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Tyrosine availability shapes Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization and interactions with commensal communities
Abstract Only certain individuals are nasally colonized by Staphylococcus aureus, making them more susceptible to developing endogenous infections. The role of the resident microbiota in modulating S. aureus nasal colonization remains largely unclear. Using a newly assembled nasal strain collection, we demonstrate that nasal commensals can either promote or inhibit S. aureus proliferation through strain- and community-specific effects in vitro and within gnotobiotic animals.
Characterization and host range prediction of Staphylococcus aureus phages through receptor-binding protein analysis
Keywords bacteriophages wall teichoic acids Staphylococcus aureus infection phage therapy host range prediction receptor-binding proteins Research topic(s) CP: Microbiology Introduction Infections caused by antibiotic-resistant bacterial pathogens, including Staphylococcus aureus, threaten human health worldwide. Resistance to β-lactam antibiotics by methicillin-resistant S.
Critical Feminist Pedagogy in English Language Education: An Action Research Project on the Implementation of Feminist Views in a German Secondary School
1 INTRODUCTION The 21st century is defined by numerous social and political movements such as “Black Lives Matter,” “LGBTI Rights,” the “Me Too” movement and the violent protests in Iran. Issues of discrimination have received more attention in institutional settings (Moffatt & Norton, 2008), because adolescent students exhibit an increasing political and social awareness, and interest in getting involved in society (Gerlach, 2020; Jackson, 2018).
The Life and Times of Ricky Powell
Like 0 Google +1 0 Retweet 0 Beasties Charles St Shuffle I was scrolling through Twitter after midnight a couple of weeks ago when I read that the photographer and New York personality Ricky Powell had died. The news hit me because as kids we’d spent a lot of time together at the 14th Street Y in afterschool programs. Biddy Basketball and Sportsman’s Clinic, and the intensely competitive, self-contained universe of early adolescent athletic games was our connection.
Reply to: Do not discard Staphylococcus aureus WTA as a vaccine antigen
Fig. 1: Structure of S. aureus WTA and its variation by different GlcNAc transferases. References 1. Gerlach, D. et al. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus alters cell wall glycosylation to evade immunity. Nature 563, 705–709 (2018). 2. van Dalen, R. et al. Do not discard Staphylococcus aureus WTA as a vaccine antigen. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1416-8 (2019). 3. Driguez, P. A. et al. Immunogenic compositions against S. aureus. WO patent WO/2017/064190 (2017). 4. Hütter, J. & Lepenies, B.
Methicillin-resistant <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> alters cell wall glycosylation to evade immunity
1. Tong, S. Y., Davis, J. S., Eichenberger, E., Holland, T. L. & Fowler, V. G. Jr. Staphylococcus aureus infections: epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, and management. Clin. Microbiol. Rev. 28, 603–661 (2015). 2. Lee, A. S. et al. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Nat. Rev. Dis. Primers 4, 18033 (2018). 3. Stentzel, S. et al. Specific serum IgG at diagnosis of Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream invasion is correlated with disease progression. J. Proteomics 128, 1–7 (2015). 4. Missiakas, D.
Alfred Hitchcock on Dead Bodies - Blank on Blank
Would you say that your technique has changed essentially, say, since 1932? I don’t think so, no. I think the cobbler should stick to his last. Know your own limitations. I’ve become a specialist. People expect it. If I did a story or, say, a musical about Cinderella, they would be waiting for the body to turn up. If my name were on the picture. You know the audiences are still looking for the body. Most of your films have had a sort of strong dose of peril in them for the characters.
George Washington Carver on Ego and Self - Blank on Blank
When I was in college at Ames, Iowa, I had charge of a football squad and a running squad. I was the professional rubber in those days. We called them rubbers. We call them masseurs now because it’s more dignified and sounds better, but we called them rubbers. My work with oils, I felt that we did not know enough about the efficacy of oils in the art of healing, so I started out to find as far as possible the value of some of these oils.
Jacques Cousteau on Atlantis and Cognac - Blank on Blank
This interview with Jacques Cousteau was recorded in 1978. We found it via the Roy Leonard Audio Archive at WGN Radio . Will you actively participate in diving yourself? I was there three days ago. Yes, I do dive. You are an amazing man. You are now 65? You are as trim and healthy looking as a human can be… That’s something I don’t understand. I don’t see any difference between the capability that I enjoy now and the ones I enjoyed for 20 years ago. I don’t see any difference.
Jimmy Carter on Power - Blank on Blank
Bill Moyers has been broadcast journalist for more than four decades, most recently with his show, Moyers & Company. Moyers was elected to the Television Hall of Fame in 1995. The fact that a person has deep religious convictions doesn’t necessarily mean that that person always thinks that he’s right, that God’s ordained him to take a dominant position. Although I have prayed a good bit, and do, I’ve never asked God to let me be President. Just to win the nomination?
Stephen King on Childhood - Blank on Blank
I was taking a walk one day and I happened to spot a little girl on the corner of my street, she was about five years old. She was sitting in the dirt at the edge of the road talking to herself or to invisible friends and drawing in the dirt with a stick and I thought you know if I did that, somebody would come along and say there’s a grown man sitting in the dirt, talking to himself to people who aren’t there and drawing with a stick. which is very close to what I do for a living.
Leonard Cohen on Moonlight - Blank on Blank
I don’t feel any compulsion just to stand under the spotlight night after night or year after year unless I have something to say or something new to disclose about my own work. Would you read Two Slept Together? Ok I don’t have it here, do you have it? Two went to sleep almost every night. One dreamed of mud. One dreamed of Asia. Visiting the Zeppelin. Visiting Nijinsky. Two went to sleep. One dreamed of ribs. One dreamed of senators. Two went to sleep. Two travelers. The long marriage in the dark.
Ronald Reagan on Oatmeal Meat - Blank on Blank
Bill Moyers has been broadcast journalist for more than four decades, most recently with his show, Moyers & Company. Moyers was elected to the Television Hall of Fame in 1995. Do you think materialism is the source of our strength and greatness as a country?
Aldous Huxley on Technodictators - Blank on Blank
It’s a question of education to teach people to be on their guard against the sort of verbal booby traps into which they are always being led, to analyze the kind of things that are said to them. I think it’s terribly important to insist on individual values, that every human being is unique. And it is, of course, on this genetical basis that the whole idea of the value of freedom is based. This is Aldous Huxley, a man haunted by a vision of hell on earth.
Marlene Dietrich on Sex Symbols - Blank on Blank
What do you do Miss Dietrich to keep from succumbing to the adulation because you had it for a good number of years, some people almost worship. Well, I think if you have any sort of intelligence you can’t succumb to adoration because people adore so many things. They also adore things that you think quite worthless so you can’t take it too seriously. There are some actresses who as they age, they become older, they still keep trying to be that ingenue. Do you begrudge these years? No, God, no.
Nora Ephron Didn't Write Chick Flicks
Nora Ephron, the Queen of the modern rom-com, was also a life-long feminist. These views translated to the female characters Ephron put on screen. In an industry often dominated by men making movies for men, she created female leads that were smart, funny, and complex. Ephron is often credited with inventing the “chick-flick” genre, though Ephron reportedly was ambivalent about the term.
8 of the Coolest and Creepiest Presidential Collectibles
Americans have always been fascinated with the lives of the Presidents. In fact, it is now de rigueur for administrations to collect even the most mundane objects associated with the lives of these powerful men and archive them for posterity so that we can all go gawk at their personal treasures from behind a velvet rope. There’s so much that has been collected and preserved – pens used to sign off on wars, chairs from which great speeches were given – but we’re not interested in any of that.
Frank Zappa on Fads - Blank on Blank
Howard Smith was an Oscar winning film director, journalist and broadcaster. He had a weekly column during the formative years of The Village Voice. I used to have a pair of shoes like that. When I worked at the Garrick Theater. You must have got them at the same place, 6th avenue. I don’t know where they came from. They were given to me. But Mine were all covered with dead vegetables and whipped cream by the end of the season.
Far Out: How the Twilight Zone and Science Fiction Predicted the Future
In our latest episode on Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling, the science fiction icon mused on the genre’s particular ability to imagine, and maybe even predict, the future. “People talk about science fiction being very far out, very wild. I don’t think it’s any of these things.
Rod Serling on Kamizakes - Blank on Blank
Well, it’s a very beautiful day, and it’s made infinitely more pleasant for me by the fact that I am going to talk to Rod Serling. So many of you have enjoyed his television shows. The Twilight Zone I think is the one that everybody talks about. I’ve just confessed to Rod that I haven’t seen it. Believe me, Binny, some of my best friends are quite unaware of this program back in the States, including relatives, I might add. We’ve been given the story you and your wife travel on different planes.
History Lesson: Music, Profanity, and Censorship
Our latest episode features a conversation between Patti Smith and journalist Mick Gold that took place in London in May 1976; Arista Records had just released a 7-inch that included Patti’s live cover of The Who’s “My Generation” and during the interview she railed against the fact that the words “fuckin’ shit” had been censored on the single’s UK release.
Patti Smith on Getting Bleeped
I hear that our single’s been released here with bleeps in it. It certainly has. You want to write something in your paper? You tell the kids that I say not to buy it. You tell them that’s against my wishes and I fought and fought for the song not to be censored. Let me just say by the way that the single that Patti is talking about is the B side of the new single, My Generation. The old Pete Townshend song. Yeah.
The Experimenters: Temple Grandin on the Autistic Brain
David Gerlach is the executive producer of "Blank on Blank," which brings new life to classic interviews, and the founder of Quoted Studios, a nonprofit dedicated to animated journalism. This original text highlights the video about Temple Grandin that originally appeared at "Blank on Blank." He contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
Rodney King: "I am so blessed that camera was on me that night"
It was 25 years ago today that a group of Los Angeles police officers were caught on tape repeatedly kicking and hitting Rodney King, as he lay on the ground. It was around 1AM when it happened and a guy named George Holliday videotaped the incident from his apartment. The graphic tape was soon run on a loop on CNN. It ushered in a new era in news coverage, perhaps the first truly viral video, long before the dawn of YouTube. A year later, a jury found the police officers not guilty on all counts.
Guest commentary: Students can't be collateral damage in political battles
When the state budget stalemate is finally resolved, we must unite behind one message: Never again can we let students become collateral damage in political fights.It may sound like a cliché to say children are our future. But in the case of higher education, it is quite literally true. If we do not tend to the education of the next generation, we have no future.
Nina Simone on Shock - Blank on Blank
Lilian Terry has been active in the European Jazz field since the late 1950s as Jazz singer, journalist, and Italian radio and TV personality. Her new literary project is called Voices from the Jazz Dimension and is dedicated to 13 famous Jazz pianists who have befriended her. I have a feeling that evening gowns are your weakness. Well, clothes period. Of course. I love clothes. [LAUGHTER] Yes, I do.
Secrets of the Nina Simone Episode
Two years ago, I received an email from a woman in Italy named Lilian Terry. Lilian has had a remarkable career in jazz — both as a singer and as an oral historian. Over the years she’s interviewed icons like Duke Ellington, Ray Charles, Nina Simone, Max Roach and Horace Silver for her national radio show in Italy. She’s held onto her interview archive and turning it into a literary project and possibly an audiobook.
Creating the Bill Murray Episode
Earlier this year, this note appeared in our inbox: “I love what you folks do by animating historical interviews. I have two extensive interviews I’ve done — one with Martin Scorsese when Goodfellas was released, and one with Bill Murray in 1990 — that would lend themselves well to what you are doing. They are currently on cassette tape. If you have an interest, let me know and i will get them to you.
Tom Waits Episode Production Notes
We found a few great audio interviews with Tom Waits lurking in the Rock’s Backpages archive. But something about him talking about moles living beneath Stonehenge and Hawaiian nightmares made our ears perk. We went through the 54-minute interview with Chris Roberts and saw a surrealist thread: everything and nothing. Then we got to work on a script, and mixed and cleaned up the rough audio.
Rare Bill Murray Interview from 1988
You know what the format is with this interview? It’s not Q&A, is it? What do you got against Q&A? Can you make some more coffee? Oh, no, I had to do one the other day and I was a little sloppy for it. I saw this guy going … just realizing he would have to make me sound coherent. I realize it’s impossible to have any sympathy, I mean, true sympathy, for people that are famous. People usually go through a bad period when they first get successful. You’re new and you’re hot and things go wrong.
Grace Kelly on JFK
Another side of him I remember… well he turned to me suddenly and asked: “Is that a Givenchy you’re wearing?” And I said, “Why how clever of you, Mr. President! However did you know?” “Oh,” he replied, “I’m getting pretty good at it—now that fashion is becoming more important than politics and the press is paying more attention to Jackie’s clothes than to my speeches. Was this the first time that you had met the President? Well actually, no.
Hunter S. Thompson on Outlaws and Hells Angels
It’s like the motorcycle anybody who has any kind of sensuality in them at all would get a tremendous boot out of just what the Angels call “screwing it on”, just getting a big bike and just running it flat out as fast as it will go. I used to take it out at night on the Coast Highway, just drunk out of my mind, ride it for 20 and 30 miles in just short pants and a t-shirt. It’s a beautiful feeling. I recognize it as an illusion and a fantasy.
Dustin Hoffman 1971 Interview on Duplicity and Famosity
A man’s thoughts, a man’s feeling are kind of what seem to be the attractive thing, not somebody’s face, or somebody’s famosity, just the fact that someone is famous isn’t something to be adored. The people that come up and grab you and touch you, and the people that kind of go haywire are the people who have come from another time, from a time of myth, heroes, of movie stars. There’s an ambivalence about being a star. Well, I’m a star, so I lead a double life being a star.
Ayn Rand on Love and Happiness - Blank on Blank
Mike Wallace rose to prominence in the mid-1950s with the New York City television interview program, Night-Beat. That became the nationally televised prime-time program, The Mike Wallace Interview. Who are you, Ayn Rand? You have an accent, which is? Russian. You were born in Russia? And whence did this philosophy of yours come? Out of my own mind, with the sole acknowledgement of a debt to Aristotle, who is the only philosopher that ever influenced me. I devised the rest of my philosophy myself.
Joni Mitchell Rare Interview on Fame and Illusions
Joe Smith was a longtime record executive and one-time radio DJ. From 1986-88, he interviewed more than 240 music artists and executives to write Off the Record. Then in 2012, he donated more than 230 hours of interviews on cassette tapes to the Library of Congress. People were very protective of me. Overly so. I was in the industry for a long time before I had any idea of what drugs people were doing. I mean, I just said, “Jeez, looking awful skinny.
Lessons Mama Taught Ray Charles, Gene Wilder, Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash & Tom Robbins
This Mother’s Day, we’re thanking the moms of Gene Wilder, Dolly Parton, and more for helping their kids discover the art inside of them. Gene Wilder’s mom was his first audience. Instructed by a doctor to get his sick mother chuckling, Wilder tested his funny bone with Mom: “For the first time in my life, I tried consciously to make someone else laugh.
Beastie Boys on Being Stupid
Ad-Rock: “I wouldn’t be surprised if when we come back from this tour and we start recording our album we have like a song that’s just like a classic hit like The Beatles’ ‘Baby You Can Drive my Car.'” Mike D: We probably will. Ad-Rock: Probably. I don’t have a car, but it will probably be something like that. MCA: But if you had one, then somebody could drive it. She could drive it. Mike D: Your baby could drive it. I’m sure it wouldn’t be any problem. I could arrange it. MCA: We got in last night.
Animated James Brown Interview on Songs, Conviction and Respect
James, how do you feel about the tribute tonight? Sir, I’m going to call you by your last name as long as you call me by mine. Yes, sir. One thing I fought for was respect… And I demand that all the time. I interviewed James Brown in Washington DC. It was 1984. I was working at ABC News there as an entertainment reporter for ABC Radio Network. James Brown was in town for like a tribute thing down at the old convention center.
Dolly Parton on Getting Dirty
I’m just pretty open and honest. There’s not just a whole lot I won’t tell you. I think most people appreciate that the fact that you’ll just be open and honest rather than putting you down by saying, “well, don’t ask silly questions.” I would say that if you asked something I thought was a silly question, I would… All right, here we go, when did you first use a flush toilet. Don’t ask silly questions.[laughs] Are you serious? Well, you know, I was laughing the other night about something.
Icons of Innovation, Animated In Their Own Words
Finally we are venturing onto Medium. I’m David Gerlach, the executive producer of Blank on Blank. You may have seen the animated interviews from our series with PBS Digital Studios. It’s animated by Pat Smith and we bring to life lost interviews with cultural icons, from Tupac to Grace Kelly. Well we recently launched a mini-series called The Experimenters. Here we’ve focused on icons of science, innovation and technology and what spurred their creativity.
Physicist Richard Feynman on What It All Means
My father, you see, interested me in patterns at the very beginning, and then later in things, like we would turn over stones and watch the ants carry the little white babies down deeper into the holes. We would look at worms. We’d go for walks and we’d look at things all the time: the stars, the way birds fly. He was always telling me interesting things.
Rare Maya Angelou Interview on Con Men | Blank on Blank
The one thing that con men will tell you; the only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you’re greedy, you’re set up. Perfect. And Daddy Clidell lived by his wits. Daddy Clidell owned pool halls and gambling houses. Daddy Clidell knew the racket. So he taught me how to look at cards and see if they were marked, how to weigh dice and know if they’re loaded. Then he brought in a lot of con men. Professional con men, who maybe take 2 marks a year.
Muhammad Ali Quotes - 1966 Lost Interview - Blank on Blank
Muhammad Ali: This is Muhammad Ali, the Heavyweight Champion of the World, now at the lunar station Cape Kennedy on the way to Mars. Michael Aisner: I was probably 9 years old when I first realized how much I loved radio. When I was ten, 11, 12, I would go down to Chicago and watch the real DJs work down at the big Chicago radio stations. And then I had an opportunity to get into New Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill., and they had a radio station there.
Liberace on Peacocking
Jay Kent Hackleman was one of the first talk show radio hosts in Houston, TX beginning in the 1950s. Now what is this, this garb? Men’s clothes are becoming kind of mod, I suppose you might say. They’re becoming more colorful and more flamboyant, and the male peacock is beginning to show his true plumage. This necklace arrangement that you have on here, this costume? What is that? It’s not the kind of bibs I remember. What is made… Is that gold? You must realize that I once was poor myself.
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Robin Williams on Sex, Comedy and Family
In the year 2020, you’ll be seventy years old. Now what will the world be like, then? It’ll be one giant film corporation. There’ll be no longer any government. It will be one nation, under God, indivisible, with circuits and VCRs for everyone. I don’t know. 2020. There’ll be cold fusion. We’ll actually be able to power our cars with our own feces. That’s right. The emissions problem will be a little intense, but just light a match. Things that I see in the future.
Philip Seymour Hoffman on Death, Happiness, His Children and Acting
I would definitely say pleasure is not happiness. Because I think I kill pleasure. Like I take too much of it in, and therefore make it un-pleasurable, like too much coffee, and you’re miserable. I do that to pleasure often. So I don’t… There is no pleasure that I haven’t actually made myself sick on.
Kurt Cobain on Identity and Being Gay in Lost 1993 Interview
Did you have problems in high school? Yeah. You know I felt so different and so crazy that people just left me alone. I always felt that they would vote me “Most likely to kill everyone at a high school dance.” You know? My mother has always tried to keep a little bit of English culture in our family. Like we’d drink tea all the time. You know? Although I’ve never really known my ancestry. I didn’t even know until this year that the name Cobain was Irish.
Gene Wilder Interview on Willy Wonka, Movies, and Comedy
I was miscast in my first big part on Broadway. One night after the show, there was Mel Brooks wearing a merchant marine pea jacket. He looked striking in it. I said: “Hello, hello, how nice to meet you.” My goodness, you look so wonderful in that pea jacket.” He said, “Yeah, they used to call them urine jackets, but they didn’t sell.” When I was 7-1/2 or 8 years old, my mother had a heart attack. This heavy-set doctor brought her home, told her some things while she was lying in bed.
Johnny Cash on Gospel Music, Folsom Prison Blues & Touring | Blank on Blank
Barney Hoskyns is an author and is the editorial director of Rock’s Backpages, the online library of pop writing. I’ve always hung out with long-hairs. I’ve always hung out with people of that ilk. I’m one of the originals. I had sideburns down to my chin in ’50- For a while there I did. When I started my own TV show in Nashville in ’69, I had a group called The Who on as guests and I forget which one of them said, “Thank god we got somebody on television with long hair,” talking about me. You know.
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