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The winners of House Rules 2018 have been announced after a nail-biting finale.
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After weeks of renovating action (and just a touch of drama) the winners of House Rules for 2018 have been crowned.
In the finale episode it came down to Dairy Farmers Toad and Mandy and ultra competitive couple Mel and Dave , with Toad and Mandy coming out on top and snagging the $355,000 prize money.
The teams made over each other's front yard in just four days, guided by five all-important House Rules.
After finishing the four-day build, Toad said to Mandy: "I don't think we could have done another thing babe."
Mel was in tears after the renovation replied, "No matter what happens, we are so proud to have achieved that in just four days for Toad & Mandy's forever home."
As Johanna welcomed the Grand Final teams into the studio, Toad said: "Being away from our kids, our family and our jobs for such a long time, I don't think there's any point half doing something so we just wanted to push on," he admitted while trying not to cry.
Mel and Dave were emotional as Mel said: "Dave's worked away for 10 years, we've been together for 15, we have two little men now and we want to give them the time they deserve with Dave."
Of his competitors, Dave said: "We couldn't be standing next to two better people tonight."
Even before the finale kicked off, fans were expecting things to get a little bit heated.
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All because Toad and Mandy had accused of Mel and Dave of bending the rules and playing an unfair game in the lead-up to the big final showdown.
"There are House Rules and Mel and Dave's rules," Toad told New Idea.
"They would bend the rules to try and make it suit themselves, they didn't play fair at times. They thought more about themselves than the homeowner," he added.
"Mandy and I played fair, we tried to think about the homeowner, and we got the better results."
House Rules Grand Finalists Toad and Mandy and Mel and Dave. Source: Channel Seven.
In the end it all came down to one point between the two winning couples, with shouts of joy all-round as host Johanna Griggs announced that Toad and Mandy had scored a nine and therefore won the competition by a hair.
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Mel mentioned the money every chance she got from the start- it was clear that it was all she wanted, despite saying "it's more than money and houses". Toad and Mandy rarely mentioned it (if at all until the end). The right couple won
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Miranda Lambert Breaks Down Reading Soldier's Concert Sign [Watch]
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Miranda Lambert broke down in tears during a concert on Friday night (Aug. 19) in Hartford, Conn. Midway through her set, she was singing the first verse of "The House That Built Me" when a fan's sign caught her eye.
"3 combat tours. [Your] voice was the last thing I listened to EVERY NIGHT! THANK YOU!!!" the message read.
Lambert walked over, picked up the white poster board and held it up for the entire venue to see. Video shows her crying before showing it to her band. She propped the sign up on stage by her microphone stand and tried to sing the song one more time before wiping tears from her eyes. Unable to get through it, she grabbed her heart and said thank you to the veteran, who was also crying.
"Second verse, I gotta get a drink. Y'all, I gotta do it," she says in the clip before walking toward the back of the stage.
After she takes a swig of her drink, she motions for the audience to take over on the song, as she often does, and they oblige — the entire venue finishes the song for her. Lambert can be seen wiping more tears from her eyes with a scarf on her mic stand.
Lambert is currently headlining her Keeper of the Flame Tour with Kip Moore and Brothers Osborne. The tour has another month left for the artists on the road.
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Nicholas Turturro Net worth, brother, ethnicity, first wife
Nicholas Turturro Jr is an American actor whose face would be known to the many fans of "NYPD Blue". He is most identified with his character Sargeant Martinez, but he is not the only actor in his family; both his brother, John Turturro, who is easily recognized as Agent Seymore Simmons in the 'Transformers' movies, and cousin Aida of 'The Sopranos' fame, are well-known actors. Although Nicholas is not as famous as his older brother, he has had a successful career with numerous titles in his portfolio as well as several award nominations. Here's everything there is to know about Nicholas.
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Early life and family
Nicholas – 'Nick' – was born on January 29, 1962 in Queens, New York City, USA, to Nicholas Turturro Sr and Katherine Florence. To be father was an immigrant from Giovinazzo, Puglia, Italy, who worked as a carpenter and shoemaker, and also served in the United States Navy during World War II.
Nicholas' mother was a jazz singer who worked at the same time in a naval dockyard, and is of Italian descent with roots in Sicily. His brother, John Michael, was born in 1957 and they grew up in a Roman Catholic family – both remain devoted to their religion.
Nicholas completed his secondary education, mainly in Catholic schools, and moved on from there Adelphi University. After two years at the varsity, Nicholas graduated in Theater, but first had to devote himself to family life.
Initially Nicholas would work as a doorman, before making his debut as an actor, as at the time he was married to his first wife and raising their daughter Erica. Nicholas' debut came about thanks to the influence of his brother, who introduced him to Spike Lee; he starred in several Spike Lee productions, including his first role as an extra and voiceover in the 1989 film "Do The Right Thing."
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Spike was so impressed with Nicholas that he wrote a special role for him in his next movie "Mo' Better Blues". Nicholas continued his success, starring in several Spike Lee feature films, including "Malcolm-X" and "Jungle Fever" alongside his brother John. In the early 1990s, Nicholas landed a few other roles, including the 1991 film "Men Of Respect."
In 1992, Nick landed a part on the hit television series "Law and Order," but had more success the following year, when he landed roles in three television series – "LA Law," "The Young Chronicles of Indiana Jones," and his long-running role in "NYPD Blue".
In 1994, Nicholas co-starred with his cousin Aida in the independent film "The Search for One-eye Jimmy". In 2000, the final episodes of the "NYPD Blue" series aired, but roles for the talented actor were not scarce and Nicholas would later appear in several shows, including "The District", "Touched By an Angel" and " The Twilight Zone".
In 2003, Nick got his second long-running role, in "Third Watch". In 2005, Nicholas starred in the Adam Sandler comedy "The Longest Yard", and the following yearwas cast in the role of Officer Colovito in "World Trade Center".
He starred in several other feature films, including television shows and movies, but it wasn't until 2010 that he had another recurring role on a television series, as Sgt Anthony Renzulli in "Blue Bloods", which he played until 2016. , he has also appeared in a few films, including "Zookeeper" and "Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2". His last appearance is in the 2020 production "Shooting Heroin".
Hobbies, favorite things and interesting facts
While working as a doorman in Manhattan, in an apartment building where musician Billy Joel lived, Nicholas judged all the women Billy would visit by indication of his fingers. Oddly enough, from 1985 to 1994, Billy's wife, Christie Brinkley, was the only one to get a ten twice.
The Turturro family seems to be known for fame and Nick's other brother Ralph is a famous musician. The youngest members of the family, including Amedeo Turturro and Diego Z Turturro, are also starting to get known.
Nicholas is known as a big fan of baseball; he collects baseball memorabilia and regularly posts videos on social media in support of his favorite team – the New York Yankees.
Proportions
Nicholas has been married twice. – he married Jami Biunno, with whom he had his firstborn, Erica, in 1985, but they divorced in 1994. They met while studying at university, and he had to put his ambitions as an actor on hold to support his family to found.
He met his second wife, Lissa Espinosa, who worked as a flight attendant, as a passenger on a flight. They married on August 3, 1996 and have remained together ever since. They have two children, son Nicholas III and another son Santino.
Height: 5ft 7is (1.72m)
Weight: 165 pounds (75 kg)
Shoe size: Unknown
Ethnicity: Italian/ Latino
As a long active actor, Nicholas has an estimated net value of $5 million as of 2020.
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HomePerspectivesFaulty prescriptions; diseased farms
Ajay Vir JakharFebruary 5, 2015India Today, Perspectives
Faulty prescriptions; diseased farms
Good intentions based on bad understanding aggravate an already challenging situation. Policy and implementation must be designed with more rigour than in the past.
Nearly 700 years ago, Muhammad bin Tughlaq, who ruled Delhi, started the ministry of agriculture and wanted all the fallow land to be brought under cultivation. Tughlaq wanted cultivation of high-value crops and decreed: "Wherever wheat is grown, barley should be grown, wherever barley is grown, sugarcane should be grown and wherever sugarcane is grown, dates and grapes should be grown." He failed, destroying family farms for generations. Still at it, we call it diversification of agriculture.
Ultimately, it is time for the Ministry of Agriculture to cease to exist in its solitary form; effectively, agriculture is a state subject. Even a merger of the central ministries of rural development, agriculture and water resources may not be enough to save India from the perfect storm created by farm policy influenced by people off the farm. Sometimes good intentions can aggravate an already challenging situation when policy and implementation are not designed with more rigour than in the past.
The inevitable direct subsidy transfer to farmers could be a positive development provided prospective ambiguities are first addressed. Similarly, if minimum capital adequacy ratio norms for rural co-operative banks are not diluted, such banks will shut shop and already falsified agriculture credit numbers would be hit further. It is not trending ideas or grandstanding announcements but the mundane, meticulous policies executed with rigour and methodically that usher in prosperity.
To consider the reneging on promises through a personal experience, the state government incentivising diversification through disbursal of subsidised seeds lead to my planting. The government however refuses to purchase the produce at the minimum support price. Policymakers advocate the import of fruits and vegetables to control food inflation but controlling food inflation has more to do with removing impediments to marketing perishables than to production limitations.
The route to increasing food processing does not lie in tax incentives to industries but better co-ordination between research institutions and the food processing industry. Cotton is a farm produce but policy and price are determined by the textiles ministry. Such inconsistencies haunt every department of the government. Addressing such frustrations and improving governance would demand a national food security adviser on the lines of a national security adviser to integrate programmes between different departments, central ministries and state governments to ensure delivery at the grassroots level.
How allocated funds are utilised is equally crucial. Scarce resources cannot be allowed to get evaporated in investments in imposing flood irrigation projects. Regrettably, lending institutions and business houses are not the best reservoirs of knowledge. International consulting firms that have left many world economies in the doldrums, can hardly be banked upon. More savings and learning comes from documenting failures. Consequently, land gets waterlogged in some places while much of the country suffers from groundwater table depletion. Repairing existing irrigation infrastructure, making water storage tanks, incentivising micro irrigation and distributing soil moisture measuring devices to all farmers is the way forward to harvesting manifold gains at no extra cost.
At a 1957 BKS seminar, the then prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru referred to the food targets set for the Second Five-Year Plan and said "India would not do so by depending on financial allocations alone but by blood and by sweat we shall achieve them". Yet in the first decade and a half of Independence, India prioritised large-scale industrialisation instead of first focusing on a revolution in the farms; all under his watch. The development based on the Soviet Union's five-year plans over many decades has only helped India keep its head above the waterline. There has been enough of aping for one lifetime. India's problems are unique; so must its solutions be.
Reap the fruits of the farmer's blood and sweat demands planting seeds of practice and process. India must raise agricultural R&D to one per cent of the farm sector's GDP for starters. Mere financial allocations will not help though. Agriculture research needs to be separated from farm advisory services. Too much focus on research and lack of delivery on both counts has dampened India's growth trajectory significantly. In its new avatar, the Niti Aayog needs to be more diligent during policy-making or else the country will fail to realise its potential and remain a developing country. It is best expressed in the words of Samuel Beckett, "Our life is a succession of paradises successively denied."
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In Transit Will No Longer Ride the Rails on Broadway
The musical by Kristen Anderson-Lopez, James-Allen Ford, Russell Kaplan, and Sara Wordsworth ends its Circle in the Square run.
The Broadway production of In Transit, an a cappella musical coauthored by Kristen Anderson-Lopez, James-Allen Ford, Russell Kaplan, and Sara Wordsworth, will end its run at the Circle in the Square Theatre this Sunday, April 16, after 36 preview and 145 regular performances. The production opened December 11.
In Transit stars David Abeles (Once), Moya Angela (Ghost), Steven "Heaven" Cantor, Justin Guarini (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown), Telly Leung (Allegiance), Erin Mackey (Amazing Grace), Gerianne Pérez, Margo Seibert (Rocky), Chesney Snow, James Snyder (If/Then), Mariand Torres, Nicholas Ward (On the Town), Adam Bashian, Laurel Harris (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical), Arbender Robinson (Shuffle Along), and Aurelia Williams.
Directed and choreographed by Tony winner Kathleen Marshall, the a cappella musical is inspired by the rhythms of the subway as various characters find their way in New York City. It features a book, music, and lyrics by Anderson-Lopez, James-Allen Ford, Russell Kaplan, and Sara Wordsworth. The production will have vocal arrangements by Deke Sharon and musical supervision by Rick Hip-Flores. The original Broadway cast recording will be released on Hollywood Records and will be available digitally on Friday, April 28, and in-stores on Friday, June 9.
The production features scenic design by Donyale Werle (Peter and the Starcatcher), costume design by Clint Ramos (Eclipsed), lighting design by Tony Award winner Donald Holder (She Loves Me), sound design by Ken Travis (Aladdin).
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Discussion in 'Apple TV and Home Theater' started by soberbrain, Sep 13, 2015.
I don't understand why the top 2 buttons are menu and TV input. Since they are the closest to the touch area, it should be buttons most frequently used. It would be better if play/pause was next to menu, like in the previous Apple TV remote. It seems awkward to have the touch area and play/pause on opposite ends.
The top right button is actually the Home button, not TV Input.
play/pause, is a tap the touch portion, so it's already as close to the touch section as you can get.
menu is used quite frequently.
this isn't a menu button like on your TV that brings up a settings menu, its the back button.
With the current remote you can just hold down the Menu Button to take you back to the Home screen. So not sure why the extra button. Of course I did not know that for a long time. Maybe simpler to have two buttons.
You're right. I read the remote could also change TV input and thought that was the button.
Surprised there's 2 buttons for those functions. On the current Apple TV, clicking menu brings you back and holding it down brings you to Home screen.
You can even set up a menu to pop up when holding down. I used this to bring up closed captions when I couldn't understand dialogue. Actually a neat feature on the new Apple TV that you could ask Siri what they said during a show and it will rewind and turn on closed captions temporarily.
Perhaps they think the Home function will be used more often now that the device has real apps and not just a nested menu system of "channels".
How do you roll back for a replay?
Does anyone know why the don't just call it a back button?
Do you mean like fast forward and rewind?
If so those are just swiping left and right on the touch pad.


Where Is God When Houston Happens?
May God be with the people of Houston.
Over the past several days, one of the most costly natural disasters ever recorded has unfolded in Houston, TX. Hurricane Harvey has decimated the 4th largest city in the United States, crushing southeast Texas with over 19 trillion gallons of rain. The city is in ruin, people are in chaos, lives are being lost, and doubtless there are many who are asking, "Where is God in Houston?". Perhaps even some reading this right now are experiencing their own personal "Houston" and are wondering if God has for saken them.
I can tell you with supreme confidence that God is most certainly in Houston, that He cares deeply for those in affliction and is active right this moment providing comfort, hope and healing. "The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit." (Psalm 34:18) If you are hurting, God is not far away. Call out to Him and He will comfort you.
I can also tell you that the disaster in Houston is not because the people of Houston were somehow more sinful than the rest of the United States. As Jesus taught, "Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish." (Luke 13:4-5) We are all equally and completely depraved and deserve much worse than a natural disaster. It is the grace of God that we do not receive what we truly deserve. This world is in decay and groans with the pains of labor as we await a glorious new world, recreated perfectly when Christ returns. While we await that return, we will have trials.
So, what do we do with times of suffering in this life? There are two possible responses, both of which are playing out in the lives of millions of people daily in Houston and around the world.
The first possible response is despair.
It is natural to despair when disaster falls upon you. Our human eyes watch the floodwaters rise, see the ruin of everything we hold dear in this life and shed tears of hopeless loss. Surely many are feeling despair in Houston today, and my heart goes out to them. But must we despair in disaster?
Jesus taught us to, "Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions…Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing…Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." (Luke 12) For those who have made earthly treasure the focus of their life and "set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches" (1 Timothy 6:17), despair is the only option for they have truly lost everything and are without hope in this world.
Oh, the joy of the one true gospel! Truly we can proclaim along with the Bible, "For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord." (Romans 8:38-39) There is no flood deep enough to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Are you in need of joy today in the midst of your suffering? The saving gospel of Jesus Christ is your hope and your joy. Cry out to Jesus, our Emmanuel, God With Us, who is near to the brokenhearted, comforts in affliction and loves you more than you know. And who alone is the door to eternal glory, where He will personally wipe every tear from your eye and where there will be no more sorrow. Cling to Christ, your hope, your joy and your salvation.
PS – Inspire's Give50 program has already provided funding for Hurricane Harvey relief efforts through our friends at WorldHelp. Please join us as we provide hope and healing for the people of Houston by clicking here to make a donation today. Disclaimer: Inspire and WorldHelp are not affiliates.
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In heaven, five people explain your life to you. Some you knew, others may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his "meaningless" life, and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: "Why was I here?"
The book begins with the death of Eddie and then goes on narrating the circumstances that leads to his death. Eventually, it moves into his afterlife in heaven and the people he meets. These people help him understand why his life was in certain ways and not in certain other ways. Incidentally, the people he meets includes both those he knows and doesn't know. At the end of it he realizes that his life was not as bad as he was thinking.
We are introduced to Eddie as an old man who handles the maintenance of Ruby Pier; who lives his life on a rehearsed routine. After his death, the five people he meets gives a view about his childhood, manhood, miseries, love, family, ambitions and so on.
In the heaven, Eddie meets five people, as the book's title rightly hints. They teach a message to Eddie about his own life, thereby adding a different perspective to the events that has left a lasting impression in his life.
· They teach that one person's life is interconnected with another, thereby explaining why one is dead and other goes on living.
· Sacrifice is a part of life. You sacrifice for someone. Someone else would sacrifice for you.
· Forgiveness is the only means for peaceful life.
· Love is eternal; cannot be ended by death.
· If your life is in certain ways, there is a reason for it. So accept it!
The narrative is simple and oscillated between the present, immediate past and Eddie's several birthdays. Such a unique style of narrative and the simple language will not let you bored. Although the book is about Eddie's life and death, it surely has interesting takeaway for everyone.
I read it in one go.
© All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time."
© "Holding anger is a poison...It eats you from inside...We think that by hating someone we hurt them...But hatred is a curved blade...and the harm we do to others...we also do to ourselves."
© "Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else."
© "The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone."
© "There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind..."
© "Every life has one true love snapshot."
My fav. book:)..I just love this writer, read this book so many times, all his books are like that, specially Tuesdays with morrie.
*Forgiveness is the only means to peaceful life.* ~ Yeah, this is true. But some people are so forgiving that they start hating the peace that follows :P I guess this is a self-help/motivation book?


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An esports battle erupts in Toronto over the use of the city in a team name
By Raju Mudhar Staff Reporter
Fri., Nov. 16, 2018
A Toronto-based esports team is calling foul after being asked to stop using "Toronto" in its name.
As Toronto Defiant — the newest team of competitive videogamers in town — prepares for its professional debut in Season 2 of the popular Overwatch League, the older, lower-ranked Toronto Esports says it's been given six weeks to take the city out of its name. Much drama has ensued, focused on whether teams can claim the right to the use of cities in team names.
The logo of Toronto's newest esports Overwatch franchise, the Toronto Defiant. (THE CANADIAN PRESS)
Can Activision Blizzard, the gaming giant behind Overwatch, force Toronto Uprising to change its name? Short answer: yes.
"We have been informed by Blizzard that we will be forced to remove 'Toronto' from our brand in only 6 weeks. Mid Contenders season 3. The reason cited: @TorontoDefiant have purchased 'exclusive naming rights.' We will be leaving Overwatch effective immediately. Good riddance," the Toronto Esports Club tweeted last week.
But why the drama in the first place? The Overwatch League, with teams competing in a fast-paced, team shooter game, just finished its successful first season in August and is expanding to 20 teams for Season 2, which begins in February. Unlike most other esports, the league wants to follow a traditional sports model, with teams based in cities.
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With league entry costing a reported $35 million, Toronto Defiant has a lot on the line. It's the esports equivalent of an expansion team joining the NBA. Defiant has gained some early buzz, largely because Chris Overholt, the former CEO of the Canadian Olympic Committee, left that post to run the team.
While Defiant has existed for less than a month, the Esports has been around for years. It competes in Contenders, a lower-tier Overwatch league, and is affiliated with the Boston Uprising, that city's pro team.
While the Toronto Esports Club has reportedly pulled from competition, Chris Loranger, current general manager of Boston Uprising, tweeted that "we retain ownership of all the player and staff contracts and ownership over the contenders slot. We will continue to compete as a team, but obviously under a new brand."
Reached for comment, Paulo Senra, vice-president of content and communications for the Toronto Defiant, sent a statement: "The Toronto Defiant is focused on building our team and launching a successful 2019 season. Neither the Defiant nor (parent company) Overactive Media was involved with the decision to ask Toronto Esports to rebrand."
Toronto Esports Club alleged on Twitter that Activision Blizzard is enforcing the decision. Efforts to reach the company for comment went unanswered.
Adding even more drama to this is that Ryan Pallett, president of the Toronto Esports Club, has issued a challenge for a "show match" — an exhibition game — between his team and the Defiant, with the winner taking the name.
This is like the Marlies challenging the Maple Leafs to a duel over rights to the city's name. Attempts to interview Pallett were unsuccessful.
Whether anybody should have the exclusive right to a city name is an interesting question; in traditional sports, it could be difficult to enforce.
"Can someone trademark the name of a city for a sports franchise? That would be incredibly difficult to do, if not impossible," said Marco Ciarlariello, a sports lawyer at Cassels Brock in Toronto.
When it comes to sports leagues, however, "these issues are handled in house." He notes there is a difference between a trademark and naming rights, and stresses he hasn't seen the terms of service of agreements that the players and teams would have to abide by.
The Defiant team may not be able to trademark the word "Toronto," but Activision Blizzard could likely prevent two of its own clubs from using the same city name in the leagues that it owns and operates.
The Overwatch dispute is a unique one in the world of esports, where most of the biggest teams and players in the biggest games, like League of Legends and DOTA 2, don't bother affixing themselves to geographic locations. Some of the most successful clubs have names like Team Liquid, Evil Geniuses and FaZe Clan.
Correction — Nov. 20, 2018: This article was edited from a previous version that mistakenly referred to the Toronto Esports as Toronto Uprising.
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About Larkspur, CA (City Center)
Median real estate price in the City Center of Larkspur is $1,556,297, which is more expensive than 94.8% of the neighborhoods in California and 99.0% of the neighborhoods in the U.S.
The average rental price in Larkspur City Center is currently $3,211, based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. The average rental cost in this neighborhood is higher than 82.1% of the neighborhoods in California.
Larkspur City Center is a suburban neighborhood (based on population density) located in Larkspur, California. This is a coastal neighborhood (i.e., is on the ocean, a bay, or inlet).
Real estate in the City Center of Larkspur, CA is primarily made up of small (studio to two bedroom) to medium sized (three or four bedroom) single-family homes and apartment complexes/high-rise apartments. Most of the residential real estate is occupied by a mixture of owners and renters. Many of the residences in the City Center neighborhood are older, well-established, built between 1940 and 1969. A number of residences were also built between 1970 and 1999.
Real estate vacancies in Larkspur City Center are 5.9%, which is lower than one will find in 68.5% of American neighborhoods. Demand for real estate in Larkspur City Center is above average for the U.S., and may signal some demand for either price increases or new construction of residential product for this neighborhood.
Do you like a coastal setting? If so, this neighborhood may be to your liking. The Larkspur City Center neighborhood is on the ocean, a bay, or inlet. Often such coastal places have amenities and recreational activities on the waterfront that are attractive to residents and visitors alike. In addition to being coastal, Larkspur City Center is a very nautical neighborhood, meaning that it is somewhat historic, walkable, densely populated and on the water. This gives the neighborhood a very nautical feel, with some seaside and shipping feel, which some may really enjoy the sights and sounds of.
In a nation where 1 out of every 4 children lives in poverty, the Larkspur City Center neighborhood stands out as being ranked among the lowest 0.0% of neighborhoods affected by this global issue.
In addition, do you like to read, write, and learn? Are you curious about the world? If so, this neighborhood may be a good fit for you. NeighborhoodScout's research revealed that a full 77.5% of the adults living in the Larkspur City Center neighborhood have earned at least a bachelor's degree. This is a higher rate than NeighborhoodScout found in 97.9% of U.S. neighborhoods. In this way, this neighborhood truly stands out.
Also, if you are planning to retire in California, this neighborhood should be on your must-see list. For many reasons, Larkspur City Center may be considered a retiree's dream neighborhood. According to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis and metrics, it's peaceful and quiet, has above average safety from crime compared to other neighborhoods in California, while also offering a diverse range of housing options. This, along with the vibrant mix of very educated seniors and other age groups who choose to live here, makes the neighborhood more retiree-friendly than 96.8% of neighborhoods in CA. If a California retirement is in your future, this neighborhood should be one of the places you visit. In addition to being an excellent choice for active retirees, this neighborhood is also a very good choice for highly educated executives and urban sophisticates.
If you like to ride a ferry to work, this neighborhood may be for you. NeighborhoodScout's research revealed that 6.8% of the Larkspur City Center neighborhood's commuters ride a ferry to and from work each day, which is more than we found in 99.9% of America's neighborhoods.
Also, in the Larkspur City Center neighborhood, many people's commute means walking from the bedroom to the home office. NeighborhoodScout's analysis found that 13.6% of residents worked from home. This may not seem like a large number, but Scout's research shows that this is a higher percentage of people working from home than 96.8% of the neighborhoods in America. Often people who work from home are engaged in the creative or technological economy, such as is found in areas around Boston, and in Silicon Valley. Other times, people may be engaged in other businesses like trading stocks from home, or running a small beauty salon.
The Larkspur City Center neighborhood has a higher proportion of its residents employed as executives, managers and professionals than 96.1% of the neighborhoods in America. In fact, 66.8% of the employed people here make a living as an executive, a manager, or other professional. With such a high concentration, this truly shapes the character of this neighborhood, and to a large degree defines what this neighborhood is about.
Did you know that the Larkspur City Center neighborhood has more Croatian and Eastern European ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 1.5% of this neighborhood's residents have Croatian ancestry and 2.3% have Eastern European ancestry.
Larkspur City Center is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.3% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak French at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 96.2% of the neighborhoods in America.
The neighbors in the City Center neighborhood in Larkspur are wealthy, making it among the 15% highest income neighborhoods in America. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 91.7% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 0.0% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 100.0% of America's neighborhoods.
In the Larkspur City Center neighborhood, 66.8% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 20.6% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations (6.8%), and 5.4% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.
The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the Larkspur City Center neighborhood is English, spoken by 88.6% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
In the City Center neighborhood in Larkspur, CA, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (17.9%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (17.1%), and residents who report English roots (12.6%), and some of the residents are also of Italian ancestry (9.1%), along with some Polish ancestry residents (6.5%), among others. In addition, 12.2% of the residents of this neighborhood were born in another country.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in Larkspur City Center neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (29.3% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (70.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (9.5%) and 6.8% of residents also ride a ferry for their daily commute. In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.
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This neighborhood is served by 3 districts:
TAMALPAIS UNION HIGH
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Redwood High School
395 Doherty Dr.
San Andreas High (continuation) School
599 William Ave.
1327 Sir Francis Drake Blvd.
Tamalpais High School
700 Miller Ave.
Tamiscal High (alternative) School
LARKSPUR-CORTE MADERA
Cove School
330 Golden Hind Passage
Corte Madera, CA 94925
Hall Middle School
Neil Cummins Elementary School
58 Mohawk Ave.
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Adaline E. Kent Middle School
Kentfield, CA 94904
Anthony G. Bacich Elementary School
699 Sir Francis Drake Blvd.
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The candy board showed that they had consumed most of the "candy", which was such a positive sign. It seems that I had planned and done everything correctly, right down to proper ventilation to get them through the winter.
This final frame reveals, after I smoked them to move, capped brood. While I was doing my inspection I actually saw a baby bee hatching but didn't have the camera handy to snap the shot! I could not find the queen but there is overwhelming evidence that she is there! They had full on honey reserves so all is well. I am hoping to get a split out of this one in a few weeks as long as the weather continues the way it is, looks like honey season may be early this year!
Chicken worming, easy, not so much!


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Dean Rusk International Law Center
Research & Faculty
Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree
International trainings
Global Governance Summer School
Global Externships
International ›
Each year the Dean Rusk International Law Center at the University of Georgia School of Law hosts visiting scholars and researchers from across the globe. These visitors stay at Georgia Law for brief or extended periods in order to work with faculty, engage with students through mini-courses and less formal presentations, and take advantage of our Alexander Campbell King Law Library as well as other University of Georgia libraries, including the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies.
A list of visiting researchers and scholars over the years is here.
2018-19 Visitors
Visiting this academic year are:
SeongEun Kim is a member of the administrative staff in the Department of Human Resources of Konkuk University in Seoul, Republic of Korea. He holds his Ph.D. in Labor Law from Dongguk University, and is conducting research on comparative labor standards in the United States and Korea. University of Georgia School of Law Adjunct Professor of Law Weyman T. Johnson is serving as his faculty sponsor.
Jiang Xi is a Lecturer in the School of Law at Jilin University of Finance and Economics located in Changchun, Jilin Province, in the northeastern part of China. She is conducting research on "Improving the Enforcement Systems for International Court of Justice Judgments." University of Georgia School of Law Professor Harlan G. Cohen is serving as her faculty sponsor.
Yanying Zhang serves as Professor of Law, Graduate Supervisor, Director of the Comparative Law Research Center, and Vice Dean of the Economic and Trade Law Department at Shandong University of Finance and Economics, located in Jinan, Shandong Province, in the eastern part of China. She is conducting research on "Land Takings from the Perspective of Remedy: Problems Inspection and Systems Innovation," funded by a grant from the Ministry of Education of China. University of Georgia School of Law Professor Christian Turner is serving as her faculty sponsor.
Our Guidelines for Visiting Researchers and Scholars provide details on how to apply to become a visiting scholar or researcher at the University of Georgia School of Law is here.


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Obituary for Harold Adams, 82
April 13,1937 To November 30,2019,
10-11 AM, one hour before the service, Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at Salem Lutheran Church in Forest Green, MO
11 AM, Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at Salem Lutheran Church in Forest Green, MO
Salem Lutheran Cemetery
Salem Lutheran Church or Family's Choice
Glasgow resident, Harold Lee Adams, 82, passed away peacefully at his home while surrounded by his loving family, November 30, 2019. Harold Lee Adams was born in Lewis Mill, Chariton County, MO on April 13, 1937, a son to the late Roy Harold and Elizabeth (Niekamp) Adams. Harold graduated from Glasgow High School, the class of 1955. He married the love of his life, Marylin Engel, at Salem Lutheran Church in Forest Green, MO on June 1, 1957. Together, they've enjoyed over 62 years of marriage. Harold was an extremely hard worker. At age eight, Harold started working on the family farm. His sisters said they could hear him singing over the sound of the tractors while in the fields. For numerous years, he raised tobacco and trimmed trees. He passed his knowledge and experience in climbing and trimming trees on to his grandsons. Harold primarily worked as a supervisor for KCPL, retiring in 1994. Harold enjoyed traveling and camping, visiting 49 of the 50 states, including Canada and Mexico. He loved boating, water skiing, and all sports. He truly loved spending time with his two daughters, grandchildren and great-grandchildren and attending all their sporting events. Harold was extremely proud of them all and would not hesitate to share this with others. He had a grand sense of humor that kept his family on their toes and laughing. Harold was a devout member of Salem Lutheran Church. He will be deeply missed by family and friends. Survivors include his wife, Marilyn Adams, of the home; two children, Karen Monnig of New Franklin, MO and Sharon (Kenny) Nation of Glasgow, MO; nine grandchildren, Amanda (Terry) Gibson of New Franklin, MO, Amber Conz of Boonville, MO, Joshua (Molly) Monnig of Glasgow, MO, Dariez Dickerson of New Franklin, MO, Wesley (Jenny) Nation of Romney, WV, Nicholas (Carmen) Nation of Glasgow, MO, Chassidy Yeokum of Brumley, MO, Tiffany Hackman of Glasgow, MO and Nathaniel (Kayla) Nation, of Glasgow, MO; 30 great-grandchildren and one great-great-granddaughter; two sisters, Roberta (Ben) Knight and Glenetta (A.C.) Burks, both of Slater, MO; and one brother, Roy (Leslie) Adams, Jr. of Mexico, MO. He is also survived by several nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. In addition to his parents, Harold was preceded in death by a great-grandchild, Dakota Nation. A funeral service honoring the life of Mr. Adams will be 11 AM, Wednesday, December 4, 2019 at Salem Lutheran Church in Forest Green, with Pastor Noah Burgdorf officiating. Visitation will be an hour before the service at the church. Interment will follow the service at Salem Lutheran Cemetery. Memorial contributions are suggested to Salem Lutheran Church or Family's Choice. Arrangements are under the direction of Friemonth-Freese Funeral Service.


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Samuel Petri Elfving, född 1642 i Älvdalens socken, död 30 december 1700 i Norrbärke socken, var en svensk präst och riksdagsman.

Biografi
Samuel Petri Elfving var son till kyrkoherden i Älvdalen Petrus Laurentii Sudermannus och Anna Hansdotter Moraea, en syster till Daniel Buskovius. Han inskrevs vid Uppsala universitet 1664 och studerade där tills han blev adjunkt och rector cantus vid Västerås gymnasium 1672. Han prästvigdes året därefter för att 1674 bli rektor för Nora skola och 1678 bli kyrkoherde i Garpenbergs socken.

Till följd av ett falskt rykte om att kyrkoherden i Norrbärke dött, framställde Elfving en begäran till biskopen om att få efterträda denne. Skandalen till trots fick han posten sedan kyrkoherdens död verkligen inträffat, 1695. Året därpå blev han kontraktsprost.

1697 var han fullmäktig i riksdagen.

Elfving var gift med en dotter till Petrus Olai Wibyensis och Christina Rudbeckius. Sonen Petrus Elfving var professor i Åbo och stamfader för adelsätten Elfcrona.

Källor
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Födda 1642
Avlidna 1700
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Category: Australia
Australia is Walking a Fine Line between America and Communist China – a Dangerous Game
"America will lose, and China will win. America will cease to play a major strategic role in Asia, and China will take its place as the dominant power." This is from a White Paper published from Australia. Whoever said this is a flaming idiot. It is a self-fulfilling prophecy from people who are either sinophiles or interested in China's ephemeral (and largely non-existent) markets, all subject to Communist China's vast manipulation and regulation, peremptory, if necessary for the Party's benefit. This fatalistic approach in Australia has caused it to adopt a basically very troubling suicidal trajectory for some time.
Referring to a well-written article by Sushil Seth, a commentator in Australia, which appeared in the Taipei Times on December 30, 2017, p. 8 ("Counterbalancing Chinese Leverage"), I have the following observations.
President Obama withdrew the United States from world leadership because he is a weak, insipid, feckless and appeasing idiot (and of course he is the most admired man according to Newsweek because everyone just loves a sensitive, kind, understanding America – until they need someone to defend them, then they want the American juggernaut at their side). He was most uncomfortable being the world's most powerful man, and his mistaken belief that he could extend an open hand to the world's worst regimes, betray our closest allies, and sing Kumbaya backfired, and in the horrible vacuum he left, Russia and China leapt in. It will take some years to get that back.
Let me be very clear about one thing. Donald Trump's presidency is the child of President Obama's failures. Trump would never have succeeded if Obama has not driven the US bus so far to the left and so far from its role in the world that it disappeared over the horizon. Now we are dealing with that. But for all of his own idiosyncrasies, and they are many, Trump's unpredictability does have an advantage (similar to Ronald Reagan's "power") to intimidate and in some sense have an effect on rogues, who would be far more comfortable getting up in Obama's face, than Trump's, because they knew Obama would never pull any trigger, and they also deeply fear that Trump is just itching to pull any trigger (not that he will).
Congress is 100% behind the US presence in Asia, and while the American president traditionally pussyfoots around with Russia and Communist China, the Congress never does. It supports Taiwan by vast majorities, and would also support Australia and Japan and Korea to the same extent. However, Australia has elected leaders who have been vastly at odds with American policies, and that has caused some dissonance. Australia is playing perhaps a dangerous game of both sides, feasting at Communist China's trough, and expecting the US to protect it within America's enormous penumbra.
Like it or not, the US is the only country in the world that can contain the likes of Communist China and Russia, North Korea and Iran and Syria, and Turkey, and the Arab world, and all of the other hot spots which pop up all over at any given time. For some reason I cannot understand, Australia has spent ten years pushing America away, and then complains that the US is not engaged in Asia. Huh? You cannot have it both ways. Australia is our deep ally, our long time friend, our brother in arms (sigh, sister, trans, whatever other words are necessary now). We hope for Australia to stop pushing the US away in order to feast in China, because the longer any country feasts there, the deeper into China's trap they fall. It would behoove Australia to make up its mind what it is doing. If Australia thinks that a full blown democracy can become the ally of the world largest and most dangerous totalitarian government, good luck. You don't stand a chance, because China's trojan horse is already parked in Sydney and it has begun to manipulate the environment from within. You can do business with the Chinese Communist Party, you can trade with them, you can even smile with them, but you can never ever, ever, ever trust them.
The U.S. is not going anywhere. We are the only hope to help solve some of the world's worst dilemmas. Europe is hopelessly indecisive and completely based on appeasement, which as we have seen, is useless against evil regimes, who simply lie, sign and breach (e.g. N. Korea, Iran, Communist China (already breaching the 50-year agreement with the UK regarding Hong Kong, as though Great Britain would do anything about it)).
I can tell you that out of 330 million people in the US, there are no more than a handful who believe "America will lose, and China will win"
These are tough times. Tough times call for resolute actions. Who else is going to be resolute? We've always relied on Australia to be right there by our side. We hope for that to continue for a long, long time as we love our friends from down under.
Author leelonghwaPosted on December 30, 2017 December 30, 2017 Categories Australia, China, Chinese Communist Party, EU, Global politics, Hong Kong, Taiwan, UncategorizedTags China, Chinese Communist Party, EU, Hong Kong, North Korea, TaiwanLeave a comment on Australia is Walking a Fine Line between America and Communist China – a Dangerous Game
There are still "communist sympathizers" who believe China is their Eden…it is hard to believe, I know
I was reading posts regarding Communist China, and came across a post entitled "Is the People's Republic of China a Force for Good?" https://wordpress.com/read/blogs/9954326/posts/12507, a post addressing an article discussing the People's Republic of China's influence in Australia.
The post is basically more than an apology for the People's Republic of China, but actually a celebration of its communist roots and a system of government far "superior" to Western "bourgeois democracies". As soon as people start using "bourgeois", I start getting nervous. I wrote a comment on the post, and you can read the original post yourself to see the depths to which an apologist for totalitarianism will go to justify it (even as against those evil human rights proponents such as Liu Xiaobo calling for democracy, because they are committing "treason"). As soon as people start saying it is treasonous to call for human rights, due process and democracy, you have reached that Twilight Zone called Communist China.
Here is my comment on the post in full. I am not sure it will be published there:
"I suppose it is ironic this was posted on June 4th, the day on which the rest of the world remembers Tienanmen Square's massacre, another dark day in the totalitarian history of murder and oppression in The People's Republic of China, which is basically the most horrendous "communist" dictatorship, in this case run by the Chinese Communist Party. The only tie remotely between communism and the People's Republic of China is that it is both a totalitarian nightmare, like every communist regime in history, and the state owns and controls everything, including speech, thought and actions. To pretend, like some book group discussing the writings of Marx, that the PRC is some benign and beneficial nation of peace and harmony requires checking one's brain and entire nervous center before waking. China is not "cooperating" with the West, it is co-opting the West with its basic capital, which is blackmail, propaganda and prevarication, undertaken under the guise of trade and economic development, using such projects as the One Belt One Road (One Noose One Way), which is a web of influence which will allow China to affect the thinking and policies of all the nations involved and affected. China has corrupted the United Nations into becoming a Communist China mouthpiece and automaton. If people with the principles discussed here reject Liu Xiaobo in favor of Xi Jinping, I really don't know what to say, except trying having a discussion about Liu in a coffee shop in Beijing and see how long before you end up in jail. And that is free speech with Chinese characteristics. By the way, this website is not available in the PRC, and "Communist Heaven" is actually a room without light in a special corner of Hell."
Author leelonghwaPosted on July 18, 2017 Categories Australia, China, Chinese Communist Party, Democracy, Global politics, Human rights, Taiwan, Uncategorized, Xi JinpingTags China, Chinese Characteristics, Chinese Communist Party, Democracy, Human rights, One Belt One Road, TaiwanLeave a comment on There are still "communist sympathizers" who believe China is their Eden…it is hard to believe, I know
Beijing's Trojan Horse Strategy – foreign college campuses, Chinese non-profits, Hollywood acquisitions and influence
Stephanie Saul's article for the NY Times Service on Sunday describes Beijing's use of Chinese students studying abroad and the Chinese Students and Scholars Association as one method for affecting the discussion on campuses in the United States, and elsewhere of Communist China and its policies.
In truth however, Beijing has been constructing these Trojan horses for decades. They take the form of Chinese student organizations, Confucius Institutes, and other organs which offer subtle propaganda to show Beijing's supposedly kinder, gentler side, its "peaceful rise".
But make no mistake. China's aim is to squelch all discussion, all mention, all free speech about its evils. These Trojan horses are in fact filled to the brim with propaganda about how benign is Beijing's dictatorship, its denial of all freedoms to its people, its oppression of its people, denial of justice, its absolute protection of Chinese companies over foreign companies doing business in China, its anti-democratic policies, hegemony, oppression of Hong Kong, hatred and genocide in Tibet and effort to smear, destroy and replace the Dalai Lama, its murder and abuse of Falun Gong followers, its South China Sea aggression, and its attempts to sideline Taiwan, render it invisible or irrelevant, and destroy Taiwan's democracy, and most of all its intentions for world peace with Chinese Characteristics (which means peace on its terms, in other words "no peace", a world led by China's totalitarian system).
Communist China has vast plans in place to affect perceptions about it around the world, to infect public discourse about its tyranny by whatever means possible. Whether it takes the form of spying through acquisition of businesses (or in the case of Australia, leasing a port in Darwin for more than three hundred million Australian dollars close to an American military installation), or trying to filter any negative mention of China, usually imposing its will on those who fear losing money (as mentioned regarding Australia recently), but certainly true in Europe, Latin America and around the world. Any time a Chinese company (every company no matter private or government run is captive of the Beijing government's control) attempts to acquire a foreign entity, there is usually a strategic reason for it tied in some way to expanding China's influence in that area, or infecting the industry or commerce with pro-China influence, or spying.
In Stephanie Saul's article, when reading it, I felt I was reading not about a student organization, but more about a Communist Chinese platform, a Trojan horse designed to affect free speech on American campuses (something popular these days among the politically correct ultra-left who also seek to squelch discussion of subjects and positions with which they disagree), to basically stop any campus organization or event from even mentioning the Chinese Communist Party's pet sensitivities, Taiwan, the Dalai Lama and Tibet and China's longstanding cultural genocide in Tibet, strict limitations on Hong Kong's democracy, Falun Gong mistreatment and murder in China, Xinjiang's muslim population and China's attempts to destroy their culture there. These taboo subjects must be avoided in order to stay within Beijing's good graces, and disobedience may result in China pulling back students and their foreign student tuition (much as China has done in Taiwan with not just education, but tourists, and business opportunities). The commercial blackmail is one of Beijing's favorite intrigues.
The Trojan Horse is alive and well in Hollywood as well. Those studios needy enough to take Chinese funding suddenly self-censor so that no movie would dare put Beijing in a bad light (this is ironic considering Hollywood has no problem portraying American Presidents, and government officials, the CIA and FBI, and its military in a very bad light as part of many stories). Those studios selling larger stakes, close to being taken over, well, the censorship will be more direct. As for a Chinese company purchasing a major studio (such as China's Wanda Group, which already acquired AMC and a piece of Legendary, tried to acquire Dick Clark Productions (including the Golden Globes), and was sniffing around Paramount Pictures), this would be a disaster of tremendous magnitude. Not only would this provide enormous power to the Communist Party regime, allowing it to hobnob with the elite in Hollywood, affecting Hollywood's discussion of China's brutality around the world, and its hegemony (Hollywood is quick to hate American government, making it ripe for acceptance of the sales talk by Beijing of its benign intentions), it would open the door to propaganda by the studio in the form of its by then major motion pictures portraying the free world poorly, and Communist China in illusions of grandeur and peace. Also, just to make the plan more horrifying, Beijing currently limits the number of foreign films it allows to be shown in China. A major studio would therefore be better off moving its movie-making to Wanda's gigantic studio in China, completing the theft of international movie primacy, and killing jobs in Hollywood and the US.
Beijing's cavalry of Trojan horses is on the march, and it is marching to a college or movie theater near you soon. I ask that you beware, and hold dear our hallowed principles of free speech and constitutional protections for freedom and free speech. Without that protection we are vulnerable to Beijing's insidious Trojan horse machinations.
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Caveat Emptor – Australia Should Stay Closer to Its Longstanding US Alliance While it Dallies in China's Illusory Honeypot
The New York Times today, in an article by Damien Cave, suggests a quandary for Australia, having to choose between its longstanding alliance with the US and increasingly deeper economic ties to Communist China, a slippery slope for most countries beguiled by China's imaginary endless markets, which are heavily regulated and controlled by the Chinese Communist Party along political trajectories.
There is no real conflict, it is an imaginary drumbeat to create issues because of Trump's chaotic presidency. All intelligent people know that the US democracy elects a president every four years come hell or high water, and the country continues to function as the world's only superpower whoever is sitting in the White House.
The notion that there is a difficult decision between survival (e.g. the century old military alliance with the United States, both vibrant democratic countries) and trade with China, a totalitarian behemoth which has traditionally operated politically in foreign affairs through blackmail and propaganda is a false issue. This is not really a choice. The dangers of becoming too dependent on China's trade only mitigates in favor of not becoming "captive" of a totalitarian nightmare, especially a nation which can be economically suffocated by too many entanglements with China.
Of course, anyone can do business with China, but obviously doing business with China comes with conditions which require diplomatic decisions and concessions (often turning reality on its head, such as the One-China fiction) favoring the hegemonic plans China has more recently become bolder to pursue. The conflict is not whether Australia will continue to ally itself with the United States, a military and political alliance essential to Australia's safety and high profile in international affairs, but whether Australia should be cautious when doing business with China, the world's largest and most dangerous propaganda and blackmail machine, and one of the best regimes at floating a honey-trap for overly eager and unsuspecting trade partners, who may become addicted to what China allows to be doled out to further its own hegemony.
While China may be Australia's largest trading partner, China allows that to be the case so long as Australia adheres to the policies China requires of it (which begs the question of "independence" the detractors from US influence in Australia (such as former PM Paul Keating (a serial sinophile, who sits on the advisory board of China Development Bank and has met with Chinese President Xi Jinping) who said Australia should not "put all its chips" on its relationship with the US.) are fond to argue – is it better to be influenced by the world's strongest democracy, or by the world's most horrific totalitarian dictatorship (having murdered as many as 80 million of its own people throughout its history, and currently stifles even the smallest hints of freedom of expression or speech, human rights, or justice, and stomps its heavy boot on the commerce of all around the globe who do not kowtow to its hegemony and fictional "One-China Policy")?
It doesn't seem to be such a difficult choice, unless too much emphasis has been made on doing business with the devil, and Australia has become hopelessly entangled with (or addicted to) Communist China beyond its own control. Caveat emptor, let the buyer beware.
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Q: autoscale the plot `plotly` I need to produce a plot of errors between the true and predicted arrays. I've managed to do it with plotly, as shown in Code 1, but the produced plot has too much space on the top. If I press the autoscale button in the plot - it fixes it.
Code 1:
import numpy as np
import plotly.graph_objects as go

N = 40
y1 = np.random.randint(0, 2, N)
y2 = np.random.randint(0, 2, N)
err = np.where(y1 != y2)[0]

fig = go.Figure()

fig.add_trace(
    go.Scatter(
        x=err,
        y=np.zeros_like(err),
        name='Prediction Errors',
        mode='markers',
        marker_symbol='x',
        marker_color='red',
        showlegend=True
    )
)
fig.update_layout(title_text = 'Errors in activity prediction', height=10)
fig.update_xaxes(title_text = 'User index', range=[-0.3, N])
fig.update_yaxes(range=[-0.01, 0.1], visible=False)

Produced image:

Desired output:

My question:
Can it be done automatically (i.e.without me needing to press the autoscale button each time)?
Thanks in advance.

A: You can try the following:
fig['layout']['yaxis'].update(autorange = True)

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Although one of his previous incarnations was Snoop Eastwood, the once and future Snoop Dogg has come out against gun violence in a video under his new reggae alias, Snoop Lion.
"No Guns Allowed" opens with footage of President Obama condemning the Sandy Hook school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, in December, 2012, setting a somber tone for what's to come. The song is a slow burn about wanting to feel safe and not having to worry about getting shot in a classroom or a crowd. To help get the message across, Snoop (who gains a Jamaican accent during some parts of the song) enlists guest rapper Drake and keeps it in the family by putting on daughter Cori B to sing the hook.
Directed by Jessy Terrero, the video pulls no punches in pointing out whose lives are at stake in the battle against rising gun violence in the United States. Terrero and Snoop Lion's hearts are clearly in the right place, but the approach is perhaps a bit heavy-handed. I mean, there's subtlety and then there's showing a group of children playing spin the bottle with a firearm.


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Absence of Misery is not Presence of Joy.
Absence of Joy causes Misery Of Not Having Joy.
Shut up u Stupid Guy! We all love to bask in our misery. Don't make us realise there is none to begin with.
Heheh did you notice, just by displaying it in itlaics and 'centre-justifying' it, and leaving lots of space in between, even rubbish can be made to seem like something profound!
so i dont have any misery in life?????scary!!! ab to adaat see hai aise jeene main!!!!
maryum last line padha nahin kya?
they sound or rather 'look' deep only because of the italics and other formatting.
I was feeling kinda miserable for a moment. So opened the blog, hoping to kinda get cheered by doing that favourite activity of now-a-days.
But did not have anything to blog really.
So just wrote down the first thing about my then state.
I was feeling sorta miserable. But there was nothibg actually miserable going on at that time. Hmm so I thought maybe its just that I am not 'particularly joyful' at the moment. Not 'actually miserable'. So I concluded "absence of joy was I actually presence of misery". But I did not like the sound of it so twisted it around before writing.
Then I thought, no I am actually feeling miserable. Without any apparent cause though. But wait, we feel miserable when we don't have what we want huh? And at that moment I was not having a particularly joyful moment. There! I ranted out the second sentence of post in my head.
Hmm now the first two sentences definitely meant the third sentence just by momentary observation.
So that was like creation of misery out of nothing!
Which reminded me of law of conservation of mass/energy, how mass/energy cant be created, destroyed blah blah.
So I decided to stretch it, drag it rather, futher in that direction. So I 'contrived' the last two rather unnatural feeling and meaningless 'pearls of wisdom'. There I had the 'post' ready! Ab bas formatting karv di, and it even started 'looking like sagely sayings'!
And since just like you I too did not like its implication (to those who dont know the above real story behind it) that there is no such actual thing as misery, I added the next para. And its kinda true we like to think and portray we are more miserable than we actually are, isn't it? It gives us a kinda of feeling of martyrdom, of being a tormented sagely sufferer and we like it. sheesh!
But then I think I should add a disclaimer. True, 'Misery can arise out of lack of misery', but it can also arise out of real causes.
//So I concluded "absence of joy was I actually presence of misery".
So I concluded "absence of joy was not actually presence of misery".
Here's a little something to make you sliiightly miserable.
If I am logged in as the actual blog owner, I dont have to do word verification for posting comments.
//If I am logged in as the actual blog owner, I dont have to do word verification for posting comments.
my fists are clenched... fumes coming out of ears.. and i soooooo wish i knew your password...hehehe..


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Manchester United vs. Tottenham: Odds, Live Stream, TV Schedule and Preview
Rory Marsden@@roomarsdenTwitter LogoFeatured ColumnistDecember 3, 2019
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Tottenham Hotspur are the third Premier League club Jose Mourinho has managed in his career, and the first of his former sides he comes up against with the north London outfit is Manchester United on Wednesday.
It is just under a year since he was sacked by the Red Devils after overseeing their worst ever start to a Premier League season, but Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is faring no better so far in 2019-20:
26 - Manchester United have picked up 26 points after their first 17 Premier League games; their worst points haul in the top-flight at this stage since 1990-91 (also 26 points). Dip. https://t.co/FI2avHKq1D
Adam Bate @ghostgoal
Manchester United sacked José Mourinho last December having picked up 26 points from 17 games. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer needs to win the next three (Spurs, City & Everton) to better that total after the club spent big in the summer. Quite the feat to convince anyone this is progress.
Spurs, meanwhile, have looked reinvigorated since Mourinho took charge, winning their first three games under the Portuguese in entertaining fashion:
Gary Lineker @GaryLineker
Mourinho's first 3 games in charge: 3-2, 4-2, 3-2. The entertaining one.
Date: Wednesday, December 4
Time: 7:30 p.m. GMT, 2:30 p.m. ET
TV Info: NBCSN (U.S.)
Live Stream: Amazon Prime Video (UK), NBC Sports App (U.S.)
Match Odds (courtesy of Caesars): United +170, Draw +250, Spurs +155
United's top-four ambitions this term have already taken a big hit after just four wins in 14 games have left them ninth in the table:
Premier League @premierleague
Following another dramatic #PL weekend... https://t.co/LeUZakUrTP
Due to the mid-table congestion in the English top flight at the moment, though, they could find themselves as high as fifth after Week 15's action if they beat Spurs and other results go their way.
Based on recent fixtures, Wednesday's game should have plenty of goals.
Tottenham have scored 10 and conceded six in three games under Mourinho, and United have not kept a clean sheet in the Premier League since September.
Both sides also have attacking players in fine goalscoring form.
Harry Kane has scored seven times in his last five appearances for club and country, while Marcus Rashford has eight in his last nine outings for United and England:
James Robson @jamesrobsonES
Rashford's form has been transformed since being relieved of the No9 role. Perhaps it's time to put that one to bed
In historic terms, Spurs have a poor record at Old Trafford in the Premier League era having won there just three times in 27 seasons.
All of those victories, though, have come since 2012, and on their most recent visit to United's home, Spurs thrashed the hosts 3-0 in August last year.
Mourinho was on the receiving end on that occasion, but he will be eager to mete out a similar punishment for Solskjaer on Wednesday and maintain the winning start he has made to his Spurs tenure.


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The introduction of a digital charter was included in the Queen's speech but as of yet, GovTracker has no evidence on its progress. Matt Hancock, the minister for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, has since reaffirmed Government proposals for a Digital Charter which will include this sanctions regime.


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Editor's corner: An overdue thank you to Alan Miller
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Let female artists be heard, literally
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Passing the baton to your new editors
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Life beyond your resume
By Laura Carr '17 Editor-in-Chief Almost everybody comes into college with an idea of how they want their life to turn out after four years...
The season of nostalgia
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Clarification of republican position on exiling requested after UCD debate
ALLIANCE Spokesperson on Victims, Eileen Bell MLA, has called on Sinn Féin and the IRA to clarify their position on exiling, after Sinn Féin's Fermanagh & South Tyrone MP Michelle Gildernew told a major debate at University College, Dublin that Sinn Féin supported the right of asylum seekers to seek sanctuary in Ireland.
During the UCD debate on Wednesday night on whether moderate parties in Northern Ireland still had a role to play, Ms Gildernew stated that "we [in Sinn Féin] support the right of people who have fled persecution abroad to find sanctuary here". (Source: Sinn Féin website, Newsroom, Nov 17: http://www.sinnfein.ie/news/detail/7395)
The Alliance Deputy Leader, who was forced from two homes by paramilitaries in the past, said: "I welcome Sinn Féin's support for asylum seekers, but find it hard to believe. It is hypocritical for a Sinn Féin MP to say that Ireland should be a place of sanctuary for people fleeing persecution, while her paramilitary colleagues are still engaged in the persecution of others.
"This is a major human rights issue, and Alliance has consistently called for Republicans and Loyalists to end the practice of forcible exiling – clearly moderate parties do still have a role to play, otherwise there would be no-one to highlight Sinn Féin's double standard on human rights.
"Each year, innocent people accused of anti-social activity or who have stood up to the IRA, are told to leave Northern Ireland by the IRA under threat of death, sometimes after a warning from a Sinn Féin representative.
"It is repugnant that while Sinn Féin is right now working closely with the British Government to secure the return to Northern Ireland of IRA fugitives 'on the run' from the authorities around the world, they still can't convince the IRA to call an end to exiling.
"There are literally hundreds of innocent people living abroad because of republican death threats, but only a handful of 'on the runs'. Sinn Féin has ignored the plight of the former to secure the return of the latter.
"There is something fundamentally wrong with this, and I call on Sinn Féin and P O'Neill to state clearly that the policy of republicans exiling people has come to an end, and to abide by that statement."


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Ontario minister says doctors among those to blame for cut in special diet allowance
Laura Eggertson
CMAJ May 18, 2010 182 (8) E329-E330; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.109-3232
Ontario's Minister of Community and Social Services is pointing to doctors and other health care professionals who filled out forms to get a special diet allowance for welfare recipients as one of the reasons the province cut the ballooning program.
"This program is not achieving its intended results," Madeleine Meilleur says. "It's increasing every year, and there's no end to it."
In its blueprint for fiscal 2010/11, Ontario announced that it would end the program, which served 136 250 people on welfare and disability support. Although the program could pay $250 a month in supplements for people with such medical conditions as food allergies, celiac disease and diabetes, or provide fruit and vegetables for pregnant or nursing mothers, it typically paid much less. To receive the allowance, people had to get a doctor, nurse or dietitian to fill out a form, which they submitted to their welfare or disability worker.
The program cost $220 million in fiscal 2009/10, up from $6 million in 2001/02, and was projected to rise to $750 million by fiscal 2015/16.
Meilleur noted that a 2009 auditor general's report criticized doctors and poverty advocates who organized clinics to help hundreds of social assistance recipients get their dietary allowance forms filled. The report "raised the concern about the fact that some people are abusing the program and doctors — not just doctors but health care professionals — are signing these forms without a proper examination of the client. We have a responsibility as a government to families and to taxpayers to provide fair, accountable, sustainable government, and this one (program) is not accomplishing this."
The province intends to replace the diet allowance with a "nutritional supplement" plan that the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, rather than social services, will administer.
Ontario's discontinued special diet allowance program provided up to $250 per month for people with medical conditions, pregnant women or nursing mothers to purchase fruits and vegetables. Image courtesy of ©2010 Jupiterimages Corp.
Although the nutritional supplement plan has not yet been developed, it "will be a lot narrower," Meilleur says. "I believe fewer patients will be able to access it, so the program will be for severe cases. At the beginning, I'm sure it will cost less."
The province's decision has angered some doctors, nurses and other health care professionals, who are calling on their associations and the public to mobilize.
"It's completely unconscionable," says Dr. Gary Bloch, a family physician with St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, Ontario, and a member of Health Providers Against Poverty.
"It significantly impacts the potential for people with disabling medical conditions to improve their health. This supplement has been a lifeline for a lot of my patients who live on welfare," Bloch says.
Health Providers Against Poverty, Health for All and the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario are urging health providers and their associations, including the Ontario Medical Association, to press for a joint meeting with the minister of health and long-term care, during which they plan to demand that the diet allowance be reinstated or transformed into a "robust" program.
"If there was a new law that allowed smoking in restaurants again, you would find doctors standing up all over the place and denouncing that," says Bloch. "We should be taking the same type of approach to this."
A spokesperson said the Ontario Medical Association had "no position" on the issue.
But physicians and nurses say cutting the program will eventually increase the cost of treating illnesses that could have been prevented or alleviated by a healthier diet for welfare recipients.
"I don't think it's cost-effective," says Dr. Michaela Beder, a member of Health for All and Health Providers Against Poverty. "We're actually going to see worsening of health conditions, which will lead to further costs."
Although Meilleur agrees with health care professionals about the link between diet and health, she says the special diet allowance should not be used to defray the costs of regular food. Meilleur adds that the medical community will be involved in designing the new nutritional supplement program.
Doris Grinspun, executive director of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario, says the nurses have protested the decision to Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews.
Grinspun hopes Matthews will take advantage of the prevention mandate of her ministry to institute a new program that will help reduce poverty. "Social assistance rates are not keeping up at all with a liveable income," she says. "This is not about extreme cases of people with illnesses. This is about extreme cases of poverty where illness compounds the situation."
If the province wants to eliminate the diet allowance completely, it should raise the overall welfare and disability payments by 4%, rather than 1%, Grinspun says.
British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, New Brunswick, PEI, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and the Yukon all offer some form of diet or nutritional supplement to welfare recipients, although Ontario's program was by far the most generous.
Published at www.cmaj.ca on Apr. 8