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Home Palestine Internationalist Volume 5 - Issue 1 Yossef Vashitz's archive: "Operation Hiram"
Yossef Vashitz's archive: "Operation Hiram"
Ilan Pappe, 20 June 2019. As per his original post on Facebook, text follows image.
I attach another document as part of our joint campaign to save the documents that probably will be inaccessible and lost in the future.
This is taken from Yossef Vashitz's archive. Yossef Vashitz was a member of left-wing Zionist movement, 'Hashomer Hazair', whose members joined the PALMACH, the storm groups of the Hagana. In his private collection, there is half page, no date, but refers mainly to "operation Hiram", 90 hours in which the Israeli army occupied the Upper Galilee at the very end of October 1948 (also one village in West Jerusalem is mentioned here).
Even this half a page is indicative of the brutality of the 1948 ethnic cleansing and should be seen in conjunction of the other documents I have posted:
Here is the translation:
"Safsaf – [a village in the upper Galilee occupied in the Hiram operation]. They caught 52 men, tied them one to the other, dug a whole and shot them. Ten were still alive [then thrown into the pit] the women came and asked for mercy".
They found [in Safsaf] bodies of six old men, all in all 61 bodies, three cases of rape (one Mizrahi [Jew rapist] from Safad, a child aged 14 [raped] four men shot and killed. They cut someone's finger in order to remove his ring.
[Vashitz here quotes directly comments written down by a colleague of his in Mapam – the political party representing this ideological Kibbutz movement, Hashomer Hazair – Aharon Cohen (who later would be indicted for espionage for the USSR) during a meeting with one of the members of the Zionist cabal that planned and executed the ethnic cleansing (Ben-Gurion's 'advisory council), Israel Galili. And the full quote appeared in several sources including Benny Morris' book.
Another quote about the massacre in Safsaf that appears in several books is taken from the Yossef Nahmani's Diaries. Yossef Nahmani was a director in the JNF who purchased land for the Zionist project. His diaries revealed a list of atrocities committed in the end of October 1948 during the Hiram operation. On Safsaf he wrote: 'In Safsf, after the soldiers entered the village, its people raised the white flag. They collected the men. Gathered the women and men separately. They tied the hands of 56 villagers and shot them, killed them and buried them in one hole. They also raped few of the women in the village. Near the woods, he (a soldier called Friedman) saw few dead women among them, one holding a dead child in her arms.]
Back to Vashitz's document:
Jish: 400 inhabitants, a woman carrying a baby, both dead, four women (dead), 11 dead troops.
[al-Jish was a village in the Safad District. It was only village spared in an operation Hiram. A Polish Jews by the name of Moshe Zalinzki, decided to go even further then the ethnic cleansing orders he received and ordered, as a commander of chief in that area, to destroy completely the villages of Nabi Rubin, Tarbiha, Suruh, al-Mansura, Iqrit and Bir'iam. Some of these villages had a Maronite population in them and therefore the high command had not as yet decided whether to include them in the ethnic cleansing operation, but eventually did not stop the enthusiastic, kibbutznik to commit his particular version of war crimes].
Ein Zeitun –[a village in the Safad area inspired Eilas Khoury's novel Bab al-Shams] they ripped the women's ears in order to take their earrings.
Bir'im: the same scene. Earrings with ears; killed without reason.
Sasa: [a village in the upper Galilee destroyed in the Hiram operation] cases of murder, especially of old people.
Ilabun:
[A village in the lower Galilee, the Tabaria district, occupied in October 1948 during the Hiram operation]
1000 people, the army received the surrender, massacre, food. The expulsion of the village by shooting began. Thirty people were killed. An order to expel the village. The rumors have reached beyond the border. [under pressure from the international community they many were allowed to return].
Malha – [probably the village in West Jerusalem occupied in July 1948]: 92 old men, babies and women, the house was blown over them.
Mashad [a village near Nazareth; left intact] – wanted to surrender in the time of Qawqji [Fawzi al-Qawqji, the commander of the Arab Liberation Army of volunteers that came to help the Palestinians] he revenged, now we did. "
While is some sources, some of these atrocities are mentioned, they are always mentioned as war crimes committed in the heat of war. As the documents I have shown before indicate clearly, these actions were the rule and not the exception as means of ethnically cleansing Palestine.
Ilan Pappe is the author of numerous books, Ilan Pappe is professor of history and director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at the University of Exeter. Find his titles in the IHRC Bookshop & Gallery.
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By the time Mira Halker started high school, hardly a day passed that she wasn't either getting a migraine attack or recovering from one. She missed volleyball team practice. She missed classes. She missed social events. And few people understood. After all, she looked healthy.
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Her mother, Rashmi B. Halker Singh, MD, is a neurologist at Mayo Clinic who happens to specialize in migraine. Even so, finding a solution was not easy. Neither ibuprofen nor triptans, nor various preventive measures such as a daily prescription for topiramate controlled the pain and associated symptoms. Mira was barely making it through her school day and had to quit volleyball. Then, in the spring of 10th grade, Mira told her mother that she couldn't go to prom because the loud noises and lights could give her a migraine attack.
Mother and daughter decided it was time to get even more aggressive. "There are these key moments in life that you can't get back," Dr. Singh said. "Migraine steals so much from you."
One of the challenges Mira's physicians faced was deciding which medications and other therapies to prescribe to a teenager. Drug companies have been releasing a steady stream of new treatments for migraine headaches, and researchers promise more are on the way soon. Here's what works for children, what hasn't yet been approved for use with minors, and how to diagnose migraines in the first place, from experts at some of the nation's leading pediatric headache centers.
Migraine affects about 10% of children, according to the American Migraine Foundation. The headaches can strike children as early as age 3 or 4 years, said Robert Little, MD, a pediatric neurologist at Phoenix Children's Hospital.
Before puberty, boys report more migraine attacks than girls, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. But that reverses in adolescence: By age 17, as many as 8% of boys and 23% of girls have had migraine. To diagnose migraine, Juliana H. VanderPluym, MD, associate professor of neurology at Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, said she uses the criteria published in the latest edition of the International Classification of Headache Disorders (ICHD): A patient must have had at least five attacks in their life; and in children and adolescents, the attacks must last no less than 2 hours.
In addition, the headaches should exhibit at least two out of four features:
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2. Be of moderate to severe intensity.
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4. Grow worse with activity or cause an avoidance of activity.
If the attacks meet those criteria, clinicians should check to see if they meet at least one out of the two following:
1. Are sensitive to light and sounds.
2. Are associated with nausea and/or vomiting.
A clinician should consider whether the headaches are not better accounted for by another diagnosis, according to the ICHD criteria. But, Dr. VanderPluym warned that does not necessarily mean running a slew of tests.
"In the absence of red flag features, it is more than likely going to be migraine headache," she said. That's especially true if a child has a family history of migraine, as the condition is often passed down from parent to child.
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Q: Ftrace "function" enabling fails with resource busy I am trying to enable "function" tracer in ftrace after going through

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*https://lwn.net/Articles/290277/

*https://lwn.net/Articles/548894/

*https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux_for_real_time/7/html/tuning_guide/using_the_ftrace_utility_for_tracing_latencies
Here are the commands.
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/current_tracer
nop
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_on
#cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/tracing_on
1
# echo function > current_tracer
-sh: echo: write error: Device or resource busy
#

Is there something I missed because of which I am getting "Device or resource busy" when I try function tracer in ftrace.
Any help will be very much appreciated.

A: I had this too. In my case I had the rasdaemon process reading some trace files preventing the current_tracer from being switched.
Here is how I figured it out and solved it.
First I ran lsof:
$ sudo lsof 2>/dev/null | grep /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
bash      2990940                            root  cwd       DIR               0,11         0          1 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
rasdaemon 2997322                            root    5r      REG               0,11         0     132936 /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/instances/rasdaemon/per_cpu/cpu0/trace_pipe_raw
...

My bash was the first one, but the other processes were from the rasedaemon service. I stopped it with:
systemctl stop rasdaemon.service

Then it worked:
$ echo function | sudo tee current_tracer
function
$

A: Fwiw my issue was that I had a reader on the trace or rather trace_pipe file in my case. The reader in my case was bpftool prog tracelog.

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Review: A war story, 'Mosquito Bowl' defines courage, duty
By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL - Sep. 19, 2022 11:11 AM EDT
This book cover image released by Harper shows "The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II" by Buzz Bissinger. (Harper via AP)
"The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II," by Buzz Bissinger (Harper)
U.S. Marines training for the invasion of the Japanese island of Okinawa didn't know they would face the bloodiest fighting in the Pacific theater of World War II. The nearly three-month battle in summer 1945 would cost the Marine Corps, the Army and the Navy nearly 13,000 dead and three times as many wounded.
The Japanese command accepted its 60,000 to 100,000 combat deaths, and the loss of as much as a third of the island's civilian population, to demonstrate their resistance to having the Japanese mainland invaded.
And who were the Marines training for Okinawa? Author Buzz Bissinger, whose bestselling nonfiction book "Friday Nights Lights" explored lives shaped by high school football, taps a footnote in Marine Corps history for "The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II," another story about football and much, much more.
As fate would have it — and fate often takes a hand in wartime — dozens of Marines in the 6th Division training on the south Pacific island of Guadalcanal had played college football, many of them all-American or all-conference players. An offhand observation that the division's 4th and 29th regiments could each field an all-star team led to the so-called Mosquito Bowl on the insect-infested island on Christmas Eve 1944.
Marine brass and hundreds of other Leathernecks — many had placed bets on the outcome — gathered around a makeshift football field to watch the game and get a taste of home. The event even gained some radio airplay in the Pacific and media attention in the U.S. Sixty-five men with college football pedigrees played in the Mosquito Bowl, and Bissinger's compelling narrative closely follows the lives of five of them:
— George Murphy, team captain at Notre Dame and the son of a clerk in South Bend, Indiana.
— Tony Butkovich, an All-American at Purdue and one of seven sons of a Croatian coal miner in central Illinois.
— Robert Bauman, a tackle and punter at Wisconsin. As a kid he had gone to work in the onion fields near his hometown south of Chicago after his father died.
— David Schreiner, an All-American end at Wisconsin whose German immigrant grandfather had established a prosperous family in Lancaster.
— John McLaughry, a blocking back at Brown University, its heavyweight boxing champion and a talented artist with a seemingly limitless future.
All were in their 20s when they fought at Okinawa, an experience that would change them just as would hundreds of thousands of other Americans as well as their families and friends. While plenty of other able-bodied men didn't let the war disrupt their lives, these men postponed offers to play in the NFL, begin careers, marry or start their own families to join the fight.
In exploring the hearts and souls of those who risked everything for their country, Bissinger's book defines some of the qualities that make America great — then, now and forever. And such greatness characterizes exceptional men and women around the world. He also showcases the horrors of war and the blunders that cost lives on the battlefield.
In the book's only misstep, the Mosquito Bowl itself takes up less than a page and doesn't justify the catchy title. Few details of the game apparently survived — the score, an anticlimactic 0-0. If the title is merely a marketing hook, it does a disservice to the subject at hand. This story doesn't need a gimmick to sell it.
But then Bissinger's primary subject was never the Mosquito Bowl itself or even football. Young men going off to war is a familiar story, of course, but one can hope that heroism and sacrifice never go out of fashion or that devotion to duty becomes cliché.
Douglass K. Daniel is the author of "Anne Bancroft: A Life" (University Press of Kentucky).


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Rousseaceae es una familia de plantas del orden Asterales.

La familia contiene tres o cuatro géneros con doce o trece especies. Se encuentran en el este de África, Nueva Guinea, Nueva Zelanda y Australia. Análisis moleculares sugieren que Abrophyllum, Cuttsia y Carpodetus están relacionados con Roussea, no en la familia Escalloniaceae.

Referencias

 Floyd, A.G., Rainforest Trees of Mainland South-eastern Australia, Inkata Press 2008, ISBN 978-0-9589436-7-3 page 326
 http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=fm&name=Rousseaceae

Enlaces externos

 www.mobot.org

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Public Energy Company: business case requirements
Published: 1 Oct 2018
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Energy and Climate Change Directorate
An overview of requirements for a Public Energy Company outline business case.
Section 1 – Background and Context
1.1 The First Minister has publicly set out the Scottish Government's aspirations for a public energy company; particularly in terms of tackling fuel poverty through the offer of a fair price for energy supply.
1.2 Building on the strategic outline case (SOC) published in April 2018 (https://www.gov.scot/Resource/0053/00533962.pdf) the Scottish Government has developed its thinking on how such a public energy company could be developed. To best balance risks and opportunities, and align with the Scottish Government Energy Strategy's local energy principle, a Local Authority led model would be preferable.
1.3 The Outline Business Case (OBC) will assess the best way in which the Scottish Government could work with Local Authorities to deliver the public energy company.
Section 2 – Scope
2.1 The Contractor will prepare and produce an OBC to examine the models for a public energy company and recommend the optimal model including details of the approach to implementation and how the Scottish Government could support Local Authorities to do this.
2.2 This will be conducted along the lines of HM Treasury Green Book guidance and will build on the Strategic Outline Case, and subsequent consideration and development of options. The 5 Case Model should be used, providing detail on the potential Strategic, Economic, Commercial, Financial and Management cases.
2.3 The OBC needs to be sufficiently developed and detailed, with a clear preferred option, to allow the Scottish Government, potentially after further consultation, to make a decision on which option to take forward and proceed to procurement without need for a further options appraisal.
2.4 The OBC will:
Confirm the most appropriate approach for the given objectives and identify the option which optimises value for money;
Develop the preferred option to a stage of development where it can be progressed into the procurement stage;
Provide sufficient information on the delivery vehicle, nature and quantum of funds required in order to support the raising of funding and on-going management arrangements.
2.5 At least two public consultation events will be carried out during the preparation of the OBC with the purpose of gathering stakeholder views.
The Strategic case
2.6 The OBC will develop the strategic case in the SOC to set out the objectives of establishing a public energy company and update the case as required to reflect the increased focus on locally delivered solutions.
2.7 The strategic case of the OBC will detail the case for change, including the scope, constraints and dependencies of a Public Energy Company, high level outputs, impacts on stakeholders, including energy consumers and particularly those in fuel poverty, and highlight risks as well as proposals for mitigation or management. It will need to consider the role of the public energy company within the existing commercial delivery market to inform the assessment of risks and opportunities.
The Economic Case
2.8 The SOC presented a number of options for delivery, the economic case of the OBC will present developed variations of the 'federal model' described in the SOC and provide a detailed analysis of these options and the Scottish Government support that would be effective in facilitating Local Authorities to deliver them.
2.9 The OBC will assess the options to identify a preferred option and to assess potential value for money, affordability and deliverability and to identify/update critical success factors.
2.10 Options for the delivery arrangements for a public energy company could include:
Do nothing – which will provide a baseline and help highlight the impact of the current situation on fuel poverty, this may consider whether existing and planned public sector or market activity impacts on the need for a public energy company ("business as usual");
Providing support directly to Local Authorities to engage in White Label energy supply activity by March 2021;
Establishing a Local Authority led, publicly body to support local government White Label energy supply activity by March 2021;
Assessing the scope to broaden the activity of this body, possibly from 2023 onwards, into direct supply activity linking into generation and economic development ("federated plus").
2.11 The analysis needs to clearly identify the benefits each of the above interventions could make and the risks to the deliverability of these.
2.12 The Scottish Government offer to support Local Authorities will be investigated.
2.13 The contractor should identify any potential state aid issues associated with the various options, and how these could be mitigated or overcome.
2.14 From such an initial focus the level of public sector activity is expected over time to lead both to the delivery of local energy systems and to associated economic development opportunities.
2.15 As part of its assessment, the OBC should consider whether a target number of customers will be required to establish a financially sustainable scheme.
2.16 Market assessment should consider recent decisions by the CMA and Ofgem – i.e. since the SOC was undertaken. It should consider both domestic and SME business customers.
2.17 The OBC should include a detailed description of business scope and service outputs/requirements for the preferred option, including;
Consideration of governance and appropriate roles and responsibility.
Likely costs and benefits to individual partners, not just local authorities; including additionality associated with existing schemes and responsibilities.
2.18 From the shortlisted options a preferred way forward should be highlighted based on net present costs/net present value findings, benefits appraisal, risk assessment and sensitivity analysis. The optimal structure for the organisation should be investigated and identified.
The Commercial Case
2.19 This case will assess whether the proposed Publicly Owned Energy Company is attractive to Local Authorities in order for them to take up the offered support. Furthermore, it will assess whether the resulting Local Authority supply company/companies would be attractive to the retail energy market, can be procured and are commercially viable.
2.20 The contractor will assess at what cost the electricity could be offered to customers and whether this would be attractive to the customers. Income forecasts should be developed and tested robustly showing the forecast charge to users, how many users will adopt the new service and anticipated costs.
2.21 The commercial case will also include an exploration of the scope, risks and timescales for the Public Energy Company. Accounting and classification for a Public Energy Company should also be explored.
2.22 Analysis of the commercial models of existing suppliers which prioritise social benefit and what lessons are applicable to the shortlisted options will strengthen this commercial case.
The Financial Case
2.23 Overall affordability should be included in the financial case. Affordability analysis should set out the costs of the Public Energy Company and sources of funding.
2.24 The financial case should address the set up costs and include an assessment of the on-going operating costs and taxation issues for both the Scottish Government and Local Authorities– e.g. VAT, direct tax.
2.25 The case will allow Scottish Government to be able to clearly demonstrate the Scottish Government's potential required financial commitments and which budgets these would call on.
2.26 The case will include potential capital requirement, and potential impact on income and expenditure accounts.
The Management Case
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Q: WCF Rest - what are the best practices? Just started my first WCF rest project and would like some help on what are the best practices for using REST.
I have seen a number of tutorials and there seems to be a number of ways to do things...for example if doing a POST, I have seen some tutorials which are setting HttpStatusCodes (OK/Errors etc), and other tutorials where they are just returning strings which contain result of the operation.
At the end of the day, there are 4 operations and surely there must be a guide that says if you are doing a GET, do it this way, etc and with a POST, do this...
Any help would be appreciated.
JD

A: UPDDATE
Use ASP.NET Web API.

OK I left the comment REST best practices: dont use WCF REST. Just avoid it like a plague and I feel like I have to explain it.
One of the fundamental flaws of the WCF is that it is concerned only with the Payload. For example Foo and Bar are the payloads here.
[OperationContract]
public Foo Do(Bar bar)
{
    ...
}

This is one of the tenants of WCF so that no matter what the transport is, we get the payload over to you.
But what it ignore is the context/envelope of the call which in many cases transport specific - so a lot of the context get's lost. In fact, HTTP's power lies in its context not payload and back in the earlier versions of WCF, there was no way to get the client's IP Address in netTcpBinding and WCF team were adamant that they cannot provide it. I cannot find the page now but remember reading the comments and the MS guys just said this is not supported.
Using WCF REST, you lose the flexibility of HTTP in expressing yourself clearly (and they had to budge it later) in terms of:

*

*HTTP Status code

*HTTP media types

*ETag, ...

The new Web API, Glenn Block is working addresses this issue by encapsulating the payload in the context:
public HttpResponse<Foo> Do(HttpRequest<Bar> bar) // PSEUDOCODE
{
    ...
}

But to my test this is not perfect and I personally prefer to use frameworks such as Nancy or even plain ASP NET MVC to expose web API.

A: There are some basic rules when using the different HTTP verbs that come from the HTTP specification
GET: This is a pure read operation. Invocation must not cause state change in the service. The response to a GET may be delivered from cache (local, proxy, etc) depending on caching headers
DELETE: Used to delete a resource
There is sometimes some confusion around PUT and POST - which should be used when? To answer that you have to consider idempotency - whether the operation can be repeated without affecting service state - so for example setting a customer's name to a value can be repeated multiple times without further state change; however, if I am incrementing a customer's bank balance this cannot be safely be repeated without further state change on the service. The first is said to be idempotent the second is not
PUT: Non-delete state changes that are idempotent
POST: Non-delete state changes that are not idempotent
REST embraces HTTP - therefore failures should be communicated using HTTP status codes. 200 for success, 201 for creation and the service should return a URI for the new resource using the HTTP location header, 4xx are failures due to the nature of the client request (so can be fixed by the client changing what they are doing), 5xx are server errors that can only be resolved server side

A: There's something missing here that needs to be said.
WCF Rest may not be able to provide all functionality of REST protocol, but it is able to facilitate REST protocol for existing WCF services. So if you decide to provide some sort of REST support on top of the current SOAP/Named pipe protocol, it's the way to go if the ROI is low.
Hand rolling full blown REST protocol maybe ideal, but not always economical. In 90% of my projects, REST api is an afterthought. Wcf comes in quite handy in that regard.


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Q: Operation that return true if all leaves in the tree equal to their parents hi I tried to this but its not work , I need to write operation that return true if all leaves in the tree equal to their parents value  , please help I have test , maybe its a Main Problem?
Main:
static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        BinNode<int> t1, t2, bt1, bt2, bt;

        t1 = new BinNode<int>(3);
        t2 = new BinNode<int>(3);
        t2.SetLeft(new BinNode<int>(null, 3, new BinNode<int>(3)));
        bt1 = new BinNode<int>(t1, 3, t2);
        bt1 = new BinNode<int>(null, 3, bt1);
       t1 = new BinNode<int>(3);
        t2 = new BinNode<int>(3);
        t2.SetLeft(new BinNode<int>(3));
        t2.SetRight(new BinNode<int>(new BinNode<int>(3), 3, null));
        bt2 = new BinNode<int>(t1, 3, t2);
        bt = new BinNode<int>(bt1, 3, bt2);

        Console.WriteLine(SumTree(bt));
        Console.WriteLine(LeafCounter(bt));
        Console.WriteLine(CountWhoHasTwoSameSons(bt));
        Console.WriteLine(IsLeafEqualHisFather(bt));
        Console.ReadLine();
    }

Operation:
 public static  bool IsLeafEqualHisFather(BinNode<int> Head)
    {
        if (Head != null)
        {
            if (IsLeaf(Head))
                return true;
            if (IsLeaf(Head.GetRight()) == true && (Head.GetRight().GetValue() == Head.GetValue()) || IsLeaf(Head.GetLeft()) == true && (Head.GetLeft().GetValue() == Head.GetValue()))
            {
                return IsLeafEqualHisFather(Head.GetRight()) && IsLeafEqualHisFather(Head.GetLeft());
            }

        }
        return false;
    }

A: Basically you need to first check if the given node is null or a leaf.  If not then you need to determine if the left and right nodes are null and if not if they are leaves or sub-trees.  If they are leaves then you need to compare the value to the head, or if they are sub-trees you need to recursively call the method on the sub-tree.
public static  bool AllLeavesEqualToParent(BinNode<int> Head)
{
    if (Head == null)
        return false; // no leaves and no parent.

    if (IsLeaf(Head))
        return false; // head is a leaf, so there is no parent.

    var right = head.GetRight();
    var left = head.GetLeft();
    if(left != null)
    {
        if (IsLeaf(left))
        {
            if (left.GetValue() != Head.GetValue())
                return false; // left leaf didn't match
        }
        else if(!AllLeavesEqualToParent(left))
            return false; // left sub tree has leaf that doesn't match parent.
    }

    if(right!= null)
    {
        if (IsLeaf(right))
        {
            if (right.GetValue() != Head.GetValue())
                return false; // right leaf didn't match
        }
        else if(!AllLeavesEqualToParent(right))
            return false; // right sub tree has leaf that doesn't match parent.
    }

    return true; //Both left and right are either null (but not both), a leaf that matches
                 // the head, or sub trees with all leaves that match their parents.
}

A: It looks like the main issue here is that you only perform the recursive check if that whole big if expression evaluates to true. But that will only be true if you're already looking at leaves, so if you're starting at the top of a large tree, you're out of look.
Let's simplify it - check whether the left passes the test. This means one of the following:
1. The left node is null
2. The left node is a leaf and has the same value as the current node
3. The left node is not a leaf and passes the IsLeafEqualHisFather test.
The repeat the same for the right. Then check whether they both passed or not.
Side note: there is (almost) never to use [something] == true. [something] serves that purpose all on its own.
public static  bool IsLeafEqualHisFather(BinNode<int> current)
{
    if (current != null)
    {
        if (IsLeaf(current))
        {
            return true;
        }

        var currentValue = current.GetValue();

        var left = current.GetLeft();
        var leftPasses = left == null ||
            IsLeaf(left) ? left.GetValue() == currentValue : IsLeafEqualHisFather(left);

        var right = current.GetRight();
        var rightPasses = right == null ||
            IsLeaf(right) ? left.GetValue() == currentValue : IsLeafEqualHisFather(left));

        return leftPasses && rightPasses;
    }

    return false;
}


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using System;

class isFemale
{
    static void Main()
    {
        Console.Title = "Gender check";
        Console.WriteLine("I am a boy. True or false?");
        string answerstring = Console.ReadLine();
        while (answerstring != "true" && answerstring != "false")
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Please enter True or False! \n");
            Console.WriteLine("I am a boy. True or false?");
            answerstring = Console.ReadLine();
        }
        bool answer = bool.Parse(answerstring);
        if (answer == true)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("That is right!");
        }
        else
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Next life maybe :) ");
        }
    }
}

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Surakarta, més coneguda com a Solo o Sala, és una ciutat d'Indonèsia al centre de Java, província de Java Central, amb una població de 520.061 habitants el 2009. La ciutat té una superfície de 44 km² dividits en cinc subdistrictes, i limita amb les regències de Karanganyar i Boyolali al north, Karanganyar i Sukoharjo a l'est i oest, i Sukoharjo al sud. A l'est hi ha el riu Bengawan Solo. La ciutat és seu del sultà de Surakarta que hi té el seu kraton (palau/cort), però només gaudeix de poder cerimonial. Junt amb Yogyakarta, Surakarta és l'hereu del regne de Mataram, dividit en dos regnes el 1755. Té l'aeroport internacional Adisumarmo a 14 km al nord.

Administració
Surakarta té estatus de ciutat especial, que equival a regència,. Junt amb les veïnes regències de Karanganyar, Sukowati, Wonogiri, Sukoharjo, Klaten i Boyolali, formaven l'antiga residència holandesa de Surakarta (Soerakarta). Sota la república va adquirir l'estatus de ciutat regulada i fou dividida en cinc subdistrictes (kecamatan), cadascun dirigit per un camat, i en 51 kelurahan, cadascun dirigit per un lurah. Els cinc subdistrictes són:

 Kecamatan Pasar Kliwon amb 9 kelurahans
 Kecamatan Jebres amb 11 kelurahans
 Kecamatan Banjarsari amb 13 kelurahans
 Kecamatan Lawiyan o Laweyan amb 11 kelurahans
 Kecamatan Serengan amb 7 kelurahans

Història
Jogyakarta fou la capital del regne de Mataram des de 1582 i Surkarta en feia part. La capital va passar a Kartasura (vers 1677/1680) i l'islam fou adoptat com a religió oficial, respectant les tradicions javaneses. Un enfrontament entre mariners xinesos i holandesos a Batavia (els xinesos foren massacrats) va derivar en una revolta contra la influència excessiva de la Companyia Holandesa de les Índies Orientals que es va estendre a l'interior de Java i el sultà de Mataram Paku Buwono II va deixar el seu kraton de Kartasura i es va instal·lar a un poble de nom Solo o Sala, a uns 12 km a l'est de l'antiga capital, i a la vora del riu Bengawan Solo. El lloc fou rebatejat Surakarta i s'hi va establir el 1745. La Companyia el va obligar a cedir-li amplies zones de la costa i de l'interior. Paku Buwono II (Paku Buwono = Eix de l'Univers) va morir el 1749 i els holandesos van declarar rei (susuhunan) al príncep hereu amb el nom de Paku Buwono III, però a Jogyakarta un germà petit del rei difunt (i el seu rival des de feia temps), que tenia el suport dels opositors als holandesos, es va proclamar rei com a Mangku Bumi III. El 1755 el regne de Mataram es va dividir formalment i es van formar dos regnes rivals: Kasunanan Surakarta Hadinigrat i Kasutanan Yogyakarta Hadinigrat. El rei de Jogyakarta va agafar el títol de sultà que havia utilitzat Aung el sobirà més important de Mataram (1613-1646) en virtut d'un acta vinguda de la Meca; va agafar el nom de Hamengkubuwono I i va fundar la dinastia que encara regna a Jogyakarta (Hamengkubuwono X va pujar al tron el 1988). Els dos regnes encara van patir altres particions posteriorment: al persistent rebel Raden Mas Said, germà petit de Paku Buwono II, li fou concedida una part del regne de Surkarta que ja dominava des de 1757, amb el títol de Magku Negara, amb residència a la mateixa Surkarta; Paku Alam va rebre alguns districtes de Jogyakarta de mans dels britànics el 1812 (formant l'estat de Paku Alaman). Des de 1830 l'autoritat holandesa sobre els principats vassalls va ser regulada i va passar a ser un control indirecte.

Al final de la II Guerra Mundial Paku Buwono XII, entronitzat poques setmanes abans de la proclamació de la república d'Indonèsia (proclamació efectiva el 17 d'agost de 1945), va intentar mantenir la seva autoritat declarant el seu regne com a "regió d'excepció" (dara istimewa) dins la república, sota la seva pròpia administració com a susuhunan; però el descrèdit de les formes feudals, el poc suport contra el retorn dels holandesos (el 1946), l'auge dels comunistes i altres factors, van provocar que aviat la seva autoritat quedés reduïda al seu palau. El 1950 el territori del sultanat i el regne de Mangku Negara foren declarats incorporats a la província de Java Central (Jawa Tengah) i Surakarta només va conservar l'estatus de ciutat residencial (kabupaten)

Llista de sultans de Surkarta
 Vegeu per abans del 1755 Regne de Mataram
 Paku Buwono III (1732 - 1788) 11 de desembre de 1749 - 26 de setembre de 1788, des de 1755 establert a Surakarta.
 Paku Buwono IV (1768 - 1820) 1788 - 1 d'octubre de 1820
 Paku Buwono V (1784 - 1823) 1820 - 5 de setembre de 1823
 Paku Buwono VI (1807 - 1849) 1823 - 14 de juny de 1830
 Paku Buwono VII (1796 - 1858) 1830 - 10 de maig de 1858
 Paku Buwono VIII (1789 - 1861) 1858 - 28 de desembre de 1861
 Paku Buwono IX (1830 - 1893) 1861 - 17 de març de 1893
 Paku Buwono X (1866 - 1939) 1893 - 20 de febrer de 1939
 Paku Buwono XI (1886 - 1945) 1939 - 1 de juny de 1945
 Paku Buwono XII (1925 - 2004) 1945 - 11 de juny de 2004
 Paku Buwono XIII (1948 - ) 10 de setembre de 2004 -
 Paku Buwono XIII (1954 - ) 2004 - (en oposició)

Bandera
La bandera del sultà és groc taronja; a una fotografia de la bandera al seu palau (kraton) no s'hi veu serrell o vora, però sembla que habitualment porta un serrell blau per les vores.

Vegeu també
 Bàtik
 Yogyakarta

Notes

Bibliografia
 Miksic, John (general ed.), et al. (2006) Karaton Surakarta. A look into the court of Surakarta Hadiningrat, central Java (First published: 'By the will of His Serene Highness Paku Buwono XII'. Surakarta: Yayasan Pawiyatan Kabudayan Karaton Surakarta, 2004) Marshall Cavendish Editions Singapore
 Soeharto, G. Dwipayana dan Ramadhan K.H. Ucapan, Pikiran dan Tindakan Saya. 1988. PT Citra Lamtoro Gung.

Enllaços externs

 Institut Seni Indonesia Surakarta

Geografia de Java
Ciutats d'Indonèsia


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Adorján Emil, 1890-ig Auspitz, írói álnevén: Leander (Nagyvárad, 1873. augusztus 15. – Mauthausen, 1944 ősze) ügyvéd, író, gyorsírásszakértő.

Élete
Családnevét 1890-ben változtatta Auspitzról Adorjánra. Egyetemi tanulmányait Budapesten és Berlinben végezte.  Már egyetemi évei alatt szerkesztette (1890-93) a Budapesten megjelenő Gyorsírók Lapját. 1896-ban visszatért Nagyváradra, ahol 1911-ig a Nagyvárad című lap munkatársa volt. 1915 és 1916 között a Nagyváradi Ügyvédi Kamara alelnöke, 1916 és 1919 között a Nagyváradi Ügyvédi Szövetség elnöke volt.

1919 után visszavonult a közélettől. 1944-ben a mauthauseni koncentrációs táborba hurcolták, ahonnan nem tért vissza.

Művei
 Tizenöt gyorsírási óra (Nagyvárad, 1891)
 Gyorsírási olvasókönyv a Stolze-Fenyvessy rendszer szerint (Nagyvárad, 1893)
 Olivia bosszúja (humoros regény, Nagyvárad, 1898)
 Komoly pillanatok (humoreszkek, Budapest, 1899)
 Osztrák jog (Budapest, 1900)

Jegyzetek

Források

További információk
 Erdélyi lexikon. Szerk. Osváth Kálmán. Oradea-Nagyvárad, Szabadsajtó Könyv- és Lapkiadó Rt., 1928.
 Gulyás Pál: Magyar írók élete és munkái. Bp., Magyar Könyvtárosok és Levéltárosok Egyesülete, 1939-2002. 7. kötettől sajtó alá rend. Viczián János
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 Horák Magda: A magyar értelmiség veszteségei az 1940-es években. [Bp.], Szerző, [1996].
 Humorlexikon. Szerk. Kaposy Miklós. Bp., Tarsoly Kiadó, 2001.
 Magyar életrajzi lexikon I-II. Főszerk. Kenyeres Ágnes. Bp., Akadémiai Kiadó, 1967-1969.
 Magyar zsidó lexikon. Szerk. Ujvári Péter. Bp., Zsidó Lexikon, 1929.
 Révai Új Lexikona. Főszerk. Kollega Tarsoly István. Szekszárd, Babits, 1996-.
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A Dallas, Texas, doctor faces allegations of malpractice after performing illegal injections and botched medical procedures on patients.
The Dallas Observer reports the doctor's record of illegal practices dates back to 2004, when he was caught illegally selling prescription medications over the internet. He was fined $25,000 and was not allowed to prescribe illicit medications like morphine, codeine, Vicodin and anabolic steroids.
Yet, the doctor was just recently accused of injecting a mixed martial artist with an illegal dose of testosterone before an upcoming important fight. The injections only came to light after the fighter failed tests for banned substances, such as performance-enhancing testosterone.
Other complaints of medical malpractice against the doctor claim that he performed a botched liposuction procedure on a patient. He had received training only by reading manuals that came with the liposuction equipment used for the procedure, taking an online class with an examination, and performing a single previous procedure.
The doctor was ordered to stop performing plastic surgery after the botched procedure, but is still allowed to practice medicine in the state of Texas until a hearing before the State Office of Administrative Hearings and Texas Medical Board.
The drug injury lawyers with Ferrer, Poirot & Wansbrough say this is why it is so important to ask your doctor plenty of questions regarding their background and experience before accepting their care and diagnosis of your condition.


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Industrial Development and Living Standard Improvement in the State of West Bengal. Volatility cant be predicted, but it can be anticipated. After all, three interest rate hikes from the.S. Volatility can also be measured as: The percentage price movement from weekly open to weekly close. Japan is a unique economy, with large manufacture and export of automobiles and electronic goods. Pip movement from high to low. JPY To PKR.16.19 10 Nov, 2018, jPY To PKR.16.19 09 Nov, 2018, jPY To PKR.16.19 08 Nov, 2018.
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Market polls open each day at 4:30 pm et and close the following day at the same time. But Washingtons new duties were set at 10 percent for now, before rising to 25 percent by the end of 2018, rather than an outright 25 percent. The percentage price movement from weekly high to low. Beijing retaliated with duties on about 60 billion worth.S. Highest-TO-lowest percentage price movement open TO close from july 10 TO july. The main thing you should grasp from those points is that it will have different behavior depending on your reference time period. The Japanese Yen is the national currency for the nation of Japan, which has the third largest national economy in terms of Nominal GDP. Equities continue to attract capital like magnets. Over-leveraging your positions in an undercapitalized account when high volatility strikes can be very painful if you are on the wrong side of the market.


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package gw.util;

import gw.config.CommonServices;
import gw.fs.IDirectory;
import gw.fs.IFile;
import gw.fs.ResourcePath;
import gw.lang.reflect.module.IModule;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.jar.Attributes;
import java.util.jar.Manifest;

/**
 * Utility class to scan for certain manifest headers through the classpath.
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public final class Extensions {
  public static final String CONTAINS_SOURCES = "Contains-Sources";

  public static List<String> getExtensions(IDirectory dir, String headerName) {
    List<String> extensions = new ArrayList<String>();
    getExtensions(extensions, dir, headerName);
    return extensions;
  }

  public static boolean containsManifest(IDirectory dir) {
    IFile manifestFile = dir.file( "META-INF/MANIFEST.MF" );
    return manifestFile != null && manifestFile.exists();
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  public static void getExtensions(Collection<String> result, IDirectory dir, String headerName) {
    IFile manifestFile = dir.file( "META-INF/MANIFEST.MF" );
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The Purim Story can be a challenging one to make kid friendly, especially little-kid friendly. I found this great telling of the story. It talks about Haman wanting the Jews to "go away". This works a lot better for me than explaining that the gallows were being built.
We also made these great puppets. I had the printed sheets waiting on the kitchen table for my kids one morning. We had a great chill time coloring them, talking about the characters, answering a lot of questions, and then acted out the story over and over again. It helped that the story above gave me the words to make it fun and accessible.
One of the tricks to making hamantaschen dough is that once you make it, it needs to chill. My little one and I made the dough, but then weren't going to be able to make cookies for a while. In order to keep her busy, and prevent a tantrum, we practiced folding hamantaschen with Play-doh and checkers.
And I wouldn't be me without recommending another video. This is a great version of the Purim story with a few modern twists and Ester sings a chant that my kids have been saying all day!


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Why Meghan Markle Will Turn To Kate Middleton For Advice Despite Rumored Rift
Mimi Heimbrod | Jul 10 2019, 12:22AM EDT
Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton are rumored to be feuding with each other. But in a surprising claim by a royal expert, it has been said that the Duchess of Sussex will soon turn to the Duchess of Cambridge for advice.
While speaking with The Sun's Fabulous Online, royal author Katie Nicholl said that Meghan will ask Kate for travel tips. The "Suits" alum is scheduled to visit South Africa in the autumn with Prince Harry and their son, Archie.
The royal tour will be the first time for Meghan to travel with an infant. Kate, on the other hand, has already traveled with her children on some of her tours with Prince William.
Nicholl went on to say that even though Meghan has a lot of celebrity friends who also have children, Kate's experience in traveling with a baby on an actual royal tour could help Meghan prepare herself better. Prince Harry's wife's friends are mostly non-royals.
"I think Meghan has an amazing support team around her of women, fellow mothers, who are like her very high profile," Nicholl said. "Serena Williams traveled around the world with a young baby for her career as a professional tennis player. Amal and George travel with their twins," she added.
But while Meghan has friends who also travel with their children across the globe, royal tours are an entirely different story. Kate is the closest royal who Meghan can seek advice and tips from.
And by the looks of it, Kate would be more than willing to help Meghan out even though they are rumored to be feuding with each other. Even before Meghan tied the knot, a source already told US Weekly that Kate has been helping the former actress adjust with her new life as a royal.
Since Meghan Markle used to live in Nottingham Cottage, she would reportedly visit Kate in Kensington Palace, and they will have tea together. Kate also reportedly told Meghan that if she ever needed anything, she shouldn't hesitate to get in touch with her.
A source also said that Prince Harry made sure that Prince William would also be available to Meghan. "You can't trust anyone more than family," the source said.
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, attend day twelve of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships. Both women are known for their chic outfits when attending royal engagements. Clive Mason/Getty Images
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Developmental psychologist, journalist, and bestselling author Susan Pinker is very busy these days providing advice to the public about how to overcome loneliness and maintain human contact in an age of social distancing.
An authority on the importance of social connectedness, Susan visited the NYS Writers Institute in November 2014 with her book, The Village Effect: How Face-To-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier and Smarter.
We caught up with her at her home in Montreal.
Q: What's the single most important thing we can do at the present time?
A: Call your mother!
Q: What do you do to connect with people?
A: Zoom with my three kids every Sunday. Call my 86-year-old mother and bring her food. Chat with my neighbors and friends from six feet away during my daily walks. Try to stay in touch with your people during this lockdown! If you're on Zoom overload, just call.
Q: Any fresh news from your life?
A: I live in Canada, and the new, new things are the spring bulbs: narcissus, hyacinth and chionidoxa —also called angel of the snow — blooming in my garden.
Q: What do you do to stay sane?
A: Bake bread. I made my first every whole wheat sourdough a few days ago. I'm still learning. I also make wood and lino cut prints on my kitchen table, and I send them out to friends and family by mail.
Q: Anything you'd like us to read?
A: Washington Black by Canadian novelist Esi Edugyan. Her journey of imagination will take you right out of your pandemic concerns. Also Nemesis by Philip Roth.
Q: Any dishes we should try making?
A: Ratatouille. It's rewarding and can keep you fed for several days. On day two or three, crack two eggs in the middle of a pan of ratatouille and make shakshouka for brunch. It's excellent with hot sauce.
Q: What do you do to stay physically active?
A: I do an hour of Zoom "land workouts" with my swim coach, Omar, and 10 swim buddies three times a week, and go for walks in my neighborhood nearly every day. Sure wish I had a dog to accompany me!
Q: Any other advice?
A: This lockdown won't last forever. Try to do something you've always wanted to do, if you have the opportunity.
More quarantine advice from Susan Pinker
"In fact, neglecting to keep in close contact with people who are important to you is at least as dangerous to your health as a pack-a-day cigarette habit, hypertension, or obesity."
"Few see looking after others as therapeutic for the person who does the caretaking, or consider community involvement as therapeutic as drugs. Yet there is mounting evidence that a rich network of face-to-face relationships creates a biological force field against disease."
― Susan Pinker, The Village Effect: How Face-to-Face Contact Can Make Us Healthier, Happier, and Smarter
The science of staying connected, Wall Street Journal, April 2, 2020
Meditations On loneliness, NPR TED Radio Hour, April 25, 2020: Full Episode: https://n.pr/2VvAiYg
The emotional benefits of getting older, Wall Street Journal, April 25, 2020
How to manage your loneliness, New York Times: April 20, 2020
Video excerpt from Susan Pinker's visit to the NYS Writers Institute, 2014
TED talk: April 2017


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More bad news about the O-line
Thread starter musccy
musccy
On the TCR up here in GB tonite, they mentioned that the starting guards STILL haven't been solidified, in fact, they said that Wells (and they hinted at Reugamer) has been shifted in and out of the starting group this week to find something that's working.
Beightol obviously need to figure out who's best suited for the job, but this is also significantly hindering the progress of the line when the same 5 are never working together.
all about da packers
Musccy, I suspect they want to be completly sure, but it is a little worrying. However, given time, then the Pack will get their line together. Here is some encoraging news:
"Closing in: Rossley said he had "a pretty good idea" which players would start at guard on Sept. 11 but wants to see what transpires in Tennessee before divulging them"
From http://www.jsonline.com/packer/news/aug05/352452.asp
Well at least we have clear front runners. Hope it all works out with the two who will start. Personally I think its Whitt and Klemm (but I wouldn't be surprised to see Wells get the nod)
ArizonaPackerFan
I wasn't worried about this when we lost Wahle and Rivera because I figured at least one of the 2 between Klemm and o'dwyer would pan out, and that we could always move Taushar if we had to. But O'dwyer didn't pan out, Klemm is shakey, and it sounds like they don't want to move Taushar. It's unsettling, because our running game and protection hasn't looked too impressive yet.
It's a lot of pressure too for a 7th round rookie to have Favre's fate in his hands. We've had unknowns come in before and do a good job, but it's not the route I'd prefer. Hopefully it works out.
I agree AZ...They had an entire offseason of minicamps, FA, TC, and here we are about 10 days b4 the season and we're still playing musical chairs.
I trust that if they pick SOMETHING and stick w/ it that the pass protection and run blocking will eventually get better, but I wouldn't be surprised if it took 2-3 weeks w/ a set unit for that to happen, hence my urgency as a fan to see them establish some group of 5, whomever it may be.
Well Hopefully we will see tonight what they go with and like you said musccy I hope they stick with it
Yeah would you like to be the responsible party when Favre gets sacked... Oooh man.
tromadz
It can't be that bad if the packers cut O'Dwyer. They wouldn't cut O'Dwyer if they werent in trouble. They arent in trouble, they just dont know who to go with. it sounds like they both have their good points. It looks like whatever decision is made, wont be a bad one.
tromadz said:
No disrespect here, but don't you mean they wouldn't cut him if they "were" in trouble? Just trying to understand your post.
Here's to Clifton's good health this seasson.
Bedell was brought in by Sherman and more expendable than White or Coston who were Thompson guys.
Thompson has final say on cuts.
fvre4mvp
Whats the deal w/ Barry is he strictly U-71
The pegs are there, now just plug them in their proper holes.
I still think that Wells needs to be a starter either at center or guard. He is too valuable to be a backup. Flanny is either hurt or underperforming right now and we've all seen Klemm has a long ways to go. I hope Beightol uses Wells as a starter this season.
I'm thinking Beightol may see something - depending on which Team we're up against - Is it a 3-4, or a 4-3 Defense we're seeing that week and which Players would do better depending on the week..... I'm no Guru, but it appears that way for now....
Probably what will happen - is that Wells & Ruegamer get the final call.... JMHO
I think you're right on Prez. Wells and Reugy have both shown that they can play at this level since they had some time last season. I like their chances of cracking the starting the lineup unless this Whitticker keeps Ruegamer on the sidelines.
fvre4mvp said:
I am no expert but what I have heard over the past yr or so is they use the U71 formation so much and Barry is so effective in it that they don't want to put him on to the starting line if they can avoid it. Some of this stems from the fact no one else has been able to take his place in the U71 formation.
Philtration
ArizonaPackerFan said:
Funny but I said the same thing over a month ago. I thought that it was strange that so many were optimistic about the Packers loosing not one but two starters from the O line and having nothing special to replace them with. The last thing you need is a lot of DL from other teams blowing past these guys and getting to Favre and Green 10 yards behind the line of scrimmage. I hope that the Bears blitz early and often against the Packers. Go after Mr. Butterfingers and get Favre to force the ball into a very good secondary and line backing crew.
ORRELSE
Philtration said:
Its almost like you are trying to pick fights tonight. Go on your Bears forum and start a "I hate Favre" thread instead of trolling here, PLEASE.
The bottom line on losing Wahle and Rivera is that neither of them are worth the money they got, especially when guards aren't real hard to replace. Case in point, we have a 7th round draft choice rookie starting there next week.
As most any Packer fan knows, Larry Beightol will get this group to perform, as he has for years now. Our O-line is always a strength and it will be again this year. You don't magically fix losing 2 players of Wahle and Rivera's caliber overnight.
I have no doubt by mid season that Wahle and Rivera will be a distant memory.
ORRELSE said:
Really? It was ArizonaPackerFan who had the doubts about the O line but I guess that you only read my comments. You are contradicting yourself left and right here. You say guards aren't real hard to replace and then say you don't magically fix losing 2 players of Wahle and Rivera's caliber overnight. You say Larry Beightol will get this group to perform, as he has for years now and then say you have a 7th round draft choice rookie starting there next week and not a player of Wahle and Rivera's caliber. Putting a Packers uniform on someone does not mean that you replaced two pro bowlers. They were not worth the money? What are they saving it for? You believe that all you need is a coach and not the players to actually play the games.
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I am writing to express my humble opinion on the new proposed rules for fully autonomous vehicles without drivers. When drafting the rules that will govern fully autonomous vehicles in the State of California, I would ask that you take the following statement into account: a child born today will never drive.
As a parent, this is a blessing and something that I am extremely thankful for as distracted driving is a national epidemic. In 2015, more than 35,000 people died in motor vehicle accidents in the United States. Of these, 26% lead to deaths that were caused by distracted driving.
This is a number that unfortunately I expect will grow as individuals in the United States look at their devices over 8 billion times a day. Americans have become falsely accustomed to driving while checking their smartphones.
The only way to solve this epidemic and ensure that our roads are safe is to openly embrace fully autonomous vehicles without drivers. To achieve this goal, the DMV should remove the burdens currently put on the autonomous vehicle industry of requiring disengagement reporting. The current disengagement reports have caused misleading public narratives in the media.
Misleading narratives have a dramatic negative effect on the timeline for the adoption of fully autonomous vehicles. The general public follows the headlines, and for the most part, do not read the full report. These misleading narratives generate headlines that only increase web traffic, leading to greater advertising revenue.
This vicious cycle will only continue if the DMV requires disengagement reporting. If the DMV removes the disengagement reporting requirement, the autonomous vehicle industry would be more inclined to expand testing of fully autonomous vehicles in the State of California.
As an alternative to disengagement reporting, the DMV may want to consider ways to have autonomous vehicle companies report things the vehicles did well or safely. For example, when an autonomous vehicle came to a stop in order to avoid a collision, this could be reported.
This approach would send a much more powerful message to the public and it is inline with the DMV's mission to serve the public by providing quality.
The DMV has to encourage the testing of fully autonomous vehicles in the State of California. Over 38 million California residents are counting on the DMV to make our roads safer.
If the DMV takes the proper action with the new proposed rules for fully autonomous vehicles without drivers, our roads will be safer. With fully autonomous vehicles, parents of children born today will never receive the life changing call that their child has been involved in a deadly car accident.
In the future, this call will never come as autonomous vehicles are taking us towards zero deaths.
I sincerely hope that the DMV will support and openly embrace fully autonomous vehicles. Our children are counting on you to do the right thing.
Letter was written by Brulte & Company Co-Founder Grayson Brulte that was sent to the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) on April 7, 2017 per the submission guidelines.


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London's Beating Retreat Military Ceremony
Brass bands, galloping horses and cannons being fired – it's not what you expect to find in most cities, but it is fitting for London, a place filled with hundreds of years of traditions. Whether it's Changing the Guard or Trooping the Colour, London knows how to do pomp and pageantry. And this month is no exception, as you can witness a piece of living history when the world-famous Beating Retreat, with its military music and precision drill, takes place.
On 30 and 31 May at 7pm, the Massed Bands of Her Majesty's Royal Marines perform Beating Retreat on Horse Guards Parade in honour of its Captain General, His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
The Massed Bands perform every two years as a part of Beating Retreat. There are more than 250 musicians taking part in the event, including all five Royal Marine Bands on parade and a drum display by the Royal Marines Corps of Drums.
The concert dates back to June 1690. Before the invention of clocks and watches, the sound of a drum or trumpet would act as a signal for soldiers. It was King James II who issued for drums to be beaten to signify when troops could stop fighting and retreat. Today, the military concert usually marks the lowering of the regimental flag at sunset.
To watch this magnificent event, tickets for Beating Retreat can be purchased on the day and online; we strongly recommend booking in advance to avoid disappointment. The event lasts for around 75 minutes. All proceeds go to the Royal Navy and Royal Marines service charities. 30th-31st May. From £10. Horse Guards Parade, SW1A 2AX. 023 8017 0513. rnrmctickets.co.uk
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I create from the heart. Every time that I design a new piece, it is as if I am reconnecting with my Native Diné roots. Having grown up as an "Urban Indian" away from the reservation, it wasn't until college that I discovered a broader perspective of what it means to be Native American and gained a view into traditional Native Ways.
Since then, I have spent time on the reservation, and when I travel to TecNosPos, Arizona, I am enveloped in my culture and able to take in new experiences each time. In turn, these experiences become woven into my work. It's as if the thread used to sew my collection is spun with drive, determination, and the need to make people understand where I come from and the beauty in being Native. As a single mother, the thread pushing through the fabric is also a metaphor for stitching a wonderful life for me and my son.


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Wall Street's Derivative Shell Game
Submitted by Robert Oak on February 14, 2013 - 10:50pm
Wall Street is now winding their way through the swiss cheese loophole maze financial reform is. Remember credit default swaps, those deadly, bad math, bad computation derivatives which were behind the financial crisis?
Wall street has found a new way to avoid regulation and continue their derivative CDS gambling casino and it is setting up the way for a new financial crisis. They are re-wrapping credit default swaps and other derivatives into futures, which are exempt from Dodd-Frank. more stringent regulations.
A crucial change in the way financial derivatives are packaged and sold on Wall Street is enabling traders to bypass new regulations aimed at limiting reckless speculation, enhancing the prospect of another derivatives crisis, warn some market participants.
Under the Dodd-Frank financial reform law adopted by Congress in 2010, investors are required to set aside significant sums of cash to cover losses on their derivatives trades -- money they could otherwise plow into additional investments. That policy came in response to the financial crisis that began in 2007, when major financial institutions found themselves unable to cover hundreds of billions of dollars in shortfalls on derivatives trades.
But traders have recently forged a path around these so-called margin requirements in order to allow them to harvest larger profits via larger bets: They are repackaging some derivatives known as swaps into another financial product known as futures. Futures are less stringently regulated, meaning investors can stake out larger positions while reserving smaller amounts of cash.
Under financial reform, derivative regulation was not done and instead dumped on the CFTC to work out the detals. Of course the lobbyists poured in and now it's a battleground. Loybbyists have been swarming the CFTC, all to get their derivatives reclassified as futures in order to obtain lower margins and less regulation.
This all came out in a CFTC round table event, the Futurization of Swaps, which goes into detail on this new whack a mole derivative hiding technique. James Cawley. CEO of Javelin Capital Markets, left this comment:
For one product, the margin calculation is much lower than other, which is correct? What happens to the clearing house, in the distress scenario, if it becomes evident that not enough margin was collected against the lower margined product? Does the tax payer now enter the breach to cover the shortfall because DCOs have miscalculated and they been deemed systemically important?
See the issue? Traders can morph higher regulated derivatives into futures with less oversight and less margin requirements, thus putting the financial system at risk....again. The requirements and regulation are not enough to stop a house of cards CDS call as we saw with AIG. This rule was put into place in October and already is raising alarm bells. The good news, if any, is that alarm bells are ringing at all. That's the problem with these complex derivatives and massive rules from the CFTC, it's a labyrinth of trading vehicles. But that's the point of derivative regulation, to create a labyrinth so no one can follow and no one can see.
There are many other loopholes being crafted including an offshore outsourced one the CFTC did catch. CFTC chair Gary Gensler mentioned it in his Senate Banking Committee hearing testimony.
We are hearing, though, that some swap dealers may be promoting to hedge funds an idea to avoid required clearing, at least during an interim period from March until July. I would be concerned if, in an effort to avoid clearing, swap dealers route to their foreign affiliates trades with hedge funds organized offshore, even though such hedge funds' principle place of business was in the United States or they are majority owned by U.S. persons. The CFTC is working to ensure that this idea does not prevail and develop into a practice that leaves the American public at risk. If we don't address this, the P.O boxes may be offshore, but the risk will flow back here.
The problem is there are thousands and thousands of rules being issued by the CFTC for various types of dervatives. Like any maze, lawyers are pouring through it all and squeezing through the lines of fine print.
financial reform
Submitted by LillithMc on February 16, 2013 - 1:22pm
One problem with the Wall Street casino is that the Federal Reserve keeps them above water with their low interest rates. Time to cut Wall Street loose to float or sink from their actions.
interest rates not really part of swaps per say
Submitted by Robert Oak on February 16, 2013 - 1:43pm
This is more morphing of one type of derivative into another to avoid regulation and less margin requirements. It's akin to 1929 having margin accounts of 95%. People could buy stocks with 5% down and buy on margin, similar risk.
That said, many of these derivatives are completely faulty. The math, the model itself is faulty so why are they even allowed at all?
Do we build bridges with bad math? No, so why is it OK to have really bad financial engineering that puts the system at risk?
Court in D.C. striking down SEC rules right and left
If the SEC manages to set a rule to limit derivatives, it appears there is a favorite court in D.C. which is more than willing to strike it down. Death by a 1000 cuts.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, located in a little-noticed limestone-and-concrete building situated one block northwest of the Capitol, is where securities rules go to die.


This is the view from my new apartment in Index, DIFC. I'm the silhouette on the left. Wicked photo by dubaiwalla!
Thanks! I'm in love with it!
Out of curiosity, how often are those windows cleaned from the outside?
"Dubai's superheros, always on the lookout, keeping the citizens safe, yet they still find time to enjoy tasty refreshments."
Love it!! I was reading that book earlier.
My summer course ends July 7th, at which point I plan on gaining full-time employ. IF I can make enough to buy a plane ticket, I'll see you sometime thereafter.
Please tell your friend that I love this photo. Silhouettes are hard enough, but being lit by a city at night? Wicked awesome!! Never even considered that as a lighting option. Brilliant!
I've finally found the settings that should let me shoot scenes like this one with a flash, rather than using silhouettes only. Possibly a moot point given that the lights will soon be working. But perhaps not, depending on how reflective the windows are. In any event, if you ever feel like a new facebook profile picture, you know who to call.