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A 26 km long and 9 km wide island located less than 150 km from the heart of Melbourne, Phillip Island is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the state of Victoria. An island with two faces, Phillip receives every year millions of visitors, sportsmen or naturalists. Because if this true natural sanctuary with the ribs blessed with waves of surfers is inhabited by colonies of penguins, sea lions and koalas, it is also the site of a circuit of great price, annual theater of Spectacular motorcycle championships.
Philipp Island, a paradise for families and penguins.
The island of Phillip, rural and domesticated by man, still preserves a scent of wild land thanks to its waves and ribs windswept, as well as to the abundance of its fauna.
Commonly called "Penguins ", Pygmy penguins are the largest stars of the local animal kingdom: Every night, these small waterfowl emerge from the sea under the cover of darkness to recover their terrestrial lairs. After a long day of fishing off the coast, between 300 and 800 penguins return to their homes for a walk, in a chorus of shrill chirps.
This exciting show has become so famous on Phillip island that it is known as the "Penguin Parade", and in the summer, hundreds of visitors come to hurry in the stands to come and watch.
Seal Rock, the nursery of the sea lion
The penguins are not the only sea animals resting on the shores of Phillip: At the western end of the island, the sealed seal rocks of the establishment harbor a colony of sea lions ("seals " in English). In the NINETEENTH century, sea lions were the cost of colonization: hunted by their fat and fur, they were pushed to the brink of extinction. Now protected by law, sea lions are thriving again and populations are gradually returning to their previous density.
Today, nearly 6.000 babies of sea lions are born every year in Seal rocks. At the site, scientists continue to monitor the demographic evolution of local sea lions and carry out several projects to study their food and their movements, which will better establish which marine areas are best matched with their Needs.
Specialists also monitor all sea lions returning to the coast entangled in nets and other debris thrown into the water by unconscious fishermen: every year about 300 sea lions are affected. Scientists then intervene in the field to help them.
On land, it is the koalas that seize the list of animal stars: abound on the island, which is one of the few places where these marsupials are easily observed, climb trees and sometimes cross the roads.
A dedicated conservation center allows you to observe them closely in their natural environment, which they share with Wallabies, possums, echidnas and many birds.
Beyond its fauna, the surroundings of the island also presents the opportunity to make pleasant hikes, in particular on the side of Cabo Woolamai: This rocky promontory, residence of herds of puffins (seabirds), is the highest point of the island and offers Panoramic views of the surrounding coastline.
In the summer, lifeguards patrol the nearby beaches, Woolamai and Smiths Beach, which are subject to dangerous currents but whose waves are irresistible to surfers. To enjoy the oceans safely, just rely on the hands of the pros: surfing lessons, kayaking and small Ray-swimming sessions are part of the program's activities organized here for all.
You may explore The Nobbies Phillip Island
It is a peaceful as well as charming town. I can just rest in here permanently to enjoy the sensational beach. There are additionally lots of resorts, dining establishments with good coffee shops on the island.
Explore Melbourne in 48 hours
Beside Phillip Island, don't forget to spend your weekend in this coffee capital, culture rich loving, magnificent wildlife and sightseeing within 36 hours. Here are some options for you.
Pity Melbourne: After seven years of topping the Economist Intelligence Unit's most livable city rankings, it was finally displaced last year by another coffee-loving city, Vienna. Despite being nudged down a notch to No. 2, Melburnians aren't too worried. Though the city is currently grappling with issues related to being such a popular place to live — rapid growth, high property prices, congested roads — the city in the southeastern part of Australia continues to be the country's capital for all things cultural. There are more festivals than can fit on a calendar; a thriving, boundary-pushing restaurant scene; and a commitment to the arts that will only deepen with the National Gallery of Victoria's plans to build the largest contemporary art gallery in Australia by 2025. Melbourne may have lost its crown, but it still has its spacious Victorian-era parks, flat whites and famously sunny way of life.
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Evil Reef Sharks are the evil counterparts of the playable Reef Sharks. Evil Reef Sharks are exclusive to Hungry Shark Evolution, and have a darker complexion than the playable Reef Sharks. They are aggressive yet only slightly dangerous creatures. They are the most common evil sharks in Hungry Shark Evolution.
Danger Rating
The danger rating of the Evil Reef Shark is Medium. A Medium rating indicates that the creature can deal quite a few damage points, and it could be lethal if they attack in groups
Evil Reef Sharks may cause the game camera to zoom out, to indicate the shark's presence. However, this only occurs with the Reef Shark.
Evil Reef Sharks lunge and attack your shark if you come into range, but luckily they deal small amounts of damage compared to other evil sharks. Evil Reef Sharks swim about randomly with no predetermined movement pattern. This behaviour can lead them to "accidentally" discover your shark and initiate an attack.
Evil Reef Sharks can be found anywhere less than 90 meters below sea level. They are most common near the left part of the map, where the Reef Shark spawns under rock formations. They always spawn in groups.
There are always some Reef Shark near a shark diving cage.
Sometimes they spawn under 90 meters, the limit of depht a reef shark can reach.They are very common in spawn points. They can also be found near Hammerhead Sharks.
- Another glitch is they can spawn inside large diving cages.
- There is also a glitch where they can be megalodon-sized.
- Evil Reef Sharks have a danger level of medium, despite their surprisingly high damage (of 35) . This may be because they fall prey to every shark in the game. The same rule applies to Stingrays .
- Evil Reef Sharks can be mistakened for Mako Sharks.

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The first thing I asked her was how to pronounce "Radch." Her answer was great - she pronounces it with an affricate, but believes that since the region is so large and has so many different language groups, any way you pronounce it is probably considered correct somewhere in the Radch. So, effectively, say it as you'd like.
I asked her about her process in designing this universe. She said it was a "long and piecemeal" process, where she'd find interesting ideas and ask herself, "How would that fit?" She believes there's no such thing as a monoculture, so every group she represented had to be three-dimensional. She estimates the design process for the Radch universe took ten years at least.
The character of Breq was one of the first pieces of this universe. She imagined a character with multiple bodies, and a character who was a starship. She spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to represent the required head-hopping in her narrative, and finally decided to do it in the simplest way possible.
I asked her about Breq and her emotions, because the text always depicts her as having emotions, but a lot of readers have responded by calling her a "soulless machine." Ann said that she always intended her to be deeply emotional, but a person who would never knowing show those emotions to others. She had to depict Breq's emotions a bit through other characters' reactions and hope that people would become accustomed to Breq's dry delivery. She worked very hard to get those emotions on the page without having Breq say anything about it. She is a character with rigid self-control and extreme competence. If she were to show her emotional states, it would be much easier to take advantage of her.
People who are not in positions of power can't let their feelings out because it might be dangerous to them. They end up super-controlled, but when they really need to say things they tend to get understated and sideways about it. Kat remarked that in Japanese, things get implied and said in interstices, so Breq's expression felt very real to her, as if she had "emotional continence," i.e. control over when she emits emotion and when she doesn't. In the US we tend to say we want free expression, but only the powerful and the privileged can actually achieve this.
Breq is under the control of others, but also in control of many people. One of Ann's goals was to show that you can be oppressed and also be an oppressor.
I asked Ann how she designs her character voices, and she laughed. She tries to keep the voices distinct, but says, "I see the character, and I try and hear them."
I asked when she decided to use the pronoun "she" for all the characters referred to in the Radchaai language. Ann explained that her first NaNoWriMo novel, which she called "really bad," assigned binary genders, and she was really unhappy with the result. She wanted do depict a situation where people really didn't care, but couldn't figure out how to deal with it. She tried doing a short story that used all masculine pronouns, but wasn't exactly happy with that either. Then she thought, "What about 'she'?" She imagined it would sound funny, but figured that the worst that could happen would be that she wouldn't like it, and she could put it in a folder. However, "The more that I tried it, the more that I liked it."
Ann mentioned how LeGuin had made the choice to use mostly masculine pronouns in The Left Hand of Darkness, but had regretted it in some respects and later had experimented with feminine pronouns in a short story.
She said that she expected Ancillary Justice was unsellable, but, she says, "You send stuff out. Rejecting it is not your job." An agent said he "wasn't too sure about the pronoun thing," and Ann worried that she would be losing her chance at representation, but she'd decided before she started the process of agent-hunting that the pronoun question would be a deal-breaker. She sent him a five thousand word explanation for why the pronouns were important, and he said, "OK." Then the editor at first said the first chapter had issues, but later decided it was "fine." The moral, Ann says, is that it's okay to fight for something in your work!
I asked her when she made her decisions about portraying the skin color of the people in the Radch. She said this was an early conscious decision. Far future space opera always seemed exceedingly white, so she thought, "I may as well go completely the other way." She made a similar deliberate decision in depicting Station Administrator Celar. Station Administrator Celar is fat, and "the hottest thing going." Standards of beauty are interesting, because people talk like they are biologically ordained, but it's mostly culture.
I asked Ann how she chose tea as the main drink. She said it was partly because she loves tea, and partly because C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner series had used tea. Book two then ended up with "lots and lots of tea," and a tea plantation. She did research to decide what kind of tea it was. She says having a good sensory feel of what you're writing helps it come across on the page. One of the side effects has been that people bring her tea. They always seem uncertain about whether she will like their gift tea, but as Ann says, "I've had the kind of tea I like." She wants to try the kind of tea other people like.
I asked her about whether she felt pressure to raise the stakes when she was writing sequels to Ancillary Justice. Ann explains that you don't have to up the stakes, just change them. After Ancillary Justice, the stakes weren't going to get higher. So she left the larger stakes the same, and found different interesting stakes at the lower level. "I kind of like that more personal level." She mentioned how in Patrick O'Brien naval adventures, there's lots of waiting for battles, and in those periods, lots of personal stuff plays out.
We spoke about the character Kalr 5, and how she got developed. Ann said that Kalr 5 needed business to perform, and reasons to go from one place to another, so Ann sent her after dishes, and suddenly her character became a connoisseur of teacups. The concept grew even further at the moment she actually gets a chance to bring out the real good dishes. Some people really like dishes! Kat said she loved the tea and dishes, in part because of the Japanese view on dishes, where there are seasonal dishes, and dishes are supposed to match or complement food colors.
I also asked Ann about the gloves. Ann said that part of it came in really early - people were wearing gloves - and she had to retcon a reason for it. Why do we all wear pants and not skirts? We used to.
When something has significance in one place, it generally should have significance everywhere.
The idea that hands were yucky or inappropriate and had to be covered by gloves made sense because of the way we will sometimes label things yucky and needing to be covered up, as when some cultures (like the US) demand that shoes be worn all the time because feet are dirty.
What you have to cover is very cultural. Hands are about the dirtiest thing on us!
We then talked about the translation problem, and Ann's depiction of the Radchaai language vs. the other languages in the books. Breq's difficulty with other languages is one of the most fascinating parts of the story for me (yay, language geekery!). The other languages are useful because having them allows you to get perspective on what the Radchaai language is doing with its pronouns. Also, when English speakers try to speak languages with gendered nouns, they will often forget the gender of nouns. Hungarian doesn't have gendered pronouns for people, so Hungarian speakers can forget to gender pronouns when using English. Mandarin also has a personal pronoun which does not vary in sound for male and female. Even though currently there are radicals used in the written form to indicate male, female, or neutral, that wasn't true historically.
Any time you have a grammatical distinction in one language that isn't used in another language, translating between them will be hard. Japanese recognizes birth order - it's marked in the lexicon, where there are different words for older brother and younger brother, older sister and younger sister. Kat told us a story about how she'd been using the words for older siblings as though they were unmarked (i.e. just meant sibling), and had her mother ask her whether all of her friends were younger siblings (they weren't).
Translating becomes an issue when a category must be specified in the second language that doesn't exist in the first language.
Translating these books, Ann says, is very tricky.
Ann, thank you so much for coming on the show and sharing your insights about these wonderful books. Thanks also to everyone who attended.


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We do a lot of waiting in this life. We wait in lines at supermarkets, department stores, and ticket counters. We wait for our turns at doctors' offices, for tables at restaurants, and for our kids at sports practices. Much of our days are spent simply waiting. But some waits are more difficult than others. Consider the young mother who must wait to find out if the mass in her abdomen is cancer. Or what about the parents who wait anxiously to hear from their daughter in Chile after the devastating earthquake? Then there are the young parents who sit as a vigil beside their young child's bedside, waiting for any sign of life. Such waits as these are difficult to say the least.
The Bible tells the story of Hannah, a woman who waited. Hannah was one of the two wives of Elkanah. The other wife of Elkanah was Peninnah. Hannah had no children, but Peninnah had children. The Bible tells us that Peninnah provoked Hannah because she had no children. In other words, she made Hannah's life miserable, constantly reminding her that she was blessed with sons and daughters, but that Hannah had none. One year as they traveled to Shiloh to worship and sacrifice to the Lord, Hannah, in great bitterness of spirit, went to the tabernacle and poured out her heart to God. She probably told Him how much she wanted a son. She more than likely shared how Peninnah provoked her and made her so sad. The Scripture tells us she wept before God and prayed that He would give her a child. Eli, the priest, observed Hannah and at first thought she was drunk with wine. After Hannah explained why she was sorrowful, Eli encouraged her to go in peace that God had heard her prayer. So Hannah went home and waited.
Note that nothing had changed when Hannah left the tabernacle. She still was childless. She was probably still taunted and harassed by Peninnah. But 1 Samuel 1:18b states that she "went her way and ate, and her face was no longer sad." She went home, continued her life as usual, and waited. Hannah practiced what David advised in Psalm 37:7a: "Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him; do not fret …" And also in Psalm 62:1-2: "Truly my soul silently waits for God; from Him comes my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation; He is my defense; I shall not be greatly moved."
Contrast Hannah's wait for a child with that of Sarah, Abraham's wife. God had promised to make Abraham a great nation, yet Sarah remained childless. Undoubtedly upset about her inability to conceive, Sarah took matters into her own hands and gave her maid, Hagar, to Abraham in hopes of having an heir. Instead of solving her problem, however, Hagar's conception and birth of Ishmael created additional problems and woes (see Genesis 16).
How do you wait? Are you like Hannah, taking everything straight to God and trusting Him to handle it and work things out? Or are you more like Sarah, taking things into your own hands? I must say, more times than I would like to admit, I try to be a fixer. I fret and I scheme and I try to work things out. But I've also learned that more often than not, my attempts to fix things ultimately create bigger problems.
Isaiah 64:4 reminds us that how we wait says a lot about how we trust God. "For since the beginning of the world men have not heard nor perceived by the ear, nor has the eye seen any God besides You, Who acts for the one who waits for Him." If we really believe that God will act for us, we are better able to wait patiently for Him to work things out.
But what about those times when God doesn't work things out the way we hoped? We believed God would act for us, but the diagnosis was cancer. We trusted God to take care of things, but a loved one died. We struggle because it seems that God didn't act for us. Yet believing that God will act also involves trusting in His wisdom regarding the outcome. We have to believe that God is in control and that we can trust His wisdom. '"For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways," says the Lord. "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts"' (Isaiah 55:8-9). When we place our absolute trust in God and His wisdom, we can then wait with confidence and peace. As the prophet Isaiah reminds us, "You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You" (Isaiah 26:3).
So the next time we need to wait, let's try turning the situation over to God and waiting on Him to work things out. We can rest in His promise that "…they shall not be ashamed who wait for Me" (Isaiah 49:23). Then, like Hannah, we can wait with peace and courage. "Wait on the Lord; be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart; wait, I say, on the Lord!" (Psalm 27:14).


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I've been an avid blogger since the very young age of just 13. I've used all the sites – LiveJournal, Xanga, Blogger, WordPress, and, of course, Tumblr. As a journalism major at Hofstra University, I had to learn all aspects of communications – print, broadcast, and, most importantly, digital (this includes social media and blogging). We were told that blogging was essential to establishing ourselves and our brands as freelance journalists and writers, and the same goes for freelance photographers and artists.
So, yes, I'd definitely say maintaining a blog is important. It's helpful in not only establishing your brand and promoting your photography, but it also allows creatives (and fans!) to get to know you as a person and as an artist. While they can see your beautiful portfolios on your website, your blog will give them a glimpse of what you're like to work with, and what you've been up to.
There's a lot of 'unspoken rules' in the world of blogging, and I'd love to share them with you.
I've seen many great blogs with wonderful imagery and copy from photographers, but their last post was in 2011. It's always good to keep your blog up to date and post frequently. They say about four to five posts per month is ideal (about once a week). However, I know photographers are extremely busy and don't really have much time to post, but I'd say to try and post every month, at least. When buyers visit your blog, they will be more likely to read it if the posts are recent.
You don't have to be a videographer to put videos on your blog. You don't have to be a broadcaster to put some kind of audio on there. All you need is a little bit of knowledge on how to create different kinds of media (and I'd like to assume that photographers do). Nobody wants to just read text from post to post. They want pictures, slideshows, podcasts (or small audio clips), and perhaps behind-the-scenes video footage. Add links to other blogs and sites. Adding multimedia to some of your posts will attract more readers (and viewers, and listeners).
This might seem like simple common sense, but I've seen many blogs where the layout doesn't match the photographer's website. Take your logo and slap it on the top of the blog, and make the colors of the blog match the color palette of your brand. Use the same fonts throughout your sites. It's the little things like a consistent color scheme and logo on all of your websites and social media pages that help your company and name stick in a buyer's mind. Talk to an Account Rep at Agency Access to create your brand and receive a brand book – chock full o' color schemes, fonts, a gorgeous logo to match, and more.
They say that people who read on a computer screen read 25% slower than they do on paper, and their eyes get tired more quickly. Studies have shown that website readers usually scan the page, picking out specific sentences and words, and, if there is too much copy, they'll leave the page. In order to keep your visitors from leaving, you have to limit the amount of writing you post. Use bulleted lists. Use subheads. Add those pictures and media. Use bold, italics, and underline for key words. And (a lot of people don't know this) take advantage of that line break! Write paragraphs of all different lengths. Diving up your text and formatting it differently throughout will make it easier for viewers to read (and they'll be more likely to stay on your page).
Readers find blogs a lot more interesting when they are asked to engage on a post. If you're posting about a recent shoot, you can ask for readers' opinions about the final image. If you're posting about a problem you face as a photographer, ask your fellow photographer readers if they've ever experienced a similar problem. Get people to talk. The more readers that visit your site and engage in it, the more impressed creatives will be when they visit your page.
When you're finished with your post, share it to your Facebook page, Twitter page, and any other social media platforms that you have an account on. Your purpose for blogging is to have viewers visit the site and read your posts. When you share the link, be sure to add a compelling title and caption so that social media browsers (including buyers – they are also on social media) will actually click the link.
Abiding to these simple guidelines will help your blog become a successful one. It will be a platform in which you can showcase your work AND your personality to creatives, fans of your imagery, and even internet browsers who simply have some extra leisure time. Remember, keep posts frequent, use multiple types of media, and keep the posts short and sweet, and you should have more readers in no time.
Do you know of any other useful tips for bloggers? How do you get readers to your blog? Let's chat about it in the comments.
After moving from Agency Access's phone marketing department, Holly Anne discovered her passion for marketing across all platforms as the company's Copywriter. With a BA in Journalism from Hofstra University and an obsession for writing, Holly proudly assumes the responsibilities of writing and editing copy for company promos, newsletters, and social media. She writes for both print and online publications, maintains a number of blogs on her own, and was also Art Director for her college's student-run magazine, Pulse. When Holly isn't working or writing, she's freelancing as a makeup artist.
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I don't want to have to think. Sometimes this is as strong a feeling as I ever have, throbbing behind my eyes and persuading me, please, to just let go of the reins and give in, sink into the sofa. Don't do anything. Don't think. Just zone out.
It starts gently, and it's easy to talk yourself out of a night's writing because you had a bad night or because there's been so much going on recently, that you really do deserve a break, don't you, after all. It'd be nice. It'd be good.
But it is never good. I must have rattled on about this feeling I have a dozen times, about the deadness it brings to your limbs, about not being able to lay back too far without your eyes drifting shut and a sticky, useless sleep…
This is getting me nowhere. I'd intended, yesterday, to write a post about dialogue and how it was getting to be a pain in the arse, and that I was generally just finding myself fighting any need to actually think while writing. Instead I started wallowing.
Fact is I am just blunting my own abilities in some ridiculous way out of fear, desperation, laziness, whatever. Something. It's a pattern, one I can recognise but one I still inexorably fall prey to dispite being aware of exactly what's happening.
I have a very persuasive inner dodger. An inner doubter. Do I really know what's best for myself? Of course, I do, but in low points – as the pattern arc begins – I immediately question this and seek out escape, duvet-soft smothering of thought.
A while ago I wrote up in scathing detail exactly what my indicators were, from eating habits to fug-headedness, and right through exactly what I was doing last week – reading/listening to books and being entirely consumed by them.
Yet I still can't convince myself that, when I spot them, they are really indicators this time. I wanted to listen, avidly, to the audiobook because it'll help me with my own writing. I wanted to read The Shining all weekend because it'll help me with my own writing.
I feel fug-headed because I'm tired, I need early nights, I need sleep, I need a day off work in bed. Am I sugar/caffeine/salt crashing? Probably. Better think about my diet, or eat something 'ballasty' to fight back against the onrushing surge of sugar/caffeine/salt. Or gorge on chocolate/coffee/crisps when there's a lack of it.
Bagels. I crave bagels when I'm plummetting. There's something so comforting, so soft and happy about the glazed surface and the chewy, springy middle. At least I've moved on from Fuse bars, which used to be my foodescape of choice.
But though I've got a handle on my indicators – or at least, I can recognise them as I'm ignoring them – I've no idea why this happens. Perhaps there isn't even a reason. Perhaps I'm just whining about something everyone goes through. Perhaps I'm just bored?
The reason doesn't matter, in the end, so long as I've got some way of dealing with it. And every time I come home weary (probably shouldn't write, it'll only be too hard) or after an hour in someone else's world (probably shouldn't write, it'll only be too hard) or whatever, I avoid probably the one thing which could pull me out.
When I started NNWM on 1 November, I felt good because I actually had no doubting/questioning – I was doing it because, well, it's NNWM, and I want to do this thing, and I don't need any other reasons. Five days later and I felt awesome. Even though it was hard, and even though it might not be going perfectly, I was doing something.
By the time my sheaf of typed papers had heft, this felt like the greatest month. I was myself, doing something I knew that made me feel proud and happy about myself. But as much as I felt beyond my old worries, they didn't take long to catch up.
It's been a whirlwind month, and so much has happened. I stopped writing because it just wasn't appropriate to go off on my own for an hour when there was so much else. Combined with the intensity of the moments, these little gaps were all my doubt and fears needed to rush back in, driving the old wedge between me and writing.
After that, I sunk into audiobook territory. I've dived back into The Shining for the umpteenth time. I've cried off writing because of tiredness or weariness or just plain oh-not-now-I'm-comfortableness, and I lost my grip on what actually makes me better.
I don't know if writing makes me better because of my life, because of how I was influenced. Possibly what's so healing about writing is that it forces my own self, opinions and feelings to rise up to the surface when usually I find everything/everyone else in the world clouds and mingles with me so I no longer feel utterly myself.
I know it makes me better. I know I'm still afraid of it, but I know that I don't need to be afraid of it not being worth doing (because it is) or of it being bollocks (because my wife tells me when it is) or of it being selfish (because it isn't).
So, sorry writing. I've been meaning to write posts for days but have felt dizzy in fact as all of the other things I could be doing have streaked past my eyes – reading, working, thinking, working, doing something else, have I forgotten something?
Sorry writing. I'm back now. You always forgive me.


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John Foldi, 72, of Steubenville, Ohio passed away Wednesday, April 10, 2019 at Lancia Villa Vista. He was born July 26, 1946 in Steubenville, the son of the late John & Virginia Marie Sarkis Foldi, Sr. He was a retired mechanic at Pittsburgh International Airport. Preceding John in death were his parents and wife, Cheryl Lynn Watt Foldi on May 19, 2010.
John is survived by his children, Jennifer (Doug) Bishop of Gibsonia, PA and son John W. Foldi of Steubenville; grandchildren Brianna Lynn Foldi & Noah Charles Bishop; and sister Virginia Ann Foldi of Steubenville.
Friends may call at Dunlope-Shorac Funeral Home on Saturday from 9 a.m. until the time of services at 11 a.m. with Rev. Bill Westling officiating. Burial at Fort Steuben.
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The Beatles' George Harrison, the "quiet one," was in truth a kaleidoscopic force of nature. His catalog and musicianship both with the fab four and beyond have not just aged well but have become straight-up classics enshrined in the firmament of the twentieth century music canon.Without "If I Needed Someone," "I Me Mine," "Something," "Taxman," "Here Comes the Sun," or "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" among other George songs, the four would have been unbearably less fabulous. The same goes for his myriad of his envelope-exploding contributions which in addition to so much else included his chiming 12-string Fireglo Rickenbacker from 1963 (you're welcome Roger McGuinn) used throughout Hard Days Night, his #wtf time-warped backwards guitar on "I'm Only Sleeping" and his tamboura from the astral plane on "Tomorrow Never Knows." Harrison's genius is best summed-up perhaps with yet another of his underrated brilliant album cuts: "It's All Too Much."And it never stopped. Harrison's 1970 magnum opus/dam burst following the Beatles' dissolution that is the triple-album All Things Must Pass is filled with sublime sounds. The raw harmonica-driven "Apple Scruffs" could have been a White Album classic, his prostration before the universe in "My Sweet Lord" somehow became a pop staple (despite the frivolous litigation) and the loping sing-a-long of "What is Life" all stand up to anything he did before or since.Olivia, Dhani, Ringo, Jim James and Weird Al:Photo Gallery From the "I Me Mine" George Harrison Book LaunchSome of these even became hits. Harrison would earn 13 top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. Of those, five reached the top 10, including three No. 1s in "My Sweet Lord / Isn't It a Pity" (1970), "Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)" (1973) and "Got My Mind Set on You" (1981 ) while "All Those Years Ago" hit No. 2 in 1981. While songs like "Mind Set On You," "When We Was Fab," "All Those Years Ago" and the Traveling Willbury's "Handle With Care" are still on the F.M., a trove of deep solo album cuts like Dark Horse's funked-up title track or the soul pop of "Can't Stop Thinking About You" from Extra Texture (Read All About It) awaits the intrepid.
Source: Olivia Harrison on How George Surprised Ringo, Extended Edition of 'I Me Mine' (Q&A) | Billboard


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FareShare: Supplying surplus food across the UK
Posted on Jul 30, 2019 by admin
Zycomm's involvement as a supplier to the distribution sector over a number of decades has allowed the team to gain an insight into the challenges faced by businesses with surplus stock; from frustrations over wastage costs to pressure from the government to reduce their environmental impact. At the other end of the spectrum Zycomm's connection with numerous charities has exposed us to some of the food poverty problems faced by vulnerable people across the UK.
FareShare is the link that joins these very different worlds together to tackle food scarcity and save the environment at the same time. FareShare is the UK's largest charity fighting hunger and food waste. FareShare works primarily with businesses prepared to invest their surplus goods, time and in some cases their finances, into this exceptional cause.
Our Marketing Executive Hannah Ingram spoke at length with Elina Kanela from the FareShare communications team to uncover just the tip of the iceberg; in terms of the difference this vast network makes to 1000's of charities throughout the UK. With 21 regional centres, including locations in Scotland and Northern Ireland, from Grampian down to Sussex, FareShare supplies food to almost 11,000 charities and community groups with nearly 2,000 towns and cities supported by the programme.
"We save good food from going to waste and redistribute it to frontline charities. Every week we provide food to 924,325 people who might otherwise go without." Elina is particularly proud that the project has saved over 376 million Co2 emissions this year alone.
Charities supported by FareShare Food Redistribution
Places supported by FareShare include homeless charities (FareShare was originally founded by Homeless Charity Crisis), primary schools, refugee centres, disability centres and the British Red Cross. There is a real social impact from the work they do in addition to the environmental side. The food FareShare provides is not just about quantity for these charities; 77% say FareShare has improved the diet for their service users equipping them with more energy and improving their quality of life as they connect with their local community when they meet for meals.
Their interesting main partners
The consensus often found during general conversation on the topic of waste is that supermarkets and other food venders are the main culprits for food going to landfill but Elina explains that there is a misconception here:
"Retailers are focusing on their corporate social responsibility as well as their own cost efficiency and hence we have seen a significant reduction in waste within that sector which is a real positive"
In reality food manufacturers currently provide them with the most surplus food. From swift changes in supply and demand, inefficiency during the production/packing stage or even fluctuations in the weather can result in forecasting being less than 100% accurate. Food processing companies can vastly reduce their environmental impact by working with FareShare; a sure way to make a positive out of the unexpected.
Taking food from a more primary source, where items may not have been packed yet, adds an extra layer to the logistical planning required to move these items.
Elina gives this example "10 left over cereal boxes are easy enough to move but when food isn't packed yet there is a cost element with this"
How companies can make a difference - Surplus with Purpose
Elina explains that some businesses have the surplus food required to take part in the scheme but find the financial and logistical commitment of transporting the food to one of their centres a step too far for them to commit to the project.
This is where new government funding comes in. Companies can now claim for distribution from their premises to FareShare regional centres, dramatically cutting the costs required to take part of this extraordinary network.
Elina also praises companies that go above and beyond offering to pop into their centres with extra food as part of their routine logistics runs or even going into their own 'non surplus' stock for donations.
How you can get involved – From volunteering to shopping
If you work for one of the sectors that don't work with food as part of the day to day running of the business there are still many ways you can join the efforts on a personal basis. FareShare relies on the generosity of supporters to continue to redistribute food across the UK.
There are many ways individuals can make a difference from shopping at supermarkets participating in the 'You Buy One, We Give One' campaign or by directly volunteering either as an individual or as a corporate group. FareShare has a number of unique opportunities for companies to get involved and support their work.
Elina tells me "the volunteering opportunities are ideal because there is something for everyone" from warehouse staff, drivers or even community champions the diverse volunteer roles available allow people from all different walks of life to take part in the project.
The media often speak at length about the duty of schools to look out for the wellbeing of their pupils particularly those from low income backgrounds who may turn up to school hungry but what happens when these kids leave for the summer holidays which span, on average, across a six-week period? Many families struggle to afford the 'meal gap' which is why FareShare have started the campaign #ActiveAte working directly with charities which put on activities for children during the summer and providing over 2,500 children with a hot meal each day.
Find out more
You can read more at on the FareShare website or use their contact page for partner and volunteering enquiries.
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Our marketing executive Hannah Ingram says "On behalf of the Zycomm Team I would like to thank Elina and everyone at FareShare for allowing us to raise awareness of such an important cause. We hope this will catch the attention of our customers and prospects and provide FareShare with some new partners."
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Real Madrid striker Karim Benzema and married Bayern Munich midfielder Franck Ribery are to face trial on charges of paying Zahia Dehar, an underage prostitute at that time about 16-17 years old for sex on April 7, 2010. None of the footballers and Dehar has showed up in court on Tuesday and the trial has however for the time being stands adjourned for procedural reasons until 2014.
Both players are part of the France's national squad and have been under investigation since 2010 over the allegations. If proven guilty, they risk up to three years imprisonment and fines of 45,000 euros for soliciting the services of an underage prostitute.
Ribery's lawyer has however asked the Paris court on Tuesday's hearing to seize the Constitutional Council from interpreting a clause in the penal code that bans soliciting underage prostitutes. He said that it was too vague to be used against his client while arguing Ribery's case.
The scandal has lead to exposing of French footballers' inclination towards flings and party culture. It was unfurled in public domain right ahead of the 2010 World Cup, further damaging the image of the French squad which was already struggling with internal bickering, public tantrums, defeats.
Algerian-born Zahia Dehar is now 21 years old and had since turned into designer Karl Lagerfeld's muse and protégée leading to launching her own lingerie line and soft-porn website later.
State prosecutors have requested for dropping the case while arguing that the footballers did not knew Dehar was a minor.
Prosecutors representing the state under the French legal system can open an investigation and assign independent judges to lead it. As the investigation advances, prosecutors can change their mind and recommend dropping the case, but the judges can ignore this advice and continue with trial.
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How to publish bulk inventory for an entire hotel
In this slightly contrived example you will learn about additional data that you can publish to Winding Tree ecosystem when you are managing an entire hotel.
- Working with the Write API
Learn how to publish inventory
Step by step
There is no big difference between publishing a single apartment and an entire hotel in terms of the process. What is probably a little different is how rich the provided data will have to be and how many options of the Winding Tree data model the hotel will use. We will also cover how to update the ever-changing data such as prices.
You are not limited to Winding Tree Data Model, you can use any API standard you want if you know that your business partners will be able to consume it.
Preparing the data
General description
In addition to the basics covered in this tutorial, you can add more information to the general description.
In the field
images, you are able to list URLs leading
to images describing your hotels which can later be displayed
on the Travel agency website. There is currently no restriction
as to where to host your pictures, but we recommend to make them
accessible via HTTP. We also recommend to use HD pictures
that look well on modern devices. It should be up to the data
consumer to adjust the sizes of these pictures. Also, since there's no
metadata available, we recommend to list the most important picture as
the first one.
"images": [
We also offer a way of putting a hotel into certain
category for better
search possibilities. Available categories are described in the
data model.
For legal reasons, it's also a good idea to add information on the hotel's
operator, a legal entity responsible for running the property. This might be
a different entity than the legal entity in ORG.ID.
"operator": {
"name": "Example hotels Ltd.",
"address": {
"road": "E. Street SW",
"houseNumber": "300",
"city": "Washington",
"state": "DC",
"postcode": "20546",
"countryCode": "US"
"contact": {
"email": "[email protected]"
You are able to tell a lot more details about your property with
the use of
amenities, and
tags. Eventhough they
might look similar, they each have a specific semantics.
Amenities are yes/no services provided by the hotel and we have an enumeration of possible values. Tags are on the other hand totally free and you can fill in whatever you'd like.
"amenities": [
"dry cleaning", "free parking", "free wi-fi", "restaurant"
"tags": [
"luxury", "fine dining"
The most complicated part are the cancellation policies. In any case,
you have to specify
defaultCancellationAmount which is the cost
of cancellation in percents of the total price. 0 means everything
is returned back to the customer, 100 means non-refundable.
Anything more complicated is optional and you can specify multiple cancellation policies that may differ in the following:
- When are they applicable - for example you may have different policies in winter and summer
- How much time before arrival are they applicable - for example you
may return smaller amount the closer you are to the date of arrival. We
call this
This information is important as a list of cancellation fees is part of the Winding Tree's Booking protocol.
The following specification means for the traveller that:
- If you cancel between January 1 and June 30
- If you cancel more than 30 days prior to arrival, you will get back 90%
- If you cancel between 30 and 5 days prior to arrival, you will get back 75%
- If you cancel less than 5 days prior to arrival, you will get back 20%
- If you cancel any time after July 1
- If you cancel more than 10 days prior to arrival, you will get back 90%
- If you cancel less than 10 days prior to arrival, you will get back 10%
"defaultCancellationAmount": 10,
"cancellationPolicies": [
"from": "2019-01-01",
"to": "2019-06-30",
"deadline": 30,
"amount": 25
"from": "2019-01-01",
"to": "2019-06-30",
"deadline": 5,
"amount": 80
"from": "2019-07-01",
"to": "2019-12-31",
"deadline": 10,
"amount": 90
You can specify category, images, amenities and tags also for your room types in the same way as for the whole hotel.
"category": "teepee",
"images": [
"amenities": [
"tags": [
"pink walls"
There are also many more options in pricing design.
Apart from using a single, primary currency on the hotel level,
you are able to specify a
currency for every rate plan. With
this feature, you are able to declare prices in multiple currencies
as well. Winding Tree at this moment does not provide any conversion
You can also easily restrict when the rate plan can be applied. You have three options how to do it. You can declare when the rate plan can be used:
- based on the date of the booking (
- based on the date of stay (
- based on other factors (
restrictions, we might add more):
- length of stay,
- how many days before the arrival the booking happens (
Last but not least, you can modify the base price of every rate plan when
certain conditions (
modifiers), such as minimal number of guests, age or length of stay,
are met. These come in handy for example when a second person
in the room gets a huge discount. We support the modification either based on percents
or as an absolute amount.
The following example (when added to the required fields of a rate plan) means, that the price is in EUR, can be used for bookings that happen in year 2018 and book rooms for the first half of 2019. If a single person is travelling, she will pay 100 EUR. If two people are coming, they will also pay 100 EUR (two times half the price). If three people are coming, they will pay each 50% of base price or 150 EUR.
"price": 100,
"currency": "EUR",
"availableForReservation": {
"from": "2018-01-01",
"to": "2018-12-31"
"availableForTravel": {
"from": "2019-01-01",
"to": "2019-06-30"
"modifiers": [
"adjustment": -50,
"unit": "percentage",
"conditions": {
"minOccupants": 2
For availability, you can gain a bit more control with the concept
restrictions. They basically declare that on certain days,
it's not possible to arrive or depart.
The example is telling the world that it is:
- Possible to arrive on December 23
- Possible to depart on December 23
- Impossible to arrive on December 24
- Possible to depart on December 24
- Possible to arrive on December 25
- Impossible to depart on December 25
- Possible to arrive on December 26
- Possible to depart on December 26
"roomTypeId": "room-1",
"date": "2018-12-23",
"quantity": 4
"roomTypeId": "room-1",
"date": "2018-12-24",
"quantity": 4,
"restrictions": {
"noArrival": true
"roomTypeId": "room-1",
"date": "2018-12-25",
"quantity": 4,
"restrictions": {
"noDeparture": true
"roomTypeId": "room-1",
"date": "2018-12-26",
"quantity": 4
Uploading the data
There is no difference in registering your inventory, so in order
to list your hotel offering, we will call the Write API's
endpoint. To be able to do that, you need to have your Write API
account ready and configured.
Don't forget to add the
legalEntity necessary for the ORG.ID to be created.
$ curl -X POST https://madrid-write-api.windingtree.com/hotels \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'X-Access-Key: write-api-account-access-key' \
-H 'X-Wallet-Password: ethereum-wallet-password' \
--data @hotel.json
In the response, you will get an Ethereum address where your hotel is registered. That address belongs only to the holder of the used Ethereum wallet and noone else can modify the record stored there.
Updating the data
As your hotel gets some traffic, you will probably become in need of updating your inventory, prices or availability. If you are using Write API, you have two options.
Partial updates
As we've shown before, when communicating with Write API the
hotel data
is separated into three sections:
ratePlans and
Due to the nature of Winding Tree's ecosystem storage design, you
can only update a section as a whole. It is intentionally not possible to
partially change a single field with a single API call.
So, in order to update the price from 100 EUR to 200 EUR, the workflow with Write API looks like this:
Prepare the data into
{ "hotel": { "ratePlans": [ { "price": 200, "currency": "EUR", "availableForReservation": { "from": "2018-01-01", "to": "2018-12-31" }, "availableForTravel": { "from": "2019-01-01", "to": "2019-06-30" }, "modifiers": [ { "adjustment": -50, "unit": "percentage", "conditions": { "minOccupants": 2 } } ] } ] } }
Send a partial update
$ curl -X PATCH https://madrid-write-api.windingtree.com/hotels/0xA603FF7EA9A1B81FB45EF6AeC92A323a88211f40 \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -H 'X-Access-Key: write-api-account-access-key' \ -H 'X-Wallet-Password: ethereum-wallet-password' \ --data @update.json
Full reupload
If you for some reason need to change all of the data at the same time,
you can. Just use
PUT method instead of
$ curl -X PUT https://madrid-write-api.windingtree.com/hotels/0xA603FF7EA9A1B81FB45EF6AeC92A323a88211f40 \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-H 'X-Access-Key: write-api-account-access-key' \
-H 'X-Wallet-Password: ethereum-wallet-password' \
--data @all-data.json


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The first thing we have to do is assume that the scientific study that we are about to discuss is valid. Its results are so bizarre that I fear that there might be something wrong with the methodology. It has a little bit of a "cold fusion" vibe going on. But assuming that the study is valid, then it truly is interesting: Hotel Maids Challenge the Placebo Effect
In this study, a scientist (Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer) looked at hotel maids. When asked about their exercise habits, most hotel maids claimed that they got no exercise. The article puts it this way:
But Langer found that most of these women don't see themselves as physically active. She did a survey and found that 67 percent reported they didn't exercise. More than one-third of those reported they didn't get any exercise at all.
And the bodies of these hotel maids correlated with their "perceived amount of exercise":
Langer and her team measured the maids' body fat, waist-to-hip ratio, blood pressure, weight and body mass index. They found that all of these indicators matched the maids' perceived amount of exercise, rather than their actual amount of exercise.
So far so good. The problem is, a typical hotel maid is getting a lot of exercise from her job. A hotel maid is on her feet all day, walking from room to room, carrying vacuum cleaners, fluffing pillows, etc. Just the act of being on your feet and walking around like this gives you a lot of exercise. It's just that the maids did not perceive it to be exercise.
So the scientist split the maids (84 of them) into two groups. With 42 of the maids the scientist did nothing. They went about their lives without any changes. With the other 42, the scientist educated the maids and showed them how much exercise they actually were getting from their jobs. Now here is the weird part:
One month later, Langer and her team returned to take physical measurements of the women and were surprised by what they found. In the group that had been educated, there was a decrease in their systolic blood pressure, weight, and waist-to-hip ratio — and a 10 percent drop in blood pressure.
What this study seems to show is bizarre: Just by changing their perceptions, the scientist was able to effect real results. Changing a person's weight is real. This is not like a normal placebo effect, where you give a person a sugar pill instead of aspirin and the perception of pain goes down. The weight of these maids actually went down. The study seems to indicate that you can control things like your weight and blood pressure with your mind. The article puts it this way:
Hence, the theoretical possibility that, if done with genuine conviction, one might be able to sit around eating chocolate and still lose weight.
Like I said, there is some possibility that the methodology was somehow incorrect. But let's assume that the study is reporting a real finding. I'm left to sit here wondering how that might be. There is a fair amount of evidence to show that biofeedback and meditation can have an effect on blood pressure, so it does seem true that your mind does exert some level of control over your blood pressure. And there is evidence that the body does reset things like metabolic rate in certain circumstances, and perhaps the mind can influence that mechanism.
Therefore, if true, this would seem to imply that we could somehow teach people to mentally control their body weight and blood pressure. That would be cool. If I could learn a mind trick that would mentally boost my metabolism rate and burn fat while I sleep, I would love that.
However, I am going to guess that something else happened. For example, the article does not mention anything about monitoring the food intake of the two groups of maids. What if, in the process of getting the education, the educated maids began to think differently about their bodies, and as a result they subconsciously started to eat less food or eat different foods? That would cause the same effect, but the methodology of the experiment would have missed it.
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24 May 2005 06:41:47 -0700
> I seem to recall that the old Bell System spec for tone duration was
> 20ms, or 1/5th of a second. Some switches allowed you to go as fast as
> 10ms, which put the speed in speedial. :)
> Don't know how P8 generates tones, but is it possible they are right
I had a T-Berd on the line, and it didn't recognize any DTMF either.
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Random ramblings from an idiot who lives in Salt Lake City, Utah; Can't find a better job than carriage driving, and has way too much free time. Free time + internet access + mouthy & opiniated = blahgs, blahgs, blahgs... (Hey! I made up a new word!!!) ;)
Friday, February 25, 2011
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Our last foster cat, Wednesday, was of slight build and timid but loving disposition. And while she craved the attention of the humans in the household, she shriveled, hid and snarled at the canine members. Her demeanor at adoption events was similar to a convict awaiting execution, and at one event she did so poorly the volunteers covered her cage with a towel because she hissed at anyone who looked in her direction.
Not exactly the type of behavior one hopes their foster cat displays in public. It kind of puts a damper on the whole "Looking for a cute, cuddly kitty to adopt" thing.
Eventually Wednesday found a new home with a person who was dogless, and we went about our busy schedules in December and January. During dinner at Fudruckers the other night I received a text from the director of the No More Homeless Pets in Utah foster cat program. She advised me that there was a cat available to foster that loved dogs. Was I interested?
We discussed it during our meal and decided that yes, indeed we could manage another foster now that things had settled down and I arranged to collect the cat the next morning.
I picked up a female tabby named Zita who was very friendly and only cried once on the way home in the crate. After our arrival I put her in the "panic room."
We have a special room in the house where we store an old waterbed and keep the foster cats. This is for their own protection. It's a room with a baby gate in the doorway that allows the cat easy access to its food and water but limits the presence of dogs who only want to maraud and pillage, gobbling down the cat food, then raping and disemboweling the cat toys. I'm not going into detail about what atrocities they manage with the litter box, but bobbing for apples comes to mind.
So the gate is up to allow the cat to dive into the room when taking cover is the best course of action. And with the waterbed, and a few other things we have stored in the room, it's easy to lose track of a kitty because there are fabulous little nooks and crannies for a cat to hide in, on, and under. When we foster a cat we're required make the cat wear a break-away cat collar with an I.D. tag on it. Last time I had Wednesday's name engraved on it and the person who adopted her kept the collar. This time I got a generic tag that says, "Foster Cat; Scan my tag" engraved on a purple heart and attached to a pink collar. A pink collar with a bell. Those little tiny bells that they put on cat collars to warn birds that a cat is about to turn them into a McNugget.
And therein lies the amusement. Because while I was attaching the I.D. tag to the collar, and Zita was tucked safely away in the cat room, the two dogs, hearing the bell tinkle, went apeshit looking for a cat in the kitchen. Because of the bell.
Anyway, for your consideration, Zita, a spayed female tabby approximately two years old, is available. Look for her at an adoption event soon!
(I'll put up a link as soon as NMHPU adds her to Petfinder.)
4 comments:
- C said...
Zita is totally adorable! I hope she'll be adopted very soon. You continue to inspire me with your big heart and good works, SD.
- February 25, 2011 at 1:06 PM
- Lisa Deon said...
Zita is adorable, and has a lot of balls too for a cat. She will not back down from the dogs, which is what our dogs need.
- February 25, 2011 at 4:48 PM
- Beatrix said...
Oh yeah, that first photo definitely has the expression of "I'll beat the shit out of you in a frenzy of manic kitty madness." Good luck with your foster!
- February 25, 2011 at 10:56 PM
- Dreaming said...
Thanks for the great laugh; dogs committing atrocities on kitty toys and bobbing for apples! Oh, yeah, I live with that now!
The baby gate is a great idea. We got one to keep the puppy off the carpet when he was younger and it actually has a little kitty door in it. Years ago we built a kitty playpen out of K-nex when our kitty, her food and her box needed some protection from the dogs.
- February 26, 2011 at 3:15 PM


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But first, let's talk about microfibers. Did you know that microfibers originate from fabrics we all know and love? These tiny fibers are a huge problem that we are all trying to find an eco-friendly solution for. Polyester, nylon, acrylic, and other synthetic fibers — all of which are forms of plastic — are now about 60% of the material that our clothes are made from worldwide. We take this issue seriously and are here to help create solutions that will lead to a positive impact on our environment.


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The California Legislature responded to Bridget R. by amending state law to define the
term "Indian child."405 But while the new statutory language evidently disapproved of the
Bridget R. decision, that language was identical to the language in ICWA itself—language the
Bridget R. court was interpreting. This meant that when the court was called upon to address the
subject again in Santos Y., it reiterated its holding in support of the Existing Indian Family
Doctrine.406 Today, the status of the Doctrine in California remains unsettled. Some Courts of
Appeal have rejected it,407 and the state Supreme Court has not resolved the conflict.408 Many
other state courts have now abandoned the Doctrine, however, including the Kansas Supreme
Yet in the long run, debate over the Doctrine misses the essential point. The Doctrine is
not an assault on ICWA. It is a saving construction designed to preserve a statute that would
otherwise run afoul of the Constitution's ban on racial discrimination.410 To abandon the
Doctrine would only force courts to confront that prohibition directly, and that would involve
further conflict in high profile cases involving children whose sole connection to tribes is
biological. ICWA cannot survive that confrontation. The Constitution simply cannot abide a
405 CAL. WELF. & INST. CODE § 360.6. This provision was later re-codified in CAL. FAM. CODE § 170.
406 In re Santos Y., 92 Cal. App. 4th 1274, 1316–17 (2001).
407 In re Alexandria P., 228 Cal. App. 4th 1322, 1344 (2014); In re Vincent M., 150 Cal. App. 4th 1247, 1264
(2007); In re Adoption of Hannah S., 142 Cal. App. 4th 988, 995 (2006); In re Alicia S., 65 Cal. App. 4th 79, 88
408 In 2006, the California Legislature adopted CAL. WELF. & INST. CODE § 224, again purporting to negate the
Doctrine. That statute, however, declares only that "[ i]t is in the interest of an Indian child that the child's
membership in the child's Indian tribe and connection to the tribal community be encouraged and protected,
regardless of whether the child is in the physical custody of an Indian parent or Indian custodian at the
commencement of a child custody proceeding. . . ." One Court of Appeal has declared that "there is no question"
that this put an end to the Doctrine in California, In re Autumn K., 221 Cal. App. 4th 674, 716 (2013), but the
California Supreme Court has not addressed the question.
409 In re A.J.S., 204 P.3d 543, 549–50 (Kan. 2009). See also In re Baby Boy L., 103 P.3d 1099, 1103–06 (Okl.
2004); Thompson v. Fairfax Cty Dep't of Family Servs., 747 S.E.2d 838, 846–48 (Va. Ct. App. 2013); In re
Adoption of T.N.F., 781 P.2d 973, 977 (Alaska 1989).
410 See, e.g., In re Bridget R., 41 Cal. App. 4th 1483, 1492 (1996) ("[T]he existing Indian family doctrine is
necessary in a case such as this in order to preserve ICWA's constitutionality.")


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The War Z Shut Down After Hackers Raid Database
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The War Z has been no stranger to controversy, and the latest development makes matters worse.
Those who have attempted to log into The War Z this morning, or even check the forums, have been greeted by an alarming message. The two-page letter begins with the following:
We are sorry to report that we have discovered that hackers gained access to our forum and game databases and the player data in those databases. We have launched a thorough investigation covering our entire system to determine the scope of the intrusion. This investigation is ongoing and is our top priority. As part of the remediation and security enhancement process we will be taking the game and forums down temporarily.
According to OP Productions e-mail and IP addresses, as well as encrypted passwords have been excavated from its database. The biggest problem with this is the sheer amount of players who have registered for the game. 200,000 is probably a conservative number. So this isn't at the same level as Sony's huge debacle back in 2011, but it could be the nail that drives shut The War Z's coffin.
To say that OP Productions made itself a target isn't far from the truth. It has a history of lying and being beligerent to its customers. So much, in fact, that it had its trademark suspended in December of last year.
If you've made a The War Z account at any time, consider changing any similar passwords. Nothing would be worse than losing your precious accounts for The War Z and Hello Kitty Online in the same week.


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Here's one thing that is for certain: the NFL is guaranteed to have a National Anthem issue for the 2018 season, no matter how many bizarre preventative measures are put in place.
The controversial May ruling
Instead of being somewhat satisfied with the league's harsh punishment, Trump has continued to lash out, claiming that two protests should be enough for a payment-free season-long ban.
Washington Redskins rookie Derrius Guice is aware of Trump's latest outburst, and like many other NFL players, and he had no problem calling out Trump over his NFL anthem "proposal."
Redskins rookie RB Derrius Guice responds to Donald Trump's NFL anthem rule proposal. pic.twitter.com/ZBg2kTljZh— Sporting News (@sportingnews) July 21, 2018
Whether you agree or disagree with the President, you must admit there are more pressing issues for him to spend his time monitoring. If this is what he wants to fire off, then fine; someone should probably change the wifi password or take away his electronics before he does so.
Somehow, the NFL has come to serve as a microcosm of the feelings and the current climate of the United States, and there must be some way to unify it.
In the interim, prepare for more Commander-in-Chief Twitter vitriol.


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I'm planning to switch to VOIPo when my contract with my current provider is close to expiration. My current VoIP device is the Grandstream 502, which, I was informed, is the device which VOIPo now distributes. My experience with it has not been nearly as good with other devices, including the Innomedia device left over from SunRocket and used successfully for over a year with VOIP.com. My current provider now distributes SIP credentials, but the Innomedia device does not seem kindly disposed to that provider. Usually, I can maintain registration for a few minutes only. The provider recommends a 4-hour registration time, but the longest that I can set up on this device is about 3½ hours.
Has anyone used an Innomedia device with VOIPo services? If so, what is a reasonable registration time to use?


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Friday, January 12, 2007
Soumya Bhattacharya – You Must Like Cricket – Memoirs of an Indian Cricket Fan
Watching the Australian cricket team destroy the pathetic English equivalent over the last few months has been a joy for those of us who support "anyone but England". But for those of us who love a good game of cricket, such capitulation in the face of superior skills is a shame because a more balanced match, might produce a more special game.
There are great differences between the experience of cricket supporters in England and India, but there are many similarities too.
Indian cricket is so much more popular. Clearly it is a sport followed by millions of ordinary Indians; contrary to the way that cricket historically has been the province of the middle and upper English classes. Bhattacharya detects however, how the cricket grounds are no longer just the realm of ordinary people though as corporate boxes increasingly dot the arenas. He also tells how Indian cricketers are often superstars, their faces selling soft drinks and health aids, something Flintoff et al. have only got involved in very recently.
For the cricket fan this book is a lovely work – any true fan of the sport (as opposed to a particular national team) will recognise the authors tales of following the game at work, or dreaming of the impossible in the middle of the night as a game is recounted over the radio from the other side of the world.
There is more though than amusing anecdote - the author describes being in the middle of a match that descended into rioting as rivalries between the Indian and Pakistan nations were played out on the field.
Sport of course, can't be separated from the society within which it's played. Simultaneously, it offers some escape from those societies too. But something else is true, there is a universal experience that all sports fans have. This wonderful little book shows the hope, despair, and passion at the heart of all sports fans, wherever they are in the world. Knowing this, reminds us that we are all, after all, human.
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Forgotten Hits: May 8th
: The Supremes take over the #1 spot on this week's Super Chart as "The Happening" pushes past "Somethin' Stupid" by Nancy and Frank Sinatra. The Young Rascals make a HUGE leap from #19 to #4 with their latest, "Groovin'", as "Sweet Soul Music" by Arthur Conley holds at #3. The Buckinghams move up two places from #7 to #5. "I Got Rhythm" by The Happenings hits The Top Ten for the first time, moving rom #14 to #8.
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I really do love the message: Yes, you can! And the Spanish translation Si Se Puede! Those are great and gently empowering – perhaps too gently though. I have some disappointing news to share with you aspiring butt kickers and high performers. It's not enough.
Yes you can still leaves open the option that you don't have to. Not doing something appears to be a totally reasonable option with this phrase. Complacency is certainly a legal right after all! When you were born the world was excited for the possibilities of what you could do and what you would chose to do, but unless you had an abusive guardian, nobody told you exactly how you must or should go about that. You have the freedom of choice to live your life exactly as you would like to live it!
Or so it appears.
You see, there are other people and forces around you that also have choices and sometimes those choices impede or contradict your own choices, i.e. your morals, those you chose or have been imprinted to love etc. To allow those contradictory forces to go unchecked is, in fact, against your own choices! And anyway, as Cataline warned the Roman Senate in his Orations Against Ceasar "in your silence (to injustice) you shout approval."
"Aye there's the rub" Hamlet warns us. You are indeed free to chose as you wish to think feel and do, but if your actions or words contradict your self chosen convictions, then you betray yourself, your loved ones, your community.
As a behavioralist and motivational expert, I do empathize with the exhausting nature of the fight to uphold your own mission and vision, especially in this (strangely) approval obsessed environment we have developed.
The option to give in to the pressures of the norm, to reach for merely the average, to succumb to complacency, to look at our hopes, dreams and aspirations and allow ourselves to only say "yes I can" implies the message "but I don't have to."
That option, that choice, that complacency my dear friends and readers is not a passive choice that bothers no one. No, that is a form of abuse called neglect.
As any child who was hungry because his parents didn't go shopping for him will tell you, that's not okay. There are many versions of the same, but I'm not here to give you a summary of abuse and neglect research – I'm a motivational expert after all! I'm here to tell you that the answer to how to achieve your butt kicking, high performing aspirations is simple – don't neglect; do attend to your morals, your loved ones (including you!) and your goals. Only you are equipped with your beautiful mind and convictions. Only you can do this as well as you can. So I'll propose a change to the phrase:
Of Course (you can) and You Must! │ כמובן וחייבים │ Por Supuesto Todos Deben!
We've been waiting for you There's no time to spare.


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I've had a couple questions regarding makeup & how I manage to look "ready" everyday. I am very #basic in this category & can "put my face on" in just 5 minutes. I have my go-to's and am proud to say that all my makeup fits in a very small makeup case that I take with me EVERYWHERE!
- Lotion: Prep face with Coola sunscreen lotion. It feels like butter and foundation goes on amazing over top of it.
- Foundation: Double Wear by Estee Lauder.
- Blush: Modern Mandarin by Mac
- Bronzer: Bronzed Goddess by Estee Lauder
- Mascara: Loreal Volumios Blackiest Black
- Eyeshadows: Glow kits by Anastasia
- Eyebrows: swear by Anastasia angle brush & medium brown Anastsia waterproof dipbrow pomade
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Leadership Team
Neil Greer / CEO & Co-Founder
A graduate of the University of San Diego Olin School of Business, Neil started his career with corporate positions at EDS and Metlife. While obtaining his Masters Degree in Entrepreneurship from San Diego State University, he founded VCC Interactive which grew to 150 clients in less than 18 months. Since founding VCC Interactive in 1994, Neil has been Founder and CEO of 3 firms and has raised over $20 million in capital from venture, angel, bank, corporate and sovereign wealth sources.
At Impact Engine, Neil leads and manages company operations. One of his strongest skills is the ability to navigate the trickiest of entrepreneurial environments while consistently achieving corporate objectives.
Neil currently serves on the Board of the Local Media Association Foundation. His past Board and Committee roles include the IAB, Advertising Club, San Diego Convention and Visitors Bureau and Entrepreneurs Organization (EO).
Neil is a former 4 year varsity NCAA football player and enjoys coaching youth football and any sport involving high velocity. He is co-inventor of multiple U.S. and International patents. He is a native of California and resides in San Diego with his wife and family.
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Bryan Depew / VP Product Development & Co-Founder
Upon graduating from Washington and Lee University with a degree in Economics, Bryan started his career working for his family's Washington D.C. based commercial real estate development firm. He decided to re-locate to San Diego after being offered a position within the fast growing land services division of Grubb & Ellis, and was promoted to head of the San Diego Land Division within 36 months.
After several years in real estate, Bryan Depew shifted gears
and joined the online advertising industry; first by consulting
with startups interested in addressing the real estate market and then by co-founding Impact Engine, Inc. As one of the founders, Bryan was an essential member of the team that secured equity financing for the business and formed the vision for its media platform.
At Impact Engine, Bryan initially lead the Company's Sales and Business Development efforts, achieving broad adoption of multiple products and platforms across thousands of advertisers and media organizations throughout the US, Canada and Europe. Later, he would transition into the role VP of Product Development where he has lead the creation and productization of three unique software platforms from inception to scale.
Bryan is a former NCAA lacrosse player and an avid surfer. He is co-inventor of multiple U.S. and International patents. He is a native of Maryland and resides in San Diego with his wife and family.
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Elizabeth has been teaching private violin lessons to students of all ages and skill levels for 10 years. Her students have won positions in Ohio and Texas All State ensembles and have been awarded top scores at OMEA and TMEA UIL Solo and Ensemble contest as well as perfect Royal Conservatory Exam scores. While serving as the Assistant Director of Orchestras at Stephen F. Austin High School in Sugar Land, Texas, she was a jury panelist for Fort Bend ISD's middle and high school All Region and Area auditions and her student orchestras earned straight Division 1 scores at UIL contest. Elizabeth conducted her students at a performance in Carnegie Hall and the AHS Camerata Orchestra was named a commended winner of the 2016 National Orchestra Honors. She worked with the Columbus Symphony Junior and Chamber String Orchestras, assisting with rehearsals and auditions.
Elizabeth is also on the faculty of the Joyous Music School.
Elizabeth began her violin studies with the Suzuki method at age 4. She graduated magna cum laude in 2015 from The Ohio State University, earning a Bachelor of Music Education degree with mentor Dr. Robert Gillespie and a Bachelor of Music degree in violin performance with teachers Dr. Kia Hui Tan and Leonid Polonsky. She will graduate from the Manhattan School of Music in May 2019 after completing a Master of Music degree in classical violin with Peter Winograd, first violinist of the American String Quartet. Other influential teachers include Joey Corpus, Lee Joiner, Gregory Fulkerson, and Roger Steig.
Manhattan, NYC
From Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall and Perelman Stage/Stern Auditorium, Chicago Symphony Center, Merkin Hall at the Kauffman Center, and Neidorff-Karpati Hall to the remote Andes in Peru and the Great Wall of China, Elizabeth has performed in Asia, Europe, North America, and South America in various concerts alongside esteemed artists, such as YoYo Ma, Alisa Weilerstein, James Galway, Olga Kern, Frank Huang, Robert McDuffie, Billy Childs, Michael Tree, Denyce Graves, Mark Wood, and the Jupiter and Ying String Quartets. She has performed in orchestras led by conductors Matthias Bamert, JoAnn Falletta, Michael Jimbo, Keith Lockhart, George Manahan, Rafael Payare, Donald Runnicles, Alessandro Siciliani and Leonard Slatkin.
In 2014, Elizabeth was personally selected by Maestro Lorin Maazel to join his Castleton Festival Orchestra, and has participated as a scholarship student at the Mostly Modern Festival, Pierre Monteux Music Festival and School, Brevard Music Festival, Credo Chamber Music Festival and Interlochen Arts Camp.
A passionate chamber musician, Elizabeth has worked with members of the American, Cavani, Cleveland, Cypress, Guarneri, Jupiter, St. Lawrence, Pacifica, and Ying String Quartets. Elizabeth has played in masterclasses and coachings for David Kim, Eric Wyrick, Sharon Polifrone, Stephen Clapp, Marilyn McDonald, Peter Slowik, Ilya Kaler and Almita Vamos.
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3 Must Have Gucci Headbands For This Christmas
Tis' the season of giving after all.
When Blair Waldorf made her mark on the Upper East Side headband in tow, we were sold a lie and thought we too could pull off headbands. But unfortunately, not everyone is a Blair Waldorf and headbands have arguably been the hardest accessory to pull off, until now.
By headbands, we don't mean the painful plastic Alice bands that we would scrape our hair back with in school, pushing it forward to create what we thought was an elegant bouffant (the noughties were a strange time for fashion weren't they?). This season headbands have made their comeback with Gucci leading the movement after releasing three very festive accessories.
If like the rest of us you struggle with trying to make hair accessories look effortlessly cool, take a look at this handpicked selection which are suited to everyone.
Off-White Logo Headband
This stretch terrycloth headband in off-white is a perfect winter essential. With a minimal color scheme, the Gucci logo is printed in grey and finished off with an all-over tonal stitching making it a subtle accessory.
Shop here for $270 .
Off-White & Red Stripe Logo Headband
Next up, we have the off-white and red striped headband. Made with elasticized knit, this headband screams classic Gucci with bold contrasting colorways in green and red. Again, with tonal stitching, this headband is perfect for cold festive winter nights spent ice-skating and drinking mulled wine.
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Multicolor Sequin Headband & Wristband Set
Finally, we have the multicolor sequin knit. Paying homage to the 80s the sequin detailing adds vibrancy and is guaranteed to turn heads. Coming in a set of two, this package also includes two sequinned rib knit wristbands in off-white. Again, with multi-coloured sequins, the set brings an 80s aerobics class vibe to the collection. No need for tinsel and glitter with these statement pieces.
Shop here for $980.
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