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Lally asserts that the Obama administration has launched public attacks on Netanyahu and House Speaker Boehner. It is a given that there is no love lost between the president and the prime minister. I believe that they each possess a Weltanschauung, or world view, fundamentally at odds with the other. Put differently, we have a liberal president and a right-wing prime minister.

No matter how many minutes of his March 3 speech Netanyahu devoted to praising the president, it was all window-dressing. Two of these lessons are relevant today. First, according to our Constitution, the person primarily responsible for formulating foreign policy is the president. He appoints the Secretary of State, all ambassadors, is Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, and negotiates treaties with foreign countries.

Granted, the Senate, by a two-thirds vote, must approve appointments and treaties and only Congress can declare war, but the preponderance of power in the foreign policy realm lies with the president. The politicians here in Great Neck are the worst officials that are in office. They have done absolutely nothing for Great Neck.

I went to one meeting when I lived on Ipswich Avenue and complained that we need a light on the corner when we make. There were many accidents over the years that I lived there and they did nothing about it. Fortunately no one was ever killed but they all knew about it. I wrote to you about it anonymously but now I am writing with my name. A case in point - the snow storms The cleanup is horrendous.

I do not blame the county - I blame our politicians. Myrna Kabren Great Neck. By addressing and criticizing the U. I will not speculate as to motivation, although others have pointed out the excellent sound-bites emanating from the over fifty standing ovations Netanyahu received.

Lally also alludes to the invitation received by General Douglas MacArthur to address Congress in right after President Harry Truman had fired him. What we are not told is that the general had spoken to Republican members of Congress and was guilty of insubordination. Although 60 years separate these two historic events, there are remarkable similarities. In each case, you had unpopular presidents Truman and Obama and their adversaries MacArthur and Netanyahu having an opportunity to publicly state their grievances to an overwhelmingly receptive audience.

Congress joined him on his fantasy ride, rapturously applauding as he spun out one unattainable demand af-. The question then becomes - how do we make the world a safer place - and the answer is by doing exactly what negotiators like Obama and Kerry always do…they negotiate, they compromise, and they get the best verifiable agreement they can. Another pundit worth reading is E. All of which troubles me greatly. Must we support Netanyahu because he is the duly elected prime minister of Israel?

Can we believe that he is wrong as to his facts and policies while still being pro-Israel? Is there a litmus test which says that to question Israel is tantamount to being pro-Arab or anti-Semitic? Being dogmatic is easy…. Hal Sobel Great Neck. Though there are many wonderful teachers who are deserving of the very generous contracts they have, there are, unfortunately, a large number of teachers who should no longer be in front of students; and there is no recourse for them to be removed.

This law gives unions an incentive to resist negotiating structural changes to their contracts, since the status quo will be preserved even if there is no contract. The Triborough Amendment guarantees pay increases for teachers and adds tens of millions of dollars each year to school budgets across the state.

This requirement to finance automatic pay increases has undermined attempts to stretch taxpayer dollars in this time of financial stress. The first step to improving our schools and reducing our taxes is for all of us to demand our legislators to repeal this outmoded year law.

Runaway taxes will eventually erode home values and limit the number of potential families who can afford to live here. My real estate taxes have increased 22 percent in 4 years. The answer to high, school taxes and improved education quality are teacher union contracts that benefit both the students and the teachers, not just the teachers.

Every year schools struggle with their budgets due to the mandated and unsustainable, continual increases for teachers. Increased school budgets offer no additional benefits to the education of children.

Why has this profession been allowed to be impervious all of this? With regard to Ms. Most of us do not work in the community in which we live.

Many of us commute an hour or more to our jobs. It would be interest-. Also Ms. Rubin, schools are not the only reason people move to a particular area. We live here for the community spirit, the small-town feel, the aesthetics, the train to the city, to be with our families that have been here for generations. We remain here after our children have completed school because we have put down roots, have relationships, love the homes we have created, and enjoy our proximity to the city.

To suggest that older folks move out and make room for young families is highly insensitive and ignorant. If we replaced the 40 percent of those homeowners who do not need the school system with young families who do, we would theoretically have 40 percent more students in our schools… with no additional revenues from taxes!

Supporting a school district with 3, students, we would now need to support almost 5, students. That is implausible.

The fact is that I have three children currently attending middle school and high school. There is a teacher who spent more time. My children have teachers who spend more time talking about their personal life, than the academic material. My children had a health teacher ignorantly tell them that homosexuality is a personal choice and a result of their environment.

My children have experienced teachers who are absent excessively. My children are naturally bright, however none of them has been taught how to write a coherent essay. It is time for the truth to be told and for parents of school children and all taxpayers of the community to take a stand.

That is what will give us affordable, quality education for our children. Anna Friscia Manhasset. The weeks go by so slow and I never catch up so here are a few.

They are really not curves and perhaps only around 20 degrees. There is one shown on my map at 30th Street with the bend to the left going south as was the case. Perhaps the driver was unfamiliar with that roadway, was driving too fast to make the appointment or talking to Mr. For those not familiar with that roadway, keep this in mind if they should use it. Again, an article about East Williston and the water. I have a clear abstract perception of the situation.

The closest I can come is that it seems to be a collective neurosis that is pitiable. What is it that causes East Williston to want so badly to hang onto Williston Park?

Just drill your own wells and be done with it! Being retired provides me with the privilege of having the time to stay current with the news and events. It is clear that there is a disjunct with a number of persons who write articles for the papers that differ from the facts: what goes in is not what comes out and with the appearance of the attempt to manipulate and control. Or, like a street gang so wound up in its antics as to lose sight of the rightfulness of its actions.

About immigration: Lebanon is overwhelmed with the number of those escaping terrible things yet is doing its best. Italy is doing what it can for all those coming. We have to keep in mind that it is those in our country who are the appetite for what the drug cartels have to offer. Bill Clinton is said to have signed legislation while president so that our prisons are run by corporations. The more prisoners, the more money. Another way to victimize the minorities too. The courts have to be in on it.

So far there seems to be no one running for president that the. These are delicate times. The next president has to be one that the sane majority of the public can count on for wise leadership.

As it stands, we are stuck with the options presented. The president would have to stay in office until the public elects a suitable replacement.

We really need this safeguard. I am hacking, hacking, hacking away at a wall of ice and snow. I got my wish. But still there is ice.

It seems I have been hacking at this ice forever. I might as well be a prisoner, at a work-camp in Siberia, trapped in my frozen maze. Every couple of hours I shuffle back into my dingy, dimly-lit livingquarters to swallow a crust of bread and a gulp of tea and then shuffle back out to my labors.

I can only hope that the sand from my boots is wearing a rut into some of this ice. I am no lon-. The warden has promised that if we can free the vehicle from the ice before dark, he will authorize a trip for provisions to the local market. That is my goal, because inside the hovel, I mean the house, we are down to our last slice of bread, our last slice of cheese, our last two eggs.

I have become so used to the continuously alarming weather reports that I am now completely numb to them. Not Instead of springing up, car keys at the ready, to rush out and buy bread and milk, I simply sag deeper into my chair.

I pull on another layer of clothing, and dream of an end to this weather. The car is still. A Look on the Lighter Side covered with snow, on a glacial driveway of snow that has been packed down to ice.

All too soon, I must head back out to the prison walls, and hack some more. Much to my surprise, there is a shaft of sunlight streaming down, right in front of me. I freeze in place and close my eyes. The sun feels so delicious and warm on my cheek. I never want to move from this spot. What would it. How luxurious! What a good place for a nap! And when I wake up, maybe there will be a pina colada, or a margarita sitting next to me, with an umbrella and a straw….

Who would be so selfish and inconsiderate to wake me from this? But my son insists on pulling my face out of the snowbank, into which I have fallen. Back to the salt mine. Except we have run out of salt, and are now using kitty litter as a.

I am past caring. Cuomo aid plan for illegals unfair A college education today is expensive … ridiculously expensive. Most families with dreams of sending a child to college need any and all the help they can get.

From scholarships to tuition assistance, every dollar can be the difference between one school or another, between open doors and closed ones, between opportunity and, well …you get the idea. After four years of compromise, working together to produce on-time, reasonable budgets that rewarded New York State with progress unmatched in years — this year, things are different.

In the very first week of budget negotiations the governor has reworded the budget to essentially force both houses of the legislature to fund college educations for illegal immigrants, an effort called the Dream Act. And lest there be any confusion, I want to clarify how few restrictions this plan actually carries. It is not only for undocumented immigrants that came as children and who have already received educations here. This plan would include every illegal alien the moment they set foot in our state and get a high school equivalency diploma.

I am a child of immigrants and while I wholeheartedly believe that a society benefits when anyone is educated, I must take the same position I took when the governor proposed a similar plan for inmates. Not at the expense of opportunities that should, and must,.

The fact is that right now, two thirds of New York college students do not qualify for tuition assistance. As it stands, illegal immigrants can and do receive both elementary school and high school educations in the state of New York, no questions asked. Further, about 10 years ago, they were also afforded in-state tuition rates, a significant savings, when attending state universities and colleges. But how can we jus-. Tuition at private universities jumped percent from to Yet we suddenly — magically — have money for those who have never paid into the system?

Unfortunately, the financial realities of our country do not make college education an unalienable right for anyone as of yet. We do a good job with state universities. But for the governor to threaten withholding tuition assistance to , current New York college students unless the legislature approves including illegal aliens is adding insult to injury.

A college education for everyone is indeed a noble ideal. Our job — our duty — as elected officials is to marshal the limited resources you entrust to us in the fairest and most efficient way possible.

A trip down memory lane will help explain why progress has been so slow for construction of the long anticipated Metropolitan Transportation Authority Second Avenue subway. Good news is that this portion of the work is on schedule and within budget. One trick used by transit managers to complete any project within budget, is to drop a portion of the original scope of work. This saves the necessary dollars which were not available to deliver percent of what was originally promised.

The dirty little secret no one will talk about is that in an attempt to save costs, a decision was made early on in the project to delete a third center express track which was part of the original proposed project scope. The original proposed scope of work called for electrification including a complete set of double tracks. Due to a shortfall in available funding, the project went forward at a reduced scope within the available approved budget.

In an attempt to save money, significant portions of the branch ended up with only one set of electrified tracks. Fast forward 30 years later and you have the Ronkonkoma double track electrification project. It was clearly penny wise and pound foolish not complete the original scope of work thirty years ago.

The contractors were mobilized and on site 30 years ago to do the job. LIRR commuters on the Ronkonkoma branch could have had all the benefits of more frequent service promised upon completion of the double track electrification project by decades earlier at far less cost.

Neighboring Port Jefferson branch riders east of Huntington will have to wait until some time in the s at the earliest for electrification and better service. This would have paid for a significant portion of the project. Without providing local matching dollars toward the project costs, you forfeit the opportunity to.

Transportation planners and some elected officials for decades have advocated extending the proposed Second Avenue subway north to the Bronx and south to Brooklyn. In that time, the proposed Second Avenue subway has been reduced from a 6 track plan to a 2 track plan. Replacing 6 tracks worth of Elevated subways or Els on 2nd and 3rd both lines had center express tracks.

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The round-robin includes matches between members of the same species, but prisoners are not alerted before these matches take place. Note that points are rewarded such that members of the same species earn more points for their species when they both cooperate than when one cooperates and one defects. Prisoners can retain memory of previous rounds over the course of a match but not between different matches.

Evolution : after each round-robin, the population fraction of each species is updated using discrete-time replicator dynamics, i. Prisoners are then re-allocated between different species based on the total tournament population and population fractions, with non-integer numbers of prisoners rounded to the nearest integer. This means that species go extinct when they no longer have a sufficient population fraction to receive at least half a prisoner.

The tournament terminates when populations fractions reach a steady state or, if some species use non-deterministic strategies, when populations appear to have reached a statistically steady state , and the species with the highest population fraction is the winner. To submit a strategy, create a subclass of the Prisoner class defined in Prisoner.

I will submit all three of of them to the tournament, and in the meantime you can use them as reference strategies to test your submissions against. I'm planning to run the tournament on Binder and have set up an environment that includes numpy, scipy, sklearn, and pandas in addition to the Python standard library. If there are other Python packages you want your strategy to be able to use, I'm happy to try to add them.