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Coming off a Grammy win for Best R&B Album in 2015, Toni Braxton's storied career just keeps on growing. With her own Lifetime movie, "Unbreak My Heart," documenting her career premiering tomorrow (Jan 23), Braxton stopped by Sway in the Morning to give us some behind the scenes stories of her early career.
From leaving her sisters behind to start her own solo career to her musical relationship with Babyface, Braxton speaks very candidly about how she made her start. Being silenced from speaking on label issues, Braxton, who is now free to speak out, mentions the help and advice she received from Prince.
Finding out in 2007 that she was battling lupus, we hear Braxton open up about her divorce and how "Love, Marriage, Divorce" came about.
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Q: Character in negated set - exclude when not surrounded by two specific characters Assuming I have a following string:
"test | test - string-test | test - it is some string"

I want to remove everything after last hyphen or pipe surrounded by spaces (including both).
So i have such regex so far:
/ [-|] [^-|]+$/

and when used in replace method got this as expected:
"test | test - string-test | test"

But it fails when string is something like this:
"test | test - string-test | test - it is some-string"

I want "test | test - string-test | test", but get "test | test - string-test | test - it is some-string".
How to achieve expected result as described above with regex?
Working snippet:

const string1 = "test | test - string-test | test - it is some string";
const string2 = "test | test - string-test | test - it is some-string"

const regex = / [-|] [^-|]+$/

const result1 = string1.replace(regex, '');
const result2 = string2.replace(regex, '');

console.log(result1);
console.log(result2);

A: Last index approach
Here is a solution which is not using regular expression. It might be suitable for your case since your logic is to find last index of a string occurrence and remove everything after that.

// Option extend String.prototype
String.prototype.theLastIndexOf = function () {

  var theLastIndex = -1;

  for (var i = 0; i < arguments.length; i++) {
    var idx = this.lastIndexOf(arguments[i]);
    if (idx > theLastIndex) {
      theLastIndex = idx;
    }
  }

  return theLastIndex;
}

// Option stand alone function
function _trimAfter(str, sought){
  var theLastIndex = -1;

  for (var i = 0; i < sought.length; i++) {
    var idx = str.lastIndexOf(sought[i]);
    if (idx > theLastIndex) {
      theLastIndex = idx;
    }
  }

  return theLastIndex >= 0 ? str.substr(0, theLastIndex) : str;
}

var str1 = 'test | test - string-test | test - it is some-string';
var str2 = 'test | test - string-test - test | it is some-string';
console.log('Before: ' + str1)
console.log(' After: ' + str1.substr(0, str1.theLastIndexOf(' - ', ' | ')));
console.log('Before: ' + str2)
console.log(' After: ' + _trimAfter(str2, [' - ', ' | ']));

Regex approach
If you want to match everything after last occurrence of string with regex you can use this regular expression: /\s[-|]\s(?!.*\s[-|]\s)(.*)/, where the meanings in the context of this regex are:

*

*\s[-|]\s mean match - or |

*(?!.*\s[-|]\s) mean not followed by - or |

*(.*) mean match everything after the above two conditions

var str1 = 'test | test - string-test - test | it is - some-string';
var str2 = 'test | test - string-test - test | it is some-string';

console.log('Before: ' + str1);
console.log(' After: ' + str1.replace(/\s[-|]\s(?!.*\s[-|]\s)(.*)/, ''));

console.log('Before: ' + str2);
console.log(' After: ' + str2.replace(/\s[-|]\s(?!.*\s[-|]\s)(.*)/, ''));

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This is internal beta version and without validation.
hey stasio do you know if they can fix the memory tab bug with i3's,if you set cas8 in bios it reads 10 in cpuz.
@Statio: any chance you can get the developers to look into the CL reading when using Clarkdale processors? Once you change the the base clock, CPU-Z will report something else for the CL value.
1.53.2 are already removed for dl (from official link).
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Concerning the CAS issue, could you please send a TXT report to cpuz (at) cpuid (dot) com ?
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these are old versions 1.52 not 1.53.
Last edited by radaja; 02-16-2010 at 05:34 PM.
@radaja: thanks for that. I need more coffee. Didn't pay attention to the versions.
cpuz made a small fix for this already, but the build is still 1.53.2 in the test file he sent. just waiting for them to make this official though.
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Any CPU-Z 1.53.3 that reads the revision on an Q4EG Gulftown? 1.53.1 and 1.53.2 can't see it.
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Week 16: Pedal for the Planet
With the kick-off of Bike Month, the time is right to focus on incorporating sustainable transportation into our journey towards low-impact living.
The Dark Side of Driving
In 2021, over 79 million motor vehicles were produced globally; an increase of 1.3% compared to 2020.
As we learned back during our week two challenge when we calculated our eco footprint, transportation plays a starring role in how our daily living impacts the environment. In many cities and towns across the U.S., driving tops the list as the single greatest source of pollution. There are lots of hidden environmental costs to keep in mind when we hop in our car and go.
Manufacturing Emissions
The extraction, transport and processing of the raw materials (steel, rubber, glass, plastics, paint) used in vehicle manufacturing are extremely energy-intensive resulting in a significant carbon footprint often not given much thought. On average, manufacturing a vehicle, excluding the battery, generates around six tons of carbon emissions.
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Well-to-Tank Emissions
For every 100g of CO2 released through fuel exhaust (tailpipe emissions), an additional 17g is emitted during the extraction, transport and refining of crude oil into that fuel (referred to as well-to-tank emissions).
Tailpipe Emissions
Automobile use is responsible for about 33% of air pollution in the US. The average vehicle emits about 4.6 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. In addition to carbon dioxide (CO2), automobiles produce methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O).
Driving just one mile emits about 404 grams of CO2.
Non-exhaust Particulate Matter Pollution
Wear and tear from brakes, tires and road surfaces is expected to overtake tailpipe emissions as the leading source of fine particle pollution released into the air by road traffic by 2035. Additionally, these microparticles settle onto roadways and are washed into our waterways when it rains. Non-exhaust particulate matter emissions from passenger vehicles worldwide is likely to increase by 53.5% by 2030.
End-of-Life Dismantling and Disposal
Although roughly ¾ of a vehicle can be recycled at end-of-life, at least ¼ of its parts are destined for landfills, where the plastic remnants and other toxic materials will either persist for a minimum of hundreds of years, leach into the soil, or wash into our waterways.
Learn the Impact of Your Specific Vehicle
Bicycle Benefits
Car trips of under a mile add up to about 10 billion miles per year according to a 2009 U.S. National Household Transportation Survey.
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Don't want to arrive at your destination sweaty or feeling defeated by steep hills? Invest in an e-bike. Pedal-assisted electric bikes have an even lower carbon footprint than conventional bikes because fewer calories are burned per mile, despite the emissions from battery manufacturing and electricity use.
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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Your Car and Clean Air
University of California at Berkeley: All That Smog
World Resources Institute: Car Companies and Climate Change: Measuring the Carbon Intensity of Sales and Profits
Federal Highway Administration: Health and Environmental Benefits of Walking and Bicycling
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Automobile Emissions: An Overview
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Ms. JD Announces Global Education Fund and 2010-2011 International Scholars
By Ms. JD • October 13, 2010 •Law School
Grateful for the educational opportunities we have had in the U.S., Ms. JD created the Global Education Fund to enable women in developing countries to pursue legal educations who otherwise would not have access to further education. This year, the Ms. JD Global Education Fund has made it possible for two young Ugandan women to pursue their dreams of becoming lawyers by attending the law program at Makerere University in Uganda!Joaninne Nanyange wants to become a human rights activist for women and children after she earns her law degree from Makerere University. Monica Athieno wants to be a judge who ensures…
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Ms. JD is proud to announce publication of its 2011-2012 data on gender diversity on law journals at the Top 50 Law Schools as found by U.S. News and World Report. The most recent study finds that women's membership on law reviews correlates strongly with the number of women graduating from law school. However, the number of women in the editor-in-chief position is disproportionately male. Moreover, women lost approximately five percentage points from the previous study in terms of the overall number of women EICs from 33% to 28.5% in 2011-2012. All of the results are detailed in the full…
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By Ms. JD • August 16, 2010 •Mentoring and Networking
Editor's Note: Julia Horwitz is a rising 2L at the University of Chicago School of Law and an intern at the Department of Energy in Washington, D.C. this summer. Scholarship applicants were asked to answer the following question: What's the best advice you never got? Choose a situation and three tips that would have made the biggest difference there. Julia's answer has been selected for Honorable Mention. Many businesses do not block Facebook on their desktop computers. This seems counter-intuitive, since news outlets never stop telling us about the evils of social networking and the constant threat of the…
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Editor's Note: Abigail Rury is a rising 3L at Michigan State University and an intern at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Grand Rapids this summer. Scholarship applicants were asked to answer the following question: What's the best advice you never got? Choose a situation and three tips that would have made the biggest difference there. Abigail's answer has been selected for Honorable Mention. Law school is like a study abroad program in a foreign country. After arriving in the land of Law, you discover that all native Lawyers are fluent in the language of Law, which sounds like it…
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Editor's Note: Tiffany Ellis is a rising 3L at Washington University School of Law and an intern at the San Diego Public Defender's Office this summer. Scholarship applicants were asked to answer the following question: What's the best advice you never got? Choose a situation and three tips that would have made the biggest difference there. Tiffany's answer has been selected for Honorable Mention. By the time I set foot into the law school for the first day of orientation I had completely psyched myself out. Yes, there was the voice of some confident woman inside my head reminding me…
Summer Reading: Justice Older than the Law By Katie McCabe and Dovey Johnson Roundtree
By Ms. JD • August 03, 2010 •First Women
Editor's Note: This review was written by Deborah Froling for NAWL's Women Lawyers Journal. Deborah Froling is a partner with Arent Fox LLP in Washington, D.C. She has been a member of the Executive Board of NAWL for the past four years and currently serves as its Treasurer-Elect and editor of the Women Lawyers Journal.Before reading "Justice Older than the Law," I had never heard of Dovey JohnsonRoundtree. I find that astonishing since I'm a news junkie, have spent close to 25 years in the Washington, D.C. area and 23 of those years steeped in the D.C. legal profession. However,…
Congratulations to Kara Franker, 2010's Public Interest Scholarship Winner!
By Ms. JD • August 03, 2010 •Internships and Clerkships
Kara Franker is a 3L at University of Denver, Sturm College of Law. This summer Kara is working at Shared Hope International. Scholarship applicants were asked to answer the following question: What's the best advice you never got? Choose a situation and three tips that would have made the biggest difference there."Always carry a hammer in your purse, in case you need to shatter that glass ceiling" -Joan RiversAs I approach graduation, I find myself reflecting on my internship experiences in law school. Some of those experiences include interning for a prosecutor, a criminal defense attorney, a non-profit organization and…
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2010 Ms. JD Fellowship Winners & Mentors Announced!
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The Day After, Plus
The new Web site is launched; early feedback is positive. I had a huge wave of anxiety after sending it live last night, but seem to have recovered without permanent damage. I joined Facebook today. I despise it. Utterly. It's ugly, it's cluttered, it's juvenile, there's irrelevant stuff I can't seem to make go away, and it's hard to work with. Do I sound like a dinosaur? Some excellent advice I received about developing my presence as an artist on the Web is to go where the people are. The people are on Facebook and so I'm there now too, even if the earth shudders when I walk. I'm sure I don't have my settings right yet, but I can't fool with it for another moment today.
I was not accepted into NYFA's Artist Boot Camp, but it was the nicest rejection letter ever. So nice I responded to it. I wrote that while I'm disappointed, I'm making my own boot camp. With one camper. One tenacious, passionate, determined, fed-up-with-the-status-quo camper, who is returning to studio practice now that the Web site is done. And looking for opportunities to exhibit.
Tomorrow is Marina Abramovic's last day at MoMA. I wonder how she feels, what this has been like for her. What will it be like to stand up, knowing it is done? What will she do on Tuesday? Wednesday? I visited last week, and the line to sit with her was halfway around the Atrium. People were meditating, holding yoga positions, drawing her, sneaking photos. Some looked like they were performing (yuck). It was crowded. Abramovic looked exactly the same as she did in March, except her dress is white instead of blue and the table is gone due to some inappropriate behavior.
A Big Anniversary
The entire month of May was very difficult for me for years, as my father spent the month in the hospital, then died on May 29. Tomorrow will mark 30 years since that terrible month. It's still sort of unbelievable to me, because I can summon and feel his presence and voice. I miss him, as I was too young to be without him or to have achieved any kind of adult relationship with him, and he was too young to die. He was 51; I am 53. I have questions, lots of them, and the wish we had had time to overcome the emotional barricade we had up to hide our very real love and like for each other.
I've been working on my new Web site for weeks, and knew I wanted a meaningful launch date. It was only in the last week that I realized the site is close to ready, and of course it's no accident that this anniversary was right in front of me. So my new Web site will launch tomorrow.
My father was complicated. He was charismatic, quick and smart, funny as hell, a late-blooming sailor, and scrappy. He was also angry, frustrated, sensitive, and a bit rudderless. He didn't finish college and had no career as such, but applied his inborn entrepreneurial spirit to what seemed right at the time, from the bar in Harlem to a mysterious company that made him rich, to semi-retirement in his early 40s, to some investments that drained his resources, to buying a small wire company that had nowhere to go but up, which he ran fairly happily (or so it seemed, though I'm sure he would've liked it to be more lucrative) until he died. I've been told he felt he lost his touch after he emerged from semi-retirement, and my feeling is that he gave up in some fundamental way.
I note this because I'm a lot like him and I've run a somewhat parallel course. While I did finish college (twice, actually, plus two master's degrees), I also earned a lot of money way before my 40s, and have been struggling financially ever since allowing my artist-self to live. (I don't, however, have a family with four kids. Thank GOD.) I'm at a point where it feels like I either declare myself the artist I am and put that first or give up and be a hobbyist. The latter is so repugnant that it's helping me overcome my fear of the former. The new Web site is my symbolic and practical claim to my identity. It's a gift to my father, but also a refusal.
I'd be remiss in not mentioning my mother here, since she was a gifted painter and as much an influence as my father, but her story will be for another day.
On Commerce
Why does it feel like I have to keep money and art separate? I've been reworking my Web site for weeks, and one of my intentions is to set it up for commerce. Even the intention feels a little shameful, like it dirties me as an artist and cheapens the work itself, as if the content and formal strength of the work spill out when I put a price on it. I know this isn't new or just me; it's the myth that starvation and art are a productive line-up, that the baseness of money and the loftiness of art should not meet. (Not surprisingly, I'm not a fan of Koons or Hirst.)
I've spent a lot - I mean a lot - of hours trying to tuck a little shop into a discreet corner of my site. I've invested days trying to keep "serious" visitors from noticing that some work is for sale. Finally, I'm seeing that all this time has been me buying into exactly the division I object to. I've been working so hard not to offend others' sensibilities or feel like I'm selling out that I've been setting up to starve myself. It's a one-woman drama.
How could I think it better to keep good work in a drawer than to make it available to people who might love to live with it? Art is the start of a dialogue; without a viewer it may as well not exist. While there's a rich history of reclusive or invisible artists - the Philadelphia Wire Man, outsiders, Joseph Cornell - wanting to move the work into the world is not intrinsically anything. I've kept my sights narrow. And when I grow arrogant enough to think I've learned to suspend judgment, I run smack into one, and it's always me judging me and it's always rooted in fear.
Maybe now this new site will move forward so I can get back into the studio.
I wrote a week ago that my father was good with a camera, then posted photos whose value to me were as clues to where he might have worked and what his world was like before I was born yet he was married and adult (or maybe not so adult; there was something about him that never quite grew up in "normal" terms, as there is with me).
He took the photos below when I was two or three, and even though my stake is personal, I love them - for the mood and light, the movement, and the unself-consciousness, interiority, tenacity, and adventurousness I see in myself as a little girl.
I'm trying to reground myself in these qualities now. I have to, if I'm to stay true to my gifts, my needs, and my ambition. I feel like my life has come to a deciding place about what the rest is going to be. This isn't morbid thinking or high drama, but the reality that, at 53, if I don't leap I will look back and know I betrayed myself. That's not my nature, but the tug to playing it safe is real. I am single, with not much of a net, so I have only myself to rely on. We're all in that situation, single or not, but in practical terms, the bills have to be paid. The emotional risks are at least as daunting: exposing my interior life, both in my work and in going public with my ambition; not knowing what forms my work might want to take in the world; and being afraid to find out because it may be a lot to want and require me to extend myself in utterly foreign ways. Wanting, not knowing, being imperfect, and asking for help were unsafe in my family, particularly with my father, and so these fears are as essential in me as my tenacity and willingness to take risks.
It's 5.30 am and the sun is coming up over Brooklyn - stripes of brilliant coral, golden orange-yellow, and pinkish-gray; a soft, cottony edge where the sunrise meets the leaving smoky blue night sky. The birds are very chatty; their voices seem to come from everywhere and nowhere. The temperature is exactly right. This weekend is two perfect days of spring, weather not to be taken for granted in New York.
I've been working hard to push through into my work and get more involved in art in the city. For last night, I'd signed up for a panel on social issues in artistic practice, and rushed there after work. I couldn't find it. The address didn't exist, or was one of those hiding art addresses that you have to know to know. I wish it didn't bother me but it did. I walked back and forth a little, self-conscious. [Postscript: When I got to work this morning, I saw my Post-It with the address on my desk, and I hadn't remembered it correctly. But it doesn't matter. It's the same thing. A part of me doesn't want to go to these events and so I find a way to not go in the end.]
I seem to remain on the periphery despite my conscious pushes to engage. I'm more comfortable here. Once again, Anne Truitt's Daybook offered comfort this morning, when she summed up a rich passage wth, "My natural focus is interior." Her book is a gift to me, particularly with the turbulence in me now.
So I gave up on finding the panel and climbed up to the High Line (first time!), stretched out on a lounging bench, and graded exams. It was beautiful and felt good, but also, still, separate. There was no winning with this one.
Earlier this week I went to see Kate Gilmore's Walk the Walk in Bryant Park. It was 8.30 am and raining, and the women were reluctant to start. That's understandable, but when they did they looked miserable. I'm not sure whether Gilmore was good with that (wanting nonperformers as she did), but I wasn't. I wanted them to be less self-involved in that way, or maybe it was fine and I was just irritated they were late starting and I had little time. The brilliant golden-yellow of the structure didn't sit right with me. Blood from a Stone, at the Brooklyn Museum, and Standing Here, at the Whitney Biennial, were more successful for me.
So Of Course
It was inevitable, I suppose, that I would come across my father's photos May 4, not long after my last post, while relocating some family boxes to a less visible spot in my apartment. (My family did not create tidy photo albums but rather left piles, shoeboxes, and slide trays of unsorted, mostly unidentified photos, which can be an adventure or an irritant depending on mood.) The one above is one my father took near Nassau Street in 1958. The man in front of Nedick's is my Uncle John, one of the uncles who co-owned the bar with my father.
The one below is the interior of a bar and not very good, but I expect it was the one they owned in Harlem. Why else?
This one shows the RKO Alhambra theater, which was at 2110 Seventh Avenue (now Adam Clayton Powell Blvd.) at 126th Street. It opened in 1905 and closed in the 1960s. The sepia tone is unique among the photos I found that day.
This one shows Watkins Quality Products, which has been in business since 1868. My dad's note says "144 St and 8th Ave S.E. 1958." An Internet search didn't turn up Jack Sobel the pawnbroker.
I also opened a box of my mother's drawings that I've had since her death in 1986. It seemed like time. I only looked briefly as I'd had enough time travel (and cleaning) for one day and it's emotional, but they're piled on my studio table so the only way through is through.
In October 2007, I lost my live-work space in Queens when the city closed the building. I knew we were living illegally but thought the studio aspect was legal. Not so. Our landlord had us in dangerous circumstances. So I came home from teaching one evening and had no home. While some people are nomadic and others don't mind where the furniture is placed, I'm not one of them. Home is as essential as air. I was in shock, and the recovery - artistic, emotional, and practical - has been lengthy.
Among the 200 artists who were displaced that night, I was lucky to have a cousin, Judy, with a lovely third floor in her Montclair home. She hosted me and my two cats for four and a half months. My third-floor bedroom was one of those magical attic-like rooms: flowered wallpaper, slanted ceilings, throw rugs, cozy, up in the trees. I had always slept long and deeply in that room, as did everyone who guested there. And the bathroom had a clawfoot tub that forced me to sit and soak. One of my favorite photos of the late, great Riley was of her sitting in the tub and watching the water drip from the faucet.
Judy is a voracious reader. The first book I pulled out of my bedroom bookcase was A Tree Grows in Brooklyn . Since my sights were set on moving to Brooklyn, it was a nice find. Rereading it in that nostalgic little room reminded me of my mother and father, who were born in Brooklyn in 1931 and 1928, respectively. My father, who owned a Harlem bar with my uncles in the 1950s, was very good with a camera, and Smith's novel reminded me of his beautiful black-and-white streetscapes. As it turned out, I did land in Brooklyn, and only learned afterward that I live between each of my parents' high schools. Both James Madison (mom) and Erasmus Hall (dad) are a mile or so away. We are birds.
Another book I pulled from Judy's bookshelf was Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping . The cover is beautiful and the title certainly was relevant, but the first few sentences didn't catch me at the time so I put it away. When I pulled it out again, it was exquisite. Every sentence. And the relief the novel brought me, perhaps especially as an artist, was like exhaling. Robinson's narrator, Ruthie, so delicately and lyrically observes and accepts people and events: her mother, place, home, family history, abandonment, loss, love, the quirks of personality. Ruthie's outsider status and absence of judgment make her an elegant observer-philosopher.
As I read, I used napkins to bookmark passages that were too rich to let go of, also knowing I'd read the book again under different circumstances. My second reading, finished last week, prompted this post, because the novel was as moving, comforting, and illuminating the second time.
The Statement and the Wall
As content as I am to have written a statement that doesn't sound inflated or stupid, I've since realized it doesn't apply to all my work. While that might sound like a big so what?, the realization disturbed me, as if it marks a problem with consistency or focus. What it actually marks is a difference between my three- and two-dimensional work. That difference, I now see, is between work that responds to the external world and work that is of my inner world. The collages relate to my private narrative and sensibility while the sculpture is my social and political voice. When my work lets go of the wall, it enters the world literally and metaphorically. When it uses the wall as a support or an element, it stays home. That form and content can so nicely align themselves without any conscious effort from me is part of the joy and miracle of being an artist. My work knows more than I do, and it will tell me in its time if I bring myself to the process of making it with honesty and rigor, get out of the way, and have faith.
At the same time, I trust there's substantial overlap. Writing a statement for the 2D work should bring it out, but just to take a stab at it now, I'd say that the sculpture is a public appeal that references the emotional content of the collages. I'll leave it at that, but return to it soon.
The new Web site may be closer to completion than I thought. I also reviewed my contribution to the upcoming issue of Ekleksographia this morning, so it's in the final stages of revision before release. That's more incentive to get the Web site done. Happily, I don't need it. I'm finding myself energized and determined. This sentence from Anne Truitt's exquisite, inspiring Daybook: Journey of an Artist ran through me like a current yesterday: "It occurred to me that I could use the energy I had been putting into endurance to change my life."
"My motivation ...
... is not as personal as it may appear. Life is a lonely business. My impulse is to hold out my hand to readers. By recording my life as clearly as I can (while retaining my reticences) I offer them my companionship, a kind of friendship."
"And what if ...
... all we can share is the vital desire to share, our only means of escape from solitude, from nothingness?"
Edmund Jabes
The Book of Shares
Liz Sweibel
Acadia National Park Artist-in-Residence (Maine)
Alliance of Artist Communities
Art Marketing Strategies
ArtDeadline.com
Arte Studio Ginestrelle (Assisi, Perugia)
Artist Marketing Salon
Artists Meeting Place and Resource Collective (AMP)
Artsmith (Orcas Island, WA)
Bemis Center (Omaha, Nebraska)
Blue Mountain Center
Bogliasco Foundation (Liguria, Italy)
Bronx Museum/Artists in the Marketplace
Brooklyn Arts Council
CaFE (Call for Entry)
Caldera (Portland, Oregon)
Chinati Artist-in-Residence (Marfa, TX)
Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts (Ithaca, NY)
Container Artist Residency
Cove Park (Scotland)
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts
Escape to Create (Seaside, FL)
Fine Arts Work Center (Provincetown, Massachusetts)
Fire Island Pines Arts Project Residency
Fogo Island Arts Corp. (Eastern Canada)
GAGA Arts Center (Garnerville, NY; Lower Hudson Valley)
Harpo Foundation
Islip Art Museum/Carriage House
Kamiyama Artist in Residence Program (Japan)
La Macina di San Cresci (Chianti, Tuscany)
MacDowell Colony (Peterborough, NH)
Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation
Millay Colony (Austerlitz, NY)
New York Art Residency & Studios Program
Nurture Art
Omi International Art Center
Res Artis (International Residency Opportunities)
Residency Unlimited (New York)
SHIFT Residency (NY)
Steep Rock Arts (Washington, CT)
The Arts Map
The Wells Point (Photography)
TransArtists (International AIR Opportunities; Studio Swaps, etc.)
TransArtists: The Water Cycle (14 residencies)
Transcultural Exchange (International Residency Opportunities)
UCross Foundation Residency Program (Clearmont, Wyoming)
Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT)
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA)
Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild (AIR)
Wooloo.org
Working Artist Org. (Monthly $1K Grants)
Yaddo (Saratoga Springs, NY)
chaNorth (Hudson Valley, NY)


For the record folks Humbrol 170 is (or was) called 'Brown Bess'.
I see it quoted as 'Bess Brown' all the time, quite a lot recently too - but to me it reads like 'Rifle Pulse' or 'Thrower Flame'. There's no such paint as Bess Brown.
Don't believe me? Try typing Bess Brown into Google and see what happens!
...but it's pronounced "throat wobbler mangrove".
Ill have my wife hit me in the back of the head, should take care of it.
You know us military types Harry... Like to name everything backwards.
Now who's for some biscuits brown?
Ha - in the german army it´s the same.
everything is named backwards with a "," between.
"if you reach the top of a tree, you have to stop climbing by yourself"
"if you are standing in water and it is reaches your chest, you have to start swimming by your self!
Quote:Don't believe me? Try typing Bess Brown into Google and see what happens!
I am fairly pleased with the search results under Google's 'images' tab.
Harry is right, as always!
My last post was slightly tongue - in - cheek. However, the fifth image made me feel proud and was wondering if anyone else noticed it.
Of course Harry is correct. He's my hero!!
That's where I was going wrong.. I was looking for Brown Bees... D'Oh!
It is Humbrol 170 but I believe they no longer make it.
A bunch of the marine guys cornered the market in this not long before the NSC event and I'm not sure if there is any left anywhere.
he would write to me when more comes in.
I'm guessing that is an email I will never recieve.
<span style="color:gray;font-family:century gothic;font-size:small;]Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.
"Humbrol 14ml Enamel 186 Matt Brown Bess"
Does anyone know why it's number is 183 and not 170?
Because its the wrong colour.
That`s not brown bess then? How much is it off from you experiance?
Seems strange having the same name on two different colours IMHO.
going by their where to get it chart there are loads of dealers, so might be quite good if anyone with a tin of 170 could go and check against this stuff and see.
Its way off, #186 is totally brown man.
However I just got some Humbrol Authentic Colour MC6 Brown Bess - this is a #170 equivalent apparently. We shall see, though I don't have any 'proper' #170 to compare it with.
Also Revell # 46 is apparently a #170 equivalent...?
So Brown Bess is most similar to RAL 7013 which is RGB 84.59 79.72 65.72 (decimal) which is approximately #555042 in HTML Hex notation.
Additionally, the colour table also confirms that Revell 046 Nato Olive Matt is a good match for Brown Bess.


I've often wondered if we really only use 10% of the brain like I've heard over and over again.
I also wondered why doing yoga and talking walks make my mind feel so clear.
Was it all hormones and chemistry?
How could you & I actually use 100% of the brain right now?
This video from Dr. Bruce Lipton was so eye-opening I had to share it because it's how to do just that: living with so much more of your brain in concert and engaged!
Off to stretch I go!!!
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Thunder est un album du groupe SMV sorti le .

Morceaux
 Maestros de Las Frecuencias Bajas (Stanley Clarke)
 Thunder (Marcus Miller)
 Hillbillies on a Quiet Afternoon (Victor Wooten, Clarke)
 Mongoose Walk(Wooten, Miller, Clarke)
 Los Tres Hermanos (Miller)
 Lopsy Lu - Silly Putty (Medley) (Clarke)
 Milano (Clarke)
 Classical Thump (Jam)(Wooten)
 Tutu (Miller)
 Lil' Victa (Clarke)
 Pendulum (Clarke, Miller, Wooten, Antoinette Clinton)

 Lemme Try Your Bass (Interlude) (Clarke, Miller)
 Grits (Miller)

Liens externes
Site officiel de SMV

Album de jazz fusion

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The Tchoban Foundation's Museum for Architectural Drawing (Museum für Architekturzeichnung der Tchoban Foundation) has been located on the grounds of the former Pfefferberg brewery since June 2013. Architect Sergei Tchoban created the foundation in 2009 and also donated a part of his collection to it. Tchoban, who is a leading architectural drawer himself, collects outstanding drawings made by architects from the 16th to the 21st century with a focus on Russian Constructivists.
The museum's building was designed by Tchoban's Moscow office. The building's architecture – with its light floor "blocks" that appear to have been stacked on top of one another and its exterior relief featuring details from architectural drawings – alludes to the very function of the structure. In the almost windowless sandstone cubes – one on top of another – the museum houses a reception space and library, two exhibition cabinets and a depot accessible to researchers upon registration. The glass cube on the roof is used as a meeting room.
The Tchoban Foundation displays four exhibitions per year in this building. The exhibitions consist of pieces from the collection as well as others stemming from cooperation agreements with international partners, including the Pariser École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts and the Moscow Architectural Museum.


ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) candidate's victory's notification in Shangla has been stopped by the Election Commission because of very low women turn out at the polling stations.
In PK-23 Shangla, the population of eligible female voters is 86,639, however, only 3500 women cast their votes. On the contrary the male eligible voter population is 114,000 and 66,000 men cast their cotes. The total voter turn out was 34%.
Headed by the Chief Election Commissioner, Sardar Muhammad Raza, a 5 member commission heard the case regarding the nullification of the results of PK-23 Shangla as the women voter turn out was less than 10%. None of the candidates who contested polls in the constituency were present at the hearing.


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Ballots, bullets and hand grenades: Burundi in 2010.
Posted on January 6, 2010 | 1 comment
A Somali businessman tells me they found the guy behind last week's grenade attack in Bujumbura's central market. Seems he was an employee of Onatel – Burundi's largest telecom company – but no word on what prompted him to methodically plant a grenade in a package, leave it with a trader, and melt into the crowd before the grenade went off. (This is the story I was told by my friend, which was also reported by the AFP.) Here's the market in more peaceful times:
Bujumbura's central market
Maybe the perpetrator had a gripe with the jurassic pace of change at the state-run company. Maybe he was just pissed that he, like the rest of us, has hardly been able to send a single text for THE PAST THREE WEEKS.
The attack also came in spite of the heightened security around Bujumbura, after Somalia's Al-Shabaab militants threatened Burundi and Uganda for supplying troops for the African Union's fledgling peacekeeping mission in Somalia. (This "heightened security" includes a bunch of bedraggled police milling around the market, shaking down the odd tourist who, for example, snaps pictures like this one.)
A grave threat to national security
Whatever prompted the plot, grenade attacks are a sad and tragic fact of life in Burundi. ("When it was the war, this would happen every week," my Somali friend tells me.) According to the AFP report (linked above),
A total of 616 people were killed by violence in Burundi in 2008, including 133 in grenade attacks, according to the country's leading human rights group.
The UN Development Programme said there were more than 300 grenade attacks in Burundi in 2008.
I've been following the news from Burundi since April, and have read a number of reports of similar attacks. They usually stem from domestic disputes: quarrels between lovers, disputes over land. ("After a decade of civil war and years of daily violence, people have a tendency to resort to violence to solve their differences," said one government official.)
The ready availability of hand grenades – both the relics of Burundi's long civil war, and the spillover from neighboring Congo – has made them, according to the AFP, "the weapon of choice for everybody, from petty criminals to disgruntled lovers."
"For a criminal, the grenade is convenient because it guarantees many people are killed in very little time and allows the perpetrator to vanish without revealing himself," [local human rights group] Iteka chairman David Nahimana said.
The ease of anonymity – along with a chilling culture of impunity – makes it easy for perpetrators to disappear without a trace. In October, the Burundi Press Agency noted that "at least 10 grenades had exploded in several areas in the administrative centre of Ruyigi province [in the previous month] without any arrest being made."
AFP reported on this "hand grenade epidemic" in June, noting that the weapons "go for around one dollar on the black market." Despite a highly publicized disarmament drive which netted nearly 70,000 weapons in the past two years – including 14,000 in a single week in October – this remains a heavily armed country. Most estimates place the number of small arms at somewhere between 100,000 and 300,000. Securing those weapons remains a huge obstacle in the months leading up to this year's presidential election.
Unfortunately, the seriousness of the government in tackling the problem remains…questionable. Already government-sponsored "youth groups" – militias to me and you – have been putting on shows of strength in rural communes. Opposition parties are retaliating. In November, AFP reported how
Burundi's main opposition group (FRODEBU) massed youths at a weekend rally, warning that it was preparing to fight fire with fire after accusing the ruling CNDD-FDD of forming a militia ahead of polls.
One opposition politician I spoke to called FRODEBU's bluff. "They're using violent words to say we are going to fight," he said. But it's a widely known fact that the CNDD has the bulk of the weapons. And the ruling party has already proven its willingness to resort to violence to achieve its ends.
I'd been hoping to report on all of this when I arrived in Burundi last month. The militias seemed especially intriguing. But a friend – an American aid worker – advised me against it, calling it a "very dangerous" story. The biggest problem was that most of the militia activities – usually military drills performed in the street in the early morning hours, euphemistically described as "sports days" – take place in rural areas where security is most tenuous. (On a visit to the rural town of Bururi in mid-December, I apparently managed to sleep through a firefight that woke up the rest of the hotel.) In the collines, things happen. They happen to the poor harassed villagers who face the brunt of daily threats and violence; and they can just as easily happen to nosy foreign journalists who – let's face it – aren't exactly war correspondents to begin with. As a travel writer, I tend to spend my time doing things like this:
Reporting from the frontlines
and, occasionally, this:
Risking life and limb
and, abundantly, this:
Putting it all on the line
"Very dangerous" just doesn't make me want to reach for my Moleskin.
After all, let's not forget that the ruling party, CNDD-FDD, is itself a former rebel group, which came in from the bush just in time to win the 2005 election. (According to most commentators, it was the implicit threat of violence – that they would simply return to the bush and restart the war if they lost – that helped bring CNDD to power.) When President Pierre Nkurunziza returned from a trip to Rome in November – both to discuss the plight of the developing world at the World Food Security Summit and have a pow-wow with the Pope – he was asked by a local reporter what he thought of the disturbing rise in youth demonstrations. His deadpan reply – "the youth need sports" – sent a chill down more than a few spines of those present.
The youth need sports.
Which leaves Burundi in a very precarious place ahead of this year's polls.
"To win against fear is not to take up a weapon," Alexis Sinduhije, the controversial presidential candidate, once told me. "If you take up a weapon, you already have that fear yourself.
"If you don't take up a weapon, you will win with the force of your ideas."
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The NM Political Report (https://nmpoliticalreport.com/2020/04/24/abbotts-fast-covid-test-poses-safety-issues-lab-workers-say/)
Abbott's fast COVID test poses safety issues, lab workers say
By Rachana Pradhan, Kaiser Health News | April 24, 2020
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President Donald Trump displays the Abbott Laboratories 15-minute COVID-19 testing device during a coronavirus (COVID-19) update briefing Monday, March 30, 2020, in the Rose Garden at the White House.
Lab personnel say worries are mounting over the safety of a rapid coronavirus test by Abbott Laboratories that President Donald Trump has repeatedly lauded ― particularly, the risk of infection to those handling it.
Trump and federal health officials have promoted the ease with which the Abbott test can be given to patients, whether at a drive-thru site or a doctor's office. Another selling point: The test could "save personal protective equipment (PPE)," according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
Yet medical workers say that there's a serious danger in the test's design, one that would require much more protection — not less ― for those who administer it.
Running a test involves swabbing a potentially infected person's nasal passage and swirling the specimen in an open container with liquid chemicals, raising the potential of releasing the highly contagious virus into the air.
When HHS announced it had bought tens of thousands of Abbott's point-of-care tests for public labs and others across the country, it noted that "only gloves and a facemask are necessary" to administer it.
The notion of donning less protection runs contrary to recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and medical workers fear that they could be infected while testing others.
Abbott says the test can return a positive result in as little as five minutes. And its development was welcome news for governors and hospitals across the nation desperately searching for COVID tests for patients and scarce protective gear for medical workers.
"What makes this test so different is where it can be used: outside the four walls of a traditional hospital such as in the physicians' office or urgent care clinics," says Abbott Labs on its website. It has already been deployed in public health labs and several drive-thru sites, where people wait in parking lots normally occupied by casino- and cinema-goers.
But lab officials and medical diagnostic experts say running the Abbott machine — used for years to detect other pathogens, including the flu ― requires a technician to leave patient specimens out in the open. Gloves and a mask alone would not protect them.
Standard precautions for biosafety protection in labs include good hand hygiene and the use of lab coats or gowns, gloves and eye protection to protect medical workers when a specimen is being manipulated, according to the CDC. Health workers collecting specimens should wear an N95 mask and other PPE.
To run the Abbott test, medical workers or patients themselves swab an individual's nasal cavity to collect a specimen. Then, the swab is put back into its original wrapping, potentially exposing workers to contaminated materials when they handle it, according to Michael Pentella, the head of Iowa's state public health lab who chairs the Association of Public Health Laboratories' biosafety and biosecurity committee.
Abbott's instructions direct workers to "vigorously mix" the swab with liquid in an open vessel in the machine for 10 seconds — a kind of open system that Pentella called "unusual."
"This is the only test I know of where you take the swab and you put it back in the paper wrapping," said Pentella, who hasn't used the Abbott rapid tests in his lab but has heard concerns about safety from colleagues. "It's the contamination that could be associated with the wrapper that has some biosafety professionals concerned."
The committee he chairs plans to issue safety recommendations for lab workers handling the product.
"It's not like you shouldn't use the instrument," Pentella said. "You just have to use it safely." While Abbott advises customers to use universal precautions for protecting health care workers, the extent to which that happens is up to each organization, Pentella said. "We don't want to give this disease to anyone."
Another longtime medical diagnostics expert expressed shock at the way the Abbott test is performed — that a swab gathered from a potentially infected patient must be openly mixed in liquid.
"The best point-of-care instrument is exactly like an automated pencil sharpener," said the expert, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of retaliation. "You do nothing else."
A spokesperson for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene similarly said officials were worried about biosafety and contamination because of how the test is performed, saying its open structure could contaminate the person performing the test as well as the area around the machine.
Trump has been a reliable pitchman for Abbott's test, calling it a "whole new ballgame" as he showed off the machine in the Rose Garden. In public remarks from Feb. 29 to April 6 ― the day HHS announced it had purchased thousands of tests — Trump called out Abbott 14 times, according to a review of his remarks during daily White House briefings and related events.
"Now, a lot of people love the Abbott test. So do I. You know, the Abbott test is great because it's, boom, it's ― they touch, they put it in, and in five minutes you have [a result]," Trump said this week.
As one former HHS official put it: "He likes showy things that can look good." A White House spokesperson declined to comment further on Trump's praise of the company.
Certainly the initial HHS purchase of 30,000 Abbott tests to distribute across the country was supposed to do that. About 13,500 of them went to public health labs plus the CDC's central lab in Atlanta, according to a department spokeswoman. The Indian Health Service received 10,000 tests, and roughly 5,000 were set aside for the CDC's International Reagent Resource for states to replenish supplies.
Public health labs appeared to be in line for slightly more tests and devices than indicated in an earlier HHS document, obtained by Kaiser Health News, which showed state and local labs would receive a total 5,500 tests and the CDC lab would get 800.
On April 6, when HHS announced its order, millions of Americans were waiting on COVID tests. Multiple public health labs that received a batch from Abbott said they got 15 devices and supplies to conduct 120 tests. Even calibrating the machine would use up a portion of those — before labs could run patient samples. HHS also ordered 50 Abbott ID Now machines for Alaska because of its remote location, according to agency spokesperson Mia Heck.
When asked why HHS said only gloves and a face mask were necessary to administer the test, Heck said the department deferred to CDC guidelines.
Certain states have offered guidance to those handling patient specimens that is similar to the CDC's. For example, the Washington state health department advised providers to use "appropriate personal protection" when collecting patient specimens ― at minimum, a gown, gloves, N95 respirator masks and goggles or a face shield, according to emails obtained through a public records request in King County, Washington.
Gary Procop, director of virology at the Cleveland Clinic, said he recommends that personnel either wear appropriate protective gear or use the test in a biological safety cabinet, which protects workers behind a glass shield. The large integrated health system is weighing whether to use the quick test in certain settings, including where there's a low prevalence of disease, and had concerns about workers handling open swabs.
"What you really want to have is droplet precautions," he said in an interview.
As safety concerns grow, some state officials are still complaining about a lack of supplies from Abbott — despite its statements that it would manufacture 50,000 tests per day.
"It's incredibly frustrating because there was a lot of talk about this device, there was a lot of hype on it nationally, and that was wonderful," New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, a Republican, said at a news conference this month. "And then when they showed up, expectations were set really high as they should be. But to actually have 13 of these devices and have no way to use them, I'm banging my head against the wall."
Abbott has won considerable publicity for the fast Abbott test since FDA granted emergency authorization on March 27. The company has partnered with CVS Health and Walgreens to set up drive-thru COVID testing sites in multiple states.
As of Monday, nine of 15 planned Walgreens sites in seven states are open with the Abbott tests. Walgreens pharmacists are tasked with overseeing patients and "PPE is used throughout the process," a spokesperson said, without responding to questions about protocol for handling specimens and which specific items employees wear.
CVS Health is operating five drive-thru sites in five states, with each able to screen 750 to 1,000 people a day, spokesperson Christine Cramer said. Nurse practitioners and physician assistants handling specimens use gloves, gowns, N95 masks and eye shields or goggles.
"We won't open a site until we are sure we have what we need," she said.
In Washington, people expected to be in close contact with Trump ― including reporters covering his daily coronavirus briefings — have also been tested on Abbott machines.
Abbott spokesperson Darcy Ross said the company has shipped more than 850,000 rapid tests since April 1, although it's unclear how many went to private-sector clients versus public health sites.
"We recommend our customers follow the CDC recommendations and guidelines for point-of-care sample handling and PPE. Our product information directly links to CDC guidelines," she said.
The Abbott tests have had several other hiccups. For example, the Food and Drug Administration this month said Abbott would revise its instructions after one method for preserving specimens ― known as viral transport media — caused inaccurate results because patient samples were too diluted.
Pentella, the Iowa lab official, said, "People are shifting their concern from the viral transport media to, now you have a swab in a wrapper that's potentially contaminated with nasal secretions from the patient."
On an April 15 call held by FDA officials on the development and validation of COVID-19 tests, Timothy Stenzel, director of the agency's Office of In Vitro Diagnostics and Radiological Health, was asked whether the agency has a process to remove authorizations already granted for tests found to be ineffective or dangerous, according to audio obtained by Kaiser Health News. The FDA has granted more than 40 emergency approvals for COVID-19 tests since Feb. 4.
He responded that the FDA's "traditional way" is for the agency and developer to make decisions together on the best path forward.
"We always first want to engage the developer to understand what the performance issues might be," he said, "to try to understand what the root cause is."
"If there are indeed performance issues," he said, "what is the best way to address that as quickly as possible?"
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Shaun The Sheep Movie will be On Demand, Bluray and DVD November 24th. We haven't watched the TV series before, and after watching this funny movie we are curious to check it out. We liked that there was no conversations on the movie, rather it had a funny storyline that kept us entertained throughout the movie.
The movie is about Shaun deciding to take the day off from the farm and having some fun. Shaun and the other sheeps didn't like the farmer shearing them. It was funny how the farmer cut Shaun's wool to make him look like a poodle. Shaun gets a little more action than he bargained for on his day off when he has a mix up with the Farmer, a caravan and a very steep hill that lead them all to the Big City. It was hilarious to watch all the things that happened to them in the big city. We were glad that Shaun and the flock return everyone safely to the green grass of home. This is a good movie for the whole family.
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I am in NL and I would watch this movie with my grandchildren.
I live in Ontario and my daughter would love to watch this movie.
I live in Alberta. My husband and I will love watching this with our grandkids.
We live in London ON and I think all three of us would enjoy watching this movie!
I live in ON, and we would all enjoy watching this movie.
I live in Ontario. Me and my boys would love to watch this movie.
I live in Ontario. Me and my boys would love to see the movie.
I live in Ontario. My nephew lives with me and would love this movie.
I live in Ottawa and I'll be watching it with my hubby and two kiddos.
I live in alberta and my kids would love this movie!
I live in BC. I think everyone in the family would enjoy watching the movie!
I am in Ontario, My nephew will be watching this movie.
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I live in Ontario. My little cousins would definitely love to watch this.
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I live in Saskatchewan and everybody in my house would enjoy watching this movie.
I live in BC. We'd enjoy watching this on family movie night.
I am in Alberta and my 8 year old son would love it.
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I'm from AB and I would love to watch it with my granddaughter!
Newfoundland! I would watch this with my son! Thanks. Happy Holidays!
I live in Ontario and we would love to watch this cute movie with our grandchildren.
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I live in BC and our whole family would probably enjoy this movie - parents and kids!
From MB. My son would love this movie!
I live in Ontario and honestly it would be me that is most interested to watch this movie, I seen the previews and it looks pretty good!!
I live in Ontario, and I would love the movie the most. I love Shaun the Sheep!!
I'm actually in the U.S. in the south.
I live in Port Coquitlam, BC, and I would watch this with my daughter (and maybe watch it without her too).


Tiny Toez received the highly esteemed Nursery Management Today Awards, NMT top five business index award for their great success in delivering a high quality childcare provision. The nursery group Tiny Toez are well known in the Midlands area for providing high quality childcare with well trained and highly motivated staff.
Lisa Jeff was also named as a finalist for NMT Nursery Operations Regional Director Award 2017 after demonstrating exceptional leadership and vision.
The awards are designed to reward excellence and are highly prestigious in the early year's sector.
The group opened their first nursery in 2004 and have grown ever since to be a popular reliable childcare provider the group have eleven nurseries in the Midlands area and has three preschools in the London area.
The team encourage children to embrace diversity and equality, behaviour at the nursery was noted to be exemplary during their latest Ofsted inspection.
All sites have their own qualified chef who prepares fresh hot nutritious meals and snacks tailored to the age's group's dietary requirements. The hygiene routines are extremely stringent and the staff makes sure the children are aware of the importance of washing their hands before eating.


CES brings out the best in us all, and when I say that, I mean it showcases products that could probably make us better individuals. Take Soul Electronics, for example, debuting two in-ear headphones (the Run Free Pro-Bio and Blade) at CES with built-in gait analysis specifically for runners. Soul Electronics boasts having built-in sensors and a kickass accompanying app that can you tell you, while you're running if your strides/form is off and how to correct it.
Being a long distance runner myself, these nifty headphones could have prevented a long list of injuries. Tracking a mixture of data sets such as cadence, step length, step width, vertical oscillation (the up and down bounce of your body), head tilt angle, stance/flight time, shock, maximum leg force, balance, and consistency – the Run Free Pro-Bio and Blade have the potential to be a real game changer. And of course, it goes without saying that these guys are sweatproof given their application.


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Q: How can I increment a counter variable in LoopBack 4 with a MongoDB datasource? I'm trying to convert my Nodejs Express app to Loopback 4 and I can't figure out how to increment a counter. In my Angular 9 app when a user clicks an icon a counter is incremented. This works perfectly in Express
In Express
const updateIconCount = async function (dataset, collection = 'icons') {
    let query = { _id: new ObjectId(dataset.id), userId: dataset.userId };
    return await mongoController.update(
        collection,
        query,
        { $inc: { counter: 1 } },
        function (err, res) {
            logAccess(res, 'debug', true, 'function update updateIconLink');
            if (err) {
                return false;
            } else {
                return true;
            }
        }
    );
};

I tried to first get the value of counter and then increment but every time I save VS Code reformats the code in an an unusual way. In this snippet I commented out the line of code that causes this reformatting. I can set the counter value, e.g. 100.
In Loopback 4
@patch('/icons/count/{id}', {
    responses: {
      '204': {
        description: 'Icons PATCH success',
      },
    },
  })
  async incrementCountById(
    @param.path.string('id') id: string,
    @requestBody({
      content: {
        'application/json': {
          schema: getModelSchemaRef(Icons, {partial: true}),
        },
      },
    })
    icons: Icons,
  ): Promise<void> {
    // let targetIcon = this.findById(id).then(icon => {return icon});
    icons.counter = 100;
    console.log(icons.counter);
    await this.iconsRepository.updateById(id, icons);
  }

How do I implement { $inc: { counter: 1 } } in Loopback 4?
Added to aid solution
My mongo.datasource.ts
import {inject, lifeCycleObserver, LifeCycleObserver} from '@loopback/core';
import {juggler} from '@loopback/repository';

const config = {
  name: 'mongo',
  connector: 'mongodb',
  url: '',
  host: '192.168.253.53',
  port: 32813,
  user: '',
  password: '',
  database: 'firstgame',
  useNewUrlParser: true,
  allowExtendedOperators: true,
};

// Observe application's life cycle to disconnect the datasource when
// application is stopped. This allows the application to be shut down
// gracefully. The `stop()` method is inherited from `juggler.DataSource`.
// Learn more at https://loopback.io/doc/en/lb4/Life-cycle.html
@lifeCycleObserver('datasource')
export class MongoDataSource extends juggler.DataSource
  implements LifeCycleObserver {
  static dataSourceName = 'mongo';
  static readonly defaultConfig = config;

  constructor(
    @inject('datasources.config.mongo', {optional: true})
    dsConfig: object = config,
  ) {
    super(dsConfig);
  }
}

Amended endpoint
@patch('/icons/count/{id}', {
    responses: {
      '204': {
        description: 'Icons PATCH success',
      },
    },
  })
  async incrementCountById(
    @param.path.string('id') id: string,
    @requestBody({
      content: {
        'application/json': {
          schema: getModelSchemaRef(Icons, {partial: true}),
        },
      },
    })
    icons: Icons,
  ): Promise<void> {
    console.log(id);
    // @ts-ignore
    await this.iconsRepository.updateById(id, {$inc: {counter: 1}});//this line fails
    // icons.counter = 101; //these lines will set the icon counter to 101 so I know it is connecting to the mongodb
    // await this.iconsRepository.updateById(id, icons);
  }

A: You can use the mongo update-operators.
Basically, you just have to set allowExtendedOperators=true at your MongoDB datasource definition (guide). After that, you can directly use these operators.
Usage example:
// increment icon.counter by 3
await this.iconsRepository.updateById(id, {$inc: {counter: 3}} as Partial<Counter>);

Currently, these operators are missing from the lb4 types so you must cheat typescript to accept them. It's ugly but that's the only solution I could find right now.
You can follow this issue to see what's going on with these operators.


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Premier League Match Report: Leicester City 4 - 0 Newcastle United
It was a game of two halves. Both of them were good.
By Jake Lawson@karmadrome Dec 12, 2021, 8:29am PST
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Leicester City mauled Newcastle United by a score of 4-0 at the King Power on Sunday afternoon. A first-half Youri Tielemans penalty and goals by Patson Daka, James Maddison, and Tielemans after the break gave City a comfortable margin as the Foxes kept their first clean sheet since opening day despite losing Jonny Evans to a hamstring injury.
Manager Brendan Rodgers made only two changes to the side that lost 3-2 to Napoli on Thursday. The starting XI: Kasper Schmeichel (C), Timothy Castagne, Jonny Evans, Çağlar Söyüncü, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Youri Tielemans, Wilfred Ndidi, James Maddison, Harvey Barnes, and Patson Daka.
It took less than five minutes for disaster to strike, but at least it was a novel form of disaster. Defending a ball over the top to Joelinton, Evans pulled up with a hamstring problem and was unable to continue. With both Jannik Vestergaard and Daniel Amartey unavailable, Rodgers introduced Boubakary Soumare and dropped Ndidi into central defence.
The Foxes compensated for the makeshift back line by denying the Magpies any possession at all. City had 70% of the ball over the first half-hour, ensuring that Schmeichel was essentially a spectator in the early going. This should not be mistaken for "dominance" as Leicester didn't look especially threatening, managing only a Madders free kick that hit the top of the net and a Ndidi header that was saved by Martin Dúbravka.
City took the lead in a somewhat dubious fashion just before the 40' mark. Tielemans robbed Jonjo Shelvey just outside the Newcastle area. He slipped it to Maddison, who spotted Jamal Lascelles extended leg and went over it in dramatic fashion. The referee pointed to the spot and VAR confirmed it, so it was a penalty, but it there wasn't a whole lot in it. Tielemans took it in Vardy's absence and blasted it into the roof of the net for Leicester's first penalty of the year.
Is every photo today going to have a sad Dubravka in the background? Stay tuned to find out!
Newcastle attempted to hit back and pumped several dangerous balls into the box, but nothing came of it. Leicester went into the tunnel up 1-0, clearly the better of two sides, but perhaps a bit fortunate to have the lead.
The Foxes got the second half started in style, doubling the lead through a sublime team goal. Good work on the left by Thomas, Tielemans, and Dewsbury-Hall resulted in the ball falling to Madders just outside the box. HIs first-time flick was inch-perfect and put Barnes in behind the entire Geordie defence. One-on-one with Dúbravka, he selflessly squared it to Daka, who finished into an empty net from close range.
Come for the Maddison pass.
Stay for Daka's celebration
Leicester lead 2-0 over Newcastle.
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— NBC Sports Soccer (@NBCSportsSoccer) December 12, 2021
Are we not doing phrasing anymore?
With twenty minutes to play, Rodgers went to the bench and brought on Marc Albrighton for Barnes. Newcastle were, if not on the front foot, then at least on their feet and trying to get forward more. They very nearly pulled one back on 75', or rather, City nearly gave it to them. Castagne's rushed back pass from forty yards forced Schmeichel to hasten back and clear it off the line at full stretch.
"Timmy! Just yeet it into the sun next time!"
Photo by Plumb Images/Leicester City FC via Getty Images
The game was done and dusted just minutes later. Thomas won the ball on the left-wing and set Daka on his merry way. The Zambia man cut it back for Madders, who slid it to Tielemans all alone on the right side of the box. The former Monaco man made no mistake, blasting it into the roof of the net from five yards.
Cracking goal and @lcfc are 3 up. Thoughts are with you @alanshearer at this difficult time.
— Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) December 12, 2021
It's not trolling if you...wait, no. This is most definitely trolling. Well played, Mr. Lineker.
It was four just three minutes later. Madders beat Joelinton in the air deep in the Newcastle half and tapped it to Daka, who returned it as the former Norwich City man continued his run. Behind all defenders, he smashed it left-footed across Dúbravka and into the back of the net. Job done, Rodgers withdrew Madders and handed Kasey McAteer his debut.
It wasn't a terribly long debut, as the Foxes saw out the last few minutes of regular time and three minutes of stoppage time without any drama to speak of.
The biggest takeaway from this match was the sense of relief on the pitch as we finally won without any nail-biting and kept a clean sheet despite losing Evans in the first five minutes. It's worth noting that, following Evans' departure, none of the outfield players were older than 25. Some of these players have been here so long and played at such a high level that it's easy to forget just how young they are.
Little did he know, he was actually going to need this warm up. Congratulations on your debut, Kasey!
Alas, it wasn't all unicorns and rainbows. At this time, we don't know the extent of Evans' injury, but there's no playing through a hamstring injury. There's a very real chance we won't see him again until mid-January. After a rough start, Ndidi was quite good at the back but that is not an ideal use of our midfield destroyer.
The victory gives us 22 points from 16 matches and moves us up to 8th on the table. There's no rest for the wicked as we host Tottenham Hotspur on Thursday. A week from today, we line up against Everton at Goodison Park a good hour and a half before sunrise where I am, so that's something to look forward to.


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"Respect, Compassion, Atonement"
September 18, 2020 /in Antiracism, Conference /by Kathy Graves
Listen to and watch Henry Banks' presentation.
Nearly 80 years after three young black men were lynched on the streets of Duluth for a crime they did not commit, a small but mighty group of people came together, determined to infuse the 1920 deaths into consciousness of the community. One of those people was Henry Banks, the Conference's guest speaker for the September 15 "Justice Talk to Justice Walk" discussion.
Banks told a powerful story about the importance of community reconciliation in the wake of an unspeakable incident. While Banks said it took many years to "bring the truth to light," and especially to get white people to acknowledge the atrocity, his group stayed the course; in 2003, the Clayton Jackson McGhie Memorial opened in Duluth and was subsequently recognized by National Geographic as one of the top memorials in the U.S. More than 1,500 people and congregations from across the country (including Pilgrim Congregational UCC and Peace UCC in Duluth) contributed to the project, the country's first memorial to address lynching.
Banks emphasized how important it is for people to both understand that these lynchings happened in Minnesota and to connect today's lack of economic opportunity for people of color to the same thread of racism. "Racism is our biggest pandemic," he said, "Healing, understanding, compassion and love are the answer."
Banks acknowledged the difficulties facing our communities but told attendees, "The goodness of Jesus Christ is our answer. His mandate was to love each other."
With this latest webinar (watch below) and the upcoming one on October 1 with Jim Bear Jacobs, the Conference is "looking in our own Minnesota mirror to confront our racist history as a state," says Conference Minister Rev. Shari Prestemon. "We are reminding ourselves that George Floyd was another horrific incident in an historic line-up of events that reflect white supremacy in our state. We need to come to terms with our own history."
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use Laravel\Lumen\Testing\DatabaseTransactions;
use App\User;

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    /**
     * Test get roles api.
     *
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     */
    public function testGetRolesApi()
    {
        $user = User::where("status", [User::STATUS_ACTIVATED])->first();

        $response = $this->get("/api/roles");
        $response->assertResponseStatus(401);
        $response->seeJson(["success" => false]);

        if ($user->isAdmin()) {
            $token = $this->app["auth"]->guard("api")->fromUser($user);
            $response = $this->get("/api/roles", [
                'Authorization' => 'Bearer ' . $token
            ]);
            $response->assertResponseStatus(200);
            $response->seeJson(["success" => true]);
        } else {
            $token = $this->app["auth"]->guard("api")->fromUser($user);
            $response = $this->get("/api/roles", [
                'Authorization' => 'Bearer ' . $token
            ]);
            $response->assertResponseStatus(403);
            $response->seeJson(["success" => false]);
        }
    }
}

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England vs South Africa - Lack Of Exposure To UK Conditions Behind Series Loss: Dean Elgar
Sports Home Cricket News England vs South Africa Lack Of Exposure To UK Conditions Behind Series Loss Dean Elgar
England vs South Africa: The Proteas had comfortably won the first Test but England bounced back with a win in the second Test and then bagged the series decider.
Updated: September 13, 2022 08:42 PM IST
South Africa's Dean Elgar looks on in the field during the fourth day of the third Test vs England.© AFP
Proteas captain Dean Elgar and outgoing head coach Mark Boucher both conceded that the lack of experience played a major role in South Africa's 1-2 Test series defeat to England. The hosts sealed an emphatic nine-wicket victory in the third Test to complete an excellent come-from-behind triumph at the Kia Oval on Monday. South Africa had comfortably won the first Test by an innings and 12 runs last month, with the home side hitting back with a handsome win in the second Test which they claimed by an innings and 85 runs in Manchester.
They were on top for most of the decisive Test too - clash that was effectively a three-day match after day one was washed out and day two suspended following the death of Queen Elizabeth II - dismissing the Proteas for poor scores of 118 and 169.
"I think lack of experience and lack of exposure to Test cricket (played a part)," Elgar said afterwards.
"The lack of exposure to UK conditions with the ball swinging and nipping. We were also exposed to the type of batting conditions in this Test especially where the ball was nipping quite a lot.
"It was up there with some of the toughest conditions I've faced and I have a relatively decent amount of experience. So I can only imagine how a guy who only has one or two Test under his belt must feel. It was tough all around." The South Africans faced just 92.4 overs in the third Test after, with skipper Elgar's 36 their highest score of the match. In the series overall, Marco Jansen, one of the few shining lights for the tourists, averaged the highest with the bat - 27.33 - outshining all the specialists in the team.
Coach Boucher admitted it was not a good series for the batters.
"We always knew we would be under pressure if the conditions went around a bit," he explained.
"I think in South Africa the conditions are not the same. The ball doesn't swing, the contact points are a little bit different. I know there's talk of experience and that, but these batters that are here have consistently been the best batters in our country.
"If you have a look at the last top seven batters that came to England and won the last series, I think between them there were 470 odd Test matches, that's between the top seven. In this series, 10 of the batters used to bat in the top seven, they're on 170.
"So there is a big difference and the only way you get experience is by going out there and playing. We've back guys to play in quite a few Test matches, in conditions where the ball went around a bit, but they haven't come off and that's unfortunate." The result of the England series leaves the Proteas in second place on the ICC World Test Championship table. The team will now break before reassembling later in the year ahead of their three-Test tour to Australia.
(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
Cricket Dean Elgar Mark Boucher South Africa Cricket Team England Cricket Team