands of spectators, competitors, and sponsors are expected to attend, showcasing Taos' world-renowned terrain on international television.
The World Pro Ski Tour, presented by Rocket Mortgage, is the country's foremost professional alpine race tour in which athletes race side-by-side in a single-elimination format. Through a series of events that make up the Tour, skiers rack up points and the chance to compete at Taos for a World Pro Ski Tour World Championship title.
Professional skiers, World Cup athletes, and Olympians from around the world will begin the Tour in January in Colorado. This year's Tour will feature eleven races total; 8 men's events and 3 women's events. On the women's side, expected to compete are two-time Olympians, Alice McKennis and Laurenne Ross, U.S Ski Team alum and NCAA Giant Slalom champion, Lindsey Cone, and Canadian Olympian, Anna Goodman. The men's Tour features professional ski racers including two-time Olympic gold medalist, Ted Ligety, reigning National Parallel Champion, Garret Driller, and the ever-dominant, two-time WPST Overall Champion, Rob Cone.
Information about tickets, spectator events, and other details will be posted in the coming months. This event extends our season through April 10.
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The best type of bet is the one that doesn't cost you anything. Winning is one way to offset the "cost" of a bet, but you can also just take advantage of free bet promotions to cut risk out of the equation entirely. Below, I'm going to explain exactly how you can use free bets offered by betting sites to make money with very little risk.
Before we get started, let's review how free bet promotions work. A free stake or wager is a sort of promotion that some betting websites offer as an incentive for new customers to sign up and make a real money deposit. These no risk wagers usually have some restrictions associated with them, below we list a few free bets that are currently available.
The process of claiming free bets is fairly straightforward. In most cases, all you have to do is sign up for an account and then place your first wager in the mobile sportsbook or try an in-play bet for the first time. If you win, you get paid.
The free part comes into play when you lose your first bet. If your first bet is a loser, the book is willing to refund the cost of the original wager up to the stated maximum amount. In essence, you are freerolling your first wager. You either win or you get a refund.
In each of the above offers, you need to place the bet first and then wait for it to play out. If it wins, you can collect your winnings and no further action is necessary. If it loses, you need to send an e-mail to the betting site's customer support people and tell them you would like to be refunded. They will then credit your account, typically within 48 hours.
There are just two catches to all this. First is the fact that you have to place a wager with your own money first. If your first bet loses, you are refunded up to the upper limit of the free bet offer.
The second catch is that any refunded money comes with rollover requirements just like any other bonus. Using a $50 mobile offer as an example, the rollover is six times the refund amount. So if you place a $50 wager, lose it and are then refunded $50, you'll have to place a total sum of additional wagers equal to $300 ($50 x 6) before you can withdraw any winnings earned off the refund amount.
On a positive note, the free betting site offers that you see on this page are given in addition to the standard new customer bonuses. What you can do is claim your welcome bonus first and then go back and take advantage of any free play wagers. The online gambling industry is highly competitive and operators are willing to spend whatever it takes to attract new customers. You might as well take full advantage!
The most important lesson in all of this is to always read the fine print before you accept any bonus or free bet offer. The promotions you see advertised can be a valuable incentive, but you need to understand how they work.
If you don't like the terms and conditions associated with any offer, remember that you're under no obligation to accept the bonus or participate in the promotion. All betting promotions are optional. You can always skip the promo.
Are free betting offers worth the time and trouble?
It all depends on what you're looking for. Free sports bets require you to place additional wagers on top of the original offer, so you're on the hook for more if you decide to take up a promotion.
The terms and conditions can diminish the appeal, but these offers do come in handy if you're planning on being a regular customer. I wouldn't recommend taking advantage of free bets if you're only going to place a one-time wager and then never bet on sports again, but they can add to your bottom line if you think you'll be doing more betting in the future.
The catch to all this is that you are almost always asked to place at least one wager of your own before the betting site is willing to give you a free bet. Thus, there's no escaping the risk entirely. However, I do have one simple tactic that I can share with you to mitigate the risk and ensure you profit every time.


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El Hotel Beverly Wilshire, de la cadena Four Seasons, es un histórico hotel de lujo en Beverly Hills, California, Estados Unidos. Ubicado en la intersección de Wilshire Boulevard y Rodeo Drive, se completó en 1928. Ha sido utilizado como lugar de rodaje de películas y series de televisión. Los invitados han incluido presidentes de Estados Unidos y celebridades.

Localización
El hotel está ubicado en el número 9500 Wilshire Boulevard en el lado este de South Rodeo Drive en Beverly Hills, California.

Historia

El hotel fue construido por el agente Walter G. McCarty en el lugar de la antigua autopista de Beverly Hills. Se completó en 1928 (cuando la ciudad tenía menos de 18.000 habitantes) y entonces se conocía como el "Beverly Wilshire Apartment Hotel". La estructura en forma de E está construida con piedra toscana y mármol de Carrara al estilo de la arquitectura renacentista italiana.

Rebautizado como Beverly Wilshire Hotel por los nuevos propietarios, fue renovado con un salón de baile en la década de 1940 por el arquitecto Paul Revere Williams para dar cabida a las grandes orquestas populares de la época. Se construyó una piscina de tamaño olímpico y se agregaron canchas de tenis de campeonato, con el campeón de tenis Pancho González como director de tenis.

El hotel cambió de manos en 1958 y nuevamente en 1961, cuando fue comprado por un grupo de inversionistas encabezado por Hernando Courtright.  Courtright contrató al arquitecto Welton Becket para diseñar un nuevo ala de la torre. La nueva torre fue construida por Del E. Webb Corporation e inaugurada en 1971.  Esto duplicó el tamaño del hotel.

Regent International Hotels, con sede en Hong Kong, compró el hotel de lujo de 395 habitaciones en 1985 por 125 millones de dólares y lo renovó a un costo adicional de 100 millones, renombrándolo como The Regent Beverly Wilshire .  En 1992, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts compró Regent International Hotels y el hotel se convirtió en The Regent Beverly Wilshire, un hotel Four Seasons.

Desde 2006, Wolfgang Puck dirige un restaurante, Cut, en el hotel.

Invitados destacados y lugar de rodaje
El 9 de octubre de 1937, F. Scott Fitzgerald almorzó en el Beverly Wilshire con Ginevra King, a quien conoció cuando ambos eran jóvenes y de quien se dice que fue modelo para Daisy Buchanan, en su El gran Gatsby.

Durante una gira en 1940, el Beverly Wilshire fue el único hotel importante de Los Ángeles dispuesto a alojar a Paul Robeson debido a su raza, a un precio exorbitante y siempre que se registrara con un nombre falso, por lo que pasaba dos horas cada tarde sentado en el lobby, donde fue ampliamente reconocido, "para garantizar que la próxima vez que vengan negros, tendrán un lugar donde quedarse". Los hoteles de Los Ángeles levantaron sus restricciones a los huéspedes negros poco después.

Elvis Presley y más tarde Warren Beatty pasaron varios años en el hotel. También fue el hogar de John Lennon, cuando estuvo separado por varios meses de su esposa Yoko Ono.

La socialité estadounidense y heredera de los grandes almacenes Woolworth, Barbara Hutton, pasó sus últimos años casi en la pobreza y con problemas de salud en el hotel y murió allí en mayo de 1979.

Otros invitados notables incluyen al presidente estadounidense Barack Obama,  el emperador de Japón Hirohito, el Dalai Lama y Sadruddin Aga Khan,  así como los músicos Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler,  Elton John, Lil Wayne, Drake, y los actores Michael Caine, Michael Douglas, Farrah Fawcett, Bette Midler, Dustin Hoffman, Anjelica Huston, Robert Pattinson, Walter Matthau y Al Pacino.

En 1990, el Beverly Wilshire fue el escenario principal de la película Pretty Woman, aunque la mayoría de las escenas de interiores se rodaron en el desaparecido Ambassador Hotel cercano.  También se convirtió en un lugar de filmación común para la serie de televisión Entourage de HBO, con el elenco y el equipo filmando allí al menos tres veces por temporada cuando se produjo desde 2004 hasta 2011.

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Historia de Los Ángeles
Wikipedia:Artículos con coordenadas en Wikidata
Hoteles de Estados Unidos
Hoteles de California
Registro Nacional de Lugares Históricos
Wikipedia:Páginas con traducciones sin revisar

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In order to maintain a stable economy, it is critical for governments to adopt relevant policies that cushion crucial sectors from economic shocks. The failure in this regard is likely to result in a vulnerable economy that cannot guarantee the survival of vital sectors in the aftermath of a global phenomenon such as the Great Depression.
Although some economic policies may vary from one region to another, others play a crucial role in the transition of any developing country into industrialization. The political environment in a region is crucial concerning the adoption and proper implementation of various economic policies. Policy makers play a central role in reforms and thus possess significant effects on a country's economic transformation.
The Great Depression largely marked the onset of changes in the economic policies adopted by Latin-American countries. This period adversely affected a significant portion of the Latin America, which largely depended on the role of supplying raw materials to different parts of the world as a means of generating income.
Because of the weakening of the global economy, industries in the affect countries minimized the importation of raw materials. This severed the chief source of foreign currency for various Latin-American countries and led to a rising trend of poverty and social chaos.
Thus, there was the need for collaborative efforts by various stakeholders within Latin America to draft economic policies that would safeguard different aspects of the Latin-American economy. Leaders in Latin America acknowledged the need to change economic policies and promoted the discarding of the free-market model in favor of import substitution (Ca?rdenas et al., 2000).
The applicability of this model remained satisfactory for various Latin-American countries until the 1980s. The import-substitution model focused on the reduction of the dependence of the economy of a country on foreign parties. To achieve this objective, countries in Latin America embarked on various aspects of local production.
The policies on import substitution ensured the state's participation in aspects such as nationalization and subsidization of industrial and agricultural raw materials. Other measures included increased tax rates and the imposition of protectionist trade policies. The adoption of these measures focused on the protection of local industries and stabilization of economies in various Latin-American countries.
The import-substitution model attracted support among Latin-American countries due to the consideration that most of the industrialized countries employed various aspects of import substitution to attain states that are more self-sufficient.
Another factor that led to the adoption of import substitution in Latin America was the need to address the rising trend of unemployment and poverty largely attributed to the global economic crisis at the time. The Great Depression caused significant economic shocks throughout the world, and declining domestic employment in Latin America.
However, from around the 1980s, import substitution policies began to loss favor among developing countries, including those in Latin America. Policies relating to import-substituting industrialization (ISI) led to losses and debts within Latin America due to the introduction of various programs by the World Bank and other bodies that brought about market liberalization.
Following the 1980s' debts that caused crises in various Latin-American countries, concerned parties identified the need to privatize the management of previously nationalized entities, and thus began adopting market-oriented economic policies (Solimano & Soto, 2005).
In the 1990s, Latin America witnesses a significant change in the manner of management of capital-intensive sectors such as telecommunication. Financial shortages and the lack of adequate investment in various aspects of technology are some of the crucial factors that instigated the shift towards privatization. The previous model of import substitution forced most Latin-American countries to participate in various aspects of importation.
This promoted the adoption and integration of concepts relating to a market-oriented economy. The effects of the debt crisis of the 1980s created numerous barriers that introduced challenges concerning access to financial markets. This resulted in a trend of declining availability of capital in most of the Latin-American countries. Market-oriented policies provided a framework upon which the government could attract sources of capital.
These policies facilitated the privatization of electricity and telecommunication sectors, which were largely capital intensive. The importance attached to these sectors resulted from the realization of their prospects for expansion due to high demand. Thus, they provided a platform through which the government could achieve its various objectives.
Political reforms in Latin America also influenced the adoption of market-oriented policies. This resulted due to influence by policy makers who promoted new democracies. By the end of the 20th century, most of the countries in Latin America had adopted a framework based on the three principal concepts used to attract private capital (Bethell, 2008).
The first approach was the privatization of key sectors through the public sale of shares or concession contracts that transferred the ownership and administration of various capital-intensive entities. The other approach was the elimination of restrictions that hindered the influence of private capital on public monopolies. This strategy facilitated the generation of investments that availed capital and promoted the operation of various sectors.
The third approach was the drafting of regulations, and the establishment of bodies to ensure that private investors adhere to the set standards and rules. Another factor that led to the adoption of market-oriented reforms in Latin America was the influence by international financial institutions. These institutions gained significant control in the region due to their role as the main source of credit for the capital-deficient Latin America.
The lack of funds for various government projects presented an opportunity for the involvement of financial institutions in technological modernization as an aspect for generating fiscal assets. However, the adoption of market-oriented policies varied among different countries in Latin America. For example, while Chile adopted the reforms on electricity at around 1982, Mexico adopted such reforms in 1999 (Frieden et al., 2000).
In addition, although Costa Rica was successful in its attempts to privatize telecommunication, Argentina failed to achieve similar goals that year. These discrepancies also arose concerning the outcomes of market control. Some countries adopted the monopolistic aspect of market regulation. However, countries such as Mexico adopted the fixed-term monopoly concepts and other aspects that promoted market-controlling reforms.
Although the adoption of various economic reforms in Latin America face challenges, the outcome of the implementation of those reforms positively transformed the region and introduced significant levels of self-sufficiency.
While the economic recession induced the onset of the industrial imposition, negative effects associated with import-substituting industrialization promoted the need for other economic reforms that would guarantee the survival of Latin-American countries in both the local and global economies. Although economic reforms were crucial in Latin America, a narrow scope that focused largely on the local economy introduced hindrances that necessitated the re-evaluation of Latin America's economic policies in the global perspective.
Bethell, L. (2008). The Cambridge history of Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Ca?rdenas, E., Ocampo, J. A., & Thorp, R. (2000). An economic history of twentieth-century Latin America. Houdsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave ;.
Frieden, J. A., Pastor, M., & Tomz, M. (2000). Modern political economy and Latin America: theory and policy. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press.
Solimano, A., & Soto, R. (2005). Economic growth in Latin America in the late 20th century: evidence and interpretation. Santiago, Chile: CEPAL, Economic Development Division.


The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) recommends that diagnostic testing for chromosome abnormalities and open neural tube defects (ONTD) be offered to all pregnant women. In women of low to average risk, traditional serum testing is often used as a first tier screen, with cell-free DNA (cfDNA) screening as a second-tier test, although cfDNA is also acceptable as an initial screening test.
Many options for aneuploidy screening are available. Medical practices choose which screening tests to offer based on provider and patient preference, patient population, and service availability. Most professional guidelines endorse offering cfDNA screening to women at increased risk of having a child with chromosomal aneuploidy but suggest that it is more appropriate to offer low- or average-risk women traditional serum screening first and cfDNA as a second-tier screen.
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Adar rolled to his feet and kicked away the turncoat's blaster from where the man's body had fallen. It skidded across the floor until it came to a stop.
Why had the weapon worked for the turncoat but not for him?
Adar had pulled the trigger and felt it stop at the point where it should have fired, yet nothing had happened.
It had to be the armor, somehow the weapon was reloaded or reactivated when the turncoat had picked it up. The last moments before Adar had killed the turncoat played again in his mind, his heart still pounding in his chest as he thought it through. The turncoat hadn't done anything special. All he'd done was pick up the blaster, point, and shoot.
Adar thought of the flash of light he'd seen yesterday when a turncoat had picked up a blaster.
The same thing might have occurred here, but Adar had been too busy to notice it. The turncoat had even had a smirk on his face as if he knew something Adar didn't.
That was true, Adar thought. I'm sure he knew a lot of things that I don't. He winced, trying to ignore the searing pain on the back of his head from the shot that had almost killed him earlier. He touched it and wasn't surprised to discover that most of his hair back there was gone. He had never thought of himself as handsome, so if it never grew back, he would survive.
Adar examined the turncoat's wound as he knelt beside the body with his own smaller blaster pointed at the turncoat's head just in case.
Just like the Hunwei corpse he'd looked at earlier, there was a ring of the silver metal around the outside of the wound. It had not moved to cover it up.
When he touched the metal, he was surprised it was cool to the touch. That was strange, he would have expected it to at least be warm as it was right up against the body of the man that had just died.


Following Tome's overview of interwar architecture, it's quite natural to mention a Mediterranean city with the highest concentration of the International style artifacts.
Sanuel H. Gottscho's (1875-1971) photographs of New York are rational - and romantic. His vision brings us right to Gotham, through the twilight and night to the sunny morning revealing all the city's power and grandeur.
It's easy to get lost in the multitude of makes and models. But it's even easier to spot a British automobile among others. They have something in common - all of them, modest and luxurious, primitive and complex.
Today, just a brief overview of these wonderful cars. 1920s and early 1930s.
Hope your Thanksgiving is going better than mine.
Send in photos of your epic holiday battle against the dreaded turkey.
It's about six months since I came here. Six months - quite a sufficient amount of time for summing up. So I took the liberty of analyzing our development, and the picture below is just an eye-stopper.
WARNING! Giant Turkey Sighted Near St. Louis!
Toys? State-of-art models? No, real red doubledeckers under one roof with the green ones, as well as trams, trolleybuses, taxicabs and subway trains.
London Transport Museum in Covent Garden is a proud owner of great vehicles and also possesses a vast image archive, available online.
Arthur Radebaugh (1906-1974) was a top-notch commercial illustrator who worked for companies as diverse as Chrysler and Coca-Cola.
He was based in Detroit from the 1930s to 1960s, and much of his work anticipated design revolutions in the automotive and other industries. He once described his work as "halfway between science fiction and designs for modern living."
It's not easy to recognize the make. It looks so military... hell, it is military! But the shape seems familiar. Box-like body. Detachable back. Big bad lens.
Yes, this is the first brainchild of Victor Hasselblad, made in the 1940s for the Swedish Air Force. It took only a few steps to transform this spartan device into a camera that will conquer the Moon.
I thought I'd give our Dieselpunks logo the Art Deco treatment as a business card design.
It's a first shot, but what do you think?
And it wants its waistcoat, specs, and mustache back. Between gin-fizz-slinging barmen in suspenders and Brooklyn dudes in bowler hats, you couldn't swing a walking stick in '09 without hitting a Teddy Roosevelt look-alike.
One of the Diesel Era symbols is the aircraft carrier, born during the Great War to become the most important warship class of the next war.


As anybody who is around me enough to hear me complain about my back all the time, inking is not usually my favorite activity. It is very labor-intensive, with a lot of hunching and all that, where if you have a degenerative disc in your lower back (whoops!) you might end up going a little pain-crazy. However, I have to admit that I like the results of inking very much.
That's my friend Kris. His head is exploding. I think my favorite thing about it, besides the fact that it actually looks pretty much like him, is that it looks kind of reflexive, like a sneeze. I also love that I can't tell if it's anger or joy causing the reaction. Either way, I must confess that I can relate to this feeling myself, that moment when your brain just explodes out of your head.
SCORE: I actually had fun inking, so… a million points for Gryffindor.
Oh my that bunny tattoo illustration is just the cutest! Love your work.


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search for and search out; at the edge of and on the edge of; both .......and
Thread starter jiang
Dear teachers,
I have three questions to ask:
search for: to look for something. search out: to find something.
May I say the difference between the two is the first lays stress on the act of searching while the second one lays stress on the result of searching?
at the edge of a lake/water. on the edge of a cliff. Can I say 'on the edge of a lake/water and at the edge of a cliff'?
Could you please explain if the following two pairs of sentences bear the same meaning?
a. The purpose of a university is to produce people who are both specialists and civilized citizens.
The purpose of a university is to produce people who are not only specialists but also civilized citizens.
b. Contrary to what people had expected, he not only attended the meeting but also spoke for twenty minutes.
Contrary to what people had expected he didn't only attended the meeting but also spoke for twenty minutes.
Shakespeare's brother
Jiang, hello again. In my opinion, search for and search out are similar in meaning. You may say: the police search for the missing person and you could say the police search out the missing person. Certainly, the result of both actions will be the same.
Not so sure on your No. 3 at the moment, but for No. 2 I would prefer in both instances to use 'at' the edge of the water/cliff. To stand on the edge of the cliff would seem to suggest a very dangerous action and to stand on the edge of the water may get you wet.
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Thank you very much for your explanation. Now I understand them except No.3.
Shakespeare's brother said:
jiang said:
Contrary to what people had expected he didn't only attend the meeting but also spoke for twenty minutes.
These mean approximately the same thing.
Dear Anglika,
Thank you very much for your explanation. Now I understand it.
Anglika said: