Berkman Mercaz Limud (Hebrew for "Learning Center") is the Religious School at Congregation Rodeph Shalom. The program focuses on both Judaic and Hebrew studies, as well as the formation of friendships and a sense of belonging in the Jewish community. Our school is in session on Sunday mornings from 9:30am-12:30pm, with an optional enrichment program, Mid-Week Hebrew on Wednesdays from 4pm-6pm. Please reach out to the Education Office at [email protected] for more information!
Torah/Values - K-4th Grades: Our youngest children learn the Torah stories that influence our Jewish Values. Teachers incorporate these values into their lessons through read-alouds, art projects and other fun activities to enable the students to connect these ancient texts to their own lives.
Jewish Home - PreK-1st & 3rd Grades: Learn about the full calendar of Jewish holidays, including Shabbat and Havdalah. Explore Jewish ritual objects and traditions. Students learn what makes a Jewish home different than other homes. The classroom becomes an extension of the homes as the children begin to create their own Jewish Identities.
Jewish Life - 2nd & 4th-6th Grades: Students will learn about the Jewish Life Cycle: Birth, B'nai Mitzvah, Confirmation, Marriage and Death, and the customs that we practice within each of those.
Israel - 3rd-6th Grades: In our Israel classes, students learn about the land and the people who live there, as well as why Israel is so important to the Jewish people.
Social Action - 3rd, 4th, 6th & 7th Grades: Social Action (Tikkun Olam) is a driving force at Rodeph Shalom, and for that reason, our students delve into the over arching values and also get hands-on experience in changing our world.
Nevi'im & Ketuvim - 5th Grades: Students will learn about the rest of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible): Nevi'im (The Prophets) and Ketuvim (The Writings). The Torah is just the beginning!
History - 5th & 6th Grades: In order to create a better future, we must learn from our past – that is why our students learn about European Jewish History, anti-Semitism, and the great Jewish heroes of our past.
Shoah (Holocaust) - 7th Grades: 7th Graders study the Holocaust in a manner which provides them with the knowledge they need to combat hate and create justice in the world today.
Art - K-5th Grades: Students enhance their learning about holiday traditions, Torah stories and Jewish Values through correlating art projects. Everyone enjoys the opportunity to get creative!
Music - PreK-4th Grades: In addition to helping lead our three T'filah Services on Sunday mornings, our Songleader will teach students Jewish prayers, traditional and modern holiday music and camp songs.
T'filah (Prayer Services): We hold three different T'filah services on Sunday mornings for our students. From 9:30-10:10am our PreK-4th Grades learn the prayers and become familiar with how a service is structured. Our 5th & 6th grade students have their service with Cantor Frankel at the end of the day from 12-12:30pm to delve into the prayers and their meanings in preparation for their Bar/Bat Mitzvah. Our 7th Graders work together to lead a Torah Service as practice for their Bar/Bat Mitzvah.
Hebrew Through Movement: PreK-1st Grades:"Hebrew through Movement" is a language acquisition strategy in which students learn Hebrew by hearing and responding to Hebrew commands. It is based on ways that children learn naturally: by moving about and doing, through songs, chants and rhythmic activities.
Decoding Hebrew: 2nd-3rd Grades- Students are introduced to the full Hebrew alphabet and vowels and learn to decode simple Hebrew words.
New Student Beginners Class: 3rd-6th Grades: New students will work at a faster pace to learn the Aleph Bet, how to decode and the Bar/Bat Mitzvah prayers.
Modern Hebrew with Prayer: 4th - 6th Grades Students who can already decode Hebrew words, will learn to read and understand modern Hebrew using Shalom Ivrit and its Prayer Companion to be able to participate in prayer. Students encounter Hebrew as a living language by building on their everyday and holiday experiences, at home and in school. Basic grammar — including the present tense, masculine and feminine nouns, and adjectives in the singular and plural — are presented simply and clearly. A variety of comprehension activities — including puzzles, sentence completion, true and false, and word/picture matches — reinforce instruction and provide practice, as do additional stories and poems, dialogues, blessings, songs, and riddles.
B'nai Mitzvah: 7th Grade: Our 7th Graders will focus on the blessings to ensure they are ready for their Bar or Bat Mitzvah. They will also work together weekly to lead a condensed Torah Service.
Mid-Week Hebrew is a Hebrew Enrichment program for students in 2nd-7th Grades, adapted to meet individual needs. This program meets on Wednesdays from 4pm-6pm and is FREE (included in BML tuition).
Beginner: Students who are still learning the Aleph Bet and learning to decode will enhance their learning and vocabulary with an extra hour of Hebrew on Wednesday nights.
Intermediate: We are piloting a new program, Hebrew in Harmony, which encourages students to create meaning from personal prayer and make emotional connections through communal prayer.
B'nai Mitzvah Prep: Help students learn the prayers and the meanings behind those prayers for the Bar or Bat Mitzvah.
Advanced: Students who have mastered the B'nai Mitzvah prayers will have a chance to go deeper into Modern Hebrew in preparation to visit Israel.
Enrichment Class: a NEW class for students to delve deeper.. This class will run from both 4pm-5pm and 5pm-6pm. Students will learn about Judaism and deepen their Hebrew skills through art, cooking, drama and music! A major goal of this class is FUN!


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Объёмная вязкость (вторая вязкость) — параметр уравнения Навье — Стокса, наряду с динамической (сдвиговой) вязкостью, возникающий в сжимаемых жидкостях и газах. Вторая вязкость проявляется при объемных деформациях среды, например при распространении ударных волн, и приводит к дополнительной диссипации механической энергии..

В уравнении Навье—Стокса

вторая вязкость (объёмная вязкость) обозначена буквой .

В молекулярно-кинетической теории показывается, что для разреженных одноатомных газов объёмная вязкость приближенно равна нулю. Для двух- и многоатомных газов объёмная вязкость неотрицательна, что следует из второго начала термодинамики.

Вторая вязкость — в целом мало изученный параметр. Для воды его значение равно 3,09 сантипуаз при температуре 15 °C и давлении 1 атмосфера.

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Former prisoners, prison abolitionists and supporters gathered in Boston on July 28 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Lucasville Uprising, which took place in 1993 at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility.
The meeting began with a screening of the documentary "Shadow of Lucasville," followed by speakers and discussion chaired by Belladonna Ashman of the Trans/Nonbinary Caucus of WWP-Boston and Bobby T of United Steelworkers Local 8751, Boston School Bus Drivers. Meeting sponsors included the Jericho Movement, Chuck Turner, USW Local 8751, TOUCH 106.1 Radio/TV and WWP-Boston.
Former Boston City Council member and former prisoner Chuck Turner spoke about the need for the progressive movement to defend the incarcerated, who are used as a captive source of labor.
Former political prisoner and Jericho Movement member Kazi Toure spoke about his experience in dozens of prisons across the country, highlighting the brutal conditions as a constant in all of them. In his talk and in the following discussion, Toure and audience members highlighted that these prison conditions are being exported to workplaces all across the country and that the U.S. is in many respects nothing more than an open-air prison.
Imam Siddique Abdullah Hasan, one of five men sentenced to death for their proported role in leading the Lucasville Uprising, was scheduled to call in to the meeting. When the call did not come, attendees learned from contacts in Ohio that the Imam had been placed in solitary confinement two days before that. The disappointed attendees recognized this as a deliberate action on the part of the prison administration to censor the truth about conditions in the prisons.
Activists subsequently learned that the Imam has been charged with violations related to organizing prison work stoppages.
For updates relating to solidarity actions for the Imam, visit www.facebook.com/events/257447445036637. Please write letters of support so authorities know that people are mobilizing in his defense.
For a Workers World interview with the Imam, see tinyurl.com/y9grqhd7.


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Describe how you came to be an artist and your challenges.
Blurry, fuzzy, or pixelated are all ways I have explained my eyesight. I have dominant optic atrophy, which is an incurable and degenerative eye disease that causes a lack of visual acuity, living in low resolution. When I was in middle school, my dad began teaching me how to paint. With my new creative interests, I planted myself in eighth-grade art class. "You can't be an artist if you can't see" were the poisonous words my teacher thought to share with me after finding out I had difficulty seeing. To my young mind, this made sense, but I was devastated and struggled in school. A challenge I have is communicating how I see. I am not blind and have no physical indicators to show I am visually impaired so most people don't know I don't see well or they make assumptions about what my limitations and capabilities are. Then a pageant advertisement caught my attention. My feminist mom begrudgingly signed me up. Stage fright from looking out at a sea of people is a feeling I will never know: everyone is a blur of colors. I had found my superpower within my weakness and I spent the next decade of my life in the beauty industry. In high school, my parents fought battles with teachers who refused to make accommodations for me because "the real world wouldn't make accommodations." As a rebellious frustrated teenager, I realized adults could be wrong. I developed a deep-seated need to share these challenges through my art. I went on to receive my Bachelors of Fine Arts from the California State University of Bakersfield and my Masters of Fine Art from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.
Describe your artistic practices?
The performative nature of pageantry lends itself naturally to utilizing performance as a medium and vehicle to deliver my concepts. I pull from my experiences to question the dominating ideologies of beauty, gender, and the idea of "perfection" fused with the disturbing and obsessive struggle to obtain it. Social norms and the expression and suppression of stereotypes within femininity and feminism cause the prejudicial idea that the two are opposite. My works dealing with this issue have culminated in my self-designated title and birth of Miss Art World--a concept that embodies the feminist feminine fighter, a champion for social change who uses creative activism to inspire thoughtful conversation, cultural advancement, and inclusivity as a lifelong performance piece. I envision others joining the Miss Art World movement of creative queens with the power, courage, and strength to use their art for social change and equality.
Describe long-term aspirations for your work.
Looking forward and keeping with the concept of experiences informing my art, motherhood is a new theme for me. Stories of motherhood are profoundly emotional – some more miraculous, some more horrific. Exploring these subjects within art is rare partly due to the lack of female artists willing to venture here. Artists who choose to be mothers are fearful of being dropped by galleries that traditionally believe that these artists' "priorities must have changed." This results in the calculated decision by artists to avoid identifying as a mother and broaching the subject within their artwork. The global pandemic deepens the social and cultural lack of openness and attention to childbirth. The isolation causes the support system around mothers to be largely stripped away resulting in psychological, physical, financial, and career halting ramifications. I know this personally since I gave birth to my first child during the pandemic.
Describe your accomplishments?
Over the years I have performed all over California and beyond. My performances include Art Basel Conversations Miami in 2017 and in 2019 two solo shows "Sentenced to Death" at Studio Channel Islands Art Center and "Second Skins" at Los Angeles Art Association. My latest performance "Diversity Walks and Talks" was featured in the 2020 LA Art Show's DIVERSEartLA section. For this performance, I interviewed over 120 individuals about their views on diversity then invited them to walk the runway in whatever wardrobe they felt represented themselves while their pre-recorded interviews played on a screen. Inviting people, especially non-artists, to participate in my performances allows the concept to be influenced by diverse perspectives and connects with audiences in a unique way beyond the typical audience and artist.
Share how your artistic practice, processes, and activities generate positive social impact, addressing themes that may include, but are not limited to, race, diversity, equity, inclusion, and/or accessibility.
Being open to feedback, listening, and engaging with audiences is how I gauge the impact of my work. So when I receive a message like this in response to my most recent video piece it serves as my indicator of a successful and positive impact. Another of many examples was at the LA Art Show: while the video of "Diversity Walks and Talks" played following the main performance, a little boy, maybe eight, sat cross-legged in the middle of the red carpet and attentively watched each interview. This, to me, demonstrated the performance's impact of fostering proactive forward thought and acceptance within our future generation.
The Miss Art World concept is a lifelong performance piece and, not performed by a singular performer, but shared by other artists through a broader movement. When I am Miss Art World, I am draped in the trappings of a beauty queen presenting somewhat of a counterintuitive connection to the performance's message of inclusivity and positive social change. I have recruited Klaire Lockheart who's artwork addresses gender identity and feminism within contemporary American culture as Miss Art World South Dakota, thus beginning a movement of creative queens, a family of like minds that can be found all over the world. Miss Art World is a vehicle for creative activism.
What relationships and engagement do you have with local and/or regional organizations and initiatives?
Motivated by social change and not monetary gains, I have shared my struggles, mission, and artwork throughout California. I have been honored to be a guest speaker for the Lancaster Rotary Club, Camarillo's Spark Voice--a mentoring program for women and girls, multiple career days, Shoebox Projects, The Not Real Art Podcast, and for the DIVERSEartLA Talks.
Knowing the transformative power that arts education has in local communities through the efforts of non-profit arts organizations, I dedicated myself to the Los Angeles Art Association (LAAA) and Studio Channel Islands Art Center. Located in different counties, each organization has allowed me to connect with entirely new audiences as an artist member, donor, and volunteer.
At Studio Channel Islands I was a former artist-in-residence, art teacher for children's summer camp, and guest lecturer for their shared partnership with California State Channel Islands University's OLLI (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute) educational program for ages fifty and above. I also started a mentorship program for high school students wanting to gain experience in the art world and was honored to receive the Business Champion Award from the Oxnard High School District.
Another way I foster relationships with organizations and community arts members is through the MissArtWorld Podcast, created to engage listeners at any art interest level and to promote organizations and artists. With over seventy-five episodes we have featured local artists and organizations like Laemmle Theatres, Art Share L.A., and Save Art Space in order to help promote their missions and goals.
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Economic Growth, Economic Methods, Information Goods, Intellectual Property
Bryan's Challenge
Categories: Economic Growth Economic Methods Information Goods, Intellectual Property
By Arnold Kling, May 25 2011
He wrote,
Name the most credible measure of idea production that isn't at least moderately positively correlated with population.
I think this is a somewhat imprecise formulation. First of all, "moderately positive" is vague. It could be a very low bar.
But what is the relevant boundary for measuring population? The nation-state? So if 10 million people are spread over a large area that means the same thing as if they are concentrated on an island? Or if 10 million people speak 8 different languages that is the same thing as if they all speak the same language?
If you look at population at a nation-state level, then any simple linear correlation is bound to be dominated by India and China. If you instead choose a more robust measure, such as rank correlation, you may see different results.
The classic example suggesting less than perfect correlation between population and ideas would be Israel vs. the Arab countries in Nobel Prizes in science. I think it is a striking example, even though it might not be enough to offset a "modestly positive correlation" overall.
I suspect that communication is a huge factor in idea generation and propagation. I would rather have a small population of people who travel and communicate broadly than a large population of people who stay in their villages their whole lives and rarely communicate with outsiders.
But I go back to my original thought, which is that I would like to see some more thought put into coming up with something more precise than "moderately positive correlation" and also a more precise definition of what constitutes high and low population.
May 25 2011 at 2:31am
That is an excellent point, having a huge nation full of towns that rarely communicate is essentially the same as having a bunch of tiny nations. No doubt one of the reasons for Israel's superiority in Nobel Prizes is its intellectuals' willingness to communicate with intellectuals from other countries, and share ideas with them.
I think the main problem with Bryan's question is that, unless you live in North Korea, it's impossible to measure intellectual productivity by nation, because national borders are porous to ideas. Ideas and culture generally have the least trade restrictions of any good, I think probably because they're (wrongly) seen as less important than physical goods. You hear lots of people complain about Americans buying Japanese cars, but very few complain about Americans watching Japanese movies.
For one sort of idea creation, I suggest something along the lines of "number of pages written in that society and currently in print in at least one major language other than the one they were written in, divided by the period over which all the works were written, with some positive weighting for how long ago they were written." The latter is intended to reflect the fact that it takes more to be of interest to people after a thousand years than after fifty years.
Three societies that I would expect to have very high per capita scores in that measure are Periclean Athens, Elizabethan England, and saga period Iceland. All relatively small populations. I'm not sure that China and India would outrank them even if we made it absolute rather than per capita.
I think the Nobel prize measure in Israel vs Arab countries (or St Lucia vs Caribbean ones, for that matter) is incomplete. This is more similar to the mention in Bryan's post of Iceland as having high production of films. You're picking one small country as an outlier: I don't think Nobel production is uncorrelated with population if we look across all nations.
I like David Friedman's idea, but I think it might be better to weight not by population, but by share of the society's world population at the time the work was produced.
Finally, my guess for an intellectual output which is less correlated with population is cuisine. I have no idea how to quantify it. Perhaps that is a question for Tyler Cowen. The only thing that comes to mind is to count up all the restaurants in a selection of global cities which serve an identifiably national or ethnic cuisine, and divide by the number of people in that national/ethnic group.
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May 25 2011 at 10:36am
See Geoffrey West's research on "superlinear scaling" as reported in Steven Johnson's *Where Good Ideas Come From.*
A city that was ten times larger than its neighbor wasn't ten times more innovative; it was seventeen times more innovative. A metropolis fifty times bigger than a town was 130 times more innovative. Kleiber's law proved that as life gets bigger, it slows down. But West's model demonstrated one crucial way in which human-built cities broke from the patterns of biological life: as cities get bigger, they generate ideas at a faster clip. This is what we call 'superlinear scaling': if creativity scaled with size in a straight, linear fashion, you would of course find more patents and inventions in a larger city, but the number of patents and inventions per capita would be stable.
How to measure the size of the network is a very interesting question. My dissertation research seeks to vindicate Adam Smith's claim that "the division of labor is limited by the extent of the market." To test this empirically, we need more sophisticated concepts of network size. The theorem certainly does *not* predict merely that larger countries will grow faster, since "the market" is by no means coextensive with national boundaries. Markets might be larger (oil, computers) or smaller (haircuts); they will rarely be the same size.
Floccina
I expect more wealthy people to produce more ideas per person, higher IQ people to produce more ideas per person but holding those constant I would expect more people equals more ideas. The question is difficult, it is do more people impede wealth enough to at some point make more people bring down total number of new ideas. IMO we are far from that.
Also, I believe looking a countries is limited because in a world with great transportation and free trade for all practical purposes no country can be over populated unless all countries are overpopulated.
Daublin
Immigration.
Hollywood is blowing the world away with its film production. I don't know that I've ever watched a film from Iceland. So what makes Hollywood tick?
I don't think it's its own population. So long as there is enough there to support a city, the bulk population doesn't matter much. More people would just mean more people tending bars and drinking at them.
Immigration matters, though. Hollywood's ideas don't come from people born in Hollywood. They're from people who immigrate there. Thus immigration law makes a huge difference on how effective Hollywood is going to be.
I also suspect the global population doesn't matter much. At the margin, there are plenty of good people in Hollywood who aren't getting work. Doubling the potential pool of people working there should not greatly increase the quality of people actively working in Hollywood.
> Doubling the potential pool of people working
> there should not greatly increase the quality of
> people actively working in Hollywood.
Doubling the market for their output would probably increase its quality. Niches that were previously below minimum scale would then be large enough to be profitably served. Budgets for broadly appealing stuff could be higher.
This is analogous to what has happened with TV, cars, and pornography, to name some examples.
Tracy W
May 25 2011 at 1:43pm
Evan: In terms of ideas protectionism, I think a large part of the reason you don't hear that is that amongst the English speaking countries, America is so big and so dominant.
As a NZer I've heard protectionist arguments, eg in NZ there's a "voluntary" quota for radio stations to play 10 percent NZ music and public money spent on NZ broadcasting, books, etc (by which I mean specifically NZ, about NZ themes). Of course, there's not the same cultural protectionism, as freedom of speech is one of those values held very highly by most people regardless of political persuasion. But the impulse is there.
May 25 2011 at 10:00pm
Society is like a giant brain. Its productivity is tied to the number of synapses, not necessarily the number of neurons.
Mark Bahner
It seems to me that the answer is obvious. Maybe I'm missing something, but:
1) South Korea vs North Korea,
2) West Germany vs East Germany,
3) Hong Kong vs PRC, at least in the time of Mao.
Are you accounting for the fact that every film that Michael Bay makes is the same film? 😉
Oh, I guess he does two films. Mostly blood and mostly explosions.
Charles Murray created a vast database in 2003 of 4002 eminent individuals in the arts and sciences from 800 BC to 1950. You could use that to check your theory. I don't see much evidence for a positive correlation.
the most credible measure of idea production?
There is none. There are some proxies like patents filed or learned articles published but these are weak, weak measures indeed.
Even if we could measure idea production we would still be left with the problem of comparing truly great ideas with the rest to come up with some measure of idea production weighted for brilliance.
Alfred Differ
I'm not sure how to detect an idea let alone measure an aggregate. Some are easy enough to spot after the fact by the effects they have. My personal experience says most ideas don't cause ripples big enough to see from a distance, so unless there is something like a pricing system that compresses the information and then transmits it there is no hope. The few that do get seen get noticed BECAUSE an otherwise unrelated transmission mechanism picks them up and spreads them.
That leaves us with proxies that are likely to miss most ideas. How those proxies correlate with population addresses the nature of the proxy more than the nature of idea production I suspect. For example, we could measure journal articles in an academic field weighing each by the references within. Journal page space should correlate with the number of researchers and subscribers (I think), but that describes the nature of the publishing business and not the nature of the ideas in the articles.
Joe Cushing
While you are right to point out that there are other factors that can affect idea production, this fact does nothing to disprove the idea that population is an important factor. I suppose part of your quest towards precision would have to involve holding other factors constant. The two cities comparison mentioned in a comment above illustrates this because to nearby cities are likely to be more similar than India and Luxembourg.
That said, there is a flaw in that example too. It's possible that the larger city just attracts more creative people. They go there because that's where people go to create like people go to Nashville because that's where country music is made.
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the shore of Aransas Bay, it was the grandest house on the Texas coast, and the Fultons, with the help of seven servants, entertained lavishly in their elegant new home.
Fulton, like his cousin Robert Fulton of steamboat fame, was a brilliant engineer and used his skills to design a house with features that were rare for that time—hot and cold running water, gas lights, a refrigeration system, central heat, and flush toilets. Despite sitting only yards from Aransas Bay, the Fulton Mansion withstood massive storms, including the 1919 hurricane and ten-foot tidal wave that destroyed most structures in the area. Fulton designed a shellcrete (a form of concrete made from the plentiful local shell) foundation. Walls, both inside and out, were made of one-by-ten-inch pine boards stacked side-by-side to form a solid ten-inch-thick frame. Shellcrete filled in between every fourth or fifth board in the floors creating a structure as stable as a grain elevator.
Fulton could afford to construct the house, which cost about $l00,000, because of his wife's inherited land and his own entrepreneurial spirit. Fulton, born in 1810, had worked in Indiana as a schoolteacher, watchmaker, and creator of mathematical instruments until he organized a company to fight in the Texas Revolution. He arrived too late for the action, but Fulton joined the Army of the Republic of Texas in 1837 and for his service received 1,280 acres. Fulton worked for the General Land Office, which introduced him to the legal maneuvering necessary to acquire land. In 1840 he married Harriet who was the daughter of Henry Smith, governor of Texas for a short time in 1835 before the war for independence from Mexico. After Smith failed to win the presidency of the new Republic of Texas, he continued to serve in several government positions, to purchase land along the coast, and to promote the development of his property.
Meantime, George Fulton and Harriet left Texas and spent the next twenty years in Ohio and in Baltimore where they raised and educated their children. After Harriet's father died and the Fultons returned to Texas and cleared the titles on Smith's coastal land. Using his knowledge of land titles, Fulton purchased acreage and combined with the land Harriet inherited from her father, Fulton owned 25,000 acres. After joining with partners in the Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company, the holdings peaked at 265,000 acres, creating one of the largest cattle companies in Texas. The lavish lifestyle that ensued from the business allowed the partners to live like cattle barons and the Fultons to build their grand mansion.
Much of the partners' wealth came from the hide and tallow factories lining the shore of Aransas Bay near the Fulton's home. Hundreds of thousands of cattle and mustangs were slaughtered and their carcasses reduced to tallow in great boilers. The hides were cured and shipped along with the tallow, bones, and horns on waiting steamers headed for the U.S. east coast.
Ever the inventor, Fulton received a U.S. patent for shipping beef using artificial cooling and for a steam engine modification. He introduced new livestock breeds that are still prevalent in Texas. Before barbed wire became available, the company used smooth wire to fence some of the ranges. A wooden plank fence enclosed one 2,000-acre pasture near present Rockport. Fulton gave land for the railroad, and towns—Sinton, Gregory, Portland, and Taft—were laid out on the company's vast holdings.
The most elegant of Fulton's achievements, which survives today, is the Fulton Mansion, listed on the National Register of Historic Places and operated as a house museum by the Texas Historical Commission.


You've probably heard a lot about gau rakshaks or cow protectors in the past few months. The debates around gau raksha usually centre on matters such as the need to protect cows or the disregard for human lives and dignity that the protectors of cows display. We took a different approach to gau raksha and decided to explore the economic costs of providing for India's retired cows. The numbers are sure to surprise you!
According to the 19th Livestock Census that was concluded in 2012 the total population of cows and bulls in the country is 18.3 crores. The total number of cows in the country stood at 12 crores.
If the mission of the gau rakshaks succeeds, then there would be five crore cows on the streets that give little to no milk... together they'll cost at least ₹54,750 crore per year.
A cow lives for an average of 12 to 15 years under normal circumstances, and it gives milk from the ages of 18 months to about seven years if inseminated on time. This means that it gives proper quantities of milk for approximately five pregnancies, after which the quantity of milk produced falls substantially.
A cow consumes ₹150-200 worth of dry fodder, green fodder and concentrate each day during the milking period. When a cow has stopped giving milk entirely or is giving economically unviable amounts of milk after its 5th birthing cycle, at the very least, she still needs 20kg of fodder each day. Fodder costs upwards of ₹3-4 per kg, but we've taken a minimum estimate of ₹2 per kg. This means that a cow will eat at least worth ₹40 each day. Reducing this even further, let's take the cost to be ₹30 every day.
Let's take the best case scenarios for everything—lowest costs, shortest natural life and high milking age. Let's assume a cow lives for 12 years and gives milk for seven years. This would mean that out of the 12 crore cows in the country, under normal circumstances five crore would be too old to give milk, assuming that all of them are living for a normal lifespan.
These estimates do not factor in the 6.1 crore bulls in India, who don't have much utility nowadays as farming primarily utilizes tractors and machines. The costs would rise substantially if we consider bulls as holy too.
If the mission of the gau rakshaks succeeds, then there would be five crore cows out on the streets of India that give little to no milk. Assuming that they are fed and not left to starve and die, which is a horrible thing to do.
For the five crore well-fed and happy cows, the lowest cost at ₹30 per day takes us to ₹54,750 crore per year. Or US$ 8 billion!
It's 2.7% of the national budget. It's more than 35% of the government's health budget. It's over 2/3rd of our Education Budget.
Mind you, these are the lowest estimates and dairy farmers and scientists have given us figures of upwards of ₹100 per day to feed and take care of non-milking cattle.
So how much is ₹54,750 crore?
It's 2.7% of the national budget. It's more than 35% of the government's health budget, which stands at ₹37,000 crores. It's over 2/3rd of our Education Budget. Over 35% higher than the budget for NREGA. It's more than the budget for roads, agriculture and almost any other ministry. It's five times more than the budget for Swachh Bharat Abhiyan.
Original analysis by DRI Networks.


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Alishan plywood pvt ltd is a leading producer of plywood. The company manufactures wide range of plywood products for both housing and marine applications. The various types of ply offered by Alishan have been mentioned here.
BWP stands for boiling water proof. BWP plywoods are exterior grade plywoods which are made using phenolic resins. They are used for constructing boats and ships because this kind of plywood is suitable for long term exposure to moisture. The alishan ply of BWP variety is made from Gurjan wood species imported from South East Asia. Phenol formaldehyde synthetic resin is used as the bonding agent. Acid chrome copper preservative is also used in the construction to protect the plywood against changes in temperature, humidity and wetting and drying. The plywood is also resistant against termites, borers, fungal growth and bettles. The quality of alishan bwp plywood is IS 710 certified. BWP plywood is also known as marine grade plywood.
BWR means boiling water resistant. It is lesser in quality and strength than BWP plywood. BWR plywood is used to make home and office furniture. It is suitable to be used in indoor, outdoor and semi-outdoor areas. Synthetic phenol formaldehyde resin is used to glue the sheets of wood together. Preservatives and other chemicals are also used to protect the plywood against pests and weather elements.
Crystal alishan plywood is made from 100% Burmese Gurjan. Each layer used in the construction of plywood is treated with pure Boric Borax solution. Phenol formaldehyde resin of BWP grade is used for gluing the layers. Chemical treatment is done to protect the plywood against termites. The glue is also poisoned for good protection against insects.
Alishan uses advanced machinery to create high quality plywoods. Thus, the company offers the best plywoods at affordable rates. The alishan plywood price depends upon its grade such as Marine, BWR or Crystal, its size in metres and thickness in milimetres. Thus, the final alishan plywood cost is determined on the basis of type of construction for which the plywood is required and the total size and thickness required for the same.
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Plywood possesses the structural strength of the wood it is made and also has extra strength due to its laminated design. The grains of every sheet are at 90 degree to one another which also prevents the plywood sheet from splitting. The plywood sheet also has a high strength to weight ratio.
Plywood can be modified to suit any type of construction. The thickness of the plywood can vary as per requirement. The number of layers can also differ from three layers to many. Flexible plywoods have 2-3 layers.
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Townhouse of approximately 95m², with 3 bedrooms and a very private courtyard; on a plot of land of 145m².
GROUND FLOOR: . Entrance hall (8,1m²) . Kitchen (9,4m²) . Sitting and dining room (35,6m²) with fireplace . Bathroom (3,6m²) . WC FIRST FLOOR: . Landing/passage with built-in cupboard . 3 bedrooms (9,4m²; 10,8m² and 11,2m²) with access to a huge balcony . Bathroom (6,5m²) with WC Plot of land of 145m² with courtyard. Situated in a busy market village with all shops and services in the triangle of the Pyrénées Atlantique, the Hautes Pyrénées and the Gers (Close to Lourdes, Pau, Marciac). At 1h from Lourdes and 45mins from Pau, 1,5h from Biarritz,1h from the ski resorts(Pyrénées) and 2h from Spain.


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Shared Secrets of Soft Tofu
So Kong Dong
Ft. Lee, NJ
We learned after grilling Mike from Yonkers that his choice of So Kong Dong, a Korean "soft tofu" place in Fort Lee, New Jerseey was one he had frequented often. Not a risky discovery, but we had no restrictions that a choice had to be one that was virgin territory. But why would Mike from Yonkers be spending time in Fort Lee, New Jersey ?
"Taekwondo," he blurted, as if that really meant anything to us. We knew he and Gerry are taekwondo students and masters of that Korean martial arts form. So that meant because of the taekwondo connection he obviously knew of the Korean restaurants in Fort Lee, New Jersey, of which there are many.
"My bank is here," he admitted after being pressed further. Again, that could have led to many more questions such as why would Mike from Yonkers, New York be banking in Fort Lee, New Jersey? None of us, however, choose to continue our inquisition; we were all too happy with the end result of his decision and that was really what mattered most to us.
Anytime we have to go to New Jersey, usually at Gerry's behest, we worry about traffic complications. But on this evening, Zio and I cruised effortlessly across the George Washington Bridge. We hit minor trouble when, thanks to the incoherent mumblings of the female voice of my GPS, we headed in the opposite direction of Fort Lee on the Palisades Parkway. We quickly got back on track and again, what she was directing me to do and what the map was showing were not in sync.
"Make a U-turn ahead. Make a U-turn ahead," she blabbered as if it were easy to make a U-turn on a winding, hilly road. Finally, we righted ourselves, shut the bitch up by turning off the useless device, and found So Kong Dong, the pillars of the George Washington Bridge visible from the restaurant's small parking lot.
The view from the parking lot.
I pulled into a municipal parking lot across Main Street from the restaurant just as Gerry and Eugene arrived. Eugene muttered that Mike from Yonkers would have to deduct the bridge toll and the parking from his share of that night's dinner. When we told Mike from Yonkers of his obligation, he responded that by filling up our gas tanks in New Jersey, which both Eugene and I did, that we would actually be saving money, or at worst, break even, on the cost of getting to the appointed restaurant.
So Kong Dong was spacious with rows of wooden tables and Korean artifacts on the walls that no one could identify. The menu also served as a place mat and was limited to just nine varieties of tofu soup along with Korean bbq ribs. None of the soups were over $9 while the platter of ribs was $15, all well within our $20 per person budget.
Eugene suggested a kangaroo court to decide Rick's fate since he was late. But before we had to actually figure out what goes on in a kangaroo court, Rick appeared and all of us ordered.
"Seafood tofu," Eugene blurted out to the hovering waiter.
"How spicy?" the waiter asked.
We weren't sure how So Kong Dong's heat meter rated in our own spice universe. We looked to Mike from Yonkers for guidance.
"I usually get it hot," he said. As opposed to the other options offered: "not spicy, not too spicy, medium hot or very hot."
One seafood tofu times four.
The waiter glanced at Gerry.
"Seafood tofu," Gerry ordered.
And then to Rick
"Seafood tofu," he said.
I was next.
"Seafood tofu," I mumbled into my hand as the waiter scribbled.
Breaking the monotony, Zio went for the pork tofu and, with a knowing grin; Mike from Yonkers ordered the oyster tofu. "I always get the oyster tofu," he said without any further explanation. We added two orders of the ribs and our waiter departed.
A few moments' later bowls of Korean condiments began to assemble on our table; kim chee, bean sprouts, spicy pickles, cold cabbage soup, and six raw eggs. "You crack them into the soup," said the soft tofu wizened, Mike from Yonkers.
Korean condiments
And then the ribs arrived. Layers of thinly sliced beef short ribs in a slightly sweet marinade complete with huge scissors, resembling garden shears, to cut them up and portion them out to the members of our now salivating party.
Before we could finish with the ribs, the bowls of soup began to crowd our table. Each was bubbling; still boiling hot from the kitchen. As our waiter placed our bowls in front of us, I watched as the soup continued to bubble. How could it continue to bubble so long after coming off the flame? I tried to wait; to give it more time to cool, but I'm an impatient eater. I scooped some into my spoon, blew on it and then tentatively sipped. It had cooled down enough, or so I thought, not to have seared the inside of my mouth and was able to swallow it. The soup was fiery and loaded with shrimp, oysters, and clams. I cracked the egg into it and, as Mike from Yonkers instructed, stirred it before it turned into one solid hard boiled egg yolk. I also added rice into the soup in hopes that would also bring the temperature down, and it did, but not by much.
Ribs with garden shears.
There wasn't much conversation as we worked through the soup, intermittently draining our spice assaulted sinuses into the much too thin paper napkins we were administered, and, as usual, Mike from Yonkers trailed behind all of us, methodically spooning his soup into his bowl of rice instead of vice versa as I was doing. Some secrets of soft tofu, he obviously wasn't willing to share.
Dessert was a stick of gum that held its flavor for less than five minutes. We all praised Mike from Yonkers for his choice but the next day, thinking I had escaped burn damage, realized there were blisters throughout the insides of my mouth, under my tongue, wherever the blistering soup touched. The mutilation of my mouth notwithstanding, if I'm ever "banking" in Ft. Lee, I won't hesitate to return for another chance at a bowl of soft tofu.
Tags: Dining, Food, humor, restaurants
Categories Adventures in Chow City, Cheap Eats, Cheap Eats in New York City, Food, Korean, New Jersey, Restaurants
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One Response to "Shared Secrets of Soft Tofu"
Christina January 31, 2012 at 11:11 am #
Everything looks so delicious, excellent post! Hope to get myself out there in the near future 🙂
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The Brazilian Olympics and Intellectual Property
Benjamin Beck
Ana Hadnes Bruder, Master en Droit, LLM
The Olympic Games 2016 which take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August are supported by a huge volume of marketing and advertising campaigns. As many countries have done before, Brazil enacted special legislation to protect the Olympic symbols and expressions specific to the games hosted in Rio. The protection offered in these Olympic-special legislations often can go beyond what would normally be available under trademark or copyright protection laws. For example, the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Act 2006 created a sui generis right of association to prevent the use of any representation that is likely to suggest an association between the London Olympics and goods or services.
Germany, as another example, also put some special legislation into place. However, a company that had offered "Olympic discounts" in its advertisements during the 2008 games was found not to infringe the German Olympic Protection Act. The German Federal Supreme Court ruled that, unlike trademark protection, the Olympic Protection Act did not grant legal protection to the advertising function of the Olympic symbols. Therefore, a mere time-related reference like "Olympic discounts" did not lead to infringement.
The Brazilian Olympic Act
Under the Brazilian Olympic Act (Federal Law No 12,035/2009), as amended by the Brazilian Federal Law No 13,284/2016, the Olympic symbols are granted special temporary protection. These include emblems, flags, anthems, mottos, mascots and torches used by the International Olympic Committee, the International Paralympics Committee and the Association Rio 2016, charged with the organization of the Games. The protected symbols also include various expressions such as Olympic Games, Paralympic Games and Rio 2016 – in any language. However, unlike the London Olympic Act, for example, the Olympic symbols are all subject to protection under trademark law. The protection period shall begin with registration of the symbols with the Brazilian National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) and extend until 31 December 2016.
The use of such symbols is prohibited, even for non-commercial purposes, except if authorized by the International Olympic Committee or the Association Rio 2016. Furthermore, the act prohibits the use of terms and expressions that, albeit outside the list of protected symbols, are sufficiently similar to them to the extent that they are able to invoke an undue association of any products and services whatsoever, or even any event or company, with the Rio 2016 Games or the Olympic Movement.
During the time of protection, requests for registration of trademarks that constitute a reproduction or an imitation of the official symbols or are likely to cause any confusion or association with the organizing entities or the official symbols, shall be rejected. In addition, the INPI shall inform the responsible entity for the registration of domain names in Brazil, NIC.br, of all registered trademarks, so that any requests for registration of domain names containing terms or expressions identical or similar to the trademarks be refused ex officio.
Enjoy the Games!
Even though the legislation may have arrived a bit late (Federal Law No 13,284/2016 was published on 10 May 2016), the Olympic Act provides a solid framework for the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights related to the Olympic games. So, all that is left for corporate sponsors or fans of the Olympics is to enjoy the Games!
This article was originally published on AllAboutIP – Mayer Brown's blog on relevant developments in the fields of intellectual property and unfair competition law. For intellectual property-themed videos, Mayer Brown has launched a dedicated channel available here.
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A few weeks back, we hosted a Hackathon at Jibe HQ in New York. Developers from all different backgrounds participated, from students at Pace University, to recent grads from General Assembly, to experienced Devs from larger companies. Attendees spent the day programming away, creating ways to make the web more useful. As I wrote about here, Jibe greatly values making the web more useful – so much so that it was the theme of our first Hackathon. We offered a bonus prize for the best HR-related hack, so many of the ideas were related to our industry as well.
We held the Hackathon on a summer Saturday, during the thick of the World Cup, and yet I couldn't believe the turnout and energy in the office that day. We had teams in every conference room, lounging on our couches and open desks, excitedly discussing their ideas and how they might bring them to life. Constantly refueling with sodas and snacks, the developers worked tirelessly to build something new and fresh that might make the web more useful.
At the end of the day, we watched the teams present to our panel of judges. There was so much talent in the room. Even when the teams weren't able to fully finish the code they were working on, the ideas presented were fresh and innovative. Some may not think of New York City first and foremost as a technology hotbed along the lines of Silicon Valley, Boston or even Austin, but there is a thriving culture of innovation and real development talent here in Gotham.
There is so much potential for innovation in this industry. For too long, we've been held back by thinking about what the recruitment process has been, just assuming that it needs to stay that way. But with the advent of mobile and social recruiting, advances in software development, and a re-energized focus on user experience, we have an opportunity to change things. This new mode of thinking aligns with our mission here at Jibe, and allows the industry to start changing the way we view candidate experience and engagement, job applications, and the entire recruitment process in general. If we start to think outside the box, we can truly bring products to market that make the web more useful for talent acquisition.


From 10 am – 1 pm, author Liane Shaw will be joining us. Liane is a former teacher based nearby in Lanark. She's written three YA novels, but for her latest book, she's forayed into non-fiction with Time Out: A Teacher's Year of Reading, Fighting and Four-Letter Words. I read this book in one sitting. It was so compelling, I couldn't put it down and I highly recommend it. Come by and meet this author whose real life has oftentimes been stranger than fiction and congratulate her for coming out the other side still smiling and in one piece.
From 12 – 2pm, Charles de Lint (Ottawa-based author of over seventy adult, young adult and children's books) will be joining us with his wife MaryAnn Harris. This multi-talented couple will be starting off their shift with a musical set. Afterwards, Charles will do a short reading from one of his books. I had the pleasure of meeting them recently and they were both so humble, kind and down-to-earth. Plus they have a dog called Johnny Cash, so you know they're awesome. I recently read his book Where the Desert Spirits Crowd the Night and highly recommend it for its dreamlike settings and characters.
From 1 – 5:00 pm, we will be welcoming Julie Paul to our shop. Julie is formerly from Lanark Village, but hands-down wins the distance prize for visiting us all the way from Victoria, BC. She is the author of two short story collections and I after reading her latest book The Pull of the Moon, I know exactly why it was included on the Globe and Mail's Top 100 Books of 2014 list. Its quirky characters and tone were so fun to read. It is the best short story collection I have ever read, which is why I highly recommend this book. It also contains very good food for thought re: selecting family pets, which is invaluable advice for anyone really. At 4 pm, Julie will be doing a reading from The Pull of the Moon, so come on by and help us welcome her home.
During their visits, these three amazingly talented and generous authors will be recommending their favourite books. They'll be on hand for book signings, conversation and advice. Ask them whatever you like – find out what inspires them, how they got to be published authors, what they do for fun. And no celebration would be complete without fun stuff like freebies, giveaways and prizes, so we've got that covered as well.
Next Post Record Store Day and our 2nd "Re-Birthday" weekend sale. April 18-19-20, 2015.


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For customization including additional FPGA sizes, contact [email protected].


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import org.apache.camel.Exchange;
import org.apache.camel.Processor;
import org.apache.camel.loanbroker.bank.BankQuote;

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Travel has been my main passion since long before I became a parent, and I've been fortunate enough to visit quite a few places through my job as an editor and writer. When I fell pregnant with my first daughter, it never crossed my mind that travel would take a back seat. After all, she would fit right in to our lifestyle, right?
She was a sensitive baby; never more than a few minutes from a grumble or – if the grumble wasn't met with whatever it was intended to procure – an ear-splitting wail. As I imagine with so many first-time parents, it took my husband and I longer to find our footing than we'd expected, and for a time we seemed to agree, even if only tacitly, that travelling anywhere further than the South Bank would be too exhausting and not worth the effort.
But the non-stop pace of London and the non-stop grey of British winter soon saw me re-appraising our unspoken consensus. By the time our first was six months old, we were headed to Marseille for a trip that would see us bouncing between a trendy city-centre hotel and an exclusive Provençal chateau. It was crazy hot, the baby was heavy but not yet mobile (ie frustrated) and we were still tied to a demanding breast-pump-and-bottles feeding regime. I vividly remember the physical stress of forcing a large stroller up and down the hilly, uneven streets of Marseille. I recall a morning at the chateau's pool, in close proximity to a handful of well-heeled fellow guests, when our daughter seemed intent on shrieking wildly at every stimulus that presented itself. I remember a meal at the Provence hotel's tiny, romantic bistro when she refused to go to sleep until my husband wheeled her up and down the village lanes for half an hour. I ate dinner alone.
We still had a lot of fun on that trip, but there was a lot of stress to boot. Yet there can be much to learn in suffering, and we came home with several new resolutions about how we would travel with a child in future. And refusing to be cowed, we soon put them to the test.
Buy a giant wash-bag and doubles of all the family's essential toiletries. It makes packing much easier (you don't have to wait until just before you leave the house to pack toothbrushes etc.) and means you won't forget that special coconut shampoo that helps calm your little one's manic curls.
For longer trips, stay in private villas or apartments with laundry facilities: kids are insanely messy and as a bonus, you're less likely to impinge on other traveller's enjoyment.
If you go for a hotel, try to find one with a kids' club and/or babysitting services. Some resorts offer mind-boggling family amenities nowadays – like the ability to pre-book baby kit so you don't have to fill an entire suitcase with nappies, bottle warmers and the like. Also, and this applies even when you're visiting a paradise island full of stunning beaches, a pool is always a good idea.
Get one of the many super-light travel buggies now on the market. We use the BabyZen YoYo with its handy scooter attachment, so both kids can ride on one stroller. It folds to cabin luggage size, so you don't have to wait for it at the baggage carousel.
Accept limitations: it's that simple. Where once you and your partner could explore entire cities in a single day, chances are your kids won't let you walk ten metres without delving into the snack bag. You can still see (almost) everything, do (almost) everything – but it's time to embrace a slower pace.
Don't be afraid to fly long-haul. Babies always do better on long flights than parents expect, and even if your kids are mobile and more demanding, snacks and screens will get you through. Our happiest, least stressful family trip was to Barbados, which proved to be the ideal family destination, despite the flight duration.
What are your top three essentials to keep the kids entertained?
An iPad with downloaded films they love.
Wrap up a couple of little toys and games, activity and sticker books as gifts for them to open on the flight.
Pack the most snacks your hand luggage will allow.
Consider a night flight. Or the New Zealand Skycouch.
What do you personally never leave the house without?
I feel anxious if I'm without my phone!
That's tough! For sheer impressiveness I'll say Jade Mountain in St Lucia – we had our own pool, our room was open – we faced the mountains and birds would fly in and out. Also loved our recent stay at Fairmont in Barbados, we had such a magical time with our kids.
What's the best meal you've had abroad?
Good old pizza and pasta in Florence. The restaurant at the Fairmont did an amazing veggie curry. I also love Plant Food and Wine in LA.
Where's next on your travel bucket list?
I've got an ever-expanding list of surf destinations I'd like to try. I'm a complete beginner but hooked. Sri Lanka would be nice. The Maldives. Plus, I'm keen to revisit places we've loved, so we can explore them more.


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Dems 'Cannot Be Civil,' Says Mob Boss Clinton
"You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about."
Nate Jackson · Oct. 10, 2018
"You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about," Hillary Clinton, who's never been civil, insisted Tuesday. "That's why I believe, if [Democrats] are fortunate enough to win back the House and or the Senate, that's when civility can start again. But until then, the only thing that the Republicans seem to recognize and respect is strength."
House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, who was critically wounded by a Bernie Sanders supporter last year, responded, "Seriously, Hillary?" Rand Paul, who was shot at on the same ball field and who was severely beaten by a neighbor, warned, "I fear that there's going to be an assassination. I really worry that somebody is going to be killed, and that those who are ratcheting up the conversation … they have to realize they bear some responsibility if this elevates to violence."
Bill and Hillary have led the Clinton Machine for the last 30 years, specializing in the "politics of personal destruction." Now, bitterness about her defeat in 2016 seems to dominate her every public statement. Indeed, the entire Democrat Party is still fomenting anger over Donald Trump's victory. "I want to stop the degrading of the Rule of Law [and] the delegitimizing of elections," Clinton said. She's done nothing but degrade Rule of Law over her entire career, and it is Democrats who've used the "Russia collusion" narrative to delegitimize Trump's election.
As for civility, that's an even bigger problem these days. All of America witnessed the screaming hordes mobbing the very halls of Congress over Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court. And it was Democrats, by the way, who gave those protesters access to the Capitol Building. That in itself is an underreported scandal.
Worse, Leftmedia reporting is practically mocking the very idea of an angry mob. A sampling of this week's headlines:
"An angry mob": Republicans work to recast Democratic protests as out-of-control anarchy —The Washington Post
Republicans have a new name for Democrats: "mob." —CNN
The GOP's sneaky attempt to paint the majority as an angry left-wing mob —The Week
Republicans Seize On Stoking Fears Of Left-Leaning Mob To Mobilize Voters —Talking Points Memo
Republicans: Protesters Are an Unruly Mob — Unless They're Heavily Armed and Support Us —New York magazine
See, "angry mob" is just a GOP election slogan. Nothing to see here.
But when Maxine Waters is yelling to supporters to chase Trump administration officials out of restaurants, Cory Booker is telling people to "get up in the face of some congresspeople" (echoing Barack Obama's instruction to "argue with them and get in their face"), Eric Holder is saying "we kick them" about Republicans, and Clinton is saying Democrats can't help be uncivil with evil, racist, sexist, rapist-supporting Republicans, we think Rand Paul's warning has some merit.
The New York Post's Michael Goodwin says, "There you have it — a declaration of war and a license for violence. Where is the media outrage? Clinton knows we are already in the danger zone when it comes to the political temperature. Her comments, then, are as reckless as bringing a can of gasoline to a bonfire."
As a final thought, has there ever been someone who more often projects her own faults and practices onto her opponents?
Clinton said, "I remember what they did to me for 25 years — the falsehoods, the lies, which unfortunately people believe because the Republicans have put a lot of time, money, and effort in promoting them. So when you're dealing with an ideological party that is driven by the lust for power, that is funded by corporate interests who want a government that does its bidding … you can be civil, but you can't overcome what they intend to do unless you win elections."
Falsehoods and lies? Check. Promoting them with money, time, and corporate interests? Check. Lust for power? Check. Government to do an ideological party's bidding? Check. Hillary Clinton checks off every box on which she accuses Republicans. We're still thankful voters saw through it in 2016, and we hope the same holds true in 2018.
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Q: JavaScript script within PHP using Switch Let me begin by saying that my knowledge of PHP is limited at best, so I am not really sure if what I have tried is correct.
Essentially, I need PHP to run a specific script depending on a variable (language in this case). From what I have found online, this requires the use of a switch statement, but it doesn't seem to run properly. Below is the beginning of the code
<?php
$lang = "en-US";

switch ($lang) {
    case "en-US":
        <script type="text/javascript">
            (function() {
                var se = document.createElement('script'); se.type = 'text/javascript'; se.async = true;
                se.src = '//storage.googleapis.com/code.rival.com/js/3ca9-4824-43d0-81ec-0c04fb80901b.js';
                var done = false;
                se.onload = se.onreadystatechange = function() {
                    if (!done&&(!this.readyState||this.readyState==='loaded'||this.readyState==='complete')) {
                        done = true;
                    }
                };
                var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(se, s);
             })();
       </script>
;
break;
case "de-DE":
    <script type="text/javascript">
        (function() {
            var se = document.createElement('script'); se.type = 'text/javascript'; se.async = true;
            se.src = '//storage.googleapis.com/code.rival.com/js/d8d2-9653-427d-bcb6-13e135d6195e.js';
            var done = false;
            se.onload = se.onreadystatechange = function() {
                if (!done&&(!this.readyState||this.readyState==='loaded'||this.readyState==='complete')) {
                    done = true;
                }
            };
            var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(se, s);
         })();
</script>
;
break;

There is a fair bit more code, but I didn't want to place a wall of code here. The default at the end uses the same JavaScript as "case "en-US"".
I hope the problem makes sense.

A: You cannot mix javascript and php like that. If you need to output javascript, you should echo it or get out of php.
Also, I'm not sure if there are more differences, but if it is just the name of the script, you could get rid of all the duplicate javascript using an array.
For example:
<?php
$lang = "en-US";

// Store all combinations
$languageScripts = [
  'en-US' => '3ca9-4824-43d0-81ec-0c04fb80901b.js',
  'de-DE' => 'd8d2-9653-427d-bcb6-13e135d6195e.js',
];

// Output the javascript
?>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        (function() {
            var se = document.createElement('script'); se.type = 'text/javascript'; se.async = true;

            // Here you add the script you want to run:
            se.src = '//storage.googleapis.com/code.rival.com/js/<?php echo $languageScripts[$lang]; ?>';

            var done = false;
            se.onload = se.onreadystatechange = function() {
                if (!done&&(!this.readyState||this.readyState==='loaded'||this.readyState==='complete')) {
                    done = true;
                }
            };
            var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(se, s);
         })();
    </script>
<?php
// continue with your php script

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This doesn't build at the moment for me.
==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build rpm-org.
I have NSS (3.29.1-1) and NSPR (4.13.1-1) installed.
Argh.. forgot to remove the co-maintainer.
Failing to compile here with lua 5.3 installed.
I think you need to depend on lua51 explicity: will probably have to pass -llua5.1 and the -I/usr/include/lua5.1 too.
JonnyJD okay, everything's fixed and uploaded for 4.13. You can remove me as a maintainer now!
@JonnyJD could you add me as a co-maintainer?


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La spiaggia di Su Tiriarzu è una spiaggia appartenente al comune di Posada. Insieme alle spiagge di San Giovanni, Iscraios, Due Pini ed Orvile rappresentano le cinque spiagge di Posada, da dieci anni premiate con le 5 vele Legambiente.

La spiaggia
Questa spiaggia ha inizio a nord della foce dello stagno Longu è caratterizzata da una sabbia grossolana ed un mare molto cristallino e limpido, anche se con acqua che decresce rapidamente dopo qualche metro.

L'accesso in questa spiaggia è possibile solo dal ponte che sovrasta la foce dello stagno Longu (ingresso più a sud) o da un altro ponte più a nord che collega il parcheggio alla spiaggia, sovrastando il rio Santa Caterina. Questo per il fatto che il litorale di spiaggia è preceduto dal rio santa Caterina e dallo stagno Longu, che dunque non permettono un facile accesso.

Inoltre, la spiaggia, con la sua estensione di circa 1,6 km, è la più lunga tra le cinque di Posada.

Servizi
In questa spiaggia sono presenti due bar situati subito dopo il ponte che sovrasta il rio Santa Caterina. In alta stagione, viene posizionata una torre con bagnino a centro spiaggia.

Questa spiaggia è nota perché molto frequentata da kitesurfer, sia per il fatto che è una zona ottimale per praticarlo, sia perché è presente una scuola di kitesurf. Inoltre è possibile realizzare escursioni in kayak o canoa sia in mare aperto sia all'interno dello stagno Longu, rio Santa Caterina e Rio Posada.

Relitti
Al largo di questa spiaggia sono presenti diversi relitti, vedi relitti di Posada.

Note

Voci correlate
 Posada
 San Giovanni di Posada
Spiagge di Posada
 Spiaggia di San Giovanni di Posada
 Relitti di Posada

Collegamenti esterni
 Spiaggia di Su Tiriarzu, su sardegnaturismo.it
 Le spiaggia più belle di Posada in Sardegna, su travel.fanpage.it
 Le 5 spiaggia di Posada da visitare assolutamente, su sardegnaremix.com

Posada
Spiagge della Sardegna


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Dandy Donuts, Rockford, Illinois, Wednesday 30 July 2014, 11:56 a.m.
A woman customer, probably in her 20s, came back into the cafe, saying that she'd lost the cash she'd received a few minutes earlier as change. The cash belonged to her coworker, for whom she had ordered food. Dandy's owner Dan came around the counter and searched the booth where the young woman had been sitting as she waited for her food to be prepared. Then Dan said, "Where were you parked at? Let's go check it out," and they went outside.
A 60-ish white guy who was sitting in a booth from which he could see the door and the sidewalk outside told the young man sitting at the table next to him that he'd seen a different woman pick up the cash outside and walk away. This 60-ish guy then went outside to tell Dan and the young woman what he saw.
The woman left, and Dan came back in. At 12:05 p.m., Dan told this story to people sitting at a booth near the front door. He said the young woman had also, earlier that day, lost a credit/debit card. And I'm not sure, but I gathered that Dan may have given the young woman some money to make up for the lost change.
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Robert Michael Gates (Wichita, 25 de setembro de 1943) foi o 22º Secretário de Defesa dos Estados Unidos. Gates foi nomeado Secretário de Defesa no dia 18 de dezembro de 2006, sucedendo a Donald Rumsfeld, e permaneceu no cargo até 1 de julho de 2011. Antes deste posto serviu 26 anos na Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) e na Assembleia Nacional de Segurança, e durante a administração do Presidente George H. W. Bush foi nomeado diretor da CIA. Fora antes presidente da Universidade A&M do Texas entre 2002 e 2006.

Biografia
Robert Michael Gates nasceu em Wichita, Kansas; filho de Isabel e Melville Gates. Gates alcançou o grau de Eagle Scout na Boy Scouts of America (BSA) e já adulto recebeu um prêmio honorário da organização. Graduou-se pela Wichita High School East em 1961. Gates também é membro da Order of Arrow, uma sociedade honorífica vinculada à BSA.

Gates, então, recebeu uma bolsa de estudos na Faculdade de William e Mary, graduando-se em 1965 em História. Na William & Mary, Gates foi membro ativo e presidente da Alpha Phi Omega dos Jovens Republicanos; também foi gerente de negócios da William and Mary Review, uma publicação de arte e literatura da instituição.

Gates graduou-se em História pela Universidade de Indiana em 1966. Completou seu Ph.D. em "História Rússia e Soviética" pela Universidade Georgetown em 1974. O título de sua dissertação em Georgetown é "Sinologia Soviética".

Carreira de inteligência
Ainda na Universidade de Indiana, Gates foi recrutado pela Agência Central de Inteligência (CIA) em 1966. No ano seguinte, foi comissionado como segundo-tenente da Força Aérea após frequentar a Air Force Officer Training School ("Escola de Treinamento de Oficiais"), sob patrocínio da CIA. De 1967 a 1969, serviu no Comando Aéreo Estratégico como oficial de inteligência, o qual incluiu um ano na Base Aérea de Whiteman, no Missouri. Após concluir seu serviço militar, Gates foi reintegrado à CIA como analista.

Gates se desligou da agência em 1974 para integrar o Conselho Nacional de Segurança. Retornou à CIA em 1979, servindo brevemente como diretor do Centro de Avaliação Estratégica. Foi, então, nomeado diretor do Staff Executivo do setor em 1981. Em 1986, Gates chegou à Vice-diretor da Inteligência Central, tendo permanecido no cargo até 1989.

Diretor da Inteligência Central
Gates foi Vice-assistente do Presidente em Assuntos de Segurança Interna, de março a agosto de 1989. E também assistente do Presidente e Vice-Conselheiro Nacional de Segurança de agosto a novembro de 1991. Neste período, Gates foi nomeado Diretor da Inteligência Central em 1987, porém retirou seu nome de votação por supor que o Senado vetaria por conta de sua participação no Caso Irã-Contras.

Em 1991, Gates foi novamente nomeado Diretor da Inteligência Central, desta vez pelo Presidente George H. W. Bush. Sua indicação foi confirmada pelo Senado em novembro do mesmo ano e Gates foi empossado no cargo poucos dias depois.

Secretário de Defesa (2006 - 2011)
Em 8 de novembro de 2006, após as eleições gerais, George W. Bush anunciou sua intenção de indicar Gates para assumir a Secretaria de Defesa, com a saída de Donald Rumsfeld. Em dezembro de 2006, Gates foi confirmado unanimemente pelo Senado. Durante seu discurso de confirmação, Gates afirmou que os Estados Unidos 'não estavam ganhando nem perdendo com a Guerra no Iraque'. No dia seguinte, Gates foi confirmado pelo Senado com margem de erro de 95-2, sendo que os senadores republicanos Rick Santorum e Jim Bunning derm os dois últimos votos restantes e os senadores Elizabeth Dole e Joe Biden não votaram. Em 18 de dezembro de 2006, Gates foi investido como Secretário de Defesa pelo Chefe da Casa Branca Josh Bolten e posteriormente pelo Vice-presidente Dick Cheney no Pentágono.

Presidência Obama
Em dezembro de 2008, o Presidente-eleito Barack Obama anunciou a permanência de Robert Gates no cargo de Secretário de Defesa durante seu governo, alegadamente pelo menos durante o primeiro ano do novo governo. Gates foi o 14º secretário executivo estadunidense a servir em dois governos de partidos distintos, e o primeiro a servir nestas condições na pasta da Defesa. Uma das prioridades de Gates no Governo Obama foi uma revisão das estratégias políticas dos Estados Unidos no Afeganistão. Gates, sendo o sexto na linha de sucessão presidencial, foi selecionada como "sobrevivente designado" durante a Posse presidencial de Obama.

Enquanto deu prosseguimento à retirada das tropas do Iraque, que já haviam iniciado de fa(c)to no governo Bush, Gates também implantou um aumento imediato no efetivo americano no Afeganistão, a partir de 2009. Gates removeu o General David D. McKiernan do comando das operações no Afeganistão em maio de 2009 e o substituiu por Stanley A. McChrystal. O jornal The Washington Post chamou o ocorrido de "uma rara decisão". Em dezembro de 2009, Gates visitou o país repentinamente após pronunciamento de Obama sobre o aumento do efetivo contra as tropas do Talibã.

Segundo a revista Time, Gates mantinha uma "formidável parceria" com a Secretária de Estado Hillary Clinton, mantinham comunicação frequente e "comparavam anotações antes das reuniões na Casa Branca", encontrando-se semanalmente e almoçando juntos pelo menos uma vez por mês ou no Pentágono no na sede do Departamento de Estado.

Em 2010, Gates anunciou que Departamento de Defesa iria rebaixar as restrições à mulheres servindo a bordo de submarinos. Gates também anunciou estar preparando as Forças Armadas para rejeitarem a política "don't ask, don't tell". Desde o fim das restrições, homossexuais são aptos a servirem no ramo militar livremente. Ainda com relação ao tema, Gates afirmou que novas regulamentações iriam dificultar a expulsão e perseguição de homossexuais dentro das Forças Armadas, chamando as reformas de "senso comum e decência comum" e afirmando que seriam "uma importante melhora".

Durante o mandato de Gates, o Exército estadunidense capturou o terrorista Osama Bin Laden. Gates deixou o cargo oficialmente em 1 de julho de 2011 e recebeu a Medalha Presidencial da Liberdade, a mais alta ordem honorífica dos Estados Unidos, pelo Presidente Obama.

Prêmios e condecorações
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Membros do gabinete do presidente Barack Obama
Naturais de Wichita (Kansas)
Membros do Partido Republicano (Estados Unidos)
Secretários de Defesa dos Estados Unidos
Oficiais da Força Aérea dos Estados Unidos
Diretores da CIA


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**     ________ ___   / /  ___     Scala API                            **
**    / __/ __// _ | / /  / _ |    (c) 2002-2018, LAMP/EPFL             **
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package scala
package xml
package dtd

import scala.collection.Seq
import scala.xml.dtd.impl._
import scala.xml.Utility.sbToString
import PartialFunction._

/*
@deprecated("Avoidance", since="2.10")
trait ContentModelLaundry extends WordExp
object ContentModelLaundry extends ContentModelLaundry {
}
*/

object ContentModel extends WordExp {

  type _labelT = ElemName
  type _regexpT = RegExp

  @deprecated("Avoidance", since="2.10")
  trait Translator extends WordBerrySethi
  object Translator extends Translator {
    override val lang: ContentModel.this.type = ContentModel.this
  }

  case class ElemName(name: String) extends Label {
    override def toString() = """ElemName("%s")""" format name
  }

  def isMixed(cm: ContentModel) = cond(cm) { case _: MIXED => true }
  def containsText(cm: ContentModel) = (cm == PCDATA) || isMixed(cm)
  def parse(s: String): ContentModel = ContentModelParser.parse(s)

  def getLabels(r: RegExp): Set[String] = {
    def traverse(r: RegExp): Set[String] = r match { // !!! check for match translation problem
      case Letter(ElemName(name)) => Set(name)
      case Star(x@_)              => traverse(x) // bug if x@_*
      case Sequ(xs@_*)            => Set(xs flatMap traverse: _*)
      case Alt(xs@_*)             => Set(xs flatMap traverse: _*)
    }

    traverse(r)
  }

  def buildString(r: RegExp): String = sbToString(buildString(r, _))

  /* precond: rs.length >= 1 */
  private def buildString(rs: Seq[RegExp], sb: StringBuilder, sep: Char): Unit = {
    buildString(rs.head, sb)
    for (z <- rs.tail) {
      sb append sep
      buildString(z, sb)
    }
  }

  def buildString(c: ContentModel, sb: StringBuilder): StringBuilder = c match {
    case ANY                    => sb append "ANY"
    case EMPTY                  => sb append "EMPTY"
    case PCDATA                 => sb append "(#PCDATA)"
    case ELEMENTS(_) | MIXED(_) => c buildString sb
  }

  def buildString(r: RegExp, sb: StringBuilder): StringBuilder =
    r match { // !!! check for match translation problem
      case Eps =>
        sb
      case Sequ(rs@_*) =>
        sb.append('('); buildString(rs, sb, ','); sb.append(')')
      case Alt(rs@_*) =>
        sb.append('('); buildString(rs, sb, '|'); sb.append(')')
      case Star(r: RegExp) =>
        sb.append('('); buildString(r, sb); sb.append(")*")
      case Letter(ElemName(name)) =>
        sb.append(name)
    }
}

sealed abstract class ContentModel {
  override def toString(): String = sbToString(buildString)
  def buildString(sb: StringBuilder): StringBuilder
}

import ContentModel.RegExp

case object PCDATA extends ContentModel {
  override def buildString(sb: StringBuilder): StringBuilder = sb.append("(#PCDATA)")
}
case object EMPTY extends ContentModel {
  override def buildString(sb: StringBuilder): StringBuilder = sb.append("EMPTY")
}
case object ANY extends ContentModel {
  override def buildString(sb: StringBuilder): StringBuilder = sb.append("ANY")
}
sealed abstract class DFAContentModel extends ContentModel {
  import ContentModel.{ ElemName, Translator }
  def r: RegExp

  lazy val dfa: DetWordAutom[ElemName] = {
    val nfa = Translator.automatonFrom(r, 1)
    new SubsetConstruction(nfa).determinize
  }
}

case class MIXED(r: RegExp) extends DFAContentModel {
  import ContentModel.Alt

  override def buildString(sb: StringBuilder): StringBuilder = {
    val newAlt = r match { case Alt(rs@_*) => Alt(rs drop 1: _*) }

    sb append "(#PCDATA|"
    ContentModel.buildString(newAlt: RegExp, sb)
    sb append ")*"
  }
}

case class ELEMENTS(r: RegExp) extends DFAContentModel {
  override def buildString(sb: StringBuilder): StringBuilder =
    ContentModel.buildString(r, sb)
}


Raptor is a new HTML5/JQuery UI editor, with some nice features and a GPL license. Inline editing allows for some great usability improvements and is being developed as part of the Spark project. The choice of WYSIWYG editor in Spark is Aloha (Raptor was considered but didn't make the cut). However I'm really charmed by the Raptor editor and built a quick Drupal (sandbox) module for it. Mostly as a proof of concept, but it works!