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The Indian Banking sector needs at least 12 lakh business correspondents to work in rural areas to bring six lakh villages of the country into the banking arena, Krishna Mohan, Regional Director, Reserve Bank of India said here today.
At present there are in all 76,000 branches of scheduled banks in the country which can cater to only six per cent of the total villages, Mohan said while inaugurating a seminar on the macro impact of micro finance organised by Andhra Pradesh State Co-op Urban Banks Federation.
He said only 12 per cent of the total population of the country can avail the bank loans. There are only nine branches available to one lakh population.
He observed that mobile banking offered by various mobile phone operators could bridge the gap between people and banking industry.
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WASHINGTON — A pair of executive orders signed by President Barack Obama barring federal contractors from discriminating against gay or transgender employees may create dilemmas for faith-based nonprofits that could only be settled in court, observers said Tuesday.
The orders do not contain a specific exemption for religious organizations that contract with the government, something many faith leaders requested before Monday's signing ceremony. Social service and disaster relief groups operated by church organizations as well as religiously affiliated colleges and universities could, under the orders, lose such contracts if they refuse to hire gay or transgender job candidates.
"This kind of thing is chilling for religious organizations," said Stanley Carlson-Theis, founder and president of the Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance, a Washington-area group that advises nonprofits. He asked, "Will the government lose some quite good partners for services" because those groups have faith standards that preclude homosexuality or transgender behavior?
Obama issued the orders after the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, or ENDA, stalled in the House after passing the Senate in 2013. The bill included protections for faith-based groups in hiring, something several gay rights groups protested by dropping their support for the bill.
With legislation blocked, Obama said he decided to act. "America's federal contracts should not subsidize discrimination against the American people," the president said at a White House signing ceremony.
The White House noted an exemption for faith-based groups still exists under an executive order issued by President George W. Bush in December 2002, allowing these groups to restrict hiring to members of their faith. Bush granted the exemptions to let federal agencies contract with faith-based providers that were previously deemed ineligible for such deals, worth billions of dollars.
The executive orders, to be implemented under yet-to-be-announced rules from the Labor Department, cover federal contracts, but not grants, which many nonprofits also receive.
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The latest orders create an ambiguous situation for so-called "parachurch" organizations such as Samaritan's Purse, headed by evangelist Franklin Graham, which contracts with the U.S. Agency for International Development, which is faith-based, but which is not sponsored by a specific denomination.
The Bush order ostensibly covers such groups, said Galen Carey, a vice president at the National Association of Evangelicals, but it's unknown "whether the government and the courts will accept a religious organization's decisions when it touches on some of the other protected categories," he said.
Without a law barring employment discrimination against homosexuals or transgendered people, a candidate could be turned down without explanation. Now, under the presidential order, a religious group contracting with the federal government has to walk a fine line, while fearing legal action from an unsuccessful job-seeker.
"The big question is: How far does religious hiring go?" asked Carlson-Theis. "Is it narrowly about selecting the religion of the employee or does it have to do with faithfully being that kind of believer, which has to extend just beyond saying you believe it?"
To best way to find answers those questions, says Stephen Schneck, director of the Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies in Washington, is for religious organizations to "stick with your guns and see where the chips fall."
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I shall be investigating this next week [I can't seem to get the website to work from home. I have attached a screenshot I have been able to generate from the school network]
For years and years you've been able to get a Group policy spreadsheet which has all of that.. possibly not so filterable though and I suppose the advantage of this is that in principle it will get updated and fixed more often.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - After a lengthy legal battle that has veered through multiple courtrooms and cost taxpayers millions of dollars, the Florida Legislature has decided to go ahead and draw a new map for the state's 27 congressional districts.
But the big question remains: When will voters start using it?
In an extraordinary move, House Speaker Will Weatherford emailed legislators late Sunday and told them to return to the state Capitol for a special session to devise a new map. The week-long session will start Thursday.
The move is unusual since legislators are in the middle of an election season. Florida's primary is Aug. 26 and in just a few days early voting will begin across the state.
Weatherford said that during the special session, legislators would address the "limited concerns" that caused Circuit Judge Terry Lewis to declare the map invalid last month. Lewis found that two districts violated standards approved by voters because the districts were drawn to benefit Republicans.
But then Lewis ruled last Friday that the Legislature needed to draw up a new map by Aug. 15 because the judge is considering ordering a special election that relies on the revamped districts.
Weatherford warned that while legislators will approve the new map now, they will fight any move to put it in place this year.
The Wesley Chapel Republican said local election supervisors have already cautioned that implementing a new map now would disrupt this year's elections. He also ruled out holding a special election later this year by noting that groups such as the NAACP have contended that some voters would "be irreparably harmed" if the election was conducted at that time.
"Members, we intend to vigorously defend the integrity and validity of Floridians' votes that have already been and will be cast in the upcoming election," Weatherford said in his email to House members.
Voters in 2010 passed a so-called "Fair Districts" amendment that says legislators cannot draw up districts to favor incumbents or a political party. A coalition of groups, including the League of Women Voters, has contended that the Republican consultants used a "shadow" process to draw districts that benefited Republicans. Florida's current congressional delegation has 17 Republicans and 10 Democrats even though President Barack Obama won the state twice.
The first lawsuits were filed in the spring of 2012, but battles over evidence and who should be forced to testify pushed back the trial until this past May. The Legislature has spent nearly $3.4 million on outside attorneys since July 2012 to defend its maps.
Lewis in a harsh ruling agreed that the evidence showed that consultants had made a "mockery" of the process and helped manipulate districts in order to help Republicans. The judge targeted two districts as unconstitutional.
One is a sprawling district that stretches from Jacksonville to Orlando held by U.S. Rep. Corinne Brown, a Democrat, while the other is a central Florida district held by U.S. Rep. Dan Webster, a Republican. The coalition contended that Brown's district was drawn to pack in Democrats in order to make it easier to elect Republicans in adjoining districts. Brown herself has been critical of the groups that brought the lawsuit.
Any map that changes Brown's and Webster's district will likely alter the makeup of other central Florida districts, while districts in other parts of the state such as South Florida will remain untouched.
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I know this will sound unbelievable. But I have never seen an episode of "The Oprah Winfrey Show." Granted, I was more involved with Nickelodeon during the peak-Oprah years of the '90s (although some would argue we are still in the peak-Oprah years).
But her new book, What I Know For Sure, is a lovely, clothbound book of wisdom that resonates—regardless of your level of familiarity with Winfrey's work. Released last week, What I Know For Sure features selections from the popular, eponymous monthly column in her O Magazine. The column was inspired by a question the late film critic Gene Siskel used to ask during interviews: "What do you know for sure?" Through this question, Oprah reflects on the knowledge she's garnered throughout her varied, massively successful career.
Organized by themes like joy and power, these short essays are cherry-picked from the 14-year-old column's archives. With this book of bite-sized revelations, Oprah hopes to help readers discover the important things they know for sure, and to be thankful for them.
What do you think readers? Are you excited about this new book of Oprah-isms?
Series following emotionally (and physically!) intense relationships have been big the past few years—especially when they feature tormented leading men with some devilish proclivities in the bedroom.
E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey series launched this insanely successful, broodingly sexy bandwagon, and Sylvia Day's Crossfire series followed shortly after, with huge amounts of success as well. Day's Crossfire novels are all international bestsellers, and have sold 15 million copies worldwide (that is a lot). The books were so popular that Day has extended Crossfire from a trilogy to a five-book series, delighting her fans. Today, Berkley Books announced that book four, Captivated by You, will be in stores on November 18. The series follows the (of course) passionate, obsessive love affair of the (of course) wealthy and tortured Gideon Cross and his wife, the (of course) beautiful and witty Eva. Read our Q&A with Day for more background on the series!
The series has also been optioned for television by Lionsgate. I have no idea how they are going to put this series on television, but it should be interesting.
(Book Sculpture by Guy Laramee)
Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie inspired countless children to dream of hopping on a wagon train or churning some butter. But as it turns out, frontier life wasn't quite so idyllic for Wilder.
Her memoir, Pioneer Girl, which she wrote in the mid-1920s, will be released in the fall, and it casts her life on the Midwest plains in a bleaker light. Touching upon domestic abuse, an ill-fated love triangle and the overarching reality of living in an isolated territory with few provisions, Pioneer Girl was actually Wilder's first manuscript, and it's definitely for adults. But when no one would publish the gritty autobiography, Wilder transformed it into the children's series we know today.
Published with annotations by South Dakota State Historical Society Press, Pioneer Girl is sure to be an illuminating look into the life of one of America's most beloved children's authors.
Cowboys, Dukes and Lairds: In the world of romance novels, some trends never die. They've got perennial appeal, and readers just don't seem to grow tired of these types of men (and really, who would?). But publishing houses are always looking for the next big thing. While at RWA, we were able to talk to a few editors and publicists about trends on the horizon, as well as the type of stories they would love to see more of. Check the romance shelves in a year: We predict that you might see a novel about a crew team consisting of mob-connected Vikings.
One of the biggest current trends is the Alpha male. From mixed martial arts fighters to rough-and-tumble modern cowboys, these boys are so bad, they're good. Cindy Hwang, Vice President of Berkley Publishing, says books starring this type of hero are usually a "gritty, edgy type of read." Certainly, bad boys have been around for decades. But today's bad-boy heroes are "a certain type of mix" we haven't seen before. They've got tattoos and a checkered past, but are fiercely loyal to the ladies in their lives.
One byshoot of the popularity of the alpha-male hero is the recent increase in romances centered on groups of men, connected through anything from sports teams to the Navy SEALs. "These men have their own code of honor, their own sort of family within the club, but there's a bit of danger," explains Margo Lipschultz, Senior Editor at Harlequin.
Motorcycle clubs are huge at the moment, and Hwang notes that, "In the same way that werewolves have packs, motorcycle clubs have packs; they've got their own culture and society."
Lipschultz also sees another type of "band of brothers" heading to the forefront of submissions: "Recently I've seen a whole spate of submissions in which the heroes are somehow connected to the Mob, so they have this edge of danger to them. Although they're still heroes; they're still good guys."
Sports romances are also popular right now and have led to whole series focusing on each player on a team. Publishers such as Kensington have put out a call for sports romances featuring teams that go beyond football and hockey, like crew and lacrosse.
With the rise of erotica and YA, first-person narratives and character-driven series are becoming much more acceptable in contemporary romance. Contemporaries have gotten racier, too! Love triangles, once taboo, are popping up in the mainstream. Leah Hultenschmidt, Editorial Director at Forever, says, "One thing I've been so excited about seeing, and I think has risen out of self-publishing, is that authors are breaking the rules these days. In romance, first-person point of view was verboten. . . . And you had to have a self-contained romance in one book with a happily ever after." Not necessarily these days.
Small-town romance remains one of the biggest trends, and Martin Biro, an editor at Kensington, says that there's room to go even cozier. "Something that's blown up for us is Amish and Inspirational. The Amish thing is huge! We have three or four Amish series, and we want more."
Romantic suspense is also an underpublished genre at the moment, and almost every publishing house is searching for more of it. Think stalkers, killers and a sexy detective bent on protecting the heroine.
Many publishers said they would love to see more international romances. As Harlequin's Lipschultz notes, "You're in this cosmopolitan, exotic setting that your average American might never have been to. It just adds to the fantasy." Sexy foreign love affair? Yes, please.
Just like in the contemporary field, publishers are hungry for historical romances that are a little different. For historicals, that means something set in exotic places or times that have not yet been tapped by authors. How about a 1960s romance? Or a love story set in colonial India? Publishers want to see something fresh and unexpected.
Editors Mary Altman and Cat Clyne from Sourcebooks mentioned that although intensely emotional Regency romances à la Grace Burrowes (who was discovered at RWA seven years ago!) will always be popular, there's been an increase in light and effervescent Regencies (think Jane Austen-esque banter). Cat and Mary also have a special fondness for Vikings, which I can certainly get on board with.
Of course, what would the romance novel be without those fabulous covers? We asked a few editors what trends they were noticing in this area. Outdoorsy covers seem to be taking off (featuring a sexy male as well, obviously), and those gorgeous dresses on historical covers aren't going anywhere. Hultenschmidt says that she's also noticed more dogs on covers—a trend that comes at a price. "Do you know how hard it is to find the right dog for those covers? To find the one that's adorable, that's interacting with the cover models, that doesn't look sad. . . . There's certain breeds that work, and certain breeds that just don't!" Plus, it's got to match the novelist's description of the dog in the book, and of course, working with dogs on a cover shoot adds a level of difficulty.
Gone are the days of headless cover models, and Avon Publicity Director Pamela Spengler-Jaffee says the models seem to be heading in a more realistic direction. Of course, they're all beautiful, but perhaps not so unbelievably beautiful. And yes, everyone agrees that flipping through folders full of handsome men to pick the cover models is a nice perk of the job!
So where do trends come from? That's a complex question! Berkley's Hwang explains, "Sometimes, what readers want isn't necessarily what writers are writing. There's sort of a disconnect. For instance, when paranormal was very popular with writers, readers didn't seem to embrace it till a few years ago. Same thing with erotic." Romance trends can sometimes come as a surprise. But when these two eventually broke big, they had been building for a while.
Or perhaps certain trends are a reaction to how incredibly busy women are today, as Spengler-Jaffee suggests. With so many women working, raising children and basically being superheroes, the idea of being with an Alpha male who swoops in and takes care of everything is a stress-free escape. "He's not the man you really want," Spengler-Jaffee says, but it's a fun fantasy.
Pop culture can also influence trends. Take dragons, for example. A few publishers mentioned a spike in fantasy romances featuring these fire-breathing monsters. Since paranormal is losing a bit of steam on the market, this might seem surprising. But Martin Biro at Kensington suggests that the mega-success of "Game of Thrones" might have put fantasy-themed romances and dragons are back on the radar. (Think "swords and princesses," says Biro.) Seems a likely theory: Hwang notes that all the vampire movies and TV shows were what pushed paranormal into popularity several years ago.
And just when we were noticing the return of the overall, crop top and clogs to the fashion world, Sourcebooks' Altman tells us, "I'm seeing a lot more romances that are like the ones I read in the 90s." Remember the Alpha heroes of yore? (Hello, Fabio!) Looks like what goes around, comes around.
So readers, what trends would you like to see more of in romance novels?
It's Friday, so there's no better time to share stories from the lively party scene at the Romance Writer's of America convention last weekend! Each year, romance publishers host parties for RWA attendees, and let's just say romance authors know how to get down with their bad selves.
At the Kensington party, we heard the best romance story at the convention—and it was true! A couple we were chatting with had met on Honeymoon Island, where the woman was a ticket-girl at the state park and the man was a hotdog vendor on the beach. He sent notes to her through her coworkers daily until finally, she agreed to go on a date with him. And the rest is history! Trisha also met the love of her life: Sticky Toffee Pudding. [Actually, this was not a first meeting but the continuation of a long and storied relationship. —Ed.]
Next, we met author Sidney Bristol at the Ballantine party, who, as a rodeo clown turned erotic romance author, perhaps had the most interesting career path of any writer we met at RWA! This party also featured the best guacamole I have ever eaten.
Forever's cocktail party in the Tower of the Americas put us high above the beautiful city of San Antonio with some fabulous views. There was also a choose-your-own pasta bar and Forever's signature drink: the divine peach and strawberry infused Angel's Kiss.
The Best Guacamole: Part II was featured at the Berkley party, along with a prickly pear margarita and more shrimp than I knew what to do with. (I'm lying; I knew exactly what to do with it.)
But the true star of the RWA party scene was this Shrimp Tree spotted at the Avon cocktail party. You've never really seen anything until you've seen a waiter carrying around a large bamboo stick with coconut shrimp branching off of it. It was elusive, for the shrimp was almost immediately snatched off, but we were able to get a picture of a slightly de-limbed Shrimp Tree.
The tables were scattered with miniature fans and paper flower pins and hairclips crafted out of the pages of romance novels. They also had a green screen set up, where Trisha and I were able to pose for this portrait:
The Harlequin party is the final publisher party of RWA, and with a giant dance floor and a lively DJ spinning the smooth tunes of 2004 Usher, it's hard to resist busting some moves. The other difficult thing to resist was the dessert bar of brownies and s'mores. (I resisted neither.)
Truly, the romance world knows how to have fun. From great food to fancy cocktails, a good time was had by all.


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text: Holly Morris kicks off her trip in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh and the seventh largest city in the world. She then travels to Sunderban National Park for an encounter with Bengal tigers and a trek deep into the forest to find honey. Along the way, Holly visits a "floating" school, charms snakes, harvests tea in the hills of Sylhet, visits the ship-breaking yards in Chittagong and relaxes in the seaside resort of Cox's Bazaar near the Myanmar border.


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TWiM regularly receives listener email with corrections, comments, suggestions for show topics, requests for clarification, and additional information. A selection of these is archived on this page.
Aric writes:
I just stumbled upon your podcasts last week and wanted to say that I enjoy them all (TWiV, TWiP, and TWiM). While listening to episode one of TWiM I began to think about the significance of finding human DNA in a bacterial genome. While this discovery is certainly very exciting I do have one question, doesn't the nature of LINEs make this discovery somewhat less remarkable? They are reverse transcriptases, which are built to copy and insert themselves into host DNA. I think this discovery may be due to the fact that LINE elements are very mobile sequences, and N. gonorrhoeae may be the 'victim' in this case. What are your thoughts on this? And would you feel different if the DNA found in the bacterial genome contained a gene for a membrane protein (or other random human gene) instead of a LINE?
Allie writes:
TWIV, TWIP, and now - of all things TWIM? it just doesn't get any better. As an adult 'back to schooler' and beginning-again science learner, I can't believe my luck at beginning my ed adventure into science and beyond, during the era of the "Axis of unsee-able" - the TW's. Once I listen to a TW discussion, the book (especially those dratted ch's on microbe-human interactions and all the replication stuff - aarrggh) comes alive. Here I was last week wishing you TW guys had a microbiology podcast, and poof - my prayers are answered! I thought my ears would pop out of my head as I listened along to TWIM #1, and actually understood stuff! This makes learning fun! You guys have a somehow magical combination of hard-core geek-ism, humor, loopbacks to clarify things for the "LlL's" (less learned listeners), and way too cool: all the heavy hitters seem to be gettin' together to chit chat - thanks a 10(-)7th mol or something like that (clearly more to learn!) Let's vote you folks along with Sal Khan as "egalitarian educators" of the year(s)..
(by the way the piece of human DNA stuck in there on Ng thing was really "eerie", as Sal Khan of Khan Academy would probably say. And, the copper thing - why can't microbes eventually get around that, like they get around everything else eventually - temp, salinity, pH, penicillin? Years from now I'll realize this was a dumb question, but for now it has Viagra me wondering).
Kenneth writes:
Hi Vince, was just about to download TWiV when I saw that you have actually released the first episode to TWiM on the microbeworld website and I just can't stop jubilating. I strongly hope this podcast would be successful as TWiV and TWiP and I appreciate your help very much Vincent..You really helping some of us and I just cant thank you enough.
I pray for long life, happiness and good health for you, your family and all your friends helping you out to bring such an imparting tool in our lives and you all will be blessed anytime someone listens to any of your wonderful podcasts. This is just a thank you message and my questions will be following next.
All the best and goodluck.
Best Regards,
Ken (BioCrowd) in case you've forgotten me.
Stephen writes:
Here's a couple of ideas for signing off the show: "Another TWIM is added to the culture." "Another TWIM enters the culture." - Stephen
Atila writes:
Dear twimers,
First of all, congratulations to professor Racaniello and Racaniello Media Corporation for this new initiative. I am a regular TWiV and TWiP listener from Brazil, and just when I had listened to all episodes, you release this new podcast. Now I can only expect This Week in Vertebrates, or This Week in Plants. Until then, let me make my first TWiM question:
Many times I have heard the explanation that the smell that comes after the rain is caused by antibiotics produced by actinomycetes and other bacteria in a silent war for space. But I have never seen a decent reference to support this. People always say it but do not cite any source. Is it true, and do you have a good source for this?
Thank you all for making another fantastic podcast. I hope you inspire other researchers to do the same, or else Racaniello corp. will end up having 10 or more podcasts, and this is monopoly! Best, Atila Iamarino
p.s. thanks also for introducing Futures in Biotech, its a great podcast too and I am impressed. I'm listening to old episodes, from 2006 to 2008 and many of the discussions are about research that I have only heard last year. I'm anxious to get to the new episodes and know what will be published in 2015.
Dear TWiM Team
I see that some action is now being taken in America against the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics as livestock growth promoters:
Having read the FDA Press Announcement I think that that the N.Y. Times article may be misleadingly optimistic, I feel that this is probably too little and too late.
The practise of using antibiotics as growth promoters was stopped in Sweden in 1986 the UK in 1988 and in Europe by 2005, without significant adverse effects on the meat industry.
As I see it the only reason this practise persists in America is the lobbying by the livestock industry against the scientific consensus.
Your views please doctors.
Article about how use of AGP's was phased out in the Danish pork industry:
Antibiotic Growth Promoters in Agriculture: History and Mode of Action:
History of the Use of Antibiotic as Growth Promoters in European Poultry Feeds:
Sergio writes:
I have a question for Michael Schmidt. While doing my research on R. solanacearum, I read an old paper where they mentioned that Pseudomonads were able to internalize copper and therefore detoxify a copper rich liquid medium, I have observed this myself with the R. solanacearum strain I was working with, but since Michael is the copper expert in TWIM, I would like to know if there is some more new information about this phenomenon. It is of my interest beyond my doctoral thesis because copper is one of the few fungicides allowed to be used in organic farming. Therefore, this phenomenon deserves more attention from organic farmers, I think.
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Sarah writes:
Dear TWiM-ologists,
You know how sometimes you run across a word or phrase which sounds like it's got a specific meaning that's really important to the context of whatever you're reading or hearing?
Well, I've been catching up with episodes 27-29 lately, and true to TWi form, the phrase "type III secretion" got the gears crankin'. The phrase sounded significant but I didn't remember learning about secretion mechanisms under this framework in undergrad 10 years ago. I did a little reading and wanted to share how fascinating these mechanisms are and how relevant they seem to be for many common human pathogens. Depending on the bug, the product, and the environment, these guys can deliver a variety of toxins into the extracellular environment, spit out antibiotics and other compounds, or deliver proteins or nucleic acid directly into target cells via injection or vesicles. What a spectacular array of intricate and elegant mechanisms - as Dr. Schmidt would say, "Remarkable!"
It's fitting that these podcasts are award-winning. They always nurture curiosity and prompt trains of thought into unexplored territory.
The discussion about TUNEL and apoptosis in episode 29 reminded me of a suggestion for pick of the week - A couple of music videos that Roche released in 2009 to promote some new lab tools to measure viability and cytotoxicity. They're more for tissue culture than microbiology, but hilarious nonetheless.
(in case the above links don't work: http://www.roche-applied-science.com/usa/celldeathtour/)
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Dear TWiM Team
A fascinating article from New Scientist this week.
Standard medical teaching is that the foetus is sterile and that the microbiome only begins to develop post natal.
New research from Spain indicates that the microbiome starts to develop before birth:
"Pilar Francino and her colleagues at the University of Valencia in Spain collected and froze the meconium of babies from 20 women. They removed the outer layers of each sample to rule out any bacteria picked up after birth, then looked for bacterial DNA.
The team not only identified bacteria in the babies' meconium - which before then was thought to be sterile - they found bacterial communities so developed that they seemed to fall into two categories. Around half of the samples appeared to be dominated by bacteria that produce lactic acid, such as lactobacillus, while the other half mostly contained a family of so-called enteric bacteria, such as Escherichia coli."
Peter writes:
Dear TWiM Team
There was an interesting article in the March Scientific American on long term effect on health that food poisoning can cause:
New studies by scientists in several countries show that food poisoning rather than lasting just a few unpleasant days can in some cases cause life long problems.
Though this possibility has been known for some time the recent work indicates that this phenomenon is much more common than previously thought.
"A survey of 101,855 residents of Sweden who were made sick by food between 1997 and 2004 found Electronic Cigarette, for instance, that they had higher-than-normal rates of aortic aneurysms, ulcerative colitis and reactive arthritis."
"...several years after a 2005 outbreak of Salmonella in Spain, 65 percent of 248 victims said they had developed joint or muscle pain or stiffness, compared with 24 percent of a control group who were not affected by the outbreak."
PS I that the Scientific American journalist and author Maryn McKenna would be a good guest for TWiM or TWiV.
Nathen writes:
Hey thanks for the great podcast. TWiM is one of my new favourites. (I'm about to post a review on my blog.) I'm a little afraid to start listening to TWiP and TWiV--if I get hooked I'll never be able to keep up with all of them.
I just listened to your episode that included the paper on the autism microbiome study, and one of you said something about it being difficult to recruit controls for this kind of invasive procedure. It might make the statistics more complicated, but what about recruiting siblings of autistic kids as controls? The parents would be much more likely to be on board, as they have a vested interest in the progression of science on the problem of autism.
Thanks again,
Steve writes:
Hello Vincent and cast of TWIM;
I have to say, even though I am a novice, I really enjoy your podcasts.
Because of the nerdy-ness and nature of this song, I thought I should pass it along. Happy St Patrick's Day! Enjoy!
Megan writes:
I am a Clinical Microbiologist, and have really been enjoying the insights and discussion on TWIM and TWIV (and am hoping to get to TWIP soon). I have really found the information being presented helpful, and am wondering if any of the lectures from the hosting professors are available online. I have found some of Dr. Racaniello's lectures in the iTunes store, are any of Dr. Schaecter and Dr. Schmidt's lectures available online?
Thank you for any information, and thank you for the valuable resource you are providing with these podcasts.
Dallas writes:
Being a retreaded physics/physical chemical/thermodynamic type without any formal education in biology of any kind, I find your podcasts accessible -- even if somewhat hard to get my mind around. Your are good about defining the jargon that exists in every field of science.
I have spent 35 years working in aquaculture (the raising of aquatic animals) in systems whose real performance is controlled by the microbiologic ecology. In my sub-field of recycle aquaculture, I partition this microbiological ecology into separate unit operations like biofilters, where the performance is a little more controllable/predictable, but still would have a metagenomics as complex or more complex than the human gut. I have seen very few papers even attempt to get a handle on these complex system.
In the practical microbiology department, I have developed a series of fluidized bed biofilters that are able to remove some hazardous materials from ground water down to non-detetable levels of < 1 ppb, well below the minimum substrate concentration for the bugs of about 20 ppb. In particular MTBE , a water soluble gasoline additive, enters ground water from leaky underground storage tanks and people can taste it at 50 ppb. In Calif. the political class went ballistic over this minor contamination problem and forced a multibillion dollar solution, which means that gasoline is 50¢/gal higher in Calif that the rest of the country. The political class supported by the press was going on about how MTBE was non-biodegradable and the lawyers were making a fortune.
My experience indicates that very few chemicals are non-biodegradable, if there is energy that a bug can obtain from degradation. If that weren't true, we would be up to our eyeballs with all sorts of refractory organic chemicals.
I heard that UC Davis and UC Riverside researchers has some very slow growing bacteria that seemed to metabolize the MTBE and they were digging up all sorts of leaky underground tanks in my area. Knowing that these bugs had a 10+ day or so doubling time combined with a 10% or so yield, I knew that I had to setup a reactor that could maintain the bacteria while processing large volumes of liquid over very long time periods. It took me 9 mo to get my first bioreactor running using seed from the universities, sewerage plants and every soil around a leaky tank I could find and a continuous feed of MTBE as the only energy source. I ended up making some money growing kg amounts of these bacteria consortia semenax wiki attached to sand grains used to as seed to start up new bioreactors on new sites and went through many bbl of MTBE growing and feeding them. We can go into a bioreactor at 2000 ppb and come out at < 1 ND with a 15 minute contract time.
The trick of obtaining a continuous discharge concentration below the Smin (minimum substrate concentration for the bacteria to break even -- zero net growth) is to have plug flow on the liquid phase of the system and mixed flow on the biological phase. You fatten up the bugs in the bottom at a concentration above Smin and they keep eating when they get moved to the top where the concentration is below Smin. If the inlet concentration gets near Smin, we have to add MTBE to the input water to maintain a lower discharge concentration. Try telling a regulator that you are going to add a pollutant to the water to get a lower discharge concentration and it blows their minds.
The concept of these fluidized bed bioreactors could be an interesting research tool for the dental bugs you have mentioned. You could fluidize small grains of tooth enamel, where effectively every small grain is in free fall in the culture media all the time, and you could see what happens to the consortia as you change the feed composition -- coke vs pepsi vs apple juice vs mouth wash, etc.
Continue the good work.
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I am a former molecular immunologist who now works as an attorney doing catastrophic birth injury defense. I can't thank you enough for enriching my drives with TWIP, TWIV, TWIP and TWIM.
As you can imagine, one of the bugs which occupies a lot of my thoughts is GBS and its proclivity for vertical infections of fetuses. I know that in a certain percentage of individuals are colonized and happily walk around with GBS never causing a problem. What I would be really be interested in learning more about is what can make happy colonizers into pathogens. My thought was that perhaps in fighting for territory a bacterium like GBS expresses virulence factors which, in some conditions, allows it to crowd out other flora. Some sort of swarming like event gets it to spread out and it encounters the fetus.
I know this is likely a gross simplification- but if you have any ideas or suggestions for reading I would be in your debt.
Once again- many thanks for the hours of fun.
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I have not listened to every episode of TWiM yet, so you may have answered these questions already. If you haven't, though, will you address these two?
What do you think you do differently in your non-professional lives because of what you know about microbiology?
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Today, smartphones are a vital component of our connected society. Today, if you do not have a smartphone — I am now an Apple iPhone devotee — you are either retired or hopelessly out of touch. Even panhandlers seem to have them — I caught a guy who needed $5 to buy something to eat using his smartphone to call someone after I told him that I didn't have any cash on me.
In some households, text messages and even emails fly back and forth between siblings and parents who are sometimes not more than 20-feet from one another. And have you noticed couples in restaurants? Both have their phones out and appear engrossed in reading messages and texting but are not speaking to each other. That is beyond disturbing.
These phones appear to serve as a crutch for people who cannot imagine walking a few paces or being in an elevator or other space for more than 10 seconds without doing something. They pull out their smartphone — the one they checked for text messages or emails less than two minutes ago before they left their home or office — and begin the swiping and scrolling for new important messages. There probably aren't any but it beats that awkward moment of inadvertently making eye contact with a passerby, or a neighbor or a colleague and perhaps having to respond the old fashioned way — oral conversation.
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