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War on Natives
Written and Illustrated by Koriander Bullard
I woke up glaring at my phone today. I couldn't decide what story was angering me more.
Twice this week, we have stood by and done absolutely nothing as Native Americans, or "American Indians" as we have incorrectly called them since 1492 when Christopher Columbus arrived on what is now United States coastal shoreline, where he led a multi-man genocide, rape and pillage against the indigenous people while erroneously believing these were peoples of the country of India, have been watching bulldozers rip up their homes and their burial grounds for the sake of "business".
Over in California, Naval Base Coronado is under hot water for digging up a burial mound, home to the remains of the Kumeyaay Nation's children, some having not been disturbed in more than four hundred years until the Navy decided to expand --for real-- the parking lot on the pocket island off the coast and across from San Diego. Back in 2002, the US Military had promised the natives that they would not disturb the area again for (their words, not mine) a good 7000 years "or so" after the discovery and re-interment of a centuries old little boy, whose remains had been scattered recklessly upon discovery, and who had to be re-buried in pieces. But the military failed to put this promise into writing, so they are effectively (stop me if this sounds familiar to you history buffs) going back on their word.
Half a country away, North Dakota finds itself in it's own brouhaha of social discord, as an entire burial mound had already been crumpled up like so much garbage by a bulldozer shortly before a protest could be formed by the natives owning the grounds. Energy Transfer, an oil company owned by Texan oil bandit Kelcy/Kelsey Warren, plans to rip up not only burial grounds, but also the homes of US citizens of all colors (White people, that means you too) from the site of the mound into central Illinois, to build an oil line that will not actually "bring jobs" as it will be employed by already employed workers at the current plants.
The burial mound is owned by the Lakota, but since the Lakota people are "not recognized" by the federal government as a "federally recognized tribe" the nation isn't even considered to be human, so when the natives reached out to the local police for help in protecting their property, the police responded by protecting the oil company ripping up the lands, arresting several people and sending deadly attack dogs, guns and pepper spray on not just the protesters, but their children.
The media didn't even start to acknowledge the Lakota as people in all of this until September 4th, instead referring to them by the slur term "Sioux" which is a 1760's slang used in Ojibwe and French for "Little Snakes" and was invented as a derogatory term against the Lakota, but is now used in the media to describe Lakota, Dakota and Nakota natives.
White Twitter is currently hashtagging it's support of the natives, initial tweets criticized the natives for daring to fight for their own land. "Don't they understand business?" tweets one redneck, while another chides "They're DEAD, who cares?"
Let me be clear. What Kelcy Warren is doing to the natives is the same as if I were to drive a bulldozer through your grandmother's plot, shove an oil pipe in her coffin and then pepper spray your daughter. Are we up to speed now? Good.
Actually, in 2011 the city of Chicago really did tear up a graveyard just a few years ago before Mayor Daley left office. O'Hare International Airport needed a bigger parking lot, so that pesky graveyard on church grounds just had to go. So yeah, it can happen to your family at any time.
And that last comment by the way was what jolted me awake today. It isn't bad enough that here we are, allowing both government and big business to jack up burial mounds and established, legally paid for homes, but we are also allowing them to attack children.
Don't make excuses for these police officers, and spare me the rhetoric of how "pure and innocent" these poor dogs are.
There is not now, nor will there ever be a good reason for a fully grown man, a decade or more past his first arrest as an officer of the law, to use pepper spray, an attack dog AND a pistol on an eight year old little girl, who is unarmed and trying to keep her home, which by the way, is on a reservation devoid of anything resembling commerce.
Think about it. This little girl, one of several attacked I might add, is standing peacefully, unarmed, and this man is literally trying to take dirt from her, the only thing she gets to call a home or proper resting site for her ancestors.
Did we really need to assault a little girl over dirt?
Indian reservations are desolate wastelands. The government has made it public for generations that they barely allot anything sustainable to these lands. Businesses only set foot on these grounds to erect liquor stores and casinos, and when they can't drive the natives to drink and gamble, they're starving their schools. Many states will shut you down if you try to teach anything about native culture to your own kind here, and most of today's youth barely have an understanding of their own languages, let alone actual U.S. History before college, and the poverty levels are so staggering here that the average young Native is not likely to make it to age 16 without having attempted suicide at least once. Their "health services" are stuck in the 1880's, and we're actually complaining and trying to take this "lush" trailer park lifestyle away from them?
Once more, we are sending in police officers to steal dirt from a child by lethal force.
Surely you can see what's wrong with this picture.
I have no sympathy for these police officers, government officials or any of the other grave diggers involved. While it goes without saying that the businesses ripping up these lands are pure evil, the cops deserve the full brunt of our hate in this situation.
Mr. Officer, you have one job, protect and serve law abiding citizens.
Instead, I just watched you sick a pitbull onto the face of a small child.
The war on Native Americans is real, and we're going to have to do more than just Twitter support if we don't want to be next.
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Well said, Kori! Love your artwork here, too
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Know the Different Skin Types & DIY Tips to Take Care of Yours!
Our skin is very sensitive, especially the facial skin. If we do not take care of our skin regularly, it can get dull and age very fast. Therefore, in order for our skin to look fresh and younger looking for a longer time, it is important to take care of your skin.
Sure there are many make-ups, creams, and foundations available in the market that can make you look stunning, but those would only be temporary solutions. Why rely on something temporary and artificial, when you can work on your skin and make it look beautiful and healthy naturally?
Let's first dig deeper and first know more about this important body organ: The Skin; its functions, layers, types, and a few other details you need to know to help you take care of it more confidently. By knowing what skin type you have, you can use the right products, and make it look radiant and younger looking.
Functions of Skin
The skin is essentially a covering which protects the organs and muscles of the body from air, water, dust, and bacteria. Skin:
- Regulates and maintains body temperature.
- Removes waste matter through perspiration or sweat.
- A sensory organ for touch, heat, cold, socio-sexual and emotional sensations.
- Acts as a reservoir for the synthesis of Vitamin D.
- Varies in thickness and sensitivity on different parts of the body depending upon their importance.
Having a healthy skin is an indicator of the nutritional, mental and emotional state of an individual.
Layers of Skin
The skin has two layers and between these layers the complex system of nerves, blood vessels, oil glands, sweat glands and hair follicles, etc. are distributed
- The Epidermis
- The Dermis
The Epidermis:
It is the topmost layer and is made up of several rows of living cells covered densely with compacted dead cells. These dead cells are constantly being lost or shed and replaced by living cells from the deeper layer. The main function of the epidermis is to protect the inner layer. In the lower layer of the epidermis, the colour producing melanocytes are present that produce a pigment called melanin that gives colour to the skin. The top layer of an epidemic has a slight acidic felon on it, which prevents excessive bacterial activity.
The Dermis:
It is the middle layer which is under the epidermis and is called the true skin. This layer has
- sebaceous glands: a small gland in the skin which secretes a lubricating oily matter (sebum) into the hair follicles to lubricate the skin and hair;
- sudoriferous (sweat) glands: excrete water, salt, urea and other waste and sweat;
- hair follicles: grows a hair by packing old cells together;
- vital hair endings: carry the message of touch, temperature, pair, etc.;
- capillary blood vessels: supply oxygen & nutrients to the skin;
- lymphatic vessels: that drain away waste.
As long as the skin gets oxygen and nutrition it continues to grow.
The supporting tissues in the dermis layer give supplement tone and elasticity to the skin. The oil glands (sebum) deposit an oily but slightly acidic film over the skin whereas the sweat glands help to regulate the body temperature.
Neglect and abuse can damage both the health and the beauty of the skin; therefore it is never too early or too late to start looking after your health/ skin.
Types of Skin
So now that we know how important our skin is for us, we should discuss the different skin types. There are many types of skin, classified according to their texture. Only when you know what your skin type is, you can know what products you can use to take care of it:
Normal Skin:
It has a fine even texture, not too oily and not too dry. It has a proper balance between oil and moisture contents. The skin looks clear and does not develop blemishes or spots. The pores are smooth. The people with normal skin are luckiest of the lot. The most low maintenance skin.
What can you do to take care:
- Just maintain regular hygiene of cleaning, toning & moisturising.
Oily Skin:
This type of skin is caused by over-secretion of sebum by the sebaceous glands, making the skin surface very oily. The pores get enlarged, the skin gets a coarse appearance and texture. The excess oil on the surface attracts dust and dirt from the environment, which is why the pimples and acne can be formed. Oily skin is also prone to blackheads, whiteheads, blemishes & spots. Puberty, stress & weather may worsen the skin condition.
What can you do to take care:
- Wash your face at least two times a day.
- Use gel-based products. Avoid milk-based products
- Don't prick or pop the pimples or acne. You can rub a garlic clove over the acne to reduce it.
- For Blackheads, put toothpaste on the affected area, let it dry and wash it.
- Face Pack: Mix Multani Mitti (fuller's earth) & Chandan (Sandal Wood Powder) with rose water and apply on your face. Keep until dry and then wash with cold water. Pat dry. Recommended Usage: every alternate day. You can also use the lemon sugar scrub.
Dry Skin:
This type of skin has a parched appearance and has a tendency to flake easily. It can crack, peel, get itchy and irritable. It is prone to early lines and wrinkles. This skin type is a result of insufficient secretion of sebum. This also influences evaporation of moisture pastes. These skin types age faster than oily skin. The main causes of dry skin are weather, medication effects, hereditary, aging or hormonal changes, indoor heating or overexposure to UV rays or even side effects of wrong cosmetics used, and other such causes.
What can you do to take care:
- Use gentle face wash to wash your face.
- Use milk-based products; avoid using foam based or gel based products
- Apply olive oil on your face after wash.
- Don't overheat your house indoor, it can make the skin really dry.
- Honey and yogurt are excellent for Dry Skin, you can use them in any face pack you use.
- Face Pack: Mix Besan (Gram Flour), a spoonful yogurt, a pinch of turmeric with honey and apply on your face. Keep until dry and then wash with cold water. Pat dry. Recommended Usage: every day.
Combination Skin:
This type of skin is very common. As the name suggests, it is a combination of both oily and dry skin. Usually, there is a greasy central panel consisting of the forehead, nose, and chin, which is called the T-zone. The Cheeks and area around eyes (known as the C-Zone) remain dry. People with this type of skin can also develop blackheads, have pores larger than normal and may have a shiny skin.
Sallow Skin:
This is caused by excess acidity and impurities in the system. This is generally inherited and there is little that you can do accept helping the skin to shed its dead cells more quickly by concentrating on nightly massage and regular weekly facials.
What can you do to take care:
- You need to be extra careful with this type of skin and have to keep it clean all the time – keep wet tissues for the same.
How to know your Skin Type
- Before sleeping, remove your makeup and wash your face thoroughly with normal water and mild soap.
- Sleep without artificial air conditioning.
- In the morning, take a tissue and tear it into five parts or take five separate tissues.
- Rub one tissue on your forehead, second on your nose, third on your chin, forth on your eyes and fifth on your cheeks.
- Inspect each tissue,
- Know your skin type
- if you see oil or spots on all the tissues, you have oily skin
- if you see oil on the tissues you rubbed on your forehead, nose, and chin; but not on the other two, you have combination skin.
- if all the tissues are spotless, you have dry skin.
- further, if your face feels irritable or itchy, it is extremely dry and sensitive.
Note: Please note that the skin type can keep changing depending on your health, age, season, temperature, pollution, smoking, etc. So you need to keep testing it.
The Basic Things you can do to take care of your Skin:
- Stay hydrated; drink lots of water.
- Eat healthy food; Learn why & how you should Start Eating Right.
- Avoid direct sunlight; wear cap and sunglasses
- Adopt a habit of wearing a good sunscreen.
- Always wash your face before going to bed to wash away your make up; let your skin breathe.
- Maintain a basic skin care routine every day – cleansing, exfoliate, toning, moisture & protect.


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Claiming the #1 place in 2015 Digital Game Market Revenue, League of Legends has its eSport site launched in European countries and operated by digital agency Clock.
The new site has launched initially in French, German, Spanish and Polish. It aims to deliver a world-class experience for followers of the European LoL professional teams and to introduce new players into the competitive arena with compelling local content. The fan community is at the centre of the new design. LoL fans are highly engaged and are keen to consume as much content as possible, be it game news, video coverage, league tables or statistics. Social sharing is fully integrated into the design and features include the facility to show or hide game results that have taken place before the user has caught up on streamed games that they may have missed.
It is good for LoLers to have a localized site to discuss and share experience, as well as get latest news of exciting competitions. Click here to catch the latest news! (PS: You can change the language in the top-right area)


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CPHS Volleyball: Mutiri scores 23 kills in 3-2 loss against No. 5 Bishop Kelley/
Set One: 25-20 CPHS
Set Two: 25-22 CPHS
Set Three: 26-24 BK
Set Four: 25-19 BK
Set Five: 15-10 BK
Kills: BK 50, CPHS 42.
Blocks: CPHS 8, BK 4.
Aces: CPHS 9, BK 8.
Service Errors: CPHS 14, BK 13.
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Kills: Mutiri 23, Youngblood 7, Burris 5, Cypert 3, Bradshaw 2, Campfield 1, Neely 1.
Assists: Burris 33, Bradshaw 2, Campfield 1.
Aces: MaKenzie Ward 3, Youngblood 2, Campfield 2, Burris 1, Madison Ward 1.
Solo Blocks: Mutiri 3, Neely 2.
Block Assists: Neely 2, Cypert 2, Youngblood 1, Mutiri 1.
Digs: Mutiri 3, Campfield 3, Wise 3, Taylor 3, Madison Ward 2, Youngblood 1.
The No. 15 ranked Charles Page High School volleyball team (5-10) hosted Frontier Valley Conference foe 5A No. 5 Bishop Kelley (5-4) Tuesday evening at the Ed Dubie Field House. The Kelley Comets defeated Sand Springs 3-0 (15-25, 12-25, 20-25) two weeks prior at the Union Tournament. This time it looked like Sand Springs would get some payback, but after falling in a 2-0 deficit, the Comets surged back for the win.
Sophomore Devree Youngblood scored the first point of the match with an ace, then turned the ball over with a service error. The teams traded punches from there till the visitors took the first substantial lead at 7-3 after winning four straight rallies. The teams exchanged errors, then it was the Sandites' time to shine with five straight points to take the lead at 9-8. Youngblood scored twice, Gloria Mutiri and Kenzie Bradshaw scored once apiece, and Madison Burris got the assists for all four.
Not to be outdone, the Comets retaliated with six points in a row, then Sand Springs tied it up at 14-14 with kills from Youngblood and Chelsea Neely, plus a pair of aces from MaKenzie Ward. The close affair tied twice more before Sand Springs took the lead once and for all. The Comets threatened at 21-20, but the home team won the next four rallies for the win.
The second game started much like the first, but this time it was Sand Springs who jumped out to the early lead with six straight rallies to make it 9-3. Kelley scored five in a row to make it 12-9, but Sand Springs did the same for a 17-9 advantage. Cloe Campfield scored a kill and Neely added a solo block for the biggest lead of the game at 20-11.
The Comets began to close the gap late in the game, winning four in a row to cut the deficit to 24-22. After a brief timeout, the Sandites secured the win with a tipped ball from Burris.
The third set was the most competitive of the four. The score tied eleven times and the lead changed eight times before the Comets closed out with three-straight for the 26-24 win. Kelley took a 23-22 lead before Mutiri scored a kill to tie it and Youngblood aced for the lead. Neely looked to have clinched the set with a solo block before the call was reversed in favor of the visitors. Mariana Hightower and Parker Ross scored a pair of kills for the Comets' first set win.
Sand Springs played from the hole for most of the game four. They went on a six-point run for a brief 11-9 lead, but Kelley came right back with four of their own. Mutiri tied it at 13-13, but Kelley took the lead back once and for all with a kill from Hightower. The visitors went on a five-point run towards the end, Sand Springs won three of their own, then Kelley finished it up at 25-19 to tie the match.
The Comets jumped out to a quick lead in the final stanza with two kills from Ross, a kill from Katherine Barlow, and back to back aces from Sadie Baumann. Mutiri broke things up with a kill, but Kelley went right back to work with three more. After a brief timeout the Sandites scored three in a row with a kill and block from Mutiri and an ace from Burris, but they were unable to close the gap the rest of the way. Ultimately the visitors prevailed 15-10 to return to a winning record.
The Lady Sandites will return to action Thursday with a home match against 5A No. 7 Coweta (13-2).


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Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group, showed no signs of exhaustion after the launch of Intel's new Woodcrest chip. He excitedly scribbled diagrams on a sketch pad illustrating advances in the dual-core Xeon processor, the first chip based on Intel's Core micro-architecture, and animatedly expounded on why he thinks the micro-architecture will help Intel win back market share lost to rival AMD.
Gelsinger also touched on the upcoming launch of systems based on Intel's next-generation Itanium "Montecito" chip and weighed in on some of the challenges ahead for multi-core processing.
Q: What are you personally most proud of with the launch of Woodcrest? A: The Core micro-architecture that's at the heart of Woodcrest is not the performance king like the 486 was for its day; it's not the platform king like the Pentium Pro was in its day. This is the energy-efficient king. It really is this incredibly well-tuned machine of trade-offs of power and performance.
Q: What could you have done better with Woodcrest? A: The FB-DIMMs' [fully buffered dual inline memory modules] power was over budget, and that was disappointing. So this tremendously good processor is making up for a bit of weakness in the power of the [FB-DIMMs'] subsystem. We'll get it fixed in subsequent revisions ... but that was disappointing this time around that we didn't do a bit better job there.
Q: What makes you so certain that you'll gain back market share lost to AMD over the past couple of years? A: Since the beginning of the year, we have been aggressively seeding the platform with customers. We have 3,000 of these things out in the marketplace today, and the responses from [resellers, independent software vendors, software integrators] and end users has been nothing but spectacular. Fundamentally, I think there's pent-up demand, we expect to see a very rapid product ramp as a result.
Q: You've said in the past that AMD's integrated memory controller is over-hyped, yet you've also said you plan to add an integrated memory controller to your own future chips. Can you clarify that? A: We've never said the integrated memory controller is bad, but it is severely over-hyped today. Our cache is twice as effective as theirs, so that means I go to memory half as often. So, independent of anything else, if I'm going to memory half as much, who cares how long it takes to get to memory? Plus, the other aspect of their design is they have this view of local memory and remote memory. So if you're running an operating system, half the time, you are local, and half the time, you are remote. Guess what, when you are remote, I have to go here and then go here. The time to get over there is actually equal to the time for us to get to our memory.
Q: So are you still planning to add the integrated memory controller to future chips? A: Eventually. We're looking at that as an engineering trade-off, and we'll probably make that part of our product line in the future.
Q: Why? A: Because we can. Not that it's bad, but it's not some big deal, or big architectural delta. It's simply an engineering trade-off that -- particularly as the cache continues to get larger and larger -- it's probably a good thing to add to it.
Q: Could you talk a little bit about the overall multi-core processing movement and some of the hurdles you face as you get to more and more cores? A: For the near term, at 90nm, we were mostly single-core and a little bit of dual-core. At 65nm, we're almost all dual-core, and a little bit of quad-core. At 45nm, mostly quad-core and a little bit of oct-core. It just follows Moore's Law. That's what we're expecting in the immediate horizon.
The problem is as you keep going to the higher and higher core counts is now you need more and more things operating in parallel. Since the beginning of computing, people have been trying to solve the parallel programming problem.
Today, most multi-core machines are actually running multi-tasking, where there is not a lot of multi-threads inside of it, but with each task there is a little bit of threading going on. If you follow the progression I described, if I'm here in 2012, my desktop is going to have 16 cores on it. It's this huge programming challenge, and that will be the big barrier for us to fully realise the benefits of multi-core designs as we go forward. It's not a solved problem by any means. There are some promising areas for breakthroughs.
Q: Could you talk about Itanium and how it fits into your server chip plans with respect to your Xeon chips? A: If you look at that marketplace segment today, you have four big players: SPARC, Power, PA and Itanium. All of PA is going to Itanium. You have SPARC, for which you have begun to see the sunset -- McNealy's resignation was more than symbolic. When you look at it today, the Itanium systems' revenue as we ended last year was approximately half the size of Power and SPARC respectively. It's clearly emerged as the third player today. Our goal is to make it the second player and eventually to make it the player.
We think the characteristics that we're building into Itanium for memory size, [remote access services], error detection and correction and non-stop capabilities really make it a serious long-term player. Right now, we are in production today on Montecito, the next generation of products, and we'll see the announcements of that from system vendors next quarter.
Q: Do you see Xeon sales cannibalising Itanium sales? A: There are areas that it's contested. Examples of some of the battle zones might be in a high-performance computing installation. Neither one is wrong, but for different kinds of applications, the Itanium example will win hands-down. For the more parallel, you want to run them in a more distributed fashion. The Xeon will have a better price/performance characteristic for it.
Those are just some places we're seeing different approaches played out in the marketplace, but for a lot of the very high-end stuff -- the banking systems, big transactions, big ERP systems -- that seems to be a pretty stable mainframe-type marketplace, despite my proclamations of its death 15 years ago.


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Dear She Said Noters,
As a storyteller I really appreciate context—I'm famous (with my husband) for telling a long preamble to set up what might otherwise be a short tale. But I believe that context is critical to understanding so I stand by my narrative process (thank you very much)! Seeing the whole picture, as with this still shot from Running With Violet, means taking in all of the details to try and make some meaning of the picture's final form. The first five issues of this series looked at pieces of a puzzle but in this issue we are presented with a larger story—two women standing side by side, protecting the next generation from a shadowy threat… a fictional story that rings all too factual in light of the world's happenings today. But it's summer! And there is hope in this season! Thus, we protect the younger generation and savour friendships… and hang art on even the most dismal of walls! The creative process is art in of itself, is it not? In this August heat we send creative vibes your way—may your whole picture be filled with colour and light!
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Tasting Room Staff
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Kathleen Southworth
Enthusiastic, Fun & Friendly Hospitality
Kathleen joins the tasting room staff on Friday and Saturday afternoons, pouring wine for our local Toad fans, club members and folks visiting from far away places. Kathleen loves to talk about Toad Hollow history and our funny stories or alternately, about her dog Merle and cats Leo and Thor. If you are more interested in malolactic fermentation, veraison or bud break, that conversation can happen too. If you like, you can even take a selfie with our famous Toad in front of the tasting room and be featured in a post on our Facebook page!
Bill Zuur
TASTING ROOM - Part Time
Bill "the Bowler" Zuur
Bill Zuur was one of the first employees of the Tasting Room when it opened in September 2003. His Tasting Room career started after his wife Nancy had a brief discussion with her friend Julie Maas, who was then the assistant CFO at Toad Hollow. The conversation went something like "Do you guys have anything that my husband can do? I need him to get out of the house" the rest, as they say, is HISTORY. When not working at Toad Hollow, Bill enjoys spending time with his children and grandchildren. He is a self employed licensed Private Fiduciary and also enjoys golf, handyman work, travel and good books.
Cheryl Lynd
TASTING ROOM - Part Time
Pleasing person pouring plenty of personality!
Cheryl was born in LA County and moved to Northern California as a young child. She has worked in the wine industry for many years and continues to be excited about it every day! When not working in the Tasting Room, Cheryl loves spending days with her four grandchildren. She really is a people person and is crazy for our Toad Hollow Unoaked Chardonnay!
Joe Janowczyk
TASTING ROOM - Part Time
Harleys, country music and a touch of home town hospitality!
Joe came to Toad Hollow in February of 2016 after having spent multiple years working both on the supply and wholesaler sides of the business. He got his start on the marketing side of the business after finishing at Miami University with a degree in Journalism and American Studies in 2011. You'll see Joe mostly on the weekends in our tasting room, and feel free to ask him about some back roads in the area to see or take your bike on as Joe spends a ton of his time riding around the county on his Harley Davidson. That bike makes it all the more fun commuting to work at the Toad Hollow Tasting Room!
Kristina Tovani
TASTING ROOM - Part Time
Vivacious and enthusiastic about everything wine!
Kristina was born and raised in South San Francisco but has lived in Sonoma County for 15 years. She is the proud wife of a local Fire Captain and they have a beautiful son who keeps them active with sports and school. Kristina loves to cook and bake so we hope she also likes to share! Her favorite wines are red, especially Zinfandel and Pinot Noir. She has been working in the wine industry since 2015 and loves every minute of it! Kristina says she likes tasting at the various new Sonoma County wineries any chance she gets so she can recommend lots of fun places for our visitors.
Wendy Ponzo
TASTING ROOM - Part Time
Shares her love of wine as a Healdsburg local!
"I love my family, I love wine, food and of course, Healdsburg!" says Wendy about what is important to her and what she brings to her job in our tasting room. As a Healdsburg local, she is even more excited to share her appreciation of our wine country community with everyone who walks into our tasting room.


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Ten Disciplines of Law Firm Leadership
Recently I released an audio program titled "Ten Disciplines of Law Firm Leadership."
It is now, the most popular program I have recorded to date.
Make no mistake, this is not an over-produced audio with lots of special effects.
It is you and I having a conversation about how you can build a business, your law firm, while living a great life.
Your mission is to master each of these disciplines.
Listen to the podcast on the enclosed player or download it by following the link below it.
Here's the link to download and save the audio program:
Ten Disciplines of Law Firm Leadership
In case you need you need more information before you listen to this amazing audio program, here are the ten disciplines and a brief summary of each of them. I provide these summaries to whet your appetite. For more complete information, listen to the audio program.
Discipline 1: Self Awareness
The first order of business when you become a leader is understanding your strengths and weaknesses. This exercise, while initially discomforting, is valuable. The goal is to leverage your strengths (do more of the things you are good at) and use your weaknesses as opportunities to build systems.
This probably sounds different from anything you have ever heard or were taught. That's good.
Think about the premise: If an activity is a strength, more focus on that activity will help it become a competitive advantage for you (and your firm). If something is a weakness, you need to develop a process to ensure success.
Discipline 2: Talent Selection and Management
The second discipline goes hand-in-hand with the first. Hire talented people who can augment your weaknesses. Then help those people succeed by removing all barriers that could potentially derail them. Select great talent to initially augment your weaknesses then manage talent based upon needs of the firm and the clients.
As your law firm grows, keep one eye on the future and prepare your people for their next role/challenge.
Discipline 3: Communication
Communication is the cornerstone of any relationship. Your relationships with clients, partners and employees necessitate your mastery of direct, accurate and frequent communication.
The words you choose and the style and frequency of your communication will either inspire trust in you or polarize your team.
Discipline 4: Vision
As the law firm leader you must chart the course for your firm. Start with the outcome in mind and work backwards.
There are also two types of people who work in your firm: Those who share (see) your vision and those who trust in your vision. People who do not fit into either of these categories should not work in your firm.
Discipline 5: Operational Excellence Through Accountability
Your goal is to be the law firm of choice for every practice area or every market niche you enter. You must do everything you can to achieve this goal. This best or bust attitude must permeate your firm. Everyone must have this attitude.
Discipline 6: Financial Acumen
You don't need to be a financial analyst to be a successful leader but you must be able to review your financials frequently and effectively. You must also be able discuss the financials with members of your team who can have an impact on them.
Discipline 7: External Orientation
You need to lose your ego if you are going to be an effective law firm leader.
You are third in the order of importance. Your clients come first, the shareholders of your firm and the employees of your firm come second and you come third.
Discipline 8: Decisiveness
Emotions are the enemy of good decisions. Examine the facts and make rational decisions. As a tool, I provide you with five questions to ask about any situation and any decision. Ask these five questions and focus on the facts.
Discipline 9: Positive Personal Association
The people with whom you associate define you. If you associate primarily with successful people, you will become successful. If you associate with people who were once your contemporaries, and have not achieved the same level of success as you, or do not aspire to the same levels of success as you, it will have a negative impact on your future.
Discipline 10: Continuous Improvement
The entire process of working toward mastery of the ten disciplines is a process of continuous improvement. Your growth must continue beyond a focus on these disciplines and invest 10% of your time and money in personal improvement.
This journey begins now with a dedication to each of these disciplines and to your growth as a leader.
Join me in this conversation about your future and how you can chart a course that will help you make a great living and live a great life®.
Building a Law Firm That's Also a Business
If you take a moment and glance around at the law firms in your practice area or in your local community you'll notice two different types of firms (from a management perspective).
The first type of firm will have an attorney who handles all the cases. One guy. Everything goes through him. The most difficult cases are handled by him. He meets every client. Has every difficult conversation and works, in some way, on every case.
When the business dries up, the owner (that same guy) goes out and finds new clients.
Essentially, this law firm is built around this one attorney and his skills and expertise.
The second type of law firm is a business.
There are several lawyers, a couple of paralegals and a legal assistant. The person who owns the firm focuses on one thing and one thing only, being a business owner.
This means he continuously creates value for his shareholders (if he is the only owner, he continuously creates value for himself). The attorneys, paralegals and staff, exist to do the work.
There is never a shortage of work because the owner is focused on keeping the employees at full utilization.
The owner of the second law firm is a Chief Executive Officer. He heads up a firm that has value beyond his own ability to create client relationships and work on cases. The owner of the first firm has a job he created for himself.
Do you have what it takes to be the second guy?
You probably don't know the answer to that question.
You may not want to answer that question. And if you don't, fair enough.
Just know: The difference between making $350,000 (in a good year) and multiple millions of dollars EVERY year is the difference between being the first guy and the second guy.
Now $350,000 is nothing to sneeze at. It's good money. But you have the potential to make so much more.
Below is a podcast of a presentation I deliver to leaders of law firms in the second category. These are chief executives. And I challenge them to focus on excellence in ten personal disciplines.
If you want to build a business that will support you regardless of your level of involvement, and then have something you can sell when you're ready to exit, listen to this podcast and rate yourself in each of these ten areas.
Listen to the podcast on the player below or download it by using the link below the player.
Ten Disciplines of a Law Firm Leader
Regardless of the type of law firm you are building, mastering these ten disciplines are the key to success.
Things You Should Not Care About
People come to me for advice.
My clients receive direct, customized advice, as they need it. Those who read my articles get indirect help.
For both groups this guidance is based upon my experience working with hundreds of lawyers and business leaders during the past 24 years, personal experience starting and growing several businesses, and my work developing professional service firms since 2002. I also have extensive advanced education which informs my approach to business strategy.
I like helping people but that's not why I'm in this business. I do what I do because I have a unique ability to review a situation, analyze the variables, and develop a solution with a high probability of success.
That's my talent.
Some people play the piano. Some people are outstanding athletes. Some people are phenomenal singers or dancers. I figure things out…quickly.
But I don't want you focusing on my unique ability as the subject of this article. I want you to focus on your unique ability.
Each of us can recognize our own talent and leverage that self awareness to make a great living and live a great life®. The key lies in maximizing the time we spend leveraging this talent and minimizing the time we spend doing things at the opposite end of the spectrum.
Learning what you should not care about, worry about and focus on, is a huge component of law firm leadership.
The Essence of Self Awareness
The most important quality for any leader (and if you are a partner in a law firm you are a business leader) is self awareness. You must understand what you are really good at and you must understand what you should never, ever do again.
I can look at a business issue, analyze it, and formulate a solution quickly. The more I work on issues in a specific industry, the faster I can develop a solution, and the more likely I am to develop a winning strategy. (That's why I am called to handle some of the most difficult issues in working with law firms - I have significant experience in that industry).
I do not get involved in the implementation of the solutions I prescribe. I help develop systems to make certain the implementation is smooth but I do not personally implement those systems. There are others more qualified to deliver that service.
Why Self Awareness Is Important to Law Firm Leadership
Knowing what you can do exceptionally well and knowing what should be delegated is the essence of self awareness for a business leader. Ninety-eight percent of all activity in your law firm must be executed by someone else.
Law firm leaders have a difficult time with this concept.
You may be the greatest trial lawyer since Clarence Darrow but the minute you become the leader of a law firm, that part of your career is over. You cannot grow a law firm beyond the $5 million mark and hope to spend time working in a courtroom or on a contract.
A leader must lead and that is a full time job. Practicing law is also a full time job. In a growing law firm, a lawyer cannot serve two masters - either you focus 100% of your time on the leadership of your business or you focus 100% of your time on the practice of law.
You can be a part time lawyer and a part time law firm leader and have $200,000 or even $2 million in billing (depending upon your practice area). But if you want to build a multi-million dollar law firm and consistently and predictably increase that billing number, you must be a full time law firm leader.
If your unique ability, your talent, lies in law firm leadership, you must "retire" from the day-to-day practice of law.
This requires self awareness.
What You Should Do Now
If you have designs on turning your law practice into a law firm (a business), you must have total mastery of self awareness. This is just one aspect of being a law firm leader.
There are ten disciplines of law firm leadership. Self awareness is one of them. If you are ready to take the next step and build a law firm that will have value beyond your lifetime, you should give me a call. 888.444.5150
Creating a law firm that has equity and can be sold for real economic value is a process that takes place over a number of years. You and I can discuss the ten disciplines law firm leadership and determine if you are on pace to achieve your goals.
They don't teach this in law school. In fact, most of the seven demands of law firm leadership are not taught anywhere.
Call me to discuss your law firm and take control of your future.
Here are three other articles you will find valuable as you grow your law firm:
Three Commitments of a Law Firm Leader
Not surprisingly, law firm leaders make commitments to themselves and to others. Here are three commitments you must make.
There are some people you really should not work with. If you do, you regret it. This article helps you make the distinction between a difficult client and a client that should be fired.
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What You Don't Say Speaks Volumes
Some lawyers will say anything to get clients.
"What are my chances of a favorable outcome?"
"Will we win?"
"Am I going to get $1 million?"
Those questions are being asked of lawyers all over the world, right now, by clients who just sat down in a chair across their desk.
Honest lawyers say:
"There is no way to know. Every case is different. Here are the aspects of the case that work in your favor… and here are the aspects of the case that concern me…"
Now we all know lawyers who promise the client the moon and the stars and then shrug their shoulders when the case doesn't go well.
I want you to think about three things the next time you get ready to answer these questions:
First: Think about the promises made to you throughout your life. Think about how you felt when people did not live up to the expectations they set.
Then think about the person who told you the unvarnished truth about something unpleasant. And think about your reaction when in spite of the herculean effort on part of the service provider, the negative prophecy became reality.
Who were you more likely to recommend?
Oh yeah, and when you are honest in setting expectations, and you meet or exceed them, you have a client for life.
Next: Remember, the truth is not a competitive advantage. Telling the truth is the minimum expectation your client has of his lawyer.
As a lawyer, getting clients by lying, even if it's a lie of omission, is going to end up biting you in the ass at some point.
Some lawyers will tell you that clients lie to them all the time.
Some criminal defense lawyers will tell you that most cops lie all the time too.
Do you really want to be included in that company?
Finally: If your competitive advantage is so weak that you need to make false promises to win clients, you don't deserve high quality, ethical clients. You deserve to preach to the congregation impressed by those who handle snakes.
You can tell the truth and still get great cases. In fact you can get great cases BECAUSE you tell the truth.
Getting clients requires TRUTHFULLY differentiating yourself from everyone else who does what you do.
There's no room for deception in your profession, my profession or any profession that requires the trust of the client.
Want to know how to get clients? Start by giving people straight answers.
In case you missed it, I recorded an audio program designed to help you get clients ethically, affordably and without the need to hire anyone.
You can listen to it by following this link.
How to Get Clients as a Lawyer
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Products and services for business leaders will be shared by our SuccessMax and ExecuMax brands.
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Project 52
October favourites…
Little moments, big memories.
"Mum, do you know why I twiddle my hair?"
"No, why?"
"I don't know, I was asking you!!"
"I'm not a girl, I'm a boy with crazy hair!"
"What do you want to eat?"
"Ooooh can I have what I had last time?"
"Yes, what was that?"
"Er, dunno, I can't remember.."
"Mum, do Chimpanzee's know what they actually look like?"
"I'm so tired, I wish I had a chair with wheels"
"You mean a wheel chair?"
"No, just like a normal chair with little wheels on the bottom, like the Tescos trolley wheels'
"I'm crying so much my mouth hurts, but I have to cry cos it hurts……IT'S NOT FUNNY"
Getting changed
"Hands in the air like you just don't care"
"I farted at harvest festival"
"Was it in the middle of prayer? Muuuum, isn't it illegal to fart during prayer?"
"Mum…Mum….. MUM….Muuuuum… MUUUUUUUM!"
"I love you'


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Sally McKay
Sally is a mother of two lively and lovely boys. It was through her positive experiences of having a doula at her births and how well her doula supported Sally and her husband that she decided to train as a doula so she could help women to have a beautiful experience.
Sally is now a doula, doula trainer for Australian Doulas and child birth educator. She is also a trainee Birthing From Within Mentor.
Since training as a doula in 2008 and working closely with many couples it has become more and more evident that the father's role at birth and postnatally is lacking the support and recognition it deserves. Men are expected to attend the birth yet are unprepared for such an event. Not only that but traditional prenatal classes don't acknowledge the fathers role and how they can have a positive influence on the birth and support their partner well.
For these reasons, Sally Mckay, and her doula colleague Cath Cook, have developed DadSkills – Online Childbirth Classes for Men. The classes run through a series of short videos that show dads-to-be how to cope with the intensity of labour, how support their partner at home, at the hospital, things to think about before labour, and things to think about for after the baby is born. Through their short FAQ videos, DadSkills also covers all the questions dads have but don't ask.
As well as the online antenatal classes, the DadSkills website has a regular Dadskills Blog and provides links to helpful resources for pregnancy and early parenthood. DadSkills can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.
Check our Doula Services page for more information.
|QualificationsBachelor of Science (Nursing) Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia (1995)Australian Doulas Certified


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Romantic comedy DESK SET to be screened at UAlbany on December 2, 2016
1957 film stars Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn
ALBANY, NY (11/14/2016)(readMedia)-- DESK SET (United States, 1957, 103 minutes, color, directed by Walter Lang) will be shown on Friday, December 2, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. in Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue on the University at Albany's downtown campus. Sponsored by the New York State Writers Institute as part of its Classic Film Series, the screening is free and open to the public.
When an efficiency expert (Spencer Tracy) is hired to prepare a TV research department for a computer system, he meets resistance from the head of the department (Katharine Hepburn). The prospect of automation leads to a battle of wits and eventually sparks fly – romantic ones – in this fast and fun romantic comedy.
For additional information contact the Writers Institute at 518-442-5620 or online at http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst.


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