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Family Feud was an Australian game show based on the American show of the same name. The program ran on the Nine Network from 1978 to 1984, and on the Seven Network from 1990 to 1996. The program has been revived twice, in 2006 and 2014.

Gameplay
Two families compete, with four members on each team. A host asks representatives of the family questions that have already been answered by a survey of 100 people. Teams score points for correct answers. An answer is considered correct if it is one of the concealed answers on the game board, or judged to be equivalent. More points are given for answers that have been given by more people in the survey (one point per person). Answers must have been given by at least two of the 100 people in order to be included on the board.

Examples of questions might be "Name a famous George", "Tell me a popular family vacation spot", "Name something you do at school", or "Name a slang name for policemen". At least two people among the survey respondents must give an answer for it to appear as one of the possibilities.

The participants are not asked questions about what is true or how things really are. Instead, they are asked questions about what other people think is true. As such, a perfectly logical answer may be considered incorrect because it failed to make the survey (e.g.: for the question about Georges, George Jones was a popular country singer, but if his name was not given by at least two people it would be considered wrong).

Basics
Two opposing family members "face off" to see which family will gain control of that particular question. Sometimes, the host will read the question only once in the entire round if time is short. Traditionally, they greet each other with a handshake before the question is read. Whoever guesses the more popular answer in the survey has the option to play the question or pass it to the other family. If neither player gives a valid answer, the next member of each family gets a chance to answer, with control again going to the family giving the more popular answer. If both answers are worth the same number of points, control goes to the player that buzzed in first.

The family in control can keep the question in which the family attempts to give all the remaining answers on the board, or pass to the other family. Starting with the next family member in line, each gets a chance to give one answer. Family members may not confer with one another while in control of the board. The family gets a "strike" if a player gives an answer that is not on the board or fails to respond. There is no firm time limit, but the host has the discretion to impose a three-second count if time is short or the contestant appears to be stalling. Three strikes cause the family to relinquish control of the board, giving the other family one chance to steal the points in the bank by correctly guessing one of the remaining answers.

In the 1978–1984 version, the entire family could confer before the answer was given. In the 1990–1996 version, each family member gave his or her opinion one at a time.  The head of household could then either select one of those three or give his or her own.  If the family guesses a remaining answer correctly, they receive the points accumulated by the other family.

After determining who takes the bank for a round, any remaining answers are then revealed. Per tradition, the audience yells each unrevealed answer in a choral response.

Three questions were played with the first two for single points and the third and final question for double. The first team to reach 200 points after the final question won the game. If, after the third round, neither team reached 200 points, another Double Points round would be played.

Major Round
The winning family chooses two family members to play the round. One family member leaves the stage and is placed in an isolation booth, while the other is given 15 seconds to answer five questions. The clock begins counting down after the host finishes reading the first question. If he or she cannot think up an answer to a question, he or she may pass. A contestant may revisit a passed question at the end if time permits. If time runs out and all the questions have not been asked yet, they will still be in play as long as they have not been passed. The number of people giving each answer is revealed once all five answers are given or time has expired, whichever comes first. The player earns one point for each person that gave the same answer; at least two people must have given that answer for it to score. When revealing the number of people giving the same response, it is most commonly revealed with the phrase, "(The) Survey said!"

Once all the points for the first player are tallied, the second family member comes back on stage with the first contestant's answers covered and is given 20 seconds to answer the same five questions. If the second player gives the same answer as the first player on a question, a double buzzer will sound, and the host will ask for another response.

If one or both family members accumulate a total of 200 points or more, the family wins the top prize:
1978-1984: Prize package worth $8,000.
1990-1996: Prize package worth over $7,000 & a cash jackpot starting at $2,000 and increasing by $1,000 until won.

Championship families stayed for up to a maximum of five nights. In 1994, five-night winners won $5,000 in gold bullion and shared with a home viewer a bonus jackpot worth $50,000 which increased $1,000 per night. By 1995, the jackpot was replaced by a family trip for winning six consecutive nights.

On celebrity episodes, the winning team played for $10,000 for the team's favorite charity. Failure to win donated $10 per point.

Production and broadcast
The original Australian run of Family Feud was produced for the Nine Network, recorded at GTV-9's Melbourne studios in Bendigo Street, Richmond. It debuted on TCN-9 Sydney on Monday 20 February 1978, stripped Monday to Friday at 5pm, with Tony Barber as host.  From Monday 6 November it was moved to 5:30pm. Continuing to air without a break over the 1978-79 Christmas/summer season, Family Feud was moved temporarily into The Young Doctors''' 6pm timeslot from Monday 27 November, before settling back into a Monday-Friday 5:30pm schedule on Monday 5 February 1979. The season ended on Friday 16 November.

The show's third season commenced on Monday 11 February 1980, continuing to be stripped in the Monday-Friday 5:30pm slot. Tony Barber's last episode as host aired on Friday 11 July, moving on to host Sale Of The Century. Daryl Somers took over as host, with his first episode airing the following Monday, 14 July. Family Feud's third season ended on Friday 14 November.

The program continued in the same timeslot from Monday 16 February 1981, with the fourth season ending on Friday 13 November.

Season 5 debuted on Monday 8 February 1982, again in the same timeslot, until Thursday 11 November.

Season 6 commenced at 5:30pm on Monday 7 February 1983, ending on Thursday 10 November, Daryl Somers' final episode as host.

The final season of Family Feud'''s original run commenced on Monday 13 February 1984, with Sandy Scott as new host. It was moved to 5pm from Monday 5 March, through until the show's final episode on the network on Friday 30 March 1984.

It was then revived by the Seven Network in 1990 hosted by Rob Brough until John Deeks took over the role on 29 January 1996 until its final episode on 28 June 1996.

Merchandise
A board game where the set was based on the Ray Combs version from America was released by Croner in 1990. The same artwork was also released for the American version by Pressman Toy Corporation that same year.

References

1970s Australian game shows
1980s Australian game shows
1990s Australian game shows
Family Feud
Seven Network original programming
Nine Network original programming
1978 Australian television series debuts
1984 Australian television series endings
1988 Australian television series debuts
1996 Australian television series endings
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Melbourne
Television shows set in Brisbane
Television series by Fremantle (company)
Television series by Reg Grundy Productions
Australian television series based on American television series


The Seahawks promoted A.J. Francis from their practice squad on Monday, adding depth at defensive tackle with Demarcus Dobbs and Jordan Hill both dealing with injuries.
Dobbs left Sunday's game to due to a concussion and will go through the league-mandated evaluation this week while Hill hurt his ankle against Pittsburgh. Carroll said Francis would slide into Seattle's defensive-line rotation if either Dobbs or Hill can't play Sunday against Minnesota.
The Seahawks claimed Francis off waivers from Miami on Nov. 16, waived him last week then re-signed him to their practice squad.
Seattle had an open roster spot with with tight end Jimmy Graham being placed on injured reserve, an expected move after he sustained a season-ending tear of the patellar tendon in his right knee on Sunday. Carroll didn't have any details on when he will have surgery but reiterated that Graham is expected to be back by the start of next season, which he told "Brock and Salk" earlier Monday.
Two names to keep in mind are a pair of former Seahawks, Anthony McCoy and RaShaun Allen. McCoy is a free agent after being released last week by Washington while Allen is on New Orleans' practice squad, which means he could be signed to Seattle's active roster. Zach Miller is also available, but he hasn't played since September of last year, when he sustained a season-ending ankle injury that required multiple surgeries.
• Cornerback Jeremy Lane is "pretty sore" after playing more than anticipated Sunday in his first game since the Super Bowl, but Carroll said that shouldn't affect his availability this week. Lane finished with 34 snaps on defense and 19 more on special teams. He took over at nickelback once Marcus Burley injured his ankle.
• Carroll called it a minor ankle sprain for Burley and said he has a chance to make it back by this week.
• Wide receiver Paul Richardson has a good chance of returning this week from the hamstring injury that has sidelined him the past two games. Carroll said Richardson could even be a full participant in practice as early as Wednesday. "He really feels great and we should have him back," Carroll said.
• Linebacker Bruce Irvin made it through Sunday's game without issue and will practice this week. He was listed as doubtful heading into the game due to a knee injury but felt better than expected during pregame warmups and ended up playing 34 total snaps.


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This question is all the more important in light of the growing strength of the progressive Democrats, especially in light of their support of the antisemitic statements made by Ilhan Omar and the way those statements were defended by the Democratic party -- including by Bernie Sanders himself.
When it comes to his support of Israel, does Sanders face a conflict between his being Jewish and being a progressive?
Can Sanders Get The Jewish Vote?
When Joe Lieberman ran as Al Gore's running mate in the 2004 presidential election, it was big news -- and Jews were enthusiastic about Gore's choice for his vice-presidential running mate.
That enthusiasm was lacking in 2016.
The Jewish Vermonters who know Sanders say his reluctance to make his Judaism central to his public persona is a function of his preference for the economic over the esoteric, as well as a libertarianism typical both of the state and its Jewish community – one that embraces expressions of faith and the lack of them.
That may go towards understanding that while Sanders' first wife was Jewish, his current spouse, Jane O'Meara, is not.
That lack of enthusiasm may explain why, as the LA Times reported in April 2016, Bernie Sanders fares poorly against Hillary Clinton with fellow Jews, polls indicate. It quoted the Sienna College Poll, which found Clinton leading Sanders among Jewish voters by a margin of 60%-38%, while the NBC/Wall St. Journal/Marist poll found an even larger gap, with Clinton leading among Jews by 65%-32%.
Sanders is not actively engaged in Jewish life.
He appears more committed to liberal concepts of social justice than to any specific Jewish ideals of equality.
Part of the problem is that just as Sanders does not make his Judaism public, he does not go out of his way to make Israel part of his public persona either.
And he is not comfortable when he is pinned down on either his Judaism or his Zionism.
Ezra Klein: Do you view yourself as a Zionist?
Bernie Sanders: A Zionist? What does that mean? Want to define what the word is? Do I think Israel has the right to exist, yeah, I do. Do I believe that the United States should be playing an even-handed role in terms of its dealings with the Palestinian community in Israel? Absolutely I do.
He sidestepped the issue and turned a question on his personal belief into a question on policy. Interestingly, AlterNet claimed in an October 2015 article that Sanders had never appeared at AIPAC, had never appeared at a pro-Israel rally and had not traveled to the Middle East in decades.
There was, however, one particular time that Sanders' feelings about Israel were forced into the spotlight.
"Senator, you have dual citizenship with Israel," Rehm began, before Sanders interrupted.
"Well, no I do not have dual citizenship with Israel. I'm an American. I don't know where that question came from. I am an American citizen, and I have visited Israel on a couple of occasions. No, I'm an American citizen, period," Sanders said.
As the site Jewish Journal noted, the list Rehm may be referring to seems to be one that has circulated on the Internet for several years concerning U.S. government officials and members of Congress who allegedly hold dual citizenship with Israel.
Rehm then asked Sanders if there are other members of Congress who do have dual citizenship, or if it is "part of the fable."
Sanders said he did not know but that he was offended by her comment.
"I honestly don't know but I have read that on the Internet. You know, my dad came to this country from Poland at the age of 17 without a nickel in his pocket. He loved this country. I am, you know, I got offended a little bit by that comment, and I know it's been on the Internet. I am obviously an American citizen, and I do not have any dual citizenship," he said.
Here is a recording of that part of the interview.
How important was it to deny any impression that Bernie Sanders is a dual citizen?
The idea that someone might think Sanders has dual citizenship was enough of a concern to someone that this page, denying dual citizenship, was created. According to The Wayback Machine, their earliest copy of this page is from August 20, about 2 months after the interview with Rehm on June 10.
From the recording, it is clear that Sanders was upset by the implication of dual citizenship.
Now, fast forward to 2019 and see how Sanders has come out in defense of Ilhan Omar, who now makes the "dual loyalty" accusation against Jews and supporters of Israel. Sanders uses the same tactic as Omar's other defenders, sidestepping the issue of Omar's antisemitism by claiming opponents were trying to stop her from tweeting criticism of Israel: "We must not, however, equate anti-Semitism with legitimate criticism of the right-wing, Netanyahu government in Israel."
Does Sanders Have A Progressive Problem?
But just as Sanders has a problem in attracting the Jewish vote, he has an even bigger with his progressive base. They have some questions about his overall progressive creds -- but they have many more questions about Sanders progressive creds on Israel, especially after Operation Protective Edge in 2014.
Overall, Sanders' problem with progressives is historically in the area of foreign policy. Vox has a piece on Sanders' "surprisingly mainstream foreign policy"
o In 1999, Sanders voted for a resolution supporting the 1999 US air campaign in Yugoslavia. A Nation editorial asked him to reconsider and a member of his staff, Jeremy Brecher wrote a public resignation letter: "Is there a moral limit to the military violence you are willing to participate in or support? Where does that limit lie?"
o He voted for the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Force in Afghanistan, though he did oppose Obama's 2009 troop surge there.
o Though he opposed both the Gulf War and the 2003 invasion of Iraq and had "reservations" about the 2011 war in Libya, Sanders came out in support of drone strikes on suspected terrorists "in a very selective way."
On this issue, then, Sanders isn't far off from your average liberal Democrat. He's generally skeptical of the use of force, but willing to endorse it in very narrow and limited cases where he thinks it could save lives or advance American interests. That doesn't make him a warmonger who is "to the right of many liberal Democrats," but it is a notable divergence in his reputation as a champion of the left and challenger of the Washington status quo.
Others feel the same way. Already in 2006, SocialistWorker.org, questioned A socialist in the Senate?
Sanders' election to the Senate doesn't represent a radical departure from politics as usual. He may have a portrait of Eugene Debs hanging in his office, but his politics have little in common with that great American socialist.
Progressives have wanted Sanders to be more forceful in condemning Israel. Before Congress' August recess, the Senate passed a resolution unanimously reaffirming its support for Israel. Sanders did not object, but he also did not sign on as a co-sponsor. As the Daily Beast writes, Israel puts left-wing politicians like Sanders in a tough spot because their base can be critical of Israel, but not taking a pro-Israel position is politically risky.
Sanders's criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu and his support for the two-state solution and Iran nuclear deal are all firmly in the liberal mainstream. On the left, the discussion has moved on to whether people and institutions should boycott and divest from Israel so long as it occupies Palestinian land.
AlterNet, October 10, 2015: The Backstory on Bernie Sanders and Israel-Palestine: Why Is He So Quiet About the Mideast Tragedy?
Since that town hall [in 2014], questions about Palestine have dogged him...There is some evidence that these criticisms have started to make an impact on Sanders' approach. In the last month, his campaign finally started to roll out foreign policy platforms on his website. The platform repeats much of the same U.S. foreign policy mantras about the need for a two-state solution and Israel's right to defend itself, but also condemns "disproportionate" violence by Israel and killings of civilians by the Israeli army. Most notably, the platform calls for Israel to end its blockade of Gaza, a topic all but forgotten in U.S. discourse.
The Nation, April 15, 2016: Bernie Is Speaking the Truth About Israel-Palestine: Why did he suspend his staffer for doing the same?
That's why it was so disappointing that, only a few hours earlier, the Sanders campaign suspended one of its young staffers, Simone Zimmerman, who served only briefly as its Jewish outreach coordinator. Zimmerman's sin was to call the right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an "a**hole," adding "F**k you, Bibi," using his nickname, for good measure, in a Facebook post last winter, when she was all of 24 years old.
Sanders supports a two-state solution, one for Israelis and another for Palestinians. While he can be critical of Israel, he does not refrain from criticizing Palestinians as well...That's a stark contrast to the socialist left, which generally sees Israel as a racist, colonial aggressor. Increasingly, leftists advocate a one-state solution to the conflict.
James Zogby, the head of the Arab American Institute and a longtime party activist, read aloud a proposed amendment in an unmistakably Midwest accent. Zogby wanted to add language that would explicitly mention Israel's occupation and strip out the platform's condemnation of the movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel (BDS)...Zogby mentioned several times that the proposed changes had come from Bernie Sanders himself. Sanders began his campaign avoiding foreign policy altogether, but eventually became more outspoken on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, taking Netanyahu to task not only for the Israeli settlement project and continued occupation but also for Israel's conduct of the 2014 war against the besieged Gaza Strip.
In his memoir "Outsider in The House", Sanders writes about his years as mayor in Burlington, Vermont, "[H]ow many cities of 40,000 have a foreign policy? Well we did...I saw no magic line separating local, state, national and international issues." But what was a novelty as mayor became expected when Sanders declared his intention to go to Washington. Caught between being pro-Israel and critical, he tries to walk a fine line, being critical of Israel while adopting a pro-Israel stance and standing up for Palestinian Arab rights. That position puts him to the right of his base, which accuses Israel of Apartheid, racism and occupation.
That position does not always go over well. Here is an excerpt from a town hall meeting in August 2014, when Sanders was heckled for supporting Israel.
Once he regains control of the discussion, Sanders sidesteps the issue by changing the topic of the discussion to ISIS, just as he avoids answering the question as to whether he is a Zionist.
In recent years, the argument has become even fiercer as discussion has moved from general questions of Israel's right to exist, to the pointed debate over BDS and the occupation. Again, Sanders takes the middle road -- not supporting the BDS movement outright, but still opposing anti-BDS legislation.
But not surprisingly, his criticism of Israel does become sharper, as AlterNet claimed above in the quote from October 2015.
"Was Israel's response disproportionate? I think it was," he told CNN's Jake Tapper in an interview that aired Sunday on "State of the Union."
Sanders: I think it is fair to say that the level of [Israeli] attacks against civilian areas…and I do know that the Palestinians, some of them, were using civilian areas to launch missiles. Makes it very difficult. But I think most international observers would say that the attacks against Gaza were indiscriminate and that a lot of innocent people were killed who should not have been killed. Look, we are living, for better or worse, in a world of high technology, whether it's drones out there that could, you know, take your nose off, and Israel has that technology. And I think there is a general belief that, with that technology, they could have been more discriminate in terms of taking out weapons that were threatening them.
I'm just telling you that I happen to believe … anybody help me out here, because I don't remember the figures, but my recollection is over 10,000 innocent people were killed in Gaza. Does that sound right?
10,000 killed is a massive exaggeration, far more than even Hamas terrorists claimed.
But in the interests of accuracy, in the previous month, on March 21, 2016, during that talk in Utah, Sanders got the number right.
The United Nations has estimated that 2,104 were killed, including 1,462 civilians. Understanding that his recollection was about the total number of casualties, not the death toll, the senator immediately accepted that correction and the discussion moved on to other topics.
But by the same token, he accepts the claims of the number killed at face value, despite the fact that it is based on the numbers provided by the Hamas terrorists themselves. He also makes no mention of the measures Israel takes to avoid casualties. And we saw in the quote of his condemnation of the Gaza blockade that Sanders accepts the claim of water inequality.
Again, there is no mention of Israel taking measures to avoid casualties, nor any mention of rioters being anything but peaceful, of their having weapons or of their attempts -- sometimes successful -- of breaking through the barrier into Israel.
Nor is there mention of Hamas terrorists being among the "unarmed protesters."
According to The Vermont Cynic, the University of Vermont's newspaper, Sanders came out even stronger against US arms support for Israel, saying "It is wrong that the United States provides arms to Israel. We are not going to be the arms merchant for Middle Eastern nations."
"The quote does not support [the assertion that] Sanders wanted to end all military aid to Israel, and doing so is a misinterpretation of old quotes," Sanders campaign spokesman Michael Briggs said in a Sept. 3 email to the Cynic.
"He didn't call military aid to Israel wrong," Briggs said.
"Bernie does not and has not ever supported cutting off arms to Israel and that has never been his position," he said.
The fact remains that the video above does show Sanders suggesting withholding arms, even from Israel, as an option.
So who is advising Sanders on Israel?
Unsurprisingly, some Sanders staffers have also worked with the American Israeli Political Action Committee (AIPAC)--including David Sirota, now a Democratic Party strategist, and Sanders' former communications director Joel Barkin.
Putting aside their error in claiming that AIPAC is a "Political Action Committee" when it is, in fact, a "Political Affairs Committee" and does not directly fund politicians as J Street does -- it's not clear what the fuss was all about. David Sirota was with AIPAC for all of 4 months (from about the end of 1998 to 1999), when he joined Sanders, according to his tweet in December. As for Barkin, according to his LinkedIn profile, he was with Sanders for 3 years, ending in 2005, a year before that post.
But now, Sanders' choice of advisors seems to be going in the other direction, with 2 of his advisors holding distinctly anti-Israel views.
During their tenure at CAP, Duss and Shakir emerged at the forefront of a scandal involving several Think Progress bloggers who accused pro-Israel Jews and members of Congress of being "Israel firsters," a term implying that those who support the Jewish state have dual loyalties.
The scandal rocked CAP for several months and drew condemnation across the board, including from the Obama administration, which distanced itself from Duss, Shakir, and the rest of Think Progress's former staff.
Shakir—who initially remained silent as controversy swirled around Think Progress's use of anti-Semitic language—later said in a leaked internal email that his employees used "terrible, anti-Semitic language" when invoking the "Israel firster" term.
Duss also stood on the sidelines at the time, declining to condemn the anti-Semitic language. Numerous articles penned by Duss and other CAP Action Fund bloggers were said "to be infected with Jew-hatred and discriminatory policy positions toward Israel," according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which combats anti-Semitism.
...Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, was a vocal critic of both Duss and Shakir during their time at CAP. He told the Free Beacon during a Tuesday interview that Sanders's decision to elevate the two staffers to the top of his political organization is "troubling."
These 2 advisors are no improvement over Simone Zimmerman, Sanders' Jewish outreach coordinator, who was let go after a profanity-filled attack on Netanyahu.
But again this calls into question Sanders' support of Ilhan Omar who, like Duss and Shakir during their time with CAP and Think Progress, accused Israel supporters of having dual loyalty.
What's in store for Bernie Sanders?
It is tempting to look at Sanders' record on Israel and say it is more ambivalent than balanced, and will weaken his draw of the Jewish vote, even without Clinton in the picture. But the Jewish vote is not a matter of logic. Predicting that Sanders will fail to attract the Jewish vote is like predicting that Jews will run from the Democrats and turn to the Republicans because they show more support for Israel and did not join the Democrats in whitewashing antisemitism in the recent House vote.
But Jewish political support is not based on hard facts and political math, and long-term political habits can be hard to break. Of course, just because Jews are likely to continue to vote Democratic, doesn't mean they will vote for Sanders. Jews were enthusiastic for Lieberman, not because he was a religious Jew, but because he was a public Jew and proud Jew.
Sanders, on the other hand, does not seem to come across as a proud Jew in the same way when he deals with public situations that come up. Of course, the onus is still on his opponents to draw the Jewish vote away from him and it does not seem as if any of them have the history and connection that Clinton had with the Jewish community to will enable them to do that.
When it comes to the progressive vote, Sanders may have stronger ties by virtue of a longer history of being very public in his progressive persona. Some may have questioned his overall progressive creds, but the main flashpoint in questioning his progressivism could be Sanders' stand on Israel.
The Democratic left is getting increasingly loud on the issue and is successfully undermining support for Israel in the Democratic party. For decades he has said that he has no magic solution for the conflict, that supports Israel though he supports it and that he supports a Palestinian state though he condemns Hamas terrorist attacks. Till recently, that has been enough. But over the past few years, Sanders himself seems to have moved further to the left, adding accusations of Israel of using "disproportionate" force, that Israel should stop blockading Gaza, and opposing measures to fight BDS, (though he has come out publicly that he does not support it) to his repertoire.
But despite his overall stronger progressive creds, Sanders' opposition consists of younger candidates who arguably are more in tune with the left. The Democrats running for president could mimic Sanders on Israel or choose to move to the left of him to make him appear more establishment. He could be especially vulnerable in this regard if Sarsour, Omar and Tlaib can continue to push the goalposts of what is acceptable discourse when it comes to socialism as well as Israel.
Just wait till the Democratic platform at the convention.
It is a Jewish issue.
It is also a progressive issue.
And it may play a part in the upcoming election.
I enjoyed your detailed article. I now better understand why I'm not a Bernie fan. I guess I'm still perplexed.
I read "The 13th Tribe" by Arthur Koestler, made repeated trips to Israel, lived a year of my life in Tunisia when it still had a significant number of Jewish citizens, lived and went to school in Germany, and visited Communist East Germany. Yeah, I also worked in Communist Romania in the 1970's. I don't believe Jews can be classified as a biological race, not even as two distinct races synthesized. Many Jews apparently disagree, and claim some special genetic inheritance that makes them special, and maybe smarter. Maybe they're racists?
I attended a synagogue observantly when young. I minored in Philosophy in College. I viewed Judaism as a distinct theology, which also exists as a secular philosophy. Socially, Judaism exists as an ethnic culture with a specific ethic. Judaism is something intellectual, with a specific identity, with limits fixed by its underlying axiomatic concepts, its principles, and its laws.
There are also many who, while ostensibly Jewish, have rejected Judaism, and I'll group them together as apostates. Marx is an example. He recorded his hatred for the Jewish religion and the cultures that arose from Judaism. Marx was a JINO, Jewish In Name Only.
So what's Jewish about Bernie? He and his first wife spent 3 months in a Kibbutz, and then split, from Israel, from each other and apparently from Judaism. Does it say somewhere in the Torah: Once a Jew, always a Jew? Can anybody, or can everybody, be a Jew and practice whatever? Was Trotsky a Jew? Were the Rosenbergs Jews?
I assume that not everybody can be Jewish. Instead of agonizing over "Who is a Jew?" try telling me "What is a Jew" while standing on one foot. I understand who and what Bernie is, thanks to your excellent article, but I still don't like him or the Socialist and Communist Utopians he closely resembles. I also assume that Bernie is not really Jewish, even if he once was. Does that make me an anti-Semite?
…Please take a clear stand for what you believe in. That's your purpose in life. Thank you.
Judaism, like Islam, entails a language, a religion, ethnicity, culture and more. Genetic papers have been published tracing common genes among Jews (especially Cohanim) which illustrate there is more here than just a belief.


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Most San Francisco-Oakland Bay (lokalno poznan kot Bay Bridge) je kompleks mostov, ki prečkajo zaliv San Francisco v Kaliforniji. Je del ceste Interstate 80 in neposredne povezave med San Franciscom in  Oaklandom, ki jo uporablja okoli 240.000 vozil na dan na dveh nivojih. To je eden najdaljših tovrstnih mostov v Združenih državah Amerike.

Cestninski most je bil zasnovan že v dobi zlate mrzlice, a se je gradnja začela šele leta 1933. Projektant Charles H. Purcell  in American Bridge Company sta ga zgradila, odprl je bil 12. novembra leta 1936 in šest mesecev pred mostom Golden Gate. Prvotno se je avtomobilski promet odvijal na zgornjem nivoju, tovornjaki in vlaki na nižjem, vendar so po zaprtju tranzitnih prog, spodnji nivo pretvorili za cestni promet. Leta 1986 je bil most neuradno posvečen Jamesu Rolphu (kalifornijski guverner 1931-1934).

Most ima dva dela približno enake dolžine; starejši zahodni del, uradno znan kot most Willie L. Brown Jr. in povezuje downtown San Francisca na otok Yerba Buena in novejši neimenovan vzhodni most, ki povezuje otok z Oaklandom. Most Willie Brown (zahodna premostitev) je dvojni viseči most z dvema voziščnima konstrukcijama, promet proti zahodu se izvaja na zgornjem nivoju in proti vzhodu na spodnjem nivoju. Prvotno je bil največji razpon prvotnega vzhodnega dela konzolni most. Med potresom Loma Prieta leta 1989, se je del vzhodnega razpona na zgornjem nivoju zrušil na spodnji nivo in most je bil en mesec zaprt. Rekonstrukcija vzhodnega dela mostu kot z nasipom povezan samo-zasidran viseči most se je začela v letu 2002. Novi most je bil odprt 2. septembra 2013, stroški so znašali nad 6,5 milijarde dolarjev.  Za razliko od zahodne premostitve in prvotne vzhodne, je nov vzhodni most eno nivojski z vzhodno in zahodno stezo na vsaki strani in je tako najširši most na svetu.

Zgodovina

Pred gradnjo
San Francisco, ob ustju zaliva, je bil odlično postavljen in je uspeval v času zlate mrzlice (California Gold Rush). Skoraj vse blago, ki se ni proizvajajo lokalno je prispelo z ladjo. Toda po tem, ko je bila maja 1869 končana prva Transkontinentalan železnica, je bil San Francisco na napačni strani zaliva, ločen od nove železniške povezave. Strah mnogih je bil, da bo mesto izgubilo svoj položaj kot regionalno središče trgovine. Koncept mostu čez zaliv San Francisco je bil narejen tako že v času zlate mrzlice. Več člankov v časopisih v zgodnjih 1870 je pisalo o ideji. V začetku leta 1872 je "inciativa za Bay Bridge" trdo delala na načrtih za gradnjo železniškega mostu.

Vendar je bila naloga prezahtevna za tedanji inženiring in gospodarstvo, saj je bil zaliv preširok in preglobok. Leta 1921, več kot štirideset let po prvih idejah, so razmišljali o predoru, vendar je kmalu postalo jasno, da bi bil neustrezen za promet vozil.  Podpora za trans-bay prehod je končno zrasla leta 1920 z večjo priljubljenostjo in razpoložljivostjo avtomobilov. Leta 1929 je California Legislature ustanovila California Toll Bridge Authority z odgovornostjo za povezavo San Francisca in Alameda County z mostom.

Da bi bil most izvedljiv, so se odločili da traso speljejo preko otoka Yerba Buena (v 1870-tih znan kot Kozji otok), kar bi zmanjšalo material in delo, ki bi bilo potrebno. Otok Yerba Buena je bil v tistem času baza US Navy (do leta 1997). Potrebna je bila odobritev ameriškega kongresa, ki bedi nad oboroženimi silami in nadzoruje vsa pomorska in vojaška oporišča. Po veliko lobiranja, je Kalifornija 20. februarja 1931 dobila soglasje kongresa za uporabo otoka.

Gradnja

Glavni inženir je bil Ralph Modjeski, poljski Američan. Gradnja se je začela 9. julija 1933.  Zahodni most med San Franciscom in otokom Yerba Buena je predstavljal za inženirsko stroko precejšnje zahteve. Zaliv je bil na nekaterih krajih do 30 m globok, kar je zahtevalo nove tehnike polaganja temeljev. Ideja o enem razponu dolgem 1,2 km je bila sicer zanimiva, toda imela bi preveč polnil in zmanjšala pristaniški prostor v San Franciscu, imela manj proste višine za ladijski promet ter stala več, kot končno sprejet projekt. Rešitev je bila zgraditi ogromno betonsko sidrišče na pol poti med San Franciscom in otokom in zgraditi glavno visečo konstrukcijo na vsaki strani tega centralnega sidrišča.

Vzhodno od otoka Yerba Buena je zaliv proti Oaklandu izveden v dolžini 3,102 km kot kombinacija dvojne konzole, pet dolgih paličnih razponov in palično voziščno konstrukcijo, kar je tvorilo najdaljši most take vrste v tistem času. Konzolni del je bil najdaljši v državi in tretji najdaljši kjerkoli.

Velik del prvotne vzhodne premostitve temelji na lesenih pilotih. Zaradi zelo globokega blata na dnu zaliva ni bilo mogoče, da bi dosegli temeljna tla, čeprav so pod ravnijo blata tla precej čvrsta. Dolgi leseni piloti so izdelani iz stare rasti duglazije, ki so jih zabili skozi mehko blato do trdnejših spodnjih plasti.

Predor Yerba Buena

Predor Yerba Buena povezuje obe polovici mostu, je 23 m širok, 18 m visok in 160 m dolg. Ima največji prečni prerez cestnih predorov na svetu.

Spomin na izginuli železniški most je ohranjen ob južni strani spodnjega predora Yerba Buena. To so pravilno razporejene "sidrne luknje" vzdolž stene, v katere so delavci lahko odskočili, če je pripeljal vlak. (Severna stran, kjer je vedno potekal samo motorni promet, nima teh lukenj.).

Otvoritev
Most so odprli 12. november 1936 ob 12:30 uri v navzočnosti nekdanjega ameriškega predsednika  Herberta Hooverja, senatorja Williama G. McAdooja in guvernerja Kalifornije, Franka Merriama. Guverner Merriam je odprli most z rezanjem zlate verige z acetilenskim rezalnim gorilnikom.

Skupni strošek je znašal 77.000.000 $. Pred odpiranjem je most blagoslovil kardinal Pacelli, poznejši Papež Pij XII. . Ker sta bila v bistvu dva mostova zbrana na enem mestu, sta bili zahodni premostitvi uvrščeni kot druga in tretja največja viseča mostova. Samo most George Washington je imel daljšo razpetino med pilonoma.

Kot del praznovanja je bil izdan spominski kovanec Združenih držav Amerike, ki ga je izdelala San Francisco mint. Pol dolarja spredaj prikazuje simbol Kalifornije, medveda grizlija, na hrbtni strani predstavlja sliko mostu čez zaliv. Izdano je bilo 71.424 kovancev, ki so jih prodajali na cestninskih postajah na mostu.

Načrt cest

Do leta 1960 je bili na zgornjem vozišču (18 m široko med robniki) trije prometni pasovi v vsako smer in omejeno samo na avtomobile. Vzhodna stran za avtocesto na spodnjen vozišču je imela tri pasove za tovornjake in avtomobile na severni strani. V 1950-tih so bili dodani semaforji za nastavitev smeri vožnje v sredini voznega pasu, vendar še vedno brez ločilnega pasu. Dve tračnici na južni polovici spodnjega vozišča so uporabljali električni primestni vlaki Southern Pacifika, Key System in Sacramento Nothern železnice. Terminal San Francisco je začel obratovati šele 15. januarja 1939. Po letu 1941 je samo še Key System uporabljal te tračnice; železniške linije na mostu so prenehale delovati aprila 1958.

Zvezni avtocesti na mostu sta bili prvotno US Highway 40 in US Highway 50. Most je bil leta 1964 določen kot Interstate 80 in obe prejšnji cesti sta bili skrajšani oziroma prekategorizirani.

Odstranitev železnice in preureditev v cesto (1960)

Avtomobilski promet se je dramatično povečal v naslednjih desetletjih, medtem ko se je železniški zmanjšal in v oktobru 1963 so most preuredili v pet pasov za zahodni promet na zgornjem nivoju in pet pasov za vzhodni promet na spodnjem nivoju. Tovornjaki so vozili na obeh nivojih, železnica je bila odstranjena. Zaradi pomanjkanja višine za tovornjake, ki so prihajali iz zgornjega vozišča v del predora Yerba Buena, je bilo treba znižati višino zgornjega nivoja in ustrezno znižati višino spodnjega dela.

Nesreča letala (1968)
Na nedeljo 11. februarja 1968 se je US Navy zrakoplov za usposabljanje zaletel v konzolni razpon mostu. Umrla sta oba rezervna častnika. T2V SeaStar, ki je temeljil na NAS Los Alamitos v južni Kaliforniji, je bil na rutinski vikend misiji in je pravkar vzletel v megli iz bližnjega NAS Alameda. Letalo je udarilo v most okoli 5 m nad zgornjim voziščem in nato potonilo v zalivu, severno od mostu.  Med avtomobilisti na mostu ni bilo poškodb. Eden od delov paličnega mostu je bil zaradi poškodb zamenjan.

Razsvetljava kablov (1986)
Serija luči, ki krasijo nosilne kable, je bila dodana leta 1986 kot del praznovanja 50.-obletnice.

Namestitev razsvetljave (2013)
5. marca 2013 je bila izvedena javna umetniška instalacija z naslovom The Bay Lights aktivirana na vertikalnih kablih zahodne premostitve. Namestitev je zasnoval umetnik Leo Villareal in je bila sestavljena iz 25.000 LED luči. Na ogled je bila vsak večer do leta 2015.  Da bi zmanjšali motnje, so financirali zaslon, ki je viden le oddaljenim opazovalcem. Ta osvetlitev je namenjena delu večjega projekta "Light bay".  Villareal je uporabil različne algoritme za ustvarjanje vzorcev, kot so nevihte, odsev v vodi, ptice med letom, krogi, ki se širijo in drugi. Vzorce in prehode, zaporedje in njihovo trajanje določi računalniški generator naključnih števil, tako da je vsak pogled edinstvena izkušnja. Zaradi učinkovitosti LED sistema so ocenjeni stroški obratovanja samo US $ 15,00 na noč.

Poškodbe po potresu in kasnejša nadgradnja

V večernih urah 17. oktobra 1989 je potres Loma Prieta, ki je meril 6,9 po momentni magnitudni lestvici, povzročil porušitev 15 m dela zgornjega krova vzhodnega paličnega dela mostu na stebru E9 in padel na krov, ter posredno povzročil eno smrt. Most je bil zaprt za nekaj več kot mesec dni, da so ga popravili. Ponovno so ga odprli 18. novembra istega leta. Svetlejše vozišče nadomestnega odseka je vidno iz aeroposnetkov na vzhodnem koncu paličnega dela mostu.

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Zahodna premostitev - naknadna vgradnja
Zahodni viseči most je bil obsežno protipotresno dodatno opremljen. Med obnovo je bilo veliko konstrukcijskega jekla, ki je podpiral most, zamenjanega, medtem ko je most ostal odprt za promet.

Celoten most je bil izdelan s pomočjo vročih jeklenih sponk, ki jih ni mogoče pregreti in tako ostajajo relativno mehka. Na večini lokacij so bile zakovice odstranjene z izsekavanjem in nadomeščene s toplotno obdelanimi vijaki in maticami visoke trdnosti. Večina vijakov je imela zaobljene glave umeščene na strani prometa, tako da so na pogled podobne zakovicam.

Večina nosilcev je bila prvotno zgrajena iz dveh plošč I-profila združenih z rešetko ravnega traku ali kotne palice, odvisno od strukturnih zahtev. Vse te spremembe so rekonstruirali z zamenjavo elementov paličja s privito jekleno pločevino in tako pretvorili žarke paličja v polje tramov. Ta zamenjava je obsegala dodajanje prednjih plošč z velikimi diagonalnimi nosilci, ki  povezujejo lica glavnih stolpov, ki imajo sedaj boljši videz gledano iz določenih kotov.

Diagonalni tramovi so bili dodani v vsak del zgornjega in spodnjega krova zahodne premostitve. Ta dodatna togost zmanjša gibanje med potresom in zmanjša verjetnost nastanka škode na površini krova.

Ustrezno so bili sanirani tudi betonski deli mostu, vse skladno s potresnimi zahtevami.

Delno so bili vgrajeni zahodni pristopi, predvsem pa so bili ti nadomeščeni z novo konstrukcijo iz armiranega betona.

Nadomestna vzhodna premostitev
Iz različnih razlogov, predvsem so bile rešitve obnove vzhodne premostitve predrage v  primerjavi z nadomestno gradnjo, je bila sprejeta odločitev, da se zgradi nadomestni most.

Nadomestno most je doživel vrsto sprememb načrta, tako progresivnih kot regresivnih, s povečanjem ocene stroškov in ponudbo izvajalca. Končni načrt je obsegal samosidran viseči most z enim pilonom z začetkom na otoku Yerba Buena, kar je privedlo do dolgega viadukta na Oaklandski strani.

Ločene in zaščitene steze za kolesa so vizualno izstopajoča značilnost na južni strani nove vzhodne premostitve. Kolesarji bodo hodili na rekreacijo in vozači s kolesi med Oaklandom in otokom Yerba Buena. Priključek na otoku ne bo končan, dokler se S-krivulja ne poruši, kar je bilo  načrtovano za konec leta 2014 ali 2015. Do takrat se morajo kolesarji in pešci obrniti in se vrniti v Oakland. Prvotni vzhodni konzolni most je imel protipožarno zaščito, novi je nima.

Stara vzhodna premostitev je bila trajno zaprta za promet 28. avgusta leta 2013 ob 08:00, 24 let po potresu Loma Prieta. Novi most so za promet odprli 2. septembra 2013.

Vzhodni most – original in nadomestni

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Zunanje povezave

 Building the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge (1937 documentary) United States Steel movie documentary on the building of the Bay Bridge (YouTube video 17 minutes).
 baybridgeinfo.org Site by Caltrans about all current construction on the bridge.
 California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) official Bay Bridge site
 "San Francisco To Have World's Greatest Bridge", March 1931, Popular Science
 "The Titan Of Bridges", January 1933, Popular Mechanics
 "Giant Switchboard Controls Lights on Longest Bridge" Popular Mechanics, January 1937
 "Symphonies in Steel: Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate" at The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco

 San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge (Nova vzhodna premostitev)
 San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge (Zahodna premostitev)
 San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge (Stara vzhodna premostitev)
 Construction Photographs of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, 1931-1936, The Bancroft Library
 Film of the building of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge.
 HAER CA-32 (scanned) Historic American Engineering Record (SFOBB), history to 1999, 322 pages.
 Live Toll Prices for San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge
 EarthCam San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Construction time-lapse
 Lower Deck Rail and Roadway Off Ramps, 1939, Dorothea Lange photo

Zgradbe in objekti, zgrajeni leta 1936
Zgradbe in objekti, zgrajeni leta 2013
Mostovi v Združenih državah Amerike
Visokotehnološka arhitektura

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Local mobile carriers said they have started distributing the Galaxy S9 series phones to consumers. The official global release date for the new Samsung flagship smartphones is slated for March 16. (Image: Yonhap)
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co.'s Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus smartphones are, starting Friday, reaching South Koreans who took advantage of the preorder program, with initial sales numbers presumed to be below that of its immediate predecessor.
Local mobile carriers said they have started distributing the Galaxy S9 series phones to consumers. The official global release date for the new Samsung flagship smartphones is slated for March 16.
SK Telecom Co., the country's top mobile carrier, said around half of those who preordered chose the 256 GB version of the Galaxy S9 Plus, which comes with a wider screen compared to the Galaxy S9 and a dual camera arrangement. Black was the most popular color among male consumers, whereas more than half of female buyers opted for purple.
The 5.8-inch Galaxy S9 and 6.2-inch Galaxy S9 Plus boasts one of the industry's top camera setups, employing a variable aperture that can automatically or manually switch between F1.5 and F2.4.
The Galaxy S9 also comes with the improved artificial intelligence (AI) platform Bixby. Users can select categories ranging from text to shopping or food and take photos of objects, and Bixby will then deliver related information.
Industry watchers, meanwhile, said domestic preorders for the Galaxy S9s may not be on par with the S8 series devices launched last year. Samsung has yet to release numbers on preorders.
"In the morning, we opened accounts for eight (Galaxy S9s), but there were no further inquiries in the afternoon," an insider from a Seoul-based retailer said. "Many people made visits to take a look but just went back after realizing it is not much different from its predecessor."
"The general public is showing much less interest compared to the Galaxy S8 or Galaxy Note 8," the retailer said.
Another staff member from a retail shop echoed the view, saying sales of the new phones are likely to be around 70 to 80 percent of the Galaxy S8 devices.
(Yonhap)
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Celebs like Ricky Gervais have signed an open letter to Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to demand he puts an end to whaling
The Japanese government declared in December that it would resume commercial whaling in its territorial waters.
It will also quit the International Whaling Commission.
Mr Abe was at Twickenham Stadium, the home of English Rugby, earlier this month to launch the Rugby World Cup which is being held in Japan in the Autumn.
It's not clear if he and Prime Minister Theresa May discussed the controversial whaling decision.
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The mistake involves recruiters not advertising ALL of the roles they're recruiting for, on their own website(s). It sounds so simple really and for some, reading this it'll seem like an obvious thing for recruiters to do – but trust us, we've seen excellent recruiters effectively crippling their own online marketing efforts by not doing this. These recruiters will be spending hundreds or even thousands of pounds per month on job boards and other advertising, yet typically neglecting their own websites.
There are a number of reasons why this is so important. There's a concept of owned versus rented (paid) media, where rented media are all the external job boards, trade magazines and other media types that you'll typically pay to advertise in/on. They'll have impressive circulation figures, incredible reach and are usually very well populated with tonnes of jobs and content, and are high traffic websites too. But they're also owned by someone else. You're paying to help consolidate or build another's brand. Yes, you'll get some form of branding on the advert, but almost everything you get, you have to pay for. And when you stop paying, all the benefits will immediately disappear. This is rented media.
With owned media, the platform – like your website – is something you've created (and paid for), where you own and control everything that goes on to that platform. Every job you publish or share helps build your brand. It can positively impact your SEO and ensure you start ranking for relevant search terms and keywords. As you might imagine, building your brand will involve both owned and rented media (and earned media, but we'll cover that in another article) – but over the long term, it's imperative that you don't neglect your owned media options.
Some owners might be reading this and thinking it doesn't apply to them. That this only applies to recruitment start-ups and not established businesses. But they'd be completely wrong. Whether you're building a brand or growing an established company, making the most of your own website should be an integral part of any digital marketing plans. You've gone to the hard work of creating your website, defining your brand and then building a network around it. You want to rank well in search engine results. But you need to keep 'feeding the machine' and supplying new content to the site… whether it's news or blog posts or jobs. Jobs will likely be easiest for recruiters because this is the bread and butter of what they trade in.
Ensuring your website has lots of jobs on it is important for so many reasons. When a client reference checks you, they'll inevitably look at your website to find out more about your business. You don't want to have a 'tumbleweed' website where it's not been updated for weeks or months. Or have a poor representation of the sectors you work in by only having a handful of jobs in one sector/location.
The same goes for candidates too. The agency market is competitive and in a candidate-driven market, an agency has to be able to appeal to good candidates and make them want to register with them. If a candidate views your empty website, there's little to tempt them to register with you. But if they visit and find roles that are interesting and relevant to them, they'll be much more likely to register. You don't need a marketing degree to understand that… it's just common sense.
Getting your jobs onto your website doesn't need to be an onerous task either. Many recruiters these days will use auto-job posting tools like idibu, Broadbean or Logic Melon – or will have some facility built into their Applicant Tracking System (ATS) – where the process of publishing job adverts to your own website can be simplified to just the click of a button and a checkbox being ticked. So there really shouldn't be an excuse for not publishing all jobs on your own website.
But even without an auto-job posting tool, in many cases, we're talking about a handful of minutes to publish a job to your website. And maybe a handful more to then share that across your social media platforms. You don't need to write everything from scratch each time either. Certain content will be the same, or similar, from job to job – especially if you're repeatedly recruiting for a single client… so you can re-use content. But do this sparingly. Replica jobs on your website can be detrimental to what we're trying to achieve here. No one wants to browse a job board or recruiter website and see the same job over and over again.
Outside of automation, simply adding your own website into the workflow for vacancy management should be enough, but don't just stop there. Think about your potential audience. Could you (or should you) rewrite your jobs to appeal to different audiences (the answer is yes, of course)? For instance, the same job could be rewritten to focus on career progression opportunities, whereas another iteration could focus on the flexible working options of the role, or another version on the perks and benefits of working for a specific employer. Each of these adverts might be for the same job but will appeal to different people for different reasons. And each of these roles advertised on your own website, won't cost you anything extra to advertise there, but may help you reach a wider audience, will impact positively on your SEO (over time) and will grow your online presence so that each time you share content or publish jobs you're reaching a wider audience, your cost of candidate acquisition will reduce and your return on investment will improve.
Being consistent is the key here. Regularly advertising roles on your own website and sharing them across your social media platforms may not result in an immediate torrent of candidate applications, but over time, it will become an important element of your lead generation, candidate pipeline and digital marketing activities.
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Q: Pseudo-polynomial time algorithm for modified coin change I thought of the following problem while thinking of coin change, but I don't know an efficient (pseudo-polynomial time) algorithm to solve it. I'd like to know if there is any pseudo-polynomial time solution or maybe some classic literature on it that I'm missing.
There is a well-known pseudo-polynomial time dynamic programming solution to the coin change problem, which asks the following:
You have  coins, the  of which has a value of . How many subsets of coins exist, such that the sum of the coin values is ?
The dynamic programming solution runs in , and is a classic. But I'm interested in the following slight generalization:
What if the  coin no longer has just a value of , but instead can assume a set of  values ? Now, the question is: How many subsets of coins exist, such there exists an assignment of coins to values such that the sum of the values of these coins is ?
(The classic coin change problem is actually an instance of this problem with  for all , so I do not expect a polynomial time solution.)
For example, given  and , and the following coins:

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Then, there are  subsets:

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*Take coin  only, assign this coin to have value .

*Take coin  only, assign this coin to have value .

*Take coins  and , assign them to have values  and , respectively or  and , respectively—these are considered to be the same way.

*Take coins ,  and , and assign them to have values ,  and , respectively.

The issue I'm having is precisely the third case; it would be easy to modify the classic dynamic programming solution for this problem, but it will count these two subsets as separate because different values are assigned, even though the coins taken are the same.
So far, I have only been able to find the straightforward exponential time algorithm for this problem: consider each of the  subsets, and run the standard dynamic programming coin change algorithm (which is ) to check whether this subset of coins is valid, giving an  time algorithm. That's not what I'm looking for here; I'm trying to find a solution without the  factor.
Can you provide me with a pseudo-polynomial time algorithm to solve this question, or can it be proven that none exists unless, say, P = NP? That is, this problem is NP-complete (or similar).

A: Maybe this is hard, but the way you asked the question it doesn't seem so.

Take coins 1 and 3, assign them to have values 7 and 3, respectively or 6 and 4, respectively—these are considered to be the same way.

Let us encode the two equivalent solutions in this way:

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*((1, 3), (7, 3))

*((1, 3), (6, 4))

Now, when we memoize a solution, can't we just ask if the first element of the pair, (1, 3), has already been solved? Then we would suppress computing the (6, 4) solution.

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Le prix Robert-Bresson (Premio Robert Bresson) est une récompense cinématographique remise par les Conseils pontificaux de la Culture et les Communications sociales à un cinéaste lors de la Mostra de Venise. Il distingue les cinéastes ayant une œuvre « significative par sa sincérité et son intensité en faveur de la recherche du sens spirituel de notre vie ».

Le nom du prix est un hommage au réalisateur français Robert Bresson (1901-1999). Depuis 2010, la récompense est réalisée par le sculpteur et orfèvre Andrea Cagnetti - Akelo dont l'œuvre s'intitule .

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 2000 : Giuseppe Tornatore
 2001 : Théo Angelopoulos
 2002 : Wim Wenders
 2003 : Krzysztof Zanussi
 2004 : Manuel de Oliveira
 2005 : Jerzy Stuhr
 2006 : Zhang Yuan
 2007 : Alexandre Sokourov
 2008 : Daniel Burman
 2009 : Walter Salles
 2010 : Mahamat Saleh Haroun
 2011 : Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne
 2012 : Ken Loach
 2013 : Amos Gitai
 2014 : Carlo Verdone
 2015 : Mohsen Makhmalbaf
 2016 : Andreï Kontchalovski
 2017 : Gianni Amelio
 2018 : Liliana Cavani
 2019 : Lucrecia Martel
 2020 : Pupi Avati

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  Histoire de la Mostra de 1932 à nos jours
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Mandalorian Dark Troopers revive a terrifying part of '90s Star Wars canon
Mando might be returning to the world of Dark Forces.
In the nineties, Star Wars gamers stole the Death Star plans. As Kyle Katarn in the LucasArts first-person-shooter Dark Forces, fans took their first steps into a larger world by uncovering a secret Imperial program all about developing something called the Dark Trooper. Although he was the Chuck Norris of the Star Wars Expanded Universe, Kyle Katarn is sadly no longer a part of the contemporary Star Wars canon. But it now seems very possible that his earliest foes, the Imperial Dark Troopers, might be making a comeback on The Mandalorian Season 2.
Here's how Moff Gideon's mysterious new secret weapon in The Mandalorian, Chapter 12, "The Siege," could retcon a different Imperial secret weapon from the 16-bit generation of Star Wars gaming.
Warning! Spoilers ahead for The Mandalorian Season 2.
Although The Mandalorian Chapter 12, "The Siege," doles out some new clues as to what the Empire was actually doing to Baby Yoda, the episode also ends with a possibly much-bigger reveal. After an Imperial Officer tells Moff Gideon that they are successfully tracking Mando's ship, the Razor Crest, Gideon smiles an evil smile and says "We'll be ready." Then, he turns and starts to survey what looks like a room full of giant, troopers, clad all in black and seemingly being attended by one of Gideon's scientists.
Are these Death Troopers, like the ones he had in the Mandalorian Season 1 finale? No. These figures are much larger, and the scene in which they are revealed feels pointed and intentional.
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Gideon inspects...the Dark Troopers? Lucasfilm
Are Dark Troopers Canon?
So, what are they? Well, a good guess is that these are a new retconned version of Dark Troopers, which originated in the 1995 video game Dark Forces. Although this seemed fancy in 1995, the Dark Trooper was basically a glorified battle droid that was nearly indestructible. Essentially, it's the kind of thing that makes sense as the boss at the end of a video game level — but makes less sense once you start to really think about it in the Star Wars canon. But the Dark Troopers aren't canon, so this can't be them, right?
Well, although the Dark Troopers Kyle Katarn fought aren't canon at all, a version of the Dark Trooper is low-key canon. Although discontinued, the 2014 mobile game Star Wars: Commander did feature "new" versions of the Dark Troopers, and the armor of those was similar to what we're looking at here. This doesn't mean Moff Gideon's new "Dark Troopers" (assuming that's what they're called) will have anything in common with the Dark Troopers of old. In fact, there's every reason to believe they won't, and are instead connected to the new clues we got about Baby Yoda and the various "test subjects" Dr. Pershing was experimenting with in Season 1.
A classic Dark Trooper in 'Dark Forces' LucasArts/Lucasfilm
How the Dark Troopers connect to Baby Yoda
When Mando, Cara Dune, and Greef Karga uncover the secret hologram files in the Imperial lab on Nevarro, it becomes clear the Imperials took some of Baby Yoda's blood and tried to infuse it into someone else. Dr. Pershing mentions the need for a "high MC count," which can only refer to the midi-chlorians in the bloodstream of any person who has Jedi-potential. But who or what is Pershing harvesting these midi-chlorians for?
One good guess is that this is all connected to the long-game of trying to restore Palpatine back to his body (somehow, he returned!) but the more short-term plan could involve these mysterious troopers in Gideon's ship. Those floating bodies in the tanks in the lab might make you think of Snoke clones in The Rise of Skywalker, but what if those are just prototypes for those big Dark Troopers we saw at the end of the episode?
Assuming Gideon is a little bit Force-sensitive, maybe he wants an army of souped-up Stormtroopers that he can control through the Force. In this hypothetical scenario, Gideon could command his Dark Troopers sort of like Dark side Sith zombies. If this sounds a little far-fetched, there is another non-canon precedent. In the first Timothy Zahn trilogy of Star Wars books, it was made pretty clear that the reason why the Empire won so many battles is that the presence of a Dark Jedi (aka, Sith) like Darth Vader and the Emperor, helped to organize literal battle plans. This isn't to say that Vader was outright puppeteering Stormtroopers with the Force, but that maybe he did a little bit.
If Gideon's Dark Troopers are Sith zombies that can do his bidding, then the stakes for The Mandalorian may have just been raised exponentially. It also seems like the only way you're going to defeat an army of Dark Troopers is with an army of other Mandalorians. And maybe an exiled Jedi or two.
The Mandalorian is steaming now on Disney+.


NEW YORK — Yesterday, the U.S. attorney general and the White House press secretary invoked the Bible to defend the Trump administration's policy of separating undocumented immigrant families and holding children in detention centers at the border.
"We are sickened by the reality of 10,000 children held by our government in detention spaces along the border. It is barbaric, unconscionable and sinful to tear children — including nursing babies — away from parents. We are creating trauma for families that will never be fully healed. The unnecessary policy, which criminalizes desperate parents seeking to survive, is ethically indefensible, and we as the citizens of this nation are complicit and culpable as long as it continues.
"For the attorney general to use the Bible to defend this policy and practice is blasphemous.
"We are heartened to see that people of faith across the political spectrum are joining together to condemn this inhumane policy. This is not a question of 'right" and "left,' but right and wrong.


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Need For Speed Heat Update 1.5 Is Out, Quality Of Life Improvements And Bug Fixes
By Andrew Murray Dec 13, 2019 Oct 26, 2021 Share
Need for Speed Heat has received update 1.5. You can now download Update 1.5 of Need for Speed Heat on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. The download and install size of Update 1.5 on the PS4 will be 5 GB. Please take note that depending on the platform you are using, the size of the download may also be different.
You will find that Need For Speed Heat Update 1.5 is a large update as it makes great improvements. There are loads of Quality of Life improvements with Holiday Vanity Items, Quick Routing, Speedwalls, and more. Some bug fixes have also been added with missions, events, UI, cars/garage, and much more.
This installment of the Need for Speed franchise takes you to the urban and sunny Palm City, a place that during the day will allow you to earn money by participating in quite a few different events, but at nightfall the danger appears with illegal street races. Below you will find the complete list of Need For Speed Heat Update 1.5 patch notes.
Holiday Vanity Items
It is the time of the year, the holiday season is approaching quickly. To help you decorate your cars in preparation for the festive time, we added some vanity items that you can purchase in the garage. You can pick up two horn sounds and two underglows, one each themed for Christmas for New Year's, so you can drive around Palm City in seasonal style.
Quick Routing
You mentioned you wanted to spend less time reading the map and more time driving. Not only did we overhaul the look of the in-game phone app for better readability. We also implemented a quick routing option that you can access from the phone menu. This way, you can navigate to the nearest safe house or gas station quicker and more comfortable – and focus on shaking the cops.
Speedwalls
We all agree that racing is fun, but racing with friends is even better. To make it easier to see who in your crew clocked the fastest time, we are bringing Speedwalls to Sprint Races, Circuit Races and Off-road Races. For Drift Trials, you will be able to see which crew member racked up the highest score. Check who's on top of the leaderboard for a specific track, and fine tune your ride to take their crown.
Environment – Night race intros
This was something you said you were missing a lot, as it sets the mood for the night races. As mentioned in the previous update notes for 1.4, we were always planning on fixing this bug and bringing the visual effects back. So we did. Fancy lights, smoke, cars, the whole package.
Polestar Hero Edition
Probably one of the most common questions after the release of Need for Speed Heat was about the Polestar that's on the game cover. "But… can I drive it again?". Joe was chased by Mercer and Shaw, the car was pushed off the bridge and it has been sitting on the bottom of the ocean since. Following this update, you can unlock the Polestar Hero Edition if you complete all the story missions: The main campaign as well as all driver stories. Just don't drive it off a bridge again.
When you exit or enter a garage, the "Enter Garage" prompt won't suppress other HUD elements anymore. Which means you will see the map and speedometer as soon as you exit the garage.
As you build your rep and explore the map, you unlock activities and collectibles. We tweaked the UI to make it clearer that some of them are locked until you reach a certain Rep level.
When you're customizing the performance parts of your car, you'll now find a label informing you which part is currently equipped to that car / engine. It will also show how many of that specific part you own, and have a clearer call out when you're buying a duplicate part.
Some of you mentioned that you're being busted while casually driving, albeit slowly – so we reduced the maximum speed that you can be busted at.
We also made a small tweak to the cop spawn mechanics in online play. Your experience should not be affected, there might just be fewer cop cars in areas without players.
When you're returning to the garage after the first night out, the reward from the "Make a Name" mission should now be banked correctly.
You can no longer complete the daily challenge "Drift over 164 yd in a single drift" while Wayne is commandeering the vehicle during the "Let it Slide" mission.
You should no longer be able to unlock the "Warp Speed" achievement during "The Exchange" cinematic.
Added missing subtitles for Traditional Chinese during "The Exchange".
Lucas will no longer be floating during the intro of "Breaking the Law".
When you're out on your first night in the game, you'll find that the event text is now saying "Finish the event" and no longer "Finish 1st".
In the first night mission, Ana's marker should now be pinned to the minimap, making her easier to find if you lose her.
Some events are marked with an exclamation point, which means they have different levels you can switch between: The base level (lower car rating recommendation) and the challenge level (higher car rating recommendation). Some events had a lower reward for the challenge level than for the base level, which is corrected by this update.
Event rewards in Need For Speed Heat should now reset to their original value after entering and exiting the garage.
You should no longer be able to start a Crew Time Trial while entering the garage at the same time.
When choosing "Retry" after finishing an event, the race outro should no longer play with a black screen and audio only.
It should no longer be possible for two players who are playing online to start the same solo event at the same time. It resulted in a lot of traffic and it was unclear which AI racer belonged to which race.
You should no longer be able to get stuck in an endless countdown loop when starting a drift event.
During the "Winx" and "Crazy Cowboy" races, the AI drivers will now make a specific jump instead of taking a detour.
You should no longer be able to drive your car into and become stuck in a barrier during the "Ceryneian Hind" drift trial.
The "Marlin" circuit race will now award the correct amount of Bank. It was actually paying a little more than intended.
The "Winx" High Heat event now will correctly award a volatile part.
When you receive a volatile part from a high heat event and get busted before you enter a safehouse, you will now lose that part.
Declining an event should no longer trigger the equipped active auxiliary item.
During races, the distance between AI racers and the player that's shown on the leaderboard should update more frequently.
We clarified the daily challenge "Drive in oncoming traffic" by changing the objective text to "Stay in oncoming traffic". This should underline that you have to stay in oncoming traffic continuously, until the challenge is completed.
When the Racer Challenges menu shows "Congratulations, you completed racer challenges!", you are now no longer able to select new Racer Challenges, as it was intended.
The user ID of the player in Need For Speed Heat that last edited a crew information category is now displayed correctly in the menu.
The description for the "Dual Turbo Charger" will no longer overlap other UI elements.
The live tuning menu will now correctly display the time it takes the car to drive the ¼ mile in the correct measurement unit: seconds.
Opening the phone menu during events should no longer cause it to overlap the race standings, but make them disappear for as long as the phone menu is open.
The "route to event" option should now be available in the in-game phone app, even if you had set a route to that event before.
The message "Text contains profanity, please change to continue" should no longer randomly pop up while in the garage.
During night race intros, text that was previously cut off the screen when the display language was set to Arabic is now showing correctly. Race types should also no longer overlap race names during race intros.
During drift trial intros, text that was previously overlapping when the display language was set to Polish is now showing correctly.
There was a line of player subtitles missing, but we found it.
Cars / Garage
The player character's feetin Need For Speed Heat should no longer be visible underneath the car when driving a Mercedes AMG A 45.
The front bumper of the Nissan GT-R 2017 should no longer disappear when adding a splitter while a Pandem or Rocket Bunny front fender and bumper are installed.
Stock brake discs should now be available for the Mustang starter car.
The 394hp 3.8l flat 6 engine now has the proper sound when swapped into specific Porsche models.
When the car is critically damaged, the hood of the Dodge Viper SRT should no longer block your view when using the bonnet camera.
Fixed an issue where switching between specific car parts of the Porsche 718 Cayman GTS resulted in the camera showing a different scene.
The paint menu UI will no longer overlap the menu when using certain screen aspect ratios.
The unlock criteria for the Nissan 370Z Nismo in the Dealership will now correctly state "Unlocked after collecting all Street Arts".
The "Back" button should now work correctly in the "Community Wraps" section.
Added some decals in Need For Speed Heat that were available in the NFS Heat mobile app to the game.
One of the decals was missing the option to change its color, which has now been added.
Fixed some subtitles that were out of sync with the game audio.
Reduced pop-in of textures in several instances.
The helicopter that's flying during the introduction race should no longer be shaking.
There was a tree in the Palm City Raceway district that had no collision and you could drive straight through it. We moved it to a different spot.
The dark boxes backing the subtitles now appear correctly for each line, some of them were a bit flashy before.
Improved several instances where you could encounter FPS drops during specific events and missions.
Improved performance when playing on PCs that barely meet the minimum requirements.
Fixed an issue that could cause a crash during the "Apollo 10" circuit race.
Several fixes for instances where the game was crashing.
Several fixes in Need For Speed Heat for instances where the game was hanging.
The game should no longer hang when removing the PS4 controller via the PlayStation menu while getting busted.
The game should no longer be stuttering during "Crew Level Up" notifications.
We improved the loading process of some time trials, so the intro sequence is now shown before the event starts.
You should now encounter more cops when circling Palm City Raceway at night.
Several fixes for instances where item synchronisation would fail.
When sharing a wrap and then losing the internet connection, the game could become stuck on a loading screen, which shouldn't happen anymore.
When reporting another player's Custom Wrap or License Plate in Need For Speed Heat, you should no longer receive an "Unknown Error" message.
On rare occasions, the game could get stuck when promoting a crew member to the recruiter role. Fixed!
There was a rare chance that the game could get stuck after accepting a party invite while customizing a car with a large number of decals. This should no longer happen.
A car parked in a specific location would spawn under the map and fly several meters in the air before falling down to the ground again. We moved it to a safer area.
There's an invisible spot on a bridge in Cape Castille you can crash into. We removed that. Although it was entertaining to park next to the bridge and see all the AI cars bump into it.
I remind you that EA and Ghost Games' Need For Speed Heat released on November 8, 2019 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
Andrew Murray
Andrew is all the way from South Africa. He was born and raised in a small city called Vereeniging. This is where he realized that video games can expand your imagination to endless worlds. Gaming ...


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Safety Is Subjective… and Takes Away Our Liberty
By Joel Salatin | August 27, 2019
Founder's Note: Today's essay from Joel Salatin really gets to the core of what we do here at Manward. He's challenging the status quo and – in typical Joel fashion – demanding folks think long and hard about what our keepers in Washington say we can (and can't) put in our bodies. Whether you live on 40 rural acres or in a swanky high-rise, it's crucial that you pay close attention to what follows. Make no mistake… your Liberty is at stake.
Last week, I dealt with the self-regulating beauty of Uberization applied to food safety regulations. This week, I'm going to examine a different thread on this issue because it's foundational to liberty.
As we live in a technologically advanced and science-worshipping culture, most Americans assume safety is some empirically recognized thing. Something is either safe or unsafe. What's to argue?
Ben Franklin is credited with saying that societies willing to give up freedom for security get neither and deserve neither.
That's a far cry from today's ubiquitous regulatory market interventions in the name of safety, which is a close cousin to security. When we try to codify, either in legislation or regulation, a defined safety, it creates all sorts of problems.
In the name of food safety, we criminalize selling raw milk to a neighbor. But many of us view pasteurization as food adultery.
Plenty of science points to pasteurized milk as having fewer enzymes, causing more allergy problems and creating other issues. For every point a pasteurization proponent makes, you can find credible evidence for rebuttal. It's definitely not a clear issue.
How about childhood vaccinations? There's research that points to all sorts of maladies, including autism, as a direct result of modern vaccination regimens.
Modern medical orthodoxy, on the other hand, tries to ostracize, if not criminalize, a "no vaccine" parental decision.
Plenty of science exists to support both sides.
Unfortunately, the polarization pushes both sides to an extreme, and few talk about returning to the vaccination protocols of 60 years ago (far fewer vaccines, more spread out and given later in life.)
I could go on in this vein, but you get the picture. Good people debate both sides.
So what is a culture to do?
Safety Is Subjective
I happen to think high fructose corn syrup is far more deadly than raw milk. And in fact, the epidemiological evidence backs me up.
The problem is that nobody drops dead from high fructose corn syrup. They just get whacked up as elderly amputees when diabetes wreaks its havoc.
We know, every year, 50 children will drown in backyard swimming pools. That's more deaths than have occurred from raw milk in a century… even with a prejudicial reporting system.
If we really cared about safety, we'd have a national lobby tomorrow to outlaw backyard swimming pools.
Obviously, we're able to tolerate risk in some areas, but not others.
I don't think squeezable cheese is safe… or factory-farmed chicken… or pesticides… or genetically modified organisms.
You won't find me bungee jumping or wrestling deer from the runners of a helicopter in New Zealand.
Goodness, I don't think it's safe to put your kids in public school.
The point is safety is in fact not empirical – it's not objective. It's in fact highly subjective, and we get into strange discussions when we try to codify it.
It's perfectly fine to feed your kids three cans of soda per day, each containing 16 tablespoons of sugar, but not one tablespoon of raw milk.
It's fine to dump a ton of glyphosate (Roundup) on your soil because that's safe, but an outdoor privy on your soil is unsafe, so it's illegal.
A cheesemaker friend of mine is struggling with regulators right now over her well water. The food police say her unchlorinated well is unsafe. She's tested it every year since she's been in business, with nary one bad sample. She tests her cheese. She's never had a single customer sickness complaint… ever. But in the name of "safety," the government food police demand chlorination, which would ruin her purity and brand integrity. They say it's too big a risk.
On our own farm, regulators told me that processing chickens outdoors was inherently unsanitary. Inspectors took the position that the air was inherently filthy.
I guess they've never gone on a picnic.
Interestingly, they took this position even after lab tests showed our chickens had 25 times fewer bacteria than their chlorinated, industrial, federally inspected counterparts in the supermarket.
An Abysmal Track Record
If you examine the government's track record for identifying unsafe foods, it's staggeringly abysmal.
How many decades did official government dieticians exhort us to do away with butter and lard and substitute them for "healthy" hydrogenated vegetable oil? How about antimicrobial soap? How about the notion that breastfeeding was Neanderthal and barbaric? How about the 1979 food pyramid, with crackers and Cheerios on the foundational level?
Now it's genetically modified organisms, factory farming and of course the new techno-glitzy darling: nanoparticles coursing through our veins. Yum.
It should give us all pause to realize we would be a much healthier nation had the government never told us what to eat. Safe is a close cousin to healthy, too. Healthy is a nice way of saying nutritionally safe.
But that too is highly subjective. Some folks thrive on lower-protein diets, and others don't. Some folks heal skin rashes and allergies with raw milk; others get digestive problems with it.
As well-intended as the consumer advocates might be… as sincere as the government oversight proponents may be… the bottom line is that codifying safety is a slippery slope toward tyranny and eliminating choice.
The other day a fellow told me he was sure glad we had building inspectors to make sure we had safe houses to live in. He said this standing in my kitchen, which is in a house built in 1790. I wonder how many government-inspected, "safe" houses built today will last more than 200 years?
These regulations do not make us more safe.
They simply give us a false sense of security and incentivize our laziness to not check things out for ourselves.
If the government says it's okay, we trust it.
Forget knowing anything. Forget personal responsibility.
It gives us more time to connect with the Kardashians… and we all know that's the most important thing.


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Chinese air force propaganda video appears to show bombing on US air force base
September 22, 2020 September 22, 2020 Staff Writer
The Chinese Communist Party has sent a thinly-veiled threat to the United States in the form of a military scenario video- and it just wouldn't be a Chinese production without footage stolen from Hollywood films.
The video, which was shared on state-run social media and seen nearly five million times, shows Chinese bombers attacking what appears to be Andersen Air Force Base on Guam.
Utilizing fanciful technology, Cold War-era weapons and entering a completely uncontested American airspace, the Chinese win the day, pounding the "imperialist American" base into submission- all, as the CCP often likes to say, "in the name of peace."
The defeat is well-documented, using identical underlay footage from "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," "The Hurt Locker" and the film that gave a bloody new meaning to the term "shower scene," Michael Bay's "The Rock."
"We are the defenders of the motherland's aerial security; we have the confidence and ability to always defend the security of the motherland's skies," the People's Liberation Army Air Force wrote in the video's caption.
According to the BBC, the video lasted all of two minutes and was called " Gods of War – Attack!"
Much like most Chinese propaganda, the video required little effort, had zero regard for copyright concerns and is largely a fantasy scenario in which a long-inactive air force takes on one with over half a century of near-uninterrupted combat experience.
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Bejt midraš (, doslova "dům bádání", "dům studia", "dům učení"), někdy zkráceně pouze midraš nebo aškenázsky bejs medreš, je židovská studovna, kde se mohou muži a v některých neortodoxních komunitách i ženy věnovat studiu Tóry, Talmudu a další halachické literatury. Poprvé je zmíněn v talmudské literatuře v éře tzv. párů (zugot), tedy v době před rokem 100 př. n. l..

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V období starověku byl bejt midraš učenci považován za významnější než samotná synagoga a to přestože "dům učení" sloužil mnohdy zároveň i jako "dům modlitby" (bejt tfila) či "dům shromáždění" (bejt kneset, tedy synagoga) – sloužil totiž i jako místo, kde se studovala Tóra a vynášela halachická rozhodnutí.

Podle halachy se v bejt midraš činila rozhodnutí většinou až po dlouhé rozpravě a debatě. Ve většině případů slouží bejt midraš i dnes jako synagoga, nebo slouží jako hlavní místnost ješivy zároveň ke studiu i k modlitbám. V některých případech je naopak tzv. zimní modlitebna (menší místnost v synagoze, která sloužila k modlitbám během zimních měsíců) nazývána jako bejt midraš.

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