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Rynex DM
Generic name: brompheniramine, dextromethorphan, and phenylephrine [ brome-fen-IR-a-meen, dex-troe-meth-OR-fan, fen-il-EFF-rin ]
Brand names: Alahist DM, BP Allergy DM, Bromatan-DM, Children's Cold & Cough DM, Cold & Cough Childrens, ... show all 12 brands Dimaphen DM, Dimetapp Cold & Cough, Dimetapp DM Cold & Cough, DuraTan DM, Rynex DM, TL-Hist DM, Tussi-Pres B
Drug class: Upper respiratory combinations
What is Rynex DM?
Brompheniramine is an antihistamine that reduces the effects of the natural chemical histamine in the body. Histamine can produce symptoms of sneezing, itching, watery eyes, and runny nose.
Dextromethorphan is a cough suppressant. It affects the signals in the brain that trigger cough reflex.
Phenylephrine is a decongestant that shrinks blood vessels in the nasal passages. Dilated blood vessels can cause nasal congestion (stuffy nose).
The combination of brompheniramine, dextromethorphan, and phenylephrine is used to treat runny or stuffy nose, sneezing, itching, watery eyes, cough, and sinus congestion caused by allergies, the common cold, or the flu.
Rynex DM will not treat a cough that is caused by smoking, asthma, or emphysema.
Rynex DM may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide.
Rynex DM side effects
Get emergency medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficult breathing; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
Stop using this medicine and call your doctor at once if you have a serious side effect such as:
fast, slow, or uneven heart rate;
severe headache, mood changes, hallucinations;
severe dizziness or anxiety, feeling like you might pass out;
tremor, seizure (convulsions);
easy bruising or bleeding, unusual weakness;
urinating less than usual or not at all;
feeling short of breath; or
dangerously high blood pressure (severe headache, blurred vision, buzzing in your ears, anxiety, confusion, chest pain, uneven heartbeats, seizure).
Less serious side effects may include:
mild headache;
mild dizziness, drowsiness;
dry mouth, nose, or throat;
feeling nervous, restless, or irritable;
blurred vision; or
sleep problems (insomnia).
This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
Do not give this medication to a child younger than 4 years old. Always ask a doctor before giving a cough or cold medicine to a child. Death can occur from the misuse of cough and cold medicines in very young children.
You should not use this medication if you have severe constipation, a blockage in your stomach or intestines, or if you are unable to urinate.
Do not use this medication if you have untreated or uncontrolled diseases such as glaucoma, asthma or COPD, high blood pressure, heart disease, coronary artery disease, or overactive thyroid.
Do not use this medication if you have used an MAO inhibitor such as furazolidone (Furoxone), isocarboxazid (Marplan), phenelzine (Nardil), rasagiline (Azilect), selegiline (Eldepryl, Emsam, Zelapar), or tranylcypromine (Parnate) in the last 14 days. A dangerous drug interaction could occur, leading to serious side effects.
Before taking this medicine
Do not use this medication if you have used an MAO inhibitor such as furazolidone (Furoxone), isocarboxazid (Marplan), phenelzine (Nardil), rasagiline (Azilect), selegiline (Eldepryl, Emsam, Zelapar), or tranylcypromine (Parnate) in the last 14 days. A dangerous drug interaction could occur, leading to serious side effects.
You should not use Rynex DM if you have severe constipation, a blockage in your stomach or intestines, or if you are unable to urinate.
Do not use this medication if you have untreated or uncontrolled diseases such as glaucoma, asthma or COPD, high blood pressure, heart disease, coronary artery disease, or overactive thyroid.
Ask a doctor or pharmacist if it is safe for you to take this medication if you have:
a colostomy or ileostomy;
liver or kidney disease;
epilepsy or other seizure disorder;
cough with mucus, or cough caused by emphysema or chronic bronchitis;
enlarged prostate or urination problems;
pheochromocytoma (an adrenal gland tumor); or
if you take potassium (Cytra, Epiklor, K-Lyte, K-Phos, Kaon, Klor-Con, Polycitra, Urocit-K).
FDA pregnancy category C. It is not known whether this medication will harm an unborn baby. Do not use Rynex DM without medical advice if you are pregnant.
This medicine may pass into breast milk and may harm a nursing baby. Antihistamines and decongestants may also slow breast milk production. Do not use this medicine without medical advice if you are breast-feeding a baby.
How should I take Rynex DM?
Use exactly as directed on the label, or as prescribed by your doctor. Do not use in larger or smaller amounts or for longer than recommended. This medication is usually taken only for a short time until your symptoms clear up.
Do not give this medication to a child younger than 4 years old. Always ask a doctor before giving a cough or cold medicine to a child. Death can occur from the misuse of cough and cold medicines in very young children.
Do not take for longer than 7 days in a row. Talk with your doctor if your symptoms do not improve after 7 days of treatment, or if you have a fever with a headache or skin rash.
Measure liquid medicine with a special dose-measuring spoon or medicine cup, not with a regular table spoon. If you do not have a dose-measuring device, ask your pharmacist for one.
If you need surgery or medical tests, tell the surgeon or doctor ahead of time if you have taken a this medication within the past few days.
Store at room temperature away from moisture and heat. Do not freeze.
What happens if I miss a dose?
Since this medication is taken when needed, you may not be on a dosing schedule. If you are taking the medication regularly, take the missed dose as soon as you remember. Skip the missed dose if it is almost time for your next scheduled dose. Do not take extra medicine to make up the missed dose.
What happens if I overdose?
Seek emergency medical attention or call the Poison Help line at 1-800-222-1222.
Overdose symptoms may include severe forms of some of the side effects listed in this medication guide.
What should I avoid while taking Rynex DM?
Rynex DM may cause blurred vision and may impair your thinking or reactions. Be careful if you drive or do anything that requires you to be alert and able to see clearly.
Drinking alcohol can increase certain side effects of this medication.
Ask a doctor or pharmacist before using any other cold, allergy, cough, or sleep medicine. Antihistamines, cough suppressants, and decongestants are contained in many combination medicines. Taking certain products together can cause you to get too much of a certain drug. Check the label to see if a medicine contains an antihistamine, cough suppressant, or decongestant.
Avoid taking this medication if you also take diet pills, caffeine pills, or other stimulants (such as ADHD medications). Taking a stimulant together with a decongestant can increase your risk of unpleasant side effects.
Avoid becoming overheated or dehydrated during exercise and in hot weather. This medication can decrease sweating and you may be more prone to heat stroke.
What other drugs will affect Rynex DM?
Ask a doctor or pharmacist before using this medicine if you regularly use other medicines that make you sleepy (such as narcotic pain medication, sedatives, sleeping pills, muscle relaxers, and medicine for seizures, depression or anxiety). They can add to sleepiness caused by brompheniramine or dextromethorphan.
Ask a doctor or pharmacist if it is safe for you to take this medication if you are also using any of the following drugs:
atropine (Atreza, Sal-Tropine);
an antidepressant such as citalopram (Celexa), duloxetine (Cymbalta), escitalopram (Lexapro), fluoxetine (Prozac, Sarafem, Symbyax), paroxetine (Paxil, Pexeva), sertraline (Zoloft), venlafaxine (Effexor), and others;
anti-nausea medications such as belladonna (Donnatal), dimenhydrinate (Dramamine), droperidol (Inapsine), methscopolamine (Pamine), or scopolamine (Transderm Scop);
bladder or urinary medications such as darifenacin (Enablex), flavoxate (Urispas), oxybutynin (Ditropan, Oxytrol), solifenacin (Vesicare), tolterodine (Detrol), or Urogesic Blue;
bronchodilators such as ipratropium (Atrovent) or tiotropium (Spiriva);
irritable bowel medications such as dicyclomine (Bentyl), hyoscyamine (Hyomax), or propantheline (Pro Banthine); or
ulcer medicine such as glycopyrrolate (Robinul) or mepenzolate (Cantil).
This list is not complete and other drugs may interact with Rynex DM. Tell your doctor about all medications you use. This includes prescription, over-the-counter, vitamin, and herbal products. Do not start a new medication without telling your doctor.
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DENVER – Devan Dubnyk stopped 36 shots for his first shutout in nearly a year and Shawn Horcoff scored a goal in his second straight game since returning from a broken knuckle, helping the Edmonton Oilers beat the Colorado Avalanche 4-0 on Tuesday night.
Sam Gagner, Magnus Paajarvi and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins also scored for the Oilers, who went 3-4-2 on a nine-game road trip.
Dubnyk was in top form even after leaving early Sunday at Chicago with a neck injury following a collision with a teammate. He showed no lingering effects, stopping everything thrown his way for his fifth NHL shutout.
Colorado nearly scored on Dubnyk early in the third period, but Jan Hejda's goal was disallowed when Gabriel Landeskog was called for goaltender interference.
Horcoff is steadily rounding back into scoring shape after missing 15 games with a broken knuckle on his right hand. The captain scored his third goal of the season midway through the opening period — more than enough offense for Dubnyk.
The Avs were bottled up as they concluded a three-game homestand. They began by halting the Blackhawks' NHL record streak of earning at least one point in the first 24 games and then knocked off San Jose on Matt Duchene's goal just before the horn sounded to end overtime.
This was Colorado's first loss at home since Feb. 11.
The Oilers solved Semyon Varlamov, who has been hard to beat at home, where he is 8-3-1. Only Jimmy Howard of Detroit and Henrik Lundqvist of the New York Rangers have more home wins this season with nine each.
Soon after Colorado's goal was nullified, Nugent-Hopkins scored on a power play to seal the Oilers' second straight win.
Paajarvi extended Edmonton's lead to 3-0 midway through the second period when he caught the Avalanche in a shift change. The forward zipped down the left boards and lined a shot at Varlamov, the puck bouncing high into the air. Paajarvi patiently waited for it to come down before swatting it in.
Edmonton not only took advantage of favorable bounces, but defenders falling down, too.
Horcoff had an easy path to the net after Landeskog tripped trying to thwart the play. Horcoff simply skated in on Varlamov and lined a shot between the goalie's pads.
Five minutes later, Gagner added his team-leading 10th goal of the season when he slid across the crease with Varlamov on the ice and knocked in a loose puck.
Colorado forward P.A. Parenteau had his career-best, six-game point streak end.
NOTES: Avalanche F Milan Hejduk missed a fifth game with a torso injury, but he could soon return to practice. ... Avs D Tyson Barrie was reassigned to Lake Erie of the AHL before the game. ... Edmonton forwards Ales Hemsky and Taylor Hall both had two assists. Eight Oilers had at least one point.

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To a barn behind a house, filled to the brim with all things painted - snowmen, signs, and trees.
Berries in the Meadow is the name of a local business run by The Chapman Family. In the back of their house sits a barn that is magically transformed – depending on the season. We first saw it just before Christmas, so naturally I purchased several gifts.
I particularly liked the old objects that were painted - like a child's hand-painted ice skate stuffed with pine decorations. Yep, you'll now be able to find that amoung my Christmas collection.The second time we visited was in the spring and I purchased stuff for me. Their next show is this coming Labor Day weekend, so if you are in town, make sure you stop in. If you aren't in town, call us at 888-999-4479 or visit www.artistinncom/reservations.htm and we can help with that situation! I can't wait to add to my fall collection.
I loved the bright colors and cheery sayings.
Lancaster County just seems to bring out the creative side in folks - often using old items for their craft. Ah yes, there are usually yummy treats at the open houses.
I loved the bright colors and cheery sayings.
Their motto is "Put a Little Happy in Your Life" and I'm hoping these pictures will help you do just that – in case you can't make it to The Chapmans in person. To keep track of them, you may want to follow their blog: http://www.berriesinthemeadowart.blogspot.com/ or visit their online store at http://www.berriesinthemeadow.etsy.com/


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McLay Heritage Guest House
McLay Heritage Guest House is a heritage building located in the heart of the Cowichan Valley on Vancouver Island. Originally constructed in the early 20th century, this character home is now a wonderful B&B that is available to book as an accomodation on the island. It is listed on the Cowichan Valley heritage registry and is widely believed to be designed by famous local architect Robert McLay Jr. who was responsible for many of the Arts and Crafts desinged homes and buildings in the valley.Read More
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By Paula Green
Political risk insurance is of increasing interest as unstable geopolitical conditions affect corporate operations.
Expect the unexpected. That is what corporate risk officers worldwide have taken away from the unforeseen political and economic changes—from regime turnovers in Egypt and Libya during the Arab Spring to Greece's ongoing economic meltdown to Argentina wresting control of oil producer YPF from its Spanish parent, Repsol—that have occurred over the past year.
Under pressure from top executives, risk officers are reevaluating whether their companies need to purchase more traditional political risk coverage in order to stave off large, unexpected losses. "There's a higher level of concern coming from the C-suite about political risk," says Mary Cline, director, corporate advisory services, at Eurasia Group, the political-risk consulting firm. "The biggest concerns are, 'How do you measure it, and how do you insure against it?'"
Roger Schwartz, senior VP, political risk, at Aon Risk Solutions, agrees: "There's been an uptick in inquiries as executives see the potential for losses." Traditionally, political risk cover was at the bottom of the insurance shopping list of most budget-conscious multinationals. When risk managers present their annual insurance programs to the executive office, traditional lines of insurance, such as liability, property, workers' compensation, auto and directors' and officers' liability, typically top their must-buy lists.
Special circumstances—the opening of a factory in an emerging market or an acquisition with vulnerable properties—may bump up the cover's placement on the corporate shopping list. "It [political risk cover] tends to be dictated by circumstances," adds Schwartz, who is based in New York. "Or the coverage issue might be brought up by the lender."
"There has been no shortage of examples of the more traditional forms of overt expropriation in Latin America"
– Paul Davidson, Willis Financial Solutions
That is changing. Project developers, contractors, multinationals and their lenders are increasingly seeking the traditional political risk cover that protects against expropriation, political violence and currency convertibility.
Thurber, Zurich: Once a government begins expropriating, it's too late
Expropriation cover, for example, provides compensation against the outright takeover of a company's assets by a host government. Over the years, the wording for the cover has expanded to envelop the so-called "creeping expropriation," a variety of more subtle political risks that can reduce the value of a company's investment over time. Decisions made by biased legal systems that favor a local company, or taxes suddenly slapped on products turned out by a foreign firm to make them uncompetitive with locally made products, are examples of "creeping expropriations." When provincial governments issue arbitrary edicts that effectively negate the operating rules previously laid down by federal officials, "creeping expropriation" is also at play.
Paul Davidson, chairman and CEO of Willis Financial Solutions in London, notes: "There has been no shortage of examples of the more traditional forms of overt expropriation in Latin America, notably in Venezuela." By August of 2011, there had been 988 expropriations in Venezuela since 2002, including about 700 that had occurred since 2010.
Another mainstay of a political risk policy is protection against losses from damage or destruction of assets or business interruption caused by political violence, such as the violent protests and street battles in the Middle East last year. And currency inconvertibility is a crucial cover that insures against the risk of currency devaluations or if the local currency can no longer be converted to hard currency.
It is essential that corporate executives carry out an in-depth assessment of their risks and plan ahead. "Once a government begins expropriating, it's too late," says Anne Marie Thurber, an executive vice president and managing director at Zurich Credit and Political Risk in Washington DC. The terms and wording of the cover are always changing to reflect the shifting landscape of political risks. "For investors in the emerging markets, the complexity surrounding the contractual context of investments, incentive agreements, licensing arrangements and so on requires policies to be crafted with considerable care at the outset," says Davidson of Willis.
The market offers robust capacity, and policies are generally written to cover time periods of three-to-15 years, longer than the one-to-three-year time periods of most commercial policies. The cost of such cover is difficult to specify. Premium prices—levied as a percentage of the policy limit—depend on a variety of factors, including the type of risk, the location of the insured's property, the nature of the industry and length of the policy period. That percentage could run from 0.15% to 0.2% of the policy limit, which may be $100 million, for example.
Corporations are also increasingly turning to the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), the political risk insurance arm of the World Bank Group, for cover in risky markets. The agency's connection with the World Bank assuages corporate anxiety about risks-from expropriation to breach of contract to sovereigns not honoring their financial obligations.
Quintrell, MIGA: We can use our channels to government officials to mediate disputes
"There can be a halo effect with MIGA," says Evan Freely, global head of political risk and trade credit products at global insurance broker Marsh, referring to the perceived or actual protection that a multinational may receive by making MIGA part of the syndicate that provides its political risk coverage. "It's a vehicle for risk avoidance. A government may be less likely to take any action if MIGA is involved."
Edith Quintrell, director of the operations group at MIGA, agrees. "The umbrella of the World Bank is an important deterrent factor against interference in projects," she says, adding that entering a risky foreign market with a local joint venture partner is another way to mitigate risk.
Corporate executives know that MIGA has direct access to government officials and can mediate disputes with host governments, whether it is the only entity providing cover or part of a syndicate. "We can step in and use our channels to government officials," Quintrell notes. For the fiscal year ended June 30, MIGA issued $2.7 billion in guarantees. That covered 52 projects, versus the 38 projects covered in the previous fiscal year.


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EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 : Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing & International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing 2019
|Link: https://www.emnlp-ijcnlp2019.org/
Call For Papers
2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019)
Hong Kong, CHINA November 3-7, 2019.
(Abstracts due May 15, 2019; Submissions due May 21, 2019)
SIGDAT, the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) special interest group on linguistic data and corpus-based approaches to NLP, and the AFNLP, the Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, invite you to submit your papers to EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019, the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (November 3–7, 2019) in Hong Kong.
We invite the submission of long and short papers related to empirical methods in natural language processing. Accepted papers will be presented as oral talks or posters. As in recent years, the conference will also include presentations of selected papers accepted by the Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL).
EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 has the goal of a broad technical program. Relevant topics for the conference include, but are not limited to, the following areas (in alphabetical order):
- Dialog and Interactive Systems
- Discourse and Pragmatics
- Information Extraction
- Information Retrieval and Document Analysis
- Lexical Semantics
- Linguistic Theories, Cognitive Modeling and Psycholinguistics
- Machine Learning for NLP
- Machine Translation and Multilinguality
- Phonology, Morphology and Word Segmentation
- Question Answering
- Sentence-level Semantics
- Sentiment Analysis and Argument Mining
- Social Media and Computational Social Science
- Speech, Vision, Robotics, Multimodal and Grounding
- Summarization and Generation
- Tagging, Chunking, Syntax and Parsing
- Text Mining and NLP Applications
- Textual Inference and Other Areas of Semantics
- Anonymity period begins: Sunday April 21, 2019
- Abstracts due (long & short): Wednesday May 15, 2019
- Submissions due (long & short): Tuesday May 21, 2019
- Author response period starts: Tuesday July 9, 2019
- Author responses due: Monday July 15, 2019
- Notification of acceptance: Monday August 12, 2019
- Camera-ready due: Friday August 30, 2019
- Workshops & tutorials: November 3–4, 2019
- Main conference: November 5–7, 2019
Note. All deadlines are calculated at 11:59pm Pacific Daylight Savings Time (UTC -7h).
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EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 uses a double-blind review process. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three program committee members.
[Long papers]
EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 long paper submissions must describe substantial, original, completed and unpublished work. Wherever appropriate, concrete evaluation and analysis should be included. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three program committee members. Each long paper submission consists of a paper of up to eight (8) pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references; final versions of long papers will be given one additional page (up to nine pages with unlimited pages for references) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account.
[Short papers]
EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 also solicits short papers. Short paper submissions must describe original and unpublished work. While a short paper is not a shortened long paper, the characteristics of short papers include: a small, focused contribution; work in progress; a negative result; an opinion piece; an interesting application nugget. Each short paper submission consists of up to four (4) pages of content, plus unlimited pages for references; final versions of short papers will be given one additional page (up to five pages in the proceedings and unlimited pages for references) so that reviewers' comments can be taken into account. Each short paper submission will be reviewed by at least three program committee members.
[IMPORTANT: Anonymity Period]
EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 adopts ACL's new policies for submission, review, and citation. Submissions that violate any of these policies will be rejected without review.
Most importantly, the policies define an anonymity period, which starts on April 21, 2019 (11:59pm PDT).
You may not make a non-anonymized version of your paper available to the general community (for example, by posting it on your home page or submitting it to arXiv) during the anonymity period. However, you may take such an action before the anonymity period begins, even if the paper actually becomes public after the anonymity period begins (for example, because arXiv makes papers public one or two days after receiving them).
You may not update a non-anonymized version during the anonymity period, and we ask you not to advertise it on social media or take other actions that would further compromise double-blind reviewing during the anonymity period.
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For the background of the new policies, refer to the online version.
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[Multiple Submission Policy]
EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 will not consider any paper that is under review in a journal or another conference at the time of submission. Neither will the conference consider any paper that overlaps significantly in content or results with papers that will be (or have been) published elsewhere. In addition, authors may not submit the paper elsewhere during EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019's review period. Authors submitting more than one paper to EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 must ensure that the submissions do not overlap significantly ()25%) with each other in content or results.
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Both long and short papers must follow the EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 two-column format. Please do not modify these style files, or use templates designed for other conferences. Submissions that do not conform to the required styles, including paper size, margin width, and font size restrictions, will be rejected without review.
Links to EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 paper templates will follow soon.
[Optional Supplementary Materials: Appendices, Software and Data]
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The conference website will continue to be updated with information on workshops, tutorials, the conference venue, traveling, etc.
General Chair: Kentaro Inui (Tohuku University, Japan)
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TORONTO (JTA) — The activist group Queers Against Israeli Apartheid is planning to return to the gay pride parade in Toronto, setting up another battle with Jewish groups and the city.
Queers Against Israeli Apartheid withdrew from last year's Pride Toronto parade after city officials demanded assurances that the group would not take part amid rumblings that funding to the parade could be withdrawn.
"We decided we didn't want to be the scapegoat for Pride not getting funding from the city, but this year we feel it's time to go back," QAIA spokesman Tony Souza told the Toronto Star on May 15. "It so happens that the issue we're talking about is controversial, but that doesn't mean that the work that we do, which is basically for justice for people, should not be celebrated."
The Pride Toronto festival, to be held June 22 to July 1, will publish a list of groups in early June that have registered to participate. If a complaint is filed, which is likely in this case, a panel of legal experts will render a final decision on whether QAIA can march.
Some Toronto officials and Canadian Jewish groups object to QAIA because they say linking Israel to South African-style apartheid is odious and inaccurate. The groups note that Israel is the only Middle East country where homosexuality is tolerated.
Howard English, senior vice president of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, said he hopes the Toronto City Council "keeps in mind the hateful nature of QAIA's messaging and the extent to which it's divorced from the reality of public opinion among the people of Toronto."
In March 2011, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford told the Canadian Jewish News that "taxpayer dollars should not go toward funding hate speech."
The city has recommended that the council allocate $1.6 million to the Pride festival.


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At SuperMac, I thought I was good VP of marketing; aggressive, relentless and would take no prisoners – even with my peers inside the company. But a series of Zen-like moments helped me move to a different level that changed how I operated. It didn't make my marketing skills any worse or better, but moved me to play forever on a different field. 74HGZA3MZ6SV
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Up until this point in my career I had one response anytime I screwed something up: blame someone else. The only variable was how big the screw-up was – that made a difference in whom I blamed. If it was a very big mistake, I blamed the VP of Sales. "This marketing campaign didn't work? It was a brilliant strategy but Sales screwed it up." (My own lame defense here for this behavior is that sales and marketing are always cats and dogs in startups. Historically, these were two guys with high testosterone. They hit each other with baseball bats until one of them dropped.)
This first Zen moment happened at a SuperMac exec staff meeting. I was asked to explain why a marketing program that cost $150,000 bucks literally generated nothing in revenue for the company. I still remember that I was gearing up to go into my 'I'm going to blame the sales guy' routine. Since our sales guy was a good street fighter, I knew the ensuing melee would create enough of a distraction that no one would talk about my marketing debacle. My brain had queued up the standard, "It's all Sales's fault," but instead, what came out of my mouth was, "You know, I really screwed this marketing campaign up, making it successful is important for the company, and I need all your help to fix it." You could have heard a pin drop. It was so out of character, people were shocked. Some stammered out, "can you say that again?"
Our president picked up on the momentum and asked me what I needed from the rest of the exec team to fix this debacle. I replied: "This is really important for our success as company and I'm really at a loss why customers didn't respond the way we expected. Anybody else got some other ideas?"
From there, the conversation took a different trajectory. It was uncomfortable for some people, because it was new ground – I was asking for help – wanting to do what was right for the company.
It was definitely a "Zen moment" for me in terms of my career. From then on when I screwed up, not only did I own up to it, I asked for help. This behavior had an unintended consequence I couldn't have predicted: when others started volunteering to help me solve a problem, finding a solution became their goal as well.
Soon one or two others execs tested the waters by making a small tentative "ask" as well. When they discovered that the sky didn't fall and they still had their jobs, our corporate culture took one more step toward a more effective and cohesive company.
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The $1,000 application on Apple's App Store,
which lets people know how rich you are simply for buying it, has been
removed without explanation, making some developers wonder what it
takes for Apple to pull the plug.
The "I am Rich" application developed by Armin Heinrich, a German
software developer, does nothing more than display a picture of a red
ruby on the iPhone screen. After initially approving the $1,000
application, Apple removed it from the store this week. Eight people
managed to dish out $1,000 to buy the useless application, generating
about $5,600 in revenue for Heinrich and $2,400 for Apple, which
collects 30 percent of each sale on the App Store, according to a blog
on the Los Angeles Times Web site.
Developer Heirnrich told the LA Times in an e-mail that he
had no idea why Apple had pulled his application, since he was not
aware of violating any rules of the software store. He claims that
Apple has not provided an explanation as to why the application was
I suspect the application was removed because Apple was afraid of
being sued. Some people had already complained on the Web that they had
clicked on the "buy" button for the application accidently. Considering
that major wireless carriers, such as AT&T, have started settling
class action lawsuits with plaintiffs who say they were hoodwinked into
signing up for recurring charges for ringtones and other content, it's not surprising that Apple would try minimize liability. The European Union is also cracking down on wireless operators that allow companies to sell bogus products via cell phones.
But even if Apple had a good reason for removing the application,
developers are concerned by the lack of communication from Apple about
how and why certain applications are allowed or denied access to the
App Store and why some are removed.
When the App Store was first announced earlier this year,
company CEO Steve Jobs said there would be limitations on what
applications could be sold. Specifically, he stated that porn would not
be allowed. And beyond that, he left it pretty open. Now these loosely
defined criteria are frustrating some developers.
At least two other applications have been removed from the App Store
in the past week with seemingly no explanation. Several blogs have
reported that Box Office, a movie showtime resource, and NetShare,
which let people use their iPhone 3G as a modem to connect their
laptops to the Internet, have also been removed from the App Store. At
least in the U.S., exclusive wireless provider AT&T has explicitly
said it does not allow the iPhone to be used as a laptop modem.
Nullriver Software, the developer of the NetShare application told MacWorld
that it had tried for several days to reach someone at Apple to get an
explanation for why its application was removed. The company said it
finally made contact, and now is working with Apple to get NetShare
back on the App Store.
Cyrus Najmabadi, developer of BoxOffice, also told MacWorld that he had tried to contact Apple to find out why his application had been removed, but he said he got no response.
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In rural California, a Liberian family finds an agricultural refuge
On a historic 50-acre ranch in Northern California, Cynnomih Tarlesson and her nine children drop watermelon seeds into the ground. Behind them, her father, Roosevelt, uses a tractor to churn up the dirt for tomatoes, zucchini and eggplant -- along with some lesser-known crops, like the Tarlesson-named 'Billy Goat Pepper,' from the family's native West Africa.
When war erupted in her Liberian hometown in 1990, Cynnomih and her family fled their farm and lived for over two years in the bush, foraging for berries, shoots and small fish. After several years in a refugee camp in the Ivory Coast, Cynnomih, now 43, finally received permission to come to the U.S. as a refugee, along with 25 younger siblings and children (biological and adopted). They joined her father, Rev. Roosevelt Tarlesson, in Vacaville, Calif., where he had lived since the 1970s.
Vacaville was a peaceful escape from the harsh refugee-camp life in Ivory Coast -- plenty of food, friendly neighbors and teachers assisting their transition to U.S. life. Yet in this suburban environment, the family's job prospects were low and financial pressures high. They missed farming; they missed the land. So in 2007, the Tarlessons secured a loan to buy property in nearby Guinda, population 254. 'When refugees are brought to this country, they are put in cities, making minimum wage at factories. Why? They know how to farm. Let them farm!' says Rev. Tarlesson, who's pushing this idea with resettlement agencies at the national level.
In Liberia, the Tarlessons were subsistence farmers, but in Guinda, Rev. Tarlesson says, they hope to become 'a major health food producer.' They are already selling eggplant and peppers to a large Asian grocery in Vacaville and to a community-supported agriculture program in Oakland, and hope to expand to organic chicken.
'Here, you have to make your own rain,' Cynnomih laughs. 'In Liberia, we didn't have to do that. I'd just plant the seeds with my baby on my back, and wait for the rains to come!'
The Tarlessons had to learn modern farming techniques, as well as irrigation and when to plant in a seasonal environment. (Cynnomih is earning a permaculture certificate from Woodland Community College.) Yet the family also relies on traditional Liberian agricultural practices, like transplanting crops and filtering soil by hand through a screen to get the best yield. Organic principles come naturally to the Tarlessons, who were used to farming without chemicals or crop manipulation.
'Whatsoever that I lost, I know God has replaced (with) this,' says Cynnomih with a soft smile, gazing toward the greens hills just across the road. She loves the view from her kitchen down to the road, where she can watch as her children scramble off the school bus to pluck after-school snacks from the fields.
It's surprising enough that a family of Liberian farmers ended up in this sleepy California ranch town, but the Tarlessons are merely the latest chapter in the long -- and mostly forgotten -- history of African-American farmers in Guinda.
Guinda was founded by Green Berry Logan, son of a slave mother and Caucasian father in Arkansas, who came to California in 1858. Because California entered the Union as a free state, escaped slaves there were not subject to the Fugitive Slave Act. Tiny Guinda became known as a safe place for black people to live and farm. In the late 1890s, the U.S. Geological Survey officially designated the hills 'Nigger Heaven,' a name that remained on government maps until the 1960s, when Guinda resident Bill Petty lobbied to have it removed.
Petty's relatives were some of the original settlers. They came from North Carolina in the 1890s and started one of the town's first businesses: a butchery. Petty's own father, a Civil Rights activist in North Carolina, fought for the right to vote in the 1930s. 'We went to church one night,' says Petty. 'Came back and the house was burnt down.' His father 'decided it was about time to get the family out of there.' So they joined their relatives in Guinda.
Like Petty's family, Royce McClellan's great-great-grandfather came west to Guinda. Royce's mother ran Carmen's, a roadside craft store that sold jewelry she made from shells and water-smoothed rocks. Although Royce McClellan identifies as African-American, her great-great-grandmother was Cherokee, and some family members have been Caucasian. 'So we're all mixed up,' she says.
Today, African-Americans constitute just under 11 percent of Guinda's population; 69 percent of the town is Caucasian, and the remaining 20 percent are Latino, Asian and multiracial. But the locals are proud of the fact that they were, from the beginning, a multi-ethnic community.
The role of minorities in California history is often undervalued. As in most of the West, the cowboy archetype looms large. Yet this iconic figure is remembered mainly as a weathered-skinned, cowboy-hatted Caucasian and (occasionally) Latino. African-American history in California is often focused on the Great Migration of the black Southerners who came to the state's cities in the early 20th century.
'It's not black history, it's American history -- American history that's been forgotten!' Bill Petty says at Guinda's annual Black History Month celebration, which includes exhibits, a community potluck, musical performances, and recollections from longtime residents. This relatively recent event was organized by Clarence Van Hook, who moved here in 2000. Like the Tarlessons, Van Hook knew nothing of the town's heritage before he bought his farm, but he yearned to return to a landscape like that of his rural Arkansas upbringing. The elderly African-American woman who sold the place to him 'told me that she was so pleased that it was another African-American who was buying it.' Van Hook joined Guinda's all-black Methodist Church and asked the pastor if they'd ever celebrated black history month. They hadn't. So Van Hook offered to take it on. 'I headed over to the library in Woodland and went through the archives,' he says. 'If I had known then what I know now, I'd probably have majored in history!'
Along with Professor April Harris of Santa Rosa Junior College, Van Hook is uncovering the crucial farming contributions by African-Americans here and throughout the state. Early California landowners recruited black workers from the Southern U.S. to till their farmland. Some of the newcomers brought modern farming technologies that allowed them to cultivate more land faster, as well as heirloom species of plants like apricots and figs. Farmers like Logan became experts in the hybridization of local crops with plants from 'back home.'
'The Tarlessons are adding another piece of the history of blacks in this area,' Rev. Tarlesson says proudly. They are the only refugee family here, but feel at home in the town. And in a sign of historical synchronicity, a descendant of Guinda's founder, Green Berry Logan, visited the Tarlessons' home country in 1903. Liberia was founded by freed U.S. slaves –– so the Tarlessons, too, can trace their family roots back to U.S. slavery.
For the descendants of the original Guinda settlers, their property -- their families' first land that they could call their own -- is symbolic of their ancestors' emancipation. And for the Tarlessons, their swath of land symbolizes peace and a new beginning. 'It takes me far away from a lot of troubles,' says Cynnomih. 'I grow my own food, I harvest like I'm back home. It keeps me safe, being here, this place, this little town called Guinda.'


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Great stuff!Sorry, but is there a MD5sum somewhere? I've checked around but haven't found one.Cheers.
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People are drawn to a fire, whether they're roasting marshmallows around a campfire during the summer or cuddling up near the fireplace in the dead of winter.
And just as you take precautions outdoors, there are things you should do to make sure your fireplaces and chimneys are safe.
Fires built in fireplaces or wood stoves leave a gummy residue, called creosote, that can stick to the lining of your chimney. Creosote - created by soot, smoke, gases and other particles - is flammable, and can be the source of a dangerous chimney fire.
In the U.S., between 2005 and 2008, an average 26,900 fires annually were blamed on fireplaces, chimneys or chimney connectors, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
We don't have comparable statistics for Canada. In 2002, 5,300 homefires were caused by heating equipment, but that figure includes all types of heating equipment, not just chimney fires.
Experts recommend that chimneys be inspected every year by a certified chimney sweep and cleaned if necessary. The cost can range from $100 to $300 or higher.
Cleaning a chimney is not a doit-yourself project, says Kit Selzer, a senior editor at Better Homes and Gardens. It's a dirty job, and it also can be risky, especially if you have to climb onto the roof.
Chimney sweeps are trained to determine whether chimneys are structurally sound and whether they need to be cleaned, said Ashley Eldridge, education director for the Chimney Safety Institute of America. They also will make sure the chimney is up to code, especially important in older houses.
Selzer recommends that home-
owners use the institute's website, www.csia.org, to select a certified chimney sweep. To become certified, a sweep must pass two tests: one on the inspection process and tools, and the other on the international residential code, as it applies to chimneys, Eldridge said.
B.C. chimney sweeps get credentials through the Wood Energy Technicians of B.C. (wetbc.ca).
Check the website for details.
"Each job is different," said Christina El-Hage, a certified sweep with Pride Clean Chimney Sweeps in Bethesda, Maryland, but there are some basics.
"We're looking to make sure the flue is fully safe," she said. "We're making sure there are no third-degree burns of creosote on the lining."
Chimney sweeps also check to see if there are any birds or animals in the chimney, or anything that would block the flow of smoke. They also check that there's no water coming in.
Cleaning the chimney involves removing creosote.
When thinking of chimneys, El-Hage says, many people focus on the one attached to the fireplace.
"Yes, they can catch on fire, but we're not dealing with a deadly gas, carbon monoxide," she says, as is the case with chimneys leading from furnaces. Whether they burn oil or gas, furnaces vent carbon monoxide outside into the atmosphere, and those chimneys, too, need to be inspected.
"It's the No. 1 reason why we are in business," El-Hage said.
You can choose to use a fireplace, she said, but "you have to use your heat."
There are steps you can take at home to reduce creosote buildup and the risk of a chimney fire.
Foremost is picking dry wood to burn, Eldridge said. To determine whether wood is sufficiently dry, "take two pieces and bang them together. You get almost a ring as an indication its ready. If not, it's a dull thud," he said.
Dry wood also will appear grey on the surface and have cracks on the end.
Don't throw pizza boxes or other trash in the fireplace, El-Hage said, because it causes a thicker smoke, which lowers the temperature in the chimney. "The
hotter the fire, the better the burn," she said.
While many people use a newspaper to start a fire, she recommends a fire log or fire starter instead.
And to reduce the risk of a spark flying out of the fireplace, use a screen and stay in the room while the fire is burning. "The last thing you want to do is build a big old fire and leave the room," Eldridge said.
Also needed: a smoke detector, carbon monoxide detector and fire extinguisher.


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LOGAN, W.Va. — The West Virginia Freedom Festival offered choices for Confederate flag accessories: jewelry, belts, pins and oven mitts. A couple blocks away, in the shadow of a "Hillbilly Mobile Zipline" platform, a Tennessee-based vendor called for a treason trial and eventual public execution of President Barack Obama.
It's hard to find a Mountaineer who would go that far — but most of them blame Obama and his Environmental Protection Agency for the economic hardship plaguing the state's coal miners. The anger toward Obama is so widespread that it's easy to see how it could taint anyone with even the most tenuous ties to him and his administration.
On a hot and clear Saturday afternoon near the Kentucky border, this is Rep. Nick J. Rahall II's challenge. The November election will be a test of whether the vaunted "Nick Joe" brand can sustain staggering outside spending and a seething hatred for the leader of his party. A Rahall defeat would prove national political forces can reign supreme, anytime or anywhere.
"I rely upon the intelligence and the fact that West Virginians know me, and they're not going to be bought by out-of-state New York City billionaires coming in here trying to tell you who their congressman is," Rahall said in an brief interview on a street corner in the heart of the festival.
In the past few cycles, Rahall's once-large margins of victory have narrowed. But this November marks the first time in recent history that Republicans are fully invested in his opponent, state Sen. Evan Jenkins, who was a Democrat until about a year go.
Rahall and Jenkins are battling over the 3rd District that stretches across the belly of West Virginia. On the southwestern edge of the state, Logan County is home to the Hatfields, famous for another feud — with the McCoys.
In 1968, then-Sen. Robert F. Kennedy of New York campaigned for president on the very same streets Rahall walked on July 5. Forty-six years ago, Kennedy decried local unemployment, substandard living conditions and pollution. The region's problems have not changed much since.
Things come cheap and hard in the 3rd District: labor, homes, crystal methamphetamine and airtime. The latter is why Rahall is in so much trouble this cycle.
Conservative outside groups, including Americans for Prosperity and American Energy Alliance, have flooded the airwaves with $2 million worth of advertising that began last November. The district's inexpensive airtime rates only magnifies that attention, and voters CQ Roll Call spoke with could repeat themes from the attack ads unprompted.
By early spring, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had put Rahall in its endangered incumbent program. The Jenkins campaign released an internal poll that showed the 19-term incumbent down by double digits.
Some race watchers declared Rahall's re-election all but dead. In April, CNN reported Democratic leadership had to cajole the congressman out of retiring.
But after a rocky spring, Rahall's campaign rebounded and remains competitive for this fall. He maintained strong fundraising and debuted a clever, populist message: Blame the New York City billionaires fueling the ad campaign attacking him. A Democratic outside group, House Majority PAC, offered additional air support.
A slew of Democratic internal polls have since shown Rahall in better shape. The race is currently rated a Tossup by the Rothenberg Political Report/Roll Call.
On the ground, it's clear the anti-Rahall television ads had a lasting effect.
Jenkins spent part of his Fourth of July campaigning in Princeton, W.Va., on the east side of the district. He found a receptive audience as he worked the crowd in the Princeton Tigers high school stadium bleachers, while a rock 'n' roll cover band played on the field.
Michael Bevins, an out-of-work coal miner, received the Jenkins pitch. He later said he would vote for Jenkins and blamed Rahall for his unemployment. He continues to job hunt in the coal industry because, he said, "that's all I ever did."
Nearby, retired hospital employee Betty Cook said she had no interest in politics and was unlikely to vote in the fall. But after Jenkins introduced himself, she had a change of heart.
"He's just different," she gushed. "He's real to me. I believe in what I'm seeing."
Her boyfriend, disabled former car mechanic Doug Shinault, agreed.
"I hear a lot about Rahall that I don't like. They need to replace Nick Rahall," said Shinault, a Democrat. "He loves Obama. I'll put it that way . . . and I hate Obama."
"Somehow, [Rahall] thinks voters will think he's the pathway out," Jenkins said later, in an interview outside the stadium. "What I'm finding is they're saying enough is enough."
"It's not that I've changed," he said, adding that it was national Democrats who did the evolving.
Back in Logan, Rahall sneers at the mention of Jenkins, calling his rival "an opportunist."
But for voters, Rahall is a polarizing figure. They are split over whether he is Obama's closest ally or their best advocate against the president.
"Because I'm a Democrat, that association is unfairly pinned on me by the out-of-state billionaires who don't like Obama and who don't like anybody that happens to be the same party," Rahall said.
He accuses the interest groups airing ads against him as "out to bust every union in this country."
"They do not have West Virginians at heart," he added.
Rahall campaigned with gusto on July 5, with one of his granddaughters in tow. He stuck out in the crowd by wearing an old-fashioned, short-sleeve dress shirt and American flag tie. But once festival attendees recognized him, they flocked to shake his hand.
Back in Washington, D.C., Rahall is known by his full name. In Logan, he's "Nick Joe" or "Nicky Joe." Nearly everyone approached him with adoration, save for one confrontation with a veteran over his proximity to Obama.
"I don't think he's like Obama at all," countered Larry Roark, a disabled miner. "I've known Nick Rahall ever since I was old enough to. He's always been good. Even to my dad, when he worked in the coal mines."
And that is what Rahall is betting on to earn a 20th term.
"It's called personal touch," Rahall said of the "Nicky Joe" brand. "Constantly on the streets like I am now . . . always returning peoples' phone calls. Always in constant touch with my constituents.
"And I believe they know who Nick Rahall is," he added.
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A federal judge in Kentucky this week upheld a lower court's decision to throw out crucial evidence in a drug case because the evidence was gathered with the help of a GPS tracking device that was installed without a warrant on the suspect's vehicle.
In a 19-page ruling Tuesday, Judge Amul Thapar of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky wrote that Robert Lee's constitutional rights were violated when drug enforcement agents illegally tracked his car and then seized 150 pounds of marijuana from it.
Thapar granted Lee's motion to suppress the evidence, noting that it had been obtained purely as the result of a fishing expedition. "In this case, the DEA agents had their fishing poles out to catch Lee.," Thapar wrote. "Admittedly, the agents did not intend to break the law. But they installed a GPS device on Lee's car without a warrant 'in the hope that something might turn up,'" he said.
The Supreme Court earlier this year ruled that law enforcement officials needed search warrants before they could track suspects using GPS devices. The ruling involved someone who was convicted on drug distribution charges based on evidence gathered by police who tracked his movements using an illegally installed GPS tracker.
Despite the Supreme Court ruling, several lower courts have in recent months permitted evidence gathered through warrantless GPS tracking to be used to prosecute individuals.
In the Ninth Circuit, for instance, three district courts have so far this year applied a 'good-faith exemption' to permit evidence from warrantless GPS tracking, Thapar noted. One district court in the Eight Circuit has also done the same.
In each of these cases, the courts held that the warrantless tracking was exempt from the Supreme Court ruling because it was conducted before the ruling and because appeals courts in both the Eighth Circuit and the Ninth Circuit have previously permitted warrantless GPS tracking.
The same reasoning cannot be applied to Lee's case because there has been no similar precedent established by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeal. "When carrying out searches, federal officers need only know the binding decisions of the Supreme Court and their circuit's court of appeals," Thapar noted.
In the absence of a precedent in the Sixth Circuit, the officers acted illegally when they attached the GPS tracker to Lee's car without a warrant, he wrote.
"The DEA agents in this case did not rely on any binding appellate precedent," Thapar wrote. "Neither the Sixth Circuit nor the Supreme Court had spoken on the issue of GPS surveillance when the agents placed the tracking device on Lee's car."
Lee was arrested in September 2011 on his way back to London, Ky. after a trip to Chicago. Lee had just completed a period of supervised release after a 42-month stint in prison on marijuana distribution and firearms possession charges.
While Lee was meeting with his probation officer, an agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) secretly attached a real-time GPS tracker to the underside of his vehicle without obtaining court approval first.
A few days later, DEA agents noticed him travelling to Chicago and suspected him of buying drugs there based on information they had previously obtained from an informant. The agents instructed a state trooper to find some pretext to stop Lee's vehicle telling him the car probably contained marijuana. The marijuana was discovered shortly after the trooper stopped Lee for driving without a seatbelt.
During the entire process, DEA agents tracked Lee's movements using the GPS tracker and even instructed the state trooper on where to intercept Lee's car.
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January 20 and 21 saw the biggest waves of the winter to pound Hawaii so far. Those surfers who were skilled enough and brave enough waxed up their big boards and headed to spots like Jaws in Maui, Outer Log Cabins, Oahu, and, of course, the spiritual home of big wave surfing, Waimea Bay. While big-wave surfing has traditionally been a masculine activity, a few women join the lineup those days, including Adventure favorite Maya Gabeira and 23-year-old Anastasia Ashley. Ashley was born on the North Shore and now divides her time between the islands and California. Adventure got a hold of her for a first person account of what it's like to paddle out and catch a few monsters at such a legendary spot.—Tetsuhiko Endo
ADVENTURE: When did you know you wanted to start riding Waimea?
Anastasia Ashley: I actually didn't start surfing out there 'till last year, when I found an old board under my house that was left by someone—an old 7'10'' big-wave board. Out of curiosity I wanted to try riding it because I'd never ridden a board that big. I took it out on a small day at Waimea and felt super under gunned, so I then decided I needed a bigger board. I ordered one from Rusty and have been stoked to surf the bay ever since.
What was it like paddling out for the first time?
It was definitely surreal seeing the waves from the water—they're so big!
How do you mentally prepare yourself for any big swell?
Definitely by just being physically prepared. I always get a good night's sleep and make sure to eat some healthy food to keep me powered.
Walk me through surfing a wave at Waimea Bay.
Being out at Waimea is pretty crazy. The paddle out is actually pretty minor, besides the initial shore break. but if you mistime that you can be very much screwed. The most intense part, on the other hand, is the drop. It feels like you're dropping in forever! The wave behaves one way around 15 feet, but it definitely changes once the swells hit the 18-foot plus mark. It jacks up out of the deep water and turns really, really intense.
Maya Gabeira once told me that there is a certain loneliness to being a woman who rides big waves because you are constantly surrounded by men. What is your take on that?
I agree. I feel like that is true in any aspect of surfing, big waves and small waves. It's definitely a man's lineup. But I also think it's definitely changing!
Are you considering doing any more big-wave surfing this year?
Yeah, of course! It's all swell dependent, so I'll hopefully surf a few more days out at Waimea, and some outer reefs.


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The 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-06) will be jointly held with the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-06) and the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM-06). The IEEE/WIC/ACM 2006 joint conferences are organized by Hong Kong Baptist University, and sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII), Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC), and ACM-SIGART. The upcoming meeting in this conference series follows the great success of IAT-99 held in Hong Kong in 1999, IAT-01 held in Maebashi City, Japan in 2001, IAT-03 held in Halifax, Canada, IAT-04 held in Beijing, China and IAT-05 held in Compiegne University of Technology, France.
IAT 2006 provides a leading international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields, such as computer science, information technology, business, education, human factors, systems engineering, and robotics, to (1) examine the design principles and performance characteristics of various approaches in intelligent agent technology, and (2) increase the cross-fertilization of ideas on the development of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems among different domains. By encouraging idea-sharing and discussions on the underlying logical, cognitive, physical, and sociological foundations as well as the enabling technologies of intelligent agents, IAT 2006 will foster the development of novel paradigms and advanced solutions in agent-based computing.


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The second quarter of our Anniversary year is coming to a close and we have more wonderful people and companies to thank.
To Tanis Gray, Kristin Omdahl, and Franklin Habit
Thank you for unique and beautiful designs that showcase our yarn!
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Thank you for weaving textiles that bring out the best in our fibers.
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By Darius Shahtahmasebi at theantimedia.org
If you need evidence that politicians and the mainstream media pick and choose which oppressive conflicts to cover in order to further geopolitical ambitions, you need only Google "West Papua."
Ever heard of it? Have you ever been sitting at home watching CNN, BBC, or Fox News and heard the news anchor mention West Papua?
It's strange that this oppression receives little to no media coverage considering a recent fact-finding mission conducted by the Brisbane Archdiocese's Catholic Justice and Peace Commission reported that West Papua was experiencing a "slow motion genocide." The report warned West Papua's indigenous population is at risk of becoming "an anthropological museum exhibit of a bygone culture."
When you learn what fuels the conflict in West Papua, it becomes clear why this issue receives hardly a blink from our peace-loving politicians and media establishment.
West Papua is home to one of the world's largest gold mines (and third largest copper mine), known as the Grasberg Mine. Grasberg is majority-owned by the American mining firm Freeport McMoRan. It has reserves worth an estimated $100 billion, and the company is Indonesia's biggest taxpayer.
Money and geopolitics usually beat out human rights. Since the Suharto dictatorship of Indonesia annexed West Papua in a 1969 U.N. referendum – largely viewed as a land grab – an estimated 500,000 West Papuans have been killed fighting to achieve independence.
Freeport McMoRan was given rights to Grasberg when the Indonesian government signed the right to extract mineral wealth from the site in 1967. In order to preserve this quite literal gold mine, the Indonesian military uses brute force against the local indigenous population. Benny Wenda, a native Papuan who has campaigned his whole life for independence, details the kinds of experiences the local population has endured at the hands of the Indonesian military:
"Now, every morning on the way to their gardens, Benny and his mother and aunties would be stopped and checked by Indonesian soldiers. Often the soldiers would force the women to wash themselves in the river before brutally raping them in front of their children. Many young women, including three of Benny's aunties, died in the jungle from the trauma and injuries inflicted during these attacks, which often involved genital mutilation. Every day Papuan women had to report to the military post to provide food from their gardens, and to clean and cook for the soldiers. Violence, racism and enforced subservience became part of daily routine." [emphasis added]
Australia, a country with a cozy, albeit confusing relationship with Indonesia, plays its part in destroying any decent discussion on this horrifying issue. In November of last year, the Indonesian government asked Australia to put pressure on the Pacific nations who have begun to show support for West Papua's campaign for independence, effectively stopping these tiny islands from "interfering" in Indonesia's affairs. Australia has been quite complicit in this issue to date, even providing the Indonesian military with the equipment necessary to wreak havoc on the local population.
Lately, however, there has been some progress. The two countries suspended military ties after an Indonesian military official found "offensive" material at an Australian military base, including homework that suggested West Papua was part of Melanesia and should be given independence.
Regardless, Papua has the highest poverty rate in Indonesia. It is nearly three times the national average. It also has the highest infant, child, and maternal mortality rates in Indonesia, as well as the worst health indicators and the lowest literacy rates.
Imagine how greatly the West Papuans could improve their standard of living if they were allowed to control their own resources without the Indonesian military forcibly destroying their lives.
Meanwhile, an American mining company continues to make hundreds of billions of dollars at the expense of innocent natives.
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These are turbulent times for the venerable virtualization company VMware.
In an earnings call this week CEO Pat Gelsinger admitted that last year was a "challenging time" for VMware investors. The company's core compute virtualization products are "reaching maturity" and will be a decreasing portion of the company's future business, he says.
VMware announced 800 layoffs this week and that its CFO has left the company. A planned merger by its parent company EMC with Dell is hanging over the company. But Gelsinger hinted at one big cloud-networking feature he's hoping will propel the company's future cloud plans.
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As part of the restructuring Gelsinger said VMware is leveling off its investments in its public cloud platform named vCloudAir (vCA). With a "narrower focus" for vCA, Gelsinger says the company will prioritize services that only VMware can provide. What exactly does that mean? Gelsinger provided a hint.
Last year VMware previewed the capability of its NSX network virtualization platform to act as a software connection between customers' on-premises data centers and vCA. This year the company will expand that capability so that NSX can be used as a connection platform between customers' sites and many public clouds, including Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.
This could be a big deal in the broader IaaS cloud market. There are a handful of ways for customers to connect to the public cloud: a simple Internet connection, a direct connection from your data center to the cloud, or routing through a collocation provider like Equinix, which then connects to the cloud. VMware is hoping NSX can act as an encrypted, secure conduit between customers and the cloud.
"Later this year, we will be introducing a new NSX offering, which will enable customers to create secure and encrypted overlay networks across public clouds including AWS and Azure and On-Premise Data Centers," Gelsinger said in the company's earnings call, according to a transcript.
This capability could be just the jolt VMware needs. VMware is aggressively marketing itself beyond its compute virtualization management software. Virtualized network and storage make up what VMware calls the Software Defined Data Center. NSX is already one of the bright spots of VMware's assets. It has doubled its revenues to $600 million in the last year.
Meanwhile, vCA has had fits and starts. VMware has partnered with Google's IaaS public cloud to offer customers "scale out" capacity from vCA. After EMC bought competing cloud provider Virtustream the plan was for vCA to be rolled into that business. Gelsinger backed out of that plan though. The recent departure of two cloud executives from the company – Simone Brunozzi and Mathew Lodge, who both left for startups – reinforces this uncertain nature of vCA's future.
Peter Christy, research director for networking at 451 Research, says extending NSX to other public clouds is a natural, logical step for the company. Gelsinger seems to have realized that spending billions of dollars to compete head on with AWS is not viable, so instead he's hoping to focus on management tools and network software. On the plus side, VMware has a massive enterprise customer base that it can sell to. And Christy says NSX could be appealing to network engineers who are tasked with creating many new networks for application developers.
The trouble is Microsoft is looking at a similar strategy of enabling the hybrid cloud with the addition of Azure Stack, which is a private cloud mirror of its IaaS public cloud.


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California voters passed Proposition 1 in November of 2014 in support of a Groundwater Sustainability Program. The bulk of the $800,000,000 Grant went towards prevention and cleaning up contaminated groundwater.
The City of Modesto applied for, and received, grant funding for 90% of the cost of the "Destruction of Water Supply Wells" project through the Groundwater Sustainability Program the goal of which is to remove contamination from drinking water. This project focuses on 14 wells that the city had taken offline due to contaminants that exceeded maximum contamination levels allowed by the state of California. These wells have been determined to be unsuitable for rehabilitation but pose a possible threat to groundwater that is deeper within the ground.
Please visit the State Waterboard for more information on Proposition 1 Funding.