Nancy Davis Reagan, wł. Anne Frances Robbins – amerykańska aktorka i pierwsza dama, żona byłego prezydenta USA Ronalda Reagana urzędującego w latach 1981–1989.
Źródło: Pierre Accoce, Pierre Rentchnick, Chorzy, którzy nami rządzą, tłum. Marta Kubiak, Wydawnictwo Test, Lublin 1992, s. 166.
"For eight years I was sleeping with the president, and if that doesn't give you special access, I don't know what does!
Context: Drugs steal away so much. They take and take, until finally every time a drug goes into a child, something else is forced out — like love and hope and trust and confidence. Drugs take away the dream from every child's heart and replace it with a nightmare, and it's time we in America stand up and replace those dreams. Each of us has to put our principles and consciences on the line, whether in social settings or in the workplace, to set forth solid standards and stick to them. There's no moral middle ground. Indifference is not an option. We want you to help us create an outspoken intolerance for drug use. For the sake of our children, I implore each of you to be unyielding and inflexible in your opposition to drugs.
Context: As a mother, I've always thought of September as a special month, a time when we bundled our children off to school, to the warmth of an environment in which they could fulfill the promise and hope in those restless minds. But so much has happened over these last years, so much to shake the foundations of all that we know and all that we believe in. Today there's a drug and alcohol abuse epidemic in this country, and no one is safe from it — not you, not me, and certainly not our children, because this epidemic has their names written on it. Many of you may be thinking: "Well, drugs don't concern me." But it does concern you. It concerns us all because of the way it tears at our lives and because it's aimed at destroying the brightness and life of the sons and daughters of the United States.
Context: And finally, to young people watching or listening, I have a very personal message for you: There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise. Our country needs you, but it needs you to be clear-eyed and clear-minded. I recently read one teenager's story. She's now determined to stay clean but was once strung out on several drugs. What she remembered most clearly about her recovery was that during the time she was on drugs everything appeared to her in shades of black and gray and after her treatment she was able to see colors again. So, to my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life. And when it comes to drugs and alcohol just say NO.


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In the land of mysteries
Intrepid explorers can expect mind-bending adventures in one of the last great wildernesses on the planet, where seashells are still used as currency and its people remain unseen by the rest of the world
By Steve King
A man from the Kualga tribe of the Olga clan wearing traditional clay mask and bamboo finger tips in the Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. Photo: Philip Lee Harvey
Rondon Ridge, in the western highlands of Papua New Guinea, overlooks the Wahgi Valley and the town of Mount Hagen from an elevation of about 2,300 metres. Every morning and evening enormous banks of thick cloud roll through the valley like surf, obliterating the view of the town and the mountains that surround it. I watched this happen half a dozen times from the top of the ridge. I almost came to doubt my senses, gazing into these towering waves of cloud as they swirled and broke around me, silently, harmlessly, in hypnotic slow motion.
One morning after the clouds had passed, I walked further up the mountain in the company of a guide and bird expert named Joseph Ando. We followed a narrow path cut neatly out of clay the colour of tikka masala. Joseph chatted about whatever caught his eye - a particular orchid, a bowerbird's abandoned bower, a section of forest that had long ago been logged but had been replanted and was now flourishing once more. Soon the path ran out and the way grew steeper and the forest denser. Eventually the conversation ran out, too, as we concentrated on putting one foot in front of the other.
All of a sudden, Joseph stopped dead in his tracks and hissed: 'Listen!' I stood still and caught my breath quietly. Following the tilt of Joseph's head, I looked up into the canopy. But listen? To what? All my untrained ears could hear were the same sounds that had surrounded us since we set off - tweets and chirps and squawks, some near, some distant, rising brightly or harshly for a moment before subsiding into the ambient murmur of the living forest. Joseph raised a finger as if to say: 'There!' Ah, yes. Overhead, not far away, a brief sequence of throaty staccato quacks, rather like a duck. Then there was a swish of disturbed leaves, presumably as the invisible creature took wing.
'Astrapia splendidissima,' said Joseph. 'The splendid astrapia. A bird of paradise. What a pity we couldn't see him.' I travelled in Papua New Guinea for two weeks without once seeing a bird of paradise. Yet my feeling, there in the forest on Rondon Ridge, was one not of disappointment but of satisfaction. I was grateful simply to have shared space with Astrapia splendidissima, with a name far grander than any Roman aristocrat.
McLaren Harbour, Papua New Guinea. Photo: Philip Lee Harvey
On the way back down the hill Joseph pointed out that, of the world's 39 different birds of paradise, his country is home to 38. Such super-abundance is typical of Papua New Guinea. In a world that is running short of wild frontiers, it is still a land of undreamed-of mysteries, where hitherto unseen peoples speak unheard of languages and live alongside as yet unnamed plants and animals. Outsiders were wholly ignorant of the existence of the Wahgi Valley itself until 1933, when two Australian brothers, Mick and Dan Leahy, arrived in search of gold. They found not only gold but also a population of more than three quarters of a million: men and women who farmed with stone tools, dressed in leaves and knew nothing of neighbouring valleys, let alone of foreign lands across the seas.
By the end of the 19th century the Netherlands had claimed the western half of the island, while the east was divided into Australian Papua and German New Guinea. (In 1949 the two merged to become the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, which was governed by Australia until independence in 1975.) But the early colonial powers stuck to the coast, assuming the interior was one vast tract of mountainous jungle, too hostile to sustain human life. Only the most devout missionaries and masochistic traders ventured inland, usually with little success. After 25 years of one Dutch mission there were more missionaries killed than natives converted.
The arrival of the Leahy brothers and the discovery of gold in the highlands changed all that. 'The world,' as the writer Edward Marriott has put it, 'watched astonished as valley upon valley of Stone Age warriors emerged blinking into the hard light of the 20th century.' This image, with its suggestion of cinema audiences transfixed by grainy Pathé newsreel footage, is apt. Mick Leahy, though by no means the sensitive, artistic type, had armed himself with a Leica as well as a Mauser, neither of which he was shy about turning upon his new acquaintances. His photographs of 'first contact' with the people of the Wahgi Valley in the 1930s are an extraordinary visual record of a precise moment of cultural upheaval.
Of course, not every discovery a traveller here makes has to be of quite that order of magnitude to be personally significant. Almost everywhere I went I had moments when I was acutely aware of my proximity to a certain kind of exoticism - beautiful but at times unsettling - that is, in my experience, unique to Papua New Guinea.
Lake Murray, the largest lake in the land, is in the far west. The flight there, from Port Moresby via Mount Hagen, over rippling emerald-green cordilleras, was a beautiful reminder that, in addition to its gas, oil and mineral riches, the country possesses an even more valuable natural resource: the largest unbroken stretch of rainforest outside the Amazon and Congo basin. It also helped me make sense of a widely quoted statistic. At last count it was reckoned that almost 850 distinct languages - roughly a seventh of the total number of languages in the world - are spoken in Papua New Guinea. There are several reasons for this, the main one being the combination of the extremely rugged topography in large parts of the country, which makes movement over long distances by any means other than flight practically impossible, and an entrenched culture of revenge, which historically meant that no one went beyond his or her own tribe's borders for fear of ambush. So languages, like tribes, did not mix. I visited several villages around Lake Murray. At one, Tagum, children swarmed to meet the skiff, shrieking and laughing.
A boy on canoe in the mangroves, Mclaren Harbour, Papua New Guinea. Photo: Philip Lee Harvey
The elders said I was among the first dozen or so white people these kids had ever set eyes on - the others had been missionaries, glimpsed from a distance at the government station - and certainly the first to come and see them at home. Though hardly a Leahy moment, this information was nonetheless remarkable. Where else in the world, I wondered, could I be told such a thing?
In the village of Tufi, on the south-eastern coast, the sense of physical isolation was as acute as at Lake Murray, or indeed anywhere else I visited in the country. No roads lead to it or from it. You get there by air or by water. It is barely a village, more like an airstrip with a hotel attached and a number of coastal communities within a few hours' canoe ride, set among sheer-walled volcanic fjords. Reefs are dying and decaying all over the world. Not here. The reefs near Tufi are the stuff of legend among experienced divers, with 50-metre visibility and layer upon layer of magnificent marine life: pods of dolphins cavorting at the surface, hammerhead sharks skulking in the deep and all manner of marvels in between.
Back on dry land, the hotel's two resident cuscuses - tree-dwelling marsupials the size of plump dachshunds - were extremely charming. Ponderous and clumsy, with baffled, red-ringed eyes, they looked like stoners who had been caught shoplifting. Unlike the cuscuses, I was up before dawn to watch the sun rise. On either side of the fjord, steep hills receded inland in a series of overlapping Vs, as impeccably stylised as a stage set in an opera house. On the still surface of the water hints of apricot-coloured daylight made a diamond-shaped pattern that reminded me of elephant hide. The skiff's idling outboard motor ticked. I felt the slosh and sway of the current against the metal hull. Gardens of coral seemed magnified in the shallows. In the afternoon I visited the village market, where men smoked sweetly scented cigarettes made of home-grown tobacco rolled in shreds of old newspaper and many of the women had elaborately tattooed faces in the style for which Tufi is famous; bold, flowing, symmetrical.
The town of Rabaul is north of Tufi, on the island of East New Britain, almost as far east as you can go in Papua New Guinea. It is one of the weirdest and most wonderful places I have ever seen, although certainly not beautiful in any conventional sense. By all accounts Rabaul was once exceptionally pretty, with whitewashed colonial homes set back from wide, leafy avenues. But in 1994 two of the volcanoes that surround it, Mount Tavurvur and its geological twin Mount Vulcan, erupted, burying the entire town under ash to a depth of six metres. Only a few buildings were left standing: the Rabaul Hotel, the Catholic cathedral, the former New Guinea Club and, alongside it, a bunker built by the Japanese during World War II, from which Admiral Yamamoto commanded his fleet. Everything else was lost. Today it is one of the more convincingly post-apocalyptic landscapes you are likely to see this side of Armageddon. When I arrived it had been raining for hours. The endless ash was dark and sludgy. There were no cars in the streets, no people, no nothing. 'This was Chinatown…' my driver said as we ploughed through the muck. 'The Bank of PNG used to be on this corner… That's where the cement factory was… The golf course was over there…' I was captivated.
A man at Mclaren Harbour, Papua New Guinea. Photo: Philip Lee Harvey
If you are in Rabaul, I had been advised, you must look up Susie McGrade, the proprietor of the Rabaul Hotel. Finding the hotel, of course, was easy, and I could hear Susie before I could see her. Perhaps I took to her because she somehow resolved my earlier encounter with the bird of paradise on Rondon Ridge, which I had heard clearly enough but which remained tantalisingly unseen. Whatever the reason, the energy Tavurvur and Vulcan unleashed on Rabaul in 1994 was nothing compared with the energy Susie unleashed on a complete stranger in casual conversation over a glass of fizzy water and a pot of coffee in the hotel's dining room.
'Rabaul is the town that refuses to die!' she declared. 'Talk about the Pompeii effect. Stairways to heaven all over the place. The Allies dropped more bombs here than the Japanese did on Pearl Harbor. But the story is just so fantastic. The setting, the history. Did you ever hear about Queen Emma? Did you know that Errol Flynn used to eat at that table over there?'
In fact, I had not heard about Queen Emma, though I subsequently looked her up. She was a member of the Samoan royal family who, in the late 19th century, built a mansion near Rabaul that she decorated with furniture from the estate of Robert Louis Stevenson, and gained a reputation as 'the epitome of promiscuity'. Flynn, I knew, had allegedly spent time in the area as a 'blackbirder' - a slave-trader, in effect - and had by his own admission enjoyed considerable success here in his quest to find the perfect female breast. 'Often,' he recalled in his memoirs, 'I would realise that I was staring at a honey-coloured girl of exceeding femininity, with a perfect figure and the most glorious pair of breasts you ever saw - the classic ski-jump type.' I did not know, however, that he had been a customer at the Rabaul Hotel's Chinese restaurant.
Susie was blonde and girlish but old enough to remember this place in the days before independence, when her Scottish parents ran the hotel. 'It was like having a licence to print money. We had 110 per cent occupancy most of the time. You could get a seven-year mortgage. Halcyon days. Oh my God this was a posh town! You could find whatever you wanted here - Chanel, Dior, Mikimoto pearls, Stuart crystal. You name it. And the parties, the balls, the chiffon gowns! And the tennis parties, with bois - not boys, that is, bois - with drinks served on silver salvers and rattan chairs and…' A trailing off and a pause and a theatrical frown. 'It really was very inconvenient to have independence come to this nation.'
The traditional headgear of one of the indigenous tribes in Papua New Guinea. Photo: Philip Lee Harvey
Later, in the lounge bar, beneath a faded portrait of Queen Elizabeth and an enormous crocodile skin, Susie poured double whiskies for anyone who wanted one. 'Maybe we weren't meant to be here forever…' she said quietly, trailing off again. I did not quite believe her. I left with the feeling that somehow both she and the hotel would always be here, come what may.
That night I attended a fire dance performed by members of the local Baining tribe in the hills above Rabaul. Vivid, highly charged and deeply mysterious, it encapsulated my impression of the country as a whole. Kitted out in enormous bark masks and leafy pantaloons, half a dozen dancers crashed barefoot through a raging bonfire. A chorus intoned chant-like songs and pounded out a relentless beat with heavy bamboo poles. At one point a python was produced, held aloft by two dancers, writhing in silhouette against the flames. As the fire burnt down, the dancers stomped on the logs and kicked at the coals, scattering fiery debris into the darkness. Sometimes, I was told, the dancers not only walk on the coals but also eat them, along with the snake. Accounts of the significance of the ceremony vary. The Baining are reluctant to discuss it - the dancers prepare and dress in strict seclusion - and anthropologists have interpreted it in different ways. Broadly speaking, the consensus seems to be that it represents forest spirits paying obeisance to a volcano. Whether that is accurate or not, it would be impossible to overstate the primal potency and sheer strangeness of the spectacle to an observer seated at the point where the firelight ran out and the darkness began.
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Pará è un distretto della Costa Rica facente parte del cantone di Santo Domingo, nella provincia di Heredia.

Pará comprende 3 rioni (barrios):

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Q: How to push certain metrics from prometheus to another prometheus from one Prometheus instance, I want to only send certain metrics to another Prometheus instance.
How do I go about doing that?
(I am relatively new to Prometheus)

A: To do this, you need to use federation.
Federation allows you to scrape time series from another Prometheus instance.
Then, if you want to filter and keep only some metrics and not all of them, you need to configure prometheus with relabel_config.

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local Emitter = core.Emitter

local hsm = {}

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function StateMachine:_transit(targetState)
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function HierarchicalStateMachine:_getLCA(a, b)
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end

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The lack of electricity in Macedonia is causing the country to ration power to large companies this winter. The government has denied allegations that electricity rationing could be imposed on the general public. Helping to avert that possibility, equipment at the TEC-Negotino thermo-electric plant was started up just before the cold weather set in.
Despite the quick save, problems remain complex. Domestic production and regional imports are both inadequate. In addition, production at TEC Negotino -- the most effective energy complex in Macedonia -- is expensive and unprofitable. The plant has not been operating on a regular basis and is held in reserve for times of crisis. Production at TEC Negotino is fueled with crude oil and costs 4.4 denars per kilowatt.
Meanwhile, the government announced earlier this month that a privitasation tender for the plant was cancelled due to bidders' demand for a change in the contract terms. A new tender is expected soon.
Macedonian Electric Transmission System Operator (MEPSO), the company responsible for the country's electricity transfer, announced a tender for procurement of 957 MWt hours -- 30% of the total amount of energy Macedonia needs -- by April 2007. Serbian EPS and Bulgarian NEK notified MEPSO that they could not provide energy by that deadline. The region in general is facing a shortage, particularly because Bulgaria is closing down the second and third reactors at the Kozloduy nuclear plant.
Energy production for homes relies on two other large coal-fueled plants: REK Bitola and TEC Oslomej. Production at REK Bitola is 3% lower than expected due to low-quality coal. The 200,000 tonnes of coal stock is sufficient for 15 days of production. TEC Oslomej has coal supplies for 37 days of interrupted production, 27% less than planned.
Hydro power plants in Macedonia operate very successfully. For the first nine months of this year, the plants produced 153% more energy than planned. However, even with the excess output, hydropower can provide only a small percentage of the necessary amounts.
Macedonia needs twice as much energy as is being produced currently. Some economic experts, however, see the situation as a good sign. The increased demand suggests a reviving economy, demonstrated by the re-activation of plants and factories.
To respond to energy challenges, the government has been considering several approaches. To start with, it plans to organise a campaign to promote energy conservation.
For the longer term, the economy ministry says it will announce a tender for the construction of new electricity sources as soon as possible. Two of these projects are the Cebren and Galiste hydropower plants on the Crna Reka River. Construction of Cebren will cost 338.3m euros and should result in the production of 347 MWt/h of power. Galiste will cost 200.2m euros to construct, and should produce 193 MWt/h. The plants are expected to be completed in seven years.
The government also plans to encourage use of alternative sources -- such as introducing gas into the energy system for direct household usage. Environmentally friendly power sources -- including small hydro electric plants, solar energy and wind energy -- are also being explored.


A picture book containing six chapters might sound rather too much for young children. But Allan Ahlberg and Raymond Briggs A Bit More Bert is full of illustrations and has just a little text on each page. The chapters have a title page and then another three pages, except for Chapter 5 which has seven pages. Each chapter is actually more like a mini story, so if a child has a very short attention span, you wouldn't have to read the whole book at once. We read about Bert and his dog, who is also called Bert, we give Bert a haircut, and then we see how Bert is constantly nagged by his mother (named Grandma Bert). In the next chapter Bert buys crisps and shares them, and after that Bert loses his dog but luckily finds him again. A Bit More Bert ends with bedtime, when Bert is still crunching crisps in bed alongside Mrs Bert which might give children ideas.
Allan Ahlberg has injected these little stories with plenty of humour. Grandma Bert nags at Bert to eat his cabbage and she thinks he does, but we see that he actually wraps it up in his red spotted handkerchief. When I started reading the book I thought Bert was a boy, but when it becomes clear that he is an adult with a wife and child the humour is even sharper. Illustrator Raymond Briggs adds more amusement in the accompanying pictures; we see semolina or boiled liver flavoured crisps and a Grandma Bert who loves patting Bert on the head as she ladles some green mush onto his plate; her hair is always in rollers.
As well as humour, there are some touching moments, in particular when Bert finds his dog again and they have a great big hug. We the readers are directly involved in several of the chapters; when the hairdresser is shut we have to give Bert a haircut, and we end up leaving Bert almost bald. When Bert shares his crisps, he doesn't forget to give us one as well as his family.
This is essentially a picture book that is perfect for reading aloud to pre-school children, but it is also one that could be suitable for slightly older children who are learning to read. The font is a n especially large, clear one, and the sentences are almost all short and simple. There is a good amount of recurring words, as the dog's name is also Bert and there are two chapters about him. When Bert loses his dog, he goes to the police station where most of the staff also have pets called Bert, including the Inspector whose six goldfish are all called Bert. (The man definitely needs a little more imagination.) One or two short dialogues are included that will show children how to use speech marks correctly and that a new line is started for each speaker.
The author and illustrator of A Bit More Bert are likely to need no introduction. Author Allan Ahlberg is well-known for "Each Peach, Pear, Plum" and "The Jolly Postman". Raymond Briggs, the illustrator of A Bit More Bert, has delighted children with "Father Christmas" as well as "The Snowman". They are well suited to each other and know how to bring out the humour in each little story as well as showing love towards family members and pets.
A Bit More Bert does not seem to be widely available any more, but there are copies on Amazon Marketplace at very low prices. There is a hardback version as well as the paperback. It is perhaps more of a boys' book than a girls' one, although any dog lovers would appreciate it, I'm sure. As a read-aloud book it would probably appeal to three and four-year olds, but I do also think it is an interesting book for slightly older children who are learning to read.
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Although Big Data and its strategies are on everyone's lips, the truth of the matter is that there has been work going on tackling the underlying concept of the management and analysis of large volumes of data for many years. However, there is now the added complexity deriving from the three first "V"s of the five upon which Big Data stands: Volume, velocity, variety, veracity and value.
Fruit of the interconnected environment in which we live, companies are adopting these new tools and strategies for the processing of large volumes of data to adapt their supply to the demands of their customers or to locate and exploit new business opportunities. However, they also face the huge challenge of dirty data: databases with incorrect, incomplete, inaccurate, and out of date information, or with duplicated data.
Subsequently, organisations find that a segmentation of customers based on unclean data may lead to the allocation of erroneous indicators to a contact, which can limit their validity, or invalidate it completely, thereby affecting the development of their activity.
In this context, it is worth examining the source of the possible inaccuracies in the data. To simplify this, we shall consider only the area of customer data. Firstly, it is worth mentioning the erroneous data that is a consequence of unintentional mistakes by users when entering data. In this case there is nothing further to say. Anyone can make a mistake.
Another possible source would be the intentional entry of incorrect data, for illegal purposes (in order to anonymously access information or resources) or for criminal purposes (by means of identity theft). Interesting, but outside of our scope.
There are also other reasons for the existence of Dirty Data, such as the intention of customers and potential customers to hide their identity in order to avoid being identified by the company and to escape any possible harassment from a company, or to be included, are excluded, from certain target segments. And one more, which usually goes unnoticed: the obsolescence of the data itself. There are streets that have their names changed, post codes that are modified, municipalities that merge and others that become separate, etc.
So, how to move forward with Big Data?
There are very efficient solutions that may offer significant savings in terms of processing time and campaign costs. These are solutions based on criteria relating to standardisation and the detection of duplicates which permit the validation of data (name, address, national identification card number, telephone number, current account, etc.) and the detection of anomalies for future processing. In Big Data environments, these are essential in order to validate the data before their analysis.
In relation to verification, in addition to the direct interaction with the customer, we also have specific solutions, always within the confines imposed by legislation.
As means of progressing in the search for data validation, and always beginning with the use of the above-mentioned standardisation and deduplication solutions, it is necessary to take into consideration the advanced analytics of customers and artificial intelligence, with the emergence of the algorithm specialised in this area.
In conclusion, and going back to the start, the only way to generate Value, the fifth "V" of Big Data, is to guarantee the fourth, Veracity. And to do so, we should try to avoid the first three, Volume, Velocity and Variety, they weigh us down and can be used as an excuse for not delivering the last two.
The best way to stop the proliferation of Dirty Data is to opt for Data Quality, to prevent Big Data from becoming a Big Problem.


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Dr. Bronner's sees lawsu...
Dr. Bronner's sees lawsuit as defence against 'organic' label
By Joysa Winter, Functional Ingredients
In April 2007, Dr Bronner's Magic Soaps filed a lawsuit in California Superior Court, under the state's unfair-competition law, against numerous personal-care brands using 'organic' claims on their labels. Other defendants in the suit are Ecocert, a French-based private certifier of organic personal-care products, as well as OASIS, an industry-driven standard in the US that launched in March 2008.
According to Bronner's legal team, OASIS sought to have the lawsuit dismissed on free-speech grounds. Turned down by the court, OASIS appealed the ruling and the appeal is pending in the state Court of Appeals.
Dr Bronner's had to refile against the personal-care manufacturers and Ecocert "for technical legal reasons," which it did in July, under the federal false-advertising law (the Lanham Act). The defendants transferred the case to US District Court in San Jose, where it is currently pending.
Fi had a chat recently with David Bronner, CEO of Dr Bronner's Magic Soaps. Bronner is a grandson of the founder of the company, Emil Bronner, who began the company from German-family soap recipes.
Fi: What do you think is the best solution for the problem of inconsistent standards for personal-care products with 'organic' labels?
DB: The USDA's National Organic Program invited personal-care manufacturers to certify to NOP standards upon the launch of the program in 2002. Dr Bronner's followed other major companies in obtaining NOP certification in 2003. Dr Bronner's is in agreement with the recent recommendation set forth in the Discussion Document 'Solving the Problem of Mislabeled Organic Cosmetics & Personal Care Products,' from March 2009, which was prepared by the Accreditation and Compliance Committee of the National Organic Standard Board (NOSB).
That recommendation, which will be presented to the NOSB for its public meeting this fall for formal adoption, is to make the NOP standards mandatory – not simply voluntary – for personal-care products that make organic claims.
Real organic personal care does not utilize synthetic preservatives that can irritate skin. Natural unrefined oils and waxes are used as emollients and moisturizers, instead of hydrogenated oils and synthetic silicones. Traditional natural simple soaps are used in hand and body washes, instead of modern synthetic surfactants usually made in part with petrochemicals.
Fi: What is your take on the non-NOP efforts to certify organic personal-care products?
DB: Because the NOP is a voluntary program for personal care, the cosmetics industry is rapidly developing private organic-industry standards free of meaningful organic-consumer participation, each more permissive than the next in synthetic processing and preservative allowances, and organic-content requirements. Some are better, most are worse, but together they enable the unregulated Wild West situation to continue. We are witnessing the downward spiral of the 'organic' label into the same meaningless marketing babble as 'natural' – devoid of the integrity that only federal regulation by NOP can ensure.
Fi: Do you think personal-care products will continue to seek NOP certification?
DB: Yes. By late 2009 and 2010, will see significant new NOP lines introduced, including AVEDA founder Horst Rechelbacher's new NOP brand, Intelligent Nutrients. More and more cosmetics products are being developed within the rigorous constraints of the NOP to perform as well as modern synthetic variants. This sustainable innovation should be supported and defended in the face of the mainstream cosmetics industry's knee-jerk 'better-living-through-chemistry' mantra.
Fi: Is there room for other types of certifications outside the NOP?
DB: It depends. Over the past five years, Dr Bronner's has participated in efforts to establish additional allowances appropriate and specific to 'contains organic' in personal care for the NSF/ANSI 305 standard. The NSF process was worked on, reviewed and voted on by a diverse stakeholder group, including representatives from the Organic Trade Association, the Organic Consumers Association and Whole Foods, as well as various certifiers and a number of companies, including Aveda/Estee Lauder, Avalon, Jason Natural Cosmetics, Aubrey Organics and Dr. Bronner's.
The NSF Personal Care Group voted that personal-care products should be allowed to be labelled as 'organic' only if they meet the existing NOP organic standards, and that a new NSF/ANSI standard should be promulgated only for personal-care products to be labelled as 'Contains Organic Ingredients.'
We are adamantly opposed to industry interests and private-industry standards that seek to permit these process and synthetic allowances for products labelled outright as 'organic.'
Fi: Why do you support the NSF/ANSI 305 standard but not the OASIS standard?
DB: We are not opposed to process and preservative allowances in 'Contains Organic' personal care, but hydrogenated, sulfated and synthetically preserved products should not be called 'organic' outright. For example, 'shampoo made with organic aloe vera' is acceptable but 'organic shampoo' is not if the shampoo is based on sodium lauryl sulfate with some organic aloe vera floating on top. This is the basic difference between OASIS vs NSF/ANSI. The actual substantive allowances are pretty much identical, but their use of the term 'organic' in labelling is not.
Fi: Who are you targeting in your lawsuit?
DB: Our lawsuit is primarily against brands such as Jason Pure Natural & Organic, which doesn't comply with any standard whatsoever. And then, secondarily, it is against permissive industry standards written with no organic-consumer involvement, that certify products as 'organic' when their main cleansing and moisturizing ingredients are made from nonorganic materials, and they are sulfated, hydrogenated and synthetically preserved.
Fi: OASIS believes that their certification standard is permissible under the First Amendment. What is your reaction?
DB: The First Amendment does not apply to commercial speech such as product labelling and standards. For example, a company cannot label something as 'orange juice' that is actually artificial orange-flavoured water. OASIS is making a very weak argument.
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Q: How to configure strongswan peer-to-peer vpn tunnel using public IP as encryption domain? I'm required to configure an ipsec tunnel to communicate with a remote vpn (Cisco ASA 5555). I have created an Amazon Lightsail instance with ubuntu 18.04 installed. Upon doing some studying i came across Strongswan which I've used to configure the tunnel. The remote side provided a list of parameters I should use to configure my tunnel, I've listed them below and my settings found in ipsec.conf file. My problem is, whenever i initiate traffic to the remote side the traffic originates from my private ip (aa.aa.aa.aa) instead of my public ip AA.AA.AA.AA - since the remote side refused to use my private ip as encryption domain (something to do with it has been used in their local network) they had to allow my public ip. How can i configure strongswan such that the remote side sees traffic originating from my public ip (that way we'll have a successful tunnel connection).
Local site A:

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*Public IP: AA.AA.AA.AA

*Private IP: aa.aa.aa.aa

*Subnet: aa.aa.aa.aa.aa/20

Remote site B:

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*Public IP: BB.BB.BB.BB

*Private IP: bb.bb.bb.bb

*Subnet: bb.bb.bb.bb/32

Conf Parameters:
Phase 1

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*Authentication method: Pre-Shared Key

*Encryption Scheme: IKE

*DH: Group 2

*Encryption Algorithm: ESP-AES-256

*Hashing Algorithm: SHA1

*Main Mode

*Lifetime (for negotiation): 86400s

Phase 2

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*Encapsulation: ESP

*Encryption Algorithm: AES-256

*Authentication Algorithm: SHA1

*No PFS

*Lifetime (for negotiation): 3600s

*Key Exchange: Yes

Any help is appreciated!

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A: I found out a few strongswan problems running on ubuntu 18.04. The service was crushing few seconds after being started, somehow ipsec was using my private IP instead of my public IP for tunnelling despite the fact I've public IP set in my configuration file.
So i went ahead and installed CentOS with openswan, and with the same configuration i was able to establish the tunnel.


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L'équilibrage est une technique pour stabiliser une pièce qui dispose d'un axe de rotation. Il existe deux types d'équilibrage : l'équilibrage statique (en l'absence de rotation) et l'équilibrage dynamique (lorsque le mobile tourne sur son axe principal).

Définition

L'équilibrage est une opération qui consiste à contrôler et corriger la répartition des masses sur un mobile pour s'assurer que le balourd résiduel se situe dans les limites acceptables.

Histoire

Types
L'équilibrage d'une machine tournante peut être requis ou non, suivant la vitesse de rotation couplée aux caractéristiques inertielles de la pièce considérée, du niveau de balourd résiduel admissible mais aussi d'autres paramètres tels que les raideurs et amortissements des paliers supportant la pièce en rotation. Des classes d'équilibrage sont ainsi définies suivant des normes, notamment ISO. Selon les conditions d'équilibrage requises, l'équilibrage statique peut être suffisant ou non. En effet, pour corriger un balourd, il existe deux types d'équilibrage : l'équilibrage statique et l'équilibrage dynamique.

Équilibrage statique

Un solide doté d'un axe de rotation est équilibré statiquement si, quelle que soit la position angulaire dans laquelle il est positionné, la gravité ne le fait pas bouger. Son axe de rotation ne devant alors pas être vertical et les frottements connus. L'équilibrage statique consiste à placer le centre de gravité du solide étudié sur son axe de rotation.

Un cylindre homogène de section circulaire est équilibré statiquement par rapport à son axe seulement si son axe de rotation est situé au centre de gravité. Ce même cylindre est équilibré statiquement par rapport à tout axe passant par le centre de gravité du cylindre.

La correction d'un statique se fait sur une zone de correction, on crée alors un couple antagoniste au couple existant. Deux balourds opposés s'annulent d'un point de vue statique mais pas nécessairement d'un point de vue dynamique.

Équilibrage dynamique
L'équilibrage dynamique consiste à faire coïncider l'axe de rotation du solide avec un de ses axes principaux d'inertie.

L'équilibrage dynamique s'effectue en mettant à zéro les produits d'inertie (c'est-à-dire les valeurs qui ne figurent pas dans la diagonale de la matrice d'inertie) du corps en question par rapport aux trois axes du même repère orthonormé. Il se pratique généralement par ajout ou enlèvement de matière (cf. masselotte d'équilibrage d'une roue).

L'équilibrage dynamique se réalise sur deux zones de correction, il corrige le dynamique et le voile.

Emploi courant
Toutes les pièces mécaniques en rotation sont susceptibles de nécessiter un équilibrage, entre autres :
 le vilebrequin de moteur à explosion ;
 l'arbre de transmission d'un navire ;
 les rotors de broyeurs agricoles et forestiers
 les turbines et ventilateurs industriels
 les rouleaux de papeterie
 les roues d'un véhicule.

Notes et références

Théorie des mécanismes
Usinage


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require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../spec_helper.rb'

describe "ActiveCouch::Base #create method" do
  before(:each) do
    class Person < ActiveCouch::Base
      site 'http://localhost:5984/'
      has :name
    end
    ActiveCouch::Exporter.create_database('http://localhost:5984/', 'people')
  end

  after(:each) do
    ActiveCouch::Exporter.delete_database('http://localhost:5984/', 'people')
    Object.send(:remove_const, :Person)
  end

  it "should have a class method called create" do
    Person.methods.include?('create').should == true
  end

  it "should be able to persist itself in the CouchDB database" do
    person = Person.create(:name => 'McLovin')
    person.name.should == 'McLovin'
    # Check whether document is persisted correctly in the database
    response = Net::HTTP.get_response URI.parse("http://localhost:5984/people/_all_docs/")
    response.body.index('"total_rows":1').should_not == nil
  end
end


At 29 years old, Ocasio-Cortez could become the youngest member of Congress.
She is one of a handful of Congressional candidates who identified as democratic socialists.
Ocasio-Cortez has promised to try and push the Democratic party further to the left.
She supports government-paid health care for all, a $15 minimum wage, free college tuition and the abolition of the federal department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.


APPEAL: Did you witness fatal collision?
Police are appealing for two motorists to come forward, whom they believe witnessed a road traffic collision in which a woman died.
The collision occurred on Clough Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent at 7.35pm on Friday, January 8.
Inquiries into the circumstances of the collision are ongoing.
Mobeen Hussain aged 25 of Kirby St, Cobridge, Stoke -on- Trent died in the collision. A 30 year-old woman from Cobridge was arrested in connection with the collision and remains on police bail.
Anyone who witnessed the incident, or who has any information, is asked to call 101, quoting incident 664 of January 8.
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Toronto Fashion Week
Jamie Foxx and father of man he rescued have an emotional meeting
While Jamie Foxx insists he's no hero, the world is in awe of his recent accomplishment: pulling 48-year-old driver Brett Kyle from his burning truck. It seems he's unquestionably a hero in the eyes of one very grateful father, Brad Kyle, who showed his gratitude to the actor for helping his son in the Hidden Valley, Calif., crash.
The actor had an emotional meeting with Brad on Tuesday, and shared a photo of the pair hugging on Instagram.
Met the father of the young man from last night today. This is all that matters. That a man, a son, a brother's life was spared last night. God had his arms wrapped around all of us...No heroes...Just happy fathers.
A photo posted by Jamie Foxx (@iamjamiefoxx) on Jan 19, 2016 at 7:48pm PST
Jamie Foxx shared a photo of his meeting with the victim's father on Instagram.
"Met the father of the young man from last night today," Jamie wrote. "This is all that matters. That a man, a son, a brother's life was spared last night. God had his arms wrapped around all of us … No heroes … Just happy fathers."
Jamie rushed to the scene after Brett lost control while driving, resulting in his vehicle skidding off the road and flipping over on Monday night. Before the vehicle burst into flames, Jamie and another witness were able to break the window and cut the driver's sea tbelt to successfully free him from the car.
"I'm not a hero, but had to do something," Jamie told reporters on Tuesday.
The actor said he isn't a hero despite saving the driver's life.
Meanwhile, the victim's father, Brad Kyle, fought back tears as he said, "It doesn't matter to me who it was or what they do for a living or whatever, just the idea that someone would do this is so much more than I can fathom."
One person who was particularly proud of Jamie's actions was his daughter, Corinne Fox. The budding model, who acted as Miss Golden Globe at the Golden Globes, tweeted about the incident on Tuesday.
"Just got off the phone with my dad … Absolutely wild. That man really did have angels watching him. Definitely a life or death situation."
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In clash with Trump, US report says humans cause climate change
Trump has repeatedly called climate change a hoax, and in June announced that he would withdraw the United States from a global pact to combat it. (Reuters)
Reuters, Washington Saturday, 4 November 2017
The rapid pace of global climate change is almost certainly driven by human activity, like burning fossil fuels, according to a US government report that contradicts assertions by President Donald Trump and members of his administration.
"For the warming over the last century, there is no convincing alternative explanation supported by the extent of the observational evidence," said the report by a group of more than 50 US government scientists released on Friday.
The report, which is required by Congress every four years, was written by scientists from government bodies such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
It reinforces the conclusions drawn by an overwhelming majority of scientists around the world in recent years that emissions from burning fossil fuels are the primary driver of global warming, leading to sea level rise, flooding, droughts, and more frequent powerful storms.
Trump has repeatedly called climate change a hoax, and in June announced that he would withdraw the United States from a global pact to combat it - calling the deal's demands for emissions cuts too costly for the US economy.
War-torn Syria is the only other country outside the pact.
The US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Deal was part of a broader White House effort to roll back what it sees as unneeded environmental protections to boost domestic oil and gas drilling and coal mining.
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has also expressed doubts about the causes of climate change, at one point saying he did not believe carbon dioxide from human activity was the primary driver, and calling for further debate on the issue.
In an emailed statement, White House spokesman Raj Shah said: "The Administration supports rigorous scientific analysis and debate and encourages public comment on the draft documents being released today."
Officials at the EPA declined to comment.
According to the report, global temperatures have increased by about 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius) over the last 115 years, while global average sea levels have risen about 7 inches (17.78 cm) over the same period.
Sea levels are expected to rise "at least several inches in the next 15 years" due to rising temperatures, it added.
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import React from 'react';
import styles from './petition-response.scss';
import settings from 'settings';
import ArticleBlock from 'components/ArticleBlock';
import Paragraph from 'components/Paragraph';
import MarkdownParagraph from 'components/MarkdownParagraph';

const PetitionResponse = ({ cityResponse }) => {
  if (!cityResponse.text) {
    return null;
  }

  return (
    <div className={styles.root} id='response'>
      <ArticleBlock
        title={settings.petitionPage.cityResponse}
        icon={'Note'}>
        <MarkdownParagraph size={'small'} text={cityResponse.text} />
        <Paragraph size={'small'} text={cityResponse.name} />
      </ArticleBlock>
    </div>
  );
};

export default PetitionResponse;


docu-drama; independent investigators challenge evidence in the OJ Simpson murder trial and reveal concealed evidence withheld from jury.
5.0 out of 5 starsMust See For Everyone Regardless Of Your Opinion!
All I can say is I wish this documentary was longer! With renewed interest in the O.J. Simpson murder trial due to the FX series, I would like to know where the Dr. is today? Why didn't GTE release those phone records? It just sounds like more cover up and corruption from this Prosecution. I still don't believe O.J. committed these murders. I always felt there was a drug connection somewhere whether it was from Ron's side or Nicole's side, I definitely feel it was drug related. Great documentary it was interesting seeing all those old media clips.
5.0 out of 5 starsMake you say HMMMM?? O.J. May have not done it.
For those who doubt an official conspiracy. This Video questions some of timelines that just doesn't add up. The Video covers the various theories and timelines that place O.J. some where else and the possibility that the intended person was Ron Goldman a protected criminal!. Is goes into Ron Goldman's Police Jacket examining is brushes with the law and him being an asset to LAPD. Why has LAPD and LA justice officials continued to deny independent investigators requests to examine Ron Goldman's 6 inch criminal file which they state is protected by a law that protects information on confidential informants. Then there is the shocker that Nicole Brown Simpson and her relation with a House painter by the name James peters,James peter turns out to be a confidential informant in narcotics going under an alias name. later Why didn't LAPD tell the public about this murderer who is presently on death row in Florida for murdering several women? Why has an L.A. judge sealed his criminal record in California? Did Nicole Brown Simpson dated a serial killer! See this video it is a must see and may Change you mind about who really did the murders, it just does not add up.
I hadn't thought about the O. J. Simpson trial in years. I'm sure like many, I was suffering from O.J. media overload. There was a massive media echo chamber that concluded that beyond a shadow of doubt he was guilty. It was a circus atmosphere that evolved into the ridiculous. Any dissenting opinions seemed weak and insignificant - against the monumental wall that stated otherwise. I would not have known about Mr. Johnson's documentary, if not for his appearance recently on an Internet radio show. That should tell you that the so called Mainstream Media is not interested in revealing this information. After all, many in the Mainstream Media today have made lucrative careers from this case. I would like to thank to Mr. Johnson and his brother Dr. Johnson, for this valuable information.
Despite the sensational video cover the content on video treats the subject matter in a serious way. This video would easily be a 5 star video except for editing that could of afforded to cut some redundant parts out and some irrelevant tangent one of the hosts goes on towards the very end. Bringing into light the religious background of some of the key figures of the case as well as the shaky evidence of the out soles of the famous Bruno Magli shoes weakens or deviates from the video's points. Overall an interesting video that recalls points argued during preliminary hearings and new evidence discovered years after the events of the trial.
I, like a lot of people had thought pretty much from the beginning that OJ Simpson did murder his ex wife and Ron Goldman and thus got away with murder. This video reveals a lot of interesting facts and opinions that certainly cast doubt on the certainty of his guilt in my mind. The fact that it was produced by a medical doctor who presents a lot of the evidence is also compelling. Then, towards the end the video takes a few odd turns. They bring up that apparently Ron Goldman was a confidential informant for the police or for some law enforcement agency of some sort, but they really don't go any deeper than that, leaving a lot of loose ends. Finally, at the very end the video takes its oddest turn when the investigator who brings up Goldman's past, who seemed quite credible until that point, starts naming off some of the various participants in the trial who cashed in one way or another-Shapiro, Golden, Dershowitz, Goldman, Marcia Clark (formerly Kleks),I can't remember all of the names but maybe you get it by now-they're all Jewish! So, after presenting all of this credible evidence that really brings the case into question, they throw in this strange anti-Semitic angle, although once again they don't go any farther than that, they just rattle off a bunch of Jewish people involved in one way or another with the trial, that's it-why go there? This anti-Semitic turn, besides being disturbing, also just casts doubt on the validity of the man presenting the information, who up until that point seemed pretty credible.
The production quality is pretty low and disjointed as well, but if you can get past that and the odd anti-Semitism at the very end, there is a lot of compelling information in here that will really make you question the whole trial!
Great film. It seeks the truth.. and brings some major questions to the very old case. There are a lot of ties between goldman and the mob, and nichole and a serial killer who painted her house that year, this fact also confirmed by the killers family just prior to the slaying. Lots of open questions remain.
5.0 out of 5 starsSurprisingly Good!
Low budget but very informative and definatly keeps your interest until the end. It also raised significant doubt as to Oj's guilt, well , lets just say it raises the question of whether he acted alone or the more likely scenario of tgere being a second perpetrator.


Really a Saudi, how does this fit.
Did the Saudi's start trading oil in something other than the U.S. dollar. Something seems off here.
First thing that came to mind as soon as I seen it on TV was "false flag". its smelling worse all the time. Can't wait to see who they blame it on.
Find it interesting on the news they keep saying foreign or domestic terrorism. Plus they have experts on about domestic terrorism. I might be off but I wonder if they are going after the gun owners to get the gun control bills passed because they need to take the guns away from the people.


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A jQuery-style Javascript Library

Features:

 * Light-weight compared with jQuery
 * Support IE 9+ and other modern browser
 * Familiar API method provided by jQuery

## Usage
Simple import the underdollar.js or underdollar.min.js in the head section; It register two global variable underDollar and _$. It also supports CMD/AMD loading if you use 'define' method such as in requirejs. This library is dependence-free.

The global underDollar and _$ is functions which will, when called, return a instance of UnderDollar class. All the instances share the same methods, as the same in jQuery.

## API

###Methods
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#### Selector
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```
##### Arguments:

String: CSS selector to select the elements

Nodelist: Any DOM collections, such as returned by document.getElementsByClassName

HTMLElement: Any element, such as returned by document.getElementById

##### Return Value:

Instance of underDollar class, which is array-like object with enumrable length property;

---
#### .each(iterate):

#####Usage
Iterate all the members in the collection.

#####Arguments:

iterate:  Function will walk through all the members of the instance. Accept two optional arguments: index, element. Inside the function, this keyword will refer to the current element

#####Return Value:

Instance itself.

---

#### .on(event,listener):

#####Usage
Register event handler

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Event:string. DOM native event type.

Listener: Event handler function to be fired. The first argument is always the event object.

#####Return Value:

Instance itself.

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#### .off(event,listener):

#####Usage
Remove event handler

#####Arguments:

Event:string. DOM native event type.

Listener: Function. Ananmyous function registered as event handler can not be removed. If this argument is not specified, all event handlers will be removed from elements.

#####Return Value:

Instance itself.

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#### .once(event,listener):

#####Usage
Register event handler. Remove it immediately once fired

#####Arguments:

Event:string. DOM native event type.

Listener: Function. Event handler function to be fired only once. The first argument is always the event object.

#####Return Value:

Instance itself.


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Indian Muslims in South Africa's History:Continuity and Change
Indenture, MUSLIMS
Goolam Vahed
The majority of Indian Muslims arrived in Natal between 1860 and 1911 as contract indentured workers or pioneer traders. Indentured migration lasted between 1860 and 1911, by which time 152,641 Indians had come to Natal. Approximately seven to ten percent (10, 000-15,000) were Muslim.' The indentured Muslim population was characterized by diversity of religious tradition, caste, language, ethnicity, and culture as migrants were drawn from a range of ecologies and modes of production. Traders from Gujarat, on the west coast of lndia, began arriving in Natal from the mid-1870s, n cheir own expense and of their own volition. The majority of traders were Muslims, either Memons from Porbandar in Kathiawar or Sunni Bohras from Surat, who spoke Gujarati. While the exact number of traders is not certain, the Wragg Commission approximated their number to be around one thousand in 1887, while Maureen Swan {1985: 2) estimated it to average around 2,000 between 1890 and 1910.
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The Pilão Amidos Ltda., is a family business, founded on March 19, 1942, in the municipality of Lontras in Santa Catarina, specifically in the town drumstick Salto, from which originated the name of the company: Fecularia Jump Pestle . Its founders were: Emilio Jacobsen, Jacobsen Julio Gerard Jacobsen, Jacobsen Siegolf, Rodolfo Jacobsen, Raul Jacobsen and Bruno Rauh.
The "Salto Pilão" name came due to the existence of several holes formed in the rocks, the waters of the Itajaí-Acu River, which beat them, carving marks in the form of a "pylon". The choice of location to deploy the industry gave up because to find the location drumstick Jump on the river that served as a means of transport of the raw material, which at that time was led by speedboats. In addition, the place conditions could meet another desire of its founders, the possible construction of a hydroelectric plant, which would generate energy for their own use.
Initially the company was dedicated to the industrialization of cassava to produce cassava starch. In the following years it is invested in the timber sector, favored by the abundance of wood in the region, seeking thus parallel activities aimed at the company's survival in the off season. In the 60s, in addition to the sawmill, they were mounted two distilleries vegetable oil sassafras (wood found in the area). At that time this oil was exported to the United States, Europe and Japan, to be used in the perfume industry. These activities were paralyzed in the early 80s.
The first branch was built in 1983 in the city of Tacuru in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. At that time was already the president of the company Mr. Nilton Sergio Jacobsen, son of one of the founders, Mr. Siegolf Jacobsen. Growth has always been the company's strong brand. In 1989 it was installed another factory in the city of Ashland, also in Mato Grosso do Sul. In 1993 came the third plant, also in that State, in the city of Itaquiraí. In 1996 it was built the fourth plant, located in Guaira, State of Parana. Continuing the growth plan of the drumstick group, more were installed three units: one in the city of Tupa, São Paulo; another in Deodápolis, state of Mato Grosso; and the third in the city of Colorado, State of Parana.
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The End of Zionism?
12 Tue Dec 2017
Posted by Jaideep A. Prabhu in Israel, Middle East, Opinion and Response
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The Reform Jewish movement's response to US president Donald Trump's decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to the holy city may only be the first incontrovertible sign that the ideology of Zionism has come to an end. To be certain, the diaspora has never in concurrence with the policies of the Israeli state but for decades now, the gap between them and the Jews in Israel has been widening. This latest manifestation from J Street, the Union for Reform Judaism, and their fellow travellers is an unpleasant yet not wholly unexpected wake-up call for the community as a whole.
An end to Zionism does not imply the politics of post-Zionism which questions the very foundations of the Jewish state. Rather, it recognises that most of the Diaspora who wish to immigrate to Israel have already done so and the different environments in which sabra and diaspora find themselves has, over decades, altered their perspectives on some of the core issues that concern the Jewish community. An end of Zionism, for our purpose, does not question the existence of Israel or even comment on the ethics of central issues of identity and existence such as the drafting of a constitution, Judea and Samaria, the Orthodox Rabbinate, counter-terrorism, or foreign relations within the region.
There are several indications that Zionism may be on its last legs, if not over. One benchmark is Jewish immigration to the Holy Land. It is no secret that the numbers of Jews making aliyah to Israel have been dwindling over the past several years. The first couple of years of the Jewish state understandably saw a high number of olim arrive from Europe and the Middle East, while another spike in numbers occurred after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. The highest immigration has been from the Soviet Union and its successor states, with approximately 1.3 million immigrants over the years. Less than a tenth of that number made aliyah from the United States in the same period. To be fair, American Jews have historically been opposed to Zionism, initially seeing it as a wrinkle in their efforts to assimilate into mainstream American society. The ideology was only made palatable by Louis Brandeis when he refashioned it as a cultural project of rebuilding Palestine as a Jewish home towards which American Jews need only make financial contributions.
Jewish immigration to Israel last year fell to 27,000 new arrivals of which 70 percent were from Russia, Ukraine, and France – whose combined Jewish diaspora population is barely 10 percent of the total. These numbers are even more depressing when considered in context of yerida – Israelis leaving the country to settle abroad. Since 1948, the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics estimates that over 720,000 Israelis have emigrated; US Department of Homeland Security figures reveal that some 250,000 of those have settled in America. This means that the net flow of people has been from Israel to the United States rather than the other way around. Of course, emigration does not necessitate a rejection of Zionism and may well be in most cases for the usual reasons of employment and education. Nonetheless, the primary call of Zionism seems to have weakened on not only the diaspora but even a small number of Israelis who left in search of material prosperity. As the Jews of the Anglosphere generally indicate, prosperity cools the fervour of Zionism.
The unspoken truth about aliyah is that American emigration has been viewed as most important. After all, it is not just the most populous Jewish diaspora but also the most prosperous one as well. The American attitude of "buying into" Zionism with their wealth irked several of the early Zionist leaders and many saw the refusal to move to Israel as a deep betrayal. Yet the same attitude was common even among European Jews before World War II and the Shoah – 19th century Zionists found it difficult to convince European Jews to move to Palestine or even to financially aid the few pioneers who made the first aliyah at the end of the century.
The tension between aid and ideology can be seen even today. Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Tzipi Hotovely's statement at Princeton deriding American Jewry for not serving in the military was denounced by her own prime minister while everyone else studiously ignored the real meaning of Hotovely's words – service in the Israeli Defence Forces – and loudly proclaimed that US Jews have proudly served in the US armed forces. Regardless of the differences between American Jews and Israelis, it was poor politics to insult the most useful if irritating of diasporas.
Besides prosperity, another factor that has spelled the demise of Zionism is the relative safety in which Jews around the world live today. Anti-semitism is indeed still present and at times lurking just below the superficial calm, even in the new Zion of the United States, but the dangers are nowhere near as severe or mainstream as a century earlier. The irony of history is that the greatest physical threat to Jews in the world today is exactly where was supposed to be their place of refuge – Israel. The security in the diaspora has led many of them to come to different conclusions about the internal and external challenges that face Israel.
One area of disagreement has been Israel's Palestine conundrum and the plethora of issues that it contains – the international boundary, civil rights for Palestinians, counter-terrorism. As Israelis – even on the Left – are quick to point out, life is substantially different in Morningside as compared to, say, Pisgat Ze'ev, in terms of rocket attacks, shootings, stabbings, vehicular attacks, and suicide bombings. Yet more and more of the diaspora seem to see Israel as the aggressor whose occupation of Arab lands after the Six-Day War is the immediate cause of violence. The same thinking is evident in how American and Israeli Jews think about the Iranian nuclear threat.
Sabra and diaspora are also at odds over the soul of Judaism, so to speak. A large and vocal minority of the Jewish diaspora in the United States are Reform or Conservative Jews who resent the monopoly the Orthodox have acquired over important rituals of faith such as marriage, divorce, prayer, and the rare conversion. The latest crossing of swords occurred in June 2017 when the Israeli government reneged on an agreement from January 2016 that promised to set up a plaza for egalitarian prayer at the Kotel. However, the sects have long been at war over the refusal of the Rabbinate to recognise non-Orthodox marriages and conversions and in 1997, the chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York even called on American Jews to stop sending money to organisations with Orthodox leanings in Israel. He even called for the dismemberment of the Rabbinate and its network of courts. The theological debate has transformed into a political one largely because of the association of the Israeli state with Orthodox Judaism, a great irony given the strong haskalah influence on Zionism and the beliefs of its early activists.
It is also perhaps not a wise idea for Israelis to emphasise Zionism and a strong Jewish identity, especially as Jews remain a minuscule minority in every country they are present. First, it is clear that these bonds are not as strong as depicted from either side, sabra or diaspora. Second, if the majority communities do begin to believe that their Jewish fellow citizens have a second loyalty, it could create unnecessary fault lines where there are none. It is psychologically understandable that constant additional proofs of loyalty are always required of suspect minorities, be they Catholics in Tudor England or Muslims in the 21st century. Professions of Zionism could well hurt assimilation and though that is what Israel wants, immigration has sharply been ruled out by a diaspora that measures almost as much as the population of Israel itself.
What Israel must also understand is that if it keeps claiming a moral authority on the diaspora, it will open itself to diaspora claims on Israeli accountability to them. Jerusalem cannot continue to speak on behalf of all Jews, even implicitly, if it is not willing to listen to half of them and treats them as a lost cause. The attachment of many Israelis to the diaspora is understandable, not only from a sense of religious community but also a cultural perspective – a full quarter of Israelis today are not sabra and these immigrants retain an emotional bonding with their country of origin. Yet even these immigrants cannot deny that the different kind of "nurture" in Israel plays an important role in shaping opinions.
The dissociation with the diaspora is not its rejection; it is a recognition of the limits of the Israeli state. As Diaspora Minister Naftali Bennett admitted after the neo-Nazi rallies in Charlottesville, Israel cannot protect all Jews at all times. Ultimately, it is the responsibility of the sovereign state to defend its own citizens; situations like Entebbe are few and far between. This does not mean that Israel cease to be a place of last refuge for the Jewish people – we do not have to go as far as Ze'ev Jabotinsky when he famously warned in his Tisha B'Av column from Warsaw to eliminate the diaspora before it eliminates you. While not actively seeking immigration, Israel can still allow a priority status for those making aliyah and provide resettlement assistance. The reality is that anti-semitism is still very much prevalent in the world and it would be irresponsible for the only Jewish state in the world to become like all other countries that restrict immigration.
To the pernickety reader: categories are not absolute – the entire diaspora is not locked in a Kulturkampf with the Jewish state. Personal politics also plays a role and there are plenty of people in Israel who support some of the diaspora's positions while there is a sizable portion of the diaspora that does support Israeli policies. Nonetheless, the most common denominator in the divide on security and identity remains domicile.
If this is truly the beginning of the end of Zionism, there is nothing to despair. An ideology that was once useful and has served its purpose has been cast away. In its place, Israelis may feel a better-defined sense of nationalism for their state and its achievements over the past seven decades. In the parlance of contemporary political campaigning, this would be a position of "Israel First." The diaspora are still family but more like distant cousins…from out of town.
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Q: Tensorflow, CNN: Do I have to make convolutional neural network with 'NCHW' format when using GPU? I reviewed DQN implementation code (https://github.com/devsisters/DQN-tensorflow) and found out this code generate CNN network with NCHW format when using GPU, NHWC otherwise.
I wonder whether this is mendatory... I mean, is it ok to generate CNN network with NHWC format even if I used GPU?

A: It might be ok if you don't care much about performance. In general, on GPU, NCHW is faster.
Why do you want specifically use NHWC on GPU ?
You can convert between them, see
Convert between NHWC and NCHW in TensorFlow


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