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FY10 Access to Artistic Excellence (part 1)
Announced December 8, 2009
Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.
Adrian Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
To support the premiere of Divinum Mysterium for viola and orchestra by composer Kenneth Fuchs performed by the Adrian Symphony Orchestra and related educational activities. Soloist for the premiere will be London Symphony Orchestra Principal Violist Paul Silverthrone, for whom the work was written.
Alabama Symphony Orchestra (consortium), $12,500
To support Reflect and Rejoice: A Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. In partnership with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, the tribute will include performances, spoken word, education, and outreach.
Alabama Symphony Orchestra, $12,500
To support a residency by composer Paul Lansky. Three multiple-day visits are planned that will include master classes and lectures for university music students, pre-concert Composer Conversations, performances curated by Lansky, and the commission and state-wide tour performances of a new work by the composer.
Albany Symphony Orchestra, Albany, NY, $25,000
To support the American Music Festival, Beyond Our Borders. Through numerous commissions, performances, and educational activities, the month-long festival will explore music and musicians from different traditions and cultures.
American Composers Orchestra, $32,500
To support the Playing It Unsafe initiative. Through a series of activities designed to help composers develop new ideas that stretch their artistic vision, the initiative will be a season-long research and developmental laboratory for the creation of risk-taking new orchestral music.
American Symphony Orchestra, $15,000
To support the presentation of rarely performed works by established composers and Classics Declassified, an audience education series. Plans include performances of works by composers Henry Cowell, Boris Tchaikovsky, Boris Tishchenko, Robert Schumann, Gustav Holst, Arthur Bliss, Luigi Dallapiccola, Hans Werner Henze, and Albert Roussel.
Apollo's Fire, The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, $15,000
To support The Monteverdi Experience, celebrating the 400th anniversary of the Vespers of 1610. The weekend-long festival will include performances, a national tour, a radio broadcast, podcasts, and symposia that will explore the artistic, cultural, and sociopolitical context of the Italian Renaissance composer Claudio Monteverdi.
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (consortium), $35,000
To support A King Celebration, a project of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra that will celebrate the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In collaboration with Morehouse College, the project will include performances, educational outreach activities, and a national radio broadcast.
Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, $12,500
To support residencies by California composers. Composer Gabriela Lena Frank will serve as the season-long composer-in-residence where she will collaborate with music director Joana Carneiro, create a new work for orchestra, take part in school programs, and mentor emerging Bay Area composers selected for residencies in the Under Construction concert series.
Boise Philharmonic, $7,500
To support the Classic Collaborations, a series of concerts with related educational activities. Each concert in the series will integrate symphonic music with vocal music, theater, or dance along with participating area opera, theater, and dance companies.
Boston Symphony Orchestra (on behalf of Tanglewood Music Center), $45,000
To support the Festival of Contemporary Music at the Tanglewood Music Center. The 70th anniversary festival will honor the resident composers who have led composition activities for the festival over the past seven decades.
Boston Symphony Orchestra, $75,000
To support premiere performances of orchestral works and related educational activities. Three works by composers Elliott Carter, John Harbison, and Peter Lieberson will be premiered in three programs under the direction of Music Director James Levine.
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, $22,500
To support the premiere of a percussion concerto by composer Eric Ewazen and related educational activities. Titled Drums over the Niagara, the new work will be performed with Scottish percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie.
Canton Symphony Orchestra, $11,000
To support a performance of composer Peter Lieberson's Neruda Songs and related educational activities. The soloist will be mezzo-soprano Kelley O'Connor.
Chicago Sinfonietta (consortium), $10,000
To support chamber music concerts with dancers. In partnership with the Joffrey Ballet, a series of three concerts using four to eight musicians and one or two dancers will take place at the ballet's new facility in downtown Chicago.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, $80,000
To support the Pierre Boulez 85th Birthday Tribute. Plans include a month-long series of concerts and related educational activities featuring works by French composer and conductor Boulez along with composers who influenced his creative development, and artists he has mentored.
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, $30,000
To support Main Stage to Your Stage, a series of performances and educational activities. Plans include programs that will pair classical masterworks with 20th-century works on subscription concerts as well as performances and residency activities in schools.
Civic Orchestra of Chicago, $45,000
To support stipends and training for musicians in the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. Through a rigorous rehearsal and performance schedule, pre-professional musicians will be trained by orchestra musicians and guest conductors.
The Cleveland Orchestra, $52,500
To support the Contemporary Masterworks project of The Cleveland Orchestra. Emerging international composers will be featured in concert, including Cleveland native Susan Botti, Marc-Andre Dalbavic (France), Johannes Maria Staud (Austria), Julian Anderson (Britain), and Matthias Pintscher (German-born).
Colorado Symphony Orchestra, $17,500
To support performances of John Adam's On the Transmigration of Souls with related educational activities. Three performances of the work are planned together with Beethoven's Symphony No. 9.
Columbus Symphony Orchestra (consortium), $15,000
To support the Contemporary Music Festival. In partnership with The Ohio State University, the five-day festival of new music will feature performances of works by composer-in-residence Augusta Read Thomas.
Dallas Symphony Orchestra, $22,500
To support the commissioning and premiere of a new work by Danish organist and composer Poul Ruders and a presentation of Jennifer Higdon's Violin Concerto with related educational activities. The new work by Ruders will be a concerto for organ and orchestra and will feature Mary Preston, the symphony's resident organist as soloist.
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, $50,000
To support commissions, performances, and related educational activities. Composers whose works will be premiered include John Williams, Jennifer Higdon, Billy Childs, Roberto Sierra, John Corigliano, and Cindy McTee.
Elgin Symphony Orchestra, $12,500
To support Hollywood: Its Contributors & Influence on American Music, a series of concerts and educational activities. As part of the orchestra's multi-year Exploring our American Voice initiative, the series of events will explore American film music through concerts for adults and children.
Eugene Symphony Orchestra, $12,500
To support American Encounters: Steven Stucky. The series will include performances of Stucky's recent compositions, a radio broadcast, and educational activities by the composer.
Houston Symphony, $17,500
To support The Planets: An HD Odyssey. With recent high definition photography from the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's fleet of planetary space probes projected above the stage, Holst's The Planets will be performed.
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, $22,500
To support the commissioning and presentation of a new work by composer William Bolcom, performed by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, with related educational activities. The new work titled The Green Concerto will be scored for string trio and orchestra and will have multimedia elements created by Wendall Harrington.
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, $16,000
To support a series of performances of new and rarely heard works and related educational activities. The two programs will be conducted by Music Director Jeffrey Kahane at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, California, and at Royce Hall on the University of California/Los Angeles campus in Westwood.
Los Angeles Philharmonic, $100,000
To support the Americas and Americans Festival with related educational activities. The six-week festival of orchestral, folk, and popular music concerts will be directed by incoming Music Director Gustavo Dudamel.
Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, $10,000
To support Made in Louisiana: A Musical Quilt. The concert will examine the ethnically diverse musical repertoire of New Orleans as experienced by the composer Louis Moreau Gottschalks.
Minnesota Orchestra, $42,500
To support the Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute. The professional development project will be co-directed by the institute's composer and new music adviser Aaron Jay Kernis and artistic planning associate Beth Cowart.
National Symphony Orchestra, $50,000
To support Perspectives, an artist residency with American composer John Adams. The residency will feature the Washington premieres of his orchestral works The Wound-Dresser, featuring baritone Eric Owens; City Noir; and Dharma at Big Sur with violinist Leila Josefowicz performing on a six-string electronic guitar.
New Century Chamber Orchestra, $12,500
To support the Featured Composer Residency by American composer William Bolcom. Activities will include the commissioning of a new work for the chamber orchestra and its premiere performances in San Francisco, Palo Alto, and San Rafael.
New Haven Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
To support Shifting Patterns: Eastern and Western Cultural Influences in Contemporary American Music. Composers-in-residence Jin Hi Kim and Augusta Read Thomas will be involved with school residencies, chamber music concerts, and performances of commissioned chamber works.
New York Philharmonic, $70,000
To support an artist residency by violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter at the New York Philharmonic. The residency will include performances of violin concerti written specifically for her by composers Wolfgang Rihm, Sofia Gubaidulina, and Sebastian Currier.
New York Pops, $10,000
To support The Best of Lerner and Loewe, a concert program celebrating the collaborations between librettist and lyricist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe. Music director conductor Steven Reineke will direct the program at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
Oakland East Bay Symphony, $16,000
To support a performance project celebrating music director Michael Morgan's 20th anniversary with the orchestra. The project will include world premieres of new work by composers Rebecca Mauleon and Benedikt Brydern.
Orange County's Pacific Symphony, $47,500
To support The Greatest Generation, an American composers festival. Programming will feature music composed during, and in response to, the Great Depression and World War II, as well as the premiere of a commissioned work echoing this theme by American composer Michael Daugherty.
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, $21,000
To support multi-state touring on the East Coast. The orchestra will perform concerts in multiple venues in New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia.
The Philadelphia Orchestra, $60,000
To support Philadelphia Firsts, the orchestra's first performances of works by composers Kalevi Aho, Richard Danielpour, and Bright Sheng. The concerts will be performed at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, $15,000
To support the concert presentation of George Frideric Handel's opera Orlando (1733). Under the direction of music director Nicholas McGegan, the performances on period instruments will be presented in San Francisco, Berkeley, and Palo Alto.
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, $50,000
To support the Composer of the Year, an artist residency with composer Richard Danielpour. The orchestra, with guest conductor Leonard Slatkin, will perform the composer's Pastime, a co-commissioned work with the Atlanta Symphony and Brooklyn Philharmonic which was premiered in 2006, and Rocking the Cradle (2007), which will be conducted by music director Manfred Honeck.
Post-Classical Ensemble (consortium), $13,500
To support Interpreting Liszt, a four-day music festival. In partnership with Georgetown University, the orchestra will provide lectures and performances of works by composer and virtuoso pianist Franz Liszt (1811-1886) on campus at the university and at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra, $10,000
To support a community performance project featuring works by Chevalier de Saint Georges, Pastor Alonzo Morris, William Grant Still, Sergei Prokofiev, and George Gershwin. Under the direction of music director Michael Morgan, the orchestra will perform with the Paradise Baptist Church Choir at the Guild Theater and the Community Center Theater in Sacramento.
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, $27,500
To support the Living Composers Series. Performances will take place at Powell Hall in St. Louis and during a California tour and will comprise programs of contemporary composers' works juxtaposed with other masterpieces which demonstrate thematic or compositional links in the music or between composers.
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, $40,000
To support the Living Composers Project. The orchestra will perform new works by American composer Steven Stucky and Italian composer Michele Dall'Ongaro, as well as works by John Adams, Thomas Ades, Louis Andressen, and Gyorgy Kurtag.
San Francisco Symphony, $70,000
To support a composer residency by British composer George Benjamin. As part of the orchestra's Project San Francisco, the composer will conduct concerts of his works and participate in education programs during his two-week residency.
Seattle Symphony, $21,000
To support American Composers Project, featuring works by John Adams, Samuel Barber, and Leonard Bernstein. Music director Gerard Schwarz and guest conductor Robert Spano will lead orchestral performances, public lectures, and discussions at Benaroya Hall.
South Bend Symphony Orchestra, $10,000
To support Remembered in Music: A Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. The concert, for a full orchestra and chorus, will perform a program illustrating the ideals of Dr. King's philosophy of a unified and collaborative community.
South Carolina Philharmonic, $10,000
To support the commissioning, premiere, and recording of a new double piano concerto by American composer John Fitz Rogers. Music director Morihiko Nakahara will conduct the premiere performance featuring duo pianists Marina Lomazov and Joseph Rackers at the Koger Center for the Arts.
Tempesta di Mare (consortium), $8,000
To support Learning from Maestro Vivaldi. In partnership with Pro Musica Rara, performances will take place at two churches in Philadelphia and at Towson University Center for the Arts in Baltimore.
American Music Center, $27,500
To support online services for new American music. Services will include www.NewMusicBox.org, a monthly web magazine about artists and issues in the new music community; the American Music Center Online Library, a searchable, encyclopedic database of contemporary American composers; and Counterstream Radio, an online radio station.
Association of California Symphony Orchestras, $27,500
To support professional and leadership development and technical assistance programs for California orchestras. Plans include an annual statewide conference and workshops for artistic and administrative staff, trustees, and volunteers from more than 150 orchestras.
Astral Artistic Services, $10,000
To support solo recitals and orchestral concerts with roster artists as soloists in Philadelphia and New York City. Plans include solo recitals, concerts of piano trios, and orchestral performances with roster artists as soloists.
Bard Music Festival, $15,000
To support the Bard Music Festival. The festival will explore the world and music of Austrian composer Alban Berg and his contemporaries by presenting a range of musical forms including symphonic, orchestral, and choral concerts.
Bravo! Colorado at Vail-Beaver Creek, $12,500
To support the 23rd annual Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival. The summer festival will feature chamber and orchestral concerts, open rehearsals, public workshops, the Young Artists Program, and educational outreach concerts.
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, $13,500
To support a professional development program for conductors and composers. The training program, led by conductors Marin Alsop and Gustav Meier, will offer emerging conductors the opportunity to lead small and large ensembles in rehearsals and public performances, program contemporary works, and collaborate with composers.
Carnegie Hall, $80,000
To support the Japan Festival. Maestro Seiji Ozawa will serve as artistic director of a festival of presentations showcasing Japan's cultural traditions alongside its openness to cutting-edge technologies and ideas.
Chorus America (consortium), $40,000
To support a conference collaboration for choruses and orchestras. Holding annual conferences simultaneously in Atlanta in June 2010, Chorus America and the League of American Orchestras will program cross-disciplinary events with content important to both groups.
Concert Artists Guild, $20,000
To support career development of emerging classical musicians through national concert engagements. In diverse venues across the country, 75 performance opportunities will enable 18 artists/ensembles on the Concert Artists Guild roster to polish their performance and communication skills.
Conductors Guild, $15,000
To support conductor training workshops. Participants will receive instruction from experienced conductors and have the opportunity to conduct orchestral, opera, and wind ensembles at venues around the country.
Early Music Foundation, $10,000
To support English and German Roots of the American Orchestra concerts. Two programs performed by the resident Orchestra of Original Instruments are planned of music from the 17th- through the early 19th-centuries with related educational activities.
Eastern Music Festival, $10,000
To support the Eastern Music Festival including concerts, educational, and outreach activities. The festival will feature chamber and orchestral concerts for adults and children by resident faculty musicians and guest artists.
Emmanuel Music, $10,000
To support presentations of the works of composers Joseph Haydn and Arnold Schoenberg with related educational activities. Solo piano and orchestral music will be presented highlighting the two Viennese composers.
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, $50,000
To support Gospel Across America, a festival that will showcase and explore the impact of American gospel music. Artists will include Richard Smallwood with Vision; NEA National Heritage Fellowship recipients Shirley Caesar and Mavis Staples; Kirk Franklin; the Fisk University Jubilee Singers, the National Symphony Orchestra; and Take Six, an a cappella ensemble.
Kent State University, $12,500
To support the professional development of advanced chamber music students at the Kent/Blossom Music program. Nationally selected, post-secondary music students will spend summer weeks under the mentorship and instruction of Cleveland Orchestra musicians, the Miami Quartet, and other prominent faculty members.
League of American Orchestras, $150,000
To support services designed to strengthen orchestras through learning and leadership development, research, and communications within the orchestra field. The League of American Orchestras will assist nearly 1,000 member orchestras of every size and type in all 50 states.
Meet The Composer, $50,000
To support the Creative Frontiers initiative. The program is designed to expand the service organization's reach by utilizing regional, virtual, and networking opportunities.
Monadnock Music, $15,000
To support free community concerts in rural southwestern New Hampshire towns in the Monadnock region. Summer concerts, performed by musicians in residence, will take place in churches and meeting houses during the two-month festival.
Ojai Festivals, $16,000
To support the Ojai Music Festival. The 64th annual music festival will feature the premiere of Little Hill, a new work by composer and conductor George Benjamin, who will serve as this year's festival music director.
OK Mozart International Festival, $12,500
To support the 26th annual OK Mozart International Festival. Performances will be held throughout the Bartlesville community and will include music for orchestra, chamber ensemble, and chorus.
Philharmonic Society of Orange County, $12,500
To support an artist residency, Steve Reich: A 75th Birthday Celebration. The project will feature a new work commissioned work by Reich composed for string quartet, premiered by the Kronos Quartet at the Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall.
Sphinx Organization, $50,000
To support the artistic development of the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra. The ensemble of professional African American and Latino musicians from orchestras and institutions around the country will perform concerts in Ann Arbor and at Orchestra Hall in Detroit, featuring talented, young soloists in each of the concerts.
University of Chicago, $13,500
To support an artist residency by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. The orchestra and faculty musicians will present concerts, composition readings, chamber music coaching and master classes, as well as community-based educational events for elementary schoolchildren and their families.
Washington Chorus, $30,000
To support the Washington premiere of American composer Steven Stucky's oratorio August 4, 1964, written for orchestra, chorus, and four soloists. The performance, directed by music director Julian Wachner, will take place at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Washington Performing Arts Society, $30,000
To support the presentation of orchestral concerts featuring the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, the San Francisco Symphony, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. All concerts will be performed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Young Concert Artists, $30,000
To support the Young Concert Artists Series. The professional development program of recitals and concerto debuts in New York City and Washington, DC, will include the commissioning of a new work by a young composer and career management for emerging classical performers and composers.


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New Claims Transfer Fee to Take Effect May 1, 2013
Effective May 1, 2013, the bankruptcy courts will begin charging a new fee of $25 for each claim transferred. This fee was approved by the Judicial Conference of the United States at its September 2012 session.
In considering this fee, the Judicial Conference Committees with jurisdiction over bankruptcy fees recognized the impact a transfer of a claim has on the workload of the bankruptcy courts, including impact on court time and resources. Bankruptcy Rule
3001(e) requires the clerk of court to notice a transferred claim, and provides additional notice and hearing requirements if an objection to a transfer is made.
The fee will be assessed by bankruptcy courts upon the filing of the claim transfer, whether filed by a transferee or transferor. It will apply to partial claims transfers as well.
In the event multiple claims transfers are filed at one time by one entity (claims upload or batch filing), the $25 fee will be charged for each individual claim transferred.
The fee must be paid by credit card upon the filing of the claims transfer in CM/ECF using Pay.gov, or by cash, check, cashier's check or money order if the claim transfer is not filed electronically.
Entities that transfer claims should be aware that the Northern District of Oklahoma will remove electronic access to that function for all Limited Use filers on May 1, 2013. Transfers of claims may be filed electronically by an attorney through the CM/ECF system or via paper.

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New Yahoo CEO Must Be Willing to Do Microsoft DealBy Reuters - | Posted 2008-11-19 Print
If Microsoft does eventually buy Yahoo, shareholders should brace themselves for a price far lower than the $47.5 billion the software behemoth offered earlier this year. Online display advertising, a core Yahoo business, has also shrunk as corporate advertisers scale back on Web marketing promotions amid a global economic slump.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - To impress shareholders, Yahoo Inc's next chief executive needs just one qualification: the willingness to do a deal with Microsoft Corp.
That's because this remains Yahoo's best option, short of a dramatic turnaround plan, analysts said.
But if Microsoft does eventually buy Yahoo, shareholders should brace themselves for a price far lower than the $47.5 billion the software behemoth offered earlier this year.
Wall Street analysts estimate that Microsoft would not offer more than $17-$20 per share for Yahoo, whose stock has fallen below $12 from a high of $30.25 in February.
Online display advertising, a core Yahoo business, has also shrunk as corporate advertisers scale back on Web marketing promotions amid a global economic slump.
Under Chief Executive Jerry Yang, who on Monday agreed to step down from his role once the board finds a replacement, Yahoo searched for alternatives to being bought, exploring partnerships with Google Inc and Time Warner Inc's AOL unit.
But Google, which struck a search advertising deal with Yahoo in June only to abandon it as regulatory concerns grew, is unlikely to come back for more.
Meanwhile, Yahoo's months-long discussions with Time Warner about combining its AOL unit, have not led to a deal so far.
And Microsoft, for all its proclamations to the contrary, still needs Yahoo's assets to bolster its presence in online search and advertising, analysts said.
But the scales will be tipped in Microsoft's favor if and when the new Yahoo CEO does reach out to negotiate a new deal.
"It's not going to be Microsoft calling Yahoo saying, 'We're making a bid for $17 a share'," Needham & Co analyst Mark May said.
"Microsoft is done negotiating with Yahoo. If Yahoo wants to do a deal, its board needs to have full agreement" on the price they want to sell the company for, May added.
Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion on January 31, which Yahoo rejected. It sweetened its cash-and-stock bid to $47.5 billion, but withdrew it after talks fell apart on price.
Microsoft later came back with a proposal to buy Yahoo's search assets, but Yahoo turned it down as well, choosing to team up with archrival Google instead.
Yahoo and Time Warner also began talking about a deal under which Yahoo would fold AOL's online content and advertising assets into its operations, with Time Warner taking a stake in the combined company, sources have told Reuters.
Despite advanced talks, a deal hasn't happened because of challenges to valuing the businesses given the weak advertising market and Yahoo's falling stock price, as well as concerns over integrating the platforms, the sources have said.
Analysts have been skeptical about such a deal because they don't believe it would dramatically improve Yahoo's earnings.
"Yahoo-AOL? What would that bring to the table? There's no point in having a marriage of convenience. It's not going to last," said Mukul Krishna, global digital media director at Frost & Sullivan, a research and consulting firm.
Krishna said Yahoo's shareholders are looking for something more tangible to offset the stock's losses.
Yahoo needs either a substantial turnaround plan, complete with cost-cutting and a "roadmap to profitability," or an acquisition by Microsoft to satisfy investors, Krishna said.
"Microsoft will be only too happy to restart the conversation, but it will be calling the shots," he said.
Activist investor Carl Icahn's presence on Yahoo's board may help bring Microsoft to the table, analysts said.
Icahn, a major Yahoo shareholder, has publicly reiterated hopes of a Yahoo-Microsoft deal several times. He did not return calls seeking comment.
Analysts said they expect Microsoft to eventually come back because it needs Yahoo nearly as much as Yahoo needs it.
"Microsoft wants Yahoo's search audience, the traffic, the clicks," Needham's May said. "They want to have as much as Google does. So it's important for Microsoft to have a big presence in search and display."
But Cowen & Co analyst Jim Friedland said Microsoft is unlikely to want to rush into talks with Yahoo even with a new CEO knocking on its door.
Both companies are seeing declines in their Web businesses due to the global economic downturn, and as Yahoo's "only potential buyer," Microsoft can take its time, he said.
(Reporting by Anupreeta Das; editing by Richard Chang)
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The bacterial zoo in your bowel
You are outnumbered by a factor of 10 to one, by forces you cannot see. Your body has around ten trillion cells, but it's also home to a hundred trillion bacteria. For every gene in your genome, there are 100 bacterial ones. Most of these are found the dark, dank environment of your bowel but their incredible diversity is being brought to the surface. Say hello to the gut metagenome.
Together with a team of international scientists, Junjie Qin and Ruiqiang Li from BGI-Shenzen had the unenviable task of studying the bacteria from the faeces of 124 Europeans. They used a formidable and audacious technique called metagenomics, which analyses all the genetic material in a sample, without bothering to culture the individual species first. It's a shoot-first-ask-questions-later method that captures all the data and lets other programmes sort out the mess.
Stool samples from 33 people have already been analysed in this way, but Qin and Li managed to sequence almost 200 times as much DNA. Brace yourself for some big numbers. Their project uncovered just under 3.3 million bacterial genes, more than 150 times as many as reside in the entire human genome. By their estimate, your bowel and mine harbour at least 160 bacterial species each and we share many of our tenants (I say bacteria, but around 1% of the genes came from archaea, a superficially similar group but one that's actually as different from bacteria as bacteria are from us).
The quest to understand gut microbes may seem like an arcane niche of science, but it's actually very important for public health. We rely on these microscopic passengers more than we realise. They harvest energy from our food, provide us with nutrients that would otherwise be denied to us, prevent the growth of harmful bacteria, and more. In many ways, they're like a forgotten organ. They can also go rogue, changing their community in ways that are linked to obesity or bowel diseases. Indeed, Qin and Li showed that the gut microbiome of a health person looks very different to that of someone with a bowel condition like Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis.
All in all, over 1,000 species make their living in the human bowel but a common cadre of 57 are shared by the vast majority of us. Even for this common set, each individual species could be thousands of times more common in your gut compared to mine. With such variation, it's no wonder that earlier smaller studies concluded that people have very different gut lodgers.
Of the 3.3 million genes, most are fairly rare. Some 2.3 million of them are found in less than a fifth of the people in the study. There is, however, a set that is shared across all bowels. Some of these core genes as "housekeepers", essential for the survival of any bacterium, but others are specific requirements for life in the bowel.
The latter group include genes for sticky proteins that allow the bacteria to latch onto the cells of their hosts, essential when your home is constantly washed by tsunamis of digested food. Others are all about sugars – they harvest, break down and ferment these complex molecules from their nutritious surroundings, including several sugars from fruits and vegetables that we don't absorb very well. Yet others produce vitamins and fatty acids that we'd otherwise lack and some may even help to convert unusual chemicals, like the food supplement benzoate (E211), into useful substances like the vitamin biotin. The majority, however, are still a mystery, and that's just the essential genes. There are millions more with functions still to be unpicked.
So far, the data reads like a litany of massive numbers and impressive stats. But the true value of Qin and LI's work is as a source of data for future discoveries yet to come. Jonathan Eisen from University of California, Davis says, "Much of the science in here is not that novel but the scope of this project alone is awesome. This is most valuable as a reference data set for future work." He adds that we still need to decipher the genomes of many other gut microbes, to give us reference sequences that can be compared against the sprawling mass of data thrown up by Qin and Li's study. For the moment, the best way to do that is to take the species that can already be identifed, and sequence close relatives that can be cultured in the lab. In the not-too-distant future, it should also be possible to seqeunce the genome of a single cell.
Once this work is done, we can start to answer some of the more intriguing questions. How, for example, does the gut metagenome interact with our own squadron of genes? How does it change when people put on or lose weight, when we get gut infections or when we develop bowel cancer? How are these passengers influenced by our diet or other aspects of our environment? And so far, the team have only examined European faeces. Who knows what revelations lurk within the poo of other nations?
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And I thought I had a shit post-doc…
What a great article! well done – I'm sending this to all my friends who wonder why I love microbiology…
How about the difference between meat eaters and vegetarians?
If people are interested in the dataset they can also download it via BioTorrents:
Microbiology is so not my area, but I couldn't help but notice a quasi-link between this post, your later one on the research connecting specific mouse-gut bacteria with obesity, and this guest post over at Aetiology: http://scienceblogs.com/aetiology/2010/02/c-sections_allergies_and_probi.php about vaginal versus C-section birth processes and correlated outcomes of gut microflora colonization in newborns. So, I wonder… if the mouse research holds true for humans too and if a mother has this "bad" bacteria (listed in the other post) that is linked to obesity, and gives birth vaginally, then does that put the infant at increased risk for obesity straight from birth?
Ooh interesting call. Inheritance of gut bacteria is not the only route that mice could inherit a higher risk of obesity from their parents – check this out.
Interesting, I think I remember this one now; and I did not mean to imply that might be the "only" route, was just musing about the synergy of these concepts. Funny, but this describes my significant other: "..the ever-present gene also blocks signals in the animals' brains that tell them that they're full." >
"The latter group include genes for sticky proteins that allow the bacteria to latch onto the cells of their hosts"
Absolutely intriguing! My wife has celiac disease which manifests when one of the proteins that make up gluten, gliadin a long chain of amino acids, is not completely broken down by digestive enzymes, and for unknown reasons, when this longer chain attaches to an enzyme in the small intestine called tissue-transglutaminase, the body interprets this union as toxic and the immune system attacks it. Maybe this will bring a new avenue to research of the disease?
How would you go about discovering if one or several bacteria were related to digestion of the protein gliadin? Determine if is similar in different people, and different or unique in celiac patients?
And the layman's question, can you introduce bacteria of this nature to an individual?
How would you go about discovering if one or several bacteria were related to digestion of the protein gliadin?>/blockquote>
Never heard of that protein, but it should be as easy as: Make an agar plate with gliadin, put bacteria on it, see if the gliadin is broken down.
And the layman's question, can you introduce bacteria of this nature to an individual?
In a word, yes. But it's a bit more complicated than that. Adding bacteria (like the yoghurts advertising "good bacteria") is a big enough area of research becuase there's money in it. For functinoal foods, enough of the bacterial culture has to survive the food processing and the passage through your digestive system. You can avoid that problem if you're willing to go up instead of down, but that isn't as in demand, understandably.
The problem there's no real getting around is making the bacteria establish themselves in sufficient numbers.
There's trillions of bacteria in your gut, and they're all competeing with each other. The bacteria has to be able to survive, and in suffcient numbers to have the desired effect. If the bacteria can survive in your gut, I would speculate that it's very likely already present. If it can't, there's no hope for adding it as it is, so a similar bacteria (or at least one which can do what you want) which can survive must be found, and if necessary/possible optimised for survival (genetic manipulation through genetic engineering or through selective breeding).
Take everything I've said with a pinch of salt though, because I'm only basing this on my undergrad and the odd talk from scientists in this area.
Thanks for Post 9 Marc
I really appreciate the input. This potential avenue to understand celiac disease may have been pursued already? But in the sampling of the research papers I have read on this subject matter I have not come across this link in the research.
I will inquire with a celiac research center at the University of Columbia to see if they are aware of approaching it from this direction.
Another interesting line of research would be the effect on this gutsy ecosystem of antibiotics, both (a) over the time they are being prescribed, and (b) over the long haul.


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Larry E. Davis, John M. Wallace Jr., and Trina R. Williams Shanks
African Americans have been a part of the nation's history for nearly four hundred years. Although their history includes the forced imposition of chattel slavery, the strict enforcement of legal segregation, and a tenuous acceptance as equal citizens, African Americans have been, and continue to be, major contributors, creators, investors, and builders of America. In this article we summarize briefly the history of African Americans, we examine racial disparities in key indicators of social, mental, and physical well-being, and we highlight persistent strengths that can be built upon and areas that provide hope for the future. The challenge for social work is to simultaneously celebrate the historical successes and ongoing contributions of African Americans to this country while also recognizing the vestiges of structural racism and fighting for greater civil rights and social and economic justice.
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Iris Carlton-LaNey
This article discusses the African American social welfare system that began to develop during the early 20th century. This social welfare system, designed by African Americans to serve African Americans, addressed needs that were not being met by any other formal social services while the nascent social work profession was emerging. The myriad programs included settlement houses, boys and girls programs, training schools, and day nurseries. The women's club movement played a critical role in the development of this social welfare system and provided much of the impetus for change and inclusion. Through formal organizations, including the National Urban League (NUL) and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), and an array of clubs and social groups, social services were extended to urban and rural communities throughout the United States.
Ageism in the Workplace
Patricia Brownell
Older workers make important contributions to the workplace, its productivity, and its culture. Work remains important for older adults for financial security, to give meaning to later life, to maintain social networks, and to promote lifelong learning. However, ageist beliefs about the capacity of older adults to remain productive and contributing workers in the workforce can create barriers for older workers. Understanding how older workers experience ageist behavior in the workplace can help employers, policy makers, and social workers learn more about how to address this social problem. Organizations can become more age friendly through enabling workplace programs, supportive management, and proactive human resource managers. Social workers serving older adults in employee assistance programs and in private practice can help them to challenge ageism in the workplace. Finally, legislation such as the Age Discrimination in Employment Act protects the rights of older workers; however, more legislation is needed to address bullying and harassment of older adults in the workplace.
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Nancy R. Hooyman and Amanda Barusch
The rapidly growing older population is more heterogeneous than any other age group. Although many face vulnerabilities and inequities as they age, most are resilient. This entry explores the "greying of America," examines the definition and measurement of aging, reviews the diversity among older adults in the United States, discusses productive, successful, and active aging, and suggests leadership roles for social workers in enhancing the well-being of elders and their families.
Aging: Public Policy
Jeanette C. Takamura
Public policy advances in the field of aging in the United States have lagged compared to the growth of the older adult population. Policy adjustments have been driven by ideological perspectives and have been largely incremental. In recent years, conservative policy makers have sought through various legislative vehicles to eliminate or curb entitlement programs, proposing private sector solutions and touting the importance of an "ownership society" in which individual citizens assume personal responsibility for their economic and health security. The election of a Democratic majority in the U.S. House and the slim margin of votes held by Democrats in the U.S. Senate may mean a shift in aging policy directions that strengthens Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, if the newly elected members are able to maintain their seats over time. The results of the 2008 presidential election will also determine how the social, economic, and other policy concerns will be addressed as the baby boomers join the ranks of older Americans.
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Alaska Natives represent less than 1% of the U.S. population but reside in more than 229 Native villages and account for 40% of federally recognized tribes. Most Alaska Native communities shared common Euro-American contact experiences: exposure to western religions, education, and disease. Historical trauma contributes to many of the social welfare problems Natives experience today: low educational attainment, unemployment, inadequate health care, substance abuse, and violence. Service delivery mechanisms, lack of cultural appropriateness, and isolation compound these pressing issues. Locally delivered social welfare services that take into account traditional Native worldviews, values, languages, and intergenerational relationships are effective in addressing many of these issues.
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Martha A. Sheridan and Barbara J. White
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Un gagnant a été sélectionné de 49 designs proposés par 6 designers freelance.
We have already been very successful with 99designs, working with designers to create an outstanding e-commerce design. With this we have integrated a powerful shopping engine to create an very impressive online shop. See for yourself http://babyonline.warpfusion.co.nz (still WIP).
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Pros: Clean & simple, nice fresh colours & style, nice with large intro image, good functional layout throughout when using to shop.
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Just a touch of this website would be great:
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Cons. Designed for only 1 product - no category nav, not a good layout for a dynamic website displaying lots of products.
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One of the White teens who posted a picture dressed in Blackface because she's a "n***er" for Halloween, responded to criticism by saying that Black people need to stop worrying about her costume and start worrying about finding their fathers.
The two little Klansladies-in-training, @kinkystyles and @dobebeiber, proudly showed off their costumes, with the tweet: "me & @kinkystyles are n**ers this Halloween :)"
The photo quickly went viral after being tweeted by Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson:
After offended Black people on Twitter challenged @dobebeiber about the ignorant and racist costume, she further showed her true (lack of) color with the following tweets:
@Kinkystyles, apparently, felt that Black people just aren't patriotic enough:
This incident caps two weeks of tasteless costumes.
Aactress and dancer Julianne Hough issued an apology after dressing in Blackface as the character "Crazy Eyes" from the hit Netflix series "Orange Is The New Black."
The NBA's Utah Jazz issued an apology yesterday for tweeting a picture of a White fan dressed as veteran player Karl Malone for Halloween.
A viral photo of a White teen dressed in Blackface as a dead Trayvon Martin continues to make the rounds on social media.
Read more http://newsone.com/2748798/white-teen-blackface-twitter/


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Replacing Rear Wiper Motor
ChronixPsyc replied to ChronixPsyc's topic in Ford Focus ClubGreat! Thanks pal, will give this a go tomorrow
Replacing Rear Wiper Motor
ChronixPsyc posted a topic in Ford Focus ClubHey guys, About a month after I bought my car I burnt out the motor on my rear wiper and have finally got round to buying one (ford wanted £160!!!) from ebay. Does anyone have a guide on how to replace this? My model is a Ford Focus Ink 2003 1.6 Thanks :)
New Ford Owner And Have A Few Questions
ChronixPsyc replied to ChronixPsyc's topic in Ford Focus ClubYeah, the screen wash comes out if I put the arm towards me, its just when the button is pressed, no water comes out and only wipers work.
New Ford Owner And Have A Few Questions
ChronixPsyc replied to ChronixPsyc's topic in Ford Focus ClubWhat do you think could be the cause of this not working? Is there a seperate screen wash tank for this button?
New Ford Owner And Have A Few Questions
ChronixPsyc replied to ChronixPsyc's topic in Ford Focus ClubThanks for the replies, I'll take a look at the fuses tonight. If the rear window wiper ends up being a wire issue, does it cost a lot to get fixed? Is it something that a complete novice could do? I also forgot to mention another issue, but not sure if its an issue. There's a button on the windscreen wiper arm(if that's what its called) that when I press it, the wipers go off for 3 wipes, wait a few seconds, then a final one. Is the screen wash supposed to come out when this is pressed as when I pressed the button, it sounds like it should.
New Ford Owner And Have A Few Questions
ChronixPsyc posted a topic in Ford Focus ClubHi all, First time posting here and was hoping you could help me answer a few question as I am not too knowledgable on cars. I bought a Ford Focus Limited Edition Ink (don't really know what this means, just a different blue?) 53 plate at the start of December and have really enjoyed the car, much better than my previous fiat bravo 51 plate. My clutch seems high, but the bite is still fine, even on steep hills for stop and start. I had my clutch replaced in my bravo a couple months before I sold it and got my focus so I only think im used to that, but do you think because of it being/feeling so high, I should get it looked at? The guy who sold it to me (friends dads mate who he owns a garage with) said its absolutely fine. Only noticed something this this morning as I don't usually listen to the radio when driving (use my parrot with phone connected for music), if I change station, the radio just randomly shuts off and takes about 30 seconds for it to come back on. A girl at my work as a Ka and said it also happens to her car. Is this just a normal thing for Fords to do? Just under a month ago, a bird had crapped on my windscreen and rather than walking back to my house to clear it off with paper, I thought I'd be smart and remove it with the screen wash and hold down the windscreen wipers. This back fired and now my rear window wiper doesn't work at all. Would this be a motor or a fuse problem or something like that? Sorry, I have no idea what I am talking about. I wanted to use my sat nav a few weeks ago so plugged it in to the cigarette lighter socket and noticed my sat nav wasn't charging. I knew it was working fine because it charged fine in my bravo. Do I just replace the fuse or something? And if so, where would I find it? When I bought the car, I asked about the timing belt and he told me that it was changed 3000 miles ago, but theres no receipt of this happening. Are there any tell signs of the timing belt going? My engine light is currently on on my dash, could this be related? Also when I bought the car, the guy told me that the car came with an RS dash with 54k on the clock and 54k on the MOT too, but he wanted to sell the car with a Ford Focus stock dash and it came with 115000 miles on it. Is it illegal to get it clocked back to about 55k? It says on the MOT it was 54k in July when the MOT was done and I've kept record of how many miles I've done since I purchased the car. Any questions that you could shed some light on would be amazing! Thanks in advance!


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another screwup at the CCAC pool
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They set up the lanes so narrow today for long course, what is normally an 8 lane 50 meter pool was set up as a 12 lane 50 meter pool. Talk about collision city. Atleast with the wider lanes I can swim down the middle to pass someone.
At least all I was doing was a warmup for tonights 500 Free in Brunswick. Kids meet for this old kid.
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