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The Portrait
She Uses Yoga as a Tool for Recovering From Addiction
By Tatiana Ryckman
The Portrait: Telling the story of Louisville, one person at a time.
When you see Renee Beard leading a yoga class in a loose, off-the-shoulder top and yoga pants, it's hard to believe she once weighed 360 pounds. In 2006, her daughter was born with a long list of health complications, and Beard turned to food for support. "There's a lot of addiction in my family," she says. "I chose food."
As a kid, she'd sneak spoonfuls of peanut butter at night and swipe candy from her cousins' Easter baskets. "I knew the good chocolate sunk underneath all the crinkly grass," she says. After years of stress related to her daughter's health, she hit peak weight in 2013 and realized that, if things didn't change, she wouldn't be alive to give her daughter the care she needs.
Beard left her career as a beautician to work at her daughter's elementary school. The job came with health benefits that allowed her to get an aggressive weight-loss surgery that restricts the size of the stomach. Soon after, she discovered yoga — and its similarities to addiction recovery (self-acceptance, staying in the moment, acknowledging personal responsibility while providing community support) — and now leads the 12-step class at 502 Power Yoga (locations in the Highlands and Jeffersonville) that brought her into the practice to begin with. She uses yoga as a recovery tool, including for first responders dealing with PTSD. "It's not about tightening your ass," she says. "It's about pulling your head out of it." Beard's all about "falling out of a pose, taking a deep breath, and getting back in there." When firefighters complain about being in a difficult pose for too long, she'll joke, "You go into buildings that are on fire. On purpose. This is just yoga."
The 48-year-old doesn't hesitate to talk about the 200 pounds she has lost in the last six years. And she is ebullient when describing her first handstand, which she did last summer. "I am strong," Beard says. "I'm not that Renee that would sneak and hide and eat food and stay in the shadows."
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New Billie Eilish Documentary premiers February 26th on Apple TV+
If you are looking forward to the release of the upcoming and highly anticipated, Billie Eilish Documentary, which will be premiering on the Apple TV+ service later this month and will be available to view from February 26th 2021. You are sure to enjoy this new teaser trailer Apple has released to whet your appetite and provide a quick glimpse at what you can expect from the documentary film by R.J Cutler.
"Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry" tells the true coming-of-age story of the singer-songwriter and her rise to global superstardom. From award-winning filmmaker R.J. Cutler, the documentary offers a deeply intimate look at this extraordinary teenager's journey, at just seventeen years old, navigating life on the road, on stage, and at home with her family, while writing, recording and releasing her debut album "WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?"
Witness the incredible rise of Billie Eilish in "Billie Eilish: The World's A Little Blurry" as she tours and records the album that changes her life. Watch in theaters and on Apple TV+ February 26th 2021
"The documentary is from Apple Original Films, in association with Interscope Films, Darkroom, This Machine and Lighthouse Management & Media. Directed by R.J. Cutler and starring Billie Eilish, Finneas O'Connell, Maggie Baird, and Patrick O'Connell as themselves."
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Taft Chicago Reports Strong Growth at Five-Year Mark after Shefsky & Froelich Merger
Cezar Froelich
Paul Jenson
Robert Hicks
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP is reporting strong growth at the five-year mark of its entry into the Chicago market, which was effective Jan. 2, 2014, when Shefsky & Froelich merged with Taft.
Key indicators of the merger's success are a nearly 50% increase in the number of attorneys and the expansion of practice areas. With 70 Shefsky & Froelich attorneys at the time of the merger, Taft's Chicago office has grown to 103 attorneys. Lateral attorneys from AmLaw 100 firms as well as boutique firms have been attracted to Taft due to its flexible billing rates, steady growth and broad array of legal services delivered through a team-oriented approach.
Taft has become known among recruiters and lateral attorneys as an employer of choice in each of its core markets, allowing it to draw a highly successful group of talented lateral partners, associates and of counsel attorneys.
"Recruiting top talent, expanding our practice areas and providing deeper expertise to our clients were the goals of the merger," says Cezar (Cid) M. Froelich, Taft Chicago's Chairman. "Shefsky & Froelich's notable reputation in Chicago, combined with Taft's standing as one of the top large law firms in the Midwest, not only allowed us to accomplish these goals but to also continue this trend of substantial growth through our ongoing focus on lateral recruiting efforts. Merging with Taft was a strategic decision that has provided tremendous value to our clients, rewarding careers for our attorneys and has paved the way for future growth in Chicago."
Taft's Chairman and Managing Partner Robert J. Hicks, who was heavily involved with the merger from its inception, shared that "Chicago is a great market for Taft on many fronts. The firm's continued growth is built on innovation and an unwavering focus on client service. Our modern approach to delivering legal services, together with our focus on being the employer of choice in each of our markets, have been a strong draw for lateral attorneys throughout Taft's Midwestern footprint."
Under Taft's management model, offices operate with a high degree of autonomy. Each office oversees its own market and benefits from the collective strength of approximately 470 attorneys across 10 locations. This decentralized leadership structure encourages the vetting of diverse points of view and creates a modern-law-firm approach to advance the firm's goals.
Significant initiatives launched in 2018 include:
Instituting a one-class partnership to ensure more leadership roles and opportunities for younger and diverse attorneys.
Offering paid benefits to support Taft attorneys, such as 16 weeks of parental leave (regardless of gender), MilkStork, and emergency childcare and parental care.
Improving the diversity and gender composition of key committees. Taft's compensation committee, executive committee and practice group leaders are comprised of approximately 50% women partners, along with a significant number of diverse partners.
Increasing the firm-wide number of attorneys by 12%.
"During the recruiting process, we actively listen to what's important to lateral candidates. This feedback is earnestly assessed to identify new and innovative ways of accomplishing our work. We continue to evolve in order to attract and retain top talent. This mindset has fueled the growth in Chicago and in other Taft markets," said Paul T. Jenson, Taft Chicago Partner-in-Charge.
Practice areas that have been added to or expanded in the Chicago office since the merger include:
Bond Counsel
Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Litigation
Tax (international)
Women, Minority and Veteran Owned Business
Kennedy Appointed to Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism
Taft Welcomes Albaugh to Litigation Group


ICD-10 was endorsed by the Forty-third World Health Assembly (held in Geneva from 7 – 18 May 1990) and came into use in WHO Member States as from 1994. ICD-10 is the latest classification in the series which has its origins in the 1850s.
Adoption of ICD-10 has been slow in the United States. Since 1988, the USA had required ICD-9-CM codes for Medicare and Medicaid claims, and most of the rest of the American Healthcare Industry followed suit. On 1 January 1999 the ICD-10 (without clinical extensions) was adopted for reporting mortality, but ICD-9-CM was still used for morbidity.
NCHS a division of US Centers for Disease Control & Prevention received permission from the WHO to create a clinical modification of the ICD-10.
The United States Government has assigned the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) the responsibility for the development of ICD-10-CM.
The ICD-10-CM will be used for diagnosis coding, and will replace Volumes 1 and 2 of ICD-9-CM.
On January 16, 2009 DHHS published a final rule adopting ICD-10-CM (and ICD-10-PCS) to replace ICD-9-CM in HIPAA transactions, effective implementation date of October 1, 2013. Until that time the codes in ICD-10-CM are not valid for any purpose or use.
CMS announced a further delay of ICD-10 implementation on April 9th 2012 for one more year. The April 9 proposed rule from the Dept. of Health and Human Services for the Implementation of ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS mandates the providers to shift to the new code sets by Oct. 1, 2014.
The draft version of the year 2012 of ICD-10-CM consists of two volumes.
The Tabular List – A list of alphanumeric codes organized by organ systems, etiology, external causes, or other criteria such as symptoms & Signs. Coding conventions & instructions are listed in the tabular list. The list is arranged in the 21 chapters.
The Alphabetic Index – An alphabetic index to the conditions in the Tabular List.
An index to diseases and conditions coded to Chapters 1 to 19 and Chapter 21.
A table of Neoplasms arranged alphabetically by anatomic site with codes for malignant, benign, in situ, uncertain behavior, or unspecified behavior neoplasms.
A table of Drugs & Chemicals, used to code poisonings and adverse effects of drugs classified in chapter 19, "Injury, Poisoning and Certain Other Consequences of External Causes (S00-T88)," and Chapter 20.
An index to the terms related to the external causes of morbidity and terms in the chapter 20, "External Causes of Morbidity (V01-Y99)".
The Alphabetic Index is organized by main terms that are bold and flush left. Main terms are usually conditions rather than anatomic sites. Main terms for Chapter 21, "Factors Influencing Health Status and Contact with Health Services," include admission (for), aftercare, boarder, convalescence, examination, history, prescription, problem, state of, status, vacation etc.
Main term entries include subterms (also called essential modifiers) that are indented under them main term. Subterm modifiers are indented under the applicable subterm.
See; See also and the abbreviation NEC are alphabetic index coding conventions.
See; See also–cross reference conventions direct the coder to another main term, or to another category or code.
NEC–indicates that the code applies when a more specific code is not available.


How to drum up your business?
Jose Feliciano, store – owner of Five Star Pets,a pet food store of Miles Town says that during a recession advertisement dollars are hard to come by. A small business owner, Jose feels that every dollars needs to be conserved to offer the best range to the thrifty customer that drops in. Anne, a single mother and a part time sales person says sales at their store had begun to perk up ever since her employer, Jane had begun to advertise in the local news paper.
"It is always better to be seen at the convention, than the flea market", says Liz, a gift and souvenir stores owner. Incidentally Liz imports novelty and gift items from China. Liz is on the road most of the time and conventions are the places where she feels she is able to drum up more business and get to add new ones to her rolodex and eventually to her shipping list.
Conventions are better organized and it is much easier to set up the show and it takes much less time to get the word out to potential customers. It brings in a touch of professionalism to the business – especially to the one-man-army-bands. It helps to get to know the different market conditions. The reps are there who bring in their new lines. Networking with the other players is easy.
Though at the end of the day, booth rentals and advertising costs, flyers, bill boards add up to overheads, there is also the cost of the give-aways to count. The get- to-know-dinners do add value to the relationship though it adds up to the costs. But then they are all evened out by the business one does. Out of towners obviously need to factor in their motel rents and parking charges. Some of the convention centers charge additional fees for power and phone lines but then according to Peter Brown, a small business coach, "every dollar spent here is worth it. You get a place, you get your buyer and he's got the money. You get to know the right guy who calls the the shots. So it is that much easier and quicker to close the deal. Everything under one roof and that includes your press-bureau too. I always advise my sellers to plan their presence. That way they can keep their own expenses down".


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Sander Jennings Boasts About Family Always Being There For Him After Siblings Shame Jazz Over Weight Gain
Source: @sander_jennings/Instagram
Jan. 14 2022, Published 1:34 p.m. ET
Sander Jennings is showing some appreciation for his famous family.
After revealing he was going through some personal struggles, the I Am Jazz star is expressing his gratitude for his family for always having each other's backs.
He posted the heartfelt message on his Instagram Story on Thursday, January 14, which featured a wholesome shot of the whole Jennings gang, including parents, Greg and Jeanette, older sister Ari, 26, twin brother Griffen, 23, and younger sister Jazz, 21.
"Through the ups and downs, my family is always there for each other," he captioned the sweet post. "So thankful."
JENNINGS SIBLINGS ENJOY BEACH DAY WITHOUT SISTER JAZZ AFTER REALITY STAR WAS 'HUMILIATED' BY FAMILY OVER 100-POUND WEIGHT GAIN
Sander's Instagram post comes just days after he shared with his followers that he was feeling "anxious" and "irritated" as a result of not dedicating enough time to himself.
As OK! previously reported, Sander has been very involved in helping his sister Jazz lose weight after she expressed she wanted to make some healthier changes to her lifestyle. Jazz has been open about her battle with a binge-eating disorder, which has caused her to gain roughly 100 pounds.
However, the dynamic sibling duo has been butting heads in recent episodes after Jazz revealed her family has been "fat shaming" her over her weight gain. "It makes me feel really humiliated," she previously confessed.
The rest of her family has also been getting frustrated with Jazz and her weight loss progress, with her brother Griffen previously stating she hasn't been taking "daily consistent action" toward her weight loss goals.
Sander also accused the transgender star of "lying" to herself in a recent episode after he insisted she was "making excuses" not to exercise more and eat healthier.
Source: @jazzjennings_/Instagram
Jazz explained to the cameras that the pressure from her family was beginning to have a negative impact on her mental health and that she instead wants to find a more "natural" way to lose weight and stay healthy.
Jazz's mental health has been a lifelong journey for the LGBTQ+ rights activist, who also suffers from anxiety and depression, in addition to her eating disorder.
SANDER JENNINGS DECLARES 'LOVE IS FREE' AFTER GOING ON FIRST DATE WITH A TRANS WOMAN, SUPPORTING SISTER JAZZ'S WEIGHT LOSS JOURNEY
Jazz's mental health took a turn for the worst when she was supposed to be entering college, causing her to delay her schooling at Harvard University. Now, Jazz is trying to get re-admitted into the college, which she learned during the latest episode is going to be harder than she thought.
As OK! reported, Jazz is required to find a whole new team of therapists and psychiatrists in just a matter of weeks before she heads to Boston. She and her family appeared to be blindsided by the new requirement, considering all of her doctors are based in her home state of Florida.
Consequently, the episode ended with Jazz expressing her concern that the college will "deny" her as a result of the new restrictions.


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Report: DJ Uiagalelei to enter transfer portal
D.J. Uiagalelei's time at Clemson is apparently coming to an end. Uiagalelei was benched at times while struggling this season, but he always ended up regaining the starting quarterback job with the Tigers. That is no longer the case. Cade Klubnik took over for Clemson on the team's third possession of the ACC Championship Game…
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Clemson quarterback D.J. Uiagalelei talks with media in Clemson, S.C., September 27, 2021. Ken Ruinard / staff via Imagn Content Services, LLC
D.J. Uiagalelei's time at Clemson is apparently coming to an end.
Uiagalelei was benched at times while struggling this season, but he always ended up regaining the starting quarterback job with the Tigers. That is no longer the case.
Cade Klubnik took over for Clemson on the team's third possession of the ACC Championship Game against North Carolina on Saturday and did not look back. He led the team on three straight touchdown drives and ended up helping the team to a dominant 39-10 win.
After the game, Dabo Swinney said that Klubnik would be the team's starting quarterback moving forward. That announcement sealed Uiagalelei's fate.
247 Sports reported on Sunday that Uiagalelei is expected to enter the transfer portal.
DJ's father was already seemingly saying his goodbyes on Twitter Sunday n ight.
same to you https://t.co/oWs0xsQBsw pic.twitter.com/l0hefMBTP5
— Big Dave Uiagalelei (@DUiagalelei) December 5, 2022
DJ was a 5-star recruit when he joined Clemson. He has shown promise as a dual-threat quarterback at times, but he's been inconsistent throughout his career. His struggles have capped Clemson's potential the last two seasons. He was so bad in a few games this season that the Tigers had to bench him.
Uiagalelei is a junior but has two seasons of eligibility left since one of his three playing years came in 2020. His is from Southern California, so it's possible that he will want to return closer to home if he transfers. Another interesting wrinkle is that DJ's brother, Matayo, is a 5-star recruit from the 2023 class. Could the two become a package deal for a new school? Some possible programs to watch out for with DJ include Oregon and UCLA.


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The Confidant
Gilberto Pinto, in a new adaptation by Alan Bissett
National Theatre of Scotland and Òran Mór production
A Play, a Pie and a Pint Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
A Play, a Pie and a Pint publicity image
A great finale to this international series of lunchtime plays at the Traverse, the original of is from Venezuela but Bissett does a great job giving the language a thoroughly Scottish sound.
Joe (Jon Morrison) comes back after a night out celebrating his party's victory, drunk on success and spirits, to his wife Carmen (Lori McLean) who has been sobered up by revelations about the price of the victory.
The language is wonderful, and neither actor holds back in allowing it to flow out, rich, coarse and passionate. The audience really gets caught up in this bedroom discussion that becomes a power struggle between man and wife. Morrison as the drunk politician is captivating and McLean is equally watchable though she says more through physicality as Morrison tended to do a lot of the talking.
Such was the intensity the audience was kept on the toes as to the eventual outcome; both characters were so believable in the struggle. They both brought lots of energy to the stage, without however going over the top; it was all in the words and body language, making it much more real and gripping than a shouting match.
The underlying plot is solid simple tragedy, Bissett gives real life to the characters' speeches and McLean and Morrison relish all this in their short time on stage.
Until Saturday 19th March
Reviewer: Seth Ewin


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Our Moscow Weather Forecast is updated every hour and gives you up-to-date information on the weather in Moscow for the next 5 days.
Whilst a blanket of snow covering the Red Square with the Kremlin in the foreground will always be a postcard favourite, it might come as a surprise to many that average high temperatures in Moscow for four full months in Spring and Summer range from 18 °C to 23 °C (64 °F to 64 °F). This means that the weather in Moscow, classified as a humid continental climate, goes from the extremes of -20s °C in the deepest part of winter to +30s °C during heat waves in summer.
The best time to visit the Moscow really depends on what you are after.
May and June are especially colourful with flowering trees showing off in full bloom. Moscow during this time is also groomed for the May holidays. The summer months of July and August are the warmest with long hours of sunlight and when many Muscovites escape the city to their Dacha - a holiday home in the countryside. Early autumn in September and early October are also blessed with fine weather and filled with colourful country scenery before the fall. Moscow is especially dressed to its best during the popular Moscow City Day on the first weekend of September.
The enduring six months from November to April are Moscow's colder part of the year, with less daylight and longer nights. The harshest part of winter is from mid-December to mid-February when the average Moscow weather is below zero and evenings usually flirt with below -10 °C temperatures. Then again, this is not Siberia and nothing that some thick warm clothing and a couple of shots of vodka will not solve!
Winter is the time to visit a snow packet Moscow reminiscent of Doctor Zhivago and when Russians celebrate their New Year in style with five days of national holidays and celebration, followed by Christmas Day which falls on the second week of January in Russia. The cultural life also tends to be much more active in winter as Muscovites are usually looking for various forms of indoor entertainment.


As a real estate veteran of some 45 years, I know a thing or two about the industry. I have lived through four recessions and I can tell you that they are all the same in that they each have a beginning, middle, and an end. The real estate profession is a roller coaster ride that offers the highest of highs, the lowest of lows and—in between—long stretches of uncertainty with only one guarantee: Change is inevitable.
Throughout history, great men and women have left behind significant clues regarding success, yet it is surprising how most of those messages are lost in translation, even when they're obvious and in plain sight. Take for example, "Know Thyself," the maxim inscribed on the forefront of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. It couldn't be more straightforward, yet how many of us really take the time to figure out who we are? Our strengths and weaknesses, desires and abilities? High achievers do. They not only dig deep to discover who they are but also have a clear vision of where they want to go. In real estate, that kind of confidence is what separates the high achievers from low achievers. And there's no way to fake it. Clients, particularly in the high-end market, not only can detect self-assurance but also have come to expect it from an agent they are entrusting to sell one of their most valuable assets.
2.) Pursue the Goal. Regardless of Where the Path Leads.
Real estate is often mistaken as an industry that requires no formal training or experience and little more than a license in order to begin making money relatively quickly. That's perhaps why so many people pursue the real estate path before they've understood or set their professional and personal goals. When the market is healthy and stable, it appears as if anyone can get into the game and succeed. While that may be true for the lucky few, when the market takes a turn it has a way of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. In the short term, newcomers can definitely experience some margin of success but only the high achievers who have set—and firmly declared—clear and measurable goals will be strong enough to withstand the changing tides of an industry whose tentacles reach deep into many areas of the economy such as finance and banking, construction, insurance, and home furnishings just to name a few. High achievers possess a much broader understanding of the industry as a whole, as well as a desire to reach their specific and deliberate goals, which they track and measure each and every day. In other words their eyes are always on the prize, regardless of where the path may be leading them.
3.) Throw Caution to the Wind.
Mark Twain once wrote, "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by things you didn't do than by the things you did do." A similar take on life is also illustrated in the book, "The Top Five Regrets of The Dying," written by a hospice nurse who painstakingly recorded the most common regrets of her patients toward the end of their lives. The number one regret she noted throughout the course of her career was this: I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. Shying away from risk and living within a set of self-imposed limits is a lot like walking around in someone else's shoes that are smaller and tighter than the ones you would rather be wearing. They may look good to those around you but when your feet start to hurt, you're the only one who has to bear the pain. High achievers take both career and personal risks, investing their attention where their passion lies. In the real estate profession, where the hours can be staggeringly long and dry spells a reality, passion provides the fuel that keeps the high achievers moving forward, even when everyone else seems to be moving backward.
4.) Whether You Think You Can or Think You Can't, You're Right.
Henry Ford was a big proponent of positive thinking and placing the responsibility for failure and success squarely where it belonged. While low achievers get stuck and wait for someone to give them something to do, high achievers work their tails off, and if they have nothing to do they create something to do, simply because they understand that whether they succeed or fail, it's all in their hands. That's why rather than getting lost in thoughts of doom and gloom when a home isn't selling as fast as they'd like it to, high achievers summon faith, knowing that every home eventually has a buyer, dismissing all the reasons why it won't sell and focusing intently on the one reason it will.
High achievers know that when you stop learning you stop living. That's why in this fast-paced digital world we live in, the more you adapt to new tools, the sooner you'll reap the benefits of being able to concentrate solely on the business at hand rather than getting continuously mired in administrative work, which has been the status quo in the real estate industry for decades. Take advantage of what the Internet offers while holding on to traditional values that help you build strong relationships, and let go of staid practices and marketing techniques that no longer serve you or your clients. Spray-and-pray approaches in real estate may have worked a decade ago but it's no longer about being everywhere. It's more important now to be everywhere the client is—and readily available. Home sellers and buyers are more sophisticated and informed than ever before. They expect the highest level of service or they'll move on to someone else. There's no doubt, the highest achievers in this industry work hard to stay relevant, leveraging the most advanced technology and marketing tools, taking classes, reading books, and above all, staying surrounded by supportive people.
6.) Be Kind to Others and to Yourself.
Real estate can be a cutthroat industry, particularly when multi-million-dollar properties are at stake. As tempting as it may be to play dirty or take shortcuts in order to score a prime listing, high achievers follow the age-old advice and treat others as they would like to be treated. At the end of the day, they understand their reputation and their health are all they have, so they take care of both. They eat well, sleep well and stay fit physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. And lastly, they know that self-discipline and self-knowledge are the only real paths to freedom, which brings this winding road to a complete circle.
There are plenty of people who believe that winners are born, not made. But anyone can learn to reach his or her highest potential in the real estate industry. For all its indiscriminant peaks and valleys, it is one of the most forgiving and rewarding careers imaginable—as long as you know who you are and where you want to go.
About the Author: Peter Hernandez is president and founder of Teles Properties and the driving force behind the highly collaborative Teles culture. He holds himself accountable for every aspect of the organization as it relates to compliance and broker of record responsibilities, including marketing, broker recruitment, management, retention, coaching and training. The breadth and scope of his experience in the industry is best described—and measured—by his genuine enthusiasm and enormously successful career that has spanned some four decades. Indoctrinated into real estate in 1970, Hernandez experienced early success working for the family firm, Hernandez Realty, the leading agency in Marina Del Rey, before joining Jon Douglas Company in 1983, where he quickly became a top-producing agent. In 1988, he expanded into management, overseeing several offices for both Jon Douglas and Coldwell Banker, until he was eventually appointed president and COO for Coldwell Banker of Orange County. During his tenure there, Hernandez successfully orchestrated three key acquisitions: Dyson and Dyson Company, the Balboa Real Estate Company and Strada Properties.
Since the opening of its first office in Beverly Hills in 2007, Teles has undoubtedly experienced highs and lows, particularly when compared to its peers: highest SP/LP ratio; highest per agent productivity; and lowest number of days on market. The firm has also been ranked and recognized for three consecutive years by the prestigious Inc. 500|5000 list of the fastest growing private companies in America. In well under a decade, those highs and lows have resulted in unprecedented growth— from one office and 12 agents producing $20 million in sales in 2007 to 19 offices and 390 over 400 agents generating over $12 billion in cumulative sales to date. Meet the Executive Team here.


The meeting was convened at 8am CST.
Looking for a variety of models to target high-schoolers, possibly earlier, that would involve running models in an OpenGrid type environment. Users would see the outputs and be able to interact with the models much like it was running on their machine. Educational material would be provided. The models should address issues that are of interest: climate change, plant processes, and local food growth.
Welch started the meeting by recapping yesterday's talks and decisions. The group talked about kinds of things they wanted to see; an initial release focusing on parameter estimation and sensitivity analysis; links to visualization programs; specific details of algorithms used and exports that they'd like to see from the system.
In the Steering Committee, the group has talked through use cases relating to C3/C4 modeling and another relating to phenology specifically looking at interactions between photosynthesis and its impact on phenology. An idea is to maybe use the C3 model that exists and connect that to some of phenology models and perhaps provide photosynthesis input to that. In relation to these use cases, it would be good to talk about specific datasets that might be useful. Chris Jordan has been thinking about general data structures, looking at some generic abstractions. When the data and metadata are separated, there are two general types of data: 1) tabular grid of things and 2) data that has metadata with it but grid of points in multi-dimensional space with some things have geometry associate with them. The group needs to start thinking about things to see if the model is generic enough to capture what is needed and if not, then the group needs a basis for refining it.
There are two types of metadata: experimental or descriptive metadata and a semantic description of what the data is. Descriptive is experimental data and/or computational provenance within the domain of the system; semantic describes what it is (i.e. tabular data) and is used for at a higher level of control. One principle to follow would be that a user doesn't lose any of where the data came from (for credit and publications purposes). iPlant does not want to destroy, discard, and/or modify any of the metadata coming in. With modeling, there is probably unique data that needs to be captured and the group should define what that is. It is safe to assume that iPlant will store all of the basic information. Welch stated that the group has two things to talk about: 1) specific data sets that we know are out there relating to use cases and 2) data items relating to metadata.
Myers then described the C3/C4 modeling use case, explaining that it comes out of a specific project to demonstrate the utility in introducing C4 photosynthesis into rice. There is an adjunct project, led by Tom Brutnell, that is generating omics data on gene expression, proteomics in developing leaves and grass etc. The work was first done with maize and now segueing to rice with work also starting on sorghum (EMS mutagenesis). On one hand, the project is trying to make sense of all the system level data in looking for candidate genes involved in C4 differentiation and on the other, is looking at modeling to see how could you push onto a C3 model to make it more C4 like without destroying the basic function.
Welch added that in the FIBR project, they were looking for reasons, at the genetic level, why empirical phenology models are as skillful as they are in terms of predicitive capabilities. They are looking if Arabidopsis can work in a wheat context and vice-versa. White added that the immediate goal is to improve the wheat model and then would attack it.
In regards to datasets, Myers is hoping to get his manuscript out so that the data will become available to the public. Stapleton suggested Mark Stitiz's Arabidopsis data. Myers wondered how ready the model is off the shelf and Welch suggested that the group can look at it and decide. Vaughn asked how do you hook up the photosynthesis model physically. Both models are rate driven models. At the very simplest level, you would pick an output of the model and use it as a "sugar signal" or proxy. In the phenology model, you would then use that variable to drive it. Myers added that there are specific data sets that are being generated and maybe an idea would be to look at genetic variation in Arabidopsis.
Welch then asked the group to think about what are the right things to be done with data from a modeling perspective (keeping track of provenance) and if there are tools that would be helpful to help manage data when it came out of the lab. He also asked what is needed for collaboration and for upfront data capture. With data capture, the data is coming from underlying data resources. Stapleton suggested picking one data set for testing purposes and collecting the information that is needed.
For major classes of ecophysiological models, there are standard formats developed. These could be used to get an idea and identify categories of information that we've talked about. Myers said that there is a need for data for the models but the group also should identify what needs to come out of the models. Welch suggested that light and temperature are in common across models, with enzyme levels and planting dates differing. Myers added that SBML is very good for capturing data but is not good at describing it. His group has had to think through a set of abstractions that describe the data. Vaughn said that a controlled vocabulary is needed. The suggestion was to have White send Chris Jordan his data file and ask him what would he do. White also presented some of his visualization work related to the NAM work and this can be found here .
Welch summarized that a need that the group sees at this point relative to modeling will be ways to manage data that is in the collection process (tools that make it easy to collect metadata/provenance that puts them in to tabular data model that Jordan had identified). Jordan and the group will want to look at White's data scheme as a test case to identify issues when it comes be worked with in terms of encapsulation.
Vaughn began discussion by talking about points that were brought up over dinner last night. DNA Subway is an excellent example of an educational based DE and it would be nice to identify similar overlap and synergy with modeling. Some ideas would include taking the NAM data and projecting it across expected global climate change models where the models run in real time and one can slide forward in time or change parameters and see how model predictions change in response to global climate change. In reference to Ed's project, it is nice but it would just be another avenue that iPlant would have to pursue. He would like to see educational requirements exist as first class citizens along with the scientific requirements. He suggested focusing on an application that runs a very specific model and then iPlant can make it slick.
Myers suggested that the group could exploit models with "what-if" scenarios. White added that class activities would have to be low time commitment and things that are science fair type of projects. Stapleton said that the buzz phrase is "authentic experience", someone other than you, the student, has to care about the work/experiment you are doing. Welch commented that the group could have workshops for teachers where some information on plants is presented with this information is assisted by models. Myers proposed using the programming skills of younger kids to help with open-source of DSSAT and to look into Google Summer of Code (maybe next year?). He also said that the climate change aspect of things could be a major hook.
Welch was thinking that the group could develop things that run models that run in a distributed model (like OpenGrid). There would be educational materials delivered and could use existing models. What kids in the school see is simulations of plants growing and carrying out growth in conditions/parameters specified. It would be almost entirely web-centric other than training of the teachers. Researchers could get actual scientific calculations and would be much more public and service-oriented. Myers said another hook might be using simulations of plant growth to get people interested in growing their own food.
Welch summarized the discussion stating that the group is \looking for a variety of models to target high-schoolers, possibly earlier, that would involve models running in an OpenGrid type environment (users would see the outputs so it would be like running on their machine) that they can interact with and that has educational materials that goes with it. These models should address issues that are of interest: climate change, plant processes, and local food growth.


Mapping space for water: screening for urban flash flooding.
Hankin, B.and Waller, S. and Astle, G. and Kellagher, R.B.B.
This paper builds on the 'Flooding from Other Sources' project (HA4a), funded as part of Defra's Making Space for Water strategy. The HA4a study concluded that flood risk mapping is feasible for many of the sources of flooding that were investigated, which are not currently covered by the Environment Agency Flood Map, using existing flow modelling and GIS tools. However, there are some major constraints in terms of the need to undertake extensive data collection to allow the generation of useful flood maps that are not dominated by modelling uncertainties. The project anticipated that different levels of data collection and modelling might be needed for different purposes, given the hierarchical nature of UK flood risk assessment and management in the United Kingdom under PPS25 and the EC Floods Directive. This paper compares and contrasts three different approaches to urban flood modelling using topographic analysis, blanket extreme rainfall and semi-coupled sewer/overland routing. The UK summer floods 2007 have highlighted the pressing need for mapping the risk from urban flash flooding, and the Pitt Review has recommended that areas at high risk from surface waters should be urgently identified. This can be done now at some level of detail, and we can be guided as to what level, from our increasing knowledge of vulnerable populations, from records of historical flooding and by using some of the screening methods described herein.


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I love it in the guest room!
but I decided to go ahead and get them!
Who knew Walmart had such cute stuff for so cheap, hopefully I like them when they arrive!
& had to throw in some Hard Candy products!
after also spotting this gingham tank with back buttons, I knew I had to finally get them!
& with the coupon code "SPRINGFUN" it took off $32!
everything I love all rolled into one, had to be mine!


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Christmas adverts 2020: a review
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Now that Halloween is done with, we can really start looking forward to the festive period and with the arrival of this year's Christmas adverts, it's well and truly underway.
I've taken a look at the Christmas adverts that have been released so far:
John Lewis: Give a Little Love
I think we all expected a lot from the John Lewis Christmas advert this year. For me, it missed the mark.
The theme of this year's advert, "Give a little love", was inspired by the kindness shown by the British public during the pandemic.
The storyline illustrates how acts of kindness, large and small, can multiply and positively impact the world in which we live as we pass them on to others, and so it's fitting that the advert has been released on World Kindness Day.
The advert is different from John Lewis Christmas adverts of recent years, and because of that, it just didn't stoke the chord that I was wanting it too.
Score: 3/5
Disney: From our family to yours
Highlighting the importance of family and tradition, the heartwarming Christmas advert from Disney was inspired by nostalgia, particularly in the festive season.
The three-minute animated short, featuring Mickey Mouse, tells the story of grandmother Lola, her granddaughter and the family traditions that have connected them through the years.The storytelling in the advert is very powerful and I may or may not have shed a tear while watching it.
Disney fans can purchase the Mickey Mouse toy featured in the advert from the Disney Store and shopdisney.co.uk, with proceeds going towards Make-a-wish, which has been working with Disney for 40 years. In addition to this, the advert is backed by the vocals of UK rising artist Griff, who sings original song 'Love Is A Compass.' The track is available for sale and every track downloaded before December 31, 2020, 100% of the proceeds will be donated to Make-A-Wish.
I think this is going to be the one that John Lewis has to beat.
Argos: An Evening with AbracaDaisy & The Incredible Lucy
Argos' Christmas advert was the first one I watched this year and I have to say, it's one of my favourites.
Argos announced earlier this year that they would stop production of their iconic Argos catalogue (my 7-year-old self did shed a tear) however, the Christmas gift guide dubbed the 'Book of Dreams' has returned and features prominently in this latest advert. The opening scene features two sisters circling their preferred choice of present in the Book of Dreams, a magic set.
Their living room then transforms into a glamorous theatre as the sisters delight their family with their impressive magic skills – which become bigger and better.
The catchy song, Incredible by Gary Barlow, adds to the uplifting mood of the advert, and indeed the festive season.
ALDI: Where is Kevin?
Am I the only one that is fed up with Kevin the carrot?
Kevin is on a quest to get back to his family in time for Christmas. The storyline and the voice-over rhyming story, told by Jim Broadbent, remind me of the children's Christmas storybook, Stickman, by Julia Donaldson.
I enjoyed the references to iconic movies such as Pirates of the Caribbean, E.T. and Home Alone, and the advert as a whole.
Amazon: The Show Must Go On
This year's Amazon advert reminds us all of the challenging year we've had, and while it could have come across as upsetting to watch, it's beautiful, powerful and inspiring.
Set to an original arrangement of Queen's 'The Show Must Go On' the advert features a young ballerina who is cast as the star in a dance show. As a result of the coronavirus, the show is cancelled; her neighbours and sister, however, help to put together an outdoor show where she showcases her talent on a rooftop, in the snow, for everyone to see.
For me, this advert captures the magic of community that so many have witnessed this year.
TK Maxx: The Lil' Goat
I love this one, and that surprised me. It's incredibly silly and super random – everything that we need in 2020!
It starts with a goat in a hot pink jacket, an emerald green blouse and a red beret, strutting her stuff like she's walking for Fendi at Milan fashion week. As she passes a heard of sheep, her owners discuss her unexpected outfit.
'Did you buy the goat a designer outfit?' the woman asks who I assume to be her husband, to which he replies: 'Yes. She's had such a hard year. She blooming well deserves it, if you ask me.' As he sheds a tear…
Marks and Spencer: This is M&S food
We get it, M&S has launched a light globe gin liqueur with edible gold leaf. It's everywhere. It also features heavily in this years Christmas advert.
The first in what appears to be a string of adverts, with one released each week in the leadup to Christmas, features the voice of Olivia Colman who does a good job at delivering the M&S aesthetic. Aside from that, it's just another M&S advert.
ASDA: That's an ASDA Price Christmas
It's a conventional Christmas advert. It's not memorable in any, way, shape or form. That's it. That's the review.
Very.co.uk: Christmas is this Very Moment
I enjoyed this advert. It shows a variety of little moments shared between a family on the lead up to Christmas.
It's not memorable by any means, but it's simple, and it works.
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As we talk about diamond cut, don't confuse it with diamond shape. A diamond's cut refers to the symmetry of its facets, the measurements of its angles and much more. A diamond's shape refers to its external form, which can be round, oval, cushion or heart-shaped, among others.
Before we explain more about diamond cut, let's briefly consider how diamond cutting has evolved since it first began in the Middle Ages.
Jewellers first began to realize this in the middle of the 1400s. They discovered that the crystals within rough diamonds were octahedrals and began polishing these 8 natural facets to improve the stone's usability and beauty. This form of polishing diamonds is now known as the point cut.
Jewellers worked to improve the point cut over the next decades. They began to saw off a portion of the octahedron to form a flat table on the top of the gem, as well as added a culet to the bottom point of the gem to prevent it from cracking. During these years, a Flemish diamond polisher named Lodewyk van Bercken stressed the importance of each gemstone being absolutely symmetrical.
In the 16th and 17th centuries, jewellers experimented with adding additional facets to diamonds. Rosette-cut diamonds with triangular facets arranged in a radiating pattern were introduced to the diamond market in Antwerp, while Peruzzi-cut diamonds with 33 facets on their crown became popular in Italy.
Each of these early diamond cuts contributed to the development of the old European cut in the 1800s. The Old European cut gave diamonds 58 facets, as well as a smaller table, larger culet and more depth than their earlier counterparts. The old European cut set the stage for the round brilliant cut that we prize today.
As the 20th century dawned, jewellers began using more precise saws and state-of-the-art lathes as they shaped diamonds and a Polish engineer named Marcel Tolkowsky began to systematically study the old European cut. Tolkowsky carefully calculated how much white light old European cut diamonds reflected and evaluated the fire that appeared as the white light was dispersed in all the colours of the rainbow.
Marcel Tolkowsky then mathematically redesigned every aspect of the old European cut. His stunningly beautiful, new diamond cut became known as the round brilliant cut, because it maximized the brilliance, fire and sparkle of every diamond crystal.
Today approximately 75% of all the diamonds used in engagement and wedding rings, as well as other jewellery, are full of life and light thanks to the round brilliant cut.
Now let's carefully consider the primary aspects of a diamond's cut.
The best gemologists take time to study the rough diamond, before they begin to cut it. As they study it, they consider its grain, any flaws that it has and its precise measurements. They then decide how to give it symmetry, proportion and polish to bring out the beauty in that particular stone.
Symmetry – The best diamonds are perfectly symmetrical. This means that the facets on any of its sides are exactly similar to the facets facing them across the diamond's axis.
Today's round brilliant cut diamonds have 58 facets, if they have a culet, and 57 facets without a culet. Gemologists have named the facets so that they can be very specific in their work. On the crown of a diamond, the star, kite and upper girdle facets surround the diamond's table, while lower girdle and pavilion facets stretch from the diamond's girdle down to the culet.
– The total depth of the gem should be 59.3% of the diameter.
– The diamond's table should measure no more than 53% of the diameter.
– The height of the diamond's crown should be 16.2% of the diameter.
– The diamond should have a crown angle of 34.5 degrees.
– Lastly, the diamond should have a pavilion depth of 40.75 degrees.
As gemologists decide what proportions they are going to give a diamond, they pay special attention to the correlation between the diamond's carat weight and its diameter. If they give a diamond with a small carat weight a large diameter, the resulting gem will be shallow and lose light through the sides. A heavy diamond with a diameter that is too small will also lose light through its pavilion because it is too deep.
To produce the ideal diamond, gemologists must find the perfect balance between a diamond's carat weight and the measurement of its diameter, so that all the light that enters the stone will be reflected back out of the crown.
Polish – One of the final steps in the diamond cutting process is polishing, because all diamonds pick up minor surface blemishes as they are cut and these flaws obstruct the reflection of light. Diamonds are polished with diamond dust and other abrasive agents to smooth the surface of the diamond, so that light can enter and exit the gem without interference.
Skilled gemologists pay attention to the symmetry, proportions and polish of any well-cut diamond, but on approximately 1% of diamonds they double their efforts in order to make hearts and arrow diamonds.
Hearts and Arrow Diamonds – The Japanese are credited with creating the first heart and arrow diamonds in the 1980s. Japanese jewellers optimized the diamonds' symmetry, modified the faceting pattern and spent extra time polishing the stones. The result was exceptional diamonds that have eight internal, symmetrical arrows when they are viewed from the top and eight internal, symmetrical hearts when viewed from the bottom.
Today hearts and arrow diamonds are made by jewellers all around the world. Although they cost a little more than round brilliant diamonds, heart and arrow diamonds are worth the investment because they are exceptionally brilliant and have the special touch of having hearts hidden in them.
Brilliance – Brilliance refers to the intensity of the white light that reflects back through the diamond's crown. Brilliance is the foundation for the diamond's overall beauty.
Dispersion – Dispersion is sometimes also called fire. It refers to white light that has been refracted inside the diamond and then reflects out of the stone in the colours of the visible spectrum.
Scintillation – Scintillation refers to a diamond's sparkle. A diamond with well-cut facets reflects small bursts of light at it moves or as the light around it moves and this causes the stone to sparkle.
The quality of a diamond's cut decides how much light the gem reflects and this reflected light determines the stone's brilliance, fire and scintillation. This is why diamond cut is so important and why you should purchase a diamond with a well-graded cut.
We have mentioned before how the best diamonds come with a diamond certificate from a reputable gem lab. A diamond certificate guarantees the stone's value, as well as lists the gem's primary characteristics including the grade of its cut.
As gem labs, for instance the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) or the Hoge Raad voor Diamant (HRD), grade a diamond's cut, they calculate the proportions of the diamonds facets and then evaluate how successfully the diamond interacts with light to create brilliance, fire and scintillation.
The gemologists at the gem lab also asses the diamond's design and craftsmanship, the correlation between its weight and diameter, the symmetry of its facets and the quality of its polish before they give it a grade which can be: Excellent, Very Good, Good, Poor or Very Poor.
At Beldiamond we advise our clients to purchase diamonds with either an Excellent or Very Good grade, so that it will have an even pattern of light and darkness across its surface, as well as be beautiful as it interacts with light.
This article would be incomplete if we didn't mention the Da Vinci diamond cut. Leonardo Da Vinci believed that anything designed with the Golden Ratio (AC/CB = 1.618) would be outstandingly attractive. Da Vinci incorporated this ratio into innumerable sketches, paintings and articles. Just recently jewellers have begun using diamonds based on Da Vinci's polygons and the Golden Ratio. The resulting gems are truly outstanding.
Whether you are looking for a round brilliant, a hearts and arrows or a Da Vinci diamond, contact us and we will be happy to help you in any way that we can.


How Does CampusBird Make Its Maps?
We are often asked what makes our maps the best out there. A lot goes into the map making process.
Our production team uses tools ranaging from SketchUp to regular old Photoshop.
We are not giving away everything but download our guide to see how our maps are created.
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Ray "LyaR" Loftus is currently a Free Agent in the United States.
Lyar started playing Call of Duty 2 when he went over to his friends house to play on his Xbox 360. Eventually he purchased his own system, and after being recruited in a public lobby for GameBattles, he got hooked on competing and kept playing to the highest level and went to numerous LANs.
LyaR got his name from combining his first name and last initial and then reversing them.
His favorite moment from his Call of Duty career is being invited to the Call of Duty: Ghosts reveal with 11 other pro players and U.S. Marines.
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The municipality of Venlo
"Data help guarantee safety. In the future, we can use it to reserve workspaces."
Ruud Geraedts Facility Manager of the municipality of Venlo
Data turn out to be gold
After the closure due to corona, Venlo's city hall wanted to guarantee employees a swift and safe return to work. Its buildings were fitted with 860 sensors. Subsequently, the workspace reservation system, including an online dashboard went live within 8 days. It shows the municipality the real-time occupancy and usage of workspaces at a single glance. And that is just the start of it.
Sensors installed
Venlo's city hall is an exceptional building, having been designed and built according to the Cradle to Cradle principle. Making it, amongst others, sustainable, self-sufficient in energy, water and air and an as pleasant possible work environment. Beyond Eyes has helped by enabling a swift and safe return to the office.
Ruud Geraedts works as a facility manager at the municipality of Venlo. Because of corona he became more and more interested in data-driven work. "Suddenly, we were faced with the question: how do we ensure a safe return to the work floor for our employees? Data could be the answer to that. I already started looking into it a year ago, as I noticed we were mainly playing it by ear when it came to the office layout. Colleagues regularly told me it was too busy in the building, asking me if we could create more workspaces. But then, I would often see empty spots when I was doing my rounds. I needed solid proof to show them the building's actual occupancy, in order to rebut that idea."
After looking into various parties, we decided to go with Beyond Eyes as the system works with anonymous data. Employees do not like the idea of being monitored. As we had set a clear target, it took just three weeks to implement the system. It took one day to install 860 sensors and the system went live within 8 days. Now, the municipality can monitor the occupancy rate of workspaces and offer the option to reserve them.
Infrared sensors underneath desks and on meeting room walls register heat and movement. Three gateways in the building use the independent network to forward data to the system. The dashboard gives Geraedts insight into the data. His first priority was to gain insight into the occupancy rate of workspaces; the occupancy and usage of the building are now visible at a single glance. And filters can be turned on to show data per day, workspace or department.
The dashboard provides Geraedts with a clear overview and all the information he needs. Now that the first part – monitoring the occupancy rate during the start-up phase – has almost been completed, he is contemplating other ways in which the data could be put to use. "Perhaps we could provide employees with insight into available workspaces or we could start using a reservation system." He is certain this is just the start of a far larger development. "I can already tell these data are the new gold: we are using it to guarantee the safety of our employees. But the future offers so much more. We could modify cleaning according to the occupancy rate. And should we notice an unoccupied workspace, then we have to find out why it is not being used. Is it because the desk is broken, or the nearby coffee machine makes too much noise? This enables us to achieve a far more efficient layout of our building. This is of great help to us at Facility Management, because it enables us to do even better at carrying out our main task: offering employees an as pleasant possible work environment."
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Attn Racists: Pick a location and battle it out, for humanity's sake.
Submitted by Tom Sorrell at 2013-06-15 23:26:43 EDT
Rating: 2.0 on 5 ratings (15 reviews) (Review this item) (V)
You know that song by The Offspring about the one street in a town that's bad and swallows lives? The one where a girl's boyfriend "plays guitar and smokes a lot of pot"? Sure you do, it was so overplayed at one point there's no way you don't. It'd be like if I said "Hey, remember that terrible Sugar Ray track about morning and halos or that Everclear song about Santa Monica that everyone knows how to play? What's that called again? Oh … right. Santa Monica. So imagine that street over and over and over and over, in varying degrees of awfulness. Some of the streets are lined with factories. Some with schools and trees. Some with businesses packed tightly into office spaces with too little parking and terrible access points onto roads that desperately need repaved.
One of those shitty roads still has my old house on it. An old three story tri-level thing that looked like a rejected Tetris piece. It was basically one level with another level on top of it – but that level was the third floor. The second floor was off to the side, yet still connected to the house. The whole thing was built into the side of the hill, weird and ugly. The house was tan, with a brown roof and a dark-red door, and it was like walking into an asshole every time I came home. Luckily it didn't smell that way. It left that to town itself. I'm not kidding. My town had a paper mill and a steel mill. If you grew up near a steel mill and a paper factory, you know what I mean. If you didn't, just move there and you'll never be afraid of hell again. The water even smells like sulfur to add to the illusion.
Right. So I grew up in one of those towns that kills people. A little burgh that sucks people in and chews them up and doesn't even bother to spit them back out. My town sucks, then it swallows and people die in the stomach. It's a Sarlacc pit. The same families have been hanging around there for 100 years. You know who's an asshole and who's not by their last name. Half the people there probably still cover their dinners in molasses and think it's normal.
If you're lucky enough to escape the town shits you out into the world and you're left with an awful sense of what everything's about. And you smell awful, but you can't even tell because you're used to it. You end up with this terrible feeling of dread, because you know how awful people can be, but you don't know much about people who aren't white and ignorant. But still, you're so happy to be free that you act like an asshole, at least according to people who come from cities of so-called refinement. Smug, social elites who see people born differently and make sure to raise their noses before clucking their tongues like their pedantic parents taught them to do. Because anyone different is definitely WRONG. Stuck in the middle between the two worlds is a shitty place to exist.
Or maybe that's just been my experience. I don't know, I grew up in a sheltered place that prepared me for everything in strange ways. There was one black kid in our town. He lived down the road from me. We started playing football together in the second grade. You know, go out back and throw and run and catch for fucking hours. I was always Joe Montana when I threw and John Taylor when I caught passes. He was always Steve Young and Jerry Rice. Looking back, he got the better deal.
Anyway, I didn't know anything about race at that point. My mom was/is a liberal-ass hippy who taught me never to see color, so I didn't. Not at first. I saw a kid who wanted to play football. So we hung out. This is how friendship works, right? We've all experienced this. You're a kid. Common interests form life-lasting bonds. Jerry Seinfeld touched on this once. To paraphrase: "We were friends in second grade. He had an air hockey table. I'd have been friends with Hitler if he had an air hockey table."
So this kid and I were friends, which was fine for a while. Then I started to see color. It started when I got to see the ugly side of my town. The hateful, ignorant, stupid, intolerant, loudmouthed, violent side of my town. I got to see nooses hung on his locker. I got to be called a "nigger" because I hung out with him and listened to rap music and had the audacity to wear my hat backwards, though never to the side. Still talked normal. Didn't sag my pants. Didn't act like I was hard. None of that stupid bullshit. A friend of mine was black and I liked music they didn't, so I was a "nigger" to these hillbilly, redneck motherfuckers, whom I loathe with every fiber of my being. I was "white trash," to one person, which was so ironic it breaks the scale.
I specifically remember the fat fuck who called me that spitting tobacco juice into a bottle while he sat on a broken lawn chair in front of his messy ass house that smelled like wet dog talking about why I couldn't come to his bonfire. Again, ironic. It's like if someone told me, "Tom, you can't lay down in that pit of Rottweilers." Ok. Cool. Thanks. I also remember being harassed by cops when my friend would ride with me. I still panic a little when I see a cop car, because every time a cop would whip around and pull me over they always spoke with that same bullshit, fakeass, "I'm-from-the-midwest-but-I-talk-like-I'm-from-the-south" accent just to let you know where you stood from the get go. One even asked me where I got a hat with the bill in the back. I told him you had to order them specially, but I could give him the number if he wanted it. He didn't like that. Not one bit. But then again, he was a racist asshole with no sense of humor.
Look, it's not that I hate white people. Or police officers. I don't and I don't. I'm just talking about racist and ignorant people. This brings me around to my point. I was going to an eatery known as Wing Stop a few nights ago to pick up an order of boneless wings with Louisiana Rub sauce. That flavor is like heaven, by the way. I pulled up in my car with the windows up and the radio on, listening to Robert Johnson. Mr. Johnson was/is a quintessential blues man. He's one of the two Johnsons, the other being Tommy, who supposedly sold their souls to Faust ... or something. Anyway, I had it loud, but again, the windows were up. I'm not one of those people who rolls around with the windows down and the stereo cranked ... not unless I'm on an open road in the country somewhere. At that point I let it rip, like Tom Cruise in Jerry MacGuire when he sings to Free Fallin', but in the city, never.
Right, so the music was loud with the windows up and I pull in. A group of six black kids, ranging from 18 to 21 or so were standing there mid-conversation. They stopped and stared at me like I was insane. In case you've never heard Robert Johnson's music, it was just him and a guitar singing into a can in a corner of a Texas warehouse with no air conditioning. And it's blues. Delta Blues, from the 20s. It sounds old. To these kids it apparently sounded like Willie Nelson or some other random country singer. Hank Williams, maybe, or Andy Williams. Burl Ives.
Whatever, the point is they all stared at me strangely while I walked into the store to fetch my meal. When I walked out, they were gathered around their car with the local country station turned to max volume, giggling and laughing as I walked by. Now, I didn't catch on at first. I thought it was a funny scene, actually, like something out of a Mel Brooks movie. I laughed and walked to my car, then the radio started and I heard Robert's haunting voice and the cool strum of his guitar in the thick Dallas heat.
"Ah ha," I thought. "They were making fun of me. They were calling me a hillbilly."
Oh well, normally. I don't care what people say, especially idiot kids. Their opinions don't even count. But, these were black kids giving me shit for listening to Robert God-damned Johnson, the blackest mother fucker you've ever seen. One of the men who helped create that sweet Delta sound that influenced so much other music. Zeppelin was influenced by him. So was Eric Clapton. The Rolling Stones. The list is long. The list is distinguished.
That doesn't matter to these kids. Of course, they don't listen to Eric Clapton and I don't blame them. That said, Robert was playing a simple blues lick on his guitar. One vaguely similar to the riff in the greatest hip hop song ever recorded, Bridging the Gap, by Nas. You don't even have to like hip hop to like this song. It's just amazing. It's nearly perfect. One of the lyrics goes "The blues came from gospel, gospel from blues. Slaves were harmonizing them ah's and oo's." And he's absolutely right, of course. But these kids don't know that, right? Or maybe they do. Hmm. The way I see it is there are two options:
A. I know more about black people's music than they do.
B. They were racist little assholes that see a white guy and assume he's a hillbilly.
Honestly, I think it's a mixture of both, but I don't want to go into the music thing now, so I'm going with B, because I get it all the time and I'm sick of it. I've dealt with the same bullshit from both sides now, and both sides are equally full of shit. All these stupid racist fucks who don't know shit about shit need to get gone and stay gone. White and black, to hell with them all.
You know the people I mean. I see white people smiling to black people's faces while holding back a sneer they reserve for a dog when it shits on the rug. I see black people shit-talking and openly mocking white people and saying stupid shit like "YOU PEOPLE?" (it means you, second person, ie: everyone around me who is not me). Yet to call a black person a racist is ridiculous, right? No? Oh. But when you point this out those people get loud and stupid and violent. I know. This is how the white people are too, when they're trying to hide their racist bullshit, but only barely.
Look, I know this is a rant that's been done a million times before, but I'm doing it again, because there's a distinction here that needs to be made. I don't have a problem with black people. I also don't have a problem with white people. I have a problem with the racist assholes on both sides. As far as I'm concerned, they should just get together somewhere and duke it out. Agree on a place, then get together and start brawling like West Side Story or Anchorman. All I ask is that you announce it first, so people who don't give a fuck about simple shit like race and hatred can get the hell out of the way. I know don't care about either of your causes. I think you're equally stupid and totally full of shit. Color be damned, and all of you people who only see it too.
Submitted by Dan at 2013-07-25 20:25:59 EDT (#)
Auto +2 racism.
Submitted by Susie_Derkins at 2013-07-14 01:53:46 EDT (#)
Submitted by Tom Sorrell at 2013-06-20 10:13:04 EDT (#)
Submitted by Wildman at 2013-06-20 02:32:35 EDT (#)
o hell no you comment-deleting little anal bitch
I didn't delete any comments until I deleted the random one above.
And who is VE below?
Submitted by grÜeMaster emeritus and uberlord supreme at 2013-06-18 16:10:53 EDT (#)
fag below
VE, were you Daniel something or other? My memory of the olden days is hazy.
Just an observation.
You know VE, there are times you sound very much like Perkman.
VE, I presume you live in Detroit?
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB at 2013-06-17 11:48:56 EDT (#)
Honky.
Submitted by SilvrWolf at 2013-06-16 16:36:11 EDT (#)
Nice rant...
you stupid nigger.
(You HAD to know it was coming sometime)
"I guess I'm the only one who remains unaffiliated."
Submitted by RoadSong at 2013-06-16 13:39:03 EDT (#)
Hot Damn I believe you really did sell your soul to the Devil...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBqfZ5d5zw8
https://www.ubersite.com/m/96729
Read your town charter, boy. `If food stuffs should touch the ground,
said food stuffs shall be turned over to the village idiot.' Since I
don't see him around, start shoveling!
Lisa's Rival


Lok Satta Party national President Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan today appealed to the President of India and all parties in Parliament to save the country from the onslaught mounted by the UPA Government against federalism.
Addressing a media conference on the Bill adopted by the Union Cabinet to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh, Dr. JP said that the President of India has to act as bridge between States and the Center. If the Andhra Pradesh Legislature rejects the Bill to bifurcate the State, the President has to take note of it and refrain from recommending its passage by Parliament. All political parties in Parliament should realize the threat to federalism posed by the minority UPA Government's unilateral and dictatorial decision to divide Andhra Pradesh.
Quoting the saying that 'fools rush in where angels fear to tread,' Dr. JP said that the Union Government has chosen to divide the State without working out a consensus among all regions.
Dr. JP recalled that in respect of formation of States so far, the Union Government has always obtained the prior consent of the State or followed the recommendations of a commission or committee before it created any State. The Union Government has now chosen to set a dangerous precedent that threatens to undermine the unity and federal character of the country. India has become a de facto unitary nation with the Union Cabinet decision.
Dr. JP pointed out that the Union Governments in the past had brought about a consensus among all regions before it divided any State through patient negotiation. Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav who asserted that Jharkhand could be formed only over his dead body himself came round to moving the division resolution in the Assembly after negotiations.
Dr. JP said that the UPA Government has decided to bifurcate Andhra Pradesh without addressing attendant problems. The 120-page Union Cabinet is silent on addressing problems of the most backward region of Rayalaseema. It does not say how the residual Andhra Pradesh is to be run with an annual revenue deficit of Rs.7000 crore following the loss of Hyderabad.
Dr. JP appealed to people to voice their protest peacefully without resorting to violence or disrupting normal life. Theirs is a fight against the egoistic Delhi rulers and for preserving the federal set-up.
Replying to a question, Dr. JP said that there should be voting in the Legislature on the bifurcation Bill or the members' views taken in writing. When asked whether Coastal Andhra and Rayalaseema legislators who are in a majority would ever allow formation of Telangana, Dr. JP pointed out that all the States hitherto formed had only minority members in the Legislature. But a concensus was arrived at through patient negotiations.
Dr. JP reiterated that the Lok Satta would welcome formation of Telangana as part of a comprehensive and amicable settlement among all regions of the State. The UPA Government has decided to bifurcate the State not out of love for the people of Telangana but with an eye on votes and seats in the next general elections.
State Lok Satta Party President Katari Srinivasa Rao, Vice President Y. D. Rama Rao and Secretary Nandipet Ravinder took part in the media meet.


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Jun 17, 2020 - Politics & Policy
Scoop: Republican operatives launch pro-Biden super PAC
Alayna Treene, Jonathan Swan
Former Vice President Joe Biden at a campaign rally on March 9, 2020. Photo: Mandel Nga/ AFP
A group of prominent Republican operatives that includes former officials from the Trump and George W. Bush administrations are launching a super PAC to turn out GOP voters for Joe Biden in November, organizers tell Axios.
Details: The "Right Side PAC" aims to identify former Trump supporters across the country who have cooled to the president's approach in office and convince them to vote for Biden, says founder Matt Borges, a former chairman of the Ohio Republican Party.
Anthony Scaramucci, who was fired after 10 days as Trump's communications director and later turned on the president, also is part of the effort.
How it works: The PAC will initially target voters in the battleground states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona, North Carolina and Florida.
They'll use digital, mail and telephone to reach voters. They'll encourage absentee voting. They do not have plans to run TV ads.
It's getting help from a few dozen operatives, including alums of Bush and the late Sen. John McCain's presidential campaigns.
They'll lay out Biden's record on free trade, states' rights, federal spending and respecting U.S. diplomatic and military alliances — and highlight his Catholic faith — to make the case that most anti-Trump Republicans can feel comfortable supporting him.
The group intends to rely heavily on major donors.
More detail on its backers should come out with its first Federal Election Commission filing in mid-July.
Between the lines: The group sees itself as a complement to The Lincoln Project, the anti-Trump group led by George Conway (husband of Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway) and several prominent GOP operatives.
The Lincoln Project is more focused on TV ads and broader messaging, while Right Side will concentrate more on data and individualized turnout, Borges said. "We're going to dig into the data and find out where these voters are and try to help turn them out."
A similar group, Republican Voters Against Trump, which launched in May, is also focused on getting white, college-educated Republican voters in the suburbs to vote for Biden.
What they're saying: "We want to take an opportunity to kind of reset things," Borges says. "And the first way to do that is cut out the cancer and start rebuilding."
"We're not trying to become Democrats," Borges says. "I intend to vote for every other Republican on the ballot. And I expect that there are others like me who aren't looking to leave the party."
Scaramucci says he's "very confident that we can convince a large group of Republican voters that Biden is the right person to vote for if they want to stay true to their principles and to the legacy of the Republican Party."
Defeating Trump "will be a very necessary part of the reorganization and the regrowth of the Republican Party," while if he's reelected "he may set the Republican Party up to be a minority party for a generation," Scaramucci says.
Behind the scenes: During the crowded Democratic primary, Borges says he and other GOP operatives set about identifying disaffected Republicans who might be eligible and willing to cast primary votes for Biden.
"What that did more than anything else was sort of open our eyes to the opportunities that are out there," he said.
Borges says he "would never" be doing this if Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren were the Democratic nominee.
He says anti-Trump GOP organizations are "sprouting up all over the place" but generally lack the focus on voter targeting and turnout — areas in which he says his group has deep expertise.
Don't forget: Borges, who worked on several presidential campaigns and chaired the Ohio GOP from 2013-17, clashed publicly with Trump during the 2016 campaign.
After Trump won, he helped oust Borges as state party chairman.
Alexi McCammond, Margaret Talev
Sep 24, 2020 - Politics & Policy
Democrats' mail voting pivot
Democrats spent the early months of the coronavirus pandemic urging their base to vote absentee. But as threats of U.S. Postal Service delays, Team Trump litigation and higher ballot rejection rates become clearer, many are pivoting to promote more in-person voting as well.
Why it matters: Democrats are exponentially more likely to vote by mail than Republicans this year — and if enough mail-in ballots are lost, rejected on a technicality or undercounted, it could change the outcome of the presidential election or other key races.
Alayna Treene, Hans Nichols
The apocalypse scenario
Democratic lawyers are preparing to challenge any effort by President Trump to swap electors chosen by voters with electors selected by Republican-controlled legislatures. One state of particular concern: Pennsylvania, where the GOP controls the state house.
Why it matters: Trump's refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power, together with a widely circulated article in The Atlantic about how bad the worst-case scenarios could get, is drawing new attention to the brutal fights that could jeopardize a final outcome.
Hans Nichols, author of Sneak Peek
National security officials endorse Biden
Photo: Jim Watson/Getty Images
A group of 489 former national security leaders, including Paul Selva, a retired four-star general and the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Trump, have endorsed Joe Biden for president.
The big picture: Among the names signing Thursday's letter: Sean O'Keefe, a former Navy secretary for President George H.W. Bush; Richard Armitage, deputy secretary of state for President George W. Bush; and Admiral Steve Abbot (ret.) who also worked in the last Bush White House.
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