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WEST, Texas — The search and rescue effort continues after a devastating and deadly explosion at the West Fertilizer Co. rocked the Central Texas town of West and left homes leveled on Wednesday evening.
"I ask for your prayers," said Mayor Tommy Muska. "Search and rescue teams have been working through the night."
The number of those trapped inside rubble from the explosion is still unknown, said Sgt. William Patrick Swanton in a briefing just after 8 a.m. He described the process as "slow and methodical." Some of the buildings are structurally unsound and must be reinforced before emergency crews can enter.
"We're using every available resource we have to do that correct so we don't miss anything or anyone," Swanton said. "It is tedious, it is time consuming, it is a very methodical process they are doing."
In addition to search and rescue teams provided by the state, squads from Fort Hood and Burleson are assisting in finding any trapped residents, the sergeant said.
There were no precise numbers available of the dead and injured. Swanton said he felt "pretty comfortable" estimating the amount of fatalities at between five and 15 and the number of injured at more than 160. He did not say how many residents are unaccounted for.
"There is a significant area around the fertilizer plant that has been destroyed," Swanton said. "Homes have been destroyed; homes have been flattened; part of that community is gone."
Two women and a man injured in the blast were taken to JPS Health Network in Fort Worth. Another couple suffered shrapnel injuries despite being two miles from the blast. They're being treated at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, officials said.
Swanton did confirm that there are firefighters unaccounted for. He was unsure of how many.
The sergeant reported that one of the missing firefighters, who also serves as a law enforcement officer, was found in a hospital with serious injuries. The volunteer firefigthers were reported missing after responding to the fire reported at the plant before the explosion.
At 4:15 a.m., West, Texas EMS director Dr. George Smith confirmed that two paramedics lost their lives in Tuesday night's explosion at West Fertilizer Company.
A Facebook page was established in memory of several firefighters who reportedly perished in the blast.
The blast happened around 8 p.m. at the West Fertilizer plant at 1471 Jerry Mashek Drive, about a half-mile east of Interstate 35.
Shortly before 10 p.m., a dispatcher was advising emergency crews to move away from the burning plant due to concern about chemicals in unexploded tanks.
A few minutes later, WFAA's Todd Unger reported hearing more explosions north of the plant. While the incident is classified as a crime scene, Swanton said investigators had found no evidence of anything criminal causing the explosion.
He said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is at the scene to conduct that part of the investigation.
Swanton added that teams continued going door-to-door Wednesday morning looking for anyone who might be injured or trapped.
The initial fire call at the fertilizer plant was logged at 7:29 p.m. Twenty-four minutes later -- as firefighters, police and paramedics were evacuating nearby residents -- there was a devastating explosion.
At the 8 a.m. briefing, Swanton said the fires at the plant and homes continued to smolder but were not out of control.
The explosion was so large the U.S. Geological Survey classified it as a 2.1 magnitude earthquake.
According to records from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the plant worked with anhydrous ammonia, a colorless gas. While the facility is known as a plant to those who live in the area, it's actually a fertilizer chemical storage facility. No fertilizer is actually made at the site.
Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman D.L. Wilson said half the town was evacuated –– if the wind shifts to the north, Wilson feared the other half would need to leave as well.
"There still are other ingredients there on the facility so we don't want that to explode again," the trooper said in the early morning hours on Thursday. "We're worried about people, not property."
Wilson's fear never came to fruition. By 10 a.m., Swanton said the weather had calmed and there was no more risk.
He said at least 50 to 75 homes had been damaged, and that an apartment complex with 50 units was "just a skeleton standing up."
Wilson said the damage was massive. "Just like Iraq; just like the Murrah building in Oklahoma City."
Hillcrest Baptist Hospital in Waco treated about 94 patients, said spokesman Glenn Robinson. He estimated about 12 to be critically wounded and the others to have more minor injuries, such as lacerations. He said many patients had already been discharged by 1 a.m. and expected the majority to be allowed to leave by the morning.
Some individuals were still being transported in school buses early Thursday morning.
"That's an encouraging number because that means we've been able to treat and release a great number that we've already seen this evening," Robinson said.
While the outpouring of support from emergency officials was encouraging, Wilson said enough are in the town.
"We are overflowing with help," he said. "We do not need any more help."
Mayor Tommy Muska said 133 people at a nearby nursing home all had to be evacuated.
"It was like a nuclear bomb went off," said one man who was looking for a lost relative on Willie Nelson Road.
Rep. Charles "Doc" Anderson (R-Waco) said he has toured the damaged area and said it looked like a "war zone." He said he's spoken with representatives from Gov. Rick Perry's office and DPS and praised their effort.
A large swath of the small town with a population of 2,800 was damaged. Fearing additional explosions, officials ordered residents to evacuate.
A triage center that was set up at the West High School football field was evacuated because of its proximity to the burning plant. The processing center was moved to the town's community center.
An information hotline was set up for concerned friends and relatives at 254.202.1100. The line was overwhelmed with calls; if you get a busy signal, keep trying.
"There was a huge shock wave," said Mark Licknovsky who works at the Czech Stop, less than one mile away on Interstate 35. "That's when we knew something was serious."
West Town Council member Cheryl Marak told WFAA the blast killed her pets and confirmed heavy damage at the middle school.
Every house within four blocks of the facility was heavily damaged, according to initial reports.
"I can see heavy smoke here; there are emergency crews everywhere," said WFAA Todd Unger as he arrived in the devastated town. "We're looking at a home and it is a total loss. There are flames shooting up 10-15 feet."
An emergency dispatcher appealed for more help. "I need anybody and everybody," she said.
At least 10 structures were on fire in the town, including a school which is next door to the plant.
The American Red Cross said teams from Dallas-Fort Worth and Austin will be coordinating with emergency officials in West to provide any needed assistance to town residents who will need help.
Evacuees were being directed to the community center in Abbott, about five miles north of West.
Gov. Rick Perry issued this statement on Wednesday night:
"We are monitoring developments and gathering information as details continue to emerge about this incident. We have also mobilized state resources to help local authorities. Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of West, and the first responders on the scene."
The shock wave triggered by the massive explosion was recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey as a 2.1 magnitude earthquake that was felt as far away as North Texas.
"I live in Groesbeck," wrote Rayne Sibley on WFAA's Facebook page. "I heard a large boom and my house shook."
Facebook users in Venus, Grandview, Cleburne, Ennis and Ferris also reported feeling the shock wave.
"Shook my doors!" wrote Nancy Procaccini of Combine. "Thought it was earthquake!"
Traffic on I-35 was backed up for miles. As of 10:30 a.m., Texas Department of Public Transportation officials say the freeway is clear.
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HARRISONBURG, Va. - The James Madison track & field squad will take on the Virginia Tech Challenge Feb. 15 and 16 in Blacksburg, Va. Competition gets underway at 5 p.m. on Friday and resumes at 11 a.m. Saturday morning at Rector Fieldhouse.
Virginia Tech will host both men's and women's track & field events, kicking off the meet with the women's long jump and 600-meter run at 5 p.m. Feb. 15. On Saturday, field events will start with the women's high jump at 11 a.m., and races will begin at 1 p.m. with the 800-meter run.
The Dukes make their way to Virginia Tech for the second time this indoor season in the hopes of qualifying several more athletes for competition at the Eastern College Athletic Conference indoor championships held March 1-3, 2013. Madison currently has athletes qualified for competition in eight different events.
Last week, freshman Adrienne Alexander (Queens, N.Y./Bishop Loughlin) and sophomore DaQuaa Scott (Stuanton, Va./Robert E. Lee) added shot put to the list of ECAC-qualified events with their tosses of 13.66 meters and 13.53 meters, respectively, at the Liberty Quad. Alexander won the event, her first individual collegiate, with the third-longest toss in school history.
Scott, who finished third in the shot put, won the weight throw competition with an ECAC-qualifying 16.84-meter toss. She previously qualified for the ECACs on Feb. 2 at the Sykes & Sabock Challenge Cup with a JMU-record heave of 17.65 meters in the weight throw.
Senior Marissa McDonald (Harrisburg, Pa./Central Dauphin East) won the 60-meter dash at the Liberty Quad with a time of 7.65 seconds, surpassing the ECAC standard of 7.68 seconds. However, McDonald punched her ticket to the indoor championship meet at the Sykes & Sabock Challenge Cup on Feb. 2 with a time of 7.63 seconds.


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redefined itself with Google+. Its notion of Web search as an index of pages has grown to include people, places and things. In addition to the search box, the page now has a share box. It takes great design to introduce all these new features and interactions to Google's hundreds of millions of users.The design of the search page on Google.com is one of the most iconic in the Web's history, but it's in the midst of major changes. Google has
At the same time, smartphones and tablets are changing the way users interact with the Web, and Google has to make that leap along with them. It has to strike a delicate balance between simplicity, consistency and usefulness. Fortunately, Google's hundreds of millions of users provide mountains of data its designers can use to guide their decisions. I sat down with Jon Wiley, lead designer of Google Search since 2010, to learn more about how Google pushes its user experience forward.
ReadWriteWeb: What was your first search project at Google?
Jon Wiley: [T]he redesign that launched in early 2010. It introduced some of the additional tools for refining and filtering, and we launched a number of changes that simplified the results page.
Over time, we've also worked on a number of features and interactions, particularly Instant. Instant is probably one of the best examples of extreme power having to boil down to simplicity.
RWW: How much of that is on you as the designer, and how much of it is engineering? What's the process for bringing a Google Search product or feature to life?
JW: We have a saying, which is "Don't break search." If you think about Instant, the basics of what you do in terms of searching on Google still work. You go to Google, you begin issuing a question or a query, you see whether or not you're getting the results you're looking for, and you make decisions about that.
That basic experience continues to exist. The difference is that we've made it a lot faster.
We [also] have research labs here on campus, and we invite users to come in and use the product. That's much more qualitative research. Are we actually solving the user's problem?
In the case of Instant, it was actually really interesting. When we were building the demos and walking through the process, a lot of people were really concerned about it. If you think about it, you start typing your query and suddenly the page changes. As fast as it was in terms of speeding up the conversation you have with the search results, we worried it was going to be distracting.
But it was actually really surprising. When we brought users in - and we just let them use the product; we didn't really say anything about it - they would use Google search with Instant turned on, and after a moment, we would say, "Okay, well, tell us about your experience," and they would say, "Well, I dunno, it's Google."
RWW: Users notice slow. They don't notice fast.
JW: Exactly. When you do something wrong, people notice it, and they remember it. When you get it right, you're fitting in with their expectations.
New Kinds of Questions & Answers
RWW: How does a product decision make its way into the design process?
It varies quite a bit. Sometimes new features or product directions can come from within the design team. This gets back to what I mentioned about our more exploratory research, generative research. We might go out in the field and just talk to users and figure out what kinds of problems they might have.
For instance, we did a study last year talking to people about questions they might have around medical issues. Medical queries [are] a really interesting space because there's a high incentive to learn a lot of information. There's a lot of judgment that has to happen in terms of the relevancy and quality of the content you can read on the Internet.
There's some social issues at work. I might be doing the research for a family member or a friend.
We try to identify ways in which we can better support the users with these types of information. Maybe there's a gap where they're trying lots of different tools, or they're not aware of tools that are available them in terms of search. So we try to figure out ways... to make a better tool here or make it more discoverable.
From a design perspective, we can take all that research and start telling stories. From there, we can talk to engineers and product managers and work together to create a solution, and then again it goes through that iterative process.
It can also come from other parts of Google. In engineering, they can come up with lots of interesting ways of looking at information. The ranking engineers and search quality engineers are looking at the sessions, they're looking at where people are having a bad experience or the ranking could be better, and a lot of times, there might be an algorithmic solution there. But sometimes there's a design solution. There's something you have to do in order to communicate to users, "Here's a better path for you."
For instance, the auto-completions or predictions that we have as you type, we actually had that well before we had Instant. There's a lot of algorithmic power that drives it. And there's a lot of ways we can represent that to users in the UI. That's where we partner up [with engineers] to create an experience that's going to be simple and easy to use.
I think of search as a conversation. Our users come to Google, and they ask questions, and Google has to respond. There's a dialogue that happens there, and hopefully that dialogue turns into an answer.
This Is a Paradigm Shift
RWW: How did this process work for Search, plus Your World?
JW: There's long been a feeling that search is not done. We're at the very beginning of the search experience.
Google can answer questions a lot better if it knows a little bit about what you're trying to ask it. One way [it can understand better is if users] hyper-specify the queries: "I'm looking for pizza near downtown San Francisco" or what have you. But we want to also save you time, let you ask a question and just naturally get the right answer.
With Search, plus Your World, we realized that we can provide great search results if we have some notion of identity, if we have some notion of connection.
This is a paradigm shift. This is a completely different way of looking at search. We talk a lot about people asking more complicated and deeper questions, but this is a whole other level.
What you're seeing, from a UX perspective, is an attempt to introduce something that is rather new. It's a new way of looking at things. Sometimes we want to over-communicate in the UI. You've changed something, you're changing expectations, you may be changing behavior. So you look for ways to try to communicate this.
But in the long term, I think we have to see how people use it. I think we have to see how users respond to it over time. The same is true even for something like Universal. When we launched Universal, we had no idea. We had our initial tests, we had our initial user research and internal dog food, but how that feature would evolve over time, we just could not have predicted it. And now, Universal is part of the foundation of how Google works. It was transformative at the time. Suddenly, you're getting these different kinds of Web results for these different intents you might have. That's where we're at with Search, plus Your World. We're at the very beginning.
No Such Thing as an Average Google User
RWW: Have people chilled out about it since it shipped?
JW: [Laughs] That depends on whom you ask.
RWW: I'm not talking about tech bloggers.
JW: Well, saying "Have people chilled out" sort of implies that they were not chill to begin with.
RWW: Ah, well, I guess I am talking about tech bloggers, then.
JW: [Laughs] The truth is that there's no such thing as an average Google user. We serve hundreds of millions of people throughout the world. The more common response from those who have the feature and have been able to take advantage of it is a lot like what we saw in our user research. It's generally along the lines of, "Wow, this is cool. This is helpful." We get a lot of that reaction from users.
Just to be honest, I hate to say that I could change one thing about the search results page, and I guarantee you that there will be someone somewhere that is unhappy about that change. It's just the nature of the software business. And even a tiny, tiny fraction of people who are unhappy with a given feature or a given change that we make, in Google numbers, that can be a large number of people. So we try to listen to the minority voices as much as we listen to the majority voices and try to balance those.
But so far, I guess I would say that Search, plus Your World is working as intended. A large number of people who have the feature have derived value from it. Like I said, it's got a long ways to go, but that's true of any innovation that we launch.
Good Ideas Can Come From Anywhere
RWW: How do design decisions about search trickle over to the various interfaces such as mobile or tablets?
JW: In terms of product development, good ideas can come from anywhere. We've had feature developments and design developments that have happened in the mobile space. Particularly in the mobile space, actually, because it's such a new environment.
I think touch screens are going to really proliferate. I think you're going to have a lot of touch surfaces in a lot of places, and it's going to be interesting to see how people interact with multiple modes of info. We have voice input on Google Search, you can drag a photo into the Google Search box, people are going to have keyboards and mice, but they're also going to be able to touch the screen in multiple different ways.
There's an aspect of it that's a designer's nightmare. It's like the browser wars. There's a multitude of devices, a multitude of browsers, a multitude of form factors, a multitude of conditions under which people are operating. Their location might be really important in one context and less important in another. All these variables are super-complex to deal with.
On the one hand, it's a really challenging problem to design for, but that's kind of the fun part about working for Google.
Everything's a Trade-Off
RWW: I want to know more about the changes to the main toolbar that have been happening recently. It keeps changing and changing back. What's going on there?
JW: As a designer, I love this, because it's a really hard problem, trying to figure out a way in which you can create a discoverable, usable, simple mechanism of navigating between services and applications.
In design, we say "Everything's a trade-off." You have a number of dials, and you can turn a bunch of them. One of the dials that we talk about a lot is discoverability. If I turn the dial way up on discoverability, it might be a giant button that says 'Click Here.' If I turn that dial down, it might be something like progressive disclosure. You take something and tuck it in under some other space.
In working through this, it was a classic kind of design process at Google where we went through a number of designs, we settled on a few iterations, and we ran a few experiments like the one you saw a few months ago. If we run an experiment large enough, we want to tell everybody, "Hey, we're doing an experiment."
One of the great things about working on products at Google is that we can try stuff out and launch it as an experiment and get tons of data. As a designer, I feel very lucky because I have access to enough data and enough users that I can actually get statistically significant information on whether or not something should be this tall, or this tall, or this tall.
Some designers, it drives them mad. But I think, if you knew that this mock-up is actually, objectively a better experience for people than this mock-up, you'd totally take that.
On the toolbar, this is actually a very complicated design problem. One of the dials that you're turning is making it a functional, useful, discoverable tool. But other dial you're turning is that you want to make sure you have enough space on a variety of devices and screens to make sure that the application [the user] is in is given as much space as possible.
We're pretty open about what we do, so we iterate in public a lot and try different things out. This is what happens on search in particular. We're running tons of experiments all the time to tweak and fix and change.
My parents will be like, "Well... what do you do? Because search seems to be the same most of the time." And that's actually the best thing they can say to me, because I know it's getting better, I've got the experiment data to prove it. If, the entire time, everybody's going, "Hey, it's working!" then that's gold. People notice things when they break, but they don't really notice things when they're going well.
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Correction: The article initially stated that Wiley has been the lead designer of Search since 2007. He has been at Google since 2007, but he joined search in 2010.


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Stocks added to declines in the final minutes of trading to log a sharp loss Thursday after Germany rejected some of the EU summit draft measures and as ECB President Mario Draghi's comments dashed hopes that the central banks would raise its bond purchases of debt-ridden European nations.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average erased 198.67 points, or 1.63 percent, to close at 11,997.70, led by JPMorgan and BofA , snapping a three-day winning streak and ending below the psychologically-important 12,000 level.
The S&P 500 plunged 26.66 points, or 2.11 percent, to end at 1,234.35. The Nasdaq fell 52.83 points, or 1.99 percent, to finish at 2,596.38.
The CBOE Volatility Index, widely considered the best gauge of fear in the market, closed above 30.
All 10 S&P sectors ended in negative territory, led by financials and materials.
According to the leaked EU summit draft, euro zone leaders were determined to move towards a "new fiscal compact" and strengthen bailout mechanisms, Reuters reported. However, Germany quickly rejected the draft measures, including giving the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) a banking license and issuing common euro zone debt, according to Reuters, citing a senior German official.
Investors have been heavily focused on the summit all week, which kicked off with a working dinner and is scheduled to continue through Friday. EU leaders will aim to agree on a plan to assuage the crisis.
"We may see a short-term rally on the bark, but I'm skeptical that the [EU summit resolution] will have a bite—there are so many divergent perspectives that it's very unrealistic to get a complete package that satisfies all parties," said Jay Wong, portfolio manager of the Payden Value Leaders Fund.
Earlier, investors were disappointed after ECB President Mario Draghi said he didn't signal more bond purchaseslast week in a press conference following an interest rate decision, implying that he has stepped back from the idea of aggressive bond buying from the ECB.
"We were definitely caught off guard with how dramatically Mario Draghi walked back from what was clearly a statement in support of bond markets with respect to the ECB," said Dan Greenhaus, chief global strategist at BTIG.
Adding to woes, Draghi said the euro zone's outlook "remains subject to high uncertainty and substantial downside risks."
The ECB slashed its main interest rate as the euro zone's worsening debt crisis outweighed the concern over persistently high inflation.
On the economic front, weekly claims for jobless benefits tumbled 23,000 to a seasonally-adjusted 381,000, according to the Labor Department, the lowest in almost nine months.
Meanwhile, wholesale inventories rose in October, posting its biggest gain in five months, according to the Commerce Department.
Former MF Global chief Jon Corzine testified to a House panel, saying that he doesn't know the location of client money that went missing and that he inherited a firm doomed by the risks his predecessors took. MF Global collapsed in late October after making huge bets on European sovereign debt.
McDonald's was the only Dow gainer, hitting a new 52-week high earlier after the fast-food giant posted
Among earnings, Costco posted higher quarterly profit in its first quarter. And Smithfield Foods reported results that topped estimates, thanks to strong exports.
Ford pared sharp losses after the automaker reinstated a dividendof 5 cents a share, its first time in five years. Meanwhile, Tesla slumped after Morgan Stanley cut its rating on the electric car maker to "underweight" from "overweight."
On the M&A front, IBM said it will acquire DemandTec for $13.20 a share in cash. The acquisition will help IBM boost its cloud-based service.
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Historic German pub that withstood prohibition and many rowdy college students. – In Short
Scholz Garten was founded in 1866 by August Scholz, a German immigrant and Confederate veteran who proudly labeled the place with his German heritage. Located just two blocks from the stadium, it's the site of UT football's first victory party, and still home to many rowdy Longhorn fans. It's also home to the Wurst Band, a 33-member brass ensemble that has pumped out German music since 1871.
What happened to the old Scholz? – This place use to be the crown jewel south of campus, and it has since taken a dive. I recently went back after graduating from UT in '97, and I was surprised to see how a UT institution had been turned into a Denny's. What happened to the old Scholz's?
a big tailgate party – It's a Longhorn tradition and worth doing at least once. After that, find another place. The UT crowd for football games gets pretty crazy and I personally would rather be somewhere else.
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The much anticipated Trilogy mixtape series. Which is collaboration between The Weeknd and Drake is set to drop on the 13th. To preface it The Weeknd has released a new video "Zone" which features his Canadian counterpart. This song showcased the Weeknds' signature drone and a few bars by Drake.
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Mechanisms of HIV/SIV entry and target cell tropism, and their role in pathogenesis.
Monocyte/macrophage activation in HIV infection: mechanisms, role in pathogenesis, and modulation.
Microbiome and molecular microbiology of the human respiratory tract.
Key words: HIV, SIV, virus, tropism, signal transduction, gp120, viral envelope, macrophage, microbiome, lung microbiology.
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Project 1. HIV/SIV entry. Our lab studies HIV and SIV infection, focusing on the mechanisms of entry into different target cells and how viral target cell tropism influences disease. HIV and SIV target T lymphocytes and macrophages, and within the T lymphocyte group several subsets of cell populations may be infected. Current work is focuses on how entry pathways including CCR5 and CXCR4, and in particularly non-cannonical entry coreceptors, are used in pathogenic (HIV-1, SIVmac infection of rhesus macaques) and non-pathogenic natural host (SIVsmm infection of sooty mangabeys), and how differential entry corecepto use and cell targeting may underlie outcome from infection.
Project 2. Monocyte/macrophage activation in HIV infection: mechanisms, role in pathogenesis and modulation. Immune activation, combined with viral replication, is an important driver of pathogenesis. In particular, neuropathogenesis (HIV dementia) is linked to monocyte activation in the systemic circulation and macrophage activation within the brain. Even in ART-treated subjects with viral suppression, activation persists and is associated with development of neurocognitive defecits. We are studying the features and mechanisms of persistent monocyte/macrophage immune activation, link to neuropathogenesis, and novel approches to combine with ART viral suppression that may modulate monocyte/macrophage activation.
Project 3. Human respiratory tract microbiome. The human lungs are normally thought to be sterile below the vocal cords. New molecular approaches now enable comprehensive analysis of bacterial, fungal and viral populations within particular niches. We are using high-stringency sampling, high-density sequencing, and novel bioinformatic approaches to determine the microbial inhabitants in the lower resiratory tract and upper respiratory tract in healthy people, and in disease states such as HIV infection, lung transplantation, and other lung diseases, and how microbial communities influence disease. We are also developing novel approaches to broad-range diagnostics for lung colonization and infection.
Rotation Projects for 20012-2013
1. Define the distribution and use of alternative entry coreceptors on human, rhesus and mangabey lymphoid and monocytoid cell subsets.
2. Map viral determinants of SIV alterntative coreceptor utilization.
3. Test immune activation suppression of monocyte activation by HIV Env and LPS.
4. Transcriptional profiling of residual monocyte activation in ART-suppressed subjects.
5. Define the uncultured bacterial 16S sequences in lungs samples from patients with pneumonia
6. Determine fungal ITS sequences in lung samples.
Lab personnel:
Sarah Elliott (graduate student)
Nick Francella (graduate student)
Emily Charlson (graduate student)
Nadeene Riddick (graduate student)
Steven Bryan (Technician)
Yanjie Yi, PhD (Senior Research Investigator)
Anjana Yadav, PhD (Senior Research Investigator)
Farida Shaheen, PhD (Senior Research Investigator)
Ayannah Fitzgerald, BSN (Study Coordinator)
Selected PublicationsElliott STC, Riddick ND, Francella N, Paiardini M, Vanderford TH, Li B, Apetrei C, Sodora DL, Derdeyn CA, Silvestri G, Collman RG : Cloning and analysis of sooty mangabey alternative coreceptors that support SIVsmm entry independently of CCR5. J. Virology 86(2): 898-908, January 2012.
Charlson ES, Bittinger K, Haas AR, Fitzgerald AS, Frank I, Yadav A, Bushman FD, Collman RG: Topographical continuity of bacterial populations in the healthy human respiratory tract. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 184(8): 957-63, October 2011.
Monticelli LA, Sonnenberg GF, Abt MC, Alenghat T, Angelosanto JM, Laidlaw BJ, Yang CY, Diamond JM, Goldrath AW, Collman RG, Wherry EJ, Artis D: Innate lymphoid cells promote tissue homeostasis in the lung following acute influenza virus infection. Nature Immunol 12(11), November 2011.
Paiardini M, Cervasi B, Reyes-Aviles E, Micci L, Ortiz AM, Chahroudi A, Vinton C, Gordon S, Bosinger S, Francella N, Hallberg PL, Cramer E, Schlub T, Chan ML, Riddick NE, Collman RG, Apetrei C, Pandrea I, Else J, Munch J, Kirchhoff F, Davenport MP, Brenchley JM, Silvestri G : Reduced susceptibility to SIV infection in central-memory CD4+ T cells of sooty mangabeys is associated with limited CCR5 up-regulation upon activation. Nature Med 17(7): 830-6, June 2011.
Charlson ES, Chen J, Clusters-Allen R, Bittinger K, Li H, Sinha R, Hwang J, Bushman F, Collman RG : Disordered microbial communities in the upper respiratory tract of cigarette smokers. PLoS One 5(12): e15216, Dec 2010.
Riddick NE, Hermann EA, Loftin LM, Elliott ST, Wey WC, Cervasi B, Taaffe J, Engram JC, Li B, Else JG, Li Y, Hahn BH, Derdeyn CA, Sodora DL, Apetrei C, Paiardini M, Silvestri G, Collman RG: A novel CCR5 mutation common in Sooty mangabeys reveals SIVsmm infection of CCR5-null natural hosts and efficient alternative coreceptor use in vivo PLoS Pathogens 6(8): e1001064, Aug 2010.
Loftin LM, Kienzle MF, Yi Y, Lee B, Lee FH, Gray L, Gorry PR, Collman RG: Constrained use of CCR5 on CD4+ lymphocytes by R5X4 HIV-1: efficiency of Env-CCR5 interactions and low CCR5 expression determine a range of restricted CCR5-mediated entry. Virology 402(1): 135-48, Jun 2010.
Isaacman-Beck J, Hermann EA, Yi Y, Ratcliffe SJ, Mulenga J, Allen S, Hunter E, Derdeyn CA, Collman RG: Heterosexual transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 subtype C: Macrophage tropism, alternative coreceptor use, and the molecular anatomy of CCR5 utilization. Journal of virology 83(16): 8208-20, Aug 2009.
Cheung R, Ravyn V, Wang L, Ptasznik A, Collman RG: Signaling mechanism of HIV-1 gp120 and virion-induced IL-1beta release in primary human macrophages. Journal of Immunology 180(10): 6675-84, May 2008.
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In Scotland the Commission has strongly supported the introduction of statutory aggravations to identify and tackle crimes motivated by malice and ill will towards gay, lesbian, transgender or disabled people. The Offences (Aggravation by Prejudice) (Scotland) Act 2009 was passed by the Scottish Parliament in July. It means that Scotland now has the most advanced legislation for tackling transphobic crime in Europe. The Commission is now working with stakeholders to ensure that the Act is implemented effectively in Scotland particularly in criminal justice agencies.
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Frederick Bruce Thomas' astounding life, so dramatically chronicled in Vladimir Alexandrov's groundbreaking biography, The Black Russian, is exceptional in its dramatic particulars. But it fits neatly into the mosaic of other African American expatriates and their experiences. The enduring books below tell a few of their gripping stories.
Claude McKay: A Black Poet's Struggle for Identity. By Tyrone Tillery. 1992. Univ. of Massachusetts, paper, $24.95 (9780870239243).
A prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance, Jamaican American poet McKay spent years traveling and living in Europe, Africa, and Russia, sojourns Tillery examines closely in this forthright portrait of a black writer who grappled with racial prejudice.
Dance of the Infidels: A Portrait of Bud Powell. By Francis Paudras. 1998. Da Capo, paper, $18.95 (9780306808166).
Born and raised in Harlem, the now-legendary jazz pianist Bud Powell lived in Paris from 1959 to 1963, plagued by illness but befriended by Frenchman Paudras. Their bond inspired the film 'Round Midnight.
The Evidence of Things Not Said: James Baldwin and the Promise of American Democracy. By Lawrie Balfour. 2001. Cornell, paper, $26.95 (9780801486982).
Balfour examines Baldwin's writings on race and American democracy in light of Baldwin's description of himself as a "commuter American" after he left the U.S. for Europe.
Harlem in Montmartre: A Paris Jazz Story between the Great Wars. By William A. Shack. 2001. Univ. of California, $45 (9780520225374).
Shack illuminates the expatriate African American jazz community that thrived in the Montmartre district of Paris in the 1920s and 1930s and included Josephine Baker, Ada "Bricktop" Smith, and Sidney Bechet.
Josephine Baker: In Art and Life; The Icon and the Image. By Bennetta Jules-Rosette. 2007. Univ. of Illinois, paper, $26 (9780252074127).
Jules-Rosette analyzes Josephine Baker's revolutionary artistry and political statements as a provocative performer, cabaret owner, movie star, fashion plate, hero of the French Resistance, humanitarian, and mother of 12 adopted children of diverse backgrounds.
Marian Anderson: A Singer's Journey. Allan Keiler. 2000. Univ. of Illinois, paper, $21.95 (9780252070679).
Keiler portrays the great coloratura, who, frustrated by racial discrimination in the U.S., achieved resounding success in Europe and triumphantly toured the world.
Princess Noire: The Tumultuous Reign of Nina Simone. By Nadine Cohodas. 2010. Univ. of North Carolina, paper, $22 (9780807872437).
Musician, singer, and activist Simone became a powerful voice in the civil rights movement and then lived as an expat in Barbados, Liberia, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Paris.
Richard Wright: The Life and Times. By Hazel Rowley. 2001. Univ. of Chicago, paper, $22.50 (9780226730387).
Born in Mississippi in 1908, Richard Wright fled the rigidity of the racist South, heading first to Chicago, then New York, settling permanently in Paris in 1946, and traveling extensively in Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson. By Geoffrey C. Ward. 2004. Vintage, paper, $16.95 (9780375710049).
Johnson became the first black heavyweight boxing champion only to be dragged down by racial hatred. Exiled from the U.S., he found sanctuary with Frederick Bruce Thomas in Russia and in Europe, Mexico, and South America.


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C Kevin Willis | PF Otis Thorpe | SF Robert Horry | SG Dell Curry | PG Johnny Dawkins
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1509 S. Andrews Ave, Fort Lauderdale, FL | Directions 3330126.102873 -80.142751
Neighborhoods: South
Downtown customer for 20+ years – Have been ordering my favorite Mediterrenean pizza for over 20 years from Downtown. Have always loved it! (18 inch - $32 delivered) Last 2 times have been barely edible. Just a big ole pile of slop. I asked for crispy crust and very little sauce, but it was swimming in an Olympic pool. Had to practically eat it out of a bowl with a spoon. Figured it was new kitchen staff.
I was craving my favorite pizza once again and decided to call and ask for a manager to explain specifically why I was unhappy the last two times and maybe I could get the pizza I've had and loved for so long.
I spoke to JOHN and barely got 5 words in when he took over and told me how I WAS WRONG and um... excuse me... how chicken wings are sloppy when you have them delivered?! Wait! Hold on! Yes... I'm sure I didn't order wings. Couldn't get another word in. Then he said, "I'm very busy and have to go. If you would like to carry on this conversation we will have to talk later".
Hold on... I'm a chef. I know how a pizza should be. Seems to me if I've been a customer for over 20 years I might be able to get the same pizza I've had all these years without a battle.
Also spoke to Chris.... very, very nice and helpful. He convinced me to order tonight and he would personally make sure my order was correct.
Owners of Downtown Pizzaria....
Give Chris a promotion and fire John!!!
You want your business to thrive or take a nosedive?
AHA!!! Pizza has just arrived. It's lovely!
Thank you Chris! ((((HUGS)))
John? Look for new job.
dominique – great pizza great people
PLEASE DON'T ORDER – PLEASE Don't order this pizza. If anything ever goes wrong, it is company policy t o not refund your money no matter what. The deliery driver threatened to fight my boyfriend and the pizza was not only nasty but cold. Josh, the manager, is inflexible and doesn't truly care about customer satisfaction.l Please please don't waste your time or money on this company.
Great Service – I called from the Hampton Inn FLL Airport. The lady on the phone was very polite and helpful. The delivery driver was also very polite and even brought paper plates ect. All I ordered was a small pizza and it was very good and just enough for one person. I will order again if I'm back in the area sometime. The delivery time was good, about 30 min.
No problem here! – Called Downtown Pizzeria from the Hampton Inn at 2 am with little information about the food. The woman who took my order was very friendly, thorough, and patient as she answered all my questions. The spaghetti was only 3.75 and a very large portion in addition to tasting fresh. The chicken caeser salad was very fresh as well, with a large portion of chicken and croutons that seemed homemade. The delivery time was quoted at 45 minutes but came in less than 20 minutes. $3 delivery charge, very reasonable.
Best pizza and service open till 4 am – Great food and service, the best thing is that there open till 4 am., and they deliver. I was up late and ordered a pizza and a hot sub it was soooooooooo good. It was the closeest thing to NY pizza that I'v had since I moved down here. Do yourself a favor try there pizza.
GREAT GREAT GREAT – i must honestly say that this has to be the best pizza ive tasted in florida.. not to mention their calzone.. its stuffed, really stuffed and from experiance i can say that 1 person will be satisfied with a small one. if you want great food really fast get it from here..
Best Pizza south of New York City – This place is amazing!!! The Pizza is the best I've had since I left New York, I came upon this place about 15 years ago and I have been a customer ever since.
I have tried almost everything on the menu and I must say what a selection they have, you can select from a wide variety of foods like burgers,fries, baked ziti,lasanga,chicken wings,greek salad,etc.etc. and they even deliver until 4 a.m.!!!
Three cheers for Downtown Pizza
Pros: Best pizza, late night delivery
Cons: Sometimes you have to wait a little longer but it is well worth the wait.
Stay far away.... run screaming!! – Absolutely the worst serivce of any pizza place I have ever experienced. If you want to have a great experience stay away !!!!-
look really closely... – Watch out for fury critters, 6 legged things stench and grease plus not so nice employees... dirty!!! food may have touched the floor!!! gross!!! PLUS this pizza joint was shut down sept. 2007 for rodent issues and maggots, etc... check out: WPLG channel 10 news segment "Dirty Dining" you will be amazed and seriously shocked!
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LINCOLN — Two state senators co-sponsoring Gov. Dave Heineman's bold plan to eliminate Nebraska income taxes laid out a strategy Friday to retreat and revamp the widely criticized idea.
The plan: create a "working group" of interested parties, including business and agriculture groups, to remake the proposals by April 1 into something that could be passed.
Sens. Brad Ashford and Beau McCoy, both of Omaha, noted that a working group was successful in reaching a compromise on another difficult issue — collective bargaining by public employee unions — and could work on taxes, too.
They said lawmakers, and not the governor — whose relations with the Legislature have taken some hits in recent years — should take the lead in crafting a workable tax proposal.
"The governor's role should be as a cheerleader," Ashford said.
The comments came after two days of public hearings on Heineman's two tax reform bills. They were criticized by just about every major interest group in Nebraska — from business, banking and farm groups to those representing hospitals, churches and the poor — as job killers that would take the profit out of farming and force manufacturing out of state.
Instead of forging ahead with a tax debate this year, as favored by the governor and his co-sponsors, opponents asked for a swift death to the ideas to eliminate uncertainty in business and ag circles. Several spoke in favor of a competing proposal by Sen. Paul Schumacher of Columbus to study tax issues through December and debate the matter next year.
"Tax policy is extremely complicated," said Renee Fry of the Lincoln-based OpenSky Policy Institute. "There are all sorts of unintended consequences. You need to meticulously go through all of these exemptions."
A key player in the tax debate, Sen. Galen Hadley of Kearney, chairman of the powerful Revenue Committee, remained noncommittal Friday about whether a tax plan needs to be debated this year or can wait until 2014.
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But he said the barrage of criticism has convinced him that taxing "inputs" — the lumber used to produce a desk, or the seed and fertilizer used to grow crops — is not a good idea.
Ashford said he thinks any new tax plan should exempt taxes on manufacturing inputs. Companies testified that taxing them would add new expenses to Nebraska-made goods, rendering them uncompetitive with those produced in other states where inputs are not taxed.
Ashford, a candidate for mayor of Omaha, said he believes a new tax package should include an expansion of sales taxes to more services, such as haircuts and auto repair, and elimination of some sales tax exemptions. That would allow a cut in income taxes as well as more state aid to reduce property taxes.
Providing property tax relief in a tax swap bill is key to gaining the support of farm groups, Ashford said.
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Heineman also suggested forming a working group, but McCoy and Ashford went further by suggesting that it mirror the process used to reach a compromise on reforming collective bargaining.
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College seniors across the country added another bullet to the second semester to-do list: Find a job. Scrambling to get cover letters edited and resumes updated, students forget to thoroughly research companies and positions that they come across in their search. Cue job scammers, trying to find their next target.
Last year, Salon.com posted a narrative from Christopher Spata, a young man who fell for a scam on Craigslist. Spata wrote that unemployment made him desperate enough to believe that a trustworthy-seeming man would pay him to sign up for trial offers online. While fraud on Craigslist is common, job scams crop up on on most major job boards like Indeed and Monster. In 2010, the FTC reported seven new cases filed against job scammers, one of which victimized more than 100,000 people.
Scammers pocket money from those eager to find employment by asking for a small fee for training purposes before sending a fraudulent check for the first week's pay, which bounces weeks later. Other "scams" can involve a simple stretch of the facts, turning a "marketing position" for college graduate into a minimum wage job giving samples at a local wholesale retail store.
Ed Magedson runs Ripoff Report, a website dedicated to allowing people to send reports about their scamming experiences.
"College students and young people in general are more savvy than most," Magedson told Campus Progress. "You just need to Google [the company] and see what they're connected with. When you get onto Google just add the word Ripoff or lawsuit next to the name."
The New York State Department of Labor also created a website to help help people avoid swindlers, detailing some red flags to watch for while applying for jobs.
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My customary approach to Christmas, for many years, was jocular cynicism. I loved the game of pretending to despise everything that Christmas was about while, of course, thoroughly enjoying it. It was, I think, expected of me; and it would never do to let people down, right?
This was how it was. Over recent years, however, I have let the façade drop somewhat—and this year, in particular, has seen it completely torn to shreds and discarded. Christmas will not be a lavish, twenty-four hour party affair. It will be relaxing, family-oriented (predominantly with my wonderful parents) and cheery. Much as it has always been. What will set it apart this year, however, is knowing that in a little corner of Cardiff there is a beautiful woman who feels about me how I feel about her. This knowledge, this unexpected certainty in a world where doubt so often rules supreme, has made me even more thankful than I usually am, and more forward-looking than I've ever been.
And so, a brief list of my reasons for being especially happy right now:
- My parents—their enduring love, patience and support makes all things possible.
- Ceri Davies—who came along when I was least expecting her and, with her love and trust, has given me the greatest reason for being who I am.
- My health—okay, so it isn't perfect. I often wish I had more energy but, by and large, I am well, without significant discomfort and generally don't have to think about it all that much. Which, at forty-seven, with Type II SMA is pretty good going, I reckon!
- My writing—I'm doing what I want to do. Yes, the books aren't selling anywhere near as well as I would like, and, frankly, mainstream publishing has let me down significantly, but I'm fortunate enough to have the freedom to write exactly what I want to write. My latest project, The Architect, is halfway complete and should be ready to submit by the middle of next year. It is my most commercial piece to date, so fingers crossed.
Christmas 2013, and the year that will follow, look like being good ones. I'm determined that they will be. If I have a resolution, this is it.
It therefore only remains for me to thank each and every one of you for continuing to read my ramblings—whether here or in book form—and to wish you a very merry and safe holiday period, however you may celebrate it or even if you don't, and a healthy, happy and fulfilling 2014.
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