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Square Foot by Lina Miranda
New York-born designer Lina Miranda has a mission: share the complex beauty of custom, handmade rugs with her adopted country, Brazil. And for Lina, that means not just knowing about the rugs but also the people who made them.
Being a GoodWeave® member helps her achieve just that. "I know exactly where my rugs come from and who makes them. They're not made in some village or house I don't have access to or where kids are working," she says.
Since the start of her career as a designer, Lina has always worked with textiles and "absolutely loved rugs," having worked with such industry notables as Christine Vanderhurd and Alexandra Champalimaud. Moving to Brazil, however, she discovered that no one had even heard of custom rugs. "Brazil has a different way of doing business," Lina says. "Ninety percent of rugs are sold through a handful of stores located on one street in S?o Paulo. Most stores buy from distributors and resellers, who usually have no idea where the rugs came from."
Speaking with various Brazilian architects, Lina discovered there was an unmet demand for the quality handmade, vegetable-dyed rugs she was used to sourcing back in the US. Lina decided to start her own rug business. Visiting Nepal to research manufacturers, Lina met "some good people, and some bad," she says. It was important for her to find someone that she trusted–which she found in Lama, the owner of the factory she now works with exclusively in Nepal. "We are literally at opposite ends of the world but we have become good friends," says Lina.
One of the factory's selling points for Lina was that it had a school and nursery attached. Lina and Lama were devastated when the government asked the factory to shut down the school, which educated 75 children, as it had not been officially approved by the government. "It was a big loss to the community. Still, we kept the nursery going and invested instead in getting vaccinations for the children," she says.
In Brazil, the average rug is a massive 300 square feet, so Lama had to invest in larger, steel-framed looms given Square Foot rugs' heavyweight status. It was a welcome investment for the manufacturer, however, given that Square Foot "gives the factory enough work to keep looms filled at all times," according to Lina. In addition to Square Foot's Brazilian clients, the business works with architectural firms everywhere from Paris to Las Vegas.
Square Foot creates one small rug collection each year for marketing purposes, but the rest of its rugs are all custom made, opening up Brazilian homes to the infinite possibilities of custom design. "Houses here tend to be neutral because of all the bright tropical colors and patterns in the natural environment. It's not unusual for a Brazilian home to be painted six tones of grey," says Lina. "I try to push people to be more design forward."
In selling Square Foot's rugs, Lina tells their story. As Brazilians are unaccustomed to the longer lead times for custom products, Lina works to educate them about the process – and with a GoodWeave licensed factory, that means good working conditions, children's education and much more. "I tell customers, 'This is being specially made for you by a responsible factory in a place with a rich tradition of rugmaking.' People are so surprised," says Lina. Being a GoodWeave member gives Lina the confidence to tell the story of her rugs – and so far they are selling.
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sarah Dessen comes a big-hearted, sweeping novel about a girl who reconnects with a part of her family she hasn't seen since she was a little girl—and falls in love, all over the course of a magical summer.
Emma Saylor doesn't remember a lot about her mother, who died when Emma was twelve. But she does remember the stories her mom told her about the big lake that went on forever, with cold, clear water and mossy trees at the edges.
Now it's just Emma and her dad, and life is good, if a little predictable…until Emma is unexpectedly sent to spend the summer with her mother's family that she hasn't seen since she was a little girl.
When Emma arrives at North Lake, she realizes there are actually two very different communities there. Her mother grew up in working class North Lake, while her dad spent summers in the wealthier Lake North resort. The more time Emma spends there, the more it starts to feel like she is also divided into two people. To her father, she is Emma. But to her new family, she is Saylor, the name her mother always called her.
Then there's Roo, the boy who was her very best friend when she was little. Roo holds the key to her family's history, and slowly, he helps her put the pieces together about her past. It's hard not to get caught up in the magic of North Lake—and Saylor finds herself falling under Roo's spell as well.
For Saylor, it's like a whole new world is opening up to her. But when it's time to go back home, which side of her—Emma or Saylor—will win out?
Sarah Dessen is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of over a dozen novels for teens, including Once and for All, Saint Anything, This Lullaby, The Truth About Forever, Just Listen, and Along for the Ride. Her books have been published in over thirty countries and have sold millions of copies worldwide. That Summer and Someone Like You were made into the movie How to Deal. She is the recipient of the Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association for outstanding contribution to young adult literature. A North Carolina native, Sarah currently lives in Chapel Hill with her family. Visit Sarah at www.sarahdessen.com.
"There's no magic that lets us actually live in books yet, but plunging into the cold, clear waters of Dessen's slowly winding summer-spell, a tale of family lost and found, is pretty darn close."
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"A beautiful addition to Dessen's repertoire, and an examination of conflicting social classes, strained familial relationships, and delightfully evolving romance that is unforgettable."
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"With one foot in her father's world and one in her mother's, Emma Saylor tentatively navigates issues of class, addiction, and identity. Hers is a summertime journey of self-discovery, family secrets, and first love, and it's exactly where Dessen shines brightest."
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Wolf Van Halen posted another teaser from rehearsals today — "Dirty Movies" — a classic from Fair Warning. This marks the second time he posted a clip of that song from rehearsals. Hopefuly they'll play this one at some of the shows this summer! Learn more about this song here.


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Stradley Ronon Commits to Mansfield 4.0 Certification
PHILADELPHIA – Stradley Ronon is proud to announce it is participating in the industrywide Mansfield Rule hosted by Diversity Lab, joining other top law firms across the country to advance diversity at all levels and ensure a level playing field for the next generation of lawyers. As part of the firm's initiatives, Stradley Ronon will consider at least 30% women, minorities, and LGBTQ lawyers for leadership and governance positions, senior associate and lateral partner openings, equity partnership promotions, pitch opportunities and more.
"It is essential now more than ever, to pledge our commitment to advancing our diverse attorneys and cultivating an inclusive environment for all – and Mansfield provides the framework to do just that," said Brian Seaman, Diversity Committee Chair and Counsel at Stradley Ronon. "We know that measurable results can have positive outcomes, and together as a firm, we are committed to ensuring that all perspectives including every race, gender, sexual orientation and ethnicity can have a seat at the table."
Inspired by the NFL's Rooney Rule, which is designed to increase and encourage the number of minority coaches interviewed by teams for head coach vacancies, the Mansfield Rule promotes women and minorities into leadership positions within law firms or companies. The Mansfield Rule was named after Arabella Mansfield, the first woman admitted to practice law in the U.S.
Under the Mansfield Rule, Diversity Lab will conduct a review of Stradley's progress over the course of the year, confirm that it has met these goals, and qualify Stradley as "Mansfield-certified." The certification period will run from July 2020 to July 2021.
The process of becoming Mansfield certified will be spearheaded by Stradley's Diversity Committee. This Committee is charged with creating initiatives and programs designed to enhance the firm's recruitment and retention of diverse attorneys and to ensure Stradley is a fully inclusive place. As part of the Committee's 'Diversity and Inclusion in Action' efforts following the recent injustices against Black Americans, the firm has also launched steps to achieve racial justice, dismantle racists laws, policies and practices, and to diversifying law firm leadership to foster and sustain an inclusive workplace. Some of those actions include assembling an anti-racism task force, identifying and targeting pro bono legal matters to support, partnering with diverse organizations through financial resources and providing impactful training regarding systematic racism.
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Counseling clients since 1926, Stradley Ronon has helped private and public companies – from small businesses to Fortune 500 corporations – achieve their goals by providing pragmatic, value-driven legal counsel. With offices in eight strategic locations, our responsive team of more than 200 attorneys seamlessly addresses the full spectrum of our clients' needs, ranging from sophisticated corporate transactions to complex commercial litigation.
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This four song EP features Andy Ewen, of the legendary Madison band, Honor Among Thieves, on electric guitar and Shiela Shigley (The Getaway Drivers, Navan) on violin and backup vocal. This was produced by Mark Adkins in Feburary 2009.
Mail directly to me for the 4 song EP ($7.00) or package deal (EP & Big Sky-$20.00). Mail your check to Christine Costanzo, 409 E. Main St., STE 202, Madison, WI 53703.


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Globally, the Creative economy leverages creativity, technology, culture and innovation catalyses inclusive and sustained economic growth and development. Creative economy sectors include arts and craft, books, films, paintings, festivals, songs, designs, digital animation and video games.
Accelerators of Creative Economy are Creative and Social hubs by supporting diverse communities of artists, entrepreneurs, activists and culture producers in physical or virtual spaces such as music studios, collectives, online networks, co-working spaces, incubators, and more.
The region has seen the metamorphosis of these spaces over time and noted with great excitement the positive impacts creative hubs offer to communities.
With this in mind, the British Council, Hivos, Nesta in partnership with Enthuse Afrika(ZW), Electric South(ZA) and Youngblood(ZA) have joined forces to develop a flexible co-created learning initiative; formed to support the social and creative hubs in Southern Africa as creative economy drivers and social impact in the region.
Dubbed, connect.hubs, the programme supports diverse communities of artists, entrepreneurs, activists and culture producers in physical or virtual spaces such as music studios, collectives, online networks, co-working spaces, incubators, and more.
The connect.hubs programme will see young leaders, influencers or decision-makers from social and creative hubs attend a 4-day training program designed to build and sustain skills, knowledge and network this November in Cape Town, South Africa as well as Harare, Zimbabwe.
The Zimbabwean cohort will impart creative wisdom to decision-makers, influencers (aspiring or established), 18-35 years, running hubs or well on their way to establishing a creative hub from Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
The opportunity is open to the Southern African region opened on Wednesday is available for online applications until the 8th of November.
If you know someone who brings their community together to work, collaborate or access resources, connect.hubs is a great opportunity to 'connect across the region and go create' locally or beyond.


The client of the Querist is an ex-director of M/s. Modern Cinema & Technology (I) Pvt. Ltd., (hereinafter "Modern Cinema") a private limited company registered under the Companies Act, 1956. Modern Cinema is in the business of equipment leasing and movie distribution and is registered under the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002.
An Assessment Order has been passed against Modern Cinema under the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002 on 27-9-2013 raising a total demand of ` 11,65,208/- for the Financial Year 2011-12. The Assessment Order notes that due tax is being paid on the rentals received from the lease of equipments by Modern Cinema to various theatres and the Assessing Authority has not contested Modern Cinema's tax treatment of the same.
On the other hand, no sales tax was being paid on the "Movie Distribution Charges". The Assessing Authority has demanded tax on the same with consequent demand of interest and penalty under the Act. The Querist broadly seeks an opinion on whether these Movie Distribution Charges are amenable to sales tax/VAT under the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002.
a distribution rights from the Producer.
like M/s. Media Technology which has the requisite technology.
which is like a password to decode the film content.
which is installed in the theatre.
film content and to allow it to be broadcast by the theatres.
sales tax/VAT on these Movie Distribution Charges.
I have been informed that there is no written contract between Modern Cinema and the Producers/Distributors.
The Querist has forwarded an agreement between Media Technology and Modern Cinema for lease of the "QUBE server". Modern Cinema rents out the QUBE server from Media Technology and installs it in various theatres and uses this QUBE server to download film content from the hard disk copy as outlined in Para 5(v) of this opinion. Media Technology charges certain rentals to Modern Cinema and recovers sales tax/VAT on those rentals from Modern Cinema. Since, no liability to sales tax can arise directly on this transaction in the hands of Modern Cinema and the Assessment Order has also not sought to assess these rentals to tax in hands of Modern Cinema, this particular transaction of lease of QUBE server between Media Technology and Modern Cinema is not relevant in so far as the question of taxability of Movie Distribution Charges goes.
I have gone through the documents and papers forwarded to me by the Querist. I have also seen the Assessment Order dated 27-9-2013 and the Show Cause Notice 10-9-2013 along with the report of the Business Audit Officer. The facts noticed therein, on the basis of which the Assessment Order is passed, are broadly similar to what has been set out in the summary in Para 5. At some places, the Assessment Authority seems to have been confused about the various transactions and facts, but those are irrelevant for most part as far as the question of Movie Distribution Charges goes.
The Assessment Order suffers from an obvious fallacy. The taxable event of "sale of goods" under the Sales Tax laws has to fulfil the criterion laid down in the general law relating to the sale of goods in India. Sales Tax can be charged on the sale of goods "by the seller to the buyer" and "for a price" under the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002. The sale price is generally taken as the taxable value under the Act.
In the present case, the Movie Distribution Charges are paid by the Producer/Distributor to Modern Cinema for the services provided by it to the Producer/Distributor. The Assessment Order makes a bald assumption that the Movie Distribution Charges are consideration for "sale of software packages" or "sale of copyright" without really making any necessary findings of fact to support such conclusions.
qua cinematographic films. Modern Cinema simply could not have sold what it never had.
The Producer is the author and first owner of all rights in the cinematographic work. Sometimes, the Producer grants "distribution rights" to the Distributor which are needed to distribute the cinematographic works without infringing the copyright of the Producer. Indeed the Copyright Act, 1957 does not contemplate that a complete third party service provider like Modern Cinema can get any copyright in a cinematographic work at all unless the Producer/Distributor gives the same to it in the first place. Consequently, the proposition that a third party service provider like Modern Cinema could have sold a copyright to a Producer or Distributor is absurd and lacks all commercial sense.
The Assessing Authority has, thus, treated the existence of monetary consideration as conclusive of an assumed sale without bothering to investigate whether such sale took place – or could have taken place – at all.
The Assessing Authority has wrongly relied on the provisions of Schedule Entry 39 (and as I will have to presume), the notification issued under that entry. In fact, the callous attitude of the Assessing Authority is apparent from the fact that he has quoted the provisions of the notification issued under Schedule Entry C-39 without noting the amendments to the same in the year 2011 which are relevant for the period 2010-11. Furthermore, the very fact that the Assessing Authority sought to alternatively tax the Movie Distribution Charges under two distinct heads of "sale of software packages" and "sale of copyright" is indicative of the fact the Assessment Order is nothing but a determined attempt to simply assess the Movie Distribution Charges to tax for the sake of it.
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Once a frequent sight at U Street jazz clubs, the saxophonist and vocalist Braxton Cook returns to D.C. for an opening performance at the 9:30 Club. Courtesy Braxton Cook
How Braxton Cook found his voice (literally) and became a rising star in jazz
By Jackson Sinnenberg · October 14, 2019
Saxophonist Braxton Cook seemed to be following the recognizable trajectory of a young D.C. jazz musician — then he moved to New York, and the path took a detour.
Cook, 28, was born and raised in Silver Spring, Md., and started studying saxophone with Morgan Russell at the much-beloved (and now-shuttered) Dale's Music before getting more serious and starting to take lessons from Paul Carr at his Jazz Academy of Music. During his high school and first two years of college, during which he studied literature at Georgetown University, Cook cut his teeth at the great U Street jazz rooms of the 2000s: Bohemian Caverns, Café Nema, HR-57, Twins. He threw himself fully into music after transferring to Juilliard in the fall of 2011; there, he began to feel like his identity could not be expressed in full through strict adherence to jazz tradition. "It wouldn't make sense to me to only use a style of music I studied for, like, five years, seven years," Cook said in a phone interview. "That's not the totality of my entire life."
Cook began to realize a greater vision on his 2017 release Somewhere in Between, on which he performs on both saxophone and vocals. Cook credits the mentorship of renowned trumpeter Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, who has articulated a genre-blurring "stretch music" concept, as a major source of inspiration. Following 2018's No Doubt, Cook's sound now evokes several touchstones: Grover Washington Jr.'s accessible jazz-pop of the 1980s, the haunting-yet-captivating R&B of Frank Ocean, Kenny Garrett's virtuoso riffing; Scott's trap-jazz beats.
Braxton Cook returns to the U Street area this Wednesday — but this time at the 9:30 Club — opening for the neo-soul trio Moonchild, whose members are also jazz-trained instrumentalists. When I called Cook, my first burning question was whether he ever saw himself playing at such an iconic venue outside the jazz circuit. In the conversation that followed, he hit on his desire to put his music into such spaces, his evolution as a vocalist and the crippling ideal of "perfection." This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
CapitalBop: So many rock bands in the DMV — and from all over — look to the 9:30 Club as this huge benchmark in their careers. Did you ever dream of hitting that stage? Was it a space you ever saw yourself in?
Braxton Cook: Man, to be honest, not really. Back in the day, growing up, I was just thinking very much straight-ahead jazz. For me, it was more like Blues Alley and Twins and Bohemian Caverns and wanting to have my own band there, on U Street. That's how I was thinking of things back in the day. I think over time, my music started to evolve and just reach different audiences, and now venues like that have become a reality — a new dream, I guess you could say.
CB: You've spoken before about how you grew up idolizing guys like Grover Washington Jr. and how he took jazz into different spaces and audiences. Did you look to that kind of example as your music evolved into this new reach? Where do you see the pivot?
BC: I would say I remember, when I made that Butcher Brown project, that was very much inspired by Grover Washington and stuff. But it really wasn't until I started singing, or at least putting that out — I was always singing in theater or church, but once I started putting that music out in 2017, with Somewhere In Between — that I started getting those kinds of looks. I started to get more buzz around my music, around my name, doing some larger venues, and started getting more of those looks like collaborating with more R&B artists like Tom Misch and Mac Ayres and stuff like that. I would say that's when those things started opening up to me.
CB: So, as a saxophonist who grew up learning straight-ahead from Paul Carr and went to Juilliard for jazz saxophone, what led to you wanting to sing on your records — to step out as more of a vocalist?
BC: It's a good question. I would say it took me time to step away from school a bit, step away from Juilliard, give myself a little bit of time to just write and figure out my voice and figure out my sound. I graduated in 2015. So between 2015 and 2016, when I was writing that new music, that year was a very transitional year for me, artistically: fully stepped out of school, no longer just seeing myself as a jazz saxophonist, really touring and working with other artists, full-time on the road with Christian [Scott aTunde Adjuah] and a little bit with Marquis [Hill] and Christian McBride.… Just being around other artists full-time just inspired me to do other things and encouraged me to incorporate other styles of music. And that was always Christian's vibe, and that was the year he transitioned out of doing more indie kind of jazz to more trap-influenced. Watching that and being part of that genesis as well, that transition for him, inspired me. And I knew I was always into R&B and these other styles of music, but I did it more my way, by incorporating vocals and stuff.
CB: In the middle of all of that, how did your vocals become the key to this new sound you wanted to make?
BC: I didn't know if any of it would work! I didn't know that at the time; it's just what I was hearing. And even the Butcher Brown stuff had vocals originally. I was just afraid to put it out. Like that tune "DMV" and "Ooooo" and stuff like that — on those tracks, I originally wrote lyrics to a lot of that stuff. I just didn't want to put it out. I didn't have the courage, I guess, until I had some time away from everything.
CB: Does that fear come from the mindset of being a "jazz musician" and a "horn player"?
BC: Yeah, a little bit. That's some of it, definitely. Some of it is age, experience, all kinds of things; but that was a good deal of it. I was in school and that's just how I saw myself. No one else was really doing that; no one was singing or rapping or doing anything of the sort at Juilliard. … You see a lot of people doing it now, but at the time I didn't see a lot of that, so I was kind of nervous about it.… But it's something I was always hearing … that's how melodies come to me, vocally — and mood and feeling and all that stuff.
CB: So, what gave you the courage to do it on Somewhere in Between and No Doubt? What was the catalyst such that you felt like you finally could, or maybe even needed, to sing?
BC: Well with Somewhere in Between, a lot of it was trying to capture a nostalgic but forward-looking kind of sound. That's both with conceptually with how I view jazz — how you need to know the history but also be trying to push it forward. And it was just about — the lyrics and stuff were about my girlfriend at the time, now my wife, and that feeling at the time of not knowing what the next step is. No Doubt, now a year after that, you hear some maturation in the sound and the lyrics and the vocals and everything. I think there's a little bit of a stronger understanding of where I am, where I'm at, and what it is I want to say.
So, in a sense a lot of the music is like a diary for me. It's chronicling how I feel, how I'm thinking at this time. And that's how I think about it; I don't overthink about "does this sound perfect?" That was something that would stagnate me and a lot of my peers in school, but it's not about that. Yes, I'm going to sound better in a year from now, but that's what it is. You just keep it moving, but stay honest.
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CB: That idea of being stagnated by the pursuit of perfection is really fascinating (and worrying) to me. How did that manifest for you and your peers?
BC: It could mean just like: perfect intonation, perfect this, perfect time, perfect whatever! Sometimes it's just running scales, running ideas into the ground to the point that the spirit of it is missing and is gone. … For me, in the school year there were just periods where you would lose inspiration from overdoing stuff. And the culture! The culture is a very, very serious conservatory; you can imagine that bleeding over into the jazz program. Sometimes it's not the most conducive space to create a creative environment.
CB: Going back to your albums and how they were reflective of your feelings, was the R&B and the vocals and that sound you were working on a more natural way for you to express those emotions? Was that more honest to you for how you wanted to express yourself?
BC: I guess so; that's how my feelings come out. … I guess it's R&B. That's the music I grew up on and it speaks to me. So does jazz. All of it kind of does. A lot of different forms of music speak to me but R&B, gospel, pop, jazz, all that stuff — whatever you want to call it — those are the sounds that make me me, so why not speak to them? Why not incorporate them? It wouldn't make sense to me to only use a style of music I studied for, like, five years, seven years: That's not the totality of my entire life. If I want to use something or create a sound that is uniquely me and something I could stick to for a long period of time, why would I use something that's just bebop? Of course, I love it, but I couldn't imagine just doing that. I want to do something that's going to fully encapsulate me, and allow me to show all these different sides, and I can grow in.
CB: To tie it all back to D.C.: I know you grew up as a musician studying with Paul Carr. Do any of his lessons still resonate with you today? Is there any wisdom that still guides you as a musician?
BC: Well, Paul is the main person that taught me transcriptions — he's the one who stressed that — which is essentially a reminder to study. You don't have to write it out, but study like crazy. You could spend half your day just making new stuff, but eventually I feel like the well of inspiration can dry up. When you hit those pits, it's good to be in the habit of always listening to music, checking it out and learning it. He's instilled that in me; it's something that I love to do. It's always going to help me out: developing your ears, learning how to hear, transcribing at all times, learning from the masters.
CB: And keeping your ears open.
BC: Yeah! Yeah, man.
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About Jackson Sinnenberg
Jackson Sinnenberg is an Associate Producer for SiriusXM and a freelance writer. His work has appeared in the Washington Post, JazzTimes, Downbeat, NPR Music, NPR.org, the Washington City Paper, On Tap/District Fray Magazine and the blog of Smithsonian Folkways Records. He began covering the city's music scene for WGTB, Georgetown University's radio station, where he was a show host, writer, and columnist. He graduated from Georgetown with a bachelor's degree in American Musical Culture. Reach him at Jackson@CapitalBop.com. Follow him at @sinnenbergmusic.
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A: You could use python subprocess built-in module. Correctly using Popen Objects you can start a process, see it's running status with Popen.poll(), wait for it to finish with Popen.wait() or even communicate with it or terminate it. So I guess you could have a variable in Django/Python that sets to False everytime you star a process and while that variable is False you can display a status on the site, once it finished you set the variable to True and do your stuff.

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Are competing risks models appropriate to describe implant failure?
Sayers, A, Evans, JT, Whitehouse, MR & Blom, AW, 2018, 'Are competing risks models appropriate to describe implant failure?'. Acta Orthopaedica.
Background and purpose — The use of competing risks models is widely advocated in the arthroplasty literature due to a perceived bias in comparison of simple Kaplan–Meier estimates. Proponents of competing risk models in the arthroplasty literature appear to be unaware of the subtle but important differences in interpretation of net and crude failure estimated by competing risk and Kaplan–Meier methods respectively. Methods — Using a simple simulation we illustrate the differences between competing risks and Kaplan–Meier methods. Results — Competing risk and Kaplan–Meier methods estimate different survival quantities, i.e., crude and net failure respectively. Estimates of crude failure estimated using competing risk methods will be less than net failure as estimated using Kaplan–Meier methods. Interpretation — Kaplan–Meier methods are appropriate for describing implant failure, whereas crude survival estimated using competing risk methods estimates the risk of surgical revision as it depends on both implant failure and mortality. Both competing risk models and Kaplan–Meier methods are useful in arthroplasty, and both provide unbiased estimates of crude and net failure in the absence of any confounding or selection respectively. Surgeons and researchers should carefully consider whether the use of competing risks is always justified. Lower estimates of failure from competing risk models may be misleading to surgeons who are attempting to select the best implants with the lowest failure rates for their patients.


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Leading Israeli Religious Zionist Rabbi: A Woman's Place Is In The Home
A leading nationalist-Zionist rabbi has written a treatise claiming that home is a women's place, and "not the domain of social activity," thus reflecting further radicalization among religious Zionists.
Rabbi Zvi Tau, president of Har Hamor Yeshiva and a leader of the more extreme orthodox trend among the national-Zionist public, wrote the treatise for internal use. The leaflet promotes the opinion that too much education for women would "harm the quality of life of the nation."
Austria-born Tau was for many years a student of Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook, and one of the heads of the Merkaz Harav, religious-Zionism's most prestigious yeshiva. In 1997 he turned his back on the yeshiva and created the Har Hamor yeshiva, but is still considered one of the leading rabbis of the movement and a notable supporter of the concept of nationalism, which considers the state of Israel holy and opposes refusal to follow orders in the IDF.
Tau publicly supported former President Moshe Katzav, who was imprisoned for rape, and called on him, at the time, to refuse to resign.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/leading-israeli-religious-zionist-rabbi-a-woman-s-place-is-in-the-home-1.454794
Posted by Purveyor | Tue Jul 31, 2012, 03:48 PM (5 replies)
Western Complicity Exposed -- Europe And US Richly Reward Israel For Pariah Status
By Jonathan Cook
Israel has barely put a foot right with the international community since its attack on Gaza more than three years ago provoked global revulsion.
The right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu has serially defied and insulted foreign leaders, including US President Barack Obama; given the settlers virtual free rein; blocked peace talks with the Palestinians; intimidated and marginalised human rights groups, UN agencies and even the Israeli courts; and fuelled a popular wave of Jewish ethnic and religious chauvinism against the country's Palestinian minority, foreign workers and asylum seekers.
No wonder, then, that in poll after poll Israel ranks as one of the countries with the most negative influence on international affairs.
And yet, the lower Israel sinks in public estimation, the more generous western leaders are in handing out aid and special favours to their wayward ally. The past few days have been particularly shameless.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Western-complicity-exposed-by-Jonathan-Cook-120730-174.html
Posted by Purveyor | Tue Jul 31, 2012, 03:05 PM (11 replies)
Key Pro-Israel Obama Ally Dennis Ross Splits
As Republican donors are financing multimillion-dollar campaigns to bring Jewish voters over to Mitt Romney, one of President Obama's most important liaisons to the pro-Israel community has opted to sit out the 2012 election cycle.
Dennis Ross, a longtime diplomat and a key architect of the Oslo peace process under President Clinton—a man who worked for the Obama campaign during the 2008 Democratic primaries despite his previous loyalty to the Clintons—won't be campaigning for Obama this time, Ross confirmed to The Daily Beast.
"I am the Counselor at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy," Ross said in an email on Friday. "The Washington Institute is a non-profit organization and I cannot do political work from here. When I acted for the campaign in 2008, I had to take a leave of absence to do so. Having only recently returned to the Institute, I cannot now again take a leave of absence."
After his success stumping for Obama in the 2008 campaign, Ross went on to become a key Middle East policymaker, first at the State Department and later at the White House.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/28/exclusive-key-pro-israel-obama-ally-splits.html
Israel To End Draft Exemptions For Ultra-Orthodox
ERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's defense minister instructed the military on Tuesday to start drafting ultra-Orthodox Jewish men like other Israelis - but it could take a while to implement.
Ehud Barak appeared to be buying time on this politically explosive order by giving defense officials a month to craft a plan to put it into practice.
Some ultra-Orthodox activists vowed immediately after the decision that members of their community would go to jail rather than cut short their religious studies to serve, while others sounded skeptical that Barak would enforce the law. Defense officials say privately that the military is not prepared to immediately absorb tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox men.
Barak's decree fills a legal vacuum on the status of the draft. The existing law exempting tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox men from serving was due to expire at midnight. Israel's Supreme Court had overturned that legislation in February, but it remained in effect as the government struggled to come up with a new formula on an issue that has generated tremendous resentment among Israel's secular majority and modern Orthodox who do serve the compulsory three years.
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Posted by Purveyor | Tue Jul 31, 2012, 11:25 AM (6 replies)
Iran's Ahmadinejad Mocks Romney For 'Kissing The Foot' Of Israel During Visit
By Associated Press, Updated: Tuesday, July 31, 4:49 AM
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is calling a visit to Israel by U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney as "kissing the foot" of the Jewish state to boost his bid for the White House.
Ahmadinejad did not specifically name Romney, but his comments were an unmistakable jab at the Republican contender's stop this week in Israel. Romney strongly backed Israel's drive to stop Iran from possibly seeking nuclear weapons. Tehran denies the claims.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/irans-ahmadinejad-mocks-romney-for-kissing-the-foot-of-israel-during-visit/2012/07/31/gJQAxPbCMX_story.html
States Cut Medicaid Drug Benefits To Save Money
By Phil Galewitz
Illinois Medicaid recipients have been limited to four prescription drugs as the state becomes the latest to cap how many medicines it will cover in the state-federal health insurance program for the poor.
Doctors fear the state's cost-cutting move could backfire on patients, who have to get state permission to go beyond the limit.
"We understand the state is trying to get its Medicaid budget under control," says Dr. William Werner, president of the Illinois State Medical Society. "But our concern is it not be a hardship for patients and a hassle for doctors in the execution."
Sixteen states impose a monthly limit on the number of drugs Medicaid recipients can receive and seven states have either enacted such caps or tightened them in the past two years, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation (KHN is a program of the foundation). The limits vary across the country. Mississippi has a limit of two brand-name drugs. In Arkansas adults are limited to up six drugs a month.
http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2012/July/25/medicaid-cuts-sidebar.aspx
NBC Exec: Twitter Told Us How To Get Journalist Suspended
Twitter alerted NBC to a post containing an executive's email address, prompting NBC to file a complaint that lead to the suspension of a reporter's Twitter account, according to The Telegraph.
"Our social media dept was actually alerted to it by Twitter," NBC Sports vice-president of communications Christopher McCloskey via email said of the tweet by Guy Adams, the Los Angeles correspondent for The Independent. "Then we filled out the form and submitted it."
On Monday, Deadspin.com reported that an NBC spokesperson had told Sports Illustrated that it was the network who made the first move against Adams, whose account was suspended after he posted NBC Olympics president Gary Zenkel's company email in an effort to get his followers to submit their complaints about NBC's coverage of the London Games. Adams had heavily criticized the network for airing events on time-delay.
As The Wall Street Journal reports, the two companies have teamed up during the Games, exchanging tweet promotions for on-air mentions during the competitions.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/07/31/nbc-exec-twitter-told-us-how-to-get-journalist-suspended/
Business Activity in U.S. Unexpectedly Grows at Faster Pace
Source: Bloomberg
-- Business activity in the U.S. unexpectedly grew at a faster pace in July as the economy weathered a slowdown in hiring and household spending.
A barometer from the Institute for Supply Management- Chicago Inc. increased to 53.7, the highest since April from 52.9 in June. Readings greater than 50 signal growth. The median forecast of 50 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News projected the purchasing managers' gauge would decline to 52.5.
The need to rebuild auto inventories may be giving a boost to manufacturing, which had been a key driver of the economic recovery. The Federal Reserve is meeting this week to determine if more stimulus is needed as Europe's fiscal crisis and the threat of more than $600 billion in U.S. spending cuts and tax increases at year's end curbed demand.
Manufacturing is showing "modest improvement,'' Harm Bandholz, chief U.S. economist at UniCredit Group in New York, said before today's report. "It's not great but it's also not that bad.''
Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-31/chicago-ism-business-barometer-rose-to-53-7-in-july-from-52-9.html
A lot unexpectedly's out of Bloomberg this morning.
At least they are positive "unexpectedly's"...
U.S. Consumer Confidence Index Unexpectedly Rose in July
Confidence among U.S. consumers unexpectedly rose for the first time in five months as Americans became more upbeat about job prospects later this year.
The Conference Board's index increased to 65.9 this month from 62.7 in June, figures from the New York-based private research group showed today. Economists projected a reading of 61.5, according to the median estimate in a Bloomberg News survey. The report showed a gain in the share of consumers anticipating better labor and economic conditions in six months.
A pickup in the housing market and decreases in fuel prices are helping sustain consumer sentiment. At the same time, faster job gains are needed to spur consumer spending, which grew in the second quarter at the slowest pace in a year.
"Consumers are definitely getting some benefit from lower gasoline prices and that is freeing up some income," Gus Faucher, a senior economist at PNC Financial Services Group Inc. in Philadelphia, said before the report. "Confidence is OK, it's not great. We need better job growth."
Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-31/u-s-consumer-confidence-index-unexpectedly-rose-correct-.html
Michigan's Recovery Outpaces Rest Of U.S.
Michigan fell the hardest during the recession, but it's bouncing back better than the rest of the country.
While economic uncertainty in Europe is creating a cloud over the U.S. economy, and the state's unemployment rate has ticked up two-tenths of a percentage point to 8.6 percent in the past two months, existing home sales and retail sales in Michigan are doing better than elsewhere in the country.
"We've been telling our clients since late 2011 that Michigan is turning the corner faster economically than any other state in the country," said Patrick Anderson, founder and CEO of the East Lansing-based consulting firm Anderson Economic Group.
Home sales are up 10 percent through June in the Great Lakes State compared with the nation's 5 percent growth rate, according to the National Association of Realtors. And the state's retail sales surged in April and May, while the national figure fell 0.2 percent.
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120730/BIZ/207300344/Michigan-s-recovery-outpaces-rest-U-S-?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE
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Officials with regard to social media will also be assigned soon. It is to be noted that in February 2018, the UK broadcasting governing body, Afcam, raised a fine of £ 2,000 on a Crimea radio channel for violating the principle of broadcasting.
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When the credits rolled on Wednesday night's season finale of The Great British Bake Off, we all shed a little a tear, knowing things were just never going to be the same again.
Fast-forward a day and our faith in the world has been restored, because we'd all forgotten one very important fact: there's a Christmas special happening this year on the BBC and it is not the end of Mary Berry, Paul Hollywood and Mel and Sue.
The idea of Bake Off meets Christmas is almost too much for us to handle. What will they be baking? Yule logs? Stollen? Panettone? Mince pies? The possibilities are endless, but one thing is for certain, we'll be watching with plenty of sherry and mulled wine.
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Q: Angular and NGINX permission denied I'm trying the setup NGINX to access angular /dist folder but can't make it works despite chmod -R 755 /path/to/dist ...
in my NGINX http block:
server {
  listen 80;
  server_name dashboard.example.local;

  ssl off;

  gzip on;
  root /path/to/dist/;
  index index.html;

  location /api/ {
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:3000/;
  }
}

I'm still getting this error "dist/index.html" is forbidden (13: Permission denied)
I already tried all the existing solutions I found on the internet.
EDIT: files that nginx are trying to access are 755

A: The problem was in fact Mac OS related. To allow NGINX manipulate local files, we need to tell him to act as your user.
In top of the NGINX template, just put user <your-user-name> staff;

A: Already compiled angular source served as file it will send to the browser to be renderer (client side). that proxy pass function will only works on development, i assume you run it using angular cli ng serve. this might what you looking for on production or dist folder.
server{
    ...
    root /path/to/dist

    index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

    location / {
            try_files $uri /index.html;
    }
}

if the permission still denied try change that folder owner into nginx user with chown command..


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Competition: Win A Pair Of Tickets To London Mexfest Closing Film
Posted by FG at 09:01 on Thursday, August 16, 2012
London Mexfest is a brand new festival, which arrives at Rich Mix in Shoreditch on Friday 17th August before concluding on Sunday 22nd. We're lucky enough to be giving away a pair of tickets to the festival's closing night film, 'Daniel y Ana' (otherwise known as 'Daniel & Ana'), directed by Cannes Film Festival award winner Michel Franco. Enter below.
The British Council have come together with a host of other organisations, including the Mexican Film Institute to produce the inaugural London Mexfest festival. The weekend will showcase Mexican cinema (including Diego Luna's comedy-drama 'Abel'), music and food, as well as the first ever London Lucha Libre exhibition by Mexican photographer Lourdes Grobet.
'Daniel & Ana' is the festival closing film and Franco's debut feature. His following feature 'After Lucia' won the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes this year. His first film examines the lives of Daniel (Dario Yazbek Bernal) and Ana (Marimar Vega), whose relationship changes forever after they are both kidnapped.
HOW TO WIN: The film begins at 20.15 on Sunday 22nd at Rich Mix in Shoreditch. If you wish to attend, simply email fgcompetition-mexfest@yahoo.co.uk with your name and London Mexfest in the subject/title of the email.
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There is no comparison between Chinese and American GHG emissions
By Eric de Place on Dec 12, 2007
Al Gore's Nobel Prize speech, as reported by the NY Times:
… he singled out the United States and China — the world's largest emitters of carbon dioxide — for failing to meet their obligations in mitigating emissions. They should "stop using each other's behavior as an excuse for stalemate," he said.
Much as I love him, Gore's sentiment here is far too generous to the good ol' U.S. of A. There is simply no fair comparison with China. We're not equally responsible for the problem. Not even close.
Considering the last 115 years — you know, the period that caused climate change — North America is responsible for more than three times as much global warming pollution as China, North Korea, Mongolia, and Vietnam put together.
And that's not the half of it.
Not only are we North Americans vastly wealthier, but on a per capita basis we bear far more responsibility for the climate pollution that's already in the sky.
This chart compares historical carbon emissions with the number of residents alive today. The North American legacy has been vastly more damaging to the atmosphere than Asia's. So, as individuals living today in what Gore rightly calls "an era of consequences," we bear an outsized share of the responsibility.
By the way, country-by-country emissions data was not readily available — I'll tease it apart later — but I think the regional comparison makes my point adequately.
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Limping to Ponte Vedra: PGA Tour players have found Florida Swing tough on the scorecard entering The Players
Garry Smits
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Francesco Molinari and Keith Mitchell entered last year's Players Championship coming off victories on the PGA Tour's Florida Swing by a combined 21-under par.
Tyrrell Hatton and Sungjae Im come to the Players Stadium Course at TPC Sawgrass with winning scores in the same tournaments that are less than half what Molinari and Mitchell logged.
COMPLETE COVERAGE: The Players Championship
Hatton, of England, two-putted from 25 feet at the Bay Hill Club and Lodge to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational on Sunday at 4-under-par 284, the highest score for a winner in the history of the tournament. He shot 74 to beat Marc Leishman (73) by one shot and Im (73) by two after a weekend of chilly temperatures, high wind and baked-out greens.
Will more be in store for the field at this week's Players Championship, which begins on Thursday?
Im won the Honda Classic last week at 6-under, which means the combined scores that he and Hatton posted are the highest for the first two Florida Swing events in Tour history -- and it wasn't even close. The previous combined high score for the winners of those two events were in 2011, when Rory Sabbatini won the Honda Classic at 9-under and Martin Laird won at Bay Hill at 8-under.
The good news for those in The Players field is that the weather will be the best it has been on the Florida Swing so far. The temperatures in Ponte Vedra Beach beginning on Thursday's first round will be 75 degrees or higher, with sunny or partly-cloudy days through Sunday.
The final field for the Players won't include Tiger Woods, who opted out because of his creaky back.
But the tournament will have 47 of the top-50 players on the current World Golf Rankings (absent only Woods, Lee Westwood of England and Shugo Imahira of Japan).
As of Sunday, the players who combined to win 43 of the last 44 PGA Tour events, all but one member of the combined 2019 U.S. and International Presidents Cup teams, all but two members of the combined 2018 U.S. and European Ryder Cup teams and the players who combined to win 29 of the last 32 major championships will be at the Stadium Course.
The list is led by defending champion and world No. 1-ranked Rory McIlroy, No. 2 Jon Rahm, No. 3 Brooks Koepka, No. 4 Justin Thomas and No. 5 Dustin Johnson.
The rest of the top 10 who will be at the Stadium Course are Patrick Cantlay, Adam Scott, Webb Simpson, Patrick Reed and Tommy Fleetwood. Scott (2004) and Simpson (2018) are past Players champions.
Woods, at No. 11, is the only player among the top 25 in the world who won't be in the field. Westwood is 28th in the world, and Imahira is 38th.
There will be 23 players among the top-100 in the world who aren't in The Players, but 20 of those weren't eligible anyway, illustrating how difficult it has become to get into the PGA Tour's Gold Standard event.
Other past champions in the field are Si Woo Kim, Jason Day, Rickie Fowler, Matt Kuchar, Henrik Stenson, Sergio Garcia and Phil Mickelson.
The first day the course is open to the public will be Tuesday, which is Military Appreciation Day. Ceremonies begin at the 17th hole of the Stadium Course at 5 p.m., followed by a concert by the Chainsmokers.
Tickets are available at theplayers/com/tickets. Parking passes must be purchased separately and parking spots for Friday and Saturday's rounds are close to being sold out.
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Roy Harper (12 de juny de 1941) és un cantautor i guitarrista anglès, especialista en música rock i folk. És conegut per la llarga associació amb Jimmy Page i Robert Plant, de Led Zeppelin, el grup dels anys 1970. Fou també qui va cantar la peça Have a Cigar de l'àlbum Wish You Were Here del grup Pink Floyd.

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Reports last week indicated that the Nusra Front, a major anti-Assad jihadist group, might be abandoning its affiliation with al-Qaeda due to a combination of leadership losses and internal dissent, though a Nusra spokesman has since denied that development. The group, otherwise known as Jabhat al-Nusra, was first formed in Syria as an independent affiliate of both al-Qaeda and ISIS, which were then allies. When al-Qaeda and ISIS parted ways, Nusra established itself as a rival to its former Islamic State sponsor out of loyalty to al-Qaeda. Even with that defection, however, the self-proclaimed Islamic State is becoming increasingly attractive to other members of the jihadist universe, with Boko Haram the latest group to sign on.
Such kaleidoscopic patterns are not uncommon: What's sometimes referred to as the global jihadist "movement" is actually extremely fractured. It's united by a general set of shared ideological beliefs, but divided organizationally and sometimes doctrinally. Whether to fight the "near enemy" (local regimes) or the "far enemy" (such as the United States and the West), for example, has been contentious since the 1990s, when Osama bin Laden declared war on the United States. Rivalry among like-minded militant groups is as common as cooperation. Identities and allegiances shift. Groups align and re-align according to changing expectations about the future of the conflicts they're involved in, as well as a host of other factors, such as competition for resources, leadership transitions, and the defection of adherents to rival groups that appear to be on the ascendant.
Governments combating terrorist groups can seem blind to these complications, especially to the consequences of weakening one group at the expense of another. When a state faces multiple terrorist adversaries—and there are almost always several different ones—encouraging splintering and factionalism, by killing top leaders for example, is not always the best option for reducing violence in the long run. Since at least the 1998 bombings of the American Embassies in East Africa, the U.S. has worked to undermine al-Qaeda, a campaign given new urgency and momentum after 2001. That goal has largely been accomplished if one thinks of al-Qaeda as the original organization Osama bin Laden founded around 1988. However, one affiliate (al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula), one former affiliate now transformed into a rival (the Islamic State), and one potentially soon-to-be ex-affiliate (the Nusra Front) have emerged as formidable successors. And jihadist groups—some affiliated with al-Qaeda, some not—have proliferated in Africa and Asia.
What threatens American national security now, after more than a decade of U.S. operations against al-Qaeda, is primarily the rise of the Islamic State as a competitor to al-Qaeda and its allies of the moment. As the diagram below shows, the Islamic State's relationship to al-Qaeda and other groups has shifted over time.
Under the leadership of its founder, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (a Jordanian), the group joined bin Laden's campaign shortly after the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. Known then as al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), it tried to dominate other Sunni groups fighting there but instead, through its ruthless tactics, provoked them to turn against it. At the same time, AQI also clashed with al-Qaeda central, which objected to its brutality (including videotaped beheadings) and acute sectarianism. Local disaffection, combined with the coalition military surge and perhaps Zarqawi's death at the hands of the American military in 2006, caused the group to lose influence even though it rather grandly retitled itself the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) at around the same time. This move was probably an effort to boost legitimacy and counter critics who accused AQI of being controlled by foreigners, but in hindsight the name change seems an important clue to the group's intentions. By the time the Islamic State's current leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, took over in 2010, ISI was a seriously weakened group that had lost most of its top leadership.
But after the withdrawal of foreign military forces from Iraq in 2011, ISI began to regain ground there in a much less pressured security environment. The outbreak of civil war in Syria in the same year provided ISI a new opportunity for expansion, which in turn led to the dissolution of its alliance with al-Qaeda central, as the following diagram of militant group relationships in Syria shows.
Showing some initiative, ISI set up the Nusra Front as its Syrian affiliate in 2011, attempting to absorb the group fully after renaming itself the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in 2013. But the leaders of the Nusra Front rejected that merger. By 2014 Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's successor as the leader of al-Qaeda, had had enough of al-Baghdadi's disobedience, including its attempt to take over the Nusra Front without consulting al-Qaeda central, and at that point the split between ISIS and al-Qaeda was final. Asked to choose between ISIS and al-Qaeda, Nusra essentially chose the latter.
The new ISIS was now pitted against the governments of both Iraq and Syria, an array of local groups in both countries, including elements of the Free Syrian Army—the loose coalition of secular, "moderate" rebel groups backed by the West—and the Kurdish pesh merga, as well as the Nusra Front and other al-Qaeda affiliates. Some important Syrian groups that had joined in the Islamic Front, a coalition of seven major Islamist groups whose ideology fell somewhere between that of the moderates and the jihadists, initially pledged allegiance to ISIS but later recanted. (To add to the confusion, rival groups occasionally cooperate on the battlefield, forming the kinds of tactical alliances that are not uncommon in such tangled conflicts.) Despite what seemed to be an unfavorable starting position, ISIS made impressive territorial gains in Syria and Iraq. By the spring of 2014 ISIS astonished the West by sweeping almost unopposed into Mosul, and in June the offensive culminated with the declaration of the caliphate under the aegis of the Islamic State, now no longer limited to Iraq and Syria.
A critical "unknown" as Iraq ramps up efforts to wrest back the territory it's lost, with help from the U.S. as well as Iran, is how much local Sunni support the Islamic State can count on to consolidate its hold. The JRTN (Jaysh al-Tariqa al-Naqshbandia), for example, is a nationalist Sunni militant group with many former Baathists in its ranks. It opposed the jihadists during the occupation, although it was equally hostile to coalition forces. Yet despite ideological differences, it switched to supporting ISIS in 2013, apparently calculating that ISIS was now the winning party and that an alliance was the best bet for challenging hated Shiite rule in Iraq. What this means and how long the marriage of convenience will last are open questions. As the diagram of Iraq shows, during the U.S. occupation period the Islamic State's predecessors failed to dominate other local Sunni groups, but the context is different now. Not only does ISIS appear to many other groups to be coming out on top among jihadist groups, it has also been utterly ruthless in destroying its opponents even if they are former allies.
A result of these fast-changing conflict dynamics is that the U.S. is engaged in a struggle for power in which the enemy of its enemy is not necessarily its friend. In the Islamic State as well as al-Qaeda and affiliates, the U.S. shares a common adversary with its enemies Iran and Syria. At the same time, actions against the Islamic State benefit al-Qaeda and affiliates, and vice versa. It may not be possible to weaken one without strengthening the other. "Moderate" rebels in Syria have not always stood up well against Islamist or jihadist factions. The only clear conclusion is that no solution is in sight.
This entry was posted on March 11, 2015 by conspiracyanalyst in International News, Middle East, North Africa, Proxy / Covert Wars, War & Peace and tagged ISIS, Jihadist 'Movement'.


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18 DisCatcher Grass/Dirt tee boxes Incredibly long....don't bother playing if you can't throw 350'. A mix of water and trees make this course a great challenge. Typically windy.
From Austin - I-35 North, Exit Round Rock (Rte 79). Park will be on your left (right next to Dell Diamond). Follow rd in to park towards back...1st tee is on culdesac.


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For use with the Scripts to Footer plugin, allows you to place specific scripts back in the head. Can be useful if you have scripts that have to live specifically in the head section and cannot live in the footer.


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Not a bad monitor, but not particularly loud. I have had a few issues with the monitor not sitting in its charging station properly & waking me in the night as the battery is low, and the light on the charging station is incredibly bright, so I've had to stick something over it to allow me to sleep.
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24th January 2019, aged 77.
Much loved Dad to Julie and Antonio.
We will be celebrating Vic's wonderful life on Monday 11th February 2019, 4.15pm at Chichester Crematorium.
What will you miss most about Victor Cox?


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December 8, 2020, cumulative update for SharePoint Enterprise Server 2013 (KB4493137)
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 Service Pack 1 More...Less
Cumulative update packages for Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2013 contain hotfixes for the issues that were fixed since the release of SharePoint Enterprise Server 2013.
Note This is build 15.0.5301.1000 of the cumulative update package.
We recommend that you test those hotfixes before you deploy them in a production environment. Because the builds are cumulative, each new release contains all the hotfixes and security updates that were included with the previous Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2013 update package releases.
Important notes about the cumulative update package
The Microsoft Office 2013 hotfixes are now multilingual. This cumulative update package contains updates for all languages.
This cumulative update package includes all the server component packages. Additionally, this cumulative update package updates only those components that are installed on the system.
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This cumulative update package fixes the issues that are described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) articles:
Description of the security update for SharePoint Foundation 2013: December 8, 2020 (KB4493138)
December 8, 2020, update for SharePoint Enterprise Server 2013 (KB4486758)
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This update is available only for manual download and installation from the Microsoft Download Center.
Download cumulative update 4493137 for SharePoint Enterprise Server 2013
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Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836 – 1904) painted these weighty Roses in a Glass in 1877. This oil-on-canvas work measures 43.6 × 47.6 cm (17.2 × 18.7 inches). It is held in a private collection.
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Authors Russell, M.B., D'Amato Anthony, Schulz B. K., Woodall C.W., Domke Grant M., and Bradford John B.
The contribution of understorey vegetation (UVEG) to forest ecosystem biomass and carbon (C) across diverse forest types has, to date, eluded quantification at regional and national scales. Efforts to quantify UVEG C have been limited to field-intensive studies or broad-scale modelling approaches lacking field measurements. Although large-scale inven- tories of UVEG C are not common, species- and community-level inventories of vegetation structure are available and may prove useful in quantifying UVEG C stocks. This analysis developed a general framework for estimating UVEG C stocks by employing per cent cover estimates of UVEG from a region-wide forest inventory coupled with an estimate of maximum UVEG C across the US Lake States (i.e. Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin). Estimates of UVEG C stocks from this approach reasonably align with expected C stocks in the study region, ranging from 0.86+0.06 Mg ha21 in red pine-dominated to 1.59+0.06 Mg ha21 for aspen/birch-dominated forest types. Although the data employed here were originally collected to assess broad-scale forest structure and diversity, this study proposes a framework for using UVEG inventories as a foundation for estimating C stocks in an often overlooked, yet important ecosystem C pool.


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Trigonoptera trikora is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Judson Linsley Gressitt in 1984.

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Beetles described in 1984


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Community Solar Garden Installation
Rural Renewable Energy Alliance
Conservation Grazing to Improve Wildlife Habitat on Wildlife Management Areas
MN DNR
Grassland ecosystems evolved to depend on periodic disturbances, such as fire and grazing, to maintain their health and stability. Periodic disturbances help control invasive species, add nutrients back into the soil, germinate plant seeds, enhance wildlife habitat, and more. In Minnesota habitat managers have used fire as a disturbance tool for decades but the use of grazing has been much rarer, mostly because of a lack of necessary infrastructure such as fencing.
Demonstrating Sustainable Energy Practices at Residential Environmental Learning Centers (RELCs) - Eagle Bluff
The MN Coalition of RELCs
Demonstrating Sustainable Energy Practices at Residential Environmental Learning Centers (RELCs) - Audubon Center of the North Woods
Demonstrating Sustainable Energy Practices at Residential Environmental Learning Centers (RELCs) - Deep Portage Learning Center
Demonstrating Sustainable Energy Practices at Residential Environmental Learning Centers (RELCs) - Lauentian
Demonstrating Sustainable Energy Practices at Residential Environmental Learning Centers (RELCs) - Long Lake Conservation Center
Demonstrating Sustainable Energy Practices at Residential Environmental Learning Centers (RELCs) - Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center
Determining Causes of Mortality in Moose Populations
Developing Youth Watershed Stewardship in Northwest Minnesota
Headwaters Science Center
Develop Mesabi Trail Segment From County Road 88 to Ely
St. Louis & Lake Counties Regional Railroad Authority
3.5 mile long bituminous surface trail beginning at the intersection of Hwy 169 and County Road 88 to Ely. In Ely, connection will be made to existing Mesabi Trail.
Effects of Wolf Predation on Beaver, Moose, and Deer
Voyageurs National Park
Enhancement Plan for Superior Hiking Trail
Superior Hiking Trail Association
Evaluate routing, safety, water management and other environmental and design issues of the Superior Hiking Trail and establish SHTA best practices methods for carrying out the resulting redesign plans.
Evaluating Insecticide Exposure Risk for Grassland Wildlife on Public Lands
Evaluate Control Methods for Invasive Hybrid Cattails
This project will evaluate the effectiveness of two methods to remove exotic hybrid cattail to restore fish and wildlife habitat in Minnesota wetlands.
Forest Management for Mississippi River Drinking Water Protection
Crow Wing Soil and Water Conservation District
Habitat Mitigation for Goblin Fern Conservation
Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe
HCP VII - Wild Rice/Waterfowl Habitat: Enhancement & Long-term Monitoring (2e)
The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe is working within the Leech Lake Reservation boundaries to address loss and degradation of aquatic habitat for wild rice and waterfowl. Efforts will include regulating water levels on shallow lakes by controlling beaver activity and conducting periodic water level draw-downs, reseeding of approximately 200 acres of wild rice, and implementing adaptive management based on analysis of wild rice productivity.
HCP VII - Shoreland Protection Program (3a)
Minnesota Land Trust
With this appropriation, the Minnesota Land Trust plans to protect approximately 500 acres of critical shoreline habitat along Minnesota's lakes, wetlands, rivers, and streams by securing permanent conservation easements and dedicating funds for their perpetual monitoring, management, and enforcement. Lands being considered for permanent protection in this round of funding are located in Becker, Beltrami, Blue Earth, Itasca, Kandiyohi, Lac Qui Parle, Le Sueur, Otter Tail, Pope, and Wabasha counties.
Improving Community Forests Through Citizen Engagement
Increasing Diversity in Environmental Careers
Itasca Community College Woody Biomass Utilization Project Design
Itasca Community College
Woody biomass energy systems have shown themselves to offer more locally-based, stable energy supplies for some communities. Itasca Community College is using this appropriation to design a renewable energy system based on woody biomass that will serve as a demonstration and educational tool in the region.
Managing Mineland Sulfate Release in the Saint Louis River Basin
Mesabi Trail Development - Soudan to Ely Segment
Running through the Iron Range of northeastern Minnesota, the Mesabi Trail provides a recreational and alternate transportation corridor for hikers, bikers, skiers, and horseback riders, as well as some designated snow snowmobile use areas. When completed the trail will include 145 paved miles extending from the Mississippi River in Grand Rapids to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area in Ely – 115 miles have been finished to date. The St. Louis and Lake Counties Regional Railroad Authority are using this appropriation to develop 11 miles of trail segments near Vermilion State Park.
Mesabi Trail Development
Mesabi Trail Development Soudan to Ely - Phase II
Mesabi Trail Segment from Highway 135 to Town of Embarrass
Minnesota County Biological Survey
The Minnesota County Biological Survey (MCBS) is an ongoing effort begun in 1987 by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) that is systematically surveying, county-by-county, the state's natural habitats. The effort identifies significant natural areas and collects and interprets data on the status, distribution, and ecology of plants, animals, and native plant communities throughout the state. Through 2009 surveys have been completed in 74 of Minnesota's 87 counties and have added nearly 17,000 new records of rare features to the DNR's information systems.
Minnesota Point Pine Forest Scientific and Natural Area Acquisition
Duluth Airport Authority
Moose Decline and Air Temperatures in Northeastern Minnesota
Moose, one of Minnesota's prized wildlife species, are dying at much higher rates in Minnesota than elsewhere in North America. Recently observed increases in mortality rates amongst some moose in northeastern Minnesota have led to concern that the population there may be entering a decline like that seen in the northwestern part of the state, where moose populations fell from over 4,000 to fewer than 100 in less than 20 years. Additionally the specific causes of increased mortality amongst individual moose remain under investigation.
Movement and Seasonal Habitat Use of Minnesota Elk
Native Bee Surveys in Minnesota Prairie and Forest Habitats
Native Prairie Stewardship and Prairie Bank Easement Acquisition
Prior to European settlement more than 18 million acres of prairie covered Minnesota. Today less than 1% of that native prairie remains, and about half of those remaining acres are in private landownership without any formal protection currently in place. Through this appropriation the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources will work with private landowners of high quality native prairie sites to protect remaining native prairie using a variety of tools. Approximately 200 acres are expected to be permanently protected through Native Prairie Bank conservation easements.
Prairie Butterfly Conservation, Research, and Breeding - Phase II
Protecting Mississippi River Headwaters Lands through Local, State, and Federal Partnership
City of Baxter
A partnership among the City of Baxter, Brainerd Public Schools, Camp Ripley Sentinel Landscape program and The Conservation Fund will acquire 200 acres of riparian forest on the upper Mississippi River Headwaters.
Protecting North-Central Minnesota Lakes
This project will complete 18 permanent conservation easements, 30 forest management plans, and 20 best management practices (BMP) around Aitkin and Crow Wing Counties highest quality lakes.
Reassessing Toxicity of Petroleum Spills on Groundwater and Surface Water
St. Thomas University
State Trail Acquisition
Project Overview Minnesota, which was recently named "Best Trails State" in the country, is host to numerous state trails providing a variety of different outdoor recreational opportunities throughout the state. This appropriation is allowing the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources to acquire land expanding two of these state trails: the Brown's Creek segment of the Willard Munger Trail in Washington County and the Paul Bunyan Trail along Lake Bemidji.
State Park Land Acquisition
State Parks and State Trails Land Acquisition
Minnesota's extensive state park and trail system, the second oldest in the country, is currently comprised of a total of 76 state parks and recreation areas and 13 state trails scattered throughout the state. Some of Minnesota's state parks and trails have privately owned lands within the designated park boundaries or trail corridors. Purchase of these lands from willing landowners for addition to the state park and trail system makes them permanently available for public recreation and enjoyment and facilitates more efficient management.


Water – it's weird stuff. Two atoms of Hydrogen, which is a gas, combined with one atom of oxygen, also a gas, and suddenly it's a liquid! Different combinations of hydrogen and oxygen make entirely different things, like peroxide.
It's vital to our survival. We are largely composed of it, and can't survive long without it. Water is mentioned over four hundred times in the Bible. For a people living in the desert, water must have often been on their minds as the first necessity of survival.


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Aspitha est un genre de lépidoptères de la famille des Hesperiidae, de la sous-famille des Pyrginae et de la tribu des Pyrrhopygini.

Dénomination
Le genre Aspitha a été nommé par William Harry Evans en 1951.

Sous-espèces
Aspitha agenoria (Hewitson, 1876) ; présent en Bolivie et au Pérou.
Aspitha aspitha (Hewitson, [1866]) ; présent au Brésil, au Suriname et en Guyane
Aspitha bassleri (Bell, 1940) ; présent au Pérou.
Aspitha leander (Boullet, 1912) ; présent en Colombie.

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Genre de Lépidoptères (nom scientifique)
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