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Young boy knocked over in Lowestoft
A YOUNG boy has been injured after being involved in a collision with a car in Lowestoft.The emergency services are currently on the scene of the collision in Yarmouth Road, which happened outside the Denes High School at around 4.
A YOUNG boy has been injured after being involved in a collision with a car in Lowestoft.
The collision happened in Yarmouth Road, just outside the Denes High School, at around 4.10pm on Tuesday afternoon.
Police spokesman Anne-Marie Breach told The Journal: 'We were called just after 4.15pm to Yarmouth Road after receiving a report that a young boy had been knocked over.
'He is believed to be 11-years-old and has suffered minor injuries.'
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The youngster was involved in a collision with a maroon Volvo 960 car, and the scene was eventually cleared by 4.45pm with the road - one of the major gateways to and from town - re-opened.
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I created this learnscreen for the EducationCity online learning platform for schools, forming part of the languages section.
I was given the script and the voiceover, but had a lot of creative scope of how to present the content - whilst remaining consistent with the established house style, and using the brand's existing set of characters.
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Active Learner shows how active learning selects which data to be labeled.
Active Learner, our new research prototype, is an interactive visualization of different active learning strategies for labeling data. It features three different datasets (MNIST, Quickdraw, and Caltech) and four different data selection strategies (Random, Entropy, Adversarial, and Ensemble). By exploring the different datasets and strategies, you can build your intuition about how and why active learning works. (For more on the selection strategies, read our report Learning with Limited Labeled Data.)
In this newsletter, I’m going to focus on the visualization challenges involved in the prototype.
Show me the data
I used sprite sheets and shaders to display the image for each of the data points.
One of the main challenges involved in visualizing machine learning processes is figuring out how to present the vast amount of data involved. For Active Learner, we used the dimension-reduction algorithm UMAP to visualize how the model clusters the dataset. We ran UMAP on the embeddings generated by our model after each round of data selection and training. As you move through the rounds in the prototype, you can see how the active learning strategies focus on points at the boundaries of the clusters. This focus makes sense because it is at the boundaries between classifications that there is often the most uncertainty. They are (kind of literally) the edge cases.
In this prototype, I saw an opportunity to take another crack at building an interactive large scale visualization. I wanted to take this one even further. Since this project is focused on image datasets, I wondered if I could plot the images themselves (rather than placeholder circles). Based on my past experience with three.js, and from following people online who do similar work, I believed I could – but I wasn’t certain (which is, after all, what makes it fun).
In UMAP Explorer I worked out the image rendering techniques used in the prototype.
While Shioulin and Nisha worked on the model and selection strategies, I explored visualization rendering techniques with UMAP Explorer, an interactive UMAP visualization of the MNIST dataset, and a trial run for the techniques I wanted to use in the prototype. I hit the wall a few times trying to get all 70,000 images to render. I eventually found a way to swing it, thanks mostly to a stack overflow answer by WestLangley, and a post on a similar project by Douglas Duhaime.
The solution was to borrow a technique from video games and create a sprite sheet of the images all stitched together. You can then use a shader to pick what parts of the sprite sheet to display for each point. This gets you a huge performance improvement compared to loading a separate image for each point. I also explored different transparency and color coding options in UMAP explorer. Gradated transparency was too slow, so instead the shader just discards any pixels below a certain brightness level. This works fine for the black and white digits of MNIST, but needs to be adjusted depending on the images.
With the knowledge gained from UMAP explorer, I jumped into the prototype itself. The new challenge that emerged was how to maintain continuity between rounds. The answer was to use transitions, so that the data points move to their new transitions from round to round. I found several examples using tween.js to transition three.js points, and was able to implement that approach.
The bigger issue was how to manage state. I used React to structure the app, and its system of state management was a big help in keeping organized, but things still got pretty hairy when I got into the multi-step transitions. Initially I gave the user control of when to move through each step of a round (selection, labeling, retraining), which greatly increased the number of transitions I had to prepare for (what if they changed datasets after the labeling set?), so I scaled it back by changing all the steps in a round together. It worked out, but I wouldn’t mind another crack at this in a future prototype.
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Great restaurant design transports us outside of our everyday world, and helps to put us in a good mood. It can make us feel like we’re in another time zone, make us feel rich and even make us feel young and cutting-edge. It can elicit lots of different positive emotions — at least that’s my design litmus test when I walk into a restaurant.
Through the years there have been many places that have fulfilled that criteria for me: Zuni Cafe, Aqua (now Michael Mina) and Press in St. Helena, to name a few. And while it may be a bit kitschy, the Tonga Room fulfills that criteria on a very elemental scale. You walk in and you’re transported back in time to a tropical paradise. Despite the uneven food and syrupy cocktails, the pool and grass cabanas make me light-hearted.
Other restaurants that have opened in the last couple of years do that in a more sophisticated and subtle way. Here are six:
AQ: The newest restaurant that features great design is AQ on Mission between 6th and 7th streets, which I’ll review in the Food&Wine section on Sunday. The building started out in 1906 as the home of the San Francisco Department of Health, and after than was used as offices for start ups. Its high beamed ceiling, rough wood columns and brick walls are appropriate for the neighborhood, and it feels like an oasis. The decor changes every three months to reflect the season — copper-topped bar and rusted light fixtures in autumn, for example; Carrara marble and whitetable cloths at this time of year.
Chambers: This space has been the home of Miss Pearl’s Jam House and Bambuddha Lounge. At Chambers, old record album covers are used as partitions to separate the dining areas. The windows in back overlook a 1950s-style hotel and pool, giving the place a mid-century feel.
Gitane: Located on tiny Claude Lane, Gitane feels like a speakeasy. Diners walk down the stairs to get to the bar and up another flight of stairs to get to the dining room. The corner booths are always occupied by canoodling couples, and the entire space feels very sexy, very clandestine.
Bar Agricole: The whimsical glass tubes that surround the skylights, the brick walls, high beamed ceiling and molded concrete booths all work to give this industrial space a modern, joyful edge.
25 Lusk: Built in 1917 as a meat packer and smokehouse, the bunker-like brick walls make the place feel cozy. The modern chairs and refined accents provide a cutting-edge contrast. A series of freestanding round fireplaces in the bar downstairs adds to the cozy feel, and a well-appointed dining room overlooks the bar action below.
Park Tavern: It feels like an upscale brasserie, what with its hexagonal tile floors and subway tile on the walls, but there’s a happy energy that seems to permeate the place. The restaurant has a vital feeling that wasn’t even captured by its former tenants Moose’s and Joey and Eddie’s.


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Bottom financial quintile admission target
According to statistics from The Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, the lowest 20% of disposable income per household was NT$350,189 in 2019, and NT$354,959 in 2020. Each county sets up qualifications of low-income households and middle-low income households according to the announced minimum living expenditure. According to the investigation in 2020, the lowest living expense for each individual is around NT11,648~17,005.
NCKU has been implementing several programs and services to admit students from low-income and low and middle income families for years. Since 2017, through the Cheng Xing Admission Project, NCKU has provided annually over 40 freshmen students of bottom financial quintile background a new entrance of higher education. Moreover, NCKU constantly offers tuition and miscellaneous fee exemptions and school loans for the students in the bottom financial background. The students who come from families whose annual household income is lower than NT1,200,000 can apply for school loans with lower interest rates. Various subsidies, such as Chen Hsi Bursary, Disadvantaged Student Bursary, and Students under Poverty Line Subsidy, are given to such students as well.
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Armin C. Hansen (1886-1957), one of the founders of the Carmel Art Association in Carmel, California, was renowned for his ability to use brushwork to capture the vitality of life by extracting the essential visual elements, or the “itness,” as one of my teachers, Rodney Winfield, used to call it. That quality is essential for giving a painting its “poetry” — a feeling of a specific time and place. There are many other artists whose paintings capture the “itness” of a scene, including the California Impressionists Franz Bischoff (1864-1929), who fully represented the Carmel coastline in his depictions of the twisted gestures of the Monterey cypresses, and Percy Gray (1869-1952), who accurately represented the graceful gestures of the boughs of the eucalyptus trees of California.
The loose brushwork in the Hansen painting On the Levee — New Orleans, of workers on a wharf in New Orleans, Louisiana, beautifully captures the hustle and bustle of activity, as well as the sense of confusion. What is particularly interesting about this painting is how well the artist conveys the feeling and atmosphere of the place with such an economy of brushwork.
Hansen’s “Near Music”
Look at the looseness in the representation of the fisherman (Figure 1). By avoiding too much rendering, Hansen gives the painting a beautiful abstract quality. This is what I have been referring to in this series of critiques as “near music” — the brushwork in a representational painting that maintains an abstract quality, and thereby conveys more than the identity of the subject. Even with these loose strokes, one can see Hansen’s accuracy in the proportions and gestures of the workers.
Another feature of Hansen’s work I admire is his use of grays, which establish a beautiful color harmony.
I tried to make this more apparent by creating a simplified analysis of Hansen’s painting using just the key color spots (Figure 2). In my sketch, I show how Hansen used a pattern of gray shapes to set off his more highly saturated color patches.
Applying Visual Music & Poetry™
I faced a similar challenge when creating my sketch A Rainy Day in Venice. I kept the brushwork as abstract as possible, yet retained accuracy in the proportions of the figures. Loose painting, somewhat counter-intuitively, is actually much harder to handle than tight rendering.
That is because painters only have one shot at getting the proportion and placement of the strokes accurate if they want the brushstrokes to be loose and yet read correctly.
In my painting, I used the grays of the sky, wet pavement, and distant buildings to establish a contrast with the beautiful, highly colored umbrellas.
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To learn more about creating Visual Music & Poetry® in your work, see: A Guide To Critiquing Master Paintings


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ZANZIBAR President Dr Hussein Mwinyi on Saturday called for concerted efforts to curb maternal and infant mortality in the country, saying the rate of deaths among expectant mothers and infants remain disturbingly high.
“The rate of maternal and infant mortality in the country remains high…statistics show that 134 mothers die out of 100,000 live deliveries; and 28 infants die out of 1,000 live births,” Dr Mwinyi said at Maisara grounds during the ‘Birth is life’ campaign rally.
He, however commended efforts by development partners, including international organisations, private institutions and companies to support the government in protecting the lives of mothers and infants.
President Mwinyi appreciated the development partners’ contribution, especially in social development through health, education and clean and safe water sectors in the country.
He particularly commended AMREF Health Africa for organising the ‘Birth is Life’ campaign to raise over 1bn/- for procurement of medical equipment in support of safe deliveries in the islands.
“I sincerely wish to thank Amref Health Africa for the mobile health van, which will be a great relief to the Ministry of Health’s operations, including transportation of medics, samples and provision of testing and counselling services to wananchi,” Dr Mwinyi said.
The President said the government is keen to address maternal and infant mortality in the country to make “giving birth a safe and an enjoyable experience,” attributing the current high mortality rate to poor services at heath facilities due to lack of medics and medicines.
President Mwinyi expressed optimism over the campaign to support the government in supplying medical equipment to 28 health centres, over 40 per cent of the 69 centres that offer maternal and child services in the islands.
He further said the government is working hard to improve primary health services in the country, with special focus on maternal services to protect the lives of expectant mothers and their infants.
Speaking at the campaign which had by Thursday raised 792m/- in pledges and 557m/- cash, Deputy Health Minister Hassan Khamis Hafidh said AMREF and the ministry have partnered to address maternal and infant mortality in the country.
He said the government has devised various strategies to address the problem, citing stern legal and disciplinary measures against health workers who violate the professional rules and regulations.
The deputy minister said laziness, abusive language and indiscipline which affect expectant mothers and infants are intolerable offences in the country.
AMREF Africa Country Representative Dr Florence Temu said the aim of the three-year campaign is to raise 1bn/- for procurement of medical equipment for 69 hospitals and health centres in Zanzibar.
She described the campaign as a great success, saying just in the second year, it has collected 557m/- in cash and 883m/- pledges.


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Move over, boring tea bags! The Tasty Tea Hamper is a game-changer. Each tea blend is carefully curated and bursting with flavor. It's the perfect way to elevate your tea-drinking experience and indulge in a little self-care. Trust me, once you try it, you'll never go back to ordinary tea again!
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Wow, this Tasty Tea Hamper is a game-changer! The flavors are so rich and vibrant, it's like a party in my mouth every time I take a sip. Highly recommend for anyone looking to add some excitement to their tea routine!
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Calling all tea lovers! You HAVE to get your hands on the Tasty Tea Hamper. The variety of flavors is incredible, from soothing herbal blends to bold and robust black teas. It's like having a tea shop right in your own kitchen!
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I'm obsessed with the Tasty Tea Hamper! It's the perfect gift for any tea enthusiast in your life or even just for yourself. The beautiful packaging and exquisite flavors make every tea time feel like a special occasion. Treat yourself, you won't regret it!
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Prevalence of Dietary Supplement Consumption Among Pregnant Womenweeks of Pregnancy: a Cross-sectional Telephone Interview Survey (PCAFE)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05191147|
Recruitment Status : Recruiting
First Posted : January 13, 2022
Last Update Posted : March 17, 2022
Primary endpoint :
Prevalence estimation of the dietary supplement consumption among pregnant women during the first 20-25 weeks of pregnancy.
Hypothesis of the study :
The sale and consumption of dietary supplements in the general population has increased in recent years. It would be interesting to know if this is also the case for pregnant women or if they are more vigilant about their health during this period. It would also allow to identify factors associated with their consumption if it exists.
The investigators hypothesize that some women may sometimes fail to mention this supplement intake to care givers and they would like to know if these omissions are voluntary or not.
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|Preference, Consumer||Dietary Supplement: Dietary supplement|
Dietary supplement are foodstuffs whose purpose is to supplement the normal diet, by constituting a concentrated source of nutrients or other substances with a nutritional or physiological effect, alone or in combination. There are many dietary supplement, based on plants, vitamins and minerals, or other concentrates of substances with a nutritional and physiological purpose.
Thus, the consumption of dietary supplement in pregnant women is interesting to pursue because no prevalence exists on the general consumption of food supplements in pregnant women in early pregnancy. Only studies on diet and the potential danger of supplements have been carried out. More specific studies on certain types of vitamins have also been carried out but no prevalence on general consumption has been found.
Therefore, the aim of the study is to know the extent of dietary supplementation in early pregnancy, and the associated factors in order to take it into account in the management and follow-up of patients. The investigators would also like to know the intentions and motivations of these women to consume these products.
To proceed, they will give an information sheet that will allow the collection of the telephone number, during an ultrasound (between 20 and 25 weeks of amenorrhea).Then they will call them and during the telephone interview, they will collect informations needed.
Distribution of an information sheet that will allow the collection of the telephone number of each patient coming for their second trimester ultrasound (between 20 and 25 SA). This form will be accompanied by the letter of information and non-objection which will be kept by the patient. The distribution will be done by the health professionals performing the ultrasound at the beginning or at the end of the medical appointment.
So, the primary endpoint is the proportion of women who report taking at least one dietary supplement during the first 20-25 weeks of pregnancy. This information will be collected by a phone interview.
The secondary endpoints are :
- Describe the dietary supplements consumed during the first 20-25 weeks of pregnancy: galenic form, indication, source of information, place of purchase (pharmacy, supermarket etc.)
- Assess whether beliefs about medication are associated with the use of dietary supplements during pregnancy, using BMQ (Belief on Medicine Questionnaire)
- Describe the mean number of dietary supplements taken by patients in early pregnancy
- Describe the frequency of use for each dietary supplement ('(several times a day / once a day /several times a week / once a week / once a month etc...)
|Study Type :||Observational|
|Estimated Enrollment :||80 participants|
|Official Title:||Prevalence of Dietary Supplement Consumption Among Pregnant Women During the First 20-25 Weeks of Pregnancy: a Cross-sectional Telephone Interview Survey|
|Actual Study Start Date :||January 1, 2022|
|Estimated Primary Completion Date :||April 10, 2022|
|Estimated Study Completion Date :||May 10, 2022|
- Dietary Supplement: Dietary supplement
We will study dietary supplement consumption among pregnant women
- the proportion of women who report taking at least one dietary supplement during the first 20-25 weeks of pregnancy [ Time Frame: 1 month ]what is the percentage of pregnant women who take dietary supplement
- Describe the dietary supplements consumed during the first 20-25 weeks of pregnancy [ Time Frame: 1 month ]Which galenic form, indication, source of information, place of purchase (pharmacy, supermarket etc.)
- Assess whether beliefs about medication are associated with the use of dietary supplements during pregnancy [ Time Frame: 1 month ]using BMQ (Belief on Medicine Questionnaire)
- Describe the mean number of dietary supplements taken by patients in early pregnancy [ Time Frame: 1 month ]How many dietary supplement pregnant women take on a daily basis
- Describe the frequency of use for each dietary supplement [ Time Frame: 1 month ]Several times a day / once a day /several times a week / once a week / once a month etc.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT05191147
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In a press release published on Tuesday, TPH explained a new Section 22 order will force Toronto/GTA workplaces — or portions of workplaces — with an outbreak to close fully for a minimum of 10 days.
"As easily transmitted COVID-19 variants of concern spread quickly throughout Toronto and the GTA, outbreaks are increasingly linked to workplaces, where the virus can spread through close contact between workers," the city said in the release.
"At the City of Toronto we will continue to take every action, implement every measure, and do absolutely everything in our power to keep essential workers safe. That’s our commitment," added City Councillor Joe Cressy.
If an outbreak — defined as five confirmed cases in 14 days — is declared at a workplace, workers will have to self-isolate for the 10-day period.


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When it comes to our periods, many of us would consider our menstrual cycles “normal,” but there’s a whole segment of ladies that know this flow is heavier than “normal.”
Heavy periods, also referred to as menorrhagia, are characterized by blood loss of more that 8 teaspoons per cycle, although since we don’t go around measuring our menstrual flow, it’s not easy to know exactly how many teaspoons of blood you lose. Now if you use a Diva Cup instead of tampons and pads, then you might have a better idea of how much blood you pass with each cycle.
With that being said, a “heavy period” is still a subjective term mainly because periods vary from woman to woman in terms of days on your cycle, the time between each period, along with the actual amount of blood that is passed. Other than throwing a slight monkey wrench into our normal, everyday social activities, heavy periods are not necessarily a problem until they impose some aggravating inconvenience or physical issue such as anemia, which can lead to fatigue, shortness of breath, and light-headedness.
Much of the woman’s reproductive system is still a mystery to the medical profession. But if you’re suffering from heavy periods here may be some reasons why:
- Hormonal Imbalance – Hormones rise and fall regularly during the course of your cycle. Around the time of perimenopause though, these hormonal fluctuations may get out of whack, causing heavier periods. Thyroid disease can have the same effect on hormones gone haywire.
- Uterine fibroids – These are benign tumors that form in the uterus during childbearing years and they commonly cause heavy bleeding and/or longer periods.
- Polyps – Polyps are the same as fibroids, only smaller.
- Ovarian Dysfunction – You may experience heavy periods if for some reason, your ovaries are not ovulating properly.
- IUD (Intrauterine device) – Although a once popular form of birth control, heavier periods are a common result of using these
What an IUD looks like inside of your uterus…
- Miscarriage – One single very heavy period could be the sign of miscarriage or an ectopic pregnancy.
- Certain medications – Anticoagulants and anti-inflammatory drugs can cause heavier periods too.
- Cancer – Uterine, cervical or ovarian cancer can certainly be the cause of heavy bleeding as well.
- Other medical conditions – Endometriosis, thyroid problems, pelvic inflammatory disease, or liver/kidney disease are also hidden culprits.
So if heavy periods plague you, go and see your doctor as soon as possible so that together you can rule out any problems that may require immediate attention and devise a health recovery plan. Most often, heavy periods signal hormonal imbalances that can be easily corrected but, of course, you want to be sure.
It isn’t necessary to get your panties in a bunch over heavy periods, especially if they come at regular intervals and you’re feeling well otherwise. (Sorry for the cheesy pun). Plus if you’re reaching your perimenopausal years, heavier periods almost pretty much come with the territory so brace yourself.
However, if you notice sudden, unusually heavy bleeding, or heavy periods accompanied by unusual discomfort, schedule an appointment with a trusted medical professional right away.
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Broken down vehicle on M5 near Worcester
Updated 2:37pm Sunday 30th March 2014 in News
ONE lane has been closed on the M5 Southbound because of a broken down vehicle.
The break down has happened in a stretch of roadworks between junction five for Droitwich and junction six for Worcester North.
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Jim Oberweis, Kirk Dillard, and Daniel Biss (left photo, Bonnie Trafelet/Tribune, middle photo, Seth Perlman/ Associated Press, Michael Tercha/Tribune)
The Tribune begins endorsements today in contested races for the Illinois Senate.
9th District: Far too many politicians would have you believe the state is one good "forensic audit" from solvency — a cop-out they hope will relieve them of the need to commit to unpopular solutions. Pension reform? Program cuts? Tax hikes? None of that will be necessary, supposedly, if we merge a few departments and cut waste, fraud and abuse. No wonder nothing gets done in Springfield.
So it's a pleasure to have two straight-talking candidates running to succeed the respected Sen. Jeff Schoenberg. Republican Glen Farkas is a Glenview financial planner; Democratic Rep. Daniel Biss is a mathematician from Evanston. Both have solid ideas about how to restructure the state's pension systems, and neither has the gall to suggest it won't be painful. Our endorsement goes to Biss, based on his impressive first term in the House. He can speak with authority on the state's most vexing problems, offers creative solutions and isn't shy about calling out his colleagues for ducking difficult truths. "I am doing my part to change our habit of telling everyone what they want to hear while ignoring the real problems as they metastasize," he says. The General Assembly needs more of that.
18th District: Republican Barbara Ruth Bellar, of Burr Ridge, has a fascinating resume — doctor, lawyer, college professor, Army Reserve veteran, former nun — and a future in stand-up comedy, based on the hilarious viral video in which she lampoons President Obama's Affordable Care Act. But in a head-to-head Tribune interview with Democratic Rep. Bill Cunningham, of Chicago, he had a better command of state issues. This is a rematch of a 2010 House race. The candidates aren't that far apart on most issues. On pension reform, both zeroed in on compounded cost-of-living increases as a big driver of the state's unfunded liability. Cunningham would remove compounding; Bellar would cancel the COLAs entirely. Bellar opposes a plan to shift the cost of teachers' pensions to local school districts; Cunningham says the state should pick up the pension cost for the first $40,000 of salary. Cunningham has a strong record of advocating for ethical reforms. He refused to participate in the scandal-ridden legislative scholarship program and proposed a constitutional amendment aimed at removing politics from the selection of judges. Cunningham is endorsed.
19th District: Michael Hastings, the son of longtime Orland Hills Mayor Kyle Hastings, won the Democratic primary by defeating a Tinley Park trustee who was backed by retiring Sen. Maggie Crotty. The West Point graduate served as an Army captain in Iraq, now works at Johnson & Johnson and serves as vice president of a local school board. Republican Edgar Montalvo, of Tinley Park, owns a consulting firm that manages reconstruction projects overseas, a business built on his 30-year military experience, including two deployments in Iraq. It's disturbing to see a school board member — Hastings — say it's "unfair to keep establishing charter schools." That sounds like a plea to protect the status quo. Montalvo, who says Illinois "is a hostile place to start or expand a business," has sound ideas to encourage job growth. Montalvo is endorsed.
22nd District: Democratic Sen. Michael Noland of Elgin has been on the wrong side of some important votes. He voted against making state retirees contribute to their health care insurance premiums and against ending the corrupt legislative scholarship program. He blocked a bill that would end the ridiculous practice of charging citizens with a felony for using their cellphones to record the actions of police officers. We're endorsing him, though, because we think he'll help to push pension reform over the finish line. Noland served on Gov. Pat Quinn's pension working group, supported the governor's proposed reforms and promises to vote for a serious pension makeover that includes changes such as eliminating compounded cost-of-living raises. Noland supports requiring local schools to assume responsibility for their teachers' retirement benefits. Cary Collins, who's listed as a Republican but says he's not running under either party's banner, would not vote for those reforms.
23rd District: Sen. Carole Pankau, of Itasca, won a brutal Republican primary over Rep. Randy Ramey. She's our choice over Democrat Thomas Cullerton, the Villa Park mayor. We disagree with Pankau's stance against expecting local schools to cover their teachers' retirement benefits, but at least she understands the need to make other changes to the state's pension systems. Cullerton says "everything should be on the table, and everyone should be at the table." Details, please. Cullerton is vague on that and other issues. Pankau is endorsed.

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Cardinal is the debut album by Cardinal, the collaborative project of American indie rock musicians Eric Matthews and Richard Davies. If You Believe in Christmas Trees" – 3:59. You've Lost Me There" – 4:28. Public Melody – 1:35. Dream Figure" – 3:01. Tough Guy Tactics" – 2:26. Angel Darling" – 2:52. Singing to the Sunshine" – 2:46. Silver Machines" – 3:54. Forest Theme" – 0:43.
Cardinal fans had long given up on hearing another album from Richard Davies and Eric Matthews, whose partnership dissolved in acrimony after a single LP - but did lead to a couple of charming solo albums from each. Release Date: Jan 24, 2012 Record label: Fire Records Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock. 55 Music Critic Score How the Music Critic Score works. Hymns - Average, Based on 7 Critics.
The original 1994 Cardinal album was met with a flurry of acclaim, but its spending many years out of print- it was finally reissued in 2005- meant not many people heard it after that initial burst. The American half of the duo, Eric Matthews, went on to have a successful career, releasing solo albums and arranging for a lengthy list of other artists, including Elliott Smith, Tahiti 80, and the Dandy Warhols This is not to say Hymns doesn't have its moments. The first time Matthews hits us full-force with the brass, on "Carbolic Smoke Ball", it imparts a Bacharachian sweep to a song that otherwise walks in place.
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Likewise, Cardinal’s 1994 self-titled debut sparked a new vibe and culture with its orchestral pop, only for the band to remain dormant thereafter for nearly two decades. However, after years of refining their own musical vision and execution, Richard Davies and Eric Mathews return with Hymns. And it’s worth the wait.


The European Union has launched a £ 7 million support for three independent institutions playing critical roles in the country’s electoral process for the 2012 presidential and parliamentary elections.
The institutions are the Electoral Commission (EC), National Commission for Civil Education (NCCE) and the National Media Commission.
Launching the support programme, the Head of the EU Delegation to Ghana, Mr Claude Maerten, said in line with the electoral cycle approach, the EU was providing extensive electoral support to civil society organisations through grant contracts of £ 2.4 million.
That, he said, targeted the participation of women in politics funded under the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights through £ 4.5 million contribution to strengthening transparency, accountability and responsiveness in Ghana.
He said Ghana had recorded outstanding democratic achievements and had solid democratic institutions and processes although it had gone through numerous challenges in recent years.
He said the 2008 presidential and parliamentary elections were considered by all observer missions deployed to Ghana as very well organised and transparent, adding that EC was commended for maintaining its reputation for professionalism and impartiality.
Moreover, he said, a wide range of national stakeholders including the NCCE and the NMC, together with civil society organisations, played a major role in effectively managing conflicts, thus preventing electoral violence.
Mr Maerten said many recommendations were made to improve the electoral process by different electoral observation missions following the 2008 election. Those, he said, included the provision of more extensive and permanent voter and civic education through the NCCE, revision of the media regulatory framework and the establishment of a clear monitoring mechanism through the strengthening of the NMC.
The EU, he said, attached high importance to the development and consolidation of democracy and rule of law, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms worldwide.
“Supporting democracy is in fact a crucial endeavour for the international donor community, both because of the intrinsic value of democracy as a political system that helps foster human dignity and the contributions that democratic governance makes towards better developmental outcomes for individual citizens,” he said.
The Chairman of the EC, Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, said the EC was getting £ 3.8 million from the total amount, and that the money was to be used to implement activities to build human resource and institutional capacity.
The activities included training courses for election administrators, training programme for registration and polling staff, improvement of the voters register, geographic information and electoral mapping system, and public outreach and voter education.
“The focus on medium-term capacity development of the EC and the promotion of civic and voter education under this support will enhance the EC’s ability to organise future elections and also increase public awareness of the electoral and democratic process,” he said.
The Chairman of the NMC, Mr Kabral Blay-Amihere, said the commission was getting £ 1 million from the EU support, adding that the intervention was most significant for the NMC in its 19 years of existence.
He said the NMC was set up to regulate the activities of the media, and to do that, the commission needed to monitor and evaluate the performance of the media.
With the support, he said the commission would be able to carry out its work.
The Chairman of the NCCE, Ms Charllote Osei, said the commission was deeply appreciated of the support.
She said the £1.5 million the NCCE was getting was significant, as the commission had been under- resourced for the past 19 years.
She said £300,000 was used to procure computers for the commission and that part would be used to purchase motor bikes to reach out to areas that were not accessible.


Status Quo's bassist on top of his game as Rhino's Revenge play a rip-roaring show at Chesterfield's Real Time Live
Rhino's Revenge rolled into Chesterfield's Real Time Live on the final night of the Save The Rhino Part 2 Tour, writes Kev White.
Gigs from this band are rare due to main man John ‘Rhino’; Edwards’ commitments with Status Quo.
Due to the day job Rhino has only released two solo albums in the last 18 years (Rhino’s Revenge in 2000 and Rhino’s Revenge 2 in 2015). With Quo having fewer shows this year and no winter UK tour Rhino was able to hit the road in April/May and again this month for a short UK tour.
Rhino’s Revenge are John ‘Rhino’ Edwards (bass/lead vocals) and member of Status Quo since 1986, Richard Newman (drums/vocals), a musician who has played with Rory Gallagher, Steve Marriott and Paul Rodgers amongst many others. Jim Kirkpatrick (guitar/vocals) from FM completes the line up.
The band was on great form and clearly enjoyed themselves on stage. Rhino engaged in a lot of onstage banter with his band mates and the fans, he even gave a brief but passionate speech thanking people for coming to see him and about small music venues closing, appealing to the fans to show their support by attending gigs at these establishments.
Right from the start Edwards had the crowd on his side. The two-hour show was a mix of songs from Rhino’s two solo albums, Status Quo tracks that he has co-written with Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt as well as some well-chosen covers.
Highlights included One Note Blues, Secretary, Jungle Love and Mine All Mine.
Rhino is a very witty lyricist, the splendid My Name Is Stan and Busy Doing Nothing, are cases in point and both songs went down really well with the audience. Quo’s Bellavista Woman, Jam Side Down and Two Way Traffic.
As for the covers,set opener Once Bitten Twice Shy, along with Before You Accuse Me and closing number I Saw Her Standing There (the latter two sung by Kirkpatrick) were particularly good.
There was a real party atmosphere; it was a great night and one of the best gigs that I have witnessed in this venue.
Hats off to Niki Stephenson and her team, getting Rhino’s Revenge was a bit of a coup! Real Time Live is a super venue and deserves to be supported.


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LRABAR is a simple and nutritious energy bar flavored and sweetened with dates. But how many dates are there in an LRABAR? The actual number of dates will vary based on the flavor, but each bar should have 1-2 dates. Because each LRABAR flavor contains approximately 14 cup of fruit, the proportion of dates to other ingredients may vary. Learn more about LRABARs, how they vary from other protein bars, why each LRABAR contains dates, and which flavors contain the most dates!
What Is A LÄRABAR?
The energy bar LRABAR is named after Lara Merriken, who invented it. It was developed as a straightforward, wholesome power bar that could deliver energy without sacrificing taste or quality. Merriken had the concept for L-RABAR while out hiking and munching on a bag of trail mix. She became aware of the dearth of high-quality companies making straightforward energy bars from basic, all-natural components.
Soon after exploring this concept, Merriken created the L-RABAR, which was initially designed to contain just 2-3 natural components per bar but now comes in varieties with up to 7-8 natural ingredients per bar. The bars also needed to taste wonderful without the use of artificial sweeteners or other flavorings, so having natural ingredients wasn’t enough.
Here’s where dates come into play! LRABAR makes the most of this delectable fruit, which is naturally sweet and offers a flavor that is reminiscent of rich caramel that can be utilized in a variety of applications. Dates include a mixture of glucose and fructose, two commonly utilized sugars that offer both immediate and sustained energy.
In contrast to fructose, which is metabolized a little more slowly by the body and releases energy more gradually, glucose is nearly instantly absorbed by the body and gives you immediate energy.
Trail Mix Vs LÄRABAR
When it comes to nutrition and energy, trail mix and LRABARs are very similar, however LRABARs have the advantage due to their convenience, quality, and flavor. Trail mix comes in a variety of flavors and combinations, but the flavor is usually fairly consistent, depending on the components utilized. LRABARs, for example, combine mashed and naturally processed foods to offer a distinctive and healthful flavor with each bite.
This method produces a strong and appealing flavor that standard trail mixes cannot match. Furthermore, because LRABAR has complete control over the nutrition in each bar, you can easily meet your DV (Daily Value) of nutrition without overeating, which is frequent with trail mixes.
Types Of LÄRABARs
Here are a few of the many varieties that L’RABAR offers:
Piata Coconut Cream
Apple Pie Cookie with Chocolate Chips Cashew cookie dough
a Key Lime Pie
Chocolate Chip Cookie
Choco-Peanut Butter Chip
flavored chocolate Brownie
Almond butter with jelly
What feature do all of these tastes share? Dates! But there is an intriguing thing to think about when there are so many different flavors.
Dates Per LÄRABAR
Due to the presence of additional sweet ingredients, the number of dates in LRABARs might vary substantially. The Cookie Dough flavor, for example, has a distinct date-like flavor with faint cookie dough undertones. This LRABAR will have extra dates to compensate for the flavor and sugar level of the other ingredients. Other flavors, such as Banana Bread or Chocolate Chip Brownie bars, will have fewer dates added because chocolate chips and bananas contain sugar naturally.
As a general rule of thumb, each LRABAR should have at least 1-2 dates. Because the firm does not specify the precise number of dates in each bar, you will have to make an educated guess for each flavor. Checking the ingredients and nutritional composition of each bar is an easy method to achieve this.
If you detect any ingredients that may already contain sugar, such as chocolate chips or naturally sweet fruits, you should anticipate to obtain roughly 12-1 date per bar. Other less sugary flavors that rely mainly on the sugar content of dates may have 1-2 dates per bar. Pecan pie and cashew cookies are excellent examples of this because nuts do not naturally contain a lot of sugar.
L-RABAR has a sizable Research & Development division that continuously strives to offer consumers newer and better flavors while staying true to its brand promise of offering natural nourishment. It’s not just that there are different amounts of dates in each bar; it’s also because the natural flavor notes in each bar interact with one another to create a balanced flavor that brings out the best in each ingredient.
L’RABAR meticulously selects the ideal fruit and nut varieties to go with dates. This is why different qualities can be found in nut- or fruit-based L-RABAR flavors, even zesty ones! Some L-RABAR bars, such as the Key Lime or Lemon Pie varieties, give distinct sweet and sour sensations. The benefit of creating flavors that are well-balanced is that even if the bar contains one or two dates, the flavor won’t be overbearing.
Which Type Of Dates Do LÄRABARs Use?
LRABARs flavor their energy bars with Medjool dates. This date is distinguished by its greater sugar content and delectably intense caramel flavor. Especially though Medjool dates are more expensive, LRABAR doesn’t skimp on date inclusion, even when mixed with less expensive ingredients like apples and bananas. Medjool dates are popular in the Middle East, but they are also grown in places such as Arizona, Florida, and California in North America.
Because of their accessibility and ease of application, they are a fantastic flavoring ingredient in many US-based food products! Medjool dates are extensively used to make a variety of delectable treats on their own. These dates are extremely popular with sportsmen since they deliver both immediate and delayed energy. Medjool dates have a soft and chewy body that makes them easier to digest.
Other types of dates, such as Deglet Noor dates, have a stiff and gritty texture that makes them difficult to purée. This gritty texture might also have an impact on the overall quality of the product. Two (48g) Medjool dates contain around 133 calories, 36g of carbohydrates, 32g of sugar, 3.2g of fiber, and approximately 1g of protein.
In the context of LRABARs, each bar can have an average of roughly 190 calories and 18g of sugar – hence the quantity of dates in each bar can also be calculated using this metric. Please bear in mind that while high-calorie LRABARs may have more dates, you must also account for the rest of the components to get an appropriate estimation.
Do LÄRABARs Taste Like Dates?
No matter what variety of LÄRABAR you try, you will detect a characteristic date-like flavor. Although LÄRABARs do not exclusively taste like dates, they will have a deep caramel flavor, but the brand does a superb job of balancing all the ingredients in each bar! The business adds that they utilize roughly ¼ cup of fruit in each LÄRABAR — this implies that they will naturally have to tweak the quantity of each component to either disguise or bring out various flavor characteristics.
Peanut Butter-based LÄRABARs are a fantastic illustration of this. Since peanuts have a unique flavor, using more dates can easily hide the natural flavor notes of the peanuts — on the other hand, using fewer will result in a bland flavor.
The company systematically changes the percentage of each ingredient until the bar gives an ideal overall flavor. This way you get the finest of all components and a delectable power bar that you can pack on the move!
LÄRABARs are a fantastic alternative to trail mixes. They deliver a consistent dose of energy without compromising on flavor or quality! Now that you know all about LÄRABARs and the number of dates utilized in them, here are some relevant questions.
How long do LÄRABARs last?
Because L-RABARs don’t contain any additives or preservatives that would keep them fresh for a long time, the company employs cutting-edge packaging methods to preserve the freshness of each bar. L-RABARs can be kept unopened for up to 9 months, however to get the most flavor out of them, you should eat them as soon as possible after opening.
Should you refrigerate LÄRABARs?
Refrigerating LRABARs is the best way to store them. This storing method not only extends the shelf life of the bars, but it can also impart a pleasing mouthfeel and texture. Do not freeze LRABARs as this may affect the texture of the product once defrosted.

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Enterprise Earth has perfected the art of transforming grimy death metal into mental weapons that make their way right into the minds of those who they find on their path. Led by former Infant Annihilator vocalist Dan Watson and BJ Sampson, Enterprise Earth is a death metal band formed in mid-2014. The band’s name came from Watson, who was inspired by his obsession with Illuminati and the conspiracy theories. After releasing their first single, “Masquerade of Angels,” the band gained a huge instant following on the internet. The band later made a deal to sign Chris Fonzak from Attila before leaving their former record label We Are Triumphant to Chris Fonzak’s label Stay Sick Records. Since 2014, the band has released three studio albums, 2 EPs and 12 singles. The band is currently composed of four band members: Dan Watson (Vocals), Gabe Mangold (Guitars), Rob Saireh (Bass), and Brandon Zackey, who is the drummer. With album releases such as “Luciferous,” released in 2019, Enterprise Earth has kept every modern deathcore fan on their lips. The album combines the band’s traditional deathcore sound with a technical execution that captivates their music. The band’s recent releases have shifted from the black metal elements to more technical tracks with heavy accentuation to atonal melodies. If you are a huge fan of modern deathcore, the best Enterprise Earth songs of all time will get you going. If you haven’t heard much of them, we got you! We have come up with a list of ten of the band’s best songs.
10. Ashamed To Be Human
Rounding up the top 10 Enterprise Earth Songs of all time is “Ashamed To Be Human,” the fifth track off their album, “Luciferous.” The lyrics of the song just go to show how good of a lyricist Dan Watson is. His shriek over the loud blast and heavy guitar in the song’s lyrics are great.
9. We Are Immortal
Most fans will agree that “Luciferous” was one of the best death metalcore albums of all time. And we cannot get enough of it. Even the older generation of death metalheads who have constantly worried about this new generation of death metal will appreciate the track “We Are Mortal.” Gabe Mangold’s acoustic guitar and Dan Watson’s orgasmic highs and lows feature prominently in the track, making it feature in our top ten Enterprise Earth songs of all time.
8. Foundation of Bones
Enterprise Earth deserves a lot of recognition for “Foundation of Bones,” which was an EP released on 19th June 2020 via Entertainment One (eOne). The EP served as a link between their album “Luciferous” into efforts for their forthcoming LP. The idea of the EP came after the band retired home from their canceled tour. The self-produced EP had Dan Watson on the vocals while Brandon Zackey recorded the drums. Although they did not intend to show anything with the release of the EP, they learned that they could self-produce, which has been vital to their career.
“Theophany” was the second track from Enterprise Earth’s 2015 album “Patient 0”. The track features some high-pitched screams from Dan Watson, and the song’s ending is quite incredible. The track is a direct sequel to the Shallow Breath sequel where a girl who wants to kill herself is admitted to an asylum where experiments are conducted on (Patient 0) before they are disposed of. The lyrics of the track are incredible and are akin to a horror movie.
6. Shroud of Flesh
The fifth spot in our list of the best Enterprise Earth song goes to “Shroud of Flesh.” The song was released back in 2017 from the album “Embodiment,” a breath of fresh air for all death metalcore fans. The song structure is great, and the rejuvenating melodies are refreshing.
5. Morten Incarnatum
Dan Watson was always a loner growing up. Not because he was weird or different, but because he loathed the mainstream media culture. He didn’t like the whole idea of following mainstream instructions to fit in. That is how “Morten Incarnatum” came about. The lyrics goes like, “They can’t think on their own, yet they perceive like they are alone.”
4. Sleep Is For The Dead
Many people claim that most Enterprise Earth songs are similar, and you might think this track passes a similar message to the last. However, if you are keen enough, you will realize that there is always something that sets them apart from each other. “Sleep Is For The Dead” talks about understanding that the world cannot solve answers or solutions to your problems, but rather you have them within yourself. The range in this track is excellent, and the high screams are exceptional.
3. He Exists
“He Exists” is another amazing single from the album “Luciferous.” The concept behind the video of this track shows an extreme example of role reversal whereby you might think that you are watching the video of a woman chained in a chair but the narrative changes midway. The vocals of Dan Watson shine through the song, and the rest of the band’s technical and creative instrumentation is top-notch.
2. Scars of The Past
“Scars of The Past” is an explosion of groove-driven, explosion of emotion, and blasting death metal that will have you on edge from start to finish. The track starts slowly with a genre staple and a soothing guitar before kicking into high gear with a high crane riff. The song is about past mistakes that haunt us with pain that can be felt at present.
1. The Failsafe Fallacy
Many people consider “Luciferous” as the best deathcore album of 2019. Dan takes his vocal style to a new realm in this track while Gabe Mangold produces some absolutely crazy guitar tunes. The rhythm changes and the double bass in the song are flawless. “The Failsafe Fallacy” easily takes our top spot.


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But away draw means the club needs victories now
THEY’RE still in the shake up. Just!
It wasn’t essential to win at Cheltenham but a glance at the outcome from the afternoon’s results really did back up what most thought. They needed to win really...
Four points isn’t unsurmountable but we’re now into the final handful of games and, suddenly, it can all disappear in the twinkle of a missed opportunity.
And what an opportunity this was really.
No games are easy (unless you’re four or five up at Lincoln) but they really could not have hoped for more compliant opponents.
Cheltenham have been pretty rubbish at home since the turn of the year.
Ten home games since January 1, seven defeats, two draws and one win (and that against rock-bottom Stockport).
Teams had been arriving here, winning, and scoring at the rate of two per game; they hadn’t kept a clean sheet for 15 games and had just been wallopped 8-1 at Crewe which prompted a public apology in the week from the players.
Could the Millers have asked for much else? Not really.
But, as you’d expect, the thumping at Crewe meant Cheltenham had spent all week focusing on how they could improve, how they had to work harder, defend better. They were playing for pride.
So, a potential backlash of sorts for the Millers to cop and, to an extent, perhaps they did.
But Cheltenham still weren’t very good and started out as nervous as kittens when asked to do any sort of defending.
At the start they were like kids playing the big school from the next town! Get...it...a-way...any...old...how.
Talk about panicky. They were dreading it anywhere near the penalty area.
Once, two defenders – with no Millers players within a few yards – thrashed at a bouncing ball following a throw-in and, after a bit of bagatelle, the ball ended up going in the wrong direction off one of them but to the keeper.
Rotherham did cash in though.
They were inches from doing so after five minutes. Tom Pope, recalled from Port Vale and stuck in ahead of Adam Le Fondre, saw his header blocked right on the line following good work from Nicky Law on the left.
But, five minutes later, Jason Taylor thrashed in a shot from just outside the area and Rotherham had the start they wanted.
Yet just 90 seconds later it might well have been all square when Matt Green pounced on Tom Newey’s clearance and struck a low 25- yarder against a post.
I thought Rotherham should have had a penalty soon afterwards. Law was toppled from behind and it certainly looked a foul.
But he was actually moving away from goal at the moment of challenge and perhaps these can be deemed “soft” penalties by the ref and, though it seems a foul, some may be inclined not to give them.
And it was at the ‘home’ end too with no big appeals (shades of the Valley Parade ‘non-penalty’).
Law, who played out on the left and seems to carry more danger there than in other positions, went close but not as close as Pope again.
A good link between Marshall and Tonge saw the full back deliver and Pope looped his header back over the keeper only for Riley to pop up right under the bar and clear.
Law then produced an invaluable piece of defending, getting back to hinder Pack who was pouncing on a loose ball after Jamie Annerson pushed out an angled effort from Wes Thomas.
From the ensuing corner, David Bird’s flashing header hit the bar but only thanks to Annerson’s excellent reflex touch.
Perhaps the ‘keeper will recall that moment to soothe his anguish over Cheltenham’s equaliser 17 minutes into a second half where, up to then, Rotherham had failed to regain their first half initiative.
Indeed, the home side would surely have levelled straight after the interval but for an excellent block by the diligent Danny Harrison as Bird swooped on a knockdown eight yards out.
Harrison then went close from 18 yards.
However, when Annerson didn’t hold on to a high free-kick, there was a scramble on the ground and Andy Gallinagh forced in the equaliser.
After their slow start to the second half, it certainly seemed to spark a decisive reaction and more positivity from the Millers, who knew they couldn’t be satisfied with a draw.
Two minutes after the leveller, Law’s header was brilliantly kept out by keeper Brown, who also turned over a Marcus Marshall header.
The keeper did well too in denying Ryan Taylor, who shot while on the ground.
Le Fondre, who scored four when the teams met at Don Valley, was sent on and had a 20-yarder saved.
In the latter stages, with Cheltenham happy to keep demonstrating their newly-found defensive resolve, only one side was going to win it and in the third minute of stoppage time, Liam Henderson headed just wide from close range.
Only wins are going to suffice from now on.
Anything less and those play-offs will be disappearing into the distance.
How we didn’t win it I don’t know.
I defy anyone to say we were not the better side. By a mile.
That’s not being disrespectful to Cheltenham because they worked hard after being spanked in their last match.
After the previous week’s second half I asked for desire and commitment and got that.
We just needed a bit of luck and, yeh, to be more ruthless in front of goal.
We should definitely have had a penalty for handball in the second half and I thought the challenge on Nicky Law in the first half looked a penalty.
We were all up for it and out of the dugout.
Tom Pope came back in and worked hard.
He played well.
Jamie Annerson says he made a mistake for the goal but people do make ‘em – get on with it.


For New Zealand businesses and Government agencies to fully reap the potential benefits of SBR (Standard Business Reporting), sufficient money needs to be set aside in the Budget to ensure that the programme is fully operational by 2011 when Australia goes live with its SBR programme.
SBR aims to cut compliance costs for business by reducing the need to file the same financial information to multiple agencies, minimising duplicated and unnecessary data and automating the preparation and filing of statutory returns required to be filed with the SBR agencies – the Ministry of Economic Development, Inland Revenue, Statistics New Zealand and ACC.
The key ingredient that makes all this happen is XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) which, after some 10 years in the wilderness has at last gained some traction around the world – particularly with the Securities and Exchange Commission in the US.
Local studies carried out in 2008 suggested that if New Zealand spent between $18 million and $28 million on the SBR programme over the next three years, the estimated annual cost savings to business would be in the order of $55 million to $75 million per year once completed.
Australia is already a step ahead. Their Government has committed $230 million over a three year period to the programme, with anticipated cost reductions for business of up to $836 million per year from 2013.
It was disappointing last year when the New Zealand Government, in what was a very tough fiscal environment, determined that the scale of investment required to complete the SBR solution was simply not feasible and that a more modest, but targeted approach, was necessary. The result was $4 million to develop systems and taxonomy to harmonise and validate the processing of GST returns and eliminate GST data from statistics surveys.
We need to do better. When you consider the relatively small amount that needs to be put aside in the Budget to ensure that SBR is up and running against the size of the benefits that will accrue, then it is a very positive and quick return on investment.
It also needs to be taken in context with the other Government promises in last year’s Budget, in particular the $2.5 billion a year on ICT (information, communications and technology), an amount of spending that utterly overwhelms any section of the private sector.
The Government’s commitment in this area should be applauded, including the $1.5 billion on ultrafast broadband. However, only making $4 million available for SBR in comparison with these other levels of spend fails to recognise the enormous potential of SBR to boost productivity in both the public and private sector.
The Australians believe that an efficient and effective electronic business-to-government connection is essential for their future and have invested appropriately to ensure this will happen. We need to make sure we do likewise and the upcoming Budget is the perfect opportunity.


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Smooches for Pooches came to life in 2018 as a small leased space within Muddy Paws Pup Wash. A year later, as fate would have it, Muddy Paws closed leaving an empty grooming salon. This was to be the new home for Smooches for Pooches Grooming. Since the beginning we try to offer each pet a unique experience and tailor grooming time to their specific needs both physically and emotionally.
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Our goal is happy and healthy pets achieved through thoughtful and caring grooming. We pride ourselves on education in our field and professionalism toward our clients both furry and not. We love animals and care not only about how they look but also how they feel. We like to spend the extra time to get to know your pets so that we can establish a relationship between pet and groomer.
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Heidi has been an animal lover her entire life. Raising dogs, cats, mice, hamsters and even a few turtles and some fish over her lifetime. She always dreamed of working with animals and finally in 2006 she found her calling in dog grooming. Heidi has participated in ongoing education in the field of grooming including animal CPR as recently as 2021. She enjoys her job and loves her pooches clients as her own.
Beth has been in the animal industry for over 30 years and in the grooming industry for over 25 years. Her love of grooming shows in her work and in the faces of the pooches she grooms.
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To ensure that local youth continue the Gaelic traditions
The Nova Scotia Highland Village Society created the Stòras na h-Òigridh (Treasures of Youth) Fund to ensure that cultural skills based on Gaelic traditions will continue to flourish in Nova Scotia’s youth. The Fund provides financial support to up-and-coming youth between the ages of five and twenty-one who are keen to advance their skills in the Gaelic tradition including: fiddle, pipes, piano, language, storytelling, song and dance. Financial donations can be made to the Fund in general, or directed specifically to the discipline of the donor’s preference. The Treasurers of Youth Fund concept was inspired by the enthusiasm of the late Michael Anthony MacLean from Washabuck, NS. It is with this enthusiasm in mind that disbursements supporting youth to better their fiddling skills will be issued under his name. Michael Anthony was a well-known fiddler who always had a keen interest in assisting youth to further their skills in playing traditional Cape Breton music, especially the fiddle. The Fund was ignited by sales of Michael Anthony MacLean’s “Good Boy M.A.!” CD.
To be eligible for this award, applicants must be Nova Scotians between the ages of five and twenty-one and keen to advance their skills in one or more of the following Gaelic traditions: fiddle, pipes, piano/guitar accompaniment, language, storytelling, song and dance.
Typically one scholarship will be awarded annually. However, we reserve the right to award scholarships on a more or less frequent basis as income levels and the Foundation permit.

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text: Humanities › History & Culture Georgia Douglas Johnson: Harlem Renaissance Writer Poet, Playwright, Writer, Pioneer of the Black Theatre Share Flipboard Email Print Library of Congress History & Culture Women's History Important Figures History Of Feminism Key Events Women's Suffrage Women & War Laws & Womens Rights Feminism & Pop Culture Feminist Texts American History African American History African History Ancient History and Culture Asian History European History Genealogy Inventions Latin American History Medieval & Renaissance History Military History The 20th Century View More By Jone Johnson Lewis Women's History Writer B.A., Mundelein College M.Div., Meadville/Lombard Theological School Jone Johnson Lewis is a women's history writer who has been involved with the women's movement since the late 1960s. She is a former faculty member of the Humanist Institute. our editorial process Jone Johnson Lewis Updated October 18, 2020 Georgia Douglas Johnson (Sept.10, 1880–May 14, 1966) was among the women who were Harlem Renaissance figures. She was a poet, playwright, editor, music teacher, school principal, and pioneer in the Black theater movement, who wrote more than 200 poems, 40 plays, 30 songs, and edited 100 books. She challenged both racial and gender barriers to succeed in these areas. Though Johnson never found great success as a playwright or poet during her lifetime, she was influential to generations of noted Black writers and playwrights who came after. Her home was an important meeting place where leading Black thinkers would come to discuss their lives, ideas, and projects, and, indeed, she came to be known as the "Lady Poet of the New Negro Renaissance." Fast Facts: Georgia Douglas Johnson Known For: Black poet and writer and key Harlem Renaissance figureAlso Known As: Georgia Douglas CampBorn: Sept. 10, 1880, in Atlanta. (Some sources list her year of birth as 1877)Parents: Laura Douglas and George CampDied: May 15, 1966, in Washington, D.C.Education: Atlanta University's Normal School (Graduated1896); Oberlin Conservatory, Cleveland College of Music (Studied Music)Published Works: "The Heart of a Woman" (1918), "Bronze" (1922), "An Autumn Love Cycle" (1928), "Share My World" (1962)Awards and Honors: First prize, Literary Contest Sponsored by the National Urban League's African American magazine Opportunity (1927); Honorary doctorate in literature from Atlanta University (1965); Georgia Writers Hall of Fame (Inducted 2010)Spouse: Henry Lincoln Johnson (Sept. 28, 1903–Sept. 10, 1925)Children: Henry Lincoln Johnson, Jr. (born 1906), Peter Douglas Johnson (born 1907)Notable Quote: “Your world is as big as you make it. / I know, for I used to abide / In the narrowest nest in a corner, / My wings pressing close to my side.” Early Live Johnson was born Georgia Douglas Camp in Atlanta to Laura Douglas and George Camp She graduated from the Normal School of Atlanta University in 1896. Camp taught in Marietta, Georgia, and Atlanta. She left teaching in 1902 to attend Oberlin Conservatory of Music, intending to become a composer. She returned to teaching in Atlanta and became an assistant principal. She married Henry Lincoln Johnson, an attorney, and government worker in Atlanta active in the Republican Party, on Sept. 28, 1903, and took his last name. Thereafter, she was known as Georgia Davis Johnson. The Salon Moving to Washington, D.C, in 1909 with her husband and two children, Johnson's home at 1461 S Street Northwest soon became known as Half-Way House, due to her willingness to provide shelter for those in need. The home also eventually became an important gathering place for Black writers and artists, who discussed their ideas and debuted their new works there. Throughout the 1920s and early 1930s, Black artists, poets, and playwrights, including Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Angelina Grimke, W.E.B. DuBois, James Weldon Johnson, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Mary Burrill, and Anne Spencer, met for weekly cultural gatherings, which came be known as "The S Street Salon" and "Saturday Nighters." Treva B. Lindsey, a Black feminist cultural critic, historian, and commentator, stated in her 2017 book, "Colored No More: Reinventing Black Womanhood in Washington, D.C.," that Johnson's home, and in particular the weekly gatherings, represent a much "understudied" community of Black writers, playwrights, and poets, especially Black women, in what was initially called "The New Negro Movement" and eventually, the Harlem Rennaissance: "With a particular emphasis on the writing of African American women, the S Street Salon evolved into a viable space for African American women writers to workshop their poems, plays, short stories, and novels. Many of the New Negro era literary works produced by African American women participants of the S Street Salon tackled politically significant and contentious issues such as racial and sexual violence and women’s reproductive rights....The S Street Salon was arguably one of the most significant intellectual, political, and cultural communities of the New Negro era." Johnson's Plays Johnson's plays were often performed in community venues common to what was called the New Negro theatre: not-for-profit locations including churches, YWCAs, lodges, and schools. Many of her plays, written in the 1920s, fall into the category of lynching drama. She was writing at a time when organized opposition to lynching was part of social reform, and while lynching was still occurring at a high rate especially in the South. The New George Encyclopedia describes some of Johnson's most-noteworthy plays, as well as the fate of her other theater works: "During the fall of 1926, her play Blue Blood was performed by the Krigwa Players in New York City and was published the following year. In 1927 Plumes, a folk tragedy set in the rural South, won first prize in a literary contest sponsored by the National Urban League's African American magazine Opportunity. Johnson also submitted plays to the Federal Theatre Project, but none were ever produced. Johnson wrote a number of plays dealing with the subject of lynching, including "Blue-eyed Black Boy," "Safe," and "A Sunday Morning in the South." Most of Johnson's plays were never produced, and some have been lost, but a number have been rehabilitated in a 2006 book by Judith L. Stephens, a professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State University, titled, "The Plays of Georgia Douglas Johnson: From the New Negro Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement." The book by Stephens—considered one of the nation's leading experts on Johnson and her works—contains 12 one-act plays, including two never-before-published scripts found in the Library of Congress. The work is described by the Book Depository, an online book-selling site, as an effort at "(r)ecovering the stage work of one of America's finest black female writers." Johnson's Poems Johnson published her first poems in 1916 in the NAACP's Crisis magazine, and her first book of poetry in 1918, "The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems," focusing on the experience of a woman. Jessie Redmon Fauset, a Black editor, poet, essayist, novelist, and educator, helped Johnson select the poems for the book. That first collection of poems was important, explains the New Georgia Encyclopedia because it established Johnson: "....as one of the notable African American woman poets of her time. Built on themes of loneliness, isolation, and the confining aspects of the roles of women, the title poem substitutes the metaphor of 'a lone bird, soft winging, so restlessly on' for 'the heart of a woman,' which ultimately 'falls back with the night / And enters some alien cage in its plight, / And tries to forget it has dreamed of the stars.' " In her 1922 collection, "Bronze," Johnson responded to early criticism by focusing more on racial experience. Although some critics have praised the richly penned, emotional content, others saw a need for something more than the picture of helplessness presented in such poems as "Smothered Fires," "When I Am Dead," and "Foredoom." The New Georgia Encylopedia also notes that: "An Autumn Love Cycle, returns to the feminine themes explored in her first collection. From this collection the poem 'I Want to Die While You Love Me' is the most often anthologized of her work. It was read at her funeral." Difficult Years Johnson's husband reluctantly supported her writing career until his death in 1925. In that year, President Calvin Coolidge appointed Johnson to a position as commissioner of conciliation in the Department of Labor, recognizing her late husband's support of the Republican Party. But she needed her writing to help support herself and her children. Johnson continued to write, publishing her best-known book, "An Autumn Love Cycle," in 1925, yet she struggled with poverty after her husband died. She wrote a syndicated weekly newspaper column from 1926 to 1932. After she lost the Department of Labor job in 1934, in the depths of the Great Depression, Johnson worked as a teacher, librarian, and file clerk in the 1930s and 1940s. She found it difficult to get published. Her anti-lynching writings of the 1920s and 1930s were mostly not published at the time; some have been lost. During World War II, she published poems and read some on radio shows. She continued writing plays into the era of the civil rights movement, though by that time other Black women writers were more likely to be noticed and published, including Lorraine Hansberry, whose play, "Raisin in the Sun," opened on Broadway at the Barrymore Theatre on March 11, 1959, to critical acclaim. In 1965, Atlanta University awarded Johnson an honorary doctorate. She saw to her sons' education; Henry Johnson, jr., completed Bowdoin College and then Howard University law school. Peter Johnson attended Dartmouth college and Howard University medical school. Death and Legacy Johnson died on May 15, 1966, in Washington, D.C., shortly after finishing a Catalogue of Writings, mentioning 28 plays. Much of her unpublished work was lost, including many papers that were discarded after her funeral. But she is not forgotten: Indeed, the famous Salon in Washington, D.C., still exists, though it no longer hosts gatherings of top writers and thinkers. But Douglas's house has been restored. Or, as a Washington Post headline proclaimed in a 2018 article: "A Poet’s Rowhouse in Northwest Washington Has a Renaissance." Decades after Douglas left the house "there wasn’t much left of its former glory," reporter and editor Kathy Orton wrote in the Post article. "The previous owner had turned it into a group house. Before that, another owner had divided it into flats." But Julie Norton, who bought the house at 15th and S streets in 2009, decided to give it a makeover after a Black man passed by the abode and told her a bit about its history. The Post article explained: 'That was a great thing,' (Norton later said of the talk). 'It wasn’t like I inadvertently bought a haunted house. It’s the opposite. I bought this house with this really cool vibe.' " After three renovations, "the house has reclaimed its capacity to host large and small gatherings." The garage is now a carriage house, including a wine corridor. The underground passage holds not just wine bottles, but also, appropriately, books. And so the spirit of Douglas lives on. More than a half-century after her death, her Salon—and her work—are still remembered. View Article Sources Lindsey, Treva B. “Saturday Night at the S Street Salon.” Illinois Scholarship Online, University of Illinois Press. “Georgia Douglas Johnson (Ca. 1877-1966).” New Georgia Encyclopedia. Stephens, Judith L. “The Plays of Georgia Douglas Johnson: From the New Negro Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement.” Bookdepository.com, University of Illinois Press, 7 Mar. 2006. Orton, Kathy. “A Poet's Rowhouse in Northwest Washington Has a Renaissance.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 7 Apr. 2019.


A review on the controversial adaptation of 50 Shades of Grey.
A reminder before you scroll down that I do not give scores to titles in my reviews due to my belief that games as well as any forms of media are more than a number and instead should be understood in their whole. If you’re looking for otherwise, I’d recommend a cold read of the title.
Look, I’ll try to keep it short because I’m sure everyone’s got more things to do that worry about how this film turned out. Look at the TL;DR at the bottom if you want my gist.
There are actually quite a few things I liked about the film. The minimalist, clean cinematography, the acting on the part of the actors, and the way in which this film speaks to both BDSM culture and patriarchies. I think it’s interesting, at the least.
The negatives quite simply are that the actors can’t make up for the horrible script, lack of plot, and the failure of delivery on all the actually focus of the move: the sex.
What’s this movie about? It’s about a college student who meets a billionaire of a telecommunications firm (Yes, telecommunications) who has to decide if she wants to have sex with him while having sex with him. That’s the main conflict. Do I want to have sex with this guy that I’m having sex with? Well, I’ll just have sex with him while I decide.
By horrible script, I don’t mean that it’s illogical or lacks the right context. It actually succeeds in this aspect. But, the problem is that it’s just so funny. The film is almost borderline non-dramatic and then they pull the most dramatic and cliche lines in the world out and you look at it and say: “Oh, wow. I can’t believe they made him say that.”
I mean seriously. They made him brood by the windowsill and utter the words, “I’m just fifty shades of ****ed up.” What was that? Everyone in the theater laughed.
The movie’s also kind of meta. Like, it’s so funny. She has a pencil she’s basically putting in her mouth with your name on it. The phallic imagery. I see what you did there.
Then the actual sexual parts of the movie are lackluster. Interesting, I’ll say, because they explore the whole BDSM scheme. But, they just aren’t there I’d say. I mean, if this were another movie, I’d say good job. If this is a movie focused on the sex and you don’t deliver a significantly exhilarating experience, you failed. So much sex on the screen and it’s boring. That’s on top of pacing issues as well. I found myself falling asleep at the sometimes too-slow pace.
So was the fact that the movie was funny make it bad? Maybe, if you were going into the movie wanting a seriously and sexual drama. But, otherwise it made the experience worthwhile to me. I went with friends and we ended up talking about the movie the whole hour-car ride home. It was great. I’d recommend it to anyone who isn’t averse to seeing lots of sex on the screen. I wouldn’t watch it again. But, to be honest, I’m actually looking forward to the sequels. Especially since the ending was so… not an ending. It was basically a jump-cut.
TL;DR Movie has great casting and cinematography. Too bad, the movie was written to be a comedy, has some pacing issues, no real ending, and can’t figure out the whole sex part. Oh, and it’s just boring. But really, I’d still recommend it for a funny time laughing at the dialogue with friends. There are so many quotables in this movie and I’m looking forward to the sequels. I probably won’t rewatch this again though.