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SPEECH NOTES, PINE PIENAAR, MPL, FOR DEBATE ON ANNUAL REPORT OF DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, 2 DECEMBER 2010
I don't think I have ever had so many negative things to say about the management, administration and utter incompetence in any department as I was forced to say during the past year.
The situation in the Eastern Cape Department of Health is so far beyond control that I'm afraid that I have no hope.
Earlier this year I pleaded with the national government to assist in the running of health in this province. I pointed out that services are horrible; medicines are not being delivered at clinics; hospital departments are closing because of a lack of staff; and poor people are dying because of administrative incompetence and the lack of financial control.
It is a cop-out to repeatedly have assistance for national government in departments. These "task teams" come here, do their intervention and when they leave, the same problems crop up again.
This happens because the root of the problem is "problem people". What is needed is decisive leadership to remove these people so that obstacles to service delivery can be eliminated.
The ruling party must be held accountable for the suffering of the poor in the Eastern Cape that cannot afford private medical health care.
Not one person can, on the grounds of what is happening at grassroots level in hospitals, clinics and emergency services, deny that bad management and administration has led to numerous deaths over the past few months.
You cannot allow an MEC to lose all control over his R13,6-billion budget.
How can you allow this if the AG says he cannot obtain appropriate audit evidence to provide a basis for an audit opinion about the department?
It's a complete horror story. The department:
* failed to maintain adequate records of outstanding payments for goods and services or provide supporting documents;
* did not give supporting documents for the amounts of R858.5 million payments as employee benefits;
* overstated R8.8million in Occupation Specific Dispensation and Human Resource accruals;
* could not provide evidence of backdated and arrear salaries of R404 million relating to Human Resource Operating Project Team payments and of R219 million in allowances and bonuses; and
* overstated salaries by R30.5million and staff dept by R5.9million.
And nothing is being done. We need to take action to retrieve fruitless and wasteful expenditure and put management control systems in place. But, nothing.
We are sitting here waiting for an Christmas bonus while people — mostly children – are dying.
The findings of the AG confirm what I have been saying for the last couple of years.
This province has no chance what-so-ever to meet the Millennium Development Goals we have set ourselves.
We have also learnt from this report that a mere 26% of the province's budget was allocated to health work itself. A gross 63% of the health budget is allocated to the cost of employment. Overspending on employment is making it impossible for us to invest in infrastructure and resources we need for quality healthcare.
The lack of control, over-spending and blatant corruption indicates that poor monitoring by the government could impact on mortality rates and specifically on child deaths.
The department admits that in many instances they do not know what happens to drugs when it leaves depots. I know! It's being stolen and sold on the black market.
Nurses have been arrested, but it's worse than that. It is institutional! Because of the lack of control and the bad administration, it has become easy and the norm to be corrupt in an environment where you have a pathetic administration and inadequate
monitoring mechanisms.
Mr. Speaker.
The department of health is in debt. It owes money not only to the bank and on its current budget, but it also owes the people. It owes the people in lack of service delivery and in lack of the hardware it needs to serve the sick, the elderly and the poor.
Private public partnerships creates the opportunity for successful entrepreneurs and businesses to team up with government projects to achieve specific goals.
Achieving these goals can be measured by all the parties involved, thus creating the mechanism so that partnerships which do not reach their goals in terms of cost and efficiency, can be discontinued immediately. It creates the further opportunity of training, skills transfers, job creation and empowerment. Off course, successful projects will also achieve real service delivery.
We need strong leadership where the MEC and the Premier — ¬and I have written letters to request this over and over — ¬call on the SA Defense Force to make its ambulances and services available until we have rectified the backlogs and sorted out our bad deals and lack of hardware to deliver proper services.
We need to take real and touch decisions. Cometh the hour, cometh the man or the women that can make the tough decisions.
The new Superintendent-General in the Health Department has already started making some headway, trying to rid the department of corruption, but how long will he be allowed to do so?
The moment anybody is successful at fighting corruption, they are the ones who get the axe. Look at what happened to the Scorpions. When you start shaking the tree and the bigwigs start feeling uncomfortable, that is when your own head is about to roll.
It is indeed a sad day when a government cannot provide basic healthcare to its citizens. Without radical change, the situation will only become worse.
‹ SPEECH NOTES BY BOBBY STEVENSON, DA MPL AND SPOKESPERSON ON FINANCE SPEAKING ON THE ADJUSTMENT BUDGET IN THE PROVINCIAL LEGISLATURE 2 DECEMBER 2010
TOWNSHIP CHRISTMAS PARTY ›
© 2019 DA Bhisho – The Democratic Alliance at the Bhisho Legislature


I'm creating an augmented reality app that relies on the DeviceMotion API in DangerZone. This works perfectly in IOS but when attempting to use in Android I receive an "Expected to run on UI thread!" error. I did not see in the docs that DeviceMotion was only meant for IOS, but that appears to be the case?
Is there another way to get these events for Android? (I realize I can calculate pitch and roll from the Accelerometer events, but azimuth is another matter). I'd prefer not to detach to ExpoKit if I can help it. Any help would be appreciated!
Hi @estesjl - DeviceMotion should work on both iOS and Android. Could you provide more details about the error you're seeing (e.g. stacktrace), and maybe share the code that's producing it?
Code itself is pretty simple. Your basic call to DeviceMotion, and it works perfectly on IOS. However Android ignores these lines. If I put a console log inside the listener, it is never triggered. I only receive an error when I trigger a back action on unmount. I'm using version 25 of the SDK, everything is updated. My hunch is that it is somehow trying to run tasks in the background when it shouldn't (such as the similar issue here: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/15915), though I don't know why this would be.
Here's a picture of the error, and the code is below it. Let me know if there's anything else that could be helpful.
Hey @estesjl - thanks for the code. I've reproduced the issue you described about not seeing the listener triggered, and also your crash by calling DeviceMotion.removeAllListeners(). @sjchmiela - can you help?
On top of this, I had to revert back to gradle version 2.2.3 from 3.0.1. I did this so I could run a buildToolsversion at 23.0.1, which is the most recent version that appears to work with module linking in my code.
Worked around it by setting the update interval really high instead of removing the listener.


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PRINCETON – Blake Dietrick had 23 points, eight assists and five rebounds as No. 16 Princeton women beat Harvard 78-57 to remain the only undefeated team in women's Division I basketball.
Annie Tarakchian added 17 points and 14 rebounds for the Tigers (25-0, 9-0 Ivy), who moved within one win of the program record for most in a season (26 in 2009-10).
After Harvard (10-14, 3-7) scored the first four points of the second half to pull within five, Princeton answered with a 12-4 run and steadily pulled away. The Tigers had their largest lead of 23 points just before Harvard capped the scoring with a pair of free throws.
Princeton opened the game 4 of 20 from the field while Harvard took a 15-9 lead with 8:54 to go. The Tigers closed the first half on a 19-4 run.
AnnMarie Healy and Temi Fagbenle led the Crimson with 18 points each.
No. 1 Connecticut 92, Tulsa 46: In Tulsa, Okla., Breanna Stewart scored a season-high 28 points, and No. 1 Connecticut defeated Tulsa for its 25th straight win.
Stewart made 13 of 18 shots to along with nine rebounds and six blocks for the Huskies (26-1, 15-0 American).
Kaleena-Mosqueda-Lewis added 17 points, hitting five 3-pointers. Moriah Jefferson and Kia Nurse each scored 12 points and Saniya Chong had 11 for the Huskies, who shot 56 percent from the field and outrebounded the Golden Hurricane 43-27.
Kelsee Grovey and Ashley Clark each scored 13 points for Tulsa (14-12, 9-6), which lost its second straight after a six-game win streak. The Golden Hurricane shot 34 percent from the field and suffered their worst loss of the season in front of a season-high home crowd of 3,568.
No. 20 Chattanooga 56, Samford 49: In Birmingham, Ala., Jasmine Joyner had 13 points, seven rebounds and six blocks as No. 20 Chattanooga rallied for a win over Samford for its 20th straight victory.
It was the Mocs' 46th straight regular-season conference victory.
Keiana Gilbert scored 12 points, Chelsey Shumpert 11 and Ka'Vonne Towns 10 for Chattanooga (24-3, 12-0 Southern).
The Mocs trailed 18-16 at halftime after making just 6 of 24 shots and trailed by as many as seven in the second half. Chattanooga took its first lead of the second half during an 8-0 run to pull ahead 37-32.
Destiney Elliott and Hannah Nichols scored 15 points apiece for Samford (14-13, 7-5).
Elliott made a layup to cut Samford's deficit to 48-47 with 2:11 left. But Gilbert answered with a jumper off the glass and, after a Samford miss, Shumpert hit a long baseline jumper and Towns made two free throws for a 54-47 lead with 27 seconds remaining.
No. 21 Nebraska 67, Indiana 64: In Bloomington, Ind., Emily Cady had 22 points and 12 rebounds and freshman Natalie Romeo made four free throws in the final 29 seconds to help No. 21 Nebraska hold on for a win over Indiana.
Nebraska led 63-54 when Brandi Jeffery scored with 5:11 left in the game but the Cornhuskers did not score again until Romeo's first two free throws, which pushed the score to 65-61. Larryn Brooks then knocked down a 3-pointer from the right wing but Romeo responded with two more free throws at 12 seconds.
Indiana's contested 3 from the top of the key at the buzzer did not hit the rim.
The Huskers (19-8, 9-7) were without All-Big Ten and honorable mention All-American point guard Rachel Theriot (16.5 ppg, 5.2 apg), who underwent season-ending surgery on Thursday after injuring an ankle in practice on Feb. 3.
Brooks led the Hoosiers (14-13, 4-12) with 17 points and Jess Walter had 16.
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Philip Mayers
Michael McHale
IAIN BELL
Musical Portraits: Iain Bell
The name of London-born composer Iain Bell is making the world of contemporary opera sit up and take note. Since his first opera, A Harlot' s Progress, debuted to rave reviews in 2013, Bell went on to win commissions for a further two operas – A Christmas Carol and In Parenthesis.
His innate passion for story-telling and natural understanding of the human voice has made the young Londoner a favourite among some of the world's foremost singers, leading to performances of his music at venues such as Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall and the Munich Opera Festival. The pool of subjects from which Bell draws inspiration for the programmes of his orchestral and chamber works narrates a deep love of literature and history. We chat to the busy Bell, who is currently booked up to 2020 with an array of exciting projects, about finding his composition voice, the craft of story telling, his musical guilty pleasures, London, chocolate, forthcoming premieres and new opera commissions.
...my own emotional response to scenarios/texts, as well as a visceral response to what sounds were making me 'tick' whilst in the act of composing."
Let's start at the very beginning — when did the desire to compose first take hold?
That's a very good place to start! When I started school in London at the age of four, we all learned the descant recorder (squeak), and I quickly started writing little ditties for it, as well as playing things by ear. Even though I am not from a classical-musical family, my parents noticed what I was up to and bought me a small two-octave keyboard, which was soon replaced by a four-octave one, then a piano. As each instrument grew in size, so did the scope of my composition, and fingers crossed, the quality too!
How did the academic side of your musical development shape your current composition voice?
The academic side gave me a great grounding in harmony, counterpoint, score analysis, orchestration etc…. These tools were the building blocks of my music making. In terms of shaping my voice, I think that was a far more personal journey, moulded by the music and composers I admired when growing up…and my own emotional response to scenarios/texts, as well as a visceral response to what sounds were making me 'tick' whilst in the act of composing.
For you, which comes first: the programme, the commission, the libretto, or the music?
This has been different in each of the operas I have been working on, but the composing is always the final process.
With A Harlot's Progress, Diana Damrau and I realised that we wanted to do an opera together, having done a great deal beforehand, and I suggested basing it on the Hogarth pictures. Once she agreed to play a down-and-out eighteenth-century prostitute (!), I then approached Peter Ackroyd about penning the libretto. The team was in place, so we reached out to Vienna who agreed to commission the work.
With A Christmas Carol, I met with Patrick Summers of Houston Grand Opera who asked for commission suggestions from me and I suggested the Dickens. He almost immediately agreed to commission it, which got the ball rolling.
For In Parenthesis, I had already reached out to David Pountney of Welsh National Opera about my work and when we met, having listened to other pieces of mine, he suggested the commission to me. The libretto and directorial teams were already in place by then.
How do you go about choosing a subject source for your operas — does the commission restrict the pool of programmes from which you draw musical inspiration?
Again, this is different in every scenario; some houses already have a subject in mind, others give you a free rein. I am always drawn to subjects where London is featured prominently, as the city is a huge source of inspiration for me. I feel it is a place with so many stories to tell and I love unlocking them. I am drawn to very complex characters with equally complex personal journeys, which is probably the reason why the lead roles in my operas are such long 'sings' in terms of the sheer amount of singing they do!
The world of classical music is constantly evolving in a bid to communicate with new audiences of the fast-paced technology-driven twenty-first century – as a composer of such innovative and imaginative works as A Harlot's Progress, A Christmas Carol and In Parenthesis, how do you think your operas stand out from the overworked canon of western repertoire?
I am hugely indebted to the Western operatic repertoire, which is crammed full of masterpieces that deserve to be heard again and again, and continue to inspire me. Writing in the early twenty-first century is a huge blessing for all composers, as audiences are open to theatrical experiences and subject matter that would have been a 'no-no' even fifty years ago. This means that we, as composers, are now free to delve into a deeper, more raw place than ever before. To me, this is so thrilling.
Your debut opera, A Harlot's Progress, achieved phenomenal praise from the critical press – how important was your relationship with soprano Diana Damrau in the creation of such a powerful and utterly compelling Moll Hackabout?
Diana was utterly key to the conception of the role of Moll Hackabout. By the time of writing it, I had known her for seven years, writing smaller-scale works for her, being consulted in her repertoire selection and attending her album recordings as a 'second pair of ears'. This meant that I knew her voice intimately—from her vowel production to her breath control, along with all the full arsenal of virtuoso techniques she has at her disposal…and there are many! With all this, as well as knowing what else she would be singing in the same season as the world premiere, I was able to fashion a role that would vocally fit her like a glove.
Knowing her so well on a personal level meant that I knew what dramatic journey she would enjoy travelling. This was at the front of our minds when Peter Ackroyd and I were devising the scenarios for each scene of the opera.
I am always drawn to subjects where London is featured prominently, as the city is a huge source of inspiration for me."
What kind of Dickens did director and actor Simon Callow (librettist) reveal to you whilst working on A Christmas Carol (2013)?
Dickens is clearly a man of compassion, as can be witnessed in his tireless portrayal of the struggles facing the poor, but Simon really drew my attention to Dickens' beguiling and wry wit. There are some surreal descriptive moments in the novella, which even by today's standards remind you that you are dealing with a creative mind and intellect that remains apart from the rest of us mere mortals!
Your understanding and respect for the voice is clearly demonstrated in your music and an array of authentic collaborations with world-class singers — what draws you to this soundscape?
I love telling stories. I love the theatrical environment and everyone involved in bringing these stories to life on stage. When rehearsing, I will spend hours talking with the extras (supers), designers, wig-makers, prompters etc…. Musically, I am entranced by the sound of the trained/classical voice riding above a fully acoustic/non-amplified orchestra in the telling of this story. Creating vocal characters, each with their own distinct sound world and vocal personalities, dressed up in their own orchestral fabric, is one of the most fun parts of it. It is the best toy-box a boy could wish for!
Tell us about your forthcoming opera, In Parenthesis.
In Parenthesis is based on David Jones' eponymous epic poem (1937), which tells the story of a platoon's experience of World War One, culminating in the Battle of Mametz Wood (1916). It hones in on Private John Ball who is also a visionary. As an audience, we experience the horror of the trenches, both in the brutal military sense as well as the ethereal, fantasy world of his visions. I can't tell you how much I enjoyed conveying these two worlds, which eventually collide in the final act—"composerly bliss"!
Do you have a particular process that you follow when writing an orchestral or chamber piece?
Once the commission is agreed, I will then know exactly who/what forces I am writing for, so all that is left are the notes. If it is a piece for voice and orchestra, I will score a very basic vocal draft of the entire work for voice and piano, which I will then orchestrate. If it is for a smaller ensemble, I will write it in full score from the start and make any changes or amendments when it is complete, and I can hear it in context.
In terms of my process, I wake up around 7-ish every morning and head straight to the gym. Once home, I shower and have breakfast and normally start by 9:30. I work around 7 or 8 hours a day, 6 days a week, stopping for meals…when I remember!
Your husband Michael is also heavily involved within the world of theatre and dance; would you ever consider writing for the medium of dance in the future?
Dance is a wonderful form of story telling, so you can bet I'd love to do something balletic one day. I always thought the story of Dorian Gray would make a wonderful ballet (hint-hint!). Michael actually played Dorian in a theatrical adaptation of the book in 2014, which was a thrilling production with a magnificent ensemble cast. The actor, Loz, who played Basil (the painter of the infamous picture) became a wonderful friend to us both and was actually best man at our wedding last year.
When not music-making, what do you like to do for fun in London?
London is the most marvelous place to walk. Michael and I love to walk around the City of London (the ancient centre of the city) at the weekend. The area is deserted, so it feels like you have the streets to yourself. I particularly love the small little streets around Smithfield—they are so evocative of the London of Hogarth or Dickens, which inspires me beyond belief.
I am completely obsessed with chocolate, so am always looking around the chocolate shops for new flavours. I recently had 'dinner' at William Curley's chocolate restaurant in Belgravia, which was utter heaven, and Paul A. Young's chocolate shop in Camden Passage (a wonderful, old street) is another favourite.
Top 5 guilty pleasures in your iTunes/Spotify library?
1 Body Language album by Kylie Minogue.
2 Boston Pops Orchestral Disney (a symphonic album of Disney hits, of course!).
3 Anything by Malcolm Vaughan (1950s singer)…reminds me of being in an episode of Call the Midwife.
4 Over Christmas I'd be lying if I didn't say Kristin Chenoweth's Christmas album featured very heavily.
5 Now That's What I Call 1990s when I need my pop fix.
What are you most looking forward to in 2016?
Professionally, I can't wait for the world premieres of In Parenthesis (which will also be streamed online on the Opera Platform) and my cantata, London's Fatal Fire, which commemorates the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London.
In terms of performances, I can't wait to see the new Tristan and Isolde, directed by Daniel Kramer at ENO, and the revival of Richard Jones' Il Trittico at the Royal Opera House with the magnificent Ermolena Jaho and Marie McLaughlin.
Michael and I have promised ourselves a summer-sun holiday this year. Having written and premiered three operas for three back-to-back seasons, my summers have largely gone unnoticed but this year will be different; time to recharge the batteries in time to start writing opera number four in August….
While we're thinking ahead, how far in advance are you booked up?
Well, my fourth opera (which I am ridiculously excited about starting work on) premieres in 2020 and I have just had an opera commission request for 2022, which is the most amazing feeling I can describe. To know I have the chance to continue making music for seven years to come is like all my birthdays and Christmases coming at once!
To know I have the chance to continue making music for seven years to come is like all my birthdays and Christmases coming at once!"
To find out more about Iain Bell and his work see: www.iainbellmusic.com
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Richard Causton
Jonathan Dove


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Q: Highlight the values with color inside multi columns table I am trying to highlight the values inside the multi-column table, but I am not getting the exact result.
So my table looks like this:

code
\pdfoutput=1
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[review]{emnlp2021}
\usepackage{color}
\usepackage{rotating}
\definecolor{mycolor}{gray}{0.8}
\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{makecell}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{microtype}
\begin{document}

Example of color code \colorbox{mycolor}{ \footnotesize  [SEP] }

\begin{table*}[t!]
    \centering
    \resizebox{0.85\textwidth}{!}{%
    \begin{tabular}{@{}l|c@{ }c@{ }c@{ }|c@{ }c@{ }c@{ }|ccc@{ }}
    \toprule
    {} & \multicolumn{3}{c|}{\bf Metric A} & \multicolumn{3}{c|}{\bf Metric B} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{\bf Metric C}\\
    \midrule
    \bf Model & \multicolumn{1}{c}{\bf Precision} &  \multicolumn{1}{c}{\bf Recall} & \multicolumn{1}{r|}{\bf F1-score} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{\bf Precision} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{\bf Recall} & \multicolumn{1}{r|}{\bf F1-score} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{\bf Precision} &  \multicolumn{1}{c}{\bf Recall} &  \multicolumn{1}{c}{\bf F1-score} \\
    \midrule

  modela & 92.21 & 92.54 & 92.28 & 90.13 & 90.38 & 90.19 & 89.06 & 89.31 & 88.08 \\
  modelb & 92.21 & 92.54 & 92.28 & 90.13 & 90.38 & 90.19 & 89.06 & 89.31 & 88.08 \\
  modelc & 92.21 & 92.54 & 92.28 & 90.13 & 90.38 & 90.19 & 89.06 & 89.31 & 88.08 \\
  modeld & 92.21 & 92.54 & 92.28 & 92.13 & 92.38 & 92.19 & 89.06 & 89.31 & 88.08 \\
  modelf & 95.21 & 95.54 & 95.28 & 90.13 & 90.38 & 90.19 & 97.06 & 98.31 & 99.08 \\

    \bottomrule
    \end{tabular}
    }
    \caption{Performance of all baseline models
    }
    \label{tab:accbinary_token}
\end{table*}
\end{document}

I am using this template
I defined a custom color code like this:
\definecolor{mycolor}{gray}{0.8}

Now, if I am trying to colour the rows of the table,
\colorbox{mycolor}{95.21 & 95.54 & 95.28} & 90.13 & 90.38 & 90.19 & 97.06 & 98.31 & 99.08 \\

its showing like this:

Expected output:

How I can colour the different rows of multi-column like the above table?

A: It's not recommended to rescale tables with \resizebox because that leads to inconsistencies in the width of the rules.
That's why I have composed the table in a {sidewaystable} of \rotating.
For the gray shapes under some rows, I have used {NiceTabular} of nicematrix.
That environment is similar to the classical {tabular} (of array) but creates PGF/Tikz nodes under the cells. It's possible to use those nodes with Tikz to draw whatever we want under the tabular.
pdfoutput=1
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{emnlp2021}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{latexsym}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{nicematrix,tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{fit}

\begin{document}

\begin{sidewaystable}
    \centering
    \begin{NiceTabular}{@{}l|c@{ }c@{ }c@{ }|c@{ }c@{ }c@{ }|ccc@{ }}
    \CodeBefore [create-cell-nodes]
       \begin{tikzpicture} [every node/.style = {fill=gray!20,rounded corners}]
          \node [fit = (7-2) (7-4)] {} ;
          \node [fit = (6-5) (6-7)] {} ;
          \node [fit = (7-8) (7-10)] {} ;
       \end{tikzpicture}
    \Body
    \toprule
    \RowStyle[nb-rows=2]{\bfseries}
      & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Metric A} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Metric B} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{Metric C}\\
    \midrule
    Model & Precision & Recall & F1-score & Precision & Recall & F1-score & Precision & Recall & F1-score \\
    \midrule
      modela & 92.21 & 92.54 & 92.28 & 90.13 & 90.38 & 90.19 & 89.06 & 89.31 & 88.08 \\
      modelb & 92.21 & 92.54 & 92.28 & 90.13 & 90.38 & 90.19 & 89.06 & 89.31 & 88.08 \\
      modelc & 92.21 & 92.54 & 92.28 & 90.13 & 90.38 & 90.19 & 89.06 & 89.31 & 88.08 \\
      modeld & 92.21 & 92.54 & 92.28 & 92.13 & 92.38 & 92.19 & 89.06 & 89.31 & 88.08 \\
      modelf & 95.21 & 95.54 & 95.28 & 90.13 & 90.38 & 90.19 & 97.06 & 98.31 & 99.08 \\
    \bottomrule
    \end{NiceTabular}
    \caption{Performance of all baseline models
    }
    \label{tab:accbinary_token}
\end{sidewaystable}
\end{document}

You need several compilations (because of the PGF/Tikz nodes).

For a better design, may people will recommend you to use only horizontal rules, for example (in the spirit of \booktabs):
pdfoutput=1
\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{emnlp2021}
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{latexsym}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

\usepackage{booktabs}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{rotating}
\usepackage{nicematrix,tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{fit}

\begin{document}

\begin{sidewaystable}[t!]
    \centering
    \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.1}
    \begin{NiceTabular}{@{}lccccccccc@{}}
    \CodeBefore [create-cell-nodes]
       \begin{tikzpicture} [every node/.style = {fill=gray!20,rounded corners}]
          \node [fit = (7-2) (7-4)] {} ;
          \node [fit = (6-5) (6-7)] {} ;
          \node [fit = (7-8) (7-10)] {} ;
       \end{tikzpicture}
    \Body
    \toprule
    \Block{2-1}{Model}  & \Block{1-3}{Metric A} &&& \Block{1-3}{Metric B} &&& \Block{1-3}{Metric C}\\
    \cmidrule(rl){2-4} \cmidrule(rl){5-7} \cmidrule(l){8-10}
    & Precision & Recall & F1-score & Precision & Recall & F1-score & Precision & Recall & F1-score \\
    \midrule
      modela & 92.21 & 92.54 & 92.28 & 90.13 & 90.38 & 90.19 & 89.06 & 89.31 & 88.08 \\
      modelb & 92.21 & 92.54 & 92.28 & 90.13 & 90.38 & 90.19 & 89.06 & 89.31 & 88.08 \\
      modelc & 92.21 & 92.54 & 92.28 & 90.13 & 90.38 & 90.19 & 89.06 & 89.31 & 88.08 \\
      modeld & 92.21 & 92.54 & 92.28 & 92.13 & 92.38 & 92.19 & 89.06 & 89.31 & 88.08 \\
      modelf & 95.21 & 95.54 & 95.28 & 90.13 & 90.38 & 90.19 & 97.06 & 98.31 & 99.08 \\
    \bottomrule
    \end{NiceTabular}
    \caption{Performance of all baseline models
    }
    \label{tab:accbinary_token}
\end{sidewaystable}

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A: I haven't package emnlp2021, so I can only suspect that it defines (among others) also two column page layout. This layout is mimic with twocolumn options in article document class.
Bay using tabularray package and \footnotesize column headers fonts, can be fit your table across two columns and simple color selected cells:
\documentclass[11pt, twocolumn]{article}
%\usepackage[review]{emnlp2021} % I haven't this package
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{newtxtext, newtxmath}
\usepackage{microtype}

\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{tabularray}
\UseTblrLibrary{booktabs}

\begin{document}
\begin{table*}
    \centering
    %\small
\begin{tblr}{colsep=3pt,
             colspec={l @{\qquad} *{10}{X[c]} },
             cell{7}{2-4} = {bg=gray!20},  % cells background color
             cell{6}{5-7} = {bg=gray!20},
             cell{7}{8-10}= {bg=gray!20},
             row{1,2} = {font=\footnotesize\bfseries}
            }
    \toprule
    &   \SetCell[c=3]{c}    Metric A
        &   &   &   \SetCell[c=3]{c}  Metric B
                    &   &   &   \SetCell[c=3]{c}    Metric C
                                &   &           \\
    \cmidrule[lr]{2-4}
    \cmidrule[lr]{5-7}
    \cmidrule[l]{2-10}
Model   & Precision & Recall    & F1-score
        & Precision & Recall    & F1-score
        & Precision & Recall    & F1-score      \\
    \midrule
model a  & 92.21 & 92.54 & 92.28 & 90.13 & 90.38 & 90.19 & 89.06 & 89.31 & 88.08 \\
model b  & 92.21 & 92.54 & 92.28 & 90.13 & 90.38 & 90.19 & 89.06 & 89.31 & 88.08 \\
model c  & 92.21 & 92.54 & 92.28 & 90.13 & 90.38 & 90.19 & 89.06 & 89.31 & 88.08 \\
model c  & 92.21 & 92.54 & 92.28 & 90.13 & 90.38 & 90.19 & 89.06 & 89.31 & 88.08 \\
model d  & 92.21 & 92.54 & 92.28 & 90.13 & 90.38 & 90.19 & 89.06 & 89.31 & 88.08 \\
    \bottomrule
\end{tblr}
    \caption{Performance of all baseline models}
    \label{tab:accbinary_token}
\end{table*}
\end{document}

If you for some reason prefer that all cell  are "jailed" by horizontal and vertical lines like this:

than you only need to change above MWE as follows:

*

*add \hlines and vlines to tblr preamble

*delete all rules in table body

*slightly change colspec (see MWE below)

\documentclass[11pt, twocolumn]{article}
%\usepackage[review]{emnlp2021} % I haven't this package
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{newtxtext, newtxmath}
\usepackage{microtype}

\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{tabularray}
\UseTblrLibrary{booktabs}

\begin{document}
\begin{table*}
    \centering
    %\small
\begin{tblr}{hlines, vlines,             % <--- added
             colsep = 4pt,
             colspec={l *{10}{X[c]} },   % <--- chNGED
             cell{7}{2-4} = {bg=gray!20},
             cell{6}{5-7} = {bg=gray!20},
             cell{7}{8-10} = {bg=gray!20},
             row{1,2} = {font=\footnotesize\bfseries}
            }
    &   \SetCell[c=3]{c}    Metric A
        &   &   &   \SetCell[c=3]{c}  Metric B
                    &   &   &   \SetCell[c=3]{c}    Metric C
                                &   &           \\
Model   & Precision & Recall    & F1-score
        & Precision & Recall    & F1-score
        & Precision & Recall    & F1-score      \\
model a  & 92.21 & 92.54 & 92.28 & 90.13 & 90.38 & 90.19 & 89.06 & 89.31 & 88.08 \\
model b  & 92.21 & 92.54 & 92.28 & 90.13 & 90.38 & 90.19 & 89.06 & 89.31 & 88.08 \\
model c  & 92.21 & 92.54 & 92.28 & 90.13 & 90.38 & 90.19 & 89.06 & 89.31 & 88.08 \\
model c  & 92.21 & 92.54 & 92.28 & 90.13 & 90.38 & 90.19 & 89.06 & 89.31 & 88.08 \\
model d  & 92.21 & 92.54 & 92.28 & 90.13 & 90.38 & 90.19 & 89.06 & 89.31 & 88.08 \\
\end{tblr}
    \caption{Performance of all baseline models}
    \label{tab:accbinary_token}
\end{table*}
\end{document}

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In 1964 and 1965 teams of researchers undertook an in-depth survey of China's countryside as part of the Four Clean-Ups Campaign with which the Communist Party of China intended to clean up China's politics, economy, organization, and ideology to promote China's transformation into a socialist country. For China to make this transition, according to the party, it needed an accurate understanding of each household's political, economic, and educational background. In the countryside, the survey consisted of a double-paged form to be completed manually for each household. On the front of each form the following were recorded: name, age, gender, ethnicity, family background, individual identity of the household head, number of family members inside and outside the household; family economic circumstances, broken down into three time periods: land reform period, advanced cooperatives period, and current; important household social connections and political situation; brief explanation of family history; and miscellaneous notes. The back provides more-detailed information on each family member. The Hoover Institution Archives has a collection of these forms collected by Steven W. Mosher in late 1970s.
A country boy by birth and upbringing, the reason I became interested in the household class status registration forms is that they answer many of the questions regarding small rural communities, including the village of six hundred people in which I grew up. Who owns the land? Who farms it? Who is an insider, who an outsider? The information on these forms tells us about the fate of village communities and tracks the changes in the fabric of rural life during a decade and a half. The reason this information, this collection of the facts of village life, was put together was intensely political, and the changes that these village communities underwent were equally political. That is where the micro-history of village life and the history of the People's Republic of China told in a conventional narrative of political campaigns intersect. I am interested in the People's Republic of China's land reform during the early 1950s; thus my work at the Hoover Institution explored whether these surveys can help us find new answers about land reform at the village level, opening up the possibility of macro-level results.
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Using the documents collected by Steven W. Mosher and preserved at the Hoover Institution, my work compares the redistribution of land in Guangdong Province during the land reform period with that in Shanxi, based on archival documents collected elsewhere to put that experience in context. We know that the outcomes of the Great Leap Forward differed by province, county, and village. We also know that the extent to which redistribution of land occurred during the land reform period varied throughout China, based on such variables as previous systems of land ownership and crops grown (which themselves were tied to ownership structure, access to markets, quality of composition of soil, and other factors).
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Writing for The Guardian's Healthcare Professionals Network this week, David Brindle reports that spending on mental health care in England has fallen for the second year in a row. He references unpublished figures disclosed last week to the House of Commons Health Committee, along with the 2011-12 National Survey of Investment in Adult Mental Health Services which appeared last August, and from which I have clipped these first two headline findings:
The key figure here is the bit I have circled in red: that, in real terms, investment in mental health services in England in 2011-12 reduced by 1%. Last summer The Guardian reported the publication of this finding under the banner of mental health spending having fallen for the first time in 10 years, and if I am understanding David Brindle's latest article correctly evidence of further cuts has been gathered since. Elsewhere in this piece Dr Hugh Griffiths, the Department of Health's National Clinical Director for Mental Health, is quoted as having told the Health Committee last week of being 'disturbed' by reports of cutbacks to services in some English regions.
Meanwhile, via this piece in The Telegraph I see that the former coalition government Care Minister and LibDem MP Paul Burstow is heading up an independent Mental Health Commission with the liberal think-tank CentreForum. The Commission's task is to 'examine the state of mental health care provision in England'. This is a task made all the more urgent in the light of the finding, also contained in last August's National Survey, of a £29.3 million reduction in investment in crisis resolution, assertive outreach and early intervention services.
All this paints a very bleak picture indeed. Reductions in funding and in services threaten to roll back the investments made in dedicated mental health care in the years following the publication, in England in 1999, of the National Service Framework for Mental Health. New Labour acted at tremendous speed in prioritising the mental health field. When in government Labour took action to develop community care through the creation of new types of services. It changed the law, put resources into improving access to psychological therapies and rewrote professional role boundaries. Some of the specifics were contentious, sure, but I for one did not doubt that the challenges of improving mental health and developing services were finally being taken seriously. In fact, Michael Coffey and I wrote about this period of policymaking in our wicked problems paper (which can be downloaded here). In this we urged careful consideration of the cumulative impact of policy actions, and the perils of trying to change everything in a complex system of health and social care all at the same time. But needless to say we made no case for cuts, which is what is evidently taking place around large parts of the country now.
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In her TEDx talk in November 2016, the US author and blogger Amy Alkon sought to bring to the fore the power of being kind to those not known to us and how this not has a positive impact on the person helped, but also on the one doing the helping.
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Carrying out a small act of kindness to a stranger is a powerful act. And the difference in magnitude about how this feels is to do with whether or not you know them. If it's a person you are already familiar with, it's easy to do something kind. If you're looking out for someone you may never see again and expecting nothing in return, it can be Alkon says life-shifting for those offering the help – and those accepting the help.
But how can we build on this? Alkon refers, although not in her talk, to research by social psychologists Sara Algoe and Jonathan Haidt which finds that observing or even just hearing about others' kind deeds motivates people to want to follow suit. It seems that powerful positive feelings rise up in us when we witness 'moral beauty'.
Finally, Alkon challenges us all to do one kind act a day for a stranger for a week – and we will, she says, want to keep going back for more. She also suggests engaging in 'kindsourcing', explaining this to be a similar model to 'crowdsourcing' in which one reaches out to a large group of people, usually online, to get ideas or help. 'Kindsourcing' is Alkon's term for a somewhat more indirect way to inspire a bunch of people to take action. It involves reaching out to others, online and off, with stories of impressively kind and generous altruistic acts that many will be inspired to pass on.
If we all strive to live happy, meaningful lives at home and at work, perhaps this is a way to start?


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The dedication and commitment of our Pack Committee, Cubmaster, and Den Leaders enables us to have an outstanding program to offer. They volunteer their time planning for den meetings, pack meetings, camping, and special events. It is this leadership that enables our Pack to offer our Scouts an opportunity to grow and advance.
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We are excited to celebrate the creative breadth of our North Shore Country Day School alumni in The John Almquist Art Gallery exhibit next fall.
The opening reception will be on Friday, September 27 during the Centennial Homecoming/Reunion Weekend. The show is open to all alumni artists. We are accepting one piece of artwork in any medium from each artist.
The details for the show and the application form are on our website. The deadline for signing up is May 1.
For questions, please contact Nancy Green Whiteman '71, Director of Alumni Relations, nwhiteman@nscds.org, 847.881.8848.
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North Shore Country Day School is a junior kindergarten through 12th grade, college-preparatory school founded in Winnetka, Illinois in 1919. With rigorous academic pursuit as the cornerstone, North Shore provides many opportunities for all students to excel – in the classroom and the laboratory, on the stage and the playing field, in their communities and beyond.


When I started this blog back in 2011, I just loved the name. It's dainty and it marries the ideas of a young woman's adventures with food-related experiences. I am a young woman and I love food, after all. But, having lived most of my young adult life in major cities like NY and DC, the "belle" part always nagged at me. It seemed more southern, but I was living in the north. And I couldn't quite pin down the direction I wanted to go. Would it be a recipe based blog, a restaurant and event blog or an editorial blog? I just couldn't get it right. It was always a hobby, so I mostly just slapped up whatever I was feeling that day. Lo and behold, I believe I was setting up the framework for my true calling and what would become the true essence of the site. Since moving to Hilton Head Island, SC in the heart of the lowcountry, it all seems clear. I feel like the blog has now earned its "belle" status and I know exactly what I wish to share. All of the changes I have made in my life have made it easy and allowed the pieces to fall into place organically.
Through this blog, I wish to share my innermost thoughts on my life here in the lowcountry and use it as a personal creative outlet, while sharing the beauty of the area with anyone who wishes to take a mental break and experience it with me, through my eyes, in the process. My goal is not to write about what I think people want to hear about or to word it for marketing purposes, but to express what is important to me at the moment and how its changed my life in a manner that comes from the heart. I base my writing on the wonderfully simplistic experiences that I regularly encounter while living the lowcountry lifestyle. It's a way of living that I continue to uncover and appreciate in this place that I now call home.


Hotel Britannia´s history is a product of innovation and passion - built by local active business people. Hotel Britannia was established in 1965 by a group of active business people from Esbjerg. The local architect Sottrup Jensen was chosen for the assignment and received great inspiration from SAS Royal in Copenhagen. The hotel, like the SAS Royal, was almost exclusively furnished with Danish furniture art by Arne Jacobsen.
The hotel opened with 39 rooms, restaurant, bar and banqueting rooms.
In 1973, a local businessman named Tage Nyborg took over the hotel. He implemented a major extension in 1989, which meant that the hotel now had 79 rooms, two restaurants and banqueting rooms.
In early 2000, the current owner Eivind Dam Jensen buys Hotel Britannia. Which means that the hotel has been unique to local hands since its opening in 1965.
In 2007 a thorough restoration and expansion will begin. Inspired by the traditions of the place and with a stylish and elegant expression, the Hotel Britannia has been renovated as a new unique experience in the heart of the city, and today it has 108 rooms, 10 conference and banqueting rooms.


We have multiple generations of iPhones in our Apple off-site 24/7 destructive test lab (aka household). With limited funding from the "parent" company available, iFixit has become an essential partner in keeping our test lab functional with limited downtime. Destructive Test 1 - Can your iPhone be used as a floating device? No, but a quick dis-assembly with iFixit tools, a blow dryer, iFixit video and a new iFixit battery IfixIt. Destructive Test 2 - Can you kill a spider with an iPhone from 5 feet? Fortunately the test spider survived but, the screen didn't. Thanks to iFixit parts and tools, testing resumes. Destructive Test 3 - At what point will the connector fail when swung overhead by the charge cord? Approximately 3 G's (3G models), 4 G's (4G models). A new member to our destructive testing lab, ordered an inferior non-iFixit connector from iCheapo's. Utilizing iFixit tools, we were able to make the repair, but fitment was poor, included tools were all left handed and would not work. Repair required 4 destructive test lab employees, standby iFixit tools and several hours of downtime to perform the repair.
iFixit - excellent rating - parts typically arrive within a day of order (we are only a couple hundred miles from iFixit (Meca)), they are good quality, fit perfectly, tools work, videos simplify the repair.
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Shadow of the Almighty
On September 24, 2021 By mcbclibraryIn Biography, Evangelism, MissionsLeave a comment
Shadow of the Almighty is a modern classic story of faithfulness, obedience, and martyrdom. It is the best-selling account of the martyrdom of Jim Elliot and four other missionaries at the hands of the Huaorani Indians in Ecuador.
Shadow of the Almighty has inspired Christians since its first publication in 1958. Elisabeth Elliot makes full use of Jim's revealing diaries to fill in the details of a life completely committed to God's service.
Author: Elisabeth Elliot
I'd Do It Again
On September 24, 2021 By mcbclibraryIn Biography, MissionsLeave a comment
When the young nurse sailed out of New York Harbor on the Queen Mary in 1950, she couldn't have imagined that 32 years later she would receive, in an impressive ceremony, Central African Republic's highest honor for her service to their people. Margery Benedict has written a candid and caring account of the many African friends who found spiritual and physical healing during her forty-five year ministry. This is a life changing account of one person's experiences as she followed the path the Lord laid out before her – sometimes through frightening circumstances, sometimes through heartbreaking sadness, sometimes through indescribable joy – but always knowing the Lord was at her side.
Author: Margery Benedict
And the Word Became Power
This is a great example of what God can do with a person who surrenders her life to Him! It gives the 20 year story of how Joanne Shetler gave of herself to move far away and live among the Balangao people group in the Philippines. This tells many of her adventures along the journey. It goes from learning the culture and language, through the trials and hardships of dealing with a culture that succumbs to evil spirits, and onto the completion of God's plan for these wonderful people.
Author: Joanne Shetler
Revolution in World Missions: One Man's Journey to Change a Generation
"Lord, I'll give myself to speak for You."
Young Yohannan had no idea what those words of surrender would mean for his life and for millions of others in his generation. Once an insecure 16-year-old, he became a missionary statesman who has impacted the world of missions and whose unbending message has touched hungry hearts on every continent.
Step into his story and experience the world through his eyes. You'll walk right into the book of Acts. And through his telling, you'll hear the very heart of God beating for His creation. K.P. Yohannan's passion is contagious and spurs you on to be all for Jesus.
He chose to take the road less traveled many years ago, and today Gospel for Asia, the mission he founded, is one of the most respected organizations in our time with thousands of national workers and vibrant congregations throughout the heart of the 10/40 Window.
Author: K. P. Yohannan
Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret
On September 24, 2021 By mcbclibraryIn Biography, Faith, MissionsLeave a comment
A spiritual biography of the "father of modern missions,"Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secret poses one question: What empowered Hudson Taylor's ministry in China?
The answer is unfolded in these pages. Written by Taylor's son and daughter-in-law, it shows us a man with fierce faith who believed that God truly would fuflill all He promises in Scripture.
For Christians longing for the inward joy and power that Hudson Taylor had, they can find the secret to it here. The secret, it turns out, is available to any who call on Christ's name.
Author: Dr. Howard Taylor, Geraldine Taylor
In Search of the Source
On September 24, 2021 By mcbclibraryIn Biography, Inspirational, MissionsLeave a comment
Through the compelling story of Bible translators Neil and Carol Anderson, we relearn something we may have forgotten the raw power of God's Word to wrench human lives from darkness and flood the heart with light, understanding and peace.
Author: Neil Anderson, Hyatt Moore
A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael
A Chance to Die is a vibrant portrayal of Amy Carmichael, an Irish missionary and writer who spent fifty-three years in south India without furlough. There she became known as "Amma," or "mother," as she founded the Dohnavur Fellowship, a refuge for underprivileged children.
Amy's life of obedience and courage stands as a model for all who claim the name of Christ. She was a woman with desires and dreams, faults and fears, who gave her life unconditionally to serve her Master.
Bringing Amma to life through inspiring photos and compelling biographical narrative, Elisabeth Elliot urges readers to examine the depths of their own commitment to Christ.
Author: Elizabeth Elliot
Marriage Under Fire
On September 24, 2021 By mcbclibraryIn Adult Subject, Family Dynamics, MarriageLeave a comment
For the past forty years, the homosexual activist movement has sought to implement a master plan to utterly destroy the family. Unelectable and unaccountable rogue judges have made a habit of inventing rights that not only don't exist in the Constitution, but also contradict both the will of the people and the actions of the legislative branch.
Christians around the world have scrambled, wondering how to respond. How do we discuss this intelligently? What can we do to make our voices heard? In Marriage Under Fire, Dr. Dobson addresses the dire ramifications of judicial activism and presents compelling arguments against the legalization of homosexual unions—mobilizing the Christian community to respond to a call to action.
Author: James Dobson
Boomers, Xers, and Other Strangers: Understanding the Generational Differences that Divide Us
On September 24, 2021 By mcbclibraryIn Educational, Family Dynamics, Topical StudyLeave a comment
Ever wonder why your kids, parents, and even coworkers think and feel so differently than you do on core issues? Rick and Kathy Hicks contend and demonstrate that many of our core values are shaped largely by what was going on in our culture and world when we were about ten years old. By recognizing the factors that give rise to our own values and those of other generations, we can achieve greater mutual understanding and reconciliation with our children, peers, and coworkers, rather than finding ourselves in conflict. An effective tool for bridging the generation gap.
Hearts of Fire: Eight Women in the Underground Church
On September 24, 2021 By mcbclibraryIn Biography, Persecution, WomenLeave a comment
Eight women from eight different countries shared similar experiences of hardship and persecution, all for their faith in Christ. Yet they all emerged from adversity as heroines. From the young Vietnamese girl who turned down freedom in order to share the gospel in her Communist homeland, to the Australian missionary who spread the message of forgiveness and healing across India after her husband and sons were burned alive, these women overcame Extreme adversity to become leaders and ministers of the underground church in Pakistan, India, Romania, the former Soviet Union, China, Vietnam, Nepal and Indonesia.
Author: Voice of the Martyr


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Chantelle Barry (born 18 March 1980) is an Australian musician and actress from Perth, best known for being in the original line-up of girl group Bardot before leaving the group suddenly under controversial circumstances.

Career

Music
In 1999, Barry auditioned for the first series of the Australian version of the talent show Popstars, competing against over 2,500 hopefuls who turned up to auditions around the country which required both singing and dancing experience. After a series of elimination rounds Barry, along with Belinda Chapple, Sophie Monk, Sally Polihronas and Katie Underwood were chosen to form a group and moved in together in Sydney to work on their debut single "Poison".

However after only a few weeks Barry was asked to resign from the nascent, still-unnamed girl group after stealing money from Sophie Monk, but the reason for her departure was not revealed at the time. She first confirmed the circumstances around her departure in a 2006 appearance on the TV show Where Are They Now?, and further elaborated on the incident in later interviews. Barry states that she had taken Monk's weekly $100 money allowance from an envelope left in Barry's room with the intention of giving it back to her, but forgot to do so and was therefore removed from the group. Subsequently she was paid $1000 and offered a solo record deal to leave the group and to stay silent on the matter at the time, leading to the widespread speculation over her firing. She blamed the incident on her youth and naivety, and felt burdened by it for years afterwards. She was replaced by Tiffani Wood in the final line-up of what would become Bardot. Polihronas would later state that Barry was "exploited" by the show and made out to be "the villain".

After leaving Australia, Barry placed third in the Song of the Year songwriting contest, and reached the quarter-finals in the Music Nation online music competition.

In August 2009, she officially launched her debut solo album Simple Things in the U.S., followed by albums Songbird in 2012, and more recently, Lovers Gonna Love in 2018.

In 2020, Barry recorded her own version of "Poison".

Acting

Barry has appeared in several independent films and in small roles on the television series Water Rats, General Hospital, Entourage, How I Met Your Mother, The Paul Reiser Show and NCIS. In 2008 Barry played the recurring role of Nina, a friend of main character Naomi Clark on the television series 90210.

In 2016 she played the character of Tri in the web series Miss 2059. In 2018 Barry played the Valiant Comics character Roku, the main antagonist of the Ninjak vs. the Valiant Universe live-action miniseries.

Barry also works as a voice actor. In 2016, she played Ava Thorne in the Oculus Rift video game Edge of Nowhere, and is credited as the voice of the "Narrator" in an episode of the 2018 Netflix series Disjointed. Barry also did additional voice work for the video games Mad Max, Agents of Mayhem, Marvel's Spider-Man, Days Gone and voiced the character Chloe in Metal Gear Survive.

In 2019, Barry voiced Baphomet on the DC Universe web television series Doom Patrol, and provided the voice of Sheila in Spyro Reignited Trilogy. She voiced Ghost in 2020's Iron Man VR, and Shael  in 2021's Horizon Forbidden West .

Other
Barry has appeared in two pictorials for FHM, one in the months after leaving Bardot and another in 2007.

Personal life

Barry married American actor Scott Whyte in 2018. She has been based in Los Angeles since 2002.

References

External links

Barry's Music Nation profile
Chantellebarry.com

1980 births
Australian women pop singers
Australian women singer-songwriters
Australian television actresses
Australian film actresses
Actresses from Perth, Western Australia
Living people
Bardot (Australian band) members
21st-century Australian singers
21st-century Australian women singers
Australian voice actresses
Australian video game actresses

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Albert N.J. Matthew
Justice of Appeal Albert Matthew was a Dominican citizen . He was also a graduate of the University of London where he pursued his Bachelor's Degree in law and a recipient of the Commonwealth Scholarship which took him to London School of Economics where he pursued his Masters Degree, Albert Matthew now deceased, was at the time of his death, a retired Appeal Judge of the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal. On the Benches of the Eastern Caribbean is part biographical and part discourse of some 600 of the most intriguing and riveting cases that he would have adjudicated upon during his career both as a High Court Judge and a Court of Appeal Judge.
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AT ONE PERIOD of his life DEAN MILMAN was a constant contributor to the Quarterly Review, and for many years, especially while it was edited by his dear and intimate friend John Gibson Lockhart, scarcely a volume appeared which did not contain, at the least, one article from his pen. Other avocations and severer studies afterwards diverted him from these more ephemeral literary pursuits, but again towards the close of his life, when the completion of the History of Latin Chris tianity' had restored him to comparative leisure, he took pleasure in renewing his old connection with the Review, and in occasionally writing essays on any subject in which he was at the time particularly interested. A full list of these articles would run to great length. They embrace a wide variety of matter, critical, literary, biographical, historical, and afford convincing proof of the versatility of his genius, of his large sympathy, and of the readiness with which his abundant stores of learning were brought to bear in elucidating and illustrating such
topics. Some deal with questions and books of passing interest ; others have an undoubted permanent value. Of these the present publication contains a selection. With so much that claimed careful consideration it was by no means easy to contract the choice within the limit of a single volume, but it has been thought best in the first instance so to confine it, leaving for future consideration the advisability of a further reproduction. Many, and among them perhaps the most brilliant, of Dean Milman's essays relate to persons and events which have since been treated of in his . Histories, and having there received his latest revision, find in them their proper and final place. But there are others, such as those on Savonarola and Erasmus, which take up an epoch of ecclesiastical history beyond the scope of the Histories of Christianity,' and cannot, it is believed, fail to be read with interest. The articles on "The Development of Christian Doetrine,' and "The Relation of the Clergy to the People, are the only two out of the whole number which are mainly or exclusively of a controversial character. But they nowhere for a moment transgress the bounds of strictest courtesy and candour, and many persons who remember their temperate but firm discussion of problems, which cannot yet be regarded as of no practical importance, having expressed a desire that they should be reprinted, it was not possible to exclude them from the present series. A peculiar interest attaches to that
upon "Pagan and Christian Sepulchres,' as being the author's last contribution to the Review. It was a subject to which his attention was for many reasons attracted, and during a visit to Rome in 1857 he had himself the satisfaction of visiting many of the principal catacombs under the guidance of the Cavaliere de Rossi, whose great work 'La Roma Sotterranea Cristiana' eventually gave occasion to the Essay.


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US Stock Prices Slump After Weak Retail Earnings, Price Growth
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Trader George Ettinger works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Nov. 13, 2015.
U.S. stock prices fell sharply Friday amid signs of weak price growth and disappointing earnings from some major American department stores. The Dow Jones industrial average plunged 150 points at the opening bell after luxury retail giant Nordstrom reported earnings that fell below forecasts.
Nordstrom stocks fell more than 15 percent to $53.50 after the company lowered its projections for the rest of the year. Nordstrom's-weaker-than expected earnings followed disappointing results earlier in the week from department store chains Macy's and J.C. Penney.
New data showed retail spending in October was also weaker than expected. And a separate report on inflation showed wholesale prices fell for the second month in a row. Economists watch retail sales and inflation figures closely because consumer spending is the biggest driver of the U.S. economy.
Could the disappointing retail numbers be a sign of things to come for the all-important holiday shopping season? PNC senior economist Gus Faucher said it wasn't likely. More Americans are working and consumer confidence rose for a second month in a row, he said, meaning "Americans are feeling better about the economy."
Faucher told VOA, "It's not going to be a great season, but I think it's going to be better than last year."
The National Retail Federation was similarly upbeat. The NRF, the world's largest retail trade association, predicted retail sales in November and December would increase 3.7 percent, to more than $630 billion. That's a significantly higher increase than the 10-year average for holiday sales of 2.5 percent.
NRF spokeswoman Kathy Grannis-Allen told VOA that "lower gasoline prices and heavy price competition among retailers will mean great deals for consumers."
The NRF also forecast a big increase in online sales, rising between 6 and 8 percent from the year before to as much as $105 billion.
The big test for retailers will come the day after Thanksgiving, which traditionally marks the start of the holiday shopping season.
"Black Friday," as it has come to be known, symbolizes the day when retailers move into profit mode or are "in the black." Major retailers try to lure consumers on Black Friday by offering longer store hours and deep discounts. For some retailers, holiday sales can account for as much as 40 percent of annual profits.
Low inflation remains a worry for some economists. The Producer Price Index, which measures the prices charged by farmers and manufacturers before products reach consumers, fell four-tenths of a percentage point in October and was down 1.6 percent over the past year.
Negative price growth, or deflation, could pose a challenge to the U.S. central bank, which has signaled plans to raise interest rates when it meets in December.
Central bank officials had vowed to keep interest rates at record lows until the economy reached full employment and inflation neared their target rate of 2 percent.
The Federal Reserve has not raised its benchmark rates for nearly a decade in a bid to stimulate employment and bolster investment following the 2008 financial crisis.
PNC's Gus Faucher said weak inflation was unlikely to alter the Fed's timetable for a rate increase.
If inflation stays low, the Fed could raise its benchmark rate at a slower pace, but "it's not likely to stop a rate hike, given the strong job numbers of the last few months," Faucher said.
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The transmission line having length of an overhead transmission line in the range 50-150 km and the line voltage is moderately high (> 20 kV < 100kV) is considered as a medium transmission line. Since the line is having sufficient length and line voltage, the capacitance effects are taken into consideration. For the puropose of calcuklations, the distributed capacitance of the line is divided and lumped in the form of condensers shunted across the line at one or more points.
When the length of an overhead line is more than 150 km and the line voltage is very high (>100 kV), it is considered as long transmission line. For the treatment of such line, the line constants are considered uniformly distributed over the whole length of the line and rigorous methods are employed for solution.


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Average house prices are £289,883 showing a rise of 5,50% over the past 12 months. You can buy a semi-detached property for around £266,688; smaller terraced homes for £214,994 and family detached homes starting from £435,059.
Try a visit to Tilgate Park, it is situated in beautiful surroundings, stunning lakes, rolling green lawns and acres of woodland interwoven with paths and bridleways.
For the children there is the Tree Top Adventure which will have them flying down zip-wires, leaping off tarzan swings and tackling crossings. There is a nature centre too with over 100 species of animals to learn about. The facilities are good, with a western themed restaurant and plenty of parking.
Holbush Farm is another popular tourist attraction, especially for the very young, plenty of animals to see and educational farm tours. There is a café which hosts a soft play area for the very little ones and there are demonstrations and a farm produce shop too. The farm is operated on a pre-booked basis so you have to book tickets in advance before you arrive!
Getting to and from Crawley from the surrounding areas is easy. By road via the M23 to the North of Crawley and A264 from the East and West.
If you are travelling by train Crawley has its own station with a further two nearby: Ifield (1.1 miles) and Faygate (1.8 miles).
For those planning trips abroad, London Gatwick Airport at (3.6 miles) is on the door step and London Heathrow not too far away at (28.1 miles).
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