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Children's Book News: The New York Times Best Illustrated List
The New York Times recently released their picks for best illustrated children's books of 2010 and I'm so pleased there are so many of my favorite titles made the list! If you haven't seen it yet, pick up a copy of Philip and Erin Stead's A Sick Day for Amos McGee. The illustrations are a wonderful blend of woodblock printing and pencil with a subdued yet festive palette that matches the subtle sweetness of the story. Amos McGee works at the city zoo and his day runs like clockwork. He catches the number five bus every day at 6 am to work and then, one by one, spends time with his animal friends. But when Amos gets sick and his regular schedule gets disrupted, his friends miss him and surprise him at home. The subtle details in the illustrations, like the curving in of the shy penguin's toes, the splashes of color against the gray pencil lines, or the tiny mouse and bird accompanying the main characters, all add to and complement the text. And nothing is sweeter than the wordless spread of all the animals waiting at the bus stop. This is a wonderful story about friendship, reminiscent of out-of-print Arnold Lobel's A Zoo for Mister Muster, and it's sure to be on my personal bookshelf for a long, long time. Another wonderful new title is Bink & Gollie by Kate DiCamillo and Alison McGhee, illustrated by Tony Fucile. For me, Bink & Gollie have immediately joined the ranks with other favorite storybook pairs such as Frog & Toad, Gossie & Gertie, and Toot & Puddle. Reminiscent particularly of the Frog & Toad books, Bink & Gollie shows that uniquely different personalities can make a perfect pair in an early-reader book fashion. In a collection of three short, heavily illustrated stories, we meet the eccentric Bink and the imaginative Gollie as they go on adventures from buying socks to climbing the Andes and everything in between. The illustrations are humorous with delightful pacing, but what I love most about this book is the language choice. "Bink," said Gollie, "the brightness of those socks pains me. I beg you not to purchase them." or "Some socks are more lovable than others." Not only was I hysterically laughing while reading, but completely loved that the authors didn't shy away from big words like bonanza, marvelous or outrageous in fear of scaring away children and instead embraced them, knowing that child readers will too. I can't wait for the first kid to walk in the store and declare it's a marvelous book bonanza. Hats off to DiCamillo and McGhee! I am a HUGE fan of Suzy Lee and especially love how she expertly utilizes the book's design in her picture books. From format, to use of color, to the arrangement of illustrations on the page, Lee seems to always be very aware of the power of simple details. I have noted she particularly likes to play with the book's gutter (the seam of the book where the pages meet). In her most recent book, Shadow, the left page shows a girl playing in a crowded attic while the opposite page shows her shadow and the shadows of the objects in the room, with the gutter as the barrier. While the illustrations begin in black and white, Lee gradually plays with the color yellow, and as the girl's imagination grows and her fantasy of the shadows takes over, so does the color yellow on the page. Reminiscent of Where the Wild Things Are, where once we saw a cluttered attic, we are now completely lost in the girl's imaginative shadow world, until a reminder of the outside world brings us all back. I'm certain that there's nothing I like better than a book that fully embraces imagination in such a skilled way. I could go on and on about my favorite picture books this year, but that will have to wait for another day. In the meantime, check out the rest of the New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2010 and purchase them from our website here. Use the coupon code NYT2010 at checkout and save 15% on any of the books from the list until Wednesday, November 24, 2010. Now let's get reading!
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When it comes to survival and disaster preparedness, almost all of the information out there focuses on an audience who have access to an entire network of family members and a spouse specifically.
All of the tasks in a survival or disaster situation are incredibly daunting, but especially for single moms or single dads who are solely responsible for their children's welfare.
If you are a single parent and are the only one with an income keeping your family afloat, and if you have few close relatives or friends in your vicinity, then you are truly on your own to provide for you and your children.
Single parents have all of the same worries as parents in two parent households, and they have all the same responsibilities to ensure that their kids are protected and kept safe in an emergency.
While this obviously creates much pressure and stress, you'll be glad to hear that this book can provide you with some valuable information on what exactly you need to do.
In this guide, we will discuss how to prepare for disasters and keep your kids safe in an emergency as a single parent.
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Containing absolutely no dairy, Flora Dairy Free is packed full of flavour and still free from preservatives, artificial colours and flavours. An ideal alternative to butter, you can be confident you're getting all the best ingredients nature has to offer. Use for spreading on crackers or sandwiches and for baking delicious dairy free treats.
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In order to improve the utilization and competitiveness of shared vehicles, the emerging car sharing system tends to provide one-way mode without reservation and allow remote borrowing. Unbooked one-way vehicle sharing system is characterized by the opening of vehicle mobility, allowing vehicles to return at other stations. But it leads to the imbalance of demand distribution in a certain period of time. When the demand is satisfied and the trip is completed, the vehicle will deviate from the original layout. The subsequent demand for areas with large demand can not be met, and vehicles with low demand are idle. This paper considers the sustainable development of shared car rental companies. In order to optimize the profit of shared car rental enterprises and enhance their competitiveness, intelligent algorithm is used to optimize the scheduling of vehicles with different outlets. So as to maximize service quality and company profits. First, a mathematical model for the scheduling of shared car is established. Secondly, different scheduling strategies are designed for different network scheduling. At last, an artificial fish swarm algorithm is used to analyze the case in MATLAB. There are two car outlets in the car rental company, with a maximum of 20 cars available for lease at each location, and the most profitable scheduling method when the most of the 5 cars are scheduled to be transferred every day.
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B. J. Jiang, Research on matching of automobile supply and demand under shared lease mode [D]. HeFei University of Technology, 2017.
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Interdental cleaners are tools used to better clean the gums and between the teeth, tools such as dental floss and woodsticks. Even the most efficient toothbrushing technique would not result in removal of all plaque deposits. Whilst mouthrinsing will help in further plaque control, use of dental floss and woodsticks are often recommended by dentists and dental hygienists.
These are recommended especially for patients who have particular need such as those with extensive fillings, crowns or bridge, orthodontic patients or patients with particular periodontal problems. Interdental cleaning aids are not generally recommended for children as they may damage their gums by incorrect usage.
Starting with clean hands, break off about 45cm (18 inches) of dental floss from its dispenser.
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Take care not to snap the floss against the gums when doing this to avoid injury.
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If preferred, interdental flossers can be used (see images).
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Wash hands again after flossing.
It is important to encourage people to monitor the effectiveness of their plaque control practices. Plaque disclosing agents stain the dental plaque which remains on teeth and are a simple way of highlighting deficiencies in brushing technique.


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[Ilya Somin, June 14, 2006 at 7:33am] Trackbacks
Targeting Double Standards on Targeted Killings :
I don't often agree with Alan Dershowitz. But he is absolutely right to note the double standards inherent in the near-universal praise for the the recent targeted killing of Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi when contrasted with the near-universal condemnation of Israel's very similar targeting of top Hamas terrorists. Many of the same governments and organizations that now applaud the death of Zarqawi condemned the killing of Hamas' top leader Sheikh Yassin in 2004. Interestingly, Hamas itself has been consistent on the issue, and recently issued a statement praising Zarqawi and condemning his assassination (though of course they have no objection to the targeted killing of civilians by Zarqawi and by their own operatives).
In my view, targeting terrorist leaders is not only defensible, but actually more ethical than going after rank and file terrorists or trying to combat terrorism through purely defensive security measures. The rank and file have far less culpability for terrorist attacks than do their leaders, and killing them is less likely to impair terrorist operations. Purely defensive measures, meanwhile, often impose substantial costs on innocent people and may imperil civil liberties. Despite the possibility of collateral damage inflicted on civilians whom the terrorist leaders use as human shields, targeted assassination of terrorist leaders is less likely to harm innocents than most other strategies for combatting terror and more likely to disrupt future terrorist operations.
That does not prove that it should be the only strategy we use, but it does mean that we should reject condemnations of it as somehow immoral. Even more clearly, we should reject the double standards of those who claim that it is permissible to target Zarqawi but wrong for Israel to target equally odious Hamas leaders.
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Gabor (mail):
The rank and file have far less culpability for terrorist attacks than do their leaders, and killing them is less likely to impair terrorist operations.
This depends upon the level of immediate control exercised by the leaders. If the organization is an optimally functioning cell system -- which may or may not be the case here -- the removal of the leadership will have minimal impact on any actions already planned. In such a case, it is far more useful to capture the leadership rather than kill it.
When a terrorist organization is able to command volunteers for suicide missions at the lowest level, then it is far from clear to me that these fanatics are far less culpable than the leaders, who, in the present examples, appear to have far more respect for the hadith against suicide when it comes to their own self-preservation.
6.14.2006 9:26am
agesilaus:
Looking at the inept way the Iraqis are handling the Saddam Hussein trial it probably was better just to remove Zarqawi from the board. Otherwise he would have been in the news, everyday, for the next two or three years. A rally point for the terrorists and the democrats.
Also it took the US forces about a half hour to get to the house after the bombing, it would have taken them much longer to get there and to set up for a raid. He might have escaped during that period.
And there must have been considerable doubt that he would have given us any useful information. All in all, it's seems better that he is gone.
Closet Libertarian (www):
As long as the insurgents do not follow the rules of war, they do no get the benefits. Targeting a head of state of a generally lawful state is different from targeting the head of a terrorist organization.
DK:
I disagree - this is not at all the same as the Israeli target killings. News reports indicate that Zarqawi was given medical care by US forces after their arrival, and there are conflicting reports that either gunfire was exchanged before the bombing or that ground troops showed up after the bombing. All of these reports suggest that the Zarqawi killing was a military battle with the possibility of the enemy leader either escaping, being captured, or being killed. This is very different from a target killing which does not offer the possibility of capture or surrender.
I agree with you that targeted killings are justified, but, I don't think they are exactly the same as engaging hostile forces in battle.
6.14.2006 10:07am
Isaac (www):
When ground troops fight their way in, the probability of collateral damages increases. Surrender and arrest are options best offered to targets who don't surround themselves with civillians. Like Closet Libertarian said above, once you endanger civillians by abandoning the conventions of war, you lose the conventions' protections when it becomes necessary to remove you from the field.
DDWWBB (mail):
When most critics attack Israel for using indiscriminate force they do not mean indiscriminate force relative to their military objective, which would be a rather hard charge to pin on Israel. Rather what they mean is indiscriminate force relative to the political platform of withdrawal from the territories. I find it extraordinarily frustrating when the phrase "indiscriminate force" is used without a narrow and specific objective.
I suspect you're giving "most critics" too much credit. The difficulty of pinning a charge on Israel in sober, informed discussion doesn't necessarily have any bearing on most critics' willingness to level it in the first place.
There is nothing new about this anyway, we intentionaly killed Yamamoto during WWII and the Brits did their best to kill Rommel in 1941.
And the Israelis should think about targeting any large group of Hamas functionaries, a meeting of the legislature for example.
Mike BUSL07 (mail) (www):
DK, regardless of whether there was a gunfight after the troops got there (and I doubt there was), they did, and this is a fact, target Zarqawi in an airstrike, with the intent of assasinating him. Whether or not they had to squeeze a few more triggers does not change the principle of the thing.
Dan28 (mail):
As long as Israel continues it's occupation of the West Bank, in defiance of the will of more or less every other nation in the world, virtually all of their military actions will be internationally condemned no matter how otherwise justified.
I'm not sure that is fair, of course, but I do believe it is inevitable.
SteveX (mail):
What is the relevant international law in the case of two warring states? E.g., if we had somehow managed to drop a 500-lb bomb through Hitler's bedroom window in 1943, would that have been a legitimate act of war? Or is the head of state "off limits", and only military leaders are legitimate targets (Yamamoto)? What if the head of state is a military leader (Manuel Noriega in Panama, Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua, or whats-his-name, the Argentine general during the Falklands war)?
Seems to me that the most moral strategy given that you're already in a war is to win it with as few casualties on either side as possible. That in turn argues for targeting the other side's leadership, as high up as possible. The grunts on the other side's front line have no power to stop the war; only the emperor/fuerher/dictator can do that. If we had managed to assassinate the top twenty or so Nazis within a week, any time after 1942, the European war would have been over pretty quickly.
Freder Frederson (mail):
There is a huge difference in the two killings, and if you can't see the difference you are being purposefully obtuse and disingenuous.
There is no doubt Israel has a serious problem with Islamic terrorism, but it has and continues to deal with that problem as a law enforcement and legal issue, both in Israel proper and the occupied territories. But to say that the level of violence in Israel is even comparable to the in Iraq is just ridiculous. Israel has a functioning and effective justice system, Iraq does not. It regularly captures terrorists, tries them in civilian courts and sends them to prison for defined prison terms (not until the "war against terror" ends). When it resorts to extralegal means by targeting leaders of terrorist organizations for assasination, especially when such crude methods as missiles and bombs are used that kill innocent bystanders, is a violation of all the principles of a country that believe in the rule of law. Whether or not the criminals "play by the rules" doesn't even enter into it.
By comparison, as much as the right and the President may pretend otherwise, Iraq is still a country at war (the security is so bad there, the President didn't even tell the Prime Minister of Iraq that he was coming until five minutes before he showed up). As I noted in an earlier thread, while it may be illegal to deliberately target the legitimate civlian leaders of sovereign nations in times of war, Zarqawi was no such thing. He was a leader of a guerilla movement, and as a foreigner, couldn't even claim to be a legal combatant under Geneva. He was a legitimate target for military attack. The only complaint I could see even the most hardcore anti-war leftist making is did the U.S. do everything possible to minimize the possibility of collateral damage. And that is even pretty weak, since I doubt that Zarqawi would have been taken alive and any civilians in that house would have been killed regardless.
... and as long as Israel conducts military operations that are subject to condemnation by more or less every other nation in the world, its retention of the West Bank will inevitably continue to be internationally condemned no matter how otherwise justified. :)
(My comment was in response to Dan28, above.)
Medis:
Following SteveX, I think at least a practical issue arises when the target is not just a military leader, but also a public figure of some broader sort. Regardless of the immediate military benefits and legality of such an action, it may have unintended negative consequences depending on how people react.
jrose:
Ilya,
Is it morally OK for Hamas to target Israeli leaders? Is it morally OK for al Qaeda to target US or Iraqi leaders? How do you distinguish all of these cases?
Jeek:
When it resorts to extralegal means by targeting leaders of terrorist organizations for assasination, especially when such crude methods as missiles and bombs are used that kill innocent bystanders, is a violation of all the principles of a country that believe in the rule of law.
So in your view, is "Israeli rule of law" supposed to operate in Gaza? Were the Israelis supposed to go into Gaza, arrest those two militants, return them to Israel, and put them on trial? Just curious...
I guess I'm just obtuse, but I don't understand how those two Hamas militants can possibly not be viewed as a legitimate target for military attack, just as Zarqawi was.
The situation in Gaza is untenable and your implication is correct, an attempt to arrest any Hamas leaders in Gaza would most likely end in failure. However, that does not legitimate the extralegal assasination of Hamas or other terrorist organization leaders, especially when the method used are almost guaranteed to kill innocent bystanders. I might be more inclined to support methods that were less destructive (e.g., sniper attacks), but bombings and missile attacks are completely unjustified.
Besides, have they really done any good? It seems all they do is create martyrs and inflame hatred Israel among the Palestinians as well as the rest of the world. The solution to the Palestinian problem is no closer to being solved than it was forty years ago, and the situation worse today than it has been in more than twenty years (which of course I blame Bush for).
6.14.2006 12:05pm
Houston Lawyer:
I rember the Israelis landing a comando team in Egypt several years back to take out a senior militant at his home. Everyone knew that the Israelis did it because they came into his house, rounded up his family and then left without killing any innocents. So I believe that they try to spare the innocents when possible, not that they get any credit for it.
I don't know how they square their no death penalty laws with targeted killings.
You really don't. Hamas is at war with Israel, according to its charter. Given that, they are, as a combatant, justified in attacking the head of their enemy, absolutely. But with that said, you do have to draw a distinction between civilian and military, e.g., Hamas may be "justified" in attacking Shaul Mofaz, but not, say, the Education Minister.
What it boils down to is that war is brutal, and the longer it lasts, the more brutal it is. Efficiency, i.e., killing the head, will usually reduce net brutality.
Steve White (mail) (www):
Freder, your logic suggests that there is a difference based on the state of war: like it or not, the U.S. is at war in Iraq, whereas Israel is not at war with the Palestinians. This beggars belief: anyone with a sense of history understands that Israel and the Palestinians have been at war since (at least) 1948. That war has sometimes been low-intensity, sometimes all-out, but there has never been any sort of true peace. To claim that the Palestinians can't be 'at war' because they don't have a legitimate government (until recently) is to split hairs. The Israelis see their citizens dying from an outside group of armed, dangerous people. That's war, regardless of the nicieties of international law.
One simply cannot claim that the Israelis are required to fight with one arm tied while Hamas is not similarly constrained (the latter, of course, demands the destruction of the former). If you insist that this is not 'war', then I must insist in return that whatever it is, the Israelis retain the right to find and kill the leaders of the people trying to kill them.
This beggars belief: anyone with a sense of history understands that Israel and the Palestinians have been at war since (at least) 1948. That war has sometimes been low-intensity, sometimes all-out, but there has never been any sort of true peace. To claim that the Palestinians can't be 'at war' because they don't have a legitimate government (until recently) is to split hairs. The Israelis see their citizens dying from an outside group of armed, dangerous people. That's war, regardless of the nicieties of international law.
Actually, splitting hairs is what the law is all about. And as I stated above, even at the worst periods of unrest in the West Bank, Gaza, and Israel proper, the situation has never been as dire as it currently is in Iraq. Something like 1400 bodies were delivered to the Bagdhad morgue in May. There is a full scale war occurring in Iraq along with complete lawlessness. Even the Iraqi police are of questionable loyalty. To compare the Iraqi government to the stable, functioning Israeli government is just ridiculous.
Freder, you are missing the forest for the trees. The relevant common thread is the existence, acknowledged or not, of a (low intensity) conflict in both Gaza and Iraq. The other relevant common thread is that both Zarqawi and Yassin were, to use a neutral, if inaccurate word, "militant" leaders, whose existence, if allowed to continue would be a threat. In both cases, the big rationale is incapacitation.
I'm sure you can find 1000 other distinctions. Maybe Yassin was killed on a Tuesday, and Zarqawi on a Thursday? The point is that your distinctions do not mandate different conclusions.
MDJD2B (mail):
Actually, splitting hairs is what the law is all about. And as I stated above, even at the worst periods of unrest in the West Bank, Gaza, and Israel proper, the situation has never been as dire as it currently is in Iraq. Something like 1400 bodies were delivered to the Bagdhad morgue in May.
Freder,
The law is not all about splitting hairs. It is also about defining relevant issues. Assuming for the sake of argument that your statistic is true, is the body count the relevant issue? Suppose Palestinian suicide bombers can only kill 14 or 140 Israelis, with Israel having to devote extraordinary resources to keeping even more out. Does this convey moral or legal protection on those who dispatch them? What is the relevant issue?
Israel has pulled out of Gaza. Hamas, which controls Gaza, refuses to recognize the right of Israel to exist, or of its citizens to live there. It continues to shoot rockets at Israel and to send fighters not in uniform to kill Israeli civilians. Freder-- what may the state of Israel legitimately do to defend its citizens against Hamas and its leadership?
Freder, you are missing the forest for the trees. The relevant common thread is the existence, acknowledged or not, of a (low intensity) conflict in both Gaza and Iraq.
Are you really describing the conflict in Iraq as low intensity? If so, you are missing the deep intractable jungle for the sylvan glade. It is hardly a "low intensity" conflict when it has cost the U.S. over 20,000 casulties and the Iraqis and untold number. When the president can't even tell the prime minister he is visiting until he is already on the ground of a supposedly sovereign country. Can you imagine the Foreign head of state showing up at the White House unannounced, the State Department not even being advised of his travel plans.
6.14.2006 1:01pm
Freder, I was under the impression you had been in the military. You should really know what a low intensity conflict is. Cue Wiki:
Low intensity conflict (LIC) is an armed conflict, usually between a regular army or law enforcement and non-regular armed militias (terror organization, guerrilla fighters, gangs, rioters etc). The term LIC is used to describe a violent conflict which is not a war—more precisely, not a full-scale war between two armies of organized states.
I'm not saying that the level of fighting in Iraq and Gaza is on the same scale, but they are both at the end of the day LIC.
Freder, I was under the impression you had been in the military.
I have never been in the military. I have worked for them as a civilian contractor and my wife is Active Duty Army (currently in Kuwait). I never want to give the impression that I was in the military.
While it might comfort you to call Iraq a LIC, which I guess by a strict textbook definition it is, calling it that is bordering on ludicrous as it is bordering on a full scale civil war.
o' connuh j.:
Freder is hilariously all over the place as usual.
but it has and continues to deal with that problem as a law enforcement and legal issue, both in Israel proper and the occupied territories.
Nonsense. The IDF is not military? Targetting militants isn't a military operation? On the one hand you say Israel mounts "extra-legal" military ops. On the other hand you claim it is a problem of "law enforcement" exclusively. Self contradictory babble. Make up your mind.
But to say that the level of violence in Israel is even comparable to the in Iraq is just ridiculous.
Who said that? No one.
Further, aren't confused anti-war types like you eager to point out that Zarqawi was typically responsible for no more than a small percentage of insurgent activity? Now suddenly ALL the deaths in Iraq are attributable to him?
Oops, sounds like self-contradictory babble again.
Israel has a functioning and effective justice system, Iraq does not.
Nor do the Territories. Your argument collapses.
But wait - the US has a functioning and effective justice system as well, so how come your analogy is inapposite? I wonder.
Exactly. Laughable non sequiturs and point missing hand-waving galore. Maybe he is just being deliberately obtuse, so it's ok.
Did I say that? Don't think so. All I said was that he was a legitimate military target.
Maybe nobody said it explicitly, but Ilya's original argument was that the two situations couldn't be distinguished, so it seemed to me that his argument was just that.
Well, if Zarqawi was holed up in a house in a U.S. territory, say Puerto Rico, I might be a little more upset about dropping two 500 lb bombs on him than I am in an active combat zone in Iraq. The status of Gaza and the West Bank are now so hopelessly confused, especially after the election of the Hamas government, that it is hard to discuss its status vis a vis Israel and sovereignty.
Without attempting to compare Iraq to Gaza and the West Bank, it does seem to me that the magnitude and intensity of the conflict in question is relevant to questions such as what amount of incidental killing and injury can be justified.
Nobody said it, period.
Just as nobody said Zarqawi and Yassin were killed on the same day either - so what? Is your response then to say, Welp, Ilya said they couldn't be distinguished, but in reality they were killed on different days (a fine but critical distinction!).
You invoke a straw-man, pretend it has relevance, then proceed to knock it down. Absurd logic.
LOL! In other words you can't understand how Israel (the occupying forces) and the USA (occupying forces) are held to different standards when both have carried out targetted assassinations in the territories they occupy. Which was Ilya's point to begin with. QED, pal.
Medis, yes. The question of proportionality. But Freder nowhere argues the relevance, nor does he show that Al Qaeda in Iraq is responsible for all or most of insurgent attacks in Iraq (some estimates place it at "a small fraction" or 10% of the operations that were ever attributed to him).
First of all, the U.S. is no longer an "occupying force" in Iraq. Officially it ceased that function when the new government took over.
Secondly, Israel's status in the occupied territories is much more complicated than being simply an "occupying force" under international law.
Ilya's original post was rather disingenuous because he claims he can't distinguish between Israel's targeted killings and that of Zarqawi. If a law professor at a top tier law school really can't see any substansive difference between the two situations and at least acknowledge the distinction, even if he believes Israel's policies are legally justified, I really doubt the quality of scholarship at our law schools.
I know and you know that you know better. Just because locals are responsible for keeping some of the order, does not mean we are not in fact an occupying force.
That's one conclusion you could draw. (Just as dubiously), one can conclude that since a professor at a top tier law school finds no distinction between Yassin and Zarkman, the quality of scholarship among ex-civilian contractors with deployed spouses should be called into question.
o' connuh j.,
Again, I'm not taking a stand on the merits of the comparison. But it does seem to me that Ilya's post doesn't do much to acknowledge that the moral propriety of attacking terrorist leaders in this fashion may depend on the wider circumstances.
For example, Ilya says: "Despite the possibility of collateral damage inflicted on civilians whom the terrorist leaders use as human shields, targeted assassination of terrorist leaders is less likely to harm innocents than most other strategies for combatting terror and more likely to disrupt future terrorist operations."
As I think we agree, Ilya is making a relevant point, but this very logic implies that the degree to which we can morally justify "collateral damage inflicted on civilians" depends on things like the magnitude and intensity of the terrorist operations we will disrupt as a result.
Accordingly, I think Ilya's penultimate conclusion is too broad. He says: "That does not prove that it should be the only strategy we use, but it does mean that we should reject condemnations of it as somehow immoral."
The more accurate conclusion would be that these strategies may or may not be immoral, but that can depend on things like whether we have an adequate justification for the incidental killings and injurings of civilians.
Which, finally, makes Ilya's ultimate conclusion too hasty. He says: "Even more clearly, we should reject the double standards of those who claim that it is permissible to target Zarqawi but wrong for Israel to target equally odious Hamas leaders."
But it may or may not be a "double standard". In particular, it might be the same standard being applied in light of different circumstances.
Or not--again, I'm not taking a stand on that issue. I just don't think that Ilya can make such an argument in the abstract.
First of all, the U.S. is no longer an "occupying force" in Iraq.
Nor Israel in Gaza. The targetted assassinations there should be hunky dory then. But they aren't, which was the point, again.
Of course, the Palestinians can claim till they are blue in the face that Israel (or Iraqi insurgents of the US for that matter) is still an 'occupying force' in Gaza, but that doesn't change one whit of the fact that the IDF and Israel no longer have a presence in those territories to qualify as 'occupying' them.
As for your last paragraph about Ilya not being able to see the "substantive difference", welp, I confess that I am mystified as well, as your explanations are anything but coherent.
I don't think I've ever agreed with Freder before, but he is right this time, and I'm surprised fewer people see it. I think target killings ARE justified but I think it is confusing and disingenous to say they are analogous to the Zarqawi killing.
Zarqawi is a MILITARY commander, with deep involvement in actual fighting, including videotapes of him killing people! He lacks even the fig leaf of political cover that Gerry Adams and Sheikh Yassin have. IMHO, killing Zarqawi is analagous to firing a depth charge at a U-boat. Are you trying to kill people when you fire a depth charge? Yes. Does that make it assassination? No. It is combat against a military target.
The difference with Israel's targeted killings is that they explicitly target people who at least claim to be political rather than military leaders, and who are not known to have recently participated in combat, and who have some evidence of potential political/electoral support. Is this justified? Well, I think so, but I think reasonable people can disagree, since many reasonable people think targeted killings only perpetuate a cycle of retributive violence.
BGates (mail) (www):
It's all about splitting hairs, Freder.
logicnazi (mail) (www):
Despite the claims of Hamas leaders to only be involved in peaceful activities Israel at least claims to only kill individuals involved in the planning and organization of terrorist plots. Now I don't know if this is true or not but until I see evidence otherwise I don't think it is fair to assume that the israeli attacks are so different than the Zarqawi attack in this regard. Moreover, just like the israeli targeted assainations our attacks on people like Zarqawi end up killing innocent civilians (even if they didn't this time) and otherwise seem very comparable. Thus if one was going to critisize israel because they used an unacceptable tactic I think Ilya has it right, this argument would be very hard to square with support for the Zarqawi killing.
However, I don't think this is the best argument one can come up with against Israel's targed killings. While it may be the way people argue for the illegality of Israel's actions it seems to me that the 'legal' issues are more of a distraction than a help in this case. Unlike in well developed legal systems violating international law isn't considered an automatic bad, I believe the NATO intervention in Bosnia violated international law but if I'm mistaken the point stands that people decide whether they find an action good or bad and then if they don't like it use international law as a way to critisize it. Moreover, the way international law is used in these situations disgusts me. I agree with Freder about the important of technicalities, but, as we have seen with previous posts here these technicalities make the israeli palestinian conflict very murky (does the land count as government land or privately owned land etc.. etc..).
So putting aside the legal questions I think someone could make a very good case that Israel's targed assasinations simply do more harm than good. Israel has been engaging in this policy for many years and it doesn't seem to have stopped the bombings nor is it clear it has even reduced them. The palestinian resistance organizations are simply too strong and too large for these strikes to do really serious harm to their capabilities. Thus, one could argue, the main purpose of the strikes is to get vengence and vent Israeli anger. In fact one might even claim that these strikes further stir up palestinian sentiments and thus block a future peace deal.
The situation in Iraq with Zarqawi is quite different. Zarqawi is a singular sort of figurehead whose continued presence was a major PR victory for the insurgents. Unlike in Palestine, rather than further angering most of the people Zarqawi's death was cause for great celebration and arguably increased confidence in the american's/Iraqi government's ability to keep the peace. Besides, the israeli's have been at this for years without ending the violence (though the wall whatever its problems does seem to be helping) it is reasonable for us to at least try and see if it works.
In short while I'm not convinced one could certainly argue differences in the situations make killing Zarqawi justified but Israeli assasinations merely further the cycle of violence. Maybe someone with more evidence can shed more light on the truth of the later claim.
I believe the NATO intervention in Bosnia violated international law
I think you are referring to Kosovo, In Bosnia NATO was invited in pursuant to the Dayton accords.
Tom952 (mail):
I don't often agree with Alan Dershowitz. But he is absolutely right to note the double standards inherent
Why not wait for someone else to make the point, and then continue to ignore Dershowitz?
Mark F. (mail):
So, what would people think if George Bush dropped a 500 pound bomb in Manhatttan to kill one suspected terorist and ended up killing some civilian bystanders and destroying a few buildings?
Essentially, that was what the Russians did during the Moscow theatre siege, except with poison gas. Some concern, a little bit of alarm, but not much outrage as I recall.
Wince and Nod (mail) (www):
So if Zarqawi had claimed to be a political leader we wouldn't have been OK? But didn't he in fact claim just that? Does Zarqawi even make a distinction between political and military leadership? Does Hamas?
No, the Israelis are targeting military leaders.
logicnazi,
Israel has been engaging in this policy for many years and it doesn't seem to have stopped the bombings nor is it clear it has even reduced them.
Well, it's clear to me that it dramatically reduced them. And I believe it is clear to the Israeli government as well:
Dagan has apparently shifted much of Mossads efforts towards targeted killing of key terrorist leaders and technicians. This has been credited with sharply reducing the number of attacks, and Israeli victims. While about 150 Palestinian terrorists (and 60 bystanders) have been killed by the targeted killing operations, Palestinian terrorist attacks have been cut by over two thirds in the same two year period. Many senior Palestinian terrorist leaders have been leaving the Palestinian territories, but Dagans agents have now started killing these Palestinians in foreign countries. This happened in the past, but the Israelis stopped it once peace talks began producing results with the Palestinians in the early 1990s. But thats all history now, and the hunt for terrorists is world wide.
Dagan has opposition in the Mossad to this hunter/killer campaign. The Mossad has had to suffer hostility from foreign governments (who dont care to have Israeli hit men, and women, stalking terrorists outside Israel), and the enormous expense (in people, money and diplomatic clout) to run these operations. So Dagan has cleaned house (200 of Mossads 2,000 people have left in the last two years, including seven senior officials), and is hiring aggressively to find and train people for the new, kick-ass/eye-for-an-eye, Mossad.
Critics in the Mossad, and at large, say this is all being done at the expense of the Mossads traditional spying and analysis functions. That may be true, but at the moment, most Israelis are more concerned with stopping terrorist attacks. Hunting down and killing terrorist leaders appears to do that.
A two-thirds cut in terrorist attacks is pretty strong evidence to me. Please note the date - November 22, 2004 - before the wall went up. StrategyPage is an excellent source for informaiton about all things military.
Not much outrage!? Is that how you remember the Moscow theatre siege aftermath. It seems there was nothing but outrage and complaints about how badly Russian security forces bungled the operation.
Dave Hardy (mail) (www):
It is hardly a "low intensity" conflict when it has cost the U.S. over 20,000 casulties and the Iraqis and untold number.
After 38 months, the casualty totals begin to approach those suffered in ten hours on Sept. 17, 1862, at Antietam, or about half the losses in three days at Gettsburg.
Correction, American casulties are reaching levels experienced in those two horrendous battles. Is this meant to make us happy that we don't fight such bloody battles anymore or sad we are not willing to throw away human life so needlessly?
The U.S. has purposely not counted or reported Iraqi casulties (except when it suits them), offering varying explanations for not doing so. The absolute indisputable minimum number of Iraqi deaths directly attributable to acts of war or terror(that is documented, verified, deaths reported in western media) is approaching 40,000. The actual number is probably several times higher and doesn't include the excess deaths caused by the general lawlessness, lack of medical care and disease. The casulty rate among Iraqis, both civilians and participants in the war, is probably heartbreaking.
Sorry, I don't recall a withering amount of criticism from foreign governments, the UN, etc. As I said, there was alarm and concern, but not a lot of outrage (the view seemed to be that it was the only way to free the hostages without setting off explosives). I may be wrong, mists of time and all that.
Just an Observer:
I have noted a large shift in the general body of opinion in the country toward such targeted killing operations.
During the last years of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, the CIA operated the Phoenix Program, which essentially consisted of paramilitary ambush or similar "special operations" designed to kill strategically identified Viet Cong or NVA officers.
Phoenix, when it became known, was widely denounced as an "assassination program." I recall thinking at the time that although I opposed the war, I could not see a significantly increased moral violation just because we knew the names of the persons we were trying to kill.
By contrast, the aftermath of the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq have involved highly-publicized missions to kill individual enemy leaders. Public opinion is generally very supportive, even as the Iraq war becomes less popular.
Enoch:
The difference with Israel's targeted killings is that they explicitly target people who at least claim to be political rather than military leaders, and who are not known to have recently participated in combat, and who have some evidence of potential political/electoral support. Is this justified?
Palestinian militant killed in Gaza raid
Palestinian militants vowed today to avenge Israel's assassination of the Hamas government's top security chief... The security chief, Jamal Abu Samhadana, was a key player in ongoing Palestinian rocket attacks against Israel... Abu Samhadana, 43, was an explosives expert and a suspect in the fatal 2003 bombing of a US convoy in the Gaza Strip.
This guy is a "civilian political leader"? Hmmmm. Sounds like a valid military target to me, if ever there was one.
Ron Weiner (mail):
This is the same fallacy that attempts to charactize the nature of the danger to Israel by the number of deaths of Israeli civilians.
For every "successful" terrorist attack, there are literally 100s of attempts. In addition to the horrible deaths and maimings they've suffered, Israelis has been forced to change their way of life to keep that number as low as they can. Israel is as moral as any fighting force in the history of the world at minimizing civilian casualties.
What critics do not understand (or tendentiously ignore) is that terrorists INTENTIONALLY place themselves in areas that are crawling with civilians to (1) protect themselves, the wusses and (2) to make Israel look ruthless. Terrorists in Iraq do a similar thing to coalition forces. Neither Israel nor the U.S. has anything to apoplogize for.
For more information on the staggering lies of the Palestinians, aided by gullible media and abetted by media collaboration, see
Sorry. That link is to this enlightening video.
Seamus (mail):
You mean the way the Philadelphia PD burnt down a city block to get rid of the folks from M.O.V.E.?
M. Simon (mail) (www):
Specifically attacking leaders on a battle field is a time honored tactic.
We have elevated it to a strategy.

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If chronic snoring has been robbing you of a good night's sleep, I feel your pain.
I was in the same boat myself for quite a while.
Not only was I barely getting any real rest at night, but my wife was basically being tortured by my loud snoring as well.
After a seemingly endless number of sleepless nights, my wife got completely fed up with my snoring, and demanded that I start looking for some anti-snoring devices to resolve this troublesome issue.
I couldn't blame her; I felt terrible about keeping her awake at night, and I was tired of feeling lousy during the day due to not getting quality sleep.
After going a few rounds with all kinds of different snoring aids such as chin straps, nasal strips, snoring pillows (what a laugh), and a litany of mouthguard for snoring, I felt I was getting close to a solution, but nothing I tried really "clicked" until I discovered a mouthpiece to stop snoring called Vital Sleep.
The VitalSleep stop snore mouthpiece is classified as a "mandibular advancement device", which means that it is designed to gently extend and hold your jaw in a forward position.
This small but important adjustment is needed to open up your airways and provide you with unobstructed breathing during sleep.
I wasn't sure whether or not this type of device would actually work for me, but I'll have to admit that I was impressed by the results.
The science behind this snore mouth guard is actually quite simple, but it has been proven to be a viable anti snore aid.
When you enter into a deep sleep, the muscles and tissues of your soft palate (the section of your throat behind the roof of your mouth) begin to relax, causing your tongue to begin to fold back into the back of your throat.
This blocks your airways and deprives your lungs and heart of the vital oxygen they need to properly regulate your breathing patterns. The result of this obstructed breathing is the unpleasant sound we all recognize as snoring.
What makes VitalSleep effective is its ability to keep your lower jaw in a slightly extended position, allowing your airways to remain open throughout the night, which essentially eliminates the source of your snoring.
I only have two minor VitalSleep complaints: The first one is a little embarrassing, but I got over it nonetheless–I had a little issue with drooling for the first few nights I used it.
As with most other things, though, after a while your body gets used to things and naturally adjusts, so the excessive drooling went away.
My second (small) complaint is that my jaw was a little sore for the first couple of days, but this is actually a very common reaction to the mouthpiece.
The soreness went away fairly quickly, and now it's not even a factor.
Hey, the device works…I don't really have too much else to say beyond that.
My snoring basically stopped altogether, and it made my wife a happy camper as well.
The Vital Sleep snoreguard does its job, which is more than I can say for some of the other snoring aids I've tried.
What Are the Stand-Out Benefits?
How Well Does VitalSleep Work?
I'm mainly speaking from my own experience with this Vital Sleep review, but according to dozens of other VitalSleep mouthpiece reviews across the Web, the device really does do a great job at eliminating the root cause of snoring.
I have no complaints; I've experienced positive results, so I would definitely recommend giving it a try.
Numerous Vital Sleep reviews indicate that this unique snore mouthpiece has made a remarkable difference in the quality of sleep of the people who have tried it out.
Spouses of former snorers have claimed that the device has produced a night-and-day difference in their lives as well.
Scores of real-life testimonials have indicated that VitalSleep can be named as one of the best anti-snoring mouthpiece s on the market.
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The best and easiest way to purchase VitalSleep is through the company's official website.
They offer a 30-day money back guarantee, so you really don't risk a thing by trying out the device. In addition, Vital Sleep carries a 1-year warranty and free replacements.
It's good that the company is willing to stand behind their product like this, but if your experience is anything like mine, I doubt you'll have any reason to return the device.
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After competing in the Hudson Valley Men's Athletic Conference (HVMAC) Championship game in only their second season of existence, the Berkeley College New York men's soccer team is looking forward to an exciting 2010 season. In addition to their success in the HVMAC, the team will compete this season as a member of the United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA).
"As a new member of the USCAA this season, our team will be further motivated by the possibility for selection to a national championship tournament," says Stavros Zomopoulos, who enters his second season as the men's head coach. "The program has a very talented group of returning players, having only graduated three seniors, starting with our two co-captains, Claes Magnusson and Christ Assou. We also expect back nine starters and our 2010 recruiting class was very strong, with at least five new players that will compete for a position in the starting lineup."
Not only is the team expected to be competitive, but the schedule promises to be so as well.
"Our 2010 schedule is an extremely challenging and fun one. Excluding our conference opponents, we are playing both the number one and number two nationally ranked teams in the USCAA, and another nine contests versus NCAA Division III programs representing all of the major conferences in the tri-state area," says Zomopoulos.
In just two years Zomopoulos has not only orchestrated the development of a competitive squad, but has also advanced the program's schedule from a six-game schedule in 2008 to a fourteen-game schedule in 2009 and now an eighteen game schedule in 2010.
"Words cannot express the impact coach Zomopoulos has had on our young men's soccer program," says Brian Maher, athletic director for Berkeley College. "He has a vision for the program and with it extremely high expectations of himself, his athletes, and the institution. It's a perfect marriage."


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Q: Trigger event on selection mail item or change selection of mail item I am trying to create a outlook plugin in React JS to detect mail selected or mail selection change.
Tried Mailbox EvenetType ItemChanged, add handler for event is return success but handler not called when user select or change selected mail from list.
The code I used is as below
Office.onReady(() => {
  // If needed, Office.js is ready to be called
  Office.context.mailbox.addHandlerAsync(Office.EventType.ItemChanged,
    (eventType) => mailItemChanged(eventType),
    (AsyncResult) => {console.log(AsyncResult)});
});

function mailItemChanged(eventType) {
  console.log('Office.EventType.ItemChanged triggered');
}

Please let me if there is any other option  to trigger email selection change event

A: This event was introduced to update the pane when selection is changed. The web add-ins work under the context of item selected in Outlook. So, it is expected to get the event triggered when the task pane is pinned.

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ffplay and VLC have issues playing 4.0 PCM audio, whether in WAV, MOV or MKV containers. When making sine waves with lavfi, ffplay produces silence for 4.0, though 2, 5, 6 channel audio is played back OK. VLC produces throbbing, distoreted audio but that's outside of the scope of this issue I guess.
Generate a sine wave with ffmpeg and then play it back with ffplay.
Have you checked all channels of your 5.1 setup? Your are generating a mono sound, then create 4 channels from it, so only center will contain a sound in test.wav, therefore when played, center will contain the sine wave, not front left or front right.
Reopen if you still think there is an issue.


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Pellkofer et al. 2001a : In the Expectation-based, Multi-focal, Saccadic (EMS-) Vision system of UBM the vision sensor consists of four cameras with different focal lengths mounted on a highly dynamic pan-tilt camera head. Image processing, gaze control and behavior decision interact with each other in a closed loop form. The behavior decision module specifies the relevance of obstacles like road segments, crossings or landmarks in the situation context. The gaze control unit takes all this information in order to plan, optimize and perform a sequence of smooth pursuits, interrupted by saccades. The sequence with the best information gain is performed. The information gain depends on the relevance of objects or object parts, the duration of smooth pursuit maneuvers, the quality of perception and the number of saccades. The functioning of the EMS-Vision system is demonstrated in a complex and scalable autonomous mission with the UBM test vehicle VAMORS.


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Список государств мира по экспорту нефти — перечень государств занимающихся экспортом нефти в другие государства.

Список государств мира по экспорту нефти основан на оценках, опубликованных на Take-profit.org за 2016 год и данных Книги фактов ЦРУ (за 2014—2017 годы).

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There are two bootable cd images (BartPE and Ghost or Wındows xp cds ,these are all bootable) .I want to make a single bootable dvd from that bootable cds and while booting system from dvd that i made ,this dvd will let me choose that booting from which one. is there any tool that makes a bootable dvd just i want?
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Q: Install ISAPI extensions programmatically in IIS7 I want to install ISAPI extensions in IIS7 on Windows7 programmatically
(Control Panel -> Programs and features->Turn windows features on or off->IIS->WWW->Application Development feature->ISAPI Extensions).
Basically I want to achieve what I can do with following DISM command
dism /online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:IIS-ISAPIExtensions
I tried to use Microsoft.Web.Administration, following is the code

using (ServerManager serverManager = new ServerManager())
{
   Configuration config = serverManager.GetApplicationHostConfiguration();
   ConfigurationSection gloabalmodulesSection = config.GetSection("system.webServer/globalModules");
   ConfigurationElementCollection globalModulesCollection = gloabalmodulesSection.GetCollection();
   ConfigurationElement isapiExtension = globalModulesCollection.CreateElement("add");
   isapiExtension.SetAttributeValue("name", "IsapiModule");
   isapiExtension.SetAttributeValue("image", "%windir%\\System32\\inetsrv\\isapi.dll");
   globalModulesCollection.Add(isapiExtension);

   ConfigurationSection modulesSection = config.GetSection("system.webServer/modules");
   ConfigurationElementCollection modulesCollection = modulesSection.GetCollection();
   ConfigurationElement isapiModule = modulesCollection.CreateElement("add");
   isapiModule.SetAttributeValue("name", "IsapiModule");
   modulesCollection.AddAt(10,isapiModule);

   ConfigurationSection handlersSection = config.GetSection("system.webServer/handlers");
   ConfigurationElementCollection handlersCollection = handlersSection.GetCollection();
   ConfigurationElement isapiHandler = handlersCollection.CreateElement("add");
   isapiHandler.SetAttributeValue("name", "ISAPI-dll");
   isapiHandler.SetAttributeValue("path", "*.dll");
   isapiHandler.SetAttributeValue("verb", "*");
   isapiHandler.SetAttributeValue("modules", "IsapiModule");
   isapiHandler.SetAttributeValue("resourceType","File");
   isapiHandler.SetAttributeValue("requireAccess","Execute");
   isapiHandler.SetAttributeValue("allowPathInfo","true");
   handlersCollection.AddAt(0, isapiHandler);
   serverManager.CommitChanges();
}

It does update the applicationHost.config. When I compare the applicationHost.config updated with my code and the same being updated with DISM they are almost same. The only difference is, the above code does not set "lockItem=true" in module section because  writing so gives error. But I think it should not matter.
But the above code does not install the feature and DISM does. What is the difference ?
There is another test I did.
1) Enabled ISAPI extensions with DISM
2) Saved  a copy of applicationHost.config
3) Disabled ISAPI extensions with DISM
4) Overwritten the apllicationHost.config with saved copy eariler
It does not install the ISAPI extension feature. So DISM not only updates the applicationHost.config but does something more. So what does it do and how  can I achieve the same programmatically?


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var mainAppCtrls = angular.module("mainAppCtrls");
/**
 * @ngdoc controller
 * @name mainAppCtrls.controller:NewWorkshopTemplateCtrl
 * @description Controller initializing the creation of a new workshop template
 * @requires restSvcs.WorkshopTemplate
 */
mainAppCtrls.controller('NewWorkshopTemplateCtrl', ['$scope', "WorkshopTemplate", '$translate', '$alert', '$state',
    function ($scope, WorkshopTemplate, $translate, $alert, $state) {
        $scope.workshop = {};
        $scope.myAlert = $alert({});

        //Get translations for errors and store in array
        var _translations = {};
        //Pass all required translation IDs to translate service
        $translate(['ALERT_WORKSHOPTEMPLATE_NEW_SUCCESS',
            'ALERT_WORKSHOPTEMPLATE_NEW_FAIL', 'ALERT_WORKSHOPTEMPLATE_NOT_FOUND', 'TITLE_ERROR', 'TITLE_SUCCESS']).
            then(function (translations) {
                _translations = translations;
            });
        $scope.workshop.duration = -3600000;
        /**
         * @ngdoc function
         * @name mainAppCtrls.controller:NewWorkshopTemplateCtrl#sendInfo
         * @methodOf mainAppCtrls.controller:NewWorkshopTemplateCtrl
         * @description Validates the input data and sends a request to create a new Template to the server
         *
         */
        $scope.sendInfo = function () {
            //Adjusts the format of the date strings to fit the requirements of the API
            var reformatDate = function (_date) {
                if (_date == null)
                    return "";
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Wicked delicious and enough for a party, this handmade fair trade basket is packed with a tantalizing array of the best vegan cookies and fair trade organic vegan chocolates. Plenty to share, with lots of gluten free items as well, so everyone can find something they love in this giant collection of tasty vegan treats. Great for parties, of course, the office gang, family and any gathering of people who love delicious cookies and chocolates. If it's more than you need, cookies can be frozen up to three months, but these are so good, we doubt they'll be around that long. Inside find: two each 1.5 oz. Nomoo Chocolate Chills, Vanilla Bean Dream, Oatmeal Choco Chip, Sugah Cinnamon, Loco for Cocoa, Classic Chipper and Raspberry Bliss. A whopping 14 Alternative Baking Company large 4.25 oz. cookies: Espresso Chocolate Chip, Peanut Butter, Double Chocolate, Coconut Cherry Bomb, Awesome Oatmeal Chip w/ Pecan, Blueberry Lemon MuffinCookie, and Oatmeal Raisin w/ Walnuts. Two each of spectacular gluten free 2.25 oz. Fudge Indulgence, Lemon Dream, Pumpkin Delight, Chocolate Explosion, and Cinnamon Burst. Four 2 oz. Betty Lou's tastes-like-a-piece-of-pie Fruit Bars: Blackberry, Blueberry, Strawberry and Apricot; and six Bobo's Oat Bars, Peach, Cinnamon Raisin and Almond Butter, all gluten free, complete the cookies. An explosion of chocolate flavor (that just happens to be gluten free) follows: two each 1.2 oz. Eli's Earth Bars – Dream Big, a chewy caramel, peanuts and peanut butter dream, Treasure Bar has soft peanut butter crunch and caramel, and Celebrate Bar will make your taste buds do just that with coconut nugget and whole almonds. They are all covered in a most excellent vegan 'milk' chocolate. Competing for attention are three large 3 oz. fair trade organic dark chocolate bars in exotic flavors, and two each 1.3 oz. dark chocolate Peanut Butter Cups, and Double Dark Peanut Butter Cups. Amy E's divine dark chocolate covered caramel bars, Cashew Caramel and the slightly spicy Chipotle Caramel, Coracao double bar Dark Chocolate Salted Caramel, and 15 small deeply dark Chocolate bites in a parchment pyramid box round out the gift with panache. This amazing cornucopia of vegan indulgences will satisfy a crowd, and the large fair trade basket is wonderful for storage after all the goodies have been enjoyed. Baskets vary.
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Here's our Top Picks for the Weekend of March 23rd – March 24th! Watch a robotics competition, go to a tree planting event, visit a pop-up barnstand, make a bird-o-meter, learn pet CPR, take a self-defense class, learn lacrosse, see Tom Sawyer, hear Vivaldi, learn about joining the Peace Corp, walk in a lantern festival across a bridge, go to a Polynesian luau, swim in an indoor pool, become a raptor expert, go to a mariachi festival, rent a hydrobike, play footgolf, hear cellist Joy Yanai play Dvorak, and so much more! The potential fun this weekend is limitless. Choose your own adventure!
Use this bicycle route planning tool from the Sacramento Area Bicycle Advocates and take the kids for a safe bike ride on Sunday. Be sure to bring a lunch and water, or bike in areas with little cafes on the way!
Go swimming in an indoor, heated pool. The Mike Shellito indoor pool in Roseville is open for recreation swim Sat. & Sun. from 1pm – 4pm. Kids who pass a swim test can go on the inflatable obstacle course. $5 (ages 2 & under are free). Check the schedule for Parent & Tot playtime in the warming pool 12pm-1pm. Save time for playing in the adjacent Central Park. You'll find a climbing wall, basketball courts, and a nice, big soccer field. There are lots of lunch options nearby.
Book a tee time and play some FootGolf at William Land Park (or other course). It's easy and fun for older kids. $8+. Available at William Land after 11am on weekends. Find footgolf rules here, and book a tee time here.


Chicago's tough-talking mayor is known for charging headfirst into politics in his 20s, but teaching preschoolers? We weren't familiar with that one.
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Enjoy this beautiful 3 bedroom 3 bath condo set up for a perfect family vacation. There is plenty of bedding for the whole family to enjoy.
Sprawl out on the large sectional in the living room and enjoy a movie on the 40' flat screen TV. Plush comfortable seating is perfect for family movies or curling up and enjoying a good book.
The well-equipped kitchen features modern appliances and plenty of counter space. Enjoy home-cooked meals together at the dining room table set for 6 and additional seating for 4 at the breakfast bar.
The condo includes three bedrooms that sleep 9 total. Three full bathrooms are each stocked with a complimentary starter supply of toiletries.
Retreat to the master bedroom-- outfitted with a king-size bed, 32' flat screen TV, access to the balcony, and en-suite bathroom. The en-suite bath is complete with a walk-in shower and large walk-in closet. Wake up to a beautiful view of the rising sun as it peaks over the beautiful ocean horizon right from your master bedroom.
The second bedroom features 4 twin size bed, a flat-screen TV, a closet, and en-suite bathroom, perfect for kids to relax and enjoy a late night movie. A third bedroom includes three twin-size beds and a 32' flat screen TV.


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Gay actor Jim Parsons is sharing his thoughts on the final season of The Big Bang Theory.
It was recently announced that the Big Bang Theory would be ending after its upcoming 12th season.
This series about a group of scientists and geeks who revel in their friendship lasted for over a decade and earned actor Jim Parsons a pathway to stardom. Not only that, but he became the most paid TV actor for 3 consecutive years.
Two days ago, Parsons took to Instagram to share his thoughts on the nearing end of the show that has made him the man and talent that he is today.
In the post, Parsons says it's nearly impossible to accept that the series is ending, but he's grateful to have another 23 episodes left to adjust to that fact.
"Something else I feel grateful for — and this gratitude needs no time to 'sink in' or become 'realised;' this grateful feeling is always with me but is multiplied in this moment of announcing our final season — but I feel such intense gratitude for our devoted viewers who are the ACTUAL reason we have been graced with the opportunity to explore these characters for 12 years of our lives.
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Samsung has several famous series of smartphones out of which the Galaxy Note and Galaxy S are most popular and profitable for Samsung. On other one of the mid range series is the Samsung Galaxy Core which has mid-priced devices with decent configuration. And the most recent release that corresponds to the same series is the Samsung Galaxy Core 2.
The Samsung Galaxy Core 2 corresponds to the regeneration of the average range from the design firm started by the Samsung Galaxy Note 3. It has a rear casing, which offers a faux finish to skin. In the same part five-megapixel camera with LED flash is integrated. The set also offers acceptable performance by incorporating a quad-core processor 1.2 GHz. The software part of the phone represented by Android 4.4 KitKat and graphical interfaces Samsung TouchWiz.
The most representative of Samsung Galaxy Core 2 is level design, which is very similar to the high-end models, the Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy S5. The housing of new phone has a complete profile of plastic and metal finish, plus a rear – the cap – simulating a touch of leather. The model can be achieved with housing black or white. With regard to the measurements, the manufacturer announced a length of 130.3 mm height by 68 mm wide and 9.8 millimeters thick. The total weight, battery included, is 139 grams.
The technical part of the Samsung Galaxy Core 2 is represented by the components highlights the presence of a 4.5-inch TFT panel. The same is WVGA resolution of 800 x 480 pixels and has a depth of 256,000 colors. We also found a main camera with five megapixel sensor, autofocus and video recording with resolution of 720 x 480 pixels.
The processor included in the Samsung Galaxy Core 2 architecture consists of four cores and a maximum frequency of 1.2 GHz. At cited chip Samsung added 768 MB of RAM, a priori information that is sufficient to move fluently operating system, Android 4.4 KitKat. The graphical interface of the same, as is the case in all smartphones signature features of the latest versions of TouchWiz. Additional features included by default are Easy Mode, which will allow further customizing the home screen.
The mobile storage system has 4 GB of internal memory and slot for external memory card with up to 64 GB. In terms of battery life, the new mid-range Galaxy has a removable battery capacity of 2,000 mAh. The data on the length of it are up to six hours web browsing on 3G connections (nine hours with WiFi connections), seven hours of video playback, 30 hours of music and about nine hours in telephone conversations on 3G networks. Good performance, good design and longer battery life and following the same characteristics Samsung would be launching more gadgets this year for example the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge 2, Galaxy S6 and Galaxy Note 5.


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Otaibi, Saudi Arabia's senior diplomat in Istanbul, left Turkey on Oct. 16, a day before his official residence was searched by Turkish investigators - and three days before Saudi Arabia conceded that Khashoggi had indeed been killed inside the mission.
As Mohammad al-Otaibi walked a team of reporters through the rooms of the six-story Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, he avoided eye contact and buried his hands in the pockets of his suit pants. In a cartoonish display, he opened filing cabinets and cupboards to demonstrate that journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who had vanished four days earlier, was not inside.
Otaibi, the Saudi consul general in Istanbul, had never been a high-profile diplomat. But that changed on Oct. 6 with his guided tour for Reuters reporters, and he instantly became the face of Saudi denials that Khashoggi had been kidnapped or was killed inside the consulate. He insisted that Khashoggi had left through one of the building's two entrances.
Saudi officials would eventually admit that Khashoggi had been killed inside their diplomatic mission, but by then Otaibi was gone. He had returned to Saudi Arabia. And though the kingdom would detain or fire more than 20 people in connection with the slaying, Otaibi was not among them. In fact, he has not been heard from for weeks.
Turkish investigators concluded that Saudi officials had dispatched a 15-man hit squad from Riyadh, which killed Khashoggi and dismembered his body. Those 15 Saudis were among 18 people arrested in Saudi Arabia. Five others, including four intelligence officials and a senior adviser to the royal court, were dismissed from their jobs.
That Otaibi appears to have escaped punishment so far has rankled senior Turkish officials, who see him at the very least as a key witness and accessory in the murder, as well as a liar. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has singled him out twice as having a role in the coverup, saying in a Washington Post op-ed that Otaibi had "lied through his teeth" and fled the country.
"Though Riyadh has detained 18 suspects, it is deeply concerning that no action has been taken against the Saudi consul general," the Turkish leader wrote.
More than a week earlier, during a speech to his party members in parliament, Erdogan accused Otaibi of thwarting the efforts of Turkish investigators by refusing entry into the consulate in the early days of the investigation. "I voiced some things about his incompetence . . . to the [Saudi] king," Erdogan said, adding that Otaibi was recalled from Istanbul after Erdogan's conversation with Saudi Arabia's King Salman.
Saudi officials have refused to discuss Otaibi, and the Saudi Foreign Ministry did not respond to requests for comment and clarification on Otaibi's diplomatic status. Efforts to reach Otaibi through the ministry were unsuccessful.
Erdogan's comments about the consul general underscore Turkey's frustration with how Saudi Arabia has handled the probe into the killing, with Turkish officials repeatedly accusing Riyadh of obstructing investigators and destroying evidence.
Turkish officials have accused the Saudis of stalling searches of the consulate building and the consul general's residence, which some members of the alleged hit squad visited after leaving the nearby consulate. By the time Turkish investigators were allowed in, the consulate and residence had been thoroughly cleaned.
Turkey's frustrations were compounded with the visit to Istanbul late last month of the chief Saudi prosecutor, who Turkish officials said was more interested in finding out what evidence Turkey had on the operation than in sharing any information about the 18 suspects detained in Saudi Arabia.
The kingdom, meantime, has shifted its story multiple times since the initial denials from Otaibi and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who told Bloomberg News just a day after the killing that Khashoggi had left the consulate soon after he entered it.
Otaibi, who was named consul general in Istanbul in late 2016 after postings in Nigeria and Indonesia, has emerged as a central figure in Turkey's assessment that Khashoggi's killing was premeditated and that an elaborate coverup was planned.
"If the consul disagreed with the plan, he could have called the Saudi ambassador in Ankara or taken the 45-minute flight there to meet in person," said a senior Turkish official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation. "Our assessment is that he was certainly aware of what was going to happen to Jamal Khashoggi."
Turkish officials say Otaibi's role as an accessory to the killing of Khashoggi has been firmly established through his early denials and alleged obstructive refusal to give investigators access to the consulate after Khashoggi's disappearance.
Turkish officials say, however, they remain unsure of what role, if any, Otaibi played in the actual killing.
Given his role as the senior diplomat in the consulate, Turkish authorities have been skeptical of the notion that Otaibi was an unwitting bystander to the killing.
"If there is a murder planned in the consulate, he would be informed about that," said an adviser to Erdogan, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Mehdi Eker, a lawmaker and senior member of Erdogan's party, said the nature of Otaibi's involvement could be determined if Turkish authorities were allowed to interrogate him as a witness. Eker said he is mystified as to why Otaibi was not among the Saudis arrested or fired over the case.
Khashoggi, a contributing columnist to The Washington Post and critic of the Saudi leadership, first visited the consulate on Sept. 28 seeking a document that would certify his divorce and allow him to proceed with a marriage to his Turkish fiancee, Hatice Cengiz.
Friends of Khashoggi's said the journalist told them that he had met with two senior Saudi officials that day who greeted him warmly and promised to help him with the document.
"The first met him and took his details and said to him he would now meet another, more senior official who would handle his case," said Azzam Tamimi, a British Palestinian academic.
"We were worried, but he assured us that they'd been nice," Tamimi added. "These are ordinary folks from my country. They have nothing to do with the decision-makers," he recalled Khashoggi as saying.
Khashoggi did not specifically mention Otaibi, friends said.
Turkish officials, who are trying to understand the depth of Otaibi's knowledge of the plot to kill Khashoggi, say they are trying to determine whether he was one of the senior officials with whom Khashoggi met on Sept. 28.
During that initial visit to the consulate, Khashoggi suggested Oct. 2 as a date for him to retrieve the document.
Turkey's public prosecutor said last week that Khashoggi was strangled almost immediately after entering the consulate on Oct. 2.


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