Sarah Paulson: The Untold Truth of Her Life
October 02, 2020 | by Zhenia Lis
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Why did Sarah Paulson try to emulate Julia Roberts early in her career? What’s her biggest fear? Hint – it doesn't have anything to do with American Horror Story! And why was she compelled to play the lead role in Ratched? Find out the answers below!
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Born in 1974 in Tampa, Florida, Sarah faced her first serious challenge when she was only five. Her parents got divorced, and she had to relocate to Maine and then to New York City along with her mother and sister. But it didn’t scar her emotionally or anything. Instead, it made her admire her mother. Here’s how the actress recalls that period:
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“My mom was 27 years old.  She was so brave. My mom’s kind of my hero that way.”
Sarah Paulson during WB's 1999 Summer Press Tour at Ritz-Carlton Hotel / Photo:Getty Images
Sarah’s affinity for acting began back when she was in high school. Eventually, her dedication paid off because she booked her first professional acting job in a Broadway play, mere months after graduating from high school. Since Paulson already knew exactly what she wanted to do.
There, she got everything she needed to become a famous small and big-screen actress. Quite soon, Sarah began appearing on TV in brief roles. Her first small-screen role was in an episode of Law & Order in 1994, and in another year, she landed a role in Friends at Last alongside Kathleen Turner24, 2018 at 10:03am PDT
NOT QUITE SUCCESSFUL PROJECTS/ Photo:Getty Images
But that was still far ahead in the future, so Sarah kept on working and developing her talent to land new roles. And yet, as it often happens at the beginning of great careers, it seemed like nothing worked. A lot of her TV shows would be canceled after the first season or after only a few episodes22, 2018 at 12:54pm PDT
And her big-screen projects also weren't very successful. But that's not to say that Paulson’s early acting years were full of despair. The actress had a great time working with her favorite actress, Jessica Lange, in a Broadway play, although it also didn’t get favorable reviews.
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Sarah Paulson attends "The Goldfinch" premiere / Photo:Getty Images
IMITATING JULIA ROBERTS
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“ - the most important thing - it would be mine, whatever it was,” the actress revealed to GQ.
She was totally right because being a copy of Julia Roberts wouldn’t help her land the role that made Sarah incredibly famous.
Sarah Paulson during 'Get Carter' Los Angeles Premiere / Photo:Getty Images
HOW SHE GOT THE ROLE IN AMERICAN HORROR STORY
Working on a Broadway play with her idol, Jessica Lange, paid off for Paulson. Impressed with her colleague’s acting skills, Lange personally recommended Sarah for the role in the anthology horror series. She guest-starred in three episodes of AHS: Murder House and the series director Ryan Murphy immediately fell in love with her.
Sarah Paulson attends the FYC red carpet for FX's "American Horror Story: Apocalypse" / Photo:Getty Images
Paulson took up important roles in all subsequent seasons of AHS, except for the latest one, American Horror Story: 1984. Now, she’s also set to appear in the upcoming season of the anthology series, as well as in the new American Crime Story planned for release next year8 at 11:07am PDT
Looks like Murphy can’t live without her! In a way, this is kinda true because after all the years Sarah and Ryan have worked together, she's become his muse. And Sarah also loves working with Ryan. She commented in an interview with Collider:
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“I’u’”
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SARAH HAS HER OWN FEARS AS WELL
First of all, she has something called Trypophobia, which means that she’s scared of honeycombs, sponges, and pretty much anything with small holes in it. Weird, I know, but this phobia actually exists! And she’s also afraid of flying. As Sarah once admitted on Late Night with Seth Meyers, she won’t fly on a plane unless they let her enter the cockpit and have a chat with the pilot17, 2018 at 9:04pm PDT
A lot of airlines the actress uses already know about this quirk of hers, so the pilots sometimes have a bit of fun with the actress. They often joke that it’s their first day at the wheel, and one pilot went as far as whispering her name over the air traffic control station to scare her! Sure, it was amusing to everyone else, but not to Sarah!
Sarah Paulson attends The IMDb Studio / Photo:Getty Images
HOW AMERICAN HORROR STORY CHANGED HER LIFE
Back to American Horror Story. The show changed Sarah’s life in many ways. She received quite a few awards, including an Emmy and Critic’s Choice. And she also got the chance to become a director in American Horror Story: Apocalypse.
“As a director, your job is to see the whole thing,” Paulson said to The Hollywood Reporter. “So this experience has helped me zoom out from my own piece of the puzzle and see the greater picture and how my character fits into it.”
Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor arrive atHEN SARAH MET HOLLAND…
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The two of them truly inspire others,ecause of their considerable age gap. Taylor is 32 years older than Paulson, but it never bothered either of them. And, as Sarah once revealed, the age difference helps them make their relationship better.
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For Holland, the biggest challenge of their relationship was public scrutiny. It’s not that she didn’t like revealing their romance to the world, but it took her some time to adjust to it and learn to talk about ian 1, 2020 at 12:10am PST
Thankfully Paulson’s friends were wrong, and being open about their relationship didn’t affect Sarah's or Holland's careers in any way. Both ladies have kept on working and fascinating us with their talents.
The next challenge she took upon herself is a lead role in Ryan Murphy’s new series Ratched, which recently premiered on Netflix. The project is, indeed, challenging, and it even terrified Paulson at first. The show. But, interestingly enough, that’s exactly why she said yes.
“I think if I feel terrified to do it, I almost feel compelled, that I don’t have a choice,” the actress shared with The Guardian.
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It wasn’t easy to take up playing the character named as the fifth-greatest villain and second-greatest villainess in film history. But, as Paulson said in an interview with Collider, she did have some flexibility with it because Ratched takes place twenty years prior to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, which means that she isn’t the Mildred we know just yet.
“,” Sarah said 26, 2020 at 11:31am PDT
And, of course, it was never her goal to show her character as a likable person, because Nurse Ratched has never been one. On the other hand, Paulson was much more interested in what made Mildred human. Do you think that she succeeded in portraying her character in Ratched?


Medtronic clinical executive Ruchir Sehra says CDRH's newfound rigor in the postmarket area is evident in its approach to the firm's post-approval study of the X-Stop spinal implant.
"They seem to be encouraging more post-approval follow-up," said Sehra, VP-clinical and research of Medtronic's spinal and biologics business in Sunnyvale, Calif.
Sehra says the agency called for two post-approval follow-up studies on X-Stop, which received PMA approval in November 2005 ("1The Gray Sheet" Nov. 28, 2005, p. 6). The implant offers a non-fusion option for alleviating the painful symptoms of lumbar spinal stenosis. Inserted between the spinous processes of symptomatic discs, it "distracts" the space around the nerves, preventing pinching.
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OIG Allows Two More Gainsharing Programs; CMS Demos Still Pending
"This now becomes the tenth opinion that we've secured in this area. It shows there is replication to the model," said Joane Goodroe, president of Goodroe Healthcare Solutions, which designed the projects.
Gainsharing arrangements, whereby hospitals share with physicians the cost savings that come from quality and efficiency initiatives, are generally illegal, since physicians may be rewarded for reducing health services, or their referral patterns could be influenced.
However, OIG has granted exceptions in certain cases, all designed by Goodroe, stating in the accompanying advisory opinions that it will not impose sanctions because the programs include enough patient protections.
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FDA Aims To Establish Overseas Staff Posts, Starting In China
This article is reprinted from "The Gray Sheet" – January 14, 2008
FDA is considering posting staff overseas to perform inspections and foster relationships with foreign government counterparts and industry.
"There is a very real interest in pursuing this and obviously the spotlight has been on China ... but this is not just a China issue," FDA Deputy Commissioner for International and Special Programs Murray Lumpkin said during a Dec. 13 panel discussion on FDA's international issues hosted by the Food and Drug Law Institute.
"The products that we are responsible for within the United States are no longer domestic commodities," Lumpkin said.
"For the most part, whether it's on the food side of the house or the medical products side of the house, they are global commodities. They are discovered, developed, marketed, and most importantly they are used by consumers, practitioners and patients around the world."
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Medtronic/Edwards: Edwards settles patent litigation with Medtronic for $37.5mm
Deal summary reprinted from Strategic Transactions - January 2008
Edwards Lifesciences has signed a deal with Medtronic Vascular to resolve the patent infringement litigation that began in August 2003.
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"For Cause" Inspections Find Galloping Clinical Trial Violation Rate
This article is reprinted from "The Gray Sheet" – January 7, 2008
The violation rate for clinical trial sponsors shot up in fiscal year 2007, hitting a 10-year high, with FDA finding many of the problems during inspections triggered by complaints, according to CDRH.
Of the 40 trial sponsors inspected by the device center's division of bioresearch monitoring (BIMO) last year, 33% were classified by FDA as "official action indicated" (OAI), denoting that significant regulatory violations were found. That compares with 11% of the 53 sponsors inspected in fiscal 2006 that were significantly out of compliance, the best industry performance in 10 years.
Device companies were the target of eight BIMO warning letters in 2007, five more than in 2006.
The BIMO division is responsible for checking on the quality and integrity of clinical trial data, and ensuring that trial subjects are protected from undue hazards and risks. The unit oversees inspections of sponsors, clinical investigators, institutional review boards and bench testing labs.
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terraform-alicloud-managed-kubernetes
A terraform module used to launch a managed kubernetes cluster on Alibaba Cloud.
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This module used to create a managed kubernetes and it can meet several scenarios by specifying different parameters.
**NOTE:** This module using AccessKey and SecretKey are from `profile` and `shared_credentials_file`.
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module "managed-k8s" {managed-kubernetes/alicloud"
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  new_vpc         = true
  vpc_cidr        = "192.168.0.0/16"
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    "192.168.3.0/24",
    "192.168.4.0/24",
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  vswitch_ids     = [
    "vsw-12345678",
    "vsw-09876537"
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1. Using existing sls project with `sls_project_name`:
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The Quality Drinking Water Supply is the Most Important Task of Every Village or Town.
Water management, however, is not such a simple and cheap affair. Production of high-quality drinking water is associated with high costs and it is therefore necessary that such a precious commodity is handled efficiently. A common problem of each tap is thand the water consumed by the user. The reasons for losses are various and most frequently arise from pipe leakages or non-measured consumption. The magnitude of these losses may come to influence the price of water supplies because the tap water operators (= a village/ town) must somehow cover the difference.
The first step to reduce the losses is the introduction of on-line meter reading of water consumption!
By online meter reading of water consumption you get a clear picture of your consumption during the day, find out how much you consume at nights, on weekends and holidays. You can automatically evaluate losses every hour. You get an overview of the consumption of every consumer. You can check suspiciously low consumption. You can detect technology leaks in branches and zones of your water supply system.
CEM SMART is a product that provides a solution for owners and operators of water supply networks. Applications and data collection technology ensures the on-line meter reading of water consumption in operator distribution networks.
CEM SMART provides data collection from water meters using radio modules in the band 169 MHz Automatic remote meter readings are performed continuously at short intervals of 15-60 minutes. The collected data are subsequently sent to a Web application that is accessible to individual users of the system over the Internet through a user name and password. Data from the meters are immediately visualized in graphs and tables after each reading.
CEM SMART allows in-time response to potential defects, leaks or supply failures.
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Blackstone a deal away from becoming No 2 mall operator L&T Realty exits from Chennai township projects Blackstone looks to exit through multiple Reits
US-based private equity giant Blackstone is in the final stage of talks with L&T Realty to buy 1 million sq ft of office property in Seawoods in Navi Mumbai.e, given rents in the area. Sources in L&T Realty said the company was expecting Rs 1,400 crore.
The property is part of a 40 acre integrated transit-oriented development at Seawoods railway station. Earlier, Blackstone bought a 1 million sq ft mall for Rs 1,400 crore from L&T Realty in the same project. Blackstone recently inaugurated the Seawoods Grand Central Mall.
L&T Realty has 1.5 million sq ft of office space in the project and has sold 300,000-400,000 sq ft to various buyers.
“Commercial real estate is not core for T&T Realty, which is focusing on residential projects. That is why it is selling such properties,” a source said.
In 2015, L&T Realty sold its 1.8 million sq ft commercial project in Chandigarh, including Elante Mall, a Hyatt hotel and offices, to the Carnival group for Rs 1,785 crore. That was the largest commercial real estate deal of that year.
L&T Realty Chief Executive Officer Srikant Joshi declined to comment on the deal with Blackstone. A spokesperson for Blackstone said, “As a matter policy, Blackstone does not comment on media/market speculations.”
Sources said L&T Realty was also in talks with Blackstone and Brookfield to sell office assets in Powai in Mumbai’s eastern suburbs, but this could not be independently verified. L&T Realty has developed 1.5 million s q ft in Powai and has the potential to develop another 3-4 million sq ft.
B at 70 million sq ft. It has invested over $3 billion in Indian real estate since 2011. Two of its joint ventures, one with the Embassy group in Bengaluru and and another with Panchshil of Pune, are planning to float real estate investment trusts, or Reits.
Early this year, Blackstone bought a 15 per cent stake in the rental arm of the K Raheja Corp for Rs 1,700 crore. It was also in the reckoning to buy a stake in DLF’s subsidiary, DLF Cybercity, which was sold to Singapore's GIC.
Blackstone is in the final stages of negotiations to buy commercial property from the Carnival group in Chandigarh. The deal is expected to be worth Rs 2,200 crore.
Ramesh Nair, country head at JLL, said Blackstone had been acquiring Grade-A lease-earning office properties over the past few yeaRs and the strategy had paid off. "This is in line with their Reit listings plan. Office property prices have not crossed their previous peak. All quality office properties are set to gain considerably," he added.
Ashok Kumar, managing director at commercial realty services firm Gennext Partners, said Blackstone was acquiring real estate across the globe to generate attractive returns for investoRs over the long term.
Blackstone is poised to become the second largest owner of malls in the country after it bought two malls in Indore in a deal estimated at Rs 1,200 crore. It has 3.7 million sq ft of mall space and has set up a company, Nexus Malls, to manage and operate these.


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When Can I Access My Super and at What Age?
So, you want to know when you can withdraw your super? Well, after all, it’s your money, isn’t it?
While it is your money, there are some rules around when you can access your superannuation in Australia. I’m going to go through each of your options. You might actually be able to get access to your super sooner than you think. But should you?
What Is My Superannuation Preservation Age?
Your preservation age is the earliest age you are able to access your super, unless you meet one of the specific early access provisions (which can be found later on in this article).
Dn either have full access to your super or limited access to your super.
To have limited access to your super, you only need to  Once you have reached your preservation age, you can use your super to start a transition to retirement (TTR) pension. You can start a transition to retirement pension, even if you are still working.
To access your super in full, you need to either be over age 65, or t.
Part-time work is defined as working between 10 and 30 hours per week. Full-time work is anything above 30 hours per week. Therefore, you need to work less than 10 hours per week to be considered retired.
To elaborate on option 2, above, having an employment arrangement come to an end means that any occupation you were engaged in, for gain or reward, comes to an end. This can include self-employed work or being an employee. If you have two jobs, ceasing one of those employment arrangements would generally meet the definition.
If you d, your total super balance from that date becomes fully unrestricted and unpreserved, meaning you will always have access to it, even if you start a new job. This unrestricted balance will never be ‘locked-up’ again. However, any future super contributions made after that date will be preserved until you meet another superannuation condition of release.
As mentioned above, if you are age 60, you can access your super via a TTR pension and still work either full-time, part-time or casually.
Alternatively,d, you can access your super in full and still work less than 10 hours per week. Or, if you had an employment arrangement come to an end after 60, you can go back to work while having full access to the super you accumulated up until that point.
These are the ways you are able to access your super at 60 and still be allowed to work.
Generally, you can access your super tax free as a lump sum withdrawal or income stream after reaching age 60. There may be tax on withdrawals from super while under age 60, but there are a number of strategies to minimise or eliminate tax on withdrawals under age 60.
The same goes for starting an account based pension or making a lump sum withdrawalg details about the amount of super you would like to access, whether it be as an income stream or lump sum, and sign the declaration stating that you are eligible to access your super in full.
The most common ways of accessing your super is by either reaching your preservation age, meeting the definition of retirement, or attaining age 65. However, there are also ways you can gain early access to your super, but it is important to note that accessing super early will usually result in some form of tax on the withdrawal amount.
Compassionate grounds allows you to access super to cover costs of medical treatment, palliative care, accommodating a disability or expenses associated with death for you or a dependant. You may also be able to access your super to make’t lose your home.
Severe financial hardship allows you to access between $1,000 and $10,000 of your super if you have been on generally have access to all of your super if your super fund trustee is satisfied that you are incapacitated as a result of an injury or mental illness that is likely to result in you being unable to work ever again in a job that .
Hi, so if you cease work after reaching your preservation age but are still under 60 and retire. What tax is payable if you decide to convert your super into an income stream. Is it just normal income tax or is there a special tax. I am 58 and intend taking an income of $16,000 pa as my partner still works part time earning around $26,000 pa.
Thank you for your question. Tax on superannuation pension income while under age 60 is based on the tax components that make up your balance. Your super balance will consist of taxable and/or tax-free components. Each pension payment will be made proportionately from each component, based on the ratio of your balance. The tax-free component portion is received tax-free (even when under 60) and the taxable component is taxed at your individual tax rate minus a 15% tax offset on the taxable portion.


Raborn: The NCAA Tournament was perfect this year
The Elite Eight did not feature any close matchups other than the No. 1 and No. 2 seed game between North Carolina and Kentucky. However, it forged one of the most interesting Final Fours in recent memory.
Featured image from wikimedia.org, courtesy of Creative Commons
The Bulldogs’ biggest flaw hasn’t been their play; it’s been their schedule. Gonzaga is the only school in the West Coast Conference with a win over an AP Top-25 team, and only one of two NCAA Tournament teams from the conference.
The first championship in school history is still within reach for Gonzaga, but perhaps if its schedule were a bit beefier, the Bulldogs would have been awarded the No. 1 overall seed for the 2017 NCAA Tournament instead of Villanova, a team that had two more losses than Gonzaga.
Neither team has a national championship, however, and that’s what matters in sports. Neither team has sustained greatness for more than a handful of seasons, even. Especially in recent years, both teams have been great, but never the greatest.
Yes, the fact that both Boise State and Gonzaga have been trendy teams that don’t win championships is worth noting. The most glaring similarity between the two programs, however, is that both have strange traditions.
Featured image by SD Dirk, courtesy of Creative Commons
However, the offense can lull behind
One of Gonzaga’s possible downfalls is offensive production. The leading scorer for the Zags is junior Nigel Williams-Goss, who is only averaging 16.5 points per game. This can be an issue when their defense cannot keep up with the pure scoring mentality of some other teams in the tournament. One shining star that can brighten the horizon is the post play that the Zags can produce. Przemek Karnowski and Zach Collins are both seven-footers who can absolutely dominate in the lane against any team in the nation. Both.
Creighton defeat, 75-72, but Xavier had picked up three much-needed wins in a row just before narrowly getting knocked out.
It hasn’t been just Bluiett shouldering the load for the Musketeers, however. Xavier is getting help elsewhere, including the bench.
Macura is pitching in 11.3 points per gamand bench player Sean O’Mara is adding 12.3 points per game from the post.
In the NCAA Tournament, however, stats don’t really matter, but. And when the next opponent is 15th in the nation in scoring with 83.1 points per game, it raises a question mark. Gonzaga is an experienced team with the ability to score frequently and from anywhere on the court.


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"The recent military operation in the Gaza Strip against Hamas has restored Israel's deterrence among its enemies and in the perception of the whole world, Prime Minister [Ehud] Olmert said." (PM: Gaza op restored Israel's deterrence, Etgar Lefkovits, Jerusalem Post, 26/1/09)
"Hamas was dealt a blow that created 'the deterrence that is now enabling calm'." (Barak says deterrence enabled calm, Hanan Greeberg, ynetnews.com, 19/1/09)
"Yohanan Plessner, Knesset EU Relations Committee: The laws that govern warfare today are in many ways not so relevant to security challenges.
Ben Knight: Israel knows it's not the only nation faced with the problem of fighting enemies who operate in civilian zones.
No wonder the local Israel lobby's given the tick to Knight and his equally clueless ABC colleague Matt Brown*: "On the ABC, both radio and television, the standard of Israel coverage has... depended on the quality of the correspondents. Early in the decade, with Tim Palmer and then Jane Hutcheon, the coverage was at times deplorable. More recently, however, correspondents such as Matt Brown and Ben Knight have delivered more thoughtful and even-handed reporting on the whole." (Bias & Balance in the noughties, Jamie Hyam, The Australian Jewish News, 18/12/09) [*See my posts Sleepless in Sderot, Legless in Gaza (16/1/09) & The Beat-Up Goes On (27/7/08)]
Posted by MERC at 9:18 PM
Ben Knight is not really at home at the ABC - he really should move to one of the commercial channels and report for one of those hilarious 'current affairs' stunt shows. Take, for example, his stunt of being 'kicked out' of Iran:
January 1, 2010 at 1:50 AM
Thanks for the reference. There is simply no evidence of an enquiring or critical mind at work with these guys. All they seem to do is sit around sniffing Israeli pheromones.


, the movie evokes a nostalgic atmosphere with ‘80s music, outdated electronics and a unique, dull lighting that almost replicates the sepia overcast of an antique film strip. While little is known about Stefan, it is easy to sympathize and fall in love with his shy and awkward demeanor. This causes further distress as viewers are forced to choose options that will devastate his future. — it’s a fucking nightmare world,” Colin says to Stefan. “A
Yet this begs the question: Are the viewers even in control? Or are they just practicing the illusion of it, ultimately overseen by “Black Mirror” producers? This concept is the ingenuity as well as the downfall of Black Mirror’s “Bandersnatch,” depending on its interpretation as an intended message or an overseen flaw of its interactive element. While viewers are given “free will” to decide Stefan’s fate, the movie guides their choices by forcing the viewers to rewatch scenes and choose different options, scripting in lines such as “Wrong choice, mate,” in order to ultimately deliver the intended storyline. And while alternate endings do exist, most are almost identical with the exception of one, the writers’ “chosen” ending, revealed by being the only conclusion in which viewers are not allowed to rewind, instead continuing straight to the end credits. Hence, “Black Mirror” raises the idea that just like Stefan, viewers are also being controlled by some higher authority, fooled into thinking they have autonomy over a fictional world, when in fact, it represents the world that they actually live in.
“Black Mirror: Bandersnatch” can be found on Netflix. A fifth season of “Black Mirror” will be released later in 2019.. </s> from
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Personally, I began journaling with writing down one positive affirmation a day. I’d actually write them in my planner too so I had easy access and this felt more attainable. Since then I have found prompts on Pinterest- some about my emotions, some were lists of my favorite things, and some led me to writing down a funny anecdote. I have included 8 prompts to start with below (PDF download included). Or Target sells a great journal full of prompts that I’ve had fun with too! One of my favorite prompts thus far: ‘’
If your hands are tied up doing other things or if you can say things more easily than you can write them this may be the solution for you. I have days where putting words on paper is too hard and I need to brain dump my ideas into my notes app on my phone using voice to text. There are also some pretty amazing apps out there like Momento for the social media connoisseur. Momento combines your posts from the day and leaves you room to make a note. Askt is an app with prompts provided that helps you get to know yourself; best of all it is free. So these are options you may find helpful, especially if a photo journal sounds ideal to you. While technology is very helpful at times I am usually a tried and true paper to pen kind of gal which is where my last tip comes in…
Much like journaling, establishing my days in a planner has become an important aspect of my life. It keeps me on track and I forget


Here is my proposal for making the GC run less often.
The objective is to avoid the quadratic-time behavior
if many objects are created and none of them is garbage.
The youngest generation remains collected after 700
allocations, the middle generation after 10 young collections.
Therefore, full GC remains considered every 7000 allocations.
The two youngest generations don't cause quadratic behavior,
as the number of objects in each generation is bounded.
Currently, full GC is invoked every 10 middle collections.
Under my proposal, 10 middle collections must have passed,
PLUS the number of survivor objects from the middle generation
must exceed 10% of the number of objects in the oldest
As a consequence, garbage collection becomes less frequent
as the number of objects on the heap grows, resulting in
an amortized O(N) overhead for garbage collection (under
the access pattern stated above).
To determine the number of survivor objects, counts are
taken during the collection. Objects deallocated through
reference counting still remain accounted for as survivors
(likewise for determining the size of the oldest generation).
I made a simulation assuming an initially-empty heap,
and invocations of the collector every M=7000 objects.
The table below is in units of M and shows the number
of objects allocated, and the number of objects inspected
since the start of the simulation, for the old and the
new scheme (the asterisk indicates that a collection
took place; lines with no collection are dropped):
total old_inspected new_inspected
<DIGITS>*         10*
<DIGITS>*        100*
<DIGITS>*        450
<DIGITS>*
<DIGITS>*        796
<DIGITS>*       7724
<DIGITS>*
<DIGITS>*       8666
<DIGITS>*      95887
As you can see, the old and the new scheme would start
of equally until 100M objects have been allocated. The
table shows how the old scheme grows quadratically, and
the new scheme eventually approaches roughly a factor
of ten between the number of objects and the number of
times that GC considers an object.
Applications with a small number of objects will see no
change in behavior, also, applications that create
lots of small cycles will continue to see them collected
in the youngest or middle generations.
P.S. I don't plan to implement this myself, so if you like
the idea, go ahead.


People mourn the sudden loss of a beloved building as much as the passing of an old friend – and although no one was injured in the fire that destroyed the historic Roxy Theatre Tuesday morning, the Edmonton theatre community is in a state of shock.
Words like “heartbroken” and “devastated” are prevalent in the outpouring of grief on social media in the wake of the disaster, as theatre people from here and across Canada were swift with offers of support, along with memories of good times past. Left temporarily homeless is Theatre Network, the award-winning company that’s run shows in the building for decades. Cast and crew for the new show Cheerleader, which was to set to start previews Tuesday night, were doing prep work in the theatre the evening before the fire started, just before 4 am on Jan. 13. The roof and several walls collapsed before a team of 50 firefighters brought the blaze under control a few hours later. The cause has not yet been determined.
Theatre Network tweeted a statement this morning, “Thank you everyone for your support today. Anyone who touched the Roxy is devastated. Let the Roxy live on through you today.”
The Roxy, which opened as a movie theatre in 1938, became a live performance venue in 1989. It’s almost impossible to count the memorable shows that took place there. Comedy shows like CBC’s The Irrelevant Show and Hey Ladies! were regular attractions, as was Darrin Hagen’s Guys In Disguise, which mounted many shows in the theatre. The venue was also home to the annual NextFest, a showcase for emerging artists. Hosting work from veteran locals like Marty Chan and Chris Craddock along with visitors like edgy puppeteer Ronnie Burkett, plays in the Roxy have earned dozens of Sterling Awards.
“It’s a terrible loss for the Roxy and all the people there, their jobs, their livelihoods, all the archived work lost,” says director Trevor Schmidt, who also produced a number of shows in the building over the years. “It’s also a huge loss for the theatre community in general. It leaves a hole in all of live theatre in Edmonton.”
The Roxy was also a popular venue for live music. Hard Core Logo – Live and The Christmas Carol Project are just two shows that crossed genres from theatre to music at the Roxy, along with straight band performances. 100 Mile House, the Provincial Archive and the Gibson Block are just three local indie bands that have hosted CD release events at the Roxy.
“Aside from Winspear Centre, the Roxy was my favourite place to play,” says local musician Dale Ladouceur. “It was like the centre of Coolsville. The sound was decent, but the vibe of the Roxy was the thing. There was a warmth, a casualness and an unpretentiousness, and that was reflected in all the staff that worked there. It was a great place for multi-media shows. It was cool enough for punk rock and cool enough for folkies. I’m very sad. I’m in mourning.”
No word yet if Cheerleader can be salvaged and moved to another venue, but there’s already been talk and it’s probable that the Roxy team and the rest of the tight-knit Edmonton theatre community – which is to say all of it – will do their best to have this show go on.
Music community unites in support of the Roxy
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>	Music > Notorious downloader unable to pay $222K	Music
By: Steve Karnowski
Email MINNEAPOLIS -- A Minnesota woman at the centre o'sThe music industry filed thousands of lawsuits in the early to mid-2000s against people it accused of downloading music without permission and without paying for it. Almost all the cases settled for about $3,500 apiece. Thomas-Rasset is one of two defendants who refused to pay and went to trial. The other,also lost and was ordered to pay $675,000.
The industry initially sued Thomas-Rasset in 2006. Her case has gone through three trials and several appeals. The industry presented evidence that Thomas-Rasset made available over 1,700 songs to other computer users via the file-sharing service Kazaa, though the suit targeted only 24 songs.
"I'm assuming that since they declined to hear the case it's probably done at this point," she said, adding she needed to consult with her attorneys to determine what happens next.
Thomas-Rasset, 35, who works for the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe tribal government, maintained -- as she has all along -- that she can't afford to pC3


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Most lights have a "blinking" feature which is especially helpful in the twilight hours or during the day. A blinking or moving light is more visible than a steady light. Can you really have too many bicycle lights?We tend to side with Badwater Ultramarathon race director, Chris Kostman on this one. "Light yourself up like a Christmas tree."
B five years, or sooner. "'wear and tear' all contribute to helmet degradation."
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Once you are on the go, moving from city to city to share your practices, you’ll quickly be rewarded with insights and joys that you wouldn’t normally get by staying in the same city, performing in front of the same people. Based on only a few years worth of experience as a traveling performers, we have put together the most profound things you probably won’t expect to see as a flow arts performer.
Confusion. Bewilderment. Astounded Faces.
 When you start traveling as a professional flow arts performer, get ready to meet many seemingly clueless people.  Amaze them!  However also understand your worth. If you go about flaunting everything, you might end up being followed by people on the streets whom you’ve inspired to the point of craze! We have been! It can be flattering, and daunting at the same time, so only show off when you truly feel like it and be aware of what might follow.
Card tricks! Machete juggling! Fire in the streets! The moment you begin moving around new cities, and especially new countries, your whole world will open up. Staying in one city might seem more manageable, however life on the road is filled with diversity like no other. You think flow arts is just hooping? Poi? Staff? Fans? Juggling balls? It goes WAY beyond that. It will blow your mind pulling up to particular stop lights and seeing kids as young as eight performing stunts with fire, or magic tricks as your eating in a restaurant. This world is chalked full of wonder just waiting for you to explore.
People always want you, own your worth!
Whenever anyone outside of the flow arts community sees what you can do, they will likely want you to be part of their gig. Be it a party, a dinner night, a festival, a concert, or a private gathering, you will be asked to perford to own your worth. You need to know how much your time and skills are worth so you can hold to that value when people flock your way, asking for you time and energy investments.
It’s simple, opportunities open up for you to keep moving, keep flowing, keep growing. Despite how many opportunities you have now, in your area, and online, the more you move the more the universe moves. There are people out there with pots of gold, and all you’ve got to do is go put yourself out there, keep networking in new environments, and it will seemingly come straight to you. Just don’t give up.
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Two Indian climbers htion. early Friday while Narayan Singh died at Camp IV on Thursday night when he was climbing down from
A search team, which reached the area from where the climber is suspected to have gone missing, however, failed to trace him, Sherpa said.
Ghos climbed Mount Everest in 2011 and has also scaled Mount Kanchenjunga, Mount Lhotse, Mount Manaslu and Mount Dhaulagiri among other peaks.
Thakar died after he suffered from high altitude sickness.
Ravi was part of an eight-member expedition led by renowned Irish climber Noel Richard Hanna.
Another member of the same expedition - Seamus Sean Lawless from Ireland -"Fate of the missing Irish climber is still unknown," Sherpa said.
"Indian climber Narayan Singh died in Mt Makalu. He died at camp 4 while descending the summit," Nepal Tourism Ministry official Mira Acharya told news agency PTI.
Two Indian climbers from West Bengal - Biplab Baidya (48) and Kuntal Karar (46) - died in Nepal on Wednesday ga, the world's third tallest-kilometer southeast of the 8,848-metrea.


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The gardening community of Wyoming has two garden gurus: Jeff Edwards, UW Extension educator, and Milton Geiger, UW Extension energy coordinator.
Workshops provide hands-on demonstrations in constructing low-cost, energy-efficient high tunnels.
The initial high tunnel project sought to enroll 80 participants and conduct four workshops; results were nine workshops with 308 participants.
ACRES is a UW Recognized Student Organization run by volunteers and is at the Laramie Research and Extension Center’s greenhouse complex just east of the university’s campus.
Volunteers participate in two local farmers markets and offer a 15-member, 12members buy a “share” (or a half-share) of producbasket of produce every week of the season.
real experience, fresh ideas
Produce is also provided to local businesses and the university’s cafeteria.
“Any opportunity for WyoTech students Wyoming is awesome,” notes Jessica Nape, volunteer coordinator at WyoTech. “Many of our students come from an agricultural background and really enjoy construction projects; the work with ACRES was a perfect fit.”
Longer season, more vegetables
Perry Baptista, ACRES president-elect and volunteer since 2010, states the high tunnels, “...have definitely increased ACRES production capacity.
I see these hoop houses as enabling ACRES to continue future growth — not just in plant production but in the size of our organization and student/community involvement.” ❖


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Most all smoothies can be salvaged. This one is no exception. However, the introduction says it needs no sweetener because the banana sweetens it enough. I do not agree. That much banana just makes the banana taste very strong and doesn't allow the peanut butter flavor to come through. I gave this 2 stars (Could be better) because it needs a little sweetener and less banana. Do that and this will be a smoothie that I will make again. - 14 Oct 2015
It is my first time doing it and I really liked it. I don’t like bananas, so instead I added an egg and it gave the milkshake a little more of texture. For next time though, I’m taking out the ice. I think the ice is an unnecessary extra. - 26 Feb 201his several times, & it is really good. It is not too sweet and tastes almost like dark chocolate. I left out the ice and it still gas great texture & flavor - 12 Feb 2018 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)


PGA Tour launches a Windows 10 app for all Golf fans
The app is exclusive to Windows 10
PGA Tour for Windows 10 supports Live Tiles that deliver updates and standings directly to the Start Screen. The app offers stats, scorecards and player information, including graphical display of strokes gained. Moreover, PGA TOUR comes with Cortana support, allowing you to use voice commands. The Vice President of the Golf Association comments:


First female, medical, three-star admiral in the history of the U.S. Navy to be honored during coin toss when Texas Football hosts K-State.
Raquel Bono's childhood ambition to become a doctor led to a call for leadership.
As a University of Texas undergraduate, Bono explored scholarship options for medical school. She competed for a military program scholarship that required active duty service following completion of the medical degree.
Bono went on to serve 36 years, and she retired as the director of the Defense Health Agency (DHA) and f.


If you ask any professional in the cybersecurity industry, "What are some simple things that I can do to improve my personal security?", they will tell you 3 things almost everytime .
In future articles we're going to explain exactly what is 2FA (Two-Factor Authentication), and how you can use it to improve your personal security; however in today's article we're going to be showing you the secret to achieving the last 2 bullet points of that list (and actually do it in reality).
Personal security is like your health in many ways, if you make good decisions consistently and don't take shortcuts,d. Proactive, good decisions make everybody around you safer.
Good question, password managers were created primarily to address the two biggest problems in security, that are intensified by human behavior.
The average person has about 90 online accounts. How likely is it that we will remember random passwords, and continue to for 90 different online accounts? You got it.
So what do we do instead? We come up with what we think is a really secure password. Pick a word, like the name of our pet or our favourite musician, and then attach some number to the end of it. Now to appease the password complexity gods we make the first letter a capital letter and throw some punctuation in there.
Dylan1973 - Your dogs name and your birth year.
This sounds like a great idea, nobody will guess this! Wrong. In fact, other people have also had this idea and have used this password before. So much so that it has ended up in public password directories, that means that this would take a total of 1 second to crack.
We use a password manager., it is a secure, centralized place where we can generate, store and access all of our passwords, to all of our accounts.
By using a password manager, we not only remove the need to even remember any password except our master-password (the password to our password manager), but we also have easy access to a way to generate new, secure passwords.
Some managers (such as 1password) will even alert us when services are involved in breaches, and sometimes even change the passwords automatically.
Your operating system, Windows or Mac?
Do you want or need Auto-fill?
I'm sure you have heard of one of the many breaches that has happened in the past decade. Maybe it was the MySpace breach, maybe it was the LinkedIn breach, there have been many. When these breaches occur, generally speaking the data that is leaked (usually usernames and passwords), ends up in the internet _somewhere_.
Malicious attackers find these databases, and they extract the weak passwords from the breaches, and then preform an attack called "password stuffing." Password Stuffing iom breach data, and they try them against other services that the individual might be connected to.
Let's use the Adobe breach as an example. Your email might be |||EMAIL_ADDRESS||| and your password might be Dylan1973. The attacker knows that you used that username and password at Adobe, so they try it against iCloud or your Gmail. Now the catch here is that they don't just do it for you, they create scripts to automate this process, and they do itf you were unlucky enough to have re-used your username and password at icloud.com, they will have full access to your account, and can then reset all your personal accounts since they now own your email.
Taken one step further, ask yourself what would happen if your password was re-used on your business accounts? Now project this risk exposure across your entire workforce. This is why many companies are now extending access to enterprise password management services (and training) to all employees.
Using a password manager is a great way to instantly improve your personal security, and protect yourself from things like password-stuffing attacks.
If you're running a business and are concerned about the damage to your brand reputation that a data breach could cause, consider subscribing to a password management service that all employees can use and train them in best practices for using it. Their personal safety increases corporate safety.
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Fra ITM: 3rd edition 2019. Although the country is modest in size, it is historically rich and popular with tourists. The double-sided map shows the main island of Malta on one side, and the smaller island of Gozo on the reverse, as well as inset maps of Valletta, Bugibba, Marsaskala, Mdina, and Victoria. For history buffs, Valletta can’t be beat, but the touristic city of Bugibba contains most of the resort hotels. Mdina, a walled city, is a World Heritage site. as is Victoria, a hilltop market town with a still-formidable citadel. The legacy of the Knights of St. john are everywhere. This is a very interesting and popular country to visit and a proud member of the EU.


I've also been experimenting on this image sequence with various other techniques which i'll share in due course.


What is the matter with those who have Bibles, and who claim to believe them?
But One far surpassing all that supposition can present came to this world. Nearly two thousand years ago a voice of strange and mysterious import was heard from the throne of Go...


Shaar Hayichud Vehaemunah, end of Chapter 12
Ronnie Fine - Tanya in Five: Shaar Hayichud, Chapter 12, Part 2 (4:38)
Yehoshua B. Gordon - Shaar Hayichud: Chapter 12 - Part 2 (14:32)
Manis Friedman - 6th day of Tamuz (09:48)
כי הן, דרך משל, דוגמת אור המאיר בלילה בארץ מן הירח, ואור הירח הוא מהשמש
ונמצא אור שעל הארץ הוא אור האור של השמש
hence, the light which is on the earth is a light [reflected] from the light of the sun.
From this aggregate flow and mighty radiation of the Utterances themselves,
האיר ה' והמשיך ממנה תולדותיה כיוצא בה וענפיה
G‑d caused its similar derivations and its offshoots to shine and issue forth,
שהן תולדות והמשכת האור מהאותיות
והן הן חילופי אותיות ותמורותיהן, וברא בהן ברואים פרטים שבכל עולם
וכן האיר ה' עוד והמשיך והוריד הארה דהארה דהארה מהארות האותיות
ושמותיהן אבן ועפר הם חילופים דחילופים כו' ותמורות דתמורות כו' כנ"ל
And their names אבן and עפר — the names being each object’s life- force, as mentioned in ch. 1 — are substitutions of substitutions, etc., and transpositions of transpositions, etc., as mentioned above.
Thus, the life-force and existence of every created being are the letters of a particular Divine Utterance, and to this the created being is utterly nullified. In this manner, all of creation is nullified to G‑d and united with Him.
CONCLUSION OF THE SECOND PART, WITH THE HELP OF G-D, MAY HE BE BLESSED AND EXALTED.
The Rebbe notes that the Alter Rebbe omitted many details when quoting the Sages1 concerning the characteristics of each of the seven heavens. (Indeed, the Gemara begins with the heaven called Vilon, proceeds to Rakia, and only then speaks of Shechakim, the heaven with which the Alter Rebbe begins.)
The Alter Rebbe omitted the heaven called Vilon for “it serves no particular purpose,” i.e. (as the Gemara states there), it does not contain created beings. Even according to the opinion of Tosafos that light emanates from Vilon, light was created and continues to exist by virtue of a different Divine fiat, namely, “Let there be light.” (For all light — not only that created during the first day and then concealed — owes its creation and existence to the Utterance, “Let there be light.”2)
Concerning Zvul, the Alter Rebbe omits the detail that the Angel Michael brings an offering upon its heavenly altar, because there is an opinion3 that angels were created during the fifth day of creation. According to this view, the creation and existence of Michael derive not from the Utterance that ordained, “Let there be a firmament.,” but from the words, “and birds shall fly.”
Concerning Machon the Alter Rebbe does not speak of the “rising of dew,” the “storms and tempests” and “fire”, for these were all created during the first day and thus are not connected to the Utterance, “Let there be a firmament….”4
Also omitted is Aravos, the abode of “righteousness and justice” (as the Gemara states there), for these are Divine attributes. The souls of the tzaddikim which are also found in this heaven are likewise not mentioned, for they were created by the Utterance, “Let us make man….” So too the Throne of Glory, which had existed before G‑d had decreed “Let there be a firmament.”; indeed, before Creation had begun.5
Yet once more, concludes the Rebbe, we are able to see how meticulous is the wording of Tanya, encumbered by no superfluous word and lacking no necessary word, for, as we see here, each phrase omitted from the Talmudic citation has its specific reason. Accordingly, to follow the counsel of the Mishnah concerning the study of the Torah:6 “Delve in it over and over again, for everything is in it.”.
See ch. 11, above.
Chagigah 12a, and elsewhere; cf. Rambam, Hilchot Yesodei HaTorah, beg. of ch. 4.


I think about my experience in that class (and its follow-up called "Gambling and the Gambler") as I spend time on a new project lately. I spend a lot of time trying to catalog what I'm learning. Not just technical knowledge, but learning in general. So here's a list of what I'm learning these days:
I'm not going to focus on VMware any longer. I'll write about VMware as I see fit, but I'm not going to ignore the vast majority of my experience and knowledge just to keep filing posts that are in a vain attempt to achieve vendor recognition.
And I'll keep reminding myself to stop telling people what you're going to do, and only tell people what you've done.
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Yes, each to her own on comic taste, but is it so rare for women and men to laugh together?
We know that humour is personal. We know that we will find different things funny at different times in our lives and that some things will always strike a chord even if others remain poker faced. We also know that it is impossible to create a list of virtually any sort without provoking howls of outrage. So I don’t envy the writers charged with creating a list of the “24 Funniest Books Ever Written” for the magazine Esquire.
Naturally, many corrective suggestions were forthcoming: Coe’s own, Unexplained Laughter by Alice Thomas Ellis, Muriel Spark’s Memento Mori, Rose Macaulay’s Told by an Idiot; work by Nina Stibbe, Barbara Pym, Nora Ephron, Helen Fielding.
But the point is never specific omission. Taking one’s eye from the distaff for a moment, I’d suggest that a list of “the funniest books” that couldn’t find room for PG Wodehouse, Keith Waterhouse or Peter Tinniswood was barking up the wrong tree; others might point out that that ties me to a particular place and time and that writers who are included – Philip Roth, John Kennedy Toole, Evelyn Waugh – beat them into a cocked hat, lols-wise. If I argue passionately for a spot for Dorothy Parker over Charlie Brooker’s Screen Burn, Brooker’s fans might well accuse me of not having read him closely enough, and this would be entirely true, though I still believe my hunch.
No: the point is the assumptions that underlie what makes a piece of writing funny, or satirical, or powerful, or heartbreaking. Here, in a list assembled by a man and published in a magazine aimed at men, it’s interesting to note several entries whose comedy derives from different varieties of status anxiety, powerlessness and the despair, fear and anger they induce: Robin Cooper’s The Timewaster Letters, for example, or I, Partridge, Lucky Jim and The Diary of a Nobody. The genre is multi-faceted, and not only to be enjoyed by the chaps, but it essentially boils down to Man Rages against The Man.
But horses for courses leads to a horrible and reductive compartmentalisation of reading that in turn creates barriers (“literary fiction”, for example) and shuts doors not only on readers, but on writers too. When I was thinking of writers of colour who might have featured on this list, the Booker prize-winning Paul Beatty came to mind, as did Junot Díaz and others. But it also made me realise that when creativity isn’t a level playing field, the consequent artworks are less diverse than they have every possibility of being; the point, I think, that Marlon James makes when he argues that he should be as free to write science fiction and fantasy as any white author, rather than labouring under the spurious expectation that he should write about “the black experience”.
Comedy can and does come from anywhere – any class, race, genre, nationality. And with that thought, as Bertie Wooster would say, tinkety-tonk.


Knowledge Utopia
This post is going to be dull, I apologize, but it’s an important definition of “knowledge” and scientific research.
The truth is this philosophical and scientific ideal of objective knowledge.
Scientific research is founded on this principle of objectivity; that the Universe is understandable by the human mind, but also by any other intelligent being. Reason is the faculty that allows us to go from simple perceptions to knowledge. In other words, it allows us to understand reality.
We understand that we’re just intelligent animals, so if we can understand the Universe, another intelligent creature can too.
So basically, every science, even the most “literary” one, adheres to the principle of objectivity. Indeed, if chimpanzees or octopuses were to study history, or biology, or mathematics, they should come to the same conclusions as we did, albeit in a different language. As Karl Popper wrote, objective knowledge is knowledge without a knowing subject. The sum of our knowledge, contained in all our scientific publications, is independent from humanity’s existence. It is an independent entity, which I described as a monolith, which we feed new knowledge by publishing new discoveries through scientific papers.
With science generally, and maths especially, humanity has a universal language, with which we represent, describe the objective reality of the Universe, and which we could use to communicate with other intelligent beings.
More importantly, we should stop putting pressure on scientists to publish, and judge their value by the quality rather than the quantity of their publications.
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The sum of our knowledge came, all of it 100%, through knowing subjects. The fact that it is encoded in language in scientific papers doesn’t obviate that fact. It is independent not as knowledge, but as encoded recordings. Encoded recordings are not knowledge, although they represent knowledge to anyone capable of decoding and interpreting them as such — who perforce are knowing subjects. Encoded recordings are “independent entities” only as regards their medium, not the knowledge they encode.


Doris Kathryn Burns
February 15, 1925 ~ September 25, 2020 (age 95)
Doris Kathryn Burns (Lippold) of Ellicott City, MD, passed on September 25, 2020. She was born February 15, 1925, to Charles and Mary Lippold.
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On June 5, 1948, Doris and Francis (Fran) Burns were married in Washington, DC. They resided in Silver Spring, MD, where they remained and raised their family. Doris and Fran enjoyed a summer home in Fenwick Island, DE, on the Eastern shore for a number of years.
Eventually retiring in Clearwater, FL, Doris enjoyed golf, bridge, traveling, dancing, reading, and was an active participate in numerous activities. Central to her life she was a devoted lifelong member in the Catholic Church.
Doris is survived by sons, John F. (Susan) of Columbia, MD, and David W. (Linda Munnelly) of Laurel, MD; daughter Christine M. (Charles) Dickherber, St. Peters, MO; six grandchildren, Ronald (Maria) Steele, Jason Burns, Jonathan (Jacqueline) Burns, Jennifer Burns, Francesca (Jeffrey) Gilbert, Alyson (Adam) Cucitrone; great granddaughter Bethany Burns and step great grandson Marcos Alberto, Jr. Proceeded in death by husband Francis J. Burns and grandson Michael Steele.
Having touched so many, Doris will be deeply missed by her beloved family, dear friends, and all who knew her. The memory of her love, grace, and kind spirit will be forever in our thoughts and hearts.
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levels off or begins to decline, as noted previously, such turning points typically lead a bottom in prices by 8 to 12 quarters. through 3q2007 per housingtracker, price-to-income ratios in chicagoland remained over 4; and with the advent of recession, incomes are likely to fall. price-to-rent ratios similarly show a very significant negative carry for homeownership remains to be corrected. in short, any notion that house prices are set to stabilize soon looks to be like absolute hogwash. more likely, years of price declines remain.. the 75th percentile properties tend to be early in this discounting process, perhaps reflecting a greater market awareness and flexibility in higher-bracket homesellers. that period of discounting lies just in front of us now. it figures to be a frightening period, promising some very disappointing pricing reports. i would not be surprised to see overall chicagoland prices fall by as much as (-10%) in the next six months alone with six-month annualized rates (yellow line) approaching (-20%), and 75th percentile prices perhaps reaching six-month annualized rates of decline of (-15%).
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People are house-proud whether they own or rent. Yes, a renter will focus his expenditures on things he will take with him, but people who are slovenly will live in a slovenly fashion whether they own or rent.
After over a year and a half (556 days, to be precise) since five opposition ministers resigned from the Lebanese cabinet, precipitating the worst political crisis since the Civil War, a solution was finally reached between Lebanese politicians in Doha, early this morning.
The agreement brings to a close a turbulent period which saw downtown Beirut shut down by demonstrators, dozens of civilians killed in street clashes, the Nahr al-Bared conflict, a string of political assassinations, and the return of ugly displays of sectarianism, which threatened to drag the country back into civil war.
these concessions reflect what is widely perceived as the outright failure of the bush administration to achieve any of its goals in the area, in spite of opening supplying sunni militiamen through something called "secure plus" at the insistence of hardliners -- as had been broken originally by sy hersh. more from joshua landis, who all but pisses upon the ridiculously hyperbole of the frustrated neoconservatives of the wall street journal in contempt -- and more still, in disbelief at the amateurish efforts of washington.
and maybe it is nothing but cover, a false pretense, a prelude to war of the kind nir rosen sees neoconservatives like the brookings institution's michael o'hanlon advocating with respect to iran..
Labels: iran, israel, lebanon, palestine, politics, terrorism
the geopolitics of israel
it notes that the only material threats to israel are either 1) internal disunity, which can put one or more of its three natural geopolitical parts within reach of either syria or egypt (not conincidentally the focii of the clean break strategy); or 2) great imperial powers seeking control and/or access to the mediterranean through the levant.
it is interesting to view, then, the promulgation of the delusion of an 'imperial iran' as a sort of manufacuring of the latter kind of threat. but putting aside that nonsense, one must see that the current major threat to israel is most obviously the sole great power in the region -- the united states -- which explains much of the israeli dedication to maintaining its extraordinary political lobby in the united states as a means of maintaining maximum independence in what is essentially a subjugated role within a global anglophone empire (what stratfor calls the persian model).
with the bush administration having occupied iraq and now perhaps considering action beyond into iran and syria, one has to wonder if some in israel would hesitate to encourage the greater explicitness of the american role as regional hegemon. as noted:.
does anyone in the israeli power strucutre conceive of a time when its cleverness vis-a-vis the united states could end -- leaving it facing an ambivalent or even explicitly aggressive great power?
it is normal in my view for democracies in particular to be ruled by the dominant minority through the cultivated popular perception of fear, that most reliable of collective motivations. so militant and radicalized has the campaign for fear of iran (and indeed several of the political entities that lie outside effective anglophone control) become that it finds even the suggestion of communication (much less the material con


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Raise Max of One Piece
Raise Max is a member of the Revolutionary Army. He is known as a legendary player who never loses. At the beginning of One Piece Gold, he was a prisoner of Gild Tesoro.
Gold (2016).
Raise Max is a very small built man with tousled green hair. He wears a crumpled white hat and glasses with orange tinted lenses, but one of them broke during the fight with Tesoro’s henchmen. He has a red “7” tattooed on his left cheek. He also has a lot of stubble on his face. To go with this, he wears a tattered white suit with a purple shirt with a light dot pattern underneath, which is also tattered. He also wears dark jeans fastened by a white belt and white shoes.
Overall, his appearance seems very run down and messy, which probably came from his time in Golden Prison.
Raise Max makes it a point to always appear cool and manly. He usually talks calm and collected, which probably comes from his days as a professional gamer. At the beginning of Movie 12, his fighting spirit was broken. At the time, he couldn’t understand why Luffy never gave up no matter what happened to him and tried to make him understand several times that there was no point in rebelling against Gild Tesoro. But Luffy managed to give him courage again through his tireless fighting spirit, which is why he supported him and Franky in the end.
Raise Max was known as a legendary player for a long time and was adored by Franky, among others, and was even one of his idols. However, he decided to join the Revolutionaries one day and became friends with Sabo and Koala, among others. At an unknown time, Raise Max was also married twice, with each of the two marriages resulting in divorce.
When he went to Gran Tesoro, Gild Tesoro managed to beat him in a match and threw him into Golden Prison.
When Luffy and Franky were thrown into Golden Prison, Raise Max explained to them where they were and what to expect. However, Luffy was rather indifferent to this. He tried to find an escape route despite the circumstances, and then defeat Gildo. At first Max tried to talk him out of it, but Luffy’s tireless attempts inspired him, whereupon he joined Luffy and Franky with other prisoners. Along with the other prisoners, Raise Max jumped into a massive fan to stop the blades, thereby getting to the other side to the pump station. He later joined the rest of the former prisoners in fighting Gildo’s henchmen, while the Straw Hats took care of the stronger members of Gildo’s force.
After Luffy’s victory over Tesoro, he was able to escape on a ship together with Koala and Sabo.
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