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Derek Loosvelt
January 29, 2014
It's too bad that JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon isn't among the increasing number of CEOs who tweet, because I would've loved to have read his 140-character blast after he received an $8.5 million raise last week for his 2013 efforts (a/k/a cutting deals with the Feds, keeping his options in the money, etc.).
In any case, below is a handful of other prominent CEOs who posted prominent tweets in the past week.
1. There's some very messed up messy business currently going on in the area of the world formerly known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and Dick Branson, after having attended "an important discussion about the global fight for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender equality" in Davos, posted this zinger from Desi Tutu.
"If I go up to heaven & find a homophobic god, I will tell him I prefer the other place." – Archbishop Tutu http://t.co/dhg5G7o5nl #WEF
— Richard Branson (@richardbranson) January 23, 2014
"If I go up to heaven & find a homophobic god, I will tell him I prefer the other place." – Archbishop Tutu http://t.co/dhg5G7o5nl #WEF
2. Although I don't know the implications of the following stat, I'm pretty sure that McDonald's, Coca-Cola, Philip Morris, Anheuser-Busch, Apple, Google, and a host of other companies do.
China has more children under 19 years old than the United States has people.
— Bill Gross (@Bill_Gross) January 27, 2014
China has more children under 19 years old than the United States has people.
3. Ever wonder if it's someone's job to hand sew all those Super Bowl patches onto each jersey of each Super Bowl participant? If so, Seahawks owner and Microsoft Co-Founder P. Diddy Allen has a little picture you might like to see (#gohawks).
Equipment guys sewing on the Super Bowl XLVIII patches onto our white jerseys. #SB48 http://t.co/XmL5wTjqUV
— Paul Allen (@PaulGAllen) January 25, 2014
Equipment guys sewing on the Super Bowl XLVIII patches onto our white jerseys. #SB48 http://t.co/XmL5wTjqUV
4. It's late January, which means it's time for college students, MBA students, and MS students to start locking up their summer internships. And, to that end, if you're a student interested in pursuing a so-called green career, you should check out and perhaps apply to one of electric automaker Tesla Motors' highly interesting internship programs (note: the ability to relocate to the Bay Area for the summer is required). Meanwhile, the rest of you (well, not all of you but most) can start thinking about getting in on the electric car craze, because Tesla now has you covered.
Tesla Supercharger network now energized from New York to LA, both coast + Texas! Approx 80% of US population covered.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 26, 2014
Tesla Supercharger network now energized from New York to LA, both coast + Texas! Approx 80% of US population covered.
5. Despite the arrest of this Winklevoss-backed Bitcoin kingpin, it's not inconceivable that one day soon, we could all be using the current currency of choice for drug smugglers worldwide. And, who knows, if #POTUS had played his cards differently last night in his #SOTU, like one CEO suggested he'd done, soon could've meant next week.
Huge missed opportunity for Obama to standardize the US on Bitcoin. #SOTU
— Aaron Levie (@levie) January 29, 2014
Huge missed opportunity for Obama to standardize the US on Bitcoin. #SOTU
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I have attended many Univ.of Maine commencements in my twenty-seven years on the faculty. I always enjoy the event, but inevitably some of these have been marred by unexpected bad weather–why some years ago it was wisely decided to hold two ceremonies inside the Alfond Arena–and boring speakers and audio-visual problems. This past Saturday, however, almost everything went extremely well, and I was delighted to have participated in the great event. Having the faculty line up to greet the students as they marched into the Alfond Arena was a splendid change, giving faculty an opportunity to congratulate their students rather than search for them afterward, often in vain. And Saturday's speaker Lawrence Bender, the 1979 UMaine civil engineering graduate who, as he explained in both ceremonies, eventually became an acclaimed producer of some very important and commercially successful movies, was wonderful: lively, humorous, insightful, and clearly appreciative of his UMaine undergraduate education.
I could not help but reflect on what graduates of strictly online colleges and universities miss when they graduate. True, they might have studied at their convenience and not have had to come to a campus, much less to a conventional class or lab, but they will likely never know the joy of the thousands of Orono students, faculty, staff, administrators–and, not least, families and friends– who gathered on Saturday, along with their counterparts elsewhere in Maine and throughout the nation during this season of academic celebrations.

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Sanchez Has 5 Scoring Drives, Jets Top Jags 37-13 [VIDEO]
Mark Sanchez was well on his way to pulling ahead in the Jets' quarterback competition.
Then came two costly mistakes that overshadowed an otherwise solid performance — and kept the door open a bit for Geno Smith.
Sanchez led the Jets on five scoring drives through three quarters in a 37-13 victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars on Saturday night. But, he also threw an interception in the red zone and then held onto the ball too long on third down as the first half ended, keeping the Jets (1-1) from a chance at a field goal.
"We're not willing to name a starting quarterback right now," coach Rex Ryan said. "Will we name one before the Giants game (next Saturday)? I don't know, but right now, we're not comfortable making that decision."
Blaine Gabbert, meanwhile, might have settled the Jaguars' quarterback competition — as long as his thumb is OK.
Gabbert led the Jaguars (0-2) on two scoring drives and staked his claim to the Jaguars' starting job before leaving with a sprained thumb in the second quarter. Gabbert, competing with Chad Henne, was 13 of 16 for 165 yards and a touchdown to Allen Reisner before the injury. Jaguars coach Gus Bradley said an X-ray on Gabbert's thumb was negative.
"It's unfortunate," said Gabbert, wearing a soft black brace. "It's part of the game. We'll see tomorrow what the deal is. I just dinged it up a little bit. I just got hit on the back of it. Nothing major."
Gabbert said he banged thumbs with a defensive player, who tried to swat away the ball. He was replaced by Henne, but the Jaguars announced that Gabbert was coming out of the game regardless of the injury.
"I didn't really push it," Gabbert said. "I was coming out after that series anyway. It was more precautionary, ice it to alleviate some of the swelling."
Jacksonville's Maurice Jones-Drew ran for 9 yards and had a 20-yard catch in his first game action since suffering a foot injury last October.
"It felt great," Jones-Drew said. "Getting tackled was great."
Justin Blackmon, who opened camp on the physically unable to perform list following groin surgery this summer, had three catches for 37 yards in his preseason debut.
Smith sat out with a sprained ankle, suffered in the preseason opener last Friday at Detroit, leaving Sanchez to play the bulk of the game. Sanchez finished 13 of 23 for 169 yards for the Jets before being replaced by Matt Simms in the fourth quarter.
"I felt with Geno not playing," Sanchez said, "he would have gotten another shot."
Kahlil Bell had touchdown runs of 5 yards and 1 yard in the third quarter for the Jets, and Bilal Powell had a game-high 68 yards on seven carries. Chris Ivory, who missed most of training camp with hamstring issues, ran for 13 yards on six rushes in his first preseason action.
Both teams came in with unsettled quarterback situations, and the Jets will have an interesting week after Sanchez had some good moments and some others that likely reminded them of previous years' inconsistencies.
Smith watched the game from the sideline after being told Friday that he would sit out and rest his right ankle.
"It's doing a lot better," Smith said. "It's pretty much close to being 100 percent."
Smith was cleared by team trainers to practice but walked with a noticeable limp early in the week during training camp at SUNY Cortland, and acknowledged that the ankle was sore.
Smith, the team's second-round draft pick, was intercepted four times in Wednesday's practice, including three in 11-on-11 drills, prompting Ryan to call his performance "brutal." If he's healthy, he will likely get lots of action against the Giants — unless the Jets decide on Sanchez as the starter to open the season.
"We play it day by day, and based on what I've been told, the competition is still open," Smith said.
The Jets got off to a fast start in this one, with Sanchez leading the team on a six-play, 59-yard drive that was capped by a 23-yard touchdown pass to Cumberland.
Gabbert got the Jaguars right back on their first offensive possession, marching Jacksonville 80 yards down the field in seven plays and hitting Reisner for a 5-yard scoring pass.
After Billy Cundiff's 30-yard field goal for the Jets, Gabbert carved up New York's starting defense again using an effective no-huddle. The 18-play drive stalled, however, at the 5 and the Jaguars settled for Josh Scobee's 23-yard field goal.
Sanchez had an impressive drive of his own on the Jets' next possession, but ruined it with a throw for Kellen Winslow Jr. from the Jaguars 3 that was intercepted in the end zone by Marcus Trufant. The sparse crowd at MetLife Stadium booed Sanchez loudly, just moments after cheering him for grounding a pass near the goal line rather than taking a risky chance and turning the ball over.
Trailing 13-10, the Jets had another chance to score just before the half as they got the ball at the Jaguars 3 after Konrad Reuland recovered a muffed punt by Tobais Palmer. On third-and-goal from the 6, Sanchez scrambled as the final 4 seconds ticked away and overthrew Clyde Gates in the end zone as time expired — prompting more boos from the MetLife crowd.
"That won't happen again," Sanchez said. But Ryan added "that one was on me" for not managing the clock better.
Jets defensive back Mike Edwards capped the scoring when he fell on the football in the end zone for a touchdown with 2:44 left in the game after Mike Kafka couldn't handle Jason Spitz's wayward snap.
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A weekend of fun and festivities at the diamonds-to-ducks Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting yielded some discussion over the rise of shareholder activism. Responding to a question about those tactics, Buffett responded that activism \"won\'t go away and scares the hell out of all of our managers.\" His longtime business partner Charles Munger reportedly said this type of activism is \"not good for America.\" (Check out a recap of the Berkshire meeting here and the company\'s earnings drop here.)
So what did two of the biggest activist investors out there have to say about this? In the words of Bob Dylan (and later Johnny Cash), \"It ain\'t me babe.\"
Airing their views in telephone interviews with Bloomberg News in the wake of those comments, both Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman appeared to go on the defense.
\"I understand and somewhat agree with their criticisms that some activists are going for a short-term pop,\" said Icahn of the Buffett/Munger comments. \"That doesn\'t mean you throw the baby out with the bath water. One of the most important things we need in this country is to keep companies accountable.\"
Icahn recently buried the hatchet with eBay after a months-long fight to get the online auctioneer to spin off PayPal, among other things. (There\'s been no spinoff.) Icahn told Bloomberg that he owns a lot of stocks long-term, such as Apple , where he \"hasn\'t sold a share.\" Apple surprised investors last month with a big rise in its stock buyback program, something Icahn has been pushing for, and a 7-for-1 stock split. But there are signs that even this probably won\'t shut up Icahn for long.
In a sign that Icahn has plenty of fights up his sleeve, he also sounded off over the weekend about Buffett not voting against an executive pay proposal at Coca-Cola that was criticized in some quarters as excessive:
\"…if a man of Warren Buffett\'s stature openly states he abstains from voting on plans he doesn\'t agree with because he \'loves\' management and doesn\'t want to express any disapproval,\' how can we expect other board members in this country to voice their opinions, especially if they are opposed to the CEO\'s interest?\" Icahn said in an op/ed for Barron\'s Online.
In response, Buffett said there\'s \"more than one way to effect change.\" The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Buffett had been working behind the scenes to get Coke Chief Executive Muhtar Kent to alter the firm\'s compensation plan.
As for Ackman, whose running battle with Herbalife seems to grow a little uglier each day, he said he \"100% agrees with\" the Buffett/Munger view. The manager of hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management told Bloomberg that activism that seeks short-term gains without improving businesses is \"bad for markets, and it\'s bad for shareholders.\"
Pointing to his success stories, Ackman said the market value of almost every company he has bought into has been higher after he got out, pointing to examples such as Canadian Pacific Railway and General Growth Properties .
But Ackman admitted that not every \"shareholder activist strategy is going to be successful,\" such as his failed turnaround efforts on J.C. Penney .
Within the stratosphere of activist pressure that does deliver, on Monday, auctioneer Sotheby\'s said it has reached agreement with Third Point\'s Dan Loeb, who has been campaigning for a shake-up. As part of the spoils, Loeb and two allies won seats on the board.
Sure the scorecard for activist investors is not all in their favor. But when Jana Partners\' Barry Rosenstein slaps down $147 million for an East Hampton house, which happens to be the most expensive residential property expensive in America, it may be hard not to convince those impressionable MBAs out there that being-an-activist-investor-when-I-grow-up is not such a bad thing after all.
— Barbara Kollmeyer writes for MarketWatch. Follow her @bkollmeyer
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Comprehensive summaries of the latest technologies in computer graphics and interactive techniques. SIGGRAPH 2009 exhibitors demonstrate software, hardware, and systems; answer questions; and host one-on-one conversations about how their applications improve professional and technical performance.
GPU-Accelerated Production Rendering
Tuesday, 4 August | 9:45 - 11:30 am
Massive parallelism and high precision in modern GPUs allow them to move from being tools in content generation to being ubiquitous components of the production pipeline. Interactive production rendering is allowing changes to the workflow itself, because content creators are able to see their final output in near-real time. This session summarizes how AMD and its partners are deploying these changes.
Intel Corporation
Hardware-Accelerated Video Encode/Decode Made Fast and Simple With the Intel Media SDK
Tuesday, 4 August | 1 - 2:30 pm
A deep-dive look, including implementation details, at a new, easy-to-use API that makes high-performance video encode/decode accessible on all supported Intel platforms. This powerful and flexible API gives you the freedom to create a single code path for all encode and decode functions in your media applications and is extensible to support differentiated approaches. Learn how to unleash your media creativity.
RapidMind, Inc.
Structured Many-Core Computing With RapidMind
Tuesday, 4 August | 3:30 - 5:30 pm
Michael McCool explores the benefits of the SPMD stream parallel processing model and demonstrates how developers can express computations using the RapidMind Multi-Core Development Platform API in their C++ compilers, IDEs, debuggers, and build systems. He explains how RapidMind's embedded-interface approach makes it possible to use the modularity of C++ to structure computations and, at the same time, eliminate the run-time expense of this modularity. In addition to specific algorithmic examples, he demonstrates how to use the platform to turn interpreters into compilers, enabling rapid development of domain-specific languages, and discusses various test cases, benchmarks, and applications.
NVIDIA Tech Talks
Wednesday, 5 August | 8:30 am - 5 pm | Room 294
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How to Accomplish Feature-Film Camera and Vehicle Experience in Real Time
Wednesday, 5 August | 9:45 - 11:30 am
Luigi Tramontana, founder and head of research of Craft Animations, demonstrates a pipeline for rigging an environment with CDS (Craft Director Studio) and preparing it for real-time animation within DeltaGen. The session begins with a summary of the complete workflow, from scene creation to rigging to interactive animation inside DeltaGen:
- A first draft of the scenery and vehicles is selected, and the DeltaGen scene is imported into Maya.
- While the graphics team finalizes the complete scenery inside DeltaGen, the animation team separately begins work on rigging the scene for real-time animation.
- All moving objects are rigged with CDS tools, including cinematic cameras. In this demo, Maya is used to rig the highly complex scene in approximately 30 minutes. The rigging can actually be done inside any other environment CDS has been ported to, such as 3ds Max, C4D, or DeltaGen.
- When the rigging is finished, a CDS-specific rig file is saved for the entire animation setup. This file is then imported in the finalized DeltaGen scene where all the high-end objects are automatically bound to their respective CDS parts.
- The scene is now ready for real-time interactive animation and real-time cinematic camera work (craning, camera switching, camera rails, follow cameras, zooming, and much more), all within DeltaGen in fantastic real-time rendering.
The session concludes with a series of scenes that demonstrate the vast possibilities this pipeline enables. Real-time interactive cars, airplanes, helicopters, battle tanks, and more, all filmed with cinematic camera rigs.
Autodesk, Inc.
Fun with Maya
Wednesday, 5 August | 1 - 2:30 pm
Explore some of the more surprising behaviors of Maya dynamics with one of its creators, Duncan Brinsmead, who reveals inside tricks on using nParticles, nCloth, and Paint Effects. Examples include crashing satellites, midway rides, plasma balls, pouring liquids, lava lamps, Martian moons, flying hordes of arrows, dynamic snakes, and slimy worms. The session includes bonus instruction on a technique for creating reflection-based fractals in mental ray. While this talk is useful for advanced Maya users, it is also suitable for anyone with an interest in computer graphics.
Web3D Consortium
X3D: Real-Time 3D Solution for Web Authors
Wednesday, 5 August | 3:30 - 5:30 pm
X3D, the only XML-based 3D file format and run-time architecture for web authors, remains the most widely used ISO open standard for implementation of high-integrity, high-capability 3D systems. With its rich set of componentized features, X3D is used in more and more 3D markets and hardware platforms. X3D has a large innovative community of content and applications developers, and it ensures interoperability and ownership of your 3D content. In this session, X3D innovators show off their latest real-world 3D applications and content, and demonstrate how you can protect your 3D content in this ever-changing competitive market.
Presented by Bitmanagement, Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Naval Postgraduate School, Yumetech, and others.
RapidMind, Inc.
RapidMind: Accelerating Medical Imaging Applications
Thursday, 6 August | 9:45 - 11:30 am Michael McCool, RapidMind Chief Scientist, discusses how many-core processors, including GPUs and emerging multi-core CPUs, promise to radically increase the computing power available to medical-imaging applications, such as reconstruction, enhancement, registration, segmentation, and analysis. These medical-imaging modalities depend instrinsically on computation to reconstruct volumetric images from projections or other indirect observations. Moreover, making sense of these volumes involves various forms of image enhancement and rendering, including both image-processing operations that generate new volumes or images and analysis algorithms that characterize a volume or identify structures. Improvements in the performance of these algorithms can have a direct impact on the quality of health care. This presentation surveys a number of algorithms in the medical-imaging domain and how many-core computing is applied to them.
Next-Generation Graphics: The Hardware and the APIs
Thursday, 6 August | 1 - 2:30 pm
Modern graphics APIs and the hardware that they expose continue to add flexibility and features to the developer's toolkit. New OpenGL extensions promise to unlock the latest generation of hardware, including exposing new tessellation capabilities and more efficient access to generic data structures. This session demos and explains the latest in AMD's GPU hardware and API capabilities.
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Paul Krugman's September 6 article in the New York Times (How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?) is a humbling warning to the economics profession against the pitfalls of intellectual complacence. It challenges the profession to re-examine the validity of its existing knowledge particularly in relation to globalization and the workings of local and global financial markets.
Granted that economists have to face up to the unpalatable fact that our theoretical apparatus falls far short both as descriptions of how economies function and as prescriptions of how they can be made to function better. The crisis has exposed the limits of economic knowledge. According to Krugman: "The vision that emerge as the profession rethinks its foundations may not be all that clear; it certainly won't be neat; but one can hope that it will have the virtue of being at least partly right."
In this process of reappraising existing economic knowledge, there is a real risk of going overboard and wrong the right knowledge. Using the global economic crisis as an excuse, there are emerging tendencies to reject tested economic wisdoms in areas such as the role of foreign capital and trade policy in economic development.
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We had a survey after the first 'Bike Miami' and asked people what they loved most about Downtown streets suddenly becoming public park space, walking & bicycling trails, an eclectic gathering of over one thousand people from all over Miami – and here are just a few of your favorite things:
- Exploring: "I didn't know Mary Brickell Village existed"…"There is a rock garden in Downtown!" (it's at Bayfront Park)… "The bridge!!"…"Being able to see downtown at our leisure."
- Community: "Life in the streets"… . "The sense of community and the initiative to take Miami to a standard of urbanism you don't usually see here"…."So many different people having fun"…"The excitement, enthusiasm"…"streets OPEN to me"…"helpful policemen, nice volunteers"…"friendly atmosphere"…"that it happened"
- Green is Good: "Small step towards awareness"…"Going green and saving the Earth while having a blast!!"…"Supporting Miami's Bicycle Plans"…"getting out of my car for an entire afternoon with my family."
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These investigators will study a mouse model to determine whether immune microglial cells, which reside in the brain and spinal cord, produce inflammatory signals in response to a virus that ultimately leads to the death of motor neurons controlling movement. A similar disease in humans is the devastating and fatal Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), often referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease. The research findings may demonstrate how anti-inflammatory agents can block initiation of this chain of events, thus preventing motor neuron disease.
As in the brain, microglial cells are the only resident immune cells in the spinal cord. Scientists have not yet determined how effectively microglial cells attack invaders in the brain or the spinal cord, which together comprise the central nervous system (CNS). Additionally, scientists suspect that microglial cells inflict harm to other CNS cells under certain circumstances. In the case of ALS, the researchers suggest, microglial cells become activated and produce inflammatory mediators. These mediators then precipitate a chain of events which results in destruction of the neurons that control movement (the "motor" neurons).
Many neurons communicate with one another using an excitatory neurotransmitter called glutamate. As glutamate is transmitted at the junction (synapse) from one nerve cell to another, excess glutamate spills out into the space surrounding the synapse. The spilled glutamate is ordinarily picked up by cells called astrocytes. This prevents high concentrations of glutamate from forming around the motor neuron synapse. If astrocytes fail to clear this excess glutamate, however, the neurotransmitter will overexcite motor neurons and cause them figuratively to fire to death. Literally, the excess glutamate causes the cells to degenerate and die.
This is what happens in the motor neuron disease ALS, the researchers hypothesize. Specifically, the researchers suggest, astrocytes fail to pick up the spilled glutamate because their receptors for glutamate become damaged and dysfunctional. These receptors are called "glutamate transporters." How these transporters are damaged has been a mystery.
Recent studies may provide a clue. They suggest that specific types of inflammation that are activated by microglial cells within the CNS precede the loss of glutamate transporters' function and their ability to clear away excess glutamate. Attempts to study this relationship between a preceding immune inflammatory response and subsequent astrocyte receptor failure have been difficult. The difficulty arises because the course of the animal model of ALS is exceedingly slow. The Hopkins researchers have circumvented this problem by developing an animal model disease that is similar to ALS but progresses much more rapidly. The disease is produced by a virus known as Sinabis. It causes severe ALS-like hind limb paralysis and progressive motor neuron destruction in the spinal cord in just eight to ten days.
The investigators will use this viral infection animal model to test their hypothesis that the virus activates immune microglial cells in the spinal cord to produce an inflammatory response. This inflammation interferes with glutamate transporters on astrocytes, preventing the astrocytes from taking up the excess glutamate that accumulates in the synaptic junction between two motor neurons. The resultant excessive concentrations of glutamate cause motor neurons to fire endlessly and eventually die.
If the researchers' hypothesis is correct, the results could spur the development of experimental anti-inflammatory therapies to stop this chain of events at its source: the initiation of inflammation by microglial cells.
Glutamate-mediated excitotoxic injury of neurons has been implicated in the pathogenesis of many neurological disorders. Impaired reuptake of extracellular glutamate via down-regulation or dysfunction of astrocytic glutamate transporters is a common feature in many of these conditions. Although astrocytes express at least two distinct glutamate transporters, functional studies suggest that up to 95% glutamate reuptake is mediated by the protein, GLT-1/EAAT2. Loss of EAAT2 is particularly evident in motor neuron disorders such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), although the molecular mechanisms involved in these events remain poorly understood. However, recent tissue gene expression studies in an animal model of ALS identify innate immune responses arising from activated microglial cells in the spinal cord as being likely proximal events. Not only does this suggest that anti-inflammatory strategies targeting these innate immune processes could be relevant in the treatment of these diseases, but it also highlights the connection between inflammation and neurodegeneration. Clarifying the molecular underpinning of this connection could have broad eventual clinical relevance.
We study neuroadapted Sindbis virus (NSV) encephalomyelitis in mice, a well-established CNS alphavirus infection model. This disease causes severe hindlimb paralysis and progressive lumbar motor neuron destruction in the spinal cords of infected animals over a period of 8-10 days. Similarities to the poliomyelitis-like illness that develops in humans infected with West Nile virus (WNV) are notable, and the disease evolves with much faster kinetics than animal models of ALS. Pharmacological blockade of AMPA glutamate receptors and inhibition of virus-induced microglial activation both independently prevent NSV-induced paralysis and lumbar motor neuron destruction without altering CNS virus replication or spread, suggesting that they each exert neuroprotective functions. Taken together, we hypothesize that NSV induces local microglial activation in the spinal cord leading to disrupted astrocytic glutamate reuptake, rising extracellular glutamate concentrations, and ultimately AMPA receptor-mediated destruction of infected and non-infected motor neurons alike.
To test this model, we propose the following three Specific Aims:
1. To correlate altered GLT-1 expression and/or function with the degree of hindlimb paralysis and motor neuron injury in the spinal cords of NSV-infected mice;
2. To clarify the role that IL-1ß plays in NSV-induced down-regulation of GLT-1 expression and/or function;
3. To search for other innate immune mediators arising from microglia that contribute to NSV-induced down-regulation of GLT-1 expression and/or function.
David Irani, M.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. He completed his medical training at the University of Michigan in 1987 and finished his residency training in neurology in 1993. Since that time, his laboratory has been situated within the Neurovirology Research Group now centered in the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. The main focus of his research interests are in viral pathogenesis in the nervous system, and, in particular, the role that host responses play in the pathogenesis of viral infections of the brain and spinal cord.
Prow N.A. and Irani D.N. The opioid receptor antagonist, naloxone, protects spinal motor neurons in a murine model of alphavirus encephalomyelitis. Exp Neurol. 2007 Jun;205(2):461-70.
Prow N.A. and Irani D.N. The opioid receptor antagonist, naloxone, protects spinal motor neurons in a murine model of alphavirus encephalomyelitis. Exp Neurol. 2007 Jun;205(2):461-70.
Microinfarcts are too small to be detected in living humans. Dana
grantee Andy Shih is working on new types of imaging that might someday be
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SOURCE: Allstate Insurance
January 14, 2014 09:00 ET
Insurance Company Seeking 20 New Agency Owners and 40 Licensed Sales Professionals
Insurance Company Seeking 20 New Agency Owners and 40 Licensed Sales Professionals
LAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwired - Jan 14, 2014) - For those who want to start a new career in the new year, Allstate Insurance Company is looking expand in Nevada. The company plans to appoint 60 new insurance agents in 2014.
"Nevada's strong economy is fueling this expansion plan; we target cities and areas that show growth and increasing demand as a part of a broader strategy to expand Allstate's presence in Nevada," said Grant Wood, Allstate's Nevada sales leader. "We are aggressively targeting qualified professionals. If they don't have an insurance background, we'll provide them with comprehensive education and the resources to help them get off to a strong start."
Allstate is looking for mid-career, mid-level managers who want to own and operate their own business in Nevada, specifically in the Las Vegas and Reno areas. The addition of the new agencies will have a compounding effect on the Nevada job market since each new agent typically opens with a minimum of two employees to help ensure customers are served with courtesy and efficiency. Of the 60 insurance agents, 20 appointments will be agency owners and the remaining 40 will be licensed sales producers. Existing agency owners are also seeking licensed sales producers.
To help with the recruiting efforts, Allstate is offering a $6,000 award to anyone who refers a qualified candidate to Allstate. The referral award is payable upon of the appointment of the candidate as an Allstate agency owner.
Allstate agency owners can leverage one of America's most recognized brands without ever having to pay a franchise or licensing fee. The capital invested in the business goes directly toward the success of that agency.
"Allstate is unique among all other insurers because its exclusive agents own the economic interest in the business," said Wood. "Allstate agency owners can sell the economic interest in their agency. No other branded insurer has this option."
Candidates interested in becoming an Allstate agency owner need a minimum of $50,000 of liquid capital to invest in their agency. This money does not go to Allstate; it helps ensure the agency can successfully fund the normal day-to-day costs associated with opening and running a business. Licensed sales producers do not need liquid capital to apply.
To learn more about becoming an Allstate agency owner, visit GoodLifeNV.com or call 1-877-711-1006.
The Allstate Corporation (NYSE: ALL) is the nation's largest publicly held personal lines insurer, serving approximately 16 million households through its Allstate, Encompass, Esurance and Answer Financial brand names and Allstate Financial business segment. Allstate branded insurance products (auto, home, life and retirement) and services are offered through Allstate agencies, independent agencies, and Allstate exclusive financial representatives, as well as via www.allstate.com, www.allstate.com/financial and 1-800 Allstate®, and are widely known through the slogan "You're In Good Hands With Allstate®." As part of Allstate's commitment to strengthen local communities, The Allstate Foundation, Allstate employees, agency owners and the corporation provided $29 million in 2012 to thousands of nonprofit organizations and important causes across the United States.
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Who needs DDR4 with Kingston's DDR3-2800 kit?
Subject: Memory | May 8, 2012 - 06:56 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: kingston hyper x, dual channel, ddr3-2800, ddr3, 4GB
If you have a dual channel motherboard that can handle the fastest RAM on the market, why not find out if it can support Kingston's Hyper T1 DDR3-2800 4GB kit? Legit Reviews tried it on the Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H at both 2800MHz @ 12-14-14-32 as well as 2666MHz @ 11-14-14-30. Don't expect much overclocking potential at this speed unfortunately, nor are all motherboards going to support the full speed XMP of these DIMMs but Kingston can be proud of the speed at which they've pushed these DIMMs to.
"The Kingston Hyper T1 4GB 2800MHz memory kit that we looked at here today did a superb job on our motherboard that features the Intel Z77 Express chipset and the Intel Core i7-3770K Ivy Bridge processor. We ran this kit from 800MHZ with CL6 timings all they way up to 2800MHz with CL12 timings. It is pretty wild to see a 2000MHz spread with a memory kit, but this kit was up for the task..."
Here are some more Memory articles from around the web:
- AMD 2x4GB DDR3-1600 Performance Edition Memory Kit Review @ Neoseeker
- G.Skill TridentX 8GB 2400mhz @ Kitguru
- G.Skill RipjawsZ PC3-17000 32GB @ Tweaktown
- Patriot Viper Extreme Division 4 Review - 16GB Quad Channel 1600 MHz @ HCW
- GeIL EVO CORSA 16GB DDR3 2133MHz CL10 PC3-17000 @ TechwareLabs
- Samsung Green DDR3L 1600 2x4GB Review @ OCC
- Mushkin Redline 16GB Quad-Channel 2133MHz @ OC3D
- G.Skill TridentX PC3-19200 8GB @ Tweaktown
- Kingston HyperX Genesis 2666mhz @ Kitguru


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|A family gathering at my great-grandparents house circa 1977. I'm the short red head.
|The second family gathering of the day.
My brother and I have since moved away and are not able to join in the family celebration anymore. My family does go back for the holidays, but we usually have to miss the big family gathering. Instead, we have a new tradition which includes my grandmother, parents, my children and my in-laws. My children are lucky to be the stars of the show!
But I remember back to the big groups and I miss tripping over people and being at the kid's table. What I wouldn't give to go back for just one Christmas.
To see my 2011 Grab bag - Christmas playlist post click here.
The Advent Calendar of Christmas Memories (ACCM) allows you to share your family's holiday history 24 different ways during 24 days in December! Learn more here.


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