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Janine Stanwood, Anchor/Reporter
Published: March 29, 2019, 11:41 pm
Tags: Miami, Neighborhood Crime, Traffic, Local, News, Crime
Video shows 'car flying' after hit-and-run crash on busy US-1
Driver of copper Kia Sportage gets away after crash
MIAMI – A Miami man who had just installed a dashboard camera on his pickup truck ended up capturing a hit-and-run on video hours later.
"Out of my peripheral vision, I saw this accident happen," Todd Fulcher said. "I looked up, and I saw this black car flying through the air."
The crash happened Thursday morning on US-1 northbound at Southwest 22nd Avenue.
In the video, a copper-colored Kia Sportage SUV is seen darting out of the left turn lane before striking a black Mercedes, which is briefly sent airborne. The SUV then hits a red truck and drives off.
Basil Binns II said he was behind the wheel of that Mercedes, heading to work after an appointment at the University of Miami. He never saw it coming.
"I felt myself going airborne. I wasn't sure if my car was going to flip, which was my biggest concern at the time,' Binns said.
Little did he know, two cars behind the SUV, was Fulcher and his dash cam.
"As I was watching this I realized: 'Oh my God! I'm recording this!'" Fulcher said.
Binns pulled over. He and Fulcher both noticed the driver of the SUV was leaving the scene.
"It didn't take long. They just decided, 'okay, I'm leaving,'" Fulcher said.
"I land, and I see the car pulling off. And it was, so I was shocked," Binns said.
On Friday, Binns took his 2004 Mercedes to an auto repair and said the damage is likely not worth repairing. He said he has pain in his arm but thankfully no broken bones.
He also said he's grateful for the people who stayed on scene, including Fulcher, who gave him that dash cam video. The video is now in the hands of Miami police detectives who are investigating.
"I'm blessed to have been in that accident and not have worse injuries," Binns said.
Janine Stanwood
Janine Stanwood joined Local 10 News in February 2004 as an assignment editor. She is now a general assignment reporter. Before moving to South Florida from her Washington home, Janine was the senior legislative correspondent for a United States senator on Capitol Hill.


VCS member Paul Schneider has developed a website we thought was Almanac worthy.
Join PHA research associate Melissa Dow Cullina for this intensive two-day workshop. Space is limited and pre-registration required. Bring a brown bag lunch. $120/$100 for PHA members. $80 for professionals associated with Island land management or conservation.
The 100k route circuits the island traveling along the Atlantic Ocean, Nantucket Sound, rolling farmland and State Forest. The 50k route also offers breathtaking views of Nantucket Sound and the Atlantic Ocean. All roads are paved. Begins at 9:30 am. $100 fee benefits Big Brothers Big Sisters of Martha's Vineyard.
Steam the greens or cook them briefly in just the water that clings to the leaves after washing them.
Cut the greens coarsely with a knife and set aside.
Chop the onion and sauté it in the oil until golden. In a small bowl, mix the vinegar and the molasses, then add the mixture to the onion and heat thoroughly.
Add the greens, mix well and heat again before serving.
The standard definition of sustainability involves the idea bringing consumption patterns within levels that can be sustained into the future –indefinitely. This weekend, VCS is joining with partners and members of the community who share the goal of creating a future built around principles of balance, sustainability, protecting natural assets, and working together to nurture a healthy sense of place.
For VCS, sustainability means being as self-reliant and self-aware about what we do in everyday life as much as possible.
Building a workable definition of "sustainability" in the context of Martha's Vineyard must involve safeguarding the integrity of our natural resource support system. That means protecting land through acquisition or restriction to keep it from being consumed. It is a responsible strategy and one which makes good economic sense.
Join us for a celebration of sustainability at the Living Local Harvest Fest!
For several years, Living Local co-sponsoring groups (Vineyard Conservation Society, Vineyard Energy Project, Island Grown Initiative and the Martha's Vineyard Agricultural Society) pursued independent activities aimed at promoting sustainability and "re-localization". These included the Vineyard Conservation Society's annual Farm Day open house featuring local farms, the Ag Society's Harvest Fest, and collaborations focusing on Energy and Sustainability. In 2006, all these groups partnered to launch the first Living Local Harvest Fest, which was tremendously well received by the community.
Saturday, October 2nd 2010. The rain date for the event is Sunday, October 3rd.
of the protected open space around the Ag Hall including the adjacent Frances Newhall Woods Sanctuary.
There will be a children's book swap table so bring up to 5 books and exchange them for up to 5 more!
Cape Light Compact will be hosting an appliance exchange bring in your old inefficient dehumidifiers and air conditioners and get a rebate for new energy efficient ones!
6pm – 10pm at the Agricultural Hall. Kindly organized by the Ag Hall Society and Slow Food M. Please join your community for a homegrown potluck supper. Bring a dish and enjoy great food and great company!
On Thursday, Sept 2nd, Andrew Gottlieb spoke to the MV Water Alliance on issues concerning wastewater planning and treatment, the Estuaries Project, and the imminent legal action by the Conservation Law Foundation to speed up the pace of protecting our ponds. Andrew is the Executive Director of the Cape Cod Water Protection Collaborative and is well versed in the subject matter we are deeply concerned about on the Vineyard. Click HERE to see what he said.
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US-China trade dispute creating 'soft spot' in economy
By Julia Limitone Published November 29, 2018 Trade WarFOXBusiness
Trade disputes will create economic headwinds: UBS Chairman
UBS Chairman Axel Weber on Federal Reserve, the impact of trade disputes and the state of the global economy.
Trade turmoil between the U.S. and China will create weakness in the American economy in the first half of 2019, according to UBS Chairman Axel Weber.
"Many global firms are rewiring their global production chains," he told FOX Business' Maria Bartiromo on Thursday. "So multinationals are really changing the way where they produce and how they produce, and that is taking a toll for the short term on the economy."
President Trump will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Group of 20 summit in Argentina on Saturday, as they look to put an end to the tit-for-tat trade war that began in July.
Ahead of the meeting on Thursday, Trump told reporters that the U.S. is "very close" to reaching a deal with China.
"I think China wants a deal," Trump said at the White House. "But frankly I like the deal we have right now. We are bringing in millions."
The president's comments followed a tweet just hours earlier in which he stepped up pressure on companies over tariffs.
"Billions of Dollars are pouring into the coffers of the U.S.A. because of the Tariffs being charged to China, and there is a long way to go. If companies don't want to pay Tariffs, build in the U.S.A. Otherwise, lets just make our Country richer than ever before!" Trump wrote on Twitter
Additionally, Weber said the European Central Bank and Bank of Japan's expansion will also create headwinds for the economy next year.
In the U.S., tax and fiscal reforms are also beginning to create weakness.
Despite the turbulence, Weber said he doesn't see "an imminent recession on the horizon.

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One of the most recent developments in the world of Android has been the release of Google Places API for Android. This new API gives us the full access to Google's database for 100 million places. What's great about this API is that, to receive data from Google, no XML, or Json parsing needs to be done on the client. All the request and response parsing is done by the Android Places API client itself. It gives us, many new convenience methods through which we can access places API data directly. All we need to do is, use an API key in the project.
Place Picker UI widget – A great new UI control, which gives the flexibility of selecting a place from nearby places.
Current Place – An API method though which nearby places can be retrieved.
Place Autocomplete – An API method, designed to give suggestions in the AutocompleteTextView.
Place Add – An API method for adding places in the Google Places database.
Place Report – An API method for reviewing places by creating a place report.
Place Details – One of the most basic methods, used to retrieve place details by its ID.
Search and select "Places API for Android".
Paste the API key in a meta tag under the application tag of your Android Manifest as shown below.
PlacePicker is a new UI widget introduced with Places API. This widget can greatly reduce the development efforts in a scenario where requirement is to select a nearby place. Android PlacePicker widget, displays a map and a list of nearby places. By this widget user can pick a place, whose details would be returned to the calling activity. Another great feature about PlacePicker is that, it allows the customization of its headers as well. For example if you have set the colorPrimary and colorPrimaryDark properties in the styles.xml. They would be inherited in the PlacePicker UI as-well, just to maintain consistency in the application flow.
According to Google, when using PlacePicker UI to to pick a place, a powered by Google attribution image needs to be shown on the screen. Also if any third party attributions are present, they are also required to be shown as per these policies.
To use place picker UI widget, an API key is also required.
PlaceDetectionApi.getCurrentPlace() is another useful API method introduced with this new Android places API. This API returns nearby places of the device. Android current place API, does not require you to explicitly define the location in the request. Place detection API, has the ability to detect your location automatically from your device and return the places nearby. This makes this API very fast and easy to implement. As with earlier Google Maps API's, we had to detect our latitude, longitude and pass them as a parameter in the request.
The current place detection API is likely to return multiple current places in a PlaceLikelihoodBuffer list, of PlaceLikelihood objects. As its not possible at times to detect the exact location. A PlaceLikelihood object basically contains a probability of correctness, on a scale of 0 to 1.0 and the place data. Where 1 is being the most likely to be the current place. The Current place API for Android also requires a Google API hit. Therefore before making a request you may need to configure a Google API project for it. To generate an API key please refer to the steps above in the first section.
Log.e(LOG_TAG, "Google Places API connection failed with error code: "
It has a comparatively simple layout file as, this example prints all locations in the log. Also please don't forget to add attributions according to these policies.
To conclude, I would like to say that Google Places API for Android is a new and improved version of previous maps API. As this new API provides direct integration with Android, which makes the development process very simple. Also a great feature which comes along with this API, is the themes integration for PlacePicker. This is some thing completely new in Android. This feature supports the usage of consistent user interfaces, giving a better user experience in the app. Hope this helped. Connect with us on Facebook, Google+ and Twitter for more updates.
I got some error in XML Layout (android:src="@mipmap/truiton_short_no_back"). Did you miss something to add here?
Its just an image of Truiton.com. You can remove this image or replace it with any image. I am using it to watermark my code and screenshots.
Hi, I tried without API_KEY for Place Picker widget but it fails. Then tried with obtained API_KEY from Google account now it is working as expected. Any thoughts on this. I saw many more tutorials about Google Places starts with obtaining API_KEY. Kindly share your thoughts here. Thanks.
My app does not load the placepicker UI. Can you help me here?
Please use API_KEY. Post updated.
Thanks for the article and insight! I've been trying to run this code but when I click the "Launch Places API Picker" button to open places, places will not open. Did you experience any issues like this?
Hi, That was really helpful.
But the particular Place picker UI flashes only for a few seconds & returns to the home.I'm unable to figure out the reason.Please could you help me out on this.
Sir If can Sort out my problem ill be very happy, i have a data of lattitude and longitude i want to show it on map, as a small part in my layout , i want to use this new android place lib.. can you plz help me out how do i do that?
Hey i am trying to use Places API for eclipse, i got your entire tutorial but about the build.gradle what do i do with that, as i am using eclipse with adt plugin it dose'nt have build.gradle, can you help me as to what should i do?
Please use API_KEY in manifest for place picker widget. Post updated.
hei, can you give me the example how can I use my API_KEY in manifest? I'm using eclipse. thanks before…..
Hey Great tutorial it works just fine!!!
Just wondering how you can make the search center to your current location on start…if the GPS is on!
By not providing the lat long bounds.
hey i also have to implement same functionality i have read many blogs but till now i didn't get any solution if you have any idea please suggest me thank you.
I'm try to do this in a Fragment.
Where it is asking for @NotNull Activity in the intentBuilder.build(), what do I put? And other places that need context?
This is for the Place Picker.
you can use the getActivity() method in a fragment for this.
I have latitude and longitude, I want place details of that particular location. I want only one result for that location. How can I get the detail like Place name (eg xzy's Pizza).
Great tutorial on new places api. Thanks a lot!
Explaination is simple and to the point.
hii, i want to say thankss ….and i want to ask thing..what i have to do if i need only particular kind of place like any restaurent any cafe etc…can u plz help…i love your blog.it really helpful..plzz ans me either on my mail or here.
Great tutorial? I have only question.
How can we show only coffe shop, or bank, but not show all of them in maps.
I also want to know that.. Cant find any solution!
Hey Mohit, thanks for the awesome tutorial!
One problem ive got is the CurrentPlace apk. I copied and pasted 3 times the code from here and the code from gitHub into my Android Studio. When i start this APK, i see the "Get Current Place" Button and when i click on the button, NOTHING happens.. There is not even a error message in Android Studio or something.
Tried it also on my mobile phone and same there.. when i click on the button, nothing happens, the app doesnt crash or the view doesnt change.
I got everything as i needed, but i dont want to set the country and state name to autocompletetextview, how can i do that?
The Place Picker doesn't display the place the user selected. The map always displays the t longitude and latitude set but not the place the user has selected. How can we fix this?
Just wanted to leave a comment: this is the only tutorial that was simple and actually worked for me. Everything else I've found is years old. Thank you so much!
Thank you. it is very simple and helpful, moving ahead..can we customize the layouts for place picker screen or the search screen.


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People will talk if Dhawan fails to rediscover form: Sunil Gavaskar
Questions will be raised on him if he doesn't bat well in the next matches, says Gavaskar
Published: November 05, 2019 15:10 IANS
Shikhar Dhawan Image Credit: AFP
New Delhi: Former India great Sunil Gavaskar feels opener Shikhar Dhawan must find his form as soon as possible as he is known as one of the finest players of the white ball. In the first T20I of the three-match rubber against Bangladesh in New Delhi, Dhawan scored 41 but took 42 deliveries for it.
Dhawan also struggled to find form during the just-concluded Vijay Hazare Trophy, where he could manage just one fifty in seven outings. Gavaskar said that people will start to talk if he fails to rediscover his form in the last two games against the Bangla Tigers.
"Questions will be raised on Shikhar Dhawan if he doesn't bat well in the next two matches. The team is not going to benefit if you're scoring 40-45 runs from the same number of balls. He will have to think about this. When players come back after a gap, it does take a lot of time to get back the rhythm," Gavaskar was quoted as saying by Sports Tak.
India is currently placed fifth in the latest ICC T20I rankings and Gavaskar felt the Men in Blue will have to improve their rankings if they aim to lift the T20 World Cup next year.
"In ICC rankings India is at 5. If they are to go to 2/3, they will have to win some big matches. And if they can't do this, it will not be easy for them to win the (T20) World Cup," the 70-year-old opined.
The Rohit Sharma-led side will now take on the visitors in the second game in Rajkot on Thursday.
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Freud's Vienna
May 10, 2012Jason Bartoli
Although Freud and his theories on ego, superego, and id have come under attack in recent years, especially for his attribution of "penis envy" to women, it doesn't change the fact that Freud is one of the most important thinkers in world history and the father of psychology. In the beautiful city of Vienna, which has lots of spires , towers, and other varieties of phallic structures, you can follow the progression of his career and ideas while finding Vienna apartments to rent
A good place to start is the Freud Museum, which is located in the Alsergrund district of Austria's capital city. The museum is located where Freud had his practice and private quarters for some forty years. Attached to the museum is Europe's largest psychoanalytic library, and a documentary center that presents the history of Freud and psychoanalysis.
You can also head to the University of Vienna, where Freud studied and taught.
But to really get a sense of Freud and his teaching, you should head to the Vienna's crazy clubs and watch people interact. You will find that most of these social interactions are conducted by men pursuing sex, which is of course the biological imperative that decides just about everything. Women will respond or not, and are much harder to read. Freud himself said he had no idea what women wanted.
To see what is left of Freud's legacy and his importance in psychology go and see the hanging Freud statue. He isn't as important as he once was, but he's still hanging on.


SAN MATEO, Calif., August 6, 2009 – Worldwide PC microprocessor shipments in the second calendar quarter of 2009 (2Q09) rose notably, according to new data from IDC. While the increase is unusually positive for the second quarter of a year, IDC analysis of the results indicate that Intel and OEM inventory refreshes drove this performance and not the return of significant end demand for PCs. In 2Q09, worldwide PC processor unit shipments rose 10.1% from 1Q09 to 2Q09, compared to –10.9% from 4Q08 to 1Q09. Unit shipments declined 7.0% year over year. Market revenue increased 7.9% from 1Q09 to 2Q09, compared to –11% from 4Q08 to 1Q09. Second quarter revenue declined 15.3% compared to the same quarter in 2008. Intel's overall PC processor shipments increased 12.5% from 1Q09 to 2Q09. AMD's overall PC processor shipments increased 1.8% in the same period. Intel's shipments of Atom processors designed for mini-notebook PCs (which Intel calls "Netbooks") increased 34% in 2Q09 compared to 1Q09. This results indicates that mini-notebook OEMs, having held off buying Atom processors in 1Q09 and depleted their inventories, began refreshing those inventories in 2Q09. IDC estimates that the inexpensive Atom processors for mini-notebook PCs represented 25% of Intel's mobile PC processor shipments in 2Q09 and 8.1% of Intel's mobile PC processor revenues in 2Q09. "The percentage of Intel's revenue earned in Asia/Pacific grew from 51% in 1Q09 to 55% in 2Q09," noted Shane Rau, director of Semiconductors: Personal Computing research at IDC. "This fact, combined with the significant sequential 'snap-back' rise in Intel's overall processor shipments—particularly Atom shipments—while AMD's overall shipments were about flat, indicate that the PC processor market didn't recover in 2Q09. Instead, the market balanced out due to Intel driving Atom processors into ODMs who manufacture the systems, particularly in China and Taiwan." 2Q09 Vendor Highlights In 2Q09, Intel earned 78.9% unit market share, a gain of 1.6%, while AMD earned 20.6%, a loss of 1.6%, and VIA Technologies earned 0.5%. In 2Q09 by form factor, Intel earned 86.9% share in the mobile PC processor segment, a gain of 2.6%, AMD finished with 12.6%, a loss of 2.4%, and VIA earned 0.5%. In the PC server/workstation processor segment, Intel finished with 89.9% market share, a gain of 0.5% and AMD earned 10.1%, a loss of 0.5%. In the desktop PC processor segment, Intel earned 70.2% and AMD earned 29.4%; share changes were negligible. Market Outlook Having identified Intel and OEM's refreshing inventory as the major factors in 2Q09 and not the return of end demand, we cannot yet say that the PC processor market is recovering, it still is in weak condition. "Going forward," added Rau, "IDC believes that ODMs and OEMs have balanced out their inventories and so we can't rely on inventory replenishment to drive market improvements. Instead, we can only rely on what actual end demand really is, and that means we have to be cautious not to be over-exuberant that, say, the traditional back-to-school PC buying season will materialize into a bullish second half. It won't." IDC's forthcoming report, Worldwide PC Processor 2Q09 Vendor Shares, will provide worldwide market share results for PC processor vendors on an overall unit and revenue basis, as well as by form factor (desktop, mobile, and PC server).


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LFOD delivers the 2nd part of their alumni cypher with Lotus Taylor, M-Dot and Mertz. New England stand up!
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Wu-Tang rolled through Tim Westwood when forever was dropping and kicked an hour long freestyle for yas.
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My man M-Dot linked up with Crazy Al Cayne to drop a freestyle for Spittin In Da Wip! Peace to the homie Al Cayne as well miss his parodies and love the BMX videos.
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Cloud computing is becoming a popular concept and has reached an established status of the IT strategies of many organizations. Thanks to its global awareness; as a business all around has taken advantage of the multiple benefits of cloud computing. The features covering easy implementation, cost-effectiveness, and efficiency in the use of solutions with the liberty of scalability are the salient benefits cloud computing offers. Needless to say, the cloud drives higher productivity at a lower cost. This is the main reason why companies have adopted computing application in their overall IT program; they have at least one.
Moreover, these companies, to meet their business needs, tend to scale up or down their bandwidth. In modern business, it has become common for companies to switch from one cloud provider to another. Or even move from a public cloud solution to their own private cloud environments. Taking the numerous advantages available into account and different types of cloud services offered large and medium organizations are choosing for hybrid cloud environments to draw maximum benefit from both public and private cloud network models.
With the purpose to achieve this, critical business-related applications and data need to be migrated to a fresh environment bringing us to cloud data migration thereby improving security and raising the productivity. However, reaching this stage is not easy.
We have put down some of the top cloud data migration challenges that companies may come across and how to overcome them without hampering your cloud journey.
For an organization, switching to the cloud can be related to many reasons. The key factors that determine the switchover for companies to choose cloud data migrations are; performance, costs, scalability flexibility, easy maintenance, and digital transformation. But an organization's business strategy must certainly define the cloud strategy to be adapted and not the other way around.
It is essential that before migrating to a cloud environment, organizations must thoroughly plan in place and only finalize the strategy. Many a time, companies fail to notice this and end up with losses during or after the cloud migration process. It is also essential that organizations must ensure that all the personnel involved in the migration must be on board and the processes needed for such a move must be planned and adapted for your company. In other words, everybody must get involved and must be in the know about the process. All these aspects have to be painstakingly deliberated before the cloud data migration is incorporated.
Switching to Data Migration from one cloud to another has its own challenges if not arranged with a proper backup. If an organization has plans to migrate, all the applications and services residing in them will be severely affected if precautions are not taken. Even network or service outages can be disastrous and slight downtime can result in huge losses to the business in terms of revenue, reputation and customer loyalty. Downtime is one of the most decisive and common issues occurring during cloud migration. Ideally, a solution to this is to set up a backup environment or assign temporary resources to run the applications until the migration process is complete.
But, to set up a temporary environment and to host all your business applications and services is not as stress-free as it appears to be. The allocated resources must have the capacity to house these applications and must also be able to handle the user's load on the servers to prevent any data loss. Anyway, downtime is inevitable, but one can try to minimize it. Ideally, beforehand, some organizations start posting a banner on the applications to inform users that the service or application will be unavailable. This step is taken to plan the migration when the use of the service is minimally used.
In this contemporary IT world, internet security is the biggest issue that merits attention; a worrying sign of anxiety. Cyber-attacks are growing rapidly and data breaches are also increasing at an alarming rate. Quite often the process of migration gets hindered by these cyber-attacks. Therefore, it is advisable to take extreme caution during the process. Your organization's data gets extremely vulnerable when data is being moved from a physical server to a cloud or from one cloud to another. Here neither your network security nor the cloud's security would be capable to protect your data from any breaches during the migration so the process of migration has to be done under the supervision of experts. In other words, all possible security measures have to be implemented to ensure there is no data leakage or breach.
When migrating to a cloud, organizations must also obtain third-party reports about the cloud provider's security. Generally, these reports often help in planning a proper security measure to consider during and after the migration process. The common myth in cloud migration is that companies often assume that the cloud provider will take care of all the security-related aspects. This should be quashed.
This refers to the ability of systems to communicate with each other and is one of the demanding issues in cloud migration as it is a challenge to establish proper communication between your applications with newer cloud environments. However, when working with a cloud framework, a company has to safeguard that all applications and services depending on the cloud work well with that particular cloud provider's systems. Sporadically, you may have to adapt some of your company's processes to that of the cloud provider to achieve success.
Adaptability or compliance is the most common issue faced during cloud migration. It is a common practical challenge every individual or organization has to face while switching to a new system or policy, per se.
But particularly in cloud migration, organizations have to spend considerable capital equipping them with sufficient knowledge required to handle the new cloud platform. At times, with the migration to the cloud, companies might have to modify or even revamp their operation, resources, staff, authority and the funding in various departments to get the task in sync with the new cloud environment.
Generally, problems also arise when an organization plans to modify its current working style to adjust with the cloud services. At the same time, it would be an imprudent thing to do if this architectural change breaks the system. At the end of the day, every business must consider the return on investments.
Barring these common yet grave cloud data migration issues, there are several other important factors that can make or break the business for organizations planning to move to the cloud. Cost, time and changes in management and staff are among the other crucial aspects that cannot be neglected. Ideally, the effective way to offset these challenges is to have a qualified team of cloud professionals' guidance and get the migration done for you. Even after your business has successfully migrated into cloud services, you are not done. To avert any future problems, you have to constantly learn, take precaution and keep monitoring to triumph.


For his forthcoming book, 'Walkaway,' out in April from Tor in the U.S., and Head of Zeus in the U.K., the bestselling author has devised a novel approach to selling the digital edition.
On January 27, Donald Trump's executive order banning U.S. entry for people from seven Muslim-majority nations threw America's immigration system into chaos. Lawful permanent residents were detained or sent overseas. Refugees and asylum-seekers were turned away. Families were separated. And that weekend, the American Civil Liberties Union announced that it had received more than $24 million in donations—six times its annual intake from private donors.
The neoclassical model of economics predicts that human beings will behave as "rational economic actors," always seeking to maximize their personal utility. But the ACLU's experience suggests people also place value—and will also spend money—on things that are not directly related to personal utility, but reflect their values.
This April, Tor (in the U.S.) and Head of Zeus (in the U.K.) will publish Walkaway my first novel for adults since 2009. It's my "optimistic disaster novel," about people behaving kindly towards one another in times of crisis—a countervailing narrative to all those stories in which disaster precipitates barbarism, and where the failure of the our infrastructure is swiftly followed by marauders who smash down your door and eat you.
When we are faced with a crisis and need to think fast, we deploy the "availability heuristic." That's where we treat things as likely outcomes because we can vividly imagine them. The stories we consume are bound up with this availability heuristic: if you've thrilled to dystopian fiction where the few and the good battle the ravening mob, then, when confronted with unprecedented crisis, that fiction becomes a prediction—when the blackout hits, you assume your neighbors aren't coming over with a covered dish, they're coming over with a shotgun.
You've probably noticed that when disaster strikes, the media tends to focus on the few aberrant episodes of bad conduct. Walkaway is about the opposite of this: a reality-inspired tale of everyday bravery and selflessness drawn from the real world of real disasters, which are always, always moments in which humanity shines.
In all the years that I've made e-books available through unconventional means, such as Creative Commons licenses, my number one question from readers has been: "How do I pay you for this without making some digital monopolist richer?" I don't pretend that this is a concern of the a large proportion of the casual readership, but based on my data, it is the most pressing concern for thoughtful, engaged readers—readers who care about books like Walkaway.
A bookstore operated by an author has an advantage no giant tech platform can offer: a chance to buy your e-books in a way that directly, manifestly benefits the author.
Walkaway has traditional publishers, and it will have a traditional e-book edition. But I'm going to sell that e-book in a nontraditional way. I'm launching an e-book store with the book, a store that I've privately developed for the past three years, code named "Shut Up and Take My Money" (SUATMM). SUATMM is what I like to call a fair trade e-book store, in which the writer also serves as a retailer.
There are many small, niche-oriented e-book stores serving highly specific markets, but SUATMM is different. It's a retail platform that lets authors with traditional publishers serve as retailers for their those publishers, on the same terms as Amazon, Kobo, Google, BN.com, Apple, and other giants. Those stores have resources no individual author (save, perhaps, the delightfully DRM-free J.K. Rowling) can muster. In particular, they can manage a seamless experience that no indie bookstore can hope to match.
Buying an e-book from a website and sideloading it onto your Kindle will never be as easy as buying it from the Kindle store (though if the world's governments would take the eminently sensible step of legalizing jailbreaking, someone could develop a product that let Kindles easily access third-party stores on the obvious grounds that if you buy a Kindle, you still have the right to decide whose books you'll read on it, otherwise you don't really own that Kindle). But a bookstore operated by an author has an advantage no giant tech platform can offer: a chance to buy your e-books in a way that directly, manifestly benefits the author.
As an author, being my own e-book retailer gets me a lot. It gets me money: once I take the normal 30 percent retail share off the top, and the customary 25 percent royalty from my publisher on the back-end, my royalty is effectively doubled. It gives me a simple, fair way to cut all the other parts of the value-chain in on my success: because this is a regular retail sale, my publishers get their regular share, likewise my agents. And, it gets me up-to-the-second data about who's buying my books and where.
It also gets me a new audience that no retailer or publisher is targeting: the English-speaking reader outside of the Anglosphere. Travel in Schengen, for example, and you will quickly learn that there are tens of millions of people who speak English as a second (or third, or fourth) language, and nevertheless speak it better than you ever will. Yet there is no reliable way for these English-preferring readers, who value the writer's original words, unfiltered by translation, to source legal e-books in English.
Amazon and its competitors typically refuse outright to deal with these customers, unable to determine which publisher has the right to sell to them. Most publishing contracts declare these nominally non-English-speaking places to be "open territory" where in theory all of the book's publishers may compete, but in practice, none of them do.
Even in the Anglosphere, readers are often left to their own devices. Told that Amazon U.S. can't sell the book to them, they must discover for themselves where to find the book on Amazon U.K. But acting as my own retailer, I can easily determine who gets the publisher's end of the payment: in the U.S. and Canada, it's Tor; in the U.K. and the Commonwealth, it's Head of Zeus. Everywhere else—all that open territory—it's me.
For the other defined territories, it's a simple matter of calculating the remittances and sending payments and statements to my other publishers, just like any other retailer. The difference being that rather than my publishers sending me 25% of the money due twice a year in the form of a royalty check, I am in control of the money.
After my experiences organizing name-your-price e-book bundles with the Humble Bundle people—raising $2M in voluntary payments for a couple dozen backlist titles—I had a realization. Most e-book readers were already living in a "name your price" world: one in which the only two prices they were allowed to quote were zero, and full retail.
But people are kind. People are good. Homo Economicus is a lie. People want to do the right thing. And when the name-your-price offer is couched in terms of being a good person, people open their hearts and their wallets. SUATMM has lots of bells and whistles. And I think fair trade e-books are an idea whose time has come.
As I was preparing this column, I learned that my U.K. publisher, Head of Zeus, had been developing BookGrail, its own author-centric e-book retail platform, one that offers a very similar slate of terms, with thousands of titles, and far more resources than I could bring to bear on such a project.
It's an exciting moment! BookGrail is a platform I'll be delighted to have my books on, even as I use SUATMM to serve my own quirky needs: name your price, 100% DRM-free, etc. But both platforms represent a way for readers who care about the book trade, about authorial independence, about their money going preferentially to the people who make the art they love, to express those preferences.
And both platforms make offers Amazon, Google, and Apple can never match: the chance to buy books in a way that benefits the whole ecosystem of writers, agents and publishers.


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04 Dec 2009 Free Market Think Tank Grows, Crediting Government's Assault on Private Enterprise as Impetus for Revenue Growth
Washington, DC – The National Center for Public Policy Research announced additions to its health care and environmental policy divisions today, crediting Washington's growing intrusion into the free market for its revenue growth during America's worst recession in 26 years.
"As the national unemployment rate was rising to 10 percent, our full-time staff grew by 14%," said David A. Ridenour, vice president of the National Center for Public Policy Research. "The American people are alarmed by Washington's growing intrusion into private enterprise – from its de facto takeover of car companies and banks to its proposed takeover of health care. Now they're voting with their check books and giving to us generously."
The National Center has just welcomed two new people to its policy staff, Caroline May and Matt Patterson.
Caroline May joins The National Center as a policy analyst for environmental and regulatory affairs. She's focusing on global warming, the Clean Water Act, property rights and free market environmental solutions, among others. May has served in writing and researching capacities at D.C. Examiner, the American Enterprise Institute, Commentary magazine, and News/Talk 1110 WBT in North Carolina.
Matt Patterson joins The National Center as health care policy analyst. He most recently served as research assistant to nationally-syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer and currently serves as the National Review Institute's Washington Fellow. Previously, he'd served as a political coordinator for the Rudy Giuliani Presidential Campaign. A prolific writer, Patterson's work has been widely published, including in The Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Chicago Tribune, D.C. Examiner, and many others.
"We're thrilled to welcome such talented and passionate advocates of individual liberty as Caroline May and Matt Patterson to our staff," said Amy Ridenour, President of the National Center for Public Policy Research. "Both are great researchers and writers and I'm confident they'll be in high demand over the next several months."
The National Center for Public Policy Research is a truly independent, non-partisan, non-profit educational foundation that receives 94% of its revenue through hundreds of thousands on individual contributions. Just 1.5% of its revenue comes from company and corporate sources.
For more information, contact David Almasi at (202) 507-6398 x11 or [email protected].


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In connection with the centenary celebrations of the declaration of independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, in partnership with the National Archives of Georgia, National Parliamentary Library of Georgia, National Museum of Georgia and American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (ARISC) and with the support of Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation, organizes a scientific forum titled: "Remembering the Democratic Republic of Georgia, 100 Years On: A Model for Europe" on June 25-30. The forum involves an international scientific conference and an international summer school.
Summer school organizers are pleased to invite Georgian and foreign students as well as young researchers to participate in the program.
The applicants need to send filled application forms to the following e-mails no later than 10 March, 2018 summerschooldrg100@gmail.com or irakli.iremadze@tsu.ge
10 Georgian and 10 foreign students will participate in the international summer school. Georgian and foreign scientists will give lectures for summer school listeners.
Working languages of the international summer school: Georgian, English.
* Summer school organizers can offer the conference and summer school attendees free stay in a descent hotel/hostel room, free food, internal transportation.
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On Oct. 25, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the federal law that bans dealer sales of handguns to law-abiding adults between the ages of 18 and 20. The decision, in the case of National Rifle Association v. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, involved a challenge to the law by several young adults, joined by the NRA on behalf of its members in the same age group.
In our briefs, we pointed out that the age limit is inconsistent with the laws America's founders passed—such as the Militia Act of 1792, which required 18-year-olds to arm themselves for militia service. The age limit is also in conflict with court decisions interpreting other constitutional rights such as the First Amendment's protection of free speech, as seen in a Second Circuit ruling that barred New York City from restricting the retail sale of spray paint and permanent markers to those under 21 in an attempt to combat graffiti.
Most important, though, is that the age limit is inconsistent with the Supreme Court's decision in Heller, which found that the Second Amendment protects the right of "all Americans" to keep and bear arms—handguns in particular—for self-defense.
The court goes on to say that the sales ban does "not severely burden the Second Amendment rights of 18-to-20-year-olds" because under Heller, "laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms… [are] presumptively lawful," and that the law does not bar young adults from possessing handguns altogether. The judges also concluded that since the regulation has a "temporary effect" on young adults, little scrutiny of the regulation is required.
In another setback for young adults, the Fifth Circuit ruled May 20 to uphold Texas' 21-year-old age limit for obtaining a concealed handgun license. As Texas does not allow for the unlicensed open carry of handguns, this amounts to a complete prohibition of those in that age group from bearing arms outside the home for self-defense. In the opinion in NRA v. McCraw, Judge Edith Brown Clement noted that the Fifth Circuit was bound by its decision in the earlier case on dealer purchases.
The NRA disagrees with the Fifth Circuit's view that prohibitions on young adults purchasing and carrying the means of self-defense outside the home are insignificant burdens on the Second Amendment right, and that laws restricting these activities require a lesser level of scrutiny than those laws pertaining to gun ownership in the home by those over 21. Citizens considered adult enough to exercise other fundamental rights, such as the right to vote, who are also subject to serious responsibilities, such as registering for Selective Service, should be able to enjoy their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. In hopes of restoring the rights of young adults in the Lone Star State and across the country, we filed a petition on June 3 seeking review by the full Fifth Circuit.


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General July 2, 2019 Syria's alAssad receives Ali Asghar Khaji2019-07-02T00:00:00+00:00
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday received Ali Asghar Khaji, Senior Aide of the Iranian Foreign Minister for Special Political Affairs, and the accompanying delegation.
President al-Assad was briefed by Khaji on the developments of the Iranian nuclear agreement after Washington backed out of it, and the recent US escalatory positions which seek to destabilize the region and increase tension in it, with President al-Assad affirming Syria's support for Iran and its leadership in defending their people's rights against all threats and acts that violate the basis of international law.
Talks during the meeting touched on the war on terrorism in Syria and the responses to the attacks carried out by terrorist organizations in Idleb against civilians in neighboring areas, as well as developments in the political track, the upcoming round of Astana talks, and the situation in the regional and international arenas.
Talks also discussed the Syrian-Iranian relations, with Khaji asserting the strength of the strategic relations between the two countries, affirming Iran's determination to continue bolstering them in all fields to serve the interests of both sides, adding that the Iranian leadership and people always have and always will support Syria until it liberates all its territory and rebuilds what has been destroyed by war.
The meeting was attended by Presidential Political and Media Advisor Bouthaina Shaaban, Deputy Foreign and Expatriates Minister Fayssal Mikdad, and Director of the Asia Department at the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry Shafiq Dayyoub.
Source: National News Agency
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday received Ali Asghar Khaji, Senior Aide of the Iranian Foreign Minister for Special Political Affairs, and the accompanying delegation. President al-Assad was briefed by Khaji on the developments of the Iranian nuclear agreement after Washington backed out of it, and the recent US...
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Carolina Performing Arts Announces 15th Anniversary Season
(Chapel Hill, N.C. –– May 15, 2019) – Today, Carolina Performing Arts at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill announced its 15th anniversary season, which will celebrate CPA's evolution from a performing arts presenter to an experience curator. The 2019-2020 season will continue collaborations with artists in the creation of new work to further establish CPA as a global artistic leader.
Programming throughout the 2019-2020 season will amplify the creative leadership of women, through performances by icons and trailblazers, unique collaborations and programs featuring art created by women. A conversation with Misty Copeland, principal dancer of American Ballet Theatre, opens the 15th anniversary season on September 6, 2019 at UNC-Chapel Hill's Memorial Hall. Later in the season other engagements will feature renowned artists including Emmylou Harris, Meredith Monk, Wendy Whelan and Cristina Pato. These performances and others honor the upcoming centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted many American women the right to vote.
"I am energized by the experiences to come for our 15th anniversary," said Emil Kang, executive and artistic director of Carolina Performing Arts. "As we welcome long-time friends and invest in groundbreaking artistic experiences, the season reflects the evolution of the institution. My hope is that the work we do inspires curiosity in all who experience the power of the arts."
Affirming CPA's commitment to evolution, the season features many firsts:
– "1971,"an art installation honoring women who have worked to expand voting rights in North Carolina created by Craig Walsh in partnership with the Carolina Women's Center and Southern Oral History Project;
– An artist takeover of CURRENT ArtSpace + Studio, featuring performative installations exploring the intersection between the Martha Graham Dance Company's "Lamentations" and cutting-edge technology made by software developer and artist Tyler Henry during the company's Google residency;
– Collaborative work by Creative Futures artists-in-residence, supported by a $1.5M grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, to design a new feamework for community-based engagement;
– "The Future is Female," a five-hour performance installation by pianist Sarah Cahill honoring female composers;
– World premiere of Flutronix's "Discourse," an immersive musical performance featuring oral histories from residents of Chapel Hill;
– A performance by legendary artist Meredith Monk, in a concert version of "Cellular Songs" with her vocal ensemble;
– The Chapel Hill debut of the London Symphony Orchestra with Music Director Sir Simon Rattle performing Mahler's Symphony No. 4.
This anniversary season also features returning artists and ensembles including the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, violinist Johnny Gandelsman, pianist Mitsuko Uchida and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and pianist Lang Lang performing the complete "Goldberg Variations" by Johann Sebastian Bach.
CPA commissioned several new works for its anniversary including "The Day," a collaboration between cellist Maya Beiser and dancer Wendy Whelan featuring new choreography by Lucinda Childs and music by David Lang. A second commissioned work, "Edna Lewis," is a work-in-progress play about the late, Southern culinary icon, created by New Yorker writer Hilton Als. "Discourse," the immersive musical performance by Flutronix, is another of the season's commissioned pieces.
Building on longstanding campus and community partnerships, CPA's 2019-2020 season includes collaborations with UNC-Chapel Hill faculty, the Arts Everywhere initiative and others. The chamber opera "As One" will feature local advisors and cast members, including bass-baritone Marc Callahan from Carolina's music department and Raleigh-based contemporary music ensemble earspace, led by Carolina alumnus Vincent Povázsay. CPA will also collaborate with Durham Independent Dance Artists to host three post-performance discussions: following "Rosas danst Rosas" by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and Rosas, "Loch na hEala (Swan Lake)" by Michael Keegan-Dolan and Teaċ Daṁsa, and "Antigonick" by Annie B-Parson and Big Dance Theater.
Single tickets and new subscription packages for the general public are available starting June 5, 2019. Ticket sales for current season subscribers, Carolina staff, faculty and students begin May 29. Carolina students are eligible for $10 tickets to all performances. Staff and faculty receive a 15% discount on single tickets or an additional 10% discount on subscriptions. For full performance listings, event details, pricing and venue information visit carolinaperformingarts.org.
The full season listing can be found below and the 2019-2020 season brochure is available at this link.
Sept. 6 – Misty Copeland in Conversation
Sept. 7 – 29 Daily, at dusk – 1971, Craig Walsh
Sept. 13 – Tierra Whack
Sept. 27 – 29 – CURRENT Takeover: Martha Graham Dance Company
Oct. 2 – Intuition: Songs from the Minds of Women, Alicia Olatuja
Oct. 9 & 10 – Rosas danst Rosas by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Rosas
Oct. 15 – The Day, Maya Beiser, Wendy Whelan, Lucinda Childs and David Lang
Oct. 22 – An Evening with Chris Thile
Oct. 30 – Golda Schultz, soprano, Jonathan Ware, piano
Nov. 8 – Emmylou Harris
Nov. 13 – Sarod Trilogy
Amjad Ali Khan, Master of the Sarod
Amaan Ali Bangash, sarod
Ayaan Ali Bangash, sarod
Nov. 16 – The Future is Female, Sarah Cahill, piano
Nov. 20 & 21 – Loch na hEala (Swan Lake), Teaċ Daṁsa, Created by Michael Keegan-Dolan
Dec. 7 & 8 – The Nutcracker, Carolina Ballet
Dec. 13 – Freedom and Faith, PUBLIQartet
Jan. 10 – Fanm d'Ayiti, Nathalie Joachim with Spektral Quartet
Jan. 17 – INVISIBLE(s), Cristina Pato with Mazz Swift
Jan. 24 – 26 – Antigonick, Big Dance Theater, text by Anne Carson
Jan. 30 – The EVE Project, Martha Graham Dance Company
Feb. 1 – Lucia Lucas, baritone
Feb. 6 & 7 – Edna Lewis, Written by Hilton Als, Directed by Tea Alagić
Feb. 9 – Johnny Gandelsman, violin
Feb. 11 & 12 – Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Feb. 19 & 20 – As One, chamber opera by Laura Kaminsky
Feb. 22 – Maria Schneider Orchestra
Feb. 25 – Isabel Leonard with the UNC Symphony Orchestra
March 5 – Cellular Songs Concert, Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble
March 16 – Meklit
March 19 & 20 – HOME, Created by Geoff Sobelle
March 24 – Mitsuko Uchida and Mahler Chamber Orchestra
March 27 – Visions for Frida Kahlo, Melissa Aldana
April 2 & 3 – Discourse, Flutronix
April 9 – The Soul Rebels with special guest Big Freedia
April 18 – she is called, Brooklyn Youth Chorus
April 23 – Kiran Ahluwahlia
May 5 & 6 – London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle, Music Director
May 15 – Goldberg Variations, Lang Lang, piano
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The core of the mission at Carolina Performing Arts is to curate and present exceptional arts experiences that inspire and provoke the community — from UNC-Chapel Hill to across the globe. Therefore, CPA nurtures artists and the development of new works; challenges and inspires audiences with experiences that foster opportunities for discovery, thought and important social discourse; and solidify the bonds between the arts and academics through work that integrates the arts into the life of the University and its students.
About the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the nation's first public university, is a global higher education leader known for innovative teaching, research and public service. A member of the prestigious Association of American Universities, Carolina regularly ranks as the best value for academic quality in U.S. public higher education. Now in its third century, the University offers 74 bachelor's, 104 master's, 65 doctorate and seven professional degree programs through 14 schools including the College of Arts & Sciences. Every day, faculty, staff and students shape their teaching, research and public service to meet North Carolina's most pressing needs in every region and all 100 counties. Carolina's nearly 330,000 alumni live in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, U.S. Territories and 161 countries. More than 178,000 live in North Carolina.
Carolina Performing Arts: Christina Rodriguez, (919) 962-6222, crodrig@unc.edu
University Communications: Carly Miller, (919) 445-8555, mediarelations@unc.edu


Recently the carefully preserved administrative records of the Australian Museum revealed new information to Kathryn Medlock, Senior Curator Vertebrate Zoology at the Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery. Kathryn (a PhD candidate at the Australian National University) spent a week researching in the Australian Museum Archives. Kathryn found valuable information amongst the museum's 19th century correspondence, exchange schedules, photographs and published material. She is examining the collection and trade of the infamous thylacine (often referred to as the "Tasmanian tiger"). Whilst Museums continue to collect natural history specimens they no longer "trade" specimens to build their collections. Kathryn's research will help us understand the development of this change in Museum science.


LOS ANGELES, Calif. /California Newswire/ — Mortgage Quality Management and Research, LLC (MQMR), a leader in mortgage risk management and compliance services, today announced that 2017 was a banner year for the company, marked by the launch of two new auditing programs and the addition of senior-level staff members.
Growing demand for additional audit and compliance services led MQMR to expand its selection of audit programs across its family of companies, including Subsequent QC and HQ Vendor Management. In 2017, the firm introduced a MERS audit program and a Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) servicing quality control (QC) program.
"More mortgage servicers are turning to us to establish and manage ongoing compliance measures due to the increasingly variable and complex nature of servicing oversight requirements," said Michael Steer, president of MQMR.
"In 2017, we completed more than 25 on-site servicing and document custodian audits for subservicers and lender servicing departments. Our ongoing monitoring services provide indispensable value to our clients because they include tools and recommendations for optimizing operations performance on top of ensuring regulatory compliance," he said.
Other notable 2017 performance milestones include completing more than 1,700 vendor reviews, more than 200 originator reviews, more than 50 internal audit reviews and 10,000+ loan level servicing audits for clients. Based on the invaluable data gathered and best practices observed during its reviews and audits, MQMR also launched a free bi-weekly FAQ newsletter in 2017 to provide guidance on points of compliance and counterparty risk management. Interested parties can sign up here.
MQMR also saw a 14 percent revenue increase in 2017, in line with the firm's projected revenue growth for the year, according to Steer, and in contrast with last year's overall mortgage industry decline. The firm has enjoyed growth every year since its inception in 2011.
Additionally, MQMR expanded its leadership team, hiring two senior-level staff members to manage the growing company: Julie McCurley, as Director of Operations, and Mitchell Nomura, as Internal Audit Manager. With extensive expertise and experience navigating federal, state and agency regulations, McCurley manages expanding regulatory and compliance monitoring service needs. Nomura oversees the internal auditing team dedicated to diagnosing compliance and operational risks for mortgage lender clients who must meet GSE internal audit requirements, a function the agencies are beginning to examine more closely.
MQMR bridges the gap between risk and compliance through its suite of risk-related services. Since its inception, MQMR has launched multiple products and services to assist lenders in navigating regulatory requirements, providing mortgage compliance consulting throughout the origination process, servicing QC and subservicing oversight to master servicers, and filling the void of meeting vendor management oversight requirements. With 2,000+ operational reviews of mortgage companies, subservicers, document custodians, and vendors annually, MQMR prides itself on being an industry leader in counterparty risk and compliance.
To learn more, visit mqmresearch.com, subsequentqc.com, and hqvendormanagement.com.


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OX40 Ligand and Programmed Cell Death 1 Ligand 2 Expression on Inflammatory Dendritic Cells Regulates CD4 T Cell Cytokine Production in the Lung during Viral Disease
Sarah E Wythe, Jonathan S Dodd, Peter J Openshaw, Jürgen Schwarze
Deanery of Clinical Sciences
MRC Centre for Reproductive Health
Centre for Inflammation Research
CD4 Th differentiation is influenced by costimulatory molecules expressed on conventional dendritic cells (DCs) in regional lymph nodes and results in specific patterns of cytokine production. However, the function of costimulatory molecules on inflammatory (CD11b(+)) DCs in the lung during recall responses is not fully understood, but it is important for development of novel interventions to limit immunopathological responses to infection. Using a mouse model in which vaccination with vaccinia virus vectors expressing the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) fusion protein (rVVF) or attachment protein (rVVG) leads to type 1- or type 2-biased cytokine responses, respectively, upon RSV challenge, we found expression of CD40 and OX40 ligand (OX40L) on lung inflammatory DCs was higher in rVVF-primed mice than in rVVG-primed mice early after RSV challenge, whereas the reverse was observed later in the response. Conversely, programmed cell death 1 ligand 2 (PD-L2) was higher in rVVG-primed mice throughout. Inflammatory DCs isolated at the resolution of inflammation revealed that OX40L on type 1-biased DCs promoted IL-5, whereas OX40L on type 2-biased DCs enhanced IFN-γ production by Ag-reactive Th cells. In contrast, PD-L2 promoted IFN-γ production, irrespective of conditions, suppressing IL-5 only if expressed on type 1-biased DCs. Thus, OX40L and PD-L2 expressed on DCs differentially regulate cytokine production during recall responses in the lung. Manipulation of these costimulatory pathways may provide a novel approach to controlling pulmonary inflammatory responses.
10.4049/jimmunol.1103001
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http://www.jimmunol.org/content/188/4/1647
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OX40 Ligand Medicine & Life Sciences 100%
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Cytokines Medicine & Life Sciences 36%
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PhD STUDENT - JOANNE SIMPSON - Supervisor MOHINI GRAY
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Wythe, S. E., Dodd, J. S., Openshaw, P. J., & Schwarze, J. (2012). OX40 Ligand and Programmed Cell Death 1 Ligand 2 Expression on Inflammatory Dendritic Cells Regulates CD4 T Cell Cytokine Production in the Lung during Viral Disease. The Journal of Immunology, 188(4), 1647-1655. https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.1103001
Wythe, Sarah E ; Dodd, Jonathan S ; Openshaw, Peter J et al. / OX40 Ligand and Programmed Cell Death 1 Ligand 2 Expression on Inflammatory Dendritic Cells Regulates CD4 T Cell Cytokine Production in the Lung during Viral Disease. In: The Journal of Immunology. 2012 ; Vol. 188, No. 4. pp. 1647-1655.
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abstract = "CD4 Th differentiation is influenced by costimulatory molecules expressed on conventional dendritic cells (DCs) in regional lymph nodes and results in specific patterns of cytokine production. However, the function of costimulatory molecules on inflammatory (CD11b(+)) DCs in the lung during recall responses is not fully understood, but it is important for development of novel interventions to limit immunopathological responses to infection. Using a mouse model in which vaccination with vaccinia virus vectors expressing the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) fusion protein (rVVF) or attachment protein (rVVG) leads to type 1- or type 2-biased cytokine responses, respectively, upon RSV challenge, we found expression of CD40 and OX40 ligand (OX40L) on lung inflammatory DCs was higher in rVVF-primed mice than in rVVG-primed mice early after RSV challenge, whereas the reverse was observed later in the response. Conversely, programmed cell death 1 ligand 2 (PD-L2) was higher in rVVG-primed mice throughout. Inflammatory DCs isolated at the resolution of inflammation revealed that OX40L on type 1-biased DCs promoted IL-5, whereas OX40L on type 2-biased DCs enhanced IFN-γ production by Ag-reactive Th cells. In contrast, PD-L2 promoted IFN-γ production, irrespective of conditions, suppressing IL-5 only if expressed on type 1-biased DCs. Thus, OX40L and PD-L2 expressed on DCs differentially regulate cytokine production during recall responses in the lung. Manipulation of these costimulatory pathways may provide a novel approach to controlling pulmonary inflammatory responses.",
author = "Wythe, {Sarah E} and Dodd, {Jonathan S} and Openshaw, {Peter J} and J{\"u}rgen Schwarze",
doi = "10.4049/jimmunol.1103001",
journal = "The Journal of Immunology",
Wythe, SE, Dodd, JS, Openshaw, PJ & Schwarze, J 2012, 'OX40 Ligand and Programmed Cell Death 1 Ligand 2 Expression on Inflammatory Dendritic Cells Regulates CD4 T Cell Cytokine Production in the Lung during Viral Disease', The Journal of Immunology, vol. 188, no. 4, pp. 1647-1655. https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.1103001
OX40 Ligand and Programmed Cell Death 1 Ligand 2 Expression on Inflammatory Dendritic Cells Regulates CD4 T Cell Cytokine Production in the Lung during Viral Disease. / Wythe, Sarah E; Dodd, Jonathan S; Openshaw, Peter J et al.
In: The Journal of Immunology, Vol. 188, No. 4, 02.2012, p. 1647-1655.
T1 - OX40 Ligand and Programmed Cell Death 1 Ligand 2 Expression on Inflammatory Dendritic Cells Regulates CD4 T Cell Cytokine Production in the Lung during Viral Disease
AU - Wythe, Sarah E
AU - Dodd, Jonathan S
AU - Openshaw, Peter J
AU - Schwarze, Jürgen
N2 - CD4 Th differentiation is influenced by costimulatory molecules expressed on conventional dendritic cells (DCs) in regional lymph nodes and results in specific patterns of cytokine production. However, the function of costimulatory molecules on inflammatory (CD11b(+)) DCs in the lung during recall responses is not fully understood, but it is important for development of novel interventions to limit immunopathological responses to infection. Using a mouse model in which vaccination with vaccinia virus vectors expressing the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) fusion protein (rVVF) or attachment protein (rVVG) leads to type 1- or type 2-biased cytokine responses, respectively, upon RSV challenge, we found expression of CD40 and OX40 ligand (OX40L) on lung inflammatory DCs was higher in rVVF-primed mice than in rVVG-primed mice early after RSV challenge, whereas the reverse was observed later in the response. Conversely, programmed cell death 1 ligand 2 (PD-L2) was higher in rVVG-primed mice throughout. Inflammatory DCs isolated at the resolution of inflammation revealed that OX40L on type 1-biased DCs promoted IL-5, whereas OX40L on type 2-biased DCs enhanced IFN-γ production by Ag-reactive Th cells. In contrast, PD-L2 promoted IFN-γ production, irrespective of conditions, suppressing IL-5 only if expressed on type 1-biased DCs. Thus, OX40L and PD-L2 expressed on DCs differentially regulate cytokine production during recall responses in the lung. Manipulation of these costimulatory pathways may provide a novel approach to controlling pulmonary inflammatory responses.
AB - CD4 Th differentiation is influenced by costimulatory molecules expressed on conventional dendritic cells (DCs) in regional lymph nodes and results in specific patterns of cytokine production. However, the function of costimulatory molecules on inflammatory (CD11b(+)) DCs in the lung during recall responses is not fully understood, but it is important for development of novel interventions to limit immunopathological responses to infection. Using a mouse model in which vaccination with vaccinia virus vectors expressing the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) fusion protein (rVVF) or attachment protein (rVVG) leads to type 1- or type 2-biased cytokine responses, respectively, upon RSV challenge, we found expression of CD40 and OX40 ligand (OX40L) on lung inflammatory DCs was higher in rVVF-primed mice than in rVVG-primed mice early after RSV challenge, whereas the reverse was observed later in the response. Conversely, programmed cell death 1 ligand 2 (PD-L2) was higher in rVVG-primed mice throughout. Inflammatory DCs isolated at the resolution of inflammation revealed that OX40L on type 1-biased DCs promoted IL-5, whereas OX40L on type 2-biased DCs enhanced IFN-γ production by Ag-reactive Th cells. In contrast, PD-L2 promoted IFN-γ production, irrespective of conditions, suppressing IL-5 only if expressed on type 1-biased DCs. Thus, OX40L and PD-L2 expressed on DCs differentially regulate cytokine production during recall responses in the lung. Manipulation of these costimulatory pathways may provide a novel approach to controlling pulmonary inflammatory responses.
U2 - 10.4049/jimmunol.1103001
DO - 10.4049/jimmunol.1103001
JO - The Journal of Immunology
JF - The Journal of Immunology
Wythe SE, Dodd JS, Openshaw PJ, Schwarze J. OX40 Ligand and Programmed Cell Death 1 Ligand 2 Expression on Inflammatory Dendritic Cells Regulates CD4 T Cell Cytokine Production in the Lung during Viral Disease. The Journal of Immunology. 2012 Feb;188(4):1647-1655. https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.1103001


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Another Cable TV Operator Switching to Streaming Video
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In a statement, Gigabit cited increased carriage fees from content holders for the decision to focus on high-speed Internet service and help facilitate access to third-party online TV services such as Sling TV and Philo TV, among others.
"The TV business is changing," the company said. "This [content] cost increase makes our TV service just way too expensive so we're going to be leaving [the business]," the company said.
The move follows a North Kansas pay-TV operator that announced it would switch toward broadband distribution and away from linear TV. Major pay-TV operators such as Comcast Cable continue to hemorrhage subscribers, including 149,000 subs in the most-recent fiscal period.
Gigabit, like Rainbow Communications in Kansas, is seeking to direct customers to online TV platforms, in addition to SVOD services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Disney-owned Hulu.
It offers myriad high-speed Internet plans, including fibre-optic, priced from $69.95 for 500 Mbps. Indeed, Comcast said it added more than 400,000 broadband subs in Q4, and 1.4 million subs in 2019.
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I'm pleased to announce the first stable release of kte-collaborative, which provides collaborative text editing in kate through kde-telepathy, and an update to the libqinfinity library.
kte-collaborative 0.2 depends on kde-telepathy 0.7 beta or later, and works with libinfinity 0.5.x.
kte-collaborative 0.2, with dolphin listing some files from gobby.0x539.de and editing a file in kate.
There have not been many noteworthy user-visible changes since the last beta release, so please to refer to the 0.2 beta announcement for more information. As always, please report any bugs you find to bugs.kde.org!
It would be such a good thing to be able to do the same with document editors like Calliga Words… Do you think this software of you will be capable of collaboratively edit ODT documents?
No. What I wrote is strictly plain-text, and intentionally so in order to make it useful for the programming context (code review etc.). The underlying library I use could be used to do this for ODT files, but it's not implemented.
Projects which do this for ODT do exist, by the way. I don't know how complete they are but from time to time demos are popping up.
Ah, I didn't know there were such projects. I'll search for more info.


Fine living encompasses a whole world of passions—fashion, art, travel, design, wine, auto, real estate. In this globally inspired issue of Homes & Estates, we cover it all.
Wine tasting and art gazing at one of South Africa's prized estates in the Stellenbosch mountains.
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Hi, Gerry Hartley here to say a few words about preparation and heating systems. First off - HOORAY!! This past winter was 20% warmer than the one before and that saved folks a LOT of money in heating costs, PLUS fuel prices really tumbled and that was a nice relief for all of our customers, and for us, too!
In the fall I often find myself sitting in my backyard by the fire sipping a cold one and watching the squirrels furiously charging about, gathering nuts for the winter. Why do they do that? Perhaps it's related to that old supply-and-demand thing. They instinctively know winter is coming (increasing demand) and the nuts are falling off the trees (supply) and so they take advantage of it. There's a certain sense of anticipation.
For homeowners, that instinctive thing sort of works the same way, but for many folks the anticipation of the coming season doesn't quite kick in like it does for the squirrels. I guess maybe squirrels haven't learned the fine art of procrastination….
Take heating your home as an example: The heating system in your house was simply turned off recently as the weather got warmer, right? Are you thinking about it much now? Nope. But come fall, the onset of cold weather will suddenly put demands on your furnace or boiler and only then, Aha!, do you realize you should have had it serviced when it was warm outside. It's at that time when Patterson Fuels' phones start to ring with an urgency we don't hear all spring and summer.
Or worse yet, you go to turn on the heat next fall, or let's say, the first really cold night comes and Wham! the heating system malfunctions. NOW there is a real sense of urgency! And for all of us here at Patterson Fuels, the demand goes through the roof! That means we pay our technicians overtime pay to keep up and we in turn pass that cost on to those who are in dire straits.
My suggestion to you is to anticipate more like the do squirrels do (even more since we are taking about taking action NOW in the spring and not waiting for fall). To help with this Patterson Fuels is offering a significant discount to have annual heating service performed on your heating system.
You stay warm and comfy while burning less fuel.
You save money over the course of a winter heating season.
You can relax knowing this service helps you avoid problems during the year.
You're helping the environment by reducing fuel use and emissions.
All this is done now in the spring, so there's no stress on you, no downtime for a much needed heating system when the wind is blowing (and it's winter)! Take advantage of our Spring Service Special Offer. Call or click to set up an appointment.
Then you can rest easy, knowing you got one up on those doggone squirrels!
Have a great and enjoyable Spring!!


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This year music is the festival's main theme to encourage innovative local musicians to compete with the prevailing influence from both the United State and Europe, particularly in the flourishing film industry.
The festival also includes theatre, a water regatta, the night of the poets and the children's carnival.
Many of the events take place in Freedom Park.


Joe Farias no longer serves in the Texas Legislature.
Honoring Oliver C. Dack of Bexar County for 40 years of community service.
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Q: How to change Image & Content on button click I have a layout that has a big, full-height image on the left side and a 6 grid-cell layout on the right side.
The grid cell layout should act like buttons which change the image on the left side when you click on the cells.
I'm new to JS, know just a bit about DOM Manipulation. So I don't know where to start.
Here's the layout:
Layout Overview
Thanks for helping me! :)
const tourOne = document.getElementById('gridcell-604c88677d');
tourOne.onclick = changeImage();

function changeImage() {
console.log('hello world');
}

A: With this jQUery code, you can change the source of the image on a button click. Put this line inside your function of changeImage().
$("#gridcell-604c88677d").attr("src","second.jpg");
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A: Without jquery, you can change it
let img = document.getElementById('main_image');
img.src = "https://via.placeholder.com/100";

Please see this codepen example: https://codepen.io/jakir-sajib-hossen/pen/YzpgjrN

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