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Minority Microbiology Mentor Newsletter - November 2012
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In recognition of National Native American Heritage Month and the many contributions of Native Americans to the microbiological sciences, The Minority Microbiology Mentor spotlights Megan R. Kiedrowski, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Iowa Department of Microbiology
- ASM General Meeting Minority Travel Grant
- ASM Congressional Science Fellow Secures Congressional Office Position
- MicrobeLibrary: New Resources Wanted
- ASM Scientific Writing and Publishing Institute
- JMBE: Now Accepting Submissions!
- ASM Undergraduate Research Capstone
- ASM-CDC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
- New from ASM Press
- ASM PRESS: Featured Titles
- ASM Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research Meeting
- asm2013 | 113th General Meeting
- ASM Conferences
- Tuberculosis Research Units (U19, RFA-AI-12-045 )
- Collaborative Network for Clinical Research on Immune Tolerance (UM1, RFA-AI-12-043 )
- Epigenomics of Virus-Associated Oral Diseases (R01, RFA-DE-13-002)
- Dynamics of Host-Associated Microbial Communities (R01, RFA-GM-14-001)
- Ocean Acidification (OA, NSF 12-600)
- Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID, NSF 12-587)
- Algorithms for Threat Detection (ATD, NSF 12-502)
- Dr. Welton I. Taylor (1919 – 2012), Inventor, Microbiologist, Historian, and Academician, Memorial Service Slated for November 17, 2012
- URM Postdoctoral Enrichment Program applications being accepted
- Dr. Karine Gibbs receives Packard Foundation Award
- Center for the History of Microbiology/ASM Archives (CHOMA) Travel Awards available
- Graduate Assistantships in the Florida International University Department of Biological Sciences
- Resident Professor in Global Health (Ethnobiology) in Costa Rica
- Faculty Position in Microbial Ecology
- Contract Biologist Position
In recognition of National Native American Heritage Month and the many contributions of Native Americans to the microbiological sciences, The Minority Microbiology Mentor spotlights Megan R. Kiedrowski, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Iowa Department of Microbiology
The bacteria Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis are prominent causes of acute and chronic infections. The ability of staphylococci to establish biofilms has been linked to the persistence of chronic infections, which has drawn considerable interest from researchers over the past decade. Biofilms are communities of surface-attached bacteria encased in an extracellular matrix, and treatment of biofilm infections is a challenge due to their increased resistance to both antimicrobials and host immune defenses. In the review "New approaches for treating staphylococcal biofilm infections," the authors introduce S. aureus and S. epidermidis biofilms and summarize current antibiotic treatment approaches for staphylococcal biofilm infections (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1241(1), 104–121). New, alternative strategies for preventing biofilm formation and dispersing established biofilms are also discussed, including matrix-degrading enzymes, small-molecule approaches, and manipulation of natural staphylococcal disassembly mechanisms. While many of these new approaches are still in the early stages of research, they have great promise for improved treatment of biofilm infections in the future.
Megan Kiedrowski is a member of the Sault St. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. She is currently a graduate student in the Microbiology PhD program at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA. Her academic research focuses on biofilm formation by the pathogen Staphylococcus aureus and in particular, on the production of S. aureus extracellular nucleases and how these enzymes affect biofilm formation. In 2011, she was a recipient of a Baxter International Inc. Young Investigator award for her work on S. aureus nuclease. Prior to beginning studies in Iowa, Megan attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison and earned a B.S. in Medical Microbiology and Immunology in 2007. There, she worked in the laboratory of Joseph Dillard studying type IV secretion in the bacterial pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Megan was active in the UW-Madison chapter of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES), attending several AISES national conferences where she presented her research and helping to organize student retreat weekends that gave Native American high school students the chance to visit the UW campus prior to making their college decisions. She is defending her thesis on November 15 and will be graduating this December with her PhD. Following graduation, she will be beginning a postdoctoral research position in the early summer of 2013.
ASM General Meeting Minority Travel Grant
In an effort to increase the participation of underrepresented minority (URM) groups in microbiology related fields, ASM will offer American General Meeting Minority Travel Grants to help defray expenses associated with travel to asm2013. Postdoctoral scholars, faculty from URM groups, and faculty from Minority Serving Institutions and Community Colleges who have demonstrated their interest in mentoring URM trainees in the microbiological sciences will be eligible to receive up to $2,000. Funding for this program is pending. For complete details on eligibility requirements, selection criteria, and to download the application form, please visit http:www.asm.org/asmgmminoritytravelgrant.
ASM Congressional Science Fellow Secures Congressional Office Position
Kristen E. Shatynski, Ph.D., ASM's 2012-2013 Congressional Science Fellow has found a placement in the office of Representative Devin Nunes (R-CA). The American Society for Microbiology has supported Congressional Fellows since 1977. The ASM Congressional Science Fellowship Selection Committee selects a postdoctoral to mid-career microbiologist to spend one year on the staff of an individual congressman, congressional committee, or with some other appropriate organizational unit of Congress. Prospective Fellows must be citizens of the United States, members of ASM for at least one year and must have completed their Ph.D. by the time the fellowship begins in September. The Congressional Science Fellowship is supported in part by the Frobisher Fund, a bequest made to ASM by Martin Frobisher. Contact the Office of Public Affairs at firstname.lastname@example.com for more information on the ASM fellowship or go to the ASM web page for a program description: http://asm.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7535. The deadline for applications for the 2013 – 2014 fellowship is February 22, 2013.
MicrobeLibrary: New Resources Wanted
Students and faculty are encouraged to visit and contribute to MicrobeLibrary – a repository of more than 1,600 free resources developed for and by educators. Newly organized as a peer-reviewed, digital media center, the library divides its vast resources into four searchable collections: Visual Media Briefs, the Gallery, Laboratory Protocols, and – coming in 2013 – the Critical Thinking Question Bank. Visual Media Brief editors welcome animations, images, and videos formatted as short research communications for a scientific journal (that is, with introduction, methods, discussion, and reference sections). Gallery editors welcome images, videos, and animations that can enhance lecture or lab presentations. Submission deadlines are July 1 (for publication in December) and December 1 (for publication in May). For author guidelines and instructions, visit http://www.microbelibrary.org.
ASM Scientific Writing and Publishing Institute
December 1 is the deadline for senior-level graduate students and early-career postdoctoral scientists to apply for the 2013 ASM Scientific Writing and Publishing Institute, which will be held March 21-24 at ASM's Washington, D.C., headquarters. Co-sponsored by ASM and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the institute offers careful guidance in (i) writing and submitting manuscripts, (ii) writing abstracts and titles, (iii) selecting journals for submission, (iv) strategically suggesting the best editors and reviewers for a manuscript, (v) responding to reviewer comments and learning to be a good reviewer, and (vi) addressing ethical issues related to scientific research and publishing. Learn more at http://www.asmgap.org.
JMBE: Now Accepting Submissions!
The ASM Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education (JMBE) – the premier journal for microbiology and biology education research – welcomes submissions of articles that foster scholarly teaching in the biological sciences. Each issue of JMBE features peer-reviewed, practical tips for teaching, education research and perspectives, innovations in science, and reviews. Articles may be accessed at no cost, there are no page charges for authors, and journal editors provide hands-on guidance throughout the review process. Manuscripts are reviewed on a rolling basis, with dispositions provided within five weeks. However, to be considered for each volume, submissions must be received by July 1 (for the December issue) or December 1 (for the May issue). To view instructions for authors, access current and past issues, or sign up for eTOC alerts and reminders about submission deadlines, visit http://jmbe.asm.org.
ASM Undergraduate Research Capstone
Undergraduate students, especially those from minority groups that are underrepresented in the sciences, are invited to apply for the ASM Undergraduate Research Capstone Program. The capstone experience enhances the professional development of students by providing them with opportunities to present their microbiological-sciences-related summer research. Awardees are supported to attend the ASM General Meeting and the ASM Presentation Institute, with the meeting providing a national venue for them to practice the skills they learn at the institute. These skills include preparing effective abstracts and posters, making successful scientific presentations, and interacting professionally with colleagues. Note that capstone awards are contingent upon abstract acceptance to the ASM General Meeting; thus, applicants must also submit abstracts for participation in the meeting. The application deadline is December 1. Learn more at http://www.asm.org/urc.
ASM-CDC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Postdoctoral scientists are encouraged to submit applications for the ASM-CDC postdoctoral research fellowship program. Offered under the ASM-CDC Program in Infectious Disease and Public Health Microbiology, each fellowship is a two-year research experience under the mentorship of CDC scientists. The goal of the fellowship is to support the development of new approaches, methodologies, and knowledge in infectious disease prevention and control in areas within the public health mission of the CDC. All fellows perform research at a CDC location. Available fields of study include bacterial and mycotic diseases, viral and rickettsial infections, and HIV/AIDS, among others. The application deadline is January 15, 2013. For eligibility criteria and other information, visit http://www.asm.org/cdcfellowship.
ASM PRESS: Featured Titles
Genomes of Foodborne and Waterborne Pathogens
Editors: Pina Fratamico and Yanhong Liu, Eastern Regional Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, Sophia Kathariou, North Carolina State University
Hardcover: 978-1-55581-457-1
List Price: $159.95
Member Price: $127.95
Detailed interpretation of the environmental consequences of the latest findings from genome sequencing studies—presenting both scientific and public health opportunities.
- Explains how understanding pathogen genomics can help ensure the safety of global food and water supplies.
- Focuses on specific food- and waterborne pathogens that represent major public health threats.
- Examines how global trends, such as climate change, increasing human populations, and rising levels of pollution, are stressing the ecosystems that food- and waterborne pathogens encounter, forcing them to adapt.
- Serves as an excellent text for microbiology and genomics researchers, public health officials, regulators, food scientists, and other applicable professionals.
For more information related to Genomes of Foodborne and Waterborne Pathogens please visit: http://estore.asm.org/viewItemDetails.asp?ItemID=959.
Stable Isotope Probing and Related Technologies
Editors: J. Colin Murrell, University of Warwick; Andrew Whiteley, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
Hardcover: 978-1-55581-537-0
List Price: $159.95
Member Price: $127.95
The ideal starting point for investigating, developing, and implementing stable isotope technologies.
- Guides researchers through basic, tested, and proven protocols including DNA, RNA, protein, and phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) SIP, from concept and history through detailed methodology, troubleshooting, and interpretation to optimal and future uses.
- Explores important and emerging applications of SIP in environmental microbiology, ranging from bioremediation and gene mining to carbon tracking and gut microflora function.
- Examines explorations of further elegant isotope labeling technologies such as Raman-FISH, NanoSIMS, and isotope arrays.
- Serves as a valuable resource for environmental microbiology students and researchers and genomics, biotechnology, and medical microbiology professionals.
For more information related to Stable Isotope Probing please visit:
Bacterial Pathogenesis: A Molecular Approach, Third Edition
Authors: Brenda Wilson, Abigail Salyers, and Dixie Whitt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Malcom Winkler, Indiana University Bloomington
Hardcover: 978-1-55581-418-2
List Price: $89.95
Member Price: $89.95
Discover the strategies bacterial pathogens use to survive and multiply.
- Focuses on core principles based on the growing understanding of the underlying similarities among pathogens and their mechanisms of action, and is a recommended text for one-semester microbiology courses.
- Presents the latest research to help students explore the mechanisms by which bacterial pathogens cause infections in humans and animals.
- Includes new coverage of key findings on the mechanisms of bacterial secretion, toxins, and regulation.
For more information related to Bacterial Pathogenesis, 3e please visit:
Find all of these titles and more at http://estore.asm.org/press
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ASM Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research Meeting
February 25-27, 2013 | Marriott Wardman Park Hotel | Washington, DC
December 3, 2012: Abstract Submission Closes
December 5, 2012: Student Travel Grant Nominations Due
December 6, 2012: Website Opens
December 6, 2012: Registration & Housing Open
Join leading scientists, public health researchers, and policy makers to learn about the latest advancements in the biodefense and emerging disease fields.
For more information go to: http://www.asmbiodefense.org
asm2013 | 113th General Meeting
May 18-21, 2013 | Denver, Colorado
November 15, 2012: Website Opens
November 15, 2012: Abstract Submission Opens
November 15, 2012: Registration & Housing Opens
January 15, 2013: Abstract Submission Deadline
April 1, 2013: Advance Registration Closes
asm2013 will showcase the central role of microbes in the biosphere by reporting today's best science in the diverse areas influenced by microbes. The breadth of this meeting provides participants with the chance to immerse themselves in their field of specialization and take forays into different disciplines.
For more information go to: http://www.asm.org/asm2013
ASM Conferences
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3rd ASMET - The ASM Emerging Technologies Conference
June 25 – 28, 2013 | Izmir, Turkey
4th ASM Conference on Salmonella: The Bacterium, the Host and the Environment
October 5-9, 2013 | Boston, Massachusetts
3rd ASM-ESCMID Conference on Methicillin-resistant Staphylococci in Animals: Veterinary and Public Health Implications
November 4 – 7, 2013 | Copenhagen, Denmark
For more information go to: http://www.asm.org/conferences
Tuberculosis Research Units (U19, RFA-AI-12-045)
The purpose of this FOA is to support the establishment of two to three multinational, multidisciplinary Tuberculosis Research Units (TBRUs) that will operate as a collaborative network to study tuberculosis latency and persistence and their relation to active TB disease, in humans and animal models. During the past 15 years, biomedical research in TB has led to an improved understanding of host/pathogen interactions, and many of these findings translated to a now sizeable pipeline of drug, vaccine and diagnostic candidates. However, a transformation in how this complex disease can be optimally managed continues to be hampered by a limited understanding of the stages of TB infection that precede active pulmonary disease (latency) or are implicated as the reason for prolonged antibiotic treatment (persistence). Latency and persistence are characterized by low levels of bacteria in secretions and likely other sites of infection (paucibacillary stages) which are inherently difficult to study and have also limited our understanding of their transition to active pulmonary or extra-pulmonary disease. Letters of intent are due January 14, 2013, and more information is available at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AI-12-045.html.
Collaborative Network for Clinical Research on Immune Tolerance (UM1, RFA-AI-12-043)
The purpose of this FOA is to solicit applications for the Collaborative Network for Clinical Research on Immune Tolerance. The major goal of this Network is to develop new tolerogenic approaches for the treatment and prevention of disease in three clinical areas: asthma and allergic diseases; autoimmune diseases; and immune-mediated rejection of transplanted solid organs, tissues and cells. The scope of research to be carried out includes: 1) the design and conduct of clinical trials at all phases to evaluate the safety and efficacy of investigational products and approaches for the induction and maintenance of immune tolerance in humans; 2) the design and conduct of mechanistic studies and the development of tolerance assays as integral components of the clinical trials undertaken, including establishing and directing a consortium of laboratories; and 3) the provision of bioinformatics, data collection, validation and analysis resources. In addition, on a limited basis, the Network may support focused product development and nonclinical studies (e.g., toxicology, pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, etc.) essential for the subsequent evaluation of promising tolerance induction approaches in humans. Letters of intent are due February 7, 2013, and more information is available at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-AI-12-043.html.
Epigenomics of Virus-Associated Oral Diseases (R01, RFA-DE-13-002)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), National Institutes of Health (NIH), solicits novel, research project grant (R01) applications proposing to investigate the epigenetic basis of virus-associated oral diseases in order to guide the discovery and application of novel epigenomic-based clinical interventions. These studies are expected to: 1) discover and define the mechanisms of action of epigenomic modifications in viral and host epigenomes; and 2) demonstrate how modifications in the host and viral epigenomes cause pathophysiological changes in oral cells and tissues that result in oral diseases and may also cause diseases in other parts of the body. Letters of intent are due January 21, 2013, and more information is available at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-DE-13-002.html.
Dynamics of Host-Associated Microbial Communities (R01, RFA-GM-14-001)
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) issued by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), National Institutes of Health (NIH), solicits applications that propose genetic, physiological, and ecological studies designed to reveal the basic principles and mechanisms that govern the symbiotic systems dynamics of host-associated microbial communities. Applicants may propose the use of human or simple-to-complex animal models or synthetic systems with a direct link to the host, but must describe how the model system proposed allows one to ask a basic biological question that is relevant to this FOA. One might reasonably expect that these studies will reveal evolutionary conserved principles that address questions such as: what factors distinguish microbes that comprise the core of the community from those that are transient; what are the key characteristics of niche environments that favor particular assemblages of microbes; by what means do the microbes in the community interact with each other and with the host, and how do the communities evolve – i.e., what is their natural history? Letters of intent are due December 14, 2012, and more information is available at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-GM-14-001.html.
Ocean Acidification (OA, NSF 12-600)
The need for understanding the potential adverse impacts of a slowly acidifying sea upon marine ecosystems is widely recognized and included as a priority objective in the new National Ocean Policy. The effects of ocean acidification could significantly affect strategies for developing practices towards the sustainability of ocean resources. Basic research concerning the nature, extent and impact of ocean acidification on oceanic environments in the past, present and future is required. Research challenges include: understanding the geochemistry and biogeochemistry of ocean acidification; understanding how ocean acidification interacts with biological, chemical and physical processes at the organismal level, and how such interactions impact the structure and function of ecosystems, e.g. through life histories, food webs, biogeochemical cycling, and interactions with other changes in the ocean (e.g., temperature, stratification, circulation patterns); and understanding how the earth system history informs our understanding of the effects of ocean acidification on the present day and future ocean. Applications are due December 4, 2012, and more information is available at http://nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12600/nsf12600.htm.
Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID, NSF 12-587)
The Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases program supports research on the ecological, evolutionary, and socio-ecological principles and processes that influence the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases. The central theme of submitted projects must be quantitative or computational understanding of pathogen transmission dynamics. The intent is discovery of principles of infectious disease transmission and on testing mathematical or computational models that elucidate infectious disease systems. Projects should be broad, interdisciplinary efforts that go beyond the scope of typical studies. They should focus on the determinants and interactions of transmission among humans, non-human animals, and/or plants. This includes, for example, the spread of pathogens; the influence of environmental factors such as climate; the population dynamics and genetics of reservoir species or hosts; or the cultural, social, behavioral, and economic dimensions of disease transmission. Research may be on zoonotic, environmentally-borne, vector-borne, or enteric diseases of either terrestrial or freshwater systems and organisms, including diseases of animals and plants, at any scale from specific pathogens to inclusive environmental systems. Proposals for research on disease systems of public health concern to developing countries are strongly encouraged, as are disease systems of concern in agricultural systems. Investigators are encouraged to involve the public health research community, including for example, epidemiologists, physicians, veterinarians, food scientists, social scientists, entomologists, pathologists, virologists, or parasitologists with the goal of integrating knowledge across disciplines to enhance our ability to predict and control infectious diseases. Applications are due December 5, 2012, and more information is available at http://nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12587/nsf12587.htm.
Algorithms for Threat Detection (ATD, NSF 12-502)
The Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) at the National Science Foundation (NSF) has formed a partnership with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) to develop the next generation of mathematical and statistical algorithms for the detection of chemical agents, biological threats, and threats inferred from geospatial information. This program solicits proposals from the mathematical sciences community in two main thrust areas: mathematical and statistical techniques for genomics, and mathematical and statistical techniques for the analysis of data from sensor systems. Applications are due January 10, 2013, and more information is available at http://nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12502/nsf12502.htm.
Dr. Welton I. Taylor (1919 – 2012), Inventor, Microbiologist, Historian, and Academician, to be laid to rest on November 17, 2012
The microbiology world mourns the loss of Dr. Welton I. Taylor, who passed away on Thursday, November 1, 2012. Dr. Taylor earned his B.A. degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1941, where he majored in bacteriology and minored in chemistry. He joined the ROTC and served valiantly in World War II as a Tuskegee Airman. He went on to earn his master's and doctorate degrees in microbiology in 1947 and 1948, respectively.
He served as an instructor and assistant professor at the University of Illinois College of Medicine and became world renown for his research of gas gangrene and tetanus. He was successfully brought on as a consultant by Swift and Company to help with a salmonella outbreak and was heavily sought in the U.S. and Europe in standardizing microbiological analyses and characterizing and preventing outbreaks of foodborne illnesses. At Chicago's Children's Memorial Hospital he served as Microbiologist-in-Chief specializing in nosocomial and iatrogenic infections in patients, which led to further establishment of Dr. Taylor as a knowledgeable specialist in the field.
Eventually the World Health Organization requested his presence in England and France, where he continued to make contributions so outstanding that the Centers for Disease Control named Enterobacter taylorae in honor of him and colleague Joan Taylor of the Colindale laboratory in London, England. He was the original developer of SS media, which aided in the diagnosis of Shigella and Salmonella infections in the young. He was the owner of several patents and developed a device for certifying foods as bacteria-free and went on to establish a business, Micro-Palettes, Inc., as a result.
He was one of the first African-American members of the American Society for Microbiology, having joined the Society in 1947, and he attended and spoke at several General Meetings and the Minority Mixer. He was the first African-American member of the University of Illinois's ROTC, and the oldest living African-American microbiologist. He chaired the committee that originally established the publication of a journal of clinical microbiology and served on the journal's first editorial board. He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology and served on several ASM committees. He was the recipient of numerous other awards and served on countless boards and committees over the years. He was featured in the ASM News "Faces of ASM" series (ASM News 68 (1), January 2002, http://www.asm.org/images/PSAB/Taylor.pdf) and was presented with the Tanner/Shaughnessy Merit Award from the Illinois Society for Microbiology (March 2007). More recently, he was honored by the Tuskegee Airmen and authored a memoir entitled "Two Steps from Glory" (http://www.amazon.com/Two-Steps-From-Glory-Confronts/dp/0983867712/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1345559444&sr=8-3&keywords=two+steps+from+glory), which he published with the help of his daughter, Karyn J. Taylor. More information is available on Dr. Taylor at: http://www.asm.org/index.php/underrepresented-members/97-policy/documents/2099-clmm, and http://www.asm.org/index.php/underrepresented-members?id=2113.
Visitation will be at 10:00 AM, and the service starts at 10:30 AM. Immediately after, the Repast will be held at Church of St. Paul and the Redeemer, 4945 S. Dorchester Ave, Chicago, IL 60615. All visitors are welcome and encouraged to attend.
Associate Editor's personal note: I first met Dr. Taylor at the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Minority Mixer in Chicago, IL in May of 1999 during the 3rd year of my Ph.D. studies at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He was there sharing stories about his days in the military, in graduate school, at Swift and Company, and at the University of Illinois. Here was an 80-something year old black microbiologist who was probably the first in almost any category imaginable, plus a few more that he never even knew about. This was my future. Dr. Taylor represented both where we (as scientists in general, as blacks in general, as microbiologists, as food microbiologists, etc.) had been and where we were going. He was a pathfinder, a way-maker, a pioneer, and was still around to talk about it. He represented everything I wanted to be when I was 80-something, and he was willing to serve as my mentor. He had so much to share, and he told it with excitement and panache, often with a conspiratorial wink and wiggle of the eyebrows. Here was a microbiologist, an inventor, and a Tuskegee Airman with decades of knowledge and a willingness to share it. He had survived racism in Birmingham, AL, World War II, graduate school, segregation, academia, and was still lucid enough to tell about it.
He spoke of how he discovered bacterial salt requirements in SS agar by simply sprinkling a few crystals on the plate and watching the Salmonella grow toward the salt gradient. He spoke of working in Europe and the U.S. as a consultant and how his criticisms of how the chickens were housed were not well received. "Well of *course* you have a Salmonella problem, your chickens are walking around in their own feces!" he would say. His logic was met with fierce resistance but eventually accepted as obvious truth. He spoke of how he developed improved methods for transporting samples back to labs by simply keeping them in a semi-moist state. He spoke of how today's microbiologists need to "get out of the cell," in other words stop focusing so much on the molecular interactions and remember that bacteria are interacting with their environments too. Sage advice, indeed, for this microbial ecologist who now has made a career of studying how Vibrios interact with their environments. Dr. Taylor was a big part of who I am as a microbiologist today. He was always respected, loved, and admired by many more than he could ever have known. I am thankful for his playing such an important role in my life. I am thankful he paved the way, advised, educated, and inspired. Thanks so much to Karyn, Shelley, and Mrs. Taylor for sharing him with the rest of us. He will be missed.
URM Postdoctoral Enrichment Program applications being accepted
The URM Postdoctoral Enrichment Program award provides a total of $50,000 over three years as outlined below to support the development of a URM postdoctoral fellow in a degree-granting institution (or its affiliated graduate and medical schools, hospitals and research institutions) in the United States or Canada. Individual URM postdoctoral fellows conducting biomedical or medical research are eligible to apply. This award cannot be used to provide the postdoctoral fellow's salary or to purchase reagents or equipment commonly found in the mentor's laboratory. A qualified mentor is required for the URM Postdoctoral Program. It has been documented that minorities are less likely to enter and remain in science and engineering when they lack mentors and role models. In most science and engineering disciplines, the percentage of URMs among faculty recently hired is not comparable to that of recent minority Ph.Ds. and is far below that of recent bachelor degree recipients. This results in fewer minority faculty who act as role models for minority students. (A National Analysis of Minorities in Science and Engineering Faculties at Research Universities, Nelson and Brammer, January 2010). This program is designed to encourage innovative scientists with broad ranging backgrounds in the biomedical and medical sciences and with experiences in working with postdoctoral fellows to consider serving as mentors. Applications are due January 15, 2013, and more information is available at http://www.bwfund.org/pages/669/URM-Program-Application/.
Dr. Karine Gibbs receives Packard Foundation Award
In 1988 the Packard Foundation established the Fellowships for Science and Engineering, the goal of which was to support promising young scientists. This year's award recipients included Dr. Karine Gibbs, who was featured previously (The Minority Microbiology Mentor, Vol. 3, No. 12, December 2008). Dr. Gibbs is currently an assistant professor of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard University, where she also earned her B.A. cum laude in Biochemical Sciences. As a Ph.D. student at Stanford University, she studied the cell biology of pathogens and developed tools to follow the movements of proteins on the bacterial surface and was the recipient of both an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and an ASM Robert D. Watkins Minority Graduate Research Fellow. She completed her postdoctoral studies at the University of Washington. More information on the Packard Foundation Awards is available at http://www.wiareport.com/2012/10/three-academic-women-win-packard-fellowships/?utm_source=Women+In+Academia+Report&utm_campaign=d2618d9b69-Women_in_Academia_Report_6_14_116_13_2011&utm_medium=email.
Center for the History of Microbiology/ASM Archives (CHOMA) Travel Awards Available
The Center for the History of Microbiology/ASM Archives (CHOMA) Committee is pleased to announce two Travel Awards of $1500 each for research at the ASM Archives in the area of the history of microbiology. The grants support research of the awardees' choosing, and awardees may be invited to present their research at the ASM Annual Meeting and/or prepare an article for Microbe, the ASM membership magazine. The CHOMA collections, located at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), include 9,000 volumes on microbiology and related topics; photographs of scientists and microbes; topical files on various aspects of microbiology; biographical materials; instructional materials, including slides and motion pictures; records of the Society from its founding in 1899 to the present, including journals and proceedings of meetings; and several collections of personal papers. For additional information on the collection, go to http://www.asm.org/choma or contact the ASM Archivist, Jeff Karr, at email@example.com.
Applicants for the History of Microbiology Research Travel Awards must provide a CV (any length), a detailed description of the proposed project (three pages maximum) clearly demonstrating its historical intent, and a tentative list of archive materials to be used based on the descriptions of CHOMA holdings found at the website. In addition, a short description of previous historical research undertaken by the applicant (if applicable) and/or an indication of how/why the applicant became interested in the history of microbiology must be provided. Finally, applicants should arrange to have two letters of recommendation sent by e-mail. All applications and letters of recommendation are due by November 15, 2012 to the ASM Archivist, Jeff Karr, at firstname.lastname@example.com. Awards will be announced by December 30, 2012. For additional information on the award and award guidelines, click on the "Research Travel Awards" link on the Center for the History of Microbiology/ASM Archives (CHOMA) website (http://www.asm.org/choma).
Graduate Assistantships in the Florida International University Department of Biological Sciences
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The Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) is seeking applicants for the position of Resident Professor with the OTS Global Health Undergraduate Semester Abroad Program in Costa Rica. This is a field-based program designed to provide undergraduate students with outstanding training in tropical medicine, public health, ethnobiology, research methods, community interaction, and Spanish language and culture. More information about the program can be found at http://ots.ac.cr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=339&Itemid=467. Successful applicants will work closely with the Education Director, Undergraduate Programs Coordinator, and two other Resident Professors in curriculum design and implementation, and will be responsible for teaching the Ethnobiology course and assisting with teaching the Research Practicum course. The professor should be comfortable with developing and conducting short but rigorous research projects with students in the field and in the community. Ideal candidates will have a background in ethnobiology or a related field, such that they could complement the expertise of the other resident professors in medicine and anthropology. The position is based in Costa Rica, and requires a commitment of 18 weeks in Costa Rica with 13 weeks in the field and 5 weeks in the OTS office in San Jose during each semester (Spring and Fall). This is a full‐time position with a required commitment of at least one year. Any questions about the position should be directed to firstname.lastname@example.com . The OTS Undergraduate Semester Abroad Programs are accredited by Duke University and maintain high educational standards, so applicants should have excellent teaching skills.
Faculty Position in Microbial Ecology at Michigan State University
The W.K. Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) of Michigan State University seeks to fill a tenure‐track, academic year faculty position in microbial ecology. This position is part of a University‐wide Global Water Initiative to enhance and expand the capacity of MSU to address fundamental and applied research questions related to the sustainable use of water. The position is available beginning in Fall 2013 and can be filled at either the Assistant or Associate Professor level. Applicants should show evidence of their capacity to develop externally funded and collaborative research that uses microbes to address fundamental ecological and evolutionary questions. KBS is ideally suited to a field‐focused research program that links microbial processes and population, community, ecosystem, and/or landscape dynamics. While the specific research area of interest is open, the individual selected for this position should have a demonstrated interest in research involving aquatic systems. The successful applicant will be expected to contribute to graduate research training at KBS and in their on‐campus department and participate in summer teaching and research programs at KBS. Joint appointments in the Departments of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Zoology or Plant Biology, which would be the tenure home for the successful applicant, will be evaluated as part of the search process. The specific campus teaching assignment for this position will depend on the candidate's home department, but will be equivalent to one course per year. They will also be expected to participate in the interdepartmental graduate training programs at MSU in Ecology, Evolution and Behavioral Biology (EEBB) and/or Environmental Science and Public Policy (ESPP). Opportunities for research in collaboration with other KBS faculty and in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Plant Biology, Zoology, Geology and other departments involved in the establishment of the MSU Global Water Initiative will be encouraged. Applications will be considered until the position is filled. Review of applications will begin on 1 December 2012. Application materials should be submitted to MSU's online application website (https://jobs.msu.edu; position number 30198796, posting number 6950), including: a letter of interest, CV, a statement of research accomplishments and goals, a statement of teaching accomplishments and goals, and contact information for three references. Questions about these positions should be addressed to email@example.com or Dr. Steve Hamilton (email@example.com), Chair of the Search Committee. Michigan State University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Applications from women and members of under‐represented groups are strongly encouraged. Persons with disabilities have the right to request and receive reasonable accommodation.
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After losing a game they deserved to win against the Capitals on Tuesday, the Jets were a picture of inconsistency against the Nashville Predators Thursday night. It seemed like every time a Jets player did something right, they'd make an ill-timed mistake soon afterwards.
The game started in the Jets' favour. Every line had a great, fast-paced first shift (with the exception of the Jokinen line, who only had a pretty okay one). Shortly before the midway point of the first, the Jets had outshot the Preds 7-1. The first powerplay, utilizing the Centre-Post Umbrella formation (as explained by our own Kevin McCartney earlier today), looked dangerous throwing four shots towards the net. The Jets were able to use their speed to escape Nashville's suffocating neutral zone pressure.
And then the Predators scored on the powerplay and everything started to fall apart. The Jets got caught up-ice after Wright and Kane were stopped on a shorthanded two-on-one, allowing Weber to rifle a shot over Pavelec's shoulder from twenty-four feet out. Early standouts began to make mistakes. Byfuglien's effective physical play was leveled out by giveaways and a few misreads at the Predators' blueline. Little and Ladd's initial spark eventually faded until both were invisible. The first frame ended with the Preds outshooting the Jets 10-9.
Keeping with the theme of inconsistency, the Jets' least dangerous looking line scored the goal of the night in the second period. Peluso, Jokinen, and Frolik played tic-tac-toe entering the offensive zone, ending with Peluso showing some quick hands on a wrap-around to score his first NHL goal. This was one of the only bright spots of the period, however, with the Predators driving the majority of the play.
The Jets were quickly behind in the third, as a bad rebound by Pavelec on a Mike Fisher shot allowed Patric Hornqvist to score. The game seemed to lay dormant until the final ten minutes when the Jets realized time was running out. Ladd and Little re-emerged during a 4v4 situation, starting some momentum. With three minutes remaining, Wheeler – who had wheels all game – willed a goal into existence by crashing the Predators zone, dishing off to Bogosian for a shot, and burying the rebound.
And then the Jets couldn't get a shot on goal during a fortuitous powerplay opportunity with 2:47 left in the period. This of course led to overtime, where Byfugilen mishandled the puck and Colin Wilson won it for the Preds. An inability to maintain any sort of momentum spelled the end of the Jets in a game they didn't really deserve to win against a division rival.
But at least they got a point, right?
Blake Wheeler looked darn good for most of the game. The winger's speed was on full display, creating the tying goal and other dangerous chances throughout the game.
Dustin Byfuglien's physical play tonight was outstanding. He killed Smith in the first period as the Predator tried to speed by him in the neutral zone. He killed Smith again in the second when the Predator spin-o-rama'd into the slot and got a shot off. Byfuglien played with a bee in his bonnet all night. When he used his size, Byfuglien was effective.
The Jets' breakout was the most complete part of their game. They took advantage of the Predators' tendency to clog up the strong side corner on the forecheck by getting the puck to a strategically placed defenceman in the weak side corner.
The Jets' face-off percentage was 34%. Yup.
While he didn't register any giveaways, Kane threw the puck away too many times in the offensive zone by throwing blind passes through the Nashville slot. Nashville collapses in their zone far too tight and no chances came of a single pass.
Pavelec struggled with his angles all night, making awkward saves that led to a lot of rebounds. Against a team with more scoring prowess than the Predators (so, anybody), Pavelec would have given up more than two goals tonight.
Scheifele continued to look like he still isn't ready for the NHL, going 33% for face-offs and finishing at -1. Kane seemed to find more success on the few shifts he took with Wright, and that's not good.
"Over the glove, blocker-side." – The Jets' color guy describing Weber's goal

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1936, Malden, Massachusetts
In 1958, just a few years after graduating from Princeton, Frank Stella began his groundbreaking "black paintings." These austere works were composed of parallel stripes determined by the proportions of the canvas and the width of the paintbrush. They had no meaning beyond their physical form; or, as Stella famously put it, "What you see is what you see."
His subsequent practice, while diverse, has continued his interrogation of abstraction. Paintings based on the rejection of the conventionally rectangular canvas gave way to complex wall reliefs made from paint, cardboard, and felt. He further blurred the distinction between painting and sculpture in baroque works that practically burst off the wall.


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Jeremy Johnson had served in the Navy for 10 years, all under the "don't ask, don't tell" policy. But in 2007, "needing to find some integrity," he decided to tell a superior he was gay, effectively ending his enlistment.
On Tuesday, DADT, as the policy has come to be known, was repealed. And if that wasn't enough good news for Johnson, 34, he said he learned in the afternoon that his application to return to service, as a Navy reservist, had been accepted.
"I'm back in," a grinning Johnson said, celebrating the DADT repeal at a party at Howard's of Mount Vernon bar and restaurant in Baltimore. It was one of a host of events scheduled across the country Tuesday night by Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, a Washington-based group that worked for the repeal.
"We've been counting down the days," said Melissa Verduzco, 28, of Towson. She attended the Baltimore gathering with her partner, Danielle Feinstein, 33, whom she married in a religious service two years ago. "It's been awesome."
Verduzco and Feinstein are members of a National Guard unit, musicians in an Army band who have played at inaugurations, deployment ceremonies and other events. But they hid their relationship to well-meaning colleagues who, seeing their wedding rings, would ask about meeting their husbands.
"It's just nice I can now call her my wife," Feinstein said.
The parties culminated a day of celebration over the end of DADT, signed in 1993 by President Bill Clinton. At 12:01 a.m., when the repeal became law, Gary Ross, a 2002 graduate of the Naval Academy and a lieutenant, married his partner, a civilian, in Vermont.
President Barack Obama had signed the bill repealing DADT in December of last year, but it did not go into effect until Tuesday.
"As of today, patriotic Americans in uniform will no longer have to lie about who they are in order to serve the country they love," Obama said in a prepared statement. "As of today, our armed forces will no longer lose the extraordinary skills and combat experience of so many gay and lesbian service members. And today, as commander in chief, I want those who were discharged under this law to know that your country deeply values your service."
Johnson, who is a student at University of Maryland Baltimore County, is among the more than 14,000 service members whom activists say were discharged because of DADT.
He had worked as a military journalist, at one point teaching a broadcasting course at Fort Meade. He said he had occasionally confided in colleagues that he was gay, and sometimes word would get around. The first time that happened, a supervisor told him not to worry about it, but when it came up in 2007 while he was serving aboard a ship in Guam, he decided to officially come out.
Johnson said he wrote a letter confirming his homosexuality to a supervisor, but was urged to take it back and stick with the Navy because the policy was likely to be lifted. But Johnson, who had reached the rank of petty officer first class, said he didn't think he could continue living a double life that long.
"I had no idea what I would do. I had no idea where I would live," he said. "I just stepped off into the great beyond."
Ironically enough, one of the jobs he got after leaving was writing speeches for a company that had a contract with the Navy.
For those currently serving in the military, the DADT repeal offers the option of coming out without the threat of being discharged.
"We all woke up this morning breathing easier," said Jonathan Mills, a staff sergeant with the Air Force in Washington who is working on an MBA at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Mills, a radio technician who has served in Afghanistan, is the executive editor of OutServe, an online and print magazine for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered military personnel. He and others on the magazine previously used pseudonyms but now have attached their real names to their work.
Mills doesn't anticipate "a mass coming out" as a result of the repeal, but instead, a gradual transition. There are still those in the service branches who remain uncomfortable with the repeal, Mills said, but it's a sentiment that he sees changing, day by day, person by person.
"This is the first step," Mills said. "It gives [other service members] a window into what being gay is all about. This is how we eventually change their hearts and minds."
He predicted that the repeal will help rather than harm unit cohesion, as gay service members will no longer have to lie about their private lives or face discharge.
"When I enlisted, it seemed like [DADT] would be pretty unobtrusive," said Mills, who has been in the Air Force for seven years. "But it never works out like that. Co-workers are very involved in our lives, making sure we're OK: 'What did you do this weekend?'"
Some colleagues understood his need to be more circumspect, he said. "Anytime someone found out about me, it led to a deeper connection," Mills said.
But there were those who didn't know and sensed a divide, he said. "They didn't understand why we were more withholding. It created a climate of mistrust."
Activists also say the repeal is a first step. Same-sex spouses of service members, for example, still do not get the same benefits as heterosexual spouses because of the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
And for those like Johnson who are seeking to re-enlist, there may be some bumps in the road ahead. They may not automatically return to their former jobs, depending on whether those have been filled in the interim, and the draw-down of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan means fewer personnel needs.
But Johnson said he has always taken "one enlistment at a time." He began working on his application to the Navy Reserve in October, getting a physical at Fort Meade and making sure everything was ready in advance of Tuesday's repeal.
Even before the repeal, he was making his way back to the Navy, or at least, to being a veteran. He started working with the 6th Branch, a community service organization in which veterans seek to use their experience in the military on local projects.
"I had sort of gotten away from the idea," Johnson said, "that I was even a veteran."


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Egypt demonstrators mark killing of Christians
CAIRO (AP) — Hundreds of Egyptians on Wednesday held candles, waved pictures of slain protesters and demanded retribution from former generals while marking the second anniversary of the killing of 26 people, mostly Christians, in a military crackdown.
But participants in the solemn vigil were divided about criticizing the military over the deaths, a sign of shifting attitudes since the army's ouster of the Islamist president last summer.
The more belligerent chanted "down with military rule," a slogan made famous during the chaotic military-led transition period after the fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak in 2011. Some even called for the execution of former army chief Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, hoisting aloft pictures of him and other now-retired generals they blame for the deaths. One laid a picture of Tantawi on the street for cars to drive over it.
"There an Islamist fascism and there is a military fascism," said Madeha el-Malawani, an activist in her sixties. "There will be no compromises over the blood and I can't negotiate over the dead bodies of our sons."
Other demonstrators rejected the anti-military chants, describing the army as a savior for its July 3 overthrow of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi after millions marched demanding his resignation.
"We didn't come out against the military ... Some individuals and leaders made mistakes and I want to hold them accountable for what they did," said Helmi Hassan, the father of a protester killed in one of the many demonstrations that turned bloody under military rule.
After the vigil ended, a few participants marched toward Tahrir Square chanting against the military. They were blocked from the square by security forces, who dispersed them with tear gas.
The "Maspero Massacre," named after the state TV building where armored vehicles rolled over bodies of Christian protesters and gunned down others on Oct. 9, 2011, was one of the worst incidents of state-perpetrated violence during the military rule.
Back then, Coptic Christians — who compose nearly 10 percent of Egypt's 90 million majority Muslim population — were protesting a major lack of security after Mubarak's fall. Intimidation and attacks by Muslim extremists were rampant, with the razing of a church in southern Egypt particularly crystalizing worries among Copts.
For many Egyptians, the violent breakup at Maspero knocked the long-revered army off the pedestal they had held it on over the years, driving anti-military protests that became increasingly deadly. Among those killed there was Mina Daniel, a prominent Christian activist who turned into a revolutionary icon.
While Wednesday's demonstrators may have mixed feelings toward the military, all voiced enmity to former president Morsi and his group, the Muslim Brotherhood. Morsi had honored Tantawi and his chief deputy with Egypt's most distinguished decoration.


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Madam Speaker, I rise in adjournment proceedings tonight to take up a question that I asked earlier this spring. It might be considered to be somewhat stale-dated by this point, but there are current issues of real importance related to the question that I asked of the Prime Minister back in the month of March. It was on the eve of a very important meeting of the Arctic Council that took place in Fairbanks, Alaska. It was the last Arctic Council meeting chaired by the United States, which chaired the council for a brief period when the Obama administration represented the United States in international affairs.
It was very clear that we were making progress. Ironically, we were repairing the damage that Canada had done as chair under the previous Conservative government. Under Canada's chairing of the Arctic Council, climate change was ignored and shelved as an issue. When chairmanship went from Canada to the U.S. under Obama, we began to see the focus of what we would expect in a time of galloping climate change in the Arctic. It is critical to look at the impacts on not just the Arctic as a specific region but at the impacts of a warming Arctic on the planet.
In any case, the question I put to the Prime Minister was whether Canada would stand firmly with Nordic nations to ensure that the urgency of climate change and the commitment to the Paris accord were reflected in the communique from the Arctic Council. I have to say that I am very pleased that Canada stepped up. The Trump administration was somewhat sidelined, but in the end, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson signed on to the joint declaration from the Arctic Council in Fairbanks, Alaska, in the spring to say that the Paris accord was critical and that the parties were committed to climate action.
In taking it up now, we know that the current and next chair of the Arctic Council is the Government of Finland. However, science is increasingly conveying the urgency to start asking questions about the kind of Arctic we need to have to ensure that we can avoid catastrophic and indeed cataclysmic levels of climate change. This has to do with asking questions about working backwards from the Paris target of ensuring that we do not go above a 1.5° Celsius global average temperature temperature increase over what it was before the industrial revolution. It is specifically and urgently critical to the question of what kind of Arctic we need to have for human civilization to survive.
It relates very directly to evidence presented most recently in Nature as a projection based on current levels of governmental commitments, and I mean government commitments globally.
There is only a 5% chance that we will stick to 1.5°, and for every degree of warming above where we are now, recent studies in Nature Climate Change predict that for every 1° Celsius of warming, we will see 1.5 million square miles of permafrost disappear. Every ounce of permafrost that disappears releases vast quantities of methane, which is 20 times more powerful, unit for unit, than carbon dioxide. In other words, if the world's permafrost melts, it is game over for humanity. It is stark. It is real.
The urgency of acting means that we not take our target from the Paris accord—the weak target left behind by the Conservatives of 30% below 2005 levels by 2030—but actually take on board the far more real challenge that Canada supported in Paris of avoiding 1.5° Celsius. That is the challenge I put to the government.


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iGourmet was an early adopter of e-commerce — their online catalog opened in 1997, and over the past decade they've become a premier source for specialty foods. If you're someone who likes giving cheese of the month clubs or regional food gift baskets, they're one to bookmark.
Their site has some nice features for gifters, including a make your own gift basket tool; good ideas for cheese gifts, wine gifts, and monthly clubs; as well as options for shipping outside the US.
Based out of West Pittston, Pennsylvania, they're a member of the Northeastern Pennsylvania eCommerce Association, which includes other megasites like VintageTubAndBath.com and BabyAge.com. While the "megasite" label might scare some away, they have the advantage of a pretty huge inventory, including over 600 specialty cheeses.
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LOGAN, Utah – Senior Kyle Boswell made a three-pointer from above the top of the key with eight seconds left in the game to complete a 6-0 game-ending rally and give UC Santa Barbara a 57-54 win over Troy University on the first night of the Basketball Travelers Classic in Logan, Utah on Thursday.
The Gauchos (6-3) have won three straight games and early on it looked like this one would be easy as they jumped on the Trojans (4-5) with a 9-0 run to open the game. But after UCSB took its biggest lead at 13-3 with 12:37 left in the first half, Troy rallied back with a 16-4 surge to take the lead, 19-17. The game was tied at half, 26-26.
The Gauchos fought back and a Taran Brown three-pointer completed an 8-1 run and tied the game at 51 with 2:18 left.
Hunter Williams made his sixth three of the game to push the Trojans back in front at 54-51 with 1:56 to play, setting the stage for UCSB's final push.
Alan Williams was fouled while shooting a jump-hook with 1:44 remaining and he made one-of-two free throws to make it 54-52. On the other end, Zalmico Harmon fouled Antoine Myers, sending Troy's point guard to the line for two free throws. Myers badly missed both shots and Alan Williams collected the rebound, giving the Gauchos life.
With just over a minute to play, freshman guard Eric Childress made a beautiful reverse lay-up that bounced on the rim twice before falling through and tying the score at 54 all.
Jeff Mullahey who had three three-point baskets and 11 points in the game, missed a long three from deep in the right corner and Alan Williams came down with another rebound. After a timeout, the Gauchos ran the clock down to 12 seconds before Childress penetrated and found Boswell free at the top of the three-point arc, giving the senior his opportunity to bury the shot and give UCSB the lead.
Hunter Williams missed a desperation three-pointer with just over a second to play as the ball bounced harmlessly off rim and the buzzer sounded.
"We were very fortunate and a very lucky team tonight," said UCSB head coach Bob Williams. "Where we were mentally is just a mystery to me. We were not into this game mentally and that's on me, that's my responsibility. I need to make sure they're ready and mentally prepared."
Still, coach Williams was pleased with how his team was up to the challenge in the closing minutes.
"We had a challenge with 3:30 to go," he said. "You have to be tough enough to come back when you're down. We were down five with 3:30 to go and we had a timeout. We found a way to come back and win it. In the end, our goal is to win games and we did that."
Alan Williams finished with his third double-double of the year. He had 18 points, 11 rebounds and five blocked shots. Brown had 12 points and Boswell chipped-in with nine. The Gauchos' second-leading scorer, Michael Bryson, was saddled with foul trouble and played just 18 minutes before fouling out.
As a team, UCSB hit 45.8% of its shots while Troy made just 31.3%. The Trojans were 12-of-28 from three-point range and just 3-of-20 from two-point territory. Hunter Williams led them with 18 points, all on three-pointers.
The Gauchos will play Utah State on Friday night with tip-off scheduled for 7:00 p.m. (PST). They will conclude the tournament on Saturday when they play Western Illinois in a 4:30 p.m. (PST) game at the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum in Logan. Both games can be heard live on AM 1290 KZSB in Santa Barbara and everywhere on the planet at UCSBgauchos.com.


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Motivation Wax On, Wax Off
254.8 Tottering forward, one baby step at a time. I don't have a day that I don't dip into my Weekly WW Points pool but I have lost 5 lbs in 4 weeks, though it only seems to be about half a pound a week at the moment.
I ate the daily WW points allotment today and was starving by tonight even though I ate vegies, fruits, lean meat, yadda yadda yadda. I just ate 16 points of homemade popcorn (1/8 cup butter and oil combo and 1/2 cup popcorn) washed down with a NA beer and I feel 100% better. I am craving carbs and I feel that if I deprive myself I am way more likely to fail in the end.
The big step forward is that I measured the oil and popcorn and figured out how much I was eating. Also, it was a minimally processed food made from scratch that did not come in a bag with a long list of ingredients. I had an air popper at one point but honestly the popcorn tasted like poo (cardboard actually, stale and tasteless). The old school stove top popcorn tastes pretty awesome but not so greasy that it is really bad like the stuff you get at the movies.
Really the big thing I need to move forward on is the exercise piece. Making excuses not going to the gym. Tomorrow. I. Will. Go.
I have been watching the MTV show I Used to Be Fat and it is pretty inspiring.


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skillsets but also on the companies behind this software.
The same goes for app
vendors, as related by Thom Holwerda's OSNews article Depending on an Application Store for Your
Second, it's always useful to know about major tech companies and their prospects. I no longer work with Microsoft products, for example, but it still behooves me to know the company's plans. Microsoft is an integral part of the tech sea in which we all swim. You don't want to be surprised if the company creates a tsunami that changes your world.
Third, some techies profit from their insights by investing in tech stocks. The OSNews article How to Invest in Tech Stocks tells how. I'll look at companies mainly from this perspective in this article because financial measurements are a useful way to judge corporations. (Disclosure: I own no stock in these companies other than through mutual funds.)
IBMIBM has an impressive history. Once identified as a computer hardware manufacturer, the company adroitly shifted into higher-value software sales, and then into services. This strategy has since been copied by HP, Dell, and Oracle. IBM has a strong track record as a well-run organization. Contrast its careful selection of Virginia Rometty as the new CEO, with her 30 years of experience at the company, to the way struggling archrival Hewlett-Packard continually parachutes in risky executives from the outside.
IBM's stock outperforms Intel, Microsoft, HP, Dell, and Cisco over the past ten years (see chart below). HP surpassed IBM in annual revenue in 2006, but IBM is by far the more profitable company. IBM's forward-looking price per earnings ratio (P/E) is about 13 and it pays a dividend of about 1.5%.
IBM 10 Year Stock Performance Source: Morningstar
IBM is truly international, with operations in 170 countries worldwide. 45% of revenues are from the U.S., while other countries provide 65%.
IBM is also well-diversified by business segment, as shown in this 4Q 2010 revenue breakdown:
IBM Revenue Breakdown Source: IBM
How strong is this company? The famously cautious investor Warren Buffet bought $10.7 billion of IBM stock a few months ago (the stock price has risen since). Certainly, IBM's longterm stability provides a solid foundation for IT careers. Even my friends who bet their careers on IBM technologies that didn't thrive -- like OS/2 and Lotus Notes -- have done well because the company protects its customer base. This gives IT workers sufficient time to learn new skills and refocus their careers if necessary.
As the world shifted from local stores to
online ordering, we all knew some company had to be the big winner.
Amazon is that company.
Borders and Circuit City are among its victims, and even now Office Depot and OfficeMax struggle in the face of this Internet juggernaut. Amazon had $34.2 billion in net sales in 2010, which was 8% of the global $415 billion e-commerce market. 43% of this revenue came from media sales and 54% from electronics and general merchandise. Amazon operates internationally in the U.K., Canada, Germany, Austria, France, Japan, and China. It counts 66 million customers worldwide.
While only 3% of revenue comes from other ventures, Amazon is smart enough to diversify into cloud computing services, e-commerce services, fulfillment and logistics, book publishing, and handhelds like the Kindle and Kindle Fire. Amazon's revenues are concentrated today but the company appears to have natural routes to broaden its business.
The main difficulty in judging Amazon is that the company doesn't provide sufficient detail on its revenue sources. Amazon didn't give investors any numbers on either Kindle sales or cloud services revenues in its first 2012 investor conference call. People are left to guess about these vital components of the company's business.
Amazon's net income has dropped since last year due to its investments. The company is hiring more staff for operations and customer service, creating new fulfullment centers, and plowing money into new products like the Fire. Amazon is sacrificing short-term profits for market share and greater sales. Will these investments pay off?
I believe they will, and that Amazon will continue its growth. Of course, that's not exactly going out on a limb. With an astronomical forward P/E of over 140, that's what everyone thinks. Like Yahoo! and BMC Software, Amazon stock pays no dividends, so the company must grow to reward investors.
What if you sell through Amazon and rely upon it for income? That may depend on the kind of content you sell. Amazon has been wrestling with traditional book publishers over margins for several years, and the fact it now sells more e-books than printed ones has upended the publishing industry. Lately Amazon's been fighting independent book publishers and even self-publishers. Music and streaming video (films and TV shows) have also migrated from physical to remote digital distribution, so margin competition will occur in these areas as well.
The bottom line is that if you create and sell intellectual property or are in content distribution, you face an unstable, changing world. Amazon will probably contest your margins. Ultimately, Amazon is but one moving piece of the complex, shifting puzzle you face as the world evolves towards new models of content distribution.
If IBM and Amazon are giants on a roll, Yahoo! is a giant in decline.
The company is known for its search engine, but in the past several years it's become painfully apparent that Google has stolen that crown. Meanwhile social networks like Facebook pressure many of the original Internet portals like Yahoo!. Yahoo! is not well diversified. Like Google, advertising accounts for over 80% of revenue. But Yahoo! lacks Google's knack for innovation and hasn't matched Google's success with new products like Android, Chrome, Docs, Apps, and others.
Yahoo! continues to be one of the most visited sites on the Internet. The site is 5th most popular in the U.S., with a monthly audience of 95 million (following #4 Amazon with 100 million and #1 Google with 185 million). Yahoo Search, Yahoo Mail, and Yahoo News are still big names. Its Flickr photo-sharing site remains popular, with 51 million registered members and 80 million unique visitors as of June 2011. But Yahoo! needs to figure out some way to leverage its brand and deploy its capital for new revenue streams. Perhaps it can evolve from an Internet portal into a media company that licenses content. Or maybe the company can join Google and Facebook in the race to profitably mine your data.
Yahoo! is buying some time to make these changes by big lay-offs. If it doesn't monetarize better soon, its main hope may be a buy-out. Just hope it's from the right partner. There have been consistent rumors that any of several companies might buy Yahoo!, including Microsoft, Google, and various consortiums.
Looking at its stock, YHOO has been a wild ride over the past decade (see below). The price has ranged from as low as $5 to as high as $40 per share. It shot up during 2003 and 2004, only to give back most gains during the 2008 crash. In the past year it has ranged between about $11 and $19, and it is in the middle of this range as I write. Forward P/E is about 17. The company's market cap is about $19 billion and it pays no dividends.
Yahoo! 10 Year Stock Performance Source: Morningstar
What happens if you own Yahoo! stock and the company is bought out? Usually share prices rise in anticipation of the buy-out. If you don't sell you before the deal goes through, you typically receive shares of the buying company, based on some ratio between Yahoo!'s stock and the stock of the buyer.
Cisco SystemsCisco was the glamour growth stock of the dot com boom a decade ago. Since then, it's been an uneven and not especially profitable ride for longterm investors (see chart below). Cisco remains industry dominant for routers, switches, and related telecommunications equipment. But competitors like Juniper Networks nibbled at its market share while management over-emphasized growth and let profit margins deteriorate.
In response to last year's narrowing margins, Cisco announced a new initiative last fall, eliminating some underperforming product lines and focusing on high margin businesses like its video and web conferencing equipment. So far, execution has been good and the stock has responded accordingly (see chart). Over the past year, the share price has ranged between $13.30 and $20.65. It is at the high end of that range as I write this. The company appears on track for its 3-year annualized revenue growth target of 5% to 7%.
Cisco 10 Year Stock Performance Source: Morningstar
Cisco's challenge is that it charges a premium for its products. CEO John Chambers claimed in February 2012 that "I'm getting very little pushback today on prices." He states that Cisco's gross margins are back up to what they were two years ago, at 62.4% across its product lines.
Another challenge is with one-to-one unified communications on mobile platforms. If small players like Vidyo, OoVoo, and Fuze distinguish themselves sufficiently from Cisco's vision, they could steal a lucrative market away from the company.
Cisco is a $110 billion company with a forward P/E of about 10 and a 1.5% yield. The company has $38 billion in cash to fund its comeback. Earnings history underscores the company's need to re-focus on profitability.
Networking experts, what do you think? Can Cisco reclaim its mojo?
BMC SoftwareIn this and my previous article, I've concentrated on large tech companies. BMC Software is different. It has a total market value of under $6 billion, so it is a mid-cap software firm.
BMC started out providing software for IBM mainframes over thirty years ago. This high-margin business supplied software mainframes were missing back when they were dominant.
As companies downsized, many mainframe software vendors, such as CA Technologies, ported their offerings to smaller platforms. BMC took a different tact. The company positioned itself as IT's solution to managing diverse platforms and competing products. With BMC software, you can, for example, manage Oracle, SQL Server and IBM DB2 databases residing on networked mainframes, Unix and Intel-based servers -- all from a single PC. Today BMC is a big kahuna in distributed systems management. Even so, mainframe income still makes up nearly half the company's revenues.
In its attempt to diversify away from mainframe software, BMC adopted an acquisitions strategy. Like Oracle Corp. and CA Technologies, BMC bought dozens of smaller software firms to dramatically expand its product line in the new millenium. So far the company has successfully leveraged these acquisitions.
As a mid-cap tech stock, BMC's share price reacts dramatically to quarterly results. Buy it and you better watch earnings like a hawk! The chart below shows how good quarters in late 2010 and early 2011 drove the stock sharply higher, only to experience a sudden correction with less-than-expected earnings in mid- 2011. A recent strong quarter yanked the stock back up:
BMC Software 3 Year Stock Performance Source: Morningstar
BMC has good cashflow and minimal debt. The stock has a forward P/E of about 11 and it pays no dividend.
The big questions for BMC are:
- Can it continue to diversify its
revenues away from mainframes and into distributed systems?
- Will its acquisitions strategy deliver continued success?
- How successfully can it sell in the future against its larger rivals (IBM, HP, Oracle, and CA Technologies)?
Your Take?
Here's my bottom line on these companies:
Giant in decline -- Yahoo!
Giant is recovering -- Cisco
Smaller but resilient -- BMC
What do you think? Tell us where you see these companies going. I've concentrated on financials, so post your insights on corporate strategies and products.
You can find good analyses and news about tech companies at Morningstar and Wikinvest.
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New Zealand 22-0 Australia, Rugby Championship
All Blacks retain Bledisloe Cup
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Australia's Scott Higginbotham charges into the All Blacks defence
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New Zealand beat Australia 22-0 to record back-to-back wins over the Wallabies and retain the Bledisloe Cup.
Dan Carter kicked five penalties and converted Israel Dagg's second-half try as the All Blacks produced a dominant display at Eden Park to nil the Wallabies for the first time since 1962.
The All Blacks retain the Bledisloe Cup for the tenth year following their victory in Sydney last weekend and with only one fixture between the two sides remaining this year, which falls outside the Rugby Championship in October.
The All Blacks could have scored more tries as Kieran Read, Liam Messam, Carter and Dagg all went within inches of touching down while the Wallabies barely threatened their opponent's line throughout the game.
Australia were under pressure going into the match after last weekend's heavy defeat to the All Blacks in Sydney and they scrapped hard, especially in the first half. But 13 points in the opening eight minutes of the second half extinguished the Wallabies challenge.
New Zealand made one change to the side that beat the Wallabies 27-19 in Sydney last weekend, with prop Wyatt Crockett replacing the injured Tony Woodcock. Quade Copper was back in Australia's side at fly-half but Kurtley Beale was left out of the staring XV.
The home side dominated the opening half but had to wait until the 27th minute to get the scoreboard moving when Carter slotted his first penalty. Another three points followed minutes later after Will Genia was sin-binned for deliberately playing the ball in the ground after making a tackle.
And Carter was accurate again with the boot before the end of the half to give the hosts a 9-0 lead. It was not all doom and gloom for the Wallabies, who had prevented Dagg from crossing the line twice in the opening period.
However, it took just four minutes of the second half to record the game's only try - shortly after Carter had converted his fourth penalty of the contest. Sonny Bill Williams tried to make a sprint for the line but then decided to offload to Aaron Smith, who in turn played in Dagg to dot down.
Carter added the extras to make the scores 19-0, and added another penalty after 50 minutes to heap even more misery on the misfiring Wallabies. Australia had one sustained assault at the New Zealand line soon after when opting to eschew penalty-goal chances to keep the ball in play, but the All Blacks' defence proved sound.
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Valparaiso University's baseball program had three players voted to the Horizon League's All-Academic Team for their efforts both on the diamond and in the classroom. Andrew Bain (Indianapolis, Ind./Park Tudor H.S.), Tyler Deetjen (Saint Charles, Ill./East H.S.), and Will Hagel (Arlington Heights, Ill./Prospect H.S.) were all selected for the 12-member team.
Bain batted .318 for the Crusaders with 20 runs batted in and six stolen bases. His 83 hits were tied for third most in school history for a single season. A Second Team All-Horizon League selection as a utility player, he was named to the Gary All-Regional Team in the NCAA Tournament. Bain saw action at second base, designated hitter, and the outfield throughout the season.
In the classroom, Bain, a junior, carries a 3.75 cumulative grade point average as a civil engineering major, and was named to the All-Academic Team for the second straight season.
Deetjen also earned Second Team All-Horizon League honors and was named to the Horizon League's All-Tournament Team. He led the Crusaders with eight victories on the hill and sported a 3.12 earned run average. The senior right-hander set the school's single season record pitching 121.1 innings, and struck out 65 while walking just 11 on the year. He was twice named the Horizon League's Pitcher of the Week and ranked fourth in the country for fewest walks per nine innings.
A finance major, Deetjen sports a 3.35 cumulative grade point average.
Hagel, a Second Team All-Horizon League pick hit .294 on the year with 42 runs batted in, second most on the team. The Crusader outfielder tallied 10 doubles, three triples, and a pair of home runs while posting a .390 slugging percentage. He had the team's second longest hitting streak of the season, a 12-game stretch entering the Horizon League Tournament.
Hagel, a fifth-year senior, has a 3.58 GPA while working on his MBA. Also a member of the All-Academic Team in 2011, he had earned his undergraduate degree in international business prior to the season.
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Boston College tapes: PSNI bid to obtain all material
The Police Service of Northern Ireland has confirmed that it is seeking to obtain all material relating to Boston College's Belfast Project.
The project features interviews with dozens of former paramilitaries.
Previously, the PSNI gained access to material from the project relating to the 1972 murder of Jean McConville.
Information from the recordings led to a series of arrests, including that of Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams.
The PSNI said: "Detectives in Serious Crime Branch have initiated steps to obtain all the material from Boston College as part of the Belfast Project.
"This is in line with the PSNI's statutory duty to investigate fully all matters of serious crime, including murder."
A spokesman for Boston College, Jack Dunn, said it had not received anything from the US Department of Justice and "so it would be inappropriate to comment on speculation within Northern Ireland".
Breach of contract
The project was designed as an oral history of the Troubles.
Paramilitaries from the IRA and the Ulster Volunteer Force gave candid interviews to researchers employed by the university, on the understanding that their involvement would not be made public until after their deaths.
The PSNI used a treaty between Britain and the United States to obtain material relating to Mrs McConville.
Researchers fought the release of the interviews through the US courts.
They maintained that it would represent a breach of contract and trust, and violate the ethical code on the protection of sources.
Judge Young, who read the archive in order to determine which testimonies made reference to Mrs McConville, acceded to the PSNI request.
He did, however, describe the project as "a bone fide academic exercise of considerable merit".


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Loyola's 90-year-old newspaper, The Maroon, unveils new multimedia newsroom
Loyola press release - January 21, 2014
The Maroon student newspaper at Loyola University New Orleans is celebrating 90 years and an award-winning past by unveiling a new multimedia newsroom—outfitted with high-tech TV cameras, a news desk, green screen and the ability to link with local and national news outlets—in an open house Feb. 6. The Maroon Multimedia Newsroom not only showcases state-of-the-art technology, but is also the latest example of new educational practices by Loyola's School of Mass Communication.
The open house is set for 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. in The Maroon offices on the third floor of the Communications/Music Complex on the university's main campus. The event is open to all Loyola alumni, faculty, staff and students as well as media industry professionals. The event features hors d'oeuvres, drinks, live music and a silent auction for the office's beloved old desks adorned with signatures of Maroon alumni—some dating back three decades. All money raised will benefit The Maroon's general fund.
In its first deployment of the new digital media technology, the student newspaper began producing "The Maroon Minute" this year. The news wrapup is produced in The Maroon Multimedia Newsroom by a student crew and is featured daily on the newspaper's website.
"For The Maroon, which is celebrating 90 years of excellence, the creation of the Multimedia Newsroom gives students their first chance to produce The Maroon across multiple platforms to embed video to text content. Using The Maroon Multimedia Newsroom, Loyola faculty will also pilot new forward-thinking pedagogical practices in the current School of Mass Communication journalism curriculum," said Sonya F. Duhé, Ph.D., Loyola professor and director of the School of Mass Communication.
School of Mass Communication alumna Michelle Gingras '12, whose first job was as a multimedia sports reporter at The San Diego Union Tribune, knows well the advantages of multimedia journalism training for Loyola students. "Multimedia skills have been a part of my career since day one," she said. As a multimedia journalist in San Diego, she was responsible for writing her own scripts, shooting her own content and editing her work for air and online.
"It's so exciting to hear about all of the progress that the School of Mass Communication is making. There are innumerable benefits to having a multimedia newsroom inside The Maroon offices. The newsroom allows for journalism students to learn about digital media through a hands-on experience," said Gingras, who is now a hockey reporter with the Tampa Bay Lightning and its affiliated Bolts TV.
"The Maroon's new technology is teaching students more than just visual storytelling, it's teaching them how to think for an entire newscast. Most multimedia or video journalism programs in college only look at individual stories and reporting, but ... there's so much more that goes in to the finished product," said former Maroon editor-in-chief Samuel Winstrom '13, who is now a weekend assignment editor at WVUE-TV in New Orleans.
In helping to propel the next generation of Loyola's journalism students with The Maroon Multimedia Newsroom, the newspaper is taking the opportunity to look back on the last 90 years. The Maroon has stood the test of time, enduring—and reporting on—many of the landmark moments in history, including World War II, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights movement, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Pope John Paul II's historic visit to New Orleans in 1987, 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. Those moments in history are reflected in The Maroon's coverage over the years, which is available online through Loyola's J. Edgar and Louise S. Monroe Library.
"This is a chance for The Maroon to celebrate how far we've come in 90 years," said Michael Giusti '00, M.B.A. '12, journalism instructor and Student Media adviser. "The student newspaper started out on the most basic printing presses, and now we're leaping into the digital media world."
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I am a new member here and I am grateful that this forum exists. I am a right handed shooter. I have an Chinese SKS and I would like to add a scope to the rifle. A scope mount must be attached to the receiver frame and not the receiver return spring cover which must be removed for cleaning. If a scope is mounted between 9 o'clock to 11 o'clock from barrel 12 o'clock; what are the consequences of this location? My desired location would be 10:30 o'clock. The scope would obviously be rotated in the rings to a normal 12 o'clock position. This location would allow complete visual access to the iron sites at all adjustable elevations with the shooters head resting on the cheek rest and sighting with the right eye. I believe this scope location would allow the shooter to hold the rifle in the normal position and not require the shooters head to be leaned onto the butt stock or cheek rest. Is it better to have the head resting on a cheek rest for visual stability? If so the shooters head could rest on the cheek rest and use the left eye for scope sighting. Will the turret adjustments be able to zero in from this scope location? The Scope is a Nikon Buckmasters 4.5 -14 x 40 at 14.5" long.
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