Let's say you are an attorney who concentrates on immigration. The best creative starting place is with a paper preview. That's right, a paper clip. Is apparently here usually free head of all of the typical symbolism, like a gavel or court building, that you can associate a good attorney or else a lawyer. Actually think outside your human mind. Throw out all your pre-convinced creative notions.
The neighbors are upset because the clinic is to be right across the street from a school and a day care center is also in the vicinity. Web pages the property said that he or she was mislead and was told if you have a medical practice would include operating regarding property.
You meal portions . breakfast. Remember what your mom said - Breakfast is the biggest meal of one's day. I heard somewhere that need to eat breakfast like a king, Lunch like a prince and Dinner getting a pauper. We have a lot of truth for that statement! Do not think the crazy people who say, "you can't eat that much or you'll get fat". Well, they could be already fat so why listen within?
Keep it is these things in mind if you're like you may be have been around asbestos therefore afraid which you may have asbestos poisoning or cancer of the lung forming. Health supplement very serious matters and shouldn't utilized lightly. There are a connected with other conditions that may emerge like a resistance to workout and relentless shhh. Especially if you are seeing any type of blood in your coughing, you've got see a physician instantly.
Empaths require private downtime to regroup. Even a brief escape prevents emotional overload. Retreat for 5 minutes into bathroom with the threshold shut. Take a stroll around the neighborhood. Read in a separate room. One patient shared with her boyfriend, "I need to vanish into an abandoned room for ten minutes at a party, even if I'm having fun," a variety of self-care that he or she supports.
Scarring inside lungs will be the effect of P.F., the medical industry doesn't see it that way, but considerably more hope to do this patients too my wife's case, they told my lovely wife that she was to be able to live 6 years,At the time she was diagnose with P.F. had been back in 2000.
Act well on mild and gentle ladies having a yielding approach.Patient is very timid with a weeping tendency.Bad breath is noticed mainly at dawn.Mouth is very dry but dosn't want to drink water. Yellow or white tongue covered with a tenacious mucous.Taste is altered.Taste of food remains a mouth for quite a while.Patient wash the mouth frequently.
I know I've already been through it. And, for me, creating an outline's how you can do beat the blank page blues. Really it is intimidating and daunting when you are aware that you have to write a very long sales copy product additionally don't define where start.
Ask for Discounts: Lots discounts marketplace that enables a person to lower their long term care insurance needs. These discounts however, vary from state to state and from company to company. Because of this reason it is imperative that you ask the company about discounts before assuming that they have them. You can also look throughout the company's website because many companies list all of the eligible discounts in their online page.
This type case is challenging to prove in court, since it may be a 'she said, he said case.' Among the list of fatal mistakes women make is not protecting themselves at all times, as an example by being too trusting of an established. "He is a doctor; he's going to do no harm," women reason. Appropriate suspicion is your most powerful and empowering defense against sexual assault.
You misinform yourself. A person believe wrong. Unfortunately this is the real reason more often than not. There can be a mountain of misinformation out there regarding weight. And the reason is simple, there are various entities that want you in which to stay fat. Quick food industry, the processed food industry, the fitness machine building companies, and yes even the medical industry. These companies make money by keeping you physique.
Keep in their mind that living cycle with the pimple is focused on 3-4 months so it should take time for skin tone to remedy. There are many new prescription treatments and medications on market place that can effective in fighting acne. If you do find a standard regime is not helping you deal with adult acne, consult a physician.
Empaths require private downtime to regroup. Even a brief escape prevents emotional overload. Retreat for a few minutes into bathroom with the threshold shut. Have a stroll around the block. Read in a separate room. One patient said boyfriend, "I need to disappear into a quiet room for ten minutes at a party, even though I'm having fun," a form of self-care they supports.
Phosphoric acid has been used for beverages, foods and even cleaning gifts. Because phosphoric acid is consumable it can be very potent, it turns out to be the perfect remedy for kidney gemstones. And because phosphoric acid can help it to to the kidneys, wish to be competent at dissolve them in several hours.
If you have any type of concerns regarding where and ways to use Essentials Of Healthcare Marketing, you can contact us at the web site.
Diese Seite wurde zuletzt am 15. April 2019 um 00:13 Uhr geändert.


Every single day, I watch as my family changes.
My child grows a bit taller, our love grows a bit deeper, and our memories more precious.
These sessions can be at home or anywhere, where does your heart want your story told?
Whether it is the first thing in the morning with a family breakfast, or in the evening to experience those perfect golden hour hugs before bedtime.
These sessions are about you.
Told in a combination of documentary and lifestyle photographs, we aim to showcase the little quirks and smiles, laughs, pouty faces, and tears that is your family; true to form.
Love way too many to choose?
You also have the option to purchase the entire gallery of digital downloads for an additional $350.
You also have the option to purchase the entire gallery of digital downloads for an additional $450.
Let's grab coffee + chat a latte..


text:
Austin-Peay State University Delivers Hands-On, Educational Production Experiences with Hitachi HDTV Cameras
By Dimension PR published 11 March 19
Woodbury, NY,March 11, 2019 — The Department of Communication at Austin-Peay State University (APSU) is proud to offer students real-world, hands-on experience in a full array of television and sports broadcasting disciplines. Building on positive experience with cameras from Hitachi Kokusai Electric America, Ltd. (Hitachi Kokusai) in the university's athletic arenas, the department has expanded its use of Hitachi cameras into its instructional television studio by purchasing three new Z-HD5000s.
Hitachi Kokusai will exhibit in booth C4409 at the 2019 NAB Show from April 8 to 11.
Located just 45 minutes from Nashville in downtown Clarksville, Tennessee, APSU is a four-year public university with more than 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students. APSU Television (APSU-TV) operates 24 hours per day and features student-produced news, public affairs, sports and special event programming. The APSU Department of Communication also offers the only Sports Broadcasting major in the state of Tennessee, providing students with live production experience on APSU football and basketball broadcasts, as well as video scoreboard productions.
While APSU-produced programming can be seen on outlets ranging from the campus cable channel to the EPSN+ streaming service, the department's primary focus is on the educational experience. "Even though our department does productions, they are all embedded within our curriculum," said Kathy Lee Heuston, professor and interim chair, Department of Communication at APSU. "Even our sports broadcasts are part of the curriculum. We properly train the students, and then they apply those skills on actual productions."
That emphasis on experiential learning was core to the university's earlier purchase of six Z-HD5000s from Hitachi Kokusai for its basketball and football venues, the Dunn Center and Fortera Stadium. "Our objective was to have a professional camera to teach the students on, so they would be prepared when they went out into the real world," said Lee Heuston. "The Z-HD5000 met all of the requirements while best fitting the budget, making it the first time the department was able to purchase professional-level cameras."
"While streaming Ohio Valley Conference games on EPSN+ was not a consideration when we bought the Hitachi cameras, it was a huge benefit when we started with ESPN+ that we already had cameras that met ESPN standards," added Steve Sawyer, video production coordinator at APSU.
When it came time to upgrade the department's educational television studio, the Hitachi cameras were again a natural fit. "Our previous studio cameras were not professional-grade and were due for replacement, so we needed to upgrade to make everything function the way we wanted," explained Lee Heuston. "Adding more Z-HD5000s gave us consistency, so once the students learn how to use them in the studio, they're immediately able to use them in our other venues."
While the three new Z-HD5000s are deployed in fixed positions in the studio, the arena cameras are deployed in various combinations of tripod-based, ladder-mount and handheld operation depending on the sport. Sawyer highlights the cameras' durability as particularly valuable for the rigors of their athletic productions. "The Z-HD5000s are very rugged," he said. "We're constantly setting up and tearing down the cameras, and moving them across campus. We've had absolutely no problems – they're like tanks."
The visual quality of the Hitachi cameras has also benefited APSU's productions. "We use other cameras in certain situations, such as robotic basketball backboard cameras, and there's just no comparison in quality," said Sawyer. "When we do need to take those other shots, we use them very sparingly, because you can definitely see the difference."
The quality improvement compared to APSU's earlier studio cameras was similarly evident. "When we had the older cameras in the studio alongside content coming from the Hitachi cameras in the arena, you could see the quality difference," said Lee Heuston. "Now, with the Z-HD5000s feeding our NewTek TriCasters, we get very clear pictures and the results really look professional."
Last but certainly not least, Sawyer compliments the intuitive nature of the Z-HD5000s as well-suited to their educational goals. "The Hitachi cameras are very easy to teach," he said. "Everything is very well-placed in the layout of the controls."
Those instructional benefits align nicely with the department's primary objective. "We are very fortunate to be able to use the Hitachi cameras in our classroom environment as well as in our productions, to give our students hands-on experience with professional equipment that will benefit them after graduation," concluded Lee Heuston.
About Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc.
Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a company that manufactures broadcasting systems, security and surveillance systems, wireless communications and information systems. Fiscal 2017(ended March 31, 2018) sales totaled 171,791 million Yen. For more information on Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc., please visit the company's website at http://www.hitachi-kokusai.co.jp/global/en/index.html.

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
The 'Extreme Guide' Guncles Are Expecting A Baby!
August 20, 2014, 4:20 PM ET
Bill Horn and Scout Masterson's second child is due later this year.
Congrats are in order for Bill Horn and Scout Masterson, two stars from our new show Extreme Guide to Parenting. The couple has announced that they are expecting their second child together, due later this year.
The Guncles confirmed the news on social media. So: are they expecting a baby boy or baby girl? Hint: friends might want to start buying blue baby gifts for the happy couple.
"[Scout], Simone & I are THRILLED to announce that we're having another baby later this year! And..." Bill tweeted, including a photo of their daughter holding up a poster reading "It's a boy!!!"
Scout added, "Our hearts are filled with joy," when he announced the news on Twitter.
The couple married in 2013 after spending over a decade together. In 2010, they adopted SimoneLynn, 4. And Bill tells People that their daughter is pretty excited she's going to be a big sister in the near future.
"Simone is so excited about being a big sister and both Scout and I are only children, so weíre thrilled about being able to give her the gift of a sibling," he said.
He added, "We couldn't be happier! It's the perfect time for an addition to our family."
Since the news was announced, they have received words of love from pals, including actresses Marla Sokoloff and Tori Spelling. Spelling shared she is "over the moon excited!" for Scout and Bill.
. @ScoutMasterson, Simone & I are THRILLED to announce that we're having another baby later this year! And... pic.twitter.com/0dT2mLtn99
— Bill Horn (@TheBillHorn) August 18, 2014
Our hearts are filled with joy - AND we're happy to say we're expecting... pic.twitter.com/lMRp84pyG6
— Scout Masterson (@ScoutMasterson) August 18, 2014
•'Extreme Guide to Parenting'óWatch a Sneak Peek!
•The Extreme Glossary to Parenting
•Extreme Guide to Parenting Episode Guide
•Extreme Guide to Parenting Season 1
•Extreme Guide to Parenting Videos
[Sources: Bill's Twitter, Scout's Twitter, Marla's Twitter, Tori's Twitter, People]
Extreme Guide to Parenting
Meet the 'Extreme' Parents


In 2005, Michael Greco, the President of the American Bar Association, decided he had to come to the defense of the rule of law in the US. A variety of Bush administration practices, such as signing statements, struck Greco as dangerous transgressions against the constitution, and he commissioned three research reports on the subject from groups of ABA specialists who had deep experience working within the executive branch, including the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, and the Justice Department. Each report identified serious violations of the constitution, and expressed alarm at the gravity of the consequences should they go unchecked. Greco made the reports public, and delivered them to the White House, only to be met with silence from the media and the political establishment.The rule of law, it seems, was no longer a concern to the US establishment, even when the legal profession's umbrella association was weighing in with stern warnings.
However indifferent the establishment may have become to the rule of law by 2005, a large proportion of American citizens were not willing to tolerate brazen illegality at the top.Indignation at the Bush administration's disregard for the law played a significant role in delivering the Presidency and majorities in both chambers of Congress by 2008. President Obama's own background as a one-time teacher of constitutional law conditioned optimism that his administration would honor the rule of law, and would hold many Bush administration officials accountable for their transgressions. Such was the spirit of 2008.
Alas, Obama moved to temper expectations for justice as soon as he assumed office, famously declaring his preference for "moving forward" rather than dredging up the sins of the just concluded Bush administration. Obama's policy made quite an impression, given the scale of the crimes—which included launching a war of aggression in Iraq on false pretenses, the systematic use of torture on prisoners, and the widespread orchestration of federal prosecutions for partisan (Republican Party) political purposes. The implications of non-prosecution are momentous, of course. It serves to establish the practices of the Bush administration in precedent, and leaves such practices available to future administrations.
Cutting through the disinformation and spin, Sibel Edmonds and Pepe Escobar reveal back stories about the conflict in Syria that are not reported in the mainstream media. Edmonds has deeps sources in Turkey, Iran, Syria, and the US policy community, and has broken a number of recent developments at Boiling Frogs Post. Pepe Escobar has also done great enterprise reporting and analysis at Asia Times. Together, they add a great deal of information about the players who are fighting the Assad regime, the increasingly shrill calls for Assad's removal from Washington and Paris, recent reports of likely NATO-aligned fighters assembling near the Jordan-Syria border. Escobar sees this as a proxy battle between US/NATO/Israel and a growing alliance between Russa and China, with all eyes on the oil and gas reserves of the Caspian basin. We discuss Turkey's role in some depth, and its desire to crush the Kurds of northern Iraq and southern Turkey; we talk about Iran's intentions toward Syria and Iraq after the US withdrawal, and Iran's own "Kurdish problem". Escobar predicts that 2012 will be a year of "creative destruction", and sees a return to pre-9/11 dynamics in the region. He also describes the House of Saud as the international center of the counter-revolution in response to the "Arab Spring". Edmonds, who lived in Iran at the start of the Islamic revolution, talks about Iran's interests, and Jordan's billions of dollars in US military aid since 2007. It's best to look at a map of the region as you listen, so you can appreciate the geographical and resource ties of the various neighbors.
A defense spending bill that passed both houses of Congress overwhelmingly and is set to be signed by President Barack Obama as early as this week could make it easier for the government to transfer American terrorist suspects to foreign regimes and security forces.
"Nestled amid plains so flat the locals joke you can watch your dog run away for miles, Fargo treasures its placid lifestyle, seldom pierced by the mayhem and violence common in other urban communities. North Dakota's largest city has averaged fewer than two homicides a year since 2005, and there's not been a single international terrorism prosecution in the last decade.
"But that hasn't stopped authorities in Fargo and its surrounding county from going on an $8 million buying spree to arm police officers with the sort of gear once reserved only for soldiers fighting foreign wars.
"Every city squad car is equipped today with a military-style assault rifle, and officers can don Kevlar helmets able to withstand incoming fire from battlefield-grade ammunition. And for that epic confrontation—if it ever occurs—officers can now summon a new $256,643 armored truck, complete with a rotating turret. For now, though, the menacing truck is used mostly for training and appearances at the annual city picnic, where it's been parked near the children's bounce house.
How can this possibly be a surprise to the left? Over the years the left media has extensively covered unmistakable patterns of US (i.e. wall street) complicity with death squads and torture in latin america. John Perkins and Naomi Klein have laid bare the techniques used overthrow democracies and institute mass theft and murder. Yet somehow the notion that people capable of such crimes might turn their sights on the USA itself seems incomprehensible for some reason. But guess what, these aren't misguided patriots we're dealing with here. They have no country, and they are psychopaths, mass murderers, drug runners, money launderers, child traffickers, eugenicists, nazi's, probably satanists … you name it. A distillation of the worst kind of scum. And the USA is the big prize for them. If you care about what this government is doing to the rest of the world, you'd better start paying attention to what it's doing right here at home, because if the money changers gain unfettered control of the pentagon, the whole world is screwed. Surely the left and right can unite on this one issue of freedom vs slavery.
9/11 is the litmus test for me. Any news outlet that refuses to acknowledge that 9/11 was a false flag op is a waste of time. 9/11 is THE issue, the rationale for everything that's happening, the big lie behind all the other lies. Explode the myth and you explode the entire project. Accept the myth and you become part of the problem. Grow up or get out of the way.
Further, this Nov. 18, 2011 FEMA-released plan National Continuity Programs (NCP) Program and Mission Support Services (PAMSS) [PDF] linked at the FedBizOpps.gov website outlines a scenario that overlays with eerie accuracy the bigger picture sketched out by concurrent calls for troops to keep order in the streets of places like New Orleans, as well as other bombshell documents like those released from KBR seeking to activate contracted staff for emergency detention centers and for services like fencing and barricades, as well as numerous agencies and think tanks who've prepared for civil unrest and economic breakdown in America.
FEMA has also outlined detailed support for its vast Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS), proscribed under Executive Order 13407 for the federal takeover of communications. It details the continuity of emergency communications and the issuance of warnings to the public, including public-private partnerships concerned with issuing alert messages through cellular providers– a program that only recently caused panic when it was publicly tested without forewarning in New Jersey. It is designated in the document under the Commercial Mobile Alerting System (CMAS).
Among those indicators were electricity consumption (flat), car sales (flat), property prices (collapsing), and industrial orders (down). And there is more to come, much more. The Chinese communist government is slowing the rate of growth of the money supply in order to "fight inflation," the natural result of nearly 30 years of expanding that money supply in order to catapult the Chinese agrarian economy into the 21st century. And such slowing is having the same expected effect: As the economy slows down, bankruptcies increase, tax revenues decrease, and the economy slows down further.
Chang added, "We'll see more obvious signs of deterioration in the Chinese economy over the next six months." He noted that one of those signs is the increasing civil unrest including riots, bombings, and insurrections taking place across the country.
Actually they're doing it for the money launderers on wall street, not the cartels.
"Federal authorities investigating the collapse of MF Global have uncovered e-mails that detail the transfers of money in the firm's last days, including transfers that contained customer money, according to people close to the investigation.
"One e-mail chain refers to the transfer of roughly $200 million that MF Global owed JPMorgan Chase on Oct. 28 — the firm's last business day before it filed for bankruptcy. In that chain, a senior official in the firm's Chicago office was told to make the transfer, said the people close to the investigation who requested anonymity because the inquiry was still open.


Finding superb country cottages and coastal cottages in Edinburgh with open fires or woodburning stoves couldn't be easier - just take a look at our great selection of Edinburgh log fire holiday rental and letting accommodation. Check out the accommodation, availability and book online a big selection of self catering cottages and apartments with fire places and woodburners in Edinburgh available direct from independent owners and leading holiday operators.
We have 7 cottages, apartments, lodges and bungalows listed in Edinburgh with hot tubs.


text:
Spartans Claim Resounding 52-14 Win over Grove City in Home Opener
Grove City (2-1) 7 0 7 0 14
Case Western Reserve (2-0) 7 21 14 10 52
Pa: Drew Saxton - 212
Ru: Zach Hall - 66
Rec: Mario Robaina - 66
Pa: Josh Ehst - 163
Ru: Wesley Schools - 65
Rec: Cameron Drake - 106
Four different Spartans combined to rush for five touchdowns on Saturday night, as Case Western Reserve University put an end to Grove City College's nine-game winning streak with a 52-14 win over the Wolverines in its home-opening game at DiSanto Field in Cleveland, Ohio on Saturday night.
The win raises the Spartans' season record to 2-0, including a 1-0 mark in the Presidents' Athletic Conference. Grove City, whose nine-game winning streak dating back to last season was the second-longest active streak among all NCAA Division III teams entering the contest, dropped to 2-1 on the year with a 1-1 league record.
Case Western Reserve's balanced rushing attack, which accumulated 169 yards on the ground, was led by the duo of junior Zach Hall, who carried the ball 14 times for 66 yards and a touchdown, and sophomore Donald Day III, who ran it 11 times for 57 yards and a pair of scores. Sophomore quarterback Drew Saxton completed 17-of-22 passes for 212 yards and a touchdown, while also rushing for a score in the game. Senior wide receiver Mario Robaina caught a team-high five passes for 66 yards in the game.
The Spartans defense held Grove City's rushing attack, which averaged 280 yards through their first two games, to just 121 in the contest, including just 67 for Wesley Schools, who averaged 175 yards over the first two contests of the year. CWRU outgained the Wolverines by a final margin of 381-284.
Junior linebacker Brian Victor forced a pair of fumbles and finished tied with junior linebacker Skyler Wadas with a team-high eight tackles. Victory also notched a quarterback hurry in Saturday's game.
The Spartans' offense started the game with a long drive, going 86 yards downfield on 10 plays to take a 7-0 lead with 9:57 to play in the opening period. Hall capped off the drive with a five-yard score, his first of the season. Grove City would respond with a touchdown on their opening drive of the game, knotting the score at 7-7 with 5:35 remaining in the first.
Momentum shifted in the Spartans' favor during the second quarter, starting on the first play of the quarter. Victor forced a fumble at the Grove City 38-yard line that was recovered by junior linebacker Travis Johnston and returned for a touchdown to put CWRU back in front with 14:50 left in the half. Later in the quarter, the Spartans went on another long drive, going 85 yards in 10 plays and scoring on a 35-yard pass from Saxton to junior wide receiver Chase Witte to extend the lead to 21-7 with 8:20 to play in the stanza, and a one-yard run into the end zone by Day III with 40 seconds left in the half pushed the Spartans' advantage to 35-7 by the break.
The Spartans totaled 295 yards of offense in the opening half and were six-for-six on third down conversions.
Case Western Reserve expanded its lead in the third quarter with rushing touchdowns from Saxton and Day III. Saxton forced his in on a quarterback sneak from the goal line, while Day III scored from six yards out on the first play after a 29-yard interception return by senior cornerback Kevin Chrissis, one of four turnovers forced by the Spartan defense on Saturday. Junior linebacker Joshua Smith blocked a punt early in the fourth quarter (the Spartans' second in as many games this season), setting up a one-yard touchdown run by junior Kyle Turcovsky with 14:15 to play, and a 28-yard field goal by sophomore Robertson Albrecht with just over a minute left in the game capped off the Spartans' scoring.
The Spartans will be back on the road next Saturday, September 28, when the team travels to Greenville, Pennsylvania for a 7:00 p.m. matchup at Thiel College.


text: Q: Redefine a symbol I am writing a paper and I wish to redefine a symbol (in this case the $\Rightarrow$ symbol in latex) to read that if $X\Rightarrow Y$ then $X$ "uses" $Y$, where "uses" has meaning in the context of the problem. Is it enough to state this that I am redefining this? Is this allowed? Is there another symbol I should use?

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


Crimson print on Calico bag.
Designed and handprinted by Sean for Anorak® in our little studio next to our shop - Blackbird Corner. Calico tote is 47cm high (excluding handles) x 37cm wide.
Please note: each tote is hand printed by Sean, so there may be small inconsistencies in print and colour as he is only human.
The position of the print on each tote may also slightly vary (for the same reason.) But that's why you're buying an independent designer's creation yeah?


Boxer Floyd Mayweather has come out and said that his New Year's Eve bout with Japanese kickboxer Tenshin Nasukawa will be "all about the entertainment".
The contest will take place at the Saitama Prefecture Super Arena in Saitama, Japan, Mayweather said. Saitama is 16 kilometers (10 miles) north of Tokyo.
"It is all about the entertainment," Mayweather said. "Nine minutes of entertainment... I'm in the entertainment business." Besides three-minute rounds, the exhibition will take place at 67kg (147 pounds), feature "straight boxing rules" and eight-ounce boxing gloves.
"This will be full contact competition but the bout is not going on boxing or MMA records," a Mayweather spokesperson said in a news release.
"I want to get the whole fight community, the whole country of Japan and the entire world involved in this fight."


Barbie always admired the Disney princesses and their fabulous looks. So she decided that she wants to have a pair of unique princess shoes for herself. Inspire yourself from the Disney princesses looks and play this amazing new game called Barbie's Princess Shoes and decorate a pair of fabulous shoes. Go ahead and choose your favorite princess when started the decoration part. You can choose your favorite one between Elsa, Anna, Rapunzel, Jasmine, Belle and Aurora. Have fun!


text:
Greater Minnesota
New Americans
Foreign Concept
Is Trump's Middle East policy a success — or just a non-disaster?
In an otherwise disturbing year, the collapse of the Islamic State stands as one bright spot.
By Mark Porubcansky
A Palestinian demonstrator dressed as Santa Claus burning a poster depicting President Donald Trump during a protest on Tuesday.
REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
In an otherwise disturbing year, the collapse of the Islamic State stands as one bright spot. During the course of 2017, it lost the Iraqi city of Mosul, its de facto capital Raqqa in Syria, and vast swathes of territory in both countries.
The Islamic militants once had ambitions to establish their own state. Instead, looking at a map (of Syria, in this case), the territory they still control reminds one of the remnants of a large puddle – a spot here and there. Most of it has dried up.
But who gets credit for that, and does it signify anything bigger?
Ross Douthat, a columnist for the New York Times, thinks President Trump should get a large measure of credit. It's part of what he calls the Trump administration's "moderately successful" Middle East policy. Douthat is far from a Trump apologist, so this is interesting, if not actually persuasive.
It's true, as Douthat points out, that the Islamic State rose quickly during the Obama years, and that its defeat actually started under Obama. The facts here are right, but the emphasis is wrong.
Calling the rise of the Islamic State "the defining foreign policy calamity of Barack Obama's second term" is a bit over the top. You can argue that Obama should have forced Iraq to keep U.S. troops there. The surprising success of the Islamic State suggests intelligence failures. The militants' gruesome killings of American citizens made the U.S. look powerless. But overall, the bigger problem was Obama's policy toward Syria – less its content than how it was conducted. It's always a bad idea to declare a "red line" and not follow through. Even that seems to fall short of a "calamity," though.
On the other hand, Obama should get more credit for the defeat of the Islamic State. While Mosul and Raqqa fell on Trump's watch, he did little more than tweak Obama's policy, slightly loosening rules of engagement. As Peter Bergen points out, tens of thousands of Islamic State fighters were killed, the Mosul and Raqqa operations were planned and the fighting for Mosul was under way before Trump became president.
The measured operation to defeat the Islamic State is just what you should have expected from Obama. It was designed to take advantage of your strengths and your opponent's weaknesses.
It was always a stretch to think that, despite its ambitions and early success, the Islamic State would be able to impose effective, long-term control over a vast territory. With a moderate push, it was likely to collapse eventually. That's what Obama set in motion.
Douthat also contends that the way the U.S. and its allies defeated the Islamic State didn't follow a script written by pundits, so there is no one declaring victory, raising its profile and acknowledging Trump's role. That's meaningless except in the Beltway world of ideological turf wars. The U.S. didn't have to go to war with Syrian President Bashar Assad or create a big new Syrian opposition army. But why would it? The general approach Obama followed was pretty clear from the start. And why should we be surprised that a sprawling crypto state collapsed easier than skeptics of intervention feared?
It's also wise to be skeptical about that "moderately successful" Middle East policy, in particular Trump's embrace of Saudi Arabia and its Sunni Muslim versus Iran, and his administration's policy toward Israel and the Palestinians. We should concede a couple of points: For many in the Arab world, the conflict with Iran is now more urgent than the conflict with Israel. Plus, the effort to craft a peace deal between the Israelis and Palestinians long has been an exercise in banging one's head against the wall. Does it hurt any worse if you recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital?
Douthat gives Trump credit for "slow-walking" his tough policy toward Iran. But fast or slow, Trump didn't have to start down that path at all. Obama was rightly skeptical of the Saudis, even though they have been staunch allies for decades. Despite how it looked from Riyadh, the Iran nuclear deal was not a capitulation to Tehran. It was an effort to create a more even policy for the region — back when diplomacy was considered a viable approach to problem-solving.
Trump now finds himself in an anti-Iranian echo chamber with an impetuous young Saudi prince. Mohammed bin Salman is shaking up his kingdom, and some of his domestic reforms are welcome. He also seems intent on confronting Iran across the region – but hasn't demonstrated the patience or strategic vision to do anything constructive. With Trump, that's a bad combination.
Finally, on Jerusalem. Aside from making some domestic supporters and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu happy, it's hard to see why you need to do this now. Why would Israel be interested in offering concessions when you've given it reason to believe it can get what it wants for free? And why would Palestinians bother to go back to negotiations now?
Trump's Middle East policy may not have been as big of a mess as some feared. But that's a pretty low bar for calling it a success.
Mark Porubcansky
Mark Porubcansky has been a foreign correspondent and editor for 30 years, serving until recently as foreign editor of the Los Angeles Times. He now lives in Scandia.
Get MinnPost in your email inbox:
You can also learn about all our free newsletter options.
Read these stories next
By Walker Orenstein | Staff Writer
Minnesota dairy farmers get a small win in recent trade ruling against Canada
By Ashley Hackett | Staff Writer
Why a new push for the 'Page Amendment' could end up being one of the 2022 Legislature's biggest fights
By Peter Callaghan | Staff Writer
More Foreign Concept articles
Show comments or leave a comment

Is Trump's Middle East policy a success — or just a non-disaster?

By Mark Porubcansky

Dec. 22, 2017

In an otherwise disturbing year, the collapse of the Islamic State stands as one bright spot. During the course of 2017, it lost the Iraqi city of Mosul, its de facto capital Raqqa in Syria, and vast swathes of territory in both countries.

The Islamic militants once had ambitions to establish their own state. Instead, looking at a map (of Syria, in this case), the territory they still control reminds one of the remnants of a large puddle – a spot here and there. Most of it has dried up.

But who gets credit for that, and does it signify anything bigger?

Ross Douthat, a columnist for the New York Times, thinks President Trump should get a large measure of credit. It's part of what he calls the Trump administration's "moderately successful" Middle East policy. Douthat is far from a Trump apologist, so this is interesting, if not actually persuasive.

It's true, as Douthat points out, that the Islamic State rose quickly during the Obama years, and that its defeat actually started under Obama. The facts here are right, but the emphasis is wrong.

Calling the rise of the Islamic State "the defining foreign policy calamity of Barack Obama's second term" is a bit over the top. You can argue that Obama should have forced Iraq to keep U.S. troops there. The surprising success of the Islamic State suggests intelligence failures. The militants' gruesome killings of American citizens made the U.S. look powerless. But overall, the bigger problem was Obama's policy toward Syria – less its content than how it was conducted. It's always a bad idea to declare a "red line" and not follow through. Even that seems to fall short of a "calamity," though.

On the other hand, Obama should get more credit for the defeat of the Islamic State. While Mosul and Raqqa fell on Trump's watch, he did little more than tweak Obama's policy, slightly loosening rules of engagement. As Peter Bergen points out, tens of thousands of Islamic State fighters were killed, the Mosul and Raqqa operations were planned and the fighting for Mosul was under way before Trump became president.

The measured operation to defeat the Islamic State is just what you should have expected from Obama. It was designed to take advantage of your strengths and your opponent's weaknesses.

It was always a stretch to think that, despite its ambitions and early success, the Islamic State would be able to impose effective, long-term control over a vast territory. With a moderate push, it was likely to collapse eventually. That's what Obama set in motion.

Douthat also contends that the way the U.S. and its allies defeated the Islamic State didn't follow a script written by pundits, so there is no one declaring victory, raising its profile and acknowledging Trump's role. That's meaningless except in the Beltway world of ideological turf wars. The U.S. didn't have to go to war with Syrian President Bashar Assad or create a big new Syrian opposition army. But why would it? The general approach Obama followed was pretty clear from the start. And why should we be surprised that a sprawling crypto state collapsed easier than skeptics of intervention feared?

It's also wise to be skeptical about that "moderately successful" Middle East policy, in particular Trump's embrace of Saudi Arabia and its Sunni Muslim versus Iran, and his administration's policy toward Israel and the Palestinians. We should concede a couple of points: For many in the Arab world, the conflict with Iran is now more urgent than the conflict with Israel. Plus, the effort to craft a peace deal between the Israelis and Palestinians long has been an exercise in banging one's head against the wall. Does it hurt any worse if you recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital?

Douthat gives Trump credit for "slow-walking" his tough policy toward Iran. But fast or slow, Trump didn't have to start down that path at all. Obama was rightly skeptical of the Saudis, even though they have been staunch allies for decades. Despite how it looked from Riyadh, the Iran nuclear deal was not a capitulation to Tehran. It was an effort to create a more even policy for the region — back when diplomacy was considered a viable approach to problem-solving.

Trump now finds himself in an anti-Iranian echo chamber with an impetuous young Saudi prince. Mohammed bin Salman is shaking up his kingdom, and some of his domestic reforms are welcome. He also seems intent on confronting Iran across the region – but hasn't demonstrated the patience or strategic vision to do anything constructive. With Trump, that's a bad combination.

Finally, on Jerusalem. Aside from making some domestic supporters and Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu happy, it's hard to see why you need to do this now. Why would Israel be interested in offering concessions when you've given it reason to believe it can get what it wants for free? And why would Palestinians bother to go back to negotiations now?

Trump's Middle East policy may not have been as big of a mess as some feared. But that's a pretty low bar for calling it a success.

This article first appeared on MinnPost and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
This article isn't free.
Independent, in-depth journalism costs money to produce. MinnPost's nonprofit reporting is available paywall-free thanks to the financial support of loyal readers like you. Will you make a tax-deductible donation today?


text:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/maven-v4_0_0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>nuc.edu.cn.acmicpc</groupId>
  <artifactId>Teaching-Assistance</artifactId>
  <packaging>war</packaging>
  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

  <properties>
      <java-version>1.7</java-version>
      <mysql.version>5.1.33</mysql.version>
      <spring.version>4.1.1.RELEASE</spring.version>
      <org.slf4j.version>1.6.2</org.slf4j.version>
      <logback.version>1.0.7</logback.version>
      <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
      <shiro.version>1.2.2</shiro.version>
  </properties>

  <dependencies>
      <dependency>
          <groupId>junit</groupId>
          <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
          <version>4.11</version>
          <scope>test</scope>
      </dependency>
      <!-- log配置(logback) -->
      <dependency>
          <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
          <artifactId>logback-core</artifactId>
          <version>${logback.version}</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
          <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId>
          <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId>
          <version>${logback.version}</version>
          <exclusions>
              <exclusion>
                  <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
                  <artifactId>log4j-over-slf4j</artifactId>
              </exclusion>
          </exclusions>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
          <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
          <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
          <version>${org.slf4j.version}</version>
      </dependency>
      <!--spring module 配置-->
      <dependency>
          <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
          <artifactId>spring-aop</artifactId>
          <version>${spring.version}</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
          <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
          <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
          <version>${spring.version}</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
          <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
          <artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
          <version>${spring.version}</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
          <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
          <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
          <version>${spring.version}</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
          <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
          <artifactId>spring-context-support</artifactId>
          <version>${spring.version}</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
          <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
          <artifactId>spring-tx</artifactId>
          <version>${spring.version}</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
          <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
          <artifactId>spring-jdbc</artifactId>
          <version>${spring.version}</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
          <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
          <artifactId>spring-webmvc</artifactId>
          <version>${spring.version}</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
          <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
          <artifactId>spring-test</artifactId>
          <version>${spring.version}</version>
          <scope>test</scope>
      </dependency>
      <!--mybatis配置-->
      <dependency>
          <groupId>org.mybatis</groupId>
          <artifactId>mybatis</artifactId>
          <version>3.2.8</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
          <groupId>org.mybatis</groupId>
          <artifactId>mybatis-spring</artifactId>
          <version>1.2.2</version>
      </dependency>
      <!--mysql driver配置-->
      <dependency>
          <groupId>mysql</groupId>
          <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
          <version>${mysql.version}</version>
      </dependency>

      <!--jsr303 validate-->
      <dependency>
          <groupId>javax.validation</groupId>
          <artifactId>validation-api</artifactId>
          <version>1.0.0.GA</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
          <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
          <artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
          <version>4.3.0.Final</version>
      </dependency>

      <!--common-->
      <dependency>
          <groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
          <artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
          <version>3.1</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
          <groupId>taglibs</groupId>
          <artifactId>standard</artifactId>
          <version>1.1.2</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
          <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
          <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
          <version>3.1.0</version>
          <scope>provided</scope>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
          <groupId>javax.el</groupId>
          <artifactId>javax.el-api</artifactId>
          <version>2.2.4</version>
          <scope>provided</scope>
          <exclusions>
              <exclusion>
                  <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
                  <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
              </exclusion>
              <exclusion>
                  <groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
                  <artifactId>jsp-api</artifactId>
              </exclusion>
          </exclusions>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
          <groupId>javax.servlet.jsp.jstl</groupId>
          <artifactId>jstl-api</artifactId>
          <version>1.2</version>
          <exclusions>
              <exclusion>
                  <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
                  <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
              </exclusion>
              <exclusion>
                  <groupId>javax.servlet.jsp</groupId>
                  <artifactId>jsp-api</artifactId>
              </exclusion>
          </exclusions>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
          <groupId>com.mchange</groupId>
          <artifactId>c3p0</artifactId>
          <version>0.9.2.1</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
          <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
          <artifactId>jackson-annotations</artifactId>
          <version>2.1.0</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
          <groupId>com.alibaba</groupId>
          <artifactId>fastjson</artifactId>
          <version>1.2.4</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
          <groupId>javax.mail</groupId>
          <artifactId>mail</artifactId>
          <version>1.4</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
          <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
          <artifactId>aspectjweaver</artifactId>
          <version>1.8.5</version>
      </dependency>

      <!-- Apache Commons Upload -->
      <dependency>
          <groupId>commons-fileupload</groupId>
          <artifactId>commons-fileupload</artifactId>
          <version>1.2.2</version>
      </dependency>

      <!-- Apache Commons Upload -->
      <dependency>
          <groupId>commons-io</groupId>
          <artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
          <version>1.3.2</version>
      </dependency>

      <!--redis-->
      <dependency>
          <groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
          <artifactId>spring-data-redis</artifactId>
          <version>1.0.2.RELEASE</version>
          <exclusions>
              <exclusion>
                  <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
                  <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
              </exclusion>
              <exclusion>
                  <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
                  <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
              </exclusion>
              <exclusion>
                  <groupId>log4j</groupId>
                  <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
              </exclusion>
          </exclusions>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
          <groupId>redis.clients</groupId>
          <artifactId>jedis</artifactId>
          <version>2.7.3</version>
      </dependency>

      <!--guava-->
      <dependency>
          <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
          <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
          <version>18.0</version>
      </dependency>

      <!--captcha-->
      <dependency>
          <groupId>com.octo.captcha</groupId>
          <artifactId>jcaptcha</artifactId>
          <version>1.0</version>
          <exclusions>
              <exclusion>
                  <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
                  <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
              </exclusion>
          </exclusions>
      </dependency>

      <!--shiro-->
      <dependency>
          <groupId>org.apache.shiro</groupId>
          <artifactId>shiro-core</artifactId>
          <version>${shiro.version}</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
          <groupId>org.apache.shiro</groupId>
          <artifactId>shiro-web</artifactId>
          <version>${shiro.version}</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
          <groupId>org.apache.shiro</groupId>
          <artifactId>shiro-ehcache</artifactId>
          <version>${shiro.version}</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
          <groupId>org.apache.shiro</groupId>
          <artifactId>shiro-spring</artifactId>
          <version>${shiro.version}</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
          <groupId>org.apache.shiro</groupId>
          <artifactId>shiro-quartz</artifactId>
          <version>${shiro.version}</version>
      </dependency>

  </dependencies>

  <build>
      <finalName>Teaching-Assistance</finalName>

        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <source>${java-version}</source>
                    <target>${java-version}</target>
                    <encoding>${project.build.sourceEncoding}</encoding>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>

            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.8</source>
                    <target>1.8</target>
                    <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>

            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>6.1.26</version>
                <configuration>
                    <scanIntervalSeconds>10</scanIntervalSeconds>
                    <webAppSourceDirectory>src/main/webapp</webAppSourceDirectory>
                    <contextPath>/</contextPath>
                    <connectors>
                        <connector implementation="org.mortbay.jetty.nio.SelectChannelConnector">
                            <port>8080</port>
                            <maxIdleTime>60000</maxIdleTime>
                        </connector>
                    </connectors>
                    <stopKey>foo</stopKey>
                    <stopPort>9999</stopPort>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
  </build>
</project>

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


Third Annual Runaway Quilters Retreat, October 2014!
Some highlights of the 2014 Runaway Quilters Retreat at Oakwood Retreat Center, Selma.
We had FUN, FUN, FUN, and can you believe these quilts????? GREAT JOB, Ladies!
Missed it this year? No problem...join us in 2015!


text:
by Kim in Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Surnames I-Q, Title I-Q Tags: Arkham Reviews, Book Blog, Book Review, dark romance, fantasy, New Moon, Review, Stephenie Meyer, Twilight Saga, vampire, vampire fiction, Young Adult
Please note that this review may contain spoilers for its prequel, Twilight. You can read my review of this novel [here].
Unless you've been living in a cave for the last nine years, I expect you've probably heard of the Twilight Saga. This series was written by Stephenie Meyer and focuses on the forbidden love between a vampire and a human. The first novel, Twilight (2005), was swiftly followed by New Moon (2006), Eclipse (2007), Breaking Dawn (2008) and The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner (2010). The immense popularity of the series sparked a trend of paranormal romance novels – an effect that can still be seen in the market today. For the purpose of today's review, I'll be looking at New Moon only.
A few months have passed since the events of Twilight and Bella Swan is finding herself constantly tested by her relationship with Edward. As her eighteenth birthday approaches, she releases that she will continue to age while he remains forever seventeen and the thought of this horrifies her. After an accident at her birthday party almost leads to her death at the hands of Jasper, Edward comes to the decision that his world is just far too dangerous for a human. After painfully declaring that he no longer loves her, he and the rest of the Cullens leave in the night, never to return.
Bella is plunged into depression and finds it impossible to come to terms with his departure. Discovering that she has vivid hallucinations of Edward whenever her life is in danger, she begins to perform increasingly dangerous acts just to hear his voice again. Her daredevil lifestyle leads her to a new friendship with Jacob Black, beginning with a mutual desire to repair a motorcycle and gradually blossoming into something more.
However, all is not well in Forks. Bella is still haunted by nightmares about Edward and is plagued with confusion with regards to her growing feelings for Jacob. On top of this, Victoria has returned to town, harbouring a bitter resentment for the death of her partner at Edward's hands. Driven by her desire to take Bella's life – a mate for a mate – she begins to mercilessly hunt the teenager. With the Cullens long gone, who can protect her from a messy end at the vampire's fangs?
When I read Twilight I noted that, while it did not speak to me, I could fully see why some readers rated it so highly. Unfortunately, I can't say the same thing about New Moon. All the problems that I noted with its precursor are also readily apparent in this novel, only they somehow manage to be even more offensive this time round.
For starters, the novel is painfully slow. While Twilight increased in pace in the last quarter, leading to what was ultimately a rather intense final showdown with James, New Moon never managed to incite the same curiosity to me. There were two moments of real excitement in the novel – the appearance of Laurent and the race to save Edward from the Volturi – but both were somewhat underplayed and lacking in tension. Beyond these, the novel was peppered with interesting moments (particular ones of note were the brutality of the Volturi and Bella's famous cliff dive) but they were so few and far between to really create any kind of lasting interest.
Stuff certainly did happen in the novel, but it was almost entirely off page. The novel's first person narrative was far too restrictive, resulting in Bella hearing about most plot elements long after they had occurred. I would like to have witnessed Edward's first meeting with the Volturi but it is instead summed up in a sentence from Alice. Similarly the antagonist – Victoria – never actually appeared in the story as Bella didn't ever encounter her. Instead, all we learn about her are from multiple second hand accounts as Jacob and his brothers attempt to track her down. For me, this removed all effectiveness that she would have otherwise had as a villain. How can I share Bella's fears if she never seems to be in any danger?
In the absence of a driving plot, 90% of the novel was taken up by angst – lengthy and repetitive monologues by Bella as she emphasised just how empty she felt without Edward in her life. Lather, rinse and repeat. Particularly in the first half of the novel, her lamentations were endless and covered the same themes over and over again. Perhaps if the book had been two hundred pages shorter, this would not have felt so offensive but reading so much solid drama was utterly exhausting. I know that depression is a serious condition and it's not something easily shrugged off but it can still be presented in a novel in an interesting way. The Bone Dragon is a novel that I would recommend again and again as it presents a very realistic first person narrative regarding a girl suffering from severe depression, never stooping to the level of pretentious melodrama that New Moon achieves.
It also felt like the story was just trying to be far more clever than it actually was through its Shakespearean references. Although the subtext wasn't really there in Twilight, New Moon tries to draw many parallels between itself and Romeo and Juliet. Its attempts to do so lack subtlety, following each reference with a lengthy passage to explain how it is adapted from the classic play (""Death, that hath sucked the honey of thy breath, hath had no power yet upon thy beauty," he murmured, and I recognised the line spoken by Romeo in the tomb"). It's heavy handed and, in my opinion, unnecessary. A good reference does not need to be pointed out to the reader. The analogy also makes less sense the more that I think about it. Edward and Bella are star-crossed lovers, in a sense, but the warring families are embodied more in the Cullens and the Quileutes. If this is the case, comparing Jacob to Paris does not really work as Paris belonged to neither family. Perhaps comparing Jacob to Tybalt would have worked better, yet it was Mercutio that fought Tybalt, not Romeo… Ahh well, I'm getting bogged down on this tangent so it's probably time to move on…
The thing that frustrated me the most about the novel were the characters. In Twilight, the cast was rather large – consisting of the entire Cullen family and Bella's school friends – but in New Moon the focus has narrowed significantly. Now plot largely fixates on Bella, Jacob, Edward (although he is absent for most of the novel) and, to a lesser degree, a few members of the Quileute tribe. While the background characters were flat and forgettable, the principle love triangle never ceased to frustrate me.
Mary-Sue Bella has now devolved to the point where she measures all of her self-worth on a man. A life without Edward in it is not worth living. Bypassing most stages of grief, she just flips straight to near suicidal depression and never expresses any kind of animosity towards Edward for his abandonment of her. Instead, she blames herself for him leaving her, feeling that it's her fragility next to his godly perfection that makes her unworthy of him. There are two words for this. Victim blaming. I think I've made clear by now that I like strong female characters. I like the Katniss's of young adult literature – the characters that can support themselves and exist without needing the constant protection of a man. Bella is just a damsel in distress who is completely unable to function without a big strong manly man to protect her.
In relation to this, Edward is thoroughly detestable in this novel. How can I possibly like a character who would just dump a girl with no explanation and run away, leaving her devastated? His actions in this novel are nothing short of selfish, completely disregarding her feelings when they conflict with his own. For me, it was fully understandable that she would want to become a vampire – to stop aging rather than gradually grow older and infirm before his eyes. Although Bella seems able to forgive him instantly, this just proves that she is a kinder person than me. I hated him in Twilight and I hate him all the more now.
The only character I kind of liked in this whole mess was Jacob. At first, he seemed to be caring and funny and sweet – a far better match for Bella than Edward ever was. However, towards the end, his character development took a turn for the worst and lead to him growing increasingly childish. By the novel's close, he's regressed to primary school mentality, giving Bella the ultimatum that if she remains friends with Edward, she can't be his friend too. By the end of this story, I'm still wholeheartedly Team Carlisle – the only character I care about – whose absence in this novel was dearly missed.
Anyhow, this is getting long so I'll wrap up. I did not enjoy reading New Moon at all as I felt it was a lot less engrossing than Twilight. There is next to no action in the story and instead it is padded with hundreds of pages of monotonous lamentations. The characters were superficial and overly angsty and the novel just never felt as though it got going. I really hope that the series will improve in Eclipse, as it certainly suffered greatly from the Cullens' absence.
New Moon can be purchased as a Paperback, eBook and Audio Book on Amazon.co.uk
Previous Requests are CLOSED Next Tru Luup: Vintage Fashion Girl, Mystery Slayer
Trackback: The Summer Marked | Arkham Reviews
Trackback: Eclipse | Arkham Reviews
Trackback: The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner | Arkham Reviews


text:
Q: Issue with doparallel and foreach on centos cluster I am trying to use foreach and doParallel to optimize the computation of some image processing. I have ParamIter which is the parameter to iterate over. ImageProcessing is my custom function to process the images and save the data that has been processed.
library(methods)
library(fftwtools)
library(EBImage)
library(tidyverse)
library(foreach)
library(doParallel)

registerDoParallel(20)

      foreach(ParamIter = unique(AllImages$ParamIter)) %dopar% {

        AllImagesTemp = AllImages[AllImages$ParamIter == ParamIter,]

        ImageProcessing(Image = AllImagesTemp,
                        Plate = unique(AllImagesTemp$Plate),
                        TimePoint = unique(AllImagesTemp$TimePoint),
                        Marker = unique(AllImagesTemp$Marker),
                        Replicate = unique(AllImagesTemp$Replicate),
                        Well = unique(AllImagesTemp$ID),
                        Position = unique(AllImagesTemp$Position),
                        SaveDir = WellDir,
                        SaveParam = ParamIter,
                        ThrEmptyImage = .04)

        }

Everything works perfectly locally on a machine with Ubuntu 18.04 and a session as per below:
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.5.3 (2019-03-11)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/blas/libblas.so.3.7.1
LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lapack/liblapack.so.3.7.1

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C               LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8     LC_MONETARY=de_DE.UTF-8
 [6] LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8    LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                  LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] parallel  stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
 [1] bindrcpp_0.2.2    fftwtools_0.9-8   doParallel_1.0.14 iterators_1.0.10  foreach_1.4.4     forcats_0.3.0     stringr_1.4.0     dplyr_0.7.7
 [9] purrr_0.3.1       readr_1.1.1       tidyr_0.8.2       tibble_2.0.1      ggplot2_3.1.0     tidyverse_1.2.1   EBImage_4.24.0

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] tidyselect_0.2.5    locfit_1.5-9.1      haven_1.1.2         lattice_0.20-38     colorspace_1.4-0    htmltools_0.3.6     yaml_2.2.0
 [8] rlang_0.3.1         pillar_1.3.1        withr_2.1.2         glue_1.3.0          BiocGenerics_0.28.0 modelr_0.1.2        readxl_1.1.0
[15] jpeg_0.1-8          bindr_0.1.1         plyr_1.8.4          munsell_0.5.0       gtable_0.2.0        cellranger_1.1.0    rvest_0.3.2
[22] htmlwidgets_1.3     codetools_0.2-16    broom_0.5.0         Rcpp_1.0.0          backports_1.1.3     scales_1.0.0        jsonlite_1.6
[29] abind_1.4-5         hms_0.4.2           png_0.1-7           digest_0.6.18       stringi_1.3.1       tiff_0.1-5          grid_3.5.3
[36] cli_1.0.1           tools_3.5.3         bitops_1.0-6        magrittr_1.5        RCurl_1.95-4.11     lazyeval_0.2.1      crayon_1.3.4
[43] pkgconfig_2.0.2     xml2_1.2.0          lubridate_1.7.4     assertthat_0.2.0    httr_1.4.0          rstudioapi_0.9.0    R6_2.3.0
[50] nlme_3.1-137        compiler_3.5.3

However if I am trying to do this on my local cluster it doesn't work and provides me with this error:
Error in { :
  task 1 failed - "a call to callNextMethod() appears in a call to '.Method', but the call does not seem to come from either a generic function or another 'callNextMethod'"
Calls: %dopar% -> <Anonymous>
Execution halted

My session on the centos cluster looks like:
R version 3.4.1 (2017-06-30)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: CentOS Linux 7 (Core)

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /cm/shared/apps/R/64/3.4.1/lib64/R/lib/libRblas.so
LAPACK: /cm/shared/apps/R/64/3.4.1/lib64/R/lib/libRlapack.so

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
 [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] parallel  stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
[8] base

other attached packages:
 [1] doParallel_1.0.14 iterators_1.0.10  foreach_1.4.4     forcats_0.3.0
 [5] stringr_1.3.1     dplyr_0.7.8       purrr_0.3.0       readr_1.3.1
 [9] tidyr_0.8.2       tibble_2.0.1      ggplot2_3.1.0     tidyverse_1.2.1
[13] EBImage_4.20.1    fftwtools_0.9-8

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] tidyselect_0.2.5    locfit_1.5-9.1      haven_2.0.0
 [4] lattice_0.20-35     colorspace_1.4-0    generics_0.0.2
 [7] htmltools_0.3.6     rlang_0.3.1         pillar_1.3.1
[10] withr_2.1.2         glue_1.3.0          BiocGenerics_0.24.0
[13] modelr_0.1.2        readxl_1.2.0        bindrcpp_0.2.2
[16] jpeg_0.1-8          bindr_0.1.1         plyr_1.8.4
[19] munsell_0.5.0       gtable_0.2.0        cellranger_1.1.0
[22] rvest_0.3.2         htmlwidgets_1.3     codetools_0.2-15
[25] broom_0.5.1         Rcpp_1.0.0          scales_1.0.0
[28] backports_1.1.3     jsonlite_1.6        abind_1.4-5
[31] hms_0.4.2           png_0.1-7           digest_0.6.18
[34] stringi_1.2.4       tiff_0.1-5          grid_3.4.1
[37] cli_1.0.1           bitops_1.0-6        tools_3.4.1
[40] magrittr_1.5        RCurl_1.95-4.10     lazyeval_0.2.1
[43] crayon_1.3.4        pkgconfig_2.0.2     xml2_1.2.0
[46] lubridate_1.7.4     assertthat_0.2.0    httr_1.4.0
[49] rstudioapi_0.9.0    R6_2.3.0            nlme_3.1-131
[52] compiler_3.4.1

I do not understand the error and what it is pointing me towards. Does someone have an idea of how I could solve this problem?
Upgrading to a newer version of R is not a possibility on my local cluster.
Cheers,
Mathieu


The Cathedral of Montichiari is an estimable work of the Lombard eighteenth century .
Rich in history and art, dedicated to the Lady of the Assumption, it would have been the place of the presumed apparitions of Rosa Mystica for four times in 1947, the most important on 8th December, feast of the Immaculate Conception, when the devotion of the Hour of Grace would have been asked.
The cathedral became an Abbey thanks to Pope Paolo VI, and represents one of the fundamental places for the development of the pity and faith of the town. Attracted by its beauty, by the charm of its harmonic architecture, by the several works of art and, above all, by the wooden statue of Mary Rosa Mystica, engraved on his knees by the artist Perathoner from Upper Adige. The Virgin Mary descends the staircase strewn with roses, symbol of the graces She spread on the faithful.
In the heart of the historical centre, the cathedral is in an optimal position to be reached.
Fontanelle is a place in open country, three kilometres far from Montichiari. Its name comes from the little springs which flow in this place.
Thanks to the intervention of the Diocese of Brescia and to the commitment of many lay volunteers, Fontanelle became a place of worship and Marian devotion, where the pilgrims can restore their souls and meet the God's Grace.


text:
Q: Use ng2-toastr in a service Scenario: I need to use ng2-toaster to display messages in all the components. Instead of writing the same toaster in every components. I need to write a component in a global service once and all the components make use of it. But I couldn't make it work. Any advice would be helpful. Thank you.
Here's my code:
global.service.ts
import { ToastsManager } from 'ng2-toastr/ng2-toastr';
'''
constructor(public toastr: ToastsManager) { }
...
showSuccess() {
  this.toastr.success('Called from Global service', 'Success!', {toastLife: 3000});
}

some.component.ts
import { GlobalService } from './services';
...
ngInit(){
   this.globalService.showSuccess()
}

Error:
this is the error i'm getting.
Error: Application root component cannot be found. Try accessing application reference in the later life cycle of angular app.

A: For Angular v2.2.x you need to add below in your Root component of your app :
// AppComponent.ts (Root component of your app)
constructor(public toastr: ToastsManager, vRef: ViewContainerRef) {
    this.toastr.setRootViewContainerRef(vRef);
}


Orthodontic treatment will straighten the teeth or move them into a better position. This can not only improve their appearance but also the way the teeth bite together, while also making them easier to clean.
Orthodontic treatment is most commonly known as being carried out in children, but adults can have orthodontic treatment – and more and more are doing so.
They can be easily removed for eating, drinking, brushing and flossing. You need to have all your adult teeth before you can have this treatment.


text:
HubSpot buys chatbot maker Motion AI
Steven Loeb · September 20, 2017 · Short URL: https://vator.tv/n/4a2f
Motion AI technology will be integrated into HubSpot, which was previously a Motion AI customer
Automation and artificial intelligence have become ubiquitous in tech startups. I've had some investors tell me that they don't even see these as separate spaces anymore, since every single company has to have them as part of their business model. They are no longer optional, for better or worse.
Inbound marketing and sales platform HubSpot is no exception. In June, the company bought Kemvi, an artificial intelligence and machine learning startup that helped sales representatives deepen their relationships with prospective buyers. And now it's gone and made another acquisition in this space, picking up Motion AI, a company that develops and trains chatbots. No financial terms of the deal were disclosed.
Originally launched on Product Hunt in November 2015, Motion AI's technology allows users to build, train, and deploy AI robots without knowing how to code. Bots can be built for SMS, email, FB Messenger and Slack.
Since May of 2016, Motion AI has facilitated more than 40 million total messages. One of its customers had been HubSpot, along with T-Mobile, Sony and Liberty Mutual. Pricing starts with a free version, with a maximum of two bots and 1,000 messages a month, and goes as high as $100 a month for 50 bots and 50,000 messages a month.
It was revealed that Motion AI's technology will be incorporated into the HubSpot platform over the next several months, "with the team working to create tools that help users automate important tasks, scale conversations, and proactively engage and acquire new customers."
HubSpot plans to reveal more about the integration next week.
Despite the integration, Motion AI insists that nothing will change for its customers, at least not for the time being. Pricing will stay the same, as will access to support and bots will continue to function.
"Over the next several months, the Motion AI and HubSpot teams will be focused on aligning our technology and building new features that combine the power of bots with the rich data and insights of HubSpot. During this period, we want to continue providing our existing Motion AI customers with the high level of service they've come to know and appreciate," the company wrote.
However, it has "decided to put a temporary pause on brand new signups."
"Eventually, we'll get to a place where Motion AI is fully integrated with and built into the HubSpot product. Our journey there might include a few bumps along the way. That said, we still want to enable you to experiment, build bots, and continue on with all the cool stuff you've been doing. We promise to be totally transparent. We'll let you know as new functionality becomes available and fill you in on what to expect if we make changes to any of the existing features you've been enjoying."
This is not the first time HubSpot has experimented with chatbots. In July of last year, the company unveiled GrowthBot, a personal assistant for marketing and sales, which came out of HubSpot Labs.
For HubSpot, chatbots are an essential part of keeping up with competitors.
"It's impossible to ignore the impact of chat and messaging, not just on the way B2B companies operate, but on society as a whole. We're in the midst of a massive shift as businesses embrace this new platform and consumers come to expect more immediate, always-on communication from brands," Brian Halligan, co-founder and CEO of HubSpot, said in a statement.
"HubSpot's mission has always been to build technology that helps SMBs grow and evolve with changing consumer behaviors, and acquiring Motion AI is another great step in that direction."
Motion AI had raised $700,000 in seed funding from Charge Ventures, Crush Ventures, Guy Gamzu, Hyde Park Angels and Micha Kaufman.
Do you have a startups in the spaces of Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Augmented Reality, Internet of Things, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, SaaS? Samsung NEXT Start is seeking to invest between $100k and $1 million in pre-seed and seed-stage startups solving hard problems using bleeding edge technologies. Apply here today!
(Image source: web.archive.org)
HubSpot acquires Kemvi to go deeper into AI


**Up To 80% Off Jewelry And Accessory from BBC Shop. Price: Not Specified. Discount: Not Specified. Categories: Bracelets, Bracelets, Earings, Earings, Fashion Jewelry, Fine Jewelry, Necklaces, Necklaces, Pendants, Pendants, Rings, Rings. Deal Rating: 4.8 Stars out of 5. Store Rating: 4.5 Stars out of 5. Deal Recommendation: Strongly Recommended. Available Until: May 1. Thoughts: Time is money, so don't waste time and get this great offer now!
**90% Off Jewelry from Chic Market. Price: Not Specified. Discount: 90%. Categories: Bracelets, Bracelets, Earings, Earings, Fashion Jewelry, Fine Jewelry, Necklaces, Necklaces, Pendants, Pendants, Rings, Rings. Deal Rating: 4.7 Stars out of 5. Store Rating: 4.6 Stars out of 5. Deal Recommendation: Strongly Recommended. Available Until: Not Specified. Thoughts: Good chance to get a great offer!
**Up To 70% Off Fine Jewelry from Zales. Price: Not Specified. Discount: 70%. Categories: Fine Jewelry, Bracelets, Earings, Necklaces, Pendants, Rings. Deal Rating: 4.7 Stars out of 5. Store Rating: 4.6 Stars out of 5. Deal Recommendation: Strongly Recommended. Available Until: Not Specified. Thoughts: It is very advantageous offer!
**Up To 70% Off Gemstone Jewelry from Sea Of Diamonds. Price: Not Specified. Discount: 70%. Categories: Fine Jewelry, Bracelets, Earings, Necklaces, Pendants, Rings. Deal Rating: 4.6 Stars out of 5. Store Rating: 4.7 Stars out of 5. Deal Recommendation: Strongly Recommended. Available Until: Not Specified. Thoughts: This is a pretty good offer, so don't waste your time and get it!
**Up To 50% Off Handcrafted Jewelry from Uno Alla Volta. Price: Not Specified. Discount: 50%. Categories: Fashion Jewelry, Fine Jewelry, Bracelets, Earings, Necklaces, Pendants, Rings. Deal Rating: 4.5 Stars out of 5. Store Rating: 4.6 Stars out of 5. Deal Recommendation: Strongly Recommended. Available Until: Not Specified. Thoughts: Don't miss the opportunity to keep your money!
*Up To 20% Off Jewelry from Yellow Box. Price: Not Specified. Discount: 20%. Categories: Fashion Jewelry, Bracelets, Earings, Necklaces, Pendants, Rings. Deal Rating: 4.3 Stars out of 5. Store Rating: 4.6 Stars out of 5. Deal Recommendation: Recommended. Available Until: Not Specified. Thoughts: Time is money, so don't waste time and get this great offer now!
**Up To 80% Off Wholesale Earrings from Dream Land Jewelry. Price: Not Specified. Discount: 80%. Categories: Fashion Jewelry, Earings. Deal Rating: 4.8 Stars out of 5. Store Rating: 4.7 Stars out of 5. Deal Recommendation: Strongly Recommended. Available Until: Not Specified. Thoughts: Good chance to get a great offer!
*30% Off Jewelry from Box Lunch. Price: Not Specified. Discount: 30%. Categories: Fashion Jewelry, Bracelets, Earings, Necklaces, Pendants, Rings, Watches. Deal Rating: 4.3 Stars out of 5. Store Rating: 4.5 Stars out of 5. Deal Recommendation: Strongly Recommended. Available Until: Not Specified. Thoughts: Don't miss your chance to get a good product at a reasonable price!
**Up To 75% Off Zodiac Collection from Factory Direct Jewelry. Price: Not Specified. Discount: 75%. Categories: Fashion Jewelry, Necklaces. Deal Rating: 4.7 Stars out of 5. Store Rating: 4.5 Stars out of 5. Deal Recommendation: Strongly Recommended. Available Until: Not Specified. Thoughts: It is very advantageous offer!
*30% Off Jewelry & Watch Essentials from The Real Real. Price: Not Specified. Discount: 30%. Categories: Fashion Jewelry, Bracelets, Earings, Necklaces, Pendants, Rings, Watches. Deal Rating: 4.3 Stars out of 5. Store Rating: 4.6 Stars out of 5. Deal Recommendation: Recommended. Available Until: Not Specified. Thoughts: This is a pretty good offer, so don't waste your time and get it!