A New Approach to Vaccines at Southlake Animal Hospital 5/27/2015 | Southlake Animal Hospital P.C.
A proper vaccination program is essential to your pet's health. Current research suggests that pets do not require annual vaccination and certain vaccines can be administered every 3 years while others still need to be given every year. Vaccinations given to animals at the appropriate time and circumstance are of the utmost importance to preserve their health and well being. Responsible vaccine protocols have enabled us to safely and effectively protect our pets from infectious diseases. In light of this new research we are now offering our clients an extended vaccine protocol.
Core vaccines are recommended for all dogs and cats. These include rabies, distemper, and parvovirus for dogs and rabies, feline respiratory disease complex, and panleukopenia for cats. We have a 3 year vaccine available for rabies, distemper/ parvo in dogs, and rabies, respiratory disease complex/ panleukopenia in cats. Zoetis, the maker of our vaccines, has a 3 year immunization support guarantee. This means that should your pet contract a disease that your pet is protected against within 3 years of vaccine, Zoetis will pay for diagnosis and treatment.
Noncore vaccines are ones that are given dependent on the animal's lifestyle and associated risk of exposure. These vaccines include leptospirosis, bordetella, parainfluenza, adenovirus, lyme, and canine influenza for dogs and leukemia for cats and need boostered every year.
Another option is the use of titer testing. A titer test is a simple blood test that measures the antibody levels for a particular CORE vaccine virus. A positive titer indicates that the animal is protected against the disease and vaccination is not required. Titers can be checked annually, but every 3 years is sufficient. Unfortunately, Indiana state law requires vaccination of rabies every 3 years instead of a titer test. A mercury-free rabies vaccine is used at our clinic and helps prevent adverse immune-mediated reactions. The titer test for either a dog or cat is $85 and is sent to Cornell University which takes approximately 2 weeks for results.
We will continue to require core vaccines for every patient staying in the hospital for boarding, baths, and elective procedures. A current titer (positive titer within the last 3 years) for distemper / parvo for dogs and respiratory disease complex/panleukopenia for cats will be accepted instead of a vaccine.
The modified live core vaccines should be given at 9 weeks, 12 weeks, and 15 weeks of age. Afterwards, another vaccine would not be required for 3 years. Maternal antibodies remain present within puppies and kittens up to 14-16 weeks of age, but begin to wane after 6-8 weeks of age. This is why it is important to begin administering vaccines starting at 9 weeks of age. The other option available is to have core vaccines given at 9 and 12 weeks of age, and then have titer test performed at 16 weeks to determine if another booster is needed. Rabies vaccine should be given separately and no earlier than 12 weeks of age. Rabies must be boostered again in one year, but subsequent rabies vaccines can be administered every 3 years thereafter.
Do you have any questions about your pet's health, care, or behavior? Please contact us, your Merrillville vet clinic, anytime!


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This small atoll's story begins with a typhoon, a missionary ship and a lack of western influences. If we took away the missionary ship, we can only speculate the fate of the islanders.
In was sometime in the mid-19th century when the white man called on this tiny dot of land. We think the missionaries were from the London Missionary Society.
When the pale-skinned invaders pulled ashore, they were greeted by the hierarchy of the island and numerous discussions began as the skies began to give signs of an approaching cyclone.
First a bit of background: Polynesian society is determined in part by your family tree. Leaders and the 'upper crust' of society can trace their roots by oral histories to other leaders and so-called folk heroes who performed 'beyond mere human' feats. It is these families that, by heritage, are charged with not only their own welfare but all of those on the island. They enjoy perks, but at the cost of responsibility.
Typically an island is segregated. The ruling families, or might we say the upper class, lives in their own neighborhood and the remaining classes live in their respective areas.
As a missionary, you want to convince the upper class to convert to Christianity because the lower classes on the island will fall in line. You see, the ruling class does not need to rule by force, but they are respected as being the bloodline of previous great leaders, so it is felt that these folks have a more superior knowledge or wisdom to direct the whole island's population for the benefit of every islander. The ruling class feels the responsibility for the welfare of all the islanders.
After a couple of days, the indications of a typhoon heading toward the island became evident. This represented a threat to the missionaries who needed to attempt to evade the storm and it brought fear to the islanders who realized their low-lying island would likely be awash in the storm, leaving a crusty salt deposit that would destroy their food supply.
With a bit of convincing, food, supplies and about 50% to 60% of the island boarded the missionary ship and set off to the nearest neighbor, Palikua, about 60 miles distant. This was a larger island with better elevation and the lagoon would offer better protection for the ship, especially since it was believed the path of the cyclone would go further east, sparing Palikua of most of the impact of the cyclone.
The plan was the remaining islanders would be picked up in a couple of days, just before the cyclone would hit.
The ruling class was the logical choice to transport to the nearest neighbor. They were the ones charged with getting permission from the ruling class on Palikua to evacuate to their island. If the lower rungs of society showed up, it is possible it might be interpreted as the beginning of a war.
As the story continues, the missionary ship and the islanders are granted sanctuary on Palikua. As the missionary ship prepares to go back for the remaining population, the weather suddenly deteriorates and it becomes evident the return trip cannot take place.
The cyclone was a big and powerful storm. It did indeed cause extensive damage on both islands and leaves the missionary ship in need of repairs to be seaworthy again.
The escapees joined in with the Palikua islanders in rebuilding, sharing the supplies and food brought along. In short, the evacuees were blended into the Palikua society, earning a portion of the island after all was said and done.
That leaves us back at Lanakila Mokupuni, meaning Victory Island. The eye of the cyclone passed close to the island with those who survived by holding fast to coconut palms, found their island washed by the waves, a destroyed food supply, no fresh water, no housing and loved ones washed to sea. A few perished from infections from the cuts received in the storm. Surely beaten, the islanders still had the fight remaining. They would get past this and survive.
Meanwhile, the upper classes of Lanakila Mokupuni settled on Palikua, never returning. The missionary ship continued without returning to Lanakila Mokupuni fearing the hapless souls there could have never survived the storm. Anyway, the ship's repairs had taken several months, far beyond a reasonable time to check on the conditions on Lanakila Mokupuni.
The cyclone had changed life forever on Lanakila Mokupuni, but not just in the obvious ways. Certainly the devastation, death and hardship changed the people but more importantly, it changed their society. They had been the lowest rung of society, carefully orchestrated by the people above them. They were a group void of leaders.
Human nature has ugly little emotions. Power, greed, lust and others seem to have no positive value and the Polynesian society suffered from these human qualities. You see, if you are the upper society, you have the best and even those below them have it far better than the lowest rung. The lowest rung has the least in wealth, respect and value compared to those above them. If you were in this class, even walking through the village of the classes above you was done only with a purpose and you needed to show respect along the way. So, on Lanakila Mokupuni, the least of social status were left to fend for themselves.
It seems there was so much resentment of leaders that the islanders shut down any attempt at someone taking an upper hand. The tide had changed and they were intent on being a classless society. Naturally the lifestyle they had lived was all they knew, so with the exception of social structure, the Polynesian ways continued to flourish without outside interference. The lack of social structure led to community governance and some people were designated as leaders in respect to their skills and wisdom but not in the same way it had been.
So little is written of Lanakila Mokupuni that we have a singular account of a visit. A group of eight visited the island. Nobody knew the name of the island prior to this visit and there was no account of their lifestyle. Hust as we resolved there was no additional information another source came forward.
Mr. Braiden Oya is an expert on Lanakila Mokupuni. In his research, the concludes the inhabitants are the 'lost' Hawaiians. There is documentation that at some point in the distant past the Hawaiian people had come from other dots of land in the Pacific. While most were not lost a few were and as fate would render such, they simply blended with existing populations at the spot where they landed but Lanakila Mokupuni was uninhabited. It may have been simply a stopping point that became a permanent home.
As Braiden put it, the group that arrived on the island included some people of greater hierarchy than others, so the traditional social structure prevailed until the upper crust of society, so to speak was removed. That left the remaining population to 'recreate' their social structure.
Braiden noted many lost Polynesians dot the Pacific Ocean and are usually far flung. Nukuoro is a prime example. The scenario of Lanakila Mukupuni has been found at numerous spots.
While Lanakila Mukupuna is Hawaiian for Victory Island, and very much modern Hawaiian, the everyday language was obviously shaped over time to create a more distinctive local tongue although many of the cultural practices, although modified, are true to the Polynesian heritage.
Just how did Braiden come to his knowledge? His middle name is shared by the island, Lanakila.
We ponder how Lanakila Mokupuni became the name of the island and can only offer a guess. Obviously the group became separated from others, perhaps by unfavorable winds or sudden storm. Such a venture across the ocean was a risky and life threatening venture. Finding such a spot as Lanakila Mokupuni would certainly feel like a victory over the threat of peril such an ocean voyage presented. We will likely never know, however.
Lanakila Mokupuni is the best guess at the written name, as their language has never been written, so at best the name is matched to Australian English based on the name of the island.
The crew was met my both men and women who shuttled canoes out to greet them. They brought various fruits to the boat and marveled at the vessel. On shore, they were invited into homes, invited by numerous young ladies to have sexual encounters and generally welcomed into the fold. A feast near sunset and awkward attempts to communicate began. Mostly shy and smiling, the seemingly carefree islanders were not quite sure of the visitors and the crew felt the islanders expected them to stay permanently as a thatched hut was built for them and various utensils for everyday living were given to them.
They noticed that the men tended to go out in their canoes in early morning to fish and if someone came back with not much of a catch, those with a good number of fish would give some to the person. It seemed the men watched out for one another, making sure nobody was left without. Mostly the younger boys would scale coconut trees and gather the nuts, including drinking coconuts. The women tended the children, cooked, weaved and conversed through the morning hours. The young girls watched children and weaved as well.
By the time afternoon rolled around, people seemed to be more at leisure. It seemed more of a time for one-on-one visitation. As late afternoon came, cooking, an evening meal and as sunset began, the whole community tended to gather. Groups would split off to sing, tell stories and such while the younger men and women would joke and talk while some would vanish for a while with someone of the opposite sex. Eventually the group would slowly disband until the next morning.
The crew noted handsome men and beautiful women. The island was described as somewhat of a nudist colony. Nudity was very commonplace. Bathing in front of anyone was natural and pre-puberty children wore no clothing. Women typically wore no upper body clothing just as the men.
Sanitation seemed quite important as islanders frequently bathed and applied scented plants to their skin. Bathrooms were small roosts extending over the water so that any waste would wash away from the island.
In short, every adult on Lanakila Mokupuni is equal. There are no leaders. There is not a single adult who rates above another. Certainly there are those who are considered better suited to handle certain situations based on personal knowledge or their person's life experiences but I must stress there is no leadership.
Children are not disciplined whatsoever. A child is left to do all they desire. An adult can request they stop, but the child can say no. The most effective treatment is to caution the child that their actions will upset their deceased ancestors. By this we mean thunder and lightning. Thunder and lightning, a frequent event here in the tropics, is believed to be spurned by ancestors living in the sky showing their displeasure at something that happened on the island. A child threatened with upsetting their deceased ancestors usually changes their behavior in an instant.
To make the 'no leadership' work, a few rules are in force. Nothing can belong to anyone. Anything grown or caught comes from the land and ocean and cannot be owned by a person. There is an obligation to care for the land and sea.
The belief system is simple. They believe their ancestors watch from a spot in the skies above. Only by being peaceful and living in harmony can they please their ancestors and enjoy good fortune. They are so intent on being peaceful and harmonious that they never show violence and rarely show anger. This is not to say some things are not hotly contested. Should things progress to the point of jealousy, animosity and dreams of violent acts, the person with these feelings is thought to have put the community in peril. He or she should separate from the group and work through the feelings.
Sometimes the people assemble to discuss the matter when bad feelings arise. The meetings can last for hours and center on learning how the issues came about. Typically the discussion involves breaking down the situation to show the community just how one can become entangled in the snare of anger. In most instances, the feelings both parties harbor are shown in such a light as to indicate the two parties were snared by the emotion through some form of trickery and that if they were thinking logically, they would not be angry. In short the sequence of events resulting in anger are highlighted to help both parties understand how the anger came about and this is done in a way where both parties feel shame at not being able to see how the anger came about and allowing these emotions to surface. The affected parties feel ashamed at lacking the personal self control to conquer these emotions before they become well rooted.
One violent act in the 1950s was an incident of causing one to fall from a tree, resulting in a sprained ankle. It seems one young man was angry at another over a young girl. The offender was ignored by the community at large. The offender made amends by providing fish for the family and caring for their garden until the sprain was healed. The unique feature is this was done in secret without the victim or his family seeing the acts. Certainly on such a small island there are no secrets and all knew what was going on, including the family, but nobody interfered with the plan of making amends developed by the offender.
Dreams of violent actions and anger toward another are seen as drastic decisions by their ancestors to bring the emotions to the attention of the offending person, so they can depart from the community to work the feelings out of their mind. Most who leave the community to 'get right', return at night to perform some kindness for the person they were upset with. It seems the acts of kindness or 'favors' whittle away the negative feelings on both the affected parties.
The social life is interesting. Men and women are considered married when they move in together sometime beyond puberty. In fact, the children sometimes 'play house' by spending the night with the opposite sex, having many partners before one partner steals the heart of the other. This is why boys, near puberty, build their own hut, sometimes with the help of others in the family or with their friends.
Couples are in love and very loyal to one another. Even so, it is not rare for both men and women to have other sexual partners after they marry. There is no emotional attachment on a marital level with these sexual partners. Even if a pregnancy occurs, the child belongs to the female and her family. Couples truly love their children and tend to have their leisure activities revolve around their children. Men and women only have one spouse. Divorce does occur. In most instances this happens early on as couple find themselves a poor match or in events where the couple 'grows apart'. The percentage that divorce is minimal. In the event of divorce it is not unusual for the couple to remain friendly and to tend to the other's needs until they remarry.
The villages function as somewhat of a big family. Everyone watches out for one another making sure no family goes without. In the event of sickness or injury, the chores that person might be expected to perform for the household are eagerly taken on by others in the community and while the culture tends to feel it best such duties are done without the affected family's knowledge, some tasks will certainly be known, such as cooking meals, doing laundry, etc. The family who receives the help is not expected to repay the kindness but frequently at some point in the future the family might sponsor a feast or offer small gifts of thanks.
Homes are small grass huts or lean-to structures with mats that can be lowered. People of the island can come or go into any home as long as a doorway is open. It is considered polite to respect privacy if mats are lowered. If the mats are lowered and one needs to speak with someone at the home, it is the custom to call out the name of the person at the doorway and await them to raise the mat.
As anything in nature is considered the property of earth, so to speak, and cannot be owned there is a certain respect given. For example, if a family tends a garden, one would not collect any of the harvest without the permission of the family. While this may sound like ownership, islanders see a family's garden as a piece of land lovingly tended by the family and to interfere with their care of the garden is not a polite and harmonious action. Some items can be owned. As a general rule, anything that must be made or created to be used, can be owned. Any item that is imported or not found in nature locally is owned. As a result, items at an island store are owned by the store owner and must be purchased by deed, trade or cash. People can hire individuals to perform work and services in exchange for cash or owned items. The irony is that foods not found on the island or nearby waters can be owned and must be acquired by labor, trade or cash.
From what we understand this 'non-violent, harmonious' lifestyle is unique among Polynesian cultures where leaders are always found. The fact the people of Lanakila Mokupuni have successfully resisted having leaders and evolving into classes is most amazing and somewhat against human nature. In addition, the non-violent approach is something one would think would be unsuccessful. We attribute its success to the belief system that indicates violence and anger can cause their ancestors to send mother nature's wrath upon them, their family, village and island. In fact, striking or hitting another person in anger or to inflict pain is considered something only a deranged person could do. A person who would commit violent acts on several occasions would be purged from the island by being forced away in a boat and be instructed to never return after other attempts to rectify the actions failed, such as encouraging the offending person to go away from others to work out their anger and by being shunned by the community.
More recently, the Aussie visitors have helped the island get a radio transmitter to request help when needed and to receive important information affecting the island. A dentist, doctor, a couple of nurses and eye doctor recently visited the island to provide health checks and needed care.
There is talk of a party coming to the island to study the language. They hope to publish a dictionary.
The island, it is believed, has been visited by yachting families in the past few decades. A few English words are known by locals. Locals speak of a few small groups arriving over the past 40 or so years.
Lanakila Mokupuni is a mere 321 acres in land area with a tiny lagoon of only about 183 acres, having only a small opening to the sea. The unbroken island is some two miles by 1.3 miles in size.
The atoll has been called one of the most lovely atolls on earth. The palm fringed shores give way to shades of blue and green lagoon waters. The traditional thatched huts have not given way to more conventional housing and the white sand paths that take one from one end to the other are not marred by tire tracks. The island remains the vision of fantasies of tropical isles in a bygone day.
The people are tall, slender, lighter skinned Polynesians and among the most pure of Polynesian peoples. The population of Lanakila Mokupuni is 285, mostly residing in large families. Sometimes the family hut has several small 'sleeping huts' mostly for those in their teens or early 20s. Several generations form a family. The woman designates the family. As is the case, it is not uncommon for young girls to have a child and the older women embrace the child as the newest member of the family. Likewise, upon marriage, the male joins the female's family although the couple may live near the male family's home. Even so, he might have a periodic affair with another woman and the female might do the same with another male. Like the pre-missionary days of Polynesian culture, the people of Lanakila Mokupuni view sexuality as a natural part of life that is to be enjoyed. There are no stigmas attached and children are taught from a very early age about their bodies. It is an obligation for older men and women to give the younger of the opposite sex among them a bit of practice while teaching them about lovemaking, a long tradition in Polynesian societies, largely lost within the past century. We should note this is not 'forced' and typically the young approach the adult, not by attraction but by respect of the adult's knowledge. While both parties might not mind the lessons, the acts lack a perverse nature.
Another observation is the lack of alcohol and mind-enhancing or mind-altering substances on the island. We must conclude that these were outlawed, likely because the intoxicated might have less control of their emotions, leading to an increased chance of violence and anger. This must have been set down long ago as nobody today knows why. Simply put, a mind-altering or mind-enhancing substance is something entirely unknown to the islanders.
There is little resemblance of an economy although there are a few retailers on the island in the form of stores and sundries. It is not unusual for all inventory to be sold before the next batch of products arrive.
In more recent years, a pearl farm has been established in the lagoon and the first sale of pearls in 2010 brought the island's first economic windfall. The amount of pearls sold was about 650 and the gross income was about $8,000 US. A pearling consultant is needed to teach the islanders the proper techniques and a group is shopping the $32,000 proposed plan among various agencies and non-profits that might offer a grant to the island.
In conclusion, we would like to thank Braiden Oya for his valued input in compiling this article. Without Braiden's help we would have many more questions void of answers.
LANAKILA MOKUPUNI MONEY
As one might suspect, there is not a big demand for actual money. It is typical for a family to save coins for some time in order to purchase an item for the family. Daily spending of money is not rare but it certainly is a far cry from the typical western economy.
The coins are made locally.

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Many college professors spend their time attempting to indoctrinate their students rather than teach the actual curriculum that is being paid for.
However, one Missouri college is putting their foot down, and turning up the heat. College of the Ozarks President Jerry Davis praised President Donald Trump when he saw how many businesses were able to pass tax savings on to their employees.
"We're certainly not an environment for snowflakes," he added.
Davis said the College of the Ozarks is a "work college" where students are simultaneously employed while at school, and normally do not graduate with debt.
Cafeteria worker Bonnie Brazzeal said each employee received $204 in bonuses.
Rachel Campos-Duffy asked Brazzeal about her emotional reaction during the roundtable with Trump and Boeing aerospace manufacturing executives.
Brazzeal said it was "an amazing experience" to meet the president and be able to thank him in person for the money, which she said she deposited in her retirement fund.


Our house is near sea and it takes less than a minute to get on foot from bed to the beach. Room S2 (2+1) is on the first floor and it has a balcony with sea view, beds for two persons, bathroom and kitchenette. For the 3rd persons we can put an armchair bed in the room. There is also large LCD TV, ceiling fan, bed linens and bathroom towels. Balcony has table with chairs for two persons and sea view. The room also has outdoor area with table with chairs.
Me and my family are renting apartment for more than 30 years. We are sure that you will have nice time at our apartments.


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Community Transit to launch Swift Green Line and change services for spring
Swift bus at Blue Line Aurora Village Station. Photo courtesy of Community Transit.
From a community Transit News Release.
Local routes serving Boeing to terminate at the new Seaway Transit Center
Community Transit will launch its second bus rapid transit line, the Swift Green Line, at noon on March 24, 2019.
Swift Green Line buses will run every ten minutes on weekdays, and 20 minutes early mornings, nights and weekends between the Canyon Park Park & Ride in Bothell and the Seaway Transit Center near Boeing Everett.
The Swift Green Line will connect with the Swift Blue Line at Highway 99 and Airport Rd., creating a high frequency, high-capacity transit network. With stations on Airport Rd. at 100th St., the Swift Green Line will also serve the new Paine Field Airport passenger terminal.
Beginning Monday, March 25th, as part of its spring service change, Community Transit's local routes serving Boeing will get extra trips and will terminate at the new Seaway Transit Center. Trip times for these routes have been adjusted to allow time for transfers.
The transit center will be a connection point for Community Transit, Everett Transit, King County Metro Transit, Sound Transit, and Boeing shuttles. Seaway Transit Center is only accessible to transit vehicles and does not have public parking.
Other routes will be modified to improve accessibility with extra trips and new routing.
Spring Service Changes
Route 107 (Lynnwood Transit Center-Seaway Transit Center) will have new stops along the Mukilteo Speedway and 84th St., serving local businesses and the Future of Flight Museum.
Sound Transit Route 510 (Everett-Seattle) will add two weekday southbound trips at 9:05 a.m. and 9:25 a.m. to improve access during the morning commute.
Sound Transit Route 513 (Everett-Seattle) will be extended to Seaway Transit Center via Casino Rd. and will discontinue service to Evergreen Way and 79th Place. Stops will be added at Casino Rd. and Evergreen Way.
Details about the spring service change can be found at www.communitytransit.org/NewService.
With every service change, some trip times may be adjusted to improve connections or account for traffic. Riders should check the new bus schedules at www.communitytransit.org/Schedules.
Riders can ask questions about the service change on Community Transit Live, a webcast that streams in real-time via Facebook Live. Learn more about the spring service change during the next webcast on Tuesday, March 19th, from noon to 12:45 pm.
Questions and comments can be directed to Customer Care at (425) 353-7433 or email riders@commtrans.org.
Swift Green Line Map. Image courtesy of Community Transit.
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As a teenager I played lead guitar in a band. We weren't very good, but we had fun. Over time the rest of the players in the band started to get serious about playing professionally. They wanted to play other people's songs and get the sound perfect. Slowly but surely the fun disappeared for me, as everyone else got serious about the group. As the fun died, so did my interest in the group. Eventually the inevitable happened and my best friend from childhood had to ask me to leave the band. So instead of becoming a rock star I went to university, got a computer science degree and I've been having fun with computers ever since. The band found a new lead guitarist who fitted in and they played professionally for several years.
Hiring and firing decisions are never easy. Whether you're in a band or a large corporation, the decision cannot be taken lightly. In my experience, you have to ask yourself two questions. First, is this termination the right decision for the organization? Second, is it the right decision for the individual being terminated? As a manager, the first question is usually easier to answer than the second. But in my band example, the band did the right thing for the group and the right thing for me. I went on to a career I loved and they got to play the music they loved.
Management requires a healthy balance of understanding of others and self-awareness of your own needs. Balance your thinking before you act. Be aware of the toll on the organization while taking the time to assess the employee. Think carefully about your own biases when making the decision. Empathy is about understanding as much about others as you understand about yourself.
When you have a people problem and you lose sight of both sides' needs you can make several mistakes. The simplest reaction is to ignore a minor staffing issue. It's easy to worry about bigger issues and hope the little ones go away. But when an employee no longer fits in, the problem will fester and grow into a show-stopper that damages both the organization and the individual. Time is lost and both sides suffer.
Be careful in rushing into the decision. Some managers make difficult decisions too quickly. Shooting from the hip and terminating an employee without thinking through the consequences is mindlessly naive. In these situations the manager recognizes the situation is failing the company and simply pulls the trigger. Without understanding the employee's potential value you may have made a mistake. That's why it is worth taking time to understand if the decision is right for the employee too. A good termination is one where both parties benefit from the decision.
Some managers are afraid to make difficult decisions. They continue to support the individual after the person is a lost cause. Investments are made in counseling, the employee is sent on self-improvement courses, and sometimes the whole team is dragged to an off-site team-building session. As a professional manager, you need to know when to stop. Resolving issues around the cultural adaptability of one person is simple: once you are sure the situation isn't working for the company and the individual, take action immediately.
In my band example, what I did wrong was stay too long. I remained in the band long after I was enjoying it. As soon as I stopped having fun, I should have made it easier for everybody and left. I should have left the band before they had to ask me to leave. Managers don't always have the luxury of having self-aware employees. So they have to make some very difficult decisions and have some very tough conversations.
But that is why you are a manager.


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Q: On python, how do I get rid of quotations after joining a list of floats? Apologies if this has been asked before, I couldn't find the same question.
I'm trying to write 3 things to a CSV file in one line, productcode, amountentered and changecoins.
The changecoins is a list of floats which I have joined together using changecoins=",".join(map(str,changecoins)). This works fine except I still have quotations around the values which are then written into my csv file.
I've tried using strip and replace but they don't seem to work.
I've attached my code and output in the csv file below, does anyone know how to fix this?
changecoins=",".join(map(str,changecoins)).replace('"', '')
changeline=(productcode, amountentered, changecoins)
changewriter.writerow(changeline)

Output
01,1.0,"0.1,0.1"
01,2.0,"0.5,0.5,0.1,0.1"
04,1.0,"0.1,0.1,0.1,0.1"

A: This is most likely because you're using "," to join your values when the CSV delimiter is also a ,. Python is wrapping the column in quotes so the "," inside the cell value isn't confused for a delimiter.
If you change to joining with a different character than "," or change the delimiter for the file, the quotes will go away.

A: Why not use extend?
result = [productcode, amountentered]
result.extend(changecoins)
changewriter.writerow(result)

if you want to get even more slick, you can just do:
result = [productcode, amountentered] + changecoins
changewriter.writerow(result)

or even just:
changewriter.writerow([productcode, amountentered] + changecoins)

It seems you're unnecessarily joining the floats...You already have a list of floats, just tack it on to the other two guys and then pass that to your csv writer.

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We got up early to hit the road and have the complimentary hotel breakfast. We both just wanted to get home.
I had to stop at the Trees of Mystery to take a photo of the huge Paul Bunyen and Babe the Blue Ox Statue.
We spent a lot time on the trip home talking about Pelican Bay and Super-Max prisons.
We drove down the Avenue of the Giants, but I did not drive through a tree. Kate said that I have to save something for when we have kids. It was a amazing to drive down 101, from the coast, to the great north woods, to wine country. The views were amazing.
We stopped for Milkshakes in Santa Rosa, but I could not convince Kate to go to the Warm Puppy Cafe.
It took us 45 minutes in traffic to get from Berkley to past the Bay Bridge.


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A Day In The Life Of A Yogi Mom: Dab and Fly
By Athea on May 25, 2017
Bacon Little has been dabbing everywhere. From celebrations to gatherings to hangouts, while Tea Love has been spinning around the buzz of the end of the school year like the latest and greatest fidget spinner with bright lights emitted at each 360-degree turn.
As Bacon Little was prepping for his 5th grade graduation, he slipped on his navy blazer, his navy chinos, and red chucks then grabbed ahold of his lapel gazing up at Tea Love with a smile and excitedly said, "I'm swaggin'!"
"It's the end of an era and the beginning of a new adventure," Tea Love thought to herself as she was preparing to celebrate the last day that Bacon Little stepped foot on the elementary campus.
She continued to probe the meaning of this transition.
"The formative years are behind and the middle years start now," she stated with awkward relief and slight anxiety.
11 years in the making for this moment in time that marks a pivotal transition in Bacon Little's life. There are beginnings and endings all around us. We begin and end each new day with limitless possibilities. We begin a conversation and end it with sweet good-byes. But, this beginning and ending was quite different for Tea Love. The moment reminded her of how important the ground is beneath our feet.
"The formative years are like the ground beneath our feet," Tea Love wrote in her journal.
She continued with such fervent understanding, "If the ground is solid, the next steps will feel supported and safe."
She put her pen down, gazed out the window noting the sunrays coming through the blinds and shining on her knees and thought, "The path to self-discovery requires some form of solid ground because the process itself is so chaotic and full of unpredictable motion."
Sometimes we are forced into self-discovery from uneven grounds that hold no space for any feeling of support or safety. Most of the time we don't know that we are stepping into this uneven terrain. If we did know, we would run and run very far and fast from it. The outcome of this particular process can be very destructive or very constructive.
"As aware parents, we desire to give our kids the best solid ground to walk on so they can trip multiple times and have the strength to get back up," Tea Love noted in her journal while still sipping the morning's lukewarm tea.
"You are so savage, Mom!" Bacon Little declared with pride and honor.
Tea Love had just finished teaching Bacon Little's friends her very own "Dab and Fly" and with that kind of declaration it was apparent that Bacon Little was stepping on firm ground as he closed down the last few days in the chapter of his formative years.
"He hasn't always stood so tall and, of course, neither have I," thought Tea Love in that moment.
Her heart was filled with gratitude and also pained with the knowledge that this glorious experience was littered with many falls.
Bacon Little had already started parts of his chaotic middle year journey. Tea Love no doubt was hoping that he was an early bird in this regard and that Bacon Little's recent falls were no indicator of something more, above, and beyond what could happen in the process of self-discovery that wraps its shaken arms around us like prisoners in our own body fighting each moment as if we were escaping the very cells that created us.
"He had one of the firmest grounds to walk on in his formative years, but life saw his path differently and shook the ground beneath his feet when he lost his father his 3rd grade year," Tea Love said to herself as she got up from her writing chair and put the empty tea cup in the sink.
"A true warrior does not train on even ground for the battle of life and all its shapes and contours requires astute attention to the varied levels each one of us walks," Tea Love wrote quickly on her post-it note for review later during her writing time.
Tea Love's dab and fly seemed to epitomize this process with movements of the body. Each time we move our forehead in the direction of the elbow we physically exhibit falling and each time we raise our hand and arms towards the sky we show the world and ourselves that we choose to soar no matter what ground life has us stepping on.
Dab and Fly.
"I suppose he's ready," Tea Love said to herself as she smiled at him in his navy blazer and chinos.
It didn't take long for the tears to start rolling down her cheeks.
"I've given you the firmest ground to step on and life shook it up in ways that have given you the wisdom and courage at a young age to do great things in light and love," said Tea Love as she toasted Bacon Little with glasses in hand and the ice clinking like the latest rap rhythms debuting on YouTube.
In the process of self-discovery, we will fall and we will get back up. The best kind of ground to walk on is the firm ground that sends us propelling into the varied contours of getting to know ourselves in ways that strike the match, sharpen the sword, and seize the day.
And Soar.
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The Beaumont CDD encompasses an area of approximately 153.55 acres entirely within the City of Wildwood, Sumter County, Florida as an alternative method of planning, acquiring, operating and maintaining community-wide improvements in planned communities. The land within the District is generally located east of CR462 and north of CR 466A.
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Ambition and Personality – how important are they for career success?
OPP Ltd. recently carried out research looking at the extent to which ambition and personality predict career success. It is often assumed that the three elements are linked, but this was an opportunity to explore the evidence.
The following notes are a summary of a paper I presented at this year's BPS Division of Occupational Psychology Conference, dealing with this subject.
Some people judge ambition to be a negative mental attitude, the cause of many undesirable work behaviours. However, I would argue that ambition is actually a mental state where the benefit is dependent on how it is utilised. Many people use it as a means to overcome inertia and to energise their action. They then choose to adopt commendable ways of achieving their goals. So, in this sense, ambition is positive and advantageous because it represents motivation and a willingness to work hard towards one's goals.
Career success can be measured in a number of different ways, and a key distinction needs to be made between objective and subjective achievements. Objective career achievements are directly observable, measurable, and verifiable by an impartial third party, while a subjective career is only experienced directly by the person actually engaged in that career.
Objective career success therefore includes factors such as salary, number of promotions and organisational level. Subjective career success, on the other hand, is more concerned with things like job and career satisfaction. Whilst personality, intelligence and educational attainment may all be factors that can predict career success, research suggests that the predictors of objective success are different from those of subjective success.
Ambition itself has not been very widely researched, especially in terms of how it relates to career success. However, some studies have linked it to personality traits such as Extraversion, Conscientiousness and Emotional Stability. In turn, research tends to show these traits as being those most clearly associated with job performance.
Given this, we might expect an ambitious person to be more likely to have a successful career. Our research, however, did not find matters so clear cut.
Firstly, we found that higher ambition is associated with several personality factors (as measured by the 16pf).
For the purposes of the research we adopted a very narrow definition of objective career success: whether or not an individual had been promoted to a more senior role in the last three years. The results showed that, on average, those who had been promoted scored higher on Liveliness and the Extraversion global factor, and lower on Vigilance, Self-Reliance, and the Anxiety global factor.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, we also found that ambitious people were more likely to have achieved promotion in the last three years than we would expect from chance, and less ambitious people had a lower likelihood of promotion.
Having established that ambition is linked to several personality factors, and that ambition and personality are both linked to career progression, we explored the extent to which these variables were predictive of career success when thrown into the mix together.
The results were interesting. The best overall prediction came from a combination of three predictors: high ambition, younger age and the tendency to trust others (low on Vigilance). However, between them the predictors only accounted for 10% of the variation in career success. This suggests that whilst these variables do play a role in determining career success, their impact is only modest.
Additional variables not explored during this study clearly account for the majority of the variation of this particular indicator of career success. The future challenge is therefore to build a predictive model that accounts for a greater amount of the variability in career success than has been achieved to date.


Good literature leads to discussion. This is because there is always more implied by a good piece than just what it says, but exactly what is implied can be open to varied interpretation. That variety is what makes group discussion more fun.
So, this is how the game works: 3 new pieces each week. Ask questions, talk about content, subject matter, ideas, anything even tangentially related to one, the other, or both. Find out how others interpret the world, and give your two cents.
Conflict drives action because it drives our lives. Conflicting opinions welcome.


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In Memoriam to Identity: Transgender as Strategy in Qiu Miaojin's Last Words from Montmartre
Ari Heinrich, Eloise Dowd
When Taiwanese author Qiu Miaojin ended her life in 1995, she left behind her final work, the experimental novel Last Words from Montmartre. This article outlines some of the challenges in translating Qiu Miaojin's novel from Chinese to English. Structured as a series of letters to mirror the novel's own epistolary form, the article discusses how, supported by the novel's constructed chaos, Qiu's narrator occupies several distinct genders over the course of the novel. The authors argue that what might be construed in certain Western literary traditions as the novel's excessive emotionality is in fact a radical act of expression and even resistance to prevailing calls for queer "reticence" in the time and place of its production.
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DAKOTA MEANS FRIEND
A Native American fight to stop an oil pipeline is a "morally embarrassing reminder" of America's founding
Jon Don Ilone Reed, a member of South Dakota's Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, protesting near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in southern North Dakota.
Image: AP/James MacPherson
PublishedSeptember 6, 2016
For months, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota has been protesting the construction of a $3.8 billion (paywall) oil pipeline that would cut through four US states. Last week, the protests reached unprecedented size. Hundreds of environmental activists joined the local community of about 8,000. The BBC reports that the largest gathering of Native Americans in over a century, with over 90 tribes represented, is currently underway in Cannonball, North Dakota.
The Native tribes and environmentalists say the pipeline would disrupt a sacred burial ground, as well as threaten water quality in the area. They say that the Army Corps of Engineers should never have granted permits for its construction.
Those that support the pipeline, which would carry crude oil from North Dakota's Bakken Shale formation to Illinois, claim it will be spill-proof, and argue that its construction will generate thousands of jobs.
Because of the protests, which led to the arrest of the Standing Rock Sioux chairman among others, work has temporarily been halted, and a judge who has heard arguments against the construction is expected to rule by Sept. 9.
Things turned tense on Sept. 3. Democracy Now's Amy Goodman reported from the scene, where protesters clashed with security forces, who had dogs and reportedly used pepper spray or mace:
The image of Native Americans being attacked as they try to protect a land that is sacred to them shocked many, among them the commentator Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC whose damning condemnation of their treatment on Aug. 26 has been widely shared:
"Dakota means friend, friendly," he begins. "The people who gave that name to the Dakotas have sadly never been treated as friends."
In his short, poignant message, O'Donnell calls the events in Standing Rock a "morally embarrassing reminder" of America's history of mistreatment of Native people, noting that those who lived in the country before European settlers arrived have been "dealt with more harshly than any other enemy in any of this country's wars."
"The original sin of this country is that we invaders shot and murdered our way across the land, killing every Native American we could, and making treaties with the rest," he says. "This country was founded on genocide."
Even after the killings stopped, deals and treaties made with the tribes have been consistently broken. "We piled crime on top of crime on top of crime, against the people whose offense against us was simply that they lived where we wanted to live," he says.
He counts the current events at Standing Rock among those crimes. "That we still have Native Americans left in this country to be arrested for trespassing on their own land is testament not to the mercy of the genocidal invaders who seized and occupied their land," O'Donnell says, "but to the stunning strength and the 500 years of endurance and the undying dignity of the people who were here long before us."


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2 Share $1.7 Million Award – Radiology Medicare Fraud
August 22, 2016 by Brian Mahany
Medicare fraud is a huge problem nationally. According to the FBI, taxpayers lose tens of billions of dollars each because of fraud. Since Medicare, Tricare and Medicaid are paid with tax dollars, everyone in the country is hurt by these schemes. Radiology Medicare fraud is one of the larger and growing problem areas.
Imaging and X-ray equipment can cost millions of dollars. Yet new stand alone MRI clinics seem to pop up everywhere. The intense competition and need to service the debt on these big ticket equipment items push some providers to break the law.
For this post we are looking at a recent prosecution against Rose Radiology Centers located on the west coast of Florida. One of their centers is just 2 miles from my home. Just about every type of Medicare fraud scheme was alleged by the two whistleblowers who made claims against Rose. That makes them the perfect "poster child" for this post on radiology Medicare fraud.
The Claims Against Rose Radiology Centers
The two claims against Rose were brought by whistleblowers. Plaintiff Carlene Schimke has been a licensed radiology technician for over 30 years. For just over three months, Schimke worked for Rose Radiology. Katrina Miller was working at Rose in their billing department. She handled all the Medicare claims for the company and their 13 radiology centers.
According to the two women, Rose Radiology was doing many things wrong.
Testing without a Physician Present
First, Schimke claimed the clinics were performing medical testing without a physician present. That may be legal for some tests, but not those in which contrasting dye must be injected into patients. Because some patients have life threatening reactions to the dye, federal Medicare rules require a physician be present.
According to Schimke, a doctor was only at her clinic 1 to 3 days per week and often not for the entire day.
Testing without a Valid Prescription
Second, Schimke also reported that sometimes patients were given expensive tests without a prescription. When a patient comes to an imaging center, it usually because his or her treating physician requested an MRI, CT scan, MRA or other type of testing. Medicare won't pay for these services unless they are accompanied by a prescription from the treating physician.
In the case of Rose Radiology Centers, when there was no script from the referring physicians, doctors there would simply make up a prescription after the fact to cover any additional testing.
Shortly after complaining that Rose's actions were illegal and dangerous, Schimke says a supervisor "grabbed [her] arm and physically and roughly forced her out of the office." Like so many other concerned workers who are ignored or suffer retaliation, Schimke filed a False Claims Act claim in federal court.
Miller's story is similar, although she saw different types of fraud.
The federal Anti Kickback Statute prohibits the exchange of anything of value made to induce or reward the referral of taxpayer funded healthcare business. Common examples include cash payments, gift cards, expensive meals, trips, free or discounted rent deals, concert tickets or kickbacks disguised as discounts. It is also generally illegal for a physician to refer a patient to an entity which the physician or immediate family member owns. Congress wants healthcare decisions to be based on the best interests of the patient, not on who pays bribes or kickbacks.
Miller says that Rose Radiology gave special discounts to physicians who referred their Medicare patients needing testing. Sometimes the referring doctor would want to bill for reading the test results. Rose would give the doctor a discount and read the results then allowing the treating physician to bill at their higher rates and as if they had interpreted the tests.
Chiropractic Referrals
Imaging prescribed by chiropractors is not covered by Medicare. Many chiropractors order these tests, however. To trick Medicare, Miller says that Rose would change the prescription to make it appear that one of its' physicians had ordered the test. Radiologists can prescribe these tests either, but Medicare won't pay unless the radiologist is the treating physician.
Performing Testing at Unapproved Facilities
Medicare rules require each independent diagnostic testing facility ("IDTF") be enrolled and approved by Medicare. This requirement isn't simply done for number crunching or accounting reasons. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services want to track quality issues and be able to conduct surprise inspections of every facility. They can't, however, if the facility doesn't enroll.
According to Miller, of the 13 facilities owned and operated by Rose Radiology Centers, 2 had equipment that flunked inspection. Those facilities were not enrolled and shouldn't have treated Medicare patients. They did, however.
Of the remaining 11 facilities, Miller says some of them were limited in what services they were approved to provide. Once again, Miller says it simply didn't matter. Rose' personnel would simply alter records to make it appear that all services were performed at licensed facilities.
Medically Unnecessary Testing
All radiological testing must not only have a valid prescription from a treating physician, it also must be medically necessary. According to Miller, Rose had a practice of adding tests even if they were not necessary. For example, she claims that the company had a protocol that said anyone coming in for an MRA of the lower pelvis would also receive an MRA of the abdomen and aorta regardless of what the patient's doctor wanted or what the results of the pelvic MRA revealed.
Kickbacks to Patients and Billing for Services Not Provided
Between the two whistleblowers, six different violations of Medicare regulations were alleged. About the only thing we didn't see were kickbacks made to patients and billing for services not provided.
We are seeing a proliferation of stand alone MRI clinics that advertise directly to the public (itself a no-no) and that give gift baskets, gas cards and other give aways to patients who refer new patients. These promotions, of course, are illegal and considered to be kickbacks.
Billing for services not provided is just what it sounds like, a provider bills Medicare for a service even though the service was never performed.
Rose Pays $8.71 Million to Settle Radiology Medicare Fraud Charges
There is a happy ending to this story. This spring, Rose Radiology paid $8.71 million to settle the charges brought by both whistleblowers. For their efforts, both women received $1.7 million as an award.
In announcing the settlement, Tampa's United States Attorney, Lee Bentley, said, "This settlement resolves myriad allegations involving standards of medical care, false billing practices, and breaches of trust. There is no room for such practices in our public health care programs. We will continue to do everything within our power to protect the public against such violations, when and where they are found."
A Health and Human Services spokesperson addressed the danger in operating these clinics without proper medical supervision. "It is unconscionable for a physician to allow someone without the proper medical training to administer a test that could cause serious harm" said Shimon Richmond, Special Agent in Charge for the HHS Office of the Inspector General. "Not only do the kinds of frauds that were alleged in this case rob Medicare of needed funds, they threatened the health of elderly and disabled Americans."
We agree.
Whistleblower Awards and Radiology Medicare Fraud
Medicare fraud involving radiologists and MRI centers is illegal. Whenever the services are paid by taxpayer funds, awards become available to the whistleblowers reporting the fraud. Generally, an award is only paid to the first person who reports the fraud but as this case points out, awards can be paid to multiple whistleblowers if each has different information.
To qualify for an award, a whistleblower must have inside information about the fraud. The fraud must also involve public healthcare funds. (A small number of states have laws that pay whistleblowers for information regarding fraud against private insurance companies.)
If you are thinking about becoming a whistleblower, try to get specific examples of fraud. Although patient names are never included in complaints, several states require examples and having examples makes it easier for prosecutors to prove your claims.
Claims are made by filing a sealed lawsuit in federal court. The government then is given time to investigate the claims in secret. While the case is under seal, the whistleblower's name is also kept secret and can only be released with court approval.
Should the government decline to investigate, the whistleblower's own legal team can prosecute the case. Should those efforts be successful, the awards are even higher. Generally, the awards paid to whistleblowers range between 15% and 30% of whatever the government collects. Because the government is entitled to triple damages and seek penalties as high as $20,000 per each bad claim filed, potential awards are huge.
Retaliation against whistleblowers is illegal. Should it happen, the whistleblower is entitled to even more damages.
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William's ancestors came from Scotland. They moved to North America in the mid XVIII century and were part of the pioneer movement of crowds who started to explore the new land. They were young, courageous and strong people, driven by a sole dream – to get rich. The great-grandfather of the writer managed to fulfill this dreams thanks to his adventurism and entrepreneurship spirit. He was involved in many activities – from fighting the wars between the North and the South, obtaining a title of the colonel, to building a railway and even writing two novels.
William Faulkner inherited many of these traits, all but the entrepreneurship. William's father, Murry, was the owner of a private stable and the boy grew up in the atmosphere of "royal poverty". He was one of the four sons and he chose his own way to fulfill his dreams in the literature creations. This creativity was inherited from William's mother Maud. She and her own mother were avid readers and masters of visual arts.
William didn't graduate from the high school and went on continuing his education on his own. He was hungry for reading, swallowing classical books of English, French and Russian writers. He attended a couple of courses at the University of Mississippi, but never really obtained a finished academic degree.
William grew up surrounded by stories of his great-grandfather, referred to as "The Old Colonel", the Civil War and the exploits his family had to go through. This played a great role and influenced the writer to sign up for the British Royal Flying Corps during the First World War (even though this fact is disputed by some later historians). He never actively participated in the war, however.
The topics of Southern American life, including slavery and rights suppression, and also the World War I became major themes of his writing works.
His first book "The Marble Faun" (1924) is a compilation of poems, most of them aren't known today. The critics of that time called it a failed attempt to copy the French symbolism movements.
Finally, under the influence of Sherwood Anderson Faulkner started to write prose. His first prose books are "Soldiers' Pay" (1926), that talks about the lost generation of people who didn't find their place after the war, and "Mosquitoes" (1927). He himself admitted that he wrote them for the sake of "having fun". These works are often called weak and lacking unity, but they also started to shape Faulkner's own literary style.
Anderson helped Faulkner to develop his talent. He told William that his knowledge of a small piece of land, such as Mississippi where he grew up, is enough to make a great piece of text. He pushed Faulkner to understand and interpret his past experiences, opening it to his readers. That was the start of a fictional Yoknapatawpha County that served as a nondepletable source of inspiration for Faulkner.
His native land appeared for the first time in the third novel, "Sartoris" (1929). At first, it was entitled " Flags in the Dust" and dwelled heavily on the heritage of South America. After being turned down by the publisher, the book was edited and published under a title "Sartoris".
Faulkner's novels present drama of the new generation that had to face a cruel and tough reality. It is a mix of courageous legends about heroic past of our ancestors, and the differences of the 20th century with its devaluation of values.
The world of Faulkner's novels – is a world of fictional Yoknapatawpha County and its surroundings in the Mississippi state. Its center Jefferson remotely reminds Oxford, where Faulkner spent most of his childhood. It is the land that was bought or stolen by the adventurists, mostly ruled by the aristocratic families of Sartoris and Compsons until the Civil War of 1861-1865 changed the balance. It is the land where the stories of the descendants of these aristocratic families live side by side with the patient and exhausted African Americans who learned to demonstrate more virtue than their unstable and mentally disabled white neighbors. The dark clouds of human passions, mistrust and hatred are hanging upon them. The human interactions under such difficult and unsettling conditions – are the main themes of Faulkner's novels. His picture of life is sometimes funny and grotesque, partly tragic, but always vivid and bright.
Faulkner used to claim that he didn't care about the writing techniques and was more concerned about the meaning of his texts. However, he is known for his text experimentations and developing his own unique writing style.
"The Sound and the Fury" (1929) is considered to be one of his best books. Its background is the degradation of used-to-be rich and glorious family of Compsons. The keynotes of the book are the pessimism philosophy, the destruction of traditional ways of life, the wreckage of a personality and the fear of the time and progress.
"Light in August" (1932) is not as intense and complex in terms of its composition. It demonstrates slight hints of the Christian symbolism. The protagonist, Joe Christmas, is a depressed young man who is convinced that he has black blood running in his white body. He killed his ex-partner, Joanna Burden, and the whole town hunts him, kills and then emasculates him. This mixture of sexual, racial and religious motifs makes the book high in emotions.
"As I Lay Dying" (1930) is a novel composed of a series of monologues.
"The Sanctuary" (1931) is one of the most read books of William Faulkner. It was written with an aim to become a sensation. It is abundant with horror scenes, obscure images. This novel also brought commercial success to the writer. After some reworking the novel turned into a story of a martyrdom of a spoiled girl Temple Drake. 20 years later Faulkner published a continuation of this story entitled "Requiem for a Nun" (1950).
Altogether the writer wrote 19 novels, over 120 short stories and many more poems, screenplays, essays and etc. Among his creations are two Pulitzer Prize winners: "A Fable" (1954) and "The Reivers" (1962).
After obtaining a popular literary name and popularity, Faulkner followed his own passions and style. He maintained a calm lifestyle, didn't like to attend literary dinners or parties, and didn't follow the critics and newspapers. In 1949, when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for the bright and unique input into modern American prose, the writer gained a reputation of a calm and not talkative man. His speech was so short and inaudible, that the public only appreciated it once it was published in the paper the next day.
William Faulkner died in Oxford on July 6th, 1962 after an injury he got when falling off the horse.
He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that any more than for pride or fear....One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.


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Piskupovo (izvirno ) je naselje v Srbiji, ki upravno spada pod Mesto Leskovac; slednja pa je del Jablaniškega upravnega okraja.

Demografija
V naselju živi 190 polnoletnih prebivalcev, pri čemer je njihova povprečna starost 49,5 let (47,2 pri moških in 52,1 pri ženskah). Naselje ima 72 gospodinjstev, pri čemer je povprečno število članov na gospodinjstvo 3,00.

To naselje je, glede na rezultate popisa iz leta 2002, večinoma srbsko, a v času zadnjih treh popisov je opazno zmanjšanje števila prebivalcev.

Viri in opombe

Glej tudi
 seznam naselij v Srbiji

Naselja Jablaniškega upravnega okraja

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AP Inter I and II Year Examinations 2019: Board for Medium Level Andhra Pradesh (BIE AP) has discharged the first and second Yearly Examination Schedule 2019. Numerous applicants are energetically anticipating these examination dates 2019 Applications can be assessed and downloaded from this page.
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Confession time: when I was a teenager and young adult I wanted to be a model. Or I thought I wanted to be a model. Perhaps I only wanted to be so beautiful, or to be so recognized. Given what I saw on America's Next Top Model I can't say I actually envied the model's lifestyle or career requirements, but I admit I longed for the affirmation I felt sure came with such a line of work—the world looks to you for beauty; the world looks to you for the way they ought to be.
If only I had known where the power of a model really lies.
Now that I am older I see how foolish and shallow our admiration of the beautiful and famous is. Maturity will do that for a person. But I do think my turning point was when my kids were born and I realized, with a greater sense of gravity and empowerment than any modeling agent or hiring director could bestow, that my birth into motherhood was my inauguration into the most important modeling gig I could ever undertake. I am finally a model, in every sense of the word.
My kids look to me for beauty.
My kids look to me to discover the way they ought to be.
As I recognized this I began to recognize, too, the awesome responsibility of this role. As a parent I am a model of behavior, a model of decorum, a model of thought and of presentation. I can easily forget how powerful that model is and yet my kids constantly remind me that, consciously or not, they are adopting and adapting what they see in me and making it their own all the time. The other day my son told me a story of when he was getting off the school bus—"I mean, disembarking," he corrected himself. And I could hardly deny both my glee and my amusement at his choice of words, even as I recalled the countless times my husband admonishes me for my flowery vocabulary. What can I say? I had flowery models to learn from.
I only hope that as I continue honing my craft at this modeling gig that it causes me to grow in the areas I want to see grow most in my kids. Recently I have been pondering gratitude—the feeling, the expression, the lifestyle. I find myself noticing and being discouraged by the number of times we seem to linger on all we don't have or all that's not working the way we desire. Yet how do I cultivate gratitude as a deeply rooted way of life? I know that when I genuinely feel most grateful my mood lightens, my outlook improves, and my contentment increases. I know that study after study indicates that people characterized by gratitude are happier, healthier, more adaptive and resilient, more generous and less lonely. I see the same obvious indicators in my kids when we take the time to name our blessings, express gratitude, or talk about what's going well. Gratitude is a game changer for the better.
In our family we have many times practiced noticing all we have to be grateful for. We have a chalkboard in our kitchen where we list things we are grateful for, from friendships to chewy bread crusts. We have a blessings jar where we collect written treasures and we have started a list, posted on our basement stairwell, a running log of all the things for which we are thankful. Yet even with all that, how easy it is to lose sight of the good in a quick moment of disappointment or frustration. How quickly we lost our grasp of what we have in light of what we lack. And how very sad for all of us to recognize that this is the case.
So we soldier on, in search of gratitude, cultivated in our own hearts and expressed every avenue of our lives. I want gratitude to be our way of life, so that even in the dourest of circumstances we never lose sight of the good gifts that flow our way. I know, as a parent, that how I cultivate this practice will leave lasting impressions on my kids, who are watching me all the time. They are looking to me for beauty; they are looking to me to discover the way they ought to be.
This is an awesome responsibility, yes, but also a great privilege. For that, I am grateful.


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Three top NYCHA execs lied about inspections right after public outcry over 2015 elevator death: DA
Emily Tuttle | November 30, 2018
Three top managers of NYCHA's elevator division regularly filed false reports claiming lifts had been inspected when they weren't – even after a huge public outcry over the death of an elderly tenant in a horrific 2015 accident.
Categories: Homepage, Media Coverage, News Tags: Construction and Development
D.A. Vance Delivers Remarks at the NYS Society of CPAs' Anti-Money Laundering Conference
Mackenzie Hart | November 28, 2018
Thank you to the New York State Society of CPAs' Anti-Money Laundering & Counter Terrorist Finance Committee for organizing this wonderful annual conference. And thank you to Sean O'Malley, Senior Vice President at the New York Fed, for inviting me.
Categories: News, Remarks
D.A. Vance Announces $162.8 Million Payment From Société Générale to New York City and State
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., together with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), today announced the resolution of a joint investigation into the criminal conduct of Société Générale ("Soc Gen"), the sixth-largest bank in Europe, and the payment of $880 million in penalties and forfeiture to criminal prosecutors.
Categories: Homepage, News, Press Releases Tags: White Collar Crime
DA Vance Announces Indictment of Olivet University Officials and Christian Media CEO in $25 Million Fraud Probe Arising out of Newsweek Investigation
"In total, the defendants are alleged to have obtained approximately $35 million in funding through their scheme."
Construction supervisors charged after Harlem mini-crane accident injured two workers
Emily Tuttle | November 9, 2018
Terrence Edwards, the site supervisor, and Timothy Braico, branch manager for Western Waterproofing Company, were both charged with second-degree assault and reckless endangerment, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance announced Thursday.


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package com.jzsoft.platform2.model;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.Set;

import javax.persistence.CascadeType;
import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.FetchType;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.JoinColumn;
import javax.persistence.JoinTable;
import javax.persistence.ManyToOne;
import javax.persistence.OneToMany;
import javax.persistence.Table;
import javax.persistence.UniqueConstraint;
import javax.validation.constraints.NotNull;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;

import org.hibernate.annotations.GenericGenerator;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnore;

@Entity
@XmlRootElement
@Table(name = "WORKTICKET_", uniqueConstraints = @UniqueConstraint(columnNames = "WORKTICKETNUMBER_"))
public class WorkTicket implements Serializable {

	private static final long serialVersionUID = 5093469251387991438L;

	@Id
	@Column(name = "WORKTICKET_ID_", length = 50)
	@GeneratedValue(generator = "workticket-uuid")
	@GenericGenerator(name = "workticket-uuid", strategy = "uuid")
	private String id;

	@Column(name = "DESCRIPTION_")
	private String description;

	@Column(name = "STARTTIME_")
	private Long startTime;

	@Column(name = "ENDTIME_")
	private Long endTime;

	@Column(name = "STATE_")
	private int state;

	@NotNull(message = "请指定维修员")
	@ManyToOne(fetch = FetchType.EAGER)
	@JoinColumn(name = "MEMBER_ID_")
	private Member member;

	@NotNull
	@Column(name = "WORKTICKETNUMBER_")
	private String workTicketNumber;

	@OneToMany(cascade = { CascadeType.REFRESH, CascadeType.MERGE }, fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
	@JoinTable(name = "WORKTICKET_MALFUNCTION_", joinColumns = @JoinColumn(name = "WORKTICKET_ID_"), inverseJoinColumns = @JoinColumn(name = "MALFUNCTION_ID_"))
	@JsonIgnore
	private Set<Malfunction> malfunctions;

	public String getId() {
		return id;
	}

	public void setId(String id) {
		this.id = id;
	}

	public String getDescription() {
		return description;
	}

	public void setDescription(String description) {
		this.description = description;
	}

	public String getWorkTicketNumber() {
		return workTicketNumber;
	}

	public void setWorkTicketNumber(String workTicketNumber) {
		this.workTicketNumber = workTicketNumber;
	}

	public Long getStartTime() {
		return startTime;
	}

	public void setStartTime(Long startTime) {
		this.startTime = startTime;
	}

	public Long getEndTime() {
		return endTime;
	}

	public void setEndTime(Long endTime) {
		this.endTime = endTime;
	}

	public int getState() {
		return state;
	}

	public void setState(int state) {
		this.state = state;
	}

	public Member getMember() {
		return member;
	}

	public void setMember(Member member) {
		this.member = member;
	}

	public Set<Malfunction> getMalfunctions() {
		return malfunctions;
	}

	public void setMalfunctions(Set<Malfunction> malfunctions) {
		this.malfunctions = malfunctions;
	}

}

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apGLVBO::apGLVBO()
    : apAllocatedObject(), _vboName(0), m_lastBufferTarget(GL_NONE), _size(0), _bufferFile(L""), _isDirty(true), _displayFormat(OA_TEXEL_FORMAT_V3F), _offset(0), _stride(0),
      _openCLBufferIndex(-1), _openCLBufferName(-1), _openCLSpyID(-1)
{
}

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Name:        apGLVBO::apGLVBO
// Description: Copy constructor
// Arguments: other - The other VBO class from which I am copied.
// Author:  AMD Developer Tools Team
// Date:        22/10/2008
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
apGLVBO::apGLVBO(const apGLVBO& other)
{
    apGLVBO::operator=(other);
}

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Name:        apGLVBO::~apGLVBO
// Description: Destructor
// Author:  AMD Developer Tools Team
// Date:        22/10/2008
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
apGLVBO::~apGLVBO()
{
}

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Name:        apGLVBO::operator=
// Description: Assignment operator
// Arguments:   other - The other object from which I am copied.
// Author:  AMD Developer Tools Team
// Date:        22/10/2008
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
apGLVBO& apGLVBO::operator=(const apGLVBO& other)
{
    _vboName = other._vboName;
    m_lastBufferTarget = other.m_lastBufferTarget;
    size_t activeTargetCount = other.m_activeBufferTargets.size();
    m_activeBufferTargets.resize(activeTargetCount);

    for (size_t i = 0; i < activeTargetCount; ++i) { m_activeBufferTargets[i] = other.m_activeBufferTargets[i]; }

    size_t targetHistorySize = other.m_bufferTargetHistory.size();
    m_bufferTargetHistory.resize(targetHistorySize);

    for (size_t i = 0; i < targetHistorySize; ++i) { m_bufferTargetHistory[i] = other.m_bufferTargetHistory[i]; }

    _size = other._size;
    _bufferFile = other._bufferFile;
    _isDirty = other._isDirty;
    _displayFormat = other._displayFormat;
    _offset = other._offset;
    _stride = other._stride;

    _openCLBufferIndex = other._openCLBufferIndex;
    _openCLBufferName = other._openCLBufferName;
    _openCLSpyID = other._openCLSpyID;

    setAllocatedObjectId(other.getAllocatedObjectId(), true);

    return *this;
}

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Name:        apGLVBO::type
// Description: Returns my transferable object type.
// Author:  AMD Developer Tools Team
// Date:        22/10/2008
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
osTransferableObjectType apGLVBO::type() const
{
    return OS_TOBJ_ID_GL_VBO;
}

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Name:        apGLVBO::writeSelfIntoChannel
// Description: Writes this class into a channel.
// Return Val:  bool - Success / failure.
// Author:  AMD Developer Tools Team
// Date:        25/5/2008
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
bool apGLVBO::writeSelfIntoChannel(osChannel& ipcChannel) const
{
    bool retVal = true;

    // Write the VBO name:
    ipcChannel << (gtUInt32)_vboName;

    // Write the buffer target data:
    ipcChannel << (gtUInt32)m_lastBufferTarget;

    size_t activeTargetCount = m_activeBufferTargets.size();
    ipcChannel << (gtUInt32)activeTargetCount;

    for (size_t i = 0; i < activeTargetCount; ++i)
    {
        ipcChannel << (gtUInt32)m_activeBufferTargets[i];
    }

    size_t targetHistorySize = m_bufferTargetHistory.size();
    ipcChannel << (gtUInt32)targetHistorySize;

    for (size_t i = 0; i < targetHistorySize; ++i)
    {
        ipcChannel << (gtUInt32)m_bufferTargetHistory[i];
    }

    // Write the VBO size:
    ipcChannel << (gtUInt64)_size;

    // Write the VBO display format:
    ipcChannel << (gtInt32)_displayFormat;

    // Write the VBO offset:
    ipcChannel << (gtUInt64)_offset;

    // Write the VBO stride:
    ipcChannel << (gtUInt64)_stride;

    // Write OpenCL interoperability details:
    ipcChannel << (gtInt32)_openCLBufferIndex;
    ipcChannel << (gtInt32)_openCLBufferName;
    ipcChannel << (gtInt32)_openCLSpyID;

    // Write buffer file path into channel:
    _bufferFile.writeSelfIntoChannel(ipcChannel);

    // Write the allocated object Info:
    apAllocatedObject::writeSelfIntoChannel(ipcChannel);

    return retVal;
}

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Name:        apGLVBO::readSelfFromChannel
// Description: Read self from a channel.
// Return Val:  bool - Success / failure.
// Author:  AMD Developer Tools Team
// Date:        22/10/2008
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
bool apGLVBO::readSelfFromChannel(osChannel& ipcChannel)
{
    bool retVal = true;

    // Read the VBO attributes into the channel:
    gtUInt32 vboNameAsUInt32 = 0;
    ipcChannel >> vboNameAsUInt32;
    _vboName = (GLuint)vboNameAsUInt32;

    // Read the buffer target data:
    gtUInt32 lastBufferTargetAsUInt32 = 0;
    ipcChannel >> lastBufferTargetAsUInt32;
    m_lastBufferTarget = (GLenum)lastBufferTargetAsUInt32;

    gtUInt32 activeTargetCount = 0;
    ipcChannel >> activeTargetCount;
    m_activeBufferTargets.resize(activeTargetCount);

    for (size_t i = 0; i < activeTargetCount; ++i)
    {
        gtUInt32 activeTargetAsUInt32 = 0;
        ipcChannel >> activeTargetAsUInt32;
        m_activeBufferTargets[i] = (GLenum)activeTargetAsUInt32;
    }

    gtUInt32 targetHistorySize = 0;
    ipcChannel >> targetHistorySize;
    m_bufferTargetHistory.resize(targetHistorySize);

    for (size_t i = 0; i < targetHistorySize; ++i)
    {
        gtUInt32 historyTargetAsUInt32 = 0;
        ipcChannel >> historyTargetAsUInt32;
        m_bufferTargetHistory[i] = (GLenum)historyTargetAsUInt32;
    }

    gtUInt64 sizeAsUInt64 = 0;
    ipcChannel >> sizeAsUInt64;
    _size = (gtSize_t)sizeAsUInt64;

    gtInt32 bufferDisplayFormatAsInt32 = 0;
    ipcChannel >> bufferDisplayFormatAsInt32;
    _displayFormat = (oaTexelDataFormat)bufferDisplayFormatAsInt32;

    gtUInt64 offsetAsUInt64 = 0;
    ipcChannel >> offsetAsUInt64;
    _offset = (int)offsetAsUInt64;

    gtUInt64 strideAsUInt64 = 0;
    ipcChannel >> strideAsUInt64;
    _stride = (GLsizei)strideAsUInt64;

    gtInt32 int32Var = 0;
    ipcChannel >> int32Var;
    _openCLBufferIndex = (int)int32Var;

    ipcChannel >> int32Var;
    _openCLBufferName = (int)int32Var;

    ipcChannel >> int32Var;
    _openCLSpyID = (int)int32Var;

    // Read buffer file path from channel:
    _bufferFile.readSelfFromChannel(ipcChannel);

    // Read the allocated object Info:
    apAllocatedObject::readSelfFromChannel(ipcChannel);

    return retVal;
}

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Name:        apGLVBO::onBindToTarget
// Description: Called when a buffer object is bound to a target
// Arguments:   target - the buffer target
// Author:  AMD Developer Tools Team
// Date:        5/11/2015
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
void apGLVBO::onBindToTarget(GLenum target, bool* o_isRedundant)
{
    GT_IF_WITH_ASSERT(GL_NONE != target)
    {
        m_lastBufferTarget = target;

        // Check if the target is in the active list:
        bool isInActive = false;

        for (const auto& it : m_activeBufferTargets)
        {
            if (it == target)
            {
                isInActive = true;
                break;
            }
        }

        if (!isInActive)
        {
            m_activeBufferTargets.push_back(target);
        }

        if (nullptr != o_isRedundant)
        {
            // Output the value:
            *o_isRedundant = isInActive;
        }

        bool isInHistory = false;

        for (const auto& it : m_bufferTargetHistory)
        {
            if (it == target)
            {
                isInHistory = true;
                break;
            }
        }

        if (!isInHistory)
        {
            m_bufferTargetHistory.push_back(target);
        }
    }
}

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Name:        apGLVBO::onUnbindFromTarget
// Description: Called when a buffer object is unbound from a target
// Arguments:   target - the buffer target
// Author:  AMD Developer Tools Team
// Date:        5/11/2015
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
void apGLVBO::onUnbindFromTarget(GLenum target)
{
    GT_IF_WITH_ASSERT(GL_NONE != target)
    {
        size_t activeTargetCount = m_activeBufferTargets.size();
        bool found = false;

        for (size_t i = 0; i < activeTargetCount; ++i)
        {
            if (found)
            {
                // This can only happen with i >= 0:
                m_activeBufferTargets[i - 1] = m_activeBufferTargets[i];
            }
            else if (m_activeBufferTargets[i] == target)
            {
                found = true;
            }
        }

        // We should not unbind from a target that didn't exist:
        GT_IF_WITH_ASSERT(found)
        {
            // Remove the last item, that's either the searched target or a copy of the second-to-last target:
            m_activeBufferTargets.pop_back();
        }
    }
}

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Name:        apGLVBO::setSize
// Description: Set the VBO size
// Arguments: gtSize_t size
// Return Val: void
// Author:  AMD Developer Tools Team
// Date:        22/10/2008
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
void apGLVBO::setSize(gtSize_t size)
{
    _size = size;
}

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Name:        apGLVBO::size
// Description: Gets the VBO size
// Return Val: gtSize_t
// Author:  AMD Developer Tools Team
// Date:        22/10/2008
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
gtSize_t apGLVBO::size()const
{
    return _size;
}

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Name:        apGLVBO::setName
// Description: Sets VBO name
// Arguments: GLuint name
// Return Val: void
// Author:  AMD Developer Tools Team
// Date:        22/10/2008
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
void apGLVBO::setName(GLuint name)
{
    _vboName = name;
}

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Name:        apGLVBO::name
// Description: Return the VBO name
// Return Val: GLuint
// Author:  AMD Developer Tools Team
// Date:        22/10/2008
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
GLuint apGLVBO::name() const
{
    return _vboName;
}

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Name:        apGLVBO::setBufferDisplayProperties
// Description: Sets the buffer display properties
// Arguments: oaTexelDataFormat displayFormat
//            int offset
//            GLsizei stride
// Return Val: void
// Author:  AMD Developer Tools Team
// Date:        26/4/2009
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
void apGLVBO::setBufferDisplayProperties(oaTexelDataFormat displayFormat, int offset, GLsizei stride)
{
    _displayFormat = displayFormat;
    _offset = offset;
    _stride = stride;
}

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Name:        apGLVBO::setBufferDisplayProperties
// Description: Sets the buffer display format
// Arguments: oaTexelDataFormat displayFormat
// Return Val: void
// Author:  AMD Developer Tools Team
// Date:        10/8/2009
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
void apGLVBO::setBufferDisplayFormat(oaTexelDataFormat displayFormat)
{
    _displayFormat = displayFormat;
}

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Name:        apGLVBO::getBufferDisplayProperties
// Description: Get the buffer display properties
// Arguments: oaTexelDataFormat& displayFormat
//            unsigned long& offset
//            GLsizei& stride
// Return Val: void
// Author:  AMD Developer Tools Team
// Date:        26/4/2009
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
void apGLVBO::getBufferDisplayProperties(oaTexelDataFormat& displayFormat, int& offset, GLsizei& stride) const
{
    displayFormat = _displayFormat;
    offset = _offset;
    stride = _stride;
}


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