I was checking my e-mail for the fifth time this morning, and it was only 10am. Whenever my daughter, Laje, is off to school I get exceedingly bored and stayed glued to my email…hoping for some action in my inbox. As I hit the 'refresh' button, I saw what I had been waiting for. It was an email from Kunmi; an invitation to the Fancyful Awards. Let me tell you a little bit about Lagos state..... there are a million award shows and red carpets each year. Every event is an opportunity to appear on a 'red carpet', and every 'red carpet' appearance is an opportunity to appear on justnaija.com (a fashion and entertainment blogazine). And except for the 10% of young lagos women like my friend, Remi, everyone else wants to be on Just Naija. The email from Kunmi was for the TNW (The Nigerian Woman) Magazine awards…one of the fashion magazines in the already over-saturated market.
Venue: Lodale Hotel 45 Adeola Odeku, V.I.
Fela: Hey Kunmi! I just got your email. Do you think the sequined dress you gave me for my birthday is appropriate for the TNW awards?
Kunmi: Hey love! No, you gotta do better than that.
Fela: What? I mean the black entirely sequined out dress you gave me!
Kunmi: If you're going to be my plus 1, you're going to need something way more glamorous than that. Why don't you stop by the boutique and we'll discuss?
Fela: Fine! See you in an hour or so!
I popped into "House of Kunmi" only thirty minutes after the phone conversation. An hour and N250,000 later, I burst out of the boutique realizing that I was late to pick up my three year old daughter, Laje, from preschool. Rolla Preschool was one of those 'pick your child up at 12noon or pay a N10,000 fine, even if you're only ten minutes late' schools. I dashed into my car, and sped like a maniac out of Victoria Island, and into Ikoyi. Unfortunately for me, I ran a 'not so red' light and the eagles aka LASTMA (Lagos Transport Management Authority) got in front of my car before I could escape.
Fela: Good afternoon officer, is there a problem?
Fela: Which red light? I didn't see any red light oh! Is the light even working?
I didn't see any light at all!
abi? No problem. Just hold on oh.
I brought my phone to call my husband. You see, my husband, Gbenga Olulojulo, is one of the most powerful men in Lagos. I met Gbenga in S.S.3 (the 12th grade). He owns and runs one of the most successful oil servicing firms in the country, Lulo Oil. Never mind that I'm the seventh wife, and he is still married to the other six wives. He set me up nicely in a serviced flat in Ikoyi, and every month like clockwork, I get my deposit of N_000 000 (you guess!). With this, I'm okay with seeing him once a week (make that twice a month during busy months at work). The phone rang and rang and rang, until it cut off. Who knows if he was actually at work, or with one of my 'iyales' (older wives). I checked the time, it was already 12:30pm. I didn't even care about the late fee anymore. Poor Laje would probably be cranky by the time I got there. Left with no choice, I let one of the LASTMA guys into the car and agreed to go to their office in Victoria Island.
As soon as MR. LASTMA got in the car, I hit the 'full lock' feature on my fancy new BMW so he couldn't open the door himself no matter whether he was inside the car or outside the car. Instead of turning around to the Ikoyi Bridge in order to get back to VI, I put my foot to the pedal and sped all the way to Laje's school. The entire time, the LASTMA guy kept shouting, "Madam! Turn around. This isn't the way to our office. Mama. Turn around please…" I drowned out his voice in my new gospel CD and pretended I was alone in the car. When I got to Rolla Preschool, I hurried out of the car and locked Mr. LASTMA in the car. By now his authoritative voice had turned into a begging one..."Madam please now. Madam, e jo ma. Madam no do like this…" I ignored him. I ran to the 'late room' to find Laje; the poor thing was the only child left to be picked up.
Fela: Lala darling, I'm so sorry I'm late again. I promise this is the last time!
Laje: Icecream makes you fat. Mummy fat.
Well then! Even my three year old could see all the weight I've gained in the last two months. FML! Time to hit the gym!


Over many decades, South Africa's electronic payment system has evolved in tandem with those in developed economies and in many areas is equal to the best. The payments industry's challenge is to now bring millions of cash-orientated South Africans into the electronic payments mainstream.
As the trend towards electronic payments continues, the US banking industry will either have to make a decision to invest in consolidating the redundant payment settlement networks in order to improve the efficiency of the market, or look to newer alternatives for the next generation of payments.
As several new entrants prepare to enter the UK banking sector, Andy Brown considers the opportunities and challenges they may face in taking on the Big Four.
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Credit and debit card issuers face another tough year this year as the economic recovery continues, consumers keep the brakes on spending, and new legislation and data-security rules kick in. But even as they plug holes that could lead to data breaches, adjust business plans to comply with new card rules and monitor the ongoing debate over interchange rates, issuers eagerly are watching and preparing to experiment with new mobile-payment initiatives.
New research from ACI Worldwide Inc. and Retail Systems Research reveals that retailers are not doing enough to keep pace with consumers' swift adoption of technology.
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Sopranos convention: Who will be there and what you need to know if you go
BY: Jim Beckerman
A "Sopranos" convention in the Meadowlands? Of course. Where else would you hold a "Sopranos" convention? This particular party, however, doesn't take place under six feet of swampy ground — or in the concrete supports of a truss bridge. This first SopranosCon will be at the Meadowlands Exposition Center in Secaucus on Nov. 23 and 24. And you'd best be there. You wouldn't want to disappoint Tony.
"It's the perfect setting," says Michael Mota, co-founder of the event. "We had a choice to pick anywhere we wanted. But when you think of 'The Sopranos,' you think of the Meadowlands." The Meadowlands is where the show's very first victim, Emil Kolar, is buried in Episode 1, season 1. And though the hit HBO show about Jersey mobsters, over six seasons, ranged as far away as the Pine Barrens, Asbury Park and Italy, the Meadowlands and the surrounding North Jersey towns remained its center of gravity.
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Bulgarian toy robot from the 1980's
RO 1
EMI factory, part of "Mladost" group ("youth" in Slavic languages), that was producing this robot, was in the toy industry between 1971. and 1991., later privatized and moved away from toys, so most of the robots we see today are from the 1980's. According to EMI's catalogue there were 3 versions: RO 1 with single eye and elbowed arms, RO 2 with 2 eyes and huge hands, and RO 3 with more round body, different legs than the previous two, arms with pinching hands (vs. wrench ones in previous two), and insect like eyes and head. Their nicknames given by collectors are Cyclops, Bucket head and Big ears. Based on EBay auctions and YouTube clips, Bucket head is the most prevalent, while Cyclops and Big ears are more rare. Close inspection finds RO 3 to have more modern battery contacts, cover and ON/OFF switch, and having the highest number in the series it is easy to conclude that it was designed and its production started by the end of the 1980's. Since the toy production in the factory ceased beginning of the 1990's, not sufficient number of RO 3 was produced, explaining their rarity. Likewise, RO 1 was the oldest, soon replaced and outnumbered by RO 2, making him also more rare.
The robot walks forward (stepover walk), moves arms and turns the light in the head (eyes) on and off. Its height is 18 cm, and operates on 2 AA 1.5 V batteries. The robot is made of a variety of colors of plastic. The three robots have several parts in common, with RO 1 and RO 2 being more similar (same body and legs, shape of the hands). Sold in a cost saving box with both robots RO 1 and RO 2 (on opposing sides) pictured.
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I even went on and made replica boxes for my robots (on the left) based on the images of the original boxes from the web (on the right). Details include original way of opening and price decals from 1986. Other images of original boxes posted on the web feature lighter colors, but these corespond to 1986.
Recent find: Yonezawa Laughing Robot, circa 1984., Made in Japan by Yonezawa, perhaps one of the last robots to be made in Japan. Similarities of Bulgarian RO 1 to this robot are apparent: the upper body and chest, arms, elbows and hands, head and face mask, especially buttons and dials. Laughing Robot has a speaker behind the chest grille, so space between bars is open, on RO 1 the space is closed, sealed, since no speaker exists. This makes the Laughing Robot predecessor of RO 1. Laughing Robot also comes in several color variations, and was copied by other makers (KIKE in Spain). Rarity of RO 1 may be also attributed to this, since EMI soon developed RO 2 to distance from Yonezawa robot.
History of my collection (3 images at the top of this page): they were all bought within a week from a local Serbian EBay style web site. They were $6 each, but required a lot of TLC (Tender Love and Care) / repair, mostly battery contacts and switches, but also some gluing and occasional arm, hip or shoulder replacement. They came from south east Serbia, region bordering Bulgaria. RO 1 was bought in 1987. off of a car hood spread of a Bulgarian day trader / tourist, RO 2 in Bulgaria proper also in 1987., while whereabouts of RO 3 were unknown. Couple of years after their initial purchase, they ended up in cellars, to resurface more than 20 years later with the rise of online auction sites. They probably waited for a while for the real collector and repair person to find them, but now they are in safe haven of BG RC collection, saved from child's abuse and adult's neglect. They even got replica boxes, and the plan is to make replacement / replica battery covers for RO 1 and RO 2 once I find an original one.
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/ Aviation Safety; We Can Do Better!
My condolences to the family of Roy Halladay, by all accounts a talented and generous person with so much potential. Not only has the world lost this amazing person, but aviation has suffered another very public black eye with the repeating question "How can this happen?" From what has become available so far, there seems to be some avoidable risks in the recent Icon A5 crash that could have been mitigated.
Identifying and mitigating risks is the essence of aviation safety and this includes the psychological discipline of saying NO to "having too much fun". Exercising "executive function" and knowing where and when *not* to fly is critical to safety. (See Dr. Bill Rhodes "Pilots Who Should Scare Us") Maintaining adequate altitude in the cruise phase of flight is one of our critical margins of safety as pilots. Low level maneuvering flight (below 1000 feet) usually comprises only 15% of our exposure as pilots but is where over 70% of fatalities occur. Loss of control accidents are disproportionately represented in this phase of flight. If you add intentional radical maneuvers this only asks for trouble. This type of demonstration flying, though exciting, requires a highly trained professional pilot and a aerodynamically robust high-G machine. This precise and demanding flying should be left to airshow pros! There is no way a new pilot should be flying an LSA in this manner.
And as Steve Pope of Flying Magazine has pointed out, marketing this kind of low level "yank and bank" flying as an obtainable and safe activity is scary to many veteran pilots.
Pope said "the plane itself is great," but he had concerns about Halladay, a new pilot with little flying time, taking the craft out over water at low altitude, though the plane was marketed as a craft that could do that.
"They still think that that's the way the airplane should be flown, and there are people in aviation who completely disagree with that," Pope said. "They think you should not have a low-time pilot flying low over water. That's a recipe for disaster."
This kind of behavior in the hands of new pilots will certainly lead to more accidents. We will be talking about the aerodynamics and psychology of loss of control (LOC-I) this Thursday the 16th at 8PM EST with aerobatic champion Patty Wagstaff and upset training specialist Rich Stowell. This livestream is presented by the FAA and qualifies participants for FAA Master Wings. As an additional incentive, our generous sponsors at Lightspeed Aviation are providing a Zulu 3 headset to be offered to a random winner at the end of the show; please join us.
You should be ashamed of yourselves. Exploiting an aviation tragedy and pointing blame at the pilot before any investigation is complete. If every pilot had to pay the ultimate price for a lapse in judgement, none of us would be left flying. This post is disgraceful.
David St. George says:
I am sorry for your discomfort. I am very cautious to avoid "rushing to judgment" in aviation events like this and struggled with a decision to publish and what to say. Ultimately the perceived benefit won mostly due to the presence of numerous eye-witness reports of low "crazy" low flying and a video of the event. I am sorry, but there does not seem to be much mystery here about causation.
I think it is important to learn from the errors of others. The Icon designer and test pilot, Jon Karkow, also perished in a crash maneuvering low: http://bit.ly/IconCrash The NTSB determined the probable cause of this accident to be "the pilot's failure to maintain clearance from terrain while maneuvering at a low altitude." In response the company published guidelines on how to fly low more safely.
From Richard McSpadden; Executive Director Air Safety Institute:
The recent Icon A5 tragedy may have another unfortunate consequence, beyond the tragic loss of a remarkable man, Roy Halladay. The accident will stress the Icon company and put an exceptionally well-designed aircraft at risk of an unfair reputation. Icon set out with a mission to build the safest light sport aircraft in the world, and from my recent flight experience, it appears they achieved that and more, perhaps designing one of the safest aircraft in any category. Icon is working to broaden the aviation market and unfortunately for the industry, those efforts may be stunted due to recent accidents.
Icon Founder and CEO Kirk Hawkins is a driven Stanford graduate with an impressive military flying background and a brilliant vision to expand general aviation by appealing to a new cache of adventurous, spirited potential pilots, much like the kind of people flying appealed to at the dawn of aviation. Icon's strategy is helpful to general aviation and if successful, will infuse it with new participants, taking advantage of FAA sport pilot rules which open general aviation at reduced cost and regulatory oversight. General aviation needs this kind of infusion.
From limited information and public videos, probable cause in the Halladay accident will likely stem from him not fully appreciating the dynamics of low altitude (LOWAT) flying. LOWAT flying demands constant awareness of "time to impact", influenced by speed, altitude and aircraft attitude. Minor distractions are exaggerated into significant risks because of reduced time for recognition and recovery before ground impact. Concepts like "time to impact" and responses like "climb to cope" are essential parts of the subconscious when flying LOWAT. Most general aviation aircraft, including the Icon, have an added challenge of relatively limited engine power, which reduces the ability to escape exaggerated pitch attitudes and large sink rates. To their credit, Icon requires transition training before aircraft delivery, which includes some LOWAT training, and Icon recently published a well-thought-out piece on LOWAT flying, providing some guidelines and considerations.
Icon may need to expand LOWAT education and perhaps infuse their training programs with methods to instill a culture and a mindset among Icon pilots that respects the demands of LOWAT flying, while still promoting the fun and adventure. These are not mutually exclusive concepts. Hawkins will have to assess whether or not he has the right mix of instructor cadre to conduct expanded training optimized for general aviation pilots, who have varied training backgrounds and are constantly managing time and funding constraints.
About a decade ago, Cirrus had a troubling accident rate and the reputation of the aircraft suffered despite significant safety enhancements. Cirrus responded, redesigning training and working with the Cirrus Owners and Pilots Association (COPA) to change the Cirrus culture and help pilots adapt and take advantage of the aircraft's safety features. Icon will need a similar response to learn from this year's tragedies and establish a culture that promotes the thrill of flying in the LOWAT environment, while instilling a respect for "time to impact" among an adventurous breed of general aviation pilots.
Richard G. McSpadden, Jr.


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Q: How to distribute jobs to multiple machines and keep same job on the same machine? I have a list of 1000 jobs that needs to be ran periodically, I'm putting 5 machines to ran these jobs, each machine will check the list from top to bottom and find the first one that needs to be ran (by comparing last_run_time and current time and the interval value of that job it knows whether a job needs to be ran again) and ran it. While one machine starts running a job, it updates the job to say it's running so other machines won't double run it.
Job table in DB:
job_id | last_run_time | interval (sec)| running
  1         11:05            60           False
  2         07:12           100           True
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1000        12:56          3000           False

Each task can be ran 10% faster if ran on the same machine of last run because it needs result from previous run, if on the same machine it doesn't need to download that, so I want that to happen as often as possible. I'm thinking about naming each machine and include machine names as an extra column (last_run_on_machine) of this table, but that's troublesome and I want to be able to add more machines or shut down some of the machines whenever I want. What's a good algorithm or if there exists some tool/library that can do this? I'm using Python, the DB is MySQL, completing each task takes about 10 - 60 seconds.

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Expedition: Robinson 2001 var den femte säsongen av doku-/realitysåpan Expedition: Robinson. Efter att föregående säsong sänts, valde Sveriges Television att sända en ny säsong av programserien. Anders Lundin fortsatte som programledare. Säsongens första avsnitt sändes den 6 oktober 2001, och avslutades den 5 januari 2002. Säsongen utspelade sig i Mensirip i Malaysia, och spelades in under perioden juni-augusti 2001. Slutgiltig vinnare blev Jan Emanuel Johansson.

Deltagare
Totalt tävlade 17 personer i denna säsong. Inga jokrar tillkom. De tävlande var:

 Andreas Mattsson, 31 år, Stockholm.
 Ann Gärdsby, 46 år, Malmö.
 Björn Hernefeldt, 60 år, Niemisel.
 Bo Jonsson, 42 år, Huddinge.
 Ella Omma, 18 år, Arvidsjaur.
 Emma Andersson, 22 år, Ängelholm.
 Jan "Bröli" Dinkelspiel, 24 år, Stockholm.
 Jan Emanuel Johansson, 27 år, Norrtälje.
 Kenny Andersén, 40 år, Fjällbacka.
 Maria "Marion" Kjellström, 28 år, Järpen.
 Niklas Berg, 23 år, Umeå.
 Petra Pantzar, 31 år, Vara.
 Sara Aldrin, 29 år, Eskilstuna.
 Sofie Tocklin, 25 år, Stockholm.
 Sylvia Söderström, 49 år, Mörarp.
 Tommy Jensen, 41 år, Landskrona.
 Zübeyde Simsek, 31 år, Katrineholm.

Tävlingen
Expedition Robinson 2000 inleddes med att de från början fjorton deltagarna landsteg på ön och delades in i de två lagen Nord respektive Syd. På grund av sjukdom avbröt deltagaren Maria "Marion" Kjellström sin medverkan redan innan lagindelningen skedde, vilket gjorde att hennes plats togs av Sara Aldrin istället. Efter laguppdelningen fick varje lag också en lagkapten: Bo Jonsson (lag Nord) och Sara Aldrin (lag Syd). Före sammanslagningen röstades fem personer hem (i ordning: Sylvia Söderström, Bo Jonsson, Ella Omma, Sofie Tocklin och Sara Aldrin). Precis som i tidigare säsonger fick lagen möta varandra i pris- och Robinsontävlingar. Förlorarlaget i varje Robinsontävling fick rösta ut en lagmedlem i örådet.

I den sjunde episoden slogs lag Nord och Syd ihop till ett sammanslaget lag: lag Robinson. Från och med då tävlade varje deltagare enskilt, även om alla tillhörde samma lag. Även i den här säsongen fick de som röstats ut, efter sammanslagningen, lägga en s.k. "svart röst" på en deltagare. Den rösten gällde i nästkommande öråd.

I finalen återstod fyra deltagare (Jan D, Jan Emanuel, Tommy och Zübeyde). Första finalgrenen blev Plankan, som vanns av Jan Emanuel, som därmed blev första finalisten. Zübeyde trillade i först och blev därmed utslagen. Jan D och Tommy fick därefter tävla om den sista finalplatsen, vilket vanns av Jan D. Slutligen blev det öråd, där alla som röstats ut efter sammanslagningen fick rösta. Därefter fick finalisterna välja ut tre kandidater var som de tror kan ha lagt sin röst på just den kandidaten. Avgörandet skulle dock ske först i januari 2002.

I en direktsänd final från Kittelfjäll i Västerbotten samlades de två finalisterna och de som röstats ut efter sammanslagningen. Efter att de sex personerna som finalisterna valt ut redovisat sina örådsröster stod det 3-2 till Jan Emanuel. Därefter skulle tittarna rösta fram vinnaren. I olika röstningskategorier fick den som fått flest röster poängen. Slutresultatet blev 7-2 till Jan Emanuel, som därmed blev Robinson 2001.

Sändningar
 6 oktober 2001 - cirka 2 396 000 tittare.
 13 oktober 2001 - cirka 2 189 000 tittare.
 20 oktober 2001 - cirka 1 721 000 tittare.
 27 oktober 2001 - cirka 1 824 000 tittare.
 3 november 2001 - cirka 1 799 000 tittare.
 11 november 2001 - cirka 2 044 000 tittare.
 17 november 2001 - cirka 2 146 000 tittare.
 24 november 2001 - cirka 2 115 000 tittare.
 1 december 2001 - cirka 2 083 000 tittare.
 8 december 2001 - cirka 2 176 000 tittare.
 15 december 2001 - cirka 2 292 000 tittare.
 22 december 2001 - cirka 2 746 000 tittare.
 29 december 2001 - cirka 2 908 000 tittare.
 5 januari 2002 - cirka 3 495 000 tittare.

Laguppställningar

Lagen före sammanslagningen
Från början var deltagarna indelade i de två lagen Nord respektive Syd. De deltagare som blev kvar innan sammanslagningen står i bokstavsordning, övriga står i röd text i den ordning de åkte ut i.

Lagen efter sammanslagningen
I den sjunde episoden slogs Nord och Syd ihop till ett lag: lag Robinson.
Deltagarna står i den ordning som de röstades ut i, medan vinnaren är markerad i grönt.

Referenser

Expedition Robinson

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1-2 mg over 5 minutes.
Can repeat .5 mg every 5 minutes until max of 2 mg reached.
My general recommendation is that physostigmine should be used in cases of clear anticholinergic toxicity where the antidote would likely reduce morbidity or increase the efficient use of hospital resources. If intubation is likely in an anticholinergic patient due to combativeness or coma, it would be great to prevent the intubation if possible. If an ICU admission is needed, then reversing altered mental status or lowering the level of tachycardia might enable admitting the patient to a step-down unit or telemetry. We have experienced this reduced morbidity and cost in patients with ingestions of diphenhydramine, quetiapine, atropine, and anticholinergic botanicals.
1) Tong TG et al. Tricyclic Antidepressant Overdose. DICP 1976;10:712-3.
2) Pentel P et al. Asystole Complicating Physostigmine Treatment of Tricyclic Antidepressant Overdose. Ann Emerg Med 1980;9:588-90.
3) Shannon M. Toxicology Reviews: Physostigmine. Pediatr Emerg Care 1998;14:224-6.
4) Burns MJ et al. A Comparison of Physostigmine and Benzodiazepinesfor the Treatment of Anticholinergic Poisoning. Ann Emerg Med 2000;35:374-81.
5) Schneir AB et al. Complications of Diagnostic Physostigmine Administration o Emergency Department Patients. Ann Emerg Med 2003;2:14-19.
6) Suchard JR. Assessing Physostigmine's Contraindication in Cyclic Antidepressant Ingestions. J Emerg Med 2003;25:185-191.
7) Rasimas JJ et al. A Review of Bedside Toxicologic Experience with Physostigmine and Flumzenil. Clin Toxicol 2010;48:48.
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What You Might Have Missed In Marvel's April 2017 Solicitations
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Created by Robert Kanigher and Sheldon Moldoff, Poison Ivy first graced the comic page back in the historic year of 1966, when The Sound of Music won Best Picture and England somehow won the World Cup. Her first appearance was in Detective Comics #181, and since then the character has remained a con…
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Since her debut in September, Marvel has been making a lot of hay out of the new Thor being somebody readers will recognize, and playing up her secret identity as a big reveal.
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Starstruck, the first trade of the new Cyclops series, which collects the whole Greg Rucka, Russell Dauterman and Carmen Carnero run with the character, sidesteps the adult revolutionary version of Cyclops, who is currently proving to be the only acceptable mutant leader in the Marvel Universe right…
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Have a gut feeling? A growing body of research suggests that intestinal bacteria have mood-altering powers. A new study using mice investigates how anxiety and depression from early-life trauma could be triggered by bacteria in the gut. Premsyl Bercik, an author on that study and an associate professor at McMaster University in Ontario, discusses the gut-brain connection.


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Q: using facebook app to login to facebook on my website When people are on my website and they want to press the like button, if they are not connected with their browser they can't like my web page, only if they are connected to facebook in the browser.
My question is, if they are connected to facebook with their app, can I check if facebook app is connected so they won't have to connect to the browser?
The problem is that if I ask my friends to like my webpage and they are connected to facebook with their fb app but not browser, most of the time they don't remember their facebook password so they don't follow thru.
Thank you for reading this, if you can or can't help.


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Q: how to add last login date in application using nodejs and mongodb? I'm trying to add last login date in my application.But I can't able to achieve it.The current date and last login date are same in my code....please some one help me......enter image description here
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const mongoose = require('mongoose');
const Schema = mongoose.Schema;

const schema = new Schema({
    username: {
        type: String,
        unique: true,
        required: true
    },

    email:{
        type:String,
        unique:true,
        required:true
    },

    hash: {
        type: String,
        required: true
    },
    defaultAccountId:{
        type:Number,
        required:true

    },
    buisnessUnit:{
        type:Array,
        required:true

    },

    createdDate: {
        type: Date,
       default: Date.now
    },
    lastLoginDate: {
        type: Date,
        default: Date.now
    }
});
schema.statics.login = function login(id, callback) {
    return this.findByIdAndUpdate(id, { $set : { 'lastLoginDate' : Date.now() },  new : true }, callback);
 };
schema.set('toJSON', {
    virtuals: true
});

module.exports = mongoose.model('User', schema);

]1

A: Change your part of code to this and you are done.
schema.statics.login = function login(id, callback) {
    return this.findByIdAndUpdate(id,{'$set' : { 'lastLoginDate' : Date.now()} }, { new : true }, callback);
 };


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Apple improves first-run Passbook experience in iOS 6.1 beta 2
by Matthew Panzarino — in Apple
A new beta version of iOS 6.1 has been seeded to developers today, and it includes a better, more explanatory first-run Passbook experience for users. The updated Passbook app now features a card that gives more detail about what Passbook is, why you'd use it and how it works.
The card, which was shared by 9to5Mac, features colorful icons that detail which kinds of passes will be available, indicating airline boarding passes, movie tickets, restaurants, music and generic gift cards.
This cleaner first launch explanation is a big improvement over the old Passbook app, which has a blank screen that only featured the Apps for Passbook button. This led people to the app section on the store, but didn't give them as much information about why and how they would use the app.
Though I've been bullish on the experience of Passbook so far, the onboarding of customers with more explanatory information right from the beginning has definitely been a point that needs improvement.
On the new card, Apple says that "Passbook puts your boarding passes, movie tickets, retail coupons, loyalty cards, and more all in one place. They'll also be ready on your lock screen just at the right time and place. You can add passes to Passbook through apps, emails, and websites from participating airlines, theaters, stores and more."
Making reference to the fact that they'll be on the lock screen (in the form of a slideable notification) will help to clear up the confusion when people see a Passbook notification for the first time. Developers can set these to pop based on time of the event or location as triggered by a geofence. That way a pass is ready when you arrive at a venue or when you're close to a coffee shop.
The note that you can add passes through apps OR emails OR websites clarifies that an app is not necessary to add a pass to Passbook, or to use Passbook at all. This has been a common bit of confusion both for users and journalists writing about Passbook.
Apple recently updated its Apple Store app to add gift cards which can be purchased and delivered (via email) to the recipient's Passbook. Those cards were demoed on stage at Apple's WWDC event earlier this year but took several months to show up.
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By Michael Pillsbury
The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower $35.99 (Hardcover)
The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower $46.2 (Paperback)
One of the U.S. government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country's rise – and how Americans have been seduced into helping China overtake us as the world's leading superpower.
For more than forty years, the United States has played an indispensable role helping the Chinese government build a booming economy, develop its scientific and military capabilities, and take its place on the world stage, in the belief that China's rise will bring us cooperation, diplomacy, and free trade. But what if the "China Dream" is to replace us, just as America replaced the British Empire, without firing a shot?
Based on interviews with Chinese defectors and newly declassified, previously undisclosed national security documents, The Hundred-Year Marathon reveals China's secret strategy to supplant the United States as the world's dominant power, and to do so by 2049, the one-hundredth anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic. Michael Pillsbury, a fluent Mandarin speaker who has served in senior national security positions in the U.S. government since the days of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, draws on his decades of contact with the "hawks" in China's military and intelligence agencies and translates their documents, speeches, and books to show how the teachings of traditional Chinese statecraft underpin their actions. He offers an inside look at how the Chinese really view America and its leaders – as barbarians who will be the architects of their own demise.
Pillsbury also explains how the U.S. government has helped – sometimes unwittingly and sometimes deliberately – to make this "China Dream" come true, and he calls for the United States to implement a new, more competitive strategy toward China as it really is, and not as we might wish it to be. The Hundred-Year Marathon is a wake-up call as we face the greatest national security challenge of the twenty-first century.
Michael Pillsbury is the director of the Center on Chinese Strategy at the Hudson Institute and has served in presidential administrations from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama. Educated at Stanford and Columbia Universities, he is a former analyst at the RAND Corporation and research fellow at Harvard and has served in senior positions in the Defense Department and on the staff of four U.S. Senate committees. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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Q: Comma in return value I know the desired syntax lies in the first function but I for the life of me can't find where it is.
I've attempted to remove commas and add spaces to each .split() each has yielded an undesired return value.
def get_country_codes(prices):
    price_list = prices.split(',')
    results = ''
    for price in price_list:
        results += price.split('$')[0]
    return results

def main():
    prices = "US$40, AU$89, JP$200"
    price_result = get_country_codes(prices)
    print(price_result)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

The current output:
US AU JP

The desired output:
US, AU, JP

A: It looks like you could benefit from using a list to collect the country codes of the prices instead of a string. Then you can use ', '.join() later.
Maybe like this:
def get_country_codes(prices):
    country_code_list = []

    for price in prices.split(','):
        country_code = price.split('$')[0].strip()
        country_code_list.append(country_code)

    return country_code_list

if __name__ == '__main__':
    prices = "US$40, AU$89, JP$200"
    result_list = get_country_codes(prices)
    print(', '.join(result_list))

Or if you like really short code:
prices = "US$40, AU$89, JP$200"
print(
    ', '.join(
        price.split('$')[0].strip()
        for price in prices.split(',')))

A: You could also use regex if you want to. Since you know country codes will be two capital letters only (A-Z), you can look for a match of two capital letters that precede a dollar sign.
def get_country_codes(prices):
    country_codes = re.findall(r'([A-Z]{2})\$', prices)
    return ', '.join(country_codes)

See regex demo here.

A: Look at the successive steps:
Your string:
In [1]: prices = "US$40, AU$89, JP$200"

split into a list on comma
In [2]: alist = prices.split(',')
In [3]: alist
Out[3]: ['US$40', ' AU$89', ' JP$200']

split the substrings on $
In [4]: [price.split('$') for price in alist]
Out[4]: [['US', '40'], [' AU', '89'], [' JP', '200']]

select the first element:
In [5]: [price.split('$')[0] for price in alist]
Out[5]: ['US', ' AU', ' JP']

Your += joins the strings as is; same as join with ''.  Note that the substrings still have the initial blank for the original string.
In [6]: ''.join([price.split('$')[0] for price in alist])
Out[6]: 'US AU JP'

Join with comma:
In [7]: ','.join([price.split('$')[0] for price in alist])
Out[7]: 'US, AU, JP'

join is the easiest way of joining a list of strings with a specific delimiter between, in effect reversing a split.  += in a loop is harder to use, since it tends to add an extra delimiter at the start or end.


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A Wall Street Insider on the Stock Market Valuation
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I blind bought this. Omg it's way 2 strong! I couldn't wait to get home to wash it off!
I am a south asian who lives in the midwestern US. This fragrance reminds me of home, of the food, of my father wearing aatr for eid, and a summer night heat to the point where i acutally feel sad that i am away from home. I like it that much that it makes me feel sad but then again i like it. It is not for the western nose at all. However, it is an excellent choice if you want to intimidate a bunch of westeners which i quite often have to do to get my job done. Excellent.
MyMickers thanks brother!!..im gonna have to get the samples from scentbird i cant afford full size bottles lol.
Im done buying fragrances foe compliments. Seriously, like, hundred percent of them are all compliment getters. And so far, only one (L'eau D'issey Pour Homme) gave me a few. I have heavy hitters too. Like Aventus, D&G Pour Homme, Aqua Di Gio-Profumo. None. I am changing the game for myself. Buying fragrances for me only. If i get a compliment, cool. Next month, Amouage Interlude Man will be one i will purchase. I love the smell of wood burning, ashes after a fireplace burnt out.
Hey Dan, I'm looking for some 5ml decants of a few different men's fragrences..... if I gave you a list, would you sell them to me?? Tuscan Leather -- Tobacco vanille -- interlude man -- Tom ford anthracite -- Ultra zest -- Aventus...... those are the ones I want,,,, so, can you hook up your #1 subscriber???
Hello, did you tried the old and the new version of interlude man, is there a difference ?
Man I love your videos. I don't buy a niche fragrance without checking your channel! Thanks for all the work!
The best fragrances from Amouage are Gold Man, Dia Man and Epic Man.
those two are very lucky to have each other.
love this scent, mysterious and of course bestia modo.
I second the request for an Opus VI split !!, it's so strong that 30 ML will last me for years!
+7Strangelove I will def do it! Never have.
Great video Dan, would you do a rerview on OPUS VI and a split?, if you do count me in, its just as powerful and complex as Interlude, another rock star!
Where are a few reputable online sources to get this fragrance from?
One of the most interesting scents ever.
This is almost my favorite Amouage (behind JubXXV). Quick story on this:: a few weeks ago I was heating up a couple drops of cambodian oud oil in the oil heater/scent thing in the living room. A short while later I found myself wondering why I was smelling Interlude Man and it occurred to me that it was the oud smoke that was being created from the oil burner. Awesome!
Perfect review!! I love interlude man, and it is a smoky beast!! What i love about it is that there is nothing smells like it. The dry-down is a masterpiece!!
Wild stuff,never had an Amouage..They do not have an Aquatic scent either..They should have on of that style,I mean that is totally Un American not to have an aquatic in the line up ye know..
Hey Dan, I know this is a little off subject but, In your personal top 10 video are they still your top 10 and if not can you do a video on what you think your top 20 fragrances are? what I mean is 20 frags you cannot live without and would like to own like an unlimited supply to last a lifetime????
+MyMickers Hey Dan, did you think of the 20 yet?
pplz interest/passion in fragrance slowly drop. Dan is still Bursting out with Energy after how many years? lol. Glad to see you're still pumping them videos Dan! You will always mean alot to me because the first day i was interest in fragrance i found your very first video.
+Barry Tran Thanks man! Really great to hear from you and thanks for the kind words :-) that's what I love about this hobby. There so much out there to explore it's hard to get bored!
Dan I was watching you're old videos about you're collection. I am surprise now you have solid stuff.nice collection.
Thanks for your input Dan. I was wondering if you were ever going to do a review on Interlude Man. I really do love this one. This happens to be my signature scent. Happy New Year to you and your family.
I love watching you guys! Mr. and Mrs. Wonderful! And I love Amouage Interlude Man too! Cheers!
hey dan, do you ever trade samples at all? Was wondering if you checked out bond no 9 hot always?
+MyMickers cool cool... was hoping if not we could trade a sample for something you have that's good lol.. I really enjoy your channel, really informative and fun!
+Jim Weil I have a decant of it. I haven't worn it quite a long time. Was one I always to review.
I remember smelling this and to my nose it smells exactly like sticking your nose in a pile of burning leaves. The smoke in this is strong as hell.
+silentrich11 Pile of burning leaves sounds awesome to me!
Come winter ( iam in Australia ) will be adding this monster for sure. Cheers and great work you guys.
Can't believe i still need to try this, super review guys!!
Amazing scent. If you apply it right it gets compliments. It's powerful and classy.
Hi Dan, I'll take 30ml of Vanilla Flash. Thanks!
+fluffywuffy Time to send money! Send 44.00 via paypal to [email protected] Leave this information at paypal: address, youtube user name, what fragrance the money is for. ADD 5.00 for shipping to Canada. ADD 10.00 for all other international shipping outside the U.S. If you are in the U.S., you will receive a tracking number when I send out. Make sure to leave your email at paypal so I have a way to send you the tracking number.
You and Amanda are always so fun to watch!
Enjoyed! I really need to put my nose on this bad-boy. I purchased a bottle of Jubilation Man (latest reformulation) over the Holidays and was not fully satisfied with my purchase. Should have picked-up this one.
Best to try before you blind buy next time.
can't remember if i tried this one. Its been awhile. Nice to see another video from ya.
Great video guys. This one is beast mooooode!!!! Happy new 2016!
I had a funny feeling you'd like this one! I'm up to five Amouage's in my collection now and this still hasn't quite yet made it in. I think I need to give it another chance. It's been a long time and it's quite an assault on the senses! I might take to it more this time. Always good seeing you do your thing dude!
Great review. The blue beast.
great video. wondering when the tauerville split are shipping? waiting patiently.
known as le male.not any Wear near the quality but closest one.
Interesting review! May have to pick up 5-10 mls if you do a split :-) btw I'm curious about how your bottles are arranged up there! Is there a system or is it random?
Great video! Thank you for the great take on it! I blind bought this a few months ago and absolutely adore it!!!
Great review, it's good to have Amanda's opinion. A female perspective adds a lot of value to review, especially if you're trying to smell good for them.
HAPPY NEW YEAR MY FRIENDS!!!! I love Interlude...I actually just wore it last week and kinda over applied. Geez...I nearly fumigated myself. lol 1 or 2 sprays its awesome.
I love this stuff! Great Review!


Social media is a really important marketing tool to build your personal brand. Now, you can take on various tools to do that. I think we can universally agree that social media is a key, core part. Of the many platforms such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Instagram, let's focus on only Pinterest or Instagram. Now you may ask why? Both can take videos or pictures, but they have different purposes and messaging.
Pinterest is a big search engine that has curated content. On the other hand, Instagram is using personal images.
Straight away you need to decide whether you're after posting curated content that contains images with external links or your personal images with a very personal story. Understanding the difference tells you how to build your personal brand. The is a fundamental step in working towards the building of your strategy. More on that at a later stage!
As of January 2017, 81% of users are females! On a more moderate difference, 68% of Instagram users are female as of August 2017. That's quite a big change and something you ought to consider. There are further demographic splits that you can make with 17% of teens saying that Instagram is the most important social media platform. In the end, you need to also consider your audience's demographics to help you make a better decision.
Storytelling is a core component to your brand. Now, how you want to tell that story depends on the platform you choose. Using Pinterest, you can tell a story with varying, unique boards. In contrast, you create a story with the personal content that you are posting.
I think it's fair to say that the Instagram story is much easier to build. Easier doesn't always mean the better option.
If one of your core objectives is to improve your SEO ranking, then Pinterest wins hands down. Simply put, the curated content has external links. For example, you can post pics of your artwork with links to your website embedded. It's a way for someone to look at the content and find out more about it.
In fact, Instagram cannot compete as you can only post a link to an image in your profile. There is no CTA (Call to Action) that you can incorporate. It's just the way the platform works!
What does value-add mean? Again, that really depends on what your followers want and what's associated with your brand. Sounds a bit cliche and nonsensical right?
Well, let's pause for a moment – if you're after having intimate engagement with your followers, then Instagram is the way to go. In this way you can get in touch with them and they can see this engagement as a value-add for themselves.
On the other hand, what if you created related boards with pins unrelated directly to your products. For example, if you are designing jewellery. You can have your boards with your jewellery pics, your videos of how the jewellery can be worn, and a board about makeup. Reason here is that consumers can get some information about makeup that compliments the jewellery that you are selling. Sure, you're not in the makeup business but you can enrich and educate your consumers.
In the end, there may be other factors you should consider. I find these the most important ones.
I challenge you to find another key point to help you decide whether to use Pinterest or Instagram.
Key Takeaway: You can create a strong social media presence using Instagram or Pinterest. To create that presence, you should decide the desired outcome you desire – curated content with external links or very personal content and engagement. In addition, you need to also consider specifics – audience characteristics, SEO ranking, storytelling, and value-add associated to your brand. Remember, you should always align the social media platform with your strategic marketing objectives.


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Hi I have a brand new medela Breast pump valve set. Yellow casing and membrane all brand new for sale. Never used. Self collect ANG mo Kio Ave 4 area.
Real Bubee Manual Breast Pump. Bought from online. Totally new, not yet open the packing. Selling back because of online order came late. So cannot wait and purchased again same item from outside shop.


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(MSNBC) RIO DE JANEIRO – Drug traffickers shot down a police helicopter and killed two officers in a burst of drug-based violence just two weeks after the city won the 2016 Olympic games. Three suspected drug traffickers were also killed.
Police inspect the remains of one of their crime-fighting helicopters lying in a soccer field after it was shot down when trying to intervene in a battle between two opposing drug gangs, in a Rio de Janeiro slum October 17, 2009.
Bullets flying from the Moore dos Macaques ("Monkey Hill" in Portuguese) slum in northern Rio de Janeiro hit the police helicopter pilot in the leg as he hovered above a clash between rival drug factions, causing him to lose control and crash.
The pilot and another officer managed to flee with burns after the helicopter burst into flames on a football field, but two officers were unable to escape, said a police spokesman who spoke on condition of anonymity because of department policy.
Officials did not know whether the gangs targeted the helicopter or whether it was hit by stray bullets. But the dramatic helicopter downing comes only two weeks after Rio won the 2016 Olympic games despite security concerns that have dogged Brazil's second-largest city for decades.
The three presumed traffickers were found dead inside a vehicle in the same slum, and television broadcasts showed at least three buses set ablaze in other slums and motorists fleeing for cover as automatic weapons fire broke out in broad daylight amid the worst violence the city has seen in months.
Images broadcast by Glob TV showed flames shooting from the helicopter wreckage, with little more than charred pieces and an intact tail remaining after the fire was doused. The pilot and the officer who managed to get away were hospitalized and were expected to survive, officials said.
Rio police frequently use helicopters to take on gangs that dominate drug trafficking in the city's more than 1,000 slums, but were unable to say whether this was the first time one of their helicopters had been shot down by gang members who use illicit military-grade weapons for combat against their rivals and authorities.
The crash happened about five miles (eight kilometers) southwest of one of the zones where Rio's 2016 Olympic will be located. The city on Oct. 2 bested Chicago, Madrid and Tokyo for the games. Rio alone among the bid cities was highlighted for security concerns ahead of the International Olympic Committee vote.
The downing of the helicopter followed intense firefights amid rival gangs in the slum as one tried to seize a rival's territory, authorities said.
Police moved into the area before dawn, though gunfire continued throughout the day, keeping terrorized residents inside their homes as bullets slammed into apartment buildings.
Despite increased policing efforts, Rio remains one of the world's most dangerous cities. The violence generally is contained within slum areas, though it sometimes spills into posh beach neighborhoods and periodically shuts down the highway that links the international airport to tourist destinations.
Brazilian President Liz Inca Lull Silva and other officials have downplayed the threat of violence for the Olympics, saying Rio has repeatedly demonstrated it can pull off big events without risk to players and spectators.
Rio held the Pan-American Games in 2007 without major incidents, deploying more than 15,000 specially trained officers on the streets to keep the peace.
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Competition Warning for Eight NHS Trusts
Eight NHS hospital trusts have provided guarantees to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) that they will stop exchanging commercially-sensitive information about their Private Patient Unit (PPU) prices, and ensure that they conform to competition law.
The Office of Fair Trading confronted members of the Southern Region Private Healthcare Association (SPHA) earlier this year, after they received information from a whistle-blower which noted potential competition concerns regarding the pricing data being exchanged between the SPHA members.
NHS Trusts who were confronted regarding the pricing data being exchanged were: Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust; Epsom & St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust; Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust; East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust; Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust; Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust and University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.
Private Patient Units allow for private treatment in a hospital within the NHS, normally offering a complete range of general and specialist medical services on site. Private treatment in Private Patient Units is covered by mainly by health insurance schemes and patients may be able to take advantage of low-cost, fixed-price surgery packages from some NHS PPUs.
The communication of commercially-sensitive pricing information can result in increased prices for customers, as it diminishes motivations for organisations to compete on price; it also has the potential to assist conspiracy. Where this behaviour is caught, it can constitute a breach of the law, and could result in financial penalties of up to 10% of global turnover.
To address the concerns, the NHS Hospital Trusts have provided confirmation that they will not exchange confidential pricing information and will provide further training to employees on the importance of obeying competition law where applicable.
The Office of Fair Trading announced that they will be writing to all NHS Trusts and Foundation Trusts which operate PPUs, enclosing assistance on competition law compliance.
The assurances given by the trusts are welcome, and have enabled the Office of Fair Trading to bring their preliminary investigation to a close, commented Deborah Jones, director in the Office's services, infrastructure and public markets group.
However, she noted that "this does not preclude the OFT from investigating any aspect of Hospital Trusts' economic activities if it receives further evidence of potential infringements of the law. We urge all Trusts to take steps to ensure they are compliant with competition law when engaging in commercial activity."
"Where public-sector providers compete with the private and voluntary sectors, the OFT is committed to ensuring that there is a level playing field for all, so that effective competition encourages suppliers to offer lower prices, better quality and an improve range of goods or services," Jones added.
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The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood
By Sam Wasson
Year in Reading
A Year in Reading: Bill Morris
Bill Morris - 12.20.2020
This was the year I finally, belatedly, decided to figure out why people make such a fuss about Joy Williams. Since 2015, her career-spanning collection, The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories, has been staring down from my bookshelf, daring me to find out if Williams's fiercely dedicated fans know what they're talking about. They do. These 33 stories drawn from earlier collections, plus 13 new ones, are a summation of a four-decade career that proves what her fans have known all along: Joy Williams is a master of the short story, one of our great fiction writers, a maker of sentences that veer and startle and delight, a conjurer of worlds that are at once unnerving and familiar, disorienting yet able to provide solace and even, on occasion, the possibility of redemption. She reminds us, in case we've fallen asleep, that the world is a deeply strange and wondrous place.
This collection's title story
displays all of Williams's gifts. The words in her sentences are both unruly
and surgically precise. They may bushwhack you, but they're just doing their
job, which is to remind us that we're all alone in a meaningless world, as this
story's protagonist, Donna, puts it after she visits her friend Cynthia in a mental
institution and gets sucked into the lopsided orbit of Cynthia's roommates, an
elderly woman and two obese teenagers. While playing cards with the elderly
woman, Donna imagines she's on a boat, taking a short safe trip to a lovely
island. Later she imagines she's a docent in the mental institution. She
imagines the fat teenagers are her jailers. Walking down a hospital corridor,
she imagines she's a virus moving through someone's body. This unfocused yearning
to escape is shared by many of Williams's characters, and Donna soon comes to
believe she has found her vocation – her way out of her aimless life – in doing
small favors for the elderly lady. Of course, since this is a Joy Williams
short story, she's wrong. The woman tips over dead while everyone is eating
Jell-O, and eventually Donna's visiting privilege is revoked. She goes home to
her same old life, changed but still trapped.
When I say Williams writes
sentences that veer and startle and delight, here's what I mean: "A year after
my mother moved farther out, she became obsessed with building a tortoise
enclosure." And: "People preferred the equivocal, they found comfort in it.
They were heartened by the news that more panthers were killed by one another
than by mercury or cars." And: "The inhabitants of the place were in many
respects peculiar, poor and cruel with extraordinary dark eyebrows, but the
cream teas were excellent. The dogs were polite. The gulls were big, the crows
enormous."
The story "Marabou" takes its title
from a species of stork – animals, as the preceding sentences indicate, are
everywhere in Williams's world, in trees, on playing cards and rugs, on the
roofs and in the back seats of cars, in cages, in oceans. Rats pour out of a
burning palm tree. A woman swims with a dolphin that sports a stupendous boner.
Animals are both a barometer of human malfeasance and a possible ticket to
redemption from that malfeasance. "Marabou" opens with a woman named Anne
attending her son Harry's funeral, which is not going well because some sort of
celebrity is being buried simultaneously at a nearby grave, and mourning fans
are carrying on loudly under a lurid striped tent. It gets worse: "Still more
fans pressed against the cemetery's wrought-iron gates, screaming and eating potato
chips." Potato chips! Harry died of an unspecified cause, probably a drug
overdose, and Anne dutifully takes his friends out for a lavish lunch after the
burial: "They had calamari, duck, champagne, everything." With six words and
three commas, Williams captures the manic way people act in the immediate
aftermath of death. She is a master of this kind of compression. The fuss, it
turns out, is richly merited.
C Pam Zhang's debut novel, How Much of These Hills Is Gold, was long-listed for this year's Booker Prize. With vigorous, inventive prose, the novel makes visible characters who have gone too long unseen, both in American history and literature: the Chinese-Americans, both immigrants and native-born, who worked the mines and railroads that were so vital to America's westward expansion. This novel is much more than a corrective, though; it's the arrival of a thrilling new talent.
Kent Russell's In the Land of Good Living: A Journey to the Heart of Florida was his uneven follow-up to his much-praised 2015 debut collection of essays, I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son. In the new book, Russell and two friends walk from the Florida panhandle to Miami, filming as they go, hoping to produce a documentary movie (and this book). The book's sharpest insight into the soul of Florida (and America) comes from Russell's "unapologetically Canadian" traveling companion Glenn, who blurts out: "All of this Rebel flag, meth lab, Breaking-Bad-slave-compound militia business. Like, 'I got a God-given right to defend my crappy, ignorant life! You wanna make my existence better? You wanna send my kids to school? You wanna give me healthcare? Fuck you!'" I haven't read a better explanation why 74 million Americans voted for Donald Trump this year.
Sam Wasson's The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood is a spellbinding take on how the making of a great movie heralded the death of the auteur-driven New Hollywood. The book has many pleasures, including extensive interviews with the perfectionist director Roman Polanski and the high-flying producer Robert Evans, plus a scathing portrait of the film's femme fatale, Faye Dunaway. But the book's major revelation, for me, was that Robert Towne, who won the best original screenplay Oscar in 1975 for his Chinatown script, got extensive – and un-credited – help from his friend and long-time collaborator Edward Taylor. So much help, in fact, that when Taylor declined to insist on a screenwriting credit, his stepdaughter pleaded with him: "What are you doing? You can't not get credit. It's not fair and it's not accurate." Wasson fails to come up with an explanation for Taylor's demurral, which leaves open an intriguing question: Should Robert Towne's Chinatown Oscar come with an asterisk?
Much of my reading this year was research for a nonfiction book I'm writing, and I took a deep dive into 19th-century American history. A few of the highlights were Edmund Morris's magisterial biography, Edison, which moves backwards in time to paint a richly nuanced portrait of a genius. Andrew Delbanco's The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War argues that American slave owners were conflicted from day one, in 1619, when the first enslaved Africans came ashore at Point Comfort, Virginia. The simple truth, Delbanco contends, was that the slave-holding Founding Fathers and people of like mind learned to live with their misgivings about slavery because it served their interests. It was convenient, it was profitable and, perhaps most crucial of all, it had always been so. "All other arguments on its behalf were bogus…" Delbanco writes, "and somewhere, in heart if not head, they knew it." Thomas J. Schlereth's Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life is a delightful, street-level look at the exuberance that colored the ways Americans worked, played, learned, shopped and traveled in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. In American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm, Thomas P. Hughes takes us into the fertile minds of the American inventors who, in the century after the Civil War, produced a "gigantic tidal wave" of life-changing devices, including the telephone, gyrocompass, electric light, automobile, wireless telegraphy, phonograph, radio, airplane and moving pictures, to name a few. Despite its clunky title, Richard White's The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 is a nimble and deeply researched chronicle of how this nation marched from a calamitous war to the buzzing threshold of the modern age. Like all of the best historical writing, it lets us live briefly in the messy past so we emerge wiser about how the world we live in today came to be.
As this grim year winds down, I'm dipping into the radiant new novel from Alice Randall, Black Bottom Saints, which derives its title from the long-gone African American neighborhood in Detroit that once pulsed with life and vivid characters, including Dinah Washington, Joe Louis and Randall's protagonist, Joseph "Ziggy" Johnson, newspaper columnist, man about town, and founder of the Ziggy Johnson School of the Theatre. If the promise of the early pages holds up, Black Bottom Saints will soon go up on my long and growing shelf of unforgettable books inspired by my battered and beloved hometown, Detroit. If ever there was a year that reading saved me, this was it.
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To grow and evolve, it is important to have insight into yourself. After my 21 year relationship ended in divorce, I struggled with my identity. My ex and I, grew and evolved together, it was tough to see who I was solo. When my son started his junior year (Fall 2017), he took this test, www.16personalities.com as an assignment and he was curious on my results so I took the test as well.
I'm a Consul. Consuls enjoy supporting their friends and loved ones, organizing social gatherings and doing their best to make sure everyone is happy.
Strong Practical Skills – Consuls are excellent managers of day-to-day tasks and routine maintenance, enjoying making sure that those who are close to them are well cared for. Very true in my personal and professional life.
Very Loyal – Valuing stability and security very highly. Consuls are true pillars of any groups they belong to – whether it is their family or a community club, people with this personality type can always be relied upon. I will forever be the "go-to girl".
Sensitive and Warm – Consul personalities seek harmony and care deeply about other people's feelings, being careful not to offend or hurt anybody (Not always) . Consuls are strong team players, and win-win situations are the stuff smiles are made of.
Good at Connecting with Others – These qualities come together to make Consuls social, comfortable and well-liked. Consul personalities have a strong need to "belong", and have no problem with small talk or following social cues in order to help them take an active role in their communities. I will forever be labeled a "people person".
Worried about Their Social Status– These Strengths are related to a chief Weakness: Consuls' preoccupation with social status and influence, which affects many decisions they make, potentially limiting their creativity and open-mindedness. Certainly at times, I feel first impressions are important and I am a hopeless designer handbag collector.
Vulnerable to Criticism – Consul personalities can become very defensive and hurt if someone, especially a person close to them, criticizes their habits, beliefs or traditions. Yes, I am very sensitive and generally take things personally. My teenager son brings this out in me BIG-TIME. I work hard at developing a thick second skin.
Often Too Needy – Consuls need to hear and see a great deal of appreciation. If their efforts go unnoticed, people with the Consul personality type likes compliments, in an attempt to get reassurance of how much they are valued. 110% true. I have wanted to end friendships due to this, then I learned it was my issue.
Too Selfless – The other side of this is that Consuls sometimes try to establish their value with doting attention, something that can quickly overwhelm those who don't need it, making it ultimately unwelcome. Furthermore, Consuls often neglect their own needs in the process. I do shower people with attention, however when they are invested in me as well. Thank goodness the "only-child" in me would never let me neglect my own needs.
Embrace and reflect on the knowledge you gain about yourself. The more you know about yourself, the more you understand the "Why's" behind your thoughts and actions. Evolving is a courageous journey!


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The trailer for A Quiet Place was one of the most intense we've seen in years, probably the scariest trailer since the one for The Conjuring turned that low-key horror film into a monster hit. But does the film deliver on the promise of its excellent preview?
In a word: absolutely.
Starring real-life husband and wife John Krasinski and Emily Blunt (and directed by Krasinski), A Quiet Place works on multiple levels. As a straight horror thriller, it's incredibly visceral, tense, and exciting. But if you happen to be a parent, the film takes on a whole new level of subtext, as the idea of having to protect your own children in a world that is out to kill them is the stuff of parental nightmares.
The premise is simple: after an (presumably alien) invasion by heavily armored creatures that hunt solely by sound, a family tries to survive against overwhelming odds. To say more would be to ruin the fun, but this isn't a film driven by plot. It takes place mostly over just a couple of days, as a series of events shatters the quiet and brings the creatures to our family's front door.
Now, generally, I try to avoid crowds at movie theaters, but in this case, I can't recommend seeing this movie in a crowded theater highly enough. I saw it on opening night, in a packed house, and the experience was magical. This is a film with large swaths of silence, during which the tension ratchets ever higher and higher. I've never heard (or not heard, more accurately) a crowd that was so into a movie. Nobody dared make a sound: no candy bags crinkling, no popcorn munching, nobody getting up to go the bathroom, no cell phones making noise. The only breaks came from the audible gasps, laughs, shouts, and screams as the events on screen made us jump out of our seats.
People looking for a complex story or overly-developed characters will probably come away from this film a little disappointed. Personally, I appreciated the streamlined nature of the film. It tells a very particular chapter in a much larger story, but that's part of what I loved so much about it. Blunt and Krasinksi give absolutely stellar performances, and the child actors who populate the film are all really good as well. The top-notch acting on screen elevates the film above just a typical horror thriller.
For my money, A Quiet Place is one of the better films I've seen in quite some time, and certainly one of the best horror movies (although I hesitate to assign it that label) I've seen in years. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!


Alligator Preserves is a narrative podcast for readers, writers, and storytellers with a new topic each week capturing the humor in mundane moments and the poignancy of moments more memorable. McHargue will challenge listeners to engage with their lives more fully and to open themselves to new experiences--enriching their own life stories as they do--and will intermittently interview guests with memorable life experiences.
If I interview you, be ready to brainstorm at some point in our conversation!
When a friend asked author Laurel McHargue what her new publishing goals were for 2018, she considered her options and decided to expand her author platform in a way that would engage listeners as well as readers.
"I listen to several different podcasts while driving or doing mindless activities, and I really enjoy them. There have been times this past year when I've thought, I could do that," said McHargue.
With technical support from her husband, Mike, and narrating support from her son Nick, she was able to launch her podcast successfully. "After recording my own intro and outro for my first episode, I asked Nick if he would consider letting me record him. I think you'll agree I made a good decision. He has a wonderfully resonant voice."
After listening to Nick's voice on air, McHargue said she hopes her son will narrate her novel The Hare, Raising Truth, because she knows "he could do a great Rod Serling voice. He said he just might do it."
Alligator Preserves is a weekly podcast for people who enjoy storytelling, story reading and story writing, "but probably not story 'rithmetic, because that's not a thing." McHargue will examine a new topic each week with an eye toward capturing "the humor in mundane moments and the poignancy of moments more memorable." By exploring the human condition with a magnifying glass, she strives to find common ground on a planet shaken by uncertainty.
How did McHargue come up with the title Alligator Preserves for her podcast? "You'll have to listen to Episode 1, entitled 'Balls,' to understand the genesis," she said.
Using stories from her past and present, she will challenge listeners to engage with their lives more fully and to open themselves to new experiences, enriching their own life stories as they do. She will suggest reading, writing, and storytelling tips, and will intermittently interview guests with memorable life experiences.
She will post her show notes with photos and links for each episode on her website.
"And if I interview you, be ready to brainstorm at some point in our conversation," she added. "I like to start with one highly focused topic and see where it will lead us."
McHargue's new novel Waterwight Flux: Book II of the Waterwight Series is free on Kindle from Feb 1-5, 2018.
Listen and subscribe to Alligator Preserves on iTunes, Stitcher, or wherever you enjoy listening.
Laurel McHargue--Author, blogger, podcaster Waterwight Flux: Book IICeleste thought she was finally on her way home, but ancient gods Odin and Kumugwe have other plans. Free on Kindle Feb 1-5, 2018.


What does the Center of Excellence in Advanced Practice application consist of?
The entire application is comprise of five (5) components or sections: 1) an Advanced Practice Administrator survey, 2) an Advanced Practice Provider Staff survey, 3) a Physician, Nurse, and Hospital Executive Survey, 4) Documentation/Policy review, and 5) Exemplars.
An exemplar is descriptive clinical narrative which serves as an example of a model of excellence. As a significant component of the application for designation as a Center of Excellence in Advanced Practice, organizations applying must select four (4) out of seven (7) available exemplar topics to submit written case studies on.
How much time is allotted for an organization to submit all components of the application?
90 days, beginning from the date payment is received.
Once all components of the application are submitted, how long will the review and decision process take?
The review process may take up to 90 days.
How much does is cost to apply to become a Center of Excellence in Advanced Practice?
Initial application cost is $8,900. Payment is accepted online (via credit card) and by mail (via check).
How long does an organization maintain its designation as a Center of Excellence in Advanced Practice?
Center of Excellence in Advanced Practice designation is awarded for a period of three (3) years. Organizations renewing designation should anticipate and plan to submit a complete renewal application prior to the end date of their designation period.
Upon receipt of a complete application, members of APPex's Board of Advisors will thoroughly evaluate all survey responses, findings, data, documentation, processes, and exemplars. Formulaic, evidence-based criteria have been developed, along with expert opinion and experience of Board members—who are advanced practice executives—to benchmark and determine ratings & standards. Each domain is rated as "needs improvement", "acceptable", or "exemplary".
Can an organization request an extension to complete the application in its entirety beyond the 90-day timeline?
Yes, an organization can request one (1) 30-day extension.
Can an organization appeal a decision if it is not awarded designation as a Center of Excellence in Advanced Practice?
No, all decisions are final.
What is the process if an organization is not awarded designation as a Center of Excellence in Advanced Practice and wishes to re-apply?
The organization must wait a minimum of one (1) year, beginning from the time the formal decision is issued, before it submits a subsequent application.
How does an organization reflect its designation as a Center of Excellence in Advanced Practice?
Once designated, organizations will receive a formal award that they may display within their institutions. Additionally, organizations may begin using the Center of Excellence in Advanced Practice award logos in print, posters, presentations and other publications. Lapel pins—a gold APPex shield, denoting a Center of Excellence in Advanced Practice—are available as way to recognize and honor achievement.
Is preparation (e.g., a mock survey) for designation as a Center of Excellence in Advanced Practice available?
Yes, APPex can help assess your organization for its readiness in becoming a Center of Excellence in Advanced Practice. Please email info@APPexecutives.org to inquire about further information and details.
Is academic preparation (e.g., terminal degree: PhD, DNP) taken into account in the assessment?
Yes, formal academic education of APP staff is reviewed as part of a comprehensive and thorough evaluation of the institution.
Why are physicians (MDs/DOs), nurses (RNs) and administrators surveyed as part of the designation process?
Insights and understanding of how knowledgeable, participatory, engaged, and supportive these other professional roles are of advanced practice within the institution is important.
Why are APRNs and PAs grouped together as APPs?
The roles of NPs and PAs are incredibly similar, despite some structural and regulatory/legal differences.


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A Blackout Period (limited or denied access) in terms of 401k retirement plans is an average of 60 days of the year during which plan participants are NOT allowed to modify the structure and covenants of their 401k retirement plans. For example, if the job of 401k administrator is being moved from one bank to another, a blackout period may occur to easily facilitate this move.
Other applications of a blackout period is when a candidate or party of the general elections is not allowed to campaign or advertise for a set period of time to make the election results fair.
After then Enron bankruptcy in 2002, the US Federal Government introduced the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 that does not allow executives and directors to sell their stock or exercise their stock options during the time when the corporation's 401k plans are being changed or modified. Remember, employees also own the company's stock and it would not be fair to allow executives and directors to sell off their shares at a time when the 401k plan participants are restricted from selling.
Reasons for the blackout period.
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If the beginning date & time of the Blackout Period is changed after the original notice has already been given out, the 401k plan administrator must make all efforts to issue another notice informing participants of the new beginning date of the Blackout Period. Any reasons for the blackout period (or any characteristics discussed above) that have changed must also be stated.
The US Department of Labor may initiate a penalty of $100 per day for every late notice of a blackout period that is given out to 401k plan participants. Each investor to whom the notice is delivered late is considered to be 1 late violation. Therefore, if the plan administrator is in charge of 15 401k accounts, he will pay a fine of 15 x $100 = $1500 per day if he delivers a late blackout period notice.


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