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NFL on Westwood One Sports
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The NFL on Westwood One Sports is the branding for Cumulus Broadcasting subsidiary Westwood One's radio coverage of the National Football League. The broadcast previously was branded with the CBS Radio and Dial Global marques; CBS Radio was the original Westwood One's parent company and Dial Global purchased the company in 2011. Dial Global has since reverted its name to Westwood One after eliminating the branding in 2012.
Westwood One's package includes the Sunday Night Football game, the Monday Night Football game, the Thanksgiving Day games, Thursday Night Football (beginning in 2006), any late-season Friday and Saturday night games, the Pro Football Hall of Fame Game, the season-opening NFL Kickoff Game, all playoff games, the Super Bowl, and the Pro Bowl. These games are distributed throughout the United States, Canada (via TSN Radio), and (via Absolute Radio 90s[2]) the United Kingdom.
- 1 History of NFL games on Westwood One's predecessors
- 2 Coverage overview
- 3 Announcers
- 4 Availability
- 5 Notes
- 6 External links
History of NFL games on Westwood One's predecessors
While major networks such as Westwood One, CBS, NBC, and Mutual held exclusive rights to most national broadcasts of the NFL throughout the league's history, Dial Global's predecessor, Jones Radio Networks, had carried several years' worth of Sunday afternoon games nationwide. Beginning in 2002, Jones carried game broadcasts from the Sports USA Radio Network. After Dial Global's massive acquisition spree of other networks began in 2008, Jones came under the Dial Global banner and Sports USA ended its relationship with the network. In 2009, Dial Global instead switched to Compass Media Networks for its Sunday afternoon NFL coverage.
Relationship to CBS
Westwood One had a long-standing relationship with CBS Radio. CBS' parent company owned the network for approximately ten years (1998–2008) and, through the CBS Radio Network, maintained control of the production of certain programming, including NFL games, an arrangement that continued following Westwood One's acquisition by Dial Global through the end of the 2011 NFL season.
As such, there was often synergy between the NFL on Westwood One and its former sister outlet, the NFL on CBS.
The theme music for The NFL on Westwood One from 2003 until the end of the 2012 season was "Posthumus Zone" by E.S. Posthumus, the same theme music used for the NFL on CBS television coverage (Westwood One's sports coverage had always used the appropriate CBS television theme for their sport where applicable). For the 2013 season, a new radio-specific score was commissioned by the network.
Some personnel is shared between the two units; for instance, certain CBS play-by-play announcers (e.g. Don Criqui, Dick Enberg and Ian Eagle) call select Sunday afternoon games throughout the first several weeks of the season on CBS and then switch to Thursday and Saturday night games on Westwood One. Boomer Esiason, who is an analyst for CBS' The NFL Today, called color commentary on Westwood One's Monday Night Football (and would often advertise the latter on the former, as "the Monday night game on Westwood One"); conversely, Steve Tasker, a color commentator for CBS's Sunday afternoon coverage, served as an analyst on The NFL on Westwood One shows.
The coverage carried the CBS Radio Sports tag (both with and without "Westwood One") for many years before switching to Westwood One. The Mutual Broadcasting System, purchased by Westwood One in 1985, also aired NFL coverage for many years, while NBC Radio, purchased by Westwood One in 1987, had exclusive NFL coverage in 1985-86. Westwood One now acknowledges the NBC Radio broadcasts as part of the entire history of the network's football coverage.1 Westwood One also served as the distributor for the Sports USA network's NFL games; as such, Westwood One employed Sports USA announcers for certain games covered by the former network, including Thanksgiving Day games, the opening Monday night doubleheader, and Wild Card Weekend, during the 2009 and 2010 seasons. This agreement was terminated in the 2011 offseason.
Although Dial Global's broadcasts continued to carry CBS branding and personalities through 2012, it was initially unclear whether or not this would continue in 2013. CBS is currently working with Cumulus Media Networks in distributing its own nationwide sports radio network, while Dial Global is distributing NBC's national sports network. Several of Dial Global's announcers (Kevin Harlan, Boomer Esiason, Dan Fouts, and Ian Eagle) are employed by CBS and Esiason is a contributor to CBS Sports Radio. The situation was resolved in August 2013, just weeks before the 2013 season started, when Cumulus agreed to acquire Dial Global's network assets; Townsquare Media, which had previously been in the same corporate structure as Dial Global, will acquire 53 of Cumulus's stations as part of the trade. Thus, CBS Sports' radio operations will once again be under the same management as the NFL package.
Coverage overview
Sunday doubleheader
Each week, The NFL on Westwood One features two games from the Sunday afternoon lineup, with one beginning at 1:00 PM and one at 4:25 PM.2
Broadcast teams
Westwood One employs two separate broadcast teams for the Sunday doubleheader.
One of these teams features Seattle Mariners broadcaster and longtime Westwood One NFL voice Dave Sims on play-by-play as of 2013. Sims was previously the network's voice for Sunday Night Football beginning in 2005 and had been part of the doubleheader coverage before that. Sims' analyst is Mark Malone, who played quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers and also worked for ESPN. Malone joined Harry Kalas for his first year in 2008 and was paired with Kevin Kugler after Kalas died in 2009.
For the other team, the play-by-play role belongs to Philadelphia Phillies television broadcaster Tom McCarthy as of 2012. NFL Hall of Fame cornerback Rod Woodson replaced former offensive lineman Tony Boselli as McCarthy's analyst for 2013; Woodson was previously a part of Dial Global's college football coverage.
Since Sims and McCarthy are both obligated to cover their respective baseball teams until the end of the season they require substitutes for the first month of the NFL campaign. For 2013 Sims will be replaced by former Houston Cougars voice Tom Franklin. Since 2012, Dallas Mavericks radio voice and KESN host Chuck Cooperstein has been McCarthy's primary substitute.
In 2013, Westwood One aired a quadrupleheader during Week 5 of the NFL season, necessitated by the rescheduling of the San Diego Chargers-Oakland Raiders game to 8:30 PM local time due to the Oakland Athletics-Detroit Tigers American League Division Series sharing the O.co Coliseum that weekend. Westwood One had not originally been scheduled to carry the game, but picked it up and decided to send its #2 Sunday afternoon team of McCarthy and Woodson to cover it, with the makeshift team of Cooperstein and Thursday night commentator Trent Green calling the Denver Broncos-Dallas Cowboys game in their place.
NFL Films narrator Scott Graham hosts all studio segments for the Sunday games on Westwood One, having taken this position once previous host Tommy Tighe moved to ESPN Radio.
Sunday Night Football
Westwood One's coverage of Sunday Night Football begins with their weekly recap show, NFL Sunday. The show beings at 7:30 p.m every Sunday night on most affiliates (in cases where a market is getting the late game, the show is joined in progress), with Scott Graham hosting. The show consists of highlights and statistics from the previous games of the day as well as a preview of the upcoming Sunday night game live from the stadium. Graham then anchors the normal Sunday Night Football pregame show until kickoff. Graham has hosted NFL Sunday since he joined the network, replacing Tommy Tighe as he did as studio host; he hosted in 2009 with Jason Horowitz, who replaced Dave Lamont who departed for a college football play-by-play position at ESPN. Brent Musburger was the original studio host for the network and was eventually replaced by Greg Gumbel who in turn was replaced by Tighe.
For the 2006 season, NBC co-produced NFL Sunday and turned it into an abbreviated radio version of its Football Night in America TV pregame, complete with the John Williams-composed NBC Sunday Night Football theme song. Al Trautwig started the season as host of the show, but was replaced by Graham in the middle of the season. The format of NBC NFL Sunday (as the show was called) was slightly different from the format the show used before and after. In addition to the usual format one of the analysts from Football Night in America would appear every week to offer analysis of the game ahead.
The play-by-play role for CBS Radio Sports' coverage of Sunday Night Football was originally filled by Jack Buck, who called the initial Sunday night games in 1987. Jim Nantz took over for Buck, who was already calling Monday Night Football for the network, the following season and announced games until 1990 when he was moved to television. Nantz was replaced by Howard David for 1991 and continued through 1995, after which he replaced the retiring Buck on Monday Night Football. Brad Sham was hired away from his job with the Dallas Cowboys to replace David for the 1996 season, and he stayed for that season and the following season before deciding to rejoin the Cowboys. Former NBC television announcer Joel Meyers then took over and stayed until the 2005 season when he was replaced by Sunday doubleheader voice Dave Sims, who had been his primary substitute. Sims remained in this role until the end of the 2012 season.
Former Sunday doubleheader voice Kevin Kugler has effectively traded places with Sims for 2013 as Sims was moved to Kugler's spot in the doubleheader broadcast. Like Sims had been with Meyers, Kugler was the substitute for SNF for 2012 after Howard David, who had been the sub since he returned to the network, left Dial Global.
Color commentary
John Dockery was the initial color commentator for Sunday Night Football, serving under Buck and Nantz. Beginning in 1990 and continuing until 1997, Dockery split the color commentator duties with Pat Haden. Dockery would work the first half of the season while Haden called games with Skip Caray, Gary Bender, and Verne Lundquist on Turner Network Television, and Haden would replace Dockery alongside Nantz and David for the games that ESPN would carry on television. Haden left Westwood One after the 1997 season to take over the position as lead analyst on Notre Dame's television broadcasts.
Other color commentators include Bob Trumpy, who served as Sunday Night Football analyst from 2000–2004 and again from 2006–2007; John Riggins, who was the color man for the 2005 season; Jim Fassel, who was 2008's analyst; and current analyst James Lofton, who replaced Fassel in 2009 after he left for a head coaching job in the United Football League.
Monday Night Football
The Monday Night Football broadcast on Westwood One features its lead broadcast team, as the network has long considered Monday night to be its flagship NFL broadcast, even as the NFL now considers the Sunday night game (since 2006) its marquee "game of the week". As such, the team occupying this position stays together to call important playoff games and the Super Bowl.
Buck and Stram (1978-1985; 1987-1995)
For many years (beginning in 1978), the CBS Radio/Westwood One coverage of Monday Night Football was anchored by Jack Buck on play-by-play, with former Kansas City Chiefs coach Hank Stram alongside him in the color position. They stayed paired together for nearly every major game covered by the network from 1978 until Super Bowl XIX in January 1985. Since Westwood One now regards NBC Radio's coverage of Monday Night Football as part of its broadcast history Stram and Buck were regarded as temporarily replaced by Don Criqui and Bob Trumpy for the two years NBC Radio held the contract. Buck and Stram returned to the booth at the beginning of the 1987 season and stayed there until the end of the 1995 season, with Super Bowl XXX in January 1996 marking their final game as a broadcast team after sixteen total seasons on radio.
During their time as Monday Night Football lead broadcast team both Buck and Stram worked on the television side as well. Stram had served as a color commentator on The NFL on CBS prior to joining Buck on the radio and continued to do so from 1978 until CBS lost the rights to the NFL in 1993. Buck rejoined the CBS television coverage as a play-by-play man in 1982 (after having called games for the network from 1964 to 1974) and remained there until 1987. The duo worked together as a television broadcast team in 1982, 1983, and 1985.
David, Millen and Esiason (1996-2001)
To replace the departing Buck and Stram for 1996, Westwood One promoted Howard David from the Sunday Night Football broadcast and moved Matt Millen, who at the time was a color commentator for Fox and a contributor to the Westwood One Monday night pregame show, into the booth alongside him. Beginning in 1998 and continuing until 2001, David served as the play-by-play voice of the New York Jets for WFAN and later WABC, and would require a substitute when the Jets played on Monday night or in the playoffs. An example of the latter came in the 1998 NFC Championship Game; John Rooney substituted for an absent David in Minneapolis for Westwood One as he called that year's AFC Championship Game for WFAN from Denver.
Boomer Esiason joined David and Millen for the 2000 season after being fired by ABC from the Monday Night Football telecast. It was the last season in the booth for Millen as he departed to take a position as President of the Detroit Lions, a job which he received great criticism in and was eventually fired from in 2008.
In 2001, David and Esiason were joined by CBS Sports' veteran reporter Lesley Visser, who became the first woman to be an analyst on an NFL broadcast. Visser had previously become the first female sportscaster to preside over the Vince Lombardi Trophy presentation, while covering Super Bowl XXVI for CBS television in 1992. The pairing only lasted the one season, as Visser decided to leave the booth to focus on her reporting for both CBS and HBO. It was also David's last season calling games for Westwood One until his 2009 return, as he became a full-time sports talk show host in Miami and the voice of the Miami Dolphins beginning in 2002.
Albert and Esiason (2002-2009)
For the 2002 season Westwood One chose veteran broadcaster Marv Albert, who had last called NFL games for NBC in 1997 and was best known for his NBA broadcasting for NBC, TNT, and (at the time) the New York Knicks. Esiason stayed on to be his color commentator. Since Esiason also joined The NFL Today broadcast team for the 2002 season and CBS (at the time) traveled to the site of the AFC Championship Game, Albert and Esiason became the exclusive voices of the game. To accomplish this Esiason would call the end of each half with a wireless microphone so he could save time to go to the field level set CBS used for these games. Esiason has also done this in years CBS has carried the Super Bowl, but has not done this for the AFC Championship game since the 2005 game in Denver as CBS has not traveled to the AFC Championship since.
Beginning in 2007, due to his current job as morning host for WFAN, Esiason has required substitute announcers for games that require significant travel from his New York home. For the Week 1 doubleheaders, Esiason would call the first game. For the first two years of this arrangement various guest announcers would fill Esiason's place alongside Albert. Beginning in 2009, Westwood One appointed Kevin Harlan and Warren Moon to serve as the backup broadcast team, with Harlan substituting for Albert on games he was unable to make due to other commitments and Moon substituting for Esiason when travel to the game was an issue. Recently, Esiason uses a private jet to travel to and from certain games, returning in-time to his New York home in time for his WFAN duties.
The pairing ended following the 2009 NFL season, with Albert's last call being Super Bowl XLIV in Miami. On June 4, 2010, Albert announced that he was leaving Westwood One to focus on his NBA broadcasting duties for TNT and the YES Network. In 2011, he returned to calling NFL games for CBS television.
Harlan and Esiason (2010-present)
On June 29, 2010, it was announced that Kevin Harlan would be succeeding Albert as Westwood One's primary play-by-play voice for Monday Night Football, with Esiason continuing as color commentator.3 In 2010, Randy Cross served as Esiason's substitute for select games, while Wayne Larrivee filled in on play-by-play when Harlan was unavailable. The following year, Dan Fouts replaced Cross as substitute analyst.
For the season opening Monday night doubleheader, as of 2013, the primary team splits up to cover the two games. Esiason provides commentary for the early matchup alongside Thursday night voice Ian Eagle while Harlan and Fouts call the game on the west coast.
Pregame and halftime show host
The Monday Night Football pregame and halftime shows are conducted differently than usual pregames, as there is no other game action to recap. Jim Gray presides over both the pregame and halftime shows, which are more feature driven and often feature guest commentators such as Tom Brady and Larry Fitzgerald, who contributes to the pregame show weekly with predictions and commentary. In addition to the Monday night games, Gray also hosts the studio shows for the Thursday opening game and the Super Bowl.
Steve Tasker serves as the sideline reporter for Monday Night Football. John Dockery served as sideline reporter from 1999 to 2007. From 2008-2012, there was no official sideine reporter for Monday Night Football.
Spanish language
In 2005, Westwood One carried an alternate Spanish-language feed featuring Clemson Smith-Muniz as play-by-play host and David Crommett as commentator. Those broadcasts have moved to United Stations Radio Networks.
Thursday Night Football
In addition to its Sunday and Monday night coverage, Westwood One also is the radio home for Thursday Night Football. Westwood One and its predecessors have always aired Thursday games in the past, but until 2006 those games were usually limited to Thanksgiving, rarely scheduled midweek games, and the season opening game beginning in 2002.
When Thursday Night Football was added to the NFL schedule permanently, Westwood One created a specific broadcast team to cover it. From 2006 until 2008, Dick Enberg was the play-by-play man. Sam Wyche was the initial color analyst, and Dennis Green replaced him after the 2006 season.
In 2009, Ian Eagle took over the play-by-play role and currently remains there. After 2009, Dennis Green departed for a coaching job in the United Football League and was replaced by former NFL quarterback Trent Green. As of 2013, Boomer Esiason is an occasional substitute for Green.
Saturday Night Football
Originally, when the NFL expanded its weekly games into Thursday nights on a regular basis, a package of Saturday night games was added as part of it and the entire broadcast package was titled Run to the Playoffs. As Westwood One had already had rights to the late season Saturday afternoon tripleheaders through 2005, the network retained its rights when the Saturday action was reduced to one game.
For the first two seasons, where three Saturday Night Football games were broadcast, Westwood One carried a separate broadcast team for those games. Joel Meyers called the games the first year while Don Criqui called them the second. When the Saturday night action was reduced to one game, Marv Albert called the lone Saturday game with a guest commentator. Kevin Kugler called the 2011 Saturday night game. There have been no Saturday night games scheduled since then.
Playoff coverage
For the first two rounds of the playoffs, often the regular broadcast teams are mixed, due to Boomer Esiason's unavailability. During the wild card and divisional weekends, there are four games, therefore four separate crews are needed. Some of the other established crews call the less-popular games. For instance, in 2007, Dick Enberg and Dennis Green (from the Thursday night crew) called one of the wild card games, and Marv Albert called games alongside Jim Fassel from the Sunday doubleheader team. In 2009, the teams were even more mixed- for example, Marv Albert called an opening round game with Dennis Green and a divisional playoff game with Warren Moon.
Typically, the first time the main crews are together comes during conference championship weekend. Since Esiason has become a member of The NFL Today cast he and Albert will call the AFC Championship Game (in years that CBS broadcasts from the game site and in addition to their duties as Super Bowl broadcasters) while the Sunday Night Football team will be responsible for the NFC Championship Game. Since 2006, however, CBS has not chosen to travel to the sites of the AFC Championship Game. In the first of those two seasons Albert called the 2007 game in Indianapolis alongside Sam Wyche.
In 2008, neither Albert nor Esiason was available on championship weekend, so Dave Sims and Bob Trumpy moved to the AFC Championship game in New England while Bill Rosinski took Albert's place alongside Jim Fassel for the NFC Championship game in Green Bay. For 2009, Albert returned to the booth for championship Sunday, calling the NFC Championship game alongside Fassel with Dave Sims and Dennis Green responsible for the AFC Championship game. The 2010 conference championship games saw Kevin Harlan and Warren Moon call the AFC championship game while Sims and James Lofton called the NFC championship game.
Other programming
Westwood One, in addition to its game coverage and highlight show on Sundays, Mondays, and Thursdays, offers to affiliate stations four different NFL-related programs during the season leading up to the Super Bowl. The first to premiere is Fantasy Football Forecast, an hour-long weekly program hosted by Kevin Kugler and James Lofton regarding fantasy leagues. This program premieres in late August and runs until the final week of the season.4
A second program, NFL Insider, runs from the beginning of the season through to the Super Bowl, is a program hosted by Sunday doubleheader analysts Mark Malone and Dan Reeves and CBS television's Steve Tasker, where the hosts provide analysis of the week, present highlights of the previous week's action, and interview players and coaches.5
Boomer Esiason hosts an NFL preview show every week (appropriately called NFL Preview), where he and Scott Graham analyze each game in depth and provide information about what players and other factors will play roles in the upcoming week. This program runs through Super Bowl Sunday and is thirty minutes in length, but runs for an hour leading into the Super Bowl.6
Graham and Esiason also present a live radio version of The NFL Today every Sunday morning.7
For the Conference Championship games and the Super Bowl, most affiliate radio stations of the participating teams' networks must accept the feed from Westwood One. Only the flagship stations (in both English and other languages) can transmit the team's local radio broadcast, although the local broadcasts are also available on Sirius Satellite Radio and NFL Audio Pass. An exception is made for the Green Bay Packers because they technically have flagships in two separate cities, WTAQ-FM/AM and WIXX (FM) in Green Bay and WTMJ in Milwaukee; the latter station has produced Packers radio broadcasts for many years. If the local Dial Global affiliate is not the same as the corresponding affiliate of the team, the Dial Global station retains broadcast rights and the team's station must switch to alternate programming (for example, KSPN in Los Angeles aired an alternate feed of ESPN Radio on January 20, 2008 when the San Diego Chargers played in the AFC Championship Game, as exclusive rights belonged to KLAC, the Chargers' L.A. flagship. The same situation occurred in 2011 with WAPL as part of the Packers example above; although that station is licensed to Appleton south of Green Bay, the station transmits from the same site as WIXX, but as it is an 'out-of-market' station according to NFL rules, carried the Westwood One call rather than the Packers home call during the NFC Championship Game and Super Bowl XLI).
For all other weeks, within 75 miles of a team's stadium, only stations the team or its flagship station contracts with can carry those games, regardless if the team is home or away. Thus, any competing station that carries Westwood One broadcasts cannot air those games- for instance, any time the New York Jets are playing on Sunday or Monday nights, their games do not air on New York City's Dial Global affiliate, WFAN, but instead WABC and WEPN (the Jets' flagships) retain local exclusivity. (In the case of the Sunday doubleheaders, most stations can opt for an alternate national broadcast from the Sports USA Radio Network or, beginning in 2009, Compass Media Networks.) This rule applies to Toronto, Canada whenever the Buffalo Bills play nationally. (However, in the case of Toronto, the same station affiliates with both the Bills radio network and Dial Global, which means the only difference is which broadcast team the station uses). For a time, the rule applied to the Los Angeles market, but it was relaxed in 2008 and all national radio broadcasts are now available in that market on KLAC (Dial Global) and KFWB (Sports USA Radio).
The NFL on Westwood One originally was not available on the NFL Audio Pass (formerly Field Pass) subscription Internet radio service, though the network's prime time and playoff broadcasts became available beginning in the 2009 NFL season as a result of a new broadcast contract. All prime time and playoff broadcasts are carried on Sirius Satellite Radio, and are also available to XM Satellite Radio subscribers with a "Best of Sirius" package. While games cannot be streamed on internet radio by affiliates (per NFL rules), several stations break this rule. Due to this, Westwood One broadcast can be heard on other devices (e.g. iOS devices via TuneIn and Xbox 360 consoles via iHeartRadio).
In December 2008, it was reported that the NFL was considering leaving Westwood One for a rival service (ESPN Radio, Sports USA, and Sporting News Radio being the contenders), or possibly splitting rights for prime-time, Thanksgiving, and postseason games between two or more networks.2 However, on March 12, 2009 it was announced that Westwood One had signed a two-year extension with the NFL.8 The league then announced on December 22, 2010 that Westwood One's contract has been extended through 2014.9The two sides have since agreed to an extension through the 2017 season.10
Current terrestrial affiliates
This is an incomplete list of NFL on Westwood One Sports terrestrial affiliates across the United States. Programming is subject to local blackouts and other station programming.11
- ^ Categories (2010-06-30). "Kevin Harlan Joins 'Westwood One' As Monday Night Football Play-By-Play Announcer | Satellite Television News". Satellitetv-news.com. Retrieved 2012-10-03.
- ^ a b Ourand, John. NFL mulls rare shift of radio partnership. Sports Business Journal. 22 December 2008.
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- ^ "Fantasy Football Forecast". Affiliates.westwoodone.com. Retrieved 2012-10-03.
- ^ "NFL Insider". Affiliates.westwoodone.com. Retrieved 2012-10-03.
- ^ "NFL Preview with Boomer Esiason". Affiliates.westwoodone.com. Retrieved 2012-10-03.
- ^ "The NFL Today". Affiliates.westwoodone.com. Retrieved 2012-10-03.
- ^ Best, Neil. NFL eschews ESPN, sticks with Westwood One radio. Newsday. 12 March 2009.
- ^ "NFL, Westwood One extend radio deal through 2014". Bloomberg. Associated Press. 2010-12-22. Retrieved 2010-12-25.
- ^ "NFL and Dial Global Agree on New Multi-Year Extension". Dial Global Sports. Retrieved 15 November 2012.
- ^ "Station Finder". dialglobalsports.com. Retrieved 2012-10-28.
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Hello to fellow iPad users. The thing that unites us, the iPad, represents the culmination of my working life. Back in 1979, miserable in my job, I happened upon a friend's Apple II Plus and it was love at first sight. I bought one immediately and learned everything I could about it. I took courses in introductory programming (which I'm not into) and the basics of computer technology. But I knew I was never going to be a techhie. It was the things my Apple could do, and was capable of doing, that appealed to me most. The possibilities seemed limitless back then and as we've discovered in the meantime, they were.
I needed to make my love of microcomputer technology into a full-time job. So I put it together my other love, writing, and went back to school AGAIN. (Which I've been doing on a regular basis over the past 30 years.) I enjoy expository writing: making complicated subjects clear to non-expert readers. (Literary writing has no appeal for me, though I enjoy reading it.) This suited me perfectly to technical writing. I've always preferred working for myself, and I've made an excellent career out of being a self-employed contract technical writer of user docs: manuals, online help systems, Captivate tutorials, and so on.
In the mid-90s I moved to Silicon Valley (actually, the Oakland Hills overlooking the Valley) to be at the heart of the industry. I love it here and will never leave. I'll never stop working, either. I've just turned 60 and am just as stoked by this fantastic technology I've had the privilege to grow up with as I was when I started. The iPad is proof I made the right choice. The revolution of mediated inter-personal communication technology is the best thing that's happened to our society in my lifetime, in my opinion.
With the minimal docs needed for Web 2, the need for my services has diminished over the past few years. That's okay, because I was getting a little burned out, and wanted a change from the isolated nature of technical writing.
So after a few months of thinking, reading, discussion, research, you name it, I came up with another way to pair my love of American English with technology: helping IT professionals who have moved here in getting comfortable speaking the language (they can usually read and write it pretty well), and just as importantly, get an understanding of how to get along in the IT culture, Silicon Valley style.
I'm at the early stages but have some clear goals: ESL is kind of a gray area among the teaching professions. You can get an instructor's certificate pretty much by forking over a couple thousand bucks and sitting through some incredibly boring grammar classes (which will be of next to no benefit to my target clientele). A lot of young people get ESL-accredited so they can make a living teaching English while traveling around the world. In the courses I took the quality level of these would-be teachers was all over the chart: some were born to it and took it seriously; others barely stayed awake and obviously were in it for just the piece of paper.
I am in the former crowd. Over my years of working with a multitude of software developers, I've noticed the uncertainty foreign-born workers (and we get the best of the best) bring to the American workplace. I want to make a difference in their quality of life here. These guys earn top dollars; they don't displace American engineers by lowballing them. And I'd rather have a developer keep their operations here than farm them out overseas. So, I think I could put together a pretty good mission statement for my new trade. But I've got other issues to overcome in getting the basics of a program together.
The ESL industry is stuck around 1975 in its incorporation of technology to enhance the learning experience. Adult ESL students are forced to work with cartoon-book exercises, written in the 1960s and intended for children. The programs are far too heavily grammar based (who in America knows grammar?) and the classroom environment just isn't going to cut it for professionals whose time is worth a lot of money.
This is why I'll be one-on-one tutoring rather than classroom teaching (which I've done), and at the time and place most convenient to the client. IMO it's vital that ESL tutoring be done in person, with get-togethers no more than a week apart. But for the in-betweens I'm going to schedule videochats. All my courseware is being developed around social networking applications. Tools like the iPad will play a vital role in facilitating communication between myself and my clients. Which makes me double disappointed that there's no built-in front-facing cam to enable videochatting. My theory for this omission of this mission-critical feature is that the carrier, currently AT&T, is already swamped just with iPhone transmission. Our wonderful American business model, where a few telecoms got to own the market and charge us users through the nose while being stingy about investing in bandwidth, puts us leading-edge users at a disadvantage compared with people in Asia and Europe.
Nevertheless I'll work around the limitations of our creaky telecommunications infrastructure and put the brilliance of communication tools like the iPad to the best uses I can think of. Any other tech writers or ESL trainers in this bunch who'd like to swap notes are most welcome to drop me a line.

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A black and white colobus [pronounced CAH-luh-bus] monkey was born at the Saint Louis Zoo's Primate House on June 30, 2012.
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The baby colobus monkey and brother, Mosi, 13 months, now on view
A black and white colobus [pronounced CAH-luh-bus] monkey was born at the Saint Louis Zoo's Primate House on June 30.
Naming will await determination of the monkey's gender. The infant is the sibling of "Mosi" [pronounced MOH-zee], now 13 months old and the first colobus to be born at the Zoo in 11 years.
Colobus infants are born with all white hair and a pink face. In contrast, adults are primarily black, with white hair encircling their face and half of their tail. They have a distinctive mantle of long white hair extending from their shoulders around the edge of their back. Infants will change color gradually until they reach adult coloration at about six months.
The 24-year-old mother "Roberta" came to the Saint Louis Zoo in 2010 after attempts to introduce her to the colobus group at Binder Park Zoo in Michigan were unsuccessful. After the move to St. Louis, Roberta was easily integrated with the Zoo's 13-year-old female "Cecelia," and both the new baby's and Mosi's father, six-year-old "Kima." The family of five is now on exhibit. Visitors can see the infant poking its head out to look at its new world.
"It was believed that Roberta, who is an experienced mother, was likely post-reproductive when she arrived here," says Ingrid Porton, curator of primates at Saint Louis Zoo. "Happily she proved this to be quite incorrect."
Colobus monkeys are found throughout the forests of central Africa. The birth is part of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums' Colobus Species Survival Plan (SSP), a program to manage a genetically healthy population of black and white colobus monkeys in North American zoos.
"Roberta is an attentive and protective mother. Mosi is very curious about the new infant and mom allows him to sniff the infant, but when he tries to touch, she has pushed him away," says Porton. "We are looking forward to the time when his sibling will be old enough to be Mosi's play partner."


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Kaya doll Jul 22, 2012 19:59:45 GMT -5 Quote Select PostDeselect PostLink to PostMemberGive GiftBack to Top Post by Mad Celtic Midwife on Jul 22, 2012 19:59:45 GMT -5 I decided I really wanted a Kaya doll for my bday (August 6th), and when Memory said she had a beautiful first edition Kaya for sale, my dh said go ahead and get her. She is absolutely gorgeous! Her coloring is almost identical to my pm #11, with slightly rosier cheeks and lips. She has the most serene expression on her face. I am thrilled with her! Her hair is still in the original braids, so I can't attest to its quality unbraided, but I can say it is shiny and appears very thick. I think she would look gorgeous in any time period clothing. Thanks for looking!
Kaya doll Aug 7, 2012 19:53:29 GMT -5 Quote Select PostDeselect PostLink to PostMemberGive GiftBack to Top Post by ladoyle on Aug 7, 2012 19:53:29 GMT -5 I just got my new Kaya at the St. Louis store and love her peaceful look! However, she is a full 1 inch (at least) shorter than my other 5 dolls! She has Pleasant Company 2002 on her neck, but a newer body tag (not the super long one though). Also she doesn't have the deeper face paint, which I do not prefer, since she looks more authentic in natural coloring.
Kaya doll Aug 12, 2012 7:48:39 GMT -5 Quote Select PostDeselect PostLink to PostMemberGive GiftBack to Top Post by gretaboquet7781 on Aug 12, 2012 7:48:39 GMT -5 I got Kaya last weekend and finally got around to pictures yesterday. I adore her! My favorite photo of her (with her mini-me):
Kaya doll Aug 21, 2012 12:06:36 GMT -5 Quote Select PostDeselect PostLink to PostMemberGive GiftBack to Top Post by fosterer on Aug 21, 2012 12:06:36 GMT -5 Well first off I would like to say that this is my first post on here. Woooo.Kaya is absolutely one of the most beautiful dolls American Girl makes. I have no clue why she gets ignored so much. I mean, you never see little girls with Kaya. They always have Julie or the girl of the year because they are apparently "more modern." Starting on Kaya's hair. It seems most complain about her hair. They say that it is frizzy, dry, and textured from the moment her braids are taken out. I purchased my Kaya in December 2011 and her hair was perfectly fine when I took her braids out. Her hair was amazingly soft and smooth. Of course she had crimps in her hair from the braids, but it wasn't frizzy. I brushed it after spritzing water and it was fine. I ended up steaming her hair straight, (it is GORGEOUS by the way) but I didn't find it a problem before. Although the ends aren't all even because of the way it was cut in the braids, I love it. The longest her hair is is below her ankles. It is a very dark brown with red (not orange, RED) highlights. Her hair is so fun to brush and style.Now, Kaya's outfit. Her outfit is very well made. I find it very very realistic for her time period. I love the details with the beads and the slits at the bottom of the dress and sleeves. The fabric is awesome quality too. The hair pieces are a nice touch too. I usually keep my dolls modern, as I don't have many historical outfits, but I do think Kaya's meet outfit is very nice. For the doll herself.. Her limbs and head were tight right out of the box and they stay that way. Her eyes open and close well. They are pinwheel I believe. They are a nice shade of brown that goes well with her skin tone. She has feathered eyebrows that appear different than those of my other dolls. She has no head tilt (like a lot of Josefina mold dolls.) Her skin tone is beautiful, it is different than Sonali's if anyone is wondering. It says "PLEASANT COMPANY" on her neck, though I purchased her in December 2011. I suppose that is normal. Overall, I do recommend Kaya to anyone. She is under appreciated at American Girl and that should change. She is a great quality doll. I will take pictures eventually and post them here. Sorry for the long review, I'm not good at writing things short and sweet.
Kaya doll Sept 11, 2012 0:47:18 GMT -5 Quote Select PostDeselect PostLink to PostMemberGive GiftBack to Top Post by fionabrigade on Sept 11, 2012 0:47:18 GMT -5 Kaya is my third doll. I have an earlier model with the rosier complexion. I'm not sure if Mattel tweaked her mold but in comparison to the display dolls at AGP I think my doll has larger cheeks. The texture of her hair as indicated in other reviews is super dry and frizzy, yet I find it relatively easy to manage with heavy spritzing. Kaya's meet outfit is very detailed and made with a hefty material and her decorative hair shells are not cheap quality. She is a lot shorter than my other dolls, she stands probably a good half-inch below my tallest (Jess) which I believe is due to the lack of length of her neck. I would love to give her an A+ but the hair and squat stature bring her down to an A.***edit to remove picture
Kaya doll Nov 18, 2012 21:46:45 GMT -5 Quote Select PostDeselect PostLink to PostMemberGive GiftBack to Top Post by sharayahlynn on Nov 18, 2012 21:46:45 GMT -5 My Kaya's skin is darker than Kanani's skin. I tried to get a bit of a skin-tone comparison for you. As for their hair, I believe that Kanani's may be a bit longer, but as I have their hair in different styles (Kaya has a side ponytail and Kanani has a braid), I'm not 100% sure on that. Perhaps someone else has an opinion on hair length? Skin-tone comparison (arms):Skin-tone comparison (legs):And their beautiful faces :
Kaya doll Nov 19, 2012 14:33:51 GMT -5 Quote Select PostDeselect PostLink to PostMemberGive GiftBack to Top Post by fionabrigade on Nov 19, 2012 14:33:51 GMT -5 Kaya's hair falls to her ankles when out of the braids. She only has short hairs on the back of her head so that may be a little strange but it does not hinder the style-ability of her wig. Ignore the corn, Kaya has been plucked from a Thanksgiving display.Please excuse Julie, she wanted to get photographed as well:
Kaya doll Jan 7, 2013 17:53:26 GMT -5 Quote Select PostDeselect PostLink to PostMemberGive GiftBack to Top Post by Colonial Rose on Jan 7, 2013 17:53:26 GMT -5 Here is my Kaya in Josefina's Christmas Outfit, without mantilla.and the Party Outfit without spencerand in the Christmas dress with the Party Outfit spencer
Kaya doll Jan 7, 2013 18:30:48 GMT -5 Quote Select PostDeselect PostLink to PostMemberGive GiftBack to Top Post by xmaskat on Jan 7, 2013 18:30:48 GMT -5 Here are a few pictures of Kaya & Nizhoni wearing Josefina items as well as some Josefina-type replica outfits. I love Josefina's clothing on Kaya .
Kaya doll Jan 14, 2013 17:40:55 GMT -5 Quote Select PostDeselect PostLink to PostMemberGive GiftBack to Top Post by Mad Celtic Midwife on Jan 14, 2013 17:40:55 GMT -5 My dd just dressed Kaya in Josefina's dress last week. She is gorgeous in Josefina's clothing!
Kaya doll Feb 20, 2013 19:27:48 GMT -5 Quote Select PostDeselect PostLink to PostMemberGive GiftBack to Top Post by JustMagicMaria on Feb 20, 2013 19:27:48 GMT -5 Kaya's unique face mold makes her very special. (I wish AG would use the mold again, perhaps for a My American Girl doll with very different coloring.) I really enjoyed Kaya's stories and I think she is a wonderful way to help kids learn about Native American culture.My Kaya was purchased the day she was available from American Girl in 2002. She is one of the slightly darker skin dolls with the meet dress with the straight shoulders and tie belt. I don't have any problem with either of these -- I think the dress looks fine and the belt is not that difficult to tie (but I'm an adult).Overall, I wouldn't recommend Kaya for a young girl because of her hair. She's less likely to appeal to the smaller girls because she's not girly or frilly by modern standards but she is one of my personal favorites. I love her serene expression and her place in history.Grade: A
Kaya doll May 26, 2013 23:24:20 GMT -5 Quote Select PostDeselect PostLink to PostMemberGive GiftBack to Top Post by qweensyd1 on May 26, 2013 23:24:20 GMT -5 Kaya is a wonderful doll. Her hair is good for play and she's very cute. I love the change of the mouth. Her wig scalp shows a bit and the hair is textured, similar to Addy's. I'm glad to have her in my collection.
Kaya doll Jul 2, 2013 20:13:40 GMT -5 Quote Select PostDeselect PostLink to PostMemberGive GiftBack to Top Post by RawrLicia! on Jul 2, 2013 20:13:40 GMT -5 I have a darker skinned Kaya from 2000-ish, without the rosy coloring. She looks more natural and blissful than alot of Kaya's I've seen, and while I did take her hair down once, I've managed to put it back into her braids without too much fuss. I keep Kaya modern, and she looks adorable in most anything I dress her up in. Her hair is textured but not as textured as Addy's, feeling kind of rough but manageable. It feels a lot like my mother's hair, and she has a lot of native blood herself. If purchasing for a small child, I would almost recommend a hair cut by a professional.I do think her face looks awfully Caucasian-it's so round and full it just strikes me as European, but I do think she's a lovely doll. (Besides, high cheekbones would probably be a bit difficult to establish in vinyl...maybe a cross between Marie Grace's mold and Kaya's? The eyes should be wider set too.) Overall I give her a B. The hair is bad for play as pretty as it is, and her collection, while limited by her time period and life style, could use some puffing up. Maybe more craft pieces? I do love her serene look and coloring, but her skin is not at all like my grandfather's. He and many other members of my family have an almost...reddish undertone to their skin, this wonderful shade of red clay and brown. I have some comparisons below with Cécile, for those who are curious.Kaya in Garden Outfit by RawrLiciaSkin Comparison with Cécile by RawrLiciaSkin tone with flash by RawrLiciaKaya was my first doll. I was dying for an AG doll and was borderline obsessed with the catalog. I had read the Kirstin books and thought I wanted Kirstin, but honestly I would have taken ANY of the AG dolls. My sister and I got to play with a cousin's Samantha and Addy, but I wanted -my own- doll. My parents wouldn't get me one because they thought I was too old (I was eleven or twelve at the time). They were rather well off but preferred to buy me electronics for some reason. (Not to sound ungrateful.)My poorer mother somehow put the money together and bought Kaya since she is Native American. My mother didn't know Kaya was Naz Pierce (we are Chippewa), but she wanted her dark haired, copper skinned little girl to have a doll that spoke to her heritage.As an adult, I recognize the hardships my mother endured, and how much a set back the expensive doll must have been. I didn't even mean to tell her about how much I wanted an AG-she just sort of found out.


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FILBERT — Bill Wood, 87, has been worshiping the Lord at Union Baptist Church in this rural enclave since he was an infant. This month, the Baptist church organized in 1838 is marking 175 years of worship with special speakers and a March 24 homecoming service. The church is one of the oldest Baptist churches in York County.
Bill Wood, 87, has been worshiping the Lord at Union Baptist Church in this rural enclave since he was an infant. He was baptized in the church, and he and his late wife, Ruth, raised three sons there.
"Every Sunday — I hardly ever missed," said Wood, one of the church's oldest members. Over the years, he has taught Sunday school to children and adults and served as both a deacon and a trustee.
This month, the Baptist church organized in 1838 is marking 175 years of worship with special speakers and a March 24 homecoming service. Church members opened the observance on March 3 by attending Sunday services in period attire, on foot or horseback, as their ancestors would have done.
The Rev. Ray Long said Union Baptist, on Union Baptist Road between York and Clover, is among the oldest churches in York County. It was a founding member of the York Baptist Association, which now represents more than 70 Baptist churches in York County.
On March 24, 1838, three ministers met with 16 men and women to organize the church, according to a history published for the church's 150th anniversary. Most of the members came from Flint Hill Baptist Church in Fort Mill.
"I'm always amazed at the commitment of people 175 years ago," Long said of the early members. "And this was what we were trying to say to our people — look at the commitment of people to get together, form a church."
After naming a treasurer, the new church resolved to create a church fund; each man agreed to pay 25 cents and each woman 12.5 cents. Three acres of land for the church were donated by John McArthur, according to the history, and one acre was purchased for $3 from James Wood. James Brian, another member, later donated a fifth acre.
During the early period, the history says, services were held irregularly, often once a month, and usually on Saturday. The church was served by a succession of pastors; each usually served for a year.
"Often, there would be more than one sermon in one day," according to the published history. "Sometimes, one or two ministers would come and preach for three days in succession."
Discipline in 19th-century religious circles was strict, and Union Baptist was no different. "Loose gossip, profanity, drunkenness and unexplained absences from church meetings were not tolerated," the history says, and sometimes members were suspended and excluded from worship, though restored to good standing "after satisfactory repentance before the church."
Long noted that during the church's first 30 years, about 60 slaves were counted among its members. The first church building was constructed of logs and built to accommodate the slaves. The second church structure was built in 1879, and the third in 1904.
The present church building was dedicated in 1927, and this structure includes portions of the 1904 building. An educational building was built in 1958, and more finishing work was done in 1963.
York resident Greg Norton, 56, has been a member of Union Baptist since his preschool days. His parents were invited to attend when his family moved to York from the North Carolina mountains.
Norton was baptized at Union Baptist and grew up there with his parents and a brother. In December 1982, he and wife Mary Lynn said their wedding vows in the church. The couple remain members today.
"The landscape has changed so much since I was a child," said Norton, principal of Fort Mill Middle School. "When I was growing up, the church was surrounded by peach orchards and grape vineyards and corn fields. And now it's all subdivisions. There are houses everywhere."
Norton remembers Sunday school, summer Bible school and covered dish meals where members gathered outside to fellowship. "It just seemed like the food went on for miles with these tables lined up," he said.
At Christmas, Norton said, one of the church members would dress up like Santa and hand out bags of fruit and candy to the children. "That's what you got and you were glad to get it," he said.
Norton said the church has been an essential part of his spiritual life. "My faith is based on everything I've witnessed and been a part of there. For good or ill, that's what has shaped from a faith-based standpoint."
Long said the church recently raised money for and completed a major beautification and renovation project that involved cosmetic improvements such as painting and new carpet, tile and furniture. The refurbished facilities will be dedicated March 24, he said.
He said the church, which usually runs about 85 to 100 people at Sunday services, has a lot of longtime members such as Norton and Wood, whose families attended for a couple generations or more.
"Many older churches, particularly rural churches, have gone through some decline, and Union has some of that," Long said. "But the attendance at church is beginning to increase. There's new life in the church. There's excitement."
York county Sheriff Bruce Bryant, went there 38 years. his mother and father made sure we were in church. attended for 38 years. served on board of deacons and taught Sunday school.
All the fond memorie swe had there....attend royal ambassadord, male youth group, camping trips. all the wonderfl peple that were there as I grew up.
That's where I had to be every Sunday to be filled with the sprit to be able to go nthe following week. Church...it was a wonderul place to grow up. There peple there cared for each other. the love that was inthat church. no longer a member.
The support, the love of thsoe people that made up the church, it awa little contry church, asmall congreation. covered dish dinners, revival services. revial was atime we'd go to chruch all week long at night. gospel singing. I have so many great memories.


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Wednesday marks two years since a malfunctioning electronic circuit caused trains to crash at the Fort Totten station on Metro's red line, killing a train operator and eight passengers.
Still unresolved, however, is a multi-million dollar lawsuit by families of riders killed and injured in the crash. The case against Metro and companies that provided equipment used by the transit agency is set for trial in February 2012, though some or all of the parties could settle before then.
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When Sankar Mitra was a boy growing up in Calcutta, he listened to his grandfather tell tales of the great Hindu gods: Brahma the creator, Vishnu the preserver, Shiva the destroyer. Meanwhile, he learned of a parallel realm of science, in which universal forces continually create, transform, and destroy, only to create again.
Long after his initial fascination with science developed, Mitra learned from the literature that the biological creator, DNA, is not an inert monolith, nor merely a passive blueprint, as it is so often perceived. For this creator must continually hold at bay the forces of disarray--an onslaught of chemical invaders with the power to turn the all-important genetic code into a tumbling tower of Babel. The only thing standing between order and chaos, between Brahma and Shiva, is an elaborate system that has evolved to repair and maintain the genome. It is here that Mitra, along with others, recognized the Vishnu of DNA--the preserver of the genome.
In 2002, Mitra, professor of human biological chemistry and genetics and a senior scientist at UTMB's Sealy Center for Molecular Science, and his collaborators published two seminal scientific papers describing their discovery of a family of enzymes that are emerging as key players in DNA repair. In the papers, published in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and in the Journal of Biological Chemistry, the scientists demonstrated that the newly discovered proteins are responsible for repairing DNA damaged by highly reactive oxygen species in a process called oxidation.
Most people know that oxygen is essential, that it literally sustains our lives. However, oxygen's dark side is becoming more and more evident. "People worry about chemical damage and damage from UV light," says Mitra, "but the most dangerous chemical is oxygen. It is a paradox. We cannot live without oxygen, but at the same time we are constantly producing reactive oxygen species during respiration that damage our DNA. I always say, oxidative damage is the 'mother of all damage.'" In fact, Mitra has made a career out of studying how DNA defends itself from the destructive power of oxygen.
For some reason, good-oxygen-turned-bad--contained in derivatives known as reactive oxygen species, many of which are classified as "free radicals"--seems attracted to the four basic coding units of DNA: adenine, guanine, thymine, and cytosine. Typically abbreviated A, G, T, and C, these chemical bases form natural pair bonds--A with T and C with G--to make up the "rungs" of the classic DNA double helix. When they are damaged by free radicals, these bases no longer can bond correctly with their natural partner. Instead of pairing with C, a damaged G--called 8-oxo-guanine--now pairs with A. This case of mistaken identity jumbles the information encoded on the damaged DNA strand. Imagine this and many other, similar forms of damage happening over and over again, day in and day out, and you begin to get a sense of how important the systems that correct this DNA damage are.
"It has been estimated that as many as 10,000 oxidatively damaged bases are produced per cell per day," says Mitra. "If they are allowed to accumulate over a period of time, if they are not repaired, this damage leads to mutation." But most of us don't prematurely die of cancer or hardened arteries caused by such mutations, a fact which has led Mitra and others to an important insight: "We must have DNA base excision repair as a continuous part of normal living."
In the pantheon of DNA repair, base excision repair (BER) might be considered one of the lesser gods. Studying BER, a kind of housekeeping DNA repair, traditionally hasn't had the scientific cachet of other types of DNA repair, such as nucleotide excision repair, which removes damage induced by ultraviolet light from sun exposure, and mismatch repair, which corrects mistakes created by the replication machinery itself.
"Base excision repair was always considered sort of the yawn, ho-hum pathway," says Stephen Lloyd, former professor and Mary Gibbs Jones Distinguished Chair in Environmental Toxicology. "If you knock out nucleotide excision repair then you have diseases like xeroderma pigmentosum, which makes folks hundreds to thousands of times more sensitive to sunlight, and if you have defects in mismatch repair, you are susceptible to various types of colon cancer."
Until the last year or so, however, no cancer or other disease had ever been associated with loss of a protein involved in BER. That fact alone may have turned some scientists away from the field. It is difficult to study a process when its effects are complicated and hard to trace. But starting with his co-discovery in 1980 of a peculiar enzyme called O6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase--also known as the "kamikaze" protein--which repairs damaged G bases but is itself destroyed in the process, Mitra has worked doggedly for more than twenty years to unravel the complexities of a system that he was certain must be essential for life.
"One of the fundamental truisms in the DNA repair business is that repair is universal, there is not a single organism that does not have a repair process," says Mitra. The so-called "lower organisms" in particular have a lot to teach us about basic biological processes.
It was discoveries in one of these lower organisms, the intensely studied E. coli, a bacterial colonizer of the human gut, that finally led to the discovery of a whole new family of base excision repair enzymes. By carefully searching the entire human genome, Mitra and his colleagues located two genes that appear to be evolutionarily related to E. coli's "nei" enzymes that repair oxidative damage in the bacterial genome. He named them the NEIL (nei-like) enzymes, an homage to their presumed evolutionary origin.
"Sankar has opened up the field of base excision repair," says collaborator Wah Kow, a microbiologist at Emory University and co-author with Mitra of the two papers that describe the new repair proteins. "One of the things he firmly believed is that just because loss of base excision repair enzymes does not immediately lead to cancer, doesn't mean they are not important. In these recent papers, he gives a very nice answer: there are a lot of back-up enzymes. This explains that in order to get a cancer, you would have to knock out several systems, and that's hard to do."
Since its discovery, one of these enzymes, Neil1, has been shown by Thomas Rosenquist and Arthur Grollman at the State University of New York at Stonybrook to play a role in the body's response to oxidative stress, which is thought to be at the root of tumor formation and the production of atherosclerotic plaque, as well as involved in the aging process.
"The jury is still out on the importance of the NEIL enzymes," says Lloyd. "But if these recent findings hold up, it would make the discovery important beyond the DNA repair aficionado. Now one would potentially see some direct implications on human health."
In fact, for years Mitra and his colleagues have been studying BER and its implications for human health in minute, molecular detail.
In 2000, Mitra and collaborator John Tainer of the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, and their colleagues reported in the journal Nature that base excision repair is a highly structured, coordinated event in which the enzyme players perform a chemical hand-off from one step to the next, a kind of choreographed relay race so as not to leave a DNA strand dangling half-repaired. Although this analysis seems to make sense, historically most enzyme studies have been done in test tubes where conditions are highly controlled and variables limited.
"When I was a postdoc, we purified enzymes in order to study them," says Mitra. Following the paradigm of the day, the scientists sought to isolate and study enzymes in test tubes, away from unknown cellular factors that could complicate results. "Now we understand that we need to know how these enzymes interact inside the cell, how they are organized to carry out processes. This is the future of biology."
Mitra's interest in pushing the boundaries of his science has landed him in the middle of the largest program project ever funded by the National Cancer Institute. The $12 million, five-year grant's goal is nothing less than dissecting the entire structure, function, and cell biology of DNA repair. The program project, headed by John Tainer and Priscilla Cooper of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, involves interaction among more than 14 scientists from a dozen different institutions including Harvard, MIT, Duke, and the University of California campuses in San Diego and Davis. While each project is a small component of the giant enterprise, the focus is on collaboration among various projects aimed at solving the structures of the complex DNA repair machines including that of BER, and their in vivo characterization.
"It's such a large problem that it can't be addressed in any one laboratory, by any one approach," says co-principal investigator Priscilla Cooper. "This program project brings together a very large collection of experts in DNA repair."
Cooper points out that it was Mitra's productive collaboration with herself and Tainer that helped convince the NCI to fund the project.
"He is always trying to put his science in a larger context that extends beyond the immediacy of his research," says Lloyd, whose own research on BER often intersects with Mitra's. "This interest in pursuing the larger questions of science becomes very infectious for students and young faculty. That's the reason he's a leader at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences center and has become involved in a number of large multi-center program project grants."
Says Cooper: "I've spent many long hours on the phone with him, tossing ideas back and forth about particular scientific problems. In these sessions with him the excitement is palpable. He has a bounce-per-ounce value that's way off the scale. He understands the big picture in a way a lot of people don't, and he is able to distill the essence of a lot of detailed work, to understand its global significance, and then to explain that to the larger scientific public."
Perhaps the most lasting tribute to his dogged pursuit of the complexities of BER is the groundswell of scientific competitors that has emerged. When Mitra began his study more than 30 years ago there were a handful of scientists working on BER. Now at UTMB alone there are other labs studying BER including Ella Englander, an associate professor of surgery, and Istvan Boldogh, an associate professor of microbiology. One of Mitra's erstwhile protégés, Tadahide Izumi, has become an independent investigator in the Sealy Center for Molecular Science after receiving a grant from National Cancer Institute to pursue his own studies in BER. "It [base exclusion repair] used to be more the sleepy side of DNA repair," says Lloyd. "But now it has become a very hot topic and is highly competitive." And Mitra deserves much of the credit for waking it up.
Karyn Hede writes about science and medicine from her home in Cedar Falls, Iowa.


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Abstract/Scope | IEC/TS 62657-2:2011(E) specifies the fundamental assumptions, concepts, parameters, and procedure for wireless communication coexistence. It provides guidelines, requirements, and best practices for wireless communications' availability and performance, covering the life cycle of wireless communication coexistence to help the work of all persons involved with the relevant responsibilities to cope with the critical aspects in each phase of wireless communication coexistence management in an automation plant. Additionally it provides a common point of reference for wireless communication coexistence for industrial automation sites as a homogeneous guideline to help the users assess and gauge their plant efforts. Life cycle aspects include: planning, designing, installation, implementation, operation, maintenance, administration and training. |
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